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		<title>Dragonfly days of summer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The late summer sky over the fields and meadows is filled with these master aerialists. Gnats swarm around my face while thousands of Dragonflies, golden in the sunlight, swoop and roll and zing around, feasting on anything aloft that is smaller than themselves. Many of them gnats I suppose. They are highly evolved creatures. See [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The corporate takeover of our country continues&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Net Neutrality is critical to the functioning of a fair and free Internet but it is under threat, which will change everything. This is a huge deal, and it's almost too late. Read and find ways to act at www.savtheinternet.com.
Please watch Al's short speech. He is working for us, fighting for us. Let's help him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our star erupts &#8211; watch for Northern Lights!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first burst of solar energy has hit the Earth from a solar eruption on August 1st:







www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKpp_jQIDbA
This photo was taken last night in Grand Portage, Minnesota. Watch the northern horizon again tonight, when there is a greater chance to see them.  Happy Aurora Borealis watching.
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		<title>Greed and Cowardice win the day,</title>
		<description><![CDATA[the Earth and its inhabitants lose.
If you're wondering why the climate-change legislation didn't get through the Senate, Paul Krugman provides a concise answer. One of the culprits is John McCain, a former friend of the environment who is "willing to sacrifice his principles, and humanity’s future, for the sake of a few years added to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uridesigns.com/blog/?p=567</link>
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		<title>Barred Owl, a permanent resident</title>
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A barred owl takes flight near the Coon Rapids Dam. Photographer Marlene Sternberger explains: 'Walking in the deep woods, I spotted this fella and he spotted me.'
I got this from the Minnesota Scenes slideshow on MPR News Q. It's worth taking a look at some great shots taken during this beautiful summer in Minnesota.
Here is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>R.I.P. Ancient Sentinel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the early 1900s, foresters from all around the country came to Minneapolis to see an ancient and immense bur oak tree - Quercus macrocarpa - growing in Riverside Park. The foresters were amazed with its beauty and estimated it was more than 500 years old (some said it could be as old as 700). Before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A hero in my book.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dispute over bird nest leads to gun play, arrest
Thursday, 08 July 2010
"An apartment resident, angered over a building caretaker's efforts to remove a bird's nest from an entry way, allegedly pointed a gun at the caretaker during a Wednesday morning incident in Forest Lake. The resident, a 60-year-old male, is now in the Washington County [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uridesigns.com/blog/?p=546</link>
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		<title>Lunar eclipse of June 26</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Photographer Alan Radecki took an exposure of Saturday's partial lunar eclipse every five minutes to come up with this image documenting the event's progress as seen from California's Mojave Desert.(click the photo for larger image) 
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		<link>http://www.uridesigns.com/blog/?p=541</link>
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		<title>Can-do attitude we need!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How refreshing to read an interview with a person who not only advocates a direct approach, but is smart, witty, and expresses himself beautifully. Puts me in mind of a certain bald starship captain. Engage!
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		<link>http://www.uridesigns.com/blog/?p=538</link>
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