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https://arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/greenland-ice-sheet-3/ Not just Wikipedia, US government body NOAA says 7.4 metres of sea level rise.

In my TD3 at 9 degrees experiments I was trying for 2 things. A longer stance. Discovered that while that kind of angle made the longer stance possible, that the even longer stance beyond that comfortably achievable with 6 degrees wasn't functional in terms of managing weight distribution. A toe and heel lifted and significantly outward canted skwal style stance with bindings at 80 degrees plus. That worked.

The Guardian is not your typical newspaper/news website. Wikipedia summarises - "The Guardian is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as The Manchester Guardian, and changed its name in 1959.[4] Along with its sister papers, The Observer and The Guardian Weekly, The Guardian is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited.[5] The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of The Guardian in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of The Guardian free from commercial or political interference".[6] The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for The Guardian the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders.[6] It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK.[7][8]" Its overall editorial slant is left wing in the context of British politics. It is an excellent source of worldwide news with several "editions" depending upon which part of the world you come from. While it can be read for free, I pay a very modest amount each year to support its news gathering.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/29/something-weird-is-going-on-search-for-answers-as-antarctic-sea-ice-stays-at-historic-lows While the Northern Hemisphere burns, Antarctica is not freezing the way it should in our winter. Something weird, and worrying, indeed.

Should we start calling you "Ken"?

Have tried 9 degrees rear heel lift on Bomber TD3 step ins, using a 6 degree disc and 3 degree wedging under the toe and heel pieces. The F2 setup pictured gives about 8 degrees lift. I used 306 stainless steel joint connector bolts with M6 threads as my fastenings. Was using it to try using a longer stance. Have gone back to 6 degrees, in part because I found as I lengthened my stance there was a point beyond which it was harder to both rotate my trunk to face towards the nose of the board and harder to get my weight over the front foot when I wanted to. Also found that if I tried to use that kind of lift on the front foot that my board would keep trying to slide away from me when I tried to step in. Wouldn't be an issue with a bail binding.

Hope your anesthesia & surgery go well, and that you in time heal up well. Question asked for the rest of us stiff old geezers out there. Have your physio or surgeon made any comments about what may have resulted in you popping this (beyond that forceful movement you describe in the first post in the thread)? Do you have tight hamstring (back of thigh) muscles on your undamaged leg?

A diet of predominantly ultra-processed food has been shown in a controlled trial to result in increased calorie intake and increased levels of hormones associated with hunger. Simply, it drives you to eat more, it's "addictive" food. And ultra-processed food is the major source of food for many Americans. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/23/processed-foods-american-addiction

More than 50% of people in USA have had "extreme weather" alerts in the last 6 weeks! https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/21/us-extreme-weather-six-weeks-heatwaves-storms

I took up FPV drone sim flying as a way of having close to the the motion sensation, and very much the mental flow state, that I get from hard boot snowboarding but in a way I could still do even if I manage to render myself paraplegic by my active recreations. I also hope to be still able to do this when my physical body is no longer able to cope with the rigours of boarding (may that never happen!) I fly in the Drone Racing League (DRL) Sim with a mid range gaming desktop PC computer and a proper controller (Radiomaster Zorro). The Sim game itself costs a minimal amount. This way I can fly, and crash without having to fix a physical drone and only my pride being dented. They are twitchy little things and I'm flying mostly the smallest and slowest drone in the DRL Sim. It goes plenty fast enough for me, and the "one design" class makes for very competitive flying. This was flown in full "acrobatic" (acro' ) mode, with no software stabilisation of altitude or angles. This is from my YouTube channel and has a little Comments tip for full throttle flying.

So true for so many things in life.

To minimise the risk of shoulder dislocation one has to minimise the risk a hand/forearm touching the snow & CATCHING while the rest of the rider moves on past at whatever speed. Now I wonder how you might make a hand less likely to catch the snow? Hmmmm......

Good. A pair of 6 degree cant discs and a 3 degree set of wedges under one binding toe and heel block should do the job. Rotate one cant disc to give you the canting you need, then use the toe/heel wedge to give you the extra lift you need. 6 degree cant disc rotated 55 degrees off axis will give you 3.9 degrees cant and 3.4 deg lift, and 60 degrees off axis gives 4.2 degrees cant and 3 deg lift. Find the TrenchGear3D app (Android and maybe Apple) to play with the combos yourself.

As I write this I am staying about 500 metres from this osprey nest in mid Wales. https://www.dyfiospreyproject.com/ Osprey normally on the nest between end March and 1st week Sept, raising as many as 3 offspring. Just one of a number of monitored sites in the UK. Been going since 2009, and ikely to be one of the sites the Colorado site linked above is modelled on.

Clinometer app for phones available. Will give you both axes of tilt. I've made 3 degree wedges to go under toe/heel of TD3 Intecs bindings out of exterior/marine plywood then covered with epoxy and Dynel cloth. Combined with 6 degree discs allowed me to trial 9 deg lift for a snowboard stance, and combos of lift and cant for skwal stances. Dimensions for toe and heel blocks for slope over different distances were worked out using plans made using MS Powerpoint. Full height blocks made first. Then drilled at 90 degrees. Then the top slope surface was sanded down. The plywood is useful when the blocks are sanded as the glue lines help you keep things even.

Don't go, you'll HATE it!

Caught a shuttle from Kelowna Airport run by Everything Revelstoke. Travel agent booked it for me. Dropped me at my hotel, picked me up when it was time to fly out. Too easy!

For anyone wanting to get accurate information about first world healthcare system comparisons try here.... https://www.commonwealthfund.org/international The Commonwealth Fund is a USA based organization that has published sequential reports on healthcare system performance.

Great camera work Martina! Hard enough just to stay in one spot on some of those steep pitches let alone shoot steady video! Inspiring riding James! Envious of you riding Revelstoke with so few people around.

Dual edge snowboard technology has been tried and not progressed.

Sadly I got to visit Europe (Val d'Isere) in late Feb when new snow was still scarce. My next snow is hopefully in August, in New Zealand.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/08/headed-off-the-charts-worlds-ocean-surface-temperature-hits-record-high 3 year long La Nina in the Pacific coming to an end. That has slowed the sea surface temp rise for those years. Warmer water surface = stronger storms and heavier rainfall when they come ashore.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7810820/ Link will take you to a relatively recent review of the clinical care implications of what was currently known at time of writing. The area is one of ongoing active research. The article was published by the British Journal of Anaesthesia. This is a major journal with robust peer review and reliable source of information.

It does. But the science now has evidence of the cells and substances driving the inflammation. The problem is recognised to occur even after procedures where no general anaesthesia is given, and the effects can last long after any anaesthesia drugs are cleared from the body. Glad that Scully's surgeon and anesthesiologist warned him about it as a possible consequence. That is appropriate given what we currently know about the problem.

It's not the general anaesthetic that does it. The inflammatory response is a consequence of having the operation. Talk to your son in law about post operative cognitive dysfunction POCD. He should know quite a bit about it if he's been keeping up with advances in Anesthesia.