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    <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:13:24 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>NFL Playoff Picture... more complex than most women I've dated</title>
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      <description>This weekend marks the end of the regular season for the National Football League. For fans in Detroit, St. Louis, Oakland, Chicago, Tampa, Seattle, Kansas City, Nashville, Charlotte, New York City . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:07:12 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Kerrell g.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-01T19:07:12Z</dc:date>
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      <title>raising a cup of spicy chai to the New Year</title>
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      <description>A Happy New Year to all! Is anything better than the first day of a brand new year? The year stretches before us, pristine and optimistic; another day to get it right, I often think to myself. Or, another . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:13:32 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Katrina Hall</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-01T18:13:32Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The Member HelpCenter™ for 01/01 - Have a Question? or Need Help?</title>
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      <description>Welcome to the Member-to-Member HelpCenter™ -- Where other Gather members help you with your Gather-related questions or problems! Enter your question below and receive a response from other members! . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:24:45 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Kevin (''The SiteWizard'') V.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-01T17:24:45Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Book Review: Radar, Hula Hoops, and Playful Pigs by Dr. Joe Schwarcz</title>
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      <description>Radar, Hula Hoops, and Playful Pigs: 67 Digestible Commentaries on the Fascinating Chemistry of Everyday Life   by  Dr. Joe Schwarcz   
 Dr. Schwarcz presents "67 digestible commentaries on the fascinating . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:34:10 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Rick S.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-01T16:34:10Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Happy New Year!</title>
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      <description>I just crawled out of bed....of course we didn't get home until about 1 am or so. 
 
 
 We went bowling last night....myself, my boyfriend, my grandson, my youngest daughter, my son and his girlfriend.  . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:59:58 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Marsha S.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-01T15:59:58Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Quotes of the Day</title>
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      <description>Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.  -  Cullen Hightower 
 
 I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.  -  Douglas Adams 
 
 It isn't . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:50:43 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Dave L.</dc:creator>
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      <title>New Year's Eve</title>
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    The night is lit by the pale blue moon Strong contrast against the freshly fallen snow Spidery tree branches . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:13:04 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>JustMe ~I'm happy to be~</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-01T15:13:04Z</dc:date>
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      <title>QUMRAN (A Brief Miniature)</title>
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      <description>Iron-gall ink spilled in profusion   
 
 
   Over the carefully curried parchment;   
 
 
   Dim candle lights dancing   
 
 
   On the stone walls of  scriptorium .   
 
 
    “ Do . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:57:27 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Svetlana Goryacheva</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-01T14:57:27Z</dc:date>
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      <title>My 2010 New Year's Resolutions - Footprints in the Sand</title>
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      <description>As the surreality of New Year's eve makes way for the reality of this first day of 2010, it seems appropriate to think about what goals I have for the coming year. 
 I could say something like " . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:56:43 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>David K.</dc:creator>
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      <title>Theories about love and the Differences Between A Crush and A True Love</title>
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      <description>No matter how old you are you never forget your first love, that is what our society tell us, and yet some people hardly remember their first loves. The reason may be because a hundred years ago . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 10:44:27 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Carol Roach</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-01T10:44:27Z</dc:date>
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      <title>New Years Celebrations: Bringing out the Bubbly</title>
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      <description>It seems that even though Montrealers are still in the throws of the H1N1 virus, we have Vancomycin-resistant Enterococci (VRE) virus to be concerned about as well. The Lakeshore General Hospital . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:30:56 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Carol Roach</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-01T09:30:56Z</dc:date>
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      <title>How I spent New years</title>
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      <description>my day started off with a late start I spent most of it working on my new web site and then had to go pay the household bills , not a chore that i enjoy but it has to be done , After giving the pentiance . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 08:29:02 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>karen h.</dc:creator>
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      <description>Happy new year everyone , well its only 2 hours and 5 minutes into 2010 and I have been busy busy busy !! promoting my new web site , as most everyone knows buy now this past year has been horrible for . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 08:15:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>karen h.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-01T08:15:20Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Monsters - first revision</title>
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      <description>Jericho’s parents always argued about money; specifically, how his father spent it. To his ten-year-old mind, his mother complained constantly about her practicality with money while Lee, . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 05:35:03 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Jason Hillenburg</dc:creator>
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      <title>Happy New Year!!</title>
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      <description>Happy New Year!! 
   
 I hope everyone has a happy, healthy and prosperous new year</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 05:07:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Dave L.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-01T05:07:18Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Write a Novel in 2010: Author Introductions</title>
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      <description>Hi, 
 If you're already a part of this group or just happened upon this post, I want to welcome you and give you an opportunity to introduce yourself.  This group is designed for people who have . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 04:05:55 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Patricia G.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-01T04:05:55Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Big Turkey (emailed joke)</title>
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      <description>A lady was picking through the frozen turkeys at the grocery store, but couldn't find one big enough for her family. She asked the stock boy, "Do these turkeys get any bigger?" The stock boy answered, . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 03:00:45 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Dave L.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-01T03:00:45Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Wake up Tea-Baggers!</title>
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      <description> And if you don't want a meal even, be sure tos end all your money to Rev. Rick Warren, says he needs $1m by tomorrow! 
   
 The "Tea Party" crowd are finally starting to wake up to the fact . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Georgiana S.</dc:creator>
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      <title>Flight 253 passenger/witness Kurt Haskell *** "Own Country is Lying to Me &amp; Fellow Americans" *** THEY keep changing Story!</title>
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      <description>This is again, very disturbing accounting of what actually happened after this flight and how the Federal Govt. keeps changing the story. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  " Today is the second worst day of my life . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:29:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Linda A.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-31T23:29:59Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Obama Makes Top TEN List AGAIN *** Most Corrupt Politicians *** Threepeat</title>
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      <description>During Obama's presidential campaign, he was on this list, and seems to have maintained that status.  Business as usual for Obama.  It's a sad state of affairs when the very leaders running . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:01:05 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Linda A.</dc:creator>
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      <title>Happy Birthday Spencer!</title>
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      <description>I almost forgot to mention that today is my Spencer's birthday!  He is my New Year's Eve baby!  He is now 9 years young today.  I wish I could get him to stop crying since Franklin's . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:33:09 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Teresa T.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-31T22:33:09Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Good-bye 2009 ~ I have only one thing left to say to you... YOU CAN KISS MY GRITS!!!!</title>
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      <description>2009 ~ you gave me a quadruple share of your horrific pain...   
 
 
   You tortured, you humiliated and drove me insane!   
 
 
   You took my friends, you took my funds...   
 
 
   You instilled . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:11:23 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Teresa T.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-31T20:11:23Z</dc:date>
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      <description>I think it would be quite fair to say that farouk omar mutalab whatever! is the craziest being on this earth. I mean you plan to kill innocent lives just because you feel an imaginative depression that, . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:35:49 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Noble Chinwendu</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-31T19:35:49Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Glowing Frogs and Other Cool Ways to Detect Pollution</title>
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 Tadpoles that glow when they encounter pollution? Could it be? 
 It seems so. 
 
 
 Research conducted by  University of Wyoming Professor Paul Johnson  and others was recently published . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:08:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>David K.</dc:creator>
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      <title>A dog's life (WWE, December 23rd, 2009)</title>
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      <description>  
 WWE, December 23rd, 2009 
 Use the following prompts: 
 Make this an  apologue 
 
 Include reference to medicine of some sort 
 Link at least two of the words/phrases in the body of your submission . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:10:15 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Angela A.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-31T19:10:15Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Cry</title>
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      <description>If your hands were tied with a wire 
 
 
 
 And put into flames of fire 
 
 
 Would you cry, cry till its burnt 
 
   
 
 If your shoes were ripped off your foot 
 
 
 And given to your boss's . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:56:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Noble Chinwendu</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-31T18:56:52Z</dc:date>
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      <title>New Slogan for 2010</title>
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      <description>Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." 
 I read an email with this quote from Pablo Picasso and it hit home. I'm going to make it my motto for 2010. As a world class . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:47:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Elizabeth S.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-31T18:47:50Z</dc:date>
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      <title>RENEWAL (A New Year Miniature)</title>
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      <description>My dearest ones –  
 
 
 
  After a prolonged hiatus, I’m finally back on Gather. These last weeks were very difficult for me, both personally and professionally, but my main goal has been . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:43:49 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Svetlana Goryacheva</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-31T18:43:49Z</dc:date>
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      <title>How is everyone today?</title>
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      <description>I am doing pretty good, the governor decided to give us 3 hours off with pay today.  WOOHOO!! 
   
   
 
   HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:42:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Dave L.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-31T18:42:50Z</dc:date>
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      <title>My Car Is Not Going Anywhere Today</title>
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      <description> It will be going to the garage, where it belongs. It drives like a go-cart. It is fun to drive. I would much rather take a sled. Lots of snow on the ground. 
   My plan is walking, down the . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:30:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>DIANE D.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-31T16:30:54Z</dc:date>
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