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Thirty-one members brought all kinds of ideas, questions, projects and enthusiasm to our May meeting.
Time is ticking until our symposium in July so Deb and Paul energized the group with lots of discussion surrounding details that are in place and details that need support from our members. We have 64 people signed up to attend the symposium at the present time. Lots of volunteers will be needed on Friday July 20th. at 2:00 to help with setting up.
Jon Downing from Great Western Saw (GWS) agreed to attend our meeting and update the group on lathes and turning items that are available in his store. There has been a recent upsurge in the sale of lathes and things related to turning so GWS will be expanding their turning inventory. Thanks Jon for sharing information about your store with us.
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Be sure to check out the links at the end of this post.
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WASHINGTON – A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer pleaded guilty on Wednesday to spying for US' arch-rival China, the Justice Department said.
Jerry Chun Shing Lee pleaded guilty before a US District Court judge in the Eastern District of Virginia to conspiring to provide national defense information to China, the Justice Department said in a statement
The 54-year-old was arrested in January 2018, suspected of having provided information on a CIA network of informants that was brought down by China between 2010 and 2012; he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison and would be sentenced on August 23.
Lee had left the agency in 2007 and relocated to Hong Kong and according to the Justice Department, he was approached by two Chinese intelligence officers in April 2010 who offered him huge sums of money for information and to take care of him "for life" in exchange for his cooperation.
The Justice Department said that in May 2010, Lee created a document on his laptop that detailed where the CIA assigns officers and the particular location and timeframe of a sensitive CIA operation.
The department said the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had also seized handwritten notes made by Lee related to his work for the CIA which included, among other things, intelligence provided by CIA assets, true names of assets, operational meeting locations and phone numbers and information about covert facilities.
Lee was grilled by CIA in 2012 during which he admitted meeting Chinese intelligence officers but concealed the fact that they had set him tasks, the justice department said.
The US Assistant Attorney General for National Security, John Demers, said Lee's case was the third involving US agents and China in less than a year.
"Every one of these cases is a tragic betrayal of country and colleagues," he regretted.
Moreover, FBI's assistant director for counterintelligence, John Brown said that Lee's actions had dangerous ramifications as he put the country's national security at risk.
The development comes days after FBI Director Christopher Wray said that China poses the most serious intelligence threat to the United States.
"They're doing it through Chinese intelligence services, through state-owned enterprises, through ostensibly private companies, through graduate students and researchers, through a variety of actors all working on behalf of China," he had said.


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Firmware 4.0.1122 WU Warning: No observed data received from stations.
I installed a new WeatherFlow PWS and obtained a developer key from WU. On the web interface my Touch HD-12 has check boxes next to both the WU enabled notation and the station ID. It says it was last run successfully seconds ago. The key and station are correct. On the IOS app, the the WU service test using my developer key passes. The key and station are correct there also.
However, in both the web interface and the IOS app I get this: Warning: No observed data received from stations.
The observed rain graph does not show any WU data. I tried deleting the WU service, rebooting the device and re-setting up WU, but got the same results.
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Can someone provide any potential ideas to get this working? I need to get a solution for NWS continually being so wrong on actual rainfall amounts. Recently we had over 2.5 inches in one rainfall (as measured in a rain gauge) and NWS reported 0.35in. I had to manually disable RM for several days.
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I tested my WU data retrieval using a web browser by using the information from this post: https://support.rainmachine.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360033585633-Struggling-with-Weather-Underground-and-WeatherLink-
It retrieved the proper rain for today 0.04".
So it appears that the WeatherFlow and WU parts are working properly. The WeatherFlow is reporting the rain to WU, and WU returns the same data when requested. However, the RainMachine is reporting it does not receive the data.
Any recommendations beyond deleting the WU setup and trying again?
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Please make sure:
- you are using the RainMachine Web app to set the WUnderground weather station
- your API key is correct, no empty spaces
- check the "Use Nearby Weather Stations" and then click on "REFRESH NOW" button
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If it still doesn't work for you, would you please try using the WUnderground weather service without the API key?
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FYI, I posted separate thread on this but there was a change in WU service, I think, and it now requires ANY apiKey in the URL as otherwise it returns error. It needs anything send in apiKey value so long it is 32 characters long.
My set up was for a long time without any apiKey value in the box and it's been working fine for long time, since sep 5th 2019 I am getting the same error as above.
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October 7th: On this Day
1963, The Rolling Stones recorded the Lennon and McCartney penned song 'I Wanna Be Your Man' at De Lane Lea Studios in London. The song which was primarily written by Paul McCartney, was finished by Lennon and McCartney in the corner of a room while Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were talking peaked at No.12 on the UK charts when released.
1966, Johnny Kidd was killed in a car crash while on UK tour in Radcliffe, Manchester, aged 27. Pirates' bassist Nick Simper, who later became an original member of Deep Purple, was also in the car with Kidd but he suffered only some cuts and a broken arm. Kidd scored the 1960 UK No.1 single 'Shakin' All Over' as Johnny Kidd and the Pirates.
1966, Smiley Lewis, New Orleans R&B singer, died of stomach cancer. He wrote 'One Night' covered by Elvis Presley and 'I Hear You Knocking' 1955 US No.2 for Gale Storm plus UK No.1 & US No.2 for Dave Edmunds'.
1967, Cass Elliot from The Mamas And The Papas spent the night in a London jail after being accused of stealing from a hotel. A TV and concert appearance had to be cancelled.
1967, The Beatles rejected an offer of $1 million from promoter Sid Bernstein to make a second appearance at New York's Shea Stadium. Bernstein had originally brought the group to Shea in August 1965. Sid Bernstein had actually successfully contracted the Beatles to play at Shea Stadium in both 1965 and 1966.
1968, Jose Feliciano performed a controversial version of The Star Spangled Banner before the fifth game of the World Series between the Detroit Tigers and the St. Louis Cardinals. As a result of his slow, Bluesy delivery, many radio stations refused to play his songs, and his career suffered.
1976, John Lennon was awarded his 'Green Card' – permanent residency status, at a hearing in New York which overturned previous efforts by the US Government to deport him. The three judge panel of the US Court of Appeals ruled that his 1968 arrest in Britain for possession of marijuana was "contrary to US ideas of due process and was invalid as a means of banishing the former Beatle from America."
1978, US Music magazine Billboard reported that Marvin Gaye had twice filed bankruptcy papers earlier in the year, with debts of $7 million.
1978, The film soundtrack to 'Grease' featuring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John started a 13 week run at No.1 on the UK chart.
1979, Factory Records released 'Transmission' the debut single by English post-punk band Joy Division. In May 2007, NME magazine placed 'Transmission' at No.20 in its list of the 50 "Greatest Indie Anthems Ever", one place below their third single 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'.
1982, Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page was given a 12-month conditional discharge after being found guilty of possessing cocaine.
1989, Paula Abdul went to No.1 on the US album chart with 'Forever Your Girl'. Abdul spent sixty-four consecutive weeks on the Billboard 200 before hitting number one, making it the longest time for an album to reach the number one spot.
1995, Alanis Morissette went to No.1 on the US album chart with her third album Jagged Little Pill. The record produced six successful singles, including 'You Oughta Know', 'Ironic', 'You Learn', 'Hand in My Pocket', and 'Head over Feet' and went on to become the biggest selling album ever by a female artist with sales over 30m.
1999, It was reported that four musicians who claimed they worked on her 'Miseducation' album were suing Lauryn Hill. The musicians were seeking unpaid royalties for co writers and producers.
1999, Winners at the Irish Hot Press awards included The Corrs for best Irish band, Andrea Corr won best female singer, Divine Comedy won best Irish band, the bands singer Neil Hannon won best male singer and Westlife won best pop act.
2002, Mick Jagger donated £100,000 to his old Grammar school in Dartford to help pay for a music director and buy musical instruments. The new centre was also named after Mick Jagger.
2004, 53 year old Motley Crue guitarist Mick Mars had a hip replacement operation in a LA hospital.
2005, Boy George was arrested in New York after Police found traces of drugs in his apartment. George had called the police after he thought somebody was breaking into his apartment. When police arrived and made a search they found traces of cocaine on a computer table.
2006, Babyshambles postponed their UK tour to give singer Pete Doherty more time to recover from drug treatment. The band postponed their five remaining dates to allow him to continue his "excellent" rehab efforts.
2007, 25 year-old Hip-hop artist Lil' Wayne was arrested during a US tour after a concert in Idaho on a warrant stemming from a drug possession charge. Because of the nature of the charges, the rapper – real name Dwayne Michael Carter Jr – was not eligible for bail.
2007, Bruce Springsteen went to No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Magic', the singer, songwriter's 15th studio album and 7th UK No.1. Also a US No.1 album.
2007, Rascal Flatts were at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Still Feels Good' the American country pop bands fifth studio album and third No.1.
2009, Monkees vocalist Davy Jones ruled out ever reuniting with his former band mates after launching a scathing attack on each of his old pals in The National Enquirer. "It's not a case of dollars and cents. It's a case of satisfying yourself. I don't have anything to prove. The Monkees proved it for me."
2009, Barbra Streisand surprised many music industry watchers when she topped the Billboard Hot 200 for the ninth time with her latest release, 'Love Is the Answer'. The CD extended Streisand's lead as the female act with the most chart toppers in the history of the Billboard Hot 200.
2013, Annie Lennox described the sexualised imagery of modern pop videos as "dark" and "pornographic". "I'm all for freedom of expression," she told BBC Radio 5 live, "but this is clearly one step beyond, and it's clearly into the realm of porn." The singer called for pop videos to be rated in the same way as films.
October 7th: Born on this day
1927, Born on this day, American singer Al Martino, (1952 US & UK No.1 single 'Here In My Heart'. The first No.1 in the NME singles chart. 1963 US No.3 'I Love You Because'). Martino played Johnny Fontane in 1972 film The Godfather. Died on 13th Oct 2009 aged 82.
1939, Born on this day, Colin Cooper, Climax Blues Band, (1977 US No.3 & 1976 UK No.10 single 'Couldn't Get It Right'). Died on 3rd July 2008.
1941, Born on this day, Martin Murray, The Honeycombs, (1964 UK No.1 single 'Have I The Right').
1941, Born on this day, Tony Silvester, Main Ingredient, (1974 US No.10 & UK No.27 single 'Just Don't Want To Be Lonely').
1945, Born on this day, Kevin Godley, drums, vocals, 10cc, (1975 UK No.1 & US No.2 single 'I'm Not In Love', plus 10 other UK Top 30 hits including 2 No.1's). Godley And Creme (1981 UK No.3 single 'Under Your Thumb'). Video producer.
1949, Born on this day, David Hope, Kansas, (1978 US No.3 single 'Dust In The Wind', 1978 UK No.59 single 'Carry On Wayward Son').
1951, Born on this day, John 'Cougar' Mellencamp, American singer and songwriter, who had the 1982 US No.1 and UK No.25 single Jack And Diane, and the 1982 US No.1 album American Fool. He holds the record for the most tracks by a solo artist to hit Number One on the US Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks Chart, and has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards, winning one, as Best Male Rock Performer for Hurts So Good.
1953, Born on this day, Tico Torres, drums, Bon Jovi (1987 US No.1 & UK No.4 single 'Livin' On A Prayer', 1986 US No.1 album 'Slippery When Wet' has sold over 8 million copies world wide).
1959, Born on this day, David Taylor, Edison Lighthouse, (1970 UK No.1 single 'Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes').
1959, Born on this day, Simon Cowell record executive and producer, judge on TV shows Popstars, Pop Idol and American Idol. Notorious for his uncompromisingly harsh and controversial criticism of contestants.
1964, Born on this day, Sam Brown, UK singer, (1989 UK No.4 single 'Stop'), Jools Holland Band.
1967, Born on this day, Toni Braxton, singer, (1996 US No.1 & UK No.2 single 'Un Break My Heart').
1968, Born on this day, Thom York, vocals, guitar, keyboards, Radiohead. Their 1993 debut single 'Creep' was initially unsuccessful, but it became a worldwide hit several months after the release of their debut album, Pablo Honey. Their 1997 album OK Computer appeared in many 1997 critics' lists and listener polls for best album of the year. In 2006, Yorke released his debut solo album, The Eraser, and in 2009 formed Atoms for Peace.
1969, Born on this day, Leeroy Thornhill, dancer, Prodigy, (1996 UK No.1 single 'Firestarter', 1997 UK & US No.1 album 'The Fat Of The Land').
1976, Born on this day, Taylor Hicks, US soul singer, songwriter, 2006 American Idol winner, (2006 US No.1 single 'Do I Make You Proud').
1978, Born on this day, Alesha Dixon, Mis- Teeq, (2001 UK No.2 single 'All I Want').
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Since Halloween is quickly approaching, we thought it would be nice to share some of our favorite Halloween pictures as our WOW Wednesday story this week. Halloween is the one time a year adults get to dress up in costume, pretending to be anything they please, so who's to say if its wrong or not. Some costumes are sexy while others are funny, but overall they're fun to look at. Hope you enjoy these pics…Happy Halloween.
-January Skyy


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Trelleborg acquires U.S.-based Maine Industrial Tire
Trelleborg, through its business area Trelleborg Wheel Systems, has signed an agreement to acquire Maine Industrial Tire, a market leader specializing in solid tires for vehicles such as fork-lifts.
Maine Industrial Tire's headquarters is in Massachusetts, U.S., while its production facilities are located in Pennsylvania, U.S., and Xingtai (Hebei), China. Annual sales amount to approximately SEK 600 million and approximately 650 people are employed in the company. Trelleborg is a global engineering group with annual sales of about SEK 22 billion, with about 15,500 employees in over 40 countries.
Trelleborg was advised by Mannheimer Swartling in the transaction. Peter Idsäter was the responsible partner and Hampus Thofte and Andreas Elving were the project managers, primarily assisted by Oskar Wrede and Raoul Mehta in the U.S. and Chris Yu and Wayne Zhang in China, respectively.


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2018: Girls Ex Machina
During 3daysofdesign you can experience the exhibition "2118: Girls Ex Machina" in the lower floors of Nyt i Bo, Store Kongensgade 88 in Copenhagen.
Behind the exhibition is the female design collective Rundkant – an interdisciplinary design community that unites more than 20 female designers from Denmark's architectural, artistic and design education.
The collective is experimenting with materials, approaches and form and questioning the norms.
When we talk about looking into the future, the stereotypical approach is to look at technology or global warming. But we often forget to look at the close and related future that is about how we live in everyday life, and what challenges, feelings or blessings we and our descendants are going to live with and learn to navigate in.
Maria Lyhne Grønaa, chairwoman of Rundkant
PS! At Nyt i Bo you can also visit Brdr. Krüger, Sika-Design and Getama.


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You may be feeling sunkissed and gorgeous after your summer break, but nothing wrecks skin and hair faster than a two week stint in the sun. All that chlorine, salt, sun and sand is enough to send our skin and hair into a serious beauty meltdown. But choose a few key beauty treats and you can undo the summer damage with our Top 10 Summer Savers…
1. Hair Repair – Mask It
This is a three-part beauty tip – because hair seems to suffer the most in the summer and deserves some proper TLC by the end of August. Thirsty hair loves a great big drink every so often and I try to use a hair mask once or twice a week towards the end of the summer. Most you leave on for 20 mins then shower off, but I sometimes leave on overnight, pop a towel on the pillow and give my hair a 9 hour treatment! Thick hair will love Oribe Signature Moisture Masque applied daily, and normal to fine hair will enjoy a weekly soak – a super intense shot of hydration to banish dry ends fast. Bleach London Reincarnation Mask is just the job for bleached or coloured hair needing a moisture and elasticity boost. Phyto Plage Apres Soleil Recovery Mask for Damaged Hair contains anti-salt and anti-chlorine components, so this is a good one to use either on holiday in the evenings, or as soon as you get home, to remove all the damaging effects of the pool and the beach. Finally L'Oreal Professionnel Absolut Repair Lipidium uses reconstructing ingredients to re-build and replenish hair that has lost its lipids
2. Hair Repair – Oil Up
Just as face oils have upped their game in recent years, modern hair oils are now ultra-light, but can still nourish and repair summer damaged locks. Josh Wood, hair guru extraordinaire has worked with Vogue, Elle, Grazia and W Magazine and his Radiant Shine Hair Treatment Oil is a three-pronged attack on thirsty hair: use as a pre-shampoo treatment, a pre-styling moisture boost, or a few drops on the ends of styled hair to banish flyaway ends and smooth out the cuticle. Try an overnight treat with Aromatherapy Associates Nourishing Enrich Hair Oil – 2-3 pumps onto dry hair and leave on while you get some beauty sleep. Frizzy curly locks will be swiftly transformed into silky smooth tumbling curls with Umberto Giannini Curl Friends Ultimate Curls Nourishing Oil. And finally Aveda Dry Remedy Daily Moisturizing Oil intensely moisturises dry ends, combats frizz and flyaway hair and is great on fine and colour-treated hair – and a little goes a long way, my bottle has lasted months.
3. Hair Repair – Seal It
Holiday hair can look fried and frazzled, so I always use something to nourish the ends and make them look stronger and less flyaway. Paul Percival and Adam Reed spent years working around the world on shoots, tending to the tresses of celebrities, and now bring their hair expertise to the rest of us through their two London salons and Percy & Reed haircare. Their Wonder Balm is a superb leave-in balm that nourishes, adds shine, smoothness, definition, light hold and humidity protection. A great all-rounder for controlling lacklustre summer locks. While Urban Fudge Miracle Ends is another fantastic multi-tasker that can be used on wet hair to seal in moisture and smooth frizz, or on dry hair to smooth out flyaway ends and boost shine.
4. Complexion Polish
Summer skin can feel a bit rougher than normal – the melanin produced when you tan gives skin a slightly thicker courser texture, which is a form of natural protection. In order to keep skin glowing and healthy, a good weekly exfoliation in the summer is well worth it. I love Indeed Laboratories Facial Powdered Exfoliator – just add a little water to the granules and foam it up into a wash. It contains an anti-bacterial element – perfect for blemish-prone skin, and the exfoliants are fine enough to be ultra gentle, but still reveal soft smooth skin. Botanics All Bright Purifying Face Scrub contains natural AHAs to smooth and brighten dull summer skin and leave it looking prettily polished.
5. Scrub Up
If you've come back from your holiday with some colour, then just like a self-tan, you can prolong the sun-kissed look by gently and regularly exfoliating to leave skin radiant and refreshed. I can't get enough of the Jo Malone Vitamin E Body Treatment Scrub – the scent is out of this world and it's so nourishing you don't need moisturiser afterwards. It works wonders on dry knees, elbows and feet and a little goes a very long way. Exfoliating grape seeds, nourishing honey, softening brown sugar, topped off with zingy citrus lemon peel makes the Caudalie Crushed Cabernet Scrub a beautiful refreshing one to use on hot summer days.
6. Saving Face
Right now this is the serious section – skin needs to drink drink drink in the summer. So make sure you're paying as much care to what you're putting inside as what you're layering up on the outside. The difference in skin tone and texture with a good litre of water inside you each day in summer is unbelievable.
But we need to look after the outside too and these are my favourite facial skin savers for summer. Elemis celebrates 10 years of its Cellular Recovery Skin Bliss Capsules – and I swear by these for keeping my skin radiant. At the end of winter and the end of summer I use the 30 day pot to boost my complexion and make it glow. Orico Superico Vitamin Rich Face Oil is vitamin-packed and ultra-nourishing for thirsty skin. Sarah Chapman's Skinesis 3D Moisture Infusion mask instantly hydrates, soothes and plumps in just 15 minutes. For a deeply hydrating treat try AromaActives Triple Hydrating Gel Mask – left on overnight. Hyaluronic acid is the latest buzz word in beauty – it's a gel-like water holding molecule, which can hold over 1000 times its weight in water within skin cells, which makes it perfect for boosting moisture and smoothing out and plumping up complexions. It's now considered equally as important as collagen. I love the Hydraluron Moisture Jelly from Indeed Laboratories for simply locking in moisture and leaving skin soft and supple. And finally my top 3 bedtime beauty treats for boosting summer skin while you get your beauty sleep: Green & Spring Rich Night Cream; Skyn Iceland Oxygen Infusion Night Cream and Oskia Bedtime Beauty Boost. All 3 leave skin plumped up, glowing and refreshed the morning after.
7. Body Beautiful
Sun-stressed skin needs a good boost of moisture to help recover from a summer of sand, salt, sun and chlorine. Elemis Frangipani Monoi Body Cream is exotically scented with frangipani flowers and packed with hydrating oils to combat dry skin. Sunday Riley Disrobe is a multi-tasking, hardworking body lotion that ticks so many beauty boxes when it comes to dry skin: firming, detoxifying, exfoliating and hydrating, without any greasiness. And if an oil is more your style for rehydration, then de Mamiel Salvation Body Oil and Mio The Activist Firming Active Body Oil are two of my favourites.
8. Bronze Ambition
Maintain your summer glow with a moisturiser that contains just a hint of self-tan. You get a much more natural sun-kissed look with one of these skin enhancers. rather than a super-tanned bronze look. My three favourites are Dove Summer Glow, Elemis Total Glow Bronzing Body Lotion and This Works Perfect Legs Gradual Tan. Simply build up the colour by using for several days in a row.
9. Delicate Décolletée
The décolletage is a very underrated area when it comes to beauty products and advice. It's often as much exposed as the face and hands and yet there are very few specific creams that look after this super delicate area, which as we age reveals quite quickly UV damage. I've discovered Argan Organics Desert Star Décolletage Smoother recently and I've been using it about a month or so and the fine lines on my chest have definitely softened and seem far less prominent. Another one that's very highly recommended is This Works Perfect Cleavage Firming Lotion, which blends ultra nourishing essential oils and plant extracts to fight fine lines and wrinkles. Protect it now and you'll have a décolletée to be proud of in the future!
10. Luscious Lashes
Finally, if there's one beauty treat I never thought I'd need it was an eyelash treatment – however having used it for a few weeks, I'm sold on DHC Eyelash Tonic. It boosts the volume of lashes and fills in any sparse areas on the lash line and also helps prevent breakage – which after a hot summer feeling fried is just what we need on lashes. Wear it alone at night and under mascara in the day. Vaseline also does a very similar job – at a fraction of the cost. Conditioning and moisturising for dry brittle lashes, Vaseline strengthens weak hair and can help lashes grow thicker and longer. Either apply it with a clean cotton bud, or better still leave an old mascara wand in a pot of make-up remover overnight, then clean the wand until the water runs clear and use that to apply the vaseline.
Images: The Fashion Tag; Pinterest


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Bernetta Miller
Bernetta Miller
Early Flight (107)
Bernetta Miller was born in Canton, Ohio on January 11, 1886. After becoming interested in flying, she enrolled for instruction at the Moisant Flying School at Hempstead Plains, Long Island, New York. On September 25, 1912, she received her license and then joined the Moisant International Aviators. In October 1912 she was sent to Washington, D.C. with the Moisant aviator Harold Kantner to assist in demonstration tests. There she became the first person to demonstrate a monoplane before U.S. government officials. On January 20, 1913, she attempted to establish a women's altitude record at Garden City but the oil flow indicator in her plane broke, causing an emergency landing. Miller also took an active part in WWI, joining the Women's Overseas Service League Infantry Division in France. She served first as an accountant and then went to the front as a canteen worker. She was awarded the Croix de Guerre and many American citations for her work. After WWI, she engaged in educational work on the staffs of Dickinson and Colby Colleges and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University.
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Master the Art of HSE Certification to Maximize the Strength of Your Business
It is a fact that there are different new affiliations now that were simply rotated around making more pay while ignoring the other important parts of the business operation. To be honest, it is actually certainly not a lousy factor to intend yet every single organization need to discover that loan is actually certainly not the facility from excellence, however, it is your image, versatility, and also trustworthiness that makes your service more effective.
Although these characteristics are not in the form of cash, these valuable words will help you in making your business stronger and richer because this could lead to bigger opportunities. On the off chance that you want to open your doors to those prospective customers that wish to come to build a relationship with you, then you ought to take into consideration having service license such as the HSE certification to acquire their comprehensive certainty.
Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) Certification is very important for every type of business. Regardless of how large or small is your company, this certification can bring lots of benefits not just to your company but also to your employees. Additionally, due to the fact that we cannot control everything in our business such as the calamities and diverse risky occasions which can occur at whatever point inside or outside of your affiliation, HSE certification ought to be taken to provide your agents the advantage of knowing the right information on the most skilled system to oversee unexpected occasions, for example, the breakdown of hardware and machines, food contamination or other related incidents, fire difficulties and other flourishing dangers.
In the context of that, on the off chance that you want to get more thoughts about this business certification, consider the following facts below so you can now create a better plan for your business:
1. On the off chance that you want your customers and workers to feel more secure and certain working with you, you need to take the HSE certification since this will help you on achieving such desires because of they know that HSE standards are being implemented in your organization. Simply puts, they will instantly assume that you are actually an accountable entrepreneur who is aiming to provide nothing but the best for the sake of everyone.
2. You can avoid unexpected costing such as paying for the hospital bill of your affected employee by means of HSE certification.
3. Considering that your employees can easily devote a ton of opportunity performing their tasks as opposed to leaving their job considering that they are actually experiencing a job-related anxiety as well as various other wellness concerns, you can expect that their efficiency and also performance certainly be enhanced . To make it simple, if your business is going to take into consideration the HSE certification, the number of absence due to harmful accidents and health issues will certainly be actually steered clear of.
Overall, if you want to maintain or increase the success of your business then look for the best accreditation company who can provide you the HSE certification.
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Donna Marie Baratta
Dance Style
Musical Theatre
Workshop Description
(from Wikipedia) Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining music, songs, spoken dialogue and dance. The emotional content of the piece -- humor, pathos, love, anger -- as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole. Since the early 20th century, musical theatre stage works have generally been called simply, "musicals".
Artist Bio
Donna Marie is an accomplished dancer, choreographer and director. She appeared in Crazy For You (Mirvish Productions - Toronto, Snapshot Productions - Montreal), Sunset Boulevard (Livent - in Toronto and Vancouver), Pirates, Puttin' On the Ritz, The Princess and the Handmaiden (The Charlottetown Festival), Reflections on a Crooked Walking, Ned Durango Comes to Big Oak (Magnus Theatre) and the original Spirit of a Nation tour. Recently, she has focused her efforts on teaching, directing and choreographing shows such as the Vagina Monologues (TBVPAC), Historical Echoes, Peter Pan and Grease. Donna Marie was fortunate enough to be the Assistant Director of the Charlottetown Festival Young Company (1995-1996) and for the Canadian Heritage Arts Society's production of Spirit of a Nation in Victoria (1997). She holds an HBA/BEd. from Lakehead University and is currently teaching at Cardinal Carter Academy for the Arts.


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Barbara Parrish Memorial
The Barbara Parrish Memorial Scholarship is for students who plan to enroll full time (12 credits UGRD), who have a minimum 2.5 GPA, and demonstrate financial need. We can determine your financial need by the results of your Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Preference will be given to a child of a Boise State employee.
- Award
- Varies
- Departments / Colleges
- General Scholarships
- Deadline
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about us
Tropical forest ecosystems are being converted at a rapid pace for agriculture or urban development, and it is of fundamental importance to understand how this biodiversity contributes to maintaining ecosystem services, how it may provide resources for human welfare, and whether these environmental changes may critically alter this biodiversity. French Guiana, an overseas Region of France, is an ideal natural laboratory for tropical biodiversity, gathering an unparalleled scientific expertise in the fields of biodiversity research, tropical medicine, tropical forestry, and evolutionary ecology.
The Laboratoire of Excellence CEBA crystallizes a network of internationally recognized French research teams involved in biodiversity research in Amazonia. It fosters cutting-edge research on biodiversity in French Guiana, promotes collaborative research with South American countries, addresses the need for transferring the results of basic research to the society, and contributes to education and training.
Because of its networked structure, its focus on scientific excellence, and its long-term capacity, CEBA is in a unique position to promote innovative research in the field of biodiversity in French Guiana, and act synergistically between academia and stakeholders.
CEBA is a thematic network of research teams. The operational management of CEBA is assured by a Director, a Science Director who assists the Director with the scientific strategy and an Associate Director who is in charge of educational projects. The Board of Directors coordinates the research actions. The Scientific Board provides scientific expertise to the Board of Directors.
executive director
- Vincent Goujon – LEEISA
scientific director
- Jérôme Chave – EDB
director in charge of education
- Eric Marcon – ECOFOG
board of directors
- Damien Bonal – Silva
- Jérôme Chave – EDB
- Justin Daniel – LC2S
- Alain Franc – BIOGECO
- Olivier Duron – MIVEGEC
- Annaïg Le Guen – LEEISA
- Éric Marcon – ECOFOG
- Jean-François Molino – AMAP
- Magalie Demar – EPaT
- Mirdad Kazanji – IPG
- David Touboul – ICSN
- Frédéric Delsuc – ISEM
- Régis Céréghino – ECOLAB
science board
- Jérôme Chave (EDB)
- Fabien Condamine (ISEM)
- Élodie Courtois (LEEISA)
- Benoît de Thoisy (IPG)
- Geraldine Derroire (ECOFOG)
- Christophe Duplais (ECOFOG)
- Véronique Éparvier (ICSN)
- Laure Gandois (ECOLAB)
- Jean-Raphaël Gros-Désormeaux (LC2S)
- Myriam Heuertz (BIOGECO)
- Isabelle Maréchaux (AMAP)
- Karen McCoy (MIVEGEC)
- Jérôme Murienne (EDB)
- Lise Musset (EPAT)
- Jérôme Orivel (ECOFOG)
- Heidy Schimann (ECOFOG)
- Grégoire Vincent (AMAP)
scientific advisory board
- Eduardo Brondizio – Indiana University – Bloomington, USA
- Michael Bruford – Cardiff University, UK
- Phyllis Coley – University of Utah, USA
- Wolfgang Cramer – CNRS, France
- Vanessa Ezenwa – University of Georgia, USA
- Nancy Knowlton – Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, USA


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About us
For further information please contact the Faculty of Vocational Education and Training (VET)
- firstname.lastname@example.com
Courses and Programs
For Students
Industry Schools
- Automotive and Civil
- Building Technology
- Electrotechnology (Top End)
- Metal Trades and Engineering
- Trades (Central)
Community and Children's Services
VET Businesses
Business and Employers
Learner Support Services (for employers)
We provide assistance to study assistance to students during their studies.
NT Training Entitlement Provider
We are a provider approved to deliver government subsidised training places under the NT Training Entitlement to eligible students at the Certificate III level or higher.
Visa Benchmark Training Solutions
If you need to meet your compulsory Training Benchmark or risk cancellation of your sponsorship, CDU offers solutions for Visa Training Benchmarks in the Northern Territory.
VET Student Loans commenced on 1 January 2017, replacing the VET FEE-HELP scheme.
What is VET Student Loans?
Students who enrol in selected Diploma courses are able to apply for a VET Student Loan (VSL) to support payment of tuition fees. The amount you can borrow for your tuition fees is determined by the Australian Government. In 2020, VET Student Loan Caps are $5,264, $10,528, and $15,793, depending on the course. In 2021, the VET Student Loan Caps are $5,358, $10,717, and $16,077 depending on the course.
VET Student Loans must be repaid through the tax system once you start earning above $45,881. The the income threshold changes every year. For more information, refer to DET's Information for VET Student Loans Providers.
You can find further information regarding VET Student Loans eligibility below. There is also up-to-date information in the Student Fact Sheets on the Government's VET Student Loans website.
Course admission procedure for new students
- Enter a course into the CDU course catalogue to find information about course fees, where the course is being delivered, which CDU team is delivering and team contact details.
- Complete an application form and supply the required documents. If you would like help with enrolment go to http://study.cdu.edu.au/courses and click on 'Request a call' or call the team contacts.
- If you have not completed a Certificate IV qualification, apply to do a Language Literacy and Numeracy test – your team contact can provide an access key.
Please note: All Registered Training Organisations have had the total amount of loans available to their students through the VET Student Loan (VSL) scheme capped. This means that CDU cannot guarantee you access to a VET Student Loan if the total loans capped amount is exceeded. If the loan cap is exceeded, you will be liable for the course fees. If you find yourself in this situation, CDU staff will be happy to discuss alternative arrangements. For further information please contact your industry team.
Who is eligible for VET Student Loans?
To be eligible for VET Student Loans, you must meet the citizenship and residency requirements:
- be an Australian citizen; or
- a permanent Humanitarian visa holder, (resident in Australia for the duration of the units/s of study); or
- a qualifying New Zealand citizen who is on a Special Category Visa (SCV) holder (this is not a permanent visa but allows its holder to visit, live, and work in Australia indefinitely) who meets the long-term residency requirements, which are:
- have first entered Australia as a dependent minor aged under 18 years; and
- at the time did not have a spouse or de facto partner; and
- have been physically present in Australia for at least eight out of the past 10 years, and 18 months out of the past 2 years; and
- meet the other eligibility criteria for the loan (you are enrolled in a Commonwealth Supported Course and you will be residing in Australia for the duration of your course of study)
Please note: In order to apply for a VET Student Loan, you must provide current and updated evidence against each of the above criteria prior to enrolment.
Academic suitability:
Have been assessed by your CDU delivery team as academically suited to undertake the approved course on the basis of either:
- providing your Australian year 12 Certificate; OR
- providing your International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IB) diploma or
- providing evidence of successful completion of an Australian Qualifications Framework Certificate IV or higher qualification (where the language of instruction is English); OR at a level in a framework that preceded the AQF that is equivalent to level 4 or above in the AQF, or has been assessed by a Federal, State or Territory government agency which assesses overseas qualifications (or an organisation contracted by such an agency to undertake such assessments) as equivalent or comparable to: a qualification at a level 4 or above in the Australian Qualifications Framework, or a qualification at a level in a framework that preceded the AQF that is equivalent to level 4 or above in the AQF, or
- displaying competence at Exit Level 3 in the Australian Core Skills Framework in both reading and numeracy through an approved Language, Literacy and Numeracy test.
- In addition, CDU must reasonably believe that student is academically suited to under the course; and the student must meet any other specified entry requirements.
Additional eligibility criteria:
You must meet each of the following criteria to be eligible for a VET Student Loan.
- For 2020, the HELP loan limit is $106,319 for most students.
- has a FEE-HELP balance that is more than $0 (i.e. has not used all their FEE-HELP limit).
- studying the approved course primarily at a campus in Australia.
- studying with an approved provider.
- have a Tax File Number or a Certificate of Application for a Tax File Number provided by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO).
- you have a Unique Student Identifier (USI) or are otherwise exempt.
- submit the electronic Loan Application Form (known as eCAF – electronic Commonwealth Assistance Form) by the first census day which is no less than two business days after enrolling.
- confirm engagement and progression online when requested to by the Government.
- you have read the VET Student Loans Information Booklet.
For more information on eligibility requirements, please visit the VET Student Loans website.
What documentation to provide to be eligible for a VET Student Loan?
Charles Darwin University will require you to provide proof of citizenship prior to your application for a VET Student Loan as per the VET Student Loans Manual for Providers to ensure students meet the citizenship and residency eligibility for VET Student Loans. CDU must collect and verify this information.
The evidence required to demonstrate proof of citizenship depend on your date and place of birth.
Australian citizens
An Australian Passport is suitable evidence of Australian citizenship. If the applicant does not have an Australian Passport, the evidence required to demonstrate that an applicant is an Australian citizen may differ depending on whether the applicant was:
• born in Australia before 20 August 1986
• born in Australia on or after 20 August 1986
• born overseas.
Applicants born in Australia before 20 August 1986
If applicants do not have an Australian Passport, they will need to provide their full birth certificate issued by an Australian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages (RBDM).
An exception to this is where the applicant's parents were in Australia as diplomats or consular officers at the time of the applicant's birth. In these circumstances, the applicant will need to provide a citizenship certificate as evidence that they are an Australian citizen.
If the applicant does not have a citizenship certificate they will need to lodge Form 119 Application for evidence of Australian citizenship with certified copies of the required documents and the application fee with Home Affairs.
Applicant was born in Australia on or after 20 August 1986 and one of their parents was an Australian citizen at the time of their birth
If applicants do not have an Australian Passport, and where one (or both) of the applicant's parents was an Australian citizen at the time of their birth, the applicant should provide their full birth certificate issued by an Australian RBDM and one of the following documents to show that one of their parents was an Australian citizen at the time of their birth:
• their parent's Australian citizenship certificate (at least one for their parents was a citizen at the time of their birth, to meet this requirement) or
• if their parent was born in Australia before 20 August 1986, their parent's full birth certificate issued by an Australian RBDM or
• if their parent was born in Australia on or after 20 August 1986, their parent's full birth certificate issued by an Australian RBDM and their grandparent's Australian birth certificate issued by an Australian RBDM.
If the applicant cannot provide this they should apply for their own evidence of Australian citizenship by lodging Form 119 Application for evidence of Australian citizenship with certified copies of the required documents and the application fee with Home Affairs.
Applicant was born in Australia on or after 20 August 1986 and one of their parents was a permanent resident of Australia at the time of their birth
If applicants do not have an Australian passport, and where one (or both) of the applicant's parents was a permanent resident of Australia at the time of their birth, they will need to provide both of the following documents to prove their Australian citizenship:
• their full birth certificate issued by an Australian RBDM
• their Australian citizenship certificate.
They can apply for an Australian citizenship certificate by lodging Form 119 Application for evidence of Australian citizenship with certified copies of the required documents and the application fee with DIBP. The following documents are not acceptable as proof of a parent's permanent residency for VET Student Loan applications:
- parent's foreign passport with a visa label
- Visa Entitlement Verification Online (VEVO) printout
- visa grant notification letter
- Certificate of Evidence of Resident Status (CERS)
- Certificate of Status for New Zealand Citizens in Australia (CSNZCA)
- ImmiCard
- Freedom of Information (FOI) letter from the Department of Home Affairs.
These documents only provide proof of a person's visa status on the day they are issued / printed and are not sufficient proof of a parent's resident status at the time the applicant was born.
Applicants born overseas and acquired Australian citizenship by application
As a guide, please refer to the relevant category below:
Applicants will need to provide one of the following documents as evidence of their Australian citizenship:
• an Australian passport
• an Australian citizenship certificate
• a Citizenship by Descent extract
• an Adoption in accordance with the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption or bilateral arrangement extract
If an applicant does not have one of the above citizenship documents they will need to apply for a replacement certificate by lodging Form 119 Application for evidence of Australian citizenship with certified copies of the required documents and the application fee with the Department of Home Affairs (Home Affairs).
Permanent Humanitarian Visa holder
To confirm if the visa calss held by a person applying for a VET Student Loan is a permanent humanitarian visa, contact the Department of Home Affairs website.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants not registered at birth by the relevant State/Territory authority
Applicants in these circumstances without a current Australian Passport may submit a Statutory Declaration as provided on the Department's Information for VET Student Loans Approved Providers page under 'Forms'.
Note: the Statutory Declaration has been pre-populated, and must only be used by applicants to whom these circumstances apply. The Statutory Declaration must be witnessed by a person inclued in the List of Occupations or the List of Persons provided in the template on the Department's website mentioned above.
Statutory Declarations are not acceptable forms of proof of Australian citizenship for any applicants other than Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders whose birth was not registered by the relevant State/Territory authority.
Applicant or their parent was born in Papua New Guinea prior to 16 Sep 1975
The applicant should be referred to Home Affairs to obtain evidence of Australian citizenship by lodging Form 119 Application for evidence of Australian citizenship if:
- evidence of citizenship was issued before 1 Jan 2009 and the applicant was born in PNG prior to 16 Sep 1975; or
- citizenship was acquired by descent before 1 Jan 2009 where the parent(s) was born in PNG before 16 Sep 1975.
A citizenship certificate can be accepted as evidence that the applicant is an Australian citizen if the evidence of citizenship was issued on or after 1 Jan 2009 regardless of the acquisition date or date of birth.
How to apply for VET Student Loans?
The Quick Guide-Applications provides information on the application process for VET Student Loans.
To access VET Student Loans, you must be enrolled in selected VET Student Loans (VSL) approved Diploma courses to support payment of tuition fees.
- All Diploma students must read VET Student Loans information booklet before applying for a VET Student Loan.
- There is a cooling off period of two (2) business days from enrolment in the course before you can complete your eCAF (known as electronic Commonwealth Assistance Form) to defer your fees to tax. The Australian Government will send an email invitation to you, and it will include the passkey and a link to the eCAF System.
- You will be asked to provide your TFN or, if you don't have a TFN, a certificate of application for TFN can be provided instead. The certificate will be provided by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) after applying for a TFN.
If the TFN is not submitted before the census date, you will not be eligible to access the loan.
Please note: it is a requirement under the Higher Education Support Act 2003 that the enrolment be cancelled after the relevant census date if a student does not provide their personal TFN where required and has not paid their fees upfront.
See page 4 of the eCAF Flow Diagram provided by The Australian Government, detailing the application and progression process for the student.
Is there an age limit for applying a VET Student Loan?
If you are under 18 year of age, a parent or guardian must co-sign the form and CDU enrolment form. You must provide parental or guardian consent in writing via the Government's Request for a VET Student Loan form, and return it to CDU via email: firstname.lastname@example.com. The form is also available from your VET course delivery team.
The form must be submitted to CDU before you can apply for a loan.
Parental or guardian consent is not necessary if you have been assessed by Centrelink as meeting the requirements for receiving the independent rate of Youth Allowance. You will need to provide evidence of this assessment in the form of your Centrelink Income Statement, which you can request by logging into MyGov and selecting your Centrelink online account and return it to CDU via email: email@example.com or submit completed form to your VET industry team.
What is a USI?
Every student undertaking a nationally recognised VET course will require a Unique Student Identifier (USI). This initiative allows the student to receive a complete record of all the accredited VET courses they undertake from 1 January 2015. A USI gives you access to your online USI account which will help to keep all your training records together.
Students can apply for their USI at W: usi.gov.au or authorise CDU to apply on your behalf. The USI must be provided to the training provider before students can receive their Statement of Attainment or Qualification. For more information, visit W: cdu.edu.au/cdu-vet/usi.
Which courses are eligible for VET Student Loans (VSL)?
'Approved courses' for VET Student Loans are high national priority qualifications at Diploma and above which contribute to addressing skills shortages, align with industry needs, and lead to strong employment outcomes.
The following Diplomas may be eligible for VET Student Loans in 2020 – please check the CDU Course Catalogue before submitting an application:
- AHC51116 Diploma of Conservation and Land Management
- BSB50215 Diploma of Business
- BSB50415 Diploma of Business Administration
- BSB50618 Diploma of Human Resources Management
- BSB51315 Diploma of Work Health and Safety
- BSB51415 Diploma of Project Management
- BSB51918 Diploma of Leadership and Management
- CHC50113 Diploma of Early Childhood Education And Care
- CHC50313 Diploma of Child, Youth and Family Intervention
- HLT54115 Diploma of Nursing
- SHB50115 Diploma of Beauty Therapy
- SIT50116 Diploma of Travel and Tourism Management
- SIT50316 Diploma of Events Management
- SIT50416 Diploma of Hospitality Management
- TAE50216 Diploma of Training Design and Development
- TAE50116 Diploma of Vocational Education and Training
- TAE80113 Graduate Diploma of Adult Language, Literacy and Numeracy Practice (Not approved for VET Student Loan)
What is Course Engagement and Progression?
From 1 July 2017, you will be required to demonstrate you are progressing through your course and that you wish to continue accessing a VET Student Loan as your payment option.
To do this, you must confirm your engagement and progression via the Government progression form online when requested to by the Government twice during the year to acknowledge acceptance of the loan you will receive for the course.
An invitation email from the Government will be sent to your personal email account with a link to the VET Student Loan Progression form and will include all the information you need to complete a short survey. It is important to note that you have two (2) weeks to compete the form after you receive the email notification. If you don't complete and submit two (2) consecutive surveys, you may be ineligible to continue accessing VET Student Loans. This means you will need to pay your tuition fees directly to CDU if you want to continue studying your course.
Note: Failure to complete progression will indicate student is not continuing with his or her studies, student will be ineligible to access VSL loan to pay for his or her tuition fees. Student will need to pay upfront or be cancelled from the course.
For more information, visit VET Student Loans – Student engagement and progression FAQ.
What fees do I have to pay?
Course fees are dependent on whether the student is a resident of the Northern Territory.
Northern Territory Government (NTG) subsidised courses - some diploma courses are subsidised by the NT Government. Tuition fees for 2020 will be charged at $ 3.40 per nominal hour for domestic students who are NT residents.
Full Fee paying courses - some courses are not subsidised by the NT Government. Students enrolling in these courses will be charged full fee rates per nominal hour allocated to the unit. All non-Territory domestic students are charged full fee rates per nominal hour allocated to the unit.
All the above fees are deferrable to VET Student Loans by students who meet the VET Student Loans eligibility requirements. For full fee paying students, VET Student Loans has a 20 per cent loan fee of the total amount deferred.
For information on loan fees, please visit the Study Assist website or the VET Student Loans information booklet.
To find out if your course is subsidised, refer to the VET Tuition Fee Schedule for 2020. The VET Student Loans schedule contain information of the student fees applicable to a particular course. Note that many courses have a variety of fees depending on the student's eligibility for a particular fee.
General fee information is available in the VET Student Guide, also available as a hardcopy.
Please note: CDU has an exemption from the Tuition Assurance schemes (course assurance and fee assurance schemes). This means that any student affected by courses ceasing will be accommodated in-line with standard CDU policies and procedures on fees and course delivery.
Please refer to the University's Governance website for more information.
Important Dates
Note: All VET Student Loans eligible students must enrol on or before the enrolment cut off date for each teaching period.
|Census Date
|Enrolment Cut off Date
|11 March
|25 February
|11 May
|26 April
|11 August
|27 July
|11 November
|27 October
An Enrolment and Fee Advice Invoice must be sent out to students at least 14 days prior to each teaching period census date.
What is a census date?
The census date is the last day for a student to:
- submit their electronic Loan Applicaton Form (known as eCAF - electronic Commonwealth Assistance Form) to defer their fees to tax,
- make upfront payment of fees,
- withdraw from their units without incurring fees or a HELP debt.
If the VET Student Loans eCAF is not submitted by the census date, the student will not be eligible to access a HELP loan for that study period. Census dates for each Teaching Period are below:
|Teaching Period
|Census Date
|11 March
|11 May
|11 August
|11 November
After the census date, students eligible for VET Student Loans who have not made full up-front payment and have provided their TFN will incur a VET Student Loans debt if they are still enrolled in the unit.
The University is required to defer all such fees to tax and the Australian Tax Office (ATO) is advised of the debt.
What happens if the fees are not paid?
All Fees for each Teaching Period must be either paid upfront or deferred to Tax on or before the census date. Students who have chosen the up-front payment option will receive a Reminder Notice two (2) weeks before the relevant census date advising that payment of tuition fees is required no later than one working day before the census date.
If students do not pay their fees up-front or defer it to tax, their enrolment will be cancelled within one (1) week after the census date. Students will be notified in writing of the cancellation.
How do I withdraw from my unit?
If you do not wish to continue with their studies in a Teaching Period, you must withdraw from those units on or before the census date for that Teaching Period without incurring a VET Student Loans debt for unpaid fees. Withdrawals can be done online through MyStudentInfo or by submitting a VET102 - Change of Enrolment/Withdrawal from Course Form to the Team with whom you are enrolled. Online withdrawals is only available until census date. Failure to withdraw on or before the census date will result in financial penalty and you will lose any up-front payments of tuition fees.
Please note: Students cannot claim of lack of knowledge or understanding of the requirements for VET Student Loans for not withdrawing and non-attendance at class does not automatically cancel your enrolment.
Remission and re-credit of VSL debt
Students who have accessed VET Student Loans to cover all or part of their tuition fees incur the liability and therefore the debt for their tuition fees after the census date. Students may find they have to withdraw from their studies after the census date or they have been unable to complete their studies because of serious illness or other special circumstances. Students in this situation may apply to have their VET Student Loans debt for the unit of study remitted (removed) and their VET Student Loans balance re-credited.
For special circumstances to apply, students must demonstrate that the circumstances:
- were beyond their control
- did not make their full impact on you until on or after the census date(s) of the unit(s) in question
- were such that they made it impracticable for you to complete the requirements for the unit(s).
If a student withdraws from a unit of study after the census date, the University will advise the student to apply in writing to the University for a remission (removal) of their VET Student Loans debt.
A student who completes a unit and receives a Not Component grade is considered not to have successfully completed the unit and may therefore apply for a remission if special circumstances exist. A student who has successfully completed the unit of study cannot apply for a remission.
Special circumstance do not include:
- a lack of knowledge or understanding of the requirements for a VET Student Loan
- a person's incapacity to repay a Student Loan debt, as repayments are income contingent and the person may apply for a deferral of a compulsory repayment in certain circumstances.
Further information on special circumstances is available on the Study Assist website.
How to apply for remission?
An application for a re-credit or remission must be made in writing. It must be made within 12 months of the person withdrawing from the unit of study or if the person has not withdrawn, within 12 months of the end of the period in which the unit of study was, or was to be, undertaken.
To apply for a remission, students must complete The Application for Removal of Financial Penalty and must include any independent supporting documents to support the claim.
Where no supporting documentation is attached to the application, a letter will be sent to the student requesting the same within 28 days of the letter.
If the student does not respond, the Remission application will not be supported and the student will be sent the decision notice and their right to appeal.
Students have the right for a review of the decision if they are not satisfied with the outcome within 28 days from the day they first received the notice of the decision.
Any upfront payments of fees made for the unit of study will be refunded to the students in accordance with the University's student refund policy.
For more information about fees, payments and refund refer to the fees and payments page on Student Central.
Reminder notice, CAN and CHESSN
A Reminder Notice will be sent to VET Student Loans eligible students who have chosen the up-front payment option. Two (2) weeks prior to the relevant census date, Reminder Notices will be sent to advise that payment of tuition fees will be required no later than one working day before the census date.
The Commonwealth Assistance Notice (CAN) is sent via email to all VET Student Loans eligible students who have either made an up-front payment of fees or deferred their fees to tax. The CAN will include details about student enrolment such as: personal details, CHESSN number, course and unit enrolment, deferred amount and/or upfront payment details, loan fees (if applicable), total debt for unit. The CAN will be sent within 28 days after the relevant census date for each study period that the student is enrolled.
Students must check if the information in the CAN is correct. If a student believes that the information on the CAN is incorrect, the student must, within 14 days of the date on the CAN, inform the University in writing for the CAN to be corrected. Verbal requests will not be considered. The request must specify the particular information considered to be incorrect and the reason why it is considered incorrect.
The Commonwealth Higher Education Student Support Number (CHESSN) is a unique identifier that universities use with the Australian Government concerning a student who is enrolled in a course of study and has indicated that they are seeking commonwealth assistance under the Higher Education Support Act 2003 for the units. The CHESSN will be linked to the student for the remainder of their academic life. It will be notified to the student in the Commonwealth Assistance Notice.
For more information on CAN and CHESSN, please refer to the Study Assist website.
What is Tuition Protection?
Tuition protection has been put in place by the Government to protect and support students if an approved VET Student Loans provider ceases to deliver a course of study or closes.
All providers are required, through the VET Student Loans Act 2016, to have adequate tuition protection to cover their student load.
Most VET providers meet their tuition protection requirements through membership with a tuition protection scheme operator. The Australian Council for Private Education and Training (ACPET) and TAFE Directors Australia (TDA) are the two approved tuition protection operators.
CDU has an exemption from the Tuition Protection schemes (course assurance and fee assurance schemes). This means that any student affected by courses ceasing will be accommodated in-line with standard CDU policies and procedures on fees and course delivery.
For more information, please refer to Tuition Assurance
Please refer to the University's Governance website for more information.
Personal Information
The University is committed to protecting the privacy of all members of the University community. The University will act responsibly to collect, manage, use and disclose personal information in accordance with the Northern Territory Information Act 2002. The University also commits to comply with the Commonwealth Privacy Act, as if it were a Commonwealth organisation where required to abide by the Australian Privacy Principles under contracted funding agreements from Commonwealth agencies and the Higher Education Support Act when handling students' personal information.
For more information, please refer to our Privacy and Confidentiality Policy
Grievance Procedures
Charles Darwin University is committed to providing a fair, safe and productive work and study environment where grievances are dealt with in a timely, impartial and confidential manner that adheres to the principles of procedural fairness and protects against victimisation.
For more information, please refer to our Students - Administrative Complaints Procedures
VET Student Loans Ombudsman
A VET Student Loans Ombudsman has been established within the Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman, to manage and investigate complaints regarding both the VET FEE-HELP Scheme and the VET Student Loans Program. The Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman, encourages students to raise complaints with CDU before contacting the ombudsman.
For more information contact:
CDU Complaints Management Unit
W: Complaints Management Unit
Commonwealth Ombudsman
W: VSL Ombudsman
Personal Details Update
If you change your personal details with Charles Darwin University, please ensure you also update the USI Registry and Australian Tax Office (ATO).
When you enrol at Charles Darwin University the collection, storage, use, and disclosure of any personal information you provide are protected by legislation. See our Privacy and Confidentiality Policy for more information.


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Welcome to our current PVMirror Blog published by Harvest Estudio. Please remember that our December Articles are indexed below. If you are interested in advertising with us in our Blog, please click here. If you want to read about Puerto Vallata Local News this Week (Saturday November 30 to Friday December 06) please visit our Printed Version City Paper Website.
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Art in México and New México – I had been looking for a change in my painting for months. I strived to innovate, but my creativity seemed restricted to subjects only; my brushstroke and my colors felt boring to me, always more of the same. Impatiently I delved in my long art book collection. Among the many, one jumped out which I had bought a few years ago yet never really read: Kevin Macpherson's "Fill Your Paintings with Light and Color" I picked it up and browsed through the photos, finding the brushstrokes fresh and spontaneous. Read more
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Crossover events aren't a new concept in the Monster Hunter series; hell, Monster Hunter: World already had one with Horizon: Zero Dawn, Street Fighter V, Devil May Cry and Mega Man. And if a certain developer gets his way we could soon be looking at another: Gears of War.
Yesterday on Twitter, Gears of War developer Rod Fergusson mused over the possibility of a GoW x Monster Hunter: World crossover, asking: "So who at @monsterhunter do we need to talk to about getting a Brumak in the game? :) With or without guns – although an armed monster would be pretty cool!"
Indeed, it would be pretty cool for the two to have a crossover with one another, but would the two mesh well?
Sure, why not.
Though the two franchises don't seem to have much in common, there is one commonality between the two which binds them together: regular-sized humans fighting over-sized monsters. Really, the only thing that might be difficult to include would be the Brumak's weapons. Aside from its large body, the Brumak uses a chain gun and rocket launcher — armaments that your average Monster Hunter enemy wouldn't have access to. Perhaps the weapons could be adapted to be more in-line with traditional MH attacks, like the chain gun firing scales (similar to Seregios) and the rocket launcher firing massive fireballs which explode upon hitting the ground (similar to Rathian subspecies).
Of course, it's not like such difficulties have stopped crossovers in the past. For example, one of Monster Hunter's most notorious crossovers was with Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker in 2010 when Snake was able to hunt various monsters from the MH series, even going so far as to allow players to utilize MH-inspired controls when doing so, while players in Monster Hunter Portable 3rd could dress up as Naked Snake or The Boss, changing a variety of core aspects of the game in the process.
The only difference between now and then would be that the other franchise's monsters would be entering Monster Hunter's world instead of the other way around.
Unfortunately, such a pairing would be incredibly unlikely (if not impossible), as MH:W's Kaname Fujioka and Yuya Tokuda already stated that adding monsters from other sources doesn't fit into the ethos of the series.
Well, at least we can dream.


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Our Leaders are Elected by Morons (a.k.a. "The Undecideds")
Our national leaders are elected by morons. They are called "the undecideds."
There, I said it. Because it's true.
Since the dawn of the television age, every election has been decided by idiots.
No matter what year, no matter which election, no matter who the candidates are — the voter breakdown always follows the same pattern. About 45 percent of voters vote for the Republican candidates. About 45 percent of voters vote for the Democratic candidates. That leaves 10 percent of voters in the middle who call themselves — "undecided."
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the most powerful voting block in America — the 10 percent of voters who don't know and don't care. These are the rubes deciding the future of our nation.
Undecideds are everywhere.
Inside bowling alleys. Blathering on barstools. Playing on softball fields. Ordering hamburgers. Driving in the far right-hand lane and not making the right turn at busy intersections. Delaying the TSA checkpoint. Shopping at Walmart. They come in all shapes and sizes and colors and ages.
Undecideds are usually easy to identify. The lack any guiding political philosophy. They don't read books. They don't read newspapers. They don't watch news shows. They can't be bothered with complex details about any issue, because "it's boring."
Occasionally, news does manage to penetrate their skulls, so long as it airs on Entertainment Tonight or SportsCenter or there's some scandal attached to it. Then, they're certain to have an opinion. They know more about the life of a moviestar or the starting quarterback of their favorite football team than anyone who holds elected office. They don't spend a second thinking about issues, but they have an opinion on just about everything. Just ask them.
They're the first to start chanting "U-S-A! U-S-A!" whenever an American athlete competes against someone from another country. They're the first to gloat, "America is the greatest country in the world," even though they've never actually traveled overseas. They're the first to attack anyone who dares to question the conventional view of America's role in the world, equivocating dissent with treason. They think of themselves as the true patriots, even though they probably can't name their local congressman.
In reality, they're phonies and frauds. And, they're dangerous.
I have a message for all those undecideds who lack political conviction and who are void of anything that could possibly be construed as a personal philosophy. Listen carefully. My message is this:
I swear. I will have more respect for you for sitting out another election than pretending that you really care for 5 minutes. If you can't spend as much time thinking about the future of your country as deciding what you're going to order off Olive Garden lunch menu, we don't need you cluttering up the lines on election day and diluting the end results with your indifference.
I hate voter registration drives. No wait, that's not strong enough. I despise them. I want them STOPPED.
This time of year, registration drives are everywhere to try and motivate people to get out and vote. My question is — WHY?
Why should we encourage people with absolutely no knowledge of issues and an utter lack of interest in civic affairs to suddenly enter a voting booth and starting checking boxes of candidates they know nothing about? It's like begging a 5-year old to show up on November 9th and be an air traffic controller for a day.
Please, someone, explain this to me.
Why are volunteers out there parading around in parking lots with clipboards begging disinterested people to register and vote when these people obviously lack any desire to exercise their civic responsibilities? These people haven't bothered to vote in recent years (otherwise, their registration would automatically be renewed). Moreover, all prospective new voters (such as those who turn 18, or move in-state for the first time) are given the option to register to vote when they obtain a driver's license.
It all comes down to this: The vast majority of unregistered voters haven't been motivated enough to get involved politically in the past. So, why do we now want them to barge into the current election cycle and cast ballots based on no knowledge whatsoever about the issues or the candidates?
Do we really want these blathering undecideds stepping into the voting booth and canceling out the INFORMED votes of people who are already registered and take elections seriously? What kinds of decisions are these kinds of people going to make? I'll tell you. They would likely make some very bad decisions and for all the wrong reasons. They're more likely to vote for or against a candidate based on they way they look, the ethnicity of their heritage, or who had the best TV commercial.
This isn't about partisanship. Even those I disagree with politically are, at least, engaged in the process and can articulate why they support their candidate. I respect that. But do you honestly think some buffoon who's been coaxed into registering in a grocery store parking lot and who don't follow current affairs, is going to make an informed decision?
Hell no.
He's likely to vote based on which television commercial he enjoyed most, which candidate amused him, or something his buddy said in a bar after gulping down his seventh beer.
He's going to make a presidential pick based on the candidate he'd "most like to have a beer with."
The powers that be know how the game is played. They know the secret to winning elections. They know that, in order to win, they must reduce themselves, the political process, and the entire nation to the lowest common denominator.
What does this mean — the lowest common denominator?
Let's say there's a stadium full of people. Someone gets on the loudspeaker and announces that everyone has just won a free dinner. The only stipulation is — everyone in the stadium must agree on what's to be served.
A vote is taken. Thousands vote for steak. Thousands vote for salmon. Thousands vote for lobster. The bottom line is, no one can agree on anything. So, the meal comes down to a vote where finally, there are no objections, and the lowest common denominator prevails. The verdict? Everyone ends up eating beans and hot dogs.
That's what political campaigns have come down to — beans and hot dogs in a voting booth — trying to appeal to and appease that last sliver of the indifferent, who might actually be motivated enough to get off their lazy asses and go out and pull the lever for their candidate.
These are the people who will decide our future. The undecideds.
If after all the shit we've been through the last two years, you're still "undecided"…..then please:
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