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Recognizing the popularity of hospitality programs among younger college students, many community colleges are building new facilities and introducing associate’s degree hospitality programs. Most schools offer business as an option for students interested in hotel and restaurant management, but new hospitality-specific programs are designed to provide students with a more thorough training and a competitive edge in the job market, without having to complete a four-year degree. Here are just a few of the many community colleges across the country with programs specifically designed for the future hotelier or restaurant manager.

Kirkwood Community College (Iowa)

Although it offers several different hospitality concentrations, Kirkwood is recognized for its hotel management program. The school owns a hotel featuring 71 guest rooms, in addition to a gourmet restaurant. Students receive training at the hotel facilities which include culinary and bakery labs, classrooms, computer labs, and an auditorium. Read the rest of this entry »

The winter months are the crucial season on your plumbing as you need to spend up thousands of dollars on unnecessary plumbing repair. You can avoid plumbing problems and repairs by adopting proper plumbing preventive maintenance. The level of winter plumbing protection varies depending upon the areas where you live as temperatures also vary from one place to another. It is enough if you have some common hand tools as well as some plumbing supplies which you can buy online or from a local supply house to protect your plumbing system. These items will cost as little as $6.99 which is better than to spend $150 or more by calling a plumber. During winter you may come across some common plumbing problems and simple solutions to help you to avoid each plumbing problems.

In most of the building kitchen sink will be installed on the outside wall of your home so that you can see out of the window while doing dishes or using the sink. During winter the outside walls can get colder where there is more possibility that your plumbing could freeze. Nowadays plumbers insist to pipe insulation as your first step against freezing pipes. As many homes the water lines are actually on the outside wall of the house and you can avoid the problem over the winter by doing certain things. Keep the cabinet doors open so that warm can flow inside and prevent frozen pipes. This will work for many homes even though it looks ugly it will be a better idea as the warm air as it will prevent pipes from freezing. On the other hand if this does not work then you can fix a portable space heater near the open door so that more hot air can keep the water lines warm.

Another problem is that the oil burner tank lines which will freeze as fuel may contain water. You can avoid this either by insulating them with pipe insulation or if you have already insulated your oil lines then remove any sludge and water from you oil tank. It involves a very messy job so you need to call an oil heating professional to do so. Read the rest of this entry »

One dark and violent morning in the early days of 2009, the most powerful force to hit France in years came storming down upon the edge of the Atlantic.

Winds of up to 200 km/ph tore through the nebulous dawn, leaving 26 people dead, forests and power lines crushed, buildings and roads annihilated, and the people of Rowan (a tiny fishing port) utterly flabbergasted.

For not ten miles out to sea, a mysteriously conceived blob ascended from the depths, blasting its way onto the surface. The locals have since named this land mass (which measures 250 acres across at low tide) “l’île mystérieuse” – or ‘the mysterious island’ – aptly named after a novel by Jules Verne. Read the rest of this entry »