One year ago, the Lynchburg roller derby team was little more than a pipe dream.

Danville’s Riverwalk Trail is a stroll through history

Wary of the growing number of consumers watching TV shows online for free — and yet reluctant to upset viewers by yanking shows from the Internet — the nation’s largest cable operators are in talks with media conglomerates to take back control.

“It was cold, but nobody minded,“ said Delores Johnson, 53, of Slidell, La., who staked out a place on St. Charles Avenue with a group of friends dressed in matching green and gold shirts. They arrived on the oak-lined historic parade route just after midnight Monday.

The change is being mandated because digital signals are more efficient than analog ones. Ending analog broadcasts will free up valuable space in the nation’s airwaves for commercial wireless services and emergency-response networks.

“We can’t fire our bears or furlough our sea lions,“ said John Calvelli, executive vice president of public affairs for the Wildlife Conservation Society, which operates the Central Park and Bronx zoos and the New York Aquarium in Brooklyn, among others.

It’s easy to play: Just pick up a mic, pick a song and start warbling.

The Monday before the week of Christmas is typically the busiest mailing day of the year, as people rush to get their Christmas cards and gift packages out for the holidays.

Tuckahoe is a working plantation that includes a circa-1733 house, the schoolhouse where Thomas Jefferson studied as a youth, original outbuildings, 600-plus acres and a spectacular view of the James River.

Passengers will spend three days at a five-star hotel in Dubai waiting to rejoin the 490-foot (150-meter) vessel in Oman’s port of Salalah for the remainder of the around-the-world trip, which began in Italy.

“I think it’s going to be a very cold winter, and I’m not a weatherman,“ said Calyon Securities airline analyst Ray Neidl.

Forecasters said travel weather was dry from the Plains through the Southeast, but heavy rain swept southern California early Wednesday.

“So much history in this, honey,“ Brew said. “You gonna get me a ticket?“

With holiday travel getting into full swing this week, Alaska Airlines says there are ways to ease the holiday stress normally associated with flying.

“It is all for show and, frankly, this show is getting quite tiresome to the American traveling public that has gotten fed up with mounting delays and FAA mismanagement that has degraded the system during the current administration,“ National Air Traffic Controllers Association spokesman Doug Church said.

“Travel is down for Thanksgiving in general,“ concurred Geri Jones, president of Accent on Travel in Henrico County.

Volunteers for the presidential candidates unofficially created campaign headquarters, held grass roots rallies, handed out virtual buttons and T-shirts, and signed up actual voters in the vast virtual world developed by San Francisco-based Linden Lab. Many people decided to spend Election Day as their avatars — and they weren’t alone.

After being blinded in battle, the World War II veteran was savaged by feelings of despair and worthlessness.

Big Read programs
continue at the library
Two talks are on tap this week at branches of the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library as part of the Big Read.
M.Thomas Inge will be at the Louisa County Library at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, and Nick Patler will speak at the Greene Country Library at 7 p.m. Thursday.
Inge, a professor of humanities at Randolph-Macon College, will speak on “To Kill a Prejudice: Race Relations in Twain, Faulkner and Harper Lee.” Patler, and author and historian, will discuss “Killing the Mockingbird: Historical and Contemporary Efforts to Ban to Kill a Mockingbird.”
The library also will host two book discussions.