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This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.Part I (00:13 - 14:56) Marriage, the Keystone and Primeval Institution of Society: The Benefits of God's Good Gift of Marriage Appears in an Unexpected PlaceMarital transitions during earlier adulthood and subsequent health and well-being in mid- to late-life among female nurses: An outcome-wide analysis by Global Epidemiology (Ying Chen, Maya B. Arthur, Brendan W. Case, and Tyler J. VanderWeele)For Long-Term Health and Happiness, Marriage Still Matters by Wall Street Journal (Brendan Case and Ying Chen)Part II (14:56 - 21:41) Should Christians Continue to Honor the Sabbath as Described in the Old Testament? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letters from Listeners of The BriefingPart III (21:41 - 25:05) Are There Too Many Denominations Within the Protestant Church? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letters from Listeners of The BriefingPart IV (25:05 - 27:03) Does the Gospels Retelling the Parables of Jesus Each in Their Own Way and in a Different Order Destroy the Inerrancy of Scripture? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letters from Listeners of The BriefingPart V (27:03 - 29:28) Are We All God's Children? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letters from Listeners of The BriefingSign up to receive The Briefing in your inbox every weekday morning.Follow Dr. Mohler:Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | YouTubeFor more information on The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, go to sbts.edu.For more information on Boyce College, just go to BoyceCollege.com.To write Dr. Mohler or submit a question for The Mailbox, go here.

My guest on the show today is Ryan Irvine, Founder of Keystone Financial. He'll be joining us in Las Vegas, where not only will he be on the Planet MicroCap Podcast: LIVE panel along with Sam Namiri, Harris Perlman and Mathieu Martin, Ryan will be moderating a few sessions with companies that are within the "Keystone Coverage" universe. Ryan's firm, Keystone Financial, is an independent research firm that provides their investors with BUY/SELL/HOLD advice on undervalued micro, small, and mid-cap growth and value stocks. As their website states, "Real companies, producing real revenue and earnings growth, trading at low prices." In our conversation today, we dive deeper into Keystone's investing strategy plus a quick overview on two of the companies that Ryan will be doing fireside chats with: Envela, ELA on the NYSE American, and Geodrill, GEO on the TSX. Fore more information about Keystone Financial, please visit: https://keystocks.com/ You can Follow Ryan Irvine on Twitter @RyanIrvine75: https://twitter.com/RyanIrvine75  To register for the upcoming Planet MicroCap Showcase: VEGAS happening on April 25-27, 2023, please visit: https://planetmicrocapshowcase.com/  Today's episode is sponsored by: Stream by AlphaSense, an expert interview transcript library that integrates AI-generated call summaries and NLP search technology so their clients can quickly pinpoint the most critical insights. Start your FREE trial on their website: https://streamrg.co/PMC Planet MicroCap Podcast is on YouTube! All archived episodes and each new episode will be posted on the SNN Network YouTube channel. I've provided the link in the description if you'd like to subscribe. You'll also get the chance to watch all our Video Interviews with management teams, educational panels from the conference, as well as expert commentary from some familiar guests on the podcast. Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/1Q5Yfym Click here to rate and review the Planet MicroCap Podcast The Planet MicroCap Podcast is brought to you by SNN Incorporated, The Official MicroCap News Source, and the Planet MicroCap Review Magazine, the leading magazine in the MicroCap market. You can Follow the Planet MicroCap Podcast on Twitter @BobbyKKraft

Q1 PSU Basketball in the NCAA Tournament Q2 What’s next for PSU basketball Q3 PSU wrestlers win another national championship Q4 Jeff Byers joins us to discuss the PSU wrestling program The post Keystone Kickoff Show 03-20-23 appeared first on Keystone Sports Network.

We review James Franklin’s PC where he addressed the hire of Deion Barnes, the QBs, B/W game format, Mega Barnwell at TE Q3 We take your questions and Ask Andy The post Keystone Kickoff Show 03-17-23 appeared first on Keystone Sports Network.

Today the ladies finally reviewed "Feast of All Saints" by Anne Rice with friend of the show and comedian Tennah Mcdonald!! They met the day Moni and Kat were featured as guests on @harderbrunch podcast, and the rest is history!! Join the love fest as the gang somehow laugh their way through topics that usually make you cry. Kat shows off her French skills, Tennah clutches her pearls and Moni tries not to fall out of her seat laughing at Tennah's reactions!! Tune in for another fun episode of the F.A.B. Podcast!! Cheers! Trigger Warning: Contains spoilers, sexual assault, child grooming, adult themes/ content & language. Please be advised this show is for *adults 18 and up *and the open minded. We are not professionals, or educators...just friends having candid conversations. **Dedication: To our Patons, YOU DA BEST!!! Moni: To the visionaries, the people who help us manifest our dreams. Kat: To the impeccable production team over at Made Man Improv  and to ambiguous non-white ppl   for withstanding the ignorant comments they inevitably get about their existence. **About the Book* The Feast of All Saints :"In the days before the Civil War, there lived a Louisiana people unique in Southern history. Though descended from enslaved Africans, they were also descended from the French and Spanish who enslaved them. Called the Free People of Color, this dazzling historical novel chronicles the lives of four of them - men and women caught perilously between the worlds of master and slave, privilege and oppression, passion and pain." https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43798.TheFeastofAllSaints?fromsearch=true&fromsrp=true&qid=ny4vVUKA8d&rank=1 First published by Ballantine Books 1979 Original Title The Feast of All Saints Paperback, 570 pages Abridged audiobook :Publisher's Summary Audible ©1979 by Anne O'Brien Rice (P)1991 by Random House, Inc. Abridged Audiobook Narrated by Courney B.Vance 2hrs 49mins Categories: Literature & Fiction/Historical Fiction *About the Author:Anne Rice http://annerice.com/ *About the guest:Tennah Mcdonald Stand-up Comic. Professional Sunshine tiktok: @lumpytennahcles https://www.instagram.com/horchatadelrey/ Co-host @spicymagicvibes @thedrunkdialpodcast @indyrabbittales NSFW Podcast: Spicy Magic Vibes  https://www.facebook.com/SpicyMagicVibes/about  Podcast: Drunk Dial Podcast https://www.instagram.com/thedrunkdialpodcast/  Upcoming shows: White Rabbit March 16th 2023, Spicy Magic Comedy Night  https://www.whiterabbitcabaret.com/calendar/2022/1/26/the-spicy-magic-comedy-night-elfmy-h64a8-7afby-8w32j-s2fjd-x4z39-bzysd-wtbdm-2zfex The Brick Room March 17 :https://thebrickroomcomedyclub.godaddysites.com    Show Notes: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-the-feast-of-all-saints/#gsc.tab=0 https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/robertrichard (Played Marcel in the TV movie) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JenniferBeals (Played the Madame Dolly Rose) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pla%C3%A7age  About Placage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DaughtersoftheDust (Lemonade Inspired by Gullah People) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43798.TheFeastofAllSaints?fromsearch=true&from_srp=true&qid=B81uA9BEQU&rank=1 Free People of Color Louisiana Purchase   Hoodoo Placage Colorism blue vein club  SA= Sexual Assult= Crapes Fugitive Slave Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FugitiveSlaveActof1850 Hatian Revolution :https://www.britannica.com/topic/Haitian-Revolution I**In the colonial societies of the Americas and Australia, a quadroon or quarteron was a person with one quarter African/Aboriginal and three quarters European ancestry. Similar classifications were octoroon for one-eighth black and quintroon for one-sixteenth black. Wikipedia About Latin(x) Colorism https://imdiversity.com/villages/hispanic/why-understanding-colorism-within-the-latino-community-is-so-important/   https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2021/11/04/majority-of-latinos-say-skin-color-impacts-opportunity-in-america-and-shapes-daily-life/ *Stranger than Fiction: *None this week *Email us at thefabpodcast@gmail.com with your book suggestions and "Stranger Than Fiction" stories; we would love to share them on the show!! *Please reach out and let us know how we are doing!! You can find us online by clicking here https://linktr.ee/Fabpod  Please subscribe to www.patreon.com/thefabpodcast.com to enjoy bonus content, weigh in on upcoming topics, and help us start a monthly live wine down for our F.A.B. FAM! Don't forget to follow, rate, review, and SHARE our podcast! Thank you! Keystone: colorism, louisiana purchase, patreon,  Free People of Color, Louisiana Purchase, Hoodoo, Placage, Colorism, blue vein club, root work, whyte, black, anti blackness, 

Q1 – Deion Barnes Named DL Coach Q2 – QB Positional Preview Q3 – Ask T Frank Q4 – Jeff Brown Talks PSU Basketball The post Keystone Kickoff Show 03-15-23 appeared first on Keystone Sports Network.

Let's Grow Pulling Live Monday, March 13th Keystone Nationals, Harrisburg, PA March 16-18 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/beer-money-pulling-team/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/beer-money-pulling-team/support

Colin and I have been friends for the better part of two years all thanks to our friends at Hard Factor News and the community we've got in a Discord server. Colin has a great story though having been raised around the oil and gas industry, he has worked on and off shore for oil operations, and goes into why his job off shore in California has him furloughed for now, but working somewhere else. We go into what makes "blue collar" work actually the industry of inclusion, are Nascar drivers using PEDs, and other random stuff! Hope this one makes you guys smile! Colin can clearly talk forever, especially if he has a full pack of smokes and a case of Keystone, so if you want to chat with him, find him everywhere @realbigjern

Q1 – Q3 Questions going into spring practice Q4 – Jeff Byers is in to talks PSU wrestling The post Keystone Kickoff Show 03-13-23 appeared first on Keystone Sports Network.

How to Be a Real Estate Professional & Save on Taxes with Gina Roth   (4:30) How do you recommend selling your primary residence and ensure you don't pay taxes?  You have to live in it as your primary residence for two out of the trailing five years  Once you complete this, it is free capital gains  Married: $500,000 exclusion  Single: $250,000 exclusion  These can include any improvements to the property  (7:15) Requirements to be a Real Estate Professional for tax purposes  You must spend 750 hours/year doing some sort of real estate duties (brokerage sales counts towards this)  Documentation of hours is a necessity   (17:15) Real Estate & Taxes  Passive income from real estate can often be offset with income from your main source of income  Depreciation is your superhero in real estate!  You can make your money from your main source of income, all of that income gets taxed as ordinary, and the real estate can be used as depreciation to offset some of that main source of income  (21:00) Gina's Advice   If someone has the ability & willingness to keep their first starter home, it can be a great tool to use as rental income in the future  It can be a huge wealth builder, great for diversification, & helps with cash flow in retirement because you won't have to touch your nest egg  (26:30) Multiplex  They are very favorable because you have multiple tenants paying rent at the same time. If one person moves out, there is still some cash flows  Less maintenance typically on a multiplex  (28:15) Other Real Estate Licenses  Active in Real Estate License: For people that make less than $150,000   Material Participation: Not having a rental unit, but a business  (29:00) Short Term Rental Benefits  A short-term rentals are anything that can qualify for anything less than 30 days of occupation  You can classify any losses associated with the business as offset to your ordinary income (you must own a short-term rental, you have to be material participation, & documentation!)  There are many tools today that allow you to manage short term rentals (even out of state)  You have to be the one who is property manager and must document everything  (40:26) Breckendrige, CO has made it very complicated by putting different zone/resort zones. So, to buy a short-term rental, you would need a very qualified agent right now  Some alternatives to Breckenridge could be Keystone and Grand County  (46:20) Gina's Book Recommendations/Resources  Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki  Short-Term Rental, Long-Term Wealth by Joseph Bafia  The Seven Tests of Participation (Material Participation Tests: Definition, IRS Rules, Vs. Passive (investopedia.com))  You participate in the activity at least 500 hours during the year.  Your participation constitutes substantially all the participation for the year by anyone, including nonowners.  You participate more than 100 hours and as much or more than any other person.  The activity is a “significant participation activity” — that is, you participate more than 100 hours — but you participate less than one or more other people yet your participation in all your significant participation activities for the year totals more than 500 hours.  You materially participated in the activity for any five of the preceding 10 tax years.  The activity is a personal service activity in which you materially participated in any three previous tax years.  Regardless of the number of hours, based on all the facts and circumstances, you participate in the activity on a regular, continuous, and substantial basis.

Q1 – Areas of concern for the 2023 team Q2 – Has the balance of power shifted in college football? Q3 – Ask Andy. We take your questions Q4 – Will Big Ten see further west coast expansion? The post Keystone Kickoff Show 03-10-23 appeared first on Keystone Sports Network.

Q1 – Q2 Potential Stars on the Offense Q3 – Ask T Frank! We take your questions  Q4 Potential Stars on the Defense The post Keystone Kickoff Show 03-08-23 appeared first on Keystone Sports Network.

Yield: The Little Sign That Could The familiar downward pointing triangle that allows traffic to keep flowing rather than stopping sprang from the mind of a Tulsa cop. No one gave his sign much respect, but he set out to prove them all wrong. withinpodcast.com Our sponsors:  jandjpoolsafety@gmail.com Music: The Right Direction by Shane Ivers Martin Mountain Coffee: Small Batch Roaster for an Artisan Cup of Coffee! Check out Martin Mountain Coffee's signature Within The Realm Blend "Story Teller's Roast!" Contact Us! Facebook: @withintherealm1 Twitter: @realm_within Instagram: within_the_realm contact@withinpodcast.com Want to advertise, sponsor or otherwise support Within The Realm? Visit with us at contact@withinpodcast.com or Support Within The Realm  Yield: The Little Sign That Could Welcome to Within The Realm, I'm your host Steve Garrett. Thanks for joining me here on the show where the Indian Territory, the Ozark Mountains and the Great Plains collide. Because of the great amount of diversity, culturally, geographically and in experience that's found here, anything is Within The Realm of possibility. Some times the things in the world around us have become so common place, so much a part of how we do things, we're not sure where they came from or even anything about their beginnings. Today's episode is about such a thing, something that makes it a little safer for you to get from place to place. After these words about our sponsors, we'll get into Oklahoma's contribution to traffic control signs. (music/Commercials) It's good to have you back for another installment of Within The Realm. It's my goal to take the next few minutes to entertain you and maybe lay a little knowledge on you that you didn't already know. Today's subject is traffic signs, one in particular actually. It's the Red and White triangle with the word Yield written across it. It the thing that makes a traffic circle work, not bringing us to a stop, necessarily, but providing drivers with the instruction to watch it in association with other cars on the road. It might be hard for a motorist in the third decade of the twenty-first century to think of a time with out the uniform traffic signs we have now, but everything has a beginning. It was 1939 and Oklahoma Highway Patrolman Clinton Riggs was participating in a fellowship at Northwestern Traffic Institute in Chicago. One topic of discussion was the problem of motorists rolling through uncontrolled intersections, causing accidents and injuries. The discussion became a class assignment on how best to address the problem. In the next several days, Patrolman Riggs presented his idea for a sign, there was already the stop sign that stopped traffic all together. No, Riggs's idea was for signage that would allow traffic to continue to flow until one motorist needed to give the right-of-way to another vehicle. The sign he suggested was a keystone shaped sign with a solitary word on it – Yield. It was generally panned by the class as hard to understand and somewhat unnecessary as laws, laws misunderstood and ignored by motorists, were already on the books to determine fault in accidents where drivers did not yeild. The fellowship ended and Riggs rejoined the Tulsa Police Department, served in the Second World War and returned home in one piece. A lot had happened since his suggestion of the Yeild sign, but he not forgotten it. He was still very much convinced of it's usefulness. . His Chicago detractors had convinced his to change the sign's wording to “SLOW Yield Right Of Way.” It wasn't only his class mates that thought little of his traffic control sign. The Tulsa City attorney dismissed it and the National Safety Council, to whom Riggs had sent a drawing of his sign, ignored it. By 1950, Riggs had worked his way up to an assistant chief position with the Tulsa Police Department. He noted that the intersection of First Street and Columbia Avenue , an unmarked intersection, was the most dangerous crossraods in Tulsa. Without any official permission, he and city engineer Paul Rice erected the first Yeild Right of Way Sign. The sign had retained it's keystone shape and had black letters on a yellow background so the sign could be better seen in the dark. Despite what the naysayers believed, that very first installation of yeild signs decreased traffic accidents to basically zero. Similar results were experienced at the other nine intersections Riggs and Rice had also placed signs. Other cities copied the idea with their own variations of shapes and colors until the yeild sign was adopted a four short years later by the MUTCD – the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices. The formally adopted sign was tweaked to the familiar downward pointing triangle with Yeild written upon it's yellow background. In 1971, the sign was changed to its current red and white triangle with red lettering. Riggs passed away in 1997 In Tulsa after having introduced other innovations to the Police Department and earning a law degree, The original Keystone shaped sign hangs in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC. So what does this sign that not a stop sign and quite a yellow light do for us. It is quite genius, allowiing traffic to flow until it doesn't need to. Even though it met with a lot of opposition from experts in the field, Rigg's impetuous installations and their positive results couldn't be ignored. It took only four years for the signs to go from geurilla traffic control to industry standard. Is the main take away from this story believe in your ideas even when no one else will or go ahead, show them all your idea will work. I'll let you decide and I'd like to hear your thoughts on the matter. Until then, whenever you slowdown at a yield sign remember at one time it was a good idea no one else could see the benefit of. Thanks for joining us on this episode of Within The Realm. If you want to weigh in on the “What's the big takeway” sweepstakes from this episode, you can contact us on our socials or through email. Links in the show notes. Remember our home on the web where you can find news, links to our sponsors and a complete archive of past installments of our show. If you've found some value from our show, find our support button and chip in to keep Within The Realm coming your way. Keep sharing us with your friends and rate and review our show when you can. Within The Realm is written and produced by me, Steve Garrett. Our theme and ending credit music is provided by 556 and a half. Join us for another trek Within The Realm in a scant two weeks, and as always, thanks for listening.  

Cannabis law in the Keystone state is different depending on where you live in the state, but lawmakers are talking about some pretty big changes. City Cast's Megan Harris and Trenae Nuri are with Ed Mahon, investigative reporter for Spotlight PA, to talk about what's in the works and what could still take years to come together. Want to watch the Governor's budget address? Check out the PCNC TV livestream. Want some more Pittsburgh news? Then make sure to sign up for our morning newsletter. We're also on Twitter @citycastpgh & Instagram @CityCastPgh! Not a fan of social? Then leave us a voicemail at 412-212-8893. Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info here.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Q1 – Q2 News — New Commitment, Combine, Weight Changes Q3 – Q4 What would 12 team playoff look like in 23, effects of the expanded playoff The post Keystone Kickoff Show 03-06-23 appeared first on Keystone Sports Network.

We are always fascinated by technicians that are married and work together. Successfully. This week we talk to Lola and Mark Welch. Both technicians from the UK who worked in the same area. After finally running into each other, Mark and Lola dated and eventually got married. Still working together, their careers grew and soon went different but similar paths. They talk about their journey in dental technology, the journey together, and what they are doing now. Mark is with Nexa3D (https://nexa3d.com/), helping to bring a new printer to the industry and Lola is growing on Instagram, teaching courses, and now a proud member of the DTG (https://www.dentaltechniciansguild.com/) family. Lola's upcoming courses: The power of conversion- All on X full arch immediate load at the North of England Dentistry Show (https://dentistry.co.uk/shows/north-of-england-dentistry-show-2023/) Staining and Characterizing of 3D printed and milled teeth (https://www.the-dts.co.uk/stand-education?utm_campaign=1234919_Healthcare++DTS23++Visprom++27.2.23++Feb+Ebulletin&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Healthcare++Dentistry++UK&dm_i=6TGR%2CQGVB%2C3Y77RV%2C3ABF9%2C1&fbclid=IwAR1rhBHnrePE-Srse8v5Bulj50d3GqAE4BUbsWg0rhXjhYxzYjzXaAMyS7s) Dental Technology Showcase - May (https://www.the-dts.co.uk/) If efficiency and performance are what you are looking for in a compact milling system, then the PrograMill DRY (https://www.ivoclar.com/enus/products/digital-equipment/programill-dry) from Ivoclar (https://www.ivoclar.com/enus) is the right choice for you. Produce precise zirconium oxide crowns and bridges plus a range of PMMA materials including the innovative IVOTION (https://www.ivoclar.com/enca/products/digital-processes/ivotion) material for the digital production of complete dentures. Ivoclar provides white glove delivery service, training, choice of service contracts and their outstanding after sales service and support. Contact your friendly Ivoclar sales representative today for lucrative promotions and to create a digital solution that's right for you! _ Candulor (https://www.candulor.com/en-us) a dental supply company from Switzerland has been making teeth from 1936. Check out their Physioselect TCR (https://www.candulor.com/en-us/product-portfolio/tooth-lines/physioselect-tcr) tooth line now with new 18 anterior molds specifically made for the US market. Discover all the solutions for Removables at Candulor.com. America with get supported and supplied by the only authorized partner Edmonds Dental Supply (https://edmondsdentalsupply.com/) Candulor, High End Only Special Guests: Lola Welch and Mark Welch.

This week's episode of the How I Built My Tribe podcast features Chris Potrykus, the founder of Keystone Dental Partners, an oral healthcare company. Chirs joined us to talk about balancing relationships, accepting change, figuring out good decisions, Keystone's monthly study club, and more. [03.48] Balancing relationships – Starting the conversation, we discuss how Chris goes through the process of figuring things out and how his wife helps him along the way. [11.34] Accepting change – Sometimes change is scary. It makes us insecure about what's going to happen. Chris shares how they try to make their team adaptable to a new change as the management. [15.04] Good or bad decision – We dive into how Chris and his team go through the process of figuring out good ideas and how he guides different teams. [24.40] Study club – A monthly club for different parts of Chris's organization. He shares how it builds the connection between them and how it helps them perform at their highest levels. [35.03] The clear path – Sometimes things get messy in the middle of the process. Not having a clear path doesn't mean you can't figure it out. We end the conversation with Chris's experiences about starting multiple locations in his practice. Connect with Chris LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/chris-potrykus-425619124/

It's the Friday news roundup! This week we are talking about the EPA's latest efforts to clean up the East Palestine train derailment, how the state is trying to be more flexible with mandatory testing requirements (but is really putting a strain on already underfunded schools), and how to keep celebrating Black history and excellence all year long. As always, our Friday shows are powered by great local journalism. Here's the NYT's latest explainer on what's happening in East Palestine, Ohio.  If you want to read more, the Pittsburgh Independent shared a bunch of great reporting about the derailment on Thursday. WESA has also had some really great coverage — their collected stories live here. And the Allegheny Front is doing great work, too. Check their online feed often, or catch their full show via podcast or on Saturdays on 90.5 FM in Pittsburgh. PublicSource's Dakota Casto-Jarrett did a great job explaining the new rules around Act 158 and how it affects PA's Keystone exams. Read historian David Rotenstein's NEXTPittsburgh article about the first Black baseball field in Pittsburgh here.  There are lots of great ways to learn Black Pittsburgh history in a recent Hey Pittsburgh newsletter. And check out tonight's August Wilson archive event here.  Want some more Pittsburgh news? Then make sure to sign up for our morning newsletter. We're also on Twitter @citycastpgh & Instagram @CityCastPgh! Not a fan of social? Then leave us a voicemail at 412-212-8893. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Q1 – Q2 News and Notes Q3 – Ask Andy. We take your questions Q4 – Why not a new Beaver Stadium? The post Keystone Kickoff Show 03-03-23 appeared first on Keystone Sports Network.

Cannabis law in the Keystone state is different depending on where you live. And while it's hard to say whether Pennsylvania will fully legalize cannabis this year, lawmakers could make other important changes to our cannabis laws. Host Trenae Nuri, City Cast Pittsburgh Lead Producer Megan Harris and Ed Mahon, investigative reporter for Spotlight PA, discuss proposals for decriminalization, DUI protections, and more. You can read Ed's reporting on the state's cannabis laws here. Want some more Philly news? Then make sure to sign up for our morning newsletter. We're also on Twitter and Instagram! Follow us @citycastphilly Have a question or just want to share some thoughts with the team? Leave us a voicemail or send us a text at 215-259-8170.  Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info HERE  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joel Saxum and Allen Hall review the latest info from the tower tip-over at the Pioneer Trail Wind Farm in Illinois. Keystone Tower Systems completes its first spiral welded tower for GE, and signs a big agreement for many more. The first monopile for Vineyard Wind is shipped from Germany to kick-off the build. SENSEWind developed a new method of assembling a wind turbine - could it be a game changer? The Netherlands is tracking submarines in their offshore wind farms, and our Wind Farm of the Week is Black Rock Wind Farm in West Virginia. Visit Pardalote Consulting at https://www.pardaloteconsulting.com Wind Power Lab - https://windpowerlab.com Weather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.com Intelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Uptime 154 Allen Hall: Joel, I'm working on six different time zones today, , and that's the way it's been for the last two or three weeks. All around the world. We're getting phone calls and Zoom calls Northern Hemisphere, Southern hemisphere. It, it, it does add up for a small business when you're dealing with so many time zones. Joel Saxum: Oh, man. I was, I was thinking before when, before you hopped on here today and I was, we were talking, I was, I have talked through four. and I thought I was busy. And you're over here with six different times. Those under your belt. And then it's, it's not even dark yet. Yeah,  Allen Hall: it's not dark. I, I still have time. Australia will be calling here in a minute. . There you go. You're up to  Joel Saxum: seven. Lucky number seven. Allen Hall:  Number seven. There it is. I think I've set the record at least for this week. There you go. Well, we have a lot of wind energy news this week. The big win in America is that a wind tur been tipped over in Illinois. While that's the, a big talking point, I'm not. But it is all the rage on LinkedIn, so we'll, we'll talk about it. More importantly Keystone and GE connect on the spiral steel towers, and that's something I have been waiting for, for uhno a year or two. And I'm just on Looker, but I think that's a really cool  Joel Saxum: project. We'll jump over since wind and we're gonna talk about this company coming outta the UK that is doing something. Okay. Basically a cli, a self erecting tower, or Alan during the episode has his own New term for this tower technology. And then we'll speak about the Netherlands accusing Russia of spying on some of their offshore wind farms. Not sure why or how Google Earth is your friend to find this stuff out, but the Russians are in that corner of the world peeking around also. Touching again on some tower technology. We speak a little bit about the first monopile that's on its way to vineyard wood one off the CO east coast of the us. So that's happening now. And then to close out the episode our new. Feature is the Wind Farm of the week. We're gonna talk about the BlackRock Wind Farm in West Virginia and what they're doing over there with the new five megawatt Siemens Kamasa machines. I'm  Allen Hall: Alan Hall, president of Weather Guard, lightning Tick. And I'm here with my good friend from Wind Power Lab, Joel Saxum. And the soon to be guest host, fully charged Live. Rosemary isn't here today, but should be back next week, and this is the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. Joel officials for R W E Renewables are investigating what caused one of their wind turbines to fall over at its Pioneer Trail Wind Farm up in Illinois. The turbine was taken offline earlier because it was leanin...

Q1 – DL coach John Scott has moved on. Who might replace him? Q2 – We take a look at the freshmen early enrollees Q3 – Ask T Frank. We take your questions Q4 – We continue our look at the freshmen early enrollees The post Keystone Kickoff Show 03-01-23 appeared first on Keystone Sports Network.

Come celebrate 300 with us! Okay, it didn't quite fall on the actual 300th episode, but it doesn't take away from the achievement. This group of misfits got together with Michael and Greg to talk about how the Get A Grip On Lighting Podcast got started. But they also talk about sustainability and mercury and drivers and… well, it seems there'll be enough to talk about to make at least another 300 episodes. You already know all these guys - Josh Brown, EVP of Distributor Sales & Marketing at Keystone; Brian Huff, President of Adventure Lighting; Cory Schneider, President of Lighting Unlimited; and Spencer Miles, President of Pacific Lamp. Start thinking about episode 600, guys! 

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In this episode of iCantCU, I talk about jumping the turnstile at Penn Medicine station to help my blind friends get to our Keystone Chapter meeting. I also talk about taking part in a Zoom meeting about Audio Description for live theater in the Philadelphia area. I discuss my work with Vision Council, which is currently reviewing and giving feedback on the Audio Description of several movies for the Museum of the American Revolution. Show notes at https://www.iCantCU.com/219   Support iCantCU When shopping at Amazon, I would appreciate it if you clicked on this link to make your purchases: https://www.iCantCU.com/amazon. I participate in the Amazon Associate Program and earn commissions on qualifying purchases. The best part is, you don't pay extra for doing this! White Canes Connect Podcast Episode 061 In episode 061 of White Canes Connect, Lisa and I speak with Shawn Callaway, President of the National Organization of Blind Black Leaders (NOBBL.) Shawn discusses the origin of the NFB Division and his hopes for it moving forward. Find the podcast on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/white-canes-connect/id1592248709 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/1YDQSJqpoteGb1UMPwRSuI IHeartRadio https://www.iheart.com/podcast/263-white-canes-connect-89603482/ Amazon Music https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/7dd1600d-05fa-48f3-8a8e-456e30e690bc/white-canes-connect White Canes Connect On Twitter Https://www.twitter.com/PABlindPodcast  Support Keystone Chapter Please consider donating to the Keystone Chapter of the National Federation Of The Blind Of Pennsylvania. Go to http://www.SupportKeystoneChapter.org. Enter any amount you want to give. There is even a box you can check to cover the fees, which is helpful if you want to make a small donation of a dollar or two. PayPal handles payments, but you don't need a PayPal account. You can donate with any credit or debit card. Thank you so much! I appreciate it. My Podcast Gear Here is all my gear and links to it on Amazon. I participate in the Amazon Associates Program and earn a commission on qualifying purchases. Zoom Podtrak P4: https://amzn.to/33Ymjkt Zoom ZDM Mic & Headphone Pack: https://amzn.to/33vLn2s Zoom H1n Recorder: https://amzn.to/3zBxJ9O  Gator Frameworks Desk Mounted Boom Arm: https://amzn.to/3AjJuBK Shure SM58 S Mic: https://amzn.to/3JOzofg  Sennheiser Headset (1st 162 episodes): https://amzn.to/3fM0Hu0  Follow iCantCU On Your Favorite Podcast Directory! Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon | Google | IHeartRadio Reach Out On Social Media Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | LinkedIn Get In Touch If you've got questions, comments, or show ideas, I want to hear from you! Call (646) 926-6350 and leave a message. Include your name and town, and let me know if using your voice on an upcoming episode is okay. You can also email the show at iCantCUPodcast@gmail.com.

The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and to support my work, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.WhoDennis Eshbaugh, President and General Manager of Holiday Valley, New YorkRecorded onFebruary 13, 2023About Holiday ValleyClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: Win-Sum Ski Corp, which Holiday Valley's website describes as “a closely held corporation owned by a small number of stockholders.”Year founded: 1958Pass affiliations: NoneLocated in: Ellicottville, New YorkClosest neighboring ski areas: Holimont (3 minutes), Kissing Bridge (38 minutes), Cockaigne (45 minutes), Buffalo Ski Center (48 minutes), Swain (1 hour, 15 minutes), Peek'N Peak (1 hour, 15 minutes)Base elevation: 1,500 feetSummit elevation: 2,250 feetVertical drop: 750 feetSkiable Acres: 290Average annual snowfall: 180 inchesTrail count: 84 (4 glades, 1 expert, 21 advanced, 21 intermediate, 32 beginner, 5 terrain parks) – the official glade number is a massive undercount, as nearly all of the trees at Holiday Valley are well-spaced and skiable (the trailmap below notes that “woods are available to expert skiers and riders and are not open, closed, or marked”).Lift count: 13­­ (4 high-speed quads, 7 fixed-grip quads, 2 surface lifts) – a high-speed six-pack will replace the Mardis Gras high-speed quad this sumer.Uphill capacity: 23,850 people per hourWhy I interviewed himWestern New York is one of the most important ski markets in America. Orbiting a vast wilderness zone of hilly lake-effect are the cities of Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, Cleveland, and, farther out but still relevant to the market, Pittsburgh. That's more than 20 million people, as Eshbaugh notes in our conversation. They all need somewhere to ski. They don't have big mountains, but they do have options. In Western New York alone: Peek'n Peak, Cockaigne, Kissing Bridge, Buffalo Ski Club, Bristol, Hunt Hollow, Swain, Holiday Valley, Holimont, and a half-dozen-ish surface-lift outfits hyper-focused on beginners.It's one of the world's great new-skier factories. Skiers learn here and voyage to the Great Out There. From these metro regions, skiers can get anywhere else quickly. At least four daily flights connect Cleveland and Denver – you can leave your house in the evening and catch first chair at Keystone or Copper the following morning. But sometimes local is good, especially when you start stacking kids in the backseat and your airplane bill ticks past four digits.Set the GPS for Holiday Valley. In a region of ski areas, this is a ski resort. The terrain is varied and expansive. Downtown Ellicottville, a Rust Belt industrial refugee that has remade itself as one of the East's great resort towns, is minutes away. The mountain is easy enough to get to (in the way that anything off-interstate is an easy-ish pain in the ass requiring some patience with two-lane state highways and their poke-along drivers). And lift tickets are affordable, topping out at $87 for an eight-hour session.As a business, Holiday Valley is one of the most well-regarded independent ski areas in the country, on the level of Wachusett or Whitefish or Smugglers' Notch. But it wasn't the inevitable King of Western New York. When Eshbaugh showed up in 1975, the place was a backwater, with a handful of double chairs and T-bars and a couple dozen runs. It took decades to build the machine. But for at least the past 20 years, Holiday Valley has led all New York ski areas in annual visits, keeping company with New England monsters Mount Snow and Sunday River at around half a million skiers per season. That's incredible. I wanted to learn how they did it, and how they keep doing it, even as the ski world evolves rapidly around them.What we talked aboutThe wild Western New York winter; what's driving record business to Holiday Valley; the busiest ski area in New York State; learning from Sam Walton in the best possible way; competing with Colorado; the history and remaking of Ellicotville; from ski school instructor to resort president; staying at one employer for nearly five decades; who owns Holiday Valley and how committed they are to independence; a brief history of the ski area; setting season pass prices at $1,000 in the megapass era – “we have 10,000 buyers of these other pass programs as well”; the importance of night-skiing; the bygone days of skiing all-nighters; why Holiday Valley hasn't joined the Epic, Ikon, or Indy Passes, and whether it ever would; thoughts on reciprocal coalitions and why the Ski Cooper partnership went away; a picture of Holiday Valley in the mid-1970s; the landmine of too much real-estate development; going deep on the new Mardi Gras Express six-pack; why they're building the lift over two years; how and why Holiday Valley self-installs chairlifts (one of the few ski areas to do so); remembering 20-minute double-chair rides on Mardi Gras; the surprising potential destination of the Mardi Gras quad; long-term potential upgrades for Sunrise, Eagle, Cindy's, and Chute; the next lift that Holiday Valley will likely upgrade to a detachable; why Holiday Valley upgraded the 20-year-old Yodeler fixed-grip quad to a detachable quad two years ago; how much more it costs to maintain a detachable lift than a fixed-grip lift, and whether Holiday Valley could one day get to an all-high-speed fleet; “you have to keep a balance between what your customer base wants and what your customer base can support”; Dave McCoy's thumbprint on Mammoth Mountain; potential expansion opportunities; where the next all-new liftline could sit; potential glade expansion; remembering when insurance carriers were paranoid of glade-skiing and why they backed off that notion; and why Holiday Valley implemented RFID but didn't install gates.Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewHoliday Valley is one of the few large regional destination ski areas that continues to stand alone. No pass allegiance. No reciprocal deals. The pass is good here and only here.And it works. Like Wolf Creek or Baker or Mount Rose or Smugglers' Notch or Bretton Woods, Holiday Valley is proving that the one-mountain model isn't dead just yet. Even with a headliner season pass that runs $1,049*, just $30 cheaper than the good-at-63-mountains Ikon Pass and a couple hundred dollars more than the equally expansive Epic Pass. Many of the mountain's passholders do also purchase these passes, Eshbaugh told me, but they keep buying the Holiday Valley Pass too.Why? My guess is the constant, conspicuous investment. A new high-speed quad to replace a 20-year-old fixed-grip quad in 2021. Holiday Valley's first six-pack – to replace a 27-year-old high-speed quad – next season. And the place is pristine. Everything looks new, even if it isn't. The lodges – and it feels like there are lodges everywhere – are expansive and attractive. Snowguns all over. I haven't walked around the joint opening closet doors or anything, but I bet it I did, I'd find the towels sorted by color and shelves labelled accordingly.In the era of sprawling and standardized, there is still a lot to like in this hyper-local approach to ski resort management. Eshbaugh is in no hurry to chase his peers over the horizon. He admits there may be vast treasure and security waiting there, but there may also be a bottomless void. Holiday Valley and its eclectic and somewhat secretive group of owners will wait and see. In the meantime, we may as well enjoy the place for what it is.*Holiday Valley offered several more affordable pass options for the 2022-23 ski season, including a nights-only version for $504, a Sundays pass for $313, a pass good for 10 weekdays or evenings for $285, and a nine-use night pass for $213.Questions I wish I'd askedI'd wanted to get a bit into Holimont, and ask my usual stupid question about whether the two resorts had ever discussed some sort of lift or ski connection. From a pure engineering standpoint, it wouldn't be an especially difficult project: the hill that rises from the far side of the Holiday Valley parking lot is the backside of Holimont. You would just need trails down from the top of Holimont's Exhibition Express or Sunset double to the bottom of Holiday Valley's Tannenbaum lift, then a return lift up the mountain to Holimont. Here's a crappy concept sketch I put together:Of course, there are problems with my elaborate plans, starting with the fact that I have no idea who owns the property that I just designated for new trails and chairlifts. The bigger issue, however, is that Holimont is a private ski club, and it's closed to the public on weekends and holidays. That won't change. But if you're curious, you can roll up and buy a lift ticket midweek, which is pretty cool. The place is substantial, with 56 trails and eight lifts, including a high-speed quad:A union of these two ski areas seems highly improbable. But it would create an enormous ski area, and it was fun to fantasize about for a few minutes.Why you should ski Holiday ValleyHoliday Valley skis far larger than the trailmap would suggest. Rolling from Spruce Lake over to Snowpine can take all morning. There's lots of little offshoots, quirks and nooks to explore. Glades everywhere. Lifts everywhere. Most runs are substantially shorter than the advertised 750 vertical feet, but they cling to the fall line, and there are a lot of them: 84 trails feels like an undercount.I said in the podcast that Holiday Valley felt like a half dozen or so ski areas stitched together, and it does. Creekside and Sunrise feel like that town bump, with gentle wide-open meadows. Morningstar is big broadsides, park kids and a speedy lift. Yodeler and Chute are raw and steep, tight glades between groomed-out boomers. Eagle is restless and wild and underdeveloped. And Tannenbaum is a sort-of idyll, a rich glen dense with towering pines, a detachable lift line threading low and fast through the trees.It's just a very good ski area, with everything except a headline vertical drop. But the sprawling lift system makes fastlaps easy, and if the snow is deep, pretty much all the trees between the trails are skiable. The place is likely to wear you out before you wear it out, and then you can head down the street for a beer and a pillow.Podcast NotesOn operating hoursI guessed on the podcast that Holiday Valley was open more hours per week than most other ski areas in the country. Their regular schedule is 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday and Friday, and 8:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. That adds up to 89 hours per week. I'm not sure exactly where that ranks among U.S. American ski areas, but its in the upper five percentile.On Mountains of DistinctionEshbaugh mentions the Mountains of Distinction program. This is a discount program started by Jiminy Peak before the megapass craze. It currently includes Jiminy, Wachusett, Cranmore, Holiday Valley, Bromley, and Crystal Mountain, Michigan. Passholders at any of these ski areas generally get half off on weekdays and $15 off on weekends and holidays at any of the other resorts. The program was far larger at one time, but it's lost many members – such as Seven Springs – to consolidation.On the incredible migrating chairliftI mentioned a chairlift at Hunt Hollow – a ski area that operates on the same public/private model as Holimont – that relocated one of Snowbird's old chairs. The chair was Snowbird's old Little Cloud double, which they removed in 2012 to make way for a high-speed quad. You can read more about it here (pages 13 to 14). Lift Blog documented the lift when it stood at Snowbird, and then again at Hunt Hollow.On lost ski areas of Western New YorkIn the podcast intro, I mention a pair of onetime competitors to Holiday Valley that failed to evolve in the same way and went bust. One was Wing Hollow, a 750-footer just 20 minutes south of Holiday Valley that is now best known for a never-solved 1975 double-murder. Here's the 1978 trailmap, showing two T-bars and a double chair - about the same setup that Holiday Valley had in that period.I also mention Bluemont, which was just half an hour north of Holiday Valley and claimed an 800-foot-vertical drop, a double chair, a T-bar, and two ropetows. Here it is around 1980:The land that Bluemont sat on is currently for sale for $5.95 million. I wrote about this in May:Man I don't know what happens to these places. Eight hundred vertical feet would make this the second-tallest ski area in Western New York, after Bristol, and poof. Just gone. NELSAP says that the last investors “never received enough capital to get their idea off the ground.” The chairlifts are apparently long gone. Who knows if you would even be able to build on the land if you owned it – everything is impossible these days, especially in New York. But here it is if you have the money and the gumption to try.These were just the two largest of many lost ski areas in Western New York. You can poke around the lost New York ski areas page on the New England Lost Ski Areas project for more info.On Holiday Valley's evolutionEshbaugh talks about the deliberate way they've built out Holiday Valley over the decades. The oldest trailmap I can find for the ski area is from 1969 – 11 years after the resort opened, and six years before Eshbaugh arrived. It shows what is currently the area from Mardi Gras over to Tannenbaum, including Yodeler and Chute:The mountain added the first Cindy's lift – a double chair – in 1978. Here's the trailmap circa 1981 - Cindy's is lift 3:Morning Star – a triple – arrived in 1983. The Snowpine double came the following year. This circa 1988 trailmap shows both (Morning Star is lift 5; Snowpine lift 6), and also teases the Eagle quad, which was slated to open the following year (it did, but as a quad, rather than as the triple teased below):The Sunrise quad rose in 1992. Here it is on a circa 1997 trailmap (lift 10):The Spruce Lake quad arrived for the 2007-08 season (lift 11):Which basically takes us to modern Holiday Valley, though the ski area continues to upgrade lifts regularly. Impressive as this growth has been, I don't think they're anywhere near finished.The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 13/100 in 2023, and number 399 since launching on Oct. 13, 2019. Want to send feedback? Reply to this email and I will answer (unless you sound insane, or, more likely, I just get busy). You can also email skiing@substack.com. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

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Against all odds, one species is making a comeback! Whitebark Pine! At the top of the mountain, where few other trees even try to survive, this species thrives. It is a keystone species that has developed a particularly peculiar way of spreading its young about the mountain side. Co-evolution anyone? If you like old trees, cool birds, species killing fungi, and most importantly, a story of hope, than this is the podcast for you!ResourcesPlanting the Future: Saving whitebark and limber pineWhitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation of CanadaSponsorsWest FraserGreenLink Forestry Inc.Quotes1.12.12 - 1.12.20: “One of the most important things and hopeful things you can do is plant a tree under whose shade you won't sit.”TakeawaysTelltale signs of whitebark pine (9.42)Contrary to their name, whitebark pine barks are not white, but silver, and their thick canopy makes them look like broccoli tops. Their needles occur in bunches of five instead of two. Mutualism (15.52)The Clark's Nutcracker opens the cones of the whitebark pine and stays healthy on its high-fat seeds. It has evolved a pouch under its tongue to store up to 90 seeds of the tree. Keystone and pioneering species (23.02)Brenda finds that the whitebark pine is important for many species of birds and small mammals. Prescribed fires could be beneficial to their survival.Whitebark pine proliferation (28.22)Amelie describes the Clark's Nutcracker's specialized beak, which can open the hard egg-shaped cones of the whitebark pine. The bird's range is 12-28 km. “A species that gives back more to the ecosystem than it takes” (33.28)Brenda expects the subalpine ecosystem to be different with the loss of whitebark pine, a community on which many species rely. Threats to whitebark pine (41.18)Blister rust, the mountain pine beetle beetle, fire suppression and climate change are all threats to whitebark pine. 100 Tree Survey (50.59)Brenda's role in Parks Canada is to help whitebark pine recover and survive. They visit 100 large-diameter trees in the stand in mast years and assess them for blister rust resistance. Developing infection resistance (56.50)Brenda's team extracts the seeds from infection-resistant whitebark pine cones and sends them to nurseries to grow. Two years later, they take the seedlings back to the park to grow. Protecting whitebark pine from beetles (1.03.17)Brenda's team applies 2 packets to the valuable whitebark pines every spring that send chemical messages to mountain pine beetles, which save 60% of the trees. “Everybody's favourite day is planting day” (1.09.27)Brenda shares that there are 140 whitebark pines in Jasper National Park that they believe are resistant. It's important to plant them at fair distances in microsites for protection. A video speaks a million words (1.14.29)Amelie is proud of the video that seven mountain parks in Canada came together to create to raise awareness of the whitebark conversation program and rust resistance. Do your part (1.19.49)Brenda is encouraged by how the video has inspired whitebark pine restoration efforts in Alberta and BC. Brenda believes that visiting the beautiful whitebark pine forests and supporting the Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation of Canada are two ways in which each person can be a part of the conservation efforts.

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To receive future pods as soon as they're live and to support independent ski journalism, please consider an upgrade to a paid subscription.WhoBrett Cook, Vice President and General Manager of Seven Springs, Hidden Valley, and Laurel Mountain, PennsylvaniaRecorded onJanuary 30, 2023About Seven SpringsOwned by: Vail ResortsPass affiliations: Epic Pass, Epic Local Pass, Northeast Value Epic Pass, Northeast Midweek Epic PassLocated in: Seven Springs, PennsylvaniaYear opened: 1932Closest neighboring ski areas: Hidden Valley (17 minutes), Laurel Mountain (45 minutes), Nemacolin (46 minutes), Boyce Park (1 hour), Wisp (1 hour), Blue Knob (1 hour, 30 minutes)Base elevation: 2,240 feetSummit elevation: 2,994 feetVertical drop: 754 feetSkiable Acres: 285Average annual snowfall: 135 inchesTrail count: 48 (5 expert, 6 advanced, 15 intermediate, 16 beginner, 6 terrain parks)Lift count: 14­­ (2 six-packs, 4 fixed-grip quads, 4 triples, 3 carpets, 1 ropetow)About Hidden ValleyOwned by: Vail ResortsPass affiliations: Epic Pass, Epic Local Pass, Northeast Value Epic Pass, Northeast Midweek Epic PassLocated in: Hidden Valley, PennsylvaniaYear opened: 1955Closest neighboring ski areas: Seven Springs (17 minutes), Laurel Mountain (34 minutes), Mystic Mountain (50 minutes), Boyce Park (54 minutes),Wisp (1 hour), Blue Knob (1 hour 19 minutes)Base elevation: 2,405 feetSummit elevation: 2,875 feetVertical drop: 470 feetSkiable Acres: 110Average annual snowfall: 140 inchesTrail count: 32 (9 advanced, 13 intermediate, 8 beginner, 2 terrain parks)Lift count: 8 (2 fixed-grip quads, 2 triples, 2 carpets, 2 handle tows)About Laurel MountainOwned by: Vail ResortsPass affiliations: Epic Pass, Epic Local Pass, Northeast Value Epic Pass, Northeast Midweek Epic PassLocated in: Boswell, PennsylvaniaYear opened: 1939Closest neighboring ski areas: Hidden Valley (34 minutes), Seven Springs (45 minutes), Boyce Park (1 hour), Blue Knob (1 hour), Mystic Mountain (1 hour, 15 minutes), Wisp (1 hour, 15 minutes)Base elevation: 2,005 feetSummit elevation: 2,766 feetVertical drop: 761 feetSkiable Acres: 70Average annual snowfall: 41 inchesTrail count: 20 (2 expert, 2 advanced, 6 intermediate, 10 beginner)Lift count: 2­­ (1 fixed-grip quad, 1 handle tow)Below the paid subscriber jump: a summary of our podcast conversation, a look at abandoned Hidden Valley expansions, historic Laurel Mountain lift configurations, and much more.Beginning with podcast 116, the full podcast articles are no longer available on the free content tier. Why? They take between 10 and 20 hours to research and write, and readers have demonstrated that they are willing to pay for content. My current focus with The Storm is to create value for anyone who invests their money into the product. Here are examples of a few past podcast articles, if you would like to see the format: Vail Mountain, Mt. Spokane, Snowbasin, Mount Bohemia, Brundage. To anyone who is supporting The Storm: thank you very much. You have guaranteed that this is a sustainable enterprise for the indefinite future.Why I interviewed himI've said this before, but it's worth repeating. Most Vail ski areas fall into one of two categories: the kind skiers will fly around the world for, and the kind skiers won't drive more than 15 minutes for. Whistler, Park City, Heavenly fall into the first category. Mt. Brighton, Alpine Valley, Paoli Peaks into the latter. I exaggerate a bit on the margins, but when I drive from New York City to Liberty Mountain, I know this is not a well-trod path.Seven Springs, like Hunter or Attitash, occupies a slightly different category in the Vail empire. It is both a regional destination and a high-volume big-mountain feeder. Skiers will make a weekend of these places, from Pittsburgh or New York City or Boston, then they will use the pass to vacation in Colorado. It's a better sort of skiing than your suburban knolls, more sprawling and interesting, more repeatable for someone who doesn't know what a Corky Flipdoodle 560 is.“Brah that sounds sick!”Thanks Park Brah. I appreciate you. But you know I just made that up, right?“Brah have you seen my shoulder-mounted Boombox 5000 backpack speaker? I left it right here beside my weed vitamins.”Sorry Brah. I have not.Anyway, I happen to believe that these sorts of in-the-middle resorts are the next great frontier of ski area consolidation. All the big mountains have either folded under the Big Four umbrella or have gained so much megapass negotiating power that the incentive to sell has rapidly evaporated. The city-adjacent bumps such as Boston Mills were a novel and highly effective strategy for roping cityfolk into Epic Passes, but as pure ski areas, those places just are not and never will be terribly compelling experiences. But the middle is huge and mostly untapped, and these are some of the best ski areas in America, mountains that are large enough to give you a different experience each time but contained enough that you don't feel as though you've just wandered into an alternate dimension. There's enough good terrain to inspire loyalty and repeat visits, but it's not so good that passholders don't dream of the hills beyond.Examples: Timberline, West Virginia; Big Powderhorn, Michigan; Berkshire East and Jiminy Peak in Massachusetts; Plattekill, New York; Elk Mountain, Pennsylvania; Mt. Spokane, Washington; Bear Valley, California; Cascade or Whitecap, Wisconsin; Magic Mountain, Vermont; or Black Mountain, New Hampshire. There are dozens more. Vail's Midwestern portfolio is expansive but bland, day-ski bumps but no weekend-type spots on the level of Crystal Mountain, Michigan or Lutsen, Minnesota.If you want to understand the efficacy of this strategy, the Indy Pass was built on it. Ninety percent of its roster is the sorts of mountains I'm referring to above. Jay Peak and Powder Mountain sell passes, but dang it Bluewood and Shanty Creek are kind of nice now that the pass nudged me toward them. Once Vail and Alterra realize how crucial these middle mountains are to filling in the pass blanks, expect them to start competing for the space. Seven Springs, I believe, is a test case in how impactful a regional destination can be both in pulling skiers in and pushing them out across the world. Once this thing gels, look the hell out.What we talked aboutThe not-so-great Western Pennsylvania winter so far; discovering skiing as an adult; from liftie to running the largest ski resort in Pennsylvania; the life and death of Snow Time Resorts; joining the Peak Pass; two ownership transitions in less than a year, followed by Covid; PA ski culture; why the state matters to Vail; helping a Colorado ski company understand the existential urgency of snowmaking in the East; why Vail doubled down on PA with the Seven Springs purchase when they already owned five ski areas in the state; breaking down the difference between the Roundtop-Liberty-Whitetail trio and the Seven-Springs-Hidden-Valley-Laurel trio; the cruise ship in the mountains; rugged and beautiful Western PA; dissecting the amazing outsized snowfall totals in Western Pennsylvania; Vail Resorts' habit of promoting from within; how Vail's $20-an-hour minimum wage hit in Pennsylvania; the legacy of the Nutting family, the immediate past owners of the three ski areas; the legendary Herman Dupree, founder of Seven Springs and HKD snowguns; Seven Springs amazing sprawling snowmaking system, complete with 49(!) ponds; why the system isn't automated and whether it ever will be; how planting more trees could change the way Seven Springs skis; connecting the ski area's far-flung beginner terrain; where we could see additional glades at Seven Springs; rethinking the lift fleet; the importance of redundant lifts; do we still need Tyrol?; why Seven Springs, Hidden Valley, and Laurel share a single general manager; thinking of lifts long-term at Hidden Valley; Hidden Valley's abandoned expansion plans and whether they could ever be revived; the long and troubled history of state-owned Laurel Mountain; keeping the character at this funky little upside-down boomer; “We love what Laurel Mountain is and we're going to continue to own that”; building out Laurel's snowmaking system; expansion potential at Laurel; “Laurel is a hidden gem and we don't want it to be hidden anymore”; Laurel's hidden handletow; evolving Laurel's lift fleet; managing a state-owned ski area; Seven Springs' new trailmap; the Epic Pass arrives; and this season's lift-ticket limits.        Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewWhen Vail bought Peak Resorts in 2019, they suddenly owned nearly a quarter of Pennsylvania's ski areas: Big Boulder, Jack Frost, Whitetail, Roundtop, and Liberty. That's a lot of Eagles jerseys. And enough, I thought, that we wouldn't see VR snooping around for more PA treasures to add to their toybox.Then, to my surprise, the company bought Seven Springs – which they clearly wanted – along with Hidden Valley and Laurel, which they probably didn't, in late 2021. Really what they bought was Pittsburgh, metropolitan population 2.3 million, and their large professional class of potentially globe-trotting skiers. All these folks needed was an excuse to buy an Epic Pass. Vail gave them one.So now what? Vail knows what to do with a large, regionally dominant ski area like Seven Springs. It's basically Pennsylvania's version of Stowe or Park City or Heavenly. It was pretty good when you bought it, now you just have to not ruin it and remind everyone that they can now ski Whistler on their season pass. Hidden Valley, with its hundreds of on-mountain homeowners, suburban-demographic profile, and family orientation more or less fit Vail's portfolio too.But what to do with Laurel? Multiple locals assured me that Vail would close it. Vail doesn't do that – close ski areas – but they also don't buy 761-vertical-foot bumps at the ass-end of nowhere with almost zero built-in customer base and the snowmaking firepower of a North Pole souvenir snowglobe. They got it because it came with Seven Springs, like your really great spouse who came with a dad who thinks lawnmowers are an FBI conspiracy. I know what I think Vail should do with Laurel – dump money into the joint to aggressively route crowds away from the larger ski areas – but I didn't know whether they would, or had even considered it.Vail's had 14 months now to think this over. What are these mountains? How do they fit? What are we going to do with them? I got some answers.Questions I wish I'd askedYou know, it's weird that Vail has two Hidden Valleys. Boyne, just last year, changed the name of its “Boyne Highlands” resort to “The Highlands,” partly because, one company executive told me, skiers would occasionally show up to the wrong resort with a condo reservation. I imagine that's why Earl Holding ultimately backed off on renaming Snowbasin to “Sun Valley, Utah,” as he reportedly considered doing in the leadup to the 2002 Olympics – if you give people an easy way to confuse themselves, they will generally take you up on it.I realize this is not really the same thing. Boyne Mountain and The Highlands are 40 minutes apart. Vail's two Hidden Valleys are 10-and-a-half hours from each other by car. Still. I wanted to ask Cook if this weird fact had any hilarious unintended consequences (I desperately wish Holding would have renamed Snowbasin). Perhaps confusion in the Epic Mix app? Or someone purchasing lift tickets for the incorrect resort? An adult lift ticket at Hidden Valley, Pennsylvania for tomorrow is $75 online and $80 in person, but just $59 online/$65 in person for Hidden Valley, Missouri. Surely someone has confused the two?So, which one should we rename? And what should we call it? Vail has been trying to win points lately with lift names that honor local landmarks – they named their five new lifts at Jack Frost-Big Boulder “Paradise,” “Tobyhanna,” “Pocono,” “Harmony,” and “Blue Heron” (formerly E1 Lift, E2 Lift, B Lift, C Lift, E Lift, F Lift, Merry Widow I, Merry Widow II, and Edelweiss). So how about renaming Hidden Valley PA to something like “Allegheny Forest?” Or call Hidden Valley, Missouri “Mississippi Mountain?” Yes, both of those names are terrible, but so is having two Hidden Valleys in the same company.What I got wrong* I guessed in the podcast that Pennsylvania was the “fifth- or sixth-largest U.S. state by population.” It is number five, with an approximate population of 13 million, behind New York (19.6M), Florida (22.2M), Texas (30M), and California (39M).* I guessed that the base of Keystone is “nine or 10,000 feet.” The River Run base area sits at 9,280 feet.* I mispronounced the last name of Seven Springs founder Herman Dupre as “Doo-Pree.” It is pronounced “Doo-Prey.”* I said there were “lots” of thousand-vertical-foot ski areas in Pennsylvania. There are, in fact, just four: Blue Mountain (1,140 feet), Blue Knob (1,073 feet), Elk (1,000 feet), and Montage (1,000 feet).Why you should ski Seven Springs, Hidden Valley, and LaurelIt's rugged country out there. Not what you're thinking. More Appalachian crag than Poconos scratch. Abrupt and soaring. Beautiful. And snowy. In a state where 23 of 28 ski areas average fewer than 50 inches of snow per season, Seven Springs and Laurel bring in 135-plus apiece.Elevation explains it. A 2,000-plus-foot base is big-time in the East. Killington sits at 1,165 feet. Sugarloaf at 1,417. Stowe at 1,559. All three ski areas sit along the crest of 70-mile-long Laurel Ridge, a storm door on the western edge of the Allegheny Front that rakes southeast-bound moisture from the sky as it trains out of Lake Erie.When the snow doesn't come, they make it. Now that Big Boulder has given up, Seven Springs is typically the first ski area in the state to open. It fights with Camelback for last-to-close. Twelve hundred snowguns and 49 snowmaking ponds help.Seven Springs doesn't have the state's best pure ski terrain – look to Elk Mountain or, on the rare occasions it's fully open, Blue Knob for that – but it's Pennsylvania's largest, most complete, and, perhaps, most consistent operation. It is, in fact, the biggest ski area in the Mid-Atlantic, a ripping and unpretentious ski region where you know you'll get turns no matter how atrocious the weather gets.Hidden Valley is something different. Cozy. Easy. Built for families on parade. Laurel is something different too. Steep and fierce, a one-lift wonder dug out of the graveyard by an owner with more passion, it seems, than foresight. Laurel needs snowmaking. Top to bottom and on every trail. The hill makes no sense in 2023 without it. Vail won't abandon the place outright, but if they don't knock $10 million in snowmaking into the dirt, they'll be abandoning it in principle.Podcast NotesThe trailmap rabbit hole – Hidden ValleyWe discussed the proposed-but-never-implemented expansion at Hidden Valley, which would have sat skier's right of the Avalanche pod. Here it is on the 2010 trailmap:The 2002 version actually showed three potential lifts serving this pod:Unfortunately, this expansion is unlikely. Cook explains why in the pod.The trailmap rabbit hole – LaurelLaurel, which currently has just one quad and a handletow, has carried a number of lift configurations over the decades. This circa 1981 trailmap shows a double chair where the quad now sits, and a series of surface lifts climbing the Broadway side of the hill, and another set of them bunched at the summit:The 2002 version shows a second chairlift – which I believe was a quad – looker's right, and surface lifts up top to serve beginners, tubers, and the terrain park:Related: here's a pretty good history of all three ski areas, from 2014.The Pennsylvania ski inventory rabbitholePennsylvania skiing is hard to get. No one seems to know how many ski areas the state has. The NSAA says there are 26. Cook referenced 24 on the podcast. The 17 that Wikipedia inventories include Alpine Mountain, which has been shuttered for years. Ski Central (22), Visit PA (21), and Ski Resort Info (25) all list different numbers. My count is 28. Most lists neglect to include the six private ski areas that are owned by homeowners' associations or reserved for resort guests. Cook and I also discussed which ski area owned the state's highest elevation (it's Blue Knob), so I included base and summit elevations as well:The why-is-Vail-allowed-to-own-80-percent-of-Ohio's-public-ski-areas? rabbitholeCook said he wasn't sure how many ski areas there are in Ohio. There are six. One is a private club. Snow Trails is family-owned. Vail owns the other four. I think this shouldn't be allowed, especially after how poorly Vail managed them last season, and especially how badly Snow Trails stomped them from an operations point of view. But here we are:The steepest-trail rabbitholeWe discuss Laurel's Wildcat trail, which the ski area bills as the steepest in the state. I generally avoid echoing these sorts of claims, which are hard to prove and not super relevant to the actual ski experience. You'll rarely see skiers lapping runs like Rumor at Gore or White Lightning at Montage, mostly because they frankly just aren't that much fun, exercises in ice-rink survival skiing for the Brobot armies. But if you want the best primer I've seen on this subject, along with an inventory of some very steep U.S. ski trails, read this one on Skibum.net. The article doesn't mention Laurel's Wildcat trail, but the ski area was closed sporadically and this site's heyday was about a decade ago, so it may have been left out as a matter of circumstance.The “back in my day” rabbitholeI referenced an old “punchcard program” at Roundtop during our conversation. I was referring to the Night Club Program offered by former-former owner Snow Time Resorts at Roundtop, Liberty, and Whitetail. When Snow Time sold the ski area in 2018 to Peak Resorts, the buyer promptly dropped the evening programs. When Vail purchased the resort in 2019, it briefly re-instated some version of them (I think), but I don't believe they survived the Covid winter (2020-21). This 5,000-word March 2019 article (written four months before Vail purchased the resorts) from DC Ski distills the rage around this abrupt pass policy change. Four years later, I still get emails about this, and not infrequently. I'm kind of surprised Vail hasn't offered some kind of Pennsylvania-specific pass, since they have more ski areas in that state (eight) than they have in any other, including Colorado (five). After all, the company sells an Ohio-specific pass that started at just $299 last season. Why not a PA-specific version for, say, $399, for people who want to ski always and only at Roundtop or Liberty or Big Boulder? Or a nights-only pass?I suppose Vail could do this, and I suspect they won't. The Northeast Value Pass – good for mostly unlimited access at all of the company's ski areas from Michigan on east – sold for $514 last spring. A midweek version ran $385. A seven-day Epic Day Pass good at all the Pennsylvania ski areas was just $260 for adults and $132 for kids aged 5 to 12. I understand that there is a particular demographic of skiers who will never ski north of Harrisburg and will never stop blowing up message boards with their disappointment and rage over this. The line between a sympathetic character and a tedious one is thin, however, and eventually we're all better off focusing our energies on the things we can control.The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 9/100 in 2023, and number 395 since launching on Oct. 13, 2019. Want to send feedback? Reply to this email and I will answer (unless you sound insane, or, more likely, I just get busy). You can also email skiing@substack.com. 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