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Skopelos (Greek: Σκόπελος) is the second largest island (after Skiathos) in the Northern Sporades, while administratively belongs to the Prefecture of Magnesia. It is a short distance from Alonissos (about 3-4 km) and from Skiathos (6-7 km). Most of the island's inhabitants live in Skopelos Town, which has been declared a listed settlement. Its main features are the paved cobblestone streets and the many small churches scattered throughout the city. The second largest village is Glossa which it is served by the port of Loutraki. The island is full of dense forests that cover almost 80% of its area, which is why it is considered the greenest of the Aegean Sea.
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Rutgers activists were nearly suspended for disrupting university president's speech
Rutgers student activists from United Students Against Sweatshops faced suspension for 'disrupting' a university event during the fall semester.
Rutgers activists were nearly suspended for disrupting university president's speech Rutgers student activists from United Students Against Sweatshops faced suspension for 'disrupting' a university event during the fall semester. Check out this story on mycentraljersey.com: https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/education/2019/01/10/rutgers-activists-faced-suspension-disrupting-presidents-speech/2526251002/
Catherine Carrera, North Jersey Record Published 11:30 a.m. ET Jan. 10, 2019 | Updated 4:09 p.m. ET Jan. 10, 2019
Rutgers union members protested Thursday demanding salary raises, while students pressured the university to increase the minimum wage to $15. Catherine Carrera, Staff Writer, @CattCarrera
Rutgers University student activists and faculty union members say two undergraduates were told they would be suspended by the university after they disrupted a speech by the Rutgers president last fall while protesting for a $15 minimum wage.
An online petition signed by nearly 1,900 people urged the university to reverse the pending suspensions. One of the students facing suspension said Wednesday that after meeting with university officials this week, the disciplinary action was downgraded to a probation for the spring semester.
Faculty union president Deepa Kumar said in an email Wednesday that the other student was "completely cleared."
Rutgers union members picketed before a Board of Governors meeting on Dec. 6, 2018. The members have been working without a contract since June 30 and demand fair contract negotiations. (Photo: Catherine Carrera/NorthJersey.com)
A university spokesperson would neither confirm nor deny that there were pending suspensions of the student activists, saying Rutgers does not release information about disciplinary processes or investigations into individual student conduct.
The university's code of conduct states that "the right to protest does not include the right to engage in conduct that intentionally or recklessly interferes with the university's operations."
University spokeswoman Dory Devlin said that all students are expected to review and abide by the Rutgers conduct code and disruptions policy, which was updated in the spring of 2017. The policy "recognizes that the right of free expression does not include the right to engage in conduct that disrupts the university's operations or endangers the safety of others," Devlin said.
But activists who started the online petition argue that the policy "betrays students' right to peacefully demonstrate for better conditions for people in the Rutgers and New Brunswick community."
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Mary D'Anella-Mercanti, 22, of Collingswood, was one of the students facing five violations of the code of conduct. On Oct. 19, she interrupted President Robert Barchi for 35 seconds on a microphone while he gave a speech at a ribbon-cutting ceremony, she said.
"The university has no definition for what it considers to be a disruption," said Yael Bromberg, D'Anella-Mercanti's lawyer. "The idea that she would face suspension for peaceful action — leaning into a microphone for 35 seconds — is extraordinary and should not be acceptable in our democracy."
D'Anella-Mercanti, who is double majoring in history and women's and gender studies, is a senior undergraduate. If the pending suspension for the upcoming spring semester had been upheld, she would not have been able to graduate with her classmates in May.
Under the probation, D'Anella-Mercanti can't violate the code of conduct, Bromberg said.
Devlin said that "Rutgers' position on free speech is clear: All members of our community, including faculty, staff and students, are free to express their viewpoints in public forums.
"At Rutgers, we also strive to foster an environment where the rights of all are protected," Devlin said.
According to the Change.org petition, two others participated in the October rally to raise the campus minimum wage to $15 with D'Anella-Mercanti. One was not enrolled as a student at the time of the demonstration and the other was also a senior undergraduate. The undergraduate was cleared of the recommended suspension and not given probation, according to Kumar.
A bill to raise the minimum wage to $15 in New Jersey was stalled last year in the state legislature amid disagreements over hikes for farm and seasonal employees. Gov. Phil Murphy has made raising the minimum wage one of his priorities, but students want Barchi to implement the change at Rutgers sooner, given how long the process could take at the state level.
The students are members of Rutgers United Students Against Sweatshops Local 109, which is part of a national organization fighting for workers' rights on more than 150 college campuses.
Rutgers has two types of disciplinary suspensions – a term suspension and a conditional suspension, according to the code of conduct. Students may be subject to one or both. The term suspension stipulates a period of suspension after which the students may return to the university. The conditional suspension requires the student meet certain criteria before they return.
"This sends a shiver down the spine of our entire intercollegiate community," the online petition states, adding that the university's decision to suspend activists suppresses their First Amendment rights.
In a separate incident, about a dozen of the group's student members were charged by the Rutgers University Police Department in December 2017 with disorderly persons offenses for allegedly disrupting a Board of Governors meeting. According to complaints, the students disrupted the meeting by "crossing a rope barrier and a police line" and "making physical contact with officers to congregate in the center" of the meeting hall "while shouting."
Those charges were confirmed by a university spokesperson.
The Rutgers contingent of United Students Against Sweatshops started an online fundraiser on GoFundMe.com to raise $10,000 to cover legal fees to help the 12 students fight the disorderly conduct charges. A court hearing is scheduled for Feb. 4, according to the GoFundMe page.
The faculty union is also urging its supporters to email Barchi and pressure him to drop the charges, although they were filed by the police department.
Barchi "has argued these aren't his charges, but we know that if [he] wanted the charges to be dropped then the charges would have already been dropped," Kumar said.
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Bodak Yellow (alternativamente intitolato Bodak Yellow (Money Moves)) è un singolo della rapper statunitense Cardi B, pubblicato il 16 giugno 2017 come primo estratto dal primo album in studio Invasion of Privacy.

La canzone ha consacrato la rapper commercialmente: ha infatti trascorso tre settimane consecutive in vetta della classifica statunitense, rendendo Cardi B la quinta rapper donna a raggiungere tale traguardo.

Antefatti
Il beat del brano è stato realizzato da J. White Did It. Cardi e White si sono incontrati a New York poiché avevano lo stesso manager e hanno quindi deciso di lavorare insieme. White ha affermato che a volte si è sentito «intimidito» dalla concentrazione e dal duro lavoro della rapper, dicendo che inizialmente la loro era una relazione di amore-odio. Il nome della canzone è stato ispirato da Kodak Black, un rapper di Florida, dal momento che riprende la melodia della sua canzone No Flockin del 2015. Kodak Black ha poi pubblicato un remix di Bodak Yellow. È presente anche un'interpolazione proveniente da Da Dip del rapper statunitense Freak Nasty.

Promozione
Cardi si è esibita per la prima volta con Bodak Yellow alla crociera Anti-Prom presentata dalla skate crew Brujas e da Gypsy Sport. Il 25 giugno l'ha eseguita all'afterparty dei BET Awards 2017 mentre il 18 luglio successivo al Wendy Williams Show. Il 7 agosto 2017 si è esibita con il brano all'OVU Fest, un festival musicale annuale di Toronto condotto dal rapper Drake. Cardi l'ha poi presentata al pre-show degli MTV Video Music Awards 2017 il 27 agosto. Si è esibita con la canzone anche ai BET Hip Hop Awards 2017 e l'ha inclusa in un medley con Bartier Cardi al Saturday Night Live l'8 aprile 2018, dove ha rivelato di essere incinta.

Accoglienza
I critici di Complex hanno elogiato la sicurezza di Cardi B e hanno paragonato la canzone ai primi lavori di Lil' Kim. Tom Breihan per Stereogum l'ha definita «perfetta» mentre USA Today ha notato il riferimento al rapper Kodak Black.

Sia Chris Richards del Washington Post che Pitchfork l'hanno eletta la miglior canzone del 2017. Billboard l'ha considerata la seconda miglior canzone dell'anno, Rolling Stone la quarta ed Entertainment Weekly l'ottava. Nel 2018, Rolling Stone l'ha classificata al numero cinquantanove tra le migliori canzoni del secolo.

Video musicale
Il video musicale, diretto da Picture Perfect, è stato pubblicato il 24 giugno 2017. Il video presenta scene dell'interprete a Dubai, in sella a cammelli nel deserto. Ad agosto 2021 la clip ha superato il miliardo di visualizzazioni su YouTube, divenendo il video di una rapper donna come solista più veloce a raggiungere tale traguardo sulla piattaforma.

Altre versioni
Una versione latin trap della canzone è stata pubblicata il 18 agosto 2017. In essa, Cardi B rappa in spagnolo e vede la partecipazione del rapper dominicano Messiah. Un secondo remix viene pubblicato il 18 settembre 2017 e vede la collaborazione del rapper Kodak Black. Anche la cantante giamaicana Spice ha reso disponibile un remix del brano, intitolato Bodak Bitch. Nel programma televisivo di Fox The Four: Battle For Stardom la concorrente Zhavia, oltre a realizzarne una cover, ha prodotto anche un remix del singolo.

Tracce

Formazione
Musicisti
 Cardi B – voce

Produzione
 J. White Did It – produzione
 Laquan Green – co-produzione
 Even Laray – ingegneria del suono, missaggio
 Colin Leonard – mastering

Successo commerciale

America del Nord
Negli Stati Uniti d'America il singolo ha debuttato all'85ª posizione della Billboard Hot 100. Nella sua quinta settimana in classifica è salito al 14º posto, diventando la prima top twenty della rapper nella Hot 100 statunitense. Ha poi raggiunto la 2ª posizione, rimanendo dietro a Look What You Made Me Do di Taylor Swift e, due settimane dopo, è salito alla vetta, dove è rimasta per tre settimane consecutive. È diventata la seconda canzone hip hop femminile solista a raggiungere la prima posizione in codesta classifica, dopo Doo Wop (That Thing) di Lauryn Hill. Nella sua ventiseiesima settimana di permanenza in classifica, il singolo è tornato in top ten e grazie alla presenza di MotorSport e No Limit tra le prime dieci posizioni, la rapper è diventata la terza artista in assoluto, dopo i Beatles ed Ashanti, ad avere le prime tre entrate in classifica in top ten contemporaneamente. Bodak Yellow è inoltre divenuto il primo brano di una rapper donna ad ottenere il disco di diamante dalla Recording Industry Association of America.

In Canada il singolo ha raggiunto la 6ª posizione della classifica nazionale.

Analisi
Il successo inaspettato di Bodak Yellow negli Stati Uniti è stato argomento di discussione per i critici musicali. Carl Cherry, curatore di Apple Music, la prima volta che l'ha ascoltata è rimasto attratto dalla sua melodia ed energia, decidendo quindi di inserirla nella playlist Breaking Hip Hop, che ospita le nuove tendenze all'interno del genere. Dopo la buona accoglienza iniziale ricevuta, Cherry l'ha inserita nella playlist principale dello stesso genere, facendo aumentare gli ascolti del 124% in una settimana e del 200% in un mese. Quando, a metà agosto 2017, è diventata la canzone più ascoltata del momento sul servizio, Cherry ha affermato di non ricordare nessuna canzone decollata così rapidamente.

D'altra parte, anche con Tuma Basa, curatrice hip hop di Spotify, è accaduto un evento simile. Quando ha visto che a New York anche i bambini ascoltavano Bodak Yellow, l'ha aggiunta alla playlist della piattaforma Rap Caviar, avente oltre 7,5 milioni di seguaci, aiutando così la sua graduale crescita. Ella ha affermato che la città di New York ha svolto un ruolo fondamentale per la sua popolarità.

Inoltre, Jon Caramanica del New York Times ha lodato l'artista per aver ottenuto un successo così rapido senza aver dovuto usare ritmi pop dance o video provocatori come le colleghe Nicki Minaj e Iggy Azalea e senza essere accompagnata da un meme, a differenza di Black Beatles dei Rae Sremmurd.

Dave Acosta, per El Paso Times, ha affermato che con il successo della canzone, la rapper ha dato «una nuova voce» agli ispanici e alle donne.

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Singoli al numero uno negli Stati Uniti d'America

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Q: Ubuntu 21.10: Problems with Internet access / DNS The question is partly a duplicate of multiple questions, but since I don't have enough reputation for commenting, this is my take on trying to understand the issue and prevent it from repeating.
So, I installed Ubuntu 21.10 on ASUS MINIPC PN51-E1 (AMD® Ryzen 7 5700u, radeon graphics AMD® Renoir) a few weeks ago and, mostly, all seemed ok. Then, the other day, probably after sudo apt upgrade, I tried to awake the computer from a sleep but it seemed frozen. I forced the shutdown by pressing long the power button.
When I restarted, I was not able to access the Internet anymore.
Many seem to have issues with networking. This, especially, helped me forward: Ubuntu Server 18.04 Temporary failure in name resolution. Apparently, there was a problem with my DNS setup, and /etc/resolv.conf might be the key (pinging returned "Temporary failure in name resolution").
I ended up removing the symlink and creating a static /etc/resolv.conf with only one line:
nameserver <ISP_DNS_server>

This recovered the Internet access. At least for the time being.
However, there are dozens of posts on problems related to /etc/resolv.conf, for example:

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*resolv.conf keeps getting reset by something

*How do I get resolvconf to regenerate resolv.conf after I change /etc/network/interfaces?

*Can not edit resolv.conf

*How to make persistent changes to /etc/resolv.conf Ubuntu 18.10
After reading all these, I'm still a bit lost:

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*What causes the problems?

*Is my fix a good one, and permanent?

*Should I install resolvconf? If yes, why it isn't already installed?

For example, I first tried to create /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base and add nameserver info there, but it did not seem to work (I don't have resolvconf installed).

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On 22 September 2016, the President of the UN General Assembly will convene an one-day high-level segment of the General Assembly at the UN Headquarters to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development. The event takes place in the margins of the General Debate of the 71st Session of the General Assembly and includes Member States, non-governmental organizations, civil society, the private sector and academic institutions, in order to provide input.
The primary objective of the high-level plenary event is to build common ground on how the international community defines and understands the right to development. The High Level Plenary Event also aims to identify how efforts to fulfil the right to development can be fortified in the future by building synergies and coherence with mutual and consensual understanding of the right to development based on the experience of progress and challenges in the last 30 years.
The Chairs of Regional Groups submitted lists of nominated delegations to speak at the General Debate of the Segment. Those nominated delegations are kindly requested to inscribe on the list of speakers at DGACM (Ms. Maria Isabel Alejandrino email: alejandrino[at]un[dot]org) by Friday 16 September 2016.


At Elder, we provide high-quality private live-in care for the elderly and those in need on the Isle of Wight.
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A move into one of the care homes on the Isle of Wight means that your loved one has to go through their much-loved possessions and memories, which can be very distressing. Thanks to our 24\7 care-at-home packages, your loved one can keep their much-loved treasures and mementoes, which can help with retaining memories and improving overall mental health.
Many are surprised to discover that the cost of private care packages such as Elder's can be up to 30% cheaper to funding a place in a residential care home. If you opt for this type of in-home care on the Isle of Wight, Elder will work to select the ideal carer for your loved one.
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Another benefit to 24-hour care is that it can enable your loved one to continue with their favourite activities and hobbies. The carer can also support your loved one in social activities and help them to remain in contact with friends, neighbours and family members.
Carers usually operate on a rota basis with one other carer, i.e. two weeks on/two weeks off. This arrangement ensures that your loved one benefits from continuity to ensure that your loved one is as comfortable as possible, by receiving help from a familiar face. Getting to know your loved one well helps the one-to-one carer to provide the best, tailored care possible. Because of the amount of time that the live-in carer will spend with your loved one, they will get to know they very well, which includes their likes and dislikes.
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The reassurance of knowing that there is always someone in the house to provide 24/7 assistance can make a real difference to both your own and your loved one's quality of life. This reassurance also extends to other family members who may previously have worried that their relative might be at risk of harm when they were alone, i.e tripping or falling when going to the toilet during the night.
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The local authority offers a range of adult social care services, along with information and advice. The authority jointly commissioned Carers IW, along with the Clinical Commissioning Group.
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The Carers IW team provides support, advocacy and information to adults caring for other adults.
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Ask most people, and they will tell you that age means a variety of new hurdles - isolation and resistance to change to name just a few. We look at some of the most commonly held beliefs about growing older, and how applicable they are to today's ageing population.
Nighttime care - also called overnight care - provides solid support throughout the night hours, enabling your loved one to feel reassured and secure. We've put together some tips to help you make sure your loved one is receiving the care they need at night.


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Q: Dictionary topic in Python I have one problem of Python Dictionary please give the ans of the que. ASAP
Suppose dlist is a list of dictionaries and k is a key that appears in all the dictionaries in dlist.
Write a comprehension whose value is the list whose ith element is the value corresponding to key k in the
ith dictionary in dlist.
Test your comprehension with some data. Here are some example data.
dlist = [{'James':'Sean', 'director':'Terence'}, {'James':'Roger',
'director':'Lewis'}, {'James':'Pierce', 'director':'Roger'}]
k = 'James'

So you have to give the ans. ['Sean' , 'Roger' , 'Pierce']
Just write the comprehension of one line.
Thank you for your reply in Advance

A: [d[k] for d in dlist]

Have you even tried to do it yourself? Did you read about comprehensions?


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WATERED DOWN: 70 km of city piping needs replacement
December 2, 2015 at 21 h 28 min
CORNWALL, Ontario – Nearly a third of the water mains in Cornwall – about 70 km – needs to be fixed, or replaced. And the city is only rehabilitating about half of what it should.
John St. Marseille, the city's infrastructure manager, told city councillors Wednesday night the amount of deficient water mains represents a sizable portion of the 280 km of piping that runs through Cornwall.
"We are seeing a lot of water mains well beyond their service life," he said. "On top of that…water main breaks have occurred. Those coincide generally in the areas…where there are deficiencies.
"This compromises our water distribution system."
But the city only replaces about 1.5 km of water mains per year, thanks in large part to the prohibitive costs. It should be closer to three kilometres a year, to keep up with the degradation of the system.
"We're really only at about half of that," said St. Marseille. "We're not meeting that requirement – and that's assuming we have 100 years of service life on a water main.
"And in a lot of cases we don't."
It gets worse, because the city has some $40 million worth of water mains on a backlog that require replacement.
"We certainly have our work cut out for us," said St. Marseille.
The city is budgeting some $2.5 million in 2016 to address water main rehabilitation work, including a massive project on Fifth Street from Amelia to Marlborough. That work includes a $1-million provincial grant.
"We're not even really catching up…we're building a back log," said Coun. Elaine MacDonald.
St. Marseille told councillors as the water main network ages, more breaks seem to have occurred. This year the city is on pace for about 100 water main breaks, while last year there were just 48.
The city is working on an asset management plan to address the water main issues, but there are concerns about the pain for ratepayers.
"We're working on this…but you have to understand people out there have to be able to pay for it," said Coun. Andre Rivette. "As a fixed income in our household, it's a lot of money. In our house taxes went up $51 a month (last year)."
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First lessons are the perfect opportunity to tell students a little bit about yourself and get to know something about them as well. This may be your first chance to determine your students' English level so it is important to encourage them to speak as much as possible.
Most teachers find one or two great warm up activities and use them often in their classes. If you have an activity that you like to start classes with, the first lesson may be the perfect time to introduce it to your new students. If you are not attached to any particular warm up activities, you can use the first five to ten minutes of this lesson to generate an interest in the topic, in this case, yourself. One way to do this is to have students guess things about you such as where you are from. You can use a handout of about fifteen questions for this activity and leave enough space for students to write their guesses as well as space to write the correct answer which they will learn later on in the lesson.
Especially if you are from another country, students will be very interested in hearing about where you are from and specific cultural aspects of your country. Using pictures or flashcards will help students grasp the meaning of your self introduction without understanding every single word or sentence. The best approach is to use the simplest possible language during this section of the lesson. If students seem to understand the material very well you can prompt them to complete sentences based on the materials you are showing them to give them an opportunity to demonstrate things they have already learned. If you plan to do an activity later based on the introduction, you may have to repeat the material a couple times.
Now that your class has learned a bit about you, have them fill in the correct answers on the worksheet you gave them earlier or ask them questions based on your presentation and see if they can answer them. This will give you time to evaluate your students' level and also see what they understood from your presentation. If your presentation was too easy or difficult, you can adjust it before presenting to other classes.
At this point an activity would be important. You can use an ice breaker to get everyone moving and more relaxed. This also shifts the focus of the lesson from you to the students. Starting the activity yourself will give students an example of what they are being asked for. A very simple exercise would be to say your name and favorite color and have students take turns doing this. If your class has been together for years and years and the students are very familiar with each other, you may even ask the student whose turn it is to say all the students' names that have been said already before saying his own. This will give you more time to learn the names and you can end the activity by attempting to say all the names in order.
Now you can ask students to volunteer to give self introductions. This activity can be structured a number of ways. If giving a full self introduction is too challenging, ask students to just say one thing about themselves or to use the worksheet as a guide so that if the first question on the worksheet was "Where are you from?" the first volunteer can answer that question. Encourage all students to participate.
Use the last three to five minutes of class to have students ask you any questions they might have. This can be intimidating so you could expand it into a larger activity where students work in groups to think of a question to ask. The benefit of being the first group to ask a question is that no one else has asked the question already. Tell students that questions cannot be repeated so if another group asks the question first, they will have to think of a different one.
The first lesson is very important. You have to strike a balance between having fun and maintaining order in the classroom. Students need to respect you in order for you to have control of the classroom environment so use the first lesson to introduce yourself, learn something about your students, have fun, and establish your authority.
See BusyTeacher's Back to School worksheets here.
How do you teach your first lessons? Please share.


The Federal Direct Loan Program provides low-interest loans for students and parents to help pay for the cost of college. The lender is the U.S. Department of Education rather than a bank or other financial institution.
report any changes in financial or academic status, academic program, living arrangements, enrollment status or name changes. The failure to do so may result in the cancellation, reduction, and/or repayment of need-based awards.
meet all Satisfactory Academic Progress requirements before any funds are posted to accounts or released. If minimum requirements are not met, students may appeal the decision. For additional information call 334-386-7195 or email faid@faulkner.edu.
A subsidized Direct loan is need-based and is awarded in the student's name. Financial need is determined by the results of the FAFSA. The federal government pays the interest accruing on the loan while the student is enrolled at least half time in a degree seeking program. The loan is not based on credit-worthiness, nor is a co-signer required.
An unsubsidized Direct loan is not a need-based loan. The borrower is charged interest from the time the loan is forwarded from the Department of Education to the school until it is paid in full. The student has the option of paying this interest while in school or capitalizing the interest.
Capitalization is the process by which the Department of Education adds the unpaid interest balance to your principal balance. If you choose to pay the interest as it accumulates, you will repay less in the long run. The interest rate on a Direct Loan is fixed and may change each July 1st.
Borrowers can receive a combination of subsidized and unsubsidized loans. For example, if a first year dependent student is eligible to borrow only $1000 under the subsidized program, he may borrow an additional $4500 under the unsubsidized program to receive a total Federal Direct Loan equal to $5500 for the first year of undergraduate study. However, the maximum loan eligibility may not exceed federally regulated limits. Direct/PLUS loans are disbursed with a minimum enrollment of 6 hours (half time).
Borrowers will be charged a loan fee. Loan fees will be deducted from the total amount borrowed. Student Accounts Office will credit the amount received to the student's account.
Federal Direct Loan proceeds are disbursed electronically and credited to your account.
The net amount of the student's Federal Direct Loan will be credited to your account. If this, along with any other aid applied, results in a balance due to the University, the student must pay the difference. if your loan funds exceed the balance due the University, a check or direct deposit made payable to you will be available within 10 working days of the posting of the award in the Student Accounts Office. The refund is usually available within 10 days of the disbursement date.
Faulkner offers Perkins Loans to applicants who demonstrate exceptional financial need. The maximum annual loan limit for undergraduate students is $5500 per year for an aggregate total of $27,500 for undergraduate study. The maximum aggregate loan limit is $11,000 for any student who has not completed two academic years (60 semester hours) of undergraduate work with a $27,500 aggregate limit for a bachelor's degree. Graduates may borrow up to $8,000 per year and an aggregate of $60,000. Loans are made directly to students with Faulkner as the lender. Students must meet selection criteria, which is available in the Financial Aid Office.
Awarded funds are credited to a student's account against monies owed the University within 2 weeks of attending classes.
Either parent may borrow funds for a dependent undergraduate student to meet all or part of the educational expenses. PLUS loans require completion of a PLUS Loan Information Sheet, as well as a parent plus application.
The borrower must be a U.S. citizen or eligible non-citizen and must have good credit. The student must be enrolled at least half time (6 semester hours) and be in good academic progress status.
Parents may borrow an amount equal to the cost of attendance minus other financial aid for which the student is eligible. There is no aggregate limit on the total amount that may be borrowed.
The interest rate for the Federal PLUS Program is fixed.
Borrowers will be charged a loan fee.
Dependent students, whose parents or guardians have been denied a PLUS loan, may borrow up to the increased independent student unsubsidized maximum.
Federal PLUS funds are typically disbursed in two installments – one in the Fall Semester and one in the Spring Semester. Funds will be received via Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) and automatically posted to the student's account (assuming the student is enrolled at least half time and is otherwise eligible). Funds may be used to pay monies owed the University first, with any remaining funds issued as a check which is mailed to the parent's home address.
Repayment begins within 60 days after the final disbursement for each specific loan received. There is no grace period. This means that interest begins to accumulate at the time the first disbursement is made. Payments are made while the student is in school. Exceptions to this (deferment or forbearance) are available. For example, a parent attending college at least half time may defer payments and all parents may choose an interest only repayment option for up to 24-48 months. Please keep in mind that choosing one of these options will increase the overall cost of the loan. The parent borrower must contact the servicer for details. Non-payment will result in collection costs, legal fees, and late fees.
The servicer will arrange a repayment schedule, and a maximum repayment period from 10-25 years. The promissory note contains detailed terms and conditions of your loan.


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Lanchester Parish Council is made up of 15 members elected every four years by the people of Lanchester. The Full Council meets every month on the second Tuesday at 7.15pm at Lynwood House, Durham Road, Lanchester.
The council also has four sub-committees, Planning, Finance and General Purposes, Recreation and Complaints. The Council may also form working groups to co-ordinate certain projects or tasks.
Lanchester Parish Council seeks work in partnership with all our parish organisations and undertakes joint projects such as the development of the bike track, the Locality Map and the Banner project
The present Council was elected in May 2013 and currently has 11 Labour members, 2 Derwentside Independent members, 1 Conservative member and 1 Independent member.


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Trinity Hosts Talk by Author Highlighting Differences between Access and Inclusion in Higher Education
Trinity Community posted Oct 18 by Emily Wickles '20
Trinity College students, faculty, and staff gathered in the Washington Room during Common Hour on September 26 to hear author Anthony Jack, an assistant professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, share his research in a talk titled, "On Diversity: Access Ain't Inclusion." Jack discussed how elite colleges admit but do not necessarily provide enough support for disadvantaged students throughout their four-year collegiate experience.
Trinity was one of the first stops in Jack's tour for his book, The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges are Failing Disadvantaged Students. Drawing upon student narratives and his own experience, Jack's book serves as a call to action for universities to support students beyond their academic needs. In his talk and in his recent piece published in The New York Times Magazine, Jack shared first-hand stories about what it was like to be academically prepared yet socially and culturally unprepared for what he called the "hidden curriculum" at elite colleges. "Colleges must move from access to inclusion," Jack said. "We must question what we take for granted."
Anthony Jack, an assistant professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, presents a talk titled 'On Diversity: Access Ain't Inclusion' at Trinity College. Photos by Nick Caito.
Jack grew up outside of Miami and received a scholarship to attend Gulliver Schools, a private college preparatory school in south Florida. He then went on to receive a bachelor's degree from Amherst College and a master's degree and Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University. Within his presentation, Jack defined two subgroups of disadvantaged students: the "privileged poor" and the "doubly disadvantaged." The "privileged poor" are students from low-income, diverse backgrounds who attended elite prep or boarding schools before attending college. The "doubly disadvantaged" are students who arrived from under-privileged backgrounds without prep or boarding schools to ameliorate their transition.
Maintaining academic success is not the problem for these students, Jack said, but students often find it difficult to interact with their peers due to opposing societal norms and structural inequalities: "'Dominant cultural capital' is the 'taken for granted' ways of being that are valued within a particular environment." Jack said students gain cultural capital through admission to elite colleges, making these institutions a springboard for students. However, Jack added that these students will not succeed unless policies and programs are put in place by colleges to make students feel protected, comfortable, understood, and supported.
Erick Peña '20, an urban studies major with minors in legal studies and Latin American studies, reflected on how Jack's call to action could apply to Trinity. "First, the college should uphold and work toward creating an environment in which all low-income students can thrive socially and academically … Second, students should feel comfortable as included members of the college," Peña said.
Helping to address these and many similar goals at Trinity is Anita Davis, the vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). "Over the past four months, more than 800 members of our community have participated in a range of experiences intended to increase intercultural knowledge and competence," Davis said. These have included a workshop on inclusive teaching and advising for faculty and workshops on intercultural knowledge and competence for staff members and student leaders. Additionally, the college has implemented a required online course, "DiversityEdu: Social Skills for a Diverse Campus," for all incoming students. "Throughout this academic year, the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion will continue to collaborate with campus partners on initiatives that will support Trinity's commitment to creating a campus where all feel welcome and have the resources they need to thrive," Davis added.
In addition to the resources offered by DEI, Trinity students may also turn to many other offices, academic departments, and programs across campus for support. Emma Alpaugh '22 said, "I think that resources that are helpful right now are things like the Center for Student Success and Career Development and specific professors holding office hours and being available to meet and answer questions."
In an op-ed published recently in the Hartford Courant, "How Trinity College is creating an inclusive future," Trinity College President Joanne Berger-Sweeney pointed to several ways in which the college is working to attract and nurture students from diverse backgrounds, including "going test-optional, removing barriers to application for first-generation college students, and investing more heavily in financial aid." Berger-Sweeney added, "At the same time, we know that simply opening the doors of our elite institutions to those from all backgrounds isn't enough." She explained that Trinity is operating with many of the best practices to support disadvantaged students in the ways that Jack suggested, such as holding orientations designed specifically for first-generation students and providing food options for students during college breaks, when the risk of food insecurity can be higher. Berger-Sweeney called Jack's visit "a reminder to keep striving … to provide an even better and more inclusive experience."
At the end of his talk, Jack encouraged students to hold colleges to high standards and to never change who they are. He said, "Be unapologetic, be bold, and be you."


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Passions of Our Time
Julia Kristeva. Edited with a foreword by Lawrence D. Kritzman. Translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier.
Julia Kristeva is a true polymath, an intellectual of astonishingly wide range whose erudition and insight have been brought to bear on psychoanalysis, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique. Passions of Our Time showcases recent essays of Kristeva's that demonstrate the scope of her capacious intellect, her gifts as a stylist, and the profound contribution of her thought to the challenges of the present.
The collection begins with а vivid recollection of celebrating, as a child in Bulgaria, Alphabet Day, the holiday honoring the Cyrillic letters, which proceeds outward into a contemplation of the writer as translator. Kristeva considers literature with Barthes, freedom through Rousseau, Teresa of Avila and mystical experience, Simone de Beauvoir's dream life, and Antigone and the psychic life of women. A group of essays drawing on her psychoanalytic work delve into Freud, Lacan, maternal eroticism, and the continued importance of psychoanalysis today. In a series of striking investigations, she thinks through disability and normativity, monotheism and secularization, the need to believe and the desire to know. Calling for the courage to renew and reinvent humanism, she outlines the principles of a stance founded on the importance of respecting human life. Finally, Kristeva discusses French culture and diversity, rethinking universalism and interrogating the potential for Islam and psychoanalysis to meet, and pays homage to Beauvoir by rephrasing her dictum into the provocative "One is born woman, but I become one."
Ranging from literature and the visual arts to psychoanalysis, religion, the question of women, and politics, the essays gathered in this volume deal with the experience of time in birth and rebirth, with the time of events and emergencies and, no less, with the existential dimension of time as opposed to what technologies of sensation are programmed to make of it. In her inimitable and provocative signature style, Kristeva graces her readers with brilliant readings of texts, paintings, sculptures, artists, and political events. Passions of Our Time is an excellent book. Verena Conley, Harvard University
The essays and interviews in Passions of Our Time not only thoughtfully extend and develop some of Kristeva's seminal ideas but also brilliantly address pressing contemporary issues, such as changing notions of motherhood, fatherhood, disability, and sexuality, and powerfully demonstrate that psychoanalysis is still relevant today. This volume makes it clear why Julia Kristeva is one of the most important cultural critics of our time. Kelly Oliver, author of Reading Kristeva: Unraveling the Double-Bind
Kristeva's scope is both international and cross-cultural, reaching as far as China, and as close to Western experiences as suburbia's socioeconomic decline. Library Journal
Foreword, by Lawrence D. Kritzman
I. Singular Liberties
1. My Alphabet; or, How I Am a Letter
2. Reliance: What Is Loving for a Mother?
3. How to Speak to Literature with Roland Barthes
4. Emile Benveniste, a Linguist Who Neither Says nor Hides, but Signifies
II. Psychoanalysis
5. Freud, the Heart of the Matter
6. The Contemporary Contribution of Psychoanalysis
7. A Father Is Being Beaten to Death
8. Maternal Eroticism
9. Speaking in Psychoanalysis: From Symbols to Flesh and Back Again
10. Affect, That "Intense Depth of Words"
11. The Lacan Event
III. Women
12. Antigone, Limit and Horizon
13. The Passion According to Teresa of Avila
14. Beauvoir Dreams
IV. Humanism
15. A Felicity Named Rousseau
16. Speech, That Experience
17. Disability Revised: The Tragic and Chance
18. From "Critical Modernity" to "Analytical Modernity"
19. In Jerusalem: Monotheisms and Secularization and the Need to Believe
20. Dare Humanism
21. Ten Principles for Twenty-First-Century Humanism
22. On the Sanctity of Human Life
V. France, Europe, China
23. Moses, Freud, and China
24. Diversity Is My Motto
25. The French Cultural Message
VI. Positions
26. The Universal in the Singular
27. Can One Be a Muslim Woman and a Shrink?
28. One Is Born Woman, but I Become One
Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII and author of many acclaimed works. Her Columbia University Press books include Hatred and Forgiveness (2012); The Severed Head: Capital Visions (2014); and, with Philippe Sollers, Marriage as a Fine Art (2016).
Lawrence D. Kritzman is Pat and John Rosenwald Research Professor in the Arts and Sciences and professor of French and comparative literature at Dartmouth College. He is the author of The Fabulous Imagination: On Montaigne's Essays (2012) and editor of the Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought (2006) and the Columbia University Press series European Perspectives.
Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier live and work in Paris, France. They are the translators of The Second Sex, by Simone de Beauvoir.
Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Theory
Religion: Theory
European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism


The three-day Microsoft Dynamics® GP Installation and Configuration course provides the tools to help users understand technologies and techniques necessary to successfully install Microsoft Dynamics GP.
Microsoft Dynamics GP Installation and Configuration training is recommended for people who plan to install, implement, configure, consult, or support Microsoft Dynamics GP. The class is intended for administrators, implementers, developers, and consultants who need to understand the technical aspects of Microsoft Dynamics GP. The course is not intended for non-technical staff.
This module outlines the recommendations and the requirements that you must have to install Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Express for use with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013. Additionally, this module covers tips for optimizing the system in preparation for the installation of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013. This includes network requirements and server configuration.
This module explains how to select the location and features that will be installed to meet the organization's specific requirements.
This module explains how to complete an installation for a desktop client. It also discusses how to create an installation package, to install other desktop clients and provides background on key components and features that are available in Microsoft Dynamics GP to maintain the application for end users.
This module describes the process that used is to install Microsoft Dynamics GP Web Client. The module also discusses the prerequisites and the requirements for an installation.
This module discusses the setup of system and company settings such as home page, users, passwords, user security and preferences necessary when setting up Microsoft Dynamics GP.
This module explains the administrative tasks that are necessary after installation of Microsoft Dynamics GP to help ensure consistency and maintain performance of the system. It introduces the tools that are used to perform these tasks.
This module discusses how to monitor performance and troubleshoot issues with Microsoft Dynamics GP and Microsoft SQL Server. It also includes considerations for when you use the Microsoft Windows Server operating systems.


The time has come… for a youth revolution, for carbon drawdown and for keeping the climate-wrecking fossils in the ground – which means putting a full stop to the Adani coal megamine in Queensland.
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 19 September 2018, who explains how we will stop Adani, is Charlie Wood from Tipping Point and the #StopAdani movement's Melbourne HQ.
By royal appointment… Colin Mockett's World Outlook this week is about a letter he received from the Queen – Australia's head of state – about the many things she does for sustainability, including responsibly reducing carbon emissions, just like Australia ought to do it as well.
We talk with Jim Crosthwaite, Phil Papas and Max Finlayson about the Wetland Carbon Workshop they run on 18 and 19 September in Melbourne – and with one of the speakers at the workshop, Gene Blackley, who is starting up the ambitious project Drawdown Australia and is looking for people who would like to join him on that journey.
We play an excerpt from Tom Ballard's brilliant 'climate change explanation' on the ABC.
We play a verse from Midnight Oil's 'Beds are burning', and we round the hour off with 'Stand Up Stand N Rock', a song from the anti-pipeline protests in the United States.
"We want to turn Costa Rica into the world's decarbonisation laboratory," says Costa Rica's president, Carlos Alvarado. Costa Rica is a country of 4.8 million people. A bit smaller than Victoria, but not much. Last year, 300 out of the the years 365 days, this country was powered 100 per cent on renewable energy.
Costa Rica also wants to become the world's first country to totally eliminate single-use plastics.
In California, Governor Jerry Brown has now signed a law putting California, the world's fifth largest economy, on a path to generate 100 per cent of its electricity from renewable and zero-carbon sources by 2045.
Costa Rica and California are not alone. Iceland is already running on 100 per cent renewables. The Nordic countries and China are making technical progress much faster than predictions and forecasts had anticipated was possible. More and more frequently Denmark is powered 100 per cent by its own wind power, and at times there is so much electricity in the system that the wind turbines need to be stopped and electricity prices go negative.
The world is moving on – while the fossil fools in Australia increasingly are turning this country into the polluting black sheep that no one will want to do business with.
Australia has a government which claims it will "ensure that Australia has a strong economy that creates jobs and reduces cost of living pressures" but currently it is doing the complete opposite. It is hurting its own country's economy on the long term. The prosperity of the business community is being sacrificed on the alter of short-sighted, unsustainable profits in the coal industry.
Two major storms – Hurricane Florence and Typhoon Mangkhut – have taken precious lives. Typhoon Mangkhut hit the Philippines, where 59 died, most of them buried in landslides. Hurricane Florence struck the East Coast of the United States, killing 16 people.
Storms like these are likely to be increasingly powerful because of climate change.
These are climate killings, and our political leaders are directly responsible for them. Many of these deaths would have been prevented by appropriate carbon legislation years ago.
Over the three decades since scientists made it clear to everyone 30 years ago that we need to get off the fossil fuels to avoid a climate catastrophe, governments all over the world have deliberately delayed taking the necessary steps to stop the greenhouse gas pollution.
The time has come for language change. Our political leaders can increasingly be seen as the carbon murderers and climate criminals who are responsible for the tragedies.
Also, why do we politely say that "an Australian emits 250 times more carbon dioxide than a Tanzanian," when the reality is that "An Australian pollutes our common atmosphere with 250 times more climate-wrecking greenhouse gasses than a Tanzanian does…"?
Let us deal with climate change through international cooperation: each person's choices have repercussions on the life of everyone.
Pope Francis keeps lifting his voice for The Creation.
While we're living through extreme weather like never before, and the Great Barrier Reef will have died at our watch, in Victoria we are on the cusp of a road fork: the next election.
The Andrews government is going full force renewables, whereas the Guy opposition has promised us it will scrap the Renewable Energy Target and the rest of it, just like the federal government is busy doing it.
The craziness which is causing this climate emergency can only continue with people's permission.
Each day, more and more people are withdrawing their permission.
On The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse, we continue to come across people and businesses who are working for a better world and a circular economy, protecting the biosphere that sustains us.
Those people who are pushing the endless 'growth mantra' are less than one per cent of the population. Look at any true indicator of progress and it isn't hard to find countless examples that our current systems just aren't working – be that economic, health, wellbeing, food, energy, community, etc, etc.
The thing is that it doesn't have to be like this – a way better way of interacting with our amazing planet and each other is possible if we want it to. Mass non-violent direct action and Greta-style civil disobedience is a very empowering experience and has a good track record hastening change.
Be part of building an unstoppable movement to stop the Adani coal megamine from here in Geelong. There's never been a more important time to organise in our communities to #StopAdani.
The Wetland Carbon Workshop was organised by the Arthur Rylah Institue, the Society of Weland Scientists, the Institute for Land, Water and Society at Charles Burt University and the Climate Drawdown Group Victoria.
We hope to be able to produce a special audio and video report about this important workshop at a later stage.
A video with the interviews with Jim Crosthwaite, Phil Papas and Max Finlayson will soon be posted here and on our Youtube channel.
Gene Blackley gave a presentation at the Wetland Carbon Workshop in Melbourne. He describes himself as an 'evangelist for reversing global warming', working in the field of conscious business, regenerative, circular economy and system change.
In this clip Johan Rockström talks about "the agricultural revolution" and the global transformation we need to see now.
Tom Ballard speaks well for the new generation of Australians who are entering high schools, universities and work places in these years – as well for as those who decided to drop out because of the way it is all going, saying like 15-year-old Greta Thunberg in Sweden: 'What does it matter anyway whether I take an education'.
The time has come for a youth revolution, an energy revolution and a community rebellion.
With the next election coming up soon, Greta launched the concept of 'school strike for the climate' and has so far had very positive results from that idea. In Sweden, according to a new poll, the climate was put highest on voters' agenda in the national election.
In The Sustainable Hour today, we are talking about our country's titanic and beautiful task of abolishing the use of fossil fuels in our economy – to make way for the use of clean and renewable energies.
"Fossil-gas demand is falling. However, similarly to what happened a decade ago with electricity, this reversal of historical trends is not being widely reported. Instead politicians and industry lobbyists persist in calling for expanding gas supply and infrastructure.
'Beds Are Burning' was written more than 30 years ago as a protest song in support of giving native Australian lands back to the Pintupi, who were among the very last people to come in from the desert.
At the closing ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Midnight Oil performed this song in front of a world audience of billions – including Prime Minister John Howard who has claimed this is his favourite Midnight Oil song.
Their album 'Diesel and Dust' was ranked the #1 Australian album of all time in the 2010-book 'The 100 Best Australian Albums'.
if there was a "climate criminals hall of shame" that stood as a monument to future generations, who would you nominate as an inductee?
Politicians walked right by us, not even acknowledging our presence.
"I don't think being an informed individual blends well with the current ideological framework of the LNP, for so much of it is now governed by 'beliefs' (disturbingly similar to how religion operates) that are completely distinct from scientific and commercial fact. I no longer see it the product of 'successful corporate lobbying', but a special kind of arrogance combined with a loyal base, conservative media to support their claims, power and money.


krma-US Partners provides the operating costs for an agricultural project decreasing its contribution by 20 percent per successful harvest so that after five harvest cycles KRMA, a women's savings collective in Kobulubulu, Uganda, will have a sustainable agri-business.
krma-US Partners differs from other development efforts in that it is not aimed at individual achievement alone, but rather works with individuals who have formed a close collaboration. We respect the deep sense of community that gives KRMA, a women's savings collective in Kobulubulu, Uganda, its strength and cohesion. The women of KRMA believe they can take a bigger "next step" and be successful, if they continue to work together.
krma-US Partners provides the operating costs for an agricultural project decreasing its contribution by 20 percent per successful harvest so that after five harvest cycles the KRMA women will have a sustainable agri-business. With revenues from the Cassava Project, they can pay their children's school fees and reinvest the remainder into the business, buying plows, oxen and other assets to cover each harvest cycle's 20 percent cost reduction and earn additional revenues.
krma-US Partners teaches women how to envision a future, set appropriate goals and make a plan for achieving them. As the project evolves, our primary focus is the funding, monitoring, evaluation and capacity building. Currently, krma-US Partners oversees the project's progress through regular communication with its onsite project manager and annual on-site evaluations by krma-US Partners' representatives from the United States.


We are so happy to welcome a new summer intern student, Zhilin Lu, in Summer 2017. Let us hear what he said about his research and MCL.
I am LU ZHILIN from the department of electronic engineering, Tsinghua, Beijing, and my hometown is Inner Mongolia.
My main research interest is Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. And I am interested in Computer Vision and Media Compression as well. These areas can actually form a sort of aggregation and improve one another. AR and VR technology is not that mature so far and there are still many problems to settle both in technology and commerce.
MCL (Media Communications Lab) is a really wonderful place to join, providing open and passionate research environment.
Professor Kuo is a very kind and wise man and his opinion, like "You can't be an engineer all along your career" really impressed me a lot. I meet loads of friendly, motivated and skillful seniors here as well and they help me in my research and life greatly.
When it comes to USC, I just want to say it's really a beautiful school! Great sense of design is everywhere in the whole campus. What's more, the P.E. and School of Cinematic Arts of USC are both fantastic.
I am leaving on August 12th and I do look forward to improving my research skills and accomplishing some concrete works before that. Besides, I hope that a long-term connection between friends that I make here and me can be made as well.


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Wireless is the thing these days and everyone's racing to see just how wireless you can really be. The well known fruit brand has a new offering coming that, while it's been done in a few brands, will probably make individual stereo buds common. Until then you can save a little by going to these mini headsets with some trade-offs.
This is marketed as a bluetooth (phone)headset but I think of is more as a single channel music device. Headphones for one ear. I use it that way because I'll tell you right now I had a less than stellar experience for conversations. My caller reported that I was a little difficult to hear but I can chalk that up to not talking loud enough. After all it is just a nub barely sticking out of your ear. The big problem was just how bad they sounded to me. I've never heard anything so hollow and muffled. I may fiddle with my phone settings a little but for now I'll just hold the phone to my ear.
Now, having said that; I love this thing for music. It's clearly capable of reproducing good sound so I can't figure out why a call is different. You have an entire bluetooth device including battery in just over the same space a wired earbud takes up and relatively speaking the sound is wonderful. I find myself forgetting that it's only in one ear after a few minutes.
I know what you're thinking: "But it's just like having a bad cord on a wired set and only hearing out of one side" Yes and no. I like to listen to music at work but there are always people around asking questions or maybe you don't want to make everyone feel blocked out. This lets me have the music on but conversation is still very easy and sometimes people wont even know you're using it as it's so small. Are you a runner? When I'm on our small roads(rarely) I don'y like to have music usually because it means I can't fully hear traffic coming up behind. Here you can still hear your rhythm or audio-book while having no problem detecting what's happening around you.
Build wise it's about as small as I'd want to shove in my ear canal and it's plenty light that you never get fatigued wearing it. A single button turns it on and off and also works as a pause button. I love that for when someone comes up to talk I can just press it while pulling the device out and go walk around. When I'm alone again just put it back in and press the button to start things up again. Included in the nice small zipper case is a smaller insert and the perfectly sized charging cable. Battery life is what I consider acceptable for something this small. I can more or less get a full work day out of it before needing an hour or two to charge. Not as long as others but I haven't been frustrated by constant charging so it must be just the right amount.
I kind of wish the case was even smaller for what it holds to take up less space in my pocket. Not a dealbreaker. Again I'll say if you want a conversation-type piece look elsewhere but I keep this right next to a big set of cans. If you really want full stereo sound by all means put on a full set but I think this has a place in anyone's arsenal.
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I spent a lot of time looking at reviews and agonizing over this holster. I haven't had the chance to find an IWB solution that I liked so I wanted to start with ankle carry to keep me actually carrying instead of leaving it home. Unfortunately I couldn't find anyone who had an actual picture of an actual LC9 in it and under a pant leg. Usually when you hear of ankle carry it's for smaller things like G26s or LCPs. If I'm going to pull the trigger on the most expensive holster I wanted to be sure it would be the right one. Turns out it is every bit as good as every one says and I don't regret the ~$60 at all.
The two things I was looking for were Concealability and Comfort. If I didn't like wearing it I may end up just leaving my gun home. I figure if I've gone through the requirements to carry I might as well actually do it. First up for me is how well it blends in with under my pant leg. I included a bunch of pictures so hopefully you can see what I'm talking about. The leg shots are in a mirror so look at the leg on the left. I wear fairly loose pants but I was just worried about it sitting in such a way that the grip would stick straight out the back. Galco got it just right by canting right to where the the longest distance from grip to sights is horizontal and right beside your leg. Everything is kept tight against your leg so it doesn't stick out any more than it has to. Even if someone knows you ankle carry they can look and never be quite sure if you have it at the time.
Then there's comfort. The first thing you'll hear about is the muzzle rubbing on your ankle bone. I can tell you 100% that I've never had the least bit of discomfort with this rig. The sheepskin on the inside pulls double duty of sweat prevention and padding. Combine this with the 1/4" neoprene and just the right amount of extension below the bottom and I promise, besides the slight weight increase you'll sometimes forget it's there. Even in Tennessee I tend to wear thick socks. They can get warm but I'm inside most of the time and they're just so soft. You don't have to go that far but I recommend a full length sock. Wrap the holster around front and the pull the back as tight as you can get it. Don't worry about it being too tight; It doesn't cut off circulation and it's what keeps everything as stead as a rock throughout the day. Some people end up getting the calf strap but I'm telling you you don't need it. Put it on tight and you can kick, hop, and run without issues.
Accessibility is a problem with all ankle carry but once you get the pant leg up the draw is just natural. Your thumb falls right to the snap release and there is plenty of grip exposed for the drawing. The steerhide is formed perfectly and keeps decent retention even after breaking in but you'll always keep it snapped anyway. For reholstering you also get a well-designed support back with some sort of insert that keeps the profile open and not collapsed.
Lastly I have the say the materials are well chosen. The neoprene is soft but provides the right amount of elasticity and I don't feel like it makes me sweat any more than my other leg even in thick socks under pants in the Tennessee heat. The sheeps skin really helps there too. You would think after wearing for three months it would start to smell from sweat buildup but honestly I just checked and it smells like it did new. The hook-and-loop fastener is heavy duty with the loop part actually being some sort of thread instead of plastic and holds up well to repeated use.
If you're ready to ankle carry I have to admit I haven't tried the cheaper options but this one from Galco has been worth every penny to me. My only complaint is that every once in a while I feel the steel backing that supports the retention snap. Really though, most of the time I forget I'm even carrying because it just becomes part of your leg. I'm not the least but self conscious that someone may notice I'm carrying and I'm comfortable. With those boxes fully checked I'd recommend this for anyone.
Who's wife doesn't like earrings? No hands? Mine doesn't go crazy over jewelry but something new is always fun and these a a nice addition to any outfit.
The first thing you'l notice is that they're smaller than you thought. I'd say they're just over a half inch wide but a little under 3/4. It means they're more for someone trying to add to a look instead of draw everyone's attention to the earrings themselves. The metal is just soft enough that when we found one side wouldn't latch I was able to bend the post out a bit so it reached the latch on the other side. Don't worry; you won't be crushing them but that's the nature of the materials. Something to note is that the posts are not round but more of a rectangle. My wife had a little trouble getting them through her ears the first time but told me once they were in they we're very comfortable. She also pointed out that she never sleeps in earrings but so forgot about these and had no trouble sleeping on them all night.
If you or your significant other are looking for something the looks nice but won't break the bank you could do far worse. I think it wouldn't hurt if they could make the ends a little more round to make putting them in a little easier and have a little more solid latch but we liked them overall. I received this product at a discount in exchange for nothing more than my honest opinion.
I received a torch with a manufacturing defect so I've edited this review. The company was very helpful in quickly sending a new one and it works perfectly.
Culinary torches have many uses but I generally focus on finishing sous vide steak or as you can see in my photos, toasting some marshmallow creme based frosting. Operation is simple with a large button on the back that both releases the gas and lights it. You can control the amount of gas as well as it's concentration and there's even a "continuous" mode that allows you to not have to hold the trigger. These adjustments allow you to tailor the flame to just your needs be they a long directed one or just a light licking flame. When I used it on the afore mentioned steak it quickly added a nice sear so as a culinary torch torch it works fine. Build wise I'd really only say I'd prefer less plastic. The flame never heats it up but I just prefer more metal. The cylinder seems to be and the nozzle is as well. All in all it feels solid and there is little play in the controls. My word of advice for you is that when buying butane skip the Coleman cylinders. The fill port on this is just enough recessed that the short tube on the butane can't quite reach. I stopped by Lowes and grabbed a BernzOmatic Butane cylinder which had a nice long tube and worked great.
My experience has been very positive with the manufacturer and product after the defect in my first item. It lights fine and the adjustablity make it perfect for the kitchen. You can of course use the torch for any other fire need too. The simple operation along with the intense heat really allows for a wide variety of possibilities outside your food needs. I received this product at a discount in exchange for nothing more than my honest opinion.
I'll keep this to the point. Do you have a Raspberry Pi 3? Do you need a sufficient power supply? Then you need this one. The Raspberry Pi 3 comes with higher power demands than previous iterations and if you've ever wondered what that rainbow square in the corner of your screen is then your power supply isn't cutting it.
I've been able to run on one I found around my house but if you want the best reliability you need a good one.I ran into problems as soon as I tried to plug an SDR into it where I would get random reboots that were solved when I added a powered hub. Once I replaced the old supply with this one though I don't even need the hub anymore and the rainbow square is gone as you can see in the pic of my screen. I say again; if you need a Pi supply, this one works great. I received this product at a discount in exchange for nothing more than my honest opinion.
I'm a very digital person but when it comes to watches I appreciate analog style. With our day's determined so much by time I kind of like being able to just glace down and have a rough approximation of where I am in an hour without being too exact. This watch by CakCity has an elegant combination of analog while still keeping the accuracy of a digital movement.
Form- This watch is marketed as a business style but it probably leans more to business casual; the stainless hands look striking against the black background and pair well with the also stainless case but the reflective blue second hand and accents add a little fun.With the face's white divisions everything is easy to read at a glance and the glow in the dark feature is a nice touch. For the strap you get an interesting vinyl-like top with a carbon fiber weave type pattern while the underside is genuine leather. Note that genuine doesn't mean full-grain so it's probably got a non-leather material int he center.
Function- First and foremost it's a watch so I'm happy to say it seems to keep time well. Over several weeks it at most lost a second but that may have been my error in setting it. While we're talking about setting it operation is a breeze. You get two levels on the crown for setting the time and date but digital buttons for controlling the stop-watch functionality. This works well allowing you to stop the dials with the top button or pause to record a split time with the bottom while the internal time continues. Just press the bottom again and the dials catch up to the current recorder time. Probably pretty simple internally but it looks good doing it. I'm a person who prefers a slightly thinner case but this is by no means large. I think it still looks good on my wrist so it's really a taste thing. The band is comfortable and I wear it daily with no issues.
I enjoy having options when it comes to watches. This one fits nicely as a casual watch that has no trouble blending when you need to dress up a bit. Any flashiness is understated but anyone glancing at it will get an impression of a little fun. The watch operates as it should so the only thing I would change it to make the top covering of the back different. Again- a taste thing but with everything else so classy I think it could benefit from being leather as well to really round everything out. I received this product at a discount in exchange for nothing more than my honest opinion.


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Brazil's default risk lower than the US, claims Minister Mantega
Thursday, June 16th 2011 - 06:10 UTC
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The minister made the announcement following a meeting with President Rousseff
Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega said Wednesday that his country's default risk had become lower than that of the United States.
The credit default swaps, CDS, which measure the cost to insure debt against default, currently stood at 41.2 basis points on the Brazilian bonds, lower than the 49.7 basis points on comparable US ones, the minister told reporters after a meeting with President Dilma Rousseff.
"For the first time in history, Brazil's default risk is lower than the US" said Mantega, adding that the lower risk reflected the solidity of the Brazilian economy and the investors' confidence in the country.
"We are very happy with that, because it shows the soundness of Brazil's economy and the confidence that markets have in us," Mantega said.
Economists, however, cautioned that using one-year CDS as a sovereign risk barometer could mislead investors on the quality of Brazil's credit-worthiness, because those contracts are not as widely traded as other longer-termed CDS.
In addition, they noted that the political deadlock that has prevented the U.S. government from raising its debt ceiling has led some investors to take a more cautious approach towards U.S. instruments.
Five-year CDS, probably the most widely traded CDS contract, still showed a higher risk of a Brazilian debt default, according to Markit prices. The cost of insuring Brazilian government debt trading at 111 basis points, compared with 52 basis points for the comparable U.S. CDS contract.
The United States is facing a political deadlock over the government debt ceiling. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke urged Congress to raise the debt limit before an Aug. 2 deadline, warning of potentially devastating economic consequences.
Also on Wednesday, the Central Bank of Brazil said that the country's economic activity registered a 3.94% rise in the first four months of 2011 compared with the same period last year.
The index, released monthly, takes into account the activity levels in the industrial, trade, agricultural and tertiary sectors. It is also used by the central bank to decide whether to make any changes in the country's monetary policy.
Categories: Economy, Politics, Brazil.
Tags: Brazilian bonds, Dilma Rousseff, Guido Mantega.
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NicoDin
Jun 17th, 2011 - 10:54 am 0
Fido Dido
or the title could be also "US default risk higher than Brazil".
Jun 17th, 2011 - 05:30 pm 0
Yeap I do agree with that : )
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I'm one of those crafters who loves everything to do with threads and fibres and fabrics but is actually pretty rubbish when it comes to making things using a sewing machine. For a whole multitude of reasons I haven't had much experience using one, I've always felt pretty nervous about using one and it's become a bit of a vicious circle.
I'm blessed though to have at hand a hugely experienced seamstress in my mom. She made her own wedding dress and her bridesmaid dresses and has made some lovely things for me over the years. I used to love sitting and watching the Great British Sewing Bee with her, she'd be very patient as I paused it to ask yet another basic question, desperate to learn and understand more.
I decided I was going to stop being so nervous about sewing and just get on with it. The more experience I get sewing the more comfortable with it and skilled I will become. I made a bag last year with plenty of assistance and guidance, and then did nothing more. I kept pinning things to my sewing board on Pinterest and then on Friday decided it was time to choose something and make it.
This was the end result. It was listed as a coin purse, apparently inspired by a Japanese design, but I wanted it as part of my cross stitching set up. Rather than pile up scrappy ends of threads once they've been cut, and to reduce the amount of time I spend searching for my embroidery scissors (seriously, I put them down and lose them multiple times every time I stitch) I can now use this as both a scissors holder and a temporary ends bin.
I didn't have the right sort of snap fastener so I substituted velcro which brought it's own sewing challenges which I conquered.
I've ordered a kit for fixing snap fasteners and am planning on making more of these plus some other small projects that will allow me to carry on increasing both my confidence and my skill level. I've got much bigger ideas for things I want to make but I'm going to go steadily and sensibly first.
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Eight Questions for AWO Chamber 8's Natalie Chee
by Limelight Magazine on June 23, 2017
Ahead of Chamber 8's Australian tour, the violinist shares some little-known gems from the chamber music repertoire.
The Australian World Orchestra's Chamber 8 – eight of Australia's finest musicians on the international stage – will tour the country in July. Violinist Natalie Chee is the third of the eight to answer Limelight's Eight for Chamber 8.
Violinist Natalie Chee. Photo © Daniel Boud
What is your favourite piece of chamber music and why?
Schubert String Quintet… there is no more heavenly piece of music ever written!
Three little-known chamber works that deserve to be heard more often?
Gustav Jenner's String Quartet No 2
Philipp Jarnach's String Quintet
Erich Wolfgang Korngold's String Quartet No 3
Three of the most inspiring conductors you have ever played under?
Zubin Mehta (Mahler 1 and Le Sacre du Printemps with AWO), Sir Roger Norrington (Beethoven Symphonies with Camerata Salzburg) and Sakari Oramo (chief conductor of BBC Symphony Orchestra)
What are the greatest pleasures to be had playing chamber music?
When you are completely in sync with the people you are playing with there is nothing more thrilling or inspiring. It is like flying free-fall knowing no matter which direction you turn, you will manage to stay up in the air.
Three clichés about classical musicians that annoy you the most?
We are boring, conservative and take our profession too seriously.
A piece of chamber music you could happily never hear again?
I don't have one!
What's the most embarrassing thing that could (or has) happened to you playing chamber music?
Some things you just don't want to think or talk about – and this is one of them!!!
The classical composer you would most like to play chamber music with and why?
Schumann. I adore his music and I would be fascinated to hear how he would play it.
The Australian World Orchestra's Chamber 8 tours Australia July 24 – 31.
Review: Australian World Orchestra
An ebullient evening of excellent music making, conducted by AWO founder Alexander Briger.
Classical Music, Opera, Theatre
The July 2019 issue of Limelight is on sale
Ermonela Jaho talks about Anna Bolena, we learn the true story behind Come From Away, and Nico Muhly discusses his three Australian commissions.
Books, Classical Music, Dance, Film, Opera, Theatre
The May 2019 issue of Limelight is now on sale
Inside the issue: Ute Lemper, Requiems to die for, Rossini's Il Viaggio a Reims, ZOFO's new Pictures at an Exhibition, the Bolshoi Ballet and more.
Books, Classical Music, Dance, Theatre
Read the May 2019 issue of Limelight online
Featuring Ute Lemper, requiems, Rossini's Il Viaggio a Reims, ZOFO's new Pictures at an Exhibition, the Bolshoi Ballet and the AWO's Alexander Briger.
My Music: Carla Zampatti
The celebrated fashion designer, and arts patron, grew up in Italy listening to the garbage men singing arias. But it wasn't until she moved to Australia that a life-long love for opera was kindled.
Chamber, Chamber, Classical Music
Review: Root Position (Selby & Friends)
A top notch trio puts down some roots.
Kathryn Selby on trios with friends
Pianist Kathryn Selby tells us what she looks for in musical friends ahead of Selby & Friends' Root Position tour.
Chamber, Classical Music
Review: Tormented Souls (Selby & Friends)
Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time the centrepiece in a concert that left the audience far from tormented.
Classical Music, Orchestral
Maestro Riccardo Muti Makes an Impression
We go backstage with the Australian World Orchestra as they rehearse with the formidable Italian conductor.
Classical Music, Film, Theatre
The April 2018 issue of Limelight Magazine is on sale
Get your copy of Limelight Magazine's April 2018 edition featuring maestro Riccardo Muti, The Death of Stalin's Simon Russell Beale and Howard Shelley on Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Classical Music, Theatre, Visual Art, Vocal & Choral
Coming Soon: The April 2018 issue of Limelight magazine
Our next issue includes interviews with AWO guest maestro Riccardo Muti, Marin Alsop on conducting Lenny and Simon Russell Beale on The Death of Stalin.
Riccardo Muti to conduct the Australian World Orchestra
The Italian Maestro and Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra will conduct concerts in Sydney and Melbourne.
Selby & Friends unveils its 2018 season
Pianist Kathryn Selby is joined by a raft of old and new friends in an excitingly diverse season.
Review: Turangalîla-Symphonie (Australian World Orchestra, ANAM)
Playing of a première ordre from Simone Young and the AWO.
Review: Chamber 8 on Tour (Australian World Orchestra)
AWO's crack squad delivers top-notch Beethoven and Dvořák.
Young and free: Simone Young on the joy of freelancing
The self-confessed workaholic talks about her career, her Parsifal nightmares, and why she will only stay in a hotel with a pool.


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We Can No Longer Afford to Give Away Highway Lanes to Carpools and Low-Emission Vehicles
High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) and Carpool Lanes promote congestion, while benefiting few commuters. Charging tolls rather than using HOV lanes will reduce traffic while bringing in much needed transportation funding.
July 13, 2004, 12am PDT | C. Kenneth Orski
Road space is becoming a scarce commodity in America's metropolitan areas and there are few prospects of significantly increasing highway capacity except at an exorbitant cost. Can we afford to give away a portion of this valuable resource in the form of lanes exclusively reserved for carpools? And should we extend this give-away to low-emission vehicles, as called for in the Administration's and House surface transportation reauthorization bills and in proposed California legislation (AB 2628)?
Most certainly not, says Robert Poole, director of transportation studies at the Reason Public Policy Institute in a recent commentary in Public Works Financing ("Rethinking HOV and HOT Lanes," May 2004). "America faces twin crises in urban transportation: a congestion crisis and a funding crisis. Express Toll Lanes that give every driver a congestion-relief alternative on major expressways could address both crises," asserts Poole. But this solution, he says, risks being compromised if we dedicate highway lanes to special classes of drivers or vehicles.
I agree. The original rationale for giving priority to carpoolers was to conserve fuel. But today, with the number of carpoolers dwindling and with the remaining carpools largely among family members (who would share a ride with or without an HOV incentive), reserving this valuable space for such a relatively small band of commuters simply makes no sense. Evidence from California's express toll lanes shows that drivers are willing to pay 50-60 cents per mile for the privilege of traveling in congestion-free lanes. Express Toll Lanes thus offer a potential to generate millions of dollars in toll revenue -- money that could be used to supplement the gas tax and improve our highways and transit service.
As for letting low-emission vehicles to use HOV lanes for free, "it's crazy to give away this valuable space to people who would be buying hybrids anyway," says Poole. Hybrids are already selling very well, with long waiting lists and in some case at premium prices. The California Air Resources Board estimates that 55,000 hybrid vehicles will be on California highways by 2007 -- with or without the HOV incentive. Letting 55,000 hybrids into Express Toll Lanes for free would quickly fill up those lanes, deprive motorists of a congestion-free alternative and foreclose the opportunity to provide regional express bus service.
There are some indications that transportation officials are rethinking the notion that carpools should get free access to new express toll lanes. The state of Maryland intends to charge all vehicles without exception on its proposed Express Toll Lane network. (See "Maryland's Express Toll Lanes: A Giant Step Forward," Innovation Briefs, June 2004).
There are some good reasons for doing so, argues Poole. First, giving away part of the toll lane capacity to free carpools might make such lanes unable to generate enough revenues to pay for their construction. Secondly, charging all vehicles does away with the problem and expense of enforcing car occupancy requirements and drastically reduces the number of potential violators. Every vehicle using Express Toll Lanes (with a possible exception of transit buses) would be obliged to have a transponder. A vehicle without one would be easily identified, videotaped and assessed a fine, as is currently done on facilities equipped with E-Z pass or other electronic toll collection technology.
Yes, encouraging ridesharing and low-emission vehicles are worthy public policy goals. But should they take precedence over congestion relief and generation of badly needed highway funds? We join Bob Poole in saying it is time for a serious debate on this issue.
C. Kenneth Orski is editor and publisher of Innovation Briefs, an influential and widely read bimonthly publication reporting on surface transportation developments. He also heads the Urban Mobility Corporation, a Washington-based consulting firm specializing in transportation management and technology transfer. A former Associate Administrator of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration, he was a member of President George W. Bush's transportation transition team.


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