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		<title>One Million Moms</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until the recent JC Penney/Ellen &#8220;controversy,&#8221; I did not know about this group of little bigots. Kudos to JC Penney for telling them to take a hike. I love how they tackle the really big issues, like the offensiveness of &#8230; <a href="http://deoblog.com/2012/02/one-million-moms">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In Memoriam:  Dave McVey</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we came home from a ten-day family holiday in Chicago to find a message on our answering machine advising us that an old friend and colleague, Dave McVey, had passed away.  We had missed the funeral. I know Dave &#8230; <a href="http://deoblog.com/2011/07/in-memoriam-dave-mcvey">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Wasting Water a Legal Obligation in Orange, CA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently came upon this article in the Los Angeles Times, which documents a court battle between a young couple and the city of Orange, CA.  The essence of the battle?  The couple have removed their water guzzling front lawn, &#8230; <a href="http://deoblog.com/2010/03/wasting-water-a-legal-obligation-in-orange-ca">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday Greetings 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Everyone! A few years ago, when I started this blog, my intention was to compose regular updates as things happened and then, at Christmas or New Years, simply send out greetings and point folks &#8230; <a href="http://deoblog.com/2009/12/holiday-greetings-2009">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Exchange Gifts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the last shopping day before Christmas upon us, no doubt many are still out there scrambling to purchase those last presents.  At our age, though, the idea of  what constitutes a gift shifts away from the commercial, so we &#8230; <a href="http://deoblog.com/2009/12/lets-exchange-gifts">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging Grannies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you reach a certain age, you just don't have to pull punches any more. I laughed until my throat was sore. <a href="http://deoblog.com/2008/11/blogging-grannies">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>APTI, Day 16 &#8211; Agra, The Taj Mahal &amp; The Red Fort</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>c.deobald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite all its physical grandeur, the Taj is, after all, a tomb.  That diminishes it somehow for me.  Temples are, or were, living places of worship; forts protected and sustained life and carved a place for themselves in history; the Taj is a grave.  No one ever lived in the Taj Mahal, no battles were ever fought there; and the course of history was never altered by its construction.
Call it a monument to love, if you will, but I call it a monument to megalomania and narcissism, one man's attempt to fend off mortality by building an edifice so grand that countless generations would speak his - and his wife's - names.  Remember, too, Mumtaz Mahal wasn't Shah Jihan's only wife; she was just his third, and <em>favourite</em>, wife. <a href="http://deoblog.com/2008/07/apti-day-16-agra-the-taj-mahal-the-red-fort">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>APTI, Day 15 &#8211; Tour Delhi, Drive to Agra</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The road to Agra was nothing short of a marvel, a place where the 21st Century and the Middle Ages roll along side by side.

That's the thing about India; just when I would think that I was beyond surprise, India would smack me upside the head with some stunner that forced me to confess, "Didn't see that one in the tea leaves." <a href="http://deoblog.com/2008/07/apti-%e2%80%93-day-15-tour-delhi-drive-to-agra">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>APTI, Day 14 – Hill Palace in Cochin, Fly to Delhi</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By this time the trip had begun to take on that If-this-is-Tuesday-then-this-must-be-Delhi vibe.  Even though the last couple of days had involved less of the frenetic hop-scotching from one monument to another, the rigors of traveling at least every other day, along with some persistent digestive issues that Irene and I continued to suffer from, were taking their toll.  I doubt that even as an anal-retentive toddler, I ever paid such close attention to the machinations of my lower digestive tract.  <a href="http://deoblog.com/2008/07/apti-day-14-%e2%80%93-hill-palace-in-cochin-fly-to-delhi">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>APTI, Day 13 – Houseboat to Allepey</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In essence, the backwaters of Kerala are river deltas that have, over many years, been contained by man-made sea walls to form a series of canals, some large, others very small.  Rather like a rural, tropical Venice.  <a href="http://deoblog.com/2008/07/apti-day-13-%e2%80%93-houseboat-to-allepey">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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