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		<title>Feed My Fish</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure why I find this as interesting as I do. Maybe its the near-natural movement of the fish. Any way, click on the picture and give them a nibble.]]></description>
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		<title>Sailors Vote On NWU With Their Pocketbooks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Navy has begun beating this drum pretty hard: With the mandatory wear date for the Navy Working Uniform about four months away, Navy officials are worried a majority of the fleet won’t have the required four complete sets of the uniforms and all accessories by Dec. 31 deadline. On that date, the NWU becomes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swamped&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The constructive interference from three different projects and activities here at work has put a cramp in my blogging for the last few days and will continue through the week. I&#8217;ll still be reviewing my reading list and sharing items as time permits, though, so if you haven&#8217;t already subscribed to the feed, now might be the time.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yankeesage.us/?p=1507</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Still Too Much Of An Operator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent the day today generating, on short notice, a four-page memo justifying a key component of the program I&#8217;ve been given to run. So, I guess I can finally be called a purple-suited b***-sh** merchant. I must still have too much of the ship life in me, because, well, I feel dirty.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yankeesage.us/?p=1504</link>
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		<title>Normal As The New Abnormal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Proving the slippery slope argument is not always wrong, social commentators like myself have been predicting this for a long time: Leading mental health experts gave a briefing on Tuesday to warn that a new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), which is being revised now for publication in 2013, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yankeesage.us/?p=1491</link>
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		<title>What &#8220;Standardization&#8221; Means In The Navy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s something that always frustrated me during 13 years aboard ships: &#8220;standardization&#8221; never seems to mean what a normal person would think. For example, read this post to one of the forums to which I belong: SUBJ: [7-meter Rigid Hulled Inflatable Boats] come in 4 Different Sizes Did you know there are 4 different manufacturers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too Much Time In The Navy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t worked around civilians much for the last decade, and I&#8217;ve never worked at a place where civilians are in the majority. But, it seems to me the folks I work with are much too quick to turn off the warmer under partially-full, perfectly good pots of coffee. Grrrrrr&#8230;.]]></description>
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		<title>Poking China In The Chest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After backing down on initial plans to operate George Washington in the Yellow Sea as part of the initial round of US-RoK exercises in response to the sinking of the Cheonan, State and Defense seem to have come back with a counterpunch that will no doubt knock policymakers in Beijing off balance. Opening a new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.usni.org/2010/07/27/poking-china-in-the-chest/</link>
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		<title>Archpriest Gives Presbyterians Tongue Lashing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a kind and gentle way, that is. Add another item to the &#8220;be careful what you wish for&#8221; category. The Presbyterian Church (USA) is muddling through their annual convention with a number of serious questions on the agenda, including a further expansion of ideas typically characterized as &#8220;welcoming and affirming&#8221; by more liberal congregations. This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yankeesage.us/?p=1449</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Not My Fault!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My ISP migrated a whole bunch of sites, mine included, to a new server over the weekend, and they were experiencing a whole host of problems yesterday. Things seem to be resolved now, so happy reading!]]></description>
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