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		<title>Gardener&#8217;s Update: April 9</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t fence my garden in. That&#8217;s because I am lazy and cheap. Also, most of my flora is left alone by the local fauna. Some of the little critters in the area bother my tomatoes or nibble on the occasional plant. But for the most part they leave them alone. They could climb over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/news/461</link>
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		<title>Gardener&#8217;s Update: 3/24/2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s my fault, I realize that now. I thought it was safe to plant some seeds, that we were past another hard frost. It was over 70 degrees last week. I tempted fate and fate struck back with a vengeance. Yesterday and last night we got snow. And not just a little snow, it&#8217;s sticking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/non-fiction/457</link>
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		<title>Gardener&#8217;s Update: 3/18/2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s just March and I&#8217;m already at work in the garden. I&#8217;m taking a cue from the plants budding all around that we will not have another hard frost and that it is in fact safe to plant. I could be wrong, but at $1.50 at most in seeds, it&#8217;s a risk I&#8217;m willing to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/non-fiction/455</link>
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		<title>More Snow than Anchorage!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, the blog redesign is coming along well. I have the bulk of it overhauled, now I just have to fine tune the bits and pieces. Outside, it&#8217;s very white. White with snow that is. According to the weather channel, the greater NY area has had more snow so far this year than Anchorage, Alaska [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/site-news/436</link>
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		<title>Hey, what gives?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What gives you query? I&#8217;ll tell you what gives. I&#8217;m mucking about with the look and functionality of this site. It will be changing and morphing into something that is better than this current look and feel. I&#8217;m doing it live because I don&#8217;t care what it looks like while I do it. So there.]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/site-news/434</link>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s 10:50 AM and I&#8217;m waiting for my brother to pick me up for our New Year&#8217;s Day hike. I&#8217;ve been up since 7:30 to let my Mom&#8217;s dog out. Yes, the two of us (the dog and me) spent a quiet evening together. After watching the ball drop at midnight, it was off to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/news/411</link>
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		<title>A Musical/Visual First</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, after spending the majority of my life playing either guitar or bass with friends I&#8217;m in what I would consider a real band. For the first time ever, we performed our original music before an audience. Mind you, it was in the basement of one of our band members at his birthday party, BUT [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/music/400</link>
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		<title>Movie Friday?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s Some more film my friends and I made. In this one, I was cast as the main character, Moe Green. The movie was to be a series of vignettes built around the character. Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on your point of view, the film was never completed. However, several scenes were shot and edited. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/video/396</link>
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		<title>Movie Tuesday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here for those of you who haven&#8217;t checked out my Vimeo channel, is part two of F.R.A. &#8211; 8711. F.R.A. &#8211; 8711 Part 2 from Karl Tsakos on Vimeo. In this tale of monsterious proportions, two mad scientists get involved in murder. Well, actually creating a robot. But there&#8217;s death none the less. This is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/video/392</link>
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		<title>Movie Tuesday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As promised in an earlier post (a much earlier post), I uploaded my movie to my Vimeo account. You&#8217;ve seen the trailer, now see the movie the trailer is based upon. Of course, to make things a little harder on you, I am posting it in two parts. So sit back and enjoy part one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/video/388</link>
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		<title>Kiss vs Queen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was in third grade there was a major debate taking place. Which was the better band? Queen or Kiss? Well, of course when you are a third grader you know everything for certain. And I, like many of my friends, knew Kiss was the better band. And, we weren&#8217;t afraid to argue that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/music/371</link>
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		<title>An End to Silence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As most of you know, I suffered a stroke in July. I have not blogged since then, not because I have had nothing to say, but because I felt I should start by talking about the stroke. Well, I&#8217;ve decide that it&#8217;s not going to happen. Maybe someday I will discuss the stroke, but not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/site-news/370</link>
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		<title>One Shy of a Six-pack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight, when I got home from my brother&#8217;s house, I decided to eat a snack in the back yard where it was cooler than in the house. I was treated to one, no, make that five of those things that remind you how big a place the world is. I had left the windows mostly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/news/369</link>
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		<title>The Experiment Continues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, this entry will require reader feedback. I made a video tour of my garden; unscripted and unplanned. I just went through and discussed what I have. It&#8217;s rough to say the least. Leave some comments on wether I should do more like this on the garden or not. Well, here goes: Gardener&#8217;s Update for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/video/361</link>
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		<title>Almost There</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here we go again. Software problems and all that. I wrote a very nice blog entry earlier this evening but I lost it trying to make some software work for me. More on that in a second. So, the summer is almost here. The nights are getting warmer and it won&#8217;t be long before the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/news/356</link>
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		<title>Coming Attraction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m starting to think about doing things via video in the future on my blog. Or, to use more video at the very least. With that in mind, here is the trailer to the movie I made in 2001 with my friends as a taste of whats to come… F.R.A.-8711 Trailer from Karl Tsakos on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/video/350</link>
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		<title>Happy New Year!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A very happy New Year to all. I started my year reviving a tradition I forgot to do last year. I don&#8217;t remember why, I think it&#8217;s because the weather was crappy or something. Anyhow, the tradition is to go for a New Year&#8217;s Day hike. Normally I would select some place lofty, most likely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/news/334</link>
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		<title>By the Roadside</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most common locations for me to drive is the on ramp to route 287. I go that way during my commute to work every week day. Some evenings and every weekend I go to Rockland county, also getting on 287 at that entrance. For the past week, there has been a pair [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/news/332</link>
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		<title>Blog? What blog?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;re saying I have a blog? No, this doesn&#8217;t sound familiar. Please continue. Okay, let me get this straight, I have this thing &#8220;on line&#8221; where I write down whatever comes to mind and then people read it. Doesn&#8217;t sound very realistic. Okay, if you say they do. What about gardening? Oh, yes, I did [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/news/330</link>
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		<title>Gardener&#8217;s Update: The Battle of the Blight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As any gardener knows, this year the tomato blight is out of control. As my Mother has told me, all tomato plants get blight, so be prepared. Unfortunately, this year is one of the worst for it. The weather has been cool and rainy for most of the summer, the dreaded blight’s favorite conditions. New [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/news/328</link>
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		<title>Gardener&#8217;s Update: August 2, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Right now, I’m sitting in the back yard with a warm July breeze blowing and a nice cold Gin and Tonic. In the Kitchen the beets and carrots from my garden are roasting in the oven with rosemary, garlic, oil, and vinegar. The pasta water is heating and I’ll check it soon. This is going [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/news/318</link>
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		<title>Gardener&#8217;s Update: July 9</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s been a while since my last update. A lot has been going on outside of the garden that has distracted me from my reports. Things have slowed down now and I’m taking the time to enjoy having a yard. The sun has just gone down but the sky is still light. The birds are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/news/303</link>
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		<title>Gardener&#8217;s Update: June 13, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s been a rainy week. Some plants are going to flower, other are stupid annoying plants who refuse to grow beyond their cotyledon state. I picked a not so great week to be on vacation. It’s rained almost every day and has been overcast ninety percent of the time. Temperatures have been lurking in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/news/290</link>
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		<title>Gardener&#8217;s Update: Jun 2, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So much has happened. And yet, some things that should have happened didn’t happen. First, I’ve been eating my lettuces and mustard greens. Both farm fresh and delicious. The radishes are all gone. They were eaten on french bread with butter or in a salad. They had very mild flavors for radishes and were fairly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/news/276</link>
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		<title>Gardener&#8217;s Update, May 18, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What’s old is new again. Especially if it’s poison ivy. Despite having been poisoned and then most of it’s roots ripped from the ground my poison ivy has started to grow again. Only a couple of small spots, but it’s still here. I will proceed with some surgical strikes (unlike the carpet bombing of last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/news/260</link>
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