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		<title>Love and robots</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Random Musings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anthropomorphism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emotions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems we humans have the ability to anthropomorphize (assign human feelings to) just about everything. That we do this with our pets is easy to understand. My family even manages to do it with vegetables. But machines? Evidently, according to as article in Live Science about studies that show robots can manipulate the emotions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One man&#8217;s protest is another&#8217;s cyber-bullying.</title>
		<link>http://www.thomstratton.com/2012/02/one-mans-protest-is-anothers-cyber-bullying/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bullying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[harassment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social media has been making news for some time now. But increasingly of late, social media has been used to shape the news. President Obama used social media successfully in his last campaign. Social media was one of the primary weapons of choice in the successful fight against SOPA. The Susan Komen Foundation also found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update on my novel</title>
		<link>http://www.thomstratton.com/2012/02/update-on-my-novel-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Musings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lessons]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since so many of you (okay, no one) have asked, the novel is progressing slowly but surely. I&#8217;m probably within about 10,000 - 20,000 words of the end. Why is it going slowly? There are a few reasons: The NaNoWriMo &#8220;Write-&#8217;til-you-drop&#8221; model works well for one month. Beyond that life just refuses to be ignored any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The pursuit of happiness</title>
		<link>http://www.thomstratton.com/2012/02/the-pursuit-of-happiness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Human Experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[attitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[choice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my goals this year is to learn how to be happy independent of others. I&#8217;ve been around the block long enough to have heard that happiness can be manufactured&#8211;that you can make yourself happy. But like so many others, it turns out, I have convinced myself that such happiness is artificial. If you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food, sex, and contradiction</title>
		<link>http://www.thomstratton.com/2012/02/food-sex-and-contradiction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Random Musings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contradiction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[inconsistency]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obesity is becoming a major issue on the national political stage. We have city governments putting restrictions on restaurants and trying to ban certain foods outright. We have politicians pressing to have sugar labeled as a harmful substance. We have Congress weighing in on whether school lunches should include french fries and pizza. But really, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All the Thom that&#8217;s fit to print</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interpersonal Dynamics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are not paying for it, you&#8217;re not the customer; you&#8217;re the product being sold.  Just who said the above is not certain, but it&#8217;s very, very true these days. Google gives us lots of cool tools for free, but they gather all the information we give them and sell it. Their motto is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bieber-fever</title>
		<link>http://www.thomstratton.com/2012/02/bieber-fever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Musings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Avalanna Routh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Justin Bieber. Mrs. Bieber]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never been a fan of Justin Bieber, and there&#8217;s no reason I should be. I also have nothing against the guy. He&#8217;s a teen heartthrob. It&#8217;s great work if you can get it. And he seems to be doing it a little better than some. But it&#8217;s a definite point in his favor when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Valentine&#8217;s Day 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.thomstratton.com/2012/02/valentines-day-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gratitude]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are plenty of songs I wish I could say I&#8217;d written. There are many songs that can say what I feel better than I could ever capture in words. One such song is Ghazal (Love Song) by Tangerine Dream. It comes pretty close to capturing the sweeping power of true love. Love starts out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walter&#8217;s bookcase</title>
		<link>http://www.thomstratton.com/2012/02/walters-bookcase/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Moments of beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ My older son has been running out of place for his books in his bedroom, so when he got a brand new, hard bound edition of Harry Potter and the Sorceror&#8217;s Stonefor Christmas he decided it was time to build a bookcase. I don&#8217;t remember now if it was his idea or mine that he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kathy Ireland: &#8220;Supermogul&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.thomstratton.com/2012/02/kathy-ireland-supermogul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forbes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading this article on Forbes.com about Kathy Ireland&#8217;s business empire. It&#8217;s interesting stuff. The bottom line is that she combined her name recognition with a talent for design and created a brand that has nothing to do with modeling and everything to do with middle-American motherhood. She plays to her strengths, preferring [...]]]></description>
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