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Rivers are one of the world’s great natural barriers. Two sides; the where you are and the where you will be. A journey, possibly difficult, possibly not, from one to the other. It’s hardly any wonder we gravitate towards them, walk beside them, swim in them and write stories about them.
My father claimed that Cornwall would float away if the chains on the Tamar Bridge were cut. The Cornish reversed this idea, with their wild, western county being the solid anchor that keeps the rest of Britain in place. Neither versions account for Ireland. But both stories hold that rivers carry an essence of difference, with the water itself more than just a physical boundary. Such ideas abound in the world; the passage up or over a river as a quest; the failure to cross a river and its consequences; the river as a protective barrier; the transition from here to the hereafter; these are common themes. The journey from one sort of madness to another deeper one in the search for Colonel Kurtz. The bridge over the Nederrijn at Arnhem, one bridge too far, where heroism and desperation combine to form a story that transcends the final outcome. The Bruinen rising in foaming white horses to protect the bearer of a greater evil from the powers that would claim it as their own. The ferryman on the Styx, claiming the final fee, the one way ticket. Stories. Fiction. Fact. The real and the imagined, all with a river at their heart.
We pass by more sugar cane. Small railway tracks pass between the fields and over the roads. Sugar is an industry so big it needs its own trains to move the canes and the broken trash, squeezed free of its sweet juice. Although we can see trees on some of the hills the landscape is dominated by sugar, that sweet and deadly source of many a person’s problems. We arrive at the ferry and pay for the journey – thankfully this ferryman sells return tickets. I look across the river and into the trees.
Rarely have I seen such a clear demarcation. Sugar dominates one side, a solid wall of trees the other. From our side it looks like a fairy tale woodland – one into which you could walk and lose the path in a few footsteps. Light falls on the trees, but none seems to come back. It looks old, but it looks inviting, like a closed door in a house, behind which things are clearly not the same. This is not some heart of darkness, but it does look strangely different; it looks like another kingdom, it looks like a place of adventure. If you were unaware, scared or hungry, you could easily conjure all kinds of animals and stories at a river crossing that looked like this. River mist as dragon smoke; fish swirls the lost souls of the drowned. This feeling of otherness is compounded by the presence of a life-sized wooden cassowary and signs warning about the presence of crocodiles. One can be harmful, the other always. We don’t need to conjure monsters here; they have lived in this river since the river began.
The ferry pulls itself across the river on sunken, rust red cables, thick as my kids’ arms. Welcome Swallows perch on the deck rails and hunt for insects over the river. We watch the water for scaled logs, but we have to stay in the car. Near the far bank the swallows gather in loose groups on bare branches and twigs. Light rain dimples the water, larger drops fall from the branches as we near the bank. I choose to believe that a swirl between the boat and the shore is a fish. Let’s not get over excited here.
The road runs away from the river out through mangroves. There is a simple rule for the creation of the vegetation here – if the highest tides can cover the land you get mangroves. If the land is only flooded by the height of the wet season floods, then rainforest grows. From the ferry the road looked like a dark tunnel, the road surface itself a strip of darker darkness moving into the trees. But being on the road is very different. There are lighter patches and areas of darker shade. The trees on the right do not always reach over to join with the ones on the left, so at times you can see the sky above. If a tall canopy tree reaches its limbs out over the road, a rain of heavier, larger, drops fall from its branches onto the windscreen of the car. Away from the river we start to see areas of ground that have been cleared – there are a few open paddocks, fruit trees set out in neat rows, even a tea plantation. But all of these are edged by thick hedges of trees I don’t recognise. Our journey north has taken us away from the land of the eucalypts, and now we are in the home of the oldest rain forest in the world. Further south, at the fringes of the rainforests, an ecological battle has been waging for years almost beyond count. The eucalyptus, allied with their destroyer/creator fire, are on the move. The rainforest, the shrinking memory of an older wetter Australia, retreats back towards the north. If anything beyond the realm of the normal lives across the river, it’s the ghost of an Australia that has almost gone.
Looking into the forest canopy from the ground is not always the comfortable. Your neck soon begins to ache, your eyes strain for flashes of colour among the silhouettes and darkened branches. The forest floor is surprisingly dark, dominated by soft plants with wide leaves, clothed in moss and simple plants. Plants that you me t in senior biology classes, but soon slipped into the unopened cupboard of memory. Mosses. Liverworts and ferns. Salaginella. The best way to see the trees is to climb up and look from leaf level. A series of linked zip wires – flying foxes to some people – connect the tall trees that walk their way down a slope. This gives you a chance to abandon the forest floor and gain the canopy. All you need is a head for heights and the willingness to wear a silly hat! The first leg is a winch up, but it’s all downhill from there. Carabineers click and lock into place, safety tails are moved from fixed point to fixed point. You are always clipped on to something. The hardware clinks with a soft, but percussive, ring. The guides work with a smooth, practiced rhythm, stacking the ropes into barrels, passing you slowly down onto the wire. As I wait I look into the canopy and talk to the kids – fearless in their anticipation of the height and the speed.
Layer upon layer of leaves and branches open up before you. Each one growing in response to the energy they need. This is architecture of light and space, built one cell at a time, built from the gas that pushes at the edge of every well meaning conversation. In the forks and gatherings of branches, falling leaves are trapped and rot, forming a soil in the air. Plants sprout from the elevated forest floor; another layer of complexity, a vegetable mezzanine. In the cone shaped baskets of high born plants water gathers and whole ecosystems develop, hemmed in walls of cellulose, recycling the dead and the fallen. Little moves in the canopy, a few white butterflies and higher, almost out of sight, small swifts dash over, chasing invisible insects. The rain keeps falling, water trickles down the trunks of the trees and as we look out to sea a ship passes, distant but seemingly close. Climbing plants inch their way towards the sky, hijacking the trunks of taller trees. Leaves spread out flat to catch as much of the filtered light as possible. More layers, more growth, more and more and more.
At one point we hang from the cable over a river bed, fresh with recent rain. A few honeyeaters dash from one side to the other and back again, following the river’s edge. These open, watery, paths form a network within the forest; they become highways along which larger animals move. Some always contain water, but others are empty now in the dry season (which, standing in the rain seems a comical observation). Spiders have built their webs across open spaces and gaps and wait, silky traps at the ready. The more you look the more you see -the slow passage of snails, the ripple of feet on a millipede. And eventually the slow descent of a Ulysses butterfly falling with the slowness of tissue paper, as patternless as a drunken man. A stunning blue insect that shows itself in a car park and seems destined to land on our bonnet, but veers off at the last minute. It glows in the open air above the parking spaces. More light seems to come from its wings than fall upon them, like some kind of photochemical trick played on entomologists by the blind watchmaker of evolution. Life shows itself in unexpected ways, it’s that kind of place.
Roots bind rocks and earth and hold tight to the thin soil. Fungi shine in the wet darkness. From death to life and back again. In the darkness of the floor some plants have moved away from the light – a seeming violation of Grade 1 science – and become parasites. They lack chlorophyll and seem to have taken on the weird form of fungi as they draw their sugar from the roots of trees whose leaves do not dwell in the darkness of the forest floor.
The trees grow all the way to the sea – famously meeting the reef – and during the highest of high tides the sea comes into the forest, bringing sea fish over the land. Where the sea cuts away at the sand of the beach you can measure the depth of the soil in inches rather than feet. But above this thin mantle grows a forest that looks as lush and as fertile as any I have seen – this is the illusion of fertility that this region creates. Rather than being rich from an over abundance of nutrients, these forests harbour what they have against the stripping forces of rain and erosion. Natural selection favoured the fast and the efficient, the nutrient canny and maybe even the sly, in the fight for energy and matter. The forests may have been here for millions of years, but each day they are different. Each day part of them dies and each day part of them is reborn. We pass through the forests looking in wonder, while the old atoms pass round and round and round.
But the forest floor is clearly not all death and decay – pushing up through the leaf mould are flowers of remarkable shapes and colours. Some of these plants will go on to produce fruits of an equal diversity. Fruits that look like fruits, fruits that look like flowers, fruits whose colour suggests that they should be left well alone, and ones that look (and apparently taste) like apples. Here and there, in no particular pattern the fruits ripen. The animals consume the fleshy bribe of sweetness and the seeds move on; the forest spreads its young within itself, protecting its future. Some of the fruit falls to the floor uneaten where it is sought by one of the region’s iconic birds – the Cassowary. We see it on road signs, in wooden form by the ferry and another model in a garden – we have to go back to check on this last one, just in case, but the bird seem illusive. It specialises in eating the kinds of fruits that would render many other animals immobile. The Cassowary Plum – its favourite food apparently – is an elongated purple fruit, rather like an under inflated rugby ball. It contains a potent neurotoxin that would flatten an elephant but leaves the bird unharmed.
We walk along a sharply winding board walk through coastal forest with the sound of the sea in the background. Leaves fan out overhead, old logs sink into the soil, occasional patches of light filter through holes in the canopy. I bend down to focus on a bank of moss, slick with a varnish of water. I look up and see P rushing towards me – “Cassowary!” she tries to whisper, but it comes out as more loudly excited than she intended. I leave the moss and follow.
Two birds – a young one and a female – pick their way through the woven bushes. In and out of view; slowly moving towards us. For a bird that has a reputation for being bad tempered, even aggressive, they seem very calm. The female is resplendent with blue wattles and skin around the head. The casque, a horny growth from the top of the head, is larger than the rest of her head. The young bird is about half the size of the female and dull by comparison. Its feathers are limp and brown – it looks like a feather duster. We stand still and the birds keep moving – closer and closer. Eventually I have to move backwards, not out of anxiety about the bird’s reputation, but because it’s too close to focus on! It pauses on the board walk, checks for traffic, waits for the young bird to peck at something that caught its eye, and then walks on. Its movements are surprisingly silent for such a large bird. It places its feet with a kind of deliberate stealth and pushes through the bushes with barely a ripple of the leaves. We all watch and watch and watch. The birds move deeper into the forest and are lost in the green darkness. It seems strange that such a large bird can move away and seemingly disappear, leaving no trace. It makes me wonder how many times people (me included) walk past them and never see them. Later in the week we see two cross the road in front of us – a distant glimpse that would have added to my list, but also left a sense of regret. I’m glad I met the birds in the forest.
We head back to our accommodation on the strangely named Turpentine Road. Boots, shoes and raincoats clatter on the floor outside the door of our room. Soon the kettle sings. As I tidy up the wreckage left on the porch by the kids I am visited by a Yellow- Bellied Sunbird. It hangs from the flower bells and probes with a deeply curved bill. We walk to dinner. H reports the presence of a “Scrub Finch” on the path ahead – a bird of transcendental colour and rareness to match the phoenix. I still don’t really know what he saw. We eat in the company of bats, bandicoots and beetles. A few forest floor dwellers rush out to sniff at food scraps. My daughter falls in love with Barney (the bandicoot!) and we look for him every night thereafter.
The narcotic effect of red wine and fresh air drives us to bed early. The kids are already asleep. The faint light from the bathroom casts soft shadows. The tick of the clock seems strangely loud. I fall asleep to dream of trees and rivers, of deep green leaves and the sound of my children breathing in the shadowed darkness.


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Empower Others to Create Positive Change by Earning a Licensure-Track Master’s in Counseling Online.
Liberty University’s Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling degree online is designed to equip you with the specialized training you need to gain state licensure and become a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC).**
An LPC is a licensed mental health professional who is trained to work with individuals, families, and groups in treating mental health and behavioral problems. By earning this online counseling degree, you can enhance your understanding of human psychology through field-tested techniques and learn best practices for promoting the mental health and holistic wellness of clients in diverse communities.
Our master’s in counseling degree online can help you become an ethical, well-trained mental health counselor with the knowledge, values, and skills you need to empower others to make positive changes in their lives. Completing Liberty University’s counseling degree online prepares you for counseling practice through rigorous academic courses, dynamic interaction with mentors and faculty, and a carefully structured practicum and internship process.
*Some exclusions apply. Please refer to our exclusions page for more information.
**Individual state licensure requirements may vary, please verify licensure requirements for the state in which you reside.
Why Choose Liberty’s Online Master’s in Mental Health Counseling?
Do you want to empower others to conquer their challenges and become healthy and productive? Liberty University’s online clinical mental health counseling degree can help prepare you for a rewarding career as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC). Learn evidence-based, field-tested skills from professors who not only have years of real-world counseling experience, but who are also committed to mentoring their students.
Counseling is a unique calling that requires a special kind of person. As a counselor, you’ll seek to help people overcome challenges that can seem insurmountable. At times, you will serve as a place of solace for your clients – a beacon of hope in a world that can seem ruthless, endless, and devoid of meaning.
The clients you serve may have just come stateside from a long tour in the Middle East, from an impoverished area, or from the highest echelons of society. Indeed, mental health challenges don’t discriminate – they affect people from all walks of life. Your clients may be broken, disheartened, depressed, or angry. They may also appear to be high-on-life – but on the inside, masquerading deep, shut-away feelings of insecurity, mental duress, and regret.
Fortunately for your future clients – and for you – people do not have to face their challenges alone. Just as your clients will depend on you, you can depend on Liberty University to help equip you with the skills, knowledge, experience, and credentials needed to offer hope to the hopeless and refuge to the restless.
At Liberty, our professors can be a tremendous asset to you. You’ll have the opportunity to meet with some of them personally during your visits to Liberty’s beautiful campus, located in Central Virginia, for 2 on-campus intensives. You’ll also observe professional counselors in their own practices during your counseling practicum and start honing your counseling skills throughout a 2-semester internship.
Once you complete your master’s degree in counseling online and pass your state licensure exam, you’ll be equipped to pursue a fulfilling professional counseling career. You may be able to pursue roles in many areas such as healthcare, community agencies, education, social services, or private practice. Liberty University’s online master’s in professional counseling degree provides you with a flexible, effective pathway to licensure – while preparing you for a rewarding career.
What Are the Benefits of Liberty University’s Clinical Mental Health Counseling Degree Online?
One benefit to Liberty’s online clinical mental health counseling degree is that it can help you prepare for in-demand careers. The U.S. Department of Labor projects a 23% growth for mental health counselors through 2030, which is faster than average for all occupations.* Insurance companies offer more coverage for mental health services than in the past. This change means that the federal government, community clinics, and local hospitals are expanding their mental health counseling staff to provide effective treatment for patients.
After completing Liberty University’s master’s in clinical mental health counseling degree online, you will have many opportunities to choose your preferred area of practice or specialize your field of expertise. This change can be completed later through state-specific alternate pathways.
Highlights that set Liberty’s clinical mental health counseling degree apart from others:
- Our award-winning online learning environment means you can complete your coursework on a schedule that fits your life.
- Our flexible, on-campus intensive options give you the opportunity to visit Liberty University’s beautiful campus in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia when it fits into your schedule. You also may be able to use financial aid to pay for a hotel room during your week-long intensive. For more information, contact academic advising at (800) 424-9595.
- The practicum and internship provide hands-on, marketable experience working directly with hurting people in your community.
- Our mental health counseling degree is taught by a cadre of expert professors with years of experience in the helping professions.
*Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, Substance Abuse, Behavioral Disorder, and Mental Health Counselors, (Viewed online October 26, 2021). Cited projections may not reflect local and/or short-term economic or job conditions and do not guarantee actual job growth.
Importance of CACREP Accreditation
Our online mental health counseling degree is also CACREP-accredited. You may be wondering what this means for your degree and why CACREP accreditation is important. Here are a few reasons why:
- The Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) is the nation’s foremost accrediting group for determining the quality and rigor of a graduate-level counseling program.
- In order to earn CACREP accreditation, a graduate program must be evaluated by CACREP and found to meet or exceed national academic standards set by the counseling profession. Liberty’s MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling online degree fits that bill.
- CACREP accreditation also ensures that a degree program can help prepare you for licensure. Though licensure requirements may vary by state, earning a CACREP-accredited MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling can help you pursue a career as a licensed mental health professional.
- Though it may be possible to pursue a career as a licensed mental health professional without a CACREP-accredited graduate degree, CACREP is largely accepted as the standard that employers in counseling professions require. Becoming a professional counselor is much simpler with a CACREP-approved degree under your belt.
If you’re looking for a CACREP-accredited mental health counseling degree online that allows you to prepare for a career as a licensed professional counselor and gain valuable skills from the comfort of home, look no further than Liberty’s master’s in clinical mental health counseling.
Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling Degree Military Benefits
Liberty University is dedicated to providing world-class educational experiences to military students across the globe. Whether you are a current service member, discharged or retired from service, or the spouse of a service member or veteran, we are here to support you every step of the journey.
As a thank-you for your dedication and service to our country, Liberty is honored to serve and support you in your pursuit of online education by offering the following benefits:
- Tuition discounts –$275 per credit hour for graduate courses
- Additional discount for veterans who serve in a civilian capacity as a First Responder (less than $625 per course)
- 8-week courses, 8 different start dates each year, and no set login times (may exclude certain courses such as practicums, internships, or field experiences)
Admission Requirements for the MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling Degree Online
A regionally or nationally accredited bachelor’s degree with a 2.7 or above cumulative GPA is required for admission in good standing. Please visit our admission requirements page for more detailed admissions-related information.
All applicants must submit the following:
- Admission application
- Application fee*
- Contact information for 2 recommenders
- Personal statement
- Agreement to Mission Statement and Diversity Statement
- Official college transcripts
- Unofficial college transcripts may be accepted with a completed official transcript request form**
- Proof of English proficiency (for applicants whose native language is other than English)
*There is no upfront application fee; however, a deferred $50 application fee will be assessed during Financial Check-In. This fee is waived for qualifying service members, veterans, and military spouses – documentation verifying military status is required.
**An official transcript is needed within 60 days of acceptance or before non-attendance drops for the first set of matriculated classes, whichever comes first.
Highlights of Liberty University’s Online Counseling Degree
- We are recognized by multiple institutions for our academic quality, affordability, and accessibility. Our commitment to excellence also helped us rank in the top 10% of Niche.com’s best online schools in America. Earning your online Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling degree from a nonprofit university with this kind of recognition can help set you apart from others in your field.
- Your success is our success, which is why we are committed to providing quality academics at an affordable tuition rate. While other colleges are increasing their tuition, we have frozen tuition rates for our undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs for the past 9 years – and counting.
- Our MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling is accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP). Earning a degree with CACREP accreditation can help set you apart as a professional who is knowledgeable, prepared, and committed to excellence in counseling.
- Through 2 required on-campus intensive courses, you will meet and collaborate with peers and professors while completing your online degree and progressing towards your counseling license.
- Liberty University is regionally accredited by SACSCOC, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.
- Be mentored during a hands-on counseling experience through the online counseling degree’s 2-semester internship, providing necessary state-reported hours for licensure and valuable field experience.
- Complete your coursework on a schedule that fits your life with Liberty’s world-class online learning environment.
Program Information for Our Online Degree in Counseling
- This program falls under the School of Behavioral Sciences.
- Download and review our master’s in clinical mental health counseling Degree Completion Plan.
- View our Graduate Behavioral Sciences Course Guides (login required).
- Two 3-credit hour intensives with flexible scheduling are required.
- One 3-credit hour practicum that requires 100 hours – 40 of which are direct contact hours.
- 6-credit hour internship taken in two 3-credit-hour courses over 2 semesters. For more information, please contact academic advising at (800) 424-9596.
- Review the background check and comprehensive exam information.
- The MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program may lead to licensure as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in most states. See which states have unique board requirements.
- You can read more about the National Counselor Examination on our counselor education page.
What Will You Learn in Our Master’s in Counseling Online?
Our master’s in clinical mental health counseling degree online provides a foundational series of courses designed to cover the most essential studies in human behavior. These courses are designed to train you in ethical and legal issues in counseling, multicultural counseling, theories in counseling, and many other areas of study for evidence-based best practices. To meet private counseling practice requirements and become a licensed clinical counselor, your online counseling classes meet specific advanced counseling content areas. Our program is designed to help you receive the hands-on training you need.
Our online LPC degree focuses these critical knowledge areas into group counseling, psychopathology, and other important assessment and practical skill areas. With these skills, you can become equipped for another part of the degree program: your practicum and internship requirements.
The practicum and internship requirements embedded into our LPC online program allow you to gain valuable, real-world experience under the supervision of a professional counselor. At Liberty, we believe in the value of real-world experience because it allows you to see, experience, and learn things that may not be fully covered in a textbook or a lecture.
These courses are designed to give you the necessary skills and knowledge to be an effective mental health caregiver in your chosen field. By pursuing our clinical counseling degree online, you can earn a career-enhancing credential and confidently pursue careers in the helping professions.
Our master’s in clinical mental health counseling may be right for you if. . .
- You need flexibility. Liberty’s online mental health counseling degree is offered in mostly 8-week sections. You’ll be able to complete the vast majority of your degree from the comfort of home, and you’ll be able to complete your field experience requirements at a location near you.
- You want to gain experience. Our online mental health counseling degree features a practicum and an internship — allowing you to gain real-world experience, learn valuable skills, put what you learn into practice, and build professional connections.
- You want an online counseling degree that is CACREP-accredited. This means that you can have confidence that your online counseling degree from Liberty has met the highest academic standards. A counseling degree from Liberty can help you stand out to hiring managers, serve clients with excellence, or equip you with the confidence to start your own counseling practice.
- You want to study under industry experts. Our clinical counseling degree is taught by a group of expert professors with years of experience. Our instructors are passionate about the subjects they teach, but they’re even more passionate about helping you achieve your goals. By choosing Liberty for your MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, you choose professors who have a vested interest in your success.
- You want to become a Licensed Professional Counselor. Our clinical mental health counseling degree online is designed to help you become a licensed mental health professional.
- You want a Christ-centered education. Since 1971, Liberty’s mission has been to Train Champions for Christ. We don’t want to just train the next generation of clinical mental health counselors – we want to train principled, ethical professionals whose dedication to clients is preceded only by a love of Christ.
- COUC 502 – Human Growth and Development
- COUC 546 – Psychopathology
- COUC 604 – Crisis Counseling
- COUC 667 – Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment Planning
What Can You Do With a Master’s in Counseling Online?
Liberty’s online Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling provides the training, knowledge, and experience you need to become a professional counselor. With a professional counseling licensure and an LPC degree that is accredited by CACREP, your training and expertise can be recognized as meeting a high standard of excellence. There are opportunities for counseling in many areas, including:
- Addictions and recovery counseling
- Community counseling
- Ministry-based counseling
- Private counseling practice
Our online counseling degree assists students in pursuing required state licensure areas of knowledge and practice. This allows students to pursue state-regulated counseling positions to work in private, public, and nonprofit roles where counseling and human services skill sets are required. After completing Liberty’s online degree in counseling and satisfying state licensure requirements, students may be able to start their own private practices in counseling.
As a licensed professional counselor (LPC), you may be qualified to work in the following types of treatment centers:
- Inpatient mental health treatment facility
- Mental health agency
- Private practice
With additional licensure requirements, graduates may also pursue roles as school counselors, addiction counselors, marriage and family therapists, and many other counseling roles. Please review your state’s licensure requirements for more information about counseling licensure requirements.
Frequently Asked Questions About Online Counseling Degrees
What is professional counseling?
Professional counselors or mental health counselors are licensed professionals who use expert knowledge in human psychology to help people heal from emotional trauma, overcome harmful behavior, and offer mental health guidance.
The act of counseling itself may be performed by non-licensed professionals who have experience in helping people overcome emotional and psychological struggles. However, licensed counselors have met specific, rigorous standards for training. LPCs have also undertaken a broad-based, in-depth study of psychological conditions and their treatment. This background better prepares counselors to handle a wider variety of issues, utilize one of several counseling techniques, and use the chosen technique to help clients get the help they need.
How can you earn a counseling degree online?
Many students looking for how to get a counseling degree are confused by online formats. While these programs are online, state-recognized counseling licensure requires hands-on experience showing many hours of counselor-patient experience. With Liberty’s online LPC program, the hands-on experience is handled through a practicum and internship in or near your local community.
How long does it take to earn an online counseling degree at the graduate level?
Most online LPC programs can take as long as 3 years to complete, but Liberty University’s online LPC program can help you complete your clinical counseling program in as little as 2.5 years. This time frame includes the internship and practicum requirements that will help you get the hands-on experience you need to pursue licensure.
An LPC degree is a “license for professional counseling” degree, or a degree designed to help graduates obtain a professional counseling license. Liberty’s Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling is an LPC degree.
You may also be able to use your state’s approved pathways to transition from a general LPC to a specialized field. See your state’s board of counseling website for details.
How much do LPCs make?
There is not much data on how much the average mental health counselor makes per year because mental health counselors are typically grouped under the “Licensed Professional Counselor” umbrella — which also includes substance abuse counselors and behavioral disorder counselors. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, substance abuse, behavioral disorder, and mental health counselors earned an average salary of $47,660 in 2020.* Demand for this career field is expected to grow 23% between 2020 and 2030, which is much faster than the average projected growth rates for all occupations.*
*Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, Substance Abuse, Behavioral Disorder, and Mental Health Counselors, (Viewed online October 26, 2021). Cited projections may not reflect local and/or short-term economic or job conditions and do not guarantee actual job growth.
Can you get a counseling license without a master’s?
No. If you want to become a licensed professional counselor, earning a master’s degree is a must. That’s why Liberty offers an online masters in mental health counseling — so you can take the next step towards your career goals without relocating. By partnering with us, you can earn your mental health counselor degree and pursue your dream of becoming a licensed professional counselor.
Can I start my own practice with Liberty’s master’s in professional counseling?
If you’re interested in starting your own counseling practice, Liberty’s online Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling degree online is an excellent choice. This degree program is CACREP-accredited and designed to help you become a Licensed Professional Counselor – allowing you to work in several settings.
Is getting an LPC worth it?
Becoming a licensed professional counselor (LPC) is a rewarding, in-demand career path that can empower you to guide struggling people through various difficulties. As an LPC, you’ll be able to diagnose and treat emotional disorders, and provide direct guidance to individuals and groups. You’ll also be able to work in a variety of settings such as mental health facilities, hospitals, rehabilitation centers, or your own private practice.
If you’re interested in becoming a counselor and in the process of exploring LPC online programs, Liberty’s online MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling can help you become a licensed professional counselor. While some masters in counseling online degrees may have not been created with licensure requirements in mind, our online mental health counseling degree was designed to satisfy licensure requirements.
Through completion of this degree’s rigorous curriculum and field experience requirements, you can graduate from our mental health degree online as an ethical, principled professional who can confidently pursue licensure.
Can I earn a master’s in clinical mental health counseling online?
Yes! At Liberty University, you can earn a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling 100% online while taking mostly 8-week courses, gaining valuable experience, enjoying networking opportunities with fellow aspiring counselors, and studying under expert professors with years of real-world experience.
You’re likely interested in earning your degree online because you have current responsibilities and commitments that prevent you from attending courses on a residential campus. We completely understand, and trust us – you’re not alone. At Liberty, we’ve been helping bridge the gap between academic aspirations and personal commitments since 1985 — when we introduced our first distance learning program.
We recognize that although you can’t commit to a residential program of study, you still expect the same benefits. You want a respected degree that will challenge you. You expect professors with years of real-world experience, and you may even expect a Christian curriculum. If this sounds like you, our Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling may be for you.
Will I be required to attend any courses on campus?
Our clinical mental health master’s in counseling online requires 2 residential courses. Occasionally these are also offered as synchronous online courses and offers can vary per semester. Please refer to the Course Registration Tool for current listings. The courses, COUC 505 and COUC 512, will still require online students to be present for class virtually between the hours of 8:00 and 5:00 pm EST for one week. For more information, please contact academic advising at (800) 424-9596.
How long does it take to become a clinical mental health counselor?
There is no blanket answer to this question because licensure and field experience vary by state. Though there may be exceptions depending on your state’s licensure requirements, clinical mental health counselors usually need to complete a CACREP-accredited degree program.
At Liberty, our CACREP-accredited Master’s in clinical mental health counseling can be completed in as little as 2.5 years. If your state has additional licensure requirements, you may spend a bit more time finalizing your counseling license by satisfying field placement requirements. For more information for licensure requirements in your state and whether or how Liberty’s online counseling degree aligns with your state’s requirements, please see our state licensure page.
How much does it cost to get your online master’s in counseling?
Though the cost of online counseling degree programs varies by school, Liberty’s online mental health counseling is competitively priced at $565 per credit hour for full-time students and $615 per credit hour for part-time students. For eligible members of the military, we offer a tuition discount of $275 per credit hour – whether you are full-time or part-time. For more information, see the military benefits tab.
What is the difference between a life coach and a counselor?
Though there are several differences between a life coach and a counselor, one of the largest differences is that counseling is more narrow in focus than life coaching. Counselors help their clients cope with issues such as addiction, eating disorders, and numerous other challenges.
On the other hand, life coaches do not seek to help clients overcome serious mental challenges. Life coaches focus more on motivating their clients to reach certain goals while counselors seek to guide clients through their current life circumstances.
What is the difference between a lay counselor and a licensed professional counselor?
While a licensed counselor must go through years of educational and professional training and testing to licensed, little to no training is required to become a lay counselor. Lay counselors are commonly non-degree-holding, non-credentialed, and non-licensed people who work in the helping professions.
Licensed counselors also tend to earn considerably larger salaries than lay counselors.
How do our counseling degree’s field experience requirements work?
Our master’s in clinical mental health counseling has 1 practicum and 1 internship. Both are semester-long courses.
The practicum requires 100 hours of field experience – 40 of those direct client hours, and 60 of those related activities such as reading literature, creating and examining case notes, and crafting treatment plans. The practicum, which also requires a few set login times, should be completed near the end of our mental health degree online – but before the internship. In order to register for the practicum, students must complete all required prerequisites and have at least a 3.0 GPA.
The internship requires 600 total hours of field experience. Because it may be difficult to complete all of these hours in 1 semester, students are required to complete the internship over the course of 2 semesters. One other difference between the practicum and the internship is that the internship requires group supervision while the practicum does not. However, we recommend group supervision as part of the practicum, if possible.
Do I need a bachelor’s degree in psychology or counseling to be admitted?
Admissions requirements vary by university, but at Liberty, you are not required to have a bachelor’s degree in psychology, counseling, or a related subject for admission to our online mental health counseling master’s degree. However, you must hold at least a bachelor’s degree with a 2.7 GPA or higher to be admitted in good standing. Our clinical mental health degree also requires 3 credit hours in statistics as a prerequisite to certain courses. This prerequisite must be on your official transcripts, or you must take undergraduate statistics at Liberty before you can enroll in specific graduate courses. For more information, please see our admissions requirements page.
What makes a good professional counselor?
If you’re thinking about becoming a counselor and you would like to learn which key skills you need to gain to become a good professional counselor, begin by examining yourself.
You can begin to understand others if you understand yourself better. How do you act in certain situations? When something goes wrong, how do you react; and why do you react in such a way? What things bother you, and why do they bother you? Is there a deeper reason behind your dislike of these things, and if so, what is that deeper reason?
As you examine yourself, you’ll have to be genuine with yourself. And that’s one of the first keys in being a good counselor: authenticity. You can’t fake an interest in helping your client – you must have true concern for the person you’re counseling. Your client needs to have no doubt that when they sit in the chair across from you, they’re getting the very best you have to offer.
You also have to be empathetic. As a counselor, you will speak with people from all walks of life. Quite a few of your clients will come from different backgrounds than you, have different stories than you, and have different regrets than you do. And that’s okay – but if you want to reach your client and provide sound advice that can help them overcome the issues they’re struggling with, you’ll have to empathize.
As a counselor, you’ll also have to be great at listening. Not the passive, unconscious head-nodding type of listening, but critical listening. In our online LPC program, you’ll learn effective strategies for listening to clients, but it’s a point that cannot be underemphasized.
You’ll need to be skilled in listening that considers the context of the words, the nuanced meanings of words, the way that your client says the words, and how long your client takes to come up with words. The way your clients communicate can be telling, and as a counselor, you’ll need to pay close attention to what the people you help say.
In addition, you’ll need to be understanding and accepting. As a counselor, you may find that the people who come to you often don’t know who else to go to. Perhaps they’re scared their past may spook people, induce judgment, or cause strife. As a counselor, you cannot let this happen – you must exhibit love and compassion for your clients and be steadfast in your efforts to serve them.
Is Liberty University a good counseling school?
Yes – we believe Liberty is an excellent counseling school. Our Master of Arts (MA) in Clinical Mental Health Counseling is accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP). A CACREP-accredited online counseling degree from Liberty can help set you apart as a professional whose expertise is preceded only by your compassion for the clients you serve.
Liberty is also regionally accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Accrediting (SACSCOC). There are 2 types of institutional accreditation – national and regional. Regional accreditation is seen as the more prestigious of the two.
By partnering with Liberty for your online clinical counseling degree, you can earn a CACREP-accredited degree from a university with regional accreditation. At Liberty, we don’t just offer you an MA in counseling online that can help prepare you to serve others with excellence – we offer the peace of mind that comes with earning an accredited degree program from an accredited university.
Choose a school for your online LPC program that offers you the most possible benefit – professionally, academically, and personally. Choose Liberty University. We are a great school and we have the credentials to prove it.
What GPA do I need to graduate with honors or distinction?
At Liberty, outstanding graduate and doctoral students have the opportunity to graduate with distinction or high distinction. Each honor is an incredible achievement and requires a commitment to excellence in your academic endeavors.
To graduate with distinction and earn a silver medallion to wear at commencement, you’ll need to finish your master’s degree with a cumulative GPA of at least 3.9. To graduate with high distinction and earn a gold medallion, you will need to finish your degree with at least a 3.95 cumulative GPA. Cumulative GPA is calculated to the hundredths place, and it is not rounded.
At Liberty, we want to help you make the most of your prior education by allowing you to transfer in previously earned college credit. That’s why you can transfer in up to 50% of your total credits for a master’s or doctoral program!
Some restrictions apply. Please visit our Transfer Policy page for more information.

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- Apple intends to begin designing its own iPhone main power management chips, possibly as soon as next year, the Nikkei Asian Review reported last week. The company currently depends on the U.K.'s Dialog Semiconductor, which lost 19% stock value in afternoon trade as a result.
- Apple's growing drive toward independence became evident when it broke with Imagination Technologies in April, before going on to engage in a protracted lawsuit over royalties with Qualcomm, a modem chip producer.
- At present, Dialog is Apple's sole supplier for power management chips for the iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Dialog earned 74% of its annual revenue from Apple in 2016.
Apple has continually signaled its intention to claim greater control of its own supply chain.
Advance coverage of Apple's newest phones, including the Apple X, mostly speculated on uncertain release dates, caused by an array of supply chain issues, including its parting of ways with longtime chipmaker Qualcomm. Though the top smartphone maker has not broken with Foxconn Technology Group, profits fell at the Chinese assembler by over 35% thanks to OLED component and other delays.
Untempered risk is the primary culprit in the Apple release date debacle, since relying on a single supplier, assembler, or manufacturer is well known to create problems within an effective supply chain. In the case of Apple, it's not just the Cupertino giant experiencing headaches; significant loss of profits has affected nearly every business involved with the delay.
Apple's response is to reclaim elements of its own design and production. Though the process has already become contentious and could even break some suppliers, they too erred by falling into dependence on one skittish client, regardless of the strong profits and false security they may have enjoyed.
The trend here with Apple — and other big companies like Boeing — is an attempt to more tightly control sprawling supply chains with multiple suppliers by moving some production in-house and distributing risk among suppliers. This strategy will cut costs, reduce conflict and alleviate some supplier risk, as well as help these big companies operate more cohesively.

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Greatrex scoops first Team Champion awards
Lambourn trainer Warren Greatrex and Nick Alexander were named as the inaugural winners of the Lycetts Team Champion Award following the Naitonal Trainers’ Federation’s annual meeting in London yesterday.
The awards were created by the NTF and Lycetts Insurance Brokers to recognise racehorse training yards with the highest standards of employee management, but also to improve staff recruitment and retention rates by promoting best practices.
The winning yards were also awarded a £4,000 prize each to benefit and support their teams.
Greatrex, who won the category for stable with 40 or more horses, was celebrating his 43rd birthday. He said: “I’d like to thank everyone for organising it. The nominations that came in this year were fantastic and it’s going to get better.
“We all know we can’t do it without the people who basically keep us going. They’re amazing and it’s our job to make their job easier and give them opportunities to better their career. This is for them.”
The judging panel was chaired by Yogi Breisner who said it had been a privilege to be involved. “I’ve been very impressed at the high standard of the applicants and it has shown that in many yards there is a very high level of work etiquette and team spirit,” he added.
NTF chief executive Rupert Arnold said he had been delighted by how enthusiastically trainers and stable staff had responded to the new awards.
“We have established a strong base from which to build and the award for the future,” he added. “I know other trainers are already keen to follow their colleagues’ example next year and we’ve acquired a bundle of knowledge and lessons to share with them.”


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Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are thought to be caused by a complex interaction of genetic, immunological, and environmental factors. Why is it that once an IBD develops it lasts a long time? Considering this simple question, we propose that coliotogenic memory CD4+T cells that remember the prototype of the disease in each patient are formed in IBD at the onset, and, perceiving them as “benign T-cell leukemia”-like lifelong memory CD4+T cells that hematogenously spread throughout the body, we thus propose that systemic circulating colitogenic memory CD4+T cells would be an ideal target for the treatment of IBD. Accordingly, selective depletion of colitogenic memory CD4+T cells by leukocytapheresis and blockade of circulation of colitogenic memory CD4+T cells by a newly developed immunosuppressant, FTY720, may be associated with dramatic efficacy and a marked reduction of inflammatory cytokines produced by activated leucocytes. We here describe the immunological pathogenesis focusing on the generation of circulating colitogenic memory CD4+T cells and the possible logics of leukocytapheresis and FTY720 for the treatment of IBD.
Reform of preclinical medical education in Japan requires changes in the curriculum to make it more clinically focused and interactive. At present, course content in Anatomy is usually designed and taught with little or no clinical direction and involves a heavy emphasis on by-rote learning to memorize often minor facts that have little importance in clinical medicine. As a result, the content is boring, it is learned solely for the purpose of passing exams and it is promptly forgotten, with little sense of its need in clinical practice. Successful reform of the curriculum in Anatomy requires two critical changes. The first is that content must be made interesting to students by emphasizing its clinical importance, through a close collaboration between preclinical and clinical departments, Thus, the Surgical Faculty must be incorporated in the organization and teaching of the Anatomy curriculum. Core content can thereby be pared down to only what is considered essential to provide a foundation for the later clinical years, and the clinical importance of that content will, in turn, be self-evident to students. The second change that must be implemented is to make the learning process more appealing to the students. This can be facilitated by the use of any of several commercial IT programs that make learning in Anatomy both dynamic and engaging. These dual strategies will considerably enhance the learning of one of the most basic subjects in the medical school and ensure that the review and retention of the material are enhanced.
Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is one of the most common disabilities in human, and genetics is an important aspect for SNHL, especially in children. In recent 10 years, our knowledge in genetic causes of SNHL has made a significant advance, and now it is used for diagnosis and other clinical practices. Hereditary hearing loss can be classified into syndromic and nonsyndromic hearing loss. As the nonsyndromic deafness genes, more than 100 loci for deafness genes have been determined, and more than 40 genes were identified. Furthermore, more than 300 forms of syndromic hearing loss have been characterized, and each syndrome may have several causative genes. In childhood hearing loss, early educational intervention is required in addition to medical intervention for normal development of speech and language. In addition, even severe to profound hearing loss may be restored very effectively by hearing aids or cochlear implants. Because of these features of SNHL, genetic testing has exceptionally high value in the medical practice for hereditary hearing loss. Several strategies are used for genetic testing of SNHL for accurate and efficient identification of the genetic causes, and the results were used for explanation of the cause, prediction of auditory features, prevention of deafness, management of associated symptoms, determination of therapy, and genetic counseling. Identification of damaged cells in the inner ear and the underlying mechanism by genetic testing undoubtedly facilitates development and introduction of novel and specific therapies to distinct types of SNHL.
Objective: To study the activities of daily living (ADL) structure of patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Design: Cross-sectional survey. Subjects: Seventy-two patients with DMD (mean [SD] age, 17.2 [8.1] years), recruited in 160-bed regional center for neuromuscular disease. Methods: We assessed 72 participants with the Functional Independence Measure (FIMSM), and determined the difficulty order of the FIMSM items with the percentage of patients who were independent (6 or 7) for each FIM item (% independence). Results: The ADL of patients with DMD had an order in terms of difficulty. For the motor subscale, the most difficult item was stairs, and the easiest item was locomotion. On the cognitive subscale, problem solving was the most difficult item. When we compared item difficulty between patients <15 years of age and those ≥15 years, the % independence was lower in the older age group for all motor items. The decrease in the % independence of the eating item with age was significant; however bladder management was well maintained. Conclusions: ADL of patients with DMD has a specific difficulty order. The order of difficulty is based on the relative level of independence/dependence. The difficulty order was maintained, although the structure of ADL changed with age.
The arterial switch operation (ASO) has evolved into the treatment of the choice for most forms of transposition of the great arteries (TGA). Despite advancement in the technical aspects of the procedure, certain anatomical variations of the coronary arteries are still considered as surgical risks. We have recently employed a novel technique for coronary artery reconstruction in ASO to achieve further improvement of coronary transfer in cases with complex coronary anatomy. The technical key of the procedure is that reconstruction of the coronary arteries is preceded by neo-aortic anastomosis. After neo-aortic reconstruction is accomplished, the neo-aorta is temporarily distended with removal of the cross-clamp. The distended neo-aorta informs us its postsurgical geometry, which facilitates accurate assessment for the optimal site of coronary button transfer. The technique was feasible in 13 of 15 children who were consecutively treated by our group between 2003 and 2008. All patients recovered uneventfully and no coronary perfusion issue has occurred during the follow-up period. However, the complex anatomy of the coronary arteries in two children was not amenable to this technique. One with double loops (1RL; 2Cx) accompanied by side-by-side relationship of the great arteries underwent the open trapdoor technique, while the other with intramural coronary artery underwent the Imai method, that is one of procedure in which the coronary arteries are left in situ. The coronary re-implantation after neo-aortic reconstruction is promising to minimize postsurgical coronary ischemia and suitable for most ASO cases. However, various modifications of coronary transfer are required in a few variations of the coronary anatomy and we have to pursue further technical refinement of coronary artery transfer in ASO.
We would like to report the case of a patient with fibroma of the omentum that resembled an ovarian tumor in the pelvis. Since primary tumours of the omentum are rare, there is a paucity of information about the biology of such tumors in the basic texts and literature. An ultrasound examination of the patient revealed a mass, likely of ovarian origin, which consisted of liquid and solid components. It was suspected to be a malignant ovarian tumor. However, laparotomy demonstrated it was an omental tumor. This case shows that it can be difficult to pre-operatively diagnose omental fibromas because of their close resemblance to ovarian tumors.

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Carla Palmer - Pacific Northwest Watercolor Artist
Carla Palmer is a native of the northwest. Carla was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. In 1976 she moved to the beautiful Puget Sound area of Washington State. She works mostly in watercolor and has been painting for almost 30 years.
Carla believes that the paint and water should decide at what point to meet without interference from me, I strive to keep the paintings loose. Quoting my beloved art professor... "What is art? It is about shape and color" and the array of beauty and color has become my trademark. My strength is COLOR!

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After my overwhelming experience with vintage shopping in LA, the boyfriend and I hunted down a nearby food truck (with the help of Find LA Food Trucks). The Comfort Truck was parked up on a curb, commanding Melrose Avenue in all its fire engine red colored, intoxicating fried food smelling glory.
James and I shared a fried chicken wrap, stuffed with corn relish, and a heaping to-go box full of thick, creamy mac n’ cheese. I. Love. Mac. And. Cheese. And surely enough, the Comfort Truck truly lived up to its name. The food was delish, sentimental, and perfectly indulgent.
gap utility jacket; f21 scarf + top; hco shorts; rayban aviators; madewell bag; nicole sandals
As the weather in California was absolutely perfect, I attempted to make the most of my Gap utility jacket. It’s casual and comfortable, without trying to be too literal. I lucked out when I got it last spring at a unbelievably generous sale price. It’s been one of my favorite things to wear ever since. Unfortunately, with the temp rapidly rising, I think it’s time for this layering staple to go into hibernation soon.
As for me, I’ll be out on the prowl for more food trucks the next time I’m in LA. I plan to have my Twitter feed full of food truck recon. Let me know what your fave meal on wheels is so I can scope it out during the next visit!

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David Prentice states: ‘While the healthcare profession may not have all the answers to “cure” addiction, I’m yet to encounter one type of treatment that can.’
Which is confirmation of Lord Mancroft’s statement that: ‘The healthcare profession can’t cure addiction.’ Mancroft doesn’t say that addiction cannot be cured – only that it cannot be cured by ‘treatment’.
He is right in saying that ‘doctors do not understand addiction’, and this is confirmed by the numbers of addicted medical staff and the millions of involuntary addicts prescribed into addiction by doctors.
For centuries drugs have been used to try and solve personal problems. But, because of their own addictive properties, they quickly become a bigger problem than the one the individual is trying to solve. When a doctor does something to, or for, an addict in the name of ‘treatment’, he is trying to take away the addict’s own ‘solution’ to his own personal problem.
So, the only person who can cure substance addiction is the addict himself – as Benjamin Mancroft amply demonstrated in his own case. Seventy to 75 per cent of all addicts have tried to quit, failed and still want to quit. Their problem is not willingness, it is lack of knowledge of effective addiction recovery technology.
But training to achieve lasting abstinence has been available for 48 years, and is today delivered by 169 centres in 49 countries with a 55 to 75 per cent plus success rate. It is however resisted by the pharmaceuticals dominating our health services, who want to see addictive demand diverted to their own substitute drug products instead of being cured.
In many countries Lord Mancroft would be revered as ‘a drug-free hero’, but in Britain his success in recovering himself to the natural state of abstinence into which he was born, stands in the way of NHS medical treatment proliferation.
Kenneth Eckersley, CEO Addiction Recovery Training Services (ARTS)
Enter the drugs meter minute competition by 30 September
In April 2013 Global Drug Survey released the first of its drugs meter minutes on what’s in pills and powders sold as MDMA. Filmed by Jon Derricott at the forensic toxicology lab at St George’s with the fabulous Dr John Ramsey, it’s been viewed almost 100,000 times. Since then we’ve done minutes with various experts on topics as diverse as what’s in cocaine, ecstasy pill testing, harm reduction for new drug virgins, PMA deaths, GHB and ketamine bladder.
In 2014 we want to open the door to the huge range of expertise that exists in the field of harm reduction and drug education with the first ever drugs meter minute video completion. The first prize is £750 and free registration to Club Health 2015 in Lisbon, with the runner-up getting £250. All videos endorsed by our expert panel of judges will be offered upload onto the Global Drug Survey youtube channel.
So what have you got to do to win? Easy – produce and submit a video two to six minutes in length on any drug-related topic. Your drugs meter minute needs to be of interest and relevance to people who drink or take drugs. Things that we are particularly interested in are things that
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• address important issues and help people make informed choices
• can promote social responsibility and peer intervention
• address the weird and the wonderful
Technical stuff: Your video needs to be filmed in HD with high quality audio. Videos can be sent as SD card or submitted firstname.lastname@example.org
Closing date: 30 September 2014. Judging panel: Andrew Bennett, Katy McLeod, Jon Derricott, Adam Winstock and Jim McVeigh. Winners will be announced on 15 November.
Please note the videos cannot show drug taking or endorse or promote drug use. Videos that are accepted for publication will be packaged within the usual drugs meter format and carry the drugs meter watermark.
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Question about 2006 Fiat 124
I just got a 1975 Fiat Spider. It was last driven in February. At that point, a wire came of the ignition, and the previous owner took several wires off, then the car would not start. I got it wired correctly, and know this because when you turn the key on, the fan comes on, so something's right. However, the car won't start. It does not "crank" and you hear ONE click. It can't be the starter. Is it at all possible that it is out of gas, and/or that I need to put a little gas in the top of the carburetor?
If the motor does not turn over (spin) and all you hear is a click when you turn the key, it has to be something with the starter. It is very possible that the starter has frozen up (meaning the brushes are at a point on the commentator that they are not making the electrical contact needed to spin the starter). If it is just making one click then it is most likely the solenoid on top of the starter. I would replace the starter. If however the motor actually turns over then I would try these steps in this order.
Remove the top of the air cleaner. Either put a little bit of gas or use starting fluid (starting fluid is safer as it evaporates quicker) and put it down the carb then try to start. If it tries to start then you have spark. If it does not change anything then you most likely have no spark. In 1975 they were still using points-type ignitions in FIATS (they switched to electronic-type in 1979, I believe) so make sure that your points are not burnt out and that they are getting electricity. If you are getting spark and it tries to run then I would check for fuel delivery. I had to hook up an electric fuel pump (get one made for carburetors NOT FUEL INJECTION) to get mine to work. If you are feeling adventurous, have a manual transmission, have plenty of flat space to try this, some friends willing to push your car around, and hopefully some experience in push starting a car, then you could try pouring a little gas down the carb and then trying to push start it. To accomplish this you would need to be sitting behind the wheel and have the ignition turned to the on position. Have someone pour a little gas down the carb. Then have your friends push you with the car in neutral. When they get a little momentum they let go of the car, you push in the clutch, shift the car into 1st and then quickly release the clutch. If done correctly this will turn the motor over. if the car starts then you have a problem with the starter, either wires or bad starter.
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A NEWLY formed organisation tasked with promoting East Lindsey could soon recruit a new ally in Skegness Town Council.
The East Lincolnshire Destination Management Organisation has united key players in the tourism industry and public sector under the common purpose of driving forward the region’s prosperity.
Chaired by Butlins resort director Chris Baron and with 19 members including East Lindsey District Council, Fantasy Island and Blue Anchor Leisure, the organisation is looking to recruit more investing partners.
Mr Baron said: “East Lindsey has so much to offer visitors and for the DMO to be successful we need everyone with an interest in the tourism sector, either directly or indirectly, to work together and be involved.”
Skegness Town Council agreed last Wednesday to reserve £1,500 to cover membership costs, if its members decide it is in their best interest to join following a presentation by Mr Baron at next month’s meeting.
Though supportive of Coun Mark Smith’s motion to reserve funds from the council’s publicity budget, many of the councillors were wary about committing themselves to the organisation.
Coun Steve O’Dare was concerned that if many businesses joined the DMO, the council would not have ‘an actual presence at the table’ when it came to making decisions.
Mr Baron has previously admitted that he hoped some of the DMO members would be ‘silent partners’, however Coun George Saxon said the council ‘won’t know what’s happening in the town’ unless it joins.
Having followed the DMO’s development over recent months, he believes it is essential to attract funding from organisations such as Visit England, which the town council alone could not achieve.
He has also welcomed the co-operative partnership between so many of the region’s key players which he felt would have been ‘impossible’ in previous years.
Coun Neil Cooper raised further concerns about ELDC’s involvement in the DMO after learning that government guidelines recommend such organisations are led by the private sector, not the public.
He also questioned why ELDC had two of its members on the DMO board and whether this would mean it would have two votes.
Coun Saxon attempted to allay these fears, explaining that ELDC had two board members purely to fulfil its role as the DMO’s administrator and would only have one vote.


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Brian Irk proposed to his girlfriend of four years, 2009 Miss America Katie Stam, at the Evening of Dreams gala in Planet Hollywood on Jan. 29, 2010. Katie said yes.
Tonight’s Evening of Dreams gala of the 2010 Miss America Pageant at Planet Hollywood became the Evening of Engagement for 2009 Miss America Katie Stam: Brian Irk, her boyfriend of four years, proposed to her at the end of the event!
Originally, Katie was to sing the Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole hit “Unforgettable,” but as was the case a year ago, she is suffering from laryngitis. Instead, I asked her to speak her two favorite lines from the song. I told her she was unforgettable, and her yearlong reign also was unforgettable.

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37 million geese and ducks are used and slowly, horrifically killed for a "delicacy" known as 'Foie Gras' annually, which is in essence a fatty and diseased liver. The practise of Foie Gras has been banned in 17 countries for its cruelty but the practise of force feeding geese and ducks under horrible conditions is still continuing. Wild Time talked to Fiona Munro who is doing everything in her power to fight it.
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COAS says full spectrum of threat demands comprehensive national response: ISPR
QUETTA: Leader of the Military Workforce (COAS) Normal Qamar Javed Bajwa on Monday mentioned that complete spectrum of danger calls for complete nationwide reaction, consistent with the Inter-Products and services Public Members of the family (ISPR).
The military leader addressing the contributors of 2d Nationwide Safety Workshop Balochistan in Quetta. The workshop used to be arranged by way of Southern Command in collaboration with the Executive of Balochistan.
“The military is totally engaged in enabling that reaction in coordination with different establishments of the state,” mentioned Normal Bajwa.
He wired that terrorism has no faith, sect or ethnicity, consistent with the army’s media wing.
“Pakistan has fought in contrast threat indiscriminately and shall root it out via entire of the country means.”
The 2-week lengthy workshop used to be geared toward growing figuring out about important nationwide safety problems, capability development for well timed choice making and enabling the contributors to understand interaction of all components of nationwide energy within the assemble of ‘Complete Nationwide Safety’.
Contributors of Nationwide and Balochistan Provincial assemblies, Media representatives and Civil Products and services officials attended the workshop.
Commander Southern Command Lieutenant Normal Asim Saleem Bajwa additionally accompanied COAS. Contributors of nationwide and Balochistan provincial assemblies, media representatives and civil services and products officials attended the workshop.
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Love My Neighbor! Grantees Turn Up the Heat for Summer 2019Leave a Comment
This year, the Grassroots Grantmaking Committee funded 47 resident projects, totaling $96,073 in funding for our neighborhoods! Check out some of the hottest projects that took place in Summer 2019!
Style Engineers Wilkinsburg Fashion Design Bootcamp
Kameron and Dominique Branson, proud residents of Wilkinsburg, wanted to find a way to serve their community while introducing middle school kids in the neighborhood to potential future careers! The pair’s unique mix of business administration and fashion design experience inspired them to create a STEAM-based fashion design workshop. The goal of the two day workshop was to expose middle schoolers to careers in science, technology, engineering, art, and math through fashion design, and equip students with the skills to promote their products through entrepreneurial and business training. The course included the basics of construction, pattern making, and materials design, as well as the basics of running a fashion business. 10 kids participated in the program and even more attended the closing fashion show!
Teaching Artist Series
The Teaching Artist Series in Millvale, run by Sheena Carroll and Abi Beddall, offers free educational workshops for adults taught by local artists. The goal of the series is to provide free artistic resources to community members while also offering paid opportunities for local artists. Each workshop features a new artist and a different style of art. Some examples include a worry doll workshop, where attendees created their own worry dolls, a DIY soy candle workshop, and a portrait oil painting session!
Music in the Gardens of Millvale
Music in the Gardens of Millvale is a community concert series featuring local artists and local foods sourced straight from the Gardens of Millvale (like the awesome pie made from the garden’s own husk cherries that we enjoyed there last time)! The casual events are meant to give the community a space to come together to learn more about the Gardens, hear local music, and engage with neighbors. The concerts also provide paid opportunities and exposure for local musicians, which helps to support the local arts scene.
Zara Street Tire Garden
Carolyn Holmes’ Zara Street tire garden aims to cultivate, plant, and reuse discarded items in order to reclaim a vacant lot in Knoxville. In addition to improving the neighborhood’s image, Holmes wanted to bring together community members to create intergenerational relationships and ultimately encourage compassion and care between neighbors. Although Carolyn had been working to clean up her street for some years now, she now has been able to hold a community event and unveil the tire garden as a beautiful community green space!
Harambee Ujamaa Black Arts Festival Opening Ceremony: A Second Line Parade
This year, Anita Drummond aimed to involve more East End Neighborhoods in the annual Harambee Ujamaa Black Arts Festival in Homewood. It is a well-loved event by many, and she desired to spread the celebration further to her own neighbors on Larimer Avenue. Thus, she decided to hold a parade that would march through Larimer and East Liberty and end in Homewood at the festival. The parade would not only be another way to celebrate, but would also encourage her neighbors to join in as they marched and attend the Black Arts Festival together! The parade would also give youth in the neighborhood a chance to display their talents and adults a chance to network across communities!
While we highlighted just a few projects in this article, all 47 of our grantees have been doing wonderful work in their communities! Congratulations to each and every one of them on their success! We can’t wait to see what’s next for our neighborhoods!
Love My Neighbor!, an initiative founded by Neighborhood Allies, invests in the ingenuity, talent, creativity, and hope in our communities by investing in resident-led projects that aim to improve neighborhoods and engage neighbors. Once a year, residents who live in one of our target communities and are passionate about making a positive change in their neighborhood, can apply for small grants ranging between $500 – $2,500. Contact Tamara Cartwright, Program Manager for Social Impact Design, at firstname.lastname@example.org.


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You wanted more coverage, you got more coverage. This is a new weekly feature that will attempt to bring some attention to some of the smaller sports at Penn State. We'll be recapping the weeks that each of the varsity sports had, and hopefully you guys will get a little more exposure to some of the other sports that Penn State participates in. Forgive me if I mess up some of the terminology for some sports, as I'm not familiar with them all.
Overall Record: 1-5
Last Week: 0-3
Penn State took on UNC Greensboro this past weekend. The Lions dropped all three games by scores of 10-7, 8-3 and 6-0. In the series finale on Sunday, Penn State managed just two hits (both coming off the bat of senior Jordan Steranka). Penn State will look to turn things around starting this Saturday as they play 8 games in 9 days. Their trip will take them to Samford, Mississippi State and UAB.
Overall Record: 4-1 (ranked #2)
Last Week: 1-0
The #2 ranked Nittany Lions traveled to Columbus on Saturday to take on the #7 Ohio State Buckeyes. The Lions scored a 355.500 (a season high) to 347.200 win over the Buckeyes (their sixth straight win over OSU). Penn State set a school record for their score on the pommel horse as they notched a 59.500, while setting season highs in both the high bar and the vault. Penn State is off until March 9th, when they travel to Puerto Rico to take on the Puerto Rican National Team.
Overall Record: 4-1 (ranked #10)
Last Week: 0-1
The womens team also competed at Ohio State this past weekend. Unfortunately, they dropped the meet 196.025-195.000. This marked the first loss for the Nittany Lions since their first home meet in the 2011 season. The Nittany Lions return home this weekend to host Michigan and North Carolina.
Mens Ice Hockey:
Overall Record: 27-3-1
Last Week: 1-0
The Icers won their final regular season game as a member of the ACHA in grand style, taking down Kent State by a score of 13-1. Penn State opened up a 6-0 lead before Kent State got their lone tally. Penn State responded with 4 goals in a 4:09 span at the end of the second period and the beginning of the third to stretch their lead to 10-1. The Icers finished the day with a total of 71 shots fired at Kent State goalies. The win not only marked the final game PSU would play as a member of the ACHA, but also the final regular season game that they would play as the Icers. That name will be dropped next year as Penn State enters Division 1 hockey. Next up for the Icers will be either West Virginia or Rutgers in the ACHA Tournament.
Womens Ice Hockey:
Overall Record: 13-14-3-1
Last Week: 1-1
The Lady Icers captured the ECWHL regular season title the previous weekend after being snubbed from the year-end ACHA Tournament. This past weekend, the Lady Icers competed in the ECWHL Tournament. The first game was against UMass, the team that claimed the final spot in the ACHA Tournament. In a tight game, the Lady Icers proved which team was more deserving of the ACHA bid by getting a late goal to win 3-2. The Lady Icers squared off against the University of Rhode Island in the championship game yesterday, where they fell 4-1.
Overall Record: 2-1 (ranked #20)
Last Week: 1-0
Penn State traveled to Notre Dame to take on the 2/4 ranked Fighting Irish. Penn State hadn't beaten the Irish since an overtime win back in 2002. Ten years later, it took overtime again, but the Nittany Lions scored with two seconds left in OT to secure a 4-3 victory over a top 5 opponent. The Lions are off until Saturday, when they go to Columbus to take on the 10/11th ranked Buckeyes. If Penn State wins on Saturday, they will claim the inaugural Creator's Trophy.
Also, did you know that Evan Royster used to play lacrosse?
Overall Record: 3-1 (ranked #17)
Last Week: 2-0
Penn State went 2-0 this week against Duquesne and Lafayette, winning by scores of 16-5 and 14-10. They're off until next Sunday, when they take on Virginia at home.
Overall Record: 2-6
Last Week: 1-3
Penn State had a mostly forgettable weekend on the diamond. During the Carolina Classic, Penn State dropped their first game on Saturday to Notre Dame 6-3, but rallied to take a close, 5-4 win against James Madison. On Sunday, the wheels really came off for Penn State. In their first game against North Carolina, PSU fell behind 2-0 in the first. Penn State managed to take a 3-2 by the top of the third, but found themselves trailing 5-3 heading into the bottom of the 6th. UNC dropped 6 runs on Penn State to take an 11-3 lead and the game was called prior to completing the 6th inning (mercy rule perhaps?). In the second game of the day, Penn State played JMU again. Once again Penn State fell behind, spotting JMU a 6-1 lead. Penn State rallied again to tie the game up and send it into extra innings, but they eventually fell to James Madison 10-8 in 9 innings. Penn State travels to Kissimmee, Fla this weekend for six games over three days.
Overall Record: 12-1 (ranked #5, 6-0 conference record)
Last Week: 2-0
Penn State took on Princeton and George Mason this past week. Neither team proved to be difficult for Penn State to beat as they took down Princeton 25-18 25-15 25-18 and beat George Mason 25-14 25-22 25-20. Penn State improved to 12-1 on the year and 6-0 in conference. They host Ohio State on Saturday at 7 pm.
Thanks to Thank You Terry and GoPSUSports for providing the data for this post.
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(NASDAQ: AMZN)—Today, Amazon Publishing announced that it has secured a new Kindle Worlds license from RosettaBooks for the books of Kurt Vonnegut. Writers will soon be able to create and sell stories inspired by the iconic books of Kurt Vonnegut with Kindle Worlds’ self-service submission platform. The submission platform for works under this license is expected to open in August. Kindle Worlds is the first commercial publishing platform that enables any writer to write stories based on a range of original works and characters and earn royalties for doing so.
Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1922. He studied at the universities of Chicago and Tennessee and later began to write short stories for magazines. Considered one of the most influential American novelists of the twentieth century, Vonnegut’s first novel,
Player Piano, was published in 1951 and was followed by numerous works, among them
Cat’s Cradle (1963),
Welcome to the Monkey House; and
Breakfast of Champions (1973). During the Second World War he was held prisoner in Germany and was present at the bombing of Dresden, an experience which provided the setting for his most famous work,
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969). The Modern Library included
Slaughterhouse-Five on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20
th century, and it also appeared in “Time” magazine’s list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. In 2012, Amazon Publishing’s Kindle Serials released
Sucker’s Portfolio, an exclusive serialized collection of seven previously unpublished works by Vonnegut.
“Since the launch of Kindle Worlds a month ago, we’ve published over 120 stories and the customer response has been overwhelmingly positive,” said Philip Patrick, Director, Business Development and Publisher of Kindle Worlds. “To include the work of an American literary icon in Kindle Worlds is a thrill for us and a golden opportunity for Vonnegut fans everywhere.”

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text: For centuries, Turkish Empire has been a threat to European continent. Their invasions never passed Croatian soil, however, making Balkan peninsula a zone of high tensions and unstable political climate. Both factions constructed large and impressive forts, which are now considered Croatia’s cultural good. One of them is Trosenj, situated on the banks of Krka River and having an interesting round design. Who knows what battles have the dry walls of this structure witnessed?

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by Pankaj Chandna
Globally, the medical tourism landscape is continuously evolving. Until recently, countries with advanced medical facilities were focused on welcoming medical consumers and patients to their shores. But that’s not the case anymore for Indian healthcare. It is becoming increasingly common for Indian doctors to travel to connect with patients globally, particularly in Iraq, Africa, and CIS countries.
Indian doctors are counted among the best medical practitioners globally due to their quality education, skills and expertise, adaptability, and capability to deliver top-notch treatment at affordable costs. The rising number of Indian doctors being welcomed abroad to consult patients reflects the global recognition and quality of healthcare services offered in India.
In the words of Ranjan Thakur, Director and CEO of Manipal Hospital, Jaipur, “This trend not only reflects the expertise and dedication of our medical professionals but also showcases that our doctors are committed to creating a positive impact on patients’ lives both locally and internationally.”
During a medical camp, patients can consult the doctor for various needs, including diagnosis, second opinions, treatment plans, guidance through the treatment process, post-treatment/surgery care, and follow-ups. Visiting doctors bring new treatment approaches and technologies, often unavailable in underserved regions. Such camps significantly improve patient access to quality healthcare and overall treatment experience. Some significant benefits for patients include:
- Expert Diagnosis: Visiting doctors offer expert diagnoses, drawing from their extensive medical backgrounds and experience. This holds particularly true for uncommon medical conditions.
- Pre-Treatment Assistance: Before initiating treatment, visiting doctors assist patients with comprehensive pre-treatment evaluations. This includes in-depth discussions about medical histories, current symptoms, and possible treatment options.
- During Treatment Care: Visiting doctors bring new treatment approaches and technologies, often unavailable in underserved regions. This means local patients can access cutting-edge treatments that can significantly improve outcomes.
- Post-Treatment Support: Visiting doctors ensure patients receive proper post-treatment support, guiding them through recovery processes and offering advice on follow-up care.
- New Methods and Processes: Doctors introduce new treatment methods and processes during their visits. These could include anything from innovative surgical techniques to advanced medication regimens.
Additionally, all visiting doctors utilize telemedicine for remote care to provide medical consultations and support. Patients can travel to the doctor’s home country for medical conditions demanding specialized treatment, such as advanced procedures or surgery. Such medical camps significantly improve patient access to quality healthcare and overall treatment experience without leaving their home country.Many medical assistance platforms are helping patients pursue medical treatment overseas at affordable prices. From assisting people in identifying the right doctor for their condition to getting appointments to securing a medical visa—these platforms promise a hassle-free start-to-finish treatment journey for patients.
Along with assisting patients with their medical treatment, leading medical assistance companies regularly organize medical camps for specialties in orthopedics, cancer, urology, IVF, neurosurgery, spine, etc., across various countries such as Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uzbekistan, Fiji, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Zambia.
Ethiopia-based representative of a Indian medical assistance company, Ms Fasika said, “We organize medical camps in collaboration with leading Indian hospitals in Addis Ababa every two month. Each camp extends 2 to 3 days and records around 100 patient consultations by senior doctors and specialists.”
“Organizing camps in the same country every two months helps patients establish an ongoing relationship with the visiting doctor and boosts their trust in the Indian medical system. Many patients have even travelled to India for advanced treatments,” Fasika added.
Pankaj Chandna, Co-founder, Vaidam Health
(DISCLAIMER: The views expressed are solely of the author and ETHealthworld does not necessarily subscribe to it. ETHealthwold.com shall not be responsible for any damage caused to any person / organisation directly or indirectly.)


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A pre-cut stencil and disposable bake-in-box helps keep things simple, as well as all the pre-proportioned dry ingredients and decorations. Everything you need is in the kit, except the milk, butter and eggs (or allergen free alternatives). All ingredients are natural, except for some sweets.
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- 2x organic vanilla or chocolate cake mix(es) (unrefined sugar). ^Gluten-free available too.
- Pure icing sugar (no starches or preservatives)
- SupaDust: beetroot & pink pitaya powder (Colour by Nature)
- Natural sprinkles
- Confectionery as pictured
- Fully illustrated step-by-step instructions
- A4 pre-cut stencil shape to easily cut the desired shape
- Disposable baking pan
- Skewer (to test if cakes are cooked)
- Wooden spatula
- (Optional) 9x12" white MDF cake board to serve on
WHAT YOU'LL NEED:
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- Pure Icing Mix: Pure Cane Sugar.
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- Natural Sprinkles: Sugar, Corn Starch, Potato Starch, Rice Flour, Vegetable Fat (Coconut Oil, Rice Bran Oil), Maltodextrin, Spirulina Extract, Colours ( Paprika, Anthocyanins, Titanium Dioxide), Anti-caking agent (Potassium Aluminum Silicate), Stabilizers (Gum Arabic), Glazing agent (Carnauba Wax), Hypromellose, Lemon Powder
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