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		<title>Offshore Drilling Ban Overturned</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month the Interior Department suspended drilling on 33 exploratory wells and stopped approval of all permits... Well several of the companies who ferry supplies to the rigs didn't agree.  They sued claiming that the Interior Department had no proof that further drilling was a threat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eating your Words</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In late June of 2008, then presidental candidate, Barack Obama, stated &#8220;When I&#8217;m president, I intend to keep in place the moratorium here in Florida and around the country that prevents oil companies from drilling off Florida&#8217;s coasts, that&#8217;s how we can protect our coastline and still make the investments that will reduce our dependence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blind Shear Ram (sounds effective)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There were many things that went wrong on April 20, but the biggest failure was that of the blind shear ram. To put it simply the blind shear ram is a last line of defense, which, when working properly, is set to slice the pipe and seal off the well, locks then move into place preventing the pistons from moving backwards, closing the well forever. Disaster averted.
But as we all know, that didn’t happen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Memoriam</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[...it becomes easier yet to forget the first victims, the 11 men who died on April 20, 2010. Men who were supporting families some with children and wives, some with unborn children, men whose bodies will never be recovered, simply because they were doing what most of us do every day... working [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 16:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[40 days ago an explosion on the oil rig, Deepwater Horizon, located in the Gulf of Mexico, left 17 injured and 11 men missing and presumed dead. Since then oil has been spewing 5,000 feet below the ocean’s surface. Depending on whom you ask this two foot pipe is flooding the gulf with anywhere from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Have a Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 20:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coming to the main page of itwasmyhome.com is emotionally draining. I know what a shock the map is &#8212; I was shocked when I first made it. But awareness is important. One of the things I tried to do with the site is provide more information about the spill, and give recommendations for how people [...]]]></description>
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