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  1. Who Rescued Who?

    Stories are surfacing today about the rescue teams summoned to Japan to search for survivors of the ever growing catastrophe. Some of these team members seem unlikely heroes.  A large number of the team’s members were themselves homeless, alone and no doubt broken hearted. Someone at some point had stopped caring about them yet somehow in their big, dumb canine hearts they didn’t give up instead, they gave back. Joe, an eight year old yellow lab was rescued by the Longmont Humane Society and went on to receive training from Disaster Search Dog Foundation. Pearl, another rescue dog has worked in Haiti and has had a book written about her and illustrated by a second grade class. The organization Search Dog Foundation has also deployed

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  2. A Silver Lining for Japan?

    You are probably struggling as am I to find something good about the disaster in Japan. My silver lining is this-humanity. Amidst human greed, materialism, self-absorption and consumption, I sometimes find it hard to find a reason to believe in the human race. Today I found some hope and something that speaks volumes about Japanese culture. In the United States-if there is a hint of a snow storm, everyone goes to the grocery market and buys out the bread isle. Unrest in the Middle East leads to car bombs, road side bombs, killing. Riots in Los Angeles lead to looting, Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans lead to looting on a shocking scale. In the middle of possibly the worst recorded earthquake resulting in a tsunami and the melt down of nuclear plants-not to mention it is winter and about to snow on all these displaced people-there is no panic. Hysteria and pandemonium are not wreaking havoc. In fact quite the opposite. As people are passing each other on the street-they are not saying

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  3. Just When You Thought It Couldn’t Get Worse for Japan...

    Just when you would be tempted to think that things couldn’t get worse for Japan-it does. Never mind the continued aftershocks from Friday’s 8.9 earthquake. Let’s overlook the painfully frequent tsunami sirens warnings after every aftershock. Oh and add to that rolling blackouts of power, lack of water, food shelter, 3 nuclear reactors on the verge of melt down and last but certainly not least-loss of life. Now it’s going to snow? The weather predictions indicate just above freezing temperatures as well as freezing precipitation that could trigger mudslides.  Mudslides of course are not a concern in the lowlands affected by the tsunami-but in the high lands where the earthquake may have shifted or loosened soil. It is hard to fathom that parts of a country as proud and powerful as Japan could be brought to its knees in a matter of minutes. It is hard to imagine what or how long it will take for them to recover.

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