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	<title>Berkshire Blog by Karen Christensen</title>
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	<description>Ideas, people, and events in the world of Berkshire Publishing, a global point of reference</description>
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		<title>Change ahead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thin gossamer cirrus clouds generally indicate a change in weather, usually preceding fronts that move from west to east.  They form about  5 miles or more above the earth and are composed of ice crystals.  They are commonly called is mares’ tails due their shape and form which changes constantly due to strong upper level [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/blog/?p=1691</link>
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		<title>The Jade Emperor&#8217;s stone fish</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I prepare for a few quiet days at the beach (weather reports bode well) before returning to Beijing for 10 days and then a slew of events in late September, I realize that I haven&#8217;t posted the story of the Jade Emperor&#8217;s stone fish and our outing to Tanzhe-Shi, a temple west of Beijing, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/blog/?p=1553</link>
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		<title>Faith by Proxy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Faith or damnation by proxy? I was doing some research for my new book and happened upon a website called Faithbyproxy.com. Evidence that the Internet has something for everyone! It&#8217;s really quite amusing. I like the idea of using technology to simplify faith.: At Faith by Proxy we are dedicated to ensuring the salvation of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/blog/?p=1668</link>
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		<title>My days with SIIA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sketching out new ventures for Berkshire Publishing, which means digging through old notes. I came across this e-mail from Ed Keating, VP of the Content Division at the Software &#038; Information Industry Association, which I kept with my business plans because it makes me smile and reminds me of what really counts, and of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/blog/?p=1521</link>
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		<title>A whale&#8217;s tale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Apologies for the title of this post! I&#8217;ll bet there have been more bad puns and bad titles and terribly rhymes with the word whale than anything else in English. It&#8217;s just too easy.)  I&#8217;ve been thinking about whales since visiting Edgartown on Martha&#8217;s Vineyard over the weekend. Another east coast whaling town, like Salem, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/blog/?p=1648</link>
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		<title>My three-turbine weekend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The wind turbines are only one of the memorable things about our wonderful weekend on Martha&#8217;s Vineyard, but it was striking to see three of them, in different places. The first was along Interstate 95 south of Providence, causing a serious slow-down in traffic. We thought there must be an accident but instead drivers were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/blog/?p=1640</link>
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		<title>Cloud to Cloud Lightning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Carl Kurtz: &#8220;All of us have had the opportunity to observe lighting in daylight and in darkness, and in the distance and likely when it was too close for comfort.  Lightning is immense charge of static electricity between a positively charged cloud and the negatively charged earth’s surface.  Lightning which within clouds or between clouds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/blog/?p=1635</link>
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		<title>Call for Papers on &#8220;Perceptions of China,&#8221; AAS/ICAS conference 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The panel titles are “Global Representations of China” and “China Sees the World ,&#8221; and the papers are to be presented at the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) and the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) conference in 2011. The convenor is Qing CAO of John Moores Liverpool University. The conference is being held in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/blog/?p=1623</link>
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		<title>Discounts on _This Fleeting World_</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Christian&#8217;s This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity is available directly from Berkshire (with discounts on multiple copies -  students can order together and save 10-30%, see below), from Barnes &#38; Noble bookstores across the United States, and at bn.com and Amazon.com. Copies ordered from Berkshire will come from the third printing, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/blog/?p=1602</link>
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		<title>More China reading recommendations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some little-known China books recommended at China Beat: 1) Jay Denby, (1910) Letters of a Shanghai Griffin, Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh – China books are all so horrendously serious and self-important these days – Denby just made fun of taipans, pompous Shanghailanders and stupid diplomats, venal businessmen, etc. – we need a bit more of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/blog/?p=1588</link>
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		<title>Algae to Risk Management &amp; more in the Encyclopedia of Sustainability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I asked Bill Siever to send a list of some of the topics in the Encyclopedia of Sustainability he finds most intriguing and surprising. I&#8217;ll be using these in some of the copy about the 10-volume set, and thought you might like a preview: Agroecology Algae Bioethics Carbon Sequestration Cities Confucianism Dark Sky Initiatives Disposable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/blog/?p=1585</link>
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		<title>Future food and sustainability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sushi isn&#8217;t future food but I guess sea plants are. Bill just cc&#8217;d me on a message to the scholar who will write on &#8220;Algae&#8221; for the Natural Resources volume of the Encyclopedia of Sustainability. He wrote, &#8220;One of the editors mentioned to me that algae is both a food source and an energy source, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/blog/?p=1572</link>
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		<title>Best China books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I&#8217;ll be sifting through the extensive responses to our Best China Books survey, which was a very short questionnaire tied to the very short reading list in our very short new book This Is China. The respondents gave us *lots* more suggestions, as well comments on and criticisms of the books we selected, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/blog/?p=1560</link>
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		<title>The greenest places on earth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I suppose Great Barrington, the small New England town where I run Berkshire Publishing, might be said to qualify as one of the greenest places on earth. Not only because it is so beautifully, lushly, abundantly green right now, but because it&#8217;s in the heart of the only region on the planet that has been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/blog/?p=1471</link>
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		<title>Berkshire Blog back online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We were hacked, but I&#8217;m back at last, with more secure password, plug-ins disabled, and apparently other secure measures taken. I see that China is probably going to relax its currency controls, at least a bit. I&#8217;d had this article, &#8220;Less income disparity &#8216;helps economy&#8217;&#8221;, in line to write something about because China faces a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/blog/?p=1511</link>
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