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Buffalo Rising
This weekend, nearly 350 garden writers are descending on Buffalo to tour public and private gardens, flower farms, sustainable landscaping sites and more.
The visitors are members of the GWA | The Association of Garden Communicators (GWA), which is holding its sixty-ninth annual conference and expo in Buffalo. The conference will fill the Hyatt, Buffalo Niagara Convention Center, area restaurants and tourism sites with enthusiastic garden talk.
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Unthinkable via Medium
As a content creator, I don't really care about data.
There. I said it.
Don't misunderstand: I know I'm supposed to care about data. I'm supposed to end that opening sentence by saying, "but I'm working hard to improve my analytical chops."
But the truth is, I'm really not.
Instead, I'm working hard to improve my creative chops. It's what I love. It's what I was put on this earth to do.
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The Mission via Medium
Before I was a writer, I was simply a reader. Like many readers, I was somewhat in awe of the process. I had no idea how the books I read were made, or how if I was beginning to then aspire to one day write one myself, how on earth I would manage to string so many words together.
The author and poet Austin Kleon has done the creative world an enormous favor with his concept of showing your work.
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Inc.
Over the years, Google has embarked on countless quests, collected endless amounts of data and spent millions trying to better understand its people. One of the company's most interesting initiatives, Project Aristotle, gathered several of Google's best and brightest to help the organization codify the secrets to team effectiveness.
Specifically, Google wanted to know why some teams excelled while others fell behind.
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PC Magazine
This week, Microsoft rolled out a number of new features heading to Office 365. The stand out addition is a feature called Read Aloud in Word, which you'll eventually find available under the Review tab on the Word menu.
Microsoft offers a range of tools that come under the heading of Learning Tools in Word. They exist to "help you improve your reading skills by boosting your ability to pronounce words correctly, to read quickly and accurately, and to understand what you read."
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Business Insider
Twitter is quietly testing a premium subscription plan designed to boost the reach power users and small businesses get from their tweets, a bid by the struggling company to tap into a larger pool of advertisers.
For Twitter users who were invited and pay $99 per month, Twitter will automatically promote your account's tweets onto people's timelines that don't follow your account.
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Advertising Age
Facebook is working with some of its advertisers to develop video ads as short as six seconds, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said.
Video was top of mind for Sandberg and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as they discussed the company's second-quarter earnings on a conference call with Wall Street analysts.
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Did you know money really can grow on trees? Learn how trees cut costs and save energy from arborists at Davey Tree. MORE
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USA Today
Until 140 million years ago, there were no flowers anywhere on Earth. Then, primitive flowers burst onto the scene, and flowering plants took over the world.
All living flowers today came from a single ancestor that lived about that time, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Communications.
Scientists also reconstructed what they believe that first flower looked like: Somewhat similar to a water lily, with circles of broad petals around a center of protruding pollen spikes.
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The Union Times
The stereotype: Millennials spend more time interacting with the digital world than the natural world around them. The reality: Five million of the 6 million people who took up gardening in 2015 were millennials, according to the 2016 National Gardening Survey.
More millennials (people between the ages of 21 and 34) than any other age group are falling in love with gardening.
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Architectural Digest
For green-thumbed travelers, there are a few iconic must-visits on the floral bucket list: the tulip fields of the Netherlands, the historic gardens of England, and the elegant jardins of France. But to experience the world's largest natural garden, one needs to head to a surprising spot: the desert. Dubai Miracle Garden, which opened in 2013, is home to over 100 million flowers planted across 775,000 square feet.
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TheStreet
Six major U.S. newspaper companies have demanded that LexisNexis, a major aggregator and distributor of news content, stop business practices that the publishers have deemed inconsistent with contractual agreements and that allegedly infringe on their copyrights and damage the companies. "We demand that you cease these practices immediately," wrote Advance Publications Inc., BH Media Group, Cox Media Group Inc., McClatchy Co. and Tronc Inc. in the demand letter to LexisNexis Group.
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ThinkGrowth.org
What catches your attention? The business of answering that question attracts hundreds of billions of dollars every year. As long as there have been things to buy, there has been a market for human attention. Long ago, capitalizing on human attention consisted of little more than the call of a street vendor over the din of a crowded village market.
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Reynolds Journalism Institute
Is there a connection between people's politics and their trust in news? (Yes.) Do people's race or age play a factor in what they trust? (Yes on race, less on age.) And do those factors influence how likely people are to spend money on news? (They sure do.)
As part of the Trusting News project, 28 partner newsrooms asked their audiences to tell them about their views on the credibility of news.
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