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	<title>Live By the Pen, Die By the Pen</title>
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	<description>Because the Pen is Mightier Than the Sword</description>
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		<title>Interesting Political Sites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re not sure whether you&#8217;re registered to vote or not&#8211;or even if you think you *are* registered to vote&#8211;you might want to check out this site to be sure.  Can I Vote has links for all 50 states.  In addition to checking whether you&#8217;re registered or not, you can also find out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dropping By</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Ack!  I haven&#8217;t posted in so long.  Been very, very, very busy.  School, trying to get the thesis done, and my job at Northwest Airlines (merger, anyone?), trips and now the Olympics.  There&#8217;s always something!
Found a cool site courtesy of a friend (above).  I think it&#8217;s too big for my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.daphnejriordan.com/dropping-by/</link>
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		<title>Best Books I Read in 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m trying to make this a yearly thing, although I&#8217;m a little late this year.  Anyway, just like last year, of the books I read in 2007 (which may or may not have been published in that year), these were my favorites.
Beginnings (novella) by Kelley Armstrong, Urban Fantasy.  This novella, which was a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.daphnejriordan.com/best-books-i-read-in-2007/</link>
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		<title>FCC Proposes Lifting More Rules Against Media Consolidation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past several years, the FCC has removed many of the rules that kept companies from buying up too much of our media &#8212; our TV stations, radio stations, and newspapers.  It used to be that a single corporation could only own a limited number of media outlets.  What that meant was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.daphnejriordan.com/fcc-proposes-lifting-more-rules-against-media-consolidation/</link>
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		<title>Snake in the Toilet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out this awful tale about a woman who found a python in her toilet.
Ahhhhhhhhh!
Tags: snakes, python, toilet]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.daphnejriordan.com/snake-in-the-toilet/</link>
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		<title>More Death in Burma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It just gets worse and worse.  I had to miss posting a few days, so here&#8217;s what&#8217;s been happening for the past several days.
Groups Struggle to Tally Myanmar&#8217;s Dead
Yangon: Monks Massacred at Monastery
A news clip from September 27:




Burma: UN envoy meets top general as regime blames foreigners for violence from the Daily Mail (includes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.daphnejriordan.com/more-death-in-burma/</link>
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		<title>Burmese Demonstrators Killed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Overnight, monasteries in Burma were raided by government forces, and at least one and possibly as many as three or four of the protesters were killed during the crackdown.  Read the details on BBC&#8217;s site and commentary on With Bowl and Robe.
Here&#8217;s some more background on the situation:




And Jim Carrey&#8217;s admiration for Aung San [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.daphnejriordan.com/burmese-demonstrators-killed/</link>
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		<title>Burmese Buddhists March in Rangoon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been watching the amazing protests going on in Burma for the past nine days.  Here&#8217;s a YouTube clip from BBCnews from day four of the march:




Burma, also called Myanmar, has been run by a military government for decades.  You might have heard of Aung San Suu Kyi, who was legally elected the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.daphnejriordan.com/burmese-buddhists-march-in-rangoon/</link>
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		<title>People Power</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, I&#8217;m not talking about Soylent Green.   
I&#8217;m talking about the green newscasts my local station, WCCO, has been putting on at the annual Minnesota State Fair.  They somehow hooked a bunch of bicycles up to an array of batteries.  Then they got fair-goers to ride the bikes, and generate energy, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.daphnejriordan.com/people-power/</link>
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		<title>More Suz&#8230;and Joss!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, I know I just posted something about Suz Brockmann yesterday, but today, she put up this wonderful story about having dinner with Joss Whedon.  And since I adore both Suz and Joss, and the story was awesome, I couldn&#8217;t resist posting a link.  Read about Suz&#8217;s dinner with Joss here.
Tags: Suz Brockmann, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.daphnejriordan.com/more-suzand-joss/</link>
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		<title>Contest for Suz Brockmann</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite authors is Suzanne Brockmann, and she&#8217;s currently doing a ]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.daphnejriordan.com/contest-for-suz-brockmann/</link>
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		<title>What a Voice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This guy&#8217;s performance gave me chills.  WOW.




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		<link>http://blog.daphnejriordan.com/what-a-voice/</link>
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		<title>Danse Macabre - A Reading Journal, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Danse Macabre  by Stephen King and the Introduction to Dark Descent, ed. by David Hartwell
If you haven&#8217;t already, read part 1.
I likewise found his discussion of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde  interesting.  He likened that to the werewolf, and the ‘inside evil’.  I’ve read and enjoyed many werewolf novels, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.daphnejriordan.com/danse-macabre-a-reading-journal-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Danse Macabre - A Reading Journal, Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Danse Macabre  by Stephen King and the Introduction to Dark Descent, ed. by David Hartwell
The introduction to Dark Descent talks more specifically about short horror fiction than   Danse Macabre does.  Where   Danse Macabre wanders all over the horror-scape, from movies to novels and occasionally to short stories, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.daphnejriordan.com/danse-macabre-a-reading-journal-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Educational and Interesting Podcast Sites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Found an interesting post on podcasts being put out by universities, and another list of college podcasts here.  In addition to the sites they lists, I also found several more universities that are now putting out podcasts.  Here&#8217;s are some of them:
MITOpenCourseware
University Channel at Princeton University
Podcasts at Havens Center for the Study of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.daphnejriordan.com/educational-and-interesting-podcast-sites/</link>
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		<title>Global Warming and Sea Level Rise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a story I&#8217;m writing that&#8217;s set in the future, I needed to research this sea level rise I&#8217;ve been hearing about.  With the temperature rise from global warming, the sea levels will also rise, for two different reasons.  For one thing, it&#8217;s basic physics that water expands as its temperature rises.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.daphnejriordan.com/global-warming-and-sea-level-rise/</link>
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		<title>Writing the Novel - A Reading Journal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writing the Novel: From Plot to Print by Lawrence Block
One of our requirements for school is to write five reading journals each semester.  Here is a portion of one of this semester&#8217;s journals.
As writing instruction books go, this one was very readable.  Even when he went over something I’m already familiar with, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.daphnejriordan.com/writing-the-novel-a-reading-journal/</link>
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		<title>Harry Potter On Good Paper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out this interesting article about the upcoming Harry Potter book.  Scholastic has agreed to print Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on paper that has a minimum of 30 percent post-consumer waste fiber.  That&#8217;s great news!



    

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		<link>http://blog.daphnejriordan.com/harry-potter-on-good-paper/</link>
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		<title>Travel Podcasts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine, Ray Bartlett, writes for Lonely Planet, and is now doing podcasts for them as well.  His first podcast, Sapporo Snow Festival (under &#8220;Ice Sculpting Heats Up&#8221;) was just recently posted on their website.  Yay!
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		<link>http://blog.daphnejriordan.com/travel-podcasts/</link>
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		<title>Vampires Everywhere</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you know vampires are fascinated by counting?  Or that plants such as hawthorn or a branch of wild rose will repel them?  I didn&#8217;t either, but as part of researching vampires for my novel, I learned quite a few things I didn&#8217;t know before.  Something else I didn&#8217;t know was that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.daphnejriordan.com/vampires-everywhere/</link>
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		<title>Mike Rosenberg on The Naked Vine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A good friend of mine, Mike Rosenberg, has a blog called The Naked Vine, where he expounds on a variety of affordable wines.  He&#8217;s doing such a great job, the Cincinnati Weekly wrote an article about Mike and the Naked Vine.  Hooray for Mike!  I have yet to get over the thrill [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.daphnejriordan.com/mike-rosenberg-on-the-naked-vine/</link>
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		<title>Disease Transmission</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I wrote about some research I’d done about pandemics.  At the same time, I also learned about disease transmission.  Those flu pandemics that hit fast and burned out after several months were all airborne pathogens (diseases).  We’re all familiar with airborne disease - it’s why we cover our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.daphnejriordan.com/disease-transmission/</link>
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		<title>SHU January Residency: Day 5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(If you haven’t read day 0, day 1, day 2, day 3, or day 4, you might want to check them out first.)
Our last day was a little reversed.  Instead of starting with critique groups, we started with a module.  I took Research for Writing with Barbara Miller.  She showed us a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.daphnejriordan.com/shu-january-residency-day-5/</link>
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		<title>SHU January Residency: Day 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(If you haven’t read day 0, day 1, day 2, or day 3, you might want to check them out first.)
Tuesday morning my story was critiqued.  I thought I&#8217;d feel a lot more nervous, but the good experiences I&#8217;d had in the other critique sessions and the couple of comments I&#8217;d heard from people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.daphnejriordan.com/shu-january-residency-day-4/</link>
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		<title>SHU January Residency: Day 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(If you haven’t read day 0, day 1 and day 2, you might want to check them out first.)
Day 3 dawned bright and early.  We started off the day with another round of critiques, and by the end of the session, I felt almost comfortable with the whole process.  Everyone was so respectful [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.daphnejriordan.com/shu-january-residency-day-3/</link>
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		<title>Pandemics, Pathogens, and Avian Flu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently did a little research into pandemics and pathogens for a story I’m writing.  I discovered some very interesting stuff, like - there were more pandemics in the 1900&#8217;s than I knew about.  I knew there was one in 1918, but apparently there were two smaller flu pandemics as well, in 1957-8 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.daphnejriordan.com/pandemics-pathogens-and-avian-flu/</link>
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		<title>SHU January Residency: Day 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(If you haven&#8217;t read day 0 and day 1, you might want to check them out first.)
I woke the next morning with butterflies.  First up that morning: my first critique group.  The last time I was in a face-to-face critique group was 1989, and I don&#8217;t remember the experience fondly.
I was extremely nervous [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.daphnejriordan.com/shu-january-residency-day-2/</link>
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		<title>SHU January Residency: Day 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I knew the day was going to start at what for me was a very early hour.  I often get up around 9 or 10 or even later (and stay up correspondingly late at night), but classes started at 9am.  Ugh.  So - to be kind to myself - a couple weeks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.daphnejriordan.com/shu-january-residency-day-1/</link>
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		<title>SHU January Residency: Reception (Day 0)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a little late, but it&#8217;s about time I talked about the residency I just attended at SHU.  Months ago, when I was trying to decide if I wanted to apply to the writing popular fiction program, I looked all over for descriptions of residency experiences, and while I found many posts and pictures, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.daphnejriordan.com/shu-january-residency-reception-day-0/</link>
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		<title>More Writing News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Contests and Fun Stuff
To celebrate making the final four of the American Title III contest, KJ &#8220;Kim&#8221; Howe is holding a really fun &#8220;kill me off&#8221; contest.  She explains it in detail on the Drunk Writer Talk blog.
Odyssey has announced their summer 2007 fantasy writing workshop.
Heidi Ruby Miller (who recently appeared on Who Wants [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.daphnejriordan.com/more-writing-news/</link>
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