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I know I talk about it a lot, but I hope you are all beginning to understand my obsession with this season. I mean, of course summer is fun and all, and Christmas is pure magic, but how gorgeous is fall in the Midwest? Every time I think about moving some place warmer, I remind myself how much I'll miss the changing seasons. Pumpkin carving parties and cabin weekends in the country just wouldn't feel the same without the the fiery hued foliage and crisp cool air. One more month of my favorite time of year, although I'm certain the first snowfall will be here within the next couple weeks. Until then, I'll be making the most of the crunchy leaves beneath my feet.
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COMMANDER JOHN F. KUBOVCHIK JR. (U.S. Navy - Retired), age 70, of Virginia Beach, VA., passed away peacefully at home in the presence of his family on July 20, 2011. He was born on July 19, 1941 to the late John and Mary Elizabeth Kubovchik Sr. of Lakewood, OH. He retired from the United States Navy as a Commander and Veteran of the Persian Gulf War after serving proudly for 32 years, mainly in the submarine force. Upon retirement from the United States Navy John began his second career following his passion for music. He was instrumental in creating the band program for St. Gregory the Great Catholic School where he served as the band director for the last 12 years. Left to cherish his memory are his loving wife of 45 years, Mary; his son, Michael; his daughter-in-law, Paula; his two grandchildren, Krista and Katarina, all of Virginia Beach, VA.; and his two sisters, Clare Kubovchik of Fairview Park, OH., and Joanne DeMars of Colorado Springs, CO. In lieu of flowers, the family has asked that donations be made to the American Cancer Society of Hampton Roads, P.O. Box 22718, Oklahoma City, OK 73123.
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Au Bon Pain
In an ideal world, you'd steer clear of greasy, high-fat takeout and pack yourself a perfectly balanced lunch to bring to work every day of the week. In the real world, brown bagging can be an extra hassle that you can't always handle. Here's your guide to the healthiest sandwiches, soups, and salads at your favorite grab-and-go lunch spots.
Au Bon Pain
Best Salad: Steak Salad with Cranberries and Mandarin Oranges, Fat-Free Raspberry Vinaigrette
370 calories
7 g fat, 4 g saturated fat
590 mg sodium
7 g fiber
20 g protein
Best Sandwich: Fields and Feta Wrap
551 calories
16 g fat, 4 g saturated fat
880 mg sodium
14 g fiber
20 g protein
Best Soup: Jamaican Black Bean (Reduced Sodium, Low-Fat)
120 calories
1 g fat, 0 g saturated fat
310 mg sodium
17 g fiber
11 g protein
Worst Overall: Chicken Caesar Salad, Caesar Dressing
920 calories
60 g fat, 16 g saturated fat
1,640 mg sodium
4 g fiber
44 g protein
Takeout Tip: Although the Thai Chicken Salad sounds healthiest (just 140 calories and 2.5 g fat, half a gram of which is saturated), ordering the Thai Peanut Dressing to match more than doubles the calories, almost quadruples the fat, and doubles the saturated fat. Sodium also skyrockets from 470 mg to 1,650 mg total. Stick with "lite" or fat-free dressings.
Best Salad: Seafood Salad
122 calories
4.4 g fat, 0.7 g saturated fat
418 mg sodium
3.2 g fiber
6 g protein
Best Sandwich: Union Square Ultimate Veggie Six-Inch Cafe Sandwich
280 calories
17 g fat, 4.5 g saturated fat
480 mg sodium
6 g fiber
19 g protein
Best Soup: Garden Vegetable, 8-ounce cup
80 calories
0.5 g fat, 0 g saturated fat
620 mg sodium
3 g fiber
5 g protein
Worst Overall: Ultimate BLT Wrap
831 calories
50 g fat, 15 g saturated fat
2,677 mg sodium
3 g fiber
34 g protein
Takeout Tip: Choose Blimpie's cold subs or Cafe sandwiches over their grilled subs and wraps — the latter usually contain an entire day's allowance or more of sodium. (Aim for no more than 2,300 mg per day of sodium; too much raises your risk of high blood pressure. Since lunch meats and soups are notoriously high in salt, keep a close eye on your intake the rest of the day.)
Best Salad: Shanghai Chicken Salad with Low-Fat Ginger Soy Dressing
295 calories
11 g fat, saturated fat amount unavailable
675 mg sodium
6 g fiber
27 g protein
Best Sandwich: Hummus & Fresh Veggies
432 calories
8 g fat, saturated fat amount unavailable
1,128 mg sodium
8 g fiber
13 g protein
Best Soup: Chicken Noodle, regular size
116 calories
4 g fat, saturated fat amount unavailable
818 mg sodium
1 g fiber
10 g protein
Worst Overall: Tuna Melt sandwich
1,012 calories
60 g fat, saturated amount fat unavailable
1,948 mg sodium
4 g fiber
64 g protein
Takeout Tip: Yes, the bread comes free with your soup or salad, but spring for an apple or bag of baby carrots instead. Each slice of Cosi's famous bread adds 265 calories and 740 mg sodium to your meal!
Panera Bread
Best Salad: Fandango Salad: mixed greens with walnuts, gorgonzola, orange slices, and fat-free raspberry dressing
390 calories
27 g fat, 7 g saturated fat
530 mg sodium
6 g fiber
12 g protein
Best Sandwich: Smoked Turkey Breast Sandwich on Sourdough
430 calories
14 g fat, 2.5 g saturated fat
1,820 mg sodium
3 g fiber
29 g protein
Best Soup: Low-Fat Vegetarian Moroccan Tomato Lentil Soup
120 calories
1.5 g fat, 0 g saturated fat
730 mg sodium
6 g fiber
7 g protein
Worst Overall: Italian Combo Sandwich
1,110 calories
56 g fat, 20 g saturated fat
3,220 mg sodium
5 g fiber
61 g protein
Takeout Tip: Go for the soup or salad here. All the sandwiches — even our top pick — are fairly high in sodium.
Best Salad: Grilled Chicken & Baby Spinach
140 calories
3 g fat, 1 g saturated fat
450 mg sodium
4 g fiber
20 g protein
Best Sandwich: Deli Style Turkey Breast
210 calories
3.5 g fat, 1.5 g saturated fat
730 mg sodium
3 g fiber
13 g protein
Best Soup: Spanish Style Chicken with Rice, 1 cup
90 calories
2 g fat, 0.5 g saturated fat
800 mg sodium
1 g fiber
5 g protein
Worst Overall: Double Meat Meatball Marinara six-inch sub
960 calories
42 g fat, 18 g saturated fat
2,490 mg sodium
10 g dietary fiber
37 g protein
Takeout Tip: Skip all the packaged dressings on your salad — Atkins Honey Mustard and Ranch each add 22 grams of fat, while the Fat-Free Italian contains 720 mg sodium. Ask for oil and vinegar (from the sandwich condiments) instead, which add just 45 calories and 5 grams of fat.
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When the ending to a television show, book, or movie would work far too well into a sequel or followup of any sort, or the ending of the item is left open expressly for the purpose of a sequel.
The ending of Return of the Jedi was SEQUELTASTIC!
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Zane C. Rowe serves as executive vice president and chief financial officer of VMware, and is responsible for the company's overall finance and accounting functions, as well as business operations, investor relations and strategic sourcing. Rowe also leads the Real Estate and Workplace organization, which manages over 100 VMware sites worldwide. Prior to joining VMware, Rowe held the role of executive vice president and chief financial officer at EMC.
Rowe has spent over 20 years in executive roles at a variety of multinational corporations spanning multiple industries. Prior to his role at EMC, Rowe led North America sales for Apple Inc., where he was responsible for the consumer channel as well as the enterprise and education segments. Rowe began his executive career in the airline industry, initially at Continental Airlines where he rose to executive vice president and chief financial officer, then as executive vice president and chief financial officer of United Continental Holdings, Inc.
Rowe holds a bachelor of science degree from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and an MBA from San Diego State University.
He currently serves on the boards of Sabre Corporation and Pivotal Corporation, and is a member of the Board of Trustees for Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.


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Goodwill Hunting
This story appears in the July 1998 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
Because we believe the subject matter is so important, over the next two months Entrepreneur Media is running the following article, examining the question of ethics for small business, in three of our publications: Entrepreneur, Business Start-Ups and Entrepreneur's HomeOffice.
Charlie Wilson is trying to run an ethical business. He's made social responsibility part of the mission statement at his $1.6 million Houston-based salvage company, SeaRail International Inc. He's made ethics a consideration in putting together guidelines for his salespeople. And he's made "self-actualization"--not wealth--his ultimate goal as an entrepreneur.
But don't mistake Wilson for some born-again hippie or moralistic stick-in-the-mud. For him, it's all about success. "Ethics is what's spearheading our growth," says Wilson. "It creates an element of trust, familiarity and predictability in the business. We're in an industry where a lot of people cut corners. It's easy to misrepresent products and be less than upfront with customers about the condition of goods. I just don't think that's good for business. You don't get a good reputation doing things that way. And eventually, customers won't want to do business with you."
For years, ethics and business had a rocky marriage. If you asked entrepreneurs to talk about ethics, the responses would range from scorn to ridicule. It's a dog-eat-dog world out there, they'd say, and I'm just trying to survive. But it went even deeper than that. Here are folks who--by definition--like breaking the rules. Suggesting that entrepreneurs follow a predefined set of edicts was about as popular as asking them to swear off electricity.
But this attitude may be changing. Whether people are hung over from the freewheeling '80s or reflective about the coming millennium, talk about ethics, values, integrity and responsibility is not only becoming acceptable in the business community, it's practically required.
"This looks to me just like the quality movement of 20 years ago," says Frank Walker, chairman of Indianapolis-based Walker Information Inc., a research and consulting company that tracks customer satisfaction and business ethics. "In any free-enterprise system, customers need a way to differentiate one firm from another." For years, the dominant point of differentiation has been quality. Now, says Walker, everyone can deliver quality, so businesses need to step up to a higher plane.
Are the nation's entrepreneurs ready to ascend to new heights of ethical literacy and compliance? Well, sort of. Although most entrepreneurs still aren't trying to unseat the likes of Socrates and Plato, many are giving serious thought to improving ethics within their companies--and within themselves--with the hope that doing good business will be good for business.
Gayle Sato Stodder covers entrepreneurship for various publications. She lives and works in Redondo Beach, California.
Ethics, Schmethics
What's behind the current buzz about ethics? A number of factors, really. On the evolutionary front, the days when one could argue that conscience and business don't mix are gone for good. Although the social responsibility movement of the late 1980s and early '90s hardly qualifies as news anymore, its message has become part of our popular consciousness: Businesses need not exist for the sake of greed alone. Consider the bar permanently raised--Ben and Jerry, thank you very much.
As standards have gone up, public awareness has also intensified. "It's not necessarily that we care more about ethics today," says Laura Pincus Hartman, director of the Institute for Business & Professional Ethics at DePaul University in Chicago, "but that, because of [better communication], we know more about companies than we once did. With the World Wide Web, more information gets out to more people than ever before. Anyone can log on to the Internet and find out almost instantaneously about libel suits, harassment suits and all kinds of information that would have been difficult to uncover in the past."
Meanwhile, your company's ethics may have a direct impact on employee loyalty. In a 1997 Walker Information survey of 1,694 employees, 86 percent of respondents who had favorable opinions of their companies' ethics were strongly committed to their organizations; only 14 percent of those who rated ethics low felt likewise. A full 42 percent of respondents said a company's ethical integrity would directly influence their choice of employers.
No longer can you assume that your competition is ethically challenged, either. Of 747 human resource professionals interviewed for a 1997 Society for Human Resource Management/Ethics Resource Center survey, 73 percent of respondents said they work in organizations that have written standards of ethical business conduct. Nearly four in 10 work for organizations that provide ethics-related training; 31 percent work for companies that have either an ethics office or an ombudsperson.
And there's more. When Walker Information polled 1,037 consumers in 1994, 47 percent indicated they would be much more likely to buy from a "good" company if quality, service and price were equal. On the other hand, 70 percent of consumers would not buy--at any price--from a company that was not socially responsible. "Apparently you get some credit for being good," says Walker, "but you really get clobbered for being unethical."
Not wanting to get clobbered in court is another motivation for cleaning up your act. According to ethics consultant Victoria Wesseler, president of Ethics & Compliance Strategies, a consulting firm in Indianapolis, federal sentencing guidelines that went into effect in 1991, which apply to companies with as few as 10 employees, provide financial incentive to companies that make a concerted effort to prevent and police unethical conduct within their organizations. (See "Code Of Conduct" on page 121.) "I would hope the primary motivator for improving a company's ethics would not be to meet these guidelines--there are other reasons to become more ethical," says Wesseler. "But [companies that meet the guidelines] may see a reduction in [criminal] fines of up to 95 percent."
For ethicist Robert C. Solomon, professor of philosophy and business at the University of Texas, Austin, and author of It's Good Business: Ethics & Free Enterprise for the New Millennium (Rowman & Littlefield), these various threads weave together into a single truth: Ethics is at the very core of successful commerce. "Ethical managers and ethical businesses tend to be more trusted and suffer less resentment, inefficiency, litigation and government interference," says Solomon. "[Being ethical] is just good business."
Put A Moral In Your Story
Deciding to embrace ethics is one thing. Figuring out how to incorporate ethics into your business is another. Yet improving your company's moral posture doesn't have to be painful or complicated. Here are some steps to get you started:
- Set priorities. The first and perhaps simplest thing you can do to delineate your company's values is to create a clear mission statement. "Identify your stakeholders," says ethicist Hartman. "Is the customer your highest priority? Or do your employees come first?" Down the road, this kind of distinction might help you choose between, say, lowering prices (in consideration of customers) or taking a cut in profits (in favor of employee benefits).
Wilson included the following words in his company's mission statement: "We put social responsibility in front of profit." Although this is not exactly a specific plan of action, it guides many of the company's decisions. "Whenever we have to make a tough judgment, we refer to our mission statement," he says. "Putting things down on paper helps set in stone what your standards are."
- Use company policies and procedures to bolster your case. If you don't already have a clear and specific policy manual for your employees, create one--and make sure ethical issues such as sexual harassment and employee theft are addressed. Beyond the basics, look for procedures that will help guide your company through the kinds of dilemmas it faces daily.
- Get advice. Don't try to reinvent the wheel. Ask one of your industry's trade associations if it has a code of ethics; the information it contains may help you establish your company's policies and procedures. At the very least, it will highlight important issues to consider.
When faced with an individual dilemma, Wilson consults fellow business owners at the Greater Houston Partnership, which is similar to a chamber of commerce. "Sometimes you don't know what's best," Wilson says. "That's when it helps to turn to your peers."
- Foster an ethical work environment. As you work to clarify your company's ethical positions, don't forget to walk the walk. Bear in mind that unwritten, unspoken messages can be powerful, too.
Jack Donner, owner of America's Best Self Storage in Torrance, California, believes one of the best ways to encourage ethical behavior is to treat employees well. "Maintaining an adversarial relationship between yourself and your employees is very shortsighted," Donner says. "[If that's your approach,] you'll get compliance only when fear or the threat of punishment is there. Otherwise, you won't."
Thus Donner's ethical agenda begins with fair terms of employment. "I'm here to help the employees, and they're here to help me," says Donner. "I pay top wages. I make my employees partial owners of the business by offering them a commission structure. I expect them to operate with the highest degree of ethics, but I'm also interested in functionality, not theory. If you hire unethical people or you don't pay them enough, people are going to do what's in their best financial interest."
- Provide a forum. No matter how thorough you are, predicaments will arise and violations will occur. Toward that end, make sure employees have a set procedure for raising concerns. And consider soliciting their advice on decisions you're making; they'll often have perspectives you don't.
- Avoid hypocrisy at all costs. Suppose you don't care about your employees, and you have no compunction about lying to clients. You lay off staffers on a whim, cook the books at tax time, and, worst of all, you have no interest in changing your ways.
Whatever you do, don't promote yourself to clients and staff as a paragon of virtue. Don't put glorious words about social responsibility in your mission statement. Don't institute sweeping reforms throughout your company. You'll only create bitterness among your staff and make a mockery of your authority.
"People are a lot more observant than you realize," says Wilson. "You've just got to be [ethical]--you can't lie about it."
The Rewards Of Virtue
If bulking up your company's moral fiber seems like a lot of work, consider the alternative. Imagine your company dogged by disgruntled clients, renegade employees, hapless decision-making and a poor reputation.
Not exactly your vision of success? In fact, it's hard to envision any company being successful under these conditions. And while it's believed that virtue offers its own spiritual rewards, the rewards of running an ethical business usually involve financial gain as well--if for no other reason than the fact that unscrupulous behavior generally leads to havoc.
This is why business consultant and business owner David Thrope, founder of Boston Knish Inc. in Acton, Massachusetts, believes that codifying your ethics should be part of the strategic planning of your company early on. Clarifying ethical standards--for yourself as well as others--is a critical step toward entrepreneurial maturity. "A code of ethics gives the people in a company a structure within which to make decisions," explains Thrope.
In any business, developing and preserving ethics is an ongoing process--and an imperfect one. And while it's not necessary to cover every base and perform flawlessly in every situation, it is important to try.
"I think about how I'm going to feel when I'm my mother's age--and my grandfather's age," says Wilson. "What will I think of the decisions I've made? How will I feel about the things I've done? If I can't feel [proud], what good is it to have made a lot of money? It's in everyone's long-term interests to appreciate what they're doing and to feel good about what they're accomplishing here. Otherwise, what's the point?"
Battle Of The Sexes
Do women have higher ethical standards than men? In general, yes. That's according to two University of Alabama business professors whose complex analysis of past research revealed some interesting differences in the ways that men and women perceive unethical behavior.
Dr. Deborah Crown, associate professor of management, and Dr. George R. Franke, associate professor of marketing, found that on average, men and women go into the work force after college with different perceptions about ethics. Differences are most pronounced among college students and gradually decrease with work experience until, after being in the work force for about 21 years, the differences practically disappear.
Other findings:
- Women were more likely to perceive rule-breaking as unethical. However, men were no more likely to break rules than women.
- Men were more likely to recognize ethical problems involving money than those involving nonmonetary issues.
- Ethical standards rise over time: "Junior workers may cross an ethical line without even realizing it," says Franke. "With work experience comes a better understanding of what is appropriate and inappropriate behavior."
- There's more agreement than disagreement: Ethical perceptions of men and women overlapped by 84 percent.
Code Of Conduct
The fines against corporations found guilty of violating laws regarding ethics are hefty under current federal sentencing guidelines. However, the fines can be reduced substantially if a company has an effective program in place before a violation occurs.
Although there's no formula, the government has issued recommendations on the components that make up an "effective" compliance program. The recommendations, as summarized by Victoria Wesseler, president of Ethics and Compliance Strategies in Indianapolis, are:
- The development of standards and procedures reasonably capable of reducing the prospect of criminal conduct
- Appointment of a senior-level individual within the company to monitor standards and procedures
- Care taken to prevent hiring individuals with a propensity toward criminal misconduct
- Communication and training regarding standards for all employees
- Monitoring and auditing the system, including an internal mechanism for employees to report violations
- Consistent reinforcement of standards
- And, in the case of a violation, timely responses to curtail the activity and prevent future occurrences.
Wesseler also suggests integrating standards into employee performance reviews.
Truth Or Consequences
Even the smallest white lie can cause major damage to your reputation.
By Laura Tiffany
swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." It can be difficult to abide by such a vow, especially at work. But the temptation to cut seemingly innocent corners in the truth department can damage your business's reputation--especially if your reputation is the major product of your business.
"I'd bet everyone in business makes at least one ethical decision a day without even knowing it. I do. All I have to sell in my business is my word and my integrity," maintains Rhonda Sanderson, owner of Sanderson & Associates Ltd., a Highland Park, Illinois, public relations firm that specializes in franchises and small business.
But it's not always easy when your client--the person who signs your checks--requests you tell a little white lie. "I've had clients say to me `Can't you just tell them we'll have 44 units open by then?' when they only have 11 open at the time but have sold 33," says Sanderson. "It's my job to tell the client this just isn't the way we do it. Not only will [the press] remember, but they're never going to write about you again, and they're going to say bad things about you.
"In my early days of PR, the company I worked for lost a client because I would not lie for [the client]. That was one of the reasons I left that firm. I won't lie to the press. I need the press--they're my bread and butter," Sanderson explains.
Sanderson started her own company after that 1984 incident but still faces similar ethical challenges as the boss. "I [dropped] a client because he lied to his franchisees. [Ethics is] truly a business decision. If a client treats franchisees or customers badly, or says `Ha, they'll never know,' [that client will] do it to you, too. Many respectable companies still work on a handshake. I don't think I could trust someone I couldn't work with on that level."
Contact Sources
America's Best Self Storage, (425) 861-7050
Boston Knish Inc., (978) 264-0107, email@example.com
Ethics & Compliance Strategies, (317) 849-1411, http://www.ethicscompliance.com
Sanderson & Associates Ltd., 2310 Skokie Valley Rd., #204, Highland Park, IL 60035, (847) 432-2370
SeaRail International Inc., (713) 223-0022, fax: (713) 223-0729
Society for Human Resource Management/Ethics Resource Center, (202) 434-8461, email@example.com
Walker Information Inc., (800) 231-4904, http://www.walkerinfo.com


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If a boss or coworker saw this image, claim that it was spam and blame the IT guys. Otherwise, continue to view it until your lewd urges are satisfied.
"You don't get many of those to the pound"
While most experiment in flora genetic engineering are at least mostly harmless and innocent and even sometimes useful to humankind the cultured genetically engineered group called rapefruits are seriously dubious, mentally disturbing and absolutely uncalled for. Banned throughout the European Union since the 1997 Maastricht Treaty on Dangerous Fruit, its use is severely prohibited throughout most of the Western World, with the exception of Mexico (where it is utilized in a popular local dish).
Rapefruit species[edit]
The following fruits are defined in the order and class of rapefruit. TITTIESS,
This fruit harbors the temptation factor and is crucial to the inner workings
For obvious reasons the banana is a essential part of this vile fruit.
Rapefruit could never be rapefruit without the peach.
Actually the rapefruit contains 2 different strands of melon.
- Date palm
This component is , of course, the main catalyst for date-rape fruit.
The cherry component makes it much easier to get picked.
Rapefruit in history[edit]
One must not mistake the rapefruit for an attic, Whilst a lot of aphrodisiacs throughout history are indeed fruits of some sort like the date or the cherry comparing Rapefruit to the ancient aphrodisiac is like comparing apples and oranges. The traditional aphrodisiac fruit did not really work as a sexual exciter at all. A lot of work and talent was needed to make the traditional aphrodisiac work at all.
The first know instance of rapefruit was made by Satan who, in an effort to show the stupidity of his arch nemesis gods creation known as man , created the apple ( via god as a proxy or whatever ) to tempt that silly bitch Eve. And silly she was indeed. It was JUST A FREAKIN APPLE !!. Questions why it was prohibited to touch the apple in the first place is a different story altogether albeit it is to be observed that putting 2 people in a overly promiscuous paradise where everything goes, perhaps to forbid consuming the apple ( a harmless, healthy and tasty fruit ) Is .. well typically the kind of bullshit some overzealous idiot god would pull.
And all in all the only thing that apple did was to make them realize they were wearing no clothes. As this lead to sin and all forms of nastiness. Why didn't god use the 7th day to create a fucking wardrobe instead of sitting on his lazy Divine backside ? Surely an easy trivial feat after creating the world , universe and everything.
To call the apple a pure kind of rapefruit is stretching the definition a bit far. For instance the apple/eve connection is purely fictional and the apple in the story actually had some function where, alas, rapefruit does not. Never the less, The apple has become the symbol of rapefruit everywhere.
What does it do[edit]
By now you might be wondering what it is that rapefruit actually does. for it does not act like an aphrodisiac, nor does it represent anything evil or divine that is mentioned in holy books and it does not turn people in rapists of easy victim's . Then what is it that makes it special ? Well, nothing, not to put to fine a point on it. Rapefruit does nothing special at all. By the only proper definition, rapefruit is the collective class of Fruits that by merit of form and striking similarities to sex organs fuel many sexual innuendos. And that is all it is.
You can not slip some chick a rapefruit like you would slip her a micky. It is also a foolish notion to believe that eating one will make you susceptible to getting raped or slowly transforming into an evil rapist. You can, however, use it to communicate your wishes or intentions regarding getting to know a person more intimately.
Example :
Wow, look at those melons. I'd sure like taste her peach. And then pick her cherry Mm, I'm hungry, do you have a banana ?
Enybody can instantly see the hidden meaning within this message. We can be sure that the intention is not overlooked and therefor it would be unnecessary for us to translate this since the message is so transparent. To go further in depth on to this specific example would even be considered, in some circles, to be in very bad taste indeed. But fuck that, lets translate anyway.
Well well, feast your eyes on those big tits. I want to go down on her. In case of she being a virgin I surely intent to do something about that matter Mm, I'm hungry, do you have a banana ?
Other innuendo sensitive plants[edit]
The explicit sexual innuendos expressed by rapefruits is not where the parallelization of symbolism within the flora world stops.
Example :
Is that a tree in your pants ? or are you just happy to see me ?
Sorry, I was looking at your bush.
As you can see entire hentai and alternative order types are quite suitable for this kind of cultural use. A very close relative to the rapefruit are the vegetables. The reason why these vegetables are less known within the same context as rapefruits can be explained by the fact that the diversity of the symbolism is not as great as the rapefruits is.vegetables tend to symbolize only phallus structures and lack the broad spectrum of comparability that fruits have, say tits, pussies, assholes, various zombies and of course euformisms for themes like virginity and such. Nevertheless vegetables are indeed very very potent Flori to use when expressing sexual innuendo. as we can see here.
So in the end rapefruit is not more than a lame excuse to hint at sexually tantalizing prospects much to the same extent that this article is nothing more then a lame excuse to insert explicit content and ridicule religion some more.
see also[edit]
In effect the whole concept of rapefruit was made up for the sole purpose to build a frivolous article that contained a see also section which links fuck ,penis ,pussy and rape and such in order to act like a degenerate adolescent bastard without being noticed as such


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LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry says he loves being an uncle, telling children at an awards ceremony that he'd just witnessed the baby who may one day be king crack a smile.
Harry, who was pushed back to fourth-in-line to the British throne following the birth of his brother's son, Prince George, said Wednesday he'd just visited the 1 ½-month-old royal, who was taking a bath.
Harry told 9-year-old Nikki Christou that it was the "first time I've seen him smile." The prince seems to have warmed to his new family role, telling Mary Kirk, the mother of another child, that being an uncle was "fantastic."
The ceremony was hosted by the WellChild charity, which is dedicated to the needs of sick children and their families.


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Birmingham's Butterfly Education and Awareness Day
This past Saturday, Birmingham Botanical Gardens hosted the inaugral Birmingham Butterfly Education and Awareness Day. Among the organizations participating in the event were the Birmingham Zoo, McWane Science Center, Ruffner Mountain Nature Preserve and native landscape expert Arnie Rutkis. Over 200 people enjoyed the day learning about butterfly species native to Alabama, native host plants that are essential to butterflies, and the release of over 40 native butterflies to Alabama.
The Gardens plans on this unique partnership becoming an annual event; we hope to see you next June!


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If you have resources on your farm that you've always wanted to market, an ag development group in Nebraska lets you list those resources on a new Web site for $7.50/year and arranges for liability insurance. The Kearney Area Ag Producers Alliance (KAAPA) formed the online service, called Country-Adventures, to provide rural residents the opportunity to generate revenue from resources they already have.
"We know that consumers are looking for experiences that are rural, unique and real," says Marge Lauer, marketing director for Country-Adventures. "Consumers can shop for lodging, events, products and adventures all at one place."
Current listings include hunting grounds; fishing trips; horseback riding; lodging; farmer-for-a-day adventures; clay shooting and archery range; waterfowl hunting classes; and farm, ranch, feedlot and dairy tours.
"One of the unique things we make available is liability insurance for the event or adventure purchased," Lauer says. "Liability has always been a stumbling block for those wanting to get into agri-tourism. This is something that has never been done before."
The Web site went live last October. Since then the company has received more than 100 listings from farmers and ranchers from states across the Midwest. "We are also starting to aggressively market to the consumer to buy these agri-tourism events and items," Lauer says.
The annual listing fee is $7.50/year. Insurance quotes are $1.00/quote. Fees for marketing, administration and insurance premiums are deducted from the selling price of each listing after the product or service has been purchased.
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Bank of America (BAC) is faced with numerous reps and warrants challenges on the mortgage front, and as a result of growing uncertainty, it will no longer sell certain mortgage refinances into Fannie Mae mortgage-backed securities.
"The issue is tied to ongoing disagreements between Bank of America and Fannie Mae in regards to repurchases," said Dan Frahm, spokesman for BofA.
Specifically, Bank of America will no longer place non-Making Home Affordable Program (MHA) refinance first-lien residential mortgage products into Fannie mortgage-backed securities.
Making Home Affordable is the Obama administration's initiative to help struggling homeowners get mortgage relief through a variety of programs.
"We continue to deliver MHA programs, including loan modifications and refiancing through HARP to our customers whose loans are owned by Fannie Mae," Frahm said, adding mortgage origination levels will not drop at the bank. "We're adequately prepared for this, there will be no impact to our customers." BofA will likely do more business with Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae as a result of this decision.
The bank says the risk of repurchases on non-MHA mortgages is too great, and hedging repurchase risk is now too difficult.
"We are not able to predict changes in the behavior of the GSEs based on our past experiences," BofA reports in a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Comission. "Therefore, it is not possible to reasonably estimate a possible loss or range of possible loss with respect to any such potential impact in excess of current accrued liabilities," the filing states.
"The ultimate resolution of these exposures could have a material adverse effect on our cash flows, financial condition and results of operations," the filing said.
At the heart of the decision is recent changes in mortgage insurance policies. The filing notes Fannie Mae policy where MI rescission must be resolved in a timely fashion. As of Dec. 31, 2011, 74% of the MI rescission notices received had not been resolved, and Fannie began exercising repurchases with Bank of America.
"We have informed FNMA that we do not believe that the new policy is valid under our relevant contracts with FNMA and that we do not intend to repurchase loans under the terms set forth in the new policy," BofA states. "If we are required to abide by the terms of the new FNMA policy, our representations and warranties liability will likely increase."


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Angelo A. Pitassi Jr. is the president and co-founder of HealthID Profile Inc., a company that makes tech-savvy and fashionable medical identification bracelets.
Pitassi, a native Rhode Islander and an alumnus from both the University of Rhode Island and Johnson and Wales University, was inspired to start the company after his son was diagnosed with diabetes.
PBN: How do the HIP Bands work? Can you give us a hypothetical run down on what would happen as emergency medical services arrived on a call?
PITASSI: HIP Bands have a HIP Code insert that comes with the bracelet. The wearer inserts this HIP Code sticker inside and the HIP Code is unique to that individual. The insert clearly reads:
Enter HIP Code at healthidprofile.com."
The inserts can be personalized for an additional fee by the wearer with up to 40 characters of personalized information along with their HIP Code as well.
As emergency medical personnel arrive on a scene, 95 percent look for a medical ID bracelet upon arrival (according to the NREMT).
They would clearly recognize our bracelet as it displays the universal caduceus symbol for medical alert; they would then open the bracelet lid to reveal the HIP Code and instruction. The medical personnel can easily go to healthidprofile.com with a smartphone, tablet or laptop and enter in the persons HIP Code and within seconds have that person's relevant information.
Our HIP USB Bracelets not only have the HIP Code insert as mentioned above, but also carry a removable USB storage device that also contains the summary of pertinent medical information for that wearer.
The USB device is simply removed from the HIP USB Bracelet and inserted into a standard USB port on any computer or laptop and the file appears and can be opened for review…no internet connection needed with the USB device.
PBN: There's a USB stick on the inside of the bracelet, what is stored on the memory stick and how durable is it?
PITASSI: There are two components to our USB HIP Bracelets. First, everyone who purchases a HIP product will receive a HIP Code that is a unique identifier to that particular customer.
The HIP Code comes on an adhesive insert that sticks inside the HIP Bracelet and communicates simple instruction such as "I have a medical condition – the actual HIP Code – enter HIP Code at healthidprofile.com – SEE USB BELOW."
Second, the actual USB device stored inside the bracelet. Once a new customer receives their bracelet for the first time, they are instructed in the package to go online to our website and register via the provided pre-printed HIP Code.
Once registered, the customer enters the "welcome screen" on HealthID Profile and they add all their pertinent information and then sync that information to the USB. It is a simple overall process…
The USB device is durable, waterproof and shockproof.
PBN: You came up with the idea for HIP because of your son, who has Type I diabetes, but what made you decide to make them so technologically advanced rather than just having a standard, though fashionable/customizable medical ID bracelet?
PITASSI: Again, our focus is on efficiently communicating information in the time of a medical emergency.
However, I know firsthand that having the ability to store more data would allow my wife and me, along with our son's doctors to make more informed decisions with his healthcare.
We also know that technology is here to stay and it makes our lives more efficient and what more could you ask for when talking about your storing your pertinent medical data and having it readily available.
PBN: What demographic do you think should most look into the HIP bands? Is there a particular age group/at-risk population that you think would best benefit from this product?
PITASSI: We know that our customers range in age from my son's age (approx. 8-9 years old) up to mid-70s age range. That tells us that age is not a factor when looking at our products; we have something for all ages.
As far as at-risk population, diabetes has been a popular condition for our wearers, but we see all types of conditions and this really singles down to what the wearer feels gives them peace of mind knowing that if something happened and I couldn't communicate can I get this information to someone…so if it fits into that broad scenario you can use one of our HIP Bands or HIP USB Bracelets for it.
PBN: What kind of feedback have you gotten from customers, parents and interested companies?
PITASSI: The feedback and response has been overwhelming.
We get emails and phone calls daily from folks who have purchased our bracelets and some that haven't purchased anything from us, but simply want to thank us for what we do!
The retailers we have spoken with so far have also been equally excited about our products and our company…we design all our products, we designed the technology and most importantly we stand behind and support everything we sell!
I think the most satisfying relationships we have are with organizations such as JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) and the synergy we have with them. They love our products and we love to give back to them … it's truly a win-win!


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Five years after the financial crisis former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson says "the world shouold prepare for a new financial crisis" in tomorrow's Handelsblatt newspaper. His view, based on the "unacceptable" nature of too-big-to-fail banks and the lack of reform of the GSEs and the shadow-banking industry, stands in direct opposition to the leader of one of those TBTF banks. James 'not Jim' Gorman, CEO of Morgan Stanley, told Charlie Rose last week that "the probability of [it] happening again in our lifetime is as close to zero as I could imagine."
Gorman's reasoning is consensus:
"The way these firms are managed, the amount of capital that they have, the amount of liquidity that they have, the changes in their business mix -- it's dramatic."
Paulson's vew:
5 yrs after the financial crisis, the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac reform has made no progress and the market of shadow banks hasn't been addressed, Paulson writes, according to a preview of the commentary
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GRAHAM � A 60-year-old pleaded guilty Wednesday to burning several buildings and his own van and attempting to burn a Graham preschool twice within a month.
During one of the fires, which he set in a Dumpster near his home at 610 Ray St. in Graham, Joe Dean Smith allegedly sat in his yard with a drink and watched firefighters put out the blaze.
At the Wednesday hearing, attorneys speculated about Smith�s mental condition and asked a superior court judge to delay sentencing so he could be evaluated for possible treatment.
�This is a curious case for me because he has no criminal record. He�s 60 years old � and goes on a sudden spate of burning things,� said Alamance County Assistant District Attorney Sean Boone. Boone said Smith�s wife wants Smith to be treated for possible bipolar and schizophrenic conditions.
Graham Fire Department's run-ins with Smith began Aug. 15, when they were called to his residence and found his 2006 Dodge Caravan on fire. Investigators determined the fire was intentionally set beneath a seat in the vehicle.
Boone said it was later discovered the van needed about $3,000 in engine repairs at the time. Smith filed an insurance claim after the fire.
On Sept. 4, three small fires were set inside a nearby apartment on Ray Street. Fire crews put out the fires before they engulfed the building.
The morning of Sept. 8, employees at the Head Start office at 620 Ray St. discovered that someone had attempted to set fire to the building, but that the fire extinguished before spreading.
On Sept. 24, fire crews responded to a Dumpster fire at 609 Ray St. One of the firemen noted that Smith watched them tackle the blaze before going back inside. Later that day, Smith was spotted near the Head Start building, where a set fire charred an exterior corner. Investigators found matches, a rag and a candle there.
A search of Smith�s residence turned up matches, a washcloth and candles that were identical to the ones found at the preschool, Boone said.
Smith pleaded guilty Wednesday to two counts of burning a school house, two counts of burning personal property, one count of second-degree arson and one count of insurance fraud. He is scheduled to be sentenced by Superior Court Judge James E. Hardin Jr. on Feb. 11.
In the meantime, Smith has a psychiatric appointment set for Jan. 29, defense attorney Brad Buchanan said. Buchanan believes Smith won�t be a danger to society if he�s treated for his �compulsive behavior.�
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The much anticipated release of Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City for the PC and for PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system is coming this spring – on March 30, 2010. For the first time, PlayStation 3 and PC players will have the opportunity to experience the last two thrilling chapters of the Grand Theft Auto IV saga together on one disc.Comments on the official website indicate that this comes as very welcomed news to the respective platforms' players.
The two action packed episodes, The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony, will also be available for download via PlayStation Network and Games for Windows-LIVE on March 30, 2010.
Coming to an ignored platform near you this March.
Bryn says: Hey, wonders will never cease. This is fabulous news to PS3 and PC GTA fans. And yes, I've still not finished the original game but I've got a plan to start over on the PC... which means I might just be ready for the DLC when it drops March 30th. Are you excited? Or is GTA4 old hat?


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There aren't many entertainers who have more credentials than Kristin Chenoweth, an Emmy and Tony winner and an amazing vocalist with great comedy chops.
There are few, though, who can match the honors heaped on the person presenting Chenoweth with her Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame award — Carol Burnett.
"I'm such a fan. She's such a darling girl and so talented," says Burnett about Chenoweth. "She could be in the opera with her vocal range.
"But what I just love about her is her sense of humor. Her timing is incredible. It's funny. When people have asked me over the last few years about what woman could host a variety show, I always say Kristen Chenoweth and Maya Rudolph."
The bar is high. "The Carol Burnett Show," which ran for 11 seasons, was one of the greatest variety shows in television history — and one of the greatest shows, period, winning 25 Emmys.
The popularity of the show brings up the difference between being a comic and a comic actor. Burnett tells the story of how the vaudevillian Ed Wynn had once described that by comparing Bob Hope, who would rattle off jokes, with Jack Benny, who could get laughs just by the way he would say "Well."
"And that's Kristen," says Burnett. "She can say things funny."
Burnett is familiar with the Hollywood Bowl, having grown up in Tinseltown.
"When I was a kid, we used to sneak in, and we'd be way up in the boonies," she says. "We would look down into the teeny little band-shell and barely make out the people. There were no screens then. But it was a kick for us. We were getting free music."
These days the comedienne doesn't get to the Bowl "often enough." She lives in Santa Barbara and does the occasional guest starring roles, most recently on Hallmark's "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" and CBS's "Hawaii Five-0."
Burnett, 81, also goes on the road to do Q&As with audiences.
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OneSubsea targets subsea oil production and recovery
BUSINESS WIRE / ME NewsWire - HOUSTON - Thursday, November 15th 2012
Cameron and Schlumberger today announced the creation of OneSubsea™, a joint venture to manufacture and develop products, systems and services for the subsea oil and gas market. This new company will offer a step change in reservoir recovery for the subsea oil and gas industry through integration and optimization of the entire production system over the life of the field. The integration of the production system will be accomplished by combining superior reservoir knowledge and wellbore technologies, with industry leading subsea technologies, all together delivering enhanced productivity, reliability and integrity.
Cameron and Schlumberger have 60/40 ownership of the joint venture, respectively, and the transaction is subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. Cameron, with its long history of innovation and firsts in the subsea market, is an industry leader in design capability, manufacturing excellence and successful installations. Schlumberger brings a deep understanding of the reservoir, and industry-leading well completions, subsea processing and integration platform.
Under the terms of the formation agreement, Cameron will contribute its existing subsea division and receive $600 million from Schlumberger. Schlumberger will contribute its Framo, Surveillance, Flow Assurance and Power and Controls businesses. Cameron will manage the joint venture and will consolidate it for financial reporting purposes. Cameron will reflect minority interest in its financial statements for Schlumberger's interest in the JV.
Cameron Chairman, President and CEO, Jack B. Moore said, "Our new venture with Schlumberger provides a powerful marriage of their oilfield services technology and our subsea equipment heritage. It leverages Cameron's flow control expertise, world class manufacturing and aftermarket capabilities."
Schlumberger CEO Paal Kibsgaard commented, "This new joint venture, which combines the forces of two world-class companies, is uniquely positioned to optimize complete subsea production systems and help our customers improve production and recovery from their subsea developments. The broad scientific and technology platform that Schlumberger brings will enable a total system approach, leading to a unique and differentiated offering in this rapidly growing market."
A key priority of the joint venture will be strengthening research and engineering investment, including complementary projects with the parent companies, towards the integration of the complete subsea production system from pore space to the export point, in order to unlock reservoir potential from our customer's subsea developments.
Credit Suisse acted as financial advisor to Cameron. Goldman, Sachs & Co. acted as financial advisor to Schlumberger.
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Schlumberger Limited has principal offices in Paris, Houston and The Hague and reported revenues from continuing operations of $36.96 billion in 2011. For more information, visit www.slb.com.
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John Mark Ivey, writing for Global Knowledge, admits it. He Googles himself. Why? He's curious to see the ranking Google gives sites he's on, such as Facebook, Twitter, Blogspot, Blog Talk Radio (yeah, he's as surprised as you are), and LinkedIn.
He was even more surprised to find that his LinkedIn profile was at the top of the list of his Google search results. If you're on LinkedIn, search yourself on Google and see where your LinkedIn profile ranks.
LinkedIn has been around longer than Twitter and Facebook, but that can't be the only criteria Google used to give an advantage to LinkedIn profiles in their search results. More likely, it's the professional nature of LinkedIn as opposed to the more personal, leisurely nature of the majority of Facebook posts and tweets.
Since Google favors LinkedIn when it comes to search results, keep that in mind if you're networking or job hunting. If a potential employer considers you for a position, don't think they aren't Googling you too. If your LinkedIn profile comes up first, then you certainly want to make sure it's up-to-date.
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Hy Loves ♥ Do you know that feeling when even though the weekend comes you still feel lazy and like doing nothing is the best thing you can do?
Well. that is how I felt on Friday. I mean just felt because time didn`t allow me to lay on my bad and watch tv series (is nothing new, I still have to wait until next week :)) ). I think that each that, we must do something, otherwise time will pass by and I think we will end up with so many regrets that we can`t undo.
And now because I refuse to be lazy until the end I have a feeling that my week will begin so great. I may be too positive but still, being negative and grumpy will not help me either.
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ANCHORAGE - A large drill ship belonging to oil company Shell ran aground off Alaska on Monday night after drifting in stormy weather, company and government officials said.
The ship, the Kulluk, broke away from one of its tow lines on Monday afternoon and was driven to rocks just off Kodiak Island, where it grounded at about 9 p.m. Alaska time, officials said.
The 18-member crew had been evacuated by the U.S. Coast Guard late Saturday because of risks from the storm.
With winds reported at up to 60 miles (100 km) an hour and Gulf of Alaska seas of up to 35 feet (11 m), responders were unable to keep the ship from grounding, said Coast Guard Commander Shane Montoya, the leader of the incident command team.
"We are now entering into the salvage and possible spill-response phase of this event," Montoya told a news conference late on Monday night in Anchorage.
There were three minor injuries to people responding to the incident but all personnel have returned to duty.
No spill so far, another overflight expected Tuesday
There is no known spill and no reports of damage yet and a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter overflight conducted shortly after the grounding detected no visible sheen.
A spokeswoman for the command team said it would do another overflight during daylight on Tuesday, weather permitting.
The Kulluk has about 139,000 gallons of ultra-low-sulfur diesel on board, and equipment on the Kulluk is estimated to have about 12,000 gallons of combined lube oil and hydraulic fluid.
The grounding of the Kulluk, a conical, Arctic-class drill ship weighing nearly 28,000 gross tons, is a blow to Shell's $4.5 billion offshore program in Alaska.
Shell's plan to convert the area into a major new oil frontier has alarmed environmentalists and many Alaska Natives, but excited industry supporters.
Environmentalists and Native opponents say the drilling program threatens a fragile region that is already being battered by rapid climate change.
"Shell and its contractors are no match for Alaska's weather and sea conditions either during drilling operations or during transit," Lois Epstein, Arctic program director for The Wilderness Society, said in an email.
"Shell's costly drilling experiment in the Arctic Ocean needs to be stopped by the federal government or by Shell itself given the unacceptably high risks it poses to both humans and the environment," she added.
The nearest town is Old Harbor, located on the opposite side of Kodiak Island from where the Kulluk is grounded. Old Harbor is a Native Alutiiq village with 208 residents.
The leading Democrat on the U.S House of Representatives' Natural Resources Committee, Ed Markey, of Massachusetts, said in a statement that this incident and others illustrated the perils of oil drilling in the Arctic.
"Oil companies cannot currently drill safely in the foreboding conditions of the Arctic, and drilling expansion could prove disastrous for this sensitive environment," he said.
Bedevilled by problems
The Kulluk's woes began on Friday, when the Shell ship towing it south experienced a mechanical failure and lost its connection to the drill vessel.
That ship, the Aivik, was reattached to the Kulluk early on Monday morning, as was a tug sent to the scene by the operator of the Trans Alaska Pipeline System. But the Aivik lost its link Monday afternoon, and the tug's crew could only try to guide the drill ship to a position where, if it grounded, "it would have the least amount of impact to the environment,'' Montoya said.
The tug Alert intentionally disconnected about 30 minutes before the ground for the protection of the nine crew members aboard the tug.
The Kulluk was used by Shell in September and October to drill a prospect in the Beaufort Sea. It was being taken to Seattle for the off season when the problems began on Friday.
Susan Childs, emergency incident commander for Shell, held out hope that a significant spill from the drill ship was unlikely.
"The unique design of the Kulluk means the diesel fuel tanks are isolated in the center in the vessel and encased in very heavy steel," she told the news conference.
Shell is waiting for weather to moderate "to begin a complete assessment of the Kulluk," she said. "We hope to ultimately recover the Kulluk with minimal or no damage to the environment."
The Kulluk was built in 1983 and had been slated to be scrapped before Shell bought it in 2005. The company has spent $292 million since then to upgrade the vessel.
Shell's Arctic campaign has been bedevilled by problems. A second drill ship, the Discoverer, was briefly detained in December by the Coast Guard in Seward, Alaska, because of safety concerns. A mandatory oil-containment barge, the Arctic Challenger, failed for months to meet Coast Guard requirements for seaworthiness and a ship mishap resulted in damage to a critical piece of equipment intended to cap a blown well.


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|The Kawasaki Ninja® 650 ABS is one of those rare sportbikes that wears a lot of hats. It encapsulates the passion and performance of an elite modern sportbike while also delivering the efficiency and value of an urban commuter. Equipped with high-performance hardware such as powerful and predictable ABS brakes and grippy Dunlop Roadsmart II tires, it definitely has the skills to compete with any sportbike on the road.
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|649.00 ccm (39.60 cubic inches)
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|83.0 x 60.0 mm (3.3 x 2.4 inches)
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|Injection. Digital fuel injection with two 38mm Keihin throttle bodies
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|Double Overhead Cams/Twin Cam (DOHC)
|TCBI with electronic advance
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|O-Ring Chain
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|Frame type:
|Twin-pipe perimeter design, high-tensile steel
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|109 mm (4.3 inches)
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|41mm hydraulic telescopic fork / 4.9 in.
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|Double disc. ABS. Two-piston calipers.
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|300 mm (11.8 inches)
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|Single disc. ABS. Single-piston caliper.
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|220 mm (8.7 inches)
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|211.1 kg (465.3 pounds)
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|1,181 mm (46.5 inches)
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|2,111 mm (83.1 inches)
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|770 mm (30.3 inches)
|1,410 mm (55.5 inches)
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|15.90 litres (4.20 gallons)
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|The dual attraction of New Orleans. From Katie Gillett, The Post-Grad Hipster's Guide to Inhabitable U.S. Cities, 2011.
Since I left New Orleans for good in 2007, I hear more and more stories of twenty- and thirty-somethings of my demographic—and by my demographic, I mean hipsters with MFAs in creative writing—moving there. Apparently, this is a trend, so says Richard Campanella, a geographer with Tulane's architecture program, in "Gentrification and its Discontents: Notes from New Orleans." In this article, he ties this migration southward to so-called "revitalization" movements that displace generally poor and African American residents. He posits a four-phase cycle, each phase representing a different influx of people into a particular neighborhood, each phase a wave carrying with it progressively more intense collateral gentrification. According to Campanella, this is the process of New Orleans gentrification: first, gutterpunks squat in poor neighborhoods near "historic" or touristy areas; second come hipsters; third, the cultural capital accrued by young artist types attracts bourgeois bohemians; and finally, the rich arrive.
While I find this model to be convincing, it is also reductive. There's a too-neat linearity at play—one that elides both institutional forces that lure writers and artisanal bread makers into poor and working-class neighborhoods and other neighborhood life-cycles that somehow remain in a not-quite-attractive-enough limbo. For instance, even as Campanella uses the Bywater as an example of NOLA-gentrification par excellence, he ignores the relocation of New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) to a twenty-three million dollar campus in 2000, paid for by the state of Louisiana.1 Nevertheless, the streamlined process Campanella enumerates seems to be a fair representation of NOLA gentrification. It was just before Hurricane Katrina that the neighborhood around NOCCA began to be seen as a hip option—at least in my experience.
Which is to say that Campanella's analysis is compelling to me because I did live in New Orleans, knew the gutterpunks and proto-hipsters who dropped out of Tulane's English program to colonize blighted houses in the Bywater, washed dishes in their bathtub, never showering, barely wearing shoes. I still have strong familial ties to greater NOLA thanks to my wife, whose family is scattered throughout the city and its suburbs. Professor Campanella uses fleeting biographical details in his essay, adding to his geographical, statistical, and historical evidence the heavy authority of being an "insider." My question here is what role experiential knowledge has in making arguments about a space, whether we take for granted that extensive time living and working and loving and playing in a place gives us a special sort of access to some "truth," whether we can (or should) escape our emotional attachments to (or severed from) a place.
Take the comments on Campanella's essay. The earliest, posted by local writer Mark Folse, links to a blog post he wrote in 2005 prophesying the coming of a sterile, museum culture post-Katrina. Another comment, whose author notes he moved from Brooklyn to live in the Bywater after Katrina—more or less proving Campanella's schema—claims that "Bywater is more like Fort Greene and NOTHING like Williamsburg,"2 referring to Campanella's glib reference to people apparently comparing Bywater to the Brooklyn neighborhood. This commenter criticizes Campanella's characterization (using statistics) of the Bywater as taking a turn toward a white majority, using this bit of evidence: "I see whites, blacks, Vietnamese, Hispanics, and every other color on my street every day. We live in a community of many cultures, not a white gated one."
|Richard Campanella, Post-Katrina gentrification hot spots, New Orleans, 2012. From Campanella's Bienville's Dilemma: A Historical Geography of New Orleans, 2008.
The most interesting comment is by a person named 12ward, who levies against Campanella charges of outsidership, ignorance of the local, poor research skills, and lack of comparative perspective. One way to say this is that Campanella's account doesn't match 12ward's own experience of New Orleans. 12ward says, "This sounds like a guy who got here yesterday and lacks even the most basic 2005–2008 city infrastructure/operation knowledge." 12ward asks, "I know you claim to live here . . . but have you actually talked to ANYONE here?" The rest of his 1,584 word comment/counter-essay contains lists of dates, events, and brief personal and speculative narratives that attempt to amass a wealth of local (and professional?) credibility with which 12ward might be able to challenge Campanella's political position and analysis of population trends. In the course of this jeremiad, we learn that 12ward has worked as a public school teacher, has been homeless, moved to New Orleans for his vegetarian wife (who loves it there!), housed FEMA workers for free in October 2005, lives Uptown, and considers himself well versed in history.
12ward's hostility3 seems to stem from two places: 1) a misreading of Campanella's "white teapot" map (a map Campanella made to illustrate the racial distribution of New Orleans and where gentrification is currently underway), and 2) a disagreement with the political dimensions of Campanella's argument. 12ward conflates the plotting of white people with the plotting of gentrification hotspots; nowhere does Campanella argue that all white New Orleans neighborhoods are gentrified, only that gentrification tends to occur near areas that are considered "historic" and are near well-to-do-neighborhoods (which are generally white in NOLA). The second root of 12ward's problem, the political implication of Campanella's reading, is more interesting.
|Infrogmation, Photo of the front steps of a Bywater home, 2008.
Ultimately, 12ward defends the non-native New Orleans creative class, a defense that at once privileges the economic, aesthetic, and cultural tastes of the outsider, the colonizer, the upper class, while also staking a claim—through experience-knowledge and pseudo-scholarly posturing—of ownership of a place. Campanella's argument—that gentrifiers run the risk of both supplanting the working class population and turning the neighborhoods they renovate into sterile neighborhoods-qua-museums—is one that could be extremely insulting if you consider yourself a progressive, civically engaged, culturally aware transplant to NOLA. It undermines the "super native" project of nouveau-New Orleanians. It reminds them that they enjoy living in a place that was once a home of poverty, misery, and rot but is now a well-joindered house full of wifi and Restoration Hardware, that they immerse themselves in a culture and locality they did not grow up in, and that they do these things because they can afford to. On the other hand, Campanella recognizes this even as he appeals to the same logic of biographical locality: after using the birth of his son to illustrate the paucity of babies in New Orleans, he categorizes his family as "category-3 types, I suppose, sans the 'bohemian,'" referring to his four-phase cycle, to himself as a member of the bourgeois-scum class, and echoing the official designation of Hurricane Katrina, a category-3 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale.
Campanella's article becomes a call for New Orleanians of all sorts to have more children and make the city friendlier to families. On all other issues—the injection of liberal and progressive ideology into a more conservative population, the frenetic cultural adoption and reenactment by newcomers, the emphasis on making every enclave of well-educated, arts-oriented, internet-blogging, artisanal-food-making twenty-somethings more like Williamsburg—Campanella remains equivocal. He seems concerned that where once there was life there will soon be empty space bordered by lovely walls. Although it is hard to tell from 12ward's mean, reactionary, and occasionally absurdist4 diatribe, he shares a concern for wanting to preserve the place he lives in as a place of life, a concern that manifests through the use of experience-knowledge as an authority that trumps all other sources of knowledge. 12ward's comment yearns for the reader to share not just the eyes and politics of the interpreter, but his mythos and autobiography as well. This reliance on the personal experience of the writer, the appeal to insider knowledge, the individual interpretation—however well-meaning and progressive—is yet another gentrifying move, one that is both precious and consumptive, sentimental and displacing.
- 1. This is the number my wife (NOCCA '04) told me when I asked her on Gchat how much the building cost. She calculated this number by remembering how when she would lean on the walls as a student at NOCCA, teachers told her, "Don't lean on the wall: this is a twenty-three million dollar building." I call this method for conducting geographical/infrastructural analysis the "ask a friend" method.
- 2. This is surely the best evidence that Bywater is in fact Williamsburg: there's nothing more "Williamsburg" than claiming that something you do is more like Fort Greene.
- 3. 12ward's language is very hostile, using words like "fuckall," "bullshit," and "abortion." 12ward doesn't like hipsters (as he assumes Campanella's point was to attack hipsters), and claims that it isn't hipsters who move into poor neighborhoods, it's "[g]ay men and women. (by and large gay men)." When attacking Campanella's history, 12ward uses the debate tactic "What about x?"—x being a litany of decontextualized dates or event names or neighborhoods—especially in defending gentrifying neighborhoods as racially diverse or in attacking Campanella's sketch of how gentrification has occurred in the past.
- 4. 12ward muses, "as for the hipsters. do you fear them? This city has the power of temptation in the swamp. It will de-bone and devour a good number of them in so many ways. No matter WHAT you do, and every few years, (think of what I mean) this city will remind you of your safety obsession folly."