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Breaking Out of the Culture of Poverty
Unfortunately if your body has become destroyed with legal and illegal prescription drugs, usually given to address pain, mental or physical, your chances of escaping poverty are slim to impossible. God has always been in the impossible business and miracles happen all the time.
You were selected and programmed for drug use including alcohol. All thinking goes through your mind and your mind has been chemically altered. In the course of my teaching, I have seen many adults break free from this chemical prison and go on to lead productive lives and contribute significantly to the family and society.
I want to thank The College of New Rochelle School of New Resources- a Catholic College – for the opportunity to work with many adult students making the transition into the educational environment. The School of New Resources has designed a program for adults returning to college. It does it better than any institution, and is considered the gold standard in adult education. I taught at the School of New Resources for 28 years and was part of a program making it possible for thousands of Americans to transform their lives. Ideas presented here were tried out in the Experience Learning and Identity successfully taught at this outstanding educational and spiritual institution.
The doorway out of poverty starts with education. Poverty in the 21st century is often caused by life style and decisions made. Your parents and the situation of your birth can only be held accountable for this first eighteen years. The government will force a free education on you if you are white and living in a Trailer Park – black – living in an inner city project – middle class living in the suburbs – or wealthy – living in gated property on an exclusive island.
In America- you will be in some school from the ages of six through eighteen – health and neurological issues – can extend the time. You will be given the tools to prevent poverty- with or without your consent. You just have to sit down- shut up- listen- learn – and above all stay the course.
This guide is for those who want to break out of traditional family beliefs and life styles- resulting in a life of sustained poverty. You have the tools- you cannot follow family role models – health issues may leave your parents unable to help you – because they have solved problems with alcohol and medication- legal and illegal. Love them- bless them- and pack your emotional – and when you can- physical bags- and leave. Your life is a gift from God – celebrate the gift.
Breaking out of poverty will be the hardest thing you will ever do in your life – the failure rate is very high and the price – expensive – in the cost of emotional capital. Poverty is a small country with its own culture. The people in the culture will be warm and supportive of each other- as long as you do not act different- or try to leave – If you are serious about leaving the culture – you must be prepared to become refugee in a new country. You must follow all of the steps taken by immigrants and prepare your self mentally and physically for a journey that will take a toll on your identity and your health.
Individuals who are motivated to leave the land of their birth have at some time made the decision that they cannot survive in the present surroundings, and for the sake of their own well being and future – must make extreme sacrifices and changes. Carefully research the area you are intending to immigrate – learn the culture, which include behavior traits and expectations, music, foods, shelter, relationships between men and women, and what is acceptable and expected. Working class culture and- middle class culture is very different from the culture of poverty. Identify the people of the area to which you are immigrating, and determine how they can help you adjust to the new environment. Find a good faith-based institution – a church with the resources and capabilities for helping people- make transformations in lives.
If the church appears as if it is not able to sustain itself and its members- look for another church- churches also – are victims of the culture of poverty- and help people to remain comfortable in their present condition- run- do not walk to a different church.
Some denominations will encourage you to forget about this life- and wait for the next life- the only problem is – you have to die- to get into the next life- and you are on a journey to live in this life – death will come to all- but do not rush into death preparation.
Be prepared to change your clothing and physical look with respect to hairstyle and clothing – you do not want is to stand out like a sore thumb – therefore – do a detailed research on what people look like speak and behave. Just as you would do- when planning a trip to a foreign land – check the weather and decide what to pack for the occasion – and what you may need to purchase later. Pack your bag with all of your worldly possessions – say goodbye to your family and close friends – and accept the idea – that once you immigrate to the new country – you will no longer we welcomed into the inner intimate poverty circle again.
If you are strong enough to endure these challenges – welcome to the world of changing social classes and moving out of the culture of poverty. The doorway out of poverty starts with education. There are really two doors – the first door is education and the second door is religion. These are dangerous exit paths, if you select the wrong path in education, you will fall down a dark hole of despair. If you select the wrong path in religion, you will fall down the same dark hole – you will just be shouting and singing. Public schools serving minority and poor students in New York City are path to dark holes. Churches helping you get into heaven as fast as you can with out experiencing the joys of life are also path to dark holes. You will need both the school and the church for your great escape.
Getting In Through and Out Of College Adult Edition
Breaking Out of the Culture of Poverty
It is possible to program the mind with thoughts you want to manifest into your own realities.
The mind and the subconscious does not know if what you are programming it with are factual or not, but the mind and the thoughts placed in the mind does have the ability to bring into your world the content of your thoughts. Thought are things, with the power to create substance and events. I wrestle with God all the time and in the process, She reveals to me the secrets of life. I am not perfect and I have made some mistakes, fortunately not bad ones, but I am not a passive player in my life.
Poverty is an addictive drug and that is why it is so difficult to break away from its influence. Poverty provides warmth, acceptance, no expectations and no judgment. It is a free floating space, with the only requirement that you show up the same way each day with no changes and no thoughts for the future. Living for the now is all there is and anything, which can pleasure the now is acceptable.
There is no past or future in the lives of members of poverty, there is only the now. When you arrive in a poverty environment, no one is interested in who you are, what you have done or are doing. No one cares about your accomplishments the only time is the now time, and when you leave it is as if you were never there. It is pure pleasure. How does one avoid the culture of poverty, and how would a person trapped in poverty break out? In order to avoid poverty never acknowledge its reality.
Think – see – and behave – as if a different state of reality were part of your existence. My mother supported us for eighteen years on a welfare check- we were poor- but we did not live the culture of poverty. As children – my mother- a widower – would dress us as if each day were special. We would set the table in a special way, and speak to each other as if each person were special. If there were a shortage of something, there was no acknowledgment of that shortage, and something else was move into its place as if normal occurrence. My mother always said that how much money you have in your pocket does not define who you are- no one will know what you have or do not have- unless you tell them – hold you head high- and walk as if you have the riches of the world. We went to the free beautiful parks and free museums – she had a sewing machine- and kept us looking our best – she corrected our grammar and structured our behavior – and permitted no negative influences into the apartment. New York City had many diverse-economic sections – we lived in the poor section – with a middle class mind-set. My grandfather worked in a butcher shop, and his contribution to the family was to deliver a daily supply of meat and chicken each day. When you have plenty of meat, food is never an issue. My mother use to do a lot of praying so for some reason there was always enough food for us, and some left over for any visitor who would chance by.
Wealth is a mental attitude – influenced by the way you think about yourself and the environment. A wealth conditioning had nothing to do with economic reality; the small bi monthly welfare check was not designed to give a person a sense of comfort. The idea that this was a transitional stage of life, and we would get through it was encouraged and became the unspoken words of our being. I remember having great images of a future I would design for myself, the more challenges faced, the stronger and clearer the vision became.
Perhaps – this suggests that we were never in the culture of poverty; we were going through financial circumstances demanding strict attention to the distribution and use of money. Money did not make us rich or poor, money was what was used to pay bills. We were raised as children of intellectual wealth, responsibility and talents. I selected all relationships with the same purpose, deciding in advance what part they would or could play in my future vision.
My mother put visions in our heads – by taking us to other neighborhoods and providing an opportunity for us to see the possibilities of another world. During the years spent as a public school teacher in New York City, working in challenging communities, I used the New York City enriched environment as my classroom and repeated this process
Field trips were a weekly event providing the student with exciting material to use in the state required curriculum. Teaching across the curriculum we used mass transportation in our geography lessons; the Museum of Natural History for our science and social studies, we wrote about and spelled all the streets involved in our walking exercise, and we watch a building going up, and secured permission from the Donald Trump builders to show us prints and designs. The students were taught outside of the box, and scored high on inbox examinations. These learning opportunities inspired many families to move out of the area and dream bigger dreams for their future. The teacher is often the vision creator and guide to a students avoiding the poverty trap and escaping the institution as soon as possible.
Going to school is a spiritual act; you must prepare yourself for this spiritual experience. If you are an adult returning to school after years away from this experience it may seem difficult, after you adjust to the spirituality of the whole experience you will feel right at home. You must prepare yourself for this experience, it will be the journey of your life; you will and should fall in love.
The feeling of new life and awareness should come over you as you open up the areas of your being to take in new awareness. This is the process by which you are on your way to becoming a changed being. When you enter the classroom door, it is not the son or daughter of someone – you drop your external roles at the crossover sill and enter as you, ready for your own experience.
If you are returning to school for your friends – they will not notice or care – if you are returning for your family – they will resent your stealing valuable time from their self centered world – and think you are selfish. If you enter for ethnicity or good of mankind – they will resent you showing them up – by inferring through your behavior – that they are failures and lazy. Family will sabotage your efforts – friends will consider you a traitor – your boss will feel you have too much time on your hand – and will try to increase your work load – blocking your school hours, and even you – yourself – may on occasions doubt the validity of what you are doing. These are obstacles – and it is up to you to prepare for them – and have strategies for how to handle them when they do – and they will appear.
The best advice is to keep your own counsel, "see thou and tell no one" until you send out the invitations to the graduation. Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and you may kill your own chances for success through your own mouth. Boys who use to live in tough neighborhoods refused to carry school- books because they did not want to be attacked by the neighborhood kids. Recognizing this study and homework time was provided during school hours so that the male students could keep up their grades and save face. Saying to a child forget them and be the bigger person, will not help, and result in many fist- fights and crushed spirits.
Work out a plan to handle the many obstacles, and get ready for the greatest adventure of your life. You will work smarter, and you are more ready than high school graduates completing the thirteenth year of education. You bring life experiences into the classroom with you, and that world knowledge will help you in your social science courses in psychology, sociology, political science, government, philosophy and religion. Get those soft courses out of the way before you take the hard courses, the courses where someone has to teach you new ways of thinking and methodologies.
College is about reading and writing, and reading for content, and writing in the form and style approved by your professors. Remember your thoughts mean nothing unless they are backed up by some writer or acknowledged authority in the field. Put your ego on the back burner, and develop a strategy for getting through and out of the institution, and the gatekeepers to the exit door are your professors. Through the doors of the college walks your future, do not slow it down or mess it up because of you. Life is not fair, and all the obstacles you will encounter are in place to maintain the status quo. When you return to school you are stepping out of one stratified position to go into another. The American system is designed to keep people in their assigned places, you are preparing to change the rules and the players, and it will be exciting.
The world of the 21st century is a world of technology. It is therefore suggested – that you include some money courses in your degree program. The basic liberal arts degree will qualify you to work today in restaurants, specialty shops and department stores. You will be knowledgably without knowing how to do anything. The market pays for skills and talents; therefore take subjects and areas of concentrations that will make it possible for you to secure employment and be able to pay your student loans. Computer engineering, math, science and education will place you in a more favorable job market. You will become a better person as the results of your education, it is however your responsibility to earn a living for yourself. Your degree could be your entrance into the technology field, health services, legal services, architecture and design. Make your education more than a talking platform.


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I had back surgery in November 2017 and recovered nicely until a set back earlier this year. I was working out harder than my body could tolerate and I interpreted aches and pains as either no big deal or healthy signs of improvement. Until they weren't. So, I returned to physical therapy to build up my core strength. I wanted to engage in every day activities and workouts without pain and with better stability and stamina.
Two months ago, we tested my core strength with a full side plank while bringing my knee to my chest three times. It didn't go so well. I was shaky and unstable on my "good" side and fell over on my "bad" side. But at my appointment this week I could do it on both sides without falling over. Progress! We also reviewed running videos and saw noticeable improvement in my core stability and strength revealed in the footage.
While I was doing all these great things at the PT appointment and even looking at the video myself, a little voice in my head said, "That's not really good enough is it? I still have a long way to go. I should have been able to do that weeks ago! Why should I celebrate now?" I realized almost immediately that these thoughts weren't true. I had seen it with my own eyes!
It is amazing how easily we believe our thoughts and how little credit we might give ourselves for successes. My coaching clients do this when they want to delay their next appointment because they haven't made "enough" progress on their goals. Or, they finally do something they'd been meaning to do for years but didn't accomplish until they got into coaching. That critical inner voice says they are not good enough even while they are doing great things. Maybe we should question that critical voice. Maybe it shouldn't be trusted.
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Monthly Roundup – October 2018
Here's what's been happening in the intersecting worlds of A Wider Bridge, Israel and the LGBTQ community.
The anti-Semitic shootings at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh were devastating for all of us. It has been a time to come together and heal.
In response to this tragedy, Executive Director Tyler Gregory penned an op-ed in The Advocate about the importance of uniting against the dog whistlers amongst us.
A Wider Bridge was also honored to partner with the Jewish Federation of Broward County and the Anti-Defamation League at the United Community Vigil, and also to participate in the East Side Interfaith Memorial Service at Temple Bat Yam South Florida. Thank you to our Board Member James Moon who represented A Wider Bridge at these events.
A Wider Bridge stands in solidarity with the transgender community in response to the Trump administration's consideration to rollback trans rights. Read our statement.
Twenty LGBTQ community leaders and personalities joined a Wider Bridge staff on an inspiring 10-day mission to experience the country through an LGBTQ lens. View photos.
Thank you to everyone who joined us for A Wider Benefit on October 16 in San Francisco! View photos.
We've just wrapped up a west coast and midwest tour with our newest grantee Ofer Erez. Check out our photo album. Additionally, read about Ofer and the tour in the Windy City Times and TC Jewfolk.
On October 31, A Wider Bridge sat in the Knesset gallery as the opposition introduced the pro-gay surrogacy Bill, which was ultimately defeated. A Wider Bridge
The words "Death to LGBT" were found scrawled on a monument in Tel Aviv that commemorates members of the community who were persecuted by the Nazi regime for their sexual orientation and gender identity. A Wider Bridge
Chen Arieli, Chair of the Aguda LGBTQ Task Force ran for public office in Israel's Municipal Elections on October 30, one of 58 LGBTQ candidates. 🇮🇱🏳🌈🗳A Wider Bridge
Sammy Kanter, a Gay American rabbinical student studying in Israel is suing a Jerusalem pizzeria for refusing to serve him due to his sexual orientation. A Wider Bridge
Congratulations to the 13 LGBTQ council members who were elected in the recent Israeli Municipal Elections.


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MARSHALL COUNTY TO CALDWELL COUNTY, KY November 9, 2017) – Kentucky State Police have arrested a man following a robbery, motor vehicle theft, and multi-county pursuit. At approximately 1:00 p.m., McCracken County Deputy Sheriff Roger Simon contacted KSP Post 1 to report a red car traveling eastbound at a high rate of speed on Interstate 24 in Marshall County. While on the phone with KSP, Deputy Simon reported the car had wrecked.
Preliminary investigation has shown the red vehicle was a Chevrolet Cobalt being driven by James A. Booker, age 34, of Paducah, Kentucky. Booker was an inmate at Keeton Correctional Institution in Paducah and had walked off earlier in the day. At the scene of the collision in Marshall County, Booker assaulted Deputy Simon and stole the McCracken County police cruiser Deputy Simon had been driving.
A short time thereafter, a KSP Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer located the stolen cruiser eastbound on Interstate 24. A vehicle pursuit began at that time and continued into Caldwell County. Near the 75 mile marker of Interstate 69, the stolen police cruiser was involved in a single vehicle collision. James A. Booker was transported to Caldwell County Hospital for medical evaluation. He was later released from the hospital, arrested, and lodged in the Christian County Jail.
Booker was charged in Marshall County with First Degree Robbery, Receiving Stolen Property ($10,000 or more), First Degree Criminal Mischief, First Degree Fleeing or Evading Police in a Motor Vehicle, Third Degree Assault on a Police Officer, Reckless Driving, First Degree Wanton Endangerment of a Police Officer, Second Degree Wanton Endangerment, Driving on a DUI Suspended License (2nd Offense), and Fugitive from Another State.
Booker was charged in Caldwell County with First Degree Fleeing or Evading Police in a Motor Vehicle, Four Counts of First Degree Wanton Endangerment, First Degree Criminal Mischief, Speeding, Reckless Driving, and Operating on a Suspended License.
Paducah Police Department is investigating the theft of the red Chevrolet Cobalt.
The Kentucky State Police were assisted by multiple law enforcement agencies in Marshall, Lyon, and Caldwell Counties.
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MST209 TMA3 – posting this week
Ok, so assignment number three is about done.
I'm just putting the finishing touches to the last (unit 11-related) question.
The unit 9 and unit 10 stuff seemed very fair and quite straightforward.
The second unit 8 question required a step back to see exactly what they wanted from it. The clue is in the question and mark scheme, as ever.
I learned some neat eigenstuff that I wasn't aware of before in unit 10 – mainly to do with finding eigenvalues and eigenvectors through repeated iteration. The techniques to achieve this, and keep the resulting values to a manageable size, are laid out crystal clear in the book. Very well written piece, I thought.
Unit 11, on systems of differential equations, took some getting used to. The intro was a bit woolly but then, all of a sudden, boom – everything coming at you at once. As the intro says, you need proficiency with matrices and determinants, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, and several methods of solving differential equations.
Unit 11 has clearly signalled the point where various sections of the course suddenly meet up. It looks like lots of the available twigs and moss of knowledge have gathered into a ball (of mass m, of course) and are now rolling down an incline (at theta to the horizontal in the -j direction) towards the end of the course (which is still 17/28ths away).
There is a LOT of work in this course. Last year's M208 was like a picnic in terms of time demands compared to this.
Unit ratings by difficulty: (1-easy; 10-brain melt)
Unit 9 – matrices and determinants – gets a 2-out-of-10 from me since I did a load of it last year. I can see students with no prior background in the topic getting into a pickle though – the course notes fly through the material at a fair rate.
Unit 10 – eigenvalues and eigenvectors – gets a 4-out-of-10 from me due to the iterative stuff being a touch tricky in places. Tip – get used to using the det and trace to check answers (or even predict answers before invoking the characteristic equation, etc).
Unit 11 – systems of differential equations – was fun but confused me several times. Also had me looking back to unit 2 and unit 3 to check on my fundamentals of differential equations. This is a good thing as it helps consolidate prior learning. Difficulty rating: 5-out-of-10.


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Another close encounter with local rivals Lincoln
On Sunday morning the TBS senior boys' football team played against local rivals Lincoln. This was their second encounter in recent weeks and the Lincoln boys were looking for revenge after been beaten by TBS 2-1 the last time they met.
The sun was shining on the ANFA field in Satobato on Sunday morning for this anticipated rematch. Both teams battled hard, Lincoln scored first followed closely by a TBS equalizer from Nipun. As the game reached the dying minutes Lincoln retook the lead and almost immediately Nipun once again equalised for TBS. The senior TBS boys made many great attempts to create scoring chances but alas Lincoln found the back of the net to run out 3-2 victors. We are looking forward to the deciding encounter in this series of games. Well done to all the boys and coaches for a fantastic performance.


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On July 6, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs issued a scathing report detailing what the Committee characterized as a seething epidemic of classified information making its way into the press. Titled, "State Secrets: How an Avalanche of Media Leaks Is Harming National Security," the 23-page document cites "at least 125 stories" between Inauguration day and May 25 "with leaked information potentially damaging to national security." That last part is debatable. While the report, which was commissioned by the Republican majority, does include a handful of truly astonishing disclosures—things like FISA warrants and transcripts of private phone calls with foreign leaders—most of the document essentially reads like a chronology of what the public has learned about the interlocking investigations into the Trump administration and its potential ties to Russia. The bylines of New York Times and Washington Post reporters are especially prolific. "Listing individual reporters who allegedly harmed national security is something that illiberal nations do," the Committee to Protect Journalists wrote in response.
The report was provided to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who would stand before a podium one month later and announce that the Trump administration had already tripled the amount of leak investigations pursued under Barack Obama, whose administration had in turn been more aggressive about hunting down sources than any other since Nixon's. "I strongly agree with the president and condemn in the strongest terms the staggering number of leaks undermining the ability of our government to protect this country," Sessions said. "We are taking a stand. This culture of leaking must stop. . . . So, today, I have this message for the intelligence community: the Department of Justice is open for business. And I have this warning for would-be leakers: don't do it."
Consternation about the report was particularly high in The Washington Post's newsroom, not only because 33 of its journalists' stories were in the crosshairs, but also because "State Secrets" was being promoted on Twitter by one of their own. Jerry Markon was a longtime Post reporter who covered the Department of Homeland Security until February, when he left the paper to work for the Committee on Homeland Security as senior policy adviser to its chairman, Senator Ron Johnson. When the report landed, along with six retweets from Markon touting its findings, jaws hit the floor. At least one of Markon's former colleagues, according to people with knowledge of the matter, e-mailed him to ask if he'd written the report himself. Adam Goldman, who worked with Markon at the Post and even shared some bylines with him, was blunt in his assessment. "Many former colleagues at the Post were disappointed," Goldman told me. "It was a betrayal." (I reached out to Markon through the Committee's press office but he was not made available.) A Johnson aide emphasized that Johnson's "concern is about the leakers and the national-security threats their leaks pose, not individual journalists."
I spoke with more than half a dozen national-security journalists at several major news organizations to get their take on the current climate. The conversations were overwhelmingly off the record, either because these reporters have a policy of keeping discussions pertaining to their tradecraft offline, or because they didn't want to inflame hostilities or play into the government's hands. (Indeed, some were of the opinion that a story like this one would do more harm than good.) Goldman, who now covers the F.B.I. for the Times, and who was the only one of the group to give me a quote for attribution, summed up the state of play like this: "We can't do our jobs effectively if we have to run around fearful the government is always watching us. We're journalists, not spies."
And yet many journalists these days do have to acts like spies. That's not exactly new. Back in the 70s, Bob Woodward resorted to moving a flowerpot around on his balcony in order to arrange post-midnight meetings with Deep Throat. As the government in recent years has become more heavy-handed about cracking down on whistleblowers, and as electronic surveillance has become increasingly sophisticated, reporters have in turn become increasingly sophisticated about communicating through encryption and other highly secure methods.


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The miniature Teddy Bear I was making at the Sewing Basket of Victoria meeting last Sunday is finally finished. She is only 2.5" tall. She looks even smaller standing against the bear tin and miniature teddy bear book that one of my children gave me years ago. When I put the pieces together I used double buttonhold stitches and did not turn the seams over so you can still see the seams on the outside. To me the stitches look decorative on the outside. I really enjoyed making her, and I can see that I will be making more of them for gifts.
Here is my new secondhand computer I got from my work. My old computer was stressed to the limit. With me taking an online digital collage course it could not handle that well, so it was time for a more powerful machine. I was lucky that my employer was selling some ex-students' computers, and the one I bought is quite powerful enough for my use. DH gave me a new monitor to go with it. It is so pleasant working with a flat screen monitor.
And this is a left over I O Lyn from the Polka dot Swap. The piece needed a lot of stitching all over it and I could not finish in time to post it with the other gifts, so here it is Lyn, better late than never. I love making these little name plate pieces and stitched all over with only felted wool as a backing. I hope you can use it for something Lyn.
Last but not least. My new pair of boots. I have not bought any boots in the last five years and because it is cold and wet this year I thought I would need new boots. That was my excuse and I would stick with it. It took me months to find ones I liked. Have any of you tried to take a photo of your boots while you are wearing them? It is not easy, and because the colour is mostly black it is hard to get the details. Taking the photo from a standing up position the colour turned out gray from the reflection. Anyway, they are Italian made and all leather inside and out. Beautiful to wear, and I just love them...!


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The one you actually want is the 3 door hardtop, which is even available with the base 1.5 litre and front wheel drive.
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The one you actually want is the 3 door hardtop, which is even available with the base 1.5 litre and front wheel drive.
Sort of stylish like a Mini but without the price tag.
Some say it is not an optimum strategy...
Well, you still have the Mondeo... although I think it is on its way out soon. I suppose this also means no more Mondeo for us either...
There are still V8s in tthe F-Series. Maybe not on the 150 but on the others. In fact Ford makes a 445 cubic inch big block V8 for the Super Duty. I wonder if it fits under the bonnet of the...
Three million quid?
We are never going to see one.
Mustang, F-150... and Mercury Sable would be quite lineup for Ford.
We should lobby them to cancel everything else they make.
I can imagine a manual CVT with three levers, one to put it in drive and the other two to operate the diameter-change of the pulleys to adjust the gear ratio as you drive along. I don't know why...
Meh, we all hated that so we got the Puma in exchange exclusively for ourselves.
What did you get in exchange? A front wheel drive retro-styled CUV which pillages Ford's nostalgia back-catalogue?
I understand the benefits you describe of mice-related shapes. Nevertheless I'm firmly in the leaping animals camp, or at least I was until their cars started looking like nondescript designs from...
Exactly, keep carburettors and perforated cards separately.
On the other hand, if it is just device, does form cease to be relevant?
Automated manuals are the worst gearboxes ever created by humans, even worse than CVTs. So no, a 5 speed torque converter gearbox is better than anything-SMG.
I also agree that what matters about...
Yes well... we have progressed some since the war...
My first Ferrari was white.
Mind you, it wasn't actually technically a Ferrari as such...
A Marauder may be interesting...
Since when is that a good thing?
Failing that, whatever the latest semi-lux Japanese saloon car is called. Lexiniti QIS45h, something or other.
Love the e, but it is far too expensive.
It is probably the iPhone of cars.
Nope, no kei cars for us. They are too small an underpowered. Even for Europe!
I already have one of these. It's called home.
The painted grille is not very elegant and it missing 4 cylinders.
A fine motorcar otherwise, though.
The SLR had a 5 speed Daimler auto. Just like an S-Class. It couldn't be more far removed from the F1 even if it tried.
I like the T50, although not a fan of the rear styling...
It is handsome. However in these days of overdesigned cars it is not difficult for something a little bit more restrained to be pleasing.
Something tells me that it is not going to be a driver's...
Well the Jazz is still available here but only as a Hybrid. I was never too interested in it.
I like the concept of the Civic Type R SportLine or whatever is called, you know the one with the...
I'd actually be more surprised if it does 2,5l/100km.
It must be a German thing, M Powered BMWs look just as bad under the bonnet.
Or they just pull a 911, where the engine can't be seen at all.
Well actually, probably, only the ones who voted for him...
Meh, still sounds like a meaningless hodgepodge of letters and numbers... :(


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It's the last week of September so you know that there are a lot of giveaways that are over towards the end of the week. That means many chances to win and we'll cheer to that. Have a lucky week. — Marcia
9/24 7TH HEAVEN PEEL-OFF FACIAL MASKS – 4 winners win 2 masks each, US
9/25 BOXYCHARM SEPTEMBER 2018 – 2 winners, one of the September box, one with a variety of products from previous boxes, US
10/5 DECK OF SCARLETT PALETTE – US/Can, 1 winner
9/23 A Very Sweet Blog – Molton Brown London Jasmine & Sun Rose 1.7 fl oz Eau De Toilette Perfume, US
9/23 Dave Lackie – YSL Black Opium eau de toilette, WW
Beauty Undercover || Sara Happ Coconut Lip Scrub, US || Mirai Serum, 20 winners, US ||
9/24 Orogold – $500 gc to go toward any Orogold products, 2 winners, WW
9/24 Ladyboarder – Liquid lipsticks from Buxom, US
9/24 My Style Spot – Award Winning Skincare from Vilacto, US
9/24 Jose Eber – Jose Eber Luxury Gold Gift Set, Live Fast Stay Young Gift Set (From Stone Candles*), 2.5oz COCO Acai Candle, 2.5oz COCO Pomegranate Candle, 2.5oz COCO Candle, 2.5oz Amber Candle, 2.5oz White Tea Candle, 2.5oz Green Tea Candle. WW
9/25 Smile Brilliant – Smile Brilliant Teeth Whitening Kit, US/Can
9/26 The Budget Fashionista – $40 Target Gift Card plus Tummy Tuck Cream, Scars and Stretch Marks Cream, Lavender Shaving Oil, Lavender Hair Tonic and Elixir, Sleepytime Rollerball, )Chillout Rollerball, )Citrus Bliss Body Butter, Lavender Love Story Body Butter, Lavender Linen Spray. US
9/27 Blushing Noir – 53 MAC Lip Products, WW
9/27 Scorch Makeup – 5 Scorch lip products, US
9/27 Never Say Die Beauty – 2 winners, Farmhouse Fresh Lip Polish Giveaway: Beach Punch or, Blackberry Wine, US
9/27 Bionyx – 4 winners, Bionyx Platinum Foaming Sheet Mask, WW
9/27 My Style Spot – $100 Sephora g.c., US
9/27 Dave Lackie – Clarins Nude 4 shadow palette, WW
9/27 NYC Pretty – 2 Farmacy Skincare products, US
9/29 Fashionista Budget – Chloe Deluxe Mini Perfume Duo, WW
9/29 Olivia Global – one year's worth of Olivia Golden Salt Scrub, US
9/29 Dave Lackie – set of six luxe fragrances, WW
9/29 Goldfaden MD – Goldfaden MD Dr. G's Fresh A Peel and Light Treatment – 3 win, US
9/29 Fragrance Net – We're giving away a fragrance, body cream and bath soap all in Philosophy's Sea of Love scent, US
9/30 Brevena – Brevena Skincare Package, US
9/30 Loving Yourself – favorite brands products which include Loccitane, Saje Wellness, Farmacology, and a year subscription to the LovingYourself subscription box! US
9/30 Derma E – 10 winners, Derma e top 10 products, US
9/30 Sleepy Girls – $50 Sephora
9/30 Yonka USA – Brightening Trio Collection: Gommage Yon-Ka, Masque 103, Pamplemousse PNG, WW w/exceptions
9/30 2nd Kind – natural beauty haul including the entire 2nd KIND skincare line, Moonjuice beauty dust, Saucebox pallets, All Heart nail polish and Skin Gym rose quartz facial roller. US
9/30 Luxy Shades – Kylie Favorite Bundle (includes Lip Kits, lip liner, eye liners, eyeshadows, blush), WW w/exceptions
9/30 Dave Lackie – complete set of #StarbucksInCostaRica items (clarins, lancome, shiseido), WW
9/30 The Organic Influencers – Organic Makeup and Skin Care Products. Includes 13 products from top brands, including, 100% Pure, Juice Beauty, and Alba Botanica. $200 value. US
9/30 Simply Gluten Free – Beaute Minerals Essential Kit with Brushes, includes foundation, highlighting powder, contouring powder, blush, finishing powder, a kabuki brush, and a blush brush. Plus, we're throwing in a gorgeous lipstick and one of Carol Kicinski's favorite beauty tools – a rose quartz eye roller that helps to soothe puffy under eyes. US
9/30 Natural Products – Good Earth Beauty The Pumpkin Gift Set Perfume and Lip Balm, US
9/30 Lange Hair – $1000 Fall Giveaway
9/30 Sebamed USA – One (1) winner will receive Sebamed USA's Fall Favorites Bundle. This bundle includes Sebamed Hydrating Body Milk, Extreme Dry Skin Relief Face Cream, Liquid Face & Body Wash (1 liter), Everyday Shampoo (1 liter), Repair Conditioner, Hand & Nail Balm, Fragrance Free Gentle Hydrating Cleanser (400 ml), and Q10 Protection Cream. The ARV of this bundle is $230. US
9/30 Erica Ever After – Tony Moly Hand Cream, US
a lot of giveaways ending on 9/23 are listed in last week's Sunday Scoop
9/24 Steamy Kitchen – Cuisinart Convection Bread Maker, US/Can
9/24 Steamy Kitchen – Acer Chromebook Laptop. US/Can
9/24 My Style Spot – Fall 2018 Goodie Box Giveaway, US
9/24 Mom Knows Best – month's supply of cold brew coffee from Java House, US
9/24 Polylyric – Amazon Kindle Paperwhite e-reader, US/Can
9/25 Leite's Culinaria – Wolf Gourmet Griddle, US/Can
9/25 King Sumo – Marc Jacobs Tote Bag, US
9/26 Leite's Culinaria – Cuisinart Programmable Bread Maker, US/Can
9/26 Clean Eating Magazine – 2 winners, Instant Pot® Ultra 10-in-1 Multi-Use Programmable Cooker. US
9/26 Olive You Whole – Sous Vide and accessories, US
9/26 Life In A Breakdown – 3 umbellas from Susino, might be UK only
9/26 Bestek – Bestek Coffee Maker, 10 winners, US, UK, CA, FR, IT, ES CA, UK, FR, D
9/27 Gleam – new limited edition 256GB iPhone 8 (PRODUCT)RED to one lucky winner! WW
9/27 Leite's Culinaria – T Fal 7 in 1 Multi Cooker, US/Can
9/27 Detox You Way – Breville Juice Fountain Plus, US
9/27 Inspirations and Celebrations – $500 AMEX gift card for travel 3 nights at the Freehand NYC, A private tour of Rosé Mansion with the founders for 8 people, 3L bottle of Rosé in the bar with snacks, All 8 people get a t-shirt and a tote bag
9/28 Leite's Culinaria – Instant Pot Mini, US/Can
9/29 Easter Babe's Theory – Ergo Chef My Fryer Giveaway 2 win, US
9/29 Bookish Treats – 6? Amazon Paperback eReader and 4 books on it, US/Can
9/29 Leite's Culinaria – Cuisinart Stainless Steel Microwave, US/Can
9/29 Homemade for Elle – Instant Pot US
9/29 Deenkee – Deenkee Robotic Vacuum Cleaner , WW
9/29 Peets Coffee – a Keurig brewer and a year's supply of Peet's K-Cups! Giveaway, US
9/29 Clean Wholesome Romance – Kindle Fire/ if you have one you can get a $49 Amazon card or paypal, WW
9/29 Extra TV – 5 winners, Winners will receive a backpack from Spencer's, snacks from Made Good Foods, and a $100 gift card for clothing at Tea Collection. US
9/29 Santamedical – $100 Amazon Gift Card & Santamedical Heart Rate Monitor/Pulse Oximeter, US
9/29 Santamedical – $100 Amazon Gift Card and Santamedical Sphygmomanometer (BP machine), US
9/29 Frosted Petticoat – Dash Compact Instant Pot, US
9/30 Michigan Savings – Ergo Chef Air Fryer, US
9/30 Victoria Pinder – Nook Tablet, US
9/30 Leite's Culinaria – Ball FreshTech Automatic Jam and Jelly Maker, US/Can
9/30 Kudosz – Godiva Caramel Chocolates Congratulations Gift Basket, US
9/30 Yoga Basics – Yoga Mat and Prop Package, US
9/30 My Silly Little Gang – Fire HD 10 Tablet with Alexa Giveaway, US
9/30 The Review Wire – Aervana one-touch electric wine aerator, US
9/30 Recipe Savants – Instant Pot, US/Can
9/26 Back Self Care – 1 lululemon yoga mat, KitchenAid 2-speed hand blender, 1 month's supply of Simplified Superfoods packets, 1 care package from barkTHINS, Skinnypop, and KRAVE Jerky variety pack of RXBARs and RXBAR nut butters, Spa Kit from Primally Pure, 3 month subscription of Après plant-based protein drink1, Sweat Cosmetics GLEAM ON Illuminator (SPF 25) and a 30-pack of Skin Cleansing Towelette Wipes, US
9/28 Inspirations and Celebrations – 1. $300 Sephora Gift Card from Mirra, 2. Andre Assous Gift Card ($200 value), 3. Professional Teeth Whitening Kit from Snow Teeth Whitening ($300 value), 4. $300 gift card to www.infinitytravel.store from Infinity Travel, 5. $200 Nordstrom Gift Card from Inspirations and Celebrations, 6. $250 ASH + AMES GIft Card, 7. $200 Blume Gift Card. US
9/29 Michigan Savings and more – 3rd Annual Breast Cancer Awareness Giveaway: 3 winners with a variety of pink prizes, US
9/30 It's a Keeper – Instant Pot Ultra 10-in-1 6-qt. Programmable Pressure Cooker, $50 Omaha Steaks Gift Card, Healthy Instant Pot Cookbook: 100 Great Recipes with Fewer Calories and Less Fat by Dana Angelo White, Two (2) Thermos 16 oz. Stainless King Food Jars with Spoons, Beef themed swag including an apron, oven mitt, spatula and more! US residents residing in the Northeast (this includes residents of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Washington DC and Virginia).
9/23 || Paulette's Papers, $50 Amazon or paypal, WW || The Beat, $500 Mastercard, US/Can || I Like It Frantic, $25 Fandango gc, US ||
9/24 || Hippo and Company, $150 Amazon, US || To the Motherhood, $25 Fandango, US || Missi Roses Views, $25 Fandango, US ||
9/25 || Mommies with Cents, Walmart gc: $200 first place, 6 more $50, US || The Simple Parent, $25 Target, US || Giveaway Promote, $50 Amazon, WW || Long Wait for Isabella, $25 Fandango, US || Lit Ring, $200 Amazon, US ||
9/26 || The Review Wire, 3 different giveaways on the page: $50 eGift Card to Uncommon Goods, $50 Gift Card to Educational Insights, $20 Gift Card to Crate & Barrel. US || Handcrafted Reviews, $25 Amazon, US ||
9/27 || Landmark Theaters, $250 Landmark gc, US || Frontgate, $1000 Frontgate gc, US || Nike, $500 gc, US || Paulette's Papers, $25 Amazon or paypal, WW || Bindle & Brass Trading Co., $500 Home Depot gc, US ||
9/28 || Paulette's Papers, Win a paperback set of The Cleansweep books OR a $25 Amazon GC OR a choice of Chuck Waldron's back titles in ebook format (USA & Canada only / 7 winners total) || Java John, $20 Amazon, WW || Pangea Travel, $125 AirBnb g.c. || Fox Rent A Car, $200 Visa, US || The Rock Father, The Not-Its! Prize Pack $25 Amazon Gift Card + 2 CDs, US || Cherry Blossoms, $100 Macy's, US || Inspirations and Celebrations, $50 Rite Aid g.c., US ||
9/29 || Addison Moore, Kindle Fire and $25 Amazon g.c., US || Stylecote, $250 Amazon, US || Santamedical, $100 Amazon g.c. and VitBoost Turmeric Curcumin, US || Chatty Patty's Place, $25 Amazon, WW || The Beat, $200 Home Depot, US/Can || Love Bugs and Postcards, $25 Little Caesars gc, US ||
9/30 || Moss Reviews, your choice of $25 gift card. The choices are Panera Bread, Cracker Barrel, P.F. Changs, Applebees, Olive Garden or Amazon. Two winners, US || Paulette's Papers, $25 Amazon or paypal, WW || Finding Sanity, $20 paypal, WW || Clean Wholesome Romance, $50 Amazon or paypal, WW || Paulette's Papers 2, $25 Amazon, US || OTOH Books, $50 Amazon, WW || Clean Wholesome Romance, choice of Kindle Fire 7 tablet or $49 Amazon gc or paypal, WW || Clean Wholesome Romance, $25 Amazon or paypal, WW || Clean Wholesome Romance 2, $25 Amazon || Clean Wholesome Romance, $50 Amazon or paypal, WW || Eat Move Make, $50 Visa, US ||
9/30 || Book Riot, $250 Amazon, US || Simply Gluten Free, $200 Amazon, US || SFF Book Bonanza, $250 Amazon || Book Riot, $250 Barnes & Noble, US || Kudosz, $500 Amazon, US || SFF Book Bonanza 2, $250 Amazon || Elite Outfitters, $100 Cabela g.c., US/Can || Kudosz, $100 Outback Steakhouse and $100 Fandango, US || Blueprint Fit Quest, $1500 Visa, US || Todd and Erin, $100 JC Penney gc, US || Read Brightly, 50 new books handpicked for a grade level and a $500 g.c., US ||
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Steve Bannon: Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell are trying to 'nullify' Trump's election
Steve Bannon thinks the leaders of the Republican Party are trying to "nullify" President Trump's election.
"The Republican establishment is trying to nullify the 2016 election. That's a brutal fact we have to face," Bannon said, according to a transcript of an interview with CBS' 60 Minutes that will air Sunday. "I think Mitch McConnell, and to a degree, Paul Ryan. They do not want Donald Trump's populist, economic nationalist agenda to be implemented. It's very obvious."
He listed an early meeting between McConnell and Trump during which McConnell told Trump to drop his "drain the swamp" messaging.
Bannon was a top adviser to the president until he left his post at the White House last month. He has since returned to his top spot at Breitbart News.
Bannon said now that he's out of the White House, he "absolutely" will go to war with the Senate majority leader and House speaker. Breitbart has not shied away from going after what the outlet perceives as enemies of the president and his agenda.
Another person Bannon sees as an enemy? New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
Bannon told host Charlie Rose that the Access Hollywood tape that came out shortly before the election acted as a "litmus test" for whom Trump could trust.
The video, which was recorded in 2005, was released in October and many Republicans pulled their support from Trump at the time — though some went on to reverse course and support him again.
The tape "showed me who really had Donald Trump's back to play to his better angels," Bannon said, adding that he told Christie to get on a morning flight the weekend the tape came out: " 'If you're on the plane, you're on the team.' Didn't make the plane."
Bannon said Christie's reaction to the tape cost him a spot on Trump's Cabinet.


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General Advising Information
Degree Completion Plans
"Degree Completion Plans" are what the advisors use to help students develop an extended plan for completing a degree program. By using these plans students are able to chart out how many years of planned attendance at college and determine which classes should be taken during each semester of their time at Dickinson State University.
Course Rotations
"Course Rotations" – the term departments use for notice of which courses are available what semester. Some courses are not available each semester, or each academic year, so the rotation points out what semesters these courses are offered to ensure pre-requisites or co-requisites are met.
Student Instructions for Advisement Report
The advisement report gives students the ability to track remaining requirements for graduation. Through the student advisement report in Campus Connection, students can access their GPA, progress on general education requirements, status on transfer credits, and more.
DSU Teacher Education Timeline
The Teacher Education timeline contains the dates of various deadlines in the program through the academic year. This Excel document has a tab that is student-specific and one that is faculty-specific.
Course Rotations
2019-20 Degree Completion Plans
B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education (Fall)
B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education (Spring)
B.S.Ed. in Secondary Education
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Share Your Story
Hearing about others' experiences can be helpful when dealing with death and bereavement. Do you have a personal experience that you'd feel comfortable sharing with the campaign? If so, let us know...
Hearing about others' experiences can be helpful when dealing with death and bereavement. Do you have a personal experience that you'd feel comfortable sharing with the campaign? If so, let us know...
We lost our 21 year old daughter Beth on 30 September 2013 and it was her wish to be an organ donor.
She was a final year drama student at Northampton University. She was looking forward to graduating this year and had spoken of travelling with her university friends and setting up her own theatre company.
Sadly for Beth and us, this will not now happen but, on that tragic weekend, we as a family were able to agree to her organ donation because we had discussed the topic on numerous occasions and we understood her wishes.
Since Beth's passing, we have been looking at organ donation sites and campaigns and while we see the emphasis is on saving or changing lives, we feel that there are two main issues, which in our opinion, are not stressed enough. Firstly, there is the importance of discussing the wish to donate among family and friends and acting on it by registering on the NHS organ donor site. Secondly, we feel that the way in which the organ donation process is handled is not clearly discussed.
We feel that the general public still feel that if you carry an organ donor card, then at the first opportunity all your organs are ripped from you and you are just treated as an empty body. This was not our family's experience and in an attempt to be proactive in reassuring people regarding the process, we created a website for Beth www.rememberbeth.co.uk. where we tell the story of Beth's operation. Please do have a look at Beth's site as we just want it to be used as a positive message regarding organ donation. If in a small way we are able to encourage more families to discuss organ donation and reassure them how professionally the whole process is handled, then we can draw some comfort from our personal tragedy, especially if they then act on it and join the register.
You can sign up to be an organ donor at www.organdonation.nhs.uk.
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San Francisco, CA – A series of 83-year-old frescoes on the walls of George Washington High School will be either covered or destroyed due to allegations that they are racist.
The 13-panel mural was created in 1936 by left-leaning artist Victor Arnautoff, who later went on to join the Communist Party, The Washington Times reported.
Arnautoff created the mural in an attempt to depict an accurate description of George Washington's life – including dark images of slavery and slain Native Americans.
One of the panels depicts white settlers stepping over the body of a dead Native American, while another shows slaves working in a field.
"It's a lot of emotional stress," George Washington High School senior Kai Anderson-Lawson told KNTV.
"One of the reasons it's hard to go to school sometimes is because of the mural in the lobby," Anderson-Lawson added. "I think they should try to, like, put healthy images on there."
"The mural tells us about the conquest and colonization of the United States including the genocide of native Americans," Raoul Gonzales said during the school board meeting on June 18, according to KTVU. "The mural reminds us that this nation is born of blood and gore."
Alliance of Black School Educators member Virginia Marshall said that the paintings need to be removed.
"It is a racist mural," Marshall said. "My history should not be racist but it is. I came from slaves."
"Why do we have to explain the pain caused by visual offense that we see in that building that is supposed to be an institution of learning?" mural opponent Mary Travis-Allen asked the school board.
Donna Parker said that the artwork should be used as a learning tool.
"We should be teaching about the mural and what it means. I'm half native American. I have no problem with the mural," Parker said. "It depicts what happened."
Socialist Workers Party Mayoral Candidate Joel Britton argued that removing the fresco could open the door to unbridled censorship.
"Destroying or covering it would be an act of censorship and a blow to freedom of expression that would set a precedent for further such actions," Britton said, according to San Francisco Weekly. "Censorship creates precedents that will always come down hardest on the working class, including African American, Latinos, Native American, and Asian American working people."
None of the school board members spoke up in favor of keeping the mural on display.
"My question is who needs to remember it? I don't need to be reminded. It's in your face all the time," school board member Alison Collins said. "White supremacy culture is when folks are more concerned about the life of Washington murals than they are about Native American and Black lives."
The board is now trying to determine whether to destroy the mural or to cover it, KTVU reported.
School officials claimed it would cost between $375,000 and $825,000 cover or paint over the 83-year-old fresco because of costs associated with environmental impact reports, as well as materials and labor.
"We want to respect its age and comply with all the regulations associated with it," San Francisco Unified School Board President Stevon Cook told KTVU. "It would take some time and funds to figure out the best way to go about each of the options."
The board is expected to decide the fresco's fate on Tuesday.


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For the second time in as many days an atheist has tweeted me with the charge that asserting God exists […]
An Atheist Defining Theism: The Curious Case of Sean Carroll
This week Unbelievable features a dialogue/debate between atheist Sean Carroll and theist Luke Barnes on whether God or naturalism best […]God, modality, necessity, Sean Carroll, Unbelievable
What place, then, for a creator? An important place, actually.
"In what way," John asked, "does your god hypothesis account for a universe without a beginning?" This is a good […]abstract objects, cosmological argument, creation, God, modality, rational intuition, reason, universals, universe
God is maximally great, God is perfectly good, so we can thank him in every possible world
There has been much ado about the ontological argument, most of it skeptical. In response to the chorus of incredulity, […]Anselm, God, modality, necessity, ontological argument, perfect being, possible world, theistic proof


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Ohio Mediation Association
A Bi-Monthly Publication
July/August 2008
Immediate Past President: Jay Patterson (614) 403-3825 E-mail: email@example.com
Vice President: Phil Dunfee (740) 366-3297 E-mail: email@example.com
Treasurer: Sheri Center (614) 783-7281 E-mail: email@example.com
Secretary: Denise Nixon Sparks (614) 944-5764 email@example.com
October 3, 2008 A representative from Richard Cordray, State Treasurer's Office "The 10 most frequently asked questions about foreclosure" Discussion on "Save our Homes Task Force" and how the mediators will play a role in foreclosures.
December 5, 2008 TBA
All meetings, except the Annual Conference, to be held at 11:30 AM at the MCL Cafeteria at Westerville and Schrock Roads in Westerville until further notice. (Directions on last page.) Don't forget—after each OMA bi-monthly meeting, the Case Study Group gets together to discuss a case presented by an OMA member. If you are interested in a lively discussion of different types of cases, this is the group for you. For questions or to volunteer to present a case, please contact Susan Shostak (740) 681-1031, or firstname.lastname@example.com
President's Column
by Maara Fink
For the past several weeks, I have searched in vain through all my old OMA newsletters, in an effort to find the "inaugural" article by any of our past-presidents. My intention, of course, was to "lift" as much material as I could without ending up getting sued for plagiarism. In spite of my best efforts, I came up empty-handed. So, here I sit in front of a blank screen trying to reduce into words all that I hope to achieve during my time as OMA President. But, then I realized, who wants to hear all of that? So, I'm going to try to boil it down to the basics.
Overall, my mission for the next two years is to continue the work of all those who have come before me and who have worked tirelessly to make this such a vibrant organization. Now that the foundation has been laid, my goal is to build on these successes and make OMA not only a vibrant but a vital organization for its members. I would like to know how you envision the OMA of the future? With a shared vision, we can ensure that our organization meets the needs of ALL members.
So, how do I think this all might be achieved? Well, here's my plan in a nutshell – I am asking you all to get involved!
First, this column, at best, will provide you with a few witty remarks here and there but that's about it. I'm relying on those of you who are better at this than I, to submit informative, educational, funny, and/or enlightening articles for inclusion in the OMA newsletter. Let us know what is going on in your neck of the woods – what is happening in your practice, at your court, or in your community.
Second, OMA is HITTING THE ROAD. We know you are out there and we're coming to find you! I know that because of time and location, it is difficult for many of you to attend our wonderful bi-monthly meetings. That is why we are coming to you. In 2009, we would like to hold several of our meetings in various cities throughout the state. If you are interested in seeing us or hosting us in your area, let us know!
Third, tell me what you want and need from OMA. In order to make this an organization that meets your needs, we have to know what they are. Some we can help with, others (a tropical getaway) we can't, but fill us in on it all anyway!
The point is, I can't do any of this alone. We, the OMA Board, are the facilitators but YOU are the parties. I propose that we work together to build the OMA of the future.
Have a wonderful summer!
Cincinnati Takes a "Break for Peace"
By Cathie Kuhl
In observance of Conflict Management Week, the Mediation Council of Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky hosted Conflict Management Day on Fountain Square in downtown Cincinnati at lunch time on Monday, May 5, 2008. The theme was "Break for Peace" and downtowners enjoying their lunch break on Fountain Square that day were treated to music and dancing, inspirational speakers, a raffle and the chance to meet and talk to representatives of local mediation service providers.
The program opened and closed with live music provided by Stan Hertzman and Barbara McManus–both trained mediators who also have great musical ability! Before and after the program, the public was free to browse and talk to the many professionals who were staffing information tables on the Square.
The emcee, Channel 5 television news reporter Michelle Hopkins, introduced the talented youth from the Cincinnati Recreation Commission's "Unity Challenge Program" These young people entertained the crowd with their specially choreographed dance moves. The Unity Challenge Program seeks to inspire and teach youth the skills that re-channel negative experiences, emotions, and energies into positive accomplishments and offer peaceful resolution as an alternative to violence.
Although these kids were a hard act to follow, our guest speaker, the Honorable Ethna M. Cooper, Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas, was up to the challenge. She exhorted all of us to find peaceful ways to resolve conflict, just as the Unity Challenge youth were doing. Next, City of Cincinnati Councilmember Jeff Berding presented a proclamation on behalf of the Mayor, proclaiming May 5th as "Conflict Management Day in Cincinnati" and added his voice to those calling for peaceful resolution of conflict.
Two local mediators were recognized during the program. Diann Harper was recognized for the energy, time and hard work she expended as the Chairwoman of the Conflict Management Day Planning Committee; Cathie Kuhl was recognized for her contributions and achievements in the field of conflict resolution.
Before the program ended, several door prizes (peace lilies, what else?) donated by local businesses were bestowed upon lucky raffle winners, businesses also donated the many snacks that were distributed to the crowd that day. Everyone agreed that the "Break for Peace" was a huge success!
Mediators Play Key Role in Ohio Summit on Children
By Cathie Kuhl
The first Ohio Summit on Children, which Chief Justice Thomas Moyer and Governor Ted Strickland jointly hosted, took place in Columbus on May 1-2, 2008. Teams from 79 of Ohio's 88 counties came together to assess the local strengths and challenges in the delivery of services to children.
Teams consisted of judges, children's service agency directors, representatives from local funding authorities, school system administrators and service providers. The goals for the Summit were to build on existing initiatives and to foster collaborative efforts between county teams and the state to enhance the safety, well-being and permanent home environments of Ohio children. (More information about the Ohio Summit on Children can be found at www.summitonchildren.ohio.gov .)
During the two days of the Summit, team members engaged in a structured process to assess their county's strengths and challenges, to review their county's data, to identify issues and needed services, to identify others who should be involved, and to agree upon a local community plan for future action.
If that process sounds similar to mediation, it should come as no surprise that dozens of Ohio mediators volunteered their time and acted as facilitators for the county teams during the Summit. "Because of their unique skill-sets and experience, mediators played a key role in guiding team discussions at the Summit on Children," said Chief Justice Moyer. "With the mediators' facilitation, each county team developed a collaborative plan. It is the implementation of these plans that will ultimately determine the success of the Summit."
When Crevon Tarrance, a Program Manager of the Supreme Court's Dispute Resolution Section, learned that she was responsible for arranging facilitators for the event, she "instantly thought of contacting mediators in Ohio." Ms. Tarrance's instincts proved true as two out of every three facilitators recruited for the Summit were mediators. "A side benefit of using mediators at the Summit is that a lot of people across the state were exposed to mediators," Ms. Tarrance said, "and experienced how mediators can help with individuals and families." In addition, a video presentation on the first day of the Summit featured the Lucas County Juvenile Court Child Protection Mediation Program as an example of innovative programming for children.
The value of collaboration was a constant theme during the Summit. The judicial and executive branches of state government set the example by working together to bring about the event and to garner funding from the Pew Charitable Trust and other federal grants. Presenters at the Summit included Joan Ohl, Commissioner of the Administration for Children, Youth and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Helen Jones-Kelly, Director of the Ohio Department of Job & Family Services, the Honorable David A. Basinksi, Administrative Judge of the Lorain County Domestic Relations/Juvenile Court, Honorable William Byars, Jr., South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice Director, and Jim Tressel, Ohio State University Head Football Coach. In addition to those notable speakers, the Summit recognized the value of seeking youth perspectives and provided attendees with a stirring keynote address by OSU student Cedric Riley, an Ohio foster care and adoption alumna, as well as a video presentation featuring several foster youth.
The message of collaboration resonated with the attendees. Steve Hanson, the Supreme Court's Children, Families and the Courts Programs Manager, said that the county teams "overwhelmingly recognized the value of intersystem collaboration" based on feedback from the Summit. Mr. Hanson also said that a number of counties want to hold their own local Summits and that some of the county teams have requested facilitators to assist with the ongoing development of their local plans. Mr. Hanson expects that the Supreme Court may assist in connecting county teams with facilitators upon a county's request.
The first Ohio Summit on Children was, by all accounts, a huge success. Mediators across Ohio can take pride in knowing that their colleagues contributed to that success.
The Foreclosure Crisis – Foreclosure Mediation Is Helping
By Stephen Grenier
I returned from the June 6th "Supreme Court Roundtable on Foreclosure Mediation" excited and disheartened. Excited by the success the Foreclosure Mediations are having by keeping families in their homes. Disheartened that many courts still don't have a Foreclosure Mediation program.
Ohio ranks in the top six worst hit states facing foreclosures with over 153,000 foreclosures filed in 2007. The Mortgage Bankers Association just reported that "Once again this quarter, the rate of foreclosure starts and the percent of loans in the process of foreclosure are the highest recorded since 1979." Cuyahoga and Franklin County are seeing a 75%-90% increase in Foreclosure filings over last year for all homes across all demographics. Personally, I'm mediating Foreclosures on homes worth up to $500k so far.
"Save the Dream"
"Save the Dream" is Ohio's foreclosure prevention effort from Governor Strickland's Foreclosure Prevention Taskforce in 2007. The Governor negotiated with nine Mortgage Servicers who signed the "Compact to Help Ohioans Preserve Homeownership."
Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Moyers urged, on February 5, 2008, Ohio Judges to customize and implement a pre-packaged Foreclosure Mediation Model that was complete with templates for court rules, sample forms, free training and implementation assistance to achieve the goal of giving "individuals involved in foreclosure cases the same access to mediation that has been regularly provided in other types of civil cases for over a decade".
How the Legal Community is Responding
Most Ohio counties, including Franklin County, have yet to implement a Foreclosure Mediation program. Meanwhile, homeowners are being forced out of their homes, every day, at alarming rates.
The Ohio Supreme Court Dispute Resolution department has trained over 275 attorneys and mediators, representing forty-six of the eighty-eight Ohio counties, in classes across the state. Cuyahoga County just implemented their program that requires the Lender to appear in person for mediation. Delaware County, where I primarily practice, announced their Foreclosure Mediation program in March. Both Common Pleas judges, Judge Krueger and Judge Whitney, are strong advocates of the Foreclosure Mediation program and are experiencing great success. Delaware County, comprised of Delaware, Powell, Lewis Center, Galena and Westerville, has been the fastest growing county in Ohio since 2000 and has one of the highest percentages of foreclosure filings.
Job and Family Services is among some of the best referrals to these home owners. In the last two months in Delaware County alone, sixteen families have received over $35,000 in assistance paid directly to their lender to avoid foreclosures by the Delaware County Job and Family Services.
The Results We Are Seeing
At the roundtable, there was a collective excitement that many foreclosure Mediations are resulting in a "workout" where the homeowner keeps the home, which is the ultimate goal. We are seeing one of three primary outcomes; a Forbearance Plan and or a Mortgage Modification that keeps the homeowner in their home. The third is a Deed in Lieu of Foreclosure where the homeowner surrender's the home and the move out date, amount of 1099 income reporting and amount of deficiency can be negotiable.
As a non-native Ohioan, I'm proud to see this great State and Supreme Court rise to the occasion to help Ohioans Save their Dreams!
Stephen Grenier
Mediator & President
Progressive Consulting & Mediation
Private Practice and Court Mediator in the Delaware and Franklin Municipal, Domestic and Common Pleas courts
WANTED CONTRACT MEDIATORS: The Common Pleas Courts of Meigs and Gallia Counties are seeking mediators who would like to be listed on a roster of mediators willing to travel to Gallipolis and or Pomeroy, OH to mediate both civil and domestic relations cases if the staff mediator should be unable by absence or conflict of interest to mediate scheduled cases. Any mediators wishing to be included on the roster may apply by sending a resume to Martha Camp, Meigs County Court of Common Pleas, 100 2nd Street, Pomeroy, OH 45769.
Monthly Presenters for OMA
by Sandra Fredrick
I wanted to let the members of the Ohio Mediation Association aware that I will be coordinating the monthly presenters for our organization. I am very interested in any appealing presenters and if you feel you have a new program or approach that you would want to share with your peers it would be appreciated. Please contact me with ideas as well. The following are ways to contact me: Sandra Fredrick, (937) 225-4099 or I can be reached by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com I look forward to hearing from you.
Mediate Ohio Material: Please send material for Mediate Ohio by the 20th of the even numbered months to permit publication in the newsletter. The next deadline is August 20, 2008. My address is 2897 Liberty Bell Lane, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068 Phone/fax: (614) 863-4775 E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Thanks, Shirley Cochran, Editor
The Mediation Council of Greater Cincinnati, which has been in existence since the mid-1980's, is a networking organization of mediators who live or practice in the greater Cincinnati area. The group meets at noon on the second Wednesday of each month from September – May to learn about matters of interest and share information. Members as well as non-members are welcome to attend the meetings; annual membership fees are $15.00. Meeting Time: 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Location : The Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati* Rookwood Tower (5th Floor) 3805 Edwards Road, Suite 500 *Health Foundation will not allow food to be brought in to its facility. Please Note: with the exception of the September meeting, the schedule of presenters and topics may be subject to change. Join the Mediation Council for monthly meeting reminders with updated information. If you have questions or need information, contact Marie Bader at 859-380-2137 If you have questions or need information, contact Donna Dansker: 513/821-0767
Antioch University McGregor Announcement
Richard J. McGuigan, Ph.D., will be joining the Antioch University McGregor faculty this July as the Chair of the Conflict Analysis and Management Department. Dr. McGuigan, with more than two decades of experience leading one of Canada's most successful dispute resolution practices, brings impressive expertise in transformational reflective practice, public policy development, community engagement, academic leadership, and professional development programming. Please review Dr. McGuigan's faculty page at http://www.mcgregor.edu/faculty/rmcguigan/index.html to learn more about him. With Dr. McGuigan's leadership, we will be launching our newly revised programs in Conflict Analysis and Management (CAM) this fall. These innovative programs are designed with three unique hallmarks through which our learners develop an appreciation for the ways values, beliefs, and theories influence personal and professional approaches to conflict.
An integral approach to understanding conflict Transformational reflective practice
A Developmental curriculum Our CAM programs expand McGregor's 15-year legacy as a leader in innovative graduate education in the conflict field. In addition, we continue our rich tradition of serving students who choose to continue to meet obligations to family, work, and home community as they develop into artful and skilled theorist practitioners. We offer a limited residency, online master of arts degree (18 months, 48 credits) and graduate certificate (9 months, 24 credits). We encourage you to learn more about us by going to our website (http://www.mcgregor.edu/cr). If you would like to learn more about how our master's degree will be able to fit into your already busy life, or to apply, please contact me at email@example.com or 937.769.1890 or Rob McLaughlin, Enrollment Services Manager, at firstname.lastname@example.com or 937.769.1816. Sincerely, Iris M. Weisman, Ed.D. Associate Dean Graduate Liberal and Professional Studies
Upcoming ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Sponsored Events:
April 15-18, 2009 Eleventh Annual Section of Dispute Resolution Conference Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers New York
July 30-August 1, 2009 ABA Annual Meeting Chicago, Illinois
Renewing, New Members and Additions/Corrections to the Directory (not the entire list of members—see the directory at our web site for that list): New and renewing members may send applications to Immediate Past President, Shirley Cochran at 2897 Liberty Bell Lane, Reynoldsburg OH 43068. Contact Shirley for membership applications. A membership application can be sent electronically for your convenience or you can download it from the OMA website www.mediateohio.org If there is a correction or an addition, please let Shirley know but only you can correct the directory on the website. If you have misplaced your membership number and password, please contact Denise Sparks for assistance.
New and renewing members since April 19, 2008:
|Joseph W. Anyimadu
3446 Cunard Square
Columbus OH 43227
|(614) 441-4243
Fax: (614) 475-7279
|TALK WORKS! Mediation Services
c/o Marie U. Bader
|(859) 380-2137
|Amy R. Bayliff
1626 Oakland Parkway
Lima OH 45805
|(567) 204-6556
|Stephen P. Calardo, JD
Calardo Mediation Service
|(513) 598-5000
Fax (513) 598-5500
|Martha Camp Meigs Co. Court of Common Pleas
100 E. 2nd Street, Box 302
Pomeroy OH 45769
|(740) 992-6439
|Clinton County Juvenile Court c/o Maggie Henry
46 S. South Street
Wilmington OH 45177
|(937) 383-3286
Fax (937) 383-1245
|Conflict Solutions Ohio, LLC Dale Eilerman
3797 Willow Creek Drive
Dayton OH 45415
|(937) 219-4996
|Iris A. Cooper, Ohio Department of Development
77 S. High Street, POB 1001
Columbus OH 43216-1001
|(614) 728-7367
Fax: (614) 466-0829
|John J. Cruze Hamilton Co. Common Pleas ADR
1000 Main St. Room 450
|(513) 256-6642
Fax: (513) 946-5477
|William F. Denkewalter, Houston, Harris & Denkewalter LLC One Monument Square #200 P.O. Box 38130
Urbana OH 43078
|(937) 653-7186
Fax: (937) 653-3293
|Maara Fink University of Toledo College of Law
2801 Bancroft Street
|(419) 530-4236
Fax: (419) 530-2605
|Dr. Larry Fong, R. Psych, Fong Ailon Canniff Suite 115—1st Street SW
Calgary, AB T2P 0B3 Canada
|Phone 1,403,266,2017
Fax 1,403,266,4998
|Franklin County Domestic Relations & Juvenile Court c/o Marya Kolman
373 S. High St. 3rd Floor
Columbus OH 43215-4598
|(614) 462-5872
Fax: (614) 462-3748
|Franklin Co. Municipal Court Pat Benchia, Asst. Manager Small Claims Division 375 South High St., 16th Floor
Columbus OH 43215-4520
|(614) 645-8500
Fax: (614) 645-8465
|Guardian Settlement Services Germaine LeBourveau-Smith
5151 S. Main Street, Suite E
Sylvania OH 43560
|(419) 517-4081
Fax: (419) 517-5081
|Jessica M. Harmon Harmon ADR Services
98 Kelly Marie Drive
Pataskala OH 43062
|(614) 403-3590
|Daniel Gibson Harry
P.O. Box 45
Bethany WV 26032
|(304) 829-4807
|Wendy S. Hawbaker Ashtabula County Joint Court Mediation Project
25 West Jefferson St.
Jefferson OH 44047
|(440) 576-3239
Fax: (440) 576-4639
|Joseph Law Services Co., LPA
c/o Brett R. Joseph, Esq.
293 Main Street
Conneaut OH 44030
|(440) 599-1445
Fax: (440) 599-2199
|Edward M. Krauss Dispute Resolution, Inc.
783 South Sixth Street
Columbus OH 43206-2130
|(614) 444-5872
|Maryann T. Liguore, Esq.
N 1792 County Road V
Denmark WI 54208
|(920) 863-1792
Fax: (920) 863-1793
|Rex A. Littrell Ulmer & Berne LLP
88 East Broad St., Suite 1600
Columbus OH 43215
|(614) 229-0012
Fax: (614) 229-0013
|Beverly Lowery
6775 Meadow Creek Dr. #207
Columbus OH 43235-7980
|Lucas Co. DR Court c/o Denise Logan
429 N. Michigan St., Ste. A
Toledo OH 43604-5621
|(419) 213-6800
Fax: (419) 213-6808
|James P. Luton Attorney at Law
131 S. Prospect Street
Marion OH 43302
|(740) 382-6588
Fax: (740) 375-5372
|Michael Angelo Massa, J.D.
3920 Sandstone Circle
Powell OH 43065
|(614) 204-3770
|Rob McLaughlin, M.A. Antioch McGregor
800 Livermore Street
Yellow Springs OH 45387-1609
|(937) 769-1816
Fax: (937) 769-1804
|Jerome F. Weiss, Mediation, Inc.
1600 Midland Building 101 Prospect Avenue W.Cleveland OH 44115
|(216) 589-9995
Fax: (216) 589-9723
|Cynthia Morgan
2968 Meadowbrook Blvd.
Cleveland Heights OH 44118
|(216) 371-0607
Fax: (216) 397-5671
|LaTanya L. Moss Creative Solutions Mediation Services
7715 Waggoner Chase Blvd.
Blacklick OH 43004
|(614) 626-0600
Fax: (614) 626-0600
|Mary E. Murphy
2639 M.L. King, Jr. Drive
Cleveland OH 44104
|(216) 721-8945
|Brenda Ohlinger Solution Builders Mediation Services
5900 Sawmill Road, Suite 110 Dublin OH 43017
|(614) 761-2540
Fax: (614) 761-2988
|Resolve Mediation Services LLC c/o Denise Nixon-Sparks
4200 Regents St. #200
Columbus OH 43219
|(614) 944-5764
Fax: (614) 944-5796
|Carolyn Streit Roehrig
10428 Lee's Creek Road
Harrison OH 45030
|(513) 246-0511
Fax: (513) 246-0525
|Barbara K. Roman, Meyers Roman Friedberg & Lewis
28601 Chagrin Blvd. #500
Cleveland OH 44122
|(216) 831-0042
Fax: (216) 831-0542
|Vivian T. Russell
1504 Venice Drive
Columbus OH 43207
|(614) 491-5597
Fax (614) 491-3404
|Shaker Mediation Center, LLC. Matt Mennes, JD
3401 Enterprise Parkway # 340
Beachwood OH 44122
|(216) 766-5717
Fax: (216) 766-5796
|Nancy J. Savage
9301 Huntshire Ave. NW
North Canton OH 44720-8258
|(330) 499-3069
|Edward M. Schneider Maguire Mediation
190 East Avenue
Tallmadge OH 44278
|(330) 633-0666
Fax: (330) 633-0626
|Patti Smith
3478 Run Around Road
Junction City OH 43748
|(740) 987-7466
Fax: (740) 987-7466
|Leslie Swift, Ph.D.LLC
7654 Montgomery Road
Cincinnati OH 45236
|(513) 791-8849
Fax (513) 791-8873
|Paula J. Trout, JD, MBA, MPA, CTM Alternative Dispute Resolution Forums
589 Locust Court
Westerville, Ohio
|Phone: 614-893-8308
|Watkins Global Network, LLC c/o Mario W. Watkins
3556 Sullivant Avenue
Columbus OH 43204
|(614) 351-7420
Fax: (614) 351-7430
|Denton S. Whitney
5737 Sells Mills Drive
Dublin OH 43017
|(614) 734-0415
|Robert N. Wistner, JD Wistner Center for Collaborative Divorce Planning
5650 Blazer Parkway, Suite 100
Dublin OH 43017
|(614) 734-8354
Fax: (614) 717-9586
|Kevin R. Zehe Mid Ohio Mediation Services
P.O. Box 3895
Mansfield OH 44907
|(419) 774-9262
Fax: (419) 774-9264
Community Mediation Services of Central Ohio and the Columbus Bar Association Basic Mediation Training September 10 & 11, or December 3 & 4, 2008 or February 18 & 19, or April 15 & 16, 2009 and 40 Hour Domestic Mediation Training October 15, 16, 21, 22, & 23, 2008 or May 6, 7, 12, 13, & 14, 2009. Presenter Shelley Whalen, Executive Director of CMS and a past president of OMA Training site 91 Jefferson Avenue, Columbus OH, the Thurber Center CLE and CEU's Contact CMS (614) 228-7191 or www.communitymediation.com Fax: (614) 228-7213 Mailing address: 67 Jefferson Avenue, 2nd Floor, Columbus OH 43215.
Capital University Law School Center for Dispute Resolution
Center for Dispute Resolution, Capital Law School, 303 E Broad Street, Columbus OH 43215-3200, Phone (614) 236-6430/ Fax (614) 236-6956 CDR Directors include Roberta S Mitchell and Scot E Dewhirst, Co-Directors of the Center, and Terrence T Wheeler, Executive Director of the Center. Please visit our website at www.law.capital.edu/disputeresolution to gain more detailed information on our trainings or to register on-line.
Cleveland Mediation Center United Office Building, Suite 906 2012 West 25th Street Cleveland, Ohio 44113 2005 Presenters include Dan Joyce and Wendy Hawbaker For further information on all training contact: Bob Curtis, Training Co-coordinator Phone: (216) 621-1919, extension 500 Fax: (216) 621-3202 E-Mail firstname.lastname@example.com .
SAVE THE DATE for our next International Conference Aug. 25-26, 2008, in Santa Barbara, California "New Waves of Transformative Practice: New Voices, New Frontiers, New Challenges" Contact us for the most up-to-date training in Transformative Mediation and Conflict Intervention! Visit us at www.transformativemediation.org Fulfilling the Promise of Mediation…
Center for Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management Southern Methodist University, 5228 Tennyson Parkway, Suite 118, Plano TX 75024 email@example.com (972) 473-3435 www.resolution.smr.edu Systems Design in Dispute Resolution September 19-21 & 26-28, 2008 Judy Mares-Dixon, M.A.
The 2008 Professional Skills Programs in Dispute Resolution: Vermont October 23-25, 2008 Mediation Workshops: STAR: A Systematic Approach to Mediation Strategies, Advanced Mediation Skills and Techniques, Advanced Collaborative Family Law, Specialized Mediation Handling Challenging Employment, Professional Malpractice and Personal Injury Cases, Environmental and Public Policy Dispute Settlement Skills, The Impact of Culture and Gender on Mediation and Negotiation. To register or for more information visit www.straus.pepperdine.edu or call Lori Rushford at 310.506.6342
Web Sites of Interest:
Ohio Mediation Association: www.mediateohio.org
Ohio Commission on Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management: www.disputeresolution.ohio.gov/
Ohio State Bar Association: www.ohiobar.org
Mediation Association of Northeast Ohio (MANO) www.manomediate.org
Schrock & Westerville Roads, Westerville Phone: (614) 818-1700
All meetings begin at 11:00 AM with the program immediately following
From Western Ohi Take I-70 East to I-270 North Two exits past I-71 is Westerville Road Take the part of the exit that will take you north on Westerville Road Either turn right at Schrock Road, left at the light at Otterbein Road, and left into the shopping center (first driveway on left) or cross Schrock Road to next light, turn right into shopping center and follow driveway to far end of the center
From Southwestern Ohio: Take I-71 North through town to I-270 East two exits to Westerville Road Take the part of the exit that will take you north on Westerville Road Either turn right at Schrock Road, left at the light at Otterbein Road, and left into the shopping center (first driveway on left) or cross Schrock Road to next light, turn right into shopping center and follow driveway to far end of the center
From Northern Ohio: Take I-71 South to I-270 East two exits to Westerville Road Take the part of the exit that will take you north on Westerville Road Either turn right at Schrock Road, left at the light at Otterbein Road, and left into the shopping center (first driveway on left) or cross Schrock Road to next light, turn right into shopping center and follow driveway to far end of the center
From Eastern Ohio: Take I-70 West to I-270 North to the Westerville Road exit Take the part of the exit that will take you north on Westerville Road Either turn right at Schrock Road, left at the light at Otterbein Road, and left into the shopping center (first driveway on left) or cross Schrock Road to next light, turn right into shopping center and follow driveway to far end of the center


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In response to the awesome Pregnant Chicken:
I mean, OK, but I expected the kicking to be more martial-artsy. All of that tiny little butterfly "kicking" yesterday really couldn't have won any tournaments, and I expect bad-assery from the beginning. Whoever s/he is, s/he's definitely active. I am a bit weirded out by the idea of reaching into my fat abdomen and trying to move him/her around, though: "Is that a fetus, or a bolus?" Score! We should name it Bolus.
So, I'm guessing that yeah, all the little fluttery stuff I've been feeling for at least the last month has all been fetal movement. It hasn't felt like kicking yet, really, which is why I haven't gotten nutty excited about it. It really does feel like bubbles under my skin, or like someone lightly tapping.
I need to post the anatomy scan pictures, but I haven't scanned them yet.
In other news, we had the floors refinished this week and have now rearranged the furniture… so things are getting a little more organized for the wee one's arrival later this year. My mom's early gift of an infant car seat arrived yesterday, too… so, that combined with the E-bay purchased stroller, and of course my getting-harder-to-hide belly is definitely making things more Real.
Fetal echocardiogram on Tuesday. I expect it to be normal, since the anatomy scan was. But I'm crossing my fingers the placenta has moved away from the cervix… I really would like a vaginal birth. (I say that now, but ask me how I feel in four and a half months.)


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Well would you believe it?
Posted by --- on Wednesday 27 August, 2008
I don't think I've discussed it on here but I've been complaining about the clutch in the disco since we've had it. It went back to the garage we bought it off (though I@d love to name and shame them, I wont for legal reasons…) who kept it for almost 2 weeks without supplying a courtesy car (we'd had the disco a week). He insisted it had recently had a new clutch and gearbox at a cost of over £1000 and he kept telling us he had receipts. Anyway, it turned out that the disco sat in the road next to his showroom for all that time. Then it went to the garage and was there for less than an afternoon. The conclusion being there was no fault – of course, I'm but a woman.
So I go to pick it up (thats short version. *long version; lots of unanswered calls after I found out that it had sat in the side street and hadn't moved for a week, eventually getting through for him to tell me it was ready and they'd found a minor fault that had been repaired but he'd forgot to tell me despite me having no transport. I arrange collection and make arrangement with bro to give me a lift, then salesman rings me back and says he'll bring it to me within the next hour, 5 hours later he hasn't and isn't answering phone, I get the spare set of keys and help myself to the car so that I dont spend yet another bank holiday with out my car.) Bro takes me, drops me off, see's me start it, asks if I'm ok and leaves. I pull out of side street and can't get the bloody thing in to third gear without the grinding as if I haven't quite engaged the clutch (the problem I've been telling them!). BF rings salesman -from Ireland incurring all the charges – and threatens to rip his legs off or other regional appendages.. Salesman promptly rings me to arrange for me and him to go to the people who installed the gearbox and clutch to see he is being open with me. Also arranged for me to return the car after the bank holiday for testing. It went back, they said it was ok. We never went to garage that supposedly installed it. Disco went to another garage who also said it was fine (I found out today, they didn't test it but were asked to repair an oil leak) I drove over 100 miles away yesterday and within 8 miles of my return journey, the clutch failed whilst driving down the motorway!
To say I'm not impressed is putting it mildly. I've got tons to do. I need to take L back to Lancaster (long story – took him back, he decided he wanted to come home but will possibly return on monday for start of college course) next week if he does the course. I should have gone to EGSC tonight, I start the first lesson of my main training on friday, the kids start school next week! What a mess.
This garage is ridiculous. I've no idea why BF deals with him. Here's an example. We buy a car, I hate it, BF arranges with chap to surprise me with Disco I want. He trades in other car, (charges us £1000…) and sells us Disco. Doesnt pay off finance on other car and resells it. Then finance are hounding us for payments for original car that we no longer own. When we point out that we no longer own it, and we have finance from them on another vehicle AND! they have refinanaced the car to someone else which we're sure is not legal, they back off. Unfortunately he's done the same to a neighbour of ours (idiot BF recomended him…) who's car we think was scrapped but he's left with the payments.


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Cartasite Data Scientist to Present at the International Conference on Managing Fatigue
Cartasite Data Scientist to Present at the International Conference on Managing Fatigue
Findings from a large-scale study into the effects of cumulative fatigue on driver performance
Cartasite, the leader in advancing solutions that help companies to enhance their safety and operational efficiency, today announced that Gregory Kushnir, Ph.D., Cartasite's Chief Data Scientist, is presenting his latest research on Cumulative Fatigue at the International Conference on Managing Fatigue.
The research focuses on the aggregate effect of all activities, including but not limited to driving, that individuals are involved with while being away from their 'Homebase' to determine if there is a measurable effect on the individual's driving behavior and safety performance.
The new Hours of Service rules from the US Department of Transportation attempt to do a better job of monitoring time behind the wheel, but there is more to fatigue management than just driving. "Cumulative fatigue isn't limited to just how much time you spend driving", noted Dr. Kushnir, "it's related to how long you have been working. If you are regularly working 60-hour work weeks, fatigue is just a part of your life, and it will place you at higher risk." Time away from your primary place of rest, your 'homebase' can be an important indicator of chronic fatigue.
Correlating this information with telemetry data from ROVR, Cartasite's In-Vehicle Monitoring System, has shown that the effects are measurable and significant. "Cartasite's technology has allowed us to assess the direct effects of chronic fatigue on driver performance. Armed with this insight, supervisors can adjust work schedules and manage dispatching to ensure safe fleet operations," observed Dr. Kushnir.
Session Details:
Title: "Cumulative Driver Fatigue"
Date: Tuesday, 21 March 2017, 3:30 – 5:00PM PST
Location: Westin San Diego, Gaslamp Quarter
About the Conference:
The "Managing Fatigue" conference series is an established and respected forum for research updates and discussions within the fatigue management community. Each conference has primarily focused on the effects of fatigue in the transportation sector and has involved support from government, industry, and academia. The theme of this year's event is "Managing Fatigue to Improve Safety, Wellness, and Effectiveness." More information on the conference is available at http://www.fatigueconference2017.com


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Well -- let's do the PFT and find out who is the youngest--wait--I can't until I replace my knee and then I will have to train for a year or so.
Lynn Wardlow
Well, a knee...a mere flesh wound! The pictures are awesome. Miss everyone. Hit the Quantico Museum last Dec., quite impressive. Four hours was not nearly enough. I only stopped for a Marine haircut. Barbershop wasn't open, so I still have my hair...sorta. Just reviewed some more pics...why do you guys look older than I remember?
I will see you alll in Chi-town!
Ivan Zimmer