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		<title>2120 Hindsight:  The Barren Years</title>
		<link>http://raywoodcock.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/2120-hindsight-the-barren-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Woodcock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Dear Eleanor,
A little while ago, I came across a silvery disc, half-buried in the hog lot.  I don’t know how it got there.  Probably a sow dug it up while she was rooting around.
I picked it up and looked at it.  It was all scratched and scarred; still, I knew right away what it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raywoodcock.wordpress.com&blog=1610633&post=232&subd=raywoodcock&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Needed:  Poem of History Wiki</title>
		<link>http://raywoodcock.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/needed-poem-of-history-wiki/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Woodcock</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[battle of hastings]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[poem of history]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would be informative and inspiring to set up a wiki dedicated to presenting poems about the events of history.  Go to the page for October 14, 1066 and one of the links there is for the Battle of Hastings.  Follow that link and you&#8217;re on a wiki page where people can post their own [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raywoodcock.wordpress.com&blog=1610633&post=229&subd=raywoodcock&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Proposed:  Morality &lt; Cleanliness &lt; Self-Respect</title>
		<link>http://raywoodcock.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/proposed-morality-cleanliness-self-respect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Woodcock</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cleanliness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[godliness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a response to &#8220;The Smell of Virtue: Clean Scents Promote Reciprocity and Charity,&#8221; Psychological Science (2009) (lead author Katie Liljenquist) (see LiveScience writeup).  The paper says:

[C]lean smells might not only regulate physical cleanliness, but may also motivate virtuous behavior.  &#8230; [M]orality and cleanliness may also be reciprocally linked.  &#8230; [T]he current research identifies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raywoodcock.wordpress.com&blog=1610633&post=227&subd=raywoodcock&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Needed:  National Life&#8217;s Story Library</title>
		<link>http://raywoodcock.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/life-story-librar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Woodcock</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[life's story]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dead men tell no tales.  But that&#8217;s not true if they leave behind a journal or other account of what they&#8217;ve experienced.
During their lifetimes, people accumulate a tremendous amount of information about themselves, the people around them, and current events.  This material is sometimes priceless, but often that&#8217;s not discovered until the person is gone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raywoodcock.wordpress.com&blog=1610633&post=222&subd=raywoodcock&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Needed:  National Sliding Fee Scale</title>
		<link>http://raywoodcock.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/needed-national-sliding-fee-scale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Woodcock</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[benefits]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[income]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[starvation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At present, there are sliding fee scales in which higher fees are charged to higher-income individuals, often to subsidize services provided to lower-income individuals.  This occurs in a variety of areas, such as income taxes and the provision of health services in neighborhood clinics.  These and other income-related gradations in services may be simplified and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raywoodcock.wordpress.com&blog=1610633&post=223&subd=raywoodcock&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Needed:  Canned Biography Website</title>
		<link>http://raywoodcock.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/needed-canned-biography-website/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Woodcock</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[automated]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dating services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[early diagnosis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[input]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[perspective]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[potential mates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resume]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[website]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://raywoodcock.wordpress.com/?p=220</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Suppose I can go to a website and interactively say and learn who I am.  I enter the stuff I&#8217;m pretty sure of &#8211; age, weight, birthplace, and so on, for as many details as the database is configured to accommodate.  Then the website tells me all about who I am, based on what I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raywoodcock.wordpress.com&blog=1610633&post=220&subd=raywoodcock&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Projection:  Housing Prices Are About to Plunge</title>
		<link>http://raywoodcock.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/projection-housing-prices-are-about-to-plunge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Woodcock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Longtime readers know that I place bets for the hell of it.  Easy to do, when you aren&#8217;t putting money on it.
My bet is, housing prices are about to drop.  Here&#8217;s my reasoning.
First, of course, housing prices have recently been recovering.  This could be discounted &#8211; in my hypothesis, it *should* be discounted &#8211; as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raywoodcock.wordpress.com&blog=1610633&post=218&subd=raywoodcock&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Needed:  Freedom to Hire and Fire Instantly</title>
		<link>http://raywoodcock.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/freedom-to-hire-and-fire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Woodcock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business today changes very quickly, and so do the numbers and kinds of employees needed for a task.  To remain globally competitive, employers should have as much latitude as possible to acquire and eliminate employees on short notice.  Many problems arise when hiring or firing someone becomes a huge, time-consuming ordeal:  existing employees find themselves [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raywoodcock.wordpress.com&blog=1610633&post=216&subd=raywoodcock&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Needed:  Compensating Bat</title>
		<link>http://raywoodcock.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/needed-compensating-bat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Woodcock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I need a softball or whiffleball bat that rewards gentle use but somehow becomes spongy or nearly useless when it is used with force, so that adults and children could seriously play the same game.  When you hit the ball hard, it only goes a little ways; when you hit the ball softly, it goes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raywoodcock.wordpress.com&blog=1610633&post=212&subd=raywoodcock&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Everyone Is So F*cking Miserable</title>
		<link>http://raywoodcock.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/everyone-is-so-f_cking-miserable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Woodcock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone is so fucking miserable
But I didn&#8217;t mean to say fucking
Pardon me for being profane
But to the point:  everyone is so f*cking miserable
It&#8217;s a world in pain
Pain!  Pain!
Remember the nastiest headache you ever had
That&#8217;s a good day
Probably
For some poor bastard
With some badwater-induced f*cking disease
In some developing country
(Not developing fast enough)
(I hate headaches.)
I was meaning to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raywoodcock.wordpress.com&blog=1610633&post=209&subd=raywoodcock&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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