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		<title>X-Factor 17 to 12</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the end, the judges made the right choices but did we really have to have all that manufactured drama on the way to those decisions? Choosing Dexter Haygood and then saddling him with that song and that presentation? He needed something more raw, gritty, that screams soul-deep pain &#8230; and he got vanilla. Kicking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crookedturret.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1926467&amp;post=571&amp;subd=crookedturret&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>inSingapore: Oh the shame of it!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, I attended a free seminar series at Raffles City Convention Centre. It seemed like a great opportunity to find out about liver and colon health. And indeed all was fine &#8211; good speakers (specialists from local hospitals), comfortable venue &#8211; until &#8230; we broke for tea. The guests at the event, many of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crookedturret.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1926467&amp;post=570&amp;subd=crookedturret&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>inSingapore: Shopping Trolley &#8220;Thieves&#8221;, or rather, &#8220;Borrowers&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Now, I&#8217;ve heard of shopping trolleys being taken home by shoppers, leading to supermarkets having to send their staff to surrounding blocks to look for stray trolleys, and I&#8217;d seen these abandoned trolleys just left around the housing blocks. And I&#8217;ve always wondered: why haven&#8217;t I ever seen anyone wheeling their trolley home? Well, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crookedturret.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1926467&amp;post=565&amp;subd=crookedturret&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Emotion&#8217; in church services</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 03:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>myrlinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Christmas, I brought my friend to a cantata by an accomplished choir. At the end of it, she opined that the choir was excellent, but lacking emotion. This view highlights a thread I’ve noticed this year, one that seems to have arisen as a reaction against the kinds of practices increasingly being introduced into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crookedturret.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1926467&amp;post=560&amp;subd=crookedturret&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Voicing your opinions shouldn&#8217;t be risky</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 02:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t watch much TV these days, but for some reason, I switched on the TV last night&#8230; and caught part of Singapore Talking. First time I ever watched that show.  The topic was why teenagers don&#8217;t speak up. What caught my attention though was the response to an opinion by a member of the audience [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crookedturret.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1926467&amp;post=555&amp;subd=crookedturret&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Clay Aiken talks about new CD &#8220;Tried and True&#8221; (Decca promo vid)</title>
		<link>http://crookedturret.wordpress.com/2010/05/19/clay-aiken-talks-about-new-cd-tried-and-true-decca-promo-vid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 22:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>myrlinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a good morning when you wake up to another promo vid for Clay Aiken&#8217;s forthcoming CD, &#8220;Tried and True&#8221;, and a good one too! We get video of the photo shoot for the album and more snippets from Clay&#8217;s PBS special.  Clay talks about the CD (musically, artistically, a &#8220;home&#8221; for him) and the taping [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crookedturret.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1926467&amp;post=546&amp;subd=crookedturret&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes timing is everything</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 14:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>myrlinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I went to a department store to check out the bath towels on sale. So, I arrived, and they had just the type I liked at a great price, except that I really wanted dark-coloured ones. When asked, the salesperson blithely assured me that all the colours available are already on display. Disappointed, I left to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crookedturret.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1926467&amp;post=541&amp;subd=crookedturret&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Clay Aiken&#8217;s new CD &#8220;Tried and True&#8221; to be released June 1st!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 23:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>myrlinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wasn&#8217;t too sure about Clay Aiken&#8217;s new CD, but this preview of Clay performing some of the songs off &#8220;Tried and True&#8221; has made a believer out of me.  There is a commitment to the performances that translate to magic. I&#8217;m now genuinely  looking forward to the release of  Tried and True on June 1st, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crookedturret.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1926467&amp;post=529&amp;subd=crookedturret&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Random thoughts on American Idol 9 contestants</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>myrlinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[American Idol seems to be floundering a bit this year. Which just goes to show that it&#8217;s the quality of contestants which makes the show, not the overpaid judges and host!  One of the things we&#8217;re missing this year is a &#8220;story&#8221; &#8211; a battle royale between  contestants who are really different from each other (Clay Aiken vs Ruben [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crookedturret.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1926467&amp;post=527&amp;subd=crookedturret&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free gift for attending church???</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>myrlinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, that&#8217;s what happened after I visited my friend&#8217;s church. I got a couple of vouchers for tea/coffee in the mail. The last time I received beverage vouchers like that, it was a thank you from a bank for listening to their talk on a &#8220;savings&#8221; plan (which turned out be an endowment plan, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crookedturret.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1926467&amp;post=525&amp;subd=crookedturret&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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