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		<title>Reap What You Sow</title>
		<link>http://jbcases.com/caseblog/2011/08/18/reap-what-you-sow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 06:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a dick. &#160;I screw people&#39;s hopes and dreams. &#160;Often someone will come to me with a vision for a case and I enthusastically walk with them and talk about their vision. &#160;I get caught up in thinking about how their case would look and promise to make it. &#160; The problem is that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unique, One-of-a-Kind, Exclusive, what do these things mean to you?</title>
		<link>http://jbcases.com/caseblog/2011/07/19/unique-one-of-a-kind-exclusive-what-do-these-things-mean-to-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And what are they worth to you? If you asked a craftsman or an artist to make you an absolutely unique piece for you that they would never reproduce at all in anything even close what would that be worth to you? &#160;To have the only one of it&#39;s kind made by that person or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trolls and Internet Forums</title>
		<link>http://jbcases.com/caseblog/2011/07/15/514/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been posting on billiards forums for 15 years. &#160;I can still remember how excited I was back in 1996 to find Rec.Sport.Billiards on the internet. &#160;Wow, really cool, a place where people from all over the world can hang out and talk pool. &#160;I jumped right in with helpful advice and reporting about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 2&#215;3 Padded Interior</title>
		<link>http://jbcases.com/caseblog/2011/06/18/the-2x3-padded-interior/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 03:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are examples of 2&#215;3 cases we have made which are in service and holding high end cues: Doc&#39;s Case &#8211; 3 years old now: &#160; Art&#39;s Case &#8211; 2010 Classic&#160; Melissa Olsen &#8211; 5-2008 &#160;http://www.jbcases.com/melissa.html The Ranchero &#160;http://www.jbcases.com/ranchero.html Tillman&#39;s Patience -&#160;http://www.jbcases.com/tillman.html The Tropics&#160;http://www.jbcases.com/tropics.html &#160; Now folks, these are the interiors I developed for my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovations</title>
		<link>http://jbcases.com/caseblog/2011/06/16/innovations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 05:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Quality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know, sometimes you get so busy you don&#39;t take stock of what you have done. &#160;Along the way I have spoken about the things we do here and there but each feature kind of gets lost in the grand shuffle. &#160;Then someone copies our innovation and everyone praises them. &#160;That&#39;s kind of a downer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pool Meccas &#8211; Pool Synergy 19</title>
		<link>http://jbcases.com/caseblog/2011/05/15/pool-meccas/</link>
		<comments>http://jbcases.com/caseblog/2011/05/15/pool-meccas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 13:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160;See all this month&#39;s entries HERE Before I tell you about what my pool meccas are I should explain what fascinates me about billiards and especially pocket billiards.&#160; The infinite challenge.&#160; Colliding spheres inside a constrained space randomly arranged.&#160; Basically a small galaxy that the shooter controls, or tries to.&#160; Move this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pool Synergy -Volume 19 &#8211; Pool Meccas</title>
		<link>http://jbcases.com/caseblog/2011/05/14/pool-synergy-volume-19-pool-meccas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 09:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160;Click Here to Read all the Past Pool Synergy Topics Welcome to Pool Synergy&#39;s 19th Edition. &#160;This one is all out the places and goals we consider to be Meccas or ultimate destinations we have experienced or want to experience. &#160;A lot of Pool Synergy&#39;s best writers are now engaged out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capitalism &#8211; it&#8217;s great!</title>
		<link>http://jbcases.com/caseblog/2011/04/25/capitalism-its-great/</link>
		<comments>http://jbcases.com/caseblog/2011/04/25/capitalism-its-great/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For example it&#39;s what allows my competitors to take a piece of ostrich wrap it around a tube and charge $2500 because it&#39;s &#34;genuine&#34; ostrich. &#160;Ostriches are bred on farms. &#160;The leather is not hard to get nor is it very expensive relatively speaking. &#160;A piece of Ostrich that is big enough for a case [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something Positive.</title>
		<link>http://jbcases.com/caseblog/2011/04/24/something-positive/</link>
		<comments>http://jbcases.com/caseblog/2011/04/24/something-positive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 07:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week we managed to finish and send five cases and four cases the week before that. I finally feel like we are getting back on track here and getting into a nice groove.]]></description>
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		<title>Fundamental Truths About People</title>
		<link>http://jbcases.com/caseblog/2011/04/20/fundamental-truths-about-people/</link>
		<comments>http://jbcases.com/caseblog/2011/04/20/fundamental-truths-about-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 07:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well I have just had a pretty shitty weekend dealing with the issues when we caught a guy counterfeiting our cases. &#160;Read about that ongoing saga here. &#160;http://jbcases.com/caseblog/2011/04/16/aint-nothing-like-the-real-thing-beware-of-counterfeit-fake-j-flowers-cases/ &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. Over this ordeal I have learned a few fundamental truths about humans. &#160;Some good, some neutral and some awful. &#160;I am not going into details about [...]]]></description>
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