Where you choose to hang your helmet at night says it all.
From its inception, skiing has conjured dreams of adventure and glamour. While anyone can stretch out on a beach, making the most of a mountain takes skill, grit and (yes) deep pockets. Whether you earn two ski days per year or 100, the same universal rule applies: There are no friends on a powder day. And while everyone has their favorites, true ski aficionados claim allegiance to one favorite destination. Here's what your choice says about you.
You like your ski resort exactly how you like your country club: exclusive, manicured and where everyone on the staff knows your name. Don't give a second thought to the kids — they're off at ski school for the better part of the day, leaving you to enjoy the pristine pistes. Nightlife to you means an après, après-ski massage, dinner and bed by 10 so you can catch the first chair in true overachieving fashion.
After an intense week working at your Silicon Valley startup it's finally "Tahoe Friday"! Start the weekend early and hop in an UberX with your co-founders (only about $250 from your Menlo Park HQ according toUber's fare estimator). Throw on your best Patagonia fleece and turn this "off-site" into your next billion-dollar idea.
You came over the summer for the Allen & Company billionaire mogulfest and just couldn't wait to come back. Check the family into the Sun Valley Lodge, unpack your Loro Piana sweaters, and head straight to Bald Mountain to show off your best Picabo Street impression (the Olympian is a local). You let Bruce Willis (one of the area's most notable residents) cut you in line at Christina's cause, you know, you guys are tight like that.
Your headache is from: Dollar night at "Whiskey's"
You crave an authentic, old-school ski escape that won't be spoiled by hordes of millennial techies or truckloads of Texans, the type of resort where the only bottle served for 100 miles is of the beer variety and expert terrain means steep and deep. News of a $300 million reimagining of the Taos Ski Valley resort village has you worried that your beloved "private" northern New Mexico resort has been discovered. And maybe it's true. Rest assured, you will always have bragging rights that you've been skiing Taos since the days when snowboards were forbidden and you had to hike Kachina peak. It makes for a good tale to tell as you ride up the new Kachina Chairlift to 12,481 feet.
In the boardroom you're fond of pointing out that the journey is as important as the destination, but all that Taoist mumbo jumbo flies out the window when you finally land in Telluride. This tiny town wrapped by 14,000-foot peaks is the place to be for those who value space and seclusion over see and be seen (just ask longtime residents Ralph Lauren and Tom Cruise). But just because the relaxed vibe has you forgo your furs for Arc'teryx down, there is nothing laid back about the ski conditions: big, bold and reserved for those willing to venture to this isolated corner of Colorado.
Back in the 80s you carved Vail's seven Back Bowls like you were auditioning for a role in Ski School and drank at the Red Lion like a bonafide ski bum. You've since graduated to finance, and while you still keep it real in Blue Sky Basin backcountry, you've grown to appreciate the finer things. With money flying in from the coasts (and more recently from Latin America) Vail remains flush with the finer things, from five-star digs, to gourmet eats, and world-class culture — and just enough of a party scene for a whiff of your glory days.
You met your ex: Apres at the Red Lion, because old habits die hard.
Brandon Perlman is the founder of Mr. Luxury Ski and the Gramlist.


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Globodera rostochiensis Golden Nematode APHIS updates the Regulated Area in Suffolk County in New York
Official Pest Report
Official Pest Reports are provided by National Plant Protection Organizations within the NAPPO region. These Pest Reports are intended to comply with the International Plant Protection Convention's Standard on Pest Reporting, endorsed by the Interim Commission on Phytosanitary Measures in March 2002.
Globodera rostochiensis (Golden Nematode): APHIS updates the Regulated Area in Suffolk County in New York
Lynn Evans-Goldner, National Policy Manager, at 301-851-2286.
Effective immediately, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is removing 11,648.25 acres from the golden nematode (GN) regulated area in Suffolk County, New York.
APHIS is removing these acres based on survey results and other criteria listed in the "Canada and United States Guidelines on Surveillance and Phytosanitary Actions for the Potato Cyst Nematodes, Globodera rostochiensis, and Globodera pallida." A Federal Order describes the regulated area and includes the associated reference to the 7 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) § 301.85-2(a), which lists the provisions for the movement of GN-regulated articles.
Since 2010, APHIS, working closely with the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets (NYS AGM), has removed 1,198,342.04 acres from the GN-regulated area in New York since 2010. Of the remaining 90,307.02 acres regulated in eight counties, APHIS considers 5,945 acres to be infested with GN and has an active control and mitigation program in place to prevent its spread.
APHIS will follow up with a notice of this change to the regulated area in the Federal Register. The specific GN-regulated areas are on the following website:
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/planthealth/plant-pest-and-disease-programs/pests-and-diseases/golden-nematode/nematodes
Under IPPC standards, Globodera rostochiensis is a pest that is present: not widely distributed and under official control in the United States.

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Sussex wheelie bin murder case: suspect named and charged
Published: 09:15 Monday 18 November 2019
A suspect in the murder case where a woman's body was found in a wheelie bin has been named and charged.
According to Sussex Police, Richard Canlin, 41, unemployed and of no fixed address, was charged with murder yesterday evening (November 17). He will appear at Brighton Magistrates' Court today (November 18).
Lewes murder enquiry: police reveal identity of victim and make second arrest
Police said the body of 39-year-old Nicola Stevenson was discovered by a dog walker in a wheelie bin in undergrowth at a recreation ground off Landport Road in Lewes, East Sussex, on Wednesday (November 13). She has not been formally identified at this time, but police are satisfied it is the 39-year-old woman from Lewes.
Search and forensic teams have concluded their work at the recreation ground but searches will continue at Nicola's home in nearby Stansfield Road.
Detective Chief Inspector Chris Friday, from the Surrey and Sussex Major Crime Team, who is leading the investigation, added: "The investigation teams have been working tirelessly to progress this case and ensure justice is sought for Nicola and her family and friends.
"Despite the charging of a man, we are still desperate to hear from anyone who may be able to add to our investigation timeline. We are urging anyone who saw Nicola before her body was found to come forward to us as you may hold vital information to aid our ongoing investigation. For those of you living in local community to Nicola, you will still see our officers out and about conducting enquiries; please do go and speak to them if you have anything to add."
Report information either online or call 101 quoting Operation Stafford.
The 37-year-old man of no fixed address arrested on Thursday (November 14) arrested on suspicion of murder has been released on police bail until December 12.
Double stabbing in Durrington leaves man with serious injuries
Man's body pulled from water in Rustington
Littlehampton company went into liquidation leaving employees jobless before Christmas
Car flips onto its roof into undergrowth off the A27 in Angmering


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1 Tim. 2:9-10: I also want women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, but with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God (NIV).
When your son or daughter gets dressed in the morning, do you cringe? Do you ever ask yourself, "Who are they dressing for?" This passage tells what God expects with respect to outward appearance, and it seems an attention-seeking outer shell is not part of His expectation. It is inner beauty He desires. That does not mean He is opposed to any self-expression, but rather that there is a difference between godly self-expression and the world's version.
Paul contrasts the exterior of a person with their interior. The world spends tons of money convincing us that glamour, beauty and fashion are essential for success. But these are external adornments that may say nothing about the person within the shell. Attention can never substitute for affection, and real affection is attracted by a graceful internal spirit. True beauty comes from within, and is always recognizable to God.
Worldly beauty is only skin deep, but godly beauty is as deep as the character of a person.


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Evanghelia după Pseudo-Matei este o lucrare apocrifă creștină, cel mai posibil scrisă în secolul al VIII-lea sau al IX-lea. David R. Cartlidge crede că această lucrare este mult mai veche. Conform cercetărilor lui J. Gijsel și R. Beyers (1997), Evanghelia după Pseudo-Matei este, probabil, scrisă între anii 600 și 625. Se bazează foarte mult pe Evanghelia după Iacov și pe Evanghelia copilăriei după Toma. Această lucrare nu aduce nicio dovadă istorică despre Iisus.

Parte a Evangheliilor Copilăriei
Aparține unui gen numit Evangheliile Copilăriei care caută să prezinte detalii din viața lui Iisus din Nazaret până la vârsta de 12 ani, detalii care sunt foarte pe scurt prezentate în Evangheliile după Matei și Luca.

Frederick Fyvie Bruce afirmă că înfloriturile din aceste "Evanghelii ale Copilăriei" care completează puținele detalii ale nașterii din Matei și Luca sunt toate minciuni născocite, de la început până la sfârșit.

France R. T. completează că scrierile apocrife nu reprezintă informații istorice suplimentare despre Iisus Hristos, ci o imaginație religioasă, doar de dragul de a umple unele goluri.

Faptul că Evanghelia după Pseudo-Matei (dar și alte Evanghelii ale Copilăriei) abundă în detalii referitoare la primii ani ai lui Iisus contribuie la lipsa lor de credibilitate, deoarece scrierile din secolul I nu prezentau, de regulă, detaliile copilăriilor chiar și a celor mai renumiți oameni.

Sursă de inspirație
În Occident, lucrarea a fost sursa principală a ciclurilor de picturi dedicate vieții Fecioarei Maria, mai ales cele pictate înainte de Evul Mediu târziu.

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 Evanghelia după Pseudo-Matei , text online

Apocrife
Evanghelii apocrife

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Can you give some examples to show how the small business retirement CGT exemption works with super?
How do you go about claiming the small business retirement exemption?
The small business retirement exemption allows you to disregard all or part of any capital gains made on the sale of a small business or its assets. This exemption can help you to avoid or reduce capital gains tax (CGT), provided that you satisfy specific conditions to be eligible to claim it.
The basic idea behind the exemption is to recognise the fact that many small business owners treat their businesses as their retirement nest egg. They often invest heavily in their businesses and may not contribute as much to their super as a result.
It's important to understand that you don't necessarily have to sell your business entirely and cease operating in order to claim the small business retirement CGT exemption. You can do that, but you can also progressively claim the exemption each time you make a capital gain selling any of your small business assets, before you reach your preservation age.
Doing that can help you to minimise your CGT, while providing for your retirement at the same time. You simply contribute the capital gains on any asset sales to any complying Australian super fund (including SMSFs). These contributions are treated as non-concessional (i.e. contributions made after tax) and are therefore not included in the SMSF's taxable income. They are also excluded from your non-concessional contributions cap, meaning you can still make the maximum allowable non-concessional contributions each year if you want to.
If you're aged over 55, you can simply claim the small business retirement exemption and your capital gain will be tax-free.
A lifetime capital gains limit of $500,000 can be exempt from CGT under the small business retirement exemption.
your business must have an annual aggregated turnover of less than $2 million. Aggregated turnover includes the annual turnover of any affiliate businesses that you may have and/or any that you may be connected with in some way.
the asset sale for which you're claiming the CGT exemption must have been an "active" asset. This means that it must have been either used in the course of carrying on your business at the time of the sale or it must have been an intangible asset (like goodwill) that's connected to the business.
the net value of your other personal assets can't exceed $6 million.
If you don't meet all of those conditions, you aren't eligible for the small business retirement exemption from CGT.
Jeff is 47 and was a self-employed retailer with an aggregated annual turnover of $1.5 million. He recently sold his business and made a taxable capital gain of $200,000. Jeff is eligible to claim the small business retirement exemption from CGT because his aggregated annual turnover is less than $2 million.
Instead of paying CGT on his capital gain of $200,000, he arranges to transfer $200,000 of his business sale proceeds into his SMSF. He has not previously claimed any amounts under the small business retirement exemption, so he is well under the $500,000 capital gains exemption claim limit. He therefore won't pay any CGT on the capital gain from his small business sale.
Sally is 52 and has run a number of profitable small businesses over her career. She makes a taxable capital gain of $325,000 on her latest business sale and is eligible to claim the small business retirement exemption for it.
However, she has previously claimed $350,000 in capital gains exemptions from her previous small business sales over the years. She did this by transferring the capital gain amounts to her super fund each time she sold one of her businesses. Sally is therefore only entitled to claim $150,000 of the capital gain proceeds from the sale of her latest business before she reaches her $500,000 capital gains exemption claim limit.
She decides to transfer $150,000 into her super fund to reduce her CGT obligation. She will therefore only pay CGT on a capital gain of $150,000, rather than on her total capital gain of $325,000 from this latest business sale.
Mike is 37. He currently runs his own small business and will continue to do so, but he has made a taxable capital gain of $50,000 on a business asset that he has sold. Mike is eligible to claim the small business retirement exemption and he has not previously claimed any amounts before. He transfers $50,000 to his SMSF and will not pay any tax on the capital gain.
Mike continues on with his small business, happy that he's avoided some tax and also put some more money away for his retirement.
complete a Capital gains tax cap election form specifying the amount of the capital gain that you want to claim under the exemption. This form is available online from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO).
pay the capital gain amount that you're claiming into your super fund within thirty days of receiving the proceeds of your small business asset sale. If you don't, the opportunity to claim the small business retirement exemption for your capital gain is lost.
The small business retirement exemption helps eligible small business owners to reduce or avoid CGT on the sale of all or any of their business assets. Business owners aged under 55 can do this by transferring all or some of their capital gain into their super fund within thirty days, up to a maximum lifetime limit of $500,000.
The information contained in this article is general in nature. It's worthwhile to seek independent professional advice about your eligibility for the small business retirement exemption and using it via your super fund.


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È online il nuovo numero di Glocalism, sul tema "Local and Global Democracy"
Siamo lieti di comunicare che è online il numero 2016/2 di Glocalism. Journal of culture, politics and innovation promosso da Globus et Locus e dedicato al tema "Local and Global Democracy".
In recent days, the referendum in the United Kingdom and the alleged attempted coup d'état in Turkey has placed in center stage the problem of every nation-state's internal democracy as well as its relationship with the international dynamics that involve processes of integration such as those seen in the European Union.
Once again, the relationship between the formation of public opinion in a given political community and the expression of the will of the majority of its citizens seems to be at the heart of the problem. A consideration of the relationship between local democracy and global democracy, even under this lens, is therefore even more apt; with the goal of understanding the different perspectives that present themselves to those interested in reasoning in terms of globalization of democracy and in terms of the democratization of globalization.
Amongst the published essays in this edition of "Glocalism", some interesting assessments are expressed on two of the crises that are linking the political experiments being conducted through the institutions of the European Union: on one hand, the difficulty in handling the influx of refugees and on the other hand the shortfalls of democracy which characterize these institutions. A sort of short circuit between these two problems has demonstrated itself in these last months, aggravated by a sinister presence both in and around the European Union's confines. An emergence of an ideological religiosity whose unpredictable manifestations – from New Years' in Cologne to July 14th in Nice – seem to be uncontrollable. What seems to be clear is that in order to resolve the ever growing number and severity of problems, the powers of State are no more effective as well as the coordination of States is no longer sufficient because it has the defect of behaving according to a hierarchical and territorial logic which is nearly obsolete.
The question of the relationship between democratic decision making and migrant influxes also involves – as emerges in some of the following articles – even regions such as Australia, where once again the images transmitted through mass media become instrumental in the justification of military intervention in the management of this political community's confines. In the region which includes Australia and other Pacific Ocean islands, a significant role in handling different problems with effects on commerce, politics and security of the regions involved, is covered by the Pacific Islands Forum. Through diverse public practices, this organization searches to manage both the democratic stability of the region as well as dilemmas regarding the ecological dimension.
Other considerations of the relations between Turkey and the Kurdish population, for instance, in addition to a reflection on the corruption which pervades the African political reality are present in the articles of this edition. Altogether, the articles offer an interesting panorama of the numerous and complex dynamics that the relationship between the global and the local puts on the table also in terms of democratic management in communal decision making. These political decisions are relevant not only for the community called to make them, but also for those communities that are either around or interconnected with it at the global level. Every attempt to democratize globalization without trying to improve the democratic system inside of each local reality is certainly destined to fail. Active citizenship and its education constitutes the conditio sine qua non to every democratic development of global project management, both according to the still persistent territorial dynamics and according to the incipient and increasingly certain functional and reticular dynamics.
Con l'occasione, segnaliamo che è online il call for papers del numero 2016/3, che sarà dedicato al tema "Territories, Borders and the New Geography" e del numero 2017/1 dedicato al tema "The Glocal Political Power".
È online il nuovo numero di Glocalism, sul tema "Global Identities and Communities"
È online il nuovo numero di Glocalism, sul tema "The Glocal Political Power"
È online il nuovo numero di Glocalism, sul tema "Global cities"
È online il nuovo numero di "Glocalism", sul tema "Feeding the Planet. Energy for Life"


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Roger H. Siminoff has been designing, building, playing, and researching musical instruments for more than 40 years. The combination of these talents, coupled with his love of writing, has made Siminoff one of America's foremost authorities on string instruments and their design, a leading music journalist, and a highly respected inventor. Siminoff has authored several hundred articles on instrument construction and repair, musical acoustics, performers, and the history and craftsmanship of musical instruments. His research and writing on the life and work of Orville Gibson and Lloyd Loar have made him a highly-respected expert on these renowned artisans.
After attending Parsons School of Design (NYC) where he majored in industrial design, Siminoff founded a graphic arts company in New Jersey that specialized in photography, art and design services, and printing. With creative facilities readily available to him, Siminoff channeled his banjo expertise into writing an instruction book for bluegrass banjo playing (5-String Banjo, Bluegrass Style, 1972). The publication quickly became a success, and a bound-in offer triggered the response for what was to follow–the creation of a monthly music magazine that focused on bluegrass and old-time country music. In February 1974, Pickin' Magazine made its debut; within two years it was hailed as the most influential publication of its kind.
In 1979, Siminoff was invited to join GPI Publications in Cupertino, CA to launch FRETS Magazine. As the magazine's founding editor, Siminoff helped build FRETS into a viable music publication, boasting an unprecedented international circulation of more than 30,000 within a two-and-a-half year period.
Siminoff has authored numerous texts on the art of musical instrument construction. These include, Constructing a Bluegrass Mandolin, Constructing a 5-String Banjo, Constructing a Solidbody Electric Guitar, How to set up the Best Sounding Banjo, the Luthier's Handbook, The Ultimate Mandolin Construction Manual, and his latest work; The Art of Tap Tuning (all published by Hal Leonard Corporation, Milwaukee, WI, available at luthierie supply companies, book or music stores, or directly from Siminoff).
For a complete listing of Siminoff's music writings, see Siminoff Bibliography.
Roger H. Siminoff has been designing, building, playing, and researching musical instruments for more than 45 years. As a teenager, Siminoff showed an early interest in things both musical and mechanical. One of his first luthierie projects was a pedal steel guitar made with linkage from model airplane parts. Following that, he constructed a complete five-string banjo after which he produced numerous five-string necks to convert four-string instruments to the popular bluegrass models followed the steel guitar.
By the early 1960s, Siminoff was building custom banjo necks and parts for musicians in the New York metropolitan area. And, before the end of the decade, his mail-order parts business, Siminoff Banjos, was providing banjo and mandolin parts to instrument makers around the world. .
Roger has consulted for many leading musical string and acoustic instrument manufacturers both domestic and abroad, and has developed numerous devices for structural tuning, string tensioning, and pattern carving. On-site training has included instructing in the art of tap-tuning as well as training on various techniques of antique finishing, including hand-shading, and building grain contrast.
Roger H. Siminoff has been designing, building, playing, and researching musical instruments for more than 45 years. The combination of these talents, coupled with his love of writing, has made Siminoff one of America's foremost authorities on string instruments and their design, a leading music journalist, and a highly respected inventor.
Having branched out into the building of mandolins in early 1970, Siminoff conceived and built special carving machines to do the exact shaping of instrument necks, and mandolin tops and back plates. To bend wood for banjo rims and mandolin sides, he developed a unique steam chamber long enough to roll a 12' length of 1/4″ maple into a single seamless banjo rim. By 1973, he had developed a multi-axis truss rod system to counteract the forces of string tension on musical instrument necks. For this design, he was awarded a U.S. Patent in 1974 and later licensed the patent to Gibson Incorporated.
In early 1984, Siminoff was granted another U.S. Patent; this one for an unusual modular guitar. It features interlocking parts that permit a musician to snap together an instrument to suit his or her tastes in much the same way a photography assembles camera bodies and lenses. Two years later, another patent followed, this one for a universal mounting system for tuning machines.
Roger H. Siminoff has been designing, building, playing, and researching musical instruments for more than 45 years. His unique expertise is in the art of structural tuning, production carving, string winding, and antique finishing.
As a consultant to Gibson, Siminoff assisted in reissuing several instruments originally produced by the company in its earlier years. Among those were the Earl Scruggs model banjo (a replica of Scruggs' personal Gibson Granada), and the reintroduction of the famed F-5 mandolin (as first produced by Gibson in the mid 1920s). The re-issue, dubbed the F-5L after its creator Lloyd Loar has been enthusiastically received since making its successful "comeback" in 1978.
Consulting for several other instrument manufacturers, Siminoff has been responsible for the development of special hand-finishing techniques, improved structural and acoustical designs, production machining and pattern-carving of wood parts, string winding and tensioning technology, and compatibility "tuning" of the acoustic properties for production instruments.


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What Happened on October 27, 2000
Famous Deaths
Walter Berry, Austrian operatic bass-baritone, dies of a heart attack at 71
About October 27, 2000
Day of the Week: Friday
How Long Ago? 21 years, 2 months and 22 days
Generation: Generation Z
Chinese Zodiac: Dragon
Wrong Address for Shakespeare Tourist Attraction


Here is the Project Fear film about my new route on Cima Ovest last September. Truth be told, I was incredibly lucky that myself and Alan Cassidy were able to get the route climbed given the very poor weather in the Dolomites last season. Of course, to a certain extent we made our own luck as you see in the film, my cleaning and preparing the route through the poor weather rather than just sitting waiting.
However, the two sunny days we had were a crucial ingredient and I was desperate to make them count. I'm sure you'll understand that my favourite part of the film are the parts playing with Freida at home in Glen Nevis. But this it is also a great memory of the adventures on that massive roof. It gets me psyched for summer's big wall expedition will be rather bigger in scale.
A special thanks to Mountain Equipment for supporting our trip and the film idea, Karl for exploring the roof with me and dodging the blocks I knocked off, Alan for coming with me on the route and the Coldhouse guys for being great craic and teaching me a lot.
Zeki Basan from Nevis Landscape Partnership on Vimeo.
Here is a short film we made about Zeki Basan, a great young character from over in the Gorms. Zeki won the Scottish youth award for mountain culture at this year's Fort William Mountain Festival. He is the inaugural winner of the youth award and joins a formidable list of winners of the 'adult' award; Hamish McInnes, Jimmy Marshall, Richard Else, Myrtle Simpson, Ian 'Spike' Sykes, Andy Nisbet and Robin Campbell. We also made the film about Robin Campbell for his award this year and I'll post that up as soon as it's live.
I'm certainly used to meeting enthusiastic and smart young folk involved in all manner of mountain sports, but it was great to learn more about Zeki's passion for bushcraft when we travelled over to speak to him for this film.
Post surgery day 2. Anaesthetic drip disconnected, time for the training to start again.
I've been getting really motivated for training lately. Which is just as well, because I'm about to have a 6 week solid block of it during the spring. The reason? Ankle surgery.
Yes, more ankle surgery. Readers of this blog will know that I've had surgery on both ankles in the past two years. In both cases this was for damage to the edge of the cartilage surface of my ankle joints. By far the worst injury was happened in this accident when I was lowered off the end of a rope. The microfracture surgery I had did work to an extent, but the nature of doing tons of walking on mountains has meant the lesion, although small, has not remained stable and has got a little worse. Knowing what I know now, I also suspect that some of the advice I was given for the post operative period was, well, sub standard and could well have contributed to it not working as well as it could have.
So I've tried to put my money where my mouth is and follow my own advice in my book, seeking the opinion of the best ankle surgeons in the world to see if there was anything else that could be done to protect my ankles from getting any worse. And there is. After speaking to surgeons based in Cambridge, Malaysia, Newcastle and then Munich, I've established that a newly developed procedure has a good probability of making the ankle feel better and protecting its health in the longer term.
All of this has taken 6 months to organise and considerable research and legwork on my part, not to mention working to meet the costs of the treatment. But now I approach the start line and I am in Munich and had my surgery yesterday. It all seemed to go fine and I feel ready to hit the fingerboard today. Nothing is certain in sports medicine and I know there is always a chance it won't make much difference. But I still feel I ought to do the best I can now to keep myself well serviced so I am still in good form in the years and decades to come.
The sacrifice in the short term is that I have to do foot-off bouldering only for 6 weeks. Not too much of a sacrifice really. Foot off bouldering has always helped me feel really strong. So now I have a chance to have a good uninterrupted spell of it. During the recovery from my last surgeries, I thought it was good to place my focus onto writing my book. This time, I will have ample time to complete organised daily training as well as draw dinosaurs with Freida. It is kind of ridiculous that it takes leg surgery to make me train properly, but I just like going climbing too much. So let's see what I can do with this opportunity.
As I'm sure you can tell, I've set out a plan to make this a positive step in both the short and long term. There is really no reason why I shouldn't be stronger and fitter for my rock projects by the start of May than I would otherwise be if I'd just been going out winter and rock climbing based on the weather.
The process of organising this treatment was at times demoralising. Having actually arrived at the treatment stage feels like I've already come through a tough challenge in many areas. Just trying to get my MRI scans from the NHS was a bureaucratic shambles. Then even in the private sector things although good, were still frustratingly slow. The hardest part however has been finding sources of encouragement.
Training 24 Feb 2015 from Dave MacLeod on Vimeo.
The day after doing Tripod I was heading back up the Allt a Mhuillin with Natalie Berry, intent on making the most of the fine ice conditions. We knew most folk would head for the Indicator Wall area, so instead we headed to the much quieter but almost as high up area above Raeburn's Easy Route, just right of the Great Tower. We could see that the steep ice pillar of Pink Panther was looking fat and slogged up the neve to a spacious belay spot in the cave behind the icicle. Meanwhile, Paul Diffley abseiled in from the top to film us. The weather was beautiful and it was quite social chatting to Paul as I led up the crux pitch, which was actually quite easy in the current conditions.
Natalie led through up the easy snow to the top and we were rewarded with lovely sunshine and views on top. This was Ben Nevis at its most friendly and it was a nice relaxing day in contrast to the challenging new routing the day before.
That great weekend will be my last of the winter season. It's all change for me now, with 6 weeks of solid training for the rock season. More on that shortly.
We were accompanied by Paul Diffley and Chris Prescott from Hot Aches, who took some of these nice photos.
Leading the steep crack at the start of Tripod VII,7 on Ben Nevis. Photo Helen Rennard.
The walls on the left side of Tower Ridge is a part of Ben Nevis I've visited quite a lot over the years and really like. Obviously, my interest in this area started with Echo Wall some years ago. Since then I've done a couple of winter routes around here too. In winter it can provide good shelter from a westerly storm and also remains in condition for mixed quite late in the season. The other week Helen and myself climbed Red Dragon on the wall right of Echo Wall. On Saturday we needed to go higher to find good conditions and walked up to the wall up and left of Echo Wall, near Tower Scoop.
Angry Chair followed the first pitch of Clefthanger (summer HVS, winter VI,6) before heading up a groove on the right. On Saturday I started up a steep crack just left of this which would lead into the iced up upper section of Clefthanger. The crack looked VI,6 from below, but turned out to be a good VII,7 with fiddly gear and poor footholds for quite a long way. It was excellent though and I continued all the way to the top in one 68m pitch.
I thought it might be nice to keep going with the Alice in Chains theme for names. I have always liked the grim lyrics and style and so we could call this one Tripod, after their rather darkly illustrated album. It kind of feels relevant to how I'm going to be climbing for the coming couple of months! The area right of Tower Scoop now has 4 good mixed routes between VI and VIII. Tripod starts up the short flow of ice at the base, into the cracks and then the big left leaning ice ramps.
Helen finishing the pitch on great ice.
Tripod starts up the short flow of ice at the base, into the cracks and then the big left leaning ice ramps.
Today I had a great day in the Arisaig Cave which was completely bone dry despite the 20cm of rain which has doused Lochaber over the past three days. What a great venue it is. Last year I didn't do much bouldering really, I spent most of the time on Dolomitic big walls and lately I've been getting back into mixed climbing a bit.
Today was a nice reminder just how great it is - so relaxing to head off late morning and feel warm March sunshine in your face as you stroll across a deserted beach to the cave to work on a nice project.
I haven't been to the cave for not far off two years. Last time I was there I managed, just, to do all the moves on the last remaining big straight up project. It might be as hard as 8B and a great piece of technical and burly climbing up a big diagonal flange. Today I re-worked it and did the moves again. Crucially, I got a good sequence dialled for the upper half of the problem and linked the last 5 moves to the top. I noticed myself getting tired on it quite quickly because of the very physical moves with compression and undercutting. I'll definitely be back on this soon.
The flange project. training motivation. It's definitely possible for me!
My tick marks from two years ago still there like it was yesterday. Can't believe how rainproof the cave is. The ultimate boulder venue really!
Returning from a trip to Manchester to speak and coach climbers at the climbing centre, it seemed there were not many breaks in the constant snow storms. But a ridge of high pressure was forecast for Wednesday and Masa Sakano agreed to venture onto the Ben with me. The avalanche forecast was 'high' and we'd heard of avalanche incidents the day before. So I thought of an unclimbed overhanging wall on the Douglas Boulder, which can be accessed safely in avalanche conditions so long as you make the descent by abseil.
Last year myself, Helen Rennard and Harry Holmes repeated Nick Bullock and Matt Heliker's VII,8 'Rutless' here. The crux pitch climbs the first few metres of a soaring overhanging crack and headwall, but quickly scuttles left along ledges and escapes via a corner. Something going right up that wall would be mega!
Masa led up the icy chimney of Gutless to the ledge below the wall. Watching him, I could see the headwall on the overhanging 3rd pitch. It looked like the crack went diagonally left across a smooth wall covered in a layer of ice and I worried a bit about how I might protect it if I could get there, although I figured the ice might be useful.
When I followed to the ledge, I launched up the overhanging wall without any hesitation so as to get worried. Although the crack was too icy to take more than a couple of cams, good wires spurred on my progress and I pressed on, getting gradually more pumped. Above the lip of the overhang I made a couple of committing pulls to a rest. I was struggling a bit to get gear. Everything was choked in ice. I dug out a big hex placement behind a couple of loose blocks. It was wobbly, so I packed the loose blocks back on top of it with lots of snow to keep it where it was.
The final part of the pitch up the headwall was fantastic on steep cracks on the exposed headwall. The best bit however, was remembering that I'd packed some sweets in the pocket of my Gore-Tex jacket for the belay. Masa led a 62 metre pitch on easier terrain to the top of the Douglas boulder and we headed down into gathering black clouds and eventually rain - it looks like winter is gone for a little while in Scotland.
Masa in the fun chimney of Gutless.
Helen Rennard and myself were getting a bit fed up with waiting for a break in the stormy weather on the mountains, so we went up Ben Nevis on a blustery morning. There had been a very brief overnight thaw which we hoped would firm up the dangerous approach slopes. But as it got light it appeared to have stripped our possible new route objective. I also fell through a snowbridge on the path and went up to my knees in water. So we sat in the CIC hut for a while drying my boots and figuring out where to go.
We opted for the steep walls right of Echo Wall which have few routes and we thought it might be relatively sheltered from the heavy snow shower rattling in from the west. On the way up Observatory Gully we passed a string of goggled-up climbers descending from their route objectives in the blizzard. They optimistically wished us luck as we hid in our hoods and pressed on.
At the foot of the wall there was relative shelter and and we uncoiled the ropes below an overhanging crack feature soaring up the walls above. Helen had been here previously, but her partner had got very pumped and fallen from the first few metres, with a projected grade of 9 for this section.
I managed to get over this first overhanging section without taking too much time, mainly because I didn't want to hang about with poor gear in the extremely verglassed crack. On the following section I carried on with care, in the hope I'd get at least one solid runner, but I couldn't seem to get that. Eventually I arrived at an uncomfortable overhung slot below a very steep bulge in the crack above. I spent a very long time here.
I fiddled for ages, going up and down with some fear, trying in vain to get a good runner. Eventually, two very good hooks in the overhang persuaded me to move higher and I got a Spectre in. After a retreat to the slot, this runner provided the security to push a bit higher. A second Spectre went in and I now had enough protection to probe upwards with more commitment. Unfortunately I was by now getting pretty tired and was aware that Helen had been suffering the blizzard for some time without moving. She must have been freezing. On the other hand, I'd put in a fair bit of work and seemed to be only a few moves away from unlocking the pitch. So I committed upwards with a few heart pumping moments and burning forearms to an uncomfortable rest standing on one foot on the lip of the overhang.
I limped onwards to the belay, rather mentally exhausted and went through some savage hot aches before constructing a belay. Helen did a fine job of following the pitch from what must have been a very cold start. Understandably, she asked if I would lead on. The main problem on the final pitch was warming my freezing hands. It seems to me that your brain must shut out the memory of how bad hot aches can be. After descending Tower Ridge, we still had to don the goggles to walk down the Allt a Mhuillin!
We thought it would only be VIII,9 if the crack wasn't verglassed and would accept cams. It was a fine winter adventure - it does sometime pay off nicely if you press on through all the hurdles that Ben Nevis throws at you. But only with your wits about you at all times.


Open green Space is a spatial plan model aiming to maintain the quality of the environment. Nowadays, the number and distribution of Open green Space have decreased, particularly in urban areas. Such decline is due to many reasons, one of which is land conversion caused by social activities. This research aimed to analyse the distribution pattern and identify the type of Open green Space in Yogyakarta City. The method in this study using moran's I Index approach, GIS and direct field review. The results showed that the Open green Space was clustered with Moran's Index of 0,074594. Validation with field check indicated that there was an absence of even, thorough, and most recent Open green Space identification. Visual detection using high-resolution satellite images and aerial photos affirmed that many open green spaces had not been inventoried, justifying the need for data update in Yogyakarta City. The identification process resulted in different types of Open green Space, but the most widely distributed ones in Yogyakarta City were in the forms of Private yard, Office park, Green belt, and City Parks.


After disappointing at Ballarat at her career debut on June 1, Shadwell Stud'sZunbaqa has been unstoppable in three races since, bringing up her hat-trick with a career best in Saturday's Holdfast Insurance Handicap (1400m) at Morphettville.
The heavily backed favourite took control of the race in the early stages under Matthew Neilson.
Visiting apprentice Kei Chiong on second favourite Never Be Discreet put the pressure on before the home turn, however Neilson still had a lapful of horse and Zunbaqa was untroubled in the run to the line, defeating Never Be Discreet (Exceed And Excel) by four lengths with Ace Attack (Rebel Raider) a further two lengths back in third.
Trained by David Hayes and Tom Dabernig, Zunbaqa was a $300,000 purchase by Shadwell Australia out of the Broadwater Thoroughbreds draft at the 2015 Inglis Easter Yearling sale.
Bred by GSA Bloodstock, the More Than Ready (USA) filly is the second foal of the stakes-placed Encosta de Lago mare Boogaloo a half-sister to dual Group III winner and Group 1 Galaxy Stakes runner-up Taikun (Anabaa) and the Listed winner Super Groove (Dehere).
More Than Ready's 2-year-olds are again firing this season with 14 individual 2-year-old winners, which equals his son Sebring and I Am Invincible and only bettered by the runaway leader Snitzel.
The headliner for More Than Ready (USA) this season is Gooree Park Stud's Group 1 Champagne Stakes hero Prized Icon.


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Bestseller is an interesting Korean thriller from 2010. Director by Jeong-ho Lee weaves a story that you're not expecting...but does he do it well?
Best selling author Hee-soo is accused of plagiarism shortly after the release of another high selling book. Everyone is against her. Even, it appears, her husband. Two years on, still struggling with life after the accusation and now separated from her husband, Hee-soo travels to a lodge with her now six-year-old daughter, Yeon-hee, to write a new book. When they arrive, Yeon-hee meets a new friend - an invisible one - a turn to the bizarre, and then a new novel is written...but of course, there is more here than appears.
Jeong-hwa Eom / Sa-rang Park
Firstly, sold as a thriller, this is very much a horror. Anyone familiar with Asian horror, is going to see some of this coming, but it's not a bad thing. Asian cinema is fabulous in its story telling and this is no exception. From the arrival at the writing lodge something is off kilter and watching it, some viewers may think they can see what's coming.
I guarantee that they'll be wrong.
Plagued by writer's block, Hee-soo begins to crumble under the weight of her editors anticipation. She can't get a word on the page. When Yeon-hee's invisible friend starts to tell a story - which Hee-soo writes into a best selling novel - the *coughs* skeletons start coming out of the closet. But I won't spoil them here.
The acting is strong - but standout performance goes without doubt to Sa-rang Park as daughter Yeon-hee. Only seven years old at the time of release, she plays the innocent yet tortured little girl with maturity and applause. She ranks up with some of the best child actors I have ever witnessed a performance from.
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The adults all put in a solid performance, and the direction is well done. With few effects to work with, the movie is a good character driven horror piece, with a great twist no one will see coming.
4 Star Foreign Language Horror Review


Beta Chapter of Phi Delta Theta at UNC - Almost 70% of us Have Never Contributed!
Our annual fund for the 2015-2016 giving year began on September 1 and, so far, we have received 76 donations for a total of $15,191 toward our goal of $30,000 from 175 donors. We greatly appreciate all donations we have already received, however we are only about halfway to our goal with seven months left. Did you know that almost 70% of all alumni have never made a donation back to North Carolina Beta Chapter?
The holidays are over and tax returns are on their way, so now is the perfect time to make your contribution to North Carolina Beta Chapter!


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On the day that Surrey Scorchers announced that Rashad Hassan had left the club to take up an offer with a an overseas club, the side welcomed back NBA draft pick and GB International Ryan Richards who has signed on a season long deal for his third spell with the club, Scorchers picked up their first win of the new season with a narrow 76-72 victory over Worcester Wolves at Surrey Sports Park on Saturday.
Scorchers trailed for almost all of the first three quarters, before a final quarter surge got them over the line.
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The hosts trailed the visiting Wolves by just two in the opening quarter, before finding themselves six down at half-time.
Worcester- who at one time held a seven-point lead- eventually went into the final period with a five-point cushion.
Scorchers were out of the blocks quickly in the final quarter, and with a shade over eight minutes to go had led for the first time in the game- by a single point.
Wolves responded to retake the lead with just over seven minutes remaining, only for Scorchers to hit back thanks to a 3-point Evan Walshe jump shot to nudge the home side back in front, with a shade over five minutes to go.
An inspiring run of 10-0 to Scorchers enabled them to grab victory and secure second place in the BBL Cup Group 1.
Captain Tayo Ogedengbe picked up 18 points on the night with Connor Cashaw also getting 18 points with seven rebounds and five assists.
Wolves were indebted to a class showing from Matthew Bryan-Amaning who led the visitors attack with 26 points and 11 rebounds.
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In a recent interview, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak (Woz) said he would participate in a Crypto startup. At the same time, he talked about the virtual currencies and why he is eager about their potential in the future. He compares the Crypto world to the internet in its early years.
Steve Wozniak has said that he likes being updated at an interview at Chainxchange blockchain convention. Consequently, he is now attracted to Cryptocurrencies and believes they have great potential in the future. The 68-year-old is a prominent computer engineer who worked with Steve Jobs to establish Apple.
Wozniak said that he was first attracted to the Cryptocurrency world by Bitcoin. He notes that he observed so many unusual things that he has never seen with any other technology before. He said that the creator of the new technology is not known and that it is not controlled by any central authority. Moreover, the currency is based on mathematics and the number of Bitcoins that can be in circulation is known.
Woz has a long history in the technology world as he worked closely with Steve Jobs. In 1976, the two close friends founded Apple, which has become one of the most successful technology companies in history. Whereas Mr. Jobs dealt with entrepreneurial aspects like financing and marketing, Woz was in the technology sector establishing personal computing revelations.
Together with Mr. Jobs, Woz built Apple from its early years to 1981. By 1985, Woz had left Apple in a more-or-less permanent way. Since leaving the tech giant, he has been into other things like philanthropic work. He is also the man behind the invention of Universal Remote. Some time back, he hosted music shows. Currently, many view him as an ambassador of computing in its early days.
Woz admitted he is a natural mathematician and that is why he admires Bitcoin. Specifically, he loves the Cryptocurrency because he trusts things that are of nature than those made up by men. For instance, the fiat currencies are made and controlled by the government. Every year, governments issue new currencies and Bitcoin is immune to such subjections.
Woz said that the Cryptocurrency space is so independent. He compares to the internet when emerged and admits he is amazed by the technology. He added that people invent things that end up doing other things for the benefit of all of us. During the interview, he said he has come across people working in different sectors such a real estate, the transport sector, manufacturing, and Cryptocurrencies among others which all have value. As far as Cryptocurrencies are concerned, he says the few people who don't see their value remind him of the internet in the early days.
Woz's comments about the Cryptocurrencies are especially important to the visionaries, and current builders and investors in the sector. His vast experience in the internet sector can enable him to predict the future of an emerging technology and not be distracted by the opinion of the naysayers.


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