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		<title>Rustr talz…   “Euro-friendly language enlightens for simplicity&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mert Carlson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been quite awhile since having penned anything in the ‘Tales’, so will take the easy way back into your website.  As most know, I’ve had complete knee surgery which has not exactly been a walk in the park.  Everybody has different rates of recovery and use, which for sure has been more than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rooster tales:   ‘Are ya Ready For Some (old-style) Football???</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mert Carlson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I&#8217;m not sure how my thoughts about the &#8216;stacking street cups&#8217; video found its way under the response to &#8216;early school news&#8217;, I guess it still remains a question for some science students and therefore appropriate. Each and every student is dearly appreciated and will be given the best chance to become a continuing-learner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rooster Tales:Watch the Watcher Get Ticked!</title>
		<link>http://www.mywausanews.com/2011/05/rooster-taleswatch-the-watcher-get-ticked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 15:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mert Carlson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This edition of the Tales was not planned (like most are?), however, I’m easily amused at a boat-load of things including folks who throw gobs of numbers at you.   They also expect you to understand them like they do, you know, like teaching a kid to see the rotating seams of an 85 mph fastball [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ROOSTER TALES: KRAUT, not Rice…</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 11:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mert Carlson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are times when routine and normal daily events are filled with a ‘bright spot’.  I’m sure each of you experiences the same that makes you wonder, ‘Why can’t all days be like that?’   This leads me to write about a recent occurrence that made a whole bunch of faces turn brighter in both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rooster Tales:  Playing Trivial Pursuit With Communities in Your State</title>
		<link>http://www.mywausanews.com/2011/03/rooster-tales-playing-trivial-pursuit-with-communities-in-your-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mert Carlson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past summer, I traveled throughout the colorful State of Nebraska, in search of a Blue Hill, a Red Cloud, or a Silver Creek, but what I stumbled across was a Clay Center, Brownville, Greenwood, and Roseland. I began my trip by traveling Inland, and then headed south to North Loup, then north to South [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rooster Tales:     When I Grow UP…I Wanna-be a Fireman, NO, a Trucker!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 12:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mert Carlson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, while sitting in a waiting room (not the Dr.’s, thank you), I did what most folks do and pick up a magazine to read.  Being in a truck maintenance shop you are limited on topics and magazines; it was easy to choose this one, since there was but one! After fiddling around with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rooster Tales: There Ain’t No Sleep ‘cause There Ain’t No Sheep!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mert Carlson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My significant other has difficulty trying to figure out why I sleep so much when I get home from driving 10-12 thousand miles.  That’s one of the easier questions to deal with from an OTR lifestyle that requires a good driver to log about 700 miles per day.  This obviously fluctuates with the loads, location, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rooster Tales: A GORGEOUS GORGE for sure</title>
		<link>http://www.mywausanews.com/2011/02/rooster-tales-a-gorgeous-gorge-for-sure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mert Carlson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hope Josh can get this to ‘post’ soon, as it represents a small slice of what America has to offer with the natural beauty in thousands of its landscapes.  The following pictures will be posted over a three part segment, listed as Virgin River Gorge I, II, and III. The Virgin River origin is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rooster Tales: Do You Want Fries With That</title>
		<link>http://www.mywausanews.com/2010/04/rooster-tales-do-you-want-fries-with-that/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mert Carlson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simplifying Perspectives: Another ‘slice of life’ with my * thrown in. Two engineering students were walking across a university campus when one said, &#8220;Where did you get such a great bike?&#8221; The second engineer replied, &#8220;Well, I was walking along yesterday, minding my own business, when a beautiful woman rode up on this bike, threw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rooster Tales: Gorgeous Gorges..Part I</title>
		<link>http://www.mywausanews.com/2010/03/rooster-tales-gorgeous-gorges-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mert Carlson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Way-way back in my elementary, junior, and senior high school Geography classes, I don’t ever recall acing any tests.  I don’t even remember discussing the subject, but somehow rest assured it wasn’t for the lack of teacher input.  I’d like to think we were handcuffed due to the lack of tools available to make Geography [...]]]></description>
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