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Bruce McCutcheon enters his 17th year as director of athletics for Lafayette's 23- sport varsity athletics program. He was named the 10th director of athletics in the history of the College on Sept. 20, 2001.
In 2013, McCutcheon was named an Under Armour A.D. of the Year and presented with the award at NACDA's annual convention in Orlando, Fla.
Since his appointment as director, McCutcheon has orchestrated a far-reaching upgrade in athletic facilities, increased the number and quality of the coaching staff and other personnel, played a key role in the development of a visual identity program, implemented a comprehensive leadership development program for student-athletes, and built upon Lafayette's long-standing tradition of scholar-athlete excellence.
Upon assuming the athletic director reins, McCutcheon quickly began to change the culture of Lafayette Athletics and he garnered the support of the College's central administration and the Maroon Club on several major initiatives in the areas of facilities and personnel. Early in his tenure as director, McCutcheon spearheaded the creation of an athletic facilities master plan, which has resulted in far-reaching upgrades in athletic facilities. The results of that endeavor include the $33 million renovation of Fisher Stadium, the construction of Kamine Stadium for baseball, renovation of Mike Bourger '44 Field at Oaks Stadium for soccer, the construction of a new softball stadium, the transformation of the swimming pool to Weinstein Natatorium and several Maroon Club Strength Center renovation projects.
Additionally, the track and field program has been relocated to Metzgar Fields Athletic Complex where a new track opened for competition in 2009 and hosted the Patriot League Championships in 2011. In the summer of 2007, Kamine Varsity House at Metzgar Fields, which houses 11 teams, received a drastic makeover and renovation. In 2011, the Morel Field House was opened, housing indoor batting facilities for baseball and softball and in Kirby Sports Center the men's and women's basketball locker rooms were expanded and renovated. McCutcheon also oversaw a renovation of the Kirby Sports Center arena which was completed in August 2013. The 2015-16 academic year saw the completion of a $5.6M renovation of Weinstein Natatorium.
McCutcheon has also upgraded the department by creating full-time positions in several sports, including volleyball, men's and women's soccer and baseball, as well as strength and conditioning, athletic training and athletic equipment services.
In 2011, McCutcheon introduced the Oaks Leadership Academy as a comprehensive program to develop, challenge, and support Lafayette student-athletes and coaches in their quest to become effective leaders in academics, athletics and life. The Oaks Leadership Academy was developed as a partnership between Lafayette and Janssen Peak Performance and provides the leadership development programming to accomplish this objective. McCutcheon is proud to oversee a varsity athletics program with a proud tradition of academic excellence. Lafayette's scholar-athletes excel as witnessed by graduation rates among the nation's best, prestigious postgraduate scholarship awards and Academic All-America and Patriot League academic honors.
An experienced administrator, McCutcheon serves on the executive committee of the Division I Football Championship Subdivision Athletics Directors Association (FCS ADA) and served as chair of the Patriot League's Committee on Athletic Administration. In June 2017, McCutcheon was elected the First Vice President of the FCS ADA. He recently completed his term on the NCAA Division I FCS Football Championship Committee and the NCAA Division I Football Issues Committee. He served a four-year term on the NCAA Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet and was chairman of the ECAC Division I Robbins Scholar-Athlete Committee. He holds memberships in the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics and the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame.
McCutcheon began his tenure at Lafayette in July of 1990, after serving as assistant director of athletics at Temple University for one year. That followed a five-year tenure as an assistant athletic director at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Ill. McCutcheon graduated from the College of William & Mary in 1976 with a bachelor's degree in Physical Education. He was a two-sport athlete at William & Mary, competing in football and track. He later earned a Master of Arts degree in Sports Administration from The Ohio State University in 1982 and completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Sport Management in 1988, also from Ohio State.
A native of Media, Pa., McCutcheon and his wife, Pat, reside on College Hill and have three children, Ian, Meghan and Gavin. Ian, a 2009 Lafayette graduate, went on to earn his law degree from Ohio State, and in June 2014 he was married to Cara Mulholland. Ian's sister, Meghan, graduated from Radford University in 2012 while Gavin graduated from Roanoke College in 2017.


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A revolution in the beauty industry occurred during the early twentieth century when a small group of visionary African American woman inventors began to develop products and processes with Black women's particular needs in mind – products under girded with a philosophy of self affirmation that sought to generate positive sentiments regarding their physical appearance, and that created a new paradigm for a Black aesthetic; thus, improving both their looks, and their societal status in the United States and around the world.
Dr. Marjorie Stewart Joyner was one such woman. The granddaughter of a slave and a white slave-owner, she was born on October 24, 1896, in Monterey, Virginia, in the Blue Ridge Mountains area of the state to the parentage of George Emmanuel Stewart and Annie Daugherty Stewart. She grew up in extreme poverty – only four of the thirteen Stewart children survived infancy – but her father was a schoolteacher who had worked with the famous African American educator Booker T. Washington and harbored higher ambitions for himself and his expanding family. They moved to Dayton, Ohio, in 1904, where Dr. Joyner's father had been offered a teaching job at a white school. Her parents divorced soon afterward, however, and Dr. Joyner bounced between various family members for the duration of her childhood. Her education was frequently interrupted, and when she finally moved to Chicago to be with her mother in 1912, it was further derailed by the need for her to earn an income to help support the household. This she did, by performing grueling manual labor for long hours and little pay on various cleaning and food service jobs. She was able to attended Englewood High School located in the South Side of Chicago, but did not receive her high school diploma until 1935 from the Chicago Christian High School.
It was during those intervening years that she began her studies in cosmetology when she enrolled in the renowned white owned and operated A. B. Molar Beauty School, and in 1916 made history by becoming the first Black woman to graduate from the school. That same magical year, at the age of 20, Marjorie met and married her husband, Dr. Robert E. Joyner, a noted podiatrist. She and Dr. Joyner became the proud parents of 2 daughters, Ann and Barbara. Always availing herself of every opportunity to expand her horizons, she latter attended Chicago Musical College, earning a certificate in dramatic art and expression in 1924. She would go on to earn a Bachelors of Science Degree in psychology from Bethune-Cookman College, in Daytona Beach, Florida, during her seventy-seventh year of life.
In 1916, the same year of her marriage and historic graduation from beauty school, Dr. Joyner opened a salon of her own at 5448 South State Street, establishing herself as a successful cosmetologist from the very beginning. At that time, her first customers were all white, but the turning point of her career came when she became connected with Madame C. J. Walker, the well-known and influential beautician and businesswoman, and enrolled in her beauty and hair-styling classes. Madame Walker, the "mother" and pioneer of the African American hair-care industry (and America's first African American female millionaire) had revolutionized the world of beauty a few years earlier by creating the Walker Hair Care System and opening beauty schools around the country. Joyner took the class at the prodding of her mother-in-law. According to her recollection as quoted in the book "Notable Black American Women", Dr. Joyner botched a hair styling job she undertook on her mother-in-law, and instead of harshly scolding her, her mother-in-law insisted she strive harder by receiving the training she needed to do the job right, "When I got through with her hair she looked like an accident going somewhere to happen. She said, 'you can't do anything with my hair anymore, but I am going to give you money to go down to Walker's class; she is teaching how to do Black hair'…. I was just glad she didn't stop speaking to me after that.
Madame Walker quickly recognized her student's intelligence and boundless energy and signed her on as both an instructor and an agent. Dr. Joyner helped Walker spread her methods and products across the Midwest, and was highly instrumental in the rapid growth of the Walker empire. By the time of Walker's death in 1919, Joyner had become the Vice President of the company and the National Supervisor for the Madame C. J. Walker beauty schools. In this position Dr. Joyner oversaw and directed the total operations of more than 200 beauty schools across the nation. She recruited, trained, and managed thousands of "Walker Agents," women who sold straightening combs, shampoos and hair oils from their homes and door-to-door. "People were making big money with hot combs at the time", she recalled, "and I had to make sure our women knew how to use them properly". Considered one of the foremost authorities in her field, her expertise was called upon in 1924 by the governor of Illinois to help write State's first cosmetology laws. Although she was a busy national executive, community leader and business owner, she remained a renowned and noted hair stylist herself, and personally did styling work for such African American celebrities as Billie Holliday, Ethel Waters, Josephine Baker, the ever beautiful Dorothy Dandridge, and opera star Marian Anderson. In addition to her styling work, Dr. Joyner supplied beauty products to a number of the most prominent Black figures of the time.
A dilemma existed for Black women in the 1920's. In order to straighten tightly curled hair, they had to use a stove-heated curling iron. The iron's larger curl would relax tightly curled hair. But only one fire-heated iron could be used at a time. This was very time-consuming, cumbersome and frustrating. Dr. Joyner disliked the slow and uncomfortable process and thought there must be a way to improve upon this. So, in 1926, she set out to make this process faster, easier and more efficient. She imagined that if a number of curling irons could be arranged properly, they could work at the same time to straighten the hair all at once. The revolutionary idea came to her while she was, of all things, cooking a pot roast in her kitchen one afternoon. She looked at the roast, which was being held together and heated from the inside with several long, thin rods. She recalled, "it all came to me in the kitchen when I was making a pot roast one day, looking at these long, thin rods that held the pot roast together and heated it up from the inside. I figured you could use them like hair rollers, then heat them up to cook a permanent curl into the hair." Her groundbreaking concept envisioned an innovative system that would use several rods hung above a client's head to roll several sections of her hair at once, and then they would be heated up to impress a lasting wave or curl into the hair. A hairstyle like this, she knew, would hold for several days, if not for weeks at a time.
So the 30-year-old beautician began to experiment with actual pot roast rods and an old-fashioned hair dryer hood. She thought it would be more efficient if the group of curling irons could be hung above a woman's head. Accordingly, she hooked 16 pencil-shaped pot roast rods to an old-fashioned hair dryer hood, and then joined them together with a single electrical cord. Soon she had a feasible prototype. After two years Joyner completed her invention and patented it in 1928 receiving U.S. patent No. 1,693,515, calling it the "Permanent Waving Machine." She thus became the first African American woman in the United States to receive a national government patent and her device enjoyed enormous and immediate success. It performed even better than anticipated, as the curl that it added would often stay in place for many days, whereas curls from standard curling irons would generally last only one or two days at best. It literally changed the whole way women's hair was styled and completely revolutionized the industry. She later remarked, "If I can take pot roast rods and create a one-of-a-kind invention, believe me, anyone can do what they set their minds to."
In 1929, Joyner also patented a scalp protector to make the procedure more comfortable. This too proved to be a major success. Her proprietary ownership to this and to the "Permanent Waving Machine" was assigned over to Madam Walker's company. Despite her accomplishments and success, Dr. Joyner received none of the proceeds of her inventions as the patents were created within the scope of her employment with Madame Walker's company, which therefore received all patent rights and royalties. But she stated this never bothered her, "I just wanted to improve the whole process and make it better for both the beauty operator and the client, and to help Black women hold their style for longer periods of time. Who benefited from it wasn't as important to me as the purpose for which I created it". Dr. Joyner's invention was hugely successful, and was adopted widely and readily by salons everywhere. Although it was developed for Black women who wanted to change their hair's tight curl to a wave, the Permanent Waving Machine found an unexpected market. To the surprise of many, the device was a hit in white salons as well, allowing white women who wanted to add curl to their straight hair, the ability to enjoy the beauty of their "permanent curl" or "perm" for several days more than had been previously possible.
Dr. Joyner remained with the Walker firm for more than fifty years, and always credited her hair-styling experience with developing her vivid imagination and her problem-solving abilities. She continued to break ground in the beauty industry, inventing and creating a host of other ingenious products, including the famous "Satin Tress" preparation, the Walker Company's premier product line, and the predecessor of the now ubiquitous hair relaxer. It was Dr. Joyner's long labor, leadership, keen intellect, and cutting-edge creativity in the beauty industry that defined for generations of Black women what it meant to be lovely, gracious and glamorous; thus earning for her the affectionate title "The Grand Dame of Black Beauty and Culture" as she was known by the many who benefited from her life's work.
In 1945 she embarked upon her greatest and most enduring contribution to Black America and to entire nation as a whole, when she founded (with the help of her close friend and mentor, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, and longtime political comrade U. S. Congressman William L. Dawson) the Alpha Chi Pi Omega Sorority and Fraternity and the United Beauty School Owners and Teachers Association. She beheld the need for concerted action among the members of her profession and recognized that the times in which they lived dictated a united and cohesive movement of Black women, centered around a shared vision of beauty and culture. For many years, she and other African Americans of her profession had been cold shouldered and barred from joining the various White trade associations, and were treated as outcasts in the very industry they helped to develop and maintain. But Marjorie Stewart Joyner would not be denied. She envisioned a network of well-organized Black beauticians, barbers, salon owners, and beauty school directors and instructors, empowered not just to "do hair", but to affect and influence the images of Black society and culture everywhere and at every level. Further, Dr. Joyner understood the imperative of elevating professional standards of excellence among the purveyors of the hair stylist industry, and made training and development the mandate of the organization she created and presided over until her death.
It was the strength and fortitude of her indomitable will that forged, from the diverse personalities, backgrounds, geographical proclivities, and individual agendas, an enduring professional institution dedicated to the perpetuation of the philosophy that "Black is Beautiful" long before it was even conceivable to think so; certainly long before the phrase, as such, was ever thought about or uttered. Like few other national African American female leaders of her time, her untiring and committed leadership actually carved out a space where Black women could excel in business, exercise their political muscle and have some fun at the same time. Through the national Greek-Lettered organization for hair care professionals which she founded (Alpha Chi Pi Omega) Dr. Joyner assisted Black women – and men – around the country to gain economic independence and political power, as well as providing for them a viable social outlet of elegance, and sophistication. Her sustained and visionary leadership of the organization gained for many Black women entrepreneurs genuine respect as business owners during the most difficult and challenging times of the 20th century for African Americans. Nothing demonstrated this more than when she became frustrated at the slow pace at which U.S. beauty colleges admitted African American students, and as a response, she organized and led a widely reported and vastly successful European tour, culminating in Paris, France, by 200 members of the sorority to learn new techniques and to be exposed to a different environment – one that was not as restrictive as the extremely oppressive and segregated America of that day.
However, she would not be limited to just one arena within which to utilize her formidable skills and abilities. No, not at all, but she set out to affect positive change in every area that impacted her life, and the lives of millions of her people. As such, she broadened the scope of her energies to include more civic/community-oriented and philanthropic endeavors. She served a term as the National President of the National Beauty Culturist League during its formative era, and was a National Officer or Executive Board Member of many national and international organizations and associations of that day. Despite her success and national prominence, she had been scorched by the same burning indignity of legal segregation, and institutionalized and codified racism that permeated American life for others, and it became her steadfast determination to help dismantle it during her lifetime; a goal she was blessed to see fulfilled before she closed her eyes in eternal rest. It was this struggle – one of justice, equity, and basic human dignity – that defined and influenced her work as the years progressed. She remarked in an interview with the Chicago Tribune, "They talk about Rosa Parks having to sit in the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Well, how would you like to ride all night in a baggage car with a corpse?" On her way to a speaking engagement in Texas from Cairo, Illinois, railroad personnel refused to allow her to board the Whites-only cars of the train because she was Black. Since no Blacks-only seating was available, Joyner had to ride in the train's full baggage car. Resting her feet on what she thought was a long box in order to get comfortable in the confined space, she was later horrified to realize that it was a casket containing a dead body being transported on the train.
After experiences like that, Dr. Joyner was inspired to devote her considerable organizational talents to laying down the roots of what eventually became the modern civil rights movement. She became a close confidante and associate of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in the early 1930's fighting together with her against discrimination and prejudice, and opening doors of opportunities for women of color in the work place, and in the war effort of the 1940's. The two women made national headlines by facing down threats of Ku Klux Klan violence when they attended together a concert with an integrated-audience given by the Bethune-Cookman Collegiate choir. During World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Dr. Joyner to a national leadership post on the Democratic National Committee where she served with great distinction.
She was also a founding Charter Member and National Officer of the National Council of Negro Women organized by her life long dear friend and close confidant, Dr. Bethune in 1935, and became a key supporter for the Bethune-Cookman College – a charge and commitment she would keep as a personal priority until the end of her long life. Her untiring and unrelenting efforts raised many hundreds of thousands of dollars for the college and later for the Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation and the Bethune House, which she mandated to be the National Project of her sorority daughters. As a lifetime member of the College's prestigious Board of Trustees her advocacy for the Bethune-Cookman was monumental and unrelenting. She garnered the friendship of many white patrician admirers for the support of the college, including the multi-millionaire New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, a major donor who, out of friendship with and respect for Dr. Joyner, helped make possible the college's expansion. Because of her years of service and proven dedication to the college and vision the of the late Dr. Bethune, the school conferred upon her an honorary Doctorate of Humanities in 1961, and later in the 1970's the Freshmen's residence hall was built in her honor and named after her.
She worked closely with, and was personally known by all Democratic U. S. presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Bill Clinton, and was considered by the highest levels of government to be an absolutely indispensable component of the national political machinery of the Democratic Party. When Louis Martin, the influential Special Presidential Assistant to several Democratic presidents, who served as one of the highest ranking Blacks in the nation as a senior White House advisor during the administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, became the first Black deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee and wanted to galvanize Black voters to support the presidential ticket, he called her beauty shop, and it wasn't to get a haircut.
Martin knew that Dr. Joyner and her organization of beauty salon operators and beauty school instructors were essential in getting the political message to the Black community nation-wide. It was actually Marjorie Stewart Joyner, and her huge successes in grass roots organizing, that inspired Martin to go national with his political outreach efforts. His utmost respect and high regard for her and her abilities, as well as the regard with which she was held by the presidents he served is reflected in the interview he gave for the White House Archives of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum. He recalls in the interview, "…I'll tell you, Marjorie Stewart Joyner was a beautician who did most of the national organizing then and in succeeding campaigns. She was a real tower of strength… Two women, Marjorie Joyner took half of them and another lady out of New Orleans, who finally came to Washington, had another beauty organization. But Marjorie Joyner of Chicago was the most active and effective. Incidentally, she's eighty or ninety years old I think now, but she was something else… Yes, Marjorie Joyner. She had had experience in Chicago working with the rank and file and political things, so with those beauty shops, there was no problem. We could never have won it without her. As a matter of fact, I think that one of main things that inspired me to go national was Marjorie Joyner's success… You know what I mean? And how she was working with the machinery rather than against it…Where you found a beauty operator who was interested, you really had a jewel, and the same thing with the barbers, the guys got into it…"
In the 1940's during the desperate and daunting days of World War II, Dr. Joyner opened up her salons and beauty school to the United Service Organization (USO) so that Black servicemen, who were not allowed to partake in any of the regular USO-sponsored social activities due to segregation, could have an outlet for entertainment and relaxation. "They didn't have any kind of military places where they could hang out and have fun. So, I opened up the doors of the school and organized the ladies to roll out the red carpet for our Black boys, with the best of food, music, dancing, and lots of celebrities and nationally-known entertainers" she recalled. Dr. Joyner had a keen sense of understanding that as an educator, business owner and founder of a national organization, she had been entrusted with an institution, a treasure placed in her capable hands, and she wanted to make it available for the full utilization of the Black community."
A true pillar of the city of Chicago, Dr. Marjorie Stewart Joyner affected the lives of untold numbers of African Americans with her altruistic endeavors for most of her ninety-eight years. A very popular and beloved icon, her birthday was proclaimed a citywide holiday as the "Dr. Marjorie Stewart Joyner Day". An adopted mother and close personal friend to the late Harold Washington, he credited her as being largely responsible for his election to the U. S. Congress, and his historic election as Chicago's first Black mayor. Many Chicagoans knew Dr. Joyner as the "Matriarch of the Bud Billiken Parade." For it was in 1929 that she organized the very first Bud Billiken Parade (Bud Billiken is a mythical figure in African American folklore who serves as a protector of children), begun by the Chicago Defender, the city's venerable African American-owned newspaper, as a benefit for its young delivery carriers. Joyner organized the first gathering and presided over it as its General Chairman for the next sixty years. Under her decades-long leadership and vast organizational abilities it grew to become the nation's largest and most successful African American gathering of its type, and remains to this day the leading model for the planning, organization and structuring of massive outdoor festivals in a parade format. Later, Dr. Joyner became the founding Executive Director of the newspaper's benevolence arm, the Chicago Defender Charities, overseeing the citywide distribution of money, food and clothing to the needy and organizing fundraising efforts and massive drives to acquire resources for the social agency.
Throughout her long and extraordinary life, Dr. Joyner was consistently dedicated to community service, and to those things that empowered and improved the plight of her people. Undaunted by the passing of time, she continued to work with national, state and local organizations, and with establishments and causes dear to her heart. To the very end, she led and gave direction to the organizations which she had founded; especially to the United Beauty School Owners and Teachers Association and Alpha Chi Pi Omega Sorority and Fraternity, which she nurtured, cared for and brooded over as a mother does her children. She remained active in her church, the non-denominational Cosmopolitan Community Church, which she co-founded in the early 1930's and attended Sunday services each week. Her groundbreaking invention, along with an exact model of her beloved salon has been exhibited at the prestigious Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. and at several other major museums around the country. Dr. Joyner died of heart failure at her South Side home two days after Christmas on December 27, 1994, at the age of ninety-eight.
A phenomenal woman of exceptional tenacity, talent and strength, Dr. Joyner literally changed the world as it was known, and changed it for the better. Her work was divinely sanctioned by longevity of life and length of days, and she was afforded the unique opportunity to see many of the seeds she planted for justice and equality come to fruition and harvest. As a legend in her own time, her status as one of the most remarkable women in history is indelibly engraved upon the cultural consciousness of the nation, and her name shall forever resound across the generations yet to come, out from the shadow of obscurity into the hearts of a grateful community. The Chicago Tribune stated in her epitaph that she had "touched the lives of millions…" Upon her passing, U. S. Congressman Bobby Rush spoke well and true when he paid tribute to her life in the hallowed chamber of the House of Representatives in the nation's capital, he proclaimed, "…Dr. Joyner was an American treasure who throughout her long life gave tirelessly of herself for the advancement of her race and of all persons in need." Her vision lives on, her spirit remains with us still, and her legacy continues. Well done servant, well done.


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The one problem I have with the wording of the Bill relates to the whole aspect of dealing with the value of property. Investors in property, which include banks through mortgage bonds, rely on property's inherent value. The Bill instructs that when Councils are required to make decisions, they should not allow themselves to be constrainted by the consideration that such decisions will impact negatively on the values of surrounding properties. To me that sounds like a value-eroding instruction.
The South African economy is classified as being as being developmental in nature. In so saying, it is only logical that politicians could be expected to pursue policies that further the interest of rapid development. Property development is a highly risky endeavour in which significant sums of capital and time need to be injected in one fell swoop. Once the money is in the ground, there is no going back, as opposed to say equities, wherein investors can sell their shares or even invest small sums at a time . The exit strategy of property development is rather long term in nature. Therefore, the risk of value-erosion is a variable that needs to be managed very delicately.
The benefits that arise out of the concept of value in property assets are many and varied. Firstly, the tax base of any city based on the concept of value. Municipal rates and taxes are levied using calculations which have property value as the starting point. Government agencies such as the Revenue Services generate capital gains tax on the basis of value that has accrued to property assets over the years. Before the Treasury Department can approve a Public Private Partnership project, it is guided by value accruing to Government as one of the three, perhaps the most fundamental of considerations. Banks use the value accruing in property as collateral to extend credit to consumers. Without the confidence that value in the properties on which credit is being extended, bankers would be hard pressed to approve property loans. Very few people are wealthy enough to be able to purchase property for cash. Most people buy property on the knowledge that property is guaranteed to appreciate in value over time. An entire statutory body, called the Valuation Council is in existence, precisely for the purpose of regulating the value of property. Section 25 of the Constitution of The Republic of South Africa protects the market value of property. Even under conditions of expropriation, the State is still required by the Constitution to take value into account.
The Drafters of the Spatial Planning And Land Use Management Bill, 2011 Of South Africa should perhaps review their thinking with regards to property values and reconsider.


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This question occurred to me while reading ARCA CEO Lynda Albertson's excellent and informative piece on this week's theft of important Castellani jewellery (left) from Rome's Villa Giulia Museum.
If you believe, as many erroneously do, that stolen works of art have no economic value whatsoever (because they cannot be sold on the open market), then it logically follows that there is no harm in revealing recent auction prices for comparable works. In doing so you're just telling the criminals how stupid they are. However, if you believe, as I do, that thieves often derive real economic value from art theft (albeit only a fraction of legitimate market value) — through insurance ransoms, using the objects as collateral against other criminal commodities, or benefiting from "rewards for information leading to recovery", etc. — then surely there is genuine harm in revealing recent market prices. Won't this only encourage further thefts?


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NEW YORK – Young grasshopper Taylor Swift, listen closely: You must learn from your recent dating mistakes so you do not become Jennifer Aniston 2.0.
Although that may sound a tad harsh, tongues are wagging that the 22 year old mega star just can't seem to get her dating life together. Only weeks ago, she split with Connor Kennedy, the guy she fell head over heels with after dating a few short weeks. Now she's reportedly dating One Direction's Harry Styles.
Taylor, this has to stop! So we called in some love doctors to weigh in on the boy crazy singer's not so personal life.
Relationship expert Rachel Sussman say it's simple. Taylor has bad taste in men! Sussman says Swift has to figure out why she likes bad guys, which means "taking time away from dating to heal herself."
But the star of Bravo's "Miss Advised" Amy Laurent says Rachel is waaaaay off. Laurent says Taylor is, "just trying to figure out. She 22 years old!" Laurent says Swift is just growing up like any other young woman. The only difference is she's in the "microscope of stardom."
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Dr. Seth Meyers thinks Laurent is full of it, however, and cautions that Taylor is starting bad relationship patterns. "The high turnover of men suggests she doesn't know what she's looking for," says Meyers. The good doctor thinks Swift needs to "learn how to be comfortable on her own, or she will otherwise keep repeating the same mistakes over and over."
Taylor, one is not the loneliest number. After all, you have legions of fans worldwide. So, don't rush the love thing. It will happen in due time. Enjoy being young, rich and famous. It's really not that bad!
Fox News.com Reporter and FOX411 host Diana Falzone covers celebrity news and interviews some of today's top celebrities and newsmakers. You can follow her on Twitter @dianafalzone.


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Concern about gang culture is on the increase, but remains surrounded by myths. While gangs may lead young people into dangerous situations and breed community division, distrust and fear, the friendship, support, security and sense of belonging they offer are often overlooked by those working with young people involved in gangs. Working with Gangs and Young People demonstrates how young people can be engaged in a creative and challenging process that explores the costs, gains and consequences of the choices they make around their gang membership. It provides a tried-and-tested training programme for anyone involved in conflict resolution with young people in groups or gangs, and offers effective interventions that work. Based on a five-year action research project developed by Leap Confronting Conflict, this practical, fully photocopiable toolkit gives practitioners the materials, support and inspiration needed to engage young people who are involved in gangs. It presents flexible activities and strategies to run either two-hour or one-day workshops, and will be indispensable to anyone involved in working with this under-supported group.How. to. Use. this. Manual. Who. is. this. manual. for? This manual is designed for adults who work with young people involved in gang and group conflict. Ideally those using this manual will have some experience of facilitating groupwork, anbsp;...
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Chapter 2 describes how Grendel comes to find the outside world. Many years ago, he was content to stay only in his mother's cave. While exploring the darkness, he finds a pool with hundreds of firesnakes swimming around. He dives in and sees the moon for the first time. Each night he reemerges and explores a bit farther each time. His mother doesn't like his leaving her so often. She sometimes tries to hold him close to her like she wants him to be a part of her again. He still explores slightly comforted that his mother cares for him, though she only shows it physically.
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What are the Professional Counselor License Requirements in Alaska?
You'll need licensing as a Licensed Professional Counselor through the Alaska Board of Professional Counselors to become a Professional Counselor in Alaska. Alaska licenses mental health professionals as counselors based on education, test scores, and professional fitness. The process will be a little different depending on whether you're completing your education and getting your initial license within the state or coming from another municipality. (In the latter event, you may find the process relatively easy.)
The information provided below is recent, however, any questions regarding eligibility or related topics should be directed to the Alaska Board of Professional Counselors at (907) 465-2551
Capella University offers three online CACREP - accredited Master's programs: Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Marriage and Family Therapy and School Counseling. Click here to contact Capella University and request information about their programs.
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- Education requirements for Alaska counselors
- Are you a therapist trained in another field?
- The application process
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- I am a professional counselor in another state
- Renewing your license in Alaska
- Contact information for the licensing board and Schools Offering Counseling Degree Programs.
- Alaska School Counselor Certification Requirements
- Rehabilitation Counselor Requirements in Alaska
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What is the Minimum Required Education for Professional Counselors in Alaska?
Alaska statutes specify that you must have graduate level education. One option is to have a master's degree in counseling or a related field from a regionally or nationally accredited school. Coursework must include at least 60 units of counseling, but courses count toward this requirement whether they were taken as part of the master's program or afterward. Professionals who have a master's degree in a counseling-related field, but whose education doesn't meet the licensing standards that Alaska has in place, have the option of enrolling in a post-master's certificate program. The University of Alaska-Anchorage notes that specific courses are not listed because the program is designed to supplement the education that a candidate already has. Your academic advisor at UAA will put together an individual plan based on licensing board requirements. Learn more about selecting a Master's in Counseling program here.
Antioch University offers a new Online MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program that is in the CACREP accreditation process and mirrors the CACREP-accredited program delivered on campus. Specializations in: Substance Abuse and Addictions Counseling (SAAC) and Counseling Military Service Personnel and their Families (MSPF). Antioch is a private, not-for-profit university. (*This program is NOT available to students in CA, IL, IA, KS, MO, NH, ND)
Another option is to have a doctorate degree in a counseling related field from an institution that holds national or regional accreditation. Regional accrediting agencies include the following:
- Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools
- North Central Association of Colleges and Schools
- New England Association of Schools and Colleges
- Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges
- Western Association of Schools and Colleges
- Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
If your program was accredited by CACREP or one of the approved six regional accrediting bodies at the time you graduated, you do not need to document that you have met specific content requirements. If it had a different accrediting agency, you will submit a form that lists the courses that you have taken that meet each competency area. You will provide relevant data, like course dates and credit awarded. The Alaska board has defined ten areas of competency. You must have coursework in at least eight of these. Competency areas include the following:
- Helping relationships
- Group dynamics
- Social and cultural foundations
- Lifestyle and career development
- Individual assessment, appraisal, and testing
- Marriage and family therapy/ counseling
- Mental/ emotional disorders and dysfunctional behavior
- Professional orientation and ethics
- Human development
- Research and evaluation
If you do not have 60 units of acceptable coursework, you can take what you're lacking through an online school or actual classroom attendance.
Therapists Trained in Related Fields
Alaska's broadly defined education standards make it possible for some therapists who are trained in related fields to attain licensure as professional counselors. The American Art Therapy Association notes that Alaska's art therapists are eligible for licensing if they meet licensing standards – and that most art therapy programs are working toward aligning themselves with professional counseling standards.
The Professional Counselor Application Process
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You may apply to the board when you have completed all requirements except testing and supervised practice. The application will ask you to list professional positions that you have held during the previous five years. It will also ask professional fitness questions. You will need to get your application notarized.
You will also submit certified transcripts, a $50 application fee, and a criminal records check. You can get the criminal justice information from the Department of Public Safety, Alaska State Troopers. Your application packet will include a list of sites. All materials should be received by the board 90 days before the date that you plan to test..
You must submit professional recommendations from two people who are engaged in counseling (whether or not they are actually licensed as counselors). References should fill out the form that is included within the application packet and submit it directly to the board.
Materials should be sent to the following address:
State of Alaska, Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing, Board of Professional Counselors, P.O. Box 110806, Juneau, Alaska 99811-0806
Alaska requires the National Counselor Examination, which is given by National Board for Certified Counselors. The state uses the computer-based version of the test. According to Applied Measurement Professionals (AMP), the exam is administered in Anchorage in the Carrs Center (7731 E. Northern Lights Blvd). Questions may be addressed to Alaska's Licensing Examiner at [email protected]
Supervised Practice
You must practice 3,000 hours under supervision. Your supervisor may be a psychiatrist, psychologist, family therapist, mental health nurse practitioner, psychological associate, social worker, or counselor. They may hold their license/ certification in a state other than Alaska. However, it will need to be someone who has at least five years counseling experience and has gone through a certification process to become a supervisor within the state.
The supervised practice must take place over at least a two year period. At least 1,000 hours must be direct practice of counseling. In most cases, the experience must include 100 hours of face-to-face supervision (50 of them individual, as opposed to group). If the counseling takes place in a very remote location, however, the board may allow supervision by electronic means or by telephone. A written request must be submitted beforehand, and good cause must be provided – i.e. that there is not an appropriate supervisor within a reasonable distance.
Your supervisor must fill out a form and have it notarized before licensure is granted. The form will ask her to state the number of counseling hours and supervision hours. She will also answer questions about your character and professional competency.
Out of State Applicants
If you have earned a counseling license in another jurisdiction (either a U.S. state or a foreign country) you may be licensed in Alaska. The process you go through will depend on whether the jurisdiction has standards that are the same or higher than those in Alaska. If they are at least as high, you are eligible for licensure by endorsement.
The NCE may not be required if you have had another licensing exam that is equivalent. Documentation of passing scores should be sent directly to the board.
You must have a license verification form completed by every state where you have ever held a license. The form will ask whether your license is current or expired and if it was granted by endorsement or reciprocity. It will also ask if there have ever been disciplinary actions. Some states may require you to pay a fee to get the verification.
As an out-of-state applicant, you'll also need to provide criminal justice information from your state of residence.
Foreign Applicants
If you are a foreign applicant, you are also expected to show that your program included content in eight out of ten of the content areas. In addition, you must demonstrate English language competency.
License Renewal
Licenses must be renewed every other year. They expire on odd numbered years, on the 31st of October. License renewal is dependent on meeting continued education requirements. Generally, this means 40 contact hours (with at least 6 in ethics). If it's your first renewal, though, your requirement may be less. If you've held your license at least a year, but less than 18 months, you should be prepared to document 30 contact hours. If you've held it under a year, 20 contact hours are expected.
The board will audit some candidates. If selected for audit, you will be expected to submit verification within 30 days of the time that you received the notification. You should retain records of your continuing education for three years.
License renewal also depends on not being in default on a student loan or in arrears on child support. (If a person is, they are issued a temporary certificate, good for 150 days, which they can work under while correcting the situation.)
Additional Information
If you are still in High School, hold a High School Diploma/GED, or hold a bachelor's degree, check out suggested steps to take along the path to becoming a counselor in Alaska.
The board maintains, as per guidelines by the NBCC, that if you're providing counseling at a distance to Alaska residents, you should have licensing through the state.
You may contact the board at (907) 465-2551or [email protected] ~Alaska Board of Professional Counselors
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The FDA is recommending an additional safety review of GlaxoSmithKline's Serevent and Advair and Novartis' Foradil in children.
An advisory panel of pediatricians is scheduled to discuss side effects of the asthma medications at a meeting on Nov. 27.
The FDA strengthened warning labels for the drugs nearly two years ago to limit use to patients who don't benefit from other medications.
"There is no available pediatric data to indicate that the increased risk of asthma death and life-threatening exacerbations observed in adults does not also apply to children," the FDA wrote in a report posted on its Web site.
The review didn't identify any adverse reactions unique to children but did imply that Serevent may have more risks than benefits for young users.
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Contributed by Cheryl Harris, Aug 09, 2007 [email@example.com]. Total records = 1,347.
To reach this cemetery The current cemetery is located at the junction of I-25 and the southbound on-ramp from the town of Bernalillo onto I-25.
This cemetery was originally located next to the Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church which is on Highway 85 in the town of Bernalillo, Sandoval County, NM. The church and cemetery started about 1850 and burials were both next to the church as well as under the sanctuary. It is not known when a separate cemetery was started nor how many of the original graves were moved. There are still old burials under the church.
Our Lady of Sorrows Cemetery is under the jurisdiction of Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church and is still a very active cemetery and in good condition.
At one time this cemetery was called Bernalillo Cemetery. I have found no record of it and do not know when or why it was changed. Some maps still list it as the Bernalillo Cemetery.
I completed this transcription in the summer of 2007 from information gathered when we walked it in 2006 over a six month period of time (due to continual snow). Besides myself, it was walked by Al Winkeljohn, Sally Goehring, Betty Lamberti, Linda Hobart, Richard Harris and Carolyn MacMillan.
- Cheryl Harris
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New Mexico Death Records
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Spend 7 nights at one of the Sandals resorts in Jamaica. The resort will be All-Inclusive (all meals, drinks, alcohol, etc. are all included) and is adult only. I would like this to be a Golf trip. At Sandals there are golf courses that are free to play for all guests of the resort. If we can get a large enough group, maybe we can turn one day into a golf tournament. Prices listed are per couple (2 people in a room) NOT per person.
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You've been eating card filled junk all winter and that's fine. You needed it. Now it's time to fool ourselves that spring is just around the corner and start eating like it. Here are some beautiful salads to help kickstart a season of health!
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"Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity."
(John F. Kennedy)
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The Saranac Lake village offices are located on the second floor of the Harrietstown Town Hall
Saranac Lake Village Board members continue to work on their proposed 2012-13 spending plan and will hold their annual budget hearing at 5 p.m. Friday, April 20 at the village offices at 39 Main St.
Before village officials began holding budget work sessions this past week, they were faced with a 6.4 percent ($215,868) hike in the tax levy for the general fund. On Monday, April 16, board members held a public hearing on a proposed local law that would override the state's mandate of a 2 percent maximum tax levy increase. Nobody spoke during the hearing, according to Village Clerk Kareen Tyler. Trustees did not adopt the law Monday and could do it on April 20, Tyler said.
Village Treasurer Paul Ellis has said the budget increase is mainly due to an extra $90,000 in pension costs and a $103,543 annual payment for the million-dollar Rebuild Saranac Lake Bond Issue, which pays for replacing miles of streets and sidewalks.
When initially filed, the tentative budget — general fund — totalled $5,026,435 and the proposed tax levy was $3,567,133. The amount to be raised by taxes was expected to increase by 30 percent for Water and 6 percent for Sewer. Cuts are expected during the ongoing budget work sessions.
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Our forests are the foundation for all that we love about Vermont. They are the backbone of our rural landscape as well as our economy-- to the tune of $1.5 billion a year in forest driven business from manufacturing to recreation to tourism.
As Vermonters there is no end to the ways we enjoy communing with our forests: hiking, skiing, hunting, camping and the list goes on. But our forests also provide us with life-essential services. They support wildlife habitat, protect water quality and help insulate communities from the effects of extreme weather. Our forests also remove an estimated 75,000 metric tons of carbon and 1,610 metric tons of other pollutants from the atmosphere each year. We are healthy because of our forests!
For the first time in over a century, our forests are on the decline. From above, the Vermont forest canopy appears secure but from below, we know that forests are being compromised and fragmented by rural sprawl.
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CAIRO, April 7 (UPI) -- Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been detained for 15 days while prosecutors investigate charges he seized public money, officials said.
Prosecutor General Talaat Abdallah ordered the detainment even though Egyptian law only permits Mubarak to serve up to two years in custody pending trials and investigations, MENA reported Sunday.
The new charges allow authorities to keep Mubarak in custody even though that two-year period is up.
The Administrative Prosecution says Mubarak, his wife and sons abused their powers and took nearly $146 million in public funds over the past decade to pay for private villas.
Mubarak was previously sentenced to 25 years in prison for charges he was responsible for the deaths of protesters.
He was sentenced to life in prison in June for failing to stop the killings of peaceful protesters, but the court in January accepted the his appeal and agreed to a retrial, which is scheduled to begin April 13.
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So, the big question is will the Oktomat cure my ambivalence by making me either love or hate multi lens cameras or will it simply widen the gulf between my feelings? (See what I did there? Left you on a real cliffhanger!)
I, like most people, often use the word ambivalent in the wrong way. It is used to mean not being really bothered, uncaring, apathetic almost. This however is wrong, the word for this is indifferent. Ambivalent actually means being in a state of conflict due to having conflicting desires (ambi meaning both and valeō meaning strength) i.e. loving and hating something at the same time. For example; I am ambivalent about the film Independence Day, on the one hand I hate it because it is a rubbish, cheesy ridiculous film. Yet for the same reasons I also love it. The reason for this preamble is because this is how I feel about multi lens cameras. Ambivalent. So, the big question is will the Oktomat cure my ambivalence by making me either love or hate multi lens cameras or will it simply widen the gulf between my feelings? (See what I did there? Left you on a real cliffhanger!)
OKTOMAT! Such a great word you can't whisper it, it has to be announced like a super hero might announce their arrival: OKTOMAT! "Oh no who can save the world from this menace?" a young panicked Lichtensteinesque lady might enquire "Have no fear OKTOMAT IS HERE!" (sorry this has nothing to do with the review I just got carried away).
As always when the camera arrived I spent a good time looking at the box. I love the packaging the cameras come in, partially because I really like the semi nostalgic indie pop culture design, but also because there is a good chance that one of the pictures on the box has been taken by a friend from the community. After this I took the camera out of the box. One of the things I have always liked about this camera was its bold colour (like a super hero's outfit OKTOMAT!) but I had never noticed that each of the lens' has a different analogously coloured square around it, so looks wise this camera is cool. It is of course light, being made of plastic and all and has handy little bumps in the lower left corner on the front so you know your fingers are not covering a lens.
Before I loaded the film I wanted to check everything, a sort of pre flight check if you will. The winding mechanism is well placed and I like the longer handle, it allows for quick decisive winding on. I could hear all the cogs and gizmos inside winding and whirring into place. I opened the back so I could see the shutters to check they all worked. I pressed the shutter release and they all flicked away like a Mexican wave. However the noise was a little off putting as the mechanism unwinds its starts as a strong buzzing and clicking but toward the end the noise seemed to go a little weak and labored like the camera had given up. Like OKTOMAT, after having saved the lady from the truck just couldn't be bothered any more and dropped them. As for everything else it all felt pretty good, a little rickety, a feeling of if you put too much force behind it you might break it, but I like that in a toy camera. It has a pop up view finder on the top which I enjoyed opening and closing but found it a redundant feature when shooting. A flash would have been a much more useful and worthwhile addition, allowing shooting in more environments, though having 8 little flashes going off might be crazy (but a great weapon for OKTOMAT "shield your eyes citizens while I pound this bad guy with the OKTOBLAST" powpowpowpowpowpowpowpow and the bad guy rolls round having a seizure).
The Oktomat is a very tough, fun piece of plastic but after shooting with it for a coupe of days I can't help but feel that the novelty has worn off (though when the pictures came back from the lab the novelty was in full swing again!). However: My niece, Laura, took a shine to this camera and really put it through its paces! She, my son (Lukas, in case you didn't know by now!) and I took the camera on a trampoline where it was thrown, bounced, dropped, kicked, smacked, battered and beaten and not only is the camera still working, the shots were pretty cool to. I think the camera is in good hands with her because I look at it as a camera and she looks at is a toy, which ultimately it is. A great toy camera and a great toy. So; has all this cured my ambivalence? Well…yes actually (but I am not going to tell you how – that's what OKTOMAT 2: "This Time He's Cross" is for!)
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The 51st Institute offers practical guidance on today's most important tax and non-tax planning issues, valuable insights on what might lie ahead, and innovative planning strategies for the future. With over 45 different sessions to choose from, attendees can benefit from programs covering a wide range of advanced level planning topics, or can customize their educational experience with one of our specialized program tracks to expand their expertise in today's fastest growing planning areas. Our Fundamentals Programs will be of interest to both entry-level professionals and experienced practitioners seeking a thorough review of three core planning topics. Finally, our outstanding faculty of over 80 leading estate planning experts includes many of your favorite Institute speakers as well as a number of new faces providing a fresh look at key issues in Individual and estate planning Issues.
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The Gamers Dome Podcast
Episode 42 – New Years Chaos
January 14, 2014
Ian Kasoff joins Scott as co-host on this first show of 2014. Joey Vigour of Mirror Box Games stops by to discuss their kickstarter, Chaosmos. Ian talks about his experiences going to CES, and of course catching up on all the n...
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Episode 41 – End of Year One
December 17, 2013
It's the end of 2013 and the end of the first year of The Gamer's Dome. Scott discusses his top gaming headlines from the year. What was the number one headline? Take a listen. http://thegamersdome.com/podcasts/41.m...
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Episode 40 – Mark My Words, He's No Gamer
December 10, 2013
In one of the more unusual episodes, Scott co-hosts with childhood friend Mark Rynders who is self-admittedly not a gamer. We have a frank discussion of gaming, gamers, and what it is about the idea that is such a turn off for ...
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Episode 39 – Paul and Storming the Bouncy Castle
December 3, 2013
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8.21.1 Joint Policy for Children Missing in Sussex
8.21.2 Reporting All Children who Go Missing
8.21.3 Reporting Children who Go Missing from Care
8.21.4 Safeguarding Foreign National Children Who Go Missing
The National charity, Missing People has been commissioned by East Sussex County Council, West Sussex County Council and Brighton & Hove City Council to provide a Return Home Interview (RHI) Service and a 1-1 Support Service to children across Sussex from 1st April 2016 until 31st March 2019.
Return Home Interviews will be offered to children who have been missing or absent, and are referred to Missing People via Sussex Police. Return Home Interviews aim to find out why young people went missing, what happened to them while they were away, and what support they need to keep them safe and prevent them going missing again.
1-1 Support will be offered to children who are identified as particularly vulnerable to provide one to one tailored support to help reduce the risk of them coming to harm.
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About a week ago, a nice woman offered to give me her ducks and goose. We made arrangements to meet in a nearby town and the exchange was made, and I'm now a waterfowl mama again! I've missed my ducks and geese; I like them much more than chickens.
Thank you, Lorrie!
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Japanese joints are different than anything you have seen until now. They are not simple and common. On the contrary they seem very complicated and unique. However, they are the perfect matches for each other. The fit so perfectly which will be satisfying for many people who will watch the video below. Also, these joints are more durable and stronger. And, they give a charming pattern to the spot which can be a cute detail to the furniture.
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Ashford Castle Music – Ashford Castle Entertainment
Ashford castle music is provided nightly by Brendan OByrne who is also an independent music professional. I am the resident pianist to Ashford Castle for the past several years. Performing music at this world class venue, I believe that music from all genres should be performed at this hotel, and as such I am constantly updating my repertoire. I perform there nightly when I am not touring, but nothing gives me more pleasure than to perform as much as possible on their magnificent piano, a most beautiful instrument. I am an enthusiastic composer and have recently released a new piano piece The Ashford Waltz in honour of my long years performing ashford castle music.
Ashford Castle Entertainment Performing ashford castle entertainment I regularly act as an accompanist to visiting artists who come to perform there. Not so long ago Amanda Bruen lyricist of Bette Midler song "The Rose" was a guest and sang her own lyrics. You don't have to be famous however, if you know and can sing a song or two or play an instrument you are welcome to perform and enjoy. The spotinaiety of a member of the audience coming up to perform adds hugely to the evening, and leaves great memories for the audience, and the performer alike. It's all on the night,and ashford castle entertainment thrives on audience participation. Recently I was setting up for the evening music, and this man started chatting, complimenting me on my earlier cocktail music set. I asked him did he play, to which he replied badly, buy I am a good trumpeter. Have you got your trumpet with you I asked, he replied yes I have, I told him he was welcome to bring it to the evening entertainment and do a few numbers. He did so, yes he was a good musician, and was a member of an English amateur brass band, and we played three or four numbers.
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Ashford Castle singer is another side to ashford castle music and ashford castle entertainment. There are those nights when try as you might audience participation is a non runner, so when this comes in to the mix, I sit at the piano and sing and play songs from all genres of music, or alternatively I take out my guitar and sing some folk songs and the like with some jokes and comic songs, making the night a fun night as far as possible. One way or the other guests will be entertained whether passively or directly because that is my job but equally it is my job to figure out as quickly as possible what route to go, which most of the time works out OK.
I am very lucky to be able to do what I love to do, and to be a part of the Red Carnation Hotel group who now own the hotel, long may it continue. Nothing gives me greater pleasure in life than playing piano, all be it ambient, in this wonderful setting.
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text: In high school, the first theatrical production I ever starred in was Little Shop of Horrors, a catchy musical about Seymour, a down-on-his-luck geek who finds an exotic plant, Audrey II, that drastically alters his life. North Carolina Theatre will house different variations of Audrey II that depict it "growing up," including a gargantuan version that requires a person inside manipulating it and someone offstage voicing it. Raleigh native Noah Putterman plays the role of Seymour, and North Carolina natives Casey Hushion and Julie Bradley are the director and musical director, respectively. The show runs today through Sept. 26 (with a special student preview Sept. 17).—Belem Destefani


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Not easy to state the change you made.
If I'm alive now, then I was dead,
Though, like a stone, unbothered by it,
Staying put according to habit.
You didn't just tow me an inch, no--
Nor leave me to set my small bald eye
Skyward again, without hope, of course,
Of apprehending blueness, or stars.
That wasn't it. I slept, say: a snake
Masked among black rocks as a black rock
In the white hiatus of winter--
Like my neighbors, taking no pleasure
In the million perfectly-chisled
Cheeks alighting each moment to melt
My cheeks of basalt. They turned to tears,
Angels weeping over dull natures,
But didn't convince me. Those tears froze.
Each dead head had a visor of ice.
And I slept on like a bent finger.
The first thing I was was sheer air
And the locked drops rising in dew
Limpid as spirits. Many stones lay
Dense and expressionless round about.
I didn't know what to make of it.
I shone, mice-scaled, and unfolded
To pour myself out like a fluid
Among bird feet and the stems of plants.
I wasn't fooled. I knew you at once.
Tree and stone glittered, without shadows.
My finger-length grew lucent as glass.
I started to bud like a March twig:
An arm and a leg, and arm, a leg.
From stone to cloud, so I ascended.
Now I resemble a sort of god
Floating through the air in my soul-shift
Pure as a pane of ice. It's a gift.
Poet: Sylvia Plath
Poem: Love Letter
Volume: The Collected Poems
Year: Published/Written in 1960
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2009 All-ACC Men's Team Announced
April 23, 2009
Courtesy of The ACC
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Five 2009 Tewaaraton Trophy nominees highlight this year's All-ACC Men's Lacrosse Team as announced Thursday evening by the league office.
Crotty, who currently ranks second in the nation in assists per game, was also named the 2009 All-ACC men's lacrosse Player of the Year. The native of New Vernon, N.J., is currently the top scorer in the league and ranks sixth in the nation with 49 points through 13 games. The senior midfielder eclipsed the 100-career point mark this season and currently has 59 goals and 65 assists for 124 points to his name. He currently ranks 24th all-time in career points and needs just 12 more assists to break into the top-10 list.
Joining Crotty on the league's postseason team are North Carolina's Billy Bitter and Virginia's Shamel Bratton, Danny Glading and Mike Timms. All five were nominated for the nation's highest lacrosse honor, the Tewaaraton Trophy, which is awarded annually to the top men's lacrosse player in the country.
All four ACC programs were represented on this year's All-ACC team, while the Cavaliers placed a league-high four representatives to the 2009 squad, which is determined by a vote of the league's four head coaches.
Earning the ACC Freshman of the Year honor is Virginia's rookie attackman Steele Stanwick. The top-ranked recruit in the nation according to Inside Lacrosse last year, has started all 14 games for the Cavs, registering 29 goals, 13 assists and 35 ground balls.
This year's Coach of the Year honors went to Virginia's Dom Starsia, who holds a 298-109 overall career record and a 197-63 mark in his 16 years at the helm of the Cavaliers. Starsia, who was inducted into the Lacrosse Hall of Fame last fall, has led his Cavalier squads to three of the school's four NCAA titles and has won the most games in school history and most games in ACC history.
The 2009 Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Lacrosse Championship will begin Friday, April 24, on the campus of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C. Maryland locked in the number one seed in the upcoming two-day event, which will be held at the Tar Heels' Kenan Stadium. The Terrapins, who own a 6-4 overall record and a 2-1 league mark, will take on fourth-seed and host North Carolina on Friday at 5 p.m. ET in semifinals action, while No. 2 seed Duke and No. 3 seed Virginia square off at 7:30 p.m.
For more information about the 2009 ACC Men's Lacrosse Championship, please visit TheACC.com.
2009 All-ACC Honors
Ned Crotty Senior Attack Duke
Max Quinzani Junior Attack Duke
Dan Groot Senior Midfield Maryland
Max Schmidt Sophomore Defense Maryland
Ryan Young Sophomore Attack Maryland
Billy Bitter Sophomore Attack North Carolina
Shane Walterhoefer Senior Midfield North Carolina
Shamel Bratton Sophomore Midfield Virginia
Brian Carroll Junior Midfield Virginia
Danny Glading Senior Attack Virginia
Mike Timms Grad. Midfield Virginia
Player of the Year: Ned Crotty Duke
Freshman of the Year: Steele Stanwick Virginia
Coach of the Year: Dom Starsia Virginia


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lights typically depart shortly after sunrise as this is when the air is cool and winds are calm. Hot Air Balloon Flights are very weather permitting and require good visibility and low wind speeds.
Preplanning is necessary since flights average about an hour or so and the whole excursion is upto about 3 ½ hours from the time of pick up to the time you are dropped back at your hotel, pre-planning pays off. There are no bathrooms aboard the balloon.
The main components of a hot air balloon are the envelope (balloon), fuel system, and gondola (basket). Most envelopes are made from ripstop nylon which is similar to the material for parachutes. One difference is that the ripstop is coated inside to contain the hot air. It is open at the bottom to receive the heating flame and have a deflation port, a large opening at the top that allows the hot air to escape during landing.
The fuel system is composed of the heater, which burns propane to heat the air in the envelope, fuel tanks, which are carried in the basket; and hoses, which connect the two. The basket is constructed of wickerwork rattan and is connected to the envelope by cables. The flexibility has great absorption level and is comfortable for the guests during landing.
Instruments used in a hot air balloon are the altimeter measures height above sea level, the pyrometer measures the temperature at the top of the balloon's envelope and of course the compass tells which direction you are heading.
Safety is absolute. In order to fly paying passengers a Pilot must have a Commercial Licence and validated in the country he flies by the Civil Aviation Authority of the respective country.
A balloon used for carrying passengers must have a standard-type certification. Every balloon must be inspected annually by an authorized Inspector. Balloons that carry passengers for hire have even more rigorous maintenance requirements.
· Commercial / Instructor rated - Pilots
· Certified and Registered Balloons
· Certified annual maintenance Inspections
· Full commercial liability insurance.
Our Insurers are Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation.
The passenger capacity varies from the sizes of balloons, which is based more on weight and temperature than the number of passengers. Our balloons can carry up to 24 passengers per flight per day.
Dress casually and comfortably for the weather, it is a little warmer while the sun is out. We also recommend closed toe shoes to opened toe or high heeled shoes as we want to protect your feet just as much as the rest of you. A hat or cap to protect you from the heat.
|From Ballooning @ DambullaWe encourage families to participate in Hot Air Ballooning, however there are issues to consider before deciding to take your children. The sides of the basket are approximately 4' high, therefore, children who are not as tall will not enjoy the beautiful views and may get irritated. Adults are not permitted to hold or carry children during a flight and a child under the age of 16 must be accompanied by a responsible adult.
Another fact to consider is, the burners directly above. We've found that very young children, are often frightened by the noise of the burner. Because of these reasons and past experience, children under the age of 7 are not permitted to take the flight.
Pregnant mothers and guests taking medications must consult their physician before flying in a Hot Air Balloon.
You are most welcomed to bring in your still or video cameras aboard to take as much memorable pictures and videos to last a lifetime of your memorable sky safari over beautiful Sri Lanka !!
We normally reach between 500 and 2,500 feet high - and where allowed.
Where the hot air balloon flies is always in the direction of the wind and no two flights are the same.
After your flight, we'll present you with a personalized certificate signed by your pilot.
Many people who have a fear of heights or were just anxious about flying have realized, it is not what they were expecting, there is no rocking or turbulence like on a plane. Why don't you give it a try and have a new experience.
The landing ! Wish we had an answer for you on that one, but we don't! This is really a part of the excitement and adventure of ballooning! We might land in a large field or even someone's front yard !
The direction of the Hot Air Balloon cannot be controlled by steering as it travels only with the wind and at the speed of the wind. There are usually different wind directions at different altitudes, and by seeking out different wind currents a pilot can maneuver his balloon in several directions.
For safety reasons, balloonists generally prefer for the winds to be less than 10 mph and the clouds to be at least 2000' above the ground.
Flying distance depends on the winds. Since we fly with the winds, if the wind is 2 mph, we will fly about 2 miles. If the wind is 8 mph, we will fly closer to 8 miles. You get the picture.
After the landing, we go nowhere until our crew shows up to get us. Balloon chasing is a fun challenge and hopefully the chase will be there waiting for us, or will arrive shortly after we land to take you back to your place of pick up and to pack up the balloon. Your vehicle could also join in the fun with our chase team, if you wish!
After each flight we commemorate the adventure with a Champagne Celebration.
Before a flight takes off the Pilot will brief you on safety once all of you are in the basket, all instructions must be adhered to accordingly.
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Education is an area of the economy that is getting a lot of press right now. There are thousands of students who are graduating every year with record levels of student loan debt. In addition, these students are graduating with degrees that will not allow them to land jobs in the field of their choice. There are many students who are starting to believe that education is no longer a good investment. This is a sad reality of our time. George Soros has been able to achieve remarkable success in both business and politics for several reasons. However, his educational foundation is one of the biggest reasons for his success. Here are several different tips on how students can invest in their education like George Soros in order to achieve success over the long term.
Degree Choice
One of the most important factors in getting a good value out of your education is the degree choice that is made. There are many people who simply want to graduate from school as soon as possible in order to get out and start working. However, it is vital to spend some time on which degree program suits you the best. According to Forbes, for Soros that meant getting a Bacholor of Arts/Science from the London School of Economics. Looking at the current job market is a good indication of what it will be like when you graduate. There are some degrees that always offer some sort of help when it comes to getting a job after graduation. This can play a huge role in the future success of a student.
School Choice
George Soros knew that in order to succeed in life he would have to go to a good college. He was able to get in to the London School of economics at an early age. Over the long term, this is one of the best decisions that he could have made. This school is one of the most well known in the entire world. He was able to leverage the degree that he earned from the school in order to land a job in a field that he was interested in. In addition, the alumni base that he had access to was a great resource early on in his career.
Continuing Education
We live in a world today where it is not enough to go to a school and forget about learning for the rest of your life. Investing in continuing education with both time and money is essential to long term success. George Soros would eventually go back to school to earn a doctorate degree even though he was already greatly successful in his field. It is vital to stay hungry to learn in field that you are interested in. Over the long term, this will make a huge difference in the amount of money you can earn. There are many people who have been able to go back to school while they are working in order to get a large bump in pay after graduating from school.