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		<title>Remembering Miriam Makeba</title>
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One of Africa&#8217;s great voices was lost last night. Miriam Makeba died in Italy, shortly after a concert.  Makeba gave a powerful voice to her people during the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. The South African government revoked her citizenship in 1963, but in the following years she was given honorary citizenship by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://words.yovo.info/2008/11/10/remembering-miriam-makeba/</link>
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		<title>A Dream Realized</title>
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There is a direct trajectory from Dr. Martin Luther King&#8217;s &#8220;I have a Dream&#8221; speach 45 years ago to President (elect) Barack Obama&#8217;s victory speech in Chicago. Maybe this is Dr. King&#8217;s dream realized?
Obama&#8217;s campaign has already transformed this country.  I have noticed how frequently the white middle class Obama supporters expressed their surprise [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://words.yovo.info/2008/11/06/a-dream-realized/</link>
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		<title>America looks great in blue</title>
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This map shows the US states sized proportional to their populations. Blue states voted for Obama, red states for McCain.
In some of the blue states Obama only got a few thousand votes more than McCain (like in NC) but all the electoral votes of those states go towards the candidate who carries the state.
UPDATE 11/10: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://words.yovo.info/2008/11/06/america-looks-great-in-blue/</link>
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		<title>Carolina Blue</title>
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This is sweet! Today I am especially proud to be a Tar Heel! North Carolina turned blue for Obama. It looks like the Democrat won by a few thousand votes in NC. This is the first time since President Carter that a Democrat won this state. The map above shows results county by county and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://words.yovo.info/2008/11/05/carolina-blue/</link>
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		<title>Hell, Yeah!!!</title>
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		<link>http://words.yovo.info/2008/11/04/hell-yeah/</link>
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		<title>Karate history lesson</title>
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Last May, Jacob and I started taking Karate lessons. Jacob met our sensei Kevin Gurganus during recess at Little River School, where Kevin teaches special ed classes. Due to his work in the public schools, sensei Kevin reaches many children who can really benefit from the Karate lessons. With his hard work and his talent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://words.yovo.info/2008/10/21/karate-history-lesson/</link>
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		<title>Democracy in the U.S. in Danger?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh boy - there&#8217;s nothing like catching up on the news after a few days at the beach. As the credit crisis is in the process of turning the global economy into a lump of coal, the divisive language of the election here is stoking emotions in each political camp. This is a dangerous brew, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://words.yovo.info/2008/10/10/democracy-in-the-us-in-danger/</link>
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		<title>Beach blogging</title>
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Right now I am in Atlantic Beach, on the North Carolina coast. I am sitting on the deck of a friend&#8217;s beach house with a drink, waiting for the last load of laundry and the dish washer to get done, so I can pack our stuff and head back to Durham. I can hear the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://words.yovo.info/2008/10/09/beach-blogging/</link>
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		<title>Biodiesel even more bio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My current batch of biodiesel is my greenest yet because I used homemade, bio-electricity to cook it (instead of Duke Power&#8217;s dirty coal-based electricity).
A couple of weeks ago I bought a little 5KW diesel generator at Costco, plus a 10-circuit power switch. Last weekend I wired the generator to the circuits. Now I have 5 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://words.yovo.info/2008/10/02/biodiesel-even-more-bio/</link>
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		<title>US Army assigns unit to a mission in &#8230; the US</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a variety of conspiracy theories circulating about how the Bushistas will try to create a situation to declare martial law and suspend the Nov. 4 election, if it looks like Obama is going to win it. I am skeptical about these theories, but this story did give me pause: The US Army has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://words.yovo.info/2008/09/22/us-army-assigns-unit-to-a-mission-in-the-us/</link>
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