The Bank of England’s (BoE) newest rate-setter has singled out headwinds from abroad as the biggest threat to the UK economy.Speaking to the Treasury Select Committee, Gertjan Vlieghe told MPs that the BoE’s monetary policy committee – which sets interest rates – must factor in global economic developments. “We absolutely have to take into account that we are operating in a global environment, which is adverse, so to speak, in that there are headwinds to growth,” he said.”It is one of the things that will prevent the UK economy from accelerating meaningfully from its current pace of growth.”Read more: Pound tumbles as UK slips back into negative inflationThe Bank of England’s MPC voted 8-1 in favour of holding interest rates at the record low 0.1 per cent earlier this month. At the time, officials said an intensified emerging market slowdown could slow the pace of UK economic growth.Vlieghe, who joined the committee in September, also believes UK inflation is more likely to come in below target, rather than above it. Bank of England’s newest MPC member Gertjan Vlieghe flags global risks to UK growth Show Comments ▼ Share whatsapp “There are risks to either side, but given the current low levels of inflation the risks are probably skewed to the downside,” he said.“Certainly he’s not in a hurry to raise rates,” said Philip Shaw, an economist at Investec.“He’s less hawkish than some of the other members on the committee. How he votes really depends on how key elements of the data and the markets pan out.” Jessica Morris Vlieghe replaced David Miles in September, just as Miles was signalling that he was close to voting for a rate hike.Official data released today showed UK inflation slipped back into negative territory for the second time since 1960. The BoE recently scaled back its forecast for when inflation will return to one per cent, to Spring from the turn of this year. whatsapp Tuesday 13 October 2015 11:39 am by Taboolaby TaboolaSponsored LinksSponsored LinksPromoted LinksPromoted LinksYou May LikeMoneyPailShe Was A Star, Now She Works In ScottsdaleMoneyPailGameday NewsNASCAR Drivers Salaries Finally ReleasedGameday NewsPost FunKate & Meghan Are Very Different Mothers, These Photos Prove ItPost FunSwift VerdictChrissy Metz, 39, Shows Off Massive Weight Loss In Fierce New PhotoSwift VerdictMaternity WeekA Letter From The Devil Written By A Possessed Nun In 1676 Has Been TranslatedMaternity Weekzenherald.comMeghan Markle Changed This Major Detail On Archies Birth Certificatezenherald.comBridesBlushThis Is Why The Royal Family Kept Quiet About Prince Harry’s Sister BridesBlushEquity MirrorThey Drained Niagara Falls — They Weren’t Prepared For This Sickening DiscoveryEquity MirrorTheFashionBallAlica Schmidt Is The Most Beautiful Athlete To ExistTheFashionBall
New container port capacity will be scarce, on the back of the Covid-19 throughput fallout, according to Drewry.As terminal operators around the world struggle for volumes amid blanked sailings, the analyst forecasts container port capacity expansion will; contract by at least 40% over the next five years.While capacity is still projected to grow 2.1% during the period, an additional 25m teu a year, this is well below the capacity growth seen over the past decade, Drewy noted, when the average annual increase was more than 40m teu.It said port throughput would grow by an average annual rate of 3.5%, which would see volumes increase from 801m teu in 2019 to 951m teu by 2024, but cautioned this would depend on further Covid-19 economic lockdowns.Eleanor Hadland, Drewry’s senior analyst for ports and terminals said: “Operators and port authorities are actively reviewing delivery of planned projects in the light of the drastic slowdown in economic growth and uncertain short-to-medium-term outlook.”Indeed, when announcing its half year results this week, Manila-based global terminal operator ICTSI highlighted a reduction in capital expenditure as the key reason it had been able to “cushion the impact” of the pandemic and generate a “better-than-expected performance.”Chairman and president Enrique Razon said: “We took immediate action to preserve cash and reduce our capital expenditure.”Indeed, ICTSI reduced its capital expenditure plan for the year to $160m, earmarked to complete ongoing expansion projects. It handled 4.79m teu during the first half, down 5% on 2019, while gross revenue from port operations was down 4% to $724.3m.With terminal operators tightening the purse strings, Drewry’s Ms Hadland said major expansion and greenfield projects already under construction could face minor delays due to the disruption this year.But she added: “However, for projects at an earlier stage of planning, particularly where construction contracts and equipment orders have not yet been tendered, suspension or cancellation is more likely, if market conditions remain poor.”South-east Asia could be spared the chopping block, though, according to Ms Hadland, who has said container terminals there may need to invest up to $13bn to keep pace with expected coronavirus-driven supply chain diversification from China.Meanwhile, she said, the biggest operators continued to lead the way in terminal automation, explaining: “More than three-quarters of automated terminals are operated by global and international players, and of the 22 automated terminal projects planned, more than 80% will be delivered by this group.” By Sam Whelan 07/08/2020
About the Author Reprints The growing use of electronic medical records, electronic insurance claims, and other medical software systems is generating massive volumes of personal health information. While the primary purpose of capturing this information is to provide patient care, researchers have a voracious appetite for this flood of data. But what may be good for medical and health care research may not be good for you if hackers can identify you in these datasets.Millions of records of personal health information are being sought by federal and private sector initiatives to conduct advanced medical research and precision medicine, by regulatory entities seeking better reporting and transparency of the results of clinical trials and medical device testing, and by researchers trying to measure the quality and safety of health care. These data can also be used to identify epidemiological patterns, establish provider certification and accreditation, and drive marketing and other business applications.Of course, raw data from electronic health records and the like can’t be used for these purposes. Sharing personal information like names, addresses, or Social Security numbers would violate the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and be downright dangerous for consumers.advertisement Joe Raedle/Getty Images By Sam Wehbe Sept. 12, 2016 Reprints That’s where de-identification comes in. This process removes personal information like names and Social Security numbers while preserving demographic and other data such as diagnoses and geospatial data that is vital for research.When done poorly, de-identification can backfire. Take, for example, a well-publicized case using a de-identified insurance claims dataset from Massachusetts. Latanya Sweeney, then a Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate student, compared this database against simple demographic information included in the Cambridge, Mass., voter registration list, which she had purchased for $20.advertisement @swehbe Related: Several fields in the two databases were the same, including date of birth, 5-digit residential ZIP code, and gender. By matching these, Sweeney was able to extract health records for then-Governor William Weld, who had been briefly hospitalized after collapsing during a college graduation ceremony. Please enter a valid email address. First OpinionSharing personal health information can never be risk-free, but it can be low-risk Hackers turn to health care, where records fetch bigger bucks Sweeney has since gone on to identify by name participants in the Personal Genome Project, a de-identified database of individuals who have volunteered to have their genomes sequenced. Other studies have also re-identified individuals from information that had been claimed to be de-identified.These examples make news. But in reality, the success rate of these attacks is extremely low, and can often be chalked up to the fact that the data were not properly de-identified in the first place.I have been studying and championing risk-based data de-identification for years. I believe that efforts to re-identify personal health information offer two key lessons about personal health information. 1) There is never zero risk in sharing data, just as there is never zero risk in taking a walk down the street. 2) Data sharing is inherently a risk-management exercise. Once you understand how to manage the risks, it’s possible to ensure that only a very small level of risk remains.Simply removing information such as names and addresses from a dataset doesn’t render the data anonymous and ensure that an individual can’t be identified. Conferring real privacy protection means carefully assessing the re-identification risk, setting acceptable risk thresholds, and transforming the data using de-identification standards.Several such guidelines and standards exist for doing this. The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST), for example, recently released a de-identification framework that organizations can use when creating, accessing, storing, or exchanging personal information. Other organizations, like the Institute of Medicine and the Council of Canadian Academies have adopted similar standards that permit sharing sensitive data while managing the risks of re-identification. Current evidence shows that the risk of re-identification using these approaches is very small. Leave this field empty if you’re human: It’s important to keep in mind that a trade-off exists between privacy and utility. Creating a dataset with a low probability of re-identifying an individual means that it will likely be less useful for analysis.While the goal of de-identification is to reduce to zero the chance that an individual in a dataset can be re-identified, that is impossible to guarantee.Sharing health data offers great opportunity for innovation and improved patient outcomes. But these benefits need not come at the cost of diminishing privacy. By holding organizations to high privacy standards when sharing health data, we can move health care forward while still ensuring patient anonymity.Sam Wehbe is a director at Privacy Analytics, a health care data de-identification technology company based in Ottawa, Ontario, where he is a champion for risk-based de-identification methodology and the key role it plays in preventing data breaches. Privacy Policy NewslettersSign up for The Readout Your daily guide to what’s happening in biotech. Sam Wehbe Tags Big Datadata sharingprivacy
What is it? In reelection bid, a GOP lawmaker campaigns on Pelosi’s drug pricing bill By Lev Facher Feb. 11, 2020 Reprints What’s included? Politics Unlock this article — plus daily intelligence on Capitol Hill and the life sciences industry — by subscribing to STAT+. First 30 days free. GET STARTED [email protected] Log In | Learn More STAT+ is STAT’s premium subscription service for in-depth biotech, pharma, policy, and life science coverage and analysis. Our award-winning team covers news on Wall Street, policy developments in Washington, early science breakthroughs and clinical trial results, and health care disruption in Silicon Valley and beyond. About the Author Reprints
WASHINGTON — In the months before House Democrats passed their aggressive drug negotiation bill, GOP lawmakers derisively labeled it the “Fewer Cures Act,” and a conservative advocacy group spent millions on advertisements likening the legislation to a “socialist takeover of the health care system.”But in Washington state, one Republican lawmaker is effectively campaigning for reelection on her support for the bill. Daily reporting and analysis The most comprehensive industry coverage from a powerhouse team of reporters Subscriber-only newsletters Daily newsletters to brief you on the most important industry news of the day STAT+ Conversations Weekly opportunities to engage with our reporters and leading industry experts in live video conversations Exclusive industry events Premium access to subscriber-only networking events around the country The best reporters in the industry The most trusted and well-connected newsroom in the health care industry And much more Exclusive interviews with industry leaders, profiles, and premium tools, like our CRISPR Trackr. GET STARTED Lev Facher Washington Correspondent Lev Facher covers the politics of health and life sciences. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.), who faces a difficult reelection bid in 2020, is campaigning on her support for House Democrats’ controversial drug pricing bill. Don Ryan/AP Photo @levfacher Tags campaigndrug pricing
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Skyview’s Jalynnee McGee (11) finishes off one of his four touchdown runs in the first half of Friday’s playoff victory over Federal Way. McGee finished with six touchdowns in the game as Skyview advanced in the Class 4A playoffs with a 49-0 win at Kiggins Bowl. Photo by Mike SchultzThe Storm (8-2) advanced to the 4A state playoffs, in the final 16. They will find out their seeding and their opponent Sunday when the WIAA’s seeding committee meets to fill out the brackets.The Storm made a case for a top eight seed and another home game.McGee made his case for Mr. Skyview.“It was a fun night. The line, they had some amazing blocks, all game long,” McGee said. “A lot of times it was effortless because they were blocking so well. All game long, everything [was] well executed.”McGee had rushed for 20 touchdowns through the first nine games, but he did not always get a lot of action. The Skyview coaches monitored his carries, his playing time, to ensure he would be ready for a playoff run.“We kept him in the garage all year,” Skyview coach Steve Kizer said. “It was fun to get him running a little bit. He’s pretty electric.”Skyview running back Jalynnee McGee (11) refused to be denied when he carried the football in Friday’s Class 4A playoff game at Kiggins Bowl. McGee shredded the Federal Way defense en route to a 49-0 victory by the Storm. Photo by Mike SchultzMcGee scored on runs of 7 and 13 yards in the first quarter, then from a yard out and and a 70-yard beauty in the second quarter. He added touchdowns of 3 and 13 yards in the third quarter.That made for a running clock.He was not done running yet, but his coaches had seen enough. McGee tried to go back on the field for an attempt at a seventh touchdown, but the coaches called him back to the sideline.Gabriel Martin got the final score for the Storm.In all, the Storm rushed for 322 yards and seven touchdowns.“It feels great. We always just trust our technique and we trust our play,” lineman Jake Miller said. “We did our jobs, and the running backs did the rest. They really helped us out. They make our job easy.”Skyview defenders Xavier Owens (13) and Michael Stromberg (1) break up an attempted pass to a Federal Way defender during a lopsided victory by the Storm Friday at Kiggins Bowl. Photo by Mike SchultzMiller said the Storm figured they could get some consistent gains on Federal Way’s defense. Nothing like this, though.“We didn’t expect to run all over them,” Miller said. Skyview quarterback Yaro Duvalko was 9 for 11 for 176 yards. He was just fine with not having to pass a lot.“He’s the best athlete on the field at all times,” Duvalko said of McGee. “I could play the rest of my career just handing it off, and I’d be so happy. He’s so dynamic. He works hard. He never complains. One of my best friends. I love him. He’s my brother.”On McGee’s 70-yard touchdown run, he weaved in and around defenders and broke free down the right sideline. Duvalko, who had handed off the ball, was all the way down there trying to make the final block.“That’s the best play I’ve made all year,” Duvalko said. “Better than any touchdown I’ve thrown.”Skyview’s Ahmani Williams (6) runs with the football after recovering an offensive fumble during Friday’s playoff game at Kiggins Bowl. Photo by Mike SchultzHey, the defense got the job done, too.Federal Way did have some decent drives, but the Storm refused to allow the Eagles into the end zone.Early in the second quarter, the Eagles went for it on fourth-and-goal. Micah Baylous got the sack for the Storm.“If we all do our assignments, if all 11 guys do what they’re supposed to do, we’re going to get the job done,” Baylous said. It was 14-0 at the time. The Eagles had a chance to make it 14-7. Instead, the Storm went 94 yards on their next drive to make it 21-0.Now it’s all about staying undefeated every week, Baylous said.The Storm might have finished second in the Class 4A Greater St. Helens League, but they still believe they are among the best in the state.Now that they have made it to state, the Storm will get their chance to prove it.With McGee rested and ready.It’s go time. In other Week 10 games: Camas pulled away from Olympia to win 48-13. It was a six-point game at the half. Camas, 10-0, will be among the top seeds in the 4A bracket.Union plays Mount Rainier on Saturday.In the 3A ranks, league-champion Prairie cruised to 73-35 win over Capital to advance to state. Evergreen just missed pulling off a shocker in Seattle. Garfield held on to beat the Plainsmen 36-34. In 2A, the Washougal Panthers, as the No. 3 seed, got the job done on the road, defeating W.F. West 28-7 to advance to state.Tumwater ended Columbia River’s season 66-13.Hockinson and Ridgefield play home games on Saturday.In Class 1A, La Center improved to 9-0 with a 42-14 win over Elma to advance to state.And Montesano took down King’s Way Christian 58-14.The brackets and seeding for all classifications will be released Sunday.SKYVIEW 49, FEDERAL WAY 0Fed. Way 0 0 0 0 — 0Skyview 14 14 14 7 — 49First quarterS — Jalynnee McGee 7 run (Sliman Farran kick)S — McGee 13 run (Farran kick)Second quarterS — McGee 1 run (Farran kick)S — McGee 70 run (Farran kick)Third quarterS — McGee 3 run (Farran kick)S — McGee 13 run (Farran kick)IFourth quarterS — Gabriel Martin 2 run (Farran kick)Individual statisticsRUSHING: Skyview — McGee 20-224, Martin 13-98, Ahmani Williams 0-15. PASSING: Skyview — Yaro Duvalko 9-11-0-176.RECEIVING: Skyview — Mason Wheeler 7-98, Xavier Owens 1-55, Gavin Baskette 1-23. AdvertisementThis is placeholder textTags:Clark CountyHigh School Football 2019LatestSkyview Storm 2019Vancouvershare 0 Previous : Youth injured by blade in Halloween candy in Vancouver Next : Ridgefield, Hockinson celebrate in different waysAdvertisementThis is placeholder text 0 Comments Inline FeedbacksView all comments
COMMENTSSHARE YOUR THOUGHTS Ford kits out Bronco concepts to celebrate the nameplate’s birthdayA Bronco Raptor with gonzo off-road kit and a yaffle of right-now torque would be a hoot on the trail. The hybrid system’s extra weight would be a downer, but surely a company with the engineering might of Ford can solve that little puzzle. We encourage all readers to share their views on our articles using Facebook commenting Visit our FAQ page for more information. First Look: 2022 Lexus NX The sport-cute’s looks have been softened, but its powertrains and infotainment offerings have been sharpened For now, we wait — though hopefully not as long as we’ve waited for the Ranger Raptor. Next-gen Ford Ranger Raptor may come to U.S. (and Canada) after all Trending Videos RELATED TAGSBroncoFordSUVNon-LuxuryNew VehiclesbroncoFordNon-Luxuryraptor We sincerely hope someone at Ford celebrates whatever day the original SVT team at Ford decided to take their performance truck to the sand instead of the strip. Since it dropped in 2010, the Raptor name has become synonymous with gonzo levels of off-road performance and a boatload of horsepower. And it’s a pretty good basketball team, too.Unveiled just a few weeks ago, the new Bronco has yet found to find its way into a single customer’s driveway. That hasn’t stopped the rumour mill from kicking firmly into overdrive, with speculation running high that Ford will apply the Raptor formula to its Bronco line sooner rather than later.Absent of any even remotely official words from Ford itself, we’re left to speculate what gear a Bronco Raptor might contain. A stock Bronco equipped with the Sasquatch package is already a serious off-road machine in its own right, packed with 35-inch tires on beadlock-capable wheels, locking diffs, and Bilstein position-sensitive monotube shocks. Its high-clearance fender flares add to the visual drama, as do any number of the accessories from Ford’s own aftermarket catalog. 
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The PGA Championship field will start to take shape after this week with the top 70 on a special PGA Tour money list getting into the field. For the U.S. Open, anyone not already eligible who doesn’t crack the top 60 in the world ranking can go to one of 10 final qualifying sites in America. The British Open feels more like a closed shop this year, though not by choice. Early summer is when the Open offers qualifying spots to top finishers at European Tour and PGA Tour events. But those aren’t available as the R&A tries to honor those who qualified for a major that was canceled last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Once the top 50 in the world is determined on May 23, there are precious few spots for professionals available for Royal St. George’s on July 15-18. There are eight qualifying spots in England. There are three spots for Japan Golf Tour events. And the R&A will take the leading five players from Europe and the PGA Tour points lists in late June provided they are among the top 20. Players also can qualify by winning the PGA Championship or U.S. Open, a slightly taller task. The majors last year had to make adjustments to their criteria because of the pandemic. The Masters, postponed by seven months, chose to stick with its April field. The U.S. Open, postponed by three months in 2020, had to do without qualifying and came up with exemption categories that reflected a qualifying system. The British Open was canceled. That means the four “Open Qualifying Series” sites that were held before the pandemic are being honored. Danny Lee, Joel Dahmen and Keith Mitchell were the leading three players from the top 10 at Bay Hill a year ago in March to earn spots. They will be in the field because the Open was not played last year. Mitchell and Lee have not finished in the top 10 since that week in Bay Hill. Golf Central R&A revises qualifying for Open Championship BY Brentley Romine — March 10, 2021 at 8:07 AM The R&A is revising regional and final qualifying for this summer’s Open Championship at Royal St. George’s. Also in the field is those who made it to the Tour Championship in August 2019, a list that includes Lucas Glover and Chez Reavie. “I guess it’s similar to how people feel about exemptions,” Glover said. “I earned my way in two years ago, so I should have played last year. So maybe I get to play this year.” The R&A typically has 12 sites for its Open Qualifying Series. Last year the PGA Tour would have had such qualifiers at the Canadian Open, the Travelers Championship and the John Deere Classic. Europe lost out on sites in Germany, Ireland and Scotland.
Share A Physician Describes How Behe Changed His MindLife’s Origin — A “Mystery” Made AccessibleCodes Are Not Products of PhysicsIxnay on the Ambriancay PlosionexhayDesign Triangulation: My Thanksgiving Gift to All Faith & Science Science Historian Michael Keas: Let’s Not Compound the Tragedy of Giordano BrunoDavid [email protected]_klinghofferFebruary 19, 2019, 1:33 PM Congratulations to Science Magazine for an Honest Portrayal of Darwin’s Descent of Man The medieval idea of burning people because of their religious beliefs is horrific enough, but it only adds to the tragedy to say Bruno’s death illustrates the warfare between faith and science. Recommended Email Print Google+ Linkedin Twitter Share Requesting a (Partial) Retraction from Darrel Falk and BioLogos
Jane Goodall Meets the God Hypothesis Origin of Life: Brian Miller Distills a Debate Between Dave Farina and James Tour “A Summary of the Evidence for Intelligent Design”: The Study Guide TagsburningexecutionGiordano BrunoheresyhistoryMichael KeasmythNeil deGrasse TysonreligionRoman Catholic ChurchscienceUnbelievable,Trending Science historian Michael Keas, a Discovery Institute Fellow, is the author of the new book Unbelievable: 7 Myths About the History and Future of Science and Religion. One of those myths holds that the Roman Catholic Church executed Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) for challenging the dominant religion of his time on scientific grounds. Not true at all, as Professor Keas explains. Bruno’s peculiar beliefs, what really got him in trouble, were all theological in nature. He was not driven by science but by his own outlandish religious speculations. That should not have resulted in his terrible death. But neither should modern day myth makers like Neil deGrasse Tyson weaponize the tragedy in their own war on religion. Email Print Google+ Linkedin Twitter Share
Twitter WhatsApp Important message for people attending LUH’s INR clinic Curvier’s Beaked Whale stranded at Hornhead Loganair’s new Derry – Liverpool air service takes off from CODA Google+ By News Highland – April 2, 2021 A Curvier’s Beaked Whale has been found washed up in Dunfanaghy.The 5.7 foot male sub-adult was discovered stranded at Hornhead.The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group says there is no obvious injury or trauma on the body of the deep diving whale but samples have been taken for scientific analysis. WhatsApp RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR Google+ Previous articleConcern over alleged dog attacks in west DonegalNext articlePolice under attack again in Derry News Highland 
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Previous articleRelief as missing Buncrana woman found safeNext articleThe Great British Bake Off 2015 returns for it’s sixth series News Highland Facebook Homepage BannerNews News, Sport and Obituaries on Monday May 24th Consultation launched on proposal to limit HGV traffic in Clady Pinterest Harps come back to win in Waterford After a series of setbacks Jason Black has decided to abandon his bid to climb the K2 Mountain.The team were to begin their summit push today but had to scrap those plans when all of their equipment was lost in an avalanche.Poor weather was also hampering the attempt.Jason confirmed the news to return home in a blog post today in which he outlined the highs and lows of a ‘crazy emotional roller coaster. The full text of the blog can be read below:Monday 27th July Over the last few days and nights ive been riding a crazy emotional roller coaster of highs and lows unimaginable on K2. Starting out with the highs of weeks of seriously hard work climbing super high carrying heavy loads preparing the route to the summit with ropes ,tents, food oxygen and everything in between required for a successful push to the top of the toughest mountain in the world K2 to enduring the uncertain weather patterns of a very angry mountain weeping incredibly. This morning i can confirm that after days of frantic digging we have recovered some of the teams technical climbing equipment but most is damaged due to the sheer force beyond use , helmets crushed, crampons twisted, ice axes bent etc …..to add fuel to the now blazing fire i can also confirm camp three 7.300mts is totally destroyed everything is gone in what looked like a violent rock filled Avalanche, taking with it the tents, high altitude food, sleeping bags and high altitude clothing and more devastating the oxygen needed to survive above camp three, hanging our heads in our hands all that weeks and weeks of work carrying the gear into route position to be wiped out in one fawl swoop. As I’ve mentioned in earlier blogs that we would have been climbing from cam two to camp three at exactly the him this violent killing machine Avalanche stuck….mind blowing. The Abruzzi route to the summit of K2 lays now in tatters ….it’s just heart breaking. K2 lives up to its reputation as the stage mountain as I’ve witnessed the good the bad and the very ugly on this heart breaking expedition. Last night Sunday we had a team meeting and it’s decided that it’s over K2 has proven impossible to climb this year, Mother Nature and the mountain of K2 has spoken and we must listen, listen not and we pay the ultimate price. As i type this is hitting home with a tear in my eye it’s reality…it’s over, the painstaking preparation ,years of training mentally & physically ,all the sacrifices…..I can truly say i have given it my all and with my team members, we stood shoulder to shoulder in the pursuit of summit success on this magnificent mountain ,not a single stone was left unturned….. Today i will look at this objectively, learn from it humbly, Smile in the face of adversity positively and move on wiser and smarter than before… The wild forces us to live in the present ,and it doesn’t care about our past or future. It makes us a little vulnerable – and it’s hard to hide who we really are. And therein lies the beauty, We can’t pretent for long….what is important in life becomes the stuff that really matters on lives mountain…I’ve so any people to thank for helping me prepare for supporting my decisions that I stand on the shoulders of great people in my hometown that allow me to see further…for that I’m forever great full. Tonight i reflect on this powerful expedition and tomorrow turn bitter lemons into lemonade… Thank you all for the wonderful support I’m coming home….proud & humbled. Jason Twitter Facebook Google+ Google+
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