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<title><![CDATA[Get Daily wear for babies. Starts at Rs 99 from BabyOye.com]]></title>
<link>http://indiadiscounts.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/get-daily-wear-for-babies-starts-at-rs-99-from-babyoye-com-2/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sabsebada16</dc:creator>
<guid>http://indiadiscounts.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/get-daily-wear-for-babies-starts-at-rs-99-from-babyoye-com-2/</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Update 4.8.13]]></title>
<link>http://minimotives.com/2013/04/08/update-4-8-13/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 04:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Macy M</dc:creator>
<guid>http://minimotives.com/2013/04/08/update-4-8-13/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Pretty simple update tonight, nothing fantastically exciting&#8230; it was too windy to even unload]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Reputation Management Starts With Creating Brain Trust]]></title>
<link>http://syariansblog.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/reputation-management-starts-with-creating-brain-trust/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 03:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Imran Syarif</dc:creator>
<guid>http://syariansblog.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/reputation-management-starts-with-creating-brain-trust/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[You ask, &#8220;Why does my business need reputation management now all of a sudden?&#8221; The rise]]></description>
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<p>You ask, &#8220;Why does my business need <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Reputation Management" href="http://syarian.com"><strong>reputation management</strong></a> now all of a sudden?&#8221; The rise of social networking has provided everybody a voice; it has created views and opinion count for all; every transfer is observed and talked about and it is all in creating, freely accessible and can shift in an instant.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.syarian.com/go/link/"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1665" alt="Reputation Management" src="http://soscomplete.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Reputation-Management-icon1.jpg" width="100" height="80" /></a></p>
<p>In this context, reputation management has had on renewed relevance and this relates to persons, leaders and entire businesses.</p>
<p>Large organizations protecting their manufacturer have invested big dollars on managing status and shaping opinion for a long time, but now all organizations need to realize how reputation is shaped and go a bit more critically.</p>
<p>Trust &#8211; The Building Blocks of Status</p>
<p>Trust is the crucial component of any great relationship.</p>
<p>Within the connection between you and the people, or your clients, building trust is the inspiration for making and preserving a great standing.</p>
<p>It is such a precious commodity for any leader or any business; the only difficulties are which you can not purchase it and it can be removed at any time!</p>
<p>Trust is bestowed upon an entity and the choice to trust lies completely with the other entity; it depends upon the understanding of others, therefore what this means is the greatest we can perform to get it is do the right items to market trust, whilst carefully controlling our picture, behavior and the content we released in the public arena.</p>
<h2>Reputation Management and Determining to Trust</h2>
<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at a few of the variables that go in to deciding to trust some one, and how they relate to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Why Reputation Management Has To Work For You" href="http://syarian.com/2013/04/05/why-reputation-management-has-to-work-for-you/"><em>reputation management</em></a>.</p>
<p>Robert F. Hurley identifies three distinct elements that relate merely for the decision-maker:</p>
<p>These are:</p>
<p>* How risk-tolerant is the truster?</p>
<p>* How nicely modified is the truster?</p>
<p>* Just how much relative energy does he or she have?</p>
<p>Then there are seven situational variables:</p>
<p>* How safe do the parties feel?</p>
<p>* How several similarities exist between them?</p>
<p>* How well aligned are the parties&#8217; interests?</p>
<p>* Does the trustee show benevolent concern?</p>
<p>* May be the trustee competent?</p>
<p>* Gets the trustee shown predictability and credibility?</p>
<p>* Do the events have good communication?</p>
<p>Of course, the above mentioned is extremely subjective. Info is funneled through a swathe of social, cultural and biological components, before we make judgments and type views.</p>
<p>A leader can do every thing in his energy to current real and exact info, but when it doesn&#8217;t resonate well with the &#8216;target&#8217;, maybe as a result of previous experiences or a cultural variation, then it will not result in great engagement or trust.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, any leader within an organization can use the preceding seven situational variables like a workable information to success. If all these are ticked then the chance is that they can bring content clients, which alone develops a great standing.</p>
<p>Managing Understanding</p>
<p>We have more resources at our disposal nowadays to comprehend what&#8217;s happening inside the mind when we make decisions; imaging tools from neuroscience are capable to reveal which regions of the brain are most energetic when subjected to specific stimuli, and this can help with reputation management also.</p>
<p>Trust strikes right in the primitive, emotional and concern heart of the mind; this is known as the &#8216;amygdala&#8217; and when it is extremely energetic, it confines blood-flow to the mind centers concerned with issue solving and successful communication.</p>
<p>This is fascinating because we understand that individuals don&#8217;t think clearly when they are subjected to danger or anxiety; they will be quite unlikely to rely upon this scenario also.</p>
<h3>Reputation Management and The Hurley Model</h3>
<p>To engender a great reputation, we have to develop methods that avoid alerting the brain&#8217;s anxiety centers and instead help produce emotions of unity, comfort, safety, protection and need-satisfaction. This successfully backs up Hurley&#8217;s model above, and answers the question of why your business &#8220;all of a sudden&#8221; requires <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Reputation Management" href="http://syarian.com/services/reputation-monitoring-management/"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">reputation management</span></a>.</p>
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<p>Source : <a href='http://www.syarian.com/reputation-management-starts-with-creating-brain-trust.html' title='Reputation Management Starts With Creating Brain Trust' target='_blank'>http://www.syarian.com</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Peppers and Onions]]></title>
<link>http://teaspoonsgarden.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/peppers-and-onions/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Teaspoon's Garden</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Peppers have sprouted!  Three little Anaheims greeted me this morning, pushing their tiny cotyledons]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Peppers have sprouted!  Three little Anaheims greeted me this morning, pushing their tiny cotyledons against the damp plastic lid of the starter tray as if to say, &#8220;Let us out!&#8221;  So I did.</p>
<div id="attachment_274" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 152px"><a href="http://teaspoonsgarden.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/20130408_anaheim.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-274 " alt="Anaheim pepper seedling" src="http://teaspoonsgarden.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/20130408_anaheim.png?w=142&#038;h=266" width="142" height="266" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">I&#8217;m a pepper! Wouldn&#8217;t you like to be a pepper, too?</p></div>
<p>The lone surviving Pasilla Bajio from the first planting is starting to peek out a bit, and might stand up by tomorrow.  Four replacement onions are also starting to sprout, little green-white loops not yet strong enough to lift the seed casing.</p>
<p>Three more onions collapsed past the point of recovery when the tray dried out too much over the weekend&#8211;hazards of starting things at work.  I pulled them and re-started them, but those will likely be the last that I re-start.  I&#8217;ve got a lot of other things to start and supplies to shop for and new beds to build!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[2011 SBIFF Writers' Panel It Starts with the Script]]></title>
<link>http://ubebook.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/2011-sbiff-writers-panel-it-starts-with-the-script/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 06:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>tintute</dc:creator>
<guid>http://ubebook.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/2011-sbiff-writers-panel-it-starts-with-the-script/</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[When A Great Deflationary Bear Starts Turning Inflationary]]></title>
<link>http://currenteventsusa.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/when-a-great-deflationary-bear-starts-turning-inflationary/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 00:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ace5ace</dc:creator>
<guid>http://currenteventsusa.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/when-a-great-deflationary-bear-starts-turning-inflationary/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When A Great Deflationary Bear Starts Turning Inflationary Submitted by Tyler Durden 04/02/2013 http]]></description>
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<h3 style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-02/when-great-deflationary-bear-starts-turning-inflationary" rel="bookmark">When A Great Deflationary Bear Starts Turning Inflationary </a></h3>
<h5 style="text-align:center;">Submitted by Tyler Durden<br />
04/02/2013</h5>
<h5 style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.zerohedge.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.zerohedge.com</a></h5>
<h5><span style="color:#ffffff;">.</span></h5>
<h4>Over the past four years one of the dominant &#8220;deflationists&#8221; has been Gluskin Sheff&#8217;s David Rosenberg.</h4>
<h5><span style="color:#ffffff;">.</span></h5>
<h5>Please click the link to see the complete article.</h5>
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<title><![CDATA[Next Up!]]></title>
<link>http://teaspoonsgarden.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/next-up/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 00:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Teaspoon's Garden</dc:creator>
<guid>http://teaspoonsgarden.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/next-up/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Fortunately, I don&#8217;t expect perfection in my garden, because unfortunately, three of my eight]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fortunately, I don&#8217;t expect perfection in my garden, because unfortunately, three of my eight Anaheim starter peats and a whopping seven of my eight Pasilla Bajio starter peats went moldy and had to be discarded.  In better news, two of the Anaheims are starting to poke up, though I hesitate to call them sprouts until I see some cotyledons.</p>
<p>(Weirdly, last year&#8217;s efforts included cucumbers, one of which sprouted cotyledons, which hung about for quite a long time just barely above the soil.  When I decided they were never going to become a cucumber plant and pulled them up, there was no evidence of there ever having been roots of any kind!)</p>
<p>Today, in addition to planting four more Pasillas, I started four kinds of tomato, eggplant, two kinds of basil, and some lemon mint.</p>
<p>I succumbed to &#8220;just one more&#8221; and bought two packets of marigold seeds (Brocade Mix and Petite Mix) and a packet of Yellow Canary Creeper nasturtium from <a title="Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds" href="http://www.rareseeds.com/" target="_blank">Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds</a>, who kindly sent me another free packet of Red Romaine lettuce.  I&#8217;ll be finding someone to give that to, since they already sent me one with my first order of the season.</p>
<p>The only other news for now is that none of the indoor salad has sprouted yet, which is not terribly surprising considering that I did not cover the planters to help warm things up, and I&#8217;ve marked out my new beds for the year with little stone cairns, so I can start clearing ground, now that we&#8217;re having some occasional warm days.  Hopefully my next post will include a picture of some tiny pepper sprouts!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[IP trading working group starts]]></title>
<link>http://lexisnexishk.com/2013/04/03/ip-trading-working-group-starts/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 02:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>LexisNexis Hong Kong</dc:creator>
<guid>http://lexisnexishk.com/2013/04/03/ip-trading-working-group-starts/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Secretary for Commerce &amp; Economic Development Gregory So held the first meeting of the Working G]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Day 2 Inspiration]]></title>
<link>http://beesteesblog.com/2013/04/02/day-2-inspiration/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 04:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>About Me</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Our tomato choices.]]></title>
<link>http://gardening19104.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/our-tomato-choices/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>hal1fax</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[When we plan our gardens each year, one of the toughest decisions is which tomato varieties to grow.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright" alt="" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8158/7700307436_de7b7b45b8_q.jpg" width="150" height="150" />When we plan our gardens each year, one of the toughest decisions is which tomato varieties to grow.  If you take a gander at the transplants on the shelves of the big ol&#8217; garden centers, you see mostly intensively fertilized generic hybrids like Better Boy and maybe a half dozen similar types, which we couldn&#8217;t care less about growing (let alone eating, for that matter).  But assuming those are undesirable for a handful of reasons &#8212; not even just because it&#8217;s way more fun to grow your own &#8212; we&#8217;re still left with an enormous, overwhelming number of options!  As <a href="http://http://www.seedsavers.org/" target="_blank">Seed Savers Exchange</a> <a href="http://www.seedsavers.org/Membership/" target="_blank">Members</a>, we receive the Yearbook of available seeds, which for 2013 has nearly 200 <em>pages</em> of  tomatoes listed.   Some dedicated folks personally collect hundreds of varieties, such as in <a href="http://tatianastomatobase.com/seed-catalog/html/" target="_blank">this database of 663 open-pollinated rare and heirloom tomatoes</a>.  We don&#8217;t aspire to seed bank status, but we love that there are others out there who do!  Even if they make our decisions harder by inundating us with their colorful, poetic catalogs of seeds, we don&#8217;t want to ever live in a world without Watermelon Beefsteak or Cream Sausage.<em></em></p>
<p><img class="alignleft" alt="" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6083/6036354834_a7893d6159_m.jpg" width="143" height="240" /></p>
<p><span style="font-style:inherit;line-height:1.5;">Well then, how do we figure it out?  How do we take hundreds and hundreds of possibilities and say, &#8220;You four!&#8221;?  Pretty much just dumb luck, it turns out.  In our case, because there are two of us growers, and one (me) who has a very complicated relationship with the world&#8217;s favorite solenoid,  there are plenty of ways to rule out the majority of wacky and wonderful varieties.  For starters, we have to agree on our choices, and we don&#8217;t want to spread ourselves too thinly, so we try to keep it under 6 varieties.  We also consider</span></p>
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<li><span style="line-height:12px;">how quickly they grow and ripen</span></li>
<li>how big they get, both the plant and the fruit</li>
<li>what maladies might befall them</li>
<li>how successful we&#8217;ve been with them in the past</li>
<li>how we can cook with them, and</li>
<li>how suitable they are for eating raw (if we must)</li>
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<p>With all of those variables in mind, we come up with a shortlist of definitelys and maybes.  Our first definitely this year was Black Sea Man, due to its awesome performance last season.  We received and started them late, they got dug up and stolen, the thief planted them in mostly shade, and STILL they bore beautiful fruit by the end of the summer.  This year, we plan to give them better growing conditions and see what they can really do!  They&#8217;re supposed to be an extra-early producer, which is common for Russian types of tomatoes for fairly obvious reasons.  The plants are determinate, also, which means they take up a finite amount of space and time in our gardens &#8212; helpful when we&#8217;re trying to cram so many sowings into our limited square footage.  Another neat thing about them is that the leaves can be either &#8220;regular&#8221; or &#8220;potato&#8221; shaped.  It&#8217;s fun to see how they come up, and this year&#8217;s starts seem to be slightly favoring the potato-leaved option.  Part of ultimate plan for Black Sea Man is also to save seed to offer friends and other growers if we are able.  More people need to know about this bombproof beauty!</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 210px"><img class=" " alt="photo from loghouseplants.com" src="http://loghouseplants.com/plants/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Black-Seaman-web.jpg" width="200" height="200" /><p class="wp-caption-text">#1: Black Sea Man</p></div>
<p>Our second definitely is another &#8220;black&#8221; variety, the delightful Black Cherry.  We knew we needed some kind of cherry, and we just hadn&#8217;t been that thrilled with our old standby of several seasons past, Yellow Pear.  For one, they split a lot with our hot weather and spotty rainfall, so despite their very prolific fruit production, much of it was wasted.  And two, their flavor was only so-so under imperfect growing conditions, even when they had plenty of space. So when we got a few Black Cherry from City Harvest last year and put them in different spots in different gardens, we were pleasantly surprised at their ability to give us nice fruit that could withstand all the variability in watering and also wait a few days on the vine til we got around to harvesting.  Natalie says their flavor is the best of all the cherries she had last year, so that sealed the deal.</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 210px"><img class=" " alt="photo from americanmeadows.com" src="http://media.americanmeadows.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/317x/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/P/r/Prod_TomatoBlackCherry.jpg" width="200" height="200" /><p class="wp-caption-text">#2: Black Cherry</p></div>
<p>Our final definitely was my top pick for all around usefulness, Amish Paste.  My preference is for cooked tomatoes, and the meatier, low-moisture varieties like this are best for canning and processing.  Amish Paste also happens to have won several awards for flavor, not only among Roma or paste varieties, but judged against all widely grown heirlooms, including powerhouses like the Brandywines!   Last year we were able to put up several pints of salsa from our tomato bounty, but this year we want canning and preserving to be more of a focus, so we had to have this pantry staple lined up for harvest time.</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 210px"><img class=" " alt="photo from mightymato.com" src="http://mightymato.com/wp-content/uploads/catablog/originals/MM_AmishPaste.gif" width="200" height="200" /><p class="wp-caption-text">#3: Amish Paste</p></div>
<p>One of our maybes that kept coming up in conversation was Green Zebra, a smallish, unusual-looking variety.  Perhaps because of its unique appearance, we just couldn&#8217;t stop think and talking about this fun little weirdo.  Somewhere between a plum and a typical salad tomato in size, the Green Zebra was a relatively unfussy addition to the garden from City Harvest last year.  We were unsure about how to appropriately time our harvests when we first got going with it, but the fruit has a neat trick of turning slightly yellow when it&#8217;s ready to be picked!  I recall that we both enjoyed its tangy flavor, and I&#8217;m guessing it would make a great salsa verde (combined with tomatillos, which we&#8217;re growing  for the first time this year) when it comes time to make use of an abundance of them.</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 210px"><img class=" " alt="photo from burpee.com" src="http://www.burpee.com/images/product/prod002001/prod002001_lg.jpg" width="200" height="236" /><p class="wp-caption-text">#4: Green Zebra</p></div>
<p>To sum it all up, we haven&#8217;t taken this job of tomato growing at all lightly!  We had to choose what&#8217;s right for the locations and schedules we&#8217;re working with, and what makes us happy.  Even though it&#8217;s just one of dozens of fruits and vegetables we&#8217;ll grow in a year, the tomato has a special place in our gardening hearts, and I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re alone in that.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Mom (Joanie): "Hallelujah! They are risen!"]]></title>
<link>http://gardening19104.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/mom-joanie-hallelujah-they-are-risen/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>hal1fax</dc:creator>
<guid>http://gardening19104.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/mom-joanie-hallelujah-they-are-risen/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Things are going great in the blasphemous basement, with lots and lots of green things, just a week]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Things are going great in the blasphemous basement, with lots and lots of green things, just a week shy of our official frost free date.  These nursery residents will spend a few more weeks inside, just in case!</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" alt="" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8545/8605816387_729732428a_z.jpg" width="640" height="361" /></p>
<p>The Frost-Free Date (FFD) does not mean anything per se, but helps put a mark on the calendar when we can start to think about planting outside in earnest.  April 6 is our FFD in Philly, which just means that on average, the last frost comes slightly before or slightly after the first week of April.  Of course, we could get a blast of cold weather even in the middle or end of April, but as of right now, the forecasts seem to be sticking to the trend of years past.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" alt="" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8243/8606961106_98fdcf8364_z.jpg" width="640" height="361" /></p>
<p>Naturally, we couldn&#8217;t help but sow several varieties of cold-hardy seeds, but even those troopers aren&#8217;t growing terribly quickly with such low temperatures and intermittent sunshine.  Perennials are starting to put out some growth and have already gotten their dead old growth pruned away to make space. Our earliest-blooming bulbs (crocuses, daffodils, several more I can&#8217;t name but love anyway) are doing just peachy with some wet snows and freezing nights, but ones like tulips with their massive leaves are waiting til things are a little less dicey.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Music of your heart...]]></title>
<link>http://messageplanet.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/music-of-your-heart/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 11:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>messageplanet</dc:creator>
<guid>http://messageplanet.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/music-of-your-heart/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[How lovely the music of your heart. You are the air I breathe, the sound I hear and the spirit that]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ode to him IX]]></title>
<link>http://nurpages.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/ode-to-him-ix-2/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 15:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>anibogh</dc:creator>
<guid>http://nurpages.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/ode-to-him-ix-2/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This is a kind of night That tempts me to write on the palms of your hands, Makes me want to Read yo]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Patience, Shmatience]]></title>
<link>http://teaspoonsgarden.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/patience-shmatience/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 02:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Teaspoon's Garden</dc:creator>
<guid>http://teaspoonsgarden.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/patience-shmatience/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[One of the trials of gardening at 7200 feet is the short growing season.  We&#8217;ve had a couple o]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the trials of gardening at 7200 feet is the short growing season.  We&#8217;ve had a couple of shirt-sleeves days, but our last frost date isn&#8217;t until June sometime.  I, however, have had entirely enough store-bought produce.  So along with starting my Anaheim and Pasilla Bajio pepper seeds today, I filled a couple of long planters with mushroom compost left over from last year and planted some assorted lettuces and lettuce-like things, and some chives.</p>
<div id="attachment_265" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 522px"><a href="http://teaspoonsgarden.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/20130329_peppers-and-lettuce_small.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-265" alt="Three Jiffy starter boxes and two long, pale green planters filled with mushroom compost join some empty water bottles on a table." src="http://teaspoonsgarden.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/20130329_peppers-and-lettuce_small.jpg?w=512&#038;h=384" width="512" height="384" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The bottles are to cut down for small pots to put the onions in when they need more space than their tiny   starter peats.</p></div>
<p>I planted iceberg, red romaine, Lollo Rossa, Bunte Forellenschluss, arugula, spinach, mizuna, lovage, and chives.  The peppers are in the covered Jiffy starter box.  I started the peppers on a Friday, so there would be two days before I see them again, which will hopefully make it feel like less time until the excitement of sprouts.</p>
<p>The onion sprouts are just visible in the front starter box on the left side.  They have had a small haircut to keep them from falling over, so I&#8217;ve already had my first harvest this season&#8211;I put the trimmings on my tuna sandwich for lunch that day!  I am hoping they didn&#8217;t get so tall due to insufficient light&#8230;the table is directly under a skylight, but the angle of the sun puts the most direct light about two feet on the other side of that cubical wall to the right for now.  (By midsummer, it will be shining directly onto that table, and I will be considering wearing my sunglasses at my desk.)  I guess I&#8217;ll have my answer when I see if my pepper plants get all leggy on me or not.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Marvel Superhero Takeover Starts April 24th]]></title>
<link>http://clubpenguinawesomeguide.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/marvel-superhero-takeover-starts-april-24th/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>coollegoguy4</dc:creator>
<guid>http://clubpenguinawesomeguide.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/marvel-superhero-takeover-starts-april-24th/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Hi Peeps! I have some exciting news. The Marvel Superhero Takeover, after a successful party last ye]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Peeps! I have some exciting news. The Marvel Superhero Takeover, after a successful party last year with the same name and theme, will be taking place in April, starting on the 24th.</p>
<p>Here is the confirmation from Spike Hike on the Club Penguin Blog.</p>
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<h2><a href="http://www.clubpenguin.com/blog/2013/03/april-party-announcement-spike-hike">April Party Announcement from Spike Hike!</a></h2>
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<div>By Spike Hike on March 28, 2013 &#8211; 13:43 &#124; <a href="http://www.clubpenguin.com/blog/2013/03/april-party-announcement-spike-hike">Comments (0)</a></div>
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<p> <br /> Greetings True Believers!</p>
<p>I&#8217;m unbelievably excited to announce the return of the Marvel Superhero Takeover on April 24th!!</p>
<p><img alt="" src="http://www.clubpenguin.com/sites/default/files/images/blog/MarvelParty2013Logo_blog1-1364492281.png" width="580" height="329" /></p>
<p>There are many secrets ahead, so I won&#8217;t spoil the surprise, but I can tell you this is an almost ENTIRELY NEW PARTY with new heroes, new villains, and new places from the Marvel Universe!! You are not going to want to miss this&#8230;</p>
<p>Excelsior… and Waddle On!</p>
<p>- Spike &#8220;The Penguin&#8221; Hike &#38; The Club Penguin Team</p>
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<p><strong>EPIC!</strong> I missed the Marvel Superhero takeover last year, so this year will be a great opportunity for me to experience it. By the sounds of it, it may be completely different from last year and will host some <strong>NEW</strong> Party Rooms and Costumes of Marvel Superheroes.</p>
<p><strong>UNTIL THEN&#8230;WADDLE ON!</strong></p>
<p><strong>BOSS OF THE BLOG,</strong></p>
<p><strong>COOLLEGOGUY4.</strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Ouya Console Starts Shipping to Kickstarter Backers With 104 Games]]></title>
<link>http://igniteartsorg.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/ouya-console-starts-shipping-to-kickstarter-backers-with-104-games-2/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>igniteartsorg</dc:creator>
<guid>http://igniteartsorg.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/ouya-console-starts-shipping-to-kickstarter-backers-with-104-games-2/</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Ouya Console Starts Shipping to Kickstarter Backers With 104 Games]]></title>
<link>http://igniteartsorg.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/ouya-console-starts-shipping-to-kickstarter-backers-with-104-games/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>igniteartsorg</dc:creator>
<guid>http://igniteartsorg.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/ouya-console-starts-shipping-to-kickstarter-backers-with-104-games/</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Samsung Galaxy S 4 Pre-Sale Starts April 16 for $249]]></title>
<link>http://igniteartsorg.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/samsung-galaxy-s-4-pre-sale-starts-april-16-for-249/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 22:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>igniteartsorg</dc:creator>
<guid>http://igniteartsorg.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/samsung-galaxy-s-4-pre-sale-starts-april-16-for-249/</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Goals: time to rethink yours?]]></title>
<link>http://aspireperspirenourish.com/2013/03/28/goals-time-to-rethink-yours/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>aspireperspirenourish</dc:creator>
<guid>http://aspireperspirenourish.com/2013/03/28/goals-time-to-rethink-yours/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Goals have been on my mind lately.  Over the last year, I’ve had a few injuries that have prevented]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://aspireperspirenourish.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/img_2398.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-248 alignleft" alt="IMG_2398" src="http://aspireperspirenourish.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/img_2398.jpg?w=240&#038;h=180" width="240" height="180" /></a>Goals have been on my mind lately.  Over the last year, I’ve had a few injuries that have prevented me from committing to run another marathon.  Every time I’d plan to start my training, my injury would re-occur.  I had to face the fact that my body was not ready for another intense 16 weeks of training.  What to do?  Logically, time to rethink my goals.  Emotionally, it took a while for this thought to sink in, as I had to first accept that I needed to do something different in my fitness routine.  Eighteen years ago when my last injury sidelined me from running, I had no plan for alternatives and was at a loss for what to do.  Today, with fitness as a regular part of my life, the choices for alternatives are endless.  During this latest injury, I was determined to stay fit even without running as a major component of my life!  What this meant was getting competent at doing other stuff.  For me the challenge was improving my swimming.</p>
<p>I’m sure many of you have faced a similar situation in your past or maybe you’re dealing with it right now.  An injury or a lack of motivation can put a damper on your fitness and on your emotional wellbeing.  Don’t let them!  In fact, a change in routine can help you break through a plateau or help you regain energy or excitement for fitness.  You need to be careful with injuries but as long as you get approval from your doctor, there are a number of things you can do.  If you are “older” like we are, then reflect on this quote from World Health Gym’s latest advertising, “Everything that gets worse with age gets better with exercise.”</p>
<p><a href="http://aspireperspirenourish.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/img_2395.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-247 alignright" alt="IMG_2395" src="http://aspireperspirenourish.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/img_2395.jpg?w=240&#038;h=180" width="240" height="180" /></a>Goal setting can be powerful to energize you into action.  I’m not talking about the goal setting you’ve done at the office, i.e. setting a goal because you’ll get something from somebody if you do it!  Research in the sports psychology field shows that progress towards achieving goals is more successful when the goals are intrinsic; that is, when you do something because of the fun and enjoyment that the goal provides you or when the primary reason is simply your interest in the experience itself.  For those of you who say you don’t enjoy fitness but you believe that fitness is important to your health, know that goals that you believe are important or that you endorse freely and value whole heartedly are also more effective in helping you achieve them.  Bottom line, with fitness you need to do it for yourself!  The research also found that these types of goals are even more effective when combined with implementation plans that are ‘approach oriented’ versus ‘avoidance oriented.’  What this means is that each goal is supported by actions you will take to help achieve the goals instead of supported by actions you will avoid.  For example, rather than saying, “I won’t skip my workouts,” you state, “I will workout 3 times per week.” (If you are interested in reading one of the articles on this research, see Autonomous Motivation, Controlled Motivation and Goal Progress, 2008)</p>
<p>As you can tell, I’m a strong believer in goals and plans.  My latest attempt at goal setting required a step back to examine the reason that running another marathon was important to me and what else could satisfy this desire.  Through this process, I discovered what truly mattered to me and found activities other than running that could help me stay fit and strong and that could give me the sense of accomplishment that I need.  Making these changes to my fitness and nutrition have been challenging and have improved my abilities in other sports.  In addition, they have helped me shed an extra seven pounds.  A great side benefit as I see it!</p>
<p>So, what’s your story?  Do you need to revisit your goals?  This is a good time to do it.  If you need additional motivation, see the video link below from the February 6, 2013, Marilyn Denis Show.  In an interview with Marilyn, a fitness professional talks about ways to start and commit to a healthy lifestyle.</p>
<p><a href="http://ctvmms.vo.llnwd.net/kip0/_pxn=1+_pxI0=Ripod-h264+_pxL0=undefined+_pxM0=+_pxK=19321+_pxE=mp4/o41/mobile/CTV/2013/02/06/TheMarilynDenisShow-MDS-S3-102-clip04.mp4">http://ctvmms.vo.llnwd.net/kip0/_pxn=1+_pxI0=Ripod-h264+_pxL0=undefined+_pxM0=+_pxK=19321+_pxE=mp4/o41/mobile/CTV/2013/02/06/TheMarilynDenisShow-MDS-S3-102-clip04.mp4</a></p>
<h2><a title="Chicken Fingers: nutritious and tasty" href="http://aspireperspirenourish.com/nourishing-tips-recipes/chicken-fingers-nutritious-and-tasty/">Recipe of the Week:  Chicken Fingers</a></h2>
<p>Your kids fussy about their foods?  Try these tasty and nutritious chicken fingers on our Nourishing Tips &#38; Recipes page.  They will love them.</p>
<p>If you have a favorite dish you want to re-invent to be healthier, please let us know.  Send us the current recipe for suggestions on how to improve its nutrition content.  Please email Mary at <a href="mailto:foryourhealth@rogers.com">foryourhealth@rogers.com</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Revealing Adam Carriker's March Madness Opinions]]></title>
<link>http://prointerviews.org/2013/03/27/adamcarrikermarchmadness/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Max Strauss</dc:creator>
<guid>http://prointerviews.org/2013/03/27/adamcarrikermarchmadness/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A former first round pick, current Washington Redskins defensive end, Adam Carriker is one naturally]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color:#000000;"><em>A former first round pick, current Washington Redskins defensive end, Adam Carriker is one naturally competitive athlete. He has taken this approach to almost everything he does. He approaches his off-season workouts with a desire to compete, and a desire to be recognized one day, as the best, but in the NCAA March Madness bracket. Check out his predictions by clicking onto the article.</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;"><!--more--><!--more-->Many professional football players would say that being competitive is just in their blood.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;">&#8220;I fill out a bracket ever year.&#8221; Adam Carriker said. &#8220;I really like to see how many I get right. I compete with a bunch of over people, and we like to give everyone a hard time about it. I also participate in Bowl Mania for really the same reason.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;">This is from Adam Carriker&#8217;s original bracket:</span><br />
<span style="color:#000000;"> Elite Eight: Miami, Indiana, Kansas, Georgetown, Ohio State, Gonzaga, Louisville, Michigan State</span><br />
<span style="color:#000000;"> Final Four: Louisville, Kansas, Ohio State, Indiana</span><br />
<span style="color:#000000;"> Finals: Indiana and Louisville</span><br />
<span style="color:#000000;"> Champions: Louisville</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#000000;"><img class="aligncenter  wp-image-9845" alt="Adam Carriker's Elite Eight" src="http://prointerviews.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/acbracket1.png?w=655&#038;h=300" width="655" height="300" /></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;">Upsets are something that the bracket fans love. Many people are afraid to call upsets, but it adds a little excitement to everyone&#8217;s bracket. Carriker shared his upsets, however most of his upsets didn&#8217;t go beyond the first round. &#8220;I chose Oregon beating Oklahoma State, and California beating University of Nevada Las Vegas, Iowa State University over Notre Dame, and Oklahoma over San Diego State, and Minnesota over University of California, Los Angeles.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;">The Redskins defensive lineman explained that people that he was competing with gave him &#8220;a hard time&#8221; about it. They told me that &#8220;I basically used first and second seeds.&#8221; Many people use the top seeds for the Final Four, and Elite Eight, but up to the Sweet Sixteen, NCAA March Madness Brackets appear completely unpredictable.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;">Carriker explained his logic on how he filled out his bracket, &#8220;It&#8217;s not about predicting upsets, but predicting the right upsets. What would happen if I predicted upsets, would end up resulting in the upsets being wrong and the normal games would be wrong, and then I&#8217;m completely wrong. I tried to pick the upsets I was very confident in.&#8221; He went on, &#8220;However, I went with the team with the higher seed most of the time, because inevitably, they are going to win.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;">Adam Carriker has always described himself as a fan of the underdog, but he shared why he couldn&#8217;t go out on a limb to reach for these small schools. &#8220;When I saw, Florida Gulf Coast, I didn&#8217;t even know what that was. I wouldn&#8217;t have predicted La Salle or Wichita State. Both of them are a surprise to me.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;">If he had to choose an underdog to make it the championship, Carriker said, &#8220;I would choose Wichita State who dominated Pittsburgh and beat Gonzaga. Both of their first and third seeds are out of their bracket. All that would remain for them to beat is Ohio State.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;">Even though he is not in control of the outcome, Adam Carriker still has the desire to be right, and a bigger desire to be recognized as the best among his friends.</span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Sick Days &amp; Rambles]]></title>
<link>http://nottypicalgirl.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/sick-days-rambles/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nottypicalgirl</dc:creator>
<guid>http://nottypicalgirl.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/sick-days-rambles/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It has been so long! The reason why is because nothing exciting has been happening nor did i have ti]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It has been so long! The reason why is because nothing exciting has been happening nor did i have time to write stuff (because everyday after school i&#8217;ve been doing rehearsals and dance practice then i get home and do homework then sleep) and now im sick 😢</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t go to school last thursday because i had a headache and sore throat but i went on friday because my ISU/Culminating activity project was due for french class, little did i know that it has been moved to monday (which was 2 days ago). Like cool thanks for the memo, you couldn&#8217;t have like texted me? Anyway so then the weekend came and i got a fever and etc. Then just my luck, i also got a sty/stye on my eye -for those that do not know what a sty is then google image it and be grossed out. I&#8217;ve had sty&#8217;s before but this time it was an internal one so i had to go to the doctor. He gave my medicine and bah blah blah. I am basically missing this whole week of school which yes may be awesome but not so much on the when i get back catching up process that will soon yet to come. My friends also told me there&#8217;s a big geography test on thursday. I actually have no idea what im learning in geography right now so im screwed. And the sane goes for english! I swear i rather have 2 periods of gym class than having to sit in my english class and hear discussions on how life on earth started. Was it god? Was it science? Was it the greeks? I actually don&#8217;t give a shit because everyone has their own opinions and listening to arguments about it is just stupid. I guess that&#8217;s why i got an &#8216;S&#8217; in participation for my english progress report. Oh yeah, i forgot to mention about progress reports! So we got the 2nd semester ones like last wednesday and i got<br />
all E&#8217;s in french<br />
all G&#8217;s in gym<br />
all E&#8217;s and 1 G in Geography<br />
and all G&#8217;s and 1 S in english<br />
Yeah how ironic that my lowest is in the subject that i love the most. And it&#8217;s partially because i don&#8217;t like my class or my teacher&#8217;s way of teaching. I mean seriously the way my Mrs. Murray (my english teacher) teaches is just insane. My class is like an unorganized carnival. She doesn&#8217;t tell us about assignments or when they&#8217;re do. She just hands papers out and expects us to give a report back whenever..? Like wtf. And then she says &#8220;oh just look on the homework site, everything&#8217;s there&#8221; oh you mean the one that hasn&#8217;t been updated since Feb. 13? Yeah okay then. For example like last month she told us something about creation myths then last week before the bell rang she gave us handouts that told us nothing on what we were supposed to do; it was just a rubric and a story (im guessing it was an example) then i hear on friday that the rough copy was due. Um&#8230;? Wth!? I don&#8217;t even know what to do, let alone a rough copy being done, and not even an explanation? Like are you kidding me.<br />
I wish i was homeschooled! It&#8217;s like the saying &#8220;i love education but i hate school&#8221;. Anyway mom called the school to ask for homework but they said i didn&#8217;t have any which is a big bowl of bullshit right there. Now that im thinking about it, when i get back all of my teacher&#8217;s will probably say things like &#8220;are you feeling better? Good now you can do all of these *shows a bunch of handouts* lucky you!&#8221; Or &#8220;great you&#8217;re back, at lunch time go to room 207 because you have to do 2 quizzes and a test.&#8221; Yay. I know im at home all day and i could probably study reading and working is the last thing on your mind when you&#8217;re sick and we all should know that. I actually tried to read pages of my geography text book but then i got a headache and felt like throwing up&#8230; I also hope i can get better soon because i finished the instrumental part of this song im working on and i really want to try singing the lyrics with it. I had to cancel my voice lessons and then today my piano lessons. I feel so bad cause my mom pays even if i don&#8217;t go. So i might actually change my mind and go today. Idk. Oh and don&#8217;t even remind me of grease. I swear you don&#8217;t know how badly i want to quit. Im not though because i signed a contract and made a commitment. Geez i don&#8217;t know how many times i keep on repeating those words in my head. I will soon crack. Jk. But in all seriousness, i have no idea why i joined in the first place. I don&#8217;t like interacting with people and i hate contact, yet i have to do like the waltz with this guy and the choreographs require a lot of hand contact which i also don&#8217;t like. I have naturally sweaty hands (and armpits, but they don&#8217;t smell! Honest) so im very insecure about it and feel bad whenever i touch my partner&#8217;s hand. I heard about this deodorant called Certain Dri but it seems like they don&#8217;t sell it where im from so i think i&#8217;ll just oder it online. Im desperate. I even carry cornstarch (in a bottle) in my backpack because it removes the sweat (oh and i heard it removes grease from hair). But a lot of people who saw it thought i was doing drugs (jokingly of course) so i decided not to bring it anymore. Yeah this is probably somewhat disturbing but hey nobody&#8217;s perfect. Yup im totally off topic. I don&#8217;t know i just always end up rambling on so i should stop. </p>
<p>Well my nose is stuffed, my throat is scratchy, my eye hurts and is watering, i have a horse cough, and my voice sounds like i have a hardcore smoker&#8217;s lungs. I have been at home for the past few days doing nothing but sleep, attempt to eat, and chill on my bed. Yeah that&#8217;s pretty much what&#8217;s been happening to me. -not typical girl.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Believing.]]></title>
<link>http://actuallyontheline.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/believing/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[&nbsp; With all this change? I think so.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try  ~  #success #quote #taolife]]></title>
<link>http://gayecrispin.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/every-accomplishment-starts-with-the-decision-to-try-success-quote/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Gaye Crispin</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[- Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try. #success #quote #taolife ~ The art of life i]]></description>
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<h2 style="text-align:center;"><em>Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.</em></h2>
<p style="text-align:center;">#success #quote #taolife</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><a title="The art of life is kindness, so live kindess ~ Gaye Crispin ~ #taolife #EcoOrganics #Chatuccino" href="https://twitter.com/GayeCrispin" target="_blank">The art of life is kindness, so live kindness ~ Gaye Crispin</a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a title="The art of life is kindness, so live kindess ~ Gaye Crispin ~ #taolife #EcoOrganics #Chatuccino" href="https://twitter.com/GayeCrispin" target="_blank">#taolife #EcoOrganics #Chatuccino</a></p>
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