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		<title>Hula Hoop Sex Therapy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 23:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Mandiary,
I hope that the creative community of the world wide web will consider my profound personal experience documented below and theorize what it all means in the grand scheme of my brand identity for my life.
 
Hula Hoop Sex Therapy: 
There was a phase when I was so out of practice I feared I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Mandiary,</p>
<p>I hope that the creative community of the world wide web will consider my profound personal experience documented below and theorize what it all means in the grand scheme of my brand identity for my life.</p>
<p><em> </em></p>
<p><em>Hula Hoop Sex Therapy: </em></p>
<p>There was a phase when I was so out of practice I feared I had forgotten how to move during sex.  The hip pelvis motion was always a little awkward for me.  I was air humping one day in front of the bathroom mirror to see if I could detect some rhythm. I could see I desperately needed some practice getting my hips back into the groove when the idea of purchasing a hula hoop popped into my head.  It seemed like a cost-effective solution.  Finding a store to purchase a hula hoop turned out more difficult than expected and took several stores, phone calls, and bathroom breaks. Once home with my purchase, I was concerned what my neighbors would think about seeing a grown man playing alone in the yard with a hula hoop. I had recently purchased a new home and was skeptical of my neighbor. I noticed the old man there was always studying my activity from his kitchen sink window. I decided I should practice my hoop indoors.  I was somewhat torn over the purchase of my new home feeling that as a single man the two story home seemed somewhat excessive.  Now with my hula hoop, the purchase seemed more justified as I now had a private place to practice in the unfurnished bonus room.  With the mini blinds down and music loud, I began to practice my moves.  I was thrilled that the width of this great bonus room freed me to take a few steps in either direction and still avoid hula crash with the slanted walls that always felt as though they were caving in on me.  I will admit the slanted walls did create a certain weight about the room that added to the sexual tension of the situation.  I had made note on the sexual nature of the hula hoop while observing practitioners at a music festival during college.  Years ago at that festival, I recognized a hula hooping girl I had recently made out with at a keg party.   I was happy that she recognized me and that she was excited to see me.  She even momentarily speed her hula thrust and then smoothly flung her hoop back and temporarily give me access into her spin zone for a quick hug.  Without missing a beat, suddenly her hula went down between us and she begin to spin and its radius pushed me back.  I found that trying to talk with this ring of a barrier was a real nuisance. I was able to yell above the live music for a while and maintain her eye contact and attention. Then she seemed to no longer really respond to my presence and instead she just bobbed her head and pulsated her pelvis. She was so into her hula that I might as well not have been there.  I began to get very jealous of the hoop between us.  It was like a gate that divided her into her own little world complete with tiny planets rotating around her radiating body.  She seemed orgasmic within her hoop.  I Iooked out across the field at the patchwork of hippies and their twirling hoops and orgasmic expressions; each of them in their own little worlds, constellations flinging about them in a perfect circle.  The girls ignoring all the guys who noodle danced right outside their circumference, the girls basking in the spectacle of desire they were creating.  The voice in my head screamed, “I thought this concert was supposed to be about unity!  These damned hula hoops are doing nothing but creating division!”  I began to despise all those I saw with hula hoops. There were even a few pathetic men doing the hula.  Brainwashed men in their terrible patchwork pants.  I wanted to kill them.  I thought of starting my own music festival.  The posters would read:  No Dogs/No Kids/No Hula Hoops/No Patchwork Pants you Fucking Idiot.</p>
<p>This experience had a lasting impact on me and it was years before the site of a hula hoop ceased to send me boiling.  It wasn’t until now in desperation 12 years later, I, sexually despondent and disheartened, had hula-therapy come to mind.  In fact, when spending the better part of a Saturday shopping for a hula I remembered nothing of my past judgment of the plastic circle.  It wasn’t until there in the bonus room that I actually flashed back to my last memory of hula exposure. I had suppressed my remembrance for so many years.  Now here in the bonus room I was open minded to facing my past. To embracing change.  To conquering my fears.  To forgiving my judgement.  I began with the hula simply: on my arm and in slow circles.  Once I built up some confidence I switched to my waist. For the first 5 or so minutes I bobbled and it clumsily swirled like a flushing toilet until it hit the ground. And then it happened.  It was almost spiritual.  I realized the power of the hula.  I realized all my judgments against the dirty hippies and how their hula was dividing the music festival that was coined as a weekend of unity was judgment in vain.   I understood that the dirty hippies were actually experiencing unity within themselves and the planet-thus connecting with each other inner-dimensionally.  It was a euphoric sensibility; at one with the air and the sound and everything within and without me, simultaneously. Through this sacred rite I was essentially fucking the air that I breathed.  What could be more harmonious?  I now empathized with the girl who ignored me in favor of the hula.  I understood how it indeed could be more fulfilling than even me.  I felt a sense of relief with my newfound waist companion.  I may not need to get a girlfriend after all.  I twirled harder still.  I felt the sweat beads launch of my nose.  The plush carpet against my bare feet felt like a fluffy cumulus cloud and the slanted walls seemed to open up to the heavens.  Everything was white and the bonus room went on forever.  I looked to the sky light window and felt a warm ray of Sun beaming down into my Soul!  I thrust harder and harder!  I raised my hands to the heavens and shouted with joy!</p>
<p>What could be more harmonious?</p>
<p>-Phil Manilow</p>
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		<title>The Red Brick Solution: Future Phases</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 08:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Red Brick Solution: Phase II
Once we construct the red brick retaining wall to protect our coasts we will have solved one of our major domestic problems. But there are other problems that left unsolved will surely result in disaster. 
See terrorists remain a threat and our borders remain insecure.  The fence constructed along [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>The Red Brick Solution: Phase II</strong><br />
Once we construct the red brick retaining wall to protect our coasts we will have solved one of our major domestic problems. But there are other problems that left unsolved will surely result in disaster. </p>
<p>See terrorists remain a threat and our borders remain insecure.  The fence constructed along the US/Mexican border is not stopping alien penetration.  Now Arizona has passed immigration legislation that will surely lead to racial profiling.  We must bring the debate back to the problem: THE BORDER.  We must contain these aliens from crossing the border, and the current fence is simply not strong enough.  The most viable solution for a secure border fence is infallibly without a question: A MASSIVE RED BRICK RETAINING WALL.  It’s hard to climb. It’s built to last. Plus a red brick fence just looks classy and increases property values.</p>
<p>Now it’s not fair to say that it&#8217;s just the Mexican Latin Americans that are crossing the US/Mexican border illegally.  It’s out of control.  It’s birds, Cubans, South Americans, Central Americans, and all other types of Americans trying to cross into our America.   WE MUST CONSTRUCT A MASSIVE RETAINING WALL.</p>
<p>And we still have plenty of unused red clay fields across this country for additional red brick manufacturing.  These fields are in regions with the highest unemployment where not only can we create thousands of red brick jobs, but can keep workers healthy because of their access to red clay. See red clay has a negative ion and if ingested it pulls out positive toxic ions. It contains calcium bentonite which has a PH of 9.6 and when ingested it can bring your PH to a perfect 7. So what better way for brick workers to stay healthy than to eat raw red clay on the job?  Healthy, productive, profitable, non-alien workers equals a healthy America.</p>
<p><strong>The Red Brick Solution: Phase III</strong><br />
When we accomplish Phase I and II of The Red Brick Solution we will still have one continental border at risk:  Canada.  While terrorists and Mexicans seem less interested in penetrating this border, we are seeing lots of Canadians trying to cross it- except back into Canada.  If this Canadian-American mass exodus continues it could greatly alter our political landscape. We can’t afford to lose any more white people. The most viable solution to contain these expatriates is to CONSTRUCT A MASSIVE RETAINING WALL ALONG THE US/CANADIAN BORDER.</p>
<p>Plus think how cool a massive red brick retaining wall surrounding our<br />
America would look from outer space.   NASA could take some amazing satellite photos and sell a bunch of posters and fund Obama&#8217;s mission to Mars.</p>
<p>And Mars is a red planet with infinite red brick potential.  It is the penultimate frontier for red brick manufacturing.  The ultimate frontier is beyond space. It&#8217;s heavenly.  Researchers round world have been studying the Tower of Babel and why its construction never reached the heavens.  The conclusion is that the building materials used at that time were simply not strong enough and that the only viable solution for future Towers of Babel is to use the strongest bricks available made from the strongest clay in existence: RED CLAY. </p>
<p>WE MUST CONSTRUCT A MASSIVE RED BRICK TOWER TO HEAVEN.  If we aim our Tower of Babel to intersect with the path of Mars we could continue tower construction by utilizing the red matter on the surface of Mars to make new and improved red space bricks.</p>
<p>We get our borders secured and a successful Tower of Babel constructed and I’m convinced we would reach Utopia here in our America.  AND THIS IS THE FINAL FRONTIER OF THE RED BRICK SOLUTION.</p>
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		<title>Red Brick Rally Song:</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 08:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don’t forget the official chant of The Red Brick Movement.  Sing it at a rally near you:
“Red is the first color in the red, white, and blue.   Red is the color of the blood we shed. Red is the color of the power of the people, encapsulated, emancipated, baked and bricked, proclaiming [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don’t forget the official chant of The Red Brick Movement.  Sing it at a rally near you:</p>
<p>“Red is the first color in the red, white, and blue.   Red is the color of the blood we shed. Red is the color of the power of the people, encapsulated, emancipated, baked and bricked, proclaiming liberty and justice for all&#8211;most everyone!”</p>
<p>“Red is the color of the blood we shed! So red for jobs!  Red for bricks! Red for America!  Make us red, make us fed, and not the Fedd..Errr..Rrral Government!”</p>
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		<title>Vote Yes for the Red Brick Solution Petition.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 03:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>iUC New Client: Tony The Dance Machine</title>
		<link>http://iunderconstruction.com/2010/05/iuc-new-client-highlight-tonythedancemachine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 01:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tony came all the way from Germany to the US to work as an engineer just to discover that his true career calling was dancing!   Now he’s answering the call of his passion and entertaining at parties and events.  He gets the crowd moving and the party jumping.  Check out these moves and fire up [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tony came all the way from Germany to the US to work as an engineer just to discover that his true career calling was dancing!   Now he’s answering the call of his passion and entertaining at parties and events.  He gets the crowd moving and the party jumping.  Check out these moves and fire up the fun!</p>
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		<title>We&#8217;ve Done it Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[iUnder Construction has once again participated in thought-provoking work for the American Advertising Federation of Greenville. This time we were privileged to play a small role on a project-based team made up of creative companies, writers, and actors that produced 4 spoof videos shown at the Greenville ADDY Awards.  The fourth spoofs&#8217; script was [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>iUnder Construction has once again participated in thought-provoking work for the American Advertising Federation of Greenville. This time we were privileged to play a small role on a project-based team made up of creative companies, writers, and actors that produced 4 spoof videos shown at the Greenville ADDY Awards.  The fourth spoofs&#8217; script was written by our very own Phil Manilow.<br />
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		<title>The Phil Tweets Collection</title>
		<link>http://iunderconstruction.com/2009/10/the-phil-tweets-collection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Assembled below are some of Phil’s most beloved tweets.  His all-original quips are now conveniently arranged here in one place for your viewing pleasure.    See what Phil has to say without having to join the Twitter revolution. 
• There&#8217;s something fulfilling about a buffet. 
 • I got ahead of myself and now I&#8217;m beside myself [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Assembled below are some of Phil’s most beloved tweets.  His all-original quips are now conveniently arranged here in one place for your viewing pleasure.    See what Phil has to say without having to join the Twitter revolution. </p>
<p>• There&#8217;s something fulfilling about a buffet. </p>
<p> • I got ahead of myself and now I&#8217;m beside myself trying to find myself in a fallen world.</p>
<p>• Made it to second base then she said I ruined the mood when I felt her up with hand sanitizer. Lesson learned.</p>
<p>• I&#8217;m your best nightmare.  </p>
<p>• Funny how making up your bed in the morning can make you feel like you&#8217;ve got your life together. </p>
<p>  • One of my ultimate fantasies for my life is to eventually be a talking point on a horse-drawn carriage tour.</p>
<p>  • I&#8217;m craving primordial soup and crackers. </p>
<p>  • The first bad decision I made was at birth. </p>
<p> • My grandmother grew up a left-handed diabetic in the roaring 20&#8217;s.  </p>
<p>• I&#8217;m falling in love and I can&#8217;t get up.</p>
<p>• I get the feeling your touted &#8216;less is more&#8217; approach is really just a way for you to justify your laziness. There&#8217;s nothing Zen about you.</p>
<p>  • If I were toilet paper where would I be hiding?</p>
<p>• Making grass angels in the sun. So much warmer than snow angels.</p>
<p>• Normal people are weird.</p>
<p>• The key to life is a skeleton key.</p>
<p>• My opinions are objective.</p>
<p>• People are not as stupid as they look. But close.</p>
<p>• Me, Myself, and I make a great team.</p>
<p><strong>Phil’s superior versions of famous quotes:  </strong></p>
<p>Sticks and stones may break my bones, but your words will never hurt me as bad when I beat your ass into a comma.</p>
<p>One door closes and another one opens and stubs your toe.</p>
<p>Count your blessings one by one.  Count your misfortunes by ten, otherwise it would take too long.</p>
<p><strong>Female Relations Equation: </strong><br />
Predicted Complication x 13= X<br />
X ÷ 2 = Y<br />
Y= π is ≤ Y</p>
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		<title>Client website: Homogenize Us, Please.</title>
		<link>http://iunderconstruction.com/2009/09/client-website-homogenize-us-please/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are working on a new fancy website for another advertising agency.   Yes, that’s how good we are as an agency.  Other ad agencies even hire us to develop their brand.  This particular agency wants a website like all their competitors and we totally understand. After all, to stay competitive you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We are working on a new fancy website for another advertising agency.   Yes, that’s how good we are as an agency.  Other ad agencies even hire us to develop their brand.  This particular agency wants a website like all their competitors and we totally understand. After all, to stay competitive you need to mimic the competition.  </p>
<p>I put together some notes on what I think it takes to mimic the competition. This will serve us well as we move forward to give our client the website they want.  As always, at iUC we thrive on your feedback and always consider it before we move forward on any project.  I’m listing my notes below and counting on you to let me know if I’m missing anything that it takes to have a typical agency website.</p>
<p>Initial Notes on how to construct an Ad Agency Website: </p>
<p>- Splash Page: include this with a large rotating image accompanied by some initially intriguing, but repetitive and eventually annoying music.  Put the skip intro and sound off button in a discreet location so the user has to spend an average of 30 seconds trying to locate these buttons so they can skip the lengthy intro and turn off the annoying music.  After all, one of the goals with creating a successful website is creating one that people stay on.  Plus, the longer the end user stays the better it makes us look when we review website analytics with the client each month.	</p>
<p>-Music Selection: One of my favorite strategies for making music for the background of a website is to create a track that can blend in nicely with whatever music the end user may happen to be listening to on their iTunes.  The goal is to distract the user to think “wow, I never noticed this great ambient soundscape in this Radiohead song.  Is this a remix?”  Dealing with this process usually ads at least 60 seconds to the end users web visit.  Great for client analytics!</p>
<p>-Color:  What’s in right now is obviously white and blue.  Use it or watch your business suffer. It doesn’t matter if your companies’ colors don’t go well with blue.  Find a way to get it on your site.  A white background with blue text is a good place to start.</p>
<p>-Blog:  Your site should have a blog.  Who cares if you only post every 3 months and if what you post is just some entry about your mundane life or stories about your annoying little spoiled snotty-nosed kids?  The point is not what you post.  The point is that you need a blog.  Your clients will always ask you if you have a blog.   If you answer no, then they will lose all respect for you and determine that you are behind the times.  They may even change agencies.  If you can manage to post at least once a month, you should make the blog your home page.  Once again, don’t worry about what you post.  Clients just want to see that you have an active blog.  No one is going to read it anyway. Just focus on the entry titles and the frequency of posting.   People only read titles and look at your archive to make sure you’ve posted on a regular basis.  If you can write great entry titles frequently and a good first sentence you can have a very successful blog.</p>
<p>-Social Media:  You’ve got to engage in social media if you want to stand a chance at being relevant as an ad agency.  To truly convince your clients you support social media, your agency should have a presence on social media.  At minimum, you need to be on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.  Your website should have links to your social media groups so people can easily join your network.  The first step is for your agency to make a “Facebook Group” or better yet a “Facebook Fan Page.”  Once again, don’t worry about how much work this is going to be.  Once you set it up you don’t have to actually do anything with it.  Simply make your “Fan Page” and send an invite to your 400 facebook friends you haven’t talked to in person since high school and you can get a pretty good following.  This takes minimal effort, but can get an impressive return.   1000 fans is a good benchmark for impressing your client.  The point is just to guilt people that know nothing about your company in to accepting the request to become your fan.  After that, you’ll just clutter up their facebook profiles with all the other fan and group and cause invitations they’ve accepted and you’ll never have to do anything else with your account again.<br />
P.S. It’s free.</p>
<p>I feel like I’m still missing something.  Is there something else I need to include to have a typical advertising agency website?   Please, do tell?</p>
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		<title>Provocative? Think Long and Hard.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href=http://iunderconstruction.com/2009/09/provactive-maybe-not/><img src=http://iunderconstruction.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/calendar-derp-150x150.jpg class=imgtfe hspace=5 align=left width=100  border=0></a>If you happen to be a member or non member for that matter of AAF Greenville I&#8217;ve got a little something to talk about. Back in July I was asked by a person on the AAF board to submit a design for their yearly calendar (of course they wanted me &#8211; you can&#8217;t do any [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you happen to be a member or non member for that matter of AAF Greenville I&#8217;ve got a little something to talk about. Back in July I was asked by a person on the AAF board to submit a design for their yearly calendar (of course they wanted me &#8211; you can&#8217;t do any better in Greenville). The only restriction was that I had to fill in the blank in the statement &#8220;One Big _________ Family&#8221;.  For which I chose &#8220;Confidence-Boosting&#8221;. After that it was free range &#8211; at least that&#8217;s what I thought. My idea was to evoke peoples imagination. You know since we are filling in the blank &#8211; how about the viewer fills in another visual blank. See image below. </p>
<div id="attachment_241" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 610px"><a href="http://iunderconstruction.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/calendar-derp.jpg"><img src="http://iunderconstruction.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/calendar-derp.jpg" alt="Too Provacative?" title="calendar-derp" width="600" height="417" class="size-full wp-image-241" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Too Provacative?</p></div>
<p>Yep, that&#8217;s it. A mannequin with a black bar placed in the appropriate place. F-ing brilliant. Before I go on let me say that I knew this might be a little provocative for my grandma &#8211; maybe my mom, but never people in advertising? Advertising was built on sex and provoking reaction. That&#8217;s the point, grab &#8216;em by the balls and feed them your line of shit. Maybe just maybe they will like it.</p>
<p>It came to my attention that at one point my page was actually taken out of the calendar. Too &#8220;crazy&#8221;. Really? It&#8217;s not even a real person. My instant reaction was one of anger, but then I realized that &#8220;hey this is Greenville, South Carolina&#8221;. I guess in a way I wasn&#8217;t expecting it to be a walk in the park, but I would have liked to at least seen people that work in advertising standup and shout &#8220;this is art, this is genius, we can&#8217;t censor this amazing interpretation&#8221;. Well, somebody must have stood up and said something, because a couple of weeks later I heard it was back in. I can only hope that it really is in. From what I hear it&#8217;s been out then in more times then Jenna Jameson. I guess tomorrow  I&#8217;ll find out at the kickoff party. If they took it out so be it. Greenville needs a boost of creatives pulling together and visually shaking up the community. Give people something to think about. Show the creative world that we can be on the map for all the right reasons. Not just because we had a really nice real estate client that was willing to spend $200 per piece on a promotional item. Can you imagine how provocative we could be for $200 per unit.</p>
<p>So, I&#8217;d love to see some variations on the black bar. How different can an image be just because it has a black bar on it. Something could take on a whole new meaning, but does that change the original intent? It&#8217;s kind of like painting a house &#8211; you can keep it nice and neutral, but the minute you paint pink polka dots on it you can just forget it. It&#8217;s still the same house &#8211; the contents are the same and so is the structure. Maybe we all just need the balls to piss someone off. Maybe we all just need to really look at what we are seeing. It might work better then grabbing your panties and wadding &#8216;em up until tears roll down your face. We aren&#8217;t in Kansas anymore Dorothy so put your little blue dress away and start creating from the gut.</p>
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		<title>Need Ideas for About Our Staff</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="lipsum">We need to work on our staff  bios and photos. We are looking for creative ideas to illustrate this and would appreciate any suggestions the web community could provide.  We&#8217;ll be sure to mention our diversity.  Maybe get that Guatemalan freelancer we used once to come stand in with us for the staff photo.   Note to self: Hire Asian American or Pacific Islander asap.</div>
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