Getting ready for an autumn garden
August is a time of endings and beginnings. Summer vacations are winding down, and schools in many districts will start at the end of this month. Many crops in the vegetable garden have been harvested – spring lettuce and peas are long gone, and the onions and garlic are hanging up to dry. New crops for fall, like winter lettuce, Asian greens, spinach and broccoli, will fit nicely in those …
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Covent Garden Apple Store unable to keep up with demand
Apple’s new Covent Garden retail store in London, England is proving to be almost too popular, reports claim. Several days after its opening, the shop is still said to be experiencing lineups, as the inside of the store is regularly jammed with shoppers. Though ultimately good news for Apple, some people may be turning away because of the wait…. London – Covent Garden – AppleStore – Apple …
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Small plane’s crash landing ignites grass near Sacramento airport
A small-plane crash sparked a grass fire Monday afternoon near the Garden Highway west of Sacramento, fire officials said. The plane was substantially damaged, but the pilot, who was the only person on board, was uninjured.
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Fire extinguishers stolen from Welwyn Garden City building site
TWO yobs have broken into a building site stealing six fire extinguishers in the process. To send a link to this page to a friend, simply enter their email address below.
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Garden Club donates $1,200 to Silvana’s Community Garden
The Summit County Garden Club recently donated $1,200 to Silvana’s Community Garden in Silverthorne. The Summit Garden Club recently donated $1,200 to Silvana’s Community Gardens in Silverthorne to create a welcoming entrance into the garden by constructing a pedestrian bridge off of Rainbow Drive.
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David’s Garden dedicated
Friends and family of David Oats gathered at Flushing Meadows Park on Wednesday afternoon to dedicate a garden named after the park advocate.
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University digs in to help Menomonie Community Garden
Jake Vennie-Vollrath took a break from shoveling and glanced around the Menomonie Community Garden, which was a busy place on a recent July day as volunteers built raised planting beds for the disabled, spread compost, staked tomato plants and pulled weeds.
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UK far-right leader barred from Queen’s garden party
LONDON (Reuters) – Buckingham Palace barred the leader of a British far-right party from entry to a garden party held by Queen Elizabeth on Thursday, to which he had been invited, because he had made it a political issue.
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Eagles make a comeback in Lynchburg
LYNCHBURG In a comeback story spanning at least half a century, America’s national bird is starting to reappear along the James River in Lynchburg. A pair of bald eagles has been returning in recent winters to a nest just downstream of the U.S. 29 Monacan Bridge, where they have raised …
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The Big Guns: Navy Sends Blimp to Oil Spill
The U.S. Navy is sending a blimp, the MZ-3A airship, to offer aerial support for skimmers trying to fight the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The U.S. military stopped using lighter-than-air ships in the early 1960s, when jets and satellites came of age, but a blimp may be useful for cleanup in the Gulf, say its builders. It is all but identical to blimps used for advertising or bird’s eye …
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An Oil Pipeline From Canada? Some Say ‘No Way’
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, wants to stop TransCanada from building a 1,600-mile pipeline from Alberta to U.S. oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. It’s not that he and other opponents don’t trust Canada — they just don’t like the kind of oil Canada is selling.
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An Oil Pipeline From Canada? Some Say ‘No Way’
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, wants to stop TransCanada from building a 1,600-mile pipeline from Alberta to U.S. oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. It’s not that he and other opponents don’t trust Canada — they just don’t like the kind of oil Canada is selling.
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Missouri First Lady tours St. Louis urban garden
Missouri First Lady tours St. Louis urban garden
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McChrystal Resigns, Obama Names Petraeus
In a speech from the Rose Garden, President Obama announced he has relieved Gen. Stanley McChrystal of his duties as U.S. commander in Afghanistan. Obama said he believes it is “the right decision for our national security,” and named Gen. David Petraeus to replace him.
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Botanic garden bats saved from the bell, for now
The planned eviction of a large flying-fox colony at Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens has been delayed until next year.
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News from the Valley Neighbours’
The Garden Club tour on Tuesday night proved to be very damp, but the brave souls who ventured our gardens thoroughly enjoyed Paul Rishaug’s hospitality. The next garden club activity will be a trip to a Nanton garden on July 2. Meet at VNC to carpool at 9 a.m.
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Seguin woman suffers head trauma from beating; two females arrested
A serious beating sends one woman to the hospital via AirLife and two others to jail. The fight happened at the Early Bird Apartments at 1360 CH Matthies Drive in Seguin. When officers arrived they say they found 34-year-old Vicky Diaz had been beaten, reportedly with some sort of metal object. Diaz was suffering from major head trauma. She was taken to University Hospital and was listed in …
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Beating sends Seguin woman to SA hospital
SEGUIN — Two women are being held on aggravated assault charges in a beating that left an Early Bird Apartments resident in critical condition early Friday.
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BREAKING NEWS
Garry Purdham’s two young sons, 8-year-old Cameron and Flynn, 2, led out the teams when Whitehaven Rugby Club faced Sheffield on Sunday afternoon. The match was an emotionally-charged occasion, with Rev John Bannister, rector of Whitehaven, leading prayers for the victims of Derrick Bird.
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Robin Dexter: Blogging from China, No. 2
The second blog from Robin Dexter, Grand Island Public Schools assistant superintendent, tells about a day of sight-seeing, including some of the most famous sites in China, such as the Great Wall and the Beijing Olympic Village with its famous “Bird’s Nest.” The day also provided Dexter with more than 4,000 years of Chinese history lessons spanning 18 different dynasties.
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Share the Harvest program seeks donations from your garden surplus
PHILADELPHIA — If you find yourself overburdened with vegetables from your garden, Philabundance wants you to bring it on over. Philabundance’s Share the Harvest program encourages area gardeners to grow extra vegetables and donate them at specific drop-off points July 17 through Sept. 25.
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The People’s Garden for Page County planted
April 21, Kristin Smith of Iowa Western Community College held a Campus Kids activity day for students in kindergarten through fourth grade. The students, with assistance from several high school students, Kristin Smith, Jennifer Comer and Chris Irvin from Farm Service Agency planted the very first People’s Garden in Page County.
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Clogs – The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton
The Creatures In The Garden Of Lady Walton is an album rooted in the space in which it was written. What Clogs have set out to do is evoke a lush, leafy, languid and strange place – one that is full of curious creatures, propagating myths which inform a mostly mysterious history.
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Share the Harvest program seeks donations from your garden surplus
PHILADELPHIA — If you find yourself overburdened with vegetables from your garden, Philabundance wants you to bring it on over. Philabundance’s Share the Harvest program encourages area gardeners to grow extra vegetables and donate them at specific drop-off points July 17 through Sept. 25.
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Obese Sydney bird sent to birdy bootcamp
An Australian kookaburra bird is undergoing personal training after growing too fat to fly because she ate too many sausages.
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Row over will may have triggered Derrick Bird horror rampage
A family dispute over a will may have triggered Derrick Bird’s three-hour trail of horror across west Cumbria that left 12 dead and 25 injured in one of Britain’s worst-ever mass murders.
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DA stops bird, poultry imports from bird flu-stricken Italian city
The Philippines’ Agriculture department ordered a temporary ban on importing bird and poultry products from a northern Italian city after authorities confirmed outbreaks of bird flu or avian influenza (H5N1) there.
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Derrick Bird: ‘A guy who would run away from a fight’
Polite, sensible, happy-go-lucky and normal. Those were some of the words used to describe Derrick Bird yesterday by his shocked neighbours, friends and former colleagues.
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Broncos to watch Bird carefully
Broncos coach Ivan Henjak has nominated Greg Bird, who is hungry to play representative football, as a major threat in Friday night’s derby against the Titans.
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Bird rehabilitation center seeks volunteers May through August
The Raptor Trust, a nonprofit, licensed wild bird rehabilitation facility perched on the edge of the Great Swamp at 1390 White Bridge Road in the Millington section of Long Hill Township, is appealing for volunteers from mid-May through August to help care for injured and orphaned birds, with the goal of restoring their health and releasing them back into the wild.
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Carlisle railway station bird nets to be removed
A Carlisle woman has won her campaign to have nets removed from the roof at Carlisle Railway Station to stop birds getting trapped.
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Borel anticipates ’super race’ from Super Saver
A year ago, Calvin Borel jumped from the Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird onto Rachel Alexandra and won the Preakness.
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MLB: Moth-munching bird finds perch at Twins ballpark
MINNEAPOLIS — There is more than one way to catch flies at the Minnesota Twins’ new ballpark.
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Donors swoop in to aid World Bird Sanctuary’s hospital in Valley Park
Donors have flocked to the aid of the World Bird Sanctuary after its executive director warned the wildlife hospital may be forced to close.
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All of a flutter – fossil reveals early bird plumage
A new study of a 150-million-year-old fossil of an Archaeopteryx has shown that remnants of its feathers have been preserved.
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Tri-State key player in effort to save birds coated with oil from gulf
As oil begins washing ashore at Louisiana’s Chandeleur Islands, bird rescue specialists from Tri-State Bird Rescue & Research, Newark, and International Bird Rescue Research Center in California are standing by to clean birds caught in the slick.
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