Company Profile for Capella Education Company
Posted: October 6, 2012 at 10:12 am
Founded in 1991, Capella Education Company is a leader in online education, primarily through our wholly owned subsidiary Capella University, a regionally accredited online university. In addition, Capella Education Company offers online education through Resource Development International Ltd. (RDI), an independent provider of United Kingdom (UK) university distance learning qualifications; and owns Sophia, a first-of-its-kind social education platform that offers students many ways to learn by making credible, academic content available to anyone, anywhere, at anytime. Capella University offers online graduate degree programs in business, counseling, education, health administration, homeland security, human resource management, human services, information technology, nonprofit management and leadership, nursing, psychology, public administration, public health, public safety, and social work; and bachelor's degree programs in business, information technology, nursing, psychology, and public safety. These academic programs are designed to meet the needs of working adults, combining high quality, competency-based curricula with the convenience and flexibility of an online learning format. Currently, Capella University offers 44 graduate and undergraduate degree programs with 149 specializations. More than 36,000 learners were enrolled as of June 30, 2012.
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Top Ten Things to Do with the Ten Minutes Between Class
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1. Attend Russ Petrickas step aerobics class- lets face it, you wouldnt last longer than ten minutes anyway. 2. Heat up, and ravenously devour, a bowl of Easy Mac. 3. Watch Michael Jacksons Thriller music video without holding back your inhibition to dance along to it. 4. Go to Fourth Libe with the intention of studying for your next class, without fail end up seeing everyone you know, and end up not even touching your notes. 5. Go to First Libe with the intention of studying and end up sitting in a corner ordering a cute pair of jeans online. 6. Organize your beloved drawer of festive holiday socks By season. 7. Lay in the bald spot, pondering the greatest woes of the natural world- this is Carleton afterall. 8. Try to determine the best maneuver to get your bike out of the massive heap known as the Sayles bike racks. 9. Write a Top Ten list at the speed of one thing per minute. 10. Maybe, just maybe, walk to class?
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Traditional with a Thai twist
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DIXON At 5 years old, Trirong Khuntangta was carrying herbs back to his school where he learned how to dry and prepare them.
The downtown Dixon building that he converted into the Traditional Wellness Center is a far cry from his boarding school in Thailand, but the lessons he learned still are a part of his everyday work there.
The Touch of Thai owner was looking to go low key and calm when he created his center, he said, although the dizzying array of services provided at 216 W. First St. doesnt necessarily give that impression.
Walking in the front doors, a tea shop serving light breakfast and lunch is to the right. To the left, there might be someone playing the piano or someone on a lunch break getting a 5-minute massage.
Cooking classes will be offered in the back kitchen. Yoga, Zumba and meditation classes are provided upstairs in a large open room with old hardwood floors that also can be rented out for banquets.
The idea behind the Traditional Wellness Center is that having multiple revenue sources gives Khuntangta more flexibility.
Plus, he really enjoys the herbalism part. In addition to light food, his Ginkgo Tree Cafe offers herbal tea.
Herbalism is so complicated, Khuntangta said, as ginger, lemon grass and turmeric steeped in hot water in a glass teapot in front of him. Its not hard, but theres so much.
Khuntangta received his bachelors in political science and masters in international relations, and hes attending Thai alternative medicine school. Hes finished 3 years and has 2 to go.
Thats why he decided to team up with Carol Krueger, a KSB Hospitalpharmacist and fellow herbalist. Krueger actually first learned the trade as well as Tai Chi, yoga and how to give massages from Khuntangta more than 15 years ago.
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Step into fitness this fall with Parks and Recreation
Posted: October 5, 2012 at 4:23 pm
By: Contributed Report Published: October 04, 2012 Updated: October 04, 2012 - 7:58 PM
The Chesterfield County Department of Parks and Recreation is offering a series of fitness classes this fall at the Bensley Community Building at 2900 Drewrys Bluff Road.
For more information, contact David Potter at 804-275-5321.
To register, call 804-748-1623.
Zumba Come join one of the newest trends in aerobics, Zumba. This cardio-interval class promotes agility and endurance while it tones muscles.
Class will be taught by a certified Zumba trainer. Classes will be held from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesdays Nov. 7 through Dec. 12. The cost is $45. Course 25704
Daytime Fitness For $35 a month, participants can take as many daytime fitness classes as they want. Classes include aerobics, body toning, Pilates and yoga. Participants must register one week prior to the start of class to ensure class minimums are met.
Aerobics meets from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Monday through Friday.
Body toning meets from 10:45 to 11:45 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Pilates meets from 10:45 to 11:45 a.m. Fridays.
Yoga meets from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Mondays.
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Vietnamese dissident poet Nguyen Chi Thien dies
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LOS ANGELES (AP) Nguyen Chi Thien, a Vietnamese dissident poet who spent nearly 30 years in communist prisons in his native country, died in a Southern California hospital Tuesday after a long bout of lung illness, according to a close friend. He was 73.
Thien had contracted tuberculosis while in Vietnamese prisons and doctors were investigating a large mass in his lung in the days before he died, his close friend Hanh Thang-Thai said. The actual cause of his death was unclear.
Thien's former translator, Nguyen Ngoc Bich, says Thien is by far the most famous Vietnamese poet of his generation.
"It's like the passing away of a great symbol for the so-called free Vietnam, people who still believe in freedom and democracy for Vietnam," Bich said.
Thien first went to prison in 1960, after telling Vietnamese high school students that, contrary to their textbooks, the end of World War II was not the result of a Soviet attack, but rather U.S. nuclear attacks in Japan.
He was later imprisoned again because of poems he wrote that decried communist oppression. But due to a lack of evidence, he never went to trial.
In 1977, Thien was released from prison long enough to write down poems he had memorized in captivity, a manuscript that became known as "Flowers of Hell."
The poems were published in Vietnamese after he hand-delivered them to British diplomats at their embassy in Hanoi, Vietnam.
When he exited the embassy, security agents were awaiting him and he was promptly sent back to prison.
While he was still imprisoned, Thien won the International Poetry Award in Rotterdam in 1985.
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Yoga poses to improve your digestion
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Shameem Akthar, yogacharya trained with the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center, takes you through five poses that will help in controlling digestive ailments.
In yoga, for digestive problems most asanas are helpful. You may however have to avoid them when there is an inflammatory condition like ulcer or any perforated condition of the digestive tract.
In fact, to have a gentle yoga practice when you have a digestive problem will soothe the stomach. Even where poses are suggested that apply pressure on the abdomen, care must be taken not to press down into them, but to hold the poses lightly.
Including soothing pranayama practices like seethali (cooling breath) and the alternate nostril breathing (anulom vilom) are also helpful. The most soothing practice, in yoga, for healing digestive disasters, including inflammatory conditions, however is the passive practice of meditation. A ten-minute meditation, lying supine in the corpse pose (shavasana) or as in the crocodile pose (makarasana) will be the best therapy.
In yoga, apart from actual incidents of food poisoning most other ailments are tracked to psychosomatic causes or life-style mismanagement. Having a regular meal schedule, giving sufficient gap between eating and exercising/or sleeping, waking up early, eating dinner early, are some simple tips to maintain a healthy gut.
For more of Shameem's yoga writings visit http://jaisivananda.blogspot.com. Shameem's second book Yoga in the Workplace, with photographs by ace photographer Fawzan Husain, is now available at online shops and bookshops across the country. It is also available as e-book, with Kindle, Amazon.
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Strategies Health And Fitness And Bodily Physical Fitness Prgram Zox Pro Technique – Video
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UCLA public health researchers get $20M grant to promote health and fitness, fight obesity
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Contact: Sarah Anderson sanderson@ph.ucla.edu 310-267-0440 University of California - Los Angeles
Researchers at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have been awarded a $20 million federal grant to further their innovative efforts to curb obesity, a global pandemic that has reached the level of a national crisis in the United States.
The UCLA project, rather than requiring busy, stressed individuals in low-resource neighborhoods to seek out physical activity and nutrient-rich foods, will engage them as "captive" audiences in settings they already frequent including schools, offices and churches making healthier options a default that can only be avoided with effort or by "opting out."
The five-year grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is intended to address health disparities among racial and ethnic groups across the country and is part of the agency's Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) initiative.
The UCLA project will be led by Dr. Antronette Yancey and Roshan Bastani, professors of health policy and management at the Fielding School and co-directors of the school's UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity. Other faculty members on the team include assistant professor Beth Glenn, professor Annette Maxwell and professor William J. McCarthy, all of the school's department of health policy and management.
For more than 20 years, UCLA has been recognized as a leader in promoting health among a diverse array of ethnic groups in a variety of settings, with programs that address critical health issues ranging from obesity and tobacco control to cancer screening and vaccinations. This work is conducted in partnership with several hundred community-based organizations, primarily in the Los Angeles region.
The new CDC funding enables the researchers to build on knowledge gained from their prior work and to expand the geographic scope of their efforts. They will concentrate on promoting healthy nutrition and physical activity in 30 to 40 medium- to large-sized cities throughout the U.S. Southeast, Midwest and Southwest, focusing on geographic hubs in those metropolitan areas where ethnic or racial minorities make up the majority of residents.
The program will be disseminated through national networks of community-based organizations, allowing the program to reach large segments of the African American, Asian American/Pacific Islander, Hispanic/Latino and American Indian populations in these urban centers.
The core of the program is Yancey's "Instant Recess," which she developed nearly 14 years ago to help prevent obesity and promote health and well-being. "Instant Recess" focuses on integrating short physical-activity breaks into non-discretionary time during non-P.E. time in school, "paid time" at work and Sunday church services, for example and establishing policies to ensure that appealing healthy options are accessible whenever food is served at meetings or gatherings, in cafeterias, or in vending machines.
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Kids' Health Is Focus at Monthly Fitness at the Fountain Event
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Published: Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 11:32 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 11:32 p.m.
WINTER HAVEN | Public Education Partnership has begun an effort to get students from the Polk County School District involved in a physical fitness event monthly at Winter Haven's downtown Central Park.
The event, called Fitness at the Fountain, began last month. Professional wellness instructors lead the exercises the first Saturday of the month. This Saturday, the event is from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., and Health Concepts is sponsoring the instruction.
"In Dr. John Ratey's recent book, Spark,' he describes how several school districts in the country used fitness programs to improve student academic scores," said Doug Lockwood, chairman of the Public Education Partnership.
PEP was created last year by the Winter Haven Chamber of Commerce's education steering committee with a mission of improving Winter Haven schools through advocacy, community engagement and collaborative partnerships.
Nat West, a PEP board member, said last month's inaugural event had good participation.
"In addition to exercises, there were games for kids and energizing music for everyone to get in the spirit," he said. "With several dieticians from the Cypress Dietetic Association and the Main Street Market right next to the exercisers in Winter Haven's Central Park, it was a day to learn about and practice wellness."
The idea for Fitness at the Fountain arose at a Polk Vision meeting when attendees decided to act upon a recent article reporting the Lakeland/Winter Haven area ranked seventh in the country for obesity, West said.
"I went to the local fitness centers and asked them to provide at least two athletic trainers to lead exercises in the park the first Saturday of every month so it could be the same day and location as our Main Street Market," West said.
The Main Street Market gives families access to fresh fruit and vegetables that correlates with living a healthy lifestyle, West said.
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2012 Montreal Consumer Choice Award Winners: Health & Fitness and Everyday Life Sectors
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MONTRAL, Oct. 4, 2012 /CNW/ - Consumer Choice Award is thrilled to announce the 2012 Top Service Providers in the Health & Fitness and Everyday Life sectors for the greater Montreal area. We would like to extend heartfelt congratulations to all this year's winners; your dedication to superior service has resonated with the people of the city of Montreal.
Each year across Canada, Consumer Choice Award gathers opinions, perceptions and expectations through the responses of thousands of consumers and businesses. All Winners have gone through a rigorous selection process conducted by a third party research firm to ensure only the most outstanding service providers are the winners within their respective industry. Find the list of Award-Winners below:
HEALTH & FITNESS
EVERYDAY LIFE
About Consumer Choice Award
Consumer Choice Award (CCA) was established in 1987 and is considered the most distinguished award for business excellence in Canada. This is the only organization in North America to recognize business excellence by conducting third party market research of both the consumer & business community with statistical accuracy. The research method determines all the service providers, ultimately selects the top ranked companies, and establishes the winner within each industry.
Consumer Choice Award conducts its market research strictly with Leger Marketing, the leading Canadian-owned market research firm and memberof the Worldwide Independent Network (WIN) of Market Researchers.
Consumer Choice Award lives in Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Hamilton, Montreal, London, Ottawa, Quebec City, Saskatoon, St. John's, Toronto, Vancouver and Winnipeg.
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