среда, 9 июня 2010 г.
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College tuition discounts draw summer students  ediedai 08:43:50 |
| | Jenna LaPlace saved $1,560 by not heading home after finals last month.
She's sticking around Hiram College's Ohio campus for a summer course in animal physiology at the bargain price of $1,083 for the three-credit course. That's 40% cheaper than the traditional school-year rate.
"It's so inexpensive to take the class, I'm actually able to pay for it out of pocket," says the 20-year-old Bainbridge, Ohio, native, a sophomore at the small liberal arts college.
Competition arises
At least a dozen private and public colleges seeking to fill quiet summer campuses and bring in additional revenue are making undergraduates — and in some cases high school students — offers that are too good to pass up. In addition, as families look for recession-sensitive price tags, some private colleges are trying to stay competitive by offering one-year tuition freezes or four-year tuition guarantees.
"Clearly, the economy is prompting colleges to think and act creatively to maintain student enrollment," says Tony Pals of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.
Hiram is offering both summer discounts and a tuition freeze, on top of its tuition guarantee, which keeps tuition stable all four years of a student's education. The Sage Colleges, with campuses in Troy and Albany, N.Y., also is offering a one-time tuition guarantee for any new undergraduates entering this fall.
"I have no worries," says Brianna Valesey, 18, of Wappingers Falls, N.Y., who will attend Sage in September under a four-year tuition guarantee. "I won't have to worry the next couple years that my parents can't afford it."
Offering one-year tuition freezes: Culver Stockton College in Missouri, Fresno Pacific University in California, Minneapolis College of Art and Design and Southern New Hampshire University.
A competitive market for returning summer undergraduates has five New Jersey colleges vying for the business with offers of free housing, 50% discounts and "buy one, get the second half-off" deals.
"We're looking at what the competition is doing and charging accordingly," says David Muha, spokesman for Drew University in Madison, N.J.
Other perks abound
Drew is offering a 50% discount on its per-credit undergraduate tuition rate and a 70% break for high school students who want a head start.
Rutgers University is offering $500 scholarships to 100 high-performing undergraduates with financial need, which is more than half the $921 cost for a three-credit course. New Jersey's state university is also giving an unlimited number of gifted high school students 20% summer tuition scholarships.
Other colleges around the country are offering various summer deals as well — from 40% off summer tuition at McKendree University in Lebanon, Ill., to 25% off first-level courses at Pennsylvania College of Technology in Williamsport, Pa.
St. Peter's College and Centenary College, two New Jersey private colleges, saw how their summer promotions made a difference last year.
Last summer, Jersey City-based St. Peter's offered the second course half off and was rewarded with a 22% increase in summer enrollment. And after Hackettstown-based Centenary offered free housing with the purchase of two courses, it saw enrollment nearly double.
"It was a no-brainer to do it again this year," says Terence Peavy, St. Peter's vice president for enrollment.
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среда, 2 сентября 2009 г.
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| Cold Noodles ediedai 09:22:32 |
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200 grams of fresh noodles, 50 grams of cucumber, soy sauce, 20ml, balsamic vinegar 35ml, sugar 8 grams, 3 grams of salt, pepper noodles 5 grams, 3 garlic, 1 shallot, sesame oil 15ml, chilli oil 15ml, peanuts, sesame seeds, or cooked a little .
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1 pot of water boil, then add a little salt, a spoonful (15ml) cooking oil, stir, then stir into the noodles casual, stamped boil water boiling, and then into a small fire, adding about 100ml of water around , once again boil the soup with chopsticks cross-section of a slight feeling a bit hard in the middle of the small amount of white core can turn off the heat, fish out the noodles with cold water cooling;
After the noodles Liang Liang Drain water and topped with edible oil mix well, spread out to prevent adhesion. At this point the soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, salt, pepper noodles, sesame oil, minced garlic and other seasonings mixed evenly, pour in the sauce before eating noodles, in cucumber sprinkled silk, shallot, peanut mix well at the end, topped with pepper oil.
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Do cold noodles noodle is best to use fresh noodles, this is more dynamic, flexible eat them again Smoothness. Cooked noodles is easy, but not easy to separate the noodles cooked, easy to stick into a lump, taste bad;
Department of cucumber outside the cold noodles with the vegetables can also use bean sprouts, carrots, green peppers, shredded chicken, etc., but should be noted that the pork cooked in advance, bean sprouts, green leafy vegetables, one type is required in advance Jimmy cooked;
May be taste habits, I do not like to add sesame cold noodles, I think the flavor is too strong but covers the vinegar, shallot and so clear flavor, but color is not very positive, so we generally do not add cold noodles family sesame paste , my grandmother did noodle stew will be added to the brine, color and taste are very good, this taste experience is not an ordinary spices can be achieved. Of course, this is just a taste of habit, I have eaten by adding sesame paste, mustard oil, cold noodles is greater. |
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четверг, 16 октября 2008 г.
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| Strawberry Cake ediedai 04:28:27 |
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Material:
Qifeng cake, fresh cream 500g, strawberry.
1,Bake a Qinfeng cake of six inches at first. Strawberry Cake method:
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2,Stir 500g fresh cream with the frozen water.
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3,Cut Qifeng cake into two pieces, put on some wipe cream.
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4,Pave a layer of strawberries, and then spread the cream.
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5,Cover another slice of Qinfeng cake, cover all cakes with the cream, wipes evenly.
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6,Decorate the cake with strawberry, and use the remaining cream
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вторник, 19 августа 2008 г.
четверг, 3 июля 2008 г.
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| In All Desperation ediedai 16:11:30 |
| | That night, I walked a long way, the way of coming back become farther because of my wandering up and down. One strolls in the street, I feel deep loneliness. Remember and perform again and again, I pain violently. I rub remaining memory and break to pieces, feel grieved. Think I have believed in the thing hanging on to rely on most and betrayed me most. I take every care to give a blow on the wall, I expect that can present the sense of loss that a hole hold me on the wall, but the result is that some firm thing of mine rumbles and collapses grandly.
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I fall and squat from wall violently, dull looking at the ground, condense the frost that I have never had in the eyes. The tears are turbulent and leaving in the frost of that group.
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After you leave, my sleep becomes brief and horrible. I make all sober half sober sober time consume at some trival matters even, I do not love these trival matters, but I need a kind of means to recapture and miss the lost territory occupied in my heart. I want to be decadent, but I dare not, decadent that heartrending pain when being unused, unused that I am afraid.
Originally, you stayed with me in all desperation, it is kind to me to be in all desperation. Should finish this section of emotions now, you are in all desperation. You scruple, consider, can injure, injure never, I get the plentiful happiness from it, have received right pain of injury too.
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You have not changed at all, I am only spending the limited course freely in your initial state confusedly. This discovery lets me want to cry, but have no tears. Wind for late autumn have meaning for winter already, I stand up a body by wall, look at the bare tree of distant place and think: Go well fast, go well fast too this year in its elegance and talent.
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My eyes are very hot, but has not cried out all the time.
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Your message has arrived, that is the last message that you write to me. That piece of news has already been out, but I change my some words while forgetting to believe forever: I do not think I have already needed you very much. Whenever at this time, always remember those wound, you got back to the starting point, but I can not begin. Let's say good-bye. What needn't anxious in this way perhaps, sentimentally attached to, bury deeply any that each other leave, continuing, I will be replaced sooner or later too ....... Thanks. I am sorry, my dear.
I feel grieved deeply, is oneself. All news of my calm deletion. Bearing the tears, do not cry, it is still my principle. The words which you spoke, in I do not have your independent life, become the Holy Bible.
I do not no longer miss you sedulously, the miss of you, turn into 3/4 of the sea in my world, massive, abysmal.
What I only felt at the moment like the New Year's Eve at a loss is dark, a lot of faces glimmer fireworks as misty as the distant place, remember who said: We are so perplexed, because is young?
The late clock floated longly, I felt unprecedented tired suddenly, kneel down softly, knees on the ground, weep buckets. |
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