<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>The Meaning of SIGMA</title>
	<atom:link href="http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com</link>
	<description>thoughts of an uncommon patriot.</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 04:01:10 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.com/</generator>
<cloud domain='sigmapromise.wordpress.com' port='80' path='/?rsscloud=notify' registerProcedure='' protocol='http-post' />
<image>
		<url>http://0.gravatar.com/blavatar/ad2dc656597446e5e489ba79ac685c8a?s=96&#038;d=http%3A%2F%2Fs2.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.png</url>
		<title>The Meaning of SIGMA</title>
		<link>http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com</link>
	</image>
	<atom:link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/osd.xml" title="The Meaning of SIGMA" />
	<atom:link rel='hub' href='http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/?pushpress=hub'/>
		<item>
		<title>Juan, gone.</title>
		<link>http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/juan-gone/</link>
		<comments>http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/juan-gone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 02:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sigmapromise</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[current events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[musings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Juan Williams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NPR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[O'Reilly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[O'Reilly Factor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vivian Schiller]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/?p=501</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have to start this by saying that I LOVE NPR.  Not just like it&#8211;I love it.   I have been listening since I was in middle school, and used to just flick off the news parts on my local station.  Now, I have come to depend on their reporting and coverage from around our nation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sigmapromise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4710705&amp;post=501&amp;subd=sigmapromise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/juan-gone/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/cabe7d59f58a5db274ccf63250a6e504?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">sigmapromise</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>The opposite of CONCORD is DISCORD.</title>
		<link>http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/2010/09/10/the-opposite-of-concord-is-discord/</link>
		<comments>http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/2010/09/10/the-opposite-of-concord-is-discord/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sigmapromise</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[classism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug cartel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[druglords]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employment crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homophobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamic Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamic Center NYC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Koran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Koran burning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexican]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[partisan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[private sector]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qur'an]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qur'an burning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[xenophobia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/?p=492</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We seem to be having quite a bit of that lately. The discord, that is. It is so frustrating to me to watch our nation tear itself to shreds. From planned Islamic Centers, to partisan bickering, to pretty overt racism&#8211;I&#8217;m sad to say I am an adult among other (supposed) adults. There are so many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sigmapromise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4710705&amp;post=492&amp;subd=sigmapromise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/2010/09/10/the-opposite-of-concord-is-discord/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/cabe7d59f58a5db274ccf63250a6e504?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">sigmapromise</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Finished my latest &#8220;books by James-es&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/finished-my-latest-books-by-james-es/</link>
		<comments>http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/finished-my-latest-books-by-james-es/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sigmapromise</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Readings/Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Million Little Pieces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celestine Prophecy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enlightenment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hazelden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Frey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Redfield]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peru]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/?p=483</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So I actually sat down and got some reading done.  Jeez&#8230;I was unemployed for two 1/2 months and I just now got a chance to read. Lol. The first book is a pseudo-classic, written in 1993, and pretty well-known.  It is The Celestine Prophecy, by James Redfield.  I don&#8217;t remember how I ended up with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sigmapromise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4710705&amp;post=483&amp;subd=sigmapromise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/finished-my-latest-books-by-james-es/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/cabe7d59f58a5db274ccf63250a6e504?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">sigmapromise</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/30/5f/5bc4828fd7a0fad0776c5110.L.jpg" medium="image" />

		<media:content url="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/47/ec/b81f810ae7a0793740bab110.L.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">book cover</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>replacement</title>
		<link>http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/replacement/</link>
		<comments>http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/replacement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sigmapromise</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interracial Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[musings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bigotry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feelings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interracial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interracial dating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mixed relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racial bias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/?p=477</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Her name is Shelly.  As an old English name, it means &#8220;Meadow on a Ledge&#8221;&#8230;whatever that is. For me, the female version of this name has a contemporary meaning; Shelly stands for replacement. Replacement. I&#8217;m being replaced. We have been in a quandary since his parents flipped out.  I agree with him&#8211;we should see other people, because [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sigmapromise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4710705&amp;post=477&amp;subd=sigmapromise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/replacement/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/cabe7d59f58a5db274ccf63250a6e504?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">sigmapromise</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>The NERVE of some people!</title>
		<link>http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/the-nerve-of-some-people/</link>
		<comments>http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/the-nerve-of-some-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sigmapromise</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[educators]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Illinois Public Schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Sector Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state employees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxpayers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teachers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teaching]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/?p=474</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, I just got finished reading an article that just upset me to death.  My s/o, who is most definitely an active teacher (at a parent booster meeting as I type)  read and was upset too.  Maybe we just don&#8217;t know enough about Illinois&#8217; Public School System to be all up in arms, but if you&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sigmapromise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4710705&amp;post=474&amp;subd=sigmapromise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/the-nerve-of-some-people/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/cabe7d59f58a5db274ccf63250a6e504?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">sigmapromise</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Opening a REAL Time Capsule</title>
		<link>http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/opening-a-real-time-capsule/</link>
		<comments>http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/opening-a-real-time-capsule/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sigmapromise</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Front]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abdullah Azzam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Algeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jihaad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neoconservatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[radical islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reagan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sadaam Hussein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soviet Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USSR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Casey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zawahri]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/?p=472</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I pride myself in setting out every day to learn something new. Lately however, my taste for things scientific has given way to my overwhelming sense of inadequacy when it comes ito the language of scientific inquiry&#8230;mathematics.  I rue the fact that I am a language-y, feeling-y type. I&#8217;d rather be a cold, hard, logical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sigmapromise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4710705&amp;post=472&amp;subd=sigmapromise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/opening-a-real-time-capsule/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/cabe7d59f58a5db274ccf63250a6e504?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">sigmapromise</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>My brush with unfamiliar feelings&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/my-brush-with-unfamiliar-feelings/</link>
		<comments>http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/my-brush-with-unfamiliar-feelings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sigmapromise</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[musings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-miscegenation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bigotry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Desegregation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emancipation proclamation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interracial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interracial dating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loving Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mixed relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racial bias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/?p=468</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have no idea how to concretely categorize how I&#8217;m feeling right now, and I have to get this out.  There are some lies which must be told to keep the people you love safe.  These are not lies that I&#8217;m telling, but I have to corroborate them.  Now, keep an open mind.  Racism and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sigmapromise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4710705&amp;post=468&amp;subd=sigmapromise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/my-brush-with-unfamiliar-feelings/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/cabe7d59f58a5db274ccf63250a6e504?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">sigmapromise</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Irreverent. Irrelevant.</title>
		<link>http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/irreverent-irrelevant/</link>
		<comments>http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/irreverent-irrelevant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sigmapromise</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Changing the Subject]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[current events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Atomic Scientist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beauty Quark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CERN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[defect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[French Physicist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Higgs Boson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Large Hadron Collider]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LHC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media manipulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Weapons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuke Scientist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Riyadh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tehran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/?p=462</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize.  And, if it is a nod to America&#8217;s rejection of the type of leadership from the past eight years, then he deserves it.  Maybe not yet&#8230;but that is for another post.  I am changing the subject. Let us revisit Orwell&#8217;s 1984&#8230;&#8221;whoever controls the past, controls the future. Who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sigmapromise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4710705&amp;post=462&amp;subd=sigmapromise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/irreverent-irrelevant/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/cabe7d59f58a5db274ccf63250a6e504?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">sigmapromise</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>My friend, the Squirrel</title>
		<link>http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/my-friend-the-squirrel/</link>
		<comments>http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/my-friend-the-squirrel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sigmapromise</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[current events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[musings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ahmadinejad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arabic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Beating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago beating video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chicago gangs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conservatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[credit report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[declaration of independence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Derrion Albert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earthquake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IAEA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indonesia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IOC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[job scams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[job search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning Language - Arabic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[missile launches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Olympics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[philipines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[read Arabic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resurrection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roadkill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Samoas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scavenging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[speak Arabic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tidal wave]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Typhoon Ketsana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Typhoon Parma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.N.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[work-at-home scams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[write Arabic]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/?p=455</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This has been an interesting week.  The most notable parts seem to have been bookended by a dead squirrel. Yes&#8230;a dead squirrel. I was going through the Declaration of Independence and the abridged Constitution to see how it is perceived that the Obama administration is violating them (or doing so in any way that could [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sigmapromise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4710705&amp;post=455&amp;subd=sigmapromise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/my-friend-the-squirrel/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/cabe7d59f58a5db274ccf63250a6e504?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">sigmapromise</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Excellent Book!!</title>
		<link>http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/excellent-book/</link>
		<comments>http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/excellent-book/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sigmapromise</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Readings/Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1990s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Long Way Gone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child soldiers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ishmael Beah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mattru Jong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rebels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sierra Leone]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/?p=448</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I finished reading A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, a former child soldier in Sierra Leone during the 90s.  It is his memoir, but more than that, it is a book that raises awareness of the plight of children who are forced to &#8220;grow up&#8221;&#8211;and kill&#8211;in completely destabilized African nations. This is probably the best book I&#8217;ve read [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sigmapromise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4710705&amp;post=448&amp;subd=sigmapromise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://sigmapromise.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/excellent-book/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/cabe7d59f58a5db274ccf63250a6e504?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">sigmapromise</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://sigmapromise.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/a_long_way_gone.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">a_long_way_gone</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
