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    <title>Mark's Point</title>
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    <copyright>Copyright Gather Inc 2009</copyright>
    <pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:54:34 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:date>2010-01-03T04:54:34Z</dc:date>
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    <dc:rights>Copyright Gather Inc 2009</dc:rights>
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      <title>2009 was-wonderful , good ,bad or ugly? rate it plzzzzzz:)</title>
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      <description>i ws sitting thinking abt how the year had gone and i thought it ws pretty good . and then i thought its like rating an year. good bad or ugly.  how wud u rate yours?:)</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:09:08 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>ashish j.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-03T04:09:08Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Sepulchral Satin ~ A Haiku for Lynn A. &amp; You!</title>
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      <description>Sepulchral Satin,   
 
 
   Caress Savoured Hogarth Curves,   
 
 
   Whisper Sweet Nothings...   
 
 
       
 
 
       
 
 
    ccl'010</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 03:41:03 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Curt  L.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-03T03:41:03Z</dc:date>
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      <title>American cheese on white bread</title>
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      <description>Sue and I saw Avatar 3D on New Year’s Eve. The 3D effects were worth the price of admission (which was substantial). The plot was Little Big Man vs. Star Wars with a touch of Apocalypse Now and . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:33:03 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>The Militant Moderate</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-03T02:33:03Z</dc:date>
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      <title>NOBODY IS COMING TO GET YOU!</title>
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      <description> There is an increase, just here on Gather, of these people, stirring up others to riot and to live in fear of what isn't going to happen, this is how coups and revolutions of the bad sort take place. . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:22:09 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Georgiana S.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-03T01:22:09Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition</title>
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 From 1478 to 1834 the reign of terror known as The Spanish Inquistion struck fear and death throughout Spain. Much like today, with fervent . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Georgiana S.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-02T23:51:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The Last Day Of Summer..by Michael</title>
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      <description>The last day of summer came and went for so many years that I had lost count. It was however a day I would relive every night in dreams trying to recapture two missing items. One was a gold high school . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:52:33 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>michael reisman</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-02T22:52:33Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Obama is Not Like Reagan</title>
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      <description>Thought for the first day of the    New Year: 
 
 
 
  Once we had Reagan, Johnny Cash and Bob Hope.  
 Now we have Obama, no Cash and defintiely, no Hope...      
 Happy New Year to all my forum . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:14:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Paul Z.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-02T22:14:30Z</dc:date>
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      <title>mikes oldies - Jan 2</title>
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      <description>YouTube - Barbra Streisand - Evergreen (live) 
 
   
 
 YouTube - From This Moment On - Shania Twain Ft. Backstreet Boys 
 
   
 
 YouTube - Josh Groban - You Raise Me Up</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:38:14 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>michael reisman</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-02T21:38:14Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Dear President Obama....an open letter to Barrack</title>
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      <description>Dear Mr. President, 
 Your radical views are permitting extremist Muslims, at war with us, to have an open and clear path to the eventual fall of America, and their take over of this country. 
 I know . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:01:53 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Paul Z.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-02T21:01:53Z</dc:date>
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      <title>How To Shop Effectively On Amazon</title>
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      <description>I am an Amazon fanatic. I am also a bargain hunting nut. I admit it. I became hopelessly addicted to Amazon once I learned how to 'bank' those gift cards, and I get them from everywhere. My Points, Winster, . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:18:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Debra H.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-02T20:18:01Z</dc:date>
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      <title>How Is Everyone Today?</title>
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      <description>How Is Everyone Today?</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:41:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Dan H.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-02T19:41:11Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Airport pat-downs ineffective</title>
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      <description>With all the screening technology at U.S. airports, the last line of defense is still the human hand: the pat-down search. Today’s San Antonio      Express-News     has an article which supports . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:22:57 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Leo Lemmer</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-02T18:22:57Z</dc:date>
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      <title>I need a new laptop</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977971778&amp;grpId=3659174697251656&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>I have been fighting with this one more and more... today it took about a half dozen attempts before I got it to boot up. I've emailed myself a few files I'd hate to not be able to access, but for the . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:28:17 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Lydia (part of the solution) Shelley</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-01T21:28:17Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Pay it Forward in the most real way you can</title>
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      <description>I decided to run a search on the word "legacy" here on gather and came up with  this post . It contained the following sentence: 
 "In leiu of flowers, please honor Michael's memory by doing a good deed . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:49:55 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Lydia (part of the solution) Shelley</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-01T22:49:55Z</dc:date>
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      <title>whats your new year resolution :)</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977972887&amp;grpId=3659174697251656&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>tell me abt it. lets talkkkk:)</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:08:06 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>ashish j.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-02T17:08:06Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Betta Getta P.E.T.A.</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977972828&amp;grpId=3659174697251656&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>This should piss off Pamela Anderson! 
 
   
 
 
 
 Allan W Janssen is the author of the book  The Plain Truth About God (What the mainstream religions don't want you to know......!)  and is available . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:25:23 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Allan Janssen</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-02T16:25:23Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Favorite quotations</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977972827&amp;grpId=3659174697251656&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>"Life is brief and very fragile. Do that which makes you happy." --Flavia 
 
 
 "Each day is a little life."  --Schopenhauer 
 
 
 "Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known."  --Carl . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:24:58 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Leo Lemmer</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-02T16:24:58Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The United States of America</title>
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      <description>  
 Freedom was promised by our Founding Fathers furthermore guaranteed by the Constitution. The right to freedom is why many of this Country’s best Citizens shed blood to defend it so we could . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:07:24 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Robert S.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-02T16:07:24Z</dc:date>
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      <title># 15 Selected Readings for the Highly Intelligent</title>
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      <description>Our favorite reading: bumper stickers and T-shirts:  
 
 
  1    Everything under cuntrol here!   
 
 
 2   Frankly, my dear, I'm damned. 
 
 
 3   Slow and steady gets you run over. 
 
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      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:03:58 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Leo Lemmer</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-02T16:03:58Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Saturday Morning Confusion!</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977972731&amp;grpId=3659174697251656&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>We will continue with our look at the Far Left and the Far Right ideology on Monday, but in the meantime have you wondered how the battle between the sexes is coming along, or are you still just as . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:07:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Allan Janssen</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-02T15:07:07Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The year in review from Mother Jones</title>
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      <description>This 
 
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 http://motherjones.com/mojo/2009/12/fiore-cartoon-year-review</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:04:17 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>The Militant Moderate</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-02T15:04:17Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Year End Quiz</title>
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      <description>I missed one.  How did you do? 
 
 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/02/opinion/02collins.html?ref=opinion 
 
   
   
 Note: You have to be registered with the NY Times, but it is free. 
 . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:18:10 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>The Militant Moderate</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-02T14:18:10Z</dc:date>
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      <title>points update. i am at 2242</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977972581&amp;grpId=3659174697251656&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>slow slow and mostly absent fromgather these days . i used to find the recent photos n comments etc format very omfy. this aint good but anyways. hows everybody doing?drop a line everybody.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:33:32 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>ashish j.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-02T12:33:32Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Daily Sentence Challenge: 1/2/10</title>
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      <description>Thanks  Dan H. 
    
 
 
   This challenge is a quick free-writing sentence prompt. 
   
 
 
   I want you to use these 3 words in a sentence  or  two. Use any form of these words. 
   
 
 
 
   Change . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 11:19:33 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Lady of Lake Merritt =P</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-02T11:19:33Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Ending My Affair</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977971836&amp;grpId=3659174697251656&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>It's hard to be honest about this, it's hard to be honest to my friends, to you all, to my family... and especially to myself. 
 It started in July, there was a void in my life which was not being filled . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 11:16:07 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977971836&amp;grpId=3659174697251656&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Lady of Lake Merritt =P</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-02T11:16:07Z</dc:date>
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      <title>my caseworker problems, part 2 rant</title>
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      <description>my caseworker problems, part 2 rant 
 
 
 ...Ok, the whole thing got weird. 
 
 
 ...I went in last Wednesday to hand over in person, the materials that were requested, knowing that I had a serious . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:49:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Ed Da Head Toker</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-02T10:49:39Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Survey Sites</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977972197&amp;grpId=3659174697251656&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>I am often asked what sites pay me to do surveys and how many sites would I recommend.  This article is going to cover a few that have some easy surveys and one I have never seen posted by anyone . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 06:07:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977972197&amp;grpId=3659174697251656&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Mary G.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-02T06:07:55Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The Cruise</title>
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      <description>One day you lost the notion 
 To sail across an ocean 
 The journey once was fair 
 To get from here to there 
 Tedious days on end 
 You traverse decks end to end 
 The comforts over-sate 
 To enter . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 05:54:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Georgiana S.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-02T05:54:18Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Thoughts of Rhyme</title>
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      <description>What does it say 
 Of me today 
 The social butterfly 
 Has landed~or just lit~ 
 Upon a well-veined leaf I sit 
 My comfort zone 
 Is in my home 
 So long I roamed 
 (Like a Rolling Stone) 
 The smell . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 05:38:30 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977972147&amp;grpId=3659174697251656&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Georgiana S.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-02T05:38:30Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The Hive</title>
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      <description>The swarm of drones 
 They keep the hive 
 For the Queen 
 Whilst she's alive 
   
 All people are equal 
 In the kingdom of humans 
 But the sequel 
 Of others in the animal realm 
 If all are the . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 05:24:45 GMT</pubDate>
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