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Series: Willowhaven #1
on 11/18/2013
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Widowed at twenty-five, Sawyer Hartwell has no choice but to return to her hometown. Broke and alone, the intention was to heal and find herself again, but how can she heal in a place filled with so much sorrow and memories she yearns to forget?
Dean Preston has regretted leaving Willowhaven since the day he rode off on his motorcycle six years ago, destroying the only love he had ever known. Returning too late, he's found small comfort in a new life with Lily, but with Sawyer back he's not sure of anything anymore.
The time has come for Sawyer and Dean to face the past, to learn from their mistakes. The road to healing is paved with old wounds, each one threatening to tear them down completely. Carrying their own scars close to their hearts, they must both confront what's gone before or lose their second chance.
The measure of who we are is what we survive. Who we become is up to us.
This was a sweet book. Kind of a weird way to categorize this one I know. Long lost love, being a widow at 23. But it was kind of a sad book at the same time.
See, it was kind of that bad boy in love with the good girl book, but you really don't even get that many elements of that. It was truly a relationship book. The book focused on Sawyer, who, when she lived in Willowhaven was totally in love with Dean. But Dean never felt totally worthy of Sawyer, so he left and Sawyer had to get on with her life.
Fast forward six years and Sawyer is back in Willowhaven and putting her life back together after the brutal death of her husband and running into her ex all over the small town.
I really liked the readability of this book. I sat down and read this one in about two and a half hours. Again, it was focused on the relationships that Sawyer had. It is told in alternating viewpoints between Dean and Sawyer with flashbacks to the past to fill us in on the stories that had happened. I enjoyed the sequencing and the pace of the story. I found it easy to follow and well told.
I also loved the side characters of Aiden and Alix or Felix as Sawyer calls her. The tension between them is great and I can't wait to read the book between them!
Overall the book is fun and cute and just a great story!
Top 10 Bookish Resolutions.
Ah… the new year… time for Resolutions. I will do better with my bookish resolutions this year!
Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish.
1. to keep up with netgalley and edelweiss books better
I get to carried away with requesting books here. and there are some AMAZING books that I request. Then I get caught up in all kinds of other stuff and don't get them read and reviewed. Bad!
2. to work on returning library books on time
I am horrible at this.
3. keep up with my reading challenges
last year i did a great job of reading the books, just not so great about updating my challenge pages. I had a lot of work at the end of the year!
4. do a lot of the back work on the blog
i discovered this awesome plugin that is so useful for bloggers that tracks books and and makes my index for me! trouble is I need to go back through my old reviews and put in the info!
5. read more out of my comfort zone
i need to read more than just contemporary ya. that is my fav! But I love when i read other stuff, so I need to do it more.
6. read more of the books on my shelf
not buy any more books until i read more on my shelf
7. read more of my e-books!
see number 6!
8. find/start a book club
i need more motivation to read adult books. a book club would be AWESOME!
9. get my posts up ahead of time!
as i post this one late… whoops!
10. read 250 books in 2014
last year i read 232, so i think i can easily manage 250 this year if i put my mind to it. i think!
what are your book resolutions for 2014?

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1/2 (16 ounce) package uncooked orzo pasta
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1/2 pound (about 1 c. ) crumbled feta cheese
1/2 red onion, finely chopped
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1/2 teaspoon dried basil
1/4 teaspoon ground white pepper
1/2 cup olive oil
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Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add orzo and cook for 8 to 10 minutes or until al dente; drain and rinse with cold water. Transfer to a large bowl and stir in spinach, feta, onion, pine nuts, basil and white pepper. Toss with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Refrigerate and serve cold.
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Jerry the Bear, Sproutel Inc.'s first toy made to help children diagnosed with a chronic illness learn through play, will ship to 250 buyers at the end of November.
Last summer, the Providence startup did testing with 350 children and had "some really fantastic results," co-founder and CEO Aaron Horowitz said in a recent phone interview with Providence Business News.
"We were really excited that the kids who were newly diagnosed who played with Jerry averaged 21 hours in the first week," he said. "It just shows the level of engagement they have with the product and their potential to learn to take care of Jerry and build real-world skills they can use for the rest of their lives."
That news is just part of the story Horowitz plans to share with as many as 150 participants attending the Oct. 29 event The Garage, the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce's answer to previous incarnations of the two-decades-old Business Expo.
Unlike the expo, the new format features talks, panel discussion and interactive conversations. Focusing on "The Intersection of Design and Manufacturing" in Rhode Island, the talents, ideas, innovations and success stories that are so abundant here will be presented between the hours of 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at the Rhode Island School of Design's Chace Center at 20 North Main St.
The fall "Mini-Garage" is smaller than its first showing last spring, when about 1,000 people attended at the R.I. Convention Center, said Chamber President Laurie White.
"It's a gathering of people coming together randomly and spontaneously," she said. "The idea is to be casual and informal and random. That's the way people interact these days; it's more natural."
That said, the Garage is structured around a fairly fixed schedule that includes a Knowledge Economy Community Forum led by Innovation Providence, which measures statewide progress and determines strategy, at 2 p.m.; a panel discussion by former and current Rhode Island School of Design professors introduced by RISD President John Maeda entitled, "Design, Manufacturing and the Art of Making Things" at 3 p.m.; and a Networks of Innovation Showcase featuring Verizon, Betaspring and other small companies, including Sproutel, at 4:15 p.m.
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Bernhard Langer overpowered vulnerable Fox Chapel for the second straight day, shooting a 6-under 64 to take the lead in the Senior Players Championship. The 56-year-old Langer, a two-time winner this season on the Champions Tour, was at 11-under 129 after 36 holes as he searches for his first victory at the Senior Players after five top-10 finishes. Doug Garwood, tied for the first-round lead, and Bill Glasson were two strokes back. Garwood birdied two of the last three holes, and Glasson had a 64. Joe Durant, also tied for the first-round lead, had a 68 to join Michael Allen (64), John Riegger (64) and Mark McNulty (66) at 8 under. Defending champion Kenny Perry moved into contention at 7 under with a 63, the best round of the week.
Local favorite Martin Kaymer missed the cut in the BMW International Open in his first event since winning the U.S. Open, while England's Danny Willett, Spain's Pablo Larrazabal and Rafa Cabrera-Bello and Argentina's Emiliano Grillo share the second-round lead. Kaymer followed his opening 71 with a 73 to finish at even-par 144 at Gut Larchenhof. Kaymer is from Dusseldorf, about 20 miles from Jack Nicklaus-designed Gut Larchenhof. He's the lone German champion in tournament history, winning in 2008 at Munich Eichenried.
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In breaking news that will make you make you feel like you accidentally time traveled to 2013, Jennifer Lawrence just tripped on the Oscars red carpet. When I initially heard about the fall from my trusty friends on Tumblr, I'd assumed that it was a calculated effort to steal Lupita Nyong'os thunder. But after seeing it go down on my TV, I'm convinced that it was 100% unintentional. She didn't charmingly trip. She straight up fell down. In a way that reminds me of myself. (I know, I know, I squeezed a humble brag into an article about Jennifer Lawrence.) After all, as you may or may definitely not know, I'm known around town for randomly falling for no reason. Also for dropping things that shouldn't be dropped. If I had a dollar for every glass I let slip from my hands as a child, I could buy my family a replacement glass set. And then some plastic cups for myself. Because despite being an adult, I still manage to drop things. I know first hand how un-cute being clumsy can be.
Despite the fact that J.Law's recently lost some points in the Hollywood popularity content, this trip's a great example of why we all still want her to be our best friend. (Or in the case of some bloggers, our best frenemy.) While everyone else on the red carpet's doing their best portrayal of "Flawless Human Being," Jennifer Lawrence is keeping it real with her klutziness. May she never change! And may someone on her team invest in a quality pair of red carpet walking sneakers. No seriously, girl needs some help in the Staying Upright Department and I think sturdy shoes would go a long way toward keeping her off the ground.
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We all know our fav gay icons love the 18th century. You can't keep fabulous things apart. I saw this awful Girls Aloud video when I was in Ireland in March and they tried to do the fab 18th century music video but failed miserably. Why? Because they decided to wear 18th century-esque undergarments and prance around in kitschy splendor. Nope, doesn't work. Ladies, show them how it's done.
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Should Children Become Vegan? The Debate Goes On...
At a time when even cats and dogs are going vegan, talking about kids adopting this practice should not be such a bad thing. However, poor author Ruby Roth is being criticized severely for writing a book that encourages children to go vegan. Her book, "Vegan is Love," has created all the wrong noises in the publishing world as many of her critics feel that talking to kids about veganism may be just too much. Read more about it here...
1) 'Vegan is Love'
Ruby Roth's new children's book is her second, after she wrote, "That's Why We Don't Eat Animals." As titles go, her books sure challenge some popular notions of our times. However, in her latest book, she wants parents to go beyond the "birds and the bees", "sharing is caring," and "don't be a bully" talks and talk to their children about why veganism is good for them. Her book talks about why vegans don't eat meat or any product that may contain any animal part, e.g., eggs, dairy, or leather. It advocates living on a pure vegan diet. The 40-page long book is mainly aimed at 7-year-olds and is appealing with its graphic illustrations, bright colors and mices, bunnies, dogs, and cats. Another concept that Roth tries to propagate through the book is that children should not be taken to zoos, circuses, or aquariums.
2) The Criticism
The major criticism against her book is that children, especially those which the book is targeting, are too young to understand these complex concepts. Turning vegan or shunning zoo visits is something children at that age will not be able to comprehend, say the critics. Although, the message to turn pro-vegan is not under dispute here, the debate is over whether it is appropriate to put children on a diet free of animal products from such a tender age. The experts are concerned that the book may be setting a wrong precedent. One child psychologist, Jennifer Hart Steen, says, "There's so much fear presented in the book and if you would just give it to a child as a children's book, they don't understand it. So now they're just going to be afraid." Hart Steen also feels that the title – Vegan is Love, Having Heart and Taking Action – can send a message that if they don't turn vegan, they "don't get to feel love." Another expert, dietitian Nicole German wrote in her blog that the book scares children into turning vegan. Her grouse is that "without proper guidance, that child could become malnourished."
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Roth is a stepmother to a 7-year-old daughter, Akira, and she wrote the book knowing fully well that she would face backlash. Says Roth, "These are all things every vegan hears on a daily basis. Of course there are going to be questions about misinformation." In fact, she turned vegan after she was challenged to do so and since then has stuck to the vegan lifestyle, as she explains, "I lost weight, had more energy, and never went back." Speaking about the illustrations in her book and their graphic nature, Roth says, "I don't think that there's anything in my book that a kid wouldn't see walking in a supermarket or watching TV. I didn't exaggerate anything. I wanted kids to recognize what they see in the book." She is harsh to lash back at her critics when she says, "If the American public knew about the abuse, the outrage (associated with eating meat), the outrage would be directed at the industry and not this children's book." All said and done, Roth is not in favor of forcing children to do something as she herself won't. The author says, "I will never try to control what she eats, in the end it's up to her. The best we can do is make sure our kids have the information [they need] to make choices. My hope was to reach people who raise kids to love deeply."
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Not everyone is criticizing Roth's book though. There are those who feel that the book is right in propagating a right way to eat and live. Addressing concerns about children being too young to start veganism, nutritionists say that a vegan diet would, in fact, be a healthy option for little kids as long as they receive adequate supplements in the form of nutrients and proteins. Dr. David Katz, director of the Yale Prevention Center is also supportive of Roth's efforts as he says, "Adults are too willing to turn a blind eye to the way our animal-based diets are achieved. Adults can make the conscious choice not to look there, to help protect a lifetime of dietary preferences. Kids are more malleable and impressionable. Maybe childhood is the best time to create awareness and change behaviour accordingly."
Veganism is catching up big time in the world of today, so much so that people are even starting to open vegan restaurants. In such a scenario, teaching your kids about vegan friendly foods can't be such a crime. Roth, an acclaimed activist, writer, and artist, has two other children, who are also vegan. She says, "With vegan choices, we can affect every major industry and reach every corner of world." Whether the book meets that aim or not is yet to be decided but the kind of controversial publicity that it has generated, the message, for sure, will not go unheard. Would you want your child to read this book?
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Teaching: Becoming an RAD teacher
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I never took Advanced 2 but did do Advanced 1 and I think you really need that level to train students successfully although Intermediate will get you into the CBTS teacher training programme.
I would assume that the graded qualification is intended for teachers of local schools and the vocational teaching qualification is more for teachers who work at ballet schools or that sort of level. So again the route you take will possibly depend on where you live. However if you do the graded qualification you will always have the chance to take vocational courses during and after the training programme so that may well be the best option for you. Also if you do end up wanting to teach at the highest levels (i.e. at full time ballet schools) your lack of experience probably would be an issue so the graded route is probably safest for you.
To help you prepare for the programme it would be helpful to go on any courses in your area and do lots of background reading in the areas that you have already mentioned - anatomy, teaching techniques, music, health and safety etc. If you're not teaching already perhaps you could volunteer to assist in classes at a local reputable school, the best way to learn to teach is to actually experience it.
As for what constitutes a good teacher, well there are about a million qualities but the most obvious that spring to mind are:
- knowledge of technique and how to teach it
- enthusiasm and passion
- enjoying working with children
- the ability to see and correct faults (i.e. not just rely on demonstrating)
- the willingness to learn and keep learning even once you're qualified
- being creative and making learning fun
Hope that helps a bit. I didn't reply before as I wasn't sure I really had anything valuable to add but when I saw that you'd bumped it I figured I might as well give you my perspective!
Posted 30 December 2009 - 05:13 PM
I would like to add to CDR's list - which was spot on, but missing one very important element - PATIENCE!!!!!!!! It can be really frustrating to repeat corrections over and over and not see results, but that's part of being a teacher.
Posted 01 January 2010 - 01:42 PM
I would really really like to get at least my Advanced 1 (preferably Adv 2), for my own dancing goals, and so that I may be a better teacher (if I decide to become one). I would most likely run a recreational ballet school (I have way too little experience to work at full-time ballet schools). My aim would be to prepare the younger students to enter a full-time school/more pre-pro school (by teaching the grades, specifically 1-5, properly) and also taking recreational dancers through up into the Majors/Vocational levels.
CDR - owing to my (packed to the rafters) uni and tutoring schedule, I have no time to explore teaching, at least for this year. But I am certainly doing a lot of reading about ballet, technique, conditioning et, as I usually do. Fortunately I have studied music to quite a high level and have a natural sense of musicality, which may be helpful in teaching. I especially liked what you said about a willingness to learn and keep learning - that is something for which I have a natural drive. All the careers I am looking into pursuing as I weigh my post-graduate options revolve around continuous learning and teaching.
Hamorah - thank you for highlighting the patience factor! Very important!
Okay, some rather strange questions now:
- Is it bad that a small part of my motivation in wanting to be a teacher is that there is so much bad and dangerous teaching out there, resulting in children not enjoying ballet and suffering numerous injuries, and I would like, in a very small way, to start changing this trend? Bad or unsafe teaching has been something I have come up against myself and I would like to protect vulnerable children from this.
- Being a driven and focused person myself, how do I teach myself to be tolerant yet firm with children who are not particularly willing to do the work required to become the best dancer they can be?
Posted 01 January 2010 - 02:25 PM
No not bad at all, sounds like a good reason to want to teach!- Is it bad that a small part of my motivation in wanting to be a teacher is that there is so much bad and dangerous teaching out there, resulting in children not enjoying ballet and suffering numerous injuries, and I would like, in a very small way, to start changing this trend? Bad or unsafe teaching has been something I have come up against myself and I would like to protect vulnerable children from this.
You've got to understand that, in the early days, children won't necessarily want to make dance their career but bear in mind that they might decide they wish to later on. So you've got to try to encourage them to reach their full potential without pushing them too much and putting them off. It's not always easy but it's something that will come with experience. Don't worry about that now, you will learn as you go along.- Being a driven and focused person myself, how do I teach myself to be tolerant yet firm with children who are not particularly willing to do the work required to become the best dancer they can be?
Posted 04 March 2010 - 06:01 AM
Now the big one: money. I mentioned to my husband that I am considering teacher-training and his first response was to ask about money But unfortunately he's right, and I have the impression (although not actual knowledge) that ballet teaching is not lucrative. Now I know you're from different countries to where I am, but how do you find things, financially (in terms of earning), in ballet teaching? (basically what I mean here is that, at the end of the month, with a full teaching schedule, do you have enough money to survive?). Secondly, although I would need to start teaching at another ballet school, my ultimate dream would be start my own ballet school and have my own studio - have any of you done this and how did you manage the finances? I feel like I need to know a lot more about the business side of this...
Secondly, I was wondering what, in your opinion, the advantages and disadvantages of the RAD syllabi are? In terms of ballet training. I want to go into this with my eyes open.
Thirdly, although I am not planning on having children for a good few years yet, I was wondering how difficult it is to cope with being a mother and a teacher, especially as most ballet classes are taught in the afternoon/evenings when children are home?
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Posted 04 March 2010 - 06:42 AM
When I first started teaching, I was working 5 nights a week and all day Saturday in another teacher's school and was taking home about £200 a week, which was enough to live on, but only if I was really careful and budgeted every penny. And if my car broke down or something else came up unexpectedly, I was often left having to borrow money from family and friends.
Now I have my own school, I am working less hours and earning over £2k a month, which has enabled me to live very comfortably as I have no children or other responsibilities. I definitely would not knock the experience I gained from working in another school, but I could never go back to working for someone else now.
In many ways, by working for other teachers, I learnt more about the business side of running a school than the teaching, particularly how NOT to run a school. I did work for 4 or 5 different schools before starting my own, and that experience is definitely reflected in how I now run my own. If I had tried to open my own school straight way, I know I would have made a lot of the same mistakes and not ended up with the school I wanted. I definitely took the good ideas, rejected the bad and now have a school that is uniquely mine.
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The reason I asked about the advantages and disadvantages of the RAD syllabus is because from a young age until I was 11, and then again for a year when I was 20/21, I trained in a syllabus unique to South Africa, called the Dance Academy of South Africa (DASA) syllabus. When I was 11, we moved across the country and I tried some checchetti (spelling? Sorry!) and didn't like it (although that may have been because I didn't particularly like the studio...) and then when I was nearly 12, I started training in RAD (grade 5) until I gave up ballet (to concentrate on music) shortly before my 13th birthday (I know, so silly, I truly regret this now, although my music knowledge will stand me in good stead as a teacher). When I was 20 I started training in DASA again, but when my teacher emigrated, I moved to an RAD studio, where I've been for 2 years now. I have searched far and wide for a comprehensive history of the DASA syllabus, but can't find any as yet, so I'm not entirely sure what types of training it draws on (the syllabus was only developed in 1991), but I seem to remember being told there was a Vaganova influence. Suffice it to say that this syllabus, although working on technique obviously, also strives to engender a love of dance, musicality and performance qualities which I sometimes find lacking in the RAD syllabus. The syllabus includes character and medal dances and runs through the usual Pre-primary to Advanced levels, like the RAD. However, this syllabus brings in certain things much earlier than the RAD syllabus. In grade 5 DASA for example, one is required to do pose/pique pirouettes, coupe fouette raccourcis en demi-pointe at the barre, pirouettes in barre exercises, ronds de jambes en l'air, sisonnes ordinaires, and (literally) the exact same jete ordinaire exercise in the RAD Intermediate syllabus I do, however, feel that the RAD brings a certain "strictness" to ballet training that the DASA syllabus may lack (I'm sorry, it's hard to explain what I mean here). I'm sorry, I can't get my computer to let me use French accents on the 'e's, which is driving me nuts. My spelling probably also leaves something to be desired...
You may be wondering why I am considering being an RAD teacher if the majority of my training has been in DASA and I enjoyed the syllabus. Simply speaking, the DASA syllabus is not an international one and being a DASA teacher would probably not qualify me to teach outside of South Africa, whereas the RAD teaching qualification and syllabus is internationally recognised. My husband and I might not live in South Africa forever. I have also come to enjoy and appreciate many aspects of the RAD syllabus, although I remember it being quite an adjustment when I changed over at 12! However, my experience with the graded syllabus of another academy of dancing has provided me with a wider understanding of ballet than a training in purely RAD might have done, and has also shown me some weaknesses and strengths in the different academy syllabi.
Also, from the perspective of a student in RAD Intermediate Foundation and Intermediate, I have noticed some weaknesses there and I was wondering whether, as teachers, you attempt to address these? I just feel that there is a BIG jump between the Intermediate Foundation syllabus and the Intermediate syllabus, and as a teacher, I would be interested in bridging some of that gap by doing additional exercises with the Foundation students. However, this is obviously an idealistic objective and time constraints, amongst other things, will be a factor here. Some additional things which I would, for example, do with a I.Foundation class:
- a barre exercise with ronds de jambes en l'air (I feel it is a bit much to ask students to do this movement on a rise in Intermediate when they've never done ronds de jambes en l'air before)
- perhaps some battement frappes (at the barre) to the front and back for the same reason as above
- more turns (this comes from my DASA days where pose/pique pirouettes were included much earlier), especially to help children overcome the fear that can sometimes surround turning
- many, many more rises en pointe, and just a bit more pointe work in general (this is the area where I feel there is the biggest jump between the I.Foundation and Intermediate syllabi)
I also feel, and this is probably unique to the studio where I dance now, that we do not do enough unseen work in syllabus classes. For this reason, I might be interested in doing one non-syllabus class a week from I.Foundation up, which would hopefully enrich the students, make them more used to unfamiliar work (and so decrease anxiety about the unseen work in the exam), and widen their horizons a bit instead of always doing syllabus work. I know that doing an adults' open class once a week has truly made a difference to my love of ballet, freedom from boredom, and it makes doing unseen work much less anxiety-provoking. However, once again, this is an idealistic objective and it may also become a problem in terms of confusion of exercises.
The above points then make it abundantly clear to me that having these kinds of ideas and classes would probably be incompatible with a single-teacher, single-studio dance school, especially when I have children. Hence my question regarding children.
I hope you don't mind my long post, I just believe in being truly prepared for something, and in thinking about RAD teaching (and any of the other career paths I am considering pursuing) I feel very naive and woefully unprepared (although I know that that's what teacher-training is for ). Obviously before embarking on this I would also have a long conversation with my current teachers regarding my suitability as a teaching candidate.
Posted 06 March 2010 - 02:52 AM
I recently received an informative package when I attended a teacher's training course offered through R.A.D as an assistant and mentioned I was interested in pursuing a career as a dance teacher. I would recommend requesting information on the teaching program and asking particularly for their Prospectus book which outlines all the different paths one can take in their quest to further educate themselves in dance under the R.A.D. syllabus. The back of the book has contact information for all their office branches. You mentioned in an earlier post that you were currently located in South Africa. Your representatives contact listed in the book is as of 2010:
Mrs. Olivia Lume
Royal Academy of Dance
P.O. Box 200, Bramley 2018
Johannesburg, South Africa
tel: (27) 11 887 0459
fax: (27) 11 887 0561
email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Speaking from my experience contacting my local representative the responses where very prompt, friendly, and informative. I'm sure your contact would be most helpful.
Hopefully this helps you get a better idea of your options. Good luck to you on your exam and please keep us informed of your progress.
Posted 06 March 2010 - 02:56 AM
I was just on the R.A.D. website after writing my reply and noticed you can request a prospectus by filling out a form online. The link address is:


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