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	<description>Personal blog of author Krista Tibbs. My heart smiles at informed opinions, belief in human potential, advances in neurology, True North, clever ideas, and kittens.</description>
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		<title>Politically Untenable Suggestions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 15:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the 360-degree feedback for my annual evaluation at work, one person commented that sometimes I make “politically untenable” suggestions. I have been trying to figure out how to interpret that. Fifteen people provided feedback for the evaluation, and I don’t know which one said it, nor does it matter. What matters is why it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shadesofwhitematter.com&#038;blog=6121653&#038;post=1797&#038;subd=shadesofwhitematter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Animal Stories: Moose plus Music Soundtrack</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 08:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fifth and final installment of the video and music preview series for Reflections and Tails was supposed to be about moose. However, it was surprisingly difficult to find moose videos that appropriately captured their essence in the story, and the genre of moose music is meager at best. So, I decided instead I would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shadesofwhitematter.com&#038;blog=6121653&#038;post=1787&#038;subd=shadesofwhitematter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Animal Stories: Book Cover Revealed and Wolves</title>
		<link>http://shadesofwhitematter.com/2012/05/04/animal-stories-book-cover-revealed-and-wolves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 02:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As promised, today we reveal the book cover!   Of course today&#8217;s music and video hints are all about wolves. The secret is out; they have many sides. So, starting with the fairy tales we know by heart, I take you back to the big, bad wolf of childhood then to the fine line between the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shadesofwhitematter.com&#038;blog=6121653&#038;post=1745&#038;subd=shadesofwhitematter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Animal Stories: Dads and Dude Ranches</title>
		<link>http://shadesofwhitematter.com/2012/04/28/animal-stories-dads-and-dude-ranches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 06:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This third set of video hints about the upcoming e-book (title to be revealed in the next post) is about horses. Or rather, it is about a particular human experience with horses, namely the dude ranch. The first 25-second video shows the ranch that my family visited when I was in high school, and it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shadesofwhitematter.com&#038;blog=6121653&#038;post=1726&#038;subd=shadesofwhitematter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Animal Stories: About Vampires?</title>
		<link>http://shadesofwhitematter.com/2012/04/19/animal-stories-about-vampires/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 02:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kristalynn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Post #2 in the video/music hint series is about vampires. Well, vampire bats, anyway. They are cute, they are delicate, they are misunderstood. Just watch the first video of a bat grooming his ears like a cat and feel the &#8220;awwww&#8221; well up inside you. If that doesn&#8217;t do it for you, watch the second [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shadesofwhitematter.com&#038;blog=6121653&#038;post=1701&#038;subd=shadesofwhitematter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Animal Stories: About Sheep</title>
		<link>http://shadesofwhitematter.com/2012/04/15/animal-stories-about-sheep/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kristalynn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am excited to be working with an artist on an illustrated e-book of animal stories for grown-ups, to be released early this summer. Stay tuned for the title and the book cover, but in the meantime, the series of posts to follow will feature animal-related music and videos that hint, however obliquely, at the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shadesofwhitematter.com&#038;blog=6121653&#038;post=1673&#038;subd=shadesofwhitematter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes, Statistics, and Stereotypes</title>
		<link>http://shadesofwhitematter.com/2012/03/17/blue-eyes-brown-eyes-statistics-and-stereotypes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kristalynn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ran across this video today about a teacher in the 1960s who separated her third grade class into blue-eyed students and brown-eyed students and told them that one group was better than the other just because of these characteristics. It was uncomfortable to see how the kids treated each other differently and how it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shadesofwhitematter.com&#038;blog=6121653&#038;post=1643&#038;subd=shadesofwhitematter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Support of Rare Disease Day</title>
		<link>http://shadesofwhitematter.com/2012/02/28/in-support-of-rare-disease-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kristalynn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[February 29th is the fifth annual Rare Disease Day around the world. So today I&#8217;m passing along answers to frequently asked questions and other things you might not know. Why is Rare Disease Day So Important? Why Does Research Take So Long? What Might Surprise You? The Effect of the Process The Power of Patients [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shadesofwhitematter.com&#038;blog=6121653&#038;post=1630&#038;subd=shadesofwhitematter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sad Things I Wish I Never Knew</title>
		<link>http://shadesofwhitematter.com/2012/02/18/sad-things-i-wish-i-never-knew/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I encountered a concept today that I can’t get out of my mind &#8212; children’s hospice. I know that hospice exists; I’ve seen someone go. I know that children get sick; I wrote a book about it. Yet, in my mind, those two saddest thoughts never met until today, when I ran across a website [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shadesofwhitematter.com&#038;blog=6121653&#038;post=1583&#038;subd=shadesofwhitematter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Men and Women and the Top of the Corporate Ladder</title>
		<link>http://shadesofwhitematter.com/2012/02/16/men-and-women-and-the-top-of-the-corporate-ladder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kristalynn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently read an article about how few women there are in top positions at some grand old companies, and the string of comments below it ranged from conspiracy theories to sentiments like working with women is like getting pecked to death in a henhouse to exaltation like all women are great managers and should [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shadesofwhitematter.com&#038;blog=6121653&#038;post=1573&#038;subd=shadesofwhitematter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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