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	<title>Teeswater News - Online! &#187; The View</title>
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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>
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		<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>Groundhog Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark W. Law</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Asma Jahangir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George P. Shultz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maria Cattaui]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mario Vargas Llosa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Volcker]]></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>The End of The World?</title>
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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[Nikita Krushchev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pseudo]]></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>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>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Team</dc:creator>
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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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		<title>On Cycles and Velocipedes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark W. Law</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say when one door closes another opens &#8211; nine years ago I had just lost a very important person in my life, followed shortly by a relationship that is HUGELY important to me today.
If you  follow numerology the world is supposed to work on a nine year cycle, the first three preparing, the second three executing and the final three attaining. And today I am entering my ninth year of this current cycle.
Wow! Total attainment! The world is my oyster&#8230; err&#8230; maybe not&#8230;
According to my nine year cycle &#8220;This year is a year of inner peace, stillness and silence. It is a time of resting and non-activity. It is winter. You wait for the light of spring to come again for a new beginning.&#8221;
Obviously the gods of numerology have a sense of humour.
Firstly if I was to follow this mantra this would be the FIRST year in my life ...]]></description>
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		<title>South Bruce PERFORMS!</title>
		<link>http://www.teeswater.ca/2011/12/south-bruce-performs/?&#038;owa_medium=feed&#038;owa_sid=</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark W. Law</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again South Bruce showed that there are VERY talented people on every street and sideroad in our municipality as the 4th Annual South Bruce Old-Fashioned Christmas Concert took to the Teeswater Town Hall stage on Friday night!
18 performances by local musicians, singers, dancers and readers filled the hall with energy and spirit as we head into the holiday season. And not all were &#8216;seasoned professionals&#8217;, with the acts spanning ages from six to seniors! But all brought &#8216;professionalism&#8217; to the stage, making for a smooth very enjoyable evening for the packed house.
From Rev. Hannah Lee&#8217;s opening prayer to the final chords of &#8216;We Wish You A Merry Christmas&#8217; it was a truly special evening. Highlights for me were &#8216;Felice Navidad&#8217; by six year old Triena Dietz and the &#8216;special guest&#8217; (none other than the Junior General!) invited up on stage to play with the Hillcrest School Band &#8211; what ...]]></description>
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		<title>Virtually Useful</title>
		<link>http://www.teeswater.ca/2011/11/virtually-useful/?&#038;owa_medium=feed&#038;owa_sid=</link>
		<comments>http://www.teeswater.ca/2011/11/virtually-useful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark W. Law</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My nephew said it best a week or so ago on Facebook&#8230;
&#8220;Tumblr/Facebook is starting to annoy slightly. People making posts about cancer saying &#8220;If you don&#8217;t reblog this you don&#8217;t have a heart&#8217; or &#8216;Reblog this to help cancer.&#8217; It&#8217;s a post on the internet, it won&#8217;t stop cancer. Cancer is an awful thing, yeah, but just because 1251 people reblogged a post won&#8217;t make it any better. If you want to help, do something like donate money. Don&#8217;t just sit behind your computer pretending that you&#8217;re helping, because you&#8217;re not.&#8221;
It made me stop for a minute. Maybe it is because I have been around so long that the Internet has become more like a telephone line than a &#8216;groovy cool new world where the usual rules don&#8217;t apply&#8217;. Oh wait, was it ever that?
Now I like Facebook, as anyone on my contact list can tell. It is a great ...]]></description>
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