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Greenhouse Grower
The years leading up to the Great Recession were good ones. The green industry showed signs of strength and stability, much of it fueled by a booming housing market. Overall, economic contributions in 2007 were estimated to be $175.26 billion.
Then came the crash. Greenhouse and nursery growers face painfully slow-growing demand, with prospective buyers willing to purchase product only on a just-in-time basis.
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Garden Rant
I've been a fair-weather friend to the Garden Writers Association for as long as I've been garden-writing, targeting my complaints at the management firm it paid to run everything. Like many other back-bench complainers, I've been hoping, hoping, hoping the management would change someday.
Now it's happened! President Kirk Brown has announced that there's a new team in charge, as of the first of this year.
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American Nurseryman
Craig Regelbrugge, AmericanHort's senior vice president for industry advocacy and research, has guided the industry for more than 25 years with his tireless research and keen analysis of Capitol Hill. We've asked him for some insight on what to expect this year, so that we can make sure those issues of importance to the green industry don't get lost in the din of campaign ads.
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The Write Life
Internet overwhelm is real, guys. How many unread articles and blog posts do you have in your RSS reader? And what about those Facebook and Twitter feeds?
How do we keep track of it all? As writers, we want to keep up with the latest industry news, advice and opportunities, but we don't have time to sift through everything happening in the online world.
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Clematis Huvi flowers are like a rich velvet fabric of purplish/red, with large wavy edged tepals, heavy blooming, cold hardy, easy prune 3
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NPR
"Look at someone like this guy right here," Alex Taub says, intently peering at his laptop screen.
We're in Taub's office right off Union Square in New York City. It's the headquarters of SocialRank, the startup he co-founded. SocialRank shows companies and public figures with brands to promote which of their followers on Twitter and Instagram are most valuable.
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Publishing Perspectives
Five years ago, timed to the American Booksellers Association's annual Winter Institute, The New York Times published a story entitled "Small Bookstores Struggle for Niche in Shifting Times." The state of the industry as a whole was in jeopardy — Borders superstore chain was faltering, e-books were on a meteoric rise, and Amazon was gaining market share in a dramatic way — and independent booksellers were on the front lines.
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Tech Times
Not everyone has the knack to effectively write down their thoughts but a new study offers a hint on how anyone can improve their writing skills. The trick is to simply type slower.
In the new research, Srdan Medimorec and Evan Risko from the University of Waterloo found that writing at a slower speed can enhance people's way with words.
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Digital Book World
My seven-year-old is a voracious reader. Long gone are the days when I had to read something to him or hope that he missed the inappropriate language spray-painted on a street sign. Now I'm in the process of teaching him that not everything he reads is true or completely accurate. And the same can be said about much of what is written on the future of publishing.
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