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		<title>Oops and Oy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 06:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emil B. Towner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a fan of Kiva. As a lender, I receive occasional emails from Kiva. Recently, they made a mistake. It wasn&#8217;t a big mistake, just a coding error in an email that caused some coding to display in the text. It turns out, the email was a test that was unintentionally sent. Soon after, Kiva [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emiltowner.com&#038;blog=7763299&#038;post=790&#038;subd=emiltowner&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 18:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emil B. Towner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about the best practices and ethics of warnings. You see, the problem with most warnings is that they&#8217;re informational. That means they don&#8217;t connect with the reader and may end up reducing effectiveness by over-exposure. This can be the case even when the wording of the warning is intended to shock [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emiltowner.com&#038;blog=7763299&#038;post=772&#038;subd=emiltowner&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apologizing for Colloquial Slurs: This Could &#8211; and Should &#8211; Be One of Those Cases</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2011 07:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emil B. Towner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Claiming that offensive language is common only demonstrates that an apology is needed that much more. That’s the gist of the story out of Wisconsin, where a county supervisor made the following remark during a board meeting: “We jewed ’em down some.” That was his response when asked about the county’s dealings with a contractor. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emiltowner.com&#038;blog=7763299&#038;post=752&#038;subd=emiltowner&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thirsting for a Difference?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 17:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emil B. Towner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s try something. See if you can count how many times you&#8217;ve walked by a faucet or water fountain already today. Now imagine this: What if all those faucets disappeared and you had to walk an hour to get a jug of water&#8230;and then another hour to bring it back to your family? It may [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emiltowner.com&#038;blog=7763299&#038;post=632&#038;subd=emiltowner&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 03:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; In January 2009, I walked through the Kigali Memorial Centre for the first time. I spent a few hours walking through each section, reading captions under solemn images and trying to imagine the horror that took place across Rwanda in 1994. The last section of the museum that I walked through was a memorial dedicated to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emiltowner.com&#038;blog=7763299&#038;post=595&#038;subd=emiltowner&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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