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	<title>Rivenrock Gardens Cactus Blog... go to www.rivenrock.com for edible cactus &#187; Humanity</title>
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		<title>letter to my old master</title>
		<link>http://www.nopalcactusblog.com/2012/02/01/letter-to-my-old-master/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[a freed slaves' letter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Learning How to Live</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Appreciation and accountability is important in life. So too is an examination of life. The fellow who wrote this post speaks eloquently, succinctly, with heart and the ageless wisdom found in depth. It touched me greatly.... and I wish to pass it on. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live your life!</title>
		<link>http://www.nopalcactusblog.com/2012/01/11/live-your-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here's a good article, written by a hospice nurse.... she details some of the thoughts of the dying that she met during decades of this work..... They break down to five concerns... 1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. 2. I wish I didn’t work so hard. 3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings. 4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends. 5. I wish that I had let myself be happier Life is a choice. It is YOUR life. Choose consciously, choose wisely, choose honestly. Choose happiness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life is for living</title>
		<link>http://www.nopalcactusblog.com/2012/01/06/life-is-for-living/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death"  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Word</title>
		<link>http://www.nopalcactusblog.com/2011/12/02/new-word/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ineptocracy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ineptocracy: (in-ep-toc’-Ra-cy) - a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carrotmob</title>
		<link>http://www.nopalcactusblog.com/2011/12/02/carrotmob/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humanity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[if a business is acting improperly by 'abusing' consumers, then we need to act as a market force, a block of consumers who will not only with-hold monies from the unscrupulous or 'accidentally-improper' business..... but even more, we can 'reward' well-intentioned businesses by funneling our monies to those who change their business practices to help their consumers.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life for the taking</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An old man Once looked at me in the eye He seemed to sigh He seemed to sigh, "don't let life pass you by"  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beagles released from animal-testing facility</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This video show a group of beagle dogs that were given over to an animal-rescue group after the testing lab didn't need them anymore. Beagels are the dog most used for medical/product testing because they are docile, don't eat much, and trust humans and will stay in a cage for their whole life. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robotic Cleaning Devices</title>
		<link>http://www.nopalcactusblog.com/2011/02/14/robotic-cleaning-devices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ What I found most interesting in the article (besides the technical abilities of the machine) was the anthropomorphizing so frequently used throughout the article. Several times the author referred to the robot as 'he'. It is interesting how quickly we can give attributes to a machine, whether it be 'she' for a ship, or 'he' for a little machine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1951 San Antonio</title>
		<link>http://www.nopalcactusblog.com/2010/10/28/1951-san-antonio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tales from my father]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ this was 1951, and Jim Crow was still in force in many of the Southern states. The US military had been integrated just a few years before, but the nation as a whole was still trying to get used to desegregation. My father grew up on a small farm with other small farms surrounding it. They all belonged to the local farmers co-op... [...]]]></description>
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