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Besides the fun S3.2 swap that was the focus of the meeting we had another great round of raffle items. Big thanks to Sharon H., Linda L. and Laurie G. for the donated items. Kelly also brought an item donated by City Knits--what a wonderful surprise! 15 items in all were raffled off, including a special raffle item—a beautiful new Jordan Paige knitting bag donated by Sharon. It's hard to decide if that or the thongs were the best items in the raffle!
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Remember, the May meeting is our annual dinner. RSVPs are being taken until Tuesday, April 28. The dinner will be at St. Columban, and is being catered by Panera. $10 per person. Also the May meeting is the swap...bring your unwanted yarn, notions, books...and barter, bargain and be ready to trade. We will also have a few silent auction items that will be up for bidding...you'll want to bring some money for that so you don't miss out.


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A man was shot in the 200 block of Perrywood Court near Aberdeen about 6:20 p.m. Saturday, according to the Harford County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies arrived and discovered one male, later identified as Daniel Patrick Morris, 26, of the 400 block of Willow Drive in Elkton, had been shot; he was taken to Harford Memorial Hospital in Havre de Grace by an acquaintance, the sheriff's office said.
Morris was eventually flown to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore by a Maryland State Police Medevac helicopter.
He was listed in serious condition at shock trauma Tuesday afternoon, according to a hospital spokesperson.
Preliminary information provided to deputies was that a dispute had occurred at the Perrywood Apartment complex when the shooting occurred, the Sheriff's Office said.
The victim was initially unable to provide a description of the suspect.
Detectives did attempt to talk with Morris on Monday but still did not have any leads on a suspect as of Tuesday afternoon, Sheriff's Office spokesman Aaron Stewart said.


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Mission Matters
When justice is kidnapped
The 2013 Alexander Law Prize honors Chen Guangcheng, a Chinese civil-rights activist and attorney who protested government abuses—including excessive enforcement of the one-child policy—then escaped house arrest to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.
For 20 years Chen Guangcheng has been stirring up trouble: He has pursued human-rights cases in rural areas of China, advocating for women's rights, rights for the disabled, land rights, constitutional law, and the rule of law. He's also an unlikely crusader. Blind since early childhood and self-taught in law, he became known as the "barefoot lawyer."
But he doesn't talk in terms of crusading. He says, "It was natural for me to step on this journey." Not embarking on it, he says, would be "like trying to shy away from being beaten by somebody who uses sticks to attack you."
That was a remark he made on March 18 at the Louis B. Mayer Theatre, where Chen was awarded the 2013 George and Katharine Alexander Law Prize, presented since 2008 to top lawyers who have used their legal careers to help alleviate injustice and inequity. Chen has lived in the United States since last year. How did he get here?
Prison and escape
In 2006, Chen filed a class action lawsuit against authorities in the Shandong province, alleging excessive enforcement of China's one-child policy—which often results in forced abortions and sterilizations. Chen was arrested on trumped-up charges. After a trial, during which he was denied access to his legal counsel, he was convicted and sentenced to four years in prison. In 2006, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Immediately after being released in September 2010, Chen was again placed under house arrest and reportedly beaten when his treatment was aired on the Internet. But in April 2012 he made a daring escape from house arrest and fled to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. He drew attention not just from U.S. diplomats but the British Foreign Secretary, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International, each of which issued appeals on his behalf. He and his family ultimately were granted U.S. visas after negotiations with the Chinese government that allowed them to travel to New York, where Chen now lives with his wife and two children and studies law.
Family members who still live in China report being pressured and abused. Among them: Chen's nephew, Chen Kegui, who has been accused of attempted homicide after defending himself against bandits looting his home.
Ordinary people
Today in China, "justice is kidnapped, so the ordinary people cannot voice their opinions," Chen told his Santa Clara audience.
But that doesn't let ordinary people off the hook. "In the United States, attorneys carry heavy responsibility for alleviating injustice. In China, lawyers are also endeavoring and working hard, but in contrast it is different, because the Chinese lawyers will face suppression. It doesn't matter if it's a lawyer or a scholar ... everyone has a responsibility to make a society better."
He expressed hopes for what's to come in China, but he counseled caution about being overly optimistic about what recent changes in leadership mean for the legal system.
The prize
The Alexander Prize is made possible due to the generosity and friendship of Katharine and George Alexander. Katharine served for many years as a public defender in the Santa Clara County court system and earned a reputation as a tireless advocate for her clients. George served as professor of law for 34 years, and led as dean for 15 years.
The prize was presented by President Michael E. Engh, S.J., and Dean of Law Don Polden, who steps down this summer after 10 years of leading the law school.
Lisa Kloppenberg begins work as the new dean on July 1. She comes to SCU from the University of Dayton, where she led the law school.
Spring/Summer 2013
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Walk Across California
An epic journey whereby one foot is put in front of the other to discover, up close and personal, who and what and where is the Golden State.
Miller's Tale
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Blood. Sweat. Tears. Repeat.
Nina Acosta '82 was a tough enough cop to pass the test for the LAPD's SWAT team. Then she learned the hard way about gender discrimination. So how did she do on Survivor?
Mission Matters
When justice is kidnapped
The 2013 Alexander Law Prize honors Chen Guangcheng, a Chinese civil-rights activist and attorney who protested government abuses—including excessive enforcement of the one-child policy—then escaped house arrest to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.
Double trouble
Growing up tennis with Kelly Lamble '13 and John Lamble '14. And Bronco teams that are a force to be reckoned with nationally.
Keep the door open
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Leading Car Rental Service in Pune
There are many Cheap Car hire Companies in Pune . Some of them are providing their services through the internet also. That means you can book your car to hire online also. So select a good car hire company to rent a car from and get a good service.
Car Hire provides means for you to travel safely and comfortably. These benefits of car hire are just some out of the many advantages of hiring a vehicle on your vacation.
A delightful town to visit, Olbia has gradually grown to be one of the most important towns in Italy. Relaxing by nature and blessed with historical splendor, the charming nature of this town attracts many visitors annually. The roads are somewhat narrow and pedestrian-friendly; perfect for strolls and leisurely walks. However, to enjoy sightseeing at its best, you'll need a vehicle to get around. Car Hire enables you to rent a vehicle to travel to further places and visit many more historical sites. The benefits of car hire are plentiful. The last thing you need is to not know what you've missed out on the trip, because you only access the different places by foot.
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As all know, the City of Pune is not exactly the best place to drive a Pune hire car. However, if you are fed up with the busy city life, a car hire in Pune may be just the thing you need to relax. Stop being bothered by the tourists and become one yourself by renting a Pune car hire and take a drive in the Country! With so many car hire suppliers to choose from, you are bound to find a deal on the car you need to get out of town.
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It is important to note that a car rental in the Pune includes insurance. This is something you will have to pay on a yearly basis for a purchased car. While driving if you are lost in your Cool Cab Services in Pune , stop and ask directions from a Black Cab Driver. Sometimes the best way to get across town, especially if you don't know where you are going in your Pune Car Rental, is to follow a Black Cab. You need to pay for your Pune Congestion Charge every weekday that you have your Pune Car Rental.
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When you are planning for a holiday trip then you will have to make all the arrangements for the trip, like the hotel to stay, the places to visit, transportation etc. You will get the information from internet, magazines or from other sources.
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Pune to Shirdi Taxi Companies are offering car hire services in Portugal like Faro airport car rental services, Lisbon airport car rental services etc. So don't bother about your transportation at Portugal. Hire your car from a popular car hire company and enjoy your holiday trip.
If you were making in excess of 10,000 car rental bookings a year with a car rental company you would be expecting a discount from the standard rate. This is how car rental brokers operate. They use the combined business of all their customers to negotiate preferential rates. They then pass the savings on to their customers.
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Renting a car is the best way to travel in a tourist land; not only is it the most comfortable way to see a new place, it is also the safest and cheapest. A car rental is the perfect solution for both businessmen who travel to different cities for meetings and conferences, and tourists too who want to explore a place at their own pace.There are some ways to find the right rental car for these purposes, the first step being locating the right car hire service.
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Start your search by short listing at least four rental agencies or companies; using the internet for this is a good idea as almost all companies have their services listed on the web along with their contact numbers. Take your time to research and once done, be sure to have found the best rental agencies which can offer the most attractive prices and services to suit your need.
- Insurance is another aspect which should be worked out in advance during the stage of car selection. If clearly chalked out, it can save you from extra expenditures later on in the advent of accidents and other hazards.
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The increase in discount flights and competitive prices for car hire has made car rental a much more attractive option in recent years. When you are looking for a car hire the last thing you want to do is spend a lot of time on the web or on the phone, looking around for the best car rental deal. The cost of a car hire is sensible and considering public transportation within a city is usually pretty good.
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Car rental services are increasingly becoming a good alternative way of moving around. Unless you are visiting a neighboring town or state and returning home the next day, rental services are recommended highly. If you are travelling for a couple of days, weeks or months and staying in a hotel, you will need a car that can you can access and move you around with ease and flexibility. The importance of car rental services includes:
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Hiring a car grants you the ideal opportunity to take charge of your own destiny. The services allow both residents and visitors to travel anywhere they want with ease. You can choose when to initiate your journey, where to go and when to return it. This can contribute to you peace of mind and comfort. It is perhaps the only feasibly way of getting around in some towns and cities, where public transport is absent and cab services are rare.
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Player Selection and Tryouts
- Players will be selected after participation in a series of tryouts. Tryouts will be conducted over several weeks starting in April. Additional tryouts may be held in the summer for players who were unavailable for the first round of tryouts. Tryouts will be competitive and should be viewed by parents as being the same as club soccer tryouts. There are likely to be a series of cuts through which the number of players trying out for a particular team is reduced in several stages until the final roster is determined.
- Tryouts will consist of game like situations and will be organized by professional trainers who are qualified to work with AYSO.
- Coaches will assist in tryouts and player selection but will not have the final say about player selections for Extra teams.
- Upon completion of the tryouts the Region 76 Extra selection group will select the Extra teams.
- Players who are not selected will of course have the option of participating in the AYSO core program and will be encouraged to do so. The core program will still provide post season play opportunities with all star and tournament teams. Parents are encouraged to remain positive with their kids, even if they don't get selected for Extra.
There will be one Extra team per age group per gender for the 2011/2012 season. This number may increase in future seasons.
# of Players per Team:
- U10- 10 players per team
- U11- 12 players per team
- U12- 12 players per team
- U13- 15 players per team
- U14- 15 players per team
Each team may have up to 3 alternates. This will be decided on a team by team basis. See following paragraph.
Alternates selected by Extra teams in each age division will be placed on teams in the AYSO core program. They will play games and practice with their core teams. They will play on their Extra team when and if the coach of the Extra team decides it is necessary.
Alternates are encouraged to attend Extra practices if possible, but they must give priority to core team practices. An alternate player who does not have a satisfactory attendance record for his or her core team may have alternate status revoked.
A player may choose not to participate in Extra as an alternate and can just participate in the core program if he or she so chooses.
A "Move-up" in AYSO occurs when a player who is age eligible for a division is given permission by Region 76 to play "up" a division with older children. This typically occurs when a child with a birthday that occurs after the July 31st age determination date wishes to play "up" in the next highest division with his or her classmates.
Move-ups in the Extra program will be considered on a case by case basis. Allowing a player to "move-up" will be determined by the Region 76 Board or those designated by the Region 76 Board to make the decision. By its very nature, the decision to allow a child to move up or not is subjective. Therefore, Region 76 will utilize the expertise of its most experienced coaches in making this decision for any child whose parents wish to have play up a division. The decision will be made solely by the Region 76 board or those members of the board appointed by our Regional Commissioner to make the decision. Once a decision has been made, it will not be subject to appeal
EXAMPLE: A boy who turns 10 in November of his 5th grade year may wish to play U11 so that he can play with his classmates who are several months older than him. Technically, due to his age, he would be placed in U10.
Players who wish to play up and try out for an Extra team will be subjected to the same tryout process as the older players. Please be aware that it may work better for your child to have him or her play in the younger age group even though other players in the same grade are playing in the older one (and may increase your child's chances of being selected to an Extra team.
Your child will be selected on the basis that he or she will not participate in a Club program while playing in the Extra Fall season, because the two programs require such high levels of commitment that a player on both a Club and an Extra team probably cannot satisfy his or her obligations to both teams. A player who joins a Club after being selected to participate on an Extra team should expect to lose his or her place on the Extra team. Exceptions may be made with the consent of the Regional Commissioner, which will be granted only in rare and unusual circumstances.
Participation in both the Extra Program during the Extra Spring season and on a Club team will be decided on a case by case basis, but is highly unlikely. The consent of the Extra Program coordinator or the Regional Commissioner will still be required before a Club player may be permitted to participate on an Extra team during the Extra Spring season.


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Greeley police to hold public meeting on sexually violent predator
April 1, 2014
Greeley police on Wednesday will hold a meeting to provide residents with information on a sexually violent predator who has moved to the area.
The department will hold the meeting from 7-8 p.m. at the Greeley Police Department, 2875 10th St. The department will reveal the sex offender's name and address at the meeting, according to a news release.
Greeley police said the subject matter at the meeting will not be suitable for children, and anyone 15 years old or younger who is not with an adult will not be allowed to attend. Police say it is important for adults to share pertinent information with children after the meeting.
Sex offenders are required to inform their local police department of where they reside. Some sex offenders are deemed sexually violent predators by judges, and police are required to inform community members of their name and address.


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Since opening Lincoln Park pizzeria Homeslice earlier this year, owners Josh Iachelli and Clay Hamilton have introduced brunch service -- complete with Rumchata cereal and a pizza slice-garnished bloody mary -- and built out a spacious backyard patio.
Their latest project is tricking out a 1969 Airstream trailer with lounge seating for 20. "It is heated, cozy and will be open through the winter," Iachelli said. It should be ready to make its debut on the patio by the weekend of Nov. 15.
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If you had ever taken riding lessons at Carousel Park Equestrian Center on Limestone Road, chances are, you had the distinguished opportunity of riding Bucky.
If you had ever taken riding lessons at Carousel Park Equestrian Center on Limestone Road, chances are, you had the distinguished opportunity of riding Bucky.
Bucky, a buckskin quarter horse who even had his own blog, "Bucky's Blog," was known and loved by everyone who worked at Carousel Park, and by everyone, young and old who rode him.
Sadly, Bucky passed away on Monday, June 11, due to lesions on his small intestines.
He was 28 years old.
Karen Kohlmorgen, the office manager at Carousel, said that Bucky's greatest attribute was that he loved children.
"He wouldn't come out of the barn for us but if he saw a child he would," she said. Kohlmorgen said that Bucky was a "gentle giant" and that she had never seen a child fall off of him. "He was big and wide — he was the go-to horse," Kohlmorgen said.
Bucky was involved in everything during his long career at Carousel — he taught riders in the Pony Pal Program and was instrumental in the Therapeutic Riding at Carousel (TRAC) program, which offers riding instruction as therapy to those with special needs.
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"He was the ultimate teacher and confidence-booster," Carly Thompson said, Equestrian Program Coordinator.
Barn Manager Michelle Walker's eyes began to water as she talked about Bucky.
"He was temperamental, opinionated, but he loved kids," she said.
"But in my thirty years in working with horses, he was the best therapy horse I have ever worked with. Everyone wanted to ride Bucky. Oh, and his favorite snack was potato chips — he loved potato chips," Walker said.


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Medicaid bank record check costly for Keene womanBy MEGHAN PIERCE
Union Leader Correspondent
February 16. 2013 2:51AM
KEENE - For 93-year-old Martha Mack, navigating the application process for long-term home or community care Medicaid has been arduous and too expensive on her $1,000 a month Social Security income.
That inspired her grandson to push for changes to the process, which requires a five-year bank records check in an era when banks charge for such services.
Mack moved from Pembroke Pines, Fla., to live with her grandson, Todd Silberstein, in Keene in fall 2011. The lifelong artist and sculptor, originally from New York City, had lived in Florida for more than 30 years. Her daughter, Silberstein's mother, had lived with her for many years before she died in 2010.
Silberstein said he knew it was time to move his grandmother up to Keene after she had been conned out of money in a phone scam. She was also struggling to get by financially and having difficulty trying to apply for long-term care Medicaid on her own in Florida.
Since then, she has been living with Silberstein, his wife and their twin 5-year-olds.
"It's very nice. It's certainly better than being alone," Mack said. "The kids are just adorable. They call me Grandma Martha."
Silberstein and his wife both work full time, but Mack can take care of herself during the day.
When the family went on vacation without Mack in December though, Silberstein realized how expensive it would become if Mack were to need care. A relative was able to monitor Mack while the Silbersteins were away, but if they had to bring in outside help for her care it would have cost somewhere between $1,500 and $2,000 a week, he said.
"She doesn't have that kind of money, and we do all we can for her," Silberstein said. "But these are things that ultimately we recognized. Her care is going to be greater than we can provide. So we are trying to address those needs that we foresee."
Mack agrees. "I'm 93, something's going to happen."
Silberstein soon learned that to apply he would need 60 months' worth of bank records from any bank accounts that Mack has had in the past five years.
Because Mack shared some accounts with her daughter when they lived together, she has at least four bank accounts, Silberstein said. Mack has difficulty remembering.
"She's not able to tell me what banks she's had or what other records she has," he said.
He was shocked to learn there is a "huge disparity" in how banks release the records.
Wells Fargo charges $5 a month. Ameritrust charges $10 a page at roughly four pages per monthly statement. Northwest Savings charges $25 an hour. TD Bank does not charge for bank statement copies. Mack had accounts with all of these banks.
"The bank wants to charge me for the records, which I think is disgusting," Mack said.
Based on the fees set by the banks, Silberstein estimates it would cost about $1,500 for Mack to acquire all of her financial records for the past 60 months. She has no assets, he said.
Silberstein said he doesn't begrudge the banks charging a fee, but feels these fees are exorbitant.
"It's over 10 percent of her annual income," he said.
Federal Medicaid laws require the five-year asset check of those applying for long-term care or home community based care, said Joyce St. Onge, state Health and Human Services administrator of Program Operations for Division of Family Assistance, and Melody Braley, state Health and Human Services administrator for Field Operations for Clients Service.
While some states, like Massachusetts, prohibit banks from charging these fees to those seeking records to determine eligibility, New Hampshire has no law.
Braley said her department sometimes writes letters to life insurance companies on behalf of clients or issues letters for clients to give to banks. The letter states the person is applying for Medicaid benefits and is seeking financial records. The letter doesn't seem to make the process faster or cause banks to waive any fees, though, Braley said.
"The bank still has the final say," she said.
State Health and Human Services officials are bound to obey the federal mandate, and the state has no money to help cover the costs for seniors without the means, they said.
"We don't have any funds to cover the 60-month look back," Braley said. "It is a federal requirement to have that, and we can't make a found eligibility without that, so we tell them that it is needed."
St. Onge worked in client eligibility determination back in the 1980s when only 30 months of financial records were required, and banks charged no fees whatsoever for the service.
"The reason Congress did this, they were sort of pushed against the wall, because sheltering assets became big business in this country," St. Onge said.
The look back was first 30 months, then three years, and then in 2006, it was changed to five years.
When applying for regular Medicaid only the current financial history is required.
In the 60-month look back, Medicaid is looking for both monetary and property transfers.
If any assets were sheltered, the client would be subject to a transfer penalty that would affect benefits.
Recently Congress has been working to make electronic asset checks mandatory, but the law and, more importantly, the infrastructure is not there yet, St. Onge said.
This system, though, is only a few years away from being available and would take away the client's burden of seeking records from banks because the state Medicaid office could just do an online asset check.
"It will have a benefit for our clients once we are able to implement things, but the financial institutions don't like it," St. Onge said.
For now, Silberstein said he is contacting his state senators to ask that legislation be drafted to standardize how banks comply with New Hampshire's requirement to obtain financial statements. The service should be provided for free, he said.
"Our goal was never really just accomplish this for Martha. The frustration that I've had has really gone beyond that, and we really don't want anyone else to have deal with that. There could be some sort of legislation or rules that would govern what the banks could or should charge," Silberstein said.
Silberstein tried reaching out to the banks that charge and made pleas for reduced or free records because of the circumstances, but didn't get anywhere, he said.
"I have requested in writing from Wells Fargo the financial records, and they will not budge on the charges."
Bankers respond
After he filed a complaint regarding Wells Fargo with the Consumer Finance Protection Board, he received a form letter that explained the policy, but didn't address Mack's situation, Silberstein said.
When contacted for comment, Wells Fargo media relations representative Emily A. Phillips said the fee covers the cost of printing and mailing the statements out. Customers that use online services have access to their records free of charge and can print them out themselves. She also said the Florida branch manager would like to help Mack obtain her records at no charge and asked to be put in contact with her by phone.
"We basically always tell our customers we are here to help them. and in special circumstances like this, we are always willing to help them," Phillips said.
A spokesperson for New York City Bank, which includes Ameritrust Bank, said if a customer requests bank statements for a Medicaid application, the fee is capped at $250. Branch managers have the ability to request a fee waiver or reduction of the $10 per page rate, the spokeperson said.
In an email, James G. Holding, vice president of communications of Northwest Savings Bank said he estimates it would only take half an hour for a bank employee to retrieve the records, which the bank would then likely prefer to email.
"Operations and in our local office tell me that they do indeed charge by time spent (not whole hour increments), and that they can't imagine the job would take more than half an hour tops. We'd prefer to email the images, which we store digitally, but we'd fax in a pinch. Overall? My experts figure $12.50 as a probable cost," he wrote. "The statements are accessible. We have personnel on duty. The ex-customer needs them. They're easy to send. We're not all hard-hearted."


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Gamasutra and the NPD Group have put together a very interesting list of the top five selling games on each console for the year to date (January to August).
Expectedly, Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV tops the sales this year on PS3 and Xbox 360, with combined sales in excess of 4.8 million copies. EA's Madden NFL 09 and Activision's Call of Duty 4 also make the PS3/360 top five. Interestingly the PS3 top five includes two platform exclusives in the shape of Metal Gear Solid 4 (No. 2) and Gran Turismo 5: Prologue (No. 5), while the 360 top five contains no exclusives and no games from Microsoft Game Studios.
PS3 Top Five
1. Grand Theft Auto IV
2. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
3. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
4. Madden NFL 09
5. Gran Turismo 5: Prologue
Xbox 360 Top Five
1. Grand Theft Auto IV
2. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
3. Madden NFL 09
4. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2
5. Army of Two
While game sales on Xbox 360 and PS3 are strong, according to Gamasutra they are dwarfed by game sales on the Wii. The top five selling games this year on the Wii have a combined total of almost 12 million units. It's also worth pointing out that four of the five games are Wii exclusives and that four come packaged with a peripheral. Guitar Hero III is the only game in the Wii top five from a third-party publisher.
Wii Top Five
1. Super Smash Bros. Brawl
2. Mario Kart
3. Wii Play
4. Wii Fit
5. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock


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Cindy Presidio, Executive Assistant
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These are some frequently asked questions we receive at the regional center. They reflect client and family interest in some of the terms we use on a regular basis. If you have other questions, please feel free to contact us.
Q: Can you tell me more about DDS?
A: As part of the Department of Developmental Services' (DDS) commitment to provide information to the general public, individuals with developmental disabilities and their families, and professionals in the field, DDS produces the Fact Book on an annual basis. The information presented in the Fact Book is intended to provide an overview of the DDS service delivery system and the persons served. You can view the current Fact Book at the DDS Fact Books website.
Q: What type of services might I expect to get?
A: Possible services include:
Q: What is a Medicaid Waiver?
A: A waiver is a funding mechanism which allows the state to offer community-based services as an alternative to institutional services. The term waiver specifically refers to two elements of home and community-based services:
Q: What do you mean by "Person Centered Planning"?
A: "Person Centered Planning" is a service planning process centered around individual's personal goals and preferences. Services and supports are designed and provided to meet long term expectations of the person and his/her family and friends. The person and his/her significant others have the same authority as service provider professional staff in choosing life goals in areas including work, school, home and social relationships. Funding and resources support integrated community living.
Q: What is the ADA?
A: The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 was signed into law by President George Bush Senior on July 26, 1990 ( Public Law 336). The ADA prohibits discrimination and ensures equal opportunity for persons with disabilities in employment, State and local government services, public accommodations, commercial facilities, and transportation. It also mandated the establishment of the TDD/telephone relay services.


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Why did Germans keep supporting Hitler and the Nazis until the end of the war? Why didn't they rise up against a regime that was committing mass murder and atrocity on an unimaginable scale? Why didn't the mass Allied bombing of German cities lead to a popular revolt against Hitler?
Many historians have tried to answer these questions over the years since the Nazi regime collapsed in ruins in 1945. Older explanations looked to stereotypes of the German national character for an answer–militarism, love of violence, willingness to obey authority, desire for strong leadership, civil passivity and similar clichés of dubious validity. More recently, some historians have argued that propaganda played a central role in rallying Germans to the Nazi flag; others have stressed the growing terror to which the Nazi Party subjected the German people, above all in the later stages of the war. A few years ago, American political scientist Daniel Jonah Goldhagen suggested that the overwhelming majority of Germans were fanatical supporters of Nazi anti-Semitism from the outset. Others have sought an explanation in the Germans' mindless enthusiasm for the charismatic leadership of Adolf Hitler.
None of these explanations by itself has proved very convincing. Simplistic notions of a German national character have foundered, like Goldhagen's sweeping generalizations, on the objection that a majority of Germans, in the Social Democratic and Communist parties, the Catholic community and many other parts of society, refused to lend their support to the Nazis in any of the elections of the Weimar Republic, where the Nazis never got much more than a third of the vote. There is plenty of evidence that Nazi propaganda, though not wholly ineffective, was limited in its impact, especially among these previously resistant sectors of the population and above all in the second half of the war, when Germany was demonstrably heading toward defeat. Hitler certainly seemed immune from popular criticism, at least until 1943, but he was admired as much for what he did as for the image he projected. And terror, though a very real, continuing and in 1944-45 rapidly escalating force, was surely not enough in itself to keep the entire German population in thrall.
In this startling and absorbing new book, which created a considerable storm in Germany when it was published in 2005, Götz Aly advances another explanation. It was, he says, material factors that persuaded the great mass of Germans to support Hitler and the Nazis almost to the very end. The Nazi leadership, he claims in Hitler's Beneficiaries, made the Germans into "well-fed parasites. Vast numbers of Germans fell prey to the euphoria of a gold rush…. As the state was transformed into a gigantic apparatus for plundering others, average Germans became unscrupulous profiteers and passive recipients of bribes."


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Maryland's application for admission to the Big Ten was approved Monday by the conference's Council of Presidents, making the university's move from the Atlantic Coast Conference official.
Maryland has scheduled a news conference for 3 p.m. EST to discuss the decision, according to a university source.
Patricia Florestano, member of the university's Board of Regents, confirmed the board's vote to move to the Big Ten but rejected reports that it had been unanimous. She cited financial and academic considerations as reasons behind the decision.
"We've got to look to the future," she said when asked whether there had been strong sentiment against leaving the ACC.


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An excellent finish for first timers (and beyond).
By Bob Flexner
Pages: 50-55
From the November 2011 issue #193
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Wiping varnish is the finish I recommend you use if you are finishing for the first time. Wiping varnish is a term I coined in 1990 to categorize a large number of very popular fi nishes that are sold individually under many different names but are actually all the same –oil-based alkyd or polyurethane varnish thinned about half with mineral spirits (paint thinner). Collecting them into a category removes the mystique manufacturers attempt to create and it makes the finish easier to understand. It also allows us to discuss uniform application procedures that apply to all brands.
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Shaken to the Core
I'll feel safer about nuclear power when the industry looks more shaken by what happened in Japan.
On Wednesday, Gregory Jaczko, the chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, testified before a Senate subcommittee about the nuclear crisis in Japan. He assured the committee of "our continuing confidence in the safety of the U.S. commercial nuclear reactor fleet." In their opening statements, Jaczko and William Levis, an executive representing the industry's Nuclear Energy Institute, used variants of the words assure, ensure, and confident 21 times.
I don't want to hear the industry and its regulators talk this way after Fukushima. I don't want to hear confidence and assurances. I want to hear humility and a ruthless re-examination of assumptions.
I understand the need to put Fukushima in perspective. I agree with Jaczko and Levis about the relative safety of nuclear power. Measured by accidents, direct fatalities, and indirect health damage, nuclear energy is many times safer than fossil fuel production. It's even safer than hydroelectricity, which has killed thousands of people in dam failures. But the key to nuclear safety isn't confidence. It's doubt.
The power of modern science comes from its relentless self-scrutiny. Nothing is certain; everything is open to challenge. Karl Popper, the great philosopher of science, distilled the essence of the enterprise: We test hypotheses against reality not to prove them, which is impossible, but to falsify or modify them.
That's how we should think about Fukushima. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was built and upgraded according to the worst-case assumptions of the industry and its regulators. Those assumptions have just been spectacularly falsified. Our job now is to figure out what they got wrong.
In his written testimony, Jaczko told the committee:
There are many factors that assure us of ongoing domestic reactor safety. We have … used a philosophy of Defense-in-Depth, which recognizes that nuclear reactors require the highest standards of design, construction, oversight, and operation. … Designs for every individual reactor in this country take into account site-specific factors and include a detailed evaluation for natural events, such as earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, and tsunamis, as they relate to that site. There are multiple physical barriers to radiation in every reactor design. Additionally, there are both diverse and redundant safety systems that are required to be maintained in operable condition and frequently tested to ensure that the plant is in a high condition of readiness to respond to any situation.
It's true that reactors are designed to standards far higher than any oil, gas, or coal facility. And defense in depth—the inclusion of backup safeguards in case your primary safeguards fail—is exactly the kind of self-doubting philosophy Popper would have endorsed. But at Fukushima, our defenses weren't deep enough. The Daiichi facility's "evaluation for natural events" underestimated the magnitude and ramifications of the worst-case quake. The plant was "frequently tested" to ensure readiness for "any situation"—but apparently not for the situation that actually happened. The safety systems seemed "diverse and redundant" but in fact were all taken out by the same chain of events. And once the radiation began to leak, the country had no remotely operated vehicles prepared to fight the meltdown where humans couldn't go. It wasn't defense in depth that failed. It was our implementation of that idea.
The hearing was full of buzzwords conveying empty certainty. "Detailed evaluation" based on what details? "Frequently tested" against what? "Redundant" how? Levis, the industry executive, said, "U.S. nuclear power plants are safe" because they're designed "to manage the maximum credible challenges appropriate to each nuclear power plant site." Maximum credible challenges? I bet that's what Japanese executives used to say about Daiichi.
Jaczko told the committee that nuclear power stations being planned today "have enhanced designs and enhanced safety features that at least at the design stage and on paper seem to indicate that they would have an inherent safety advantage over the existing plants." But the Fukushima disaster wasn't on paper. It melted the paper on which previous safety assurances were based.
When Jaczko was asked about spent nuclear fuel, he noted that the NRC had "recently affirmed a decision we've made over the years that we call our waste confidence decision. … We believe for at least 100 years, that fuel can be stored with very little impacts to health and safety or to the environment." As to whether the fuel should be stored in dry casks or pools, he told the senators, "The information we have right now shows that both of these methodologies are equally safe for a very long period of time." But Ernest Moniz, an MIT expert on nuclear energy, was more candid about these calculations. "We think that there is a good case to be made for the integrity of 100-year storage," Moniz testified. "But the reality is, it's based upon an extraordinarily skimpy database. "
This is the core of nuclear overconfidence: drawing rosy projections from "information" and "methodologies" that were based on very little data and have now been called into question by the data from Fukushima: earthquake, tsunami, hydrogen explosions, cracked storage pools, radiation leakage. Take it from me: Two days into the Japan crisis, when the reactor cores appeared undamaged, I went beyond the industry's worldwide safety record and said the Daiichi plant had survived everything that could have gone wrong. Then more things went wrong.
Look at the global safety report I cited, which was issued last year by the Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. The report correctly notes that historically, nuclear power has been far safer than fossil fuels. But it also projects the nuclear industry's future safety based on "probabilistic safety assessment." The report calls PSA a "systematic and comprehensive technique to evaluate risks associated with complex systems such as nuclear power plants." The evaluation is based on 1) "the initiating faults and sequences of events that could lead to core damage," 2) the "consequences of core damage," and 3) "how likely are these events to occur." According to the PSA evaluation, a reactor like the one at Fukushima might suffer core damage every 800 to 1,000 years.
Less than a year later, Fukushima suffered core damage.
I'm not saying we can't trust nuclear power. I'm saying our trust depends on rigorous study of nasty surprises. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat who chaired Wednesday's hearing, got it right when she called for "rethinking," "self-reassessment," and accident response systems agile enough to address "scenarios we never imagined." Jaczko, too, got it right when he defined the NRC as a "learning organization" committed to "continuous improvement." He spoke of preparing nuclear plants for "beyond-design-basis accidents"—scenarios unaccounted for in the plants' highly touted construction plans. And Levis, in his concluding remarks, found the right tone of humility. "What is it that we don't know?" he asked. "If the heat sink is lost, what would you do? If you lost emergency A/C power, what would you do? We ask ourselves continually those what-if questions, and 'What have we missed here?' "
Keep asking those questions, and we'll all feel safer.
(My recommended reading: Amory Lovins at National Geographic's Great Energy Challenge warns that U.S. regulation of nuclear power " is not clearly better than Japanese regulation, nor more transparent." Greenpeace tells BoingBoing that the 20-kilometer evacuation zone around Daiichi " doesn't take into account pockets of high radioactivity elsewhere." John Boyd at IEEE Spectrum says a robot will spray dust-controlling resin on the plant's debris. Darren Quick at Gizmag reports that QinetiQ is sending Japan kits that " convert standard Bobcat loaders into unmanned vehicles" in 15 minutes. Toni Johnson at CFR says Japanese utilities will replace their lost nuclear power with oil, coal, and liquefied natural gas. The Atlantic reports that since Fukushima, " a growing number of Iranian opinion makers" have come out against the country's nuclear program on safety and economic grounds.)
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Deutsche Telekom AG (NYSE: DT) is the world's fourth largest wireless service provider by market capitalization in the global telecommunications industry. Deutsche Telekom operates in over 50 countries in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Europe, with heavy capital investments in the United States and throughout Western Europe.
As the premiere fixed line, broadband and wireless service provider in Germany, Deutsche Telecom has done well in the past ten years in taking its national brand to the world scale. In 1996, the German state owned Deutsche Bundespost telecommunications company was taken public. [1] Service has since expanded from a state-owned operation to a global telecommunications service provider, operating in over 50 countries. Now the largest telecommunications organization within the EU, DT is finding it hard to expand its business regionally. Due to pricing pressures originating from increasingly restrictive EU sector specific legislation and increased competition as a result of moving from regional to global markets,[2] expansion of the telecommunications service industry in Western Europe is turning from infrastructure development(devices, networks, and subscription) to developing more data centric services such as mobile email, GPS systems, and mobile social networking. Looking at net revenue in each segment, broadband/fixed line has decreased sequentially for the last two years, while mobile devices have generated sequentially increasing revenue, even with static customer base figures over the two years.[3]
Although DT is struggling regionally to attract subscription growth, Emerging Markets have been providing opportunities to multinationals for subscription growth; although average revenue per user in emerging markets tend to be lower as a result of overall lower consumer spending, there are still customer growth opportunities in China, India, and Argentina (DT operates as "T-Systems" in these countries). Over time, economies of emerging markets grow as a result of wired and wireless connectivity, catalyzing cyclical growth of opportunities for DT to increase average revenue per user in these markets.
In 2009, DT generated a net income of €80 million on revenues of €64.6 billion. This represents a 76.5% drop in net income and a 4.8% increase in revenues from 2008, when the company earned €340 million on €61.7 billion in revenue.
Mobile Communications – mobile communications provides mobile voice and data services, in addition to cellular hardware and terminal devices, for 119 million people globally. Revenue is generated by this segment through selling of devices and other hardware, monthly service fees, and data and peripheral service.
Broadband/Fixed Network – the Broadband and Fixed Network segments provide corporate, private, and institutional clients with traditional dial-up, broadband DSL, and multimedia service solutions. DT serves 13.3 million broadband and 37.2 million traditional fixed line dial-up customers.[5]
Business Communications – supporting the fixed wireless needs of about 160,000 small, medium, and large domestic enterprises on a global basis, in addition to 160 multinational corporations,[6] DT's Business Communications segment is responsible for seamlessly integrating corporate fixed line and wireless networking infrastructure.
Group Headquarters & Shared Services – this segment is responsible for coordinating business across segment lines and any operations central DT's growth not preformed but the other segments. Functions of this segment include the maintenance of the DT fleet and the management and maintenance of the DT real estate portfolio. Revenue is generated through the capital gain of assets from within the real estate portfolio.[7]
The term market penetration refers to the percentage of market users for a specific market given the potential size of the specific market within a certain country or region. For instance, if there were three hundred potential broadband users in country X and two hundred of those people already had broadband service, we would say that the broadband market penetration in country X is 66.7%. For DT, how penetrated a market is (in this case, DT is concerned with the wireless, broadband, and dial-up markets) greatly impacts the potential for growth in each respective segment. High market penetration means that there are few potential organic subscription growth opportunities. DT is experiencing extremely high penetration levels in the United States and Western Europe and as a result, new customer growth in broadband and wireless is slowing. However, taking chances to grow subscription inorganically, DT has announced its acquirement of SunCom Wireless, a regional cellular service provider in the southeastern United States.
Emerging Markets provide a vast opportunity for growth because of relatively low market penetration. Generally, multinational corporations that provide developed countries with myriad wireless, broadband, and networking services take a different approach to addressing the advantages and opportunities within emerging markets. In general, consumer spending in emerging markets is not as high as in developed markets, so corporations need to provide services and products at a relatively lower cost. As a result, across the spectrum of countries, ARPU in emerging market countries tends to be lower than that of developed countries. Specifically, DT serves the emerging markets of various South American, Asian, and African countries such as Argentina, Brazil, India, China, and South Africa.
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Although DT is not as dependent on domestic interest rates as, say, any company within the financial services industry, interest rates do still provide risk to the corporation. For instance, any project that the corporation takes on and any offer that DT makes to acquire a company depends on a time weighted discount of expected cash flows. Since future cash flows are never guaranteed, we must discount these flows with interest rates and ultimately, the value of a project or the implied value of a possible acquisition is partially dictated by current interest rates.


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Daniel B. Fayerweather Professor of Political Economy and Sociology Emeritus
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Craig McEwen, Daniel B. Fayerweather Professor of Political Economy and Sociology, specializes in the sociology of law and criminology. His research focuses on mediation and dispute resolution, courts and their operation, the legal profession, and the nature and consequences of imprisonment for adults and juveniles.
"Housing and Homelessness in Maine: A Case of Public Sociology in Practice" (with Joe Bandy) in Sociologists in Action: Sociology, Social Change and Social Justice (ed. by Kathleen Korgen, Jonathan M. White and Shelley K. White). Newbury Park, CA: Pine Forge Press, 2010.
Preface to Elizabeth Gordon, The Role of Attorneys in Court Ordered Mediations in North Carolina: The Pilot Phase. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2009.
"Examining Mediation in Context: Toward Understanding Variations in Mediation Programs."In Margaret S. Herrman, ed., The Blackwell Handbook of Mediation: Bridging Theory, Research and Practice. Blackwell, Oxford. U.K. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2005, pp. 81-98.
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"'The Passenger Decides on the Destination and I Decide on the Route': Are Divorce Lawyers 'Expensive Cab Drivers?'" (with Lynn Mather and Richard Maiman), International Journal of Law and the Family, 9 (1995): 286-310.
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"The Maine Corrections Budget" in State Budget Review, 1995. Augusta, ME: Maine Center for Economic Policy, 1995
An Evaluation of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's Pilot Mediation Program. Report to the Center For Dispute Settlement under contract with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. March, 1994.
"Lawyers, Mediation, and the Management of Divorce Practice," (with Lynn Mather and Richard Maiman) Law & Society Review 28 (1994): 149-186.
"Competence and Quality," Negotiation Journal, 9 (1993): 317-319.
"Community Boards: An Analytic Profile," (with Frederic DuBow) in The Possibility of Popular Justice: A Case Study of Community Mediation in the United States, edited by Sally E. Merry and Neal Milner. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1993, pp. 125-168.
"Explaining A Paradox of Mediation" (with Thomas Milburn), Negotiation Journal, 9 (1993): 23-36.
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"Environmental and Community Disputes: A Commentary," in Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Vol. 12, Part B, edited by Susan S. Silbey and Austin Sarat. Greenwich, CN: JAI Press, 1992.
"Gender and Specialization in the Practice of Divorce Law" (with Richard Maiman and Lynn Mather), Maine Law Review, 44 (1992): 39-61.
"Evaluating ADR Programs," in Emerging ADR Issues in Stateand Federal Courts, edited by Frank E. A. Sander. Chicago, IL: Litigation Section of the American Bar Association, 1991.
"Pursuing Predictive or Problem-Solving Settlement," Florida State Law Review, 19 (1991): 77-88.
Mediation: Law, Policy, Practice. Cumulative Supplement,1990; Revised in 1991; Revised in 1992 (second author with Nancy Rogers). Rochester, NY: Clark, Boardman and Callaghan Publishing Co. 1990.
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"Tax-paying Behavior in Social Context: A Tentative Typology of Tax Compliance and Noncompliance" (with Robert Kidder) in Taxpayer Compliance: Volume 2, Social Science Perspectives, edited by Jeffrey A. Roth and John T. Scholz. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989, pp. 47-75.
"Mediation and the Unauthorized Practice of Law," (with Nancy Rogers) Mediation Quarterly, May 1989: 23-32.
Participant in "A Colloquy: Alternative Dispute Resolution in International Trade and Business," Maine Law Review, 40 (1988): 225-259.
"The ADR Movement: Theoretical Aspects and Practical Potential," Maine Law Review, 40 (1988): 367-373.
"Coercion and Consent: A Tale of Two Court Reforms" (with Richard Maiman), Law & Policy, 10 (1988): 4-24.
"Differing Visions of Alternative Dispute Resolution and Formal Law: A Review Essay," The Justice System Journal, 12 (1987): 247-259.
"In Search of Legitimacy: Toward an Empirical Analysis" (with Richard Maiman), Law & Policy, 8 (1986): 257-273.
"The Relative Significance of Disputing Forum and Dispute Characteristics for Outcome and Compliance" (with Richard Maiman), Law & Society Review, 20 (1986): 601-610.
"Legal Ideologies in Collision: Conflicting Expectations of Civil Litigants and Legal Practitioners," Legal Studies Forum, X (1986): 229-237.
"Parties' Views of the Process: What Do They Tell Us?" Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual International Conference of the Society for Professionals in Dispute Resolution, Labor Relations Press: Fort Washington, PA, 1986.
"How Does Mediator Style Relate to Mediator Effectiveness?" Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual International Conference of the Society for Professionals in Dispute Resolution. Labor Relations Press: Fort Washington, PA, 1986.
"Does 'Consumer Satisfaction' With Mediation Last?" Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual International Conference of the Society for Professionals in Dispute Resolution. Labor Relations Press: Fort Washington, PA, 1986.
"Inside the 'Black Box' of Conflict Resolution," Negotiation Journal, 2 (1986): 385-394 (a review essay).
"Mediation in Small Claims Court: Compliance Through Consent" with Richard Maiman), Law & Society Review 18 (1984): 1-39. Sections reprinted in Processes of Dispute Resolution: The Role of Lawyers by John S. Murray, Alan S. Rau and Edward F. Sherman. Westbury, NY: Foundation Press, 1988; Processes of Dispute Resolution: The Role of Lawyers, 2nd ed. by John S. Murray, Alan S. Rau and Edward F. Sherman. Westbury, NY: Foundation Press, 1996.
"Mediation and Arbitration: Their Promise and Performance as Alternatives to Court" (with Richard Maiman), in The Analysis of Judicial Reform edited by Philip L. Dubois, Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1982. (Expanded version of Policy Studies Journal article).
"Arbitration and Mediation as Alternatives to Court" (with Richard Maiman), Policy Studies Journal, 10: 712-726, 1982.
"Small Claims Mediation in Maine: An Empirical Assessment" (with Richard Maiman), Maine Law Review, 33: 237-268, 1981. Reprinted in Stephen Goldberg, Eric Green and Frank Sander, Dispute Resolution, Boston: Little, Brown, 1985. Excerpted in Philip J. Harter, ed., Alternative Dispute Resolution: A Handbook for Judges, Washington, D.C.: American Bar Association. Excerpted in Stephen Goldberg, Frank Sander and Nancy Rogers, Dispute Resolution, 2nd ed. Boston: Little Brown, 1985; Carrie Menkel-Meadow, ed. Mediation: Theory, Policy and Practice. Aldershot, U. K.: Ashgate Publishing, 2001.
"Continuities in the Study of Total and Nontotal Institutions" Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 6 (1980), pp. 143-185.
Designing Correctional Organizations for Youths: Dilemmas of Subcultural Development. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, 1978. Sections reprinted in Alden D. Miller and Lloyd E. Ohlin, Delinquency and Community: Creating Opportunities and Controls, Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1985 (pp. 43-50).
"Subcultures in Community-Based Programs," in Juvenile Correctional Reform in Massachusetts by Lloyd Ohlin, Robert Coates and Alden Miller. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977.
"Preliminary Analysis of Data from the 1973 Study of Subcultures in Selected Programs Serving Youth Committed and Referred to the Massachusetts Department of Youth Service." Quarterly Report of the DYS Project, Center for Criminal Justice, Harvard Law School, January, 1974.
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"Planning Public Sector Mediation Programs: The Role of Statutes and Rules" (with Nancy Rogers), Forum, Fall, 1995: 14-17.
"Report on Voluntary Continuing Legal Education by 1994 Maine Bar Registrants," Maine Bar Journal, 10: 355-357 (September, 1995).
"Improving on Negotiation: The Potential of Mediation," Maine Lawyers Review, 3: 11, 18,19 (September 13, 1995).
"Bring the Lawyers into Divorce Mediation" (with Nancy Rogers), ABA Dispute Resolution Magazine, 1 (Summer, 1994): 8-12. Reprinted in Mediation: Appropriate Process and Problems-Solving by Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Lela Love, and Andrea Schneider. Cambridge, MA: Aspen Publishers, 2005. Excerpts reprinted in Processes of Dispute Resolution: The Role of Lawyers, 2nd ed. by John S. Murray, Alan S. Rau and Edward F. Sherman. Westbury, NY: Foundation Press, 1996.
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National Science Foundation, (Richard Maiman, co-investigator) "The Mediation of Small Claims Disputes: An Empirical Assessment." July 1, 1979 - December 31, 1981. (SES-7908872)
Faculty Development Fund, Sabbatical Supplement Grant, Bowdoin College, 1980-81
National Science Foundation, (Richard Maiman, co-investigator) "Collaborative Research on Sources of Compliance With Small Claims Judgments and Settlements." July 15, 1983 - January 15, 1985. (SES-8310393)
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Faculty Development Fund, Sabbatical Supplement Grant, Bowdoin College, 1990-91
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Fletcher Family Research Award, Bowdoin College, for "Variation in Mediation Development and Practice Across the United States," 2007-2009
1966 Phi Beta Kappa
1967 Graduated summa cum laude with highest honors in sociology (Oberlin College)
1967-74 Danforth Graduate Fellowship
1989 Co-Winner, Book Prize of the Center for Public Resources Legal Program "for Excellence and Innovation in Alternative Dispute Resolution" (for Mediation: Law, Policy, Practice, by Nancy Rogers and Craig McEwen),
1990 Appointed Daniel B. Fayerweather Professor of Political Economy and Sociology, Bowdoin College
1991 Appointed Drinko Distinguished Visiting Professor, College of Law, The Ohio State University
1991 Roger Baldwin Award, Maine Civil Liberties Union
1993 Distinguished Service Award, Maine State Bar Association, 1993
1993 Distinguished Service Award, Court Mediation Service, State of Maine Judicial
1998 Center for Public Resources Institute for Dispute Resolution Award for ADR Excellence, 2nd prize for Professional Articles
1999 Pioneer Award, New England Regional Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution
1999 Alumni Award for Faculty & Staff, Bowdoin College
2002 C. Herman Pritchett Prize for "the best book on law and courts written by a political
Scientist in 2001." (for Divorce Lawyers at Work). Law and Courts Section,
American Political Science Association, August, 2002
2010 Maine Campus Compact's Donald Harward Faculty Award for Service-Learning Excellence


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The pound advanced for a third day against the dollar after Bank of England Governor Mervyn King said policy makers aren't trying to talk it down, damping speculation they are seeking a weaker sterling to spur growth.
Sterling headed for its biggest weekly gain in a month versus the euro after King said in an interview with ITV News yesterday that "markets determine the level of exchange rate, not us." A gauge of U.K. inflation expectations fell as the central bank's Chief Economist Spencer Dale today defended its emphasis on maintaining price stability. U.K. 10-year government bonds fell, paring a weekly advance.
"King had no choice when put on the spot to clarify that they take their mandate very seriously," said Neil Mellor, a foreign-exchange strategist at Bank of New York Mellon Corp. in London. "It all comes down to a market that has become totally hooked on what central bankers have to say. Sterling could be in for a test of the $1.52 level."
The pound rose 0.3% to $1.5129 at 2:57 p.m. London time after climbing to $1.5177, the highest since March 5. The currency last traded at $1.52 on Feb. 28. Sterling weakened 0.1% to 86.32 pence per euro, still set for a 1% gain this week, the biggest increase since the period ended Feb. 8.
"We're certainly not looking to push sterling down," King told ITV, according to a transcript of his remarks. He also said an economic recovery is "in sight" said sterling was "broadly stable" and "at the same level we were after the impact of the financial crisis."
Sterling has gained 1% this week, the best performer among 10 developed-market currencies tracked by Bloomberg Correlation-Weighted Indexes. The euro fell 0.1% and the dollar dropped 0.6%.
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The pound has slumped 3.4% against the dollar since the start of last month. In that time, minutes of the central bank's February decision showed King and two other policy makers were defeated in a push for more stimulus and Moody's Investors Service cut the U.K.'s top credit rating.
"The pound has seen a sizeable bounce above $1.51, which we suspect has been primarily driven by the market's overextended short positioning," BNP Paribas SA analysts led by Steven Saywell in London wrote in an e-mailed note to clients. "Pound-dollar has already broken above the $1.5153 resistance level noted by our technical analyst, with the $1.5218 to provide next resistance."
Resistance is an area on a price graph where technical analysts anticipate sell orders to be clustered.
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Conant's Starzynski, Prairie Ridge impress at regional
Conant was looking for a lift at its own regional on Thursday night, and the Cougars got one from senior Sarah Starzynski.
Starzynski missed over a month due to a broken wrist, but the Cougar senior didn't miss much on Thursday.
Limited to two events, Starzynski made the most of them, taking third on the beam (9.025) and tying for sixth on the bars (8.925) in leading the Cougars to a second-place finish with 139.0 points in Hoffman Estates.
Conant advanced to the Fremd sectional on Monday night at 6:30 p.m by securing the second at-large bid.
"She is such a great competitor and she was anxious to compete," said Conant coach Lorel Cunningham of her senior leader. "It was great to see her back up there again, and she definitely gave us a lift."
"I couldn't be more happy with our performance," said Starzynski. "I was nervous. It meant a lot to be able to compete again."
Sophomore Rachael Underwood (37.60) and sophomore Riley Mahoney (37.225) went 1-2 in the all-around in propelling Prairie Ridge co-op to the regional title with an impressive 147.175.
Maine South took third with 135.25 points, followed by Maine East (105.775).
Prairie Ridge joins Prospect, Fremd and Palatine as automatic qualifiers for the sectional, with Barrington also advancing with an at-large bid.
Underwood and Mahoney each had falls opening on the bars, but the two Cary-Grove students were flawless for the remainder of the night.
Underwood took first on floor (9.5), second on beam (9.4) and vault (9.675) and third on the bars in leading the Wolves' attack.
Mahoney took first on beam (9.425), third on vault (9.65), tied for third on floor (9.2) and fifth on bars (8.95) in giving Prairie Ridge a solid 1-2 punch.
"We didn't like the bars too much, but we got back up on the other events," said Underwood. "We wanted to pick it up after bars, and we did."
Prairie Ridge has hit the highest mark this season, recording a 150.0 at the Lake Forest Invite in early January, and the Wolves continued to impress on Thursday. Cary-Grove freshman Maddie Solka aided the attack by taking first on bars (9.325), Jada Berkland added a fifth-place finish on beam (8.925) and sophomore Dylann Perrone placed fifth on vault (9.35).
"We had some problems on bars and two major falls on beam," said Prairie Ridge coach Lee Battaglia, whose team finished third in state last season. "We had an off meet, but we'll be ready to go on Monday."
Conant was ready to go from the start, with freshman Sarah Zorrilla taking third on vault (9.5). Junior Rachel Tong added fourth-place finishes on bars (8.975) and beam (8.975), and junior Miecie Bennett tied for third on the floor (9.2).
"I think our fast start set the team in motion," said Zorrilla who provided the early punch with her vault. "I think the vault really pumped us up, and it was a good time to peak."
St. Edward senior Abby Madden competed as an individual and used a fast start in taking third in the all-around (36.975).
Madden started the night with a second-place finish on bars (9.225). The Green Wave senior then used a Yurchenko layout in taking first on the vault (9.7), adding a second-place finish on floor (9.325).
Madden is polishing off her state-worthy vault and seems primed for a big finish.
"I've been getting a 9.4 with my pike, but the layout has really brought up my score," said Madden who finished the night on the beam (8.725). "I just need to clean a few things up and I don't want to end the year with any regrets."
Senior Haleigh Sir led Maine South by tying for third on floor (9.2). She also added an impressive vault (9.2) and beam (8.9) in tying for fourth in the all-around (36.05).
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Since I started on Brandish just over a year ago, I have repeatedly examined how trends begin in womenswear and eventually make the leap to menswear some few seasons later. Well now the Ombré trend worked by womenswear designers such as Jonathan Saunders and Prada almost three seasons ago has been dished out in rather glorious spades by designer Robert Geller.
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We often talk about restoring America's man-made infrastructures, like bridges, highways and tunnels. But what about our natural infrastructure, such as our polluted water and unhealthy forests? Today, America's forests are blighted with water pollution, mudslides, invasion of non-native species, loss of wildlife habitat, wildfires and degraded recreational opportunities.
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