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I'm carried out utilizing this thing. Claire, on the off chance that you look, you ought to have administrator controls here now. Don't hesitate to commie things up around here. On the off chance that you have any html format questions, I'll be more than eager to answer them. Perhaps I'll post some of the time here, yet presumably not.

Why?

Long story give the ax, I don't generally like fanatic governmental issues any more. Yes, in the event that I could vote in the not so distant future, I would vote in favor of Kerry/Edwards. That being said, I'm basically disturbed with both sides and the way they're acting (on the off chance that you'd like samples, I could arrange a rundown, yet I don't imagine that is truly important, since I don't really need to go down my perspectives in this example), and issues interest me more than partisanship. Anyway writes don't have a tendency to be about "issues" in essence. They're for the most part about picking one side of the range and safeguarding it, which I'm terrible at on the grounds that I am strongly left on a few issues and quite right on others.

Claire, good luck. Live it up. Change the title on the off chance that you'd like (in spite of the fact that that could derail things as far as connecting, since this website is interfaced in heaps of online journal registries  including poliblogger: energizing, huh?- as "dart frog on a cactus").

Poison dart frog

Poison dart frog is the common name of a group of frogs in the family Dendrobatidae which are native to Central and South America. These species are diurnal and often have brightly colored bodies. Although all wild dendrobatids are at least somewhat toxic, levels of toxicity vary considerably from one species to the next and from one population to another. Many species are threatened. These amphibians are often called "dart frogs" due to the Amerindians' indigenous use of their toxic secretions to poison the tips of blowdarts. However, of over 175 species, only four have been documented as being used for this purpose, all of which come from the Phyllobates genus, which is characterized by the relatively large size and high levels of toxicity of its members.

Sea urchin

Taxonomy

Sea urchins are members of the phylum Echinodermata, which also includes sea stars, sea cucumbers, brittle stars, and crinoids. Like other echinoderms they have fivefold symmetry (called pentamerism) and move by means of hundreds of tiny, transparent, adhesive "tube feet". The symmetry is not obvious in the living animal, but is easily visible in the dried test. "Echinodermate" means "spiny skin" in Greek.

Specifically, the term "sea urchin" refers to the "regular echinoids," which are symmetrical and globular. The term includes several different taxonomic groups: the order Echinoida, the order Cidaroida or "slate-pencil urchins", which have very thick, blunt spines, and others. Besides sea urchins, the class Echinoidea also includes three groups of "irregular" echinoids: flattened sand dollars, sea biscuits, and heart urchins.

Together with sea cucumbers (Holothuroidea), they make up the subphylum Echinozoa, which is characterized by a globoid shape without arms or projecting rays. Sea cucumbers and the irregular echinoids have secondarily evolved diverse shapes. Although many sea cucumbers have branched tentacles surrounding the oral opening, these have originated from modified tube feet and are not homologous to the arms of the crinoids, sea stars, and brittle stars.

Tuesday, July 27, 2004

Underwhelmed, for the most part, with today's convention speeches. Barak Obama, US Senate candidate from Illinois, was very good, not as good as Clinton or even Edwards, but still very good. Ron Reagan's speech on stem cell research was an interesting change of pace, but no one in America watched it.

Andrew Sullivan said it best yesterday:
I think [Bill Clinton] was better last night than at either of his own conventions and certainly better than any of his SOTUs. He performed a brilliant rhetorical trick: he deployed the usual canards used against him to buttress Kerry. Rather than attack the wealthy as recjpients of tax cuts, he attacked himself as a now-wealthy man. And then the coup de grace: he put himself and Bush in the same camp as draft-dodgers, in stark comparison to the patriotic Kerry! My jaw was on the floor at that point in a mixture of admiration and horror. But it was mighty effective. And the way in which he described the cost of the tax cut in terms of squandered attempts to improve homeland defense was another smart move. Use the Republican tax cut issue against the Republican security issue. Wedge against them for once. If the constitution didn't prevent it, the man would still be president. After last night's speech, you can see why.