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		<title>Get that groundhog</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dennis McFarland So as it turns out, Phil the groundhog is not very good at predicting the weather. I noticed a curious story about this on the news the other day. As it turns out, people have become seemingly very angry with Punxsutawney Phil because of his inaccuracy concerning the beginning of spring. His [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Weaver Believer Survival Revival</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[God has allowed me to meet some of the most wonderful people. We were coming home from a family reunion about this time last year. It was my dad’s side of the family, which almost never happens. It was a good distance away, so by the time I got closer to home I needed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do not trust the Kevlar</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some types of body armor and bulletproof vests are made of Kevlar. I received a call that the layoff from Jefferson Industries had ended and that they wanted to know if I would come back. I started back to work on July 18 in the welding department. The hours and job are much different from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America, the melting pot</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 18:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We went boating on Buckeye Lake for July 4. My father-in-law has a huge pontoon boat and has it parked on Buckeye Lake this year. No offense to the other bodies of water where you can go boating in Ohio, but I have to say that Buckeye Lake is my favorite. I love to hear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two kinds of fear (part 2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It started as a burning sensation in my feet. I tried treating it as if it were athlete’s foot, even though there was no visible rash on the bottom of my feet or between my toes. The burning never went away so I recently went to my doctor to talk to him about it. After [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A mystical connection</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 11:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is it said that a dog is man’s best friend? I have had several pet dogs over the course of my lifetime. Each of them seemed to have a different personality and character. In spite of that, I have developed a bond with them and a special relationship according to those differences. Thor, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking the other way</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 13:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would argue that the best time to watch television is late at night. I have been laid off from work since before Easter, and I cannot wait to get back to work so I can get some rest. It has been a blessing to be available to help my parents by running my dad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something in common</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 16:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My dad was recently diagnosed with stage-three colon cancer. He is responding well to the chemotherapy and radiation treatments, and latest news as of this writing is that he only has six more radiation treatments to go. His chemotherapy is delivered by a small pump that he carries around with him. The pump gives an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering the ark</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 19:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am done with all this rain! It is a good thing that God promised he would never flood the world again in the scriptures, or I would really be thinking it was time to build another ark. You cannot even tell that I was able to get the grass cut last week before Easter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The lightning spreader</title>
		<link>http://www.madison-press.com/2011/04/the-lightning-spreader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 06:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no high like the most high. We had wonderful services this past Easter. I actually preached my morning sermon dressed in an Easter bunny costume. The title of the sermon was “Three things that Christ can do for you that the Easter Bunny cannot.” I needed to buy some time during the service [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The deadline</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are reading this column, you may already be too late. It is not a national holiday, but the date is easily recognizable by nearly anyone in the United States. April 15 is notorious for being the yearly deadline for filing your income tax for the year. If the government owes you money, typically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My temporary uniform</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently found out that cleaning the robots only matters to the robots. Basically, the work I have been doing as a temporary worker for the past several months does not count as “production” by the employer and I cannot be hired for doing it. Due to the tragedy in Japan, production has had to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life in the commercial world here today and gone tomorrow</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most television commercials really get on my nerves. I suppose what bugs me the most is that the world as it is portrayed in television commercials is so far from reality it borders on the ridiculous. What guys realistically travel the world in search of shrimp to eat? These two lunkheads dressed in three-piece suits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Go on without me</title>
		<link>http://www.madison-press.com/2011/03/go-on-without-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love to go to the movies. We did not really go on vacations as a family when I was growing up. We would take little day trips from time to time but never really did any traveling. I was in my early 30s before I went to see the ocean. (I will save that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The protector of Rome</title>
		<link>http://www.madison-press.com/2011/02/the-protector-of-rome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 04:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes a dog is not really a man’s best friend. Writing last weeks column got me thinking some more about our dog, Thor. As I said before, we rescued him from the pound as a puppy. The day we brought him home, he was small enough to fit in the palms of my son Brandon’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The cone of shame?</title>
		<link>http://www.madison-press.com/2011/01/the-cone-of-shame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago, we had our dog “Thor” neutered. I cannot be positive, but I do not think he liked it very much. ]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the robot machine at my work</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few months, I have learned a few things about robots. I am assigned to clean in zone four and zone five at the back of the welding department. I do not mind the long walk back to my area in the mornings for a couple reasons. First, if I time it just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The plight of the temporary worker</title>
		<link>http://www.madison-press.com/2011/01/the-plight-of-the-temporary-worker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Treynor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is dedicated to all of my temporary coworkers. I should begin by saying, that in this economy, I know times are tight for employers looking to hire new employees. I understand the benefit of using a temporary service to screen potential new employees. I also know that typically a negative stereotype comes with hiring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is your joy complete?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I am completely honest, I have to admit that my joy is not complete. We sing about having the joy “down in our heart” in church, but I wonder how many of us actually have it there. The past few weeks I have been thinking a lot about “joy.” How do you get to [...]]]></description>
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