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In this year-end special, Dave and Milt present the 2024 Tennies Award Show straight from the Joe Piscopo Memorial Ballroom at the Comfort Inn in Weehawken, New Jersey. The ceremony celebrates the best moments from their podcast 'Past Tens: A Top 10 Time Machine,' featuring original songs, guest contributions, and classic pod memories. From the best listener guest to the best original song, and the most entertaining mishaps, the show includes a humorous compilation of highlights while maintaining its hallmark lighthearted banter. With special shout outs to loyal listeners, it's a festive and nostalgic wrap-up just in time for Christmas. Topics 03:01 Whamageddon and Listener Interactions 07:04 The Tennies: Best Listener Guest 11:21 The Tennies: Worst Weird Remake 13:43 The Tennies: Best Original Song 20:15 The Fart Song Finale 22:13 Best Dirty Trick Award 24:06 Best Milt Wow Moment 26:37 Best Unlikely Moment of Dave Knowing Something 30:37 Best Use of the Word Penis 31:56 Best Nice Moment 36:43 Memorable Moments from 2024
In this episode of Top CMO, we sit down with Noha Abdalla, the Chief Marketing Officer of Choice Hotels, to explore what it takes to market a portfolio of 22 hotel brands, including Comfort Inn, Cambria, and the recently acquired Radisson Hotels Americas. Noha shares her journey from rebranding Animal Planet to leading marketing innovations in the hospitality industry, and how she balances the needs of consumers, franchisees, and investors. We dive into the challenges of creating emotional connections with guests, the role of AI in modern marketing, and the art of making every dollar count. Whether you're a marketer, a business leader, or simply curious about what drives success in the competitive world of hospitality, this episode is packed with insights and inspiration.
This week on Corn Nation's Overreaction Revisited podcast, Greg and Hoss go back to October of 2023 and Nebraska's road loss to Michigan State. Hear Hoss rip apart East Lansing and the surrounding areas, as well as his take on Spartan Stadium. As a reminder in this game, and most of the troubles of the ‘23 campaign, turnovers played a decisive part in the outcome. But that Comfort Inn and Suites leaves a lot to be desired.
The Award Travel 101 Podcast is brought to you in part by Thrifty Traveler Premium. Get Thrifty Traveler Premium deal/award alerts sent straight to your inbox. Recent finds include:Business Class to Paris for 40KPremium Economy to Taipei for $1,994 R/TBusiness class to Seoul on Korean (Rare find) for 75KYou can find these at ThriftyTraveler.com/PremiumPost of the weekAndrew “Bacon” Goodman - Disney for $375 INCLUDING PARK TICKETS!?NewsHilton/Small Luxury Hotels (Updates)Choice Sweet Spots New Citi AAdvantage Business offerTrip updatesJoeGirl's night & Boy's night without spending $675!What bonuses did we get?AngieTwo Free Hilton NightsJoe20K Referral14X spend Amex Business GoldAlmost done with wife's Citi AAdvantage CardHighlight Feature: 20 Largest Hotel Chains & the Six We're Focusing OnWe came across an interesting diagram ranking the top 20 hotel programs throughout the world. Do you know which is largest?Some are less familiar, so we ranked the six we most frequently discuss in the Award Travel 101 Facebook community:#2 Wyndham - 9,280 Properties from Days Inn all the way up to Wyndham Grand. #3 Marriott- One of the largest footprints with 8,484 properties a wide range of price points from Springhill Suites up to Ritz Carlton and St. Regis luxury hotels. #6 Choice - with 7,500 properties domestically, Choice is not known for being great. They start with low level properties like Comfort Inn's and Quality Inn's but their Ascend and Cambria properties look great.#7 Hilton - counting 7,165 properties in their portfolio, Hilton is similar to Marriott with a fairly sizable footprint with a wide range of price points from Hampton Inn to Waldorf Astoria.#8 IHG - With 1,000 less (6,164) properties, another one that families on a budget may opt for is Holiday Inn Express and their tasty cinnamon rolls. IHG starts with Holiday Inn's and has upper level Kimptons.#16 Hyatt - With 1,200 properties (Hyatt says 1,300+ today), World of Hyatt is markedly smaller. They start at Hyatt Place and their flagship properties fall under Park Hyatt. TIP OF THE WEEK:Have a good backup plan for using your credit cards. Tune in to hear Angie's fail.Where To Find the Award Travel 101 Community For questions, you can join us in the free 100,000+ member Award Travel 101 Community. For more intermediate and advanced strategies, join Award Travel 201 community To book time with our team, check out Award Travel 1-on-1. You can also email us at contactawardtravel@gmail.com. Our next meetup is located in San Antonio, TX on April 26–28, 2024. If you want a waitlisted ticket, see this post in AT101. Support the AT101 Podcast/Community
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The Comfort Inn on Airport Road near the St. John's International Airport has been converted into a transitional housing facility. We spoke with Doug Pawson from End Homelessness St. John's, the group that will be managing this new facility.
In this episode: Mike's Rewind Happy, Happy Andrew – John Wing in Miami, Festival is programmed Dawn's Fact Check Listener Questions, Comments & Reviews Michelle's Random Thought – Ads on Pay TV Dick of the Week – High School Principal eats students Door Dash order Freakout – Papa John's delivery guy in England driving distracted Shaddup – Funeral group wants to cancel their rooms at a Comfort Inn Karen – McDonalds in England doesn't accept 50-pound note Douchebag – Couple doesn't want a guys dog pooping on grass Dumbass – Guy returns after 3 weeks to complain about his “Meatballer” Checking in with the Politicians – Trump What Does Kevin Think? – Are you in favour of an Alberta Pension Plan? The Doctor's Office – Are drugs the only solution for depression? How Smart is Carole? – Broadway Plays The Big Blue Folder We get played out by Young Jeffery Out-takes This episode of Grose Misconduct was sponsored by Crystal Glass, Leading Edge Physiotherapy, Ol' MacDonald's Resort, Arena Auto Service, Meathead Butcher Shop, Twin Otter Neighbourhood Pub, Daybreak Photo and The Edmonton Comedy Festival. @CrystalGlassLTD @LeadingEdgePT @Macker63 @yegcomedy @mikedmonton @DawnsFactCheck @docTonyM @MeatHeadIncSupport the show
Cherry Pie es el segundo álbum de estudio de la banda de hard rock estadounidense Warrant, lanzado el 11 de septiembre de 1990. Es el disco más exitoso de la agrupación, logrando escalar a la séptima posición de la lista Billboard 200.El álbum contiene las exitosas canciones «Cherry Pie», «I Saw Red», «Uncle Tom's Cabin» y «Blind Faith», además de contener un cover de la canción «Train, Train» de Blackfoot. «Cherry Pie»: 3:20 «Uncle Tom's Cabin»: 4:01 «I Saw Red»: 3:47 «Bed of Roses» (Bonnie Hayes, Lane): 4:04 «Sure Feels Good to Me» (Johnny B. Frank, Lane, Danny Stag): 2:39 «Love in Stereo»: 3:06 «Blind Faith»: 3:33 «Song and Dance Man»: 2:58 «You're the Only Hell Your Mama Ever Raised»: 3:34 «Mr. Rainmaker»: 3:29 «Train, Train» (Shorty Medlocke): 2:49 «Ode to Tipper Gore»: 0:55 Jani Lane: voz, guitarra acústica Joey Allen: guitarra Erik Turner: guitarra Jerry Dixon: bajo Steven Sweet: batería Publicación 11 de septiembre de 1990 Género(s) Hard rock Glam metal Heavy metal Duración 38:14 Discográfica Columbia, CBS Productor(es) Beau Hill Jani Lane fue encontrado muerto en el hotel Comfort Inn en Woodland Hills, California el 11 de agosto del 2011 a la edad de 47 años, preliminarmente por causas desconocidas. El 5 de octubre de 2011, después de la finalización de una investigación oficial, el teniente Larry Dietz de la oficina de médicos forenses del Condado de Los Ángeles, anunció que la causa de su muerte se dio por envenenamiento de alcohol etanol, un tipo de intoxicación aguda por excesivo consumo de alcohol.
Choice Hotels International is introducing its most ambitious ad campaign ever! Starring comedian Keegan-Michael Key, the spots seek to unite all brands under the Choice with an emphasis on Comfort Inn, Radisson, Cambria Hotels and Quality Inn. CMO Noha Abdalla shares the details.
HEADLINES: Nude at the Petrol Station | Police Blotters | All Excited About Rockets in the Comfort Inn | 3 Quickies from Live Science Plus an Emergency Potty Break | Dutch Hikers vs Mountain Goat TiTR News Coffee Mugs: https://teespring.com/this-is-true-really-news?cid=102950&page=1&pid=658&tsmac=store&tsmic=special-ts-5 #QuirkyReports #CuriousNews #OutlandishEvents #UnconventionalUpdates #SurrealStories
Tune in today for Episode 16 of OPERATION ARROW FLETCHER by James Byrnes. Carly gets to facetime Bo to make sure he is still alive. Agent Canter and Porsche meet David and Carly at the Comfort Inn to finalize plans. On Friday, I'm interviewing the author of OPERATION ARROW FLETCHER, James Byrnes. It's sure to be a good one! I'll drop that interview after Monday's episode, so make sure you stay tuned!To check out more of my work, go to my website at cathicolas.com, or find me on Audible. If you're an author looking to turn your book into an audiobook, email me at cathicolas@gmail.com, let's talk. And if you like the podcast, please leave a review or share it on Social Media. Thanks for listening.
A couple counterfeiters had all the money they could want and still got busted at a Comfort Inn...a church is hosting an anti-violence event called "smoke your tires, not your homies"...and someone tried to bring a stolen tank into a recycling factory!
Baldur's Gate III, Illusion Island, Starship Troopers: Extermination, ExileCon Path of Exile 2 news, Dark and Darker is back, win a copy of Vampire Survivors for Nintendo Switch, Blowbama, the Comfort Inn, and more gaming news! Head to videogameoutsiders.com and go premium for 1.99 to get our weekly bonus shows and the entire back catalog of VGO - you can also find our Discord, merch store, and enter to win our contests. Download our free VGO app on your phone and get weekly bonus shows, support us, and more!
On Nov 11th, 1983, the housekeeping staff at the Comfort Inn in Santa Fe, New Mexico was making their round afters check-out time. When the housekeeper got to room 205, she knocked on the door, and after getting no response, let herself in using her pass key. The housekeeper entered the room and within seconds, she realized she'd walked into a nightmare. SOURCEShttps://www.daily-journal.com/news/local/19-years-later-killer-confesses/article_7a468959-99d9-55ab-af7b-1ae4f9cb22d9.htmlhttps://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/a-decade-of-fear-women-who-were-killed-or-went-missing-in-santa-fe-during/article_3df494d8-c829-56d7-996e-d405c512b298.htmlhttps://www.mrt.com/news/article/Man-pleads-guilty-to-two-20-year-old-murder-cases-7730449.phpThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5307439/advertisement
[Episode 30]Support The Service Center!: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1844427/supportLesley Wong is the owner and Principal Designer at Lesley Wong Interiors and is a hospitality interior design specialists based in Ontario, Canada. Her guest-first design strategy is focused on crafting customized and beautiful hotel spaces for guests, that are both ascetically pleasing and operationally function for operators. Lesley graduated from the New York School of Interior Design and honed her skills in design and construction with Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. She has operated her own design firm from nearly 10 years, working with brands including Comfort Inn, Best Western, IHG, and Hilton on creating unique, boutique hospitality environments. You can connect with Lesley on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lesley-wong-hotels or visit her website at: lesleywonginteriors.ca-----Host: William C Murray, PhD:William is passionate about service, the hospitality industry, and human experiences. He began working in the service industry at 14 and has never looked back, gaining experience in retail, restaurants, and major hotel companies nationwide. He is an expert in service, hospitality operations, and management, with over two decades teaching at both colleges and universities across Canada. William holds a PhD in Management and multiple degrees in hospitality and tourism. He in an Associate Professor at the University of Guelph (Canada) in the School of Hospitality, Food & Tourism Management at the Lang School of Business & Economics. His research focuses on workforce sustainability and the human condition of workers. He has published work in top journals, including Sustainability, the International Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Administration, and the Journal of Human Resources in Hospitality and Tourism, along with being a co-author of the textbook Snapshots: An Introduction to Tourism, 6th Cdn.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Listen to the podcast (all hosting sites): https://theservicecenter.buzzsprout.com/share Questions or feedback about the show? Suggestions for future guests? Reach out - I would love to hear from you!E-mail: william@theservicecenter.caLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drwilliamcmurray/Podcast art: Jack Designs a Graphics CompanySupport the showSupport The Service Center!: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1844427/supportSupport the showSupport The Service Center!: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1844427/support
Poem 1: “Ghosts in my Pockets” by Julie Williams, author of Escaping Tornado Season and Drama Queens in the House.Song 1: Chalk Marks (poem by Ivria Sackton of Austin TX, 1981, arranged and sung by jvm)Poem 2: “Comfort Inn” by Scott Wiggerman, from his first book Vegetables and Other Relationships.Story excerpt: from “The Last Usher” in The Lost Archive by Lynn C. Miller (2023) https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/6155.htmFeed the Cat Break: "Night Light" by jvmProse excerpt: from the novel The Blue Diamond by John Vincent Modaff (amazon)Song 2: Ghost Melodies (jvm; harmonica by Dave Merrill)Episode artwork by Lynda Miller Show theme and incidental music by John V. Modaff, BMI The Unruly Muse is Recorded in Albuquerque, NM and Morehead, KY. NEXT UP: Episode 29, “Taking the Leap”
[Episode 29]Support The Service Center!: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1844427/supportLesley Wong is the owner and Principal Designer at Lesley Wong Interiors and is a hospitality interior design specialists based in Ontario, Canada. Her guest-first design strategy is focused on crafting customized and beautiful hotel spaces for guests, that are both ascetically pleasing and operationally function for operators. Lesley graduated from the New York School of Interior Design and honed her skills in design and construction with Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. She has operated her own design firm from nearly 10 years, working with brands including Comfort Inn, Best Western, IHG, and Hilton on creating unique, boutique hospitality environments. You can connect with Lesley on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lesley-wong-hotels or visit her website at: lesleywonginteriors.ca-----Host: William C Murray, PhD:William is passionate about service, the hospitality industry, and human experiences. He began working in the service industry at 14 and has never looked back, gaining experience in retail, restaurants, and major hotel companies nationwide. He is an expert in service, hospitality operations, and management, with over two decades teaching at both colleges and universities across Canada. William holds a PhD in Management and multiple degrees in hospitality and tourism. He in an Associate Professor at the University of Guelph (Canada) in the School of Hospitality, Food & Tourism Management at the Lang School of Business & Economics. His research focuses on workforce sustainability and the human condition of workers. He has published work in top journals, including Sustainability, the International Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Administration, and the Journal of Human Resources in Hospitality and Tourism, along with being a co-author of the textbook Snapshots: An Introduction to Tourism, 6th Cdn. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Listen to the podcast (all hosting sites): https://theservicecenter.buzzsprout.com/share Questions or feedback about the show? Suggestions for future guests? Reach out - I would love to hear from you!E-mail: william@theservicecenter.caLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drwilliamcmurray/Podcast art: Jack Designs a Graphics CompanySupport the showSupport The Service Center!: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1844427/support
The Boston Planning and Development Agency recently approved a plan for the Comfort Inn on Morrissey Boulevard in Dorchester to be transformed into permanent supportive housing for seniors. The project got some blowback from neighborhood groups and lawmakers, but Pine Street Inn says it's a critical step to help unhoused seniors make their way off the streets and rebuild their lives. Lyndia Downie, Executive Director of Pine Street Inn, talks with Nichole about the project, the fight over the Long Island Bridge, and their upcoming workforce development graduation.
Carolyn Harding with Michael Ketterer, PhD, an analytical chemist and Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Northern Arizona University. We'll talk about the Portsmouth Ohio Nuclear Site, otherwise known as the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, south of Piketon, Ohio, and HOT in Energy news NOW. Michael E. Ketterer, PhD, is an analytical chemist and Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Northern Arizona University. Michael holds a BS in Chemistry from University of Notre Dame and a PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Colorado. Michael has worked in private industry, as a chemist for USEPA's Office of Enforcement, and has taught at four different Universities. Dr. Ketterer specializes in understanding the sources, transport and environmental fates of long lived radioactive contaminants, such as uranium and plutonium, near former and active nuclear sites. Michael has performed mass spectrometric studies of uranium isotopes in off-site samples near the Portsmouth Nuclear Site (PORTS) which show conclusively, using modern nuclear forensics, that the contamination originated from PORTS. The US Department of Energy has contradicted but has not disproved Dr. Ketterer's results. Michael is currently providing technical assistance to communities throughout the US affected by legacy nuclear contamination. Ohio Nuclear Free Network website coming soon: www.onfn.org The Ohio Nuclear Free Network PRESENTS: A CITIZEN FORUM ON RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH and THE FUTURE OF THE PORTSMOUTH NUCLEAR SITE Saturday, June 10 at 1 pm At the Comfort Inn, 7525 US-23, Piketon, OH 45661 Speakers: Michael E. Ketterer, PhD, analytical chemist and Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Northern Arizona University “Contamination is forever: Radioisotopes near PORTS” Joseph J. Mangano, MPH, MBA, epidemiologist and Executive Director, Radiation and Public Health Project “Soaring Death Rate Near Ohio Uranium Plant”* Announcing the release of his NEW Seven-County Health Impact Study Terry J. Lodge, Esq. Specialist in Environmental Law and Civil Rights “Is Piketon's Disastrous Past a Prelude to Even Worse?" Following the presentations, the public will be invited to speak about health issues and environmental concerns. _______________________________________ In person, on livestream at https://bit.ly/portsforum, and recorded on the Ohio Nuclear Free Network YouTube Channel. GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
This episode had a grunginess to it. Sorry. Our visual connection while recording was a bit unsettling, though we celebrated the shared casual space we enjoy in an audio-only podcast. But David's long road trip has him taking liberties with his hotel room accommodations that Dr Dave felt led to rebuke. He might have been too judge-y. To come full circle, if the "Buddy Award" that David (almost) enjoyed as a Lincoln School volunteer wasn't special enough, we may be able to join Comfort Inn housekeeping to pick up on why it was exactly the humbler he deserves.
Quality episode alert!! The BFW crew did their thing this week to commemorate the 3-year anniversary of the COVID shutdown and BFWW Phase 3.6! Rumble started off by talking about his desire to get back to the regular (01:00) which led to us talking about how everyone handled things differently over the past 36 months (02:00). This led right to us giving our BIG THREE things that have changed since March 2020 (08:00). Next, Aldo let us know What Burned His Boudin this week including the Comfort Inn (23:00), student scammers (28:00), PornHub in NOLA (37:00), leaving a Zoom meeting last (39:00), and Gramstar's hatred of speaking other languages loudly (42:00). After this, we got back to discussing Ja Morant's foolishness (45:00) and the black folks who got killed by the cartel in Mexico (1:01:00). On the back end of the pod, we finish by letting you know Netflix is still king (1:09:00), talking about Bronny, Mercy, and Jonathan Majors (1:11:00), and some post-credits daddy talk.
Neezy, Skeet and London discuss the importance of stepping out your comfort zone, and discuss their audiobook recommendations and tips on how to pushout consistent content and more Merch Links: Inaudibleraucous.com/naturally-nae Adidas: adidas.njih.net/c/3820166/264102/…af_siteid=3820166 YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCSuG-jWD…yNTh00zCrdegMerch ◦ Everyone wants to be an influencer ◦ Letting go of baggage to open doors for blessings Simply lemonade being toxic Finding your own happiness in the midst of a stressful time Tamara Mowry Book Humble the Poet book
The people have spoken: Comfort Inn & Suites is the best place to stay in Branson, Missouri. Find out why it's now the gold-standard for family-friendly lodgings in the Ozark town. Learn more at https://www.myerhospitality.com/comfort-inn-branson-meadows
Today on Boston Public Radio: We began the show by asking our listeners how they feel about Elon Musk buying Twitter. Lyndia Downie, president of the Pine Street Inn, discussed the organization's plan to build more than 100 studio apartments at a former "Comfort Inn" in Dorchester despite the steep opposition from neighbors and local leaders. She also discussed the ongoing tension between the city of Boston and the state when it comes to Mass and Cass and ended by highlighting that Boston's homeless population has dipped by 25 percent over two years. Callie Crossley talked about the divorce between Tom Brady and Giselle Bundchen. She also predicted the impact of Elon Musk buying Twitter, and weighed in on how the media covered John Fetterman's performance during his Pennsylvania senatorial debate with Dr. Mehmet Oz. Callie Crossley is the host of "Under the Radar with Callie Crossley.” Irene Li & Steven “Nookie” Postal brought food and talked about their respective journeys to reaching success in Boston's cuisine scene. Irene's "Mei Mei Dumplings" has a new cafe and dumpling factory opening in South Boston. "Nookie" provided updates about his restaurants, the "Revival Café" and "Commonwealth Cambridge." Deborah Z. Porter, the director of the Boston Book Festival, and author Gish Jen stopped by to give a rundown on what to expect at the festival this weekend. Gish also discussed her latest book. The musician "BLKBOK" performed during the latest segment of "Live-Music Fridays." He's a Detroit-based classical pianist who's worked with artists like Justin Timberlake and Rihanna. He had a show at City Winery on Thursday night. We ended the show by asking our listeners to call in and tell us about their favorite Halloween candy.
In Episode 4: Retired Bismarck detective Bill Connor shares his thoughts and memories of working Shelly's case from 2005 to 2010. He talks about the We Fest sighting, the car being found at the Comfort Inn, Rick Snell, Tony Hulm and Kevin Woodworth. On August 2, 1994 26-year-old Michelle Julson dropped off her young son at his paternal grandparents home so she could run some errands in Bismarck, North Dakota. She wanted to pick up her paycheck and possibly play some bingo. She was expected back in just hours. Shelly never returned. What happened to Shelly Julson? To read and see more about the case, follow the podcast in The Vault section on inforum.com or on any Forum Communications news website. Forum Communications is proud to be part of The Trust Project. email - jwolner@forumcomm.com Twitter: @dakotaspotlightFacebook: facebook.com/groups/dakotaspotlight Archival audio provided by The state historical society of North Dakota
On August 2, 1994 26-year-old Michelle Julson dropped off her young son at his paternal grandparents home so she could run some errands in Bismarck, North Dakota. She wanted to pick up her paycheck and possibly play some bingo. She was expected back in just hours. Shelly never returned. What happened to Shelly Julson? In Episode 3: Was Shelly one of 2 women partying with railroad workers and kicked out of the pool at the Comfort Inn? Why has a Burnt Creek patron also gone missing? And What was Shelly really doing on that Sunday night before she disappeared? And finally, a rabbit hole swallows up everything. To read and see more about the case, follow the podcast in The Vault section on inforum.com or on any Forum Communications news website. Forum Communications is proud to be part of The Trust Project. email - jwolner@forumcomm.com Twitter: @dakotaspotlightFacebook: facebook.com/groups/dakotaspotlight Archival audio provided by The state historical society of North Dakota
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When Jesus comes back, he made it clear that he wanted to find a vibrant, lively church that was awaiting his return! Join us!
When Jesus comes back, he made it clear that he wanted to find a vibrant, lively church that was awaiting his return! Join us!
When Jesus comes back, he made it clear that he wanted to find a vibrant, lively church that was awaiting his return! Join us!
The owner of the Days Inn and Comfort Inn near the Maine Mall said Friday that the hotels will stop hosting indigent people experiencing homelessness because of complaints he heard about a wide variety of problems affecting nearby businesses, their employees and their customers.Suresh Gali, head of New Gen Hospitality Management, made the announcement at the end of a virtual meeting with at least 160 residents, business owners and others who were invited by city officials to address public safety concerns related to four local hotels that have been providing emergency shelter to people experiencing homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic.LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday. https://bit.ly/3fs6dBUSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/seattlerealestatepodcast)
What does it mean to scale or partner with people continuously growing on a more significant level? Live from the Inside Self-Storage (ISS) World Expo 2022 in Las Vegas, Herby Bowman joins us in our booth to briefly talk about Store Space's journey and success stories. Scalability is the theme, and we got you covered.WHAT TO LISTEN FORNon-traditional ways of structuring dealsStore Space's value proposition in the marketThe entrepreneurial side of self-storageNext-level play, geography wise The importance of delegation and focusing on one's strengthsRESOURCES/LINKS MENTIONEDChis Harris https://www.linkedin.com/in/harrisstorespace/Rob Consalvo https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-consalvo-16a7474/iStorage https://www.istorage.com/ABOUT HERBY BOWMANHerby has been successfully growing brands for decades. In the mid-'90s working with hospitality brands like Days Inn, Howard Johnson, Ramada, and more recently with Choice Hotels' brands. He has had success in many areas. He has closed well over 100 hotel deals with brands like Comfort Inn & Suites, Days Inn, Sleep Inn, MainStay Suites, and Suburban Extended Stay Hotels and has helped these systems grow into the ubiquitous names they are today. June 2019 brought new challenges in the self-storage sector, promoting Public Storage's newly created Third Party Management Platform. In late 2021, he joined Store Space Self Storage to guide their growth and development efforts. Since graduating from the University of Tulsa in 1991, he has flourished in brand development and product promotion. Beginning his career at Sysco Foods, he quickly moved into hospitality product sales, working for Guest Supply. While at Guest Supply, he led the charge to build the amenity program for Guest House International. After a stint in Franchise Development with HFS (now Wyndham), the world of pharmaceuticals beckoned. He spent several years promoting brands for Johnson & Johnson, Bayer, and Roche. Before returning to Franchise Development, he earned the coveted “CMR,” Missing the art of the large deal, he then transitioned back into the realm of Hospitality Franchise Development. Working with Choice Hotels International since late in 2007, I earned six consecutive President's Club Trophies and was awarded two prestigious “Deal of the Year” awards. Currently, he is Store Space Self Storage's Vice President of Strategic Partnerships.CONNECT WITH HERBYWebsite: https://www.storespace.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/herbebowmanjr/Email: hbowman@storespace.com CONNECT WITH USWebsite: https://www.selfstorageinvesting.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/selfstorageinvestingTwitter: https://twitter.com/SelfStorageGuyLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottameyers/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/SelfStorageInvestingInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/self_storage_investing/
Another episode of the ACential Podcast is coming at you. In this episode, we discuss all the announcements we've made in January and there was a lot. There will be even more coming as we get close to the convention.Episode linksRegistrationRegistration is at Tier 3. Price is $73 for adults.https://www.acen.org/registration-info/HotelsOnly the Hyatt Rosemont and the Comfort Inn and Suites are still availablehttps://www.acen.org/hotels/Live Events now openhttps://www.acen.org/live-events-submission-forms-are-now-open/Masquerade Applications now openhttps://www.acen.org/masquerade-now-accepting-submissions/Professional Registration is Openhttps://www.acen.org/professional-registration-is-now-open/RoadshowsOhayoconFebruary 10th-13th, 2022Hyatt Regency ColumbusColumbus, OHhttps://ohayocon.org/Anime MilwaukeeFebruary 11th-13th, 2022Wisconsin CenterHilton Milwaukee City Center Hotelhttps://animemilwaukee.org/COVID-19 Vaccination and Mask PolicyMasks Required in all public convention spaces and public hotel spacesProof of Vaccination required (Vaccination Card, App, photo)https://www.acen.org/2022-vaccine-and-mask-policy/Reach out to the showpodcast@acen.orgSee you next episode
On December 29, 2021 at 9:41 PM, two Village of Bradley police officers -- Sgt. Marlene Rittmanic and Officer Tyler Bailey -- responded to a Comfort Inn motel for a call about barking dogs left in a car. While investigating this minor complaint, Ofc. Bailey was shot in the head; Sgt. Rittmanic killed with her own firearm. Two young persons have been arrested: Darius Sullivan, the accused shooter, and his pregnant girlfriend, Xandria Harris. In this episode, Clarke describes this unfolding case in detail and then Serge and Clarke discuss the local prosecutor's call for the federal death penalty.
Prosecutors in Kankakee County have shared details of Sgt. Marlene Rittmanic's brutal death on Monday, while noting they would be seeking the death penalty for the two suspects in the shooting. State's Attorney Jim Rowe said he would be asking federal prosecutors to pursue the death penalty for the suspects, Darius Sullivan, 25 and Xandria Harris, 26. They have been charged with first-degree murder and first degree attempted murder after shooting two police officers. The shooting happened at about 9:56 p.m. on 29th December after Sgt. Rittmanic, 49, and her partner, Off. Tyler Bailey, 27, responded to a call at a Comfort Inn in Bradley, which is located about 60 miles south of Chicago. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://emergency-services.news/police-sargeant-who-was-murdered-in-cold-blood-begged-for-her-life-international-news/
Trymby kicks out a killer continental breakfast for the guests of Comfort Inn hotel in Valentine, Nebraska every morning. Today I caught up with her about the tourism that brings a constant flow of people to a small town in north central Nebraska year round. Right now the Sturgis Motorcycle rally is going on, the Niobrara river is a popular destination for a day of leisure spent floating down the river (she told me people have started to use cattle tanks as a dry option to float as well), rodeos and bull bashes and more. Trmybys advice to people is just show up and have fun, be courteous and kind!
Trymby kicks out a killer continental breakfast for the guests of Comfort Inn hotel in Valentine, Nebraska every morning. Today I caught up with her about the tourism that brings a constant flow of people to a small town in north central Nebraska year round. Right now the Sturgis Motorcycle rally is going on, the Niobrara river is a popular destination for a day of leisure spent floating down the river (she told me people have started to use cattle tanks as a dry option to float as well), rodeos and bull bashes and more. Trmybys advice to people is just show up and have fun, be courteous and kind!
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In this Episode: Join Jim Oliver as he sits down with Dennis Daughety, a veteran in the franchise development and ownership space. Dennis got his start in 2002 at Choice Hotels International where he sold brands such as Comfort Inn, Sleep Inn, Econo Lodge and Rodeway. From there he moved to the development department of Driven Brands selling Maaco franchises. While at a franchise broker conference in 2014, he was introduced to the salon suites concept and signed up as a franchisee with Phenix Salon Suites. They saw his value as a seasoned director of franchise sales and hired him on later that year. During his tenure with Phenix Salon Suites, he opened 4 locations which he currently operates in his spare time. Dennis also owns a publishing company, has owned a health insurance and a scheduling app company and is always looking for the next opportunity. Connect with Jim Oliver: Facebook: CreateTailwind & Jim Oliver Website: createtailwind.com YouTube: CreateTailwind LinkedIn: Jim Oliver
Ward Andrews is the founder and CEO of “Drawbackwards,” which is one of the leading design firms in the Phoenix, Arizona area. He and his team work to dissolve complexity and create simplicity for customer experience and software product teams around the globe. He is a member of the Honors Faculty at Arizona State University. There, he teaches Design Entrepreneurship and helps students form creative disciplines to develop real products and launch real companies. Ward is my former business partner. He and I were Co-Founders of Families.com. Together, we helped grow site members to 300k in just 18 months. This family-centric social community was then sold in 2007, only two years after launching the company. Ward has held many other roles such as a Design Director and Internet Strategist at Fisher, and a Creative Director for Rhino Internet. Some of the brands he's worked with to improve their design, UI (user interface), and UX (user experience) include American Express, Choice Hotels, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Sony, Intel, General Dynamics, Insomniac Games, and GoDaddy. Projects he's worked on have received Addy, Prisma, and Emmy awards. Through CX and software product work, he has created over $1 billion in value through cost savings and new revenue growth (Source: Drawbackwards). Here are three strategies Ward shared in our interview for implementing and improving effective user experience design: 1. Start with “Why” I asked Ward if logos are important for small businesses, and if so, what are some dos and don'ts of creating a logo. Ward said many people get hung up over logos. “You don't even need a logo!” he said. “In a way, they do matter, but in another way, they don't.” Ward shared the Simon Sinek teaching: “Start with the why.” “Sinek calls this powerful idea The Golden Circle, and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be led, and people can be inspired. And it all starts with WHY” (Source: Simon Sinek). The “why” should be at the center of everything a business or individual does. Then, there are concentric circles around “why” for “how” and “what.” Ward explained that a logo design should come at the end when talking about the “what.” Not that the logo isn't important, but he said, “all I'm saying is not start with the logo. Start with the why. And the logo will be a result of the why, but it is a what.” When individuals or businesses have a great why, people connect with it and give credibility or trust to the business or individual. Ward presented a great question, “If people don't know why a business exists, why buy from them?” If there's no why, then it can take away from the credibility, trust, or connection that individuals can build with a business. Now, after the “why” and “how” have been figured out, then it's ok to start thinking about the “what” and logo, which are actually very important. Because the why has already been figured out, then the logo should tell the story of the why. “Do the why work first before doing the logo work,” Ward said. Once that's done, the color, fonts, etc. will then be able to carry weight and meaning to people. This is how to create a powerful logo. Start with the why. 2. Improve User Experience & Interface Design Mistakes in User Interface Ward's daughter was old enough to drive and had to go through the process of getting her learner's permit. In order to do so, she had to sign up on a particular web interface. She said to Ward, “Dad! You would think that something everyone in the public needs to use would be really well designed and simple.” Unfortunately, it was not, and this is how many interfaces are executed. “The Experience Success Ladder” Ward created a framework called “The Experience Success Ladder” to improve experience and interfaces. This ladder includes 5 parts: Functional, Usable, Comfortable, Delightful, and Meaningful, which helps them to better measure a business's success and credibility. It also allows them to see where products, services, and experiences fall on the ladder一on the higher end or lower end. “We find that people who are loyal to products and brands gravitate to experiences that are on the higher end of the ladder and not the lower end,” Ward said. Their team did a lot of work with Choice Hotels' brands such as Sleep Inn, Comfort Inn, Rodeway Inn, and others. They would go in and redesign the booking workflow which was used by each brand. They redesigned the booking so that there was less friction in the buying process. One Objective Many companies create funnels that try to do too many things and are too distracting. Instead, Ward helps his clients create simplified sales funnels where the visitor does one thing at a time with a clear objective. Apple has done so much work over the years to get to where they are today. They have built all the infrastructure to deliver what they have now. “They're dumping Intel and creating their own chips because they can't get the performance or the full hardware-software integration that they want with others. They've been doing this over many years and decades, but they've been taking out third-party stuff and building their own,” Ward said. Disney has been doing the same thing. For those who haven't ridden Space Mountain, it's a custom-built roller coaster inside of a dark space mountain. “It's all custom tech! If you go to any ride at Disneyland, every console has a custom design with a simple interface that is designed only to do the things that that specific ride needs,” Ward said. Customer and Employee Experience Ward likes to teach “Customer Experience” and “Employee Experience” with a 6-square layout. There are three categories relating to the customer's and employee's experience, and that is awareness, delivery, and loyalty. “If we can boil down customer [or employee] experience in these categories, we can see where we are credible and where we are not credible. Then, we can up-level each one of them.” Awareness Delivery Loyalty Employee Experience 8 7 2 Customer Experience 1 10 5 (part of Ward's methods in the self-assessment process) Looking at the “Employee's Experience,” how can we acquire great employees? What is the culture like? Ward likes to take each category and scale it from 1 to 10, with 10 being high and 0 being low. Let's say a business does a self-assessment for employee experience in each of these areas, giving themselves an “8” for awareness, a “7” for delivery, and a “2” for loyalty. Then Ward and his team ask a set of survey questions to the employees and customers to see where the gaps are at. Once that's finished, it's so much easier to know what to focus on when improving the employee or customer experience. “You don't need to have a billion dollars to pinpoint this,” Ward said. “You just need to have the right framework and a good partner/consultant to work with you to get into it.” This way businesses can turn around, see the current result in each category, and then set a goal of where they'd like the “Customer Experience Loyalty” to be. This framework allows others to pin-point, focus, and prioritize the focus of improvement efforts. 3. Build Credibility During the early days of Twitter, there was no need to have “verified” accounts. (You know the blue, little dot after someone's account name? That means it's verified to add credibility to the person). Well, those didn't use to be there, but Ward is one of the reasons those were deemed necessary. Shaquille O'Neal was playing for the Phoenix Suns but had no Twitter account at all. Ward and I are both big fans of the Suns. Ward thought it would be fun to go and create an account for Shaq. So, Ward made an account called @shaquilleoneal, and started tweeting as if he were Shaq! It was an amusing experience for Ward until people began asking Shaq, “Umm, why are you Tweeting from the bench?!” Of course, Shaq hadn't been tweeting from the bench. That was Ward doing the tweeting. Sadly, Twitter ended up shutting down the account (you can still read the archive at @NotShaqONeal). Shaq got his own Twitter account, and now there is that blue dot next to specific individual's names to verify or add credibility that the account belongs to the right person. Don't worry, though. Ward got a great gift out of it. The Suns sent Ward a Shaquille O'Neal jersey signed by the man himself. Having this credibility that Ward talks about is so fundamental to attracting and retaining clients. “When you establish credibility, your clients, customers, and peers respect you, vouch for you, and continue to use your business because they feel connected to what you say, do, and stand for.” (Source: Aguilar Public Relations) Connect with Ward If you enjoyed this interview and want to learn more about Ward or connect with him, you can email him at ward@drawbackwards.com or visit his consulting site at https://drawbackwards.com/. Key Takeaways Thank you so much Ward for sharing your stories and strategies with us today. Here are some of my key takeaways from today's episode: Begin with the “why.” What's your purpose? What's your story? Once you've decided this, everything else should link back to it. The “why” should be at the center of everything. Not that the logo isn't important, but don't start with it. Start with the “why.” If people are going to be using it, make sure it's designed well and simple. When designing, keep Ward's “Experience Success Ladder” in mind: Functional, Usable, Comfortable, Delightful, and Meaningful. We want as little friction as possible in the buying process. To achieve this, create one clear objective, not many objectives. This helps build credibility and user experience. Assess your business's “Customer Experience” and “Employee Experience” for an inexpensive way to find the gaps for improvement. Credibility is fundamental when bringing in and retaining clients. Effective design will add to the credibility and success of a business. Want to be a Better Digital Monetizer? Did you like today's episode? Then please follow these channels to receive free digital monetization content: Get a free Monetization Assessment of your business Follow the Monetization Nation Blog. Subscribe to the Monetization eMagazine. Join our private Monetization Nation Facebook Group. Subscribe to the Monetization Nation YouTube channel. Subscribe to the Monetization Nation podcast on Apple Podcast, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Connect with Nathan on Linkedin. Follow Monetization Nation on Instagram. Follow Monetization Nation on Twitter. Challenge If we desire monetization we have never before achieved, we must leverage strategies we have never before implemented. I challenge each of us to pick one thing that resonated with us from today's episode and schedule a time this week to implement it to help achieve our monetization goals. Share Your Story Can you think of examples of good or bad user experience design? Please join our private Monetization Nation Facebook group and share your insights with other digital monetizers. Read at: https://monetizationnation.com/36-3-strategies-to-implement-effective-user-experience-design/
On this week’s episode of “Da” Podcast, Steve is joined by the author and co-director of Console Wars, Blake J. Harris as they talk about getting into video games, Sega Genesis, sports games, research hours, Nintendo, competition, Sega employees, Sega Executives staying at The Comfort Inn, Mortal Kombat, Sega working with Sony, working on the documentary, what was left out, will there be a sequel, “The Weird Story of The Week”, working with Seth Rogan and so much more! If you’re looking for “Da” Podcast merchandise, and want to support the show directly, please visit http://tee.pub/lic/KrIMP441400 We have tees, hoodies, onesies, phone cases, pillows, mugs and more! If you’re into wrestling collectables, autographs, comic books, action figures, sports cards and more, make sure to visit www.firstrow.ca and use promo code: DAPODCAST20 to receive 20% off! Looking for something new to read and also into video games? Please visit www.bossfightbooks.com for great books on classic video games! You can follow Steve on Instagram & Twitter @fingastylz and “Da” Podcast on Twitter @dapodcastdap Send your questions and comments to dapodcastdap@gmail.com Make sure to subscribe, rate, like, follow or review on ApplePodcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, SoundCloud, Spotify and iHeartRadio!
On today’s show:A quick look at another new hotel proposed for PantopsAlbemarle seeking to install five historic markers this yearCoverage of the January 27, 2021 briefing by Governor Ralph NorthamIn today’s Patreon fueled shout-out: The Local Energy Alliance Program, your local energy nonprofit, wants to help you lower your energy bills, make your home more comfortable, and save energy. Schedule your Home Energy Check-Up to get started - now only $45 for City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County residents. You’ll receive energy-saving products and expert advice customized to your needs. Sign up today!Faced with mounting criticism over Virginia’s rate of vaccination, Governor Ralph Northam took to the podium this afternoon to address what his administration plans to do to speed up delivery of doses. “First of all I want all of you to know that I understand your frustration,” Northam said. “I know you’re out of patience and I am as well.”The first doses of the Pfizer vaccine became available in the United States in mid-December, followed soon after by the Moderna vaccine. “We told you then that the first shots would go to the people who are most vulnerable,” Northam said. “Health care workers and people living in long-term care. We estimated that would be about 500,000 people. Today about a month later, more than 520,000 shots have been given in our Commonwealth.Northam said that means more people have been vaccinated than diagnosed with COVID in the past year. Today that number hit 488,553 according to data from the Virginia Department of Health. Source: Virginia Department of HealthThe federal government is the entity that contracted with pharmaceutical companies to manufacture the vaccines. Northam said the national government has been distributing doses to states. The presidential transition has been a factor leading to public confusion. “Fifteen days ago, the outgoing federal Secretary of Health told states to open up eligibility to everyone 65 and over,” Northam said. “[They said] ‘we’ll send more doses. If you don’t expand eligibility, we’ll reduce your supply.’ Then two days later, states learned that there were no more doses. That made a confusing situation even more confusing across the entire country.” Northam said he has been in touch with the Biden administration including a call yesterday with all of the nation’s governors. “I also heard something that I have not heard since the pandemic began and that is a commitment at the national level to work together, find solutions, and get this moving so we can all get back to our lives,” Northam said. Earlier in the day, the White House COVID Response team held a briefing on their efforts. Andy Slavitt is Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. “We’ve been hitting our target of an average of 1 million vaccinations per day, necessary to meet the president’s early commitment to administer 100 million shots in 100 days,” Slavitt said. But back to Virginia. Watch the whole video on Virginia Public Media. Northam said all states will immediately receive a 16 percent increase in supply. He also reported on a briefing from General Gustave Perna, the person in charge of Operation Warp Speed. “We asked how can we be confident that we will receive these additional doses in the weeks ahead,” Northam said. “He told us that after more than a month of working, the drug manufacturers have hit a stable, regular sustainable cadence of production and that is good news.”The national goal is now to have vaccinations available to everyone who wants one by the end of the summer. Today, the VDH reported the seven-day average for vaccinations is 26,010. That’s halfway to the goal of 50,000 a day. Northam invited representatives of CVS and Walgreens, the two companies that are working with the federal government to vaccinate people who live and work in long term care facilities. James Satterfield is a regional healthcare director at Walgreens. “We’ve completed 92 skilled nursing facilities and are in the process of pulling forward and completing our assisted living facilities as well,” Satterfield said. “Currently we’ve given over 18,500 shots to the most vulnerable in those long term care facilities and look forward to completing those doses. Dick Dakessian is a vice president at CVS Health. “As far as where we’re at today for CVS, our first round of COVID vaccination doses, we’ve gone to 195 skilled nursing facilities that we were dedicated to vaccinating and have completed those,” Dakessian said. “Right now we’re about halfway through those as well and plan to complete those, the second doses, by February 8. Today we have had 43,000 doses administered within skilled nursing facilities.”Northam said he is ordering hospitals to not hold on to any additional vaccine and to get doses in arms as soon as possible. “We’re also working with hospitals and local health districts to make sure they are not holding on to too much supply of second doses, especially if they won’t need it for several weeks,” Northam said. “By shifting inventory around, we’re going to be able to increase the number of shots this week by about 20 percent. That’s about 40,000 more shots by this Sunday on top of the 175,000 that were already planned.”Dr. Mike McDermott is the CEO of Mary Washington Health Care in the Fredericksburg area, as well as the past president of the Virginia Hospital and Health Care Association. “Overall, Virginia hospitals have administered more than 318,000 vaccine doses since mid-December,” McDermott said. “To give you an example of how fast vaccination capacity is scaling within our hospitals, Virginia hospitals have increased vaccinations by 35 percent in the last week.”McDermott said Operation Warp Speed was able to get vaccines manufactured, but he said there was not enough logistical work to get what he said was the “last twelve inches” of getting shots in arms. He also said the previous federal administration was not transparent in their operations. Vaccine supplies are still expected to be limited for some time. Northam said the Virginia Department of Health would issue more guidance about who is eligible. “Here is how to allocate your supply,” Northam said. “Half of available doses should go for people age 65 and older,” Northam said. “The other half should be used for frontline essential workers and people who are at increased risk for severe illness as the CDC identifies.”Northam also unveiled an updated VDH dashboard for vaccines that has more details on where doses are going. This dashboard also has more demographic information to ensure that doses are being distributed equitably. Many initial shots were recorded without identifying the race of the recipient. “On Monday, Health Commissioner Dr. Norm Oliver wrote to every clinician in Virginian and told them to collect this information, it matters for transparency,” Northam said. He added he will endorse legislation in the General Assembly to require this information. Right now, signing up for vaccines is handled by individual health districts. Northam said that system has been fragmented, so he has directed the Virginia Department of Health to create a statewide system. “That is not ready today but I expect it to be ready soon,” Northam said. “I know this has been a source of great frustration for a lot of Virginians. I hear you and we’re getting this fixed.” Northam has also amended Executive Order 72 continuing COVID-19 restrictions until at least February 28. Before we move on to the rest of the show, let’s hear more from Andy Slavitt. “Now as you heard from the president this week, he is pushing us to view 1 million a day as the floor, not the ceiling,” Slavitt said. “To that end, we are releasing more supply, activating [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] and deploying many more personnel. In fact, just this week, FEMA announced they had obligated $1 billion to support state vaccination sites.” Slavett said there are two limiting factors to distributing hundreds of millions of vaccines. First is getting the supply, and the second is to distribute them quickly and efficiently. “We are taking action to increase supply and increase capacity but even so it will be months before everyone who wants a vaccine will be able to get one,” Slavett said. Until then, perhaps its best to follow the advice of our long-running Patreon supporter who wants to say:"We keep each other safe. Wear a mask, wash your hands, and keep your distance."Last week, the Albemarle Board of Supervisors was presented with the annual report of the county’s Office of Equity and Inclusion (OEI). One of the activities reported is a partnership with the Albemarle Historic Preservation Committee to install more highway markers. Liz Russell is a member of the committee. “The challenge and sort of task presented by the Board of Supervisors and administered under OEI under the Community Remembrance project is to have five markers installed and we’d like to have them by the end of this year, five markers to better reflect the stories of women and people of color in the county,” Russell said. Two markers are close to being installed. One is for the Albemarle Training School and one is for Virginia L. Murray, the first Black woman to be supervise education in the county. The Albemarle Training School was the precursor to Jackson P. Burley High School. The committee needs to select three more topics for markers. Later that evening, the Pantops Community Advisory Committee learned more about a proposal to build a four-story hotel next to the Rivanna Ridge Shopping Center. Andy Reitelbach is the lead reviewer for the 125-room Pantops Overlook Hotel, which requires an amendment to the existing zoning. “Sometimes the zoning that designates what can be developed by-right and the future land uses identified in the master plan do not always line up,” Reitelbach said. “That is way a rezoning may have to come in.” In this case, the zoning states this land should be for office use and that a tree conservation area should be on the property. The Pantops Master Plan calls for most of the land to be community mixed-use and a small portion part of it be parks and recreation. Access would be right-in, right-out onto U.S. 250. One CAC member asked what the business viability would be for another hotel. “In this immediate area we have going up very soon if not already finished and operating, a Holiday Inn Express, a Hilton Garden Inn, a Comfort Inn and on the plans a Hampton Inn,” said Sara Robinson. “What justification did the owners that we needed another hotel?”Doug Ellis is with WS4 LLC, the company that owns the property. “We see Albemarle County as a great market for a well-developed and designed hotel that meets a different need than those what you listed off but we’re very aware that they are in the general area as well and hope to develop a product that is very different from those,” Ellis said. The new hotel would be all suites and would offer extended stays. The same company owns an adjacent parcel under the company Happy Boxes Pantops LLC. Ellis said there are no plans to develop that land. There is no date yet for public hearings at the Planning Commission or the Board of Supervisors. 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One thing we are all looking for in times of difficulties is comfort. Well God has a place just for you to relieve the strain but it's up to us to take advantage of our reservations. Join us as we read 2 Corinthians 1:3-11.
This is Vlog Episode #31: Part 2: Coronasummer Family Minivan Road Trip | Day 2 Colorado to Kansas - Miles and Miles and Miles of Corn Fields #coronasummer #familyroadtrip #minivanroadtripDay 2 we traveled from Keystone, Colorado to Hays, Kansas. Our end goal was Kansas City - specifically the Great Wolf Lodge, but as it turns out the Lodge has been bit by the bug and wasn't fully open.We were so sad! In part, because The Great Wolf Lodge was our biggest plan for our family minivan road trip! It was the one thing we were super excited to do during this dreadful coronasummer. We were also disappointed because there is nothing much else to do in Kansas but look out the window of the minivan! Instead we called it a day on our minivan road trip in a big little city called Hays, Kansas in Northwestern Kansas about 3.5 hours outside of Kansas City. We were super sad and disappointed. First we got some greasy hamburgers at Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers, and then called every hotel to find one with vacancy enough to fit our big brood. Turns out the Comfort Inn offers a great set up with two queens and a pull out couch! The only downside is apparently the Comfort Inn has paper thin walls. The manager called us to tell us that our "neighbors" could hear the kids walking around. Yes, walking around. . We only made it about 7 hours on Day 2, but after 12 hours the first day, we earned a break! 7 hours is a long time in a car with little ones! During that time we saw miles and miles of corn fields and learned more trivia. We stopped in Limon, Colorado, mailed our taxes, got some Mexican Food and found a Railroad Park to play at! At one rest stop after passing through Kansas, we saw disconnected truck beds lined up in a big field and made up grand stories about why they were there. Questions We Asked Ourselves: Where have all the restrooms gone? People still gotta pee! Favorite activities: Population Trivia and Ghost Town Trivia. We continued our game of 'The Price is Right' to see who could get closest to the correct population of the cities we passed through. We looked up state and city facts, we compared city names and found out how many states have the same city names! The winners for each trivia question got a handful of M&M's, Skittles, or whatever we picked up at the gas stop. What are you doing this summer? Follow along with our Worldschooling Family Adventures at: http://diapersonaplane.com/ to see what we're learning next! Also check us out here:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DiapersOnAPlanePinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/diapersonaplaneInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/diapersonaplaneNew vlog episodes every Tuesday! Next week we’ll chat about making it from Kansas to Missouri! Missouri was our favorite stop on our epic minivan road trip!
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B.C. government buys Victoria hotel to house the homeless The Comfort Inn will be used short-term to house homeless camped on Pandora Avenue and in Topaz ParkPeople sleeping on the street or in a city park in Victoria, B.C., could soon have four walls and a bed indoors after the provincial government bought an area hotel to house them during the COVID-19 pandemic.The province has purchased the Comfort Inn Hotel, located at 3020 Blanshard St., to provide more affordable homes for people in the capital city.According to the government, the hotel will immediately be used to provide safe shelter for... View Article
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More than a million dollars in federal funding is about to be distributed to charitable and non-profit organizations in central and northern Vancouver Island. Applications are now open for the Canada Emergency Community Support Fund. It will assist organizations that provide immediate essential service to those affected by COVID-19. A recent survey found two-thirds of non-profits have had to reduce in-person services because of COVID-19, at the same time, they're seeing a doubling of demand for those services. The groups say much of their fundraising has been curtailed because of a ban on gatherings of large groups, The federal funds are meant to help those groups remain viable during the pandemic. The United Way will distribute close to $905,000 dollars, with $360,000 earmarked for the greater Nanaimo region. The Nanaimo Foundation will distribute a further $167,000 dollars. The Nanaimo Foundation plans to start writing cheques as early as next week as applications come in, but the United Way has decided to set a June 15th deadline, and then decide which organizations will receive funding.The Minister of Social Services and Poverty Development has declared victory in moving all of the people who have been living in encampments in Vancouver and Victoria. Shane Simpson says people living in Oppenheimer Park were moved to hotels and other housing two weeks ago. In Victoria, the movie took a little longer. Simpson says hotels rooms have now been secured for 340 people in Victoria, the last of whom will be relocated today. The Ministry says wrap-around support services will be available 24/7 at the sites, which includes the recently purchased Comfort Inn on Blanshard Street. In Nanaimo, however, no hotel rooms have been secured. Instead, the province has worked out a deal with the city of Nanaimo, to provide 35 emergency shelter spaces, no separate rooms, at the city's The Community Service Building. However, it will not open until June the 1st. Simpson says discussions are ongoing to try to find separate accommodation for the city's homeless.Parents and students who have questions about the provincial plan to open classes to part-time instruction can ask them at a virtual town hall meeting tonight. The Minister of Education and the President of the BC School Trustees Association will take questions starting at 7:15 on the provincial government's Facebook page. Parents in the Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district were sent a questionnaire last week, asking if they plan to send their children back to school when in-class instruction begins on June the 1st. Children in Kindergarten to grade five will receive 2-3 days of in-class instruction per week while kids in Grades 6 to 12 will go to class once per week. However, the plan is voluntary and all students will continue to be able to access online classes.Written and reported by Lisa Cordasco. Senior Reporter and News Director for CHLY 101.7FM.Have a tip? Email: news@chly.caTwitter: @lisacordasco / @chly1017FMFunded in part by the Local Journalism Initiative of the Government of Canada through Heritage Canada in partnership with the Community Radio Fund of Canada.
Today we're going to talk through the history of Airbnb. But more importantly, we're going to look at what brought the hospitality industry to a place so ripe to be disrupted. The ancient Greeks, Romans, Persians, and many other cultures provided for putting travelers up while visiting other cities in one way or another. Then inns begins to rise from roads connecting medieval Europe, complete with stables and supplies to get to your next town. The rise of stagecoaches gave way to a steady flow of mail and a rise in travel over longer distances for business gave way to much larger and fancier hotels in the later 1700s and 1800s. In 1888 Cesare Ritz became the first manager of the Savoy hotel in London, after time at the Hotel Splendide in Paris and other hotels. He would open the Paris Ritz in 1898 and expand with properties in Rome, Frankfurt, Palermo, Madrid, Cairo, Johannesburg, Monte Carlo, and of course London. His hotels were in fact so fancy that he gave us the term ritzy. Ritz is one of the most lasting names but this era was the first boom in the hotel industry, with luxury hotels popping up all over the world. Like the Astor, the Waldorf Astoria, the Plaza, the Taj Mahal, and the list goes on. The rise of the hotel industry was on its way when Conrad Hilton bought the Mobley Hotel in Cisco Texas in 1919. By 1925 he would open the Dallas Hilton and while opening further hotels nearly ruined him in the Great Depression he emerged into the post World War II boom times establishing a juggernaut now boasting 568 hotels. Best Western would start in 1946 and now has 4,200 locations. After World War II we saw the rise of the American middle class and the great American road trip. Chains exploded. Choice Hotels which acts as more of a franchiseier established in 1939 sits with 7,000 locations but that's spread across Extended Stay, MainStay, Quality Inn, Cambria Hotels, Comfort Inn, and other brands. Holiday Inn was founded 1952 in the growing post-war boom time by Kemmons Wilson and named after the movie by the same name. The chain began with that first hotel in 1952 and within 20 years hit 1,400 Holiday Inns landing Wilson on the cover of Time as “The Nation's Innkeeper.' They would end up owning Harrah's Entertainment, Embassy Suites Hotels, Crowne Plaza, Homewood Suites, and Hampton Inn now sitting with 1,173 hotels. The Ramada would start the next year by Marion Isbell and has now grown to 811 locations. Both of them started their companies due to the crappy hotels that were found on the sides of roads, barely a step above those founded in the medieval days. Howard Johnson took a different path, starting with soda shops then restaurants and opening his first hotel in 1954, expanding to 338 at this point, and now owned by Wyndham Hotels, a much later entrant into the hotel business. Wyndham also now owns Ramada. The 1980s led to a third boom in hotels with globalization, much like it was the age of globalization for other brands and industries. The oil boom in the Middle East, the rising European Union, the opening up of Asian markets. And as they grew, they used computers to build software to help and cut costs and enable loyalty programs. It was an explosion of money and profits and as the 80s gave way to the 90s, the Internet gave customers the ability to comparison shop and the rise of various sites that aggregated hotel information, with Expedia, Travelocity, American Express, even Concur rising - sites came and went quickly and made it easy for AccorHotels to research and then buy Raffles, Sofitel, Novotel and for Intercontinental and others to user in the era of acquisitions and mergers. Meanwhile the Internet wasn't just about booking hotels at chains easily. VRBO began in 1995 when David Clouse wanted to rent his condo in Breckenridge and got sick of classifieds. Seeing the web on the rise, he built a website and offered subscriptions to rent properties for vacations, letting owners and renters deal directly with one another to process payments. Vacation Rentals By Owner, or VRBO would expand through the 90s. And then Paris Hilton happened. Her show The Simple Life in 2003 led to a 5 year career that seemed to fizzle at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2008 with the release of a critical documentary of her called Paris, Not France. The mergers and acquisitions and globalization and being packed in stale smokey rooms like sardines seemed to have run its course. Boutique hotels were opening, a trend that started in the 90s and by 2008 W Hotels was expanding into Europe, now with 55 properties around the world. And that exemplifies what some of this backlash was against big chains that was starting to brew. In 2004, CEH Holdings bought a few websites to start HomeAway.com and in 2006 raised $160 million in capital to buy VRBO and gain access to their then 65,000 properties. homeaway.com would be acquired by Expedia in 2015 for $3.9 billion, but not before a revolution in the hospitality industry began. That revolution started with 2 industrial design students. Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had come from the Rhode Island School of Design. After graduation Gebbia would move to San Francisco and Chesky would move to Los Angeles. They had worked on projects together in college and Gebbia bugged Chesky about moving to San Francisco to start a company together for a few years. By 2007 Chesky gave in and made the move, becoming one of Gebbia's two roommates. It was the beginning of the Great Recession. They were having trouble making rent. The summer of 2008 brought the Industrial Designers Society of America's Industrial Design Conference to San Francisco. They had the idea to take a few air beds from a recent camping trip and rent them out in their apartment. Paris Hilton would never have done that. They reached out to a former roommate of theirs, Nathan Blecharczyk. He's a Harvard alum and pretty rock solid programmer and signed on to be a co-founder, building them a website in Ruby on Rails. They rented those three airbeds out and called their little business airbedandbreakfast.com. They thought they were on to something. I mean, who wouldn't want to rent an airbed and crash on someone's kitchen floor?!?! But reality was about to come calling. Venture capital was drying up due to the deepening recession. They tried to raise funding and failed. And so far their story seems pretty standard. But this is where I start really liking them. They bought a few hundred boxes of cereal and made '"Obama O's" and "Cap'n McCain's" to sell at the Democratic National Convention in 2008 for $40 per box. They sold $30,000 worth, enough to bootstrap the company. They would go to South By South West and visit events, growing slowly in New York and San Francisco. The money would last them long enough to make it into Y Combinator in 2009. Paul Graham and the others at Y Combinator has helped launch 2,000 companies, including Docker, DoorDash, Dropbox, GitLab, Gusto, Instacart, Reddit, Stripe, Twitch, and Zapier. They got $20,000 from Y Combinator. They changed the site to airbnb.com and a people started to book more and more stays - and not just with airbeds, but rending their full homes out. They charged 3% of the booking as a fee - a number that hasn't really changed in all these years. They would get $600,000 in funding from Sequoia Capital in 2009 when they finally got up to 2,500 listings and had 10,000 users. Nothing close to what homeaway.com had, but they would get more funding from Sequoia and added Greylock to the investors and by the close of 2010 they were approaching a million nights booked. From here, the growth got meteoric. They won the app award during a triumphant return to South By South West in 2011 and went international, opening an office in London and expanding bookings to 89 countries. The investments, the advertising, the word of mouth, the media coverage. So much buzz and so much talk about innovation and disruption. The growth was explosive. They would iterate the website and raised another $112 million dollars in venture capital. And by 2012 they hit 10 million nights booked. And that international's expansion paid off with well over half being outside of the United States. Growth of course led to problems. A few guests trashed their lodgings and Airbnb responded with a million dollar policy to help react to those kinds of things in the future. Some of the worse aspects of humanity can be seen on the web. They also encountered renters trying to discriminate based on race. So they updated their policies and took a zero tolerance approach. More importantly, they responded that they didn't have to think of such things given the privilege of having a company founded by three white guys. They didn't react with anger or displacement. They said we need to be better, with every problem that came up. And the growth continued. Doubling every year. They released a new logo and branding in 2014 and by 2016 were valued at $30 billion dollars. They added Trips, which seems to still be trying to catch up to what Groupon started doing for booking excursions years ago. During the rise of AirBNB we saw an actual increase in hotel profits. Customers are often millennials who are traveling more and more, given the way that the friction and some of the cost has been taken out of travel. The average age of a host is 43. And of the hosts I know, I can wager that Airbnb rentals have pumped plenty of cash back into local economies based on people taking better care of their homes, keeping fresh paint, and the added tourism spend when customers are exploring new cities. And not just visiting chains. After all, you stay at Airbnb for the adventure, not to go to shop for the same stuff at Forever 21. Even if you take out the issues with guests trashing places and racism, it still hasn't all been sunshine and unicorns. AirBNB has been in legal battles with New York and a few other cities for years. Turns out that speculators and investors cause extra strain on an already over-burdened housing market. If you want to see the future of living in any dense population center, just look to New York. As the largest city in the US, it's also the largest landlord of any public institution with over 400,000 tenants. And rent is rising almost twice as fast as incomes with lower income rents going up faster than those of the wealth. Independent auditors claim that AirBNB is actually accountable for 9.2 percent of that. But 79 percent of hosts use their Airbnb earnings to afford their apartments.And if many of the people that count on AirBNB to make their rent can't afford their apartments. AirBNB argues their goal is to have “one host, one home” which is to say they don't want a lot of investors. After all, will most investors want to sit around the kitchen table and talk about the history of the city or cool tidbits about neighborhoods. Probably not. AirBNB was started to offer networking opportunities and a cool place to stay that isn't quite so… sterile. Almost the opposite of Paris Hilton's life, at least according to TMZ and MTV shows. San Francisco and a number of other cities have passed ordinances as well, requiring permits to rent homes through AirBNB and maximizing the number of days a home can be rented through the service, often to about two thirds of a year. But remember, AirBNB is just the most visible but not the only game in town. Most category leaders have pre-existing competition, like VRBO and HomeAway. And given the valuation and insane growth of AirBNB, it's also got a slew of specialized competitors. This isn't to say that they don't contribute to the problems with skyrocketing housing costs. They certainly do. As is often the case with true disruptors, Pandora's Box is open and can't be closed again. Regulation will help to limit the negative impacts of the disruption but local governments will alienate a generation that grew up with a disruption if they are overly-punitive. And most of the limits in place are easily subverted anyways. For example, if there's a limit on the number of nights you can rent, just do half on VRBO and the other half on Airbnb. But no matter the problems, AirBNB continues to grow. They react well. Gebbia, now the CEO, has a deep pipeline of advisors he can call on in times of crisis. Whether corporate finance, issues with corporate infighting, crisis management, or whatever the world throws at them, the founders and the team they've surrounded themselves with have proven capable of doing almost anything. Today, AirBNB handles over half a million transactions per night. They are strongest with millineals, but get better and better at expanding out of their core market. One adjacency would be corporate bookings through a partnership with Concur and others, something we saw with Uber as well. Another adjacency. They now make more money than the Hilton and Hilton subsidiaries. Having said that, the major hotel chains are all doing better financially today than ever before and continue to thrive maybe despite, or maybe because AirBNB. That might be misleading though, revenue per room is actually decreasing correlative to the rise of AirBNB. And of course that's amplified at the bottom tier of hotels. Just think of what would have happened had they not noticed that rooms were selling out for a conference in 2007. Would what we now call the “sharing” economy be as much a thing? Probably. Would someone else have seized the opportunity? Probably. But maybe not. And hopefully the future will net a more understanding and better connected society once we've all get such intimate perspectives on different neighborhoods and the amazing little ecosystems that humanity has constructed all over the world. That is the true disruption: in an age of global sterility, offering the most human of connections. As someone who loves staying in quirky homes on Airbnb, a very special thanks to Chesky, Gebbia, Blecharczyk, and the many, many amazing people at Airbnb. Thank you for reacting the way you do to problems when they arise. Thank you for caring. Thank you for further democratizing and innovating hospitality and experiences. And most importantly, thank you for that cabin by the lake a few months ago. That was awesome! And thanks to the listeners who tuned in to this episode, of the History of Computing Podcast. Have a great day!
Welcome to the Comfort Inn. We all need comforting and we all need to also be comforting to those in need of comfort. More than comfort food, we need comforting words. Let me share some with you today as we close out another week of Morning Manna.
Welcome to the Comfort Inn. We all need comforting and we all need to also be comforting to those in need of comfort. More than comfort food, we need comforting words. Let me share some with you today as we close out another week of Morning Manna.
TSN Hockey Host James Duthie joined the boys on OverDrive today.. we thought it was to talk about the Leafs & tomorrow's preseason opener versus the Senators.. we didn't get to it.
Among the many goals organizations have for their learning and development team, building resilience and agility are near the top. Companies want agile leaders and nimble employees able to rapidly adjust to changing business conditions. For CLOs, building those capabilities is a critical part of the mission. For Tim Tobin, that mission became personal. After several successful years as a learning executive, he found himself on the outside looking in after a corporate reorganization at Marriott. How he bounced back after losing his job and what he learned in the process now inform his work as the head of learning for Choice Hotels International, the company behind a dozen hospitality brands including Comfort Inn, Cambria Suites and Econolodge. In this podcast recorded live in Washington D.C., Tim shares what setbacks have taught him about himself as well as the critical importance of paying attention to relationships and not just results in the quest to be a successful learning leader. Thank you to our episode sponsors: This episode of the CLO Breakfast Club Podcast is brought to by Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. Learn how you can partner with Georgetown to create a one-of-a-kind executive development program for your leaders at choosegeorgetown.com/clo. This episode is also brought to you by DXC Technology and Bridge, the makers of Practice. DXC Technology human capital management solutions are powering the next-gen workplace. Learn more by visiting dxc.technology. Practice can scale the competency and confidence of your teams to ensure your organization thrives in today’s fast changing, unpredictable world. Visit getbridge.com to learn more. Show Notes: Tim’s Personal Website: Tobin Leadership Chief Learning Officer 2015 Profile: Checking Into Marriott’s Leadership with Tim Tobin
The NCRAW crew sits down together for our first time recording at the Comfort Inn of Sylva, NC.
Zach and Cassie discuss Sami Zayn's interview with Bobby Lashley's "sisters", Money in the Bank qualification matches, and rant about the state of WWE at the moment. Bonus interview with Chandler and Brent from TVAR rather than a history segment! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wjmtl/message
Episode 14- "Chubalooskers gets the boot" In this episode of The Tuesday Ketchup, the whole gang gets together from all over the country. Chum phones in live from a Comfort Inn in Baltimore, and the rest of the gang joins via google hangouts to discuss life, current events, and all things happening in the world. The gang argues about windows in bathrooms, pays respect to Rich Harrison, review a Kurt Russell classic, and get some Deep Cuts with Chum. Listen close to hear Chum get kicked out of a conference room in the hotel he's staying at. Felt good to be back, come ketch-up with us. If you like this, you're legally required to Rate, Share, and Subscribe. #RussellMania @TheTuesdayKetchup on Insta @Tuesday_Ketchup Join the TOMATO BOIS
This week on the show that stays at the Comfort Inn and eats at Wendy's, comedian KATIE-ELLEN HUMPHRIES makes her debut on the show to help the boys pledge allegiance to Pie Day, the one day a year where it is legal to consume pie. And what a delicious pie it was. PLUS: John Reads a Thing! The miserable life of George R.R. Martin! Katie-Ellen explains the plot of J-Lo vehicle Maid in Manhattan! And Justin washes his beard in John's kitchen sink. Follow Katie-Ellen on Twitter: @MsKatieEllen and follow her show, The Lady Show, on Facebook Support the show at patreon.com/RealGoodShow, where $5 this month gets you our Emergency Jim Benning Extension Ep, with The Athletic's Justin Bourne, the first episode of the CleveCast, our tribute to the Cleveland Browns with Sportsnet 650's Satiar Shah, and our usual monthly mailbag. Outro Music: "Breakfast Can Wait", by Prince
Josh Kimm, founder and president of the Hampton Roads Beard and Stache Society and The Beardcaster get together to talk about the Whiskers of War 2017 competition and other assorted bearded fun. We talked about our distaste of the mustache and a few major reasons we both don’t care for mustaches. Josh talked about a funny situation where he was a victim of a bearded stereotype and we dove into the world of the stereotypes related to certain styles of beards. Vetshouse is the charity the club is raising donations for, and this is their 3rd year doing so. Make sure you are subscribed to the podcast by going to: www.thebeardcaster.com/subscribe and make sure you tell all your friends to listen! WHISKERS OF WAR BEARD & MUSTACHE COMPETITION #WOWBMC17 presented by Hampton Roads Beard & Stache Society Proceeds to Benefit: Vetshouse, Inc. http://www.vetshouseinc.org/ To make a donation directly to Vetshouse please goto: http://vetshouseinc.org/donations/ Venue: Shaka's Live 2014 Atlantic Avenue Virginia Beach, Virginia 23451 *This event is all ages* Doors Open: 5:30 p.m. Competition Starts: 7:30 p.m. Registration: https://goo.gl/forms/m3uyWG9ywKwEIF4j2 *Online registration ends Wednesday, November 8th at 10:00 p.m. *Final Competitor registration will be the day of the event until 7:00 p.m. ***OFFICIAL AFTER-COMP PARTY will be at Shaka's featuring Karaoke with DJ MikeCee. Once the awards are handed out and the competition is done, stay and join us for the after party!*** Ticket Price: $15 Online tickets can be purchased here: https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1532642?utm_medium=bks Judges: Rachel Iammarino Coming from Cleveland, OH. She is the Treasurer of Beards of the Old Northwest and has been in bearding for 4 years, competing for the last 2 of those. She was our Creative Best in Show Winner last year with her Doughnut and Sprinkle beard. When she is not bearding, she is hanging with her husband and kids or riding her motorcycle. She is so happy to be coming back down to Virginia Beach this year, and is looking forward to seeing everyone! Ryan Sheibley Ryan began growing his current beard almost 3 years ago after shaving for his wedding photos in August 2014. He is a hard working father who enjoys coaching youth sports and working with kids and he has been involved in Boxing and Martial Arts for over 20 years. This led to his nickname in bearding as the #GingaNinja. Ryan began competing in beard competitions in December 2015 and has participated in approximately 20 competitions, placing in the top 3 in all but a few. He is a Disabled Air Force Veteran and suffers from Ulcerative Colitis. He believes the best part of bearding is meeting the amazing people that come together with different reasons but a common goal to help charities and raise awareness and funds to help others in need. He pledges to stand for and donate to help prevent veteran suicides through #TogetherWeCan and help kids through the Crohns & Colitis Foundation of American. His son Jaxon competes in Kids Creative Beard Category along with Ryan when possible. His wife Liz and his son are his true motivations to work hard in this world. He is proud to be sponsored by Mad Viking Beard and Mustache Company on his bearding journey and he uses their products daily to help keep his beard looking its best. Daniel DC Cunningham Hiking straight out of the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee, DC is a tool belt wearing, ladder climbing, nail gun slinging framer by week and a whiskey drinking, lake life loving beard enthusiast by weekend. He is the founder and President of the Marble City Whisker Society in Knoxville, TN and has competed in a few competitions across the country. He might also be known for his beard care company, Wild Hare Soap/Jack-a-Lope Brand. He has placed in a couple of competitions. One just happened to be first place at the NABMCA Remington Beard Boss Great American Beard & Moustache Championships in Natural Full Beard with Styled Mustache in Denver, CO and was recently awarded the 2017 American Beardsman of the Year award in Charleston, SC. He has also become good at giving inspirational speeches, especially when Jack Daniels gets involved. So, you may want to watch out for that. DC has been a long time supporter of Whiskers of War and we are happy to have him serve as one of our judges this year. John Vanty Big John is Co-Owner and Barber at Lionshead Barbershop in Norfolk, VA. He is also the creator of Lionshead Grooming Products, specializing in old school Pomade, Soap, and beard products. Needless to say, he knows a thing or two about facial hair. Several of our members trust John to keep their follicles looking good with haircuts and beard trims. Thank you for joining us this year John! Chad Roberts The husband of Creative Moustache World Champion Amy Roberts, Chad Roberts has been a competitive Beardsmith since 2011. He is the President and founder of the RVA Beard League, and he serves as a Vice President of the North American Competitive Beard & Mustache Association (NACBMA). With over 70 competitions under his belt on both sides of the judging table, Chad has taken home a number of titles over the years. You can find Chad in the background of Steven Spielberg's Oscar winner, "Lincoln," on the pages of the 2015 edition of "Ripley's Believe It or Not," and in the high-risk pool of what doctors call "AquaNet Lung." Supporting beard clubs whenever and however he can, Chad stands by the New World bearding traditions of raising funds for local charities, the inclusion of all who support facial hair, and enjoying a beer with friends who hail from far-flung places. Thank you for joining us this year Chad! Host Hotel: The Comfort Inn & Suites Virginia Beach-Oceanfront at 2015 Atlantic Avenue, Virginia Beach, VA 23451 is once again our host hotel! All rooms are suite style with balconies facing the Atlantic Ocean. Comfort Inn offers a complimentary deluxe continental breakfast, an INDOOR POOL and it is literally across the street from the venue! The rate for these rooms is only $79.00 a night and can be booked by calling (757) 425-8200 and mention either "HAMPTON ROADS BEARD & STACHE SOCIETY" or "HRBSS". You cannot book this rate online. The deadline to reserve your room at this rate is October 27, 2017. **NOTE: This rate is for 2 adults/2 children under 17. The hotel will charge $15 per person for any additional adults in the room.** ***IMPORTANT: Each room is given only ONE parking space at the hotel. Please plan accordingly.*** **HOTEL UPDATE**-Our host hotel, Comfort Inn & Suites Virginia Beach-Oceanfront is completely booked. Some other hotel options close to the host hotel and venue are: 1. Holiday Inn Virginia Beach Oceanside at 2101 Atlantic Avenue, Virginia Beach, VA (757) 491-1500 2. Econolodge Oceanfront at 2109 Atlantic Avenue, Virginia Beach, VA (757) 428-2403 3. Travelodge Suites Virginia Beach Oceanfront at 1909 Atlantic Avenue, Virginia Beach, VA (757) 425-0650 4. Fairfield Inn & Suites Virginia Beach Oceanfront at 1901 Atlantic Avenue, Virginia Beach, VA (757) 422-4885 ______________________________________________________ Sponsors: Wild Hare Soap/Jack-A-Lope Brand Knuckle Draggerz Veterans Club Mountain Man Oils Intracoastal Expedited & Delivery Inc 80/20 Burger Bar American Do It Yourself Garage Beard Splitters For You By Q The Whiskerinas World Famous BHS Ink in Va Beach Back Bay Photography Hopkins Discount Bail Bonds #1DapperMfer Native Beard Co Vendors: For You By Q Wild Hare Soap/Jack-A-Lope Brand Native Beard Co The Beardsman Oil Company ______________________________________________________ Categories (in no particular order): Whiskerina Creative - Create the most imaginative, creative, and fantastic facial hair of any style you can. Creativity and craftsmanship is encouraged. Whiskerina Realistic - Create the most realistic-looking facial hair of any style. Creativity and craftsmanship is encouraged. Remember, the goal here is to have it look as real as possible. Natural Mustache - The mustache as it grows naturally, the more natural the better! A natural mustache is any length of hair grown from above the upper lip and underneath the nose, with no styling products permitted. NO BEARDS or any other facial hair are permitted in Mustache categories. Styled Mustache - A styled mustache is any length of hair grown from above the upper lip and underneath the nose, styled with any product. Styling aids are permitted. NO BEARDS or any other facial hair are permitted in Mustache categories. Partial Beard Natural - A natural partial beard is any facial hair that is neither a full beard, nor only a mustache, with no styling products permitted. Common styles include: Goatee, Musketeer and Van Dyke. Partial Beard Freestyle - Any facial hair that is neither a full beard, nor only a mustache, styled with any product. Styling aids permitted. Full Beard w/ Styled Mustache - A full beard of any length with a styled mustache incorporated. Mustache can only be style using aids. Mutton Chops/Sideburns - The chin is shaven & hair is optional on the upper lip, no styling aids allowed. Donegal/Whaler - Also known as “Amish” beard, a full beard with no mustache, no styling aids allowed. Business Beard (0-2in) - A full beard, with all parts of the beard and moustache grown, to a length of no more than two inches. Full Beard (2in-8in) - A natural full beard is a full beard, with all parts of the beard and mustache naturally grown, with no styling products permitted. Acceptable styling methods to be used with a natural full beard include brushing, combing, conditioning, and shampooing. Full Beard (8in and over) - A natural full beard is a full beard, with all parts of the beard and mustache naturally grown, with no styling products permitted. Acceptable styling methods to be used with a natural full beard include brushing, combing, conditioning, and shampooing. Full Beard Freestyle - A styled full beard is a beard, with all parts styled with any product. Styling aids are permitted. Red, White, and Beard - Open to any Veteran or Active Duty military service member with any style of facial hair. No styling aids allowed. Best In Show (Men & Women) - Best In Show contestants are all the 1st Place category winners. We will have a Best in Show award for both Men and Women. I-Tunes link- http://ow.ly/OxAX30fvgD8
On this episode of Behind the Mitten, John Gonzalez and Amy Sherman travel to Paw Paw Brewing as the community gets ready for the annual Paw Paw Wine & Harvest Festival (Sept. 8-10). Of course we'll do BEER OF THE WEEK.Segment 1: Marilyn Clear, the Executive Director of the Paw Paw Wine & Harvest Festival, and winemaker Kyle of St. Julian Winery talk about all the events coming up this year. The wine festival opened in the late '40s and attracts more than 50,000 over three days. St. Julian has several events each, including food, music and tours.Festival info at https://www.facebook.com/pawpawwineandharvest/St. Julian info at https://www.facebook.com/StJulianWinery/Segment 2 (Listen at 10:28): Learn more about the Paw Paw community. Joining the show is Lisa Marovec (Director of Marketing and Member Services at South Haven/Van Buren County Convention and Visitors Bureau) and Duane Zuber from Comfort Inn & Suites.More on Van Buren County at https://www.southhavenmi.com/More on Comfort Inn at http://www.comfortinnpawpaw.com/Segment 3 (Listen at 19:21): We interview Larry Nielsen, the village manager in Paw Paw.Learn more about Paw Paw at http://www.pawpaw.net/Segment 4 (Listen at 30:10): We talk to Paw Paw Brewing Company's Keith Buckmaster, who said the brewery has been open for about 6 years. He picks BEER OF THE WEEK (Citra Melon, a session IPA, 4.8% ABV).More info at http://www.pawpawbrewing.com/Learn more about Behind the Mitten at https://www.facebook.com/behindthemitten/
Everyday Ignorance is back this week with the air conditioning on blast lol. This week we discussed Xscape & Momma Joyce receiving the Spirit of Detroit Award, Rob & Chyna, Dr. Wesley Muhammad’s Breakfast Club interview (Is medical marijuana altering our genetics?), Webster Jr’s 48 hour coke binge at a Comfort Inn (the problem isn’t the coke but the location), Nick Cannons new Black Beauty and much ignorance more!! We started off touching back on the 4:44 album and providing out ignorant thoughts on the project. Xavier shares 4:44 sauna talk discoveries. We enjoyed a nice cool rum beverage this episode it was very strong & quite tasty. The drink recipe will post on Ig later this week so make sure you follow us at @Everyday_Ignorance. When you have a minute check out our website EverydayIgnorance.com and take a look around there may be some clues up for our upcoming giveaway #excited. We vastly approaching our 40th episode we can wait to celebrate with you guys we have something really nice in the works. Thanks for listening we really appreciate it!! Remember when you take that bus you get there! If you have something you would like us to discuss or a question for our cast feel free to send us and email everydayignorance@gmail.com because we love questions! Social Media Twitter: Ignorance35 Ig: Everyday_Ignorance Facebook: Everyday Ignorance Podcast
The duo are joined by John Oldfield of BYW's 'THe Documentary Show' hosted by Keith and John. The group begin by disparaging other people as normal, but then dive into John and Keith's respective trips to Boston. Greg validates what they saw and explains that it could have been much worse. Keith's jokes fall flat as usual, but we wouldn't have it any other way.
In Episode 180 of Amazin' Avenue Audio, Chris talks to Karl Ravech of ESPN about the Mets young arms and the team's upcoming series with the Miami Marlins. Then, Jeffrey and Greg make compelling radio in a Comfort Inn in Binghamton, NY after a snowout. One of the two previous sentences is accurate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Horsepersons are back, and together in the same room! Recorded from a Comfort Inn somewhere in Ohio (Sandusky, to be precise), Jesse, Jason and Rachel discuss their visit to Cedar Point, 'Mad Max: Fury Road', and new Joker pics from the set of 'Suicide Squad'.
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Arty and Eric live At the Comfort Inn in Revere. Eric is stuck in traffic on 495 so he phones in the episodes, literally. we learn about how Eric is friends with Wayne Newton and the fun stuff they did together in Vegas, even the shirt he bought him. Eric talks about how his second home is the Saugus Hooters. Vote Arty for MLB Fan Cave and A&E St. Pats Pub Crawl. This show is brought to you by The Pack [dot] Com www.ThePackie.com for all your sports, chicks and drinking needs. Also a whirl wind report by Adam Mallett
Arty and Eric live At the Comfort Inn in Revere. We recapped the casino getting passed in revere, MA. Eric talks about the extra work he did during the weekend for a pilot on NBC and how they were going to make him wear a Yankee hat. Eric talks about his sleep issues and how he was entertaining with no sleep, cold and hungry and how he ended up naked the next day. Happy 26th birthday to Arty's little sister. Black magic stops by and Eric informs him there are people banging in the pool. Spring training is back, Sox are back and they talk about a road trip to south of the border this summer with stops in Chicago Nashville and Greenville. Eric talks about his ex girl friends of the past and bullets they have dodged. We talk about hair dressers. Arty talks about being a trucker and lot lizards, KFC and renting RVs. Vote Arty for MLB Fan Cave and A&E St. Pats Pub Crawl. This show is brought to you by The Pack [dot] Com www.ThePackie.com for all your sports, chicks and drinking needs. Also a whirl wind report by Adam Mallett
Jani Lane -- former lead singer of the rock band Warrant -- was found dead at a hotel in L.A. Thursday evening ... TMZ has learned. Lane's body was discovered at the Comfort Inn hotel in Woodland Hills, CA. So far, no official cause of death has been released. Jani Lane -- former lead singer of the rock band Warrant -- was found dead at a hotel in L.A. Thursday evening ... TMZ has learned. Lane's body was discovered at the Comfort Inn hotel in Woodland Hills, CA. So far, no official cause of death has been released. Details are scarce, but Lane was reportedly discovered at a Comfort Inn near Los Angeles.
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