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		<title>Letting 2011 go without grasping</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life is uncertain.  That is perhaps the main lesson that I learned in 2011. Indeed, the only certainty in life is that it is precarious.  Simply put: Life is constantly throwing us knuckleballs, always providing us with undesirable surprises, but, more importantly, also beams of light for our future personal development. In 2011, I learned [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigconsidine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5604874&amp;post=10983&amp;subd=craigconsidine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Acceptance to conference in Athens</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Considine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the second time in seven days, I have been invited to attend an academic conference.  Whilst the acceptance last week was for a conference on Irish Studies at Queen&#8217;s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland (in April), the latest acceptance is for the Athens Institute for Education and Research&#8217;s (ATINER) 6th Annual Conference on Sociology in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigconsidine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5604874&amp;post=10962&amp;subd=craigconsidine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My favourite quotes of Muhammad Ali</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Considine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The great Muhammad Ali is celebrating his 70th birthday today.  To honour the legend I have compiled my favourite quotes from him over the years.  I quote him often for inspiration so I figured why not place them all together in one piece.  Here is what I have selected: - A man who views the world [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigconsidine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5604874&amp;post=10953&amp;subd=craigconsidine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond &#8216;I have a dream&#8217; speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Considine</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s important to remember that Martin Luther King Jr.&#8216;s career did not end with &#8220;I have a dream&#8221; speech. He went on. He went on to extend his concerns and activism. And as he did, his popularity and reputation among northern liberal declined. He turned to protest against the Viet Nam war, correctly. He was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigconsidine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5604874&amp;post=10928&amp;subd=craigconsidine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flying white</title>
		<link>https://craigconsidine.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/the-privilege-of-flying-white/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Considine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hypocrisy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Airports]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a quick story of something disturbing I recently saw at Schipol airport. I had just gone through security at the gate I was flying out from.  Behind me in the security line was a young American man from Chicago.  He had to be in his early twenties (if that). After passing through the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigconsidine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5604874&amp;post=10903&amp;subd=craigconsidine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Acceptance to conference at Queen&#8217;s U., Belfast</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Considine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I was excited to receive an e-mail confirming my acceptance to the 14th annual New Voices conference held by the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen&#8217;s University, Belfast. The theme of the conference is: New Voices in Irish Criticism: &#8216;Legitimate Ireland&#8217;. The New Voices blog put forth the following synopsis of the nature of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigconsidine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5604874&amp;post=10822&amp;subd=craigconsidine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to fail your PhD</title>
		<link>https://craigconsidine.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/how-not-to-fail-your-phd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Considine</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dissertation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To offer insights to postgraduates who are in the last stages of submission, Dr Tara Brabazon put forth her ten tips for failing a PhD. If you want failure, this is your road map to getting there.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigconsidine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5604874&amp;post=10812&amp;subd=craigconsidine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ending Enlightenment</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 11:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Considine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dynamic element on the political right across the west is giving up on the Enlightenment. No longer does it want to embrace tolerance, reason, democratic argument, progress and the drive for social betterment as cornerstones of society. Tolerance is dismissed as an indulgence and a lack of moral standards; progress is trashed as an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigconsidine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5604874&amp;post=10809&amp;subd=craigconsidine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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