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Which College Will Suite You Best?

While every college offers the path to higher education, there are facets that can make one school more suitable for a prospective student than another. Because of this, one must be prepared to do a good amount of research on several different colleges before making a final decision. Those who make their college choices based on facts rather than getting swept away by reputation will likely get more out of their education. They are more likely to finish what they start and therefore see the reward of their efforts in every aspect of their life. Those who graduate with a solid degree will always have more options than those who don’t.

For those in the workforce looking to return to school, college choices need a good amount of research as well. However, there are certain criteria to include that most non-working students don’t have to worry about. Many times, it is an online college that will become the top choice for a working adult. Because there are so many online education options, one must be prepared to know what to look for in a reputable online venue. This ensures that individuals invest their time wisely in getting the degree they need.

What is the Value of a Paralegal Degree?

Many people who choose to get degrees as paralegals may be wondering how much they are worth in the job market.

A paralegal with a Bachelor’s degree can earn as much as $60,000/year if working in a large urban area or for the federal government. This is an income well above the national average.

The largest employers of paralegals tend to be private law firms. Paralegals, however, are being hired in places like banks, corporations, insurance companies, and real estate firms. Because there is an increase in these type places hiring paralegals, the employment opportunities are increasing for paralegals.

Those paralegals that choose areas like bankruptcy and product liability for their specialty will have a large number of employment opportunities. The demand for paralegals will continue to increase as large agencies and corporations depend on paralegals with greater and more important responsibilities. The paralegal profession is unwavering and only increases in demand now that corporations and agencies want paralegals working inhouse and don’t want to need to bring them in.

As we have mentioned, the demand for paralegals has been predicted to grow, both in the public and private sectors. Earning your online certificate program to become a paralegal is not only worth all your time, but it will also prove to be a great and large investment for your future. Growth is expected in this field over the next ten years, as a wider variety of businesses will hire paralegals. Also, the chance of being outsourced is small in this profession and it is not badly affected by economic downturns.

CCIDC Announces a New Single Certification Exam Starting 2009

The California Council for Interior Design Certification (CCIDC) board is replacing the original CCRE and three exams (national) with one and will make it available next year.

For eight years or so, people that wanted to become Certified Interior Designers in California have been required to take and pass the CQRID, the NCIDQ, or the two-part NKBA, as well as the supplemental California Codes and Regulations Examination (CCRE). Just as recently as the late 1990s, there was only one examination that was accepted and recognized. These tests were over and above the education and experience necessities laid out in Section 5800 of the Business & Professions Code.

The purpose for this change in examinations is to bring the California certification examination in line with Section 139 of the California Business and Professions Code and to make it available to those meeting the guidelines within the three categories of education and experience under the law, as well as to those with “experience only”.

Do you want to become a Certified Interior Designer? To do so, pass an examination and meet set requirements. The CCIDC will honor the current national examinations, by providing the current CCRE for an extended time frame for those who wish to take it.

What is a University of Phoenix Online degree actually worth?

Any online degree probably cannot compete with a traditional university degree. Concentrated time spent on the campus in a face-to-face discussion setting is perhaps the best way of knowledge transfer, in spite of the advent of technology that can make physical presence of a classroom redundant!

Being able to attend a regular class is, however, not possible for every student. You might not have the resources in the initial stages of life, and at a later point in life time might become a constraint. Hence, to complete your education, you need the flexibility of time and place and the convenience of doing it from anywhere in the world. The University of Phoenix is perhaps one of the best options available to you today. The University has earned repute for excellence and success. In fact, according to a student survey, there is 95 percent satisfaction level amidst students who earn their online degree from the University of Phoenix.

The alumnae from the University of Phoenix have seen a marked increase in their marketability. They have been able to secure jobs that they desired, or have received promotions in their present jobs. Many full-time homemakers have been able to complete their education, which has helped them not only with their self esteem but has also prepared them for job markets once they decide to move out.

The flexibility offered by the University of Phoenix is a major advantage. Each course can be taken over a period of five to six weeks and students can take a break between courses. They do not have to be present for any classes and can review the downloaded learning material offline at their convenience. Additionally, the University of Phoenix Online education is recognized for most employer reimbursement plans. For these reasons among many others, the University of Phoenix is perhaps the best place to start looking for the means to fulfill your career goals.

Hal McIver is a proponent of higher education, especially at online universities. See www.universityreviewsonline.com/2005/10/a_university_of.html for more information on The University of Phoenix online degree.

PCDI - The College and University Alternative for Working Professionals Pursuing Their Degrees

PCDI | Professional Career Development Institute -
The College and University Alternative for Working Professionals Pursuing Their Degrees

Are you a college dropout? Are you tired of being passed over for promotions because you don’t have your college “degree”? How many times have you wanted to apply for a job, but the ad said “no need to apply unless you have a degree”?

Unfortunately, this is happens more frequently than not. The federal government and other employers are notorious for hiring people with degrees in ANYTHING, even if it does not relate to their current job, just so they can market people with degrees.

What does all this mean to you? In general, you can expect to earn about 4 to 5 percent more with a two-year college degree (i.e., associate’s degree) than you would with only a high-school/GED or vocational school degree. A bachelor’s degree will typically bring you a salary increase of about an additional 13 to 15 percent.

So, even though you may have the practical experience to do a job, you have a much better chance of getting the job — and the money that goes with it — if you have a degree of some sort.

Where are you supposed to find time to go back to school while you are working and trying to earn a living? Well there are several options to the traditional brick and mortar colleges and universities of the past. While many community colleges and universities offer night and weekend classes now, you can also go online, enroll in a distance learning course, and earn your college degree from the comfort of your own home.

One institution that allows you to do just that is the Professional Career Development Institute ( PCDI ). PCDI offers distance learning associate degree courses such as:

  1. Accounting
  2. Business Management
  3. Computer Information Mgmt.
  4. Criminal Justice
  5. Early Childhood Education
  6. Health Care Management
  7. Human Resource Management
  8. Marketing
  9. Paralegal Studies
  10. Psychology
  11. Security Management

They also offer Distance Learning Master Degree Programs in:

  1. Business Administration
  2. Criminal Justice
  3. Health Care Administration
  4. Human Resource Mgmt.

Unlike courses that you take at a community college or university, PCDI allows you to complete your degree at your own pace, when you have time so you don’t have to feel rushed, hassled or like your have an impending deadline looming over you.

Getting a degree can change your life — financially, emotionally and professionally. Go ahead and start the rest of your life today!

Christina Khan is a mother of a preschooler that attended college while working full time. She has successfully taken online college courses and recommends them. You can visit her website to find out more about PCDI Online College and University Degrees.

Christina also runs a baby birth announcement website with other parenting tips and articles. You can visit her site by going to MyPreciousBaby.com

Three Easy Ways to Increase Reading Comprehension

Copyright 2005 Adam Waxler

The primary purpose of reading is comprehension, or
understanding. Unless you comprehend what you read you might as
well be reading a different language.

Unfortunately, for many students school reading may actually
seem like a different language. That’s okay - by using various
teaching strategies teachers can greatly increase their
student’s reading comprehension.

Today, more and more teachers realize that reading is not the
sole responsibility of the language arts teacher. However, many
teachers struggle to come up with ways to actually increase
reading comprehension in the classroom.

The key to increasing reading comprehension is to tap into
students’ prior knowledge about a topic before actually reading
about the topic. There are many ways teachers can go about
tapping into students prior knowledge such as Venn diagrams, KWL
Charts, and prediction strategies.

1. Venn diagrams - while Venn diagrams are usually used after
reading as a way to compare and contrast something the students
just read about, Venn diagrams can also be a great tool to use
before reading as a way to increase reading comprehension. For
example, students can create a Venn diagram on the similarities
and differences between the North and the South at the beginning
of the U.S. Civil War. Prior to the reading the students can
create their Venn diagram based on what they already know about
the topic. From there the students can pair up and share their
Venn diagrams to further build on their background knowledge.
Once the Venn diagram is completed the students can then read
about the topic. After the students complete the reading they
should go back and check their Venn diagram, make corrections,
and add any new information. By encouraging the students to
think about the topic prior to reading the assignment, the
students will increase their reading comprehension.

2. Prediction Strategies - another way to tap into students
prior knowledge and increase reading comprehension is to have
students make predictions about the topic prior to reading.
There are many different types of prediction strategies a
teacher can use to increase reading comprehension. Here is an
example of a simple prediction strategy:

Create 3-7 statements based on a reading you have selected to
use with your class. Change a few of those statements to be
false statements. Have students predict whether or not the
statement is true or false before they read. After the reading
have the students go back and check whether their predictions
were correct.

What will this reading comprehension strategy do? Not only will
this reading comprehension strategy help students tap into what
they already know about a topic, but it will also give students
a purpose for reading. The students will know what to focus on
when they read and they will read to determine if their
predictions were correct.

3. KWL Chart - A KWL chart is a common strategy used among
teachers to increase reading comprehension. The KWL chart stands
for Know-Want-Learn. A KWL chart is divided into three columns
and provides a place to record what the students already know,
what the students want to learn, and what the student learned
once they have read. By giving students a few minutes to write
down what they know and what they want to know before reading,
the KWL chart provides the students a tangible structure for
enhancing their involvement in their own reading. The KWL chart
prompts students to access prior knowledge, identify their own
purposes for reading, and reflect and summarize text.

All three reading strategies (Venn diagram, prediction
strategies, and KWL charts) have the common feature of tapping
into and building upon prior knowledge as a means to increase
reading comprehension.

ML - CHI - Zadok and the Making of Gold

ATOMIC HIGH-SPIN TECHNOLOGY: - In 1950 B.C. there was a priest-king in Salem who understood the ‘highward fire-stone’ according to Gardner in ‘Genesis of the Grail Kings’. His name was Melchizedek, and there is a secret or inner sanctum group of Mormons who follow his lead. The Mason (Joseph Smith was a 33rd Degree Mason, Brigham Young was a Mason too.) who founded this religion followed a path tred frequently in the expansion of esoteric manipulation. It continues to this very day with the OTO offshoots, Scientology and many other cults who believe in some very ‘freaky’ things. Most of the lay people will never get to know the ulterior motives of those who lead such organizations. The whole of the United States is one of their experiments according to many authors who have done excellent research in the matter. We will leave that portion of the issue until the next segment even though it isn’t much of a ‘mystery’. There are many things a reader should consider before jumping (or attempting to) across that chasm.

“As to why the fire-stone was called ‘highward’ by the ancient Mesopotamians, we shall now discover as we enter the realm of high-spin metallurgy. {Solomon was a very adept person in metallurgy and other things of this order known as Rosicrucianism or Christian ‘mystery schools’ of the Masonic ‘octopus’. I use ‘octopus’ as a way of trying not to have to list names and titles that would fill this book.}

THE TRANSMUTATION OF GOLD

Before commencing this section, it must be stressed that because of the potentially dangerous nature of an enterprise which deals with high-spin atoms, the explanations will be purposefully veiled and guarded. The following is, therefore, presented as a general overview, without detailing specific weights, temperatures, conditions or laboratory burn-times. This will prevent any ill-advised experimentation by unqualified enthusiasts and will avoid the contravention of prevailing international patents which govern the practice. {Yes, Modern science is able to do the alchemical ‘Great Work’ as a purely physical thing now.}

To begin, we should consider statements concerning the Philosophers’ Stone made by the alchemists Lapidus and Eirenaeus Philalethes: ‘The Philosophers’ Stone is no stone, but a powder with the power to transmute base metals into gold and silver,’ (25) and,

The stone which is to be the transformer of metals into gold must be sought in the precious metals in which it is enclosed and contained. It is called a stone by virtue of its fixed nature, and it resists the action of fire as successfully as any stone - but its appearance is that of a very fine powder, impalpable to the touch (imperceptible, like talcum powder), fragrant as to smell, in potency a most penetrative spirit, apparently dry, and yet unctuous, and easily capable of tingeing a plate of metal. The stone does not exist in nature, but has to be prepared by art, in obedience to nature’s laws. Thus, you see our stone is made of gold alone, yet it is not common gold. (26)

Each of these testimonies refers to the enigmatic stone being, in actuality, a fine powder, and in talking of the precious metals within which the stone is contained, modern practitioners refer not only to gold and silver but also to those metals which comprise the platinum group. These metals, along with platinum itself, are palladium {Remember this when we get to cold fusion, under the Lithium heading.}, iridium, osmium, rhodium and ruthenium - and because of their ultimate strengths they are used in surgical, optical and dental instruments, crucibles and thermo-couples, machine-bearings, electrical switch contacts and all manner of precision devices down to the tipping of needles and pen-nibs.

The metal that, in jewellery manufacture, is commonly known as ‘white gold’ is an alloy of gold coupled with palladium, which is said to have been first discovered in Brazil, California and the Urals in 1803, and was named after the asteroid Pallas in that year. Iridium, osmium and rhodium are also given the same date of discovery, with ruthenium following in 1843. However, the platinum-group metals were not truly discovered in the nineteenth century, this was at least one of them, namely iridium, was rediscovered, for iridium was originally a key fire-stone of ancient Sumer. Because of its bright silvery colour and the then non-invention of its latter-day name (applied in 1803 by virtue of its iridescence), the mysteriously described shining metal was long presumed from the old records to have been tin.

Iridium is a very rare element on Earth, but geologists have discovered its existence in quantities up to thirty times the norm in crust layers where extraterrestrial meteorites containing the substance have landed in the distant past. (27) Iridium is, therefore, not so uncommon outside our own planet {He later notes that rhodium and iridium make up 5% of the brain’s clarified weight and suggests our alien ancestors needed it to maintain their power or Divine nature. This is one reason for eating live animal pineal glands to enhance psychic ability. If those ‘animals’ have some of their own DNA it is better; so you might know why they harvest fetal material from Scarlet Women now.} The Sumerians and ancient Egypt clearly knew about the properties of gold and of how to alloy it with other noble metals. The Master Craftsmen were adepts too in the workings of iridium, which just like gold, could be taken to the exotic ‘highward’ state of the ’shem-an-na’.

This means that they not only knew and worked with these metals, but that they understood the science of atoms and nuclei - for the ‘highward’ state of the white powder is only achieved through knowledge of the high-spin metallurgical experience. Only by understanding this part-physical and part-metaphysical science can one take a physical something and turn it into nothing by applying the principle of 0=(+1) + (-1). {The IO Torus, Logos and Harmonics are all associated}Interestingly, the high-spin powder of gold has a distinct effect upon the pineal gland {See entry on Thalami} and its increased melatonin production, while the equivalent powder of iridium has its similar effect on the serotonin production of the pituitary gland.

Although the current names of the platinum-group metals are relatively new to us, the metals themselves are far from new. Recent tests have shown that, by dry-matter weight, over 5 per cent of our brain tissue is composed of iridium and rhodium in the high-spin state. (28)

So, what precisely is the highward or high-spin state which converts these noble metals into an impalpable white powder? A normal atom has around it a screening potential - a positive screening produced by the nucleus. The majority of electrons going round the nucleus are within this screening potential, except for the very outer electrons. The nucleus goes to the highward or high-spin state when the positive screening potential expands to bring all of the electrons under the control of the nucleus. {Refer to Solid State chemistry and the work of Don Robins as it relates to ’scavengers’, microphages in the genetic structure also have an effect that may be similar. Can the meta-mind attune these electrons and bring their forward and reverse spins into conjunction?}

These electrons normally travel around the nucleus in pairs - a spin-forward electron and a spin-reverse electron. But when these come under the influence of a high-spin nucleus {Is this a conscious act?}, all the spin-forward electrons become correlated with the spin-reverse electrons. When perfectly correlated, the electrons turn to pure ‘white light’ and it is impossible for the individual atoms in the high-spin substance to link together.” (29)

Whether or not they can do these things today: they (Alchemists or Rosicrucians of the Great White Brotherhood of Master Craftsmen) certainly have done such things in the past. Did they learn the process from the remnants of a previous ‘modern’ human? That seems more likely to us than the alien explanation they want us to accept. Was there a program to keep these things super secret? There certainly should have been. In Morning of the Magicians Pauwels and Bergier tell about a meeting they had with Fulcanelli as well as a presentation he made to the Paris Academy of Sciences. One of these authors was a member of Heisenberg’s team of scientists working on splitting the atom and the other was the editor of ‘Earth’ magazine. Fulcanelli warned about the dangers of the atomic forces that science was about to unleash and he explained how the Cathedrals were constructed to include the knowledge they were seeking. I’ve read his book which purports to include the keys to this knowledge. It is extremely cryptic in nature but I think if one was to be able to create the green vitreole of the stained glass windows (no easy art, but available in other places) then it might be true.

If these things are the explanation for Sodom and Gomorrah, or the vitrified rocks then we have some real concerns to address about our leaders and their willingness to do one thing and say another. It is very unlikely that this knowledge has not been the object of secret agents and the desire of monarchs and others’ concerns for many millennia. We know Crowley, Hitler, and guys like Barrett (’Secret Societies’) join the likes of Bacon and Dee in these quests. Truly power does corrupt and we know that when a few people have the power to do these kinds of things, it will eventually become a factor. The present situation seems to indicate that many people will have access to terrific uses of technology and we must not be as nave as the audience of Britannica was at the start of the 20th century when they wrote that torture was a thing of the past, as far as ‘civilized’ Europe was concerned.

Author of Diverse Druids
Columnist for The ES Press Magazine
Guest ‘expert’ at World-Mysteries.com