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our desert island plants: native spring woodland perennials, with ken druse
by margaret February 6, 2021 February 6, 2021
FACING A FORECAST of heaps of snow the other day, Ken Druse and I got to dreaming on the phone together of more colorful times ahead—of the emergence, not so very long in the future, of spring's first woodland perennials, natives that do their thing early beneath trees and shrubs.
"Hey, let's make it another edition of our Desert Island Plants series on the radio show and podcast," we decided. And so favorite natives of spring are the topic this week.
Talking about our most-loved spring native woodland perennials—from blue cohosh (just emerging one April, above) and merrybells, to various trilliums and Virginia bluebells and more—is a perfect fit for Ken Druse. His books "The Natural Shade Garden" in 1992 and "The New Shade Garden" (affiliate link), published in 2015, each covered a choice selection of such plants. He joined me on Skype recently from his own snowbank, a few hours' drive away from mine, to think spring and its fantastic native perennials.
Plus: We'll have a book giveaway of "The New Shade Garden;" enter to win in the comments box at the very bottom of the page.
Read along as you listen to the February 8, 2021 edition of my public-radio show and podcast using the player below. You can subscribe to all future editions on Apple Podcasts (iTunes) or Spotify or Stitcher (and browse my archive of podcasts here).
native spring perennials, with ken druse
https://episodes.castos.com/ON-DEMAND-LISTENING/Native-Spring-Perennials-With-Ken-Druse-A-Way-to-Garden-With-Margaret-Roach-February-8-2021.mp3
Margaret: Hi, Ken. How's the snowbank? [Laughter.]
Ken: Oh my gosh.
Margaret: I know.
Ken: I don't know.
Ken: There was a white hippopotamus in the driveway, and it turned out to be my car.
Margaret: Yeah, that'll happen. That'll happen. In our previous Desert Island Plants editions, last couple months, we've done trees and shrubs and we just, I guess, because we were so desperate, as I said, sort of winter-desperate, starved for color, we got to talking about this the other day. And I realized when I sort of started making my list in preparation, these are some of the plants that I've had here the longest. Do you know what I mean? The native perennials, they were some of the first things I either bought or that I found when I got here.
Ken: I call these plants woodlanders, because the ones that I think about most are the plants of the woodland and the early spring plants. And some of them, we call ephemerals because they bloom and they either fade away or just bloom and set seed, sometimes even before the leaves on the trees come out.
But when we started talking about this, we were going to do our favorite shade plants. Then we were going to do our favorite woodland plants. And then we thought, well, early woodland plants. And then we thought native woodland plants. And then I looked up my county's native woodland plants, because you know how we start with 2,000 plants, and have to get it down to maybe 20.
Margaret: Slice and dice. [Laughter.] Yeah, slice and dice. Yeah. But sort of the early spring natives, as you point out, they're sort of the opportunists that take advantage of the light that's coming through the canopy of the shrubs or trees in nature before leaves get on the trees above. And they do their thing: They photosynthesize, they jump up, they photosynthesize, they flower, they set seed. They try to do it early, because otherwise there's not enough light resources often.
Ken: Well, some of these plants that are my favorites have not been in my garden the longest because they don't like sandy soil, that's one thing. They don't like alkaline soil, my soil's kind of neutral. They want that slightly acidic to acidic, most of them, and they're flood-intolerant.
Margaret: Oh, all the things that you're not.
Ken: Right.
Margaret: Right. You have floods [laughter].
Ken: Under water. One year when we had Hurricane Irene, I have a lot of Trillium grandiflorum, and the next year none. And I thought it was heartbreaking. But then the year after, they came up; they just took a year off.
Margaret: Oh. Let's start there because Trillium is of course, one of the things we think of when we think of what jumps up early and does its thing and is spectacular native little woodlanders. Grandiflorum, I thought—and we're both in the Northeast, we should say to those who haven't listened before—I always thought that must be native here too and it's not. And where I am, which is up the Hudson Valley a bit adjacent to the Berkshires of Massachusetts, it's not. Trillium erectum [above] is, and I think something else, but not grandiflorum, which is elsewhere in the Northeast, but not right here.
Ken: Massachusetts, yes.
Margaret: And you kind of alluded to this before, you said about "native to your county" and whatever. And we should confess that we're both sort of, we've become insane range-map geeks, really finding out, not just is it native to the U.S., but is it native to right here? We've both become kind of crazy about that, and not to say that our whole gardens are dictated by that, but it's a fascination that we have.
Ken: And it's… I call it local. Because there's native, there's indigenous—indigenous to North America—native to North America and then local to me. Some people say local is a 50-mile radius, but that's too general. For me, I often think of 10-mile radius, and now there's so many things online where you can put in your county and "native plants" and usually there's lists.
Margaret: Right. "The flora of" such and such. For me, it's "the flora of Columbia County, New York." And we've talked about that before. Trilliums, so I found three clumps of Trillium erectum, the reddish-colored wakerobin.
Ken: Nodding trillium.
Margaret: Yeah. Under my porch, the edge of my porch. When I first moved here, I found them, I dug them up and I moved them into a better place. And I have lots now. What trilliums are you growing?
Ken: Well, I have, as you know, many trillium, and of course I grow grandiflorum as I said [above, a double-flowered grandiflorum at Ken's]. I love Trillium luteum because it's a little bit later and it blooms for such a long time. I have cuneatum, sessile. Well, a lot, but erectum oddly enough, even though I'm well over 100 miles from you, is also native to my county.
Margaret: Right. And that was the kind of fun thing, looking up, it's maybe the Eastern third of the country it's native in. Again, people who aren't listening in New Jersey or New York State where we are, it's much more widely…. About the Eastern third of the country, as I said, much more widely native than just where we're talking about. Yeah.
Ken: I know we've talked about trillium a lot in the past, but we should maybe describe that it has three leaves and three petals—they're bracts on the flowers—and our Trillium erectum is kind of almost dried-blood red and the flowers hang down a little bit, which is why it's nodding.
Margaret: And we've talked about before and I'll give a link to all the details on this, but if you want to multiply it, it'll start to self-sow once established in your garden, as long as you don't put too much mulch on or clean up too strongly around the clumps. But also, you and I both have for many years moved them and divided the sort of knobby little rhizomes beneath the ground. We dig them up when they're in flower, and we move them around and make new clusters and so forth. [Illustration of how-to, below; more on propagating spring wildflowers in this older interview with expert Carol Gracie.]
Ken: And people don't believe us. [Laughter.]
Margaret: Right. But it's true. And we'll show the details. What's the next one you want to shout out among native woodlanders?
Ken: Well, I mentioned ephemerals, and I like some of those because when something blooms really early and then disappears, it makes room for something else. I have a lot of Mertensia virginica, Virginia bluebells [below], and they bloom in lots of places and also self-sow. Not horribly, but gently.
I also have some white ones that appeared that are just incredibly beautiful. But the blue ones bloom, and then they disappear. And for me, the hostas come up, and the Virginia bluebells are completely gone. They melt. You don't see foliage, nothing.
Margaret: But they'll come back next year, of course. And speaking of things that self-sow, they will self-sow around, I think. They do in my garden anyway. One really kooky—a speaking of range map, things about that, the Eastern bluebells are native to the Eastern half of North America, except New England.
Ken: Except me.
Margaret: Right. But they're not in New England technically. And they've been moved into New England, but they're not native. And the woodland phlox, Phlox divaricata, that also is Eastern, [laughter] but not in New England except where it's been moved into New England. When you look at the range maps, that's what's kind of fun is to imagine the histories of these plants over the millennia, and where they've been in and so forth. And when we say "native to," again, it doesn't mean it's widespread in any of those areas. It just means it's been noted as present in a particular state or county or whatever.
Ken: And we're not saying you can't grow native plants-
Margaret: Correct.
Ken: …if you want to.
Margaret: Correct. Correct.
Ken: It's cool to do this. When I started my woodland garden, I had two beds. One was plants that were local to a 10-mile radius, and the other bed was analogous species from around the world. But then I got sloppy, but that was the idea when I started.
Margaret: Right. Another ephemeral you want to shout out quickly?
Ken: Oh, you're putting me on the spot.
Margaret: Or not, maybe not. Maybe not another ephemeral. That's totally up to you.
Ken: No, I was thinking what melts away. Well, O.K. Bloodroot, except the leaves sort of stick around. Mayapple disappears after it blooms and has fruit. I love bloodroot, which is Sanguinaria, but when it blooms—and it tends to bloom for about an hour and a half on a Tuesday in May.
Margaret: If it's not windy or raining. [Laughter.] It shatters the flowers.
Ken: But they're beautiful white flowers.
Margaret: Oh, I know.
Ken: But if we accept versions or cultivated varieties of some of these native and local plants, the double bloodroot, it hangs around. If it's cool, it'll hang around for two weeks. And it's one of the most beautiful plants in my entire garden. I was going to say Sanguinaria canadensis 'Multiplex.'
Margaret: The double is 'Multiplex.' Yeah. And so that one, again, eastern half of the United States and that one goes farther south than some of our other Eastern natives that maybe don't make it all the way down into say Texas or the deeper South. That one has a, a range, a native range even into the warm states in the South of the eastern half or so of the country.
Ken: Is that local for you?
Margaret: I don't really know. I don't think I looked it up.
Ken: It's local for me.
Margaret: Yeah. I think so. Yeah. I want to name one that is not an ephemeral. Well, a couple of other quick ephemerals are some of those little Dicentras.
Ken: Oh, right. Of course. Dutchman's breeches [Dicentra cucullaria, above]. Here today, gone tomorrow—that's what they should call it.
Margaret: Right. Right. And I have that one and what's the other one? Dicentra-
Ken: Squirrel corn?
Margaret: Yeah. Yeah. I have those, both of those, and they kind of come and go really quickly and they're adorable, and the animals love to eat them, woodchucks and rabbits love to eat them so it's a little bit tricky for me. That's how I know if Woody's here, in the early spring [laughter], is that they all come up and they're gorgeous that ferny foliage and then they're gone before they even flower. They're gone and it's like Woody the Woodchuck is in residence.
But one that I want to mention, that's not ephemeral, but it's just been with me a really long time. I think from the native plant garden sale at the New York Botanical Garden, decades and decades ago, is blue cohosh, Caulophyllum thalictroides [photo, top of page]. And that might be one of my favorite plants of all time. And yet I never see it anywhere. It's native to the eastern half or so of the country, not super-hot, like Florida or Texas, but all the way out to the Dakotas practically, but not in the super-hot spots. And it just comes up out of the ground in this ungodly color of blue, of purply kind of foliage.
Ken: Almost black.
Margaret: Yeah, and just is so lovely and unusual. You're getting beauty and color long before anything… It has little yellowish flowers and so forth, but long before anything. And it's just a really aristocratic plant, I think, for a little woodlander. Highly, highly recommend people take a look at it. We'll put pictures with the transcript. By the way, we'll give away a copy of your "The New Shade Garden" book with the transcript.
Ken: Oh great.
Margaret: But it's so different. And that is that pigment thing, the anthocyanins that we associate with as opposed to chlorophyll that's green.
Ken: Antifreeze.
Margaret: Yeah. We think of it as the fall pigments, but in the spring and nobody really knows the whole story, the scientists have a lot of conjecture and experiments around it. Do the anthocyanin pigments, those sort of bluish or red and purple pigments, do they make it taste bad so herbivorous insects and animals don't eat it? Yes, probably. Do they provide attractiveness so that something that's going to flower super-early, even when it's just in foliage, looks more like a flower and gets interest from potential pollinators? Yes. But nobody knows exactly, there's a lot of different reasons that plants have these colors, but I love Caulophyllum thalictroides.
Ken: The foliage reminds me of what we used to call Cimicifuga, and now we call Actaea. And I think all these plants are poisonous, actually. [Laughter.]
Margaret: Yeah, yeah, whatever.
Ken: Whatever. I know you have a favorite Actaea.
Margaret: I love the actaeas, the baneberries, the doll's eyes; the cimicifugas are later for me, so I wasn't including them in my spring list. But the littler ones, the baneberries, the white- and the red-fruited ones. Actaea pachypoda is the white baneberry, or doll's eyes. And Actaea rubra is the red baneberry, more common. Yeah, and I love them both.
And they were here when I got here, they were at the woodland fringe, a plant here and there. And I became interested in them and bought more. And as I'm doing my groundcover removal projects that we've talked about on recent episodes—when the snow melts [laughter]—that's one of the plants that I found myself ordering lots of little babies of to have more of. Yeah. Speaking of poisonous. Yeah.
Ken: Well just don't eat the berries, but they're called doll's eyes. Wait till you see the picture. You're going to post that, I'm sure.
Margaret: Absolutely. Yeah. That's a good one.
Ken: You must have at least slightly acidic soil, because that is a plant that I think wants acid.
Margaret: Yeah, I think so. And I was interested again—range map geek—to look and find out that the red one is very, very widespread and it's what's even called circumboreal. It is native in what is the largest floristic region of the world, in terms of square miles or whatever—most of Canada, Alaska, Europe, the Caucases, Russia. It's this really widespread plant. Whereas the white one is just the eastern half of the U.S. or a little bit more. First cousins, different ranges by far. Yeah. [Above, red baneberry's range map from Kew Science Plants of the World Online.]
Ken: Except for the berries, the plants look the same.
Margaret: That's what I thought. I was like, what? [Laughter.] Anyway. Kind of cool. Yeah.
Ken: Well, I love a plant that I think you've had trouble with [laughter].
Margaret: Oh dear.
Ken: And grows in my not so acidic soil. And it's sandy Asarum canadense, the wild ginger, deciduous wild ginger.
Margaret: Oh, it does well here. Yeah.
Ken: I thought it did too well for you.
Margaret: Well it does. I have to be careful what I use it for. It's great as a groundcover for me, under a bunch of shrubs or whatever, it'll make a great spreading groundcover. It will not stay in a clump, in a tidy clump by any means.
Ken: Oh no, it's a groundcover definitely.
Margaret: Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Great plant and kooky little flowers if you crawl around on the ground and sort of brownish things.
Ken: You have to crawl on the ground.
Margaret: Yeah. What about… Have you grown Jeffersonia, Jeffersonia diphylla, the twinleaf [above]?
Ken: Well, that's funny because in the analogous species department, there's an Asian twinleaf, which is very beautiful, and there's a North American twinleaf. And Jeffersonia—who's that named for? I think we can guess. I don't always think it's so showy.
Margaret: Oh no, but it's just something.
Ken: Because it's so delicate?
Margaret: Twinleaf. Yeah. The delicateness of it. It's another one that comes out of the ground like…
Ken: Caulophyllum.
Margaret: …like the blue cohosh, Caulophyllum thalictroides; it comes out of the ground in a strange purplish color, full of anthocyanin pigments. And it's also, it's related—like you mentioned the Podophyllum. Did you mention Podophyllum? Or no?
Ken: I said mayapple in passing, but we can talk about those, too.
Margaret: But so it's related, it's in the barberry family and that Western United States native, Vancouveria, that's in that and our non-native but popular epimediums are in that family. I'm always fascinated how many things are in the barberry family that we like as garden perennials. Anyway, so who's next?
Ken: Well, we mentioned mayapple, and I have lots of mayapple growing in clumps, big clumps naturally. And the Asian, even Himalayan versions of mayapple, the foliage is spectacular, and some of them have pink flowers, but our native mayapple has white flowers followed by quote unquote edible fruits. They say edible, but they don't say good. I've tasted it. I guess it won't hurt you. It's not that interesting.
But mayapple has a palmate leaf about as big as a big hand, and it grows in kind of a clump that's almost like a little pool, and all the leaves are the same height. And if there's a breeze, they'll all move together. It's a really nice plant. I have heard that you shouldn't grow our local one with the Asian ones because they can transmit something so just keep them apart.
Margaret: Huh. Interesting. A different-looking completely plant from that is what I call merrybells, Uvularia grandiflora [above]—yellow flowers that kind of dangle down, merrybells, hence the common name. And just kind of, I don't know, the foliage is twisted.
Ken: You have hit one of my favorite plants.
Margaret: Yeah, and I just love this plant. This is one that I haven't ever had it sow around. The clump just stays a big thing.
Ken: Oh mine sows.
Margaret: Oh, see I've never had it sow. I've had to dig and take off a chunk and move it around.
Ken: Which is easy.
Margaret: Yeah. But Uvularia grandiflora, I think is underutilized. There isn't a year in the probably 25-plus years—I've probably had it even longer than that—that I've seen it, watched it come up and emerge and get ready to flower, that I haven't been delighted by every moment of its show. That's a winner, I think, in the woodland.
Ken: And there's a native plant that I can't believe that it's a different species, but it's Uvularia perfoliata, that is local to me. And it looks exactly the same. Really, except the flowers are cream-colored. And it's not anywhere near as happy. I have to baby it a little bit.
But you know when it says perfoliate or perfoliata, it tells you something about how… You said every moment of this plant after it blooms, usually we don't care, but this plant, it looks like the leaves are sewn with zigzag thread, the stems pierce the leaves and then go at an angle, pierce another one, go at another angle. It's one of my absolute favorite plants. The grandiflora is native, but not local to me. Isn't that weird? And perfoliata is local to me, which is called bellwort, too, or perfoliate bellwort [photo below by Ken].
Margaret: In the last couple, two, three minutes or something-
Ken: Two, three minutes? How'd that happen?
Margaret: Shhh, be quiet. Oh, whatever. Maianthemum. When I first got here up at the top of the hill, by the edge of the woods, there's a giant sweep of this groundcover that has these tiny little flowers, white flowers, in the spring, Maianthemum canadense. I've never cultivated it; I've never put it in a garden bed, but it's just this wonderful sort of native groundcover thing. But I think you have some taller Maianthemum, do you?
Ken: Oh, I do. But the one you're talking about, which is sometimes called false lily of the valley, but better known as mayflower. And I've seen in Massachusetts people mow it in their lawn. I don't mow it. [Laughter.] I have some. It's precious. But I don't mow mine. But some of the maianthemums used to be known as polygonatums, but they weren't. There's Maianthemum racemosum, that's false Solomon seal. And it has lovely leaves. The foliage is beautiful, and then it has starry white flowers and then it has really cool berries that change colors, from green to sort of, I don't know, they look like wood color, like oak, cut oak, and then they turn red and it will come up from seed, but certainly not aggressively enough if you ask me.
And then there's starflower, which is also sometimes called starbead because after it flowers, it's a similar-looking plant, the berries look as if they have a black star on a green berry.
Margaret: Oh, right. I've seen a picture of it. Huh. Yeah. O.K. Last minute, a shoutout: native geranium, Geranium maculatum, was here when I got here also. And I'm glad for that. [Above, G. maculatum with Trillium erectum; photo by Ken.]
Ken: A very underused plant.
Margaret: Very underused. If you need something in shady areas that gives you a little bit of color, I think pinkish flowers in the spring, but lovely foliage, geranium-ish foliage. Couldn't be easier. Loves the shade. Will knit well with other things. Is never thuggish. That's a great one, I think.
Ken: It might be our only native geranium. I'm not sure about that.
Margaret: Well we have robertianum.
Ken: I don't think that's native.
Margaret: And they don't know if that's native or not.
Ken: No, I don't think so.
Margaret: They think maybe it's not, but it's so widespread. It's been here for a zillion years and blah, blah, blah.
Ken: It's a weed. [Laughter.]
Margaret: Yeah. Yeah. I know. I know. I know. I know. Yeah. Lots and lots and lots. We didn't even mention jack-in-the-pulpit [above, Arisaema triphyllum at Ken's].
Ken: We have talked about that a lot, though.
Margaret: There were some here when I got here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And were there some at your place when you got there?
Ken: Yes.
Margaret: Yeah. Here too. Here too. Here too. And we didn't talk about the Cypripedium, I don't think, did we?
Ken: No.
Margaret: Your orchid.
Ken: We don't have any time. Do we?
Margaret: No. 20 seconds, tell me.
Ken: I can't grow them because some of them want acid, but a friend of mine who has an acid situation has a clump that I wouldn't believe, of the yellow one. And I don't know if I can grow that. Cypripedium reginae, the showy lady slipper orchid, which I've seen in Minnesota. It likes alkaline, so I might try that if I've got $50 to spend on an orchid. [Photo above by Ken Druse.]
Margaret: Yes, I have never grown any, but they are native here as well.
Ken: Spectacularly beautiful. That's really breathtaking.
Margaret: All right. Well, when it starts to snow again, I'll call you, O.K.? And we can figure out what else we want to talk about.
Ken: Any time.
Margaret: And dream of spring together. And we'll have a book giveaway, as I said, with "The New Shade Garden." Thank you, Ken.
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judith DesRosiers says:
love Kens books and this podcast.
Lorraine Porto says:
I'd love to grow some Virginia bluebells and some Dutchman's breeches. I haven't had too much luck with anything but hosta, ferns, columbine, and spring bulbs, but I'll keep trying
Leilani Worrell says:
I would love to introduce some bleeding hearts (I think that's the right name).
Those lovely arching pink flowers are so beautiful. And since I have a lot of trees in my yard I think they would thrive in the shade. But tHe price usually scares me off.
Nancy Mergen says:
I have a big clump of Merrybells I love. Also love Dutchman's
breeches and Virginia bluebells!
Haven't had ephemerals in the garden yet but planning on trillium. Thanks for the informative podcast.
Thank you for highlighting native plants!
I'm eager to add the blue cohosh this year!
I'll be looking into growing black cohosh. It would be pretty peeking out from the light green hosta.
A native perennial here is spiderwort, but it comes up everywhere! Lol. Enjoyed your podcast.
Anne Townsend says:
New Gardner here, but starting to do research to figure out what to add.
Anne Sutherland says:
I love your blogs. I'm an oil painter, so gardening is an extension of all the things I learned at the easel. I'm working on shady areas this year after transforming an old inherited garden and yard to an interactive space where we eat, converse and enjoy the landscape. Thank you, Ken and Margaret!
Love Virginia blue bell, and Merry bells, but mostly all spring ephemerals.
Tracy M Lawler says:
I love to grow tons of spring plants native to Minnesota, some of my favorites you mentioned with Kent, Wild Ginger, bloodroot, wild geranium, and Virginia bluebells! Great conversation, keep talking about native plants please!
Kathleen Vetter says:
Mertensia Virginia, bloodroot, twinleaf, Mayapple, Canada Mayflower, bloodroot…
It's been fun to look back at photos of our gardens in early spring as we await more snow here in Southwestern NH.
Kathy Orr says:
Great inspiration for today when we're about to get 6 more niches of snow!
Count me in please
I learned a lot from this and have just signed on for future issues.
As for one of my favorite native spring perennials, I actually don't know if it is native to Long Island where I live. And I have yet to find out either is common or Latin names. It appears very early spring, mostly in areas alongside my lawn, in areas where there is winter/spring sun, but summer shade. It is a very low groundcover and it lives a fleeting life. The leaves are glossy and dark green. The flowers are a deep bright yellow – and they look almost like giant buttercups except that they have very short stems. Once the flower dies, the whole plant seems to disappear a few days later! I have had great luck encouraging their propagation (by digging up clumps, carefully separating individuals and replanting) so as to form glorious banks of them before the crocus and daffodils start up. I just wish I could find out what they are. Couldn't figure out how to attach a picture here!
karen wojcinski says:
Carol Even says:
I love my native Virginia Bloodroot! The Virginia Bluebells too. They always bloom later than I think they will and so I anticipate the bluebells for what seems like forever.
Linda Stillman says:
winter aconite, not sure if its native though
Luiza Monteiro says:
I put in for the first time last fall: native dutchman's breeches (dicentra cucullaria); hepatica – both kinds; hepitca acutiloba and hepatica americana (as well as Japanese hepaticas) and cypripedium. Also red and white trilliums. I'd planted double bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis multiplex 'FlorePlena' – double bloodroot – in late spring 2019, and hand-watered like crazy. Last spring I got one beautiful white flower that made lockdown bearable – I'd go look at it every day and took lots of pictures from every angle (hard to capture in photo). It turned its face to the sun and was the most wonderful thing. It lasted about 10 days, not even. I made sure I handwatered it again whenever I watered the garden in what was an excessively hot and dry summer in Toronto. There were a number of other non-native bulbs and early spring perennials that also got me through the first lockdown.
In Toronto we have been in lockdown again since late November and it is now mid-February. It's been difficult. I am getting cabin fever in a big way, and although we have a very small house and garden, I am so lucky. I am a racialized person, but in a steady, professional white-collar job, working remotely. So many brave people are living in small crappy apartments with crappy (essential!) jobs.
I love actaeas. Cimicifigua racemosa (now Actaea simplex) 'Atropurpurea' has been one of the stalwarts of my garden. It seeds itself a bit very politely, and I have given away seedlings and plant divisions. It behaves more like a shrub than a perennial. I also have Brunette (good, but not as great as Atropurpurea) and Hillside Black Beauty. Hillside has performed weakly for 8 years; I've moved it a little bit, but have read elsewhere that it's not a strong performer. I will definitely check out the blue cohosh.
Thanks for your informative podcasts, Margaret. I am a new subscriber; am enjoying them and finding them very informative.
I am so looking forward this spring to those spring ephemerals — especially the ones new to me that I planted in the fall.
P.S. I got a copy of Ken Druse's New Shade Gardens from the library a couple of weeks ago. So excited about the prospect of winning my own copy.
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I love trillum, any kind. I still remember when I saw my first plant and had never seen a flower with 3 petals. So unique!
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Lots of wonderful ephemerals you mentioned! I also adore hepatica & wood anemones. Trout lily is another interesting one that thrives along the Maine seacoast where I live!
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Generation Amazing kicks off link-up with Leeds United and Sheffield FC
Qatar 2022 legacy project kicks off link-up with Leeds United and Sheffield FC
FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ legacy programme Generation Amazing kicked off its partnership with illustrious English clubs Leeds United and Sheffield FC by holding 'train the trainer' sessions for underprivileged youth in the clubs' communities.
Young people, including refugees, attended training sessions at Sheffield FC's Coach and Horses ground to learn how to deliver Generation Amazing's football for development sessions, which teach life skills such as communication, teamwork and leadership, while promoting diversity, inclusion, equal rights and communal solidarity.
Once training has concluded, attendees will deliver similar sessions to underprivileged youth across the UK.
Nasser Al Khori, Generation Amazing Programme Director, expressed his delight at the programme's expansion – at a time when both clubs are celebrating major landmarks. Leeds United are currently marking their centenary year having celebrated their 100th birthday on 17 October, while Sheffield FC – the oldest club in world football – will celebrated their 162nd anniversary on 24 October.
"We are delighted to extend the Generation Amazing football for development programme to underprivileged youth and refugees in the UK," said Al Khori. "It is important to us that we can reach youth and empower them with skills that will benefit their development and help them become exemplary figures and leaders in their communities."
Al Khori continued: "We can't think of any better clubs to celebrate our growing outreach with than Leeds United and Sheffield FC – especially at a time when both are celebrating landmark moments."
The long-term aim of the link-up is to enhance the clubs' outreach and boost the educational football programmes in their communities.
Angus Kinnear, CEO of Leeds United, said: "We are delighted to be partnering with Generation Amazing and Sheffield FC on the train the trainer programme, which will allow us to support people in the community who need our help via the medium of football. Using football to help people communicate and learn a variety of other life skills is the foundation of why we all work in this industry. Football has always brought communities together and as a one-club city we know that better than anyone. This latest initiative will help us do just that."
Sheffield FC Foundation Director Chris Dolby said: "The partnership with Generation Amazing will give our historic football clubs the opportunity to make a real difference across our communities. Football has the power to bring people together and through this partnership we aim to positively impact lives. We want to develop outreach and education programmes that will empower a new generation of young leaders."
Leeds United and Sheffield FC have collaborated closely to ensure that a coach and joint representative of the clubs was trained and equipped to head the implementation of the Generation Amazing programme.
Generation Amazing Master Coach Michael Richardson, who led the training sessions, expects the partnership to deliver positive change in the clubs' communities.
"We are excited about activating the partnership because we understand the context in which these clubs work in the community. We genuinely think that Generation Amazing will have a big impact and pass on the values and philosophy we have developed over several years."
Generation Amazing, Leeds United and Sheffield FC are committed to positively impacting as many lives as possible during the four-year partnership.

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Because of the recent explosive progress in these bordering districts, The Arts and Leisure District has seen a renaissance in its residential, culinary, leisure and nightlife choices. There are 5 full-time school dedicated solely to the Radio Arts and Leisure Program.
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For a movie that's been called "the film world's first globalized masterpiece," with its gritty portrayal of third-world impoverishment crashing into Western-style modernization and its visceral images of humanity-choked streets, glitzy game show sets, towering mountains of trash butting up against tony condo developments, and self-made men flashing rupees and dollars in brothels and from the back of Mercedes Benzes, Slumdog Millionaire's music is much more than a soundtrack to a movie; it's the sound of a city swiftly globalizing. Bollywood meets hip-hop and dirty house meets Bhangra in the frenetic urban scramble that is Mumbai and the whole mix is chewed up and spit out as the everyday cacophony of modernization. The composer who conjured up this feverish fusion of East and West, traditional and modern, is A.
The Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack is perhaps the most appropriate way for M.I.A. to wrap up her triumphant 2008. Both the film, which tells the tale of a mostly illiterate 18-year-old from the slums of Bombay who wins the jackpot on India's version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and M.I.A., rode critical hype to unlikely mainstream success. Thanks to M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" popping up in the trailer for a decidedly different movie (Pineapple Express), the song and her album spent lengthy portions of 2008 on the charts, a prospect that seemed incredibly unlikely in 2007.
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If you loved M.I.A.'s Paper Planes collabo with reigning Bollywood soundtrack king A.R. Rahman that was featured in Danny Boyle's left-field hit movie Slumdog Millionaire and were hoping there might be more of the same on the companion soundtrack, you're out of luck. Apart from the crazy-catchy Paper Planes and the dope downtempo DFA remix, there's only one other tune featuring M.I.A., and O...


John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek Ranks in Top 50 nationally for Orthopedics, Gastroenterology & GI Surgery, and Gynecology. John Muir Medical Center, Concord Ranks in Top 50 nationally for Diabetes & Endocrinology. Both medical centers ranked in Top 4 overall in San Francisco/Oakland area and Top 14 in the state.
Walnut Creek, Calif. (July 22, 2015) – John Muir Health's Walnut Creek and Concord medical centers have been ranked among the nation's top hospitals by U.S. News & World Report in its annual list of America's Best Hospitals. The annual rankings recognize hospitals that excel in treating patients with complex conditions.
John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek and John Muir Medical Center, Concord were two of just 137 hospitals – less than three percent of the nearly 5,000 analyzed – to be nationally ranked in one of 16 medical specialties. This places both medical centers among America's Best Hospitals and as two of the top ranked medical centers on the West Coast.
For the ninth consecutive year, John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek had services nationally ranked. This year, the services in the Top 50 were Orthopedics, Gastroenterology & GI Surgery, and Gynecology. The Walnut Creek medical center has been nationally ranked in Orthopedics and Gastroenterology & GI Surgery for nine straight years and Gynecology for the past four years. In addition, John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek was ranked as high-performing in three specialties, including Geriatrics, Pulmonology, and Urology.
John Muir Medical Center, Concord was ranked in the Top 50 nationally for the third consecutive year in Diabetes & Endocrinology. Along with the national ranking, the Concord medical center was ranked as high-performing in four specialties, including Gastroenterology & GI Surgery, Geriatrics, Neurology & Neurosurgery and Orthopedics. Combined, the two medical centers had eight services nationally ranked or rated as high performing.
In addition to the national rankings, U.S. News published state and metropolitan hospital rankings. John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek is listed at #2 out of 42 hospitals in the San Francisco-Oakland area and #8 out of nearly 440 acute care hospitals in California. John Muir Medical Center, Concord is listed at #4 locally and #14 in the state.
"We're proud to be ranked among the region, state and nation's best again this year," said Jane Willemsen, president and chief administrative officer of John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek. "Achieving this prestigious recognition is a testament to John Muir Health's incredible team of doctors, nurses, staff and volunteers who work together to save lives every day and provide the finest possible care and experience to the communities we serve."
"The rankings from U.S. News take into account patient diagnosis, treatment, prevention, education, outcomes and safety, as well as resources dedicated to patient care, " said Mike Thomas, president and chief administrative officer at John Muir Medical Center, Concord. "John Muir Health's rankings should give patients confidence that they will receive a high level of patient-centered and compassionate care from experts in their field in a range of specialties. "
"Our mission is to improve the health of the communities we serve with quality and compassion, which is reflected in the rankings by U.S. News," said Irving Pike, M.D., chief medical officer at John Muir Health. "We've set the bar high and will continue to offer and provide expertise in a broad range of services not usually found at community hospitals so patients can stay close to home, family and friends for the very best care."
The complete rankings and methodology are available at http://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals and will appear in print in the U.S. News Best Hospitals 2016 guidebook, available in bookstores and on newsstands in August.


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Mighty Boosh To Reunite At Beck Gig
4 July 2013, 13:28 | Updated: 24 August 2017, 15:43
The Mighty Boosh are to reunite for the first time in three years for a a special gig as part of Beck's Song Reader night at the Barbican in London.
Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding will take to the stage and perform one of the songs that appeared on Beck's 2012 Song Reader "album". The LP was actually a book of 20 songs of sheet music, which musicians were asked to interpret themselves and perform as they like.
The event will see artists such as Beck himself, Jarvis Cocker, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Franz Ferdinand, Beth Orton, Guillemots and Michael Kiwanuka bringing the music to life at the venue on the South Bank.
Noel told Radio X: "We're so excited to be playing with Beck tonight, he's an absolute genius! He's one of our biggest influences and the song they gave us is actually pretty Booshy… It's perfect."
The Mighty Boosh haven't played together since their special one off performance for a Franz Zappa tribute gig in 2010. Noel has spent the past four years creating Luxury Comedy series for E4, and Julian has been concentrating on theatre roles. They are planning another one off in LA this October, when they play Jack Black's comedy festival, Festival Supreme.
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Spring often takes the heat when it comes to allergies, but the fall can be just as bad for some. This is, in part, thanks to an abundance of ragweed, whose pollen levels peak in the fall, affecting 10 to 20 percent of Americans, according to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA)*. But don't let watery eyes, an itchy throat and sneezing stop you from enjoying the crisp air and changing foliage. Instead, try these tips to reduce the effects and your symptoms.
As tempting as it may be to release your inner child and jump into a pile of leaves, those who suffer from fall allergies should resist. That pile is a hotbed for mold and dust. Rake frequently—and consider wearing a mask while you do, as this activity can stir up allergens.
After running your sprinkler system and air conditioner all summer, do a quick inspection to look for any leaks. The moisture from a drippy pipe can cause mold.
Hayrides are a quintessential part of the season at apple orchards and pumpkin patches. But much like leaves, hay holds on to mold, dust and pollen. If hayrides are an annual fall tradition, don't completely avoid them—just be sure to stay on top of your allergy pills or injections to combat the irritants before they hit.
The return of fall means a new school year—and a host of fresh allergens for your child and your home. Score an A+ on allergy prevention by wiping down calculators, lunch boxes and backpacks, and tossing old homework assignments and papers—all of which have likely been gathering dust since summer began.
When you pull those Halloween costumes out of the attic, they are likely covered in dust. Before it comes time to trick-or-treat, be sure to give them a good wash at 130 degrees to kill mites and other allergens. Pop them in a dryer rather than hang them on an outdoor clothesline to prevent them from gathering pollen.
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Canada's seizure, sale and disbursement of Iranian assets are acts of a hooligan and wrecker of international law
By Steve Rutchinski
Documents recently filed in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice reveal that some $30 million realized from the seizure and sale of Iranian government assets in Canada have been transferred to American families who filed for compensation under the Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act 2012. Their claim for compensation began in the US court system but extended to Canada when they realized Canada would follow suit. The properties appropriated and sold were the Iranian Cultural Centre in Ottawa and the Centre for Iranian Studies in Toronto. The transfer of funds to the families only came to light last week.
The Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act was passed under the former Harper Conservative government. It was buried in a lengthy omnibus crime bill. Debate in Parliament was limited on the bill, but it is worth noting that the only portion which received all party support was the Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act, and the theft, sale and disbursement of Iranian assets based on this Act were taken under the Trudeau administration.
The plaintiffs were thus relieved even of any obligation to do anything other than assert that Iran was responsible for the terror attacks that took the lives of their loved ones.
Many countries maintain lists of organizations deemed to be "terrorist", but there is only one other country in the world which deems countries as "state sponsors of terrorism" — the United States, which along with Israel, is known to be the biggest perpetrator of war and terror around the world. This shows how the raison d'état of Canada as an entity and its foreign policy is integrated into the United States of North American Monopolies.
Iran has denounced the seizure and sale of Iranian assets in Canada as illegal and in violation of international regulations. Iran also said it will follow up the issue based on international regulations if Canada does not annul its illegal decision and does not compensate Iran for the losses.
Iran has a strong case in this respect. Even the Canadian Foreign Ministry's director for Middle East affairs Dennis Horak, recently retired, spoke against the Victims of Terror Act, saying it was a "stupid law" that prevented any diplomatic relations with Iran. Not that Canada under the Liberals wanted to normalize relations.
Even more compelling, in March of this year an International Court in Luxembourg rejected a US request to compensate victims of the Twin Tower attacks by seizing assets from Iran, based on an accusation by an American court that Iran was responsible for the 9-11 attack. The Luxembourg court ruled that the US Court decision was not in accordance with public international law. US request fails to meet international law criteria, the court said.
The same argument applies to Canada's Victims of Terrorism legislation and its seizure, sale and disposal of Iranian assets. Like the US theft of Venezuelan assets or the UK theft of Libyan assets, Canada is establishing a reputation as a hooligan and wrecker of international law and regulations.
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Today on P&P we are looking at fashion prints. Whilst out clothes shopping recently I snapped as many prints as I could find that might be of interest to us here. I start with a selection from UK department store Debenhams.


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January 31, 2019 | Carol Vassar
Being Rxesponsible When it Comes to Disposing of Old Prescription Medications
Older prescriptions in our homes can cause all sorts of problems, not the least of which are abuse and addiction. Rushford Medical Director Dr. J. Craig Allen explains how getting old or expired medications out of your house responsibly can help fight the nation's opioid crisis.
Q: You see what happens when prescription medications get into the wrong hands. How common is it for children or teens to take pills from a medicine cabinet intended for someone else?
A: More than half of the opioid medications adolescents get they get for free from friends and family. And 80% of new heroin users first started by using opioid analgesic pills. It's important to dispose of any unused pills and it's important to store pills you are using safely. A recent study showed there's been a tripling of overdose deaths in adolescents and children all related to the increased exposure and access they have to these drugs.
Q: Tell us about treatments offered at Hartford HealthCare, including MATCH (Medication Assisted Treatment Close to Home).
A: Medication assisted treatment close to home, MATCH clinics offer medication, psychotherapy and other treatment options all under one roof. They were designed to knowing that people have busy lives and work and family obligations. Flexible and effective treatment is offered in a supportive setting in a nearby location.
Q: Tell us about the "Be Rxesponsible" campaign.
A: This campaign is truly a win-win. It is about disposing of unused, unwanted and expired medications safely, and in a way that is not harmful to the environment.
We are giving away drug de-activation kits which allow the user to fill a biodegradable bag with pills, add warm water and then simply throw the bag in the garbage. You should never flush pills down the toilet because of the harm it causes to the environment and you should never leave them in the house because they could end up in the wrong hands.
Q: What should someone do if they are worried there may be a problem with prescription drug use?
A: If you are concerned about yourself or someone you love developing a problem with prescription drugs, talk to your primary care physician, or connect with MATCH for an assessment.
For more information on the MATCH program for addiction, click here or call 1-855-825-4026. If you wish to remove drugs from your home responsibly, visit BeRXesponsible.org for a FREE drug deactivation kit.
Institute of Living Study: What Motivates a Hoarder?
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To understand hoarding and cultivate a healthy mindset beyond the large-scale purging of piles and boxes of belongings, behavioral health clinicians must first understand what motivates the hoarder. Researchers with the Hartford HealthCare Institute of Living in Hartford will probe that motivation more closely as part of the new study "Emotional...
Fentanyl, the super-potent synthetic opioid that dealers and distributors have introduced into the illicit drug stream, has complicated efforts nationwide to prevent opioid-overdose deaths. Fentanyl, inexpensive to manufacture in "basement labs," is being added to opioids and cocaine to stretch supplies and boost the highs, according to Dr. J. Craig Allen,...
As American healthcare progresses on many fronts, trends around suicide remain alarming with the Centers for Disease Control saying the suicide rate is the highest it's been since World War II. Consider these statistics from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention: In 2017, there were 13.42 suicides per 100,000 people....
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Saudi Arabia is preparing to receive the United States President Donald Trump for a state visit on Saturday. All seem set, with the Saudi and US flag fluttering along streets in Riyadh's central business district, said the Guardian. The Arabian country sees the visit – Trump's first since taking office – as his recognising the country as leading power in the Arab world. Saudi is also cashing in on Trump's speech against extreme ideology, which will give fillip to the Arabian country's against extremist Wahabism. Other gains Saudi hopes to make include getting the US support for its reforms and on Iran.
"The war against extremism is a centrepiece of that," the Guaadian quoted a member of the royal family as saying.
Trump is expected to visit Jerusalem , Rome, the Nato and G7 summits.


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2019 Scissortail Creative Writing Festival set for April 4-6
ADA – Tracy K. Smith, United States Poet Laureate for 2017-2019, and Brandon Hobson, author and one of five finalists for the 2018 National Book Award, will be the featured speakers for East Central University's 2019 Scissortail Creative Writing Festival set for April 4-6, 2019.
There will be more than 50 speakers at the three-day event.
For more information on the Scissortail Creative Writing Festival, or questions about group attendance, contact Dr. Ken Hada at 580-559-5557 or at KHada@ecok.edu. Detailed information is also available on this website..
Smith, who will be speaking on the first day of the event on April 4, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and was a National Book Award Finalist for Memoir. In 2017, she was appointed the 22nd United States Poet Laureate.
Smith is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Ordinary Light (Knopf, 2015), a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Nonfiction and was selected as a Notable Book by the New York Times and Washington Post, as well as three books of poetry.
Her most recent collection of poems, Life on Mars (Graywolf, 2011), won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and was selected as a New York Times Notable Book. The collection draws on sources as disparate as Arthur C. Clarke and David Bowie and is part of the elegiac tribute to her late father, an engineer who worked on the Hubble Telescope.
Duende (2007) won the 2006 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and an Essence Literary Award. The Body's Question (2003) was the winner of the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Smith was the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writers Award in 2004 and a Whiting Award in 2005.
In 2014, the Academy of American Poets awarded Smith with the Academy Fellowship, awarded to one poet each year to recognize distinguished poetic achievement. In 2016, she won the 16th Annual Robert Creeley Award. Her most recent collection, Wade in the Water (Graywolf, 2018), boldly ties America's contemporary moment both to the nation's fraught founding history and a sense of the spirit, the everlasting.
Her memoir, Ordinary Light, "begins with a harrowing scene at the deathbed of Smith's mother, who died in 1994," writes Craig Morgan Teicher. "From there it circles back to Smith's early childhood, tracing her growth not just as a writer, but as someone who must learn the hard lessons of puberty and early adulthood, as well as what it means to be a black woman growing up in suburban California. Her discovery of poetry is part of this, but the most remarkable moments of the book are the ones in which Smith deals with ordinary trials, which she treats with rare insight and heart.
Booklist calls Ordinary Light "a gracefully nuanced yet strikingly candid memoir about family, faith, race and literature" and praises Smith for her ability to "hold our intellectual and emotional attention ever so tightly as she charts her evolving thoughts on the divides between races, generations, economic classes, religion and science and celebrates her lifesaving discovery of poetry as 'soul language.'" BBC's Between the Lines, says simply, "Ordinary Light is a lament, an homage, a discovery, a blessing."
A resident of Princeton, New Jersey, Smith did her undergraduate work at Harvard before earning her M.F.A. at Columbia University before going on to be a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University from 1997-99. She is the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor in Humanities and director of the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University.
Hobson is the author of Where The Dead Sit Talking, which was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award. Where the Dead Sit Talking, according to one reviewer, "takes us to a strange, dangerous place normally kept hidden. From the opening hook, with the unhurried authority of a master, Brandon Hobson initiates the reader into the secret lives of lost and unwanted teenagers trying to survive in an uncaring world. Creepy, sad, yet queerly thrilling."
Reader's Digest asserts: "Hobson has a remarkable ability to travel deep into a very dark place and come out plausibly on the side of light."
Hobson is also the author of the books Deep Ellum and Desolation of Avenues Untold.
He has won a Pushcart Prize and his stories and essays have appeared in such places as The Believer, Conjunctions, NOON, The Paris Review Daily, Publisher's Weekly and elsewhere. Hobson teaches at Northern Oklahoma College and is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation Tribe of Oklahoma.
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# Screenshooter

A little web service that takes the URL of a web page and returns a URL to an
image of that page.

We use this to create PNGs of SVGs served by our Rails apps and to make
up-to-date images of Raphael graphics for sharing on Facebook and Twitter.

## Dependencies

  * [Sinatra](http://www.sinatrarb.com/)
  * [ImageMagick](http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php)
  * [PhantomJS](http://phantomjs.org/)

## Getting Started

Create `screenshooter.yml` from `screenshooter.sample.yml` and add your S3 credentials.

Start the server:

    ruby -rubygems screenshooter.rb

From any machine, shoot a URL:

    curl "http://localhost:4567/?url=http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl"
    curl "http://localhost:4567/?url=http://raphaeljs.com/tiger.html"

And the images show up at:

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 * [http://bucketname.s3.amazonaws.com/screenshooter/raphaeljs.com/tiger.html.png](http://assets.elections.huffingtonpost.com.s3.amazonaws.com/ss/raphaeljs.com/tiger.html.png)

## Parameters

- `url`: The url you would like to generate an image from.
- `clip`: Area of the page to display. Consists of 4 integers (left, top, width, height) to be passed to
  [clipRect](https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/wiki/API-Reference-WebPage#cliprect-object).
  - example: `0,0,1000,600`
- `resizewidth` and `resizeheight`: Resize the generated image to the specified
  size (via ImageMagick) before uploading. If only a width is supplied, the height is scaled proportionally.
- `hb`: Hashbang to add to the url.
  - example: `hb=#!smoothing=less`
- `callback`: Wrap the response in the specified function name for use with jsonp.
- `timestamp`: If set to `true`, a version of the file with a timestamp added to the filename will also
  be uploaded to s3 (in addition to a version without the timestamp). Useful for maintaining historic
  images of an url or generating unique image files. The base image (without the timestamp appended) will
  always be the most recent screenshot.
- `cachetime`: Adds a Cache-Control header to the uploaded s3 file.
  - example: `cachetime=600` adds `Cache-Control: public, max-age=600` to the uploaded s3 file

## Domain Filtering

By default, screenshooter can create images of urls on any domain. If you would like to whitelist
specific domains (useful for making sure nobody misuses your instance of screenshooter), add them to
screenshooter.yml. Entries are made in [Ruby regex format](http://rubular.com/).

## Authors

- Jay Boice, jay.boice@huffingtonpost.com
- Aaron Bycoffe, bycoffe@huffingtonpost.com
- Andrei Scheinkman, andrei@huffingtonpost.com

## Copyright

Copyright (c) 2012 The Huffington Post. See LICENSE for details.


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SWOT Analysis of a Primary School »
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Association of American Educators »
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Full Inclusion Benefits All Students »
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ADHD Literature Review Study »
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One-To-One Computing »
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Strategic Plan for a High School »
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Incentive and Retention for Special Education Teachers »
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Special Education Legislation And Impact »
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Bullying and How to Address It »
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Educational Research Plan »
The writer presents part of a research proposal, with the aim of identifying possible strategies for the improvement of student performance. The paper considers the context of the organization that the research will take place in, the potential perspectives of the stakeholders as well as looking at other environmental factors describing three methodologies. Five sources ...
Positive Discipline And Classroom Management »
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General Methods of Teaching for Primary-age Children »
In seven pages this research paper discusses primary age children and various classroom instruction approaches. Four sources are cited in the bibliography.
Effective Strategies For Motivating Children To Read »
In ten pages this research paper discusses children's reading and various classroom motivational strategies with current research applications also considered. Five sources are cited in the bibliography.
Pedagogy, Andragogy Or Synergogy - Which Is The Best Approach To Teaching ? »
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Parenting Practices and Their Impact Upon Academic Achievement »
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Computer Counseling In The 21st Century »
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Use of Puppetry in School Guidance Counseling »
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Do Interviewing Techniques Reduce Violence In Public Schools ? »
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Comparing Teaching Methods for Students with Dyslexia »
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The Importance of Music Education at the Elementary Level »
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Reading Aloud in to Kindergarten Children »
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