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Pledges to donate a million dollars to America’s schools

Harried parents across America rejoice! SchoolPulse(TM) today announced the launch of new, desperately needed online tools so parents can manage their kids’ hectic school and extracurricular activities. Now, families can finally spend more time enjoying activities and less time keeping track of permission slips, practice locations, snack schedules, recital venues and car pooling arrangements.

More than 50 percent of American families spend only 10 hours together each week and now, with 45 million parents sending children back to school, it’s the perfect time for parents to make the most of each minute — and reclaim their sanity at last.

SchoolPulse simplifies parent’s lives by giving them simple tools to communicate with teachers, coaches, room parents, and other activity leaders. By registering, they receive a personalized homepage, calendar, and membership in groups for every activity in which their children are involved. These groups include discussion boards, wish lists, and photo sharing. Parents can finally move beyond the chaos created by all the disorganized communications coming at them via errant emails, late night phone calls, and crumpled notes in student backpacks.

Teachers, room parents, PTA leaders, coaches, and other activity leaders can manage their classrooms, teams, and groups on SchoolPulse as well. They can distribute schedules, invite parents to meetings, post classroom wish lists, and recruit volunteers to help using simple online tools. With a centralized place to share, everyone gets and gives what they need efficiently and expeditiously.

SchoolPulse founder, CEO, and father of four John Boynton explained, “Our kids’ lives are more complicated than ever. We created SchoolPulse to solve a problem that we understand very personally. This is all about enriching our children’s education and simplifying family life. It’s a great way to keep up with your kids.”

Recognizing that school budgets are under constant pressure, SchoolPulse is handing out a million dollars to schools across the country. The company is donating $1 for every parent and teacher who signs up before November 1 — up to $1,000 per school. Registration is free and takes only a minute. For complete details, visit SchoolPulse.com/million.

According to Boynton, “The Million Dollar Giveaway is our way of thanking schools for being a part of our family. The more people associated with a school that sign up for SchoolPulse, the more organized and easier everyone’s lives will be.”

Source: SchoolPulse

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Over the last few years home gardening has become an increasingly popular past-time and hobby.  In fact, studies show that home gardening is at an all time high in America right now.  In the United States 8 out of 10 households take part in some type of home gardening activity.  Obviously from the number of people that are doing it, home gardening is one of the most popular recreational activities in nation.

Most people that try their hand at home gardening plant flowers; at least they start out planting flowers anyway.  Roses will probably be the first thought into any gardeners mind, but roses will take extra time and work, and should probably be left to those who have gardened before.  When planting flowers many choices are available, such as bulbs, perennials, and annuals.

Edible plants are another big thing in home gardening.  Perhaps the best thing about edibles is the reward of eating them.  The list of edible plants that gardeners can grow at home is endless. Some of the most common edible plants in the vegetable arena are, potatoes, peas, corn, carrots, squash, and cucumber.  Many gardeners opt for fruits, such as, watermelons, tomatoes, peaches, plums, apples, pears, and apricots.  Small fruits, such as strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries usually require less work and less space, making them much more feasible for home gardening.  Herbs, most often used as spices in cooking, are growing in popularity every day; some of the most grown include basil, thyme, oregano, parsley, and cilantro.  One of the most important things to watch for when planting edibles is insects and disease, after all, you don’t want to miss out on the feast you will get to enjoy from healthy plants.

Many people don’t realize it, but landscaping is a form of home gardening.  Landscaping covers many different areas and forms of gardening.  You can even classify mowing your lawn as landscaping!  Keeping in the line of grasses, landscaping nearly always involves decorative grasses, and the great thing about them is they don’t take much work for upkeep.  Types of grass include monkey grass, pampas, buffalo grass, flame grass, and ornamental millet.  Landscaping is not just limited to plant life, but also includes anything done to a yard for decoration, such as adding rocks or stones, putting a small pond, statutes, or a waterfall.

There isn’t much difference between home gardening and gardening anywhere else.  Plants still need to be planted in a good location.  The plants still need water and they still need the same nutrients.  Home gardening shouldn’t cause anyone to get nervous.  If you do decide to try homing gardening and finding out that you don’t have a green thumb, don’t get discouraged.  Get some information, read up on gardening, and try it again the next planting season.

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