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    <title>Following a Passion</title>
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    <copyright>Copyright Gather Inc 2009</copyright>
    <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:33:53 GMT</pubDate>
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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>Happy New Year From The Road</title>
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      <description>Sorry, I haven't been on Gather the last two weeks, but we're on a 2-week road trip on Route 66 (again! we love it!). This time, most of the beautiful scenery is covered with snow! I had no idea that . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 04:48:24 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Warren Keating</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-01T04:48:24Z</dc:date>
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      <title>OUTLAW DIVORCE, PROTECT MARRIAGE.</title>
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      <description>The movement has begun, a genuine attempt to preserve the sanctity of the sacrement of marriage in the USA.  The California 2010 Marriage Protection Act is moving toward the ballot, and possible . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:17:48 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Karl Leuba</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-31T19:17:48Z</dc:date>
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      <title>GREETINGS</title>
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      <description>  
 
  The songs are the same  
 
 
 
 
   
 
   
 The songs are the same  we sing in our hearts. 
 The trees are the same 
 Those we foster in our gardens. 
 The waves are the same 
 Those climb . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:08:08 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>vijay kumar</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-31T18:08:08Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Extra Oil Update 44: Prophecy In the News - TOTAL ARTICLE</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977967883&amp;grpId=3659174697243449&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>Satan did not stand a chance today! God kept him out of the way and the Oils have been posted in total at each website! PRAISE GOD! 
 
  God's Wrath Explodes into Holidays : Mother/Daughters, Van Impe, . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:41:50 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977967883&amp;grpId=3659174697243449&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Bonnie Q.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-29T23:41:50Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Avatar Superstar ~ A Movie Review of ‘Avatar’</title>
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      <description>This movie allegedly cost half a billion dollars to both produce and market…and it was worth every penny.  What I envision for the moment is that a young generation of film fans are watching . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:42:25 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>La Lady Lisa Westerfield</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-28T04:42:25Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Extra Oil Update 43: News of The Fifth Vial</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977963073&amp;grpId=3659174697243449&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>God explodes o're Xmas Eve   :    New Members, News, Nature, Volcanoes, Tornados, Black Blizzards, Economy, Health, Animals, Death, Wars, Lawless, Vial 5, Mother/Daughters 
  
 Of late, I have been . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:46:28 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Bonnie Q.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-26T00:46:28Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Extra Oil Update 42: SHOCKING SHOCKING News</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977959329&amp;grpId=3659174697243449&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>Fastest ever the clock spins   : News, Economy, War, Nature, Health, Death, Lawless, Hate Crimes Bill, Mom/Daughters, Stealing Okay, The Other Holy Land, Persecution    
 
 
 In the past week, . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:02:31 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Bonnie Q.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-22T22:02:31Z</dc:date>
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      <title>MARRIAGE == ALLOW IT TO GAYS, OR DENY IT TO ALL.</title>
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      <description>It is discouraging to live in a Free Country where people think that they are free to abuse, exploit, dominate and meddle in the lives of others.  but I do. 
 There is a Tenth Amendment.  It . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:13:33 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Karl Leuba</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-21T22:13:33Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Christmas at The Roosevelt-Waldorf</title>
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      <description>In a way, the hotel we now know as the Roosevelt-Waldorf was Louis Grunewald’s Christmas gift to New Orleans. It was December of the year 1893, and the six-story, 200-room complex sat on Barrone . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:22:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Erin E. Grunewald</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-21T17:22:01Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Extra Oil Update 41: News Spent 7x Over</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977953813&amp;grpId=3659174697243449&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>Rage Spins Earth's Clock   : News, Economy, War, Nature, Health, H1N1, Cancer, Heart, Nature, Death, Lawless, Mom/Daughters, Gays Wed, Twitter, Grace Spent 
 
 
   
 
 
 Prophecy's Extra Oil Update . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:39:31 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Bonnie Q.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-18T23:39:31Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Remembering Hurricane Katrina</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977953552&amp;grpId=3659174697243449&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>"Being In Hurricane Katrina" (Memories Of That Night) 
 The ravishes of Katrina are hard to forget, not because of the broken trees which stumps still linger across the street from my home, or the constant . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:03:14 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Sara W.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-18T20:03:14Z</dc:date>
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      <title>HR 676 and July 2007</title>
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      <description>In July, two years ago, Carlos Diaz posted his  ONLY Gather article. 
 
 It was not long, and it references a web page from John Conyers that has been taken down. 
 It is worthy of mention because it . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:45:30 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977952671&amp;grpId=3659174697243449&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Karl Leuba</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-18T08:45:30Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The dangerous girl</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977950156&amp;grpId=3659174697243449&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>she stands beneath the shadows 
 so no one sees her pain 
 camoflauged by broken smiles 
 and tears blending in with rain 
 the darkness hides her 
 so very well 
 consuming her soul and mind 
 if only . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:09:17 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Sara W.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-16T18:09:17Z</dc:date>
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      <title>SAME SEX MARRIAGE IS A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT.</title>
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      <description>Let us start with a  gathering of resources  on the subject of gay marriage from a RELIGION’S point of view. (this is Justin Case, http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/Y-SSMARR.html) The Unitarians put . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:45:27 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Karl Leuba</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-16T15:45:27Z</dc:date>
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      <title>I am thankful today is over!</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977949122&amp;grpId=3659174697243449&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>As usual, along with the joy, the holiday season brings lots of extra stress to everyone. This year we all agreed to go on a 4 day cruise to the Bahamas in January. When all of us purchased this cruise, . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:34:24 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Sarah (can't believe the year's over) G.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-16T02:34:24Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Extra Oil Update 40: News Manifesto Insanity 3x Over</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977948878&amp;grpId=3659174697243449&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>Breaking News :  "Shock and Awe" as WCC manifesto pushes directives thru mother &amp; daughters' pulpits, radio, TV— hard to wrap brain around;  News Snippets: 12/11-12/15 — short, shocking . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:57:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Bonnie Q.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-15T22:57:20Z</dc:date>
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      <title>THE DC City Council has approved Gay Marriage.</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977948633&amp;grpId=3659174697243449&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>The  Washington Post  is reporting this afternoon that same sex marriage will be made legal in the District.  Congress must ACCEPT the law for it to take effect, but it should be in force before . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:13:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Karl Leuba</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-15T20:13:42Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Keating "Sandal Girl" Painting Wins Again!</title>
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      <description>This time 48" X 36" original oil on canvas, "Getty Center Sandal Girl" was chosen for SCORE VIII, a prestigious show open to all artists that are residents of Southern California, juried by Artist and . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:46:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Warren Keating</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-15T18:46:30Z</dc:date>
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      <title>A Christmas Poem - Challenge</title>
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      <description>An Acrostic Poem Inspired by Jersey Nana and Jennifer Wagner From Associated Content    
 
 
    I invite you all to create an acrostic poem using the name of a Christmas Song    
 
 
 . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:04:10 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Carol Roach</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-14T07:04:10Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Woman and the Law: Sandra Day O’Connor</title>
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      <description>Part 27 
 
 
 
 
 We finished off with the 1970’s and the feminist movement. Now will proceed to the women of the 1980’s and their contributions to the betterment of womanhood in America. . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:47:34 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Carol Roach</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-13T21:47:34Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Charlie Rose and Stanley McChrystal together for an hour.</title>
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      <description>There is not a lot to be added to the title, except this link to the December 9, 2009 Charlie Rose Show.  Stanley McChrystal is the commander of US forces in Afghanistan.  He is the General . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:25:36 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Karl Leuba</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-13T14:25:36Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Extra Oil Update 39: Recall Oil Supply</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977943177&amp;grpId=3659174697243449&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>Rage Spins Earth's Clock   : News, $Crisis, Jobless, REvalues, Debts, Hunger, Climate, Death, Mom/Daughters, Gay, Moon, Sabbath, Sunday, Europe, Recall First Oil Supply 
 
 
   
 
 
 Prophecy's . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:51:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Bonnie Q.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-11T22:51:54Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Ironic...</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977941303&amp;grpId=3659174697243449&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>3 days after my mom dies, Nick leaves me. 4.5 year relationship.. for some chick he met on WoW who happened to move to his town or what not..</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:02:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Rebecca B</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-10T20:02:07Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Master Cleanse</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977939265&amp;grpId=3659174697243449&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>So my boyfriend and I are on day 4 of the Master Cleanse. We haven't eaten a real meal since Saturday evening and it was only a salad! 
 We are doing great, we've lost about 12 lbs so far between the . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:12:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Sarah (can't believe the year's over) G.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-09T18:12:50Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Al Copeland's Christmas Lights</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977938654&amp;grpId=3659174697243449&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>It has been said that you know you're from New Orleans when you think of Popeye in terms of spicy fried chicken, red beans and rice and fluffy white biscuits rather than spinach. We can thank Al Copeland . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:37:41 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977938654&amp;grpId=3659174697243449&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Erin E. Grunewald</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-09T11:37:41Z</dc:date>
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