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This podcast hit paid subscribers' inboxes on Nov. 30. It dropped for free subscribers on Dec. 7. To receive future episodes as soon as they're live, and to support independent ski journalism, please consider an upgrade to a paid subscription. You can also subscribe to the free tier below:WhoMike Taylor, Owner of Holiday Mountain, New YorkRecorded onNovember 18, 2024About Holiday MountainClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: Mike TaylorLocated in: Monticello, New YorkYear founded: 1957Pass affiliations: NoneClosest neighboring ski areas: Villa Roma (:37), Ski Big Bear (:56), Mt. Peter (:48), Mountain Creek (:52), Victor Constant (:54)Base elevation: 900 feetSummit elevation: 1,300 feetVertical drop: 400 feetSkiable acres: 60Average annual snowfall: 66 inchesTrail count: 9 (5 beginner, 2 intermediate, 2 advanced)Lift count: 3 (1 fixed-grip quad, 1 triple, 1 carpet - view Lift Blog's inventory of Holiday Mountain's lift fleet)Why I interviewed himNot so long ago, U.S. ski areas swung wrecking ball-like from the necks of founders who wore them like amulets. Mountain and man fused as one, each anchored to and propelled by the other, twin forces mirrored and set aglow, forged in some burbling cauldron and unleashed upon the public as an Experience. This was Killington and this was Mammoth and this was Vail and this was Squaw and this was Taos, each at once a mountain and a manifestation of psyche and soul, as though some god's hand had scooped from Pres and Dave and Pete and Al and Ernie their whimsy and hubris and willfulness and fashioned them into a cackling live thing on this earth. The men were the mountains and the mountains were the men. Everybody knew this and everybody felt this and that's why we named lifts and trails after them.This is what we've lost in the collect-them-all corporate roll-up of our current moment. I'm skeptical of applying an asteroid-ate-the-dinosaurs theory to skiing, but even I'll acknowledge this bit. When the caped founder, who stepped into raw wilderness and said “here I will build an organized snowskiing facility” and proceeded to do so, steps aside or sells to SnowCo or dies, some essence of the mountain evaporates with him. The snow still hammers and the skiers still come and the mountain still lets gravity run things. The trails remain and the fall lines still fall. The mountain is mostly the same. But nobody knows why it is that way, and the ski area becomes a disembodied thing, untethered from a human host. This, I think, is a big part of the appeal of Michigan's Mount Bohemia. Ungroomed, untamed, absent green runs and snowguns, accessible all winter on a $109 season pass, Boho is the impossible storybook of the maniac who willed it into existence against all advice and instinct: Lonie Glieberman, who hacked this thing from the wilderness not in some lost postwar decade, but in 2000. He lives there all winter and everybody knows him and they all know that this place that is the place would not exist had he not insisted that it be so. For the purposes of how skiers consider the joint, Lonie is Mount Bohemia. And someday when he goes away the mountain will make less sense than it does right now.I could write a similar paragraph about Chip Chase at White Grass Touring Center in West Virginia. But there aren't many of those fellas left. Since most of our ski areas are old, most of our founders are gone. They're not coming back, and we're not getting more ski areas. But that doesn't mean the era of the owner-soul keeper is finished. They just need to climb a different set of monkey bars to get there. Rather than trekking into the mountains to stake out and transform a raw wilderness into a piste digestible to the masses, the modern mountain incarnate needs to drive up to the ski area with a dump truck full of hundred dollar bills, pour it out onto the ground, and hope the planted seeds sprout money trees.And this is Mike Taylor. He has resources. He has energy. He has manpower. And he's going to transform this dysfunctional junkpile of a ski area into something modern, something nice, something that will last. And everyone knows it wouldn't be happening without him.What we talked aboutThe Turkey Trot chairlift upgrade; why Taylor re-engineered and renovated a mothballed double chair just to run it for a handful of days last winter before demolishing it this summer; Partek and why skiing needs an independent lift manufacturer; a gesture from Massanutten; how you build a chairlift when your chairlift doesn't come with a bottom terminal; Holiday Mountain's two new ski trails for this winter; the story behind Holiday Mountain's trail names; why a rock quarry is “the greatest neighbors we could ever ask for”; big potential future ski expansion opportunities; massive snowmaking upgrades; snowmaking is hard; how a state highway spurred the development of Holiday Mountain; “I think we've lost a generation of skiers”; vintage Holiday Mountain; the ski area's long, sad decline; pillage by flood; restoring abandoned terrain above the Fun Park; the chairlift you see from Route 17 is not actually a chairlift; considering a future when 17 converts into Interstate 86; what would have happened to Holiday had the other bidders purchased it; “how do we get kids off their phones and out recreating again?”; advice from Plattekill; buying a broken ski area in May and getting it open by Christmas (or trying); what translates well from the business world into running a ski area; how to finance the rebuild and modernization of a failing ski area; “when you talk to a bank and use the word ‘ski area,' they want nothing to do with it”; how to make a ski area make money; why summer business is hard; Holiday's incredible social media presence; “I always thought good grooming was easy, like mowing a lawn”; how to get big things done quickly but well; ski racing returns; “I don't want to do things half-assed and pay for it in the long run”; why season two should be better than season one; “you can't make me happier than to see busloads of kids, improving their skills, and enjoying something they're going to do for the rest of their life”; why New York State has a challenging business environment, and how to get things done anyway; the surprise labor audit that shocked New York skiing last February – “we didn't realize the mistakes we were making”; kids these days; the State of New York owns and subsidizes three ski areas – how does that complicate things?; why the state subsidizing independent ski areas isn't the answer; the problem with bussing kids to ski areas; and why Holiday Mountain doesn't feel ready to join the Indy Pass.Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewI met Taylor in a Savannah bar last year, five minutes after he'd bought a ski area and seven months before he needed to turn that ski area into a functional business. Here was the new owner of Holiday Mountain, rolling with the Plattekill gang, more or less openly saying, “I have no idea what the hell I'm doing, but I'm going to do it. I'm going to save Holiday Mountain.”The National Ski Areas Association's annual show, tucked across the river that week, seemed like a good place to start. Here were hundreds of people who could tell Taylor exactly how hard it was to run a ski area, and why. And here was this guy, accomplished in so many businesses, ready to learn. And all I could think, having skied the disaster that was Holiday Mountain in recent years, was thank God this dude is here. Here's my card. Let's talk.I connected with Taylor the next month and wrote a story about his grand plans for Holiday. Then I stepped back and let that first winter happen. It was, by Taylor's own account, humbling. But it did not seem to be humiliating, which is key. Pride is the quickest path to failure in skiing. Instead of kicking things, Taylor seemed to regard the whole endeavor as a grand and amusing puzzle. “Well let's see here, turns out snowmaking is hard, grooming is hard, managing teenagers is hard… isn't that interesting and how can I make this work even though I already had too much else to do at my other 10 jobs?”Life may be attitude above all else. And when I look at ski area operators who have recycled garbage into gold, this is the attribute that seems to steer all others. That's people like Rick Schmitz, who talked two Wisconsin ski areas off the ledge and brought another back from its grave; Justin Hoppe, who just traded his life in to save a lost UP ski area; James Coleman, whose bandolier of saved ski areas could fill an egg carton; and Danielle and Laszlo Vajtay, who for 31 years have modernized their ridiculously steep and remote Catskills ski area one snowgun at a time.There are always plenty of people who will tell you why a thing is impossible. These people are boring. They lack creativity or vision, an ability to see the world as something other than what it is. Taylor is the opposite. All he does is envision how things can be better, and then work to make them that way. That was clear to me immediately. It just took him a minute to prove he could do it. And he did.What I got wrong* Mike said he needed a chairlift with “about 1,000 feet of vertical rise” to replace the severed double chair visible from Route 17. He meant length. According to Lift Blog, the legacy lift rose 232 vertical feet over 1,248 linear feet.* We talk a bit about New York's declining population, but the real-world picture is fuzzier. While the state's population did fall considerably, from 20.1 million to 19.6 million over the past four years, those numbers include a big pandemic-driven population spike in 2020, when the state's population rose 3.3 percent, from 19.5 million to that 20.1 million number (likely from city refugees camping out in New York's vast and bucolic rural reaches). The state's current population of 19,571,216 million is still larger than it was at any point before 2012, and not far off its pre-pandemic peak of 19,657,321.* I noted that Gore's new Hudson high-speed quad cost “about $10 million.” That is probably a fair estimate based upon the initial budget between $8 and $9 million, but an ORDA representative did not immediately respond to a request for the final number.Why you should ski Holiday MountainI've been reconsidering my television pitch for Who Wants to Own a Ski Area? Not because the answer is probably “everybody reading this newsletter except for the ones that already own a ski area, because they are smart enough to know better.” But because I think the follow-up series, Ski Resort Rebuild, would be even more entertaining. It would contain all the elements of successful unscripted television: a novel environment, large and expensive machinery, demolition, shouting, meddlesome authorities, and an endless sequence of puzzles confronting a charismatic leader and his band of chain-smoking hourlies.The rainbow arcing over all of this would of course be reinvention. Take something teetering on apocalyptic set-piece and transform it into an ordered enterprise that makes the kids go “wheeeeee!” Raw optimism and self-aware naivete would slide into exasperation and despair, the launchpad for stubborn triumphalism tempered by humility. Cut to teaser for season two.Though I envision a six- or eight-episode season, the template here is the concise and satisfying Hoarders, which condenses a days-long home dejunking into a half-hour of television. One minute, Uncle Frank's four-story house is filled with his pizza box collection and every edition of the Tampa Bay Bugle dating back to 1904. But as 15 dumpster trucks from TakeMyCrap.com drive off in convoy, the home that could only be navigated with sonar and wayfinding canines has been transformed into a Flintstones set piece, a couch and a wooly mammoth rug accenting otherwise empty rooms. I can watch these chaos-into-order transformations all day long.Roll into Holiday Mountain this winter, and you'll essentially be stepping into episode four of this eight-part series. The ski area's most atrocious failures have been bulldozed, blown-up, regraded, covered in snow. The two-seater chairlift that Columbus shipped in pieces on the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria has finally been scrapped and replaced with a machine that does not predate modern democracy. The snowguns are no longer powered by hand-cranks. A ski area that, just 18 months ago, was shrinking like an island in rising water is actually debuting two brand-new trails this winter.But the job's not finished. On your left as you drive in is a wide abandoned ridge where four ski lifts once spun. On the open hills, new snowguns glimmer and new-used chairlifts and cats hum, but by Taylor's own admission, his teams are still figuring out how to use all these fancy gadgets. Change is the tide climbing up the beach, but we haven't fully smoothed out the tracked sand yet, and it will take a few more hours to get there.It's fun to be part of something like this, even as an observer. I'll tell you to visit Holiday Mountain this winter for the same reason I'll tell you to go ride Chair 2 at Alpental or the triple at Bluewood or the Primo and Segundo Riblet doubles at Sunlight. By next autumn, each of these lifts, which have dressed their mountains for decades, will make way for modern machines. This is good, and healthy, and necessary for skiing's long-term viability. But experiencing the same place in different forms offers useful lessons in imagination, evolution, and the utility of persistence and willpower. It's already hard to picture that Holiday Mountain that teetered on the edge of collapse just two years ago. In two more years, it could be impossible, so thorough is the current renovation. So go. Bonus: they have skiing.Podcast NotesOn indies sticking togetherDespite the facile headlines, conglomerates are not taking over American skiing. As of my last count, about 73 percent of U.S. ski areas are still independently operated. And while these approximately three-quarters of active ski areas likely account for less than half of all skier visits, consumers do still have plenty of choice if they don't want to go Epkonic.New York, in particular, is a redoubt of family-owned and -operated mountains. Other than Vail-owned Hunter and state-owned Belleayre, Gore, and Whiteface, every single one of the state's 51 ski areas is under independent management. Taylor calls out several of these New York owners in our conversation, including many past podcast guests. These are all tremendous conversations, all streaked with the same sincere determination and grit that's obvious in Taylor's pod.Massachusetts is also a land of independent ski areas, including the Swiss watch known as Wachusett:On PartekPartek is one of the delightful secrets of U.S. skiing. The company, founded in 1993 by Hagen Schulz, son of the defunct Borvig lifts President Gary Schulz, installs one or two or zero new chairlifts in a typical year. Last year, it was a fixed-grip quad at Trollhaugen, Wisconsin and a triple at Mt. Southington, Connecticut. The year before, it was the new Sandy quad at Saddleback. Everyone raves about the quality of the lifts and the experience of working with Partek's team. Saddleback GM Jim Quimby laid this out for us in detail when he joined me on the podcast last year:Trollhaugen owner and GM Jim Rochford, Jr. was similarly effusive:I'm underscoring this point because if you visit Partek's website, you'll be like “I hope they have this thing ready for Y2K.” But this is your stop if you need a new SKF 6206-2RS1, which is only $17!On the old Catskills resort hotels with ski areasNew York is home to more ski areas (51) than any state in America, but there are still far more lost ski areas here than active ones. The New York Lost Ski Areas Project estimates that the ghosts of up to 350 onetime ski hills haunt the state. This is not so tragic as it sounds, as the vast majority of these operations consisted of a goat pulling a toboggan up 50 vertical feet beside Fiesty Pete's dairy barn. These operated for the lifespan of a housefly and no one missed them when they disappeared. On the opposite end were a handful of well-developed, multi-lift ski areas that have died in modernity: Scotch Valley (1988), Shu Maker (1999), Cortina (mid-90s), and Big Tupper (2012). But in the middle sat dozens of now-defunct surface-tow bumps, some with snowmaking, some attached to the famous and famously extinct Borsch Belt Catskills resorts.It is this last group that Taylor and I discuss in the podcast. He estimates that “probably a dozen” ski areas once operated in Sullivan County. Some of these were standalone operations like Holiday, but many were stapled to large resort hotels like The Nevele and Grossingers. I couldn't find a list of the extinct Catskills resorts that once offered skiing, and none appeared to have bothered drawing a trailmap.While these add-on ski areas are a footnote in the overall story of U.S. skiing, an activity-laying-around-to-do-at-a-resort can have a powerful multiplier effect. Here are some things that I only do if I happen across a readymade setup: shoot pool, ice skate, jet ski, play basketball, fish, play minigolf, toss cornhole bags. I enjoy all of these things, but I won't plan ahead to do them on purpose. I imagine skiing acted in this fashion for much of the Bortsch Belt crowd, like “oh let's go try that snowskiing thing between breakfast and our 11:00 baccarat game.” And with some of these folks, skiing probably became something they did on purpose.The closest thing modernity delivers to this is indoor skiing, which, attached to a mall – as Big Snow is in New Jersey – presents itself as Something To Do. Which is why I believe we need a lot more such centers, and soon.On shrinking Holiday MountainSome ski areas die all at once. Holiday Mountain curdled over decades, to the husk Taylor purchased last year. Check the place out in 2000, with lifts zinging all over the place across multiple faces:A 2003 flood smashed the terrain near the entrance, and by 2007, Holiday ran just two lifts:At some indeterminant point, the ski area also abandoned the Turkey Trot double. This 2023 trailmap shows the area dedicated to snowtubing, though to my knowledge no such activity was ever conducted there at scale.On the lift you see from Route 17Anyone cruising NY State 17 can see this chairlift rising off the northwest corner of the ski area:This is essentially a billboard, as Taylor left the terminal in place after demolishing the lower part of the long-inactive lift.Taylor intends to run a lift back up this hill and re-open all the old terrain. But first he has to restore the slopes, which eroded significantly in their last life as a Motocross course. There is no timeline for this, but Taylor works fast, and I wouldn't be shocked to see the terrain come back online as soon as 2025.On NY 17's transformation into I-86New York 17 is in the midst of a decades-long evolution into Interstate 86, with long stretches of the route that spans southern New York already signed as such. But the interstate designation comes with standards that define lane number and width, bridge height, shoulder dimensions, and maximum grade, among many other particulars, including the placement and length of exit and entrance ramps. Exit 108, which provides direct eastbound access to and egress from Holiday Mountain, is fated to close whenever the highway gods close the gap that currently splits I-86 into segments.On Norway MountainHoliday is the second ski area comeback story featured on the pod in recent months, following the tale of dormant-since-2017 Norway Mountain, Michigan:On Holiday's high-energy social media accountsTaylor has breathlessly documented Holiday's comeback on the ski area's Instagram and Facebook accounts. They're incredible. Follow recommended. On Tuxedo RidgeThis place frustrates me. Once a proud beginners-oriented ski center with four chairlifts and a 450-foot vertical drop, the bump dropped dead around 2014 without warning or explanation, despite a prime location less than an hour from New York City.I hiked the place in 2020, and wrote about it:On Ski Areas of New YorkSki Areas of New York, or SANY, is one of America's most effective state ski area organizations. I've hosted the organization's president, Scott Brandi, on the podcast a couple of times:Compulsory mention of ORDAThe Olympic Regional Development Authority, which manages New York State-owned Belleayre, Gore, and Whiteface mountains, lost $47.3 million in its last fiscal year. One ORDA board member, in response to the report, said that it's “amazing how well we are doing,” according to the Adirondack Explorer. Which makes a lot of the state's independent ski area operators say things like, “Huh?” That's probably a fair response, since $47.3 million would likely be sufficient for the state to simply purchase every ski area in New York other than Hunter, Windham, Holiday Valley, and Bristol.On high-speed ropetowsI'll keep writing about these forever because they are truly amazing and there should be 10 of them at every ski area in America:Welch Village, Minnesota. Video by Stuart Winchester.The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing year-round. 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You can also subscribe to the free tier below:WhoChip Chase, Founder and Owner of White Grass Ski Touring Center, West VirginiaRecorded onMay 16, 2024About White Grass Touring CenterClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: Chip ChaseLocated in: Davis, West VirginiaYear founded: 1979 (at a different location)Pass affiliations: Indy Pass and Indy+ Pass: 2 days, no blackoutsClosest neighboring ski areas: Canaan Valley (8 minutes), Timberline (11 minutes)Base elevation: 3,220 feet (below the lodge)Summit elevation: 4,463 feet (atop Weiss Knob)Vertical drop: 1,243 feetSkiable Acres: 2,500Average annual snowfall: 140 inchesTrail count: 42 (50 km of maintained trails)Lift count: NoneWhy I interviewed himOne habit I've borrowed from the mostly now-defunct U.S. ski magazines is their unapologetic focus always and only on Alpine skiing. This is not a snowsports newsletter or a wintertime recreation newsletter or a mountain lifestyle newsletter. I'm not interested in ice climbing or snowshoeing or even snowboarding, which I've never attempted and probably never will. I'm not chasing the hot fads like Norwegian goat fjording, which is where you paddle around glaciers in an ice canoe, with an assist tow from a swimming goat. And I've narrowed the focus much more than my traditionalist antecedents, avoiding even passing references to food, drink, lodging, gear, helicopters, snowcats, whacky characters, or competitions of any kind (one of the principal reasons I ski is that it is an unmeasured, individualistic sport).Which, way to squeeze all the fun out of it, Stu. But shearing off 90 percent of all possible subject matter allows me to cover the small spectrum of things that I do actually care about – the experience of traveling to and around a lift-served snowsportskiing facility, with a strange side obsession with urban planning and land-use policy – over the broadest possible geographic area (currently the entire United States and Canada, though mostly that's Western Canada right now because I haven't yet consumed quantities of ayahuasca sufficient to unlock the intellectual and spiritual depths where the names and statistical profiles of all 412* Quebecois ski areas could dwell).So that's why I don't write about cross-country skiing or cross-country ski centers. Sure, they're Alpine skiing-adjacent, but so is lift-served MTB and those crazy jungle gym swingy-bridge things and ziplining and, like, freaking ice skating. If I covered everything that existed around a lift-served ski area, I would quickly grow bored with this whole exercise. Because frankly the only thing I care about is skiing.Downhill skiing. The uphill part, much as it's fetishized by the ski media and the self-proclaimed hardcore, is a little bit confusing. Because you're going the wrong way, man. No one shows up at Six Flags and says oh actually I would prefer to walk to the top of Dr. Diabolical's Cliffhanger. Like do you not see the chairlift sitting right f*****g there?But here we are anyway: I'm featuring a cross-country skiing center on my podcast that's stubbornly devoted always and only to Alpine skiing. And not just a cross-country ski center, but one that, by the nature of its layout, requires some uphill travel to complete most loops. Why would I do this to myself, and to my readers/listeners?Well, several factors collided to interest me in White Grass, including:* The ski area sits on the site of an abandoned circa-1950s downhill ski area, Weiss Knob. White Grass has incorporated much of the left-over refuse – the lodge, the ropetow engines – into the functioning or aesthetic of the current business. The first thing you see upon arrival at White Grass is a mainline clearcut rising above a huddle of low-slung buildings – Weiss Knob's old maintrail.* White Grass sits between two active downhill ski areas: Timberline, a former podcast subject that is among the best-run operations in America, and state-owned Canaan Valley, a longtime Indy Pass partner. It's possible to ski across White Grass from either direction to connect all three ski areas into one giant odyssey.* White Grass is itself an Indy Pass partner, one of 43 Nordic ski areas on the pass last year (Indy has yet to finalize its 2024-25 roster).* White Grass averages 95 days of annual operation despite having no snowmaking. On the East Coast. In the Mid-Atlantic. They're able to do this because, yes, they sit at a 3,220-foot base elevation (higher than anything in New England; Saddleback, in Maine, is the highest in that region, at 2,460 feet), but also because they have perfected the art of snow-farming. Chase tells me they've never missed a season altogether, despite sitting at the same approximate latitude as Washington, D.C.* While I don't care about going uphill at a ski area that's equipped with mechanical lifts, I do find the notion of an uphill-only ski area rather compelling. Because it's a low-impact, high-vibe concept that may be the blueprint for future new-ski-area development in a U.S. America that's otherwise allergic to building things because oh that mud puddle over there is actually a fossilized brontosaurus footprint or something. That's why I covered the failed Bluebird Backcountry. Like what if we had a ski area without the avalanche danger of wandering into the mountains and without the tension with lift-ticket holders who resent the a.m. chewing-up of their cord and pow? While it does not market itself this way, White Grass is in fact such a center, an East Coast Bluebird Backcountry that allows and is seeing growing numbers of people who like to make skiing into work AT Bros.All of which, I'll admit, still makes White Grass lift-served-skiing adjacent, somewhere on the spectrum between snowboarding (basically the same experience as far as lifts and terrain are concerned) and ice canoeing (yes I'm just making crap up). But Chase reached out to me and I stopped in and skied around in January completely stupid to the fact that I was about to have a massive heart attack and die, and I just kind of fell in love with the place: its ambling, bucolic setting; its improvised, handcrafted feel; its improbable existence next door to and amid the Industrial Ski Machine.So here we are: something a little different. Don't worry, this will not become a cross-country ski podcast, but if I mix one in every 177 episodes or so, I hope you'll understand.*The actual number of operating ski areas in Quebec is 412,904.What we talked aboutWhite Grass' snow-blowing microclimate; why White Grass' customers tend to be “easy to please”; “we don't need a million skiers – we just need a couple hundred”; snow farming – what it is and how it works; White Grass' double life in the summer; a brief history of the abandoned/eventually repurposed Weiss Knob ski area; considering snowmaking; 280 inches of snow in West Virginia; why West Virginia; the state's ski culture; where and when Chase founded White Grass, and why he moved it to its current location; how an Alpine skier fell for the XC world; how a ski area electric bill is “about $5 per day”; preserving what remains of Weiss Knob; White Grass' growing AT community; the mountain's “incredible” glade skiing; whether Chase ever considered a chairlift at White Grass; is atmosphere made or does it happen?; “the last thing I want to do is retire”; Chip's favorite ski areas; an argument for slow downhill skiing; the neighboring Timberline and Canaan Valley; why Timberline is “bound for glory”; the Indy Pass; XC grooming; and White Grass' shelter system.Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewI kind of hate the word “authentic,” at least in the context of skiing. It's a little bit reductive and way too limiting. It implies that nothing planned or designed or industrially scaled can ever achieve a greater cultural resonance than a TGI Friday's. By this definition, Vail Mountain – with its built-from-the-wilderness walkable base village, high-speed lift fleet, and corporate marquee – fails the banjo-strumming rubric set by the Authenticity Police, despite being one of our greatest ski centers. Real-ass skiers, don't you know, only ride chairlifts powered from windmills hand-built by 17th Century Dutch immigrants. Everything else is corporate b******t. (Unless those high-speed lifts are at Alta or Wolf Creek or Revelstoke – then they're real as f**k Brah; do you see how stupid this all is?)Still, I understand the impulses stoking that sentiment. Roughly one out of every four U.S. skier visits is at a Vail Resort. About one in four is in Colorado. That puts a lot of pressure on a relatively small number of ski centers to define the activity for an enormous percentage of the skiing population. “Authentic,” I think, has become a euphemism for “not standing in a Saturday powder-day liftline that extends down Interstate 70 to Topeka with a bunch of people from Manhattan who don't know how to ski powder.” Or, in other words, a place where you can ski without a lot of crowding and expense and the associated hassles.White Grass succeeds in offering that. Here are the prices:Here is the outside of the lodge:And the inside:Here is the rental counter:And here's the lost-and-found, in case you lose something (somehow they actually fit skis in there; it's like one of those magic tents from Harry Potter that looks like a commando bivouac from the outside but expands into King Tut's palace once you walk in):The whole operation is simple, approachable, affordable, and relaxed. This is an everyone-in-the-base-lodge-seems-to-know-one-another kind of spot, an improbable backwoods redoubt along those ever-winding West Virginia roads, a snow hole in the map where no snow makes sense, as though driving up the access road rips you through a wormhole to some different, less-complicated world.What I got wrongI said the base areas for Stowe, Sugarbush, and Killington sat “closer to 2,000 feet, or even below that.” The actual numbers are: Stowe (1,559 feet), Sugarbush (1,483 feet), Killington (1,165 feet).I accidentally referred to the old Weiss Knob ski area as “White Knob” one time.Why you should ski White GrassThere are not a lot of skiing options in the Southeast, which I consider the ski areas seated along the Appalachians running from Cloudmont in Alabama up through Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland. There are only 18 ski areas in the entire region, and most would count even fewer, since Snowshoe Bro gets Very Mad at me when I count Silver Creek as a separate ski area (which it once was until Snowshoe purchased it in 1992, and still is physically until/unless Alterra ever develops this proposed interconnect from 1978):No one really agrees on what Southeast skiing is. The set of ski states I outline above is the same one that Ski Southeast covers. DC Ski includes Pennsylvania (home to another 20-plus ski areas), which from a cultural, travel, and demographic standpoint makes sense. Things start to feel very different in New York, though Open Snow's Mid-Atlantic updates include all of the state's ski areas south of the Adirondacks.Anyway, the region's terrain, from a fall line, pure-skiing point of view, is actually quite good, especially in good snow years. The lift infrastructure tends to be far more modern than what you'll find in, say, the Midwest. And the vertical drops and overall terrain footprints are respectable. Megapass penetration is deep, and you can visit a majority of the region with an Epic, Indy, or Ikon Pass:However. Pretty much everything from the Poconos on south tends to be mobbed at all times by novice skiers. The whole experience can be tainted by an unruly dynamic of people who don't understand how liftlines work and ski areas that make no effort to manage liftlines. It kind of sucks, frankly, during busy times. And if this is your drive-to region, you may be in search of an alternative. White Grass, with its absence of lifts and therefore liftlines, can at least deliver a different story for your weekend ski experience.It's also just kind of an amazing place to behold. I often describe West Virginia as the forgotten state. It's surrounded by Pennsylvania (sixth in population among the 50 U.S. states, with 13 million residents), Ohio (8th, 11.8 M), Kentucky (27th, 4.5 M), Virginia (13th, 8.7 M), and Maryland (20th, 6.2 M). And yet West Virginia ranks 40th among U.S. states in population, with just 1.8 million people. That fact – despite the state's size (it's twice as large as Maryland) and location at the crossroads of busy transcontinental corridors – is explained by the abrupt, fortress-like mountains that have made travel into and through the state slow and inconvenient for centuries. You can crisscross parts of West Virginia on interstate highways and the still-incomplete Corridor H, but much of the state's natural awe lies down narrow, never-straight roads that punch through a raw and forgotten wilderness, dotted, every so often, with industrial wreckage and towns wherever the flats open up for an acre or 10. Other than the tailgating pickup trucks, it doesn't feel anything like America. It doesn't really feel like anything else at all. It's just West Virginia, a place that's impossible to imagine until you see it.Podcast NotesOn Weiss Knob Ski Area (1959)I can't find any trailmaps for Weiss Knob, the legacy lift-served ski area that White Grass is built on top of. But Chip and his team have kept the main trail clear:It rises dramatically over the base area:Ski up and around, and you'll find remnants of the ropetows:West Virginia Snow Sports Museum hall-of-famers Bob and Anita Barton founded Weiss Knob in 1955. From the museum's website:While the Ski Club of Washington, DC was on a mission to find an elusive ski drift in West Virginia, Bob was on a parallel mission.  By 1955, Bob had installed a 1,200-foot rope tow next door to the Ski Club's Driftland.  The original Weiss Knob Ski Area was on what is now the "Meadows" at Canaan Valley Resort.  By 1958, Weiss Knob featured two rope tows and a T-bar lift.In 1959, Bob moved Weiss Knob to the back of Bald Knob (out of the wind) on what is now White Grass Touring Center.According to Chase, the Bartons went on to have some involvement in a “ski area up at Alpine Lake.” This was, according to DC Ski, a 450-footer with a handful of surface lifts. Here's a circa 1980 trailmap:The place is still in business, though they dismantled the downhill ski operation decades ago.On the three side-by-side ski areasWhite Grass sits directly between two lift-served ski areas: state-owned Canaan Valley and newly renovated Timberline. Here's an overview of each:TimberlineBase elevation: 3,268 feetSummit elevation: 4,268 feetVertical drop: 1,000 feetSkiable Acres: 100Average annual snowfall: 150 inchesTrail count: 20 (2 double-black, 2 black, 6 intermediate, 10 beginner), plus two named glades and two terrain parksLift count: 4 (1 high-speed six-pack, 1 fixed-grip quad, 2 carpets - view Lift Blog's inventory of Timberline's lift fleet)Canaan ValleyBase elevation: 3,430 feetSummit elevation: 4,280 feetVertical drop: 850 feetSkiable Acres: 95Average annual snowfall: 117 inchesTrail count: 47 (44% advanced/expert, 36% intermediate, 20% beginner)Lift count: 4 (1 fixed-grip quad, 2 triples, 1 carpet - view Lift Blog's inventory of Canaan Valley's lift fleet)And here's what they all look like side-by-side IRL:On other podcast interviewsChip referenced a couple of previous Storm Skiing Podcasts: SMI Snow Makers President Joe VanderKelen and Snowbasin GM Davy Ratchford. You can view the full archive (as well as scheduled podcasts) here.On West Virginia statisticsChase cited a few statistical rankings for West Virginia that I couldn't quite verify:* On West Virginia being the only U.S. state that is “100 percent mountains” – I couldn't find affirmation of this exactly, though I certainly believe it's more mountainous than the big Western ski states, most of which are more plains than mountains. Vermont can feel like nothing but mountains, with just a handful of north-south routes cut through the state. Maybe Hawaii? I don't know. Some of these stats are harder to verify than I would have guessed.* On West Virginia as the “second-most forested U.S. state behind Maine” – sources were a bit more consistent on this: every one confirmed Maine as the most-forested state (with nearly 90 percent of its land covered), then listed New Hampshire as second (~84 percent), and West Virginia as third (79 percent).* On West Virginia being “the only state in the nation where the population is dropping” – U.S. Census Bureau data suggests that eight U.S. states lost residents last year: New York (-0.52), Louisiana (-0.31%), Hawaii (-0.3%), Illinois (-0.26%), West Virginia (-0.22%), California (-0.19%), Oregon (-0.14%), and Pennsylvania (-0.08%).On the White Grass documentaryThere are a bunch of videos on White Grass' website. This is the most recent:On other atmospheric ski areasChase mentions a number of ski areas that deliver the same sort of atmospheric charge as White Grass. I've featured a number of them on past podcasts, including Mad River Glen, Mount Bohemia, Palisades Tahoe, Snowbird, and Bolton Valley.On the Soul of Alta movieAlta also made Chase's list, and he calls out the recent Soul of Alta movie as being particularly resonant of the mountain's special vibe:On resentment and New York State-owned ski areasI refer briefly to the ongoing resentment between New York's privately owned, tax-paying ski areas and the trio of heavily subsidized state-owned operations: Gore, Whiteface, and Belleayre. I've detailed that conflict numerous times. This interview with the owners of Plattekill, which sits right down the road from Belle, crystalizes the main conflict points.On White Grass' little shelters all over the trailsThese are just so cool:The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing year-round. Join us.The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 46/100 in 2024, and number 546 since launching on Oct. 13, 2019. Get full access to The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast at www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

Introducing Charlie ChipchaseCharlie Chipchase is the Managing Director and Head of Europe at Petra Funds Group, a leading fund administration provider to global private equity, venture capital, and private debt funds. Charlie is a seasoned private funds attorney and ESG expert with over 20 years of experience working at a $40+ billion private equity firms and international law firms. What You Will Learn:The growing case for ESG investing in private equityStrong ESG practices for the benefit funds and their investorsThe common ways ESG creates value in private equity Breakdown:[00:00] Introduction[02:40] The Mistakes PE Firms Make with Their Portfolio Companies[04:50] The Role of ESG in Private Equity Investing[07:46] How to Get the Most Out of ESG Data[10:12] Ways to Improve Your ESG Strategy[15:30] Why All PE Firms Should Consider ESG Investing[21:06] What Charlie Likes and Dislikes About Private Equity[23:16] The Humility Aspect of PE Investing [25:32] What Charlie Watches, Reads, and Listens To [28:50] Parting Thoughts The Growing Case For ESG in Private EquityEnvironmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors are rapidly gaining traction in private equity, and for good reason. As society becomes increasingly aware of its environmental and social responsibilities, investors seek ways to align their capital with positive change. And what better way to do that than to go the ESG route? According to Charlie, ESG integration in private equity is not just a moral choice; it's a smart investment strategy. PE firms that recognize the long-term benefits of ESG attract the best talent, raise capital faster, and sell for profitable margins. Companies with strong ESG performance also tend to outperform their peers in the long run. We live in a world where sustainability is paramount. ESG integration in private equity is not just a trend but a win-win strategy, benefiting both investors and society. Links and Resources:Charlie's LinkedInPetra Funds GroupCharlie's Email - Charlie@petrafundsgroup.comThe Watchman's Rattle by Rebecca D. CostaThe Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre Thank you for tuning in!To get the newest Private Equity episodes, you can subscribe on iTunes or Spotify here. Lastly, if you have any feedback on the podcast or want to reach out to Alex with any questions, send an email to alex.rawlings@raw-selection.com.  

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Join your resurrected roundtable rascals of the APDC plus special guest James W. as they review the season 3 episode “The Return of Optimus Prime pt. 1” from the 1987 classic animated series, The Transformers! Thief of Groove James Walnuts!! Quizerection! Tweet, you're a dork!!! Mark and Gregory – Robot Racists!!! The bath salts of spores! Adult Baby Jessica!!! Thick as Tewkesbury Mustard! I want to Chip Chase somebody!! Super Mario kink! And the Throttlebots, too!!! Consume! Fancy Rod moves!!! Red Hate Plague! Our leader is back!!! Real World! Script Deviations! Iconic Moments! OUR LEADER IS BACK!!! This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Find more balance, with BetterHelp. Visit betterhelp.com/AUTOPOD today to get 10% off your first month. TF TOY TALK – 10:36 WHY THE RETURN OF OPTIMUS PRIME? – 22:38 QUIZERECTION TRIVIA! – 26:50 SHOUT OUTS – 43:10 COCKTAIL – 48:50 EPISODE REVIEW – 51:20 IN THE REAL WORLD – 1:51:00 SCRIPT DEVIATIONS – 2:01:20 RATE THE SCHEME – 2:03:20 ICONIC MOMENT – 2:06:45

American chip maker Micron's announcement to set up an India plant gives the country a breakthrough it's been seeking for four decades. Semiconductors power the modern world-automobiles to AI. Over the years, the tiny chips have become a strong geopolitical tool and a frontier for the deadly battle of superpowers US and China. Its thawing relations with the US and penchant for standing up to China can get India global support in its chip ambitions. But are its own capabilities enough?  Host Anirban Chowdhury traces the semiconductor story across the years with  Chris Miller, Author of the corporate bestseller Chip War  Pranab Dhal Samanta, Associate Executive Editor, ET  Shelley Singh, Senior Editor, ET Prime. Credits: CNBC-TV18, NBC News If you like this episode from Anirban Chowdhury, check out his other interesting episodes on Big cats, billions, bonds: India's massive tiger economy, Will ONDC eat Swiggy, Zomato's lunch?, Go First: The Insolvency Flight Path, Reliance Capital: ADAG's Dust, Hinduja's Dreams?, and much more! You can follow Anirban Chowdhury on his social media: Twitter and Linkedin Catch the latest episode of ‘The Morning Brief' on ET Play, The Economic Times Online, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, JioSaavn, Amazon Music and Google Podcasts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Here's a fun fact for you: Did you know George Washington is said to have created the FIRST promotional product? The story goes, Washington is credited with creating an election button for his 1789 campaign. How about that for some history they don't teach in school? LOTS has changed since then, and so has the promotional products industry. As we like to say around here at The Dunstan Group, we can put your name on almost anything! We are excited to welcome one of the giants in our industry, Mr. Mark Chipcase, from MAC Marketing. Mark, it's a treat to have you on this week's episode of the BrandBuilders Podcast.

In this episode with Lucy Chipchase & Kerrie Evans we discuss the findings of their paper on New Graduate Mentoring Programs. They cover what style of learning the research has found is best, as well as balancing formal and informal reviews/check-ins as this is a delicate balance to help prevent burnout. Kerrie is a Group Education and Research Officer for Healthia Limited Australia. She is a Senior Research Fellow at The University of Sydney and is also qualified as a Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist. Lucy is a Professor at Flinders University. She has extensive leadership experience in the education and health care sector as well as professional service organisations. Link to paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09593985.2022.2113005?journalCode=iptp20If you like the podcast, it would mean the world if you're happy to leave us a rating or a review. It really helps!Our host is Michael Rizk from Physio Network and iMoveU: https://cutt.ly/ojJEMZs 

On Season 2 Episode 5, we interviewed Chip Chase, the heartbeat of Whitegrass Ski Touring Center and Cafe in Canaan Valley, WV. Since opening in 1981, Whitegrass has become renowned as the Mecca of cross-country skiing in the mid Atlantic. That's in no small part to Chip's passion for creating a fun and welcoming environment and getting people excited to spend time outdoors. We hope you enjoy listening to Chip tell us about the over 40 year evolution of cross country skiing in WV, as well as what he sees as the future for outdoor recreation in the state. So, as always, take a listen!

Steven and Jason look back at the Transformers Cartoon from 1984! Will Megatron benefit from a single gun emplacement on the top of a temple? How exciting is it to have Skyfire back? Is it as exciting as the Dinobots in a massive punch up with - Optimus Prime?! And what's wrong with Chip Chase's observatory? Covers the episodes of G1 Transformers, "Fire On The Mountain" and "War of The Dinobots".

Professor Lucy Chipchase (e-mail, ResearchGate, Google Scholar, Twitter) of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University (Adelaide, Australia) and Dr. Kerrie Evans (e-mail, Google Scholar, Twitter) of the Faculty of Medicine and Health, the University of Sydney (Sydney, NSW, Australia) and Healthia Limited (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia) are interviewed by Stephen M. Shaffer regarding a publication from Musculoskeletal Science and Practice titled, “Supporting new graduate physiotherapists in their first year of private practice with a structured professional development program; a qualitative study.” This episode contains information that will be interesting for practitioners who want to explore the realm of new graduate mentoring.Find out more about the American Academy of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapists at the following links:Academy website: www.aaompt.orgTwitter: @AAOMPTFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/aaompt/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/officialaaompt/?hl=enPodcast e-mail: aaomptpodcast@gmail.comPodcast website: https://aaomptpodcast.simplecast.fm

Ladies, Gentlemen, children of all ages ...   The only rowing podcast that matters (apart from all of the others) returns - and it does so to celebrate all that is great and good about Henley Royal Regatta - just in time for the 2022 edition of one of the world's oldest and certainly one of the world's most prestigious rowing events.   Broken Oars Podcast has earned an enviable reputation for journalistic integrity, fearlessly asking the questions that no-one else will. There are some who have suggested that this might be better construed as plebeian snark; classless sarcasm; and throwing rocks at our elders and betters ... not least when we have questioned some of the goings on at Henley in 2021 and cheating in the 2021 - 2022 season.   Nothing could be further from the truth - just because we occasionally ask hard questions and get hard answers should never take away from the simple reality that Lewin (Posh, Southern) and I (Aaron, Northern, illiterate) love this crazy sport of ours; and are in the enviable position of not only being able to talk about it, its events, its programmes, and its people but being lucky enough to do so with some of the best and brightest in the business.   And at the heart of that love is a love for the joy of moving a boat through the water with your crewmates and friends ... and we have never, in our history, ever said anything other than Henley Royal Regatta is the shining palace on the hill that we all aspire to and celebrate if that is your joy in life - and while we take the piss out of our own competitive history, we know how lucky we are to have seen the elephant and gone to the circus.   So to help us celebrate it, we've invited one of our first guests back on in the form of Terence 'Tez' Chipchase. Rower, umpire, long-time part of the signals team and Henley Steward, we asked him on this special episode to sing hail glory to the chief of all regattas.   In this episode, we cover the best place to watch the action at Henley Royal; how to get yourself into a launch; what happens if a herd of bison enter the Competitor's Enclosure; some of the races to look forward to; the topography; how the Regatta operates; why coming back to Henley Royal is like coming home; Henley Royal on the water and Henley Royal off the water; why actually making it to Henley Royal is so, so important to watermen and women; the social whirl; the gathering of the tribes and how the moving parts all come together to create both an illusion and a reality where both are equally valid experiences.   On your way to the Regatta? Having a doze at lunch? Walking home after a long day on the bank? Watching the commentary and thinking 'Bloody hell, Martin Cross is a damned good commentator ...' (He is, isn't he?).   Perfect listening at any time ...   Stern four? Some of us have actually rowed on sacred water, you know ...

Jan Chipchase is the founder and director of Studio D Radiodurans, a research, design and innovation consultancy. He specializes in identifying nuanced patterns of human behavior. The insight it generates informs and inspires design, strategy, brand and public policy. Jan describes his work in design anthropology in terms of a satellite launched into space that is chartered with identifying new planets, existential threats, but with a lens that can also be turned back on earth to help his clients also understand themselves. I've been fascinated with Jan's work for quite some time and had previously read and recommended both of his books. His research provides great insights into how products are being intentionally and unintentionally used and often take him into gray market environments. In this OODAcast, we discuss Jan's work but also his insights into how to conduct field research, build focused teams, and what sorts of insights can be derived. He also shares some great OODA Loop stories where quick decision-making and disrupting expected behaviors allowed him to get out of some tight situations. Earlier in his career he was Executive Creative Director of Global Insights at frog, a global design and innovation consultancy, where he headed up the global research practice. Prior to that he was Principal Scientist at Nokia where he specialized in entry level products. He's worked on products that have collectively sold over a billion units. His first book Hidden in Plain Sight was published in English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Russian. It became a best-seller in South Korea, of all places. The follow-up Today's Office was published in South Korea. He also wrote The Field Study Handbook. At various times he has been based out of London, Shanghai, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Berlin and a decade in Tokyo. Additional Links: Studio D Radiodurans Jan's Books: Hidden in Plain Sight The Field Study Handbook Book Recommendations: The Culture Map Living in Data Sensemaking in Organizations

Extra resources: Paul McGuiness - Under the microscope webinar with Matt Bishop - https://youtu.be/xWrMFrqziFM

When Scooter's newfangled Renegade detector fails the Guardians, he asks not-Chip Chase for help. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive

Valentine's Day gets a lot of flack for being sappy, cliche or just a marketing ploy by card and chocolate companies. But we tend to think there is more to it than that.  So, for this episode of Inside Appalachia, we asked our listeners for their best Appalachian love stories.  We received more stories than we could include in a single show, but we included some of our favorites, including one couple who met on the Yahoo personals page, a grandmother's surprising first love, a couple separated by international borders during a pandemic and the story of a couple who met through a Freedom of Information Act request.  We'll also talk with a biologist, and a philosopher, on whether animals can feel love. Do Animals Feel Love?  If you've ever watched animals interact, it seems like they feel love. Penguins mate for life. Elephants form a bond through wrapping their trunks together before they mate. Some types of wolves mate for life and help raise the wolf pups. So, do animals actually feel love?  A few years back, our producer, Roxy Todd, saw an otter that got her thinking about this question.   Unconditional Love For Animals Dogs seem to accept us unconditionally, but we'll hear from a young woman who feels the same about her dog. Ida Miller is the proud owner of Sephora, a black and brown german shepherd mix.  Ida has had Sephora for three years -- she adopted her in college. Ida says she almost gave Sephora up because owning her first puppy was so overwhelming. But now she can't imagine her life without her.  Tweet Us! Do you have a dog or a cat, an iguana or even a fish? We'd love to see all the animals out there who listen to Inside Appalachia with their human companions. Tweet us a photo, we're @InAppalachia Love And Loss Every relationship goes through different stages. Life-long partners eventually face a difficult chapter. Danny McNeeley and Tim Albee talked about what it was like for each of them to lose their previous life partners. They recorded their conversation back in 2018 when the Storycorps mobile recording bus visited Charleston, West Virginia. Love Of Nature Cross country skiing can get you into the backcountry where you can see views that you'd normally hike to in the summer. Chip Chase is the owner of the White Grass Ski Touring Center, in Tucker County, West Virginia. He has a love for nature and the environment that surrounds him.  Happy Valentine's Day! Our theme music is by Matt Jackfert. Other music this week was provided by Jake Xerxes Fussell, Dinosaur Burps, Podington Bear and Blue Dot Sessions.  Roxy Todd is our producer. Eric Douglas is our associate producer. Our executive producer is Andrea Billups. Kelley Libby edited our show this week. Our audio mixer is Patrick Stephens. Zander Aloi also helped produce this episode. You can find us on Twitter @InAppalachia. You can also send us an email to InsideAppalachia@wvpublic.org. Inside Appalachia is a production of West Virginia Public Broadcasting.

The gang rings in the New Year as only they could, by recording their funniest and worst episode so far. No one is safe. Run while you can. On this episode, the R.I.G. crew tries to cover the second half of the Dino-Bot Island arc, but winds up discussing the show’s many blandly hot humans instead. David dreams up a date night farce starring Beachcomber, Perceptor and Chip Chase, Boy Genius, Gege threatens to put Peppa Pig behind bars once and for all, and Jordan asks the all-important question, ‘Who CAN’T fly?’ All this, plus David introduces a brand-new segment called “W.T.T.F.” where Jordan is forced to guess the ways in which various robot toys transform. Does that sound fun to you? Then listen to this episode! We’ll do our best to post episodes in the new year whenever we can. Show your support for the show by leaving your five-star reviews in the podcast app of your choice. Follow the show @RobotsIntoGuys to stay abreast of the newest and best in gay robot programming. Thank you!!

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, Broken Oars Podcast returns with Episode 7 – a Fosbury Flop of an effort to match the impossibly high bar set by our recent guests Sir Terence of Chipchase and Sir Peter of Brewer.   (You haven’t listened to Episodes Five and Six yet? Shame on you! Download them now! You know it makes sense. After all, those 3 x 6k’s will go far easier with some quality listening material in your headphones).   *   After the wonderful ramble through the highways and byways of rowing undertaken by Terence and the ‘guys, here’s how a grown adult talks: in complete, well-thought through paragraphs’ common-sense, inclusive vision of rowing as a sport for all offered by the inimitable Pete, we’ve reverted to type: your genial hosts, Lewin (posh, well-educated, southern) and Aaron (northern, dragged up, barely literate) saying stuff about the wonderful sport about rowing that might be considered libellous if anyone actually listened to us.   *   It starts well. For the first time in the podcast’s history, Lewin rather than Aaron suffers the now-traditional biweekly injury and in a controversial move the Broken Oars Podcast begins the campaign to rehabilitate Lance Armstrong back into polite society.   Our position on doping and doping remains unchanged. We covered this in our bonus Jurgengate, the Trolls and the Two Billy Goats Gruff episode – a broadcast that UKADA, WADA and other acronyms have declared required listening for anyone involved in sport’s ongoing battle against doping and dopers. (Essentially, dopers and doping coaches are cheats; they invariably do it again; Jurgen might be the exception - but it's a narrative that deserves nuanced engagement).   On the subject of Lance, though, we just feel that in a world gone mad (der), his complete and utter unrepentance and blunt acknowledgement that he would do it all again if given the chance offers a refreshing change to the cant, hypocrisy and fudging offered by most cheats and bullshit artists when they get caught.   *   Controversy nimbly provoked, we declare our keywords for the now-traditional Thames Tradesmen’s Broken Oars Podcast Drinking Game. Anyone with the words Frodo, Anduin, and Slaine the Avenger is in for a heavy night. Lock up the cat. Cancel all calls.   *   And then, housekeeping done, we get stuck into the main topic of discussion: who would make it into our fantasy rowing eight.   Now, if you know us, and you’ve listened to us before you know that we take this sort of thing incredibly seriously. Broken Oars Podcast’s Episode Four discussed Britain’s Coxless Fours triumphs through the ages in such forensic detail that British Rowing actually asked for a copy of the tape; and our comments on the relative merits of genuine giants of the sport split opinion to the point where oarsmen who won their Olympic gold medals in the same boat no longer speak to each other.   *   But being us, our calm, measured approach to a question deserving both rapidly descends into a welter of claims, counter-claims, questionable humour, a discussion of the cars in the Henley Royal Regatta carpark; why dyslexics rarely hang out together (we both are: we never see each other); rowing as a quest narrative; and what really, when you get right down to it, constitutes a fantasy rowing eight.   In the process, Aaron make claims for the necessity of opposable thumbs in a five-man; Lewin makes a case for why Anna Watkins should be in the boat with such passion that he calls her Anna Williams; we both ask whether singing ability is an accurate measure of rhythm and timing when it comes to rowing (hint: no); and ask the serious and pertinent central question: if James Cracknell makes the boat, will his seat have to be able to accommodate the camera crew and production company that will film the inevitable accompanying miniseries?   And does his hair deserve its own seat?   *   All of this?   And it’s out in time for the weekend?   Get some!   Front six rowing on, bow pair, out – of the boat, the crew and our lives. Swim home.

Chip Chase owns and operates White Grass Ski Touring Center in the Canaan Valley of West Virginia. He's been part of the Telemark community since the early days and has no doubt influenced many people along the way to learn the turn.    Connect with Josh and the Freeheel Life Family  Josh on Instagram and Twitter Telemark Skier Magazine on Instagram, Twitter and YouTube Freeheel Life on Instagram and Twitter Shop The Freeheel Life Telemark Shop    HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT US Support our content by making a donation of your choice: PayPal.me/freeheellife CHECK OUT FREEHEELLIFE.COM Check out articles on TelemarkSkier.com Email Podcast@freeheellife.com THANK YOUR FOR LISTENING. PLEASE TAKE A SECOND TO RATE AND REVIEW US.   SEE YOU NEXT WEEK!!  

In the 1st ever Chip & Chase episode, I talk about the creation of Chip & Chase and answer the questions you sent in, including my favourite player to watch currently, the Canterbury Rugby photo-shoot fail and what to do if you use rugby as a form of escapism.

There are many ways to attend to our patients in clinic. We can work through mental models that we’ve acquired from our schooling, study, and clinical experience. We can also use our innate human ability to touch, palpate and sense. In this episode with Chip Chase we discuss the importance of down-regulating our nervous system. Along with the use of palpation and sensing references to anchor our ideas about what might be going on for a patient, and to track the progress of the treatment as it unfolds. Additionally we touch in on the use the eight extraordinary vessels and their relation to internal cultivation, take a look at the relatively new emergence of using the divergent channels, and discuss the difference between intending and attending during the treatment process.   Head on over to the show notes page for more information about this episode and for links to the resources discussed in the interview.  

Kit and Harper are back with two bangers this week! Well, Kit is here with two bangers; Harper has shown up with one and half, and a poor attention span. Topics Include: No Laws When Your Fighting Whiteclaw, Cliffjumper: Respawn?, God Slime, Which OP Is It Anyways?, Starscream's Totally Real And Accurate Resume (And Funeral), Interrupting Cat Says Meow, It's Bowl, Chip Chase's Dome Cardigan, A Les Mis Detour, Carefree Dad's Holding Babies, and A Bonus Moment Of Rachel! Our theme and outro is Remember (The Synth-Pop Song) by Unsound on Jamendo. Donate to Black Love Resists in the Rust.

First off, please forgive the audio issues this episode, we were dealing with two separate audio problems teaming up! So THE CORE is not a PRETTY episode, but is it a BAD one?? We found it's NOT! You might just shut your eyes and listen to it. Chip Chase is BACK, and he's got a PLAN! But so does MEGATRON! And Starscream has a SNIPER RIFLE and 6 Autobots in his sights!! Tune in and find out why we groaned at this episode as children but have a new appreciation for it as.... older children. Song at 54:48-55:30 is "We're In This Together" by Nine Inch Nails covered by Tara Rice. It's fantastic! https://www.youtube.com/user/TaraRiceMusic/ http://FourMillionYearsLater.com Befriend the FOUR MILLION YEARS LATER page on Facebook! Jerzy on Instagram Jerzy's Patreon Closing theme by Nick Mehalick : https://soundcloud.com/nicholas-mehalick/tranformative Please email us! FourMillionYearsLater@gmail.com And review us at your favorite podcatcher! Please? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/4myl/message

Welcome to the review of the third and forth episodes of Transformers G1 "Transport to Oblivion" and "Roll for It". Did someone mention animation errors? While both of these are ultimately sort of nonsensical, but it introduces the Space Bridge and Chip Chase, so I guess it's not a total waste. If you haven't, be sure to check out our bonus commentary for this episode! --- Follow us on Twitter @TeletraanFun!

Y’all, I’m sorry. This one’s a stinker. Just a whole lot of Dino-Bot stuff. Sorry if this isn’t what you wanted to hear us talk about after the hiatus. We’ll personally send you a Bosch 800 Series French 3 Door Refrigerator to make it up. On this episode, the R.I.G. crew makes a stunning return to form by heralding the return of Chip Chase, Boy Genius and celebrating the arrival of two new Dino-Bots. Listen in excitement as David makes the first (and last) Star Wars reference in R.I.G. history, Jordan pitches a better, gayer Brady Bunch and Gege does a complete takeover of the segment “Dumb Notes With David.” We’re back to our regular schedule, so we’ll return in 2 weeks!! Happy Pride Month!

On the 29th January 2016, 20 year old college student India Chipchase had gone on a spontaneous night out with her friends Alice, Harry and Grant. They chatted, drank together, and danced the night away. Alice cheers'd her friends and downed a jagerbomb, but when she looked back up, India was gone... Further linksDonate: www.youcaring.com/cheltenhamguardiansWeb: www.cheltenhamguardians.orgTwitter: www.twitter.com/CheltGuardiansTwitter: www.twitter.com/GuardiansChiefHollie Guard free safety app: www.hollieguard.com           SOURCES:https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/crime/india-chipchase-jury-hears-evidence-policeman-who-found-20-year-olds-body-defendants-house-811089https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3719929/Inside-home-India-Chipchase-s-obsessive-killer.htmlhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3719528/Chilling-CCTV-footage-shows-India-Chipchase-s-final-moments.htmlsoundbite, Jeremy Chipchase victim impact statementhttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/india-chipcase-murder-sentence-edward-tenniswood-life-jail-rape-murder-northampton-a7168326.htmlhttp://www.caledoniankitty.co.uk/2019/07/what-really-happened-to-india-chipchase.htmlhttps://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/crime/india-chipchase-jury-hears-evidence-policeman-who-found-20-year-olds-body-defendants-house-811089 

 Episode two tells the story of 20 year old India Chipchase who disappeared whilst on a night out with friends in Northampton in 2016...

There's.... well, there's a lot of sighing in this episode. This is another one of the AKOM-animated episodes, and it... it looks pretty bad. Very bad even. So the challenge is, can we find the good in it?? Well, we found some!! It's got Chip Chase, so you know Jerzy ferreted some good out. And it's got some nice Skywarp action, so Hoover was pleased with that at least. What else was there to like? LISTEN AND FIND OUT! http://FourMillionYearsLater.com Befriend the FOUR MILLION YEARS LATER page on Facebook! Jerzy on Instagram Jerzy's Patreon Closing theme by Nick Mehalick : https://soundcloud.com/nicholas-mehalick/tranformative Please email us! FourMillionYearsLater@gmail.com Or else you'll get boom glitches in your brain garage! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/4myl/message

Are you ready for... a vague competition between cars and trucks? The Autobots gets suckered into participating in a racetrack even for "charity" (aka Chip Chase's bank account) for two whole minutes, and it turns out the Decepticons have the perfect evil plan in place for the occasion! Joe and Kristen share a lot of questions and observations about tripods and sarlacc pits. This episode is mostly completely nonsense with the barest hint of an actual plot beneath. Some might even call it... suspiciously first draft-y? Follow Joe (@awktapus) and Kristen (@marinakazam) on Twitter! Email us at cwtapod@gmail.com with questions/comments! CWTA artwork by Madeline (@ignoretherobot) on Twitter. Check out Kristen's side project, ASMr/relationships, here!: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/asmr-relationships/id1474592637

The unexpected return of Chip Chase, Boy Genius! But wait, he’s working in the arms industry now? Oh, no... Anyway, on this episode, the R.I.G. crew shows some love and support for Optimus Prime’s polyamorous lifestyle and see how two weeks of couples counseling have affected the bond between Megatron and Starscream. On this installment of “Gege’s Wild Kingdom,” Gege gives Laserbeak his rights and Jordan plugs Beastars on Netflix. Please subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts! Also, follow the show on Instagram for some HOT pix of Transformer-on-Transformer action @RobotsIntoGuys. See you in 2 weeks! Stay safe!!

How is it that the fifth episode of this show was pretty as all get out, but the writing was some of the worst so far? Chalk that up as one of the universe’s many mysteries. Anyway, on the episode, David, Gege and Jordan talk about how all cop cars are bastards and swoon over Chip Chase, boy genius and Certified Cutie. On this installment of “Gege’s Wild Kingdom,” Gege compliments Ravage on his beefed up role in the action. RIG returns in 2 weeks. In the meantime, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. If you just want to rate the show 5 stars and post some Transformers slashfic instead, we’d almost certainly read that on air to show our thanks. And be sure to follow us on instagram at robotsintoguys

Wayne Chipchase graduated with Part-time Web Development Cohort Evening 9. After 20 years in nursing I made the transition to an IT career as a QA Engineer. I have always been a technophile and I love problem solving. As a developer, I feel I can meld my love of technology with my love of problem solving.

The Decepticons are after Dr. Alcazar’s new antimatter formula and it’s up to the Autobots and their new friend Chip Chase to stop them! Justin and Craig break it all down in the latest episode of Optimus PrimeTime: More Than Meets Your Ears! LISTEN HERE This week’s Transformers art is an 8″ x 10″ ink … Continue reading Episode 005 – Roll For It

Another cocktail…another goddamn factory!! Megatron…The Enemy! Optimus…mobility…limited!! Laserbeak has cameras everywhere!! Summon the Rainmakers!! Chip Chase saves the day…again!!! No one is ever disabled, as long as they have courage!! In the Real World! Rate the Scheme!! Iconic Moments!!! Script Deviations!!!! IS THIS MUSIC!?!?!? Transform… and meet us there!!!

Caleb: Super Mario who? Jigger, Beaker, and Glass!! The Chip Chase Creole Fizz!!! If it’s Labor Day, why’s nobody working?! Slow juice!!! Truckload of Shout-Outs!!! We have a Patreon!!! Convoy of Support!!! Chip Chase to the rescue!! Flesh creatures!! Betsy Brainiac!!! Boring Antimatter Lessons! Mirage gaslights Rumble!! Voice Actor!! Chip Monks!!! In the Real World!! Script Deviations: Billy has been named Chip!!! Piece of oil cake!!!

Chip Chase is back, and lookin' tastier than ever! Joe and Kristen talk about carnival rides, coloring errors, and MORE JETS THAN EVER! Did you ever want to see a robot with a death wish? Buckle up for this one, y'all. Come for Kristen correctly naming all of the Decepticons, stay for the Starscream voices. Follow Joe (@awktapus) and Kristen (@FunnyGirlTM) on Twitter! Email us at cwtapod@gmail.com with questions/comments! CWTA artwork by Madeline (@ignoretherobot) on Twitter.

Thomas questions the human intelligence of fighting large robots with rocks, we try to figure out the logic of plot, coincidence, and Transformer anatomy, and we discuss the newest (and soon to be forgotten) human member: Chip Chase!Links:Gen 1 Transformers Episodes On Amazon PrimeGen 1 Japanese Episodes (Warning: May Take Weeks To Download)Generation 2 Episode DownloadsRoll For It - Deleted AudioBlue Streak On TFWiki.Net

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Jan Chipchase is a director of international research and design projects, writer, photographer and co-founder of Studio D Radiodurans, SDR Traveller and The Fixer List. He has over 15 years' experience in running international projects, has authored three books, including The Field Study Handbook and is an accomplished international keynote speaker from TED to WEF. Before founding his own practice, Jan held positions such as Executive Creative Director of Global Insights at Frog Design and Principal Scientist at Nokia. He has lived in London, Berlin, San Francisco, Shanghai, Los Angeles, and for almost a decade in Tokyo. We talk to Jan about the concept of risk in fieldwork, misconceptions about risk, responsibility & a few how-to's on pre-rationalizing risk before embarking on fieldwork. Lastly, he shares his view on time pressure he sees as a great forcer of prioritization. We talk about how to design the research experience with the purpose of enabling a social environment where strangers solve problems together; how he approaches the topic of access and some of the advantages of locally sourcing informants vs employing recruiting agencies; the link between data collecting, usage and ethics; why a good project should present the teams with ethical challenges ; dealing with bias when evaluating the potential impact of data; positive social engineering and advantages of qualitative research. Lastly, he shares his view on time pressure and why he sees it as a great forcer of prioritization. Mentioned in Podcast: Jan Chipchase blog (incl. archives) The Field Study Handbook The Little Book of Fixers Studio D 2019 Masterclasses Jan's work: Studio D Radiodurans SDR Traveller The Fixer List Hidden in Plain Sight: How to Create Extraordinary Products for Tomorrow's Customers The Field Study Handbook The Little Book of Fixers Social media and other links: http://janchipchase.com https://twitter.com/janchip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Chipchase https://medium.com/@janchip https://www.linkedin.com/in/janchipchase Ted Talk 2007 The Anthropology of mobile phones

In which our heroes are introduced to Chip Chase.

Hey Listeners  as war rages between the Autobots and the Decepticons it apparently also rages between the animators! Join us as we try to comprehend what we have just watched before the slow journey into insanity! Find us on twitter  @DDBComicsguy @nerdisms1 and not forgetting: @Nerdisms_Emma and now finally on iTunes

Jan Chipchase is a Tokyo based researcher, designer, and strategist. He is also an author of a new book, The Field Study Handbook, considered an essential reference to running international field research as well as a guide for those who want to understand how to travel better. In this episode he discusses his current work with his Studio D Radiodurans and how a camera can be used to get out of many different tricky situations.   First Things First is produced as part of Frontier Media. Learn more at www.frontier.is Host: Paddy Harrington Producer and Editor: Max Cotter   Frontier’s sponsor music is an edited version of “sketch (rum-portrait)” by Jahzzar from the album “Sketches.” The original can be found at http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/Sketches/sketch_rum-portrait_158 This episode features an edited version of “Broke For Free” by Murmur from the album “Layers.” The original can be found at http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Broke_For_Free/Layers/Murmur_1979 This episode features an edited version of “ma’am” by Jahzzar from the album “Sketches.” The original can be found at http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/Sketches/maam_1195 This episode features an edited version of “Associations” by Podington Bear from the album “Carefree.” The original can be found at http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/Carefree/Associations

The Decepticons steal an anti-matter formula from Chip Chase, to create anti-matter energon, but are foiled by Wheeljack's plan that makes no sense at all. Paul and John are also on Twitter.  

Jan Chipchase has done it all. Before leading the global research practice at frog, the well-known design & innovation consultancy, Jan was a Principal Scientist at Nokia. He specialized in entry level products and his work caught the attention of a writer for the NY Times magazine. He became the center piece for an article titled, Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty? Jan was working on a product at the time that collectively sold over a billion units. He now runs a consultancy, Studio D Radiodurans, a luggage brand, SDR traveller, events all over the world and is the author of the popular, Field Study Handbook. 


Design research pioneer Jan Chipchase talks about how it's like to run a design studio that has no fixed physical prescense and about his latest book The Field Study Handbook: a how to, why to guide to running international field research project. This episode is a podcast exclusive. A special treat for all you listeners out there. Enjoy! ---------------------------------------- LINKS FROM THE SHOW https://www.thefieldstudyhandbook.com/ https://www.studiodradiodurans.com/ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/janchipchase/the-field-study-handbook MORE EPISODES Enjoyed the show? Take a look at some of the other episodes ➜ @servicedesignshow YOUTUBE CHANNEL Every episode of the Service Design Show is also available as via the official YouTube channel ➜ youtube.com/servicedesignshow FACEBOOK PAGE Check the Facebook page where you'll find more content and can discuss the episodes ➜ facebook.com/servicedesignshow UNIVERSITY Want to dig deeper into the topic we talk about on the show, check out the Service Design Show University ➜ learn.servicedesignshow.com

I am incredibly happy and proud to have Jan Chipchase as the guest of this show! I have followed Jan’s work and steps since years and years. Then, he was first the Executive Creative Director of Global Insights at frog and then Principal Scientist at Nokia. For me, it all started when I wanted to get deeper into understanding how I can learn about the clients that use my products. When guessing wasn’t enough and guessing how to get closer also wasn’t enough. I sucked up all the writing and presentations by Jan, that I could find in the Internet. For years, I (we!) had to guess how he is doing things and were impressed by his decisiveness and his uncompromised search for exploring the boundaries of what he (we) knows and how he approaches extending that knowledge through experiences. He pushed the boundaries of field research and goes to where the potential clients of his clients are: From the streets of Tokyo to the highlands of the Hindu Kush or small towns in Zimbabwe. He does that with what he calls Pop Up studios. Now, finally, after 6 years of work he has funded his next book - The Field Study Handbook - on kickstarter. And he has done this with huge success but much more with lots of experiments - again - and the most interesting kickstarter rewards, like a walk on The Hindu Kush with him or a three day mountain retreat. Also, beyond owning, managing and driving his innovation and research consultancy, Studio D, he „discovered“ his own luggage brand - driven from the requirements of his road work. This company - SDRTraveller - now also, has transformed from an - as he says - expensive hobby or side line project - to a business. Please enter with me, the world of Jan Chipchase, and learn how he helps companies discover what to do next, drive their organizational wisdom and how he makes all this his reality - in places ranging from San Francisco, Tokyo and Berlin to Tajikistan and Afghanistan. Chapters 00:00:26 Intro - Those Projects 00:11:04 Organizational Wisdom - How to figure out what to do next 00:19:14 The Art & Science of those projects 00:28:17 What can we learn from remote experiences on the edges 00:32:17 Many ways of doing research - from light to intense 00:36:59 Finding people for those projects 00:40:01 Creating a luggage brand: SDR Traveller 00:45:30 The Field Study Handbook Chapter Notes 00:00:26 Intro - Those Projects „(Our clients) normally have a lot of data at hands that reveals what people are doing and how people are doing. And what we provide is the Why.“ „I personally want to push myself and part of that is taking me into places that I am less comfortable“ „Something I learned a while ago: If you are the first person to go into a place and start to ask questions, you can have a disproportionate impact, because the learning curve is really steep. I love to be in that environment where I know little and have to get a lot done.“ 00:11:04 Organizational Wisdom - How to figure out what to do next The cone of possibility - the sense of where an organization is now and what it thinks is possible in the future. Work on the fringe of the cone of possibility: „Turning a hunch into data into information into knowledge into insight - and that’s typically what that first phase of a project is.“ „A really great project will turn that insight into organizational wisdom“. „Sometimes the highest accolade for such an early phase of a project is that people say that it’s common sense.“ „And then, of course, common sense changes over time“ „What we as a studio do, is make them understand (the things) they can not measure.“ 00:19:14 The Art & Science of those projects „How do you structure projects so that every one from the CEO down to the intern know they will come away from a project knowing they experienced something they won’t experience again in their life?“ „And everyone who was in it will become an advocate …“ „The science is understanding how humans absorb information and energy levels and all these other things. And the art of it is when to step away from process and let things play out.“ 00:28:17 What can we learn from remote experiences on the edges The example of understanding money transactions on mobile devices in Zimbabwe. 00:32:17 Many ways of doing research - from light to. intense „There are many different ways to figure out what to do next.“ „Everyone who sells a process without trying to figure out what the client wants is an idiot, frankly - or is a traditional consultancy.“ 00:36:59 Finding people for those projects „Two people flying in, hire a local team of 10 in three cities, then bouncing between these local teams - that’s a fairly typical setup." „In my experience, I only need one local I trust to build up a local team.“ „I would hope that pretty much every person we’ve hired over the years, we could go back to and they’d be comfortable continuing to work with us.“ 00:40:01 Creating a luggage brand: SDR Traveller "The trigger for it was: I was on a trip to Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan. And the piece of luggage I had, which is their really nice ArcTeryx bag: Two people died to steal it and every single boarder crossing I went through they searched it inside out. And I said: OK, I ant a piece of luggage that people ignore and does the job.“ „Ultimately I created an absolutely minimal Duffle called the D3. … It is designed to be ignored, fundamentally. … when people see it, we want them to dismiss it.“ „We started the brand three years ago, and then last year ago it transformed from an expensive hobby into a business.“ „We have a bunch of products that are quirky, wonderfully quirky.“ The story of the money bags: „We built the product based on a real need, and then we brought the product out there and it’s really interesting to see the people who buy that stuff. … it’s what you would imagine and then times 10 in terms of diversity of use cases and places.“ 00:45:30 The Field Study Handbook „With this projected, I decided I want it to take as long as took. I thought it would take two years. The whole project, what it took was six years. … it was for three years, every single day between one and eight hours.“ „And then, 2 years ago, I decided that I want to design the book.“ „This project was not about hitting a deadline. It was about taking as long as it took to get the job done. And recognizing that I will probably never be able to do another project like this again and recognizing that I should probably enjoy the moment.“ "And then Dan said I should consider kickstarter. And then two weeks before we did the kickstarter, we said, maybe should launch a kickstarter.“ „Two weeks before we hadn’t anything in place. … we created a bunch of rewards. I woke up, I think, at two am. I set the reward total two 22.000. We thought that would be right goal to aim for. I have to say, I never thought I will get the money to pay the book off. And that’s not ultimately the motivation. Then at 6am we pressed the button and started the kickstarter. Went away and had a coffee. Came back and 4 hours later we hit the goal.“ „The reason to work with kickstarter is really to learn how kickstarter works.“ „(The motivation to put artifacts out there) is really driven by the motivation to attract interesting conversations. Because interesting conversations lead to projects. And this projects then affect ten of thousands or millions of people.“ „(One of the rewards) is to sign up to a borderland expedition, which is to Tadjikistan. And if you’re maybe a little bit more on the edge, a reward is a short walk in the Hindu Kush. So: come with me to Afghanistan.“ „When someone clicks on that button that says „I pledge 10.000 Dollars“, really, they are committing to something that is far greater than merely a trip. And I’ve been through it myself and I understand the psychology of it. That process is in itself a thing that will shape who you are.“ Links to people, things and places mentioned Jan’s activities Jan’s homepage Studio D Radiodurans - Jan’s Design and Innovation agency The Field Study Handbook, here on kickstarter Luggage by SDR Traveller „The Fixer List“ Jan’s book „Hidden in Plain Sight“ People Craig Mod Lee John Phillips - the Illustrator of The Field Study Handbook Presentations & Articles by Jan 61 Glimpes of the Future A Year in Reflection Twelve Concepts in Autonomous Mobility „What if you could take the Studio out of the Studio“ - presentation on his process an methods, especially the Pop Up Studio „The anthropology of mobile phones“ Now, with this being sad, if it is still before May 27 2017, I urge you to visit the kickstarter page of The Field Study handbook and see which reward you want to choose rather than if you want to choose any. Participate while it works. If you listen to this podcast later than that, I am sure there will somehow be a way to obtain the book. An epic like this deserves it. In any case, take a look at the luggage by SDR Traveller and whatever might have triggered your interest. Also, the homepage of Studio D and Jan have great inspiring content, well written and enriched with awesome fotos, giving a great impression of what is possible. If you liked this episode, please don’t forget to share my podcast, send me feedback or give me that five star review on iTunes! If you are new to this podcast, have a look at the older episodes. There are some gems amongst them. Thanks for your interest and hear you soon! Markus

Episode 001 of On Margins — a podcast discussing the margins of making books — with Craig Mod and Jan Chipchase.  Researcher, ethnographer, and author Jan Chipchase has a new book — "The Field Study Handbook." We discuss how he came to produce this 500+ page magnum opus — a distillation of his life's work — and why he is self publishing.

I drove Chippy to his gig mixing The Art at Eatons Hill Hotel whom were support for The Cult’s Australian Tour. I got this legend on tape and i’m very stoked to hear some of […] The post John “Chippy” Chipchase – Live Sound Mixer Engineer – The Art / The Cult Brisbane Gig #144 appeared first on Gold Coast vs Drew Kruck.

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