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		<title>&#8216;Discovery&#8217; Helped Bring the Universe Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 21:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bedell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now it&#8217;s a museum piece. After 39 space missions and 5,830 Earth orbits, the Space Shuttle Discovery is completing its first month on display in the James S. McDonnell Space Hanger at the Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA, the air and space extension of the Smithsonian Institution. At least the shuttle&#8217;s hanger has an august [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biking On One-Time Rail Lines</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 20:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bedell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s spring and time for engaging in outdoor activity again! There&#8217;s a rail trail near us – the Lebanon Valley (Pa.) Rail Trail – that follows the 14-mile length of an old railroad right-of-way from which the tracks have been removed. It&#8217;s great for hiking and biking, whether for short stretches or the whole length. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Book for Patent-Hopeful Inventors</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bedell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now here&#8217;s a book that ought to be on technical writers&#8217; shelves, at least if you&#8217;re inventive or are working with people who are good at coming up with useful gimmicks. Inventiveness implies trips to the the U.S. Patent office, or at least filings there. And how many of us know reliably how to win [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maker Faires Build Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bedell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maker Faires look like places where art and technology come together, unless you consider technology an art in itself. But some would find that arrogant. So what&#8217;s a Maker Faire? Many of you may already know, because Make magazine is doing a terrific job of promoting its technology fairs and building community around them. (Building [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Muir&#8217;s Early-Rising Genius</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bedell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We don&#8217;t have the space to review the Make blog&#8217;s post on &#8220;John Muir&#8217;s Maker Days&#8221; as extensively as it deserves. We&#8217;ll simply note that Muir&#8217;s youth revealed the ravenous appetite for discovery and application that underlies  a lot of technological gains. (We hope it&#8217;s not stretching a point to align Muir with technology, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Students Made a Lubbock Report More Readable</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bedell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve got to applaud the  graduate students at Texas Tech University who redesigned the City of Lubbock&#8217;s annual water report and made it more attractively readable. And you&#8217;ve got to wonder why more governmental agencies don&#8217;t turn to their local colleges and universities for help on the editorial front. There are all those students, primed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video Games as Art, Sometimes Anyway</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bedell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So now for the question of the moment: Can video games be considered art?  You think not? Well then, you&#8217;re crossing (laser) swords with Kellee Santiago, cofounder and president of Thatgamecompany in Santa Monica, CA. They&#8217;ve just issued a new PlayStation game, Journey, that&#8217;s been three years in the making and strikes us as having [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matinee Movies on Our Desktop Screens</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bedell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I took our grandson to a special Saturday morning showing of an early John Wayne  western movie featuring Gabby Hayes. The film, as it happened, was 68 years old and the sound had deteriorated, making a complicated plot difficult to follow. (But my grandson loved Gabby Hayes, who played a stage coach driver.) Duncan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Standards Get Us There Consistently and Reliably</title>
		<link>http://www.encoretechresources.com/insights/2012/02/16/standards-get-us-there-consistently-and-reliably/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bedell</dc:creator>
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		<title>Quality Principles As Living Ideals</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bedell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Question: We have such great tools to make things better, so why do we feel in such a funk? A dismal question like this can apply on any given day to the state of our nation or our workplace, if we&#8217;re fortunate enough to have one. Steven Ouellette is a quality manager and process engineer [...]]]></description>
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