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	<title>Xavier Bishop</title>
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	<description>Managing Through a Crisis</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>HEALTHCARE REFORM, AS I SEE IT</title>
		<link>http://xavierbishop.com/blog/?p=40</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had lunch with my friend Skippy recently and before our food could arrive the conversation turned to healthcare reform.
Skippy vehemently opposes virtually all efforts to reform the healthcare system, citing the Federal Government&#8217;s inability to do anything right except defend our country.
I reminded him that it wasn&#8217;t long ago the healthcare debate was whether [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHAT IF?</title>
		<link>http://xavierbishop.com/blog/?p=39</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 13:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Casinos have had an enormous economic impact on the Coast. They’ve spawned considerable growth in all of the cities that have them. The rise of Biloxi as a Coastal superpower is directly linked to having casinos. So imagine what a casino could do for Moss Point.
 
By some estimates a casino in Moss Point would bring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TOP TEN TRIP TIPS</title>
		<link>http://xavierbishop.com/blog/?p=38</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 02:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bishop Family Top-Ten Tips for taking your vacation by car.   
1 – 2. TIME OUT. Unless you’re driving to take another form of transportation in order to complete your vacation, the first order of business is to let go of time. That’s right, ditch the clock.  Time is the driving force behind so much of our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OUR SUMMER VACATION</title>
		<link>http://xavierbishop.com/blog/?p=36</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 04:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vacation is an activity we’re all familiar with. It’s a time to get things done, visit far away places, or simply relax. For me and my family vacation is also a time for us to grow closer to one another. It all starts with a good old-fashioned trip in the car. 
 
While traveling by car [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A DAY IN THE LIFE</title>
		<link>http://xavierbishop.com/blog/?p=34</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2008
5:35 a.m.: The cell phone alarm chimes quietly. I retrieve it from the nightstand and draw it close to my face.
It&#8217;s always my first decision of the day: whether to Dismiss the alarm and get out of bed or take the 10 Minute Snooze. I press the side wheel on the phone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOT A MINUTE?</title>
		<link>http://xavierbishop.com/blog/?p=28</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know, 8 hours is a significant amount of time. It’s one-third of an entire day.  As a workday 8 hours appears to be ample time to get things done. But I figured out that on any given workday roughly 70 percent of my time is spent meeting with someone in one of two ways: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TWO LONG BREATHS&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://xavierbishop.com/blog/?p=25</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 04:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two long breaths. Then 30 rapid compressions.
Two long breaths. Then 30 rapid compressions. 


Anyone past the age of thirty knows that most phone calls you receive at two o&#8217;clock in the morning aren&#8217;t likely to bear good news. 
And so it was for me when my phone rang bedside and I reached over to see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE VETO</title>
		<link>http://xavierbishop.com/blog/?p=23</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a meeting of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of Moss Point, Mississippi held on February 20, 2008, a Resolution or Order was passed by a majority vote of the Aldermen to suspend rather than terminate (Employees A and B) for violating the City’s policy on illegal drug use and/or drug [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE EXAMINATION</title>
		<link>http://xavierbishop.com/blog/?p=21</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally got around to doing something I’ve been meaning to do for more than two years. No, I didn’t give up being a vegetarian.  I went to see a doctor. 
 
This may not seem like a big deal for many of you but like so many other things, in the aftermath of Katrina I&#8217;ve been putting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LIVING ON A TREADMILL</title>
		<link>http://xavierbishop.com/blog/?p=20</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 03:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I decided to alter my routine at the gym and run on the treadmill. After about 20 minutes of exercising it occurred to me, there’s a lot about being on the treadmill that reminds me of life after Hurricane Katrina.  
 
A treadmill is little more than a belt that turns repeatedly; a continuous loop [...]]]></description>
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