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POPS71 Things You Can Do Here's a few: # Stand up straight and have good posture. # Look people in the eyes when you talk to them. # Smile. # Be polite. # Keep your promises. # Never speak worse about a person behind their back than you do to their face. (Feel free to say nicer things about a person behind their back than to their face.) # Don't gossip and don't have a big mouth. # Never judge other people harsher than you judge yourself. # Forgive, but never forget. # Don't have skeletons in your closet. # Keep as few secrets as reasonably possible. # Despite the rule before this one, keep your friends' secrets. # Privately question your own values. # Avoid questioning other people's values, especially in public. # Listen more than you talk. # Never tell other people that you think they or something they are doing is immoral or sinful. # Keep your moral values and religion to yourself. Use them to direct your own actions. # Don't be camera shy. # Say "I love you" often.
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POPS 25 Various Styles of The Wizard of Oz Illustrations The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical-fantasy film mainly directed by Victor Fleming and based on the 1900 children’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. In the film, Dorothy, a schoolgirl living in Kansas, is struck unconscious during a tornado. She dreams about how she and her dog Toto, with the help of a Scarecrow, a Tin man and a Cowardly Lion, find their way home from the magical world of Oz.
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POPSAmazing Up-Close Footage of Oklahoma Tornado I've been fascinated by tornadoes ever since I saw one form above me in person when I was a kid at the state fair in New Mexico. We were watching the funnel descend from the sky when they forced us into a concrete shelter nearby. My 10-year-old self was disappointed...I wanted to see what happened! This video has been getting played everywhere today. It's ridiculous how much danger these tornado chasers put themselves into!
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POPSDisaster Gives Birth to Greenest Town in America To leverage environmentalism to rebuild and sustain itself in the wake of near total destruction, it just may unwittingly be writing a modern survival guide for rural America. Currently, the town has completed town houses for working class families that are LEED gold certified. Gold certification means these places will be almost twice as efficient as they used to be. A lot of what's happening in Greensburg is some of the first in the country.
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POPSThe scale of destruction Kashmir earthquake, 2005 178 megatone TNT Caused damage in Islamabad, 65 miles away. Mount St. Helena eruption, 1980 500 megatons TNT Devastaled several hundred square mil areas San Francisco eartquake, 1906 1 gigaton TNT Caused $5.6 billions in property damage Krakatoa eruption, 1883 5.6 gigatons TNT Worldwide effects included the destruction of 165 villages and towns 10 km asteroid impact, 65 millions years ago 100.000 gigatons. TNT Caused final extinction of dinosaurs and many other species An asteroid impact with the Earth may have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. The Alvarez Asteroid Theory explains the huge K-T (Cretaceous-Tertiary) mass extinction 65 million years ago by a large asteroid hitting the Earth off the Mexican Yucatan peninsula. This impact would have caused severe climactic changes leading to the demise of many groups of organisms, including non-avian dinosaurs.
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POPSRochester F5 Tornado: 125 years ago Thanks to the partnership of W.W. Mayo, his two sons, and the sisters of St. Francis, who all cared for the injured afterward, Mayo Clinic would eventually be formed. All because the sky turned black.
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POPSHarnessing the Weather “In weather modification, the uninitiated think you must make huge impacts on the atmosphere to get a desired result,” Griffith says. “But it’s actually the opposite. If we just make tiny modifications to existing conditions, little touches here and there, the changes then cascade upward using the existing weather’s natural actions, and that’s what gets the biggest results.”
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POPSReal-Time Global Scanner w/Graphic Interface Must see internet resource for all wanna-be starship science officers, weather buffs, disaster relief teams, journalists, bloggers, techies, trekkies, democrats, evangelicals, sohil, storm chasers and just about anyone! :-) Note: Top (.edu) site is for graphic decor; visit bottom (.hu) site to see scanner.
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POPSThe World's Biggest Tornado Hunt Next month, 100 meteorologists will try to finally understand the dynamics of tornadoes—like the one that killed three people in Mena, Arkansas, last night.