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		<title>JB Loves Beans</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 15:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#160; Today&#8217;s Adventures of Javabird comic&#8230; &#160; &#160; ____________________________________________________ If you enjoyed today&#8217;s comic, check out: &#8220;JB Spices It Up&#8221; ____________________________________________________<br/>
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		<title>Woofda 1.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 02:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#160; Today&#8217;s life with a dog adventure&#8230; &#160; &#160; ____________________________________________________ If you enjoyed today&#8217;s comic, check out: &#8220;Woofda &#8211; Life From A Dog&#8217;s Perspective&#8221; ____________________________________________________<br/>
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		<title>French Decoded: Learning The Language</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 17:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#160; Those who follow our pages on a regular basis (thank you very much) may have noticed a period of inactivity here a couple weeks back. No, I didn&#8217;t come down with a severe case of writer&#8217;s block. Rather, I was on a vacation. I went to Nice, a beautiful city which lies on the [...]<br/>
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		<title>Dark Chocolate Cinnamon Chili Black Bean Cookies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 18:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#160; What’s your first impression from the title? Do these cookies sound weird? Intriguing? Awful? Awhile back we posted a super simple and amazingly delicious black bean brownie recipe and that got me thinking. You see, I’ve been on a diet and have been trying to increase the amount of fiber I’m eating while cutting [...]<br/>
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		<title>Great Savings 14: Save On Investing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 18:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#160; Investing is tricky business. Some would tell you successful investing is as much about luck and gambling as it is about finding value in a product or company. Others would say stock and bond prices are as much a reflection of a government’s fiscal priorities, some news event or fickle investor sentiment as any [...]<br/>
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		<title>Quick and Healthy Veggie Brown Rice</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 17:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; You want a quick and easy side or entrée. It has to be healthy as you’re trying to cut down on the amount of meat and salt in your diet, not to mention simple carbohydrates. More important, if it doesn’t taste good you know the family will turn thumbs down. What do [...]<br/>
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		<title>JB Spices It Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 17:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bobalot</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://javabird.com/blog/?p=13756</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#160; Today&#8217;s Adventures of Javabird comic&#8230; &#160; &#160; ____________________________________________________ If you enjoyed today&#8217;s comic, check out: &#8220;JB Exposes The Mrs.&#8221; ____________________________________________________<br/>
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		<title>Young Or Old: It’s Time To Think Retirement</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 18:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#160; A couple of recent articles from CNN Money caught my attention for both offered startling statistics. The first, “American’s Buried Under Debt,” reports on a University of Michigan Study. According to CNN, the study found that, “About one out of every five U.S. households owe more on credit cards, medical bills, student loans and [...]<br/>
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		<title>Great Savings 13: Cut The Cost Of Rent</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 16:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; How much of your income should you spend on rent? 20%? 25%? 35%? The trouble with any formula that gives a specific guideline is it rarely takes into account differences in lifestyle or other considerations like location. For example, it’s far more expensive to rent in a big city than out in [...]<br/>
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		<title>Chickpea Salad</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 14:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; Chickpeas, or garbanzo beans if you prefer, are loaded with protein and important nutrients like molybdenum, manganese, folate and iron. However, like most legumes they are valued for their high fiber content. In fact, just two cups of chickpeas provide an entire day’s recommended dose of fiber. Even better, there are now [...]<br/>
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