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	<title>Rusty's Blog - Mormon Conversations &#187; My take on current events</title>
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		<title>Sonia Sotomayor – Supreme Example</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 06:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rusty Lindquist</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barrack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Find inspiration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now you&#8217;ve likely heard of Sonia Sotomayor.  This week, President Barrack Obama nominated her to fill the empty position in the U.S. Supreme Court (CNN announcement here).
As with any nomination, there&#8217;s always a lot of surrounding debate, sometimes from both sides, about whether or not that candidate is the right one for the job. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme court upholds ban on same-sex marriage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 18:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rusty Lindquist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to CNN (article here), the California high court just upheld the ban on same-sex marriage.  It did sustain the validity of prior same-sex marriages, but the ban on new marriages was upheld by a 6-1 vote.
California&#8217;s Proposition 8, preventing same sex marriage, has been the subject of extreme controversy, as you&#8217;d expect, but it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;re number 288!  Please, be personal.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 04:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rusty Lindquist</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[On leadership]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[self improvement]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I was in Cutlers, a small sandwich shop here in Utah (they’ve got an amazing turkey and avocado sandwich, by the way, and crazy-good sugar cookies).   
It was early evening and they were about to close.  I walked in and placed an order for a dozen sugar cookies (no, not all for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did Mormons invent Wing Dings?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 06:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rusty Lindquist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
A little while ago, I was talking to a non-Mormon coworker.  He, of course, knew I was Mormon, and as we were talking, he said (in all seriousness): “I heard that Mormons are the ones that invented the Wing Dings font as a secret language”.
In case you’re not familiar, Wing Dings are a font available [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wordpress problems, missing posts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rusty Lindquist</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bugs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a problem tonight with WordPress, where many WordPress users, using the system during a certain period of time, had all of their custom sidebar code dissapear.  Unfortunately, I was a beneficiary of that bug.
I&#8217;ll work to restore that code as quickly as possible, since it is what granted access to all my past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t abandon your children</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rusty Lindquist</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[motivation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[safe-haven laws]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Nebraska lawmakers voted (43-5) to change the state safe-haven law.  All 50 states have these safe-haven laws, allowing parents to leave infants at a hospital anonymously without fear of prosecution.  They were passed in an effort to prevent unwanted babies from being abandoned in less safe locations.
But when Nebraska set up their law, they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mormon website ranks above all other religions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rusty Lindquist</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alexa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[lds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an article on LDSMediaTalk.com (here), which points out that LDS.org ranks the highest of all religions organization&#8217;s websites.  At least according to Alexa (www.alexa.com), a well-known company that measures traffic, &#8220;reach&#8221;, and ranking of top websites.
According to the article, the following religions rank in this order (note:  the smaller the number, the higher the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GASP!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rusty Lindquist</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My take on current events]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lifestyle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mormon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[That was me coming up for air&#8230;.
I&#8217;ve been working till 2 or 3 in the morning for the past couple of weeks trying to prepare some new products for launch at a big industry tradeshow this week. 
But, now most of my work is done and I&#8217;ve finally been able to start surfacing for air.  For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Picking pumpkins</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:32:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rusty Lindquist</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[october]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The thing I love about the holidays, is the excuse to just get out and do stuff as a family.  Here we are at the pumpkin patch, each of the kids prowling around in search of the perfect pumpkin.
It&#8217;s a cool October evening, and everybody&#8217;s having a blast.
Life is just good.

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		<title>Testimony of the First Presidency – Conference Highlights</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rusty Lindquist</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Presidency]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Prophet]]></category>
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In the wake of the magnificent 178th Semiannual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, many highlight videos have been posted to YouTube, successfully leveraging this new media to proclaim the gospel, and teach the truth, that a whole new generation, intimately familiar with this style of on-demand communication, might be [...]]]></description>
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