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		<title>Here&#8217;s To The Crazy One</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 03:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#x2019;s to the crazy one. The showman, the rebel&#x2026;the troublemaker. The billionaire who nearly lost it all, only to build it back up to be bigger than it ever was.. He wasn&#x2019;t fond of rules, and had no respect for those who couldn&#x2019;t see his vision. You could quote him, disagree with him. Fire him&#8230;and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back To Pounding The Keys</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 03:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello&#x2026;yeah its been awhile. Not much, how bout you? I don&#x2019;t know why I didn&#x2019;t call, but I guess I really just didn&#x2019;t want to talk to you. (Apologies to England Dan and John Ford Coley for mangling the lyrics to &#x201c;I&#x2019;d really like to see you tonight.&#x201d;) Actually it wasn&#x2019;t just you, but I&#x2019;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meeting the Big Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 05:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sad news of this weekend is that legendary sax player and E Street Band member Clarence Clemons has passed away at the age of 69. Clemons was felled by a major stroke some six days earlier, and given the health problems the musician had had in recent years, it appears that his body could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roger Ebert, forgive me</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 05:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like many people I imagine, my opinion of Roger Ebert was mostly formed by watching him as half of the team that defined movie criticism on television when he along with the late Gene Siskel hosted the PBS show &#8220;Sneak Previews&#8221;. Ebert, whose day job was the film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, was usually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Squeeze Of The Hand That Means Everything</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 05:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In reading the latest dispatches regarding the condition and recovery of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, following neurosurgery for the gunshot wound to her head, I was transported back, some dozen-plus years in the blink of an eye. The reports coming from University Medical Center in Tucson, detail how doctors are cautiously encouraged by Ms. Giffords&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1 1 11</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 19:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a crazy time.  I know people say that all the time, but the last half of the last month of 2010 has hit a new high for cranked-up madness. So let&#8217;s get a piece of advice out of the way right now:  If you ever are faced with the idea of uprooting your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Well? We&#8217;re Waiting!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 13:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is the great scene in the movie &#8220;Caddyshack&#8221; where Ted Baxter (as the odious Judge Eilhu Smails) tries to rush along the young caddy Danny Noonan to make the key putt that could win the big golf match.  Baxter, who was never funnier than in this movie, does the amazing comic face with his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tad Overwhelmed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Important safety tip to self:  In the future, avoid making major life changing announcements on Thanksgiving Week. It&#8217;s been just a week since we&#8217;ve told folks that we&#8217;re moving from Connecticut to Cincinnati. It feels like months somehow. The tidal wave of emotions just keeps rolling in, much like when you are a child and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Conferences Not Taken</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 17:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirkv</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent part of this past Saturday attending PodCampCT in New Haven.  Other commitments forced me to leave about halfway through, but it was a great time and I wish I could have stayed for the whole day, which from all accounts was a great success. The event, which brought together over 70 people who [...]]]></description>
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