Podcast appearances and mentions of van horne

After the White Sox chose pitcher Hagen Smith with the 5th overall pick in the MLB Draft, Chuck Garfien got on the phone with Dave Van Horne, the head baseball coach at Arkansas to find out more about the White Sox new power lefty. Van Horne talks about the kind of pitcher and competitor Smith will be with the White Sox, his 17-strikeout performance this past season against Oregon State, how the Royals and Cardinals were ready to draft Smith if the White Sox didn't and more. Chuck wraps up the podcast talking about why he thinks the White Sox chose Smith over Florida first baseman Jac Caglianone.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Oregon Ducks legend Jonathan Stewart and USA Today's Zachary Neel are joined by Todd and Quinn Van Horne, two of the lead designers behind the new court redesign at Matthew Knight Arena. The two discuss what went into the process of redesigning the new court and working with the Oregon brand. They also talk about the Ducks' football uniforms throughout the years and break down their favorites before the new Generation O series is released.

In this episode, we are joined by Ashton Van Horne. Ashton (@ashtonvanhorne) is a professional golfer and has played on PGA Tour Canada and the Korn Ferry Tour.---Follow us: Twitter - @TournamentCode Instagram - @thetournamentcode YouTube - The Tournament Code Hosted by: Cooper Collins (@coopercollins99) and Daniel Hamrin (@DanielHamrin)Sponsored by: https://puttviewbooks.com/---(01:02) - Puttview Books first tee shot(06:27) - the recent downs in golf(12:52) - determining what tournament schedule is(18:12) - pitfalls for golfers(29:05) - practicing efficiently(34:06) - putting woes(39:38) - making changes(44:33) - mini-driver

The Van Horne Mansion was a classic greystone house in Montreal's Golden Square Mile. It was the home of Sir William Cornelius Van Horne, the man who built the Canadian Pacific Railway. Despite public outcry, the mansion was demolished in 1973. This lit a fire amongst conservationists, thus initiating the heritage conservation movement in Canada. Today, heritage conservation is an important part of city planning. But what tradeoffs can we afford as the housing crisis in cities across the country gets more dire? We're telling the story of the Van Horne mansion and its legacy in heritage conservation, asking: Who decides what to preserve, and who are we preserving it for?

This is Stephen Schmidt from the Gazette Digital News Desk, and I'm here with your update for November 13, 2023.The week will start sunny and pleasant on Monday, with a high of 63 degrees in the Cedar Rapids area. The low will drop down to 35 degrees, with clear skies. The National Weather Service projects sunny skies and highs in the 60s for much of the rest of the week.Pharmacies across Iowa have closed at an alarming rate over the past decade-plus, partly because insurance payouts don't cover drug costs.Nearly 100 pharmacies across the state have shut their doors since 2008, according to research from a Drake University professor in a recent study.And it's still an issue. A survey last month conducted by the Iowa Pharmacy Association of its members found 40 percent of responding pharmacies expect to close within the next 12 months.Pharmacists, lawmakers, policy experts and patient advocates say pharmacy benefit managers are largely to blame.Pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, are third party companies that function as intermediaries between insurance providers and drug manufacturers.Mike Deninger is a co-owner and pharmacist at Towncrest Pharmacy. The group collectively owns eight community pharmacies in Iowa City, Solon, Van Horne, Marengo, Belle Plaine and New Hampton.Independent pharmacies like his rely on PBMs so that they can take various insurance plans, but those companies also decide how much money the pharmacists receive when reimbursing them.“They will pay us whatever they feel like paying us, and it can change at any given time,” he said.Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks and colleagues this week introduced a bipartisan proposal that would tackle practices used by pharmacy benefit managers that drive up costs for prescription medications.The bill would use a flat fee to compensate PBMs instead of pegging payments to a percentage of the cost of a drug.A Cedar Rapids man has been charged with vehicular homicide and operating while intoxicated after his vehicle struck two pedestrians in the road Sunday, killing one and injuring the other.Kyle Kubite, 45, of Cedar Rapids, was arrested Sunday and charged with the crimes after the pedestrians were struck in the 1400 block of Memorial Dr SE at roughly 4:45 p.m. SundayAccording to a media release from the Cedar Rapids Police Department, investigators determined Kubite was driving while intoxicated on Memorial Drive when he struck the two pedestrians, a man and a woman.The woman was transported to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead, according to the release. The man had non-life-threatening injuries and was transported to the hospital for treatment.Police say the investigation is still underway but they are releasing no further information as of Sunday evening. The identities of the two pedestrians are being withheld while police investigate and family members can first be notified of the news.

Zeki Mert of Van Horne Construction Limited joins us to talk about taking over a big construction company as an immigrant. He shares his story of coming to Canada knowing nothing and working and learning to start businesses before taking over Van Horne. He tells us about being the first in the office and the last to leave, visiting the job site, striving for quality, the future of Van Horne, and his view on money. We discuss the lack of work ethic of Canadians, the value of taking risks, having perspective, and missing opportunities in Canada. Tune in and be inspired by Zeki's passion on this episode of The Construction Life Podcast.Check out Van Horne Construction Limited at VanHorne.ca and @VanHorne.ca. Reach out to Zeki over the phone at 647-554-4748 and over email at ZMert@VanHorne.ca.Stay connected with The Construction Life Podcast by texting Manny at 416 433-5737 or emailing him at manny@theconstructionlife.com. If you have something to contribute to the podcast, email info@theconstructionlife.com to schedule a time to join us in studio.Are you interested in the latest trends in building, renovation, home improvement, real estate, architecture, design, engineering, contracting, trades, and DIY? Look no further! Our construction podcast and social media content cover a wide range of topics, including project management, safety, best practices, business development, leadership, marketing, customer service, productivity, sustainability, technology, innovation, and industry news.

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A joint mix with Fadi Tabbal for Radio AlHara. Fadi writes this is a "selection of 5 tracks from Lebanese artists." Accompanying image is by Roï Saade https://www.roisaade.com Track listing (artist name / track name) 01. Mayssa Jallad - Mudun 02. Postcards - Flowers in your Hair 03. Kinematik - Murur Al-Kiram 04. Youmna Saba - Al Sobh 05. Alko B - Something 06. NAKAMURA Hiroyuki - Lay 07. Ben Stidworthy + Stefan Christoff - Basil Jet 08. Jankyy Tyygr - eye dididin eye take 2 09. Circuit Diagram - Troposphäre 10. Stefan Christoff and Norman Nawrocki - Improvisation on Van Horne street, July 28, 2023

The Moneywise Show Thursday, August 3rd BE MONEYWISE. Moneywise Wealth Management I "The Moneywise Guys" podcast call: 661-847-1000 text in anytime: 661-396-1000 website: www.MoneywiseGuys.com facebook: Moneywise_Wealth_Management linkedin: MoneywiseWealthManagement Guest: Rick Van Horne, Teacher + Broadcaster on the Kern High Network website: www.kernhighnetwork.com/  

Friday Fri-Yay with Canadian Broadcasting legend Jim Van Horne. JVH talks about what TSN was like at the beginning and what advice he has for aspiring broadcasters

Korn Ferry Tour member Ashton Van Horne discusses what it's like to play professional golf and chase the dream of making it to the PGA Tour. Ashton opens up about all of his preparation, how to deal with pressure and plenty of other insights that you will find fascinating! Thank you to our show sponsor Hello Fresh! With HelloFresh, you get farm-fresh, pre-portioned ingredients and seasonal recipes delivered right to your doorstep. Skip trips to the grocery store and count on HelloFresh to make home cooking easy, fun, AND affordable – that's why it's America's #1 meal kit, and Jon has been a customer for over a year. To get 65% off and free shipping use code sweetspot65 or visit this link: https://hellofresh.com/sweetspot65 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the best in the business, Play By Play analyst Glenn Geffner has manned the booth with Hall of Fame broadcasters Coleman, Van Horne, and Castiglione (soon to be HOF). His work ethic and approach fall in line with three simple rules- report ... inform ... entertain. Joe Frisaro turns in another gem.

In this episode recorded in December 2022, Shane Clairborne discusses the work our UK team is doing, led by Dave and Sally Mann and Faith Van Horne and the ongoing concerns in Ukraine. For more info on RLC UK  To help sustain our work, you can donate here To check out what RLC is up to, please visit us www.redletterchristians.org  Follow us on Twitter: @RedLetterXians Instagram: @RedLetterXians Follow Shane on Instagram: @shane.claiborne Twitter: @ShaneClaiborne Common Hymnal information: https://commonhymnal.com/ 

In this episode, Ashton Van Horne (@ashtonvanhorne) details through the trials and tribulations of being a professional golfer. Ashton played college golf at Belmont University, where he won 6 times in 4 years. Ashton won his first tournament as a professional, the Kentucky Open. Over the course of the next 5 years, Ashton played mostly mini tours with a few years of Canadian Tour sprinkled in. In the fall of 2021, Ashton finally broke through at second stage of Q-School and earned his Korn Ferry card. He ended up 61st on the points list at the end of the year of 2022 and will have full status for 2023. ---Follow us: Twitter - @TournamentCode Instagram - @thetournamentcode YouTube - The Tournament Code Hosted by: Cooper Collins (@coopercollins99) and Daniel Hamrin (@DanielHamrin)—(01:25) - Ashton's introduction to golf(03:42) - learning how to win(7:07) - going to Q-School the first time(15:02) - the trap of mini-tours(20:29) - playing the Canadian Tour(25:10) - getting through second stage (31:00) - staying focused off the course (38:16) - using resources at Korn Ferry level(41:12) - final round in Utah to lock up status(45:32) - working with Bob Rotella(51:46) - what Ashton would tell himself as a junior

We are joined today by Keith Van Horne, who played Offensive Tackle for the Chicago Bears from 1981 to 1993. He's a Super Bowl Champion playing on the 1985 Bears Team, and he's a former National Champion, who had played for the USC Trojans back in 1978. In this episode, our hosts, Matt Butkus and Matt Amendola, talk to Keith about some of the craziest stories Keith experienced during his time with the Bears. They discuss the '85 Super Bowl season, Keith's experience with Mike Ditka as head coach, and what he currently likes to do in his day-to-day lifestyle. Keith Van Horne was selected 11th overall in the 1981 Draft by the Chicago Bears. In his 13 NFL seasons, Van Horne played 186 games and started 169 of them. Back in 1980 for the USC Trojans, he was named First-Team All-American playing Offensive Tackle. This podcast is brought to you by Americaneagle.com Studios. Follow this podcast wherever you listen to them! Connect with: ·        Butkus Beyond The Line: Website ·        Dick Butkus: Twitter // Instagram // Facebook // Website // The Butkus Award ·        Matt Butkus (Butko): Twitter ·        Matt Amendola (Dola): Twitter // Instagram ·        Keith Van Horne: Website

"A second-generation Latino, Daniel Montanez is a PhD student at Boston University, a professor of theology and ethics, and the director of the Migration Crisis Initiative for the Church of God. Daniel is committed to empowering immigrant communities through ministry, scholarship, and social engagement." [from https://www.mygrationchristianconference.com/about]  RLC needs your help - please complete a listener survey: https://tinyurl.com/rlc-podcast    Learn more here: https://www.mygrationchristianconference.com/about To help sustain RLC work, you can donate here To check out what RLC is up to, please visit us www.redletterchristians.org  Follow us on Twitter: @RedLetterXians Instagram: @RedLetterXians Follow Shane on Instagram: @shane.claiborne Twitter: @ShaneClaiborne Common Hymnal information: https://commonhymnal.com/ 

Jim Van Horne, is the coordinator-broadcast journalism/TV news at Fanshawe College in London, On, and is the color analyst for the Ontario Hockey League's London Knights on CFPL 980. #jimvanhorne #londonknights #livewithcdp #coloranalyst #fanshawecollege #coordinator #broadcasting #media #journalism #youtube #facebook #twitter #audio #applepodcasts #googlepodcast #anchorfm #spotify #linkedin #breaker #pocketcasts #radiopublic #barrycullenchevrolet #sponsorship

Cette semaine (on est en retard, son s’excuse), on vous offre l’épisode qui a été diffusé live le 8 septembre dernier. C’est un épisode très IPA dans lequel on explore L'article S04 – EP14: Van Horne, Collabro et Téléportation est apparu en premier sur RadioH2O.

Cette semaine (on est en retard, son s'excuse), on vous offre l'épisode qui a été diffusé live le 8 septembre dernier. C'est un épisode très IPA dans lequel on explore L'article S04 – EP14: Van Horne, Collabro et Téléportation est apparu en premier sur RadioH2O.

Faith Van Horne is the new co-director of Red Letter Christians in the UK! She received her Masters of Divinity from the Methodist Theological School in Ohio in the United States. She is currently a postgraduate researcher in Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham. Her thesis explores how perceptions of selfhood and the body influence theological visions of redemption for survivors of sexual abuse. She also blogs for Pentecostals and Charismatics for Peace and Justice. Help RLC - complete a survey: https://tinyurl.com/rlc-podcast  Follow Faith on  Twitter  and Facebook To learn more, visit her website To help sustain our work, you can donate here To check out what RLC is up to, please visit us www.redletterchristians.org  Follow us on Twitter: @RedLetterXians Instagram: @RedLetterXians Follow Shane on Instagram: @shane.claiborne Twitter: @ShaneClaiborne Common Hymnal information: https://commonhymnal.com/ 

How does a trauma-informed view of atonement affect the way we see Jesus' life, death, and resurrection? In this episode, Red Letter Christians UK co-director Faith Van Horne talks about her doctoral work of integrating Pentecostal and Feminist theologies to understand atonement doctrine through the lens of sexual abuse survivors and the communities that support them.

Eating Disorders are a human experience. They don't play favorites or stick to a certain stereotype. They are often ways a person seeks out safety or control amidst a traumatic or trying time. And they rarely begin straight out of the gate as a diagnosable eating disorder and rather a coping mechanism through which disordered eating and an ultimately harmful relationship with food or body image take hold. Some recurring themes throughout today's episode will be empathy and connection.   To guide us through these conversations, we have two guests joining us. The first is Nōn Wels. Nōn is a writer, doggo lover, mental health advocate, the creator of the weekly podcast, You, Me, Empathy, and the founder of the collaborative mental health community, The Feely Human Collective, where you can grow your capacity for empathy, vulnerability, and emotional curiosity. For Nōn, eating disorders, specifically anorexia nervosa, have played a role in his mental health journey, stemming from his parents' divorce, childhood trauma, and a way to seek control and communicate his pain.     We'll also hear from Corrie Van Horne, co-founder of and therapist at Omni Counseling in Denver, Colorado, who will give us her professional perspective on eating disorders. Corrie believes that therapy is inherently radical in that it aims to dismantle and abolish systems of oppression and the ways we as individuals have internalized them. Outside of work, Corrie spends her downtime with family, friends, and her pup Roxy.    Show Notes (Links of ours and guests):   Download a transcript of this episode at twloha.com/podcast.   Follow TWLOHA on social media at: twitter.com/TWLOHA instagram.com/twloha/ facebook.com/towriteloveonherarms/   Visit our FIND HELP page of mental health resources at twloha.com/find-help/.   Get connected for free, 24/7 to a trained crisis counselor via Crisis Text Line by texting TWLOHA to 741741.   Connect with our team by emailing podcast@twloha.com.   Learn more about the podcast and previous episodes at twloha.com/podcast. Download TWLOHA's daily-use self-care app, The Hopeful, at twloha.com/thehopeful/.  To read Nōn Wels's words on the TWLOHA Blog, go to https://twloha.com/blog/author/non-wels/.    To learn more about Nōn Wels' mental health community or weekly podcast, visit https://nonwels.com/.    Order Shrill by Lindy West at https://www.lindywest.net/shrill.    For resources related to eating disorder treatment and information, go to https://www.omnicounselingandnutrition.com/, https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/, https://twloha.com/find-help/help-by-topic/eating-disorders/, and https://asdah.org/.  Credits:   This episode of the TWLOHA podcast was hosted by Chad Moses and produced by Rebecca Ebert. Music assistance was provided by James Likeness and Ben Tichenor.

How do we know we are valued? This is easy to answer for some, but for others who have experienced trauma and horrific circumstances, knowing that they are loved and valued can be a little trickier. Faith shares her incredible story who she has experienced so many challenges and is one incredible person. Be encouraged with this one.

On today's show, Jim Van Horne from Fanshawe College joins us to discuss how he developed his love for announcing, his journey in broadcast journalism, an overview of broadcast journalism over the decades (hear what a 1920s newscast might have sounded like!), what it takes to report the news and how you can be a […]

From franchisee to regional developer, and investor to consultant, Erik has worn many hats over the last two decades. His diverse experience has provided him unique insight into the challenging aspects of the industry.    Check out the first episode with Erik here: https://path2frdm.podbean.com/?s=van+horn Franchisor Mastermind: https://www.franchisortribe.com/ Franchisee Mastermind: https://www.franchisetribe.com/info Franchise Secrets Podcast: https://www.franchisesecrets.com   Connect with Wes at wes@path2frdm.com  

Faith Van Horne left the fundamentalist Pentecostal tradition that she'd grown up in as a young person. Years later, after exploring various spiritualities, she was surprised to find herself drawn back to her Pentecostal roots, allbeit on very different terms. In this podcast we talk to Faith about her academic studies in atonement theories, embodied spirituality, and healing from traumatic experiences. This episode involves themes of trauma and abuse. Interview starts at 11m 03s Show Notes → Nomad is able to produce episodes like this one because a group of faithful listeners help us pay the bills. Our supporters gain access to the Nomad community - which manifests as Nomad Book Club and The Beloved Listener Lounge - and bonus episodes, such as Nomad Contemplations, Nomad Devotionals and Nomad Revisited. And you may find yourself the proud owner of a Beloved Listener mug! Head over to our Patreon page and our own members page to donate. You might also want to have a look at our blog, which we use to share the stories of the evolving faith of our podcast listeners. And if you're looking for other people to share this journey with, then register on our Listener Map and our Nomad Gathering Facebook page, and see if any other nomads are in your area.

In this episode, you'll learn all about disordered eating.How it shows upWhat it is and is notHow you can helpLearn more about Corrie and Abbey and  Omni Counseling and Nutrition 

Mission encre noire Tome 32 Chapitre 372. Jusqu'au dernier cri de Martin Michaud, une enquête de Victor Lessard, parue en 2021 aux éditions Libre expression. Au milieu d'une violente tempête, le sergent détective Victor Lessard, enfourche une Honda CR250M Elsinore, il passe en première et actionne le levier d'embrayage pour une course poursuite des plus mémorable au cœur des paysages sauvages englobant la route de la Baie-James. Car voilà, suite à l'assassinat de trois membres d'un puissant cartel de trafiquants d'opium, un précieux colis a été dérobé aux trafiquants qui n'entendent pas à plaisanter. L'enquête déraille rapidement, lorsqu'un homme en fuite, prend huit personnes en otage dans une mine de Matagani. Alors qu'il accompagne Jacinthe Taillon dans la salle d'attente d'un hôpital, à la demande de la GRC, Victor est le seul individu à qui le criminel veut s'adresser. Les deux enquêteurs du SPVM se retrouvent précipités dans une chasse à l'homme haletante, sur les traces de l'auteur du triple meurtre. Embarquez dès ce soir avec moi vers le Nord-du-Québec, histoire de renouer avec les deux inséparables enquêteurs Lessard et Taillon, de croiser Yogi Berra, Scotty Bowman, Victor Hugo, Christopher Walken, Fellini, et bien d'autres, sans oublier bien sûr la montre Hamilton héritée de son mentor Ted, un gant de baseball fétiche et le So what de Miles Davis. J'accueille ce soir, à Mission encre noire, le maître du thriller québécois, Martin Michaud. Extrait:« Victor sentit un craquement sous les semelles de ses bottes élimées. Il s'arrêta et en identifia la cause: il venait de marcher sur des éclats de verre. Il comprit alors pourquoi il n'apercevait toujours pas le haut de l'escalier: des ampoules avaient été sciemment brisées pour plonger l'endroit dans la pénombre. Alors que Victor reprenait son avancée, une certitude s'imposa à son esprit: Le déclencheur de ses pensées négatives avait été la simple mention de son frère, qui le ramenait en arrière, au coeur de son passé, et lui nouait l'estomac. Victor tourna brusquement la tête vers sa droite, là où un grondement bientôt assourdissant secoua la tour, faisant frémir les murs: un hélicoptère survola le site avec fracas, puis le bruit s'amenuisa jusqu'à s'éteindre. Il montait les dernières marches quand une des portes doubles en haut de l'escalier s'ouvrit lentement vers l'intérieur, sans un bruit. Le sergent-détective inspira à fond de nouveau et franchit l'encadrement avec circonspection ; il avança à tâtons dans l'obscurité de la pièce, dont il distinguait vaguement les contours. La porte se referma brutalement dans son dos, une silhouette apparut dans sa vison périphérique et une voix tonna.»   Les gouffres du Karst, une enquête d'Alexandre Jobin par André Jacques, parue en 2021 aux éditions Druide. En 2005, rien n'empêche Alexandre Jobin de voyager en Italie ou en Croatie, du moins pas encore. Le retraité de l'armée canadienne, antiquaire à ses heures perdues, est appelé à la rescousse par le service canadien du renseignement de sécurité (SCRS) alors qu'un meurtre perpétué dans une zone industrielle proche du parc Jarry dévoile une sombre affaire de trafic d'armes et d'œuvres d'art. L'opération visant à démanteler le réseau criminel a mal tourné. La découverte de l'identité du mort, un ancien camarade d'unité lors de deux déploiement dans les Balkans, achève de convaincre Alexandre Jobin. De Montréal en passant par Trieste et Dubrovnic, le personnage fétiche de l'auteur s'immerge de nouveau dans un passé à l'odeur infecte, qui le mènera les yeux remplis d'effroi aux bords des gouffres du Karst. Il y retrouvera fatalement une vieille connaissance, qui, jusque là, hantait seulement ses cauchemars. Au son lointain du chant du Muezzin, et de quelques détonations, la sulfureuse Pavie, l'assistante toute dévouée de Jobin, Isabelle Ménard, Le vieux Sam Wronski, l'ignoble Dragomir Broz et bien sûr la charmante Chrysanthy Orowitzn marquent de leur présence le studio, ce soir. André jacques est invité à Mission encre noire. Extrait:« La pluie a repris. La nuit est tombée. Circulation moins dense sur Van Horne. Presque aucun piéton. Alexandre n'a pas mis l'éclairage, n'a pas installé le trépied ni l'appareil photo. Simplement écarté un peu le rideau. Depuis trois heures, il observe le Zadar, les allées et venues des clients habituels qu'il commence à reconnaître: le vieux avec sa canne, les deux colosses aux allures de débardeurs. Le jeune Josip ne s'est pas pointé. Bien! Il a compris. Ni Petar Horvat d'ailleurs. Moins bien! Mais Baldo Broz est arrivé, seul, il y a environ une heure. À moins qu'il n'ait emprunté la sortie du bureau à l'arrière, il devrait être encore à l'intérieur. Deux clients, les débardeurs, sortent. Un peu chancelants. On commence à éteindre l'éclairage dans le bar. Si Baldo doit sortir ce sera dans les minutes qui viennent. Alexandre referme le rideau, met son blouson et la casquette des Expos. Vérifie de la main gauche si l'arme est toujours bien en place, coincée dans son dos par la ceinture de son pantalon. Puis, il dévale l'escalier, ouvre la porte de derrière, court vers l'avant par la ruelle. se blottit dans l'ombre au coin de l'immeuble et attend de nouveau.»

Mission encre noire Tome 32 Chapitre 372. Jusqu'au dernier cri de Martin Michaud, une enquête de Victor Lessard, parue en 2021 aux éditions Libre expression. Au milieu d'une violente tempête, le sergent détective Victor Lessard, enfourche une Honda CR250M Elsinore, il passe en première et actionne le levier d'embrayage pour une course poursuite des plus mémorable au cœur des paysages sauvages englobant la route de la Baie-James. Car voilà, suite à l'assassinat de trois membres d'un puissant cartel de trafiquants d'opium, un précieux colis a été dérobé aux trafiquants qui n'entendent pas à plaisanter. L'enquête déraille rapidement, lorsqu'un homme en fuite, prend huit personnes en otage dans une mine de Matagani. Alors qu'il accompagne Jacinthe Taillon dans la salle d'attente d'un hôpital, à la demande de la GRC, Victor est le seul individu à qui le criminel veut s'adresser. Les deux enquêteurs du SPVM se retrouvent précipités dans une chasse à l'homme haletante, sur les traces de l'auteur du triple meurtre. Embarquez dès ce soir avec moi vers le Nord-du-Québec, histoire de renouer avec les deux inséparables enquêteurs Lessard et Taillon, de croiser Yogi Berra, Scotty Bowman, Victor Hugo, Christopher Walken, Fellini, et bien d'autres, sans oublier bien sûr la montre Hamilton héritée de son mentor Ted, un gant de baseball fétiche et le So what de Miles Davis. J'accueille ce soir, à Mission encre noire, le maître du thriller québécois, Martin Michaud. Extrait:« Victor sentit un craquement sous les semelles de ses bottes élimées. Il s'arrêta et en identifia la cause: il venait de marcher sur des éclats de verre. Il comprit alors pourquoi il n'apercevait toujours pas le haut de l'escalier: des ampoules avaient été sciemment brisées pour plonger l'endroit dans la pénombre. Alors que Victor reprenait son avancée, une certitude s'imposa à son esprit: Le déclencheur de ses pensées négatives avait été la simple mention de son frère, qui le ramenait en arrière, au coeur de son passé, et lui nouait l'estomac. Victor tourna brusquement la tête vers sa droite, là où un grondement bientôt assourdissant secoua la tour, faisant frémir les murs: un hélicoptère survola le site avec fracas, puis le bruit s'amenuisa jusqu'à s'éteindre. Il montait les dernières marches quand une des portes doubles en haut de l'escalier s'ouvrit lentement vers l'intérieur, sans un bruit. Le sergent-détective inspira à fond de nouveau et franchit l'encadrement avec circonspection ; il avança à tâtons dans l'obscurité de la pièce, dont il distinguait vaguement les contours. La porte se referma brutalement dans son dos, une silhouette apparut dans sa vison périphérique et une voix tonna.»   Les gouffres du Karst, une enquête d'Alexandre Jobin par André Jacques, parue en 2021 aux éditions Druide. En 2005, rien n'empêche Alexandre Jobin de voyager en Italie ou en Croatie, du moins pas encore. Le retraité de l'armée canadienne, antiquaire à ses heures perdues, est appelé à la rescousse par le service canadien du renseignement de sécurité (SCRS) alors qu'un meurtre perpétué dans une zone industrielle proche du parc Jarry dévoile une sombre affaire de trafic d'armes et d'œuvres d'art. L'opération visant à démanteler le réseau criminel a mal tourné. La découverte de l'identité du mort, un ancien camarade d'unité lors de deux déploiement dans les Balkans, achève de convaincre Alexandre Jobin. De Montréal en passant par Trieste et Dubrovnic, le personnage fétiche de l'auteur s'immerge de nouveau dans un passé à l'odeur infecte, qui le mènera les yeux remplis d'effroi aux bords des gouffres du Karst. Il y retrouvera fatalement une vieille connaissance, qui, jusque là, hantait seulement ses cauchemars. Au son lointain du chant du Muezzin, et de quelques détonations, la sulfureuse Pavie, l'assistante toute dévouée de Jobin, Isabelle Ménard, Le vieux Sam Wronski, l'ignoble Dragomir Broz et bien sûr la charmante Chrysanthy Orowitzn marquent de leur présence le studio, ce soir. André jacques est invité à Mission encre noire. Extrait:« La pluie a repris. La nuit est tombée. Circulation moins dense sur Van Horne. Presque aucun piéton. Alexandre n'a pas mis l'éclairage, n'a pas installé le trépied ni l'appareil photo. Simplement écarté un peu le rideau. Depuis trois heures, il observe le Zadar, les allées et venues des clients habituels qu'il commence à reconnaître: le vieux avec sa canne, les deux colosses aux allures de débardeurs. Le jeune Josip ne s'est pas pointé. Bien! Il a compris. Ni Petar Horvat d'ailleurs. Moins bien! Mais Baldo Broz est arrivé, seul, il y a environ une heure. À moins qu'il n'ait emprunté la sortie du bureau à l'arrière, il devrait être encore à l'intérieur. Deux clients, les débardeurs, sortent. Un peu chancelants. On commence à éteindre l'éclairage dans le bar. Si Baldo doit sortir ce sera dans les minutes qui viennent. Alexandre referme le rideau, met son blouson et la casquette des Expos. Vérifie de la main gauche si l'arme est toujours bien en place, coincée dans son dos par la ceinture de son pantalon. Puis, il dévale l'escalier, ouvre la porte de derrière, court vers l'avant par la ruelle. se blottit dans l'ombre au coin de l'immeuble et attend de nouveau.»

Tim had a fascinating conversation with Rex Walters. Rex had an amazing career in college Basketball and the NBA, as a player and as a coach. They discussed the state of the NBA, the possibility of an NBA team coming to Seattle and also Rex shared incredible stories about his long career playing basketball.   Tim also spoke with Stacy Van Horne, Public Relations Manager for the WA State Fair, who told us how this year's fair went, how many people attended and more.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

09/16/2021 – Kevin Van Horne –Executive Director of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students USA, on a movement of Christian students.

Tim today invited his friend Drew Shirley, of the band Switchfoot, to co-host the show. They both spoke with Chuck Olmstead, Operations Director at Salem Media Seattle, who shared with us an amazing story dealing with third party vendors and how much money he lost. Then they also spoke with Stacy Van Horne, Public Relations manager for the Washington State fair. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What do baseball and wildlife habitat management have in common? Take a listen to this week's episode as Adam and Jarred discuss what Adam calls “the Moneyball problem” of habitat management. They chat about how lessons learned from the best-selling book (and movie) - Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game – can be applied to habitat management. Help us improve the podcast by taking this Habitat University Listener Feedback Survey: https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5oteinFuEzFCDmm Resources mentioned: Moneyball: The art of winning an unfair game, by Michael Lewis - https://bookshop.org/books/moneyball-the-art-of-winning-an-unfair-game/9780393324815 Read a synopsis on the book from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moneyball The famous, Van Horne paper, Density as a misleading indicator of habitat quality: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3808148 “Streetlight effect” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect Moneyball and Shorebirds - https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/moneyball-for-shorebirds-how-precision-analytics-are-changing-habitat-conservation/ Rosy retrospection hypothesis - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy_retrospection Article about University of Tennessee white oak and fertilizer research project - https://www.deerassociation.com/for-more-acorns-dont-fertilize-oak-trees-maybe-cut-some-down/

What do baseball and wildlife habitat management have in common? Take a listen to this week's episode as Adam and Jarred discuss what Adam calls “the Moneyball problem” of habitat management. They chat about how lessons learned from the best-selling book (and movie) - Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game – can be applied to habitat management. Help us improve the podcast by taking this Habitat University Listener Feedback Survey: https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5oteinFuEzFCDmm Resources mentioned: Moneyball: The art of winning an unfair game, by Michael Lewis - https://bookshop.org/books/moneyball-the-art-of-winning-an-unfair-game/9780393324815 Read a synopsis on the book from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moneyball The famous, Van Horne paper, Density as a misleading indicator of habitat quality: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3808148 “Streetlight effect” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect Moneyball and Shorebirds - https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/moneyball-for-shorebirds-how-precision-analytics-are-changing-habitat-conservation/ Rosy retrospection hypothesis - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy_retrospection Article about University of Tennessee white oak and fertilizer research project - https://www.deerassociation.com/for-more-acorns-dont-fertilize-oak-trees-maybe-cut-some-down/

La salud espiritual y emocional es comprender la verdad del amor transformador de Dios por nosotros y luego dejar que esa realidad influya en nuestros propios corazones y relaciones. Parece simple, pero somos expertos en complicar cosas simples. En lugar de vivir una vida caracterizada por el amor, nos encontramos atrapados en ciclos de vergüenza, violencia y opresión que nos roban el gozo y nos impiden amar a los demás, tanto que, según todos los indicios, los cristianos no viven de forma cotidiana el evangelio. Junto con Jocelyn González Van Horne charlaremos de esta temática. *Inicio de 3.ª Temporada de Luminares Podcast Considere apoyar este podcast: luminaresministry@gmail.com Visita sitio web: https://luminaresministry.wixsite.com/luminaresministry Ver Luminares Podcast en YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa-sbPNoOEVd6q_dEuF0qYAInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/logoscast1 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7busEuOszFJXM1044kzc4i?si=rAllq2A6Sna71CRXvy0Pgw&utm_source=copy-link Anchor: https://anchor.fm/luminares-podcast Breaker: https://www.breaker.audio/luminares-ministry Radio Public: https://radiopublic.com/luminares-podcast-WdYznr Google podcast: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8xMjJiYmM4OC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw==Apple podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/mx/podcast/luminares-podcast/id1493553095 ¡Califica, revisa, comparte y suscríbete! Editado y producido por Misael Perez Reynoso --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/luminares-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/luminares-podcast/support

Andy is joined in Van Horne at Nutrien Ag Solutions talking about re-treeing Iowa with the folks at Nutrien as well as the mayor of Van Horne, Martin Junge, Benton County Soil and Water Conservation, and former NASCAR driver, Ward Burton. Also on today's show, Angie Rieck Hinz brings us a field update from North-Central Iowa. Also, IT'S WASDE DAY! Al Kluis has a look at the numbers.

1981-06-14 Khánh Thành Thiền Đường Van Horne. ~~~ #0745 Khánh Thành Thiền Đường Van Horne ~~~ Bộ sưu tập 1250 bài vấn đạo và thuyết giảng về Pháp Lý Vô Vi Khoa học Huyền bí Phật pháp của Thiền Sư Lương Sĩ Hằng (Vĩ Kiên). Sưu tầm: Bạn đạo LVG+PNQ, hoàn thành năm 2017. Được tải lên các ứng dụng nghe podcast phổ biến như Spotify, Castbox, v.v... Download mục lục đầy đủ: https://linktr.ee/vovibaby8 Lưu ý: Các băng vấn đạo hoặc cắt/gom lại theo đề tài chỉ sử dụng để nghe/nghiên cứu ngoài giờ công phu. Khi vào giờ công phu, hành giả cần nghe băng niệm Phật hoặc những băng giảng dẫn thiền trọn vẹn của Đức Thầy trong êm dịu và liền mạch.

Dr. Yoshira Ornelas Van Horne joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss breaking down barriers in receiving her Ph.d. and the importance of centering research on the health of communities.

Umeshu might be one of the most universally pleasing drink categories on the planet. Its characteristic sweet and spunky qualities can be served up any myriad of ways and seem to tickle just about everyone's taste buds no matter how you spin it.However, while the style may seem relatively straightforward, the category is anything but.The content of this show tends to stick very close to the core categories of its namesake: sake and shochu. However, when it comes to umeshu, in order to fully understand the depth and breadth of what's out there, we have to open up the conversation to the wider world of drinks and spirits.To help us unravel its nuance and mysteries, this week we've recruited Todd Van Horne. Having a long history in Japan, focusing primarily on food and fermentation, he's found himself smack in the heart of Japan's “ume country” – Wakayama – where he wound up working with an ume producer creating, blending and transporting umeshu to the global market. The number of non-Japanese taking up roles as sake brewers here and there is on the rise, but in the world of ume and umeshu-dedicated individuals, Todd is indeed an outlier.From the significance of ume in the Japanese diet, to the beverage's historical position as a do-it-yourself creation, this week your hosts Rebekah Wilson-Lye, Christopher Pellegrini, and Justin Potts join forces with our special guest to try and cover all you'll need to know to start discerning what questions to ask about that next bottle of umeshu that you encounter in the wild. Please help new listeners discover Sake On Air by leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts or whatever service you depend upon for your podcast enjoyment. Reach out to us at questions@sakeonair.staba.jp with any thoughts, feelings or kind words about the show. You can follow us on  Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook as well, and if you'd be so kind, don't forget to subscribe to us over on YouTube.Thanks for listening this week, and thanks for choosing sake and shochu.Kampai! Sake On Air is made possible with the generous support of the Japan Sake & Shochu Makers Association and is broadcast from the Japan Sake & Shochu Information Center in Tokyo. The show is a co-production between Export Japan and Potts.K Productions, with audio production by Frank Walter.Our theme, “Younger Today Than Tomorrow” was composed by forSomethingNew for Sake On Air.

Umeshu might be one of the most universally pleasing drink categories on the planet. Its characteristic sweet and spunky qualities can be served up any myriad of ways and seem to tickle just about everyone’s taste buds no matter how you spin it.However, while the style may seem relatively straightforward, the category is anything but.The content of this show tends to stick very close to the core categories of its namesake: sake and shochu. However, when it comes to umeshu, in order to fully understand the depth and breadth of what’s out there, we have to open up the conversation to the wider world of drinks and spirits.To help us unravel its nuance and mysteries, this week we’ve recruited Todd Van Horne. Having a long history in Japan, focusing primarily on food and fermentation, he’s found himself smack in the heart of Japan’s “ume country” – Wakayama – where he wound up working with an ume producer creating, blending and transporting umeshu to the global market. The number of non-Japanese taking up roles as sake brewers here and there is on the rise, but in the world of ume and umeshu-dedicated individuals, Todd is indeed an outlier.From the significance of ume in the Japanese diet, to the beverage’s historical position as a do-it-yourself creation, this week your hosts Rebekah Wilson-Lye, Christopher Pellegrini, and Justin Potts join forces with our special guest to try and cover all you’ll need to know to start discerning what questions to ask about that next bottle of umeshu that you encounter in the wild. Please help new listeners discover Sake On Air by leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts or whatever service you depend upon for your podcast enjoyment. Reach out to us at questions@sakeonair.com with any thoughts, feelings or kind words about the show. You can follow us on  Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook as well, and if you’d be so kind, don’t forget to subscribe to us over on YouTube.Thanks for listening this week, and thanks for choosing sake and shochu.Kampai! Sake On Air is made possible with the generous support of the Japan Sake & Shochu Makers Association and is broadcast from the Japan Sake & Shochu Information Center in Tokyo. The show is a co-production between Export Japan and Potts.K Productions, with audio production by Frank Walter.Our theme, “Younger Today Than Tomorrow” was composed by forSomethingNew for Sake On Air.

Todd Van Horne is a Japan-based entrepreneur who worked as an Ume plums and Umeshu plum-liqueur salesman based in the Wakayama region. Originally from Portland, Todd ran a restaurant and has a deep understanding of Japanese fermentation and Koji as well as Ume. In this video he shares his insights into how the products are grown, processed, and sold across Japan and how the effect the business has on community, environment and economy. We also talk about the history, heritage and sustainability challenges and successes in the industry. Support this podcast

¿Cómo te hace sentir tu sistema religioso? ¿Qué te hace sentir hacia Dios? ¿Qué te hace sentir hacia tu prójimo? ¿Qué emociones surgen? Si lo único que te da tu sistema religioso es terror, ansiedad y te lleva al egocentrismo (sentirte y pensar que eres mejor que los demás) entonces hay algo fundamentalmente malo con ese sistema. Es una realidad que "religión" no es una palabra que suene bien, porque mucha mala religión la ha poseído. De hecho según estudios sociales los millennials y centennials están perdiendo su religión, la generación Z es la generación menos religiosa. En este episodio hablaremos con Jocelyn González Van Horne y nos platicará sobre su viaje de fe y como él ha tenido que lidiar con situaciones que han enfrentado su fe. Considera apoyar este proyecto y podcast. Tu ayuda hace posible este ministerio. AYUDA Y APOYO en PATREON ► https://www.patreon.com/LuminaresMinistry AYUDA Y APOYO en ANCHOR ► https://anchor.fm/luminares-ministry/support --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/luminares-ministry/support

The Van Horne family find themselves fighting against duty, free will, secrets, and a shocking preamble

Host Brett Lyle sits down with Ted Van Horne, chief operating officer of Global Medical Response.Welcome to Emergent Leadership where we connect with passionate leaders who just have to share their stories, perspectives, and most importantly, lessons learned.The need is urgent, the events are critical, and the you of tomorrow is just an episode away!Join the conversation: If you have a leadership topic, experience, or lesson learned you would like to share or hear more about, send an email at brettlylecoaching@gmail.com or use and follow #emergentleadership to join the conversation. You can also connect to Brett directly through LinkedIn or follow her journey on YouTube.

We sit down with Ryan Ban Horne to talk about the 2020 draft and who may fall where. Will Byfeild go 2nd or 3rd where does Askarov go and much more plus a story on a 13 year old named Sidney Crosby.

This week Naomi and Austin enjoy beers from Brevard, NC's Oskar Blues Brewery. They talk with Dr. Jill Van Horne from Appalachian State University about parenting during the pandemic and the impact upon children. Jill also enjoys a Knotty Gurl from Granite Falls Brewing as they talk about the Beastie Boys.The Slactivism moment of the week is to research your local food bank and their current needs. In the Asheville area, we recommend MANNA Food Bank.Also, a listener recommends Madam Pattirinni Gin.Pastor Naomi is the senior pastor at the Lutheran Church of the Nativity in Arden, NC. Pastor Austin is starting a new faith community called Wild Faith - Asheville. If you have any questions or requests you can email Naomi and Austin at whatjesusdrink@gmail.com .

In part one of the episode, Quinn Van Horne and Kylie MacDonald reflect on their favorite memories of this past year working on the Marketing team of Oregon's athletic department. In part two, Michael Abbott speaks about his role with the Communications team and what he's learned about the sports industry now working both on both the media side and the athletic department side.

This episode of Is This It? features a conversation with Joel Van Horne. Joel is an incredible musician and the man behind Covenhoven. His music draws upon a wide range of influences, from nostalgic summers in his families cabin, to the Pacific Ocean.  In this episode we discuss the creative process, how meaning changes over time, spirituality, and so much more.  Check out Covenhoven's next live virtual show on May 17, 2020. For more episodes, check out the website www.stefanlako.com/isthisit and follow me on twitter @stayfunlako  Please rate and review the show Thanks for listening! 

On this week’s brand new episode of The Silver Screen Breakdown, your surfers Tyler @Tylermoliterno and Zach @ZachWWMovies break down the box office for the year of 2018!  It’s part nine in our mini-series ‘A Decade on the Silver Screen’ and to help break down this great year of movies we welcome Brittany Van Horne

Mike catches up with 1050 CHUM, TSN and Sportsnet broadcaster Jim Van Horne.

ONE WEEK OF RUDS! Thank you everyone who's been following and listening to us, it truly means a lot. This episode we enjoyed talking to Jon Van Horne about CRS-20 and his time touring Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Was an enjoyable time talking with him and discussing the current events of the space industry.   Check us out on the socials:  Jon Van Horne: @therealjonvanhorn https://https://twitter.com/therealjonvh  Seth Kurkowski: @SethKurk https://twitter.com/SethKurk  Daryl Sausse: @SausseImages https://twitter.com/SausseImages  RUDs Podcast: @RUDsPodcast https://twitter.com/SausseImages --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Sarah & Becca interview Corrie Van Horne, Registered Dietitian and Licensed Professional Counselor on her journey to self-acceptance. Corrie's Practice: https://www.omnicounselingandnutrition.com/Instagram: @corrievanhorne.lpc.rd

Streamer, Space Coast local, and space enthusiast, Jon Van Horne, joins us. We talk about Starlink controversy, Solar Orbiter, Starliner issues, and much more! We finish out the show with tips about launch photography. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Former Montreal Expos play-by-play man Dave Van Horne says that the only thing bigger than Larry Walker's heart was his desire to win.

The final episode of season one of Great Talks at the APS departs slightly from the format of featuring an APS Meeting talk, instead featuring a paper appearing in a recent issue of Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. We thought it appropriate to close out the season by having a conversation about two figures who loom large in the history of the APS and in the national imagination—Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. On this episode, Dr. Patrick Spero and Dr. John Van Horne discuss Franklin, Jefferson, and their contributions to the founding and early growth of the American Philosophical Society and other Philadelphia institutions. Dr. Van Horne is Director Emeritus of the Library Company of Philadelphia. His essay, "Two Chips off the Same Block: Benjamin Franklin's Library Company and Philosophical Society and the Saga of Their 275-Year Relationship," was published in the December 2018 issue of the Proceedings. John Van Horne, [“Two Chips off the Same Block: Benjamin Franklin’s Library Company and Philosophical Society and the Saga of Their 275-Year Relationship,”](https://www.amphilsoc.org/publications/proceedings-volume-162-number-4) *Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society*, Vol. 162, No. 4 (December 2018). Patrick K. Spero, [“The Other Presidency: Thomas Jefferson and the American Philosophical Society,”](https://www.amphilsoc.org/publications/proceedings-volume-162-number-4) *Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society*, Vol. 162, No. 4 (December 2018). Thomas Jefferson’s [“3. Volumes bound in Marbled paper”](http://jefferson3volumes.princeton.edu/) online.

Robert Ford and Steve Sparks preview Saturday's matchup as RHP Justin Verlander faces the Miami Marlins and Jose Urena. Ford gets a scouting report of the Fish from longtime Hall of Fame broadcaster Dave Van Horne. Finally, MLB's Brian McTaggart joins Astros Radio to recap Friday's action against the New York Mets.

Robert Ford and Steve Sparks preview Saturday’s matchup as RHP Justin Verlander faces the Miami Marlins and Jose Urena. Ford gets a scouting report of the Fish from longtime Hall of Fame broadcaster Dave Van Horne. Finally, MLB’s Brian McTaggart joins Astros Radio to recap Friday’s action against the New York Mets.

On the eleventh episode of Canada’s premiere faith and conversation podcast, hosts Tommy Schnurmacher and Rabbi Avi Finegold are joined by Rivka Cymbalist (author of 'The Birth Conspiracy: Natural Birth, Hospitals, and Doulas : a Guide') for a dialogue exploring religion, childbirth and midwifery.Production by Andre GouletTechnical assistance from Ricochet MediaLogo by Design is YummyTheme music by Montreal hip-hop and klezmer composer SocalledRecorded at Caffè della Pace (1002 ave. Van Horne, Montreal)For information on Rivka Cymbalist see https://www.mbcdoulaschool.ca/For more on the venue go to https://www.caffedellapace.com/Check out the refined collection of rings, broaches, cuff-links and more, exclusive designs handcrafted in Montreal by some of the most skilled artisans in the world, at our sponsor Atelier Lou (http://atelierlou.com/).This episode was recorded on November 2nd, 2018.

Genesis 3:20-24; Revelation 22:1-21; John 14:1-7 (Preached at St Andrew Lutheran Church in Van Horne, Iowa

23 Oct 2017. Kathleen and Bob discuss Kathleen's memories growing up on the Barry family farm near Van Horne, Iowa.

The NEW Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/BookingTheTerritory  Please consider supporting our show by becoming a Smoky Mountain Rasslin AND BTT Podcast Patreon Member, purchasing a BTT Pod or SMW podcast t-shirt or two from our Pro Wrestling Tees Store,  This week's Time Stamps for the Aug 1, 1987 episode are as follows: Opening Shenanigans. ( 0:01:06 )  Harper Revisits Hitting A Duck And The Story Gets Better. ( 0:03:00 )  New Patron Shoutouts. ( 0:06:30 )  NWA WCW Saturday Night on TBS from Aug 1, 1987. ( 0:08:47 ) Dary Van Horne aka James Vandenburg aka the Sinister Minister Part 2 ( 1:14:10 )  Show Close and Harper's Phone Has A Virus! ( 2:11:00 )  HOF Patron Shoutouts. ( 2:18:18 ) BTT Facebook Group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/281458405926389/ Harbody Harper Shirt is Available! https://www.prowrestlingtees.com/related/bookingtheterritory/btt-hardbodyharper.html More T-Shirts, Hooded Sweatshirts, and much more!! https://www.teepublic.com/user/bookingtheterritory Pay Pal: https://www.paypal.me/BTTPod Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tinyurl.com/BTTYouTube Follow us on Twitter @BTT_Podcast, @Mike504Saints, @CJHWhoDat and Like us on Facebook. Show LinksSubscribe on an Android: http://subscribeonandroid.com/mikemills.podbean.com/feed/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/booking-the-territory-pro-wrestling-podcast/id1002655335?mt=2

The NEW Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/BookingTheTerritory  Please consider supporting our show by becoming a Smoky Mountain Rasslin AND BTT Podcast Patreon Member, purchasing a BTT Pod or SMW podcast t-shirt or two from our Pro Wrestling Tees Store,  This week's Time Stamps for the July 25, 1987 episode are as follows: Opening Shenanigans. ( 0:00:45 )  Harper Is Salty! ( 0:04:25 )  New Patron Shoutouts. ( 0:08:45 )  NWA WCW Saturday Night on TBS from July 25, 1987. ( 0:10:25 ) Dary Van Horne aka James Vandenburg aka the Sinister Minister Part 1 ( 1:05:25 )  Show Close and Daryl Van Horne has a message for Harper. ( 1:54:33 )  Mark Wilson and Gerald Green - Patrons of the Quarter Q3 2018. ( 2:04:28 )  HOF Patron Shoutouts. ( 2:18:00 ) BTT Facebook Group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/281458405926389/ Harbody Harper Shirt is Available! https://www.prowrestlingtees.com/related/bookingtheterritory/btt-hardbodyharper.html More T-Shirts, Hooded Sweatshirts, and much more!! https://www.teepublic.com/user/bookingtheterritory Pay Pal: https://www.paypal.me/BTTPod Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tinyurl.com/BTTYouTube Follow us on Twitter @BTT_Podcast, @Mike504Saints, @CJHWhoDat and Like us on Facebook. Show LinksSubscribe on an Android: http://subscribeonandroid.com/mikemills.podbean.com/feed/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/booking-the-territory-pro-wrestling-podcast/id1002655335?mt=2

Episode 05 - Van Horne Pizzeria It's a week of recovery in this episode of Guy To Guy To Gut, as Eric breathtakingly describes his horrible fever and Lucas struggles to understand why he continues to punish himself with marathon watchings of Gotham. Also, Eric leaves the door open and the show gets a few surprise guests (allegedly)! Next, the guys take a moment to refresh their faith in themselves as they roll through some Yahoo! Answers posts to put their pizza knowledge to the test. Lastly, the guys ask if Thomas Wolfe was right all along about that "never going home" business by going to where Lucas' pizza love affair began - to the pizzeria of his childhood, Van Horne Pizzeria. Music * John Deley and the 41 Players - Supreme * John Deley and the 41 Players - Watercolors * Rondo Brothers - Urchins // Follow us on Twitter at @G2G2Gpod, Eric at @fivedollardare and Lucas at @primebeard! Email us at G2G2Gpod@gmail.com!

Have you been trying to recover from your eating disorder yet constantly slipping back in? Been in and out of treatment? We hope you know you are not alone. Check out this week's featured Dear Food letter and listen to the wise and compassionate wisdom from Corrie Van Horne and Melissa Preston. Episode's Key Points: Special guests: Corrie Van Horne and Melissa Preston, both Licensed Professional Counselors (Corrie is a candidate) and Registered Dietitians, co-founders of Omni Counseling and Nutrition. Many with eating disorders find themselves going in and out of various levels of treatment throughout their recovery journey. Transitioning out of a higher level of care where there is fairly constant support can be challenging in many ways, particularly when it comes to "normalizing" one's relationship with food. Oftentimes, our relationship with food and how we perceive it, mirrors other relationships and forms of oppression in our life. Autonomy and self-compassion are both powerful tools in healing both our relationship with individuals and food. Good self-reminder: Food is essential to life. It is okay (and necessary) to want to and need to eat. Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus. Omni Counseling and Nutrition's Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter--->This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1 Omni Counseling and Nutrition Blog---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2 Kristin Neff's Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #3 Tara Brach's Radical Acceptance---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #4 Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here. Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series.

Joel Van Horne released his third album as Covenhoven earlier this month. "A Kind Of Revelation" came from the Denver musician's writing sessions while touring along the Pacific coast of California, Oregon and Washington. The album blends the contemplative folk of Covenhoven's previous work with vivid orchestral string parts. Covenhoven returned to the CPR Performance Studio for the first time since 2015. Van Horne and his seven-piece backing band played three songs from "A Kind Of Revelation" and spoke with Alisha Sweeney about how his brother's death affected the arc of the album and how the natural world inspires his music.

"All I can say is that when I started to think about this I got really excited and I also got like this feeling...this feeling of like 'this is just so right'. It felt great that I was paying tribute to my grandfather and that place, and sort of carrying on the story of Covenhoven in this other way, and you know, maybe one day my grandkids or my great grandkids are gonna know this story and be able to like add to it or something." On this episode of Behind The Scene: Guest: Joel Van Horne (Covenhoven) Official Site: www.covenhoven.com The song for this episode is called The Wild and Free and can be found on Covenhoven's album of the same name. Listen above and as always, subscribe direct on iTunes and Google This episode brought to you by Breckenridge Brewery

Playlist: John Ginty feat. Aster Pheonyx, Captain Hook, The Cobalt Rhythm Kings, Cross-Eyed Mama, Jimmy Coburn, Gotta Go Home, Habaka, Ain’t No Love (In The Heart Of The City), Jack Tempchin, Slow Dancin, Sunday Wilde & Jack Reno, Van Horne, Felix Y Los Gatos, (0 Day Binge, Savoy Brown, I Can’t Stop The Blues, Somerdale,Bigger Than The Universe, Jimmy Carpenter, All Your Love (I Miss Lovin’), Heather Gillis Band, Gonna Be A Storm, Altered Five Blues Band, Gonna Lose My Lady, Scott Ellison, Another Day In Paradise, Scottie Miller, Burned All My Bridges, Andrew B. Chapman AKA JoJo, She Don’t Mess With My Buzz, Steve Howell & Jason Weinheimer, Louis Collins, Benny Turner, Mojo Boogie, Johnny Oskam, Badlands, Lew Jetton, Drinking Again, Joel DaSilva, My Brazilian Soul, Johnny Rawls, We Did It, Rob Lutes, Believe In Something, Chickenbone Slim, Long Legged Sweet Thing, Cassie Keenum And Rick Randlett, Minute Man, Likho Duo, I Can’t Be Satisfied, Val Starr & The Blues Rocket, Blind Eye, Nick Schnebelen, Conformity Blues, Chris “Bad News” Barnes, I Had To Give Up The Gym, Mojomatics, Soy Baby Many Thanks To: We here at the Black-Eyed & Blues Show would like to thank all the PR and radio people that get us music including Frank Roszak, Rick Lusher ,Doug Deutsch Publicity Services,American Showplace Music, Alive Natural Sounds, Ruf Records, Vizztone Records,Blind Pig Records,Delta Groove Records, Electro-Groove Records,Betsie Brown, Blind Raccoon Records, Miss Jill at Jill Kettles PR and all of the Blues Societies both in the U.S. and abroad. All of you help make this show as good as it is weekly. We are proud to play your artists.Thank you all very much!

Perhaps the most famous of Canadian Hauntings is that of the ghost bride of the Banff Springs Hotel. But before we reveal her story, let's dive into the history, the lore, and the many hauntings at the resort hotel.This is Unsolved Mysteries of the World, Season One Episode 21, The Haunted Banff Springs HotelLocated in the heart of Banff National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the world famous Fairmont Banff Springs hotel stands as a landmark in the picturesque alpine town of Banff, Alberta.Canada's "Castle in the Rockies", has been providing legendary hospitality to guests for more than 125 years including, Prime Ministers, Presidents, actors and actresses such as Marylin Monroe and royalty from around the globe.The luxurious Banff Springs Hotel is well known as the ultimate stay for the rich and famous.It's also famous for the countless ghost stories it boasts. A place, many believe is haunted. Guests and employees alike have all kinds of ghost stories to tell.Over the years, employees and guests have reported strange occurrences from tables moving on their own, to sightings of a bellhop to a bride engulfed in flames.The site for a resort hotel was envisioned by William Cornelius Van Horne, President of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the late 1880s. He chose a perfect spot along the bow river, near a massive waterfalls and near thermal hotsprings that was nestled into towering mountains. There was no more beautiful location in all the world, and Van Horne set out to make the most beautiful hotel.The original hotel was built in 1888 like a Swiss Chalet and had 200 rooms in several wings. It also included, at the time Canada's tallest structure – a viewing tower.In later years it was partially destroyed by fire, rebuilt and expanded in the Scottish Baronial style. The expansions and wings now make for a large, castle like structure. Originally opening with 200 guest rooms, the hotel now offers 778 guest rooms with a few dozen rooms known for their legends and hauntings. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week I look at an amazing report from Alaska that shows that given the choice, salmon may not be a grizzlies first choice for dinner. I also bring to a close, the story of the building of Canada's transcontinental railway..and with that said, let's get to it. Grizzlies Choose Berries over Salmon Every once in a while you come across a study that throws out everything that you thought you knew about a subject. As a biologist and naturalist, I often lament about how tough the bears in the Rockies have it over their counterparts on the north coast of British Columbia and Alaska. To most people, coastal bears live in the land of milk and honey. They have 5 kinds of Pacific salmon, and many kinds of edible berries. I often talk about the importance of understanding the seasonal food preferences of bears in order to stay safe in bear country. If you know what they're eating when they're eating it, it becomes safer to avoid unwanted encounters simply by avoiding the bear's food de jour. Stay clear of what is on today's menu. We often talk about the critical importance of meat in the diet of bears. Here in the Rockies, they don't have a great deal of meaty options. They'll take some 45% of newborn moose and elk calves, feed on winter killed bighorn sheep and mountain goats, and dig up some ground squirrel colonies. Since they can't have enough meat calories, they rely upon buffaloberries to build their fat layers for winter. If they can't find meat, then berries are their second choice…or so that's what we used to think. What if a bear found itself in a world with unlimited numbers of tasty salmon, but also a bumper crop of berries? What do YOU think they would choose? A recent study on Kodiak Island in Alaska tried to discover the answer to this question. They focused on a well-studied portion of the Karluk watershed on the island. Because bears have been studied here for many years, it seemed like a good place to start simply because there was some good historic data that might help them to determine the food preferences of the resident grizzlies. In this study, bears feed on a variety of berries including red elderberry, salmonberry, crowberry and blueberry. Of these four, red elderberry is by far the preferred choice for bears. If you're not familiar with elderberry bushes, look for a shrub that can be as tall as 3 or 4 metres with compound leaves and dense spikes of white flowers. Later, the flowers will be replaced by dense clumps of berries that grizzlies find very appealing. The denseness of the berry clusters is also what makes these berries popular with bears as they don't need to expend great deals of energy eating them. This experiment was prompted as a result of changes in the seasonal food patterns on Kodiak Island. Historically, while sockeye salmon run for 4 months, they are most vulnerable to bears when they enter smaller tributary streams in July and August. Year after year, decade after decade, the salmon always arrive at the same time of year. Because the bears are able to catch the salmon before they spawn, the fish contain up to 3 times more food energy than dying fish. In the past, elderberries ripened later in the season, usually mid-August as the salmon run was beginning to wane. For bears, this was ideal. As one food disappeared, another food was ready for feeding. Things have been changing rapidly in the north as a result of changing climates and increasingly warm spring temperatures. In warm years, the berries are beginning to ripen earlier and earlier, with ripe berries as early as mid-July on some years. For the first time the bears found themselves in a situation where there were two key foods that were available in the same area at the same time. What surprised University of California scientists though was that they did not make the obvious choice - salmon. Instead the majority of bears abandoned the streams and moved upland to feast on elderberries. I know what you're saying - "fake science". After all, no self-respecting carnivore would choose berries over salmon, but despite all logic indicating that they would stick with salmon, they didn't. Biologists used a number of methods to track the bears behaviour in years where the elderberries ripened at the same time as the sockeye runs. When they studied images from 8 years of aerial surveys of the rivers during the salmon run, in every case, years with early berry crops coincided with fewer bears fishing for salmon. This was backed up by looking at areas outside the Karluk River and when 31 years of aerial photographs were compared to ripening dates, the same results were shown. In particular, during the exceedingly warm summers of 2014 and 2015, studies of scat showed the same results. Of 151 scat samples identified, 125 were composed primarily of red elderberries. 2010 formed a good control years as there was a failure of the elderberry crop and, when they looked at the location of GPS collared bears, they remained at the river to feed on the available salmon. Their conclusions showed that if elderberries were available at the same time as sockeye salmon, the bears would largely ignore the salmon and turn into a furry frugivore. As you can imagine, this put the biologists into a tizzy. Why would grizzlies purposely choose foods with lower nutritional value and a lower percentage of protein. When they looked into the nutritional content of the foods, they discovered that the berries offered only around 50% as much food energy as salmon. This number can be reduced even further when you consider that with a seemingly endless number of salmon, the bears are able to select just the most nutritious parts like the skin, the brains and the eggs. This still seemed to confound common sense. They had to look deeper. What they discovered is that it's not just about calories. In order for the bears to maximize weight gain, they may need to look beyond simple calories. The choice may be impacted by the relative percentages of macronutrients like protein. They turned to food studies of bears in captivity. In one case, the bears were given the choice of foods of varying protein levels. The bears selected foods with protein levels in the 11-21% range, much lower than the 83% found in salmon, but right in the range of elderberry with 12.8%. In the end, it looks like all calories are not created equal. When given the choice, bears looked for a more moderate amount of protein. Elderberries may be the berry of choice, despite there being other available berries to choose from, simply because they occur in dense clumps which allows bears to eat vast numbers while expending minimal energy. As temperatures continue to warm, the trend looks like elderberries will continue to ripen earlier and earlier. Currently, they are ripening at a rate of 2-1/2 days earlier each decade. This would put the average ripening date at the same time as the peak salmon run by the year 2070. It's unknown how this will affect bears in the long run. Currently, the two foods normally occur sequentially, extending their feeding season. It will also depend on what other food options are available to bears once the salmon and elderberry harvest ends. I love it when science gets turned on its head. Sometimes the obvious conclusion just isn't the right one. This study helps to really show the importance of fruit to black and grizzly bears. It also has a local connections as we look to the end of buffaloberry season. This study helps to show why berries are critical to bears and it also means that it is even more important for us to protect the supply of berries for our local bear populations. Simply chopping down every buffaloberry bush in town is NOT the solution. Bears are creatures of habit. Once a location is a part of their regular foraging routine, they'll continue to return. If they don't find buffaloberries, then they may find…crabapples. Wildlife corridors should be for wildlife. Clear berry bushes from places like the Peaks, but the wildlife corridor berries should be left for the bears. If the berries are concentrated there, so will the bears be. If, as a community, we can get people to respect closures, than maybe we can help to keep the bears healthy and the wildlife corridors viable. Next up…the last spike The Last Spike Over the past few weeks, I've introduced you to the main players in the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. This week, I want to talk about the completion of the line through the Kicking Horse and Roger's Passes. While the stories of adventure and exploration were taking place, the financiers and managers were doing everything they could to keep the flow of money coming…and many times, they were failing. In 1880, the government of Canada gave the contract to finish the CPR to a group of financiers led by George Stephen and Donald Smith. The contract required the line to be finished within 10 years and offered the "syndicate" a monopoly of the line along with $25 million in cash and 25 million acres of land grants in stages as they completed sections of the track. When the job was done, they would be given an additional 1,100 km of track already completed. The value of those lines was some $75 million. During the battles to pass the C.P.R. contract in the house, the conservatives had to defeat 23 different amendments during an excess of 30 sessions that extended past midnight. The ordeal took its toll on Macdonald who was confined to bed with severe bowel cramps when the contract was passed in parliament. When he left for England to recuperate, many believed they would never see him again. Stephen knew that it would be next to impossible to raise money in England due to the fiasco surrounding another Canadian railroad, the Grand Trunk. It had earned the nickname “The Big Suitcase” for the immense amounts of money it had managed to walk away with, without ever paying a penny in dividends. The Grand Trunk also did all it could to discredit the C.P.R., whom it saw as a competitor. When Stephen arrived in London, he was shocked to find that the newspapers were more interested in the fact that Jumbo the elephant had been sold to P.T. Barnum. This was a few years before John, Paul, George and Ringo, and Jumbo was the closest thing England had to a Rock Star…he was one famous elephant. Revenge can be sweet though, and Stephen had his chuckle when, just three weeks before the hammering of the last spike, a Grand Trunk locomotive ran over Jumbo and killed him. Financial difficulties were not long in arriving, and repeatedly, the syndicate had to ask the government for assistance. Each hand out made it more difficult to approve the next, and to cut costs, Sandford Fleming’s Yellowhead Pass route was abandoned for the shorter route through the Kicking Horse Pass. In the two years between 1880 and 1882, the company spent almost $59 million dollars, but barely collected $21 million. The remaining $37 million was not covered by the fact that they had less than $20 million in investor money. That left them with a whopping $17 million in debt. Thomas Shaughnessy, the C.P.R.’s purchasing agent managed to keep the line afloat through some interesting financial dealings. In one case, an American firm accused him of taking bribes to secure work, while not delivering. When he was hauled into Stephen’s office, he pulled out a collection of deposit slips, all to the C.P.R. account, which totaled exactly what the American firm had claimed. When asked if they had been bribes, he answered: “Of Course, but by God we needed the money didn’t we!” In the end it became clear that they needed at least another $27 million dollars in order to get the line through. The only way to get the funding would be for the government to, once again, bail the railway out. By Dec of 1883 Stephen was desperate, and he wired Prime Minister John A. Macdonald: "Things have now reached a point when we must either stop or find the means of going on. Our enemies here and elsewhere think they can now break us down and finish the CPR forever." While Macdonald had no interest in bailing out the railroad yet again, his Minister of Railways, John Henry Pope pointed out: "the day the Canadian Pacific busts the Conservative party busts the day after" Once again, the railroad was bailed out. In October, Stephen set out for one last fund raising trip to England. Along with him was Macdonald who was trying to escape the stress that pushing through the railroad aid bills had put on him. Finally, through a feat of financial finagling, Stephen managed to borrow $250,000 from a Scottish bank. He then sent off the most famous telegram in Canadian history to Smith—all it read was “Stand Fast Craigellachie” Smith and Stephen had grown up in Banffshire, Scotland, and a giant rock nearby had become a symbol of the clan Grant’s defiance during the clan wars—it was known as Craigellachie. This telegram was Stephen’s way of informing Smith that the funds were on the way. A final saving grace occurred when a Metis named Louis Riel, led a revolt against the government beginning in March of 1885. The Metis were of mixed blood French/Indian origin and had begun to attack settlements in the west and the troops were being sent in. Van Horne dedicated all the resources of the railroad to get 3,000 troops to the front in just 7 days. With this quick response, the uprising was quelled more quickly than expected. An earlier uprising had required 3 months to get troops to the front. Suddenly the railroad had shown it had more value, and the government bailed them out at the eleventh hour. Workers had not been paid for several months and were refusing to work. The banks had turned them down for any temporary loans, and when the government agreed to back their loan, Van Horne Stated that when they received the news: “We tossed up chairs to the ceiling; we tramped on desks; I believe we danced on tables. I do not fancy that any of us knows what occurred, and no one who was there can ever remember anything except loud yells of joy and the sound of things breaking.” Van Horne then sent out a hasty telegraph to Shaughnessy. All it said was: “Pay creditors now. Van Horne.” Stephen had lost all pleasure in the enterprise. The government sent appraisers to his vast Montreal mansion for security for his loan. They evaluated everything from his silverware to his underwear, and with a stroke of a pen, he signed it all away. In fact, he did not even go to the hammering of the last spike, but returned to Scotland to recover from the strain. The Last Spike Ceremony Finally, on Nov. 7, 1885 the day had arrived. The last spike would finally be hammered. The location was named Craigellachie in honour of the three word telegram that had saved the railway. But before I tell the story of our last spike, I like to share the story of the American last spike ceremony that occurred in 1869 in Promontory, Utah because no two events could be so wonderfully different. In Promontory Utah, there were two gold, and two silver spikes. The main spike had been forged at a cost of $400. Attached to the spikes were telegraph wires, so the whole country could hear it driven home. The Governor of California was on hand for the occasion and he had a specially designed silver maul, silver hammer with which to drive the stake. When everyone was in position and the cameras were ready, he raised that hammer and he brought it down…and he missed. He missed the last spike. That's okay because the telegraph operator sent the word "done" and simultaneous celebrations broke out from New York to San Francisco. They even rang the long silent liberty bell. When Van Horne was asked about what kind of ceremony he would like, he declared that '“...the only ceremony I fancy may occur will be the damning of the foreman for not driving it sooner...” He also declared that there would be no golden spike, that the last spike would be a plain iron spike, as good as all the rest. There were no heads of state or government at the hammering of our last spike, just some of the financiers and surveyors who would not have missed this moment, along with the workers that just happened to be there at the time. In the photograph, hammering the spike is Donald Smith, one of the main financiers. Behind him, with a stove pipe hat and patriarchal style beard is Sandford Fleming. To Fleming’s right, with his hands in his pockets, is William Cornelius Van Horne. Out of sight is Major A.B. Rogers, and way in the back, with a Stetson hat, peaking over the crowd, is a young Tom Wilson who would not have missed this day for the world. Now Donald Smith had heard the story of the Governor of California missing the spike, and we would have no such shenanigans here. And so when everything was ready, and the cameras were in position, he raised his hammer, took careful aim, and he brought it down…and he didn't miss!… …he bent it. He bent the last spike! It obviously had to be taken out, so we actually had two last spikes in Canada. It was later cut up into pieces to make souvenir pins for the many dignitaries that were not present. A new spike was put into place, and this time Smith drove the spike home. It was also immediately pulled out. The last thing we wanted was souvenir hunters tearing up the track as soon as we got it built. After the spike, there was silence, as the men pondered the friends they had made, the friends they had lost, and in more cases than not, just what the heck they were going to do next because with that simple act they were now unemployed. The silence was followed by a cheer and cries for a speech. We needed some words by which to mark the occasion…after all, what would the historians say? Finally Van Horne reluctantly agreed. He climbed on the platform, cleared his throat and stated: “All I can say is that the work has been done well in every way!” That was it. That was the entire text of the speech at our last spike ceremony. After that, Major A.B. Rogers, so taken by the moment, forgot about hiding his emotions, grabbed a piece of railroad tie and tried to thrust it into the ground to mark the spot. After a few minutes of private celebration, the sound of a train whistle and a call of “all aboard for the pacific” broke the silence. And for the first time, the train was able to continue over what had once been a gap in the tracks, and that little train chugged its way into history. The last spike had been removed shortly after the dignitaries left by Frank Brothers. In the famous photograph of the event, he's the bearded man on the left of the image looking directly at the camera. He later presented it to Edward Beatty who became the first Canadian born president of the CPR. It was reportedly stolen from his desk and at that point it was largely lost in history. In 2012, the mystery of the missing spike may have finally been solved. Rumour has it that the spike somehow made its way to railroad surveyor Henry Cambie, who in turn gave it to the chief of the patent office in Ottawa, W.J. Lynch. It was to be a gift for his son, Arthur who was a railroad buff. From Arthur it made its way to his daughter, Margo Remnant. The spike was silver plated and fashioned into the handle of a knife blade. Metallurgical studies showed it was consistent with the metal used in spikes at the time. In 2012, Remnant's widow presented it to the Museum of Civilization where hopefully it will find a permanent home. And with that, it's time to wrap this episode up. I want to thank you for sharing your time with me and I appreciate you hitting the subscribe button so that you don't miss any future episodes. Ward Cameron Enterprises is your specialist on guided hikes, tours and photography outings across the mountain west. If you'd like to make the most of your mountain experience drop us a line at info@wardcameron.com or hit me up on Twitter @wardcameron. Don't forget you can always comment and find links to additional information in the show notes at www.mountainnaturepodcast.com/ep042. And with that said, the sun's out and it's time to go hiking. I'll see you next week.

Marlins broadcaster Dave Van Horse says things have really taken off for Giancarlo Stanton since he made a change to his stance and dropped into the #2 spot in the Miami batting order.

This week I take a look at one of our most secretive animals, the northern flying squirrel. It also looks like B.C. has broken a record this summer for the worst fire season on record. Finally, I'll share the story of the Greatest Canadian Railroader, that wasn't well Canadian, William Cornelius Van Horne. And with that said, let's get to it. Flying Squirrels We're all familiar with the red squirrel, that ubiquitous little scavenger that invades bird feeders and constantly chatters at us whenever we enter its forested domain. However were you aware that the red squirrel is NOT the only squirrely resident of our western forests? The northern flying squirrel shares the forest with its more gregarious neighbour but for most residents of the mountain west, these squirrels remain virtually invisible.  They range from 25 to 37 cm in length and they have a light underside and dark backs. They give birth to just a single litter each year and may live communally in the winter in order to huddle together to share warmth. They are far more secretive than the red squirrel and are usually only active at night. Like red squirrels, their diet is very flexible, including seeds, cones, tree sap, fungi and even eggs, and nestlings. They are characterized by a skin membrane that runs from their front feet to their back which, when stretched out, gives them a large leathery sail that allows them to fly like a furry kite from tree to tree to tree. The proper name for these membranes are patagia. If this doesn't give them enough of a wing, they have cartilage spurs on each wrist that can help to extend the patagia even further. As they leap from their perch, they stretch out their arms and legs and soar away. When they approach their landing site, they'll rapidly raise their flat tail which, in turn, shifts their body upwards. This positions all four legs forward for landing and the patagia also forms a breaking parachute to slow them down for 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Globally, there are 43 species of flying squirrels and in some cases, flights of up to 300 feet can be made. The northern flying squirrel averages around 20 metres, but flights of up to 90 metres have also been recorded. If you've ever seen a youtube video of humans wearing squirrel suits, you will noticed that they don't just fly in a single direction, they can execute sharp turns by changing the orientation of their arms and legs. Squirrles are the real master at this. They can make incredibly sudden corrections and turns mid-flight, even completely reversing direction if needed. While they're foraging on the ground though, they're clumsy as they collect seeds and cones to store in their caches. Large eyes help them to see in the dark and they quietly scurry about looking for tasty morsels. The range of the northern flying squirrel covers almost all of Canada. With the exception of southeastern Alberta and southern Saskatchewan. Just because you haven't seen one doesn't mean they're uncommon. In fact in many areas, they are very common, and like red squirrels, they're not above invading an attic or two.  If you're out at night and see two big eyes staring at you from the treetops, you may just be seeing one of our most secretive residents. Take a few minutes and watch, you may just get lucky and see it make a quick aerial exit. In the winter, you will sometimes come across a set of squirrel tracks that mysteriously just begins in the middle of a field. That's a sure sign that a flying squirrel has been passing through. Next up…a record breaking season - for all the wrong reasons Worst Fire Season Ever It's now official. 2017 already has become the worst fire season in British Columbia history - and the season isn't even over yet. As of Aug 16, fires had blazed across an estimated 894,941 hectares in the province since April 1 according to a CBC story. To battle these fires, the federal and provincial governments have spent in excess of $315 million dollars. That number doesn't yet surpass the $382 million dollars spent in 2009, but again, the season isn't over yet. Perhaps even more important than financial costs to fight the fires, has been the loss of homes and lengthy evacuations of some 45,000 people over the course of the summer. As of August 22, there were still 3,800 people unable to return to their communities due to evacuation orders. Currently firefighters are fighting a single fire that covers some 4,674 square kilometres making it the largest single fire in B.C. history. It was created when 19 individual fires converged to create one single monster blaze near Quesnel. From end to end it stretches 130 kilometres. This is more than double the previous record held by a 1958 fire that charred 2,250 sq km. Province wide, there are still 135 fires burning. This season is far from over. Many of the fires currently burning will continue until the snows of winter douse them. Let's hope for some good solid rains for B.C. this fall. Next up…a rainmaker saves the CPR Van Horne’s Line The building of the Canadian Pacific Railway was an epic adventure for a small nation. There are many stories related to this line but I wanted to introduce you to one of the key characters responsible for helping us to get the job done. His name is Sir William Cornelius Van Horne. As Canada struggled to build its railroad, the epic struggle against an unforgiving landscape and diminishing coffers made for a very difficult undertaking for a small population. We had little experience with such an immense railroad project and the politics around the construction managed to topple two governments. As time passed, and funds diminished, the disorganization around the construction began to become overwhelming. The final straw occurred during the 1881 season where the company only managed to lay just over 200 km of track and in the process squandered $10 million. We still had some 3,000 left to finish. It became clear that we needed to bring in a rainmaker. As it turns out there was just a man south of the border: William Cornilius Van Horne. Van Horne had begun his career as a telegraph operator during the civil war. While working one day, a train rolled into the station and he saw the grand private car of the railroad superintendent…and he was impressed. He immediately declared that someday, he would also have his own private car. In order to accomplish this, he knew that he would need to learn everything there was about railroading; and so, he set out to learn. He began staying after work to copy the drawings of the railroad engineers…until he was caught. Fortunately for him, he was pretty good. They hired him to do their lettering from that point on, and for the rest of his life he was an amateur engineer. He was only 29 when he got his private car, and was named the superintendent of the St. Louis, Kansas City, and Northern Railroad, making him the youngest Railroad Superintendent in the world. Van Horne was a gambler and he never hesitated to gamble on his own abilities. He gained a reputation for taking bankrupt railways and making them pay. Since broke railroads didn’t have a lot of money, but had a lot of useless stock lying around, he would negotiate as much of his pay in stocks as possible. He could later sell them for a fortune; once he turned the fortunes of the railway around that is. One of his contemporaries, Colonel Allan Magee stated: "You always knew when Sir William Van Horne was approaching his office, even when he had just got off the elevator, was still coming down the corridor, but had not yet turned the corner. The sounds were unmistakable--the heavy tread, the wheeze, the shuffle, the snort, all warnings that a portentous figure was about to loom into view" He had a reputation of being everywhere at once, and he took great pains to cultivate that reputation. At one point he learned that some of his workers were taking pillows from passenger compartments to make beds in the luggage compartment. He arranged for a telegram to meet them in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night and all that telegram said was: “put those pillows back! Van Horne” Even though he had his private car, he would often travel 2nd class as that was the best way to see the operation of your line the way your customers saw it. On one trip, some roughians were taunting a young African American woman with a child that wouldn’t stop crying. He sat quietly until one of the youths got up and slapped the child. Van Horne, who was a man of rather generous proportions launched to his feet, grabbed the youth by the scruff of the collar and said: “Leave that child alone!” When the youth responded with: “Who the hell are you?” Van Horned replied: “Never mind! Be careful how your conduct yourself or I shall throw your off the train” By this time the tempers were flaring, and the testosterone was pumping, but the angry stare of Van Horne caused the youth to back down. Things were very tense until they got into the next station when the youth’s sidekicks hustled him off the train. Van Horne watched as they unloaded on the platform, all the while wondering where his conductors had been during this entire time. Suddenly one of them appeared and ordered Van Horne to duck down:  "Do you know who those men are?" he whispered..."That's Jesse and Frank James and the Younger brothers. Lie as you are or they may take it in their heads to shoot you as the train leaves." The story of how the ‘super’ had bested the most notorious train robbers of all time helped to cement his reputation. It was stories like these that eventually brought him to the attention of the builders of the Canadian Pacific Railway. When Van Horne was hired to take over the Canadian Pacific he was paid $15,000/year, making him the highest paid general manager in North America. As one author put it: -"Van Horne...took the CPR in his hands like a giant whip, cracked it once to announce his presence, cracked it again to loose the sloth and corruption and cracked it a third time simply because the 1st two had felt so good" On Jan. 1 of 1882, Van Horne officially took over and appeared at the end of track in Winnipeg. R.K. Kernighan wrote about Van Horne's first visit to end of track at Flat Creek, Manitoba--the headline: "Massacre at Flat Creek" "...when manager Van Horne strikes the town there is a shaking of bones. He cometh like a blizzard and he goeth out like a lantern. He is the terror of Flat Krik. He shakes them up like an earthquake and they are as frightened of him as if he were old Nick himself. Yet Van Horne is calm and harmless looking. So is a she mule, and so is a buzz saw. you didn't know their inwardness till you go up and get the feel of them. To see Van Horne get out of the car and go softly up the platform, you might think he was an evangelist on his way west to preach temperance to the Mounted Police. But you are soon undeceived. If you are within hearing distance you will have more fun than you ever had in your life before. He calls the first official he comes to just to get his hand in and leads the next one by the car, and pointing eastward informs him that the walking is good as far as St. Paul. To see the rest hunt for their hides and commence scribbling for dear life is a terror. Van Horne wants to know. He is that kind of man. He wants to know why this was not done and why this was done. If the answers are not satisfactory, there is a dark and bloody tragedy enacted right there. During each act, all the characters are killed off and in the last scene the heavy villain is filled with dynamite, struck with a hammer and by the time he has knocked a hole plumb through the sky, and the smoke has cleared away, Van Horne has discharged all the officials and hired them over again at lower figures." Van Horne met with railroad officials in Winnipeg and boasted that he would lay 500 miles of track during the 1882 season. The room was filled with echoes of laughter, but nobody was laughing at the end of the year when he had bettered that claim by some 48 miles. J.H.E. Secretan, the man in charge of the railroad surveys on the prairies complained that: “construction was moving so quickly that grating crews passed him during the night, grading ground that hadn't yet been surveyed” With the efficiency with which Van Horne was laying track the railroad coffers were also quickly being drained. As the railroad struggled to keep up with financing this breakneck pace of track laying, the 1883 season led off with a bang. They began grading in March and were laying track only a few weeks later. My the end the season they had reached the Kicking Horse Pass. During one 42 day period, they laid an average of 5.6 km of track per day. July 28 was a particularly good day with 10.3 km of track laid. Van Horne was just the man the railroad needed, but as he pushed the crews, the finances of the railway were quickly falling into ruin. Eventually the railway would push through those financial challenges and complete the route. William Cornelius Van Horne was the right man at the right time. We are just beginning to tell his story in this episode and I promise he will be an important part of future episodes. Suffice it to say that without his unrelenting leadership the CPR, the tie that binds this nation together coast to coast might never have been completed. Today you can see his likeness in front of the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel. His statue stands in front of one of the railroad hotels that he had built in order to provide high class accommodation to passengers traveling his line, but that is a story for another day. Next week I'll look at the completion of the line as there were still major challenges ahead of the railroaders before the last spike could be hammered. And with that, it's time to wrap this episode up. I want to thank you for sharing your time with me and remember, if you're looking for a hiking or step-on guide, speaker or workshop facilitator, Ward Cameron Enterprises is your source when it comes to the mountain west. We will make sure that your western Canada memories last a lifetime. If you'd like to connect with me directly, you can contact me through the show notes at www.mountainnaturepodcast.com/ep041 or hit me up on twitter @wardcameron.

Welcome to episode 40 of the Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast. I'm your host, Ward Cameron, and I record this on August 16, 2017, we've finally received a bit of rain in the Canadian Rockies. Every drop is a gift at this point and hopefully it will reduce our explosive fire hazard and let us stop worrying about unplanned fires. This week, I take a look at the fire fears in Jasper as an increase in pine beetle killed pines has added vast amounts of fuel to an already tinder dry forest. I also continue the story of Major A.B. Rogers, the surveyor responsible for designing the route that the Canadian Pacific Railway follows as it traverses the Rocky and Selkirk Mountains of western Canada. Pine Beetles Wreak Havoc on Jasper's Forests I just returned from 4-days of hiking in Jasper National Park, and I was horrified by the damage being done by mountain pine beetle in the park. In a summer plagued by an almost endless drought, thousands of dead pine trees simply adds fuel to the potential for a huge fire in the park. Mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) is a natural pest of the mountain forests of western Canada and the U.S. but historically they were only found in very low numbers in the park. The beetles create tunnels behind the bark in the layer of cells called the phloem, the thin layer of cells that transmit sugars within the plant. As they mine this layer, they may end up killing the tree, but they also carry with them a blue stain fungus. This fungus finishes the job by interrupting the ability of nutrients to move up and down the tree trunk. It also stains the wood blue, destroying any potential commercial value that it might have. If you have any doubt about the impact of a warming climate, just take a drive towards the town of Jasper. Warmer temperatures have allowed the beetles to explode in numbers and infest enormous numbers of lodgepole pine as well as western white pine. The lack of sufficiently cold winters is coupled with decades of fire suppression to provide plenty of food for them to take advantage of. The beetle is now expanding its range eastward out of the Rockies while also affecting trees at higher and higher elevation. As populations grow, the beetles disperse in one of two ways. In the first, dispersal within stands, they usually just travel a short distance, up to 30 metres or so, but when they move above the canopy into a long-distance dispersal, they can travel hundreds of kilometres. Long-distance dispersals are difficult to stop, so many of the management decisions are based on stopping dispersal within stands as the infestation spreads from tree to tree. Prior to fire suppression, many of the valleys in the mountains would have had far fewer trees as the flames would kiss the forests every 15 years or so. Today, we've created a massive monoculture of huge stands of lodgepole pine and the beetles are loving them. The simplest solution to this problem is to bring more fire, much more fire to the landscape to try to restore some of that balance. Back in episode 35, I talked about how fire is an integral part of the mountain landscape. The wildlife benefit from fire, the plant communities are refreshed and the mosaic of forest stands of different ages also helps to challenge insect pests. These regular fires, also help to protect communities like Jasper from the potential for large conflagrations like the one that the town is currently afraid could occur. Because of the huge amount of fuel that has built up over time, these fires may need to be tempered by some selective logging in areas that are too sensitive to burn. In some areas, the beetles have killed 70% of the lodgepole pine trees and the infection is spreading quickly. Experts believe that the number of infected trees could increase exponentially over the next few years, continually increasing the fire risk to communities like Jasper. Surprisingly, at a meeting in Jasper recently CAO Mark Fercho talked about his experience fighting the pine beetle when he worked in Prince George, B.C. He was quoted in the Fitzhugh newspaper as saying: “It’s the green trees that are full of beetles, not the red ones,” Each one of those live trees can infect a dozen or more additional trees. The area of infected trees has tripled since 2014 to some 21,500 ha. Back in the day, when we had proper winters, it was the cold that helped keep the beetles at bay. On average, mid-winter temperatures in the range of -37 C are sufficient to kill 50% of the beetle larvae. Earlier in the season, temperatures as low as -20 C can also be effective. Communities like Prince George were forced to cut down thousands of trees in order to reduce the fire hazard in and around the community. They followed that by a replanting program to help replace the lost trees. Standing dead trees, like those left behind by pine beetles are capable of sending sparks high into the sky allowing fires to spread. Natural fires are not quite as explosive simply because they lack the tinder dry, standing, dead wood. Jasper has a lot of work ahead of it, and the character of the place will also change. If Parks is able to combine increased prescribed burns along with selective clearing of standing dead trees, the future may not be as bleak as it seems at the moment. Across North America, fire experts are beginning to realize that the biggest challenges faced by most forests is NOT forest fires, but the lack of them. More and more fire ecologists are suggesting that fires be simply left to burn themselves out - at least those that don't threaten human lives or property. These same scientists suggest that if some of the money being spent on suppression were actually devoted to fireproofing homes in communities then these towns may actually be much safer than they currently are. With changing climates and increased beetle expansion, fires are coming. I applaud the work Parks Canada is doing in recognizing the growing challenges that our western forests are experiencing and, for Jasper, I hope that they have received some of the rainfall that finally soaked my hiking group over the past few days. I'm happy to walk in the rain, and even the snow that we had yesterday, if it helps to reduce the fire hazard that we have all been worried about in the mountain west. A.B. Roger's Line Last week I talked about Major A.B. Rogers and his quest to find a route through the Bow Valley and the Selkirk Mountains in B.C. Well, by the end of the 1882 season he'd found a route…or had he? Unfortunately for the Major, his unlikeable personality meant that he had a long line of rivals that considered him to be all bluster and no substance…and then there was the fact that he was…oh, what's that word? Oh, yah…American! Even back then, there was that inherent rivalry, although we would see more American involvement in this line before the last spike would be driven home. By the start of the 1883 season, nobody BUT Rogers had actually traversed his route through the Selkirks, the Kicking Horse Pass route was far from finished, and finally, there was the matter of some inconvenient tunnels to be corrected. All in all, it was just another frantic year of exploring, confirming, and changing the slowly coalescing line on a map that would, just a few years down the road, become the tie that binds this nation together. In addition, Rogers was acting as a pathfinder as opposed to a proper surveyor. The fact that he forced his way through some mad wilderness, that didn't mean a train could follow his trail of tobacco stains. Any potential route still needed axe men, transit men, and the levelers before a real route could be confirmed. It really needed more than that. It needed a sober investigation to prove that the route down the Bow River, through the Kicking Horse Pass, and across the Selkirks was indeed possible. Too much money and time were being invested in this commitment to risk any chance of error. Rogers had his detractors. Perhaps it was his gruff nature, or his penny-pinching way of economizing on supplies, leading many of his expeditions to retreat on the verge of starvation. One of those was Jon Egan, the western Superintendent of the railway. He was unwavering in his assessment of the route through the Selkirks: "I want to tell you positively that there is no pass in the Selkirk Range...It has to be crossed in the same manner as any other mountain. The track must go up one side and down the other." At the same time, the Governor General of Canada, the Marquis of Lorne, the husband of Princess Louise (after whom Lake Louise is named), also was concerned about the potentially steep gradients that might be involved, but he was more concerned with the time constraints. As he put it: "It would be better to have them than further delay, with the N. Pacific gaining Traffic." Any fan of TV shows like Hell on Wheels, coincidentally filmed along the route of the Canadian Pacific Railway, can understand the focus on time and money. This was the biggest investment this young nation had embarked upon and, quite frankly, we couldn't afford it. Time was money and every dollar spent was not easily replaced down the road. While some may have underestimated Rogers because of his American birth, there was one American that nobody dared underestimate, the General Manager of the line, William Cornelius Van Horne. Van Horne is the star of the show, and I'll devote an entire episode to sharing his story but at this point, he pondered: "we must take no chances on this season's work because any failure to reach the desired results and have the line ready to put under contract will be serious if not disastrous. I think it important that you should take an extra engineer, who is fully competent, to take charge of a party in case of sickness or failure of any of your regular men." Van Horne was also concerned about the fact that Rogers often pushed his workers in difficult conditions with few rations. He added: "It is also exceedingly important that an ample supply of food be provided and that the quantity be beyond a possibility of a doubt. "Very serious reports have been made to the Government and in other quarters about the inadequacy of the supplies provided last year and a good many other reports have been made tending to discredit our work. The officials in Ottawa, as a consequence look upon our reports with a good deal of suspicion... "We cannot expect to get good men for that work at as low or lower rates than are paid further East and we must feed the men properly in order to get good service. It will be cheaper for the Company to pay for twice the amount of supplies actually necessary than to lose a day's work for lack of any." To understand his caution, we need to remember that the ribbon of steel that was the Canadian Pacific was winding westward day after day after day, mile after mile, creeping ever closer to this question mark on the map. Every rail cost money. Every railroad tie cost money. The further west the line progressed, the more committed they were to a route for which some still harbored doubt. Despite this dispatch, Van Horne fully trusted Rogers, he just came from a very different point of view. He defended Rogers to a businessman in New York: "There has been a good deal of feeling among some of the Canadian Engineers particularly those who have been accustomed to the Government Service against Major Rogers, partly from natural jealousy of one who is looked upon as an outsider, partly from his lively treatment of those whom he looks upon as shirkers or 'tender feet' and partly from his somewhat peculiar methods of securing economy, but more that all perhaps from his having succeeded, as is supposed, in doing what was unsuccessfully attempted by the Gov't Engineers, namely, in getting through the Rocky and Selkirk Mountains by a direct line. "I believe him to be capable and I know him to be thoroughly honest. He is something of an enthusiast and is disposed to undertake himself and put upon his men more severe duties than most engineers are accustomed to and I have reason to believe that in his anxiety to economize in every possible way he has gone too far in some cases and that a good deal of unnecessary discomfort, although no suffering, has resulted from it." The route was to be scrutinized from east to west, beginning with the area closest to the westward moving rails, the Bow Valley, beginning at Fort Calgary and extending westward. Charles Shaw was asked by James Ross, the western division manager to look at Rogers line covering the first 60 miles to the west of Calgary. He was unimpressed. He stated: "It's a nightmare to me and I'm afraid it will hold us back a year." Shaw felt he could improve on the line when Roger's who was present at the time leaped to his feet and blurted: "That's the best line that can be got through the country. Who in hell are you, anyway?" Undeterred, Shaw claimed that if he could not only find a better line, but: "If I don't save at least half a million dollars over the estimated cost of construction, I won't ask for pay for my season's work." There was another tunnel to the west, around a mountain in Banff. Van Horne knew it would delay work so Van Horne demanded: "Look at that," the general manager exclaimed. "Some infernal idiot has put a tunnel in there. I want you to go up and take it out." He was talking to his locating engineer J.H.A. Secretan, never a fan of Rogers, yet Secretan responded: "Mr. Van Horne, those mountains are in the way, and the rivers don't all run right for us. While we are at it we might as well fix them, too" In the end, Roger's nemesis Shaw, found a way to just go around the mountain which still bears the name 'Tunnel Mountain" in Banff although the tunnel was never actually built. Shaw was very critical for Rogers because he missed this option. He stated: "Roger's location here was the most extraordinary blunder I have ever known in the way of engineering" To make matters worse, Shaw was now sent to examine Rogers route through the Selkirks. This was easier said than done. To get to the Selkirks, you first needed to cross the Kicking Horse…and it held its own special brand of challenges. One did not just stroll, down the Kicking Horse, no more than Albert Rogers strolled, er crawled up. To traverse the Kicking Horse, you had to survive the Golden Staircase. Essentially, you had to survive a two-foot wide trail carved into the cliffs several hundred feet above the raging waters of the Kicking Horse River. The surveyors that plied these mountains were some of the toughest men these mountains have ever seen, but some were so terrified by the Golden Staircase that they would literally shut their eyes and hold on to the tail of their horse for guidance. As Shaw descended, he encountered a packer with a single horse ascending the staircase while he had an entire packtrain. As they mentally went through the arithmetic, one horse, several horses, one horse, several horses. In the end, they had no other option than to push the one horse off the cliff to its death. You simply can't turn a horse around on a 24 inch ledge. To attempt it risked spooking the entire pack train and risking much more dire consequences. So Shaw gets to the bottom and he bumps into the old man. I know, what are the odds. An entire mountain range and…oops, what brings you here. Rogers, in his usual congenial manner offered up a pleasant greeting that went something like: "Who the hell are you, and where the hell do you think you're going?" Thankfully, Shaw was a more reasonable man…or maybe not. The exchange continued. "It's none of your damned business to either question. Who the hell are you, anyway?" "I am Major Rogers." "My name is Shaw. I've been sent by Van Horne to examine and report on the pass through the Selkirks." That was a name that Rogers knew. Rogers was not a man to forgive a slight and he virtually exploded: "You're the…Prairie Gopher that has come into the mountains and ruined my reputation as an Engineer" Shaw was a big man, a much bigger man than Rogers and so he wasted no time jumping off his horse and grabbed Rogers  by the throat, shaking him and threatening? "Another word out of you and I'll throw you in the river and drown you" Rogers, not a big fan of water since his incident in Bath Creek in last week's episode, decided to back down. He claimed that he had been let down by an engineer and agreed to show him the route through the Selkirks. Rogers dragged Shaw up the Beaver River to the divide and then down to the Illecillewaet River. Shaw constantly criticized the route. At every turn, Shaw was there to dismiss Rogers and demean his progress. Simple things could add fuel to the fire…even former fires. As the story goes, Rogers gestured to the great Illecillewaet Glacier and exclaimed: "Shaw, I was the first white man to ever set eyes on this pass and this panorama." Shortly after this happened, Shaw found the remains of a campfire along with some rotted tent poles and asked Rogers where they had come from. The hatred continued in the exchange. Rogers replied: "How strange! I never noticed those things before. I wonder who could have camped here." To which Shaw countered: "These things were left here years ago by Moberly when he found this pass!" This was a world of egos and it usually seemed that one surveyor could never praise commend or support the work of another. Rogers was an easy man to hate and it brought him great grief. Stories like this sowed doubt in the Canadian Pacific and this pass had to be carefully scrutinized before the line could continue. After Shaw departed Rogers, heading eastward towards the Kicking Horse Pass, they encountered a second party dispatched to check up on Roger's route, led by none other than Sandford Fleming himself. Fleming had been dispatched by George Stephen, one of the two main financiers of the railroad; and if Stephen suggested an outing, you kitted up and headed for the hills. Shaw enjoyed telling Fleming that the route was impassable and that Rogers was a charlatan. As it turned out, Fleming ignored most of Shaw's stories because he had just descended the Kicking Horse and it had been the most horrifying experience of his many years in the wilderness. Nothing could possibly be worse…or could it? Descending the 'golden staircase, he later stated that he could not look down. If you did: "gives one an uncontrollable dizziness, to make the head swim and the view unsteady, even with men of tried nerve. I do not think that I can ever forget that terrible walk; it was the greatest trial I ever experienced." It was also a scorching hot summer, much like this one, and he added:  "I, myself, felt as if I had been dragged through a brook, for I was without a dry shred on me," Now let's back this up a little. All this happened before they met Rogers. As they continued on, Shaw's allegations faded and they began to recover from the terror of the Kicking Horse Pass. After connecting with Rogers, he dragged them up to the pass and Fleming, happy to see a way over the ramparts pulled out a box of cigars and toasted Rogers accomplishments and proposed that a Canadian Alpine Club be formed. Fleming was immediately voted in as president. The concept did not really take shape though until 1906 when former railroad surveyor A.O. Wheeler and reporter Elizabeth Parker took this spark and created the Alpine Club of Canada on March 27, 1906. Of course, this is a story for another episode. Things took a turn for the worse when they began the descent down the western side, into the dense interior rainforest of the Columbia Mountains. Along with Fleming was his former Minister George Grant and the experience was so harrowing that Grant would never return to such a wilderness again. As he described it: "It rained almost every day. Every night the thunder rattled over the hills with terrific reverberations, and fierce flashes lit up weirdly [sic] tall trees covered with wreaths of moss, and the forms of tired men sleeping by smoldering camp fires." In the following 5 days, they travelled only 27 km. How bad could it be? According to Grant, they pushed their way: "through acres of densest underbrush where you cannot see a yard ahead, wading through swamps and beaver dams, getting scratched from eyes to ankles with prickly thorns, scaling precipices, falling over moss- covered rocks into pitfalls, your packs almost strangling you, losing the rest of the party while you halt to feel all over whether any bones are broken, and then experiencing in your inmost soul the unutterable loneliness of savage mountains." Essentially, a good time was had by all. In this time of catered tourism with 5 million visitors a year swarming over routes that caused terror, hardship, privation, and death. It's important at times to stop, step back and wonder…if these forbearers could see what we have done with their legacy what would they think? As they see the landscape trampled and the wildlife sequestered, what would people like Rogers and Fleming say? They saw the landscape in its rawest form when even the idea of a national railway was simply a fanciful idea. Today, we don't have room for a single grizzly. We think it's more important for our dog to pee than it is for black and grizzly bears to be able to feed on the single food that allows them to exist on the landscape. Rogers was a miserable curmudgeon. He loved neither man nor beast, but he loved one thing…wilderness. As a guide, I spend a great deal of time relating the stories of those that came before. At the same time, I've written three books on the trails of western Canada and designed a 7-day mountain bike race that both Bike Magazine and Mountain Bike Magazine called 'North America's Toughest Race'. This meant that I had to explore thousands of kilometres alone in the wilderness. During this time, I often reflected on the experiences of these explorers and pioneers…the men that came before. To them, the wilderness was not something to be appreciated, it was something to be conquered…or was it? People often ask me about these men. I reply that" "Lots of people want to know what these men thought when they tore through that last tangle of wilderness and encountered an emerald green lake that had a glacier capped peak at the far end. To the left was a sheer vertical wall, and to the right was a matching vertical wall. What did they really think? Damn, another dead end!" These mountains were not something to be appreciated, they were something to be survived. Yet today, we see them with an eye of entitlement. The journals of these explorers describe a landscape of hardship and terror, but also one full of wonder and opportunity. As I look at the decisions being made just on local levels when it comes to preserving these landscapes and the ecosystems and animals that call them home. I fear that I may be one of the storytellers writing the last chapter… chroniclers of the end of our local wilderness and the animals that define it.  And with that said, it's time to wrap this episode up. I want to thank you for sharing your time with me and if you like the stories, please share the episodes with your friends. Stories are always best when shared. At Ward Cameron Enterprises, we sell wow! As a tour operator for the last 30 years, we can make sure your visit to the mountain west is one that you'll never forget. We specialize in hiking and step-on guides as well as speaking programs, nature and culture workshops and guide training. Drop us a line at info@wardcameron.com if you'd like to book your mountain experience. Today I took clients up to Mirror Lake and along the Highline Trail in Lake Louise. It's a classic trail that offers the option to crest the Big Beehive and offer panoramic views for miles. I'll post a picture in the show notes at www.mountainnaturepodcast.com/ep040.

The Bears Bite Back I hate it when the inevitable happens! We've been talking for weeks about people entering closed areas during the most critical time of the year for black and grizzly bears to put on fat for the winter months. I've witnessed numerous people violating the closures and have called for a wildlife ambassador program for Canmore, similar in some ways to the Wildlife Guardians program that has been pioneered by Banff National Park. If you might be interested in getting involved in such a program, drop me a line at info@wardcameron.com or leave a comment in the show notes for this episode. This week, this all came to a head. This week an 18 year old Canmore woman decided to violate the closure in order to take her dog for a walk. Keep in mind that any time there is a close encounter with a bear and you have a dog, there is a chance that the encounter will escalate simply because a snarling dog can be perceived as a threat by a bear. She was walking the trail that runs beside the Rundle Forebay when the attack occurred. She met what is believed to have been a black bear, and the bear made contact resulting in some superficial injuries. She was treated at hospital and released…for now! For the sake of a walk to let her dog pee, she now faces both enormous fines and jail time. Her family and friends dispute the contention that she was in a closed area, stating that it was an open area connecting the Highline far connector along the reservoir. Alberta Environment and Parks insist however she was indeed in a closed area. The entire Rundle Forebay area is closed and it is well publicized within the local area. According to a story in the Rocky Mountain Outlook, Sherene Kaw, assistant director of communications for Alberta Justice and the Solicitor General indicated that the woman did NOT have bear spray and that, while the dog was on leash, she released the leash when the attack occurred. While it can't be definitively determined if the bear was a black or grizzly, no grizzlies were known to be feeding in the area, at least based upon trail camera evidence. This incident really showcases the need for a Wildlife Ambassador program in Canmore. In most years, it may only last for 6-8 weeks. The buffaloberries only last until the first frost, and then they all fall from the bush. Programs like this must operate in conjunction with programs focused on reducing attractants within the townsite. In 2015, when the buffaloberry crop failed, the town saw a huge influx of bears attracted to our flowering fruit trees. Since then, Banff, Jasper and Canmore have developed various programs designed to help reduce the problem. Buffaloberries are no different than any other crop. They need the right conditions at the right time, and if we don't get them, we get a failure in the crop. This year and last were bumper crops, but 2015 was an utter failure. This young woman is being publicly vilified. Her identity is currently being protected and I support that. The tendency of internet vigilantism has no role in this story. Her life is changing by the moment. It is NOT confirmed at this point, whether she is guilty, but let's set that aside for the moment. I truly believe that her point of view has shifted dramatically in the last 48 hours. Instead of vilifiying her, why not bring her into the conversation? It's easy to pour on hate but let's put this into perspective. She's a kid who, as the story currently stands, did a dumb thing. I personally would like to spend some time simply talking with her to understand her point of view at the time, and how it may have changed since that encounter. Protecting corridors is not going well. Social media is composed of adversarial groups unable to see any other viewpoint. I understand that completely. I find it difficult to comprehend the decisions that many people make when their actions do not match their stated beliefs. So let's talk. If found guilty, she faces the potential for large fines and even jail time. The fact that the spokesman for the Alberta government is in the Solicitor General's office indicates that there may be plans to make an example of her in the courts. So many of us that are expelling comments on social media are, well how do I say it, more experienced. How do we reach that younger generation which is far more likely to violate closures simply from a feeling of invincibility and entitlement? Maybe we just talk to them. I would love to talk with you. Please reach out. If you know her, please have her contact me. I will protect your privacy 100% because I think you have something to add to the conversation. Let's put away the pitchforks and look at this as another chance to build a bridge to a community that is an important part of the conversation. Just sayin' And if we're keeping score, this is not a new story. A colleague of mine that is interested in helping coordinate the wildlife guardian program pointed me to a Calgary Sun article from 2014 that looked into the same issue in Canmore. In this story, there was an aggressive bear was known to be in the area. It had, in a similar situation, had a minor infraction where it bit the finger of a Danish tourist. It was a minor encounter, but bears sell newspapers and the story was all over the media and airwaves. Just like this year, yellow flagging tape and signs indicated that the same areas were closed to access. And in case you're wondering, the same closures will happen next year, and the next, and the next. However in this case, Fish and Wildlife officers placed automated cameras at the main access points to the closed area. What did they find? In just 8 days they photographed some 60 people completely ignoring the closure and entering the restricted area. In one case, an entire family with Mom, Dad, one kid on a bike and a burley in tow went under the flagging tape closing a trail and continued on their merry way. This is the world we live in. it's time we embrace the conversation, create a visible wildlife guardian program, provide eyes and provide ears for Conservation Officers. We can help remove the potential for people to 'anonymously' enter closed areas. Guardians would be there for education and outreach. The goal would be to help Parks keep both people AND bears safe. We may find other areas where we can assist in keeping people and wildlife safe down the road. I'm a believer in dialogue and collaboration. I don't know how this will eventually manifest itself, but I'm willing to do what I can do help reduce the challenges we are experiencing this year in the future. Maybe Bear 148 will be one of the last to be removed from the landscape on our watch. Please remember, any time that Parks has to make a decision like the one they did with 148, it's a gut wrenching one. Nothing moves forward without their help and support. Let's build bridges towards viable corridors. Next up…Hells Bells Rogers. Hells Bells Rogers Last week I talked about railroad surveyor Walter Moberly. He was a pivotal figure in the early days of the Canadian Pacific construction. Another surveyor of note was American Major A.B. Rogers. Railroad surveyors were an independently minded lot. Each would select one route for the railroad - their route - and they would defend that to the death. "Nobody could possibly have a better route than the one I selected" However there were a few things that the surveyors agreed upon. One was that the Selkirk Mountains in the interior of British Columbia were impossible to put a train through. Even Walter Moberly planned to go around the Selkirks rather than through them. Well clearly we needed to find someone with an open mind - and we found that in Major A.B. Rogers. Rogers had earned his reputation as an Indian fighter during a Sioux uprising in 1862 during which he rose to the rank of Major. Later, while working as a surveyor for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, he earned a reputation as a man that could find the best route for a new rail line. He was not a well-loved man. He was described by the CPR's locating engineer, J.H.E. Secretan as: "A short, sharp, snappy little chap with long Dundreary whiskers. He was a master of picturesque profanity, who continually chewed tobacco and was an artist of expectoration. He wore overalls with pockets behind, and had a plug of tobacco in one pocket and a sea biscuit in the other, which was his idea of a season's provisions for an engineer." He also had a reputation for heading out a little short on supplies, if not faculties, and many of his expeditions returned on the verge of starvation. At one point, the general manager of the railroad, William Cornelius Van Horne tried to urge him to bring more supplies. The exchange apparently went as follows: Van Horne stated: "Look here, Major, I hear your men won't stay with you, they say you starve them." The Major replied with: "Tain't so, Van." Van Horne continued: "Well, I'm told you feed 'em on soup made out of hot water flavoured with old ham canvas covers." To this, Rogers replied: "Tain't so, Van. I didn't never have no hams!" James Jerome Hill, more well known as the builder of the Great Northern Railroad in the U.S. was also a part of the Canadian Pacific project and he hired Rogers to find a shorter route between Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and Savona's Ferry in British Columbia. The only way to do that would be to go straight through the impenetrable Selkirks as well as through the southern Rockies. While the Rockies had seen more exploration both as part of the Railroad project, but also earlier as part of the fur trade, Rogers would need to link one of these passes with a route through the Selkirks. Jim Hill offered Rogers a bonus of $5,000 and his name on the pass if he could find a route through the Selkirks. Rogers scoured the journals of explorers and surveyors like Walter Moberly to look for some hint of where he might begin to explore for a potential pass. In Moberly's journal, it looked like there might be a possibility by following the Illecillewaet River. Rogers took note of a particular passage in Moberly's journal from 1865: "Friday, July 13th--Rained hard most of the day. Perry returned from his trip up the east fork of the Ille-cille-waut River. He did not reach the divide, but reported a low, wide valley as far as he went. His exploration has not settled the point whether it would be possible to get through the mountains by this valley but I fear not. He ought to have got on the divide, and his failure is a great disappointment to me. He reports a most difficult country to travel through, owing to fallen timber and underbrush of very thick growth..." In the spring of 1881, the Major, along with his favourite nephew Albert Rogers, and 10 Indians headed out towards the Selkirks. While Albert was his given name, the Major generally just referred to him as that Damn Little Cuss. It took them 22 days to reach Kamloops, and from there, the 'Gold Ranges', today known as the Monashees also had to be crossed before they even arrived at the start of the Selkirks. That ate up another 14 days. After spending another 22 days on a raft on the Columbia River, they finally reached the mouth of the Illecillewaet River where the real work began. Each man hoisted a 45-kg pack and they slowly tried to make their way upwards. They went through mile after mile of the most horrific plant to ever grace the planet Earth - Devil's club. If you've never had the pleasure of Devil's club, imagine a six to seven foot woody shrub with huge maple-style leaves and everything from the leaves to the trunk is armed with razor sharp thorns that can easily tear through a pair of canvas pants. So terrible was Devil's club that entire stretches of the railroad were rerouted to go around the worst patches. You couldn't even hack through with a machete. As they made their way through swamp and up vertical rock faces. Albert Rogers later stated that: "many a time I wished myself dead," and added that "the Indians were sicker then we, a good deal." The going never got easier. On numerous occassions, they had to cross bridges of snow suspeded 50 metres above the foaming water of the Illecillewaet River. By this time, their supplies were also beginning to run low, and the cold nights sent a chill right through their thin blankets. They clung to the lower slopes of a mountain that would later be named Mount Sir Donald after Donald Smith, one of the two chief financiers of the railway. "Being gaunt as greyhounds, with lungs and muscles of the best, we soon reached the timber-line, where the climbing became very difficult. We crawled along the ledges, getting toe-hold here and a finger hold there, keeping in the shade as much as possible and kicking toe-holes in the snow crust. When several hundred feet above the timber line, we followed a narrow ledge around a point that was exposed to the sun. (Here four Indians fell over the ledge.) It was in the evening when we reached the summit, very much exhausted. Crawling along this ridge, we came to a small ledge protected from the wind by a great perpendicular rock. Here we decided to wait until the crust again formed on the snow and the morning light enabled us to travel. At ten o'clock, it was still twilight, on the peaks, but the valleys below were filled with the deepest gloom. We wrapped ourselves in our blankets and nibbled at our dry meat and bannock, stamping our feet in the snow to keep them from freezing, and taking turns whipping each other with our pack straps to keep up circulation." Now doesn't that sound like a good time? In the end, they found a stream which split into two channels, with one branch heading west and the other east. It looked like they might have found a pass through the Selkirks, but a shortage of supplies once again forced them to retreat without exploring the western side of the divide. Rogers also realized that the survey crews were rapidly approaching the Bow River valley and he had still not explored the Kicking Horse Pass yet. One of the other things that most of the surveyors agreed upon was that the Bow River valley was the worst possible route to put a train. Not only did it force the line to traverse the Selkirks, but it also meant that they had to go through a horrible pass to the west of present-day Lake Louise, Alberta called the Kicking Horse. Despite these difficulties, this was the route finally chosen and that's a decision we've dissected for more than a century. The long and short of it was that this was the shortest route surveyed and the promoters hoped it would be the cheapest, but that turned out to be completely wrong. We also have to remember that this was a sovereign tool and this route was also the most southerly. They hoped that it would be far enough south to discourage American spur lines from moving into what was Canadian territory. At least in this case it proved true. With the rush towards the Kicking Horse Pass, Rogers party rerouted towards the Bow River valley. Now Rogers, was more of a pathfinder at this point and most of the proper surveyors, the men with the actual instruments necessary to lay out the line, were waiting at about the point visitors to the Rockies would enter the mountains as they drove west from Calgary. The Major came from the south and west and met up with them, and he sent that Damn Little Cuss to come up the Kicking Horse River from the west. He didn't think twice about sending Albert, a 21-year old greenhorn that had never before even been to the Rockies to attempt a task that had never before been accomplished by a non-native. Even the local natives avoided the dreary valley of the Kicking Horse because there was very little in the way of game to hunt - and therefore no real reason to hang about. Needless to say, Albert never showed. The Major paced like a caged animal. He said: "If anything happens to that Damn Little Cuss, I'll never show my face in St. Paul again." He sent out search parties in all directions with orders to fire a volley of shots in the air when they found him. One of those search parties descended the Kicking Horse Pass from the west and finally, they stumbled upon Albert Rogers…literally. Barely moving, and on the verge of starvation, his progress had slowed to a crawl. The only thing he had eaten in the previous 2 days was a porcupine that he had clubbed to death and picked clean right down to the quills. They picked up this pitiful sight, put him on a horse, made their way to the summit of the pass and fired a volley of shots in the air. Apparently the Major road in on his big white horse and as Wilson later recalled: "He plainly choked with emotion, then, as his face hardened again he took an extra-vicious tobacco juice shot at the nearest tree and almost snarled...'Well, you did get here did you, you damn little cuss?' There followed a second juice eruption and then, as he swung on his heel, the Major shot back over his shoulder; 'You're alright, are you, you damn little cuss?'" And with that Albert's face apparently exploded into a grin. He knew the old man better than anyone else and knew that he could never let his real emotions be seen. But the say the double-speed eruptions of tobacco juice from between his big sideburns said more about his emotional state than any words ever could have and nothing more was ever said about the matter. One of the men waiting for the Major was a young punk named Tom Wilson. Wilson was one of those characters that seemed to have the incredible knack of timing. He had the ability to be in the right places at the right time in history. He had begun his career as a Northwest Mounted Policeman and had joined the great march west of the mounties in 1875. He then resigned to join the first survey crews through the Rockies. He described Rogers as he arrived to meet the survey party: "His condition--dirty doesn't begin to describe it. His voluminous sideburns waved like flags in a breeze; his piercing eyes seemed to look and see through everything at once...Every few moments a stream of tobacco juice erupted from between the side-burns. I'll bet there were not many trees alongside the trail that had escaped that deadly tobacco juice aim." Rogers was a typical workaholic, and always had to accomplish more in a day then was practical. The season was getting late and so he pushed the survey crews to move faster. He then declared that he was going to ride out ahead to explore the route and asked for a volunteer. As Wilson again put it: "every man present had learned, in three days, to hate the Major with real hatred. He had no mercy on horses or men--he had none on himself. The labourers hated him for the way he drove them and the packers for that and the way he abused the horses--never gave their needs a thought." Wilson, in the end, agreed to accompany him. Eventually, they came to a river which was swollen and muddy with the spring runoff. Generally, during the summer season, river levels can rise dramatically during the daytime due to the increased pace of snowmelt during the sunny days. At night the water levels usually dropped as the cooler evening reduced the rate of melt. Tom suggested they wait for morning to cross and the old man laughed at him: "Afraid of it are you? Want the old man to show you how to ford it?" The Major spurred his horse into the river at which point the horse was pulled out from under him and he disappeared beneath the raging water. All Tom could do was grab a branch, stick it in the water where the old man had disappeared, go fishing and hope for the best. He was rewarded with a welcome tug and when the Major pulled himself onto the shoreline, all he could say was: "Blue Jesus! Light a fire and then get that damned horse. Blue Jesus, it's cold!" From that point on, when the river would be dirty and muddy with the spring runoff, the surveyors would joke that it was dirty because the old man must be having another bath. In fact to this day it's still known as Bath Creek on maps. Wilson left the survey early this year, swearing never to come back to these God forsaken hills. Rogers laughed at him saying: "You may think you're not coming back but you'll be here next year and I'll be looking for you," All that winter, Tom tried to fight something that just seemed to be tugging at him. Have you ever noticed how sometimes you choose life, and sometimes life chooses you. Before Tom knew what had happened, he found himself back in Fort Benton signing up for one more year on the survey. Tom was hired to pack supplies from present-day Canmore, to the summit of the Kicking Horse Pass. In August of that year, Tom was camped near to present-day village of Lake Louise. He had been hearing the sound of thunder under a clear blue sky. When he met some Stoney Natives he asked them what the sound was: On individual by the name of Gold-seeker told him that it was avalanches off of Snow Mountain high above the Lake of Little Fishes. The next day Tom had the native take him up to the lake and as he became the first non-native to lay eyes on what we now call Lake Louise, he wrote in his journal: "As God is my judge, I never in all my explorations saw such a matchless scene." Tom called the lake Emerald Lake because of its beautiful colour, but the railroad promptly changed the name to Lake Louise after Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria. This also gives you an idea of where Alberta takes its name as well. She was married to the Governor General of Canada. The very next day, Tom bumped into the Major for the very first time that year and the old man let out a guffaw: "Blue Jesus! I knew you'd be back. I knew you'd be back. You'll never leave these mountains again as long as you live. They've got you now." He was right. Tom was on hand for the hammering of the last spike. You can see his stetson and mustache peering above the crowd from the back in the most iconic photograph of the event. He then went on to start the first guiding operation in the Canadian Rockies and gave many of the areas other enduring guides their start. He lived into the 1930s and is buried in the little cemetery in the town of Banff. Also this summer, Rogers route through the Selkirks was confirmed, and for breaching the final barrier for the Canadian Pacific Railway, he received his bonus of $5,000. He never cashed the cheque. When the general manager of the railroad, William Cornelius Van Horne cornered him to find out why he hadn't cashed it, he blurted out: "What! Cash the cheque? I wouldn't take a hundred thousand dollars for it. It is framed and hangs in my brother's house in Waterville, Minnesota, where my nephews and nieces can see it. I'm not in this for the money." Rogers more than most, really embodied what drove these surveyors. It was not money, it was immortality, and he got that in the naming of Rogers Pass. Next week, I'll look at the challenges in confirming his route as well as the difficulties that the Kicking Horse Pass would present to the railroad.

Mike and Jim play and discuss his ten favourite songs.

Mike and Jim play and discuss his ten favourite songs.

"At a time when we must adapt to the changing character of conflict, this is a serious book on a serious issue that can give us the edge we need.”—General James Mattis, USMC, Ret."Left of Bang offers a crisp lesson in survival in which Van Horne and Riley affirm a compelling truth: It's better to detect sinister intentions early than respond to violent actions late. Left of Bang helps readers avoid the bang."—Gavin de Becker, bestselling author of The Gift of Fear"Rare is the book that is immediately practical and interesting. Left of Bang accomplishes this from start to finish. There is something here for everyone in the people business and we are all in the people business."—Joe Navarro, bestselling author of What Every BODY is Saying."Left of Bang is a highly important and innovative book that offers a substantial contribution to answering the challenge of Fourth Generation war (4GW)."—William S. Lind, author of Maneuver Warfare Handbook"Like Sun Tzu's The Art of War, Left of Bang isn't just for the military. It's a must read for anyone who has ever had a gut feeling that something's not quite right...be it walking down the street, sitting in a corporate boardroom, or even entering an empty home."-- Steven Pressfield, bestselling author of The Lion's Gate, The Warrior Ethos and Gates of Fire“An amazing book! Applying the lessons learned during the longest war in American history, and building on seminal works like The Gift of Fear and On Combat, this book provides a framework of knowledge that will bring military, law enforcement, and individual citizens to new levels of survival mindset and performance in life-and-death situations. Left of Bang is an instant classic.”--Lt. Colonel Dave Grossman, U.S. Army Ret., author of On Combat and On Killing-- You walk into a restaurant and get an immediate sense that you should leave.-- You are about to step onto an elevator with a stranger and something stops you.-- You interview a potential new employee who has the resume to do the job, but something tells you not to offer a position.These scenarios all represent LEFT OF BANG, the moments before something bad happens. But how many times have you talked yourself out of leaving the restaurant, getting off the elevator, or getting over your silly “gut” feeling about someone? Is there a way to not just listen to your inner protector more, but to actually increase your sensitivity to threats before they happen?Legendary Marine General James Mattis asked the same question and issued a directive to operationalize the Marine Corps' Combat Hunter program. A comprehensive and no-nonsense approach to heightening each and every one of our gifts of fear, LEFT OF BANG is the result.Website-www.cp-journal.comAbout the AuthorPatrick Van Horne is the founder and CEO of The CP Journal, a behavioral analysis training company. His firm provides training support to the U.S. military, federal and local law enforcement agencies and the private security industry. Van Horne is a former infantry officer in the United States Marine Corps, earning the rank of Captain before returning to the private sector. His company's training programs are focused on teaching people how to prevent violent acts from occurring and finding attackers hiding in plain sight. Jason A. Riley is currently a Major in the United States Marine Corps Reserve, with over six years on active duty. While with 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, he served as an infantry platoon commander, company executive officer, and company commander, and deployed twice to Iraq with the 24th and 22nd Marine Expeditionary Units. He also served as a combat advisor to the Afghan National Army in an eastern province of Afghanistan. From 2009 until 2011, he was a mobile training team leader Officer-in-Charge with the Combat Hunter program at the School of Infantry (West). There, he developed training courses and taught behavioral profiling, among other duties. He currently serves with a reserve unit at Camp Pendleton, California. Jason is also pursuing his PhD.

Mission encre noire Tome 19 Chapitre 252 La dernière guerre de Bertrand Gervais paru en 2017 aux éditions XYZ. Un couple s'en va t'en guerre ou presque. Lui est écrivain, avec Mathilde ils ne sont plus des amoureux à leur premier voyage, «mais des soldats ennemis ne parvenant pas à préserver une paix chèrement acquise.» Ils embarquent pour un périple aux États-Unis pour se sauver. Lors d'un arrêt à Washington, ils se rendent au Vietnam veterans Memorial, un mur de granit noir portant les noms gravés des victimes G.I du Vietnam. D'un simple frottis sur une feuille détachée au crayon noir, un nom surgit: Edward D Henry. Un simple nom décalqué et le fil de l'histoire se déroule...Passionné de littératures américaines, Bertrand Gervais est notre invité à Mission encre noire. Extrait:«Nous étions arrivés à Washington étourdis par la route et la pluie. Et morts de fatigue. morts de nous être entre-déchirés tandis que les paysages défilaient à grande vitesse sur l'autoroute. Morts d'avoir cherché à réunir ce qui s'opposait. Morts d'être en train de mourir à petit feu, malgré les promesses et les remords. Je voulais lui faire découvrir les États-Unis, tandis que je revisitais des lieux de mon passé. La recette n'était pas au point, comme une expérience qui tourne mal en chimie. Au moindre choc, boum! On passait plus de temps à recoller les morceaux qu'à rêver de l'avenir. Mais la drogue était puissante, et l'accoutumance, maligne.» Jewish gangsta de Karim Madani paru en 2017 aux éditions Marchialy. C'est à l'école de la rue que Karim Madani, reporter français pour le défunt journal l'Affiche, va se retrouver à New York City. Nous sommes dans les années 90, l'auteur va croiser les gens qu'il faut pour approcher la culture Goon (entendre ici les White trash, les enfants des quartiers pauvres). Gamins, bébés gangsters, dealers, clockers, anti gang, flics véreux, gang de filles revendeuses de crack, c'est le nouveau freestyle du visage pâle, juif, blanc, déclassé entre les gangs jamaicain et portoricains tout puissant. Il vous faudra respecter les codes de la rue et mettre un gilet par balle car ici Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island, LeFrak city ou Browsville C'est de la bombe bébé ! New york comme vous ne le vivrez jamais, New york pop culture trash ! Jewish Gangsta: une justice poétique. Extrait:«Necro se pointe avec son bagou des égouts de Glenwood et de Farragut, ses rictus à la Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff et Christopher Lee, trois acteurs de films d'horreur. Ses sujets tournent autour de la nécrophilie, du porno gonzo, du bondage, de l'esclavage sexuel, de la torture et de la profanation. Le public pousse des«oh» et des«ah» parce que le gonze choque leurs valeurs et leurs croyances. Ces types passent leur journée à dealer, mais vont quand même allumer un cierge à la bodega du quartier, à la mémoire de quelque saint salvateur, pour les protéger du mauvais oeil et du châtiment divin. Ils restent bouche bée quand le petit juif de Brooklyn aligne les axiomes nihilistes, les déclarations agnostiques et proclame être le fruit de l'union sexuelle entre Satan et une pute ukrainienne entrée illégalement dans le pays grâce à des petits voyous russes de Brighton Beach.» La filière écossaise de Gordon Ferris paru en 2017 aux éditions du Seuil collection Policiers. Glasgow fait face au pire hiver du XXe siècle en 1947. Tout vient à manquer. Douglas Brodie, ex-flic avant la guerre, est désormais reporter au Glasgow Gazette. Il est chargé d'élucider une série de vol dans la communauté juive de Garnethill. Mal lui en prit, une nouvelle piste se dessine, un passé qu'il pensait enterré à jamais va ressurgir: les camps de concentration et les procès des tortionnaires nazis. Douglas Brodie part en guerre contre les ratlines, les filières d'extradition de criminels nazis fuyant vers l'Amérique du sud. Ce troisième volume du quatuor noir lève le voile sur un pan de l'histoire mal connu au nord de l'Europe. Gordon Ferris mérite sa comparaison avec Philipp Kerr ou Ian Rankin, l'auteur vous ficelle à une intrigue ancrée dans l'Histoire et très documentée de 400 pages. Extrait:«Nous nous assîmes face à face autour d'une table branlante. J'avais l'impression de boire un coup avec un pirate. Un acteur de L'île au trésor. Borgne, balafré et les lèvres relevées par un sourire de dément, Mal - à supposer qu'il s'appelle bien ainsi - avait une tête de gibier de potence. Ou de quelqu'un qui s'était échappé d'une potence juste avant qu'on lui passe la corde au cou. «''Mal''? demandai-je. - Malachi. Mais par ici on m'appelle plutôt Mal.» Il avait un accent scots-yiddish, mais sa grammaire était précise.» Agenda Mission encre noire: La 12 ème édition du MUFF, le Festival de Films Undergrounds de Montréal, présente plus de 100 films expérimentaux et undergrounds du 18 mai au 21 mai. Dès jeudi au Bar Le Ritz 179, rue Jean-Talon ouest, pour le reste au Microcinema Être 6029a ave. du Parc (coin Van Horne). www.muff514.com  https://www.facebook.com/MUFF514/  

Mission encre noire Tome 19 Chapitre 252 La dernière guerre de Bertrand Gervais paru en 2017 aux éditions XYZ. Un couple s'en va t'en guerre ou presque. Lui est écrivain, avec Mathilde ils ne sont plus des amoureux à leur premier voyage, «mais des soldats ennemis ne parvenant pas à préserver une paix chèrement acquise.» Ils embarquent pour un périple aux États-Unis pour se sauver. Lors d'un arrêt à Washington, ils se rendent au Vietnam veterans Memorial, un mur de granit noir portant les noms gravés des victimes G.I du Vietnam. D'un simple frottis sur une feuille détachée au crayon noir, un nom surgit: Edward D Henry. Un simple nom décalqué et le fil de l'histoire se déroule...Passionné de littératures américaines, Bertrand Gervais est notre invité à Mission encre noire. Extrait:«Nous étions arrivés à Washington étourdis par la route et la pluie. Et morts de fatigue. morts de nous être entre-déchirés tandis que les paysages défilaient à grande vitesse sur l'autoroute. Morts d'avoir cherché à réunir ce qui s'opposait. Morts d'être en train de mourir à petit feu, malgré les promesses et les remords. Je voulais lui faire découvrir les États-Unis, tandis que je revisitais des lieux de mon passé. La recette n'était pas au point, comme une expérience qui tourne mal en chimie. Au moindre choc, boum! On passait plus de temps à recoller les morceaux qu'à rêver de l'avenir. Mais la drogue était puissante, et l'accoutumance, maligne.» Jewish gangsta de Karim Madani paru en 2017 aux éditions Marchialy. C'est à l'école de la rue que Karim Madani, reporter français pour le défunt journal l'Affiche, va se retrouver à New York City. Nous sommes dans les années 90, l'auteur va croiser les gens qu'il faut pour approcher la culture Goon (entendre ici les White trash, les enfants des quartiers pauvres). Gamins, bébés gangsters, dealers, clockers, anti gang, flics véreux, gang de filles revendeuses de crack, c'est le nouveau freestyle du visage pâle, juif, blanc, déclassé entre les gangs jamaicain et portoricains tout puissant. Il vous faudra respecter les codes de la rue et mettre un gilet par balle car ici Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island, LeFrak city ou Browsville C'est de la bombe bébé ! New york comme vous ne le vivrez jamais, New york pop culture trash ! Jewish Gangsta: une justice poétique. Extrait:«Necro se pointe avec son bagou des égouts de Glenwood et de Farragut, ses rictus à la Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff et Christopher Lee, trois acteurs de films d'horreur. Ses sujets tournent autour de la nécrophilie, du porno gonzo, du bondage, de l'esclavage sexuel, de la torture et de la profanation. Le public pousse des«oh» et des«ah» parce que le gonze choque leurs valeurs et leurs croyances. Ces types passent leur journée à dealer, mais vont quand même allumer un cierge à la bodega du quartier, à la mémoire de quelque saint salvateur, pour les protéger du mauvais oeil et du châtiment divin. Ils restent bouche bée quand le petit juif de Brooklyn aligne les axiomes nihilistes, les déclarations agnostiques et proclame être le fruit de l'union sexuelle entre Satan et une pute ukrainienne entrée illégalement dans le pays grâce à des petits voyous russes de Brighton Beach.» La filière écossaise de Gordon Ferris paru en 2017 aux éditions du Seuil collection Policiers. Glasgow fait face au pire hiver du XXe siècle en 1947. Tout vient à manquer. Douglas Brodie, ex-flic avant la guerre, est désormais reporter au Glasgow Gazette. Il est chargé d'élucider une série de vol dans la communauté juive de Garnethill. Mal lui en prit, une nouvelle piste se dessine, un passé qu'il pensait enterré à jamais va ressurgir: les camps de concentration et les procès des tortionnaires nazis. Douglas Brodie part en guerre contre les ratlines, les filières d'extradition de criminels nazis fuyant vers l'Amérique du sud. Ce troisième volume du quatuor noir lève le voile sur un pan de l'histoire mal connu au nord de l'Europe. Gordon Ferris mérite sa comparaison avec Philipp Kerr ou Ian Rankin, l'auteur vous ficelle à une intrigue ancrée dans l'Histoire et très documentée de 400 pages. Extrait:«Nous nous assîmes face à face autour d'une table branlante. J'avais l'impression de boire un coup avec un pirate. Un acteur de L'île au trésor. Borgne, balafré et les lèvres relevées par un sourire de dément, Mal - à supposer qu'il s'appelle bien ainsi - avait une tête de gibier de potence. Ou de quelqu'un qui s'était échappé d'une potence juste avant qu'on lui passe la corde au cou. «''Mal''? demandai-je. - Malachi. Mais par ici on m'appelle plutôt Mal.» Il avait un accent scots-yiddish, mais sa grammaire était précise.» Agenda Mission encre noire: La 12 ème édition du MUFF, le Festival de Films Undergrounds de Montréal, présente plus de 100 films expérimentaux et undergrounds du 18 mai au 21 mai. Dès jeudi au Bar Le Ritz 179, rue Jean-Talon ouest, pour le reste au Microcinema Être 6029a ave. du Parc (coin Van Horne). www.muff514.com  https://www.facebook.com/MUFF514/  

Mike chats with Jim Van Horne about his years as a jock on 1050 CHUM, being the first on-air hire at TSN, leaving TSN for The Team 1050, his years on Sportsnet, his reinvention as a teacher and his recent battle with bladder cancer.

A Special Edition of 2 Minutes Out Of The Box With Jim Van Horne May 31 2016 by 2 Minutes Out of the Box