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		<title>Sam is 7! (That was fast &#8230; )</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Hanks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because that&#8217;s how we do things here, Sam gets a YouTube vid for a birthday gift.

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		<title>First news of Cambodian Adopion Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Hanks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/24/content_12315301.htm
PHNOM PENH, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) &#8212; Cambodia&#8217;s National Assembly on Friday approved a new law for foreign adoptions, setting up criteria for children to be adopted, the eligibility of potential adoptive parents and the procedures for legal adoptions by families living overseas, local newspaper the Phnom Penh Post reported on Saturday.
    All [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandrahanksbenoiton.wordpress.com&blog=995722&post=1021&subd=sandrahanksbenoiton&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time warp or far-flung planet &#8230; ?</title>
		<link>http://sandrahanksbenoiton.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/time-warp-or-far-flung-planet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Hanks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guess what I found in my post office box today. No. Really &#8230; guess.
(Take some time &#8230; )
Okay. Spilling now &#8230;
Today, the 28th of September, 2009, I open my PO Box to find &#8230; ta daaaaaa!!!! &#8230; my absentee ballot that starts out like this:

Dear Voter,
Your Vote by Mail Ballot for the November 4, 2008 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandrahanksbenoiton.wordpress.com&blog=995722&post=1019&subd=sandrahanksbenoiton&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two fingers up at the 4th Estate &#8230; the long and short of rabble babble</title>
		<link>http://sandrahanksbenoiton.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/two-fingers-up-at-the-4th-estate-the-long-and-short-of-rabble-babble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Hanks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a species, are humans getting dumber, or does instant access to information just make it seem that way? A couple of stories in today&#8217;s news have me pondering pandering as what was once journalism jigs toward justification with revenue being the mighty motivator.
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		<title>Are we having fun yet?</title>
		<link>http://sandrahanksbenoiton.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/are-we-having-fun-yet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 05:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Hanks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wall &#8230; ouch. Wall &#8230; ouch. Wall &#8230; ouch. Wall &#8230; ouch.
Just call me Lumpy and hand me a helmet, please.
My house may be made of wood, but brick walls are everywhere, and I&#8217;m bloody tired of banging my head against them. 
Spin, spin, spin, stop, step forward and, smack! &#8230; the wall of sadness. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandrahanksbenoiton.wordpress.com&blog=995722&post=1015&subd=sandrahanksbenoiton&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;How to Serve Mankind&#8221; was a cookbook &#8230; divide, conquer, slice and dice</title>
		<link>http://sandrahanksbenoiton.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/how-to-serve-mankind-was-a-cookbook-divide-conquer-slice-and-dice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Hanks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cambodia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As regular readers know, my household is international in every sense. One of the results of being born in one place and living in others can be dual nationality, or, in some cases, even triple the legal connections to countries.
My hope is that sooner or later we humans, with our inbred tendencies to inbreed out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandrahanksbenoiton.wordpress.com&blog=995722&post=1010&subd=sandrahanksbenoiton&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If walls could talk &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Hanks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[rcheology has long been an interest of mine, and if my life had gone according to plans made when I was about nine I would have spent a good deal of time digging around places like the Olduvai Gorge, doing my utmost to follow Mary Leakey&#8217;s immense footsteps, or looking for the roots of Quetzalcoatl [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandrahanksbenoiton.wordpress.com&blog=995722&post=1005&subd=sandrahanksbenoiton&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ketchup</title>
		<link>http://sandrahanksbenoiton.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/ketchup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Hanks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[oooh, lookie here &#8230; a brief window in the pickle that&#8217;s been gerkin me around lately, taking up my thyme, so how about a little ketchup?
We&#8217;re enjoying the last week of the holiday, as Sam and Cj start school again on Monday. Sam will be in Year 2 and Cj in what&#8217;s called Reception 2, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandrahanksbenoiton.wordpress.com&blog=995722&post=997&subd=sandrahanksbenoiton&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>International Pizza</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Hanks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time to take a break from outrage and post some bits of life here on this island for those of you who actually like sharing my life with me.
I&#8217;ve written before about the wonderful people with whom I&#8217;m blessed to spend time &#8230; a smart, funny, lovely and international gang &#8230; and as it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandrahanksbenoiton.wordpress.com&blog=995722&post=982&subd=sandrahanksbenoiton&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>China profits and Africa talks</title>
		<link>http://sandrahanksbenoiton.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/china-profits-and-africa-talks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Hanks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A one-two punch of stories in today&#8217;s news would not have seemed to follow taken individually, but when set side-by-side an obvious tango appears.
The first, this out of China, is about a four-fold increase in profits seen by the state oil company, Sinopec.
Fuel price reforms have allowed price hikes that have been repeating bundles.
Sinopec reported [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandrahanksbenoiton.wordpress.com&blog=995722&post=978&subd=sandrahanksbenoiton&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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