Today I was eaten by a purple dinosaur.
no time to be grumpy. take off the grumpypants, grumpypants.
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New Federal Planting Map Reflects Warming
“The government’s colorful map of planting zones is being updated for a warmer 21st century.The official guide for 80 million gardeners and a staple on seed packets reflects a new reality: The coldest day of the year isn’t as cold as it used to be. So some plants that once seemed too vulnerable to cold can now survive farther north.
It’s the first time since 1990 that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has updated the map and much has changed. Nearly entire states, such as Ohio, Nebraska and Texas, are in warmer zones.
The new guide, unveiled Wednesday at the National Arboretum, also uses better weather data and offers more interactive technology.
“It truly does reflect state of the art,” said USDA chief scientist Catherine Woteki.
Gardeners can register their zip code into the online map and their zone will pop up. It shows the exact average coldest temperature for each of the 26 zones, even though zones are based on five degree increments.
For example, Des Moines, Iowa, used to be in zone 5a, meaning the lowest temperature on average was between minus 15 and minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit. Now it’s 5b, which has a coldest temperature of 10 to 15 degrees below zero.”
Read more: Time
Group of workers harvesting tea. Greek women.
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Finally “Sleeping Girl” is finished today. Oil painting on wood panel and water based golden color for cheeks, crown, moon and stars. Me in my pajamas :-]
Sergimde yer alıcak. Yakından görmek isteyenler için. :-D
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Russian feminist punk band, Pussy Riot, were recently arrested for putting on a renegade show in front of the Kremlin and performing a song making fun of Russian Prime Minister Vladamir Putin. The band claims riot grrrl as their primary influence.
—Jessica H.
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Show!Thursday, February 2, 20126:30pm until 9:00pmStudent Life Gallery, 2nd Floor Kennedy @ MassArt, 621 Huntington Avenue , Boston, MALauren Hayes and Paul DeRuvo are driven to explore the vulnerability inherent in exposing the personal relationships through which we define ourselves. This work addresses the difficulty of inhabiting a body, its comforts and discomforts, challenges and limitations. It reflects on the specificity of having a singular vehicle through which one is able to experience the world. The viewer is given an intimate perspective of the artists’ lives as a physical and empathetic observer. Recognition and familiarity are closely tied to this experience of empathy. Once evoked, the established connection must be contended with. Having the potential to be both awkward and revealing, the tenderness of the work becomes a necessary reprieve from the social expectations of modesty and composure. The vulnerability of InComfort seeks expression beyond the artists’ lives to become a shared moment of compassion.
Attention Bostonians! Come to this show!!!
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LGBTQ* History You Should Know
(and then what happened)
Following the liberation of concentration camps, many gay survivors (the pink triangles) were placed in prison by German authorities. Since concentration camps were not considered “jail,” homosexual men were still in violation of Paragraph 175 (a law outlawing homosexuality in Germany) and were then placed in prison to serve time for breaking the law.
To this day, not one single gay survivor or family member has been given financial payments by the government in Germany.
My father looked after a man who escaped the concentration camps after being put there for his homosexuality. He was a very joyful man who used humor to cope with what he was put through and would constantly talk about how many good looking men where in the camps with him. He passed away before this documentary was made. I was given some of his personal mementos and will never forget him and what he and others have been through.
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