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		<title>How Things Are Going&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[. Getting my chest port put back in was like admitting defeat &#8211; like I&#8217;d completely lost control of the situation.  Okay &#8211; so now it&#8217;s gonna kill me again and I gotta do something terrifying, frustrating, humiliating, and more than anything &#8211; humbling and violating to stop it.   God damned this f***ing disease [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clifftravis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7738790&amp;post=342&amp;subd=clifftravis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mentor Traps</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[To the students among us.  May you use this knowledge to fare better than those that came before you.  Seriously though &#8211; an article written both to our next generation&#8217;s emerging workforce as well as the mentors that help to guide them. . And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clifftravis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7738790&amp;post=312&amp;subd=clifftravis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[For These Guys,  1 + 1  =  1-Zillion . There’s a Dilbert Episode [1] where he ends up being canned for revealing company secrets, only to find himself employed shortly thereafter by Nirvana Company – “The greatest engineering firm on the planet.” Unlike his prior employer, Nirvana wasn’t plagued by absurd or misguided constraints imposed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clifftravis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7738790&amp;post=285&amp;subd=clifftravis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Piles of Legislation</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This one&#8217;s a work in process&#8230; US Senate Drops Bill To Cap Carbon Emissions From a Bill Moyer’s Journal Interview:  &#8221;Unnecessary complexity just creates rich opportunities for systemic corruption&#8221;? . They&#8217;re Doing This On Purpose . It’s not really the problems that are incomprehensible these days but the piles of legislation that attempt to address [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clifftravis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7738790&amp;post=260&amp;subd=clifftravis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Out of Sight, Out of Mind</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year after our fateful moose hunting trip, I met a kid in my class with a torn-up, double-satchel, blue canvas newspaper bag inscribed with the words and logo of the Fairbanks Daily News Miner. &#8220;What&#8217;s that for?&#8221; I asked inquisitively. &#8220;It&#8217;s for my paper route.  I deliver newspapers every day after school,&#8221; he replied. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clifftravis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7738790&amp;post=196&amp;subd=clifftravis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rubber Boots &#8211; An Alaskan Tale</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interestingly enough, this was the only time I ever went big game hunting&#8230; our one and only hunting trip like this together.  There were several reasons for it.  For one &#8211; I was almost always in school during moose hunting season.  And my dad really enjoyed going with his buddies a lot more.  The second [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clifftravis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7738790&amp;post=185&amp;subd=clifftravis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Links 2010</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading List: Farhad Manjoo &#8211; True Enough:  Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society  (done) Annie Leonard &#8211; The Story of Stuff Raj Patel &#8211; The Value of Nothing Cox &#8211; Why Does E= MC^2 Schutz &#8211; The Stuff of Life (About Genetics and Origins) Richard Dawkins &#8211; The Greatest Show on Earth Naome Klein [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clifftravis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7738790&amp;post=127&amp;subd=clifftravis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Links 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All 2009 Links &#38; &#8220;The Best of&#8230;&#8221; in BOLD . Science &#38; Educational: The Periodic Table of Videos: The Periodic Table of Data Visualization Methods String Theory: Links Ultra-Cold with Super-Hot Vince Huston&#8217;s Design Patterns (Periodic Table Format) Electron Spin Control Achieved: New Physics &#38; Devices Photosynthesis Uses Quantum Effects for Efficiency A Scientists Guide [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clifftravis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7738790&amp;post=110&amp;subd=clifftravis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Going At It A-Loan</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not the Way to Fund Your Education . The 2007-8 Financial Crisis inspired sobering realizations, most notably with respect to my own financial ineptitude. About twenty-five years ago I started college with no professional skills or family financing, and an empty wallet (Age: 18, Year: 1985). So I took out loans to cover both the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clifftravis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7738790&amp;post=51&amp;subd=clifftravis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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