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		<title>Jeffery Vidrine, Writer blog and news</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Integrity, candor, and professional service. Allow me to demonstrate these attributes for you and your freelance writing needs. I can handle anything from blog posts to hard news, essays to fiction, and most points in between. After you view my reviews, please leave a comment with contact information.
Our motto is a tribute to &#8220;the Greatest&#8221;:

&#8220;The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YOPD and me</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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I&#8217;m Jeff, and having had Parkinson&#8217;s disease for 6-7 years, am trying to understand how this has become my life. By training, I am a dentist. By serendipity and God&#8217;s good graces, husband to Teresa (28 years). By way of blessing (and punishment-lol), father to 4 sons, 24,22,20 &#38;15. I have served our country for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death and Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rebuilding New Orleans - Save Our Sinking Ship (SOS)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, &#8216;I&#8217;m from the government and I&#8217;m here to help.&#8217;
- Ronald Reagan
This quote is a corollary to that which Henry David Thoreau said, &#8221; government governs best which governs least.&#8221; In our world, anytime that anything untoward occurs a hue and cry arises to invoke a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hanging On!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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O, brazen leaves, boldly rustling in the north breeze.
Will not quite give it up!
Life ebbing; dry, wrinkled, lifeless looking.
Yet the will to be remains.
O, brazen leaves, resisting the autumnal prerogative.
Hanging on! Resisting the forces of time,
Somehow hoping time will stop; a moment frozen
to keep forever, like summer in the Arctic climes.
O, brazen leaves, dried and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indoor dental clinic olympics</title>
		<link>http://jefferyvidrine.com/2007/09/11/indoor-dental-clinic-olympics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First of all, I have been a correctional public health dentist for 20+ years. Some days are busy, some downright exciting. But when a correctional facility is locked down, the day can drag on and on. It was on one of those days that this story takes place.
I was fortunate to have 2 dental students [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something stinks in Newsweek</title>
		<link>http://jefferyvidrine.com/2007/09/10/something-stinks-in-newsweek/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Newsweek magazine has a feature article in its current issue written by Mother Teresa hater, Christopher Hitchens. The impetus for his latest diatribe against what most people consider the one person certain to be welcomed into heaven with open arms is a book written by the person in charge of her case for sainthood.
Mother Teresa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Walk</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 03:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Stoic external.
Officiousness imprinted in the bricks and imposing entry edifice.
Institutional architecture, rising in front,
as one walks the walk.
I go voluntarily; many others do not.
Through sallyports, clanging automatic heavy metal grills.
Then, a hush; contrasting quiet to the cacophony of clanging
down the corridors of convicts.
In a short walk, one leaves a world of unimpeded movement
and open possibilities. [...]]]></description>
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