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	<title>The Southside Times - News Covering Beech Grove, Greenwood, Southport, Center Grove and Franklin &#38; White River Townships of Indiana &#187; Opinion</title>
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		<title>Weekly Movie Review 5/16/13</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 21:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Staten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Great Gatsby; stick with the book &#160; As we continue further into Hollywood’s make or break season, this past weekend provided more evidence that Hollywood is indeed stuck in a prolonged phase of unoriginal concepts for films. The F. Scott Fitzgerald literary classic, The Great Gatsby, made its debut on the big screen. Directed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Torry&#8217;s Top Ten</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 21:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Torry Stiles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top Ten ways to celebrate your kid&#8217;s first score of the sports season by Torry Stiles 10. Have shoes bronzed. Take them off the kid&#8217;s feet first. 9. Who says a third-grader is too young to get a tattoo? 8. Do happy dance. Spend three months regretting loose-fitting shorts. 7. Post video on YouTube. Watch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to the editor</title>
		<link>http://www.ss-times.com/2013/05/08/letter-to-the-editor-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 19:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carey Germana</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Additional Beech Grove improvements on the way &#160; At a recent Board of Public Works and Safety meeting, the Board approved a couple of significant agreements that will move our beautiful city forward. Our city is undergoing a second round of paving and with that we will have spent approximately $700,000.00 on roads in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Movie Review 5/8/13</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 19:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Staten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iron Man 3, Summer blockbuster season is upon us &#160; We’ve all heard that there are no certainties in life, except death and taxes. Well, as true as that may have been back when first coined, in today’s world, that phrase is in serious need of revision. Because another, almost guaranteed event is that every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Southside</title>
		<link>http://www.ss-times.com/2013/05/08/on-the-southside-12/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 19:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Emmett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Racing with an “old mule” It’s race month here in Indianapolis so I thought I would tell my only racing story. My first car was a 1958 Chevrolet Biscayne. It was a two-tone baby poop brown and white 4-door sedan. It had a 283 cubic inch V-8 and an automatic transmission. There was a push [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Movie Review 05/02/13</title>
		<link>http://www.ss-times.com/2013/05/01/weekly-movie-review-050213/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 18:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Staten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Company You Keep; today’s All The President’s Men Politics, government and scandals seem to interact more than we’d like to admit. Power has a way of corrupting even those with the purest of intentions. Luckily, our Founding Fathers provided a system which allows the electorate the opportunity to throw out elected officials thought to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Southside</title>
		<link>http://www.ss-times.com/2013/05/01/on-the-southside-11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 18:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Emmett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, the good I could do on the Southside My bank has one of those counting machines you can dump your coins into. Well, I had about 80 or so dollars of coins to run through there and they all counted except for one penny. I put that penny through a couple of times to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Torry&#8217;s Top Ten</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 18:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Torry Stiles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top Ten reasons I&#8217;ve made it this far by Torry Stiles [Part 2 of my post-triple bypass life] 10. I have 14 more flavors of yogurt to try. 9. Couldn&#8217;t pass up my chance to be the Grand Marshall at Homecroft&#8217;s annual Mother&#8217;s Day parade. 8. Don&#8217;t want to miss the big ShamWow tribute show [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Movie Review 4/25/13</title>
		<link>http://www.ss-times.com/2013/04/24/weekly-movie-review-42513/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Staten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oblivion; entertaining, but ultimately forgettable &#160; One look at Tom Cruise’s body of work and you’ll notice he’s done it all. With his latest film, Oblivion, Cruise steps into the science fiction realm. &#160; Oblivion is set in post-apocalyptic USA in the year 2077. In a speedy voice over, we learn humans have won the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Southside 4/25/13</title>
		<link>http://www.ss-times.com/2013/04/24/on-the-southside-42513/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Emmett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learning business at a young age Christian is a good friend of mine. I reckon we go back 10 years or more. He’s regular folk and that’s why I like him. Christian was giving a talk the other day at a big fancy lunch. He was speaking about and extolling the virtues of our way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Torry&#8217;s Top Ten</title>
		<link>http://www.ss-times.com/2013/04/24/torrys-top-ten-25/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Torry Stiles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top ten lessons learned following emergency triple-bypass surgery [Dear friends and readers: Over the years of doing these lists I have usually based them on events in my life. Long-time readers know of my pet pig, my daughter's engagement, my fondness for Long's Donuts, etc. On Wednesday, April 10 my daughter and her fiancé rushed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to the editor</title>
		<link>http://www.ss-times.com/2013/04/17/letter-to-the-editor-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carey Germana</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Financial savings for the City of Beech Grove To the editor, I want to update you on the status of trash collection and financial savings that we have made over the last several months. As you may know, our DPW employees work out of two new semi-automated trash trucks, and we are picking up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Southside</title>
		<link>http://www.ss-times.com/2013/04/17/on-the-southside-10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Emmett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Secrets to marital bliss: part 2 You will remember, friend last week I sought to offer some advice to new husbands in the hope of hastening their path to wedded bliss. Many a hopeful couple has been derailed in their pursuit of wedded happiness buy not paying attention to the minor stuff that makes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Movie Review 4/18/13</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Staten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; 42; knocks it out of the park Athletics is about more than just winners and losers. Sure, every year a new champion is crowned in all of the four major sports in America. But, there are also those special times where sports have been able to perfectly capture the nation’s mood, like the “Miracle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Movie Review</title>
		<link>http://www.ss-times.com/2013/04/10/weekly-movie-review-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Staten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The Host; better than expected The past weekend provided us with yet another rather uninspiring line up of new releases at the theater. Jurassic Park, a film in theaters 20 years ago and the hyper violent and gory Evil Dead, made their way to the multiplex. Watching a film that perpetually plays on television [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Southside</title>
		<link>http://www.ss-times.com/2013/04/10/on-the-southside-9/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Emmett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Southsider’s secret to marital bliss Marriage season is upon us here in central Indiana. There is a certain satisfaction at this stage of my life in being able to impart some wisdom of sorts to the younger generation. If I am able to ease the path for those men who are just embarking on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Torry&#8217;s Top Ten</title>
		<link>http://www.ss-times.com/2013/04/10/torrys-top-ten-24/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Torry Stiles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Top Ten reasons North Korea is picking a fight by Torry Stiles 10. They really have their sights set on a vacation in Paris&#8230; Paris, Illinois will do. 9. His father never hugged him. Gave him leadership of one of the most repressive regimes on the planet, but never hugged him. He&#8217;s just looking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to the editor</title>
		<link>http://www.ss-times.com/2013/04/08/letter-to-the-editor-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carey Germana</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Apple Donation Helps Food Pantry   To the editor, The Society of St Vincent de Paul (SSVdP) Food Pantry, 3001 E 30th Street, would like to thank Adrian Orchards for the recent donation of apples to benefit clients of our pantry. Adrian donated some 240 bushels of several varieties of apples, which were repackaged for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Movie Review</title>
		<link>http://www.ss-times.com/2013/04/08/weekly-movie-review-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Staten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Admission; charming, pleasant film The box office has seen better weekends. Such new releases as another Tyler Perry film, a sequel to the awful 2009 G.I. Joe flick and the Twilightesque alien picture, The Host, really didn’t have me running to the multiplex. So, given those less than stellar options, Paul Weitz’s romantic comedy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Southside</title>
		<link>http://www.ss-times.com/2013/04/08/on-the-southside-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Emmett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Trekking miles along one-armed bandits You will recall, friends that I went to Las Vegas this past week on a business trip. I promised then that I would report back to you as to the happenings while I was there.             At first glance, I suspect the unaware tourist might think the only industry in [...]]]></description>
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