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To: marcos who wrote (71118)	2/10/2009 4:48:09 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Years ago I was on a geology field trip that toured a working underground copper mine near Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. We walked in about 1,000 feet, and I collected some nice fool's gold (iron pyrite from the mine ceiling. I still have these pretty rocks, which remind me of a summer day in southern Minnesota when I was about six years old. My friends and I climbed a hill in a nearby cow pasture, and found some glacial erratic boulders full of shiny flecks that glinted in the sunlight. In our children's imagination we pretended they were gold, and dreamed of climbing tall mountains in distant places. ;)

To: marcos who wrote (71118)	2/11/2009 2:54:23 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

It's easy to overlook that [or not give it enough weight]. <your job is assess the quality of their performance, which is not a technical thing, but a people thing> Decades ago, I learned what a vast difference the people managing a business make to the identical business. The example is Enterprise Service Station in Tauranga, New Zealand. I was involved with it [for BP Oil] for a few years during which time there were 5 owners. Each ran it quite differently. 2 ran it into the ground, 1 made a good living, and two did very well indeed. Town planners allowed no changes at all other than keeping it clean and tidy, painted etc. So it was all business management. It was quite an education [along with all the other things]. Having an old head on young shoulders would be great; get all those lessons preprogrammed. No wonder there is such evolutionary pressure in humans to live a long time. It's such a waste when old brains die. Google won't die!! Mqurice

To: marcos who wrote (71118)	2/11/2009 11:54:31 AM
From: gg cox	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Marcos, ya got to stick with what ya know. vimeo.com I came after those days, Pioneer 600 and 620 days.<<gg>>