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When I looked back at my notes from seed season last year, I saw that of the 25 tomato seeds I planted only 10 germinated and none of the chilli seeds germinated.  I only planted heirloom seeds last year and was hoping for a bumper 2015 tomato year, in fact it was the worst year in my planting history!

I think we gardener’s are the eternal optimists,  a new season brings fresh hope of bumper crops and past failures are just that, in the past!

This year I have been better at sowing and getting my seeds to germinate, what’s different this  year I hear you ask?

  • I did my first sowing 27th July a whole month earlier than last year.
  • Purchased all new seed from Lambley in Victoria.
  • Set up a misting system in the green house.
  • Used my heat mat for all Chillies and Capsicums.

I am super happy to say that all of my tomato’s & capsicums have germinated, the new tomato seeds from Lambley are  hybrid F1, I chose Elmo a mini grape and Roma masai a roma, 8 of each, from what I have read they have good disease resistance which is what I wanted after last year.

I didn’t plant any significant crops over winter so most of my beds are ready to be planted out, I have been harvesting lettuces, beetroots, carrots, coriander, parsley.

Plenty of seed sowing still to be done:

  • beetroot    10-14 days to germinate
  • carrot         14-21
  • beans          7-10
  • chives        10-14
  • coriander  10-14
  • dill               10-12
  • lettuce         6-10
  • pak choi      7-10
  • peas              7-10
  • rocket           6-10

Jobs to do and events to go to

Keep on top of weed management, which means don’t let any weeds go to seed!

In Adelaide Sat 24th Sept the Seed freedom festival is on again at the market shed on holland St. here is my review from last year it was fantastic.

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Adelaide again, the happy patch community garden is having their spring fair 17th Sept.

I am hoping to go to both so might see you there.

If you are on Instagram or twitter say hi, I’m gardeninghands I would love to see your gardens.

Thanks to the girls from Garden share collective, Kate and Krystie who each month encourage us to share our gardens and what we are growing.

My spring garden

My garden has been looking glorious, I did a lot of work in winter, pruning, weeding, fertilizing and have reaped the rewards this spring.

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These photos are from my Mediterranean garden which is out the back, it’s the first part of my backyard with a low fence that separates it from the vege garden, it’s really to keep the dog out.

I have developed this garden to be heat tolerant and picked plants that have low water requirements, I have irrigated this area with the brown dripper line and try to only water every 10 days in Summer.  I mulch heavily and choose Forest Mulch from a local company called Jeffries, Its fine grade, natural looking mulch, full of composted organic matter that conditions your soil as well as reducing evaporation.

I have loosely modeled this area on the gardens at Diggers and Lambley who also have nurseries and locally a great nursery in the hills called Tupelo Grove where I have purchased my plants over the years.

The plants I have chosen have to look good to me, flower, be perennial, come from similar climates where the temperatures in summer exceed 40 degrees and have little rainfall.

  • Helianthemum – a small spreading ground cover which loves the sun I have about 6 of them, lemon and pink.
  • Salvia snow white
  • Achillea moonshine, green-grey feathery foliage which produces flat heads of yellow flowers.
  • Perovskia blue spire again with grey foliage and purple flowers from Iran.
  • Buddleia royal red, for the butterflies.
  • Salvia Nemorosa – Lubbeca, clumping  with fantastic blue spire flowers I have about 8 of them.
  • Scabiosa or pinwheels, again for the butterflies, they are great filler plants.
  • Cerastium – a grey ground cover with small white flowers this is in the foreground of my photos.
  • Agastache – this is one of my favourite plants, the pink flowers last all spring and summer.
  • Penstemon, i have a couple of red ones.

Behind the fence – orchard and vege garden

I thinned out all of the fruit trees, looking for where buds had grown multiple fruit.  I still do this when I walk past if I think they are too close together or a branch is hanging low.

I pulled out all of the winter crops, broccoli that had finished flowering, of the 6 mini cabbage I planted I harvested 1 the rest were eaten by caterpillars or didn’t form heads.  I have harvested some monster beets and lots of rhubarb and netted the strawberries leaving out the huge borage bush at the end of the strawberry patch.

I am only just planting my summer crops, they have been waiting in the greenhouse, I am super late!  We have been building a new fence out the front which has taken all of our time, it’s close to being finished just needs rendering and some posts which are out of my area of expertise so I’m free to go back to the garden, yay!!

Hope your gardens are growing well and if you’re in Adelaide, some rain finally!!

Seed Freedom Food Festival a review

Adelaide is very lucky to have a group of people who are passionate about sharing and educating  us on our basic human right to save seed and grow our own organic food, working with the Earth and not against her.  This is the premise behind the Seed Freedom Festival and on Saturday 26th September I attended the 2nd festival held at the Market Shed on Holland in Adelaide.

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The Market Shed on Holland is as the name suggests a huge market shed, a perfect location for the festival.  It started at 10am and being in the city on a Saturday which is also market day, I gave myself an hour to drive in and find a park.  I parked on South Tce under shade and had a short 5 minute walk in.

The area in front of the main building was a feast for the eyes, there was a stage for live music, a garden tool swap area, lots of good food for sale, booths for information on permaculture & bees, stall holders selling plants, seedlings and seeds all this before I even got to the big shed!

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The signposting and decorations were magnificent, the first thing I saw was a big welcome sign and the information area, I grabbed a timetable had a quick look at when the workshops started and had a look around.

There was a huge seed swap, I had made up some seed packets to swap of saved seed and some diggers seeds I had, I haven’t been to a seed swap before, it was a lot of fun! I went up there 4 times during the day and each time found something new, I came home with 4 new packets of seeds, 2 new chillies, purple ruffled basil and turnip seeds.  There were hundreds of packets of seeds on the table it was a great sight.

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My next stop was the food swap table, I took in a big bag of lemons and some herbs and exchanged them for half a dozen eggs, again there was plenty on the table to choose from, silverbeet, seedlings, flowers, eggs, oranges, a huge variety of winter surplus from peoples gardens.

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There were 3 workshop areas, all signposted very well and with plenty of seating and good audio so hearing was no problem.  Over the day there were 20 speakers, all of the workshops were free and the speakers like everyone who organized this fantastic event donated their time and expertise.

I wish I could of gone to all of them, they were either 30 or 60 minute workshops with the opportunity for questions and time to chat with the speaker at the end, below are short summaries of the ones I attended:

  • Backyard permaculture – Nadja Osterstock. Nadja spoke about the principles of permaculture and gave practical examples of how they would work in your backyard.

  • Traditional & sustainable fruit tree pruning – Simon Ardill.  Simon said he likes to grow apricots on a non suckering plum root-stock, satsuma is good.  He suggested take a few years to develop a good framework at the expense of early fruit.
  • Backyard Biodiversity – Alistair Martin.  Alistair spoke about the abundance of backyard produce and how to share this excess.  Ripe near me is an app  which helps gardeners list excess produce and others find it.  I have used it and can recommend it.
  • The magic harvest program – Tori Arbon. Tori spoke about being inspired by the book 1 magic square and how she has been able to start a community program using the same principles and invited us to initiate it in our own communities.
  • Small scale farming: tools & techniques – Nat Wiseman. Nat started the wagtail farm which was the size of an urban backyard.  He bought in tools that the home gardener can use to make weeding, planting seed and tilling soil easier.  He now farms on a larger scale but still uses the same tools.  He said he farms using the principles of Eliot Coleman who wrote The new organic grower.  He suggested sowing seed every week in the green house so you always have something to plant out.

In between these fantastic workshops I had a very tasty pizza from the wood oven on site, there was a lot of very good food to choose from.  Purchased a couple of seedlings for the garden, and chatted to some lovely people with similar interests.

It was a day connecting with like minded people, talking and listening about all things gardens, it was a perfect day for me, I look forward to next year and highly recommend it to you all if you are in my neck of the woods in September 2016.

Here is the link to the Seed Freedom Food Festival for all updates.

Seed update for GSC

I often write about seeds, I did a quick search on the blog and found 9 posts that had something to do with seed buying, planting, growing, looking, dreaming….. I think you get the picture and you may have read some of these past posts.

Growing from seed is one of my greatest pleasures in gardening, I love waiting and anticipating the first sight of green from the soil.  I  decided that I would try and grow as many flower and vegetable seedlings myself this season and try not to buy any.

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I started August 20th, I made soil blocks for my fist batches, I have 2 heating mats and used these as well.  I was very happy with my first batch of flower seeds most of them germinated, I have salvia, rudbeckia, scabiosa, poppies, zinnia, corn cockle and cosmos about 40 seedlings to plant, a great success for me.

My vegetable seeds I planted at the end of August, I have been very unhappy with the germination rate. I have had to re-seed tomatoes 3 times and of the 25 I planted I have 10 germinate. Capsicums and chillies have been shocking, I have had them on the heating mat as they need heat to germinate and again have done 3 re-seeds and only 2 germinated. No chillies have come up yet, basil only 1 plant, beans super slow to germinate, no eggplants and I can see a couple of cucumber shoots only now.

I am still sowing seeds and will continue to do it weekly, I think I will have to buy some single advance seedlings to have some early crops but fingers crossed for some of the capsicums to sprout as I was really excited about the varieties I found.

  • Fennel
  • Peas
  • Coriander, it’s going to seed now
  • The last of the broccoli
  • Celery
  • Lettuce
  • Beetroot
  • Lots of spring flowers

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Jobs to do

I need to connect the irrigation for my 3 new garden beds, I bought a 50m roll of water pipe which I use to make the shade structures for my beds have a few more to make.  Get ready for early October planting.

Thanks to the girls from Garden share collective, Lizzie, Kate and Krystie who each month encourage us to share our gardens and what we are growing. I have really enjoyed having a theme to write about, thanks girls

Mondays vase, spring Irises

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While at the Melbourne garden festival in March this year there were a couple of the big bulb tents, I must of been in each of them for about 45 minutes agonizing about what to get for the front garden,I didn’t have a plan so had to wing it.

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In today’s vase I have cut some of the Irises I put in, an oldie but a goody the dutch Iris blue magic.  I bought a bag of 25 and planted them in clumps, they are all opening up now and I love how you get the double flower on the single stem.

Thanks to Cathy for this wonderful idea of filling a vase from the garden and sharing it with each other.

The greenhouse review – September

I started sowing seeds the last week of August, I have a heated mat in my workshop where I started the first tray of flower seedlings and have now moved them to the greenhouse.  I started them off in the soil blocks I made and they have continued to do well, the block are half coir which helps with retaining moisture and not dry out too quickly.

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Grown from seed

  • Rudbeckia –  Indian summer
  • corn cockle – ocean pearl
  • Salvia – blue monday
  • Scabiosa – mixed
  • Borage
  • Zinnia – red spider
  • Poppy – jelly beans
  • Cosmos – sea shells
  • Calendula
  • Orlaya
  • Lots of tomatoes and capsicums when they sprout!!

My biggest challenge in the greenhouse is the radiating heat, we are only 2 weeks into spring and I have noticed that my newly sprouted seedlings and trays waiting to sprout have been drying out and have to be watered twice a day which is tricky.

The entrance of the greenhouse faces north and will be shaded by the apricot tree when it comes into leaf the same with the  western side, it’s shaded by the nectarine, there is a fence on the eastern and southern aspects. This weekend just gone Mr GH. has made 2 removable shade frames to help reduce the amount of sun and we have removed 2 panels in the western wall for more ventilation.  The largest panel is on the western side and one for the roof, we used white shade cloth which is 50% UV block and being white it reflects the heat.

I am really looking forward to seeing how it reduces that radiating heat over the coming months, making it possible to grow seedlings for longer in the greenhouse.

Every month Julie hosts a review of her greenhouse and invites us all to share what is happening in ours, thanks for having a look.


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Cloud cover gradually builds through out the day. Here is today’s forecast for Wednesday, December 19, 2018

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Today’s Forecast for Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Good morning everyone, this morning you will want to bundle up becuase it is cold outside. During the writing of this forecast we are sitting in the 20s. Temperatures will go up about 20 more degrees today though. So, expect a high of 49 and don’t be surprised if someone makes it to 50 degrees today. Our low will be around 33.

We will also have mostly cloudy skies today. It is important to note that cloud cover in general will increase as we head through the day. Cloud cover is increasing ahead of a low-pressure system that will bring rain and snow to the area starting tomorrow.

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This is the best thing going for boiling water on the trail - the primary lead-up to dining on anything other than snacks or sandwiches. Whether for adding boiling water to a pre-packaged freeze-dried mix or for coffee or tea, this versatile "kettle" gets the job done. Featherweight at 4.2 ounces, this titanium large cup/small pot/mug holds 3 cups of liquid, and readily conducts heat to the water for a fast boil. This size is adequate for most trail applications - most mixes are looking for anywhere from 1-2 cups, so it's perfect for that. The standard fuel canister for the backpacking stove we carry nests inside the kettle for maximum space efficiency. The lid fits like a tight glove, and will not fall off when pouring. The kettle has two folding handles that remain fairly cool for handling.

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Whale forming in tailings pond over peat

Geosynthetica has some interesting photos of so called ‘whales’ in geomembranes. These giant bubbles are caused by a variety of things, but are essentially gas trapped underneath the geomembrane that can have significant buoyant force, and as the title of the post implies, even concrete ballast may not be strong enough to weight them down. [Source: geosynthetica.net. Image: FLI via geosynthetica.net]

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How Mainz Changed the Way We Read

Despite the far-reaching consequences of Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press, much about the man remains a mystery, buried deep beneath layers of Mainz history.

The German city of Mainz lies on the banks of the River Rhine. It is most notable for its wine, its cathedral and for being the home of Johannes Gutenberg, who introduced the printing press to Europe. Although these things may seem unconnected at first, here they overlap, merging and influencing one another.

It was Gutenberg who invented Europe’s first movable metal type printing press, which started the printing revolution and marks the turning point from medieval times to modernity in the Western world. Although the Chinese were using woodblock printing many centuries earlier, with a complete printed book, made in 868, found in a cave in north-west China, movable type printing never became very popular in the East due to the importance of calligraphy, the complexity of hand-written Chinese and the large number of characters. Gutenberg’s press, however, was well suited to the European writing system, and its development was heavily influenced by the area from which it came.


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The Escolar-offspring dominate the qualification of the Westphalian Championship of four-year-old mares and geldings.

Out of the large field 18 horses were placed in two tests, Escolar presented nine of the riding horses and also both winners. A development, which had already been obvious last year, and which continues in Muenster-Handorf now again: The sire Escolar has become indispensable.

The victory in the first class went to Eyleen MT by Escolar-Laurentianer (br: Josef Ulmker) under Melanie Tewes with a total score of 8.40, Rebecca Holtwiesche and Estero placed third. Likewise our Escolar daughter Evita and Tanja Fischer, both pairs received a total grade of 8,10. Hermann Burger and the Escolar-Dimaggio-son Eric took fifth place with 7.90, Emsfee AS ranked seventh under Christian Schulze Topphoff as well as Equador under Pascal Kandziora.

The second class was won by Escomark Escolark-Fidermark under Katrin Schmale with a total score of 8.30, David Lessnig and the Escolar-Kaiser Franz-daughter Edina took fourth place. Escape (Florenciano-dam) under Lefke Bennemann ranked fourth, too.

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Users also have a role to play in keeping their data safe. We encourage you to use a unique and hard-to-guess password for your account and to not share it with others. You should only grant access rights to people who you know and trust, and, even then, you should be careful in granting all access rights. You should monitor your account regularly. If you believe that someone has gained access to your account without your permission, please contact us immediately so that we can investigate.

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A family member of the Boyfriend died of cancer yesterday.  I won’t go into that here because his family isn’t one to broadcast anything about them, and I want to respect that.

What has been on my mind lately is something that a hospice nurse said to us while we were sitting in the hospice room for Boyfriend’s family member: “I’m not really religious or anything, but what I do believe is that angels come to us before we die.  I’ve had patients, right before they pass, begin talking to people who aren’t in the room.  When I ask them who they are speaking to, they’ll say a spouse or their parent who has been long gone.  I had one patient say right before he died: ‘Amazing.’  So I truly believe that our loved ones come to us before we die, and they take us to where we’re going next.”

Most of my friends and family members rarely hear me discuss religion or anything spiritual.  Heck, I bet some would guess I’m atheist (I’m not).

I was raised Catholic, and when I turned 16 and had my confirmation, my father told me that I was an adult in the church’s eyes.  If I didn’t want to go to church, I didn’t have to go.  So I didn’t, much to some of my family members’ dismay.  My father never pressured me to return to church, which I am grateful for.  I’ve had issues with the Catholic religion based on their social views, and because of that, it’s not been a religion I want to associate myself with.  I felt then, and I still do to this day, the Catholic Church is behind the times, and it’s oppressive.

Good little Catholic girl?

The God I choose to believe in is not a spiteful or vengeful God, and He created us all in his likeness.  I remember one time, in high school, this girl in my yearbook class was on this rant about homosexuality.  She was talking about how it’s a sin, according to the Bible.  When I asked her the last time she went to church or read the bible, she cursed me out.   (Yeah, I wasn’t popular in high school.)

While I haven’t been to a church or service, really, for most of my adult life, I haven’t stopped believing.   Most of my belief in God and heaven is tied up with my mom.  I want to believe that I will see her again, and I’ve always felt her presence in my life when I needed strength.  When I was in an emergency room in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, after experiencing the then-most tragic event in my life, I was talking to her in between sobbing.

When I heard the hospice nurse talk about those about who are about to die who see their loved ones, I almost lost it.  (I waited until I was in the car by myself before sobbing.)  I have no doubt that my mother would be there, my grandfather (her father) and my grandmother (my dad’s mother) will be those who I see.  The idea that while still alive, I’ll still see my lost loved ones again filled my heart in a way I hadn’t felt, probably ever.  In that moment in the hospice room, I physically felt my beliefs, if that makes sense.  I was overcome with such extreme emotion that I was afraid I was going to make a scene in front of Boyfriend’s family, which would have been the absolute worse.

The nurses there also reminded me that there are angels on Earth.  Those who provide hospice care to the dying are absolute angels.  To do what they do, day in and day out, I’m just blown away.  It definitely takes a special type of person to be surrounded by death and their grieving loved ones, and still be smiling and asking, “What can I do for you?”

Even those this wasn’t my family member dying, it was still awful to watch him/her dying.   Watching anybody dying is pretty horrifying.  This was my first time being so death-adjacent after my own cancer diagnosis, and it was frightening to watch.  I felt bad for the actual person dying, helpless watching Boyfriend and his family be so distraught, and then guilty for wondering, “Is this my future?”

Boyfriend’s family member is at peace and no longer suffering.  I hope whoever greeted him/her onto his next journey was someone incredibly special.

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest from it.”

Mark Twain


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Should You Accept the Policy Limit of the Faulty Party if it Doesn’t Cover All the Damages? Let Our Personal Accident Attorneys in Las Vegas Help

Car Accident Insurance

No one plans to get into a car accident. As such, there are many Americans, particularly those on tighter budgets, who opt for the lowest priced motor insurance policies that only meet state minimum liability requirements. In Nevada, that minimum required amount of auto insurance coverage is $15,000 per person with a total maximum of $30,000 per incident and as much as $10,000 for property damage to be paid out to accident victims only if the policy holder is found at-fault.

So what happens if you get in an accident and the other at-fault driver only has this basic 15/30/10 policy, but that amount doesn’t cover all of your damages? Remember, the underlying purpose of liability vehicle insurance is to provide financial and legal protection following an at-fault accident. If your damages exceed what the at-fault driver’s insurance is willing to pay, then your primary recourse is through civil litigation. The following is a quick look at insurance laws and what our personal accident attorneys in Las Vegas can do to help you recover total damages.

Begin By Looking at All Applicable Policies

The first step you want to take is to claim all you can with the at-fault driver’s insurance policy. If you have uninsured or underinsured motor vehicle coverage, that policy should cover most, if not all, of your bills related to the accident (medical, lost wages, property) not covered by the at-fault driver’s insurance.

There may also be other available insurance policies available to provide coverage, such as policies covering resident relatives of the at fault driver, and the at fault vehicle owner’s policy.

Going After Assets

Thus, if after you have factored in all the applicable insurance policies and still find you have lost or owe money because of an accident that was not your fault, then the next step is to consider whether or not to go after assets beyond coverage offered by the at-fault driver’s insurer.

Personal accident attorneys in Las Vegas begin this process by determining the amount and type of assets held by the at-fault driver and whether or not their insurers should have paid more out to cover your damages. This is often followed by litigation.

Contact GGRM, the Personal Accident Attorneys in Las Vegas

If you have been in an accident and the faulty parties insurance doesn’t cover the policy limit, contact GGRM, the personal accident attorneys in Las Vegas, at 702-388-4476 for a free case consultation. GGRM has been helping clients through litigation for over 40 years and will help you receive the compensation you deserve.

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Personal Injury Attorneys in Las Vegas Walk You Through Steps to Take When Caught in a Flash Flood

As an urban area, the streets of Las Vegas can flood faster than those in the suburbs. The most experienced personal injury attorneys in Las Vegas – at Greenman, Goldberg, Raby and Martinez – want you to be prepared for the dangerous and potentially fatal threat of flash flooding. Review the steps now, so you can retrieve the information if and when the sky opens up this summer and catches you unaware.

Heed weather alerts, personal injury attorneys in Las Vegas say

In fact, most people are caught off-guard by flash flooding. Alerts issued by the National Weather Service should be your first cue to pay attention to the threat. “Flash flooding usually begins within six hours, and often within three hours, of heavy rainfall,” The National Service says. Flash flooding is also caused by dam or levee breaks or mudslides, though they, too, are often triggered by heavy rains.

The intensity and duration of rainfall will influence how quickly flash flooding will occur – and where it may occur. Urban areas like Las Vegas, which are covered with concrete and asphalt, offer fewer places for water to go than suburban areas with more vegetation and open land. This is also why flash flooding can be highly centralized – leaving a road completely washed out in one region but merely damp only a few miles away.

The unpredictable nature of flash flooding points up three warnings to heed when you know flash flooding may occur, the cautious personal injury attorneys at Greenman, Goldberg, Raby and Martinez say:

  • Do not drive on unfamiliar roads.
  • Do not drive on low-lying roads or those under bridges.
  • Do not drive at night, when it’s particularly easy to misjudge the depth of water.

“Turn around, don’t drown!” National Weather Service says

If you encounter water on the road, “the single worst decision you can make in a flash flood is driving your vehicle into floodwaters of unknown depth,” says. Once your vehicle is floating, the floodwater becomes your steering wheel.

Even a large vehicle or SUV can be swept away by as little as 2 feet of water – or tipped on its side or overturned. In this scenario, try to remain calm and make getting out of your vehicle and reaching higher ground your goal. Then:

  • Turn on your headlights and hazard lights so emergency responders can see you.
  • Unbuckle your seat belt.
  • Unlock the doors.
  • Remove outer clothing so it doesn’t become water-logged and drag you under.
  • Lower the window, which should be possible unless your vehicle is submerged.
  • Alternatively, open the door, which may not be possible until the water pressure becomes equalized inside and outside your vehicle. Eventually, the door will open.
  • Swim to safety and call for help.

Contact the Personal Injury Attorneys in Las Vegas

If your heart is racing just reading these tips, you’ll have a better appreciation for why heeding weather alerts is your best line of defense against getting caught in a flash flood. Your second-best resource? The most skilled personal injury attorneys in Las Vegas at Greenman, Goldberg, Raby and Martinez, whose fundamental mission is keeping every Las Vegas resident safe from accidents and injuries of every type. Call GGRM at 702-388-4476 for a free consultation.

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coenzyme Q8B

The COQ8B gene provides instructions for making a protein that is involved in the production of a molecule called coenzyme Q10, which has several critical functions in cells throughout the body. In cell structures called mitochondria, coenzyme Q10 plays an essential role in a process called oxidative phosphorylation, which converts the energy from food into a form cells can use. Coenzyme Q10 is also involved in producing pyrimidines, which are building blocks of DNA, its chemical cousin RNA, and molecules such as ATP and GTP that serve as energy sources in the cell. In cell membranes, coenzyme Q10 acts as an antioxidant, protecting cells from damage caused by unstable oxygen-containing molecules (free radicals), which are byproducts of energy production.

At least 11 mutations in the COQ8B gene have been found to cause a disorder known as primary coenzyme Q10 deficiency. This rare disease usually becomes apparent in infancy or early childhood, but it can occur at any age. It can affect many parts of the body, most often the brain, muscles, and kidneys. The COQ8B gene mutations associated with this disorder greatly reduce or eliminate the function of the COQ8B protein, which prevents the normal production of coenzyme Q10. Studies suggest that a shortage (deficiency) of coenzyme Q10 impairs oxidative phosphorylation and increases the vulnerability of cells to damage from free radicals. A deficiency of coenzyme Q10 may also disrupt the production of pyrimidines. These changes can cause cells throughout the body to malfunction, which may help explain the variety of organs and tissues that can be affected by primary coenzyme Q10 deficiency.

Cytogenetic Location: 19q13.2, which is the long (q) arm of chromosome 19 at position 13.2

Molecular Location: base pairs 40,691,529 to 40,716,885 on chromosome 19 (Homo sapiens Annotation Release 109, GRCh38.p12) (NCBI)

Cytogenetic Location: 19q13.2, which is the long (q) arm of chromosome 19 at position 13.2
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  • aarF domain-containing protein kinase 4
  • ADCK4
  • atypical kinase COQ8B, mitochondrial isoform a
  • atypical kinase COQ8B, mitochondrial isoform b
  • coenzyme Q protein 8B
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Thingful upgrades its search engine for the internet of things

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Thingful, a startup out of the U.K., aims to build a search engine for the internet of things, and it has upgraded its beta effort with some new features. The site allows people to find connected devices, from shark monitors to Raspberry Pis, based on the object and where it is located.

For example, it might be great to discover a Netatmo weather station located within a block or two of your home. With Thingful, you could do that, and now with upgrades that let you add devices to your watch list you could actually get updates from that weather station every time it updates.

In addition to helping people find connected objects and their data, people can verify ownership of their things and then add those data streams to their Twitter or Facebook profiles, giving them a single view of all their devices. Ideally I’d like to use something like Freeboard as my platform and avoid annoying my friends and followers with constant weather updates.

But the site could help people tie into valuable resources. For example I like taking my dog for a walk near a creek that can sporadically flood, even if the rain is miles away. If there were sensors at the creek (and there might be given how my local watershed management authority gathers data) and they were on Thingful, before I hopped into the car and drove the four miles to get there I could check a weather station at the creek and water depth sensors for a sense of how muddy my dog might get if I make the trip. Instead of driving all the way there, seeing the ankle-deep mud and giving the dog her third bath of the week because I don’t have the heart to turn around without walking the trail, I can save her (and me) some bath-time drama.

The idea is to help build a true community of connected devices and use the resources and data already around us, as opposed to running out and building a system from scratch. Thingful founder Usman Haque discussed this idea on a podcast with me earlier this year and will also be talking about the community aspects of search and the internet of things at our Structure Connect event Oct. 21 and 22.

As a founder of Pachube, which was later purchased by [company]LogMeIn[/company] and became the Xively platform, Haque has been thinking about the internet of things for years, trying to build out some kind of organizing system that lets people share data as opposed to sending it up to some corporate entity. In a way his vision is similar to the web in the sense that hyperlinks let people refer back to all kinds of useful information without having to recreate it in their own sites. I’m not sure search is the right model for this effort, but the end goal is worth reaching.

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On August 21st, millions of Earthlings will gather to watch as a total solar eclipse sweeps across the centerline of the United States over the course of 90 minutes. For many, it’ll be once-in-a-life-time spectacle. But if you had a spacecraft on hand, you wouldn’t need to wait decades for the next total solar eclipse to arrive at a town near you—you could simply jet off to Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, or even Pluto. That’s because there’s a veritable zoo of solar eclipses occurring all across our solar system, all the time.

To be fair, none of these extraterrestrial eclipses is quite like the total solar eclipse here on Earth, where a quirk of celestial geometry causes the Moon to stack perfectly over the Sun, leaving a fiery ring of coronal jets to illuminate the sky. Some satellites, like Mars’ moon Phobos, are too small to engulf the Sun from the perspective of an observer on the planet, resulting in what astronomers call a transit. In other cases, like that of Saturn’s moon Titan, the angular size of the satellite in the sky is far greater than that of the Sun, resulting in a solar occultation. But that’s just the basics—eclipses, it turns out, come in all shapes and sizes, and studying them can tell us a lot about our cosmic neighborhood.

Tiny transits at Mars

For most other planets, we have to imagine what a solar eclipse would look like from the surface (or, in the case of a gas giant, the cloud-tops). But when it comes to Mars, we’ve actually seen quite a few.

Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems/Texas A&M Univ.

In 2004, NASA’s Spirit and Opportunity rovers captured six solar transits events from the surface of Mars—four involving the potato-shaped moon Phobos, another two starring the even runtier satellite Deimos. They were, according to a paper published in Nature the following year, the first direct images of satellites transiting the Sun from the surface of another planet. (Phobos eclipses had been observed indirectly even earlier, in data collected by NASA’s Viking lander and Soviet-led missions to Mars.)

Transit of Deimos, captured by Curiosity on September 18th, 2012. Because of its much higher orbit, Phobos appears much smaller relative to the disk of the Sun as compared with Curiosity. Image: NASA / JPL / MSSS / Emily Lakdawalla

According to Mark Lemmon, an astronomer at Texas A&M University and co-investigator on the Spirit and Opportunity rovers, early solar eclipse observations helped NASA refine the positions of Mars’ moons in the sky. “Despite observing Phobos and Deimos for 120 years from Earth, they’re small and far away,” Lemmon told Gizmodo. Before NASA’s rovers landed, “the uncertainty about where Phobos would be at any given time was about as big as Phobos.” Once eclipse observations had improved the orbits of the two moons, the European Space Agency’s Mars Express Orbiter was able to point its camera accurately enough to capture high-res images of both, Lemmon said.

Eclipse-watching on Mars has only gotten better, especially since NASA’s Curiosity rover landed in Gale Crater in August 2012. Just look at this footage Curiosity captured in 2013, of 14 mile-wide Phobos racing across the Sun, transforming our beloved star into an eerie cyclops monster over the course of 32 seconds:

“I think that’s the best shot of an eclipse [on Mars] we have,” Lemmon said of the Curiosity video, adding that the rover has continued to make solar eclipse observations since, including the eclipse shown below, which occurred this past May. Even though Spirit and Opportunity refined the positions of Mars’ moons more than a decade ago, there’s still plenty we can learn by watching their transits.

“Even now, while there’s no missing where Phobos and Deimos are, their orbits are changing all the time due to the push and pull of gravity,” from Mars, Lemmon explained. “In particular, Phobos raises a tiny tide on Mars—a slight displacement of the rock surface, which in turn leads to a gravitational pull on Phobos, changing its orbit. That is why Phobos is spiraling in toward Mars and will eventually be destroyed.”

Indeed, eclipses may be critical to figuring out how soon Phobos faces annihilation—and when Deimos will be cast away into deep space.

Hazy eclipses at Saturn

With 62 confirmed moons, Saturn’s skies offer myriad eclipse-viewing opportunities, from tiny solar transits to massive occultations to moons stacked atop other moons. But of all the gas giant’s many satellites, few produce an eclipse as otherworldly as Titan, a massive methane cauldron that challenges our understanding of the kinds of places life might emerge.

It was the Voyager 1 spacecraft that spotted the first solar occultation at Titan in 1980, according to a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal. As Titan swept across the Sun, Voyager captured some of the light that filtered through its hazy atmosphere, which scientists used to confirm that the moon’s skies are composed mostly of nitrogen. Since NASA’s Cassini probe arrived in orbit around Saturn in 2004, we’ve witnessed many other Titan eclipses, which we’ve used to probe the chemistry of the moon’s thick haze.

Some of what we’ve learned even has implications for understanding planets beyond our solar system.

Titan’s shadow on Saturn, as seen by Cassini in 2009. Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

In 2014, analyzing visible and infrared spectra collected by Cassini during solar occultations, researchers demonstrated that Titan absorbs, refracts, and scatters sunlight in ways that may obscure information about deeper parts of the atmosphere. This, the researchers wrote in a paper published in PNAS, could have ramifications for elucidating the atmospheres of exoplanets, particularly “super Earths.” “Haze has a dramatic effect on the transit spectra,” the researchers wrote, noting that it “substantially impacts the amount of information that can be gleaned.” This information could prove incredibly useful when the James Webb Space Telescope starts peering into the atmospheres of distant planets over the next few years.

But as valuable at the science is, astronomers are mostly drawn to Saturnian eclipses because of their sheer beauty.

“In most cases, we imaged eclipses because they are just wondrous events, at Saturn as they are on Earth,” Cassini imaging lead Carolyn Porco told Gizmodo. “It was part of my desire, from the very beginning of the [Cassini] mission, to turn our image-taking responsibilities at Saturn into a video documentary of everything there was to see there, including celestial motion.”

The rare, 42-year eclipse at Uranus

Solar eclipses are a fairly common for Jupiter and Saturn, but not so for Uranus, a planet which, in flagrant defiance of celestial convention, circles our Sun tipped over on its side, its spin axis almost perfectly aligned with its orbital plane. Because of Uranus’ funky tilt, its poles are alternately illuminated during its 84-year trip around the Sun. The moons, which circle Uranus in the band of rings stretched across the planet’s equator, only align edge-on with the Sun ever 42 years, making solar eclipses a rare event for this lopsided Ice Giant.

Hubble Space Telescope view of Uranus, its rings, and several of its moons. Image: NASA/Hubble

Rare, but not impossible to catch. In 2006, just as Uranus was approaching its summer equinox, the Hubble Space Telescope caught a never-before-seen-glimpse of the moon Ariel traversing the face of the ice giant and casting a shadow, or umbra, on the planet’s blue-green cloud tops. From the “surface” of Uranus, it would have looked like a solar eclipse.

Image: NASA, ESA, L. Sromovsky (University of Wisconsin, Madison), H. Hammel (Space Science Institute), and K. Rages (SETI)

“These observations were planned only to study the atmosphere of Uranus – the detection of Ariel and its shadow were purely serendipitous,” Heidi Hammel, Executive Vice President of AURA, who helped analyze the image while working at the Space Science Institute, told Gizmodo. “This moon shadow image is more a beauty shot than a science result.”

Lawrence Sromovsky, astronomer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who also helped analyze the image, noted that Ariel’s shadow creates a region of totality about the same size as the moon itself—a very different situation from what we see during an eclipse on Earth, where the area of total eclipse is fairly small, and surrounded by a much larger region of partial eclipse. This, he explained, is due to the fact that at Uranus, Ariel is roughly ten times bigger in the sky than the distant Sun.

As Uranus continued to approach the summer equinox, there were other eclipses of other large moons, including Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon. But Ariel’s eclipse was the money shot, and it’s likely to stay that way for a while—the next equinox at Uranus won’t be until 2049. Maybe, if we’re lucky, the weird world will have had another visitor by then.

Years of solar eclipse at Pluto

Pluto may seem like a cosmic castaway, taking 248 years to complete a single orbit some 3.7 billion miles from the Sun. Thankfully, it’s got Charon, a moon approximately half its size with which it’s locked in an endless gravitational embrace. And because Charon is so close—just 12,000 miles from Pluto—when eclipse season hits, eclipses happen a lot.

“When Pluto’s in eclipse season, twice during its 248 year orbit, because Pluto and Charon essentially orbit around each other every six days, you get an eclipse every six days,” Planetary Society astronomer Bruce Betts told Gizmodo. “Of course, they’re tidally locked,” meaning the two bodies never rotate with respect to one another, “so you’d have to be on the Charon-facing side to see it.” But if you were on the right side, you’d see solar eclipses quite regularly, and for years on end.

From 1985-1990, Pluto and Charon were constantly eclipsing each other. Astronomers used these events to determine the size and surface brightness of the two objects. Image: NASA

While regular eclipses would make Pluto terrible for solar farming, they’ve proven damn useful for astronomers. Before the New Horizons spacecraft zipped past Pluto in 2015, some of our best intel on the dwarf planet came from Charon’s incessant photobombing.

“The last eclipse season was not that long ago, and astronomers used the event—Charon in front of Pluto, Pluto in front of Charon—to resolve the two bodies,” Betts said. “They got a better idea of their size, brightness, and color.”

Indeed, the mutual eclipses of Pluto and Charon astronomers observed between 1985 and 1990 led to some of the very first “maps” of Pluto, including the image below, which shows a bright south polar region we now know to be a mixture of nitrogen and methane ice.

Pluto, circa 1990. Image: NASA

For comparison, this is what Pluto looks like today, two years after the New Horizons flyby.

Image: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Center/Chandra X-Ray Center

“The whole thing is pretty amazing,” Betts said, noting that the sunlight is so weak at Pluto astronomers had struggled to get any resolution at all on the icy world. “But the fact that it was so hard to study Pluto is what drove them to do it.”

There are many other incredible eclipses around the solar system we didn’t get into here—take Jupiter, whose four largest moons line up between the Sun and the gas giant with every single rotation due to the planet’s lack of axial tilt. “It never stops having eclipses,” Betts said. Or Neptune’s mysterious moon Despina, which a citizen scientist discovered transiting the sun when he re-analyzed old data from the Voyager 2 flyby in 2009.

Then, there’s the eclipse here on Earth. “In terms of eclipses across Solar System, ours is pretty special,” Noah Petro, a planetary geologist at NASA’s Goddard Spaceflight Center, told Gizmodo. “We have this configuration where the Moon perfectly [overlaps] the Sun, so that we can see the solar atmosphere. And it’s not only the size of our Moon, but the Moon at this point in time—in early lunar history, the Moon was too close.”

So, as you’re making your travel plans to hit the centerline of the eclipse on August 21st, enjoy the fact that what you’re about to see is special. But it’s also more than an Earthly phenomena. It’s a connection to a far grander celestial choreography that promises to dazzle observers for eons to come.

Correction: An earlier version of this post identified the Mars Express Orbiter as “NASA’s Mars Express Orbiter.” It is an ESA-led mission, with NASA collaborations. The author regrets the silly error.


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A new NASA-sponsored study shows that global methane emissions produced by livestock are 11 percent higher than estimates made last decade. Because methane is a particularly nasty greenhouse gas, the new finding means it’s going to be even tougher to combat climate change than we realized.

We’ve known for quite some time that greenhouse gases produced by cattle, sheep, and pigs are a significant contributor to global warming, but the new research, published in Carbon Balance and Management, shows it’s worse than we thought. Revised figures of methane produced by livestock in 2011 were 11 percent higher than estimates made in 2006 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)—a now out-of-date estimate.

It’s hard to believe that belches, farts, and poop from livestock could have any kind of global atmospheric effect, but it’s an issue of scale, and the nature of methane itself.

There are approximately 1.5 billion cows on the planet, each and every one of them expelling upwards of 30 to 50 gallons of methane each day. We typically think of farts as being the culprit, but belches are actually the primary source of cattle-produced methane, accounting for 95 percent of the problematic greenhouse gas.

And problematic it is. Methane is about 30 times more efficient at trapping the Sun’s radiative heat than carbon dioxide over a timescale of about a century. There may be more CO2 in the atmosphere than methane, but by unit, it’s the more destructive greenhouse gas. Both NASA’s Carbon Monitoring System research initiative and the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI) contributed to the study.

Wolf’s team re-evaluated the data used to produce the IPCC 2006 methane emissions estimates. The prior estimates were based on relatively modest rates of methane increases from 2000 to 2006, but things changed dramatically afterwards, increasing 10-fold over the course of the next 10 years. The new figures factor an 8.4 percent increase in methane emissions from digestion (otherwise known as “enteric fermentation”) in dairy cows and other cattle, and a 36.7 percent increase in methane from manure, compared to previous IPCC-based estimates. The new report shows that methane accounted for approximately 16 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2016. Other human activities, such as the production and transport of gas, oil and coal, along with the decay of our organic waste, also contribute to global methane emissions.

Importantly, the new estimates are 15 percent higher than global estimates produced by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and four percent higher than EDGAR (Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research).

“In many regions of the world, livestock numbers are changing, and breeding has resulted in larger animals with higher intakes of food,” noted Wolf in a release. “This, along with changes in livestock management, can lead to higher methane emissions.” To which she added: “Direct measurements of methane emissions are not available for all sources of methane. Thus, emissions are reported as estimates based on different methods and assumptions. In this study, we created new per-animal emissions factors—that is measures of the average amount of CH4 discharged by animals into the atmosphere—and new estimates of global livestock methane emissions.”

The new research shows that methane emissions slowed in the US, Canada, and Europe, but they’re rising elsewhere. Very likely, the rest of the world is catching up to first-world standards in terms of meat and dairy consumption.

“Among global regions, there was notable variability in trends in estimated emissions over recent decades,” said Ghassem Asrar, Director of JGCRI and a co-author of the new study. “For example, we found that total livestock methane emissions have increased the most in rapidly developing regions of Asia, Latin America, and Africa...We found the largest increases in annual emissions to be over the northern tropics, followed by the southern tropics.”

It’s not immediately clear how, or even if, these revised figures will impact livestock production or public policy, but at the individual level, it suggests we should cut back on our consumption of meat and dairy. The privilege we have over these animals, it would appear, now comes at a hefty price.

Update: An earlier version of this article included a statement suggesting that methane will exert a global warming potential 28 times greater than that of CO2 over then next 100 years. While methane has a unit for unit GWP that’s about 30 times that of CO2 on 100 year timescales, CO2 is still the dominant greenhosue gas in our atmosphere because there is so much more of it. The sentence in question has been removed.

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Fly TV Directors Cited for Contempt for Unauthorized Premier League Broadcast

The Directors of Nour Vision Ltd, operators of Fly TV in Ghana have been cited for contempt of court for the unauthorized airing of football matches of the Premier League (PL) in disregard of a pending injunction application.

Multichoice and SuperSport initiated a case against Fly TV at the Commercial Court, Accra in relation to the unauthorized broadcasts of the FIFA World Cup 2018, the PL and other television content rights violations. On 20th of June 2018, the High Court granted an injunction order against Nour Vision Ltd, operators of Fly TV restraining them from further airing of the football matches and the station subsequently stopped the broadcasts in compliance with the court order.

On 22 June 2018 Lawyers for SuperSport filed an application for interlocutory injunction to restrain Fly TV from broadcasting the football matches of the PL. On 3rd July 2018 when the application was due to be heard by the court, Lawyers for Nour Vision Ltd pleaded with the court for more time to enable them to file an affidavit in opposition but subsequently adopted all kinds of delay tactics to delay the hearing of the application for injunction until the legal vacation began on 1st August 2018.

With the start of the PL on 10 August, Fly TV began airing the PL football matches despite the pending injunction application which had not been moved because of their repeated pleas for adjournments. The two directors of the company namely Rabih Fahs and El Akhrass Akoghe have therefore been cited for contempt of court before a vacation court in Accra. The application which is seeking the imprisonment of the two directors is to be heard on 28 August 2018.

SuperSport Africa holds rights to major sports events including FIFA World Cup, Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Europa League, Champions League and La EUEFA Nations League) which are distributed by Multichoice Ghana through the DStv and GOtv platforms across Sub Sahara Africa.

According to Cecil Sunkwa Mills, General Manager, MultiChoice Ghana, “we will continue to collaborate with the necessary authorities to protect our content from illegal broadcasting/re-broadcasting”.

For more information on the official list of authorized broadcasters of the major leagues across for Sub-Saharan Africa.


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A simple system, a perfume outstanding: elegant and decorative Fleur de Goatier Christen Aroma Miel Vanille - Goa is a decorative set (fragrance diffuser +) home consists of a round base and a flower, simple and easy to use.

Just pour the perfume liquid into the ceramic rope and plunge to flower into the liquid so that it stands on the stand. Then you need to wait a day, while the fragrance is absorbed and begin to spread throughout the house.

After a first use, you can reactivate your flower with a new refill perfume GOA. When changing fragrance is necessary to replace the flower.

Despite all the care manufacturer, ceramics can become porous. Therefore, do not place on surfaces of wood, plastic or delicate surfaces.

Miel Vanille is a scent of acacia honey with golden tones that joins chestnut honey for more woody aroma. Heated with flavoursome notes of vanilla sugar, shows a warm aroma and mildly sexy. How to resist the flavor of this irresistible temptation.

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You can revive your flower after some time by using a Goa fragrance refill or replace the flower if you decide to use a new fragrance. The colours change in line with a number of criteria: for exemple the temperature of the room.

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Lawmakers of the Makabayan bloc on Thursday lambasted US President Donald Trump’s $2-million pledge for “drug demand reduction programs” in the Philippines, saying this would only lead to more human rights violations under the Duterte administration’s antidrug campaign.

ACT Teachers Rep. Antonio Tinio said the pledge would violate the United States’ own federal law prohibiting the grant of foreign aid to countries with records of human rights violations.

“The human rights violations of the police and the military under President Duterte are very clear. It is very clear that US federal law will be violated if (the US government) gives aid,” Tinio said in a press briefing.

Paragraph 2151n of Title 22, Chapter 32, of the US Code prohibits the grant of assistance to “the government of any country which engages in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights.”

Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate said Trump’s pledge, briefly disclosed in a White House statement dated Nov. 15, could “only result (in) further violation of human rights.”

Zarate said this showed United States’ “hypocrisy” in its grant of foreign assistance, even as the Philippine government allegedly committed human rights violations not only in its bloody “war on drugs,” but also in quelling political dissent.

“It’s not just the [Philippine] government that should be held accountable. The American government should be held accountable, too, for propping up regimes that violate human rights,” Zarate said.

Tinio added that Trump did not address the Philippines’ “human rights issues,” or even the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar, during the recently concluded Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit.

This showed the United States’ greater interest in “maintaining its military hegemony in the Asia-Pacific,” said Tinio.

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It’s that time of year again… when you allow yourself to bake with real butter… and lots of it! At first I was planning to make this recipe with margarine (since that’s what I had), but my mom adamantly informed me that shortbread is made with REAL BUTTER, and anything less is sacrilege. It’s Christmas after all, right? But what if I would rather not gain ten pounds over the holidays? Apparently buttlerless shortbread cookies are not an option. And I’m not sure that eating less of them is an option either… these things seem to call your name from the freezer. Read More »

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