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    <title>Fifty States of WHATEVER YOU WANT!</title>
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    <copyright>Copyright Gather Inc 2009</copyright>
    <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:02:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Literary Announcements</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977971345&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>Dear Gather Folks!  
 
 
  I received the following information and have posted the full details on both of my websites. Please visit them if you require more information:  
 
 
         From: . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:19:53 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Pamela G.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-01T12:19:53Z</dc:date>
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      <title>2009 Family Vacation Part 6 - Port Canaveral Part 2</title>
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      <description>Now that it is getting way colder I am in the mood for some heat!! I am ready to post more of the photos from my vacation this past July where we went on the Disney Cruise to the Bahammas.  This . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:32:24 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977793792&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Kimber L.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-31T03:32:24Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The Synergy of the Commons</title>
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      <description>The biological capture of sun energy is a process by which photons, light particles, engage water and carbon dioxide. [The water molecule has two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom; carbon dioxide has . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:18:19 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977968410&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Sylvester Steffen</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-30T10:18:19Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Attention! Extended Deadline for Entries in the Dream Quest One Poetry &amp; Writing Contest</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977967628&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>The Dream Quest One Poetry &amp; Writing Contest  is open to anyone who loves expressing innermost thoughts and feelings into the beautiful art of poetry or writing a short story that is worth telling . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:21:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977967628&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Andre W.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-29T20:21:14Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Print those Christmas photos!</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977965857&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>I have found a couple of deals on photo printing. I am always looking for photo print deals because I do much of it. Hope these are helpful! 
 
 
  5 cent prints at Clark Color Labs  
 
 
  4 cent prints . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:20:44 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Qpon Lady</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-28T18:20:44Z</dc:date>
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      <title>joyful! Announces 1st Annual Poetry Contest</title>
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      <description>Hello Gather Friends! 
 
 1st Annual Poetry Contest :    www.joyfulonline.net  
 
 
    Want to spread the word about upcoming contest. Please share as you see fit! 
 
 
 I would hope that you read . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:15:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977965683&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Pamela G.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-28T16:15:14Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Economic/ Ecologic Reciprocity in The Commons</title>
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 The relationship of economy to ecology is the relationship of energy to matter, i.e., non-dualistic. Ecology is cosmic energy diversely expressed and expressive in the inherent/ coherent . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:31:43 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977964252&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Sylvester Steffen</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-27T08:31:43Z</dc:date>
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      <title>!!! Wait for me !!!</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977963641&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>Christmas Eve there was a record 14" snowfall in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. My tweenage daughter had traveled to that area with another relative to visit relatives in the night before, expecting to . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:31:17 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977963641&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Linda M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-26T16:31:17Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Gaming Nature; Gaming the People; Gaming the Law; Gaming God</title>
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 Being light to others is about trust, about fidelity to truth, conscience, and other-concern. Trust is the basis of personal integrity and purposeful interpersonal relationships. The failure . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 03:18:51 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977963155&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Sylvester Steffen</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-26T03:18:51Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Respecting each other's beliefs can be simple sometimes</title>
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      <description>This is a story of a recent experience that I had.  Involved were people from several different lifestyles and belief systems, but in the end, it was easy to get along. 
   
 RESPECTFULLY FOLLOW . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 01:27:08 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>CC Miranda the artrat (or am i?)</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-20T01:27:08Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Mindless Males, Mindless Religion</title>
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      <description>The mindlessness of males is the mind of religion: if religions are male-dominated (and they are), their mind is male-biased. Corporate religion is mindless in its attitude toward nature, toward natural/ . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:45:16 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977954237&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Sylvester Steffen</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-19T07:45:16Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Driven From Within</title>
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 What is creativity? It is originality driven from within—the model and way of cosmic evolution. Original dispositions of big bang energy set in motion patterns that repeat thereafter . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:41:25 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977950504&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Sylvester Steffen</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-16T21:41:25Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Author's Note for The Magic Pencil</title>
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      <description>Hi everyone! 
 I have re-posted the Author's Note to my novel The Magic Pencil because it has been published and the Note's been updated. I haven't been on G much because I've been involved in selling . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:04:03 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Nyota *Star*</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-16T21:04:03Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Cosmic Reciprocity</title>
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      <description>The law of cosmic reciprocity puts all energy/ matter in relation, for matter itself is a qualification of cosmic energy. In brief, the law of evolving reciprocity states: there is no gain except there . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977943901&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Sylvester Steffen</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-12T14:34:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Dreams and Subconscious Channeling</title>
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 “I had a good time in Rio, and, Rio had a good time with me.” Beneath consciousness the wells of remembrance and experience flow into each other. . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:03:28 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977941216&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Sylvester Steffen</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-10T19:03:28Z</dc:date>
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      <title>~*~Book Giveaway~*~ Three books Written by Betty Ren Wright for ages 8-12</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977938119&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>I have a set of three paperback works of fiction to give away. If you have tweens/teenagers that would enjoy these please visit  my blog for giveaway details .   
 
 
   
 
   
 
 
   1. The Dollhouse . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:21:16 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Qpon Lady</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-09T03:21:16Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Good Morning! I have some deals for you to check out.</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977930691&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>I have been preoccupied with the holidays, and school and family, etc, etc. So I missed a few days on my blog.   
 
 
   I do want to share some goodies with everyone! Hope you can find something . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:02:09 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Qpon Lady</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-04T15:02:09Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Maybe China has it right</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977915524&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>We know that the death penalty is not a deterrent for murder.  But if it were applied along with very long prison sentences perhaps just perhaps the economic downturn last year or the part that was . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:07:47 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977915524&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Carol  Lloyd</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-06T20:07:47Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The Reality of Dream, Promise, and “Change that is Needed”</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977931550&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>Hope in the future is a seed inherited from the past and existing in the moment. The reality we belong to is sandwiched between two non-existences, the past and the future. The past is memory, the future . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:27:07 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977931550&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Sylvester Steffen</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-05T01:27:07Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Moral Imagination</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977921088&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>What is “moral imagination?” It is the network link of self-reflective sensitivity within the web-life continuum. It is the smoldering of deep conscious intuitions that eventually flare . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:10:50 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977921088&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Sylvester Steffen</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-11-28T07:10:50Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Wasting Propane, Wasting Grain, Wasting Nature</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977920366&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>The “Tragedy of the Commons” comes to Iowa agriculture. The conspiracy of weather together with corn-crop monoculturing is a costly problem for farmers and nature. Late-maturing corn grain, . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:15:31 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977920366&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Sylvester Steffen</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-11-27T17:15:31Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Dream Quest One Poetry &amp; Writing Contest is Now Accepting Entries! - Winter 2009-2010</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977918320&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>The Dream Quest One Poetry &amp; Writing Contest  is open to anyone who loves expressing innermost thoughts and feelings into the beautiful art of poetry or writing a short story that is worth telling . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:56:28 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977918320&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Andre W.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-11-26T02:56:28Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Monday updates. Good Morning.</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977913851&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>Good morning everyone,  
 
 
  How is your Monday going? I hope all is well with everybody. I am still trying to motivate myself to get moving. Have been sick all weekend. I feel better than I did . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:30:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Qpon Lady</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-11-23T14:30:29Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The Inseparability of Religion and Politics</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977911105&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>To presume that religion and civility can be, need to be, independent of each other is folly, false and fatally hurtful. Both have common aspects that are essential to common wellbeing; in these commonalities, . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:03:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977911105&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Sylvester Steffen</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-11-21T03:03:36Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Planning a family vacation</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977904961&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>So, my husband and I were talking the other day about planning a vacation for next summer with the family.  We have a two and four year old girl, and we are looking for suggestions on where we should . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:33:37 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977904961&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Leanne B.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-11-17T16:33:37Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Blog updates with goodies : )</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977904161&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>Target Deals 11/15 to 11/21     
 
 
     Toys R Us Deal of the Day 11-16     
 
 
     100 "4 x 8" photo cards FREE @ Seehere.com     
 
 
     Rebate: greattastebigsavings.com     
 
 
     Printable . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:15:45 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977904161&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Qpon Lady</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-11-17T04:15:45Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Fiction in Culture</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977900405&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>Consciousness and self-reflection have a talent for observing, connecting and drawing conclusions. The conscious process of connecting and drawing conclusions provides fertile ground for the imagination . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:08:26 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977900405&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Sylvester Steffen</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-11-14T05:08:26Z</dc:date>
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      <title>QUESTION FOR THE DAY.</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977900092&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>SHOULD 911 SUSPECTS BE TRIED IN NEW YORK?  IF NOT WHERE DO YOU THINK WOULD GIVE THEM A FAIR TRIAL?</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:46:56 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977900092&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Carol  Lloyd</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-11-13T23:46:56Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Good Morning, Blog updates</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977897679&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>Good morning Gather,  
 
 
  I hope this post finds you well. It is nasty weather here in NC. I have blog updates that I wanted to share. I hope you find something useful! Thank you for looking! 
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:56:37 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977897679&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Qpon Lady</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-11-12T14:56:37Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Debunking Churchocracy</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977889264&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>Nuclear family is the avatar of communal authenticity, harmony. The schism of female/ male mutuality corrupts authenticity, civil culture. The family paradigm supposes parental mutuality/ authority; . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:50:10 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977889264&amp;grpId=3659174697246673&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Sylvester Steffen</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-11-07T01:50:10Z</dc:date>
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