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	<title>Waileia &#187; Current Events</title>
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		<title>$ong ¢ontest</title>
		<link>http://blog.sorrab.com/archives/190</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2007 05:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kamehameha&#8217;s 87th annual Song Contest has been airing for a little more than half an hour now, and I must say that I&#8217;m somewhat disappointed.  This year marks the first year KGMB 9 has picked up the broadcast, and I&#8217;m somewhat disappointed by the noticeable increase in commercials.
Song Contest has had commercials for as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People Living Worldwide</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 06:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Twittervision]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Twitter started as an experiment to strip away all the complexity of social networking sites.  At its core, it&#8217;s a micro-blog: a tiny line of text updated as often as every few minutes with the thoughts and goings-on of ordinary people worldwide.
Today, a new mashup combining Google Maps and Twitter was released.  Twittervision [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newsgathering Now and Then</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2006 07:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today marks the Honolulu Advertiser&#8217;s 150th anniversary issue.  In 1856 (five years after the first edition of the New York Times), a few hundred colorless editions came off the press.  Today, the Advertiser can print 48 full-color pages per issue.
The longevity of newspapers in an increasingly digital age seems to be a testament [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iProposal</title>
		<link>http://blog.sorrab.com/archives/177</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2006 21:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple Store]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web cam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An enterprising young man took advantage of an Apple media campaign today to deliver a somewhat unorthodox marriage proposal.
The anonymous man stood outside Apple&#8217;s Fifth Avenue retail store this morning between 5:30 AM and 6:00 AM Eastern Time with three paper signs reading &#8220;Uschi Lang, I love you, will you marry me?&#8221;  A time-lapse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lose Weight, Save the Planet!</title>
		<link>http://blog.sorrab.com/archives/160</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2004 07:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Miami Herald (subscription site, no link) is reporting that heavier Americans are costing the airline industry millions in additional fuel.  According to the CDC, the average American gained 10 pounds in the 1990s.  The Herald says the extra weight adds up to 350 million gallons of extra fuel, and 3.8 million tons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oops&#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://blog.sorrab.com/archives/154</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[KITV is reporting that the Hawai&#8217;i state flag that flies over our state capitol is sewn incorrectly, with the union stripes on the bottom incorrectly placed.
The flag was originally designed by Kamehameha I.  According to the story:
The exact placement of the lines on the flag is significant because when Kamehameha the Great designed the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve Voted&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.sorrab.com/archives/150</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2004 23:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;Have you?
If you haven&#8217;t, you really should.  It&#8217;s free.  It&#8217;s a right thousands of Americans have died for over hundreds of years.  It&#8217;s basically your only method of controlling your government.  It gives you the right to complain when your representatives mess up or ignore what you want.  It makes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Memorial</title>
		<link>http://blog.sorrab.com/archives/148</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2004 12:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
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Let this eternal flame unite our country in memory of those who lost their lives on September 11, 2001, and honor the brave men and women who put themselves in harm&#8217;s way to save others.  The love and spirit of our grateful nation, and the hearts and prayers of our people will always be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And Ivan Makes Three</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2004 06:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
  
  Hurricane Ivan was the third hurricane to make landfall in the Atlantic in a span of weeks.  (Photo courtesy NOAA)

I&#8217;m terribly saddened to hear of the damage caused by Hurricanes Charley, Frances, and Ivan over the past few weeks.  Hawai&#8217;i receives its fair share of damage from hurricanes &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man Crashes, Burns SUV at Kahului Airport</title>
		<link>http://blog.sorrab.com/archives/138</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2004 04:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Breaking News: The AP and local media outlets are reporting that a 52 year-old male drove a sports utility vehicle into Kahului Airport on Maui &#8211; the second-busiest airport in Hawai&#8217;i.  The driver immediately lit a can of gasoline on fire with a lighter.
TSA officials arrested the man immediately, and closed the airport to [...]]]></description>
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