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		<title>Book Review: Legion, by Brandon Sanderson</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  I first picked up the novella Legion when it was offered free as an audiobook a few months ago. Unfortunately I soon found that my mp3 player didn&#8217;t handle audiobooks, so I owned a book I couldn&#8217;t read. But now that I have an mp3 player that will, I decided it was time to dust off the file [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deciding the inconceivable</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans can be giving people. Some horrific event, like the Boston Marathon bombing, happens and large amounts of money are generated to help the victims. But how do you decide how to divide the money? Who makes that call? In this case, at least, it&#8217;s Kenneth Feinberg, professional arbitrator. He&#8217;s the man so many turn to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Wheel of Time &#8211; The Eye of the World, by Robert Jordan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been hearing about The Wheel of Time for quite some time now (no pun intended). I&#8217;ve always been put off by both the size of the individual volumes and the number of books in the series. But as audiobooks they&#8217;re a bargain! Nearly a full month of drive-time entertainment! So when I signed up for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Warning: Light Content Ahead</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last few weeks have knocked me off my stride, and I now find myself facing a backlog of stuff. I&#8217;ll try to keep up on my posting, but I&#8217;ve made a conscious decision that this and Facebook just aren&#8217;t going to be as important as other things for awhile until I get caught up. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Mothers Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I&#8217;m early. But, besides the fact that I don&#8217;t post on weekends, come Mothers Day I&#8217;ll be busy enough with my own personal celebrations. It&#8217;s either now, or late. Mothers don&#8217;t get much credit. When you think about it, what accomplishment by the human race could possibly compare with mothers&#8217; efforts to provide a human [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is just to say</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I did not eat the plums that were in the icebox and which you may still have for breakfast Forgive me the chocolate cake looked delicious but now looks gone (with apologies to William Carlos Williams) My daughter is doing a poety assignment for school, so every poem that strikes her fancy has been thrust before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things you have to learn for yourself</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of things in life that one has to experience for yourself. Other people can try to describe for you what it feels like or how to do it, but ultimately until you try it, perhaps fail a little, and then get it right, you can&#8217;t really know what it is. Singing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Concrete Jumble</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My fence has been threatening to fall down, so now that the weather has decided to cooperate I&#8217;ve started to take it down, with the idea of putting up a new one. This last Saturday was supposed to be a day for significant progress on that project. Unfortunately I was wrong. The people who put [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The False Prince, by Jennifer A. Nielsen</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I picked this book up largely as an impulse buy while attending a large authors-signing event at our local Barnes &#38; Noble. The author made it sound interesting. A couple month later we finally got around to reading it (Sorry, but Brandon Mull&#8217;s &#8220;Beyonders&#8221; series came first). I read it aloud to my kids, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What do they have to hide, revisited</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back I complained about the proliferation of &#8220;Ag gag&#8221; bills across the country attempting to protect anyone in the meat production industry from whistleblowers and animal rights groups from filming what goes on in meat production facilities. Little did I know that Utah would be the first state to prosecute someone under such [...]]]></description>
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