Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning. It’s Wednesday 22 February 2017 and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift, the world’s overnight news feed. The Los Angeles Lakers basketball team, who have struggled over the last decade, made a major move yesterday, bringing in Magic Johnson–the leader during their golden years–as President …
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Bill Walton on Achievement
“Don’t confuse activity with achievement….”
The Nightshift: 21 February 2017
Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning. It’s Tuesday, 21 February 2017 and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift, the world’s overnight news feed. America has a new (and respected) National Security Advisor. The Russian ambassador to the U.N. has died unexpectedly in New York, fake news is becoming an ever bigger …
The Nightshift: 20 February 2017
Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning. It’s Monday, 20 February 2017, President’s Day, and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift, the world’s overnight news feed. SpaceX had a successful launch from the Kennedy Space Center yesterday; the payload was space station cargo. Dustin Johnson won the Genesis Open at the Riviera Country …
The Nightshift: 19 February 2017
Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning. It’s Sunday, 19 February 2017 and this is the afternoon edition of The Nightshift, the world’s overnight news feed. California is still facing immense danger and problems from the unprecedented amount of rainfall the state has endured in the last two months. From “not enough rain” to “way …
The Nightshift: 18 February 2017
Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning. It’s Saturday, 18 February 2017 and this is the morning edition of The Nightshift, the world’s overnight news feed. Mikaela Shiffrin won her third straight Slalom World Championship, skiing at St. Moritz, Switzerland. Schiffrin will be 21 in March. She beat home town favorite Wendy Holdener of Switzerland …
The Winter Film Festival: Ski Radonee de la Haute Route
Edgework: One more look at skiing the Haute Route, this one in French (if you don’t speak French..well..the visuals are great and you can get the gist of things. Enjoy. See you at the bottom. Our annual Winter Film Festival, the Fourth one we’ve produced, is now in progress. The WFF posts go up after …
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The Nightshift: 17 February 2017
Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning. It’s Friday, 17 February 2017 and this is the morning edition of The Nightshift, the world’s overnight news feed. The President held a rather interesting press conference yesterday. Depending on your political point of view, it was either a)incredible or b)embarrassing. The made-for-TV reality show that is …
The Winter Film Festival:"The Skier's Haute Route"
Edgework: One of the great adventures of skiing is the “Haute Route”, or “high route” across the French and Swiss Alps from Chamonix to Zermatt, home of the Matterhorn. You can ski it (actually ski tour it) or you can hike; there are guides in Chamonix who will take you every exhausting step of the …
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The Nightshift: 16 February 2017
Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning. It’s Thursday, 16 February 2017 and this is the morning edition of The Nightshift, the world’s overnight news feed. More of the same from Washington. The administration is upset about the leaks, not about the facts in the leaks. It should be, of course, the other way around. …