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Date: May 22nd, 2009

From the meet & greet at the Leesburg Panera: Erica Garman

22 May, 2009 (16:09) | Blogging, Human Interest, The Media | By: ricjames

When I saw the Twitter note the other day that LoudounExtra’s Erica Garman was going to hold a meet & greet in Leesburg at lunchtime today I decided to make a point to get out there. When I arrived, lo’ and behold, I was graced with the presence of not 1 lovely and talented writer [...]

Paul Galanti on John Brownlee for AG

22 May, 2009 (11:41) | Military, Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames

Paul Galanti’s take on John Brownlee for Virginia AG: Retired Navy Commander Paul Galanti is a former Vietnam POW whose activism in a variety of fields both linked to veterans’ groups and not. Read more about him here, here, and here.

Situational awareness on a planetary scale: do you know where your planets are?

22 May, 2009 (10:36) | Academia, Human Interest, Science | By: ricjames

Most of us learned about our solar system in grade school and, science geeks like myself aside, we don’t really think about it too much after we’ve passed those tests. Even though the past few years have seen numerous discoveries of new solar bodies and the reclassification of Pluto from planet to the newly-created “dwarf [...]