<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22990044</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2014 05:19:02 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>The Carioca</title><description>Car·i·o·ca (kār&#39;ē-ō&#39;ka) n. A native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.</description><link>http://thecarioca.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Marcel)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22990044.post-2945402860403844685</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-10-09T17:00:33.647-04:00</atom:updated><title>Taking a Break</title><atom:summary type="text">

Hey folks! I&#39;ve decided to give personal blogging a break to focus on my professional blogging endeavors, and am pointing everyone there. I hope you take this detour to enjoy musings about personal development, relationship effectiveness and how to succeed in life. All the old blogs here will be in &quot;draft&quot; mode. Someday, if I decide to resurrect this blog, I will re-post them all. Thanks for </atom:summary><link>http://thecarioca.blogspot.com/2012/08/taking-break.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Marcel)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oxX1j5PZ4UM/UCP-_NQRXXI/AAAAAAAAFQQ/oLQJbg0TFDQ/s72-c/detour.gif" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>