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		<title>Making good essay | Can you do it?</title>
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		<title>Taking College Courses Online | Benefit Inside</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[?Why do students flock to the online learning environment? There are many compelling arguments for attending a cyber classroom; Online course development allows for a broad spectrum of content. Students can access the school&#8217;s library from their PC&#8217;s for research articles, ebook content and other material without worries that the material is already &#8220;checked out.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>?Why do students flock to the online learning environment? There are many compelling arguments for attending a cyber classroom;</p>
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		<title>World Language is English</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[English is the predominant language on the Internet and has gained some type of global business status. The Internet has been cited as an instrument for circulating English around the world; it is estimated that 80 percent of the information available on the Internet is written in English. As the Web becomes more of a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>English is the predominant language on the Internet and has gained some type of global business status. The Internet has been cited as an instrument for circulating English around the world; it is estimated that 80 percent of the information available on the Internet is written in English. As the Web becomes more of a mass medium, its audience is changing. Originally, Internet users were highly educated and from English-speaking or multilingual upper-middle-class families. As a diversity of people are becoming connected to the network, more sites are using English. <a href="http://www.eslgo.com" target="_blank">ESL go</a> is one of the good English site.</p>
<p>English is currently one of the most widely spoken and written languages worldwide, with some 380 million native speakers. Through the global influence of native English speakers in cinema, music, broadcasting, science, and the Internet in recent decades, English is now the most widely learned second language in the world. Because a working knowledge of English is required in many fields and occupations, education ministries around the world mandate the teaching of English to at least a basic level.</p>
<p>Today, English reigns supreme in all four respects. It is studied as a foreign language throughout the world and employed by a majority of Internet users. You can have an English lesson through <a href="http://www.eslgo.com/classes.html" target="_blank">ESL classes here</a>. Of the 163 member nations of the U.N., more use English as their official language than any other. The easiest way to calculate the economic influence of a language may be to add up the gross domestic products (GDP) of all the nations where it is spoken. People who count English as their mother tongue make up less than 10% of the world&#8217;s population, but possess over 30% of the world&#8217;s economic power. Therefore, in terms of the quantity of transmitted information, English is the leader by far.</p>
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		<title>Covering Online Tutoring | Colleges Resources</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The short, practical course on <a href="http://www.tutornext.com" target="_blank"><strong>online tutoring</strong></a> has been updated to give the opportunity to work not only within the online learning environment but also begin to explore the potential of using publicly available online social spaces eg </p>
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		<title>High Grade for Research Papers | Colleges Resources</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nowadays it is difficult for students to meet the needs of their professors. Besides, their schedules are pressed with assignments. Some professors require using a specific book, article, or any other written document to write a custom term paper. Getting a high grade out of a custom term papers project is something that each student [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nowadays it is difficult for students to meet the needs of their professors. Besides, their schedules are pressed with assignments. Some professors require using a specific book, article, or any other written document to write a custom term paper.</p>
<p>Getting a high grade out of a <a href="http://termpaperwriter.org" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>custom term papers</strong></span></a> project is something that each student dreams of. It is crucial to only submit quality term papers for high marks.</p>
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		<title>Become a Dentist | Tips to Become a Dentist</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being a dentist can be an exciting and rewarding career. If you think you might like to become a dentist, the following tips will provide you with information about preparing for an education in dentistry. Find out more about dentists by volunteering in a dental office and learn some of the aspects involved in being [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Being a dentist can be an exciting and rewarding career. If you think you might like to become a dentist, the following tips will provide you with information about preparing for an education in dentistry.</p>
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<li>Find out more about dentists by volunteering in a dental office and learn some of the aspects involved in being a dentist as well as different dental procedures performed by a dentist.</li>
<li>If you are still in high school, math and science are important subjects to focus on. It would also be helpful to enroll in college prep classes. Chemistry, liberal arts, biology and algebra are college prep classes that would be helpful to you.</li>
<li>In college, you don<br />
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		<title>Best Moments | Graduation Moment</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Graduation announcements, while not originally viewed as a request for gifts, unfortunately have become associated in recent years with forced gift-giving. Graduation announcements should not be distributed to people other than close friends and family members, unless the notation &#8220;No gifts please&#8221; has been added. (A rough rule to follow would be this: Send announcements [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Graduation announcements, while not originally viewed as a request for gifts, unfortunately have become associated in recent years with forced gift-giving. Graduation announcements should not be distributed to people other than close friends and family members, unless the notation &#8220;No gifts please&#8221; has been added. (A rough rule to follow would be this: Send announcements only to those people who already know that your son or daughter is graduating.)</p>
<p>The same thing goes for <a href="http://www.naptimecards.com/" target="_blank">Graduation Invitations</a> (which differ from the announcements only in that they include a request for attendance at the ceremony as opposed to merely announcing the impending receipt of the diploma or degree). This is particularly true because many degree-granting institutions impose limits on the number of spectators who actually may attend, and issue tickets to the graduate to be given to those select members of the family or friends who actually are expected to show up at the ceremonies.</p>
<p>Whether it is a traditional graduation party such as an open house or a more &#8220;organized party&#8221; such as a roast for the graduate or a buffet dinner, plan a party theme that reflects what your graduate&#8217;s plans for the future are. For example, if college is the ticket, get on the phone (or online) to that college&#8217;s bookstore and order balloons, school banners and posters, and anything else that serves both as decoration for your party as well as souvenirs for your guests. Buy fake mortarboards and fill them with flowers in the school colors for instant centerpieces.</p>
<p>It is easy to say that you should plan a graduation party that the graduates will actually remain at throughout the evening, but that actually never has happened.</p>
<p><strong>First Communion</strong></p>
<p>The First Holy Communion is becoming a main event! What began as a small get together with a small group of family and friends immediately following the First Communion exercise has now expanded to a Grand or Elaborate event.</p>
<p>In planning the first communion party, you might want to consider that this is not a typical child</p>
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		<title>Becoming a Pilot #4 | Pilot Positions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On an airliner, the captain is the pilot in the left seat. He or she flies the airplane, makes all the command decisions and is responsible for the flight&#8217;s safety. The captain&#8217;s job is a big responsibility. It calls for tough decisions and requires more than just the technical skill involved in flying the airplane. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On an airliner, the <strong>captain</strong> is the pilot in the left seat. He or she flies the airplane, makes all the command decisions and is responsible for the flight&#8217;s safety. The captain&#8217;s job is a big responsibility. It calls for tough decisions and requires more than just the technical skill involved in flying the airplane. The captain is a team leader and must establish an effective crew atmosphere, with good communication and resource management. A captain must pass many written and practical tests and have his or her performance evaluated regularly. A pilot must have high <strong>seniority</strong> (time in service) to hold the position of captain and, as a general rule, captains are the most senior (and therefore most experienced) of the pilots at an airline. As we will see in the next section, seniority plays a major role in the career of an airline pilot.</p>
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<p>The cornerstone of aviation safety is redundancy. So, in addition to two (or more) engines, radios, sets of flight instruments, etc., there are always at least two flying pilots. The <strong>first officer</strong> sits in the right seat and acts as a co-pilot. He or she has an independent set of controls and instruments to operate the aircraft and flies the plane about half the time, usually swapping duties with the captain each flight leg. The first officer assists the captain in preflight duties by reviewing paperwork and performing aircraft preflight checks. The first officer must pass many practical and written exams and must have a certain amount of seniority. As a rule, first officers have less seniority than their captains.</p>
<p>Some planes have a third position in the cockpit for a  <strong>flight engineer</strong>, also called a <strong>second officer</strong>. The flight engineer is a usually a pilot but doesn&#8217;t actually fly the airplane. He or she performs the bulk of aircraft preflight checks, operates and monitors the aircraft&#8217;s systems during flight and makes aircraft performance calculations, such as determining takeoff and landing speeds, engine power settings and fuel management. The flight engineer position is also an apprenticeship of sorts, as it is the best position for observing the flying pilots. This job is now a rarity in the business: The positions are mostly in airplanes built before the mid-1980s. As older airplanes are retired, they are replaced with planes in which more advanced or automated systems perform the flight engineer&#8217;s duties. The position will someday be &#8220;extinct,&#8221; like the navigator and radio operator positions of airplanes from the 1930s and 1940s.</p>
<h1>Seniority</h1>
<p><!-- dtl_id=15092 //-->The three most important things in the airline piloting profession are seniority, seniority and seniority. All domestic airlines use a seniority system to dictate your position, which plane you fly (which determines your pay) and what schedules you keep (which determines whether you&#8217;ll be home weekends, or far from your family, ankle deep in slush during the holidays). For pilots, seniority dictates everything!</p>
<p>In a seniority-based system, all pilots are considered equally qualified, provided they pass the required training and check rides. A seniority system prevents favoritism and other undemocratic practices from interfering with the career of a pilot. The drawback of a seniority system is that even if you&#8217;re ranked No. 20 out of 5,000 pilots at airline A, with 25 years of seniority and scads of overseas experience in large jets, you will be placed at the bottom of airline B&#8217;s seniority list if you have to switch airlines for any reason, including your airline going out of business. This means you would likely begin as a reserve flight engineer or co-pilot. Your experience travels with you, should you leave, which might help you get the new job, but your seniority does not. Hence, most pilots stay with an airline rather than lose the seniority they&#8217;ve acquired.</p>
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		<title>Becoming a Pilot #3 | Education</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[While there is no college requirement to be a pilot, most airlines look for some college time and prefer an earned degree. College shows that you are trainable and that you can stick to a challenging curriculum and succeed &#8212; qualities an airline would like to know that you have before it spends a lot [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While there is no college requirement to be a pilot, most airlines look for some college time and prefer an earned degree. College shows that you are trainable and that you can stick to a challenging curriculum and succeed &#8212; qualities an airline would like to know that you have before it spends a lot of money to train you. There are two major career paths to being hired as an airline pilot: <strong>civilian</strong> or <strong>military</strong>. Each has its advantages and disadvantages.</p>
<p>In the civilian career path, you can attend a <strong>college</strong> that offers a two- or four-year degree (some universities even offer advanced degrees in aviation) along with flight training toward various pilot certificates. Several universities in the United States and Canada offer courses along with flight training so that you graduate with a bachelor&#8217;s or associate&#8217;s degree in aviation along with a commercial pilot certificate and multi-engine and instrument ratings. There are also technical schools that offer flight training toward a certificate, often in less time. In both types of programs, you often graduate with an instructor&#8217;s rating, and you&#8217;ve built up some flight time teaching others.</p>
<p>An alternative to a professional school or college is to get your flight training piecemeal from a local <strong>flight school</strong>. It will take longer, and the level of instruction might not be as rich, but all commercial certificates are equal in the eyes of the FAA. The agency doesn&#8217;t care where or how they were earned.</p>
<p>Civilian training costs a lot of money. Basic flying lessons start at about $80 an hour, and you&#8217;ll need at least 250 hours before you have your commercial rating. It also costs a lot to rent large, complex airplanes for instruction. I like to think of the expense as an investment in a rewarding career that will pay dividends for years to come. Scholarships (full and partial) do exist, but most pilots will end up investing a lot of money in flight training.</p>
<p>In the <strong>military</strong>, you commit to many years of service after your one year of pilot training (10 years of commitment in the Air Force). You must also meet other requirements, such as college course work, good health and adequate physical ability. There are no guarantees that you&#8217;ll pass the military flight training on the service&#8217;s rigid time schedule, or that you&#8217;ll get to fly a specific airplane. In exchange for these compromises, the military pays you to train, and you get the best training in the equipment that an airline pilot would fly (complex jets).</p>
<p>A military pilot lives a military life, follows orders, risks bodily harm and uses lethal weapons. These aren&#8217;t things to take lightly, so if you are considering the military (and that is a wide field that includes the Coast Guard), then explore it thoroughly and see if the timing is right for you and your career needs. It is an excellent experience for many people. Some pilots even make the military their career.</p>
<p>After a pilot is certified, he or she will have to get more experience and flight hours before an airline will hire him or her. Because of the military&#8217;s service commitment, a military pilot will probably get a lot of flying experience before he or she leaves to join an airline. A civilian pilot, or a military pilot who needs more flight hours, may work as a flight instructor, then perhaps move to a charter company. From there, he or she might move to a regional airline and then on to a major airline.</p>
<h1>Training</h1>
<p><!-- dtl_id=15088 //-->Once hired, regardless of your background, the airline will train you based on its procedures and its FAA-approved training curriculum. Even though all airlines fly the same kinds of airplanes, each airline has slightly different methods and procedures. The goal of an airline is to train you to be qualified in your position and to be <strong>standard</strong>. Standardization is one of the pillars of a safe airline. The concept is that, within the airline, cockpit behavior and procedure will be the same in every flight, no matter which pilots are at the controls, to prevent confusion and misunderstanding.</p>
<p>The <strong>initial training</strong> at an airline takes about 10 weeks. Basic indoctrination lasts a week or so. Training on general subjects, which include regulations and company-specific procedures, takes another week. You will spend two weeks on aircraft systems specific to the equipment you&#8217;ll operate. Pilots will usually specialize in one type of airplane, such as 727s or MD-80s, until they move to a seat on a different airplane. After systems, you&#8217;ll pair off with a training partner and have two or more weeks of simulator training. In the simulator, you&#8217;ll experience just about every emergency and anomaly imaginable. You&#8217;ll focus particularly on <a href="http://www.howstuffworks.com/airline-crew.htm">crew</a> coordination and successful landing. All maneuvers are practiced until they are satisfactorily completed.</p>
<p>Once the pre-checks, oral examinations and final check-rides are over, you will have completed the airplane training. But you&#8217;re not ready just yet. Next you&#8217;ll fly with a special instructor pilot and get <strong>initial operating experience</strong>. This experience, which includes at least 25 hours of flight time, will teach you to integrate your newfound technical skills with the daily requirements of the job.</p>
<p>After initial operating experience, you face another flight test, called a <strong>line check</strong>. After you pass the line check, you are released to operate scheduled flights as a crew member. Airlines are now required to set up 100 hours of flying for you after a line check, so you can get immediate experience. After all that, you&#8217;ll want a vacation.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To be a pilot for hire, you need a <strong>commercial pilot certificate</strong>. You earn your certificate by passing commercial pilot ground school and logging at least 250 <strong>flight hours</strong>, with allotted time dedicated to certain conditions and maneuvers. After you have logged your hours and passed your written ground school test, you will need to pass a <strong>check-ride</strong>. A check-ride is something like the driving test we take to get our driver&#8217;s licenses. A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) examiner asks you to plan a flight, quizzes you on aviation matters and then accompanies you on a flight. As in a driver&#8217;s license test, the examiner requests that you execute certain maneuvers and directs your flying throughout the entire flight. If everything goes well, the examiner issues you a commercial pilot&#8217;s certificate.</p>
<p>Additionally, a commercial pilot needs an up-to-date first- or second-class <strong>medical certificate</strong>, an <strong>instrument rating</strong> and a <strong>multi-engine rating</strong>. For you to receive a medical certificate, an Aviation Medical Examiner must verify that you meet the health and fitness requirements to be a pilot. You need to get an instrument rating to fly with low visibility (in adverse weather and in clouds). You receive an instrument rating by passing instrument ground school, logging a specified amount of instrument flight time (flying without visibility) and passing an instrument rating check-ride. To fly planes with multiple engines (most of the planes in commercial use), you need to have some lessons and pass a multi-engine check-ride. At some point, most airline pilots also get an <strong>airline transport pilot certificate</strong>. This highest pilot certificate allows you to be the pilot in command (the captain) of a large commercial aircraft. It requires that you pass a written test, have a first-class medical certificate, are a high school graduate and have logged 1,500 flight hours including 250 hours as the pilot in command.</p>
<p>To be hired, you need <strong>flight experience</strong>. Your level of experience is based on the number and complexity of aircraft you have flown, the quantity and complexity of the flying you did (jet or propeller, day or night, local or cross-country, flying with visibility or flying using only instruments, etc.) and which crew positions you&#8217;ve held. Briefly, in the late 1960s, some airlines hired people without certificates or flight time and trained them from the ground up. This was an abnormal practice, and it is unlikely to recur. These days, a major airline hiring a pilot with a freshly minted commercial pilot&#8217;s certificate (only 250 flight hours) is virtually unheard of. Most successful pilot applicants at major airlines have thousands of flight hours. Secondary airlines (regional or commuter) may have lower requirements.</p>
<p>Timing is everything. You could be the world&#8217;s most qualified pilot, but if there are no openings for pilots when you enter the job market, a good job will be very hard to find. It&#8217;s that simple. Unfortunately, timing is something we have almost no control over. There are no guarantees in the airline business. You won&#8217;t know how your career went until you retire and can look back at it. Boom-to-bust cycles in the economy are magnified in the aviation industry. Bankruptcy, furloughs, airline shutdowns and consolidation have been a big part of the business for years. It can be, and has been for many professional pilots, a rough career ride with many different employers and lots of changes in jobs, towns and seniority. A wise airline instructor at my first airline job told the class, &#8220;The future in aviation is the next 30 seconds &#8212; long-term planning is an hour and a half.&#8221; These are the truest words about the business that I&#8217;ve ever heard.</p>
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