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		<title>To the Ocean, to Read and Recharge</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2013 01:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Padgett</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Baroness Karen Blixen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 1, 2013 SAN DIEGO – Ocean, ocean, ocean, she chants softly with eyes closed and arms stretched in front of her like a conductor. She is resting her head back against the passenger’s seat. We&#8217;re racing west on the interstate to find a slow path on the beach. I&#8217;m anticipating salt air with my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stuck in Heathrow, by way of Ankara, Istanbul and a London Gothic Icon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 01:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Padgett</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[O'Neill's Pub]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 29, 2013 LONDON – The situation was grim. It was dark and raining. We were anxious to get home. But our British Airways jet, because one of its engines refused to start, was grounded at Heathrow Airport. We had expected to be airborne on this nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, from England to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hikes at Dawn from Historic Hotels in the Canadian Rockies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2012 01:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Padgett</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[glacier]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aug. 4, 2012 LAKE LOUISE, Alberta – Summer sunrises in the Canadian Rockies are among the best work of nature&#8217;s saints and angels. They make the air brisk and refreshing. They return colors to the forests and mountains. One morning in mid-July, before dawn, I cross a Canadian castle’s empty lobby. My goal is sunrise photos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soaring Metro Phoenix Home Prices Could Level Off Soon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 13:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Padgett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Greater Arizona]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[July 1, 2012 Press Release TEMPE, Ariz. — Phoenix-area home prices have been zooming up for months, and the streak continued in May. However, a new report from the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University takes a closer look at the short supply of available houses, an increase in foreclosures, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Army Veteran Helping Others During His Journey Into Blindness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Padgett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 15, 2012 GILBERT, Ariz. – The blind Army veteran depended on his nose to lead him to the pizza joint. But his guide dog, responding to his command, entered two doors too early. That wrong turn in the shopping center in 2004 became another turning point for the former Army captain. Tom Hicks was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memorial Day 2012 at Sunset in an Arizona Cemetery</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 20:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Padgett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 29, 2012 PHOENIX, Ariz. – Near the middle of the cemetery, out among the rows of headstones and small flags, I see a woman alone in a folding chair. She sits with her head down. She wears a wide-brimmed hat, so I cannot tell if she is reading a book or focusing on memories. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colorful Butterflies and Flowers, and the Pause Button</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 22:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Padgett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 21, 2012 PHOENIX, Ariz. – Poets describe butterflies as flying flowers, or elusive happiness on wings that might find you if you hit your pause button. I paused the other day. I made time to visit the Marshall Butterfly Pavilion at Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix. Through May 13, hundreds of colorful butterflies each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advertising Writer Shifts From Carving Words to Crafting Woods</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 00:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Padgett</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Navajo Reservation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arnold Berke]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 3, 2012 PHOENIX, Ariz. – When Richard Morris traded wordsmithing for woodworking, his creative energy shifted into high gear. He began stretching himself. He was on a new plateau of personal growth. It was about a decade ago when Morris began his career transition away from writing advertising copy. Today, Morris designs and creates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Point Loma Lighthouse Offers More Than A Glimpse Into California History</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 04:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Padgett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[March 31, 2012 SAN DIEGO, Calif. – We need to slow down. Every time we see a lighthouse in the distance, I&#8217;m on cruise control and my Best Friend/Navigator  is checking maps and voice mail. By the time my brain alerts my foot on the accelerator, those beacons of history standing guard at the edge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stories and Memories in a Garden of Stone Overlooking San Diego Bay</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Padgett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[March 2, 2012 SAN DIEGO – Each time I drive away from Cabrillo National Monument and its view overlooking San Diego, the thousands of white headstones in neat rows capture my attention. This time, for the first time, I pulled over and parked. This garden of stone on the Port Loma peninsula is the 77-acre [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legacy of Long-Time Farming Family Includes New Homes With Unique Designs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Padgett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Feb. 13, 2012 GILBERT, Ariz. – Cruise the tree-lined streets of Morrison Ranch with co-owner Howard Morrison, and he’ll likely tell you what crops grew here for generations before his family&#8217;s farms sprouted houses a few years ago. And if he takes a short detour and stops next to his family’s four 80-foot-tall grain silos, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birthday Plan: Hugs, Reading Twain and Channeling Clapton</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Padgett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jan. 23, 2012 SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – My birthday is approaching, so I expect to be asked about my plans for that day. I’ll dodge the question by saying I haven’t decided. I know many like to celebrate birthdays, and that’s fine. My celebrations are low key. It’s not my nature to buy something new or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evict Arizona Legislature for &#8216;infighting, brawling,&#8217; says Phoenix Attorney</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Padgett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jan. 20, 2012 SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Who says attorneys lack a sense of humor? I received the following email today from attorney Larry Lazarus, whose downtown Phoenix firm has represented land use and zoning cases for 30 years throughout Arizona. Maybe Lazarus is on the right track when he suggests the eviction of the Arizona [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona&#8217;s Child Homelessness Echoes National Increase</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Padgett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jan. 14, 2012 TEMPE, Ariz. – Bright futures rarely shine on homeless children in Arizona. The young runaways fleeing family anger and short tempers hear their own double-time footsteps. Echoing in their ears are their parents’ impatient words clouded with the stress of work, debts, alcohol or drugs. Do your homework, say their sad-eyed parents, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holidays Renewed by Studying Historic Footsteps in California</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Padgett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jan. 4, 2012 SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – A few days before the end of 2011, we set out to study some of the footsteps of the first European pioneers in California. They were the Spanish padres. We headed west out of Arizona on Interstate 8. Our goal was recharging during the holidays at two historic Catholic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History Cruises the Southwest on Steel Wheels</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 01:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Padgett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dec. 10, 2011 PHOENIX, Ariz. – The giant steel powerhouse is history on wheels. This massive black locomotive, parked on a siding near downtown Phoenix, has eight steel driver wheels eye level to a basketball player. The engine represents enormous pulling power and historical importance. A growing crowd of railroad fans surrounds the Union Pacific [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Just Be Scared Later&#8217; – Victories in Combat and Classrooms</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Padgett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nov. 17, 2011 PHOENIX, Ariz. – It would be misleading to call Adam Reich’s story over the past 10 years the evolution of a soldier. That’s because his time in the military, including a year in Iraq, is only part of his story. Reich’s journey evolved over a decade. And it likely matches the challenges [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Journey to Help Arizona Police Families Started on 9/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Padgett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nov. 9, 2011 PHOENIX, Ariz. – If a meeting 10 years ago in the World Trade Center in New York had gone as planned, Michael Coogan and others might not be volunteering at the funerals of Arizona police officers today. Coogan’s story begins on Sept. 11, 2001. He and his sales manager, Bill Brown, were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nose to Beak With A Fearless Bird</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Padgett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nov. 6, 2011 SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Taking out the trash this morning, I found visual treasure. I literally ran into it. I was walking in our breezeway when I had a one-second warning. I heard the hummingbirds before I saw them. I stopped and looked up. They were chattering and feeding in the tall flower [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Desert Sentinel Greets a New Day in Arizona</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Padgett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oct. 31, 2011 &#8220;A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.&#8221; Oscar Wilde, Irish poet, playwright, 1854-1900. Copyright © iPhone photo captured Oct. 31, 2011, by Mike Padgett ************** (To avoid missing news, essays, features and photos [...]]]></description>
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