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SFist Blotter (SFist)
GOLDEN GATE PARK : 20-year-old Brandon Evans was shot and killed while attending a party in Golden Gate Park on Saturday. According to reports, Evans was part of "about 100 young people drinking and listening to a live band perform at the horseshoe pits above the Conservatory of Flowers." It seems these types of gatherings are a common. And 50-year-old Michael Allar, a Hayes Valley ...
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Bangkok feeling the pain of isolation (Thailandnews.net)
BANGKOK : The Four Seasons hotel has taken French oysters and artichokes off the menu. Frustrated orchid growers cannot export their flowers, so they are selling them on the local market for one-third...
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Capturing nature: Tips and tricks to get those magical photos (The Pantagraph)
BLOOMINGTON -- Georgi Baird has been taking pictures of critters and the countryside since she was a little girl. Ask why, and she’ll tell you a story of growing up as an only child in a small town on a dead-end street with not much to do but wander outside looking for bugs, flowers and birds.
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Bangkok feeling the pain of isolation (International Herald Tribune)
Shipping problems are starting to show up on menus and in markets.
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Tropical snowball is showy and colorful (Miami Herald)
Name: Tropical snowball, dombeya Botanical name: Dombeya burgessiae `Seminole' Description: An African shrub that produces clusters of showy, dark pink flowers from fall through spring. The Seminole hybrid was created at the USDA Subtropical Horticulture Research Station in Miami. Leaves are somewhat heart-shaped, and old flowers turn brown and stay on the flower stalks.
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Brighten up winter with these flowers (Belleville News-Democrat)
And you thought gardening was for gentle souls. What about forcing bulbs to bloom when they're trying to sleep?
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Tracking season (Norwalk Advocate)
In a corner of Linda Clarkson's backyard is a stand of feeders she calls bird island. On certain days, she sits beneath nearby trees or atop some rocks just watching the many species that stop at this oasis.
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Passing the Buck . . . and the Doe and the Fawn (Lexington Clipper-Herald)
(ARA) - Sipping coffee on your back deck on a beautiful fall morning, you look up and gasp -- there in your suburban oasis stands a small herd of deer. For a moment you pause, enchanted.
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Crop Watch South: Wheat disease pressure is low, says James Boswell FWi (Farmers Weekly Interactive)
Most early-drilled wheat crops look promising – tillering has been good and residual herbicides have been effective.
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Hannah M. Stone-Carter (Portsmouth Herald)
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. and#8212; Hannah Morgan Stone-Carter, age 4, died Friday, Nov. 28, 2008, at the Children's Hospital Boston, surrounded by her loving family.
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