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Neal’s with you from 10am weekdays, taking your mind off your workday grind with a bit of chaos.
As well as the “Donut Run”, he’s taking care of your issues with “Straight Up With Siri” - contact him now if something’s grinding your gears.
And be mindful of answering your phone - he could be on the end of it, with Ricktrolling.
My hometown before MK - I was born in Didcot - to chimpanzees. A child of science.
The best thing about Milton Keynes – So far I’m loving Milton Keynes. I’m lazy, so I enjoy having everything around and not needing to go more than a few miles for anything I want.
When I’m not on the radio – During the hours that I’m not on the air at MKfm, I sleep in an Oxygen Chamber, and my blood is used as a battery to power the overnight shows.
My favourite artists we play are – Musically, I enjoy literally anything and everything, but I’m quite partial to ‘Old School’ and ‘Hip Hop’ music.
If I won on the MK Secret Sound – Ok, let's get serious here. I've been shocked by the situation with the homeless in MK. I would use that cash to help them in some way. Probably with a small marketing campaign to shame local government into action.
Favourite Food – Lasag....Lasang.....cheese based pasta dishes.
I dislike – Very little. Apart from repetitive corporate radio stations with local features put together by radio bosses in another city more than 50 miles away.
Apart from my show, my favourite show on MKFM - They're all brilliant and that's an unfair question which I feel would be far too career limiting to answer. Oh, ok, Darren and Lia on Breakfast. And Greg on Drive. And Blades on afternoons. And all the evening and weekend stuff. Particularly Pat Sharp. And Ear Candy. Oh and the Beat Chart is pretty 🔥 too.


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Gateway Center, the country’s largest intermodal transportation facility, is the centerpiece of a pedestrian-focused downtown revitalization plan. EE&K’s master plan for the 75-acre Alameda District centers on a site adjacent to Los Angeles’ landmarked Spanish-style 1930s Union Station. The Gateway Intermodal Transit Center links nearly every means of ground transportation including buses, subways, Amtrak, light rail, and the Metrolink commuter line, together with a 3,000-car park-and-ride facility—returning this neglected location to its origins as the grand portal to Los Angeles.
Convenience and access were paramount, but was the desire to create a first-class environment and a compelling hub for the district. The plan responded with a design that recalls the civic architecture of the world’s great railway stations. The East Portal—the physical gateway—features a monumental stone archway through which travelers enter the main terminal, whose dome of etched glass and steel soars to a height of 90 feet. The interior is enlivened with brightly-patterned stone paving, murals, and a 7,000-gallon tropical aquarium. More than a terminal, this is a space for art, live music performance, and refreshment.
For more on Gateway Center, click here.

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Our hotel suite offers the convenience and comfort of home when visiting North Bay. Equiped with two beds and a kitchen area, this room is both practical and spacious.
Enjoy your stay with extra room and extra comfort in our hotel queen room. With two beds, this hotel room has a lot of room for you and your family.
Whether you are in North Bay for business, or require a room with one bed, stay in the hotel business room. This room also comes with a sofa bed.

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Walter is the Colman M. Mockler distinguished Professor of Old Testament and President Emeritus of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He earned his A.B. from Wheaton College, his B.D. from Wheaton Graduate School, and both his M.A. and Ph.D. in Mediterranean studies from Brandeis University.
Previous to his appointment at GCTS he was Academic Dean and Professor of Old Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School where he taught for more than twenty years. He is the author or editor of over 40 books. Walter and his wife, Marge, currently reside on a farm in Massachusetts. He travels and speaks extensively, his most recent trip being a teaching and ministry trip to Australia.

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You may like to have a look for administration and business vacancies via the general job search websites here. Many of the companies and organisations in the sections below will also have opportunities within administration and business.
Saint-Gobain are a leading distributor of building materials. Career opportunities are available with brands such as Jewson, Gibbs & Dandy and Ideal Bathrooms.
Wolseley are a specialist trade distributor of heating and plumbing products. Career opportunities are available with brands such as Plumb Center, Pipe Center and Drain Center.
IT roles at Head Office in Milton Keynes.
Head Office vacancies in Milton Keynes can include roles such as Digital Artworker, Printed Textile Designer and Digital Designer.
Includes career opportunities with Evans Halshaw, Statstone, National Fleet Solution and others.
UK wide agriculture and countryside jobs.
Register on the site (it's completely FREE), and get an email alert for any new jobs that are advertised that will match your skills and interests.

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Bread was a melodic soft rock group led by David Gates that became famous in the 1970s. The original group members also included Jimmy Griffin and Robb Royer, and there were some personnel changes along the way. Before forming Bread, Gates had worked as a producer and arranger for The Pleasure Fair, Robb Royner's previous band. In 1968, Gates, Royner, and his songwriting partner, Jimmy Griffin, joined together and, in 1969, the group became known as Bread. Session musician Jim Gordon played drums for the group's 1969 self-titled debut album, "Bread," and afterwards, he was replaced by Mike Botts.
In 1970, Bread debuted with the chart-topping "Make It With You." Best known songs by Bread also include "If" (1971), "It Don't Matter To Me" (1970), "Baby I'm-A Want You" (1971), and "Lost Without Your Love" (1976). Gates also recorded solo and had a string of hits from 1973-1981, his best known being the title song from the 1978 movie, "Goodbye Girl."

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Bullish continuation for FTSE 100. Can add to positions.
Weak Buy signal for Bonds TLT. Possible fake-out move.
Buy signal for Wheat. Possible fake-out move.
Partial profits signal for BIIB. An 8% gain in 18 days.

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Base paint scarecrow hurricane light peach. Use several coats for smooth finish. Paint large eyes with black and white at bottom area. Paint large nose triangle with blue. Stipple cheek areas with harvest orange. Paint mouth line and add x’s for stitch line on mouth using black. Tear strip of material about 1 1/4” wide and long enough to tie around brim of hat. Glue. Add some pieces of raffia in band. Glue raffia to inside of hat to hang down to resemble hair. Glue to top of hurricane. Cut another strip of material about 3”-4” wide and length to tie around base of hurricane. Tie on with tails in back. Stuff some raffia inside edge of fabric, sticking up toward face.
Base paint tapered style hurricane black for crow. Dry. Paint large beak in center front using yellow. Paint 2 black commas on beach for nostrils. Paint white dots for eyes and add black at eye on top area and accent with white dot. Paint yellow feet on bottom of hurricane. Using grey, draw a few feather lines above eyes, under stomach area and on sides to resemble wing lines. Use small strips of fabric to tie around small straw hat. Glue to hurricane.

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CES 2015, LAS VEGAS – HARMAN, the premium global audio, infotainment and enterprise automation group (NYSE:HAR), introduces its AKG Y20 and Y23 in-ear stereo headphones, combining powerful, undistorted sound with small comfortable design. AKG signature sound is the result of more than 60 years of audio expertise and with the launch of the Y20 and Y23 ultra-small headphones, that sound is now easier and more affordable than ever before.
The AKG Y20’s powerful 8 mm drivers deliver high quality sound, while the ergonomically designed tilted ear-tips featuring FlexSoft®, multi-size silicone sleeves are crafted to stay attached to the ear in almost any situation – making them ideal for people on the move. Their polycarbonate composition is both lightweight and durable, adding to their striking outward appearance. The integrated universal, one-button remote cable allows you to control your music with greater ease, as well as answer calls between listening to your favorite tracks.
The AKG Y23 is one of the smallest in-ear headphones available within an affordable price range. The 5.8 mm high performance driver provides a powerful AKG studio sound within an incredibly small space. Their innovative ear tip technology combines two materials to better fit your ear, while their low weight ensures you’ll only feel the vibe, not the headphones. The Y23 headphones are available in four colors and with the choice of straight cable or a universal remote that allows you to answer and end calls, or play and pause music, without taking your headphones off.
With powerful 8 mm drivers, the Y20 delivers the high-output sound and accuracy you’ve come to expect from AKG.
The Y20 isn’t merely designed to fit an ear perfectly. It connects seamlessly with almost any portable or home music source.
The Y20 stereo in-ear’s polycarbonate design is built to be both portable and durable.
Not only are the Y20 in-ears built from lightweight materials, they also come with a compact carrying pouch that ensures easy, on-the-go storage.
The AKG Y20 comes with silicone sleeves in three sizes (small, medium and large) to ensure a comfortable fit for anyone who likes listening to music for hours on end.
The AKG Y20’s specially angled ear-tips are crafted such that they fit snugly into ears of any size or shape.
Their scratch-resistant professional grade rubber and matte finish design take the Y20s to a new level of professional design.
Superior sound quality and connectivity that you never expected in such an ultra-small model.
A wide range of connectivity with a one-button, universal remote connects you to most smart phones instantly. The Y23 is also available as straight cable version.
Specially-selected 5.8mm drivers deliver precision sound with the sound quality properties AKG has made famous.
With 65 years of engineering and sound know-how, AKG is among the world’s leading manufacturers of high-quality headphones, microphones and wireless systems for professional users, musicians, engineers and music lovers. Today AKG is synonymous with premium sound quality, stands for passion in music providing the highest quality and ongoing innovation in the world of music.
HARMAN (www.harman.com) designs, manufactures and markets premier audio, visual, infotainment and enterprise automation solutions for the automotive, consumer and professional markets. With leading brands including AKG®, Harman Kardon®, Infinity®, JBL®, Lexicon®, Mark Levinson ® and Revel®, the Company is admired by audiophiles, musicians and the entertainment venues where they perform. More than 25 million automobiles on the road today are equipped with HARMAN audio and infotainment systems. HARMAN has a workforce of approximately 16,600 people across the Americas, Europe, and Asia and reported sales of $5.6 billion for the 12 months ended September 30, 2014. The Company’s shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol NYSE:HAR.

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One thing that has always been prevalent in my family is story telling. I didn’t really realize how important of cultural ideal it is for us until I got married and had a child. It was then I realized that Hannah had picked up the story telling gene. She wants to tell a story every night complete with turning off the lights, and every story has different players and components but always start the same way. “One night in the cold west……” I am not quite sure where she picked that one up from, but nevertheless we listen intently as she animatedly tells her story.
I think the dinner table has been pivotal in my life. It’s where we gather and get together to tell the story of our days, really that turn into our lives. My wife and I have developed a bit of a reputation for telling stories in our family. I usually exaggerate and she laughingly corrects my story and this produces belly laughs all around. We love eating and making lasagna in my family. I don’t know why but more often than not I can remember these belly laughs being produced around a few hot steaming pans of lasagna.
Once I asked my Mother what her secret was to her sauce. I love her lasagna. Its meaty, and the sauce has the right amount of flavor and tang, all to go along with cheesy goodness! I half expected her to tell me that she slaved away for days on the sauce and that it reduced by half “x” number of times. But to my surprise she said, “You want the honest answer?” I said, “Of course!” She said, “It’s Ragu!” I was almost aghast is shock and disbelief. Could it really be that simple??? All the time her secret was deliciously available to me right there on the grocery shelf. I mean that is #Saucesome ! I went home after family dinner that evening and I set out to recreate my Moms lasagna.
I wanted to create some #Saucesome experiences of my own with my family! I went to the store and bought some cheeses that I like in my lasagna and two jars of my favorite Ragu sauce along with some ground beef. I made my way home and started in to recreate my Moms lasagna. Now I browned the beef with some onion, salt, and Italian spices and then drained any excess fat. I then poured the Ragu sauce in and let it simmer to warm in through. I gave it a taste and wow I was blown away, my Mom’s secret really was Ragu!
I continued on to assemble the lasagna and place it in the oven. About 30 min later I had a delicious and tasty lasagna on my hands. We sat down to the table and I was met with smiles all around. With everyone enjoying their meal, story time began! Here we are in the middle of our own #Saucesome experience! I can say I felt a sense of pride in knowing I would be hearing those words, “One Night in the Cold West….” Hannah would look back on her childhood and remember these #Saucesome experiences with her family! I will make sure to tell her to use Ragu!!!
2 cups of your fave cheese per layer ( I usually have 3-4 layers with one layer being only cream cheese.
Brown ground beef in a pan with spices, and onions. Drain any excess fat. Add in Ragu Sauce and heat through. You can choose to boil your noodles if you like. But I don’t I cook my lasagna for 40-45 minutes and have plenty of sauce so that the noodles cook in the sauce. If you don’t like yours as saucy I would definitely boil the noodles first. Put one ladle of sauce on the bottom of the pan then layer in first layer of noodles. Completely cover noodles with sauce and then spread softened cream cheese over that layer. Repeat process the same way adding the other cheeses until your reach the top of your pan. Enjoy!!!
I LOVE lasagna! This recipe seems to be so easy. Thanks for sharing it with the readers of your blog!
Wow! That looks so good. I hope its not just because you take good pictures of your food 🙂 I am going to try this recipe the next time I make lasagna.
One of my favorite things to make and eat of all time! Lasagna is the best and with this recipe, it has become even better!
Ragu is my favorite! I am so glad that I found this recipe. Thanks for sharing it, looks so good!


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I'm a teacher. Can you tell? I started out as a scientist-- a biochemist and took a lab job right out of college. I gave mice cancer, then I gave them drugs, then I measured the cancer to see if the drugs worked. Not my cup of tea.
So I went back to school and got a masters in secondary science education. I also got married. It was hard to get a teaching job in those days because I had an advanced degree, which meant they had to pay me more; I was inexperienced, so they had no idea what kind of teacher I would be and I was married, which meant I would get pregnant and leave. I was also very young, 21, and my husband was off in the army. Finally, I landed a teaching job for 7th, 8th, and 9th grade science. I was told to teach modern atomic theory to the 8th grade. They gave me a terrible, boring book to teach from. I noticed the door was closed. No one was watching, so I went to the library and got a bunch of books with titles like, The Story of the Atom. That's the way I taught, using appropriate children's nonfiction for that unit and all the others. At the end of the school year I gave my students two days of test prep for the "achievement test" in science. They did fine. Those were the days when teachers had autonomy. Today, if you teach as I did, you'd be called subversive.
After 2 1/2 years I got pregnant and they made me quit teaching. I still had three months to go before Theo would arrive. There was an ad in the NY Times for teachers to write educational materials. So I went to Brooklyn for an interview. The publisher was in a storefront with the slogan "Simplicity Is Worth Millions." (Wishful thinking). He asked me if I could write a high school chemistry text. I said I thought I could. He asked me to write a chapter, "but it has to be simple." I went home and wrote a chapter which he handed back to me with the statement, "It's not simple enough." So I rewrote the chapter and brought it back. "It's still not simple enough," he said. After the third try, he gave me the contract! I discovered what cloud #9 feels like! Then Theo was born and I wrote the book with him in his infant seat at my feet. My name was never going to be on that book, I was paid a flat fee, and in the long run, it was never published. But I had found my calling. I could do something interesting at home while I raised my kids.
And so I wrote, and wrote and wrote while life happened. My kids grew up, even my grandchildren grew up and here I am today still writing about science, and interesting nonfiction for kids, and the love of learning. In 2008 I was asked to contribute to a group blog called "Interesting Nonfiction for Kids" (INK!) I discovered my inner blogger. Then I blogged for a newspaper called Education Update. In 2013, I started blogging for the Huffington Post and became a Contributor in 2016. Finally, now, I'm on my own.
I invite you to enjoy your time with me.


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Direct marketing via mail (addressed or unaddressed) typically involves the production of printed matter for distribution to a customers list. Many suppliers treated this as a zero rated sale of printed goods. However, HMRC have revised their guidance to confirm that a direct marketing mail service should have VAT charged at 20%.
HMRC acknowledge this was caused by a misunderstanding detailing the treatment in their VAT Notice 700/24. As a result HMRC will not take any retrospective action for supplies made prior to 1 August 2015 where a supplier has zero-rated a separate single supply of direct mail services. However, a transition period exists where suppliers must have started charge VAT correctly.


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Holistic healing care – keep well naturally homeopathic well being providers welcome we now have two premier healing facilities, each are situated just half-hour north of pittsburgh. Sufficient People had related pursuits that, within the early Nineties, Congress established an Office of Different Medication throughout the Nationwide Institutes of Health. I practice acupuncture and Chinese language natural drugs. Authors have speculated on the socio-cultural and psychological reasons for the appeal of different medicines among the many minority utilizing them in lieu of typical medication.
Treatment incorporates Acupuncture, Natural Medication, Therapeutic massage and completely different therapies. In the event that they failed to offer pure” therapies, some hospital executives concern they’d lose a chance to attract patients who want more profitable care, akin to orthopedic surgical procedures or cancer remedies.
Researchers compared 280 sufferers who selected different drugs to 560 patients who had received standard most cancers remedy. Just up to now year, the teaching hospital related to the College of Florida started providing cancer patients consultations in homeopathy and conventional Chinese language natural medicine.
Complete free continuing medical schooling and skilled development courses. In 1963, Samuel A. Levine, a extremely respected heart specialist at Harvard medical faculty, asserted in The Atlantic that exercise was dangerous for sufferers with coronary heart illness. Lang served as a vice chair of the wellness institute for nearly a decade earlier than taking the top post.
Tens of millions of individuals use acupuncture every year for continual pain. Whereas 41 per cent of those receiving typical treatment for lung most cancers survived for no less than 5 years, only 20 per cent of those who opted out of such treatment did. Additional programs may be evaluated and accepted at the discretion of the Dean of Academic Affairs or Affiliate Dean.
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Johnson prepares to leave key K-12 post at Education Dept.
Henry L. Johnson, a major addition to the Department of Education during a spate of leadership changes last year, has resigned his position, effective Dec. 31.
The assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education, Mr. Johnson said last week that he intends to return to his native North Carolina, but will consult with the federal department for up to six months after his departure. He outlined his plans in a speech at a conference sponsored by the National Association of State Boards of Education in Alexandria, Va.
The former Mississippi state schools chief was one of two high-profile assistant secretaries appointed to their jobs last year at the beginning of President Bush’s second term and the start of Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings’ tenure at the department.
Mr. Johnson has served at the Education Department during a period of major changes in the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act, the nearly 5-year-old law designed to spur increased student achievement.
Shortly before his arrival, Secretary Spellings announced that she would offer states flexibility in carrying out the law’s testing mandate for students in special education and in determining how schools can achieve adequate yearly progress.
Mr. Johnson leaves at a time when the department is preparing proposals to reauthorize the law, which Congress is scheduled to take up next year.
In his Dec. 7 speech, he said he hopes that one of his ideas will be part of that debate. Mr. Johnson has pushed for the law to have lesser penalties for schools and districts that fail to meet achievement targets in one or two demographic categories, saving major interventions for those that are falling short for all students.


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text: Michalik, S., et al. (2014) Structural Modifications of Swift-Ion-Bombarded Metallic Glasses Studied by High-Energy X-Ray Synchrotron Radiation. Acta Materialia, 80, 309-316.

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Obama Nominates Antitrust Expert Shelanski as New Regulatory Czar.
President Barack Obama said on Thursday he would pick Howard Shelanski, an antitrust expert, as his new regulatory czar, a powerful White House position charged with reviewing regulations proposed by government departments.
Shelanski, who is both an economist and a lawyer, is currently in charge of a team of economists that reviews competition and consumer protection issues at the Federal Trade Commission.
He was described by lawyers who know him as a sophisticated analyst who has a pragmatic approach gained from spending time in the trenches of a government agency.
“In my opinion, he’s a home run,” said William Eskridge, law professor at Yale University, who praised Shelanski for his intellect.
The regulatory czar is formally called the administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, or OIRA – a body within the White House budget office.
Shelanski would replace Cass Sunstein, a well known and often controversial author who left the White House in August to return to teach at Harvard Law School.
During Sunstein’s tenure, the White House came under fire from environmental groups for thwarting regulations that were deemed to cost too much, including killing a smog rule proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency.
This entry was posted on April 26th 2013 at 1:25pm/13:25 and is filed under Live News Column 1, Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

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Skip counting in twos and counting game for Pre k and Kindergarten – Monster board game for extra practice.
In this free math game online, kindergarten kids will learn how to count in twos, threes, fours and fives. It is illustrated with pictures of objects that are arranged in the mentioned sequences. This game makes the exercise of counting easy for kindergarten kids. It also adds to the excitement of seeking to avoid the monster on the board game. Remember this game is always online and could serve as a test on counting skills for kids both at home and in school.


text: I'm a photographer offering fine art photographs and photo note cards that can be customized for all occasions. I do commercial photography, portraits, event photography, and I photograph for real estate agents. I also photograph other artists' paintings, sculpture, and jewelry. I offer slide presentations that showcase the many interesting locations where I've traveled. I teach at The Art School at Old Church and the Bergen Community College Institute For Learning In Retirement. I also offer private instruction. Fine art photography is an excellent choice if you're looking to decorate your home or office or are looking for a very special and unique gift for your clients, family, or friends.


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Tell Our Legislators: No Cuts to Public Schools!
As educators, we bear the brunt of our underfunded schools, and there’s no way to stay on top of everything we need or want to do for our students. Despite our skills and training, our work is routinely compromised by limited resources.
The recent “snowtastrophes” really demonstrate just how emaciated our school budgets are. We already suffer from a school year so short that we are clamoring to find ways to make up instructional time for our students. And now the District has sacrificed our professional development, time we need to collaborate with colleagues, sharpen our practice, and really foster safe and inclusive environments in our schools.
Oregon’s proposed budget would mean more cuts to public schools. These cuts could mean larger classes, fewer electives, and the loss of wrap-around services.
It is unacceptable, and our lawmakers need to hear from you what budget cuts would mean for your students. We need to spell out what our schools need in order to ensure every student has the support, tools, and learning time they need to be successful.
The Oregon Legislature's Ways & Means Committee is hosting a public hearing Saturday, February 11, at Portland Community College, Sylvania campus, from 12:00-2:00 p.m. Come tell your story! Sign up here.
There are major shifts on the horizon for public education, and now more than ever Portland students need your passion and advocacy. Join us for the Legislative Engagement Training & Lobby Day and learn best practices for tapping your experience to support public education.
After a series of conversations with the Portland Public School Board, the Portland Association of Teachers has decided to take part in the Portland Public Schools 2017 Superintendent search. Though we do not feel that the Advisory Committee is the best way to conduct such a search, we saw benefits to participation.
PAT members voted yes on our TA mini-package for contract negotiations. The next step is for the School Board to vote. After that, it will immediately become contract language.
You should have received an electronic ballot for PAT elections. It was sent to PPS email on Tuesday, February 7 at about 11:30 am, with the subject "2017 PAT Elections."
Due to changes in the contract, the staffing process will begin much earlier than in the past. Educators may expect to be notified of unassignments in mid-February. Informational meetings for members who are unassigned are scheduled for March 1 and 2. PPS will offer Interview and Resume workshops on March 7 and 15 for any interested educator.
There may be occasions when you need to be absent from work for less than a full day. Appropriate paid leave may be used to cover such absences. Examples might include having to leave work an hour early to go to a doctor appointment (sick leave), or needing to be absent for a couple of hours to take your child to the doctor (family illness leave). Check the contract for the specific requirements for requesting various types of leave. (See, Article 14).
Members may be able to deduct their union dues on their 2016 income taxes. This includes NEA, OEA and PAT dues. The deduction must meet the limitations on miscellaneous itemized deductions (deductible when "Miscellaneous" itemized deductions exceed two percent of adjusted gross income). To claim union dues as a deduction you must use the long Form 1040.


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For fans of sophisticated luxury wagons with exceptional ground clearance and all-wheel drive capability, the 2018 Volvo V90 here at West County Volvo in Manchester, MO certainly has a lot of appeal. This new Volvo model stands out for its blend of sedan and SUV attributes meshed into a wagon design, with ample standard safety amenities and turbocharged engines to help you get where you need to be confidently.
Standard all-wheel drive in the 2018 Volvo V90, paired with elevated ground clearance, allows you to go anywhere and experience any type of landscape that you prefer. Two different engine options allow you to customize the force you produce under the hood as well, with a base 2.0-liter turbocharged engine generating 250 horsepower and an impressive 31 miles per gallon highway fuel economy. This horsepower jumps up to 316 with the 2.0-liter turbocharged and supercharged engine option you can choose to move up for.
The eloquent interior cabin of the 2018 Volvo V90 is an environment that you will certainly be able to get used to. Featuring adjustable front seats, refined linings and trims, and a bejeweled knob to start your engine, sophistication will be a common theme of your travel. Advanced technology is prevalent as well, with a vertical touchscreen providing access to navigation and standard Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.
Ready to review the 2018 Volvo V90 in person to see what you think? We welcome you to our Manchester showroom for a complete preview with the help of our team and the keys for a test drive of a new Volvo model you are drawn to.

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Fall 2017: “House on a Hill” Sneak Peek!
A four-story, 111-year-old mansion is bound to have its haunted tales. The Brown Mansion in Coffeyville boasts plenty of them.
For Kris, the ghostly stories and random eerie incidents – a wandering voice, a creaky step – don’t bother her much. After all, she’s at the mansion every week to host events and guided tours (including occasional visits from paranormal investigation groups) and has come to know the mansion inside and out.


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The T-project “Tastes of Yunnan” was initiated in 2007 as a partnership with Xing Jian Pu’er Tea Development Company (XJTD).
The farmers in the T-project live in Menglian County, an area which is 98% mountains. Where 100,000 people support their lives by primarily growing coffee, rice, rubber, sugarcane and tea. The T-project is being developed between 21 natural villages. A majority of the people living in the villages were earning less than US$ 1 per day when the project started.
In 2009 a Farmers Association was established in the tea area. Farmers were democratic voted into the board as representatives for the farmer association.
The purpose of the farmer association is to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the farmers and to manage the Fair Trade premium and ensure this premium is used on the development of the tea farmer community, help tea farmers to generate much more income.
The farmer association is the first of its kind established in the area.
As mainland China´s first Worlds Fair Trade certified company, our mission is to assist rural families in raising their standard of living. At the same time it benefits you, the customer by presenting a tea of surpassing quality, nutrition and taste.
Taste of Yunnan T-project is a member of the World Fair Trade Organizaton (WFTO) and the teas are certified through the Sustainable Fair Trade Management System (SFTMS) under the WFTO.
The price for tea is determined in consultation with the farmers association, and compared with local prices and the Fair Trade payment system to ensure that the farmers are getting a fair payment for tea. Danyun ensures consistent quality, creates new products and markets the products worldwide. The farmers are arranged into production areas, with a production unit who buys their tea and do the initial processing of the tea. The leaders, workers and representatives of the farmer association meets with Danyun’s staff for special training that they can pass on to their group on a quarterly basis.

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I hope you’ve enjoyed this little mini-series on hybrid picking over the past few weeks and found ways in which this character-full technique can be injected into your guitar playing.
Last week we looked at hybrid picking’s role in rock with some demanding intervallic and neoclassical ideas but for the last roundup I wanted to return to its home ground, country guitar, and give you three great country licks that are really fun to play and worth guitarists of any style investing a bit of time to get under their fingers. You never know when you may be asked to bluff through an unfamiliar genre and it’s as well to be a little prepared. That said the lightheartedness that comes with country guitar happens to go down well in any situation, and I find myself employing country ideas in a whole range of situations to give a song a fresh perspective!
To get the authentic tone for these examples use a bridge or bridge/middle single coil pickup if possible, we’re after the most twang and bright treble sound as possible.
Chicken picking is usually used to describe the use of hybrid picking to replace alternate picking for single string or scale ideas. Essentially all upstrokes are replaced with a middle finger pluck. This may feel odd to begin with but with practice is proves an interesting alternative. The brightness and snap of hybrid picking really adds a dynamic and percussive quality to an idea that might be a bit bland if played with standard alternate picking.
This classic country lick is popular with everyone from Chet Atkins to Jerry Donahue. The basic idea is to alternate pick the notes on the D string, and use the middle finger to pluck the B string. Follow the picking instructions to facilitate the hybrid picked note. Starting on an upstroke on the beat may feel a little strange at first but the repetitive pattern of ‘down, up, down, m’ will quickly become second nature and you won’t have to think about it. Notice how the finger really makes the high note stand out as an accent. A little bit of palm muting on the low notes will also help to provide contrast.
We have covered ideas like this in previous articles when exploring different bending ideas, but now we examine it from a hybrid picking perspective. The bending can be difficult to execute cleanly as all the strings have to be allowed to ring out together but with a strong hand position and arched fingers is achievable. You will have to practice this slowly at first to get the picking part down as it requires the middle and ring fingers to pluck. The second bar features another country staple: banjo rolls notice how each group of four notes outlines an arpeggio shape moving from D to A7 to D6.
Recommended Listening: Danny Gatton, Chet Atkins, Brad Paisley and Jerry Donahue are all well worth listening to for flawless hybrid picking technique as well as a full command of other elements of country guitar vocabulary. Shredding metal virtuoso John 5 is also worth a listen for his take on chicken picking and country bends, especially if you are a rock player interested in integrating these ideas into your own style.


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A LOUGHBOROUGH man has seen £750,000 confiscated by police as part of a £2.6m proceeds of crime operation.As part of Operation Clawback, Sydney Smith Jnr, 39, of Brisco Avenue, was ordered to pay back three-quarters-of-a-million pounds, as well as being sentenced to 23 weeks imprisonment suspended for two years with 180 hours of unpaid work for his involvement with a money laundering arrangement and concealing criminal property.
The three-and-a-half year Leicestershire Police and Crown Prosecution Service operation, the biggest ever of its kind seeing 24 people from across the UK put in front of the courts, also resulted in Karen Finnigan, 43, of Copeland Crescent, Loughborough, being sentenced to a community punishment order of 48 hours unpaid work for her involvement in money laundering.
Supt Steve Harrod, who led investigation, said: "Operation Clawback has been a highly successful police operation targeting organised criminals involved in high-level money laundering in the East Midlands, the UK, Spain, Italy, Holland, Germany, The Channel Islands and Eire.
"We targeted not only those involved in the criminal organisations, but also those who helped and assisted, in an attempt to send out a message to anybody involved in organized crime, even in a small way.
"Many of the defendants had luxury lifestyles that we can only dream of. They had palatial houses filled with designer items including Rolex watches and Versace dinner services.
"Yet none of those we had arrested had a feasible explanation for how they had accumulated such wealth."
District Crown Prosecutor Lawrence English said: "This was by far the largest such operation CPS Leicestershire has handled, resulting in a massive £2.6m of confiscation orders.
"Behind this prosecution there were 22,000 pages of exhibits and statements resulting in hundreds of hours of work from our lawyers, caseworkers and administrators.
"We are extremely pleased that justice has been done and these criminals will be hit where it hurts in the pocket."


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Brian Shay, from Kentucky, starts to head down the “Prima Cornice” run at the Vail Resort on March 13.
The fine print on the back of a ski-lift ticket offers a list of “inherent risks” that skiers and snowboarders assume under the Colorado Ski Safety Act, including variable snow and terrain, rocks, stumps, trees and other skiers.
The language protects ski resorts from lawsuits over universally accepted hazards in an activity once stereotypically considered synonymous with broken legs.
But, as noted in Karen Crummy’s revealing three-part series in The Denver Post earlier this week, ski-area operators also try to use the Ski Safety Act to shield themselves from financial liability even in cases of negligence and misconduct.
And for loyal season pass-holders, many resorts require an even greater sacrifice of personal legal rights: Those customers must sign a waiver in which they agree to pay attorney’s fees for the ski area if they sue.
By doing so, the ski areas attempt to immunize themselves from lawsuits over inadequately marking closed ski runs; collisions caused by resort employees; and even high-speed crashes with company snowmobiles.
One can hardly blame operators of the state’s 25 ski areas for taking full advantage of the Ski Safety Act to minimize legal liability.
But ski resorts largely are responsible for investigating accidents themselves — often by members of the ski patrol who have only rudimentary training — and resort operators steadfastly refuse to disclose injury statistics or details of specific incidents, including fatalities.
That inherent conflict of interest is enabled, in part, by the U.S. Forest Service, which owns most of the land on which Colorado’s ski areas operate.
Instead of serving its putative role as a government agency overseeing the use of its land, the Forest Service considers itself a “partner” of the resorts and gets a small share of gross revenues.
Understanding that ski areas shouldn’t be liable for a guest breaking a leg in a fall — even if it’s by slipping on an icy patch at the paved base area — the state legislature nonetheless should tighten the Ski Safety Act to spell out that resort operators have responsibilities to protect their guests reasonably and disclose injury statistics rather than simply hiding behind the “inherent risk” clause.
Resorts should be responsible if a ski lift fails catastrophically due to improper maintenance or when an on-duty ski instructor slams into another skier, as happened in 2009 in a crash involving a 9-year-old at Breckenridge. A federal District Court judge in that lawsuit found that the ski area had immunity because collisions with other skiers is considered an inherent risk.
They should be held responsible if they are negligent in their maintenance of resort infrastructure, as was the case when Vail failed to properly mitigate a piece of metal sticking out from a skier bridge that was due for replacement at the end of the season, resulting in the injury of a season pass-holder.
And the legislature should spell out that additional waivers like those signed by season pass-holders are against public policy, as the Utah Supreme Court has determined.
Finally, recent contradictory lower-court rulings over whether an avalanche is an inherent risk of skiing also should be reconciled. Grand County District Judge Mary C. Hoak ruled that avalanches are an inherent risk in ruling against the family of Christopher Norris, who was killed in an in-bounds avalanche at Winter Park in 2012. But Broomfield District Court Judge Patrick Murphy ruled that avalanches are not risks assumed by skiers in the lawsuit filed by the family of Taft Conlin, a teen killed that same day at Vail.
That is, admittedly, a difficult call: For all of the studies, local knowledge and expertise among ski patrols, avalanche forecasting remains an imprecise science, and even heavily skied slopes can slide under the right circumstances.
The Skier Safety Act makes good sense for an activity that combines humans, nature and speed, but it should not be a blanket get-out-of-jail-free card for resorts.
Steve Lipsher (slipsher@comcast.net) of Silverthorne writes a monthly column for The Denver Post.

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It has seemed for a while as though the global financial storm was going to deal a mostly glancing blow to the technology industry. Everybody hurts when markets go into free fall (and, as we're writing this on Wednesday afternoon, the Dow Jones has just closed down another 189 points -- although, as always, it could be up 500 points again by the time you read this). But if Wall Street and the banking sector are having a tornado rip through their gilded trailer parks, tech has, thus far, mostly just experienced some rain and a few gusts of wind in its relatively quiet suburb.
The question, though, is whether that rain will turn into a flood, and this week we saw some pretty big puddles forming. For instance, one way in which the global financial crisis could hit the technology industry is if big customers can't pay their bills to vendors and partners. Microsoft found itself in just that situation this week. Redmond is taking a close interest in the fate of bankrupt Washington Mutual, which, apparently, owes the software titan some dough that Microsoft would love to collect.
There aren't a lot of details on this story yet, and as far as we can tell WaMu seems to owe Microsoft the money -- and we don't know how much yet -- directly. We're sure that partners must be involved somehow, though, given that Microsoft makes the overwhelming majority of its revenue -- more than 95 percent -- through the channel. But even if there's no direct partner involvement here (and, as the dispute seems to involve software license fees, there might not be), we're wondering whether channel players are having to slink around customer sites in track suits carrying baseball bats and asking bewildered executives and business owners to pay up -- metaphorically speaking, of course.
Most of RCP's readers are probably not dealing with the WaMus of the world, but those that are might want to start thinking about how they're going to collect from customers that are going belly-up -- or maybe start adjusting their budgets accordingly. And those that aren't should still be wary. This isn't the kind of trickle-down activity any economist wants to see, but it seems possible that big failures at the top of the corporate food chain could eventually hurt companies that generally work closer to the bottom -- especially given how interconnected the financial industry is with pretty much every facet of the American economy.
Those economic tornadoes that are tearing through the financial industry might not be headed directly your way, but the wind and rain they carry could still make your front yard -- or your bottom line -- a heck of a mess.
Are you worried about customers not being able to pay for your services? Are you making contingency plans in this economic crisis? If so, what kind? Let us know at lpender@rcpmag.com.


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O. T. #1175 "Excellent Name"
What is in a name? Have you researched the meaning of yours? Mine means "beautiful." I'm so sure that I can live up to that name, though. Only Christ ruling in me can make me worthy of it.
Read our key verse. Here God's name is translated Jehovah, who art our Sovereign Lord and Master.
When we compare our selves to God's greatness and majesty we realize our smallness. Our Creator is so much stronger and wise than we His creation is. In great authority He reigns over all the earth and us. When everything is put into the right perspective, we humble our self before the Savior.
One day Christ will come reign upon the earth as King of kings. One day there will be a new heaven and a new earth for us believers. Then all the hate, evil, and sinfulness will be gone. What a glorious time!
MacArthur says that LORD refers to Yahweh, while Lord refers to His sovereignty. Does God rule over us as our Sovereign Lord and Master of our life?
What is man that Thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that Thou visitest him?
Will you take time to read Romans 8:15-18. Believers are heirs of God, joint-heirs with Christ. The first Adam lost his position of ruling over creation in the Garden. The second Adam, Christ, has more than regained that ruling position since He became our Savior.
In verse 9, David proclaims the excellency of our LORD again.
Thank You Jesus for all You are to us, for all You give to us, and for all You do for us.
Glory to Your Excellent Name.
Dear friends, I have a prayer request again. My sister in law, Wanda, is in the hospital with congestive heart failure since Monday. Her heart valves are not functioning right, so her kidneys are not. It has been 5 years since she went through the same ordeal, but God brought her through. With God all things are possible, so we are trusting Him with her life.


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Hamburg, Germany - Well, training camp is over. We officially ended it today, or as Schmitty put it before the game, we started our season today already, when we played our 1st round DEB Pokal game against the Essen Moskitoes. We won 3-0, with Paul Manning, Mike Smazal and Alexander Barta scoring our goals, one every period. I played the whole game, recorded the shutout, although it wasn't my hardest one. It was a pretty good game, well balanced and I had to make a few good saves, especially in the second period when the Moskitos put a little more pressure on us. When we scored our second goal, the game shifted a little more on our side and we were never really tested after. With the win, we erase a little bit the nightmare start from last season when we lost to Kaufbeuren in the Pokal opener, and it kind of set the tone for a very average season... Kaufbeuren ended up finishing last in the second league!! Hopefully, we will be able to build from this success to have a good season and home opener on Friday, against Hannover.
What is our team going to look like in 2005-2006? Well, even if we have been busy to work already for over a month, it might be too early to say how we will look. We still have three foreigner spots open, and we should use one or two of them pretty soon to add a little power to our offence...Training camp has been good, very good even. Our team has changed a lot since last September. The biggest and most important change, in my opinion, was made already at the end of last season, when Mike Schmidt became our head coach, replacing Dave King. The atmosphere in and around the team has improved one thousand percent, and Schmitty has a lot to do with it. Hockey is fun again, and we enjoy coming to practice and hanging around each other, which was not the case in the last two seasons. For the few guys from the Munich years of the Freezers (it's only me, Chief and Smash now), it was nice to have Doug Bradley coming back as an assistant. He completes Mike very well, and is also a great guy to be around in the dressing room. Dougie always has a story for every situation! When you add our goalie coach Andr� "Prof" Lebrun, we have to say that we are in good hands!
I have a new partner in goal this season, well, two new partners. Steffen Karg comes from Ingolstadt, and Tobias G�ttner from N�rnberg. Unfortunately, Kargie suffered a knee injury during the first week of training camp and could not play any preseason games. He should be ready to back me up on Friday though. He already has a lot of DEL experience and will definitely be a good help for me. Steffen's bad break in August was somewhat a good one for Tobi, who took advantage of the increased practice and playing time to show what he could do. I was very impressed with his cool during the games. I guess he will play in Stuttgart in the Oberliga (Div-3), and come back to help us in case of injuries to either me or Kargie.
"Alex Barta has impressed me the most by his skill, guts and game intelligence"
Tore Vikingstad led the way with a pair of goals, including the game-winner on the power-play with 2:55 left, as the DEG Metro Stars rallied from a 3-2 deficit to win Game 5 5-3 at home.
Winning goaltender Andrei Trefilov recorded 20 saves on the night while Cologne's Thomas Greiss stopped 32 of the 37 shots he faced.
An apparent powerplay goal from Craig Johnson was taken off the boards six minutes into the contest as his stick was over the crossbar when he re-directed in a point shot from Alexander Sulzer.
But Johnson and Sulzer teamed up again midway through the period. With Cologne's Ivan Ciernik in the sin bin, Johnson provided a perfect screen in front of the net as Sulzer blasted a high slapshot from center point over Greiss' glove hand to give the Metro Stars a 1-0 lead at the 10:30-mark.
Cologne tied the game with just over a minute left in the opening period when Stars netminder Trefilov mishandled a knuckling bad-angle shot by Philipp Gogulla from the left boards.
With time running out in the first, Tore Vikingstad knocked home a behind-the-net feed from Klaus Kathan from the doorstep to give D�sseldorf a 2-1 lead at the first intermission.
Things really got going in the middle frame. There were quality scoring opportunities on both ends. D�sseldorf�s Andy Schneider was stoned twice by Haie netminder Greiss on short-handed breakaways. The Haie evened the score at 2-2 when Jeremy Adduono struck on the power-play midway through the second period. Cologne could have taken the lead but Bill Lindsay, the match winner of Game 4, missed the net after a fine solo effort. Then the Haie caught a big break when a shot from Stars defender Jeff Tory bounced off the post on the man advantage.
The Haie shocked the Metro Stars when they took the lead for the first time, 3-2, on a turnaround shot from Ivan Ciernik at the 8:43-mark of the final period.
Things started heating up in the final six minutes. With the Haie still nursing a one-goal lead, defenseman Lasse Kopitz was assessed a delay-of-game penalty. A minute later, Eduard Lewandowski's high stick hit D�sseldorf's Patrick Reimer right in the face. He got a major plus game misconduct.
The ensuing 5-on-3 advantage was not enough for Metro Stars head coach Don Jackson who also pulled goalie Andrej Trefilov for an additional attacker. The gamble paid off 37 seconds later when a leaping Craig Johnson deflected in a shot by Tory from the top of the left face-off circle at 16:03.
D�sseldorf kept pressing and was rewarded with the eventual game-winner when Tore Vikingstad scored off the rebound of a shot from fellow-Norwegian Tommy Jakobsen, making it 4-3 with 2:55 to go. Patrick Reimer added another power-play tally 37 seconds later to seal D�sseldorf's come-from-behind win.
Three more Haie players got ejected in the waning minutes of the game after taking out their frustration on American referee Rick Looker.


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Employees from two different Monsanto sites recommended the Iowa Agriculture Literacy Foundation to receive grants from the Monsanto Fund’s 2018 site grant initiative. The Monsanto-Ankeny site awarded $4,000 and the Monsanto-Independence site awarded $5,000. Funds from the grant will be used to support the teacher professional development efforts in and around the Ankeny and Independence areas.
Most Americans are three to four generations removed from the farm. The workshops typically include one day of site visits to local farms and agribusinesses. The tours also include one day of classroom work learning how to apply concepts and align to standards. The workshops offer graduate level credit and/or license renewal credit for teachers to meet their continuing education requirements.


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NARAL Pro-Choice America today endorsed Abby Finkenauer in her bid to take back Iowa’s first Congressional district. Finkenauer received the backing of the nation’s leading pro-choice advocacy group for her record of action when it comes to protecting and expanding the reproductive rights of all Iowans. As a Congresswoman, Abby will continue her unwavering commitment to standing up for women and families.
Abby has been a champion for women in the Iowa State House, voting to protect a woman’s right to choose but also proactively fighting against out-of-touch efforts to restrict access to healthcare pushed by her Republican counterparts. Abby fought tirelessly against a ban that would prohibit a woman from getting an abortion after 20-weeks of pregnancy and combatted efforts to defund Planned Parenthood. Abby’s lifelong background in public service and staunch commitment to standing up for hardworking women and families makes her the best person to fight for all Iowans in the U.S. Congress.

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To enhance the forecast accuracy of PM2.5 concentration in China, we developed a multi-model ensemble forecast system for next 72 h based on CUACE, BREMPS, RAEMS, and an improved CMAQ model. For each site and forecast time, mean ensemble, weighted ensemble, MLR ensemble, ANN ensemble, and a final best ensemble based on real-time evaluation were established. Compared with single models, mean and weighted ensembles only slightly reduced the biases between forecasted and observed PM2.5 concentrations in China during 2015–2016. But MLR and ANN ensembles largely improved the forecast results in most sites of China with NMB values reduced to ±5% and ±10%, respectively. Compared with MLR and ANN ensembles, best ensemble showed stronger comprehensive forecast capability in major pollution regions, with similar NMB and RMSE values but higher R values of 0.6–0.9. In the heavy haze process occurred in south of Jing-Jin-Ji region from February 25 to March 4, 2018, the NMB and R values between best ensemble forecasted and observed PM2.5 concentrations in 3 representative cities varied from –4% to –26% and from 0.49 to 0.77, respectively. These indicate that as the final output of multi-model ensemble system, best ensemble performs better than single models and can provide a strong objective reference to forecaster.
This work is supported by “National Key Research Program of China” (Grant No. 2016YFC0203301), “Research Program of Key Technologies in Meteorological Forecasting Business of China Meteorological Administration” (Grant No. YBGJXM2018-7A), and “Youth Fund of National Meteorological Centre” (Grant No. Q201808).

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Grow your mixology skills by growing the perfect herbs for your favorite spring cocktails.
Sage is a hearty herb, and makes a delicious Sage Lime Tequila Smash, but it can attract sucking insects such as aphids, spittlebugs and whiteflies, along with caterpillars and slugs. Identify bug problems, and then read label directions to compare and select the right steps and product to solve your problem. Now, you’re ready to grow sage near a window or on your backyard deck!
Rosemary adds class and creativity to whiskey-based cocktails. It tends to be pest- and disease-resistant, but you should keep an eye out for spittlebugs, aphids and whiteflies. Proper spacing and growing conditions when you’re initially planting rosemary can help prevent bug problems. If insects do appear, you can also choose to treat problems with insecticides used according to label directions found in your local garden center.
From Mint Juleps to Mojitos, nothing beats the unmistakable fresh scent and flavor of mint in your cocktails. Consider planting it in a pot – you can contain the sweet smell, but also prevent it from overtaking your other herbs and plants. Watch out for mint rust. If it appears, find the approach that works for you to make sure your mint is healthy again. Whether it means removing the infected leaves, which you can identify by the orange spots that appear, or considering a fungus treatment product you can research and pickup at your local retailer.
Basil thrives outside in May, but if you’re ready to get a head start, you can grow it indoors earlier in the spring. Basil grows quickly when cared for correctly, so it needs to be trimmed as it begins to blossom. Keep an eye out for downy mildew and fusarium wilt – a common fungal disease which will appear underneath your basil leaves and include spotting on the leaves. Read label directions to determine a product that will work for you.


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This is complicated, but RenderScript is much easier to deal with than the Java Native Interface.
Code in a *.rs file can operate on scalar and vector types and can call functions like dot, sin, and ilogb. The functions are declared in RenderScript headers (*.rsh) and one of the most prominent headers is rs_cl.rsh.
Looking through rs_cl.rsh, I was surprised by how similar its functions are to OpenCL's kernel functions. That's when it dawned on me—the 'cl' in rs_cl.rsh refers to OpenCL. So RenderScript isn't really competing with OpenCL. RenderScript is a Java layer on top of OpenCL's kernel API.
As I investigated further, the parallels between the two languages became more apparent. RenderScript's Allocations serve the same role as OpenCL's memory objects. In OpenCL, work-items have identifiers with one, two, or three dimensions. In RenderScript, kernels access similar dimensions as function parameters.
Of course, RenderScript differs from OpenCL in many respects. RenderScript doesn't let you choose the target device and each kernel can only access one or two Allocations (memory objects). Also, developers can't specify the usage of global, local, or private memory.
It will be interesting when you begin to do testing and compare performance to OpenCL (if possible), or even suggest optimization techniques you have tripped upon. Documentation still seems scarce for Renderscript over a year after it's official rollout.


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Krewe of Harambee Parade Route: Parade starts at Milam Street and Common Street and heads east. Turns left (north) on to Edwards Street. Turns left (west) on to Texas Street. When the parade reaches Common Street, it will jog north to Sprague Street. The parade ends at Douglas Street.
Krewe of Harambee began as an idea started after organizing two Mardi Gras parties in 1998 and 1999. Mr. Clifton Davis, Theron Jackson and Lynn Braggs began discussing the possibility of formulating an African American Krewe. It was discussed that the krewe should promote minority involvement in the Mardi Gras season in the spirit of the African-American culture in the Shreveport-Bossier area. In the fall of 1999 Theron Jackson, Saundra Bingham and Roxanne Johnson convened the first meeting of what would become the Krewe of Harambee at 501 Marshall St. At that meeting, the name Harambee was suggested by Jackson and with mutual consent it was agreed that that would be the recommended name to be ratified by charter members. Harambee is a Swahili word meaning “LET’S PULL TOGETHER.” For more information, check out their website.

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In an interview with Sputnik, Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Adel Al-Jubeir spoke about the forthcoming visit of Saudi King Salman Al Saud to Russia.
UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) — The visit of Saudi King Salman Al Saud to Russia will be historic, since it will demonstrate the scale of the dialogue between the two states, Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Adel Al-Jubeir told Sputnik on Sunday. Moreover, the Minister stressed that the Russian and Saudi leaders have focused over the last few years on deepening and strengthening relations in numerous areas.
"His Majesty's visit to Russia will be historic because it will symbolize the extent of the relationship and consultations that take place between the two countries… Our two countries are much more closely allied than some of the analysts, I would say, try to portray it. We are both oil producers, we [have an] interest in a stable oil market.. We have enhanced Russian investments in Saudi Arabia, Saudi investments in Russia. We have cultural, educational, scientific relations that we are developing. We are also working very closely in the area of security to counter extremism, to counter terrorism," the Minister said, adding that the two countries had the same stance on the situation in the region.
On Thursday, an informed source told Sputnik that the Saudi King would visit Moscow on October 4-7 for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The same day, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that the preparation for the visit was underway.


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Jan. 30, 2019 1:30 p.m.
It’s begun to dawn on me recently that most people have no idea what, exactly, a reporter does.
Over and over, I’m asked by friends how I find stories.
My usual answer is pretty useless: I try to find something out – maybe at a city council hearing, maybe through intuition, maybe by keeping my ears open – and then I write about it.
So, I’ll let you in on a key tool of the trade, and then (self-servingly) show you how you can put it to use.
You may have heard of this “freedom of information” thing. Basically, every government – local, provincial and national – has some law requiring certain information to be accessed by the public.
That info is often public in name only – most of it can’t be found online or in easily accessible records.
Part of that is for good reason: There is an ocean of stuff that would swamp computer servers, and many of the public records must first be scoured so that private information remains private. Partly, it’s also that governments don’t really want all that stuff out there.
Now, the federal government is subject to its law that is a nightmare to navigate. The Liberals promised to improve it. They haven’t. So let’s shake our fists in Ottawa’s direction and skip that whole nightmare for now.
The provincial Freedom of Information law isn’t perfect. Public bodies routinely abuse exceptions for “private” information, business interests and staff advice, but it’s markedly better than the feds. In addition to the B.C. government, the law also governs cities, health bodies and municipal police forces.
And here’s the kicker: There’s no fee to ask. You can fire up your email right now and ask for some good old public information.
Now, you might not get it. In fact, you probably won’t because of those aforementioned exceptions. And you may also eventually be asked to pay, if the governmental body in question says that fulfilling your request will take too much time.
But that doesn’t mean a reporter – or citizen – can’t try.
Last year, the friend of a couple who got T-boned wondered how many other people have been injured in similar crashes. They sent in an FOI request and found revealing statistics that provided ammunition for their argument that changes are needed in the area.
Over the years, I’ve learned a lot from such requests. But I’ve only scratched the surface. If you turn up something, let your friendly local reporter know (click that “Contact” button at the top of this page).
Email your FOI requests for the provincial government to FOI.Requests@gov.bc.ca. To find where to send requests for your municipality, school district, police department, health authority or university, type the public body’s name into Google and add “freedom of information.” While some bodies may have forms to fill out, your request should be handled if you just email the organization in question.

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More than 1,000 people attended a fundraiser Friday night at Terrapin Beer Co. to raise money for the 2013 Human Rights Festival.
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Kangaroos naturally can be found only in Australia.
The Red Kangaroos (Macropus rufus): They are the largest Kangaroo species. Found in the arid and semi-arid area of the country.
The Western Grey Kangaroos (Macropus fuliginosus): they are slightly smaller than their other cousins and found only in the southern part of Western Australia.
The Eastern Grey Kangaroos (Macropus giganteus): they are most often seen in the eastern part of Australia and have the largest population among the 4 species.
The Antilopine Kangaroos (Macropus antilopinus): their far is somewhat similar to that of an antelope.
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Like the cow and other ruminating animals, kangaroos have chambered stomach which helps them in digestion.
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Their hind leg is much larger and stronger than their forelimb.
The tail of a kangaroo is muscular at the base and it helps in keeping balance while hopping.
The primary means of locomotion for a Kangaroo is hopping. This is the only large animal which uses this type of locomotion in their adult stage. The jump can be up to 30 ft in distance. The speed of this type of locomotion can reach up to 60 kph. They are good swimmers but cannot walk backward.
They are social animal and lives in groups. Usually, 10 to 100 kangaroos live in a group. In case of danger, they inform others by thumping their feet into the ground.
Kangaroos give birth to immature babies. A newborn baby can be the size of a rice grain to a maximum of a honeybee, which then nursed in their mother’s brood pouch. The newborns stay in their mother’s pouch for 120 to 400 days.
The adult male Kangaroo is called buck and the adult female is called doe. The newborns of a Kangaroo are called joeys.
The Kangaroos like all other marsupials have a pouch to rear their young ones.
The gestation period of a female kangaroo is very short 30 to 35 days. As the kangaroo can get pregnant immediately after giving birth, there can be more than one joey in the brood pouch. The milk meant for the newborn are of two types; one for the older one and another for the younger one.
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There are so many versions of this glider throughout the world. Most sailplane manufacturers made a version of it at some point.
Here we have a superb 1/4 scale example of the machine which is the epitome of pre-WW2 vintage open cockpit gliders.
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The Schneider Grunau Baby was a single-seat sailplane first built in Germany in 1931, with some 6,000 examples constructed in some 20 countries. It was relatively easy to build from plans, it flew well, and the aircraft was strong enough to handle mild aerobatics and the occasional hard landing. When the Baby first appeared, it was accepted wisdom that the pilot should feel as much unimpeded airflow as possible, to better sense rising and falling currents of air and temperature changes etc.
It was designed by Edmund Schneider with the assistance of Wolf Hirth and Hugo Kromer as a smaller version of Schneider’s ESG 31 of the previous year, incorporating an elliptical wing design based on work done by Akaflieg Darmstadt. It was named after Grunau, the town where Schneider’s factory was located, now Jeżów Sudecki in Poland. The first 14 inner ribs were of the Göttingen 535 shape with the outer ribs gradually changing up to the last 22nd rib, having a bi-convex and symmetrical shape with a slight reduction in the angle of incidence. The tips and leading edges of the wings up to the main spar were covered with plywood. The tail unit was built of plywood. The intention was to create an aircraft suitable both for training and for cross-country soaring. Typical for its day, it was a high-wing braced monoplane with a fuselage of hexagonal cross-section and an open cockpit. The Baby was an instant success, and was enthusiastically promoted by gliding champion Wolf Hirth. An extensive redesign was undertaken in 1932 following the fatal crash of an unrelated Schneider design, which resulted in the Baby II. This version and the definitive Baby IIb that followed were adopted as standard sailplane trainers for the German Air Sports Association (later the National Socialist Flyers Corps).
During 1941, 30 GB gliders were built by Laminação Nacional de Metais, later Companhia Aeronáutica Paulista in Brazil, under the name “Alcatraz”. Following World War II, series production restarted in Germany in 1956. The Baby was also built in France (as the Nord 1300) and the United Kingdom (as the Elliotts Baby EoN and the Slingsby T5 – Slingsby also used it as the basis for a number of their own designs). Edmund Schneider emigrated to Australia, where he developed the Baby design into his Baby 3 and Baby 4, which had enclosed cockpits.

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As graduation approaches, I find myself reflecting more and more about the past and the future. It seems somewhat unbelievable that in less than four months I’ll be graduating with degrees in Genetics and Evolution (with a minor in Psychology!). That surreal feeling is even stronger when I tell people that I’ll soon be striving towards my PhD studying Human Genetics & Evolution at…well, university soon to be decided.
I’ll be the first Dr. McCreight in my family, and the only scientist. That makes me wonder how I ended up this way. How did a daughter of an art teacher and history teacher become such a big science geek? And more importantly, what can I learn from my upbringing to better encourage kids to be interested in science?
The importance of reading is so well known, but I need to mention it. I never was given explicitly pro-science books that are targeted towards kids. In fact, the only real nonfiction science book I enjoyed was the first book I ever read, in preschool, and was about dinosaurs. I’m still baffled how you can have a book with complex dinosaur names that a 3 year old can understand, but I loved that thing.
She tried to gasp, but a paper doll can’t gasp. She thought she was trying to think, but her flattened-out mind was as unable to function as her lungs; her thoughts were squashed along with the rest of her. Her heart tried to beat; it gave a knifelike, sidewise movement, but it could not expand.
I read that book over a decade ago, but that passage still stuck with me – in fact, it’s one of two scenes I remember from the entire book. I understood the concept of dimensions because it was humanized, regardless if we could really do the magical sort of traveling they do in the book. If someone had tried to my ten year old self down and explain dimensions scientifically, I’m not sure if I would have understood it or wanted to pay attention, no matter how passionate the teacher was.
But books don’t just have to teach scientific concepts. In 5th grade we read The Westing Game, a Clue-like murder mystery. It was full of puzzles and red herrings, and trying to solve them was pretty much the most amazing thing ever. We were living the Da Vinci Code (well, it wasn’t written yet, but you know what I mean). Every time we’d read a new chapter as a class, we would collect all of our new clues, add them to a giant bulletin board, and try to figure it out. We weren’t just reading a story – we were actively participating, gathering evidence, working as detectives, forming hypotheses, and using logic to solve the problem. It was teaching us to think like scientists and have fun while doing so.
Sci-fi and murder mysteries are all well in good, but it was naturalistic books that really got me interested in biology. I was a shy, indoors sort of kid; I loved painting, drawing, reading, and playing videogames. My parents aren’t outdoors people, so we never went hiking or camping – the only time we spent with nature involved sitting on a golf cart.
So when I was assigned books like Where the Red Fern Grows and My Side of the Mountain, it was a type of escapism. The idea of interacting with animals and living off the land was as spectacular and amazing as zipping through dimensions and traveling through space. It wasn’t just novel – the books were great, and I started to eat that genre up. I looked for more books by Jean Craighead George, and found Julie of the Wolves. I absolutely loved it, and it was the first time I ever thought about animal behavior and ecosystems. I wanted to gobble up anything about wolves, so my dad bought me The Call of the Wild and White Fang by Jack London.
But again, things don’t necessarily need to be realistic fiction. My sudden curiosity for animals was also filled by Animorphs – and aliens giving people abilities to turn into animals isn’t exactly scientific. But it made me think about what it would be like to be certain animals – how their behaviors differ, how they’re similar, how they’re like us. I even loved the evolution-like covers, long before I had ever learned what evolution was. Aliens giving people abilities to turn into animals isn’t exactly scientific, but it ultimately increased my interest in nature, and that’s what matters.
This isn’t just an exercise in nostalgia – trust me, it makes me feel suddenly old, not a feeling I enjoy. But reading matters when it comes to getting kids interested in science. The books don’t need to be non-fiction or have the goal of teaching science in mind – they just need to inspire. They need to plant that spark of interest that kids can choose to follow if they wish. This is especially important for kids like me who didn’t get any real life experience with nature – sometimes a book is all we have, and sometimes a book is all it takes.
Actually getting a child to read is a totally different problem, one I don’t have a good answer to. I was a little bookworm, so you never had to encourage me. But one thing to notice is that nearly all of these books were assigned to me in school. Left to my own devices, I would probably still be rereading Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein to this day, and never have picked up something new. Did I love every book I was assigned in elementary school? God no. I didn’t even get halfway through the Secret Garden (still got a B on the essay – developed my BSing skills early). Not everyone is going to love everything, but inspiring some children down the road to science is worth it.
More parts to How this kid became a scientist will be forthcoming soonish. Hey, scientists are busy people!
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It goes without saying that Kingdom Hearts III is one of the biggest releases of 2019. The combat system has been praised, as well as the new worlds, such as Toy Story and Frozen. One aspect that surprised fans was the absence of Final Fantasy characters. The Final Fantasy series has had a presence in the Kingdom Hearts franchise since the first game. However, they are nowhere to be found in Kingdom Hearts III. Now, we know why.
In an interview with Game Informer at GDC, Kingdom Hearts III Co-Director, Tai Yasue, said why the team decided not to include Final Fantasy characters in the core story.
Tai Yasue: "We had a lot of original characters. It's the conclusion of the Xehanort saga and we really wanted to concentrate on the main storyline of Kingdom Hearts, such as Sora and Roxas, for the example. They're having all these stories in other games and we wanted them to conclude."
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Final Fantasy featured prominently in the first Kingdom Hearts. Fans will never forget facing Cloud at Mt. Olympus, or befriending Cid and Yuffie. Of course, Leon's role was memorable as well. In Kingdom Hearts II, fans were treated to a brief duel between Cloud and Sephiroth. Tifa also appeared, along with Aerith, making it a Final Fantasy VII reunion (Where's Barret?). At Olympus, Hades resurrected Auron from Final Fantasy X, which led to a fun team up with Sora and the gang. Kingdom Hearts II was full of Final Fantasy appearances. Seeing these characters was definitely a treat in the early games.


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Phantoms' players celebrate after booking their place in the play-off finals. Photo: Alan Storer.
Peterborough Phantoms’ best season in years just continues to get better.
Dismissed by many as being an early-season flash in the pan and written-off by plenty of others as over-achievers, Phantoms are now two games from English Premier League play-offs trophy glory.
Slava Koulikov’s magnificent men booked their place in the finals for the first time in four seasons after leading from the opening minute until the final buzzer of their quarter-final triumph over Swindon at the weekend.
A 4-3 road success in Wiltshire on Saturday (March 28) was followed by a 2-1 success on home ice last night (March 29) to complete a 6-4 aggregate triumph.
The crucial goal arrived with just under nine of the 120 minutes still to play as Marc Levers danced deep into Wildcats territory before guiding a sublime pass perfectly onto the stick of Edgars Bebris, who smashed the puck past Swindon netminder Stevie Lyle.
Phantoms’ reward is a semi-final clash against double-winners Telford on Saturday (April 4) lunchtime. Manchester and Milton Keynes will contest the other last-four clash after shocking higher-ranked sides Basingstoke and Guildford respectively at the quarter-final stage.
“It was a very tough six periods over the last two nights,” admitted Koulikov, who has reached the play-off finals for the first time in his short coaching career.
“There were plenty of ups and downs, and changes of momentum along the way, but all that matters is that we came out on top.
“The first and last periods of the weekend were our best and they were probably crucial. When we got the second goal on the night I knew in my head that we were going to make it.
“I felt in the second half of the second game that my guys wanted it more and that is another big reason in why we won.
“They did a fine job to close the game out and I can’t give them enough credit for the way they have performed – not just this weekend but throughout a long season.
“We have earned the right to go to Coventry and it doesn’t matter to me who we play. To be the best you have to beat the best and that is what we will need to do.
Phantoms returned to home ice in the driving seat after a 4-3 Saturday success in Swindon and they quickly extended that advantage.
Luke Ferrara made the breakthrough on the night when pouncing on a rebound after Wildcats netminder Stevie Lyle had spectacularly kept out Donatas Kumeliauskas during a powerplay.
But Swindon responded little more than seven minutes later on a numerical advantage of their own as Jonas Hoog bagged his second goal of the weekend.
Chances were at a premium in a nail-biting, nerve-jangling second session with both teams appearing fearful of making the mistake that might end their hopes of advancing to the finals.
But it was much more open in the final session as Swindon’s need for a goal forced them onto the attack while Phantoms had plenty of joy on the break.
Lyle denied Darius Pliskauskas and Kumeliauskas before being powerless to prevent the city men from sealing their passage to Coventry as Bebris provided the finish that Levers’ terrific work deserved.
Swindon lacked imagination and ideas as they offered little in response and they were a beaten team when import wild man Tomas Kana was ejected in the closing stages.
The Czech bruiser, who had earlier sat out a 2+10 spell in the second period for an ugly check to the head on countryman Milan Baranyk, lost his cool with the officials after being called for holding.
With his angry stomp back to the visiting locker room went the Wildcats’ hopes of salvaging the situation as Phantoms stood strong to finish the job.
Other play-off quarter-final results: Telford beat Sheffield 11-3 on aggregate; Milton Keynes beat Guildford 7-5 on aggregate; Manchester beat Basingstoke 8-7 on aggregate.