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		<title>Bon Jovi to do that free show &#124; Philadelphia Inquirer &#124; 03/19/2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember how Jon Bon Jovi had promised Philly a free concert when the Philadelphia Soul &#8212; which he was an investor in &#8212; won the Arena Bowl in the summer of 2008? Bon Jovi went on WMMR this morning to announce that he will pay up:&#160;a free, special ticketed performance for former Soul season ticket-holders [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uncle Sam Wants to &#8220;Friend&#8221; You</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neall Alcott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m glad I ignored Obama&#8217;s friend request&#8230; http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/16/tech/main6303563.shtml &#160; Posted via web from Neall&#8217;s posterous]]></description>
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		<title>Could Airborne Bears Catch Bin Laden?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neall Alcott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ARLINGTON, Va. &#8212; Could parachute-wearing bears sniff out Osama bin Laden? That&#8217;s one suggestion the Pentagon has received from someone who noted, quite correctly, that a bear&#8217;s sense of smell is much more powerful than a bloodhound&#8217;s. &#8220;Overnight, Parachute some bears into areas [bin Laden] might be,&#8221; the innovator wrote. &#8220;Attempt to train bears to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Da Vinci ‘predicted world would end in 4006’</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neall Alcott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A date for your diary: Leonardo da Vinci predicted that the world would end on November 1, 4006, according to a Vatican researcher. Sabrina Sforza Galitzia said the clues were to be found in da Vinci’s Last Supper mural. The central half-moon window, or lunette, above his painting of Christ with his disciples before the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sooner or Later, We’re Going to Have to Deal with Mexico</title>
		<link>http://www.neallalcott.com/archives/239</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neall Alcott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone frets over Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan, but Northern Mexico is a brutal war zone. This is unbelievable: 3 People with Ties to the US Consulate Shot Their 1 year old baby was unharmed in the backseat… the situation down there is sounding more and more like Pancho Villa who the US Army had to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video Editing Training</title>
		<link>http://www.neallalcott.com/archives/238</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neall Alcott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone know of a good book or place to take a class to learn about video editing? I’m using Adobe Premiere Elements… via Writerous Posted via web from neallalcott&#8217;s posterous]]></description>
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		<title>Funny or Die&#8217;s Presidential Reunion</title>
		<link>http://www.neallalcott.com/archives/237</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neall Alcott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[via funnyordie.com This is about a week old but still funny&#8230; Posted via web from neallalcott&#8217;s posterous]]></description>
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		<title>Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer</title>
		<link>http://www.neallalcott.com/archives/236</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neall Alcott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heh – Hollywood is soo cliched that everything in this is recognizable: Best line: “Inspiring final lines from a speech that douche bags will quote in THEIR FACEBOOK PROFILES!!!” via Writerous Posted via web from neallalcott&#8217;s posterous]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Night Recording @ The Office</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neall Alcott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[See and download the full gallery on posterous I had Steve over to the Office on Friday night to record some guitars for the new album (I want to say CD, but everything seems sooo old fashioned now with iTunes and digital downloads – what the hell are you supposed to call a collection of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Test to Posterous via Windows Live Writer</title>
		<link>http://www.neallalcott.com/archives/234</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neall Alcott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trying to get a bunch of tools connected… wish me luck. via Writerous Posted via web from neallalcott&#8217;s posterous]]></description>
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		<title>Raining&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.neallalcott.com/archives/233</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neall Alcott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t believe it is still raining. Please make it stop. Posted via email from neallalcott&#8217;s posterous]]></description>
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		<title>Bruce, This One&#8217;s For You!</title>
		<link>http://www.neallalcott.com/archives/232</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neall Alcott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I&#8217;ve been really busy with work and life and I haven&#8217;t been blogging in a while. (Sorry) My buddy Bruce was asking what was up, so I figured I should set a little time aside tonight and write. I told him that since the mainstream media (MTM) has noticed the improvements in Iraq, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Steyn: World Should Give Thanks for America</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neall Alcott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Mostly because it&#8217;s a time for the family and it&#8217;s not overly commercialized. When Thanksgiving is approaching, you don&#8217;t have to worry about budgeting funds for gifts or credit card bills the following month. All you have to worry about is exercising and/or dieting to work off your over-consumption. One [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Surge Working??</title>
		<link>http://www.neallalcott.com/archives/229</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 12:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neall Alcott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a comment on an earlier post of mine on my Daily Local blog that I found interesting: gypsy hammond said&#8230; The surge is working? That must explain why 2007 has seen the highest level of troop deaths since the war began. But then, defining success downwards has been a hallmark of this war [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Last of the Last</title>
		<link>http://www.neallalcott.com/archives/228</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neall Alcott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a really nice (although sad) article in the New York Times about the last surviving American soldier from World War I: Over There — and Gone Forever Four years ago, I attended a Veterans Day observance in Orleans, Mass. Near the head of the parade, a 106-year-old named J. Laurence Moffitt rode in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unfortunate Headline</title>
		<link>http://www.neallalcott.com/archives/227</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neall Alcott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love finding newpaper headlines that are either poorly worded or can be read differently. Here&#8217;s one I found in the Washington Post today: Panel May Cut Sentences For Crack Drug dealers rejoice! They say that crack is very addictive, but this is ridiculous&#8230; maybe they shouldn&#8217;t be responsible for sentencing.]]></description>
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		<title>Close Call</title>
		<link>http://www.neallalcott.com/archives/226</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neall Alcott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a video of some firemen in Boston making a hasty retreat from a rooftop&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>A New Da Vinci Code</title>
		<link>http://www.neallalcott.com/archives/225</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neall Alcott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting news article: An Italian musician and computer technician claims to have uncovered musical notes encoded in Leonardo Da Vinci&#8217;s &#8220;Last Supper,&#8221; raising the possibility that the Renaissance genius might have left behind a somber composition to accompany the scene depicted in the 15th-century wall painting&#8230; Pala explains how he took elements of the painting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Iraq Embarassment: The Times of London</title>
		<link>http://www.neallalcott.com/archives/224</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 13:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neall Alcott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been interesting watching the news as Iraq has been improving&#8230; it&#8217;s been getting more and more difficult to find any reports, other than independent reports from Michael Yon and other freelance reporters in Iraq. It looks like the Times of London has noticed the same thing: The Petraeus Curve Is no news good news [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nanny State</title>
		<link>http://www.neallalcott.com/archives/223</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 13:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neall Alcott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry about not posting last week. I&#8217;ve been swamped at work and home! But anyway&#8230; I found this interesting NBC News report (via InstaPundit) that talks about the Nanny State movement and how it can create kids that are unprepared for the real world. I&#8217;ve written about this before (HERE). In particular, this phenomenon has [...]]]></description>
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