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I am starting to feel better finally. Is It remission, I don't know, but I would like to stop taking my methotrexate 20mg per week & prednisone 2.5mg daily. I am not having any side effects at all other than weight gain but I am sick of all the pills. Can I stop methotrexate and still battle this RA pain in the ...? I really need a night out to party!READ MORE
The short answer is no. The reason you're feeling better is because you are on methotrexate, which is a drug-induced remission. If you stop taking methotrexate, your RA will come back and flare again if that happens, you risk causing damage to joints that will affect your mobility in the future. Unfortunately, at present there is no cure for RA and you can expect to be a medication like methotrexate or one of the other DMARDs (disease modifying antirheumatic drugs) for the rest of your life. There is vast progress being made in RA treatment and it is certainly possible that down the line, there will be medications available that you only have to take e.g., once a year, but for now, that's not the case.
However, I'd still recommend that you take a night off and go out and have some fun - you're feeling better and that's definitely something to celebrate. Just remember that you cannot drink alcohol while on methotrexate, but in my experience, it's entirely possible to have a really good time while sticking to nonalcoholic drinks.
Thank you Lene for your response. I will try to keep focused, although it is hard at times. I am 39 and have ser- negative ra plus sjogrens. I am also on Restasis for my eye pain & burning. Because I am sero-neg I think maybe my illness is just a fluke. But I have been batteling this for 4 years and just dx this Feb. I also was seen by a rheumy at the age of 3 with the same problems. The doc then said nothing in the lab to indicate RA. Here we are 36yrs later. Thanks again, PamelaREAD MORE
November 19, 2009Health GuideNovember 19, 2009
there are many frustrating things about this disease - it can take a long time to get diagnosed, especially for those who are seronegative. So many are left to their own devices, with the disease creating more and more damage because doctors don't know enough about blood tests (we have a great post about lab tests and what they mean, including that 20% of people living with RA are seronegative). There are even some rheumatologists who refuse to diagnose an absence of a positive RA factor, which just boggles my mind (also, it makes me want to throttle people, but let's not talk about that!). it's hard enough too come to terms with having a chronic disease without having to beat your head up against the wall of physician ignorance. That said, coming to terms with the reality can be a very liberating experience - we just posted a link to an interesting article about a study that shows how acceptance can help you get on with your life. When you no longer stick your head in the sand about it you can focus on how to reclaim your life, making it about you first and the disease second. I highly recommend reading a book called The First Year with Rheumatoid Arthritis - last year, I wrote a post including a review of the book and an interview with its author. I've had RA for over 40 years and there were things in that book that I found very helpful.
Have you considered counseling? It's normal for people who have a chronic illness to every now and again need a little bit of help in adjusting and developing coping mechanisms. Counselors specializing in cognitive therapy can be especially helpful. you may also want to check out our area for people who are newly diagnosed - it has a bunch of posts on the various aspects of life with RA that may help you.READ MORE
Lene, I completely agree with you. A bit of bio-feedback would be helpful. Can u believe there are no group RA meetings within 60 miles of my home but a million hospitals. In my experience, I need to talk to someone who understands RA. Most people including councelors are ignorant about the disease, not being harsh or anything. Infact, some docs don't either, only rheumys. I just want a normal life. Although I have been feeling pretty good lately. Which again misleads me to believe I will be ok without all of the meds. I know that that is a false statement though. And as for the docs that don't dx RA because of negative labs, shame, shame, shame. I feel it is a lack of confidence and experience that leads them to make those devistating errors. I am just glad I finally found the right doc.READ MORE
November 20, 2009Health GuideNovember 20, 2009
First, I ned to give you the links I forgot about yesterday. The post about blood tests and our area for newly diagnosed. Sorry about that. You may also want to check out Arthritis Introspective to see if they list an RA support group in your area.
As for counsellors... they may not know much about living with RA, but in my experience (and I've seen a few over the years), a good counsellor who does cognitive therapy can go there, even without having had direct experience with people who have a chronic illness. It's a matter of skill - find a good one and they can help you through pretty much anything.
Lene, Thank you for the links. I did have a chance to review them. I will get busy looking for a support group soon. I am also sorry you have had to battle this for 40yrs. Here I am complaining and there are people like you who have truely suffered most of your life. I hope you are having more good days than bad. I am curious though, do you work. There are times I am affraid to persue a more adventureous occupation but am affraid of a flair. I currently work for my father who is an Internal Medicine Doc. Of coarse you know my job flexibilty is without saying. It has been wonderful, but he will eventually retire. Any job suggestions friendly to those of us with RA?
November 22, 2009Health GuideNovember 22, 2009
You know, I'm not a big fan of comparing degree of suffering - it invalidates your feelings. Within the context of your life, your experience and your feelings about it are completely valid, as are mine, yet, compared to a child starving to death in Darfur, I'm doing just fine. But that doesn't negate the fact that some days are really hard and much harder than they used to be or the fact that you have experienced real loss of ability and are therefore experiencing real feelings of grief.
The good thing about having lived with RA for over four decades is that it gives you perspective. RA comes and goes, it ebbs and flows and there are good times and sometimes bad, but throughout it all, life still happens and you live it. Hopefully most of the time, good medication will help you live your life with your RA muttering in the background.
Although I'm not a big fan of comparing "degrees of suffering", I am a big fan of shooting for the moon. I think it helped that my parents always expected that I would do my best, while still accommodating my disease. It meant that I went to university (I have a Masters degree in social work), I've worked in corrections and human rights and I am now pursuing my lifelong dream of being a writer - one of things I do is work as Community Leader for this site. I'm going to give you another few links - first to a post about working with RA that has links to resources about accommodation. According to the Americans with Disabilities Act, you are entitled to be accommodated in your job (e.g. by different ways of doing your job, flexible work hours, working from home, etc.) and that could be a great help to people with RA. Also check out my interview with Gayle Backstrom, author of I'd Rather Be Working - it's a terrific book about working when you have a chronic illness that includes a very interesting process called "Rethink, Refocus, Retrain" that can help you figure out where you want to go next in your career. You may also want to check out the post I wrote on going back to school, which also includes information about the accommodations you are entitled to within the educational system (e.g., longer time for exams, extended time to do your degree) that can make it easier for you to complete a degree. And lastly, check out my recent post about expectations and shooting for the moon. It may take you longer to get there, you may not go in a straight line or do it the same way as other people, but achieving and fulfilling dreams is definitely possible.
You are definately right. Someone always has it worse. I do keep that in mind when I find myself loathing in self pitty ( a bad day). I guess although I have been living with RA for years, possibly since childhood, I still feel I need more information about my illness. I have always been a questioning student. I want to learn all I can to help me understand what is in store for me. My last most recent flare was unbearable, 9 months of hell. My knees were so swollen I could hardly walk 20ft. without shutting down. I spent most of the time in bed with my legs elevated. After injections and about a month of PT, started to feel a little better. In fact a lot better. I am moving aroud just fine. I have RA in all of my joints but for some reason it hung on in my knees forever. It definately was a very dark time for me. THIS is what I fear the most. Starting something and not knowing when or if terror may strike again where I can't walk. I will definately review all of the posts you sent me and keep my illness tucked away. I have a BFA from youngstown state. I am a professional artist and use every joint in my body to create. Just don't want to start something and have to take a nap for another 9 monts. Little fearful but I think somehow I must try.READ MORE
November 23, 2009Health GuideNovember 23, 2009
I think you may have misunderstood me - although it's not a bad idea to keep perspective, I actually think a nice go around with some self-pity can be helpful. You have the feelings of sadness, anger, etc., you have reason to have those feelings because it within the context of your life, there are real issues related to the RA and taking some time to experience these feelings can help you work through them so you can move on. However, I usually tell myself that whereas I shouldn't wallow in self-pity, it's okay to take a good swish in the self-pity pool in it every now and again! Write angst-filled poetry, have a good cry with some chocolate and then dust yourself off and get back to living your life.
Living with the unpredictability of this disease can be very difficult - I call it living under the shoe (as in, waiting for the other shoe to drop). You have to live with a sort of willful blindness, and assume that you'll be okay, live as if you'll be okay and in every now and again, when the RA flares up, you deal with that and when you get out on the other side, you go back to what you were doing. It means you do it in sort of fits and starts, but the important thing is that you do it, right?
I would love to hear more about your art and I bet other users would find it interesting and possibly inspiring, as well. I'd encourage you to write a SharePosts about your experience with RA in how you continue to create and be an artist.
I did create a shared post back at the beginning of the year. I was so optomistic that I would tackle this illness no matter what came my way. Little did I know it would tackle me first. As the illness lyes dorment under my shoe, I fear when it will drop. I really have to stop living in fear of the next flare. I really appreciate your approach on things. I am first, and RA can wait. I should just go for whatever I dream is possible. We do only live one life and there are so many things I haven't accomplished. This thinking does feel so much better than worry and concern. I am not being blind though, only living for today. Maybe I'll redecorate my home, re-painting all of my walls, new window treatments, artwork and all. NA, my hubby would kill me, for I just did all of this 3 years ago, while in remission. But the thought of doing what I would like to without the RA burden in the back of my mind feels less restraining. I know I make the decisions while I can and RA is just along for the ride.READ MORE
November 27, 2009Health GuideNovember 27, 2009
Absolutely! You're in control, no matter how good or how bad it gets. I'm going to refer you to one more of my posts I wrote after reading a brilliant quote by Michael J. Fox: "I don't have a choice of whether or not I have Parkinson's: I have it. But other than that, I have a thousand choices, and I can't let myself be sunk by the weight of that one non-choice...". When things are hard, I read that quote and remember I have many, many choices.
I just checked your post and I do remember reading it. I'd still love to hear about your art, though.
Happy Thanksgiving!
December 01, 2009Health GuideDecember 01, 2009
I'm very sorry to hear about the death of your grandfather. Losing someone close to you is never easy and I hope you and your family can remember him with love and telling great stories about him.
No rush on the SharePosts - do it when it feels right to you.READ MORE
April 27, 2010Health GuideApril 27, 2010
Thanks for saying that! It means a lot to me if I can be of help.READ MORE
That is hard for me to do! No drinks. I am on 15 mg metho a week. The other night I had a lemon drop martini with vodka and the next night had a half of a glass of the martini. Once in awhile I will share a beer with my husband. I am finding it very difficult to lay off all the alcoholic drinks forever. We are in a wine club and I also drink a few glasses of wine every other month. I know it is prob doing something to my liver...but the reading of the ALT in my blood is still within the range...although the reading has been going down and I wonder if that is the good thing or bad thing? CaroleREAD MORE
May 14, 2010Health GuideMay 14, 2010
The best advice I can give you is to speak to your rheumatologist about another medication. There's a reason they say absolutely, positively no alcohol with methotrexate and if your lifestyle makes that impossible, switch medications to stay safe and healthy.
Please understand that I'm not making any judgments about your lifestyle and neither should your doctor. It's important to have a life when you have a chronic illness - it can't all be about RA, because that's a surefire recipe for depression. You have a well-established life that gives you pleasure, which will help you get through the rough spots with RA and that includes your wine club and the good news is that there are a bunch of treatment options for you that will allow you to drink in moderation. Also, one of the benefits of a glass of wine is that it's a wonderful painkiller/muscle relaxant, as well as having been proven to be good for your heart.
In terms of your decrease in levels, to be honest, your doctor is a better person to ask about implications of that test result.
Good luck! Please let us know how things go? Down the line, if you're up to it, would you consider writing a SharePost about this experience? There's so much focus in our lives on medication and treatments that we often forget that the rest of life have to be lived, as well and I think it would be interesting for our users to read about your choice.
I am just reading this post. I don't know if you are still taking methotrexate, but my doctor gave me a tip the first day he prescribed methotrexate to me a year ago. He said take it on Tuesdays and you can have a drink on Friday and saturday . Or take medicine on Wednesday and you can drink on Saturday and Sunday. He said most people drink on weekends and this gives the medicine time to exit befor alcohol and gives alcohol time to exit before next medicine dose. At least not so concentrated. I recently stopped methotrexate for other reasons. Hoping to find a doctor that will work with me on another medicine. Methotrexate has too many miserable side effects for me. I only stopped it to get rid of an upper respiratory infection. But it has been two months and still on antibiotics for it. My RA flare ups are back. But my well being and how I feel without the methotrexate is so much better. Hope you are doing well! Tammy READ MORE
In answer to stopping MTX: My Dr. took me off of it because of elevated liver function studies. I was having blood work done every 6wks which showed untoward effects on my liver. I was then placed on Arava (lefluenomide) instead. Along with the prednisone 2.5mgs. bid, I am feeling great. There was little or no nausea in the beginning and I didn't notice any loss of hair. I take Arava once a day and folic acid 800mgs once per day. (I get it in the vitamin section at Walmart). It has kept me in remission...my C-Reactive Protein and kidney function test have been within normal limits. I'm slightly achy when the weather changes in my hands and wrist (I live in NE OHIO), but other than that I feel fine.
The only advice that I got from my Dr. was to avoid the ibupropens and naproxens with Arava, because it will affect kidney function.
In answer to stopping MTX: My Dr. took me off of it because of elevated liver function studies. I was having blood work done every 6wks which showed untoward effects on my liver. I was then placed on Arava (lefluenomide) instead. Along with the prednisone 2.5mgs. bid, I am feeling great. There was little or no nausea in the beginning and I didn't notice any loss of hair. I take Arava once a day and folic acid 800mgs once per day. (I get it in the vitamin section at Walmart). It has kept me in remission...my C-Reactive Protein and kidney function test have been within normal limits. I'm slightly achy when the weather changes in my hands and wrist (I live in NE OHIO), but other than that I feel fine.
The only advice that I got from my Dr. was to avoid the ibupropens and naproxens with Arava, because it will affect kidney function.


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We have loaded the initiator on 4 servers (3 2003 servers and 1 Windows
Powered NAS filer aka Windows 2000 Advanced) and it is working on these 4
machines. We have another NAS filer that is a duplicate of the one previously
mentioned. We cannot get the service to start on that machine. The following
error shows up when we try to manually start the service:
Could not start the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Service service on the Local
Error 1058: The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or
because it has no enabled devices associated with it.
The service is set to start Automatically.
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is that the one for nhs prescriptions? you should of had it by now.
I was ment to get mine at the booking in appointment. Midwife forgot to give me the form. I phoned her up when i was 18 weeks (as she was at the drs surgery that day) and she filled in her part there and then, i collected it that day and posted it off, it took about a week to come in the post.
Try giving your doctors surgery a call as that way they are more likely to get back to you rather than leaving a message for your midwife. Any dr should be able to fill in the form.
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A POLICE car has been involved in a serious road traffic accident at the junction of Hillside Road and Sandon Road in Hillside, Southport. The accident happened at about 10:30am this morning (Tuesday 17th April 2012).
Eyewitness reports suggest that the Hyundai i30 car was travelling on the wrong side of Waterloo Road, heading towards Southport town centre with its emergency lights on just before the accident happened.
It crossed a zebra crossing then allegedly hit the kerb before crashing into a parked BMW.
The impact forced the parked BMW to hit the rear of another parked car.
An investigation is underway into the cause of the accident.
There were no serious injuries involved.
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Merseyside Police can confirm that a police car has been involved in a road traffic collision in the Southport area this morning (Tuesday, April 17).
The marked patrol car was responding to a grade one 999 call in the Birkdale area when it collided with a grey BMW, which was parked in Hillside Road.
The collision then caused the BMW to collide with two other cars - a blue VW Polo and a silver Toyota - which were also parked.
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Driving out the darkness after the Arizona shooting
The following is a guest blog post written by Brandie Sellers of McKinney, a yoga teacher and a Community Voices volunteer columnist. Her e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com.
When I heard about the Arizona shootings my first instinct was to judge the shooter as a crazy moron, to get mad at Sarah Palin, and to hate this guy I've seen in McKinney with forty-seven bumper stickers on his car, one of which says, "Liberals should be spayed and neutered." (OK, I was already feeling negatively toward the guy in McKinney. And I'm no fan of Sarah Palin, either.) But then I had the thought that if I'm spending time hating, I'm part of the same problem as Jared Loughner, the Arizona gunman. I might as well have pulled the trigger that killed that nine-year-old girl.
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said those words forty-odd years ago and we haven't learned that lesson yet. Ghandi said we must be the change we want to see in the world. Most of us haven't learned that lesson, either.
Mr. Loughner should suffer the consequences of his actions. But when I think of him I try to let compassion arise. He must have a tormented, twisted head to have committed such an atrocity. I imagine his mind is filled with fear, anxiety, probably even paranoia. Instead of hating him, we should be asking ourselves how it is that we are breeding so many Jared Loughners in the world today. What is our part in the Arizona killings?
Only when we take responsibility for our own thoughts and actions, in our own homes, cars, and corners of the world, can we stop this violence. Don't get me wrong, I despise guns and wish they were never invented. But this problem isn't just about guns. It's about us being so disconnected from one another that we cease to see the humanity of those around us. Because if we allowed ourselves to look deeply and understand that Jared Loughner, the gunman, bleeds red like the rest of us; that four people call Sarah Palin mommy, then we could not hate them.
I believe our part is participating in madness and hatred ourselves. We put bumper stickers on our cars, we announce we hate someone on facebook, we judge the woman who yells at her kids in the store. Instead when we feel anger arise we can choose to stop and contemplate the underlying issue. When that guy with the vitriolic bumper stickers passes by I can send out compassion to him. Like Mr. Loughner he must be a tormented soul. I can't imagine walking around filled with so much conflict inside me. I can also use that as a teachable moment with my kids, to say that driving around in an anger-bomb of a car is not the way to achieve peace and elevate mankind. On a more basic level, it's not even the way to get what you want.
Unless we can all come to the table with compassion and love for our common humanity, this will never stop. That doesn't mean I say, "Mr. X, where is YOUR willingness to rise above?" It means I say, "I'm here. I'm ready to take ownership of my thoughts and actions. I'm ready to put my own agenda aside. I'm ready to release thoughts of right and wrong in favor of what is the most helpful action in this moment."
Dr. King also said, "The end of violence or the aftermath of violence is bitterness. The aftermath of nonviolence is reconciliation and the creation of a beloved community." To what end are you working?


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ROXBURY, Maine (AP) — Opponents of a wind farm project approved last month by Maine environmental regulators have filed an appeal.
The Concerned Citizens to Save Roxbury, 37 individual camp or property owners, and the Silver Lake Camp Owners Association filed the appeal on Monday against the $120 million wind farm in Roxbury.
They organized to gather and share information about wind power and the Record Hill project. They seek a public hearing, based on what they say is conflicting medical and technical information on noise levels generated by turbines.
Board of Environmental Protection executive analyst Cindy Bertocci said the next step is to give Record Hill Wind a month to file a written response.
Developer Robert Gardiner said he and former Maine governor Angus King, his business partner, aren't surprised by the appeal.
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Buffalo Tech has been a name in computer infrastructure for almost 40 years. With the boom of external USB drives their personal computer product line took off. With the Buffalo LS-V1.0TL LinkStation Pro 1 TB High Performance Network Attached Storage they hope to combine their know-how in business environments and home environments to bring you a quality home NAS. Here's our review
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As far as the single disk home NAS devices go, Buffalo Tech is one of the leaders in this field and the Buffalo LinkStation Pro 1 TB NAS does what it's supposed to with no frills and that is serve as a fairly fast network attached storage for home.
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Supreme Court's Roberts Issues Annual Plea: More Money, Please
Chief Justice John Roberts, offering his annual New Year's plea for more funds, said Tuesday he hopes federal courts can secure an additional $400 million or so from Congress when lawmakers decide budget levels for fiscal 2014.
Like other parts of the federal government, the court system took a hit when the across-the-board budget cuts known as the sequester took effect in March. According to the American Bar Association, the federal judiciary's budget for fiscal 2013, which ended in September 2013, was about $6.62 billion, down $350 million from a year earlier.
The Judicial Conference, which sets policy for federal courts, called on Dec. 5 for Congress to allot $7.04 billion for the federal judiciary in the current fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2014. Judges said in an August letter to Vice President Joe Biden that cuts "have forced us to slash our operations to the bone."
In his year-end report, Chief Justice Roberts expressed concern that Congress might opt for a "hard freeze at the sequester level." If federal courts failed to receive the extra several hundred million dollars they want, "the future would be bleak," said the chief justice. He warned of a "genuine threat to public safety" and "commercial uncertainty" owing to lessened staffing at courts.
The chief justice said courts have already made sacrifices to keep budgets in check, such as refraining from adding courthouse space and targeting a 3% reduction in judiciary space by 2018.
The New Year's report has become the chief justice's annual forum to appeal for money from Congress, whether or not lawmakers are in town to listen. Last year, he tried, in vain, to defend the courts from cutbacks. In earlier years he advocated higher pay for federal judges, but since the recession hit hard he has refrained from making that pitch.
The chief justice acknowledged that the money talk was one of the year-end's "predictable constants" no less than renditions of "A Christmas Carol" and "It's a Wonderful Life," which he characterized as "classic stories that, at their core, contain important truths."
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The bones found behind a Jeffersonville church one week ago belonged to a white man, according to police.
Police said they believe there's a strong chance that man is 27-year-old Stephen Reedy, who has been missing since September 2011.
A groundskeeper at Faith Lutheran Church saw the bones in the woods behind the building.
Police said they've been in touch with Reedy's parents and have his dental records.
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In Streetcar, players try to build a trolley route across New Orleans, competing against other players who are trying to build their own route. Each player has specific locations that they must build to, laying track one square at a time, adding new twists and turns to the board. When two players disagree about where things should go, the tracks can become a jumbled mess of loops and dead ends. You must place your track as best you can to navigate the route. The first player to build a complete route and race their trolley through all the right stops wins!
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Stefan Dorra
Mayfair Games
Year: 1996
Players: 2 - 5
Time: 45 - 60 minutes
Ages: 10 and up
Weight: 840 grams
Language Requirements: This is an international edition or domestic edition of an imported item. Game components are language-independent. Manufacturer's rules are printed in English.
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Average Rating: 3.9 in 9 reviews
Linie 1 is a perfect social strategy game. It can be played with youngsters or all-adults, and it's great fun either way.
Some players dislike the fact that they can spend an entire game building a great track, only to be defeated by someone who built a 'worse' line much faster. Well, that's the breaks. Even in the real world, taking a longer route which is available sooner is often more successful. Ask the person who's refusing to drive around the lake until they build a bridge for him.
So, in this game, there are rewards for building efficient routes, but there are also rewards for seeing that existing lines, while not perfect, are available now and could lead to victory.
As to the idea of rolling dice during the race portion of the game. Sure, there's some luck, but not so much that it unbalances the earlier, very fun, track building project. It's rare when someone enters the race very late, with a poor line, and lucks up to win due solely to dice rolls.
It's great fun, and if you can get it, grab it (particularly the Linie 1 version--the Mayfair version kills the race mechanism entirely).
We play this game again and again in our household. Linie 1 is all about building trolley car lines to secret destinations over the same ground that your opponents are building upon. Utilizing your opponent's track is essential. In the end, you race your trolley cars over the track, tracing your entire route to victory. We often play for first and second loser, as well, just to prolong the amusement.
What makes this game really fun, however, is a spirit of malicious mischief, interfering with your opponent's track (if you can figure out where they're headed, that is) while simultaneously smoothing your own way past your alotted goals. My partner is particularly wicked in this regard, often delaying his own victory in an attempt to mess with his opponents; believe it or not, this sort of tactic makes the game very exhilarating! One of our favorite games involved my placement of track in such a way as to block my partner from his final destination when potential substitution track had already been played or held by others, making the completion of his trolly route totally impossible! The havok that he wrought after that was indescribably entertaining!
We once tried playing Linie 1 without the malice, and decided that it took the fun out of the game. Without attempts to interfere with opponents, the game can be quite sedate and even a little dull.
I highly recommend this game to play with friends and family. It's easy to explain and understand, and is full of amusing challenge and contention. Plus, I like building all that track! Trying to repair your trolley route when an opponent has derailed things is surprisingly entertaining, just from an engineering standpoint. Beware the 'Circles of Death', the traffic circles with no exits that evolve to trap the unwary....
My wife is VERY competitive. This has an interesting effect when she loses a new game. If the game itself is bad, it is branded as 'stupid' and we never play it again. If the game is good, then she will want to play it again in hopes of a win. When we first got Streetcar, she demanded six replays in a row until she got a win. That is the mark of a great game.
Unfortunately, the Mayfair edition is marred with some of the worst components I have ever seen in the major release of a game. Where most Eurogames come with thick tiles and chunky wooden bits, this comes with thin tiles that are little more than cardboard, and are all too easily jostled. The streetcars themselves are a farce, tiny wooden nibs with ill-fitting sticker 'sweaters'.
The game covers a lot of the same territory as the more current game of Metro, only from a completely opposite perspective. Where Metro rewards a player for making long, loopy routes, Streetcar rewards efficiency in setting routes. Given a choice, I think Streetcar is the more elegant design.
There is a lot of cleverness here, too. The swapping of tiles for more elaborate tiles is a wise decision, making an innocuous piece of track suddenly into a nexus of activity. Much of the fun of the game is determining which destinations your opponents have, and then trying to steer them on long, circuitous routes. The final race is also extremely clever, with its 'one-more-than-before' movement. This is an improvement over the German version of the game, which used a die roll to determine movement of the streetcar. This rule is vastly better.
The races have been surprisingly close in our games. The first person to complete their route will often have a less efficient tour of the board, so a player ending their track-laying later still has a shot at a come-from-behind victory.
This is a game that almost any family would love. Highly recommended. Just wish the components were better quality!
There are a few games that I think are overlooked. I still find it quite surprising that Streetcar and Big City, both excellent games in my opinion, haven't found a bigger audience. Both of these games are great for introducing new-to-German-game players to German games. They play quickly, have a good mix of interaction, decisions, and luck, and have solid themes.
Streetcar is basically a connect-the-tiles sort of game, and it works well with the theme. Simply connect one end of your Streetcar line to your other end making the stops assigned to you by secret card distribution. Very easy to learn. About the only strikes against this game are the horrible graphics (thank you, Mayfair--thbbbppppt) and the fact that the stop assignments don't seem very equal to me in some of the games I have played. (And if you ever see the German version of Streetcar, known as Linie 1, you'll wonder why Mayfair uglified what was once a really nice looking game.)
No matter. This game is easy to learn, fun to play, actually requires more brains than you might think at first, and can either be light and fun if you play nicely, or can be utterly and wonderfully frustrating if you like to play games with more of an interfering style. =)
Great for families, GREAT FOR TWO PLAYERS! One more small thing to mention, it says 2-5 players, but 5 players bogs the game down so badly you may never finish the game. All in all, a great little game that has a classic feel to it.
Along with Modern Art, one of the most played games in my circle of friends. A fun, light game that has a lot of replay value, and can be learned very quickly. As 'family' games go, this one is near perfect. Its only real fault, IMO, are the shoddy quality of the Mayfair pieces and board. The game really would benefit from a raised plastic grid (a la Deluxe Scrabble) as track pieces are invariably wiggling away from their original placements...
This 1996 game by Mayfair is fun to play, but it is very simplistic. At least it has a short playing time (about one hour), so you can play it a couple of times in one sitting before wanting to play something else.
The first phase of the game, which accounts for about 90 percent of the play, involves players laying track tiles on the board. Players must connect from one station to another across the board while including stops at specific New Orleans sites (all determined randomly and secretly) before running their streetcars (the final 10 percent of the game). Players compete for the placement of track tiles and which direction they will go, much like Avalon Hill's 1830 series of games. In the final race phase of the game, streetcars can move a number of tiles one greater than the last player's move.
The German version of Streetcar, Linie 1, was runnerup for 1995 German Game of the Year. This game should have broad appeal for families, but the serious gamer will prefer other choo-choo games.
This is a very easy game to learn, not at all intimidating to non-gamers. The fun of threading a route through a maze of rivals is not lost on more veteran tacticians, either! So it's a good meeting ground for players of mixed abilities but can also be played hardball without regret.
Once the routes are built, I consider the actual 'race' of the streetcars around their respective lines to be more than anything else simply the scoring mechanism, confirming by countdown the quickest route to the winner's circle. Therefore I prefer Streetcar's version of the race, where each player moves one space more than the previous player, to
Streetcar holds the interest without gnashing the brain and plays quickly enough as not to outlast its welcome. If you are looking for a solid, but not too heavy game, this may be just the ticket.
Streetcar, the English version of Germany's Linie 1, is a straight-forward train game about building the shortest connection between your two stations and then racing your train to your end station (exactly opposite from Iron Horse, a game where you try to make the longest connection!).
You build your connection by using track tiles, and of course while you are trying to connect your two unique stations (placed on opposite sides of the board) so are your opponents. The track-building sequence is the most fun part of the game, as you continually try to make your life better while messing up the next person's plan. Once you have a completed connection between your two stations, you start the race phase of the game.
Here is where the game loses its punch. The race sequence is underwhelming, and there are at least two ways to play it. The German version included a die, and you simply rolled for your movement. In Streetcar, this is replaced with a '1-plus' movement mechanism. This means you move one on your first move, two on your second, three on your third, etc. It doesn't grow continually, though, since during the race you are forced to stop at designated crossings throughout.
The first person to complete their course wins the game. The game is a fun family game, and versus other rail games it is quite simple making it a good choice for kids.
Another corrective review. I try and keep these to a minimum, but I know that I use reviews as a guide to purchasing games, and that others do too, so giving accurate enjoyment ratings is important.
This game is simple to learn, a bit of variety and changing challenge, but it also feels a bit dry, it tends to hurt your brain when played with 4 or 5 players, and--most of all--it doesn't seem to garner much attention from gamers or non-gamers.
I think this game is best to play with non-gamers, as some of my friend like playing it once in a while. But I don't think this game can be compared with games like Union Pacific or King of the Elves, games that deserved 4 stars. The 2 stars I give it might be a bit low, but they'll help to even out the 4 stars I gave it the first time.


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After more than a year of speculation in baseball circles that the day was inevitable, the Buffalo Bisons were finally allowed to talk to the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday.
And all indications are that the teams will forge a new player development contract to make the Jays the Herd's new parent sometime this week.
Bisons General Manager Mike Buczkowski and team President Jon Dandes spoke Sunday morning with Charlie Wilson, the Blue Jays' director of minor-league operations.
Buczkowski told The News he and Dandes were expecting to speak to Toronto GM Alex Anthopoulos and team President Paul Beeston later Sunday or today.
Bisons owners Bob and Mindy Rich are also expected to take part via conference call.
Sunday was the first of a 15-day window teams are allotted to change their affiliations. The Bisons requested permission from the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues to discuss a new parent club to replace the New York Mets, with whom they've been connected the last four seasons.
Similarly, the Blue Jays filed a request with Major League Baseball to potentially relocate their Triple-A team from Las Vegas, where it has also been since the '09 season.
The Bisons had the third-worst record among Triple-A teams in their four years with the Mets, finishing 67-76 this year and watching attendance at Coca-Cola Field drop to about 515,000, the lowest in the ballpark's 25-year history. They did not sniff the playoffs in the four years and collapsed over the final three months this season after a 31-22 start.
"I would never question the Mets' effort, especially this year," Buczkowski said. "They made a real effort to sign players, to keep our roster full. They did a lot of things to make us successful. It didn't just translate to victories."
For their part, the Blue Jays want to get their Triple-A affiliate out of the Pacific Coast League and much closer to home. Buffalo is the closest Triple-A city to Toronto. Buczkowski said Bob Rich will likely speak to the Mets, and the Blue Jays will talk to Las Vegas officials. But those are both expected to be nothing more than courtesy calls.
"It all comes down to geography, more than anything else," Anthopoulos told Toronto reporters prior to Sunday's game against the Boston Red Sox in Rogers Centre. "... At this stage we want to at least take a look. .... Vegas has been great."
Most Triple-A players don't talk much about where their parents will play but Blue Jays pitcher Chad Beck, who spent most of the year in Las Vegas and appeared in the Triple-A All-Star Game here July 11, said there was definitely chatter in Vegas about Buffalo.
"It was a great city with a great facility," Beck said of Buffalo. "The locker room was very nice and I was in the visiting locker room. And the Jumbotron in center field was simply amazing for a minor-league stadium.
"One of the hard things about the minors is where am I going to eat before the game, what am I going to do after the game. We were really impressed about how there were tons of places being right there. The location was just perfect. I loved that experience. It was amazing. Five-star."
The Blue Jays have often kept pitching prospects with their Double-A team in Manchester, N.H., rather than put them in the thin air of Vegas, where home runs fly out of Cashman Field and groundballs scoot through the heat-baked infield. That would certainly change.
"Players aren't normally too concerned about where you are in the minors, but I know players are excited for this," Beck said. "If there's a need for you to come up for a couple days, it's a lot easier to jump in a car and drive to Buffalo than fly six hours across country from Las Vegas or a place like Sacramento. You get [to Toronto], you're jet-lagged for a day or two. Buffalo would be 100 percent better for everybody."
Buczkowski said the Bisons will tell the Blue Jays they want to have winning products on the field but said he's concerned about some of the discussion, notably on Mets-centric blogs, that focused on an obsession with that topic.
"People say winning but I say it's to be competitive," he said. "There were a lot of times the last four years we were not. We get a bad rap that we're demanding a championship team. That's not what we're saying. We need a competitive team. Win more than you lose. Play some games in August that mean something."
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Meredith Moore-Flores of Merrimack pleaded guilty to taking the toys from stores such as Target and Toys R Us in Nashua. She returned some of the toys and paid nearly $2,000 to the corporations for the incidents committed in 2011.
The Telegraph reports Target's "assets protection" in-house investigative team initially began looking into Moore-Flores in August 2011.
Employees of the Toys R Us and Target were warned to be on the lookout for the 35-year-old after some high-end Lego box sets went missing from a store and she showed up on camera.
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Case Chronology
October 29, 1957
Dennis John Dechaine is born.
His mother, Julia, died when Dennis was 9 years old.
His father Donald (Donat in French), died when Dennis was 14 years old.
May 5, 1976
Sarah Cherry is born to Debra Cherry and Gilbert Austin.
June, 1976
Dennis graduates from Madawaska High School with 158 classmates and goes to work in Brunswick at George Christopher's sheep farm.
December, 1979
Dennis graduates from Vermont Technical College near the top of his class after majoring in agricultural business management.
January, 1980
Dennis moved to Washington State and later enrolls in Western Washington Univ. that fall
Fall, 1981
In sophomore year, he meets his future wife, Nancy Emmons, and studies languages with a major in French.
June, 1983
Nancy and Dennis graduate from Western Washington University.
Sept, 1983
Nancy and Dennis are married in Colorado Springs, Colorado where her parents live, and move back to Maine.
Dennis and Nancy live and work on George Christopher's farm until buying a farm of their own.
Fall, 1986
Dennis selected for Rotary International fellowship, and travels to India.
Dennis is elected as one of three members of Farmers Home Administration Committee for Sagadahoc and Lincoln Counties.
July 1-5, 1988
Nancy and Dennis to Madawaska for Dechaine family reunion, July 4 celebration and vacation of swimming and canoeing. Return home on the 5th.
July 6, 1988
9:10 a.m. Sarah Cherry begins first babysitting job.
12 noon. Mother of baby calls home and Sarah and baby are fine.
Between noon and 3:20 p.m. Sarah Cherry is abducted.
3:20 p.m. Baby's mother returns home to find baby safe, but Sarah Cherry is missing. The two documents found in the driveway with Dennis Dechaine's name on them lead police to begin searching for him, as well as for Sarah Cherry.
8:30 p.m. Dennis Dechaine is seen coming out of the woods as he is lost and looking for his truck, and at 8:45 is picked up by neighbors, the Buttricks, who try to help him find his truck.
9:20 p.m. A police car meets up with the Buttricks and Dennis Dechaine transfers into the police car thinking that the police can help him find his truck. Immediately, he is questioned by police about the missing Sarah Cherry and remains in back seat of a police car for 8 hours. He is returned home at 4 a.m. on July 7 and kept under police surveillance thereafter until his arrest on Friday, the 8th.
July 7, 1988
2 a.m. – 8 a.m. Sarah Cherry is killed during this period, according to the State Medical Examiner at subsequent trial. He says that, based upon the degree of rigor mortis, she died between 30 and 36 hours prior to her body being examined on Friday (below). The period 30-36 hours prior to the 2 p.m. Friday exam would make the time of death between 2 a.m. and 8 a.m. Thursday morning. Thus, by the state's own witness' testimony, Sarah Cherry likely died 5 1/2 hours
Dennis Dechaine emerged from the woods after which his presence is entirely accounted for by witnesses.
July 8, 1988
12:20 p.m. Sarah Cherry's body found.
2:00 p.m. Dr. Roy, medical examiner, examines Sarah Cherry's body at site found.
Dennis Dechaine is arrested and jailed.
Jan. 26, 1989
Motion for testing of DNA is denied at a hearing several days later, even though Dennis Dechaine offers to pay for the testing. This denial of DNA testing contrasts with the fact that, a week after Sarah Cherry was killed, Maine's crime lab submitted evidence from an earlier, unrelated crime to a New York lab for DNA testing.
March 6, 1989
Trial begins in Rockland, Maine, with Dennis Dechaine represented by Tom Connolly and George Carlton. The testimony by Dr. Roy omits any statement of the time of death; he simply states that it occurred 30-36 hours prior to his initial examination of Sarah Cherry's body.
March 18, 1989
Dennis Dechaine receives two life sentences, later reduced to one. In Maine, a life sentence means imprisonment until dead.
Oct. 16, 1989
Defense attorney Tom Connolly files appeal of conviction.
March 15, 1990
Maine Supreme Judicial Court denies appeal.
See OPINION OF COURT.
May 4, 1990
Appeal of sentence denied by Maine Supreme Court.
May 5, 1992
Bag of defense exhibits, including thumbnail clippings, are given to Tom Connolly by Superior Court Clerk. Connolly files Motion for New Trial.
June 18, 1992
On prosecutors' orders and without notice to the defense, all evidence the State did not use at trial (including Sarah's untested bloody fingernails, vaginal swabs and hairs found on Sarah's body which were neither hers nor Dechaine's) are incinerated.
June, 1992
Trial and Error gives a presentation at the Unitarian Church in Brunswick stating that Dechaine is innocent. Retired ATF agent Jim Moore begins an investigation he hopes will convince the Trial & Error people that authorities did their job and Dechaine is guilty. Instead, the evidence he finds proves Dechaine innocent. After more investigation and several unsuccessful lawsuits aimed at having the State disclose additional evidence, Moore writes the first edition of
Human Sacrifice,
which is published in 2002.
June 18, 1992
Rape kit and other biological evidence incinerated per order of the Attorney General.
July 2, 1992
Hearing begins before Judge Bradford on a Motion for a Retrial based on new evidence.
July 31, 1992
Motion for a Retrial was denied by Judge Carl Bradford.
See DECISION OF COURT
November, 1992
Mark Westrum elected Sheriff, Sagadahoc County
February 14, 1993
Carol Waltman contacts the Innocence Project about testing for DNA underneath the thumbnails of Sarah Cherry.
June 10, 1993
Thumbnail clippings are sent to CBR lab for DNA testing.
August 26, 1993
Maine's Supreme Court affirms the denial of the bid for a new trial.
See DECISION OF COURT
August, 1993
CBR Lab determines that there are two "donors" of DNA in the mixture of blood.underneath a thumbnail of Sarah Cherry. Dr. Bing notes "layered blood." For later determinations, see "May 24, 1994" below.
December 13, 1993
Maine Attorney General files motion seeking return of exhibits, including blood/skin samples, mistakenly given to Tom Connolly, and which he had tested for DNA.
December 20, 1993
Superior Court orders Tom Connolly to return the thumbnail clippings.
April 22, 1994
Dennis Dechaine's blood sample is forwarded to CBR lab for comparison with unidentified DNA found underneath Sarah Cherry's thumbnail.
May 4, 1994
Dennis Dechaine is informed that his DNA was not on the thumbnail clippings.
May 24, 1994
CBR Laboratories in Boston completes testing of DNA and finds "two or more donors" in one sample, with one being the victim and the second being a person other than Dennis Dechaine.
July 8, 1994
Maine's Supreme Court orders the return of the exhibits to the Attorney General's office and does not address the results of the testing of the DNA.
See DECISION OF COURT
September 29, 1995
Dennis files Post-Conviction Review petition.
April 16, 1996
Attorney Paul Boots enters appearance on behalf of Dennis.
June 17, 1996
State files Motion to Dismiss Dennis' Post Conviction Review petition. (source: Post Conviction review opinion by Justice Marden)
July 8, 1996
Completed 8th year of jail/prison
July 8, 1997
Completed 9th year of jail/prison
December 29, 1997
Dennis Dechaine files a Motion to Test Third Party's Saliva (Senecal?). (source: Post Conviction review opinion by Justice Marden)
January 16, 1998
Hearing held on pending motions for Post-Conviction Review and for testing of saliva. (source: Post Conviction review opinion by Justice Marden)
July 8, 1998
Completed 10th year of jail/prison
January 9, 1999
Justice Marden denies Post Conviction review. See
July 8, 1999
Completed 11th year of jail/prison
April 26, 2000
Writ of Habeas Corpus petition filed in Federal Court by Barry Scheck of the Innocence Project and Maine atty Gene Libby.
July 8, 2000
Completed 12th year of jail/prison
July, 2000
Writ of Habeas Corpus in Federal District Court on grounds that trial violated Federal standards. Denied. See
Dennis chooses not to appeal out of despair. Later, he changes his mind, but it was too late.
Jan, 2001
Steven Rowe becomes Maine Attorney General.
Summer, 2001
Maine passes Chapter 469 of the Acts of 2001, the DNA Testing Law. It gave inmates the RIGHT to DNA testing AND it made illegal the destruction of DNA-related evidence illegal (9 years too late for Dennis Dechaine, but the new law's prohibition speaks to the morality of the incineration of the rape kit and unidentified hairs by the Attorney General's Office in 1992.
October 10, 2002
Author Jim Moore publishes "Human Sacrifice" with the conclusion that Dennis Dechaine is an innocent man, and that the real killer of Sarah Cherry is at large.
May, 2003
Motion for DNA Testing and Retrial filed with Knox County Superior Court.
Summer, 2003
In response to
Human Sacrifice,
the Maine Legislature passes Chapter 18 of the Special laws of the 121st Session, which commands the Attorney General to open his "confidential file" concerning this case to the general public.
February 8, 2004
Private Investigator Tom Cumler interviews alternate suspect, Doug Senecal at Senecal's home in Florida. Senecal refuses to contribute a DNA sample (hair, blood or saliva) and seems to imply that he would not be surprised if the DNA found underneath Sarah Cherry's thumbnail belonged to him. Senecal is asked whether he would be worried if the DNA found was his, and his response was, "Bingo, there you go."
April, 2004
Missing extract used for 1993/94 testing is located and will be submitted for retesting.
Summer, 2004
Maine passes the "Dennis Dechaine Law," which requires the video or audio taping of interrogations or admissions.
July 8, 2004
DNA tests reveal male DNA underneath Sarah Cherry's thumbnail.
July 21, 2004
Attorney Michaela Murphy files motions to identify state employees who might have mistakenly contaminated the thumbnail DNA extract, and to require the state to inform the defense of other DNA-related activity.
October 29, 2004
Dennis Dechaine Day II at Maine State House.
December, 2004
Representative Ross Paradis (D-Frenchville) introduced Legislative Request (L.R. 2115) which is a Resolution urging Attorney General Steven Rowe to support a retrial for Dennis Dechaine.
December 11, 2004
Representative Ross Paradis (D-Frenchville) introduces Legislative Request (L.R. 2115), a resolution urging Attorney General Steven Rowe to support a retrial for Dennis Dechaine. The resolution is not adopted. More than 6,000 Mainers sign a petition supporting a full re-investigation of the Dechaine case.
April 4, 2005
A public opinion poll finds that 54% of Maine registered voters support a new trial for Dennis Dechaine while 25% percent oppose a new trial and 21% are not sure or have no opinion.
September 23, 2005
Hearing on Dennis's May, 2003 Motion for a New Trial, 27 months after its May, 2003 filing. At the hearing, Dennis withdrew the Motion for New Trial, after Judge Bradford ruled that he would consider only evidence in the case as was known in 1992, the date of the hearing of the first Motion for Retrial. Dennis and his lawyers announced the plan to seek changes in the DNA law in the Legislature.
November 16, 2005
Judge Carl Bradford rules that Dennis's withdrawal of the Motion for a New Trial is "without prejudice," which means he can re-file the motion after the DNA testing statute is modified by the Legislature.
August 21, 2006
Three person panel issues report on the five allegations of police or prosecutorial misconduct in the Dennis Dechaine case. Without a hearing or transcriptions of testimony or opportunity for Dennis Dechaine supporters to provide any input to the Commission, it decided that there was no such misconduct. Trial and Error had written three letters to the Commission at its inception in 2004, but there was no response, whether by communication or by action.
Aug-Sept. 2006
James P. Moore files FOAA request for access to records of Dechaine panel, receives no response, and files an appeal. And Moore's revised edition of
Human Sacrifice
is published. It contains information previously kept secret by the AG's office until the State Legislature ordered its release. Moore alleges evidence of official misconduct in the investigation and prosecution of the Dechaine case.
September 1, 2006
Effective date of the DNA statute amendments.
July, 2007
Judge Robert E. Crowley denies Moore's FOAA appeal. Moore appeals to State Supreme Court.
June, 2008
The Maine Supreme Court, in a 3-2 decision, denies FOAA appeal of James P. Moore, thus redefining and loosening Maine's FOAA law.
August 28, 2008
A Motion for Retrial is filed by Dennis Dechaine's attorneys.
October 12, 2008
Jon Lund, Maine's first full-time attorney general, former district attorney and head of the Maine Law Review Commission, writes a letter to the editor of the Bangor Daily News. Lund asserts his belief that Dennis Dechaine did not receive a fair trial, and he calls for a retrial. The paper does not publish the letter, but this website does.
December, 2009
Renowned forensic pathologists Drs. Cyril Wecht and Walter Hofman issue independent reports on the time-of-death evidence, each concluding that Sarah Cherry died after Dennis Dechaine was already in police custody being questioned about the girl's disappearance.
July, 2010
It is revealed that Dennis Dechaine's April hospitalization was for a suicide attempt by prescription medications. The AG's office responds by indicting him for drug trafficking.
November, 2010
Judge Bradford rules that only DNA evidence will be heard in the yet-to-be-scheduled hearing on the Motion for Retrial. The time-of-death evidence will not be considered.
June, 2011
Legislature's Judiciary Committee unanimously rejects LD 824, which would have broadened the scope of evidence admissible at a Motion-for-Retrial Hearing. However, the same legislative session passes, and Governor LePage signs into law, LD 373, which guarantees a defendant the right of appeal under the same statute.
July 29, 2011
At a preliminary hearing on the Motion for Retrial, Judge Bradford declines a motion to recuse himself, at least for the day, but says he will take it under consideration for the future. He also declines a "Claim of Innocence" motion to follow a precedent used in other states that would have allowed evidence other than DNA to be considered in making the decision about a retrial. He did, however, grant Attorney Steve Petersen's request to compare the existing DNA sample to a larger database.
April, 2012
The Motion-for-Retrial Hearing requested by Dennis Dechaine's attorneys in 2008 is scheduled to begin on May 23, 2012
May 8, 2012
The Motion-for-Retrial Hearing is rescheduled for June 12, 2012.
June 12, 2012
The motion-for-retrial hearing filed for in 2008 begins at the Cumberland Country Courthouse in Portland. The purpose of the hearing is to decide if a retrial will be granted. The decision will be made solely by Judge Carl. O. Bradford, who presided over the 1989 trial and subsequent appeals. (It was Judge Bradford who denied Dennis Dechaine's request for DNA testing prior to the trial.) The principal question before Judge Bradford in this hearing is the possible significance of the unidentified DNA found on Sarah's thumbnail in 1993. The state contends that the sample is contamination resulting from sloppy procedures by the staff of the medical examiner, and that it is of no significance. Dr. Greg Hampikian, an expert witness for the defense, argues that it is "probative evidence." The judge is unable to rule on the motion for retrial due to a disagreement between the state and the defense concerning Touch DNA testing of remaining evidence, which was requested by the defense in the 2008 motion. The Deputy Attorney General contends that previous swabbing of the evidence by the state crime lab, which produced no results, satisfied the request for Touch DNA testing. Judge Bradford recesses the hearing on June 14th to allow for the Touch DNA testing.
June 19, 2012
More than two years after Dennis Dechaine attempted suicide by drug overdose and was charged with drug trafficking upon his revival, he is brought to trial on the charge. Timing of the drug trial in Rockland virtually coincides with the hearing in Portland that will decide if Dennis will be granted a retrial on the murder charge. After statewide publicity about the drug story, and double-duty by defense lawyer Steve Peterson to prepare for both proceedings, prosecutors accept Dennis's offer to plead no-contest to misdemeanor possession in exchange for dropping the felony trafficking charge.
October 2, 2012
The Kennebec Journal publishes a letter to the editor written by Jon Lund, who, although not identified as such by the paper, was Maine's first full-time attorney general and former head of the Maine Law Review Commission. In his letter, Lund urges current Attorney General William Schneider "to take a fresh look at the case and review whether his office is seeking that justice be done, as is its legal duty, or is simply defending the Dechaine conviction by every means available."
October 13, 2012
Maine media report that initial results from the DNA testing done by Orchid Cellmark, a lab in Texas, may exonerate Dennis Dechaine of murdering Sarah Cherry and implicate an alternate suspect. Cellmark found partial DNA profiles on the items tested: a scarf from Dennis's truck used to strangle the victim, and the girl's tee-shirt and bra. (Partial profiles cannot absolutely include a suspect, but can exclude or not exclude a suspect.) Conflicting interpretations of the partial profiles by the lab, by the state, and by DNA expert Hampikian include a finding that Dennis cannot not be excluded as a contributor, but that the strongest results implicate a known alternate suspect. The identity of the alternate suspect is not revealed.
October 19, 2012
Maine media report that officials involved in the case, including Judge Bradford, have agreed to a continued delay of the motion-for-retrial hearing in order to allow for additional DNA testing. The new testing is aimed at pinpointing the alternate suspect.
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At the Commencement ceremony, family, friends and the Rowan community celebrate each graduate's academic achievements.
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Rowan University confers degrees at the end of the Fall (December), Spring (May), and Summer (August) sessions. The commencement ceremony held in May includes these students who completed degree requirements in Summer, Fall, or Spring.
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Beginning Fall 2016, there is now no late fee/late deadline for the non-refundable processing fee of $65. This will be charged one time only per degree and payable to Rowan University. Applications are NOT accepted after the deadline dates.
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New 'Psychedelic Pill' Artwork Unveiled -
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Crazy Horse' carved into it along with Crazy Horse's logo of a
silhouetted Native American riding a horse.
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commanding and expansive music heard on the two CD or three vinyl
disc sets."
'Psychedelic Pill' is a two-CD
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The Dairy Queen system has opened its newest, most exciting treat concept, a DQ Orange Julius store, in Muskegon, Michigan, the first in Muskegon County.
The new restaurant offers all of the amazing Dairy Queen soft-serve treats and cakes as well as Orange Julius products, including an array of fruit beverages and smoothies. In addition, the store also will serve Dairy Queen signature Iron Grilled Sandwiches.
Located within the Lakes Mall food court at 5600 Harvey St., the 700-square-foot restaurant employs a staff of 15.
"I am thrilled to have the first DQ Orange Julius store in Muskegon open and ready to serve our customers," says new operator Amanda Williams, who owns two other locations in Allendale and Grand Rapids.
"The Dairy Queen system is the worldwide treat leader and we've paired an innovative exciting design with a fabulous selection of cravable treats, including all of the Dairy Queen and Orange Julius favorites. Our customers will love what we're bringing to the Muskegon community.
"We are looking to provide the Muskegon community with a great treat location, from that morning smoothie to the after-the-movie Blizzard Treat."