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		<title>Winter holiday time</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JISHOU, HUNAN &#8212; I had meant to post this a few days ago, but my webhost was having serious server issues, so I had to wait. Exams ended Jan. 11. I had two days free before teaching four middle school students two hours a day for a week. That was basically my only time commitment [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wheatdogg.wordpress.com&amp;blog=668008&amp;post=2622&amp;subd=wheatdogg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10th Circuit slaps Oklahoma anti-Sharia law down like bug on a wall</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JISHOU, HUNAN &#8212; Oklahoma&#8217;s anti-Sharia law violates the US Constitution, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. The ruling states that the law &#8212; which amended the state constitution &#8212; violated the Establishment clause of the First Amendment by singling out one religion, Islam. In addition, the court noted that the proponents of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wheatdogg.wordpress.com&amp;blog=668008&amp;post=2417&amp;subd=wheatdogg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mean girls</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JISHOU, HUNAN &#8212; I suppose I should not be surprised that Chinese adolescents can be as catty and mean-spirited as Americans are, but two incidents this week still bug me. I need to vent, so if you want to skip all this drama, go ahead. To set up incident number 1, I need to explain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wheatdogg.wordpress.com&amp;blog=668008&amp;post=2413&amp;subd=wheatdogg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wonder Girls: &#8216;Nobody&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JISHOU, HUNAN &#8212; Wonder Girls are a Korean pop group, whose 2008 single, &#8220;Nobody,&#8221; is a big hit in Korea and in China. I swear everyone here knows the song&#8217;s tune and the Chinese/English version&#8217;s lyrics. I like it, too. So for your viewing pleasure, here is the Korean version. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA7fdSkp8ds There&#8217;s an English version, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wheatdogg.wordpress.com&amp;blog=668008&amp;post=2408&amp;subd=wheatdogg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Greetings from 2012!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 09:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JISHOU, HUNAN &#8212; It&#8217;s 11:33 am on Jan. 1 here. So far, 2012 looks good. The sun might come out again, breaking a week of dreary skies. I have a four-day weekend, giving me enough time to catch up on all the grading I have to do. In other good news, I reconnected with someone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wheatdogg.wordpress.com&amp;blog=668008&amp;post=2406&amp;subd=wheatdogg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two historical photos, for different reasons</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JISHOU, HUNAN &#8212; I&#8217;ve been too busy to post anything lately, and now I&#8217;ve got a tidy little head cold, so here&#8217;s a couple of cheerful photos. First, the much-talked-about Navy kiss, from Dec. 21. From what I understand, each boat&#8217;s crew runs a lottery to see who will be the first off the boat [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wheatdogg.wordpress.com&amp;blog=668008&amp;post=2401&amp;subd=wheatdogg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Florida skills exam revisited</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JISHOU, HUNAN &#8212; A few days ago, I wrote about an Orange County, Florida, school board member who took a version of the 2010 Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) for 10th graders and did very poorly on it: he only got 62% on the reading portion and completely bombed the math section. Rick Roach, who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wheatdogg.wordpress.com&amp;blog=668008&amp;post=2390&amp;subd=wheatdogg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another eclipse picture</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 05:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JISHOU, HUNAN &#8212; I had to Photoshop this one a bit to clean it up. I mistakenly had the Tamron&#8217;s vibration control on, and the resulting movement smeared the Moon&#8217;s image, but left the star images intact. This is a 10-second exposure with the lens zoomed to 230 mm, taken near the end of totality [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wheatdogg.wordpress.com&amp;blog=668008&amp;post=2384&amp;subd=wheatdogg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lunar eclipse, December 10, 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 16:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JISHOU, HUNAN &#8212; I caught the total lunar eclipse about halfway through totality. I didn&#8217;t do all the good stuff, like wait for the equipment to cool to ambient temperature (0&#176;C here), because I almost forgot to go out. So, out of 25 shots I got three halfway decent ones. The focus seems to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wheatdogg.wordpress.com&amp;blog=668008&amp;post=2377&amp;subd=wheatdogg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Boyd Lee Dunlop: getting the fame he deserves &#8230; behind schedule</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 06:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JISHOU, HUNAN &#8212; Some musicians find fame right away. For others, it takes years. In the case of Boyd Lee Dunlop, he had to wait until he was 85 to get a record deal. Dunlop played jazz piano back in the 1950&#8242;s around Buffalo, NY, but his day job took precedence over his piano playing. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wheatdogg.wordpress.com&amp;blog=668008&amp;post=2374&amp;subd=wheatdogg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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