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	<title>Cynthia &#187; News</title>
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		<title>Glass makes the news</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey--just a fast note for Ernie lovers: Ernie's mom is in the news.

Brenda Griffith, the powerhouse GlassValkyrie wonderwoman of Atlanta, is doing her best to convert the South to kilnforming (and beadmaking and glassblowing and, apparently, nude dates at the gloryhole, but that's another story).]]></description>
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		<title>Private parts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting piece today in the New York Times on the differences in privacy laws between Europe and the US. It forecasts a significant show-down over privacy rights vs. free-flow of online information.

The article zeros in on Google/YouTube's current Italian legal woes; the court has given prison sentences to Google execs for failing to protect a boy's privacy. It's caused waves of shocked incredulity in the online world but demonstrates what "localization" experts understand through painful experience: The global playing field only LOOKS level. In reality, global transactions often paint a thin veneer of universality over a whole bunch of cultural chasms.]]></description>
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		<title>Dick Francis: Thanks, old friend</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will sorely miss Dick Francis.

Mr. Francis, who died this week at the age of 89, was a legendary British jockey turned sportswriter turned detective novelist. He wrote about the world he knew best, racetracks and horses and jockeys and trainers and grifters. I've been reading his books since I discovered them as a child.

If you haven't read one, you should.]]></description>
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		<title>Chessboxing</title>
		<link>http://www.morganica.com/bloggery/2010/latest/chessboxing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am NOT making this up. Chessboxing is an up-and-coming new sport, alternately known as "the thinking person's contact sport," or  "the strategic violence game." And there's talk of making it an Olympic contest.

Whodathunkit?]]></description>
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		<title>The singing (well, playing) nurse</title>
		<link>http://www.morganica.com/bloggery/2009/latest/the-singing-well-playing-nurse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I’m shakin’ in my boots and I’m breaking out in hives just thinking about it,&#8221; Sharon told me in an email.
Now, Sharon&#8217;s a neonatal nurse who for years has cared for life&#8217;s most vulnerable patients, premature and sick babies. For Sharon, a clear head and dealing in a matter-of-fact way with disaster is a way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gag me</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And no, that's not really a request.

What really got me going was the toad in the Pepsi can. Dude's doing the barbecue thing with his family in Florida, cracks open a can of Diet Pepsi and takes a great big swig...then chokes. It tastes awful, there's this weird "pink linguini" stuff inside the can...]]></description>
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		<title>And that&#8217;s the way it (mostly) is&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Journalists of old used to call this time of year "silly season," when nothing much was going on, the newshole was a tad lean (unless you counted the inevitable "kids go back to school" story)...and so reporters dug down to the bottom of the barrel and started writing about UFO sightings or something.

Seems like there's lots of news but--thankfully--it still nobly upholds the tradition of utter silliness.]]></description>
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		<title>Guzzler&#8217;s Gin in a glass</title>
		<link>http://www.morganica.com/bloggery/2009/latest/guzzlers-gin-in-a-glass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bombay Sapphire's opened up voting for the 2009 edition of its designer glass competition. If you vote for your favorite, you have a chance to win a copy of their new book detailing the history of the competition and its winners, which ought to be an interesting read.

Of course, I'd rather win the glass, but one can't have everything, can one? ;-)]]></description>
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		<title>Swimsuits have molecules. Go figure.</title>
		<link>http://www.morganica.com/bloggery/2009/latest/swimsuits-have-molecules-go-figure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ahhhh, there's nothing I like better than bigots scrambling to prove they're not.

Case in point: A lawsuit in the French courts right now over the use of "burquinis," the ultra-modest sweatsuit-like garments that allow conservative Muslim women to swim in the pool without showing much (of anything). They're banned in some French swimming pools, apparently because they're not sanitary.

There are so many ironies here it's hard to know where to start.]]></description>
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		<title>Ollie comes home at last</title>
		<link>http://www.morganica.com/bloggery/2009/glasswork/ollie-comes-home-at-last/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The newly renovated garage studio is starting to look like a weird kiln store; Oliver Wendell Kiln finally joined his brothers in the garage this afternoon (with a great deal of assistance from his chauffeurs). It's taken nine months to get him here so I kinda feel like I gave birth to a giant space heater today.]]></description>
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