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Nepali climber Nirmal Purja, who recently made history along with four other summiters by becoming the first to summit K2 in winter, share his experience on social media. A team of five climbers - Nimsdai, Mingma, Dawa, Sona, Kili - scaled the world's second-highest mountain in winter. A feat no one has achieved before. Nirmal shared a video on social media. In the video, the five climbers can be seen scaling the peak together, braving the cold. Brother to brother, shoulder to shoulder, we walked together to the summit whilst singing the Nepali national anthe… https://t.co/XCE1mhbcRz … [Read more...] about Watch: Nepali climber shares experience of scaling Mount K2 in winter

In recent years, Hans and Jacqueline Florine of Lafayette broke all bounds with speed records that seem impossible and, in the process, made news in all corners of the world. The Florines, like many climbers, said they still return to their roots, the climbing rocks in Berkeley. Like Rowell and countless others, Hans Florine got his start at Indian Rock in the Berkeley hills. … [Read more...] about How Bay Area mountaineers altered the face of rock climbing

Turning to the findings, the scores of these college students on the Rorschach narcissism scales indeed predicted their levels of anger and externalization of blame. The self-report inventories, by contrast, were unrelated to the reactions that participants had to the self-esteem insult of failure. In the words of the authors, “The tendency to place the source of negative outcomes outside the self is likely to reflect an attempt by narcissistic individuals to resist what they perceive as negative feedback… As such, the implicitly assessed [Rorschach narcissism scales] might be associated with hostile behavior enacted in everyday unstructured situations by narcissistically inclined people experiencing self-esteem affronts”(p. 9). … [Read more...] about What Goes on Beneath the Surface When Narcissists Get Angry

In an interview recently granted to the Vietnam News Agency (VNA), Perojo attributed Vietnam’s successful control of COVID-19 to the brainpower of the Party, drastic actions of authorities at all levels to protect people’s health, proper measures promptly adopted by the Government for each period, collaboration between the State and ministries and agencies, as well as coordination of the entire society in the fight against the pandemic. … [Read more...] about VIETNAM NEWS JANUARY 25

According to the Information Center for Agriculture and Rural Development (AGROINFO) under the Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development (IPSARD), as of late 2019, FDI in Vietnamese agriculture reached US$3.5 billion, accounting for 0.97 percent of total FDI capital in Vietnam, while the global average is three percent. The biggest foreign investors in the Vietnamese agricultural sector included Chinese Taipei, the Virgin Islands (UK), Singapore and Thailand, which accounted for more than 50 percent of total foreign investment capital in the sector. … [Read more...] about Needed: A proper strategy to attract FDI in agriculture