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	<title>Mark Gregory Turansky &#187; Misc.</title>
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		<title>The Global Economy is a Ponzi Scheme</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/156</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lester Brown has an interesting take on the unsustainable economy we live and work within.
http://www.grist.org/article/our-global-ponzi-economy/
He argues, for example, that &#8220;expensive&#8221; $3/gallon gas does not reflect the true cost of the fuel in our cars.  Mr. Brown believes the cost of gas isn&#8217;t just pumping, refining, and shipping gasoline.  It also includes the military cost of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A $9,000 water bill</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/150</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;When I have a dollar to blow on a bottle of water, I buy Perrier!&#8221; quipped Robin Williams in his late &#8217;70s stand-up days.
It killed.  The audience howled at Williams&#8217; derision of paying a lot of money for something we get nearly for free from the tap, especially when the EPA does a very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The White Roof &#8212; Steven Chu is right!</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/149</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Energy Secretary Steven Chu has advocated painting roofs white as a cost saving measure that also reduces the impact of climate change.  The theory is that more heat would be reflected, thereby lowering a building&#8217;s cooling costs, which in turn reduces greenhouse gas emissions because we&#8217;re using less power to cool the building.
An article (blog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Compost Toilets the &#8220;in&#8221; thing</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/142</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[And I thought writing about composting in a Victory Garden was a good thing to do, but I&#8217;ve been easily bested by people in Fiji who created composting toilets because they found their sewage was seeping into the sea and affecting their coral reefs.
The toilets separate liquids and solids, with the liquids becoming a fertilizer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drivin&#8217; like Gandhi</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/140</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know Americans drive 3 trillion miles annually?  We drove 250 billion miles just in April &#8216;09.  Pretty amazing.
The article Drive Like Gandhi shows how much we could save nearly 700 million barrels of oil and $34 billion by applying a few simple, conservative, and thrifty tips.
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		<title>Safety 1st made the worst plug protector ever</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/136</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To any parents using this brand of outlet cover:  They suck.  Safety 1st apparently does not test their products with real babies, because my nine month old bested their plug protector with ease.  Turns out, she&#8217;s not gifted or special.  There is another video on YouTube of a baby crawling across the floor and easily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Early Childhood Education</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/135</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 04:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sesame Street is 40 years old and struggling (ratings-wise) against Dora the Explorer and SpongeBob SquarePants.  What little bit of Spanish Dora teaches my little daughter is not the same as the impact Sesame Street has had on the world.
Newsweek has a retrospective new article that talks about the importance of Sesame Street.  I can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to grow old and happy</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/134</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 19:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just read a very interesting article in The Atlantic about a seven decade study that followed 268 Harvard undergrads throughout their life with the single question: &#8220;What makes us happy?&#8221;  (The official study is called the &#8220;Harvard Study of Adult Development&#8221;).
You can read the full article here: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200906/happiness/1
The study found 7 major criteria for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, YOU are the problem, not your credit card</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/131</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 18:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t need a bailout.
I have two credit cards that I use frequently, almost daily, but I do not have any debt.  I agree with Dave Ramsey when he says debt is the most aggressively marketed product in our culture today.  I receive all kinds of solicitations in the mail and I&#8217;m encouraged to buy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gifted?</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/102</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
&#160;
Maybe!
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		<title>Using (or not) your credit cards responsibly</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/99</link>
		<comments>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/99#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think this article and the people therein missed the point entirely:  it&#8217;s not about not using your credit cards, but using them responsibly.
The article cites a study which finds consumers are relying on their credit cards less, that they are leaving them at home, not spending through them.  The article also talks about a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m published, and I struck a nerve.</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/96</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The JavaLobby (now java.dzone.com) asked to republish my article on human &#8220;resources.&#8221;  I was happy to oblige!
http://java.dzone.com/articles/were-not-resources
I think the theme of the article touched on a strong undercurrent in the developer community.  My blog post received more than 6k hits over the weekend, has the highest number of comments of all my articles, was republished [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re not &#8220;resources&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/95</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Resources.  It&#8217;s a dehumanizing term that is also flat-out wrong for nearly every profession I can think of.
Project planning requires estimates and scheduling.  I&#8217;ve got no problem with that except when it treats people as interchangeable cogs.  In a manufacturing process, skilled workers might be interchangeable.  There are only so many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s always the last place you look!</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/93</link>
		<comments>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/93#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been telling my friends this for years, so it&#8217;s good that I&#8217;ve finally got a credible website with evidence proving the theory.  I will also try to help my friends if they ask &#8220;Have you seen my ________[fill in the blank]?&#8221;   I&#8217;d ask in reply, &#8220;Where&#8217;s the last place you put [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Design Patterns Quick Reference Cards</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/91</link>
		<comments>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/91#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HOW TO]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jason McDonald&#8217;s printable design pattern reference cards were printed by DZone as part of their &#8220;RefCardz&#8221; iniative.
You can find Jason&#8217;s cards here and you can find other useful design patterns stuff here.
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		<title>Vapid defined</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/76</link>
		<comments>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/76#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This may have nothing to do with technology or software or what I do professionally, but still &#8230;
Choose your definition:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vapid
or
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/24/people.parishilton.ap/index.html
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		<title>Who Saved Watt?!</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/57</link>
		<comments>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/57#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My family uses compact flourescent light bulbs.  Our next cars will be hybrids.  We&#8217;d love to go solar when the price per watt for the panels comes down, and I support net metering to allow people to reduce their monthly bills by putting energy back onto the grid .  We recycle religiously. [...]]]></description>
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