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What is marriage all about? Based upon my personal research, experimentation, and analysis, I have the answers to your questions.
This is for all you young'uns who're on the cusp of searching for a mate or for the older and hopefully wiser female who perhaps wants to dip a toe back into the dating pond.
Do you want a life partner with whom to share your laughs, your tears, your bout with intestinal flu, your pillow and cat-laden bed, and to assist in the breeding of your offspring?
What's the secret to my long lasting (twenty-two years together, nineteen married) relationship?
The secret is…COMPROMISE.
Not really. I'm only messing with your head.
What works around here is torture and retaliation.
That's it. Simple. Torture and retaliation.
It works like magic.
Case in point: My tugboat man goes out to sea for quite a while-usually two months or so at at time. When he returns, all he can think about (other than THAT) is surfing. Yes, he's a big old surfer baby. Right now there are big winter waves pounding our coast.
This is not my captain because he's not a dick dragger. That is NOT my term. I didn't think of it but I wish I had. It's what the young folks call a boogie boarder. Very descriptive, right? Think about it…
A couple days ago he left at 5:30 a.m. to surf in La Jolla. In case you're a surfer yourself, waves were mostly six feet with an occasional eight foot set. I was just about on my last nerve with this surf obsesh, so I blocked the driveway with sawhorses and trash cans so he couldn't pull in the driveway. Hee hee.He had to get out of his truck, move the obstacles, and then pull in.
After that, I used my wiles to torture him into building four more shelves for my lovely collection of shells and rocks.
And that brings us to today. Sunday. I guess the honeymoon's over.
I was out in the garage chatting up the hubs about tonight's dinner menu: freshly baked French bread, Caesar salad with my signature dressing, and thought I'd make some Frico at the same time that I make the croutons. I asked him:
"Have you ever had Frico? Do you know what it is?"
"Yeah, I know what a Frico is, I'm married to one."
How RUDE. HOW RUDE!
I was being the best wife ever; I brought him lunch on a tray while he was working on restoring his rowboat and building yet another shelf (I love shelves, OK?) and THIS is the attitude I have to deal with!? After I brought him a wheatgrass smoothie, fresh pear cut in half and filled with nonfat cottage cheese dusted with cinnamon–and to make it extra-special, a smiley face out of fresh blueberries–he retaliates with a comment like that? Oh, he'll pay all right, oh yes he will. We'll see who's FREAKY when he takes me to South Coast Plaza tomorrow. We'll test the limits of his stamina and endurance throughout the huge shopping center. We'll whet our whistle at one end with Bloomingdales as we march determinedly toward my personal holy grail, (do you hear the trumpets sounding?) as we round the corner to….Chanel–Chanel, the holder of my bliss.
Torture and retaliation-the stuff of which great marriages are made.
Frico, not Freako
- 1 (3-oz) piece Parmigiano-Reggiano
- 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
Preheat oven to 375°F.
Using largest holes on a 4-sided grater, coarsely shred enough cheese to measure 1 cup. Line a large baking sheet with nonstick liner. Stir together cheese, flour, and pepper. Arrange tablespoons of cheese 4 inches apart on liner, stirring cheese in bowl between tablespoons to keep flour evenly distributed. Flatten each mound slightly with a metal spatula to form a 3-inch round.Bake frico in middle of oven until golden, about 10 minutes. Cool 2 minutes on sheet on a rack, then carefully transfer each crisp (they are very delicate) with metal spatula to rack to cool completely.


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Japan is home of the famous Sakura, the beautiful cherry blossom that bloom in all parts of Japan from March to May depending on the areas.
The Inokashira park, at the west of Shinjuku is one of the most famous spot for Sakuras in Tokyo.
Tama area is the name of the western part of Tokyo Metropolis. It consists of 26 cities, 3 towns and a village. A lot of people (about 4 milion) live in a eastern half part of the area. However, there are many mountains in the western part of Tama area, and there are very little flat land. Many hiking spots are in the western area, so you can enjoy walking on the trail, camping, and so on. If you see the beautiful mountain scene, you may not believe this is also in Tokyo.

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Designers Face Clutter and Mayhem In This Family Garage Overhaul
NEW YORK - March 5, 2007 - Bravo's "Top Design" finds the remaining seven interior design contestants working together to create a dream garage for the all-American family on Wednesday, March 7 @ 10 PM ET/PT. It's no easy task as they compete to please a demanding family of six - including three precocious kids, two parents, and a dog. Watch what happens as the designers put their skills to the ultimate test in an attempt to turn an unfinished, cluttered garage into a functional space - replete with a stage for the children's plays and costumes; room for the family SUV; a home office space; and a super-plush dog bed. With the help of special guest judge Mark Rios, an award-winning architect, one contestant will create the "Top Design," and another will be sent packing.
Joining host Todd Oldham ("Top Design" host, designer) are judges Jonathan Adler ("Top Design" lead judge, interior designer), Margaret Russell ("Top Design" judge, editor-in-chief of ELLE DECOR Magazine) and Kelly Wearstler ("Top Design" judge, interior designer), who - along with a special guest judge Mark Rios (architect) - will decide who has created the "Top Design," and who will be sent home.
Episode 6: "Life of the Party"
Special Guest Judge: Ben Bourgeois (event producer)
Air Date: March 14 @ 10 PM ET/PT
Party on! The contestants will be split into two teams of three in the sixth "Top Design" challenge and asked to design competing party spaces for Bacardi Limon to entertain guests of ELLE DECOR Magazine. Find out who can really party in this all-new episode.
Episode 7: "Chef's Choice"
Special Guest Judge: Tom Colicchio (Chef)
Air Date: March 21 @ 10 PM ET/PT
The competition gets cookin' in the seventh episode of "Top Design" when the remaining contestants face "Top Chef" Head Judge Tom Colicchio (Chef) in their hardest design challenge yet, to design a chef's private dining room.
Episode 8: "Metropolitan Home Suites"
Special Guest Judge: Linda O'Keeffe (Director of Design & Architecture - Metropolitan Home Magazine)
Air Date: March 28th @ 10 PM ET/PT
The creative juices will flow as the remaining contestants head to the upscale Viceroy Hotel in Los Angeles to design a high-end modern hotel room.
Episode 9: "ELLE DECOR Cover Inspiration"
Special Guest Judge: Michael Berman (furniture and interior designer)
Air Date: April 4 @ 10 PM ET/PT
The strongest remaining interior design contestants select one of 10 ELLE DECOR Magazine covers as inspiration for their design.
Episode 10, Series Finale: "Lofty Designs"
Special Guest Judge: Trudie Styler (film producer, actress)
Air Date: April 11 @ 10 PM ET/PT
And then there were two. The remaining contenders who will strive to create the ultimate "Top Design" will each design the interior of a house -- two separate 1,700 square foot lofts in downtown Los Angeles to be exact. The series winner who creates the "Top Design" will win a brand new 2007 Acadia vehicle from GMC, an editorial feature in ELLE DECOR Magazine, plus the chance to showcase their design skills at ELLE DECOR'S Dining By Design, NYC, a lavish affair where designers, celebrities, and the who's who of fashion convene for a night of style, drama, excitement and spirited collaboration. No pressure though.
Bravo is the cable network that plugs people into arts, entertainment and pop culture with original programming, acclaimed drama series, movies, comedy and music specials, and by showing a whole different side of celebrities. Currently available in more than 83 million homes, Bravo is known for breaking exciting new personalities, shaking up the way we look at style, media, fame and Hollywood, pulling back the curtain on the creative process, and making influential and inventive original programming. Its critically acclaimed original programming includes the Emmy-nominated "Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List," 12-time Emmy-nominated "Inside the Actors Studio," "The Real Housewives of Orange County," "Top Chef," "Celebrity Poker Showdown," as well as the 2004 Emmy winner for Outstanding Reality Program, "Queer Eye," and the four-time Emmy-nominated hit competition series, "Project Runway."
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Jonathan M. Yeager, Enlightened Evangelicalism: The Life and Thought of John Erskine (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).
This excellent new book is a "life and thought" of one of Edwards' most important correspondents, the Rev. John Erskine, a leading divine in the Church of Scotland from 1744 until his death in 1803.
The best-known minister of the "Popular party" in the eighteenth-century Kirk, Erskine repackaged orthodox Calvinism to meet Enlightenment challenges. Like Edwards, he was a Calvinist, a passionate evangelical, a serious intellectual, and a major bibliophile who contributed to what we might call, ironically, the Protestant or Christian republic of letters. By means of extensive correspondence, to which he attached hundreds of books for numerous evangelical friends on both sides of the Atlantic, Erskine proved extremely important to the intellectual development of other leading ministers, such as Edwards, Joseph Bellamy, Samuel Hopkins, Thomas Foxcroft, Jedidiah Morse, and John Ryland, Jr. By means of his editorial labors, Erskine also played a leading role in spreading Edwards' writings through Great Britain.
Yeager's book is not so much a standard biography as a monograph describing Erskine's life and interpreting it in relation to the Scottish and British Enlightenments, the history of the book in the early modern Atlantic world, Anglo-American religion, and the history of Protestant thought. Yeager complicates (further) our understanding of the Enlightenment, contributing to the revision of the history of the Enlightenment underway for a generation (by including Erskine within it, along with other evangelicals). He adds color and detail to our pictures of the history of the book and of the book trade in Britain in America. He fills out our understanding of the transatlantic Awakening, the rise of evangelicalism, and modern Protestant history.
His main argument is that Erskine was most important to posterity not as a pastor or an author, but as a disseminator of evangelical Calvinism through books and through extensive correspondence. Erskine learned both German and Dutch–while a senior, in his sixties–so that he could transmit the latest continental European thought to the Anglo-American world. He spent countless hours per week writing letters to thinkers abroad, often thousands of miles away, many of whom he never met. He spent untold amounts of money sending books to his friends. He devoted much of his energy, nearly every week of his life, to the spread of religious news.
Erskine was not as visible in his contribution to evangelicalism as Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley or George Whitefield, which is probably why Scotland's leading eighteenth-century evangelical has occupied a veritable unmarked grave among the more elaborate monuments. Whereas many notable evangelicals busily traveled throughout Britain and America or penned definitive theological treatises, Erskine's significance was as a propagator of books. Although he published many of his sermons and put forward some interesting theological essays, he remained content as a man behind the scenes, promoting the abilities and writings of others (p. 204).
He reminds me of the leading Christian bloggers at work today, Justin Taylor for example, who describes his own work in similar terms.
Yeager's scholarship is solid, his writing clear and compelling. Enlightened Evangelicalism is now the definitive treatment of Erskine's life and crucial literary labors.
–By Douglas Sweeney, Director of the JEC at TEDS
Tags: British Enlightenment, enlightened evangelicalism, evangelical calvinism, jedidiah morse, john erskine, john ryland, jonathan m. yeager, joseph bellamy, jr., samuel hopkins, thomas foxcroft


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Root Canals can be difficult and I can't tell you how many times I've seen and heard of horror stories in the Chicagoland area. It's awful. From infections, to several re-treatments there can be a wide array of issues that rear their ugly head when you get the wrong Dentist (who wants to be a weekend warrior Endodontist) or even the wrong Endodontist. A lot of Dentists will tell you that they have had the same training that an Endodontist has and that is true to a certain degree. The thing they left out is that Endodontists go to school another 2 years to specialize in Endodontics. This is where they receive all the advanced training for the difficult cases that can get ugly! In this economy you will find more and more Dentists not willing to refer the work to an Endodontist, they want to keep the fee in-house and that means they are going to take a crack at doing your root canal themselves. It's a lot like having your General Practitioner remove your appendix. They understand how its done, perhaps they even have some ER experience from back in the day… but that doesn't mean they should be cutting folks open.
So the trend we are seeing is that your Dentist will try and give you the root canal first. If it's an easy peasy slam dunk they look great, and they get to make some extra cash. If it isn't though… you pay the price literally and figuratively. For instance if there is a complication we have found that it is not uncommon for a Dentist to stitch you up, say you are done and wait for you to come back so they can refer you out to a Endontist to clean up their mess. This really stinks because you now have to pay twice for the procedure that would have likely been done the first time, and you have to suffer through all the complications that infection, and having the root in your mouth still causes. The second procedure ("re-treatment") is usually more invasive so the healing time is longer as well.
The worst part is there are not many Endodontists that will call your Dentist out on it. These types of malpractice cases take a lot of the specialist's time and costs them a lot of money in missed work. In addition they become blacklisted because Dentists network together, are you really going to call out a Dentist that sends you 20 referals a month? That's a lot of money. So most Endodontists that see this type of malpractice shake their head and clean up the mess.
An ethical Dentist will refer you to a specialist for your root canal right away and that means you will be seeing an Endodontist. This is the best way to take care of yourself because you will know that the work is being done by someone that has seen everything that can complicate a root canal. We decided to start a list of the best Endodontists. We started in our home area (the Chicagoland area) first. We will be adding to this list as time goes on. This is what we found:
- Naperville, Illinois – Is Absolutely The Best Endodontist in the State – Dr. Linda Ricks – 1112 South Washington, Naperville, IL 60540 – 630-579-0970


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August 2, 2012
FOCUS Early Alert Software provides immediate
intervention to students
At Columbus State, we know that education involves a lot
more than just offering classes and degree programs. It involves
understanding the challenges students face in achieving success,
and finding ways to help them overcome those challenges.
Some challenges that impede student success include non-
attendance or attendance concerns, missing assignments, lack
of class participation, low test/quiz scores, and low GPA.
The Title III - Strengthening Institutions office has introduced a new Starfish Retention Solutions early-alert software system—known to our students as "FOCUS"—which provides a means of monitoring student progress on an individual basis. Students who are identified as "at risk" in a course due to attendance, grade, or participation concerns receive an automatic email telling them to contact their instructor to discuss the issue(s). In addition, instructors may add customized notices to the system to address particular concerns for their individual course or students. Students see any notices not only in their email, but also when they log onto Blackboard.
Additionally, students receive information on support services designed to help them, such as tutoring or advising. Instructors can directly refer students to support services through the FOCUS system. The college has a retention specialist on staff to contact students who have received multiple notices and connect them with college resources that can assist them.
FOCUS is not just for at-risk students, it also allows us to harness the potential of positive reinforcement in student success. Through FOCUS, instructors can send "kudos" to students who do well in their courses. Intervention notices are cleared from the system once the issue is resolved, but kudos are left up throughout the semester, so students are reminded that their good work has been recognized.
Teddi Lewis-Hotopp, Title III director, says, "We are just scratching the surface on the capabilities the Starfish system will provide us. For example, the committee will soon work on identifying predictors for overall student success, such as overall GPA, so that we can correlate notices with a greater number of success factors. This will allow us to intervene on a more comprehensive level, rather than just class by class."
Piloting of the FOCUS software will continue in the fall, with an expanded group of students and courses included on both the Delaware and Columbus campuses. Targeted for inclusion in the pilot are the new COLS 1100 and 1101 courses, as well as courses taken by the new cohort of Preferred Pathway scholars. In addition, any faculty member may request that their course be added to FOCUS as part of the pilot by contacting Teddi Lewis-Hotopp.
For faculty, tutors, and advising staff interested in training on the FOCUS system, Title III – Strengthening Institutions is offering a symposium on August 10. Registration for the morning or afternoon session can be completed at
Make some noise for fall enrollment!
Fall starts early this year—make sure your students are ready.
The term starts August 29, as compared with September 21 last year, so the start of the semester is creeping up fast. Columbus State would like all faculty, staff and everyone who deals with students, to remind them to get registered on time!
Here's how you can help:
Make an announcement in your class.
Make an announcement on Blackboard.
Post our fall enrollment page on Twitter or Facebook. Here it is: http://bit.ly/M3we8B
Want to check daily enrollment stats? They're located here: http://intranet.cscc.edu/stats/. Thanks for your help!
Hachet named August SEOM
Kim Hachet, call center representative in the Telephone Information Center, was named the Staff Employee of the Month for August, for not only her efficient and friendly work ethic on the phone with students, but also for her helpful training procedures and mentoring style for new employees in the TIC.
Consistently patient and professional from the first call of the day through to the 200th call, Hachet truly enjoys researching all types of material related to higher education, college procedures and student concerns, according to her supervisor, Nina Reese.
She created wiki spaces for the TIC so that her co-workers could have access to information at a moment's notice, and she keeps them up to date and accurate at all times, greatly improving the operations at the TIC, and assisting new employees with the orientation process.
Library sparkles with new artwork
Cleveland artist and CCAD graduate Olga Ziemska installs her sculpture "Indra" on the south side of the Library last weekend. The sculpture was commissioned by Columbus State and the Ohio Arts Council as part of the Percent for Art program. Watch a video made during the installation, below:
Columbus State hosts Ohio testing conference, Kalna to present at national
The first annual state conference for the Ohio College Testing Association (OCTA) was held June 15 at Columbus State with 58 attendees representing 31 Ohio colleges. Eight national test vendor companies attended including: ACT, Inc., Nocti Business Solutions, Pearson VUE, The College Board, McGrawHill, Register Blast, Castle World Wide Testing Solutions, and Law School Admission Council (LSAC).
"OCTA was formed to be affiliated with the National College Testing Association to provide professional support and development to professionals working in various forms of testing services in colleges, universities and other institutional-based testing centers in Ohio," said Jim Kalna, supervisor of the Columbus State Testing & Talent Assessment Center. Kalna is president of the OCTA Governing Board of Officers and will present "Growing Your Test Center's Business and Revenue" at the National College Testing Association's 13th Annual Conference in Minneapolis this week. He will also receive the NCTA Certified Test Center plaque at the conference. Columbus State is one of only four in the nation and Ohio's only test center to be certified by the NCTA. Kalna will receive a Service Award as well, for his work on the States and Regional Organizations Committee.
Foor named best new automotive teacher
David Foor, left, instructor in Automotive Technology, accepts the 2012 North American Council of Automotive Teachers (NACAT)Education Foundation New Automotive Teacher Award from Fritz Peacock, NACAT Board Member. This award is presented each year to one outstanding high school or postsecondary automotive teacher in North America. Foor was nominated for the award by the faculty and chair of his department and accepted the award at the NACAT Conference held July 16–20 in Tyler, Texas.
Beethoven run discount for Columbus State employees and students
Columbus State runners, walkers and music lovers can still get a $10 discount when they sign up for the August 11 Beethoven 5K.
All Columbus State students and employees can receive $10 off the $30 registration fee, but only by turning in their registration form to Vickie Hunter in Marketing and Communications (Franklin 132). The deadline to receive the Columbus State discount has been extended to Tuesday, August 7.
The Westerville road race will begin with the famous opening notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Volunteers will be stationed about every 400 meters playing the symphony on loudspeakers. Participants who finish before the symphony ends (it's 31-32 minutes long) will win a ticket to see any Westerville Symphony concert.
Every participant also will receive a colorful Beethoven 5K T-shirt, and WOSU radio is providing additional awards. Earth Fare will provide food and beverages for the participants.
Funds from the race will be used to start a scholarship program.
Click here for the entry form.


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British/Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE explores colonialism and the intricate ways in which it has shaped, and continues to shape, cultural identities. He is well known for his life-size sculptural tableaux featuring staged, headless mannequins dressed in elaborate period garments. In these works, the materials and designs of the original clothing are replaced with batik, a colorful and ornately patterned fabric.
December 2012 is the 10th anniversary of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth's building designed by Tadao Ando. The Modern will mark the anniversary with a series of new acquisitions on view this fall, culminating in a celebration gala and dinner on December 6, 2012.
Director Marla Price comments, "These are exciting additions to the Modern's permanent collection. We are acquiring work by important new artists in several cases and increasing our holdings of works by Vernon Fisher, Dan Flavin, Howard Hodgkin, Sol LeWitt, Bruce Nauman, and Nicholas Nixon."
As an encore presentation to last winter's exhibition, FOCUS: KAWS, which featured the work of Brooklyn-based artist KAWS (b. Brian Donnelly, 1974), the Modern is currently featuring the installation of the artist's monumental sculpture, COMPANION (PASSING THROUGH), 2010. The work has been on view at the Modern's entrance since September 9, 2012. Originally scheduled to leave on January 6, the installation at the Modern has been extended through March 31.
The Modern maintains one of the foremost collections of modern and contemporary international art in the central United States. Various movements, themes, and styles are represented, including Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, Pop art, and Minimalism, as well as aspects of New Image Painting from the 1970s and beyond, recent developments in abstraction and figurative sculpture, and contemporary movements in photography, video, and digital imagery.
Lucian Freud is widely considered the greatest portrait painter of the twentieth century. His visceral renderings of people from all walks of life have a painterly and psychological drama that is unparalleled in contemporary art. For much of a century—from the late 1940s until his recent death in July 2011—Freud made the living human presence his subject.
Ged Quinn's paintings combine landscapes in the vein of Claude Lorrain with fragments of history, art history, and mythology. The works are awe-inspiring in their combination of painterly skills and provocative conceptual strains. In Quinn's work, sublime backgrounds meet broken-down foregrounds, and at all turns utopian ideals are acknowledged and critiqued. Death, deceit, and decay are also dragged into the frame.
Katie Paterson is known for her multidisciplinary and conceptually driven work, with an emphasis on nature, ecology, geology, and cosmology. Many of her installations have been the result of intensive research and collaboration with specialists as diverse as astronomers, nanotechnologists, and firework manufacturers.
Glenn Ligon: AMERICA is the first comprehensive, mid-career retrospective of Glenn Ligon (b. 1960), widely regarded as one of the most important and influential American artists to have emerged in the past two decades
The work of Brooklyn-based artist, Brian Donnelly, who makes his art under the moniker, "KAWS," is the subject of the first Focus exhibition for the coming 2011-2012 Season.
Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series is the most comprehensive show to date of Diebenkorn's most celebrated works. Coorganized by Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, California, and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the exhibition is curated by OCMA curator Sarah C. Bancroft.


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SYRACUSE When Stephanie Heath Higgins met Grace, she could barely hold up her head.
The pit bull, at 7 or 8 years old, should have weighed around 60 pounds. But Grace weighed about 30. She was emaciated, dehydrated, suffering from an eye infection. She couldn't walk. Her organs were shutting down.
But Higgins loved her anyway.
Higgins, founder and president of Cuse Pit Crew, led the charge to gather donations for Grace's care after she was brought in by Syracuse Police Officer Rebecca Thompson, the SPD's dedicated animal cruelty officer. The dog's owner, Marquette Jamison, 35, of 1511 W. Onondaga St., was charged Oct. 3 failure to provide medical care to an animal that needs it and failure to provide proper sustenance. Both charges are misdemeanors. Jamison was released on an appearance ticket to appear in Syracuse City Court.
Meanwhile, though the community rallied around her, Grace was unable to recover from the damage that had been done to her. She had to be euthanized Saturday, Oct. 6.
"As a result of months of neglect by her owner, Gracie's condition was not curable," Higgins wrote on Cuse Pit Crew's Facebook page. "She fell into advanced kidney failure. I can assure this great community who has rallied behind her that she had the best care and every medical avenue was exhausted. I know in the short time I befriended this sweet girl that she felt the love and energy from all of you. I genuinely feel that through all of your emotional support that Gracie knew what it was like to be loved before she died.
Grace's death prompted Cuse Pit Crew to author an online petition through Change.org calling for State Sen. David Valesky to lead the state legislature in moving companion animals in New York out of NYS Agriculture and Markets Law and into NYS Penal Law. Doing so would allow those charged with the abuse or neglect of an animal to be charged with a felony; under the current statute, they can only be charged with a misdemeanor. Valesky was chosen not only because he represents Central New York, but because he is a member of the Agriculture Committee in the New York State Senate.
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University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf is an important research facility and hospital in the north of the city and offers a complete range of treatment options for patients. New ideas in research and new approaches for the diagnosis and therapy of diseases are applied. The range of medical care extends from overall diagnostic service to highly specialized and complex treatments necessary for uncommon diseases. A large number of therapies and complicated surgical procedures, especially in the field of transplantation (heart, liver, kidney as well as bone marrow) can only be performed at the Hospital.
The Hospital has 1600 beds and each year the medical center treats 92,000 in-patients and 291,000 out-patients – among them 122,000 emergency patients.
The Hospital has a renowned team of dedicated medical specialists, which welcomes both local and international patients.
St. Lukas Group of hospitals was established in 2004 with 4 hospitals merging together to become one. The group includes Dortmund-West Catholic Hospital, St. Joseph's Hospital in Dortmund-Hörde, and St. Rochus Hospital in Castrop-Rauyel and St. Lambertus retirement home in Castrop-Rauxel.
They specializes in Chronic Diseases, Executive Health-checks, Obesity-Bariatric Surgery, General Medicine, Pediatric Treatment, ENT, Vascular Surgery, Weight Loss Program, General Surgery, Urology, Neurology, Gynecology Treatment, Infertility-IVF, Orthopedic-Knee Surgery, Cancer Treatment, Gynecology Treatment, Alternative Medicine, Spine Care-Surgery, Rehabilitation, Psychiatry, Eye-Laser Care.
The Hospital has a renowned team of dedicated medical specialists, which welcomes both local and international patients.
The HELIOS Hospital Schwerin is a tertiary care institution and teaching hospital of the University of Rostock. The Hospital has 34 medical departments and has a specialized Oncology Center, which has 5 subspecialty centers that include a Breast Cancer Center, Skin Cancer Center, Colorectal Cancer Center, Lung Cancer Center, and Gynecological Cancer Center.
The hospital has over 1,000 beds and combined with the clinic, has 1,450 beds and they treat more than 55,000 inpatients and 72,000 outpatients per year.
HELIOS Hospital Schwerin is part of the HELIOS Hospital Group, which has a network of 111 hospitals. HELIOS stands for high-quality medical care, using both the most up-to-date and the least intrusive methods. Their mission is to provide the finest medical treatment using both state-of-the-art procedures and technology. The inter-disciplinary approach of their highly skilled and experienced medical and nursing teams guarantees the best possible care for you.
The Hospital has a renowned team of dedicated medical specialists, which welcomes both local and international patients.
HELIOS Hospital Berlin-Zehlendorf was established in 2000 and is one of the largest hospitals providing specialized care in the southwest of Berlin and is part of the HELIOS Hospital Group
The Hospital has 13 departments which include general surgery, pediatrics, anesthesiology, orthopedics and traumatology, plastic and reconstructive surgery, and thoracic surgery etc. The hospital has seven certified centers, 507 beds, cardiac catheterization laboratory, and an ICU.
They are committed to providing their patients with the safest and highest of quality care. The Hospital has a renowned team of dedicated medical specialists, which welcomes both local and international patients.
MEOCLINIC was established in 2000 and is one of Germany's most renowned private clinics offering its patients the highest level of medical services. You can book an appointment with any of the specialists when it is convenient for you and within the shortest possible time. 50 doctors specializing in over 30 fields of medicine will be taking care of your health. Their specialists have access to the wide range of advanced diagnostic methods: modern x-ray equipment, CT and MRI, high resolution endoscopy and cardiac MRI.
It encompasses a broad spectrum of specialist fields, including internal medicine, general surgery, neurology, neurosurgery, radiology, dermatology, gynecology, cardiology, orthopedics, and urology, all at the highest scientific level. All rooms are designed to provide patients with not only a calming and luxurious atmosphere but also the very latest medical technology and equipment.
The quality of service in the Meoclinic is comparable to a 5 star hotel. Relaxed ambience, healthy food and exclusive interiors; free Wi-Fi and a wide range of international TV channels – all you need for work and rest. The world-class expertise and the outstanding quality of medical care create the atmosphere of trust and security and are the key to your health. Meoclinic puts patients at the heart of everything – to make all necessary steps as pleasant as possible!
HELIOS Hospital Munich-West was established in 2007 and has over 10 departments, which include cardiology, ear, nose and throat (ENT), endocrinology, gastroenterology, radiology, gynecology, general surgery, orthopedics, neurology, neurosurgery, and oncology, in addition to an intestinal center. The 10 specialist departments have a capacity for over 400 beds and they treat approximately 19,000 inpatients and 69,000 outpatients yearly.
HELIOS Hospital Munich-West is part of the HELIOS Hospital Group, which has a network of 111 hospitals.
The Hospital has a renowned team of dedicated medical specialists, which welcomes both local and international patients.
About Germany
Germany is the largest country in Central Europe as well as the world's fourth-largest economy by GDP. As a highly developed country, they are known to have the best healthcare system in Europe. Although treatment prices are considerably higher compared to neighboring countries such as Hungary and Poland, medical tourists usually come to the city for quality rather than the price. The medical centers in Germany rely more on local accreditation organizations, such as the German Institute for Standardization, TEMOS, and the Cooperation for Quality and Transparency in Healthcare (KTQ-GmBH). However, there are two JCI accredited medical facilities in the country. The country offers a wide range of medical procedures, with Paraneoplastic treatments as the most sought-after procedures.
Popular Cities and Regions
Germany is full of history and advanced technology. Berlin, the country's capital city, offers diverse sights to see. Tourists are welcome to visit the glass dome of The Reichstag, walk around the Brandenburg Gate, or wander around Museumsinsel (Museum Island). Another popular destination for medical tourists is Munich. The city offers historical tours, such as the Church of St. Peter, which is the city's oldest parish church dating back six centuries. The BMW museum is also a must-visit, especially for car enthusiasts. For anyone looking for refreshing sea air, Hamburg is a nice place to visit as the city is mainly surrounded by water. Tourists can stroll around the harbor or sail on the Outer Alster Lake.
The largest airport in Germany is Frankfurt Airport. It serves international and domestic flights. Budget airlines such as Ryanair and Euro Wings operates flights from this airport and can be a great option for tourists who wish to travel around Germany inexpensively. The country boasts some of the best public transportation in the world. The public transportation is integrated with one ticket, which allows tourists to access buses, trams, U-Bahn trains, and S-Bahn trains. Taxis are also available but they tend to be expensive.
As a member of the European Union, Germany allows other citizens of the EU to enter without a visa. Citizens of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Israel, Japan, Poland, the US, and Switzerland are also granted visa-free entry for up to 90 days. Citizens of other countries need to obtain a Schengen Visa to enter the country.
Summer starts in June and ends in August with an average temperature of around 24°C. Summer is the most popular time to visit since people can enjoy numerous outdoor activities. From September to October is autumn and the temperature is almost as pleasant as summer. Winter starts in December, and the weather can be cold. Spring comes around March and temperatures warm up rapidly.
Additional Info
- Local Currency: The euro is the local currency. 1 USD converts to 0.9 EUR.
- Money & Payments: It is fairly easy to find ATMs in Germany and tourists can obtain cash via ATMs that are linked to international networks. Credit cards are not widely accepted and tipping is common.
- Local Language: German is the official language. Many people in tourism areas will know a little English.
- Local Culture and Religion: More than half of the population follows Christianity. Islam is the second-largest religion. Other religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism, and Judaism are also practiced.
- Public holidays: Germany celebrates Christian religious holidays.The country hosts the Maibaumaufstellung festival every 1st of May and Oktoberfest every October.


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Pence is welcomed by the fans and the Phanatic last night in Philly
The Phillies won their second game against the Pirates last night before another enthusiastic sold out crowd that welcomed Hunter Pence to the team with a nice standing ovation. Pence would have got his first hit as a Phillie, but the first base umpire, Angel Hernandez, called Pence out on the play when he was clearly safe. Hernandez had a perfect view of the play and just blew it.
Ryan Howard had one of those games, he was 4-4 with 3 RBI on the night. He also notched his 1,000th hit last night, when informed about it from the post game interview with Gary Mathews, Howard said, 'oh, that's cool, I didn't know about that.' Now that's a ballplayer, he just goes out there and does his job and doesn't worry about statistics, he'll have plenty of time to look at those after he retires many years from now. Howard is continuing to evolve as an all around baseball player, not simply a home run threat.
The addition of Pence was what the Phillies needed to give a bit of spark to this batting lineup. Pence will start getting down to business and getting his hits soon enough. He also said he was 'ecstatic' to be here in Philly, and was really impressed by the way the fans welcomed him.
Cliff Lee was again not lights out last night, he showed that vulnerable side of him by giving up 8 H and 4 R over 7.2 innings, but this is baseball and Lee looks like he is trying hard but somehow is giving up the long ball. Lee has given up 5 HR in the month of July, in June he didn't give up any home runs.
The Phils go for the sweep this afternoon in Philly, it should be a nice hot day out there and it's going to be the second game for Hunter Pence and his new team.
By the Numbers
|Phillies record-
|Phils Best BA as of 7/30
|.305- Shane Victorino
|Most 2B hits as of 7/30
|23 – Ryan Howard
|Most 3B hits as of 7/30
|12 – Shane Victorino
|2nd in RBI on the Phillies 7/30
|55- Raul Ibanez (Howard is first with 81 RBI)


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The Harvard men's hockey team tied Rensselaer, 2-2, Friday night at Bright Hockey Center, matching the NCAA record with its 10th tie of the season.
Brock Higgs scored an extra-attacker goal with 63 seconds left in regulation to rally Rensselaer (7-19-3, 4-10-3 ECAC Hockey) after Luke Greiner gave the Crimson (7-7-10, 6-4-8) a third-period lead. The draw kept Harvard unbeaten in its last seven league games.
Alex Fallstrom also scored for Harvard, erasing RPI's 1-0 lead in the first period. Raphael Girard made 27 saves, while Rensselaer's Bryce Merriam logged 29, as the Crimson owned a 31-29 shots advantage. CJ Lee notched a goal and an assist for the Engineers.
Higgs assured RPI of one point in the standings by banging the puck in from in front of the goal after Patrick Cullen fired in a shot from the right wall and Lee got a stick on the puck. The Engineers outshot Harvard, 4-2, in overtime. Merriam stopped Greiner's stuff attempt in front after an Eric Kroshus centering feed. Girard matched him with a save on Ryan Haggerty on the next RPI rush.
The Crimson's 10 ties match the totals posted by Minnesota State in 2002-03, Colorado College in 2008-09 and Western Michigan last season.
Harvard took the puck right at the net on its first shift of the game, with Danny Biega putting one shot on Merriam and Fallstrom forcing a pair of consecutive saves. Neither team broke through until the final five minutes of the frame, when Lee banged in the puck for a 1-0 RPI lead after Max Everson blocked a shot in front of Girard.
Fallstrom answered before two minutes had elapsed. This time it was Max Everson's shot getting blocked, but Marshall Everson centered to Fallstrom, who punched in his ninth goal. Each team had seven shots in the first period.
The shots picked up in the second period, but the score stayed at 1-1. Merriam stopped 11 Crimson shots, including one on Kroshus alone at the right post after getting the puck from Biega. Girard made seven saves on the other end and got help from the goalpost on a shot from Nick Bailen.
The Crimson started out strong in the third period, registering the first three shots of the frame, but it was not until midway through that Greiner gave Harvard a 2-1 edge. Kroshus stripped an RPI player of the puck along the right boards at the Engineers' blue line, carried in and waited for his opening to Greiner. The junior scored his seventh goal on a one-timer.
Both goalies made big stops the rest of the way, as each team registered 11 third-period shots. Three of Girard's saves came on two RPI power plays. The Crimson killed all three man-advantage chances for the Engineers, who in turn held Harvard scoreless in its two opportunities.


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The first of four lunar eclipses known as the "blood moons" will take place on Tuesday and those living in the U.S. are in for a treat.
"The most unique thing about the 2014-2015 tetrad is that all of them are visible for all or parts of the USA," said NASA expert Fred Espenak on Nasa.gov. A tetrad is a series of four consecutive total eclipses that take place at six month intervals.
Tuesday's eclipse starts at 2 a.m. EST, according to NASA, when the edge of the moon will enter the core of the earth's shadow. Total eclipse will occur at around 3 a.m. for those on the East Coast and at around midnight for those in the west. The event will last about 78 minutes, according to NASA.
U.S. & World
A total eclipse takes place when the earth casts a shadow on a full moon. The sunlight on the earth's surface shows up on its shadow and gives the moon a red, coppery glow.
Three more total eclipses are expected on Oct. 8, 2014, April 4, 2015 and Sept. 28, 2015.


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As high-net-worth investors work with greater numbers of financial professionals and gravitate toward boutique-like service models, such as RIAs, multifamily offices and state-registered trust companies, the pressure is on providers to attract new wealthy clients.
In a wide-ranging report on the high-net-worth market, defined as clients with $5 million or more in investable assets, Cerulli Associates said that while new clients were crucial, firms courted danger if they failed to better engage the heirs of existing clients.
Heirs who are not adequately prepared for inheritances not only threaten legacies, but are the greatest threat to legacy providers' asset bases when the fortunes are dispersed among numerous beneficiaries, Cerulli said.
The study found that HNW providers generally understood that engaging heirs now, including a spouse, increased the odds of retaining the inherited assets.
Many providers are trying to involve children at the outset of a new relationship, or persuading existing clients to invite their children. Others are designing boot camp programs to educate younger HNW investors on basic and advanced investing concepts, and to provide an opportunity to network with well-off peers.
These efforts give patriarchs and matriarchs the opportunity to explain the risks associated with accumulating wealth, and the risks that need to be hedged against when preserving wealth.
Cerulli said legacy providers, including wirehouses and bank trusts, should engage heirs to ensure they do not take cues from their wealth-creating peers, who are progressively shifting their assets to providers that offer greater levels of flexibility and control, including direct providers such as Fidelity and Charles Schwab.
The HNW Market's Allure
HNW families and their advisors offer asset managers intriguing opportunities owing to their complex needs, primary objectives and wide-ranging aspirational goals.
It's not surprising, then, that 56% of all asset managers surveyed by Cerulli considered the HNW market more appealing than other business lines because of investors' sophistication.
Another 53% found the market more attractive because of the various vehicles used, and 50% liked the long hold periods.
Less attractive aspects of the HNW market included a time-consuming sales process.
Cerulli said asset managers could gain significant insights by viewing these attributes of the individual distribution channels that are advising the clients. For example, asset managers rank RIAs as the most attractive channel for HNW clients.
Most RIAs, as well as multifamily offices, rely on third-party managers. Because they are autonomous and embrace open architecture, they are highly accommodating providers for cutting-edge products such as hedge funds.
Bank trusts represent the longest holding periods, but asset managers view them as conservative providers and do not like the lengthy sales process that averages 10 months.
The big wirehouses are an anomaly. With their immense scale, scope of services and huge advisor force, they dominate the overall HNW market both in assets and market share and are expected to uphold control, Cerulli said. Their advisors distribute the largest percentage of HNW assets to mutual funds and separate accounts compared with other channels. And thanks to their internal resources, they represent the fastest timeframe in winning an HNW account at an average of just five months.
However, the wirehouses are only the fourth-most attractive HNW channel for asset managers. Cerulli attributed this to the surge of RIAs and MFOs, bank trusts increasingly adopting open architecture and the fact that wirehouses are well known for leveraging their influence on required revenue sharing.
State-Registered Trusts
Cerulli estimated that state-registered trust companies control $446 billion in HNW assets, making them the third-largest HNW channel, albeit far behind wire houses with $2.3 trillion and private client groups with $1.4 trillion.
Cerulli said 2013 marked the first year it had presented state trusts as their own unique channel.
For asset managers, the majority of these banking organizations are nimbler and more technologically savvy than their nationally registered counterparts. As well, these firms tend to be more reliant on third-party managers and products because they lack the resources for proprietary funds.
At the same time, the study found, efficiently wholesaling into these firms may be a challenge owing to their private nature and scattered locations.
Cerulli expected state-registered trusts to continue to grow as more wealth managers and investors take advantage of states vying for the business via lax state laws and taxation.
It projected that the state-registered entities would post asset growth of more than 8% over the next 3.5 years, outpacing the growth of both nationally registered bank trusts and private client groups.
Fee Compression
Cerulli's data showed that nearly three-quarters of HNW providers remained committed to their "stated fee schedules" during the past three years, while the remaining one-quarter reported an increase.
However, Cerulli said that despite the actions taken over the past three years, major differences existed between HNW providers' stated fees and those they actually imposed.
Given the intensifying competition for HNW assets, a client's investable assets continued to be the pivotal element in determining fees, according to the report. Approximately three-quarters of HNW providers said their minimum fee was 1%, if not greater, while only 18% reported a minimum between 50 and 99 basis points.
In reality, discounting among HNW wealth managers remains rampant, the report said. On average, they impose a fee of just 51 basis points on all investors with more than $5 million in investable assets.
Cerulli reported that, on average, bank trust organizations were imposing among the lowest stated fees. This was especially true for clients investing between $25 million and $50 million.
Check out another story on this study, HNW Investors' Needs Differ as Wealth Increases: Cerulli, on ThinkAdvisor.


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App Review: World War™ by Storm8
by Dustin on
September 26, 2010
Filed under Daily App Reviews, Games, iPhone Apps
World War™ One of the most popular role playing games on the app market by Storm8. This game as a military based theme including aircraft, ground units and water units, each of which have their own special attack and defense. The game takes place in 2012 after nuclear war as broken out and only five counties are left to battle it out, those countries are United State, China, Russia, and the United Kingdom. When you start off you get to choose one of the following to join. Whatever country you are part of you will not be able to attack other members. Winning is based on overall performance on each country. Whatever country has the most kills and wins in battle will get a 15% increase in winnings on missions and attacks. The best is to attack the winning country which can be located in the battle menu. Other important features are how many alliance members you have in your group, each serve and important part on your skills and winnings against other players click here to read.
The game play of the game has a fantastic graphic interface,weapons and sound effects for battle. The only problems with crashing is when you are going into battle, older ipods/iphones may crash. I have seen no problems with the new models(2nd/3rd/4th iPod touches) iPhone(3gs/4).
The game has a few different versions, World War™, World War™: Desert Edition,World War™ v2.0, all include the same game features and weapons. Just the themes of the menus may be updated or changed. In some versions if you pay you will get points in the game that can be used for energy or rate items.
Overall, this is fun game that takes time,thought, and skill to play and get rewards. This is a great online game it reached #1 in the app store free to play unless you wont to pay for points which range from $4.99 to $99.99.
My Rating: 9/10
My Game Code: CEQ5MQ


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HP Slate6 VoiceTab Root:- An easy way to root your smartphone device is installing an one click root app. One click root apps are designed by various developers and launched under the banner of a brand on the web. Most of these apps are free to use and some app require purchase before use. With these apps users does not have to go through the complex coding to root their phone instead these apps are just installed on the smartphone and with one click of button your phone will be root. These apps follow same pattern to use most of the device so in future if you have to unroot your phone you can easily do that with an app which is mentioned in this page.
A bit about HP Slate6 VoiceTab before rooting
Display: 6.0 inch IPS LCD (720 x 1280 Resolution)
Launched: January 2014
Operating System: Android v4.3 Jelly Bean
Processor: 1.2 Ghz Quad Core
Internal Space: 16 GB
Battery : 3000 Li-Ion (Upto 9.0 hours of Video Playback)
How to Root HP Slate6 VoiceTab
In past rooting is very hectic process, imagine installing ADB drivers and then code your operating system so a users can root his device. Phew! A lot of hard work but new technology and simple hacks make it easy to root any android phone with just few tap on buttons.
Before following one of our methods to root your device please activate debugging mode in your smartphone.
1) Through Framaroot App
- Go to the following url "https://framaroot-app.com/" and install the app.
- Before installation the app required your permission because you are installing a custom app so when a pop-up prompt message will be appeared titled INSTALL BLOCKED just go to SETTINGS and tap on UNKNOWN SOURCE as shown in Figure.
- Open the app after installation and on select an option to execute choose INSTALL SUPERSU.
- On Select an Exploit tap on BOROMIR.
- This might result in two option first one is Exploit successful means your smartphone is rooted and second option is Your device seems not vulnerable to exploit which means this smartphone is highly protected by developer that's why it can't be rooted.
2) Through Iroot Software
The second method to root is quite bothersome because you need a usb cable and computer to root your smartphone.
- First step is to Unlock Developer Option and enter USB DEBUGGING Mode.
- Once you activated the USB DEBUGGING download and install the software Iroot from the website "http://www.iroot.com/iroot-for-pc".
- Once installed open the software and connect your smartphone to computer via USB Cable.
- Once your smartphone is connected iroot will automatically download the driver to run software.
- When every driver is downloaded then iroot will show the connected status and redirect to root option.
- Now click on button ROOT and wait for few minutes to root your smartphone.
If you are looking for more apps like Framaroot then try these out – Towelroot and Root Genius.
How to Unroot HP Slate6 VoiceTab
Just like rooting you should unroot your phone whenever you visit customer service office to repair your smartphone or installing operating system updates on your smartphone.
Using Supersu App
- Go To Playstore and Download Supersu App.
- Now go to settings page, scroll down and tap on FULL UNROOT.
Using Es File Explorer
- Go to play store and download the app ES File Explorer on your Internal Storage
- Once installed open the app and click on MENU mentioned on top left side of the page.
- Now tap on Tools and then turn on ROOT EXPLORER.
- After turn on Root Explorer go back to the app dashboard and go back to destination "/".
- Now go to folder SYSTEM -> BIN and delete file SU.
- Then go back to another folder SYSTEM -> XBIN and delete file SU.
- Now go back to folder SYSTEM -> APP and then remove SUPERUSER.APK file.
- Once the files are deleted reboot your phone, congrats your phone is unroot.
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This pretty little church on the hill was having a worship service that morning. We couldn't see any cars at first, but as we drove up the drive and circled around toward the back, we saw the parking lot full of cars. I hope we didn't disturb anyone.
All of the tombstones were slanting toward the top of the hill and the church. There were several square stones placed in the ground on an angle. The one in this picture at the end of the row has a child's name (last name Green) with his day of birth and day of death. I also saw some of this same type of marker in the St. Thomas Episcopal Church cemetery in Bath, North Carolina.
This seemingly abandoned church with the red door had a sign that said, "Open for Prayer Daily." This was on a Sunday afternoon somewhere around the little community of Todd.
One of the prettiest churches we saw was the New Sharon Methodist Church in Hillsborough, North Carolina, which is my son-in-law's family church. This is the cemetery where his grandfather is buried. These two pictures were taken late in the afternoon.
All photographs property of Judy Richards Shubert
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Karl Rove, writing in the Wall Street Journal, reports on a new Crossroads GPS health-care policy survey of independent voters. The poll was conducted in 10 states likely to have competitive Senate races and in House districts that lean Republican or are swing seats.
Independents were the key to Republican success in 2010. As Rove notes, 56% of them voted for GOP congressional candidates that year, up from 43% in 2008 and 39% in 2006 when Republicans were "thumped," to use George Bush's term. Hence, Rove's focus on independents
The survey findings should give pause to those who contend Republicans would not bear the brunt of the blame for a government shutdown resulting from efforts to defund Obamacare. The problem isn't that Obamacare is popular. 60 percent of the independents surveyed oppose it.
But by 58% to 30%, they also oppose defunding ObamaCare if that risks even a temporary shutdown. Moreover, conservative arguments failed to carry to day with independents. After hearing both sides, independents continued to side with Obama on the issue of a shutdown, even in "lean Republican" congressional districts. There, the margin was 56-39.
The White House, no doubt, is also polling this issue. Presumably, it is getting similar results. So even if ideology alone weren't enough to prevent the Democrats from blinking first, politics would be.


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Heald College-Hayward 25500 Industrial Blvd. Hayward, CA 25500 Phone: (510) 783-2100
General Information About Heald College-Hayward
Heald College prepares students for academic, personal, and professional success through quality career-focused programs that develop skills to last a lifetime.
Institutional statistical data was gathered from the U.S. Department of Education - Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, 2009-2010.
Institution Type
- 2-year, Private for-profit
Special Learning Opportunities
- Distance learning opportunities
- Weekend/evening college
Student Services
- General Education Courses
- Career Services available upon completion
Credit Accepted
- Advanced placement (AP) credits
- The acceptance of credits for work experience or military experience are subject to review by the school and cannot be guaranteed.
Religious Affiliation
- Not applicable
Federal Aid
- Eligible students may receive Pell Grants and other federal aid (e.g. Direct Loans).
Degrees/Certificates offered
- Less than 1 year certificate
- 1-2 years certificate
- Associate's degree
Campus Setting Disability Services Student
- 3% or Less
Admission Total Applicants Full Time Retention Rate 71%
Student Demographics Total Enrolled 2,308 Native American 18.0 Asian 467.0 African American 658.0 Hispanic 688.0 Enrolled FullTime Undergraduates 1,245 Enrolled FullTime Graduates


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|Settings > Online Accounts
Having the 2-Step Verification activated, after I logged in with my password, and entered the token, the account the credentials expired.
After trying again, same thing.
I'm in Arch with GNOME 3.8.3.
So, after some googling I found a solution in the Arch forum.
- Generate a Google Application-specific password;
- Go to Passwords and Keys (seahorse);
- Find your Google credentials (something like "GOA google credentials...");
- Right click > Properties;
- Click on Show password;
- Replace your password with the application-specific password you generated:
{'authorization_code': (......), 'password': <'YOUR_APPLIC_SPECIFIC_PASS'>}
That's it! You calendar and email should be synced in Evolution.


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Except for Member of the RDS, all car parking facilities at the RDS are operated on a fee-paying basis.
Car Park Opening Hours
Under regular circumstances, the Merrion Road car park is open year-round from 7.30am – 6.30pm Monday to Friday.
Simmonscourt and Anglesea Road car parks are only open for particular events. A flat fee is charged upon entry as outlined above.
No personnel will be allowed sleep overnight in vehicles. Illegally parked exhibitors vehicles/overnights etc will be removed and towing charges will be levied.
Convenient parking in the centre of Dublin is one of the many benefits of membership. RDS Members receive three hours complimentary car parking per day at the RDS. Country and Overseas Members receive 200 hours free parking per year. After their allocation, Members can avail of special discounts for weekly or yearly parking (€900 for the year). Daily parking is charged at €7 per day after the daily allocation.
The Members' car park, located on Merrion Road, is open from 7.30am to 6.30pm daily, with extended opening hours when events are held at the RDS.
Parking is not available for Members during the Dublin Horse Show.
Parking is available on a first-come first-served basis and is configured according to the location, timing and nature of the event. There are three main entrances/parking areas at the RDS: Merrion Road, Simmonscourt Road and Anglesea Road.
A limited number of free car park spaces will be issued for the use of organisers for distribution to exhibitors or performers. Car park passes for these spaces are issued by the RDS and distributed to the event organiser. For special events, the car parks are open from 7.00am until one hour after the building closes (or one hour after the event closes on open days). If extended hours are required (e.g. for an exhibitors' party), please discuss this with your event organiser. An additional charge will be incurred.
For more information, please consult your event organiser or telephone the RDS Operations team on +353 (0)1 668 0866 (during regular office hours). Additional car and lorry parking in the surrounding areas can be arranged in advance in certain circumstances. Details are available from your event organiser.
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Please let us know as soon as possible with a count of how many books will be needed for each course taught and for how long (one semester, yearlong). Our inventory is based on Southeast Missouri State University student enrollment, without your early request we may run low on inventory which may cause a delay in getting your books in time for the start of your classes.
Each of our rental books has a unique identifying number on the front label; this book ID number is attached to the student who checks out that book. This is helpful in knowing who the book is rented to.
For your convenience, we have included in your shipment a packing list. This packing list is a great tool to keep track of which student is using which book. A space is available for the student's name, and student's number to be placed next to the unique book number. Please keep a copy for your records.
We would appreciate a copy of the student check out list for our records. If the student fails to return the book or is returned in unsatisfactory condition, we will be able to charge the student's account the replacement cost for the book. Without this information, the high school will be responsible for the replacement cost of the book. Please use the contact information above to send us a copy of the student check out list.
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Report: Menendez helped Melgen
Embattled Sen. Robert Menendez intervened twice with senior federal officials over a multi-million dollar Medicare billing dispute involving Dr. Salomon Melgen, a close friend and financial backer at the center of a growing scandal involving the New Jersey Democrat, according to a new report.
The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that Menendez spoke personally with top officials at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services — the agency that oversees the Medicare program — about a CMS ruling that Melgen had overbilled the Medicare program by nearly $9 million for eye treatments for macular degeneration.
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Melgen has repaid the disputed fund to CMS, although he is still contesting the agency's ruling.
And according to Menendez's office, the senator — who recently became chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee — did not seek a specific action from CMS during his conversations with them.
The contacts between Menendez and CMS officials took place in 2009 and 2012, the Post reported.
Melgen also reportedly boasted about his ties to Menendez when contacted by federal investigators over the disputed payments.
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Menendez's office told the Post his conversations with CMS officials were not related to the current criminal probe of the doctor.
The FBI and investigators from the Health and Human Services Department's Office of Inspector General raided Melgen's office in West Palm Beach, Fla., last week, dramatically raising the political and legal stakes in the controversy that has engulfed the New Jersey Democrat.
The Senate Ethics Committee has already begun looking into Menendez's interactions with Melgen. This includes several trips Menendez took on Melgen's private jet to the Dominican Republic, where the doctor owns a home in a mega-exclusive resort.
On Nov. 1, the Daily Caller reported that Menendez had sex with prostitutes during those trips. Menendez vehemently denied those allegations, but he also repaid Melgen $58,500 for the cost of two flights.
Menendez also contacted officials from the State and Commerce departments for help in pressuring the Dominican Republic's government to honor a contract with a port-security company owned by Melgen, the New York Times reported.
POLITICO reported Wednesday's that Menendez's campaign has hired a former aide and one-time top Justice Department official close to Attorney General Eric Holder to help him deal with the scandal.
Menendez's office also has been quietly circulating talking points to Democrats pundits and strategists asserting that Melgen's legal problems, including the FBI raid, has nothing to do with him.
But this new report will make it more difficult for Menendez to deny any knowledge of Melgen's business practices or disputes with the federal government on Medicare billing.
In addition, it will likely spur stepped-up efforts by Republicans and the media to uncover other examples where Menendez took official actions that could benefit Melgen.
Melgen and his family have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Menendez and other Democrats during the last 15 years, federal campaign disclosure records show.
Melgen also gave $700,000 last year to a Democratic super PAC that spent heavily in support of Menendez's reelection campaign.


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Dir. Juan Piquer Simón
A killer, attempting to piece together a human jigsaw puzzle made from body parts, starts cutting up the young scantily-clad/ample-bosomed co-eds on a college campus. Bad dialogue, terrible acting, gratuitous nudity, sloppy gore effects, unexpected kung-fu and nubile lovelies getting cut the fuck up ensue. Warning: contains guffaws.
Directed by Spanish filmmaker Juan Piquer Simón in his native Valencia (though set in the States), the marvellously trashy and overtly sleazy 1982 extravaganza Pieces is a scuzzy, down 'n' dirty slasher that ranks down there with the
Like the tagline indicates – It's Exactly What You Think It Is - and what with me thinking it was a cheap, sleazy, terrible piece of
The plot, so to speak, is structured around grisly and splashy deaths, unattractive sex scenes and increasingly ridiculous scenes in which the main characters stand around and indulge in dull expositionary dialogue. The police investigation - which is carried out by a staggering array of people (some of whom aren't even cops) including detectives Bracken (Christopher George) and Holden (Frank Brana), the Dean of the university (Edmund Purdom), professor of anatomy Prof. Brown (Jack Taylor), former tennis pro turned undercover detective Mary Riggs (Lynda Day George) and the campus stud turned undercover cop assistant Kendall (Ian Sera) - consists of trawling through files and shuffling papers looking for clues. Tension could have been mustered in a number of stalking sequences, but the direction is so bland and the pacing so devoid of momentum that it just never feels as suspenseful as a good slasher should. The victims are all women with more boobs than brain cells: case in point – the killer sneaks into an elevator with one victim who fails to notice the big chainsaw he's hiding behind his back, while another girl, who is fished out of a swimming pool with a small net, simply reclines by the pool in terror while the killer retrieves his trusty chainsaw from the other side. The shock ending featuring a body made up of stitched together parts of all the scantily clad victims is also a depraved delight that would be echoed years later in Lucky McKee's May – though to much more poetic and chilling effect.
"While we were out here fumbling with that music, that lousy bastard was in there killing her. Bastard! BASTARD! BAAAASSSTAAAARRD!!!"
|Note the 'Friday the 13th' poster behind this clearly vestiphobic young lady...
If trashy slashers with tits, gore, bad dialogue, tits, hammy acting, tits and tits are your bag, then uncork something vulgar and cheap and guzzle it while watching Pieces. Sleazy, absurd, ridiculous fun awaits…


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E-Cigarette Might Help Smokers Quit
BARCELONA -- A nicotine-dispensing electronic cigarette helped smokers quit at least as much as nicotine patches did, a clinical trial showed.
At 6 months, 7.3% using the e-cigarette were biochemically-verified as abstinent compared with 5.8% on the patch and 4.1% using a placebo e-cigarette without nicotine, Christopher Bullen, MBChB, MPH, PhD, of the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and colleagues found.
Those modest differences weren't enough to prove statistically significant superiority, though they did meet the threshold for non-inferiority in a post-hoc analysis.
The results appeared online in The Lancet in conjunction with presentation at the European Respiratory Society meeting here.
While the low quit rates left the trial underpowered, they came in the context of little additional behavioral support, akin to what would occur in the community, the group pointed out.
These battery-powered devices, which vaporize nicotine for inhalation, have some practical advantages over nicotine replacement therapy, Peter Hajek, PhD, CClinPsych, of the UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies at Queen Mary University of London, noted.
In the U.S. and most other countries, e-cigarettes are regulated as tobacco rather than as medication and so are easy to access without the expense of going to a health professional, he explained in an accompanying editorial.
With at least tentative evidence of equivalence in efficacy, "stop-smoking services which distribute nicotine replacement therapy with minimum support now have a cheaper alternative to consider, and health professionals will now hopefully feel easier about recommending e-cigarettes to smokers, or at least condoning their use," he wrote.
The device's greater acceptability by smokers without extra side effects, as shown in the trial, could translate to a population health benefit, Bullen's group suggested.
Still, they cautioned that an adequately powered e-cigarette study needs to be done "to clearly establish their overall benefits and harms at both individual and population levels."
The trial included 657 smokers in Auckland who wanted to quit. They were randomized to at-will use of the most popular brand of nicotine e-cigarettes there (Elusion, each containing 16 mg), a daily nicotine patch (21 mg), or placebo e-cigarettes without nicotine.
These treatments were started a week before and continued until 12 weeks after participants' quit day.
For the primary endpoint of continuous 6-month biochemically-verified abstinence, the difference between nicotine e-cigarette and patches was 1.51 percentage points, which wasn't significant (95% CI –2.49 to 5.51).
The difference between the nicotine-dispensing device and the placebo device was wider at 3.16 percentage points, but again without statistical significance (95% CI –2.29 to 8.61).
The study had been powered based on 7-day point prevalence tobacco abstinence, but that rate didn't turn out significantly better with the nicotine e-cigarette either.
The nicotine e-cigarette did come out ahead in turning down the volume on tobacco smoking, though.
It cut mean consumption by two cigarettes per day more than the patch (P=0.002). And the proportion that had at least halved the number of tobacco cigarettes smoked by 6 months was 57% with the e-cigarette compared with 41% on the patch (P=0.0002).
Relapses also occurred later, at a median 35 days with the nicotine e-cigarette compared with 14 days with the patch (P<0.0001) and 12 with placebo (P=0·09).
The device was also more popular in terms of whether participants would recommend it to a friend and had better adherence.
Adverse events with the nicotine e-cigarette were generally not serious; the adverse event rate didn't differ from that of the patch (incidence rate ratio 1.05, P=0.7).
"However, longer-term use requires more research," the researchers cautioned.
All participants were also able to call a quitline for telephone counseling or receive text message support, though only 36% to 40% across the groups did so.
"Addition of more intensive support might have improved quit rates, but it would also have misrepresented the typically low support environment in which most e-cigarette users attempt to quit," the researchers noted.
Lack of careful supervision and monitoring of adherence, typical of a trial for a new treatment, was a limitation, Hajek pointed out.
Other limitations were the higher loss to follow-up and withdrawal rate in the patch group and the use of earlier generation e-cigarette models with low nicotine delivery compared with tobacco cigarettes.
Notably, a third of the e-cigarettes group continued to use them at 6 months, beyond the intervention period, "suggesting that they might have become long-term e-cigarette users." Some who went back to smoking continued to use e-cigarettes atop reduced cigarette consumption.
That kind of replacement is the "main untapped potential of e-cigarettes" given the lower risk of lung cancer expected from getting rid of the many carcinogens of smoked tobacco, Hajek pointed out.
However, there have been concerns that e-cigarettes could "renormalize" smoking and pull in new recruits, Hajek pointed out.
A report out this week in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report pointed to a modest increase in e-cigarette use among middle and high school kids, but the vast majority of those who'd ever tried it already smoked conventional cigarettes.
The study was funded by the Health Research Council of New Zealand.
The e-cigarettes and cartridges were Elusion brand products provided by PGM International.
Bullen reported having done research on Ruyan brand e-cigarettes that was funded by Health New Zealand, independently of Ruyan.
Co-authors reported financial relationships with Ruyan and manufacturers of smoking cessation drugs.
Hajek reported having received research funding from and consulting for manufacturers of smoking cessation medication but disavowed any connections with any manufacturers of electronic cigarettes.


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The Double Helix would on its own have established James Watson's reputation as a writer...But Watson's textbooks have also given scientists, particularly students, a deeper understanding of genes and cells. And his popular-science books have given the public a new image of scientific research...The Writing Life of James D. Watson provides valuable insights into the process that led to this success.
In this magnificent book, Friedberg celebrates a scientist whose contribution to humanity does not end with experiments and scientific papers, who also established a novel writing style, and for whom conveying information to scientists and the public became a lifelong priority. Throughout the book, Watson's insight, his great call for mentoring and teaching, and his sense of humor emerge, reminding us of Albert Einstein's words, 'Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.'
Writing about molecular biology for readers without backgrounds in chemistry presents a very real challenge. Friedberg (Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas) focuses on Watson's writing for public consumption rather than on his scientific research papers. He shows that Watson made major inroads in describing scientific endeavor to nonscientists, and he illustrates Watson's exceptional ability to capture the significance of advances in molecular biology over the past half century without becoming bogged down in jargon and detail. Not only does Watson's ability to write well come across, so also does his great desire to share the story of science and make it readable. Though this book focuses on Watson's approach to writing, it is as intriguing a science biography as one might ever hope to find. Written for all audiences, it will be of special interest to those entering science and those who want to understand the relationships of writing and publishing to the scientific enterprise.
Watson is unusual in doing all his writing longhand in ink and in a tiny printed script that one of his mentors at Indiana University, H J Muller, called barely macroscopic. He is also unusual in saving all his drafts and dating them so scholars can follow the way his ideas and stylistic changes develop during the progress of a manuscript from its initial start to its final draft for publication. Friedberg does a firstrate job with illustrations of pages of these drafts and the correspondence with critics, editors, and colleagues. Readers will come away admiring Watson for the courage to be innovative, to take risks, and to demand a standard of excellence and personal integrity that frequently put him at loggerheads with his publishers and editors....For scientists who like to write or who appreciate good writing style, reading this analysis by Friedberg will be rewarding.
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NanoDays 2008 at the Museum of Science, Boston At last year's NanoDays, staff at the Chabot Space & Science Center created NanoDays passports for visitors. Lisa Hoover, the Galaxy Explorers Program Manager at Chabot, explained that they create passports for most of their special events to give visitors a goal, guide visitors through thematic stations, and provide follow-up content or home activities. She graciously shared the passport with us, you can download it at the bottom of this post. Did you do something at last year's NanoDays that was particularly successful that you'd like to share? Let me know! -- And don't forget about this year's NanoDays. We've revised the kit, adding several new activities and resources and revising instruction sheets and manuals for the activities. You can apply for a physical kit online, applications are due by December 15th. The digital kits are available to anyone who registers on nisenet.org, and are designed particularly for international locations, K-12 educators, and other educational organizations. Those will be available for free download starting on January 15, 2010. You can find much more information about NanoDays 2010 at http://www.nisenet.org/nanodays.


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Peloton glass is a European glass with small threads of colored glass rolled onto the surface of clear or colored glass. It is sometimes called spaghetti, or shredded coconut, glass. Peloton glass was made in Bohemia in the late nineteenth century. Most pieces found today were made in the nineteenth century.
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