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	<title>The Real Paul Jones &#187; Paul</title>
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		<title>Raymond Carver: Stephen King and I agree and we disagree</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen King reviews a biography and a new, yet another new, collected stories by Raymond Carver in last Sunday&#8217;s NYTimes Book Review.
As with all reviews of Carver, the twin stories are Carver&#8217;s mostly alcoholic life and his relationship with heavy-handed &#8212; or creatively instructive &#8212; editor Gordon Lish.
Everyone agrees. Carver&#8217;s alcoholism = bad. And mostly [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/books/review/King-t.html">Stephen King reviews a biography and a new, yet another new, collected stories by Raymond Carver in last Sunday&#8217;s NYTimes Book Review.</a></p>
<p>As with all reviews of Carver, the twin stories are Carver&#8217;s mostly alcoholic life and his relationship with heavy-handed &#8212; or creatively instructive &#8212; editor Gordon Lish.</p>
<p>Everyone agrees. Carver&#8217;s alcoholism = bad. And mostly the psychology of the Lish relationship = bad.</p>
<p>But almost everyone&#8217;s reactions become more complex when asked which stories they prefer, the Lish versions, the manuscripts that Carver submitted to Lish, or &#8212; and this is less mentioned &#8212; the stories as recovered by Carver during his final days like those in Cathedral say.</p>
<p>King and I agree that the difference between &#8220;A Small, Good Thing&#8221; (a story that Carver recovered and re-extended and made deep) better than &#8220;The Bath&#8221; (the ruthlessly edited Lish version). The fact that we had access to both versions for a long time, that they illustrated the two public presentations of Carver&#8217;s work, and the quality of both stories were the reasons that I chose &#8220;A Small, Good Thing&#8221; for the Health Anthology. Great stories to talk about Carver, his public reception, the role of the editor, minimalist fiction and the changing relationship of the author to his own work.</p>
<p>King says:</p>
<blockquote><p>The contrast between “The Bath” (Lish-edited) and “A Small, Good Thing” (Ray Carver unplugged) is even less palatable. On her son’s birthday, Scotty’s mother orders a birthday cake that will never be eaten. The boy is struck by a car on his way home from school and winds up in a coma. In both stories, the baker makes dunning calls to the mother and her husband while their son lies near death in the hospital. Lish’s baker is a sinister figure, symbolic of death’s inevitability. We last hear from him on the phone, still wanting to be paid. In Carver’s version, the couple — who are actually characters instead of shadows — go to see the baker, who apologizes for his unintended cruelty when he understands the situation. He gives the bereaved parents coffee and hot rolls. The three of them take this communion together and talk until morning. “Eating is a small, good thing in a time like this,” the baker says. This version has a satisfying symmetry that the stripped-down Lish version lacks, but it has something more important: it has heart.</p></blockquote>
<p>Where we, and many others, disagree is over Carver&#8217;s most famous story, &#8220;What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,&#8221; which Carver presented to Lish as &#8220;Beginners.&#8221;  Lish&#8217;s editing was ruthless as a restoration of the manuscript published online by the New Yorker shows.  King compares the two, citing the highly different prose styles. The work Carver presented &#8220;consists of dense blocks of narration broken up by bursts of dialogue.&#8221; While the version we saw as WWTAWWTAL as edited by Lish, &#8220;there is so much white space that some of the stories&#8230;look almost like chapters in a James Patterson novel.&#8221;</p>
<p>While King does, as seen in the quotes above, pass judgment on the Lish edited stories in WWTAWWTAL, King doesn&#8217;t exactly pass judgement on the title story itself. I personally still after many rereadings prefer the story as edited by Lish known as WWTAWWTAL to Beginners. That makes my own thoughts about the Carver/Lish relationship more complex. When the editors of the Health Anthology substituted WWTAWWTAL for &#8220;A Small, Good Thing,&#8221; I felt a little like Carver. What the hell were they thinking! But I agree WWTAWWTAL is a very good story, a better story, the story that we know Carver&#8211;the public Carver of a certain period&#8211;by. I am wondering now is WWTAWWTAL more instructive or less so than ASGT?</p>
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		<title>Some Triangle Futures &#8212; maybe &#8212; just if</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After taking a vacation from blogging for the first time in over five years, I have more than enough to be writing about, but I thought I&#8217;d start out by posting a reply I just sent to Rick Smith of Metro Magazine who was asking about the future of the Triangle for communications, infotech and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After taking a vacation from blogging for the first time in over five years, I have more than enough to be writing about, but I thought I&#8217;d start out by posting a reply I just sent to Rick Smith of <a href="http://www.metronc.com/">Metro Magazine</a> who was asking about the future of the Triangle for communications, infotech and biotech and anything else than comes to mind.</p>
<p>My answers:</p>
<p>There is an old sufi saying that teaching can only happen when the time, the place and the people are all at the correct stage for learning to happen. In the case of technology leadership, you need to add resources to the list.</p>
<p>The Triangle got an early start betting on our universities to supply the people either directly by educating them or indirectly by providing a desirable intellectual and cultural environment to attract and keep the best.</p>
<p>We built the place based on the relationships among the universities and the cities of the Triangle, but we&#8217;ve yet to create an integrated transportation system to really foster the interactions that we need to lead.</p>
<p>Through MCNC and NCREN we have built the network infrastructure for research and teaching, but the commercial mobile networks are still spotty in their coverage compared to the areas with which we compete.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve been slightly diverse by developing biotech and infotech but we need to broaden beyond those two core industries. I think there are opportunities in energy management for example that have not been developed by that will make a giant difference in the next ten years.</p>
<p>The time is changing and I think in our favor if the state acts bravely and invests wisely in education and lifestyle that will continue to attract the best in infotech and biotech but also in transportation, energy management solutions, and nanotech. There are significant interactions between these areas and we will see more as they develop.</p>
<p>We will need to continue to support schools, our universities, our parks and the arts if we wish to continue to grow and to innovate. We are competing with the Bay Area, Austin, Boston, Seattle/Portland and Boulder/Denver more than with Atlanta or Richmond or Charlotte (although Charlotte should it recover from betting far too heavily on finance would be a strong partner for the Triangle and for the State).</p>
<p>I could, as you know write for ages about social media, which is the open source culture pushed out into our daily lives. Ultimately that means businesses thinking about their relationships with their employees and their customers very differently &#8212; that&#8217;s where the impact is being felt and will continue to have influence. Every transaction is not turned into a payment; despite of how phone companies charge us for text messages. Some transactions and activities are about relationships as any small town business owner knows well. Expect the importance of relationships to cause some very large changes as customers continue to be able to raise their voices with strong effect &#8212; positive as well as negative.</p>
<p>Computer screens will continue to move to the edges of size &#8212; large as is being tested with home theatres and small as is being tested on phones and netbooks. Desktops will be pushed into special categories such as use by design groups say.</p>
<p>That means more mobile but also and the computing to drive moble will be over the net, over the air. The delivery of this computing, this access to usable data, will mean that we need more bandwidth. If we don&#8217;t lead the country there, we lose. But also we need innovative services to be delivered over the air to these theatre sized screens and this portable/mobile devices. These will be appropriate to the use &#8212; say audio and video for directions, say quick updates in text to voice or searchable audio and video, say location awareness integrated into many functions. That means flexible datacenters with high connectivity and efficient cheap power and cooling running effective database and visualization services.</p>
<p>Did I say visualization? Yes that cuts across all the categories and is an area that we need to develop along with analytics. Expect to see businesses looking for better ways to understand the data deluge that is now available to them, but also expect individuals to demand similar services which is something entirely new.</p>
<p>If we, as our government and industry, provide the infrastructure through proper taxation, then we will continue to have the place, will continue to produce and attract the people, will have our eyes on the time and will in the end reap the resources and rewards.</p>
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		<title>Meaty Interview (with me)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I may be a ham but I have no beef with the meaty podcast from the Kansas State Ad Club that Joel Jackson did with me the other night for their &#8220;Something to Chew On&#8221; blog/podcast. 

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I may be a ham but I have no beef with <a href="http://ksuadclub.com/ksuadclub/Podcast/Entries/2009/10/3_PaulJones.html">the meaty podcast</a> from <a href="http://ksuadclub.com/">the Kansas State Ad Club</a> that Joel Jackson did with me the other night for their <a href="http://ksuadclub.com/ksuadclub/Podcast/Podcast.html">&#8220;Something to Chew On&#8221;</a> blog/podcast. </p>
<p><a href="http://ksuadclub.com/ksuadclub/Podcast/Entries/2009/10/3_PaulJones.html"><img src="http://ksuadclub.com/ksuadclub/Podcast/Entries/2009/10/3_PaulJones_files/adclubheader_3.1.jpg" alt="KSU Ad Club Podcast interview" /></a></p>
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		<title>Three kinds of Beets + Pomegranate Salad</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There must be some reason, some grand reason, why beets and pomegranates are in season at the same time. I took three bunches of beets &#8212; each a different variety; Golden, Red and Chiogga &#8212; from the Farmer&#8217;s Market , roasted them then cooked them up with onion, ginger, orange zest, wine vinegar and stock/water. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There must be some reason, some grand reason, why beets and pomegranates are in season at the same time. I took three bunches of beets &#8212; each a different variety; Golden, Red and Chiogga &#8212; from the Farmer&#8217;s Market , roasted them then cooked them up with onion, ginger, orange zest, wine vinegar and stock/water. After that cooked down good, I chilled them and added pomegranates and feta cheese. Tossed them on greens and served them up.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the recipes I started from: <a href="http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/golden_beet_and_pomegranate_salad/">one from Simply Recipes featuring Golden Beets</a> and <a href="http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&#038;recipe_id=1010562">this one which inspired the previous from Sunset Magazine via MyRecipes.</a></p>
<p>My contribution/changes were to: 1) add fresh ginger finely chopped to cook with the beets 2) make the recipe vegetarian by changing to vegetable stock or just water 3) took a pass on the liquer 4) used red wine vinegar for red beets, seasoned rice wine vinegar for the goldens and chioggas 5) served the beets isolated by type.</p>
<p><a href="http://twitpic.com/k9dt8" title="Three Beet (Chiogga, Red, Golden) + Pomegranate Salad with a ... on Twitpic"><img src="http://twitpic.com/show/thumb/k9dt8.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="Three Beet (Chiogga, Red, Golden) + Pomegranate Salad with a ... on Twitpic"></a></p>
<p>Yumm! Even if you never liked beets before, you will like them this way. BTW I only used fresh beets; I can&#8217;t imagine doing this with canned.</p>
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		<title>Equinox at Oconeechee in Hillsborough</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 02:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listen!
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Great to see Equinox in Hillsborough at the Oconeechee Steakhouse. Also had a chance to meet Howard Burchette whose Funk Show on WNCU is one of my Saturday favorites (after Pirate Radio on WCOM of course).
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<p>Great to see <a href="http://www.equinoxnc.com/Welcome.html">Equinox</a> in Hillsborough at the Oconeechee Steakhouse. Also had a chance to meet <a href="http://thefunkshow.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=article&#038;id=48&#038;Itemid=53">Howard Burchette</a> whose <a href="http://thefunkshow.com/joomla/">Funk Show</a> on <a href="http://www.wncu.org/">WNCU</a> is one of my Saturday favorites (after Pirate Radio on <a href="http://wcomfm.org/">WCOM</a> of course).</p>
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		<title>Concise-ness of Carver in Heath Anthology</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We went to pick up our son for his extended weekend away for Science and Math yesterday. On his desk was the Concise Edition of the Heath Anthology of American Literature! And yes it included Raymond Carver&#8217;s &#8220;What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.&#8221; I wrote the Carver headnote for the Heath Editions [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We went to pick up our son for his extended weekend away for Science and Math yesterday. On his desk was the Concise Edition of the Heath Anthology of American Literature! And yes it included Raymond Carver&#8217;s &#8220;What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.&#8221; I wrote the Carver headnote for the Heath Editions &#8212; Concise and Less-than-Concise-but-multivolume-and-full-of-more-literature Editions &#8212; and so was delighted to see the story included. </p>
<p><a href="http://ibiblio.org/pjones/blog/carverheath-changing-the-story/">I had rushed to meet a deadline for the new edition back in January when the Heath editors changed the Carver story from &#8220;A Small Good Thing&#8221; to WWTAWWTAL.</a></p>
<p>I also made changes to the Teachers Guide, but since that is online only now there was less of a rush.</p>
<p>What drove me was the importance of recognizing the publication of the original pre-Lish story, Beginners, from which WWTAWWTAL was formed (by Lish&#8217;s strong editorial hand). </p>
<p>I&#8217;m not sure if this penultimate paragraph made it as an addition to the headnote or not:</p>
<blockquote><p>Yet there is new controversy about Carver’s rewriting and of his relationship to his editors, particularly Lish. The recent publication of “Beginners” in the New Yorker, the story that would become – after extensive editing by Lish – “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” and the accompanying article and an online exclusive displaying Lish’s edits in detail show that Carver’s rewriting may have been as much an attempt to recover his stories as an enlargement of earlier minimalist works. Once some legal issues can be resolved, we will be able to have a much closer look at Carver’s process, intentions and art as well as an ability to evaluate the relationship between Carver and Lish.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://college.cengage.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/contemporary/carver_ra.html">I don&#8217;t see it on the website for the Anthology.</a> Looks like I need to check in with the editors.</p>
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		<title>Cubed Roots?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fall comes to the Carrboro Farmers Market and with the sudden cool wet weather comes a harvest of root vegetables. I&#8217;ve taken those roots and made salads using the greens and roots, made soups and gumbos, roasted and baked them, but I wanted to try something different &#8212; crunchy, but not raw; mixed but still [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fall comes to the Carrboro Farmers Market and with the sudden cool wet weather comes a harvest of root vegetables. I&#8217;ve taken those roots and made salads using the greens and roots, made soups and gumbos, roasted and baked them, but I wanted to try something different &#8212; crunchy, but not raw; mixed but still with unique flavors, spiced some.</p>
<p>My solution was to dice several roots, stir fry them for differing amounts of time depending on how crunchy or squishy they should be, spice them some and eat &#8216;em up.</p>
<p>My plan for this week is to use garlic then onion then ginger to flavor the oil then add small cubes of sweet potato, turnip, golden beet (red turn it all red and I want some color effect), carrots and stir fry to slow cook the root concoction and add some seasonal spice like basil, rosemary or marjoram.</p>
<p>Looking for other suggestions and experiences.</p>
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		<title>NC Literary Festival Panel of Twitter 9/12 at 10am</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
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Come see us @nc_litfest&#8217;s Twitter &#038; Literature Panel  Tomorrow Sept 12 at 10 am @mightymur @waynesutton &#038; @smalljones Moderator @hartzog / in Murphey Hall at UNC. Full Saturday schedule here.
I plan to talk about several poetic experiments: @haikuoftheday and  @sonnets for two and ask for others. One fairly complex moderated Twitter Haiku collective [...]]]></description>
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Come see us <a href="http://twitter.com/nc_litfest">@nc_litfest</a>&#8217;s <a href="http://www.ncliteraryfestival.org/page/tweeting--a-new-form-of-writing">Twitter &#038; Literature Panel</a>  Tomorrow Sept 12 at 10 am <a href="http://twitter.com/mightymur">@mightymur</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/waynesutton">@waynesutton</a> &#038; <a href="http://twitter.com/smalljones">@smalljones</a> Moderator <a href="http://twitter.com/hartzog">@hartzog</a> / in <a href="http://classics.unc.edu/about/facilities/about_murphey.html">Murphey Hall at UNC</a>. <a href="http://www.ncliteraryfestival.org/page/saturday">Full Saturday schedule here.</a></p>
<p>I plan to talk about several poetic experiments: <a href="http://twitter.com/haikuoftheday">@haikuoftheday</a> and  <a href="http://twitter.com/sonnets">@sonnets</a> for two and ask for others. One <a href="http://www.makeliterature.com/twihaiku/twitter-poetry">fairly complex moderated Twitter Haiku collective</a> from Phil Boiarski.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll also contrast <a href="http://twitter.com/patrickherron">@PatrickHerron</a>&#8217;s use of Twitter based on this statement:</p>
<blockquote><p>I often use twitter in series posts (1of2, 2of2, etc.) to go just a little bit further than aphorisms. Or to just sort of &#8220;toss up&#8221; fragments of text that are scheduled to land in pieces in my new project.  Twitter then acts as a sort of &#8216;locus of detachment&#8221; where I can put things in public and be done with the personal dimension once and for all.</p></blockquote>
<p>with Philip <a href="http://twitter.com/boiarski">Boiarsk</a>i&#8217;s much more personal statement:</p>
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Twitter has been a life saver for me as a poet.  I have a real life gig to support my poetry habit.  Now, in my : ( sixty fourth year under heaven, I am not, by nature, a man who takes lightly his obligations to spouse and family.  How one dares to have a family, a life, more than a tent and a horse, the muse has yet to explain to me.  My workday doesn&#8217;t make it easy to make notes, or jot down ideas for poems, lines that come to me, etc. The 140 characters in a tweet seem to me to be of a perfect length to hold in mind until a minute frees up to iPhone, keyboard, thwirl, them in.  I now link them to my blog about writing and am running there a &#8220;Twitter Experiment&#8221; (It&#8217;s at <a href="http://boiarskitheblog.blogspot.com/">Boiarski theblog</a> if you want to see). I have thousand plus fans many of whom are poets, avid readers, amateurs, etc. and they react and clue me as to what hits a chord, what I might take time to write further into on the weekend or evenings.  So for me, the tweet has taken the place of the little ring notebook I used to carry in my pocket.  But now, I write it where a thousand folks can read and react.  I have a friendly place to try out my words and objective input into what communicated to real folks and not to just my idea of an audience.</p></blockquote>
<p>And these two notes from Robin Black:</p>
<p>1) Best 140-character story submitted to our booth at <a href="http://twitter.com/search?q=%23BrooklynBookFestival">#BrooklynBookFestival</a> or tweeted to <a href="http://twitter.com/onestorymag">@onestorymag</a> <http://twitter.com/onestorymag> wins subscription + dinner with OS staff</p>
<p>2) Georgia Review recently blogged about what Michael Martone is doing with Twitter.  I don&#8217;t have that link, but his nom de Tweet is <a href="http://twitter.com/4foraquarter">@4foraquarter</a>.  He&#8217;s writing a book about things that come in fours and has used Twitter to explore the idea.</p>
<p>Twitter = epigram, epigraph, epitaph, epithet, epilogue, episode, epiphany, epic, epicenter, epidemic? an epistle to an epicene epicure? the epidermis of an epistemological epitome&#8217;s epicyclical by an epiphenomenonal episcopal epigone?</p>
<p>I can also talk about small groups vs larger groups vs broadcast and &#8220;thick&#8221; vs &#8220;thin&#8221; tweets if you like.</p>
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		<title>Battle of the birds</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A goldfinch, trying perhaps to convince me that he&#8217;s the prothonotary warbler (see below), was hanging on the nectar feeder that has been under the protection of a very aggressive hummingbird. The goldfinch was sipping a little water that was in the feeder to discourage ants from crawling into the nectar when the confrontation occurred. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A goldfinch, trying perhaps to convince me that he&#8217;s the prothonotary warbler (see below), was hanging on the nectar feeder that has been under the protection of a very aggressive hummingbird. The goldfinch was sipping a little water that was in the feeder to discourage ants from crawling into the nectar when the confrontation occurred. Here&#8217;s how it played out as captured by my iPhone.</p>
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		<title>Yellow Mystery Bird at the Hummingbird Feeder</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
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Few the past few days this bird has been living at our hummingbird feeder, sipping nectar and enjoying him/herself. Note a slender light beak, grey wings with no bars or stripes, yellow to white underside, no easily noticed eye bar or ring.
Candidates: Blue-winged Warbler dark legs, wingbars, eye line (not matching our bird)  Northern [...]]]></description>
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<p>Few the past few days this bird has been living at our hummingbird feeder, sipping nectar and enjoying him/herself. Note a slender light beak, grey wings with no bars or stripes, yellow to white underside, no easily noticed eye bar or ring.</p>
<p>Candidates: <a href="http://offline.whatbird.com/obj/334/identification/Blue-winged_Warbler.aspx">Blue-winged Warbler</a> dark legs, wingbars, eye line (not matching our bird)  <a href="http://offline.whatbird.com/obj/567/_/Baltimore_Oriole.aspx">Northern Oriole aka Baltimore (Female)</a> no white underside as seen on our bird, <a href="http://offline.whatbird.com/obj/576/_/Summer_Tanager.aspx">Summer Tanager (female)</a> too heavy beak and markings off, your guess ???</p>
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