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		<title>White House glows aloha purple at luau</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2009/06/white-house-glows-aloha-purple-at-luau/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The White House hosted a luau yesterday for Congress, which would have gotten a great deal more attention in the media if it hadn’t been for the deaths of Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson.  The event was still largely documented, and the photographers out there didn’t fail to capture some of the island spirit in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The most unsustainable best job in the world</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2009/06/the-most-unsustainable-best-job-in-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advertising]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With fewer entries at the 56th Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival this year, one seemingly successful campaign is continuing to garner more attention even after its big push earlier this year: The Best Job in the World by Tourism Queensland.&#160; It just won two major Grand Prix awards at Cannes.&#160; However, is it too early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>90,000 people in Ontario lose power ~ one of them goes surfing</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2008/01/90000-people-in-ontario-lose-power-one-of-them-goes-surfing/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2008/01/90000-people-in-ontario-lose-power-one-of-them-goes-surfing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Dan Kappa photo is from a Toronto Star article: What is the article about?&#160; Well, a power outage of course. 90,000 people have been cut off due to the crazy weather.&#160; That&#8217;s why the guy went surfing? Huh?&#160; What?&#160; The article doesn&#8217;t even contain the word &#34;surf.&#34; Exactly.&#160; Welcome to Rapidsea.]]></description>
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		<title>The year&#8217;s ten most horrific incidents in paradise</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/12/the-years-ten-most-horrific-incidents-in-paradise/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/12/the-years-ten-most-horrific-incidents-in-paradise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beaches]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Palm Trees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sharks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the Rapidsea choices for the year&#8217;s ten most horrific incidents: 10. &#34;Charge after bottle attack on stranger [over a cigarette]&#34; Perth Now 9.&#160; &#34;Dolphins save surfer from becoming shark&#8217;s bait&#34; MSNBC.com 8.&#160; &#34;Man shot by stray bullet near beach&#34; Jerusalem Post and AP 7.&#160; &#34;Great white shark attack victim fights back &#8211; and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mitt Romney Meets the Flip Flops</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/12/mitt-romney-meets-the-flip-flops/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/12/mitt-romney-meets-the-flip-flops/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beaches]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether you hate politics or not, you might find it interesting that Tim Russert pulled out a pair of flip flops on camera this weekend while interviewing Mitt Romney and confronted him on some of the issues that he has changed his mind on over the years.&#160; Who knew the beachwear item would end up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environmental Graffiti: Australia Goes Green With Anti-Whaling Action and Fake Fish Flinging</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/12/environmental-graffiti-australia-goes-green-with-anti-whaling-action-and-fake-fish-flinging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australians fling fish?&#160; Umm, okay. Read it here at Environmental Graffiti. Maybe their Navy could fling some fake whales at the Japanese whaling research ships.&#160; As for me, I&#8217;m going to go throw some cans of tuna to see how strong I am.]]></description>
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		<title>Alf to Debate Bill O&#8217;Reilly ~ in an aloha shirt November 30, 2007</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/11/alf-to-debate-bill-oreilly-in-an-aloha-shirt-november-30-2007/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/11/alf-to-debate-bill-oreilly-in-an-aloha-shirt-november-30-2007/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you heard?&#160; Alf is putting on his aloha shirt uniform and heading to the O&#8217;Reilly Factor tonight. &#160; I&#8217;m not really sure what to say about this one.]]></description>
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		<title>Sentinel: &#8216;Beachfront pork&#8217; is bad federal policy</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/11/sentinel-beachfront-pork-is-bad-federal-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/11/sentinel-beachfront-pork-is-bad-federal-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beaches]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hurricane Isabel created the destruction seen in this picture, but it was federal policy that rebuilt the road in the same place.&#xA0; Is this the proper function of our government? The Orlando Sentinel has a critique of the recent Water Resources Development Act.&#xA0; In an &#34;Other Views&#34; piece called &#34;Beachfront pork: Bad science and bad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CNN: Billions of jellyfish wipe out Northern Ireland salmon farm</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/11/cnn-billions-of-jellyfish-wipe-out-northern-ireland-salmon-farm/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/11/cnn-billions-of-jellyfish-wipe-out-northern-ireland-salmon-farm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m trying to imagine a layer of jellyfish that is 10 square miles in area and 35 feet thick.&#xA0; Not a pretty site.&#xA0; Read it here.]]></description>
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		<title>Weeks later ~ palm trees still the focus of California fire images</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/11/weeks-later-palm-trees-still-the-focus-of-california-fire-images/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/11/weeks-later-palm-trees-still-the-focus-of-california-fire-images/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 15:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You won&#8217;t find many images of the recent California fires in the media that don&#8217;t contain palm trees.&#xA0; The Huffington Post front page today has a new one up with an article claiming that perhaps more could have been done to stop the fires: Surely there must be other things in Southern California to take [...]]]></description>
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