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		<title>Heart to Heart: Year in Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bit more than a year ago, I created a website called Heart to Heart HD: http://hearttoheart.bahaiteaching.net/. During the ensuing year, I&#8217;ve paid no attention to hits, visits, or other web-traffic statistics. But shortly after the site&#8217;s first birthday, I peeked &#8212; and was stunned to learn that it has evolved into one of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>New Ether Book from Stonehaven</title>
		<link>http://astonishedtamale.com/tech/new-ether-book-from-stonehaven</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Matthews]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a &#8220;new&#8221; book from Stonehaven Press: &#8216;Abdu&#8217;l-Baha, Einstein and Ether by Gary Matthews. (That is, by yours truly.) Please note the quotation marks. This volume isn&#8217;t technically new, but it&#8217;s a vastly expanded second edition with so much new material, and so much formatting improvement, that it might as well be new. Read my [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Log-in Apocalypse?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your online accounts are about to be hacked. Again. Once they are, the hijackers will be able to take over your computer, drain your bank accounts, run up charges on your credit card, buy Amazon goodies in your name, lock you out of your email and cloud storage, read your sensitive business and personal documents, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://astonishedtamale.com/health/happy-valentines-day</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Matthews]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends and readers, Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day to you all. You are one and all loved by at least one very Astonished Tamale! Here&#8217;s hoping every one of you also is loved deeply and intensely by someone you love just as much. Speaking of astonishment: We&#8217;re pleased to note that for the second year in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>New Websites</title>
		<link>http://astonishedtamale.com/interfaith/new-websites</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Matthews]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several long-term projects coming to fruition: Please take a look at the all-new Stonehaven Press website at stonehavenpress.com. This site, the storefront for the publishing company Cheri and I own, has been in the works for a long time. Way overdue, but we haven&#8217;t had the time needed to bring it into being. Also its [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Proposed AIG Lawsuit</title>
		<link>http://astonishedtamale.com/inside/the-proposed-aig-lawsuit-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I write this, AIG &#8212; American International Group &#8212; is meeting to consider filing a lawsuit against America for&#8230; That&#8217;s right. For bailing it out. By loaning $182 billion to AIG, back at the start of the Obama administration. Just so you know, here is what The Astonished Tamale! thinks of that: As the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Windows 8 Great Debate</title>
		<link>http://astonishedtamale.com/tech/the-windows-8-great-debate</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To my stark amazement, I love Windows 8. Let me count the ways. But first &#8212; why am I weighing in? Because various tech experts, including two I know, are recommending we skip this latest version of Microsoft&#8217;s operating system. At least (the advice goes) we should hold off till we&#8217;re forced into it by [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Where We Left Off</title>
		<link>http://astonishedtamale.com/bahai/where-we-left-off</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Matthews]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What&#8217;s going on with the Tamale?&#8221; Thus inquired my friend Patricia, just last night. As a subscriber to this blog, she no doubt was puzzled at not having gotten any updates for the past four-and-and-half months. Okay, fasten your seat belts: It was May 8-9 when Zabine Van Ness and I returned to Seattle from [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Seoul Pancake</title>
		<link>http://astonishedtamale.com/health/seoul-pancake</link>
		<comments>http://astonishedtamale.com/health/seoul-pancake#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 05:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Matthews]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apologies to Rainn Wilson for the pun on his wacky, wonderful website. But facing a 13-hour layover in Seoul, Korea, I was ready to disclaim any further responsibility for anything. Then Zabine and I got a clue: We remembered our Vietnamese home-stay host telling us of a terrific five-hour tour of Seoul we could take [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Vietnam Exit</title>
		<link>http://astonishedtamale.com/interfaith/vietnam-exit</link>
		<comments>http://astonishedtamale.com/interfaith/vietnam-exit#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 03:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 9, 2012 (Tuesday) – Most of the past week – another blur. Our official reason for being in Vietnam ended with last weekend’s celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Hanoi Baha’i community. Normally we would have headed for home immediately. Did I explain that the earliest return flight turned out to be more [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Ridvan &#8211; and a Hanoi Tamale(?)</title>
		<link>http://astonishedtamale.com/interfaith/ridvan-and-a-hanoi-tamale</link>
		<comments>http://astonishedtamale.com/interfaith/ridvan-and-a-hanoi-tamale#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 09:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Matthews]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 2, 2012 (Wednesday) – Still Wednesday: After our visit to the Ho Chi Minh Memorial, Zabine and I were taken to the home of a Vietnamese National Spiritual Assembly member (Duyen). Other Baha’is were gathering, and only after some time did we realize that the purpose was to pray in celebration of a Baha’i [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Vietnam Wednesday</title>
		<link>http://astonishedtamale.com/interfaith/vietnam-wednesday</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 07:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Matthews]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 1-2, 2012 (Tuesday and Wednesday) – Tuesday, for me, was a blur. Part of the day I felt weak from what may have been heat exhaustion, or some bug, or adrenaline overdose. Who knows? I stayed home and slept it off while Zabine ran around Vietnam having adventures. Felt great to unwind. But Wednesday [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Vietnam Villages, Hanoi Hospitality</title>
		<link>http://astonishedtamale.com/interfaith/vietnam-villages-hanoi-hospitality</link>
		<comments>http://astonishedtamale.com/interfaith/vietnam-villages-hanoi-hospitality#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 09:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Matthews]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 30, 2012 (Monday) &#8212; Today we traveled to two neighboring villages in the Vietnamese countryside, conducting home visits with the believers who live there. Lunch, served at the home of a Baha&#8217;i friend, consisted of delicacies I didn&#8217;t even try to identify. All I know is that it was lavish and delicious. As we [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Blending in in Vietnam</title>
		<link>http://astonishedtamale.com/interfaith/blending-in-in-vietnam</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 08:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Matthews]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One faithful reader complains of difficulty in picking out my friend Zabine from the group photos posted here. The reason is that Zabine and I, as seasoned world travelers, have learned to blend into a crowd of Vietnamese. Here’s a picture of the two of us blending in. Zabine, you’ll notice, does it better than [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Hanoi: Baha&#8221;i 20th Anniversary Images</title>
		<link>http://astonishedtamale.com/interfaith/hanoi-bahai-20th-anniversary-images</link>
		<comments>http://astonishedtamale.com/interfaith/hanoi-bahai-20th-anniversary-images#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 16:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Matthews]]></dc:creator>
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		<title>Hanoi: Baha&#8217;i 20th Anniversary</title>
		<link>http://astonishedtamale.com/interfaith/hanoi-bahai-20th-anniversary</link>
		<comments>http://astonishedtamale.com/interfaith/hanoi-bahai-20th-anniversary#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 08:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Matthews]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Zabine Maryam (Linkins) Van Ness, this has been a journey of 20 years. For me, it only felt like one. We arrived Sunday morning at the hotel in Hanoi where the Baha’i community was gathering to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its founding. Stunning floral arrangements were everywhere. Many of these, I hear, were [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Vietnam: Hanoi Beginnings</title>
		<link>http://astonishedtamale.com/interfaith/vietnam-hanoi-beginnings</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 10:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Matthews]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 29, 2012 (Sunday) – As I have explained, the stated reason Zabine Van Ness and I are in Vietnam is that the Hanoi Baha’i community, on the 20th anniversary of its founding, wanted to honor Zabine for her role in that seminal event. That “stated” reason is of course their reason – and a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Historic, Healing Heartsongs</title>
		<link>http://astonishedtamale.com/interfaith/historic-healing-heartsongs</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 19:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Matthews]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 29, 2012 (Sunday) – Simple acts of kindness are miraculously effective at bridging deep divides. Among the many miracle workers we have met in Hanoi are Michael Orona; his wife, Selena; and their three children. These beautiful Baha’i souls made history at the 20th Anniversary celebration of the founding of the Hanoi Baha’i community. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Vietnam Rice Dance</title>
		<link>http://astonishedtamale.com/interfaith/vietnam-day-four</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 14:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Matthews]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 29, 2012 (Sunday) &#8212; Today is the big day of our trip, the reason we came: the 20th anniversary celebration of the founding of Hanoi&#8217;s Baha&#8217;i community. I have a lot of notes and photos to document this milestone and will upload them Any Day Now. But while I&#8217;m organizing, please enjoy this video [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>A Colorful Hanoi Drive</title>
		<link>http://astonishedtamale.com/interfaith/a-colorful-hanoi-drive</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Matthews]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my striking impressions of Vietnam is how colorful everything is. This is no coincidence, nor is it just a fact about tropical nature. It extends to human artifacts of all kinds. This seems to reflect a deep national and cultural attraction to beauty. There are many other counties where this is far less [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Vietnam Day Three</title>
		<link>http://astonishedtamale.com/interfaith/vietnam-day-three</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Matthews]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 28, 2012 (Saturday) – This morning, Zabine had a wonderful and completely unexpected encounter with Rosalie Huibonhua, a Baha’i Continental Counselor. Her areas of responsibility include China, Hong Kong, Vietnam and other Asian countries. She is here, of course, to attend the celebration of the Hanoi Baha’i community’s 20th anniversary. We met her at [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Vietnam Tech Notes</title>
		<link>http://astonishedtamale.com/tech/vietnam-tech-notes</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Matthews]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you contemplate travel to Vietnam, you may want to brush up on how to stay connected with home. It is a lot easier than I expected. You can make free phone calls to home. You can keep your smart-phone, computer, camera, and everything else fully charged. You can plug in. First step, plugging in: [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Second Day Vietnam Photos</title>
		<link>http://astonishedtamale.com/interfaith/second-day-vietnam-photos-2</link>
		<comments>http://astonishedtamale.com/interfaith/second-day-vietnam-photos-2#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 13:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Matthews]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some representative photos from our second day in Vietnam.]]></description>
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		<title>Eat, Pray, Love, Shop (Vietnam Style)</title>
		<link>http://astonishedtamale.com/interfaith/eat-pray-love-shop-vietnam-style</link>
		<comments>http://astonishedtamale.com/interfaith/eat-pray-love-shop-vietnam-style#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 07:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Matthews]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 27, 2012 (Friday) – Having enjoyed our motorcycle ride, we were set for a busy day. First, we sat in on a committee meeting at the home of a Baha’i friend, met many members of the Baha’i community, along with a visiting Counselor, George Saroya, from Indonesia. Lunch at an outdoor noodle cafe. Delicious [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Hanoi from the Handlebars</title>
		<link>http://astonishedtamale.com/health/hanoi-from-the-handlebars</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 01:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Matthews]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 27, 2012 (Friday) – Our busy day started with an unexpected treat – motorcycle rides for Zabine and me. We knew that Baha’i friends were coming by to pick us up, and I suppose we expected a van or car or something. But the most normal mode of transport in Hanoi seems to be [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Hanoi Street Market</title>
		<link>http://astonishedtamale.com/health/hanoi-street-market</link>
		<comments>http://astonishedtamale.com/health/hanoi-street-market#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 03:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Matthews]]></dc:creator>
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		<title>Vietnam Arrival</title>
		<link>http://astonishedtamale.com/interfaith/vietnam-arrival</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 02:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Matthews]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 25, 2012 (Wednesday) – We are now in Hanoi. Considering my many (mis)adventures with travel, domestic and foreign, the trip here was amazingly smooth and stress-free. Well, as stress-free as 18 or so hours on an airplane can be. We landed in Seoul, Korea (Incheon Airport) right on schedule (okay, a couple of minutes [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Vietnam Journey Unfolding</title>
		<link>http://astonishedtamale.com/interfaith/vietnam-journey-unfolding</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Matthews]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 24, 2012 &#8212; Zabine and I are in flight &#8211;Asiana Airlines&#8211; somewhere between Seattle and Seoul. We&#8217;ve travewled 1550 of our 5210-mile total;our altitude is 36,000 feet, ground speed 532 miles per hour, and current outside air temperature &#8212; a balmy minus-70 degrees F. (Guess if I get too hot, I can always go [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Visiting Vietnam</title>
		<link>http://astonishedtamale.com/interfaith/visiting-vietnam</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Matthews]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good morning, April 22. I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m on my way to Vietnam. The Vietnam trip has been in the works for several months, but I haven&#8217;t had the courage &#8212; till now &#8212; to write about it. Please don&#8217;t get me wrong: I&#8217;m excited about this trip &#8212; upbeat, optimistic, incredibly happy. What I&#8217;m [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>New high-def &#8220;Heart to Heart&#8221; website</title>
		<link>http://astonishedtamale.com/interfaith/new-high-def-heart-to-heart-website</link>
		<comments>http://astonishedtamale.com/interfaith/new-high-def-heart-to-heart-website#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 03:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Matthews]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whew! It&#8217;s hard to believe it&#8217;s been more than a month since I posted my March 8 article on Heart to Heart. Sorry to be quiet for so long, but so much has happened: I&#8217;ve ported my new presentation of the Heart to Heart program to its own, standalone web site: Heart to Heart HD. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing Heart to Heart HD</title>
		<link>http://astonishedtamale.com/interfaith/introducing-heart-to-heart</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Matthews]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Astonished Tamale! is pleased to introduce a new service for its readers. We&#8217;re calling it Heart to Heart HD. You can test-drive it here. (Or simply click the &#8220;Heart to Heart HD&#8221; item on the black menu bar above.) A bit of history: Heart to Heart (without the HD) is an omnibus slideshow addressing [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Workouts Feel Shorter</title>
		<link>http://astonishedtamale.com/health/making-workouts-feel-shorter</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Matthews]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know? You can greatly shorten the perceived duration of an aerobic workout by slightly increasing the length of songs you play while exercising. Your Astonished Tamale! editor is pretty buzzed about this new Jedi mind trick. New to me, anyway &#8212; and it works like magic: Exercise time flies by so fast that [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>What Is an Astonished Tamale?</title>
		<link>http://astonishedtamale.com/tech/what-is-an-astonished-tamale</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Matthews]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is an "astonished tamale"? Why is that the name of this blog? Gary L. Matthews attempts to shed some light on these questions.]]></description>
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		<title>It Sings!</title>
		<link>http://astonishedtamale.com/tech/it-sings</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 04:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Matthews]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world's loudest creature, relative to its size, is not the blue whale. It is a two-millimeter insect called the water boatman. The Astonished Tamale! considers what this has to do with the 1994 movie "Don Juan DeMarco".]]></description>
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		<title>Knoxville: Lover&#8217;s Lane for the Prematurely Old?</title>
		<link>http://astonishedtamale.com/health/knoxville-lovers-lane-for-the-prematurely-old</link>
		<comments>http://astonishedtamale.com/health/knoxville-lovers-lane-for-the-prematurely-old#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Matthews]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can America&#8217;s most geriatric city top our nation&#8217;s &#8220;hot to trot&#8221; list? Yes, we can! Let&#8217;s contrast two hot-off-the-press news flashes: ITEM ONE: It&#8217;s official: During the run-up to Valentine&#8217;s Day 2012, we learn that America&#8217;s most romantic city is Knoxville, Tennessee, home of the famous Astonished Tamale! (Also the University of Tennessee Lady Vols, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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