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		<title>Unexpected Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 08:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr Parrot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You do find art in the most unexpected places. I was in Ancoats in Manchester yesterday and came across te little gem on the left. For those who don&#8217;t know Ancoats, it was the world&#8217;s first industrial suburb in the world&#8217;s first industrial city that is both an icon of capitalism and communism. Quick history [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Righteous Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr Parrot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion wouldn&#8217;t be everyone&#8217;s choice of holiday reading, but it somehow felt appropriate as I sat in the Las Vegas sunshine in presidential election year. Whenever politics was discussed, even among friends, views were clearly polarized between liberal and conservative. Not to mention those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>R is for Gilbert Romme</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 23:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr Parrot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is my contribution to ABC Wednesday and for Round Ten I am focusing on people from the past, some famous, others less so. The French Revolution resulted in many ridiculous ideas, but perhaps the most risible was the French Republican Calendar devised by Gilbert Romme. The thinking behind the new calendar was twofold. First [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Muzak</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 16:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr Parrot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Moving Pictures]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I suspect that I&#8217;m about at the end of  talking about our time in Las Vegas (relieved sighs all round) apart from perhaps a photo or two on Flickr. Like the one on the left that I snapped on The Strip. I was taken with the incongruity of the lady on the bike holding the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dam Fine</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 11:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr Parrot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Moving Pictures]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we neared the end of our holiday, there was something of a dash to tick off the things on our must-see list and one of the biggest was the Hoover Dam. We&#8217;d seen it several times before, of course, but only from the air, once on the flight path to McCarran Airport and twice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vorsprung durch Technik</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 05:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr Parrot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I worked out that it wasn&#8217;t so much jet lag as simple lack of sleep that was making me feel decidedly odd after the return trip from Las Vegas. Between getting up on Wednesday morning and going to bed at home on Friday night, we&#8217;d had precisely four hours sleep out of fifty-five! But we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jetlag</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 16:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr Parrot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never suffered from jetlag before, or rather I&#8217;ve never travelled so far east or west that my body clock has reacted badly to the time difference. There was a touch of that when we flew out to Vegas, of course, as we chased the day, setting off around 9am and arriving at 6:30pm. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q is for Fred Quimby</title>
		<link>http://shootingparrots.co.uk/2012/05/09/q-is-for-fred-quimby</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 14:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr Parrot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is my contribution to ABC Wednesday and for Round Ten I am focusing on people from the past, some famous, others less so. It is a strange fact that the producer of one of the funniest and most enduring cartoons knew nothing about animation and little by way of a sense of humour. Fred [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tipping Point</title>
		<link>http://shootingparrots.co.uk/2012/05/08/the-tipping-point</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 14:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr Parrot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had another Las Vegas weather experience to add to add to our list last night &#8211; an electrical storm of sheet lightning and distant thunder,. Not that we got wet. It had been windy all day yesterday and the clouds began to gather and crash in the evening, but the rain passed us by. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top o&#8217; the World Ma</title>
		<link>http://shootingparrots.co.uk/2012/05/07/top-o-the-world-ma-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 21:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr Parrot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Even though we did a fair bit of foot-slogging when we stayed in Sin City, we didn&#8217;t make it as far north as the Stratosphere, which is probably as well since it&#8217;s not the sort of area you want to wander through on foot. Too much crime make it less than the perfect tourist destination, [...]]]></description>
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