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This week Paster Kevin Pinkerton begins a new series Be Free - Galatians. From Chapter 1, Kevin teaches about the unchanging gospel. Additionally, we should seek to please Christ, trust God as the gospel's source, and because of the gospel, live as a changed person.

Nic and Tarina kick off with advice for everyone to not move to Corn (wink, wink) and enjoy all its comforts and community.And Tarina shares her “more this, less that” list as an alternative to goals for the new year or new year's resolutions. It surprised Nic that Tarina didn't have items for his goal and resolution list for the year.Nic quotes Charlie Tremendous Jones: “You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you met and the books you read.”To invest in yourself requires a commitment to relationships and filling your mind with good information. An investment in yourself is an investment in your growth. To invest in anything means to expect a future return—and as Nic writes in Know This Do That, “reading one hour a day will put you in the top 1% of income earners.”From Chapter 23, they talk about learning from our pasts but letting go of the hurts, the mistakes, the regrets. This is easy to say and hard to do. It takes both self-forgiveness and forgiveness of others.Holding on to the past holds us back. Leaving it behind you is a practice—something you have to do every day. And that's okay. Keep at it and over time you will realize freedom, growth, and new opportunities for a richer life.If you enjoy Nic and Tarina's podcast and get something from listening to “all this Nic Bittle Crap,” please hit the like button, share it with a friend, or both. Your recommendation goes a long way in helping us reach more people.---

Source: The Original Hill Mole Blog Hill Mole: Life is But a Dream: I Was Merely a Dupe and a Fool Kindle Edition by Chris Abraham (Author)  The author, "Mole," writes about his experiences as a young man in Washington, D.C., as a bike messenger and his later career as a PR consultant. The sources describe the intrigue and hidden systems within the city, reflecting on the pervasive nature of spying and the difficulty of maintaining privacy. The author explores themes of power dynamics, national security, and the often-unseen forces that shape society. He also examines the impact of these hidden systems on his own life, questioning his role in them and the consequences of becoming aware of their existence. Speakers: Audio Overview Announcer 1 and Audio Overview Announcer Intro Music: [Insert suspenseful, intrigue-themed music] Announcer 1: Welcome back to Audio Overview, where we explore the hidden corners of the internet and uncover stories that make you question everything you thought you knew. Today, we're diving deep into a digital rabbit hole known as "The Hill Mole Document." Announcer 2: This collection of online journal entries, penned by an anonymous author calling himself "Mole," offers a glimpse into the shadowy world of Washington D.C. and hints at a life entangled with espionage, covert operations, and a constant struggle to discern truth from illusion. Announcer 1: Mole's writing is fragmented, often cryptic, jumping between personal anecdotes, philosophical musings, and what appear to be thinly veiled accounts of his experiences in the world of intelligence gathering. Announcer 2: He describes a Washington D.C. where the lines between the public and private sectors are blurred, where everyone is a potential pawn in a larger game, and where maintaining your cover story becomes an all-consuming way of life. Announcer 1: From his early days as a bike messenger navigating the halls of power to his later career in a deliberately vague “business,” Mole paints a picture of a city teeming with unseen players, all working towards agendas they may not even fully comprehend. Sound Clip: [Play clip of Mole describing Washington D.C. as a "consensual drunken pub crawl," emphasizing the sense of a chaotic, directionless system that nevertheless keeps moving forward relentlessly. (From Chapter 2-8: "Drunken Pub Crawl") Announcer 2: One recurring theme in Mole's writing is the idea of the "reducing valve"—a filter that shields us from the overwhelming complexity and often terrifying reality of the world.8 He suggests that those in power, the "adults" in the room, are tasked with maintaining this illusion to prevent widespread panic. Announcer 1: This raises the question: how much of what we perceive as reality is carefully curated to keep us complacent? And who are the puppet masters pulling the strings? Announcer 2: Mole's own experiences training as a youth, participating in war games with live ammunition, further blur the lines between reality and simulation. He describes the meticulous process of assuming a new identity, a skill honed from a young age. Announcer 1: This begs the question: is Mole a reliable narrator? Is he a victim of his own paranoia, seeing conspiracies where there are none? Or is he privy to a level of truth that most of us are deliberately shielded from? Sound Clip: [Play clip of Mole discussing the difficulty of “making” a spy in a diverse environment, suggesting that intelligence work relies heavily on pattern recognition, often to a fault. (From “Making a Spy in a Poor Multicultural City is Tough”) Announcer 2: As we delve deeper into the Hill Mole document, we're confronted with more questions than answers. Is Mole a whistleblower trying to expose a system of manipulation and control? Or is he a pawn himself, a disinformation agent spreading chaos and distrust? Announcer 1: We invite you, our listeners, to join us on this journey. Read Hill Mole for yourselves and decide. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chrisabraham/support

Summary Have you ever had to take responsibility for something you didn't do? From Chapter 52:13, through to the entirety of chapter 53, we see the fourth and final servant song in Isaiah. It is the climax of these discussions between the Lord and His faithful servant. You can word-for-word re-create most of the chapter using quotations from the New Testament. This song is a chaiasm with five sections, each 3 verses long. At the centre of this poem is the heart of the issue.  Why We Can't The problem with humans is that we're bent towards ourselves. We tend to twist right and wrong in a way that most suits ourselves. The problem that comes when we do this is that others are disadvantaged. Try as we might to fix this problem of sin, we can't.  Why Jesus Can God has a plan to deal with the problem of Sin. Though we go astray like sheep, The Lord lays on Jesus our sin. He is pierced, crushed, and beaten so we can be forgiven, healed, and have peace!  Question What in this chapter stands out to you about Jesus' sacrifice on the Cross?

From Chapter 4: चातुर्वर्यं मया सृष्टं गुणकर्मविभागशः। तस्य कर्तारमपि मां विद्धयकर्तारमव्ययम् ॥13॥ catur-varnyam maya srstam, guna-karma-vibhagasah tasya kartaram api mam, viddhy akartaram avyayam Tune in every Sunday for a new episode of this philological and philosophical analysis of the Bhagavad Gita! Texts referenced in the series: 1. Gita Rahasya by Lokmanya Tilak 2. Gita Discourses by Osho 3. Gitamritam, Gita Pathey, and Gita Discourses by Rev. Athavale Dadaji 4. Gita interpretation by Mahatma Gandhi 5. Gita commentary by Adi Shankaracharya 6. Sargeant Winthrop and Christopher Key Chapple. The Bhagavad Gita. State University of New York Press, 2009. 7. Goldman Robert P and Sally J Sutherland. Devavāṇīpraveśikā: An Introduction to the Sanskrit Language. 3rd ed. Center for South Asia Studies University of California, 1999. 8. Bhagavad Gita, sung by Ravindra Sathe and team, music by Vanraj Bhatia, album by Music Today Gita app based on Sri Aurobindo's commentary: Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.org.bhagavadgita&hl=en_US&gl=US&pli=1 iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/bhagavad-gita-sri-aurobindo/id1143882659

This week, we'll lighten things up a bit!! From Chapter 1 in “Psychological Horizons in Scientific Bigfoot Research” (available on Amazon), we'll examine my own biases (and hopefully others') on the existence of Sasquatch. After briefly reviewing the evidence for Santa Claus, we will reflect on philosophical issues associated comparing faith, belief and knowledge/evidence. We will then look closer at Sasquatch Evidence. This promises to be a fantastical and fantastic perspective on Sasquatch!! I hope to see you there for this fun and informative show!! You won't see any other Sasquatch Show like it! … but if you can't attend, please remember that the recorded show can be viewed on YouTube or Facebook and through the Untold Radio Network. An audio podcast version can also be downloaded from most major podcast platforms.

In this episode, Ryan and Nils talk about Many of the weird and wonderful things in warhammer 40K, From Chapter masters to the future of 40K! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/iteratorsoftheimperium/message

Get the PDF of "Digital Pathology 101" Book hereImage analysis has supported pathology since the introduction of whole slide scanners to the market, and when deep learning entered the scene of computer vision tissue image analysis gained superpowers. There are regulatory compliant AI-based image analysis tools available for practicing pathology around the globe. So what shall you do, just embrace them and start using? I would learn a bit about image analysis and AI first, to be able to make an informed decision. Good news, you can get all the information needed for this informed decision from this very chapter of the "Digital Pathology 101" book that I have published for you. From Chapter 3 you will learn the fundamentals of tissue image analysis and how it helps extract meaningful data from digital pathology images. We break it down into basic concepts like regions and objects of interest, matching computer vision techniques to pathology tasks, and the differences between classical machine learning and AI-based deep learning approaches.  Understanding these foundations sets the stage for appreciating how image analysis is applied in regulated clinical settings versus exploratory research environments. You will  learn the importance of quality control, because flawed data inputs inevitably lead to faulty outputs, regardless of the analysis method used.Moving on, you will familiarize yourself with the key terminology from the world of artificial intelligence and machine learning. The chapter clarifies the meaning of concepts like supervised learning, GPUs, data augmentation, and heat maps. It emphasizes how techniques like patching and data augmentation enable the training of machine learning algorithms on large datasets. Ultimately, by comprehending this terminology and the basics of tissue image analysis, you'll gain clarity on how these tools can provide decision support to pathologists through computer-aided diagnosis. Rather than seeing AI as a black box, you'll have insight into how it arrives at its outputs. With this balanced understanding, you'll be equipped to make discerning choices about embracing AI tools in your pathology practice, leveraging their benefits while being aware of current limitations. Stay tuned as we continue unpacking the transformative potential of digital pathology!Talk to you in chapter 4!-------------------------------------------------------Get the PDF of "Digital Pathology 101" Book hereGet the paper copy  of "Digital Pathology 101" on AMAZONWatch the "Digital Pathology 101" Book Launch hereSupport the showBecome a Digital Pathology Trailblazer and See you inside the club: Digital Pathology Club Membership

William Taylor - The good news of Jesus' rule spreads mightily and unstoppably across the globe. In the words of Acts 19:20, it has prevailed! From Chapter 16 through to Chapter 19, we are shown how this mighty advance takes place. Luke gives us both a detailed description of how Paul engaged in gospel work and a benchmark against which to assess our own engagement and response in the ministry of the word.

William Taylor - The good news of Jesus' rule spreads mightily and unstoppably across the globe. In the words of Acts 19:20, it has prevailed! From Chapter 16 through to Chapter 19, we are shown how this mighty advance takes place. Luke gives us both a detailed description of how Paul engaged in gospel work and a benchmark against which to assess our own engagement and response in the ministry of the word.

Excerpt from the book, "Aikido for Life", by Gaku Homma. From Chapter 5, Your Enemy is Yourself.

Richard Clarke reading The Song of Ribhu, one of Ramana Maharshi's favorite books. From Chapter 8, the definition of the jivanmukta, one liberated while alive. Verses 7 – 12. In these verses Ribhu tell us about the characteristics of the jivanmukta. .

On this week's BWN, Dave & PC Tunney take control of the Bandwagon to discuss a Star Wars-centric week in the Nerdosphere. From Chapter 22 of The Mandalorian to all the exciting news coming out of Star Wars Celebration, it's all (or mostly) Star Wars this week. Huge news came from Europe this week including three new Star Wars movies, with three different directors, a Wookie Jedi, the phenomenal Ahsoka trailer, and an entirely new and fleshed out Star Wars timeline that bears a striking resemblance to the MCU. The guys also check out a bunch of other massive trailers including Barbie, Muppets Mayhem, Blue Beetle, Secret Invasion, Across The Spider-Verse, and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. The Bandwagon might be light on participants this week....but it is loaded with content!@AttitudeAgg@itsReyCash@PCTunney@ViolentAesop@therealcplatt@ChairshotMediaAbout Bandwagon NerdsJoin Patrick O'Dowd, David Ungar, PC Tunney and Rey Cash as they keep everyone up on all things nerd, and maybe add some new nerds along the way. It's the Bandwagon Nerds Podcast!About the Chairshot Radio NetworkCreated in 2017, the Chairshot Radio Network presents you with the best in wrestling and wrestling crossover podcasts, including POD is WAR, Women's Wrestling Talk, The #Miranda Show, Badlands' Wrestling Mount Rushmores, The Outsider's Edge, DWI Podcast, Bandwagon Nerds, the Greg DeMarco Show, 3 Man Weave, Five Rounds, Turnbuckle Talk, Suwama's Station, The Reaction and more! You can find these great shows each week at theChairshot.com and through our distribution partners, including podcasting's most popular platforms.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/chairshot-radio-network/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this bonus episode from Season 4, Pastor Daniel continues his conversation with his father, Pastor Joe Williams, about Nehemiah Chapter 8 and 9 and the revival that results from Ezra reading the word of God to the people. Pastor Joe talks about his own salvation in the revival that took place in America in the late 1960s and 1970s—the Jesus Movement that began in Southern California. From Chapter 9 we hear about the attributes of God and the biggest step of faith Pastor Joe ever took.

We all are living in some kind of kingdom but there is only One True King Matthew 2:1-12; 27:37-44; 28:18  Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, 2 saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” 3 When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him; 4 and assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born. 5 They told him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for so it is written by the prophet: 6 “‘And you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,     are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for from you shall come a ruler      who will shepherd my people Israel.'” 7 Then Herod summoned the wise men secretly and ascertained from them what time the star had appeared. 8 And he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, “Go and search diligently for the child, and when you have found him, bring me word, that I too may come and worship him.” 9 After listening to the king, they went on their way. And behold, the star that they had seen when it rose went before them until it came to rest over the place where the child was. 10 When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy. 11 And going into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh. 12 And being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed to their own country by another way. From Chapter 27 which describes Jesus' crucifixion…   37 And over his head they put the charge against him, which read, “This is Jesus, the King of the Jews.” 38 Then two robbers were crucified with him, one on the right and one on the left. 39 And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads 40 and saying, “You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.” 41 So also the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocked him, saying, 42 “He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. 43 He trusts in God; let God deliver him now, if he desires him. For he said, ‘I am the Son of God.'” 44 And the robbers who were crucified with him also reviled him in the same way. And now from chapter 28 after Jesus' resurrection… 18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

To support independent ski journalism, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Starting in June, paid subscribers will receive podcasts three days before free subscribers.WhoJackson Hogen, Editor of Realskiers.com, author of Snowbird Secrets, and long-time industry jack of all trades: ski designer, binding and boot product manager, freestyle competitor, retail salesman, risk management lecturer, ski instructor, marketing director, resort feature writer, OLN and RSN television host, extreme camp ski coach, Desperate Measures co-creator, four-time Warren Miller screenwriter, and research and development chief.Recorded onMay 9, 2022Why I interviewed himA long time ago, ski writers used to write about ski instruction. They were quite good at it. A couple years back, I recounted the value of these dispatches to me as a novice skier in the 1990s:I met skiing like a lawnchair meets a tornado, flung and cartwheeled and disoriented and smashed to pieces. I was 14 with the coordination and dexterity of a lamppost. The mountain was merciless in its certainty of what to do with me. It hurt.I tried again and was met like an invader at the Temple of Doom, each run a stone-rope-and-pulley puzzle I could not solve – a puzzle that invariably ended with me smashed beneath a rock.When two years later I tried a third time I had grown into my body and could without turning or otherwise controlling myself descend the modest hill on most runs intact. The following Christmas I asked for skis and got them and the fabulous snowy north unrolled with purpose and mission before me.Now I just had to learn how to ski.This was a bigger problem than it sounds like. No one in my family skied. None of my friends knew how to ski either – at least not well enough to show me how to do it. Lessons were not happening. If you think a 17-year-old who makes $4.50 an hour bagging groceries is going to spend the equivalent of a week’s pay on what is essentially school on snow when school is not in session, then you have either never met a 17-year-old or have never been one. As it was, I could barely afford the lift tickets and gas to get me to the hill.What I could afford was ski magazines. And ski magazines in the nineties were glorious things, hundreds of pages long and stacked with movie reviews and resort news and adrenaline-laced 14-page feature stories.And there was ski instruction. Pages and pages of it in nearly every issue.This seems arcane now. Why not just watch a video? But this was the mid-nineties. There was no YouTube. Hell, there was barely an internet, and only the computer-savviest among us had the remotest idea how to access it.My first ski magazine was the December 1994 issue of Skiing. It cost $2.50 and it looked like this:The volume of ski instruction in just this one issue is staggering. A nearly-5,000 word piece by venerable ski writer Lito Tejada-Flores anchored a 19-page (!) spread on the art and importance of balance, which was in turn prefaced by a separate front-of-the-mag editorial outlining the whole package. An additional eight pages of ski instruction tiered from solid-green beginner to expert complemented this. And all this in an issue that also included a 13-page high-energy feature on roaming interior BC and 10-page write-ups of Squaw Valley and Whiteface.Each month I bought Skiing, and most months I also bought Ski and Snow Country. I also bought Powder but even then Powder could not be bothered with ski instruction. The instruction wasn’t the first thing I read but I always read it and I usually read it many times.This was a process. Ski instruction articles are often dense and deliberate and usually anchored to numbered photographs or drawings demonstrating movements and technique. Think of it as drill instruction in extreme slow motion. It wasn’t all useful but what was useful became essential.I doubt anyone knows how to write about ski instruction with this kind of clarity and detail anymore, just like no one knows how to build a covered wagon anymore – it is a lost art because it is now an unnecessary one.But this is how I learned how to ski. And because this is how I learned and because I re-read each of the pieces that resonated with me so many times, this written instruction formed the indelible framework around which I still think about skiing.Read the rest:I would like to retract one part of the above essay: “it is a lost art because it is now an unnecessary one.” Re-reading the articles referenced in the piece above, I admire the clarity with which each of these writers dissected the process of skiing trees or bumps or steeps. There is no equivalent, that I am aware of, in the realm of instructional ski videos. And there is a simple reason why: videos can show you what you should be doing, but the visual hegemony makes their creators overlook something even more important: what you should be feeling, and how you should be reacting as you feel those things.There is at least one remaining master of this craft: Jackson Hogen. He understands how to talk about aspects of skiing other than the fact that it’s rad. Snowbird Secrets is a written masterclass for the wannabee expert, the one who’s maybe dropped into the double blacks laced off the Cirque Traverse and survived to the bottom, but knows it wasn’t their best work. Examples:From Chapter 4 – On Anticipation:Your upper body stays ahead of the activities going on underfoot, as though your head and shoulders were in a time machine that is forever stuck on transporting you a few milliseconds into the future. As mental anticipation morphs into the events that both end it and redeem it, physical anticipation allows for the happy confluence between the two states. Anticipation feels like a form of time travel for if you do it well, it shifts you into the future. You take care of business before it happens.Chapter 5 – On Being Early:The single biggest differentiator between the advanced skier and the true expert is the latter’s ability to get to the next turn early. There are several components to being early, each of which moves in concert with the others. The upper body must continue its constant projection down the hill and into the turn, the existential lean of faith that is a prerequisite for performance skiing. The uphill hand cues a shift in weight to the ski below it by reaching for the fall line. And the uphill ski begins to tilt on edge early, at the top of the arc, supporting your hurtling mass as it navigates gravity’s stream.Chapter 12 – On Hands and Feet:Every element that makes up the entirety of the skier is linked to every other, but nowhere is the bond greater than between hands and feet. The primal importance of hand position is never more evident than when your feet fail you. …Even when you’re not about to eat it, your hands tell the rest of your body what to do while your feet are busy making turns. Your torso is attuned to your hands’ bossy attitude; it will always try to follow their lead. So keep them forward, point them where you want to go and don’t get lazy with the uphill hand. Generations of skiers have been taught to plant the pole on the inside of the turn, so that hand often is extended, as if in greeting, to the fall line, while the uphill hand takes a nap somewhere alongside the thigh. Until you are a skier of world-class capabilities, you cannot afford sleep hands. The uphill hand that you’ve left in a mini-coma will be called upon in a trice to reach again downhill; it should be in an on-call position, not on sabbatical. It should be carried no lower than it would be if you were about to draw a sidearm from a holster. You’re engaged in an athletic endeavor, so try to look like it.You can tell how good someone is at writing about skiing by how self-conscious you feel as you read it. I’ll admit I clicked over to photos of myself skiing more than a few times as I made my way through Snowbird Secrets (I’d also recommend having the Snowbird trailmap handy). Great ski books are as rare as a Mountain Creek powder day. But great books on ski instruction are less common still, and this one’s worth your time:Instructional writing is not the point, however, of the Real Skiers website. It is, primarily, a gear-review and recommendation site. But there is no intelligent way to discuss ski gear without a foundational understanding of how to ski. It would be like trying to play hockey without understanding how to skate. The site, like Hogen’s knowledge, is voluminous, layered, cut with a direct and relentless wit. And it’s a tremendous resource in the online desert of ski media. As Hogen says in the interview, “I’d tell you that there are other places you could go to get the same information, but there isn’t.”What we talked aboutThis year in skiing; Mt. Rose; replacing the Snowbird trams; learning to ski at Bromley in the ‘50s; the evolution of sanctioned in-bounds air at ski areas; air as a natural part of good skiing; opening year at Copper Mountain; the life of a product sales rep; the early days of Snow Country magazine with industry legend John Fry; making bindings interesting; the novelty and courage of honest ski reviews; today’s “consequence-free environment for total b******t” in ski media; “there is no more complicated piece of footwear designed by man” than a ski boot; don’t ever ever ever buy ski boots online; the art of boot-fitting; the importance of custom footbeds to ski boots; how to keep warm in ski boots; how to pick skis; whether you should demo skis; the difference between skiing and ski testing; whether you should build a quiver; make friends at the ski shop; picking a binding; why you should avoid backcountry or hybrid bindings; thoughts on setting DIN; “nobody should take anything from the highest levels of the race world and applying it to alpine, regular skiing”; recounting every mistake that prefaced my spectacular leg break at Black Mountain of Maine in February; the problems created by grip-walk boot soles; how often we should be waxing and tuning our skis; the lifespan of skis and boots and how they break down over time; the importance of being present while skiing; ask for the mountain’s permission; Hogen’s incredible book, Snowbird Secrets; the writer’s trance; what makes Snowbird special and whether it has any equals; the mountain has already won; thoughts on Taos; the influence of population growth and the Ikon Pass on Little Cottonwood Canyon; the easiest path down the hill is a straight line; how to use your hands and feet while skiing; and the benefits of a Real Skiers subscription.   Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewNot to be too self-referential, but I’ll again quote myself here. Specifically, my February post recounting the gear failure at Black Mountain of Maine that led to my three-months-and-counting couch sentence:On my final run of the season we swung skier’s right off the lift, seeking shade, tracked-out snow for easier turns. We found them in Crooked glade. Emerged on black-diamond Penobscot. Ungroomed. Snow heavy in the sunshine. A little sticky. As though someone had caulked the hillside. Try this or more glades? Let’s try this. It was my 13th run of the day. My 460th of the season. It was 1:22 p.m. I let my skis run. Gained speed. Initiated turns. I was leaning into a right turn at 18.9 miles per hour when I lost it.I don’t really know what happened. How I lost control. I know what didn’t happen: the binding on my left ski – 12-year-old Rossies I’d bought on spring clearance at Killington – did not release. Amazing pain in my leg. My body folded over backwards, bounced off the snow. A rattling through the shoulder where I’d had rotator cuff surgery last summer. I spun, self-arrested. Came to a stop on a steep section of trail, laying on my left side, my leg pinned into bent-knee position.I screamed. The pain. I could not get the ski off. I screamed again. Removed my helmet. Let it drop. It spun down the hill. Adrenaline kicked in. A skier appeared. He helped me take my ski off. DIN only at 8.5 but the binding was frozen. Finally it released. I tried to straighten my leg. Couldn’t. I assumed it was my knee. Isn’t it always a knee? More skiers arrived. Are you OK? No, I’m in a lot of pain. They left to get help. Patrol arrived with snowmobiles and sleds and bags of supplies. Michael came walking back up the hill.Everything after, rapid but in slow-motion. Does that make sense? Gingerly onto the sled, then the stretcher, then the Patrol-shack table. EMTs waiting. Amazing drugs incoming. Off, with scissors, my ski pants. Removing the boot, pain distilled. Not your knee – your leg. Broken bones. Did not penetrate the skin. Into the ambulance. Rumford Hospital: X-rays and more pain meds mainlined. A bed in the hallway. From the next room a woman, emphatic, that she don’t need no Covid vaccine in her body. All night there. The staff amazing. I would need surgery but there were no surgeons available until the next day. A room opened and they wheeled me in. In a druggy haze they splinted my leg. A train of drunks and incoherents as the bars emptied out. Sleep impossible.Here’s what I didn’t include in that essay: the moment, last August or September, when I’d dropped my skis for a tune at Pedigree Ski Shop in White Plains. “We just need your boots for a binding check,” the clerk had told me. Said boots, stowed at that moment in my closet in Brooklyn, were unavailable, forgotten in my hastening to beat rush-hour traffic. “I’ll bring them when I come back to pick up my skis,” I said. I didn’t. I hadn’t planned on skiing on those Rossies. But at some point in the season, I blew an edge on my Blizzards, couldn’t find a replacement pair, reached in my roof box and there were those old skis.So I’ve had a lot of time to think about that decision chain and how careless I’d been with my own safety, and how to reset my approach so I minimize the chances of a repeat. After nearly three decades of skiing without a major injury (and just two minor ones), I’d gotten arrogant and careless. I’d like this ski season to be the last one that ever ends early. But what else could I do besides remember my boots next time?I’ve been reading Hogen’s site for a few years now. I hadn’t been in explicit need of gear prior to blowing that edge, but he’s an entertaining writer and I enjoyed the regular emails. I figured he was the best-positioned thinker to guide me (and hopefully all of us), into better gear choices and maintenance over the next several years.There was one more thing, one that transcends the empirical realms in which I normally dwell: the notion of mountain as entity. From Snowbird Secrets Chapter 3, On Vibrations:… Hidden Peak is riddled with quartz. Quartz is a crystalline structure, and no ordinary crystal at that. Like all crystals, it not only responds to vibrations, it emits them. Quartz has piezoelectric properties that allow it to store electromagnetic energy and to conduct it. This mountain pulls a pulse from your energy stream and sends it back with interest, but it also skims off a transaction that it stores in its gargantuan energy vault.“So what does the mountain do with all this energy?” Jackson asks, before answering his own question:As it turns out, everyone has a story for how they came to discover Snowbird, but no one knows the reason. Some have the vanity to think they picked the place, but the wisest know the place picked them. This is the secret that Snowbird has slipped into our subconscious; deep down, we know we were summoned here.I’m skeptical but interested. Snowbird is special. No one who has skied there can doubt that. It is different. Incomparable. It is one of the few places where I ever feel genuinely scared on skis. But also reverential, awed, a little miffed and disbelieving the whole time I’m skiing. It’s something else. And I’ve never really been able to figure out why, other than the 600 inches of snow and relentless terrain and location within bowling lane distance of a major airport.Whether or not you’re willing to consider this anthropomorphization of the ski area, Hogen’s call to humility in its presence is inarguable. From Chapter 19, On Gratitude and Asking Permission:Everyone can learn humility before the mountain. Nowhere is this more important than at Snowbird, where if you don’t approach the mountain with the appropriate measure of humility, the mountain will be more than happy to supply some.My final run of the season was on an open trail, ungroomed buy modestly pitched. I was tired, my turns lazy. I wasn’t really paying attention. I wasn’t respecting the mountain. And while that mountain was quite a different thing from Snowbird, it had no issue reminding me that my carelessness was a mistake.Questions I wish I’d askedDespite the fact that this was one of the longest podcasts I’ve ever recorded, we didn’t get to half the questions I’d prepared. I wanted to discuss the devolution of ski shop culture in the maw of the internet, the decline of the industry trade show, the unconstructive nature of a competitive mindset to recreational skiing, the history of Real Skiers, the evolution of ski and boot technology over the past several decades, and how fortunate we are to be alive during this singular epoch in which we can reach the hazardous summits of our most forbidding mountains with a 10-minute lift ride. Hogen also made several interesting comments that would have been worthy of follow-up, from his nomination of Greg Stump to the National Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame to what he sees as the decline of certain professional ski organization’s institutional integrity. I’ll save it all for next time.What I got wrongI referred to the boot-fitter I’d used in Hunter as “Keith from Sun and Snow Sports.” The boot-fitter’s name is Keith Holmquist, but the name of the shop is, in fact, The Pro Ski and Ride.Sun and Snow Sports is the name of the ski shop I frequented when I lived in Ann Arbor. You can visit their site here.Why you should follow Real SkiersI will admit that I am very bad at winnowing the best gear from the multitudes. I get overwhelmed by choice. This is one reason I don’t buy gear too often: if what I have works, then why change? And it’s why I know enough to use a boot fitter when I do finally decide an upgrade is in order.But maybe what I have – and what you have – doesn’t “work” so much as function. And that’s not the same thing as functioning optimally. Most of us could probably make better choices. And to do that, we need information. Good information. It may seem that the fecundity of the internet precludes the imperative to seek out the hyper-specialized knowledge of a professional. But the vast majority of ski and boot advice is garbage, as Hogen fearlessly reminds us. From a recent Real Skiers post:My methods for capturing skier feedback may not be succeeding to the degree I would like, but at least I’m trying. Most arms of mainstream media that choose to pose as ski experts no longer possess even a patina of credibility. To name two particularly odious examples of advertising posing as editorial, Men’s Journal published a top-10 “Most Versatile Skis of 2022” that was wall-to-wall b******t, assembled purely to incite a direct sale from the supplier. Whatever quality might be shared by their ten selections, “versatility” isn’t even a remote possibility. I could vilify each selection for its exceptional inappropriateness, but instead I’ll just mention that the “writer” admitted that their tenth selection hadn’t even been skied by whatever panel of nitwits they assembled to manufacture this fraud.The second slice of inanity that deserves your contempt is a ruse by Popular Mechanics titled, The 8 Best Ski Boots for Shredding Any Slope. Despite a long prelude about boot selection and how they “tested,” intended to establish a tone of credibility, when they finally got around to picking boots, the editors responsible for this transparent hoax cobbled together an incoherent jumble with but one goal: based on their nothing-burger of a review, the reader is expected to buy his or her boots online, preferably on Amazon. It’s hard to think of a worse disservice to the ski-boot buying public than this inane exercise.At least that’s what I thought until I was invited to peruse The Ski Girl. I can’t say how desperately incompetent all the advice dispensed on this site is, but I can assure you the people assigned to write about skis are the opposite of experts. I’ll let this one example stand as indictment of the whole shebang: someone so well-known she goes simply by the moniker “Christine,” selected as the best ski for an intermediate (woman, one presumes) none other than the ultra-wide Blizzard Rustler 11. It would be hard to make a completely random choice and do worse. There is NOTHING about this model that is right for an intermediate. Period. It’s not merely wrong, it’s dangerous, for reasons that I’m certain would elude “Christine.” On top of it all, she has the witless gall to add, “Every ski review here comes recommended, so you really can’t go wrong.” This is emblematic of everything that’s wrong about what remains of ski journalism. A gross incompetent merrily goes about dispensing advice unblushingly, so the site can collect a commission on a direct sale THAT SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN.Please note that The Ski Girl hasn’t taken down its moronic buying suggestions, suggesting a smug certainty that there will be no serious consequences for its gross negligence. Such is ski journalism today. That sort of raw honesty, that anti-stoke, that unapologetic calling out of b******t, is so rare in today’s ski media that I can’t even conjure another instance of it in the past 12 months. Skiing needs more of this, more blunt and informed voices. At least there’s one. Get in on it here by subscribing to the Real Skiers newsletter (as with The Storm, there are free and paid tiers):The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 53/100 in 2022. Want to send feedback? Reply to this email and I will answer. You can also email skiing@substack.com. 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Lesson 2. From Chapter 4.

Lesson 2. From Chapter 4.

Greetings Course Students,This week we find the world is in chaos with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Our lessons over the past week can help us to see with the Eyes of Peace. I share my thoughts in this week's video. Let us hear yours.From Chapter 23, I. The Irreconcilable Beliefs: Illusion meets illusion; truth, itself. The meeting of illusions leads to war. Peace, looking on itself, extends itself.  War is the condition in which fear is born, and grows and seeks to dominate. Peace is the state where love abides, and seeks to share itself. We pray for world leaders, the citizens of Ukraine and Russia, and for the restoration of world peace.Many Blessings,Rev. Paul---Your Donation Helps to Support our Ministry! Thank you for your generosity so we may continue to bring these videos to you.MiraclesOne - www.miraclesone.org

God‘s Global Grace Movement in India - Sutish When you hear about Sutish and his amazing story, your mind will immediately go to the story Jesus told about the good Samaritan. From Chapter 9 of the new book God's Global Grace Movement - Hope Rising from an Awakening in India, you'll learn how Sutish spent years participating in crime, violence, drunkenness, anti-god and anti-Christian activities. Today, God is using his amazing transformation. But what does this have to do with the good Samaritan? Tune in to find out!

God‘s Global Grace Movement in India - Peram Get a glimpse into the new book God's Global Grace Movement - Hope Rising from an Awakening in India. From Chapter 7, hear about the testimony of Peram, a Hindu from one of the lowest castes. Hear his heart-breaking story of growing up experiencing severe discrimination, and the hopelessness he felt. Tune in to hear about his amazing transformation.

From Chapter 6 Earth Invading Heaven: The Unfinished Book"Hear this young men and women everywhere, and proclaim it far and wide. The earth is yours and the fullness thereof. Be kind but be fierce.  You are needed now more than ever before.Take up the mantle of change.For this is your time —"Sir Winston Churchill." A Candid journey into the unseen. Take up the mantle of change!The UnFinished Book by Kristen Wambach INTERVIEWING JESUS SHOW NOTES  Connect with Kristen onInterviewing Jesus FB COMMUNITYInstagram #interviewingjesuspodcast. Twitter  Linkedin Website KristenWambach.comThank you for spending this time with me, I am honored. See you next week KristenPatreon Activations Community Music Credits  by Stockaudios from Pixabay  

#010 On this episode DrZ explores the origin of evil in the heavenly realm by zeroing in on Lucifer | The Guardian Cherub of God. When God created Lucifer, God created him as the Seal of Perfection, Full of Wisdom, and Perfect in Beauty.  Lucifer is commonly referred to as Satan and the devil with several other aliases.Lucifer was in Eden, the garden of God, covered with precious stones in gold settings which were prepared the day Lucifer was created. God appointed and anointed Lucifer as a Guardian Cherub and he was on the mountain of God walking among the fiery stones. Lucifer was blameless in all his ways from the day he was created till...Wickedness was found in Lucifer as pride welled up in his heart because of his beauty and he corrupted his wisdom. As a result, God banished Lucifer from among the fiery stones. And at some point God gave Lucifer a kingdom on earth and the power over death. From Chapter 3 of the Bible, it becomes very plain that Lucifer was a very critical component of God actuating the eternal state found in Revelation 22 and populating it with humans who would love God and never rebel.Until the end of this Age when God deals with Lucifer, his angels aligned with him, and those whose names are not written in the book of life, God has given Lucifer great latitude here on earth to work mischief and cause havoc among mankind. Jesus warned his disciples that as he, the Son of Man, sowed seeds in the world of people of the kingdom, the devil would be following behind sowing people of the evil one in their midst. Paul, Peter, Jude, and John all comment on the infiltration of demonic influences into the early church and that strange doctrines taught by demons would be prevalent in the church in the latter days. And here we are.Lucifer is real, alive, still beautiful, disguising himself as an angel of light, and roaming around looking for someone to devour. And with a heavenly host of disembodied demonic and evil spirits he controls, can cause great divisions between us believers.Trust God, His word, and hold onto the Truth as you Simply Believe God and Follow Jesus. The Holy Spirit in you will help guide you on your way in Truth!

In this episode Cecelia and I discuss Dinacarya with our friend Claudia Bonilla. We had some technical difficulties recording this episode (an abrupt ending and some echo on a few of the tracks). From Chapter 2: Dinacarya Adhyaya (Desire for Long Life) Prataruthana (getting up in the morning) Dadntadhavana (Cleaning of the teeth) Anjana (Collyrium to the eyes) Tambula Sevana (Betel Chewing) Articles and references: THE SECRET POTENTIAL OF BRAHMAMUHURTA by Dr. Claudia Welch https://drclaudiawelch.com/the-secret-potential-of-brahmamuhurta/ Easy Ayurveda https://www.easyayurveda.com/ Claudia Bonilla https://www.claudiabonillahealing.com/

From Chapter 4, "The Third Party System: Pietists vs. Liturgicals".This audiobook is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Graham Wright.

From Chapter 3, "Attempts at Monopoly in American Industry". This audiobook is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Graham Wright.

From Chapter 1, "Railroads: The First Big Business and the Failure of the Cartels".This audiobook is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Graham Wright.

From Chapter 1, "Railroads: The First Big Business and the Failure of the Cartels".This audiobook is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Graham Wright.

From Chapter 1, "Railroads: The First Big Business and the Failure of the Cartels".This audiobook is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Graham Wright.

From Chapter 2, "Regulating the Railroads". This audiobook is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Graham Wright.

From Chapter 2, "Regulating the Railroads". This audiobook is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Graham Wright.

From Chapter 3, "Attempts at Monopoly in American Industry". This audiobook is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Graham Wright.

From Chapter 3, "Attempts at Monopoly in American Industry". This audiobook is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Graham Wright.

From Chapter 3, "Attempts at Monopoly in American Industry". This audiobook is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Graham Wright.

From Chapter 3, "Attempts at Monopoly in American Industry". This audiobook is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Graham Wright.

From Chapter 4, "The Third Party System: Pietists vs. Liturgicals".This audiobook is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Graham Wright.

From Chapter 3, "Attempts at Monopoly in American Industry". This audiobook is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Graham Wright.

From Chapter 10, "The Progressive Era and the Family".This audiobook is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Graham Wright.

From Chapter 10, "The Progressive Era and the Family".This audiobook is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Graham Wright.

From Chapter 9, "The National Civic Federation: Big Business Organized for Progressivism".This audiobook is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Graham Wright.

From Chapter 9, "The National Civic Federation: Big Business Organized for Progressivism".This audiobook is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Graham Wright.

From Chapter 9, "The National Civic Federation: Big Business Organized for Progressivism".This audiobook is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Graham Wright.

From Chapter 9, "The National Civic Federation: Big Business Organized for Progressivism".This audiobook is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Graham Wright.

From Chapter 4, "The Third Party System: Pietists vs. Liturgicals".This audiobook is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Graham Wright.

From Chapter 7, "Theodore Roosevelt: The First Progressive, Part I".This audiobook is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Graham Wright.

From Chapter 6, "1896: The Collapse of the Third Party System and of Laissez-faire Politics".This audiobook is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Graham Wright.

From Chapter 6, "1896: The Collapse of the Third Party System and of Laissez-faire Politics".This audiobook is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Graham Wright.

From Chapter 5, "The Democratic Triumph of 1892".This audiobook is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Graham Wright.

From Chapter 4, "The Third Party System: Pietists vs. Liturgicals".This audiobook is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Graham Wright.

From Chapter 7, "Theodore Roosevelt: The First Progressive, Part I".This audiobook is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Graham Wright.