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	<description>So much to say... Politics, Policy, Education, blogs, technology, baseball</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>STEM Question Jan 15 V1 Jt</title>
		<link>http://jim1.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/stem-question-jan-15-v1-jt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Research Question
Ravtosh Bal
Jim Flowers
Fang Xiao
Rough Draft

In the past 5 years, two separate efforts to improve the performance of Georgia students in STEM subjects have been executed by the Georgia Department of Education and the University System of Georgia with minimal cooperation or collaboration.  This apparent conflict between two separately administered programs attempting to improve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E-Health Records and GA</title>
		<link>http://jim1.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/e-health-records-and-ga/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Seems Georgia is in line for federal healthcare dollars.  $1.4 million will go to the Georgia Association of Primary Health Care to help regional health centers convert to systems facilitating electronic medical records (EMR).  If you want to learn more about EMR, TAG has a meeting on Aug 30 to discuss the topic.
Georgia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visiting Prisons</title>
		<link>http://jim1.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/visiting-prisons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A prayer from the Episcopal prayer book:
Lord Jesus, for our sake you were condemned as a criminal: Visit our jails and  prisons with your pity and judgment. Remember all prisoners, and bring the  guilty to repentance and amendment of life according to your will, and give them  hope for their future. When [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Truer Words ne&#8217;er been spoken</title>
		<link>http://jim1.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/truer-words-neer-been-spoken/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jim1</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Doing some reading this morning, Pascal was a pretty smart fellow:
Men never do evil so completely or cheerfully as when they do  it from religious conviction.
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		<title>One Word - Information</title>
		<link>http://jim1.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/one-word-information/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jim1</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s right.  Information is the &#8220;plastic&#8221; of this century.  Those that have information, control information, understand information and distribute information will be the masters of the 21st century economy.  An examination of the policy debates in Congress concerning intellectual property, the policy discussions at the FCC concerning spectrum and who controls it, the debate over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another 19th Century Model that needs to be reformed</title>
		<link>http://jim1.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/another-19th-century-model-that-needs-to-be-reformed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jim1</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Is the Intellectual Property system (patents, copyrights, etc).  The world has moved from an era of individual inventors (see Thomas Hughes: American Genesis) to one which creates by cooperation across cultures, across national boundaries and across coporate boundaries.  Robert Scoble interviews IBM&#8217;s IP attorney &#8212; and he emphasizes this point.
If we don&#8217;t adjust [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government Equivalent of Sub-prime loans</title>
		<link>http://jim1.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/government-equivalent-of-sub-prime-loans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jim1</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Maintenance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The mortgage industry is besieged with the realization that the originators of sub-prime loans, who cashed out early and are somewhere warm counting their profits, have left them holding a bag of paper that can not be maintained by the loan holders.  In other words, now that the true cost of those mortgages must be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith Based Services Need Relief</title>
		<link>http://jim1.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/faith-based-services-need-relief/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[AJC has a guest op/ed discussing how much it costs to perform the Christian ministerial duties of visiting prisoners. Between the collect calls, ATM fees, and other charges (which, ironically, are imposed by private sector contractors who resist reveiling the profit margins and whose owners have gone to prison defending their take!) incurred by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>19th century business model, 21st century needs</title>
		<link>http://jim1.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/19th-century-business-model-21st-century-needs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jim1</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PEW Foundation has a new study on state investment strategies regarding innovation.
Investing billions of dollars in everything from nanotechnology to health care and agricultural science R&#38;D funds are being used by states as diverse as New York, Minnesota, Florida, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Georgia and Arizona. California alone has committed $3 billion to a 10-year investment in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Policy - Guidelines</title>
		<link>http://jim1.wordpress.com/2007/08/09/policy-guidelines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jim1</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Half-Baked]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Irving Wlawdawsky-Berger references IBM guidelines for employees investigating the virtual world.
To do its part to encourage good behavior, IBM just posted the IBM  Virtual World Guidelines, designed to help our people navigate the  brave new virtual worlds that we are encouraging them to explore.  I  believe that the only way for people [...]]]></description>
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