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Flowers are flaunting every color of the rainbow and their scents are drifting through six stunning gardens as the seventh annual Birmingham in the Garden tour approaches.The self-paced tour, organized by the Birmingham First United Methodist Church, runs 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Saturday, July 21.

Celebrate summer by making your own wind chime. With only three items - a stick, ribbons and bells - this outdoor instrument will easily bring music to your ears the entire season.Adult's help: SomeHands-on time: 45 minutesTotal time: 45 minutesCelebrate summer by making your own wind chime.

Her boyfriend became abusive about six months after they met. He would drink himself into a stupor and tear the house apart while screaming and insulting her, once even threatening to snap her neck. She worried for herself, but also for her beloved golden retriever, Cody, whom she had rescued from an abusive former owner.

Summer is an exciting season for everyone, including our pets. While we enjoy warm weather activities, we must not forget our pets.The sun can be dangerous to pets for many reasons. One of the most common hazards leaving dogs in the car while you run errands. Even though we warn pet parents every year, we still hear about tragedies of death from the heat.

In the beginning, there was a dial. Then man invented the television remote so he wouldn't have to get off the sofa.Then remote controls multiplied . . . so man could never find the right one and his spouse complained that watching TV is so friggin' complicated.And now, the next epoch: Everyone in the house commands the TV by voice.

Television shopping is as baffling as choosing a bottle of wine, only less delicious. You look at the labels: Which is better, LED, OLED or QLED? And then you look at the cost: Does twice the price mean twice as nice?Not necessarily. I've been testing a new TV called the 6-Series that might upend how you think about buying your next big screen.

SAN FRANCISCO - Celebrities, start kissing your Twitter followers goodbye.On Wednesday, the social media service said it would begin removing large numbers of Twitter profiles that had been included in people's follower counts - even though these profiles had been frozen by the company's security team for suspicious behavior, rendering them completely inactive for significant periods of time.

Top Republican lawmakers on the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent letters Monday asking Apple and Google for more information on how extensively their smartphones track people's locations and record snippets of their conversations.The questions from lawmakers come amid a broader scrutiny from Capitol Hill into how the underlying, everyday practices of technology companies may infringe on Americans' privacy.

Microsoft late Monday added a smaller sibling to its Surface line of tablets - the Surface Go. The 10-inch tablet is a little larger than the standard iPad, but is capable of running a full version of Windows.The company has talked up how the smaller tablet will appeal to two particular demographics: students and women.

Convicted briber and conspirator Dean Reynolds wants to be released from prison while awaiting sentencing, claiming he needs cancer surgery and time to devote to his sick mother.But federal prosecutors contend in a legal brief filed Wednesday that Reynolds failed to provide corroboration of his cancer and is a risk to flee the area "as he stares at (sentencing) guidelines calling for a double-decade prison sentence.