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News for the Hospitality Executive
SCOTTSDALE and LONDON (October 25, 2011) – North American
leisure travel
outpaced global travel bookings in September by 1.4%, according to data
released today by Pegasus
in the award-winning The
Pegasus View. Overall, the leisure market saw leisure bookings gain
momentum worldwide from the +4.2% increase seen in August, evidencing a
in off-peak travel.
In the midst of the Euro debt crisis, Europe's leisure reservations actually declined slightly by -0.5% compared to September 2010. Globally, average daily rates (ADR) for leisure bookings increased by +3.0% over prior year, with North America jumping +5.0%, ahead of the +3.8% year-to-date pace. Outside North America, ADR stayed ahead of the prior year by +1.5%.
"The leisure market's showing in September evidenced a move towards off-peak travel by consumers," said Mike Kistner, chief executive officer of Pegasus Solutions. "It's not a month we usually would expect to see leisure gains, but efforts to make travel dollars go farther by travelling during the traditional 'off-season' made bookings jump, especially in North America. Hoteliers for their part resisted deep discounting following the summer peak season, and as a result drove more revenue as leisure bookings poured in at more moderate, off-peak rates."
The corporate market continued to grow over prior year, registering a +6.1% increase in global GDS channel bookings; this was slower than August's uptick of +10.2%, but ahead of July's +5.8% pace. Rates remained positive, rising by +3.5% globally over 2010. Looking forward, corporate bookings and rates are both expected to continue beating prior year figures through the fourth quarter, with the potential for slower booking growth combined with a rate uptick come January.
The Pegasus View reporting on September 2011 bookings is available online and by free subscription at www.pegs.com. Data reported in The Pegasus View comes from billions of transactions processed monthly by Pegasus Solutions, the world's single largest global processor of hotel transactions. It is the only industry report to reflect data drawn from both GDS and ADS transactions, representing the business and leisure markets respectively for approximately 90,000 hotels worldwide.
About Pegasus Solutions
Pegasus Solutions is the world's leading provider of technology and services to hotels and travel distributors, supplying the award-winning RezView® NG central reservation system, electronic distribution services, advanced agency commission processing and payment services, and hotel marketing representation services. Founded in 1989, Pegasus created and launched the hotel switch, and today its customers include approximately 90,000 properties around the globe as well as a majority of the world's travel agencies. Additionally, Pegasus' powerful representation arm incorporates Utell® Hotels & Resorts and Utell Connect, services that have been chosen by more than 6,000 member hotels in more than 130 countries. Pegasus is the hotel industry's most experienced third-party marketing, sales and reservations specialist. It also powers the niche consumer website www.hotelbook.com™, dedicated to promoting independent and boutique hotels throughout the world. The company's widely followed monthly data report The Pegasus View has been awarded a 2011 Stevie Award, and is recognized as the only hospitality report to monitor both actual business and leisure bookings.
Open Hospitality, a division of Pegasus Solutions, delivers a full array of strategic online marketing solutions and accommodation booking options. Its award-winning marketing solutions focus exclusively on hotels and hospitality verticals, helping independent hotels, groups and chains raise online visibility, build market share and increase online reservations.
Headquartered in Dallas, Pegasus has 22 offices in 12 countries, including regional hubs in London, New York, Singapore and Scottsdale, Arizona. For more information, please visit www.pegs.com, www.utell.com or www.openhospitality.com.
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Solutions Names Marcie Hyder CFO and Executive Vice President; Kevin
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Posts in these days will focus on the elections in a way that will both inform and mobilize voters, and cut through a lot of the fog that accompanies political rhetoric.
"What we do on November 6, 2012, in large part will determine how much more bloodshed abortion will cause in this nation and in this world," Father Pavone said. "I am not going to hesitate between now and the elections to be far more vocal than I have been in the past. If the Church can't speak at a moment like this, the Church becomes completely irrelevant for this society."
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Game of Tones
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|Written by
|Michael Rowe
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|Edmund Fong
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|First air date
|14 August, 2013
|Broadcast number
|Title reference
|The TV series Game of Thrones
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|Sarah Silverman
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"Game of Tones" is the one hundred and thirty-seventh episode of Futurama, the twenty-third of the seventh production season and the tenth of the tenth broadcast season. It aired on 14 August, 2013, on Comedy Central. It guest-stars Sarah Silverman as Michelle, Tom Kenny as Fry's brother and Seth MacFarlane as Seymour. The crew journeys into Fry's dreams to seek the meaning of a mysterious alien melody.
Earth is slowly approached by a mysterious alien ship that repeatedly broadcasts four loud musical tones, which can be heard by everyone on the planet. At first, the music is merely an annoyance, but as the ship draws nearer, the booming tones begin to cause structural damage, and will eventually grow so loud that the vibrations will literally shake the planet apart. No one has any idea what the ship is trying to communicate; only Fry seems to recognize the alien melody, but his memory of hearing it is so vague that he cannot place it.
A scan of Fry's brain when he hears the melody reveals that it triggers his subconscious memories of 31 December, 1999, the night he was cryogenically frozen. In order to determine the source of the music and hopefully ward off the approaching alien ship, Fry is hooked up to a machine that will allow him to explore his memory of that day in detail. He is placed under sedation, and finds himself in a lucid dream, re-living the events of the day in question.
Fry is nostalgic about seeing his friends in 20th-century New York again, but his initial investigation proves unproductive; while he hears many sounds and noises, none of them is similar to the tones being broadcast by the alien ship. He notices a nearby strip club, and while he observes that he never actually visited it, it may nonetheless be worth looking into; however, when he opens the front door, nothing is inside except a vast, empty expanse. Because Fry never entered the building, he has no memories of what might be inside.
Fry eventually makes his way to his old house, which he remarks that he always hated... until he is warmly greeted by his dog, Seymour. He realizes that he didn't really hate everything about his old life, and may have merely convinced himself that he did in order to cope with finding himself trapped in the future. Fry enters his home and is reunited with his family, and is so happy to see them again that he spends most of the day reminiscing and helping them prepare for the New Year celebration instead of searching for the source of the alien music.
At dinner that evening, having enjoyed being able to spend one last day with his family, Fry realizes that he will never see any of them again, especially his mother, toward whom he has many tender sentiments that he never took the time to express. Just as he is about to speak with her, the doorbell rings, and Leela enters, having come into Fry's dream to urge him to complete his mission; time is running out, and the Earth will soon be destroyed if the secret of the alien melody cannot be found. Fry pleads with Leela for an opportunity to talk to his mother, as he will never see his real mother again, and speaking with this dream representation of her will be his only chance to find emotional closure. Leela relents, but every time Fry attempts to talk to his mother, he is interrupted as more members of the Planet Express crew (and Richard Nixon) enter the dream to spur him onward, eventually physically dragging him from the house. Fry tries to force his way back in, only to find that, like the strip club, the interior of the house has become a blank slate, because Fry never entered it again after leaving for work on the night he was frozen.
Bitter and defeated, Fry leads the crew to his shift at Panucci's Pizza, and from there, to the delivery at Applied Cryogenics that led to his being frozen. Along the way, the alien melody is never heard, and there are no clues as to its origin. With the day nearly over, Fry takes his place in front of the cryogenic tube, leaning back in his chair as the countdown to the New Year begins... and, in the final seconds as he falls back into the tube, he at last hears the four notes, followed by two additional, higher-pitched notes. Armed with this new information, Nixon leads the crew to a landing facility built to receive the alien craft. When it arrives and blasts out the four notes, Fry uses a keyboard to respond with the final two. The ship lands, and from it emerges... a Nibblonian, whom Nibbler calls "Digby".
Digby identifies himself as Nibbler's personal chauffeur, and explains that on 31 December, 1999, he accompanied Nibbler on his mission to have Fry frozen so that he could later destroy the Infosphere. While observing Nibbler, Digby realized that he forgot to lock their spaceship, and did so remotely with a key fob, producing the four distinctive musical tones that Fry heard as he fell into the cryogenic tube (the two additional notes being caused by the ship's security system acknowledging the signal). Following the successful completion of their mission, Digby and Nibbler visited a local pub to participate in the New Year's festivities; the two of them became severely drunk, forgot where they parked their ship, and lost the keys down a storm drain, forcing them to take a cab back to their base on Vergon 6. Digby then retrieved a spare set of keys, and has been traveling from one planet to another, broadcasting the security signal in an attempt to locate the "company car". Fry leads them to the roof of the Applied Cryogenics building, where the Nibblonian ship still rests, ransacked and rusty after a millennium of neglect. It is still space-worthy, however, and after Digby uses it to fly away, Nibbler remarks that Fry has once more done the Nibblonians a great service, and that they owe him a gift. Reflecting upon his mother, Fry laments that they cannot give him the one thing he really wants.
That night, while asleep, Fry has a dream about his mother, and once more expresses his desire to speak with her. When a television sportscaster announces the results of the 2000 Rose Bowl, Fry is confused; since that game took place after he was frozen, it should be impossible for him to know the results. Nibbler appears, and reveals that this is not actually Fry's dream; it is one of his mother's, and is the gift that Nibbler spoke of. Fry asks if it is really her, and she replies that it is, telling him that she has dreamed of him often since his disappearance. When she asks him what he would like to talk about, he wordlessly embraces her with tears in his eyes. Back in the 21st century, Fry's mother dreams of her son with a smile on her face.
As late as 8 January 2013,[1] the episode's title was revealed.[2]
On 5 February, Vulture.com released a preview clip for the tenth broadcast season,[3] which contained footage from the episode.
On 19 June, it was revealed that Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane would voice Seymour in the episode.[4]
By 9 July, part of the animatic for the episode had been released online.[5][6]
In the animatic, the montage of Fry spending time with his family was longer, and the song "1999" played over it.
By 8 August, Comedy Central had released a two-minute preview clip featuring the crew trying to discover the source of the melody.[7]
Image gallery
Promotional picture of Fry licking Seymour.[8]
Promotional picture of Nibbler with another Nibblonian, known as Digby.[10]
Promotional picture of Fry with his parents and Seymour.[4]
By 5 December, the episode had been nominated for the 2014 Writers Guild of America Awards.[11]
Additional information
- Fry was also stuck on an inclined table in "Cold Warriors", which also featured Fry's family. In addition, the digits in the production code for "Cold Warriors" add up to the same amount as the digits in the production code for this episode.
- The professor also calls Fry a dope in the twenty-third episode of the sixth production season, "All the Presidents' Heads".
- After the Eiffel Tower bends, a French man says "this never happens, I swear!", a very obvious erection joke.
- The episode shares multiple similarities with the 1986 film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. A mysterious ship arrives, sending a strange melody to communicate, which, however, damages the planet, and the main characters have to travel back in time (in this episode through dreams).
- Nibbler says "bye-bye keys", which a toddler Bart Simpson says in the Simpsons episode "Lisa's First Word".
- The song that plays at the end of the episode is "Manchild", by the Eels, from the 1996 album Beautiful Freak.
- Click here to see cultural mentions made in this episode.
- The episode's title is a reference to the TV series Game of Thrones.
- English actress Emilia Clarke, who plays Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones, guest-stars in another episode of the season, "Stench and Stenchibility". She and Seth MacFarlane used to date.[12]
- Shazam is a reference to the music-identification service of the same name.
- Seymour sitting on the couch along with the rest of the Fry family and holding a martini is a reference to Family Guy's Brian Griffin, who is also voiced by Seth MacFarlane.
- The rugby-stadium scene is likely a reference to the classic computer game Robots.
- There are several references to the 2010 film Inception. From the very act of getting into a dream, to the fact that, if Fry dies in the dream, he wakes up, the time proportion being different (inverted in Futurama) between the real world and the dream, the crew members connected to the dream machine, the shots of the world shaking due to the dream's collapse and the slow motion and music used as Fry is falling into the cryo-tube.
- The scene where the crew communicates with the alien ship via sound and lights on a billboard is reminiscent of the climax from the 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. A location similar to Devils Tower is also seen in the background.
- The final scene is a reference to the ending of the 2001 film A.I. Artificial Intelligence, where the protagonist gets to live one last experience with his mother based on memories.
- Bender's "let's go already" song is from "Proposition Infinity".
- Bender previously wore a diaper in "The Tip of the Zoidberg".
- The episode revisits the cold opening of "Space Pilot 3000".
- Nibbler tells Fry that he has once more done the Nibblonians a great service. This is a reference to "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid" and "The Why of Fry", in which Fry saves the world and the universe, respectively.
- Fry's alarm clock reads "09:01" thirty seconds after turning to nine o'clock.
- This may be due to the fact that the clock is part of a dream.
- The design of the radio-cranial dream injector in the second act is different from the design of the radio-cranial dream injector in the first and third acts. The animatic version of the design, however, is the same.
- Fry is saddened to relive the last time that he ever saw his family, but in "Space Pilot 3000", he seems thrilled at the notion all the people he ever knew were dead.
- His feelings may have changed as time went by, as in "The Luck of the Fryrish" with his brother and "Cold Warriors" with his father.
Hermes: But what are those aliens tryin' to ask us? What do the tones mean?
Professor Farnsworth: Isn't it obvious?
Hermes: Uh... No.
Professor Farnsworth: Drat! I was hoping it was.
Fry: Can you guys hear the professor too?
Fry's father: Yup.
Fry: Does that seem strange to you?
Fry's mother: Well, no. Not in a dream. Lotsa weird stuff could happen.
Seymour: Philip. Have you lost weight?
Leela: Sorry to disturb you all, but Fry needs to get going.
Fry's mother: I was just telling him that, Leela.
Fry: Mom? You know Leela?
Fry's mother: Nope.
Fry: Michelle. Baby. Where're you goin'?
Michelle: It's not working out, Fry. [as her cab drives away] I put your stuff out on the sidewalk!!
Leela: Hey, you hussy! You can't dump Fry! That's my job!
Fry: The last thing I did was blow my noisemaker sarcastically, to underscore my deep disappointment with life.
- 20th-century kid
- Amy
- Bender
- Charles Constantine
- Debut: Digby
- Donkey Kong
- Fry
- Fry's breakdancing crew
- Glagnar
- Hermes
- Last clone of Agnew
- Leela
- Michelle
- Mr. Panucci
- Mrs. Fry
- Nibbler
- Noticeably F.A.T.
- Professor Farnsworth
- Randy Munchnik
- Richard Nixon's head
- Scruffy
- Seymour Asses
- Debut: Shazam
- Yancy Fry Jr.
- Yancy Fry Sr.
- Zoidberg
- Apartment 00100100
- Applied Cryogenics
- Debut: Booby Tuesday's
- Eiffel Tower
- France
- Fry's house
- Debut: Fry's old apartment
- Debut: Mount Shushmore
- O'Grady's Pub
- Panucci's Pizza
- Paris
- Planet Express conference room
- Planet Express employee lounge
- Planet Express headquarters
- Planet Express lab
- Debut: Planet Z-7
- Robot Arms Apartments
- Vergon 6 (mentioned in speech only)
- "Bender is great!" (in animatic only)
- Charleston Chew (mentioned in speech only)
- Cryo-tube
- Debut: Digby's new spaceship
- Debut: Digby's old spaceship
- Futurama (mentioned in text only, title caption)
- "Good news, everyone"
- I. C. Wiener (mentioned in speech and text only, 14:42)
- "Let's go already!"
- Debut: Long-range scanner
- Nibbler's shadow
- Owls
- Debut: Radio-cranial dream injector
- Debut: Thoughtspike
- "Walking on Sunshine"
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GOSHEN — Orange County may forfeit up to $2.7 million in federal funds to repair its closed Government Center if county legislators don't decide soon whether to renovate or replace the 43-year-old complex.
GOSHEN — Orange County may forfeit up to $2.7 million in federal funds to repair its closed Government Center if county legislators don't decide soon whether to renovate or replace the 43-year-old complex.
County officials have warned that they have until March 12 — 18 months after Orange County was declared a disaster area following Hurricane Irene — to finish an estimated $3.6 million in building repairs attributed to the 2011 storm in order to get reimbursed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which would cover 75 percent of the cost.
But none of that work has even been approved, much less started. Diana, who wants to replace the Government Center rather than fix it and hopes to use the FEMA money for a new building, proposed a $75 million project last year, but failed to win enough support from lawmakers. No alternatives have been taken up since the Legislature rejected Diana's plan last May.
State officials who work with FEMA say they can extend Orange County's funding deadline for as long as 30 months, but only if given definite plans for the Government Center.
"When evaluating any request to extend a project deadline, FEMA and New York state require a valid reason for the delay, an estimated completion date for the work, and a time line for various phases of the project to be completed so progress can be monitored," said William Peat, a spokesman for the state Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, via email.
Debate over the closed Government Center has been on the back burner for months, overshadowed by conflict over Diana's push to privatize the county nursing home. Diana, who already shrunk his building plans once to gain support, vowed months ago to present another scaled-down version — replacing two-thirds of the Government Center while keeping its court section intact — but has yet to do so.
Diana and other county officials will speak to lawmakers about the FEMA deadline at the Legislature's Physical Services Committee meeting Monday.
Lawmakers, meanwhile, commissioned a $75,000 study last year to try to resolve their disputes about renovating the Government Center. But that work hasn't even begun, and it's unclear if state and federal officials would extend their deadline while lawmakers await the results. Diana's office said Thursday that the county hasn't signed a contract yet with the study consultants.
Democratic lawmakers, who support renovating the Government Center, are calling on Legislature Chairman Michael Pillmeier to schedule an immediate meeting to discuss the building's fate — a request Democratic Leader Jeff Berkman made by letter this week.
The exact amount of FEMA funding at stake is unknown because county officials say they're still negotiating a storm-damage claim with their insurer, Travelers. The federal payment would cover 75 percent of the repair costs that remain after the county spends its insurance proceeds — or as much as $2.7 million if Travelers offers nothing.
The Government Center has sat empty for more than 16 months. Diana closed it in September 2011, citing water damage and mold left by the one-two punch of Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee.


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In statement, Abby's family says she suffered 'unspeakable violence,' trusts 'justice will be done'Staff Report
August 12. 2014 10:03PM
NORTH CONWAY — Abigail Hernandez suffered "unspeakable violence" at the hands of her alleged kidnapper, Nathaniel E. Kibby, the family said in a statement released Tuesday.
"Abby was violently abducted by a stranger," read the statement, posted on bringabbyhome.com. "For many months, she suffered numerous acts of unspeakable violence. Through her faith, fortitude and resilience, she is alive today and home with her family."
The statement asked that the public and media respect her privacy while the case against her alleged kidnapper moves forward.
"Abby simply asks that you respect her wishes and the justice process as this case moves forward," the statement read. "We trust that justice will be done. On behalf of Abby, we ask that you be sensitive to the well-being of this child and give her the time and space she needs — that any of us would desire for a member of our own family or loved one who suffered as she has."
Nathaniel Kibby, 34, of Gorham, is charged with kidnapping the then-14-year-old Hernandez while she walked from Kennett High School last October. She returned to her home July 20.
"Abby needs and wants some time and space to physically and emotionally heal," the statement read. "It is going to be a long process in pursuit of justice for Abby and for Abby to get physically and emotionally stronger. We do not intend to have this case tried in the press."
The statement said questions about Hernandez's disappearance will be answered in court proceedings.
"As the justice system moves forward, and the evidence is revealed, questions about this horrific event will be answered," the statement read.


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St. John Fisher College forced four turnovers, including two in the final three minutes, as the nationally-ranked Cardinals overcame a 10-point, four-quarter deficit and beat host Washington & Jefferson College 28-24 on Saturday.
With the win, Fisher, ranked No. 9 in the latest d3football.com poll, improves to 2-0, while the Presidents, who have strung together 28 consecutive winning seasons, fall to 1-1.
Fisher took its first and only lead of the game with 5:59 left in the fourth quarter. On a 3rd-and-9 play from the Fisher 9, quarterback Ryan Kramer connected with senior Jason Beaumont for a 91-yard touchdown strike down the right side line to give the Cardinals a 28-24 lead.
The Presidents marched into Fisher territory on the ensuing drive, but senior Travis Tones sacked the W&J quarterback and forced a fumble on fourth down to end the drive. The Presidents had one final drive to regain the lead in the final minute, penetrating the Fisher 40, but senior All-American Troy Sant sealed the win with his second interception of the season.
Fisher trailed 17-7 at the half, and luckily, the deficit wasn't much greater. The Cardinals were outgained 246-33 in the first half and totaled just one offensive first down. The Cardinals lone touchdown came on a 100-yard interception return by senior Adam Burdick in the second quarter. The interception return marked the second time a Fisher player has had a 100-yard return and the 65th time a Division III player has accomplished the feat.
The second half was a different story. The Cardinals marched 81 yards on 10 plays on its opening drive of the third quarter with Kramer connecting with Dave Kirchner from 14 yards out for his first career touchdown to make it 17-14.
The Presidents, however, came right back on the ensuing drive and scored to regain their double-digit lead.
Early in the fourth quarter, after a 24-yard punt return by Matt Monacelli, the Cardinals answered with a 25-yard touchdown pass from Kramer to Beaumont to make it 24-21.
The Cardinals were out-gained 445-258 for the game, but won the turnover battle, 4-0. Zach Dolan intercepted a pass inside the Fisher red zone in the first quarter. Mike Benderski also blocked a field goal in the opening period.
Beaumont, who transferred to Fisher last year and was a standout pitcher for the Fisher baseball team, pitching a complete-game win over eventual national-champion Marietta College in the NCAA Division III Regionals, finished the game with two catches for 116 yards and two touchdowns.
Kramer was 10-for-24 for 183 yard and three touchdowns. Cody Miller led Fisher's ground game with 32 yards on 12 carries.
Defensively, Joe Leavell was in on 12 tackles and recovered a fumbled. Wade Kline made 10 stops, while Tones added eight.
Mike Donitzen averaged 31 yards on nine punts. He was also credited with eight tackles as one of Fisher's starting linebackers.
Brendan Carey was a perfect 4-for-4 on extra points.
Fisher will return to action at 7 p.m. next Saturday and will host University of Rochester in Courage Bowl VIII. The game is dedicated to the children of Camp Good Days and Special Times.


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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — An official confirmed that the leader of one of the most powerful cells of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, has decided to leave al-Qaida's branch in North Africa in order to create a movement spanning the entire Sahara desert.
The deputy mayor of a town in the Timbuktu region of northern Mali, who required anonymity out of fear for his safety, confirmed that AQIM 'katiba' leader Moktar Belmoktar had left the al-Qaida franchise.
The information was confirmed by Oumar Ould Hamaha, an associate of Belmoktar's, who said: "It's true. It's so that we can better operate in the field that we have left this group which is tied to the Maghreb." He said they want to take jihad to all the other countries in the Sahara.


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Like Scooby-Doo, Tim "Vin" Fischer is always on the road. But he's not looking for ghosts.
Like Scooby-Doo, Tim "Vin" Fischer is always on the road. But he's not looking for ghosts.
The singer-songwriter is diligently looking for kind faces to share his homebrewed acoustic tunes with.
A regular performer at The Young Bean Coffee Shop in Clayton, Vin, 24, of Lewes, will dish up musical treats from his newly-released concept album, "Into the Water," at the coffee shop on Jan. 11.
And rather than racking up tons of mileage on his '96 Dodge Neon — as he's done since 2010, gigging in nearly two dozen states across the country in hopes of finding enough work to sustain himself as a full-time performer — Vin's looking forward to saving a bit of gas money this time around.
Q In addition to your originals, will you be performing any covers at The Young Bean?
A I'm still focusing on "Into the Water" right now and I'll be doing the usual covers that they can expect like my Mumford & Sons and The Avett Brothers, and all my folk and indie covers.
Q Can you explain the premise of your new album?
A It's kind of a little story about my past couple of years. It started when I realized that playing music is what I wanted to do with my life, and I don't need to make much money or need anything fancy; I just want to play my music. So that's how the album starts. It kind of starts with that realization, and the songs are about realizing that. Then there's a couple of songs where I'm leaving home for the first time and it describes that experience. Then it goes into the traveling where I'm really loving what I'm doing. And then there's the return home where you come back and see a lot of familiar things. The memories are kind of there, but things are fading because you've experienced so much new stuff. Then there's the realization that this is just the beginning and there's still a lot further to go; this is just a first step into the water.
Q What's your favorite song on the project?
A "For the Drifters, For the Rogues." The album kind of starts off with me wanting to leave home, wanting to get started with my career. And that song fits right in the middle where I'm traveling and doing what I love. It's kind of the climax of the story.
Q You're currently working a nine-to-five job. What's it going to take for you to become a full-time performer?
A My next step right now is radio. I'm trying to send out my CD to different radio stations. There's a couple of local places. There's a couple of podcasts that are already playing my music in Las Vegas — my friend runs a podcast and is the DJ for a radio station there. But right now I'm trying to send my album out. I want to send it to WXPN (88.5) in Philadelphia. Hopefully I'll get some radio play. And I'm definitely going to start traveling a lot more. I'm going to push it as far as I can.
Q You've traveled quite a bit. How's your car holding up?
A My car, actually, just died on me [laughs]. It's been taking a beating over the years; the fuel pump finally went out on my way from Virginia Beach. This was around the end of November. Actually, the last show I played was at the Young Bean this last November and I haven't had a car since. I've been trying not to book much else until I get a new vehicle, which should be soon.
Q How many miles are on your car?
A It has about 170,000 on it right now. I put at least 60,000 miles on it. I'm going to miss it. I'm definitely going to miss it.


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MINNEAPOLIS — Former Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe is backing away from his threat to sue the team over alleged discrimination — for now.
Kluwe vowed last week to sue because he was unhappy with the team's resolution of his complaint against special teams coordinator Mike Priefer for alleged anti-gay slurs.
The Vikings suspended Priefer for three games and made a donation to gay advocacy groups that was less than Kluwe wanted. He also accused the team of cutting him over his activism in favor of gay marriage in Minnesota, a claim the team denied.
Kluwe attorney Clayton Halunen said he and Vikings attorney Joe Anthony had both agreed to recommend to their clients that they continue settlement discussions. A Vikings spokesman didn't immediately return a call from The Associated Press.


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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The Federal Communications Commission will hold a series of hearings nationwide to determine ways to avoid widespread loss of communications in disasters like Superstorm Sandy.
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski says the first hearings will be in the New York City area. It will focus on how to assure communications for first-responders, government emergency personnel and consumers.
The hearings will begin early next year and will include ways to keep cellphone towers operating after storm damage and power losses. One in four consumers in areas hit hard by Sandy lost service because of the storm.
On Sunday, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer of New York asked the FCC to work with telecommunications companies and first responders to maximize reliability and minimize costs.
(Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)


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Bayonetta PS3 unlockables.
Carry out the following tasks to unlock the corresponding items:-
Bangle of Time Complete the game under three hours on Normal or above.
Climax Bracelet Get 101 Umbran Tears of Blood.
Eternal Testimony Get 50 Umbran Tears of Blood.
Immortal Marionette Clear Very Easy or Easy mode.
New Weapons
Bazillions Clear Hard Mode.
Handguns Clear Normal Mode.
Pillow Talk Clear Non-Stop Climax Mode.
Rodin Purchase the "Platinum Ticket" and beat Father Rodin.
Sai-fon Clear 100 chapters on normal or above.
New Costumes
d'Arc Purchase "Couture Bullet (d'Arc)" at Gates of Hell for 100 Halos.
Nun Purchase "Couture Bullet (Nun)" at Gates of Hell for 100 Halos.
Old Purchase "Couture Bullet (Old) at Gates of Hell for 100 Halos.
P.E. Uniform Purchase "Couture Bullet (P.E. Uniform)" at Gates of Hell for 100 Halos.
Queen Purchase "Couture Bullet (Queen)" at Gates of Hell for 100 Halos.
Umbra Purchase "Couture Bullet (Umbra)" at Gates of Hell for 100 Halos.
Umbran Komachi Purchase "Super Mirror" at Gates of Hell for 100 Halos.
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Bayonetta PS3 trophies.
Bayonetta PS3 trophies. [code]
Acquire all Trophies Acquire all Trophies
Angel Slayer Complete all Alfheim portals.
Legendary Dark Witch Complete all Chapters on Climax difficulty.
Angel May Cry Complete half of all Alfheim portals.
Commander Of Magic Purchase all techniques.
Nice Try Engage Witch Time successfully 10 times consecutively.
Record Fanatic Obtain seven complete Angelic Hymn Gold LPs.
Touch And It Will REALLY Hurt Counter three enemy attacks consecutively with the Moon of
Mahaa-Kalaa equipped.
Treasure Fanatic Discover all of the Umbra Witches' final resting places.
Truth In Its Purest Form Collect all of Antonio's notes.
Umbra Elder Complete all Chapters on Hard difficulty.
Umbra Witch Complete all Chapters on Normal difficulty.
Wicked Weave Master Execute 20 Wicked Weave attacks while using Dodge Offset.
A Mother's Love Defend Cereza during the out of body experience, ensuring
she takes no damage.
A Primer In The Magical Arts Complete the Vestibule.
Chapters 1-4 (Normal) Complete Chapters 1 through 4 on Normal difficulty.
Chapters 12-13 (Normal) Complete Chapters 12 and 13 on Normal difficulty.
Chapters 14-Epilogue (Normal) Complete Chapters 14 through the Epilogue on Normal difficulty.
Chapters 5-7 (Normal) Complete Chapters 5 through 7 on Normal difficulty.
Chapters 8-11 (Normal) Complete Chapters 8 through 11 on Normal difficulty.
Come Here, Little Boy Taunt and defeat five plus angered enemies while taking no damage.
Gaze of Despair may be equipped.
Double, Double, Toil And Trouble Create 20 Concoctions.
Feels Good, Doesn't It? Execute 50 Torture Attacks.
Fire The Afterburners Earn Platinum Medals during Verse 1 and Verse 2 of Chapter 14.
Fortitudo, Bringer Of Flame Defeat Fortitudo on any difficulty.
Higher And Higher While never setting foot on the ground, grab enemies
10 times using Kulshedra.
I'm A Bit... I Mean Witch. Execute a Torture Attack.
Iustitia, Giver Of Life Defeat Iustitia on any difficulty.
Just In The Nick Of Time Dodge the runaway streetcar during Chapter 2.
Master Of The Heavens Defeat Father Balder on any difficulty.
Naughty Tentacles Destroy all the tentacles that drop down together during
a single sequence in Chapter 9.
New Testament: Ch. 1-4 (Hard) Complete Chapters 1 through 4 on Hard difficulty.
New Testament: Ch. 12-13 (Hard) Complete Chapters 12 and 13 on Hard difficulty.
New Testament: Ch. 5-7 (Hard) Complete Chapters 5 through 7 on Hard difficulty.
New Testament: Ch. 8-11 (Hard) Complete Chapters 8 through 11 on Hard difficulty.
New Testament: Close The Book Complete Chapters 14 through the Epilogue on Hard difficulty.
Nice And Relaxed Avert 10 enemy attacks with the Moon of Mahaa-Kalaa equipped.
Platinum! Earn 10 Platinum Medals. Must be earned in 10 different battles.
Record Collector Obtain three complete Angelic Hymn Gold LPs.
Sapientia, Controller Of Seas Defeat Sapientia on any difficulty.
Seeker Of Magic Purchase three new techniques.
Taste Of The Witching Hour Complete all Chapters on any difficulty.
Temperantia, Manipulator Of Wind Defeat Temperantia on any difficulty.
The Deepest Cut Kill 20 enemies using only Iai-Jutsu with Shuraba. (Iai-Jutsu
performed by holding triangle.)
The Ice Witch Freeze 20 enemies while wearing Odette.
The Path To The Heavens Discover all Alfheim portals.
Touch And It Will Hurt Counter 10 enemy attacks with the Moon of Mahaa-Kalaa equipped.
Tread Not So Softly Kill an enemy by jumping on top of them.
Treasure Collector Discover half of all the Umbra Witches' final resting places.
Wicked Weaver Execute a Wicked Weave attack while using Dodge Offset.
You Want To Touch Me? Engage Witch Time successfully 10 times.
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In Londonderry, firefighters honor one of their ownBy APRIL GUILMET
Union Leader Correspondent
January 20. 2013 10:13PM
LONDONDERRY - Its not often that secrets stay secret around the fire station, but this past weekend firefighter James "Bo" Butler was truly surprised by his comrades.
Butler, who recently accompanied a World War II veteran on an honor flight mission to Washington, D.C., was named the Londonderry Fire Department's Firefighter of the Year on Saturday evening.
Having previously served in Iraq himself, the young firefighter said he immediately knew he wanted to help upon learning of the New England charity's mission of taking elderly veterans on free trips to the national World War II Memorial.
Butler, who currently serves as vice president of the local firefighters' union and is active in various community causes, was also one of seven staff members to recently assist in the impromptu birth of a Londonderry baby who was born in an ambulance en route to the hospital in December.
During a moving ceremony held at Londonderry High School last weekend, area firefighters paused from their busy work and family lives to celebrate the everyday heroes in their midst.
Around 140 people, including family members and town officials, attended the event. Fire officials hope it will become an annual tradition in Londonderry.
The Recognition Ceremony has been in the works for the past year, Fire Chief Kevin MacCaffrie said, with committee members Lt. Michael McQuillen, Fire Marshal Brian Johnson, Lt. Donald Waldron, and firefighters Christopher Lamy and Butler meeting regularly to finalize plans.
Retired Londonderry Fire Chief Gary Johnson, who many in town know for his humor, served as the evening's keynote speaker.
A 30-year veteran of the local force who'd most recently served as the Pittsfield fire chief, Johnson recalled a career's worth of joys, sorrows and brotherhood.
"Most people wouldn't believe the things you do, the things you've seen," Johnson said.
"None of you think of yourselves as heroes, but heroes you are," he told the firefighters.
MacCaffrie, who will retire this March after a decades-long career in firefighting, reminded the firefighters to focus on what's truly important.
"Technology is a significant component to what we all do, but it's still the dedicated individuals who make the department," he said.
The fire chief recalled days when communications equipment "was basically a one-channel portable radio the size of a brick" and rescue equipment was nothing more than "a rope tied to your belt."
Times have certainly changed, he said, but at the end of the day the ultimate goal remains the same.
"We want to make sure everyone goes home," MacCaffrie said.
During the hour-and-a-half ceremony, dozens of firefighters were recognized for career milestones, with longtime Fire Chaplain Chester Ham honored for his nearly five decades of service.
Paul MacCallum, a regular fixture at the fire station who often lends his photography talents, was recognized as Support Member of the Year.
Bruce Hallowell was commended for his work on EMS projects, while William St. Jean was recognized as the recent class valedictorian in his paramedic course.
Earning Certificates of Merit for last month's emergency childbirth were Battalion Chief Douglas Cardwell, Lt. Michael McQuillen, Lt. David Johnson and firefighters Butler, Peter Devoe, Kevin Barnett and Jonathan Camire.
Earning Certificates of Merit for reviving a local cardiac patient not once but twice last spring were Battalion Chief Darren O'Brien, Lt. Eugene Jastrem, Lt. Jeremy Mague and firefighters Jeff Anderson, Shawn Carrier, Ed Daniels, Scott Geraghty and Christopher Lamy.
The Londonderry Fire Department attended to a total of 3,106 emergency calls last year.


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Get an overview of this hotelResort-style hotel by Whistler Conference Center
Popular property highlights
Guests say they love
- Good, quiet location
- Proximity to shopping
Alpine ambience
Surrounded by Whistler's trendiest shops as well as popular restaurants and activities, this all-suite hotel is just four blocks from ski lifts and two blocks from the Whistler Conference Center.
Off-slope pleasures
Guests without gear can rent skis on site. Après-ski activities at Delta Hotels by Marriott Whistler Village Suites include a swim in the outdoor pool, a soak in 1 of 3 spa tubs, or relaxing in the sauna.
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Hotel Amenities
Delta Hotels by Marriott Whistler Village Suites has a heated outdoor pool with indoor access, 3 spa tubs, a dry sauna, and workout facilities. Business services and meeting facilities are available, and the lobby houses a pay-per-minute Internet kiosk. Dining options include The Brickworks Public House and Hy's Steakhouse. Onsite shops feature retail apparel and ski accessories as well as ski, snowboard, and bike rentals. Babysitting/child care is available for a surcharge. Room service is available during limited hours.
37 ski lifts connecting to over 200 ski runs, snow tubing, and many other outdoor activities are located just a short walk from the hotel. This hotel was newly renovated in 2014.
- Library
- Express check-in
- Bar/lounge
- Babysitting or childcare
- Number of spa tubs - 3
- Elevator/lift
- Fitness facilities
- 24-hour front desk
- Conference space
- Porter/bellhop
- Meeting rooms 4
- Express check-out
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Restaurant
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Free WiFi
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Sauna
- Outdoor pool
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Health club
- Free wired Internet
- Smoke-free property
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Free area shuttle
- Spa services on site
- Ski storage
- Luggage storage
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- ATM/banking
- 24-hour business center
- Concierge services
- Pool umbrellas
- Laundry facilities
- Total number of rooms - 205
- Television in common areas
- Number of floors - 6
- Number of buildings/towers - 2
- Garden
- Multilingual staff
- Fireplace in lobby
- Free newspapers in lobby
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Area shuttle (complimentary)
- Laundry facilities
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Self parking (surcharge), Valet parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- Hair dryer
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Pay movies
- Premium bedding
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Air conditioning
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- Microwave
- Cookware, dishware, and utensils
- Daily housekeeping
- Bathrobes
- Free toiletries
- Cable TV service
- Desk
- Iron/ironing board
- Free newspaper
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- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
- In-room safe
- Private bathroom
- Shower/tub combination
- Room service (limited hours)
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Rollaway/extra beds (free)
- Flat-panel TV
- Pillowtop mattress
Nearby Things to Do
Guests enjoy exclusive access to the health club, open daily from early morning to late evening, with its 40-foot outdoor pool that can be entered from indoors. There are also three spa tubs and a sauna. The exercise room has two treadmills, two recumbent exercise bikes, one upright exercise bike, one stair machine, and free weights.
A complimentary shuttle service provides transportation to ski lifts located four blocks from the hotel. Several nearby golf courses include the Whistler Golf Club, also located about four blocks away.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Snowboarding nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Snowmobiling nearby
- Mountain biking nearby
- Snowshoeing nearby
- Downhill skiing nearby
- Cross-country skiing nearby
- Rafting nearby
- Snow tubing nearby
- Ecotours nearby
- Ski lessons available nearby
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Ski equipment rentals on site
- Kayaking nearby
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Check-in time ends at 4:30 AM
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Minimum check-in age is 19
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Free rollaway/extra beds!
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of CAD 35.00 per pet, per week
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: between CAD 11.5 and CAD 16.5 per person (approximately)
- Self parking fee: CAD 30 per day (in/out privileges)
- Valet parking fee: CAD 35 per day (in/out privileges)
- Pet fee: CAD 35.00 per pet, per week
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GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- The Greenburgh Nature Center is set to host an Earth Day and Arbor Day Celebration on Sunday, April 27.
The Nature Center celebration starts at 11 a.m. at 99 Dromore Road. The day's events include building rain barrels, classes on composting, tree planting, garden preparations and a new book discussion with local author Marcie Chambers Cuff.
"Join us for an Earth Day Celebration where you can roll up your sleeves and make a difference," representatives said. "In addition, in honor of our '1 Camera, 2 Hours Exhibit,' bring us your plastic shopping bags. We are creating an outdoor community exhibit and want you to be part of our creative conservation piece."
Most of the day's activities are free and open to all. Visit the Greenburgh Nature Center website or call 914-723-3470 for a full listing of events.
"The mission of the Greenburgh Nature Center is to offer inspiring, hands-on environmental education experiences, to foster an appreciation of nature, and to promote sustainable practices," representatives said.
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Recycled Garden Shed
We love the idea of the backyard shed as peaceful getaway, like Lisa's beautiful cottage in Port Orchard, Washington, built and decorated with recycled materials. Click through o see more of Lisa's shed.
Sunset featured Lisa's shed as a kind of "playhouse" for her ideas; she says that combing through salvage gave her endless inspiration. The shed door, from a torn-down church, and cost $5. Much of the little details, like the candelabra hanging below a window, were garage sale finds. A loveseat inside the shed is an old ferris wheel chair, and the interior ceiling is draped in muslin (purchased on "triple clearance") for a flowy, romantic effect. Check out Sunset's website and the Fresh Dirt blog for the whole story.
(Images: William P. Wright and Sharon Cohoon for Sunset)
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Freedom Cry DLC expansion has officially launched today. Keeping in good timing with this new piece of playable content, we were given the opportunity to interview the composer for the DLC's soundtrack, Olivier Deriviere.
The classically trained composer has worked with and recorded music with a number of different prestigious symphonic orchestras and has taken his talents to Ubisoft's bread-and-butter abode in the Assassin's Creed franchise. With the opportunity to pick the brain of Deriviere, we find out how he came up with the original score and what fueled his passion to make it tick. Check it out below.
Gaming Blend: So how did you get attached to the project and did you have any previous working experience with Ubisoft titles or properties before going in?
Olivier Deriviere: It happened so fast. I remember I was working on several opportunities and I received this phone call from my manager saying that Ubisoft called and offered me a project that she said, "I couldn't say no to". I really was intrigued as they told me it was about their main brand and that they wanted me because I would bring a different feel to it. How could I say no to that? Before that I had some limited experience working with Ubisoft years ago for Heroes of Might and Magic Kingdoms and some third party games.
Gaming Blend: You were able to work with The Brussels Philharmonic who did their recording in Belgium, while also collaborating with La Troupe Makandal, who were recording at Avatar Studios in New York, while also dealing with Ubisoft's Montreal studio – what was that process like trying to compose music while dealing with so many different groups scattered around the world?
Deriviere: It may have been the most challenging music production I have faced so far. Everything happened in about 2 months. It started with my first meeting with the team in Quebec City to introduce me to the game. We talked and it became obvious that the score should include a traditional music feel to it, not as a background idea but as a true component.
I had to record the traditional music first because I wanted it to be the rhythmic foundation of my score. Then for about 4 weeks I wrote the orchestral music, which is quite complex and I knew we would need a great orchestra to perform the hard rhythmic parts. Thankfully I had the great opportunity to work with The Brussels Philharmonic, and to record them at Galaxy Studios in Belgium was a real treat. It was really intense but I think the energy that is in the final score is a reflection of the intensity of this music production. On a different emotional level, what was really moving was to gather the two cultures once again 300 years later and unite them.
Gaming Blend: It's not often we get to hear traditional Haitian music in video games. In fact, I can't name one game where I've heard that kind of music before. Was it your decision to dig deep into Haitian roots and work with La Troupe Makandal or did someone recommend them or was it a decision handed down from Ubisoft?
Deriviere: Haitian music takes its roots because of slavery; it was a way for protestation and solidarity so it felt completely natural to me to include this music as the real score, not just as an illustration. But what is really interesting is how the music progresses in the game. You start with a much more western feel and the more you play, the more the music becomes influenced by the Haitian music. This progression is a reflection of what happens to the main character, Adéwalé who becomes increasingly affected by his forgotten roots. We even chose to add the original recording of the Haitian songs in their purest acoustic form, with drums and choir, to further immerse the players in this culture in the final credits of the game.


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Sometimes I'm convinced that technology is more difficult that it's worth.
As reliant as we are on technology, particularly at the Local, to get the paper out each week, technology slaps us in the face a little.
Unfortunately, when technology quirks happen, it often shows in our finished product. And for that, we apologize to you, our readers.
In my job, I enjoy telling everyone's story. I consider storytelling to be a part of my responsibility — honoring the residents of the county.
Another necessary evil of my job is acting as a watchdog for the community: getting the correct facts and asking the tough questions. In my experience as your county reporter, I don't considerate that part of my job to be hard but an honor.
The most difficult part of my job is getting the city, county and publicly appointed state officials to return my phone calls.
As the Supreme Court prepares to rule on the health care law's constitutionality, the House continues to roll back provisions that hit health care consumers, companies and providers the hardest, while advancing new ideas to make health care options more flexible.
Last week, a bipartisan majority in the House approved the Health Care Cost Reduction Act of 2012. This bill strikes two harmful components of the health care law and adds a new provision to improve Flexible Spending Accounts.
By Candy Clarke
When we ran out of excuses not to leave, we finally had to say goodbye to Henry County for another six months and head north to Alaska.
It was especially difficult to leave this year. Gardens were coming on, the fruit trees were bearing, and the fish in the Kentucky River kept calling our names. After being delayed two weeks due to automobile problems; we loaded up the vehicle and began our 4500 mile trip to North Pole, Alaska.
Last week, New Castle attorney, and preservationist, Joe Yates told us "Human beings need community. Small towns and neighborhoods in a big city provide a sense of that community.
A few years ago, my mother gave me one of my most prized possessions.
It wasn't a huge flat screen television or the latest iPhone. She gave me my grandparents' kitchen table.
It has a worn quartered ash top; two insertable leaves; thick scrolling legs. They had a dining room table that seemed much more elegant and contemporary, but it was only used for the overflow of family that was there on Christmas night. Otherwise, it sat in a separate room like a dainty showroom piece from the 70s.
Charm is defined as "attractiveness; the power to delight or attract people." In my opinion, that equates to a place called Henry County.
A couple of months ago my truck needed some mechanical repairs. I found an experienced mechanic to do the work. Following Ike I needed a new roof on my house. I sought out a qualified roofer to install the new roof.
That is the way most of us think. We want the most qualified doctor, lawyer, or electrician to do the things we need performed. We appreciate experience.
One of the major issues least talked about in the Henry County Circuit Court Clerk's race is our courthouse.
The Administrative Office of the Courts has declared that the Henry County courthouse is one of two in the state most in need of replacement. Our courthouse is also one of the oldest and most beautiful, built in 1877, and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
As a resident of Henry County, it is my pleasure to support Nick Hawkins as our next Circuit Court Clerk.
Nick is not only a great family man, but one the most active Henry County residents. He is very involved with our youth and extremely knowledgeable about the resources available. I am impressed with how quickly this young man has been able to establish himself in Henry County.
On behalf of Bill and his family, we want to thank everyone for helping make the benefit a success.
We would like to thank all of you who donated food, items for the silent auction and monetary contributions.
A very special thanks goes out to Fred Porter and Cropper Baptist Church for the use of their facility.
Last, but by no means least, to the Better Daze Band, Thomas Hood, and Shades of Pink for their awesome music, which was enjoyed by all.
The money raised was much needed and greatly appreciated by the Downey family.
Thank you for all of your support for the Henry County Senior Citizens Derby Eve Fundraiser.
To everyone who worked, came, or donated items, a big thank you. We had another successful year because of you.
Henry County Senior Citizens
In my profession, you never know where the thread of a story will take you.
I recently wrote stories on the lead mine in Lockport and the history of Defoe each with a fascinating legacy. In this week's issue, I looked into the origins of a sign that has been on a barn for more than 30 years.
For nine years, I have belonged to a dog named Gunner. Most people will tell you what type of dog they own, but I can say with absolute certainty that my dog, Gunner, rules my world. He is a 10-year-old rescued Alaskan Husky. At first, he was trembling and shaking so badly, it was hard for him to stand. He responded to touch by maintaining the classic cowed position. It was heartbreaking to see such a beautiful animal so afraid.
Last week I met and talked with a few local farmers. I interviewed tobacco and corn farmer Mark Roberts who works on a large production scale; and people on the smaller scale like Ed Nelson, who sell at local farmers markets. Nelson considers being called a farmer a compliment.
Paul Tokosh is in between the large and small production scale. He works 16 acres growing pears, apples and asparagus. He also grows blackberries, strawberries and blue berries. He sells to Hilltop produce in Shelbyville and goes to several other counties before also selling here.
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The recent Christmas in New Castle was a huge success. We had the biggest crowd ever. I want to start out by thanking everyone who came out to support Christmas in New Castle.
While in New Castle last week I ran into Voltaire and his friend Dr Pangloss. The following conversation took place between myself and Dr Pangloss; Voltaire seemed quite drowsy.
Myself: "So what brings you to our county?"
Dr. Pangloss: "We heard that your county, during this recession and falling property values and tax base, is still so optimistic that you have gone on a building spree."
Myself: "Yes, our wise leaders seem to be very optimistic."
With the holidays right around the corner, struggling families and American workers face uncertain budgets in the New Year because the payroll tax holiday and unemployment insurance benefits are set to expire at the end of this month.
As President Obama said and Speaker John Boehner has echoed, Congress should not adjourn for the holidays until it finishes the pending work on these items.
As we approach the final days of the year and literally wrap up a hectic month of shopping, it's good to take a moment to reflect on what the past dozen months have brought.
While the times have been tough for far too long now, there have been some encouraging signs that the Commonwealth is getting back on its feet.
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Megan McArdle makes this point in the context of the minimum wage, but it is one that I have tried to make a couple of times in the context of Obama's many and varied employment-suppressing policies generally:
The thing about unemployment is that it's much, much worse than having a crap low-wage job. It's worse than almost anything. It's one of those life events that people never really recover from. Two years after a divorce or being widowed, people have adjusted, and are mostly about as happy as they were before the terrible event. But after two years of unemployment, people are still miserable. And even after they get another job, a prolonged spell of unemployment often has permanent effects on future earning power, and risk for things like depression. We should weight the losses of the people who are out of work much higher than the gains to the people who get an income boost.
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Seattle (AP) - Forecasters say another strong November storm is blowing through Washington. The National Weather Service says there will be winds of 20-30 mph in Western Washington with gusts to 45. Rain should turn to showers tomorrow afternoon. The snow level in the cascades and Olympics will drop as low as 3,000 feet. In Eastern Washington, the storm will likely bring gusty winds with valley rain and mountain snow


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This story appears in the October 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine.
"Do you ever feel like going away?" I asked.
It was a summer day in 1969. There had been no rain for weeks. The 17-year-old boy from a Hutterite religious community in Stanford, Montana, said you can tell it's really dry when a single rider can kick up a dust trail. We stopped with our horses at a stream. The water was cool and tasted of the earth. We drank carelessly, splashing our faces until our shirtfronts hung wet.
"You know—do you ever feel like leaving the colony?"
"No," the boy said. "It must be a pretty rough life on the outside, all alone, trying to make a living. Don't you think?"
We let the horses drink, and then rode on.
"Yes," I told him. "It can be all of that."
Since that innocent exchange, I've spent much of my life traveling the world. I've seen a lot of wonderful places. But it was the American West that never left me. It kept drawing me back.
Raised in Minneapolis, I didn't get my first look at the West until the mid-1960s, while on my first assignments for National Geographic magazine. I can still remember one early morning in Wyoming and the first light on high mountain meadows, the wisps of clouds within my reach. That look demanded another, and another, until I found myself seeking any excuse, any story idea that would lead me back from the East, where I had moved, to that grand expanse. Now I live half the year in western Montana.
I once knew an old Montana cowhand, now dead, who used to muse about times when the country was more open, with fewer fences and gates to slow a man down—restrictions in the land of the free. I suppose we all feel more restricted today. There seem to be gates in our lives that we never get open. But if we're lucky, we find a place special to us. Even though it may change with time, if we love it deeply enough, there is a part of it within us to the end. That's how I feel about the West.


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Executive director Rebecca Russell congratulates the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Boy and Girl of the Year, 6-year-old Preston Kilzer and 14-year-old Mallory Evans. Photo by Steve Peterson, Special to The Denver Post
Saturday night, at a gala that brought an eight-week fund-raising campaign to a close, attorney Bill Buckley and event planner Lisa Straffon were named the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Man and Woman of the Year.
Buckley's efforts brought in some $32,000, while and Straffon raised nearly $20,000. That, added to what was raised by other title-seekers, netted almost $100,000 for blood cancer research. Buckley and Straffon will now compete for the society's national title.
Rick Petersen of Denver and Jill DiPasquale of Greenwood Village chaired the 2009 event. Sue Ellen Goss of Littleton, Linda Goto of Denver and Lisa Williams of Cherry Hills Village were the advisors. Petersen is president of the society's Rocky Mountain chapter board.
Buckley, a trial lawyer and a former chief homicide prosecutor in Denver, is a cancer survivor and member of the Rocky Mountain chapter board. "We ask a board member to volunteer (for a run at the title) every year and I felt that this was a year that I could contribute the most because of the economic problems — so I set out to do my best," he said.
Buckley was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) on March 6, 2006. After three different rounds of chemotherapy, full body radiation and a successful bone marrow transplant, he has been in remission since June, 2006. His sister, Neysa Mueller, was his bone marrow donor and he says he will be "eternally grateful" for the gift she gave him. "My last bone marrow biopsy, in July, 2008, showed that my bone marrow is 100% Neysa's. Her healthy bone marrow kicked mine out. That's not the norm, so I am extremely lucky."
Lisa Straffon, an event planner with Vistar/VSA, has done significant work for the LLS through her position at Vistar, one of the sponsors for another LLS fund-raiser, Light The Night. She chose to participate in Man & Woman of the Year in honor of the individuals she knows who have been affected by a blood cancer. She is on the board for the Colorado Children's Campaign Circle of Friends guild and is an advisor to Delta Gamma sorority. Straffon enjoys reading, cooking, skiing and gardening.
In addition, six-year-old Preston Kilzer and 14-year-old Mallory Evans were honored as Boy and Girl of the Year.
Pictures taken at the gala can be viewed at denverpost.com/seengallery
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While the entire world is knee-deep in holiday wish lists and wrapping paper, we've got something a little more practical on our minds: calendars. If you're not an 80-year-old kitten obsessive who frequents kiosks at the mall, chances are you don't own a calendar. But after perusing the beautiful offerings available, we're totally ready to take on 2013 in a très stylish way.
Track the passing days with the help of our favorite fashion people, fired-up letterpress machines, and great design that'd make for awesome wall art regardless of its utility. Some of our old favorites are back (read: United Bamboo's cat calendar!), but there are also plenty of new kids on the block (some that take the calendar off its traditional paper backing) vying for our affections. Check out the calendars in the slideshow ahead!


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It is possible that the main title of the report Rothmund Thomson Syndrome is not the name you expected. Please check the synonyms listing to find the alternate name(s) and disorder subdivision(s) covered by this report.
Rothmund-Thomson syndrome (RTS) is a rare genetic disorder that can affect many parts of the body. The disorder is characterized by distinctive abnormalities of the skin, sparse hair, eyelashes and/or eyebrows, small stature, skeletal and dental abnormalities, and an increased risk of cancer, especially bone cancer (osteosarcoma). Patients typically begin having signs of RTS during infancy, and the first feature to appear is a rash that starts on the cheeks and later spreads to other parts of the body. The rash gradually becomes chronic and persists for life. Other features may appear that involve other areas of the body such as the eyes, bones, teeth, and hair, and patients may often be small in size compared to their peers. Patients are at an increased risk for developing cancer, particularly certain types of skin and bone cancer. Lifespan is generally felt to be normal in the absence of death due to cancer, although follow-up data in the published literature are limited. RTS is inherited as an autosomal recessive genetic condition. The gene defect in two-thirds of cases is due to mutations in a gene called RECQL4. For the other one-third of patients, the gene(s) involved has not yet been identified.
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CRATER LAKE, Ore. (AP) The work can be long, the baggage heavy and sometimes his nose gets cold, but, oh, what an office Dan Rubenson finds himself in three weekends each winter.
The 59-year-old Ashland, Ore., resident trades his sport coat as a Southern Oregon University economics professor for the red jacket of Crater Lake National Parks Ski Patrol and all the perks it affords.
Free lodging in the park, more backwoods training than Bear Grylls can muster in his survival show and a few dozen interesting comrades in arms.
And ultimately, this cross-country skiing fanatic cant get enough of lending a helping hand to those soaking in postcard views from atop skis on some of Oregons deepest and cleanest snow.
Being able to ski the backcountry at Crater is a great experience, Rubenson said. Its very enjoyable. And its useful to help people find their way.
The parks Ski Patrol is entering its 30th season and is ready to add more snow lovers to its fold.
The park is looking to beef up the patrol to 50 skilled volunteers who help National Park Service employees with myriad duties at Oregons only national park, taking on everything from answering questions and marking trails to delicate backwoods rescue operations should the need occur.
Members train regularly on all sorts of skills, and would-be members must complete two weekend training sessions to qualify.
Patrollers must have at least a current first-aid card and CPR/AED certificate.
Those who complete the training will be asked to sign up for three weekends of patrol work during the ski season, which amounts to labors of love for patrol members such as John Fertig of Medford.
A retired forester, the 63-year-old Fertig is something of a cross-country junkie, a practitioner of the discipline of skiing with just your toes bound to the boards.
Backcountry telemark skiing is the main draw, with Fertig negotiating the parks rolling terrain in sweeping turns invented in Norway 150 years ago. But visitors can find Fertig on groomed trails moving with traditional kick-glides in snowy grooves or even skate-skiing, as Olympic viewers are used to seeing. All are the disciplines of skiing with binders attached only at the toe.
The downside is that Im not very good at any of it, Fertig said. But as the old saying goes, you dont get style points.
But its more than skiing that has kept Fertig on the patrol the last five years. He teaches patrollers backcountry navigation, the seemingly lost art of finding your way with a map and a compass instead of a GPS with perhaps sketchy battery life.
He enjoys his weekends at the park, whether its helping those on the snow or sharing time in the bunkhouse-like condo for the volunteers on their two-day stints.
Time for skiing after retirement and a sense of wanting to give back to skiing drew Fertig to the Crater Ski Patrol.
What brings me back each year are the people, Fertig said. There are some very nice and interesting people on the ski patrol.
Interest in a ski patrol at the park dates to 1983 when members of Klamath Falls Alla Mage Ski Club were evaluating their annual wilderness ski races and talk turned to using club members as trail patrollers. Park officials invited members to ski weekends at the park and provided radios.
Before the 1984 season, ski clubs from around the region held an organizational meeting, and patrol training sessions began later that year. Two years later, the group had its signature patch and red coats, purchased by the park service, and off it went.
Over the years, patrol members have found themselves working throughout much of the parks 182,700 acres, employing the very techniques they study annually.
Sometimes, the work calls for providing emergency medical services, searching for lost skiers, posting warning signs and evaluating weather and avalanche conditions. Patrollers work in groups of at least two, and some of the days can be long.
There are days when Rubenson draws trail-marking duty, when he dons a 30-pound backpack full of triangular trail signs, a hammer and nails. He skis the trail looking to replace lost signs or adding new ones so skiers can look down the trail from one sign and see the next.
Its easy to lose the trail, Rubenson said.
Its not easy to lose interest.
Its physical work, but its fun, Rubenson said. You can carry a lot of weight in those backpacks.


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