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Plants for butterfly gardens

Edit The Examiner 18 Apr 2016
Gardeners generally love butterflies (well except for the few who actually damage our garden plants) and want to attract more butterflies to the garden ... And some butterflies and moths may actually be unwelcome on your property, like the pretty sphinx moth who lays eggs on your tomatoes that turn into ugly tomato hornworms and the cabbage butterfly who lays eggs on your cabbage and broccoli that turn into little green cabbage worms....

"I believe happiness is working hard and being kind"

Edit Belfast Telegraph 16 Apr 2016
The last time I met Laura Whitmore she rewrote the book on cool ... I was worried that Emilia would get, ever-so-gently, sick on the MTV superstar. The MTV superstar was, however, more worried about whether Emilia needed to be fed her bottle ... "How's the baby?" She wants to see pictures ... For the record, she looks more 25 than almost 31 ... One is turning 17 next week - and he is a proper grown-up - and the other one is 20."....

Art Fix Friday: April 15, 2016 (National Museum of Women in the Arts)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Apr 2016
National Museum of Women in the Arts). The New Yorker traces French sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle's unconventional life and art through her Tarot Garden-a project she had 'envisioned in a dream ... For the two decades that Saint Phalle worked on the sculpture park in Tuscany she lived inside a house-sized sculpture of a sphinx ... Kit King's hyper-realistic and abstract work conveys the artist's struggle with agoraphobia....

Ambassadors in Turkey Visit Çorum, Ancient Capital of the Hittites and Phrygians (Department of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Philippines)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Apr 2016
Çorum, a city located in the middle of the Black Sea Region of Turkey and the capital of the ancient civilizations of the Hittites (Hattuşa) and the Phrygians, is home of the famous ancient artifacts such as the original two sphinx statues that once stood guard at the Hattuşa gate which are now put on display at the Boğazkale Museum; the original ......

Preventing Black Spot Disease on Roses

Edit The Morning Call 15 Apr 2016
Black spot is a fungal disease that causes spots on rose leaves, eventually causing the leaves to turn yellow and drop off. Like most fungal diseases, black spot thrives in wet, humid weather, usually when temperatures are in the mid-70s. The fungal spores can survive the winter in fallen leaves and infected canes ... Penn State Extension recommends the following cultivars....

The gold mining ghost towns of the US

Edit Al Jazeera 15 Apr 2016
Outside Tony's Rock Shop in the sleepy town of Magdalena, in New Mexico, Ben Valentino Otero stands amid a menagerie of animal statues, two wooden eagles, a merry-go-round horse, a metal sphinx and a variety of obscure rocks. "Which is your favourite?" asks Ben, an avid rock collector and descendant of miners who once worked the hills above town ... "Kelly used to be the country seat," says Otero....

Book review: Guilty Thing: A Life Of Thomas De Quincey By Frances Wilson

Edit Scotsman 12 Apr 2016
Frances Wilson holds up a magic mirror to the infuriatingly brilliant author of The Confessions Of An English Opium-Eater, writes Stuart Kelly ... the young death. Chatterton, who faked the work of a medieval monk, Thomas Rowley, died in 1770 aged 17 ... The principal form of this is the double ... There is a clarity about the constellation of words – abyss, crocodile, staircase, echo, absence, sphinx – that do toll throughout his work....

Sananda Maitreya: Meanwhile, on the other side of the world...

Edit B&S; Online 11 Apr 2016
2011 brought the web release of “The Sphinx” and 2013 saw "Return To Zooathalon", released on his birthday, March 15 ... “The Rise Of The Zugebrian Time Lords”, which basically came out of the last project we did, called “Return To Zooathalon”, which pretty much came out of the album before (“The Sphinx”), so those 3 projects form a kind of trilogy…In ......

From the cheap seats

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 09 Apr 2016
So journalist Rebecca Maddern breached the walls of The Footy Show castle on Thursday night, took the reins on the co-host role, and yet civilisation remained unchanged, presuming one is inclined to confuse The Footy Show with civilisation ... Then the next year they do it all over again, and all over us ... But the reality is, she can't make it anything. You can't put a cherry on top of the Sphinx and serve it up as dessert....

4/2-4/8

Edit The Atlantic 08 Apr 2016
Ali Hashisho / Reuters. International Pillow Fight Day, a Sphinx replica in China, Panamanian reflections, the self-defense army of Nagorno-Karabakh, a California mountain lion, the Apple Campus 2 under construction in Cupertino, Shanghai skyscrapers in the fog, a hedgehog cafe in Tokyo, calfswimming in Lebanon, and much more ... ....

4/2-4/8 (35 photos)

Edit The Atlantic 08 Apr 2016
International Pillow Fight Day, a Sphinx replica in China, Panamanian reflections, the self-defense army of Nagorno-Karabakh, a California mountain lion, the Apple Campus 2 under construction in Cupertino, Shanghai skyscrapers in the fog,  a hedgehog cafe in Tokyo, calfswimming in Lebanon, and much more. A man swims with a calf in the port city of Sidon in southern Lebanon, on April 8, 2016. (Ali Hashisho / Reuters) ... ....

AFL season 2016: Five things we thought up about round three

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 08 Apr 2016
What the game needs is a few more ex-players getting stuck into the footballers of today ... That was a bit rich Chris Scott describing the Cats' free kick dilemma as "a Geelong problem". You'd reckon that with the Corio and Norlane crime rate, the Ford factory shutting down, that pub that's supposed to be a sphinx, and the mayor's haircut (not to mention the actual mayor), the locals have got enough on their plate....

How to Stay Young review: what’s the best way to stay alive? (Be like Angela Rippon)

Edit The Guardian 08 Apr 2016
This show gave real-world tips on how to keep the reaper at bay in older age – and it’s good news for vegans ... Pop off your shoes, stand on a spot of carpet, cross your legs, and lower yourself to the ground using as little support as possible ... Now try to stand up, ideally without leaning on any other part of the body ... Sergey’s chandelier, a frazzled designer says, reminds her of “the pyramid behind the Sphinx in Cairo....
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