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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.WhoTyler Fairbank, General Manager of Jiminy Peak, Massachusetts and CEO of Fairbank GroupRecorded onFebruary 10, 2025 and March 7, 2025About Fairbank GroupFrom their website:The Fairbank Group is driven to build things to last – not only our businesses but the relationships and partnerships that stand behind them. Since 2008, we have been expanding our eclectic portfolio of businesses. This portfolio includes three resorts—Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort, Cranmore Mountain Resort, and Bromley Mountain Ski Resort—and real estate development at all three resorts, in addition to a renewable energy development company, EOS Ventures, and a technology company, Snowgun Technology.About Jiminy PeakClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: Fairbank Group, which also owns Cranmore and operates Bromley (see breakdowns below)Located in: Hancock, MassachusettsYear founded: 1948Pass affiliations:* Ikon Pass: 2 days, with blackouts* Uphill New EnglandClosest neighboring ski areas: Bousquet (:27), Catamount (:49), Butternut (:51), Otis Ridge (:54), Berkshire East (:58), Willard (1:02)Base elevation: 1,230 feetSummit elevation: 2,380 feetVertical drop: 1,150 feetSkiable acres: 167.4Average annual snowfall: 100 inchesTrail count: 42Lift count: 9 (1 six-pack, 2 fixed-grip quads, 3 triples, 1 double, 2 carpets – view Lift Blog's inventory of Jiminy Peak's lift fleet)About CranmoreClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: The Fairbank GroupLocated in: North Conway, New HampshireYear founded: 1937Pass affiliations: * Ikon Pass: 2 days, with blackouts* Uphill New EnglandClosest neighboring ski areas: Attitash (:16), Black Mountain (:18), King Pine (:28), Wildcat (:28), Pleasant Mountain (:33), Bretton Woods (:42)Base elevation: 800 feetSummit elevation: 2,000 feetVertical drop: 1,200 feetSkiable Acres: 170 Average annual snowfall: 80 inchesTrail count: 56 (15 most difficult, 25 intermediate, 16 easier)Lift count: 7 (1 high-speed quad, 1 fixed-grip quad, 2 triples, 1 double, 2 carpets – view Lift Blog's inventory of Cranmore's lift fleet)About BromleyClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: The estate of Joseph O'DonnellOperated by: The Fairbank GroupPass affiliations: Uphill New EnglandLocated in: Peru, VermontClosest neighboring ski areas: Magic Mountain (14 minutes), Stratton (19 minutes)Base elevation: 1,950 feetSummit elevation: 3,284 feetVertical drop: 1,334 feetSkiable Acres: 300Average annual snowfall: 145 inchesTrail count: 47 (31% black, 37% intermediate, 32% beginner)Lift count: 9 (1 high-speed quad, 1 fixed-grip quad, 4 doubles, 1 T-bar, 2 carpets - view Lift Blog's of inventory of Bromley's lift fleet)Why I interviewed himI don't particularly enjoy riding six-passenger chairlifts. Too many people, up to five of whom are not me. Lacking a competent queue-management squad, chairs rise in loads of twos and threes above swarming lift mazes. If you're skiing the West, lowering the bar is practically an act of war. It's all so tedious. Given the option – Hunter, Winter Park, Camelback – I'll hop the parallel two-seater just to avoid the drama.I don't like six-packs, but I sure am impressed by them. Sixers are the chairlift equivalent of a two-story Escalade, or a house with its own private Taco Bell, or a 14-lane expressway. Like damn there's some cash floating around this joint.Sixers are common these days: America is home to 107 of them. But that wasn't always so. Thirty-two of these lifts came online in just the past three years. Boyne Mountain, Michigan built the first American six-pack in 1992, and for three years, it was the only such lift in the nation (and don't think they didn't spend every second reminding us of it). The next sixer rose at Stratton, in 1995, but 18 of the next 19 were built in the West. In 2000, Jiminy Peak demolished a Riblet double and dropped the Berkshire Express in its place.For 26 years, Jiminy Peak has owned the only sixer in the State of Massachusetts (Wachusett will build the second this summer). Even as they multiply, the six-pack remains a potent small-mountain status symbol: Vail owns 31 or them, Alterra 30. Only 10 independents spin one. Sixers are expensive to build, expensive to maintain, difficult to manage. To build such a machine is to declare: we are different, we can handle this, this belongs here and so does your money.Sixty years ago, Jiminy Peak was a rump among a hundred poking out of the Berkshires. It would have been impossible to tell, in 1965, which among these many would succeed. Plenty of good ski areas failed since. Jiminy is among the last mountains standing, a survival-of-the-fittest tale punctuated, at the turn of the century, by the erecting of a super lift that was impossible to look away from. That neighboring Brodie, taller and equal-ish in size to Jiminy, shuttered permanently two years later, after a 62-year run as a New England staple, was probably not a coincidence (yes, I'm aware that the Fairbanks themselves bought and closed Brodie). Jiminy had planted its 2,800-skier-per-hour flag on the block, and everyone noticed and no one could compete.The Berkshire Express is not the only reason Jiminy Peak thrives in a 21st century New England ski scene defined by big companies, big passes, and big crowds. But it's the best single emblem of a keep-moving philosophy that, over many decades, transformed a rust-bucket ski area into a glimmering ski resort. That meant snowmaking before snowmaking was cool, building places to stay on the mountain in a region of day-drivers, propping a wind turbine on the ridge to offset dependence on the energy grid.Non-ski media are determined to describe America's lift-served skiing evolution in terms of climate change, pointing to the shrinking number of ski areas since the era when any farmer with a backyard haystack and a spare tractor engine could run skiers uphill for a nickel. But this is a lazy narrative (America offers a lot more skiing now than it did 30 years ago). Most American ski areas – perhaps none – have failed explicitly because of climate change. At least not yet. Most failed because running a ski area is hard and most people are bad at it. Jiminy, once surrounded by competitors, now stands alone. Why? That's what the world needs to understand.What we talked aboutThe impact of Cranmore's new Fairbank Lodge; analyzing Jiminy's village-building past to consider Cranmore's future; Bromley post-Joe O'Donnell (RIP); Joe's legacy – “just an incredible person, great guy”; taking the long view; growing up at Jiminy Peak in the wild 1970s; Brian Fairbank's legacy building Jiminy Peak – with him, “anything is possible”; how Tyler ended up leading the company when he at one time had “no intention of coming back into the ski business”; growing Fairbank Group around Jiminy; surviving and recovering from a stroke – “I had this thing growing in me my entire life that I didn't realize”; carrying on the family legacy; why Jiminy and Cranmore joined the Ikon Pass as two-day partners, and whether either mountain could join as full partners; why Bromley didn't join Ikon; the importance of New York City to Jiminy Peak and Boston to Cranmore; why the ski areas won't be direct-to-lift with Ikon right away; are the Fairbank resorts for sale?; would Fairbank buy more?; the competitive advantage of on-mountain lodging; potential Jiminy lift upgrades; why the Berkshire Express sixer doesn't need an upgrade of the sort that Cranmore and Bromley's high-speed quads received; why Jiminy runs a fixed-grip triple parallel to its high-speed six; where the mountain's next high-speed lift could run; and Jiminy Peak expansion potential.What I got wrong* I said that I didn't know which year Jiminy Peak installed their wind turbine – it was 2007. Berkshire East built its machine in 2010 and activated it in 2011.* When we recorded the Ikon addendum, Cranmore and Jiminy Peak had not yet offered any sort of Ikon Pass discount to their passholders, but Tyler promised details were coming. Passholders can now find offers for a discounted ($229) three-day Ikon Session pass on either ski area's website.Why now was a good time for this interviewFor all the Fairbanks' vision in growing Jiminy from tumbleweed into redwood, sprinting ahead on snowmaking and chairlifts and energy, the company has been slow to acknowledge the largest shift in the consumer-to-resort pipeline this century: the shift to multi-mountain passes. Even their own three mountains share just one day each for sister resort passholders.That's not the same thing as saying they've been wrong to sit and wait. But it's interesting. Why has this company that's been so far ahead for so long been so reluctant to take part in what looks to be a permanent re-ordering of the industry? And why have they continued to succeed in spite of this no-thanks posture?Or so my thinking went when Tyler and I scheduled this podcast a couple of months ago. Then Jiminy, along with sister resort Cranmore, joined the Ikon Pass. Yes, just as a two-day partner in what Alterra is labeling a “bonus” tier, and only on the full Ikon Pass, and with blackout dates. But let's be clear about this: Jiminy Peak and Cranmore joined the Ikon Pass.Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), for me and my Pangea-paced editing process, we'd recorded the bulk of this conversation several weeks before the Ikon announcement. So we recorded a post-Ikon addendum, which explains the mid-podcast wardrobe change.It will be fascinating to observe, over the next decade, how the remaining holdouts manage themselves in the Epkon-atronic world that is not going away. Will big indies such as Jackson Hole and Alta eventually eject the pass masses as a sort of high-class differentiator? Will large regional standouts like Whitefish and Bretton Woods and Baker and Wolf Creek continue to stand alone in a churning sea of joiners? Or will some economic cataclysm force a re-ordering of the companies piloting these warships, splintering them into woodchips and resetting us back to some version of 1995, where just about every ski area was its own ski area doing battle against every other ski area?I have guesses, but no answers, and no power to do anything, really, other than to watch and ask questions of the Jiminy Peaks of the world as they decide where they fit, and how, and when, into this bizarre and rapidly changing lift-served skiing world that we're all gliding through.Why you should ski Jiminy PeakThere are several versions of each ski area. The trailmap version, cartoonish and exaggerated, designed to be evocative as well as practical, a guide to reality that must bend it to help us understand it. There's the Google Maps version, which straightens out the trailmap but ditches the order and context – it is often difficult to tell, from satellite view, which end of the hill is the top or the bottom, where the lifts run, whether you can walk to the lifts from the parking lot or need to shuttlebus it. There is the oral version, the one you hear from fellow chairlift riders at other resorts, describing their home mountain or an epic day or a secret trail, a vibe or a custom, the thing that makes the place a thing.But the only version of a ski area that matters, in the end, is the lived one. And no amount of research or speculation or YouTube-Insta vibing can equal that. Each mountain is what each mountain is. Determining why they are that way and how that came to be is about 80 percent of why I started this newsletter. And the best mountains, I've found, after skiing hundreds of them, are the ones that surprise you.On paper, Jiminy Peak does not look that interesting: a broad ridge, flat across, a bunch of parallel lifts and runs, a lot of too-wide-and-straight-down. But this is not how it skis. Break left off the sixer and it's go-forever, line after line dropping steeply off a ridge. Down there, somewhere, the Widow White's lift, a doorway to a mini ski area all its own, shooting off, like Supreme at Alta, into a twisting little realm with the long flat runout. Go right off the six-pack and skiers find something else, a ski area from a different time, a trunk trail wrapping gently above a maze of twisting, tangled snow-streets, dozens of potential routes unfolding, gentle but interesting, long enough to inspire a sense of quest and journey.This is not the mountain for everyone. I wish Jiminy had more glades, that they would spin more lifts more often as an alternative to Six-Pack City. But we have Berkshire East for cowboy skiing. Jiminy, an Albany backyarder that considers itself worthy of a $1,051 adult season pass, is aiming for something more buffed and burnished than a typical high-volume city bump. Jiminy doesn't want to be Mountain Creek, NYC's hedonistic free-for-all, or Wachusett, Boston's high-volume, low-cost burner. It's aiming for a little more resort, a little more country club, a little more it-costs-what-it-costs sorry-not-sorry attitude (with a side of swarming kids).Podcast NotesOn other Fairbank Group podcastsOn Joe O'DonnellA 2005 Harvard Business School profile of O'Donnell, who passed away on Jan. 7, 2024 at age 79, gives a nice overview of his character and career:When Joe O'Donnell talks, people listen. Last spring, one magazine ranked him the most powerful person in Boston-head of a privately held, billion-dollar company he built practically from scratch; friend and advisor to politicians of both parties, from Boston's Democratic Mayor Tom Menino to the Bay State's Republican Governor Mitt Romney (MBA '74); member of Harvard's Board of Overseers; and benefactor to many good causes. Not bad for a "cop's kid" who grew up nearby in the blue-collar city of Everett.Read the rest…On Joe O'Donnell “probably owning more ski areas than anyone alive”I wasn't aware of the extent of Joe O'Donnell's deep legacy of ski area ownership, but New England Ski History documents his stints as at least part owner of Magic Mountain VT, Timber Ridge (now defunct, next-door to and still skiable from Magic), Jiminy, Mt. Tom (defunct), and Brodie (also lost). He also served Sugar Mountain, North Carolina as a vendor for years.On stroke survivalKnow how to BE FAST by spending five second staring at this:More, from the CDC.On Jiminy joining the Ikon PassI covered this extensively here:The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing year-round. Join us. Get full access to The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast at www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

In this episode of the Ski Moms Podcast, Nicole and Sarah chat with Kimberley Jochl, Vice President and Director of Marketing and Merchandising at Sugar Mountain Resort in North Carolina. A former US Ski Team member and Junior World Champion, Kimberley brings her extensive skiing background to the southern skiing scene.Kimberley shares her journey from racing in the Berkshires to competing internationally, and eventually finding her way to Sugar Mountain. She provides valuable insights into the vibrant southern ski culture and how Sugar Mountain caters specifically to families and first-time skiers. The resort's commitment to accessibility is evident in their comprehensive offerings, including clothing rentals, on-site daycare, and lesson programs for all ages.The discussion highlights Sugar Mountain's role in introducing new skiers to the sport, with approximately 60% of their visitors being beginners. Kimberley also details the resort's recent improvements, including new high-speed lifts and state-of-the-art snowmaking capabilities that allow for a November-to-March season.Keep up with the latest from Sugar Mountain:Website: http://skisugar.com/Instagram: http://instagram.com/skisugarIf your skis and boards are feeling sluggish, it's time for a tune-up! A fresh wax and edge sharpening can make all the difference. Treat your gear right, and it'll treat you to your best ski days yet! Head to SkiHaus to get your skis and boards in great shape. Pick from three locations Woburn and Framingham, MA, and shop Tax-Free in Salem, NH. Check them out at skihaus.com Shop the Diamant Weekend Warrior Bag at www.diamantskiing.com and use code SKIMOMS to save 20%Invest in your season with this TSA Approved carry-on boot bag, it's a game changer and built to last. Start planning your trip here visitulstercountyny.comThe Ski Moms are so excited to be partnering with Ulster County this year. Located in New York State, Ulster County is tucked into the Hudson Valley and offers families a chance to get out in nature all year long.Support the showKeep up with the Latest from the Ski Moms!Website: www.theskimoms.coSki Moms Discount Page: https://www.theskimoms.co/discountsSki Moms Ski Rental HomesJoin the 13,000+ Ski Moms Facebook GroupInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/theskimoms/ Send us an email and let us know what guests and topics you'd like to hear next! Sarah@skimomsfun.comNicole@skimomsfun.com

Segment 2, January 18th, 2025 One of America's most iconic and popular wintertime activities, Ski season is well underway. Today we join with Kim Jochl, of Sugar Mountain Resort for a report on the hobby here in the Carolinas. Segment Highlights: Kim Jochl-- Owner and Operator of Sugar Mountain Resort in Avery County, NC Weather reports, 54" inches of snow so far this season. Temps down into the teens most night sessions. Resorts are fully open, with new improvements and lifts made for large crowds. January and February holidays make up the peak season for skiing in NC, MLK day, President's day, Valentine's, etc. Safety is a major priority on the mountain, with Ski Patrol and classes being taught around the clock to keep everyone confident and safe. As-necessary snow making schedule, taking advantage of the natural snow and low temperatures to preserve snow conditions Snowboarding and Skiing are both still growing as viable hobbies, benefit from good winters! Things You'll Learn by Listening: Current status and improvements made to the NC skiing region near Grandfather Mtn. Our Sponsor, Jesse Brown's, carries a selection of gear you may need if you plan to hit the slopes this new year.

We’re welcoming Kurt Dammeier, founder of Sugar Mountain - home to Beecher’s Handmade Cheese, Mishima Reserve, The Butcher’s Table, and Pasta & Co. // On Simple to Spectacular, we celebrate Chef Thierry with one of his fall Rover’s recipes // Alissa Leinonen, founder and CEO of Gourmondo, is here with her daughter Olivia, to discuss their new partnership with PCC Community Markets // With National Cheeseburger Day coming up, our managing partner Eric Tanaka shares what makes the perfect cheeseburger // Sheryl Wiser from Pie and Persistence talks about making a difference through food // And of course, stick around for Rub with Love Food for Thought Tasty Trivia!

Recently, the Mises Club of the Carolinas hosted their annual meet-up at Sugar Mountain, North Carolina. Dr. Paul Cwik of the University of Mount Olive delivered this address looking at the significance of the Austrian School of Economics. Dr. Cwik looked at the assumptions of the Austrian School including its emphasis on human action, individual liberty, and the role of prices in determining economic calculations. Most importantly, Dr. Cwik compared and contrasted the Austrian School with contemporary, mainstream economics and demonstrated how the Austrian School is more conducive for human flourishing, freedom, and material prosperity. Dr. Paul Cwik is a Fellow of the Mises Institute and the BB&T Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Mount Olive. He earned a BA from Hillsdale College, an MA from Tulane University, and a PhD from Auburn University, where he was a Mises Research Fellow.

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You can also subscribe to the free tier below:Who* Scott Bender, operations and business advisor to Blue Knob ownership* Donna Himes, Blue Knob Marketing Manager* Sam Wiley, part owner of Blue Knob* Gary Dietke, Blue Knob Mountain ManagerRecorded onMay 13, 2024About Blue KnobClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: Majority owned by the Wiley familyLocated in: Claysburg, PennsylvaniaYear founded: 1963Pass affiliations: Indy Pass and Indy+ Pass – 2 days, no blackouts (access not yet set for 2024-25 ski season)Closest neighboring ski areas: Laurel (1:02), Tussey (1:13), Hidden Valley (1:14), Seven Springs (1:23)Base elevation: 2,100 feetSummit elevation: 3,172 feetVertical drop: 1,072 feetSkiable Acres: 100Average annual snowfall: 120 inchesTrail count: 33 (5 beginner, 10 intermediate, 4 advanced intermediate, 5 advanced, 9 expert) + 1 terrain parkLift count: 5 (2 triples, 2 doubles, 1 carpet – view Lift Blog's inventory of Blue Knob's lift fleet)Why I interviewed themI've not always written favorably about Blue Knob. In a state where shock-and-awe snowmaking is a baseline operational requirement, the mountain's system is underwhelming and bogged down by antiquated equipment. The lower-mountain terrain – Blue Knob's best – opens sporadically, sometimes remaining mysteriously shuttered after heavy local snows. The website at one time seemed determined to set the world record for the most exclamation points in a single place. They may have succeeded (this has since been cleaned up):I've always tried to couch these critiques in a but-damn-if-only context, because Blue Knob, considered purely as a ski area, is an absolute killer. It needs what any Pennsylvania ski area needs – modern, efficient, variable-weather-capable, overwhelming snowmaking and killer grooming. No one, in this temperamental state of freeze-thaws and frequent winter rains, can hope to survive long term without those things. So what's the holdup?My goal with The Storm is to be incisive but fair. Everyone deserves a chance to respond to critiques, and offering them that opportunity is a tenant of good journalism. But because this is a high-volume, high-frequency operation, and because my beat covers hundreds of ski areas, I'm not always able to gather reactions to every post in the moment. I counterbalance that reality with this: every ski area's story is a long-term, ongoing one. What they mess up today, they may get right tomorrow. And reality, while inarguable, does not always capture intentions. Eventually, I need to gather and share their perspective.And so it was Blue Knob's turn to talk. And I challenge you to find a more good-natured and nicer group of folks anywhere. I went off format with this one, hosting four people instead of the usual one (I've done multiples a few times before, with Plattekill, West Mountain, Bousquet, Boyne Mountain, and Big Sky). The group chat was Blue Knob's idea, and frankly I loved it. It's not easy to run a ski area in 2024 in the State of Pennsylvania, and it's especially not easy to run this ski area, for reasons I outline below. And while Blue Knob has been slower to get to the future than its competitors, I believe they're at least walking in that direction.What we talked about“This was probably one of our worst seasons”; ownership; this doesn't feel like PA; former owner Dick Gauthier's legacy; reminiscing on the “crazy fun” of the bygone community atop the ski hill; Blue Knob's history as an Air Force station and how the mountain became a ski area; Blue Knob's interesting lease arrangement with the state; the remarkable evolution of Seven Springs and how those lessons could fuel Blue Knob's growth; competing against Vail's trio of nearby mountains; should Vail be allowed to own eight ski areas in one state?; Indy Pass sales limits; Indy Pass as customer-acquisition tool; could Blue Knob ever upgrade its top-to-bottom doubles to a high-speed quad?; how one triple chair multiplied into two; why Blue Knob built a mile-long lift and almost immediately shortened it; how Wolf Creek is “like Blue Knob”; beginner lifts; the best ski terrain in Pennsylvania; why Mine Shaft and Boneyard Glades disappeared from Blue Knob's trailmap, and whether they could ever return; unmarked glades; Blue Knob's unique microclimate and how that impacts snowmaking; why the mountain isn't open top-to-bottom more and why it's important to change that; PA snowmaking and how Blue Knob can catch up; that wild access road and what could be done to improve it; and the surprising amount of housing on Blue Knob's slopes.    Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewSo here's something that's absolutely stupid:That's southeastern Pennsylvania. Vail Resorts operates all of the ski areas in blue font. Ski areas in red are independent. Tussey, a local bump serving State College and its armies of sad co-eds who need a distraction because their football team can't beat Michigan, is not really relevant here. Blue Knob is basically surrounded by ski areas that all draw on the same well of out-of-state corporate resources and are stapled to the gumball-machine-priced Epic Pass. If this were a military map, we'd all say, “Yeah they're fucked.” Blue Knob is Berlin in 1945, with U.S. forces closing in from the west and the Russians driving from the east. There's no way they're winning this war.How did this happen? Which bureaucrat in sub-basement 17 of Justice Department HQ in D.C. looked at Vail's 2021 deal to acquire Seven Springs, Hidden Valley, and Laurel and said, “Cool”? This was just two years after Vail had picked up Whitetail, Liberty, and Roundtop, along with Jack Frost and Big Boulder in eastern Pennsylvania, in the Peak Resorts acquisition. How does allowing one company to acquire eight of the 22 public ski resorts in one state not violate some antitrust statute? Especially when six of them essentially surround one independent competitor.I don't know. When a similar situation materialized in Colorado in 1997, Justice said, “No, Vail Resorts, you can not buy Keystone and Breckenridge and Arapahoe Basin from this dog food company. Sell one.” And so A-Basin went to a real estate conglomerate out of Toronto, which gut-renovated the mountain and then flipped it, earlier this year, to Vail arch-frenemy Alterra. And an independent ski area operator told me that, at some point during this ongoing sales process, the Justice Department reached out to ask them if they were OK with Alterra – which already operates Winter Park, owns Steamboat, and has wrapped Copper, Eldora, and the four Aspen mountains into its Ikon Pass – owning A-Basin (which has been on the Ikon Pass since 2019). Justice made no such phone call, Blue Knob officials tell me on this podcast, when Vail was purchasing the Seven Springs resorts.This is where Colorad-Bro reminds me that Pennsylvania skiing is nothing compared to Colorado. And yes, Colorado is unquestionably the epicenter of American skiing, home to some of our most iconic resorts and responsible for approximately one in four U.S. skier visits each winter. But where do you suppose all those skiers come from? Not solely from Colorado, ranked 21st by U.S. population with just 5.9 million residents. Pennsylvania, with Philly and Pittsburgh and dozens of mid-sized cities in-between, ranks fifth in the nation by population, with nearly 13 million people. And with cold winters, ski areas near every large city, and some of the best snowmaking systems on the planet, PA is a skier printing press, responsible not just for millions of in-state skier visits annually, but for minting skiers that drive the loaded U-Haul west so they can brag about being Summit County locals five minutes after signing their lease. That one company controls more than one-third of the ski areas – which, combined, certainly account for more than half of the state's skier visits – strikes me as unfair in a nation that supposedly maintains robust antitrust laws.But whatever. We're locked in here. Vail Resorts is not Ticketmaster, and no one is coming to dismantle this siege. Blue Knob is surrounded. And it's worse than it looks on this map, which does not illuminate that Blue Knob sits in a vast wilderness, far from most population centers, and that all of Vail's resorts scoop up skiers flowing west-northwest from Philadelphia/Baltimore/D.C. and east from Pittsburgh.  So how is Blue Knob not completely screwed? Answering that question was basically the point of this podcast. The mountain's best argument for continued existence in the maw of this Epic Pass blitzkrieg is that Blue Knob is a better pure ski area than any of the six Vail mountains that surround it (see trailmap above). The terrain is, in fact, the best in the State of Pennsylvania, and arguably in the entire Mid-Atlantic (sorry Elk Mountain partisans, but that ski area, fine as it is, is locked out of the conversation as long as they maintain that stupid tree-skiing ban). But this fact of mountain superiority is no guarantee of long-term resilience, because the truth is that Blue Knob has often, in recent years, been unable to open top to bottom, running only the upper-mountain triple chairs and leaving the best terrain out of reach.They have to fix that. And they know it. But this is a feisty mountain in a devilish microclimate with some antiquated infrastructure and a beast of an access road. Nothing about this renovation has been, or likely will be, fast or easy.But it can be done. Blue Knob can survive. I believe it after hosting the team on this podcast. Maybe you will too once you hear it.What I got wrong* When describing the trail network, I said that the runs were cut “across the fall line” in a really logical way – I meant, of course, to say they were cut down the fall line.* I said that I thought the plants that sprouted between the trees in the mothballed Mine Shaft and Boneyard Glades were positioned “to keep people out.” It's more likely, however, based upon what the crew told us, that those plants are intended to control the erosion that shuttered the glades several years ago.* I mentioned “six-packs going up in the Poconos at the KSL-owned mountains.” To clarify: those would be Camelback and Blue Mountain, which each added six-packs in 2022, one year before joining the Ikon Pass.* I also said that high-speed lifts were “becoming the standard” in Pennsylvania. That isn't quite accurate, as a follow-up inventory clarified. The state is home to just nine high-speed lifts, concentrated at five ski areas. So yeah, not exactly taking over Brah.* I intimated that Blue Knob shortened the Beginners CTEC triple, built in 1983, and stood up the Expressway triple in 1985 with some of the commandeered parts. This does not appear to be the case, as the longer Beginners lift and Expressway co-exist on several vintage trailmaps, including the one below from circa 1989. The longer lift continues to appear on Blue Knob trailmaps through the mid-1990s, but at some point, the resort shortened the lift by thousands of linear feet. We discuss why in the pod.Why you should ski Blue KnobIf we took every mountain, fully open, with bomber conditions, I would rank Blue Knob as one of the best small- to mid-sized ski areas in the Northeast. From a rough-and-tumble terrain perspective, it's right there with Berkshire East, Plattekill, Hickory, Black Mountain of Maine, Ragged, Black Mountain (New Hampshire), Bolton Valley, and Magic Mountain. But with its Pennsylvania address, it never makes that list.It should. This is a serious mountain, with serious terrain that will thrill and challenge any skier. Each trail is distinct and memorable, with quirk and character. Even the groomers are interesting, winding nearly 1,100 vertical feet through the trees, dipping and banking, crisscrossing one another and the lifts above. Lower Shortway, a steep and narrow bumper cut along a powerline, may be my favorite trail in Pennsylvania. Or maybe it's Ditch Glades, a natural halfpipe rolling below Stembogan Bowl. Or maybe it's the unmarked trees of East Wall Traverse down to the marked East Wall Glades. Or maybe it's Lower Extrovert, a wide but ungroomed and mostly unskied trail where I found wind-blown pow at 3 p.m. Every trail is playful and punchy, and they are numerous enough that it's difficult to ski them all in a single day.Which of course takes us to the reality of skiing Blue Knob, which is that the ski area's workhorse top-to-bottom lift is the 61-year-old Route 66 double chair. The lift is gorgeous and charming, trenched through the forest on a narrow and picturesque wilderness line (until the mid-station, when the view suddenly shifts to that of oddly gigantic houses strung along the hillside). While it runs fast for a fixed-grip lift, the ride is quite long (I didn't time it; I'll guess 10 to 12 minutes). It stops a lot because, well, Pennsylvania. There are a lot of novice skiers here. There is a mid-station that will drop expert skiers back at the top of the best terrain, but this portal, where beginners load to avoid the suicidal runs below, contributes to those frequent stops.And that's the reality when that lift is running, which it often is not. And that, again, is because the lower-mountain terrain is frequently closed. This is a point of frustration for locals and, I'll point out, for the mountain operators themselves. A half-open Blue Knob is not the same as, say, a half-open Sugarbush, where you'll still have access to lots of great terrain. A half-open Blue Knob is just the Expressway (Lift 4) triple chair (plus the beginner zone), mostly groomers, mostly greens and blues. It's OK, but it's not what we were promised on the trailmap.That operational inconsistency is why Blue Knob remains mostly unheralded by the sort of skiers who are most drawn to this newsletter – adventurous, curious, ready for a challenge – even though it is the perfect Storm mountain: raw and wild and secretive and full of guard dog energy. But if you're anywhere in the region, watch their Instagram account, which usually flashes the emergency lights when Route 66 spins. And go there when that happens. You're welcome.Podcast NotesOn crisscrossing chairliftsChairlifts are cool. Crisscrossing chairlifts are even cooler. Riding them always gives me the sense of being part of a giant Goldbergian machine. Check out the triple crossing over the doubles at Blue Knob (all videos by Stuart Winchester):Wiley mentions a similar setup at Attitash, where the Yankee Flyer high-speed quad crosses beneath the summit lift. Here's a pic I took of the old Summit Triple at the crossover junction in 2021:Vail Resorts replaced the triple with the Mountaineer high-speed quad this past winter. I intended to go visit the resort in early February, but then I got busy trying not to drop dead, so I cancelled that trip and don't have any pics of the new lift. Lift Blog made it there, because of course he did, and his pics show the crossover modified but intact. I did, however, discuss the new lift extensively with Attitash GM Brandon Swartz last November.I also snagged this rad footage of Whistler's new Fitzsimmons eight-pack flying beneath the Whistler Village Gondola in February:And the Porcupine triple passing beneath the Needles Gondola at Snowbasin in March:Oh, and Lift 2 passing beneath the lower Panorama Gondola at Mammoth:Brah I could do this all day. Here's Far East six-pack passing beneath the Red Dog sixer at Palisades Tahoe:Palisades' Base-to-Base Gondola actually passes over two chairlifts on its way over to Alpine Meadows: the Exhibition quad (foreground), and the KT-22 Express, visible in the distance:And what the hell, let's make it a party:On Blue Knob as Air Force baseIt's wild and wildly interesting that Blue Knob – one of the highest points in Pennsylvania – originally hosted an Air Force radar station. All the old buildings are visible in this undated photo. You can see the lifts carrying skiers on the left. Most of these buildings have since been demolished.On Ski Denton and LaurelThe State of Pennsylvania owns two ski areas: Laurel Mountain and Ski Denton (Blue Knob is located in a state park, and we discuss how that arrangement works in the podcast). Vail Resorts, of course, operates Laurel, which came packaged with Seven Springs. Denton hasn't spun the lifts in a decade. Late last year, a group called Denton Go won a bid to re-open and operate the ski area, with a mix of state and private investment.And it will need a lot of investment. Since this is a state park, it's open to anyone, and I hiked Denton in October 2022. The lifts – a double, a triple, and a Poma – are intact, but the triple is getting swallowed by fast-growing trees in one spot (top two photos):I'm no engineer, but these things are going to need a lot of work. The trail network hasn't grown over too much, and the base lodge looks pristine, the grasses around it mowed. Here's the old trailmap if you're curious:And here's the proposed upgrade blueprint:I connected briefly with the folks running Denton GO last fall, but never wrote a story on it. I'll check in with them soon for an update.On Herman Dupre and the evolution of Seven SpringsBender spent much of his career at Seven Springs, and we reminisce a bit about the Dupre family and the ski area's evolution into one of the finest mountains in the East. You can learn more about Seven Springs' history in my podcast conversation with the resort's current GM, Brett Cook, from last year.On Ski magazine's top 20 in the EastSki magazine – which is no longer a physical magazine but a collection of digital bits entrusted to the robots' care – has been publishing its reader resort rankings for decades. The list in the West is fairly static and predictable, filled largely with the Epkonic monsters you would expect (though Pow Mow won the top place this year). But the East list is always a bit more surprising. This year, for example, Mad River Glen and Smugglers' Notch claimed the top two spots. They're both excellent ski areas and personal favorites, with some of the most unique terrain in the country, but neither is on a megapass, and neither owns a high-speed lift, which is perhaps proof that the Colorado Machine hasn't swallowed our collective souls just yet.But the context in which we discuss the list is this: each year, three small ski areas punch their way into an Eastern lineup that's otherwise filled with monsters like Stowe and Sugarbush. Those are: Seven Springs; Holiday Valley, New York; and Wachusett, Massachusetts. These improbable ski centers all make the list because their owners (or former owners, in Seven Springs' case), worked for decades to transform small, backwater ski areas into major regional destinations.On Vail's Northeast Value Epic PassesThe most frightening factor in the abovementioned difficulties that Blue Knob faces in its cagefight with Vail is the introduction, in 2020, of Northeast-specific Epic Passes. There are two versions. The Northeast Value Pass grants passholders unlimited access to all eight Vail Resorts in Pennsylvania and all four in neighboring Ohio, which is a crucial feeder for the Seven Springs resorts. It also includes unlimited access to Vail's four New Hampshire resorts; unlimited access with holiday blackouts at Hunter, Okemo, and Mount Snow; and 10 non-holiday days at Stowe. And it's only $613 (early-bird price was $600):The second version is a midweek pass that includes all the same resorts, with five Stowe days, for just $459 ($450 early-bird):And you can also, of course, pick up an Epic ($1,004) or Epic Local ($746) pass, which still includes unlimited Pennsylvania access and adds everything in the West and in Europe.Blue Knob's season pass costs $465 ($429 early-bird), and is only good at Blue Knob. That's a very fair price, and skiers who acted early could have added an Indy Pass on at a pretty big discount. But Indy is off sale, and PA skiers weighing their pass options are going to find that Epic Pass awfully tempting.On comparisons to the liftline at MRGErf, I may have activated the Brobots at Mad Brother Glen when I compared the Route 66 liftline with the one beneath their precious single chair. But I mean it's not the worst comparison you could think of:Here's another Blue Knob shot that shows how low the chairs fly over the trail:And here's a video that gives a bit more perspective on Blue Knob's liftline:I don't know if I fully buy the comparison myself, but Blue Knob is the closest thing you'll find to MRG this far south.On Wolf Creek's old summit PomaHimes reminisced on her time working at Wolf Creek, Colorado, and the rattletrap Poma that would carry skiers up a 45-degree face to the summit. I was shocked to discover that the old lift is actually still there, running alongside the Treasure Stoke high-speed quad (the two lifts running parallel up the gut of the mountain). I have no idea how often it actually spins:Lift Blog has pics, and notes that the lift “very rarely operates for historic purposes.”On defunct gladesThe Mine Shaft and Bone Yard glades disappeared from Blue Knob's trailmap more than a decade ago, but this sign at the top of Lower Shortway still points toward them:Then there's this sign, a little ways down, where the Bone Yard Glade entrance used to be:And here are the glades, marked on a circa 2007 trailmap, between Deer Run and Lower Shortway:It would be rad if Blue Knob could resurrect these. We discuss the possibility on the podcast.On Blue Knob's base being higher than Killington'sSomewhat unbelievably, Blue Knob's 2,100-foot base elevation is higher than that of every ski area in New England save Saddleback, which launches from a 2,460-foot base. The five next highest are Bolton Valley (2,035 feet), Stowe (2,035), Cannon (2,034), Pico (2,000), and Waterville Valley (1,984). Blue Knob's Vail-owned neighbors would fit right into this group: Hidden Valley sits at 2,405 feet, Seven Springs at 2,240, and Laurel at 2,000. Head south and the bases get even higher: in West Virginia, Canaan Valley sits at 3,430 feet; Snowshoe at 3,348-foot base (skiers have to drive to 4,848, as this is an upside-down ski area); and Timberline at 3,268. But the real whoppers are in North Carolina: Beech Mountain sits at 4,675, Cataloochee at 4,660, Sugar Mountain at 4,100, and Hatley Pointe at 4,000. I probably should have made a chart, but damn it, I have to get this podcast out before I turn 90.On Blue Knob's antique snowmaking equipmentLook, I'm no snowmaking expert, but some of the stuff dotting Blue Knob's slopes looks like straight-up World War II surplus: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 41/100 in 2024, and number 541 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

Cara Stricker is an Australian born director, writer, musician and artist. Stricker first started making films, photographs and installations as a young teenager, stemming from her background as a dancer and musician. She is known for her work that combines filmmaking with her creative direction, choreography, and expressive narratives. Her unique blend of feminism, nature and performance creates work that is both subversive and otherworldly. Her work is screened, exhibited, printed, and performed around the world. Stricker's major commissions include: creating a techno-surrealist land-based prayer prompt short film with the Miccosukee, Seminole and Black Carribean community's of Miami within the Everglades, Allapattah, and installations by James Turrell, Es Devlin and teamLab for Superblue; Bvglari global campaigns for 23' and 24' featuring Zendaya and Anne Hathaway; a four part polyptych instillation and music video for Alicia Keys; visual sonic film about the late Aaliyah's legacy; and album films for Chloe and Halle, Blood Orange, Kelsey Lu, Amber Mark, Tei Shi and Kadhja Bonet. She has collaborated with global brands such as Gucci, MAC Makeup, Chanel, Alexander Wang, Missoni, musicians such as SZA and Perfume Genius, and photographed for titles such as Vogue, Dazed, I-D Magazine, Fader, Interview Magazine and Oyster. Her work has been awarded and screened internationally including at Cannes Lions, Tribeca Film Festival, Camerimage, Cannes Short Film Festival, Raindance Film Festival, Berlin Music Video Awards, Toronto Shorts Film Festival, Shots awards, HollyShort Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, Rooftop Film Festival New York, London Short Film Festival, Palm Springs International Shortfest, Sugar Mountain festival and Vivid Sydney. Her short narrative ‘Maverick', starring Abbey Lee and Rhys Coiro, which she wrote and directed, premiered at FFFest, and her commercial film short, “Carlos,” that explores how micro-mobility is transforming the lives of its users, was shortlisted for both best non-fiction short at Cannes Lions and Best Branded Content at the Tribeca X Award. Most recent solo exhibitions include two mixed media shows at The Hole NYC. Her latest albums include collaboration with musician John Kirby (Solange Knowles, Frank Ocean, Blood Orange, Sebastian Tellier) to direct, perform and produce music for their audio visual album, ‘Drool', and her solo ambient album and short film ‘Formless', both released on Terrible Records, with screenings and performances across Australia, LA and New York City. She lives in Los Angeles.

On this week's show:Happy International Licorice Day160K people drove to the state for Monday's eclipse Private planes packed BTVTrain hits car in BartonBernie Sanders arsonistDick Mazza resignsGoddard College to close after 86 yearsNo impeachment for nut-kicking sheriffWheeler park development goes to trialWould you drink Luiz Guzman's Jus?(50:33) Break music: Ben Roque - “Charmed I'm Sure”https://benroque.bandcamp.com/album/mad-andalusia UVM hair equity programWork underway on Community Sailing Center in Burlington Rutland robotics team headed to Houston  Over 1,200 Vt. contractors have signed up for mandatory registry Swanton mom baby touches tussock moth cocoon Ethics Panel Dismisses Complaint Against Ram Hinsdale VAST reports bad winter for snowmobiling Putney fire department quitsSugar Mountain buys Whetstone craft brewery facility(1:32:54)  Break music: Until We're Dead and Gone - “Everybody's Out to Get Me”https://untilweredeadandgone.bandcamp.com/album/burn Scumbag MapBurglar steals from 5-year-oldPolice hunt for Massachusetts teen in Pownal murder Police: Wi-Fi jammer aided burglars Cocaine charges mount for womanNewport man charged with second degree domestic assault A bunch of DUIs and wrong-way driversThanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/VermontCatchup Follow Matt on twitter: @MatthewBorden4 Contact the show: 24theroadshow@gmail.comIntro/Outro Music by B-Complex

Segment 2, December 30th, 2023 It's wintertime and folks not only from the Carolinas but up and down the eastern seaboard are making the trip to the largest ski resort in North Carolina! Sugar Mountain Resort is the destination of the season and Kim Jochl joins the Carolina Outdoors podcast to discuss all things Ski Sugar. Kim Jochl is an aviator, multiple time author, ski athlete, and helps to run the show up on Sugar Mountain. With freezing temperatures at night and milder temperatures during the days, the Sugar Moutain snow blowers are on full force helping to widen slopes and create the best possible powder for skiers and snowboarders. Sugar Mountain Resort invests every year in their snow making infrastructure in order to create quality slopes. From the external snow machines to the internal system of pipes and pumps, keeping the entire system up to date is crucial to providing great conditions to all skiers and snowboarders. Many technological improvements have also been made in recent years to help efficiency of sales, rentals, lines, etc. up on Sugar Mountain. From first-time beginners to expert racers, there is something on Sugar Mountain for you! Jochl discusses the importance of preparation for your day on the slopes regardless of skill level. Charlotte outdoor store, Jesse Brown's has all the coats, warm base layers, gloves, hats, or even sun protection you could need out on the mountain! Bill Bartee from the Charlotte outdoor store, Jesse Brown's & host of the Carolina Outdoors had a chance to speak with Kim Jochl about the specifics of skiing Sugar Mountain this winter. Things You'll Learn by Listening: Show Highlights: Sugar Mountain Resort is a year-round attraction 10 slopes, 5 lifts, tubing, and ice skating are open There has been 7 inches of natural snow this winter so far Sugar Mountain Resort is first come, first serve There is something for all levels of skiers and snowboarders

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"When I got started, there wasn't much diversity at all." The young DJ discusses Australia's QTBIPOC community, debuting at Dekmantel and more live from Pitch Festival. Australian talent Charlotte Frimpong, the DJ better known as C.FRIM, has become one of the country's most in-demand DJs over the last year. The Ghanian-Filipina artist kickstarted her career with a Boiler Room set at Sugar Mountain in December 2022, and since then, she's toured around Europe (and debuted at Dekmantel), becoming known for digging deep into her musical ancestry and weaving amapiano and Afro-electronic sounds creatively through her sets. In this interview recorded live at Pitch Music and Arts Festival, Frimpong talks to journalist Tanya Akinola about "air DJing" in her bedroom before being able to afford gear, and how her career has skyrocketed at such a rapid rate. Even though she hasn't been a name on the stage for a long time, she's managed to carve out a unique space for the QTBIPOC community with the party she co-runs, Dutty, which she says is for people who can relate to the afro-diaspora or who just want to open their minds to it. Listen to her thoughts on the series, starting to produce and more in the full episode.

Take a drink every time one of us says the word "hole" in this podcast episode (D-don't do that. You'll die.) Today we see that with great power comes weird nail-based fighting techniques. Johnny's Stand is possibly turning into a Loony Toons character. We learn that Gyro and Johnny are the hardiest twinks. Courtney cannot understand how the rules of Sugar Mountain work to save his life. And Eliz definitely knows what sounding is. -- JoJo's Bizarre Explainer JoJo's Bizarre Adventure! Either you love it, or you've never seen it. But what exactly is JoJo? Why is everyone talking about it? Why is it so great? Whether this is your first foray into Hirohiko Araki's decades-spanning masterpiece, or you're a seasoned JoJo Opinion Haver looking for more of your kind, JoJo's Bizarre Explainer is here for you! Hosted by Elizabeth Simins, Courtney Stanton, and Darius Kazemi, this podcast will tease out the running motifs, fascinating weirdnesses, occasional dog deaths, and ineffable charm of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure—anime-episode by anime-episode, with stops along the way for the manga, the videogames, and whatever else we can get our hands on. Join us as we attempt to do the impossible: Explain JoJo! explainjojo.com @explainjojo @explainjojo@crazynoisybizarre.town Here's where to find the gang on the internet! Eliz: eliz.abeth.net @elizsimins Courtney: superopinionated.com @courtney@friend.camp Darius: tinysubversions.com @tinysubversions @darius@friend.camp

Welcome to a new episode of RISE with Hanna Olivas. Today, our special guest is: Holly Isabella Rankin, who performs as Jack River, is an Australian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer. Her previous album, Sugar Mountain launched her onto playlists and festival bills with enviable velocity. Beat Magazine called it “one of the greatest Australian albums of the past decade” with the single ‘Fool's Gold' reaching the heights of ARIA Platinum status. Endless Summer, the sophomore album is out now, ten perfect pop songs that shimmer like melting highways and drip like strawberry ice-cream. This record is an oasis, something to retreat to amid the apocalyptic horrors of the war and climate disaster in the modern world. That's the paradox of Endless Summer; The oasis is a mirage, only as real as you desire. https://fenixtv.app/ https://www.sherisesstudios.com/ Join us in Miami this September for our Women's Empowerment Summit!

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Hometown Radio 06/16/23 5p: Helpless Old Man from Sugar Mountain goes Rocking in the Free World plus Friday Open Line

(From 1.28.23, Segment 1)This week Bill Bartee had the chance to head to Banner Elk & ski Sugar Mountain.  Along for the trip were daughters, Lake (15) & Mary Margaret (9).  Rentals & Ski passes & then we hit the mountain.  It wasn't our first time so we didn't need lessons.  However, we did note to ski within our capabilities, yielding to skiers coming down the mountain & communicating to others if we were passing on their right or left.  We outfitted & wore layers so that as we warmed we could take off the insulation that we didn't need. If you want advice before heading out for winter fun in the Carolina Outdoors or beyond then stop by www.jessebrowns.com.

(From 12.24.22, Segment 3) Skiing is a great sport to get involved in if you want to stay active during the winter. We have a few ski mountains 2 hours from Charlotte, one of them being Sugar Mountain Resort. Tune in to this episode to get information from Kim Jochl about Sugar Mountain including, lift ticket prices, mountain conditions, ice skating, snow tubing, and more! Grab your outerwear from Jesse Brown's Outdoors before you head up the mountain!  

Episode 39 of Season 5 went out live at 7 pm sharp on 29 Sept 2022.  As usual, the show was hosted by Rebel Rock Radio.  We got going with Jorn and a track called 'Some Day They Will Put Out the Sun', it was agreed that if it was in Soth Africa it would have been out long ago, or broken, or lost.  Next up Hell Fire out of San Fransisco, a truly wonderful band with a track called Cities Ablaze off their 2nd album called Free Again.  From there a bit Sevendust with ‘Black' and Last In Line with ‘Already Daed' with Vivian Campbell playing like he used to in Dio, which is fitting as they are Dio but without Ronnie James Dio.   We went back to the early '70s circa 71/72 and listened to Mott The Hoople Cover the Lou Reed classic ‘Sweet Jane', which led to Neil Young's ‘Sugar Mountain', sweet thing geddit?  A new track from Billy Idol off his new EP The Cage went down well, as did a new track off Ozzy Osbournes latest album Patient #9.  We listened to 'Immortal' featuring Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCreedy.  Paul Gilbert and Billy Sheehan in Mr Big reminded us just how well bass and lead can fit together.   We took another new track off Five Finger Death Punch's latest album AfterLife.  Germany got a look in with Die Toten Hosen and ‘Alles Wir Gut'.  We carried on with last week's discovery, a band called Sumerlands, and then went off in a classic rock direction with 'Riders On the Storm' specially dedicated to one of TSORR's much-appreciated listeners ho lost a family member this week :-(. We had tracks from The Stranglers and The Jam, it's just punk by virtue of the time the bands were formed and their history but I consider them truly iconic rock bands.  The ladies were represented by Brody Dalle and her band The Distillers with ‘The Hunger' and The Donna's and a track called ‘Who Invited You'.  The South African stuff came from When Angels Came, Francois Van Coke, and Fire Horses.  After that, we checked out the debut album from My Chemical Romance and a track called 'Headfirst For Halos' which is really cool.  We finished heavy with In Flames, Arch Enemy and Slayer. Artists featured:  Jorn, Hell Fire, Sevendust, Tremonti, Last In Line, Mott The Hoople, Neil Young, Mr Big, Tygers of Pan Tang, Rush, Billy Idol, Black Spiders, Alice In Chains, Bush, Anvil Black Veil Brides, Die Toten Hosen, Ozzy Osbourne, Five Finger Death Punch, Sumerlands, Rob Zombie, The Doors, Live, The Stranglers, The Jam, Parkway Drive, Venom, The Donna's, The Distillers, When Angels Came, Fire Horses, My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, in Flames, Arch Enemy, Slayer   

Om ukens gjest: Veldig mange DJs har et forhold til Bjørn-Atle Bungum, gjennom sitt alias Cosmic Dawn har han laget hundrevis av remixer også offisielle for artister som Rihanna, Carly Rae Jeppson, Donkeyboy, Chris Brown, Gabrielle og Owl City. Som DJ er han resident-DJ på Brenneriet på Lillehammer en av landets største utesteder. En gig han har hatt i smått imponerende 30 år! Hvordan holder man seg relevant alle disse årene og hvor finner man inspirasjon til å lage alle disse remixene? Det er bare noe av det du får svar på i denne ukens episode av podkasten Platekusk. Relevante linker: https://youtu.be/02PstSNvln0 (Gerd Janson Boiler Room x Sugar Mountain 2018 DJ Set) Om podkasten: Platekusk - podkasten om norske DJs ledes og produseres av http://ronnybergersen.no/ (Ronny Bergersen) som selv er en mye brukt DJ på nattklubber, barer, eventer og bryllup. I denne podkasten snakker han med kollegaer om alt fra musikk og teknikk til erfaringer positive, så vel som negative. Platekusk i Sosiale medier: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/platekuskpod/ (@platekuskpod) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/platekuskpod (@platekuskpod) E-post: hei@platekuskpod.no

Hay que tener una buena solvencia económica personal para poder adquirir el material que el canadiense Neil Young publica cada año, sean nuevos discos o de su archivo interminable. La entrega reciente corresponde a tres grabaciones, dos de enero de 1971 - con temas preferentemente de “After The Gold Rush” y “Harvest” y una de 1974, que contiene canciones de “Tonight’s The Night”, “On The Beach”, incluso de “Long May You Run”, que grabó con la Stills-Young Band. DISCO 1 NEIL YOUNG A Man Needs A Maid 5’22 DISCO 2 NEIL YOUNG Tell Me Why 2’30 DISCO 3 NEIL YOUNG Old Man (Louie vino con el lugar, un granjero…) 3’50 DISCO 4 NEIL YOUNG Cowgirl In the Sand 4’06 17 DISCO 5 NEIL YOUNG Heart of Gold 4’14 DISCO 6 NEIL YOUNG Sugar Mountain 8’40 DISCO 7 NEIL YOUNG Don’t Let It Bring You down 2’39 DISCO 8 NEIL YOUNG Ohio 3’28 37 DISCO 9 NEIL YOUNG Long May You Run 5’00 DISCO 10 NEIL YOUNG Helpless 4’04 DISCO 11 NEIL YOUNG Revolution Blues 3’50 DISCO 12 NEIL YOUNG Roll Another Number (For The Road) 3’45 Escuchar audio

Which famous funk artist was in the same band as Neil Young in the mid-60s? What prompted Young to write Cinnamon Girl, Cowgirl In The Sand, Down By The River and Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere in one day? Which son of a Beatle recorded a cover of Old Man? Join Stevie Nix as he answers all of these questions and more on this episode that is on the beach under a harvest moon.WARNING: This episode contains traces of Time Fades Away.Featured songs [in chronological order]:The SultanSugar Mountain [Cande y Paulo]It's My TimeMr Soul [Yo La Tengo]Expecting To Fly [Jakob Dylan & Regina Spektor]On The Way Home [Ocean Colour Scene]I Am A Child [Britta Phillips]The Old Laughing Lady [Thea Gilmore]Helpless [Angie McMahon]Ohio [Devo]Southern Man [The Reverend Shawn Amos]Old Man [James McCartney]Ambulance Blues [Nichole Wagner]Pocahontas [Everclear]Harvest Moon [Imaginary Future, Angus & Julia Stone]Hidden track: Rockin' In The Free World [Larkin Poe]Curated Spotify Playlist:1970s: 20 Covers [One Of Which Is Heart Of Gold]Join Stevie on Spotify and Instagramwww.songsungnew.com

In this episode, I speak with Walter Jeffries from Sugar Mountain Farm. If you have been in pasture pigs for even a little while you have most likely heard of Walt or you have found yourself on his website as it is an incredible resource for pastured pig information. Walter has an incredible setup in Vermont that includes an onsite processing facility that he operates and manages himself. For more info about him, check out Sugar Mountain Farm. Join Us May 22nd in Grady, NC for Sheraton Park Farms Pastured Pig Workshop. I have been invited to be a guest presenter that day. For more info visit: https://www.sheratonparkfarms.com/events1/pastured-pig-workshop-2022   Check out the NEW Pastured Pig website that is live!  https://thepasturedpig.com/ Also, join us for discussion of all things pastured pig on our new facebook group, The Pastured Pig. https://www.facebook.com/groups/thepasturedpig We made it to 20 patrons on Patreon which allows us to expand the Pasture Pig Podcast to include a website and other digital presence.  Help us reach our next benchmark at 40 patrons. To learn more visit: https://www.patreon.com/thepasturedpig If you would like to know more about us here at Red Tool House Farm or would like to suggest topics for future episodes, visit us at: https://thepasturedpig.com/podcast/

 Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Elina Mark, a Sudanese refugee who has been living in Indonesia for the past four years, interviews Abdullah, who is also stranded in Indonesia as a result of Australia's border regime. Abdullah speaks about barriers to accessing education for refugees in Indonesia, and his concerns about their flow-on effects. Elina is a trained dentist, but is currently working with two NGOs providing education support to refugees in Indonesia- 4All learning centres and Beyond the Fabric. She is also a member of Archipelago Magazine. To hear more of Elina's collaborative work with Scheherazade Bloul interviewing refugees in Indonesia, listen to the next Women on the Line episode on Monday 7th March from 8:30-9AM on 3CR.// Greg Foyster is the campaigns manager at Environment Victoria. He is a long-term Geelong resident and member of the community group: 'Geelong Renewables Not Gas.' He joins us today to speak on the alleged underreporting of Geelong gas terminal emissions. Find out more and sign the petition at Geelong Renewables Not Gas's website.// Professor Daniel Angus is a Professor of Digital Communication at the QUT Digital Media Research Centre. His research examines issues at the intersection of technology and society, including algorithms, misinformation, and new methods to study the digital society. Daniel joins us to talk about fake viral footage being shared during the current crisis in Ukraine.// Dr Nina Ridder, Research Associate at the Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes at the University of New South Wales, joins us to discuss the recent catastrophic flooding in Queensland and New South Wales, their relationship to climate change and La Niña cycles, and the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. You can find out more about the climate science research Nina and her team are working on at climateextremes.org.au, and take action with these tips from United Nation Environment Program.// Songs// Still Dream - Miiesha// What Should I Do? - Budjerah// Doin It Different - Arona Mane ft. Shantan Wantan Ichiban & Dancingwater// The Shake Up - dameeeela ft. Tjaka// Come Back - Barkaa ft. Mi-kaisha// Check out dameeela's Boiler Room set x Sugar Mountain and Barkaa at SorBaes Festival on 13 March at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl.//

On this episode, co-hosts Dan Nathan and Rick Heitzmann are joined by “On The Tape” co-host Guy Adami to discuss the tech sell-off (2:20), M&A madness (8:10), and how the market cycle is affecting venture capitalists (17:50). The co-hosts interview Mikel Jolett, frontman of the band the Airborne Toxic Event, and talk about the Joe Rogan and Spotify debacle. Later, contributors Sally Shin and Jarrod Dicker join Dan and Mikel to discuss how web3 is impacting the music industry. ---- Email us at contact@riskreversal.com with any feedback, suggestions, or questions for us to answer on the pod and follow us @OkayComputerPod. Follow us on Instagram @RiskReversalMedia Subscribe to our YouTube channel

Long-time guest of the B&P Realm, the Godfather of Grunge Neil Young, has gotten himself into a kerfuffle with Spotify over what he labels vaccine misinformation being promoted by Joe Rogan. Fortunately, Neil was gracious enough to give us an exclusive interview where he discusses why he's so pro-vaccine and the answer is going to surprise you, it may delight you, or perhaps it will frighten you! Either way, it's another incredible interview with our old pal and we were happy to sit down with him to hash things out. Enjoy! Media Links "Neil Young Tells Spotify To Remove His Music over Vaccine Misinformation" (The Verge) "Spotify Seemingly Sides With Joe Rogan In Standoff with Neil Young" (HuffPost) Past Appearances from Neil on the B and P Realm and The Teacher and the Tree Man Podcasts Neil joins two others to discuss the tomfuckery in our world today In this one, we talk about Neil's classic” Cowgirl in the Sand” and conspiracy theories! Discussing Neil's 2020 album, “Homegrown” and Neil shares a song! And Neil's first appearance, on my other podcast, though it got a bit cantankerous! If you want to connect with me, find me at: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bryan.winchell2/ https://www.facebook.com/TheBandPRealmPodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/BandPRealmPod Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bryanwinchell?fan_landing=true

As broadcast December 15, 2021 with plenty of sky blue and white for your podcast trip.  Tonight we took a trip to Argentina and through time to one of the most innovative countries in Latin American music through the decades.  We cover tunes from old school bands like Los Gatos right up through the aughts with Modular to the modern era with Gativideo, all of it intertwined in a love of psyche and exploration.  Big shouts to our main ladies Florencia Andrada and Pilar Padin as well!#feelthegravityTracklisting:Part I (00:00)Neil Young – Cinnamon GirlManal – Casa Con Diez PinosLos Aggrotones – El Reggae Es Algo SerioPilar Padin – PorvenirFlorencia Andrada – Por AmorLos Negronis – Ringo Part II (30:38)Delfina Campos – El AstronautaClara Cava – Dias de PajaPiero – Fumemos un CigarilloLos Gatos – Viento, Dile a la LluviaJuana Molina – ErasAlmendra – A Estos Hombres Tristes Part III (57:39)Banda de Turistas - Quimica  Gativideo – Bruce WillisModular - Playa BiquiniLa Joven Guardia – El Extraños del Pelo LargoSuárez – ExcursionesPyramides – Afuera Part IV (89:43)Juana Molina - Sin DonesMorbo y Mambo - CamilleRiel - Paseo PsicodélicoPilar Padin – No Soy NadaRooftop Moonlight - Blue Night Sultan of the Disco – Shining Road 

Dr. Eva Becker ist Specialist Business Innovation Strategy bei MINI und fördert mit dem Accelerator Urban-X Start-ups, die einen Beitrag dazu leisten, das Stadtleben zu verbessern. Lissie Kieser widmet sich der Thematik der kreativen Nutzung urbaner Freiflächen. Mit @sugarmountain_munich, einem neuen Zwischennutzungsprojekt in München, betreiben sie und ihr Team auf dem Gelände einer ehemaligen Fabrik ein Areal für Kultur, Street Art, Urban Sports. Mit beiden Gäst:innen spricht Tijen darüber, wie wir morgen leben wollen und was wir schon heute dafür tun können. +++Unsere allgemeinen Datenschutzrichtlinien finden Sie unter https://art19.com/privacy. Die Datenschutzrichtlinien für Kalifornien sind unter https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info abrufbar.

Dans ce premier chapitre, on aborde l'enfance de l'artiste au Canada puis ses débuts dans le monde de la musique avec son premier groupe The Squires. Suivez ensuite l'évolution musicale de Neil Young jusqu'à son périple aux États-Unis où il fonde Buffalo Springfield avec le guitariste Stephen Stills. (1945-1968)

This episode is all about downhill mountain bike racing with PJ Noto, the Bike Park Manager of the Sugar Mountain Bike Park. PJ was the assistant coach at Lees-McRae College for six years before developing a downhill bike park in the High Country at Sugar Mountain, NC. He shares the story about his growth in the sport as coach, then bike park developer, to now a race promoter in conjunction with Downhill Southeast, the premier gravity race series in the Southeast. The finals of the race series are on July 31-August 1st on Sugar Mountain, and PJ shares what the courses are like and what big names will be racing. The discussion also includes stories PJ and I have experienced during our years together in collegiate cycling, especially epic travel stories of breaking down all across the country. Hopefully this episode encourages you to visit Sugar Mountain and maybe hop on a downhill bike for a run down the mountain! Follow PJ Noto Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pj.noto/ Follow Sugar Mountain Bike Park Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sugarmtnbikepark/ Website: http://www.skisugar.com/bikepark/#park Downhill Southeast Website: https://downhillsoutheast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/downhillsoutheast/

A fourth generation Puget Sound native and nascent New Yorker, Kurt has always felt passionately about authentic, full-flavored foods, free of artificial additives. Kurt is the owner and head chef of Sugar Mountain, a creative food company that is home to extraordinary food brands and restaurants, from the award-winning Beecher's Handmade Cheese to The Butcher's Table, a swanky steakhouse that features Mishima Reserve, Sugar Mountain's American Wagyu beef brand. With each operation, Kurt's goal is to demonstrate how quality ingredients make for delicious meals, without added food colorings, flavor enhancers, or preservatives. Beyond the retail world, Kurt is effecting change in people's eating habits through his book, Pure Food, and through The Beecher's Foundation (501c3). Through education and community engagement, the Foundation inspires people to eat real food and vote with every food dollar.In our conversation Kurt takes us way back to his early childhood growing up in Seattle, what struggles he faced at work coming out of college, and ultimately, what inspired Kurt to purchase businesses like Seattle's famous Pasta & Company and start Beecher's Cheese, one of the most successful food brands in the world.  And if you stick around until the end, you will get to hear all about Kurt's ambitious philanthropic goal of changing the way America eats.

Paul Emery talks about MasquerAid, a benefit for the Nevada County Artists Relief Fund happening this Sunday, July 25th at the Center for the Arts in Grass Valley featuring Achilles Wheel, The Earls of Newtown and Sugar Mountain.

Die Skulpturen des Dokumenta-Künstlers Roman Signer spielen mit den Elementen Wasser, Luft und Feuer. Sein jüngstes Kunstwerk ist in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Kunsthaus Bregenz im vorarlbergischen Montafon in 2000 m Höhe entstanden. Außerdem: Neue Erkenntnisse zur Giftattacke auf den Schriftsteller Dmitrij Bykow / Zwischenbilanz zum Thing Big Festival in München / In München eröffnet das Sugar Mountain, das interessanteste Zwischennutzungsobjekt der Stadt

Egal ob Bank, Betonfabrik oder Reithalle: Lissie Kieser und ihr Team sind bekannt dafür, alte Plätze neu zu entdecken. Mit ihren Kultur- und Gastro-Zwischennutzungen hat sich das eingespielte Team um sie, Michi Kern und Gregor Wöltje längst einen Namen in der Stadt gemacht. Das Lovelace Hotel (2017-2019) in der Altstadt ist vielleicht als kleines Highlight besonders hervorzuheben. Ab Sommer 2021 geht es dann ins ehemalige Katzenberger Betonwerk in Obersendling als kreative Spielfläche. In einer neuen Folge unseres Podcasts sprechen wir mit Kieser über die Intention und die Motivation hinter diesen Projekten. Außerdem erfahren wir von der studierten Kunsthistorikerin, warum Schönheit wichtiger als Funktionalismus ist und was eine kleine Portion Imperfektion mit all dem zu tun hat.

Join Creating Wellness host Fran Paradine as she discusses with Dr. Elizabeth Beadle about her methods of optimizing vitality and longevity.This is episode is sponsored by Incredible Edibles in Hickory, NC.Fran Paradine, co-owner of Incredible Edibles in Hickory NC, lacrosse official, retired therapist (who still has the skills), girls lacrosse coach, wife of a college coach, and mother of three pretty cool kids talks with the amazing women in our community who foster and support all kinds of well-being.Since 1994, Dr. Elizabeth Beadle has practiced both chiropractic and acupuncture. She graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and then earned her Master's degree in Exercise Physiology and Nutrition from Columbia University in New York City. She pursued her Chiropractic degree from National College of Chiropractic (NCC) in Chicago. While in Chiropractic college, she was the Physiology Fellow for 3 years and she also earned "Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities" award. After graduating from Chiropractic college, Dr. Beadle was an Instructor at NCC, teaching Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Physiology for several years. She then continued her education and received her Diplomate in Acupuncture (NCCAOM) and Fellowship from International Academy of Medical Acupuncture (FIAMA). She also practiced chiropractic at the American Holistic Center, and interned with renowned orthopedists in Chicago. Dr. Beadle opened her own practice, Healing for Life, Chiropractic and Acupuncture, in Hickory in 1999."Healing for Life" has enjoyed being voted "Best"or "Finest" Chiropractor in Catawba County in 2007, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, and 2019. We really appreciate the trust and recognition from the Hickory area.Dr. Beadle is a unique chiropractor in the area. She is one of the few doctors who has her Masters degree and Acupuncture Diplomate (NCCAOM & FIAMA). She is also certified as a Chiropractic Sports Physician (CCSP), ACSM Team Physician, Cox Flexion Distraction Technique, and Mally Carpal Tunnel Technique. This training has given her the knowledge and ability to thoroughly evaluate and treat a variety of conditions conservatively.Dr. Beadle is an avid and competitive athlete. She was ranked as second top female in-line skate racer and top 50 women athletes in Chicagoland. She skated for Chicago's North American champion women's in-line hockey team and then the Charlotte Lady Checkers ice hockey team. Currently, Dr Beadle ski races in the Sugar Mountain adult race league and the Crescent Ski Council and has been ranked fastest or second fastest female ski racer since 2006. She is also an avid horseback rider and cyclist.Dr. Beadle is very active in the community. She has served on the Board of Directors for the YMCA, The Boys and Girls Club, and the PTA of Hickory Day school and Hickory High School. Dr. Elizabeth Beadle wants you to know that she cares about you and the health of your family. She and her staff are committed to creating an office that is warm and caring as well as up to date on the latest health care issues. Dr. Beadle would welcome the opportunity to be your health care provider, giving you and your family the most effective and gentle health care services available.Dr. Beadle would like to welcome you to her facility and looks forward to providing this community with quality chiropractic and acupuncture and revolutionary Pulse Electro Magnetic Field (PEMF), nutrition, rehab, and Biohacking that are geared towards Optimizing Vitality and Longevity.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Can you imagine witnessing the Holy Spirit coming upon King Jesus?! The photo for today's episode is from Sugar Mountain, North Carolina, USA. Visit http://ttlm.pictures to download photos from any of the episodes.

Kurt Beecher Dammeier is a fourth generation Puget Sound native entrepreneur, leader on the Seattle food scene, and the CEO and Founder of Sugar Mountain. Through his company, Sugar Mountain, Kurt is the owner and chef of a number of creative food brands and restaurants, from the award-winning Beecher’s Handmade Cheese to The Butcher’s Table, a swanky steakhouse that features Mishima Reserve, his luxury Wagyu beef brand. With each operation, Kurt’s goal is to demonstrate how quality ingredients make for delicious meals, without added food colorings, flavor enhancers, or preservatives. Kurt has always felt passionately about authentic, full-flavored foods, free of artificial additives. Beyond the retail world, Kurt is effecting change in people’s eating habits through The Beecher’s Foundation (501c3), founded in 2004. Through education and community engagement, the Foundation inspires people to eat real food and vote with every food dollar. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

(from 02.27.2021 program -  3rd segment): If there is a woman that is considered a "Renaissance Women" it is Kimberly Jochl.  She grew up in Massachusetts with her twin sister, became a pilot, was on the U.S. Ski Team & helps manage North Carolina's largest ski resort, Sugar Mountain. She's also a Storyteller Night alumnus from Jesse Brown's. Wes Lawson & Bill Bartee speak to her on the Carolina Outdoors because 2021 brings us her third published book, Hardly Easy.  This fictional account of a NC teenager named Charlie.  Relationships between Charlie and her parents, sister, supervisor & friends.  Overcoming fears along the way, while pursuing her true passion, flying. Listen in to Wes Lawson and Bill Bartee talking Hardly Easy.

La ronde des saisons, le cycle de la vie, les peurs de l'enfance, les espoirs de l'adolescence et les désillusions de l'âge adulte… Le tout raconté en quelques arpèges folk par une jeune et blonde Canadienne, en réponse à la chanson "Sugar Mountain" de Neil Young. Histoire d'une comptine toute simple et belle, qui compte beaucoup pour nombre d'entre nous.

From January 16th Program:  North Carolina's largest ski resort is working at handling the crowds that want to escape to the High Country to enjoy the many winter sports offered.  Kim Jochl of Sugar Mountain joins the program to share their spacing, mask requirements & first come/first serve policy during the Pandemic.  Listen in & learn that sometimes the secret to a ski escape is weekday & night skiing along with tubing & skating.

From January 16 Program:  A long weekend for many means more people getting outdoors.  Special thanks to our guests: Kim Jochl from Sugar Mountain talked about spreading out, first come-first serve & skiing weekdays to escape the crowds & James Buice educated us on fishing for the famed sportfish, The Bonefish.  Remember to get outdoors and pick up your trash.  

It’s almost impossible to talk about any food scene in the Boone and Banner Elk, NC area without including Tina Houston. Once you meet her, you know in five minutes she is a force, and she’s been at the forefront of seasonal, local cooking in that pocket of the Appalachian High Country since she began Reid’s Catering in 1999. Her enthusiasm for beautiful product, trust of the diners to go on a culinary journey with her, and her love of place have inspired a growing team that now encompasses the catering side, Reid’s Cafe, The Beacon Butcher Bar, and a food truck called Betty’s Biscuits so she can get her baking fix. Whatever she touches seems to prove that being socially conscious and committed to good food and good people can be delicious. 

Show NotesToday is September 29, 2020, and we are still in the midst of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. As of today, more than 1 million people have died from COVID-19, 200,000 of them in the USA. I felt compelled to speak with Alfred Alcorn, a well-known author from Massachusetts. Mr. Alcorn wrote a prescient novel, Sugar Mountain, about a devastating pandemic, published in 2013, long before anyone had heard of SARS-CoV-2.Before devoting himself to writing full-time, Alfred Alcorn graduated from Harvard University and worked as a journalist, teacher, and travel director of the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge, MA. He has authored approximately a dozen novels, including Sugar Mountain, Murder in the Museum of Man, Time is the Fire, and his latest book, The Evil That White Men Do, published September 21, 2020.During our 20-minute interview, Alfred and I discussed his motivation for composing a novel about a pandemic, how he approached accomplishing the necessary medical research, and his passion for writing. More than a simple adventure story, Sugar Mountain explores what happens to ordinary human beings when facing the threat of death. When I asked him why he chose this topic, he responded, “The oldest story in human history is survival.”Mr. Alcorn writes full-time from his home, located near a mountain quite similar to the one in the book. His novels are available on Amazon.com. Alfred can be contacted at his Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/alfred.alcorn.Many thanks to Alfred Alcorn for this fascinating interview!More interview links on my webpage: www.andrewwilner.com.     

Solo hike up a nearby hummock on the side of Mt.Douglas here in smoky Saanich BC.

GeneralSubscribe to Fully Vested at FullyVested.co or through your podcast app of choice.Cashdrop's $2.7M SeedCASHDROP, a Chicago-based contactless payments and mobile-first e-commerce platform company founded by Mexican immigrant Ruben Flores-Martinez, announced that it raised $2.7 million in seed funding back in early August. Harlem Capital led the deal, which saw participation from Founder Collective, Long Journey Ventures, and M25. Individual investors in the round include Cyan Banister (now a partner at Long Journey Ventures), Adobe chief product officer Scott Belsky, Fullscreen founder George Strompolos, and YouTube pioneer Michelle Phan.CASHDROP's unique differentiators are its economic model and software platform. The company says new merchants can spin up an online storefront for their products and services in as little as 15 minutes. CASHDROP includes inventory management and reporting features, and may expand to more service business verticals in the future. Its biggest point of leverage is its economic model. Rather than taking a commission/marketplace fee from businesses on the platform, CASHDROP charges the customer a 5% convenience fee, leaving the platform free to use for businesses and relatively inexpensive for consumers. The company has seen significant user growth during COVID, mostly from restaurants seeking to sidestep high marketplace fees imposed by incumbent food ordering platforms like DoorDash, GrubHub, and Uber Eats.Read more about the deal:Mobile-First Commerce Platform CASHDROP Announces $2.7M Seed Round to Empower Small Business Owners (Press release on PR Newswire)Start-Ups Braced for the Worst. The Worst Never Came. (Erin Griffith in The New York Times)A Mobile Storefront In Under 15 Minutes: Cashdrop’s Platform Secures $2.7M In Seed Funding (Christine Hall for Crunchbase News)Cashdrop Raises $2.7M to Grow Its E-Commerce App (Nona Tepper for BuiltInChicago)Mobile-First Commerce Platform CASHDROP Announces $2.7M Seed Round to Empower Small Business Owners (Jim Dallke for BizJournals)(Disclosure: Jason and Graham are friends with members of the CASHDROP team. Jason served as a compensated advisor and service provider to the company during its funding round announcement, and Graham has financial ties to one of the firms which invested in the round.)Trove's $16M Series AOn August 25th, Bay Area-based startup Trove announced it had raised $16 million in a Series A round, with media reporting it was raised at a $75 million post-money valuation. Andreessen Horowitz led the round. The company was part of Y Combinator's S20 batch and successfully raised their round pre-Demo Day.Trove is in the business of helping startups communicate the potential value of equity (usually offered as options of some sort) issued as part of typical employee compensation packages to prospective recruits and current members of the team. This, in theory, gives employees greater transparency into the current and potential value of the shares they're issued, while also helping employers allocate equity more wisely. Simultaneously, Trove grants access to anonymized market performance data to help employers understand what other industry participants are offering their prospective employees.Read more about the deal:YC’s most anticipated startup raised $16M from a16z before Demo Day(Natasha Mascarenhas publishing in TechCrunch)Barn2Door's $6M Series A2On August 26th, Seattle area online marketplace startup Barn2Door raised $6 million in a new round of funding led by Bullpen Capital. Participating investors in the deal include Sugar Mountain, Raine Ventures, Quiet Capital, Lead Edge Capital, and Global Founders Capital. Crunchbase lists the round as a Series A, though the round type was not named explicitly in media coverage of the transaction. Barn2Door raised $3.4 million for the first tranche of its Series A back in October 2019; that particular round was led by Lead Edge Capital out of New York. According to Golden, the company has raised nearly $12.5 million across its publicly-disclosed funding rounds.Barn2Door operates a vertical-specific marketplace platform aimed at helping farmers sell their produce, proteins, and other agricultural products directly to consumers via e-commerce. The company's platform works for different types of farms (dairy, produce, animal proteins, flowers, etc.) and service models ranging from subscription community-supported agriculture (CSA) boxes, to on-farm pickup, local delivery, and even shipping, depending on the model of the farm's direct-to-customer business. Barn2Door, founded in March 2015, is part of a growing trend of companies which offer more direct connections between farmers and end consumers. The growing D2C side of some farm businesses helps the farmer generate higher margin on agricultural products.Read more about the deal:Barn2Door raises $6M as demand rises for its software used by farmers to sell food online (Taylor Soper for Seattle tech-focused publication GeekWire)Barn2Door Raises $6M for Platform that Connects Farms and Consumers(Chris Albrecht for food tech-focused online news outlet The Spoon)UndockBased in New York City, Undock is a company building software which helps people who schedule lots of meetings (which is probably most of us these days) schedule those meetings right from their email inbox. The interaction model is neat: Using a little NLP magic, Undock's plugin detects when a user is proposing times for a meeting; based on the user's availability and preferred times to meet, Undock will drop down some times which work, and the proposed time is entered as a link in the outgoing email. Recipients can confirm the time by clicking the link in the email. Undock detects if a message is going to another Undock user, and is able to suggest times which are mutually agreeable for all parties. On August 24, the company announced it raised $1.6 million in a seed round led by Lightship Capital. Participating investors in the deal include Bessemer Venture Partners, Alumni Ventures Group, Active Capital, Lerer Hippeau, as well as individual investors Arlan Hamilton (founding partner of Backstage Capital) and veteran startup ops exec Sarah Imbach.Read more about the deal:Lightship Capital Leads $1.6 Million Financing Round for Undock (Lightship Capital)Lightship Capital Leads $1.6M Financing Round For AI-Enabled Productivity Platform, Undock (Shanique Yates for AfroTech.com)Undock Raises $1.6 Million for Its Software to Make Virtual Meetings Less Terrible (Sherrell Dorsey for The Plug)Startups To Watch: CH4 Global, Mustard, Undock, LaunchNotes (Christine Hall for Crunchbase News)About The Co-HostsJason D. Rowley is a researcher and writer at Golden.com. He volunteers with startup outreach for the open-source community and sends occasional newsletters from Rowley.Report.Graham C. Peck is a Venture Partner with Cultivation Capital and additionally helps companies build technology development teams in partnership with Brightgrove and other technology development organizations.

That's right, Youngsters. The incredible Nils Lofgren joins us for a spectacular episode! We talk to Nils about playing with Neil, making music with Ringo Starr, and the wildly underrated accordion. He also tells us tales about Levon Helm, being a busy musician in the middle of a pandemic, and Mike tries to get him to choose between Crazy Horse and The E Street Band. He's got an incredible new album coming out on August 21st called Weathered. Head to Nilslofgren.com to pre-order now! You won't regret it. We also get a bit into Decade - Neil's incredible 3 LP compilation, and learn what Sugar Mountain was really about. Oh, and before Nils talks to us we may have accidentally dialed the wrong number. But don't worry. We nailed it.Make sure to follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/longmayyouyoungLong May You Young is proud to be a part of Pantheon Podcasts. To check out all the other amazing music podcasts in their line-up, go to http://pantheonpodcasts.com/To pre-order Nils' new album, head to https://www.nilslofgren.com/index.html

This happens sometimes in the world of fiction and science fiction, a writer writes a story that speaks of something that happens only to find years later, what the writer saw happen, actually happens. Alfred Alcorn is not a prophet, a psychic or a doomsayer, he is just a brilliant author who has seen enough of the world to tell stories of a world that could be. Sugar Mountain, written in 2013, could become a manual to help us navigate or way through the global pandemic of Coved -19.  it is not an exact rendition, but what it does do, is it invites the reader to contemplate, is Coved -19 a one and done endemic or the messenger for a more deadly pandemic that could surface at any time. Hear Alfred thoughts on what can be done, what the world is trying to say to us and what the world might soon look like if we don't all come together. First published in 2013 and set in western Massachusetts, Sugar Mountain  revolves around the struggle of an extended family to survive a pandemic  that starts in China and spreads around the world with devastating effect.  As it stands,  Sugar Mountain could serve as a survival manual should Covid 19 mutate and turn more deadly than it already is.  Because of the relevance and increased demand for Sugar Mountain, the publisher has come out with a reissue that might be of interest to those who have not read the 2013 edition.   Born Alfred Denny and orphaned at the age of eight, the author grew up in the U.K. (Merseyside), in Ireland (County Roscommon), and in the U.S. (Massachusetts). He graduated from Harvard and has worked as a journalist, editor, teacher, travel director (for the Harvard Museum of Natural History).  In that last capacity he planned and led trips all over the world, including Antarctica.  He has also been a safari guide, mostly in Tanzania, which he knows well.   To date he has written and published 10 novels.  They have been reviewed in the New Yorker, The New York Times, the Boston Globe, and many other publications.

That's right, Youngsters. The incredible Nils Lofgren joins us for a spectacular episode! We talk to Nils about playing with Neil, making music with Ringo Starr, and the wildly underrated accordion. He also tells us tales about Levon Helm, being a busy musician in the middle of a pandemic, and Mike tries to get him to choose between Crazy Horse and The E Street Band. He's got an incredible new album coming out on August 21st called Weathered. Head to Nilslofgren.com to pre-order now! You won't regret it. We also get a bit into Decade - Neil's incredible 3 LP compilation, and learn what Sugar Mountain was really about. Oh, and before Nils talks to us we may have accidentally dialed the wrong number. But don't worry. We nailed it. Make sure to follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/longmayyouyoung Long May You Young is proud to be a part of Pantheon Podcasts. To check out all the other amazing music podcasts in their line-up, go to http://pantheonpodcasts.com/ To pre-order Nils' new album, head to https://www.nilslofgren.com/index.html

That's right, Youngsters. The incredible Nils Lofgren joins us for a spectacular episode! We talk to Nils about playing with Neil, making music with Ringo Starr, and the wildly underrated accordion. He also tells us tales about Levon Helm, being a busy musician in the middle of a pandemic, and Mike tries to get him to choose between Crazy Horse and The E Street Band. He's got an incredible new album coming out on August 21st called Weathered. Head to Nilslofgren.com to pre-order now! You won't regret it. We also get a bit into Decade - Neil's incredible 3 LP compilation, and learn what Sugar Mountain was really about. Oh, and before Nils talks to us we may have accidentally dialed the wrong number. But don't worry. We nailed it.Make sure to follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/longmayyouyoungLong May You Young is proud to be a part of Pantheon Podcasts. To check out all the other amazing music podcasts in their line-up, go to http://pantheonpodcasts.com/To pre-order Nils' new album, head to https://www.nilslofgren.com/index.html

That's right, Youngsters. The incredible Nils Lofgren joins us for a spectacular episode! We talk to Nils about playing with Neil, making music with Ringo Starr, and the wildly underrated accordion. He also tells us tales about Levon Helm, being a busy musician in the middle of a pandemic, and Mike tries to get him to choose between Crazy Horse and The E Street Band. He's got an incredible new album coming out on August 21st called Weathered. Head to Nilslofgren.com to pre-order now! You won't regret it. We also get a bit into Decade - Neil's incredible 3 LP compilation, and learn what Sugar Mountain was really about. Oh, and before Nils talks to us we may have accidentally dialed the wrong number. But don't worry. We nailed it. Make sure to follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/longmayyouyoung Long May You Young is proud to be a part of Pantheon Podcasts. To check out all the other amazing music podcasts in their line-up, go to http://pantheonpodcasts.com/ To pre-order Nils' new album, head to https://www.nilslofgren.com/index.html

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There's so much to do in Asheville and there's a lot of opportunities to travel there on a budget because there are a ton of free things to do, like hiking/parks/walk around downtownBest times to go to Asheville: Recommended times to go— spring and fall for different reasonsThings to do:Festivals during the seasons - Sourwood/Apple Festival http://www.sourwoodfestival.comDrum Circle https://www.romanticasheville.com/drumming_circle.htmSmokey Mountain Folk Festival https://www.lakejunaluska.com/specials_packages/family_vacations/sm_folk_festival/Local Farmers MarketsDowntown Asheville - Pack Square Park https://www.romanticasheville.com/packsquare.htm Fall time recommendations:Go to the Mountainshiking BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY https://www.blueridgeparkway.orgCraggy Gardens https://www.blueridgeparkway.org/poi/craggy-gardens/Devil’s Courthouse Trail https://ashevilletrails.com/blue-ridge-parkway/devils-courthouse-trail/Mount Mitchell Trails https://ashevilletrails.com/category/mount-mitchell-state-park/A little farther away in Black Mountain/Old Fort/Montreat - Ridgecrest, Catawba Falls, and Lookout Mountain (lake tamaha) https://ashevilletrails.comMountain Biking - Max Patch, Bent Creek, Triple Falls, Graveyard Fields MONTREAT/OLD FORT https://www.romanticasheville.com/max-patchWinter Recommendations:Skiing at Beech and Sugar Mountain https://www.beechmountainresort.com ARTSY + Cultural Activities To Attend:River Arts District https://www.riverartsdistrict.comBiltmore House (late 1800’s) https://www.biltmore.comGrove Park Inn (1913) https://www.omnihotels.com/hotels/asheville-grove-park Best Places to EatBreakfast -Sunny Point Cafe https://sunnypointcafe.comLouise’s (Black Mountain) https://louisesblackmtn.comOver Easy Cafe http://www.overeasyasheville.com Lunch/Dinner -WHITE DUCK TACO http://whiteducktacoshop.comChestnut https://www.chestnutasheville.comChai Pani http://www.chaipaniasheville.com/Nine Mile https://ninemileasheville.comFarm Burger https://farmburger.com/asheville-nc/Easy Girl Eatery https://earlygirleatery.comTupelo Honey Cafe https://tupelohoneycafe.com/location/downtown-asheville/My Father’s Pizza (BM) http://www.myfatherspizza.comFresh (BM) https://freshwoodfiredpizza.net Where are the best places to stay?  Air bnb! Or you can rent houses/cabins. Or stay at one of the nicer/fancier places connected to Biltmore/Grove Parkhttps://www.airbnb.com/s/Asheville--NC Best Places to Explore/“hidden” gems:Visit Black Mountain: https://www.exploreblackmountain.comThe town of Black MountainSliding Rock a little farther away in Brevard and LAKE LURE: http://www.townoflakelure.com Top Things You Have To Do/ Try There-Beer (Brewing companies)*Sierra Nevada  https://sierranevada.com/visit/north-carolina/*Wicked Weed https://www.wickedweedbrewing.com/*New Belgium https://www.newbelgium.com/brewery/asheville/*Highland Brewing https://highlandbrewing.com/*Green Man http://www.greenmanbrewery.com/*Catawba https://catawbabrewing.com/-favorite beers - Octoberfest (SN), White Zombie (Catawba), Pernicious IPA (WW) Safety Component - Asheville is a very safe townWhen Hiking, make sure you dress appropriately for the season. Bug spray, water, snacks. Bears (black bears) you will likely not see. They are nocturnal animals and are more scared of you then you are of them. With a snake, if it’s a black snake you are fine. You will likely not see them either, but perhaps look up what to do if you see a copperhead, rattlesnake, or water moccasin. Make sure to lock your car! In general, just be aware of your surroundings. Our hikes are VERY user friendly!

“Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you” (John 20).   At the age of eighteen, when I first lived on my own at U.C. Berkeley, I had all my classes in the same vast lecture hall and the room across the corridor from it. I have vivid memories of sitting on the benches by Strawberry Creek among the sycamore trees, outside Dwinelle Plaza, listening to a folk singer dressed all in white.   His name was Julian. He had long flowing hair and was only a little older than me. He often sang a song by Neil Young called “Sugar Mountain.” “Oh, to live on Sugar Mountain / With the barkers and the colored balloons, / You can’t be twenty on Sugar Mountain / Though you’re thinking that you’re leaving there too soon, / You’re leaving there too soon.”[1]   “It’s so noisy at the fair / But all your friends are there / And the candy floss you had / And your mother and your dad. // Oh, to live on Sugar Mountain…”   At those moments, with such exquisite intensity, I missed my mom, my dad and my brother, and all those county fair moments of my other life. Something inside me resisted growing up and yet I knew I had to.   Many forms of Christianity emphasize a dramatic conversion experience above all else. In some churches you might even feel pressured to think that someone can’t be a Christian without a singular, defining mystical experience, without being “born again” in this way. The idea that a particularly moment might change everything certainly has a role in our tradition.   But I believe our form of faith focuses more on slow, steady progress over long periods of time. Coming to church, singing hymns, praying, trying to change how we treat people around us every day, working for a more just society – these actions ultimately shape our inner landscape so that we begin to respond to the world in a new way. Faith is this process of growing up. Luke describes it as, “knowing the ways of life” (Acts 2). John calls it having life in Jesus’ name (Jn. 20). Paul writes that, “all will be made alive in Christ” (1 Cor. 15:22).   Growing up can be painful. But Jesus promises that we can embrace change with equanimity, with a kind of deep, centered peace. This morning I want to study what it looks like to grow in faith. I’m using the Puritan sermon structure with a section each on the text, doctrine and application.   Text. Each reference to Jesus’ resurrection seems so unique and yet there are familiar patterns. For instance in the Gospels of John and Luke, Jesus’ closest friends have difficulty recognizing him. After the Roman Empire executes Jesus as an enemy, the disciples feel so disabled by fear that they will only gather behind locked doors.   Fear and surprise make Jesus invisible to his friends. They can only rejoice after seeing his wounds. He says, “peace be with you.” He breathes the Holy Spirit into them.[2] He teaches them that they can forgive the sins of others. But Thomas was not there and he feels shattered when his friends tell him that they, “have seen the Lord” (Jn. 20).   I don’t think of Thomas as primarily a doubter. He just wants to experience what the others saw. Perhaps he feels alone or guilty for abandoning Jesus or missing the meeting. But even in bitter despair Thomas keeps showing up to be with his friends. In English a double negative (like “ain’t no”) is bad grammar but in in Greek it adds emphasis. Thomas does this when he says that unless he sees Jesus’ wounds, “I will [absolutely] not believe.” A more literal translation of Jesus response would not use the word “doubt” but would be “do not be disbelieving but believe,” or, as my friend Herman Waetjen translates it, “do not be faith-less but faith-full.[3]”   Jesus is not against doubt. The theologian Paul Tillich (1886-1965) is right to point out that doubt is not opposed to belief but an element in it.[4] Jesus is talking about the kind of believing that involves a trusting relationship with God. Thomas feels full of such awe and joy that he uses the same expression that Romans used for Emperor Domitian (51-96 CE). He exclaims, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus says, “blessed are those who have not seen and yet come to believe.” And John writes that his book’s purpose is that through believing that, “Jesus is the Messiah… you may have life in his name” (Jn. 20).   My point is not that Thomas failed to grow in faith. His experience shows us that there is far more to faith than believing that a certain event, like the resurrection, happened in the past. There is indeed a believing that comes from seeing. But there is also a way of looking forward and seeing a transformed future because of what we believe. We see to believe. But we also believe in order to see. This is the advanced course, the deeper insight into reality that Jesus helps us to realize.   Doctrine. My next question has to do with doctrine. What is faith and why do we need it? The answer has to do with what Christians call sin. The twentieth century theologian Karl Barth (1886-1968) writes that each person has a unique moral code. Almost inevitably this collection of rules about how the world should be is biased in our favor and we go about trying to impose it on everyone else.   Barth also believes that most of the time we live by the delusion that we can help our self. Our ego craves security, power, the admiration of others. And so we rush, grasping for things, “striving and fighting.” But every success is hollow, everything we get turns out to be only a symbol for the real thing that we will never win on our own.[5] Christians have this idea of original sin. For me it means that there never was and never will be a golden age. There is something in us as human beings that drives us toward chaos. And yet through Jesus a kind of peace is possible. To friends who had just betrayed him this peace says that whatever separated us before is in the past. This peace is the inner freedom that belongs only to someone who seeks and accepts help from God. It is the peace that is more than absence of conflict. It is the peace we experience when we move beyond the question of what happened in the past and into an exploration of what faith in God might mean for the future.   That’s what the disciples did. Through believing in Jesus they went from expecting the enemy and hiding in fear, to being witnesses of God who changed the world. Faith isn’t just an idea of what is real, it is a way of living, of encountering each other with an openness to being helped by God. Religion is less like a form of knowledge and more like a longing for closeness with the origin of all things. Faith is simply wanting what God wants for the world.   Application. My last section concerns the danger of a certain kind of disbelieving. Yesterday was the anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It happened on Wednesday of Easter week. You can imagine a few days earlier the fanfare at the largest, grandest church in the city on Easter Sunday. Little did they know that day, the hundreds of our predecessors at Grace Church, that they would never step foot in that magnificent church again.[6]   In our time we think of it as a devastating earthquake. But the shaking lasted for only a minute while the subsequent fire raged for three days and did far more damage. Three thousand people died, 28,000 structures were destroyed. Half of the city was homeless – over a hundred thousand people were forced to camp out. Five square miles were completely obliterated making it the greatest urban fire in history before the aerial warfare of World War II.   As a young priest I remember hearing stories from survivors. One woman told me that this time camping in Golden Gate Park included some of the happiest days of her long life. People rescued and cared for each other. Money or social station didn’t matter as much anymore. Everyone helped in whatever way they could.   In fact, the natural disaster was not nearly as catastrophic as the human disaster. Rebecca Solnit writes that Frederick Funston the commanding officer of the Presidio simply took over the city. His lack of faith in ordinary citizens meant that his men shot people for trying to help in the catastrophe. Out of fears of looting, that never really materialized, they kept away citizens who could have stopped the fires.[7] In short this was a terrible spiritual failure. The leaders cared more about protecting the property of the few than about what the community might accomplish together.   As a nation we are in the midst of another terrible crisis of faith. At anti-government protests in Lansing Michigan, Huntington Beach, California, Austin, Texas and elsewhere we are seeing people taking to the streets because they do not trust the scientists, civic leaders and government officials who are trying to protect them from COVID19.[8] In our case growing spiritually means becoming wiser about what we disbelieve. But it also means caring about what God loves and not squandering this opportunity to build a more equal and just society. We were made for this.[9]   I remember the last Sunday before the Cathedral had to close. It was the first time we knew that we shouldn’t touch each other but before we realized that we couldn’t gather together at all anymore. That day a visiting family sat in the first row. We looked each other in the eyes as we passed the peace. I realized that when I say “the peace of the Lord be with you,” it means, “I want what is good for you and I believe that God does too.” That is what faith means.   Every disaster is different. Unlike the earthquake and fire of 1906 the structures of inequality and the walls that separate us from each other are growing. We know that when life begins to return to normal, we will not return to the same jobs, schools and favorite places. They will have changed and we will have changed too.   At eighteen I understood that we all have to grow up, in our life and in our faith. But we do not decide what to believe on our own. God offers us help. Jesus cannot be prevented by any locked door from calling us to a deep centered peace that passes all understanding. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet come to believe. May the peace of the Lord be always with you. [1] “Now you say you’re leaving home / ‘Cause you want to be alone. / Ain’t it funny how you feel / When you’re finding out it’s real.” “Sugar Mountain,” Track 6, Side 2, Decade, Warner Bros., 28 October 1977, Neil Young. https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/neilyoung/sugarmountain.html [2] This is the only time that the New Testament uses this word which describes how Jesus breathed the Holy Spirit on to his disciples. [3] “Bring your finger here and see my hands and bring your hand and cast it into my side and do not keep on being faith-less but faith-full” (Jn. 20:27). Herman Waetjen, The Gospel of the Beloved Disciple: A Work in Two Editions (NY: T&T Clark, 2005) 423. [4] “Why not take the risk of historical uncertainty as well? The affirmation that Jesus is the Christ is an act of faith and consequently of daring courage. It is not an arbitrary leap into darkness but a decision in which elements of immediate participation and therefore certitude are mixed with elements of strangeness and therefor incertitude and doubt. But doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith. Therefore, there is no faith without risk. The risk of faith is that it could affirm a wrong symbol of ultimate concern, a symbol which does not really express ultimacy…” Pau Tillich, Systematic Theology, Volume Two, Existence and Christ (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1957) 116. [5] Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics IV:1 The Doctrine of Reconciliation, tr. G.W. Bromiley (NY: T&T Clark, 2004) 446, 460. [6] Our former church stands on the site of the Ritz Carlton Hotel down the California Street hill from us. Photographs of its burnt-out tower became a symbol of terrible destruction. [7] Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster (NY: Viking, 2009) 35ff. [8] Pastors in the Central Valley love their story of being persecuted for their faith so deeply that they are suing the same government officials who are so successfully limiting the spread of coronavirus through social distancing rules. [9] Some years ago Israeli archaeologists made an extraordinary discovery. They found an untouched burial cave of a family who survived the destruction of the First Temple by the Babylonians in 586 BC. Among the pottery and household objects, they found two amulets, little silver scrolls that had been unopened for 2600 years. With great gentleness they unrolled them and found the oldest parchment of any sacred scripture now in existence. On the scrolls was written, “May God bless you and keep you. May God cause His countenance to shine upon you and be gracious unto you. May God turn his countenance to you and grant you peace.” David J. Wolpe, Why Faith Matters (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 2008) 194.

Love Deluxe appeared as an unknown entity and a familiar feeling. Like a fine cool breeze on a hot summer’s afternoon, he arrived on the national disco circuit after originally composing music at a local Malé discotheque for good-looking tourists and rich locals alike. Who was this new Balearic scent? Visitors asked. With a hand full of records and a heart full of soul, Love Deluxe delivers a breath of fresh air, like an exotic fruit or a lost memory of something new; something that’s elegant, divine and opulent. Love Deluxe channelled his heart, sweat and soul into a three-track debut EP now known as Silk Mirage. Mystery gripped Love Deluxe listeners as he took the release to the stages of Boiler Room, Sugar Mountain, Let Them Eat Cake and Pitch Music and Arts Festival, just to name a few. @lovedeluxesound ==================================================== Upcoming Novel events: We are self-isolating. BRB.

Yes, he’s that guy! The world renowned McKrae Game makes his triumphant return in the Sex in the Pews’ Alicia Lopez Pure Romance Studios! The first episode of April commences with Glenn making an apology and asking for forgiveness. Angel describes what a crafty station is, his favorites snack foods, who the SCAD Honey Bees are, why he thinks the planet should take a siesta and then covers Bob Marley’s “Three Little Birds”.  McKrae joins us from Sugar Mountain in North Carolina and explains how the Coronavirus has impacted his current situation, how leaving his life as one of the world’s leading “ex-gay ministers” is resulting in a book and a movie, why Glenn’s apology made him squirm, his experience in a heterosexual marriage, his fondness for Bob Newhart, the challenge of how the Christian and gay communities initially responded when he came out, how he was out-trending Donald Trump, his early experiences on gay dating sites and being asked “you’re that guy”? Angel covers tunes from West Side Story, Kelis, Cee Lo Green, and sings the new “Name of My Sex Tape” bumper to ad nauseam. We hear from Bob Dylan and Neil Young, plus so much more! It ain’t going to be boring, that’s for sure!  NSFW or children. Strong Sexual Content, Language, Humor, Insight, Rational and Logical Thought and Condemnation of Religion. A portion of all proceeds donated to combat human sex slave trafficking and genital mutilation.

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On Episode 81 of the podcast, we taste test Overstuffed Oreos and Zero Sugar Mountain Dew. In addition, we take a look at Bad Boys For Life, 1917, Jay and Silent Bob Reboot. Also, we preview the WWE Royal Rumble as well as the next UFC PPV. Reviews and Thoughts Bad Boys For Life 1917 […] The post Episode 81 Bad Boys For Life, 1917, and Zero Sugar Mountain Dew appeared first on Fat Guys on a Little Podcast!.

(Recorded For The 01/11/2020 Show) Well the holiday season has come to a close but winter has not! That means it is high-time to ski and the skiing season has only just begun. While it doesn’t feel like winter in the Charlotte area just yet, it definitely does in the Village of Sugar Mountain which is where Sugar Mountain Resort thrives. The Outdoor Guys invite on Kim Jochl, Vice President & Director Of Marketing And Merchandising at Sugar Mountain, to discuss the new technology, the new gear, the new slopes, and a new 50th Anniversary Documentary film which all together helps makes Sugar the largest ski resort in the Carolinas. Hop aboard as we head to the High Country!

(Recorded For The 01/11/2020 Show) In review from the last segment all that Sugar Mountain offers, Bill shares a fun experience from the South Carolina State Fair…his family’s tradition of sliding down a GIGANTIC slide. Sounds wild! The Outdoor Guys also discuss New Year’s resolutions for the new year AND new decade, as well as tips and tricks on making and keeping them. While Don’s tradition is to map out his year ahead on a calendar, Bill discusses how experts recommend individuals go about accomplishing your goals: start small and be realistic, take small steps, talk about the goals, let others hold you accountable, and if you make a mistake, don’t beat yourself up. Sounds like a path to success!

On the 67th episode of the Seattle Foodie Podcast, we sit down with one of the co-founders of Abbio Kitchen, a new cookware company that launched this year. FOR ALL OUR LISTENERS, ABBIO KITCHEN HAS PARTNERED WITH US TO GIVE YOU 25% OFF ABBIO COOKWARE WITH THE CODE: foodie. Listen as Monica talks with Eric Wahl about the origin of Abbio Kitchen and why their non-stick cookware is superior among other brands currently out in the market. In addition, Monica and Nelson recap a week where we visited Sugar Mountain headquarters, home of Beecher's Cheese, Mishima Reserve and so much more, and had lunch at Staff Meal. We also were in Bellevue at 47 North Bar + Bistro located inside the Hilton Garden Inn to check out the launch of their new menu items. Finally, we have no events this week to tell you about due to the holidays, so we decided to do an Ask Me Anything (AMA) segment. We chose 5 listener questions you all submitted and we give you our honest opinions on what they asked plus a shoutout to each listener. Join us as we give you our most candid opinions. Thank you for listening and we hope you enjoy the latest episode of the Seattle Foodie Podcast! Happy eating, Seattle!

Jack River is a musician, songwriter, festival curator and business woman. Her debut album Sugar Mountain, was nominated for Best Pop Release and Breakthrough Artist in the 2018 ARIA Awards. She tours extensively and has performed at some of Australia’s biggest festivals - Splendour in the Grass, Falls Festival and The Great Escape. She’s also the Founder of Grow Your Own Festival and the Electric Lady movement, a platform amplifying the strength of women in music, politics, science and sport.

Yes, it is named for the Neil Young song Sugar Mountain , which is about a carnival. This story is about a mountain home. You can guess where that is. The years for events are not exac; I guess some events don't remember that well You need to ask Naomi to be sure.

The Outdoor Guys travel to the NC Mountains today, not to ski, but to talk Oktoberfest! Kim Jochl, Vice-President and Director Of Marketing & Merchandising at Sugar Mountain Resort (as well as a former Storyteller at Jesse Brown’s!), speaks to Christopher and Bill about the new chair lifts and other improvements which have been installed in preparation for the ski season, but also the events and good times one can expect at Sugar’s 29th Annual Oktoberfest happening October 12th and 13th. And, if you listen closely, you can even hear Christopher yodel!

In this podcast, Brian chats with Walker Lockhart, former Amazon Legal Council, Nordstrom Director of Product, and current EVP of a new startup Sugar Mountain. Tune in as Walker and Brian discuss how the metrics-driven culture of Amazon helped shape the innovative and technology-embracing culture in its legal department, and why you should be looking at your legal department as more of a businesses unit, rather than how they are traditionally looked upon. Walker also shares how his unique background as a product marketer helped drive the necessary disciplinary actions needed in leadership to successfully transform legal organizations into technology-embracing environments.

Dan and Eric talk about the government shutdown, Trump, air traffic controllers, opioid deaths, Ozzy Osbourne, bats, Queen, Robert Plant, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Quake, The Black Gloves, Incident In A Ghostland, Mara, Hell or High Water, Glass, Sugar Mountain, Brimstone, Don't Look Now, Wyvern, First Man, Law & order SVU, Letter Kenny, Suspiria

Kim Jochl, talks Sugar Mountain & the successful early season of skiing.  We’ll also learn about flying & writing, too.

Sugar Mountain announces Plano snow cone store closing at end of July on Parker Road west of U.S. 75 near Alma Drive. Stop by to say thanks for being a Plano family tradition and to taste those great snow cones and shaved ice one more time

On this week's episode of New Music Friday, All Songs Considered's Robin Hilton chats with NPR Music's Ann Powers and Rodney Carmichael, along with jazz critic Nate Chinen from WBGO about the most exciting new releases for June 22. Albums include the intense, industrial rock of Nine Inch Nails, the new joint project of Lecrae & Zaytoven and the wildly ambitious, shape-shifting jazz of Kamasi Washington. Featured Albums: Nine Inch Nails: Bad Witch, Birdtalker: One, Lecrae & Zaytoven: Let The Trap Say Amen, Priscilla Renea: Coloured, Kamasi Washington: Heaven And Earth, Death Grips: Year Of The Snitch. Other notable releases for June 22: Arp, Zebra; Bebe Rexha, Expectations; Dawes, Passwords; Khemmis, Desolation; Gang Gang Dance, Kazuashita; Jack River, Sugar Mountain; Panic! At The Disco, Pray For the Wicked.

Jack River opens up to Richard Kingsmill about the death of her sister, and how she used music to process her grief. Also, find out why she chose a Neil Young song as her debut album title.

Jack River opens up to Richard Kingsmill about the death of her sister, and how she used music to process her grief. Also, find out why she chose a Neil Young song as her debut album title.

W dzisiejszym odcinku Żarłok kończy kolejny sezon Filmów zimowych, omawiając aż trzy produkcje: „Blackway”, „The Sweet Hereafter” oraz „Sugar Mountain”.

Rich and Josh discuss modern living, shamble homes, train rides, the two-towel method, neighbourly etiquette, sleeping at the office, Dalmatia, Old Man impressions, songwriting, Andre 3000, GCSE results, brass furnishings, twin pranks, impermanence, onomatopoeia, raius, saving yourself, racing Sugar Mountain in Mirror Mode, Exit By Name and *shrugs* Neil Young's Harvest.Next time: On the Beach

Richard is back for another year of Smart Arts; Fleur Kilpatrick kicks back in another episode ofShoot the Messenger; Director and co-founderPete Keen pops by to spruikVIA ALICE at Sugar Mountain and Tessa Waters, Victoria Falconer and Rowena Hutsonaka ofFringe Wives Club fame come in to invite us along to their launch party at Melba Spiegeltent.

iTalk movies is a long-form interview series featuring leading members of the film community. In this episode, our host Ben Bateman interviews Richie Gray from Sugar Mountain on the Popcorn Talk Network. iTalk movies is a long-form interview series featuring leading members of the film community. In this episode, our host Megan Salinas interviews Tanner Beard from Song To Song on the Popcorn Talk Network. Named after his father Ricky Neal Beard, Neal Tanner Beard was born on September 16th 1984 in a Big Spring Hospital just outside his hometown of Snyder, Texas. Is of: Irish, Scottish, English, French, Cherokee and Choctaw descent mostly from his mother Janice's side. As a producer, Tanner has had films and documentaries screen in competition at some of the top festivals in the world, including Sundance, Berlin, Cannes, SXSW and Toronto. Along with the gritty action drama "Riptide" set to film in April of 2017, his upcoming projects --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

iTalk movies is a long-form interview series featuring leading members of the film community. In this episode, our host Ben Bateman interviews Richie Gray from Sugar Mountain on the Popcorn Talk Network. Raised in Melbourne, Australia, Gray at age 15 began making short films and working in movie theaters in towns including Forest Hill and Chadstone, Victoria, eventually moving up to projectionist. He earned a bachelor's degree in film from The University of Melbourne's Victorian College of the Arts School of Film and Television in 2003. After writing the script for the romantic drama Summer Coda in 2004, he spend six years developing and seeking financing for the feature while working in television, including producing and directing the Lifestyle Channel cooking show Stefano's Cooking Paradiso, starring Stefano de Pieri. In 2005, the script was runner-up in the reality-television screenwriting competition Project Greenlight Australia. He eventually comp --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kurt Dammiere of Sugar Mountain joins us in the studio to discuss his newest projects which include a new restaurant and cookbook. It's summer time in Seattle and outdoor dining is in full swing, and as the city erupts with new residents, there's a lot to cover that will inspire both newbies, as well as those who have been around a while. We've got the skinny on the latest happenings around town and where all the delicious food events are. The show closes with tips you can use in the kitchen, or when you're out and about.

This week on Sharp & Hot, Chef Emily Peterson returns to the host chair to speak with Kurt Beecher Dammeier of Sugar Mountain, a food company which also operates the Beecher's Pure Food Kids Foundation, a non-profit funded by 1% of sales from Beecher's, Bennett's, Pasta & Co, and Maximus / Minimus. Aimed at educating people about the prevalence of food additives and their possible health risks, Pure Food Kids is about giving people the tools they need to make healthy eating choices for life. Kurt is also the author of Pure Food: A Chef’s Handbook for Eating Clean, with Healthy, Delicious Recipes.

Figure skating has been a part of Ginny Braswell's life since she was a kid. Now she teaches pre-k children how to get on the ice and find a love for skating. Ice skating took Braswell to the World’s competition in Massachusetts and it provided her an escape when her mother was diagnosed with cancer.

Every year thousands of winter enthusiasts travel to the high country of our state to experience the snow. This year has been abnormally warm so there has been less snow to enjoy.

Becky talks about good places to introduce children to skiing in the south/southeast US...i.e. Beech Mountain Resort in North Carolina, Sugar Mountain also in North Carolina...and Ober Gatlinburg in Tennessee!

A Neil Young tune that I love... HERE.

Mosquito Leg Chimpanzee Episode 13.Music by:Neil Young "Sugar Mountain" from Decade.

  Wow, I think that was the best first episode of a season that we have ever seen. It was really excellent from beginning to end: from the brutal reward challenge, to the chicken capture, to making fire, and an amazing comeback in the immunity challenge. What was your favorite moment? Do you think Boston Rob will be leaving on a medical? Could the potential romance between Coach and Jerri work to their benefit? Who do you think is likely to swap places between the heroes and the villains before the season is over? Do you think Rupert stands a chance this season? What did you think of Russell's performance? Do you think he will stand out relative to all the other castaways? Here are the tribes after episode 1. Heroes:Amanda, Candice, Cirie, Colby, James, J.T., Rupert, Stephenie and Tom Villains:Coach, Courtney, Danielle, Jerri, Parvati, Randy, Rob, Russell, Sandra and Tyson We've got several ways you can reach us. You can call and leave a voicemail at 206-350-1547. You can record an audio comment and attach it or just type up a quick text message and send it to us via email at joannandstacyshow@gmail.com. Lastly, there's a link for comments on the web page here. You can click that link and post your thoughts out there for everyone to see. Both songs this week are dedicated to Sugar. She actually sings the vocals on the first one, and the outro seemed somehow fitting, especially if you are a big Sugar fan. Sugar Girl - Unsweetened Mix by DJ ERIC ILL Sugar Mountain by Casey Desmond 00:00 Date 00:04 Sugar Girl - unsweetened mix by DJ Eric Ill 01:00 Introductions 47:32 NToS 51:04 JSFL Update 54:31 Sugar Mountain by Casey Desmond Links for Today's Show Paul's Visual Roster for Heroes vs. Villains Survivor Fans Podcast Fans group on Facebook JSFL Contact Info: Voicemail: 206-350-1547 Email: joannandstacyshow@gmail.com Survivor Fans Podcast P.O. Box 2811 Orangevale, CA 95662 Enjoy, Jo Ann and Stacy