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    <title>Points and Prizes</title>
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    <copyright>Copyright Gather Inc 2009</copyright>
    <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:02:41 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:date>2010-01-08T14:02:41Z</dc:date>
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    <dc:rights>Copyright Gather Inc 2009</dc:rights>
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      <title>Woohoo!!! In 22 More Days...</title>
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      <description>...I'll be 28! 
 Mom called this afternoon with a bright idea for my birthday. Of course you know the day of the week doesn't matter to Walker and I since we're both "retired" anyway. LOL I'm 27 and retired. . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:38:53 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Leah Christensen</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-08T08:38:53Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Healthy Living Challenge – 01/07 – Daily Points: 58</title>
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      <description>I did figure out to type what I want, then put in the form afterwards 
 
 
 Today I had 2 glasses of milk and an egg sandwich with cheese. 
 
 
 I upped myself one minute on each the treadmill and the . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:55:27 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Marsha S.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-08T01:55:27Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Yummy Rides</title>
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      <description>I know we all have alot going on online and at home. I just wanted to share a link to  my blog  home. I just wish I would have started blogging early in 2009 with this blog idea, and it would have gotten . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:03:47 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>L. C.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-06T16:03:47Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Snow: Jan. 7, 2010</title>
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      <description>I jotted on down to my mailbox in my boots, fuzzy jacket, gloves, scarf and camera in hand. My doggie, Princess by my side, of course. She would not wear her sweater and when I went to put on her fuzzy . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:49:46 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>L. C.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-08T01:49:46Z</dc:date>
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      <title>This is What I See in my Irazoo Account!!</title>
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      <description>I have sent them an email asking why!!  I am not a cheater and it took me months to get up to the 3000 pts.....and since redeeming I have still been using it searching trivia answers and back up . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:24:15 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977982203&amp;grpId=3659174697249399&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Marsha S.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-07T20:24:15Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Coupon Queen Blog is up for 1/6-1/12/10</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977982185&amp;grpId=3659174697249399&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>Most of you know by now that I write a blog for Boca Raton Magazine with money saving tips and some coupon deals for the week. You can view my blog  here. 
 
   
 Please feel free to comment on the . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:09:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Renita P.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-07T20:09:07Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Quips and Quotes for January 7, 2009</title>
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      <description>God created us to love people and use things;  our problem comes when we love things and use people. 
 
   
 
 "Mommy, when are you going to lay another baby?" asked a not so modern child.  . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:38:34 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Marsha S.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-07T15:38:34Z</dc:date>
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      <title>~Snow hits TN....LOL</title>
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      <description>Well, as per the norm...TN freaked for nothing!!!!!  Check out our 40% chance of overnight snow that I took pictures of at 6am.  LOL  Talk about jumping the gun big time!!!!!  hahahaha . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:17:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Tiffany v.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-07T13:17:18Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Awesome Family Movie - "Bedtime Stories"</title>
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      <description>Have you guys seen this? My daughter (8 yrs old) picked this out at the library the other day. I had not even seen previews on it. It's an Adam Sandler movie and he plays this rather unusual character . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:46:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Renita P.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-07T02:46:20Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Healthy Living Challenge – 01/06 – Daily Points: 34 (and questions)</title>
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      <description>Ok....my questions have to go at the top  because now my first question is....once we copy and paste the form to fill out here, just how do we get so that we can type below it??  Each time I . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:03:09 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Marsha S.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-07T00:03:09Z</dc:date>
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      <title>~Our First Gingerbread House</title>
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      <description>Christmas 2009 was our first year to make a gingerbread house.  I had never made one before, and neither had hubby.  It was kinda frustrating to get the figures to stand up right, but it turned . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:26:06 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Tiffany v.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-06T17:26:06Z</dc:date>
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      <title>~A Frosty Day</title>
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      <description>The colder it gets here, the harder it is too thaw out my car everyday.  Here is some shots from inside my car of the frost on the windows. 
   
 
  
   
   
   
   
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      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:56:04 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Tiffany v.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-06T16:56:04Z</dc:date>
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      <title>~Monday Nights Dinner</title>
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      <description>Monday night I had a very yummy dinner of popcorn shrimp and  Spanakopita .  It is a Greek pastry.  I got the spinach filled one.  Click on the link and you can see a wikipedia description . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:08:46 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Tiffany v.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-06T16:08:46Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Quips and Quotes for January 6, 2009</title>
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      <description>I have seen young people who pretend to have no faith, but who work ceaselessly to help people.  That shows they are in contact with God. 
 
   
 
 The pastor hasitly scribbled the serom title . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:25:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Marsha S.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-06T15:25:50Z</dc:date>
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      <title>~Majorly Behind</title>
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      <description>Good morning friends!!  I hope this extremely cold day finds all of you well.  I am doing well despite the fact my fibro has turned me into a constantly achey and whiney woman. LOL  This . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:14:41 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Tiffany v.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-06T15:14:41Z</dc:date>
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      <title>~Pics from Christmas Day 2009</title>
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      <description>These are all the pics I took on Christmas Day.  Most of them are of my son Jeffrey opening and playing with his gifts. 
   
 
  
   
   
   
   
   
   
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      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:08:37 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Tiffany v.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-06T15:08:37Z</dc:date>
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      <title>My post...</title>
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      <description>I just accidently posted a CAPTION THIS post to only one group, and since I'm new here, I don't know how to go back and fix it. And send it out to all my groups that it relates to. So, I'm posting this . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:43:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>L. C.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-06T01:43:18Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Gather Group: CAPTION THIS</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977978415&amp;grpId=3659174697249399&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>I've been posting a few pics to let gather members write the captions to using the comments section. So, I thought I'd try to create a gather group for just such a thing. A  Caption This  photo group. . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:01:11 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977978415&amp;grpId=3659174697249399&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>L. C.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-05T22:01:11Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Quips and Quotes for January 5, 2009</title>
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      <description>Christmas is a time to be happy!  For 12 days from Christmas Eve to January 5, churches all over the world blaze with light and burst with song.  Christ the Savior is born!  A time of . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:24:05 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Marsha S.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-05T16:24:05Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Charity Begins At Home, Then Travels To The Grocery Store, Then Goes Back Home Again (A Thinking The Lions Christmas)</title>
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      <description>Thinking The Lions  is a blog that focuses on stuff I think about:  my life, my music, my family, my job... but, ironically, almost never lions.  Here's my story of the beginning of my Christmas . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:07:36 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Briane P.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-05T16:07:36Z</dc:date>
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      <title>~Thank you RobbinLynn!!!!</title>
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      <description>Yesterday morning I went to the post office to pick up the package of goodies that I won from RobbinLynn.  Yesterday my son and I enjoyed a variety of home-made goodies and sweets.  Thanks so . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:55:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Tiffany v.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-05T15:55:35Z</dc:date>
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      <title>January Photo Contest--Sleeping pets</title>
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      <description>Hi!  This is my entry for the Gather "Sleeping Pets" photo contest for January.  These pics are of our sweet Gabby taking a nap in different spots around the house.  Here lately she really . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:59:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Tiffany v.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-05T14:59:54Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Caption this.......toes in water</title>
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      <description>Caption This:  
 
 
 I snapped this pic as my nephew was standing in the lil pool I bought him to cool off in a few summers ago. Around 2007. 
 
 
 Help me write a caption for it, please. 
 
 
    . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:27:20 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977977016&amp;grpId=3659174697249399&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>L. C.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-05T06:27:20Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Caption this....Cat Pic</title>
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      <description>Can you write the Caption for this pic?  
 
 My sister has dark brown, real long hair, and when holding the cat, made it look like this. lol. 
 The cat was a stray that somehow made it into . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:31:13 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977976894&amp;grpId=3659174697249399&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>L. C.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-05T04:31:13Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Next Word Please....</title>
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      <description>Lets write a story, Word by Word. 
 
 
 I will start it out and person after person will add on by  one word  at a time. 
 
 
 Lets get going and have some fun! 
 
 
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      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:12:45 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977976871&amp;grpId=3659174697249399&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>L. C.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-05T04:12:45Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Featured Content Reminder for ~3,000 Here We Come!~ 1/4</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977976787&amp;grpId=3659174697249399&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>I'm really late getting this posted today, but here is your reminder email to please help clear content in  ~3,000 Here We Come!~  
 
 
 Once content in the group reaches a minimum of 25 comments it . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:16:07 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977976787&amp;grpId=3659174697249399&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Marsha S.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-05T03:16:07Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Mavis</title>
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      <description>Mavis 
 
 By: Wilma Becraft 
   
 
 There once was a small girl, 
 
 
 who had not one lil curl. 
 
 
 How she begged and cried, 
 
 
 her cute lil face she would hide. 
 
 
 Off to the store her . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:40:11 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977976608&amp;grpId=3659174697249399&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Wilma B.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-05T00:40:11Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Untitled</title>
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      <description>Untitled 
 
 By: Wilma Becraft 
 
   
 
 
 Tears roll down my cheeks, 
 
 
 every night i cant sleep. 
 
 
 This aint real its just a bad dream, 
 
 
 reality sits in and i start to scream. 
  . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:34:56 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977976601&amp;grpId=3659174697249399&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Wilma B.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-05T00:34:56Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Today and Tomarrow</title>
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      <description>Today and Tomarrow 
 
 By: Wilma Becraft 
 
   
 
 
 I'll love you today, 
 
 
 cherish you tomarrow. 
 
 
 Make everything okay, 
 
 
 forget all our sorrows. 
 
 
 You make the sun shine bright, . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:30:41 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977976591&amp;grpId=3659174697249399&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Wilma B.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-05T00:30:41Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Daddy</title>
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      <description>Daddy  
 
 
 By: Wilma Becraft 
 
 
     
 
 
  When everything is silent and still,  
 
 
  I can see daddy just over the hill.  
 
 
  Hard at work plowing the fields,  
 
 
  no time to rest . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:26:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Wilma B.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-01-05T00:26:59Z</dc:date>
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