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• Solstice Party

  • When
    12/20/2025
  •  
    4:00 PM

  Join Us for a Cozy Winter Solstice Celebration
  
  

  Where: Al & Jennifer Borawski's home.

  Date: Saturday December 20

  Time: Open house starting at 4pm
  Located in the South Knoxville-Kimberlin Heights area.
  Address will be provided upon RSVP.

  
  Food and drinks will be provided, from hearty seasonal bites to festive beverages.
  
  Must love dogs…and be prepared for enthusiastic greetings at the door.
  
  Please RSVP by December 14 to Al.Borawski@gmail.com or 727-422-1345 so we can plan accordingly.

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• December RET Reflections

  • When
    12/28/2025
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    4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

  Last Chance for 2025!

  Okay, you only have 3 days to complete your New Year's resolutions, find the cure for cancer, and save the world from tyranny.  How are you going to do it?  Well, maybe you will have to scale it back a little.  What is the one thing you got done, hope to get done, or disappointed that you didn't get done?  How is all this turning out? 

  So, did 2025 work out for you?  Better or worse than average?  

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• Hiwassee Wildlife Refuge/Sandhill Cranes

  • When
    01/10/2026
  •  
    8:30 AM
  • Location
    Meet at Kroger Parking Lot,

  We will be meeting in the Northshore Kroger, 9501 S Northshore. Go to the parking lot behind the gas station. 

  After meeting at 8:30 AM to determine who wishes to carpool we will set off for the Hiwassee Wildlife Refuge (directions below).  

  After viewing the cranes (bring good binoculars and cameras), we will make plans for lunch at a local eatery. 

  Come join us for a fun field trip. 

  Site Directions: On I-75, take exit number 25 in Cleveland, Tennessee. Travel north on Highway 60 through the town of Birchwood. Approximately 1.7 miles north of Birchwood, turn right on Shadden Road. Go one mile and turn right on Blythe Ferry Road. Take the next left on Priddy Lane and follow signs.
  

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• January RET Book Club

  • When
    01/11/2026
  •  
    4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

  More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity

  by Adam Becker

  Tech billionaires have decided that they should determine our future for us. According to Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, and more, the only good future for humanity is one powered by technology: trillions of humans living in space, functionally immortal, served by superintelligent AIs. In More Everything Forever, science journalist Adam Becker investigates these wildly implausible and often profoundly immoral visions of tomorrow—and shows why, in reality, there is no good evidence that they will, or should, come to pass. Nevertheless, these obsessions fuel fears that overwhelm reason—for example, that a rogue AI will exterminate humanity—at the expense of essential work on solving crucial problems like climate change. What’s more, these futuristic visions cloak a hunger for power under dreams of space colonies and digital immortality. The giants of Silicon Valley claim that their ideas are based on science, but the reality is darker: they come from a jumbled mix of shallow futurism and racist pseudoscience. More Everything Forever exposes the powerful and sinister ideas that dominate Silicon Valley, challenging us to see how foolish and dangerous, these visions of the future are. 290 pages

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• January RET Reflections

  • When
    01/25/2026
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    4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

  Here We Go Again with Resolutions!

  How have you set yourself up for failure again this year?  Are you like than salmon forever trying to swim upstream but never making it past the hungry bear?  Well, we'll give it a try anyway.  What one thing would you really like to accomplish this year that seems to have escaped you all these years?  Or rather how would you like the world to change?  Maybe you don't need a change to your behavior, but rather a change to your environment to spur you on.

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• 2026 Scholarship Application

  • When
    05/01/2026
  • Spaces left
    189

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