 of the year to plant trees and shrubs. Correct! Now is the time to start a fruit orchard or an edible landscape. As the seasons transition into much cooler weather, now is the ideal planting season for hardy trees, shrubs and ground covers (Trawick, 2013).
In the fall, plants require less water to get established and stress factors associated with planting in full sun are reduced. Although weather is cool, soil temperatures continue to be warm enough throughout the season to promote root growth. Thus by planting in the fall, the plant becomes more established by having a better and more vigorous root system than a plant that is planted at springtime.
Deciding what to grow sometimes is limited by what is available in a given area. Mail and online sales can be tricky if for those unaware about which fruit species perofrms best in Northwest Florida. To aid in this planning process, a link to a University of Florida IFAS publication (HS1218) is included that contains a directory of certified Florida nurseries offering fruit and nut crops. While it was developed to assist farmers locate fruit and nuts cultivars in Florida, it is helpful to begin thinking about what to grow and where to find it. The publication also lists recommended fruit and nut species and cultivars for North Florida, including north-central Florida.
Fruitscapes is a University of Florida website dedicated to fruit trees in Florida, which will increase understanding of fruit tree cultural and pest management requirements for all readers. Also explore “Temperate Fruit Crops”. Bookmark this webpage and refer to it as needed. Also, consult with your county extension office in your area.- openDemocracy
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I spoke in parliament on the government's failure to turn a G20 growth aspiration into a clear plan for prosperity.
I congratulate the Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development on his decade-old diggings, but I am happy to assure the House that I, like all members on this side, do not support a GP tax. The aspiration set by the Treasurer for an additional 0.4 per cent growth per year over the next five years is a perfectly reasonable aspiration, and nobody in this parliament would disagree with it, but an aspiration is not a plan.
There are two very clear plans for growth on offer in this parliament. This side of the parliament believes that growth is driven by investment, by education and by fairness. That side of the parliament believes it is driven by cuts, cuts and cuts—cutting infrastructure, cutting services and cutting wages.
On this side of House, we are committed to building the National Broadband Network. We took Australia from being 20th in the OECD for investments and infrastructure to being first. On this side of the House, we believe in education. That is why we brought forward the National Plan for School Improvement and demand-driven universities. And we believe in fairness. We believe very firmly that government has a role in looking after the most disadvantaged.
But that side of the House is cutting infrastructure. The government does not believe in urban public transport, so it is not investing in projects like Brisbane's Cross River Rail project, the Melbourne Metro, the Perth Airport link and Adelaide's Tonsley Park public transport project. That side of the House does not believe in supporting services, which of course, in a fragile period for the labour market, has a negative impact on demand. If you cut back on that schoolkids bonus, you are taking money straight out of retail spending. But, if you give $75,000 to a millionaire to have a baby, the chances are that they are just going to pay off the mortgage. The spending cuts are going to hit spending hard, and that is going to hit jobs as well.
Mr Newman gave a speech to CEDA in which he cited a number of countries, among them Canada, the European Union, Britain and New Zealand, and he said that Australian wages were high relative to those countries. What he failed to grasp, as Stephen Koukoulas has pointed out, is that all of those 'low-wage' countries have higher unemployment rates. The unemployment rate in Canada at the time Mr Koukoulas was writing was 6.9 per cent; in the US, seven per cent; in the eurozone, 12 per cent; in New Zealand, 6.2 per cent; and, in the UK, 7.6 per cent. When the going got tough, the Australian system outperformed that of other nations.
Of course, we have seen just recently new data out on wage growth which has given the lie to those who say that the secret to Australian prosperity is to cut wages. We have seen the release of the seasonally adjusted wage price index. In the December quarter, it rose 0.7 per cent, giving a growth rate for 2013 of 2.6 per cent. That is below the rate of inflation, which is 2.7 per cent, so Australian workers have had a real wage cut. This comes after a 35-year period in which wages for the bottom 10 per cent grew by 15 per cent and wages for the top 10 per cent grew by 59 per cent.
And yet those opposite, led by people like Maurice Newman, believe that the secret to Australian prosperity is to cut wages. They are utterly out of touch. And while they want to cut wages, they want to keep open loopholes. As the shadow Treasurer so eloquently pointed out, the multinational tax-shifting arrangements that the government took to the G20 were Labor's arrangements, minus the $700 million measure that the government took out and minus the transparency measure that Senator Sinodinos is going to scrap.Grosvenor Americas’ Director of Research, Brian Biggs, looks at how physical real estate investors can strike a balance between maximizing portfolio diversification and minimizing management costs.
Portfolio diversification is one of the fundamental risk management tools investors use to maximize returns and minimize risk. Most work on portfolio diversification comes from liquid markets, such as equities.
Physical real estate markets, by contrast, are relatively illiquid, carry a high degree of idiosyncratic locational risk, trade in large lot sizes, and have much less pricing transparency compared to equities. Compared with equities, constructing a diversified physical real estate portfolio can be cumbersome and costly.
How, then, should physical real estate investors diversify their portfolios? Given the large number of investable cities, how can investors strike a balance between maximizing portfolio diversification and minimizing management costs?
Click below to read the full report as Brian examines how to strike this balance and what an “ideal” number of cities might be for a US physical real estate portfolio.[Sky Odyssey] Anyone else having issues sorting loot crates via basic item filters on ender io conduits? Ideas?

So all my attempts to filter loot crates by value or metadata have completely failed.  The only option that works sofar is to fill a chest up with say epic loot crates 1 layer thick (so nothing but those can be dropped in) and use high and low priority on the insert to get any kind high value / low value loot crate sorting.

Is that the best sorting option?  When I get to refined storage, will *it* respect loot crate meta data?

(side note, I've had great luck sorting emc vs non emc using insert priorities as well, wherein items that fail to emc go to the lower priority storage...).  Still, it would be nice to have a whitelist on a specific loot crate by value.VICTORIA GWIZDZ, CLASS OF 2020, COMMITS TO CALDWELL UNIVERSITY!
Quote about a specific coach: My coaches believed in me and always pushed me to go harder.
What are your most memorable moments or experiences at FC Copa Academy? Summer time at away tournaments with Coach Steve during my junior year.
FC Copa Academy helped me learn new skills and play at a harder and higher level.
Being at FC Copa Academy helped me become a more competitive soccer player.
What are your thoughts and experiences on the collegiate recruitment process with FC Copa Academy? FC Copa helped me get noticed by colleges at tournaments.
My advice to future FC Copa athletes would be to email coaches for every tournament you go to because you will be surprised with who gets back to you.In an introspective, cuddle under the covers, maybe go to bed early, possibly watch some How I Met Your Mother and Vicky Cristina Barcelona mood. And maybe call my best guy friend. I feel bouleversee. upset, overturned. Not in a partiuarly bad way, but just epuisee.
And sometimes the fact that my stream of consciousness comes half in English half in French seems awesome, and other times I worry that I will always be forever alone.
And I just met someone nice, but I don’t think we have enough in common to base a relationship on. In fact, I have a feeling it would be quite a pickle to really find someone I’d want to have a serious relationship. Because cross cultural everything