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• What to Do This Week

  
  In the Garden — Authority: 131
  Perennials: Ornamental grasses, especially native varieties, fit harmoniously into almost any planting plan. Their interest derives from translucence, line, form, texture and scale — all the elements that contribute to excellent design. Look around at existing grass plantings and decide where in your landscape they ...
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• Virus Warns Of Flu

  
  Blight Watch — Authority: 122
  You’ll have to excuse me, but that headline was too much to resist. Continuing in the tradition of riding public waves of emotion surrounding topical recent events, the latest target of a spam campaign are people worried about getting H1N1 flu shots. That this sinks to a new low of depravity should come as no ...
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• A Koobface Christmas

  
  Blight Watch — Authority: 122
  “All I want for Christmas is some bot detection software .” If you’re not singing this tune, perhaps you should be. The notorious Koobface botnet is gearing up for the holiday season, it appears, with several new tricks up its sleeve to trap the unwary. The fraud artists behind Koobface seem to be branching ...
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• iPhone Hacker Rewarded With Cushy Job

  
  Blight Watch — Authority: 122
  In an ideal world, malicious hackers would get jail time, and nothing else for their efforts. But, since online security began, some of them have been enticed by either private companies or government agencies to turn their skills towards trapping others of their kind. Or, at times, to just developing profitable ...
  4 days ago

• Tip of the Week: Combating Fungal Diseases such as Late Blight

  
  Plant Talk — Authority: 124
  Sonia Uyterhoeven is Gardener for Public Education. Last week I blogged about the causes of late blight. This week we’ll look at ways to deal with it and other fungal diseases in general. Here at the Garden, we thought we had missed the late blight since we made it through the initial onslaught unscathed. ...
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• Bacteria plays an important role in a plant’s immunity

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  Washington, Nov 28 (IANS) When it comes to plants’ innate immunity, bacteria play a vital role, according to researchers.A receptor molecule in the plant pairs up with a specific molecule on the invading bacteria and, presto, the immune system swings into action to defend against the invasion of the disease-causing ...
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• Epsom Salt for Tomato Blight Control

  
  The Gardener's Rake — Authority: 112
  Our area was hit very hard with tomato blight. Almost everyone lost their entire tomato crop. I believe the reason for this was our cold rainy summer and nights that were chilly. It just put to much stress on the plants. photo credit: kthread And the heavy rain created sickly plants that were the ...
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• Ball Brothers Foundation Awards Nearly $900,000 in Grants

  
  Money employment & careers - money-employment.marc8.com — Authority: 152
  In addition to supporting nonprofits in the east-central region of Indiana, the foundation announced that it will help the city of Muncie with programs that addresss downtown blight and strengthen childcare nonprofits....
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• The Great Pumpkin Crisis of 2009: Bad for Libbys, good for organic growers

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 790
  Filed under: Technology , Economy , Media By the time you read this, disaster may have already struck. Youre either looking forward to a Thanksgiving meal with the warm, reassuring taste of pumpkin pie -- or staring down the barrel of a substitute sweet potato pie while trying to pretend that everything is ...
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• iWorm

  
  Blight Watch — Authority: 122
  Reports are coming in that a new iPhone worm is not only attacking “jailbroken” iPhones (where users have gotten around Apple’s built-in limitations), but also loading a botnet onto them which steals data such as banking information. These reports all say that as long as you keep your iPhone within Apple’s ...
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• “Godfather of Spam” Sentenced To Jail Time

  
  Blight Watch — Authority: 122
  Anyone interested in the ongoing web fraud prevention battle should take heart in today’s news that the self-described “Godfather of Spam” is going to prison for years for his spammy activities. Four spammers — the “Godfather” and his three accomplices — were just handed multi-year prison sentences ...
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• Retail Wars, Urban Sores: A New Jobs Project

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 143
  If we can defend democracy overseas we can rebuild our decaying Main Streets. This could be a building stimulus project both political parties could respect if we see it as a restoration after a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• A Special Kind of Eminent Domain Abuse

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 743
  In federal eminent domain cases, the “scope of the project” rule requires that in determining “just compensation” under the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause, any increase or decrease in property value caused by the federal project be disregarded.  As it turns out, the federal government had discussed the ...
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• New Patentable Scheme To Combat Virus Attachments

  
  Blight Watch — Authority: 122
  Over in Britain, the folks at Qinetiq have come up with a brand-new idea to combat the many flavors of spam email attachments which are not only out there now, but would be created in the future. While it seems a temporary fix at best, it is an interesting scheme to tackle the basic problem of spam attachments which ...
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• Houses on Delachaise between Magazine and Camp

  
  What I Saw Riding My Bike Around Today — Authority: 127
  Uptown and the Garden District are probably the two ritziest neighborhoods in Orleans Parish. When biking around, you can absolutely tell when you’ve crossed from Uptown in to Central City. There aren’t nearly as many trees, whole blocks are blighted, some streets feel empty. And the Garden District? Hell, Sandra ...
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• Tip of the Week: How Late Blight Took Hold

  
  Plant Talk — Authority: 124
  Sonia Uyterhoeven is Gardener for Public Education. I think it is worth reflecting further on the effects of the cool, rainy weather we had this season—not to reminisce but rather to attain a deeper understanding of the practice of gardening. Something came along this year that caught people by surprise. Late ...
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• Noe Blight Site

  
  Burrito Justice — Authority: 487
  Breaking news! Blight exists in Noe Valley AT THIS VERY MOMENT. Now I know what you’re thinking — “how can you possibly detect blight without the advantage of retro-history and the assistance of Eric Fisher’s time machine ?” By walking up Duncan between Church and Dolores: Sometimes blight arrives ...
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• Sacramento Condos, Sacramento Homes

  
  The Article Blog — Authority: 141
  As we look for investment properties in the Sacramento area, lets take a minute to become familiar with two different types of Homes. So here is information on Sacramento condos, sacramento homes Condos In the United States and most of Canada, a condominium (Commonly known as the Condominium Complex) is a ...
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• Its All A Big Lie - File This Too

  
  24/7 North of Howard Watchers — Authority: 118
  Around 6:30 pm last night, four loud gunshots rang out. Neighbors saw people running both north and south on Bosworth. Several squads responded to multiple 911 calls immediately. They stopped some who were running – but no arrests were made. Those who were briefly detained may know why shots rang out – but ...
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• Fringe August S02E08 (Fox)

  
  memoirs on a rainy day — Authority: 144
  Fringe intertitle, image via Wikipedia It’s fitting that this show will premiere on Fox, since this was the network of the X-Files. Fringe has got much in common with the X-Files, yet it is different. Fringe is the latest show of wunderkind J.J. Abrams . Like most new shows, the pilot was leaked on the internet a ...
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