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	<description>– adjective. To be at the highest possible quality. The dinner was notchtopping. That composition was simply notchtopping. Derivative of top-notch.</description>
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		<title>Contraction Action</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TopNotch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of these days, and hopefully soon, I will post again. In the mean time, enjoy this article on the use of contractions. I find the use of these little buggers quite convenient in my daily tweets and instant messages. Sadly, that practice creeps into my more elaborate and lengthy personal writing. It&#8217;s a hard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atkins and Motorcycle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TopNotch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So yesterday I went to my cardiologist for the annual visit and things were great!
My plumbing looked fine and due to my diet and exercise, the doctor actually took me completely off of a blood pressure prescription!  Per the doctor, my dizziness and shortness of breath was due to low BP.
She was beaming at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye Fatso, Hello Healthiness!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TopNotch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the first two weeks since I started Atkins, I have lost 15 pounds.  This is remarkable as every diet I have tried since undertaking Atkins 6 years ago has failed.  You see, six years ago I weighed 228 pounds and wanted to lose weight before our wedding. In the six months leading up to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Same As It Ever Was</title>
		<link>http://www.notchtopping.com/?p=222</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 16:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TopNotch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[back story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[note cards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Room To Write]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steven Erikson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I have benefitted from a very creative and lengthy burst of ideas and my writing has come out quite literally as a stream of consciousness. Prior to this I had been mulling around with various exercises via Bonni Goldberg’s Room to Write and Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones as my writing took a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>what do you do?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 01:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TopNotch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have not been in the mood to write-let alone had the time to write- do to my professional activities for the last 3-4 weeks. Work has really sapped me and my time. For example; over the last three weeks I have worked late (8 PM or more), and then also worked weekends. Crazy client [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Managing your Electronic Datastream</title>
		<link>http://www.notchtopping.com/?p=204</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TopNotch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[email]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Office]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quite frankly, I could care less if you just earned so many points in this app, or gifted me a bottle of aftershave, or need someone to adopt a blue goat.  It's clutter, and in the course of just a few minutes a week I permanently keep all of that from displaying in the news feed.]]></description>
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		<title>First Gear &#8211; It&#8217;s Alright</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TopNotch</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Beach Boys]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slow.
Look.
Lean.
Roll.
That&#8217;s the definition of the acronym SLLR, as any smart and safety conscious bike riding fan will tell you. SLLR is taught (or it was at least 24 years ago when I first took the course) as part of the Motorcycle Safety Foundation course for motorcycle riders.
At the time that I took the course, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Legend of Klop-Drag</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TopNotch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No one has ever actually seen Klop-Drag and lived to tell about it. As the legend goes, he was once a very despicable man; that even as a child he was especially mean to animals, taking pleasure in being cruel to them.  The story goes on to tell he became so evil that after he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Addition to the Notchtopping Family</title>
		<link>http://www.notchtopping.com/?p=179</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TopNotch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. &#38; Mrs. Notchtopping are pleased to announce the welcomed addition to their household of one Captain Janeway. On Wednesday, March 3rd 2010 they made official the Welcoming of American Short Hair feline Janeway.
Captain Janeway, aged about 5 years old, weighing in at 13 lbs and 4 oz., joins the Notchtopping pack and was welcomed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stories and Plotting: A plot exercise</title>
		<link>http://www.notchtopping.com/?p=174</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TopNotch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We are now working on Stories and Plotting. In this chapter we are taught that in its simplest form, a plot contains three steps: An initial problem, added complications that make the problem more difficult and interesting, and a resolution. We also learned that there are three basic ways to proceed when designing a plot:
•   [...]]]></description>
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