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Phoenix (AZ Family) — Arizonans can now save a little money at the pump with a new app feature from a popular gas station chain.QuikTrip is currently offering customers 25 cents off every gallon of fuel and 5% off most in-store purchases when they use the new QT Pay feature available on the QuikTrip mobile app.What is QT Pay? It's a payment method linked directly to a customer's checking account. QT says there are no bank holds or checking fees, and there are no annual or monthly fees.If you sign up, you can pay for your fuel by scanning the…

Here's what you can expect to enjoy over Labor Day weekend in The Woodlands area, including Labor Day in the Woodlands events, supporting Houston Restaurant Week, boat rides on the Waterway, Jimmy Buffet Day live music and celebrations, a kids' fishing tournament and much more.Featured Event: Labor Day at The Woodlands, Sunday, Sept. 1Celebrate Labor Day in The Woodlands! On Sunday, September 1, 2024, from 5pm to 9pm, you can kick back and enjoy the fruits of your labor at Waterway Square with live music, kids activities, walk-around entertainment, a pie-eating contest, and fireworks. learn moreAugust 1st to September 30th…

Identification of PCs in the larval zebrafish brain. Source: Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07867-2 Researchers are turning to zebrafish to unlock the secrets of place cells, which play a key role in forming mental maps of space, social networks, and abstract relationships. Until now, place cells have only been found in mammals and birds, leaving the question of how other species represent the external world internally largely unanswered. A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Biocybernetics has found the first compelling evidence for the presence of place cells in the brains of tiny zebrafish larvae. When exploring a new…

Pamela O'Neill and Cynthia Pizzini sit in the conference room. O'Neill is the associate director of online and adult learning, and Pizzini is an adult learner who mentors her peers. Adult learners at Wichita State University are taking advantage of a new program that will help them navigate the school day. Adult Learner Community and Connections connects students with peers who can guide adult learners through health-related courses and help them access college resources. Pamela O'Neill and Amber Anderson, deputy directors of the Office of Online and Adult Learning, said they created the program to address a gap in resources…

Although Rod Hollinger Janzen considered his intercultural competence to be more than adequate due to his many years of intercultural experience, the IDI revealed his weaknesses. Rod Hollinger Janzen Administrative Assistant for Church Vitality at Mennonite Church USA; Waterford Mennonite Church Based in Goshen, Indiana, he serves as tri-chair on the Indiana Poor People's Campaign Coordinating Committee. ______________________________________________________ The Beginning I first encountered cultural differences in my third year of primary school. That year, almost 60 years ago, the Canadian government integrated Indigenous students into public schools, moving them from private, church-run residential schools that had been mandated by the…

In the iconic 2000s dating sitcom, Sex and the City, Carrie and her girlfriends get together to discuss the men who are causing chaos in their lives.It makes me a little jealous. When I hang out with my single friends, we talk about how awful dating apps are.I'm 26 years old and part of Generation Z (currently ages 12 to 27, but ages 18 and up to use dating apps). We have the dubious privilege of being the first generation to come of age in an era when dating apps are widespread.After my booze-filled college years, there is no one…

Learning the language will bring you closer to French culture and may even improve your brain function. There are over 300 million French speakers worldwide Fizkes/Shutterstock French is one of the most popular foreign languages ​​around the world, but the number of students choosing it is declining in countries such as the UK and the US. There are plenty of other reasons why learning French is worth it. Read more: Is French still a popular language to learn?It's a global language With over 300 million people speaking French worldwide, learning French will help you when you travel or work abroad,…

Listen to the article 5 mins This audio is automatically generated, please let us know if you have any feedback. Dive Overview: of Florida Department of Education and Florida Education Association There's been conflict over statewide teacher vacancy data for the 2024-25 school year, with the Department of Education reporting last week that vacancies are down 13.3% compared to the previous school year. As state education officials touted the numbers, teachers unions said days earlier that the state still had 5,007 teaching vacancies this school year, up from January levels but down from numbers reported in August 2023. Despite the…

African students join a volunteer team in Beijing's Yuanmingyuan Park in August 2018. Photo: VCG Nigerian teachers and students told the Global Times that learning Chinese language and culture will contribute to the realization of the “Nigerian Dream” of Nigeria's younger generation and enable them to better adapt to the nation's development, highlighting the broad prospects for China-Africa education cooperation. “Many Nigerian students want to learn Chinese because they believe that by learning Chinese they can realise the Nigerian dream, just like the Chinese dream that the Chinese talk about,” Adetoro Banwo, deputy director of the Confucius Institute at the…

San Antonio – A full-time Alternative Learning Environment (ALE) substitute teacher in Northside Independent School District has been working toward becoming a full-time certified teacher for the past three years, but she never expected that along the way to achieving that goal would come the birth of the daughter of one of her former students.Shauna Malarski works at Briscoe Middle School and says her path began nearly three years ago by looking for a job with a flexible work schedule.”I had been a stay-at-home mom, but after most of my children had graduated I started working at Chick-fil-A,” Malarski said.…