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    <title>Brighten Your Day</title>
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    <copyright>Copyright Gather Inc 2009</copyright>
    <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:51:12 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:date>2010-01-07T20:51:12Z</dc:date>
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    <dc:rights>Copyright Gather Inc 2009</dc:rights>
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      <title>A twist to baked chicken breasts or backs.</title>
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      <description>Do you want to try something new? 
 Try this.   Bread it with canned fried onion rings crushed instead of bread crumbs . 
 Use melted butter, or egg to coat the breast or back  first. 
 Then . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:36:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>M &amp; M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-07T19:36:30Z</dc:date>
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      <title>GAME: How many things can you list that are on a ship?</title>
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      <description>Enjoy, have fun, and thanks for playing my games. 
 Who's going to list the most and win this game?</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:30:03 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>M &amp; M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-07T19:30:03Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Game: How many items can you list that you would find at a carnival?</title>
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      <description>Thanks for playing and have fun. Who's going to win this game listing the most?</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:27:41 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>M &amp; M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-07T19:27:41Z</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=3659174697250796&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>Another Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Healthcare Reform)</title>
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      <description>  
 
 
   
 
 
  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>2010 Census Warning from the BBB to be Cautious 2010 Census to Begin WARNING:</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977981526&amp;grpId=3659174697250796&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>Normally, I do not go and repost stuff from the internet, but due to what happened to me in 1980,  I would be stupid and derelict in NOT warning about fake census workers. 
 
 
 In 1980, this one . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:44:31 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Ed Da Head Toker</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-07T12:44:31Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Read a Book Aloud to Your Family</title>
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      <description>In the past few months our family has gone through a lot of transitions.   We lost a child age four in August, a very beloved child and we all miss him.  We spent time however with him . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:45:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Jennine D.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-07T06:45:20Z</dc:date>
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      <title>29-Day Giving Challenge</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977979570&amp;grpId=3659174697250796&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>Check out this inspirational story!!  It's extremely inspiring and it shows how we can all make a difference and make our lives a little brighter. 
 Click on the link and check it out. 
 
 29-Day . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:54:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Danielle P.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-06T12:54:50Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Kyleigh's Story - Barbie Piano and More Ice Cream</title>
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      <description>Tonight I stopped by Cold Stone and got another one of Kyleigh's birthday freebies: a cup of chocolate ice cream with brownie. Kyleigh ended up only taking two licks and I got the rest.  Hehehe... . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:47:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Selene N.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-06T06:47:19Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Kyleigh's Story - 3 Year Old Checkup</title>
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      <description>This morning I took Kyleigh in for her 3-year-old check-up. The nurse checked many additional things they didn't use to check before. Kyleigh is 3 ft. 3 in. (90 percentile), 30-3/4 lbs (52 percentile), . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:04:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Selene N.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-06T06:04:39Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Ballads of nothingness</title>
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      <description>Heart out on a fight  
 
 
  
 
  
 
 My shirt is torn by your acid, your hatred. 
 I bow before the allegations, the rage; 
 feeling insignificant, inadequate. 
   
 An owl hoots to a metropolitan . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:01:30 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977978697&amp;grpId=3659174697250796&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Kushal Poddar</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-06T01:01:30Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Fun game of dating.</title>
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      <description>How many things can you list, that are a   DON'T do    on a first date? 
 Have fun. Who will list the most and win this game?  Thanks for playing my sweet friends. 
   
 No cop outs, this game . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:56:57 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>M &amp; M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-05T21:56:57Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Game: How many things can you list that are Blue?</title>
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      <description>Have fun, and thanks for playing dear friends. 
 Who is going to win this game with the most things that are    BLUE   ?</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:53:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>M &amp; M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-05T21:53:59Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Gale Force New Year's Day (photo essay)</title>
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      <description>Hubby and I do not usually get to spend time together on New Year's Eve, so New Year's Morning often becomes the time we hang out and celebrate.   Though we are both musicians, he is the one usually . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:23:34 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Alison H.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-05T08:23:34Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Kyleigh's Story - 3 Years Old Birthday Gift, Round 2</title>
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      <description>It wasn't pre-planned but tonight turned into Round Two of Kyleigh's 3-Year-Old Birthday Party. 
 
 
 First of all, I had a coupon for a free birthday scoop of ice cream from Baskin Robbins for Kyleigh. . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:30:27 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Selene N.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-05T04:30:27Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Kyleigh's Story - Back to School</title>
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      <description>Today Kyleigh went back to school for the first time after the long Christmas vacation. She wasn't thrilled to have to get up early this morning. Once we got to the classroom, she clammed on my legs and . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:36:28 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Selene N.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-05T03:36:28Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Yummy. How many things can you list that can be eaten off a stick.</title>
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      <description>There are so many at fairs nowadays.  How many can you list to win this game? 
 It's fun, and we can learn more ideas and recipes, if you care to share too. 
   
 One good one is a fried candy . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:35:26 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>M &amp; M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-05T02:35:26Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Game: How many words can you list that start with "P"</title>
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      <description>Okay dear ones, let's go for it.  How many words can you list that start with    P   ?  Have fun, thanks for playing. Who's going to win this one?</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:28:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>M &amp; M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-05T02:28:50Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Bragging about my FREE Wii!</title>
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      <description>Hi everyone!  I ust wanted to brag on mine and my husband's Christmas present to each other, from each other.  We didn't have any money to get each other anything this year; just barely enough . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:41:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Sharon  M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-04T23:41:20Z</dc:date>
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      <title>This is a great GAME: List as many hints as you can that help situations.</title>
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      <description>This will be helpful and fun.  I'll go first.  I'll post them after this goes though. 
 How many can you list? 
 Thanks for helping and playing. Hope you learn some things and have fun.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:24:16 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>M &amp; M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-04T19:24:16Z</dc:date>
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      <title>World's Tallest Tower Now Stands in Dubai</title>
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      <description>Dubai  has renamed its new skyscraper, the tallest in the world, the  Burj  Khalifa, after the  United Arab Emirates  president, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan. 
 A multimedia presentation witnessed . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:44:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Erica K.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-04T17:44:07Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Free Calendars</title>
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      <description>In case you didn’t get any calendars yet and you don’t want to have to print them out, here are a few you may be able to get.  They go fast, so hurry! 
 
   
 
 
 Pillsbury 2010 . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:34:02 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>J  F.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-04T17:34:02Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Blagojevich plans on competing on 'Celebrity Apprentice'</title>
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      <description>Donald Trump has been boasting about his latest upcoming season of "The Celebrity Apprentice" as the best ever and promised the star power of its cast "blows ` Dancing With the Stars ' away." NBC has . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:26:38 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Erica K.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-04T17:26:38Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Pirate Latitudes - book review</title>
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      <description>Author:  Michael Crichton 
 this book was published after he died - the complete manuscript was found in his files. 
 
 After some of the other books I'd read recently, it was good to read one by . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:58:56 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Leslie ~ from NYC ~  R.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-04T11:58:56Z</dc:date>
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      <title>First Dish with My New Slow Cooker - The Result</title>
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      <description>This is what we had for dinner tonight: pot roast with onions, potatoes, and beans, cooked in my new slow cooker, over rice.  
 
  
 The dish doesn't necessarily look all that great but it tasted . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:20:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Selene N.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-04T02:20:59Z</dc:date>
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      <title>A lake in the boxes</title>
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      <description>Bitter taste of an afternoon  
 
 
  
 
  
 
 A moment streams down the roof. The noise 
 of rain enters. The northern window 
 opens its thirst. Is it you homing? 
 is it you a drenched bird is . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:01:37 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974777&amp;grpId=3659174697250796&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Kushal Poddar</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-04T01:01:37Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Game: How many words can you list that start with the letter T?</title>
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      <description>T</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:35:49 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>M &amp; M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-03T19:35:49Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Game: How many things can you list that STAND?</title>
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      <description>Thanks for playing sweet friends.  Have fun.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:33:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>M &amp; M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-03T19:33:18Z</dc:date>
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      <title>First Dish with My New Slow Cooker</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974313&amp;grpId=3659174697250796&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>I received a slow cooker for Christmas - not this past Christmas but quite a while ago.  I never started using it because I don't normally cook and I have no idea what to do with it.   . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:21:27 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974313&amp;grpId=3659174697250796&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Selene N.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-03T17:21:27Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Drug War Chronicle, Issue #614 -- 12/29/09</title>
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      <description>Hi all.  
 
 
  I have permission to repost anything that I get from this organization. 
  
 
 
 Drug War Chronicle, Issue #614 -- 12/29/09 Phillip S. Smith, Editor, psmith@drcnet.org http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/614 . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:43:29 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973880&amp;grpId=3659174697250796&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ed Da Head Toker</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-03T10:43:29Z</dc:date>
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