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		<title>Art comes first</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Art comes first.&#8221; That was the reminder I received from an unexpected source. Yesterday, my friend Julie and her husband, Ralph were doing me a favor, turning on our furnace and teaching me how to bleed the radiators in our house so they&#8217;d work more efficiently (and hopefully more cheaply).
We had worked our way, with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=purpleswirlarts.wordpress.com&blog=3601416&post=227&subd=purpleswirlarts&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Clerc Scar and Wordgathering articles</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are two postings to share with you. First, In August, Patti Durr featured a painting by Betty G. Miller in an article she wrote for Clerc Scar, an &#8220;email publication of the signing community.&#8221; From the same people [John Lee Clark (ASL Deaf-Blind 2nd generation) &#38; Adrean Clark (ASL Deaf)] who produced the popular [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=purpleswirlarts.wordpress.com&blog=3601416&post=208&subd=purpleswirlarts&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Item a Day— a New Marketing Strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following in the ideas behind woot.com* and other one sale a day sites, I&#8217;m going to advertise one item a day, using twitter to schedule 3 or 4 tweets a day. Why? We&#8217;re all busy folks. We might be curious and click on one link, but if we see a whole page of links, we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=purpleswirlarts.wordpress.com&blog=3601416&post=203&subd=purpleswirlarts&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hearing (mis)Understandings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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I happened upon a twitter conversation today. The only reason I saw it was that I was scanning a search on #deaf and came across a tweet by ZenMonkey. Made me curious, so I opened her page and also the pages of Hermantmetha and Jbrtva (who, as far as I can tell by their bios, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=purpleswirlarts.wordpress.com&blog=3601416&post=196&subd=purpleswirlarts&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The ASL Flag&#8221; by Betty G. Miller</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The ASL Flag&#8221; is one of a series of paintings Betty did featuring the American flag. For this one, Betty rewrote the words to our national anthem, the &#8220;Star-Spangled Banner,&#8221; to show both the beauty of ASL, and the oppression deaf people still face:
&#8220;Oh can’t you seeee&#8230;. by dawn’s early light
what proudly&#8230;. we Deaf wave [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=purpleswirlarts.wordpress.com&blog=3601416&post=180&subd=purpleswirlarts&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Celebration: $75 for 75!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Birthday, Bettigee! In celebration of Betty G. Miller&#8217;s 75th birthday later this month,we&#8217;re offering $75 REBATE for any original painting by Betty (or by her father, Ralph R. Miller) purchased through our Etsy site, and FREE SHIPPING with INSURANCE.
There are nine paintings currently available on Etsy, seven by Betty: The ASL Flag; Deaf Dancers; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=purpleswirlarts.wordpress.com&blog=3601416&post=175&subd=purpleswirlarts&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mommy, I am Deaf!</title>
		<link>http://purpleswirlarts.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/mommy-i-am-deaf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had wondered why no one&#8217;s bought the poster of &#8220;Mommy, I am Deaf!&#8221;  for awhile. I checked the site, and the poster had somehow gotten cattywampus. So I took off all the old items and re-did them. This time, I used a good photo taken by a terrific, professional photographer&#8211; Mark Benjamin&#8211; after the show [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=purpleswirlarts.wordpress.com&blog=3601416&post=92&subd=purpleswirlarts&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zoom into trouble— Mac trouble</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an edited version of what I wrote my friend, Larry, last night after spending three days of a holiday weekend trying to fix my computer:
My Mac is making me nuts. I can&#8217;t work with it this way. The display grows past the size of the screen is the best way I can explain it— [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=purpleswirlarts.wordpress.com&blog=3601416&post=166&subd=purpleswirlarts&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SAVE now on Deaf Quotations t-shirts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Between the time you read this, and Sunday, June 21st, you can save on T-shirts at Deaf Quotations!  Cover Your Nakedness! That&#8217;s what Printfection, the store that hosts Deaf Quotations is saying. Save on &#8220;Veditz Quote&#8221; tees (one version shown below) and &#8220;Deaf Guys are&#8230;&#8221; and &#8220;Deaf Gals are&#8230;&#8221; tees (one modeled by Larry, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=purpleswirlarts.wordpress.com&blog=3601416&post=143&subd=purpleswirlarts&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Betty&#8217;s Cartoon &#8211; &#8220;Please Sign Slowly&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://purpleswirlarts.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/bettys-cartoon-please-sign-slowly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 23:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 1979, Betty worked at DCARA— Deaf Counseling, Advocacy &#38; Referral Agency in Oakland, California as Public Relations Director. Among other duties, she was responsible for the agency newsletter (she became Executive Director for part of 1980, before moving to Los Angeles). [And for us geographically-impaired folks, Oakland's what's on the "other" side of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=purpleswirlarts.wordpress.com&blog=3601416&post=132&subd=purpleswirlarts&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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