Saturday, February 14, 2009

Learn A Foreign Language

By James Dean

Some basics: Foreign language courses are quite different from other courses so you must never drag your feet about it. Any postponement is deemed as a failure in a foreign language course where you need to devote a minimum of 15 minutes a day for a minimum of 3 hours a week. While you need not put in more than 45 minutes learning the language in one session, try to accommodate all the extra time you have in your hands.

Partition your study into many small sessions. Attend classes regularly, if you want to pass the course and you are serious about the language. You could review your previous learning like the vocabulary - this would stand in good stead. Here are some pointers given below which can make the job of learning a foreign language a walk in the park.

Perusing through printed matter: Try to comprehend what is written rather than worrying too much over unknown words. Make it a routine to browse through the chapters of the textbook everyday.

Move on to talking: Everyone makes mistakes so listen to what others are saying and start to talk. You can start practicing the foreign language by talking to your self, talking to others who are in the same class or even with your pet dog or cat.

Putting pen to paper: Practice your skills on putting down your thoughts on paper till it becomes effortless.

Take a dictation of a small portion of the language from a friend and then check it for correctness.

Miscellany: Study the foreign language with a positive frame of mind, have pre-set objectives and goals. Ensure that you have set objectives and are clear about the paths which would take you there. If you need help get it and do not be afraid to ask questions or ask for help for fear of sounding stupid, or being embarrassed. Ask as many questions as you want and always seek help if you stumble as there are nothing to feel shy about. Get audio tapes of the language and listen to them or make you own tapes and listened to yourself in order to perfect your pronunciation. One of the most successful ways to have correct pronunciation is to learn through repeated listening of audio tapes of others or those made by you using the language. Make colored flash cards which help you to grow vocabulary where different colors are used to convey genders and words like nouns, verbs and adjectives, etc. Practice in study groups and become good friends with some of your classmates because they can help you out.

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Friday, February 13, 2009

Divorcing In Southern California? Organize This Information Now!

By Jon D. Alexander, Esq.

Divorcing in Orange County, California? You will definitely want to prepare and organize the following relevant documentation for your first consultation with your attorney. Your Attorney, most likely, will have his own form that he or she will have you complete. But, this article will give you a great head start on the type of documentation and information that you'll need during your first consultation. Also included below there is link to a Judicial Council Form provided by the Superior Court of Orange County. Many attorneys use these prefabricated forms.

You will need the following types of information:

1. Personal: All social security numbers, and dates of: (1) birth, (2) marriage, and (3) separation;

2. Property: Residence- lease or own (lease amount). If owner: value of home; mortgage payment, source of purchase funds, source of mortgage payments. Other Real Property. Life Insurance. Furniture

3. Obligations: debts- including date incurred, purpose, due date, and terms of repayment.

4. income: here you include your employer, your spouse's employer, type of occupation amount of monthly income, your withholdings, and if you currently are unemployed make sure you include an explanation of why, and lastly include the number of exemptions.

5. Liquid assets: for example bonds, stocks, cash, checking accounts, life insurance.

6. monthly expenses: the list is too long to be contained in this article. However, I've included a link below make sure you visit and view the list to get an idea of the numerous types of items you will want to consider.

Putting this information together will save you time and money. Visit the link below to fill out the link to form and take it to your attorney's office. If you do this you'll save yourself so much time, impress your attorney, and save money

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Thursday, February 12, 2009

What Does Community Property Mean?

By Jon D. Alexander, Esq.

California like nine other states is a community property state. Community property law considers the husbands and wives to be co-owner's of property much like a partnership.

In California all the properties owned by a married couple fits into three categories. It is either (1) community property; (2) separate property; or (3) quasi-community property.

Whether a piece of property is community, separate, or quasi-community property will control the division of property upon divorce. Under California law community property is defined as all property, real or personal, wherever situated, acquired by married persons during the marriage while domiciled in the state.

Property that is acquired during marriage that is from the beginning of the marriage until the date of separation is owned by both spouses. How? Each spouse owns a distinct one half interest in the property.

Separate property are those things that either spouse had before marriage, after separation, or received during the marriage either by gift or inheritance. So, let's say that during your marriage you received an inheritance for your rich aunt. That property is yours and is considered separate property.

Your income earned during the marriage will be considered community property unless it originates from separate property. This means that even if you hold the money in a separate account it is still deemed to be community property

Quasi-community property is a little bit tricky. It is defined under the law as: all real or personal property, wherever situated, acquired before or after the operative date of this code in any of the following ways: (a) By either spouse while domiciled elsewhere which would have been community property if the spouse who acquired the property had been domiciled in this state at the time of its acquisition. (b) In exchange for real or personal property, wherever situated, which would have been community property if the spouse who acquired the property so exchanged had been domiciled in this state at the time of its acquisition.

quasi-community property refers to that property acquired by a couple when they lived in an equitable distribution state before moving to California. In California, however, was a community property is treated just like community property.

Now for the even trickier part: Sometimes separate property can become community property during the course of the marriage. This happens all too frequently and sometimes results in a nasty surprise during divorce. If you are considering a divorce contact me and we can discuss these issues at length to help you avoid any nasty surprises. click on the links below to visit my website and schedule a free consultation

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Learning Human Anatomy & Mastering Physiology

By Mike Filsman

At 1st glance the study of human anatomy seems to be tangled and extreme. It is true that it is compound and your studies will not change that. As far as being overwhelming ,that can be elevated if you take your works 1 step at a time. Here are several steps to help you on the way.

Step 1:
Do a quick overview of the human anatomy as a whole. You will see that it is entirely made up of systems. These systems all interlink with each other as well as back one another. If one system fails the others will not be able to work.

Step 2:
Now that you understand the connection ,that a look in general at all the various systems. Make a listing of all individual unit. When you are ready to start your studies you will be centralizing on each one individually. Your list now provides you with a basic study programme which is in truth only a starting guide.

Step 3:
You have always been told when you are more or less to take on a job to begin from the beginning. In many senses trying to understand just where the starting of the human anatomy starts is not all that elementary to decide. Most pupils find the best way is to work from the inside out. Meaning starting with the skeletal system, is likely going to be the simplest way for you to begin to understand the complexity of the body. After all if we didn't have the skeletal system then the rest of our body would just be a big blob of no form.

Step four:
Carry On your studies this way learning each section at a time and mastering your knowledge in it. As you advance you will eventually begin associating all of the systems together and you will that it has now get natural to you to flow from 1 system to another.

Step five:
Once you have opted the area or system you are starting to study. You require to get other list. This list will be the main sections that are contained in that system. As you go over your studies you will learn about each one of these regions which we will now name to as the organs.

Step six:
Lets followup what you have in front of you as a study outline.

(a) you have your list of body systems.

(b) you have a course of processes of where you are going to start. You have comprised a list of organs or parts found inside that system. So the following step is you now determine what do you require to know about each of the organs.

(1) you will need to acknowledge what its role is within its private system.

(2) you will need to acknowledge what that organ is made up of and how it operates.

(3) in the end you will require to know how it links in with all the other organs within the system.

So by following these simple steps you have now eased the feelings of being overwhelmed in your studies. You have just made yourself a study program that will in the end help you to gain and keep all of the knowledge you require regarding the human anatomy.

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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Are You An Anatomy & Physiology Student? - Study Guide

By Kelly Smith

Organising the body in your human anatomy course means putting affairs in rational order. It can get quite complex when it gets to the human body. because you are not rather sure what to start with. The regular tendency is to start with the skeletal system. This is a primary option when you are ready to get into the study of the systems, but your not rather there nevertheless. You require to go backwards one step further. and determine what is the skeletal system made up of. This is the easy region, its merely made up of cells like the entire body is. Once you have finished your learning of cells. you will then be ready to move on.

When you get to the subject of the skeletal system you will learn that its what holds your body up. So what is the body? Yes, its all the systems and organs that you are dying to pick up about, merely the body is made up of tissue. Where the skeleton holds the body up, its the tissue that keeps everything in. Without tissue, the inside of the lungs would spill out. Without tissue, the inside of the kidneys would be revealed. This goes for to every last organ and interior item with the body. The tissue is the case, or the blanket. You require to recognize what the tissue is made up of.

if you are thinking its made up of cells, that's completely exact Even So all these cells conjointly attach together to make what? Tissue naturally. Thats not where this part of the subject finishes. You need to now realize the various structures of the tissue.

To make your study material for this portion of the topic recall that you will be learning the tissue in levels because it is made of layers. You must acquire and have a full apprehension of what each level makes and its procedure. Reason being, you are going to require to know this so you will under the structures of the organs ,when you reach to that region of your Human Anatomy studies.

In your text book you will most certainly have illustrations showing out the important arenas of your notes. The advisable way you can acquire, is draw these each time you comprehend a point that has a image explaining it. Do your greatest to do your drawings bit by bit with little box notes below each drawing. Color the diagram and match the border of the font with the identical color.

If you take after these ways throughout your entire learning of the Human Anatomy, you will have your knowledge stored in a very accurate organized order. Then when it comes time to pen it down in examinations, you will mechanically attack them in the identical well-kept path.

Its arriving close to the time that you now require to illustrate a flow chart. Your flow chart should be a serials of blocks. In every cube as you read a another division put the highlights in the cube, then when you study the following topic do the same in the incoming cube. This will serve as a check sheet when you are reading, to make sure you dont forget out a step. With the sum of data you are absorbing it can well be complete. Not as likely when you get into the major systems, but it can happen when learning the basic principle.

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Monday, February 9, 2009

Graduate School and College Interview Tips

By Daniel Z. Kane

Years ago, many highly selective colleges and universities required that all applicants complete an interview with a staff member and/or an alumnus.

Today, not as many institutions insist on an interview, but a fairly significant number do; especially graduate and professional schools. And, although other institutions avoid the term "interview", they very well may evaluate the applicants with whom they have personal contact. In fact, even student tour guides may evaluate applicants.

Your best bet, if you are applying to an educational institution of any kind, is to assume that everything you say and do in the presence of an institutional representative is being evaluated. Thus, when you are speaking with a staff member, an alumnus, or a student of any institution to which you are seeking admission, follow a few rules.

1. Never indicate that a college or graduate school is not your first choice: if you do, you may put your chance of admission at risk.

2. Do not express doubt about wanting to continue your education.

3. Dress appropriately for all meetings with institutional representatives.

4. Research the institutions to which you are applying. Never ask a question about a college or university which you could have found an answer to in a few minutes on the institution's website; it will make you appear lazy and/or not very interested.

5. Never make a comment to a student tour guide or anyone else that you would not want the Dean of Admission to hear. If you do, he or she will.

6. Send thank you notes to anyone who spends significant time with you. The less generic they sound, the better.

7. If a parent or spouse accompanies you on a campus visit...which in itself is fine...be sure they understand that they should never answer for you or sing your praises to institutional representatives. Nothing is more obnoxious.

8. Have at least one intelligent question prepared for each person with whom you meet.

9. Do not make statements that assume your admission, regardless of your qualifications. Humility is a virtue...if you don't have it, fake it until you do.

10. Speak with and meet with representatives of your least favorite institutions first so you will be more practiced when you interview for your top choices.

Good interviewing is, more than anything else, applying common sense, active listening skills, and common courtesy. Good luck.

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Sunday, February 8, 2009

Online Education; Your Ticket to a Better Life

By Larry Libassi

Many traditional college administrators are concerned that the difficult economic times in which we find ourselves will result in shrinking enrollments.

Postsecondary career school, trade school, and technical school administrators have the same concern.

Meanwhile, online college and online university enrollment managers have no such worries. For the most part, they are seeing dramatic enrollment increases. Here are five reasons why.

1. Online education eliminates the need for relocation. Students can live where they are and earn an online degree from a college or university hundreds of miles away.

2. Students can move anywhere they wish, whenever they wish, without delaying the time it will take to complete an online degree. All that's required is internet service and a computer.

3. students enrolled in campus-based programs are required to attend classes at specified times, times which may not always be convenient for busy adults. Students taking online courses can complete their assignments whenever it is convenient for them.

4. It is not necessary to wait for the beginning of a new semester to enroll in a degree program. Online college programs allow students to get started as soon as they wish.

5. Commuting takes time. And, most students enrolled in on-campus degree programs incur significant transportation and parking costs. Not so for online learners.

It is no mystery why online education is flourishing. Traditional colleges simply can not offer adults the same flexibility and convenience that online colleges and universities do.

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