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	<description>Dare to be different. Change your life with an "actionist" attitude.</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Wichita NAACP to Celebrate the First Lunch Counter Sit In</title>
		<link>http://www.martyblogs.com/2008/08/02/politics/wichita-naacp-to-celebrate-the-first-lunch-counter-sit-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My fellow AfroSpear blogger, Kevin Myles is the director of the Wichita NAACP branch. On Saturday, August 9th, they are celebrating the courageous efforts of two dozen young members of the Wichita Branch NAACP Youth Council who in the summer of 1958 held a historic lunch counter sit in at a local drug store.
Sit ins [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Word of the Day is Courage</title>
		<link>http://www.martyblogs.com/2008/07/30/general-interest/the-word-of-the-day-is-courage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.martyblogs.com/2008/07/30/general-interest/the-word-of-the-day-is-courage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marty</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I am an avid reader, so much so that I even jump into my wife&#8217;s reading material if it happens to be laying around. She&#8217;s reading &#8220;Failure Is Not An Option&#8221; for work and  I&#8217;d like to share some excerpts from chapter two with you guys. 
This is one of those reads that has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Veteran Campers Ready for More Adventure</title>
		<link>http://www.martyblogs.com/2008/07/25/general-interest/veteran-campers-ready-for-more-adventure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.martyblogs.com/2008/07/25/general-interest/veteran-campers-ready-for-more-adventure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pack 373 broke camp last weekend and I now have at least two solid outdoorsmen under my tutelage. They had a great time and learned a lot. The Webelos earned all or part of four or five belt loops and pins. We did BB Shooting, Archery, Citizenship and Smimming as advancements. We did rappelling off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cub Scout Summer Camp</title>
		<link>http://www.martyblogs.com/2008/07/18/general-interest/cub-scout-summer-camp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marty</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re hitting the road to summer camp!!! Yeah! Time for some high adventure for my little city slickers. As Cub Scouts they&#8217;re not going to rough it like Boy Scouts just yet. We will be in tents with sleeping bags but they&#8217;re not on the ground. They will be on concrete platforms with cots. At [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Jam Some Soulfège</title>
		<link>http://www.martyblogs.com/2008/07/15/general-interest/lets-jam-some-soulfege/</link>
		<comments>http://www.martyblogs.com/2008/07/15/general-interest/lets-jam-some-soulfege/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marty</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers do you remember Derrick Ashong who became blog famous for his interview outside an Obama campaign stop earlier this year? Refer back to my February 28th post on the young guy who gave answers to an impromptu street interview. Guess what? Homeboy is a singer and he&#8217;s pretty good too. Actually he&#8217;s the leader [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talk of the Town Toastmasters is a Presidents Distinguished Club</title>
		<link>http://www.martyblogs.com/2008/07/09/business/talk-of-the-town-toastmasters-is-a-presidents-distinguished-club/</link>
		<comments>http://www.martyblogs.com/2008/07/09/business/talk-of-the-town-toastmasters-is-a-presidents-distinguished-club/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marty</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We made it! Yeah baby, it became official on Tuesday, June 24th, 2008. The Talk of the Town Toastmasters Club attained Presidents Distinguished Club status when we got one more Competent Communicator qualified with her 10th speech. I am extremely proud of all the hard work the club put in to reach the finish line [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solutions for the Fuel Crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.martyblogs.com/2008/07/08/general-interest/solutions-for-the-fuel-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[T-Boone Pickens is the first oil man putting his smoney where his mouth is, ready to seriously put alternative energy sources into play. In this CNN interview he talks about implementing a national wind power strategy to reduce American oil dependency by 1/3 according to his early projections.
Good thing the business community is finally tired [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Kansas City Royals Honor The Kansas City Monarchs</title>
		<link>http://www.martyblogs.com/2008/06/24/general-interest/the-kansas-city-royals-honor-the-kansas-city-monarchs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.martyblogs.com/2008/06/24/general-interest/the-kansas-city-royals-honor-the-kansas-city-monarchs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marty</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kansas City Royals honored Jackie Robinson&#8217;s last Negro Leagues team by wearing the old school uniform as their latest throwback uniform on Sunday. Check the link.
If you&#8217;re a baseball fan you know that during the season all the teams in Major League Baseball (MLB) wear any number of past versions of their team gear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Juneteenth/Jubilee Celebration</title>
		<link>http://www.martyblogs.com/2008/06/19/general-interest/juneteenthjubilee-celebration/</link>
		<comments>http://www.martyblogs.com/2008/06/19/general-interest/juneteenthjubilee-celebration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marty</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is a momentus time of remembrance for African Americans all around the country. Many of you many not know why though so let me enlighten you. It was almost a century and a half ago on Jan 1, 1863 that President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Due to the obvious limits of communications [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toastmasters International and Golf, An Unbeatable Combination</title>
		<link>http://www.martyblogs.com/2008/06/17/general-interest/toastmasters-international-and-golf-an-unbeatable-combination/</link>
		<comments>http://www.martyblogs.com/2008/06/17/general-interest/toastmasters-international-and-golf-an-unbeatable-combination/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marty</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I wrote a couple of posts on upgrading your golf game and improving your public speaking skills and perhaps you thought they were interesting yet unrelated subjects. Not so, friends. I just wanted to give you time to digest both topics and allow them to sink in really well. Now I am about [...]]]></description>
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