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Red Hot Poker Plant (Kniphofia uvaria ’Grandiflora’), getting ready to bloom.
As you would expect from the name, they look like this when they are in full bloom:
I've got them in my yard in Flagstaff, Arizona.
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Two tombs restored, opened to public
CAIRO: Two tombs of ancient Egyptian high officials near the Great Pyramid were opened to public after the completion of their renovation work, announced Antiquities Minister Mamdouh el-Damaty Monday.
Started in 2010, the renovation of the two tombs resumed after a three-year hiatus due to the political turmoil that followed the January 25 Revolution, head of the Projects Department at the Antiquities Ministry Waad Allah Abul Ela told The Cairo Post Tuesday.
According to Abul Ela, “The restoration work on the two tombs included cleaning and reinforcing walls and installing lighting and ventilation systems. New ceilings and roofs have been added as well as wooden floor coverings.” Read more.
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Tossing Out Food In The Trash?
In Seattle, you’ll be fined for that…
While some are accusing Seattle of “shaming” residents who do not follow a new law requiring them to separate food waste (the shame factor would be in the form of clearly visible red tags on non-compliant, street-side garbage cans), other cities across the nation are watching with interest to see how it all plays out.
And for good reason: The Washington Post notes, “food waste has become a growing problem in cities across the United States—the country throws out more food than plastic, paper, metal, or glass.”
Seattle is the 1st U.S. city to require residents to separate food waste in the hopes that the move will also encourage more recycling and composting.
What about San Francisco?
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Prague (by Michal Vitásek)
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I don’t know what happened to the Future. It’s as if we lost our ability, or our will, to envision anything beyond the next hundred years or so, as if we lacked the fundamental faith that there will in fact be any future at all beyond that not-too- distant date. Or maybe we stopped talking about the Future around the time that, with its microchips and its twenty-four-hour news cycles, it arrived.
Michael Chabon, The Omega Glory
Futurelessness is an attribute of the postnormal era. We are confronted with so much fog — from a cascade of ambiguities, the dissolution of institutions and the collapse of solidarity, and the growing complexities of an incestuously interconnected world — that we are blocked from envisioning some extrapolated arc of history over the event horizon. And there is so much appearing and smacking us in the face everyday, it’s as if the present has been colonized by the future. As William S. Burroughs put it,
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
(via stoweboyd)
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Recipe: Cinnamon-Vanilla Banana Milkshake This guilt-free indulgence is a great way to satisfy your sweet tooth and your nutritional needs.
Yes!