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	<title>Mark Kurowski, The Consumer Lawyer</title>
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		<title>Solution to CardMinder data fields, with the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 scanner</title>
		<link>http://markkurowski.com/2012/01/solution-to-cardminder-data-fields-with-the-fujitsu-scansnap-s1500-scanner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I absolutely love the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 duplex scanner. I don&#8217;t want to do a review here of either the scanner or much of the software that comes with the scanner, but I need to post the solution to a vexing problem with the CardMinder software used to OCR business cards and then save and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Every decision we make is important</title>
		<link>http://markkurowski.com/2009/04/every-decision-we-make-is-important/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Washington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Revolutionary War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Paine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished Washington&#8217;s Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History) by David Hackett Fischer. I was engrossed&#8230;..it had so many fascinating revelations, it replaces the the cartoonish history we all learned in high school, even college (e.g., the Hessians were not drunk from Christmas revelry). I don&#8217;t have time to do a review, but I&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diet/disease links are health care issues!</title>
		<link>http://markkurowski.com/2009/04/dietdisease-links-are-health-care-issues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nutrition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RAVE Diet]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always been irritated by our dietary guidelines being based on marketing instead of science.  Perhaps now is the time to implement some changes, and T. Colin Campbell and Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr. have suggested three relatively low cost measures: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/17/ED3K16FAI8.DTL Mike Anderson has authored another brilliant, meticulously documented book/DVD, and as usual they&#8217;re affordably [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UFO hoax is revealed!</title>
		<link>http://markkurowski.com/2009/04/ufo-hoax-is-revealed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pseudoscience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[skepticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UFO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kudos to Joe Rudy and Chris Russo who pulled off the whole thing! http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/09-04-01.html#feature As someone who cringes at the pseudoscience pedalled by hucksters and believed by the average person (who&#8217;s proud to be scientifically illiterate), it&#8217;s good to see such exposés as often as possible. The UFO was five 3-ft balloons with flares attached [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apartments not ALWAYS safe bet for investors</title>
		<link>http://markkurowski.com/2009/03/apartments-not-always-safe-bet-for-investors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commercial Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apartments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[multifamily investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[renters]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://markkurowski.com/?p=115</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Demand for apartments is falling as local employers slash jobs and more renters double up or move back home with parents.&#8221; (Job losses hurt suburban [Chicago] apartment occupancy, rents) It&#8217;s more important than ever for multifamily property investors to choose the appropriate (1) property, (2) financing, (3) rehab team, and (4) property management firm.]]></description>
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		<title>Solar Roadways to the economic rescue!</title>
		<link>http://markkurowski.com/2009/03/solar-roadways-to-the-economic-and-pollution-rescue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electric cars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solar energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solar Roadways]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Solar Roadways: I especially like the cost calculations (The Numbers) and the list of benefits (Benefits). Of course, my lingering question about ANY large-area solar implementation is do we know what will happen when the sun&#8217;s energy is collected for electricity INSTEAD of letting it heat the ground, i.e., will the climate cool slightly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SBA has increased the LTV and lowered the fees</title>
		<link>http://markkurowski.com/2009/03/sba-has-increased-the-ltv-and-lowered-the-fees/</link>
		<comments>http://markkurowski.com/2009/03/sba-has-increased-the-ltv-and-lowered-the-fees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commercial Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business loans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SBA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SBA 504]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SBA 7(a)]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://markkurowski.com/?p=101</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The following statement was issued Monday (sorry for the delay!) by Acting Administrator Darryl K. Hairston of the U.S. Small Business Administration following the announcement by President Barack Obama of important steps being taken by the SBA and the U.S. Department of Treasury to address the economic challenges facing small businesses and entrepreneurs across the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter now affects the courts!</title>
		<link>http://markkurowski.com/2009/03/twitter-now-affects-the-courts/</link>
		<comments>http://markkurowski.com/2009/03/twitter-now-affects-the-courts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[court room]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tweets from jury deliberation room give losing side some straws to grasp at: http://is.gd/nwD5 Courts will have to crack down on that I think, but such tweets don&#8217;t really show bias at all. Here&#8217;s a great use of Twitter in the court room: http://is.gd/mEbL A good reporter can make you feel as if you&#8217;re right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great text-to-image plugin</title>
		<link>http://markkurowski.com/2009/03/great-text-to-image-plugin/</link>
		<comments>http://markkurowski.com/2009/03/great-text-to-image-plugin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[text-to-image]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WordPress]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://markkurowski.com/?p=15</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank you, Milan, who wrote a great WordPress plugin which easily converts a text string to a tiny image (which helps prevent spam-bots from scraping email addresses and phone numbers and from auto-logging into sites to create spam comments for seo). I use it on my Contact page. &#160;And I did that by typing 5 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hello world!</title>
		<link>http://markkurowski.com/2009/03/hello-world/</link>
		<comments>http://markkurowski.com/2009/03/hello-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well&#8230;.I&#8217;ve finally given up on the idea of porting all old blog posts to this WordPress platform. No big loss really, except I&#8217;ll try to dig out some of the useful posts and paste them here. Onward and upward!]]></description>
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