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		<title>Tron bike ride tonight!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Off to Havana!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Halifax Central Library construction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This shows the excavation for the new Halifax Central Library  foundation. The building is going to be huge, and amazing! The image has  colour boosting, so the natural iron discolouration of the standing rainwater looks far more dramatic than it was to the naked eye. It&#8217;s an exciting project to watch!]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing Timeline</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook Timeline rant Introducing timeline Tell your life story with a new kind of profile. Introducing Timeline. But I don&#8217;t want a new kind of profile. If I wanted my Facebook profile to look like some kind of jumbled cluttered MySpace page with all my previous posts flashing up on screen I would have sought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Halifax Skating Oval &#8211; YouTube</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 22:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Follow me on Twitter ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Follow @jvangurp]]></description>
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		<title>Yum?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[oval]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[￼ Deep lard fried dough coated with sugar. Mmmmm! #blargh &#160; &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Almost finished a list</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 02:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[￼ That&#8217;s sort of what my daily work looks like. For the most part&#8230; also emails, many many emails, phone calls and meetings. Oh, and I occasionally get to drive to a fishing community to negotiate land purchases from property owners, or to a small community to estimate the value of a small office building [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St. Pat’s-Alexandra sale violated policy &#124; Reality Bites</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 02:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[St. Pat’s-Alexandra sale violated policy &#124; Reality Bites. Some good comments here. How can the city just ignore its own clearly stated policies?]]></description>
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		<title>No more Quinpool Kid</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chronicle herald community blogs quinpool kid]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Chronicle Herald recently &#8216;upgraded&#8217; their online paper and in the process killed the community blogs; no warning, no email, no discussion or plan to allow us to copy them. There were really only two active blogs, Quinpool Kid (mine) and Halifax Memories, and amazingly well written and very interesting blog by Dennis Cato who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging from my &#8216;phone&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is there anything my little Android device can&#8217;t do? Wow!]]></description>
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		<title>September 10, 2010 &#8211; some brief notes and images</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here we are again at the beginning of another school year. The summer of 2010 in Halifax has been phenomenally beautiful, weather wise. It was day after day of clear warm sunshine with occasional overnight showers. I don&#8217;t recall any previous summer being so consistently beautiful and this one started early too. It almost makes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OK HRM &#8211; Now You&#8217;ve Done It!</title>
		<link>http://www.jvangurp.com/wp/?p=279</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear HRM people, you might have gone too far with your anti-backyard-hen stance this time. Yes, yes, Mr or Ms Bylaw Enforcement Officer, I know you&#8217;re &#8220;only following orders&#8221; and it pained you to issue the Notice To Comply&#8230; we all know about that principle. So how many is this now? What?&#8230;, three backyard chicken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas potlucks</title>
		<link>http://www.jvangurp.com/wp/?p=272</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, December 24th is downtown office potluck day. Watch for all the folks around the streets with their Tupperware containers, shrimp ring boxes and armloads of paper plates and napkins. We&#8217;re having one at my office. Yesterday was clean out the staff fridge day. Everything was tossed. Maybe this happens once a year, I&#8217;m not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Whitzman</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Whitzman PPC &#8220;I have no great aims in art. No axe to grind. No world ailments to cure. I paint to please myself and to bring pleasure to others.&#8221; This week I had the great pleasure of taking my Mom to visit her friend of many years, David Whitzman. We had a delightful time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great job!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s what I get to do for work&#8230; make trips like this from time to time &#8211; you might need to click the map to see my route. View DFO Sept 2, 2009 in a larger map]]></description>
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		<title>Artifacts from Monastery Lane</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I live near Monastery Lane where Heritage Gas started connecting a line that will service homes on Yukon Street. The locals got together and got a critical number of people to sign up so the gas company is digging a trench and laying their familiar yellow hose today. On my way home I came across [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hurricane Bill</title>
		<link>http://www.jvangurp.com/wp/?p=240</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another event where you&#8217;re either in the &#8220;oh it&#8217;s just a bunch of hype&#8221; camp or the &#8220;better get ready&#8221; camp. The same thing comes up anytime you mention swine flu although people seem much more divisive about H1N1. Did we get ready for Bill? Yes indeed! I&#8217;m no alarmist but as a long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of Excellent</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hey John how are ya doin&#8217;?&#8221; &#8230;   &#8220;Excellent!&#8221; &#8230; or &#8220;great&#8220;, or &#8220;couldn&#8217;t be better&#8221;! This is how I respond to the typical office greeting. If you ask anyone at my work I&#8217;m probably one of the happiest, most content, easy going guys around. I&#8217;m always doing &#8220;excellent!&#8221; Is it true? NO! Like everyone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urban animal habitat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Halifax has some urban wildlife areas. You see all sorts of spots around Halifax where little islands of nature eke out an existence oblivious to our busy schedules and never ending development. They go unnoticed by our backhoes and saws and gravel trucks and asphalt spreaders. Some are remnants of a long-ago city and some [...]]]></description>
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