I wanted to run the wordpress loop on my php page more than once, & I don't know if I'm the only person, but I found the offical multiple look example hard to swallow.
Google found is nima's how to which was useful, but I wanted to take it further; the problem was I wanted a function.
This is what I came up with:
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