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		<title>Hope in Coffee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was fortunate to catch a television interview with Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks this morning. Aside from inducing a craving for fresh coffee it reminded me of what I always dreamed possible in America. Howard Schultz was born into a poor family and he isn’t and never was an academic in the traditional sense, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back to the Dark Ages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reading this article regarding Net Neutrality in the Economist leaves me incomprehensibly flabbergasted. Who on earth is making these decisions at at&#38;t and others offending telcos, surely they have top notch degrees from the worlds best universities do they not ? The Internet has organically developed into a single pervasive meritocratic medium facilitating global productivity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Curiosity for advancement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently came across this article in the Harvard Business Review where the author Peter Bregman deliberates returning his iPad for fear that it will engulf his life, decanting his scant free time into the endless abyss of continuous content. I have long felt that the western populations have tipped the balance between continuous consumption [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Critical Innovation &#8211; Engines of the Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have always been fascinated by innovative engineering  and the application of technology upon the tough, serious problems that have plagued our society from the very beginning of human existence. From the Wright Brothers first Aircraft in 1903 to the immense towering wind turbines that now span vast areas of our land and coastal areas [...]]]></description>
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