Jennifer Lesley Ellison (born 30 May 1983) is an English actress, glamour model, television personality, dancer and singer. Ellison is perhaps best known for playing Emily Shadwick in the television soap opera Brookside until 2003, and as Meg Giry in the 2004 film adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera.

Born in Liverpool, the oldest of four children born to Karen (née Sullivan) and Geoffrey Thomas Clancy, Clancy formed girl bandGenie Queen, who were managed by Andy McCluskey from Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD).

The London School of Economics and Political Science has kept its position as second in the world for social sciences, according to the latest global university league table.

The QS World University Rankings has, for the second year running, ranked LSE ahead of Oxford and Cambridge and just behind Harvard in its ‘social sciences and management faculty area’.

The latest overall rankings also rated LSE as the sixth best university in the world for employer reputation and seventh for the size of its international student body.

The specific subject rankings placed LSE as second in the world for geography and communications and media studies, and third for politics, economics and accounting and finance.

Commenting on the results, Professor Craig Calhoun, Director of LSE said:

The School was also ranked at joint 71st in the overall table. Although QS recognise the difficulty of comparing specialised universities like LSE with those that cover a wider range of fields, the methodology of the overall ranking tends to favour institutions with large science, engineering and medicine departments.

The full 2014/15 rankings are available at http://www.topuniversities.com/

As with most ancient healing technique, reiki is performed without using any tools or instruments. You only need your hands to heal a specific body part.

This healing method is based on the idea that the life force flows through the body. If a specific body part is damaged, the life force is blocked. By performing reiki healing, it improves well-being and even restores the body to full health. Reiki isn’t strictly used to heal the body, it’s also used to treat emotional or mental problems.

Reiki healing is easy to master. Once you learn the basics, you can use the technique to heal yourself and others. It also works in conjunction with other medical or therapeutic methods to promote better health and speed up recovery.

Reiki is centered on self-healing. The simplest, most basic way to perform healing is to place your hand on the affected area. Placing your hand on areas you want to heal helps the reiki energy to flow freely. It’s important to let reiki flow at the beginning of a treatment.

Start by putting your hands into the classic “Namaste” position, bow gently with your hands at the heart. Close your eyes and ask for the reiki to flow through your body.

Then, raise your hand above your head. Keep the palms up. Visualize the life force energy flowing from the heavens and into you. Once you’re done visualizing, place your hand on the area you want to heal. Silently ask reiki to heal the area. This ritual is all about surrendering yourself to Reiki to guide you to heal yourself and others.

The most basic of self-healing hand position starts by overlapping the hands on top of the head. Put one hand on the forehead and the other at the back of the head, just above the base of the skull. Rest your hands on the eyes then, the ears. Put on hand on the upper chest then the other on the solar plexus. Put the hands on the hip area too.

Each time you place your hands on specific body parts, relax and maintain the position for at least two minutes. Repeat the positions until you’ve mastered the basics. Reiki healing is always watched over by the Divine. You have to trust your inner guidance in order to reap the health benefits of reiki.

Once you’ve mastered the positions for self-healing, you can move on to healing others. The positions remain the same. The life force will do all the healing for you. All you need to do is to trust your inner guidance and surrender yourself to the Divine for healing.

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Rebounding exercise – more popularly known as rebounding – refers to a low-impact workout that uses a mini-trampoline or any type of “rebounder.” The main concept of rebounding is bouncing up and down to improve posture, strengthen muscles and tendons as well as to achieve a healthy body. Rebounding is comprised of three types: Health, Strength and Aerobic Bounce.

Health Bounce: This workout requires gentle bouncing up and down without the feet leaving the mat. This workout drains the lymphatic system and strengthens the joints.

Strength Bounce: this workout requires jumping as high as you can on a trampoline. The movement strengthens the muscles and improves balance.

Aerobic Bounce: Performing jumping jacks, jogging in place or bouncing on one leg after another helps keep the heart rate up, improves balance and posture. It also burns a lot of calories.

The lymphatic system collects toxins that harm the body. To minimize risks, the lymphatic glands have to be drained. Usually, the system relies on body movement to drain the lymphatic nodes. Bounding up and down helps eliminate toxins in the lymphatic system. The movement forces harmful compounds out of the body. The toxins are then eliminated safely as waste.

Because rebounding exercises are low-impact, they are kinder to the bones and joints. They are virtually painless, even those who suffer from gout or rheumatism can perform rebounding exercises with no trouble at all. Rebounding also promotes the re-mineralizing of the bones. This process keeps the bones denser, stronger and thicker. Rebounding is also kind on the tendons, ligaments and joints too!

Bouncing on a mini-trampoline torches a lot of calories. When you pick up the pace, the breathing gets deeper, the heart starts pumping harder. This workout keeps the heart healthy while promoting safe, gradual weight loss. It also boosts the metabolic rate and encourages fat loss!

Slouching causes damage to the spine. Rebounding exercises help correct misaligned spine, it improves posture and boosts balance too. When you bounce up and down, the abdominal muscles are activated. This forces the body to stand straighter to maintain the natural curve of the spine. And when you are not hunched over, you look taller, slimmer!

Rebounding training is an excellent workout for the heart. It promotes deeper breathing, improves blood circulation and decreases edema. It can lower blood pressure and keep the heart healthy too. Rebounding also minimizes the pooling of blood in the veins.

Start by getting a rebounder, like a mini-trampoline. Wear comfortable clothing, clothes that won’t keep you from moving around.

Step on the rebounder and start by bouncing without letting the feet leave the surface of the trampoline. Gradually pick up the pace. Establish a moderate pace until breathing becomes heavier and heart rate starts picking up too. Next, start bouncing by bending the knees. From here, you can create a customized fitness routine. You can incorporate energetic music and jumping jacks, etc. You can also follow rebounding workout online to burn off more fat.

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As he neared the end of his Grand Canyon University premed degree program,James Prigge realized his heart wasn’t in doing the required testing and interviews for medical school applications.

Prigge felt called elsewhere, so the former resident adviser decided to stay put. He applied for jobs at GCU, earned a position as an enrollment counselor and began taking courses in the University’s master’s program in public health earlier this spring.

Prigge, 24, who helps Colangelo College of Business online students, is an example of the type of GCU-educated, entry-level, full-time employees the University wants to produce. After hiring 67 graduates in 2014, the University so far this year has hired 28 recent grads for a range of positions in Academic Web Services, Facilities, Ground Admissions, Information Technology, Office of Academic Records, Online Operations, Residence Life, Strategic Educational Alliances and the Qualifying Center, according to the talent acquisition group in the Human Resources Department.

For many new hires, their first full-time jobs are entry points into a university where the possibilities for future jobs are plentiful due to the rapid pace at which GCU is growing.

“I never thought I’d sit at a cubicle, but the way this job is going now, and it’s going great — I might be here forever,” said Prigge, who works in the Peoria office complex.

He enjoys speaking with students and helping them navigate their degree requirements. He’s recommended several friends for jobs at GCU, and those friends have recommended others.

Prigge, who recently was promoted, said he dreams about someday opening a hospital overseas, and feels connected to his alma mater and its mission to improve the lives of students and the community.

“Here and at the other campuses, there’s always change with different jobs opening or new jobs they’re creating,” he said. “I hope I can work my way up here. I like it — it keeps changing, keeps me on my toes.”

GCU Career Services Director Jacqueline Smith said her office’s partnership with the HR talent acquisition group has helped the University plug its best and brightest into meaningful jobs. Each March, the departments work together to host the GCU Wants to Hire You job fair, giving students plenty of employment options.

Many of the new hires are former student workers who are familiar with University culture. They have established relationships with faculty and staff, and can comfortably perform their entry-level duties, while gaining experience to earn a position in a field that more closely aligns with their degrees or passion.

“They’re part of a growing, very progressive company,” Smith said. “We’re not the status quo … where you might start isn’t going to be where you finish. Hiring managers really focus on that, getting students into their gifting area.”

Like Prigge, recent psychology graduate Lily Schwartz, 22, saw the opportunity to work for her alma mater while pursuing a master’s degree in industrial and organizational psychology.

Smith hired Schwartz and alumna Sara Lynch about a year ago to work in Career Services after learning that both had earned high commendations from previous supervisors. Schwartz, who was a manager at McDonald’s before and during college, also worked at the Student Contact Center and as a tour guide at the Antelope Reception Center. She told her supervisors she wanted a position in which she could make a greater impact in the lives of her fellow Lopes.

“I definitely let it be known what I was interested in,” said Schwartz, who helps GCU’s student workers with their assignments. “But I always made sure I was working really hard and acting in a professional manner.”

Her job is preparing her for a career in which she can continue to care for others and help them navigate their own careers, she said.

“What’s important, and we talk about this in our orientations, is it’s not just a student worker position or an entry-level position,” Schwartz said. “There’s no position too little, or that’s preventing you from gaining valuable experience. You’re still networking, gaining that experience and developing skills.

“It’s important for students to know when they’re in a position, that it’s a stepping stone.

by /gcu.edu