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The School will award 2 scholarships to outstanding students beginning their masters studies in the 2017-2018 academic year.
The School is pleased to invite applications from outstanding candidates for Masters scholarships for entry in 2017-2018. We will be awarding two Arthur Kitchin Scholarships. These exciting new schemes are designed to attract the best and brightest candidates to study in Edinburgh.
Each of the awards will cover:
Applicants to two-year programmes or part-time Masters programmes including distance learning, are eligible to apply for the scholarships. However, they will be liable for any tuition fees in excess of £9,500
Please note any Additional Programme Costs are not included in this award and applicants will remain liable for this cost.
PhD students are not eligible to apply for this scheme.
Applicants must have applied for a Masters programme of study within the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures before 11th April 2017. Their references must have been submitted by 25th April 2017.
The scholarships will be awarded on academic merit and the potential to excel at the chosen programme of study. Successful applicants will hold or be predicted to achieve a first class honours undergraduate degree (or overseas equivalent) in a relevant field or should be able to prove their academic merit through evidence of professional achievements, awards or publications relevant to their chosen programme of study. Candidates in this latter category should note that a good first degree will still be required.
Applications for this scholarship are no longer being accepted for 2017-18 as the deadline of 2nd May 2017 has now passed.
All applicants will be notified of the outcome in June 2017.


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Norshipco Completes Work On Double-Hull Tanker Stena Concertina Acquire Air & Water Technologies Unit
The double-hull designed oil tanker of the future, mandated by Congress as a safeguard against disastrous oil spills, is making its presence felt in American waters. Norfolk Shipbuilding and Drydock Corp. (Norshipco) completed a contract to drydock and repair the Japanese- operated Stena Concertina, a two-and-a-half year old crude-oil tanker equipped with the latest in marine technology.
The yard work consisted of blasting and coating, tailshaft and rudder clearance inspections, valve, pump and generator repairs, and miscellaneous planned maintenance of and inspections to the main engine. Other jobs entailed pipe repairs, windlass inspections, and miscellaneous gas-freeing.
Norshipco's contract also included warranty work in coordination with the builder, Sumitomo Heavy Industries of Japan. Norshipco's largest task was in the area of shell-plate repairs. The ship had run aground off Corpus Christi, Texas only three months after being launched, and was sailing with a deferment on replacing damaged steel in the areas of the forward peak tank and No. 1 double bottom tank. The initial work package was to replace 35 tons of steel in 14 days, but by the time the ship arrived, the steel-work time frame had been reduced to only eight days, while the overall scope of the steel job grew to 50 tons as the job unfolded. Norshipco actually completed all shipfitting and welding in seven days.
The Stena Concertina is the prototype of a new class of tanker commissioned by the Japanese shipping conglomerate Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. Stena Concertina is the first ship commissioned by Mitsui to incorporate the advanced double-hull design.
The Stena Concertina normally operates on the Gulf of Mexico traderoutes as a lightering ship, off-loading crude oil from larger tankers that are anchored off-shore. The vessel displaces 94,000 dwt, is 761 ft. (232 m) long with a beam of 138 ft.
(42 m) and has a single 12,070 hp diesel engine with a cruising speed of 15 knots.
For more information on Norshipco, contact the company at P.O. Box 2100, Norfolk, Va. 23501- 2100, tel: (804) 494-4000; fax: (804) 545-0604.

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Cycling Club
Mission Statement:
To encourage, advance and grease the wheels of the greater George Fox community in road, commuter and mountain biking.
As George Fox's newly chartered Cycling Club we will commence normal club activities in the fall of 2016. Be on the look out for many invents ranging from weekly rides around beautiful Newberg,fun rides to parks where we will have BBQs, all the way to "garage hours" where we will be able to offer basic bike maintenance and repair to all members of George Fox's campus.
About Us:
Jesse Tonkinson, a senior in the fall of 2016, will be the acting President of this club, and our very own Grant Burns, the Area Coordinator of Houses and Apartments West, will be acting as the faculty sponsor.
We are excited to invite anyone and every one of George Fox to join!
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Ever since I've been hosting giveaways here at Eighty MPH Mom, I have used a variety of websites that list giveaways. Some brought more traffic than others, and I continue to use these almost daily. Others have gone by the wayside, unfortunately, which leaves me looking for new sites to promote my giveaways.
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I have tried so many sites before, when I entered sweepstakes daily, and some were so confusing that I never knew what I entered already, or didn't enter. With Sweepstakes Max, you can easily keep track of ones you have entered, so you know where to begin the next time you log in.
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There is a handy auto-fill feature. It is so time-consuming to manually enter your information each time you enter. You can save time and enter many more sweepstakes when you take advantage of this handy-dandy feature. Everything you need is one one place, and that is part of the reason I adore Sweepstakes Max! When you click on a sweepstakes, and then click the icon for auto-fill, this is what comes up. You just choose your options – either enter (by choosing which information to use for the entry form), or decide not to enter and just move along to the next one!
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If you'll pardon me now, I am off to list some giveaways 🙂 But first, I have a giveaway for you, thanks to the good folks at Sweepstakes Max!
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The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
Raven Boys was so different than what I had expected… different good. This is a different writing for Maggie Stiefvater, a more complex and engaging writing.
At sixteen, Blue knows her life is different than others her age. For starters, her family are psychics. This alone would be enough to make her stand out – and she is told that her presence in a room helps her family see into others lives more clearly although Blue sees nothing.
Until one day while Blue and her mother are waiting in the graveyard to see the spirits of those who will die in the next twelve months. And this time, Blue sees something. At first it is a flicker in the air, nothing you could put a shape too… but then.. she could. It is a boy and his name in Gansey and now Blue knows he will die within the year….
Blue is told…
"There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark's Eve, Blue. Either you're his true love…or you killed him."
And days later when this same boy arrives at Blue's door step for a reading… Blue knows she is in deep. Warned by her family to stay away from Gansey and his friends known as the Raven Boys, Blue does what any sixteen year old girl would do when confronted with an ultimatum and a chance to hang out with some interesting boys… she starts sneaking around and helping then with their mission… to locate a line of energy that could connect them to a Welsh King, Glendover…
I admit that Raven Boys wasn't what I thought it would be. I have read Maggie Steifvater before with her Shiver series and enjoyed them finding then very YA, very Twilight like… good fun easy reads. So when I put myself into Raven Boys I was surprised to find something deeper and more involved than I had bargained for.
Maggie Steifvater takes her writing to a whole new level in Raven Boys. It is more detailed than her past writings that I have read, it is a meatier read and it took me a while to wrap my head around it. Yet once I did, I couldn't stop.
The character of Blue takes on an interesting twist as she brings a little something to the party that most can not. With her abilities through her psychic family… she is an asset on the Raven Boys Team. But for me, the Raven Boys themselves trump Blue 100 fold. They are well developed… the story line as they figure out clues to a past they are unsure of id truly impressive. As I followed along I kept having these, "What the!" and "Oh…. awesome!" moments.
There are many story lines that are left open and hearing this is a 4 book series (the second coming out this fall) I imagine that the teasers of this book… opening doors that we do not yet get to walk through, will lure this reader for sure, on to the next book… and probably the next after that. 🙂
I listened to this book on audio and narrator Will Patton did a wonderful job with the cast of characters he was working with.
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I love this one so much! If you enjoyed it, definitely check out The Scorpio Races… one of my all time favorite books. I think the Raven Cycle will be one of my all time fave series, though.
This one has been sitting in my kids/teen/YA TBR pile for waaaay too long, along with Scorpio Races. I also loved the Shiver series and really must find time to read her newer novels!
Thanks for the extra motivation!
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Just because Florida is the Sunshine State doesn't mean a perfect garden happens overnight. The next few months are critical if you want to spruce up your landscape after the recent winter chill.
"People have been told you can just stick it in the earth and it will grow," said Anne Lambrecht, a Marion County Master Gardener. "It does grow faster than, say, in New York, but there are rules to follow, and the more education you get is going to make you more Florida-friendly."
Here is a month-by-month guide to getting the garden of your dreams this year.
Start protecting your plants from that winter wind - there still might be more cold in the forecast; the average date of the last freeze is mid-February - by sprinkling them with water. In addition to covering tender plants during a hard freeze, Lambrecht recommends including a small light source - Christmas lights work well - to add a little extra heat near your plants.
"It's important to protect them so you can see them in the spring," said Wendy Wilber, Alachua County extension horticulturist.
If you lost some of your plants to the frost, there are a few cold-hardy natives you can replant in their place.
Bedding plants - including carnations, pansies, petunias and snapdragons - are best planted in January to add that spark of color to an otherwise gloomy garden.
Turn your focus from bedding plants to azaleas to add some spectacular flowers to your outdoor garden. Because azaleas don't follow a typical growing pattern, they're best suited for less formal landscapes, such as under trees in loose arrangements. Because azaleas grow best in acidic soil, which isn't common in our area, Lambrecht recommends using supplements such as oak leaves and fertilizer to raise the acid level in the soil.
As for your lawn, now is the time to apply a pre-emergent weed killer to prevent any warm-weather weeds from germinating. Other than that, there's little you can do to combat browning.
"We're kind of just stuck right now," Wilber said. "We're still watering about once every 10 to 14 days, so even though it looks like it's dead, the roots are alive."
Start pruning your azaleas once they have fully bloomed - a rule of thumb for all flowers. Be sure to clean up only the rough spots in azaleas, though, as next year's growth comes from the plant's new flowers.
Once frost becomes a thing of the past, use a complete fertilizer - one that contains nitrogen, potassium and phosphorous - to start prepping your lawn for the spring. While this season was particularly dreadful, with below-40 temperatures for weeks at a time, things will regrow; it just might take a little longer than expected.
March also is the time to start mowing your lawn more as things begin to bounce back from winter weather.
Prevention is the best thing you can do to grow a healthy garden. Wilber recommends not overmanaging your landscape this month, because the pests will come in and feed off its luxury.
"You want the root system to be established," Lambrecht said. "In order to do that, do not overwater."
A healthy lawn is less likely to be insect-prone and recovers faster if infested, so be sure to mow your grass at the optimal height - never remove more than one-fourth to one-third of the grass - and keep fertilizer to a minimum. Wilber also suggests scouting for pests in your garden at least once a week so you can clearly identify the problem at the very beginning.
To prevent any weeds that are popping up, Lambrecht recommends hand-pulling them; using weed-and-seed can kill the other things in your garden.
May can be a pest - literally - for gardens as insects emerge thanks to consistently warm weather, so disease and pest management is your top priority for your lawn this month.
Before dousing your lawn in pesticide, be sure to confirm it's actually insect damage that's causing problems. If it is a pest insect, Wilber encourages you to try the least toxic method first, because pesticide could hurt the wildlife around your garden.
"Only when necessary would you breakout the big guns," Wilber said. "It's not just this one insect on this one plant."
Summer has officially arrived come June, and it hits hardest in Florida.
"In particularly hot weather, you shouldn't freak out when you get a dry spot," Lambrecht said. "Water deeply, and give the plant a whole bunch of water less often - a couple times a week."
With few bedding plants being able to withstand the hot, humid summers in Florida, focus more on removing the old blossoms, cutting out and fertilizing these annuals to keep the blooming coming well into the fall.
Fall and winter
Once the weather cools down, that vibrant green color of your lawn will start to fade. But, all isn't lost. You can provide a soft cover layer of seeds with ryegrass. But remember: A year-long green lawn also comes with year-long maintenance, fertilizing and mowing.
For adding that big burst of color into your lawn during the late fall, camellias are your best bet. These are best planted in groups to serve as backgrounds, accents or screens to make that one section pop.
Before winter fully arrives, start prepping your plants to minimize the damage from Jack Frost. Choose a site with good air drainage to prevent colder air from settling around the roots, and put up any barriers or fences that will help shelter your budding blossoms from the wind.
A month-by-month guide to Florida-friendly landscapes
Just because Florida is the Sunshine State doesn't mean a perfect garden happens overnight. The next few months are critical if you want to spruce up your landscape after the recent winter chill.


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Joan Didion's electrifying first novel is a haunting portrait of a marriage whose wrong turns and betrayals are at once absolutely idiosyncratic and a razor-sharp commentary on the history of California. Everett McClellan and his wife, Lily, are the great-grandchildren of pioneers, and what happens to them is a tragic epilogue to the pioneer experience, a story of murder and betrayal that only Didion could tell with such nuance, sympathy, and suspense.
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"Thought-provoking, riveting, memorable"
This powerfully insightful first novel is Joan Didion's finest work. A finely-drawn meditation, it focuses on Lily, a shy and melancholy young matron who yearns for love, but struggles with the challenges of everyday life. Thoughtful but unemotional, Lily and Everett are quintessential Central Valley Californians, strong as the rich soil they till, but unable to confront their personal demons. Leading unexamined lives, they are filled with emotions they cannot express, forever reaching, like their gold-seeking forebears, for the real Eldorado that lies still further on, a mirage just beyond their grasp.
The narrator has a pleasant voice while reading descriptive passages of the book, but her character voices are a disaster. Depressed people are not best represented through high, squeaky, baby voices, like every female character in this audiobook had - Sarah, Martha, Edith, even Lily. The midwestern senator inexplicably had a southern accent. Male voices were unrealistic, exaggeratedly low, without nuance. Lily sings off-key, but the narrator merely recites the lyrics in a stiff monotone, failing the author's purpose of adding authentic layers to the setting and character they were so carefully chosen to reflect. However, while the disappointing narration distracts, it cannot diminish the compelling characters and strong storyline of this fine work.
Thought-provoking, riveting, and memorable, Didion's "Run River" is a quiet masterpiece.
""All the days of their lives""
The scene when Lily McClellan reflects on her relationship with Everett - and, in the process, sounds like a character from William Faulkner.
No - I greatly enjoyed this performance, though.
Lily's comments (in chapter 23) that ends with the phrase "all the days of their lives".
This is not the California of later books by Joan Didion but a novel about Sacramento, and less Sacramento than the area down towards the delta of the Sacramento River, a flat land with a full but sluggish river, between levees, with a feeling of being out on the edge but marooned, rather than excited or exhilarated. And when the city appears it is less as the capital of the State than as a Valley town, provincial and almost gossipy. "Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento", Didion has said – and I did, years ago, though the 100F+ summers are just as stultifying. I even spent a hot afternoon driving down the levee road to the rural Chinatown of Locke, which one drives into almost by accident by veering off to the land-side of the river. And barely is one on Locke's Main Street, than one is out again and up on the levee road. In the "Run, River", in 1959, a southbound highway fails to get built but it wouldn't be long before Sacramento and most other cities were connected to each other through the interstate highway network. To this extent it is an end of an era (and a marriage) novel.
There is also strong dynastic quality to the story of the McClellans and, to some extent of the Knights, and, to this extent and also in the provincial setting and the ill-fated quality of their story, it is reminiscent of William Faulkner. It is also not surprising that there is a brief, but telling, exchange between characters about Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard". The dynastic character of "Run, River" probably needs more words than in this shortish novel to encompass place and time historically or it needs a different storytelling technique, akin to Faulkner's. There is something of this quality in the long flashback, going back to 1938 and that starts with a murder in 1959, but, with only a few exceptions (most memorably in chapter 23), the individual sentences lack that sense of the past being ever-present which is to be found in Faulkner's most dynastic novel, "Absalom, Absalom!" However, in its own terms, "River, Run" is compelling and even moving, in a weary, distanced way, particularly in the only occasional ability of Lily and Everett McClellan to say what they truly feel for each other, and their situation, which they have felt "condemned to play … out together all the days of their lives."
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D&D Next: You had me at "Pelor"
After braving the rings of fire, the digital quicksand, and the firewall of eternity, I managed to download a copy of the D&D Next playtest. Unpacking the zip file and looking over the files, I had to smile. There was the cleric of Pelor. And a cleric of Moradin. A high elf wizard. A dungeon called "Caves of Chaos".
A strong wave of nostalgia hit me, bringing with it memories of cracking open an ancient Red Boxed set and finding a module called "B2 Keep of the Borderlands" inside. A thousand memories of my Greyhawk campaign came rushing forward, carrying names like Kalib, Scrappy, Merwyn, Tanevier, Obsidian Bay and the Cult of Death Undying.
And all that was without opening the PDFs.
Get lost in a new reality with the Inner Sea World Guide
The Inner Sea World Guide is Paizo's third iteration of its Golarion campaign guide. The first was released when D&D 3.5 was still Wizard of the Coast's flagship fantasy game; the second came with the release of Paizo's own 3.5-derived Pathfinder RPG. The latest iteration reflects the growing maturity of the Pathfinder product line. Within its pages players will find that redundant material – such as class write-ups now included in the Pathfinder core rulebook – removed in favor of extended write-ups on the world itself.
And what a world it is. While evoking spirit of World of Greyhawk, Golarion excels at tweaking standard fantasy formula. Within its pages – including 64 pages of new content – you'll find Cheliax, a kingdom that embraced devil worship in order to save its empire, as well as Galt, a country that threw off its imperial Cheliax masters and descended into a never-ending bloodthirsty revolution. There are the mountaintop citadels constructed after the dwarves completed their quest for the sky, and a frozen kingdom ruled by the daughters of Baba Yaga. It's a setting that feels familiar and new at the same time, and like Pathfinder itself, it's a worthy successor to the worlds of Dungeons & Dragons.
Make Mine Marvel: Marvel RPG Web Sites
The new Marvel Heroic Basic RPG by Margaret Weis Productions is generating a good degree of buzz in RPG circles.
Thoughts on a One-Hour D&D Game
Mike Mearls talks about the concept of a one-hour D&D game in his latest Legends & Lore post. The goal here isn't to boil all D&D games down to 1-hour, but rather to benchmark what you can actually do in an hour. No doubt inspired by his lunchtime D&D sessions, Mearls envisions a game in which you can get in a role-playing encounter, a few quick encounters with traps and/or enemies, and a boss fight.
NukemCon 2012: Lessons from a homegrown convention
The Blackrazor Guild held its semi-annual homegrown convention in late February 2012. About 18 people attended NukemCon 2012, some long-time members of the gaming group, others friends who join us from time to time.
NukemCons have become a standard part of our gaming group; we first started holding them because we missed our annual pilgrimages to GenCon. We missed being able to hangout, talk, and have a few beers while throwing dice. NukemCon solved that problem.
What I want from D&D Next
Wizards of the Coast has announced D&D Next, the successor to D&D 4th Edition aimed squarely at unifying the game's fractured fan base. My gaming group is practically a case study for 5th Edition -- we played 2nd Edition, 3rd Edition (both flavors), and 4th Edition, but finally gave up on the game when the group couldn't agree on which version to play. 60% of the group wanted to play D&D 3x or the Pathfinder Beta, 40% wanted to play D&D 4th Edition. We split the difference and played Star Wars: Saga Edition, which addressed many of our issues with both systems, and gave us a much needed break from the fantasy genre.
We've since returned to fantasy ... but not D&D. Instead we're playing the Pathfinder RPG and Paizo's Second Darkness adventure path. I can't speculate on what it would take to bring the Blackrazor Guild back to D&D -- we simply haven't talked about it enough -- but I know that I am looking for.
Game Day: Second Darkness
I did something I've never done before in September: I kicked off someone else's campaign. Ok, technically it's still my campaign, but material belongs to Pazio. The campaign is the Second Darkness adventure path, and if all goes according to plan, it will see our seven freshly-minted heroes face the ancient hidden evil of the drow in an attempt to save the world from a second apocalypse.
I've been running my own campaigns -- for D&D, Star Wars, and Savage Worlds -- for 15 years. Over that time I've made liberal use of material from a variety of source books, including more than a few one-shot adventures, but by and large I was the one writing each week's episode. It was fun ... but it was also tremendously time consuming.
When the time game to launch a new campaign, Paizo's Pathfinder Role-Playing Game was an obvious choice. It preserved the strain of Dungeons & Dragons that my gaming group preferred, and enhanced it just enough to get rid of the things that had been driving us crazy in the 3.x branch. But the challenge with Pathfinder is that it's a crunchy, rules heavy game. When we ran Star Wars, I could easily knock out non-player characters in a night, but going with Pathfinder meant a return to magic and all its inherent complexity.
Game Day: The Saga Ends
After 47 chapters, 10 episodes, and 2.5 years, our Star Wars: Shadows of the Force campaign has come to an end. What started with a fight against pirates on the jungle world of Zebulon Prime ended with against grey market salvagers in the depths of a planetary nebula. In between we saw the rise of Binary Transports, the promotion of three Jedi Knights, the training of two padawans, the discovery of an alien holocron , and numerous battles against the Force knowledge cult known as the Sith Ascendancy.
But the campaign was about far more than numbers. Along the way we changed how we play RPGs, incorporating narrative mechanics like skill challenges that created truly exceptional, truly memorable encounters, including hot-wiring a speeder while fending off high plains lizards and bouncing a starship through a proto-star nebula. We also told some really cool stories, including the adoption of a young Force sensitive Twi'lik and his training as a padawan, the epic battle with the fleet of the pirate lord Ral Duris, and lightsaber duels amid alien ruins in the sunward desert of Ryloth.
Searching for Mac RPG Tools
I'm in the progress of updating Nuketown's Mac Role-Playing Game Tools page, which has developed an embarassing case of bitrot.
Unfortunately some of the more stalwart tools, like Crystal Ball, as well as one-offs like the Town Creator and D&D Manager, are no longer available, and their sites have gone to the Great Bit Bucket in the Sky. Still others, like Dunjinni, no longer work with under Mac OS Lion and don't seem likely to be updated any time soon.
Savage Insider Issue 1 released
Savage Insider Issue 1 is a new Savage Worlds PDF magazine by Mystical Throne Entertainment. You can download it via RPGDriveThru.


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Hundreds of expat Ajman families are illegals
Ajman: A number of expat families continue living illegally in Ajman despite a recent UAE amnesty for immigration violators to leave the country, Gulf News has learnt.
Tens of thousands of illegal residents left under the two-month amnesty without fines or legal action between last December and February this year.
But Gulf News met several large families who have apparently stayed here illegally for decades. They said they recently changed their residences fearing a crackdown after the amnesty.
Many of them are Pakistani, claiming they had moved to the UAE at a time when residence visas were not required to live here.
A number of them said they were born here and have never set foot in Pakistan.
The families appeared to be living hand to mouth, unable to work or attend school for want of valid documents like passports and UAE visas.
Some are orphans and were too young to remember when they arrived here — and what went wrong.
"I don't know when my father came to the UAE," said 18-year-old Khalid, born into "a family of illegals".
"We're Pakistani but my father never issued passports for his children."
Khalid has five brothers and sisters, all born here. His father died two years ago and never held a proper job, he said.
"My brothers and sisters are aged between 16 and three. We have no passport or birth certificate and we never attended school because we're illegal residents," he added.
Khalid's younger sister is a person with special needs, unable to talk or walk since birth.
"We used to get Dh1,000 monthly from charity organisations but this stopped six months ago because they ask us for a residency visa in order to give financial support.
"My mother and other family members are staying in our relatives' house in order to avoid being arrested for being illegal."
Majid, 16, is another illegal resident from Pakistan.
"We are seven people living in a house, including my mother, brother, and his wife and children," Majid said.
He added that his father died three years ago and his parents never held a residence visa.
"My elder brother got married to a girl who also has no legal residency and they have two children who have no passports or birth certificates.
"I don't know how to sort out my problems, I want to work and have a proper life but I don't know where to start."
Meanwhile, a mother of 12 said she and her children were born in the UAE, but have been staying here illegally.
"My parents came from Pakistan many years ago and I was born here. I got married and have 12 children but I never got legal residency here," said Noor Zaman, 45.
"My husband was deported a year ago for staying illegally here. A relative who works here is supporting us now. I live with my cousin — a mother of ten — in a small old house with just three rooms.
"My children have no passports and so they never attended school as they have no residency visa."
Her cousin, Amar, said Noor Zaman's children were born in Ajman, at Khalifa Hospital and GMC Hospital.
Noor Zaman said she was married at an Ajman court despite being an illegal.
"I've never been to my home country, not even once," she said.
Another Pakistani family living on the wrong side of UAE residency rules – for 30 years – is Eisa Khalifa and his nine siblings.
"I'm 20 years old and I still have no passport or birth certificate," Eisa said.
"My father was an illegal resident, he died many years ago. My sister got married to a man who doesn't have legal documents here. My whole family never had residency visas."
Jannat, a mother of seven, is another long-time Pakistani resident of the UAE. She has been living here for over 25 years and her children were born here.
But none of them have passports or visas.
Jannat sews clothes to support her family. "My husband does odd jobs also to support us. We've been illegal residents ever since we entered this country," she said.
"My children have never been in school. Many people in my neighbourhood are living here illegally."
Her son, Mohammad, said he tried to apply for the amnesty but claims he was told the family would be deported unless they paid fines for overstaying.
Meanwhile, Mohammad Ebrahim, also Pakistani, said his father came to the UAE in 1967. As a child, he remembers going to school.
"We are seven brothers and sisters. We used to have a legal residency visa 25 years ago," he said. They have passports but he claims they haven't been able to renew their visas.
"We cannot afford it, my father's jobless. He has been arrested several times for being an illegal.
"Police used to let me go because I have no criminal record."
There are many other Asians in a similar situation.
Hassan, 23, is a Bangladeshi whose father died in 2009.
He said: "We have no legal resident visa. We are five brothers and three sisters who got married despite the fact that we are illegal residents here.
"I have no clue what to do. My mother's sick and I can't get a job."


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Livingston Reservoir 2003 Survey Report (PDF 1 MB)
If you have difficulty accessing the information in this document, contact the TPWD Inland Fisheries Division for assistance.
Livingston Reservoir - 2003 Survey Report
Prepared by Jeff Henson and Mark Webb
Inland Fisheries Division
District 3-E, Bryan, Texas
This is the authors' summary from a 36-page report. For a copy of the complete report, use the download link in the sidebar.
Livingston Reservoir was surveyed in 2003-2004 with electrofishing, trap nets, gill nets, a creel survey, a structural habitat/aquatic vegetation survey, and an angler access survey. This report summarizes the results of these surveys and comparisons are made to historical data (1990-2002). Based on this information, a management plan was developed for the reservoir.
Reservoir Description
Livingston Reservoir is located on the Trinity River in Trinity, Polk, San Jacinto, and Walker Counties, Texas lying within the Piney Woods Vegetational Area. Soil types are Kaufman-Trinity, Lufkin-Tabor, Bowie-Kirvin, and Susquehana Associations. Livingston Reservoir was constructed in 1969 by the Trinity River Authority (TRA) and the City of Houston to provide water for municipal, agricultural, and industrial purposes. Livingston Reservoir has a surface area of 90,000 acres, a drainage area of approximately 15,700 square miles, and a shoreline length of approximately 350 miles. Rainfall in the watershed averages 48.0 inches per year. There is considerable private and commercial real estate development, as well as Lake Livingston State Park and several TRA public parks, around the lower two-thirds of the reservoir.
Fish Community
- Prey species: Clupeids (threadfin & gizzard shad) continue to dominate the forage base in Livingston Reservoir. The electrofishing catch rate of both species combined in 2003 was 614.0 fish/hour; the highest combined catch rate for these species in over 14 years. Most gizzard shad in the sample were available as prey with over 75% under 7-inches total length. Sunfishes are the second most abundant prey species in Livingston Reservoir. Longear sunfish were the most abundant sunfish in the 2003 sample (117.5 fish/hour). In the fall of 1999 the catch rate of bluegill was 201.5 fish/hour but declined in 2003 to 75.0 fish/hour. Most individuals captured were less than 6-inches total length and were available as prey. Other prey species present in the 2003 sample were bullhead minnow (7.5/hour), inland silverside (4.0/hour), warmouth (7.0/hour), and redear sunfish (1.0/hour).
- Catfishes: Blue catfish continue to be the dominant catfish species, by number, in Livingston Reservoir. In 1999, the gill net catch rate was 19.6/net-night, the highest since 1992, and in 2004 the catch rate increased again to 23.9 fish/net-night. Length frequency data indicate good size distribution with fish as large as 31 inches in the sample. The Proportional Stock Density (PSD) of the sample was 11 in 1999; increasing to 14 in 2004. The condition (Wr) of the blue catfish was excellent across all size classes. Channel catfish are far less abundant than blue catfish in Livingston Reservoir. Only 34 individuals were captured in the 2004 gill net sample. This was, however, the highest number captured since 1991. Anglers spent 29,392 hours seeking catfish at Lake Livingston, harvesting over 54,000 fish during the creel period from June 2003 to May 2004.
- Temperate basses: Gill net catch rates of white bass have been sporadic since 1991. The highest gill net catch rate was observed in 1996 (19.6/net-night), but in 1999, the catch dropped dramatically to 1.7 fish/net-night. In the spring of 2004, the catch rate rebounded to 11.3 fish/net-night. Although striped bass have been stocked into Livingston Reservoir almost every year since 1977, our monitoring has failed to detect the presence of a significant population. In 2004 the catch rate was only 2.4 fish/net-night, the highest ever observed. Striped bass stocked in the reservoir are thought to support a significant striped bass fishery in the tail water area below the dam. This same area is also used by TPWD to obtain large striped bass brood fish necessary to support statewide hatchery production of both striped bass and hybrid striped bass. It is also possible that some of the large striped bass in the tail water area are actually anadromous fish that, during spring, migrate into the area from the Gulf of Mexico. The striped bass that we do observe in the reservoir are in excellent condition growing to 18 inches at age 2. Although the intended effort of anglers seeking white bass is low (5,589 hours), the catch rate is very high (4.98 fish/angler hour). This indicates a small but very specialized group of anglers targeting white bass. Creel survey findings indicate that only a few anglers are targeting striped bass. The directed effort was estimated at only 228 hours during the creel period with just over 1,300 striped bass caught by all anglers combined.
- Black bass: Electrofishing catch rates of largemouth bass have always been low, usually 20 to 40 fish/hour in any given sample. Poor bass recruitment, due to the scarcity of rooted aquatic plants to provide adequate juvenile habitat, is the most probable cause for this low population density. Livingston Reservoir also collects a very high volume of silt that, over time, has contributed to the overall decline in habitat quality. A notable change in the size distribution of the largemouth bass samples has been observed since 1993. Both PSD and RSDp have declined in recent years. In 1999 and 2003, no bass longer than 14 inches (the minimum length limit) were captured, and only one bass over 14 inches was captured in 2001. Largemouth bass in Livingston Reservoir normally reach 14 inches after age 3. Over 43% (>34,000 hours) of the total directed angling effort at Livingston Reservoir targets largemouth bass, making it the most sought-after species in the reservoir. Directed angler catch rate was estimated at 0.53 fish/hour. Anglers harvested bass ranging in size from 12 to 22 inches, but harvest was low at 0.17 fish/hour. Florida largemouth bass fingerlings were stocked in 2000 and 2001 (over 1 million fish) in an attempt to increase the number of Florida genotypes in the population. There has been no change in allele frequencies, and in 2003, no pure Florida largemouth were collected.
- Crappie: Trap net catches of white crappie have declined since 1991. The catch rate in 1991 was 15.7 fish/net-night, but by 1999 it had dropped to 1.1 fish/net-night. The trap net catch rate in 2003 was back up to 6.0 fish/net-night. Length frequency data suggest that a strong year class has recruited into the stock at Livingston Reservoir, probably from 2002. White crappies observed in our sample were in good condition. Black crappies occur very infrequently in trap net samples; only 10 were captured in 2003. Growth is good with crappie reaching 10 inches by age 2. Creel data indicated a very minimal fishery for crappies. Less than 2% of the intended effort was directed toward this species. Creel data were insufficient to generate estimates of directed catch and harvest rates. An estimated 2,931 white crappie were harvested by all anglers combined.
Management Strategies
- Based on current information Livingston Reservoir should continue to be managed under current harvest regulations.
- Livingston Reservoir provides a very high quality blue catfish fishery, a somewhat sporadic white bass sfishery, an underutilized striped bass fishery, and quality crappie and largemouth bass fisheries in creeks and other areas of the reservoir where littoral habitat is abundant. Strategies should be employed to increase utilization of the available fisheries through education while attempting to improve littoral habitat.
- Stocking of Florida largemouth bass has been less successful than desired. Future stocking requests should be based on and conducted only within known areas of littoral habitat.
- Habitat management at Livingston Reservoir has two major components; exotic vegetation control and littoral habitat enhancement. The TRA currently treats water hyacinth and water lettuce throughout the growing season to keep these species under control. TPWD has worked with Texas Black Bass Unlimited to plant native aquatic vegetation. Some success has been achieved; however, far more effort is needed to mitigate the results of siltation and turbidity. Future efforts toward habitat enhancement should be concentrated in creeks and backwater areas where these efforts have the best chance for success.
- The creation of a local lake management organization, similar to the Lake Conroe Restocking Association, could be of assistance in the creation of habitat enhancement projects, as well as in raising funds to purchase and stock advanced size crappie and/or Florida largemouth bass. The stocking of advanced size juvenile fish might artificially increase recruitment in limited areas of the reservoir.
Performance Report as required by Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration Act Texas Federal Aid Project F-30-R-29 Statewide Freshwater Fisheries Monitoring and Management Program


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COLONIE, N.Y.–A Colonie woman faces animal cruelty charges after close to 70 cats are removed from her home.
According to the Colonie Police Department, concerned neighbors contacted them regarding the condition of the cats living in Margaret Tomko's home on John Street.
Police say they made numerous attempts to resolve the problem, but Tomko refused them all. However, police finally got a search warrant, and the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society went in to get the animals.
"Unfortunately it's something we see with quite regularity," says Brad Shear, the humane society's executive director. "It's not even close to the first case we've seen like this."
The humane society says many of the rescued cats had fleas and were suffering from respiratory infections, because of the poor air quality of the home.
"The house was really filthy," says Shear. "The number of cats there was causing an ammonia smell, and because of all the urine, our staff had to go in there with masks, in order to be in there and operate, and try and catch all the cats."
"My first thought was how in the world is she walking around in there–70 cats in a house like that is a little bit absurd," adds Nick Murray, a neighbor.
Murray says he knew Tomko had pets, but didn't know it was that bad. The humane society says Tomko's behavior is typical of a condition called "animal hoarding".
"Typically, in cases like this, there are mental health issues that go along with acquiring so many cats that you can't even take care of them all," says Shear. "And at the same time, not realize the conditions you and those animals are living in."
"The decision was made to pursue criminal charges, in the hopes the criminal justice system would be able to court mandate some kind of counseling," adds Lieutenant Robert Winn of the Colonie Police Department.
For now, the cats are being nursed back to health, in hopes of finding them a better home.
"That's probably the best thing coming out of this, is that they will now be treated better," says Murray.
The Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society says their capacity is strained right now after taking in so many cats. However, the healthiest of the animals will be ready for adoption by next week.
Margaret Tomko will re-appear in court next Wednesday night.


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40 CFR Appendix Table 38 to Subpart UUU of Part 63, Initial Compliance With Work Practice Standards for HAP Emissions From Bypass Lines
Table 38 to Subpart UUU of Part 63 - Initial Compliance With Work Practice Standards for HAP Emissions From Bypass Lines
As stated in § 63.1569(b)(2), you shall meet each requirement in the following table that applies to you.
|Option . . .
|For this work practice standard . . .
|You have demonstrated initial compliance if . . .
|1. Each new or existing bypass line associated with a catalytic cracking unit, catalytic reforming unit, or sulfur recovery unit
|a. Option 1: Install and operate a device (including a flow indicator, level recorder, or electronic valve position monitor) to demonstrate, either continuously or at least every hour, whether flow is present in bypass line. Install the device at or as near as practical to the entrance to any bypass line that could divert the vent stream away from the control device to the atmosphere
|The installed equipment operates properly during each run of the performance test and no flow is present in the line during the test.
|b. Option 2: Install a car-seal or lock-and-key device placed on the mechanism by which the bypass device flow position is controlled (e.g., valve handle, damper level) when the bypass device is in the closed position such that the bypass line valve cannot be opened without breaking the seal or removing the device
|As part of the notification of compliance status, you certify that you installed the equipment, the equipment was operational by your compliance date, and you identify what equipment was installed.
|c. Option 3: Seal the bypass line by installing a solid blind between piping flanges
|See item 1.b of this table.
|d. Option 4: Vent the bypass line to a control device that meets the appropriate requirements in this subpart
|See item 1.b of this table.
[ 70 FR 6965, Feb. 9, 2005]


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Five-week fundraiser across three states aims to help send kids with chronic medial conditions to Kyle Petty's Victory Junction for a once in a lifetime camping experience. Cary, N.C.-based The Pantry Inc., an independently operated convenience store chain in the southeastern U.S., is partnering with Coca-Cola for a third consecutive year to send children to
Kangaroo Express, Coca-Cola Partner for Kids
Kangaroo Express Signs On As Speedway Sponsor
Kangaroo Express, operated by The Pantry Inc., is scheduled to be the title sponsor of the 2010 Summer Shootout Series at Charlotte Motor Speedway. "We are excited Kangaroo Express has come on board to sponsor the Kangaroo Express Summer Shootout Series," said Seamus Curley, director of events at Charlotte Motor Speedway. "We strive to provide
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With the help of nearly 3,000 soldiers stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, Budweiser announced a partnership with the USO (United Service Organizations) early this week to honor America's Armed Forces through the "Proud to Serve Those Who Serve" program. As part of the program, Budweiser and its wholesalers will donate $250,000 in May and June


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This glass was left outside by one of my kids during a solar eclipse. When I retrieved it I noticed that it weighed over 10 pounds. I didn't notice any contents but tried pouring it out and spilled some of the "Magic Air" on my left foot. My shoe grew from a size 11 to a 17 DDD in less than 15 seconds. I ceased pouring any more of the Magic Air out and placed the Haunted Purple…
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Tunguska UFO Hoax? —
What caused the Tunguska Event, that massive, nuclear-bomb-strength blast that occurred in Siberia in 1908? A meteorite, is the standard answer. But a few days ago Russian researcher Yuri Lavbin claimed to have discovered "blocks of an extraterrestrial technical device" in the Tunguska area. Lavbin's theory is that a meteorite was headed for the earth, but it was blasted apart by an alien spaceship, thus causing the massive explosion. Why aliens blasting something out of the sky caused…
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UFO Attracting Device —
This isn't, strictly speaking, a hoax, because I'm quite sure that its creators are serious about it. It's a
UFO Attracting Device
"equipped with colored strobe lights, low-powered lasers, a radio transmitter and a series of gauges said to track atmospheric changes common to extraterrestrial encounters."
It was originally built by Myron 'Mike' Muckerheide, but was then purchased by Julie 'Jitterbug' Pearce. I would definitely buy this thing, if given a chance. But instead of using it…
Tue Aug 10, 2004
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Xenomorphological Research Institute —
The Nova Corp Xenomorphological Research Institute
"the world's leading centre for the study of extra-terrestrial life."
As their website explains:
"the NCXRI always attempts to study a species in its native habitat. However, when this is not possible specimens can be brought back to our high-tech research laboratory for further analysis. From simple metal cages to plasma-field containers and full sized aquariums, the NCXRI is fully equipped to house virtually any species."
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Endless Echoes
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Alien Abductions Incorporated —
Alien Abductions, Inc.
can provide you with your very own alien-abduction memories. As their website says:
"The fact of the matter is that most people will probably never have the opportunity to be abducted by aliens. And even those elite few who are selected for abduction receive no assurances that they will fully remember their experience--much less a guarantee that their abduction will be everything that they hoped it would be. So why wait? Why wonder if they're ever going to come…
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If you answered yes, then you either live with
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Majestic Twelve —
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The SciFi Channel has a section on its website called
SciFi Happens
on which they pretend to invite the public to send in clips of true-life weird things that have been caught on film. All the clips are staged by the SciFi Channel itself, of course, but some of them are kind of cool. There's a
UFO spotted flying around the World Trade Center
, a guy who
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fly in geometric patterns
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The Secret of Drive-In Theaters —
Thanks to an anonymous visitor for this link which documents, at last, what I've long suspected—that drive-in movie theaters were
designed and built by aliens from outer space
for the purpose of studying us and beaming messages into our brains.
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The Anniversary of Roswell —
On July 8, 1947, 56 years ago today, the
Roswell Daily Record
made UFO history by announcing on its front page the discovery by the army of a flying saucer in the Roswell region. The army soon retracted its statement that it had discovered a flying saucer, leading to ever-growing suspicion of a cover-up. Here's a
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The government declassifies the Roswell records.
Popular Mechanics investigates
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Another Moon Hoax —
Canberra Times
reports on a different moon hoax from the late 1960s which it, in turn, read about in the most recent newsletter of the Canberra Skeptics society. This hoax was perpetrated by a grad student named Ray Crawford who had managed to get his hands on some NASA stationery:
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The Lawton Triangle Hoax
: Was it a true UFO or a Microsoft Optical Mouse glowing in the dark? UFOlogists opt for the former option.
Mon Aug 26, 2002
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US News & World Report and the Great Moon Hoax of 1835 —
US News & World Report has a special double issue this week on
"The Art of the Hoax"
. Check out the lead article,
"Strange but true: This is the golden age of hoaxes."
Yours truly was interviewed for it and gets mentioned twice! Very exciting. But also check out their short piece on the
Great Moon Hoax of 1835
. As it turns out, they fell for a tall-tale about this hoax. In the first paragraph they claim that because of this newspaper hoax:
"Daily sales of the Sun skyrocketed from 4,000…
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UFO Sightings —
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expected to increase in the next few weeks
. But that bright object in the night sky won't be a UFO. It'll be the International Space Station.
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A landmark judgment from the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has been announced which could have significant implications for employers.
The judgment has confirmed that elements of remuneration such as overtime, commission and travel time payments, must be included in the calculation of holiday pay. The ruling could be appealed to the Court of Appeal though, meaning that timescales for a final decision on this subject are currently unknown. It could be years away, however there is the possibility that it could be more imminent if any appeal is fast tracked.
The much publicised EAT case covered the issue of holiday pay in three cases: Bear Scotland v Fulton and Baxter, Hertel (UK) Ltd v Wood and others and Amec Group Ltd v Law and others; and has generated significant media interest. The case has been very closely monitored by parties including employers, trade unions, the government and HR professionals. There was initial concern that we might see a surge of claims for holiday back pay for the past 16 years, which of course could have run into millions of pounds for employers. The judgement indicates that any claims for retrospective holiday pay deemed underpaid may only be backdated for one year – and not as far back as 1998 as hoped for by the Trade Unions. It is also worth noting that the ruling applies only to the four weeks' leave required by the Working Time Directive, and not the additional 1.6 weeks' leave provided for by the Working Time Regulations.
As mentioned above, this case could yet go to the Court of Appeal. In addition, following the judgment being announced, Vince Cable, Business Secretary has announced a new task force is to be set up in order for an assessment of the impact of this ruling to be discussed, including the issue of holiday back pay.
Further details of the ruling, including guidance around backdated claims, have yet to be released. We will consider the judgement and additional information that follows, then send out up to date guidance over the next few days.
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Haughley: It's panto time - oh yes it is! Amateur Theatrical Society to stage Cindefella
PUBLISHED: 18:00 11 February 2014 | UPDATED: 18:00 11 February 2014
When the lead actor puts on the famous glass slippers for a production of Cinderella they are likely to be a little larger than normal.
In this version of the popular panto annual a Suffolk amateur dramatics group has opted to have a man top the bill.
Cindefella, Haughley Amateur Theatrical Society's latest show, will be performed to audiences next week.
The 20-strong cast and crew have been busy practicing their lines and remembering their cues.
Lindsey Philpot, from the group, said: "It's the standard Cinderella story, we have the Ugly Sisters, the Prince - but with a slightly modern twist. It's been hard work but great fun with our small cast. We are all looking forward to putting on the shows."
She said it was key to have good numbers see the shows as the only income the group receives is from its productions and fundraising events.
The shows will be performed at 2.30pm and 7.30pm on February 21 and 22 in the village hall.
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Are Your Payers' Fee Schedules Fair? [Opinion]
If they use multiple conversion factors when determining what they'll pay, you may be at an even greater disadvantage than you realized.
Nov-Dec 2006 Issue
Negotiating a Contract With a Health Plan [Feature]
The author, a contract analyst for a multispecialty group, describes the questions family physicians ought to ask themselves when evaluating managed care contracts.
Oct 2004 Issue
Can You Negotiate Better Reimbursement? [Feature]
The article explains how physicians can negotiate with payers for fairer reimbursement rates and when they should try this approach.
Sep 2004 Issue
"Insuring" the Uninsured [Feature]
The author describes how his practice developed a pool of money that uninsured self-pay patients who demonstrate financial need contribute to and that the practice draws from to be compensated for the care they provide to these patients.
Apr 2004 Issue
Calculating Your Costs per Visit [Feature]
The article describes how to conduct a unit cost analysis, which takes into account all of the costs associated with providing a particular service (e.g., an adult physical) and determine how much it costs your practice to provide that service. This information can be useful for developing budgets, for negotiating rates with health insurance plans and for strategic planning.
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Yesterday afternoon I opened up my refrigerator in search of something to snack on and found nothing but diet soda, beer, juice, water and condiments. So I decided to head over to the local farm stand in the Kohl's parking lot, to stock up my fridge. Check out a couple of clever things I like to do with my fresh fruit!


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- An evaluation and 20-year follow-up of a community forensic intellectual disability serviceWilliam R Lindsay
University of Abertay, Dundee, UK
Crim Behav Ment Health 23:138-49. 2013..Although some were long term, as befits a chronically needy group, laws and services have changed in that time. It may no longer be appropriate to rely on findings from the 1960s and 1970s...
- Individuals with developmental delay and problematic sexual behaviorsWilliam R Lindsay
Castlebeck, Darlington, UK
Curr Psychiatry Rep 15:350. 2013..This paper will review the recent research on each of these areas in turn...
- Responsivity to criminogenic need in forensic intellectual disability servicesW R Lindsay
Castlebeck, Darlington, UK
J Intellect Disabil Res 57:172-81. 2013..The aim of the present study is to investigate the extent to which forensic services address the needs of those accepted into services...
- The impact of known criminogenic factors on offenders with intellectual disability: previous findings and new results on ADHDWilliam R Lindsay
Castlebeck, Darlington, UK
J Appl Res Intellect Disabil 26:71-80. 2013..ADHD and conduct disorder are over-represented among criminal populations when compared to the general population. The present authors reviewed the extent to which ADHD affected the presentation of offenders with intellectual disability...
- Brief report: the sexual and physical abuse histories of offenders with intellectual disabilityW Lindsay
Castlebeck, Darlington, UK
J Intellect Disabil Res 56:326-31. 2012..Some studies have found higher rates of childhood sexual abuse in sex offenders while others have failed to find such relationships...
- Structure, fit and coherence of two circumplex assessments of personality in a population with intellectual disabilitiesW R Lindsay
Castlebeck, Darlington, UK
J Intellect Disabil Res 53:529-37. 2009..This hypothesis is, however, untested because so little work has been conducted with this population...
- Pathways through services for offenders with intellectual disability: a one- and two-year follow-up studyWilliam R Lindsay
Castlebeck, Dundee, Angus, United Kingdom
Am J Intellect Dev Disabil 115:250-62. 2010..Individuals in secure settings showed the least diversity over time, and, similarly, a relatively high percentage of those accepted into generic community services remained in these services...
- People with intellectual disability who offend or are involved with the criminal justice systemWilliam R Lindsay
Castlebeck, Darlington, UK
Curr Opin Psychiatry 24:377-81. 2011..Research includes work on prevalence, developments in appropriate assessments and investigations into the effectiveness of treatment procedures...
- Referrals into services for offenders with intellectual disabilities: variables predicting community or secure provisionDerek Carson
University of Abertay, Dundee, UK
Crim Behav Ment Health 20:39-50. 2010..Previous studies investigating referrals into forensic ID services have concentrated on referral sources and administrative variables such as legal status...


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Small turnout for CERA Workshop at Riverton City Hall; EPA decision said to be unconstitutional
(Riverton, Wyo.) – Fremont County Commission Chairman Doug Thompson was the first presenter at a Citizens Equal Rights Alliance (CERA) workshop for elected leaders, law enforcement officials and, as it turned out, the public and media this morning at Riverton City Hall. Thompson said the purpose of such a workshop, in his experience, "was not to defeat the other side, but to have an open factual forum to talk about the consequences, some unintended and some intended, of Federal Indian policy."
The motives of CERA, and its partner the Citizens for Equal Rights Foundation (CERF), however, were questioned by local Northern Arapaho Tribal representatives who called the group "Anti-Indian." An investigation of the group by the Equality State Policy Center referred to CERA as being "anti-sovereignty" focused. See a background story here.
The workshop was first advertised as being closed to the public and media, in advance of a weekend workshop open to all at the Fremont Center, but the City of Riverton said the meeting had to be open to the public since it was in a public building. Anyone who arrived at city hall today could enter the meeting, where several literature tables were set up featuring the group's newsletters and brochures.
Ironically, Riverton Mayor Ron Warpness and City Administrator Steven Weaver, who authorized use of the council chambers for the group, were absent at the session, reportedly attending a meeting in Casper.
A petition drive launched by St. Stephens resident Donelle Warren asks the the City of Riverton and Fremont County to "stop welcoming anti-Native American groups like CERT/CERA into our community." By noon on Friday, the petition had gained 38 signatures. (The petition had a typo, the two groups are CERF and CERA). See the petition here.
In introducing the workshop this morning, CERA Vice Chairman Buch Cranford said he became involved with the organization when a California Tribe attempted to locate a casino in his home town of Plymouth, Calif. He said the community successfully blocked the casino after a 12 year battle. "The government is over reaching, out of control and it effects every person and citizen in the United States," he said during a benediction. "My issue is with Federal Indian Policy, Land to Trust, and Casinos."
Cranford did say that his group's use of the city council chambers "is no endorsement by the City of Riverton for CERA."
Thompson said some of the issues that he had questions on were about land to trust, treatment of reservations as states, the definition of sovereignty, and jurisdictional issues which he said were all complex and sometimes contradictory. "If you don't ask the questions, you don't ferret out the unintended consequences." He also urged those in attendance, and those not at the meeting, "let's just discuss facts in a respectful manner. We might not always agree, but we will respect each other."
As he closed his remarks, Thompson wondered aloud, "in the principal of government, you have a voice in that government, the government that rules you. How much say will non-tribal members have under a tribal jurisdiction?"
The chair of CERA, Elaine Willman of Hobart, Wisconsin, told the audience that EPA's ruling that treatment of the reservation as a state is a "benign sounding thing," but said it has huge consequences and opens the door for regulation of not only air quality, but water quality fungicides, pesticides and other issues by Tribes. "Treatment of a tribe as a state is absolutely unconsitutional," she said. "It is defacto creation of a state within a state, it replaces state authority, is superior to state authority and that's the constitutional and legal conflict. More of us need to stay noisy about it."
Willman also said the EPA has "no jurisdictional shoes, Congress never granted authority and it's been slapped down in the courts many times." She said the EPA's December 2013 decision made it look like they "not only have shoes, but jackboots." She also said decisions such as this are made behind closed doors and then published in the Federal Register without any notice. "We are all citizens, all one people, Indian Policy should've gone away in 1924 from they gained the right to vote."


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Prepare yourself for the bike and the accompanying river of perspiration with a smooth talc powder like Bálla Powder before the session begins. It'll keep you dry and clean where you need it most—down there.
When it comes to the ride itself, you'll want to have a towel handy for frequent brow patting. As for apparel, know that cotton and poly-blends will transform into sweat swamps fast. Not good—especially if Kate Bosworth is stationed directly behind you. A sweat-wicking compression short sleeve shirt is a good way to go.
At this point, chances are you're pretty sore, but the good news is you've earned yourself a nice, hot shower. Get your mitts on a Jock Soap Bloody Orange Body Bar; it'll clean you off and lend a refreshing citrus scent to aching limbs. For muscle soreness relief, try a soothing rub, like Lucky Tiger's. When you run into Baldwin in the lobby, you'll be relaxed enough to not excitedly blurt out some recycled Jack Donaghy material.
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text: Hi Alan, > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/enthought.traits-2.0.4- > py2.5-linux-i686.egg/enthought/traits/trait_notifiers.py", line 325, > in call_1 > self.handler( object ) > File "TrimMapl_1.py", line 98, in _Run_fired > outdata = np.array(outdata, dtype=dtypes) > TypeError: expected a readable buffer object This would make it appear that the problem is not with numpy per se, but with the traits library, or how you're using it... I'm not too familiar with traits, so I can't really provide any advice there. Can you disable whatever it is you're doing with traits for the time being, to see if that solves it? Maybe not have whatever notifier is presumably listening to outdata? Also, for the record, your inner loop could be rendered in more idiomatic python as: TYPICALLY_UINT_COLUMNS = set(['Track', 'Bin', 'code', 'horizon']) ...... dtypes = [] for var in self.var_list: if var in TYPICALLY_UINT_COLUMNS: dtypes.append(var, '<i8')) else : dtypes.append(var, '<f8')) or even: TYPICALLY_UINT_COLUMNS = set(['Track', 'Bin', 'code', 'horizon']) dtypes = [(var, '<i8' if var in TYPICALLY_UINT_COLUMNS else '<f8') for var in self.var_list] if you really want to break out the new ternary operator (py 2.5 and above). Not that it matters at all in this case, but (in addition to being easier to read and write) loops like the above will be much faster than the original code if you've got some larger parsing operations to do. (Also, note that the 'in' operator works on lists and tuples as well as sets and dicts, but for the former two, it's a linear search, while for the latter, a hash lookup.) Zach > TYPICALLY_UINT_COLUMNS = ['Track', 'Bin', 'code', 'horizon'] > ...... > dtypes = [ ] > for i in range(0, len(self.var_list)) : > if TYPICALLY_UINT_COLUMNS.count(self.var_list[i]) > 0: > dtypes.append((self.var_list[i], '<i8')) > else : > dtypes.append((self.var_list[i], '<f8')) > print "dtypes = ", dtypes > print outdata[0] > outdata = np.array(outdata, dtype=dtypes)


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David, Sigh... Please keep your replies on-list. On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 11:18:36AM +1300, David Mitchell wrote: > >>Could you give me a guide to building postgres with cygserver > >>please? > > > >Yes, it is very easy: > > > > 1. Uninstall cypipc (if installed) > > 2. Reinstall Cygwin (if you uninstalled cygipc) > > 3. Build PostgreSQL (using the normal procedure) > > That's great, thank you. There is still a problem though. Postgres > builds and installs fine, but now when I try to run initdb I get a > whole lot of signal 12 messages: > > $ initdb -D /usr/postgres/data > The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "davidm". > This user must also own the server process. > > The database cluster will be initialized with locale C. > > creating directory /usr/postgres/data... ok > creating directory /usr/postgres/data/base... ok > creating directory /usr/postgres/data/global... ok > creating directory /usr/postgres/data/pg_xlog... ok > creating directory /usr/postgres/data/pg_clog... ok > selecting default max_connections... Signal 12 > Signal 12 > [snip] > initdb: failed > initdb: removing data directory "/usr/postgres/data" > > Your help is very much appreciated, thanks Did you read the cygserver README? Specifically, about setting CYGWIN=server on the client side? Did you install and start the cygserver service? IIRC, you may need to tweak some of the settings in the postgresql.conf file. This will be clearly documented in my README when I release a Cygwin PostgreSQL built against cygserver. Note that I am waiting for Cygwin 1.5.8 before doing so. Jason -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fingerprint: 7A73 1405 7F2B E669 C19D 8784 1AFD E4CC ECF4 8EF6
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Beckett Media is proud to announce the creation of the Beckett Hobby Advisory Board. The board has been put together to help build the hobby through the promotion of Beckett's vast array of hobby products and services, as well as the creation of new offerings and goods.
The first two members of the board are Dr. James Beckett, founder of Beckett Publications, and Rob Veres of Burbank Sportscards in Burbank, Calif.
Dr. Beckett first published Beckett Baseball Card Monthly in 1984, which has been a staple in the card industry ever since.
"It is a pleasure and honor to work with Dr. Beckett again. His vision of the hobby is second to none, and we look forward to taking advantage of his boundless hobby experience," said Bill Sutherland, Chief Hobby Operations Officer for Beckett Media and creator of the Beckett Hobby Advisory Board.
Veres owns Burbank Sportscards, which is the world's largest retailer of single sports cards online with over 38 million cards on his website. His involvement in the industry as a retailer began in 1981 and Burbank Sportscards was the first shop on the Beckett Marketplace in 1999.
"I'm honored to be an inaugural member of the Beckett Hobby Advisory Board," Veres said. "I've been a longtime advocate of making this industry a better place for retailers and collectors and I'm very excited to be able to do that now in an official capacity with Beckett. I'm even more excited to be able to offer my expertise in providing collectors the world over with new and exciting ways to collect/purchase sports cards."
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A beautiful replacement filament spool holder for the Replicator 2 that holds all size spools (we've bought PLA from MakerBot, Amazon, and MakerFarm - so we 4-5 different size spools). More functional than the one you get with the Replicator 2, and much prettier.
Take the spool holder off of your maker bot, put this one in the same slot the old one came out of. It will tip up at a 5° angle to ensure the spool doesn't slide off during a print.
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Great start. Thanks for a good base to work from. I added a lip and tapered it to fit any spool type. It's posted. :-)
I printed this but found that without a lip at the end the spool seems to work its way to the end and sometimes causes some tangles. FYI - Maybe add a lip - nice design though!!!
whoa, that look a lot like the one i made becouse i had the same problem, but i kept the octogonal shape and made the walls a little thicker, gonna post it soon.
Was not able to print it lying down like that. Maybe it has to do with me printing in ABS. Did you print it with a raft? I decided to print it standing up with raft and support.
could you be so good as to post the actual STL instead of the thing?
WIth a thing I need to extract twice, then go to 6 subfolders, before finding the actual STL file.
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text: On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Andrew Jaffe <email@example.com> wrote: > On 05/09/2012 17:27, Jason Grout wrote: >> >> What about just expanding the SciPy name brand? SciPy captures the >> essence, I think---a scientific python software suite. It's easy to say >> and already has a lot of name recognition (though that also might be a >> negative). >> >> Just thought I'd throw that out there. Other than that, pylab is my >> favorite, for what it's worth. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jason >> > > +1 -- It seems obviously the most appropriate name. I don't think it > would be any more confusing to the community than re-purposing "pylab". > But of course it does raise the question of what to call the current > "scipy" in that case. For what it's worth, "SciPy" already *is* repurposed to refer to the broader project of encouraging Python in the sciences. The fact that no one knows this anymore should tell you exactly how well it's worked out. For example: http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/scipy-dev/2009-August/012475.html -- Robert Kern


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I have dark skin and have issues with uneven skin tone and a small section of hair bumps around my inner thigh, by my knee. I am wonderwing if a skin peel would help(and hopefully get rid of) this condition. I am also wondering how much time it takes to heal. And if so I would need a recommendation for a dermatologist that is accustomed to working on African American skin in the Ny, NY area. Thank you for your time
Skin Peel on Legs for Bumps, Uneven Skin Tone (African American)
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I agree that you should see someone who specializes in treating the skin and also who has experience in treating darker pigmented skin. Without seeing pictures or seeing you in person, it is impossible to give you specific advice or to know if a skin peel is actually what you need. If you have bumps, then you may have an underlying irritation or other skin condition that may respond better to different treatment.
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Chemical peels are extraordinarily dangerous on skin off the face where there are far fewer stem cells. I would recommend seeing a dermatologist who performs laser hair reduction. It may be that laser hair reduction treatments in this area will reduce the likelihood of having ingrown hairs that then stimulate hyperpigmentation. Many of these laser hair reduction systems are specifically marketed to be safe for African American skin types. As a result I think you will find that any board certified dermatologist who offers these services will be able to address your concerns.
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Thank you for your questions. Firstly, a board-certified dermatologist would need to examine you to determine what the correct diagnosis is before a chemical peel, or any other treatment, could be recommended. It is unclear as to whether you truly have hair bumps, keratosis pilaris, folliculitis or some other condition.
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Proposed changes to the county's zoning code would strike the word "agricultural" from one district's name.
But County Planning and Zoning Director Scottie Eagan said this does not mean agricultural land is being eliminated in the county.
"We're not getting rid of it, we're just proposing to change the name of it," Eagan said.
She added, "We're not changing anybody's zoning, we're not changing the use of anybody's property. Their taxing won't change."
In fact, Eagan said the proposed changes would actually allow more agricultural uses than are currently permitted under the zoning code.
The zoning district being changed is currently called agricultural non-urban. The proposal is to change the district name to simply be called "non-urban."
Under the proposed changes, new permitted uses would be added to the non-urban zoning district, including agricultural processing, agricultural sales and services, RV parks, convenience stores, farm equipment and machinery sales and services, and microbreweries and micro-distilleries.
"Those are all things that were never listed that we are proposing to add to that district," Eagan said.
She said she thinks the microbreweries and distilleries proposed under the code could attract some interest.
"We've had lots of calls from people wanting to do something like that," Eagan said.
Currently, the county does not have a specific zoning classification for micro-breweries and distilleries.
"What we've been doing is classifying them similar to that of a winery," Eagan said. "But now we're actually having their own definitions, their own place."
In other cases, some land uses in the non-urban district will be changed from a conditional use to a permitted use. This means that it will be easier for people to use land in certain ways.
Examples of uses that will be changed to permitted use include campgrounds, miniature golf courses, veterinary clinics, fraternal and private clubs, pre-schools and day cares.
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Offices and outdoor archery and shooting ranges would be conditional uses under the proposed non-urban zoning district.
Adding offices could be positive for the county because it would open that district up for more business, she said.
She does not think this will hurt the zoning district's rural nature. For instance, she said microbreweries are agricultural because the products would be grown on site, she said
"We're trying to make it easier for people to do business in the county," Eagan said.
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Eagan hopes that by dropping the word "agricultural" out of the zoning district's title that the public will better understand how land in that area can be used.
Currently, she said some people question why certain uses are allowed in a district partially identified as agricultural. For instance, people have questioned why a quarry or vehicle repair shop would be considered for an "agricultural" area.
Just because the word "agricultural" is in the title of a zoning district does not mean other uses are forbidden, Eagan said.
By streamlining the zoning district's title to "non-urban" it will hopefully make it easier for the public to understand, Eagan added.
"People are so focused on 'agricultural' that they think that's all you can do in that district," Eagan said. "Anytime anything comes through that's not an agricultural activity the main argument is 'Well, we're in an agricultural district."'
But Eagan said, "It's not strictly for farming."
The purpose of the agricultural non-urban district is to "allow agricultural, recreational, wildlife, forestry, open space, farming and related uses to mix with low-density development," Eagan said.
Major Changes
The change to this agricultural non-urban zoning district is part of a major rewrite of the county's zoning code.
"We're pretty much changing the majority of the sections in our code," Eagan said.
The planning and zoning commission has already recommended that the county commission approve the changes to the agricultural non-urban district.
But the county commission has not yet voted. It is waiting for all of the changes to be proposed so they can be voted on as a whole to "start fresh." That means a decision may not come until next year.


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text: Konecki Named New CATA Exec Vice President May 25, 2010 01:38 PM FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Konecki Named New CATA Exec Vice President CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - Chris Konecki, who joined the Chicago Automobile Trade Association (CATA) in 2004 as director of auto show operations, was promoted May 1 to executive vice president of the organization. The position had been vacant since Jan. 1, when David Sloan ascended to CATA presidency. Konecki, 44, joined the CATA after 16 years at McCormick Place, where he was event manager of the Chicago Auto Show account and other large shows there. "I've been a huge fan of the auto show since my early youth," said Konecki. "The long-term love for the show makes my professional life with the group that produces it even more special." "Chris' experience and know-how with 'everything auto show' have proven invaluable to the association," Sloan said. "As executive vice president, he will be able to spread his diligent effort and conscientious approach to all parts of our organization." Konecki is a 1988 graduate of the Illinois Institute of Technology. He is a resident of Evergreen Park, Ill., where he lives with his wife, Coleen, and their three children. He is also active in his community and church groups. The CATA represents the more than 500 franchised new-car dealers and affiliated businesses in the greater metropolitan area. For a high resolution photo of Christ Konecki, please visit: http://cata.info/sites/CATA/user/Chris_Konecki.JPG About the Chicago Automobile Trade Association: Founded in 1904, the Chicago Automobile Trade Association (CATA) is the nation's oldest and largest metropolitan dealer organization. The CATA is comprised of more than 400 franchised new-car dealers and allied members. Dealer members employ over 20,000 people in the metropolitan area. For additional information visit: www.cata.info. -end- CONTACT: Paul Brian Director of Communications Chicago Automobile Trade Association phone: 630-495-2282 email: email@example.com Back to News


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After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding.
For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the faultlines in their relationship.
About the Author
J.M. Coetzee's work includes DUSKLANDS In the heart of the country, WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS, which was awarded the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the CNA Prize, LIFE AND TIMES OF MICHAEL K, which won the Booker Prize and the Prix Etranger Femina, FOE, AGE OF IRON, which won the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award, THE MASTER OF PETERSBURG, which won the Irish Times International Fiction Award and the memoirs BOYHOOD and YOUTH: Scenes from Provincial Life. His novel, DISGRACE, won the Booker Prize, making him the first author to have won this prestigious prize twice. His more recent novels include ELIZABETH COSTELLO, DIARY OF A BAD YEAR and SLOW MAN. SUMMERTIME has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for South-East Asia and the Pacific, and the Adelaide Festival Literature Award. It won the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, the WA Premier's award for fiction and the Qld Premier's Award for fiction.
"What is remarkable about Coetzee's vision as a novelist is that it remains intensely human, rooted in common experience and replete with failure, doubt and frustration" * Guardian * "A masterpiece...perhaps the best novel to carry off the Booker in a decade" -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent * "Coetzee captures with appalling skill the white dilemma in South Africa" * Daily Telegraph * "Disgrace explores the furthest reaches of what it means to be human; it is at the frontier of world literature" -- Geoff Dyer * Sunday Telegraph * "A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today" * The Times *
Audience: General
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 240
Published: 1st December 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 13.1 x 1.3
Weight (kg): 0.18
Edition Number: 1