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		<title>Rule Brittania @ 60</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark W. Law</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can you imagine &#8211; on Monday Queen Elizabeth II will have been on the throne 60 YEARS?
In a reign that is the second longest in British history (she needs three more years on the throne to surpass Queen Victoria), she has seen 12 American Presidents elected, ruled as constitutional monarch of 16 countries (of the 54 in the Commonwealth), headed one of the major churches of the world, and on those rare &#8216;days off&#8217; must have walked at least half the world&#8217;s population of Corgis!
There was a time when i wondered aloud whether we actually need a monarch sitting on the throne of England signing into law measures that will affect the health and well-being of Inuit in Tuktoyaktuk. Do we really need this often stern looking woman peeking out every time we open up our wallet to buy a 24 ounce Timmy&#8217;s double-double? Do we need to subsidize young ...]]></description>
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		<title>Anonymous Hate</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thierry S. Lytle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cran Campbell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Delta]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Internet can be an amazing place, informing, educating, entertaining and connecting.
The last part is perhaps the most important &#8211; the Internet has the ability to connect people, across borders, time zones, ethnic and political backgrounds. But it is this ability to connect that creates the biggest need for responsibility.
How many times have you received an email from a friend / relative / possibly even a stranger that talks about how &#8216;easy&#8217; immigrants have it in this country?
You know the email &#8211; how immigrants come here because of our easy social system that gives them instant medical / dental / welfare cheques without requiring them to become &#8216;Canadian&#8217;. Even worse these emails often allude to a particular group or news event such as the ongoing issue of whether people can wear a burka for religious reasons when having their driver&#8217;s license picture taken. *GASP* &#8211; The Bounders!!
Usually we just delete ...]]></description>
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		<title>Groundhog Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark W. Law</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aurora Colorado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beauregard Lee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Murray]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Messy Church]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe Wiarton Willie and 11 of his pals are right &#8211; an early spring they say &#8211; not a shadow seen from Aurora Colorado (Stormy Marmot) to Lilburn Georgia (General Beauregard Lee).
But it is still Groundhog Day, the day when just about anything can happen &#8211; and keep happening &#8211; just ask Bill Murray in the eponymous movie &#8216; Groundhog Day&#8216;.
In our house 2-dash-2 started off with the Boss trying to download a book from the library to her Kobo, something she has done a scabillion times (great service by the way if you have a Kobo / iPad / Kindle etc.!). No luck today though, seems the computer system at Bruce County Library System saw a shadow and retreated into some cyber-burrow for another 6 weeks.
&#8216;Account deactivated&#8217;, it said.
Thankfully Teeswater Library still has REAL people working on the desk so a quick call confirmed it was indeed the system ...]]></description>
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		<title>Kanadian Karma</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark W. Law</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Olympics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Park City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Burke]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[dictionary.com defines Karma as &#8220;the cosmic principle according to which each person is rewarded or punished in one incarnation according to that person&#8217;s deeds in the previous incarnation.&#8221;
Yesterday Karma was evident in a hospital room in Park City, Utah, as a beautiful young Canadian slid quietly down the half-pipe to her next life.
Sarah Burke was a pioneer. She lived on the edge, pushed the envelope, knew all the cliches of what must be one of the most dangerous sports in the world. And she believed.
Single-handedly she took her sport from the fringe of absurdity to it&#8217;s place in the next Olympics in Sochi. And as is always the way with Karma she paid the ultimate price for her efforts.
Sure, there are going to be those that shake their heads and cluck that the price she paid was not worth what she gained.  And perhaps in some small way they might ...]]></description>
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		<title>A Ceasefire in The War on Drugs?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark W. Law</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asma Jahangir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George P. Shultz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maria Cattaui]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The drug dealers sure aren&#8217;t buying new pink Cadillacs off me; come to think of it even the LCBO better not build a business plan off my bi-annual visits.
I&#8217;m not a drinker. I have my customary glass of white wine (chilled please!) at Christmas dinner and if I am REALLY sick I MIGHT be talked into Grandma Weppler&#8217;s &#8216;Remedy&#8217; of a humbug dissolved in hot water and thimble full of Jack Daniels. As for drugs, my wife thinks it quite funny how loopy I get on a single Ibuprofen.
Maybe I am just lucky.
I read in the news just about every day where people who need drugs, like Marijuana, to ease pain of MS and other nasty diseases are being hassled, arrested and sent to jail for &#8216;supporting the illegal drug trade&#8217;. And I see lots of stories about how expensive it is to build new prisons, or higher fences along ...]]></description>
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		<title>Good Boy Frankly!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynne Frank</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s a guy gotta do go get some respect around here?! Recently retired Frankly should be wondering just that, but,&#8230; he&#8217;s probably asleep on the couch right now, hoping for a tummy rub.
Frankly is my new-found hero, as are all others in his former line of work! Frankly spent 7 years as a police dog in Florida, (Miami-Dade County). He&#8217;s a chocolate lab living comfortably with his former handler, Detective Douglas Bartelt.
During his career Frankly is credited with the seizure of over 2.5 TONS of marijuana and nearly
$5 MILLION in “drug-contaminated money.” Being a lab, (synonymous with “happy” and “friendly”), Frankly was paraded around airports, sports arenas and other public places- his nose on high alert for illegal drugs. Unless they don&#8217;t like being licked, most people just don&#8217;t fear this breed! Dogs can be trained to sniff out meth labs and explosives too. They are a policeman&#8217;s trusted partner ...]]></description>
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		<title>The End of The World?</title>
		<link>http://www.teeswater.ca/2011/12/the-end-of-the-world/?&#038;owa_medium=feed&#038;owa_sid=</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark W. Law</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[A]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nikita Krushchev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pseudo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, here I sit on the last day of 2011, a distinctly normal year (if that is possible around Casa Marcy St.) thinking about all the hoopla surrounding the supposed end of the world in 2012.
For something that on first look appears to be right out of the pages of DC Comics there sure are a lot of people freaking out, building bomb shelters and generally preparing to transform / transcend / transport to the next stage / epoch / whatever. For those of us old enough to remember it all seems reminiscent of Nikita Krushchev banging his shoe on the table at the UN.
So what&#8217;s the deal anyway?
It appears all the palaver started when scientists realized that the Mayan calendar ends in 2012. Who knows what was going on back when Montezuma was the Grand Poobah? But as always occurs when science reaches a void, up step the pseudo-scientists ...]]></description>
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		<title>Is That You, Q?</title>
		<link>http://www.teeswater.ca/2011/12/is-that-you-q/?&#038;owa_medium=feed&#038;owa_sid=</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynne Frank</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Frankly...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GCHQ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerome Waldispuhl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mathieu Blanchette]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tired of the same old 9 to 5?  Hoping for a new career in the New Year?  Need action and adventure? MI5 may be calling very soon!  &#8230;That is, if you&#8217;re a British citizen and caught their GCHQ website on time.
The famous British spy agency has been openly advertising for spies since the 1990&#8242;s, (and also gleaning candidates from Cambridge and Oxford Universities). This year they went viral!  In early November, for about a month, MI5 posted a special cryptographic puzzle. I had a look.  They describe it as a chart of 160 pairs of numbers &#38; letters.  It looked like BINGO gone cyber-loco to me!
MI5 is specifically looking for hackers.  They want experts in &#8216;shell code obfuscation mechanisms&#8217; who can hack and (therefore) defend Britain&#8217;s internet security. Puzzle solvers will be contacted in the spring. If they also happen to have a gift for foreign and rare languages then ...]]></description>
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		<title>Funny How It Goes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark W. Law</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gas bars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Island Highway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local gas station]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Owen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Randy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayne]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas is about family and memories. It can be a blissful or bittersweet trip down memory lane. And it can be chance to reflect on the tall tales and larger than life people from your past.
This past month a larger than life character left my Army &#8216;family&#8217;, bringing us all closer in shock, sadness and grief to share memories, pictures and more than one tall tale. For me it has tempered the frenetic pace of finishing websites, practicing for choir and the rest of the crazy stuff that usually precedes Christmas. And without dwelling too much on it does make me sit back a bit and think about how funny it goes sometimes.
30 years ago I was spending a first Christmas with my then fiancee, 20 years ago a first post-divorce Christmas with Brit and Owen. 10 years ago I was bobbing for Yule apples in Northern Ontario and this ...]]></description>
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		<title>Minnie Thoughts In Christmas Week</title>
		<link>http://www.teeswater.ca/2011/12/minnie-thoughts-in-christmas-week/?&#038;owa_medium=feed&#038;owa_sid=</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Team</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The View]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Minnie is a smart cookie.
Like most of us she zooms along in life, putting out fires, trying to fit 27 hours of &#8216;stuff&#8217; into a 24 hour day and generally trying to keep track of where she is at any given time and where she is headed.
But every once in awhile she will pop me a note or post something on FB that makes me stop for a second and go &#8220;Wow! that is wickedly Right On!&#8221;
This morning, with the next batch of Oatmeal Molasses bread rising in the bread machine, the Junior General delivered to school, Baxter petted (he gets neurotic if you forget this in the morning rush) and several bean bags heated in the microwave I sat down to have a quick gander at Facebook.
After stealing 20 minutes to listen to a very good commentary on SOPA and PIP (bad stuff, really bad!) I happened ...]]></description>
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