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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
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
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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The Washington Post
New policies by Google and Facebook aimed at ensuring original journalism ranks higher in search results are leading to questions about how the changes may effect news media.
Google said last week that it will change its search rater guidelines and its algorithms to better surface original reporting — news originating from a publication and not aggregated from another outlet — to allow it to obtain a higher ranking on its search pages and maintain that ranking for a longer time.
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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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The Atlantic
They can be identified by their independent-bookstore tote bags, their "Book Lover" mugs, or — most reliably — by the bound, printed stacks of paper they flip through on their lap. They are, for lack of a more specific term, readers.
Joining their tribe seems simple enough: Get a book, read it and voilà! You're a reader — no tote bag necessary. But behind that simple process is a question of motivation — of why some people grow up to derive great pleasure from reading, while others don't.
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Publishers Weekly
Copyright law is the backbone of the publishing industry and the lifeblood of writers and other creators. It puts food on the table and pays the rent. It allows an author to write the next book or article, the photographer to set up the next shoot, the songwriter to keep writing music. The internet has made it easier for writers, composers, filmmakers, photographers, designers and other creatives to distribute their work to the world — but it also makes it easier to steal or exploit others' creative works.
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MediaPost
How are we defining ads these days? What does it mean to be in advertising?
Earlier this year, Marc Pritchard got people thinking about what a future without ads would look like. There were also pieces about whether we've really changed advertising, and if we really need it anymore.
All this got me thinking about what role advertising plays and whether it is indeed necessary now, or not.
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Columbia Journalism Review
California Assembly Bill 5, in its original language, seemed as though it could end freelance journalism in the state. The bill, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Sept. 18, codifies and expands on a 2018 California Supreme Court decision that made it harder for companies to classify workers as freelancers rather than employees. As employees, workers are covered by state laws on the minimum wage, worker's compensation coverage, workplace discrimination and other protections. As freelancers, they are not.
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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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Nieman Reports
As editor and publisher of the Todd County Standard, a weekly in Elkton, Kentucky, I once ran a story that asked farmers to attend a very important meeting on agricultural zoning. The future of farming in the small county in Kentucky where I own and edit the newspaper could be changed at this meeting.
The crowd at the event was sparse, so the next morning at the local greasy spoon, I rage-walked to the liars' table, full of farmers, and asked why in the hell they didn't come to the meeting?
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Digiday
In March, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company's pivot to privacy following its Cambridge Analytica scandal a year earlier and subsequent scrutiny of the company's practices. Around the time of that announcement, a publishing executive had a single conversation with employees at Facebook who laid out some indication of what the strategy shift would mean for publishers, such as the importance of private forums like Facebook Groups.
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Social Media Today
Selling your products and services on social media is rarely a simple, straightforward process.
The key term in the title says it all — social media is about being "social" and interacting, not broadcasting your latest offer or pitching your latest deal. Most of us are not big celebrities either, with the capacity to drive a ton of traffic and sales via a single tweet, or a simple Instagram post.
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The New York Times
For years, people who use Facebook, Instagram and Twitter have chased Likes as a status symbol. More Likes on a social media post meant it was popular, engaging and worthwhile.
To gain Likes, people were sometimes motivated to post messages and videos that they had calibrated to go viral. That helped lead to a proliferation of violent, radical or otherwise extremist content on social media that set tongues wagging.
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WhiteHouse.gov
This fall, the White House will open its gardens and grounds to visitors. The grounds will be open on Saturday, October 19, from 10:00 AM to 4:30 PM, and Sunday, October 20, from 10:00 AM to 2:30 PM. On these days, visitors can discover the beauty of the South Lawn of the White House. The Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, Rose Garden, and the White House Kitchen Garden will also be accessible to guests.
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The Advocate
Ginger Ford doesn't believe in buying plants. Or dirt. Or lawn furniture for that matter.
When it comes to her garden, Ford is the ultimate recycler.
"I never bought an ounce of dirt to make raised beds," said Ford, who collected dirt that had washed into neighborhood streets and hauled it to her yard to create her own garden.
She opened storm drains to collect rotted leaves and brought them by wheelbarrow back to her garden.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Carole Malakoff, a retired Pittsburgh Public Schools art teacher, thinks of her garden as an art installation. And she's right.
Her garden, a serene, artfully done oasis in Pittsburgh's historic Allegheny West neighborhood, was chosen as the runner-up in the small category of the Great Gardens Contest. The competition is judged by staffers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Pittsburgh Botanic Garden.
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