<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Texas state Senator Royce West gives convention center hotel sales pitch : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). 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I'm gonna eat it.&quot;]]></description><comments>10</comments><score>258</score><crdate>9/24/2007 8:19:32 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-09-24T08:19:32+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>49172</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/49172/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Beatles-themed Hard Days Night Hotel opens in Liverpool]]></title><description><![CDATA[Visitors to Liverpool, birthplace of the Beatles, can rest their heads in the Lennon or McCartney suites at the Fab Four-themed Hard Days Night Hotel that opened Friday.<br/><br/>Hotel's website: <div style='display:block;width:300px;overflow:hidden;'><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.harddaysnighthotel.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.harddaysnighthotel.com/</a></div>]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>75</score><crdate>2/1/2008 3:06:06 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-01T15:06:06+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>57852</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/57852/1/</url><title><![CDATA[State senator caught speeding in school zone]]></title><description><![CDATA[Senator John Goedde sponsored a bill to sharply increase fines in Idaho for speeding in school zones...<br/><br/>...Can you see where this is going?]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>177</score><crdate>4/10/2008 11:59:39 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-10T23:59:39+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>20559</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/20559/1/</url><title><![CDATA[California State Parks - Top Picks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gorgeous pictures of top california State parks]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>33</score><crdate>5/17/2007 12:31:21 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-17T00:31:21+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>17240</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17240/1/</url><title><![CDATA[&quot;Houston, We Have A Problem&quot; Again - Gunman and Hostage Dead at Johnson Space Center]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gunman kills one male hostage and then himself. Police say the gunman had a hand gun. <br/><br/>5:25pm EST<br/><br/>Isn't NASA a secured facility? Apparently not.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>21</score><crdate>4/20/2007 6:08:08 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-20T18:08:08+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>50014</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/50014/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Beatles Hotel gets mixed reviews]]></title><description><![CDATA[Costing some &#163;22 million, the Hard Days Night <i>(sic)</i> hotel in Liverpool is now open.  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More from <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.abstractmachine.net/blog/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">his website</a> including video link.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>146</score><crdate>8/21/2008 11:28:13 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-08-21T11:28:13+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>26288</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26288/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Hotel offers smashing good time]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Madrid hotel combined its need to refurbish its rooms and stressed-out city residents' need for an outlet, letting them take sledgehammers to their rooms and demolish it.<br/><br/><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/world/l/26095/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">DUPE</a>]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>48</score><crdate>7/5/2007 10:49:13 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-05T10:49:13+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>70496</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/70496/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Veteran Alaskan senator indicted]]></title><description><![CDATA[A senator is actually being indicted for receiving and hiding gifts including renovations on his home. Only shocking thing here is why only he and not the rest of the senate is being indicted. None of them are innocent.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>100</score><crdate>7/29/2008 3:31:21 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-29T15:31:21+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>74848</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/74848/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Soldier Refused Room At Hotel]]></title><description><![CDATA[So you're on leave from a tour of duty in Afghanistan and go to visit a wounded colleague and go to book in at a hotel only to be told, &quot;Sorry we don't accept military personnel&quot;.<br/><br/>___________________________________________<br/>*UPDATE* <br/><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7598523.stm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Hotel says that</a>, &quot;the hotel had in recent months &quot;experienced some rather serious incidents&quot; resulting from the stay of personnel from a local barracks and staff had been requested to be &quot;cautious&quot; in taking future bookings from the armed forces.]]></description><comments>23</comments><score>501</score><crdate>9/4/2008 8:37:40 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-09-04T08:37:40+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>23761</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/23761/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Las Vegas Hotel Reviews]]></title><description><![CDATA[Traveling to Las Vegas is usually exciting. 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A trip to Vegas is worth taking the time to plan a few things.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>-40</score><crdate>6/13/2007 9:39:31 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-06-13T21:39:31+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>64909</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/64909/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bear takes dip with hotel guests]]></title><description><![CDATA[Guests at a hotel in Ouray, Colo., said they were surprised when a &quot;cute, little cinnamon bear&quot; walked onto hotel grounds and got into the pool with them.  <br/><br/>&quot;We're doing what we can to keep our guests safe,&quot; said the general manager.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>166</score><crdate>6/10/2008 5:29:50 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-10T05:29:50+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>67296</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/67296/1/</url><title><![CDATA[World Trade Center won't be rebuilt by 2011]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reconstruction of the World Trade Center site is over budget and won't be finished by the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that destroyed the twin towers, the owners reported Monday.<br/><br/>&quot;The rebuilding effort is not where it should be,&quot; says New York Gov. David Paterson.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>77</score><crdate>7/1/2008 5:25:53 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-01T05:25:53+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>52489</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/52489/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The West Wing, Obama, and Plagiarism]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;Obama did not plagiarize his whole campaign from Jimmy Smits fictional campaign on The West Wing. 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