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	<description>One woman's mid-life crisis and her search for a meaningful life</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>My Roots Grow Deep In Chicago Soil</title>
		<link>http://holeinthedonut.com/2008/08/20/my-roots-grow-deep-in-chicago-soil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I grew up on the south side of Chicago. I fled the city years ago, first to the suburbs and then to more remote areas around the country, but now that I am older, I find myself strangely drawn to Chicago. Perhaps that&#8217;s because all my immediate family members still live in the Chicagoland area. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kite Surfing In A Tropical Storm</title>
		<link>http://holeinthedonut.com/2008/08/19/kite-surfing-in-a-tropical-storm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t imagine WHAT this guy was thinking. What would possess someone to strap themselves into a kite in 60 mph winds? Maybe it&#8217;s the ultimate adrenaline rush. Just seems pretty senseless to me. Check out this video from CNN:


Friends say the guy is expected to make a full recovery. I&#8217;ll bet his kite surfing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Unanticipated Effects Of Tropical Storm Faye</title>
		<link>http://holeinthedonut.com/2008/08/19/unanticipated-effects-of-hurricane-fay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hurricane Faye may not have amounted to much of a tropical storm, but her crazy energy certainly wreaked havoc in my life. Beginning on Saturday, things just started to go wrong for me. Think I&#8217;m exaggerating? Read on.

I&#8217;d been putting off upgrading my blog to the new 2.6 version of WordPress (for you non-techies out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nikolai Tesla&#8217;s Dream Of Free Energy For All May Soon Be A Reality</title>
		<link>http://holeinthedonut.com/2008/08/18/nikolai-teslas-dream-of-free-energy-for-all-may-soon-be-a-reality/</link>
		<comments>http://holeinthedonut.com/2008/08/18/nikolai-teslas-dream-of-free-energy-for-all-may-soon-be-a-reality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[alternative fuels]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Nikolai Tesla]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nikolai Tesla was one of the world&#8217;s greatest inventors. Born in 1843 in Croatia, Tesla emigrated to the U.S. in 1891 at the age of 35 and immediately set up a lab in New York, where he began research in the fields of electromechanical engineering and electromagnetism, among others. Tesla is said to have contributed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The WWII Great Escape Through Tunnel Harry</title>
		<link>http://holeinthedonut.com/2008/08/17/the-wwii-great-escape-through-tunnel-harry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Great Escapes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ley Kenyon]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nazis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the middle of the night on March 24, 1944, 76 Allied airmen crawled on their bellies through a 300-foot long tunnel to escape from the Nazi POW Camp, Stalag Luft III (see photo above). They did it by constructing three tunnels the airmen named &#8220;Tom,&#8221; &#8220;Dick,&#8221; and &#8220;Harry,&#8221; using only tools that they could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sounds Of Silence</title>
		<link>http://holeinthedonut.com/2008/08/16/the-sounds-of-silence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 01:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[noise pollution]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[One Square Inch of Silence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mixed in amongst the rock, R&#038;B, blues, and folk songs that comprise my music collection is a CD that contains a 20-minute recording made at a lake at the Khlong Saeng Wildlife Sanctuary. In 2004 I visited this Sanctuary, which is located in a remote area on the southern peninsula of Thailand. There are no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Profound Thoughts</title>
		<link>http://holeinthedonut.com/2008/08/15/profound-thoughts/</link>
		<comments>http://holeinthedonut.com/2008/08/15/profound-thoughts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[forgiveness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My sister emailed this to me today and it is well worth repeating:
Two friends were walking through the desert. During the journey, they had an argument and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand:
&#8220;Today my best friend slapped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pondering The New Technology of Invisibility</title>
		<link>http://holeinthedonut.com/2008/08/14/pondering-the-new-technology-of-invisibility/</link>
		<comments>http://holeinthedonut.com/2008/08/14/pondering-the-new-technology-of-invisibility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[No longer the stuff of science fiction, researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have successfully rendered three dimensional objects invisible. How does it work? Think about a smooth rock in a river. The water parts when it encounters the rock, flows around it, and then closes up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Is Why I Don&#8217;t Cruise</title>
		<link>http://holeinthedonut.com/2008/08/13/this-is-why-i-dont-cruise/</link>
		<comments>http://holeinthedonut.com/2008/08/13/this-is-why-i-dont-cruise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There are quite a few reasons why I don&#8217;t take cruises:

I get terribly seasick
I think I would feel trapped (I&#8217;d rather be out backpacking on some mountain or jungle trail)
I would hate having to be back to the ship at a certain time, because I love to wander and just go where the spirit takes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Don&#8217;t Fit The Mold</title>
		<link>http://holeinthedonut.com/2008/08/11/i-dont-fit-the-mold/</link>
		<comments>http://holeinthedonut.com/2008/08/11/i-dont-fit-the-mold/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I was talking to a friend who&#8217;d recently been shopping for new bras. Because she hadn&#8217;t been professionally fitted for a number of years, she went to an upscale department store, where the saleswomen are trained to measure for the proper size and shape bra. The saleswoman told my friend that a woman&#8217;s bustline, [...]]]></description>
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