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	<title>William Hascall &#8211; Middle Wisconsin</title>
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		<title>The art of never giving up</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[William Hascall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2022 06:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When you spend your life advocating for what&#8217;s right you often feel as though you are the lone candle in the midst of a hurricane. A single candle can be seen for miles. That doesn&#8217;t mean you shouldn&#8217;t go inside and put the candle in the window. &#8220;You should never give up&#8221; is a refrain [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The SOP must die</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[William Hascall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2021 06:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) is a concept which was slowly developed by management to create clear rules for employees to follow for a specific set of  circumstances. On the surface this seems like it could be a good idea, and for dealing with the most common situations it can be a good starting point. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Stop being so serious!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[William Hascall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2021 06:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A few days after this article is published I will turn 50. I understand how that is a big birthday for some people; I am not wasting my time on how “old” I am. Age is not a milestone I really care about, at least not to the level of finishing my Masters degree or [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>I want to get involved, but&#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[William Hascall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2021 05:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It was sometime in 1988 when I became involved in my first organization outside of school. I was then a Junior in high school and was not all that involved in student activities. I was looking beyond the school, beyond graduation at the world I knew I was going into. This was before I knew [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Education equity</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[William Hascall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2021 05:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When the topic of reparations come up, I think that too many people think about paying money to a certain group like California did after the Japanese-American internment. But reparations are more than that. Reparations include the removal of barriers so that these groups are allowed to live their lives and attempt to achieve their [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Wild West vs. the Internet</title>
		<link>https://middlewisconsin.org/wild-west-vs-the-internet/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[William Hascall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2021 05:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chaos]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This morning I did something I rarely do. I looked into my spam folder. In that folder, there were 704 unsolicited emails ranging from offers of car insurance to poor attempts at faking emails from websites I might actually use to poorly faked notices from government agencies. Spam email is so insulting on so many [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Invisible discrimination against the disabled</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[William Hascall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2021 05:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Have you walked into a store and found the layout makes less sense? How about running a computer software upgrade and then having to find where your most useful features have wandered off to? These can be minor annoyances to people who are not mobility, mentally or visually impaired but if you suffer from one [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What does it take to be an ambassador?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[William Hascall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2021 05:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I reflect upon my life and consider what other paths I might have taken. Most recently, I have thought about what my life may have been like if I had focused my education on international studies. The term “ambassador” goes back to the 14th century, but the idea of sending emissaries to other countries [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>If government is to work for the people, the people must work for it</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2021 05:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” — Edmund Burke Many years ago, I saw this car commercial in which a robot welded the hood of a new car shut. The imagery was that you did not need to worry about the maintenance of your car for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Patriotism is learning to live with one another</title>
		<link>https://middlewisconsin.org/patriotism-is-learning-to-live-with-one-another/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[William Hascall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2021 05:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Since I was a young child I was fascinated by pyrotechnics. While the chemistry of fireworks is fascinating, and the artistry that goes into creating the visual display is impressive, I have never really cared for the volume of the resulting booms. While I personally have never been in a war zone, I think about [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Sorting ourselves out</title>
		<link>https://middlewisconsin.org/sorting-ourselves-out/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[William Hascall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2021 05:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“When I was at the Helen-Keller School, I noticed that the deaf people sat at a different table than the blind…I would sit at the blind table.” &#8211; Joe Jammer During a recent conversation with my friend, Joe Jammer, we talked about the groups we belong to and how related groups, for instance people with differing disabilities, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Currency and latency</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[William Hascall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2021 05:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
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	<a href="https://middlewisconsin.org/currency-and-latency/"><img title="Barter-Chickens_for_Subscription" src="https://middlewisconsin.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Barter-Chickens_for_Subscription-300x225.jpg" alt="Public domain image from harper&#039;s Magazine of man paying for a subscription with chickens." width="300" height="225" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
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	Public Domain Image: F.S. Church, published in Harper&#8217;s Weekly, January 17, 1874, p. 61. It is generally understood that the idea of currency goes back roughly 3,000 years. While many of us think of metal coins and paper money when we think about currency, the earliest commodities of traded value were not minted or printed. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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