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Quartz
We're all tempted to use words that we're not too familiar with. If this were the only problem, I wouldn't have much to write about. That's because we're cautious with words we're unsure of and, thus, they don't create much of an issue for us. It's the words that we think we're using correctly that wreak the most havoc. We throw them around in meetings, e-mails and important documents (such as resumes and client reports), and they land, like fingernails across a chalkboard, on everyone who has to hear or read them.
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Brain Pickings
"Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul ... Seek solitude," young Delacroix counseled himself in 1824. Keats saw solitude as a sublime conduit to truth and beauty. Elizabeth Bishop believed that everyone should experience at least one prolonged period of solitude in life. Even if we don't take so extreme a view as artist Agnes Martin's assertion that "the best things in life happen to you when you're alone," one thing is certain: Our capacity for what psychoanalyst Adam Phillips has termed "fertile solitude" is absolutely essential.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
Academic writing is bad, and academics should feel bad for writing it. So said Steven Pinker in The Chronicle a couple of years back, but he's hardly alone. Academics have been kicking — or, if you prefer, virtually dialectically deconstructing — academic writing for more than a decade.
Many "academics (and especially younger ones) tend to confuse incomprehensibility with profundity," Stephen Walt declared in 2013.
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Grammarly
There are examples throughout the world of people trying to use as few words as possible to convey the most meaning. Haiku poetry, for example, is based on a very strict structure that allows only seventeen syllables in a poem. The laconic phrase, named after its original practitioners in ancient Sparta, is a way of saying things in an extremely concise and often blunt manner.
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Book Riot
The Roman philosopher, politician, and lawyer Marcus Tullius Cicero is credited with the oft-repeated quote, "A room without books is like a body without a soul." Despite the continuous advancements of technology and the easy-access of media provided by the internet, books and their loyal readers have refused to concede their literary consumption to flickering computer screens. When it comes to dating, reading can make someone appear more attractive.
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Inside Indiana Business
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, over 250,000 professionals call themselves financial planners or advisors. When looking for advice, how do you determine who is qualified to provide you the personalized plan that can achieve financial independence?
There are no legal or professional requirements for using the title of "financial planner." Anyone can add this term to their business card or their firm's advertisement without any training or education.
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SpinWeb
Consumers are searching for background information on your company, products, and services. What will make them trust you? Slick taglines and promises of "going the extra mile" only go so far. They want to know what your clients and customers say about you.
Maybe you've considered using customer reviews, but you weren't sure if it was a good idea. Are they a useful addition to your website or just something viewers will skim over?
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The Atlantic
For better or worse, writers and readers live in an age of the million-dollar book deal. The Big Five publishers (Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster) increasingly gamble on massive book advances in hopes that they might put out one of the biggest hits of the year. Last fall, Knopf — a division of Penguin Random House — paid an unprecedented $2 million advance for the first-time novelist Garth Risk Hallberg's City on Fire.
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In the Open
In theory, the idea of a small claims board that could adjudicate copyrights claims where the monetary value is not too high seems sensible. Federal litigation is very expensive and intimidating, so a small claims mechanism could make it easier for independent artists and small businesses to defend their rights.
Nevertheless, I have never been very enthusiastic about the idea, in large part because the devil is definitely in the details of any proposed scheme.
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The large, pure white flowers, are accented by chartreuse, held high above the foliage. A pretty blue appears on the back of alternating petals, showing off with a nodding effect at twilight, very novel for anemones, an excellent choice for partial shade, and non invasive planting. Blooms very long period, cold hardy.
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Garden Collage
Pokémon Go has been out for a short time, but it's no understatement to say it has changed the world, undeniably marking a futuristic chapter in our history just as virtual reality becomes an increasingly integrated aspect of our daily lives.
But perhaps the biggest — and most talked about — surprise has been how Pokémon Go has managed to get people outdoors and exploring.
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Green Profit
While the Spring Trials question of the day over on the GrowerTalks side of the magazine is, "So what have you seen?," the question of the day that you — the retailer — receive every day is, "So what's new?" That's what your customers want: something new, exciting, different. Something that will make their porch, patio or yard look even more spectacular than the house across the street.
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Nursery Management
Are you a Millennial who's frustrated with your lack of earnings, success, or even finding a place in the industry? Are you a Boomer who's having trouble relating to and managing new, younger workers? Are you a Gen Xer who is irritated by having to work with both of them? Whichever, the generational group you most closely identify with, getting along with the other generations in the workplace has become a prickly business for some.
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Greenhouse Grower
More people join the ranks of vegetable gardeners each year, whether it is delving in to growing a traditional vegetable garden with all the trimmings or cultivating a few cucumbers and tomatoes in containers on a deck or porch. Any more, the vegetable craze is about more than healthy eating. It's also about flavor, sustainability, variety, organically grown, and more.
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Grower Talks
Poinsettias respond well to several plant growth regulators, which is good news for growers. Smart PGR use enables growers to manipulate plant growth to meet crop specs, manage crop quality and maximize profitability through space optimization.
Many factors influence PGR application strategies, including plant and pinch dates, temperature, ethephon applications, the overall health of the crop, and the desired finished appearance of the crop.
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Gizmodo
In theory, Twitter's blue "verified" check mark made it harder to impersonate famous people, but in practice it mostly showed who was famous enough to bother impersonating. Prepare for the badge of approval to stop mattering as much now that Twitter has opened up its once-mysterious verification process to everyone.
All you have to do is fill out a form and make sure your account has a verified phone number, bio, profile pic, birthday, website, and email.
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Ad Week
Last week, Wendy's and agency VML launched a campaign spoofing the explosion of food videos that have popped up in Facebook newsfeeds in the past year. Like the popular videos created by the likes of BuzzFeed's Tasty, Tastemade and others, the video was shot and uploaded in the shape of a square that fills the full space of a newsfeed when viewed on a mobile device, where the bulk of Facebook content is viewed.
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Medium
Snapchat's new Memories feature is being pitched as a way to share old snaps and stories — but the real change is what it means for those creating and reporting stories in the tool. Now for the first time Snapchat users can create non-chronological sequences and stories using images or video that they have not taken themselves.
One of the biggest challenge of Snapchat Stories was that there was no opportunity for editing sequence.
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GWA
Recently I got an email from another GWA member who was lamenting that she wasn't capitalizing on all available opportunities to share her work. I commiserated that we all feel like we could and should be doing more. I went on in my reply to say that one way we can do better at moving forward, is by being a part of a mastermind group.
Simply put, a mastermind group is a gathering of two or more people who share the same goals and agree to meet frequently to help each other out and spur each other on.
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GWA
GWA is excited to announce the launch of GWAWrites, a special online bookstore dedicated to GWA book authors and their publications.
Two specialty shops have already been launched for GWA Annual Conference & Expo and On the QT's "Hot Off the Press" feature, but additional shops will be launched in the coming weeks focused on specialty topics.
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GWA
The GWA Association Outreach Task Force is excited to announce an exciting line up of special offers and events at this year's Farwest Show in Portland, OR, August 25-27. GWA members will have the opportunity to gain special access to the trade show, education sessions and other valuable networking events.
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GWA
Enter into the exciting world of horticultural and garden communication with programming specifically built for the industry's next generation. Join young and new professionals from across the county August 6 as they gather at the stunning Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA, for an inspiring look at what's ahead in the industry. This day will give attendees the keys to build their own "route" to this ever-changing career.
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Green Profit
You're obviously interested in plants. How about writing about them? If you're a garden communicator, then maybe you'll be interested in some upcoming events put on by GWA: The Association of Garden Communicators.
The next GWA event will happen on August 6 at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. It’s called the NextGen Summit and is an educational program focused exclusively on ideas that address the "next generation." The GWA Annual Conference & Expo will take place in Atlanta on September 16-19 and will, as always, feature tours, education sessions and networking events.
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