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Primates and Me-Parts I & II (Conclusion) (Web)
This is the 15th installment of The Master Mediator, a periodic CPR web column featuring commentary by Robert A. Creo that describes and discusses mediation room techniques and practice issues. The latest installment picks up with a repeat of his previous installment, and adding below Lessons 5-10 in a list of tips Bob has developed, based on his reading of scientific studies he also describes below.
Primates and Me–PARTS I & II (CONCLUSION)
Frans B.M. de Waal, the Dutch primatologist at Emory University in Atlanta, and Robert M. Sapolsky, a professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University in northern California, have studied and published frequently about chimpanzee and monkey communities. Interesting stuff. But here? Why? And so what? Double so what for mediators? Triple so what for those mediators practicing their craft at the master and artistic levels.
Cooperation?
Competition and cooperation exists not only between some groups of primates, including humans, but also within groups. Even though some members may migrate between the groups, chimps know only hostility between groups as they compete for territory and food resources.
They show few, if any, traits upon which cooperation is built, especially empathy and reciprocity.
Within chimp groups, however, with respect to cooperation or competition, cultures arise that mirror the differences in human societies and communities. Empathy is more conspicuous in bonobos, while reciprocity is more common in chimps--and neither is present with the more competitive monkeys.
Apes rely upon alliances to determine pecking orders. Scapegoating is common in ape groups, with aggression being displaced upon weaker or lower-ranking members. Interestingly, the size of the troop, and its density, do not seem to increase the level of aggression or competition. Some groups have dominant cultures of peace, while others are aggressive.
Chimps Mediate?
Female chimps are better at avoidance of fights between themselves than males, but are less likely than males to reconcile after a fight. This is consistent with research by Profs. Carole Gillian and Deborah Tannen on young girls. Male chimps are likely to cycle through fights and reconciliations; these reunions are often tense, but never include deception or trickery. Male chimps expressly signal aggression and disagreements.
There are mediators within chimp, but not monkey, communities. Rhesus monkey females have a strong sense of belonging in a female kin-clique, know as a matriline, that competes with other matrilines.
Female rhesus monkeys will groom outside their matriline to reduce frictions. Grooming is a cooperative process, but not necessarily grounded in empathy, nor necessarily involving post-conflict behavior.
Chimp "mediators" are deemed to be those who actively intervened between two warring chimps to achieve reconciliation. These have been exclusively females who approach two hostile males and alternatively groom both of them. Males form alliances, so the neutrality of male mediators are inherently in question. These mediators are usually older females, not in heat, often with a higher ranking in the group. There has never been an observation of a female mediating between two female chimps.
Primates adopt behavior and skills from each other within their group. Peacemaking thus becomes an acquired social skill rather than an instinct. Among apes, but not monkeys, after one ape has bitten another, he or she returns to inspect the wound and to begin cleaning it. This suggests that the ape has the capacity to see the other, to take the other's perspective, to walk in the proverbial shoes of others.
This is consistent with the fact that apes have a sense of self and apes are the only primates to recognize their own reflection in the mirror. This ability to distinguish between self and others is a basis of empathy and compassion.
Hardwired for fairness?
Experiments on brown capuchin monkeys by Prof. de Waal and his colleague, Sarah F. Brosnan, concluded that the aversion to inequity and a sense of fairness may be hardwired in primates.
The experiment involved having monkeys in side-by-side cages being trained to act in certain ways to obtain rewards of either a cucumber or the more valuable grape. Certain responses resulted in the grape while others, the cucumber.
The experimenters then violated expectations by creating an unequal situation where one monkey obtained the expected reward for the programmed response while the other, when expecting a grape, got a cucumber.
The results contracted all theories of rational choice models, where the actor accepts what is in their best interest under the circumstances. Instead, the slighted monkey refused to participate at all and rejected the lower, and unexpected, reward of the cucumber entirely. The monkeys refused to participate at all if they saw their colleague receive a greater reward for an equal effort. Highly negative reactions occur when the expectations and sense of fairness are violated.
Other primate experiments show that cooperation breaks down in groups if benefits are not shared among all participants.
Reconciliation?
Prof. de Waal theorizes that the tendency to reconcile is a political calculation based upon the level of mutual cooperation mandated to live in groups. The underlying motivation for peacemaking is not peace per se, but shared purpose.
Mutual dependency fosters harmony. Social events, e.g., fights and disharmony, are stored in long-term memory, so there is a need to overcome these past transgressions and misconduct for the sake of the future. Reconciliation is common among many animal species that are social by living in groups. This may form the basis of altruistic behavior, or what has been called by sociologists, social capital.
Even after many years of mediation application in the commercial, employment and tort arenas, the consensus on what is important in mediation is lacking. There may even be a competition among mediators and mediation models on the importance of rationality and resolution reflected in the proverbial bottom line–perhaps framed as the "touchy-feely" competing with the "realists" who focus on the "its-about-the-money" school of practice.
Independent of this tension, the practical impact is upon me: Simply put: What Do I Do Next? At each process point, including the intake, preparation, convening, opening phases, joint and caucus sessions, mediators are grounded in the very real question of what follows the last move or step. What follows is what I have translated from the primatologists as tempered by my own field work and theory from other disciplines.
Here's What
1. Inequity Aversion
When mediating in the same geographic or subject matter "community," benchmarking against other settlements and outcomes is critical. Other parties--especially plaintiffs--are not repeat players, while the defendants, insurance carriers, and experienced lawyers all have claimed to have already had, seen or heard of the same case.
A role and key challenge of the mediator is a concept borrowed from the medical profession, differential diagnosis. When faced with a constellation of symptoms and test results that are not unequivocal, physicians create a listing of all the possible diagnoses for this patient.
When faced with the inherent uncertainty of litigation, lawyers must create their own BATNAs and WATNAs to assess risk. Benchmarking is the default tool of analysis. What I often do as a mediator is to create a differential diagnosis process to illustrate the reality that no two cases are ever really that similar, and that dissimilarities outweigh commonalities among cases.
Although facts may parallel, it is certain that a host of factors, including the lawyers, jurors and often the judge, differ. What must be reconciled to have the requisite participant buy-in, is overcoming the mandate that these participants, here with me today, must perceive that they be treated fairly vis-a-vis the ghosts of other parties and phantoms of resolutions past.
2. Grooming
Civility and procedural respect go a long way to creating the optimal environment for cooperation, rather than competition. This is not to suggest that lawyers should reach across the table to physically groom their adversary, but symbolic grooming can be encouraged. It also often erupts spontaneously. For example, common courtesies associated with logistics, greeting visitors, providing food, and other comforts and humanizing set the path for cooperation and resolution. Social amenities should stretch to the lowest common denominator. This is empathy and compassion at its base platform.
3. Cultures of competition or cooperation
There is a raging difference of opinion in the mediation community on the benefits and risks of joint sessions. As mediation markets grow and become common for civil litigation, lawyers are resisting opening presentations or even having a joint session.
This is generally a mistake, since it moves the process from one of engagement between the parties to one solely of engagement via the mediator. I am, however, having growing respect for the view that forceful or aggressive unilateral presentations polarize the parties and enhance competition at the expense of cooperation.
My procedural practice has evolved now where I start almost all mediation sessions asymmetrically, with my meeting with each side to negotiate–that is, "mediate"--the joint session interaction. I attempt to get a consensus on how each party will interact and behave in the joint session while seeking to "immunize" each of the participants from reacting too negatively to what they may see and hear from the other parties.
4. Deception; Trickery & Reconciliation
A key insight from the male apes has been that the hostilities and, more important, the reconciliation process, do not involve trickery or deception. I spent many years learning and experimenting with techniques and tactics to move participants with my invisible hand. These have given way to an approach grounded in authenticity and transparency. I never want to be viewed in any fashion as having "tricked" the parties into movement or reconsideration of their positions or interests.
5. Peacemaking as acquired social skill
Cooperative processes can be taught, just as craft and art can be learned. I have, however, moved away from the approach of teaching technique and tactics. This move from the mechanics of mediation embraces at least four basic themes or attitudes, and tracks and reflects what I have seen from fellow practitioners of the art of mediation.
These "social skills" are acquired on a platform of engagement, authenticity, transparency and flexibility. These are not instincts, but are adaptions of behavior to fit specific paradigms to foster cooperation among others.
It is especially difficult for lawyers and judges to adapt to accommodate the core values of this model, since the legal mind is trained to think strategically, rather than authentically. Lawyers spend years in law school learning how to be sufficiently skeptical--to challenge any position and to reconstruct narratives identifying potential issues and areas of disagreement. Lawyers seek the hidden or secondary agenda in every communication.
This is a great skill to have in a mediator when participants are acting strategically, so it's worth it not to be diminished. But Master Mediators must overcome the barriers created by purely strategic communication. This is relatively easy in those roughly 50% of the cases where a potential overlap in good-faith positions pre-exists, but is obscured by communication dynamics. In the other half of the cases making their way into mediation, the parties have good-faith disagreements on value, risk, or other interests. The problem transcends communication and requires transformation of core beliefs of the participants.
6. Within Group and Outsiders
Primates are cruel or indifferent to members of other groups. Here, competition reigns, yet cooperation emerges within the group. Thus, proximity of relationship matters.
To the extent mediators can operate in a "relational context," the more likely cooperation will replace competition.
A focus on past, present, and future relationship between participants, not just the formal parties, is mandatory to maximize the cooperation. There is a negative trip here too—lawyers are reluctant to pay a "settlement premium" to repeat players in the system. Macro interests often trump micro considerations of the particular case. Confidentiality is not a cure here.
7. Empathy
The more I can authentically understand, feel and display my empathy and compassion to the participants, the better. I have become more open and expressive about how I process what happens before me.
8. Alliances, empowerment & voice
As I identify the interests within each party, i.e., community, I am cognizant of the intragroup alliances and dynamics. I attempt to identify not only the natural leaders, but also the conciliators able to assess macro and micro risks–those that can reach out to the other side and act with consensus and support from within the group.
I am transparent about my approach both within and outside the group. So, once the consensus has been reached, often the appropriate envoy is identified, coached, and dispatched to the other side for engagement in direct dialogue and negotiations. The coalitions within the group empower the voice to speak outside the group.
This is often not based upon formal title or authority, but on intangibles, especially the credibility the person may hold with the opposition. In one case that settled for mid-seven figures, the lawyer for a party who was contributing nothing was the spokesman for the defendants.
9. Reciprocity
It is a powerful force in human interactions on the individual, unit, group, communal, and societal levels. It can also be a trap for the mediator in those disputes where parties seek equal concessions or movement when one party has taken an outlier or extreme position. The master mediators change the bargaining models so that tit-for-tat, usually an effective strategy, is not dominant. The concept of bargaining as an auction, with competing bids, must be eliminated as parties focus on a potential zone of settlement.
10. It's All About the Money!
Sometimes, but not always. Especially not for brown capuchin monkeys or me!
Robert Axelrod, The Evolution of Cooperation, Revised Ed. (2006).
Sarah F. Brosman & Fran B.M. de Waal, Monkeys Reject Unequal Pay, 425 Nature 297 (Sept. 18, 2003).
Robert A. Creo, Emerging From a No Man's Land to Establish a Bargaining Model, 19 Alternatives 191 (September 2001)(see http://www.cpradr.org/alt_scrn.asp?M=5.3).
E. Fehr & K. M. Schmidt, A Theory of Fairness, Competition and Cooperation, 114 Quart. J. Econ. 817 (1999).
Carole Gillian, In a Different Voice (1982).
Susan Jacoby, Wild Justice, The Evolution of Revenge (1984);
Robert M. Sapolsky Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals (2005);
Robert M. Sapolsky, A Primate's Memoir (2001);
Deborah Tannen, The Argument Culture: Stopping America's War of Words (1999).
Deborah Tannen, You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation. (Paperback edition: 2001
Deborah Tannen, Gender and Discourse (1995).
Robert L. Trivers, "The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism," 46 Quarterly Review of Biology 35 (1971).
Robert L. Trivers, "Reciprocal Altruism: 30 Years Later," in C.P. van Schaik and P.M. Kappeler, Eds., Cooperation in Primates and Humans: Mechanisms and Evolution. 67-83 (2005).
BY ROBERT A. CREO
The author, a Pittsburgh attorney, is a mediator and arbitrator. He also represents parties in alternative dispute resolution and designs conflict resolution systems. He is a founding member of the International Academy of Mediators (see www.iamed.org), and served as its president between 1997 and 1999. He also is a member of Alternatives' editorial board. His new book, a two-volume, loose-leaf ADR reference, titled "Alternative Dispute Resolution: Law, Procedure and Commentary for the Pennsylvania Practitioner," is available via publisher George T. Bisel Co. at www.bisel.com. He can be reached at robertacreo@cs.com.


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Události
 31. března – Uherský král Matyáš Korvín vypověděl válku českému králi Jiřímu z Poděbrad.
 město Třebíč bylo téměř zničeno při válkách mezi Jiřím z Poděbrad a Matyášem Korvínem, viz též Bitva o Třebíč
 12. května – třebíčský klášter byl obležen vojsky Matyáše Korvína
 14. května – třebíčský klášter byl částečně dobyt vojsky Matyáše Korvína
 6. června – vězněný Viktorín z Poděbrad (syn Jiřího) lstí utekl z ještě nedobytých částí kláštera
 15. června – vzdal se zbytek osazenstva třebíčského kláštera
 20. června – odtáhl Matyáš Korvín a město bylo téměř zničeno a vypáleno
 Říše Songhaj dobyla město Timbuktu ve státě Mali.
 Založena rýžoviště v Itálii kolem Pisy, později také v Pádské nížině.
 Karel Smělý, vévoda burgundský, nařídil, aby ceremoniální šat jeho dvořanů byl černý.
Rod pánů z Michalovic vymřel po meči a to v osobě Jindřicha II. Kruhlaty z Michalovic poté, co utrpěl smrtelné zranění v bitvě u Turnova.
 Jan Tovačovský z Cimburka (syn Jana Tovačovského z Cimburka), moravský šlechtic, získal zámek Hrubý Rohozec.

Probíhající události
 1455–1487 – Války růží
 1467–1477 – Válka Ónin
 1468–1478 – Česko-uherské války

Narození
 29. února – Pavel III., papež († 10. listopadu 1549)
 28. března – Karel I. Savojský, savojský vévoda a král Kypru, Jeruzaléma a Arménie († 13. března 1490)
 24. července – Kateřina Saská, rakouská arcivévodkyně, tyrolská hraběnka († 10. února 1524)
 ? – Juan de Zumárraga, první mexický biskup († 3. června 1548)

Úmrtí
Česko
 20. dubna – Martin Lupáč, český husitský teolog a diplomat (* ?)

Svět
 17. ledna – Gjergj Kastriot Skanderbeg, albánský národní hrdina (* 1405)
 3. února – Johannes Gutenberg, německý vynálezce knihtisku (* 1397/1400)
 ? – Císařovna Čchien, čínská císařovna (* 1426)
 24. listopadu – Jean de Dunois, francouzský šlechtic a válečník (* 23. listopadu 1402)

Hlavy států
 České království – Jiří z Poděbrad
 Svatá říše římská – Fridrich III.
 Papež – Pius II. – Pavel II.
 Anglické království – Eduard IV.
 Dánsko – Kristián I. Dánský
 Francouzské království – Ludvík XI.
 Polské království – Kazimír IV. Jagellonský
 Uherské království – Matyáš Korvín
 Litevské knížectví – Kazimír IV. Jagellonský
 Chorvatské království – Matyáš Korvín
 Norsko – Kristián I. Dánský
 Portugalsko – Alfons V. Portugalský
 Švédsko – Karel VIII. Knutsson

Externí odkazy

15. století

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Q: npm ERR! cb() never called! when doing npm install I am trying to npm install and I have npm ERR! cb() never called! error,
this is the full error log: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/kopax/3b627be39a50cf0a6bea6f20f7d179b2/raw/7448fb398a713e76620f138f7e7337eadb88f052/npm-error.log
What is breaking map project?

A: In the message you posted through the link that you provide, at the end I found this message:
 65450 error cb() never called!
 65451 error This is an error with npm itself. Please report this error at:
 65452 error <https://npm.community>

So, I believe you need to ask about this to npm community.

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extern crate gtk;

use std::rc::Rc;
use castnow::{KeyCommand, Command};
use state::State;
use ui::AppState;
use gtk::prelude::*;

pub fn play_clicked(self_rc: &Rc<AppState>) {

    let mut model = self_rc.model.borrow_mut();
    model.state = State::Playing;
    model.status = "Playing...".to_string();
    model.is_dirty = true;

    //send a message to processor
    //it will send something back like Loaded
    let cmd = Command::new(KeyCommand::TogglePlayPause, model.state);
    if let Some(ref tx) = self_rc.channels.borrow().tx {
        tx.send(cmd).ok();
    }
}

pub fn stop_clicked(self_rc: &Rc<AppState>) {
    let mut model = self_rc.model.borrow_mut();
    model.state = State::Stopping;
    model.status = "Stopping...".to_string();
    model.is_dirty = true;

    let cmd = Command::new(KeyCommand::Stop, model.state);
    if let Some(ref tx) = self_rc.channels.borrow().tx {
        tx.send(cmd).ok();
    }
}

pub fn popup_file_chooser_button_clicked(self_rc: &Rc<AppState>) {
    if let Some(ref dialog) = self_rc.widgets.borrow().file_chooser_dialog {
        if dialog.run() == gtk::ResponseType::Ok.into() {
            if let Some(path) = dialog.get_filename() {
                //This is possible to happen inside render? Needs to be a mutex...
                let mut model = self_rc.model.borrow_mut();
                let old_path = model.path.clone();
                println!("Path: {:?}", path);
                path.to_str().map(|text| model.path = text.to_string());
                if model.path != old_path {
                    let cmd = Command::new_with_state(KeyCommand::Load, model.state, model.path.clone());
                    if let Some(ref tx) = self_rc.channels.borrow().tx {
                        tx.send(cmd).ok();
                    }
                }
                model.is_dirty = true;
            }
        }
        //dialog.destroy();
        dialog.hide();
    }
}

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Real or Dream? Or Both?
I came home from work the other day, like almost all other days, at lunch time. Elly had the table set and some kind of leftovers sitting in a pan on the stove (Ugh). So, we sat down for lunch and Elly says, "I had a most interesting morning!" I said, "Okay, tell me about it."
So, Elly tells me that she had a phone call from "Awesome Hubby". She said AH needed $4,000 because he had been drinking and driving. She said that she told him, "Well, you are on your own! I don't have $4,000!" I just couldn't say anything at that point. My grandma has never seen us drink alcohol and AH has never been known to drink and drive unless it's Starbucks! But, she continued to say that AH was insistent that she bring the money to him and she argued that she didn't have that kind of money! I just shook my head. Elly said that AH kept talking but that she just hung up on him."He was just going to have to be on his own!" she said again.
I just didn't want to say much. I wasn't sure that this phone call actually took place but then again, I have heard a number of weird phone calls that she has received while I've been at home. It was very disturbing that someone would call her home phone number (which we don't use or list as our own), use AH's name as his own and then ask for money!!! I am wondering if any of the Dr. Phil Shows have had any influence on Elly's thinking so am really unsure of what is going on in the "real world".
I decided not to text or call AH and give him a head's up. So, later on in the afternoon, Elly has her feet up, lying on the couch reading her magazines as I am going in and out doing chores. One of the times I came back in, Elly stopped me and said, "I had the craziest dream!" She then went on to describe how a policeman had stopped AH for drunk driving and he ended up in jail! Again I couldn't begin to think of what to say that would have been constructive or positive! I just shook my head and said, "That is crazy". I wasn't sure then that she dreamed that last night or while she had her eyes closed lying on the couch.
When AH comes in the back door, Elly says in a commanding voice, "When you have a minute, I need to speak with you." I am in the bedroom and just can't wait to hear what is next! AH sets his things down and says, "I am ready now." I almost bust out giggling just imagining what AH is thinking and what will come next! Elly asks him, "Do you always drink before you Drive?"
AH is confused and not sure of what to say. So Elly, tells him how she got his call today about needing $4,000 because he got pulled over by a policeman for drinking and driving on his motorcycle. She explains how she told him that he is just going to be on his own in that situation and she doesn't have that kind of money!
AH does laugh and make light of the situation. When he finally makes it to the bedroom, we both laugh and shake our heads. Neither one of us understands what may be going on for sure. We do know that unscrupulous people prey on the elderly and the elderly can also have a Mr. or Mrs. Dementia who shows up randomly to tickle our funny bones!
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EllysGdaughter
I am so glad I can share some laughs!
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Breaking Vic Fangio hired as new Dolphins defensive coordinator
Miami Dolphins News
Ryan Tannehill to start Sunday according to Dolphins players
After a couple of days of speculation that Miami Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill could be headed to the bench, it appears the third-year starter will hold on to his depth chart position.
By Kevin Nogle@KevinNogle Sep 24, 2014, 11:00am EDT
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Miami Dolphins head coach Joe Philbin has made it a habit over the two plus seasons he has been in Miami to never actually talk about a player, whether it be an injury, missed practice time, or what the player may be doing in an upcoming game. This week, that habit led to answers like Monday's "We are going to get our 46 best players to the game and we are going to utilize them the best way possible," when asked if he would consider benching starting quarterback Ryan Tannehill.
While Philbin continues to dance around questions about Ryan Tannehill's status, here is the truth: Tannehill is scheduled to start Sunday.
— Jeff Darlington (@JeffDarlington) September 23, 2014
Tuesday, the same theme continued when asked if he has decided on a starting quarterback yet. Philbin replied, We're going to practice. We just started our preparation today, we did first and second down. We're putting our game plan together. We're going to practice throughout the week. At the end of the week, we're going to pick the 46 guys that give us the best chance to win a game in London."
Away from the media, however, it appears to be a different story. NFL Network's Jeff Darlington reported Tuesday that multiple players from the Dolphins told him they have been told that Tannehill will be the starter this week. Tannehill has been working as the starting quarterback all week, with no apparent change to reflect a perceived challenge from backup Matt Moore.
Tannehill has been far from perfect this year, and he definitely has doubts surrounding his play right now, but Moore is not the future of the Dolphins franchise. If the team is going to know that Tannehill is not the future either, benching him after three games is not the right answer. There are enough questions for the Dolphins - including a shaky offensive line, a completely demolished linebacker corps, and wide receivers who seem to be dropping the ball as often as they can - to continue to give the ball to Tannehill.
The favorite player on every team is the backup quarterback. That does not always mean he is the answer. The quarterback controversy in Miami seems to have never actually be a controversy for the team - just the fans and the media. Will it eventually become an issue for the team?


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Julianne Albiero-Walton, Ed.D., East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania
Program Abstract:
This presentation examines the positive, non-stereotyped portrayal of characters with disabilities in contemporary fiction by discussing several examples the presenters have discovered and enjoyed. Session participants are requested to bring their own examples to discuss so that we may begin to compile a bibliography of such fiction.
Criteria for consideration:
Work and characters must be fictional; biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, and historical fiction are excluded.
Fiction must be directed toward an adult audience; children's and adolescent fiction are excluded.
The work must be contemporary fiction, preferably published since 2000, but definitely post-ADA.
The character with a disability must be an adult and a protagonist, or main character.
The character with a disability must be three-dimensional and engage in the same type of experiences, problems, emotions and relationships as have countless fictional characters without disabilities.
Preliminary Annotated Bibliography of Contemporary Fiction: Protagonists with Disabilities
Boyle, T.C., (2006). Talk Talk. Dr. Dana Halter, protagonist, is deaf. Story deals with concepts of identity and identity theft.
Steel, Danielle. (2007). Sisters. Four sisters come together after a terrible car accident that kills their mother and results in the loss of sight of one of the sisters who is an artist.
Jemisin, N. K., (2010). The Broken Kingdoms. In this second of the "Inheritance Trilogy," Oree Shoth, is the main character, a demon who is blind but has magical sight.
Crosby, Ellen. "Wine country series" with Lucie Montgomery who is the vineyard owner and has a physical disability that causes her to us a cane for ambulation.
The Merlot Murders (2006)
The Chardonnay Charade (2007)
The Bordeaux Betrayal (2008)
The Riesling Retribution (2009)
The Vintage Vendetta (2010)
The Sauvignon Secret (2011)
Deaver, Jeffrey. "Lincoln Rhyme" series with Lincoln Rhyme is a criminologist and quadriplegic. His partner, Amelia Sachs, experiences difficulties with arthritis.
The Bone Collector (1997)
The Coffin Dancer (1998)
The Empty Chair (2000)
The Stone Monkey (2002)
The Vanished Man (2003)
The Twelfth Card (2005)
The Cold Moon (2006)
The Broken Window (2008)
The Burning Wire (2010)
Sansom, C. J. "Tudor series" with Matthew Shardlake, a lawyer and sergeant in the Courts of London and an individual with a hunchback.
Dissolution (2003)
Dark Fire (2004)
Sovereign (2006)
Todd, Charles. "Ian Rutledge series" in which Ian Rutledge is a Scotland Yard Inspector who has experienced "shell shock" as it was called after World War I, but we would identify as PTSD.
A Test of Wills (1996)
Search the Dark (2000)
Watchers of Time (2001)
Legacy of the Dead (2001)
A Fearsome Doubt (2003)
A Cold Treachery (2005)
A Long Shadow (2006)
A False Mirror (2007)
A Pale Horse (2008)
A Matter of Justine (2009)
The Red Door (2010)
The Kidnapping (2010)
A Lonely Death (2011)
The Confession (2012)
Christina Dodd, (1991). Candle in the Window. Lady Saura of Roget, protagonist, is blind, as is her counterpart, Sir William of Miravel, but his blindness is temporary.
Feehan, Christine, (2010). Water Bound. Rikki Sitmore, main character, is autistic and a water element.
Kurland, Lynn, (1997). This Is All I Ask. Sir Christopher Blackmour is a knight known as the Dragon of Blackmour; he is blind.
Horror / Fantasy
Ward, J. R. The "Black Dagger Brotherhood" Series
Dark Lover (2005) Book One: Wrath's Story – Wrath is king of the vampires and leader of the Brotherhood a group of protectors/ avengers of the slayers. He has a genetic condition resulting in blindness. Throughout the series, his loss of vision is mentioned and he acquires a dog named George as a service animal.
Lover Enshrined (2008) Book six: Phury's Story. Phury a member of the brotherhood has a prostheses and recovering addict.
Lover Mine (2010) Book Nine: John Matthew's Story . John Matthew is a member of the brotherhood who doesn't have a voice and uses ASL.
Hecht, Daniel. Skull Session (1998) Paul Skoglund has Tourette's syndrome, a attempts to solve a crime while finding demonic elements at work.
Taylor, Larime. Hell watch- Pilot (October 8, 2011) http://www.larimetaylor.com/hellwatchpilot.pdf Serial novel Publication Date: October 8, 2011. Ester Vasquez, born with arthrogryposis, hunts the monsters and demons and captures them with exorcisms.
Alexander, Bruce. Sir John Fielding Historical Mystery. Sir John Fielding or the Beak of Bow Street was in a naval accident and blinded. He investigated crime (murders) in London a hundred years before Sherlock Holmes with the help of a young apprentice, Jeremy Proctor. Sir John Fielding was a real-life 18th century magistrate and founder of the Bow Street Runners.
Blind Justice (1994)
Murder in Grub Street (1996)
Watery Grave (1996)
Jack, Knave and Fool (1998)
Death of a Colonial (1999)
The Color of Death (2000)
Smuggler's Moon (2001)
An Experiment In Treason (2003)
Harris, Charlaine. Harper Connelly Mysteries . Harper was struck by lightning at 15 and left with a weakness in her right leg, constant headaches, shakes and an ability to find dead people.
Grave sight.(2005)
Grave Surprise.(2006)
An Ice Cold Grave. (2007)
Grave Secret. (2009)
Palmer, Michael. The Second Opinion (2009) Dr. Thea Sperelakis, was diagnosed as a teen with Asperger's syndrome, has a brilliant medical mind, and a remarkable recall of details. She solves her father's "accident" and discovers betrayals.
Fiction ("Chick Lit")
Kaufman, J. and Mack, K. A Version of the Truth (2009) Cassie Shaw, a reinvents herself—with unexpected consequences—after being told she was "dumb" and "stupid" all her life because her dyslexia made traditional learning difficult.
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Development company to purchase former Methodist church
Tim Landis Business Editor @TimLandisSJR
Jul 25, 2017 at 4:12 PM Jul 25, 2017 at 4:12 PM
A Rock Island development company has agreed to purchase the former First United Methodist Church in downtown Springfield in an effort to speed financing of long-awaited plans for apartments and office space in the building.
Economic Growth Corp. will pay $150,000 for the former church, according to records of the pending sale at the Sangamon County Assessor's Office, through an agreement with The Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce and The Springfield Project affordable-housing program. Initial plans announced in December included each of the three as partners in the $8.6 million project. Putting the property under a single owner will simplify use of historic and community-development tax credits in financing, according to the group.
The chamber and The Springfield Project still plan to relocate offices from 1011 S. Second St. to the former church, once the construction is completed.
"The chamber and TSP continue to work in close partnership with Economic Growth Corporation on the redevelopment project," chamber president and CEO Chris Hembrough said in an email. "The chamber will lease the majority of commercial space through a long-term lease."
TSP had an option to buy the property pending financing to now be completed by Economic Growth Corp. The residential piece of the project includes 16 one-bedroom and nine two-bedroom apartments in the former education wing. The historic look of the church also will be restored.
Economic Growth Corp. president and CEO Brian Hollenback said the group expects to complete financing in the next few weeks The not-for-profit specializes in residential and community development projects in historic districts.
Hollenbeck said workers at this point have concentrated on preventing further building deterioration. The property has remained vacant since church services ended in 2008. City inspectors placarded the building as an "unsafe structure" in early 2015 after previous owners failed to follow through on plans to convert the church to a cultural center, apartments and office space.
After forming a company to purchase the church for $190,000 in 2014, according to county records, former Springfield alderman Irv Smith and Springfield developer Dan Mulcahy became involved in an extended court fight over spending on the project. A judge ruled in late 2015 that Mulcahy failed to keep an investment commitment and that he had misused funds invested by Smith. The judge appointed a receiver to sell the property.
The Springfield City Council approved $985,000 from a tax increment financing district toward the project cost. Economic Growth Corp. plans to use a combination of federal tax credits for work in historic districts, housing credits and borrowing for the remainder of the cost.
"This still very much involves the chamber and The Springfield Project," said Hollenback.
He called the tax-credit approval process "incredibly complicated," adding that federal and state agencies often prefer to work with a single not-for-profit. Hollenback said he hopes major construction can begin in about 90 days. The work is expected to take a year and a half.
Stabilizing the building was the first priority, he said.
"We want to turn something that wasn't so good into something good for the downtown," said Hollenback.
-- Contact Tim Landis: tim.landis@sj-r.com, 788-1536, twitter.com/timlandisSJR.
* First United Methodist Church relocates from 501 E. Capitol Ave. to new church on Koke Mill Road in 1995; services continue at downtown church until 2008.
* Local development partnership purchases church in 2014 with plans for apartments, office space and a cultural center. Project abandoned as a result of partnership legal dispute.
* The Springfield Project affordable-housing project negotiates an option to buy the property in 2015.
* TSP and The Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce announce partnership in December 2016 with Economic Development Corp. in Rock Island to convert the former sanctuary to office space, and the church education wing to 16 one-bedroom and nine two-bedroom apartments.
* Goal is to begin construction in about 90 days; work expected to take a year and a half.


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Japan is a very advanced country, with very smart people. However, Japan has inadequate and poorly designed English learning methods. After years of study, many Japanese still can not speak English. Why? (1) Non English speaking politicians designed programs. (2) Memorization or rote learning system. (Ok for math and kanji, but not recommended for English learning). (3) The focus is on grammar and not practical conversation. (4) Japanese teachers that are often not qualified or actually can not speak English at all, not well, or not as good as they think, yet teaching English. Many non-native speaker – teachers in Japan have less than a native English Elementary school level of English, but charging money for teaching English, often because most parents don't know better.
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You often hear someone say how much they would love a cat but they are allergic. It happened to me only last week! Well there is hope! This list has been put together to show you the best kitties to have if you have allergic tendancies. A friend of mine was allergic to cats but when her daughter was given a kitten, she used antihistamines and did not actually hold the cat, but now she can hold and feed her, so allergies can be overcome in some cases.
The coat on the Balinese is of a silky texture and single coated, with only minimal shedding. In fact, the Balinese is noted for its lack of shedding amongst long coated cats. Speaking and interacting with humans is what it is most fond of. This breed is ranked as one of the most intelligent of cat breeds, and is also remarkable for its good humour, good nature, and high energy. Getting along well with both animals and people is one of the strongest qualities the Balinese possesses.
The Colourpoint Shorthair is a first-cousin of the Siamese, and like its cousin it is a born extrovert, making friends easily, chattering persistently, and showering its owner with love. The Colourpoint is also remarkably sensitive to moods. If someone is moved to tears while watching a tragic movie, this cat will try to bring them comfort.


Prima Something Blue is back--bigger and chunkier!
Here is the box--I made this out of an A0 sheet of mount board that I picked up at a local school supplies store. [Note to self: Buy a board of higher weight for future box-making projects.] The box feels sturdy on its own, but with the heavy mini album inside it, I am worried about the bottom sagging under strain.
And here is the album--I wish it did not gape the way it does. I went a wee bit overboard with the embellishments. The binding style I have used until now has worked great with other albums but could not accommodate the chunky embellishments we have here. I am switching to a different binding style for future projects--preferably one with a 1/2 or a 3/4 inch gusset between pages. Also, I am kinda tiring of these pocket pages that straddle the spine--the next album will have chipboard pages! Pocket pages are amazing, but I need a break :D I want to have a skeleton book to work on--it may just help prevent crafters' block (if that is even a thing) :D.
How I love chunky charm dangles--this one has a world of goodies: from cabochons with wedding themed sentiments to dresses, wedding cakes, purses, perfume bottles, a hand-fan and so forth!
I am really proud of the ribbons--they were custom-dyed for this paper line at Premier Ribbons, Mumbai. Find them on FB! :) The next time though, I might hop on over to my nearest fabric dyer because ordering these online were a bit of a challenge--of the five colors I ordered, only three matched the papers. The pink and the blue proved tricky to match.
And that is all for the pages.
I have to admit, this was my most time- and resource-intensive project to date. It was quite the labor of love--as it was meant to be a special gift. And, I did have to battle a kind of exhaustion with the paper line--Something Blue is adorable but two wedding minis back to back using the same papers left me feeling burnt out. Of course, once the project was completed, I forgot the months of agonizing over color coordination, page styles, flaps and inserts, etc.--and I stared dreamily at the box and the album cover.
Watch the video flip-through now!
Hope you guys like this album. Do leave your comments below or on my YouTube channel--it will mean a lot.
Beautiful! Love the charms, ribbons, and Venetian lace.
This is breath-takingly beautiful! Everything from the box to the album to the embellishments and inside pages!
I wanted to know, what gsm cardstock are you using here?
I used American Crafts 216gsm/80lb textured black cardstock for this album--it is a medium weight cardstock which I find flexible enough for complex page builds and sturdy enough for holding shape.
Hi Suchi... this is Sujana. am kinda hooked to ur blog now. All ur albums are soo mesmerising. I was searching for options to follow ur blog. Is there a "Follow blog" or "Follow by email" option. i dint find any though.
Sujana, Hi! That is amazing to hear--thank you so so much. About the following bit, I am trying to figure that out as I type this--I do have followers on this blog...wonder how they joined in. Meanwhile, if you follow me on FB, I cross-share all projects there. My page is "Scrappittarius" on FB.


One of the Midland conservation community's most durable events, the annual Ducks Unlimited Midland Chapter banquet, takes place Tuesday at the Midland Holiday Inn. And tickets are still available, according to chapter official Steve Persyn.
Doors open at 5 p.m. for registration and cocktails, and dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m. Throughout the evening will be the ever-popular live and silent auctions of DU collectibles, plus numerous raffles and games.
Tickets are $45 for an individual, $20 more for a guest or spouse. Other packages are available. To reserve a dinner ticket, or for more information, call Persyn at 989-798-7278. Tickets are also expected to be available at the door.
Some of the money raised goes to work in the Midland area. In an email, Persyn noted that DU has restored and/or conserved more than 65,000 acres of habitat in Michigan with over 900 acres of habitat enhanced in Midland County.
The workgroup assembled by the Michigan Natural Resources Commission to develop recommendations for the state's new Mentored Youth Hunting Program wants public input on some of the issues it will consider.
An online survey has been posted to allow the public to answer questions and provide feedback. The survey is at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VMY6KGT and available through Thursday. NRC Commissioner John Matonich of Davison, who chairs the workgroup, said completing the survey will take about 10 minutes.
The Mentored Youth Hunting Program will let hunters under age 10 hunt with a mentor. A new Mentored Youth Hunting license will allow mentored youths to participate in a variety of opportunities -- deer, turkey and small game hunting, fur-bearer trapping, and fishing for all species -- on a single license, starting in 2012.
More information about the program and a link to the survey can be found at www.michigan.gov/mentoredhunting.
The workgroup aims to report its recommendations to the NRC in November.
The Cedar River Marina Boating Access Site in Menominee County will be closed Monday through Friday for improvements, the DNR reported, partially reopening with one lane available for launching until the project is completed Sept. 30.
Muskallonge Lake State Park's Fourth Annual "Rock on with Lake Superior Agates" rock show will bring speakers, vendors and entertainment to the park Saturday and Sunday, September 17-18.
The park is about 28 miles northwest of Newberry in the Upper Peninsula. For more details on the show or camping in the park, call the park at 906-658-3338.
The southeast section of the Evart Motorcycle Trail, in Osceola County, has reopened, the DNR reported in a news release.
The three-mile segment was closed after a wind storm in 2009, for cleanup and timber regeneration. It remains "motorcycle only," per a DNR director's order. Questions? Phone Amanda Matelski, DNR trails analyst, at 231-775-9727, ext. 6044.
The DNR's Rose Lake Shooting Range in Clinton County was to close for renovations Thursday, with work expected to be completed by Oct. 1. Trap and archery ranges will remain open to the public on Saturdays and Sundays.


North Portland, Ore. On Sept. 5, an armed suspect allegedly held up the All That Glitters jewelry store at gunpoint. According to witnesses, the man entered the store with a gun and demanded money. The suspect fled the scene. Anyone with information is requested to contact detectives at 503-823-0405.
Alexandria, Va. On Sept. 6, two armed men entered King's Jewelry and smashed display cases with a hammer and fled with goods. This is the second time the store has been robbed this summer. Last week, police charged a suspect with the July theft of a $25,000 ring.
Woodstock, Va. Three suspects have been arrested and charged with the Sept. 6 robbery of Fink's Jewelry store. One suspect broke display cases while the other stole watches, valued at more than $100,000. The two suspects were charged with grand larceny, conspiracy to commit larceny, and destruction of property. The other suspect was charged with larceny and conspiracy to commit larceny.


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Grammar comment for Elementary students: When we give directions, we use the Imperative, e.g. Go / Don't go; Turn / Don't turn; Take / Don't take, the sentences "it's (somewhere)" or "that's (this or that place)", and sometimes, "you have to" to indicate obligation, e.g. "Take the 32 bus" or "You have to take the 32 bus". You should at least know very well how to use: "Go straight on", "turn right/left", "take the 1st/2nd/3rd/4th… on the right/left", the questions, and the prepositions (indicating place).
Go straight on and take the second on your right. That's the main street in this town. It's called calle Madrid. Then go straight on and on and on until you see a fountain called La Cibelina. It's like the Cibeles (Cybele /síbeli/) fountain in Madrid, but smaller and uglier / less beautiful! Then turn left and go straight on.
You'll see the train station opposite you, at the end of that street. You can't miss it!
I'm going to explain how to get to Cibeles from my house.
Go straight on. Then turn right. Go straight on until you see a roundabout. Keep on, straight on. Then turn left at the traffic lights. You'll see the train station.
Take the train to Madrid. There are trains every ten minutes. The ticket is one euro thirty-five cents (€1.35).* The return ticket is double. And you can also buy ten journeys. That's seven euros forty (€7.40). The journey is about 20 minutes.
When you get to Atocha train station, leave the station and look for the bus stop closest to the Botanical Gardens. Take the 27 bus. When you see the Cibeles fountain, a woman in a chariot pulled by lions, get off!!
"Go straight on" can be "Go down this street", "Go up this street", "go ahead", "keep going along this street"
Excuse me, I'm (totally) lost!
How can I get to the airport (from here)?
Could you tell me the way to the nearest pharmacy (US) /chemist's (UK)?
It's across the street. You can't miss it!


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NAME OF FESTIVAL: Portland Jewish Film Festival
WHERE: Portland, OR, USA
Portland Jewish Film Festival, produced by the Northwest Film Center and co-presented with the Institute for Judaic Studies celebrates the diversity of Jewish history, culture, identity, and filmmaking. We hope that these films, and the stories they tell, resonate beyond their settings and speak to universal experiences and issues that confront our common humanity.
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The 2015 Portland Jewish Film Festival will screen 18 feature films including: EAST JERUSALEM/WEST JERUSALEM (pictured above), a riveting documentary about Israeli musician David Broza and his efforts to bridge Israeli and Palestinian tensions through music, THE MYSTERY OF HAPPINESS, director Daniel Burman's delightful hybridization of buddy movie, detective film, and romantic comedy tropes, the Opening Night selection MAGIC MEN, a road trip comedy that pairs an aging atheist Holocaust survivor with his estranged Hasidic rapper son, […]
THE LEGEND OF SHEP GORDON, The Directorial Debut of Mike Meyers Among 17 Films to See at 22nd Portland Jewish Film Festival
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The 22nd Portland Jewish Film Festival taking place June 15 to 29, 2014, will host 17 features at this year including: THE LAST OF THE UNJUST, Claude Lanzmann's follow-up to SHOAH, SUPERMENSCH: THE LEGEND OF SHEP GORDON, the directorial debut of Mike Meyers (AUSTIN POWERS, WAYNE'S WORLD), the Opening Night selection FRIENDS FROM FRANCE, a Cold War-era thriller set behind the Iron Curtain, THE WONDERS, a neo-noir tracking one graffiti artist's descent into a world of crime, and many other fine selections.
The 22nd Portland Jewish Film Festival is produced by the Northwest Film Center and co-presented with the Institute for Judaic Studies. While the Festival specifically celebrates the diversity of Jewish history, culture, and identity, these films and the stories they tell also resonate beyond their settings and speak to experiences and issues that confront our common humanity.


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Monday Roundup: GIPSA Support?
By dyadmin On Sep 12, 2011 Last updated Sep 13, 2011
Fires are still burning in Bastrop County, Texas, where nearly 35,000 acres and nearly 1,500 homes have fallen to wildfires. Parts of the county look like the surface of the moon — nothing but gray ash. Sunday, families attended the First Baptist Church in downtown Bastrop.
good summary of the proposed GIPSA rules. Montgomery also explains earlier efforts in the House of Representatives to derail the regs. The House has voted to deny the USDA any funding that could be used to issue a set of final rules.
•More than one in five individuals seeking health insurance coverage are turned down by private insurers, according to a report in Kaiser Health News.
That's just an average. Humana rejects between 26 and 39 percent of those applying from Kentucky, where the company has its corporate headquarters. United Healthcare denies up to 43 percent of those applying from Kentucky.
An insurance industry trade group says that 87 percent of those individuals applying for coverage are offered a policy, but that figure includes people who were turned down for one kind of coverage but offered a plan that covers less and costs more.
The Kaiser story finds little consistency in denial rates. In Georgia, for example, Aetna denied 15 percent of the individual applications while Kaiser Permanente denied 47 percent.
The health care reform act will prevent companies from denying individuals coverage based on their health. But that provision doesn't kick in until 2014.
• New York is moving too fast to allow drilling in deep shale formations for gas, according to a New York Times editorial today.
Drilling in the Marcellus Shale formation is a contentious issues in the Northeast. Landowners are convinced that drilling (and the use of hydraulic fracturing techniques) is damaging water supplies. But development of the shale could bring up to 37,000 jobs to upstate New York.
The Times writes:
The Cuomo administration plans to issue proposed regulations for drilling in October, which would be a premature move. The public will have until just Dec. 12 to comment on the draft environmental study. Only after the final study is completed should the administration begin to draw up the regulations.
Natural gas is an important energy source. But Governor Cuomo must move cautiously to make certain that tapping into this resource does not damage the lands and communities involved.
• The Washington Post today looks at the impact of the relatively low tax on capital gains. Over the last 20 years, 80 percent of capital gains income realized in the U.S. has gone to only 5 percent of Americans.
Capital gains (on sales of stocks, bonds and real estate) are taxed at 15 percent.
• Ethanol subsidies are just about dead. Now critics of federal policy are going after mandates that require refiners to increase their use of corn ethanol to 15 billion gallons by 2015.
• The Boston Globe tells us that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's energy adviser is a coal company lobbyist, Jim Talent.
Talent's comments were included in Romney's economic plan. Talent is a former senator from Missouri. His Washington, D.C., lobbying firm, Mercury Public Affairs, is hired by Peabody Energy, the large St. Louis coal producer.
• Congress has come up with some quick fixes that will extend funding for transportation programs and the Federal Aviation Administration through to the beginning of next year.
Both sides made concessions, but the details of the deal are still secret.
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As you can see above, I am now able to, in a single sentence, describe the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual "work" that I have been doing in order to feel whole within my own existence as a spiritual being in human form. Through becoming intimately connected to both my personal self /ego based experiences and needs as well as (and at the same time) intimately connected to both my universal self /spiritual based experiences and needs I have built a solid foundation that supports me in the navigation of my everyday life – where no matter the experience – I am able to see it for what it is and not what I have the subjective potential to both positively or negatively create it to be.
A spiritually based positive mental attitude doesn't mean only seeing the positive in everything – no matter what the experience, nor does it mean faking it until you make it and it certainly does not mean blindly accepting that everything happens for a reason. These are all prime examples of spiritual bypassing that is being perpetuated through the misunderstanding of mystical knowledge in the westernized 21st century.
In fact, being a spiritually based positive mental attitude is a lifestyle not something you have or an action that you take. It is a way of being that brings to you, literally draws into your energy field, prosperity, happiness and success.
Spiritually based ~ a willingness to be open to receive the intuitive direction from one's God mind in order to receive guidance to all that brings happiness, success and prosperity into one's life; A belief in the power, wisdom and Presence of the God-Mind of the Universe present in each of us.
Positive ~ knowing that in spite of any apparent difficulty one's connection to Universal Life Force Energy (The Universe or God) will show way for improvement.
Attitude ~ a knowing, that Dr. Paul Leon Masters, calls a transcendent attitude, "…in spite of any apparent difficulty, one's Higher God-Mind will show way for improvement".
I have faith in God, my Higher Self/The Universe, so that I am inspired to take action in my life; everyday.
All channels of my mind are open to receive intuitive direction and creative ideas so that I am guided to all that brings good into my energetic reality. I succeed in being aware, internally and externally of the messages from my physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels of Self.
In everything that I do, I am connected as One to my personal self (Ego) and my Universal Self (spirit); so that they each are able to function in harmony.
Therefore, creating and maintaining a Spiritually based Positive Mental Attitude without succumbing to spiritual bypassing is simplistically a matter of both conscious thought control combined with the results of the "work" that you do on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels of Awareness; both on your own personal development and on being in service to others.
The "work" that I so passionately speak of is YOUR WORK, a combination of understanding, creating and maintaining your true and Authentic Self through both your inner environment (Higher Self and Ego in a harmonious relationship) and your external environment (the degree of influence that others have over you) based on the four levels of awareness ~ physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.
The work requires that you first recognize the signals of your own physical, emotional, mental and spiritual awareness that are universally designed to guide and teach us; to heal and protect us; to bring us to wholeness in the experience called a human lifetime. Yes, sometimes these signals appear and are categorized as positive and we use them to establish evidence that we are indeed on the right path. Then there are the negative physical, emotional, mental and spiritual alerts that we receive. These are extremely valuable flags to guide us, much like our GPS system in the car warns us that we have gone too far. These seemingly negative experiences are very clear warnings that we are NOT doing the work, that we are off track from our purposefulness or that we are not paying attention to our own personal development needs.
Second, the work requires that you not only acknowledge these warnings but also that they are allowed to unfold into a full, non condemning (as opposed to non judgmental), non fear based experiences. To see, feel and know the truth of message as it is delivered to you, for you.
Finally, the work requires that you let go of what you no longer need. To take what you need to grow and develop, to expand and contract with freedom and peace, to be who you are truly meant to be and simply dump the rest – release the fear, worry, shame and guilt from the situation so that it can be what it was meant to be… just a lesson.
**I have a great analogy called the "backpack" – check it out here to better understand how much we carry with us and why we do it.
The experience that we ALL desire in this lifetime is to be happy, feel at peace and be purposeful… essentially to live our lives in fullness! When we are disconnected from our Spiritual Self or when Ego is given free rain to control the way we perceive the world around us then we are always fully immersed in our darkness. We are unconsciously allowing negative energy to control our thoughts, actions and reactions. We are then encased in the fear and loneliness of humanity as though that is all there really is to life.
A spiritually based positive mental attitude gives us the skills and ability to connect equally to the light as to the dark – psychologically, psychically and spiritually.
Know that I am here to assist you, whether you are brand new to this stuff called Spirituality, whether you are currently in service as an Energy worker or you are just looking for support in your personal development & growth… I am here to guide, teach and support you on your journey to a Spiritually based Positive Mental Attitude.


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Dennis Michael Poteat – Sergeant, United States Army
Dennis Michael Poteat was born on May 28, 1942 and joined the Armed Forces while in Marion, North Carolina.
He served in the United States Army, Squad 3, 5th United States Cavalry. In 6 years of service, he attained the rank of Sergeant, He began a tour of duty in Vietnam on December 1, 1967.
On March 30, 1968, at the age of 25, Dennis Michael Poteat perished in the service of our country in South Vietnam, Quang Tri.
He was killed with Peter Joseph Gallo, First Lieutenant, United States Army, and Roy Lee Griffin, Jr., Captain, United States Marine Corps. They are buried together in Arlington National Cemetery.
First phase of "TASK FORCE KILO" begins. Gio Linh, Quang Tri Province, I Corps.
Task Force KILO launches diversionary attack along Gio Linh coastal plain to divert attention away from Ca Lu where 1st Cavalry Division and 1st Marines are staging for Operation PEGASUS. Task Force Kilo, made up of the 2nd Battalion, 1st ARVN Regiment pushes north from Kong Ha on a search and destroy sweep through the Gio Lenh Coastal Plain between the Cua Viet River and the DMZ. Task Force Kilo confirms 150 NVA KIAs the first day of the operation.
30 March – C Troop, 3rd/5th Cavalry finds entrenched NVA. 10 US KIA. KIAs include: Patrick Kevin Burke, 1st Lt. Peter Joseph Gallo, Capt. Roy Lee Griffin, Jr. (USMC), George Edward Grubbs, Bert Austin Keeler, James Earl Morse, Dennis Michael Poteat, Charles E. Shaw, Stephen Max Wiggins, and Wilbur Leo Williams, Jr.
POTEAT, DENNIS M
SSG TRP C 3D SQDN, 5TH ARMD CAS U.S.A.
BURIED AT: SECTION 46 SITE 515
Erin Turner-Schaefer – Specialist, United States Army
Grandison Gardner – Major General, United States Air Force


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How to access ESA Data
Available EO data resources
Get Data procedure
Fast registration with immediate access
Fast registration with approval
Procedures requiring evaluation
Campaign data
1. Available EO data resources
ESA distributes Earth observation data from ESA EO Missions, Third Party Missions (TPMs), ESA Campaigns, the Copernicus Space Component (CSC), as well as sample and auxiliary data from a number of missions and instruments.
Data distributed by ESA is available under different data policies and by various access mechanisms.
ESA Earth observation missions data
The revised ESA Earth Observation Data Policy was approved by the ESA Earth Observation Programme Board in May 2010, and applies to the ESA missions ERS-1, ERS-2, Envisat, GOCE, SMOS, CryoSat and future Earth Explorer missions. The policy defines two classes of ESA datasets:
The free dataset includes the collections available online, and requires only a minimal fast registration through this site
The restrained dataset includes sets not available online – on demand products, on-demand data acquisition, some archived data etc. The data is provided free of charge in most cases, and requires the submission of a Project Proposal.
Third Party Missions data
ESA uses its multi-mission ground systems to acquire, process, archive and distribute data from satellites not owned or operated by ESA - known as Third Party Missions (TPMs).
The TPM datasets are distributed under specific agreements with the owners or operators of the mission – some sets are available under the free dataset policy and require only a fast registration, others are part of the restrained data set and require the submission of a project proposal. The data is normally free of charge. Exceptions applicable to prices and specific restrictions to the TPM data exploitation are fully described on the TPM datasets page.
ESA campaigns data
ESA has been running numerous airborne, ground-based, or balloon campaigns over different locations inside and outside Europe. The resulting datasets are available on the internet or media.
Products offered within an ESA Announcement of Opportunity (AO)
ESA periodically opens Announcements of Opportunity (AOs), offering the possibility to conduct sciences and operational application research using various data products available following the specific rules set in the main text of the AO. The data is normally free of charge.
A project proposal is required, fitting objectives, restrictions and deadlines of the AO.
Copernicus Space Component (CSC) data
ESA coordinates the access to space-based observation data from the Sentinel missions as well as from the Copernicus Contributing Missions.
Access to the Sentinel data is free and open for the Regional, National, European and International user community. Depending on the typology of use, access is granted to the relevant data hub after self- registration. More information can be found on the Sentinel Online Data Access pages.
Data from contributing missions are instead accessible from the Coordinated Data Access System. Full information on available data, eligibility, user registration and access can be found in the Copernicus Space Component Data Access portal (CSCDA).
GRID - Processing on demand
ESA offers to scientists the possibility to perform bulk processing using their own algorithms, exploiting the large ESA Earth Observation archive and GRID computing and dynamic storage resources.
The GPOD service requires a project proposal.
Sample data and auxiliary data
ESA provides sample data for a number of instruments and product types, as well as sample sets related to specific events.
You can get auxiliary data – data files used to generate a product other than the direct measurements of the instrument – for a number of missions and instruments. The sets typically include calibration data that was measured on-board but is not part of the main measurements of the instrument; external calibration files from sources other than the satellite; processor configuration files, and any other files needed by instrument processors.
Sample and auxiliary datasets are generally provided free of charge and by direct download via the product descriptions. They do not require registration.
Additonal data access resources
In addition to the Data Access area of this site, you can find a number of resources for access to the data of specific missions. Here are a few:
The CryoSat data access page - dedicated to the access of CryoSat data
The GOCE data access page – dedicated to GOCE data access
The SMOS data access page – dedicated to SMOS data access
The (A)SAR OTF data access page - Describes the On The Fly Service
The list of ESA and Third Party Missions are also available in a Table which provides links to the products available for each of the mission instruments.
2. Get data procedure
You can navigate through the list of data products in the Data Access section of this site, and then register for the products identified directly through the 'Get Data' links provided in most product descriptions.
Depending on the dataset you will be asked to follow a specific procedure before being granted access to the data.
A detailed description of the possible procedures is provided below.
2.2. Fast Registration with immediate access
You can access free, online datasets easily through our fast registration interface. If you are a registered user, just log in and go to the 'My EarthOnline' area of this site. If you're not yet registered, view the 'Registration Help' page.
If the dataset requires a Fast Registration with immediate access, you will be granted access to the data immediately after registration.
The first time that you access the interface (e.g. no proposals already submitted or no systematically available data already selected), you will be requested to provide some basic information (eg: Name, Last Name, Country of residence, broad Study Area location, Application domain of your research, and a short Executive summary to explain how you plan to use the data). Once this information has been provided in the system, you will not be requested to provide it in the future again, unless you want to update it (e.g. changes in affiliation, country of residence or new research objectives).
Note: changes in the email address have to be performed directly within the EO-SSO interface at the address: https://eo-sso-idp.eo.esa.int/idp/umsso20/admin.
If not previously accepted, you will also be requested to accept legal Terms and Conditions (T&C) for the utilisation of ESA or TPM data.
At the end of the process, the product requested is added to your personal "MyEarthnet" page under the "MyOnlineData" section, together with the download URL where the dataset can be found.
If basic information has been provided and the T&C for the utilisation of the selected dataset has already been accepted, the product will automatically be added to your "MyOnline Data" without the need to complete a registration form.
2.3. Fast Registration with approval
If the dataset requires a Fast Registration with approval, the procedure will be the same as the previous one. At the end of the process, the product requested will be added to your personal "MyEarthnet" page under the "MyOnlineData" section, but no download URL will be provided.
An ESA delegate will have to approve your request. If successful, after 2-3 working days after registration, you will receive confirmation together with the details about where to access the data.
2.4. Procedures requiring evaluation
2.4.1. Data service request
You can request restrained ESA products through our Data Service Request form. Such specific services can be granted by ESA, within technical, financial or legal constraints, to users who describe and justify their needs within the Data Service Request.
Instructions for submitting a Data Service Request can be found in the submission area.
ESA's reply to the request is usually provided within a couple of weeks.
2.4.2. Full proposal
To be authorised to access on demand ESA TPM data, a full project proposal is needed. Data is provided free of charge; no programming or production fees are applied.
Through the full proposal, the Principal Investigator needs to produce detailed information about the following topics:
Title of the Proposal / Coordinates of Principal Investigator
Description of the proposal
Summary of data requirements
Acceptance of ESA Terms and Conditions for data use
The proposal can be initiated either through the Get Data button, from your personal page through the "New Project" option, or directly from the PI Community section.
To facilitate assessment English is preferred, but French is also acceptable. Should you have any problems in submitting your proposal, you can contact EOHelp.
After the receipt of your project proposal, a peer review will be carried out in line with the approval procedure. Typically, evaluation results are provided to the PI 4 to 6 weeks after submission.
2.5. External Data
For some datasets the authorisation procedure to access the data is not under ESA's control, but is directly requested through an external entity.
You can reach the corresponding site by clicking the "Get Data" button at the top right of each dataset description page.
2.6. Campaign Data
ESA Campaigns Data is described here, and the data can be accessed after submitting a registration.
2.7. Announcement of Opportunity
ESA periodically opens specific Announcements of Opportunity (AOs), offering the possibility to conduct sciences and operational application research using various data products available following the specific rules set in the main text of the AO (normally free of charge).
You can find the current open announcements here. A project proposal is required, fitting objectives, restrictions and deadlines of the AO. The details for submitting a proposal are given in the AO text.


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The Caribbean Confederation of Credit Unions
An affiliate of the World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) representing the Caribbean Diaspora
CCCU Profile
The Credit Union Difference
Caribbean Credit Union Statistics
CCCU Directors
Credit Union FAQs
CCCU Newsletters
CCCU Convention Presentations
CCCU Convention Trinidad 2018 Presentations
CCCU Convention Presentations, Cuba 2017
CCCU Convention 2016 Presentations
CCCU Foundation – Mission & Objectives
CCCU Support Network
CCCU Convention Trinidad 2018
The Convention 2017
Covention 2016
Mr. Leopoldo Romero
Mr. Leopoldo Romero was born in Southern Belize where he schooled and farmed at a very young age. He began his career as a Teacher and obtained a degree from UWI in Primary Education. He later migrated to the North of the Country where he joined the Credit Union movement as a Director and later became the Secretary of the Board of one of the second largest credit unions in the country.
Mr. Romero left his teaching career to become the Assistant Manager of the same credit union. While working he attended tertiary level studies to obtain a degree in Accounting and Computer Science. He was transfer to the Accounting Department and later to manage one of the Branches of the credit union in a rural community.
Mr. Romero then return to his native community to organize and start a new credit union in Southern Belize where there was no credit union in existence. He was one of the pioneers of The Toledo Teachers Credit Union and today he is the General Manager of that credit union. Representing the Southern region Mr. Romero was elected to be an alternate to the Belize Credit Union League Board and later became a Director. In June of 2016 he was elected as the president of the Belize Credit Union League. His many years in the Belizean Credit Union Movement has earned him a wealth of experiences and afforded him the opportunity to share his talent and skills throughout the five other districts in the country. Mr. Romero as been an active sport enthusiast and played soccer with major teams in the country. He is also an active boat captain and loves fishing.
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The CCCU Convention 2017
CCCU Launches New Head Quaters
CCCU Annual Report 2018
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Joseph is given a cloak of love by his father Jacob. Today we are going to make a cloak of love for God.
Tell the children that Jacob loves Joseph so much that he gives him a coloured cloak. Just as Jacob loves Joseph so many Christians love the Lord God.
Shall we make a cloak of love for God?
Each child can choose a strip of paper in their favourite colour. Ask them to write or draw something on the paper – something that they are happy about, or something that they want to thank God for.
They can stick their strips of paper onto the cloak as a symbol of their prayer. In this way the group can give God a cloak of love.
The writer of psalm 150 sings this song for God and encourages others to sing for God. He gives the psalm to God as a gift as it were. The song, the singing, and the music is not just any old song. It is a present for Him.
Divide the children into small groups and ask them to write a song or a rap for God. A psalm 151! The groups can take turns to read, sing or rap their song.
In the prayer room there is a plate with various tea bags on it. Take a tea bag and pray for a friend, family member or work colleague with whom regularly drink a cup of coffee or tea.
Creative prayer, praying for others.


Restricted Airspace Law and Legal Definition | USLegal, Inc.
Restricted airspace is airspace which aircraft are prohibited from entering without advance permission. Unauthorized entries into the restricted space in Washington, D.C. are common. NORAD officials said there are typically two or three incursions a day, usually by pilots not familiar with the restrictions or who stray from their intended flight paths.
After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the government severely restricted air traffic in the region. It established an Air Defense Identification Zone -- an area consisting of a 30-mile diameter circle around Reagan Washington National Airport and 22-mile circles around Dulles and Baltimore-Washington international airports.
Restrictions are more severe in a 15.75-mile inner circle called the Flight Restricted Zone.two or three incursions a day, usually by pilots unaware of the restrictons or who stray from their intended flight paths.
"The most notable incident occurred during President Reagan's funeral activities last summer when a jet carrying Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher entered the airspace with a broken transponder, prompting the evacuation of the U.S. Capitol."


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I've read the blog and discussions before.
I taught biology for 33 years, now an artist.
Hi Susan, Welcome fellow Michigander! I'm not sure where Riga is but I live in Ferndale, just outside Detroit. We're certainly delighted to have you joining us and hope you'll continue to navigate around the site and make yourself at home. Thanks and continued success.


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Lesson from the Conversion of Saint Paul – Key to Converting a Fanatic
Have you dialogued with a fanatic? I mean those whose opinion about anything has become an ideological mold for perception of reality; those not ready to engage or listen to any alternative argument or perspective no matter how truthful and factual it may be? Engaging a fanatic in a discussion is a waste of time, if the person would even give you a chance.
Many fanatics are also activists and some become violent because the temptation to force others to belong to their camp is high.
Converting fanatics is a tough task. Nevertheless, if fanatics convert, they tend to be very convinced. It seems to be in their nature to be faithful to what they believe.
Let me share a bible story of a case of conversion of a known fanatic and from that story suggest some keys to converting a fanatic. The story is popularly called The Conversion of St. Paul as recorded in Acts 9:1-22 and also retold by Paul himself in Acts of the Apostles 22:3-16.
St. Paul used to be called Saul before he was converted to Christianity. He was a Jew and a Pharisee. Pharisees are those who believed in the strict observance of the Law of Moses. Paul was also a Patriot, a zealous defender of the faith of the Jews and a renowned attorney, who studied under Gamaliel, known during his time as the best and most respected Professor of Law. Paul was from a semi-wealthy family and grew up in a neighborhood that could be compared to living in the Silicon Valley of California. However, he was a fanatic.
The result of Paul's fanaticism led to violence, the first public violent persecution of Christians.
Engaging Paul in an argument was not an option for the believers. Nevertheless, the believers had a powerful tool to engage him – prayer. They prayed for his conversion. Finally, on the way to Damascus, to carry out the persecution of Christians, God intervened and touched the heart of Paul, ultimately leading to his conversion. He, who used to persecute Christians, became a firm believer in the Lord. Nothing is impossible for God.
One of the keys to conversion is prayer. Conversion can only happen by the grace of God. Believers would be making a big mistake if they think conversion of people who are fanatical about erroneous beliefs happens because of the sophisticated nature of their Christian argument. These are good, don't get me wrong, but actual change of heart is God's grace acting in the soul. So, spend more time praying for the fanatic than arguing with him.
There are many other keys to conversion, like speaking from love, witness of life, but accompanying the person through prayer, through spiritual support avails much.
Do you know some people hard to convince about the way of the Lord, try praying for them; try loving them and try speaking words inspired by the love of God. God, the fountain of love, may stir their hearts and bring conversion.
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A thread started on the popular Warm Glass Bulletin Board about experimentation, failure and success seems like a good reason to wander away for a moment from my COE rant where I'm probably leaving the impression that I think the misunderstanding of COE was the biggest goof-up ever at Bullseye.
LIQUID VELOCITY 3. One of a series of works by artist Jun Kaneko in which the internal flow of one glass through another – a totally unanticipated disaster – became the central dynamic of the work itself.
After dragging you tediously through how we test for compatibility, what the COE is, how it is tested and what it does NOT tell us, the obvious question is: So, who ever suggested that matching COEs could identify compatibility in the first place?
GETTING OUT FROM UNDER SOME SERIOUSLY OLD INFORMATION. Written almost 25 years ago by my partner Dan and his then-partner Boyce, Glass Fusing Book One was the first – and is still the most definitive – book ever written on the subject of kilnforming. Today, even Annie is too smart not to dig out from under that old story.
Yes, this entire mess started at Bullseye. We made a mistake. We (actually, it was Dan Schwoerer and Boyce Lundstrom. I wasn't here at the time, Your Honor) believed that matching the LEC would insure that glasses "fit" when fired together.
READY, FIRE, AIM. Before you start kilnforming on this scale, you might want to understand what you're doing.
I was about to unmask the fools who started the COE mess when I got a private email asking me why I was making such a fuss about compatibility standards when – by our own admission – Bullseye's are likely tighter than they need to be.
I've got a brilliant vet. She's coming to our home to help Ed "pass over". I wish there were a glass doctor who'd do the same thing for the sick old myth of the COE.
Fat chance. This misunderstanding about compatibility and the Coefficient of Expansion has been around for longer than many people have been fusing. They were raised on it. Sadly, it may be around forever, mucking with basic technical information in our field and making it harder for users to solve problems when they occur.
We've never labeled Bullseye glass as "90 COE". At the beginning, we labeled the sheets – and still refer to them today as – TESTED COMPATIBLE. Due to the confusion that arose when other companies entered the market and adopted the term we'd coined, we now label our sheets BULLSEYE COMPATIBLE. My two earlier blogs in this series define exactly what this term means.
Some of you know Ed. He's the fifteen year old serial slasher and resident Grump who's lived with us – and our visiting artists – for as long as we've had a formal artist program and a place to house them here at our Portland hillside home.
Edward in his prime, 2004. The Fullback freeloader, hard-partying, tough loving, namesake of the magical Scissorhands.
Ed's a Collector. He's drawn blood from the elite of the glass art world. His preferred method has always been the bed-snuggle followed by the lightening-swift jaw-lock on exposed flesh, should the recipient have the audacity to roll over in his/her own bed.


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The Wexford Massacre Irish folk Song Lyrics And Guitar Chords. Written by M.J. Barry. Recorded by The Grehan Sisters from Boyle in the County Of Roscommon. Chords by Marc.(use a capo on the 2nd fret 4/4) The sheet music is included.
Oliver Cromwell fineshed the process of the English conquest of Ireland. It had began centuries before in 1169 by Henry 11. By the end of the Sexteeneth century Irish resentment was manifesting itself in full scale rebellion and in attacks on planter settlements throughout Ireland. Men whose land had been stolen from them and given to the English had started to fight back. They had being driven into bogs and woods.This was the start of the rising of 1641.
At the same time England was dealing with it's own civil war. No army was sent to Ireland to put down the rebellion until the English war was over and where Charles 1 was exicuted. The council of state decided to turn it's attention to Ireland. The obvious man to lead the attck on Ireland was Oliver Cromwell who was one of the founders of ''The New Model Army'' and was thaught of as a brilliant military commander who had led it to victory against the king.
He left with his army of 15,000 men on the 12 August 1649 determined to crush the Irish as quickly as possible. He began his campaign of terror by committing one of the greatest atrocities in the entire troubled history of Ireland. The burning and massacre of the town of Drougheda. The savagery of the slaughter that followed it's capture was unlike anything that happened in the English Civil Wars. All the defenders of this garrison and most of it's civilian population were put to death by sword. The few survivors were transported to The West Indies.
Cromwell followed the attack on Drougheda with the massacre of the port town of Wexford. Between 15,000 and 20,000 rebels and civilians were put to death. During his reign of terror Cromwell was in the process of land grabbing for which his name has also become famous in Ireland. All the land that had belonged to Catholics was taken and given to soldiers as payment. Cromwell had no regrets about the severity of his policy in Ireland. He wrote, We came by the assistance of God to hold forth and maintain the lustry and glory of English liberty in a nation where we have undoubted right to do so. On the 18 of May 1650 Oliver Cromwell went home to England. He spent only 9 months in Ireland but the cruelty of his visit is remembered to this day.


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Q: How to process image once selected? I'm retriving image from a IO file manager (one's installed). Anyhow when I try to retrieve an image I'm not sure where it's gone? Or how to save it as a bitmap?
Code below:
public void onClick(View v)
{
    if(v.getId() == R.id.facebook_icon || v.getId() == R.id.facebook_text)
    {
        //Facebook
    }

    if(v.getId() == R.id.camera_icon || v.getId() == R.id.camera_text)
    {
        //Camera
    }

    if(v.getId() == R.id.folder_icon || v.getId() == R.id.folder_text)
    {
        Intent intent = new Intent();
        intent.setType("image/*");
        intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
        startActivityForResult(Intent.createChooser(intent,"Select Picture"), MODE_WORLD_READABLE);
    }
}

protected void onActivityForResult()
{
    //Where is the image? How to get?
    System.out.println("Image gotton");
}

A: First of all, you are not overriding onActivityResult. Note the method signature: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html#onActivityResult(int, int, android.content.Intent)
You should be using @Override annotations so you know when something's wrong.
Try something like:
public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data)
{
    super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
    if (resultCode == RESULT_OK)
    {
        Uri imageUri = data.getData();
        Bitmap bitmap = MediaStore.Images.Media.getBitmap(this.getContentResolver(), imageUri);
    }
}