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When Vision Airlines announced last year it was expanding to offer commercial airlines services, its plans involved making Northwest Florida Regional Airport in Valparaiso its hub.
A year later, not only did Northwest Florida Regional become just another destination, Vision is dropping it from its schedule completely.
Vision airlines' flights to-and-from Northwest Florida Regional Airport ended Sunday.
The airline began service in Northwest Florida in December 2010 with direct flights to Miami and Niagara Falls. At its height last spring, Vision was flying to seventeen destinations from Valparaiso.
Airline officials say they're evaluating the late spring and summer schedules, but haven't made any decisions about service to Northwest Florida Regional after this week.
The airline owes the airport almost a quarter of a million dollars in facility fees. Vision has an operating agreement with the airport until September 2013.
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Sarah Kornhauser is the Director of Hazon in Denver, Colorado and an ROI Community member. Along with the rest of the Denver Hazon staff, she focuses on capacity building, network weaving and supporting individuals and organizations with big ideas around the intersection of food, the environment and Jewish tradition. Sarah operates on the strong belief that being Jewish can be a vibrant lens through which to view and transform the world.
I wouldn't describe myself as religious, but I am greatly intrigued by the traditions and customs our Jewish culture offers. I love that we are a land based people, a people rooted in food, literature and community. For me, the importance of Jewish traditions has grown as I learn about them in ways that resonate, and Sukkot is no exception.
As a practicing Yogi and as a creatively practicing Jew, I have recently realized that Sukkot is a festival of Joy. Moreover, it just so happens that "Sukah" translates in Sanskrit as a form of happiness: su stands for good and kah for the hold of an axle. Put them together and the word represents uninhibited flow.
In Judaism, Sukkot, like all Jewish holidays, has a multitude of meanings. It is both agrarian and historical in nature and has a wide breadth of spiritual interpretations. Historically, it reminds us of when our people were traveling through the desert and made temporary shelters or tabernacles. Agriculturally, it honors the fall harvest, water use and rights, a changing of the seasons and environmental stewardship. From these roots, we derive the spiritual meanings: breaking down illusions of safety and security, changing our routine, finding truth in simplicity and for the yogi in me, joyous, uninhibited flow.
Yet, just as I have begun to sink my teeth into the meaning of Sukkot, I find myself struggling with the concept of joy during a particularly dark moment. As I write this, floods continue their devastation in Boulder, Colorado, just down the road from me. A bit farther away, D.C. reels from a mass shooting. During times like these, I am conflicted with how, when pieces of the world feel so dark, we can be expected to feel joy.
Instead, this year I am finding solace in the concept of shelter.
To honor the holiday, the Torah commands us do a lot of things, including (but not limited to) building a temporary structure with three sides and a patchy roof made of things found in nature so that we may see the stars through its holes. Most importantly, we must share the space with ushpizin, the aramaic word for guests. Each guest should represent parts of the following characteristics: love and kindness, restraint and personal growth, beauty and truth, age and wisdom, empathy and receptivity, spirituality and connectedness to the earth.
In the wake of recent trauma, I would like to think that shelter can make a difference for victims, for loved ones and for those who battle internal struggles. For those who have been displaced by natural disasters, I wish them shelter for meals and for sleep. For those who fall victim to violent crimes, I wish them shelter for love and healing. And for those that would perpetrate crimes, those who have lost the characteristics of the ushpizin, I wish them shelter where their mental health can be treated.
My challenge to you this Jewish year of 5774, is to create a shelter. Create a space this Sukkot—be it in a Sukkah, a corner of a room or under a tree—and make it intentional. Gain perspective by looking at the stars, the clouds or the people walking by. Think of the guests you could invite into your space. Strangers? Loved ones? Or take some time to reflect and be with yourself. Whomever you invite, accept into your space love, growth, wisdom, empathy, spirituality and earthly connectedness. Create a space in which you can, simply, and without inhibition, flow.
This year, may you create and find sukkat shalom, a shelter of peace for yourself and for others.


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A restaurant chain new to Chattanooga is joining the crowded Hamilton Place area.
Cheddar's, which is described as offering patrons eclectic American food, is going up on Gunbarrel Road at the Hamilton Village shopping center across from the entrance to Hamilton Place mall.
"We found a plus location," said Lee Greer, president of Lexington, Ky.-based Greer Cos., which is developing the high-profile site near Walmart.
Greer said the raising of the 8,600-square-foot eatery by his company, which operates 40 Cheddar's restaurants in seven states, culminates seven years of work.
"We wanted this to be the first location in Chattanooga — somewhat stubbornly," he said. A second Cheddar's could open later in Hixson or north of the city, but nothing is finalized, according to Greer.
Greer said the Cheddar's is to open by mid-January and employ about 200 people. He declined to say how much the project is costing the company, which is a franchisee of Cheddar's and Hilton and Marriott hotels. Greer said the real estate developer and owner and operator of restaurants and hotels has 7,000 employees.
He said the restaurant, that will seat about 355 people, will feature a "made from scratch kitchen" offering sandwiches, steaks, chicken and seafood items.
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Cheddar's is joining a crowded field in the Hamilton Place market vying for diners' dollars.
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Gambling addiction can wipe you out – financially, physically, emotionally, and socially. Once you reach the point of compulsive gambling, sooner or later you'll find yourself on the down slope of this addictive pastime. Millions of Americans have come to this painful realization, while many more continue to allow gambling to control their lives. Getting professional treatment and going to 12-step meetings is critical to getting back on track, but you still have to face the consequences of all that indebtedness. While it may seem like a daunting proposition, you can do it. There really is a promising future ahead if you're sincere about getting out from under after gambling addiction.
The question becomes: How do you proceed? Where should you start? Here are some tips on putting your life in order:
1. Make a List of all Indebtedness
Most compulsive, pathological and problem gamblers have debts related to gambling. In addition, they're almost always behind on their financial obligations. The only way to begin climbing back from financial ruin caused by gambling addiction is to first see exactly where you are.
Start by listing all your debts. Include overdue payments, money borrowed from family and friends, credit card balances and cash advances, checks you wrote for which there were no funds available, and money you owe to casinos.
If you've lost your home or are in the process of foreclosure, this item will be high on your list. The same holds true if your possessions (including cars, boats or other high-ticket items) have been repossessed for nonpayment.
You may have had to declare bankruptcy as a means of righting your financial foundation. But this doesn't stop the compulsive gambler, as you may well know. Even after getting a clean slate, so to speak, gambling addicts go right back to spending money they don't have in order to chase the elusive win. After years of such behavior and the resulting negative financial consequences, not only is there no money available (even family and friends won't lend you money anymore), compulsive gamblers in the final stage of their addiction may see ending their lives as the only viable solution.
Once you have your complete list of indebtedness, put it aside. It's time to move on to the next area in your self-inventory.
2. Examine How Your Life has been Affected by Gambling
Don't even think about the good old days of winning big. Those days are gone, if they ever truly existed. Here you need to concentrate on the negative ways that compulsive gambling has affected your life. You'll need to take a deep breath before you
start, because this self-analysis won't be pretty.
• Physical – In what ways has your physical well-being suffered as a result of your gambling? Have you lost considerable weight or gained pounds due to insufficient diet and lack of exercise? Have you developed a smoking addiction in addition to gambling? Do you also drink, do drugs, or have other addictive behaviors that have contributed to a decline in your physical health? Are you unable to sleep through the night due to a medical condition that you have not paid attention to or that has progressively worsened?
• Emotional – Think about the past few months and years of your gambling addiction and the way you feel about your behavior. Are you frequently depressed, anxious, or fearful? Do you engage in self-justification or tell lies in order to cover up your actions? Are you filled with guilt and shame over your mounting losses and the resulting deterioration in your family life?
• Work – Did you lose your job, fail to get a promotion or get demoted? Have you lost a number of jobs due to your gambling? Are you no longer taken seriously at work? Do co-workers regard you as undependable, untrustworthy, or worse? Are you in danger of losing your ability to provide for your family as a result of your gambling addiction?
• Social – Have you lost a great number of friends due to your gambling addiction? Do co-workers and formerly close confidants avoid you now because you've created problems or hardships for them as a result of your need to gamble? Do you neglect your social network so that you can concentrate on gambling? Do the only so-called friends you have consist of other gamblers?
• Legal – Have you been arrested, named in a lawsuit, been served with divorce papers, brought to court over child support issues or had other legal problems as a result of your compulsive gambling?
• Family Life – How has your gambling addiction affected your life with your family? Do your children regard you as a joke? Do you fail to come home to have dinner at regular times with the family? How are your marital relations with your spouse? Have you paid any attention to the needs of your partner and children or are you so consumed with your gambling addiction that you are completely detached from the rest of the family?
There may be other areas where your life has been negatively impacted by your compulsive gambling. If they don't seem to fall into one of the previously mentioned categories, just list them anyway. The point isn't classification, anyway. It's about making a complete self-inventory of all the ways gambling has negatively affected your life.
3. List the Reasons You Gambled
In order to get out from under after gambling addiction, it's important that you understand the reasons why you gambled in the first place. If you already got professional treatment for addiction or have been seeing a private therapist to help you overcome your gambling addiction, you will already be familiar with this step. You can't build a foundation of healthy behavior until you first know the underlying reasons for your need to gamble.
Some of the common reasons people say they gamble include:
• Gambling provides excitement
• Gambling makes me feel like a big shot, a winner
• I can win a lot of money gambling
• Gambling helps me feel more outgoing and social, since I am very shy
• I gamble to forget about my problems
• Gambling makes me feel more powerful
• I numb myself out by gambling
• When I gamble, I can avoid other people
• I don't have to think about my problems when I gamble
• I gamble to get over my depression or unhappiness
• I gamble out of boredom
• When I gamble, I'm no longer bored
• Gambling is entertaining
• I like gambling, everything about it is pleasing to me
• Gambling is a habit
Limit Your Access to Gambling
Overcoming your gambling addiction is tough work. It requires a sincere commitment to abstinence and also making sure that you aren't able to easily access gambling. If access is readily available, your cravings and urges to get back into the action may quickly cause your resolve to slip and you'll relapse faster than your money disappears in the slots.
Some of the following steps have proven helpful to other compulsive gamblers who are dedicated to limiting their access to gambling. See if they work for you.
• Self-exclusion – This means you literally bar yourself from the casino.
• No transportation – Cut off your means of getting to and from the place where you gamble.
• No Internet access – If your gambling addiction involves Internet gaming, ditch your Internet access.
• Change residences – You could move to a location that's farther from the place where you've been gambling. This is an extreme measure, but it does work as long as there's no available gambling location anywhere close by.
• Drop gambling friends – Of course, you can't resist gambling if all your friends are gamblers. As any gambling addiction treatment professional will tell you, you will need to discontinue seeing those friends and find some new ones – people who don't gamble.
• Get off casino marketing lists – Make it a point to get your name removed from casino marketing lists. The flyers and promotions (including email reminders) will have to stop if you're serious about getting your life back.
Limit Money Access
You can't gamble if you don't have money. It's as simple as that. So, getting out from under after gambling addiction means you'll need to limit your access to funds that you'd be tempted to use for gambling.
Strategies to employ to limit your money access include:
• Cancel all your credit cards. An alternative (and, not necessarily a better choice) is to hand them over to your spouse.
• Cancel your ATM access or put a severe limit on it.
• If you do require cash for daily expenses, only draw out the bare minimum to get through the day. Forget the $10 or $30 or $50 extra for walking-around money. It's too easy to burn through it at the casino, buying Lotto tickets, or other forms of gambling.
• Have your paychecks automatically deposited.
• Have your paychecks deposited in the account of your spouse.
• Make arrangements with your bank to limit the amount of money you can withdraw from your account in any given week.
• Advise your family members, friends, and co-workers not to lend you any money – for any reason whatsoever.
• Arrange for someone else to pay your bills. This could be your spouse who has control over your money or someone outside the immediate family. It will need to be someone you trust completely, and who won't be persuaded to hand over money to you for any flimsy reason.
• Start to budget all money that comes in and goes out for any expenditure.
• You may wish to have someone else co-sign all your checks. This is a tough strategy to follow, but it may only be a temporary measure. The point is to stop your ready access to cash, and this is a strong and effective way to do it.
Identify and Learn to Recognize Gambling Triggers
Your goal to get out from under after gambling addiction also means that you need to identify and learn how to recognize and deal with gambling triggers. Triggers may be internal (thoughts or feelings) or external (situations) and lead to the urge or desire to gamble.
Internal triggers may be caused by feelings of guilt or shame, helplessness or uncertainty, as well as anger, anxiety, and depression. Internal triggers may also be caused by personal expectations and demands you have for yourself.
External triggers – words, images, or objects – remind you of past gambling episodes. These may include billboards for nearby casinos, TV advertising touting casino gaming, a poker tournament on TV, a travel special about Las Vegas, or the freeway exit sign to the casino. Other external triggers may involve situations you've come to associate with gambling. For example, if you always went to the casino when your partner was out of town on business, or went to Bingo or the track frequently with friends, these are situations that may result in a craving to gamble.
How to Deal with Cravings
Getting out from under after gambling addiction involves learning how to deal with cravings. Just because you identify and recognize your gambling triggers doesn't mean they'll go away. In fact, cravings and urges may continue to appear intermittently or even years after you've stopped gambling for good. It isn't the fact that you have cravings and urges, but what you do about them.
First you need to be able to tell when you're experiencing a trigger. It may be that you have a queasy feeling in the pit of your stomach. You may feel a ringing in your ears or your heart starts to race and your blood seems to rush. Your voice inside your head may tell you to gamble, or you may get an image that you associate with gambling. Sounds or smells may also remind you of gambling.
You can try substituting another image for a visual trigger. If you see yourself gambling, picture yourself fishing or hunting or skiing or having dinner with friends instead. This positive substitution also works for activity. Instead of going gambling, go golfing or hunting or fishing with friends.
Another technique for coping with gambling triggers involves playing out the script. When you're tempted to gamble, fast-forward the scenario in your mind to visualize what happens when you gamble. See the look on your spouse's face. Think about the losses and the negative consequences that mount up. When you've lost everything and are totally bankrupt, exhausted, ashamed, guilty and disgusted with yourself, this is the end result of your gambling addiction. Remind yourself what it feels like. This will serve as a gut-wrenching deterrent to getting back in the game.
Now, take this a bit further and think about all the extremely negative consequences of your gambling addiction. This serves as negative conditioning. If you think of yourself as a complete and utter failure, hating to be a constant disappointment to your spouse or partner, to the point of contemplating suicide, you can link this feeling to your craving so that when the triggers resurface, they will immediately be accompanied by the extreme negative conditioning.
Most cravings will dissipate over a period of 20 minutes to a half hour, according to gambling addiction treatment professionals. If you can make it through this time, you'll be well on your way to successfully overcoming urges. Try distracting yourself by doing crossword puzzles, vigorous exercise, reading a book, talking with a friend, or tackling physical chores.
Utilize your support network to help you overcome cravings and urges. When you feel like you can't stop yourself from gambling, call your 12-step sponsor, counselor, close friend or family member and talk it through. If talking on the phone doesn't suffice, get yourself to a 12-step meeting.
Other Ways to Get Out From Under After Gambling Addiction
Of course, to be successful in getting out from under after gambling addiction, you need to do more than just learn about triggers, limit access to money and gambling. Here are some other things to put in your toolkit.
• Develop other coping methods – Many recovering gamblers find it helpful to do yoga or engage in meditation, deep breathing exercises, getting regular exercise, writing in a journal, taking prescribed medication, getting additional professional counseling, learning anger management, and making more time for themselves.
• Get involved with new activities – Boredom is often a huge factor contributing to relapse in recovering gambling addicts. Guard against boredom by getting involved in new and healthier activities. It doesn't really matter what these activities are, as long as they are healthy ones that don't include associating with people, places, or things associated with gambling or other addictions and don't cause any harm.
• Be forgiving of yourself – To move forward in your recovery from gambling addiction, you need to be able to forgive yourself. This doesn't absolve you from the responsibility for your actions, but it does set the stage for you to grow and develop healthier behaviors.
• Set goals and plans – Charting a new future means setting goals and making plans to achieve them. Now that you've made the decision and commitment to being abstinent, you have numerous options as to what you'll do with your life in the short and long term. Make a list of things you want to achieve and begin to strategize ways to bring them to fruition.
• Have a plan for relapse – It isn't guaranteed that you will relapse, but many recovering gamblers do. Again, it isn't the fact that you slip that matters, but what you do about it. You need to have a plan for how you'll get back on track if you do relapse. That means getting back into counseling, stepping up attendance at 12-step meetings, telling yourself that you aren't a failure, figuring out what worked in your coping mechanisms and doing more of them, looking at what happened and figuring out ways to avoid those situations again.
In the end, getting out from under after gambling addiction means that you will need to take whatever amount of time is required to put your life back together. For some, this may be accomplished quicker than others. But every journey is unique and all are worthwhile. The best thing you can do for yourself to ensure that your lifelong recovery is a success is to fully participate in your support network. When you reach the point where you feel confident in your abstinence, you may wish to help others on their journey to come back after gambling addiction.


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After unveiling his 'Necker Nymph' submersible last year, Richard Branson is taking his underwater adventures to the next level, with 'Virgin Oceanic' -- an initiative to explore the deepest parts of the world's oceans.
Over the next two years, Branson hopes to penetrate the deepest points of the world's five oceans with a fleet of high-tech toys, including a one-manned submarine and a 125-foot catamaran, which will serve as the sub's mothership. Chris Welsh will pilot the first dive into the Mariana Trench, later this year, with Branson slated to take the helm during the sub's second mission, to the Puerto Rico Trench.
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