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PITTSFORD Judith Carolyn (Lear) Geno, 77, of Pittsford, died Friday, March 15, 2013, at her home.
She was born on March 12, 1936, in Rutland, VT. She was the daughter of Lisam and Ethel Geno, and lived in Rutland County for most of her life.
Judy was a loving mother to 10 children and their families: Paul Lear, Howard and Nancy Lear, Brenda Lear and her fiance George Carver, Daniel and Lisa Lear, Fawn and Richard Burdick, Gordon Lear and his fiancee Terry Jackson, Shawn and Amy Lear, Shane Lear, Robert and Brenda Colburn, and Greg Colburn and his fiancee Heidi Searle.
Judy was a dear grandmother to 30 grandchildren and 30 great-grandchildren.
Judy was predeceased by both her brothers, Charles E. Geno and Richard L. Geno. She is survived by her sister Winifred Smith, many nieces and nephews, and her beloved cat Otto.
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One appeal about Ecuador for example is that it offers a lifestyle of simpler times. Life in Ecuador is still like the good old days. Children can walk a deserted lane by themselves and do without fear.
We'll look at Ecuador's simplicity in more detail in a moment.
First, let's look at an international internet business idea that can help you earn wherever you want to be in the world. The idea is that "people want what they perceive they have lost".
Recognizing what you feel you have lost, there are ways to to earn income wherever you live.
Problems create opportunity.
Having lost something is a problem.
Since each of us represents a unique market… if we can understand what we feel we have lost… we can understand a problem that many others also feel.
Here is a case study about this.
I feel that we have lost simpler times… when we were not so dependent on a system that is so far beyond of our control.
For example, if for any reason the internet does not work… I am out of business.
If for any reason the national food distribution system stops, I cannot eat.
If for any reason, gasoline supplies are cut off, I cannot travel. Etc. Etc.
Access to these supplies are beyond my control.
That is one reason that we moved to an isolated North Carolina farm 11 years ago.. a survival place… where we also love to be even though the system we depend upon is working fine.
I would like this farm to be more independent and sustainable.
The growing risks of a social economic systemic meltdown have created a window where the past and future have come together.
We perceive we have lost a simple, independent life. In the future we may need to be more independent again.
So we can logically ask, "What needs for the future are now here?"
Here are five "the future is now" investing and business trends that have merged. They seem to have a bright future.
#1: Gain value added. This is the era when small and flexible are beautiful. Modern community technology makes it possible for even micro businesses to virtually integrate. I'll give you a specific in a moment.
#2: Invest in real estate. I know, I know people keep saying that prices are going down. Yet these same people keep having kids without making more land. This looks like an opportunity distortion to me.
#3: Bet on inflation. I do not see how with the massive government bailouts this will not happen everywhere…to a great extent.
#4: Invest in alternative power and sustainability. The same fundamentals as for real estate are at work…more kids…no more fresh water…trees…soil…clean air…etc. Plus one factor more. Each child born expects more.
#5: Invest in natural health. The current social economic lifestyle is flawed. The acquisition of stuff creates too much work…leading to too much stress…with too little time…and poor nutrition…leading to pharmaceutical and surgical intervention. This intervention costs too much and is not a pleasant, effective approach that optimizes maximum human efficiency.
I believe that anyone who invests or has a business in these areas has great potential.
Based on this belief, I am working with a team that is assembling a proposal for what we can do with our land creating a Draftwood Village, micro hydro power supply, etc.
That team has been organized by Ian Snider… the formulator of the Draftwood concept. Draftwod… sustainable harvested, value added timber hauled out by draft horses.
Here is Ian mowing hay near the old farm house they live in on the South Fork of the New River.
Here is Ian's wife, Tracy, with their draft horse, Frank, discing their sweet sorghum cane field.
With these thoughts in mind we are taking our next step here at the farm which was originally an investment in real estate (#2 above). Plus our move here was also an investment in water. We have dozens of springs. This one for example, called the "Indian's Trough", is a historical site and produces many gallons of water a second.
This one spring alone provides all the water in our home and fills a small waterfall in our backyard, and waters all the animals out back.
Plus fills the wood fired, hot tub we have in the deep woods.
Spring water fills the tub.
Fallen wood heats the water which comes from the spring year round at 49 degrees F. We usually soak at 105 to 110 F.
There are dozens of the springs on the property…hundreds of rivulets leading to streams and pretty soon they form our creeks, waterfalls…
and ponds.
Our land rises nearly 1,000 feet. You can see the rise on an aerial photo. The blue lines are roads on the farm. The bald at the top sits at 4,000 feet. Our entrance at 3,000+.
At the bottom of the farm we have a rushing creek pushed by hundreds of feet of drop.
We are combining this fact with a bet on inflation and an investment on sustainability and alternative power (#3 and #4 above) and plan to move our farm off the grid so we can live in a healthier, wealthier, more independent way. Not all alternate energy is cost effective at this time…at current energy rates. I expect the rates to rise so am willing to speculate by investing in energy saving and producing capital now.
Here is the plan we are working on that enhances the value added aspect of our business (#1 above). We have some great home sites on the farm. Some have some great locations for solar, hydro and wind power.
Many of our meadows have southern views and are filled with morning and evening sun.
Our home has a complete southern exposure and was built with 13 inch concrete filled, styrofoam insulated, heat retaining walls.
The 12 large glass windows and doors let the sun pour in all day. Even when it is freezing outside you can nearly heat the house with a candle.
Other sustainability assets include wind potential in places on the land that are high, sunny and exposed.
Our vision for the farm is evolving like this…homes that can support themselves: …energy…food…and water…but connected to the world.
There is more value added potential in…wood. A nearby business specializes in sustainable logging…with horses. See www.mtnworks.org
This allows one to work on an entirely integrated plan…harvesting and milling wood…to build houses and cabins on sites like this…that
are off the grid with solar, wind and water power and with enough land to grow one's own organic food.
These and other qualities also lead to many natural health opportunities so we have a complete opportunity to create opportunity from all five of the the "future is now" investing and business ideas above.
This plan is filled with value added potential. We can help our forest with sustainable logging.
The wood can be used for the cabins.
We can offer courses that teach people the logging, the milling, how to build the cabins.
We can teach people how to save via off the grid living and even help them obtain off the grid equipment. Plus we gain off the grid homes for our retreat center.
I expect this will make new avenues so our business can change and grow in the next five to ten years…just as Ecuador altered our life and business a previous decade ago.
This process feels right to us and we are proceeding.
As Ian at Mountainworks points out we could offer some great value added benefits that combine the past and future. Here is how he describes what we could do.
"Come stay for a week this winter and ski/snow shoe our horse logging trails, learn how to sustainably select your trees for the perfect bluegrass guitar….take the reins for a turn driving the draft horses as they carefully remove the chosen wood…soak in the wood fired hot tub after a day of custom sawing your lumber….dine on the finest game of the field or our preserved farm veggies with homemade wine…return late next spring to assemble your dream instrument in time for pickin at the summer festivals…stake your claim in our exclusive Draftwood Village of custom built carbon positive cottages…."
See Ian Snider's website here.
Life in Ecuador – Still Like the Good Old Days.
Children can walk a deserted lane by themselves and they do without fear.
Our Land of the Sun Foundation feeds Cotacachi children free lunch at our hotel El Meson de las Flores. Here are a group of them having fun.
This is why I would like to bring Ecuador closer to you. We can help you know Ecuador better in numerous ways.
To assist those with great interest in Cotacachi or all Ecuador I have established a full time full support team to help subscribers in almost any way of travel, investing, living, buying property or doing business here.
Our staff at the hotel awaits to serve you. This is Eduardo and Consuelo.
Learn more about Ecuador's charm.
Until next message, may all your business and investing be inspired.
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As I write this, I'm not 100% certain, but I think #NewNewTwitter hasn't yet been alive for 24 hours, at least not to the general population.
As I write this, I need to tell you that my relationship with Twitter is mostly via apps–probably most commonly through YoruFukurou (or NightOwl, if you prefer to translate).
This means that my relationship through twitter is, for the most part, not through the website. And in many cases, not even through Twitter's own applications. You see, I sort of don't make twitter a core part of my world these days. I like to skim it, and if I'm somewhere with a #hashtag associated with it, by all means I'll pay attention, or temporarily add the hashtag to my Summizer iPhone app (this was bought by Twitter ages ago and then "sunsetted" or some other BS term for "assimilated and/or killed"), but really, that's it.
Twitter is a content stream for me. And it's neat. And it's cool to see what some people are doing from time to time, and it's even self-cool for me to sometimes throw out some crappy attempt at humor. At one point in time, Twitter was all about the lyrics, man, but then everyone else got the Twitter and it was time to call my favorite band a sell-out.
Or at least, it was time to not sweat getting tickets to every show and I no longer needed to say that I was a fan before you even knew who they were. Who give's a rat's backside, anyway?
So here's my review on #NewNewTwitter:
It's been out less than 24 hours. I looked at the website and I keep being pleasantly surprised at some of the changes in place. I looked at the iPhone app for some minutes on my commuter train this morning on the way to the big city for work and it was cool, and I wondered if some of the decisions were based upon user interviews or data or some Venn Diagram of both, but I didn't think "holy balls that was stupid!" about anything… yet.
It's not like #NewNewTwitter broke the model of 140 characters and a stream of information. It's not like they put in place such changes that I was confused as to what I was looking at, like a location-based thingy earlier this year, that I just stopped using.
#NewNewTwitter didn't go off the reservation, but it seems like they're trying to find a way to do more without more actual real estate and without confusing people.
I don't know if they talked to users. They didn't talk to *this* user, but that doesn't mean that they still didn't. I don't know that they owe me–or you–that explanation, either. I don't know if they looked at data of any kind, or weird analytic overlays that tell them that 24 year old men tweet about fast food restaurants at 3p more than any other time of the day.
I don't care, frankly. That's on them to make that decision and to figure out if the decision has anything to do with making the app better for whomever they're trying to serve.
And I'm guessing I'm not their big money audience demographic, and I'm okay with that. You should be, too, because you'd probably not design for you, if you weren't there.
Maybe the music's not too loud. Maybe you're too old.
Like all things, getting used to change will continue to take time. Oh–and Twitter is free. Use it or don't; and base it on the value you get out of it.
Tomorrow, I may feel different.
After all, 48 hours will have passed.


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Catholic Family Service in Amarillo formed in 1932 when Bishop Rudolph A. Gerken created Diocesan Catholic Charities to meet basic needs of food, clothing and shelter, prevalent demands as America headed into the Dust Bowl.
A compassion for people kept the heart of CFS beating through the ebb and flow of the agency's history. At times, it's been on the verge of closing due to financial difficulties, said Kay Kennedy, CFS director of development.
But viable and versatile today, the agency celebrates its 70th birthday this year with a staff of 100 paid workers, a volunteer base of 400 and a budget just under $5 million.
The agency has grown and changed, but food remains consistent in its work. That's why CFS unveiled its 70th anniversary cookbook titled, "Loving One Another," on Tuesday at the agency's 70th anniversary luncheon at the Amarillo Country Club.
"We chose the cookbook because so much of the love we feel that our agency is able to express is in gifts of food, such as the Interfaith Hunger Project, the birthday parties we have for elderly and disabled clients, the celebrations of the CARE after-school groups and the families that are involved in Partners in Adoption, the youth activity centers including SOS and Eastridge, O'Brien House Shelter and gatherings for resettled refugees," Kennedy said.
And in spite of its Catholic base, CFS serves people of all nationalities and all denominations, as reflected in its cookbook.
"We have recipes representing 26 houses of worship in Amarillo and a myriad of denominations and 23 houses of worship from outside Amarillo," she said.
It includes recipes from refugees from Bosnia, Kurtistown, Iran, Poland, Afghanistan, Poland and from staff and friends from Ireland, Italy and Mexico. Contributors also come from other states.
"And we like to feel that we represent the heart of the community," Kennedy said.
Officials dedicated the cookbook to three staff members who together have worked for CFS more than 70 years.
They are: Betty O'Neill, refugee division; Diann Gilmore, community concerns division; and Al Bednorz, executive director.
At the luncheon, the agency was scheduled to name honorees: Nina Cree, volunteer of the year; the estate of Victor E. Broll, philanthropist of the year; and Amarillo National Bank, business partner of the year.
Here are a few of the recipes included in the 70th anniversary cookbook.
The books cost $10 and are available at the CFS office, at 200 S. Tyler St., or by calling 376-4571 Ext. 227.
Spezzatine Da Maile
Tanya Cataldi
1 pound cubed pork
1 can black olives
1 8 oz. jar green olives
1 large can tomato paste
5 cups water
6 cloves chopped garlic
2 teaspoons oregano
2 teaspoons marjoram
2 teaspoons parsley
1/4 cup olive oil
Chocolate Favorite: This cinnamon chocolate cake by Wendy Marsh is a Panhandle favorite. It is included in the CFS cookbook.
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Brown garlic and pork in olive oil until brown; salt and pepper. Add tomato paste, water, olives, oregano, marjoram, and parsley and simmer at least 2 hours. Serve over polenta (can be purchased at most grocery stores.) Heat or brown polenta slices and serve sauce over polenta.
Thuraya Lohony
4 cups rice
1 cup oil
1 cup raisins
1/2 pound meat or chicken
4 boiled eggs
salt and pepper
Middle Eastern Cuisine: Briyani, which includes rice, meat, raisins and spices, is in the CFS cookbook. The recipe is from Thuraya Lohony.
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4 cups water
1 small bag noodles
1 cup sliced almonds
3 spoons briyani spices
1 can sweat peas
Wash rice. Soak for 15 minutes. Fry the raisins and almonds in oil. Remove and set aside. Cut meat into small pieces and fry. Remove and set aside. Put remaining oil and four cups water in pot. Cover and heat to boiling. Add rice. Do not cover. Cook until water is gone. Serve on large platter. Add meat, raisins and almonds on top. Decorate with boiled eggs and lemon slices.
Cinnamon Chocolate Cake
Wendy Marsh
2 sticks butter
1 cup water
4 tablespoons Hershey's cocoa
2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 eggs
1/2 cup buttermilk
1/2 teaspoon soda
In a saucepan, combine butter, water and cocoa. Boil and allow to cool. Sift flour, sugar and cinnamon together in bowl. Add eggs, buttermilk and soda. Mix all together, spread in sheet pan. Bake for 30 minutes at 400 degrees.
1 pound powdered sugar
1 tablespoon Hershey cocoa
1 cup chopped pecans
1 stick butter
1 tablespoon vanilla
Main Dish: A dish of Spezzatine Da Maile by Tanya Cataldi is one of the CFS cookbook recipes
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Mix icing ingredients together, and spread on cake while hot to keep moist. Freezes well.
Auntie's Arthritis Medicine
Pattilou Dawkins
3 lemons
3 oranges
3 grapefruit
1 gallon water
3 teaspoons cream of tartar
3 tablespoon Epsom salts.
Put fruit through food chopper - rind and all. Dissolve cream of tartar and Epsom salts in water. Bring water to a rolling boil. Add chopped fruit. Turn fire off. Cover and let set until very cool. Pour through a strainer. Store in refrigerator. Drink one 8-ounce glass every night. Will take about six months to take effect.
Vidalia Onion Pie
Claudette Landess
1 cup saltine cracker crumbs
5 tablespoon melted butter
2 cups thinly sliced Vidalia onions
2 tablespoons cooking oil
2 eggs
3/4 cup milk
salt and pepper to taste
1/4 cup grated Cheddar cheese.
Combine crumbs and butter and press into an 8-inch pie pan. Bake 8 minutes at 350 degrees. Saute onions in oil until tender and put into shell. Mix remaining ingredients except cheese and pour over onions. Top with cheese. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes. Serves 6 to 8.
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Mangalore, Nov 28: Sanjeevini 2012, the voluntary BLOOD DONATION CAMP organized by AIMIT B-School commenced at 9 a.m. on 28th Nov., 2012 with a wonderful quote "You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give."
Ms. Sumitha Achar the faculty coordinator introduced the dignitaries of Sanjeevini 2012, Dr. Nithish Bhandari, the chief guest of the day, Lion K C Prabhu, the guest of honor, Rev. Fr. Denzil Lobo SJ, the director, Rev. Dr. Oswald Mascarenhas SJ, the chairman, MBA program, Dr. Rowena Wright, the MBA dean academics, Mr. Hedly D'souza, the student coordinator and welcomed the gathering.
Sanjeevini 2012 was inaugurated by the chief guest Dr. Nithish Bhandari, Associate Professor, A J Institute of Medical Sciences who gave his insights on blood donation and its importance, as well as the eligibility for blood donation.
Rev. Dr. Oswald Mascarenhas SJ took over the proceedings by giving his insights on blood and the value it possessed in the earlier centuries.
Rev.Fr. Denzil Lobo SJ narrated an inspiring story of our patron St. Aloysius of Gonzaga and his sacrifice towards protecting the humanity which had been infested by plague. Rev. Fr. Denzil Lobo SJ told that students of St. Aloysius College help humanity by donating blood and contributing towards saving life.
Lion K C Prabhu, the Vice Governor, District 317 D, shared his experience of Sanjeevini 2011 and encouraged everyone to participate in this noble cause. He motivated the youths to form groups and guide the society towards prosperity.
The inauguration ceremony was concluded by the student coordinator Mr. Hedly D'Souza. Two hindered students of AIMIT donated blood. The blood donation camp was sponsored by various LIONS Associations and other donors.
To promote Sanjeevini-2012, street plays by a team of MBA students were conducted in and around Beeri to convey the message "Donate blood today – Gift life tomorrow". The street play conveyed messages on various facts related to blood donations and created awareness among public regarding the important and benefits of donating blood periodically.
The students of AIMIT, under the guidance of faculty, actively participated in the street play, performing at three major locations like Beeri Junction, Someshwara beach and Deralakatte junction. The streetplay was started by 4.30 pm at Beeri junction, followed by Someshwara beach and Deralakatte junction, attracting masses especially students and youth. The need, importance and benefits of donating blood and help sustain life was depicted in the streetplays conveying the message in all major local languages. All the details were announced in Kannada and other languages like Hindi, Tulu, Konkani, Malayalam and Beary to reach the masses.


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Adventurer Graeme Dingle returns to the mountains of Peru, where as a young man he made his name with some spectacular climbs, and finds a lot has changed, much of it for the better.
Forty years ago, when Wellingtonian Roger Bates and I made the first ascent of the 6500m Yerupaja Norte in Peru's Cordillera Huayhuash, the mountain seemed less lofty than it is today. The surrounding area was much cleaner because foreign tourists, and the litter that accompanies them, had yet to arrive.
As my partner, Jo-anne Wilkinson, and I discovered to our astonishment, even this most-isolated global backwater has changed dramatically in the intervening years.
For more than a decade from the early 1980s Peru was essentially in a state of civil war as the revolutionary movement, the Shining Path, tried to right the awful disparity between the country's rich and poor. As a result, travel was unsafe.
But since the imprisonment of the revolutionary leaders (in an underwater military prison) Peru has returned to a state of relative political stability and the economy has strengthened.
Our arrival point, the capital of Lima, did not seem particularly different from what I remember from 1968, although it is said the population doubled during the civil war from an influx of people from the countryside to the urban slum areas.
What had changed was the style of transportation to the mountains.
Forty years ago our transport was mainly local buses, an agricultural form of transport where you were likely to share a seat with various farm animals as well as people, or the collectivo, a sort of long distance taxi.
Local buses are still an option. However, the collectivos, which were so practical, seemed to have gone.
Instead, we bought tickets on a super bus, Cruz del Sur, where we queued with modern trekkers and climbers from every country, had our packs searched for guns, sat in a cabin securely separated from the driver and were video-taped several times.
As the bus cruised through the slum areas on the endless outskirts of Lima, a loud and crude American movie blared incongruously from a television screen in the front of the cabin. If it was supposed to soften the impact of the poverty on the other side of the glass, it had the opposite effect.
Slums gave way to the stunningly dry Atacamba Desert, one of the driest places on Earth. When I was last here it hadn't rained for 30 years and global warming had apparently made little difference to this situation.
To our right, immense arid hills of sand rolled inland while, to the left, the grey sea fog, caused by the cold Humboldt current, added little joy to the scenery.
Like most deserts, where mountain streams provided irrigation, the land was rich with crops and a village of mud brick houses was the norm.
The road into the mountains was once lined with crosses, a reminder of those who had been the victims of failed brakes or driver error. The crosses were now gone and the road, once desperately rough and dusty, was well sealed with smooth tarmac.
In 1968 the driver had to stop regularly to adjust the carburettor as the bus gained altitude and the air became thinner. Now the super-bus cruised on to 4000m without interruption as most passengers, except those on the wonder-drug, Diamox, became pie-eyed in the thin air of the alto plano.
Here, as the dramatic white peaks of the Andes thrust above golden grasslands reminiscent of Central Otago, I began to sense the most dramatic difference that 40 years had wrought: the local people we passed looked prouder, more optimistic.
I remember as an idealistic young man being depressed by the deadbeat look in the eyes of the mountain folk who looked like a people with no hope.
In Huaraz, the capital of the Cordillera, this positive change was confirmed. The place was buzzing, with clear evidence of greater wealth, health and well-being.
Local mountaineers, unknown on my first visit, had taken control of their industry and were prepared to guide anyone up anything. They were clearly tough and competent and Huaraz had become the Queenstown or Wanaka of Peru.
In 1968, the locals were often quite disparaging as they shouted "gringo" at us in the street. Now I didn't hear this term once. People also used to often shout "Che" (Guevara) after us too, with a clench fist raised, but these days Che has been relegated to T-shirts and bumper stickers.
To the south of Huaraz rose the remarkable wedge of Yerupaja - as appealing and inspiring as it had been 37 years before - although undoubtedly considerably higher now than it had been in my youth.
Jo-anne and I caught the bus, El Rapido, to the village of Chiquian, the road end in 1968.
Little had changed in the village except the people appeared happier, young women wore disturbingly tight jeans, small rustic cafes had become popular and the village boasted a four-storey hotel.
Gran Huayhuash was owned by Freddy Valdez Garcia, an energetic and generous man, who had fled the Shining Path to work in Buenos Aires for several years. With Freddy's help we engaged an arrieros (donkey handler) and caught the bus to Llamac.
In 1968 Llamac had been a gruelling day-long trek from Chiquian and our expedition had been the guests of honour at the opening of the first tap.
On this festival occasion I had played centre forward for the local team against Chiquian but even at the peak of my fitness, the altitude had taken its toll, and I was relieved to be subbed at half time.
The new road to Llamac was a terrifying drive, a rough ledge clinging to steep mountainsides above awful drops. It continued beyond Llamac but we were relieved to continue on foot in the wake of two gentle burros that we had acquired at the village.
Our arrieros, Jesus Carrera, spoke no English, which was a challenge given my dreadful Spanish.
The challenge reached a climax at a place called Pallca, where Mitsui Mining was sucking the ore from the mountains.
Our trusty MSR primus blew a seal which, in spite of much bad Spanish and English, I failed to fix.
Carrera was dispatched back to Llamac (two hours' walk away) to try to find a replacement and, to our amazement, returned late that night with an ancient, badly behaved kerosene stove. He was appalled to find we had stacked all our gear outside the tent and gave us a lecture about the danger of bandits.
Next day we crossed a 4700m pass in the shadow of a mountain called Rondoy, first climbed by New Zealander Peter Farrell in 1963.
On the way up the pass, Carrera set fire to some dry grass while our burros stood by enthusiastically sniffing the smoke. He explained (with much gesturing) that it helped their breathing in the thin air. We tried it too and there was no doubt it helped.
Over the pass we followed a trail of litter, tissues, empty water bottles and chocolate wrappers discarded by the Israeli trekkers ahead of us.
At the next camp I gave them a talking to and later threatened to jam an abandoned coke bottle where the sun doesn't shine.
The business of waste is one of the most important issues to be solved with the new popular wave of trekking. It is not unlike the situation in the Himalayas 20 years ago.
Next day we camped beside the idyllic Lake Carhuacocha. Above the blue-green waters, Yerupaja's east face rose dramatically to a corniced summit.
In 1968 it had been an ice face, now the ice had shrunk back and only sheathed the top 600-700m. I filled a large bag with plastic washed up along the shoreline of the lake.
Still, I did catch a very healthy rainbow trout, which made a wonderful evening hors d'oeuvre, while above a storm raged on Yerupaja. Just as it had been on my previous visit, the weather was bad at the full moon.
Next morning we left Carhuacocha with mixed feelings: the scenery was gorgeous but we walked through a field of human waste and toilet paper.
Each day we crossed a pass of around 5000m revelling in the superb mountain scenery and irritated by the apparent lack of environmental concern of other trekkers.
At regular intervals park fees would be collected (from us as foreigners) by apparent officials and we hoped the money would be used to solve some of the issues.
Regardless, we felt New Zealand could benefit from a philosophy of charging foreign visitors to our national parks.
The mountain dominating our view on the fourth day, immediately south of Yerupaja, was Suila Grande, made famous by the book and film Touching the Void.
It is a dramatic tale about two bold English climbers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, who had a mishap while descending Suila.
Joe was forced to cut the rope connecting him to Simon, who in spite of the ensuing fall and a broken leg, demonstrated true British grit by crawling for several days down the glacier to base camp, just as Joe was about to report his death.
On the morning of our eighth day we passed a donkey bleeding from the mouth. Carrera explained it had been forced too hard by the party ahead and had haemorrhaged.
A solitary condor circled lazily above. Carrera said within minutes of the burro's death, hundreds of condors would dismember it.
The plight of the burro seemed to symbolise a lack of concern with other life and the natural environment in general.
An hour later, we passed a cross marking the place in 2002 where two American women were murdered for their money. Smoke wafted from a stone-walled hut nearby. Carrera said the men who committed the murders were doing 25 years in jail in Lima while their mother still lived in that house.
In 1968 we had had our base camp at a lake called Jahuacocha. It was an idyllic place where I supplemented our meagre expedition diet by catching trout from the lake. In our two-month stay in the valley we had seen only two other foreigners.
On the last day of our return visit we avoided the place.
It had become the most popular spot in the Huayhuash, with sometimes more than 100 campers each night, and we couldn't face the crowds.
To avoid Jahuacocha we trekked through a wonderful garden of mountain forest and plants to the village of Pacllon.
High above, Yerupaja's summit appeared, an evil cloud over it signalling another storm. Yerupaja and nearby mountains, Suila, Jirishanca and Rondoy, were soon consumed in cloud and we could see snow falling in the valleys.
Rarely, it seems, are we satisfied when we return to a place, particularly after it has been so special to our youth, but four decades on I felt the changes to Peru had been mainly good.
The issue of rubbish and human waste from trekkers was a big one to be resolved, but I was delighted to find the people of the mountain regions so much better off and happier. Pity the mountains were higher than they used to be.


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Kathy Schoonover-Shoffner, PhD, RN, serves as editor of JCN and with Nurses Christian Fellowship USA, and works per diem as a staff nurse. She lives in Wichita, Kansas with her husband and teens and is active in a local church.
Recently I worked two difficult shifts at the hospital with very sick patients, frightened family members, and new admissions. After working on Saturday I came in on Sunday and was surprised to learn some colleagues were annoyed about something I had done for a patient and family the day before. One commented about "some idiot" who did "such and such" and I said, "Actually, I'm that idiot," and proceeded to explain why I did what I did. After hearing my rationale some still thought I was wrong, but the charge nurse and house supervisor supported my decision to advocate for my patient and family.
I felt vulnerable and started to react. As I tensed, I sensed God nudging me to wait, take a deep breath, and remember him. Interestingly, I had been asked to speak to a Nurses Christian Fellowship group at a local university the next day about preventing burnout. Rather than talking about the usual literature, I chose to discuss Matthew 11. This chapter describes a conversation Jesus had about John the Baptist and how wishy-washy the people were with John and how they responded the same with Jesus. Despite the fact people witnessed a great prophet in John and now experienced amazing miracles with Jesus, they chose not to believe. Despite Roman oppression and being eyewitnesses to the Kingdom of God, they didn't respond. Rather, Jesus said, they were like spoiled, whiny children not knowing what they want. Jesus knew they were tired and weary, searching for something better.
In the midst of this miserable life Jesus makes an astonishing offer: "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light," (v. 28–30, NIV). How amazing that the one who is in a position to "lord" it over others, the one who is perfect and knows our every fault, invites us to come to him.
What I planned on saying to the students suddenly crystallized. A yoke is used to help carry burdens, to make an unmanageable load manageable or allow two to carry a burden instead of one. Yet if a yoke doesn't fit right, it rubs and makes the animal miserable (and uncooperative!). Our burden is the work of life—our jobs, families, bills, problems, hassles, and sometimes crises. Carrying burdens is just the way life is. Jesus isn't saying I'll make the burden go away (although he sometimes does that). He's offering a better way to carry burdens. He's saying come to me, learn of me, watch how I do things, and do it like me.
In the criticism at work, a heavy load was dumped on me. I felt a sharp tug on my "yoke." I prayed, "Okay Jesus, what do I do? How would you handle this?" Soon it became clear why the yoke was pressing harshly and the burden felt unbearable. First, familiar feelings of inadequacy surfaced. I responded by remembering God's words that he loves me (Jeremiah 31:3), is completing the good work he began in my life (Philippians 1:6), and I didn't need to "go there." Second, I was angry, judging others who didn't see what I saw, a desperately needy patient and family. I was reminded that I have been forgiven (Ephesians 4:32), and the way I judge others is the way God will judge me (Matthew 7:1–2). I realized everyone doesn't need to be like me. Third, I became aware that although this burden had been tossed in my cart, I didn't have to make a big deal of carrying it. I could stand on what I knew was good nursing and stop worrying.
The burden of nursing can be quite heavy, sometimes made heavier by our work environments and colleagues. Jesus offers a yoke to carry the work that is easy and light. He has a way of opening up relationship with God, of helping us be content with self, of showing us how to live freely and lightly. That, I told the students, is the secret to avoiding burnout.
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Live from New Life
The Sunday morning gatherings at New Life will be broadcast live on our website starting September 12th. This means people can join us live around the world and experience worship with us via some really cool and really inexpensive technology. There are lots of positives and some negatives about live-streaming that we have discussed as a team.
- Watching on the web is not an equal substitute for attending live. Face to face, person-to-person interaction at church is super important and cannot be dismissed in favor of watching from home.
- The technology is great, but it is really expensive to make the sound quality on the web equal to the live gathering. Lower your expectations in that regard.
- Live streaming is a great opportunity for people who are looking for a new church to preview our service before actually attending.
- It is a great resource for our missionaries and military members stationed around the world to stay connected to their local church.
- On heavy snow Sundays, the three of us who make it to church can sing and speak while the rest of you watch. I promise I will not sing unless absolutely necessary.
What do you think about the services being live-streamed? How can we take maximum advantage of this great technology?
- August 30th
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Nate and I were SO super excited yesterday when this was announced!!! I wanted to stand up and shout WOO-HOO!!! (Okay, I want to do that a lot.) For military, this is HUGE. When deployed, now a military member will be able to take part in the same service as their spouse, which really benefits connection and communication on BOTH ends!!!
And, we know one of the disadvantages can potentially be people who only watch online and never come and invest (whether time, money or other). But your messages are powerful, and God will speak to them through that. This is another example of how we just bring God's word to people as best we can and let Him do the speaking.
There also can be heightened safety concerns, but as a whole we think this is a great move and something we've been wanting/praying for for quite some time now. Thank you!!! (Next time Nate has to be gone, this will make it that much easier.)
Hey, look! I talk just as much in comments as I do in person! =^)
I am so happy that New Life is doing this! Being a military family we greatly appreciate it. & now when one of our children is sick we don't have to miss church. Thank you!
I think it's a great tool. I share lessons taught with my family back home on the East Coast and to "see" the speaker can help with understanding. Many of the speakers are animated and to miss that takes away.
It is my prayer that it will not be used as a crutch for some.
How exciting PB! I can't wait to share with all my family and friends around the world. From my perspective, Pro: What a great blessing for our military family and friends worldwide! Speaking from experience, unfortunately, too many places military affiliated or otherwise, lack excellent opportunities to gather with other believers at life giving churches/chapels worldwide. While I was incredibly blessed in Muslim Turkey with a fantastic community of believers both on and off base, a lot of the chapels at military installations leave a lot to be desired and off base/post can be even more challenging in other countries. Con: Now we can't use the excuse, "You should come to New Life to watch me sing!"
Regardless, I am confident that God speaks to all of us about our need to be involved in a local community and we would be foolish to limit our use of technological advances because someone "might" decide not to want to jump off the couch and join the fun in gathering together with other believers in the body, by getting involved in our local and worldwide community. Bravo New Life! I can't wait!
Being that I work with the A/V crew, I can say everyone is excited about Live Streaming. Also, we did Live Streaming at my last church in Texas, and it brought in many people from the surrounding areas. Even as far away as 50-60 miles. People will travel that far to go to a good church. Looking forward to the new members!
It was wonderful to view the live streaming while recovering from a stomach virus…..thankyou for making it available….God is honored as His Holy Networks are being reestablished…..kathy walton
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Who loves ya, small business?
Well despite all their talk, it isn't the Democrats. Speaking of the "party of no"Yesterday they killed an amendment offered by Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.) that would have dropped the requirement for increased 1099s issued by business thereby saying "no" to saving huge compliance costs for small businesses.
Johanns said Section 9006 of the ObamaCare bill, requires a "2,000 percent increase" in mandatory filings of 1099 tax forms for businesses, charities, state and local governments, and even churches.
That means that in 2012:
…all organizations will be mandated to issue 1099 tax forms not only to contracted workers, but to any other group or business from which they purchase at least $600 worth of goods or services in a given year. They'll also be required to send a copy of each 1099 document to the IRS. Johanns called the entire process "punishing" to businesses and cited a July report from the IRS' independent taxpayer watchdog arm warning that Section 9006 "may impose significant burdens" that it labeled "disproportionate" and perhaps unenforceable.
Also killed was a proposal by Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), which would have raised the minimum annual threshold for 1099 requirements from $600 to $5000, and would have exempted businesses with 24 or fewer employees.
Now, just sit back and imagine the compliance cost this will require. If you ever wanted an example of why businesses have no confidence in government, this should help you with that understanding. This is as much an unfunded mandate as any. And it will have businesses wondering if they want to spend the money if they have to report just about everything they do via 1099.
As usual, a duplicitous White House is involved as Guy Benson reports:
Johanns was especially critical of the White House's role in torpedoing his amendment. Yesterday afternoon, he told Townhall.com that the president's stated support for repealing Section 9006 was a bluff. "The White House is panicking. They know it's a disaster, and they wanted to send a signal that they'd cede ground knowing full well my amendment and [Nelson's] wouldn't pass," he said.
So as you sit in your office at 9pm filling out 1099s or paying someone else overtime to do it, remember who brought you the onerous and costly task. Then do what you must.
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One of the lessons that I learned in business …
You can always tell when an organization has lost their way .. They take out time to change their logo
Can you believe this is the DNC's bombshell "major announcement"
"Change that matters" indeed.
"Change that matters?"
A car crash is change that matters.
Terminal cancer is change that matters.
9/11 was change that mattered.
And these are the folks that insist they're smarter than everyone else?
Oh – I thought that was the new grading system. No one fails, but they still can get a D.
It is not just the actual preparation and mailing of 1099 forms that is onerous. In order to be able to determine who needs to get a 1099 an organization must keep track of *where* every penny of spending goes in addition to which account gets charged. No more petty cash funds, and every PO, no matter how small, needs a tax number.
At my place of employment we need some new software. My boss must now get more information from the vendor before he can even make out a PO and the accounting dept. must establish an account for that vendor even if we never buy anything else from them. My boss does not appreciate the increased work load.
Private Business: SIMPLIFY
Government: COMPLEXIFY
Very like my formula…
BIG GOVERNMENT ruins.
Markets innovate, and raise the standard of living.
Just wait until they figure out that this also applies to political campaigns.
I'd say something snarky about how extra paperwork is exactly what the IRS needs, but it's not a joke– this is another way to expand government employment rolls along with government power. Oh gee, it seems as if our new law is overwhelming the IRS. I know! We'll just double the staff!
ding! ding! ding!.
European style makework from the 60's and 70's. They are serious counting on this to make jobs.
You see, businesses have infinite profit and will just dig into profits for those hires. This won't impact any other aspect of their business operations.
all organizations will be mandated to issue 1099 tax forms not only to contracted workers, but to any other group or business from which they purchase at least $600 worth of goods or services in a given year.
I will not comply. I will not submit. I will resist ObamaCare at every opportunity.
If one was looking down the road to implement a VAT tax then wouldn't it be wonderful to have something like this already in place?
As I read the voting, Bill Nelson voted against cloture for his own amendment. I don't want to hear anything out of him as to how he tried to help small business, but was defeated in the Senate. Hell, he essentially voted against his own amendment Nelson is a weasel.
I'm glad this didn't pass. Watering down the health care bill now would:
A) Give the Democrats opponents (a little) less to go on in November
and B) reduce the chances of the whole thing getting repealed even if the Republicans win both the House and Senate
Again, this is TOTALLY consistent with the Obamic fascist economic model.
Fascist economics is inimical to small business. It favors BIG business, largely because it is MUCH more tractable.
It is an economic truth that any form of regulation works as a bar to small business creation, and a fatal hurdle to small business survival.
I was going to say pretty much that. I have liberal friends who think that big business is the devil and believe republicans are all buddy buddy with big business and dems are looking out for the little guy. This type of legislation insures that nobody enters or survives in the market that isn't already a big business.
ObamaCare HAS to be the most disobeyed law since Prohibition. We owe it to ourselves, our descendants, and our nation.
There aren't…and never could be…enough people in the Federal government to force compliance.
Louis 16th once famously called up one of the nouveau riche merchants to Versailles and asked him what could the crown do to help him and other businessmen.
The merchant replied, "Laissez Faire, Leave us alone."
Do these clowns think that this will endear them in any way to the small and medium business community?
No they just think about where they can get more money to buy more votes. Business is nothing more than a resource to be plundered in order to maintain their power.
I am getting a spyware waring from Google Crome when I come to this site now.
Bad ad or dirty tricks?
My intuition was that this would suck for small business, but I talked to the pops about it – he being a staunch conservative and small businessperson – and he said it just wouldn't be a big deal for most small business. Most people have Quickbooks, so it just means punching a few keys. He said it would suck for big business and wouldn't be cost-effective (since the IRS will have to hire more people to wade through the ensuing sea of documentation)
Thought that was interesting.
Well, the small business will have to go to the trouble of getting everyone's EIN. And, as mentioned before, all payments will have to be tracked by EIN – even petty cash – to monitor against the $600 threshold. If you do a lot of business with franchises, you'll won't necessarily be able to lump everything under Starbucks or McDonalds since you might do business with several separate entities of the same corporate name.
As one who has had to 'just punch a few keys' in small businesses I disagree.
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The Holden Recreation Department is offering an electronic piano class for beginners, beginning Sept. 18. Participants will learn to read music and form chords to create classical and modern music. Lessons will be taught through observation and hands-on practice. Participants are not required to bring a keyboard. The six-week class will be held Thursdays, 7-8 p.m., at the Holden Recreation Office, 175 Highland St., for six consecutive weeks through Oct. 23. Course fee is $50. Students will be required to purchase a book from the instructor the first night of the class. Registration required, call 508-829-0263.


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BAKU restaurant is located in the heart of the Southpark area in Charlotte. The Japanese cuisine is prepared in the open kitchen on Robata and Yakitori grills. The sushi and sashimi are of the highest quality and are served in exquisite plate presentations. The restaurant has an extensive array of premium sakes, in addition to cocktails, the wine list and beers on tap – all selected to pair perfectly with the cuisine.
Robata means "around the fire." It is the signature cooking at the restaurant and is executed on grills originally designed centuries ago that burn specially sourced charcoal at over 800 degrees that give the food an appealing smoky flavor. The cuisine is clean and simple with the complexity highlighted in the technique and plate presentation.
The Yakitori aspect of BAKU gives guests a wide array of skewered meats and ingredients, all grilled on a grill constructed just for this type of preparation. While the cuisine is authentic, it is not traditional, thus allowing the chefs to add their culinary interpretations and spotlight local Carolina growers and producers. BAKU's menu is divided into a number of sections including: Robata Meats, Seafood and Vegetables; Skewers; Tempura; Maki Rolls; Sushi/Sashimi; and Desserts. Specialty rice elements on the menu include rice risotto and black rice sushi. The shared and passed plate aspect of the menu is a concept that originates from Eastern culture, which includes the firm sense of hospitality that is evident at BAKU!


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Dairy Bush GigaPans
The urban environment is expanding at a never before seen rate. Existing natural environments within urban centres, such as forests or woodlots, are exposed to increasing anthropogenic pressures of degradation, fragmentation, biological invasion and destruction.
One key to our capacity to understanding these changes will be ongoing monitoring through time. If such monitoring is democratized and publicly available then one may assume that a marginalized environment may become more valued by the human population. On the University of Guelph campus in Ontario, Canada, the ìDairy Bushî is an 8.5 ha woodlot that has been part of the city and the university campus since 1830. The sign outside the Bush reads, "The Dairy Bush is a unique and delicate example of Great Lakes St. Lawrence forest in Southern Ontario, and serves as an outdoor laboratory for University of Guelph students."
Starting in August 2009 and continuing 1 time/week until this moment I visit the Dairy Bush weekly to document time in this urban woodlot using GigaPan panoramic images.
Swiss Mountains
Vittorio Ghelfi's Portfolio
A collection of Vittorio Ghelfi's work
Geological Thin Sections
This is a gallery of petrographic thin sections.
GigaPans of Mars from the Mars orbiters and rovers.
Karim Saad Portfolio
A collection of Karim Saad's work
Virtual California
Stereoscopic 3D of California and the Western US
Experimental gear is used to acquire unique perspectives. Viewing methods are also explored
Costa Rican Forests (Nov & Dec 2011)
I am a molecular ecologist, based at the University of Guelph in Ontario Canada, and interested in tracking how ACG ant communities change here with elevation, temperature and time. I have been following this across three volcanoes in Guanacaste Province (Cacao, Rincon de la Vieja and Orosi) since 2008. My hope and intent is to continue this monitoring for the long term. As part of this monitoring I take GigaPan panoramas of each sampled habitat.
Tohoku Oki Earthquake Aftermath
GigaPans that illustrate the geological effects of the March 11, 2011 Tohoku Oki earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
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For decades, investors have hated General Motors (GM). The company's massive size and cost structure have been such a turn off for investors, many find it difficult to even consider looking at General Motors as an investment. However, the negative bias can only last so long as till a company starts to look better. What many investors forget is that General Motors is the world's largest automaker. The company sells a lot of cars. The problem from the investment standpoint has always been about the company's management and cost structure.
To correct these problems, there was no better solution than the Great Recession and the bankruptcy that followed it. The Great Recession provided General Motors with the wake up call it needed to realize it was time to get its cost structure in order. The bankruptcy provided the company with a realistic opportunity to make a break from the old ways. In the midst of all this turmoil, the company's $4.58 earnings per share last year was nothing short of outstanding.
General Motor's stock only trades for about $26, so these earnings put the price to earnings ratio at just over 5. Not bad, considering the company is emerging from bankruptcy free of the costs that have plagued it for years, and is entering an excellent auto market.
With regards to the auto market, things really can't get any better. Interest rates are low. The economic recovery is becoming firmly established. Pent-up demand for automobiles must be at an all-time high. The early statistics show vehicle trade-ins for January and February of this year are the oldest on record. This means car buyers who have long been putting off a car purchase are finally deciding it's time to buy. This speaks volumes about consumer confidence and the strength of consumer demand.
As far General Motors, sales have been great so far this year, particularly for the Chevy Volt. Sales for the Volt, a plug-in hybrid, have doubled from January to February of this year, and are expected to double again in March. The car has a rated fuel economy of 93 mpg and has won numerous awards. Fuel economy is also helping the sales for the smaller Chevy Sonic, which gets 33 mpg.
For the total car line, analysts are predicting March sales for General Motors will be around 20% higher than last March. This is outstanding, considering the strong earnings the company had last year. Even a repeat of last years earnings would have to spell a huge increase in share price, because the company's current valuation is forecasting a decline in earnings.
As far as competitors, nothing is cheaper than General Motors. Japanese automakers, Toyota (TM) and Honda (HMC) trade for 13.4 and 11.1 times forward earnings, respectively. This double the 5.8 times forward earnings General Motors currently trades for. Ford (F) even trades at a premium over General Motors at 7.4 times forward earnings.
The profit margins give some indication why General Motors is so cheap. The operating margin for Ford was 5.6% over the last twelve months versus 3.8% for General Motors. Operating margin is the best comparison for these two companies because both have deferred tax assets that inflate the net profit margin, particularly in the case of Ford. The Japanese automakers don't offer a good comparison because the Great East Japan Earthquake substantially impacted Toyota and Honda earnings.
However, over the last five years, despite the earthquake and Great Recession, both Toyota and Honda have maintained strong operating margins of 4.3% and 5.8% respectively. These margins have a strong correlation to the automakers valuation because it denotes competitive advantage. In the case of General Motors, the company's advantage is scale. While Toyota and Honda struggle to reach capacity, General Motors has substantial room to expand production. This plays in favor of General Motors in the hot auto market we should see this year.
The other argument for General Motors, beyond the great conditions for automakers in the United States, is the great conditions globally, particularly in the developing world. While Europe is projected to remain weak, growth in China and India will continue to be strong. India is particularly attractive because of expanding personal incomes and extremely low current automobile ownership.
The hot car-maker in India is obviously Tata Motors (TTM), but General Motors India has been growing as well posting a 12.8% increase in March sales from this year to last. General Motors India is only 50% owned by General Motors, however it still provides a nice growth opportunity.
These factors and General Motor's current valuation add up to a great investment opportunity for value investors. The company is having strong sales so far this year, which is great news, but not required for an investment in this company to pay off. At the 5.8 times forward earnings this company is currently trading for, as long as General Motors doesn't fall of a cliff, the company's share price should increase. The reason being a valuation like this is traditionally reserved for companies that lose money.
General Motors is the giant of the auto industry and has already returned to profitability since bankruptcy. This year's earnings could be outstanding based on the early sales projections, but regardless this company's share price is going up. What we are seeing now with this terrible valuation is the manifestation of years of poor management and bloated costs. Investors will soon realize that the hatred they had for the stock in the past, is indeed, in the past.
Keep an eye on General Motors. It is hard to believe this stock could stay this beat up for much longer.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours.


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Moore eyes top flight with Morton
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Updated Saturday, 29th May 2010
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New Morton manager Allan Moore has his sights on the Scottish Premier League.Moore, 45, arrives at Cappielow after seven years in charge at Stirling Albion and is relishing a full-time position in the First Division.
"I'd be delighted if we can finish fifth or sixth next season and the chairman agrees," he told BBC Scotland.
"But, if you work hard and get a bit of luck, hopefully I can take Morton up to the Premier League in the three years of my contract."
Stirling Albion will join Morton in the First Division after Moore masterminded promotion for the Binos by winning the Second Division.
However, he has opted to leave his old team behind and join the Greenock side that finished eighth this term.
"I can walk away from Stirling Albion with my head held high after winning the title and promotion," Moore added.
Peter Weatherson will be a big player for us but you need to get balls in the box for him
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"I'm hoping I can do the same at Morton and maybe get them up to the Premier League after a year or two."
Moore has a big rebuilding job on his hands, with several players moving on, including Ryan McGuffie, Erik Paartalu, Steve Masterton, Dominic Shimmin and Jim McAlister, who has signed for Hamilton in the SPL.
"We've lost quite a few but sometimes that can help you as a manager," Moore explained. "I can go in there and pick my players.
"I felt Morton had too many boys that were one-paced in the middle of the pitch and I like my players to get about the pitch and I like balls to come in from the wide areas.
"I was a winger myself and I like to play with two wingers, but they are hard to come by these days.
"I'm a bit disappointed McAlister has gone but good luck to him because he's a football player."
Peter Weatherson has scored 93 goals in seven seasons at Cappielow and Moore is hoping the big striker can make a full recovery from a troublesome pelvic injury.
"Peter will be a big player for us but you need to get balls in the box for him," he said.
And he is hoping to lure two of his former players with him from Forthbank to help supply that ammunition.
"I'd like to take Andy Graham, the right-back, but he's been offered pre-season by Hamilton.
"I had him for five years and he's the best professional I've ever worked with.
"The other one is left winger David O'Brien. He went to Dundee and it never happened for him but I believe I can get the best out of him."
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|Peaks of the Past
(Information was gleaned from copies of the Wet Mountain Tribune, all from the third week in January.)
100 Years Ago – 1913
Professor Carl Wulsten passed away at his home in Rosita on Friday evening last, after a lingering illness of chronic bronchitis, aged 79 years. Deceased was a native of Germany and came to America when quite a young man. It was he who organized the Germany colony in Chicago and settled this Valley in 1870 and Mr. Wulsten as the head of this enterprise had one of the most sweeping government commands of any of the Western pioneers. Mr. Wulsten and his band of followers into this Valley did not get along well together and while they settled the Valley he took to mining in Rosita which a little later sprung into prominence as a mining camp. Later Silver Cliff was discovered and he took up his residence there for a number of years. He then went to Aspen and spent a few years, later returning to Silver Cliff and finally to Rosita where he spent his last days. The great majority of the colonists Mr. Wulsten brought here, although suffering great privation when they first entered the Valley, in a few years became independently well off. But for him who led the way into this, then wilderness, there was little of fortune, although he did make a comfortable stake at mining, which he in turn, like many another, put into the ground again in his search for greater riches, his ambition to develop the mining resources of the country being far in excess of his own interests and welfare. He was a very scholarly man, being a graduate of Berlin University. He was an assayer, chemist and mineralogist and he wrote many scientific articles for the mining journals that were copied all over the country. He was ever optimistic of the resources of Custer County and his great ambition was to reveal the latent resources he believed to abound here. He is survived by the widow, a daughter and son, Mrs. Wulsten and the daughter arriving here Monday evening, a day after the funeral which took place at Rosita on Sunday last. The remains were laid to rest in the Rosita cemetery.
50 Years Ago – 1963
Some of the coldest weather in recent years and the coldest that many residents of Custer County have ever experienced visited the area last week. Official weather observer Marvin Rankin was unable to stop the downward plunge of the thermometer until it registered a minus 41 degrees last Saturday. Rankin thinks it happens about this time every year because on Jan. 10, 1962 he registered a 38 below.
The seven room modern home of Mr. and Mrs. Les Schulze in the Antelope district southeast of town was destroyed by fire of undetermined origin Wednesday morning. Nothing was saved from the fire which was not discovered until it had completely enveloped the house. Myrtle was in the living room cleaning ashes from a stoker when she turned to see one entire wall of the room in flames. She raced out to call Les who was at the barn feeding the livestock. He ran to the house, went in to try to summon help by a two-way radio, but the heat was so intense he had to leave immediately. The Schulzes have four children in school, Claricy Ann in the seventh grade, Leslie in the fourth, Cindy in the third and Tommy in first grade. Members of the Westcliffe Volunteer Fire Department went to the scene but the home had been destroyed before they could reach it.
25 Years Ago – 1988
Art Gaide will serve as president of the Custer County Chamber of Commerce for 1988. Other officers for the coming year are Bob Halenda, Doris Porth and Mike Finney. Outgoing officers are president Carla Bowlds, Lynn Butler, Ed Gant and Corinne Chockie.
The C-1 board of education has awarded a contract to Westcliffe Petroleum to buy diesel fuel for the coming year. The local service station submitted the lone bid at 54.5 cents per gallon.
There are mountains of snow around town that could provide some competition to the Conquistador Ski Area. Among the more notable piles created by the street-shoveling crews in Westcliffe are Vickerman Peak in front of the Wilbur Vickerman house, and Myrt Mountain just across from Jim and Myrt Christoff's home.
10 Years Ago – 2003
A 37-year-old Penrose man has been charged with burglary, theft and other charges related to a series of recent break-ins of units at Wet Mountain Storage in Westcliffe. Some $10,000 in stolen goods was recovered by Sheriff Fred Jobe following the search of two Penrose businesses.
James Sperry has been named district conservationist for the Natural Resource Conservation Service office in Silver Cliff. Sperry comes to the Valley from Saguache County; he replaces Charles Beard who retired last year after five years of service here.
Claricy Rusk, vice president of the Custer Soil Conservation District, has been selected to participate in the first Colorado Conservation Leadership Program. The 14-month program gets underway this Saturday, when Rusk and 13 others chosen from conservation districts throughout Colorado gather at the state capitol in Denver. In early 2004, Rusk will attend the national conservation district conference in Hawaii, and she'll travel to Washington, D.C. to meet with congressional leaders.
Long-time Valley visitors Earl and Allene Phillips of Wichita Falls, Texas, will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary next Friday with an open house at their home, hosted by their six children.
5 Years Ago – 2008
District 3 Republican county commissioner Kit Shy announced this week that he will not be seeking a second term in office. GOP county chair Bob Senderhauf said Shy cited personal reasons for the decision.
The Wet Mountain Valley Community Foundation has announced that more than $135,000 will be distributed to 50 local non-profit organizations as a result of the recent fourth annual Community Spirit matching funds campaign. More than 400 donors contributed to this year's campaign.
Valley residents Monty and Terry Lee and family trekked to California last week to help Terry's grandmother, Doris Ophelia Decker-Beckwith, celebrate her 100th birthday.
1 Year Ago – 2012
Custer County zoning office director Jackie Hobby reports the number of dwelling permits issued in 2011 was up from the previous year. Zoning permits issued for new home construction in 2011 totaled 62 compared to 55 in 2010, an increase of more than 12 percent.
The town of Westcliffe has announced a series of special events this coming year to commemorate the town's 125th anniversary. Westcliffe was founded on July 30, 1887.
The Valley's own Gushikawa will perform her sword dance during this weekend's Chinese New Year celebration at the City Auditorium in Colorado Springs. This marks the year of the dragon in the Chinese calendar.
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Wrangling your body through a hula hoop is easy, right?
Now try it while holding hands with two other people, who are holding hands with two other people, forming a human chain circle. No one can break contact, but the hula hoop must make a revolution around the ring.
That sounds a wee bit more complicated.
That sounds like you'd better work together to move the hula hoop.
That sounds like a challenge that teaches teamwork.
Who'd have thought holding hands and a hula hoop could teach all that?
Palo Duro High School students and adults in the Sponsor A Scholar mentoring program discovered how much teamwork is involved in the hula hoop challenge and other exercises at the Boy Scout Camp Don Harrington Challenging Personal Outdoor Experiences course on a cool, blustery Oct. 15.
"It was great,'' said April Riggs, who coordinates SAS, a program sponsored by the Amarillo Area Foundation. "It was a little cold, but once we got through that, it gave our kids kind of a chance to get to know each other better and to learn to work with each other.''
Sponsor A Scholar matches selected students in the Achievement through Commitment to Education scholarship program with adult mentors in the community. The mentors make a commitment for three years, connecting with the students from their sophomore year at PD through their first year in college.
"Our main purpose is to keep the kids on track with grades and attendance, to just kind of be that extra support they need,'' Riggs said.
When the students go to college, they benefit from mentors who can help them learn the ropes on campus and who can share their own college experiences, Riggs said.
The COPE course brought out leadership and problem-solving qualities in the students - and the adults, as well, Riggs said.
"I think a lot of (the success of the field trip) was accomplishing some things that, at the beginning, we didn't think we could actually do,'' Riggs said. "A lot of leadership skills came out in a lot of different ways.''
In one exercise, the group had to hold a hula hoop with just their index fingers, lowering it, together, to the ground. People lowering their portions of the ring at different speeds and angles made the chore harder, Riggs said.
Communication was key to success, she said.
Other exercises included one in which a foursome was blindfolded, given a rope and asked to form a triangle with the rope. Only three of the four people in the group could speak.
"Every time we thought we accomplished something, they threw in something a little harder,'' she said.
Later the group took to the COPE course, Riggs said, "and we worked on getting people from one little pallet to another by swinging across (on a rope).''
COPE course director Michael Lenz "really taught us to look outside of the box and not to look for the obvious; things aren't always what they seem,'' Riggs said. "He showed us that sometimes we have too many things going on at once and we have a hard time focusing on what the priorities are. We're all in that situation, when sometimes we get overwhelmed and lose perspective.''
Students and adults, she hopes, will translate the challenges into skills they can use every day.
Riggs is looking for more mentors to match with students and will conduct a training session for new mentors on Thursday, she said. For more information about becoming a mentor, contact Riggs at 381-7348.
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It was the fastest commute in New Hampshire today as Governor John Lynch raced to work in New Hampshire Motor Speedway's official Toyota Hybrid Pace Car this afternoon with Jerry Gappens, executive vice president and general manager of the speedway.
Governor John Lynch declared the week of September 13-19 "Race Week" for the Granite State. The week kicks off the SYLVANIA 300 festivities and the biggest sporting event in New England.
"We are delighted to be here today, and I wanted to thank Jerry Gappens and Bruton Smith for their ongoing commitment to New Hampshire. The speedway is such an important factor in our economy. Each year the races bring in hundreds and thousands of visitors and hundreds of millions of dollars to New Hampshire and we again thank you for stating your commitment to the state," said Governor John Lynch at the press conference.
Executive vice president and general manager of the speedway Jerry Gappens was on hand to present Governor Lynch with a green flag signifying the start of race week and a personalized racing helmet with his name.
"We would like to hand you this green flag not only to start race but to signify money and how much tourism NASCAR brings into New Hampshire. The speedway has fans from 38 states and five countries to spend money and visit our great state," said Jerry Gappens, executive vice president and general manager of New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
Come on over and enjoy all of the motorsports entertainment. Joining the cars and stars of NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series is NASCAR's Camping World Truck Series TheRaceDayRaffleSeries.com 175, NASCAR's K&N Pro Series East New Hampshire 125, the mighty Whelen Modified Tour F.W. Webb 100 and the American-Canadian Tour Invitational. Purchase your tickets now for the SYLVANIA 300 weekend by visiting us online at www.nhms.com or by calling our ticket hotline at (603) 783-4931.
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My Scoliosis consultant in London did a Spect scan and recommended I try facet injections. I was referred to a Pain Management Clinic locally and the doctor there said my pain was muscular and injections wouldn't help and refused them.
I don't think the doctor had a copy of the spect scan results - but I did tell her about it and she should have listened to me. She said she did not need to know about scoliosis to make a diagnosis.
The scan details a litany of disk failures, stenosis etc.
Last week I was very upset- this week it has turned to anger. I do not want to spend the next apt with the consultant sorting this out as the time is too precious and I need to discuss surgery.
To be honest I want to 'make an example' of the pain doctor as this should not happen.
There is no point in going to my GP- his is amiable but a bit useless...


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October 12, 2000
Screams pierced the air as invaders forced their way onto the farm just outside Gweru, Zimbabwe.
The attackers forcibly marched frightened farm workers to the workers' living compound, where they beat the workers with axes, picks and heavy sticks. Others were forced to strip to their underclothes I the middle of the Zimbabwe winter and then sing and dance by the firelight.
The owners of the farm, Derek and Sandy Shaw, locked themselves in the main house and watched as the path of destruction headed their way. The couple had fully expected their farm to be forcefully invaded by the government-backed war veterans. But no one was prepare for God' miraculous intervention when the invasion happened.
As the attack reached its climax, the phone that new worked rang. Sandy reached for it, totally surprised.
Chris Anderson, pastor of Gweru Baptist Church, wanted to know if there was anything he could pray about with the couple. Within minutes, a prayer chain started and spread throughout the community, crossing denominational and racial barriers.
"Chris told me on the phone to remember that miracles still happen. I told him, "I'm watching one right now," Sandy Shaw said. "Right in front of me, I watched my family have a sense of peace and watched the attack end just as quickly as it had started."
Political strife in Zimbabwe rages on as veterans of the country's 1970s liberation war, with President Robert Mugabe's blessing, have seized nearly 4,000 white-owned farms since February. Thirty-one people have died in the chaos.
Mugabe says the land redistribution is necessary to address a century-old imbalance in land ownership in the country.
While this nation in turmoil struggles to find political peace, God is busy providing the inner peace found only through Him. Christian leaders say Zimbabwe – whites and blacks alike – never before has been so open to Christ.
"I've slipped and fell back from God, but this whole thing has let me know that God still cares for us. I see my need for God and want Him to take over my life," Shaw added.
It was in the 1960's that Christianity began to take root in Zimbabwe's rural areas and gradually spread across the country. Now, just 40 years later, Christians are taking a stand despite open persecution.
The persecution began when Mugabe ordered all churches across the country to shut down on Sundays for political rallies supporting the ruling party, ZANU-PF.
Burning the buildings
Christians were warned that, if they worshiped, the buildings would be burned down and those worshiping would be severely beaten. Residents were ordered to attend the closest political rally or they would be beaten as well.
Some churches closed, but many more opened their doors and fearlessly worshiped and prayed for Zimbabwe.
Newly elected parliament member David Coltart said he sees a spiritual awakening taking place among his fellow countrymen.
"Usually the church does whatever the government wants, but now it has come alive and taken a biblical stance," Coltart said. "I don't think this is political in any way, but a spiritual awakening. People are holding fast to their beliefs and openly sharing it with others."
Volunteers from the United Sates, working with International Crusades of Dallas, saw the openness firsthand. The volunteers teamed up with local Christians for a weeklong evangelization effort, visiting homes during the day and holding worship services at night. More than 4,000 professions of faith were recorded.
Saidi Alubi, assistant pastor of Gwenoro Baptist church works on a farm that was invaded by more than 200 war veterans. He now witnesses in their camp handing out New Testaments. "My job is to go and talk to people about God, whether it is dangerous or not. I am willing to sacrifice my life for God. I am not afraid," he said. (BP)