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		<title>Knowing one</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michel Brouwers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a day when everything seems pointless, the future a meal gone bad, we must not close our eyes for the little pieces of pure beauty that run into our life. I met a wonderful stranger. A young woman, a photographer countless miles from home.]]></description>
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		<title>Op weg naar succes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michel Brouwers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<em><strong>Note:</strong> this article is only available in Dutch</em>

Naast basisbehoeften als eten, slapen en seks, zit een drang naar succes in ons vastgeklonken. Meer, beter en sneller. Succes is de ultieme bevrediging van het zinloze mensbestaan. Het plaatst ons in de hiërarchie van de apenrots, brengt zelfbeschikking, en uiteindelijk meer voedsel en seks. Waarschijnlijk ten koste van wat uren slaap.]]></description>
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		<title>Racing and torturing oneself</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 20:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michel Brouwers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am sitting here, feeling exhausted after my training of today. My lungs and stomach feel irritated, the rest of the body tired. The mind feels satisfied though. Yesterday I did an interval training, with 12 sprints. After 8 sprints saliva dripping on my shirt. Especially the last sprints were awful. After each sprint I was out of breath, heaving and bowing my head to the left, as if it would stop the ‘pain’. Why on earth would one torture oneself like this?]]></description>
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		<title>Life enhancers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michel Brouwers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Things that enhance life: The Sun. The Partner. The Means. The Competition. The Cooperation. The Music.]]></description>
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		<title>Obsessed with supernaturalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michel Brouwers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gods, sons of Gods, rituals and a feeling of being connected to the bigger whole, on this planet to the community and outside of this planet to an omnipotent man with a beard. Supernaturalism is man’s favourite irrationality. One he defends with his life if pressed. The truth may come in many forms, but not when it comes to the raîson d’etre.]]></description>
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		<title>Climate in Maastricht</title>
		<link>http://www.michelbrouwers.com/divers/climate-in-maastricht-11102009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michel Brouwers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<em><b>Note: </b>This article was published in 2008, but rewritten recently</em>

I have put some data in Excel and analysed the climatic conditions in Maastricht, the Netherlands, over the period 1957 – 2007. Maastricht has a mild climate with equally wet summers as winters. Winters are darker than summers as it is cloudier and there are less daily hours of sunshine. <em>Added: sunshine duration comparison between Maastricht and Madrid.</em>]]></description>
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		<title>Carmen</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michel Brouwers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All I did was staring in your eyes and begging my brain for more questions. I wonder whether you have mistaken me for someone you would be working with. You told me where you were from, where you had been working. And you shook my hand softly and said: “I am Carmen.” I think I replied with: “My name is Michel.” But I might as well have said: “I am overwhelmed, in love, charmed. Nice to meet you.”]]></description>
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		<title>You are what you produce</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michel Brouwers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Behaviour]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is said that there is this classical distinction between labour and capital. In this vision labourers tend to do jobs that are dirty, physically demanding and mentally exhausting. Capitalists on the other hand are said to be exploiting labourers. I have become interested in this topic, as I look for a fulfilling occupation of my life. I feel that it is my moral obligation to get as much out of my physical talents as possible.]]></description>
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		<title>Practice I</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michel Brouwers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I wonder what it takes to become a good writer. Ok, a decent one. I have been staring at this page for a while, not knowing how to begin. Not knowing what to write about. I have many thoughts about how people are to be behave. I think about them while I stroll over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>De VVD blijft in de war</title>
		<link>http://www.michelbrouwers.com/dutch/de-vvd-blijft-in-de-war-07112008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michel Brouwers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In Dutch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<em><strong>Note:</strong> this article is only available in Dutch</em>

Met de conceptbeginselverklaring, die onlangs door fractieleider Rutte werd gepresenteerd, lijkt de VVD vooral haar marketingmachine te testen door een oud product in een nieuw jasje te presenteren. Het lijkt er op dat de VVD voornamelijk met zichzelf in de clinch ligt over de precieze inhoud van het liberalisme en het electoraat dat het met die boodschap wil aantrekken.]]></description>
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