Often the thought of dealing with the effects of addiction can seem an overwhelming and hopeless task to both those who suffer from addiction as well as their families and friends. For those who are fighting the effects of addiction, this new and improved website, Hopelinks can give that hope with help in locating rehab centers, either locally or nationally.

Hopelinks is, however, much more than a web based search engine for treatment centers, but also partners with local drug rehab centers that are available by telephone, to locate providers of intervention, treatment and recovery for all manners of addictions in each and every state. You can search for providers by city and state or zip code on the Hopelinks website. You will find results for each state that give the name and location of the provider as well as a short synopsis of the treatments made available by each particular rehab center.

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Growing numbers of undergraduates will be taught at institutions offering the cheapest degree courses as part of Coalition attempts to drive down student tuition fees, it was revealed.

Some 20,000 places have been stripped from all higher education institutions in England and “auctioned off” to those charging less than £7,500 a year – well under the £9,000 maximum.

Figures show that new universities such as Anglia Ruskin, London Metropolitan, Nottingham Trent, Staffordshire and Birmingham City are among the biggest winners under the policy.

But more than half of the extra places have been awarded to further education colleges that often run degree-style courses at a fraction of the price of universities.

Figures show colleges serving Cornwall, mid-Kent, Newcastle, Norwich Kingston-upon-Thames and Newham in East London were allocated more than 200 each.

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People with a blood cancer — myelofibrosis — can benefit from a drug called ruxolitinib, according to a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial that included patients and researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine.

The results of the multi-site phase-3 trial, which are published in the March 1 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, led the Food and Drug Administration to approve the drug in November as treatment for people with intermediate or advanced cases of the disease.

Ruxolitinib is marketed as Jakafi by Incyte Corp., which funded the trial, known as COMFORT-1. Investigators at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Ariz., led the study. The Stanford arm of the trial was managed by Jason Gotlib, MD, MS, associate professor of medicine. Mor

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Brother Gale Condit, vice principal of development at St. Paul’s High School in Covington for the past 11 years, has been named president of Archbishop Rummel High School in Metairie. Jan Lancaster, superintendent of schools for the Archdiocese of New Orleans, announced Condit’s appointment at a student assembly today.

Brother Gale Condit

Condit will assume his duties on July 1. Michael Scalco, Rummel’s interim principal and president, will remain principal.

Condit is not a stranger to Rummel, having worked as a student teacher there in 1965. He returned as a teacher in the 1970s after spending time on the faculty of two other local Christian Brother schools: St.

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Welcome to the latest edition of Real-Life Style Challenge! Last time we learned all about maximizing color in our wardrobes. This week were going to take things in the opposite direction and focus on the other end of the color spectrum neutrals. Neutrals include basic shades like beige, black, brown, white and gray, which are seemingly the most boring of colors.

The Challenge:

This weeks challenge is to spend the entire school week wearing only neutral colors. The goal is to create interesting, eye-catching looks while wearing the worlds least interesting colors. Ready to see me try it? Read on!

The Results:

• Monday: I went for a Parisian-inspired look to start off the week, wearing a black and white striped dress with a trench coat. To

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Fifty-five students from Lowe’s Grove and Shepherd middle schools spent Wednesday afternoon at the offices of IT company EMC, listening to engineers and executives from EMC and Duke Energy speak about their work and how they got their jobs.

They are among thousands of middle school students across the state taking part in a job shadowing program meant to expose them to businesses and fields that might spark an interest in higher education and decrease the state’s dropout rate. Twenty-five percent of students in North Carolina do not complete high school, according to the governor’s office.

EMC purchases power from Duke Energy, which purchases data services from EMC, a symbiotic relationship that offers many future career opportunities for students.

“Innovation fuels our company, and we need engineers,” said Bob Hawkins, vice president of North Carolina operations for EMC.

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