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Green Ash Filed under: Gardening '” Administrator @ 6:19 am Green Ash The Green Ash tree, Fraxinus Pennsylvanica, ... in the fall. Green Ash trees withstands drought, excessive moisture, and wind. The crown is densely
Posted on 2009-01-09 06:19:37 GMT

blog: Garden Tool Set (How does your garden grow?)University of Toronto assists Ethiopian health care
University of Toronto assists Ethiopian health care January 9th, 2009 By Peter Goodspeed | National Post In a land tormented by poverty, famine, drought, war and HIV/AIDS, Amanuel Hospital is Ethiopia's only psychiatric hospital. Until recently, its 360 beds were the last and only refuge for the mentally ill in a country of 77 million
Posted on 2009-01-09 05:53:25 GMT

blog: EthiopiaMaudit Juif
I sift through layers of a muddy lake until I settle at the bottom. There are no bubbles floating up to offer me hope. My heart slows down ... from drowning or drought. Last week I added up the grocery tab, including the butcher, and it came to three
Posted on 2009-01-09 04:09:21 GMT

blog: J. ColmanCreedmoor Community Cemetery, Creedmoor, Texas
Grave Mapper Nancy Hickman of Austin, Texas, recently mapped the Creedmoor Community Cemetery in Creedmoor, Texas. She is so gracious to share her mapping experience with us at Grave Mappers and to give us a history of this small southern town and its cemetery."It was fun trying out (the Names in Stone) format
Posted on 2009-01-09 02:36:00 GMT

blog: GRAVE MAPPERS40 Years Ago, We Were All Gonna Starve
In 1968, eminent and learned professor Paul R. Erlich assured us that we were all gonna starve to death ... and commercial companies are also working on drought- and heat-tolerant varieties. Agrichemical giant Monsanto said this week it had made a "significant step" in creating a drought-tolerant maize which could
Posted on 2009-01-09 02:17:01 GMT

blog: MaxMr G on himself; Me on not breaking our kids
Mr G had a class exercise that says a lot about who he is. Not shockingly, the exercise was called, 'I am'. But you know, when I was 11, I don't think I had anything like this kind of clue who I was. Okay, so I knew what I wanted to be, at that age. I wanted to grow up to be a tall Asian woman with long straight black hair
Posted on 2009-01-09 02:16:36 GMT

blog: hedraLaura Bush Memoir titled, "I'm With Stupid"
"George Bush Sr. recently said he'd like his son Jeb to be president, but that right now is a bad time for him to run. When asked what a good time would be, Bush Sr. said, 'Eight years ago.'" --Conan O'Brien"First Lady Laura Bush has signed a deal to write her memoirs. We have an advance copy right here
Posted on 2009-01-09 01:55:00 GMT

blog: republican idiocracyPhotoshopped or Not?
[ Photoshopped or not?] Came across this great pic of Australia over on Strange Maps - nature or art? The accidental cartography post is quite accurate when it points out the irony of the drought stricken land. So what do you think? Real or not? There are some interesting comments on the urban
Posted on 2009-01-09 01:52:57 GMT

blog: Making Better Use Of The Social Web | BlogWellAnother lesson in fiddling with numbers
If the numbers that you are using to make your case don't stack up, then you need to take some lessons from me in how to fiddle them. I spent 3 years studying accountancy, which is all about fiddling numbers, and then a few years working in the public sector, which is all about taking the fiddling to a new level
Posted on 2009-01-09 01:50:00 GMT

blog: Boy on a bikeHeat may spark world food crisis
The race is on to breed maize which can tolerate the heat of future summersHalf the world's population could face climate-induced food crisis by 2100, ... urgently create crops tolerant to heat and drought if we are to adapt in time, he writes in Science
Posted on 2009-01-09 01:22:00 GMT

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