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		<title>A Vet Responds to Jim&#8217;s Comment</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And the sad downside for the Vets is that their numbers of unemployed is stunningly high at 20%, and congress will not move a jobs bill to help the vets!! In fact congress will try to take away unemployment benefit extension this Friday, of which the Vets make up a high percentage. Where&#8217;s the compassion [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimkent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8545203&amp;post=153&amp;subd=jimkent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Veterans Day 1-11-11</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And the sad downside for the Vets is that their numbers of unemployed is stunningly high at 20%, and congress will not move a jobs bill to help the vets!! In fact congress will try to take away unemployment benefit extension this Friday, of which the Vets make up a high percentage. Where&#8217;s the compassion [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimkent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8545203&amp;post=151&amp;subd=jimkent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Difference between Citizen Issue Groups and Citizen Committees</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Date: July 14, 2008 To: Interested Parties From: Jim Kent RE: Email Communication This is a response to a citizen caretaker who had a question about the difference between Citizen Groups, that are so useful and successful in generating social capital in a community, and what was going on in his town with his Towns [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimkent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8545203&amp;post=149&amp;subd=jimkent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wes and Jim dialogue on Steinbeck and the Occupy Wall Street phenomena</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is an exchange between Wes Stillwagon and Jim Kent which is a continuation of my post yesterday under Deep Democracy. START WES STILLWAGON Here&#8217;s a virtual toast to Garry Trudeau! Relative to Tortilla Flat, I believe the first actual forming of a phalanx among the paisanos was inspired, clarified, and verbalized by Pilon. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimkent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8545203&amp;post=147&amp;subd=jimkent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kent&#8217;s Informal Network Archetypes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kent’s Informal Network Archetypes: A New Paradigm for Understanding Individuals in Community First Published in: Social Ecology of Women as Transformational Leaders By Trish Malone 2009 Eight Informal Network Archetypes There are eight (8) Informal Network Archetypes that have been discovered over the last 30 years that are useful to formal organizations whoes mission is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimkent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8545203&amp;post=145&amp;subd=jimkent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Occupy Wall Street and Social Ecology</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To all Steinbeck and Social Ecology scholars and practitioners. The attached article, miss labeled by the headline writer, is a must read for all of us. Putting politics and pundits aside this is an important happening for our social ecology and public policy program. The story it turns out is a description of &#8220;self organizing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimkent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8545203&amp;post=143&amp;subd=jimkent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hawaii and Guam: Strategic Convergent Zones for the United States Forward Defense Strategy inthe Pacific</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In October of 2010 I had a short statement on the happenings in the Pacific Rim and promised a full update at a later time.  This paper is the update. In developing this full update Dr. Eric Casino, John Ryan, Lee Weber (Guam based)  and I visited the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu.  We were hosted by Deputy Director Jame T. Hirai and had a full exchange of ideas including our new project on Moloka`i addressing Microenterprise development.  <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimkent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8545203&amp;post=136&amp;subd=jimkent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Forthcoming Trend Report on Pacific Rim</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[News from Jim: A new social, biological and economic strategy will be forthcoming from JKA on the future of the Pacific Rim. In working with developing the white paper on the Marine move from Okinawa to Guam, I discovered some fresh insights and trends that will be encouraging news for Hawaii and especially Honolulu. So [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimkent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8545203&amp;post=124&amp;subd=jimkent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Intermountain West Funders Network</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Kent attended the Intermountain West Funder Network meeting in Aspen, Colorado from September 22 to the 24, 2010. There were over 20 foundations that attended. The focus of the gathering was to build relationships among funders in the Intermountain West to explore models for funder networking and collaboration on civic engagement, land use, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimkent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8545203&amp;post=120&amp;subd=jimkent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From Stabilization to Sustainability: A Collaborative Approach to Manage the Social, Cultural, Environmental and Economic change created by the Marine Corps’ move to Guam</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Abstract From Stabilization to Sustainability  How do we manage the Marine units’ move from Okinawa to Guam in a way that supports the existing cultures of Guam, insures that ecological functions are sustained and enhanced, while also fostering social and economic health of the local communities?  Guam is a unique bio-social ecosystem that will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimkent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8545203&amp;post=114&amp;subd=jimkent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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