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		<title>Trials at Marketing: The Lessons Learned</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[“You must remember,” my mother told me yesterday before dinner, “that all sales begin with a no. Every single person on this planet doesn’t like being solicited for money. It’s your job to turn their...<br/>
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		<title>Matumaini [Hope]</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Note: This is a submission I made to a writing contest. I publish it here.
A hundred ways to say no: I’m busy, I have someone to meet, I forgot my wallet – humankind seems to be able to create...<br/>
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		<title>Why the Mid-East Wars Never Should Have Happened</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Note: This writing is experimental and not of my normal writing nature. It discusses a controversial topic.
President Barack Obama recently announced he was increasing the number of troops in...<br/>
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		<title>A Man Dead and a Lesson Learned</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A trip to Cancun, and a SCUBA diving adventure there with the locals: who would have known a happy family vacation to Mexico would turn so wrong for my mom’s friend. And even now, his family and her...<br/>
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		<title>My Path to Self-Sufficiency</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In my house, I’m required to do two things, and I get paid for one of them. I wash the laundry gratis and I mow the lawn for money. It’s not a bad arrangement, and I liked it just the way it is. But...<br/>
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		<title>My Shirt Billows [Revised]</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It is fall, but Mother Nature doesn’t care. The temperature climbs higher and higher. Meteorologists wince during their broadcasts, and I know they aren’t the only one wincing.
It feels like over a...<br/>
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		<title>Revenge of the Chips</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It was three periods after lunch, and the last period of the school day, and it was math class. Lucky for me, I had to spend my last period of “captivity” listening to math problems… and the sound of...<br/>
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		<title>Caught in a War Zone</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digitalrat/~3/Lu3cu4uwzKw/</link>
		<comments>http://soullog.com/2009/10/03/caught-in-a-war-zone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Houston has a rotten climate: it’s deathly hot in the summer, cold enough to keep me under the covers in the winter, and a completely random rainfall schedule. Sometimes we don’t get any rain for...<br/>
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		<title>Loving Love</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digitalrat/~3/NMNgLtFRVwg/</link>
		<comments>http://soullog.com/2009/09/27/loving-love/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Recently my mother left for a business trip in China. She flew away one evening and that was when I found my dad and I were alone. Suddenly, instead of coming home each day from school with my mom...<br/>
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		<title>The Wrinkles were Gone</title>
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		<comments>http://soullog.com/2009/09/20/the-wrinkles-were-gone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[What I do when I arrive from school is almost scheduled: I get home, I put my bike into its place in the garage, I come upstairs, and then I settle down and begin checking email, reading random...<br/>
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