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As a Reservist, Can I Transfer My Post 9/11 GI Bill to My Son?
Q: Hello, I am currently on active duty serving in Afghanistan. I have the option of joining the reserves next year. As a reservist can I transfer my remaining Post 9/11 GI Bill benefits to my son? Thank you.
A: Yes, you can, if you are eligible for the Post 9/11 GI Bill transfer option by having served at least six years in the Reserve and if you sign up for at least four more years. Just know that you have to make a transfer request to your son while you are still in the Reserves; once you are out, it is too late to make a transfer.
Also the percentage tier that you are at at the time of transfer will also transfer to him. For example, with a one-year deployment you will get up to the 60% tier. So when he starts using his transferred benefits, 60% of his tuition and fees will be paid for by the VA directly to his school. He will get 60% of the monthly housing allowance as well as 60% of the yearly book stipend.
Because you are not at the 100% level, he would not be eligible for the Yellow Ribbon Program.While your transferred Post 9/11 GI Bill benefits will not pay for all of his school costs, it will certainly help.
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For a few years now, my motto has been #KeepLearningKeepGrowing.
I really enjoyed your talk Kemetia and I have certainly learnt a few things from you.
I agree that we need to constantly keep learning in order to stay relevant, connected and up to speed.
Here is the result of a custom cat food dish. I asked for a picture so I could work markings into the drawing but it seemed like a better idea to copy the photo.
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ISTANBUL (RNS) — Mustafa Ergin, a shopkeeper, sits in the back of a crowded audience in Istanbul listening to a panel of economists speaking about cryptocurrencies.
With prohibitions on gambling and earning interest, Islamic teaching has a lot to say on what Muslims can do with their money.
Turkey, like much of the world, has witnessed a dizzying rise in interest in bitcoin and the hundreds of other cryptocurrencies that have been modeled on it, driven by stories of working-class people striking it rich with a new technology that few seem to understand.
And while Turkey accounts for a sliver of the global bitcoin trade, it is among the top 10 countries invested in the cryptocurrency. Bitcoin trade here has gone from about 9,000 transactions a month in May 2017 to 42,000 in December 2017. A handful of companies in construction, education and the food industry have begun accepting cryptocurrencies for payment, and there are daily seminars in cities such as Istanbul where financial experts appear before enamored audiences to explain how one can cash in.
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Mobility and environmental awareness are not only lived by our employees. The arrival of the self-sufficient, mobile miniloft "KARL" and the installation of a power line for the fast loading of the environmentally friendly agency Tesla are just some of the topics that the young PR team in the smart living and modern workplace area are concerned with. No wonder, then, that Kaltwasser Kommunikation has taken second place in the German PR agency ranking in the field of environmental communication.
At our location in Northern Bavaria, we maintain long-standing and trustful customer relationships both with corporations and SMEs - and of course we regularly support start-ups and innovators from the region. Industry, energy and consumer electronics are our traditional industry focal points. Corporate communication and change communication, citizen communication and product communication have been the core competencies of our Franconian Kaltwasser-team for decades, focusing on topics such as industry 4.0, digitization and change, word-of-mouth campaigns, brand introduction and cross-media PR concepts as well as stakeholder communication.
Our heart has always been beating for young communication talents. It is therefore only logical that we have also been managing and promoting the development of junior staff of the Public Relations Professional Association DPRG for many years from our location in Nuremberg.
A network of strong partners - above all our "roommates" from the advertising agency Fixpunkt – enables us to quickly process and design print and digital media, such as employee and customer magazines (online and offline), roll-ups or large-format billboards as well as advertisements and websites - in other words, the entire range of a full-service agency.
But our network goes even further: We are regularly involved in a good cause, whether it is the cold water grill challenge, the support of the local communication museum or the jailart initiative "Art in Jail" - we not only work in Nuremberg, we also live here.
Talk to us or come and have a coffee with us. Our Nuremberg office is located in the heart of Nuremberg, and is only two underground stations away from the main station.
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The effect of increasing class size in tertiary education is not well understood. This column estimates the effects of class size on students’ exam performance by comparing the same student’s performance to her own performance in courses with small and large class sizes. Going from the average class of 56 to a class size of 89 would decrease the mark by 9% of the observed variation in marks within a given student. The effect is almost four times larger for students in the top 10%.
The organisation of university education is increasingly in the spotlight, both in academic and policy circles. Recent research has stressed the importance of higher education in providing positive externalities within firms (Moretti 2004), within local labour markets (Glaeser et al. 1992), and in fostering economy wide growth (Aghion et al. 2007). Concurrently, most OECD countries have adopted policies that have led to dramatic increases in university enrolment during the last decade. The average annual increase in university enrolment in OECD countries during the period 1995-2005 was above 4%. In the UK, this growth has occurred at both the undergraduate and graduate level, as shown in Figure 1, and across a wide range of universities. The UK is actually at the low end of enrolment growth within the OECD. Between 1998 and 2005, the US experienced a 30% increase in student enrolment, for example.
Such breathtaking increases in enrolment inevitably lead to university students facing larger class sizes. The effect of increasing class size in tertiary education is not well understood.
To address this policy question, we estimate the impact of class size on the final exam marks of graduate students in a leading UK university between 1999 and 2004 (Bandiera et al. 2010). As we observe the same student being exposed to very different class sizes, we estimate the effects of class size on students’ exam performance by comparing the same student’s performance to her own performance in courses with small and large class sizes.2 It is important to stress that, on average, most of the variation in marks is due to fixed students’ characteristics and not university inputs.3 On average the performance of a given students only varies by around 7% of the average mark across her courses. We shed light on how much of this within-student difference is attributable to differing class sizes the student faces.
The effect of class size on students’ performance is – as expected – negative; students do worse in big classes. Namely, a given student receives lower marks in courses with larger classes, everything else equal.
To get a sense of the magnitude of this effect, our estimates imply that a one standard deviation increase in class size from the mean (that is going from the average class of 56 to a class size of 89) would decrease the mark by 9% of the observed variation in marks within a given student. These estimates, however, mask two important forms of heterogeneity: (i) the impact of class size varies across the range of class sizes; (ii) the effect of class size varies across students.
On the first form of heterogeneity, the negative effect of class size on student exam performance is large and negative only in the smallest and the largest classes. There is no class size effect across a wide range of intermediate class sizes. The magnitudes imply that moving the average student from a class of 10 to a class of 25 leads to a drop in exam performance of around 12.5% of within-student standard deviation. Increasing the class size from 25 to 45 determines a further 12.5% drop. In contrast, there is no impact in a wide intermediate range, while moving from 80 to 150 determines a further drop of 25% in the within-student standard deviation. If moved from a very small class (of size 10) to a very large class (of size 150), the average student can be expected to suffer a loss corresponding to about 50% of the overall variation in exam marks the average student experiences across all of her courses.
The second form of heterogeneity concerns students’ ability. Students at the top of the mark distribution are those most affected by class size. The effect is almost four times larger for students in the top 10% of the distribution of exam marks than for students at the bottom 10%, and about 50% larger than the average student. This heterogeneity is most apparent in the largest classes and virtually non-existent for a range of intermediate class sizes. This implies the highest-ability students would benefit the most, in terms of academic achievement, from any reduction in class sizes, when class sizes are initially very large.
To shed light on the underlying mechanisms for the class-size effect, our analysis uses information on teachers' assignments to classes and on students' characteristics. We find no evidence that departments purposefully assign faculty of differing quality to different class sizes, and we find no evidence that faculty members alter their behaviour when exposed to different class sizes. It appears that the preparation and delivery of lectures is independent of the number of students taught.
On student characteristics, the class-size effect does not vary with proxies for students' wealth. Hence if larger classes resulted in lower grades because students had more limited access to library books or computer laboratories, the effect should have been smaller for students who can purchase these inputs privately. Moreover, the class-size effect does not vary with student's familiarity with this particular university as an undergraduate or with the UK system generally. This casts doubts on the relevance of mechanisms that work through the information students have, such as their awareness of other local resources (for example other libraries in the area), or their knowledge of the characteristics of faculty, courses, or departments.
Against a backdrop of rapidly increasing enrolment rates in tertiary education, our analysis has important policy implications. Class size matters for student performance and particularly for the most able students.
However, reducing class size is not always an effective strategy and is certainly not effective for all students in the same way. Reducing the size of very large modules (above 100) could be a cost-effective way to improve students’ performance. For modules in the range 30-100 reducing class size could be a rather ineffective strategy, while for classes below 30 it could be a valid but not necessarily cost-effective strategy. Attention should be devoted to other inputs in such cases, and more refined and cost-effective solutions than pure number counting should be identified. To this end, it is important to have a better understanding of the mechanisms that link class size and performance.
Although student-to-staff ratio is a commonly used indicator of quality both in national and international comparisons, this might be a noisy measure of quality over this intermediate range of class sizes.4 Given the mechanisms our data rule outs, there appear to be at least two ways that larger classes reduce students' performance. First, changes in student behaviour such as their attentiveness or participation. Second, reduced resource availability, such as library books or faculty time during office hours.
As the best students are the most affected, that could imply that large classes induce a reduction in tutoring activity rather than a substantial deterioration in classroom conditions. It is reasonable to expect that the best students are able to compensate classroom deterioration at least as well as other students. However, the best students are also those that benefit the most (in terms of both learning and motivation) from contact with teachers. They, therefore, suffer the most in terms of reduced performance when such contacts or tailored feedback is less frequent.
1 This is particularly evident in the UK, where concerns on the increasing student-to-staff ratios in higher education institutions have recently been expressed in a report of the Department for Innovation, Universities, and Skills and by the most important unions of university teachers.
2 Our estimates are therefore purged from confounding effects that arise because students choose which modules to take. For instance, if more able students were to choose smaller classes, a cross-student comparison would capture both the effect of class size and the effect of student ability. The within-student comparison only captures the former.
3 Characteristics like ability and motivation are certainly affected by previous experiences and schooling, but they can be taken as given for what concerns university policy.
4 This choice is somehow justified by the fact that, in order to evaluate teaching quality, the student to staff ratio probably remains the only globally available and comparable indicator.
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Krueger, A. (1999), "Experimental Estimates of Education Production Functions", Quarterly Journal of Economics 114: 497-532.
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After graduating from Pomona College with a Bachelors of Arts degree, I went into contracting performing work on just about every aspect of a home. This hands-on experience taught me a lot about houses – how they go together and what goes wrong when they aren’t built properly. My contracting work created a great “foundation” for performing home inspections!
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Laugh Out London comedy club returns to the Dogstar in Brixton with another great night of eclectic comedy with BRIDGET CHRISTIE, KEVIN ELDON, DAVID TRENT and EMMA SIDI.
WINNER of Best Show at the Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2013.
Star of BBC Radio 4’s Bridget Christie Minds the Gap, BBC2’s It’s Kevin, and Comedy Central’s Alternative Comedy Experience, returns to Laugh out London with her surreal, satirical humour.
One of the most famous faces in comedy, appearing on pretty much every great British comedy show of the past 25 years, including: Brass Eye, Smack the Pony, 15 Storeys High, Spaced, The IT Crowd, Look Around You, Packing Them In, Black Books, Big Train, World of Pub, The Sunday Show, Comedy Nation, Cows, Jam, I Am Not an Animal, I’m Alan Partridge, The Sofa of Time, Attention Scum!, Nighty Night, Green Wing, Jammin’, Nathan Barley, Hyperdrive, Saxondale and his own brilliant sketch show It’s Kevin.
His live show Kevin Eldon is Titting About won great acclaim at the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe and he’s back on the live circuit to showcase a glorious world of hyperactive characters.
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Professional Carpet Cleaning Birmingham Street cleaning is an occupation performed by special teams of employees who can be employed by the city or by independent cleaning companies. Thanks to such people, it is possible to bring the streets to the correct look both after car accidents and after lightning discharges. It happens very often that as a result of heavy rainfall and storm, a large number of branches and leaves fall on the streets and advertisements that have been cut off from the trees, and then they have to be removed before traffic can be restored. A similar situation occurs after road accidents. Although road builders appear as the first places on the scene, the cleaning crews can take care of even more thorough cleaning of the street.
Go Ballistic is a video redemption arcade game requiring the players to physically move around by tossing soft play balls at a 47" touch screen across 5 different and exciting interactive games, all with the own unique theme. The games are not level-progressive so players have complete freedom to select whichever game and whatever level they want to play! Each mini-game has an interesting theme and a mission that players must accomplish through tossing balls at moving targets onscreen to win points! There is no limit to the number of balls per game so players can toss as many balls as they like. There is however a time limit so speed and skills do come into play! The more points earned the more tickets won!
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The LEAP Core Curriculum is comprised of a variety of liberal arts courses in addition to courses in the Performing Arts.
This first seminar develops skills of critical thinking, critical reading and writing, and shared inquiry that are foundational to Collegiate Seminar. Students will read, write about and discuss a selection of classic and modern texts from the Western tradition. The reading list is current but subject to modi cation. From some texts only excerpts are read.
This is a course to connect basic biology concepts using the human as an illustrative example. Basic scientific processes and the concepts of human biology will be explored through lecture. Topics will include science and society, the chemistry of living things, structure and function of cells, genetics, anatomy and physiology of the organ systems, reproduction, cancer, aging, evolution, human impacts and environmental issues.
Students continue to develop the rhetorical and critical thinking skills they need to analyze texts and to structure complex arguments. In addition, students practice evaluating sources, exploring arguments through library research, and supporting original theses with appropriate evidence. Through a scaffolded process, students write and revise two or more essays, at least one of which is a substantial research essay of 8-12 pages that presents an extended argument. This course prepares students for the Writing in the Disciplines courses that they will encounter in their major. It requires the completion of at least 5,000 words of formal writing, and an additional 2,500 words of informal writing practice. A grade of at least C- in English 4 is prerequisite to enrollment in English 5. A grade of at least C- in English 5 is prerequisite to enrollment in Writing in the Disciplines courses.
The exploration of the learning cycle, from reflection on experience to construction and application of knowledge. This analytical and self-reflective process is recorded in an Experiential Learning Portfolio, a collection of essays and supporting documentation, which may be further evaluated for transcripted academic credit.
The course examines the nature of culture and the diversity of societies worldwide. It focuses on cultures in Asia, Oceania, Africa and the Americas, and introduces the beginning student to some of the main topics of anthropology including kinship, gender, the world system, eldwork, magic and religion, race and ethnicity, social change and the political system of societies throughout the world.
A reflective examination of basic mathematical ideas and patterns. Through participation in the discovery and development of mathematical ideas the student will view the subject as a vehicle for human creativity. The course traces the historical and contemporary role of appropriate mathematical topics.
second and third seminars, readings focus on the Great Conversation of the modern world, which includes the West but also includes important intercultural and global voices. The course focuses on issues of signi cant relevance for a 21st century student, as well as texts that allow for integrative thinking across the entire Collegiate Seminar sequence. The last portion of the course will include student re ections on what they have learned and how they have grown, revisiting the steps of their intellectual development in a capstone experience.
Global issues of wealth, poverty and socio-economic justice are explored through the lens of various sacred texts which have had a profound infuence on religion, art, politics, and culture for over two thousand years. Focusing on the Torah and Gospels, this course will teach students to employ critical and scholarly tools for reading and interpretation.
The elective and Senior Project courses encourage students to pursue their special interests in dance or other subjects.
This course examines dance from a critical and intersectional perspective through the lenses of power and privilege, using the medium to explore race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality, ability, age, etc. The class attends dance concerts around the Bay Area; the concerts are selected to engage with a variety of dance styles, venues, and ideas and the class dialogue about them is at the central work of the course. This course is writing intensive.
An introduction to the theory, history, and styles of acting with emphasis on the development of a character, script analysis, and the dynamics of performance.
This course covers the development of dance from its roots in court dancing through the development of ballet to the beginning of the modern era.
A study of the history, tradition, and the recent developments of the various styles and techniques of American dance, including ballet, modern, musical theatre, tap, and jazz.
This course emphasizes the history and aesthetics of music. Students hear music from all historical periods performed by outstanding orchestras, opera companies, chamber ensembles, and soloists.

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