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	<title>Marbers Musings &#187; Observing Life</title>
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	<description>by Mark F. Weber</description>
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		<title>A Party School with Passion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[# 1 party school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[athen ohio]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My alma mater, Ohio University, recently became the #1 party school in the nation. As an ancient alumnus, I am asked whether or not the ‘Harvard on the Hocking’ was a party school back in my day. Yes, Ohio University offered both parties and passion in the 1970’s. It is alleged consuming too much alcohol [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Journey Back To Start</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bicycle accidents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[choices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[courage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[goals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Deroller]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We focus on moving forward; never believing a sudden stumbling block will throw us back to the starting line. Tom Deroller stumbled and now describes his incredible journey back to start. An avid road bicyclist, Tom Deroller was pedaling into a parking lot when fate threw him into the air. The landing broke his femur [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Ted</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 04:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family & Friends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Observing Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Defiance Ohio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mourning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ted Moninger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teenage tragedy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One doesn’t normally associate courage and with a holiday party. My sister, Sue, and her family, bravely created a gift for about fifteen teenagers. They hosted a party in remembrance of their recently departed son, Ted. The sudden death in July of the talented and popular Ted Moninger sucked the joy out of the hearts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Converging Rivers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family & Friends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Most Popular]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Observing Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Auglaize River]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Defiance Ohio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fort Defiance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mad Anthony Wayne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maumee River]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pontiac]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is a frosty 15 degree dawn as I gaze at the convergence of the Auglaize and Maumee Rivers in hometown – Defiance, Ohio. These waterways are not only the foundation of this area, but they also made a major imprint on me. Native Americans were the first to appreciate the junction of these rivers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snowfall Derby 2011 &#8211; Blizzard of Profanity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cumulative snow]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Damn, Rochester was just named #4 in the U.S. for foul-mouth cities. How in the hell did that happen? A survey by Business Insider put this city behind Ashburn Va., Los Angeles, and Pittsburgh when it comes to profanity from its citizens. Who in the #$&#038;% ever heard of Ashburn? According to the Cuss Control [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snowfall Derby 2011 &#8211; First Snow</title>
		<link>http://markfweber.com/2010/12/03/snowfall-derby-2011-first-snow/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=snowfall-derby-2011-first-snow</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a dozen cars in ditches with vehicles sliding and swerving all over the highway. You’d think a population that lives in a 100” annual snow area could easily adjust to the first snow! I promptly fall on my butt outside the class building. So much for winter pontification. 265 days transpired since our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Band Camp Battles</title>
		<link>http://markfweber.com/2010/11/23/band-camp-battles/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=band-camp-battles</link>
		<comments>http://markfweber.com/2010/11/23/band-camp-battles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family & Friends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Observing Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1812 Overture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[band camp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colonel Arnald Gabriel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danny Boy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lake Placid]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is a flurry of activity as sixty-two musicians assemble saxophones and buzzes from trumpet mouthpieces at the Northeast Instrumental Music Festival in Lake Placid, New York. My wife, Kathy, is among them. This is the year’s final band camp after events in Georgia, Dayton, Williamsburg, and Chautauqua. George drove eleven hours from Detroit while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks For Now</title>
		<link>http://markfweber.com/2010/11/21/thanks-for-now/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=thanks-for-now</link>
		<comments>http://markfweber.com/2010/11/21/thanks-for-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 04:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family & Friends]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[thanksgiving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[today]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Eleanor Roosevelt wrote, “Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is mystery. Today is a gift.” The concept is so easy to grasp, but very difficult to achieve. As the holiday season approaches, I give thanks for today. During the last year my urgent chase for the future ran out of fuel. A number of experiences pulled me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tipping Point of Hope</title>
		<link>http://markfweber.com/2010/11/19/the-tipping-point-of-hope/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-tipping-point-of-hope</link>
		<comments>http://markfweber.com/2010/11/19/the-tipping-point-of-hope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 01:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Observing Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1980 Winter Olympics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Olympics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Hockey Team]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are many similarities between today and America thirty years ago. In both eras are impacted by weak economies, high unemployment, partisan debates, a growing Asian economy, a Middle East threat, and a dismal U.S. morale. In 1980 a miracle took place deep in New York’s Adirondack Mountains that tipped America’s scales toward hope and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Twain Rests Nearby</title>
		<link>http://markfweber.com/2010/11/17/mark-twain-rests-nearby/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=mark-twain-rests-nearby</link>
		<comments>http://markfweber.com/2010/11/17/mark-twain-rests-nearby/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Observing Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elmira]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elmira College]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Twain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Samuel L. Clemens]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Twain stares at us from the cover of a recent Newsweek magazine. You almost hear him proclaim, “The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” Yet Samuel Langhorne Clemens is buried a few hours from my house in Elmira, New York. Clemens spent summers in this Upstate New York village. The first stop [...]]]></description>
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