Vergil Ortiz wins super lightweight fight in 40 seconds

Edit Star Telegram 18 Sep 2016
About the only thing Grand Prairie's Virgil Ortiz needed to worry about Saturday was the same sunlight that failed several Dallas Cowboys receivers in a 20-19 loss to the New ... ....

Mysterious wood spirit carvings appear along area bandit trail

Edit Grand Junction Sentinel 18 Sep 2016
It’s a trick of the eye. Just some ultra-bright western Colorado sunlight on grayish brown shreds of juniper bark ... ....

Plan and plant now for spring-flowering bulbs

Edit Albuquerque Journal 18 Sep 2016
GOOD CONDITIONS. The more sunlight the plants bask in, the better will be the show they put on in years to come ... ....

Boyolalo tobacco growers suffer losses because of wet dry season

Edit The Jakarta Post 18 Sep 2016
High earnings seem a distant thing for tobacco farmers in the mountainous Merapi-Merbabu areas in Cepogo and Selo districts, Boyolali, Central Java, although they have already begun harvesting. This year’s wet dry season has threatened to reduce the quality of their tobacco leaves, which may lead to severe price drops ... “We have no choice ... In many cases, farmers must seek places with enough sunlight, usually in urban areas ... ....

Boyolali tobacco growers suffer losses because of wet dry season

Edit The Jakarta Post 18 Sep 2016
High earnings seem a distant thing for tobacco farmers in the mountainous Merapi-Merbabu areas in Cepogo and Selo districts, Boyolali, Central Java, although they have already begun harvesting. This year’s wet dry season has threatened to reduce the quality of their tobacco leaves, which may lead to severe price drops ... “We have no choice ... In many cases, farmers must seek places with enough sunlight, usually in urban areas ... ....

Beautiful Banff

Edit Arkansas Online 18 Sep 2016
How is it possible? How can they all be so jaw-droppingly, picture-perfect blue? The vast rivers and lakes beside the saw-toothed Canadian Rockies of central Alberta are an otherworldly, electric shade of turquoise ... I've taken trips expecting "good." ... And how ... Geologists say their shimmering hues are caused by sunlight refracting against glittering silt-size rock flour constantly deposited at the lake bed by thundering waterfalls....

Rush toward darkness: Upstate NY loses sun faster now than any other time of year

Edit Syracuse 17 Sep 2016
Syracuse, N.Y. -- Do the days seem to be getting awfully short awfully fast?. They are. As if summer wasn't brief enough in Upstate NY already, here's a cruel twist ... In mid-September, Syracuse loses almost three minutes of sunlight every day ...  . The minutes of sunlight lost each day is also a function of latitude ... 21, the length of daylight barely changes because we're stuck at the floor of that oscillating wave of sunlight ... Email ... ....

How to grow mistletoe cactus

Edit The Guardian 17 Sep 2016
It’s the perfect house cactus for the bathroom, says Alys Fowler. @AlysFowler. There is a rather lovely, but I feel rather unlikely, tale about the mistletoe cactus, Rhipsalis baccifera, and a homesick sailor ... this is known as vicariance ... Read more ... This is not a genus for direct sunlight; its epiphytic nature means the mistletoe cactus likes the dappled sunlight found when it is nestled in a tree canopy ... ....

NextEra Energy Partners, LP announces agreement to acquire indirect 24 percent interest in Desert Sunlight Investment Holdings, LLC (NextEra Energy Partners LP)

Edit Public Technologies 17 Sep 2016
NEP) today announced that it has entered into an agreement with a subsidiary of its sponsor, NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, to acquire an indirect 24 percent interest in Desert Sunlight Investment Holdings, LLC ... Desert Sunlight Investment Holdings, LLC owns two project entities, which together make up the Desert Sunlight Solar Energy Center, a 550-MW solar generation plant located in Riverside County, Calif....

Partnership between ADOT, tribe will improve safety along SR 260 (Arizona Department of Transportation)

Edit Public Technologies 17 Sep 2016
(Source. Arizona Department of Transportation) ... In addition to reducing the risk of trees falling on the roadway between McNary (milepost 361) and State Route 273 (milepost 378), the project will reduce the accumulation of snow and ice during the winter by allowing more sunlight to reach the pavement ... and 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday ... (noodl. 35404222) ....

‘Plans to promote micro irri using satellite images’

Edit The Times of India 17 Sep 2016
Nagpur. The Central government plans to encourage micro irrigation in Central India using satellite images produced by National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Hyderabad, informed Dr YVN Krishnamurthy, director of NRSC. Within Central India, plans are being made for areas which receive over 500mm rainfall annually ... To check the level of availability of sunlight for solar power, again satellite data will be used," he said ... RELATED....

Hubble captures best view ever of a comet breaking apart

Edit The Hindu 17 Sep 2016
Using NASA’s Hubble space telescope, astronomers have captured the sharpest, most detailed observations of a comet breaking apart 108 million kilometres from Earth ... “We know that comets sometimes disintegrate, but we don’t know much about why or how,” Jewitt said ... The three-day observations show that the comet shards brighten and dim as icy patches on their surfaces rotate into and out of sunlight ... Keywords....

Tips for hibiscus and tree sap

Edit Palm Beach Post 17 Sep 2016
Question. Could you give me some guidelines for trimming my hibiscus? It is blooming now. I see that some gardeners like to hedge them like a box, but I would like a more natural look. I appreciate the practical information you give each week. Answer ... The only bad thing that could happen to the lawn and other plants under the trees is that a fungus called “sooty mold” could grow on the sap and block the good plants’ leaves from sunlight....
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