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	<title>Tweedie.us</title>
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	<description>Doug Tweedie's blog</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Tax Changes</title>
		<link>http://tweedie.us/2010/07/29/tax-changes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In just six months, the largest tax hikes in the history of America will take effect. 
      They will hit families and small businesses in three great waves on
      January 1, 2011:
     
      First Wave:
      Expiration of 2001 and 2003 Tax Relief
     
      In 2001 and 2003, the GOP Congress enacted several tax cuts for
      investors, small business owners, and families.  
      These will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Cake</title>
		<link>http://tweedie.us/2010/07/25/best-cake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Recipes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ingredients: 2 Cups Flour2 Cups Sugar¾ Cup Cocoa2 Teaspoons Baking Soda2 Eggs (I use large eggs)1 Teaspoon Salt1 Cup Buttermilk Remember that you can freeze buttermilk so you have to make another buttermilk chocolate cake recipe.1 Cup Vegetable Oil3/4 Teaspoons Vanilla Extract3/4 Teaspoon Almond Extract1 Cup Boiling Water Preparation:1.     Preheat Oven to 300° F
(This is not a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secret chemicals revealed in perfumes &#038; body sprays</title>
		<link>http://tweedie.us/2010/07/11/secret-chemicals-revealed-in-perfumes-body-sprays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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President’s Cancer Panel Report Highlights Threat from Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals – Many Found in New Fragrance Study.
&#160;
 San Francisco - A new analysis reveals that top-selling fragrance products—from Britney Spears’ Curious and Hannah Montana Secret Celebrity to Calvin Klein Eternity and Abercrombie &#38; Fitch Fierce —contain a dozen or more secret chemicals not listed on labels, multiple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Your Sunscreen Dangerous?</title>
		<link>http://tweedie.us/2010/07/11/is-your-sunscreen-dangerous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As we’re all diligently slathering on sunscreen to prevent cancer, out comes a new report suggesting that ingredients in many brands &#8212; including the most popular ones &#8212; may actually raise cancer risk, and that’s not the only health problem associated with them. It isn’t just a single common ingredient that new research has raised [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MD True Confessions: Doctors Admit Their Diagnostic Errors</title>
		<link>http://tweedie.us/2010/06/17/md-true-confessions-doctors-admit-their-diagnostic-errors/</link>
		<comments>http://tweedie.us/2010/06/17/md-true-confessions-doctors-admit-their-diagnostic-errors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To my mind, this was an amazing research project&#8230; more than 300 doctors were encouraged to anonymously confess diagnostic errors that they had made or witnessed. The goal was to identify the most common types of diagnostic mistakes doctors make so as to develop safeguards to minimize or prevent them from happening in the future. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Running Shoes: No Shoes At All?</title>
		<link>http://tweedie.us/2010/06/15/best-running-shoes-no-shoes-at-all/</link>
		<comments>http://tweedie.us/2010/06/15/best-running-shoes-no-shoes-at-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a primitive movement afoot&#8230; barefoot running is suddenly getting trendy in the wake of studies that say it prevents injury. Is it really better &#8212; and is it for everyone?
The concept is hardly new &#8212; after all, humans have run barefoot since they stood up on two legs millions of years ago, and &#8220;running [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Vision Boosts Alzheimer&#8217;s Risk</title>
		<link>http://tweedie.us/2010/06/15/bad-vision-boosts-alzheimers-risk/</link>
		<comments>http://tweedie.us/2010/06/15/bad-vision-boosts-alzheimers-risk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Want to give yourself a better chance of evading Alzheimer’s disease? Get your eyes checked. New research reveals that treating vision problems can actually reduce the risk for dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease.
Seeds for this study were planted with information from the Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study, when University of Michigan researchers noticed that people with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Control Diabetes with Qigong</title>
		<link>http://tweedie.us/2010/06/13/control-diabetes-with-qigong/</link>
		<comments>http://tweedie.us/2010/06/13/control-diabetes-with-qigong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wouldn’t it be great if you could just wave your arms to get better control over your blood sugar? A technique I recently learned about isn’t quite so easy, but it comes close. A research scientist at Bastyr University in Washington has adapted the ancient Chinese practice of movement called qigong (pronounced chee-gong) to help [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intestinal Worms May Help Your Health</title>
		<link>http://tweedie.us/2010/06/13/intestinal-worms-may-help-your-health/</link>
		<comments>http://tweedie.us/2010/06/13/intestinal-worms-may-help-your-health/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Are we too clean for our health? That’s the theory behind a surprising (and growing) area of research. Doctors and scientists are exploring the use of helminths &#8212; more typically known as parasitic intestinal worms &#8212; to treat a range of ailments, from inflammatory bowel diseases like Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis to severe seasonal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling</title>
		<link>http://tweedie.us/2010/06/13/obama-underwrites-offshore-drilling/</link>
		<comments>http://tweedie.us/2010/06/13/obama-underwrites-offshore-drilling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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You read that headline correctly. Unfortunately, the Obama Administration is financing oil exploration off Brazil.
The U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil&#8217;s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil&#8217;s Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro. Brazil&#8217;s planning minister confirmed that [...]]]></description>
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