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	<title>Couch Communiqué</title>
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		<title>Say Hey!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is Willie Mays&#8217; 79th birthday! He celebrated with members of the California State Senate and Assembly.


Images are courtesy of MLB.com
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		<link>http://voiland.org/blog/2010/05/06/say-hey/</link>
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		<title>Detroit and the Olympics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I never realized that the city of Detroit has bid many times to host the Olympic games. They bid on the Summer Olympics 7 times &#8211; in 1944, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968 and 1972. Their best chance of securing the Olympics was in 1968. Detroit was selected over Los Angeles, by the USOC, in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://voiland.org/blog/2010/04/10/detroit-and-the-olympics/</link>
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		<title>Shorpy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came across a great website the other day. Shorpy is an online archive of thousands of  high-resolution photos from the 1850s to 1950s. The site was named for Shorpy Higginbotham who was a  teenage coal miner who lived 100 years ago.
The pictures on the site are absolutely amazing. The sharpness of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://voiland.org/blog/2010/04/09/shorpy/</link>
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		<title>Take Me Out to the Ball Game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spring has always been my favorite time of the year. I&#8217;ve always enjoyed the emerging flowers and plants after the long, cold winter.
But, the part of spring that I enjoy most is the start of baseball season! My favorite team is the San Francisco Giants. As a kid, I enjoyed watching Bobby Bonds, Orlando Cepeda, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://voiland.org/blog/2010/04/07/take-me-out-to-the-ball-game/</link>
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		<title>Attempting a Comeback!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A year ago today, was the last time I posted to this blog. Ironically, that post had to do with the defeat of my Michigan State Spartans in the final game of the 2009 Men&#8217;s NCAA Basketball Tournament. Well, two days ago, my Spartans lost in their Final Four game against Butler in the 2010 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://voiland.org/blog/2010/04/06/attempting-a-comeback/</link>
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		<title>It Wasn&#8217;t Our Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[



They had a great year!
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		<link>http://voiland.org/blog/2009/04/06/it-wasnt-our-day/</link>
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		<title>Ticking People Off</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just came across a list called &#8220;How to Tick People Off&#8221;. These are some of the ones I thought were pretty funny!
4. If you have a glass eye, tap on it occasionally with your pen while talking to others.
19. Decline to be seated at a restaurant, and simply eat their complimentary mints at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://voiland.org/blog/2009/04/06/ticking-people-off/</link>
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		<title>Royal Russian Mystery *UPDATE*</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On November 27, 2007, I blogged about the last Russian Imperial Family &#8211; Czar Nicholas II , Empress Alexandra and their five children. On July 17, 1918, the Romanov family was lined up, believing they were posing for a photo, in the basement of the house they were being held. They were then brutally shot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://voiland.org/blog/2009/03/13/royal-russian-mystery-update/</link>
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		<title>Ruby, Please Bring Your Bottles to Town</title>
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My son and I love Ruby Red Squirt! We definitely drink it more than any other pop. But, within the last month, we hadn&#8217;t been able to find it anywhere! None of the grocery stores carry it. Nothing at Target or even Walmart. We thought that this was the end &#8211; we would never drink [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://voiland.org/blog/2009/03/01/ruby-please-bring-your-bottles-to-town/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Can&#8217;t I Have It Right Away?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent many years in jobs related to the printing industry. I came across this poem, and what it says is as true today as it was when written in 1904.
“CAN&#8217;T I HAVE IT RIGHT AWAY?”
By Strickland W. Gillilan
I sat beside the estimator&#8217;s desk one afternoon—
He hadn&#8217;t had a smell of lunch, but said he&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://voiland.org/blog/2009/02/22/cant-i-have-it-right-away/</link>
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