Nowadays, I eat way too many olives, and find myself in a constant state of dehydration due to sodium overload. Evan knows to ask me, every time we go to the store, “Do you need to buy olives?” just to prevent a potential meltdown at 2am when I decide I have to have olives. When we are on vacation, the first thing I put in the condo? Alcohol? Nope, olives. Maybe I have some sort of vitamin issue that causes me to crave a salt lick in olive form, or maybe I just like, no – love – olives.
Last Christmas, my mom bought me two 1 gallon jars of olives. 2011 was the best Christmas ever.
“It is our fault that water sources are drying up,” he says. “We discovered that the marshy lands here were so fertile that we cultivated them without thinking of the consequences. Gradually, the water receded, and now we are paying the price. This year, I did not cultivate the marshy land on my farm and that is why I still have some water.”
Meanwhile, the regional department for agriculture also believes water harvesting is a short-term solution for farmers.
“As a matter of urgency, we plan to construct water storage facilities so that the little available water can be harvested and stored for eventual use by farmers to irrigate their crops,” Awah says. He adds that a long-term strategy is to plant trees that can help protect water sources.
Du Châtelet was a spirited woman with extraordinary intelligence.
One of her greatest accomplishments was the translation of Newton’s Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy). The achievement is remarkable when one realises that she made what is considered one of the greatest texts in the history of science accessible and that, three and a half centuries after it was originally published, it still remains the standard French translation.
Besides being one of Newton’s greatest interpreters, Du Châtelet’s work on the nature of light predicted infrared light and advanced the thinking on kinetic energy. Despite this, Du Châtelet (born in Paris 17 December 1706) was written out of history and could have been forgotten if it wasn’t for David Bodanis, who sought to reinstate her place in history.
A number of women’s organizations and movements are marching on Saturday, and too, calling for fair and equal representation of women in the new constitution.
The Egyptian Women’s Union said the march will start at noon from Talaat Harb Square to Tahrir Square, with the participation of many leading feminists figures including renowned writer and feminist Nawal al-Sa’dawi and the virginity tests fighter Samira Ibrahim. The march is titled “beware of the Egyptian women anger.”
Puppies in Pet Stores May Soon Only Come From Shelters: LAist. I love LA: If LA City councilman Paul Koretz has his way, pet stores in Los Angeles will soon only be able to sell their fuzzy, adorable wares if they’ve been procured from shelters or rescues — not from puppy mills. The councilman introduced a motion to that effect at a city council meeting yesterday, reports the Huffington Post, as part of an attempt to make LA a no-kill city. The motion was approved in an 11-1 vote.
We will rise like a bird in the blue sky of Afghanistan to bring peace
We will shine like a star in the dark sky of Afghanistan to bring brightness
We will rise like a sun to cover the darkness
We will stand like a stable mountain to reach our goals
We will plant like a gardener to raise our children
We will fall like a drop of rain to water our homeland
We will raise our hands to accomplish our dreams
And they’re beavers. 14 Eurasian beavers arrived in Ulaanbaatar from Bavaria, Germany this week. Known as ecosystem engineers, the hard-working beavers build dams that have positive effects on the ecology. According to Wikipedia:
Beaver ponds, and the wetlands that succeed them, remove sediments and pollutants from waterways, including total suspended solids, total nitrogen, phosphates, carbon and silicates. Source
Six more beavers will be sent over from Germany later on. According to various news sources, Germany is sending the beavers over for free. 20 more beavers are to be imported from Russia sometime this year. The initiative by mayor G.Munkhbayar is a part of a program to restore the heavily-polluted Tuul river basin, which provides most of the drinking water for Ulaanbaatar city.
The beavers will be bred in a protected environment before being rehabilitated into the wild. Of course, one questions the logic of pinning our hopes of saving Tuul river on a few families of beavers when there are thousands of human families dumping their household waste into the river. One hopes that this is only a small part of the Tuul river restoration plan.
Briton Sarah Outen is no stranger to adventure, but when she rows out from a small port in Japan this week she will be on her own — all the way until she reaches Canada.
Outen’s solo voyage across the Pacific, in a rowboat packed with the latest gadgetry, is probably the most challenging leg in her ambitious project to circle the globe by boat and bike.
“The distance is really huge,” the 26-year-old adventurer, who became the first woman to row solo across the Indian Ocean in 2009.
Outen left Britain on April 1 last year on a 30-month expedition under the title London2London: Via the World, which saw her kayak to Europe, cycle across Eurasia then get back in her kayak to Japan.
arah is a special place for me—
a small and lovely city with kind, helpful people.
There is no electricity, but there is love.
There is no security, but the people are brave partners.
There is no government faculty, but there are hard-working students.
People make friendships on dusty dirt roads,
Delicious fruits grow in green villages,
With their pleasing smell.
Women stay home
And become good mothers,
Who are rich in kindness with big hearts.
Farah — Farah — Farah
My heart is in Farah.
Bienvenido a mi hogar, el espacio en el que me vas a conocer de la manera más pura, intensa y especial en que puedo llegar a expresar. Cuida este espacio, es también tuyo ahora.
"I have enough time to rest, but I don't have a minute to waste". Come and catch me with your wise words and we will have some fun with our words of wisdom.
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