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		<title>Some Sad School Stories</title>
		<link>http://gentlyhewstone.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/some-sad-school-stories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Huston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are forty students enrolled in my third hour class.  Thirty showed up today: one had been suspended, nine others were truant. 
For the previous two classes, their homework—as explained at the beginning and end of each class and posted on the board—was to get a copy of a novel from a list I’d given them, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gentlyhewstone.wordpress.com&blog=3247627&post=2257&subd=gentlyhewstone&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Idea For Public Service Announcement</title>
		<link>http://gentlyhewstone.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/idea-for-public-service-announcement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Huston</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[civil rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Camera opens on a bus interior from the front; passengers settle in as the bus prepares to start moving.  A subtitle shows, &#8220;1955.&#8221; 
A new shot gives a close up of a black woman sitting near the front, looking seriously but distractedly out the window.  A voice with a Southern accent off camera says, &#8220;You need [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gentlyhewstone.wordpress.com&blog=3247627&post=2252&subd=gentlyhewstone&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Idea For &#8220;V&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Huston</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fort Hood]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[V]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The massacre at Fort Hood only two days after the premiere of the new science fiction series V, about hostile plotters hiding in our midst, has me thinking about how current events might further factor into the show&#8217;s plot.  Specifically, I&#8217;m inspired by the leftists in our society who misdirect our attention from the real [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gentlyhewstone.wordpress.com&blog=3247627&post=2250&subd=gentlyhewstone&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Las Vegas Children&#8217;s Book Festival</title>
		<link>http://gentlyhewstone.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/the-las-vegas-childrens-book-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Huston</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Language and Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living well]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Atlas Shrugged]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ayn Rand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, for the second year in a row, my wife and I took the kids to the annual Children&#8217;s Book Festival, sponsored by Target and part of the city&#8217;s larger Vegas Valley Book Festival. 
We agreed that out of all the local events we go to, this is our favorite. 
It&#8217;s held in the beautiful Centennial Plaza, which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gentlyhewstone.wordpress.com&blog=3247627&post=2246&subd=gentlyhewstone&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two Thoughts About &#8220;V&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://gentlyhewstone.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/two-thoughts-about-v/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Huston</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Twilight Zone]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday afternoon I told my oldest son about the rebooted series V, and how much I enjoyed the original version as a kid.  When I explained the plot to him&#8211;aliens show up and solve all our problems, pretending to be our friends, so they can win our trust and then eat us&#8211;he said, &#8220;Hmm.  Sounds [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gentlyhewstone.wordpress.com&blog=3247627&post=2243&subd=gentlyhewstone&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UNLV Sponsors Youth Sexuality Activism Conference For CCSD Educators</title>
		<link>http://gentlyhewstone.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/unlv-sponsors-youth-sexuality-activism-conference-for-ccsd-educators/</link>
		<comments>http://gentlyhewstone.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/unlv-sponsors-youth-sexuality-activism-conference-for-ccsd-educators/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Huston</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A disturbing email went out to my school&#8217;s electronic bulletin board today.  Presumably it went out to every school in the district.  The message included two attachments giving details about an alternative sexuality conference on the UNLV campus on November 14 which will feature a series of workshops.  Are these workshops meant to help educators with their personal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gentlyhewstone.wordpress.com&blog=3247627&post=2233&subd=gentlyhewstone&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MSP: Second Class Requirement 8</title>
		<link>http://gentlyhewstone.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/msp-second-class-requirement-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Huston</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living well]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Man Scout Project]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[8.  Participate in a school, community, or troop program on the dangers of using drugs, alcohol, and tobacco, and other practices that could be harmful to your health. Discuss your participation in the program with your family.
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On Monday, I brought home a DVD from the library of a school documentary called Drug &#38; Alcohol Awareness.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gentlyhewstone.wordpress.com&blog=3247627&post=2231&subd=gentlyhewstone&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Underdog in the Culture War</title>
		<link>http://gentlyhewstone.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/the-underdog-in-the-culture-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Huston</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[culture war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Valley High School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas Review-Journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Laramie Project]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I had a letter printed in the Las Vegas Review-Journal this morning.  In response to local citizens&#8217; and the media&#8217;s universal lambasting of parents who are protesting a high school&#8217;s performances of Rent and The Laramie Project, I wrote:
As soon as news broke of a parental protest to Green Valley High School&#8217;s productions of two [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gentlyhewstone.wordpress.com&blog=3247627&post=2223&subd=gentlyhewstone&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Many Hours Does It Take To Run A Ward For A Week?</title>
		<link>http://gentlyhewstone.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/how-many-hours-does-it-take-to-run-a-ward-for-a-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Huston</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[callings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consecration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LDS Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sacrifice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to quantify, or at least illustrate, just how much sacrifice people put into their church communities.  I hope for this to be an opportunity for us to realize just how much we serve each other, and rely on each other.  Let us each remember that we&#8217;re not the only ones out there trying [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gentlyhewstone.wordpress.com&blog=3247627&post=1270&subd=gentlyhewstone&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Harry Is Running Scared</title>
		<link>http://gentlyhewstone.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/harry-is-running-scared/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Huston</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Danny Tarkanian]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nevada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pinky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sue Lowden]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the last time Harry Reid was up for reelection?  He barely campaigned at all, running a few token ads near the election, featuring people from his hometown telling folksy stories about him, and calling him &#8220;Pinky.&#8221;  He could afford to run those nonsense ads because it was a slam dunk campaign&#8211;there was no chance he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gentlyhewstone.wordpress.com&blog=3247627&post=2214&subd=gentlyhewstone&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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