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		<title>Lei&#8217;ing down the line in Congress on health insurance reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which came first, the political insult with the lei or the political insult about the lei?  In a segment called “The Men Who Stare at Votes,” Jon Stewart took Rep. Michele Bachmann to task for her comment about a Hawaiian couple who came to Washington to help stop the health insurance reform bill: “Last Friday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crayola Crayon Color Names ~ Rain = Pain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you wanted more feeling from the images that are thrust in front of you and your kids every day, Crayola has taken steps to give it to you with its new color names.&#160; Three of them are relevant here: Best Friends, Fun in the Sun, and Super Happy.&#160; Here they are from their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tiffany conch and diamond Chrysanthemum Brooch ~ what do you call an octopus with 31 legs?</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2008/01/tiffany-conch-and-diamond-chrysanthemum-brooch-what-do-you-call-an-octopus-with-31-legs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jewels]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you think that this Tiffany &#38; Co. brooch looks more like an octopus than a chrysanthemum, your instincts might not be too far off: &#160; Its petals are carved from a single conch shell, and the piece has an exquisite and rare conch diamond weighing in at 25 carats.&#160;&#160; This is one of those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ford Escape Hybrid &#8216;most fuel-efficient SUV&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/12/ford-escape-hybrid-most-fuel-efficient-suv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advertising]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You wouldn&#8217;t know that this opening shot of a Flash ad from NationalGeographic.com is for an SUV: Just because a car is more fuel efficient than others doesn&#8217;t make it fuel efficient or green.&#160; But Ford wants us to believe that the Escape literally sits in a beautiful field of sunflowers: I&#8217;m not buying it.&#160; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poinsettia ~ Did you know?</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/12/poinsettia-did-you-know/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima), the popular holiday plant that appears in wintry white places across the country, is actually a warm-weather, sub-tropical coastal plant from the Pacific side of the Americas.&#160; The red parts of the plant are actually not the flowers; they&#8217;re bracts.&#160; The yellow part contains the flower. The use of poinsettias in Christmas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dutch might build a tulip-shaped island</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/12/the-dutch-might-build-a-tulip-shaped-island/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Emma Thomasson at the UK&#8217;s Guardian, some people in the Netherlands are pushing a Dubai-like plan to build an island in the shape of a tulip.&#160; Unlike the other islands that are being built exclusively for (terrible) aesthetic reasons, those involved with this one say that it&#8217;s supposedly to help flooding problems, along [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The BASF Biodegradable plastic bag flower</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/11/the-basf-biodegradable-plastic-bag-flower/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/11/the-basf-biodegradable-plastic-bag-flower/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The scale of an object is such an important element in any photo.&#xA0; I was proud of this Ecoflex plastic bag flower ad find from BASF in which they tout their new biodegradable plastics: Then someone saw the ad on my desk and said she was appalled by what she thought the yellow center was.&#xA0; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White Cat Brand Inhaler ~ Breathe in the tropics</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/11/white-cat-brand-inhaler-breathe-tropics-air/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/11/white-cat-brand-inhaler-breathe-tropics-air/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 14:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medium to Paradise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pharmaceuticals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Small towns can reveal some of the most interesting products.&#xA0; This picture was taken in a little shop in Orland, Maine: I have never heard of this product before.&#xA0; What exactly could a small plastic tube contain that transports you to the tropics?&#xA0; You can sense all four seasons if you believe this display, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Postal Service Flower Stamps and Guam</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/11/us-postal-service-flower-stamps-and-guam/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/11/us-postal-service-flower-stamps-and-guam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beaches]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of the more beautiful stamps by the postal service are the Beautiful Blooms seen here (click to enlarge): You might also like to get a good tropical island stamp like this one: Thank you, Guam!&#xA0; More power to you if you can pronounce &#34;Hag&#xE5;t&#xF1;a Bay,&#34; where this was taken.&#xA0; I like the fact that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sony Playstation 3 ~ Universe of Entertainment</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/11/sony-playstation-3-universe-of-entertainment/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/11/sony-playstation-3-universe-of-entertainment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 03:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Butterflies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of AdForum&#8217;s Top 5 ads this week is for the Sony Playstation 3.&#xA0; It is black-and-white industry with cuts to color game scenes.&#xA0; It starts out with this weird wheel of widgets, and they zoom on on these flowers on top that bloom and zoom into the stamen and pistil, which are actually a [...]]]></description>
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