Just this week, our SMS Training Institute were invited by designer and manufacturer, Stephen Linton, to test run the new safety device Gridmesh Anchor (GMA).
The GMA is a unique, quick to install product that will change the level of safety when installing temporary anchoring systems to overhead grid mesh. No longer will the use of sections of pipe or flat steel both of which can move, incorrectly applied and installed and create trip hazards.
The Gridmesh Anchor (GMA) is a breakthrough product in personal fall protection. The patent-pending design allows a user to set a fall protection anchor point above a grid mesh clad structure without the risk of a fall, enabling a worker to access locations below safely, without the need for scaffolding, rope technicians or elevated working platforms.
The GMA is ideal for use in a multitude of industrial applications and industries, including oil & gas, petrochemical plants onshore and offshore drilling rigs, power stations to name just a few.
The kit contains all the necessary item to install as safe and secure anchoring bar, housed in the carry pack that is used as a visible and safe walk over encapsulation for the anchor. Secure and No Trip Hazards! That is a winner!
Here in the photos is an advanced scaffolder doing his VOCs at the SMS Training Institute enjoying the chance to test the device. The team selected to test have provided great feedback that has resulted in SMS Group Services placing their order with GMA for several of these kits which should come on the market in the second half of this year.
SMSTI are so confident that this safety kit will soon be on many sites that we have incorporated as an option to provide training and VOC on correct use of the device.


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Diseases / Malaria
Malaria is a tropical disease spread by mosquitoes, which can cause fever, headache and, in severe cases, coma or death. The risk of contracting Malaria in affected areas is significant. Approximately 1,500 travellers return to the UK with Malaria every year. In 2015, there were 1,400 cases of Malaria reported among UK travellers, including six deaths.
Countries at risk
Malaria is a large worldwide problem. The World Health Organization estimates that there were 243 million cases and nearly 1 million deaths from Malaria in 2008.
Anti-malarials are available with a prescription. We can provide you with your anti-malarials during your consultation and, unlike other travel clinics, we do NOT charge a fee for writing a prescription.
Travel Precautions
Many cases of malaria can be prevented by the ABCD approach:
Awareness of risk: know your risk of malaria.
Bite prevention: avoid bites as much as possible.
Chemoprophylaxis: take the right anti-malarial tablets.
Diagnosis: get immediate medical help for symptoms.
Typical symptoms of Malaria include shivering, fever, joint pain, vomiting, jaundice and convulsions. The classic symptom of Malaria is a sudden coldness followed by fever and sweating.
In severe cases, Malaria can progress extremely rapidly, induce a coma and even death within hours or days.
Young children and pregnant women are especially vulnerable to the disease.
If you are travelling to an area with a risk of Malaria you may be recommended to take anti-malarial tablets to prevent you from becoming infected. Be sure to also use repellent and mosquito nets to increase your level of safety. There are a range of different anti-malarial tablets that will be prescribed to travellers based on several factors, including: destination, medical history, family history, current medications, previous problems with anti-malarial tablets, age and pregnancy.
Being aware of your risk is a huge factor in protecting yourself from the disease, so be sure to speak to one of us while planning your trip.
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Obituary for Forrest M. "Frosty" Landon
Read the obituary on Oakey's Funeral Home page
photo: Frosty Landon at the 10th anniversary gala in 2006, which established VCOG's endowment, allowing it to hire a full-time executive director after Landon's retirement. Pictured with him are VCOG's current director, Megan Rhyne, who worked for Frosty from 1998 until taking over VCOG in 2008, and Rhyne's husband, Mike Parker.
Forrest "Frosty" Landon, a journalism institution in the Roanoke Valley and far beyond, died July 19 of complications from Parkinson's Disease. He was 87.
He leaves behind his devoted family: wife Barbara, daughter Tracy Landon (Ed Smith), son Jeffrey Landon (Mary Fisher Landon), grandchildren Maggie Landon, Emma Landon, and Mason Landon Smith.
Also mourning his passing is a host of friends and extended family members who thought he walked on water—or at least his swimming pool, around which he frequently held court. Frosty loved reading every newspaper he could get his hands on, dispensing advice (but usually only when asked) and rescuing dogs. He volunteered avidly, all the while maintaining his affable, if somewhat cantankerous, demeanor. His grandkids playfully called him Grumps.
A native of Sidney, N.Y., Frosty was the third son of Eleanor and Dewitt Landon and the youngest brother of Dewitt and Bill Landon, who predeceased him. He was ten when he committed his first act of journalism, hand-cranking a newspaper he wrote, delivered, and sold ads for, called The Sidney Flash.
That energy and curiosity fueled his career. But it was his quest for fairness and truth that would impact thousands of Virginia readers and generations of young journalists passing through Roanoke. To Frosty, newspapers were the civic glue.
Barbara and Frosty landed in Roanoke in 1955, when Frosty started work as a reporter for WDBJ television station the day it went on the air (it was then owned locally by the Times-World Corp.). With his robust, Cronkite-like delivery, he covered the visit of presidential candidate John F. Kennedy on a 1960 visit to Roanoke. When Floyd County High School integrated a few years later, school officials wouldn't allow reporters to interview black students, but Frosty trailed the school bus and interviewed a black student in her home.
He moved over to the Roanoke Times to become an editorial writer and editor, and his forceful opinions sometimes got him into trouble, including the time he wrote a highly critical assessment of former Gov. Thomas B. Stanley's tenure, in particular Stanley's championing of "massive resistance" to public-school integration—that ran on the day of Stanley's funeral. The editorial drew the ire of both Byrd-machine Democrats and the newspaper's publisher, thus beginning what Frosty referred to as his demotion to head of the Xerox machine.
He worked his way back up to management on the newspaper's news side, eventually becoming executive editor. He also hosted a popular public affairs show called "Nightline" on WBRA that showcased his fondness for debate. The newspaper won many national awards during Frosty's tenure , including Pulitzer Prize finalist honors three times and multiple Virginia Press Association awards for public service and integrity. He was equally proud of having championed the Minority Journalism Workshop, which helped launch the careers of several well-known journalists from Roanoke. He was past president of the National Freedom of Information Coalition, whose members included FOI groups in 40 states. He was the American Society of Newspaper Editors FOI chairman in 1995-96.
When he retired in 1995, Frosty helped found the Virginia Coalition for Open Government, an organization devoted to improving the public's access to state and local meetings. He worked tirelessly to establish its statewide office and to secure its funding, joking that he was the state's only lobbyist who slept in a spare bunkbed in his granddaughter's Richmond bedroom. He traveled constantly, zipping around the state in one of his sports cars (license plate: OPEN GOV) and establishing a second home on his beloved Rappahannock River near White Stone, which he shared generously with friends and relatives.
A totally self-made man, Frosty contributed to Hartwick College near his upstate New York home, which had helped him attend college when his single mother couldn't afford to send him away. He graduated from the University of Missouri's journalism school and would go on to contribute to his alma maters, Mill Mountain Theatre, and Apple Ridge Farm. His many honors include his induction into the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame, a George Mason Award to honor journalism excellence, and a Perry F. Kendig Award for Outstanding Support of the Arts.
If you were lucky, you have seen (and avoided) him as he sped through town in his convertible, usually while shaving and talking on the phone and scrawling a reminder to himself or someone else. An early adopter of technology, Frosty loved a robust merlot, oysters, near-death scuba-diving adventures, and a good story, which he would abbreviate to "good sty" on the many Post-It Notes he left on reporters' desks. Most of all, he loved his family.
A celebration of life will be held in late September.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the United Way (https://www.unitedway.org/) or to the VIrginia Coalition for Open Government (https://www.opengovva.org/ ) in his honor.
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Mary Alacoque Waters (Londen, 1957) is een Ierse schilder die in Utrecht en Galway woont en werkt. Ze is bekend om haar portretten die geïnspireerd zijn op de klassieke schilderkunst van West-Europa. Ze werd beïnvloed door de wijze waarop Hollandse Meesters in de 17e eeuw in hun schilderijen de geportretteerden echt als mensen wisten neer te zetten.

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Waters groeide op in het arme Ierland en kreeg al op jonge leeftijd interesse in de schilderkunst uit de Gouden Eeuw. Er waren geen musea in de buurt, waardoor ze haar kennis uit encyclopedieën en kunstboeken moest halen, waar reproducties van schilderijen vaak als kleine zwart-wit plaatjes waren afgedrukt. Dit prikkelde haar fantasie en voorstellingsvermogen.

Ze volgde een opleiding aan het College of Art Limerick, een van de eerste kunstopleidingen in het westen van Ierland, en studeerde hier in 1981 af. Tot 1990 deed ze nog onderzoek naar 16e-eeuwse Venetiaanse en 17e-eeuwse Nederlandse schilderkunst. Waters schildert in olieverf op doek grote zwart-witte of kleurrijke portretten die glamour, rijkdom en macht uitstralen.

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Mary Waters heeft veel solo- en groepsexposities gehad in musea en op nationale en internationale beurzen; hieronder een selectie
 Zona Maco Mexico, Galerie Michael Sturm Stuttgart (2014)
 Galerie Vous Etes Ici, Amsterdam, solo (2014)
 Art Rotterdam, Galerie Vous Etes Ici (2014)
 Art Miami, Galerie Piece Unique, Parijs (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
 Art Dubai, Galerie Piece Unique, Parijs (2012)
 The Solo Project Bazel, Galerie Vous Etes Ici,  (2009)
 Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen (2006)
 Art Brussels, Galerie Transit Mechelen Be (2006)
 Art Rotterdam, Galerie Arti Capelli (2005)
 Groninger Museum, No Copy, Arjan van Arendonk, Rob Birza, J.C.J. van der Heijden, Mary A. Waters (2002)
 Singer Museum Laren, solo (1997)

Boeken
 Eating the image, ISBN 9789079372034, met bijdragen van kunsthistorici Pietje Tegenbosch en Frank van de Schoor, gepubliceerd door www.pelskemper.nl
 Mary Alcoque Waters, monografie, gepubliceerd door Galerie Piece Unique Parijs 2011

Externe links
 Officiële website Mary Waters
 RKD 99182 Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis
 Website galerie Vous Etes Ici, Amsterdam
 Website Galerie Piece Unique, Parijs
 Website Brutto Gusto, Berlijn
 Galerie Michael Sturm Stuttgart
 Transit Mechelen Belgium

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What is the best method of storing turnips and rutabagas?
Turnips and rutabagas are often confused with one another. If you have trouble telling the difference, these tips may help.
Turnips have white skin and purplish top. It is sometimes called white turnip.
Rutabagas have a thin, pale yellow skin with smooth, waxy leaves. Rutabagas can be called everything from "yellow turnip" to "swede" to "neep". It is also sometimes even referred to as just a "turnip".
If you happen to have turnips or rutabagas with the tops still attached, they can be stored in a cold (32°F or 0°C) humid environment. They need to be stored on shelves or in baskets so that there is good air circulation around them.
These turnips can be stored for 4 to 6 months.
Turnips and rutabagas with the tops removed can be stored in the refrigerator.
Often stores will sell rutabagas that have been coated with wax. This is done to prevent moisture loss. If they are not coated with wax, wrap them tightly in plastic.
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Hook injury from catch-and-release can reduce fish feeding
UCR study questions catch-and release fishing, long viewed as a conservation practice
Author: Sarah Nightingale
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) — Anglers don't expect to take home dinner when they practice catch-and-release fishing, but they might not be the only ones missing out on a meal.
In a study published today in The Journal of Experimental Biology, a UC Riverside-led research team shows that mouth injuries caused by hook removal after catch-and-release fishing hamper the ability of fish to capture prey. The results add to a growing body of literature raising questions about the practice of catch-and release fishing, which is viewed by many as a way to conserve at-risk fish species.
Tim Higham, an associate professor in UCR's Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, studies the biomechanics and hydrodynamics of suction feeding, which is the way many recreational sport fish species — including bass, salmon, and trout — eat.
During suction feeding, fish rapidly expand their mouths to suck in prey. This generates negative pressure inside the mouth relative to the surrounding water. Suction feeding relies on the resulting pressure gradient to draw prey into the mouth. Higham and his colleagues wondered if an extra hole, caused by hook removal, might disrupt the system.
"The suction feeding system is somewhat similar to how we drink liquid through a straw," Higham said. "If you poke a hole in the side of your straw it's not going to work properly."
To study the effects of catch-and-release on feeding performance, Higham and his colleagues studied 20 shiner perch caught near the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre in Canada, 10 of which were caught by hook and line, and 10 using a net. After being captured, the fish were immediately transported to the marine station, where the researchers used high-speed cameras to quantify feeding performance by fish in the two groups. Minimal stress was caused to the fish, which were returned to the wild after the experiment ended.
As the study describes, while all fish were equally motivated to feed, the feeding performance of fish with hook-induced mouth injuries was significantly reduced compared to the fish that were caught with nets.
"As we predicted, the fish with the mouth injuries exhibited a reduction in the speed at which they were able to draw prey into their mouths," Higham said. "This was the case even though we used barbless hooks, which are less damaging than barbed hooks."
By modeling fluid dynamics in the suction feeding system, the researchers confirmed that performance decreases due to the hole caused by the hook, but they also found that the mouth injury alone couldn't fully explain the reduction in feeding performance, suggesting catch-and-release might impact a fish's ability to feed in other ways.
Higham said further studies are needed to determine the long-term effects of the reduced feeding performance.
"Although we don't yet know how/if this reduction in feeding performance would affect fitness and survivability in nature, we can say that fishing-induced injuries impact the fish's ability to feed while the mouth is healing," he said. "This study emphasizes that catch-and-release is not as simple as removing the hook and all being well, but rather is a complex process that should be studied in more detail."
The paper is titled "Angling-induced injuries have a negative impact on suction feeding performance and hydrodynamics in marine shiner perch, Cymatogaster aggregata." The lead author is Melissa Thompson, who completed the research as an undergraduate at the University of Alberta doing research at the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre. Other authors are Sam Van Wassenbergh from the University of Antwerp in Belgium, and Sean M. Rogers and Scott Seamone from the University of Calgary in Canada. Funding was provided by the Agence National de la Recherche in France and the National Science Foundation. More information about Higham's research group is on his lab website.
Timothy Higham
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Five Children and It is an adventure family film that was released in 2004. The film centers on four children who have been staying with their uncle in order to hide from the dangers of the First World War. The uncle owns a massive mansion that has plenty of empty rooms, strange hallways, and even a secret passage or two. Things get really interesting for the children when they discover that the mansion is also home to a sand fairy. The fairy offers the children even more adventure, and allows for them remain children while affected by something as awful as The Great War.
Adventure, Fantasy, Drama, Science Fiction, Kids & Family
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Tara Fitzgerald, Freddie Highmore, Alex Jennings, Jonathan Bailey
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Occasionally (randomly), from once per day to once per week, all of a sudden all of my sites will go down. If i catch it quickly as soon as there is an issue, I can sometimes access my cPanel and change my PHP version down to 5.6 and immediately right back to 7.1... This appears to essentially restart the services and everything returns to normal (poor mans reboot). However, often I cannot even access my cpanel and in that case I have to call GoDaddy support for them to restart the services manually to resolve the issue.
Over time, this has become a real pain in the butt and is especially an issue when I am sleeping, because the sites can be down all night and I don't know until I get up and check everything.
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Abbott and Bess were discontented with Emily, mainly because of Tina. They blamed Emily for all of Tina's misfortunes.
If it weren't for Emily, would Tina have gotten addicted to drugs? Both Abbott and Bess attributed Tina's drug addiction to Emily.
By now, the entire Tao Family chose to forget that it was Tina who had harmed Emily in the first place. All they remembered was the fact that Tina, their foster daughter, whom they doted on from her infancy, was suffering in constant agony.
Master Tao, however, did not give up on the idea of bringing Emily back to Tao Family. After all, Emily was his real granddaughter. How could they let Emily live apart from her real family?
Under pressure from Master Tao, Abbott and Bess had to find an appropriate time to bring Emily back. Considering the sensitive condition Tina was in now, Abbott and Bess dared not to bring up Emily's name at the table. As a consequence, Emily's anticipated return to the Tao family was delayed.
Draped over the window, a pair of curtains stretched their full length and cast the room into blackness. Great depression loomed in the big room like a tortured wraith, suffocating the life out its occupant.
The drapes rustled as they got pulled open suddenly. Instantly, the sunlight streamed in like a flamboyant guest, not waiting for an invitation, unknowingly giving birth to a shrill voice that tore the silence apart like thin paper.
"Ah! Don't draw the curtains! Put them back! Mark!" Tina cried out.
"Okay! Okay! I will put them back," Mark answered. Mark instantly drew the curtains back returning the room to its former gloomy state. "Calm down," he comforted Tina.
Tina took a deep breath and finally calmed her nerves. "You know I don't like sunlight!" she said.
Tina was like a mushroom growing in a dark corner, smelling somber from top to bottom. She shied away from the sunlight so that she could hide the scars on her face.
The darkness in that way was her sanctuary, a place where she could find comfort in solitude.
"Okay! There's no more light," Mark comforted Tina and walked towards her in the dark.
Tina slowly got up and asked, "Did you get what I asked you to bring?"
Mark froze and a flash of anxiety appeared in his eyes. "Tina, you'd better not take it," he said.
"I don't want to hear this again," Tina complained. Tina looked up at the tall figure in front of her and said, "You promised that you would give me anything I wanted."
ed out some paper towels and covered his wound.
Like a creature of malice, Tina went crazy, shaking in fury, as she planted her long nails into his flesh. She screamed like no animal could scream, "Mark, did you hear me? Why did you lie to me? You really thought that you could fool me with this?
Are you out of your goddamn mind? You didn't keep your promise! Give it to me now! Mark!
Will you give me it or not? Say something! Are you dumb? Ah!"
Mark wiped his wounded face and flicked the bloodied paper towel across the room. He still did not respond to Tina.
Tina's eyes gleamed a hideous, luminescent crimson, full of hatred. The frenzy departed, leaving behind only fury, and the glitter of her sleeping intelligence, now awakened. "Well, so you're not going to give it to me, are you? You think you're the only one I can get it from? How naive! I am Tina Tao. I don't have to rely on you. Since you won't give it to me, I will find anybody else," she said.
Patience was a luxury Tina could no longer afford.
Mark stretched out his long arms and pulled her right back into his arms from behind. He begged, "Don't! Please, don't go!"
"Let go of me! You can't stop me!" Tina yelled, as she kept struggling from Mark's grasp.
"I said no!" Mark shouted, as his tone became aggressive all of a sudden. He hugged Tina tightly and said, "I'll give it to you."
As soon as she heard that, Tina stopped struggling, but in less than a second, she went crazy again. "If you lie to me again..." she threatened.
"I won't," Mark answered, as he sighed a breath of resignation. Once again he chose to compromise with the only woman he could never turn down in the entire world.


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Don't miss Greetings From Ventnor City, the newest title in Jane Kelly's Meg Daniels mystery series from Information Today, Inc.'s sister company, Plexus Publishing, Inc.
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Meg Daniels, who has solved several local mysteries thanks to her amateur sleuthing, meets a woman asking for help in learning the fate of the sister she last knew as a 19-year-old who ran away from her Ventnor home in 1968. Rock idol Xander Frost, who has been trying to make friends with Meg in the hopes of learning how ordinary people live, persuades Meg to take the case, and the unlikely duo travel up and down the Jersey Shore and beyond to interview the people who had known Sarah Johnson best. As they retrace her steps—and Meg gets a taste of the rock star life—they discover that there might be a sinister reason the trail has been cold for so long. Was she a rebellious teenager who got swept up in the counterculture and broke free of her restrictive family? Or did someone want her out of the way ... permanently?
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Videoconferencing isn't new, but its recent growth has set new records. A 2019 survey from Wainhouse Research found that "over 250 decision makers across 200 commercial enterprises revealed that the average respondent uses video or participates in a meeting with video in 45% of their total meetings." The growth in the past few months is staggering. Zoom company officials announced a new milestone on April 22: It has more than 300 million daily Zoom meeting participants, up from just 10 million in December 2019.
COVID-19 NEWS: 'Reopening Libraries in New Zealand: Slow and Steady Wins the Race'
Justin Hoenke writes the following for his blog, Justin the Librarian: "[Last] week our libraries here in Wellington, New Zealand began the process of reopening our spaces to the public. ... There were many meetings and discussions around what reopening could look like and all angles and ideas were heard, considered, and then eventually decided upon."
COVID-19 NEWS: 'Libraries Around the World Prepare for a New Normal'
bibliotheca published an article stating the following: "Across the world, many countries have begun a gradual reopening of public life in an attempt to return a sense of normalcy to residents' lives and diminish the economic impact of the Covid-19 global pandemic. ... [L]ibraries are struggling to figure out the best course of action to safely resume providing services to their communities."
COVID-19 NEWS: 'FlatWorld Announces Textbooks Will Include COVID-19 Updates for Fall Semester'
Twenty-plus FlatWorld authors made substantial additions to their textbooks to reflect how COVID-19 has impacted their fields. FlatWorld will start publishing these revised textbooks over the summer, and it plans to update more than a dozen titles by the start of the fall 2020 semester.
COVID-19 NEWS: Inside Higher Ed's 'What It's Gonna Take'
Elizabeth Redden writes the following for Inside Higher Ed: "As college administrators across the country continue announcing plans to reopen their institutions this fall, two important questions have been largely lost in the debates over those decisions. What will it take for colleges to reopen responsibly as long as there is no vaccine or treatment for COVID-19--and how realistic is it that colleges can put measures in place by fall?"
COVID-19 NEWS: Inside Higher Ed's 'Open-Access Publishing and the Coronavirus'
Jack Grove writes the following for Inside Higher Ed: "The unrestricted sharing of scientific papers during the coronavirus pandemic may have hastened the shift toward more open-access publishing, scientists believe, as several leading journals move to make content publicly available."
Combating Misformation and Disinformation on the Web: A Roundup
The act of spreading misinformation and/or disinformation on the internet has been around since before the 2016 presidential election, but it was the campaign and its aftermath that ramped up public knowledge of so-called fake news. Here's a sampling of NewsBreaks' and Information Today's coverage of this ongoing issue over the past several years.


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The International Rescue Committee puts Afghan refugees on the path to safety
A little over a year ago, the United States evacuated the last of its troops from Afghanistan—leaving behind millions of displaced Afghan people, including allies who served alongside the U.S. government, NGOs, and media organizations, in roles ranging from professionals and journalists to translators and security personnel. And while the U.S. has put programs in place to help Afghan refugees begin the journey to resettlement and permanent residence, the programs rely on an application and verification process, which require more than spreadsheet oversight to manage. Zendesk supports the verification process Given a partnership that dates back to 2019, it made sense for the IRC to turn to Zendesk. The Zendesk Tech for Good program first partnered with the IRC in its efforts to provide a safety net for asylum-seekers at a Welcome Center in Phoenix, AZ. Now, the IRC and Zendesk have collaborated on five other global projects through the Tech for Good program. Considering its in-depth experience with Zendesk solutions, the IRC quickly moved to integrate Zendesk Sell into its Afghan refugee casework and verification pipeline. The organization used Zendesk Sell to create an inbox to receive verification requests where caseworkers could respond. Then, the Signpost project collaborated with Zendesk to build upon the Sell platform to automate and track thousands of records stored in the inbox in a secure and orderly manner. To date, the IRC has submitted over 2,000 referrals and requests for visas, processed through Sell. Caseworkers received and stored documents and also created automations that generated the forms and letters needed to present to the U.S. government. Prior to using Sell, caseworkers wrote out documents and letters by hand and automated tedious tasks to aid with the documentation process. "There were points in that project where if we were to have continued at the same rate of writing documents by hand, it would've taken years," says Liam Nicoll, Product Manager, Signpost. Beyond efficiency, Sell
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Q: C# Query Active Directory I am developing an Intranet web app and I am using the System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement to query the Active Directory of the current user's Windows Identity. On my development machine, the query returns a UserPrincipal populated with the user information. The application directory under Default Web Site of the local IIS on my machine has Windows authentication and Impersonate enabled.  However, when the application is published to our hosting IIS, the Principal is returned but with no user information. Does anyone know why? The server admin said that I have to use a service account and password to connect to AD server to do the query. If it's true, then querying from my local machine should have not worked either. Is this correct?
public class LDAP_Helper
{
    public string NetworkName { get; private set; }
    public string LastName { get; private set; }
    public string FirstName { get; private set; }
    public string MiddleName { get; private set; }
    public string Email { get; private set; }
    public string VoicePhone { get; private set; }

    public LDAP_Helper()
    {
        using (var context = new System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.PrincipalContext(
            System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.ContextType.Domain))
        {
            try
            {
                string currentUser = HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name;
                var principal = System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.UserPrincipal.FindByIdentity(context, currentUser);

                NetworkName = principal.SamAccountName;
                LastName = principal.Surname;
                FirstName = principal.GivenName;
                MiddleName = principal.MiddleName;
                Email = principal.EmailAddress;
                VoicePhone = principal.VoiceTelephoneNumber;
            }
            catch { }

        }

        return;
    }

Web.config settig:
    <identity impersonate="true" />

A: First off, you catch all exceptions and do nothing about them, so that's not good. If you did handle the exception, you would probably get first a PrincipalOperationException telling you that no user by that name was found, and then 6 NullReferenceExceptions because your principal variable is Nothing. I am not a C# guy, but this VB bit should not be too hard to translate. You should also specify the domain when you create the context to avoid problems on networks with multiple domain controllers. You do need to have permissions to query the Active Directory server, but by no means does that have to be a service account. Just a regular account with the appropriate group membership.
 Public Function FindUserPrincipal(ByVal userName As String) As UserPrincipal
    Try
        Return UserPrincipal.FindByIdentity(New PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain, "mydomain"), IdentityType.SamAccountName, userName)
    Catch ex As PrincipalOperationException
        Return Nothing
    End Try
End Function

You can also narrow your search to a single organizational unit on the server by specifying the search root in the form of a LDAP distinguished name when you create the context, that can significantly improve performance on large networks.
Private Function GetPrincipalContext(ByVal domain As String, ByVal ldapDn As String) As PrincipalContext
    Try
        If String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(ldapDn) Then
            Return New PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain, domain)
        Else
            Return New PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain, domain, ldapDn)
        End If
    Catch ex As PrincipalOperationException
        Return Nothing
    End Try
End Function

A: You can specify a username and password in the PrincipalContext constructor to connect to the store with.  Here's the MSDN documentation link.

A: The easiest way to deal with this would be to setup a WCF service to handle interaction with Active Directory, and have your web app query that service, running under a privileged account. This way only the service needs to run elevated, the client just needs to be able to reach the service.


As we have been fighting off the squirrels and chipmunks from the tomatoes in the back yard garden, our cantaloupe have been quietly getting sweeter. Today I was walking "Farm Matthews" and spotted a cantaloupe that had made the turn and turned slightly yellow. Based on advice from YouTube I pushed on the stem and it popped right off. It smells sweet and is barely soft to the touch, so we will wait until morning and call it breakfast!


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Q: How to create select all checkbox for all the checkboxes? I'm trying to create a checkbox that selects and deselects all the checkboxes in python.
Getting the checkbox entry:
var0 = IntVar()
var1 = IntVar()
var2 = IntVar()
var3 = IntVar()
var4 = IntVar()
var5 = IntVar()
var6 = IntVar()
var7 = IntVar()
var8 = IntVar()
var9 = IntVar()
var10 = IntVar()

Creating the Checkboxes assign the variables:
chkNewHire = Checkbutton(master, text="New Hire", variable=var1).grid(row=1, sticky=W)
chkAddrChange = Checkbutton(master, text="Address/Demographic Change", variable=var2).grid(row=2, sticky=W)
chkRateChange = Checkbutton(master, text="Rate Change", variable=var3).grid(row=3, sticky=W)
chkTerm = Checkbutton(master, text="Termination", variable=var4).grid(row=4, sticky=W)
chkSwtUpdate = Checkbutton(master, text="SWT Update", variable=var5).grid(row=5, sticky=W)
chkW4Update = Checkbutton(master, text="W4 Update", variable=var6).grid(row=6, sticky=W)
chkDirDepos = Checkbutton(master, text="Direct Deposit/PayCard Update", variable=var7).grid(row=7, sticky=W)
chkPayCard = Checkbutton(master, text="Pay Card Update", variable=var8).grid(row=8, sticky=W)
chkEmplTransNewSto = Checkbutton(master, text="Employee Transfer working only in new store", variable=var9).grid(row=9, sticky=W)
chkEmplTransBothSto = Checkbutton(master, text="Employee Transfer working only in both stores", variable=var10).grid(row=10, sticky=W)

#Create a list to assign the select all button - work on fixing the select check button
chkList=[chkNewHire,chkAddrChange,chkRateChange,chkTerm,chkSwtUpdate,chkW4Update,chkDirDepos,chkPayCard,chkEmplT ransNewSto,chkEmplTransBothSto]

Checkbutton(master, text="Select All", variable=var0, command=chkList).grid(row=0, column=1)

A: First you have chained Checkbutton(...) with grid(...) when creating those checkbuttons, then all the variables (chkNewHire, chkAddrChange, etc) are None.  You should separate the statement into two statements, like:
chkNewHire = Checkbutton(master, text="New Hire", variable=var1)
chkNewHire.grid(row=1, sticky=W)

Second you assign chkList (a list) to command option of Select All checkbutton is incorrect, you need to assign a function reference instead.
In order to select and deselect all the checkbuttons, you can use select() and deselect() function on all the checkbuttons.
Below is an updated code based on yours:
chkNewHire = Checkbutton(master, text="New Hire", variable=var1)
chkNewHire.grid(row=1, sticky=W)

chkAddrChange = Checkbutton(master, text="Address/Demographic Change", variable=var2)
chkAddrChange.grid(row=2, sticky=W)

chkRateChange = Checkbutton(master, text="Rate Change", variable=var3)
chkRateChange.grid(row=3, sticky=W)

chkTerm = Checkbutton(master, text="Termination", variable=var4)
chkTerm.grid(row=4, sticky=W)

chkSwtUpdate = Checkbutton(master, text="SWT Update", variable=var5)
chkSwtUpdate.grid(row=5, sticky=W)

chkW4Update = Checkbutton(master, text="W4 Update", variable=var6)
chkW4Update.grid(row=6, sticky=W)

chkDirDepos = Checkbutton(master, text="Direct Deposit/PayCard Update", variable=var7)
chkDirDepos.grid(row=7, sticky=W)

chkPayCard = Checkbutton(master, text="Pay Card Update", variable=var8)
chkPayCard.grid(row=8, sticky=W)

chkEmplTransNewSto = Checkbutton(master, text="Employee Transfer working only in new store", variable=var9)
chkEmplTransNewSto.grid(row=9, sticky=W)

chkEmplTransBothSto = Checkbutton(master, text="Employee Transfer working only in both stores", variable=var10)
chkEmplTransNewSto.grid(row=10, sticky=W)

#Create a list to assign the select all button - work on fixing the select check button
chkList = [
    chkNewHire, chkAddrChange, chkRateChange, chkTerm, chkSwtUpdate,
    chkW4Update, chkDirDepos, chkPayCard, chkEmplTransNewSto, chkEmplTransBothSto
]

def toggle_all():
    for cb in chkList:
        if var0.get():
            cb.select()
        else:
            cb.deselect()

Checkbutton(master, text="Select All", variable=var0, command=toggle_all).grid(row=0, column=1)


Over £8,000 in cash seized during a drugs raid in Worksop last year has been forfeited this week.
Officers from Notts Police originally visited a property in Hardwick Road East, Worksop, on Wednesday 18th June 2014 to execute a drugs warrant at the address, where a small amount of cannabis was seized.
After searching the property, officers also discovered 11 bundles of cash amounting to £8,340 which was hidden underneath a bed and secreted inside a cooler bag, coin bags, sandwich bags and a dirty sock.
The cash was seized pending a more thorough investigation by the Financial Investigation Unit, where the occupants alleged the cash had been raised from the sale of two caravans and an insurance pay out for a whiplash injury.
During the investigation, it was determined that £1,850 of the cash belonged to Nathan Newbury, 22, previously of Hardwick Road East, who is currently serving two years in prison for a distraction burglary at an elderly couple's Worksop home in August 2014.
Despite no criminal proceedings being brought against two of the four occupants at the address, police made an application to the courts under the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) to seize the whole amount recovered from the property.
On the strength of the evidence provided, the Forfeiture Order was granted at Nottingham Magistrates' Court on Monday 19th January 2015.
Officers are now working with the courts to ensure the money belonging to Nathan Newbury is repaid as compensation to the elderly victims of his crime.
Nathan Newbury was sentenced to two years in prison for burglary at Nottingham Crown Court in September 2014. A Crown Court Confiscation Order was also made against him, enabling the courts to confiscate up to £3,000 of his assets.
Notts Police are now using that order to ensure the £1,850 belonging to him which was seized in June 2014 will be used to repay his victims.
The remaining £6,490 seized during the initial search of the address, which was claimed to have belonged to others at the address, will now be repaid to the Government with a percentage being retained by Notts Police as the prosecuting force.
Kevin Newbury, 52, also of Hardwick Road East, was charged with possession of a Class B drug on Friday 9th January. He is due to appear at Mansfield Magistrates' Court on Thursday 12 February 2015.


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Rana shuchinae est une espèce d'amphibiens de la famille des Ranidae.

Répartition
Cette espèce est endémique du centre-Sud de la Chine. Elle se rencontre entre  et  d'altitude :
 dans le sud de la province du Sichuan dans le xian de Zhaojue ;
 dans le nord-ouest de la province du Yunnan dans les xians de Gongshan, de Shangri-La et de Dêqên.
Sa présence est incertaine en Birmanie.

Publication originale
 Liu, 1950 : Amphibians of western China. Fieldiana, Zoology Memoires, ,  (texte intégral).

Liens externes

Notes et références

Anoure (nom scientifique)
Ranidae
Faune endémique de Chine


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Calcium acetylide
medium hazard (no threshold derived)
skin irritation/corrosion
In aqueous solution, calcium carbide rapidly decomposes into calcium hydroxide and acetylene. Calcium hydroxide dissociates into calcium and hydroxyl ions. As hydroxyl ions are readily buffered in biological tissue, only calcium ions and gaseous acetylene need to be assessed for systemic adverse effects. Calcium is the most abundant mineral in the human body and part of the normal diet (approx 700 mg/day; SCF 2003). The second decomposition product, acetylene, has been used for over 100 years as an anaesthetic and as an industrial chemical, and few complications of using this gas have surfaced (US EPA, HPV review 2006).
Thus, the risk assessment of calcium carbide is driven by local effects in the lung related to calcium hydroxide. Potential respiratory irritation of calcium hydroxide and calcium oxide has been assessed in several epidemiological studies and studies in volunteers. Key studies for the assessment of respiratory irritation are summarized on IUCLID section 7.9.3, 7.10.2 and 7.10.3.
No relevant respiratory effect was found at an exposure level at 1.2 (0.4–5.8) mg/m³ (lime, total dust, Torén et al. 1996), or 2.9 (0.01–79) mg/m³ (Portland cement, total dust, Abrons 1988). Fell (2003) concluded that cement dust exposure has no negative impact on lung function respiratory symptoms at total dust levels of 7.9 mg/m³ (SD = 12.9) and for respirable dust 0.91 mg/m³ (SD = 0.55). Yang (1996) concluded that occupational exposure to 3.6 (1.3-8.1) mg/m³ Portland cement dust may lead to higher prevalence of chronic respiratory symptoms and the reduction of ventilatory capacity. Mwaiselange (2004) concluded an association between reduced lung function and current total dust exposures in excess of 3 mg/m³ cement. SCOEL (2008) concluded that no consistent effect of cement factory dust appeared in the range from 0.57 to 1.5 mg/m³ respirable dust and from 3.3 mg/m³ and lower levels of total dust. Decrease in lung function occurred somewhere in the range from 1.6 to 3.9 mg/m³ respirable dust and from > 5.7 mg/m³ total dust. However, it is a limitation for the extrapolation of this range to effects of CaO and Ca(OH)2 that the reported dust concentrations often were mixed levels from production of raw materials (e.g. clay, limestone and quartz) and cement dust. Only Mwaiselange (2004) allows the comparison of lung function in relation to the specific production processes and their dust levels. From the effect in the kiln and cement milling workers, it appears that the NOAEL may be about 3 mg/m³ total dust. It is, however, noted that the groups are small and an abrupt change in effect from 2.9 to 3.2 mg/m³ is not biologically plausible taking the modest effect even at much higher concentrations into account. However, overall the NOAEL of 3 mg/m³ total dust from this study is bracketed by the NOAEL of the total dust range, which is up to 3.3 mg/m³ from the other epidemiological studies.
The results form occupational exposure are complemented by a well conducted acute study in human volunteers with defined exposure to calcium oxide (Cain 2004). Here, sensory irritation is expected to be prevented by 1–2 mg/m³ respirable CaO dust (no relation to inhalable dust could be derived).
Cain et al. (2004) exposed 12 lightly exercising volunteers (breathing through the nose) for 20 min to 1 to 5 mg/m³ CaO. Nasal resistance, nasal secretion, mucociliary transport time, and chemesthetic magnitude were assessed. The mass median aerodynamic diameter was 6.53 ± 0.76 µm. In the nose, 1 and 2 mg/m³ gave rise to an equivalent effect at the end of the exposure. The 5 mg/m³ level had an effect equivalent to 20 % CO2. The values were significantly above the background, but no significant effect occurred in nasal secretion and mucociliary clearance, determined by the saccharin test. The study interpreted the effects as "very few people used the term irritation to describe the nasal sensation evoked by 10 % CO2. Some would use that term at 15 % CO2 and the majority would use it at 20 % CO2", and also the authors conclude "that the psychophysical judgements produced results consistent with the known effect that calcium oxide would evoke irritating chemesthesis at exposures in the range of 2 to 5 mg/m³". It was concluded that the effects of CaO, which were not dose dependent in the range from 1 to 2 mg/m³, were of no adverse health significance. The effect had not reached the maximum within the 20 min of exposure although the effect was levelling off. Taking these two facts into account, an exposure limit of 1 mg/m³ was proposed by the authors to protect against adverse sensory irritation.
In a second study, Cain et al. (2008) investigated the airway effects of 2.5 mg/m³ CaO in 6 male and 6 female volunteers, who were exposed for 45 min. The maximum effect was reached about 30 min after initiation of exposure, followed by adaptation. The authors interpreted their results as "the highest levels studied here lay at the edge of where people would agree that feel in the nose becomes irritating about 17–18 % carbon dioxide". Thus, the 2.5 mg/m³ level can be considered at the LOAEL. Due to the fact that 1 and 2 mg/m³ calcium oxide gave rise to an equivalent effect in Cain (2004) and for calcium oxide, irritating chemesthesis is considered to start at concentrations below physiologically adverse responses. Thus, 2 mg/m³ is considered to be a protective value when used as occupational exposure limit.
Due to the fact that irritating chemesthesis reaches a peak after approximately 30 min, it is considered justified to set a short term exposure limit STEL of 4 mg/m³, in agreement with Cain (2004) and SCOEL (2008).
Exposure of the general population to calcium carbide is restricted to the use of carbide lamps or carbide welding. In these settings, exposure is limited to very short periods of loading of technical equipment (carbide lamp or welding equipment). Thus, prolonged exposure to calcium carbide is not expected and risk management measures related to local effects (chemical burns of the skin and eyes) are considered to be sufficient.


"We really need to think about people as we're creating conservation initiatives. Forgetting about humans in the conservation recipe is like forgetting yeast in a loaf of bread," says Nathan Bennett, a researcher at the University of Washington, the University of British Columbia and Stanford University.
Bennett is lead author of a recent paper published in Biological Conservation: "Conservation social science: Understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation".
The paper recognises the importance of people in conservation, and the need to consider people's livelihoods, cultural traditions, and dependence on natural resources when planning and implementing conservation projects.
In Thailand, for example, officials set up a series of marine protected areas along the country's coastline to try to conserve threatened habitats, including coral reefs, mangroves and seagrass meadows. But they didn't consider the thousands of fishermen and women who live near or inside the marine protected areas and rely on fishing and harvesting for livelihoods and feeding their families. Fishing bans and unfair treatment have led to resentment and opposition. In one case, fishermen burned a ranger station in protest.
To add to the divisiveness, big commercial boats still caught fish in these areas because the protection zones were not well enforced.
Bennett et al's recent paper notes that, "it has become widely recognized that engaging with the human dimensions of conservation and environmental management is needed to produce robust and effective conservation policies, actions and outcomes".
[A]mong many conservation scientists and practitioners, there remains a lack of awareness about the social sciences, including the different disciplines, objectives, methods and outputs, and uncertainty about the purpose of the conservation social sciences. We contend that this knowledge void and confusion interferes with the conservation community's ability to engage with the social sciences purposefully and constructively – i.e., in a manner that will guide conservation practice and improve conservation outcomes. Without greater knowledge of the breadth of fields and contributions, the promise of the social sciences to improve conservation will remain largely unfulfilled.
The paper aims to provide a reference guide to and a detailed overview of conservation social sciences. The report outlines various conservation social sciences running from environmental anthropology through human-environment geography and political ecology to ecological economics. And the report provides an overview of 18 sub-fields of conservation social sciences.
PHOTO Credit: Some small-scale fishers on the Andaman coast of Thailand feel resentful about marine protected areas, as they were not consulted and their needs were not considered, Nathan Bennett.
Tagged Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Social sciences.


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This Article proposes that policy makers should consider establishing their jurisdiction's crime laboratories as government corporations independent of law enforcement as a means of improving their quality and efficiency. Simply building new buildings or seeking accreditation will not solve the endemic problems that crime laboratories have faced. Rather, we propose that crime laboratories be restructured with a new organizational framework comparable to the Houston Forensic Science Center's (HFSC) status as a local government corporation (LGC), which has proven to be conducive to creating a new institutional culture.
Algorithms saturate our lives today; from curated song lists to recommending "friends" and news feeds, they factor into some of the most human aspects of decision-making, tapping into preferences based on an ever-growing amount of data. Regardless of whether the algorithm pertains to routing you around traffic jams or finding your next dinner, there is little regulation and even less transparency regarding just how these algorithms work. Paralleling this societal adoption, the criminal justice system now employs algorithms in some of the most important aspects of investigation and decision-making.
The theme of the 2018 Georgia State University Law Review symposium is the Future of Forensic Science Reform. In this Article, I will assess the prospects for reform through a critical evaluation of a document published in February 2018 by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), the Approved Uniform Language for Testimony and Reports for the Forensic Latent Print Discipline (ULTR).
This transcript is a reproduction of the Keynote Address by Spencer Hsu at the 2017–2018 Georgia State University Law Review Symposium — From the Crime Scene to the Court room: The Future of Forensic Science Reform — on April 6, 2018.
Spencer Hsu is an investigative reporter at the Washington Post, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and a national Emmy Award nominee.
A line of California cases holds that causation of damages in legal malpractice actions must be proven with "legal certainty." This Article argues that judicial references to legal certainty are ambiguous and threaten to undermine the fairness of legal malpractice litigation as a means for resolving lawyer-client disputes. Courts should eschew the language of legal certainty and plainly state that damages are recoverable if a legal malpractice plaintiff proves, by a preponderance of the evidence, that those losses were factually and proximately caused by the defendant's breach of duty.
The legal profession is bound by ethical rules that govern and guide our conduct and actions as lawyers. One of the under-appreciated, but profoundly important set of guidelines is the Texas Standards for Appellate Conduct. These Standards serve as an excellent practice guide for appellate practitioners and appellate courts and as a model code of conduct for the Bar as a whole.
This is a transcript of the proceedings of the Conference on the Ethics of Legal Scholarship held at Marquette University Law School on September 15-16, 2017. Topics addressed include (1) what counts as legal scholarship and what is the obligation of neutrality?, (2) the obligations of sincerity, candor, and exhaustiveness, and (3) the mechanisms of legal scholarship, especially law reviews and the issues they create. The conference's working aim was to generate and propose a set of ethical guidelines for legal scholarship.
This Article discusses the role of health care professionals in applications for public benefits and immigration relief. Medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) often represent patients who are applying for disability or veterans benefits, or who are seeking asylum based on past persecution. The strength of a patient's medical evidence often determines whether their claim succeeds or fails. Many health care professionals provide corroborating evidence for their patients, but even when they do not, their opinions appear in the proceedings through medical records.
Medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) integrate legal services into health care settings to provide holistic care and address the social determinants of health. This article brings a legal-empowerment lens to MLP work, arguing for a stronger focus on communities. It examines the application to MLPs of bringing services to communities, investing in rights literacy, and partnering with community-based paralegals. It then outlines the potential for a transformation in health and legal services to a rights - rather than needs-based framework where communities are active partners in program design and development.