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The Family Law and Victim Rights Unit
The Family Law and Victim Rights Unit at Pine Tree Legal Assistance provides statewide coverage for the civil legal needs of victim/survivors of sexual assault. In many areas of the state, the Family Law and Victim Rights Unit also provides civil legal services to victim/survivors of domestic violence.
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What to Do if You are Denied Entry to Canada Because of a Past Criminal Conviction
This document is for U.S. citizens only. It is not meant to be legal advice. For more help with this issue, tribal members may call PTLA Native American Unit at: 1-877-213-5630. Please Note - If you are from a country other than the United States or Canada, or if you have more questions, go to the Canadian Citizenship and Immigration website.
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Wabanaki Legal News
The Wabanaki Legal News is published by Pine Tree Legal Assistance - focusing on news of special interest to Native Americans in Maine. 3/13/2017 Notice: In the Fall 2016 edition of Wabanaki Legal News, we accidentally printed some incorrect contact information in the Community Resources section. Please see this important Wabanaki Legal News Community Resources Correction Sheet for the most accurate, up-to-date contact information for community resources.
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Maine Fair Housing Newsletter
The Fair Housing Newsletter is a publication of Pine Tree Legal Assistance, through the Fair Housing Initiative Program, Maine. It covers important fair housing information and developments, and highlights other fair housing resources. December 2016, Issue #16: Immigration Status and Housing Discrimination This newsletter is made possible through grants from the U.S. Department Housing and Urban Development.
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Pine Tree Native American Unit
We provide legal services to members of the Micmac, Maliseet, Penobscot and Passamaquoddy Tribes and to other Indians residing in Maine. We publish the Wabanaki Legal News and the Quinnehtukqut Legal News (for tribes in Connecticut) once a year.
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Native American Unit Brings Racial Discrimination Case Against DHHS
Wabanaki Legal News, Fall 2010 by: WLN Staff Maine Human Rights Commission Agrees That Case Worker Discriminated We are representing a Penobscot woman who had a problem with the Maine Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS). Our client reported that a couple of years ago, a case worker from DHHS visited our client's home. While there, the case worker made several racist remarks. Our client told us that the case worker said that Native people are dishonest.
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Legal Help: Outreach Schedule
Find out when and where you can access the walk-in legal services provided by PTLA's Native American Unit.
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Cross-Border Issues (Jay Treaty)
Fall 1996 Facts About The Jay Treaty For Canadian-Born Native Americans NOTE: If you live in Maine and have more questions, you can contact Maine's Native American Unit of Pine Tree Legal Assistance.
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Former Residential School Students in Canada Can Get Payments
Former students of Canadian residential schools are entitled to receive money to address the harms and abuses they suffered at the schools. These are the boarding schools that operated throughout Canada for over a century. About 80,000 former students are still living.
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A Self-Help Guide To The Tribal Court System
Wabanaki Legal News, Fall 1996 by Hon. Chief Tribal Judge Gary Growe Table of Contents Introduction Where Do I Start What Kinds of Cases Are Heard in Tribal Court?
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Indian Child Welfare Act Update
Wabanaki Legal News Fall 1996 (updated January 2002) Indian Child Welfare Act Update Below are just a few answers to questions you may have.
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Fighting Discrimination Against Native Americans
Wabanaki Legal News, January 2009
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Your Protections Under the Maine Human Rights Act
Wabanaki Legal News, Summer 2001 Basic Facts You Should Know about Discrimination By Ivy L. Frignoca
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The State Juvenile Justice System
Wabanaki Legal News, Winter 2005 By J. Peter Sabonis, Esq. There is one set of criminal laws for all persons in Maine. If a person under 18 years of age violates them, it is considered a juvenile crime and is handled under the Juvenile Court system. If a violator is 18 years of age or older, he or she will be charged and tried as an adult. At times, crimes are so serious that the state may ask that a juvenile be charged as an adult. (Transferring those types of cases to the adult court is called "bind over.")
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Which documents will you need at the U.S. border under new Homeland Security rules?
Wabanaki Legal News, Summer 2008
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Facts About The Jay Treaty For Canadian-Born Native Americans
Wabanaki Legal News, Fall 1996 Native Americans may have problems getting jobs, government benefits or services because their rights under existing U.S. law are misunderstood. Many of those rights arose out of the "Jay Treaty". The "Jay Treaty" is an agreement signed by the United States and Great Britain in 1794 to allow Canadian born Native Americans to travel freely across the U.S./Canadian border. The "Jay Treaty" recognized that,
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Important Information For Native Americans Living In Canada: Don't Pay U.S. Income Tax on U.S Social Security Benefits
Wabanaki Legal News, Fall 1996
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Tribal Appeallate Court Victory
Wabanaki Legal News, 2007 edition On February 19, 2007 the Passamaquoddy Appellate Court upheld the dismissal of an eviction action filed by the Housing Authority at Indian Township. The tenant was represented by the Native American Unit.
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Maine Supreme Court Decides Francis IV
Wabanaki Legal News, Winter 2008 by Paul Thibeault, Esq. & Michael Guare, Esq.
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Micmacs Lose Critical Federal Case On Tribal Sovereignty
Wabanaki Legal News, Winter 2009 by Paul Thibeault
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Limited Results from Tribal-State Work Group
Wabanaki Legal News, Winter 2009 by Paul Thibeault
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Tribal Sovereignty
Wabanaki Legal News, Winter 1998 By Mark A. Chavaree, Esq. Mark is a member of the Penobscot Nation. He is a graduate of Old Town High School, Dartmouth College and Cornell Law School. Mark is currently Tribal Staff Attorney for the Penobscot Nation. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Pine Tree Legal Assistance.
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Domestic Violence: Where To Get Help
Wabanaki Legal News, Summer 2004 Pine Tree Legal Assistance provides free legal help with protection from abuse proceedings to eligible Native Americans who are victims of domestic violence. Call the nearest Pine Tree office for help:
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Teen Dating Violence
Wabanaki Legal News, Summer 2004 By Nancy Lewey Coordinator Passamaquoddy Peaceful Relations Program Pleasant Point Teens are seriously at risk for dating violence. Research shows that physical or sexual abuse is a part of 1 in 3 high school relationships. Teen dating violence is just as serious as adult domestic violence. In dating violence, adolescents and adults engage in a pattern of abusive behaviors against their partner to gain and maintain control over them.
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The Pyramid v. The Circle
Using circles and pyramids to illustrate the cycle of domestic violence.
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US Acts on UN Rights of Indigenous Peoples Declaration
Wabanaki Legal News, Summer 2011 In September 2007 the United Nations passed the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). It covers 46 issues important to Native people, including: Self-determination, or the right of a people to decide their political status and government Culture and language Education and health Housing, land, resources and environment Indigenous law
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Indian Child Welfare Act
Wabanaki Legal News, Spring 2011 What is the Indian Child Welfare Act? The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) is a federal law that regulates state court placement proceedings involving Indian children. ICWA applies to any child protective case, adoption, guardianship, termination of parental rights action, or voluntary placement of Indian children. When & Why was ICWA passed by Congress?
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Wabanaki Legal News, Summer 2011 Pine Tree Legal has been able to help several tribal members who received Notices of Overpayments from Social Security. There are several things you can do about overpayments, but it is very important to take action quickly when you receive a Notice. It becomes harder for us to help if you wait. If you ignore the notice, SSA will start taking money out of your payments. Contacting SSA promptly can stop the collection of the overpayment until a decision is made by SSA.
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Border Crossing Update
Wabananki Legal News 2011 In June of 2009, the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) was put into place. This law imposes stricter document requirements on Native Americans who cross the land borders between the United States and Canada.
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Fair Employment Practices
Wabanaki Legal News, Winer 2011 The Legal Aid Society of Mid-New York, Inc. and Pine Tree Legal Assistance in Maine work with the United States Department of Justice's Office of Special Counsel (OSC) for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Discrimination to protect immigrant and citizen workers from being discriminated against by employers. The Immigrant and Nationality Act's anti-discrimination provisions protect immigrant workers from the following types of employment discrimination:
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What Is a Will and Why Would I Want One?
Wabanaki Legal News, Summer 2012 A Will is a legal document that states how and to whom your money and property will be distributed when you die. It allows you to control who gets your belongings. A detailed Will can prevent family members and others from fighting about your property in court. So, make a Will if you want to make sure a certain person gets property, money, or a special item.
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Truth and Reconciliation
Wabanaki Legal News, Spring 2012 What is a Truth and Reconciliation Commission? A TRC is a group of people chosen to investigate a problem and make suggestions about how to make the problem better. This TRC is focusing on what happened to Wabanaki people involved with the Maine child welfare system. What are the goals of this TRC? There are three goals:
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A General Description of the Divorce Process
Wabanaki Legal News, Winter 2012 The Parties to the Divorce The wife and husband are called "the parties to the divorce." How the Process is Started The party who first asks the court for a divorce is called the Plaintiff. The other party is the Defendant. The Plaintiff must file a document with the court called a "Complaint For Divorce." The Complaint for Divorce form and other divorce forms you will need are available at Tribal Court.
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Maine Indian State Tribal Commission News
Last year, MITSC began to consider how UNDRIP ( United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People ) might affect the Maine Indian Land Claim Settlements. After several months of work, the Commission presented a letter to James Anaya, UN Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
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Native Unit Defends Clients in the Passamaquoddy Tribal Court
Pine Tree Legal can help defendants who are not eligible for court appointed counsel. Such cases might include first offenses and minor offenses. Those cases can have serious consequences even though no jail time is involved.
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Honoring, Helping Native Veterans
According to Penobscot Tribal Elder Charles N. Shay, Maine is the first state in the country to recognize June 21st as Native American Veterans Day. There are currently 831 Native American Veterans living in Maine. In honor of Native American Veterans Day, here are some resources that we hope you find helpful.
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Students Have Rights When Searched or Questioned at School
Students can be charged with a juvenile crime for something he or she did at school. Many schools have "school resource officers" (or SROs). What a student says to an SRO, school staff and other students can be used against him or her in juvenile court. It is important to know that students have rights when they are in public school. This is true even when a student is accused of breaking a school rule or a state law.
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Natives on Tribal Land Can Still Get TANF after 5 Years
Certain families can get extensions of TANF beyond 5 years for certain reasons such as disability in the household. Certain Native American families may never lose their TANF, even after 60 months. Under federal and state law, there is an exemption for people who get TANF who live on Indian Reservations where at least 50% of the adults are not employed.
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Health Care Advance Directives Should Accompany Your Will
In the last edition of Wabanaki Legal News, we told you about wills and why you might want one. In this article, we talk about "Advance Directives." They are important documents that control how you are cared for when you can no longer care for yourself.
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Changes to Maine's School Expulsion Law
A school suspension means your child is temporarily removed from school programming. It can be an out-of- school suspension (not allowed at the school building) or an in-school suspension (sent to a room at school). An expulsion in Maine means that your child is not allowed to go to school or get any services, like tutoring, during the expulsion.
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Community Resources
Table of Contents Tribal Government and Agencies Aroostook Band of Micmacs Houlton Band of Maliseets Penobscot Indian Nation Passamaquoddy Tribe - Pleasant Point Passamaquoddy Tribe - Indian Township
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FRANCIS V: Maine Law Court Says Tribe Had Exclusive Jurisdiction
by Paul Thibeault, Esq. Wabanaki Legal News, Spring 2009 edition The State's highest court has made a final decision in the long legal battle between Pamela Francis and the Pleasant Point Passamaquoddy Housing Authority. On December 11, 2008 the Supreme Judicial Court (also known as the Law Court) held that the state courts had no jurisdiction and that the tribal court had exclusive jurisdiction over the case because it involves internal tribal matters.
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New Protections for Religious Rights of Native Prisoners
Native spiritual gatherings in prison are essential to the survival of tribal communities. Wabanaki Legal News, Spring 2009 edition by Paul Thibeault (opinion) The Sipayik Criminal Justice Commission has been negotiating with the Maine Department of Corrections (DOC) about restrictions on the rights of Native prisoners to practice traditional Indian religion. The negotiations were supported by the Maine Indian Tribal State Commission. As a result of these efforts, some big changes have been made:
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Controversy and Jurisdictional Disputes Regarding Elvers
The controversy over regulating the Passamaquoddy fisheries is part of a larger problem that arises under the Maine Implementation Act. The question is whether the state of Maine has jurisdiction to limit subsistence practices in open waters.
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A Criminal History Can Keep You from Crossing the Border
A Criminal History Can Keep You from Crossing the Border But it May Be Possible to Enter Canada if you Apply for "Rehabilitation" Wabanaki Legal News, Fall 2016 By James Mitchell, Esq.
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New Rules Allow Tribal Members to Gather Plants on National Park Land
New Rules Allow Tribal Members to Gather Plants on National Park Land Wabanaki Legal News, Fall 2016 By James Mitchell, Esq.
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Update: Penobscot Nation v. Mills
Update: Penobscot Nation v. Mills Wabanaki Legal News, Fall 2016 By Ethan Plaut, Esq. Since our last issue, there has been a major development in the case known as Penobscot Nation v. Mills, or the "Penobscot River Case." This is a case about what sovereign rights the Penobscot Nation has in the Penobscot River.
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ART STUDENT SCREENING: Christopher Bennett, "Whiskey Trip"
Friday, December 7, 2012, 7 - 10pm
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Friday, December 7, 2012
Christopher Bennett: Whiskey Trip
Edited by Micah Hesse
Senior Presentation Screening
Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Square
Reception at 7pm / Screening at 8pm
Reception will be outside the Auditorium in the Gelman Foyer, where recent paintings will also be on view for the evening.
Free and open to the public.
Located in the Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, at 41 Cooper Square (on Third Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets)

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11 Phrases You Need To Know Before Traveling To Vietnam
February 5, 2016
Traveling to a foreign country can be one of the most exciting experiences of your lifetime. You get to interact with people from a different culture, and you get to see the history and beauty of somewhere far away from home.
While most people dream about traveling to a new country like Vietnam, many hesitate due to the language barriers. Not knowing the native language can pose many challenges during your trip, especially if you encounter an emergency of some sort.
If you plan on traveling to a new country, it's very important that you try to familiarize yourself with some basic phrases to help you get around and interact with people while you're there. The following are 11 phrases that you should know before you travel to Vietnam
1. Do you speak English?
English is one of the most widely spoken languages around the world, so it's possible that you will encounter someone in another country that speaks English. Being able to ask, "Do you speak English?", will allow you to better communicate with someone you meet if they do, in fact, speak English. This can help ensure that you have a thorough understanding of what is being said to you.
2. Where is the bathroom?
When you're traveling, knowing the location of the bathroom is something you'll absolutely need to know, and since you'll be spending most of your time sightseeing or taking tours, you'll want to be sure you know how to ask where the bathroom is to avoid having any embarrassing accidents.
3. My name is _____________.
You will likely need to introduce yourself to people you meet, so it's important to know how to tell them what your name is. This way, they'll be able to contact you, and you can have a better chance at meeting new friends.
4. How do you say ______________?
There are going to be words you don't know how to say, and you'll likely use hand gestures to get your point across. Knowing "How do you say…?" and then pointing to an object will allow you to communicate better with the native speakers in the foreign country. Not only will you be able to ask for the items you desire, but you'll also learn more words and phrases in the language as well.
5. How much does this cost?
If you are doing any shopping while on vacation or even if you plan on dining out, you'll need to be able to ask how much items cost. This way, you'll know if you not only have enough money, but if you want to spend that much money on the object.
If you're unfamiliar with the area, you may need to find local public transportation. Being able to ask where to find a bus, taxi or train can help you get around the town more easily and allow you to take in more sights.
7. Where is the hospital?
Although you hope to never need to visit a hospital while on vacation, it's still extremely important for you to know where the closest hospital is located if you are ever in that situation.
8. Call the police.
Again, you hope to never need emergency services while traveling, but if you do, it's always beneficial to know how to ask for help so that your needs can be met right away.
9. Please and thank you.
It's important that you're polite when speaking to other people, so be sure that you know how to use your manners and say please and thank you when talking with natives.
10. I would like _________.
Sometimes you will like to ask for something, so it's important to let people know what your intentions are. Knowing the phrase, "I would like" is also beneficial for restaurants or cafes where you can just point to the item you'd like to purchase.
11. Do you take credit cards?
If you plan on making purchases with your credit card, it's important to know how to ask if the company accepts credit cards. This will help you know whether or not you'd be able to use your card or if you'd have to use cash.
While it's important for you to know these phrases before you travel, it's also a good idea to bring a translator with you during your travels. You can refer to a translation book, or there are plenty of handy smart phone applications to help you as well.
Beth Langdon is a Vietnamese teacher and freelance transcription consultant. Beth has helped many people develop dual-language documents in his website http://travel.voyagevietnam.co ( in french voyagevietnam.co) to carry with them when traveling in Vietnam .


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Is Pawlenty changing his mind about energy?
In an apparent policy reversal, Minnesota state agencies told legislators that further climate change action may be unnecessary. Data have shown a drop in emissions from 2005 to 2006, and the assistant commissioner for air quality at the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, David Thornton, and the new head of the Office for Energy Security, Bill Glahn, suggest that if that trend continues, Minnesota will meet its emission reduction goals in 2015 with no new policy actions.
This seems highly unlikely to me, and I find the suggestion disturbing.
Furthermore, they are suggesting that Big Stone II will reduce carbon emissions because it could replace two older coal plants (which won't happen), and that the only new policy suggestions from the Minnesota Climate Change Advisory Group (MCCAG) they support are eliminating the ban on new nuclear plants (which the MCCAG suggested should be studied) and implementing appliance efficiency standards.
Read more at MinnPost.com
Thanks to Keith for the heads-up.


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Hasek expected to headline hockey hall class
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TORONTO (AP) -- Dominik Hasek was still playing hockey a few years ago at age 46.
He put on his goalie pads for the final time Feb. 27, 2011, in Russia's KHL.
At the age of 49, "the Dominator" is expected to be part of the class of 2014 at the Hockey Hall of Fame, which will be announced Monday.
"For me it's a no-brainer," former Buffalo Sabres coach Lindy Ruff said earlier this year.
Hasek, a six-time Vezina Trophy winner, won one Stanley Cup as a starter with the Detroit Red Wings in 2002, then split time with Chris Osgood and became the backup in the playoffs for the 2008 title. He came close to the Cup in 1999 with Buffalo, only to be beaten by the Dallas Stars on Brett Hull's overtime goal.
Hasek's best years came with the Sabres, when he had seven straight seasons with a save percentage of .930 or higher. He finished with 234 regular-season victories.
Veteran goaltender Tomas Vokoun "knew all along" Hasek would be great from watching him play in their native Czech Republic.
"It took him a little bit just because of his style and all that to convince people here," Vokoun said in a phone interview with the Canadian Press.
"I definitely consider him, if he's not the best, one of the top three to ever play. ... He definitely deserves to be a first-ballot Hall of Famer."
Swedish center Peter Forsberg could also get the call to the Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility. American-born center Mike Modano leads the other new candidates and is the most likely to be inducted, ahead of three-time Cup-winner Mark Recchi.
Forsberg, who began his career with the Quebec Nordiques following the blockbuster Eric Lindros trade with the Philadelphia Flyers, went on to win two Cups with the Colorado Avalanche. He finished with 885 points in 708 regular-season games as his career was cut short by foot injuries.
With 1,374 points over 21 seasons, Modano became the most prolific American-born scorer in NHL history.
Former coach Pat Burns remains a candidate in the "builder" category, a year after Fred Shero was posthumously elected 38 years after leading the Flyers to back-to-back Cups. Burns, a three-time Jack Adams Award winner as coach of the year, died in November 2010 at the age of 58.
This is the first year John Davidson is serving as chairman of the Hockey Hall of Fame selection committee, replacing Jim Gregory. Bobby Clarke, David Poile and Luc Robitaille were appointed to the committee for the first time.
Clarke's addition raised the question of whether Lindros would stand a better chance of being elected. Despite a contentious relationship with the Lindros family, the longtime Flyers general manager is considered a proponent of his Hall of Fame case.
Lindros has similar numbers to Forsberg -- 865 points in 760 games over 13 seasons -- and won the Hart Trophy as league MVP in 1994-95.
The three-time Canadian Olympian's resume isn't as Hall of Fame-worthy as Hasek's. The goaltender is expected to be inducted Nov. 10.
"I appreciate it, it's very nice to be among all these big players," Hasek said recently when asked about impeding election to the Hall of Fame. "I appreciate to be one day, maybe, in the Hockey Hall of Fame, however ... it was never my goal when I was playing hockey."


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Cat Hellisen's Mother, Crone, Maiden was a bit of a challenge. Full of intense, risky visuals, it proved rather difficult to choose some over others. It took one or two days just to come up with thumbnails, a process that normally takes a few hours.
Irene and I decided to take the trippy route with this one.
And then I went seriously overboard with the inks. Painting this was more of an excavation process than anything else.
After hours of lasso tooling this into shape, this is what emerged.


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Darien forecast: Bright & breezy
Today promises to be bright and breezy in southwestern Connecticut, but next week the forecast has a more wintry outlook.
The National Weather Service says today's high temperature is likely to be in the mid-40s under mostly sunny skies, with a northwest wind 13 to 21 mph and gusts as high as 33 mph.
Tonight, however, turns mostly cloudy, with a low temperature in the upper-20s and a northwest wind 10 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Tomorrow will be cloudy with a high temperature in the low-40s. Nighttime will be partly cloudy, with a low temperature in the low-30s, the NWS says.
Monday should be sunny, with a high temperature in the mid-40s. There is a slight chance of snow after midnight as skies turn mostly cloudy and temperatures dip to a low in the low-30s.
On Tuesday, there is a chance of rain and snow before 9 a.m., followed by mostly rain. Skies will be mostly cloudy, with a high temperature in the mid-40s. Chance of precipitation is 40 percent, the NWS says. Nighttime brings a 50 percent chance of rain and snow, with a temperature dropping to a low in the mid-30s.
The outlook for Wednesday, according to the weather service, is for possible rain and snow, cloudy skies and temperatures in the mid-40s.


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Recently, I bought a pound of ready fish paste from an Asian store in Chinatown,Queens.This ready fish paste is really really good.It's comes with all the seasoning and perfect to use for any type of cooking as snack or appetizer or main dish.Usually, we used "fu-pei" a.k.a bean curd sheet to wrap fish paste but I didn't know I run out of bean curd sheet.Since I have wanton wrapper why not try it out.Although wanton wrapper don't have the crunchiness as bean curd sheet after fried but it's still acceptable.This snack is suitable to serve as an appetizer.
1/2 lb fish paste mixture (ready made from fish monger)
1 stalk cilantro,washed and chopped
1 tsp white pepper powder
1 tsp seasalt
1/2 pack wanton skin/wrapper (sold in any Asian Mart)
1 cup of canola oil
1:Toss in chopped cilantro,pepper powder and seasalt into the fish paste,mix well.Remove wanton wrapper from plastic and cover with a damp paper towel or clean clothes to prevent the wrapper from drying.
2:Use butter knife to spread fish paste` mixture on the wanton wrapper.The amount of paste is more or less depend on your preference. Dap some water on the wrapper side before fold in triangle.Repeat the same exercise until the fish paste or wrapper run out.
3:Heat skillet or wok with canola at medium high.Place each one of the triangle into the hot oil.Fried both side until golden brown.Remove fried triagle from hot oil to plate lined with paper towel.
4:Serve warm with your favorite sauce.


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Apple shares rise on price target upgrades from Needham, Evercore
01/06/2020, 05:01 pm
Apple shares surged in mid-day trading on Monday as research firms like Needham and Evercore raised price targets to well above $300 per share, a figure that eclipses the stock's all-time high set last week.
AAPL now 'strong buy,' will climb back to $225 in 2019, says Needham
03/21/2019, 08:03 am
Apple's ecosystem is an attractive proposition for investors, Needham analysts claim as the firm upgraded the iPhone maker's stock from a "buy" to a "strong buy" rating, advising it anticipates good results for Apple's Services, Apple Watch, AirPods, and other areas in the future.
As overall retail revenue declines, Apple Stores carry on original goal of growing Mac hardware sales
08/20/2014, 09:08 am
Though revenues from Apple Stores have actually been shrinking in recent quarters, the company's brick-and-mortar operations have continued to play a pivotal role in courting Windows switchers and driving sales of Mac hardware to new heights.
Apple's surprising sales in emerging markets like China & Latin America keep Mac growth ahead of PC market
07/14/2014, 08:07 am
Sales growth for Apple's Mac platform has outpaced the PC market for the 31st time in the past 32 quarters, keeping the trend alive. But surprisingly, Apple's premium-priced computers were actually driven by growth in emerging markets last quarter, new data shows.
Needham raises Apple target to $97, expects Swift programming language to enhance iPhone superiority
06/24/2014, 10:06 am
Investment firm Needham on Tuesday broke its typical semi-annual schedule and updated its price target for Apple stock to $97, citing stronger than expected iPhone sales and also the surprise announcement of a new programming language called Swift.
Continued popularity of Apple's legacy iPhone 4S added estimated 10M iPhone users last quarter
05/14/2014, 09:05 am
Though the iPhone 4S is now more than two and a half years old, it continues to be a strong seller for Apple, with one new estimate suggesting it accounted for 25 percent of iPhones sold by the company last quarter, drawing in nearly 10 million new users to the ecosystem.
Apple's recent stock price surge leaves prominent analysts projections in the dust
05/06/2014, 12:05 pm
Recent gains by Apple's stock have pushed its share price past some Wall Street analysts' price targets, leaving their forecasts underwater, while others could be next if the upward trend continues.
Apple retail store sales decline as consumers wait for new products
05/05/2014, 09:05 am
Sales throughout Apple's vaunted retail empire have begun to decline as the company's distribution network widens and the product line matures, according to a new report, though the outlets remain massively profitable and serve as a "magnet" for new Mac buyers.
Apple's premium-priced Macs 'defy the laws of economics,' but iPhone does not, Needham says
04/01/2014, 09:04 am
Mac sales have continued to grow in the face of a recession and declining overall PC market, but Apple's iPhone could not escape shifting trends in the smartphone space, analyst Charlie Wolf of Needham said on Tuesday.
Mac education sales have grown in US since iPad debut, weakening Apple cannibalization worries
03/17/2014, 03:03 pm
The Mac's long history of success in the education market hasn't been slowed by the introduction of Apple's more affordable iPad, as Mac sales to schools and students have instead grown since the iPad first launched in 2010.
Apple's holiday Mac shipments outpaced PC growth by largest margin in 5 years
02/21/2014, 09:02 am
While some pundits speculate that Mac lineup could be on the way out in favor of the iPad, Apple's traditional notebooks and desktops outpaced the overall PC market by nearly 25 percent last quarter, representing the largest margin separating the two in five years.
Apple's average Mac selling price steady at $1300 as iPad eats away at PC sales
02/10/2014, 03:02 pm
As PC sales continue to decline at the hands of tablets like Apple's iPad, the Mac platform is quietly growing its install base while maintaining an average selling price well above the rest of the market.
Building a cheap iPhone would be an 'insane idea' for Apple, Needham says
01/08/2014, 08:01 am
It would be "impossible" for Apple to successfully build a cheap iPhone without doing lasting damage to the company's highly profitable and successful smartphone brand, analyst Charlie Wolf of Needham & Company believes.
iPhone dominance in user engagement, developer payouts trumps unimportant market share stats - analyst
12/12/2013, 02:12 pm
Apple's share of the mobile phone market is growing, but it still remains below 10 percent, even as Apple and its development community rake in profits from an actively engaged user base. That led analyst Charlie Wolf on Thursday to raise the question: Does market share matter?
Mac growth running out of steam as 'switcher' motivation diminishes - report
08/27/2013, 01:08 pm
The Mac could become a victim of Apple's own success, according to one analyst, who points to the company's superior design aesthetic, along with the popularity of the iPhone and iPad, as reasons for stagnation in Mac sales growth.
Citing 'increasingly hostile' competition, Needham cuts Apple Inc. price target to $595
08/12/2013, 03:08 pm
Investment firm Needham & Company cut its price target for shares of Apple from $710 to $595 on Monday, citing growing competition in both of the company's key markets: phones and tablets.
Market shares collapse with 'brutal speed' in cyclical smartphone industry
03/18/2013, 11:03 am
A closer look at market shares in the highly competitive smartphone industry shows sales trends can be reversed in an instant, and companies that once dominated could quickly find themselves on the verge of collapse.
After 'astonishingly' poor quarter, Mac sales predicted to rebound
03/01/2013, 10:03 am
Mac sales outgrew the overall PC market for 26 consecutive quarters until December, but Apple is expected to see sales improve in the current quarter.
Mac sales to US businesses grow nearly 50%
11/21/2012, 03:11 pm
Sales of Mac hardware to U.S. businesses grew by 49.4 percent year over year in the September quarter, posting continued growth while PC sales shrank.
Market watchers reaffirm faith in Apple as new products shrink projected margins
10/26/2012, 11:10 am
Though Apple expects its margins to shrink in the holiday quarter as the company goes through an unprecedentedly large product transition, Wall Street watchers remain confident in recommending investors buy AAPL stock.


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Tips for outdoor high-contrast photo shooting
Heads up!Welcome to this article from the Crutchfield archives. Have fun reading it, but be aware that the information may be outdated and links may be broken.
What happened to my shots?
We've all seen them: pictures with blazing cheekbones and dark eye sockets, or two silhouettes in front of a well-exposed beach panorama, or a big flare obscuring your subject as you shoot with the sun off to your side or in front. While these things are frustrating, they're not inevitable. Here are a few techniques for upping your success percentage in outdoor high contrast situations, shot on location at Virginia's Wintergreen Resort.
On the left, no filter is in place; on the right, a circular polarizer is in effect.
Use a lens filter
Let's get the basic business out of the way first: using a UV/Protective lens filter is a great idea the moment you take your lens out of its packaging. It's cheap insurance against smears, dings, and scratches that can ruin your photos. But shooting where there's a lot of sunny and shadowed patches, or big expanses of sky, or reflective surfaces like water, demand a more specialized kind of filter, a circular polarizing filter. These filters act in the same way as most sunglasses do, by aligning the otherwise chaotic rays of light that come from the sky and surface reflections. The overall effect deepens sky colors and tames areas of glare. Check out our example, at right.
On the left, we've taken a portrait of Crutchfield Advisor Brian in bright light without any other light support, and on the right, we've employed a flash to even out the shadows.
Consider a reflector or fill-flash
When you depend on outdoor light as your main source of illumination, unflattering shadows can creep into your portraits. You can moderate this effect with a well-placed reflective object (like a big piece of white foam-core), or better yet, use your on-board flash to fill in those shadow areas. If your camera doesn't feature an on-board flash, consider an external flash unit.
Left, a shot with a visible flare, and right, the same subject, with the lens protected from light by a lens hood.
Try a lens hood or cast a shadow on the lens
As an outdoor photographer, you'll always be playing hide-and-seek with the sun. Sometimes you'll find yourself shooting in its general direction — or dealing with a bright light source off to the side — and you'll notice a flare in the picture, or a washed-out appearance to your image.
Lens hoods, or even a well-placed hand, card, or book, can shade the lens from strong light sources that can affect your shots. See what we mean, at right.
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Nice duplex in Yorktown Schools. Great location, large yard, each side has 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, living room and kitchen, newer windows, patio to back porch, and a one car garage on each side. Each unit is 864 sq. ft. Current tenants have been in home for 4+ years. Each un it has a refrigerator and stove, furnace, A/C, and water heater, and there is one water softener for both sides. Submersible pump - 4 years old, furnace and A/C unit on north side is 2 years old.
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NOW LEASED FOR 2020. This is another great BSU rental close to the Student Center area of Campus. 223 S University is also for sale. This one features 1617 SqFt of living space, 4 bedrooms (2 up and 2 in the basement), and it also has a HUGE barn garage in the back that could be used by the owner...
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Awesome Location, Close to BSU/BMH, Downtown, Shopping and Restaurants. Nice 4 Bedroom, 1.5 bath home, a large covered front porch and nice size back yard. Parking in the back of the home off of the Ally. Roof is New. Home is currently rented through July 31st, 2019 at $900.00 per month
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Nice 4 bedroom 2 bath home close to BSU. This home is currently leased for $1100 / month plus utilities to BSU students and they would like to renew their lease for the next 2015 school year....or....it could just as easily be a nice family home. The home features lots of wood flooring on the...
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This 2 story home on North Hollywood is a great home or investment property. It has 4 bedrooms and 2,400 square feet with two living areas a kitchen and a dining room. The home comes with a 1 car garage and a long drive for multiple car parking. From an investment stand point the rooms could rent...
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Araceli Barron, the bilingual mother of three young children in Sunnyvale, has seen California's digital divide up close. Until recently, the family had no Internet access at home and as more and more schoolwork required an online presence, her sixth-grade daughter was starting to fall behind.
"In January we finally got Internet and it's made a huge difference in all my kids' grades," said Barron, whose household income is not much more than $20,000 a year. "And that's really helped my kids' self-esteem."
Despite living in the tech-rich heart of Silicon Valley, Barron and her children have straddled a stubborn gap between the state's digital-haves and have-nots that shows little sign of closing anytime soon. According to a statewide Field Poll released Tuesday, broadband adoption rates have stagnated over the past few years, with access by Latinos, seniors and others lagging behind that enjoyed by younger adults and those with higher incomes.
According to the poll, 75 percent of adult Californians have broadband Internet connectivity at home. While that's up from 55 percent when the first poll was done in 2008, this year's number was unchanged from 2013 as growth appears to have stalled.
Perhaps even more troubling, usage patterns vary significantly across different segments of the state's population. For example, while nearly 90 percent of Californians age 18-29 and those who have graduated from college or who earn annual household incomes of $60,000 or more report having broadband Internet access at home, significantly smaller slices of other groups were able to say the same.
They include adults who have not graduated from high school (32 percent of whom have broadband Internet access), Spanish-speaking Latinos (46 percent), seniors 65 or older (47 percent) and residents with annual household incomes of less than $20,000 (53 percent).
"These findings are a sobering reminder that while we live in a state renowned for technology and innovation, the digital divide is real and impacting millions of Californians," said Sunne Wright McPeak, president and CEO of the California Emerging Technology Fund, which partnered with Field on the poll. "Fully one-quarter of California households do not have high-speed Internet at home. This is not acceptable."
One of the more intriguing findings from the poll was the growth among adults who are now connecting to broadband Internet at home solely through a smartphone. While that number is a relatively small 8 percent, it raises questions about how much and what kind of online information people are getting this way.
"Using a smartphone is a much different way of accessing the Internet than using a desktop or laptop," said Santa Clara University law professor Allen Hammond, who heads the Broadband Institute of California, an academic think tank. "While the smartphone has made information more accessible, the information comes more like a trickle than a stream."
The survey seemed to support Hammond's view that smartphone users often go online for different chores than those who use desktops. It showed that larger percentages of Latinos, African-Americans, noncitizens and poor households reported using only the smartphone to go online from home. And these "smartphone-only users" were far less likely to go to community or government websites or to seek health and medical information or even to take online classes. For example, while 61 percent of home-computer users said they got medical information or communicated online with their doctors, only 41 percent of smartphone-only users did so.
In a statement, McPeak said that "while mobile phones are essential devices, they are not enough to help poor Californians access many of the services they need to break out of poverty or close the education Achievement Gap." She said that despite having quick access to the Internet through their phones, students without a desktop, laptop or tablet at home are at a disadvantage when they must take assessment tests and do other school assignments using only a smartphone.
McPeak called on federal regulators to press Internet providers to offer affordable broadband service for low-income customers who qualify, and she asked the Federal Communications Commission to consider making online access easier for all Americans as large telecommunication companies continue to merge, as Comcast and Time Warner Cable are now trying to do.
"If the authorities do this right," said McPeak, "they can help close the digital divide and, in turn, close the achievement divide in schools as well."
The poll found that parents who have a broadband connection other than a smartphone at home were highly likely to go online at home to help their children learn (84 percent) and to obtain information about their children's homework and grades from the school website (75 percent).
"As technology is integrated in the classroom, poor students who only have smartphone access to the online world when they go home will fall farther behind and we all will be worse off for it," McPeak said. "This is a call to action for government, industry and philanthropic groups to work to finally close the Digital Divide in California."
Contact Patrick May at 408-920-5689 or follow him at Twitter.com/patmaymerc.


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- Choose small young artichokes the size of very large rose buds. Peel off a few of the outer leaves. Rub the artichokes all over with lemons. (I leave the stalks on for handles.) Put them in a saucepan, pour in olive oil to come up half way, then cover with water. Bring to a boil over high heat, (the water and oil will amalgamate), and let sputter uncovered for 15 to 20 minutes. Towards the end the artichokes will have bronzed and crisped, as the water all evaporates. Serve them with a little of their cooking oil, sprinkled with sea salt and freshly ground pepper. This is a sensational and earthy dish, which should be accompanied with the best bread you can find or make, and a crisp Sancerre or Pinot Grigio.
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- Source: Cooking Section, April 2001
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Goma, Congo: Congolese soldiers and rebel forces suffered heavy casualties Sunday as they fought for a fifth day near the city of Goma in the country's volatile east, a doctor near the front line said.
Dr. Isaac Warwanamiza told The Associated Press he had seen 82 dead since early Sunday, 23 of whom were government soldiers, the highest death toll reported since hostilities broke out last week.
Medical services were struggling to cope with the scale of the casualties among government troops and the M23 fighters who launched their rebellion last year, Warwanamiza said.
"I'm overwhelmed by what I've seen: bodies blown apart, arms and feet here and there," he said, speaking by phone from a hospital north of Goma.
Three U.N. peacekeepers were wounded Saturday in the fighting, though no injuries were immediately reported by the U.N. peacekeeping mission Sunday.
A U.N. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to journalists, said that two M23 "colonels" had been killed since Wednesday, while the Congolese military had not lost any senior officers.
The front line is only 9 miles (15 kilometers) north of Goma. M23 rebels briefly overtook the city late last year, and Congolese and U.N. troops have been battling to dislodge rebels from heights overlooking the city since Wednesday.
Observers estimate that Congolese forces have advanced less than a mile (about 2 kilometers) since Wednesday and have yet to achieve their immediate objective—cutting off M23 from a border crossing where the rebel group is believed to get supplies from neighboring Rwanda.
An army chaplain at the military hospital in Goma confirmed that Congolese troops had suffered heavy casualties Sunday. Chaplain Lea Masika said 59 wounded had been brought into the hospital since Sunday morning, bringing the total of wounded there to 720. The bodies of three Congolese officers had been buried, he said.
The M23 is made up of hundreds of Congolese soldiers mostly from the Tutsi ethnic group who deserted the national army last year after accusing the government of failing to honor the terms of a deal signed in March 2009. Many of the movement's commanders are veterans of previous rebellions backed by Rwanda, which vigorously denies allegations that it has been supporting and reinforcing M23.
The rebels briefly seized Goma, a city of nearly 1 million people, last November, before withdrawing under international pressure and in return for a promise of peace talks with the government. The talks in neighboring Uganda have frequently stalled and appear to have made little progress since March.
The renewed fighting erupted Wednesday, breaking a three-week lull in the region. On Thursday, the new U.N. intervention brigade that was created in March with a strong mandate to protect civilians fired for the first time on rebel positions.
"We are using artillery, indirect fire with mortars and our aviation, and at the moment we have troops in the front line alongside (the government forces)," Gen. Dos Santos Cruz, the U.N. force commander in Congo, said Saturday.
In Washington, the state department condemned the actions of the M23, voicing concern over "credible U.N. reports that the M23 has fired into Rwandan territory." In a statement issued Sunday, it called on the rebel group to immediately cease hostilities, disarm and disband.
There has been widespread skepticism, however, in Congo that the intervention brigade will be a game-changing addition to the existing U.N. force, which stood by when M23 fighters captured Goma late last year.
On Saturday, scores of Goma residents took to the streets in anger over a series of rocket and mortar attacks that have left at least seven civilians dead in recent days. Two other residents were killed during the demonstration, and the U.N. called for a joint investigation.


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- Todos > Traditional Medicine > Traditional, Complementary and Herbal Medicine
- Todos > Quality and Safety: Medicines > Quality Assurance
(2006; 58 pages)
Artemisia annua L. is a medicinal plant being used in traditional Chinese medicine for more than 2000 years for treating many disorders including malaria. The isolation of artemisinin from Artemisia annua L. and the characterization of its antimalarial effect in the 1970s was initiated by Chinese scientists, which is regarded as one of the most important advances in malaria control in modern times.
In response to increasing levels of antimalarial resistance, since 2001 WHO has recommended artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) for falciparum malaria.
At present, artemisinin compounds are derived from a raw substance extracted from the plant Artemisia annua L. Cultivation of this plant requires a minimum of 6 months, and extraction, processing and manufacturing of the final product require at least 2–5 months depending on the product formulation. Agricultural production is not a problem or limiting factor. However, if the rapid increase in demand for the pharmaceutical products is not predicted in time to allow for increased agricultural production, there could be temporary shortages in supply. Reliable forecasting of global ACT requirements is thus essential.
With this in mind, WHO developed this model monograph on good agricultural practices for Artemisia annua L. to facilitate cultivation of this particular medicinal plant with reliable quality and to ensure a sustainable supply to meet market demands.
Thee objectives of this model monograph are to:
- provide practical and specific technical guidance on the cultivation and collection of Artemisia annua L. of good quality and a high yield;
- contribute to alleviating the shortage of artemisinin-based medicines;
- provide a model monograph as a basis for countries and researchers to develop further monographs on good agricultural and collection practices (GACP) for other medicinal plants;
- protect the wild resources of medicinal plants, in particular Artemisia annua L., to ensure their sustainable use.
The monograph provides a detailed description of the techniques and measures required for the cultivation and collection of Artemisia annua L. The cultivation of high-yield, good quality medicinal plants depends on a number of factors such as the geographical environment, altitude, temperature, rainfall and soil characteristics.


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Jonathan Thomas spent his first two years at the University of Maryland consumed by his studies in mechanical engineering. From his current vantage point, Thomas now realizes there was a void.
A former basketball star at Tuscarora High, where he was Frederick County's Player of the Year as a senior, Thomas is one of five walk-ons who made the team this season after a series of open tryouts in the fall.
"You try to do stuff to get your mind off of not playing, [and] you're busy so you try not to think about it," Thomas said before a recent practice at Comcast Center. "When the seasons start to change and it starts to get colder, and it starts to be basketball weather, I began to understand how much I missed it when I started playing this year."
Not that Thomas has played much. Though he averaged about six minutes a game early in the season when fellow point guard Pe'Shon Howard was out for a month with a broken foot, Thomas has played in just two games, for less than a minute in each, in the past 15 games.
Even with Howard sidelined again, this time for the season after suffering a knee injury in practice last week, the opportunity will be rare for Thomas. When first-year coach Mark Turgeon looked down his bench last Saturday at Cameron Indoor Stadium for someone to spell Terrell Stoglin, he picked another walk-on — freshman Arnold Richmond — rather than Thomas.
Thomas said before Howard's second injury that he is ready to play if called upon. Maryland (14-10, 4-6 in the Atlantic Coast Conference) plays against Boston College (8-17, 3-8) at home Thursday night.
"You've got to have that mentality in whatever you do," Thomas said. "You can never get complacent. You can't say, 'This is never going to happen.' Because if you say that, it won't happen. Whatever you do, even if it's just to go hard at it [in practice] and compete, there's going to be a positive outcome."
Balancing his new obligations and schedule — which has included missing several days of classes because of travel — has not been easy for Thomas. Despite dropping an English class at the suggestion of his counselor in order to lighten the load, Thomas conceded that his 3.8 GPA "took a little hit" during the fall semester.
"It's time management, so you have to do things when you have the opportunity," Thomas said. "I got used to it my freshman year, and I kind of mastered it my sophomore year. Now it's like freshman year all over again. You're not just managing your time; you're managing your energy and your sleep."
Thomas said that he just can't go from practice to cracking the books. He is often tired and sore and needs to find a second wind. When it comes, typically late at night, Thomas often studies straight through until morning classes begin.
"A lot nights I don't go to sleep. I usually get about three or four hours," Thomas said. "There's so much work to do, a lot of it gets backed up. Definitely gets piled up quick, even if you're not playing basketball. You have to work on your skills of communicating [with] people who can help you. If you don't communicate with classmates or your professors, you'll never make it."
While some of his professors have been understanding, a few have questioned Thomas' sanity in adding what amounts to a second major — ACC basketball.
"They kind of laughed and said, 'How can you be so dumb to do both?'" Thomas said with a laugh.
Thomas, who called his decision to try out "unfinished business," said that even his parents have questioned him at times. But Thomas said that his father in particular "didn't want me to pass this up. He at least wanted me to try it because it will let me know that college is more than just getting grades. I always think about that when I'm coming to practice."
This season has also been like his sophomore and junior years in high school, when Thomas transferred from Tuscarora in Frederick to Towson Catholic, where he found his playing time scarce as a backup to future Virginia Tech star Malcolm Delaney.
Former Towson Catholic coach Josh Pratt recalled a player who never backed down to Delaney in practice, but also said "[Thomas] always had a book in his hand."
Charles Thomas recalled getting a call regarding his son's whereabouts one day from Pratt.
"They were about to start practice and he couldn't find Jonathan," the elder Thomas, an engineer at Fort Detrick, recalled. "He was in the library."
The younger Thomas said that the two years he spent playing with Delaney and Donte Greene, now with the Sacramento Kings, as well as against current Terps teammate Sean Mosley (St. Frances) gave him the confidence to try out at Maryland after playing occasionally on the school's club team.
"You definitely get a sense that you're more relaxed because you've been through that at some of the highest levels," said Thomas, who was recruited to play at Hampton after his Baltimore Stars travel team won the Amateur Athletic Union's state championship. "Coming from that to here was just a little transition."
His experience playing for the Terps this season might help him after he graduates. Thomas, whose mother Jeanice is a chemist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, hopes someday to work with engines, "making things run better, cleaner and faster."
He has talked with his father about helping design better engines for the team plane that the Terps fly because it gets bounced around in turbulence.
Turgeon said Thomas and the other walk-ons have helped make the Terps a more efficient team this season.
"He makes our practices better. He's a good player," Turgeon said. "He's a tough guard; he's a smart kid. All those guys, they really relish their role. We look better; our preparation is better. JT has been great. He's a solid, solid kid. He puts academics first, and I'm really glad he's part of the team."
During most games, Thomas is animated on the bench, often mimicking Turgeon's emotions and body language.
"Every day you learn so much," Thomas said. "It's really up to you to try to understand everything he's throwing at you. It's hard, but sometimes it's something you've got to think about, even when you're out of practice and thinking, 'What is he is trying to do here?' Every day has been a great experience."
Thomas' course load
Vibration, Controls, and Optimization I
Electronics II
Material Science
Computer Assisted Drawing
Jonathan Thomas spent his first two years at the University of Maryland consumed by his studies in mechanical engineering. From his current vantage point, Thomas now realizes there was a void.


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Online Health Service is not something that everyone is aware of and this can actually help you save life and money both. Now the question – How? Before going to the question how, let's discuss more on what is online health and why is there a need for it. Everything is happening online today then why you still have to see multiple doctors before you can actually take the decision of where you want to…Read More


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|Belle Isle, Windermere in a Calm
|Abbot Hall Gallery, Kendal
|Loutherbourg, Philip James de (French painter and scenographer, 1740-1812, active in Britain)
Born in Basel, Switzerland, de Loutherbourg was trained entirely in France, studying under Carle van Loo and Casanova. He was a master of dramatic effects with a penchant for 'Salvatorian' horror and for Nature at her most Sublime and Romantic. The ship wreck owes much to de Loutherbourg's liking for the work of Claude Joseph Vernet and to local folk memory of 'The Fatall Nuptial or the Mournefull Marriage' when on 19 October 1635, a wedding party was drowned after a sudden storm sank the ferry.
De Loutherbourg's mastery of dramatic effects was probably informed by his previous career as a theatrical scene painter. In 1781, he invented the 'Eidophusikon' ('image of nature'), a small-scale animated stage-set incorporating sound and lighting effects to present literary stories and Sublime landscape phenomena which intrigued Reynolds and Gainsborough.
De Loutherbourg and his fellow scene painter Robert Carver, set out on a tour of Westmorland and Cumberland in 1783 as did so many other artists of the time. He was very interested in the activity of travel, taking many drawings of coaches, carriages and sailing craft on their journey. His travels obviously stimulated him, as he later exhibited a number of paintings at the Royal Academy inspired by his Lake District tour.
This painting and its partner were acquired by John Christian Curwen. The paintings show Belle Isle with its distinctive round house which was built in 1774 to take advantage of the best views - the first mansion in the Lake District to be built for Picturesque reasons. Originally known as Long Holm, the island was renamed as Belle Isle in honour of the heiress Isabella Curwen, whose Trustees had acquired the property for her in 1779. Isabella's husband John Christian Curwen also purchased the two paintings to hang at his family seat, Workington Hall, as a permanent tribute to their summer residence on Windermere.
As a pair, the paintings are probably the most important full-blown Romantic depictions of the Lake District. Painted at the height of the Picturesque movement, they represent a shift in how the landscape was perceived in the late eigteenth century, showing it as mysterious, unpredictable and uncontrollable.
The second painting provides a complete contrast to the earlier scene. The softly rolling, wooded fells surround the calm and idyllic lake. Nature is no longer destructive and terrifying, but benevolent and caring. A group of local farming folk embark on the ferry with their horse and dog. Across the lake, an elegant two-masted yacht carries a party of fashionable tourists, who are being shown the Picturesque landscape before them.
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|landscape (Windermere)
|209.5 x 136 cm.0 cm (estimate)
|oil on canvas
|Acquisition Details
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text: On Jan 29, 2008 9:25 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab at infradead.org> wrote: > Dâniel and others, > > > > Having this tested is a very good news! I'll need to merge this patch with two > > > other patches that adds DVB support for cx88/xc3028. If I can manage to have > > > some time for this merge, I'll commit and ask Linus to add this to 2.6.25. > > > > :) > > I've merged some patches from several authors, that add xc3028 support for > cx88. > > The experimental tree is available at: > > http://linuxtv.org/hg/~mchehab/cx88-xc2028 > > This patch series adds support for the following boards: > > 59 -> DVICO HDTV5 PCI Nano [18ac:d530] > 60 -> Pinnacle Hybrid PCTV [12ab:1788] > 61 -> Winfast TV2000 XP Global [107d:6f18] > 62 -> PowerColor Real Angel 330 [14f1:ea3d] > 63 -> Geniatech X8000-MT DVBT [14f1:8852] > 64 -> DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T PRO [18ac:db30] > > In thesis, both analog and DVB support (for boards with DVB/ATSC) should be > working (*). Maybe analog audio may need an additional configuration for some > specific board (since they may require to add cfg.mts = 1 at xc3028 > initialization code, on cx88-cards). > > Please test. Mauro, We spoke on Thursday, and you asked me to take a look at the code in your 'cx88-xc2028' tree over the weekend and fix it, if possible. The repository is broken after and including changeset ce6afd207b71 - "Make xc3028 support more generic" This changeset moves the device-specific configuration out of the cx88-dvb.c device-specific switch..case block, into a generic function. This patch breaks functionality, and imho, is not a good idea. Your changes assume that the analog side of the driver will come up before the digital side of the driver, which is not necessarily the case. Additionally, in some cases, the tuner itself is hidden behind an i2c gate that is controlled by the dvb / atsc demodulator. Because of the i2c gate, communication to the tuner might not be available at the time that the i2c bus is probed. For those reasons, the attach calls to the tuner driver should be fully qualified, relative to the functionality of the side of the driver that is attaching it. The device that I used to test is the FusionHDTV 5 PCI nano. This device uses an xc3008 (yes, that is xc3008 -- not a typo) and a s5h1409 demod. The device is capable of receiving ATSC digital broadcasts and the driver does not yet support analog television. Steve Toth made the patch that adds atsc support for that card, and his patch worked without the additional changesets that were added afterwards. I made some small fixes and enabled IR support -- see the bottom of this email for my pull request. Your email above states that you've "merged some patches from several authors". What I recommend, in order to properly support each device, would be to apply each patch for each card separately, as we do with all card support additions. We know that the original patches, as submitted by the original authors work properly , since those authors have conducted their own tests. I understand that you've made some attempts to optimize the code in an effort to reduce memory consumption. Unfortunately, these efforts have broken functionality of these devices. I think that it would make more sense to work on optimizations after the basic device support patches are first applied in the standard manner. This way, you would have a good point of reference for "before" and "after" that testers will be able to use for comparison (and bisection). Since the only card that I can test is the PCI nano, please pull these changesets into master for now. Please pull from: http://linuxtv.org/hg/~mkrufky/cx88-xc2028 for: (91113b8955e2) 4 weeks ago Steven Toth cx88: Add support for the Dvico PCI Nano. (394d249f03f1) 47 hours ago Michael Krufky cx88: fix FusionHDTV 5 PCI nano name and enable IR support Regards, Mike


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HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Police officers use discretion in handling incidents, despite the presence of mandated rules and regulations governing how officers are supposed to respond, according to a Penn State researcher. Joongyeup Lee, assistant professor of criminal justice in the Penn State Harrisburg School of Public Affairs, analyzed domestic violence cases handled by the Houston police department.
Lee said that the public expects police to enforce laws uniformly in all cases because those laws are arrived at by a consensus of society. For example, police would be less likely to make an arrest if an incident involved simple assault as opposed to aggravated assault, and would be more likely to make an arrest if there was a restraining order against the assailant.
However, he noted, "there are extra-legal factors, in addition to legal factors, that constitute the incident and ultimately matter to police officers."
For instance, officers were less likely to make an arrest in a neighborhood with a high-crime rate, compared to a more upscale neighborhood. Also, some of the situational contexts, such as age, gender and race of assailants, as well as time of the day, day of the week and location of the incident, were associated with the odds of making an arrest.
Of course, Lee said, there is no such law that advises officers to make an arrest based on who the suspect is or where and when the crime occurs.
"The most important point is, it doesn't necessarily mean (police officers) are ignoring the social consensus," Lee said. "It is the fabric of our society with a wide range of subcultures that brings a question to the validity of social consensus.
"Among different income levels, generations, ethnicities and so forth, are we sure we have one uniform consensus? When a case moves from one context to another, consensus on the topic changes as well, this is why police find it difficult to apply one law to all cases."
Police officers on the street deal with an array of subcultures, each of which can place the same criminal act in a different context. For example, a police officer in a high-crime, urban neighborhood may decide not to arrest someone for smoking marijuana because the act is so socially negligible that making an arrest would not be appreciated by the residents. In contrast, the same officer may arrest someone for smoking marijuana in a suburban neighborhood, where marijuana smoking is rare and not tolerated by the residents.
"Police officers generally have a decent understanding of subcultural diversity in their jurisdiction," Lee said. "In this perspective, the police may actually be honoring social consensus under each subcultural context by using reasonable and rational discretion. My job as a police researcher is to educate the public why police cannot be robot cops. On the other hand, I help police understand the pattern of their own behaviors. Ultimately, the police should work hard to identify and cater to the general consensus in each community."
Lee, primarily a criminologist who studies social and psychological factors of crime and delinquency, holds a doctorate from Sam Houston State University in Houston. While at Sam Houston, he studied police response to domestic violence incidents in the city of Houston.


text: National Aquarium will celebrate the homecoming of Toby, the rare blue lobster found off the coast of Maryland in 2012. Toby, who was previously on exhibit at the now closed Washington, DC, venue, will immediately go on exhibit when he moves into his new home in the Atlantic Shelf gallery in the Mountains to the Sea exhibit. Toby's particular blue hue is said to be a 1-in-2-million exception to the reddish-brown shade of most lobsters. This unique color is a genetic variation that is caused by the lobster producing an excessive amount of a particular protein. John Gourley and his team aboard the fishing boat, the Pot Luck, caught Toby off the coast of Maryland near Ocean City in June 2012 and donated him to National Aquarium. Toby is one of 1,700 of the Washington venue's 2,500 animals that were moved to Baltimore beginning in October 2013 following the announcement of the venue's closure. Categories: Animals


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|Upgrade Instructions
Welcome BACK to MazzleUI!
You should only follow the steps in this document if you already have MazzleUI installed.
Step 1: Extract MazzleUI Files
a) Create a directory called "MazzleUI" on the desktop or somewhere else handy.
b) Extract the contents of the zip file into the MazzleUI directory
Step 2: Delete Your Old INTERFACE Folder
a) Go to your World of Warcraft directory (usually C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft)
b) Rename the "Interface" folder to "Interface Old"
Note: Do not delete or rename your WTF folder. The Mazzifier will upgrade your settings when you log in.
Step 3: Copy over the new UI files
a) Drag "Interface" folder from the MazzleUI directory in step 1 to your World of Warcraft directory.
b) If you are on a PC: Drag the "Font" folder from the MazzleUI directory in step 1 to your World of Warcraft directory. Note: It'll ask you whether you want to overwrite files. Respond with "Yes to All".
- Note: The fonts almost never change. It's usually safe to skip this step.
- VERY IMPORTANT: If you are on a Mac and already have a font folder, make sure to move each file from the font folder in the directory you made in step 1 to the font folder in your World of Warcraft directory. Do not just drop the entire font folder in, since the default behavior on a Mac is to replace the entire contents of the directory, i.e. delete your old files.
Step 4: Copy Over Any Extra Add-Ons
If there are any extra add-ons you manually installed, copy them over from your "Interface Old" folder to your new "Interface" folder.
Step 5: Log into Your Characters
a) Log fully in to your character
b) The Mazzifier should automatically pop up
c) Follow the instructions to do a MazzleUI upgrade
Note: When upgrading your UI, your character may scream out initially in enjoyment. They may even moan or dance. If you are not comfortable with that, do not install it or don't install in earshot of others.
Step 6: Rinse and Repeat
Repeat this process for each character.


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I've been noticing things lately moreso than during the first 30 or so years of my life. Synchronicity is a common observed phenomenon, but lately, (last year or so,) I have noticed many many similar things spring up out of the woodwork. Enough to make me ignore it altogether, and then decide to make a post about it.
Has anybody else noticed increased synchronicity lately?
And no, I'm not that kind of craaaazzyyy.


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