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Congratulations to our 2020 Academic Scholarship Winners!
Phoebe Witten Austerman
Jess Brey
Laura Grant
Claire Poore
Yuvraj Khamare
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POSTPONED: Music City in Bloom in Nashville, TN (date TBA)
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Spokane Spokesman-Review
The third- and fourth-graders from Longfellow Elementary School in Spokane, Washington, surrounded a big tube soil. The looks on their faces were skeptical. What do you mean there are potatoes in there?
Six sets of hands hesitantly dug into the dirt. All of a sudden, a hand brought up a round, red-skinned potato. Eyes got big. There are potatoes in there! After that it might as well have been the California Gold Rush all over again as they dug for the treasure.
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House Beautiful
Whether you're planting spring flowers, bulbs, perennials, or shrubs and trees, there’s always something new to learn in the garden. And both newbies and green thumbs will sometimes stumble: a too-tender perennial that doesn’t survive the winter. A tree that got too big. An over-zealous pruning session that leaves a shrub looking sad and skimpy. Fortunately, Mother Nature is forgiving, and your garden will rebound in time. And making mistakes is part of the learning process!
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Town & Country Magazine
This is a story about a box of tools, but we’ll get to that. The philanthropist Mrs. William Rayner (known as Kathy; her late husband was the noted watercolorist and travel writer Bill) has a little place on the ocean in East Hampton called Woody House.
The property, acquired in the mid-1980s after the Rayners had rented it from the Trippe family for years, is fabled for many reasons, but most notably for the view.
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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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Everyday Health
From "Sophie’s Choice" author William Styron to poet Sylvia Plath to J.K Rowling, the mastermind responsible for the Harry Potter series, the list of famous depressed writers — many of whom have documented it in their prose — is expansive.
Though there are no firm statistics on how many writers experience depression, researcher Kay Redfield Jamison, PhD, has reported that writers have depression or manic-depression more often than non-writers.
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World Press Photo
This is a challenging and difficult time for the global community.
The visual journalism community is dealing with a lot of uncertainty: safety concerns, travel bans, budget cuts and canceled assignments are only a few of the issues visual journalists are facing.
The global situation surrounding the COVID-19 virus has also affected the World Press Photo Foundation. Our annual Awards Show and Festival have been cancelled.
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Women Writers, Women's Books
All I want to do is have coffee with my parents under a shade tree.
It’s day 30 of self-isolating in the era of Covid-19. I’m 65 and immunosuppressed (a double-organ transplant patient) so I started drawing back during my spring break from N.C. State. The first week, I went out for groceries and once to the garden shop, where I found, of all things, hand sanitizer — along with the pansies I felt I must have to power through these weeks.
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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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Venture Beat
The programmatic strategies that once worked before the COVID-19 pandemic may not be working so well now. Internet browsing is up as more segments of the global population are ordered to remain home and are thus spending more of their day online. However, this surge in traffic is not always a good thing for publishers, as many are finding it hard to monetize on that traffic.
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The New York Times
The billboard was blank.
In all the times Takeshi Sato had walked through Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo’s answer to Times Square, he had been more or less surrounded by ads. But on March 23, he noticed something strange looming over the pedestrians: an empty sign.
“I thought, ‘Oh, this is not normal,’ and I remember feeling depressed,” Sato said. “But it’s understandable that advertisers want to stop running ads on billboards, because fewer people are going out.”
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Facebook
I want to talk for a minute about why publishing is in so much trouble right now. It's way more complicated than most people seem to think.
First, you need to know that the vast majority of our business remains in hardcover and paperback books. Hard copies, physical objects. The second strongest sector has been audio books. E-books are a distant third.
Selling books is a very long and complicated supply chain.
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Social Media Today
After more than a year of testing, Instagram has now expanded user access to Instagram Direct messages via the web version of the app, enabling users to interact with their Instagram DMs via desktop.
Instagram first started testing desktop access to Direct in February last year, then began rolling it out to selected users in January — though it noted at that time that it was still, very much, in test mode.
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The Verge
Twitter has removed a privacy feature that allowed all users to stop sharing some private information with advertisers. The setting prevented Twitter from sharing information like the ads you saw or interacted with and the tracking identifier for your phone. For most users, that information will now be shared by default and can’t be turned off.
The shared data is used to show the efficacy of advertising on Twitter, the company says.
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TechCrunch
Facebook quietly released a new app for couples. Called Tuned, the new release is a multimedia messaging app designed to help significant others communicate.
The app is available for download in the U.S. and Canada, app analytics firm Sensor Tower tells us. Tuned was developed and released by Facebook’s New Product Experimentation team. The division is very experimental and thus a bit quicker to pull the plug on projects if they don’t show traction.
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