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		<title>The River</title>
		<link>http://cindyclaveau.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/the-river/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The shadow of her spirit moves serenely down to the river. Her dark velvet robe rustles over the damp grass of the riverbank in hushed whispers. She casts a casual glance my way, not appearing to see, bemused at this turn of events; calm as if in a dream, unmoved by the void in her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cindyclaveau.wordpress.com&blog=510708&post=44&subd=cindyclaveau&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Long Goodbye</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case some of you missed it (or in case anyone still ever reads this place), I&#8217;ve been posting occasionally over on The Grid Grind.  It&#8217;s diluted what little time and energy I had for blogging to the point that I just haven&#8217;t been up to keeping up here in the old homestead.
That&#8217;s the way [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cindyclaveau.wordpress.com&blog=510708&post=43&subd=cindyclaveau&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When bloggers get bored</title>
		<link>http://cindyclaveau.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/when-bloggers-get-bored/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michael Duff]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t subscribe to my local newspaper any more.  Haven&#8217;t for a number of years, in fact.  It&#8217;s a small town paper.  Their version of &#8220;news&#8221; is when an elderly couple&#8217;s cat gets lost.  Crime creeps into the headlines once in a while but this is one of those places whose crime rate would make Detroit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cindyclaveau.wordpress.com&blog=510708&post=42&subd=cindyclaveau&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Second Life, Second Gender</title>
		<link>http://cindyclaveau.wordpress.com/2007/09/20/second-life-second-gender/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I&#8217;ve always been intrigued about in Second Life was the issue of gender.  In an anonymous environment like SL, honesty can sometimes become a victim to one&#8217;s subconscious desires.   I say that not as a moral judgment, but as an observation of fact &#8212; a surprising number of Second Life residents [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cindyclaveau.wordpress.com&blog=510708&post=40&subd=cindyclaveau&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Next Life</title>
		<link>http://cindyclaveau.wordpress.com/2007/09/06/the-next-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve blogged here.  Most of my posts have been over on the Grid Grind, where several writers have been keeping the discussion flowing and reporting on the latest Second Life developments.
Lately, the hot topic has been ID Verification. Within the next few weeks, SL residents will have the option of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cindyclaveau.wordpress.com&blog=510708&post=41&subd=cindyclaveau&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Blame Game</title>
		<link>http://cindyclaveau.wordpress.com/2007/07/18/the-blame-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, the AMA backed away from a recommendation by its Council on Science and Public Health that videogame addiction be included as a formal diagnostic disorder.   Had they approved the recommendation, it would have allowed patients suffering from the disorder to seek insurance coverage for treatment and also allowed them to utilize Americans with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cindyclaveau.wordpress.com&blog=510708&post=39&subd=cindyclaveau&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letting Go</title>
		<link>http://cindyclaveau.wordpress.com/2007/06/30/letting-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2007 19:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A close friend of mine recently had to have her favorite pet put to sleep.   She agonized over the decision for weeks &#8211; the dog had been part of her family for almost 10 years but had developed leukemia and her life was slowly becoming a living hell.  In the end, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cindyclaveau.wordpress.com&blog=510708&post=36&subd=cindyclaveau&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In the Not-News</title>
		<link>http://cindyclaveau.wordpress.com/2007/06/29/in-the-not-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have a brand new hero &#8211; and apparently I&#8217;m not alone.
In this video of a recent MSNBC broadcast, news anchor Mika Brzezski angrily refuses to lead her news segment with another meaningless schlock piece on Paris Hilton.  She even tries to light the script on fire, then shreds it.
If there was any thought to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cindyclaveau.wordpress.com&blog=510708&post=35&subd=cindyclaveau&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blood Feuds and Fear Politics</title>
		<link>http://cindyclaveau.wordpress.com/2007/06/15/common-wisdom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any veteran of internet discussion boards knows what I&#8217;m talking about &#8212; show me a discussion forum and I&#8217;ll show you a commonality of interest that binds the posters together, but I&#8217;ll also show you cliques, herd mentalities, &#8220;common wisdom&#8221; and prevalent attitudes that do not permit dissent. A large percentage of this Common Wisdom [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cindyclaveau.wordpress.com&blog=510708&post=34&subd=cindyclaveau&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reality Collides</title>
		<link>http://cindyclaveau.wordpress.com/2007/06/07/reality-collides/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The last few days have been very trying for me in my First Life.  It hasn&#8217;t been as hard for me as it is for the victims of this tragedy, of course, but the ripples of events inevitably spread across a community and impact all of us.  Even those of us, like myself, who are only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cindyclaveau.wordpress.com&blog=510708&post=33&subd=cindyclaveau&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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