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We had snow/sleet/freezing mist last night that left some neat rime ice formations on the trees. My other Virginia Wildlife and Weather Photoblog has the photos. Quote of the Week is from Audrey T. Hingley in the January 2012 Coop Living magazine’s Saying NO to the e-Addiction: I want to have a life and as [...]

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Quote of the Week from Russia, A Nation Shaped By Tragedy And Hardship “My personal opinion is that progress makes a person absolutely weak. He loses his strength because he doesn’t need to think how to survive,” Other stories: Hi-Tech Addiction: Addicted! Scientists show how internet dependency alters the human brain Low-Tech Solution: 10 Uses [...]

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Quote of the Week from Seth Godin: …merriment requires a group, and that group is almost always a group you can see and touch, one that’s sharing the same molecules of air, face to face. The digital revolution continues to get deeper, wider and more important. But it has made no progress at all at [...]

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Be careful out there… Look, no hands! Italian driver caught on two phones Train kills man listening to music while walking on tracks Tweet (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;} js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1″; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, “script”, “facebook-jssdk”));

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Company ban on email gives employees a break NTSB: Cellphone ban will save lives Who Are The Young Farmers Of ‘Generation Organic’? “When I look around, and you’re amongst the plants and the sunshine – that’s my office, that’s where I want to be,” said Rodger Phillips, who grows food on an urban farm in [...]