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		<title>Ubuntu 9.10 &#8211; Best Yet!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In browsing the NY Times sidebars, though, I found this article about Ubuntu and the company behind it, Canonical, that I thought was interesting: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/business/11ubuntu.html?em. I tried Ubuntu Linux a few years ago and was intrigued but thought it was still to difficult for the average user. A few months ago it occurred to me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sparkynet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1333499&amp;post=36&amp;subd=sparkynet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tai Chi in Midland</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been taking Tai Chi lessons since 2005 at Chung&#8217;s School here in town. Sifu Henry Chung is a master of Praying Mantis style Kung Fu and also teaches Wu style Tai Chi. Tai Chi is a soft martial art, with emphasis on using the attacker&#8217;s energy against him. Because it is low impact and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sparkynet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1333499&amp;post=32&amp;subd=sparkynet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From my third floor office I look eastward across flat, brown fields to a horizon of trees, broken by a few distant houses. It&#8217;s late afternoon and as the overcast sky slowly fades, hundreds of Canada geese fly past my window, some in large flocks, some in smaller groups of six or eight and a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sparkynet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1333499&amp;post=16&amp;subd=sparkynet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Bear hit by car in Midland County</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s edition of the Midland Daily Fishwrapper had this headline: &#8220;Bear Hit by Car in Midland County&#8221; &#8211; it was just a teenage bear and no one seems to be thinking of the poor bear. Although there are rural areas in the county, we don&#8217;t tend to think of it as &#8220;wild&#8221; or the sort [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sparkynet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1333499&amp;post=8&amp;subd=sparkynet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New web site for East Coast Paddlers</title>
		<link>http://sparkynet.wordpress.com/2007/07/23/new-web-site-for-east-coast-paddlers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just finished putting up the new site (http://eastcoastpaddlers.com) for the East Coast Paddlers, a group of kayakers in the Saginaw-Midland-Bay City area of mid-Michigan. Not so much a club as a loose association of similarly-minded individuals who like to kayak. We are quite active and open to new members. The site is powered by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sparkynet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1333499&amp;post=7&amp;subd=sparkynet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friends Start Libraries in Africa</title>
		<link>http://sparkynet.wordpress.com/2007/06/17/friends-start-libraries-in-africa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently heard from Kirt Bromley, a friend I used to play bluegrass music with in Ohio. He and his wife, Hilda, have been traveling to Ghana, West Africa, to visit her relatives for some years and they feel that God has called them to build libraries in the rural villages there. For several years [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sparkynet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1333499&amp;post=20&amp;subd=sparkynet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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