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		<title>The downside of victimhood</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judi</dc:creator>
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July 11, 2010
Consider this excerpt from an 1826 essay by William Hazlitt (quoted by Sasha Abramsky in his article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 11, 2010 &#8211; Look Ahead in Anger: Hyperbolic rhetoric threatens to swamp our politics). 
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		<title>Mind Heist</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mind Heist by Zack Hemsey
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		<title>Building Digital Canada</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to let you know about a recent epiphany that has me finally grokking the digital policy landscape and what needs doing about it. All because I was sick and channel surfing.
 
I happened to catch a broadcast on CPAC of the June 8 Panel at the Telecom conference and I think it gave me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VOCBC to launch website soon!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working with my fellow steering committee members to develop our own proVOCative site. www.vocbc.org
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		<title>Bait and Switch</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 03:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barbara Eirenreich speaks. We listen. It&#8217;s strangely familiar&#8230;

Pulling back the curtain on the paradigm of employment and jobseeking in white collar America, even in 2005 when this interview took place, reveals some hard truths about how we are preparing our graduates for (futiley) pursuing their Dream of a great career. Although some issues such as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gift</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[love yoga give]]></category>

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MC Yogi &#8211; Give Love (Giving4Living Mix) from MC Yogi on Vimeo.
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		<title>Cognitive Surplus: put it to work..</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 03:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capacity Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love synergistic thinking. Clay Shirky has hit on something that I appreciate with all my quirky soul. A fascinating analysis of the side-effect of paradigm shifts on the humans trying to cope with them. This is an excerpt from the transcription of the video presentation I&#8217;ve included at the end of this posting. Worth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council supports Cultural Plan in tough times</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the need to make deep cuts in spending as a result of steeply-reduced revenues, Vancouver City Council recognized the importance of maintaining the momentum on implementation of the Cultural Plan as a contributor to local economic regeneration.
Full details of how the budget reduction will impact the implementation process has yet to be heard, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emerging Habitat for a Creative Economy Threatened by City Budget Cuts.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an excerpt from an email alert I sent to my networks in the creative community earlier this week. The &#8216;troops&#8217; rallied and spoke eloquently on behalf of this keystone project, we continue to advocate and the decision is on Tuesday April 7 09 at the regular Council meeting:
Vancouver City Council considers cutting implementation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alternatives to Creating &#8220;Yet Another&#8221; NonProfit Arts Organization</title>
		<link>http://judipiggott.ca/blog/?p=165</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When artists and creative sector groups begin to face the need to fundraise and establish a more organized and permanent structure for the projects they want to develop, the question I am most frequently asked is: &#8220;How do we form a nonprofit society?&#8221; followed closely by &#8220;Where do we get grants and how do we [...]]]></description>
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