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Historical Jesus
LITERATURE — Quest of the Historical Jesus

Historical Jesus

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2025 10:56


Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) gives us one of the first historical treatments of the life of Jesus in his pioneering book (1906) that reviews all prior work on the question of the "historical Jesus" and points out how Jesus of Nazareth's image has changed with the times. The author concludes this seminal work of biblical criticism with his own synopsis and interpretation. Quest of the Historical Jesus by A. Schweitzer at https://amzn.to/4jwQoJm New Testament versions available at https://amzn.to/43KBXN9 ENJOY Ad-Free content, Bonus episodes, and Extra materials when joining our growing community on https://patreon.com/markvinet SUPPORT this channel by purchasing any product on Amazon using this FREE entry LINK https://amzn.to/3POlrUD (Amazon gives us credit at NO extra charge to you). Mark Vinet's HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA podcast: www.parthenonpodcast.com/history-of-north-america Mark's video channel: https://youtube.com/c/TIMELINE_MarkVinet Website: https://markvinet.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mark.vinet.9 Twitter: https://twitter.com/HistoricalJesu Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denarynovels Mark's Books: https://amzn.to/3k8qrGM Audio Credit: The Quest of the Historical Jesus by Albert Schweitzer (LibriVox, read by JoeD).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Medical Sales Podcast
What Medical Sales Recruiters Want With Sara Schweitzer

The Medical Sales Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2025 58:14


In this episode, we sit down with Sara Schweitzer, a passionate recruiter in Stryker's spine division, whose journey into medical sales and recruiting is anything but ordinary. Sara opens up about her transition from the pharmaceutical world at AbbVie—where, during the pandemic, her work felt more like moving boxes than impacting lives—to finding real purpose in helping others land life-changing careers in med tech.   Sara gets real about what it takes to succeed in this competitive industry. From breaking down the misconceptions about medical sales to highlighting the grit, resilience, and self-awareness it truly demands—especially in high-pressure specialties like spine—she offers listeners a refreshingly honest perspective.   She also dives into the tools she uses to match candidates with the right roles, and explains how programs like Evolve Your Success are helping future reps find clarity before they ever step into an interview. With many successful placements under her belt, Sara's advice is packed with both heart and hard truths.   We also step into her world outside of work—her excitement about becoming a mother, her love of fantasy novels, and how her personal values shape the way she leads and connects with people.   Whether you're already in the field or just exploring the idea of medical sales, this episode delivers actionable insights, relatable stories, and the inspiration to take the next right step in your career. Connect with Sara: LinkedIn Connect with Me: LinkedIn Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here's How » Want to connect with past guests and access exclusive Q&As? Join our EYS Skool Community today!

The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast
Podcast #203: Silver Mountain General Manager Jeff Colburn

The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2025 59:31


The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and to support independent ski journalism, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.WhoJeff Colburn, General Manager of Silver Mountain, IdahoRecorded onFebruary 12, 2025About Silver MountainClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: CMR Lands, which also owns 49 Degrees North, WashingtonLocated in: Kellogg, IdahoYear founded: 1968 as Jackass ski area, later known as Silverhorn, operated intermittently in the 1980s before its transformation into Silver in 1990Pass affiliations:* Indy Pass – 2 days, select blackouts* Indy+ Pass – 2 days, no blackouts* Powder Alliance – 3 days, select blackoutsClosest neighboring ski areas: Lookout Pass (:26)Base elevation: 4,100 feet (lowest chairlift); 2,300 feet (gondola)Summit elevation: 6,297 feetVertical drop: 2,200 feetSkiable acres: 1,600+Average annual snowfall: 340 inchesTrail count: 80Lift count: 7 (1 eight-passenger gondola, 1 fixed-grip quad, 2 triples, 2 doubles – view Lift Blog's inventory of Silver Mountain's lift fleet)Why I interviewed himAfter moving to Manhattan in 2002, I would often pine for an extinct version of New York City: docks thrust into the Hudson, masted ships, ornate brickwork factories, carriages, open windows, kids loose in the streets, summer evening crowds on stoops and patios. Modern New York, riotous as it is for an American city, felt staid and sterile beside the island's explosively peopled black-and-white past.Over time, I've developed a different view: New York City is a triumph of post-industrial reinvention, able to shed and quickly replace obsolete industries with those that would lead the future. And my idealized New York, I came to realize, was itself a snapshot of one lost New York, but not the only lost New York, just my romanticized etching of a city that has been in a constant state of reinvention for 400 years.It's through this same lens that we can view Silver Mountain. For more than a century, Kellogg was home to silver mines that employed thousands. When the Bunker Hill Mine closed in 1981, it took the town's soul with it. The city became a symbol of industrial decline, of an America losing its rough-and-ragged hammer-bang grit.And for a while, Kellogg was a denuded and dusty crater pockmarking the glory-green of Idaho's panhandle. The population collapsed. Suicide rates, Colburn tells us on the podcast, were high.But within a decade, town officials peered toward the skeleton of Jackass ski area, with its intact centerpole Riblet double, and said, “maybe that's the thing.” With help from Von Roll, they erected three chairlifts on the mountain and taxed themselves $2 million to string a three-mile-long gondola from town to mountain, opening the ski area to the masses by bypassing the serpentine seven-mile-long access road. (Gosh, can you think of anyplace else where such a contraption would work?)Silver rose above while the Environmental Protection Agency got to work below, cleaning up what had been designated a massive Superfund site. Today, Kellogg, led by Silver, is a functional, modern place, a post-industrial success story demonstrating how recreation can anchor an economy and a community. The service sector lacks the fiery valor of industry. Bouncing through snow, gifted from above, for fun, does not resonate with America's self-image like the gutsy miner pulling metal from the earth to feed his family. Town founder/mining legend Noah Kellogg and his jackass companion remain heroic local figures. But across rural America, ski areas have stepped quietly into the vacuum left by vacated factories and mines, where they become a source of community identity and a stabilizing agent where no other industry makes sense.What we talked aboutSki Idaho; what it will take to transform Idaho into a ski destination; the importance of Grand Targhee to Idaho; old-time PNW skiing; Schweitzer as bellwether for Idaho ski area development; Kellogg, Idaho's mining history, Superfund cleanup, and renaissance as a resort town; Jackass ski area and its rebirth as Silver Mountain; the easiest big mountain access in America; taking a gondola to the ski area; the Jackass Snack Shack; an affordable mountain town?; Silver's destination potential; 49 Degrees North; these obscenely, stupidly low lift ticket prices:Potential lift upgrades, including Chair 4; snowmaking potential; baselodge expansion; Indy Pass; and the Powder Alliance.What I got wrongI mentioned that Telluride's Mountain Village Gondola replacement would cost $50 million. The actual estimates appear to be $60 million. The two stages of that gondola total 10,145 feet, more than a mile shorter than Silver's astonishing 16,350 feet (3.1 miles).Why now was a good time for this interviewIn the ‘90s, before the advent of the commercial internet, I learned about skiing from magazines. They mostly wrote about the American West and their fabulous, over-hill-and-dale ski complexes: Vail and Sun Valley and Telluride and the like. But these publications also exposed the backwaters where you could mainline pow and avoid liftlines, and do it all for less than the price of a bologna sandwich. It was in Skiing's October 1994 Favorite Resorts issue that I learned about this little slice of magnificence:Snow, snow, snow, steep, steep, steep, cheap, cheap, cheap, and a feeling you've gone back to a special time and place when life, and skiing, was uncomplicated – those are the things that make [NAME REDACTED] one of our favorite resorts. It's the ultimate pure skiing experience. This was another surprise choice, even to those who named [REDACTED] to their lists. We knew people liked [REDACTED], but we weren't prepared for how many, or how create their affections were. This is the one area that broke the “Great Skiing + Great Base Area + Amenities = Favorite Resort” equation. [REDACTED] has minimal base development, no shopping, no nightlife, no fancy hotels or eateries, and yet here it is on our list, a tribute to the fact that in the end, really great skiing matters more than any other single resort feature.OK, well this sounds amazing. Tell me more……[REDACTED] has one of the cheapest lift tickets around.…One of those rare places that hasn't been packaged, streamlined, suburbanized. There's also that delicious atmosphere of absolute remoteness from the everyday world.…The ski area for traditionalists, ascetics, and cheapskates. The lifts are slow and creaky, the accommodations are spartan, but the lift tickets are the best deal in skiing.This super-secret, cheaper-than-Tic-Tacs, Humble Bro ski center tucked hidden from any sign of civilization, the Great Skiing Bomb Shelter of 1994, is…Alta.Yes, that Alta.The Alta with four high-speed lifts.The Alta with $199 peak-day walk-up lift tickets.The Alta that headlines the Ikon Pass and Mountain Collective.The Alta with an address at the top of America's most over-burdened access road.Alta is my favorite ski area. There is nothing else like it anywhere (well, except directly next door). And a lot remains unchanged since 1994: there still isn't much to do other than ski, the lodges are still “spartan,” it is still “steep” and “deep.” But Alta blew past “cheap” a long time ago, and it feels about as embedded in the wilderness as an exit ramp Chuck E. Cheese. Sure, the viewshed is mostly intact, but accessing the ski area requires a slow-motion up-canyon tiptoe that better resembles a civilization-level evacuation than anything we would label “remote.” Alta is still Narnia, but the Alta described above no longer exists.Well, no s**t? Aren't we talking about Idaho here? Yes, but no one else is. And that's what I'm getting at: the Alta of 2025, the place where everything is cheap and fluffy and empty, is Idaho. Hide behind your dumb potato jokes all you want, but you can't argue with this lineup:“Ummm, Grand Targhee is in Wyoming, D*****s.”Thank you, Geography Bro, but the only way to access GT is through Idaho, and the mountain has been a member of Ski Idaho for centuries because of it.Also: Lost Trail and Lookout Pass both straddle the Montana-Idaho border.Anyway, check that roster, those annual snowfall totals. Then look at how difficult these ski areas are to access. The answer, mostly, is “Not Very.” You couldn't make Silver Mountain easier to get to unless you moved it to JFK airport: exit the interstate, drive seven feet, park, board the gondola.Finally, let's compare that group of 15 Idaho ski areas to the 15 public, aerial-lift-served ski areas in Utah. Even when you include Targhee and all of Lost Trail and Lookout, Utah offers 32 percent more skiable terrain than Idaho:But Utah tallies three times more annual skier visits than Idaho:No, Silver Mountain is not Alta, and Brundage is not Snowbird. But Silver and Brundage don't get skied out in under 45 seconds on a powder day. And other than faster lifts and more skiers, there's not much separating the average Utah ski resort from the average Idaho ski resort.That won't be true forever. People are dumb in the moment, but smart in slow-motion. We are already seeing meaningful numbers of East Coast ski families reorient their ski trips east, across the Atlantic (one New York-based reader explained to me today how they flew their family to Norway for skiing over President's weekend because it was cheaper than Vermont). Soon enough, Planet California and everyone else is going to tire of the expense and chaos of Colorado and Utah, and they'll Insta-sleuth their way to this powdery Extra-Rockies that everyone forgot about. No reason to wait for all that.Why you should ski Silver MountainI have little to add outside of what I wrote above: go to Silver because it's big and cheap and awesome. So I'll add this pinpoint description from Skibum.net:It's hard to find something negative about Silver Mountain; the only real drawback is that you probably live nowhere near it. On the other hand, if you live within striking distance, you already know that this is easily the best kept ski secret in Idaho and possibly the entire western hemisphere. If not, you just have to convince the family somehow that Kellogg Idaho — not Vail, not Tahoe, not Cottonwood Canyon — is the place you ought to head for your next ski trip. Try it, and you'll see why it's such a well-kept secret. All-around fantastic skiing, terrific powder, virtually no liftlines, reasonable pricing. Layout is kind of quirky; almost like an upside-down mountain due to gondola ride to lodge…interesting place. Emphasis on expert skiing but all abilities have plenty of terrain. Experts will find a ton of glades … One of the country's great underrated ski areas.Some of you will just never bother traveling for a mountain that lacks high-speed lifts. I understand, but I think that's a mistake. Slow lifts don't matter when there are no liftlines. And as Skiing wrote about Alta in 1994, “Really great skiing matters more than any other single resort feature.”Podcast NotesOn Schweitzer's transformationIf we were to fast-forward 30 years, I think we would find that most large Idaho ski areas will have undergone a renaissance of the sort that Schweitzer, Idaho did over the previous 30 years. Check the place out in 1988, a big but backwoods ski area covered in double chairs:Compare that to Schweitzer today: four high-speed quads, a sixer, and two triples that are only fixed-grip because the GM doesn't like exposed high-elevation detaches.On Silver's legacy ski areasSilver was originally known as Jackass, then Silverhorn. That original chairlift, installed in 1967, stands today as Chair 4:On the Jackass Snack ShackThis mid-mountain building, just off Chair 4, is actually a portable structure moved north from Tamarack:On 49 Degrees NorthCMR Lands also owns 49 Degrees North, an outstanding ski area two-and-a-half hours west and roughly equidistant from Spokane as Silver is (though in opposite directions). In 2021, the mountain demolished a top-to-bottom, 1972 SLI double for a brand-new, 1,851-vertical-foot high-speed quad, from which you can access most of the resort's 2,325 acres.The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing year-round. Join us. 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

SWR Aktuell im Gespräch
Schweitzer zu Schuldenpaket: "Wir haben eine Aufholjagd zu gewinnen"

SWR Aktuell im Gespräch

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2025 6:10


Es war eine historische Entscheidung gestern im Bundestag. Sie mach mehr Investitionen in Verteidigung und Infrastruktur möglich - und auch mehr Schulden.

Tempo dello spirito
Albert Schweitzer: teologo, musicista, filantropo… protagonista del Novecento

Tempo dello spirito

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2025 21:11


- Giampiero Comolli, scrittore e giornalista, prosegue il suo ciclo di meditazioni bibliche dedicate ai primi capitoli della Genesi e in particolare alla creazione del genere umano. Che cosa significa “essere creati a immagine e somiglianza di Dio”? e che cosa implica questa condizione, in termini di responsabilità verso il mondo e verso tutti gli esseri viventi creati da Dio?- Teologo, pastore luterano, medico, filantropo, musicista: Albert Schweitzer (di cui quest'anno ricorrono i 150 anni dalla nascita), dedicò la sua vita al servizio degli ultimi e dei malati in Africa. Nato in Alsazia, ancora giovane compì una scelta radicale di vita, trasferendosi a Lambaréné, in Gabon, dove fondò un ospedale. Riteneva necessario avere rispetto davanti ad ogni forma di esistenza, un “timore sacro davanti alla vita” che era ispirato dalla sua fede cristiana. Fu insignito del Premio Nobel per la pace nel 1952. Morirà novantenne proprio in quella città africana, Lambaréné, dove aveva iniziato la sua opera. La Chiesa riformata di Lugano commemora Schweitzer con un culto speciale, il 16 marzo, in cui saranno eseguiti corali bachiani per accompagnare la meditazione, la preghiera e il ricordo di questo straordinario protagonista del Novecento.

Friderikusz Podcast
AZ ÉN MOZIK FOLYTATÓDIK: A szalon-Schweitzer, Nemes János, gyerekgyógyász, 2000. /// F. Archív 341.

Friderikusz Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2025 15:36


A kilencvenes években és a kétezres évek elején nem példabeszédszerű, de szenvedélyes életeket tárt a nézők elé Az én mozim és Az én mozim folytatódik című riportműsor-sorozataiban Friderikusz Sándor. Ezek az emberek persze nem morális sztahanovisták voltak, de ha a sorsuk, életfelfogásuk muníciót adhatott mások hétköznapjainak alakításához, akkor itt volt a helyük. dr. Nemes János gyerekgyógyász egy évtizeden át önkéntesként gyógyított az ázsiai, afrikai és latin-amerikai nagyvárosok szegénynegyedeiben, falvaiban - Teréz Anya kalkuttai ispotályában is -, ezeknek a helyeknek a nyers báját a mindenütt jelenlévő nyomor sem tudta tönkre tenni, sőt, Nemes doktort a harmadik világ egyenesen rabul ejtette. Ebből adott lélekemelő ízelítőt ebben a 2000-ben készült negyedórás beszélgetésben.Hogyan támogathatja a munkánkat? - Legújabban már a Donably felületen is támogathat bennünket, itt ÁFA-mentesen segítheti munkavégzésünket: https://www.donably.com/friderikusz-podcast - De lehet a patronálónk a Patreon-on keresztül is, mert a támogatása mértékétől függően egyre több előnyhöz juthat: https://www.patreon.com/FriderikuszPodcast - Egyszerű banki átutalással is elismerheti munkavégzésünk minőségét. Ehhez a legfontosabb adatok az alábbiak: Név: TV Pictures Számlaszám: OTP Bank 11707062-21446081 Közlemény: Podcast-támogatás Ha külföldről utalna, nemzetközi számlaszámunk (IBAN - International Bank Account Number): HU68 1170 7062 2144 6081 0000 0000 BIC/SWIFT-kód: OTPVHUHB Akármilyen formában támogatja munkánkat, nagyon köszönjük!Kövessenek, kövessetek itt is:youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FriderikuszPodcastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/FriderikuszPodcastInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/friderikuszpodcastAnchor: https://anchor.fm/friderikuszpodcastSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3blRo2gYoutube Music: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu6L9HlV4-KuNOYy_rS97rP_Q-ncvF14rApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3hm2vfiDeezer: https://www.deezer.com/hu/show/1000256535

Three
Murder in Vacationland | Season 2 Trailer

Three

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2025 4:17


For over 30 years, the murder of 23-year-old Dana Ireland haunted the island of Hawai‘i, leaving behind a tangled web of suspicion, betrayal, and unanswered questions. Three men were convicted. The case was closed. Justice was served. Or so everyone thought.Hosted by Amanda Knox - an exoneree, journalist, public speaker and best-selling author - this Season of THREE takes you deep into a case that was never as simple as it seemed. Through never-before-heard interviews and unwarranted access, we'll walk you through this notorious crime and how it impacted three families - The Ireland's, The Schweitzer's and The Pauline's all in very different ways. And the shocking discovery that changed everything.Someone got away with murder. Until now. This is THREE Season 2: Murder in Vacationland. Listen starting on 3/13 on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. 

The Dave Glover Show
Anne Schweitzer- hour 4

The Dave Glover Show

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2025 16:25


Anne Schweitzer- hour 4 full 985 Wed, 05 Mar 2025 22:32:32 +0000 cph5uOPfjTcjS3XQ3OP10SUZb6XBujFJ comedy,religion & spirituality,society & culture,news,government The Dave Glover Show comedy,religion & spirituality,society & culture,news,government Anne Schweitzer- hour 4 The Dave Glover Show has been driving St. Louis home for over 20 years. Unafraid to discuss virtually any topic, you'll hear Dave and crew's unique perspective on current events, news and politics, and anything and everything in between. 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Comedy Religion & Spirituality Society & Culture News Government False https://player.amperwavepodcasting.com?feed-link=https%3A%2F%2Frss.am

Elder Sign: A Weird Fiction Podcast
Ep. 205: The Eater of Hours by Darrell Schweitzer

Elder Sign: A Weird Fiction Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2025 34:24


Italo Calvino, but horror.Grab a copy of To Walk on Worlds by Matthew John on Amazon.Support the show and gain access to over three dozen bonus episodes by becoming a patron on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Rate and review the show⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to help us reach more readers and listeners.Not enough science-fiction and fantasy in your life? Join us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Gene Wolfe Literary Podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!Love Star Trek? Come find us on the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lower Decks⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!Neil Gaiman fan? Love comics? Join us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Hanging Out With the Dream King: A Neil Gaiman Podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.Check out Glenn's medieval history podcast ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Agnus⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!Find out how you can commission a special bonus episode ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.Join the conversation on the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Claytemple Forum⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.Follow Claytemple Media on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and sign up for our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.Follow Glenn on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.Check out Glenn's weird fiction story ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠"Goodbye to All That" on the Tales to Terrify Podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.Next time: Music: http://www.purple-planet.com

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Hörstoff-Hamburg - Podcast der Hamburger Buchhandlungen
HOERSTOFF aus der Buchhandlung Schweitzer Fachinformationen

Hörstoff-Hamburg - Podcast der Hamburger Buchhandlungen

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2025 35:17


Beate, Christianne und Inga haben diesmal Lebens- und Liebesgeschichten für euch ausgesucht. Wir wünschen viel Lesevergnügen.

Interviews - Deutschlandfunk
SPD vor Sondierungen - Interv. Alexander Schweitzer, SPD, MP von Rheinland-Pfalz

Interviews - Deutschlandfunk

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2025 9:03


Engels, Silvia www.deutschlandfunk.de, Interviews

SWR Aktuell im Gespräch
Schweitzer: "Ich erwarte eine entschlossene Bundesregierung"

SWR Aktuell im Gespräch

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2025 7:27


Was der rheinland-pfälzische Ministerpräsident Schweitzer von einer neuen Bundesregierung erwartet, erklärt er im Interview mit SWR Aktuell-Moderator Christian Rönspies.

Herd Quitter Podcast
214: Steve Schweitzer - Sharing his Ranching Journey

Herd Quitter Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2025 67:12


I have known Steve for years but this is the first time hearing his story of shifting his ranching focus from a high production, high input ranching to a more enjoyable and profitable ranch system.Resources Mentioned:PCC Updates and NewslettersFor Ranching Returns shirts, hats, and sweatshirts check out https://farmfocused.com/ranching-returns-merch/Wonder where you can buy Sea-90 mineral? You can now pick it up at your local Tractor Supply Company, find the closest one at sea-90.com/tractorCheck out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.pharocattle.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more information on how to put more fun and profit back into your ranching business! As always, check us out at Ranching Returns Podcast on Facebook and Instagram as well as at ⁠www.ranchingreturns.com⁠. 

The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast
Podcast #198: Mammoth & June Mountains President & Chief Operating Officer Eric Clark

The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2025 76:33


The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and to support independent ski journalism, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.As of episode 198, you can now watch The Storm Skiing Podcast on YouTube. Please click over to follow the channel. The podcast will continue to stream on all audio platforms. WhoEric Clark, President and Chief Operating Officer of Mammoth and June Mountains, CaliforniaRecorded onJanuary 29, 2025Why I interviewed himMammoth is ridiculous, improbable, outrageous. An impossible combination of unmixable things. SoCal vibes 8,000 feet in the sky and 250 miles north of the megalopolis. Rustic old-California alpine clapboard-and-Yan patina smeared with D-Line speed and Ikon energy. But nothing more implausible than this: 300 days of sunshine and 350 inches of snow in an average year. Some winters more: 715 inches two seasons ago, 618 in the 2016-17 campaign, 669 in 2010-11. Those are base-area totals. Nearly 900 inches stacked onto Mammoth's summit during the 2022-23 ski season. The ski area opened on Nov. 5 and closed on Aug. 6, a 275-day campaign.Below the paid subscriber jump: why Mammoth stands out even among giants, June's J1 lift predates the evolution of plant life, Alterra's investment machine, and more.That's nature, audacious and brash. Clouds tossed off the Pacific smashing into the continental crest. But it took a soul, hardy and ungovernable, to make Mammoth Mountain into a ski area for the masses. Dave McCoy, perhaps the greatest of the great generation of American ski resort founders, strung up and stapled together and tamed this wintertime kingdom over seven decades. Ropetows then T-bars then chairlifts all over. One of the finest lift systems anywhere. Chairs 1 through 25 stitching together a trail network sculpted and bulldozed and blasted from the monolithic mountain. A handcrafted playground animated as something wild, fierce, prehuman in its savage ever-down. McCoy, who lived to 104, is celebrated as a businessman, a visionary, and a human, but he was also, quietly, an artist.Mammoth is not the largest ski area in America (ranking number nine), California (third behind Palisades and Heavenly), Alterra's portfolio (third behind Palisades and Steamboat), or the U.S. Ikon Pass roster (fifth after Palisades, Big Sky, Bachelor, and Steamboat). But it may be America's most beloved big ski resort, frantic and fascinating, an essential big-mountain gateway for 39 million Californians, an Ikon Pass icon and the spiritual home of Alterra Mountain Company. It's impossible to imagine American skiing without Mammoth, just as it's impossible to imagine baseball without the Yankees or Africa without elephants. To our national ski identity, Mammoth is an essential thing, like a heart to a human body, a part without which the whole function falls apart.About MammothClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: Alterra Mountain Company, which also owns:Located in: Mammoth Lakes, CaliforniaYear founded: 1953Pass affiliations:* Ikon Pass: unlimited, no blackouts* Ikon Base Pass: unlimited, holiday blackoutsClosest neighboring ski areas: June Mountain – around half an hour if the roads are clear; to underscore the severity of the Sierra Nevada, China Peak sits just 28 miles southwest of Mammoth, but is a seven-hour, 450-mile drive away – in good weather.Base elevation: 7,953 feetSummit elevation: 11,053 feetVertical drop: 3,100 feetSkiable acres: 3,500Average annual snowfall: 350 inchesTrail count: 178 (13% easiest, 28% slightly difficult, 19% difficult, 25% very difficult, 15% extremely difficult)Lift count: 25 (1 15-passenger gondola, 1 two-stage, eight-passenger gondola, 4 high-speed six-packs, 8 high-speed quads, 1 fixed-grip quad, 6 triples, 3 doubles, 1 Poma – view Lift Blog's inventory of Mammoth's lift fleet) – the ski area also runs some number of non-public carpetsAbout JuneClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: Alterra Mountain Company (see complete roster above)Located in: June Lake, CaliforniaYear founded: 1963Pass affiliations:* Ikon Pass: unlimited, no blackouts* Ikon Base Pass: unlimited, holiday blackoutsClosest neighboring ski areas: Mammoth Mountain – around half an hour if the roads are clearBase elevation: 7,545 feetSummit elevation: 10,090 feetVertical drop: 2,590 feetSkiable acres: 1,500 acresAverage annual snowfall: 250 inchesTrail count: 41Lift count: 6 (2 high-speed quads, 4 doubles – view Lift Blog's inventory of June Mountain's lift fleet)What we talked aboutMammoth's new lift 1; D-Line six-packs; deciding which lift to replace on a mountain with dozens of them; how the new lifts 1 and 16 redistributed skier traffic around Mammoth; adios Yan detachables; the history behind Mammoth's lift numbers; why upgrades to lifts 3 and 6 made more sense than replacements; the best lift system in America, and how to keep this massive fleet from falling apart; how Dave McCoy found and built Mammoth; retaining rowdy West Coast founder's energy when a mountain goes Colorado corporate; old-time Colorado skiing; Mammoth Lakes in the short-term rental era; potential future Mammoth lift upgrades; a potentially transformative future for the Eagle lift and Village gondola; why Mammoth has no public carpets; Mammoth expansion potential; Mammoth's baller parks culture, and what it takes to build and maintain their massive features; the potential of June Mountain; connecting to June's base with snowmaking; why a J1 replacement has taken so long; kids under 12 ski free at June; Ikon Pass access; changes incoming to Ikon Pass blackouts; the new markets that Ikon is driving toward Mammoth; improved flight service for Mammoth skiers; and Mammoth ski patrol.What I got wrong* I guessed that Mammoth likely paid somewhere in the neighborhood of $15 million for “Canyon and Broadway.” I meant that the new six-pack D-line lifts likely cost $15 million each.* I mentioned that Jackson Hole installed a new high-speed quad last year – I was referring to the Sublette chair.* I said that Steamboat's Wild Blue Gondola was “close to three miles long” – the full ride is 3.16 miles. Technically, the first and second stages of the gondola are separate machines, but riders experience them as one.Why now was a good time for this interviewTalk to enough employees of Alterra Mountain Company and a pattern emerges: an outsized number of high-level execs – the people building the mountain portfolio and the Ikon Pass and punching Vail in the face while doing it – came to the mothership, in some way or another, through Mammoth Mountain.Why is that? Such things can be a coincidence, but this didn't feel like it. Rusty Gregory, Alterra's CEO from 2018 to '23, entered that pilot's seat as a Mammoth lifer, and it was possible that he'd simply tagged in his benchmates. But Alterra and the Ikon Pass were functioning too smoothly to be the products of nepotism. This California ski factory seemed to be stamping out effective big-ideas people like an Italian plant cranking out Ferraris.Something about Mammoth just works. And that's remarkable, considering no one but McCoy thought that the place would work at all as a functional enterprise. A series of contemporary dumbasses told him that Mammoth was “too windy, too snowy, too high, too avalanche-prone, and too isolated” to work as a commercial ski area, according to The Snow Mag. That McCoy made Mammoth one of the most successful ski areas anywhere is less proof that the peanut gallery was wrong than that it took extraordinary will and inventiveness to accomplish the feat.And when a guy runs a ski area for 52 years, that ski area becomes a manifestation of his character. The people who succeed in working there absorb these same traits, whether of dysfunction or excellence. And Mammoth has long been defined by excellence.So, how to retain this? How does a ski area stitched so tightly to its founder's swashbuckling character fully transition to corporate-owned megapass headliner without devolving into an over-groomed volume machine for Los Angeles weekenders? How does a mountain that's still spinning 10 Yan fixed-grip chairs – the oldest dating to 1969 – modernize while D-Line sixers are running eight figures per install? And how does a set-footprint mountain lodged in remote wilderness continue to attract enough skiers to stay relevant, while making sure they all have a place to stay and ski once they get there?And then there's June. Like Pico curled up beside Killington, June, lost in Mammoth's podium flex, is a tiger dressed up like a housecat. At 1,500 acres, June is larger than Arapahoe Basin, Aspen Highlands, or Taos. It's 2,590-foot-vertical drop is roughly equal to that of Alta, Alyeska, or Copper (though June's bottom 1,000-ish vertical feet are often closed due to lack of lower-elevation snow). And while the terrain is not fierce, it's respectable, with hundreds of acres of those wide-open California glades to roll through.And yet skiers seem to have forgotten about the place. So, it can appear, has Alterra, which still shuffles skiers out of the base on a 1960 Riblet double chair that is the oldest operating aerial lift in the State of California. The mountain deserves better, and so do Ikon Pass holders, who can fairly expect that the machinery transporting them and their gold-plated pass uphill not predate the founding of the republic. That Alterra has transformed Deer Valley, Steamboat, and Palisades Tahoe with hundreds of millions of dollars of megalifts and terrain expansions over the past five years only makes the lingering presence of June's claptrap workhorse all the more puzzling.So in Mammoth and June we package both sides of the great contradiction of corporate ski area ownership: that whoever ends up with the mountain is simultaneously responsible for both its future and its past. Mammoth, fast and busy and modern, must retain the spirit of its restless founder. June, ornamented in quaint museum-piece machinery while charging $189 for a peak-day lift ticket, must justify its Ikon Pass membership by doing something other than saying “Yeah I'm here with Mammoth.” Has one changed too much, and the other not enough? Or can Alterra hit the Alta Goldilocks of fast lifts and big passes with throwback bonhomie undented?Why you should ski Mammoth and JuneIf you live in Southern California, go ahead and skip this section, because of course you've already skied Mammoth a thousand times, and so has everyone you know, and it will shock you to learn that there is anyone, anywhere, who has never skied this human wildlife park.But for anyone who's not in Southern California, Mammoth is remote and inconvenient. It is among the least-accessible big mountains in the country. It lacks the interstate adjacency of Tahoe, the Wasatch, and Colorado; the modernized airports funneling skiers into Big Sky and Jackson and Sun Valley (though this is changing); the cultural cachet that overcomes backwater addresses for Aspen and Telluride. Going to Mammoth, for anyone who can't point north on 395, just doesn't seem worth the hassle.It is worth the hassle. The raw statistical profile validates this. Big vert, big acreage, big snows, and big lift networks always justify the journey, even if Mammoth's remoteness fails to translate to emptiness in the way it does at, say, Taos or Revelstoke. But there is something to being Not Tahoe, a Sierra Nevada monster throwing off its own gravity rather than orbiting a mother lake with a dozen equals. Lacking the proximity to leave some things to more capable competitors, the way Tahoe resorts cede parks to Boreal or Northstar, or radness to Palisades and Kirkwood, Mammoth is compelled to offer an EveryBro mix of parks and cliffs and groomers and trees and bumps. It's a motley, magnificent scene, singular and electric, the sort of place that makes all realms beyond feel like a mirage.Mammoth does have one satellite, of course, and June Mountain fills the mothership's families-with-kids gap. Unlike Mammoth, June lets you use the carpet without an instructor. Kids 12 and under ski free. June is less crowded, less vodka-Red Bull, less California. And while the dated lifts can puzzle the Ikon tote-bagger who's last seven trips were through the detachable kingdoms of Utah and Colorado, there is a certain thrill to riding a chairlift that tugged its first passengers uphill during the Eisenhower administration.Podcast NotesOn Mammoth's masterplanOn Alterra pumping “a ton of money into its mountains”Tripling the size of Deer Valley. A massive terrain expansion and transformative infill gondola at Steamboat. The fusing of Palisades Tahoe's two sides to create America's second-largest interconnected ski area. New six-packs at Big Bear, Mammoth, Winter Park, and Solitude. Alterra is not messing around, as the Vail-Slayer continues to add mountains, add partners, and transform its portfolio of once-tired giants into dazzling modern megaresorts with billions in investment.On D-Line lifts “floating over the horizon”I mean just look at these things (Loon's Kancamagus eight on opening day, December 10, 2021 – video by Stuart Winchester):On severe accidents on Yan detachablesIn 2023, I wrote about Yan's detachable lift hellstorm:Cohee referenced a conversation he'd had with “Yan Kunczynski,” saying that, “obviously he had his issues.” If it's not obvious to the listener, here's what he was talking about: Kuncyznski founded Yan chairlifts in 1965. They were sound lifts, and the company built hundreds, many of which are still in operation today. However. Yan's high-speed lifts turned out to be death traps. Two people died in a 1985 accident at Keystone. A 9-year-old died in a 1993 accident at Sierra-at-Tahoe (then known as Sierra Ski Ranch). Two more died at Whistler in 1995. This is why all three detachable quads at Sierra-at-Tahoe date to 1996 – the mountain ripped out all three Yan machines following the accident, even though the oldest dated only to 1989.Several Yan high-speed detachables still run, but they have been heavily modified and retrofit. Superstar Express at Killington, for example, was “retrofitted with new Poma grips and sheaves as well as terminal modifications in 1994,” according to Lift Blog. In total, 15 ski areas, including Sun Valley, Schweitzer, Mount Snow, Mammoth, and Palisades Tahoe spent millions upgrading or replacing Yan detachable quads. The company ceased operations in 2001.Since that writing, many of those Yan detachables have met the scrapyard:* Killington will replace Superstar Express with a Doppelmayr six-pack this summer.* Sun Valley removed two of their Yan detachables – Greyhawk and Challenger – in 2023, and replaced them with a single Doppelmayr high-speed six-pack.* Sun Valley then replaced the Seattle Ridge Yan high-speed quad with a Doppelmayr six-pack in 2024.* Mammoth has replaced both of its Yan high-speed quads – Canyon and Broadway – with Doppelmayr D-line six-packs.* Though I didn't mention Sunday River above, it's worth noting that the mountain ripped out its Barker Yan detachable quad in 2023 for a D-Line Doppelmayr bubble sixer.I'm not sure how many of these Yan-detach jalopies remain. Sun Valley still runs four; June, two; and Schweitzer, Mount Snow, and Killington one apiece. There are probably others.On Mammoth's aging lift fleetMammoth's lift system is widely considered one of the best designed anywhere, and I have no doubt that it's well cared for. Still, it is a garage filled with as many classic cars as sparkling-off-the-assembly-line Aston Martins. Seventeen of the mountain's 24 aerial lifts were constructed before the turn of the century; 10 of those are Yan fixed- grips, the oldest dating to 1969. Per Lift Blog:On Rusty's tribute to Dave McCoyFormer Alterra CEO Rusty Gregory delivered an incredible encomium to Mammoth founder Dave McCoy on this podcast four years ago [18:08]:The audio here is jacked up in 45 different ways. I suppose I can admit now that this was because whatever broke-ass microphone I was using at the time sounded as though it had filtered my audio through a dying air-conditioner. So I had to re-record my questions (I could make out the audio well enough to just repeat what I had said during our actual chat), making the conversation sound like something I had created by going on Open AI and typing “create a podcast where it sounds like I interviewed Rusty Gregory.” Now I probably would have just asked to re-record it, but at the time I just felt lucky to get the interview and so I stapled together this bootleg track that sounds like something Eminem would have sold from the trunk of his Chevy Celebrity in 1994.More good McCoy stuff here and in the videos below:On Mammoth buying Bear and Snow SummitRusty also broke down Mammoth's acquisition of Bear Mountain and Snow Summit in that pod, at the 29:18 mark.On Mammoth super parksWhen I was a kid watching the Road Runner dominate Wile E. Coyote in zip-fall-splat canyon hijinks, I assumed it was the fanciful product of some lunatic's imagination. But now I understand that the whole serial was just an animation of Mammoth Superparks:I mean can you tell the difference?I'm admittedly impressed with the coyote's standing turnaround technique with the roller skis.On Pico beside KillingtonThe Pico-Killington dilemma echoes that of June-Mammoth, in which an otherwise good mountain looks like a less-good mountain because it sits next door to a really great mountain. As I wrote in 2023:Pico is funny. If it were anywhere else other than exactly next door to the largest ski area in New England, Pico might be a major ski area. Its 468 acres would make it the largest ski area in New Hampshire. A 2,000-foot vertical drop is impressive anywhere. The mountain has two high-speed lifts. And, by the way, knockout terrain. There is only one place in the Killington complex where you can run 2,000 vertical feet of steep terrain: Pico.On the old funitel at JuneCompounding the weirdness of J1's continued existence is the fact that, from 1986 to '96, a 20-passenger funitels ran on a parallel line:Clark explains why June removed this lift in the podcast.On kids under 12 skiing free at JuneThis is pretty amazing – per June's website:The free June Mountain Kids Season Pass gives your children under 12 unlimited access to June Mountain all season long. This replaces day tickets for kids, which are no longer offered. Everyone in your family must have a season pass or lift ticket. Your child's free season pass must be reserved in advance, and picked up in-person at the June Mountain Ticket Office. If your child has a birthday in our system that states they are older than 12 years of age, we will require proof of age to sell you a 12 and under season pass.I clarified with June officials that adults are not required to buy a season pass or lift ticket in order for their children to qualify for the free season pass.While it is unlikely that I will make it to June this winter, I signed my 8-year-old son up for a free season pass just to see how easy it was. It took about 12 seconds (he was already in Alterra's system, saving some time).On Alterra's whiplash Ikon Pass accessAlterra has consistently adjusted Ikon Pass access to meter volume and appease its partner mountains:On Mammoth's mammoth snowfallsMammoth's annual snowfalls tend to mirror the boom-bust cycles of Tahoe, with big winters burying the Statue of Liberty (715 inches at the base over the 2022-23 winter), and others underperforming the Catskills (94 inches in the winter of 1976-77). Here are the mountain's official year-by-year and month-by-month tallies. Get full access to The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast at www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

Au cœur de l'histoire
Docteur Albert Schweitzer, le pionnier de la médecine humanitaire

Au cœur de l'histoire

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2025 37:08


Stéphane Bern raconte, alors qu'on commémore, en cette année 2025, les 60 ans de sa disparition, le destin de celui qui fut musicien, théologien, écrivain, philosophe avant de devenir le docteur Albert Schweitzer parti au fin fond de l'Afrique fonder un dispensaire au Gabon pour soigner les malades et répandre, à son tour, les bienfaits que la vie lui a donnés… D'où lui vient sa foi humaniste ? En quoi le docteur Schweitzer était-il précurseur pour son temps ? Comment a-t-il inspiré les générations futures ? Pour en parler, Stéphane Bern reçoit Matthieu Arnold, historien et théologien, auteur de la biographie "Albert Schweitzer" (Fayard)

Live UNREAL with Glover U
Attract, Develop & Retain Top Real Estate Talent with Kathy Schweitzer & Jeff Glover | Glover U

Live UNREAL with Glover U

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2025 57:31


Want to build a high-performing real estate team that attracts top talent, nurtures their skills, and keeps them committed for long-term success? In this powerful episode, Kathy Schweitzer, CEO of Glover U, and Jeff Glover reveal the latest strategies to recruit, train, and retain elite agents while driving profitability and fostering a thriving company culture. You'll discover: ✅ Proven methods to attract high-caliber agents to your team ✅ How to develop their skills with effective training & coaching ✅ The key value propositions that increase agent retention ✅ How to build a culture that inspires loyalty and long-term success Whether you're a broker, team leader, or real estate entrepreneur, this episode will give you the tools to scale your business with top-tier talent and sustainable growth.

PodSAM
Summit Series: Change Management

PodSAM

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2025 46:41


When change seems to be all we do, how do we manage it to our advantage? Listen in to a conversation from the fall with the Class of 2024-25 mentors and mentees. Looking for more? Read "Change Management" from the January 2025 issue of SAM.  Mentors: Kim Jones, Vice President and General Counsel, WinSport Olympic Park, Calgary, Alberta Karl Kapucinski, Chief Executive Officer, California Mountain Resort Company JR Murray, Chief Planning Officer, Mountain Capital Partners Karyn Thorr, Chief Operating Officer, Crystal Mountain, Mich. Brent Tregaskis, President & General Manager, Eldora Mountain Resort, Colo. Mike Unruh, Senior Vice President of Mountain Operations, Boyne Resorts Mentees: Josiah Akin, Maintenance and Rental Manager, Mt. Hood Ski Bowl, Ore. Christie Barbour, Lift Operations Manager, Whistler Blackcomb, BC Rob Hallowell, Innovative Environments Manager, Boreal Mountain Resort, Woodward Tahoe, Soda Springs, Calif. Ella Klott, Sales Manager, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, Wyo. Sarah Nutt, Assistant Patrol Director, Sunday River Resort, Maine Loryn Roberson, Director of Marketing and Communications, Loveland Ski Area, Colo. Tim Shannon, Director of Skier Services, The Hermitage Club at Haystack Mountain, Vt. Jenny Weaver, Health and Safety Manager, Mammoth Mountain and June Mountain, Calif. Jeremy Wildgoose, Director of Lodging, Schweitzer, Idaho Kyle Wilson, Snow Sports Director, Nordic Mountain, Wis. Rachel Wyckoff, Marketing Director, Shawnee Mountain, Pa. Expert Voice: Paul Thallner, Founder, High Peaks Group Thank you to our premiere sponsor, MountainGuard, for their support of this program. 

Debout les copains !
Docteur Albert Schweitzer, le pionnier de la médecine humanitaire

Debout les copains !

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2025 37:08


Stéphane Bern raconte, alors qu'on commémore, en cette année 2025, les 60 ans de sa disparition, le destin de celui qui fut musicien, théologien, écrivain, philosophe avant de devenir le docteur Albert Schweitzer parti au fin fond de l'Afrique fonder un dispensaire au Gabon pour soigner les malades et répandre, à son tour, les bienfaits que la vie lui a donnés… D'où lui vient sa foi humaniste ? En quoi le docteur Schweitzer était-il précurseur pour son temps ? Comment a-t-il inspiré les générations futures ? Pour en parler, Stéphane Bern reçoit Matthieu Arnold, historien et théologien, auteur de la biographie "Albert Schweitzer" (Fayard)

SWR Aktuell im Gespräch
Vor Unionsanträgen zur Migration: "Kompromisslosigkeit geht unter Demokraten nicht"

SWR Aktuell im Gespräch

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2025 6:11


An diesem Mittwoch will die Union den Bundestag über Anträge für mehr Härte in der Migrationspolitik abstimmen lassen. Die AfD könnte dabei für die nötige Mehrheit sorgen. Davor warnen Bundeskanzler Scholz und mehrere SPD-Ministerpräsidenten in einem offenen Brief an ihre Unionskollegen. Sie werben dafür, gemeinsam für mehr Sicherheit zu sorgen. Der rheinland-pfälzische Ministerpräsident Alexander Schweitzer (SPD) sagte in SWR Aktuell, die demokratischen Parteien seien nach dem Anschlag von Aschaffenburg in einer herausfordernden Lage: „Wir haben in der demokratischen Mitte eine besondere Verantwortung, das Thema Migration gut zu organisieren. Das sei bei allen parteipolitischen Unterschieden Teil der demokratischen Kultur. "Das ist, was mich persönlich irritiert: wenn ein Kanzlerkandidat der Union, wie Herr Merz, sagt, er wird keine Kompromisse eingehen." Das sei in demokratischen Verfassungen "einfach nicht möglich." Die Ministerpräsidenten der Länder haben nach Ansicht Schweitzers ein "eigenes politisches Gewicht", es sei ihnen immer wieder gelungen, "parteiübergreifend Kompromisse zu finden." Das sei der Grund, warum die SPD-Ministerpräsidenten den offenen Brief geschrieben hätten und nicht die SPD-Parteiführung, sagte Schweitzer im Gespräch mit SWR Aktuell-Moderator Gerhard Leitner.

entrepreneurjourney
Unlocking Your Potential: Becoming the Catalyst for Success with Greg Schweitzer

entrepreneurjourney

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2025 86:54


In this episode of The Profitable Christian Business Podcast, we sit down with Greg Schweitzer, Founder and Chief CATALYST of Catalyst Transformation Institute. Greg is a record-setting master coach, trainer, and expert in NLP, TIME Techniques, and Hypnosis. He shares powerful insights on how individuals and teams can unlock their potential, maximize their impact, and avoid common pitfalls that hinder growth. Greg's unique approach focuses on drawing out the greatness within people to help them live their best lives and do their best work. Whether you're an entrepreneur, a leader, or someone looking to level up in life and business, Greg's wisdom will inspire and equip you to become the catalyst for your own success. In This Episode, You'll Learn: How Greg's journey led him to become a catalyst for transformation. The power of NLP, TIME Techniques, and Hypnosis in personal and professional growth. Strategies to accelerate growth while maintaining balance and avoiding burnout. The role of faith in business and leadership. Practical steps to elevate your performance and minimize setbacks. Connect with Greg Schweitzer:

Outring Tinnitus Podcast
Episode 100 - 5 Years Anniversary with Glenn Schweitzer From Rewiring Tinnitus

Outring Tinnitus Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2025 59:42


Hey Tinnitus Friends and Family, Here are my links: https://linktr.ee/outringtinnitus This episode is a deeply personal one. Five years ago, on January 26, 2020, just before the world changed with COVID, I launched this podcast. A lot has happened since then—both in the world and in my personal journey. In this milestone episode, I'm joined by someone who inspired me to become a tinnitus coach: Glenn Schweitzer from Rewiring Tinnitus. Glenn has been a guiding light for me and many others, and I couldn't think of a better guest to help celebrate the podcast's 5th anniversary. Together, we reflect on the ups and downs of coaching, the emotional challenges of this work, and the non-linear process of personal growth and healing. Over the past five years, my journey has been one of incredible highs and difficult lows. I've felt the deep reward of helping others achieve breakthroughs and the strain of navigating burnout and depression in my own life. This work is meaningful, but it's not always easy—and I've learned that it's possible to struggle personally while still being a good coach, partner, friend, and community leader. This episode is a heartfelt look behind the scenes. I open up about: • The emotional toll and fulfillment of working in this space. • The challenges of balancing personal struggles, relationships, and professional growth. • The gratitude I feel for this community, now stronger than ever, with 25,000 YouTube subscribers and an engaged group of members in My Tinnitus Club. As we reflect on five years and 100 episodes, I want to thank each and every one of you for listening, supporting, and being part of this journey. While I've made my own life very difficult at times in pursuit of my dreams, this work has given me purpose and connection in ways I'll always treasure.

hr2 Morgenfeier
Von der Theologie zum gelebten Glauben. Zum 150. Geburtstag von Albert Schweitzer

hr2 Morgenfeier

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2025 24:08


Albert Schweitzer war Philosoph, Theologe, Organist, Urwaldarzt und Friedensnobelpreisträger. Faszinierende Leistungen, findet Autor Matthias Viertel, noch mehr aber, was Schweitzer aus christlichem Glauben ganz praktisch tut.

Podcasts – KRFY Radio
Community Character Hour: Schweitzer

Podcasts – KRFY Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2025 53:31


The post Community Character Hour: Schweitzer appeared first on KRFY Radio.

Música y Letra
Música y Letra: Palestrina y Schweitzer

Música y Letra

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2025 59:54


Andrés Amorós dedica el programa a estos dos compositores con motivo de sus aniversarios.

Eat Blog Talk | Megan Porta
630: Time-Management Strategies for Busy Bloggers - How to Thrive as A Blogger And Have Time for Your Family with Joanne Schweitzer

Eat Blog Talk | Megan Porta

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2024 49:04 Transcription Available


In episode 630, Megan chats to Joanne Schweitzer about time management strategies to help us balance the demands of blogging with raising children and building a local brand. Joanne Schweitzer is a successful Italian heritage recipes food blogger and has been blogging part time for 8 years. She has 10K Facebook followers with a local following too and 14K Pinterest followers with 3K in loyal newsletter openers. Joanne's  tomato sauce and cocktails do best. She does local cooking shows specifically for how to make pasta that have been successful. In this episode, you'll learn about outsourcing tasks, how to tap into your local network, why newsletters are so effective and how to build a successful blog while still having time for your family. Key points discussed include: - Focus on quality over quantity: Prioritize creating high-quality, authentic content rather than rushing to publish multiple posts per week. - Leverage your newsletter: Invest time in crafting a thoughtful weekly newsletter to build a loyal audience and community. - Tap into local networking: Seek out opportunities to host cooking demos and events in your local community to grow your brand. - Embrace flexibility in your workflow: Allow for spontaneity and don't be afraid to adapt your schedule as needed. - Outsource your weaknesses: Identify tasks you're not strong at and consider outsourcing them to free up time for your strengths. - Batch recipes with the same ingredients: Make two or more recipes that use the same ingredients like roasted tomatoes or sautéed scallops to save time and money when doing your blog photography. - Celebrate small wins: Recognize and appreciate the incremental progress you make, as these small victories can fuel your long-term success. - Cultivate authenticity: Be genuine in your interactions with your audience, and let your personality shine through. - Persist through imposter syndrome: Believe in your abilities and don't let self-doubt hold you back from achieving your goals. Connect with Joanne Schweitzer Website | Instagram

Live UNREAL with Glover U
How to Achieve 1,100 Real Estate Team Growth in Two Years | GloverU | Steven & Kimberly Franco | Kathy Schweitzer

Live UNREAL with Glover U

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2024 20:41


Welcome to another episode of Live UNREAL podcast! In this episode, Coach Kathy Schweitzer sits down with Kimberly and Steven Franco, a dynamic husband-and-wife team from Houston, Texas, to share their inspiring real estate journey. From their early days as a "hot mess" with no systems or accountability to becoming a structured, high-performing team, the Francos detail how Glover U's one-on-one coaching transformed their business and personal lives. Steven and Kimberly share their background– both the challenges and successes they saw before coaching, and the incredible growth they achieved in just two years after coaching. Don't miss this conversation filled with honesty, practical wisdom, and a bit of humor! The Glover U mission is to impact the lives of millions by helping them live their UNREAL life! We hope you are inspired by the Live Unreal Podcast! Whether you're an established Realtor or new to the real estate game, this podcast is designed to empower you with knowledge and inspiration.

Interviews - Deutschlandfunk
Beitragsdebatte - Schweitzer verteidigt Nullrunde bei Öffentlich-Rechtlichen

Interviews - Deutschlandfunk

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2024 14:28


Es geht um 58 Cent: Die Ministerpräsidentenkonferenz hat eine Erhöhung des Rundfunkbeitrags abgelehnt. ARD und ZDF haben deswegen Verfassungsbeschwerde eingereicht. Rheinland-Pfalz' Ministerpräsident Alexander Schweitzer findet diesen Schritt unklug. May, Philipp www.deutschlandfunk.de, Interviews

The Backyard Naturalists
Saving Species: Insights into the Endangered Species Process with Sara Schweitzer

The Backyard Naturalists

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2024 28:01


Welcome to The Backyard Naturalists, the show about anything and everything connected with nature.   In this episode of The Backyard Naturalists, Debbie and Laurie welcome Sara Schweitzer from the NC Wildlife Resources Commission to discuss the intricate process of identifying and protecting endangered species. Sara shares insights into how federal and state agencies collaborate to assess species' population trends, distribution, and vulnerability through rigorous surveys and scientific review.   Learn about the classifications of endangered, threatened, and special concern species, and how catastrophic events like hurricanes can impact their survival. Sara also highlights conservation success stories like the recovery of the bald eagle and brown pelican, while noting the unique struggles amphibians and reptiles face in North Carolina.   The episode explores the importance of habitat restoration, such as recreating ephemeral pools, and offers actionable ways for individuals to contribute to conservation efforts, from planting native species to reducing chemical use. Tune in to discover how your backyard can play a vital role in protecting vulnerable wildlife!   If you have ideas for topics that you'd like us to pursue, send us a message either on our Facebook page or our website. We would really like to hear from you.   Connect with the Backyard Naturalists on the Web, Facebook and Instagram.   Please visit and support our presenting sponsor, Backyard Birds at http://www.thebirdfoodstore.com/. A mecca for bird lovers and bird watchers, Backyard Birds is an independent family-owned business located in Matthews, NC (next to Dairy Queen), just southeast of Charlotte.   Thanks for listening to The Backyard Naturalists.  We hope you have a day filled with the wonders of nature. Get outside and take a walk on the wild side! Please don't forget to leave a 5-star review for The Backyard Naturalists podcast.   Production services for The Backyard Naturalists podcast are provided by Downtown Podcasting. To start a conversation on how you can have a podcast, simply send an email to info@downtownpodcasting.com.

Christian Challenge CSUC
The Tool of an Evangelist: Asking Good Questions // Dr. Cameron Schweitzer

Christian Challenge CSUC

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2024 35:50


Jesus called His followers to a life of purpose, power, and action. In this series, we'll journey through Christ's Great Commission, exploring how each of us is invited to take part in the mission He entrusted to His Church. From our closest circles to the farthest nations, Jesus commands us to go, make disciples, baptize, and teach—all by His authority and through His power. The world needs the light and hope of Jesus. This is more than a message series—it's a call to take up the mission that Jesus left for us. Will you say “yes” to His invitation? Will you step out in faith, in boldness, and in love? The Gospel is worth sharing, and it's on us to make it known. This series will help equip us to do so. In this message, Dr. Cameron Schweitzer from Gateway Seminary shares the greatest tool in sharing our faith—asking good questions. We know that navigating life in college can be hard, so here's the main thing to know: Challenge is a place where you meet your best friends, grow in navigating the challenges of life, and explore what it means to have a personal relationship with Jesus. Challenge is a place for you and we'd love to connect more this semester. We'd love for you to join us at our next event! https://www.challengecsuc.com/connect... Want to get connected with Challenge CSUC or simply have a question for us? Fill out and submit the form below and we will get back to you soon. https://www.challengecsuc.com/contact-us STAY CONNECTED WITH US Website: https://www.challengecsuc.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/challengecsuc TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@challengecsuc Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/challengecsuc

The Darin Olien Show
Why When You Eat May Matter More Than What You Eat

The Darin Olien Show

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2024 27:40


What if the timing of your meals is as crucial as what you're eating? In today's episode, I dive into the powerful connection between meal timing and your body's natural rhythm—and why it matters more than most of us realize. Breaking down the science behind circadian rhythms, I look at how eating earlier in the day supports better digestion, metabolism, and even mental clarity. Studies show that eating late not only disrupts sleep but can also lead to weight gain and a slower metabolism. So, we're going to break down why shifting calories to the first part of the day—following the body's natural peak energy and digestive power—can transform your energy, mood, and long-term wellness. Drawing on ancient wisdom from Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine, we see how these systems have always advocated for aligning meal timing with nature's rhythms. Both recognize that eating in sync with your body's energy peaks and dips has the potential to support everything from digestion to balanced energy and stable weight. This episode is a return to basics: respecting the body's natural flow for real, sustainable health.  If you're looking to feel more in tune, support your metabolism, and bring ease to your routine, let's rethink not just what's on the plate, but when it hits the plate. We Also Discuss:   (01:57) — The Science of Meal Timing (05:08) — Circadian Rhythm's Influence on Metabolism and Energy Use (12:36) — Morning Calories for Weight Loss and Metabolic Support (18:23) — Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine on Meal Timing (25:22) —  Breakfast Like a King, Light Dinner for Energy Balance (29:01) — Practical Tips for Aligning Meal Times with Your Natural Rhythms   And more…   Don't forget: You can order now by heading to darinolien.com/fatal-conveniences-book or order now on Amazon.   Thank You to our Sponsors: Therasage: Go to www.therasage.com and use code DARIN at checkout for 15% off   Find more from Darin: Website: https://darinolien.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Darinolien/ Book: https://darinolien.com/fatal-conveniences-book/ Down to Earth: https://darinolien.com/down-to-earth/   Bibliography:   Garaulet, M., Gómez‐Abellán, P., Alburquerque-Béjar, J., Lee, Y., Ordovás, J., & Scheer, F. (2013). Timing of food intake predicts weight loss effectiveness. International Journal of Obesity, 37, 604–611. Link Wehrens, S., Christou, S., Isherwood, C., Middleton, B., Gibbs, M., Archer, S., ... & Johnston, J. (2017). Meal Timing Regulates the Human Circadian System. Current Biology, 27(12), 1768-1775.e3. Link Xiao, Q., Garaulet, M., & Scheer, F. (2018). Meal timing and obesity; interactions with macronutrient intake and chronotype. International journal of obesity (2005), 43, 1701–1711. Link Ravussin, E., Beyl, R., Poggiogalle, E., Hsia, D., & Peterson, C. (2019). Early Time-Restricted Feeding Reduces Appetite and Increases Fat Oxidation but Does Not Affect Energy Expenditure in Humans. Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.), 27(8), 1244-1254. Link Gu, C., Brereton, N., Schweitzer, A., Cotter, M., Børsheim, E., Wolfe, R., & Jun, J. (2019). Effect of Dinner Timing on Nocturnal Metabolism in Healthy Volunteers. Sleep, 36(7), 981–990. Link Bray, M., & Young, M. (2009). The role of cell-specific circadian clocks in metabolism and disease. Obesity Reviews. Link. Mohawk, J., Green, C., & Takahashi, J. (2012). Central and peripheral circadian clocks in mammals. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 35, 445-462. Link. Finger, A.-M., Dibner, C., & Kramer, A. (2020). Coupled network of the circadian clocks: a driving force of rhythmic physiology. FEBS Letters. Link. Petrenko, V., Gosmain, Y., & Dibner, C. (2017). High-resolution recording of the circadian oscillator in primary mouse α- and β-cell culture. Frontiers in Endocrinology. Link. Summa, K. C., & Turek, F. (2014). Chronobiology and obesity: Interactions between circadian rhythms and energy regulation. Advances in Nutrition, 5(3), 312S-319S. Link. Puranik, A., & Patwardhan, B. (2012). Ayurveda and Metabolic Diseases. Link. Yang, S., Yang, H., & Zhang, Y. (2023). Yao-Shan of traditional Chinese medicine: an old story for metabolic health. Frontiers in Pharmacology. Link. Xu, L., Zhao, W., Wang, D., & Ma, X. (2018). Chinese Medicine in the Battle Against Obesity and Metabolic Diseases. Frontiers in Physiology. Link. Takahashi, M., Ozaki, M., & Kang, M. (2018). Effects of Meal Timing on Postprandial Glucose Metabolism and Blood Metabolites in Healthy Adults. Nutrients. Link.  

The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast
Podcast #186: Grand Targhee Managing Director & General Manager Geordie Gillett

The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2024 74:19


This podcast hit paid subscribers' inboxes on Oct. 31. It dropped for free subscribers on Nov. 7. To receive future episodes as soon as they're live, and to support independent ski journalism, please consider an upgrade to a paid subscription. You can also subscribe to the free tier below: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

The Real MF'ers
Entrepreneurship Successes & Failures: Todd Schweitzer's Growth Strategies | Construction MF'ers 78

The Real MF'ers

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2024 43:36


Starting and scaling a business isn't all success stories and smooth sailing—it's filled with tough choices, setbacks, and the real-life challenges most entrepreneurs face. In this episode of The Construction MF'ers podcast, Scott Peper, our CEO and Founder, sits down with Todd Schweitzer, an accomplished entrepreneur with a track record of building and selling multiple companies. Together, they go beyond the wins, diving into the decisions, failures, and personal sacrifices that define real business growth.Todd and Scott cover key insights for anyone navigating the entrepreneurial journey:

Siege der Medizin  | Der medizinhistorische Podcast
Albert Schweitzer – Der berühmte Urwalddoktor

Siege der Medizin | Der medizinhistorische Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2024 49:32


Vom Orgelspieler zum Nobelpreisträger: was Albert Schweitzer alles in seinem Leben vollbracht hat, erzählt Andrea Sawatzki in dieser Folge.

Real Presence Live
Joseph Schweitzer - RPL 10.24.24 1/2

Real Presence Live

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2024 27:21


Know Love and Serve Ministries

TheOccultRejects
MYSTIC: Spirit of Hallow's Eve with Jill

TheOccultRejects

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2024 84:34


JillBookAmazon.com: MYSTIC: Spirit of Hallow's Eve eBook : RITE, DIVINE, Schweitzer, Jill, Prince, Sid, Prince, Sid, Schweitzer, Jill, Schweitzer, Jill, Prince, Sid: Kindle StoreYoutube(3) Divine Insight - YouTubeLinks For The Occult Rejects and The Spiritual Gangsters https://linktr.ee/occultrejectsandfriendsOccult Research Institutehttps://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/The Occult Scientist Lizahttps://linktr.ee/LizaSolizLinks For The Spiritual Gangstershttps://linktr.ee/thespiritualgangsterspodcastCash Apphttps://cash.app/$theoccultrejectsVenmo@TheOccultRejectsBuy Me A Coffeebuymeacoffee.com/TheOccultRejectsPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejects

PodAcelerar - Empreendedorismo e Negócios
Como se tornar o PROTAGONISTA da sua própria HÍSTORIA | LUCAS SCHWEITZER #163 - PodAcelerar

PodAcelerar - Empreendedorismo e Negócios

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2024 63:43


Conquiste até 5 anos de lucros e resultados em até 12 mesesClique no link para saber mais sobre o Acelerador Empresarial: https://www.aceleradorempresarial.com...O que você achou deste episódio? Para saber mais sobre o Acelerador Empresarial, clique no link abaixo:https://www.aceleradorempresarial.com.brMe siga lá no Instagram, onde eu sempre compartilho conteúdos de grande valor e exclusivos sobre gestão, liderança e processos.Para acompanhar, basta clicar neste link:/ marcusmarquesoficial Está chegando agora no PodAcelerar?Somos o maior podcast do Brasil, voltado para empresários, e já recebemos grandes nomes como: Roberto Justus, Felipe Titto, João Apolinário, Samuel Pereira, Geraldo Rufino, Flávio Augusto, Cris Arcangeli, Pablo Marçal, Bianca Andrade, entre outros.Conheça o convidado:Um pouco do extenso currículo de Lucas Schweitzer, que empreende desde muito jovem, hoje é fundador do Empreende Brazil, vice-Presidente Nacional da Associação Brasileira de Empresas de Eventos, autor do Livro “Tinha tudo pra dar errado”, onde narra sua trajetória de superação e conta como fez do empreendedorismo uma forma de mudança.Sobre o episódio:Neste episódio, Lucas Schweitzer abre sua vida e conta como as dificuldades o deixou mais forte para enfrentar as adversidades que encontrou na sua trajetória como empreendedor. Lucas assim como Marcus Marques é novo e tem propósitos semelhantes.Siga Lucas Schweitzer nas redes sociais:  /   / https://www.instagram.com/lucaschweitzer/  Qual foi o maior insight desse episódio? Para saber mais sobre o Acelerador Empresarial clique no link abaixo: https://www.aceleradorempresarial.com...Me siga também no Instagram, lá eu sempre compartilho conteúdos de extremo valor e altamente exclusivos sobre gestão, liderança e processos.  Para acompanhar, basta clicar neste link:  / marcusmarquesoficial

HealthcareNOW Radio - Insights and Discussion on Healthcare, Healthcare Information Technology and More
The Dish: Transforming Pharmacy and Public Health through Health IT - Insights from Pam Schweitzer

HealthcareNOW Radio - Insights and Discussion on Healthcare, Healthcare Information Technology and More

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2024 46:06


Episode 43: Transforming Pharmacy and Public Health through Health IT - Insights from Pam Schweitzer On this episode, POCP hosts Tony Schueth, CEO of Point-of-Care Partners, and Kim Boyd, Regulatory Resource Center Lead, sit down with Pam Schweitzer, former Assistant Surgeon General and current Chair of the NCPDP Foundation Board of Trustees. Together, they explore the transformative power of health IT in reshaping pharmacy practice and public health. The conversation dives into key topics like interoperability, public health data modernization, and the evolving role of pharmacists in healthcare, especially in rural communities. Pam offers valuable insights into the regulatory landscape, highlighting policies such as CMS 0057 and HTI-2 and how they are driving real-time data exchange between payers, providers, and public health systems. This episode is a must-listen for those interested in healthcare interoperability, pharmacy standards, and the future of public health integration. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

Inside Medical Malpractice
Two Perspectives, Endless Impact (Part 2) with RaDonda Vaught and Leilani Schweitzer

Inside Medical Malpractice

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2024 67:52


Send us a textInside Medical Malpractice is back with Part 2 of ‘Two Perspectives, Endless Impact' featuring RaDonda Vaught and Leilani Schweitzer.  In the first episode, we explored the patient safety landscape, the journey towards safer healthcare, the significant challenges we face, and how patients and families can become effective advocates for their own care. We also examined the need for cultural shifts and the role of technology in healthcare. In this amazing episode, Leilani and RaDonda focus on the need for gradual and deliberate change in healthcare by confronting the systemic issues that arise from top-down approaches, share inspiring stories of triumph and hope, and highlight the crucial yet often overlooked conversations that need to be initiated by healthcare institutions when things (inevitably)  go wrong. You'll also get a look into what's on the horizon for these two amazing women. This episode is a testament to optimism hope and the tenacity it takes to make things better. Don't miss it!

Tech Intersect™ with Tonya M. Evans
Tech Intersect #229: Driving the Crypto Voter Turnout with "Crypto Rides" with Will Schweitzer

Tech Intersect™ with Tonya M. Evans

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2024 28:37


Send us a textThe crypto revolution is in full swing and it's making its way to the ballot box. As we continue with our mission of making crypto accessible and inclusive, it's important to celebrate the initiatives that are doing just that! Will Schweitzer, founder of Suite View PAC, joins me on the podcast today to spread the word on their initiative, Crypto Rides, which aims to increase voter turnout in New York. This week, episode 229 of the Tech Intersect™ Podcast is about driving the crypto voter turnout with “crypto rides.” POWERED BY DIGITALMONEYDEMYSTIFIED.COM – Your trusted guide to separate crypto fact from fiction. Buy now, wherever books are sold and on Amazon.Crypto Rides is an initiative started by Will Schweitzer from Suite View PAC and aims to empower crypto enthusiasts in New York. This program provides prepaid Uber rides to registered voters in NY in an attempt to increase turnout at the polls. Topics Will and I cover in this episode include:Crypto Rides provides an accessible way to get the diverse democratic community of crypto voters to the polls for the 2024 Presidential election.  Crypto voters, particularly in swing states, could play a pivotal role in close-call elections due to the size and enthusiasm of the crypto demographic.With the election rapidly approaching, raising awareness and driving participation in this program is a top priority. Follow, rate, and review the podcast! You can also watch or listen to the podcast on YouTube!CONNECT WITH WILL AND SUITE VIEW:Crypto RidesLinkedInCONNECT WITH DR. TONYA M. EVANS:Follow the Show: Twitter @AtTechIntersect | Instagram @TechIntersectFollow Dr. Tonya: Twitter/ IG/ TikTok @IPProfEvans Contact, Resources & More: AdvantageEvans.com/linksRegulate & The Rabbit Hole by Notty Prod licensed via Creative ComUnlock the key to 10x the value of your legal practice in Web3 with our exclusive Advantage EVANS FinTech Academy training series—only 20 seats available! Start separating crypto fact from fiction today. Get your copy of , Digital Money Demystified, and start learning so you can earn safely, legally and confidently. https://digitalmoneydemystified.comRegulate & The Rabbit Hole by Notty Prod licensed via Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Produced by Tonya M. Evans for Advantage Evans, LLC

The Dish on Health IT
Transforming Pharmacy and Public Health through Health IT: Insights from Pam Schweitzer

The Dish on Health IT

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2024 46:06


In this episode of The Dish on Health IT, Tony Schueth, CEO of Point-of-Care Partners, and Kim Boyd, Regulatory Resource Center Lead, are joined by Pam Schweitzer, former Assistant Surgeon General of the United States and current Chair of the NCPDP Foundation Board of Trustees. Together, they deliver an in-depth discussion on critical topics impacting the health IT landscape, including interoperability, public health data modernization, and evolving healthcare regulations.The episode begins with introductions from Tony and Kim, highlighting Pam's extensive career in healthcare, ranging from her leadership roles in the Indian Health Service and the Veterans Affairs (VA) system to her current position as chair of the NCPDP Foundation. Pam reflects on her experience overseeing the transition from paper to electronic health records and how this complex shift required the coordination of multiple healthcare departments, including radiology and labs.Pam shares her insights into how policy changes, such as CMS 0057 and the HTI-2 proposed rule, are shaping the future of healthcare interoperability. The trio discusses how these regulations, aimed at improving data sharing between payers, providers, and public health systems, will ultimately drive real-time data exchange. They also emphasize the importance of infrastructure, standards, and innovation to support these efforts.As the discussion moves forward, Pam talks about her work on public health initiatives, particularly around pharmacy interoperability, maternal health, and the broader impacts of nutrition and food supply on community health. Kim and Pam also explore the evolving role of pharmacists in public health, especially in rural areas where they often serve as the primary healthcare providers.The conversation includes key steps for modernizing public health data systems, such as addressing the data silos between healthcare and public health systems. Pam emphasizes the need for greater collaboration and data sharing to enable a more effective public health response, especially during crises like pandemics or natural disasters.Pam, Kim, and Tony also touch on the role of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) in promoting data fluidity and expanding the integration of pharmacists and other healthcare stakeholders into the broader healthcare ecosystem.The episode wraps up with Pam expressing her optimism for the future of health IT and public health interoperability, while stressing the importance of ongoing collaboration between stakeholders, from policymakers to healthcare technology vendors. Kim adds that the evolution of pharmacy practice and regulatory changes are driving significant improvements in patient care and medication management.Listeners can tune in for a deep dive into the intersections of health IT policy, pharmacy standards, and public health modernization, with practical insights from leaders in the field. This episode is a must-listen for those interested in healthcare interoperability, the impact of CMS and ONC policies, and the future of public health and pharmacy integration.Catch the full episode on your preferred podcast platform, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Healthcare Now Radio, or watch the video version on YouTube.Other resources you may be interested in:Healthy People 2030 – Data and Information Systemshttps://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/browse-objectives/public-health-infrastructurePublic Health Infrastructure - Healthy People 2030 | health.govhttps://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/browse-objectives/public-health-infrastructureStrategies for Public Health Interoperability | PHDI | CDChttps://www.cdc.gov/data-interoperability/php/public-health-strategy/index.htmlMarch 27, 2024 – Draft 2024-2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Planhttps://www.healthit.gov/sites/default/files/page/2024-03/Draft_2024-2030_Federal_Health_IT_Strategic_%20Plan.pdf2023 – Infrastructure for Scaling and Spreading Whole Health – Health Informaticshttps://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/transforming-health-care-to-create-whole-health-strategies-to-assess-scale-and-spread-the-whole-person-approach-to-health 

Dieters Weinbar - Auf ein Glas in St. Antony
Episode 146: Im Gespräch mit Alexander Schweitzer über Magensäure, Macht und Veganismus

Dieters Weinbar - Auf ein Glas in St. Antony

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2024 60:13


Als frisch vereidigter Nachfolger von Malu Dreyer hat Alexander Schweitzer zuerst Mal die große Aufgabe, aus dem Schatten seiner Vorgängerin heraus zu treten. Ein Mann, der durchaus reflektiert über die Mechanismen der Macht in der Politik nachdenkt. Aber auch über Familienleben, über das Zusammensein mit Andersdenkenden und die Überzeugung, kein Fleisch zu essen - über Politik vor Ort und auch Olaf Scholz. Der Mann ist kreuzsympathisch und das Gespräch ein absoluter Hinhörer! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Talk Back
Thursday, Sep 19 - Eric Stern

Talk Back

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2024 91:21


Eric Stern is a Democratic Strategist. He is a former Senior Advisor to Governors Bullock and Schweitzer.

Stories and Strategies
Throwback Thursday – When Lies BUILD Trust

Stories and Strategies

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2024 22:53 Transcription Available


Participate in our Listener Feedback Survey. 5 minutes for $50. Just email doug@storiesandstrategies.ca This is a Replay from Episode 79 which first published in January 2023.In this age of misinformation and disinformation we can all agree lies and deception are bad right? Aren't they?Philosophers, psychologists, economists – and all those morality experts on social media have always insisted deception harms trust.Four Behavioral Science studies done through the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania show that assertion just isn't true. In fact, there lies we hear, knowing they are lies, that make us trust those liars even more. So what's the truth about lying?Listen For4:02 Pro Social Lies and Trust11:06 Altruistic Lies and Moral Credit14:14 Cultural Differences in Lying18:08 Lying in Politics Guests Maurice Schweitzer, PhD and Emma Levine, PhD: Emma.Levine@chicagobooth.edu Schweitzer@wharton.upenn.edu Link to Emma and Maurice's study Prosocial Lies: When deception breeds trust Apply to be a guest on the podcastConnect with usLinkedIn | X | Instagram | You Tube | Facebook | ThreadsRequest a transcript of this episodeSupport the Show.Support the show

Epistolar
Hermann Hesse y el Arte de Confrontar el Dolor: Carta a Renata Schweitzer

Epistolar

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2024 5:17


Hermann Hesse fue uno de los autores alemanes más leídos del siglo XX. Escribió novelas, cuentos, poesías, meditaciones y hasta una ópera. Fue perseguido por la Gestapo, que quemaba sus libros en las plazas de Berlín. Y recibió el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1946. Fue, además de todo eso, un autor popular e influyente. Y de una copiosa correspondencia. Dicen algunos biógrafos que hay registros de, al menos, 35 mil respuestas a cartas de lectores. Ésta es una de las cartas, dirigida a la poeta alemana Renata Schweitzer. Es un texto lleno de ánimo para alguien que está sufriendo. Si una carta es una conversación entre dos ausentes, acá se convierte en una charla con abrazo incluido. Lee la actriz de la Comedia Nacional de Montevideo Florencia Zabaleta. *** Montagnola, diciembre de 1954 Querida Renata Schweitzer: Me daba lástima quemar sus poesías, pero su deseo está cumplido. Las dos están quemadas. Entre tanto, habrá recibido, sin duda, aquellas pocas líneas que le he escrito en contestación a su primera desesperada carta. He pensado dos días en usted, antes de encontrar las palabras convenientes. Porque no quería ni juzgar sus lágrimas, ni acariciarle la cabeza, pero sí decirle algo que fuera, dentro de lo posible, sincero. No deseo en absoluto irrumpir en un dolor vivo. Casi ya no puedo escribir más cartas. Con mi debilidad que aumenta diariamente, ya me resulta bastante molesto tener que leer lo que me traen cada día... Pero ahora tengo que decirle una cosa: posee usted demasiado talento y, posiblemente, es demasiado sutil, para tener derecho a entregarse al tormento como una criatura cualquiera de la naturaleza. Me gustaría que de cuanto usted ha sufrido surgiera tanta idea y tanto fervor en lo verdadero y real que su vida se convirtiera, si no en feliz, al menos en más rica y profunda de lo que era antes. Me resulta tan difícil encontrar palabras como a mis ojos y mis dedos les resulta difícil escribirlas. ¡Conténtese con eso! Suyo Hermann Hesse

Police Off The Cuff
Dana Ireland Murder 3 wrongfully convicted DNA identifies new suspect.

Police Off The Cuff

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2024 58:52


Dana Ireland Murder: 3 wrongfully convicted, DNA identifies new suspect. A Hawaii resident was found dead in his home days after being identified as a suspect in the 1991 murder, rape and kidnapping of a 23-year-old woman, police said. Dana Ireland was attacked on a fish trail in the Kapoho area of Hawaii Island on Dec. 24, 1991, the Hawaii Police Department said Monday in a news release. She died the next day at the Hilo Medical Center, police added. “For 33 years, our Department has been resolute in investigating the Dana Ireland case,” Hawaii Police Department Chief Benjamin Moszkowicz said in the release. Using "evolved" DNA technology, investigators were able to identify 57-year-old Albert Lauro Jr., who lived in the Kapoho area at the time of the murder, as a potential suspect in the case, according to the department. Before police had enough evidence to charge Lauro Jr. for Ireland's murder, he was found dead in his home on July 23 from an apparent suicide, Moszkowicz said, per ABC News and KITV. "This case is still under investigation. Albert Lauro Jr. has been linked to the victim by DNA; however, his exact involvement is still under investigation. And his death was ruled a suicide by the forensic pathologist," Hawaii Police Department Capt. Rio Amon-Wilkins told USA TODAY on Thursday. Albert "Ian" Schweitzer, who had spent more than 20 years in prison for Ireland's murder, was released a year ago based on new evidence. (USA Today)

Haaretz Weekly
'A war in Lebanon won't be a duel with Hezbollah, Israel will face Iran's entire axis of resistance'

Haaretz Weekly

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2024 35:05


The key to avoiding full-scale war between Israel and Hezbollah is ending the conflict in southern Israel with Hamas, asserts Yoram Schweitzer, an expert on the Palestinian and Lebanese terror groups, on the Haaretz Podcast. Schweitzer tells host Allison Kaplan Sommer that it is in Israel's power to "extricate itself" from what is already an ongoing two-front war. He blames the "illusion of a total victory" promoted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Gaza for dragging on the war for months, what he calls a "misguided policy" that has also led to the war of attrition between Lebanon and Israel. "I think it's in our hands to determine the future in the north" when it comes to preventing a slide into a larger war, Schweitzer says. "I think Israel has a great and significant role to play in calming down the situation." A former strategist in negotiating for Israeli soldiers missing in action, Schweitzer believes that a deal must be made with Hamas exchanging hostages for Palestinian prisoners and ending the war. Afterward, Israel should work to "redesign our preparedness and our military readiness both in the south and in the north and prepare for a potential future war with Hezbollah, if needed" – unless a comprehensive regional political settlement can be reached. Schweitzer says he believes internal political pressure in Lebanon and the potential devastation of a full-scale conflict means that Hezbollah is "under pressure" to accept a cease-fire that would avoid a conflagration in which Iran would be sure to join, thus sparking regional war. While he believes Hezbollah and Iran are not interested in the all-out war that has panicked Israelis into buying generators and stocking up on bottled water, "it's in their interest to stick to their policy and to the war of attrition. I think that we need to understand that Israel is the one who determines the scale and the height of the flames of the war." Acknowledging that Hezbollah's Iran-backed forces initiated the current conflict and is "not an innocent bystander," he notes that "Hezbollah is mostly reactive to Israeli maneuvers and attacks" and so Israel determines "where the trend in Lebanon is going." Netanyahu's seemingly concerted efforts to alienate the Biden White House weakens Israel's position vis-a-vis both Hamas and Hezbollah, Schweitzer says, calling it a "very dangerous" and "stupid, foolish and irresponsible" policy. "It is definitely a strategic mistake by our prime minister to attack what may be one of the most friendly administrations that Israel has enjoyed throughout the years. I don't want to use foul language, but it's definitely an unrealistic and irresponsible policy to attack Israel's most significant ally."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Captain&Morgan
Wrongfully Accused: The Murder of Dana Ireland

Captain&Morgan

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2024 52:38


In the small, tightly-knit communities of Hawaii's Big Island, the Schweitzer brothers—Albert Ian and Shawn—once lived a seemingly idyllic life, overshadowed by their wrongful convictions for one of Hawaii's most notorious crimes: the 1991 rape and murder of 23-year-old Dana Ireland. This episode explores the brothers' journey from being wrongfully accused and imprisoned to their eventual exoneration, highlighting the flaws in the justice system and the cultural biases that influenced their case.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/crimepedia--5894684/support.

The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast
Podcast #171: Mission Ridge & Blacktail CEO Josh Jorgensen

The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2024 62:40


This podcast hit paid subscribers' inboxes on May 3. It dropped for free subscribers on May 10. To receive future pods as soon as they're live, and to support independent ski journalism, please consider an upgrade to a paid subscription. You can also subscribe to the free tier below:WhoJosh Jorgensen, CEO of Mission Ridge, Washington and Blacktail Mountain, MontanaRecorded onApril 15, 2024About Mission RidgeClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: Larry ScrivanichLocated in: Wenatchee, WashingtonYear founded: 1966Pass affiliations:* Indy Pass – 2 days with holiday and weekend blackouts (TBD for 2024-25 ski season)* Indy+ Pass – 2 days with no blackouts* Powder Alliance – 3 days with holiday and Saturday blackoutsClosest neighboring ski areas: Badger Mountain (:51), Leavenworth Ski Hill (:53) – travel times may vary considerably given weather conditions, time of day, and time of year.Base elevation: 4,570 feetSummit elevation: 6,820 feetVertical drop: 2,250 feetSkiable Acres: 2,000Average annual snowfall: 200 inchesTrail count: 70+ (10% easiest, 60% more difficult, 30% most difficult)Lift count: 7 (1 high-speed quad, 3 doubles, 2 ropetows, 1 carpet – view Lift Blog's inventory of Mission Ridge's lift fleet)View historic Mission Ridge trailmaps on skimap.org.About BlacktailClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: Larry ScrivanichLocated in: Lakeside, MontanaYear founded: 1998Pass affiliations:* Indy Pass – 2 days with holiday and weekend blackouts (TBD for 2024-25 ski season)* Indy+ Pass – 2 days with no blackouts* Powder Alliance – 3 days with holiday blackoutsClosest neighboring ski areas: Whitefish (1:18) - travel times may vary considerably given weather conditions, time of day, and time of year.Base elevation: 5,236 feetSummit elevation: 6,780 feetVertical drop: 1,544 feetSkiable Acres: 1,000+Average annual snowfall: 250 inchesTrail count: (15% easier, 65% more difficult, 20% most difficult)Lift count: 4 (1 triple, 2 doubles, 1 carpet – view Lift Blog's inventory of Blacktail's lift fleet)View historic Blacktail trailmaps on skimap.org.Why I interviewed himSo much of Pacific Northwest skiing's business model amounts to wait-and-pray, hoping that, sometime in November-December, the heaping snowfalls that have spiraled in off the ocean for millennia do so again. It's one of the few regions in modern commercial skiing, anywhere in the world, where the snow is reliable enough and voluminous enough that this good-ole-boy strategy still works: 460 inches per year at Stevens Pass; 428 at Summit at Snoqualmie; 466 at Crystal; 400 at White Pass; a disgusting 701 at Baker. It's no wonder that most of these ski areas have either no snowguns, or so few that a motivated scrapper could toss the whole collection in the back of a single U-Haul.But Mission Ridge possesses no such natural gifts. The place is snowy enough – 200 inches in an average winter – that it doesn't seem ridiculous that someone thought to run lifts up the mountain. But by Washington State standards, the place is practically Palm Beach. That means the owners have had to work a lot harder, and in a far more deliberate way than their competitors, to deliver a consistent snowsportskiing experience since the bump opened in 1966.Which is a long way of saying that Mission Ridge probably has more snowmaking than the rest of Washington's ski areas combined. Which, often, is barely enough to hang at the party. This year, however, as most Washington ski areas spent half the winter thinking “Gee, maybe we ought to have more than zero snowguns,” Mission was clocking its third-best skier numbers ever.The Pacific Northwest, as a whole, finished the season fairly strong. The snow showed up, as it always does. A bunch of traditional late operators – Crystal, Meadows, Bachelor, Timberline – remain open as of early May. But, whether driven by climate change, rising consumer expectations, or a need to offer more consistent schedules to seasonal employees, the region is probably going to have to build out a mechanical complement to its abundant natural snows at some point. From a regulatory point of view, this won't be so easy in a region where people worry themselves into a coma about the catastrophic damage that umbrellas inflict upon raindrops. But Mission Ridge, standing above Wenatchee for decades as a place of recreation and employment, proves that using resources to enable recreation is not incompatible with preserving them.That's going to be a useful example to have around.What we talked aboutA lousy start to winter; a top three year for Mission anyway; snowmaking in Washington; Blacktail's worst snowfall season ever and the potential to add snowmaking to the ski area; was this crappy winter an anomaly or a harbinger?; how Blacktail's “long history of struggle” echoes the history of Mission Ridge; what could Blacktail become?; Blacktail's access road; how Blacktail rose on Forest Service land in the 1990s; Blacktail expansion potential; assessing Blacktail's lift fleet; could the company purchase more ski areas?; the evolution of Summit at Snoqualmie; Mission Ridge's large and transformative proposed expansion; why the expansion probably needs to come before chairlift upgrades; Fantasy Lift Upgrade; and why Mission Ridge replaced a used detachable quad with another used detachable quad.Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewWashington skiing is endangered by a pretty basic problem: more people in this ever-richer, ever more-populous state want to ski than there are ski areas for them to visit. Building new ski areas is impossible – you'd have better luck flying an American flag from the roof of the Kremlin than introducing a new mountain to Washington State. That shortage is compounded by the lack of slopeside development, which compels every skier to drive to the hill every day that they want to ski. This circumstance reflects a false commitment to environmental preservation, which mistakes a build-nothing philosophy for watching over Mother Earth, an outmoded way of thinking that fails to appreciate the impacts of sprawl and car culture on the larger natural ecosystem.Which is where Mission Ridge, with its large proposed ski-and-stay expansion, is potentially so important. If Mission Ridge can navigate the bureaucratic obstacle course that's been dropped in its path, it could build the first substantial slopeside village in the Pacific Northwest. That could be huge. See, it would say, you can have measured development in the mountains without drowning all the grizzly bears. And since not everyone would have to drive up the mountain every day anymore, it would probably actually reduce traffic overall. The squirrels win and so do the skiers. Or something like that.And then we have Blacktail. Three-ish years ago, Mission Ridge purchased this little-known Montana bump, one of the West's few upside-down ski areas, an unlikely late addition to the Forest Service ski area network seated south of Whitefish Mountain and Glacier National Park. I was surprised when Mission bought it. I think everyone else was too. Mission Ridge is a fine ski area, and one with multi-mountain roots – it was once part of the same parent company that owned Schweitzer (now the property of Alterra) – but it's not exactly Telluride. How did a regional bump that was still running three Riblet doubles from the ‘60s and ‘70s afford another ski area two states away? And why would they want it? And what were they going to do with it?All of which I discuss, sort of, with Jorgensen. Mission and Blacktail are hardly the strangest duo in American skiing. They make more sense, as a unit, than jointly owned Red Lodge, Montana and Homewood, California. But they're also not as logical as New York's Labrador and Song, Pennsylvania's Camelback and Blue, or Massachusett's Berkshire East and Catamount, each of which sits within easy driving distance of its sister resort. So how do they fit together? Maybe they don't need to.Questions I wish I'd askedThere's a pretty cool story about a military bomber crashing into the mountain (and some associated relics) that I would have liked to have gotten into. I'd also have liked to talk a bit more about Wenatchee, which Mission's website calls “Washington's only true ski town.” I also intended to get a bit more into the particulars of the expansion, including the proposed terrain and lifts, and what sort of shape the bedbase would take. And I didn't really ask, as I normally do, about the Indy Pass and the reciprocal season pass relationship between the two ski areas.What I got wrongI said that Mission Ridge's first high-speed quad, Liberator Express, came used from Crystal Mountain. The lift actually came used from Winter Park. Jorgensen corrected that fact in the podcast. My mis-statement was the result of crossing my wires while prepping for this interview – the Crystal chairlift at Blacktail moved to Montana from Crystal Mountain, Washington. In the moment, I mixed up the mountains' lift fleets.Why you should ski Mission RidgeMission Ridge holds echoes of Arapahoe Basin's East Wall or pre-tram Big Sky: so much damn terrain, just a bit too far above the lifts for most of us to bother with. That, along with the relatively low snowfall and Smithsonian lift fleet, are the main knocks on the place (depending, of course, upon your willingness to hike and love of vintage machinery).But, on the whole, this is a good, big ski area that, because of its snowmaking infrastructure, is one of the most reliable operators for several hundred miles in any direction. The intermediate masses will find a huge, approachable footprint. Beginners will find their own dedicated lift. Better skiers, once they wear out the blacks off lifts 2 and 4, can hike the ridge for basically endless lines. And if you miss daylight, Mission hosts some of the longest top-to-bottom night-skiing runs in America, spanning the resort's entire 2,250 vertical feet (Keystone's Dercum mountain rises approximately 2,300 vertical feet).If Mission can pull off this expansion, it could ignite a financial ripple effect that would transform the resort quickly: on-site housing and expanded beginner terrain could bring more people (especially families), which would bring more revenue, which would funnel enough cash in to finally upgrade those old Riblets and, maybe, string the long-planned Lift 5 to the high saddle. That would be amazing. But it would also transform Mission into something different than what it is today. Go see it now, so you can appreciate whatever it becomes.Why you should ski BlacktailBlacktail's original mission, in the words of founder Steve Spencer, was to be the affordable locals' bump, a downhome alternative to ever-more-expensive Whitefish, a bit more than an hour up the road. That was in 1998, pre-Epic, pre-Ikon, pre-triple-digit single-day lift tickets. Fast forward to 2024, and Whitefish is considered a big-mountain outlier, a monster that's avoided every pass coalition and offers perhaps the most affordable lift ticket of any large, modern ski area in America (its top 2023-24 lift ticket price was $97).That has certainly complicated Blacktail's market positioning. It can't play Smugglers' Notch ($106 top lift ticket price) to neighboring Stowe ($220-ish). And while Blacktail's lift tickets and season passes ($450 early-bird for the 2024-25 ski season), are set at a discount to Whitefish's, the larger mountain's season pass goes for just $749, a bargain for a 3,000-acre sprawl served by four high-speed lifts.So Blacktail has to do what any ski area that's orbiting a bigger, taller, snowier competitor with more and better terrain does: be something else. There will always be a market for small and local skiing, just like there will always be a market for diners and bars with pool tables and dartboards hanging from the walls.That appeal is easy enough for locals to understand. For frequent, hassle-free skiing, small is usually better than big. It's more complicated to pitch a top-of-the-mountain parking lot to you, a probably not-local, who, if you haul yourself all the way to Montana, is probably going to want the fireworks show. But one cool thing about lingering in the small and foreign is that the experience unites the oft-opposed-in-skiing forces of novelty and calm. Typically, our ski travels involve the raucous and the loud and the fast and the enormous. But there is something utterly inspiring about setting yourself down on an unfamiliar but almost empty mountain, smaller than Mt. Megaphone but not necessarily small at all, and just setting yourself free to explore. Whatever Blacktail doesn't give you, it will at least give you that.Podcast NotesOn Mission Ridge's proposed expansionWhile we discuss the mountain's proposed expansion in a general way, we don't go deep into specifics of lifts and trails. This map gives the best perspective on how the expansion would blow Mission Ridge out into a major ski area - the key here is less the ski expansion itself than the housing that would attend it:Here's an overhead view:Video overviews:The project, like most ski area expansions in U.S. America, has taken about 700 years longer than it should have. The local radio station published this update in October:Progress is being made with the long-planned expansion of Mission Ridge Ski & Board Resort.Chelan County is working with the resort on an Environmental Impact Statement.County Natural Resources Director Mike Kaputa says it'll be ready in the next eight months or so."We are getting closer and closer to having a draft Environmental Impact Statement and I think that's probably, I hate to put a month out there, but I think it's probably looking like May when we'll have a draft that goes out for public comment."The expansion plan for Mission Ridge has been in the works since 2014, and the resort brought a lawsuit against the county in 2021 over delays in the process.The lawsuit was dismissed earlier this year.Kaputa gave an update on progress with the Mission Ridge expansion before county commissioners Monday, where he said they're trying to get the scope of the Environmental Impact Statement right."You want to be as thorough as possible," Kaputa said. "You don't want to overdo it. You want to anticipate comments. I'm sure we'll get lots of comments when it comes out."In 2014, Larry Scrivanich, owner of Mission Ridge, purchased approximately 779 acres of private land adjacent to the current Mission Ridge Ski and Board Resort. Since then, Mission Ridge has been forging ahead with plans for expansion.The expansion plans call for onsite lodging and accommodations, which Mission Ridge calls a game changer, which would differentiate the resort from others in the Northwest.I'm all about process, due diligence, and checks-and-balances, but it's possible we've overcorrected here.On snowfall totals throughout WashingtonMission gets plenty of snow, but it's practically barren compared to the rest of Washington's large ski areas:On the founding of BlacktailBlacktail is an outlier in U.S. skiing in that it opened in 1998 on Forest Service land – decades after similarly leased ski areas debuted. Daily Inter Lake summarizes the unusual circumstances behind this late arrival:Steve Spencer had been skiing and working at Big Mountain [now Whitefish] for many years, starting with ski patrol and eventually rising to mountain manager, when he noticed fewer and fewer locals on the hill.With 14 years as manager of Big Mountain under his belt, Spencer sought to create an alternative to the famous resort that was affordable and accessible for locals. He got together with several business partners and looked at mountains that they thought would fit the bill.They considered sites in the Swan Range and Lolo Peak, located in the Bitterroot Range west of Missoula, but they knew the odds of getting a Forest Service permit to build a ski area there were slim to none.They had their eyes on a site west of Flathead Lake, however, that seemed to check all the right boxes. The mountain they focused on was entirely surrounded by private land, and there were no endangered species in the area that needed protection from development.Spencer consulted with local environmental groups before he'd spent even “two nickels” on the proposal. He knew that without their support, the project was dead on arrival.That mountain was known as Blacktail, and when the Forest Service OK'd ski operations there, it was the first ski area created on public land since 1978, when Beaver Creek Resort was given permission to use National Forest land in Colorado.Blacktail Mountain Ski Area celebrates its 25th anniversary next year, it is still the most recent in the country to be approved through that process.On Glacier National Park and Flathead LakeEven if you've never heard of Blacktail, it's stuffed into a dense neighborhood of outdoor legends in northern Montana, including Glacier National Park and Whitefish ski area:On WhitefishWith 3,000 skiable acres, a 2,353-foot vertical drop, and four high-speed lifts, Whitefish, just up the road from Blacktail, looms enormously over the smaller mountain's potential:But while Whitefish presents as an Epkon titan, it acts more like a backwater, with peak-day lift tickets still hanging out below the $100 mark, and no megapass membership on its marquee. I explored this unusual positioning with the mountain's president, Nick Polumbus, on the podcast last year (and also here).On “Big Mountain”For eons, Whitefish was known as “Big Mountain,” a name they ditched in 2007 because, as president and CEO at the time Fred Jones explained, the ski area was “often underestimated and misunderstood” with its “highly generic” name.On “upside-down” ski areasUpside-down ski areas are fairly common in the United States, but they're novel enough that most people feel compelled to explain what they mean when they bring one up: a ski area with the main lodge and parking at the top, rather than the bottom, of the hill.These sorts of ski areas are fairly common in the Midwest and proliferate in the Mid-Atlantic, but are rare out west. An incomplete list includes Wintergreen, Virginia; Snowshoe, West Virginia; Laurel, Blue Knob, Jack Frost, and Ski Big Bear, Pennsylvania; Otsego, Treetops, and the Jackson Creek Summit side of Snowriver, Michigan; and Spirit Mountain and Afton Alps, Minnesota. A few of these ski areas also maintain lower-level parking lots. Shawnee Mountain, Pennsylvania, debuted as an upside-down ski area, but, through a tremendous engineering effort, reversed that in the 1970s – a project that CEO Nick Fredericks detailed for us in a 2021 Storm Skiing Podcast.On LIDAR mappingJorgensen mentions LIDAR mapping of Mission Ridge's potential expansion. If you're unfamiliar with this technology, it's capable of giving astonishing insights into the past:On Blacktail's chairliftsAll three of Blacktail's chairlifts came used to the ski area for its 1998 opening. The Crystal double is from Crystal Mountain, Washington; the Olympic triple is from Canada Olympic Park in Alberta; and the Thunderhead double migrated from Steamboat, Colorado.On Riblet chairliftsFor decades, the Riblet double has been the workhorse of Pacific Northwest skiing. Simple, beautiful, reliable, and inexpensive, dozens of these machines still crank up the region's hills. But the company dissolved more than two decades ago, and its lifts are slowly retiring. Mission Ridge retains three (chairs 1, 3, and 4, which date, respectively, to 1966, 1967, and 1971), and has stated its intent to replace them all, whenever funds are available to do so.On the history of Summit at SnoqualmieThe Summit at Snoqualmie, where Jorgensen began his career, remains one of America's most confusing ski areas: the name is convoluted and long, and the campus sprawls over four once-separate ski areas, one of which sits across an interstate with no ski connection to the others. There's no easy way to understand that Alpental – one of Washington's best ski areas – is part of, but separate from, the Summit at Snoqualmie complex, and each of the three Summit areas – East, Central, and West - maintains a separate trailmap on the website, in spite of the fact that the three are interconnected by ski trails. It's all just very confusing. The ski area's website maintains a page outlining how these four ski areas became one ski area that is still really four ski areas. This 1998 trailmap gives the best perspective on where the various ski nodes sit in relation to one another:Because someone always gets mad about everything, some of you were probably all pissed off that I referred to the 1990s version of Summit at Snoqualmie as a “primitive” ski area, but the map above demonstrates why: 17 of 24 chairlifts were Riblet doubles; nine ropetows supplemented this system, and the mountain had no snowmaking (it still doesn't). Call it “retro” or whatever you want, but the place was not exactly Beaver Creek.On Vail and Alterra's Washington timelineI mentioned Washington's entrance onto the national ski scene over the past decade. What I meant by that was the addition of Summit and Crystal onto the Ikon Pass for the 2018-19 ski season, and Stevens Pass onto the Epic Pass the following winter. But Washington skiing – and Mt. Baker in particular – has always been a staple in the Temple of the Brobots, and Boyne Resorts, pre-Ikon, owned Crystal from 1997 to 2017.On Anthony LakesJorgensen mentioned that he applied for the general manager position at Anthony Lakes, a little-known 900-footer lodged in the western Oregon hinterlands. One triple chair serves the entire ski area: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 33/100 in 2024, and number 533 since launching on Oct. 13, 2019. 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Fascinating People, Fascinating Places
Albert Schweitzer with Eric Madeen

Fascinating People, Fascinating Places

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2024 31:37


In 1913, Albert Schweitzer, a respected theologian and organist left Alsace-Lorraine and made his way to the French colony of Gabon. As a newly qualified doctor, he decided to to use his skills to establish a free hospital in a remote corner of the French Empire. Schweitzer eventually earned a Nobel prize for his humanitarian work and his hospital still stands today. Decades later, award winning author Eric Madeen followed in Schweitzer's footsteps and found himself in the now independent Gabon. While there he gained insight into Schweitzer's life and legacy while having extraordinary experiences of his own that have since inspired his writing work.  In this episode, I talk to Eric about Schweitzer, life in the jungle, his writing, and his more recent experiences in Japan.  Eric Madeen Official Website Music: Pixabay This episode is sponsored by World History Encyclopedia, one of the top history websites on the internet. I love the fact that they're not a Wiki: Every article they publish is reviewed by their editorial team, not only for being accurate but also for being interesting to read. The website is run as a non-profit organization, so you won't be bombarded by annoying ads and it's completely free. It's a great site, and don't just take my word for it they've been recommended by many academic institutions including Oxford University. Go check them out at WorldHistory.org or follow this link: World History Encyclopedia.

The RunOut Podcast
RunOut 123: How NFL Lineman Wes Schweitzer Uses Rock Climbing to Move Better and Get Stronger

The RunOut Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2024


Our guest today is #71 for the New York Jets: Wes Schweitzer, an offensive guard whose injuries sent him down a curious path of recovery: rock climbing. Since discovering the sport, Wes has fallen in love with climbing and uses it as a tool to improve his performance on and off the field. At 6'4” 330-pounds, Wes is considered one of the strongest lineman in the game, putting up 765-pound deadlifts well over twice his body weight. As a true professional athlete, Wes delivers some fascinating insights into how both football and climbing training mentalities could benefit from each other. But first, yr favorite climbing podcasters play a game of Fuck, Marry, Kill with climbing gear. Our final bit is a track from Harris Freif called “Tortillas and Peanut Butter” off his album Guitar 2. Show Notes Follow Wes Schweitzer on Instagram and Twitter “Meet the 330-pound NFL Lineman Addicted to Rock Climbing” Check out Harris Freif on Spotify Become a RunOut Rope Gun! Support our podcast and increase your RunOut runtime. Bonus episodes, AMA, and more will be available to our Rope Guns. Thank you for your support! http://patreon.com/runoutpodcastContact us Send ideas, voicemail, feedback and more. andrew@runoutpodcast.com // chris@runoutpodcast.com