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The Smart Set
It didn’t happen all at once. I didn’t wake up one morning to find myself unable to write creatively. For months, I could eke out a story or group of poems, but all attempts at another novel arrived stillborn, exhausting themselves after a few thousand words. My father suggested I had a form of postpartum depression, that seeing my first novel in print, and therefore out of my hands, was too much of a shock, temporarily. I didn’t have the heart to tell him this had been going on for years.
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The Drum
In the days before social media, journalists were seen as the original influencers. But have increasing concerns regarding the sharing of data, fake news and misinformation meant that the public have lost faith in the news brands and journalists they once trusted? And how will this impact both readers and news brands as the coronavirus pandemic continues?
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Benary’s most exciting BIG addition: Extremely well branched with short internodes so it’s covered with blooms. Outstanding garden performance lives up to the BIG Begonia name. Earlier to set blooms then perfect mounded habit later in the season. Extremely heat tolerant!
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Digiday
Media companies are hemorrhaging business as advertisers rapidly cut off spending because of the coronavirus outbreak.
The obvious categories, like travel, film and retail, are contracting so too are financial services and restaurants. Media companies are working to offset those revenue losses by turning to companies more likely to advertise right now, such as streaming services, food delivery and e-commerce companies.
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Digiday
For a national retailer, the coronavirus hit the U.S. just as its peak sales season for the year began. Typically, during this time period, the retailer spends more on advertising to account for that while also promoting new products. But now, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the retailer is one of a number of marketers reevaluating if it should be advertising, how it should advertise if it does and where its messages should show up.
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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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With the widest selection of full-blooming varieties, Optimara continues to advance the industry with new plant varieties and innovative growing techniques, constantly refined over years of research and development. We create new, exciting plants and care products which are trend-setting and truly functional. Our effort is to continue offering customers a unique selection of flowers in a beautiful product line.
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The New York Times
Until recently, Facebook could feel at times like the virtual equivalent of a sleepy bingo parlor — an outmoded gathering place populated mainly by retirees looking for conversation and cheap fun.
That was before the coronavirus.
Now, stuck inside their homes and isolated from their families and friends, millions of Americans are rediscovering the social network’s virtues.
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JCK
Times have changed. Rapidly. Outside of the physical dangers that COVID-19 presents, many of us are numb with fear and anxiety on the inside. Which means there’s never been a trickier time in modern memory to market your business on social media.
But now is not the time to retreat. Experts agree that brands should do everything possible not to vanish from the social landscape, even if their retail doors are temporarily shuttered.
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The Verge
In the face of the coronavirus outbreak, Facebook’s misinformation problem has taken on new urgency. Facebook joined seven other platforms in announcing a hard line on virus-related misinformation, which they treated as a direct threat to public welfare.
But a report published last week by Ranking Digital Rights makes the case that Facebook’s current moderation approach may be unable to meaningfully address the problem.
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Beacon Senior News
In times of adversity, confusion and chaos, we’re granted the opportunity to reflect. Of course, we have that opportunity every day. But when life jolts us, we have hardly a choice but to pause and remember what truly matters.
Connection. Community. Safety. Food. The simplest elements of life stand out to us, and we see them as the essentials they are.
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The New York Times
“Small things count,” read a headline in the tiny, insistent pamphlet published by the National War Garden Commission in 1919. The pitch made gardening a civic duty.
And though the illustrations were cute, the text was urgent: “Prevention of widespread starvation is the peacetime obligation of the United States. … The War Garden of 1918 must become the Victory Garden of 1919.”
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Los Angeles Times
Waiting is always hard, but when you’re waiting for an unseen force that could, at any time, sicken or kill you, your family and your friends while devastating the global economy ... OMG OMG OMG ...
Well. As we said. Waiting is hard.
So take a deep breath, put down the remote and get busy outside. We’ve made a list of 10 garden chores that can help save your sanity now and make the coming months much more pleasant.
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