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Medicaid was established in 1965 as a jointly funded federal-state program to provide medical assistance to low-income Americans.[1] Each state is responsible for designing and administering its own Medicaid program, subject to certain federal requirements involving issues such as eligibility, level of service provided, and health care provider payments.[2] The federal government pays a portion of whatever qualifying expenditures a state Medicaid program incurs, and the states have the option of providing any additional services.[3]
For the past thirty years, the Medicaid program has been the lifeblood of the United States' health and long-term care delivery system for millions of Americans. Indeed, over thirty-six million Americans received Medicaid benefits in 1995.[4] Medicaid is the only source of medical coverage for many Americans with diverse health care needs. It provides a medical safety net for pregnant women and children, the elderly, and disabled Americans. The program provides preventive care for low-income and moderate-income pregnant women and children, and it provides long-term care for the elderly and persons with disabilities.[5]
Through a federal-state government partnership, Medicaid provides acute-care and preventive care coverage that is similar to the employer-based coverage available to other Americans.[6] Additionally, Medicaid provides to senior citizens and disabled Americans long-term care rarely available through any other source.[7] This long-term care has also been a lifeline for America's fragile elderly. Over sixty percent of the nursing home residents in this country qualify for Medicaid,[8] many qualifying only after their life savings have been depleted by chronic medical conditions.[9] Great strides have been made in improving the quality of care for our elderly who depend upon Medicaid for their survival. For the senior citizens of our nation, Medicaid has been a tremendous success.
Medicaid also successfully provides for the needs of other segments of America. For example, the Qualified Medicaid Beneficiary program, covers Medicaid premiums, deductibles, and co-payments for beneficiaries who have incomes below the federal poverty level.[10] Nearly seventeen million low-income Americans participate in this program.[11] This program has made the difference between preventive care in a doctor's office and intensive care in a hospital emergency room. The many families whose lives have been bettered through the Medicaid program all have their own stories to tell.[12] These families could have been your family, my family, or any other American family.
We cannot turn our backs on older Americans who have given so much to our country. We cannot eliminate preventive care for low-income women and their children. Nor can we retreat from the gains we have made in providing a decent quality of life for developmentally disabled Americans.
Not long ago, when the consensus emerged from across the country to stop warehousing the handicapped in shamefully large institutions, the goal was to get as many people as possible out of institutions and into community-based home settings.[13] The federal-state Medicaid partnership became the framework for change. The Medicaid framework was flexible and able to act as quickly as the states desired. That flexibility is the beauty of the Medicaid federal-state partnership. Some states moved quickly, but unfortunately some did not. However, the results speak for themselves: in 1967 there were over 194,000 mentally retarded or developmentally disabled Americans living in state institutions; in 1990, there were only 86,219.[14]
Furthermore, this incredible effort to deinstitutionalize the handicapped and enable them to lead more independent lives has actually reduced the cost of care. While an institutional bed can cost as much as $92,000,[15] the cost, on average, is $22,000 for a "home waiver" bed where a disabled American can receive needed care in his or her own home.[16] Although these numbers provide some sense of the savings Medicaid has achieved through deinstitutionalization, more impressive is the number of people whose families stayed together—at home—because of Medicaid. Today, some six million disabled Americans are covered under Medicaid.[17] There is a compelling national interest in assuring a humane quality of life for the disabled and infirm.
To tout Medicaid's successes is not to ignore its faults. There is work to be done to improve accountability, combat fraud and waste, and check growth in spending. However, the current proposals to give block grants to the states and dismantle this American success story by eliminating the federal-state partnership would destroy the flexible institutional framework that has been so successful.[18] Furthermore, the proposed block grant funding formula actually rewards states that have taken advantage of flaws in the existing Medicaid program. Part II of this Article discusses the failures of the block grant proposal. Part III describes how we can achieve these goals without discarding the federal-state partnership that has served the people of our nation so well during the past thirty years and how we can continue to provide a medical safety net for poor, elderly, and disabled Americans.
Now Medicaid is under attack. It is hard to understand the justification for the $72 billion that the Republicans wanted to cut from the projected needs of the program.[19] There are those who point to the increase in the Medicaid program and then blindly conclude that the program is bloated and inefficient, with money spent haphazardly at best. However, a thorough examination of the Medicaid program—why it has grown, how it has grown, why it is expected to grow—will lead to the inescapable conclusion that the U.S. Congress cannot cut $72 billion in funds in Medicaid without having infants dying, the elderly neglected, and the disabled unnecessarily institutionalized.[20]
Take the projected needs of the Medicaid program through the year 2002—$899 billion[21]—and then subtract the amount of the proposed cuts—$72 billion. The amount of money is that is left—$827 billion—is now going to pay for $899 billion in projected needs. That simple math illustrates that the proposed block grants will come up short.
An amendment to the first Budget Reconciliation Act of 1996 gave $10.2 billion[22] largely to those states that were the primary abusers of Medicaid disproportionate share hospital funds in the past.[23] In effect, Congress rewarded the very states that manipulated the Medicaid system and abused the Medicaid disproportionate share hospital program (DSH). The intent of DSH payments, instituted by legislation, was to assist hospitals that treat great numbers of Medicaid and low-income, uninsured patients with special needs.[24] Recognizing that these hospitals would have a small privately insured patient base, Congress intended these "disproportionate share" hospitals to have their Medicaid payments supplemented.[25]
In fiscal year 1989, federal funding for Medicaid DSH payments was just $569 million.[26] However, in coming up with their shares of those funds, some states began to see the potential in the use of donations and provider tax revenue as the state shares of Medicaid expenditures.[27] Provider taxes and donations allowed states to increase federal Medicaid funds while backing out of providing their states' matching shares and sometimes effectively pocketing the federal share of money meant for disproportionate share hospitals.[28] What was created with good intentions was creatively abused by states across the nation.[29]
The abuse was so great that between fiscal year 1989 and fiscal year 1992, federal spending for Medicaid disproportionate share hospital payments grew from $400 million to $16.5 billion, more than a 4000 percent increase.[30] In states such as Michigan, Texas, and Tennessee, Medicaid DSH payments actually exceeded regular Medicaid payments for inpatient hospital services.[31] This rapid growth—a 4000 percent increase in just four years—was a tremendous reason for Medicaid's overall spending growth during the period from 1989 to 1993. The Kaiser Commission on the Future of Medicaid estimated that over one-half the annual increase in Medicaid between 1991 and 1992 was due to increases in DSH payments concentrated in about fifteen states.[32] By 1994, DSH payments accounted for twelve percent of total Medicaid spending.[33]
Until 1985, Medicaid rules did not specifically allow the use of donated funds for any purpose other than training.[34] At that time, the Health Care Financing Administration[35] viewed the uses of donated funds for other purposes as a potential opportunity for misuse as a "kickback" by organizations such as long-term-care facilities or data-processing companies that receive Medicaid business.[36] However, by 1985, the Health Care Financing Administration had concluded that the potential for abuse was minimal, and a new regulation was promulgated allowing the use of donated funds for virtually any purpose, provided certain conditions were met.[37]
Soon states developed programs to use donated funds to finance the states' shares of Medicaid spending.[38] States found very creative ways to increase their state contributions and, thereby, the federal matches. In the case of Pennsylvania,
1170 hospitals got together, formed a foundation [and] borrowed some $365 million from a lending institution. They donated the money to the State treasury. The Federal match for Pennsylvania is such that the State got $380 million to match the $365 million they put up. The $365 million that was put up by this group of 170 hospitals went to the 170 hospitals as increased disproportional share payments, so they were made completely whole including the cost of borrowing the money. . . . The $380 million that the Feds put in, the only new money in the system, went to some 260 hospitals in the state . . . to increase rates to hospitals . . . .[39]The General Accounting Office (GAO) noted that states often churned or even laundered federal Medicaid dollars through state hospitals. The GAO found that
financing mechanisms used [by high-DSH states]. . . effectively increased the federal percentage share of Medicaid medical assistance payments . . . . Although Medicaid payments were made in accordance with the federal medical assistance percentage rates, as established by law, our analysis shows that the federal dollars account for a greater share of Medicaid expenditures than ultimately benefitted providers in these states. The financial arrangements we have highlighted resulted in providers only receiving a net benefit from Medicaid payments because they either returned the payments to the state treasury or directed the payments for use in non-Medicaid programs. . . .[40]Based on evaluations of the DSH program, the Health Care Financing Administration warns that
state donation and tax programs . . . have the potential to undermine the basic premise of the Medicaid program—that funding be shared through a Federal Match of state monies. In a matching program, those responsible for expenditure decisions and the direct fiscal management of the program must have a reasonable stake in the costs. This shared responsibility works to shape their decisionmaking to contain costs.[41]As a result of these scams, Congress enacted legislation to create state-specific ceiling limits on each state's spending for DSH-payment adjustments to twelve percent of the state's total Medicaid spending for the year.[42] This limit, combined with other changes in the amount of money a single hospital can receive and the definition of what constitutes a provider tax, has been effective at controlling these costs. In fact, at least eighteen states that have twelve percent of their overall Medicaid spending in DSH payments are capped at the absolute dollars they received in 1993.[43]
Congress is prepared to abandon the successful aspects of the Medicaid program and reward those who abused the Medicaid program in the past. Last fall, this was done in an amendment that decreased the federal reduction in Medicaid payments to states from $187 billion to $176 billion.[44]
Some of the winners and losers are well known by now. In the Senate proposal, approximately $11.2 billion in additional Medicaid dollars would have been distributed over the next seven years to states with two Republican Senators, while states with two Democratic Senators would have lost an additional $3.6 billion.[45] Less well known is the fact that states that have had excessive Medicaid disproportionate share programs in the past would have also been big winners. New Hampshire and Louisiana, the most notorious examples of excess, had special fixes in the Senate bill to excuse those two states from fully matching the federal funding they would have received during the next few years.[46]
Meanwhile, nine other states,[47] all of which have disproportionate share programs that far exceed the national average and some of which have schemed against the federal treasury in the past, would have received $14.8 billion in increased Medicaid funding during the next seven years as a result of the Republican leadership Medicaid plan.[48] Current law caps these "high-DSH" states' programs.[49] However, the Republican deal would have allowed these states to keep and make permanent all of those dollars by including these funds in the states' base allotments and would have allowed them to increase that money annually from this year forward. Thus, it provided a $14.8 billion windfall for nine "high-DSH" states.[50] The rest of the nation's states—mostly "low-DSH" states—would have lost another $3.6 billion from an amendment that added an additional $10.2 billion back to the Medicaid program.[51]
The Senate planned to pay for these supplemental Medicaid allocations by mandating a 2.6% Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) for 1996. Under the Roth amendment, this money was "found" when the Senate declared that the cost-of-living adjustment for 1996 would be 2.6%, which was lower than the 3.1% projected when the budget bills began moving through Congress last spring.[52] The result of the lower COLA, said proponents, would be lower outlays for programs tied to the Consumer Price Index (CPI), such as Social Security.[53] At first glance, this sounds great—let's recognize the economic reality that COLAs will be lower next year than anticipated. Upon closer inspection, however, the logic fails and it becomes clear that the funding was either phony or, more likely, a raid on the Social Security Trust Fund.
In order to understand this, a brief explanation of how the budget is scored is in order. In April, 1995, the Congress established an economic baseline.[54] This baseline forecasts the level of federal revenues and expenditures for the next seven years and is grounded on current law and current and projected economic data.[55] In making these economic projections, the Congressional Budget Office makes assumptions regarding a number of factors.[56] Some of the factors include inflation, interest rates, gross domestic product (GDP), and revenues.[57] From that baseline, the Congressional Budget Office can estimate the impact that changes in law will have on federal revenues or expenditures.[58]
Since the economic baseline was established, some of the assumptions have turned out to be high and others low. For example, at the end of 1995, inflation was lower than expected, gross domestic product was slightly higher than expected and interest rates were higher than projected.[59] While it is true that the fact that the 1996 COLA will be 2.6% rather than 3.1% will result in $13 billion in lower outlays, this will be more than offset by other factors (e.g., higher interest rates) that increase outlays or decrease revenues.[60] Thus, the Senate's financing of the additional Medicaid funds is phony.
So where does this money come from? Let's look at the language of the Roth amendment:
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the case of any program within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Finance of the United States Senate which is adjusted for any increase in the consumer price index for all urban wage earners and clerical workers (CPI-W) for the United States city average for all items, any such adjustment which takes effect during fiscal year 1996 shall be equal to 2.6 percent.[61]This clearly specifies that the money would come from programs, or outlays—not Department of Defense outlays, or funding for roads and bridges, or foreign aid, which are not in the jurisdiction of the Finance Committee. The overwhelming majority of the outlays within the jurisdiction of the Finance Committee—an amount totaling $12 of the $13 billion—is for Social Security.[62] So the only conclusion is that the Senate took $12 billion from the Social Security Trust Fund to pay for more Medicaid allocations.[63]
How can a 0.5% reduction in the CPI constitute a raid on the Social Security Trust Fund? The Roth amendment took into account only outlays impacted by the lower 2.6% COLA. But there are other ramifications of a lower COLA. For example, many workers' salaries are tied to the CPI. And if those salaries rise by only 2.6% rather than 3.1%, then payroll taxes will be lower and, consequently, less money will flow into the Social Security Trust Fund than would have occurred if the COLA had been 3.1%.
The correct question is not how a lower COLA will impact Social Security outlays. The proper question is what the net effect of all of the economic changes this year would have been to the Social Security Trust Fund. The answer has two components: outlays and revenues. The Social Security outlays would have been reduced by a total of $18 billion—$12 billion from the COLA reduction to 2.6% and $6 billion from other changes.[64] However, the economic data accumulated since March, 1995 also will affect revenues and, according to the Congressional Budget Office, updating the economic baseline will result in a $62 billion dollar decrease in Social Security Trust Fund revenues during the next seven years.[65] Accordingly, the net effect of revising Congressional economic estimates to the Social Security Trust Fund is a decrease of $44 billion.[66] So, if we want to face economic reality, the Social Security Trust Fund would have $44 billion less in it than our budget assumed. And, while the Social Security Trust Fund is losing $44 billion as a result of economic changes since March, 1995, the Senate approved diverting an additional $12 billion from the Trust Fund.
The Republicans cannot have it both ways. If the proposed reduction in the COLA was not a real cut in spending but merely reflected reality, then it did not represent savings and should not qualify to offset real, new Medicaid spending. If, however, the proposed reduction in the COLA was real, then it constituted a diversion of funds from the Social Security Trust Fund.[67]
Currently, Congress is considering a Republican Medicaid reform proposal that is substantially the same as that passed and vetoed in the first session of Congress. Congress should not enact this block grant proposal, but rather should look for an alternative allocation solution.
The only way to reform Medicaid is to restrain growing costs without jeopardizing the successful aspects of Medicaid. The Senate is not irrevocably wedded to block grants; there is a better way. The foundation of the block grant proposal—enhanced flexibility for the states—is built on shaky ground, eroding every day. Shaky, that is, unless you define "flexibility" as the freedom to raise state taxes or local property taxes, or the flexibility to pit the elderly against child beneficiaries. Otherwise, there is scant flexibility the states can receive that they cannot already get under the waiver program.[68] The Department of Health and Human Services has pioneered with willing states extraordinary demonstration projects, where statutory and regulatory requirements can be waived to permit new approaches to health care.
In November 1995, I met with Mr. Bruce Vladeck, Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration. My question to him was a simple one: what flexibility to allow innovation would the block grants give states that they cannot get today through the waiver program. His answer: precious little.[69] And what do the states give up in exchange for this marginal new flexibility? The answers include: 1) the federal partnership to assist them if they experience caseload growth; 2) the federal partnership during times of economic hardship or recession; and 3) the federal partnership when there is a natural disaster.[70]
When Hurricane Andrew hit Miami, Florida's Medicaid caseload shot up by 12,000 people.[71] Under block grants, a state that is knocked to its knees by a flood, a riot, an earthquake, or a hurricane, would not find a helping hand from the federal government at a time it needed help getting back onto its feet.
So if block grants are this bad, is the only alternative "business as usual" in Medicaid? No; there is a way to have the best of both worlds—to contain costs while maintaining the federal-state partnership. The best of both worlds is the "per capita cap" proposal that is gaining momentum as the "win-win" answer to the block grant's "lose-lose" proposition. The per capita cap approach provides that health care and coverage can be protected and costs controlled by disciplining the program with an annual limit in federal spending per beneficiary.
This approach maintains the individual guarantee to Medicaid coverage and creates incentives for states to maintain health care coverage. Funding would follow the patient, not some bureaucratic entity. The per capita cap approach that I presented to the Senate in November 1995 saves $62 billion over the next seven years.[72] It enhances state flexibility and reduces the rate of growth in federal Medicaid spending to a level that is sustainable for the states, the beneficiaries, and the federal government. It assures that states with innovative demonstrations already underway can continue to operate their programs and that other states wishing to innovate have the resources and ability to do so.
Let me briefly outline how the per capita cap approach would work. Federal funding would be allocated to states on a per person-in-need basis. If, hypothetically, it costs $1000 to provide Medicaid benefits to a person in California, the federal government would allocate its share of money, or $500 in this case, for each person who qualifies for Medicaid in the state. If needs increase because of population shifts, recession, natural disaster, or public health calamity and more people become eligible for coverage, the federal partnership and contribution of $500 per person would be guaranteed—not as under a block grant where a fixed sum is allocated regardless of circumstance. The incentive is to reduce costs and not cut people off coverage because if states arbitrarily cut people off, they lose the federal match. Costs are what must be controlled. If, for example, California were to spend more than $1000 per person cap, California would make up that difference. Again, under a per capita cap, the money follows the need and person. As a result, during economic booms, or when health needs decline, the federal government would share in the savings—also not as under the block grant system that obligates money regardless of the needs of the residents of the state or the payments made by the state.
The cap would be stated in inflation terms on an annual basis in order to protect states from potential inflation increases. The cap would be cumulative and thus allow states enough flexibility to apply savings under the cap from one year to the next. Caps would be applied separately to the elderly, the disabled, children, and their mothers. This separation into four distinct groups avoids the sinister "zero sum game" that is endemic to block grants—a game in which one group's interests are pitted against the others'.
This formula may appear complicated, but it really is a clone of the way states allocate and distribute school dollars to the districts.[73] In fact, with only four categories to consider, it is far simpler than most "per pupil" school district formulas.[74] The per capita cap idea is also one that should be familiar to many of my Republican colleagues. It is a concept that was supported in health proposals introduced by Senators Dole, Gramm, and Chafee in 1994.[75]
The Medicaid per capita cap approach permits the states to move toward managed care and other types of arrangements that save money without needing federal waivers.[76] Another advantage to the per capita cap approach is that many other detailed rules and process-oriented requirements would be phased out. States would be held accountable for performance outcomes with respect to certain quality and access measures.[77] The federal government would be interested in the outcomes of state health and long-term care delivery systems but would not be mandating how to achieve those outcomes.
Finally, the per capita cap approach would cap and retarget future growth in the DSH program. The per capita cap approach would assure that children, low-income women, and disabled and elderly Americans would have continued coverage for hospital, physicians, and nursing home care services. This approach would cut costs, not people.
The $62 billion reduction in spending achieved through the per capita cap approach amounts to a surgical cut, not the meat-ax approach of the $72 billion cut under the block grant legislation that passed the Senate in 1995.[78] Further, the per capita cap approach would continue the federal-state partnership in detecting fraud and punishing defrauders. Medicaid fraud, DSH abuse, and unconstrained spending amount to a cancer on our nation's health and long-term care delivery system. However, it is a treatable, not terminal, condition. In our zeal to cure this affliction, let's not kill the patient in the process. Let's not kill the very federal-state partnership that has served this nation so well for thirty years. After all, behind the $72 billion in cuts are human beings who will pay the price for our haste.
In addressing the Medicaid and welfare block grant debates, David Broder of the Washington Post wrote eloquently of the fear that under block grants, "the states will engage in a 'race to the bottom' that shreds the social safety net."[79] He predicted the likeliest scenario under block grants as follows: "What would happen when federal funding is reduced and federal standards are eliminated is that the 50 legislatures would become the arena, each year, in which the welfare population would have to compete against other claimants for scarce dollars."[80]
I share his bleak view of the future in America under block grants. You cannot have a race to the bottom without casualties along the way. Along the way in the block grant "race to the bottom" will be eyeglasses for the elderly and unfilled prescriptions formerly covered under Medicaid. Such benefits will not survive the race to the bottom, and the individual losses will be great and even overwhelming. Along the way in the block grant "race to the bottom" will be families torn apart by unnecessary nursing home placements and institutionalization. Home health care and other Medicaid waiver services will not survive the race to the bottom. Along the way in the block grant "race to the bottom" will be ugly legislative sessions in fifty state legislatures, where, among the conflicts, the elderly will be pitted against children and the mentally retarded against AIDS sufferers in a battle royal for the block-grant dollar.
Is that what we want for America? The race to the bottom has yet to begin, and it need never begin. There is another way. Per capita cap legislation is our way out of the "race to the bottom" and is our ticket to a twenty-first century that maintains an American federal-state stake in the health and welfare of its citizens.


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(KTVI) – Women will soon have unprecedented opportunities to serve on the front line during battle. U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will make that announcement Thursday.
The groundbreaking move recommended by the Joint Chief's of Staff overturns a 1994 rule prohibiting women from being assigned to smaller ground combat units. Retired U.S. Army soldier Lori Patterson gives her reaction.

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Friday, November 11, 2011
Opening Reception Tonight - MULTIPLICITY / Hang It Up at gallery One One
TONIGHT! Opening Reception for MULTIPLICITY/Hang It Up at gallery One One.
It also happens to be 11/11/11, and for those of you that don't know, our gallery was named "gallery One One" for our LOVE of the number eleven! All good things converge tonight- art, holiday gift items, and eleven, eleven, eleven!
Join us from 6-9pm tonight to browse, shop, eat, drink, and enjoy demos in glass and steel. See you then.
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Thursday, November 3, 2011
MULTIPLICITY Opening next week!
It's almost time! Here's a sneak peek to get you excited for the show.
Don't forget to invite your friends and family to join us for the Opening Reception on Friday, November 11 from 6-9pm
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Faculty and Staff Profiles
February 2008
This listing summarizes the recent (since January 2006) work of the University of Maine at Presque Isle (UMPI) faculty and professional staff. The listing is in two parts. The first, In Service to Aroostook County and Maine, reports on work that directly serves the people of Aroostook County and Maine. The second section of the listinge, A Community of Scholars, reports on the scholarly work of the faculty and professional staff that reaches around the State of Maine, the United States, and the world.
This listing by no means reports on the full duties of faculty and staff. Most prominently, we do not summarize the teaching, counseling, and mentoring activity that is done for our 1500 students. Nor, do we address the wide variety of contributions that faculty and staff provide in the administration of the University of Maine System and UMPI. Finally, the description of service to the community reports only matters that draw directly on the professional expertise of the member of faculty or staff. This would be a far longer report if we made mention of the work of UMPI employees as citizen volunteers, leaders of social organizations, civic groups, and religious organizations, and public officials and participants in governmental activities.
In Service to Aroostook County and Maine
Professor Dick Ayre draws on his criminal justice expertise to serve on The Youth Network Case Resolution Committee and as Director of the Aroostook County Mentoring Program in collaboration with the State Department of Corrections. Dick also served on the Ad Hoc Security Committee for the Nordic Heritage Center Biathlon program.
Professor Sue Beaudet provides physiological assessments for biathletes and cross-country skiers working with the Maine Winter Sports Center. Sue's expertise also allows her to officiate at ski races at the MWSC venues. She also works with the Girl Scouts of Maine in teaching canoeing, kayaking, orienteering, and other outdoor skills.
As of 2007, Professor Barbara Blackstone is a Site Visitor for the National Athletic Trainers Association's Commission on Accreditation for Athletic Training Education. She will visit other accredited Athletic Training programs across the United States and triangulate information for the accreditation process. Barbara also has presented programs on health issues for the Easton School Department and the Maine School Nurses Association.
Coach Mike Carlos has been the Director of the Men's Summer Basketball League. Mike has also been a consultant to the Micmac Tribe and a Board Member of the Boys & Girls Club.
Professor Jean Cashman is a member of the Aroostook County Critical Incident Stress Debriefing Team and a member of the Advisory Council of the Central Aroostook Mentoring Program. Jean has presented workshops on ethics to The Aroostook Medical Center. She was presented with a Merit Award by the Governor in 2007 for her work with Emergency Management Services in Aroostook County. She also served as the guest speaker at the UNE MSW graduation ceremony in May 2007.
Professor Barbara Smith Chalou is a member of Maine Reading First, the statewide literacy group that serves the Maine Department of Education. Barbara has also created the partnership with the Fort Fairfield Elementary Schools to sponsor reading tutorial programs and the annual UMPI Literacy Day.
Upward Bound Director Darylen Cote serves on the Women's Employment Issues Subcommittee of the Maine Jobs Council representing TRiO programs.
Professor and Honors Program Director Melissa Crowe facilitated a monthly workshop, specially designed for area women, that studies fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Library and Information Services Executive Director Greg Curtis is Treasurer and Board Member of the Turner Library in Presque Isle. He consults with the Maine State Librarian on library policies. Greg has presented testimony to the Maine State Legislature on library and higher education issues.
Professor Claire Davidshofer organized Foreign Language Day for area high schools. The purpose of the day was to expose students to the languages and cultures of 21 foreign nations. Claire has also assisted Maine Public Service in translating important customer messages about rights and services into French.
Professor Bill Davidshofer has organized political internships in the regional offices of Senators Snowe and Collins and Congressman Michaud. Bill also organized and participated in several colloquia on Russia and Eastern Europe for local business and government leaders. He and Professor Claire Davidshofer lead UMPI's participation in Partnership Maine France Quebec to promote collaborative activities. Maine is the only state university system in the nation with such a program.
Professor Lynn Eldershaw worked with local meditation instructor Ray Gribetz to facilitate a free five-week series in meditation for the community in Fall 2007.
Professor Clare Exner is working with President Don Zillman on a professional development course in communication skills to be offered to the region's young professionals during Spring 2008. The course is being created and facilitated in collaboration with Momentum Aroostook.
Librarian Virginia Fischer serves as the UMPI representative to coordinate the annual lecture presented jointly with The Aroostook Medical Center. This year's lecture brought psychologist and ethicist Dr. Samuel Natale to campus and the community.
Professor Alan Gordon is a member of the Maine Department of Education's Committee to develop Maine Learning Results. He has worked with Steve Richard to organize the Special Olympics soccer event at UMPI. Alan started the Aroostook Youth Basketball League and has organized several youth soccer programs and clinics.
Professor Linda Graves is Co-Director of the Medical Laboratory Technology Program of Maine. Linda serves on the Board of the Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems, the advisory committee for Eastern Maine Medical Center and associated hospitals.
Professor Tomasz Herzog has collaborated with the Caribou School System Partnership for College Success program. He has worked with Upward Bound on a new social studies unit and lesson plans. Tomasz also gave a mini-class on Polish language and culture during the event sponsored by the University of Maine at Presque Isle and the Aroostook County Foreign Language Teacher Association.
Professor Deborah Hodgkins has organized collaborative programs with high school English faculty members. Deborah serves on the Composition Coalition, a statewide group of writing specialists from the University of Maine and Community College Systems. Her collaborative efforts seek to better prepare high school students for writing at the college and professional levels.
Professor Michael Knopp is the Assistant Curator for Chemistry at the Northern Maine Museum of Science. Michael has taught chemistry to Caribou High School students and faculty, and to home-schooled students and students in the Upward Bound program.
Professor Lisa Leduc serves as President of the Board of Directors for the Battered Women's Project and volunteers on their 24-hour hotline. Lisa is working with students to put together a Job Fair for the new Women's Re-entry Center in Bangor, which serves as a transitional program for female inmates being released.
Ms. Danette Madore has served as President of the Maine Educational Opportunity Association and the Maine representative on the New England Educational Opportunity Association. Danette has represented the Maine TRiO program at TRiO Day in Augusta and in Washington, D.C.
Professor Kevin McCartney is the Founder and Director of the Northern Maine Science Museum and the creator of the Maine Solar System Model, a scale model of the solar system that stretches along Rt. 1 from Presque Isle to Topsfield. Kevin has facilitated the visits to campus of several noted scientists, including Wesley Huntress, President of the Planetary Society and Alan Stern, lead scientist for the NASA mission to Pluto.
Mr. Michael McCormack coordinates the Partnership for College Success program, sponsored by the Nellie Mae Education Foundation with technical assistance provided by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. The Program allows UMPI to partner with the Caribou School System to examine ways to support college access and success, especially for underserved and first generation students. Mike also coordinates the early college program that works with 14 central and southern Aroostook County schools through the sponsorship of the National Governors' Association.
Professor Karen McCosker serves as a Board Member of the Battered Women's Project. Karen also serves as a scholar for the New Books, New Readers program, a Maine Humanities Council literacy program involving Caribou Adult Education and the Loring Job Corps Center.
Professor Robert Murray is working with students on three local economic development projects. In one project, a management information systems major is designing a website for the Loring Military Heritage Center. In another, a business major is conducting research on whether there is market interest among providers and customers in Aroostook County for "green landscaping" services. In the third, four recreation majors are completing a tourism marketing project by developing a historic walking tour in downtown Limestone with the assistance of History Professor Kim Sebold and the Limestone Historical Society.
Professor Sushil Oswal was invited by the Labor Department to deliver the plenary address of the all agency meeting of the Division for the Blind held in Augusta in September 2007. The topic of his address was Social and Cultural Barriers for Blind Individuals in Higher Education.
Professor Kim-Anne Perkins is a Board Member of the Battered Women's Project. She served as a Consultant to the Northern Maine Medical Center and Hospice of Aroostook. She is the president of the Central Aroostook chapter of the Maine division of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill and the Aroostook Counseling and Evaluation Services. Kim-Anne served as President of the National Rural Social Work Caucus and the Maine chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. Currently, she is a second term Board Member of the National Associates of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors.
Emeritus Professor Ken Petress presented programs on China to two Upward Bound Rally groups in November 2006. Upward Bound encourages college aspirations for high school students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Professor Robert Pinette is Curator of the Herbarium at the Northern Maine Museum of Science. The collection houses 20,000 specimens of plants, fungi, and lichens native to northern Maine. He has been interviewed numerous times about botany related question by WAGM-TV and frequently identifies plants and fungi for members of the public. He often gives talks to local garden clubs related to plant taxonomy and mycology (molds and mushrooms).
Professor David Putnam has completed archaeological surveys for the Maine Department of Transportation; conducted archaeological testing with students for a proposed ATV/snowmobile bridge over the Meduxnekeag River in Houlton to remove recreational traffic from the nearby I-95 Bridge; and conducted an archaeological and glacial geology survey of the Debsconeag Wilderness area for the Maine Chapter of the Nature Conservancy. David has served on the Maine School of Science and Mathematics Board of Trustees. He also served on the citizens' advisory committee convened by the Maine Department of Conservation to redraft management plans for state lands in northern Maine. David and Jeanie McGowan annually provide a day-long "Archaeology Road Show" at UMPI for the professional assessment of privately owned archaeological artifacts.
Professor JoAnne Putnam is preparing an early childhood curriculum, Our Future, which incorporates Mi'gmag culture, language, and knowledge. She consults with local schools on Indigenous Education and teaching students with special needs. She has served on the Board of the Aroostook Child Development Services and currently serves on The James School Board.
Ms. Rachel Rice, media relations coordinator, is a member of the steering committee for Momentum Aroostook, part of a statewide initiative that aims to strengthen the network of young people in Maine workplaces and entice more young professionals to locate in the state.
Professor Raymond Rice has served as an English instructor for the Aroostook Regional Gifted and Talented Program. He is a Member of the Advisory Board of the journal Contemporary Philosophy and has assisted its relocation to the UMPI campus. Rice also serves as a delegate to the MEA Representative Assembly and is participating in the Emerging Leaders Academy of the National Education Association (NEA).
Professor Shirley Rush has spoken to numerous community groups about her cross-country bicycle trip as a fundraiser for Breast Cancer Awareness. She has spoken to other community groups on social work topics. Shirley recently served on the committee that organized the university's first-ever Native American Appreciation Day for the community.
Professor Allen Salo worked with his students throughout the spring and fall of 2007 to develop and administer a satisfaction survey on behalf of the City of Presque Isle, saving municipal officials an estimated $15,000. The survey evaluated the level of satisfaction local residents have concerning city services.
Professor Leo Saucier coordinated the first annual UMPI Track & Field Day. The program introduced over 80 elementary students to athletics and healthy lifestyles. Leo also completed several "how to" digital videos that have been made available online to physical education teachers around the world. Last year, he taught a mini-class on folk dances during Foreign Language Day, sponsored by the Aroostook County Foreign Language Teacher Association.
Professor Kim Sebold is working with her students on a historical research projects for the towns of Fort Fairfield and Limestone to help them prepare for their respective sesquicentennials.
Mr. Chris Smith, women's and men's cross country running coach, has served as race director of the University's Spring Runoff 5K Road Race since 1988. Chris also is the President of the Aroostook Musterds running club and has compiled the Aroostook Challenge Road Race Series points standings from 2004 through the present. He recently facilitated sessions on weight training and cross country running for the Aroostook County Action Program's Aroostook Partnerships Extravaganza Youth Summit. He also organized soccer and hoop shoot competitions for the Elk's Club.
Professor Christine Standefer oversaw a practicum during Fall 2007 that allowed her physical education students to offer gym classes to about 50 local home schooled students. In November 2007, she was named president-Elect of MAHPERD, the Maine Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.
Professor Franklin Thompson offered workshops and presentations to the Presque Isle school system and to the local chapter of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. Topics have included Understanding Bipolar Disorder, Asperger's Disorder, Autism, Learning Disabilities, and Accessing Special Education Services. Franklin is the School Psychologist for MSAD 1 and also serves SAD 32, Ashland, under a cooperative agreement with SAD 1.
Professor JoAnne Wallingford has worked with students in developing several databases for local civic groups. JoAnne aided in the redesign of the Presque Isle Area Chamber of Commerce web site. She also has assisted the Future Business Leaders of America in their high school competitions.
Professor Chunzeng Wang has prepared laboratory manuals for Fundamentals of GIS. He has worked with numerous local groups to introduce GIS skills and applications. This summer, he and two of his students saved the City of Presque Isle about $25,000 by completing a geodatabase so city workers could better maintain roadway infrastructures and their storm water management system. Chunzeng now is working to create a GIS lab so municipal officials from around Aroostook County can receive training on how to use GPS and GIS technology.
Athletic Director Rich Ward serves in the Central Aroostook Mentoring Program.
Mrs. Tammy Ward was Chair of the Maine Educational Opportunity Association which gathered 60 educational opportunity leaders from around Maine to explore the theme of Planting the Seeds of Hope: Celebrating the Harvest. Tammy is also a member of the Bridges Transitions Council, which helps youth with mild to severe disabilities with secondary education and independent living.
Professor Anja Whittington is currently serving as Consultant for Baxter State Park's work on an economic impact study to evaluate the ways in which the Park contributes to the economic viability of the local area. She serves on the Board of Directors for Girl Scouts of Maine and the International Appalachian Trail Club. She is also on the leadership team for the Girls Collaborative Project of Maine. Anja is working with her students on a service learning project with the Battered Women's Project to offer children's recreational programs. She also worked with the Maine Winter Sports Center to organize a Women's Cross Country Ski Day this winter as a fundraiser for the Battered Women's Project.
President Don Zillman participates in the Aroostook Partners for Progress and LEAD [Leaders Encouraging Aroostook Development]. He provides expert legal opinion for Bangor Radio Station WVOM. He helped lead the University of Maine System effort to create a graduate program for K-12 teachers living near UMPI, UMFK, and UMM. Don served on the Presque Isle Chamber of Commerce Board in 2006-07. He is currently serving on the Board of the Maine School for Science and Math.
A Community of Scholars
Professor Sue Beaudet studies the physiological assessment of biathletes and cross-country skiers. Her studies have allowed her to pursue research at the high performance laboratory in Vuokatti, Finland.
Professor Clifton Boudman, founder of the University's Fine Art Program, organizes and leads annual University art study tours to cultural centers throughout the United Kingdom, Ireland, Europe and the Near East. In May 2008, he heads to Egypt for his 36th annual fine art tour. His latest-one person show An Uncanny Resemblance was on display in the Reed Gallery this fall.
Professor Jean Cashman was Keynote Speaker at the University of New England (Social Work Program) Annual Community Day. She presented a workshop at the 30th National Institute on Social Work and Human Services in Rural Areas.
Professor Barbara Smith Chalou published Struwwelpeter: Humor or Horror? 160 Years Later with Lexington Books. The scholarly monograph analyzes the 19th century cautionary tales. She is working on another book titled Absent Mothers, Burning Girls, and Cinderella and is working on an article titled Agency, Alienation, and the Learning Process with colleague Dick Ayre. She helped to develop subject assessments for beginning teachers as part of the Praxis Series, serving on a committee for Educational Testing Service. She is a member of the national advisory board for the reading Praxis, is university coordinator for the Maine Literacy Partnership, is campus coordinator for the master's outreach program, and serves as the liaison between Mahidol University and Lertlah schools in Bangkok, Thailand and UMPI for a student teaching practicum partnership.
Professor and Honors Director Melissa Crowe published her poem Old Man and Nurse in the Atlanta Review, her poem Labor Aubade appeared in the Crab Orchard Review, and her essay Stabat Mater Dolorosa appeared in the Seneca Review. In December of 2006, she received a writing grant from the Barbara Deming/Money for Women Fund to finish her book of poetry Cirque du Creve-Coeur, scheduled for publication this winter by Dancing Girl Press.
Mr. Greg Curtis, Library and Information Services Executive Director, serves as a book reviewer for American Reference Books Annual. This standard treatise is published by Libraries Unlimited. He recently attended training for LIBQUAL survey administration (a system-wide libraries initiative) and coordinated the administration and results for this campus.
Professor Bill Davidshofer is working on a textbook, Marxism and the Leninist Revolutionary Model. He plans a visit to France to continue his published studies of the ideology of the French Communist Party. He also finished two Advanced Placement primers for the College Board, one on the European Union and the other on Modern European Governments. Each thirty- to forty-page piece is meant to serve as a primer for high school teachers.
Professor Claire Davidshofer traveled to Louisville, Kentucky in June 2007 to correct the AP French placement tests.
Professor John Defelice serves on the Educational Testing Service's Test Development Committee for European History. He is the national College Board Associate for this discipline. He has spoken at three major conventions on behalf of the Board in the area of professional development. John recently had a chapter titled Inns and Taverns published in The World of Pompeii from publisher Routledge. Another chapter he authored, titled Women, Slaves and Society in Rome's Empire and the Early Church, was published in 2007 in The Light of Discovery: Studies in Honor of Edwin M. Yamauchi from Pickwick Publications. This summer, he will teach a seminar course for college students and area high school faculty on how to prepare to teach AP History.
Professor Lynn Eldershaw presented preliminary findings from her research conducted in Alberta on palliative home care at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Conference held in Toronto, Ontario in November 2007. She co-authored the article Through a Painted Window: On Narrative, Medicine and Method, which appears in a 2007 issue of International Journal of Qualitative Methods. Her chapter Shambhala International: The Golden Sun of the Great East will be published in the forthcoming book Wild Geese: The Study of Buddhism in Canada by McGill Queens University Press.
Librarian Virginia Fischer serves as a book reviewer for American Reference Books Annual, published by Libraries Unlimited.
Professor Emeritus Stuart R. Gelder studies the biology of non-parasitic, crayfish worms that live on freshwater crayfish in the northern hemisphere. During the last 25 years, he has had 24 UMPI undergraduate assistants, of whom 10 became co-authors on research papers, and five graduate students based at other universities. He has authored or co-authored about 70 research papers, including a chapter in the leading book on North American freshwater fauna, and is currently working on a monograph about crayfish worms. His work has appeared in such journals as Invertebrate Biology, the International Journal of Limnology and in a workbook for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
Professor Andy Giles' photographic and historical work documenting World War II in the Pacific has received national attention. He has served as an exhibit consultant for the new U.S. National Park Service's American Memorial Park Museum on Saipan. The Mayor of Tinian Island, Northern Marianas retained Professor Giles to help organize the 60th anniversary commemoration of the atomic strike missions. He has completed two documentaries - one of them a Telly Award winner - about World War II in the Pacific. This work has made him a regular tour guide for veterans' visits to the Pacific Islands prominent in the Pacific War. His 20-year retrospective exhibition at the Reed Gallery was praised in the prestigious journal Art in America. His photographic exhibit portraying life in Aroostook County has been shown at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport and at the June Fitzpatrick Gallery in Portland.
Professor Linda Graves recently finished writing and editing Clinical Chemistry with co-author Robert Sunheimer of the State University of New York. Her third book for the Clinical Laboratory Sciences Series for Prentice Hall has the expected publication date of August 2008.
Professor Tomasz Herzog coauthored, along with 3 other Polish scholars, a book Praca w Polsce - Dobry Start (Working in Poland - a Good Beginning), which was published in Fall 2007 by Warsaw University Press, Poland. A new training program for social workers based on this book has started in Poland. Tomasz contributed to another book, also published in Poland, writing on Forms of Help to the Elderly - from Experiences of the American Catholic Organizations. His book review will be published in the peer reviewed Przeglad Politologiczny (Political Science Review), Poland. He also serves on the Praxis Social Studies National Advisory Committee and wrote an article on sociopolitical changes in Central Europe after 1989 for the College Board/AP European History.
Professor Michael Knopp engages in synthetic organic chemistry research at Oswego State University. His primary focus has been on reactions involving highly toxic thallium. His work seeks to replace thallium with other metals to reduce the risks of toxicity. Recent research has explored the role of the nitrate ion in thallium reactions. Professor Knopp also attended a POGIL [Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Laboratory] conference in October 2007 at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut.
Professor Lisa Leduc has presented several papers at the American Society of Criminology. Topics include: Feminist Pedagogy, Restorative Justice, Pardon Reform, Violence Against Women, and Sexual Assault Policy. She attends the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences conference in March 2008 to co-present, with one of the University's seniors, a paper on parole options for Maine.
Dr. Zhu-Qi Lu's paper New Constructive Proof of Graham's Theorem and More New Classes of Functionally Complete Functions was published in the September 2007 issue of the Journal of Mathematical Sciences and Mathematics Education.
Professor Kevin McCartney adds to his list of almost forty peer reviewed articles. His primary recent work involves silicoflagellates, microscopic fossils found in deep ocean sediments. The research takes place in connection with the Ocean Drilling Program. Under Kevin's guidance, one recent student, Robb Engel, discovered a new species of silicoflagellate. Professor McCartney also is the author of two chapters in the second edition of Fossil Prokaryotes and Protists.
Professor Karen McCosker is the author of poems in the books Blues for Bill: A Tribute to William Matthews and Never Before: Poems about First Experiences. She presented her work at the Maine Historical Society in Portland. Her poem Adagio was published in the April 2007 issue of Bangor Metro.
Professor Sushil Oswal's most recent publication is One Tribe Among the Host of Living Tribes in the book Writing Environments, edited by Sidney Dobrin and Christopher Keller for SUNY Press in Albany. The college division of the National Council of the Teachers of English has appointed Sushil to its Committee on Best Practices for Online Writing Instruction for a period of three years. The committee will make recommendations for improving online writing instruction across the country and produce a book-length bibliography of resources for university and college professors. Professor Oswal is responsible for the chapter on accessibility in this bibliography.
Mr. David Ouellette, executive director of the Central Aroostook Council on Education, a partnership between seven local public school systems and the University, has presented research on generational poverty and the implications for instructional strategies to audiences of pre-K to12 teachers and educators throughout Maine. Last summer, he conducted a session at the Annual Summer Institute in Human Rights for Teachers at St. Thomas University in New Brunswick.
Professor Emeritus Ken Petress is the author of five publications since 2006. They include The Value of Precise Language Usage in Reading Improvement, Perils of Teaching Mandates in the Journal of Instructional Psychology, and Questions and Answers: The Substance of Knowledge and Relationships in College Student Journal.
Professor Robert Pinette's research goal is to document the fungi and plants of northern Maine. He is preparing a web site on mushrooms, titled mainelymushrooms.com, which is expected to launch in 2009.
Professor David Putnam arranged a partnership with the University of Toronto to conduct geophysical remote sensing on the rock glaciers of the Deboullie Lakes Ecological Reserve and at several archaeological sites in Aroostook County in July 2007. He and his son, Aaron, a Ph.D. student at UMaine and Columbia University, collaborated on a journal article reporting the Deboullie Lakes rock glacier data. They plan to submit the manuscript to the Journal of Quaternary Research in the spring of 2008. Professor Putnam authored three technical reports in 2007, and co-authored the grant proposal for the CAMSP grant, a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) partnership with the public schools. He also delivered a keynote lecture "Exploring the culture history of a boreal refugium in interior northern Maine" at the Maine Archaeological Society's fall meeting at the University of Maine at Farmington.
Professor JoAnne Putnam is the author of four books and nine book chapters. Her latest chapter is Cooperative Learning for Inclusion, to appear February 2008 in The Psychology of Inclusion: New Directions in Theory and Practice published by Routledge Falmer with faculty at Cambridge and Birmingham Universities, UK. .Professor Putnam presented lectures at five cities in Sweden on the topic of inclusive education. Her research in that area recently brought a delegation of 35 Swedish principals to campus and the New Sweden School District to learn about inclusive education research and practices in Maine. Professor Putnam was the keynote speaker at the St. Johns, Newfoundland conference on Students with Down Syndrome.
Media Relations Coordinator Rachel Rice gave a presentation on public relations and working with the news media during Delta Kappa Gamma's statewide workshop held in Belfast in October 2007.
Professor Raymond Rice recently published two papers: The Challenge of Philosophy at 'Service U' in Contemporary Philosophy as well as Anton Bruckner, Hegelian Dialectics, and the Politics of the Academy in The Bruckner Journal. His paper Franco Solinas Has a Bullet for You, Gringo, which he co-authored with UMPI alumnus Theodore Van Alst, has been submitted to Film Quarterly. His paper Symptoms of Love and Hate in Romeo and Juliet is under review by Shakespeare Quarterly. Professor Rice has presented his work at academic conferences in San Diego, Nashua, New Hampshire, and Storrs, Connecticut. He is also working on two book-length projects: a manuscript with Theodore Van Alst titled The Good, the Bad, and the Left: Gringo/Meticcio Dialectics in the Spaghetti Western (Peter Lang Publishing) and Anxious Subjects: Revenge and the Market Place in Jacobean Drama.
Professor Leo Saucier has created the Digital Video Resource for use in physical education classes. The Resource is part of the UMPI Physical Education website and discusses movement skills.
Professor Kim Sebold prepared a consultant's report for the Maine Department of Wildlife and Inland Fisheries entitled Cultural Use of Nonesuch River Marsh. She is currently gathering land records pertaining to the uses of the salt marshes along the Delaware Bay. The project will compare the uses of the Delaware Bay marshes with the uses of marshes along the Gulf of Maine. Professor Sebold and her students assisted in the writing and publishing of the book, Forgotten Times: Presque Isle's First 150 Years by Richard Graves.
Professor Alice Sheppard gave a presentation on cartoon humor at the 2007 International Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island. Her presentation, titled Of Rolling Pins and Roses: Cartoon Images of Senator Margaret Chase Smith, was based on her sabbatical research from Fall 2005.
Mr. Chris Smith, men's cross country running coach, attended the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) Health and Fitness Summit, held in Dallas, Texas last spring.
Vice President for Academic Affairs Michael Sonntag engages in research examining Terror Management Theory with colleagues at Lander University in South Carolina, as well as research examining the factors that influence evaluations of teaching effectiveness. Two recent research projects on the University of Maine at Presque Isle campus have involved a senior psychology major and examined the influence of death anxiety on disgust reactions and tested aspects of a comprehensive model of death anxiety. Dr. Sonntag is concurrently working on a project examining the influence of physical attractiveness on student ratings of teaching effectiveness. His most recent publication appeared in the journal Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education and examined the relationship between ratings on RateMyProfessors.com and a standardized instrument of teaching effectiveness. He is also collaborating on a project with several UMPI professors using GIS technology to map a local cemetery.
Professor JoAnne Wallingford and four UMPI students presented their work on UMPI's MIS lab to the Higher Education User Group Conference in Las Vegas. Professor Wallingford and UMPI student Grayson Page presented their work on the Presque Isle Chamber of Commerce software development project to the Higher Education User Group Conference in 2006 in Nashville.
Professor Chunzeng Wang is the co-author of four peer-reviewed publications, including those appearing in the International Geology Review, Resource Geology, Ore Geology Reviews, and the Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Japan. He presented his findings on Mars Hill geology and the Jinshan gold deposit of south China at Geological Society of America conferences. Professor Wang recently had one of his geological maps, a bedrock geological map of the Fletcher Peak 7.5 minute quadrangle of Downeast Maine published by the US Geological Survey. He also recently was selected as the only Maine representative to attend the national STEM [Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics] Summit, which was organized by the Federal Department of Education and the National Science Foundation and was held in December in Washington, D.C.
Professor Anja Whittington serves as a co-chair for the Women's Professional Group for the National Association for Experiential Education. In the past year, she has presented at two national conferences on her research examining girls' wilderness programs. She also attended the National Association for Experiential Education Conference in Little Rock, Arkansas where she gave a workshop presentation and led the Women's preconference workshop. Her current presentation titled Why Girls-Only Programs? will be conducted in April.
Professor John Zaborney is completing the book Slaves for Rent: Slave Hiring in Virginia, 1760-1860. His work on slavery and slave hiring has appeared in the Oxford Encyclopedia for the Modern World, The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery, and the Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Emancipation. Professor Zaborney has reviewed works on slavery for the North Carolina Historical Review, the Historian, and the New England Historical Association Newsletter. He pursued research work at the Virginia Historical Society in Richmond with support of an Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellowship.
President Don Zillman presented his work on changes in the regulation of energy in the United States at conferences in Rome and Santa Fe, New Mexico. The work appeared as a chapter in Regulation of Energy and Natural Resources published by Oxford University Press and as a chapter in the Proceedings of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute.
President Zillman published his study of military service by members of Congress in the Maine Law Review and has commented on the subject for various media sources. He completed the biennial update to Maine Tort Law with Jack Simmons and Jane Gregory He published Strategic Legal Writing with co-author Evan Roth for Cambridge University Press in 2008 and is co-editor and author of Moving Beyond the Carbon Economy, scheduled for Oxford University Press publication in 2008. He presented papers in September 2007 to the Danish Energy Bar in Copenhagen on recent developments in energy regulation and to the University of Aarhus graduate seminar on wind energy projects in Maine. He also spoke in October 2007 at Bowdoin College's Symposium on green campus development.
Professor Richard Lee Zuras' biography appears in the 2007-2008 edition of Who's Who in American Education. His biography has recently appeared in editions of Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Education, and Who's Who Among America's Teachers. His fiction has most recently appeared in StoryQuarterly, Chicago Quarterly Review, South Dakota Review, and Weber Studies. He has held fiction scholarships at Wesleyan and Bread Loaf. Professor Zuras is preparing his recently penned novel The Bastard Year for submission to agents this summer.


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Paula T. Silver, MSW, Ph.D.
Dean, School of Human Service Professions
Widener University
Dr. Silver was Director of Widener University's Center for Social Work Education since
1998 and in academic social work since 1992. Dr. Silver was appointed Dean of the
School of Human Service Professions in May 2011, after having served as interim dean
for one year. As Dean of the School of Human Service Professions, Dr. Silver oversees
the Center for Social Work Education, Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology,
the Center for Human Sexuality Studies and the Institute for Physical Therapy Education.
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of the School's Board of Trustees.
Dr. Silver's recent research activities include the pedagogy of civic engagement and service learning, public child welfare practice and policy, and the integration of international content in social work curriculum. Her service to the profession includes 6 years as a reaffirmation site visitor for the Commission on Accreditation, consultation on child welfare assessment for the Pennsylvania Department of Children and Family Services, and service on the boards of directors of a number of human service organizations. Prior to her academic career, she worked in public and private child welfare services for 15 years. Dr. Silver received a BA from the University of Chicago, MSW from University of Pennsylvania and Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research.


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Final Stats | Photo Gallery | Complete Box Score (PDF)
Athens, GA --- The No. 18 Georgia Lady Bulldogs (22-7, 11-5) ended the regular season with a win over the LSU Lady Tigers (20-9, 10-6), 62-46, Sunday evening.
Khaalidah Miller led Georgia with 14 points and six rebounds. Jasmine Hassell recorded 12 points, while Meredith Mitchell notched 10 points and five assists. Anne Marie Armstrong tallied seven in three different categories: points, rebounds and a career-high for steals.
"I thought we played terrific," said head coach Andy Landers. "Defensively, we were just outstanding and did what we needed to do. Offensively, LSU is a good team. They force you to do things that most teams don't force you to do. We prepared as best we could for that and I thought we executed well on the offensive end. I think we played about as well as anyone could have expected."
LSU led a majority of the first eight minutes of the game, before an Erika Ford jumper sparked a 10-0 Georgia push that put the Lady Bulldogs up 18-9. Georgia built an eventual 10-point advantage and held on to the lead for the remainder of the first period.
The Lady Bulldogs led 26-17 with two minutes remaining, before LSU used a 6-0 run to close out the first half and bring the score to 26-23.
Georgia was led in the first period by Miller, who scored all 12 of her points from behind the three-point arc. The Lady Bulldogs controlled the turnovers and steals in the opening half, recording seven turnovers and six steals, while LSU notched 11 turnovers and five steals. Conversely, the Lady Tigers out-rebounded Georgia 19-13.
The Lady Bulldogs continued to control the game in the second half, starting with a quick 4-0 run in the first 1:30. The Lady Tigers pulled within four, 34-30, with 14:28 on the clock, but Georgia scored on back-to-back possessions to increase its advantage, 38-30.
LSU once again decreased Georgia's lead, this time closing the gap to six, 41-35, with 12:50 remaining. A Jasmine James trey then triggered a 12-0 Lady Bulldog surge that lasted four and half minutes and put Georgia up by 18, 53-35.
The three minutes following Georgia's run were fairly uneventful, and a Lady Tiger free throw the only point scored. The final five minutes of the game were evenly matched, as LSU outscored Georgia 10-9. Georgia's 17-point lead entering the last five minutes allowed them to end the regular season with a 62-46 win.
The Lady Bulldogs will travel to Nashville, Tenn., for the SEC Tournament and will play Friday, March 2 at 10 p.m. ET. Third-seeded Georgia will play the winner of the Alabama-South Carolina game. The four SEC Tournament games on Thursday and Friday will be televised on Fox Sports Network, with the semifinals and championship game carried on ESPNU and ESPN2, respectively.
Post-Game Notes
The Lady Bulldogs improved to 22-7 overall and 11-5 in conference play.
Georgia now owns a 21-17 series lead over LSU, included a 12-5 record in Athens.
PGA golfer and former Georgia Bulldog Bubba Watson served as a guest coach in tonight's game. Watston is married to the former Angie Ball, who played for the Lady Bulldogs from 1996-2000 and was a member of UGA's 1996 Final Four team and 1997 and 2000 SEC Championship squads.
Seven Lady Bulldogs have combined for 95 double-digit scoring performances on the season. Khaalidah Miller, Meredith Mitchell and Jasmine Hassell all reached double figures against the Lady Tigers.
Anne Marie Armstrong tied her career-high steals effort, with seven.
Tamika Willis tallied two assists, which ties her career-best for a fifth time.
With tonight's victory, Andy Landers is five wins shy of his 800th win at UGA and 23 away from his 900th overall victory as a collegiate head coach.
Lady Bulldogs In Double Digits
Khaalidah Miller notched 14 points for her 22nd double-digit game of the season and 36th of her career.
Jasmine Hassell scored 12 points to mark her 22nd double-digit game of the season and 42nd of her career.
Meredith Mitchell recorded 10 points and her 16th double-digit game of the season. This marks the 42nd double-digit game of her career.
Georgia Head Coach Andy Landers
On tonight's game:
"I thought we played terrific. Defensively, we were just outstanding and did what we needed to do. Offensively, LSU is a good team. They force you to do things that most teams don't force you to do. We prepared as best we could for that and I thought we executed well on the offensive end. I think we played about as well as anyone could have expected."
On sending the seniors out with a win:
"Everyone played well for our seniors tonight. Britt (Brittney Crews) got to start and it was a great way to send these seniors out with a win."
On preparation for the SEC Tournament:
"We have to work on a couple of things to continue to get better. We will work on those in the next couple of days and set out for Nashville."
LSU Head Coach Nikki Caldwell
On tonight's game:
"Much credit to Coach Landers and this team. I felt like they came out and executed their game plan. They played harder than we did and they played tougher. They played like a team that is ready for post season. Going in to SEC play, they were preparing their team for the conference play. We had some good possessions, but overall I was very disappointed in us not coming here and competing and laying it on the line. We'll look at film and get better from it and get ready for SEC play."


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Albert Haynesworth's attorney: 'It did not happen'
This story has been updated with details from Tuesday's hearing.
An attorney for Albert Haynesworth on Tuesday denied allegations of sexual abuse and said the Washington Redskins defensive tackle was ready to fight the charge in court.
"It did not happen," attorney A. Scott Bolden said, following a brief court appearance.
Bolden appeared at a morning arraignment on behalf of Haynesworth, who waived his right to appear. He entered a plea of not guilty for his client and rejected a plea deal on his behalf.
"I think it's been about money and about him being a target, and really him being unfairly treated by everybody," Bolden said. "He's a big target for the government, he's a big target for you, the media, he's a big target for the W Hotel employees."
A trial date was set for July 11. Haynesworth is accused of inappropriately touching a waitress at the W Hotel rooftop lounge in February. He is charged with misdemeanor sexual abuse.
Bolden told the court that his team planned on "putting on a full defense." He said he expected to call about four to five witnesses and expected the trial to take a couple days.
"Albert is upbeat," he later told reporters. "He's in great spirits. He obviously is not in D.C., but I've met with him recently. As I say, he's upbeat, he's ready to fight, he's contributing to his defense. We've got a lot of work to do now, though."
Haynesworth Waive Right to Appear
Original Story: Washington Redskins defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday morning, where he will face allegations of sexual abuse.
Haynesworth is accused of inappropriately touching a waitress at the W Hotel rooftop lounge in February. He's scheduled to be arraigned at 9:30 a.m.
"Disappointing, regretful and a difficult case for the government to prove," his attorney, A. Scott Bolden, said in an email to TBD, when asked for comment on the indictment last month. "My client will continue to fight these charges consistently and as aggressively as possible in court. I remain confident that he will be vindicated in the end."
Bolden has said that his client won't accept an offer of a plea deal, which stands until May 17.
TBD also plans to attend Tuesday's arraignment. We'll update this post after that wraps up. But until we learn more, here's a summary of the case so far.
The allegations
Haynesworth is accused of sliding his debit card down the shirt of a server, identified as a college student in court documents. He allegedly buried the card deeply enough in the victim's bra that another witness could not longer see it, according to court documents.
The victim told authorities that she asked Haynesworth to stop, but he "continued to move his hand over, ultimately moving his fingers in circles around (the victim's) left nipple."
The incident allegedly happened in the early morning hours of Feb. 13, while Haynesworth was attending a birthday gathering at the W Hotel's rooftop lounge.
The charges
Haynesworth is charged with misdemeanor sexual assault. If convicted, he faces a possible 180-day jail sentence and a fine of up to $1,000.
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Zoinks! Retro cartoons are hilarious - until Chief Crazy Coyote shows up. Babble.com
Retro cartoons are hilarious – until Chief Crazy Coyote shows up.
by Melissa Rayworth
October 5, 2009
I hear the words, the familiar music, the canned laughter. It wafts in from the next room and takes me back instantly. Hong Kong Phooey, Scooby Doo, Huckleberry Hound. For a moment, it's a lazy Saturday morning in 1974 and I'm curled up on the couch in my shag-carpeted den, giggling along with the animated antics on the screen. But then, invariably, something snaps me out of my reverie: Today, it's Chief Crazy Coyote hopping up and down, wielding a tomahawk and yelping while running through "Injun country."
Suddenly it's 2009 again. I'm working in my home office and in the next room my six-year-old is dissolving in fits of laughter while mainlining his new favorite source of entertainment: the cable channel Boomerang, a Cartoon Network spin-off that specializes in animation from the '60s and '70s.
I stick my head in and try to offer some context: "You know, Native Americans never really acted like that . . . " My son looks up at me, smiling, not really sure what I'm talking about. "Mom, you should watch this," he tells me. "It's really, really funny."
This summer, Boomerang became our go-to TV option during the morning hours, before he left to spend the afternoon swimming and playing at day camp. We keep a limit on his TV time – usually two hours per day, tops. But he often begs for another half-hour ("Pleeeeease! Banana Splits is on!") while I'm cooking dinner. For a couple of years now, he's been digging Superfriends and The Jetsons on DVD. With Boomerang, he's now discovered the motherlode of retro cartoons.
My husband and I are happy, because these shows are way less violent than the modern cartoons he usually clamors for – fightfests like Bakugan, Naruto or The Batman. And the nostalgia factor is as much fun for him as for us. Lately, each time he discovers a new show – Wacky Races, Top Cat – he runs into my office. "Mom! Come see this! Did you watch this when you were a kid?" It's been great.
But then there's Chief Crazy Coyote. And a slew of other ridiculous, tomahawk-bearing "Indians" on other shows, who can't help hopping up and down all the time. There are plenty of lazy or dumb characters clearly meant to be black or Hispanic, plus the occasional Asian who can barely be understood. And there is an army of ditzy, powerless female characters surrounded by male characters who are in charge or treated with deference simply because they're men.
Taking in a high concentration of Johnson- and Nixon-era animation after decades away from it, I'm finding glaring stereotypes threaded much more fully through these shows than I remembered.
I knew Jane Jetson was flighty, but I'd forgotten how often George talked to her like she was eight years old. Worse, Jane seemed to expect it. She and Judy were equals, timidly asking George's permission and obsessing on their hairdos. If Jane wanted something, her only option was flirting and/or manipulating him into thinking it was his idea. Wilma Flintstone took less crap, but she still had to keep Fred believing that her good ideas were really his.
I have no desire to be the politically correct mom who bans whatever might offend. The parental advisory that came with the DVD release of early Sesame Street episodes and the similar warning that comes with vintage Warner Bros. cartoons strike me as unnecessary and paternalistic. But watch Hong Kong Phooey and you'll see the main character depicted as a lazy janitor, voiced by black actor Scatman Crothers, who is constantly put down and underestimated by his white policeman boss. Yes, he puts on his snazzy robe and attempts to solve crimes, but he invariably fails and gets saved by his exasperated cat. He's cool but incompetent.
What is my kid making of this? Does it merit some parental intervention or is a cartoon sometimes just a cartoon?
"TV can be this powerful time machine," says Robert Thompson, director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University. "If you're gonna give a six-year-old a time machine, you'd better know how that puppy works. They need to be a bit forearmed and forewarned."


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8 Companies Play Growing Role in Northern Michigan Economy
American Waste
One man. One garbage truck. Kalkaska location. Those were the beginning components of American Waste way back in 1971. The corporate story has had a number of twists and turns since then, including selling the entire company, then buying back some. But the upshot is that today, American Waste creates Northern Michigan jobs, employing 350 people and is comprised of two divisions- a waste hauling and recycling division, and an environmental and industrial services division.
The company has received a good deal of statewide attention recently as it has revealed the remarkable recycling rates it achieves from municipal solid waste. Thanks to a state-of-the-art sorting line that the company built in a giant former auto parts factory in Traverse City, the company can accept bags of regular household garbage and reclaim up to 50 percent of the waste, a rate that puts it near the top of the industry nationwide. "Only two other companies in Michigan are doing recycling from municipal solid waste," says Kelly Ignace, director of marketing.
As for growth in hiring, half of American Waste's employees have joined the company in the past 24 months. While future hiring might not quite match that pace, Ignace expects hiring as the company expands into new markets.
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As of Tuesday, November 20, 2012
© Copyright 2015 Clayton News Daily
JONESBORO — Two men are behind bars for the roles they allegedly played in a deadly hit and run.
Jeremy Alvoyd Blackmon was arrested Monday and charged with homicide by vehicle in the first degree, failure to stop at or return to the scene of an accident, by the Clayton County authorities.
Blackmon and Kevin Ricardo Anderson are charged with tampering with evidence.
Blackmon is accused of causing the death of Aaron Allen when he allegedly hit Allen on June 17, 2011 while driving a gray 1984 Oldsmobile Cutlass at state route 314 (West Fayetteville Road.)
Blackmon and Anderson were indicted by a Clayton County Grand Jury in Clayton County Superior Court during the February term of 2012.
"He did strike the victim with his motor vehicle and failed to stop and render aid," according to the indictment.
The men are accused of destroying evidence to prevent Blackmon being caught by the authorities. Blackmon, the alleged driver of the car, is also accused of failing to stop immediately and return to the scene to render "reasonable assistance," continued the indictment.
Blackmon is also accused of failing to report the hit-and-run accident to College Park Police.
Both men pleaded not guilty to their respective charges.
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Stop the Thyroid Madnessa Patient Revolution Against Decades of Inferior Treatment
Written by: M.Ed. Janie A. Bowthorpe
Reviewed by: Jeffrey Dach MD
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The Review:Stop the Thyroid Madness: a Patient Revolution Against Decades of Inferior Thyroid Therapy by Janie Bowthorpe review by Jeffrey Dach Mdwritten by a non-professional, this is the most hight-priority thyroid book to come out in the last few years. The book is timely because of two Factors:number one) For decades, mainstream medicine has been guilty of mismanaging the low thyroid desease. Number two) Patients are now motivated by the web to collectively share notes and devise their own strategies for thyroid testing and therapy.
Motivated E-patientsone of these motivated e-patients is Janie Bowthorpe, owner of the Stop-the-thyroid-madness-blog. In her book, Janie describes her ordeal with years of crippling fatigue, all the while her doctors told her the labs were normal, and insisting she was adequately cured with Synthroid, the mainstream T4 thyroid medication. Apparently she was not adequately cured. Switched from Synthroid to Armoureventually after many years of needless suffering, Janie visited an web thyroid forum and found out data about natural thyroid medication called Armour.
Motivated with this new data, Janie switched over from the Synthroid to the Armour, and suffered a dramatic recovery, and has been well ever since. Janie's Great Journeythe first module of her book chronicles this great journey, and later chapters are the condensed wisdom from her blog and forums. Hight-priority sections in the book deal with the superior clinical results of Armour natural thyroid compared to Synthroid, the unreliability of the Tsh test, and the bug of adrenal fatigue in relation to the low thyroid desease. Also discussed are the role of Ferritin and Iodine.
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Sorry for skipping out on blogging yesterday! I had a doctor's appointment (check up stuff, I'm okay!), and then I renewed my driving permit, which meant lots of time spent waiting. I even took one of my exams yesterday. Busy! But Productive!
Today was spent watching the Royal Wedding. Checked out online, was too lazy to wake up early. I got dressed to go browse Goodwill - even though I have been a bad girl and may or may not have just ebay'd some more shoes. Boots, even. I'll leave you in suspense on that though - because I haven't gotten them yet. The thrifting wasn't exactly on my side today. I found tons of great jeans, even a brand new pair of Michael Kors ones, and they were all a size too small or too big! I still came away with some goodies, but I'll probably be skipping over the Super Saturday for the month of May.
Speaking of thrifted goodies~! This skirt! I bought it in the dead of winter when I was pining for warm sunny days like this (yes, the rain has passed for now). It was a size too big, but I knew I needed it. I got my handi-dandi sewing machine and took in the waist. It actually left the A-line skirt a little fuller, a little more 50s.


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Rapper Angie Martinez has given birth to a four kilogram (nine pound) baby boy called NIKO RUFFIN in New York City.
Martinez, who pulled out of an opportunity to serve as a judge on this year's (03) American Idol, welcomed in her baby with her DRU HILL star beau NOKIO, real name TAMIR RUFFIN.
Niko, who was born on 12 June (03), is the couple's first child.17/06/2003 09:16