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margin-bottom: 0px;">Commercial arborists, urban foresters and interested volunteers can join</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Rutgers University Diagnostic Lab Director Rich Buckley as he outlines</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">what insects and diseases were "hot" and what were "not" in 2014, in an effort to predict what we might expect in the upcoming 2015 growing season. </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> </p></div></div>To attend, visit <a track="on" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001VJ-9AVuStvOg6vKrlM-AHbULufRUMC5T-M3yvsulHVlDLUduQXc_KRZTHhL-Ap5VuB-GbXqfnEsCkYJ8TAy0yunsvmCstE84aBscpb7qdps=" shape="rect" linktype="1" target="_blank" style="color: blue;">www.joinwebinar.com</a> and enter the ID code # <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><strong>119-819-267</strong></span>. <br><div><div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">This broadcast is free and will offer the opportunity for arborists to earn 1.0 ISA CEU and 0.5 MCA credit.</p></div><div><p style="margin-top: 0px; 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