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This story has us all mystified. It resulted in this "thought experiment" among our staff, which led to wildly varying interpretations. Take a listen and tell us what you think.
Terry Tempest Williams is a naturalist and writer, a biologist by training with a literary mind, who comes from a long Mormon lineage in Utah. She draws political, spiritual, and creative inspiration from her experience of the interior American West. She offers stories of neighborly collaboration that turns into environmental protection, and the value that comes from vitriolic disagreement inside families.
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is the Annie Clark Tanner Scholar in Environmental Humanities at the University of Utah. Her books include Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, Finding Beauty in a Broken World, and The Open Space of Democracy.
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I was dumstruck upon hearing Ms. Williams state that a neighbor "loved deer" followed by a story of how this neighbor built a platform from which to hunt them on. I know that it is probably not in Ms. Tippett's interest to challenge a guest on sucvh a matter, but I did think it odd that the comment went unnoticed. how can a person claim to love an animal that he or she spends time killing?
I, too, love deer. I am a
I, too, love deer. I am a hunter, tracker, painter, poet, Native American, and ecologist. I completely understood the meaning in this dialogue. Hunting an animal, in the spiritual tradition of hunting and sustaining a family, is a sacred act, full of gratitude and grace, even - and especially - in death.
"hunter, tracker, painter,
"hunter, tracker, painter, poet, Native American.." You describe yourself as poetry, the words flowing into my consciousness, the words, your life, cause beauty all the way back to the great elders, the ancestors of the land.
An empty journal is the ultimate book of verse. If you need help, view an Agnus Martin painting and go from there. If I had a poet daughter like Terry, I would think the blank page would be perfect. All people evolve to symbols after their death. And those symbols spring from our imagination. I think that mother understood her little girl in ways that might surprise the poet daughter. Isn't that beautiful!
What was of interest to me was the title - "The Vitality of the Struggle." Those words hold dissonance and dissonance is the stuff of poetry. Terry appears to be aware of her own dissonance. One who can experience a Whitmanesque wonder of nature and then write an acrid op-ed must know dissonance...and wonder. Most of us, in fact, live that way. Terry is different only in that she is aware and vital to her struggle. I agree with you Krista. It is the poetry of her language that captivates me.
"Dissonance...and wonder."
"Dissonance...and wonder." Such beauty in your writing, such grace in your thinking. i am greatly moved by the writing I read here, made possible by American Public Media.
"The Vitality of the Struggle" is inspired by Gertrude Stein.
I have always held that phrase close. It does feel like poetry
because it holds the paradox of our human condition.
Here is the exact quote: You always have in your writing the resistance outside of you and inside of you, a shadow upon you, and the thing which you must express. In the beginning of your writing this struggle is so tremendous that the result is ugly. . . But the essence of that ugliness is the thing which will always make it beautiful. I myself think it is much more interesting when it seems ugly, because in it you see the element of the fight . . . the vitality of the struggle. ---Gertrude Stein, How Writing Is Written
i listen to On Being. this was the next show. i listened. and i listened because it was good.
Terry Tempest Williams and i share some life themes... mother's journals; the reconciliation of ideology and inner essence with family tradition, decisions and choices; "ecological, biological literacy" (the loss of naming and/or recognizing gifts of nature - birds' songs, trees' names, the significance of rituals in seasons and cycles); and the sense of unbalance in, for example, nuclear testing and land warfare.
and i appreciate, very much, her geographic identity.
i was born in the south and spent a lot of time in the northeast and abroad. i had never been to the u.s. midwest until a few years ago. i was there acting in a movie. our wrap dinner was in this incredible restaurant with a full menu of...100% pure beef. at some point during the dinner i was compelled to stand and salute the fine midwestern people. without too much thought, i tapped my glass for their attention and raised my glass...
"you beautiful people! i've never been to the midwest and i thank you all for your kindness, for your hospitality. i must say, in the rest of the u.s., you are given a bad rap. and i just want to say i know now it is a lie. and i feel i have to tell you, dear midwesterners, the reputation spread does resemble that of the iraqi people."
and then a hush came over the restaurant.
well, after listening to Krista's interview with Terry Tempest Williams, i realize i was not far off mark... land war, large-scale marijuana crops, nuclear testing, oil and gas pipelines... not too far off mark.
THANK YOU AGAIN FOR ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL CONVERSATION and for letting me LISTEN in.
As I listened to the program ; The Vitality of the Struggle; and Terry Tempest Williams account of her mother's journals it made me think of Walt Whitman's poem, "the song of myself." To paraphrase he says, "I depart as air-I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, you will hardly know who I am or what I mean; if you want me again look for me underneath your boot soles; for I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love; I am not in these journals, so you shall not find me there. You can no-longer look through my eyes nor take things from me, but you shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self."
The blank journals says to me that her mother is not there. As Terry pointed out in her interview; voice is so very important to discover. I believe her mother is telling her to find her own voice and live her own life. Her mother is gone and now it is her life that is most important. It is Terry's turn to find her own self in the runaway sun.
Thanks so much for your story. I know this isn't live, but here's what I would ask you if it were.
We just heard the story about your neighborhood working together to save their land, people who ordinarily don't have much in common and don't move in the same circles. They worked together, used their strengths and succeeded.
My question is: How are you all now? Has it made working together in the community or neighborhood easier now that you have learned to value each other? Is there a lasting effect?
Hearing Terry and Krista talk about the existential reality of the west after having lived for a time in Tucson, Arizona, ridden a bicycle in the desert and almost run out of water, climbed a canyon wall and almost fell, and knowing that many of the people who live there now are of the same mind as those who assured Terry, her family, and neighbors that the above ground nuclear test range upwind was harmless causes me to feel pure desperation. Somehow the conversation has to draw the parallel between the clear and present danger of radioactive fallout and the clear and present danger of climate change.
Having lived & worked in Utah for 4 years in the early 90s (a non-Mormon) I had the great pleasure of meeting Terry back then and still have her signed copy of Refuge. Regarding her mother's empty journals... it is clear to me that her mother felt she had no voice in her lifetime. In leaving the journals to Terry, she was encouraging her to continue speaking out and perhaps hoping she would expose an entire culture of Mormon women never allowed to think or speak for themselves - or perhaps not strong enough to realize they did not need permission from their husbands or their church to do so. I found Utah to be an extraordinarily beautiful place - I was essentially recruited to move there from New England specifically to work in the arts. It was a painful and consistent battle being an outspoken, educated New England woman in Utah. Initially, I received a warm welcome, however, the more inclusive inroads I made through my work - the more I was forced out so that my position could revert back to its Mormon-based mindset. I applaud Terry's work. She has learned from childhood how to make a difference - in a way that is not threatening to the Mormon culture - an outsider such as I never had a chance for longevity there!
Your comment has such
Your comment has such poignancy for me. Sorrow in the muscles about my eyes, breath held. I want to smile for the pure, clear water that flows from Krista exploding like silk into consciousness, but heavy hearted I find myself lost for women of Utah. And for women I saw in Camarrillo State Mental Hospital in the mid 50's as a student nurse.. the women, gifted, charts full, doctor notes of soaring intelligence, on the back wards of a 6,000 population, of people.
To say everything would be to say little. Her language; her wisdom; the final story about her mother's blank journals. I pictured her mother privately planning and creating this gift over many years, choosing fabrics, like TTW chose mosaic bits and pieces, and binding the blank pages as her gift to her gifted daughter, trusting them to be filled with Terry's words, trusting they would tell the next generation what had preceded them. The gift was the loving structure, much like the love all mothers provide through their nurturing of their children, onto which her daughter could build tempests or temples. Told, as it was, right after that quote from the mother of environmental action, who said when asked what action was to be taken next, replied to put one foot in front of another and the little light that would shine would point the way, I was sure her mother had shone a light on the blank pages for Terry to take her next steps.
"Empathy rooted in action." This phrase spoke to me because so many of us have become so isolated a lonely. For me, this is a call to action...feel, but don't let it stop there...DO something!
I also have a strong feeling the the empty journals were left for Terry to complete...it's an invitation to do what her mother could not do...
Thank you for a wonderful show!
Cheryl Wiles
Framingham, MA
I am a science educator. At the heart of my concern lies the fact that humanity is moving ever so surely away from the natural state of the land. That our way of thinking about the planet is mostly imagined and less and less experienced. That as we move from the small farms and into the cities we alienate ourselves from the one true source that can save us, our natural resources. Terry sheds light on how to do more than give lip service to the issue. She gives us an action based example to follow.
With the exception, possibly, of love as a foundation to our shared being, Terry Tempest Williams describes a world not dependent on abstraction or ideology to derive right, and to damage or disappoint. I had the feeling - say from the visits that her Dad made to neighbors when they'd lost someone to death, or from her being undaunted by unresolvable disagreements and misunderstandings - that she perceives a meaningful presence in ourselves, in all of life and planet, perhaps. This is a most elegant statement of faith, and one completely absorbed in living.
"she perceives a meaningful
"she perceives a meaningful presence in ourselves, in all of life and planet, perhaps. This is a most elegant statement of faith, and one completely absorbed in living. " How elegant your thought, hope for us all.
Being a naturalist/metaphysician myself, I enjoyed the dialogue for today's show. I found myself puttering around the kitchen as I do on Sundays, putting things in the kitchen compost bin, tidying up and missing family interactions (I am in Georgia and they are all in California). Yes, there is a growing sense of community which is vital and so heart-warming.
Then I remembered that when my son was in the 4th grade, I was asked to turn the story of Sadako and the Thousand Cranes into a play, which they performed, with music I helped them compose. The class had read the story and wanted to perform it for the school during the winter holiday season. I was touched by the connection they felt. Their teacher was very creative and willing to bring stories of substance to the children.
But what really hit me was her mother's blank journals. Listening to the interview, I was pleased to hear there was somewhere I could share my voice. It struck me so clearly that her legacy to her dauther was- "You fill the journals.... give your voice expression, for I did not." My mother also died of cancer and left not only blank journals, but many blank canvases and notes jotted down about books she would someday write. She never did.
Thank you for this opportunity to share.
I'm 65. A few years ago I realized that my spirit is as perfect as it was the day I was born, if not longer. I don't need religion, I need to protect my soul from the notion that it needs "work". It's understanding what it means to be human, in tandem with soul, that needs work. Having said that, I'm weary of the work. I always listen to your show. During your talk with T.T. Willams today I wished you would have a program with comedians. We all need a good laugh and don't humorists have a lot to say about being?
Good Afternoon Krista:
The interview ended with Terry telling about her mothers death. I was totally captivated by the gift of her mothers journals. The moment though of opening them to find them empty did not bother me. The pages full of her mothers wisdom will be revealed on day at a time as my mothers are. Not a day goes by that I don't think about my mother in a certain situation and wonder what she would do.
She died 8 years ago but is still with me. I am 61. I still need my mom.
Hi Just heard the end of your show broadcast on Feb 6th in NYC. At the end of the show your guest talked about finding after her mother's death that her her journals were blank, and you asked for listeners to consider a potential meaning. One purely practical thought that came to me is that possibly as a very private woman (after all she didn't reveal the existence of her journals until she died) that your guest's mother might have wished to protect her privacy by writing her journals in "invisible ink" - I believe that lemon juice is one way of doing this. Just in case this might be correct (though of course not very likely), your guest might want to take another look. I believe that light heat makes invisible ink appear - I'm sure one can find instructions on the internet. Just a thought. Phil
I'm really interested in the practice of "staying at home" and cultivating, as Terry suggests a deeper sense of neighborhood. It seems to me one of the deepest practices of our time. In our house, we've established a monthly soup night, where neighborhoods and friends are invited to our house to share food and speak about an issue or creative project in which they are deeply engaged. Friends invite friends, neighbors invite neighbors and the circle changes and gets larger. One small gesture moves a thousand waves. Thanks for this engaging and insightful conversation.
I am surprised you and your guest did not recognize the message her mother left for her with the blank paged dairy: she repents her lack of awareness and right to comment and invites us to reflect on her awareness of that fact and apply it to our moment to moment existence. I admit I could be totally wrong with my assesment. peace db
I have read Terry's work for years. Her thoughtful insights inspire in a way that resonates. She speaks of the difficulties of finding beauty in a broken world, of healing difference at the dinner table. She is incredibly generous and gives me a path to follow. I feel as though we are sisters at the table of peaceful revolution. I have so few siblings sitting with me there. I am so grateful to Terry for her passionate commitments and willingness to be disturbed, to listen, and to think otherwise...
While listening to Terry Tempest "The Vitality of the Struggle" in conversation with Krista Tippett link mosaics, small pieces placed carefully, and healing I was quietly relieved and heard that solid "yes" in my mind. Following 9-11 I created a community based, public made-public art project. Our mission is to give groups of non-artists a hands-on art experience expressing their thoughts about community health and ethics. We call this "La Familia de la Blue Sky: The Blue Sky Project"(www.theblueskyproject.com).
In Long Prairie Minnesota there was a drug related triple homicide in 2004. Very sensational, chilling, numbing. That central Minnesota town populaton 2000 collectively made three functional sculptures, two 12 foot planters and a 26 foot long sitting bench, each depicting time, past present and future. Sentence to Serve volunteers helped pour the concrete, new Hispanic immigrants,disabled adults, confirmation classes, senior citizens, and others collectively built the mosaic. We made handmade tiles following discussions about the crime, our grief and loss, healing, hopes and dreams.
I want to invite your producers to learn more about how a town made beauty out of tragedy. In July 2010 www.mnartists.org published a story about the Blue Sky Project in Harmony Park, Long Prairie. I would be happy to tell you about the seven other Blue Sky Projects. Thank you for helping us connect with Faith and Being.
Claire Witt
At the end, when you asked for people's ideas regarding the blank journals, actually even before that when the journals were just mentioned, my whole being was screaming "FILL THEM."
I'm not sure why Terry's mother made such a thing of leaving them to her and of Terry waiting until after mother was gone to look in them. One thing seems clear, that mother didn't want to answer any questions about them. Maybe she was embarrassed. Maybe she thought she had nothing worthwhile to say. But I think that she called attention to them perhaps as a way of telling Terry that her mother believed that her daughter had something worthwhile and important to say.
Almost three and a half years ago, when I just starting into my second divorce, I started keeping a Beautiful Things book. It's a short entry I make every night about one positive thing that happened that day. Sometimes it's something I did or something that I felt or saw or thought. It helps me keep a positive focus and I will be able to leave that as a legacy to those I love.
I haven't actually heard the interview, yet, but the reason I linked to her interview is that I believe I had her as a writing instructor at a workshop in Washington state, probably about 15-17 years ago, and found her enormously inspiring. I am not sure she is the same person, but that is why I chose to listen to her interview.
The empty journals of her
The empty journals of her mother was a powerful statement and probably made more of a comment about life
than the words that might have been in there. There are never the words that truly describe love, sadness, fear, joy or thoughts because the feelings that accompany these emotions are.........feelings.......not an endless array of descriptive words that just
aren't doing the reality of them justice.
Wow- that was a mind blower
Wow- that was a mind blower about the empty journals.Immediately-I thought it was an expression of angeror contempt;or something like -this is nothing,i'm nothing-my life as a practicing mormon-was a lie-;i believe in nothing. Or anger that -this unfilled,empty journal is like my life -unfilled and empty..i asked my daughter and she said it means that-i have no secrets from you-what you saw was what i was-no more-no less-remember me as i was was alive to you.Was it just an expression of anger that she was dying-and that anger truned to contempt -at life and everyone round her?I asked a friend and he said that we have to answer some questions to try to make sense of this strange story-like was she senile, what kind of relationship did the mother and daughter have ,were they close, did the mother know her daughter was into writing and this could be an inspiration to write?was the mother into mysteries,jokes? .Also why three journals -not one. Are there 3 members of the immediate family? -why 3? Also did the mother bind those journals herself with cloth-if so did the daughter check to see if anything is inside the binding?
I just told my husband about
I just told my husband about that empty journal story.He kind of laughed then said-it doesn't make any sense-the story makes no sense. I said -duh-that's the point-how do you explain this. He again said but it doesn't make sense. i said yeh-so it happened-how do you explain it -He said;the husband must have found the journals ,read them and did not like what was in them ,so he replaced them with empty journals knowing that eventually his daughter would be told about them . He must have done that when his wife was too sick to be writing in them-but expecting to see them in the closet and expecting that the daughter would be told they were there but that she would obediently not touch them till her mothers death.
1) Thanks Krista for
1) Thanks Krista for consistently interesting shows, sometimes provocative, sometimes, sometimes inspiring, always intelligent.
2) I remember years ago reading the same story of a man whose father left several shelves of beautiful blank leather journals. Everyone had assumed that he was writing in them when he disappeared into his study in the evenings. In that case the author attributed the cause to intentions unfulfilled by action, dreams deferred not leading to invention
In her book When Women Were
In her book When Women Were Birds, I believe Terry says that keeping a journal is a Mormon woman's obligation. Perhaps the blank journals are a comment on such obligations.
The term sacred sacred rage
The term sacred sacred rage struck a chord with me. I am grateful to have become acquainted with Ms. Williams and will keep in touch!
I heard the rebroadcast of
I heard the rebroadcast of "The Vitality of the Struggle" on July 22, 2012. I was struck by several things at once: the original date of broadcast (right after the Tucson shootings of 2011), the resonance of that interview two days after the 2012 Aurora shootings, and so many of my own memories of the West (I have family and ancestral history in Utah). These things became pieces of the frame around a rare window into real human experience -- formidably vast, formidably intimate, and courageous beyond ideologies. I am awestruck in the old, mystical sense. And though I have written journals for many years, and have been given blank journals by friends and family who honored that activity in that way, I am just as struck by that legacy of blank journals, giving yet-unasked loved questions the gift of a place to live. My thanks to both of you for this.
The finding that Ms. Williams
The finding that Ms. Williams shared at the end of your broadcast interview blew my mind and moved me to tears. Talk about having no voice: What a challenge for anyone, but especially a writer, to find that your parent's life's journals are all completely blank.
Terry Tempest Williams said .
Terry Tempest Williams said . . . Beauty is a strategy for survival. I want to quote her with her approval, or may I use these words
because it is not a direct quote from her writings?
Those empty journals Have
Those empty journals Have given me pause. I listened to the interview with Terry Tempest Williams. She emphasized the importance and integrity of the human individual, noting the diversity of thought amongst her family. The thought for me in regarding that and the journals is in the direction of word/thought consumerism. When do I cross the line between thought and word that transforms me, creates spaciousness, and word/thought that is materialistic/consumerist? Her mother's empty journals remind me to be with the other, in real time, physically, depending less on that persons verbal repository left behind, enjoying the actual presence of the person. My dad and I could sit for some time, saying nothing. He died 20 years ago and still, I feel the presence of him in calm silence, no word consumed.
Our anxiety to find something
Our anxiety to find something positive in everything is evident in the comments about Terry Tempest Williams mother's blank journals.
The ambiguity surrounding the blank journals deprives them of any reliable sense of message. If one is intent on leaving someone a message, why not just write it in the book bought for that purpose and leave it as a personal keepsake?
When I think of the expectations that Ms Williams must have had as she opened the first journal, I can't help but feel her disappointment at finding it and the others blank.
Keeping a journal is no easy task. As Mark Twain noted in "The Innocence Abroad" - "But if he only lives twenty-one days, he will find out that only those rare natures that are made of pluck, endurance, devotion to duty for duty's sake, and invincible determination may hope to venture upon so tremendous an enterprise as the keeping of a journal and not sustain a shameful defeat."
A blank journal is not a failure or a defeat as no attempt has been made. A blank journal is but a good intention unfulfilled.
First and foremost, I want to
First and foremost, I want to thank Terry Tempest Williams for sharing bits and pieces of her life with me. Often times, I make the mistake of lumping Mormons into this homogeneous religious category, ignoring the diversity within all of us; a lifelong lesson for me. I was touched by her interest in her conversations with her uncle who is a minuteman, and her Jungian auntie who would ask her, "what did you dream last night?' It seemed she approached all these conversations with an open heart, and that made me think of my family and the diverse opinions that can often create tremendous rifts. Strong barriers to meaningful conversation and understanding.
I happened to be reading at the time, the book by Joan Chittister, Welcome to the Wisdom of the World. And moments after the podcast, after Krista had asked us what we thought about the blank journals, I came upon this story:
The master of Kennin temple was Mokurai, Silent Thunder. He had a little protégé named Toyo who was only twelve years old. Toyo saw the older disciples visit the master's room each morning and evening to receive instruction in sanzen or personal guidance in which they were given koans to stop mind-wandering.
Toyo wished to do sanzen also.
"Wait a while," said Mokurai. "You are too young."
But the child insisted, so the teacher finally consented.
In the evening little Toyo went at the proper time to the threshold of Mokurai's sanzen room. He struck the gong to announce his presence, bowed respectfully three times outside the door, and went to sit before the master in respectful silence.
"You can hear the sound of two hands when they clap together," said Mokurai. "Now show me the sound of one hand."
Toyo bowed and went to his room to consider this problem. From his window he could hear the music of the geishas. "Ah, I have it!" he proclaimed.
The next evening, when his teacher asked him to illustrate the sound of one hand, Toyo began to play the music of the geishas.
"No, no," said Mokurai. "That will never do. That is not the sound of one hand. You've not got it at all."
Thinking that such music might interrupt, Toyo moved his abode to a quiet place. He meditated again. "What can the sound of one hand be?" He happened to hear some water dripping. "I have it," imagined Toyo.
When he next appeared before his teacher, he imitated dripping water.
"What is that?" asked Mokurai. "That is the sound of dripping water, but not the sound of one hand. Try again."
In vain Toyo meditated to hear the sound of one hand. He heard the sighing of the wind. But the sound was rejected.
He heard the cry of an owl. This was also refused.
The sound of one hand was not the locusts.
For more than ten times Toyo visited Mokurai with different sounds. All were wrong. For almost a year he pondered what the sound of one hand might be.
At last Toyo entered true meditation and transcended all sounds. "I could collect no more," he explained later, "so I reached the soundless sound."
Toyo had realized the sound of one hand.


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In this report, we'll analyze our latest survey and then jump into a few case studies. (R5410912)
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Region North America
Number of Respondents 564
Purpose To determine the role of outsourcers, including public cloud providers, in delivering IT services to enterprises.
Methodology InformationWeek surveyed business technology decision-makers at North American companies. The survey was conducted online, and respondents were recruited via an email invitation containing an embedded link to the survey. The email invitation was sent to qualified InformationWeek subscribers.
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- Height: 26 - 28 inches
- Weight: 100 - 150 pounds
Medical Conditions Seen in Newfoundlands
- Cardiomyopathy
- Ventricular Septal Defect
- Hip Dysplasia
- Aortic Stenosis
- Entropion
- Urolithiasis
- Elbow Dysplasia
- Osteochondrosis Dissecans
- Subaortic Stenosis
- Cataracts
- Ectropion
- Hypothyroidism
- Cherry Eye
- Retinal Dysplasia
Newfoundland Traits
- Jogging Partner
- Lap Dog
- Good with Children
- Warm Weather
- Cold Weather
- Grooming Requirements
- Shedding
- Barking
- Ease of Training
Newfoundland History
- The Newfoundland was developed on the coast of Newfoundland in the1700s. The breed's origins are unknown, but they seem to trace back to the 1662 settlement of the Roougnoust colony. The settlers are said to have included Great Pyrenees dogs. These dogs were bred with black English retrievers and possibly some husky-type dogs.
- The result was a large water-loving dog that was resilient to freezing weather and water. The dogs were all-purpose water dogs, hauling nets through the water, and even saving people who fell in. On land, they served as draft dogs and pack animals.
- By the late 1700s, they were called Newfoundlands. They came in solid black and in black and white; the latter were dubbed Landseers in 1779, named after the prominent artist who painted them.
- European visitors took specimens back to England, where they entered the show ring. At the same time, numbers dropped in Newfoundland. Eventually, Canadian and American breeders had to replenish their stock with Newfoundlands brought back from England.
- The AKC recognized the Newfoundland in 1886.
- World War II decimated the breed in England. This time, the American dogs had to replenish the European stock.
- The Newfoundland quickly regained numbers. It remains one of the more popular giant breeds.
Newfoundland Behavior Concerns
- Makes a devoted and sweet companion.
- Patient and good with children. As with all large dogs, dogs and children should always be supervised.
- Very affectionate.
- Very friendly toward strangers.
- Friendly toward strange dogs.
- Good with other pets.
- Learns quickly and is willing to please.
- Sensitive.
- Does best with reward-based training with food rewards.
Newfoundland Suggested Exercises
- Makes a calm and well-mannered housedog.
- Requires daily exercise in the form of a moderate walk or short jog.
- The Newfoundland enjoys cold weather, but doesn't do well in warm weather.
- Swimming is a favorite exercise.
- Obedience training is essential not only for control, but for the mental exercise it provides.
Newfoundland Grooming
- Coat consists of a soft dense undercoat and a coarse, moderately long, straight outer coat.
- The coat needs only occasional brushing, once or twice every week, more often when shedding.
- Shedding is above average.
- Be prepared for drool.
Suggested Newfoundland Nutritional Needs
- Newfoundlands tend to stay in good weight or be slightly overweight.
- Adult dogs should be fed a balanced diet, with restricted calories if the dog starts to gain too much weight.
- Puppies should be fed a large-breed growth food, which slows their growing rate but not final size. This may decrease the incidence or severity of hip dysplasia in adults.
Did you know?
- Grapes and raisins are harmful to dogs.
- Some dog parasites are transferable to humans.
- Many common pet ailments may be detected early and prevented by visiting your veterinarian twice yearly - saving both time, money, and most importantly, ensuring the best quality of life for your dog.
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Anderson Dresser
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Clean lines, turned feet and paneled drawers create our dresser's simple, pleasing profile. The solid wood framing ensures a long life.
- 40.5" wide x 18.5" deep x 35" high
- Expertly crafted with a solid wood frame.
- Features four drawers.
- Drawers feature English dovetail joinery.
- Includes Tip Resistant Kit.
- Wood swatches, below, are available for $20 each. We will provide a merchandise refund for wood swatches if they're returned within 30 days.
- Assembly required.
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- Rigorously tested to meet or exceed the highest safety standards.
- Built from solid wood, wood veneers and MDF, an engineered wood that lends exceptional strength and ensures structural integrity over time.
- The use of veneers results in high-quality furniture with flawless surfaces and consistent color tones.
- Drawers feature English dovetail joinery, and waxed wooden glides, which ensure smooth motion. Sturdy half-moon safety stops keep drawers securely in place.
- Our finishes were developed exclusively for Pottery Barn Kids. Craftsmen carefully paint our soft White finish in layers for a smooth, opaque surface. Sun Valley pieces feature a dry-brush technique that mottles the color while it's still wet to reveal the wood's textural grain. All finishes are sealed with a final coat of lacquer for extra durability.
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- Overall: 40.5" wide x 18.5" deep x 35" high
- Small Drawer (2): 16" wide x 14" deep x 4.5" high
- Large Drawer (3): 34" wide x 14" deep x 6.5" high
- Weight: 124.5 pounds
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For a discount dive package in Cozumel, this IslaMar/Dive Paradise combo is second to none. With the 25+ years of dive experience Dive Paradise enjoys coupled with the 17+ years of vacation rental experience of IslaMar Villas, divers always get top notch, quality service coupled with good value. Now in our 14th season of offering this dive vacation package, divers know that IslaMar & Dive Paradise are committed to serving them year after year!
Imagine a light and airy Caribbean-style villa tucked away in a quiet corner of mid-town Cozumel. Owner/operator of Islamar Villas and long-time local Sherri Davis has managed to create an ambiance that magically relaxes her guests into island living while offering them all the comforts of home.
Nestled in the heart of Cozumel's Midtown area, IslaMar Villas are the perfect means to enjoy tropical island living at it's best. Enjoy strolling through the neighborhood or sitting in the rainforest park one block away to absorb the real culture of the island as ordinary people go about their daily lives all around you.
Among Cozumel's dive community, the professional, enthusiastic staff helps Dive Paradise maintain its enviable safety record among the island's major operators. With the largest fleet of boats, widest variety of dive trips and a staff of 80+ Instructors, Divemasters, Captains, Sailors, Management and Office Staff, Dive Paradise is undoubtedly Cozumel's finest independent dive operator.
With only 6 IslaMar Villas available, this Cozumel dive package with Dive Paradise sells out quickly so reserve as early as possible!!
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IslaMar Villas & Dive Paradise - Dive Package B - 7 Nights
IslaMar Vacation Villas
Combo Promotion Packages available
January 6, 2017 to December 15, 2017
Dates 2017
Combo Promotion Packages are not available 5 days
before or 5 days after the following U.S. Legal Holidays:
CARNAVAL ~ February 28 ===> Feb 21 - March 3
Easter Sunday ~ April 16 ===> April 10 - April 21
Memorial Day ~ May 29 ===> May 24 - June 3
Independence Day ~ July 4 ===> June 29 July 9
Labor Day ~ September 7 ===> Aug 30 Sept 9
Thanksgiving ~ November 26 ===> Nov 18 Nov 28
December Holiday Period ===> Dec 16 Jan 2
NOTE: No Combo packages available during
December holiday period (packages begin again on Jan 6)
7 Nights of IslaMar Villa Lodging - - 2 nights are FREE
Equipment Check - FREE
1 Welcome Tank for Shore Dive on Arrival Day - FREE
5 Days of 2 Tank Standard Boat Trip Diving ~
8:30 AM Departure with snacks and soft drinks
4 Afternoon 3 PM Single Tank Trips**
**1 Single Tank Night Dive can be substituted for 1 3 PM Single Tank IF available
IslaMar Villas feature ~
Kitchenettes with Granite & Built in Electric Stove Top
Bottled Water Provided
Air Conditioning & Ceiling Fans
TV-Cable/DVD & Phone For Local Calls + FREE Wi-Fi
Privacy & Security (10' privacy wall surrounds the property)
Pool/Jacuzzi with Tranquil Waterfall
Open Courtyard with Garden
Sunbathing & Hammock Areas
Dive Equipment Rinse/Dry Area
Charcoal BBQ Grills
Host & Staff On Site Daily for Guest Needs
Services Available Upon Request:
Activity Coordination
In-House Masseuse
In-House Chef services
In-House Basic Spanish Lessons
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Package B Price Per Diver: US$ 689
Retail Value: US$ 851
Package B Price Non Diver: US$ 308
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Stay (02/16/2013) - Sad to go Thank you Zuri or everything! Your directions to all the things I needed, Spanish practice and friendship. I am extremely grateful. Miguel, thank you for waiting up to greet me. Sherri, thank you for the lovely place. The pool and courtyard, lovely apartment, the great neighbors, information regarding Carnival and map! And especially, my bicycle! I would definitely like to come back.
Madeleine D. ~ Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Stupendous time! Absolutely perfect experience and a great incentive to become an expat ourselves. See you soon! P.S. Do you have any real estate tips? By the way, Sissy and YB made this week wonderful. We missed our 4 cat children, so having them to visit us or visit our ham and cheese scraps was a gift!
Stacy & David G. ~ Augusta, ME
We loved IslaMar! Especially Sherri and her gracious way of making us feel like we have known her forever! She always was so accommodating and took time to talk with us. We were glad we had rented a car as it made our coming and going easier and gave us a sense of freedom which we love on our vacations. Zuri was wonderful and we enjoyed her so much with her willingness to be so helpful and always with a smile on her face! Adios Amigas!!
Stacy & Kate H. ~ Lake Country, B.C. Canada
(01/12/2016) - We had the utmost pleasure of meeting Sherri last summer on a day trip to Cozumel only we could not stop thinking of the island. So we came back the following Jan and everything we imagined and hope for was true. Living with the locals, shopping, cooking exploring. It was all so wonderful. I want to come back and back. Sherri, her staff, everyone were amazing but still allowed you to have privacy. Learned a lot on this vacation and I can say we're planning our holiday for July and we're coming back. The rooms stylish, functional, clean. Just what we wanted. Again thank you for your hospitality and your friendship. We will see you in July!!!! Our kindness regards and pleasure...
G. Higgs & L. Bush ~ Vancouver, BC CAN
Of our many trips to Cozumel, this ranks right at the top. Airport greeting, Zuri & Jacqueline all made a difference. IslaMar is a special place for special people, staffed by special people! We shall return and recommend to all of our fellow Cozumelaholics! Viva Cozumel!
Jed & Paula C. ~ Huntersville, NC
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Banking by Voice Gets Test From U.S. Bank
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Smartphone users are just getting used to issuing voice demands to make phone calls, get directions or ask for dining-out options.
Now mobile phone users may be getting another audible option: using voice commands to conduct personal banking.
U.S. Bank
For now, U.S. Bank is limiting the app test campaign to its FlexPerks Travel Rewards program and to its employees.
The voice-activated technology comes from Nuance Nina Mobile, and is now limited to iPhone and Android phones.
"Results of the pilot will help us improve the customer experience and help U.S. Bank serve a broader population through this mobile banking channel," says Dominic Venturo, chief innovation officer for U.S. Bank Payment Services. "Customers are becoming accustomed to using their voice to interact with their smartphones, and we are exploring the application of that technology to banking and payments."
U.S. Bank does say its seeing more demand for customer-managed banking options, and that the Nina Mobile virtual assistant is "at the forefront" of self-service banking. Where it goes from here is anyone's guess, but the bank is already publicly calling its voice banking technology a big part of its "next generation of compelling, interactive customer service experiences today."


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|Affected configurations
All Lenovo Systems with Thinkvantage Rescue and Recovery software installed.
|Required Items
1 Set of Recovery Media for your system
|Time to Complete
1-2 Hours (depending on size of the preload).
|How do I recover my system?
This document will take you through the entire Thinkvantage product recovery process to restore your Lenovo Factory preload. These instructions will only work on Lenovo systems and are not intended to be used on other manufacturer's equipment.
This process will COMPLETELY wipe out any data that you have on your Lenovo Computer.
This guide will have two sections for each step of the process.
|Pre-2008 Media
|Post-2008 Media
WARNING: DO *NOT* Reboot or Shut down the system until directed to by the Thinkvantage Rescue & Recovery Tool. If you reboot the system or power it off before the restore is completed you will have to start over.
Step One
To begin open your recovery media package and pull out the media. Take the CD labeled Rescue & Recovery Startup Disc Disc 1 of 1 and insert it into the systems cd drive.
Step Two
Turn on the system by pressing the power button.
Step Three
You should see the following screen.
If your system does not boot to this screen your startup sequence will need to be changed.
Step Four
The Rescue and Recovery tool will now load from the Recovery Media.
Step Five
You will see the following screen.
Pre-2008 Media
Click the Continue button.
Post-2008 Media
Click the Continue button to accept the license agreement and continue the recovery.
Step Six
Next you will see a few options to choose from on the following screen.
Pre-2008 Media
Click the Restore Your System option on the Left.
Post-2008 Media
Click the Full Restore Button.
Step Seven
You will now see a warning message.
Pre-2008 Media
Click OK to continue.
Post-2008 Media
Click Continue.
Step Eight
You can now select what kind of a recovery you wish to perform.
Pre-2008 Media
Click the Restore my Hard Drive to Original option to complete a full recovery. If you want to restore from other rescue and recovery backups you can do so from here.
Post-2008 Media
Make sure that Factory Recovery is selected and click on the Restore button.
Step Nine
A Warning message about data loss will now appear.
Pre-2008 Media
Click Yes to continue.
Post-2008 Media
Click Continue.
Step Ten
The following screen will appear.
Pre-2008 Media
Select I do not want to save any files and click on the Next button.
Post-2008 Media
Click the OK button to continue.
Step Eleven
The Restore Factory Contents Wizard will now run.
Pre-2008 Media
Click the Next button to continue.
Post-2008 Media
Click the Next button to continue.
Step Twelve
You will see the following screen.
Pre-2008 Media
Do NOT power off the system while the machine is running the recovery. Click the OK button to continue
Post-2008 Media
Select the I accept option for the License Agreement and then click the Next button to continue.
Step Thirteen
Another screen will appear.
Pre-2008 Media
Click the Next button to continue.
Post-2008 Media
Click the Next button to start the recovery.
Step Fourteen
Accept the option shown on this screen.
Click the Next button to start the recovery.
Post-2008 Media
The recovery will now start processing files.
Step Fifteen
The Recovery has now started and you will see the following screens as it begins to copy all of the files.
Pre-2008 Media
Follow the instructions on the screen. The recovery will restart after rebooting.
Post-2008 Media
Follow the instructions on the screen. The recovery will restart after rebooting.
Step Sixteen
You will now be asked to insert the next recovery disc.
Pre-2008 Media
If the recovery media has a supplemental disc click Yes and insert the disc now. If it does not, click No to continue.
Post-2008 Media
Insert the next Recovery Disc and click OK.
Step Seventeen
The following screen will appear.
Insert the next recovery disc and click the OK button to continue.
Post-2008 Media
The Recovery tool will now start copying more files off of the next Disc.
NOTE: The next few screens will be the same as shown here. As directed by the program put each disc into the system. Do not remove any disc until directed to by the recovery software.
Step Eighteen
After all of the recovery discs have been used the system will now reboot.
Pre-2008 Media
Post-2008 Media
Let the program automatically continue.
Step Nineteen
Click Next to restore the recovery files from the new Recovery Partition on your systems Hard Drive.
Pre-2008 Media
Post-2008 Media
Step Twenty
Once all of the files are copied over to the system it will need to reboot.
Pre-2008 Media
Click Yes to reboot.
Post-2008 Media
Click Yes to reboot.
Step Twenty One
Let the system boot up on its own. At this point you will see a lot of different screens and your system may reboot multiple times.
This is completely normal.
Leave the system alone and do not touch it for a while so that it can restore all of the original factory windows settings and files.
If your system appears to be stuck at the screen above and has done nothing for a long period of time (1+ hours).
Click and hold the left mouse button while over the Preload System Setup Window and move it out of the way. In very rare occasions another application may have a window open that requires you to select an option to continue. Do so and the recovery should then continue.
Step Twenty Two
Your recovery is now complete. You will know when your system recovery is complete when you see the Windows welcome screen just like it was when you first turned on your system.


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JCoz wrote:Doesn't change the fact that in recruiting, Tress was on an UPWARD trajectory post 2005, basically the opposite of what you are saying here.
Coz, not to be a prick, although I've decided to be one today, but I don't give a flying fuck about recruiting service ratings. I agree with Meyer as to how you evaluate a recruiting class.Ray Charles could see the talent level at tOSU dropped the past 4 - 6 years since the mid oughts. Probably even Tree could see it.


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Research: Outlook 2013
Our Outlook 2013 research identifies an unmistakable trend: IT demand and spending are continuing to rise from the recession years. Heading into 2010, less than half of companies in our survey were seeing rising demand for IT projects, about one in five was cutting IT staff and only 46% expected their IT budgets to increase. Today, 71% see rising demand for IT projects, just 8% are cutting IT staff and 60% expect higher IT budgets than in 2012. It's also promising that our 728 survey respondents say their companies are planning an average of 5.5 major IT initiatives for 2013.
But therein also lies the problem. IT organizations' priority lists continue to trend toward IT-centric projects. Every year, their budgets and staffs are geared toward making IT more efficient versus addressing the changing customer and technology landscape.
Two-thirds of projects planned for 2013, such as network infrastructure, security and storage, are decidedly IT-centric. About a fourth aren't focused on IT-centric efficiencies but are still internally focused, projects such as ERP and data quality. The remaining 11% of projects focus on customers — building IT-led products, creating mobile apps for customers and improving big data programs, for instance.
For all the talk about IT pros being customer-centric — that is, getting out of the cubicle and being the true innovators within the company — for the most part they're not. Infrastructure, security and storage improvements are indeed important, but their importance is dwarfed by technology trends happening outside of the IT department. (R6131212)
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"The way it is" ain't the fucking way it should be and until it is then we're going to keep living with stupid shit like this and ignorance and intolerance, along with a nice heaping of distrust.
Are you seriously equating those circumstances to the horrible unfairness of white people not being able to call people "niggas"?
Yeah, fight the good fight, big guy.
Are you seriously equating my not wanting to hear anyone say the word and thinking all people should bury it forever as me thinking it's "unfair" that black guys do use it?
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The West Somerset Railway provides some of the best opportunities for film making and photography on offer in the UKs heritage steam sector and a warm welcome is assured.
With a choice of ten different stations the former Great Western Railway branch line offers complete diversity from a busy terminus with turntable at Minehead to quiet country stations where time has stood still for a century like Stogumber, or busy passing points at Crowcombe Heathfield. The line has a variety of backdrops including seaside, as at Blue Anchor, fields and open country as at Williton or historical backdrop such as Dunster Station.
There are also several old-fashioned railway crossings with gates together with their modern equivalents, semaphore signals, signal boxes, steep-sided cuttings, bridges, forest glades, rolling hills and valleys.
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Hammond-Henry Hospital, the Henry County Health Department, and Woodridge
Supportive Living announce that they are sponsoring a special Super Senior
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programs aimed to give the latest, up-to-date information that matters, to
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The November program will be "Faces of Homecare" by RaeAnn
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is pleased to announce the latest group of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) participating in the Medicare Shared Savings program. This is the third group since the Medicare Shared Savings program was launched over a year ago.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA chief Charles Bolden has advice on how to handle a large asteroid headed toward New York City: Pray.
That's about all the United States - or anyone for that matter - could do at this point about unknown asteroids and meteors that may be on a collision course with Earth, Bolden told lawmakers at a U.S. House of Representatives Science Committee hearing on Tuesday.
An asteroid estimated to be have been about 55 feet in diameter exploded on February 15 over Chelyabinsk, Russia, generating shock waves that shattered windows and damaged buildings. More than 1,500 people were injured.
Later that day, a larger, unrelated asteroid discovered last year passed about 17,200 miles from Earth, closer than the network of television and weather satellites that ring the planet.
The events "serve as evidence that we live in an active solar system with potentially hazardous objects passing through our neighborhood with surprising frequency," said Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, a Texas Democrat.
"We were fortunate that the events of last month were simply an interesting coincidence rather than a catastrophe," said Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican, who called the hearing to learn what is being done and how much money is needed to better protect the planet.
NASA has found and is tracking about 95 percent of the largest objects flying near Earth, those that are .62 miles or larger in diameter.
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i would pray it would hit dc.
If there was a cataclysmic asteroid headed to earth, I would probably drive towards the destination. I wouldn't want to be around when it hit.
I'm tempted to pray that a large asteroid IS headed for earth.
Soon, hopefully.
Like tonight.
"Look on the bright side - we'll all have schools named after us."
I would pray it would hit Mecca.
It appears Yahoo!News was shocked that a DemocRAT could say something that is even semi-intelligent. LOL! Otherwise, Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson would have been enough.
- NASA chief Charles Bolden has advice on how to handle a large asteroid headed toward New York City: Pray.
If you're not so keen on prayer, please fully fund all my projects NASA chief Charles Bolden added.
NASA chief Charles Bolden has advice on how to handle a large asteroid headed toward New York City: Pray.Obama sure picked the right guy for that job, eh? What a useless waste of protoplasm.
Put up the "Neutron flux density shield". —it will protect us.
If it were aimed for a liberal crap hole like NYC or San Francisco, what would be the down side?
I'm sure some in the EU are hoping for Brussels. ;-)
Nah, there's nothing anybody could do. We don't have the technology to handle anything that could come from space.
Really! What could we do to protect ourselves (put up big nets to catch the Asteroid?)? Alas, nothing. Recovery in the aftermath is another matter.
IBT Planet X conspirators.. I haven't ruled it out yet though.
They blew that part of the budget on Muslim outreach...
I've been telling people for a long time that Space research is as important as the military. People foolishly think "how does blowing money up there help us here?" until a planet-killing or city-killing rock emerges from the depths of space and we lack the capability to do anything about it. With the current state of NASA, there is a good chance we won't even have a warning.
Can someone tell me why NYC is always center of the frikkin' universe with these progs?
Life's full of trade-offs.
So NASA admits there is a God!
Actually, the Book of Revelation states that an asteroid (star) breaks into two pieces. The larger half strikes the land between the rivers ( Iraq) the other half strikes the Med. It's one of the bowl judgements.
Is everything OK?
It's that @$%&^*)*^%$$ global warming !!
Actually, it is well within our technological capability to divert even a largish asteroid, given enough lead time.
Would require considerable expansion of our space infrastructure, costing a lot of money, but I believe that would have lots of beneficial side effects.
Depends on the size. A "dinosaur-killer" would probably exterminate the human race.
Here's a calculator you can enter various parameters into and see what the consequences of impact are.
That's obviously ridiculous — the object that detonated over Russia was only 50 feet across, and could easily be blasted to bits using conventional explosives. The problem is in detection, which has grown a lot since 1994's SL-9 impact on Jupiter, but clearly it still lags when something this size comes in with no warning.
And yet, they laughed and ridiculed Reagan's Star Wars. Think of what could have already been even more advanced capabilities than we have if the goons in charge could have imagined other applications of the technology..
Back in 2010, obama said we were going to build an asteroid deflector for the big one coming in 2029. Guess he lied.
Muslim outreach would seem to be the answer here.
I'm sure Planned Parenthood would try to give it a prescription for birth control pills to keep it from making baby asteroids!
I don't consider 50 ft cataclysmic. I'm talking about those mile wide asteroids that do hit the earth every billion years.
How'd they get that Shuttle that should have gone to Houston?
I don't know. It would not take very much to nudge one off course. Besides the problem in being able to nudge (not trivial) you have to be sure you aren't making matters worse :-)
I just think it is pathetic that we piss away so much in money and resources yet devote so little in defense against something that could wipe out the entire planet. This is an example of an global issue that governments and NASA should be focused on rather than monitoring the size of Big Gulps and other crap.
I'm not going to lose any sleep over this. You take yer chances. You'll never get out a here alive.
The article states only a large asteroid ... with no dimensions given
But I did find this;
"We were fortunate that the events of last month were simply an interesting coincidence rather than a catastrophe," said Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican, who called the hearing to learn what is being done and how much money is needed to better protect the planet."
So, we're told nothing about a maybe asteroid that is large and let's see how much money we need ... after telling us to pray ... let's start looking into the money we need to ....,
That it really doesn't matter where ground zero is. A large asteroid would destroy the earth no matter wher it hits.
"The larger half strikes the land between the rivers (Iraq) the other half strikes the Med. Its one of the bowl judgements."
"Peter the Roman, who will pasture his sheep in many tribulations, and when these things are finished, the city of seven hills [i.e. Rome] will be destroyed, and the dreadful judge will judge his people. The End."
Maybe it'll strike Rome???
Considering that the US has all but shut down it's space program and there is no other country even remotely capable of accomplishing anything meaningful regarding an incoming asteroid ... mute point IMHO.
Oh will all be dead from global warming before the meteor hits.
I have to say I feel the same way.
The last time that happened was in 1908. And those events are very, very rare. They only happen once a century or so.
I think you are scaring people to be an alarmist.
Oh.... wait... 100 years...
Waiting for the ACLU to sue claiming that his comments are against the establishment clause of the First Amendment....
Well for one thing my daughter is studying to become an Engineer at NY Poly Tech.
Maybe we can hope for one to hit the city one of your children live in next.
Some believe that the object over Russia was indeed blasted to bits by some sort of munitions.. There are articles on the web discussing extraterrestrial intervention and even a photo of a craft visible in the area at that moment. Interesting stuff.
ditto that
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Erie Warrior wrote:I'm 29, and the Seattle rock scene was it for me. I was in Jr High when it started, but I still consider that the monumental music time for me. Considering what has come since then, excluding a short resurgence of rock in the early 2000's, I'd still go with PJ/AIC/Nirvana as generational anthem music for me.
I think the big question is which generation those of us with birthday, say, 1979-81 should fall. We're basically on the border of Gen X and Y, and while it was pretty clear that Nirvana was the anthem at the time I can't say for certain it was "our" generation's anthem.
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I had barely walked through the door when Benjamin showed me his drawings. There were six monsters of all different colors and all different abilities on one big page, and they were all fantastical.
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Busy people don�t have time to write and send cards, to make their own bookshelves in their shops, to stitch love and warmth into a quilt. But in all that busyness, we�ve missed the sacredness in creating.
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