
I live on a busy highway. Just 25 feet from my front door is a four lane highway. It is a main vein between cities in the northern woods of Wisconsin. And I am happy here.

We are coming to Thanksgiving next week and this seems to be the time (as the holiday suggests) when people reflect on the things that they are thankful for. They always mention family and loved ones and those things are important.

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It Takes a Village to Grow a Small Business
Forming Tribalized Communities: IntroductionSource: We Change
Pragmatic Western industrial society, 'backs into' the future. Until an event, or act, occurs, no action is taken. The event determines the action to be taken, - usually based on a previous situation or assumed hallowed ideal, such as free enterprise.
Man 'must work with Christians' Source: BBC News
A man sentenced to 140 hours community service told a probation officer he did not want to work with non-Christians, Londonderry Crown Court has heard.
Paul de Pinto, 36, from Meadowbank House, admitted assaulting a man last August after an argument broke out about religion.

Being a vegan or a vegetarian for that matter doesn't come with its own set of continuous obstacles. The first being, you need to tell the carnivorous majority that you've decided eating meat is a no-no and that from now on you'd appreciate if they'd respect that.
Do you own a piece of the Berlin Wall?Source: msnbc.com
To mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, msnbc.com wants to hear about how you acquired a piece of the iconic barrier.
Family, Town Prepare For Somer's Farewell Source: News4Jax.com - Local News
One week after 7-year-old Somer Thompson disappeared while walking home from school, her mother, extended family and an entire community prepares for a public tribute and farewell.
Inside private world of polygamist ranchSource: msnbc.com
Rumors are swirling about women at a polygamist ranch being brainwashed, with child brides suffering physical abuse. What really went on at that ranch? Keith Morrison gets a personal tour of a private world.

I snore.......... should I have a Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty?
My skin is beginning to sag..., ok, it's been more then 'beginning". Should I have it tightened?
My tooth is broken and some teeth are missing, should I stop smiling?
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Defying the Taliban to get an educationSource: BBC News
Around the world, millions of children have to go to great lengths to get a decent education. In the fifth dispatch in the BBC's Hunger to Learn series, Aleem Maqbool reports from Pakistan's Swat Valley, where girls are defying Taliban attempts to stop them going to school.
Neighbours mistake corpse for Halloween propSource: abc.net.au
Residents at a California apartment building failed to alert police to the body of their dead neighbour because they thought it was a Halloween display, local media reported.

Reflecting on all the people that live in the Newsvine cyber world and those that have vanished. A big neighborhood of people and conversation and a plethora of information being exchanged and discussed. A new found peer group to incorporate into our daily lives.

From reporter (and mom) Adrienne Mand Lewin

In recent months there has been a growing awareness among the citizens of on-line communities that social sites and other gathering places or waterholes are being attacked by various and sundry individuals and organisms that appear to bring detriment, discord and sometimes fatal …

Recently, this question was asked to the top professional psychologists by the British Psychological Society, which you can read more about here.

While I hope my title got everyone's hackles up over the bogus issue of gun control, I actually plan to address the real issue at hand: a nation of citizens who have become so out of touch with reality that we, while staunchly and rightly heralding democracy around the globe, ar …