Blogging difficulties

Like some ScienceBloggers, but not all, I have been unable to get a post to go through our MovableType interface for several days. There appears to be some offending code in some of my text but the powers-that-be are still working on it.

Thanks so much for checking in - I hope to have problems resolved shortly. (Hopefully, this minimalist text will post correctly.)

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