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Quid Novi? DR. KEN CLOKE DVD SOON! If all goes according to plan, CMC and TVMA soon will have access to a DVD of Dr. Ken Cloke's Knoxville presentation based on his new book (tentatively titled, "At the Crossroads of Conflict: Into the Heart of Conflict). We will be announcing ways for you to view it or buy it. Dr. Cloke has generously allowed distribution. For those of you who attended, you know what a special event this was---for those of you who couldn't make it, I will keep my fingers crossed that the recording is half as wonderful as the workshops were.CMC Board Training, May 9, 2006, 6-9pm, at Lisa and Allan Carroll's home. Terry Holley from East Tennessee Foundation will be conducting our training! TVMA News and Dates TVMA Monthly Meeting, Tuesday, May 16, 2006, TVUUC. TVMA will host a Juvenile Family Law Panel this month, with a Juvenile Court referee and GAL. Refreshments and social time at 6:30pm, election and program meeting at 7pm. At last month's meeting, our board and officers were elected. Please consider joining a committee to assist the volunteer board in their work this year.TVMA's new website is up and running and looking mah-velous, dahling! Check it out at www.tnmediators.com Also check out the Calendar for 2006.
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Association dates: On UT Campus: Sexual abuse conference, Long-Term Health Effects of Childhood Sexual Abuse, 8:30-11:15 am Fri, May 19, Wood Auditorium, UT Medical Center. Speaker: Dr. W. Perry Dickinson, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Free CME/CEU for those who register by May 18. Presented by the UT Graduate School of Medicine Dept. of Family Medicine and the Patterson Domestic Violence and Child Abuse Education Gift Fund. For more info or to register call 974-0280.http://www.tennessee.edu/cme/Patterson2006 Community Shares 6th Annual Circle of Change Awards Saturday, April 29.Stay tuned for time and place! The 2006 Honorees are: Emily Jones, the Danny Mayfield Champion of Change Sharon Redden, the Heart of Change ORNL Community Shares Organizing Team, the Gardener of Change Peggy Mathews, the Roots of Change Fill out an online form to donate an item to the wonderful silent auction , contact them by email or phone them at 865-522-1604 in Knoxville or 615-726-2284 in Nashville.
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Opening of the Family Justice Center
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"We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of our affection. The mystic chords of memory . . . will yet swell the chorus of (our) Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." As collaborative professionals, we can do no better than to help our clients find ways to be touched by the "better angels of their nature". New resource: In Asheville, there is a "new" kind of law practice called Collaborative Law. Check it out and let us know what you think. |
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Jackie Kittrell: jkittrell@2mediate.org Sharon Upshaw: supshaw@2mediate.org Jen Comiskey: jcomiskey@2mediate.org
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In honor of spring and the start of
baseball season! CMC thank yous go out this month to Alan Smith and Jim Johnson who have volunteered to teach an hour-long mediation class to divorcing parents through Child & Family TN's Parenting Education Seminars. PES classes are required to be taken by all divorcing parents in Tennessee, either as a 12 hr series of classes, or a 4 hr series. Read Judge Swann's "Cheap Shoes" essay on the advantages to the child when a parent attends his required 12 hr parenting class. |
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By Don K. Ferguson
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Here is a collection of our favorite
websites for word-lovers! It Figures: Rhetoric Served Up Fresh with a handy list of rhetorical terms for those who want to be "in the know"! Ethnologue: An encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s 6,912 known living languages My favorite! American English Dialect Maps from the Harvard Dialect Survey, and the homepage for Professor Bert Vaux, who created the survey at Harvard but is now at the University of Wisconsin. You can see maps of the US pinpointing where people use different pronunciations, words, etc., and even see the words survey state by state.
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It is always better to say right out what you think without trying to prove anything much: for all our proofs are only variations of our opinions, and the contrary-minded listen neither to one nor the other." ~~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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