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Mei Xiang is sleepy this morning. #nationalzoo #zoo #washington #panda
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Reflections #washington #travel #congress #capitol
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Mini Banana and Poppy Seed Bundt Cakes
Sydney weather turned from being so hot and sticky to being cold and rainy. I love it because it gives me an excuse to bake and soak in the warmth that comes from my oven.
Anyway, the other day when I was standing at the BakeSoc stall, our president made these delicious orange and poppy seed cupcakes. I was looking at these cupcakes and remembered the time when I was in high school and wanted to bake something with poppy seeds. I wasn’t able to at the time because the school couldn’t find the poppy seeds at the supermarket, so I had a change of plans during my food technology lesson. Since then, I haven’t tried to use poppy seeds in my baking, until yesterday.
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"The floor was still giving in and the dirt was still going down, but I didn’t care. I wanted to save my brother. But I just couldn’t do nothing."
Seffner, Fla. resident Jeremy Bush • Discussing the sinkhole that pulled his brother, Jeff Bush, into the ground Thursday night. While there were numerous people in the home at the time, Jeff was the only one sucked into the hole, which likely killed him. (Though Jeremy, in his rescue efforts, was nearly sucked in himself.) A sinkhole expert, Taylor Yarkosky, says that the limestone under the ground in Florida makes them particularly susceptible to such sinkholes. “You can almost envision a piece of Swiss cheese. Any house in Florida could be in that same situation,” he said. The porousness of the ground is caused by the high level of limestone—which is water-soluable—in the soil. (via shortformblog)
(via shortformblog)
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Please sign this White House Petition to mandate paid maternity leave. The deadline is tomorrow. I’d write all sorts of reasons why this is important, but the above graphic says it better than I could.
(via maryrambin)
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We’re amped up to re-introduce pints of Coffee, Coffee BuzzBuzzBuzz! Fairtrade coffee ice cream with espresso bean fudge chunks.
WAIT WOAH WHAT? I went into mourning when this flavor was discontinued. THANK YOU!
THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE!!!!
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(Source: cherry-waves, via honeymanifesto)
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By John Powers | Photographed by Norman Jean Roy | Vogue
When Gabrielle Giffords heard about the shooting of 20 first-graders at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, last December, she decided enough was enough.
Like everyone else that day, she knew that gun violence is a national epidemic—the Sandy Hook massacre came in the wake of the theater killings in Aurora, Colorado, five months earlier (not to mention fourteen other mass shootings last year alone). But unlike most of us, Giffords knew firsthand how guns can change your whole life in an instant. Her authority was born of cruel experience. She and her husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly, concluded they could no longer delay confronting the issue. “We realized,” he tells me, “that now is the time. We have to do something.”
The interview with Gabby Giffords and husband Mark Kelly appears in the March issue of Vogue.
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