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GardenComm
GardenComm's biggest event of the year, the 2019 Annual Conference & Expo, is heading to Salt Lake City from September 4-7, and you're invited! This year's conference features a line-up of unforgettable events and experiences, including beautiful gardens, dynamic education sessions, industry all-stars, essential networking and so much more.
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GardenComm
In this day and age nothing is more convenient than being able to whip out your smartphone to take a photograph. However, it's often the case that the resulting photograph looks quite different from how we saw the scene with our eyes. This is understandably frustrating! Join me in a webinar that will provide you with some solid tips and tricks to help with mastering the camera and apps on your phone so you can be ready to photograph any scene or object with confidence and get exactly the photograph you want in the gardening community and beyond.
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GardenComm
If you're anything like me in the garden, each act — pruning a rose, weeding a flower bed, deadheading the annuals — supplies its own metaphor. "Cut the dead wood out," your brain says with glee, as you actively do just that. I remember struggling with grass in a flowerbed — as you do — and imagining myself a dictator trying to "root out" the resistance. "But it's a grassroots movement," my imaginary underling whined, "We'll never get it all." Grass is tenacious.
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The New York Times
After the Oxford comma debate and the death knell of the period, the latest mark to define and divide us — breaking up our thoughts, adding emphasis to our convictions, alternately vexing and delighting readers — is the em dash.
For some writers, the em dash is a vice that their editors occasionally forgive but more often forbid. It has been duly cast as an alluring alternative to the comma, colon, semicolon and full stop in the “distracted boyfriend” meme.
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Anne R. Allen's Blog
The latest trend in online marketing is building a "personal relationship" with customers and readers. Sending newsy emails about your fab summer vacation isn't enough anymore. Now you have to ask them about their fab summer vacations.
This is supposed to let readers know you really care about them.
Does it?
Speaking as a reader, that would be a ... not so much.
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The Wall Street Journal
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is widely known as a "woman's writer," a description that doesn't do justice to her universal appeal. Celebrated Woolf novels such as "To the Lighthouse" and "Mrs. Dalloway" feature strong women, and Woolf was herself a compelling character in her many essays and reviews, gaining an audience in a literary culture that was strongly dominated by men.
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The Wall Street Journal
At its apex, Tumblr had more users than both Instagram, now estimated to be worth close to $200 billion to parent Facebook, and Pinterest, which has a market cap of nearly $18 billion. In 2013, Tumblr sold to Yahoo for $1.1 billion. On Monday, the parent company of WordPress.com bought it for a pittance.
The precise amount is hard to pin down but insiders have observed that there are modest homes in Silicon Valley that might be comparable in price.
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Make your garden come to life with Sunfinity® Sunflowers that thrive and bloom continuously all season long.
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Prevent mosquitoes from spreading West Nile virus and other diseases with BTI, a natural bacterium found in Mosquito Dunks® and Mosquito Bits®. Float biodegradable Mosquito Dunks in ponds, birdbaths, rain barrels and any standing water to kill mosquito larvae. Use Mosquito Bits® in smaller places where water collects (such as plant saucers).
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Fast Company
Apple is talking tough on advertising companies that drop cookies to track your browser around the web to collect ad targeting data. The company says it sees cookie offenders as no better than bad actors that try to disable privacy and security features on its phones.
The company's WebKit team released a new policy statement that expands the power of its Intelligent Tracking Prevention technology.
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AdAge
No one needs to be told that online discourse can be toxic. Whether you are commenting or lurking, the discussion is often profane, stress-inducing and backed by all the facts and logic of a playground fight. According to our recent survey, conducted online by The Harris Poll among more than 2,000 U.S. adults, 70 percent of Americans feel that differing opinions in online conversations are more confrontational than constructive.
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Nieman Lab
The journalists are back. For now.
In the latest update on the coming-this-fall news tab, which will also include payments to publishers for licensing their content, Facebook will be bringing back its human-moderating style. The original system infamously flamed out in the aftermath of a head-scratching Gizmodo article in 2016 about conservative "suppression" that wasn't exactly substantiated.
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The Interface
Recently, Twitter invited reporters to its headquarters in San Francisco for an update on improvements to the product. It's somewhat unusual for the company to invite reporters in — I've visited headquarters around three times a year for the past five years or so — but it's not unusual for Twitter to provide updates. Providing updates is, in some ways, Twitter's favorite thing to do.
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Mashable
Just because you're in a private Facebook doesn't mean the company isn't keeping tabs on what you're doing.
That's the not-so-subtle reminder the social network is sending groups. In a lengthy blog post, Facebook's VP of Engineering Tom Alison outlined some of the steps the company is taking to police bad behavior in groups, even if the groups aren't visible to the public.
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Boston.com
Robert "Buddy" Lee has been a grower of wholesale plants and a registered nurse over the years, but his one abiding preoccupation has been his need to find a spring-flowering azalea that blooms through summer and fall.
More than 40 years ago, from his fields in southern Louisiana, this was a lonely quest, but not a quixotic one. As the inventor of the Encore Azalea brand, he has given gardeners more than 30 azaleas in various sizes and bloom color, with more in the works.
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AgNet West
Wasps have a bad rap because their stings hurt. With the more than 30,000 species of wasps around the world there are three types of wasps that are most commonly encountered by pest control professionals: paper wasps, hornets and yellow jackets.
These interesting buzzing creatures actually serve a couple of useful purposes around your land. If you're an avid gardener then you know wasps are beneficial.
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Tallahassee Democrat
What's the current state of your vegetable garden?
Is it depressing, on the wane, beaten down by the North Florida sun and precarious rainfall, and engulfed by a season's worth of weeds, disease, and pests? Don't be disheartened — don't throw in the towel quite yet — the fall gardening season is directly ahead!
My garden, while still producing tomatoes, peppers, sweet potatoes, eggplant, cantaloupes, zinnias, sunflowers and marigolds, took a serious beating from the "leaf-footed bug" (Leptoglossus phyllopus) this year.
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