Berkeley City College, formerly Vista Community College, situated just two blocks away from the UC Berkeley campus, provides postsecondary educational studies in the liberal arts and sciences, as well as in occupational fields. The school offers associate's degrees and certificate programs in areas such as American Sign Language, biotechnology, business, computer information systems, and the liberal arts and social sciences. Founded in 1974 and boasting a student body of more than 5,000, it is a part of the Peralta Community College District.

Communicare assists companies who care about their employees' communications skills. The consulting firm provides behavior methodology testing to help improve production, teamwork, and leadership skills. Communicare is also the licensed distributor of the Information Mapping method, which is an organizational technique designed to improve information management and communications. Clients come from financial services, communications, technology, health care, retail, transportation, and government sectors, and include Bell Canada, GlaxoSmithKline, and Liberty Mutual. President and CEO Neill MacMillan founded Communicare in 1978.

The Scottish Rite Center is the gathering place for Masons in the San Diego area. It also houses more than 15 configurable meeting rooms that range from a capacity of 10 people to 1,000. Rooms are used for board meetings, parties, seminars, and receptions. Its 5,300 square foot Golden Eagle Auditorium is also available for theater performances and presentations. The not-for-profit center also houses a therapy center for childhood language disorders. Scottish Rite is a branch of the international fraternal organization Masons; members are joined by moral and metaphysical ideals.

EC Harris LLP provides built asset consulting services. It provides services in the areas of strategic planning, including asset and facilities strategy, supply chain management, performance and change management, risk and business continuity, and IT solutions, as well as organization, people, and capabilities; and capital and operational expenditure, including asset facilities management, building surveying, commercial management, quantity surveying, contract solutions, development management, programme management, project management, public private finance consultancy, and technical and investment risk management, as well as safety, health, and environment management. The company also provides services in the areas of asset ownership and asset performance. It serves various sectors, including energy and manufacturing, oil and gas/chemicals, property, public, transportation, and utilities. EC Harris LLP was founded in 1911 and is based in London, the United Kingdom. The company has locations in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Europe, the Asia Pacific, the Middle East, South Africa, and America.

Celerant Consulting Limited provides operations management consulting services for companies in the United Kingdom and internationally. It serves aerospace, automotive, chemicals, energy, fast moving consumer goods, financial services, government, life sciences, healthcare, manufacturing, metals, mining, pulp and paper, retail, telecommunications, and utilities industries. The company was formerly known as Cambridge Management Consulting (UK). Celerant Consulting Limited was founded in 1987 and is based in Richmond, the United Kingdom. The company has locations in Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. Celerant Consulting Limited is a former subsidiary of Novell, Inc.

The lawyers at Andrews Kurth might carry 10-gallon briefcases in lieu of cowboy hats. A leading Texas law firm, Andrews Kurth maintains seven offices in the US (including four in the Lone Star State) and two more overseas. Overall, the firm has more than 400 lawyers. Andrews Kurth is prominent in corporate securities and energy work and has established itself in the international arena. Additional practice areas include bankruptcy, environmental law, labor issues, litigation, and real estate. Real answers, clear vision and mutual respect permeate the firm’s success stories with clients, colleagues, communities and employees. Andrews Kurth embraces diversity and inclusion as a business imperative and an ethical responsibility. We strive to be a leader in the legal profession by building a high-performance team of diverse individuals to create a positive experience for our clients and our firm community.

Protection One home security systems deter intruders and can often lower homeowners insurance costs. Protection One offers affordable and reliable security system packages that accommodate your home, pets and lifestyle. You can even order specially priced online packages. Protection One, Inc. provides electronic security alarm monitoring services to single-family residential, commercial, multifamily, and wholesale customers in the United States. The company monitors signals from burglary, fire, medical, and environmental alarm systems, as well as manages information from access control and closed-circuit-television systems. It operates in three segments: Retail, Wholesale, and Multifamily. The Retail segment provides monitoring and maintenance services for electronic security systems to residential and business customers, as well as sells and installs electronic security systems for homes and businesses. The Wholesale segment contracts with independent security alarm dealers to provide alarm system monitoring services to their residential and business customers. It also offers business support services, as well as financing assistance for these independent dealers by providing loans secured by alarm contracts and by purchasing alarm contracts. The Multifamily segment provides monitoring and maintenance services for electronic security systems to the tenants of multifamily residences, including apartments, condominiums, and other multifamily dwellings under long-term contracts with building owners and managers. As of December 31, 2009, the company monitored approximately 1.4 million sites, including 540,000 retail customers, 4,600 independent alarm monitoring companies, and 213,000 multifamily units in 1,300 properties. Protection One, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Lawrence, Kansas.

For over 75 years and servicing well over 100 countries, Sirchie has been THE source for criminal investigation products, custom vehicles and accredited training to the worldwide law enforcement community. Combining first class customer service and adhering to strict manufacturing quality standards enables Sirchie to support and assist a demanding forensic market.Sirchie is a comprehensive manufacturer and distributor of crime scene investigation and forensic evidence collection supplies. The Company’s products are used by law enforcement agencies around the world to identify, collect, record, analyze, evaluate and archive physical evidence. Sirchie’s expansive offering extends beyond fingerprint powders and brushes to include forensic light sources, evidence drying cabinets and forensic workstations, optical enhancement equipment, narcotic and blood alcohol test kits, sexual assault and DNA evidence collection kits, gunshot residue collection, personal protection equipment and proprietary law enforcement software. Sirchie also fabricates and assembles vehicles for evidence collection, mobile command, SWAT, bomb rescue, underwater rescue, prisoner transport, arson investigation, campus police and undercover surveillance through our Vehicle Division in Medford, NJ. In addition, Sirchie’s Education and Training Division has graduated over 100,000 students, enabling officers to launch or advance their law enforcement career. Established outside of Philadelphia in 1927 by Francis Sirchie, the company specialized in the fingerprint recording market. Early projects included the rolling of thousands of World War II factory workers’ fingerprints per a federal initiative. In 1976, the Company relocated the corporate headquarters and manufacturing operations to Raleigh, NC. Sirchie has resided at its scenic 125 acre campus featuring 103,000 square feet of manufacturing space in Youngsville, NC since 1992. Acquisitions over the years include Premier Crown in 1979, Law Enforcement Associates in 1981, ACE Fingerprint Equipment in 1984, the American Institute of Applied Science in 1991 and Faurot Forensics in 2001.Whether it’s a jar of fingerprint powder, a Reflected Ultra Violet Imaging System, fully equipped mobile crime laboratory or custom hands-on training, Sirchie is committed to provide the global law enforcement community the tools and solutions to fight crime.

The organization now known as Berlitz International, Inc. was founded in 1878 by Maximilian D. Berlitz in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Descended from a long line of teachers and mathematicians, Maximilian Berlitz grew up in the Black Forest region of Germany. He emigrated to the United States in 1870 and arrived prepared to teach Greek, Latin, and six other European languages according to the strict traditionalist grammar-translation approach. After building a successful career as a private teacher, Berlitz joined the Warner Polytechnic College as a professor of French and German language instruction. The college, however, was less imposing than its name, and Berlitz found himself at once owner, dean, principal, and only faculty member. Needing an assistant to teach French, Berlitz hired a young Frenchman who appeared to be the most promising candidate, possibly because of the impeccable French in his letter of application. The applicant, Nicholas Joly, arrived in Providence to find his new employer ill and feverish from overwork, a condition that only worsened when Berlitz learned that Joly spoke no English! Desperate to keep the school running with Joly at the helm, Berlitz instructed his new assistant to point at objects and act out verbs as best he could. He then took to his bed. Berlitz emerged anxiously six weeks later prepared to face the wrath of his neglected students. Instead, he found them engaging in lively question-and-answer exchanges with their teacher, in elegantly accented French! The seriousness of the formal classroom was gone, and most importantly, the students had progressed further than any ever had under six weeks of his own tutelage. Berlitz quickly concluded that his emergency measure held the seed of an innovative teaching technique. By replacing rote learning with a discovery process that kept students active and interested, it solved many of the problems that had plagued language instruction in the past.

Fried Frank, where the smart, determined and ambitious can flourish in a culture that thrives on excellence, imagination and achievement. Our asset management practice provides a full range of legal services to a diverse group of clients, including US and international asset management and private equity firms, broker-dealers, hedge funds and their managers (exempt or registered), family offices, high-net-worth individuals and institutional investors. Fried Frank as we know it came into being in 1971, with name partners Walter Fried, Hans Frank, Sam Harris, Sargent Shriver and Leslie Jacobson. In the Washington, DC office, the name change took effect in 1985, when partner Max Kampelman of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Kampelman returned to government service.

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