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One of the schools in our town celebrated Earth Day this year in a BIG way. Over the last 13 months the families of the school, and the community raised well over $100,000.00 in cash and in kind donations. This money was used to refurbish the school site which is well over 100 years old.
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I can’t believe how quickly the last four months have flown by. I remember when Todd told me about Respectance, and then invited me ‘on board’ in January. It seemed a long way to launch day. Now it’s just around the corner.
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That makes sense in a car of course, but what about in a social sense?

Annalee Newitz proposes in The trouble with Twitter that as urban centres grow, and the acceptance of technologies grow, so do our expectations of immediacy of information delivery.
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(Ashbury Park Press) Our “24/7,” transparent, high-tech communications era is bringing us “reality” from Blacksburg as never before: Thousands of pages of reaction, comment and new information were available within 48 hours on social-networking sites such as facebook.com and MySpace. Other Web sites assembled photos and huge amounts of information about the victims, including video tributes, personal notes and athletic and academic awards.
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(Sacramento Bee) After an uncle out of state died, Sharon Roseme learned the largely untapped power of the funeral notice to capture a life. A retired attorney who lives in Newcastle, she had already begun a second career as Your Personal Scribe, a writer for hire capable of turning out pithy wedding toasts, winning personal ads and straight- forward letters of apology. “I had a lot of relatives dying, and their executors would say, ‘I’d rather you do the obit,’ ” says Roseme, 53. “With some relatives, nobody seemed to know anything about them. You’d go, ‘What was their early life like? What was their first job? What were they like?’ And nobody knew.
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