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    <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:33:15 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Let's see who has the coldest weather</title>
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      <description>According to weather.com for my area -Florida 
   
 
 38°F 
 
 Feels Like  38°F</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:58:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Debbie W.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-08T04:58:07Z</dc:date>
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      <title>I HAVE A GOOD FRIEND FOR YOU TO ADD! :O)</title>
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  I have a really terrific friend named Fancy and I think it would be great if you would go give her a holler and add her as a friend!!  
 
 
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      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:42:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Deb J.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-07T18:42:21Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Our Little Genius</title>
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      <description>I'll be honest was very unhappy when I heard the title and felt it was the wrong direction for a network to take in 2010.  Many of us are proud of our child or children, but we don't want them to . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:24:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Mary G.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-08T01:24:59Z</dc:date>
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      <title>I look outside.</title>
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      <description>I look outside. 
 Staring out my window at a snow covered world darkened by the night and lit in an eerie glow by a few lights. The silence is deafening.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:54:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Dan H.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-08T00:54:29Z</dc:date>
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      <title>New Icon</title>
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      <description>I figured it was time to get rid of the Christmas theme one</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:27:15 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Debbie W.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-08T00:27:15Z</dc:date>
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      <title>If You Wanna Be Thoroughly Entertained Tonite...</title>
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      <description>Just the links from a previous post...the show, The Sing-Off was on NBC 3 weeks ago. These guys give new meaning to the music form, acapella. I tune in every day &amp; don't tire of listening to these . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:41:53 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>August Lady</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-07T23:41:53Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The Frigid Fountain</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977982375&amp;grpId=3659174697249972&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>Frigid temperatures are not on my list of "likes".  However, the whole country is gripped in chilliness.  It's one of those things we have to tolerate unless we can pack our belongings and . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:37:12 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Renda B~surviving the storm by dancing in the rain.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-07T22:37:12Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The teaching of compation from a horse named Dolly</title>
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      <description>The suprise when my dad gave Susie and I a horse name4d Dolly was unreal Susie loved horse stories but it was my first experiance I fell in love immediately with thiis poor bone showing with sores horse . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:13:16 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Jule's dreamin of a wonderfilled life for all research mode again</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-07T22:13:16Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Environmental Working Group Releases "Secret Chemicals" Report</title>
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      <description>On a note related to  my post of yesterday , the Environmental Working Group (EWG) has  released a report  called "Off the Books: Industry's Secret Chemicals." In the report they call TSCA "an extraordinarily . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:08:02 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>David K.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-07T21:08:02Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Bird nests with herbs</title>
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      <description>I started by conditioning the polymer clay by hand for these,as the crank for my pasta maker iis still in Ky with my Daughter.It worked very well for exercising my hands also 
 
  
   
   
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      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:09:57 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Jule's dreamin of a wonderfilled life for all research mode again</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-07T21:09:57Z</dc:date>
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      <title>A Celebration</title>
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      <description>I can officially announce one of the secrets I've been keeping.  Can you hear the breath of relief? 
 I have been awarded an Individual Artist Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women to edit . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:48:38 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Trish A.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-07T20:48:38Z</dc:date>
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      <title>TEXTING WHILE DRIVING- A Cautionary Tale</title>
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      <description>This tragic event just occurred in my life and I rushed to my Gather friends to tell it. NEVER TEXT WHILE DRIVING!!! 
 
 
   
 
 
 I was playing online poker on my Blackberry while driving. I had . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:47:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Jericho Ring</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-07T20:47:42Z</dc:date>
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      <title>55 Points To Go Till Cash Out</title>
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      <description>I have a mere 55 points to go before I can cash out.  In the past I would wait until I got half way to the next cash out point but it took me nearly 3 months to get to this point so I will probably . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:45:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Rae M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-07T20:45:52Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The Critics Praise Precious Or I Look Like Mariah Carey Sans Make-Up</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977982034&amp;grpId=3659174697249972&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>A couple of weeks ago, my daughter and some friends went to see this highly acclaimed movie. And, to my surprise (they're teenagers-wwell, it's just not your average teen flick), and they loved it. But . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:22:48 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>August Lady</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-07T19:22:48Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Trying To Get Home (American Airlines).</title>
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      <description>Trying To Get Home (American Airlines). 
   
 My ordeal started on Tuesday morning in Olympia, WA at my parent's house as I arose around 5:00am so I could make breakfast, take a shower, get ready, . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:17:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Dan H.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-07T19:17:54Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Did you get your CVS cards reactivated? Well you need to know this</title>
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      <description>I was among one of the people who got the CVS cards that weren't activated. The cards where fixed yesterday. (through the persistence of Gathers MaryAnnes' calls to them)I went to CVS.COM and double checked.The . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:44:33 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Debbie W.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-07T18:44:33Z</dc:date>
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      <title>ABB Shooting</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977982013&amp;grpId=3659174697249972&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>A man walked into an ABB power plant this morning at 6:30 am and began shooting.  With his assault rifle, he has killed 1 person and wounded 4 more.  Victims names have so far not been released.  . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:41:48 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Sarah (I want points)</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-07T18:41:48Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Running the Great Race in 2010</title>
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      <description>Wow! Where in the world did 2009 go? It seemed to have whizzed right by with its twists and its turns. I feel I have been riding on the autobahn for the past 365 or so days, how about you? 
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      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:33:34 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Denise Spooner</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-07T18:33:34Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Just Checked On The Dog, He Is Happy</title>
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      <description>   Peanut wanted to play, so I played with him awhile, he sure loves the snow. He is not even in his dog house. He has lots of dog food and straw. I can here him barking now, come back out here! . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:20:43 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>DIANE D.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-07T18:20:43Z</dc:date>
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      <title>How Is Everyone Today?</title>
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      <description>How Is Everyone Today?</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:12:36 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Dan H.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-07T17:12:36Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Snow Day</title>
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      <description>The kids have a day off from school today because of the weather.  We got a phone call at 5:30 this morning.  It snowed a few inches last night and then stopped, but started snowing again pretty . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:46:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Rae M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-07T14:46:59Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Thursday, January 7th, 2010: Today’s Weather Forecast: Cambridge, MA</title>
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      <description>Welcome to My Weather in 
       
 
 
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        Today’s weather forecast for Cambridge, MA, what is happening in . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:16:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Johnice R.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-07T13:16:52Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Another Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Healthcare Reform)</title>
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  Trying hard yet again, to subvert the voices crying loud in the wilderness; are the big monies organizations.  The Washington Post’s excerpt on the MSN page gives . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:08:51 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Rose T.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-07T13:08:51Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Daily Sentence Challenge: 1/7/10</title>
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      <description>Thanks  Dan H. 
    
 
 
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   sleep . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:21:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Lady of Lake Merritt =P</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-07T10:21:42Z</dc:date>
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      <title>It may be Florida, but it's freezing!</title>
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      <description>Here's a picture I took of my thermometer this morning</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:48:26 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Debbie W.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-06T20:48:26Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Day 3 of Diet</title>
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      <description>Well my husband and I have been doing Weight Watchers for 3 days now.  The first day was not too bad.  I made the turkey chili from the web site, and it was pretty filling, and pretty tasty . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:18:57 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Rae M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-06T20:18:57Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Dodd OUT!</title>
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      <description>It really shouldn't come as a surprise, but Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) won't be running for re-election.Despite Dodd's 3-decade career, his poll numbers have been dipping the past several months, and it appeared . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:53:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>August Lady</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-06T19:53:54Z</dc:date>
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      <title>New Year Updates</title>
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      <description>My husband's job has officially ended.  He and I are both looking for work in various places, but so far nothing has turned up.  I'm sure with him home, that I'll continue to be online less . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:34:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Sarah (I want points)</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-06T19:34:39Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Charles Rogers Goes to Jail</title>
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      <description>Did you hear about the ex-lions player Charles Rogers?  He was found slumped over his table at On the Border Mexican restaurant.  Apparently workers couldn't rouse him, and so 911 was called . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:31:02 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Sarah (I want points)</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-06T19:31:02Z</dc:date>
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      <title>How Is Everyone Today?</title>
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      <description>How Is Everyone Today?</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:59:56 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Dan H.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-06T17:59:56Z</dc:date>
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