Cal-Maine Is Calm

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Made in Maine

Made in Maine 05/24/2004 04:41 AM
USA Today May 24 2004 9:06AM GMT

Other News: Maine iBooks

Other News: Maine iBooks 07/22/2004 09:39 AM
Maine is struggling to get iBooks to high school students despite budget problems.

Other News: Maine SEEDs

Other News: Maine SEEDs 04/04/2005 11:21 AM
An educational program that helped the iBook initiative in Maine is about to end.

Other News: Maine Misses

Other News: Maine Misses 08/04/2004 10:03 AM
Maine educators failed to accumulate enough laptop orders to meet Apple's minimum for a leasing deal.

Other News: Maine Movement

Other News: Maine Movement 06/24/2004 11:24 AM
Maine school superintendents are pushing a high school laptop program.

Other News: Maine Rent-a-Mac

Other News: Maine Rent-a-Mac 06/14/2004 09:51 AM
If Maine can't buy Mac laptops for high schools, how about renting some?

Other News: Maine Laptops

Other News: Maine Laptops 05/05/2004 09:36 AM
If Maine won't buy laptops for high school kids, maybe it'll rent them.

Calm Down!

Calm Down! 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
NPR's "All Things Considered" had a great piece on the anger management industry today and it's increasingly ubiquitous presence in many strata of American society. This is the most well known anger management company in the biz, while programs like this promote less orthodox techniques of trumping stressors.

Had any network rage lately?

Lightning Strike Energizes Maine Man
(AP)

Lightning Strike Energizes Maine Man
(AP) 07/23/2004 07:50 AM
AP - A Madison man who was struck by lightning this week says he feels "lighter and 100 years younger" than he did before the accident.

Other News: Maine Gets High Grade

Other News: Maine Gets High Grade 02/12/2004 11:28 AM
A survey on the innovative Maine school laptop program shows positive performance.

iBook expansion in Maine not looking
good

iBook expansion in Maine not looking
good 05/04/2004 09:28 AM
Leaders of the Maine Legislature's education committee said Monday that the state's iBook program will not be expanded into high schools this fall as expected, but Governor John Baldacci refused to concede defeat before reviewing his options, according to a Maine Today article...

Other News: Maine Seals Deal

Other News: Maine Seals Deal 08/09/2004 11:48 AM
Despite financial challenges, Apple sealed a deal to give Maine 6000 iBooks for high school students.

Other News: Maine Laptop Poll

Other News: Maine Laptop Poll 01/22/2004 03:26 PM
The Portland Press Herald has an online poll about the Maine (iBook) laptop initiative....

Ellsworth, Maine, Has Downtown Hotzone

Ellsworth, Maine, Has Downtown Hotzone 06/09/2004 05:07 PM
Downeast Wireless has installed service throughout the Ellsworth downtown: Subscribers to Downeast.Net get 10 free hours per month; those from away spend $10 for 10-hour chunks of time. The coverage extends existing service in and around municipal buildings to the library and nearby businesses. The provider makes space available in its office for its users, too, during its weekday business hours--unique in my experience. The folks who run Downeast.Net have long roots in the area that involve more convention radio broadcasting on the FM dial. Local resident Noel Paul Stookey--he's the Paul in Peter, Paul, and Mary--is one of the firm's owner, along with Don and Jean McKillop....

Flu Delays Jail Time for Some in Maine

Flu Delays Jail Time for Some in Maine 12/27/2003 01:47 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 27 2003 12:36PM ET

Fainting Fad Alarms Teachers in Maine
(AP)

Fainting Fad Alarms Teachers in Maine
(AP) 06/08/2004 03:34 PM
AP - Induced fainting by middle school students looking to experience a "rush" has set off alarm bells in Cape Elizabeth.

Maine man sues AOL over e-mail spam

Maine man sues AOL over e-mail spam 11/17/2003 11:38 AM

Psy-ops to calm traffic

Psy-ops to calm traffic 08/02/2004 11:49 AM
The UK's Transport Research Laboratory is exploring ways to create the illusion of danger on roads in an effort to slow speeders. According to lead researcher Janet Kennedy, simple things such as removing central white lines have already proven successful in psyching out drivers:

"Perceptual techniques which make the environment seem more complex or less safe have the potential for success. Natural traffic calming, such as narrow or winding roads, can be very effective as well as being more acceptable to drivers. Carefully-designed schemes, using the properties of natural traffic calming, have the potential to achieve a similar effect."

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Maine Plans Five Lobster-Eating Contests
(AP)

Maine Plans Five Lobster-Eating Contests
(AP) 06/15/2004 07:04 AM
AP - New York's Coney Island has its hotdog-eating contest. New Orleans has an oyster-eating contest. Now Maine is getting into the act with the state's famous crustacean in the starring role.

Maine Takes a Cautious Path on Its
Pensions

Maine Takes a Cautious Path on Its
Pensions 04/23/2004 04:01 AM
After suffering losses, many pension funds are turning to riskier investments. But Maine has drawn a different lesson from the recent pension woes.

Man Plans Topless Coffee Shop in Maine
(AP)

Man Plans Topless Coffee Shop in Maine
(AP) 02/19/2004 11:22 AM
AP - Tired of the same old Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts? The Madison Planning Board tonight takes up a man's application to open a topless coffee shop on Main Street.

Maine Hospital Issues Redesigned Gowns
(AP)

Maine Hospital Issues Redesigned Gowns
(AP) 08/17/2004 07:25 AM
AP - Whether it's blue or spotted or striped, the standard issue hospital gown is drafty and revealing. It's embarrassing for just about anyone who's spent a night in a medical center. But for modest Muslim women, it's an unthinkable indignity.

SEALS in space: Maine man gets astronaut
training nod

SEALS in space: Maine man gets astronaut
training nod 05/18/2004 02:44 AM
USA Today May 18 2004 7:24AM GMT

Urban planning lessons from southern
Maine

Urban planning lessons from southern
Maine 06/19/2004 04:52 PM

I'm just back from four nights in Naples, Maine.  This town is in the Sebago Lakes region northwest of Portland and it provides a vivid demonstration of the power of urban planning.  Nearly every small town in Latin America is built around a central plaza where the citizens gather at various hours to meet friends, play chess, etc.  Small streets radiate from the plaza and hold additional shops and restaurants.  Any highway with heavy traffic is typically at least 5 or 10 blocks from the plaza.  In Naples and all of the surrounding towns, by contrast, there really aren't any streets except to provide access to private houses.  A "town" is defined by the intersection of two busy state highways.  All of the public facilities of the town such as shops, schools, hotels, and restaurants are built along the highways near the intersection.  Thus if you're not in a private home you're within 25 feet of a 18-wheeler truck going 50 mph.

The handful of locals whom I met reported that despite living in the area for 20 years or more they'd not made too many friends and had a hard time meeting people.  You very seldom ran into a friend serendipitously.  If you belonged to the Lions Club or had a kid in the school you might meet at a planned activity but that was about it for social life.

(In case you're curious as to why I wanted to spend four nights at the intersection of two busy state highways it was to add a Single-Engine Seaplane rating to my Commercial pilot's certificate.  The process consisted of about 100 practice takeoffs and landings on various lakes in a 1946 Piper Cub on floats, followed by a checkride with an FAA examiner.  Sadly I won't be able to do much with this rating.  Due to the fact that seaplanes combine all of the hazards of boats and airplanes in one machine the insurance is almost 10X the cost of what you pay for the same plane on wheels.  A rental seaplane is an uninsurable risk and therefore there are almost no places in the U.S. where you can rent a seaplane and head off without an instructor.)

Maine iBook program hasn't yet reached
goal

Maine iBook program hasn't yet reached
goal 08/03/2004 07:33 PM
Maine's Education Department did not reach its goal of signing up enough high schools by the end of July to account for 8,400 iBooks, the number necessary for an interim plan to put laptops in some high schools...

Maine Schools Embracing Laptops As Tool
(AP)

Maine Schools Embracing Laptops As Tool
(AP) 06/22/2004 01:58 PM
AP - Maine's education commissioner has obtained assurances from at least 47 superintendents that they're ready to press forward with laptops in high schools this fall, giving her confidence that a deal can be struck with Apple Computer Corp.

Maine Schools Embracing Laptops As Tool

Maine Schools Embracing Laptops As Tool 06/22/2004 06:45 PM
Maine's education commissioner has obtained assurances from at least 47 superintendents that they're ready to press forward with laptops in high schools this fall, giving her confidence that a deal can be struck with Apple. By David Sharp, Associated Press (via MyAppleMenu)

Cartographist Works on Mapping Maine
Lake

Cartographist Works on Mapping Maine
Lake 08/19/2004 10:10 AM
AP via Los Angeles Times Aug 19 2004 2:15PM GMT

Maine man sentenced to 6 years for eBay
scam

Maine man sentenced to 6 years for eBay
scam 04/07/2005 06:17 PM
A federal judge sentenced 21-year-old Charles Stergios of Brunswick, Maine, to more than six years in prison for perpetrating an extensive Internet fraud scheme using the eBay Web site.

Maine to Launch Internet Sex-Offender
Registry

Maine to Launch Internet Sex-Offender
Registry 12/02/2003 01:50 AM

"Cat Stevens diverts DC-bound plane to
Maine"

"Cat Stevens diverts DC-bound plane to
Maine" 09/22/2004 08:35 PM

Maine Laptops Earn High Marks

Maine Laptops Earn High Marks 02/16/2004 03:54 PM
A Maine initiative to supply 36,000 7th and 8th graders and teachers with iBooks yielded good results, Associated Press reports: “Students who use laptops are more engaged in learning and produce better-quality work, according to a report released Wednesday that gives high grades to Maine’s 2-year-old program. Based on thousands of responses from students and teachers, the report says most of Maine’s middle schools have successfully implemented the program, which started with seventh graders in 2002 and later expanded to include eighth graders.” [Feb 16]

Appeals for calm after attacks

Appeals for calm after attacks 06/08/2004 02:32 AM
Community workers in south Belfast appeal for calm after two petrol bomb attacks in the area.

Henman stays calm

Henman stays calm 05/30/2004 11:34 PM
Tim Henman refuses to get carried away despite reaching the quarter-finals of the French Open for the first time.

Appeal for calm at parade

Appeal for calm at parade 06/26/2004 04:36 AM
A senior police officer appeals for calm ahead of a contentious Orange Order parade in Belfast.

A Calm, but Confusing, First Day of
School

A Calm, but Confusing, First Day of
School 09/13/2004 09:41 PM
In dozens of schools across the city, New York City's nearly 1.1 million public school students returned for the opening of a new school year.

Golf: Rose keeps calm

Golf: Rose keeps calm 04/10/2004 06:24 AM
Masters leader Justin Rose vows the pressure will not get to him as the tournament enters its final 36 holes.

Florida Vote Is Calm, for Once

Florida Vote Is Calm, for Once 09/02/2004 04:38 AM
A strange thing happened in Florida this week. A primary election took place, and observers found few reasons to complain or question the results. But some say November's national election may be a different story. By Jacob Ogles.

iBooks earn high marks in Maine survey

iBooks earn high marks in Maine survey 02/12/2004 12:44 PM
According to a new report released this week that gives high grades to Maine's iBook program, students who use the Apple laptops are more engaged in learning and produce better quality work...
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