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GardenComm
Are your houseplants looking less than stellar? Are you wondering why your "green thumb" is only that color outside? Let's talk about the hottest plant group out there (move over hydrangeas) and why. I will talk about general care but also give you some tips and tricks to help improve the light you have, choose the right plant for the area where you want some green, and improve the overall conditions for your houseplants.
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GardenComm
In this day and age nothing is more convenient than being able to whip out your smartphone to take a photograph. However, it's often the case that the resulting photograph looks quite different from how we saw the scene with our eyes. This is understandably frustrating! Join me in a webinar that will provide you with some solid tips and tricks to help with mastering the camera and apps on your phone so you can be ready to photograph any scene or object with confidence and get exactly the photograph you want in the gardening community and beyond.
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GardenComm
Participants in this program will learn about a newly opened botanic garden in Region 2 (officially opens on Sept. 12). The new Delaware Botanic Garden's mission is "to create a world-class, inspirational, educational, and sustainable public botanic garden in southern Delaware for the benefit and enjoyment of all." Attendees will also visit local, private gardens and learned about gardening challenges in the unique Delmarva coastal climate.
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GardenComm
If you're anything like me in the garden, each act — pruning a rose, weeding a flower bed, deadheading the annuals — supplies its own metaphor. "Cut the dead wood out," your brain says with glee, as you actively do just that. I remember struggling with grass in a flowerbed — as you do — and imagining myself a dictator trying to "root out" the resistance. "But it's a grassroots movement," my imaginary underling whined, "We'll never get it all." Grass is tenacious.
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Nieman Lab
In an effort to put original reporting in front of users, Google's VP of news Richard Gingras announced that the company has changed its global search algorithm to "highlight articles that we identify as significant original reporting," and to keep such articles in top positions for longer.
The change is available in Google search now and will roll out to Google News and Google Discover shortly, Search Engine Land reported.
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Join the celebration! Foxgloves changed the look and feel of gardening with unmatched dexterity, color, comfort and style. Foxgloves have earned the reputation for being “the gloves you love to wear!”
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MediaPost
Local newspapers outperformed local TV, radio and online-only outlets in overall story output and original and local news, according to a recent study.
Although local newspapers accounted for about 25% of the local-media outlets sampled, newspapers accounted for nearly 50% of the original news stories, according to the study from the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy at Duke University.
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Poynter
It's a new twist on the now-familiar exercise: trying to find solid, hopeful initiatives when so many in and outside of journalism are pessimistic about the profession.
The Medill Local News Initiative at Northwestern University has interviewed 50 news leaders, "seeking markers of success" in the ongoing search for new business models for local news.
Predictably, there are no unanimous conclusions.
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Digital Content Next
People used to be loyal to a single publisher. They paid for the content then and there (or were longstanding subscribers). And they didn't even notice stories from other publications. It's frustrating that online content consumption hasn't work in the same way. But the same system that brought about the democratization of online content also broke publisher loyalty.
Suddenly, consumers had access to numerous content platforms.
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Pew Research Center
Local newsrooms across the country are struggling financially amid declines in revenue and staffing, but the public is broadly unaware of these challenges. A majority of U.S. adults believe their local news media are doing well financially, even as only 14% say they have paid for local news themselves in the past year, either through subscribing, donating or becoming a member, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted last fall.
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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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Prevent mosquitoes from spreading West Nile virus and other diseases with BTI, a natural bacterium found in Mosquito Dunks® and Mosquito Bits®. Float biodegradable Mosquito Dunks in ponds, birdbaths, rain barrels and any standing water to kill mosquito larvae. Use Mosquito Bits® in smaller places where water collects (such as plant saucers).
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What's New in Publishing
We're at a point in publishing where so much has happened, and so much is happening, that we're in danger of being both in a blur and completely glued to the spot.
Publishers need to pay attention to even the slightest movements in the industry to retain their competitive edge, while also keeping a weather eye out for the latest shiny thing that might turn out not be that shiny after all.
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The Associated Press
Facebook is trying to coax "news deserts" into bloom with the second major expansion of a tool that exposes people to more local news and information. But the social network confesses that it still has a lot to learn.
The social media giant said it is expanding its "Today In" service to 6,000 cities and towns across the U.S., up from 400 before.
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Adweek
Facebook and Instagram are "look at me" social platforms, while YouTube is where people go to learn new things and Twitter is more of a "look at this" destination, according to a recent study by Twitter and Publicis Media.
Twitter, Publicis Media and research partners Firefish and The Numbers Lab surveyed almost 1,500 people who use Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube last year.
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The Journal News
In just eight years, the Untermyer Gardens Conservancy has transformed the sad, neglected ruins of a once-great Yonkers, New York, park and garden into a shining showpiece of a garden that draws visitors from around the world.
When Stephen Byrns founded the fledgling Conservancy in 2011, the nonprofit group had ambitious goals but just one employee, head gardener Timothy Tilghman.
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Culture Map Houston
Houston's tropical (read: balmy) climate has its benefits, especially when it comes to our flourishing flora. And few local spots will showcase the Bayou City's diverse plant life like the upcoming Houston Botanic Garden, which has announced plans for its Edible Garden.
The new Edible Garden will showcase a cultural exhibition of edible and medicinal plants from around the globe.
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UConn Today
There aren't many places for children to go these days where they don't hear "Keep your hands to yourself!" or "Get down from there!" And they always seems to be holding some type of electronic screen, with a bottle of hand sanitizer not far away.
A new "cognitive garden" recently built at UConn Avery Point is a place for those rules to be broken.
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