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		<title>The Prostate Whisperer and The Guardian</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2025 00:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Now I am a prostate cancer survivor, whose prostatectomy in 2020 almost came too late. I didn’t know that in the US, prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in men. One in eight will be diagnosed with it. One in 44 will die from it.

Being uninformed about those details and testing options could have killed me.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sanity and Impact in the Era of President D.J. Taco</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2025 17:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s hand-wringing. And there&#8217;s taking action. As a jazz pianist who needs to take better care of his hands, I have moved from the former to the latter. Between reckless tariffs, Signal slipups, university shakedowns, vaccine takedowns, meme schemes, and a litany of other lunacy, the current administration has moved me to participate in a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Who Drew On This Baby?</title>
		<link>https://livinged.blog/2024/06/17/who-drew-on-this-baby/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2024 15:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fatherhood. As my wife and I scrambled to the hospital in August of 1998, I had great aspirations of becoming Father of the Year. When push came to push, and our first child Dylan entered the world, it took me fewer than 10 minutes to drop the ball and get taken off the nomination list. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Rogue Prostates</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2024 22:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On Monday, May 12, 2024, jazz saxophonist David Sanborn passed away after a long struggle with prostate cancer. He is only the most recent in a long list of celebrated men who have struggled with that disease, a list that includes Robert Di Nero, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Joe Torre, Nelson Mandela, Frank Zappa, Colin [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>W.H.O.&#8217;s in Charge</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2020 19:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My sincere thanks to The Independent for picking up my piece about why Donald Trump, in all his infinitesimal and infantile &#8220;wisdom,&#8221; pulled the US out of the World Health Organization. It&#8217;s hard to imagine that I, a mere recovering jazz pianist (please enunciate clearly), was able to provide the leaked transcripts that will no [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Jesus Tweet</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 18:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After nearly ten years in market research, I understand in data-driven detail how social media seduces us. It hisses an irresistible promise of digital notoriety from a pulpit of total anonymity, flattering us with an addictive stream of followers, likes, comments, reposts and retweets. By the time we look up from our screens, we’ve become [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Pearl Harbor, Then and Now</title>
		<link>https://livinged.blog/2019/12/07/pearl-harbor-then-and-now/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Dec 2019 05:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As I posted several years back, remembering Pearl Harbor was drilled into me over the years by a friend of my father’s. He had been a navy lieutenant stationed there when the Japanese attacked in 1941. His first reminder came as a phone call on December 7th, 1980, my first year out of college. The [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Veteran&#8217;s Day: A Glimpse of Vietnam</title>
		<link>https://livinged.blog/2019/11/11/veterans-day-a-glimpse-of-vietnam/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2019 20:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My thanks to The Independent for running my article about a riveting glimpse of Vietnam &#8211; 1500 hundred miles offshore. Click here to read &#8220;The Vietnam Veteran Who Taught Me&#8230;&#8221; With gratitude to all those who serve and who have served.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Questions That Keep Parents Up At Night</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2019 22:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had the good fortune of having a recent article published in the Washington Post. It relates a moment when I fielded a somewhat complex late night question from my then 6-year-old son. As I think about it now, I am grateful for the thread that has helped me to navigate parenting, jazz, and life [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Independent: &#8220;Good Guy with a Gun&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://livinged.blog/2019/10/23/independent-good-guy-with-a-gun/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2019 14:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Independent graciously published a piece of mine. With abundant thanks to them and sincere hopes I haven&#8217;t tarnished their journalistic integrity, I direct you to this link: http://bit.ly/2o6QvFi.]]></description>
		
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