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Well today we wrap up our pods for a cod series all week we've been telling you how you can -- -- and he just in time for Christmas and -- -- today.
Is Debra all -- is the founder and for guy -- gotten friends mixed breed rescue and Michaela Ramos a board member and volunteer.
And who your special friends Michaela.
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Hard to make sure that these dogs don't wind up by staying in the -- over Christmas what's best way we can adopt them out.
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It's really hard the adoption rates are super now right now so I think is that.
Yeah economy themselves how can they -- in there that's true dog just go to the shelters -- you get in touch and rescue groups like ours you can going to -- -- dot com.
And you can pick a breed -- Things are looking.
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That are so easy and so needing -- -- grateful.
Am very grateful.
They're great dogs and you can get any -- you -- and rescue.
Sometimes it takes a little while applying right and you want us to do an unhappy yes I can't -- -- -- how long is it had to get along like this.
Fine -- does -- mean to get along well there are fighting there and young daughter really sweet and they don't have an -- person.
So -- just tolerate.
So they don't need to be in charge.
So cool so tell us the types of families or.
Maybe single people who would be a good.
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But -- like curse just -- don't have someone has a stable environment -- things don't move around.
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I do know of people who have actually adopted.
Animals after watching this program if people like more information about your program.
-- website yes it's www.
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But one thing I didn't want to say this is Saarloos.
Because the world's really in the -- but -- puppies is to think about.
These kind of dogs -- a -- they're deaf or they have a disease could -- -- -- -- store level she's loving and also senior dunks.
Black dog section and big -- all right well thanks so much Deborah -- thanks so much coming down until we did Stewart.
Mary Christmas -- Christmas right and it's.
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Employees at PepperJax Grill restaurants aren't just doing their best at slinging Philly cheese-steak sandwiches in hopes of pleasing customers and getting raises. They're also working hard for the chance to be part-owner of their own store.
It's a new program that owner Gary Rohwer is rolling out for his Omaha-based restaurant chain. Rohwer created a holding company to raise money from investors to supply capital for franchised stores. The general managers — because they know the business and have the experience — manage the stores, invest $12,000 each and are given a 15 percent equity stake.
"I want to create the American dream for my managers," Rohwer said. "I just want them to have the same opportunities for success that I've had."
In some sense Rohwer is paying it forward, though he's humble about that.
The 71-year-old built a restaurant chain, sold it, patented a meat product used in restaurants, sold that and now has come out of retirement to pursue a third venture that combines all those experiences.
His new holding company will add to the PepperJax chain's expansion plans, which include eight new locations opening this year in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and South Dakota.
The company already has 10 stores in the Midwest, including seven in Omaha. It reports $1.25 million in annual sales per store, Rohwer said.
When PepperJax employee Justin Palladino heard about the new program, he was shocked.
"It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," he said. "It's amazing how he (Rohwer) really wants us to succeed and genuinely wants to help those people underneath him."
But it's not the first time Palladino has seen the generous side of Rohwer. When Palladino was diagnosed with leukemia in March 2011 and had to travel to Seattle for a stem cell transplant, Rohwer held Palladino's management position and even continued to pay the 26-year-old while he was out for nearly a year of treatment and recovery.
"We didn't even give it a second thought," Rohwer said. "We just told him, 'Take care of your cancer and don't worry about your salary.' We just kept paying him because that's the least we could do for a good employee like Justin.
"He's a great guy. You have to take care of the people who take care of you."
Palladino, who has worked in restaurants since he was 15, said that kind of response is "unheard of."
"I've never had a boss like Gary. To know that I had a job after treatment and that I was valued was so uplifting."
Palladino, 26, who's now considered cancer-free, is working at light tasks and on track to once again manage a store and possibly have a piece of ownership in one, too.
"It's a remarkable story, it really is," Rohwer said.
But so is Rohwer's own story. There were many doubters in the beginning.
Rohwer started his restaurant career in 1981 when he opened the Chartroose Caboose, a Philly cheese-steak concept in Lincoln.
He "got a little too excited" and expanded too fast, opening about 15 restaurants in five states. And there were struggles.
The meat took too long to cook. Some employees needed stitches after getting cut on the meat slicer. And the meat was often cut too thick or too thin.
Rohwer decided he needed to figure out a way to create a thin enough steak that could hold moisture and cook quickly. Not everyone was sold on the idea. Beef associations across the country thought it was impractical, and locals in the food service industry weren't biting. It was hard to find someone to back his idea, but he pressed on.
With help from agricultural experts from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Rohwer spent three years developing "Steak-EZE," a Philly steak that cooks in 35 seconds or less and retains moisture and flavor. It's the same steak that's cooked right in front of the customers at PepperJax today.
Rohwer got a patent on the product and realized he could make more money selling Steak-EZE to the food service industry than selling Philly sandwiches to his customers. So he sold the restaurant business in the late 1980s and focused on selling Steak-EZE across the country on his own.
For a while it was hard to get anyone from the service industry on board because very few people understood the new steak concept.
In 1989, Pat Harman, now 58, answered a newspaper ad and joined Rohwer as his first employee.
She did just about everything for the company and eventually became the national sales manager. Steak-EZE took off.
"We really started to see things happen in 1993," Harman said. The distributor lists kept growing, more employees joined the company, and, by the mid-1990s, several companies, including Hormel and Tyson, had shown interest in buying the company.
It wasn't until 1998, when Rohwer was 57, that he decided to retire. In a multimillion-dollar sale to Advance Foods of Enid, Okla., Rohwer, Harman and four other employees who had equity in the company had a "life-changing opportunity" and were able to retire.
"It was an opportunity of a lifetime, that's for sure," Harman said.
Harman said Rohwer had awarded her a piece of the company for her efforts and loyalty to him and Steak-EZE, but he didn't have to do that. She said that shows the heart he has for hard-working employees.
"Even when no one else believed in him, he was persistent and very confident," Harman said. "He sets goals and has a vision for the future. He's very forward looking and inspiring."
After Rohwer had built his dream log cabin on a lake in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and enjoyed retired life for about a year, he had another inspiration.
He saw the success of quick-casual restaurants like Qdoba, Chipotle and Baja Fresh, but thought the industry was missing something: a quick-casual concept where steak could be cooked right in front of the customer. With Steak-EZE, he could create that.
So after only a few years of being retired, Rohwer and his wife, Linda, jumped back into the food service industry, opening the first PepperJax Grill in 2002 near 132nd Street and West Center Road.
The first year was rough and the business operated at a loss for 11 months. But after about a year and a half, it started to turn a profit and "it just kept going up and up from there," Gary Rohwer said.
"You just have to hold on and that's what we did," he said.
Soon after, the business expanded into Kansas in Lawrence and Overland Park. Rohwer started a team of district managers and created a chain of command for the business. The couple operated the business out of their Omaha home until 2005, when they opened up a headquarters office in Omaha.
Rohwer said he knew the concept would do well in other states because it took off in Omaha, which he called one of the most competitive food towns in the country.
For a while, Rohwer was buying the steak for PepperJax from Advance Foods. But when his 10-year non-compete agreement ended, he started talking with Harman and the two decided they could produce their own Steak-EZE again for PepperJax.
So in 2009, Rohwer partnered with Harman to open Glenn Valley Foods, a meat processing company in downtown Omaha that produces a Steak-EZE-like product called STEAKERS Philly Release Steaks. Because the patent had also expired, there was no issue with Glenn Valley producing quick-release steaks and selling the product nationally.
Locally, other restaurants like Lansky's and King Kong also buy meat from Glenn Valley Foods.
Harman, who is the president and chief operating officer of Glenn Valley Foods, said Rohwer has taught her to never give up on something she believes in. That's exactly how he's been successful, too.
Ray Ashby, a chain account sales manager for US Foods in Omaha, a distributor for the food service industry, said he learned when he first met Rohwer in 2002 that he was the ambitious type who went after his goals.
Ashby said that even though Rohwer had only his first location of PepperJax open, Rohwer convinced him to put together a food-distribution program normally reserved for chains because he had a clear and concise vision on how he would grow the business into a chain. Chain account programs are less expensive because they require larger orders.
"He told me his vision and how he would grow and was so convincing of his future that I helped him," Ashby said. "It wasn't an easy project, but he was up to the task."
Mark Burrus, director of operations for PepperJax, said Rohwer thinks a lot about the future for his employees as well.
"He wants his employees to have the same opportunities to be successful like he's had," Burrus said. "He wants people to enjoy being a business owner. Not everyone gets that chance, especially for as young as some of our managers are."
Rohwer invites employees to his cabin in Colorado. After he gets his new lake house in Minnesota, he said, employees will be welcome there, too.
Rohwer has money, but he likes to wear jeans and cowboy boots and button shirts. He drives a three-year-old Lexus and lives in the Omaha home he's had near 132nd Street and West Dodge Road for more than 15 years. He goes to the office every day during the week and sometimes on weekends. He visits the stores on a weekly basis.
Palladino said Rohwer is "just in it 100 percent."
"He knows his managers and crew members and that's really unheard of. I think of that show 'Undercover Boss,' and Gary could never do that. Everyone knows Gary."
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Having spent a year in Spain, there were some things about the language that caught my attention. One of the more interesting things was the fact that some brand names have replaced names for the actual products. Now then, we have this in English so it isn't a totally new concept. We say Tippex to refer to white correction fluid, Hoover to refer to a vacuum cleaner; Post-It to refer to sticky notes – the Spanish use this last one too but pronounce it with a silent first 't', like 'Posit'.
For those of you who have recently received an acceptance letter to study in Spain, you're probably already daydreaming about la vida loca that awaits you: a new world where the hardest decision will be which tapas to accompany your glass of sangria, sunbathing on a beach as the sounds of flamenco and salsa music float through the air. For the most part, you won't be disappointed. However, what the study abroad brochure fails to mention is that your year abroad will be soundtracked by the worst kind of music, that your favourite band would never dream of touring Spain… but also, that the music festivals back at home have been ripping you off for years.
The debate surrounding the Spanish tradition of bullfighting is one that continues to polarise, dividing people between those who see it as an antiquated custom that glorifies the torture of animals, and those who consider it simply as part of the country's history and culture, with very little grey area in between. As a student on a year abroad in Madrid, a bullfight was high on my to-do list when I moved here. I wasn't being naïve: I knew what the night would entail, but I thought the only way I could have an opinion on the topic was to experience it first hand, so fuelled by a 'when in Rome' mentality, last weekend I attended a bullfight at Madrid's Plaza de Toros de las Ventas.
Why is Spain in a crisis? What is this 'siesta' nonsense? Why is the Mercadona jingle so catchy? These were just some of the seemingly unanswerable questions I asked myself when I started my Year Abroad in Spain five months ago, but perhaps the most pressing question, and the one that required the most urgent response, was: when is it socially/morally/ethically acceptable to give a besito?


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Video: Footage From Sacred Sites Rally in Arizona
The struggle to save the sacred Hickory Ground gained momentum March 26 during the National Indian Gaming Association's Convention when a rally was held not just for the sacred land there, but for sacred land across the country.
Activists from a number of nations including the O'odham, Navajo and Havasupai gathered outside the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona to drum, speak and share stories.
"There are a lot of connections about sacred sites," said activist Alex Soto, a citizen of the Tohono O'odham Nation and one of the rally organizers. "What's going on back east with Hickory Ground is the same thing going on here in Phoenix with a proposal to build an eight-lane 22 mile freeway that will desecrate our sacred South Mountain and bring a level of pollution and hazardous waste to the Gila River Indian Community."
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The first two videos were shot by ICTMN writer Gale Courey Toensing, the second two by Save Hickory Ground.
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Ecuador Volcanoes: Casey Grom & Team Arrive in Quito
Posted by: Casey Grom | December 11, 2013
Categories: *Expedition Dispatches *Ecuador
Hello from Quito everyone!
After some very long flights the team has arrived safe and sound here in Ecuador. We started our day with a group meeting where we shared a little about each other and discussed the plans for our expedition. We then headed out on a city tour which was mostly spent visiting the colonial old town and it's many churches built in the 17th century. We also visited the Virgin de Quito, which is a statue that overlooks the entire city and is similar in importance to our Statue of Liberty.
After our tour we headed back to our hotel to allow the team some time to rest before meeting and discussing the gear needed for our upcoming climbs. After making sure everyone was well equipped with the essentials we took a short walk to a nearby restaurant and patiently waited for all of our food to arrive. The food was delicious and everyone left with smiles on their faces.
It looks like a great group of people and everyone is looking forward to stretching their legs tomorrow.
RMI Guide Casey Grom and crew
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Vinson Massif: Hahn & Team Carry Halfway
Posted by: Dave Hahn | December 11, 2013
Categories: *Expedition Dispatches *Vinson Massif
Elevation: 7,200'
We are back to great weather on Vinson. There was still a little wind apparent up high during the morning, and a few fog banks forming and dissipating down below, but by mid-day one could only describe it as "splitter". Perfect blue sky, big bright sun and no wind… splitter. Team 2 had a fine breakfast at Vinson Base and then we settled into a light training and review session. Bill, Sara, Fatima and Larry each have fine climbing resumes, so it was only necessary to run through some quick examples of crevasse rescue and anchoring systems to refresh memories. In the afternoon we went for our shakedown cruise: a carry of food and gear to half camp. It was great to stretch legs and get some views of the surrounding humongous peaks. We were back to Base by around 7 PM, in time for dinner in the strong evening sun. We turned in for bed confident that the sunshine would keep tents warm well into the night. Sometime after one or two AM the sun will go behind the mountain and life will get cool, but by then we'll be sleeping… Dreaming of the move to low camp tomorrow.
Word is that the Ilyushin is flying to Union tonight, so Team 1 (Kara, Juan, Piotr, and Spencer) should have breakfast in South America. Bon Voyage.
Best Regards,
RMI Guide Dave Hahn
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Larry and the gang: Glad to know the weather is cooperating and hope it continues. What tales you can tell us when you return. Best wishes to all! Gerri S.
read morePosted by: Gerri Seaton on 12/12/2013 at 5:18 pm
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Great to hear how your expedition is progressing so well! Hope the weather continues to be good. Excited to hear how your safely and successful move up… read more
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Vinson Massif Expedition: Switcheroo at Vinson Base Camp
Posted by: Dave Hahn | December 10, 2013
Categories: *Expedition Dispatches *Vinson Massif
Elevation: 7,000'
The RMI Vinson teams traded places this evening. It was a day of wait-and-see as far as flying was concerned. High winds at Union Glacier, high winds in the intended flight path through the Ellsworth Mountains, and big winds that we could see on the upper slopes of Vinson. But things began to calm as the day went on and there was continued hope that the flight would happen before the day was out. I'd just sat down to dinner with group one at Vinson Base when news came that group two was in the air headed our way. Kara, Juan, Piotr, and Spencer packed fast and watched the ski equipped twin otter make a perfect uphill landing on the Branscomb. It was great to see Bill, Sarah, Fatima, and Larry emerge from the plane. The two teams mingled and compared notes as the plane was unloaded and reloaded. We were all happy to hear that team 2 was treated to such a fine time during their several days stay at Union. And I believe team 2 was relieved to see that team 1 had managed to come through a Vinson climb appearing happy and no worse for the wear.
Then it was load up time and I said goodbye to team 1. We shared some wonderful times together. Rumor has it that there are Ilyushin flights scheduled as early as tomorrow, so perhaps they'll be luckier on their Antarctic exit than they were on their entrance. Team 2 bedded down for the night at VBC… Ready to climb.
Best Regards
RMI Guide Dave Hahn
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It's great to hear that team 2 had an exciting plane trip and is now at Vinson Base. Have a great climb Larry.
read morePosted by: Mark on 12/11/2013 at 6:38 am
Enjoy Vinson! Hope the team has a great experience down there!
Love to Fatima,
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Vinson Massif: No Fly Zone
Posted by: Dave Hahn | December 09, 2013
Categories: *Expedition Dispatches *Vinson Massif
Elevation: 7,000'
The storm finally hit. Crazy clouds were forming over the upper mountain as we went to bed last night. The morning at Vinson Base was devoid of sunshine and chock full of newly falling snow. It is actually a rare thing to get five inches of powder snow in this place, like rain in the desert, but that is what we got. Flying -either to get the successful summiteers out or to bring in our next team of climbers from Union Glacier- was not happening. It was a hunker down day. The word was that the teams up the mountain were doing the same. Rest and relaxation wasn't exactly an unwelcome plan for the day for my team. Most had sore feet and tired knees after the last few big days of up and down walking. Each climber is ready to be moving on when conditions permit, of course. Juan wanted to be sure that Eva Maria knew he was wishing her a very happy 21st birthday from Antarctica.
Best Regards,
RMI Guide Dave Hahn
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Five inches of powder snow? Is it time for skiing? Be safe and hunker down! Thinking of you.
read morePosted by: Mom/Grandma on 12/10/2013 at 8:16 am
Larry: Your climbing report card is full of A's - Antarctica and Alaska and Aconcagua…Congratulation…Post pics please…Waltero
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Vinson Massif Expedition:Team #1 Returns to Base Camp
Posted by: Dave Hahn | December 08, 2013
Categories: *Expedition Dispatches *Vinson Massif
Elevation: 7,000'
The day went pretty well on schedule. We were up at around 8 AM at high camp, thankful that the winds had not yet found our tents. It was obviously kicking a bit higher, with streamers of snow blowing off ridges and frozen dust devils dancing across our ascent route of the day before. But we were granted calm and sunny conditions in which to eat breakfast and pack for the descent. We bailed out of high camp at 11:20 and carefully picked our way down the fixed lines. Coming into Low Camp was a bit of a shock as there were dozens of climbers there and we'd gotten so used to having the mountain to ourselves. Folks were hanging there rather than ascending since forecasts say that the winds will build and dominate the upper mountain for several days. We shuffled our loads, repacked and headed down to Vinson Base, arriving by 5:30 PM. No flights back to Union today as the winds have the pilots hunkering down, so we set tents and enjoyed a victory dinner together at 7000 ft on the Branscomb Glacier.
Best Regards
RMI Guide Dave Hahn
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Congratulations, Larry. It looks really cold in the photos, but I could not tell how technical the climb was. Barbara in Dallas
read morePosted by: Barbara gunnin on 12/9/2013 at 11:04 am
Otro éxito mas y un ciclo cerrado por fin.
Recibe un fuerte abrazo de Mary,Beatriz y Alejandra
Nos vemos para festejar!!!
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Vinson Massif: Dave Hahn & Team Summit!
Posted by: Dave Hahn | December 07, 2013
Categories: *Expedition Dispatches *Vinson Massif
Elevation: 16,067'
Safe and sound at high camp, once again. It was such a nice day that we spent an hour on the Vinson summit. The trip back down took three hours and so we arrived back at high camp around 8:30 PM, making for 11 hours round trip on the day. Almost as soon as we reached camp, the weather began to change, with glacier fog down below and patches of cumulus forming around the upper slopes of the big peaks. Light winds have begun to stir the tents. We'll now hope they don't turn into heavy winds until after we've gotten down the fixed ropes in the morning. We are all feeling pretty fortunate to have had the day we had on the Roof of Antarctica.
Best Regards,
RMI Guide Dave Hahn
RMI Guide Dave Hahn from the Vinson summit!
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Muchas felicidades padre mío, que bueno que ya lograste uno mas de tus objetivos te mandó un fuerte abrazo!!!
Juan, tu hijo preferido
read morePosted by: Juan on 12/9/2013 at 3:09 pm
Papi muchas felicidades!! Estoy muy orgullosa de ti, espero verte pronto
Te quiero y te mandó muchos besos :)
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Vinson Massif: High Time We Got To High Camp
Posted by: Dave Hahn | December 06, 2013
Categories: *Expedition Dispatches *Vinson Massif
Elevation: 12,300'
Our string of good days continues. We made good use of this one as well, climbing in good style to our 12,300 ft high camp. We were up at the crack of 11:15 AM as usual for low camp… waiting for the sun. But then it was a big flurry of activity for us as we ate brunch, knocked down the tents and packed up our packs. Spikes were on and we hit the trail at 1:30 PM. We made great progress today, with everybody feeling strong and enjoying the limitless scenery. Likely we are getting the benefit of having already climbed most of the way on our carry two days back, and certainly yesterday's rest didn't hurt. As we got higher on the fixed lines, it did seem like we were able to see for hundreds of miles… the horizon couldn't actually have been that far, but when it is ice as far as the eye can see, it does start to feel global in scale.
We were lucky to have calm conditions as we exited the ropes and made our way up the last 500 vertical feet to camp. We managed it all in a respectable six hours, pulling in at 7:30 PM. Everybody was in a pretty good and optimistic mood, as they should be. If the good weather continues we could be on the summit tomorrow afternoon.
Best Regards,
RMI Guide Dave Hahn
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Vinson Massif Expedition: Team #2 Flies to Union Glacier
Posted by: Jeff Martin | December 05, 2013
We had an early wake up call this morning and were down in the hotel lobby by 4:30 am. The word was that the weather was cooperating and the flight would go as scheduled. We loaded up into the bus and headed out. We had a few more climbers to pickup on the way to the airport and then we went into the terminal for the standard boarding process. As we mentioned yesterday, there was going to be a stop en route to Union Glacier to re-fuel. This was the first time that this was done by our outfitter and it went very smoothly, only adding a little more time the flight. The group landed at Union Glacier around 2:00 pm local time. Now they are settled in and are enjoying their first night on the ice.
The plan now is for the team to spend a day or two at Union Glacier and then fly to Vinson Basecamp where they will meet up with Dave Hahn.
We might not get a dispatch out while the team is at Union Glacier, but will definitely dispatch once they start their climb.
Best regards,
RMI Guide Jeff Martin
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Vinson Massif: Rest Day
Posted by: Dave Hahn | December 05, 2013
Categories: *Expedition Dispatches *Vinson Massif
Elevation: 9,100'
Again it was bitterly cold in the hours before the sun hit low camp, but then the rest of the day was calm sunny and perfect. We took full advantage by resting the day away. We ate, we drank, we napped and we repeated ourselves. The teams that went for the top (some with success, some without) came by on their descent and we traded notes and wished each other well. It is certainly our hope that tomorrow we will go for high camp feeling stronger and more ready as a result of today's rest. But as usual, we need continued good luck in the weather department.
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So god to hear things are progressing smoothly. It sure is fun tracking your adventure! Stay safe and united!!!
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Life at The Creek: RMI guides check in from Indian Creek, UT
Posted by: Robby Young, Sean Collon, Steve Gately | December 05, 2013
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October marks the end of the guiding season on Rainier, and the beginning of some of the best rock climbing weather and conditions throughout the Rocky Mountain West. RMI guides Steve Gately, Robby Young and Sean Collon celebrated "Rocktober" this year by spending their time down in Indian Creek near Moab, Utah. "The Creek" is home to some of the best pure crack climbing in the world, with fissures ranging from too small for fingers up to chimneys large enough for your entire body; running a hundred feet up otherwise featureless sandstone walls. It attracts climbers from around the world and is a popular hangout for guides in the October off-season. Sean, Steve and Robby documented their time in The Creek through film, and recount their experiences:
Robby Young: There is no place like Indian Creek. The abundance of stunning cracks splitting through vertical sandstone walls appear otherworldly amongst the beautiful desert landscape of Southern Utah, located just a few hours from my home in Park City, UT. I was very excited to have the opportunity to spend some time in this wonderful place with some good friends, and fellow RMI guides. The vibrancy of the red rock offers a dramatic contrast to the snow and glacier covered landscape of Mt. Rainier in which we spend much of our summer. I was also lucky to be able shoot photographs and capture film of some of friends as they pushed their climbing skills in the never-ending pursuit to become better climbers and alpinists.
Sean Collon: Rock climbing and mountaineering have a large number of common skills, techniques and physical requirements. Approaching rock climbs with heavy packs full of gear builds stamina, and the climbing itself requires total body strength; all of which contributes to success in the big mountains. When guiding, or on personal mountaineering trips, I rely heavily on the rope skills I have developed largely in the vertical world of rock climbing. But more than all of this, rock climbing, in and of itself, is fun. Like any type of climbing, it is physically and mentally demanding. It can be pure enjoyment, often scary and painful, but always tremendously rewarding.
Steve Gately: After a busy Rainier season, trips like this provide us with some welcomed vacation time, while also allowing us a great opportunity for continued training. With back-to-back trips to Aconcagua coming up this winter, keeping my skills sharp is important to me. One aspect that goes consistently overlooked is not only the mental capacity but also the situational awareness needed for such long expeditions. For me, rock climbing is a way to keep my assessment skills sharp. There is some inherent risk in rock climbing, similarly to anytime that we step out into the mountains. This requires you to be constantly assessing situations, risk, hazards, terrain etc. This level of awareness is invaluable. You can be as strong as the best climbers out there, but without that ability to constantly assess your surroundings and problem solve when needed, well, you won't last very long in the mountains. For me, as a guide, this is one of the most important contributions I can bring to my trips and rock climbing provides an excellent way to stay strong, keep my skills sharp, and have a ton of fun while doing it!
Robby Young is as talented on rock as he is on glaciers and skis. He is spending the winter ski patrolling and teaching several avalanche courses in Utah and planning on a ski trip to Iceland this spring before his Denali expedition. See more of Robby's photography at www.robbyyoungphotography.com.
Sean Collon is an RMI guide, originally from Michigan, spending this winter season in Utah ski instructing at Canyons Resort and training for the AMGA Rock and Ski Instructor Courses. He has climbed rock and alpine routes all around the Pacific Northwest and throughout the country, and guiding with Dave Hahn next summer on Mt. McKinley.
Steve Gately is heading to the southern hemisphere this winter to guide on Aconcagua. Returning to Park City, UT, he will be found skiing, ice climbing and working on another short film about backcountry skiing in Utah's Wasatch Range before heading north to Alaska next summer.
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1 teaspoon sesame oil
½ medium onion, sliced
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1 tablespoon chopped fresh ginger or 1 teaspoon ground ginger
3 medium cloves garlic, crushed
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During the San Antonio Spurs eleven point victory on Wednesday night against the visiting Boston Celtics, Manu Ginobili was up to his usual tricks. There are times that we sit back and watch Ginobili doing his flashy passes, unorthodox shots, bone-headed plays, okay let me stop there before I get to carried away.
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Image: Photograph by Dan Saelinger. Specimen courtesy of the Eye-Bank For Sight Restoration, New York (www.eyedonation.org)
In Brief
- The eyes of vertebrate animals are so complex that creationists have long argued that they could not have formed by natural selection.
- Soft tissues rarely fossilize. But by comparing eye structures and embryological development of the eye in vertebrate species, scientists have gained crucial insights into the organ's origin.
- These findings suggest that our camera-style eye has surprisingly ancient roots and that prior to acquiring the elements necessary to operate as a visual organ it functioned to detect light for modulating our long-ago ancestors' circadian rhythms.
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The human eye is an exquisitely complicated organ. It acts like a camera to collect and focus light and convert it into an electrical signal that the brain translates into images. But instead of photographic film, it has a highly specialized retina that detects light and processes the signals using dozens of different kinds of neurons. So intricate is the eye that its origin has long been a cause célèbre among creationists and intelligent design proponents, who hold it up as a prime example of what they term irreducible complexity—a system that cannot function in the absence of any of its components and that therefore cannot have evolved naturally from a more primitive form. Indeed, Charles Darwin himself acknowledged in On the Origin of Species—the 1859 book detailing his theory of evolution by natural selection—that it might seem absurd to think the eye formed by natural selection. He nonetheless firmly believed that the eye did evolve in that way, despite a lack of evidence for intermediate forms at the time.
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Lauren Curosh improved to 5-2 on the season after tossing a three-hitter against the Warriors. The Tigers scored one in the first, two in the fourth and one each in the fourth and sixth. Carolyn Bartlett collected three of DePauw's six hits.
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JON Meades had surgery yesterday to correct an ankle injury after the Oxford United midfielder suffered a setback in his rehabilitation.
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WOOSTER, Ohio – Before Chris Culbertson could figure out where he was going, he needed to find out where he had been. Adopted at six months of age, Culbertson spent a good portion of his early years confused and conflicted. As a young man, he carried a chip on his shoulder and a hole in his heart.
Despite growing up with a loving and supportive family in Ann Arbor, Mich., Culbertson experienced anxiety and resentment when the kids at school started to point out to him that he was "different" from his mother and father. "They told me that I didn't look like my parents," remembers Culbertson. "When I was 10, I finally asked my mother [a partner at an architectural firm] and father [a teacher of English and film at Huron High School in Ann Arbor] to tell me about it, and they agreed to share what they knew."
Culbertson learned that he had been born in Santiago, Chile and given up for adoption by his single mother, who realized that because she lived in extreme poverty, she had no chance to adequately care for her son. Fortunately, she left a note explaining her rationale, which Culbertson's adoptive parents showed him. "I can't support you; you would die here," she wrote in the letter. "I want you to go the U.S to have an American education and an American way of life." Culbertson still has this card and looks at it often.
After reviewing his adoption papers, Culbertson's sense of abandonment was somewhat placated, and he resolved to one day find his biological mother. But the next few years would be difficult. There were moments of great promise but also setbacks that would ensnare him. "I went through periods of depression," he says. "I was sad and angry. I felt unwanted and useless. I just didn't understand, and I struggled to come to grips with the situation. Many of my friends and family tried to help me, but I didn't listen to them."
Culbertson's foster family visited Chile in 2005, during winter break of his junior year in high school, and it helped Culbertson to develop something he never had — a sense of identity. "I realized, 'hey, this is where I'm from,'" he says. "It was there that I began to understand how important it was for me to speak the language. I wanted to learn more about the Chilean culture, and I really wanted to meet my mother. After that trip, I was motivated to learn and speak Spanish, as it was part of being 'Chilean'."
But the learning process took time and was not without setbacks. "I got into trouble frequently and gained a bad reputation," says Culbertson. "I became known as a 'tough kid.' I would get in fights and have outbursts in class. I was suspended a couple of times, and it was related to not knowing who I really was."
Culbertson's restlessness was still unresolved when it came time to further his education. A soccer player in high school, he had been recruited by College of Wooster coach Graham Ford, and when he visited campus, he felt an atmosphere of warmth and friendliness that was very appealing. "Everyone was so nice," he says. "There was a real sense of community here."
Unfortunately, Culbertson's problems persisted in his first year at Wooster. "I got caught up in the partying scene," he says. "I lost myself because I was looking for my identity in the wrong places." His wanderings eventually caught up with him and he found himself on academic and behavioral probation.
If Culbertson had chosen to attend a larger school, he might have slipped through the cracks, but thanks to a steadfast support group at Wooster, which included Coach Ford and Ray Tucker, a counselor at the Wellness Center, as well as Professors of Spanish Diane Uber and John Gabriele and Professor of English Mazen Naous, Culbertson hung on.
"What the college did was to help me explore my own identity, to discover who I am," says Culbertson, a double major in history and Spanish. "A lot of people helped me. I wouldn't be here without them. They wouldn't let me fail. For the most part, they didn't know what I was going through and treated me like everyone else, which is why I respect them so much. My professors have demanded excellence from everyone, which they define as our very best and most authentic work. It drove me, and I became very serious about gaining knowledge through the way they engaged me in their class and encouraged me in my own work."
After a tumultuous first year at Wooster, Culbertson's adoptive mother discovered "English Opens Doors," a program through which students could teach English as a Second Language in schools needing native English speakers in Chile. Culbertson applied and was accepted. "It was an eye-opening experience," he says. "I saw wide-ranging poverty and a need for quality teachers. It really hit home." While there, he learned about the Mapuche, an indigenous group in Chile, and that he was one of them.
As a sophomore, things began to turn around for Culbertson. He met Katie Holt, associate professor of history, who became his advisor and encouraged him to become more serious about his studies. He was taken off probation, and received a Kendall-Rives Latin American Research grant to work at the Chol-Chol Foundation, an NGO in Temuco, Chile, his biological mother's home. While there, he worked with the Mapuche people. "They recognized me and said, 'you're Mapuche," he says. "It was the first time anyone identified me for who I was. It was a huge moment for me."
While working in Temuco, Culbertson was invited to appear on a radio program to promote the Chol-Chol Foundation. As he told his life story, he was asked if he had ever met his family. He said, "no," and they asked, "Do you want to?" Another radio station heard the interview as did a regional newspaper, and together they made Culbertson somewhat of a media darling because of his desire to trace his Mapuche roots and be reunited with his family.
The day after a second radio interview, three women showed up in the office where he was working in Temuco. "I thought one of them might be my mother, but they were actually her sisters – my aunts," he says. "Just to be sure, I asked them my mother's name and birthday, and her identification number [everyone in Chile has an identification number]. They got all three right. I had just found my family. I felt the whole world beneath me change."
Arrangements were made to reunite Culbertson with his mother. He was taken on foot to a small house in the remote countryside where he met other aunts as well as uncles and grandparents. "They took me there in the middle of the night," he remembers. "I was walking with family members that I did not know. When we got to the house, everyone cried. It was very emotional. I found out that my biological mother was not there, and that she did not know I was coming, but they made arrangements for her to meet me."
Early in the morning, one of Culbertson's aunts shook him awake. "Your mother is coming, and she knows something is up," she said. They hid Culbertson in another room as a car pulled up to the house. When his mother came inside, she said, 'is he here?'
"She was afraid I had forgotten her and that I wouldn't want to meet her," says Culbertson. "I paused for a moment in the doorway because I knew the second I went through that door everything would change. And there she was. She looked exactly like me. I said 'thank you.' Then I felt it. We embraced and cried for about two hours. We talked, and she explained why she gave me up for adoption. She also told me that my name was Marcos Curiqueo Huenulaf and that her husband was the son of a Lonko [community leader]. Over several days, I met my two half-sisters and was introduced to more than 50 members of my family living in and around the communities of Chol-Chol and Paillao Mapu [indigenous reservations]. I felt humbled to be accepted by my entire biological family. My mother's husband even allowed me to take his last name as my own."
Culbertson returned to Wooster for his junior year a new man. "I finally had an Idea of who I was," he says. "I've grown up in a lot of ways, and none of this would have been possible without the college. The people of Wooster have done so much for me, and I am very grateful."
Culbertson's life has since been transformed. He won the Ricardo Valencia Award for Academic Excellence in Spanish, and his grades have improved dramatically. His Independent Study, titled "Cultural Identity in Chile: A study of Mapuche Poetry," has helped him to understand his hybrid existence.
Culbertson's two mothers met in early January while he conducted field research, in what he described as an "incredible experience." During that moment, he realized how fortunate he was. Looking at them he understood everything. "One gave me life, the other taught me how to live."
After graduation, Culbertson plans to reunite with his biological family and live in Chile. "I will end my days in Chile," he says. "The next step is to get Chilean citizenship and get certified to teach abroad. Initially, I will be living in poverty, but I have discovered who I am and where I belong. I am very grateful to my adoptive family, and I hope that one day my efforts will bring my people out of poverty."
Culbertson would like to begin an initiative aimed at empowering the Mapuche people, and has dubbed it "Project Odakniwa." (The reverse of the word Awinkado, which is used as a derogatory term toward Mapuche people who have lost their roots. Odakniwa then means to regain one's roots.) Culbertson hopes that one day this initiative of bringing education, sustainable development, and renewable energy to his community will not only help the people escape poverty and improve their standard of living, but also incorporate volunteer opportunities for future Wooster students. In addition, he hopes to develop an international cooperative to promote cross-cultural education and awareness.
"The reason I chose Wooster was the community, and the reason I can look back and never regret that decision is because of the community," he says. "Wooster will never do anything for you, as my advisers, professors, counselors, coaches, and even my friends have told me countless times. What Wooster does though, is empower its students with the tools they need to be successful in life and graduates individuals who have the potential to make a significant difference in the world. But it won't come without hard work or setbacks. You can't be afraid to fail, or afraid to ask for help when you do. The college has helped me find my path and now I'm off to walk it."


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89.5 FM New Haven, CT |
101.9 FM Native Communications Society of the NW Territories, Yellowknife, Canada |
90.9 FM Paonia, CO |
98.3 FM Crawford, CO |
88.9 FM Ridgway, CO |
90.1 FM Ouray, CO |
88.7 FM Lake City, CO |
99.1 FM Grand Junction, CO |
89.1 FM Delta, CO |
89.1 FM Montrose, CO |
89.1 FM Olathe, CO |
89.1 FM Norwood, CO |
90.7 FM Peoria, Illinois |
90.3 FM Minneapolis |
106.7 FM Saint Paul |
88.3 FM University of California - Riverside |
91.9 FM Secwepemc Lakes, BC, Canada |
89.1 FM Postville - Decorah, Iowa |
107.1 FM Nashville, Tennessee |
89.9 FM - A Voice of Many Voices Midcoast, Downeast & Central Maine |
90.3 FM Scranton, Pennsylvania |
89.1 FM Ames, Iowa |
87.9 FM Crow Agency, Montana |
90.7 FM Hudson, New York |
89.5 FM Ashland, Oregon - Home Grown Radio |
91.1 FM Plainfield, Vermont |
90.3 FM Mt. Cobb/105.7 FM Scranton, PA N.E. Pennsylvania's Progressive Community |
92.5 FM Moscow, Idaho |
89.9 FM White Earth/Callaway, MN Independent Radio for an Independent Nation |
105.3 FM Knoxville, Tennessee |
105.3 FM Johnson City, Tennessee |
105.3 FM Bristol, Tennessee |
105.3 FM Kingsport, Tennessee |
91.7 FM Plymouth, New Hampshire |
88.5 FM Williamsport, Pennsylvania |
88.1 FM Ithaca, New York |
89.9 FM Odessa-Mountour Falls, New York |
91.9 FM Watkins Glen, Burdet, Alpine, NY |
88.1 FM Wesleyan University Middletown, Connecticut |
90.7 FM Johnson State College Johnson, Vermont |
106.5 FM Olympia, Washington |
103.3 FM Northampton, Massachusetts |
91.7 FM Washington & Jefferson College Washington, Pennsylvania |
South Royalton, Vermont |
90.1 FM Burlington, Vermont |
88.5 FM / 1390 AM Community Radio Denver/Boulder, Colorado |
93.7 FM Independent, Non-Commercial, Community Radio Nederland, Colorado |
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