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Bancos en México pierden 27 mil mdp anuales por fraudesUlises Lara López nuevo delegado de la FGR en MorelosBiblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia ofrece acceso en líneaMás información en nuestro Podcast
Deben estados y municipios más de 92 mil mdp al ISSSTE Trevilla y Harfuch supervisarán estrategia de seguridad en Guanajuato Repatriarán desde Chicago una pieza mayaMás información en nuestro Podcast
Trump adelanta que renegociación del T-MEC viene en 2026 ‘para ajustarlo o terminarlo; IMSS entregó más de mil MDP en contratos de medicamentos a socios del yerno de Nahle; Lunes negro por violencia en Sinaloa; Ataque entre India y Pakistán; El nuevo Project Astra de Google; Hombre se deja picar por víboras para crear antídoto natural.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Llega “Sí al Desarme Sí a La Paz” a la alcaldía Azcapotzalco Hospitales de Gaza a 48 horas del "colapso total"Más información en nuestro Podcast
Tom Staniford talks about living with the MDP syndrome, an extremely rare genetic condition. MDP syndrome includes Mandibula hypoplasia, Deafness, and Progeroid features amongst its widespread features. Tom developed Type 2 diabetes as a teenager because of a loss of fat under the skin (lipodystrophy) despite being very thin and active. Tom has used his communication and media skills to help other people with MDP syndrome get diagnosed and receive the right care.Send us a text
JUEVES DE UN PAR R04 Un programa para acompañar el previo del fin de semana, una par de cheves, un par de drinks, un par de snacks, un par de algo, buenas rolas y todo la platica que conlleva la previa para terminar a gusto la semana. Conducido por Jikote (@eljikote) e Ivan Vazquez (@iVADDER) Música * Futbol * Cerveza * Cheves * Beers * Mame * Películas * Series CAOS EN PALENQUE DE TEXCOCO, LA PREGUNTA QUE MAS SE HACE EN SEMANA SANTA EN INTERNET, KATY PERRY VOLÓ AL ESPACIO, ROBAN UN PAR DE TENIS VALUADOS EN MAS DE 1.2 MDP. LA RELIGION EN LA ACTUALIDAD EN MEXICO CINE BIBLICO TLOU S2 - MAX
Voici l’émission Intrinsèque que voici, avec: Flynt, Cizif, Mdp, Roland, Academicôs do Salgeiro, Paulo Cesar Pinheiro, Eduardo Gudin & Marcia, Paulinho da Viola, Valérie Ambroise, Charles Peguy, Julos Beaucarne, Brassens, Zone Infinie, Traitre, Taulard, Oï Boys, Les Chevals Hongrois, Voz... Continue Reading →
Transportistas y taxistas retiran bloqueos En Tecámac se reforzará el programa “Salud en tu Hogar”Al menos dos muertos por choque entre dos avionetas en ArizonaMás información en nuestro Podcast
Episodio 560 de Contralínea En Vivo conducido por Zósimo Camacho: -Max Cortázar, que operó 32 mil MDP para medios en calderonato, detrás de la “guerra sucia”- Transmisión 11 de marzo de 2024 Contralínea se transmite de lunes a viernes a las 10hrs (hora centro de México). Encuéntranos en Facebook, YouTube, X (antes Twitter), TikTok, Instagram, WhatsApp y Telegram como Contralínea. Escúchanos en Spotify, Apple Podcast e Ivoox como Contralínea Audio.
Episodio 557 de Contralínea En Vivo conducido por Zósimo Camacho: -Río Sonora y Grupo México salpican a la UNAM: 50 MDP por trabajos incompletos- Transmisión 6 de marzo de 2024 Contralínea se transmite de lunes a viernes a las 10hrs (hora centro de México). Encuéntranos en Facebook, YouTube, X (antes Twitter), TikTok, Instagram, WhatsApp y Telegram como Contralínea. Escúchanos en Spotify, Apple Podcast e Ivoox como Contralínea Audio.
How far should you extend composite resin? When does edge bonding become a composite veneer? How do you decide where to finish the restoration? And most importantly, how do you avoid that dreaded yellow-brown stain line that can form on anterior resins? These are just some of the burning questions tackled in this episode with my guest, Dr. Mahmoud Ibrahim. We dive deep into the artistry and engineering of decision-making in anterior composites. https://youtu.be/_q2O57-Y-d4 Watch PDP211 on Youtube Protrusive Dental Pearl: use a zirconia primer which contains 10-MDP (e.g. Monobond, Z-Prime Plus) on the intaglio of crowns to enhance bond strength, even with conventional cements like GIC. This low-risk, high-reward tip improves retention, especially for teeth with limited height. Incorporating a zirconia primer can significantly improve outcomes without switching to resin cement. Interested in the Unchippable 2 Day Course? Click here to register your interest! Key Takeaways: Choosing between edge bonding or veneers is not a black-and-white decision. The height of contour is key in cosmetic dentistry. Seamless transitions between composite and tooth are pivotal. Aesthetic considerations vary based on individual cases. Material choice is influenced by patient risk factors. Layering techniques enhance the natural appearance of teeth. Patient previews are essential for managing expectations. Thickness of composite affects durability and aesthetics. Understanding angles is key to successful restorations. Not all patients require the same approach to bonding. Highlights of this Episode: 02:43 Protrusive Dental Pearl 04:49 Personal Anecdotes and Health Goals 09:37 Anterior Composites: Edge Bonding vs Veneering 16:00 Importance of Finishing Composite Correctly 17:09 Understanding the Height of Contour 18:36 Importance of Layering in Dental Procedures 21:35 Choosing the Right Materials for Layering 23:56 Importance of Layering in Dental Procedures 27:14 Challenges and Solutions in Composite Layering 32:31 The Marshall Hanson Method 36:29 Mockups and Wax-Ups: Planning for Success 43:03 Treatment Considerations This episode is eligible for 0.75 CE credits via the quiz on Protrusive Guidance. This episode meets GDC Outcome C - Maintenance and development of your knowledge and skills within your field(s) of practice. AGD Subject Code: 250 OPERATIVE (RESTORATIVE)DENTISTRY (Direct restorations) Aim: To enhance clinicians' understanding and decision-making in anterior composite restorations, focusing on when edge bonding transitions to a veneer, optimizing aesthetics and functionality, and minimizing common challenges such as staining and occlusal complications. Dentists will be able to - Understand the key factors that influence the transition between edge bonding to full veneers. Apply guidelines for minimum composite thickness and bonding angles to enhance durability and aesthetic outcomes. Identify high-risk patients and tailor material choices, layering techniques, and bonding approaches to individual needs. If you loved this episode, make sure to watch Composite Veneers vs Edge Bonding – Biomimetic Dentistry with George The Dentist – PDP075
Zoe Winkler opens up about the challenges of parenting during the Los Angeles wildfires, the relief of seeing her mom on the mend, and her journey to find balance in the midst of uncertainty. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Zoe Winkler opens up about the challenges of parenting during the Los Angeles wildfires, the relief of seeing her mom on the mend, and her journey to find balance in the midst of uncertainty. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hay 277 mil mdd de inversiones "que quieren llegar a México" Exigen justicia por conductora de la aplicación Uber asesinadaAvistamiento de varios drones sobre instalaciones del Ejército alteran a autoridades alemanas
Episodio 493 de Contralínea En Vivo conducido por Zósimo Camacho y José Reyes: -Auditoría interna revela que la Corte subejerció 260 MDP en primer semestre- Transmisión 15 de noviembre de 2023 Contralínea se transmite de lunes a viernes a las 10hrs (hora centro de México). Encuéntranos en Facebook, YouTube, X (antes Twitter), TikTok, Instagram, WhatsApp y Telegram como Contralínea. Escúchanos en Spotify, Apple Podcast e Ivoox como Contralínea Audio
En Durango, se decomisan 3 millones de productos con valor de más de 350 mdpGala de Pirotecnia en Acapulco generó una derrama económica superior a los 3000 mdpLamenta Papa Francisco que el mundo viva una "catástrofe educativa"Más información en nuestro Podcast
Revelan red de corrupción en Infonavit por más de 5mil MDPhttps://www.patreon.com/julioastilleroEnlace para hacer donaciones vía PayPal:https://www.paypal.me/julioastilleroCuenta para hacer transferencias a cuenta BBVA a nombre de Julio Hernández López: 1539408017CLABE: 012 320 01539408017 2Tienda:https://julioastillerotienda.com/ Te invitamos a que visites nuestro perfil en Patreon. Solo da clic aquí Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Michael Ramirez:Las Vegas Review-Journal On our agenda this week... The best is yet to come ... at least for newly anointed U.S. Ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle. The now-spurned former finance of Donald Trump Jr. is headed halfway around the world compliments of The Don, but only because "Ambassador to Mars" isn't a thing yet. And there's so much more: Gold sneakers, gold coins, leather-bound Bibles, digital junk collectibles, red hats, camo hats, crypto currency, and now cologne and perfume. That's the current potpourri of products being shilled by the president-elect who once claimed he could be more presidential than any of his predecessor … while his current wife sells Christmas ornaments and a ghost-written book, and his son-in-law sells his soul to the Saudis for a tidy $2-billion and his son announces three new licensing deals with the Saudis. The next logical step for Donald Trump: getting his fans to part with their cash: reverse mortgages. Look out Tom Selleck And another first for Time Magazine: A “Person of the Year” story attached to a 2,300-word fact check debunking much of their cover story.The new administration's appointments by the numbers: 13 billionaires 3 family members, including sending Junior's ex-fiance halfway around the world 13 former Fox News on-air employees 15 one-time losing candidates for various elective offices In the world of actually governing — Three announced candidates for chair of the Michigan Democratic Party are meeting with county parties in the run-up to the February 22 state party convention. In contention to succeed Lavora Barnes as MDP chair: MDP Rural Caucus chair Mark Ludwig, MDP activist Al Williams, and former state Senator and Whitmer staffer Curtis Hertel Jr. Legislative Democrats are working overtime to take maximum advantage of their soon-to-be-lost trifecta control of state government Three Michigan natives gave their valedictory speeches on Capitol Hill in the last few days – all three examples of what's right with public service: Debbie Stabenow, Dan Kildee, and Mitt Romney. Jeff Timmer is off this week, with the always lovely Walt Sorg sitting in! =========================== This episode is sponsored in part by EPIC ▪ MRA, a full service survey research firm with expertise in • Public Opinion Surveys • Market Research Studies • Live Telephone Surveys • On-Line and Automated Surveys • Focus Group Research • Bond Proposals - Millage Campaigns • Political Campaigns & Consulting • Ballot Proposals - Issue Advocacy Research • Community - Media Relations • Issue - Image Management • Database Development & List Management Anne Telnaes - Washington Post
#podcast #politicalpodcast #politics #news #michigan #michiganpolitics #progressivepolitics #Election2024 #MichiganDemocrats #Democrats #Whitmer #CorporateGreed #Progressives #LeftOfLansing 00:00-20:49: MI Dem Leaders Push Corporate Subsidies Pat reviews a fantastic piece by The American Prospect's David Dayen on how the Michigan Democratic leadership, which includes Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, are in serious danger of allowing major pieces of solid progressive legislation languish in favor of lavished corporate subsidies in the Lame Duck session. Satisfying the corporate donor base is apparently more important than passing bills such as affordable housing, polluter pay, criminal justice reform, transit funding, homeless bill of rights, water affordability, and more. 20:50-47:21: Interview w/ MDP Rural Caucus Chair Mark Ludwig The Michigan Democratic Party Rural Caucus Chair Mark Ludwig joins the show to not only talk about what went wrong in 2024, but why he's running to become the MDP's next Chair. Mr. Ludwig's spent much of his political professional career connecting with rural voters across the entire state. Democrats underperformed in all regions, and Mr. Ludwig wants to find those voters who've tuned-out of the political process, and also talk with those who Democrats have lost through the years. Visit Mark Ludwig's Facebook page to learn more about his campaign. 47:22-50:54: Last Call: Detroit Mayor Duggan Runs as Indie In this week's "Last Call" segment, Pat shares some of his thoughts on Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan's decision to run for governor as an independent. This will certainly hurt the Democrats' chances in 2026, unless they decide to run a vigorous populist campaign. 50:54-52:59: Ending Please, subscribe to the podcast, download each episode, and give it a good review if you can! leftoflansing@gmail.com Left of Lansing is now on YouTube as well! leftoflansing.com NOTES: Mark Ludwig for MDP Chair Facebook Page Michigan Democratic Party Rural Caucus site "Michigan Democrats Deliver Lame-Duck Disappointment: The first Democratic trifecta in 40 years is ending with internal dissent, stalled legislation, and up to $10 billion in corporate subsidies." By David Dayen of The American Prospect "Whitmer signs auto insurance bill with legislative leaders by her side." By Nick Manes of Michigan Advance "The Metro: How Michigan's insurance reform laws failed to protect Detroit drivers." By Anelle Scott of Detroit Public Radio "Contenders line up for Michigan Democratic Party's top role." By Michael Kransz of MLive.com "Michigan lawmakers on “zombie bill” killing spree, seek to decriminalize adultery and sodomy." By Anna Liz Nichols of Michigan Advance "Detroit Mayor Duggan, a longtime Democrat, will run for Michigan governor in 2026 as independent." By Corey Williams of The Associated Press "Party On The Peninsulas" Podcast with MDP Chair Levora Barnes episode featuring Michigan Democratic State Rep. Betsy Coffia
In this episode we speak with Elizabeth Betten, Partner and Co-Head of Healthcare at Madison Dearborn Partners. Elizabeth was recognized by GrowthCap as a Top Woman Leader in Growth Investing of 2024. Madison Dearborn has a history in Chicago that dates back to the early 1980s when its founders built a $2.6 billion management buyout and venture capital portfolio at First Chicago Venture Capital. In 1992, the founders established MDP as an independent firm, and, since then, the firm has raised aggregate capital of over $31 billion, and has completed investments in more than 160 companies. Elizabeth joined MDP in 2004 as an Associate and re-joined after business school in 2008. Prior to MDP, she worked in healthcare investment banking at J.P. Morgan. Elizabeth supports Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute and Lincoln Park Zoo. I am your host RJ Lumba. We hope you enjoy the show. If you like the episode, click to follow.
“Buscaremos reducir ese presupuesto”. El INE solicitó 13 mil mdp para la organización de la Elección Judicial.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
En el podcast hablamos de los titulares de la edición 2641 del 8 al 14 de noviembre del 2024 del Semanario ZETA: Aduana de Ensenada, quiere lucrar con transportista ASF: 214 MDP en irregularidades a BC. Despojo y muerte en San Antonio del mar. Guardia Nacional asesinó colombianos: Testigo. Primer mes de Sheinbaum: tácticas narcoterroristas Más detalles, en la edición impresa del Semanario ZETA.
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You can also subscribe to the free tier below:WhoGeordie Gillett, Managing Director and General Manager of Grand Targhee, WyomingRecorded onSeptember 30, 2024About Grand TargheeClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: The Gillett FamilyLocated in: Alta, WyomingYear founded: 1969Pass affiliations: Mountain Collective: 2 days, no blackoutsClosest neighboring ski areas: Jackson Hole (1:11), Snow King (1:22), Kelly Canyon (1:34) – travel times vary considerably given time of day, time of year, and weather conditions.Base elevation: 7,650 feet (bottom of Sacajawea Lift)Summit elevation: 9,862 feet at top of Fred's Mountain; hike to 9,920 feet on Mary's NippleVertical drop: 2,212 feet (lift-served); 2,270 feet (hike-to)Skiable Acres: 2,602 acresAverage annual snowfall: 500 inchesTrail count: 95 (10% beginner, 70% intermediate, 15% advanced, 5% expert)Lift count: 6 (1 six-pack, 2 high-speed quads, 2 fixed-grip quads, 1 carpet – view Lift Blog's inventory of Grand Targhee's lift fleet)Why I interviewed himHere are some true facts about Grand Targhee:* Targhee is the 19th-largest ski area in the United States, with 2,602 lift-served acres.* That makes Targhee larger than Jackson Hole, Snowbird, Copper, or Sun Valley.* Targhee is the third-largest U.S. ski area (behind Whitefish and Powder Mountain) that is not a member of the Epic or Ikon passes.* Targhee is the fourth-largest independently owned and operated ski area in America, behind Whitefish, Powder Mountain, and Alta.* Targhee is the fifth-largest U.S. ski area outside of Colorado, California, and Utah (following Big Sky, Bachelor, Whitefish, and Schweitzer).And yet. Who do you know who has skied Grand Targhee who has not skied everywhere? Targhee is not exactly unknown, but it's a little lost in skiing's Bermuda Triangle of Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, and Big Sky, a sunken ship loaded with treasure for whoever's willing to dive a little deeper.Most ski resort rankings will plant Alta-Snowbird or Whistler or Aspen or Vail at the top. Understandably so – these are all great ski areas. But I appreciate this take on Targhee from skibum.net, a site that hasn't been updated in a couple of years, but is nonetheless an excellent encyclopedia of U.S. skiing (boldface added by me for emphasis):You can start easy, then get as wild and remote as you dare. Roughly 20% of the lift-served terrain (Fred's Mountain) is groomed. The snowcat area (Peaked Mountain) is completely ungroomed, completely powder, totally incredible [Peaked is lift-served as of 2022]. Comparisons to Jackson Hole are inevitable, as GT & JH share the same mountain range. Targhee is on the west side, and receives oodles more snow…and therefore more weather. Not all of it good; a local nickname is Grand Foggy. The locals ski Targhee 9 days out of 10, then shift to Jackson Hole when the forecast is less than promising. (Jackson Hole, on the east side, receives less snow and virtually none of the fog). On days when the weather is good, Targhee beats Jackson for snow quality and shorter liftlines. Some claim Targhee wins on scenery as well. It's just a much different, less crowded, less commercialized resort, with outstanding skiing. Some will argue the quality of Utah powder…and they're right, but there are fewer skiers at Targhee, so it stays longer. Some of the runs at Targhee are steep, but not as steep as the couloirs at Jackson Hole. Much more of an intermediate mountain; has a very “open” feel on virtually all of the trails. And when the powder is good, there is none better than Grand Targhee. #1 ski area in the USA when the weather is right. Hotshots, golfcondoskiers and young skiers looking for “action” (I'm over 40, so I don't remember exactly what that entails) are just about the only people who won't call Grand Targhee their all-time favorite. For the pure skier, this resort is number one.Which may lead you to ask: OK Tough Guy then why did it take you five years to talk about this mountain on your podcast? Well I get that question about once a month, and I don't really have a good answer other than that there are a lot of ski areas and I can only talk about one at a time. But here you go. And from the way this one went, I don't think it will be my last conversation with the good folks at Grand old Targhee.What we talked aboutContinued refinement of the Colter lift and Peaked Mountain expansion; upgrading cats; “we do put skiing first here”; there's a reason that finance people “aren't the only ones in the room making decisions for ski areas”; how the Peaked expansion changed Targhee; the Teton Pass highway collapse; building, and then dismantling, Booth Creek; how ignoring an answering machine message led to the purchase of Targhee; first impressions of Targhee: “How is this not the most popular ski resort in America?”; imagining Booth Creek in an Epkonic alt reality; Targhee's commitment to independence; could Targhee ever acquire another mountain?; the insane price that the Gilletts paid for Targhee; the first time you see the Rockies; massive expansion potential; corn; fixed-grip versus detach; Targhee's high percentage of intermediate terrain and whether that matters; being next-door neighbors with “the most aspirational brand in skiing”; the hardest part of expanding a ski area; potential infill lifts; the ski run Gillett would like to eliminate and why; why we're unlikely to see a lift to the true summit; and why Targhee joined Mountain Collective but hasn't joined the Ikon Pass (and whether the mountain ever would).Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewA few things make Targhee extra relevant to our current ski moment:* Targhee is the only U.S. ski area aside from Sugar Bowl to join the Mountain Collective pass while staying off of Ikon.* In 2022, Targhee (sort of) quietly opened one of the largest lift-served North American ski expansions in the past decade, the 600-acre Peaked Mountain pod, served by the six-pack Colter lift.* The majority of large U.S. ski areas positioned on Forest Service land are bashful about their masterplans, which are publicly available documents that most resort officials wish we didn't know about. That's because these plans outline potential future expansions and upgrades that resorts would rather not prematurely acknowledge, lest they piss off the Chipmunk Police. So often when I'm like “Hey tell us about this 500-acre bowl-skiing expansion off the backside,” I get an answer that's something like, “well we look forward to working with our partners at the Forest Service to maybe consider doing that around the year 3000 after we complete our long-term study of mayfly migration routes.” But Geordie is just like, “Hell yes we want to blow the resort out in every direction like yesterday” (not an exact quote). And I freaking love the energy there.* Most large Western ski areas fall into one of two categories: big, modern, and busy (Vail, Big Sky, Palisades, Snowbird), or big, somewhat antiquated, and unknown (Discovery, Lost Trail, Silver). But Targhee has split the difference, being big, modern, and lesser-known, that rare oasis that gives you modern infrastructure (like fast lifts), without modern crowds (most of the time). It's kind of strange and kind of glorious, and probably too awesome to stay true forever, so I wanted to get there before the Brobot Bus unloaded.* Even 500-inches-in-an-average-winter Targhee has a small snowmaking system. Isn't that interesting?What I got wrong* I said that $20 million “might buy you a couple houses on the slopes at Jackson Hole.” It kind of depends on how you define “on the slopes,” and whether or not you can live without enough acreage for your private hippo zoo. If not, $24.5 million will get you this (I'm not positive that this one is zoned for immediate hippo occupation).* I said that 70 percent of Targhee's terrain was intermediate; Geordie indicated that that statistic had likely changed with the addition of the Peaked Mountain expansion. I'm working with Targhee to get updated numbers.Why you should ski Grand TargheeThe disconnect between people who write about skiing and what most people actually ski leads to outsized coverage of niche corners of this already niche activity. What percentage of skiers think that skiing uphill is fun? Can accomplish a mid-air backflip? Have ever leapt off a cliff more than four feet high? Commute via helicopter to the summit of their favorite Alaskan powder lines? The answer on all counts is probably a statistically insignificant number. But 99 percent of contemporary ski media focuses on exactly such marginal activities.In some ways I understand this. Most basketball media devote their attention to the NBA, not the playground knuckleheads at some cracked-concrete, bent-rim Harlem streetball court. It makes sense to look at the best and say wow. No one wants to watch intermediate skiers skiing intermediate terrain. But the magnifying glass hovering over the gnar sometimes clouds consumer choice. An average skier, infected by cliffity-hucking YouTubes and social media Man Bro boasting, thinks they want Corbet's and KT-22 and The Cirque at Snowbird. Which OK if you zigzag across the fall line yeah you can get down just about anything. But what most skiers need is Grand Targhee, big and approachable, mostly skiable by mostly anyone, with lots of good and light snow and a low chance of descent-by-tomahawk.Targhee's stats page puts the mountain's share of intermediate terrain at 70 percent, likely the highest of any major North American ski area (Northstar, another big-time intermediate-oriented mountain, claims 60 percent blue runs). I suspect this contributes to the resort's relatively low profile among destination skiers. Broseph Jones and his Brobot buddies examine the statistical breakdown of major resorts and are like “Yo cuz we want some Jackson trammage because we roll hard see.” Even though Targhee is bigger and gets more snow (both true) and offers a more realistic experience for the Brosephs.That's not to say that you shouldn't ski Jackson Hole. Everyone should. But steeps all day are mentally and physically draining. It's nice most of the time to not be parkouring down an elevator shaft. So go to Targhee too. And you can whoo-hoo through the deep empty trees and say “dang Brah this is hella rad Brah.” And it is.Podcast NotesOn the Peaked Mountain expansionThe Peaked Mountain terrain has been marked on Targhee's trailmap for years, but up until 2022, it was accessible mostly via snowcat:In 2022, the resort dropped a six-pack back there, better defined the trail network, and brought Peaked into the lift-served terrain package:On Grand Targhee's masterplanHere's the overview of Targhee's Forest Service master development plan. You can see potential expansions below Blackfoot (left in the image below), looker's right of Peaked/Colter (upper right), and below Sacajawea (lower right):Here's a better look at the so-called South Bowl proposal, which would add a big terrain pod contiguous with the recent Peaked expansion:Here's the MDP's inventory of proposed lifts. These things often change, and the “Peaked DC-4” listed below actualized as the Colter high-speed sixer:Targhee's snowmaking system is limited, but long-term aspirations show potential snowmaking stretching toward the top of the Dreamcatcher lift:On opposition to all of this potential expansionThere are groups of people masquerading as environmental commandos who I suspect oppose everything just to oppose it. Like oh a bobcat pooped next to that tree so we need to fence the area off from human activity for the next thousand years. But Targhee sits within a vast and amazing wilderness, the majority of which is and should be protected forever. But humans need space too, and developing a few hundred acres directly adjacent to already-developed ski terrain is the most sustainable and responsible way to do this. It's not like Targhee is saying “hey we're going to build a zipline connecting the resort to the Grand Teton.” But nothing in U.S. America can be achieved without a minimum of 45 lawsuits (it's in the Constitution), so these histrionic bozos will continue to exist.On Net Promoter Score and RRCI'm going to hurt myself if I try to overexplain this, so I'll just point toward RRC's Net Promoter Score overview page and the company's blog archive highlighting various reports. RRC sits quietly behind the ski industry but wields tremendous influence, assembling the annual Kotke end-of-season statistical report, which offers the most comprehensive annual overview of the state of U.S. skiing.On the reason I couldn't go to Grand Targhee last yearSo I was all set up to hit Targhee for a day last year and then I woke up in the middle of the night thinking “Gee I feel like I'm gonna die soon” and so I did not go skiing that day. Here's the full story if you are curious how I ended up not dying.On the Peaked terrain expansion being the hypothetical largest ski area in New HampshireI'll admit that East-West ski area size comparisons are fundamentally flawed. Eastern mountains not named Killington, Smugglers' Notch, and Sugarloaf tend to measure skiable terrain by acreage of cut trails and maintained glades (Sugarbush, one of the largest ski areas in the East by pure footprint, doesn't even count the latter). Western mountains generally count everything within their boundary. Fair enough – trying to ski most natural-growth eastern woods is like trying to ski down the stands of a packed football stadium. You're going to hit something. Western trees tend to be higher altitude, older-growth, less cluttered with undergrowth, and, um, more snow-covered. Meaning it's not unfair to include even unmarked sectors of the ski area as part of the ski area.Which is a long way of saying that numbers are hard, and that relying on ski area stats pages for accurate ski area comparisons isn't going to get you into NASA's astronaut training academy. Here's a side-by-side of 464-acre Bretton Woods – New Hampshire's largest ski area – and Targhee's 600-acre Peaked Mountain expansion, both at the same scale in Google Maps. Clearly Bretton Woods covers more area, but the majority of those trees are too dense to ski:And here's an inventory of all New Hampshire ski areas, if you're curious:On the Teton Pass highway collapseYeah so this was wild:On Booth CreekGrand Targhee was once part of the Booth Creek ski conglomerate, which now exists only as the overlord for Sierra-at-Tahoe. Here's a little history:On the ski areas at Snoqualmie Pass being “insane”We talk a bit about the “insane” terrain at Summit at Snoqualmie, a quirky ski resort now owned by Boyne. The mountain was Frankensteined together out of four legacy ski areas, three of which share a ridge and are interconnected. And then there's Alpental, marooned across the interstate, much taller and infinitely rowdier than its ho-hum brothers. Alpy, as a brand and as a badass, is criminally unknown outside of its immediate market, despite being on the Ikon Pass since 2018. But, as Gillett notes, it is one of the roughest, toughest mountains going:On Targhee's sinkholePer Jackson Hole News and Guide in September of last year:About two weeks ago, a day or so after torrential rain, and a few days after a downhill mountain biking race concluded on the Blondie trail, Targhee ski patrollers noticed that something was amiss. Only feet away from the muddy meander that mountain bikers had zipped down, a mound of earth had disappeared.In its place, there was a hole of unknown, but concerning, size.Subsequent investigations — largely, throwing rocks into the hole while the resort waits for more technical tools — indicate that the sinkhole is at least 8 feet wide and about 40 feet deep, if not more. There are layers of ice caking the walls a few feet down, and the abyss is smack dab in the middle of the resort's prized ski run.Falling into a sinkhole would be a ridiculous way to go. Like getting crushed by a falling piano or flattened under a steamroller. Imagine your last thought on earth is “Bro are you freaking kidding me with this s**t?”On the overlap between Mountain Collective and IkonMountain Collective and Ikon share a remarkable 26 partner ski areas. Only Targhee, Sugar Bowl, Marmot Basin, Bromont, Le Massif du Charlevoix, and newly added Megève have joined Mountain Collective while holding out on Ikon.The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing year-round. Join us.The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 70/100 in 2024, and number 570 since launching on Oct. 13, 2019. 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
22 mil mdp costará el pensión para mujeres de 60 a 64 años Deslave en la Méxco Toluca, ambos sentidos están afectados Pierde la vida conductor del auto que cayó al canal de aguas negras en Tlalnepantla Más detalles en nuestro Podcast
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Derrama económica por vacaciones dejará en CDMX más de 13 mil mdp Primera edición del “Biofest : Festival por la Naturaleza en la Ciudad de México” el 24 de agosto en el Centro Histórico de la capital EU ha enviado a más de 92 mil migrantes a sus países de origenMás información en nuestro Podcast
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: A Simple Toy Coherence Theorem, published by johnswentworth on August 2, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum. This post presents a simple toy coherence theorem, and then uses it to address various common confusions about coherence arguments. Setting Deterministic MDP. That means at each time t there's a state S[t][1], the agent/policy takes an action A[t] (which can depend on both time t and current state S[t]), and then the next state S[t+1] is fully determined by S[t] and A[t]. The current state and current action are sufficient to tell us the next state. We will think about values over the state at some final time T. Note that often in MDPs there is an incremental reward each timestep in addition to a final reward at the end; in our setting there is zero incremental reward at each timestep. One key point about this setting: if the value over final state is uniform, i.e. same value for all final states, then the MDP is trivial. In that case, all policies are optimal, it does not matter at all what the final state is or what any state along the way is, everything is equally valuable. Theorem There exist policies which cannot be optimal for any values over final state except for the trivial case of uniform values. Furthermore, such policies are exactly those which display inconsistent revealed preferences transitively between all final states. Proof As a specific example: consider an MDP in which every state is reachable at every timestep, and a policy which always stays in the same state over time. From each state S every other state is reachable, yet the policy chooses S, so in order for the policy to be optimal S must be a highest-value final state. Since each state must be a highest-value state, the policy cannot be optimal for any values over final state except for the trivial case of uniform values. That establishes the existence part of the theorem, and you can probably get the whole idea by thinking about how to generalize that example. The rest of the proof extends the idea of that example to inconsistent revealed preferences in general. Bulk of Proof (click to expand) Assume the policy is optimal for some particular values over final state. We can then start from those values over final state and compute the best value achievable starting from each state at each earlier time. That's just dynamic programming: V[S,t]=max S' reachable in next timestep from S V[S',t+1] where V[S,T] are the values over final states. A policy is optimal for final values V[S,T] if-and-only-if at each timestep t1 it chooses a next state with highest reachable V[S,t]. Now, suppose that at timestep t there are two different states either of which can reach either state A or state B in the next timestep. From one of those states the policy chooses A; from the other the policy chooses B. This is an inconsistent revealed preference between A and B at time t: sometimes the policy has a revealed preference for A over B, sometimes for B over A. In order for a policy with an inconsistent revealed preference between A and B at time t to be optimal, the values must satisfy V[A,t]=V[B,t] Why? Well, a policy is optimal for final values V[S,T] if-and-only if at each timestep t1 it chooses a next state with highest reachable V[S,t]. So, if an optimal policy sometimes chooses A over B at timestep t when both are reachable, then we must have V[A,t]V[B,t]. And if an optimal policy sometimes chooses B over A at timestep t when both are reachable, then we must have V[A,t]V[B,t]. If both of those occur, i.e. the policy has an inconsistent revealed preference between A and B at time t, then V[A,t]=V[B,t]. Now, we can propagate that equality to a revealed preference on final states. We know that the final state which the policy in fact reaches starting from A at time t must have the highest reachable value, a...
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: A Simple Toy Coherence Theorem, published by johnswentworth on August 2, 2024 on LessWrong. This post presents a simple toy coherence theorem, and then uses it to address various common confusions about coherence arguments. Setting Deterministic MDP. That means at each time t there's a state S[t][1], the agent/policy takes an action A[t] (which can depend on both time t and current state S[t]), and then the next state S[t+1] is fully determined by S[t] and A[t]. The current state and current action are sufficient to tell us the next state. We will think about values over the state at some final time T. Note that often in MDPs there is an incremental reward each timestep in addition to a final reward at the end; in our setting there is zero incremental reward at each timestep. One key point about this setting: if the value over final state is uniform, i.e. same value for all final states, then the MDP is trivial. In that case, all policies are optimal, it does not matter at all what the final state is or what any state along the way is, everything is equally valuable. Theorem There exist policies which cannot be optimal for any values over final state except for the trivial case of uniform values. Furthermore, such policies are exactly those which display inconsistent revealed preferences transitively between all final states. Proof As a specific example: consider an MDP in which every state is reachable at every timestep, and a policy which always stays in the same state over time. From each state S every other state is reachable, yet the policy chooses S, so in order for the policy to be optimal S must be a highest-value final state. Since each state must be a highest-value state, the policy cannot be optimal for any values over final state except for the trivial case of uniform values. That establishes the existence part of the theorem, and you can probably get the whole idea by thinking about how to generalize that example. The rest of the proof extends the idea of that example to inconsistent revealed preferences in general. Bulk of Proof (click to expand) Assume the policy is optimal for some particular values over final state. We can then start from those values over final state and compute the best value achievable starting from each state at each earlier time. That's just dynamic programming: V[S,t]=max S' reachable in next timestep from S V[S',t+1] where V[S,T] are the values over final states. A policy is optimal for final values V[S,T] if-and-only-if at each timestep t1 it chooses a next state with highest reachable V[S,t]. Now, suppose that at timestep t there are two different states either of which can reach either state A or state B in the next timestep. From one of those states the policy chooses A; from the other the policy chooses B. This is an inconsistent revealed preference between A and B at time t: sometimes the policy has a revealed preference for A over B, sometimes for B over A. In order for a policy with an inconsistent revealed preference between A and B at time t to be optimal, the values must satisfy V[A,t]=V[B,t] Why? Well, a policy is optimal for final values V[S,T] if-and-only if at each timestep t1 it chooses a next state with highest reachable V[S,t]. So, if an optimal policy sometimes chooses A over B at timestep t when both are reachable, then we must have V[A,t]V[B,t]. And if an optimal policy sometimes chooses B over A at timestep t when both are reachable, then we must have V[A,t]V[B,t]. If both of those occur, i.e. the policy has an inconsistent revealed preference between A and B at time t, then V[A,t]=V[B,t]. Now, we can propagate that equality to a revealed preference on final states. We know that the final state which the policy in fact reaches starting from A at time t must have the highest reachable value, and that value...
In This Episode Matt & Neill talk about how the Chicago Bulls performed in this year's Summer League and talk a little about Giddey's play for Australia: Who were the Winners and Losers for the Chicago Bulls in the Summer League now that it has wrapped up? Which players stood out and which players disappeared? Were there any surprises among the roster? Who is Matt going to claim as his latest 'Guy?!' Who did the boys select as their personal MVP of Summer League? And who did they select to be their MDP? (Most Disappointing Player) How has Josh Giddey been getting on for the Australian National Team? Matt gives his take on how he thought Giddey looked as a Boomer. And more.... Subscribe - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSxYqvrHTptNo6y9fmLfhJg Chicago Bulls Chat - See Red UK Social Media Merch Store. - see-red-uk.teemill.com X - https://twitter.com/SeeRedUK Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/seereduk/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@chicagobullschat Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/seereduk Here at See Red UK we're raising awareness for Andy's Man Club. Don't suffer in silence and remember it's OK to talk
Last week, I attended the Parents Fundraising conference hosted by Cornell University. Chris McGowan (Yale's former co-chair of the Parents Leadership Council) joined me for a live audience conversation about working with parent volunteers and donors. It is worth listening to the end where we will have a live Q and A! Chris McGowan is the General Partner of CJM Ventures (“CJMV”), a Chicago growth equity and private equity investment firm. McGowan's private equity career began 29 years ago with AEA Investors in New York City, after earning an undergraduate degree in theoretical mathematics from Columbia University's College of Arts and Sciences, and following two years of mergers and acquisitions training at Morgan Stanley. After completing an MBA at Harvard Business School, he joined Madison Dearborn Partners (“MDP”) in Chicago, where he co-headed their basic industries practice for the last five years of his 12-year career there. At MDP, he oversaw more than $2 billion of equity investments focused on buyouts and growth equity globally in the industrial, consumer, and energy & power sectors. He continues to serve on the Board of prior MDP portfolio company Boise Cascade (former Chairman of Audit Committee, NYSE: BCC) and formerly served on or advised the boards of Smurfit Kappa Group (LN: SKG), BWAY Holdings, FirstWind, US Power Generating, OPENLANE, The Illinois Venture Capital Association, and others. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/devdebrief/support
In this episode, the fellas are getting old!! Hear how they come to the revelation that they are not as young as they used to be. You'll get a chance to catch up on MDP's recent viral videos and learn how to k!ll your opps with kindness. You don't want to miss this one! It's the Manly Deeds Podcast!
En el podcast hablamos sobre los titulares de la edición 2620 del 14 al 20 de junio de 2024. del Semanario ZETA Da 42 MDP en contratos a padres de Oficial Mayor. Reformas morenistas hunden al peso. Sicarios reincidentes amenazan a policías. Prófugo, padre de Palani por asesinato. Más detalles, en la edición impresa del Semanario ZETA y en nuestro portal www.zetatijuana.com
Marcus Hutter is an artificial intelligence researcher who is both a Senior Researcher at Google DeepMind and an Honorary Professor in the Research School of Computer Science at Australian National University. He is responsible for the development of the theory of Universal Artificial Intelligence, for which he has written two books, one back in 2005 and one coming right off the press as we speak. Marcus is also the creator of the Hutter prize, for which you can win a sizable fortune for achieving state of the art lossless compression of Wikipedia text. Patreon (bonus materials + video chat): https://www.patreon.com/timothynguyen In this technical conversation, we cover material from Marcus's two books “Universal Artificial Intelligence” (2005) and “Introduction to Universal Artificial Intelligence” (2024). The main goal is to develop a mathematical theory for combining sequential prediction (which seeks to predict the distribution of the next observation) together with action (which seeks to maximize expected reward), since these are among the problems that intelligent agents face when interacting in an unknown environment. Solomonoff induction provides a universal approach to sequence prediction in that it constructs an optimal prior (in a certain sense) over the space of all computable distributions of sequences, thus enabling Bayesian updating to enable convergence to the true predictive distribution (assuming the latter is computable). Combining Solomonoff induction with optimal action leads us to an agent known as AIXI, which in this theoretical setting, can be argued to be a mathematical incarnation of artificial general intelligence (AGI): it is an agent which acts optimally in general, unknown environments. The second half of our discussion concerning agents assumes familiarity with the basic setup of reinforcement learning. I. Introduction 00:38 : Biography 01:45 : From Physics to AI 03:05 : Hutter Prize 06:25 : Overview of Universal Artificial Intelligence 11:10 : Technical outline II. Universal Prediction 18:27 : Laplace's Rule and Bayesian Sequence Prediction 40:54 : Different priors: KT estimator 44:39 : Sequence prediction for countable hypothesis class 53:23 : Generalized Solomonoff Bound (GSB) 57:56 : Example of GSB for uniform prior 1:04:24 : GSB for continuous hypothesis classes 1:08:28 : Context tree weighting 1:12:31 : Kolmogorov complexity 1:19:36 : Solomonoff Bound & Solomonoff Induction 1:21:27 : Optimality of Solomonoff Induction 1:24:48 : Solomonoff a priori distribution in terms of random Turing machines 1:28:37 : Large Language Models (LLMs) 1:37:07 : Using LLMs to emulate Solomonoff induction 1:41:41 : Loss functions 1:50:59 : Optimality of Solomonoff induction revisited 1:51:51 : Marvin Minsky III. Universal Agents 1:52:42 : Recap and intro 1:55:59 : Setup 2:06:32 : Bayesian mixture environment 2:08:02 : AIxi. Bayes optimal policy vs optimal policy 2:11:27 : AIXI (AIxi with xi = Solomonoff a priori distribution) 2:12:04 : AIXI and AGI 2:12:41 : Legg-Hutter measure of intelligence 2:15:35 : AIXI explicit formula 2:23:53 : Other agents (optimistic agent, Thompson sampling, etc) 2:33:09 : Multiagent setting 2:39:38 : Grain of Truth problem 2:44:38 : Positive solution to Grain of Truth guarantees convergence to a Nash equilibria 2:45:01 : Computable approximations (simplifying assumptions on model classes): MDP, CTW, LLMs 2:56:13 : Outro: Brief philosophical remarks Further Reading: M. Hutter, D. Quarrel, E. Catt. An Introduction to Universal Artificial Intelligence M. Hutter. Universal Artificial Intelligence S. Legg and M. Hutter. Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence Twitter: @iamtimnguyen Webpage: http://www.timothynguyen.org
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: [Aspiration-based designs] 2. Formal framework, basic algorithm, published by Jobst Heitzig on April 28, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum. Summary. In this post, we present the formal framework we adopt during the sequence, and the simplest form of the type of aspiration-based algorithms we study. We do this for a simple form of aspiration-type goals: making the expectation of some variable equal to some given target value. The algorithm is based on the idea of propagating aspirations along time, and we prove that the algorithm gives a performance guarantee if the goal is feasible. Later posts discuss safety criteria, other types of goals, and variants of the basic algorithm. Assumptions In line with the working hypotheses stated in the previous post, we assume more specifically the following in this post: The agent is a general-purpose AI system that is given a potentially long sequence of tasks, one by one, which it does not know in advance. Most aspects of what we discuss focus on the current task only, but some aspects relate to the fact that there will be further, unknown tasks later (e.g., the question of how much power the agent shall aim to retain at the end of the task). It possesses an overall world model that represents a good enough general understanding of how the world works. Whenever the agent is given a task, an episode begins and its overall world model provides it with a (potentially much simpler) task-specific world model that represents everything that is relevant for the time period until the agent gets a different task or is deactivated, and that can be used to predict the potentially stochastic consequences of taking certain actions in certain world states. That task-specific world model has the form of a (fully observed) Markov Decision Process (MDP) that however does not contain a reward function R but instead contains what we call an evaluation function related to the task (see 2nd to next bullet point). As a consequence of a state transition, i.e., of taking a certain action a in a certain state s and finding itself in a certain successor state s', a certain task-relevant evaluation metric changes by some amount. Importantly, we do not assume that the evaluation metric inherently encodes things of which more is better. E.g., the evaluation metric could be global mean temperature, client's body mass, x coordinate of the agent's right thumb, etc. We call the step-wise change in the evaluation metric the received Delta in that time step, denoted δ. We call its cumulative sum over all time steps of the episode the Total, denoted τ. Formally, Delta and Total play a similar role for our aspiration-based approach as the concepts of "reward" and "return" play for maximization-based approaches. The crucial difference is that our agent is not tasked to maximize Total (since the evaluation metric does not have the interpretation of "more is better") but to aim for some specific value of the Total. The evaluation function contained in the MDP specifies the expected value of δ for all possible transitions: Eδ(s,a,s').[1] First challenge: guaranteeing the fulfillment of expectation-type goals The challenge in this post is to design a decision algorithm for tasks where the agent's goal is to make the expected (!) Total equal (!) a certain value ER which we call the aspiration value. [2] This is a crucial difference from a "satisficing" approach that would aim to make expected Total at least as large as E and would thus still be happy to maximize Total. Later we consider other types of tasks, both less restrictive ones (including those related to satisficing) and more specific ones that also care about other aspects of the resulting distribution of Total or states. It turns out that we can guarantee the fulfillment of this type of goal under some weak condit...
Pro-China Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu's People's National Congress party has secured a two-thirds majority in the Majlis. With this absolute parliamentary dominance, what previously obstructed policies can the current government push through?But is Muizzu's win really a vote against India, given his vocal support for it, or are there other factors that played out?And why did the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) lose so badly? How did Maldivians lose trust in the MDP?In this episode of Geeta's World, our host, Anna Priyadarshini, and the foreign affairs editor at India Today, TV Today Network, Geeta Mohan, discuss!Listen in!Produced by Anna PriyadarshiniSound Mix by Sachin Dwivedi
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Measuring Coherence of Policies in Toy Environments, published by dx26 on March 18, 2024 on LessWrong. This post was produced as part of the Astra Fellowship under the Winter 2024 Cohort, mentored by Richard Ngo. Thanks to Martín Soto, Jeremy Gillien, Daniel Kokotajlo, and Lukas Berglund for feedback. Summary Discussions around the likelihood and threat models of AI existential risk (x-risk) often hinge on some informal concept of a "coherent", goal-directed AGI in the future maximizing some utility function unaligned with human values. Whether and how coherence may develop in future AI systems, especially in the era of LLMs, has been a subject of considerable debate. In this post, we provide a preliminary mathematical definition of the coherence of a policy as how likely it is to have been sampled via uniform reward sampling (URS), or uniformly sampling a reward function and then sampling from the set of policies optimal for that reward function, versus uniform policy sampling (UPS). We provide extensions of the model for sub-optimality and for "simple" reward functions via uniform sparsity sampling (USS). We then build a classifier for the coherence of policies in small deterministic MDPs, and find that properties of the MDP and policy, like the number of self-loops that the policy takes, are predictive of coherence when used as features for the classifier. Moreover, coherent policies tend to preserve optionality, navigate toward high-reward areas of the MDP, and have other "agentic" properties. We hope that our metric can be iterated upon to achieve better definitions of coherence and a better understanding of what properties dangerous AIs will have. Introduction Much of the current discussion about AI x-risk centers around "agentic", goal-directed AIs having misaligned goals. For instance, one of the most dangerous possibilities being discussed is of mesa-optimizers developing within superhuman models, leading to scheming behavior and deceptive alignment. A significant proportion of current alignment work focuses on detecting, analyzing (e.g. via analogous case studies of model organisms), and possibly preventing deception. Some researchers in the field believe that intelligence and capabilities are inherently tied with "coherence", and thus any sufficiently capable AI will approximately be a coherent utility function maximizer. In their paper "Risks From Learned Optimization" formally introducing mesa-optimization and deceptive alignment, Evan Hubinger et al. discuss the plausibility of mesa-optimization occurring in RL-trained models. They analyze the possibility of a base optimizer, such as a hill-climbing local optimization algorithm like stochastic gradient descent, producing a mesa-optimizer model that internally does search (e.g. Monte Carlo tree search) in pursuit of a mesa-objective (in the real world, or in the "world-model" of the agent), which may or may not be aligned with human interests. This is in contrast to a model containing many complex heuristics that is not well-defined internally as a consequentialist mesa-optimizer; one extreme example is a tabular model/lookup table that matches observations to actions, which clearly does not do any internal search or have any consequentialist cognition. They speculate that mesa-optimizers may be selected for because they generalize better than other models, and/or may be more compressible information-theoretic wise, and may thus be selected for because of inductive biases in the training process. Other researchers believe that scheming and other mesa-optimizing behavior is implausible with the most common current ML architectures, and that the inductive bias argument and other arguments for getting misaligned mesa-optimizers by default (like the counting argument, which suggests that there are many more ...
In this special edition of Potty Talk, Richard welcomes a fun new and informative podcast to the MDP family, hosted by plumbing business owners; for plumbing business owners looking to take their business to the next level. Potty Talk #420 Craving a break from the daily grind? We hear you!
En el podcast hablamos de los titulares de la edición impresa 2605 del primero al 7 de marzo de 2024. del Semanario ZETA. ASF observa 128 MDP a gobierno de BC. Testimonio de un secuestro, y despojo. De Culiacán a Tijuana, balacera contra El Rayo. Aterra cobro de piso a comerciantes. Los detalles, en la edición impresa del Semanario ZETA y en nuestro portal www.zetatijuana.com
This Episodes Questions: Brian's Questions: Ashtin here Hey guys love the podcast thank you for putting out good content for all of us to hear My question is I'm very new to the woodworking community I don't have a shop or a space I work in I use all mobile equipment I do all my work outside I want to know what projects I can do that will help build my skills in and my confidence I have a DEWALT Dw7491rs Table saw A Bosch router table Ra1181 A craftsman jointer Cmew020 A wen 6524 spindle and belt sander combo A dewalt Dws 780 miter saw I do have a Incra 1000se Also what blade would you recommend for my table saw for an all around use? I have been using Diablo blades sense I have had it. Ashtin Brian also gives a nice PSA on shop safety and how thiungs can go wrong quickly Guy's Questions: I've been doing some veneering using a vaccum bag. Mostly just panels for doors and box lids. When I join two pieces of veneer together at a seam I'll use blue painters tape to hold the seem together. My.problem is when I get it out and start taking the tape off I'll get some of the veneer fibers coming off with the tape. How can I prevent it from happening? Thanks John Hi guys. Love the podcast. I've learned a bunch from you all. My question is about end grain. I'm building a cherry night stand that has a shelf that will be 20" long and about 17" wide. I'm making the shelf from solid cherry as well. The 17" dimension end grain will show on the left and right sides of the night stand. I made my own cherry veneer from the stock I have (it's about 1/32" thick) and was thinking I could edge band it to the ends. But if I do that, the glue holding the veneer will prevent the wood from moving, right? I was even thinking about using the banding so that the grain follows the top (like a waterfall). But it doesn't solve the glue issue. Am I correct in this thinking? How can I dress up the ends so that it doesn't look like amateurish? Or should I just sand the end grain to a very fine grit and/or seal the end grain before finishing so that it doesn't get darker than the shelf itself? Thanks so much. Anthony Huy's Questions: Hello Gentlemen, I'm planning on replacing the cheap hollow-core door that leads from my conditioned basement to my workshop garage. Any advise on materials? I know MDP is flat but edges are brittle. Can I use an mdf or plywood core and dress it up with thinner material? How should I go about this while accounting for wood movement? My jointer is the limiting factor, bench-top with only a couple feet in totable bed lengths combined. Thanks Again, Dave I'm an “aspiring” woodworker in Harvest Alabama. I have a 1 car garage with a 5x8x6 tornado bunker in the middle of the floor. If you had that, is there any way that you would reuse that space to your advantage? Not just storage space, but actively- like dust collection, or an extra long panel saw. Tom
Robert Hue, sénateur et président du MDP en juin 2016, s'était indigné des propos tenu par Pierre Gattaz contre la CGT. Pour l'ancien secrétaire du Parti Communiste, c'est un scandale, une honte... Tous les jours, retrouvez en podcast une archive des meilleures imitations de Laurent Gerra.
Are you sick of hearing about snowboarding on The Bomb Hole? Well we have your solution: this week's guest, Curtis Ciszek. We dive into some of your burning questions such as: Does somebody end up with webbed toes because they grew up on a boat? Or is it just a coincidence? What does it feel like to take a bite out of a dildo? Why is Curtis Ciszek so scared of roman candles? Does anybody actually care about fishing? And so much more. Sure, we talk about some of his incredible snowboarding and back country experiences. But who cares. It's not about that. Because Curtis Ciszek is so much more than that. He isn't just a snowboarder, he's everything else in between. Find out the answer to all these questions and more on this week's episode of The Bomb Hole!Follow Curtishttps://www.instagram.com/curtisciszek/Follow Chris & Alex PashleyChris Grenier: https://www.instagram.com/grendiesel/Alex Pashley: https://www.instagram.com/varmin/Show NotesEndurance II | https://www.endurancefilm.com/Erik Jackson's "Alignment" | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH4V2YCgEh0Jake Price | https://www.instagram.com/jpminibike/Austin Smith | https://www.instagram.com/austinbsmith/MDP's "Down With People" | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBLRMAIXMnY&t=400sFarm To Table | https://vimeo.com/246156488The Snowboarder's Journal | https://www.thesnowboardersjournal.com/Jet Boat Fly Guides | https://jetboatflyguides.com/This episode is sponsored byDragon: https://www.dragonalliance.comBubs Naturals: https://www.bubsnaturals.comMammoth: https://www.mammothmountain.comOakley: https://www.oakley.com/en-usSpecial thank you to our Patreon Members for making our show possible! Ask us questions and suggest topics for guests and Group Chat when you become a member. Learn more and sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/thebombholeFor all things Bomb HoleWebsite | https://thebombhole.com/Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/thebombhole/YouTube | @TheBombHoleTikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@thebombholeChapters:00:00 Intro1:33 Trip to Antarctica11:39 Run Through A Wall Trivia15:58 Naked Boogie Boarder18:07 Webbed Toes19:33 Ad: LAAX Open & Mammoth22:36 Growing Up On A Boat37:24 Making A Movie44:11 A Super Grom50:00 Eating A Dildo & Roman Candle Trauma56:20 Snowmobiles1:10:08 Ad: Oakley1:11:54 Snowmobiles (Cont'd)1:13:15 Down With People & Farm to Table1:22:30 Snowboarders on The Rooster1:28:34 Ad: Bubs Naturals1:29:44 Methods1:33:36 Digging At High Cascade1:42:48 Pranks / Jet Skis / Rock Climbing1:52:05 NTVP1:56:46 Trip Stories / Bend, Oregon2:06:26 Eyes Swollen Shut2:11:04 Ad: Dragon Alliance2:12:13 Surfing & The Art of Doubling2:32:54 Fishing2:54:45 Hot Takes2:59:06 Set Ups / What's Next / Thank YousCopyright Bomb Hole Media Inc. 2023#TheBombHole #CurtisCiszek #Snowboarding
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En el podcast hablamos sobre: Aumenta hasta 110% compensaciones a colaboradores. México extraditó a 80 en 2023. Compromete 1,750 MDP para luminarias. Compran policías incapacidades. Alza al Salario Mínimo: prevén despidos y encarecimiento. Más detalles en la edición impresa del Semanario ZETA o en nuestro sitio www.zetatijuana.com
Too many patients and too little time.Most clinicians wish they had more time to spend with each patient and patients generally hate feeling rushed through their medical visits.How can you practice compassionate medical care when you have to rush from one patient to another?This week I discuss 8 tips for making a short visit seem longer so it is more satisfying for your patient and more satisfying for you.What did I miss? Let me know and I'll add them in to a future episode. You can connect with me on the website (www.integrativepalliative.com ) or on LinkedIn.Help me spread the word about integrative palliative care.I'm glad to be on the journey with you!Delia Chiaramonte, MDP.S. Join our community of integrative palliative people. We'd love to have you. Sign up here: https://trainings.integrativepalliative.com/IPI-stay-in-touchHelping oncology and palliative care physicians go from feeling disillusioned and frustrated to finding joy in their work and in their lifePlease review this podcast wherever you listen and forward your favorite episode to a friend! I'm thrilled to be listed in Feedspot's top 15 palliative podcasts!https://blog.feedspot.com/palliative_care_podcasts/
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You can also subscribe to the free tier below:WhoChris Sorensen, Vice President and General Manager of Keystone, ColoradoRecorded onSeptember 11, 2023About KeystoneClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: Vail ResortsLocated in: Keystone, ColoradoYear founded: 1970Pass affiliations:* Epic Pass: unlimited access* Epic Local Pass: unlimited access* Summit Value Pass: unlimited access* Keystone Plus Pass: unlimited access with holiday blackouts* Tahoe Local: five days combined with Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Crested Butte, Park City* Epic Day Pass: access with All Resorts and 32-resorts tiersClosest neighboring ski areas: Arapahoe Basin (:08), Frisco (:19), Loveland (22 minutes), Breckenridge (:25), Copper (:25), Vail (:44), Beaver Creek (:53), Ski Cooper (:56) – travel times vary considerably given traffic, weather, and time of year.Base elevation: 9,280 feetSummit elevation: 12,408 feet at the top of Keystone Peak; highest lift-served point is 12,282 feet at the top of Bergman Bowl ExpressVertical drop: 3,002 feet lift-served; 3,128 feet hike-toSkiable Acres: 3,149 acresAverage annual snowfall: 235 inchesTrail count: 130 (49% most difficult, 39% more difficult, 12% easiest)Lift count: 20 (1 eight-passenger gondola, 1 six-passenger gondola, 4 high-speed six-packs, 3 high-speed quads, 1 fixed-grip quad, 1 triple, 2 doubles, 7 carpets)Why I interviewed himKeystone arrived in 1970, a star member of the last great wave of western ski resort development, just before Snowbird (1971), Northstar (1972), Telluride (1972), and Big Sky (1973). It landed in a crowded Summit County, just down the road from Arapahoe Basin (1946) and five miles overland from Breckenridge (1961). Copper Mountain came online two years later. Loveland (1937) stood at the gateway to Summit County, looming above what would become the Eisenhower Tunnel in 1973. Just west sat Ski Cooper (1942), the mighty and rapidly expanding Vail Mountain (1962), and the patch of wilderness that would morph into Beaver Creek within a decade. Today, the density of ski areas along Colorado's I-70 corridor is astonishing:Despite this geographic proximity, you could not find more distinct ski experiences were you to search across continents. This is true everywhere ski areas bunch, from northern Vermont to Michigan's Upper Peninsula to the Wasatch. Ski areas, like people, hack their identities out of the raw material available to them, and just as siblings growing up in the same household can emerge as wildly different entities, so too can mountains that sit side-by-side-by-side.Keystone, lacking the gnar, was never going to be Jackson or Palisades, fierce and frothing. Sprung from wilderness, it could never replicate Breck's mining-town patina. Its high alpine could not summon the drama of A-Basin's East Wall or the expanse of Vail's Back Bowls.But Keystone made its way. It would be Summit County's family mountain, its night-ski mountain, and, eventually, one of its first-to-open-each-ski-season mountains. This is the headline, and this is how everyone thinks of the place. But over the decades, Keystone has quietly built out one of Colorado's most comprehensive ski experiences, an almost perfect front-to-back progression from gentle to damn. Like Heavenly or Park City, Keystone wears its steeps modestly, like your quiet neighbor with a Corvette hidden beneath tarps in the polebarn. All you notice is the Camry parked in the driveway. But there are layers here. Keep looking, and you will find them.What we talked aboutHopeful for that traditional October opening; why Keystone is Vail's early-season operator in Colorado; why the mountain closes in early April; breaking down the Bergman Bowl expansion and the six-pack that will service it; the eternal tension of opening hike-to terrain to lift service; building more room to roam, rather than more people to roam it; the art of environmentally conscious glading; new lift-served terrain in Erickson Bowl; turning data into infrastructure; why the Bergman sixer won't have bubbles; why Bergman won't access The Windows terrain; the clever scheme behind renaming the Bergman Bowl expansion trails; building a new trailmap with Rad Smith; where skiers will be able to get a copy of the new paper trailmap; comparing the Peru upgrade to the Bergman lift project; the construction mistake that delayed the Bergman expansion by a full year; the possibility of lifts in Independence, North, and South Bowls; falling in love with skiing Colorado, then moving to Michigan; why Vail bought a bunch of Midwest bumps; when you get to lead the resort where you started bumping lifts; what makes Keystone stand out even though it sits within one of the densest concentrations of large ski areas in North America; thoughts on long-term lift upgrades, and where we could see six-packs; whether the Argentine lift could ever return in some form; the potential for a Ski Tip lift; where Keystone could expand next; whether a Windows lift is in play; North American Bowl; when we could see an updated Keystone masterplan; why Keystone gets less snow than its neighbors; assessing Epic Pass access; and night skiing. Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewKeystone is opening one of three large lift-served ski expansions in Colorado this winter: the 500-plus-acre Bergman Bowl, served by a high-speed six-pack (the other two are Hero's on Aspen Mountain and Mahogany Ridge at Steamboat). While this pod has occupied the trailmap as hike-to terrain for years, more people will likely ski it before noon on a typical Monday than once slogged up the ridgeline in an entire winter. Keystone has renamed and somewhat re-sculpted the trails in honor of the occasion, inviting the masses onto a blue-square oasis at the top of Summit County.Which is always a good excuse for a podcast. But… this terrain was supposed to open in 2022, until the project ran into a high-altitude brick wall last July, when construction crews oopsied a road through sensitive terrain. Vail Daily:Construction of a new chairlift at Keystone Resort was ordered to cease this week after the U.S. Forest Service learned that an unauthorized road had been bulldozed through sensitive areas where minimal impacts were authorized.Keystone Resort, which operates by permit on U.S. Forest Service land, was granted permission by the White River National Forest to construct a new chairlift this summer in the area known as Bergman Bowl, creating a 555-acre expansion of Keystone's lift-served terrain. But that approval came with plenty of comments from the Environmental Protection Agency, which recommended minimal road construction associated with the project due to Bergman Bowl's environmentally sensitive location. …White River National Forest Supervisor Scott Fitzwilliams said while the Forest Service does approve many projects like Bergman Bowl, officials typically don't allow construction of new access roads in Alpine tundra.“When you drop a bulldozer blade in the Alpine, that is very fragile, and very difficult to restore,” Fitzwilliams said.In Bergman Bowl, the Forest Service has found “damage to the Alpine environment … impacts to wetlands and stuff that we normally don't want to do,” Fitzwilliams said.As a result, Fitzwilliams issued a cease and desist letter to Vail Resorts. He said the company immediately complied and shut down the impacted parts of the project.The Forest Service has not yet determined if a full restoration can occur.“When you impact the Alpine environment, it's not easy to restore,” Fitzwilliams said. “Sometimes, although achievable in some areas, it's difficult.”Vail Resorts, which has staked much of its identity on its friend-of-the-environment credentials, owned the mistake and immediately hired a firm to design a mitigation plan. What Keystone came back with was so thorough that it stunned Forest Service officials. Blevins, writing a week later in the Colorado Sun:White River National Forest supervisor Scott Fitzwilliams on Thursday said he accepted Vail Resorts' cure for improperly grading 2.5 acres outside of approved construction boundaries, including 1.5 acres above treeline in the fragile alpine zone. The company's construction crews also filled a wetland creek with logs and graded over it to create a road crossing and did not save topsoil and vegetation for replanting after construction, all of which the agency found “were not consistent with Forest Service expectations.”Fitzwilliams rescinded his order of noncompliance and canceled the cease-and-desist order he issued last month after Forest Service officials discovered the construction that had not been permitted. …“Quite honestly, it's the best restoration plan I've ever seen in my life. Even our staff are like ‘Oh my god,'” Fitzwilliams said. “The restoration plan submitted by Keystone is extremely detailed, thorough and includes all the necessary actions to insure the damage is restored as best as possible.”The damage to fragile alpine terrain does require additional analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act, but Fitzwilliams said that can be done while the construction continues.On Thursday afternoon, resort officials said the further environmental review will keep Bergman Bowl from opening for the 2022-23 season, a development Keystone general manager Chris Sorensen said is disappointing but necessary.Indeed. The only way out is through. But how did that plan go? And what is Vail doing to make sure such mistakes don't recur? And how do you manage such a high-profile mistake from a personal and leadership point of view? It was a conversation worth having, and one that Sorensen managed well.What I got wrong…About the exact timeline of Vail's Midwest acquisitionsI kind of lumped Vail Resorts' first three Midwest acquisitions together, but there was quite a bit of space between the company's purchase of Afton Alps and Mt. Brighton, in 2012, and its pickup of Wilmot in 2016. The rest came with the Peak Resorts' acquisition in 2019.About Copper Mountain's season pass priceI said that it was “about $750” for a Copper pass or an Ikon Base Pass. Both were undercounts. Copper's 2023-24 season pass debuted at $799 and is now $849. The 2023-24 Ikon Base Pass, which includes unlimited access to Copper Mountain, debuted at $829 and now sells for $929.About the most-affordable big-mountain ski passes in the United StatesI said that Keystone offered “the most affordable big-mountain season pass” in the country. With peak-day walk-up lift tickets scheduled to hit $269 this season at Keystone, that may seem like an odd declaration. But it's almost true: Keystone sells the second-most-affordable unlimited season pass among America's 20 largest ski areas. Sister resort Park City comes in cheaper on a cost-per-acre basis, and Vail Mountain is tied with Keystone. In fact, four of the top five most affordable big-mountain passes are at Vail-owned properties (Park City, Keystone, Vail, and Heavenly):About night skiingI said that Keystone had “the largest night-skiing operation in America.” This is incorrect. I tried to determine who, indeed, hosts America's largest night-skiing operation, but after slamming my head into a wall for a few hours, I abandoned the exercise. There is absolutely no common standard of measurement, probably because 14-year-olds slamming Bang energy drinks and Faceposting from the chairlift aren't keen on fact-checking. Here's the best I could come up with:Even that simple chart took an embarrassing amount of time to assemble. At some point I will return to this exercise, and will include the entire country. The Midwest will factor significantly here, as nearly every ski area in the region is 100 percent lit for night-skiing. New York and the Mid-Atlantic also host many large night-skiing operations, as do Bolton Valley, Vermont and Pleasant Mountain, Maine. But unless I wanted to publish this podcast in June of 2024, I needed to flee this particular briar patch before I got ensnared.Why you should ski KeystoneThe Keystone you're thinking of is frontside Keystone, Dercum Mountain, River Run and Mountain House, Montezuma and Peru. That Keystone has a certain appeal. It is an approachable outsiders' version of Colorado, endless and wide, fast but manageable, groomed spirals ambling beneath the sunshine. Step out of the Suburban after a 16-hour drive from Houston, and find the Middle Earth you were seeking, soaring and jagged and wild, with a pedestrian village at the base.Keep going. Down Mine Shaft or Diamond Back to North Peak: 1,600 vertical feet of moguls bigger than your car. A half-dozen to choose from. Behind that, yet another peak, like a third ski area. Outback is where things start to get savage. Not drop-off-The-Cirque-at-Snowbird savage, but challenging enough. Slide back to Timberwolf or Bushwacker or Badger – or, more boldly, the trees in between – for that wild Colorado that Texas Ted and New York Ned find off Dercum.Or walk past the snow fort and click out, bootpack a mile and drop into Upper Windows, the only terrain marked double black on Keystone's sprawling trailmap. A rambling world, crisp and silent beneath the Outpost Gondola. Until it spits you out onto Mozart, Keystone's I-70, frantic and cluttered all the way to Santiago, and another lap.Podcast NotesOn Keystone's 2009 masterplan Keystone's masterplan dates to 2009, the second-oldest on file with the White River National Forest (Buttermilk's dates to 2008). The sprawling plan includes several yet-to-be-constructed lifts, including fixed-grips up Independence Bowl and Windows, a surface lift bisecting North and South Bowls; and a two-way ride out of Ski Tip. The plan also proposes upgrades to Outback, Wayback, and A-51; and a whole new line for the now-decommissioned Argentine:Since that image isn't very crisp, here's a closer look at Dercum:North Peak:And Outback:Sorensen and I discuss the potential for each of these projects, some of which are effectively dead. Strangely, Keystone's only two new chairlifts (besides Bergman), since 2009 - upgrading Montezuma and Peru from high-speed quads to sixers – were not suggested on the MDP at all. Argentine, which once connected the Mountain House Base directly to the Montezuma lift, was a casualty of the 2021 Peru upgrade. Here's a before-and-after:Argentine, it turns out, is just the latest casualty in Keystone's front-side clean-sweep. Check out this 1996 trailmap, when Dercum (called “Keystone” here), hosted nine frontside chairlifts (plus the gondola), to today's five:On the new Bergman Bowl trail namesBergman Bowl has appeared on Keystone's trailmap since at least 2005. The resort added trail names around 2007. As part of the lift installation, we get all new trail names and a few new trails (as well as downgrades, for most of the old lines, to blues). Keystone also updated trailnames in adjacent Erickson Bowl, which the new lift will partially serve. Sorensen and I discuss the naming scheme in the pod:On Rad Smith's new hand-painted Keystone trailmapSince 2002 or so, Keystone's trailmap has viewed the resort at a slight angle, with Dercum prioritized, the clear “front side.”The new map, Sorensen tells us, whips the vantage around to the side, giving us a better view of Bergman and, consequently, of North Peak and Outback. Here's the old map (2022 on the left), alongside the new:And here's the two-part video series on making the map with Rad Smith:On Vail's new appI've driven round trip between New York City and Michigan hundreds of times. Most of the drive is rural and gorgeous, cruise-control country, the flat Midwest and the rolling mountains of Pennsylvania. Even the stretch of north Jersey is attractive, hilly and green, dramatic at the Delaware Water Gap. All that quaintness slams shut on the eastbound approach to the George Washington Bridge, where a half dozen highways collapse into the world's busiest bridge. Backups can be comically long. Hitting this blockade after a 12-hour drive can be excruciating.Fortunately, NJDOT, or the Port Authority, or whomever controls the stretch of Interstate 80 that approaches the bridge after its 2,900-mile journey from San Francisco, has erected signs a few dozen miles out that ominously communicate wait times for the GW's upper and lower decks. I used to doubt these signs as mad guesses typed in by some low-level state employee sitting in a control room with a box of donuts. But after a couple dozen unsuccessful attempts to outsmart the system, I arrived at a bitter realization: the signs were always right.This is the experience that users of Vail's new My Epic app can (hopefully) expect when it comes online this winter. This app will be your digital Swiss Army Knife, your Epic Pass/stats tracker/snow cam/in-resort credit card/GPS tracker with interactive trailmap. No word on if they'll include that strange metal spire that's either a miniature icepick or an impromptu brass knuckle. But the app will include real-time grooming updates and chairlift wait times. And if a roadsign in New Jersey can correctly communicate wait times to cross the George Washington Bridge, then Vail Resorts ought to be able to sync this chairlift wait-times thing pretty precisely.On Mt. Brighton being built from landfillDepending upon your point of view, Mt. Brighton, Michigan – which Sorensen ran from 2016 to 2018 – is either the most amazing or the most appalling ski area in Vail's sprawling portfolio. Two-hundred thirty vertical feet, 130 acres, five chairlifts, seven surface lifts, and about four trees, rising like some alt-world mini-Alps from the flatlands of Southeast Michigan.Why is it there? What does it do? Who would do such a thing to themselves? The answer to the first question lies in the expressways that crisscross three miles to the east: crews building Interstate 96 and US 23 deposited the excess dirt here, making a hill. The answer to the second question is: the place sells a s**t-ton of Epic Passes, which was the point of Vail buying the joint. And the answer to the third question is obvious as well: for the local kids, its ski here or ski nowhere, and little Midwest hills are more fun than you think. Especially when you're 12 and the alternative is sitting inside for Michigan's 11-month winter.On Keystone's potential West Ridge expansionSorensen refers to a potential “West Ridge” expansion, which does not appear on the 2009 trailmap. The ski area's 1989 masterplan, however, shows up to five lifts scaling West Ridge between North Peak and Outback (which was then called “South Peak”):On Keystone being among Colorado's least-snowy major resortsIt's a strange fact of geography that Keystone scores significantly less snow, on average, than its Colorado peers:This makes even less sense when you realize how close Keystone sits to A-Basin (115 more inches per season), Breck (118), and Copper (70):When I hosted OpenSnow founder and CEO Joel Gratz on the podcast last year, he explained Keystone's odd circumstances (as well as how the mountain sometimes does better than its neighbors), at the 1:41:43 mark.On pass prices across Summit County creeping up over the past several yearsSummit County was Ground Zero for the pass wars, during which a preponderance of mountains the size of Rhode Island fought to the death over who could give skiing away the cheapest. There are many reasons this battle started here, and many reasons why it's ending. Not the least of which is that each of these ski areas hosts the population of a small city every day all winter long. Colorado accounts for approximately one in four U.S. skier visits. The state's infrastructure is one rolled-over semi away from post-apocalyptic collapse. There's no reason that skiing has to cost less than a load of laundry when everyone wants to do it all the time.As a result, prices are slowly but steadily rising. Here's what's happened to pass prices at the four Summit County ski areas over the past six seasons:They've mostly gone up. Keystone is the only one that is less expensive to ski at now than it was in 2018 (on a season-pass basis). This chart is somewhat skewed by a couple of factors:* For the 2018-19 ski season, A-Basin was an unlimited member of the Epic Pass, Epic Local Pass, and Summit Value Pass, a fact that nearly broke the place. The drastic price drop from 2018 to '19 reflects A-Basin's first year outside Vail's coalition.* Vail cut Epic Pass prices 20 percent from the 2020-21 ski season to the 2021-22 campaign. That's why Breck and Keystone are approximately the same price now as they were before the asteroid attack, Covid.* Little-known fact: Copper Mountain sells its own season pass, separate from the Ikon Pass, even though the mountain offers unlimited access on both the Ikon Base and full Ikon passes.On Mr. OklahomaI don't want to spoil the ending here, but we do talk about this.The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing year-round. Join us.The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 75/100 in 2023, and number 461 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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Join us as this week Paul interviews Gary Millar of the Arabian Horse Literacy Project. Hailing from Canada, Gary was involved with the Marketing, Development, Promotion committee with AHA. After a presentation to the MDP, he was inspired to use the Walter Farley model of the Black Stallion Project to shape his ideas. From there, he was able to create a program that not only promoted literacy, but also built a positive experience centered around the Arabian horse for all kinds of kids. Gary's program provides books to every student, encourages reading, and brings horse on-site to a school so kids can get up-close and personal. They also get to head out to the farm where they can meet several, and have a chance to do some really unique things, like reading to a horse. Since 2008, he's been working with pre-schoolers through 8th grade kids and that audience continues to grow. Gary has created partnerships with Edmonton Oilers, local schools and clubs, and can even get classes sponsored to participate in the activities. He's also a big believer in equine assisted learning - and found that with so many people, horses can act as a mirror and help drive self-awareness. For adults, there's also the Ground-Up program, which focuses on groundwork, expanding learning and activities over four weeks. Gary is extremely excited to continue to expand his program! Reach out to him at gary@millarcom.com, find the Arabian Horse Reading Literacy Project or Facebook, or visit his website at ArabianHorseReading.com. The producers of We Love Arabian Horses strive to provide informative and engaging content to our listeners without any bias or commercial interests. Our priority is to deliver valuable insights, discussions, and entertainment through our podcast episodes. If you have any questions or concerns about the content of our podcast, please reach out to us at Austin@WeLoveArabianHorses.com, and we will be happy to address them. Thank you for listening to We Love Arabian Horses. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/we-love-arabian-horses/message
Battling stress and preventing burnout is an active process. If you have a stressful job, like being an Emergency Medicine physician in a pandemic, actively working on yourself is protective. Dr. Tamara Beckford is an Emergency Medicine physician and expert in burnout prevention and wellbeing. She shares her personal steps for managing her wellbeing while working in a stressful environment.You'll want to listen to this one!Dr. Beckford is also a speaker in the wellness space. You can find her here:Website: www.urcaringdocs.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/drtamarabeckford Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drtamarabeckford Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/urcaringdocs Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ur-caring-docs/id1553710706 Here's to effectively reducing suffering in others while living a joyful life!Dr. CDelia Chiaramonte, MDP.S. Please send this episode to a colleague. You'll help them reduce their stress and help me spread the word about the podcast!* Integrative symptom management education for physicians and other clinicians* Helping palliative care organizations provide the highest quality care * Guiding palliative care leadership to mental fitness and enhanced leadership skillsSign up here:www.integrativepalliative.com/training Here's a Free Guide for You if Your Loved One Is Ill:The 10 Best Ways to Help When Your Loved One Has A Serious Illnesshttps://trainings.integrativepalliative.com/pl/2147661904 And Here's a Free Guide for Clinicians:How to Add Integrative Medicine To Your Practicehttps://trainings.integrativepalliative.com/pl/2147657852Please review this podcast wherever you listen and forward your favorite episode to a friend! Thanks for helping me spread the word about heart-centered care for people with complex and serious illness.
This week I've been on the other side of the palliative care coin with a family member and my family doggie.I noticed five themes that applied in both places and I share them this week. What did I miss? What would you add?Dr. CDelia Chiaramonte, MDP.S.The Conscious Coping program is starting in late July. If you have an ill loved one and you'd like more clarity about how to deal with it all, communication skills to handle the tough conversations, calm in a terribly stressful time and support for your self-care, this is for you. The group will be small so everyone can have personal attention. More info is here: https://trainings.integrativepalliative.com/ConsciousCoping If this speaks to you, sign up today.If you have a loved one with serious illness and you're feeling depleted, exhausted and overwhelmed, this program is for you. You will become a confident advocate for your loved one and fill up your own "cup" so that you can show up with empathy and also enjoy your life more. You deserve it.www.integrativepalliative.com/training Managing uncertainty and overwhelm is the key to navigating the experience of loving someone who is ill, and this is available through IPI's Conscious Coping program.You'll get practical tools to support your loved one and yourself, important insights, skills to talk about tough topics and a supportive community, so you don't need to do this alone. 1:1 coaching is also available.Sign up here:www.integrativepalliative.com/training Here's a Free Guide for You if Your Loved One Is Ill:The 10 Best Ways to Help When Your Loved One Has A Serious Illnesshttps://trainings.integrativepalliative.com/pl/2147661904 And Here's a Free Guide for Clinicians:How to Add Integrative Medicine To Your Practicehttps://trainings.integrativepalliative.com/pl/2147657852Please review this podcast wherever you listen and forward your favorite episode to a friend! Thanks for helping me spread the word about heart-centered care for people with complex and serious illness.
Being in the hospital is hard. It can be overwhelming, exhausting and feel like a completely out of control experience.Whether you are a physician, other clinician or family member of someone who is ill, these six tips will help you improve the wellbeing of people in the hospital.What other tips would you suggest? Send me a message with your suggestions https://integrativepalliative.com/contact-usDr. CDelia Chiaramonte, MDP.S. Are you feeling stressed because someone you love has an advanced illness? Get on the waitlist for my upcoming group program so you can become a confident advocate for your loved one while also taking care of yourself. Click below and put "waitlist" in the comments https://integrativepalliative.com/contact-us If you have a loved one with serious illness and you're feeling depleted, exhausted and overwhelmed, this program is for you. You will become a confident advocate for your loved one and fill up your own "cup" so that you can show up with empathy and also enjoy your life more. You deserve it.www.integrativepalliative.com/training Managing uncertainty and overwhelm is the key to navigating the experience of loving someone who is ill, and this is available through IPI's Conscious Coping program.You'll get practical tools to support your loved one and yourself, important insights, skills to talk about tough topics and a supportive community, so you don't need to do this alone. 1:1 coaching is also available.Sign up here:www.integrativepalliative.com/training Here's a Free Guide for You if Your Loved One Is Ill:The 10 Best Ways to Help When Your Loved One Has A Serious Illnesshttps://trainings.integrativepalliative.com/pl/2147661904 And Here's a Free Guide for Clinicians:How to Add Integrative Medicine To Your Practicehttps://trainings.integrativepalliative.com/pl/2147657852Please review this podcast wherever you listen and forward your favorite episode to a friend! Thanks for helping me spread the word about heart-centered care for people with complex and serious illness.
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