Month: August 2019

Nel mese di giugno Kilian Fischhuber ha liberato due vie di 8c nella falesia di Manga (Zillertal, Austria) Paris in prison e Love 2.0. Kilian Fischhuber, l’attuale leader della Coppa del Mondo Boulder, sta ottimizzando i tempi tra una gara e l’altra. Nei giorni prima della tappa di Grindelwald l’austriaco ha liberato un vecchio progettoRead moreRead more

Il 2/09 Nives Meroi e Roman Benet sono partiti per il Makalu (8485m), 5a montagna per altezza della terra. Per i due alpinisti di Tarvisio questo è il viaggio verso l’11° Ottomila e per Nives Meroi un altro importante passo per essere la prima donna a salire tutte le 14 montagne della terra. Inizia oggiRead moreRead more

A luglio Sílvia Vidal ha salito in solitaria “Life is Lilac” (A4+, 6a, 870m) nuova via sul pilastro NE del Shipton Spire, Trango, Pakistan A luglio inoltrato la 37enne Sílvia Vidal, una delle “big wallers” più famose, ha salito in solitaria la sua nuova “Life is Lilac” sul pilastro NE del Shipton Spire, nelle TorriRead moreRead more

Where’s the beef? Facebook, apparently. People have been using the social media site to “gamble” on high-end food items — including A5 Wagyu, stone crabs and in one case, a whole Spanish octopus. The online meat market was profiled in a recent article by Mel Magazine. It is made up of private, invite-only FB groupsRead moreRead more

The odds are stacked against Paul Perkins. He knows it, and rather than run from it, he’d rather run with it and relish the challenge along the way. Thursday night’s Giants preseason finale against the Patriots in Foxborough, Mass., might very well represent Perkins’ last stand with the team that drafted him in 2016. OrRead moreRead more

Soak up the last days of summer because an arctic hell is predicted for this winter. Most of the country will be blasted this year with a “polar coaster” of free-falling, frigid temperatures and gusty winds, the Farmers’ Almanac is predicting. “Our extended forecast is calling for yet another freezing, frigid, and frosty winter forRead moreRead more

The Department of City Planning’s recent Storefront Vacancy Report brought rare clarity to the city’s retail leasing picture — a situation which many, Realty Check included, has called a crisis. As DCP Director Marisa Lago put it, the research shows that “the reasons for storefront vacancies are complex and varied.” In not allocating blame solelyRead moreRead more

Joe Arpaio is looking to get back in the saddle again as the former Arizona sheriff said Sunday that he plans to run for the position he lost in 2016. The former Maricopa County sheriff, who was pardoned last year by President Trump for a federal contempt-of-court conviction, pledged to enforce his tough on crimeRead moreRead more

Decorated NASA astronaut Anne McClain has denied she stole her estranged wife’s identity while on a mission as officials investigate her for what may be the first crime committed in space. “There’s unequivocally no truth to these claims,” McClain said Saturday on Twitter. “We’ve been going through a painful, personal separation that’s now unfortunately inRead moreRead more

Every school in the city should be engineered to match the exact racial mix of the city, and there should be no sorting by academic ability, an education panel handpicked by Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza said yesterday. The panel recommends redrawing school-district lines citywide to “fully integrate” them within 10Read moreRead more