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Could Gosling follow in the tracks of recently deceased slopes such as Sheffield Ski Village and Wycombe Summit? The Welwyn Hatfield Times reports that council housing plans could lead to Gosling ski slope being demolished.
Golsing was home to the infamous Euroboys and one of the UK's first airbags. If you'd like to voice your concern then a petition has been started to save the ski slope.
You might want to skip forward to 3 minutes for the Euroboys action...
Sheffield Ski Village closed in April 2012.
"We took two skiers and one boarder back to the charred remains of the dry ski slope where they learned to ski. The ski village was a key piece in the journey of some of the UK's best freestyle skiers to the top of their sport, including James Woods, James Machon and Katie Summerhayes, all of whom are now Team GB athletes.
Our aim is to drum-up support for the Sheffield Ski Village in the city known as the sporting capital of the United Kingdom."
-- Salt Street Productions
RED RUN | The Abandoned Ski Village from SALT-STREET Productions on Vimeo.
A major new Action Sports and Entertainment Resort planned for Florida will incorporate a 14 story ski and snowboard mountain.
The $309 Million development in Floridas Osceola County planned by Xero Gravity Action Sports will be located on a 75 acre site at the intersection of Highway 192 and I-535. Snowsports facilities will be outdoor, all-weather and incorporate Snowflex surfaces.
Along with the central ski hill, the project will also incorporate nine snow tubing lanes, five acres of real surfing with up to 10 waves and boogie boarding area, a 25,000 sq. ft. indoor/outdoor skateboard park, a USA-BMX sanctioned race track, two skydiving pods, a 20,000 sq. ft. indoor dodge-ball trampoline arena, a rapid river, rock climbing up to 140, zip lining throughout the park, two 14 story competition waterslides by WhiteWater, 20 - 120 free fall jump zones, an interactive 4 story climbing/zipline/ropes challenge course and snowball fight arena.
Xero Gravity Action Sports say the project is under contract with Central Florida Investments, the parent company of Westgate Resorts, the leading timeshare company in the USA.
The company anticipates over 1 million guests and competitors will visit each year bringing in just under $2 billion in sales and purchases, and creating more than 1,000 jobs.
The resort will also include a 250 room Hyatt branded hotel with roof top pool and bar, a 2,000 seat amphitheater, swim up bar and grotto, swimming pools, cabanas, day spa, retail facilities, sports training facility, multiple restaurants and sports bars, and the International Action Sports Hall of Fame.
Our Company is creating the next step in the tourism sports industry. We are developing a one of a kind sports and entertainment resort which provides unique hands-on experiences. We will be hosting televised pro and amateur competitions, think X-games, with sports shows and clinics, and we will have daily competitions at all venues for visitors who like to compete, said Larry Walshaw, CEO and founder of Xero Gravity Action Sports.
Chief Operating Officer Jim Hunt, formerly with Village Roadshow and Paramount, added, The ball and stick industry for amateur sports has decreased 25% over the past 10 years, while action sports participation and competition around the world has increased to over 22+ million athletes. Unfortunately, action sports facilities to accommodate training, competition, and individual and team sports, have not kept pace. We intend to change that by offering an alternative to individuals and families who want to experience more than the typical Ride Oriented Theme Parks and to those athletes who want to train and compete. www.xerogravityactionsports.com
Throughout January, freestyle sessions on Thursdays at Chatham will be just £5. With some of the best rails in the UK, and for January, one of the best prices - there can't be any reason not to come along.
Local Chris Woods at Strawberry Jam 2014 © Dunx
The groundwork is almost complete on the Neveplast dry ski slope at Glencoe and the matting is expected to start going down some time next week with the slope expected to be open by mid-December just in time for the start of the ski season.
Of course, the resort are hoping for lots more days like this during the 2014/15 season...
Picture by Ross Dolder
A small bit significant tranche of public financing has been secured for one of famous architect Bjarke Ingelss most ambitious projects: a waste-to-energy plant topped by an artificial ski slope near Copenhagen.
First announced in 2010, work on the Amager Resource Centre began over a year ago in Summer 2013, but a small but significant part of the funding package has only just been approved by the local Dragør Council.
With that 800,000 Euro commitment, all five local councils are on board to cover mosrt of the cost of the project, the biggest contributor the City of Copenhagen which is investing nearly 31 million kroner.
This is totally fantastic! This means everything for the rest of the process. It is completely essential and it is what we have been working on for the past year, said Patrik Gustavsson, the leader of the ski slope project.
Around two thirds of the total cost of the project, which is expected to be completed in 2017 has now been found around 18 million kroner is still needed to complete the project.
The ski slope will be part of a 31,000 sqm park on the surface of the building which will also include climbing walls and natural areas. The iconic waste plant will send giant smoke rings into the air for every quarter tonne of CO2 produced, as a gentle reminder of the impact of consumption, according to BIG. The facility expects to release around one million such rings into the atmosphere every year.
Yesterday saw Winter Olympic bronze medallist Jenny Jones at Alpine Snowsports Southampton to launch a new Snowsports Satellite Club aimed at 11-18 year olds. She was joined by British Disabled Ski Team member Tom Murley from Southampton.
Hundreds of people attended the launch event as they were given a rare chance to talk to snowboard superstar Jenny Jones. Just over sixty young people took part in freestyle and alpine ski sessions as well as TRY ski and board lessons, with many set to carry on being part of the new club.
The new Snowsports Club will run on Thursdays during term time from 5-7pm and is open to 11-18 year olds. It will take young people from trying snowsports for the first time, to developing their skiing or snowboarding skills in a bid to emulate their Winter Olympic heroes. The Snowsports Satellite Club has been funded by Sport Englands Satellite Club initiative and facilitated by Sport Hampshire & IOW and Snowsport England.
Jenny Jones said: I think a new satellite club will be amazing. It will give young people the chance to try a sport they normally wouldnt do. Skiing and snowboarding are so different from traditional sports. Getting out there, jumping off things and speeding down the slopes is just so exciting!
Hayley Walker from Alpine Snowsports Southampton said: Ive never seen so many people getting so excited at the slope, it was an incredible feeling. Its great that we have been able to open skiing and snowboarding up to young people in Southampton and make it accessible to all, we hope they keep coming back for more!
For more information on Alpine Snowsports Southampton you can like them on Facebook Alpine Snowsports, Southampton, follow them on twitter @sotonsnowsports, or visit www.activenation.org.uk
With snowsports catching the imagination of the public after this years Winter Olympics, Alpine Snowsports Southampton is launching a new Snowsports Satellite Club aimed at 11-18 year olds and it is being launched tomorrow night by Winter Olympic bronze medalist Jenny Jones.
The Club, which has been funded by Sport Englands Satellite Club initiative and facilitated by Sport Hampshire & IOW, will be officially opened TOMORROW, Thursday 30th October between 5-7pm, with special guest snowboarder Jenny Jones.
The launch with Jenny Jones is open to all and is free. Jenny Jones will talk about how she got into snowsports and her journey to the Winter Olympics and her bronze medal. Booking is essential by calling 0300 0200 135 or emailing email@example.com
For those people inspired by Sochi 2014, the Snowsports Satellite Club launch will give young people the opportunity to experience skiing or snowboarding for the first time. All sessions will be led by fully qualified instructors and will run alongside race and freestyle demonstrations from the experts.
Throughout the evening there will be music, competitions and BBQ on offer for skiers and snowboarders who have worked up an appetite, or just for those watching. The Snowsports Club will run on Thursdays during term time from 5-7pm and slope time is open to 11-18 year olds, but parents and others are welcome to watch.
Priya Samuel, Satellite Clubs Development Manager, Sport Hampshire & IOW said: We are delighted that Winter Olympic Bronze medalist Jenny Jones will join us for the official launch of the Snowsports Satellite Club. The Satellite Club initiative is aimed at providing young adults with enjoyable, safe environments to take part in sport. Jenny excited many people with her performance in Sochi, and we are hoping that young people will be inspired by her attendance.
Hayley Walker from Alpine Snowsports Southampton said: The Snowsports Satellite Club is aimed at giving 11-18 year olds the chance to try snowsports, continue their participation in a fun, safe environment. Snowsports is a great way to get fit and active without even realising it. We believe there is a real demand for a new club and hope to see a big uptake following the launch.
Booking for the launch event is essential and is FREE. To book call the slope directly on 0300 0200 135 or email email@example.com. For more information on Alpine Snowsports Southampton you can like them on Facebook Alpine Snowsports, Southampton, follow them on twitter @sotonsnowsports, or visit www.activenation.org.uk
GO SKI GO BOARD is Snowsport Englands national participation campaign aimed at getting people into, and back into snowsports. Alpine Snowsports Southampton run a range of GO SKI GO BOARD sessions. For more information visit www.goskigoboard.org.uk
With snowsports catching the imagination of the public after this years Winter Olympics, Alpine Snowsports Southampton is launching a new Snowsports Satellite Club aimed at 11-18 year olds.
The Club, which has been funded by Sport Englands Satellite Club initiative and facilitated by Sport Hampshire & IOW, will be officially opened on Thursday 30th October 2014 with special guest, Winter Olympic bronze medalist Jenny Jones. The event will form part of a national initiative run by Snowsport England called 30 Days of Snowsport.
For those people inspired by Sochi 2014, the Snowsports Satellite Club launch will give young people the opportunity to experience skiing or snowboarding for the first time, or for those people who can already ski or snowboard there will be GO SKI GO BOARD TRY taster sessions in ski racing and freestyle at a venue that is accessible to them all year round. All sessions will be led by fully qualified instructors and will run alongside race and freestyle demonstrations from the experts.
Alongside the slope activity there will be the chance to listen to Jenny Jones talk about how she got into snowsports and her journey to the Winter Olympics.
Throughout the evening there will be music, competitions and BBQ on offer for skiers and snowboarders who have worked up an appetite, or just for those watching. The Snowsports Club will run on Thursdays during term time from 5-7pm and slope time is open to 11-18 year olds, but parents and others are welcome to watch.
Priya Samuel, Satellite Clubs Development Manager, Sport Hampshire & IOW said: We are delighted that Winter Olympic Bronze medalist Jenny Jones will join us for the official launch of the Snowsports Satellite Club. The Satellite Club initiative is aimed at providing young adults with enjoyable, safe environments to take part in sport. Jenny excited many people with her performance in Sochi, and we are hoping that young people will be inspired by her attendance.
Hayley Walker from Alpine Snowsports Southampton said: The Snowsports Satellite Club is aimed at giving 11-18 year olds the chance to try snowsports, continue their participation in a fun, safe environment. Snowsports is a great way to get fit and active without even realising it. We believe there is a real demand for a new club and hope to see a big uptake following the launch.
Booking for the launch event is essential and costs £5 per person for those taking to the slope. To book call the slope directly on 0300 0200 135 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
With the current chap in the job, James Pitcher, off to Tahoe for the season, there's a great opportunity for somebody.
Scotlands newest snowsports festival is set to take place on 18 and 19 October at Scotlands dry slopes. Winter is Coming! will offer a range of fun activities over the two-day festival, including taster ski and snowboard sessions.
The new festival has been developed by the countrys dryslopes in partnership with the sports national governing body, Snowsport Scotland, and Ski-Scotland, the marketing partnership which has promoted Scottish snowsports for more than 25 years. The Festival aims to generate interest and excitement in the run-up to the winter snow season.
This is something completely new, said Chair of Ski-Scotland Heather Negus. There is always a sense of anticipation as soon as the first snow falls. Working with the dry slopes, we aim to build on this to generate additional interest among existing skiers and snowboarders and people who might try a snowsport for the first time.
Speaking on behalf of the participating dry slopes, Dave Jacobs added: The new festival will add to the pre-season buzz. Children and adults can brush up their skills or try skiing or snowboarding for the first time at special pre-booked free and low-cost taster sessions. And there will also be other fun at each of the participating slopes, including tubing, competitions and face painting as well as race training, and special offers on club memberships and mat to mountain sessions.
Snowsports are an important part of Scotlands winter, not only for fun, but as a serious contributor to the tourism economy, continued Heather. Last winter generated 235,303 skier days across the five mountain ski resorts and £23.7M for the Scottish economy. This is in addition to those who ski and snowboard at the dry slopes, which play a vital role in introducing people to the sport, helping them make the mat to mountain transition and training competent athletes for competitions and races. This inaugural festival aims to introduce new people to the healthy fun that skiing and snowboarding offer and to increase awareness and appetite for that fun in the mountains once the snow arrives.
Participating dry slopes include those in Aberdeen City and Shire, Ayrshire, Edinburgh and Glasgow and you can find out more at the Ski Scotland website.
Pendle Ski Club plays host to a big FREE Open Day as part of Snowsport Englands 30 Days of Snowsport.
With snowsports catching the imagination of the public after last years Winter Olympics, Pendle Ski Club is opening its doors to the public this Sunday (5th October) with their big Open Day which this year forms part of a national initiative run by Snowsport England called 30 Days of Snowsport, and is completely free to attend.
For those people inspired by Sochi 2014, Pendle Ski Club is offering free skiing or snowboadring taster sessions for people wanting to give them a go for the first time, or if they have not been on skis or a board for a while. The taster sessions will be with fully qualified instructors and will be running throughout the day. People can just turn up and book onto the next session.
There will also be the famous Pendle BBQ for skiers and snowboarders who have worked up an appetite, or just for those watching. There will also be the chance to sign up for club membership on the day and find out about upcoming lessons at the club for those people who have caught the bug.
30 Days of Snowsport is an initiative which runs at both slopes nationwide as well as online to celebrate the start of the winter season and get people excited about snowsports.
For more information on Pendle Ski Clubs Open Day running Sunday 5th October visit www.pendleskiclub.org
The dry ski slope at Plas y Brenin in North Wales has re-opened following a £50,000 refurbishment three years after it closed.
The ski slope in Capel Curig had deteriorated over the years and was in need of major refurbishment but various organisations worked together to re-open the slope, including Sport England, North Wales Snow Sport Club, the Skiers Trust GB and Snowsport Wales.
"The commitment from all parties has been very positive and we hope to see an increase in use on the slope during the forthcoming year. As with all our investments we need to ensure good value for money and we will need to see that the slope is well used and is valued by the community," said Sport England Property Director Charles Johnston.
"We will be working hard with the North Wales Ski Club to generate interest in the ski slope and look forward to a successful year," said Martin Doyle from Mountain Training Trust, an organisation with a world-class reputation in the mountaineering and outdoor sport sector, which operates the centre on behalf of owners Sport England.
Ski Rossendale is set to help more young people get into sport thanks to £375,000 of National Lottery funding from Sport Englands Improvement Fund. Partner funding brings the total to almost £500,000.
The facility is one of 36 projects across England to share in over £12.5 million of National Lottery investment from the third round of funding.
The Ski Rossendale project includes an extended teaching and development area making a longer slope for people to develop their skiing and snowboarding skills. A new state of the art surface will be installed on the redeveloped area making this a great place to come and enjoy learning.
The second phase of the project includes a new building designed to house the main ski hire with changing facilities, lockers and full disabled access to the slopes. A new first floor café bistro will open to the public with great viewing areas overlooking the ski slopes and out across the Rossendale valley.
The project is due for completion in the Autumn of 2015.
We are delighted to be one of only 36 projects across the country to be awarded this Sport England Improvement Fund. Ski Rossendale is looking forward to increasing participation in outdoor activity and snowsports. We are offering a great customer experience - Project Lead David Fuller.
'This is wonderful news for Ski Rossendale and for the Valley as a whole. Ski Rossendale is one of our most important assets, one which has put Rossendale on the map and inspired thousands of people to get into sport. It has been great working with the Ski Rossendale social enterprise team to bring in this much needed investment. Looking forward we hope we can build on this success, attracting further funding, getting Ski Rossendale back to where it belongs and complimenting regeneration going on elsewhere in the valley. - Councillor Andy MaNae, Portfolio holder for Regeneration, Leisure and Tourism.
The latest round of the Improvement Fund focuses on facilities that will help get more young people playing sport. There are currently a record number of 3.9 million 16- to 25-year-olds playing sport every week, however, there is still more to do to help young people develop a sporting habit for life.
Sport England is investing between £150,000 and £500,000 to improve sports facilities so the changing demands of young people are met whilst delivering an improved sporting experience.
Sport England Property Director, Charles Johnston, said: We know people have a better experience of sport when they have good facilities in which to play. This is why were investing in Ski Rossendale to improve their facilities so they are more appealing to young people, and help us to get them developing a lifelong sporting habit.
Between 2012 and 2017, Sport England will invest £45 million of lottery funding through the Improvement Fund into medium-sized projects to improve grassroots sport facilities.
Ski Rossendale, one of the UKs leading artificial surface ski areas, located in East Lancashire in the English North West, is hoping to receive £500,000 in funding for a revamp.
The centre has applied for the funding from national public body Sports England which runs an improved facilities funding scheme and intends to upgrade the facility in to a winter sports centre of excellence.
The project would see an overhaul of buildings and slopes with a new ski rental building, new café and new showers and toilets with disabled access.
The beginner slope and terrain park areas would also be improved and expanded with a new ski surface installed.
David Fuller, operations director at the slope and one of the team involved in taking over and re-opening the centre after a short period of closure in 2010 when the local council pulled funding, told local media, The aim of this redevelopment is designed to give all our customers an excellent experience both on and off the slopes, to create a place where people can come and enjoy the sports or just spend some leisure time enjoying this unique alpine atmosphere. We want to create a winter sports centre of excellence whilst promoting community participation in recreation and sport.
The first major Snowflex slope by Briton Engineering Developments Ltd in Asia at Altinoran, Ankara, Turkey is all going to plan with the first deliveries for the 10,000m2 Snowflex® slopes having already been made to site in readiness for a September 2014 installation by Britons engineers.
Britons managing Director, Brian Thomas, visited the site last week to check on progress and was pleased to see that the Altinoran landscape is undergoing transformation in accordance with Britons design for the year-round Snowflex ski slope. The main slope will be approx. 200m long x 45m wide, and the nursery slope will 30m x 39m. Tubing will also take place on the nursery slope.
The main slope, which will cater for recreational snowsporters and adrenaline junkies alike, is an evolution from slopes previously designed and built by Briton. It will include an Olympic type slope-style run with a series of kickers, a table top, rollers, waves, three 4m high quarter pipes, a wall ride and a rail park. the kind of features that Briton has built in several Snowflex® facilities that have produced world class and Olympic athletes. A first class ski lodge is also currently under design.
Snowflex are taking over the world. If their latest project is anything to go by, we reckon they could sell ice to an Eskimo, as they have installed their newest slope in the heart of the Rockies. In fact, maybe they could sell the Eskimo some Snowflex too!
Last week, saw the completion of a brand new 92m long x 18m wide year round tubing slope for the YMCA of the Rockies by Briton Engineering Developments Ltd.
The new slope is designed specifically for tubing, and can not only be used in the Spring, Summer, and Autumn, but the high performance Snowflex® slope can also be used throughout the winter if there are months lacking real snow.
Well it all looks a little too rad for the tubers to us, so the YMCA might have to put up a fence to keep those midnight snowboarders out!
The giant waste-to-energy plant now under construction in Copenhagen, Denmark, which will feature a dry ski slope descending along its sides has revealed a piste map showing exactly what type of terrain will be available to skiers and boarders down the sides of the building.
The Amager Bakke waste-to-energy plant will feature green (very easy), blue (easy) and a black (difficult) run on the upper half of the power plants exterior shell. The green will snake all the way round to the base of the building with the blue and black runs filtering in to it at the mid-way point.
Alongside the green run on the lower half of the power plants exterior will be a toboggan run.
Access to the top of the building will be via elevators. The piste map also shows cross country ski runs and ice skating at the base of the building. It is not clear whether this is intended to be possible for cold winters or if artificial surface cross country trails and ice rink surfaces are planned.
Trees are shown on the exterior of the building in the architects plans but it is not clear as yet whether these will be real trees and whether gladed skiing and boarding will be possible.
The plant is due to be completed and commission in 2017 and will burn 70 tonnes of waste per hour, treating around 400,000 tonnes of waste annually produced by 500,000 700,000 inhabitants and at least 46,000 companies to supply a minimum of 50,000 households with electricity and 120,000 households with district heating.
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Active Nations Alpine Snowsports Southampton saw over 35 people come and have a go at freestyle skiing and snowboarding, as well as 20+ spectators at the launch event of a new regular freestyle night on Friday. Olympic hero Billy Morgan was back at the slope where he started almost 10 years ago, riding the brand new freestyle features and giving tips and advice to the adults and youngsters taking part.
Billy said Friday evening at the freestyle launch was awesome. Its been a few years since Ive ridden down at the Alpine Centre like that. Rocking up to see heaps of people of all ages enjoying it like I did when I was younger is so inspiring, especially when theres some really talented kids. I hope that it carries on, grows the freestyle scene and allows us to build on and improve the slope and features.
Lead Freestyle Instructor, Will Morris added It was such a great turn out, awesome to see some old faces from years gone by. It was a brilliant atmosphere with seasoned riders passing on knowledge to the new generation of shredders!
The Programme Manager for Active Nation, Hayley Walker said There were new faces there as well as some of our regular members of the race team turning to freestyle and you could feel the buzz as everyone got excited about freestyle once again. Active Nation is a sport and exercise charity dedicated to getting the nation active and especially at grass roots level in any sport. Sochi has had a huge effect on everyone and we would love to see our young skiers and boarders follow in Billys footsteps. Its the start of something big at Alpine Snowsports and we hope it is here to stay.
Freestyle Fridays run every week from 18:00 21:30 and include ramps, rails, slide box, quarter pipe plus other features. Cost for sessions is £15 for adults and £11.50 for juniors, or included in the 30 day practice pass at £30 adults and £23 for juniors. Freestyle Fridays also forms part of Snowsport Englands participation campaign GO SKI GO BOARD.
For more information visit www.goskigoboard.org.uk and www.activenation.org.uk
Councillors voted unanimously to reject plans to demolish the former Sheffield Ski Village site because of concerns over its future use.
Planning board councillors voted to overturn a recommendation by planners to approve the application, which concerned the demolition of fire damaged buildings, ground levelling and filling over former buildings.
Coun Peter Price, who remembered when the ski village was created, said it could spoil the site and added There are all sorts of options for the site to be used for leisure and for the good of people living in the area.
The application - which did not concern future development - was previously deferred because councillors had too many questions.
There are hopes a new Olympic snow sport hub could be created at the site, or that it could form part of a country park.
Objectors spoke out against the plans.
Councillors also discussed enforcement action to have the site cleared up.
Applicant Kevin Pullan said he would appeal the decision.
He told The Star: We will relish the appeal because it will clarify the future use of the site, whether it is business use or employment use as different planning documents say two things.
He said filling in the depression was a sustainable way to clear the site and he needed planning permission to demolish fire-damaged buildings as part of the clear-up of the land.
[Full article on The Star]
Community group Snowsport for Sheffield said "This has all been possible thanks to the hard work put in by members of the group, everyone who has objected to the planning and Friends Of Parkwood Springs."
Kevin Pullan was the owner of the Sheffield Ski Village. Current plans to develop some housing are unlikely to proceed with the council blocking the development. Kevin says he is willing to hand over the lease for free to any party that is able to put forward a realistic plan for the site. However, he says the UK's indoor slopes killed SSV a long time before the fires that devastated the site and that the day of the dryslope is over.
Read the full article here.
Two years after a series of fires devastated Sheffield Ski Village, the future for what was one of the worlds foremost dry slope ski centres remains unresolved.
Following the fires the site has been left derelict and been targeted by metal thieves amongst others.
Sheffield Sharks Ski Club, whose members included Britains number one freestyle skier James Woods, have been training on indoor snow at Castleford Snozone but have also been among those moving to reopen the slopes, which were reported to be initially largely undamaged by the fire.
This week a decision on plans to demolish derelict buildings was delayed by Sheffield City Council.
The plans were to clear the site, with no decision on its longer term future, but there appears to be a conflict in the direction of future use of the site.
Some local people, known as the Friends of Parkwood Springs, want a country park to be created in the area, however Kevin Pullan who controls the site aims to build homes near the site, where there are also hopes of recreating a snowsports facility. He told local media it was not right that the land be turned in to parkland as it is officially designated as an area for employment.
Sheffield Ski Village was instrumental in the formation of the Snowboard and Freeski scenes in the UK
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The value of training to the highest levels on artificial surface ski slopes has been proven yet again by the success of Liberty University's ski and snowboard team at the recent 36th United States Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association (USCSA) Championships at Whiteface Mountain in Lake Placid, N.Y, site of the 1980 Winter Olympic Games.
The University is home to the Liberty Mountain Snowflex Centre which features the premium high performance, synthetic ski slope system and is continuing to show proven results as a training ground for skiers and snowboarders. The Liberty Flames mens snowboarders are among the teams who train here finished runners-up in that 36th USCSA National Championships.
The Rail Jam was a new event added to the National Competition this year and the Flames made the most of the opportunity to implement the skills they've perfected on rail features at the Liberty Mountain Snowflex Centre (LMSC) in Lynchburg, Virginia. Having the only on-campus, year-round ski slope facility in the country has helped the recently formed Liberty team in teaching and training for competitions.
The Liberty Flames, led by juniors Kevin Hoff and Isaac Gibson, finished second out of 10 teams overall with 21 points, behind only Westminster College (15 points) and ahead of Sierra Nevada College (25), Western Colorado State University (30), and the University of Virginia (46), a South-eastern Conference rival.
Theres a lot of good schools here, good riders from out west, first-year Head Coach Ryan Leeds said. The team was showcasing the kind of manoeuvres they've been doing all year (at LMSC). We had a blast and we definitely made a name for ourselves. A lot of people were asking about Liberty and about Snowflex, so it was a great recruiting tool and great publicity. A lot of the western schools were pumped on Liberty.
LMSC is the first slope of its kind in North America and it has proven itself as an ideal training location. Leeds said his riders have an edge over other teams in the Southeast Conference because Snowflex gives them a more reliable place to train, and to try extreme stunts without as great a risk of injury.
The surface doesnt hurt as much when you fall so it allows us to really push the level of progression more than you would probably be allowed to on snow, Leeds said. Because Snowflex lets you build in so much repetition, once you get past the mental block of the fear of falling, the fundamentals of every trick you do just fall into place and it usually is a really easy transition (to snow). Everything starts to click because youve already developed that muscle memory on Snowflex.
Drew Sherwood, General Manager of LMSC, said Liberty hopes to see one or more of the athletes who train there make the U.S. Olympic team.
We definitely have some young rising stars that in the next five to 10 years could have a good chance at it, he said.
With the success of their past Off-Season Competitions, LMSC will host The 2014 Snowflex Games, (formerly called the Dew Games) in Lynchburg, VA on April 25-26, with amateur and professional riders competing for US$15,000 in prize money in a variety of skiing and snowboarding Big Air and Rail Jam events. Registration can be found at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Democrats are out for the kill. Republicans are on the defensive. Right?
Not exactly. When it comes to national security, many Democrats are still pulling their punches, even with Bush's approval rating at an all-time low. Just take the issue of warrantless wiretapping. When the nomination of the man who masterminded the arguably illegal program, Michael Hayden, for CIA director comes before the Senate next week, Intelligence Committee Democrats plan to promptly change the subject.
According to Bloomberg News, "Democrats say they will focus their fire on Michael Hayden's military background and suitability to head the Central Intelligence Agency...and won't emphasize the nominee's role in running a much-criticized eavesdropping program."
Isn't his role as chief wiretapper central to his suitability? Do we want a CIA chief who believes he's above the rule of law? Is it politically advantageous for Democrats to let Republicans continue to dictate the terms of national security debates?
To reinforce the putrid status quo, Bloomberg quotes a former CIA hand-turned-professor saying: "The public seems to have concluded that the idea of listening in on people who want to blow up things in this country is a pretty good idea."
Of course, if that's how you phrase it. In fact, the public is split on the program. Americans disapprove of the way Bush is fighting the war on terror. And no one knows exactly who the Administration is listening on. They won't tell us. And Congress won't ask.
Hayden's nomination would be the perfect occasion for Democrats to demand answers to some of these questions.


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Worried that a flood of tour buses and vans would interfere with clean-up efforts, the City Council approved an ordinance in 2006 banning them from crossing the prominent Industrial Canal entering the neighborhood that received Katrina's fury. Now, tour operators are crying foul, claiming the ordinance had been thinly enforced until recently.
They say a business that is bringing them and the city tourist dollars is being hurt.
"I can't afford to keep paying tickets," said David Lee Ducote, owner of Southern Style Tours.
As the Lower 9th Ward slowly rebuilds — vacant lots still attest to where homes once stood — visitor interest has also been piqued by housing built by actor Brad Pitt and his Make It Right foundation.
City Councilman Ernest Charbonnet, who represents the neighborhood, says residents complain the tour vehicles are blocking streets and damaging the roads. They also are weary of being gawked at.
Charbonnet said city officials didn't enforce the ordinance unless someone filed a formal complaint, an infrequent occurrence as a daily parade of buses, vans and shuttles packed with camera-wielding tourists trouped by the Pitt houses and the home of rock 'n roll star Fats Domino.
That changed in recent weeks when complaints prompted officials to stop and fine operators.
"We're fed up and tired of them coming through the neighborhood like we're some sideshow," said Vanessa Gueringer, a lifelong Lower 9th Ward resident.
"After all the suffering we have been through, we deserve more respect than this," she said. "We don't need those big buses coming through here tearing it up."
Lynn Wolken, a veteran guide who belongs to the Tour Guides Association of Greater New Orleans, said many fellow guides weren't aware of the ordinance or knew it existed but wasn't being enforced.
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Worst. Congress. Ever... Support OpenCongress with a Year-End Donation.December 20, 2011 - by David Moore
As 2011 ends, the first session of the 112th U.S. Congress stumbles to a bad-faith curtain. The third branch of federal government in our representative democracy, Congress is down to a new record-low 11% approval rating, as per Gallup News this week. "This earns Congress a 17% yearly average for 2011, the lowest annual congressional approval rating in Gallup history," they report. USA #1 – we've hit a new bottom! These are the despised, fallible elected officials who write legislation shaping our laws, public policy priorities, & federal budget.
Not content to set just a couple historical record lows, they achieved at least a third: 2011 was the most "do-nothing" Congress since 1995, when control of each chamber was similarly split betweent the two major parties, with just 66 legislative items enacted, as per our valued data partner, GovTrack. The real-world texture & community experience of our lives in contemporary America is profoundly affected by individuals who are obligated to spend between 30% and 70% of their time fundraising for re-election campaigns, as per Prof. Lessig.
As a professional Congressional watchdog and an extremely cynical critic of systemic corruption in the legislative process, even I'm shocked by the brazen unaccountability of the 112th U.S. Congress. We've hit a new bottom, but I think it's possible we haven't hit bottom bottom. I'm not the only one who thinks representative democracy in America has past a threshold of viability in its current form – at least without comprehensive electoral reforms, such as fair elections, net neutrality for independent media on the open Web, and fully open government data now. I reiterate what I wrote last year: the legislative process is systemically corrupt, there is no sufficient degree of transparency in government, and Congress is fundamentally broken.
Over the past year, our OC Blog has been (diligently but unhappily) covering — in accessible language, with citations to the work of our inspirational #opengov partners, official bill text, helpful news & blog coverage, and insightful comments from our 200,000 "MyOC" members – some of the ways in which our national priorities are so egregiously skewed ::
- #SOPA & #PIPA – these net censorship bills creating a terrible legal framework for China-style DNS blocking should have been deemed un-Constitutional non-starters. See why they're so hard to kill – supporting industries have donated four times as much as opponents to date, with figures per our non-profit data partners MAPLight.org and OpenSecrets.org. Who writes the bills? Hollywood media lobbyists and revolving-door members of Congress, of course. Meanwhile – only 1% of MyOC users support #SOPA, H.R. 3261, (14 aye, 1570 oppposed – making #SOPA & #PIPA the second- and third-most-opposed bills in the past year by OC community).
- #NDAA — the major Defense Authorization bill in the news, H.R. 1540 — view all OC blog coverage — secret Congressional meetings resulted in a bill allowing the military to detain U.S. citizens without charge or trial — pending a particular veto threat from President Obama & legislative wrangling to come, as of now, only 2% of MyOC users support (6 aye, 317 nay, making it the 12th-most-opposed bill of the past year by OC commenters). Video of NDAA panel discussion from this past weekend on MSNBC's Up With Chris.
- House GOP hypocrisy on legislative procedure is becoming double-speak farcical, with no significant & good-faith effort on bipartisan jobs legislation, demand-side stimulus & pro-growth government reform in their evident intent to keep the economy in recession in advance of 2012 federal elections. Gallup News reports that in Dec. 2011, 8.5% of American workers are unemployed and 18.4% are underemployed. For more background, see OC Blog coverage of the House's deliberate efforts to avoid advancing viable legislation on the jobs crisis.
- Last week's NYT review of Prof. Lessig's important new book Republic, Lostnoted, "In a November interview with Boston Review [Lessig] noted that in the first quarter of 2011 Congress — awash in special interest money from banks attempting to push through a bill allowing them to collect per-transaction debit-card fees — spent more time on that issue than on unemployment, the deficit, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, health care or global warming." OpenCongress is looking forward to taking part in the new coalition work of United Republic in mitigating the effects of systemic corruption, as per Prof. Lessig and others.
- Speaking of the terrible reality of catastrophic climate degradation, GOP senators continue to refuse to acknowledge the peer-reviewed science that has as-deadly-serious-as-possible-and-nearly-unimaginable-hordes of cascading, harmful global implications.
- This past week, as you likely heard in the news (e.g., NPR), House Republicans rejected a bipartisan agreement from the Senate to extend payroll tax cuts. The outcome of this failure to compromise will include higher taxes for 160 million Americans, reduced Medicare payments, and an end in January to benefits for 6 million long-term unemployed people.
Clearly, then, there are a lot of issues OpenCongress is covering every day and helping citizen watchdogs, political bloggers, journalists, community organizers, and grassroots activists follow. As always, there's a significant public demand for open data & user-friendly blog coverage of what's happening in the closed-off, arcane halls of Congress – as well as free organizing tools we released this summer (OCv3) to email-your-members-of-Congress in a social public forum. Year-in-review summary: 2011 saw over 4 million visits to OpenCongress, over 10 million pageviews, and tens of millions of automated requests for data every week from our massive open database, including our extensive libre RSS feeds and our open API and open-source code.
I'm excited to say that in the past six months we've also sent over 50,000 emails from the public to their members of Congress – see a sample of the latest stop-#SOPA letters – we're continually working to surface more interesting constituent communications in fully-libre-content (except for users' personal info & non-public letters), open-data on the open Web so you can browse & search compelling personal stories for every bill, member, issue, U.S. state, Congressional district, and zip-code-plus-four area. We have big plans – indeed, detailed feature specs, if you can help fund our work and make them a reality – to make the process of whipping Congress for your community more social and continually-connected (ideally, reciprocal information- and feedback-sharing with one's representatives).
Summer 2011, with the release of OCv3, was the first time the public had access to a free & open-source tool for emailing their members of Congress on a not-for-profit Web resource. And the crazy thing is that there are gigantic, more-or-less evident deficits like this throughout our everyday civic experience – from understanding the federal budget to streamlining constituent communication at the state & local levels – that can be significantly addressed through free & open-source technology, and that's exactly what PPF seeks to do as a public charity. We're built on a foundation of radical transparency in open government data, but our core competency is open-source web apps featuring user-friendly & social engagement tools. Why can't staying in touch with your representatives online be as easy as using a social networking service or streaming video website? Only because there hasn't yet been enough public-interest investment in open technology for meaningful civic participation. In short, in a way, that's the major roadblock.
The team behind OC – viz. Andy, Donny, Conor & me – do this not-for-profit, public-interest work because we believe transparency and accountability are essential to a healthy & functional representative democracy. I'm particularly proud of the message-builder interface we built for Contact-Congress on OC — we took all the data we uniquely aggregate on OC, put it in a handy at-your-fingertips drag-and-drop tool, and highlighted the critical campaign contribution data that is the root problem of the "do-nothing" 112th Congress' frustrating dysfunction. Screenshot at right – try it yourself by emailing your members of Congress to oppose #SOPA – or browse our editorially-curated list of major bills by issue area and click the buttons in the right-hand sidebar of the bill profile page to "Send Your Rep/Senator a Letter".
I'm also admiringly proud of my friend & colleague Donny's insightful OC Blog posts (click a tag on a bottom of any post to view more, e.g. on #SOPA) – over 300 published this year in an accessible real-world language, rich with citations, which I enjoy reading myself every day to parse the major news stories (cit.: "those clowns in Congress did it again… what a bunch of clowns"). Donations to PPF directly support Donny's helpful everyday OC Blog posts & social media updates – covering the baffling arcane world of Congress and highlighting other news articles, blog posts, relevant campaign contribution data, and social wisdom from around the Web.
Coming early next year we have some remarkably useful new community projects on OC's semantic MediaWiki, edited by Conor, which we'll be unveiling to mitigate the all-consuming politically-disorienting lunacy that will be the stunted charade of the 2012 election cycle (fair elections now!).
As we saw in 2008 and 2010, our site traffic trends upwards in an election year — visitors from every corner of the country, from every conceivable starting political ideology, find their way to OC through search engines and links to encounter a more intelligible information display and engagement tools for official government information.
We seek to do our part to walk them up what I described as the chain of engagement: by providing education & open-data, then a user-friendly design, then free tools for tracking & commenting & sharing on topics in Congress, through writing a letter to their elected officials and sharing response with their communities (online and in their districts & neighborhoods). See more ideas an our OpenGovernment feature wish-list.
Next year we'll release even more free tools for the public to organize their communities and whip Congress around bills and issues. But we're a tiny non-profit project, and we need your help just to keep OpenCongress up and running. Donations to OC through our 501c3 non-profit organization, the Participatory Politics Foundation, are tax-exempt, and go directly towards our (considerable) server costs and (free, libre & open-source) site maintenance. OC is used every day by tens of thousands of political bloggers, citizen watchdogs, and first-time visitors in need of a user-friendly interface for Congress — we truly have exceeded our bandwidth in providing this public resource. Get radical for transparency and help support our work with a year-end donation:
- Donate to OpenCongress – click that yellow "donate now" button and a a tax-exempt donation through PayPal takes less than two minutes (we've tested it for thorough smoothness, no hassles, you know we're all about user experience).
- Web developers, programmers, and designers – we badly need volunteer time to help build more useful pages on OpenCongress and surface the tons of information being generated every day by our user community of over 200,000 people. Drop us a line and we'll plug you in according to interest & skills: develop at opencongress.org.
- Charitable foundations and philanthropists – we have a good start with OpenCongress & OpenGovernment.org, but we need more resources to further develop these free & not-for-profit web apps for civic engagement. With a bit of additional tax-exempt funding, both sites can be far more powerful platforms for contacting elected officials, tracking their actions in a social online forum, and fighting systemic corruption – help us grow, and feel free to download and circulate our non-profit funding prospectus. Please be in touch: david at opencongress.org.
- Online media companies and issue-based organizations – our open-source Contact-Congress code can be customized to easily email your members' messages to their U.S. senators, representative, and other elected officials — then comment and share their letter over social media such as Twitter & Facebook. Hire us for Web development or boutique research on bills & issues in Congress — consistent with our online-education & open-data & public-service mission, to be sure. For more info on PPF consulting in open-source software, Ruby on Rails web code, and other technology, email me at david at opencongress.org.
- Become a PPF Booster - link to PayPal signup form – members give a recurring donation of $10 per month to support PPF's core mission, operations, and help us budget for the year ahead. We're going to be making more noteworthy noise for structural, comprehensive electoral reform paired with open government data towards our mission of healthy deliberative democracy.
- Please consider for a moment how terribly dysfunctional the U.S. Congress is. And then how important it is that OpenCongress continues to build transparency and accountability in it. We really need your help to keep going. Donate now.
Thanks for using OC in 2011 – please make a tax-exempt donation, and as always, let us know what you think. Happy Holidays from our team, above: David, Andy, Donny & Conor — and everyone at the Participatory Politics Foundation.