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		<title>Transfering to a self-hosted WordPress platform&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Service Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Hazlett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friends: Over the next couple of days, I&#8217;ll be attempting to transition to a self-hosted WordPress.org platform, installing a new theme, and making a number of other changes. With any luck, this process will happen smoothly and quickly without destroying the universe. Hopefully The Occasional will resume in more glorious form by Monday.  Thanks for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theoccasional.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5686105&amp;post=336&amp;subd=theoccasional&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gettysburg: Wrecking a Historic Landscape?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Hazlett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the Park Service doing at Gettysburg?  An interesting perspective from historian John Summers in the New Republic: I grew up in Gettysburg, and my mother still lives in the shadow of Lutheran Theological Seminary, low in the lap of the ridge it names. Seminary Ridge is one of a string of ridges surrounding [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theoccasional.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5686105&amp;post=322&amp;subd=theoccasional&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Destroying Books&#8230; for Kids&#8217; Sake?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Hazlett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Books published before 1985 are facing destruction.  Why? For kids&#8217; sake! For anyone who cares about sharing a more subtle era of literature with young people, the new regulations governing the sale and exchange of classic books has to be deeply frightening. Stop it.  [Hopefully] Posted in Books, Cheap Culture Tagged: Books, bullshit, imagination, over-regulation, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theoccasional.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5686105&amp;post=319&amp;subd=theoccasional&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kindle and the Future (if there is one) of Print Culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Hazlett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Digital readers will save writers and publishing, even if they destroy the book business. This prediction, and other points that are kinda-comforting for book lovers, can be found in this lengthy, but very worthwhile analysis at Slate&#8216;s financial channel The Big Money. In related news, here is a plea for revitalizing the endangered business of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theoccasional.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5686105&amp;post=317&amp;subd=theoccasional&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Now Listening: Arvo Part</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Hazlett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today just seems like the perfect moment for ECM to release a new recording of works by the wintry Estonian composer Arvo Pärt.  Be sure to view the promotional performance video available at the record label&#8217;s website. And here is a 1997 BBC interview with Pärt and, of all people, Björk&#8230; Doesn&#8217;t this music fit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theoccasional.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5686105&amp;post=311&amp;subd=theoccasional&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Small Treasure in Tough Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Hazlett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As word got out about a free lending library on the premises, more employees began to visit. Sometimes they&#8217;d stand there, just staring in awe at the quantity of books and magazines stacked in tall towers or shelved by interest in metal bookcases. I&#8217;m often asked how long they can be checked out or how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theoccasional.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5686105&amp;post=309&amp;subd=theoccasional&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Primer in Contemporary Indian Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Hazlett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A.R. Rahman&#8217;s Slumdog Oscars are sparking interest in contemporary music from India. Hopefully, the resulting trend is flowing in this direction and not this one. Posted in At Home in the World, India, Movies, Music Tagged: A.R. Rahman, India, Music, Pussycat Dolls, Putumayo, Slumdog Millionaire<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theoccasional.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5686105&amp;post=304&amp;subd=theoccasional&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cheap Culture, cont&#8217;d</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Hazlett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With less and less TV worth watching, and more and more of what is good available via the Internet, why keep an expensive cable subscription?  Good question. Posted in Cheap Culture, Digital Culture, Media, Television, Ways and Means Tagged: Boxee, Cheap Culture, digital video, ditching cable, Great Recession, Hulu, Television<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theoccasional.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5686105&amp;post=298&amp;subd=theoccasional&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cultural Economy:  Arts Organizations, Museums, and Cultural Institutions are Reeling</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No surprise here, but the arts and culture sector has been particularly decimated in recent months. The downturn walloping the entire economy has hit non-profit arts organizations especially hard. With millions of people scrambling to pay for food and other basics, a night at the opera can seem frivolous. So museums, symphonies, theaters, ballet companies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theoccasional.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5686105&amp;post=294&amp;subd=theoccasional&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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