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Advances in Diagnosis, Treatment of Skin Cancer
by Nikki Kean • August 12, 2019
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The last two decades have seen many advances in the diagnosis and treatment of skin cancer, and one of the biggest steps forward has occurred in the management of advanced cases.
Advances in Head and Neck Skin Cancer Treatment
Keeping Watch for Skin Cancers on the Head and Neck
Experts Discuss Treatment Options for Skin Cancer Cases
Dermatologists, Otolaryngologists Differ on Skin Cancer Care
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With the introduction of sentinel lymph node screening for the diagnosis and mapping of melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers (NMSC) of the head and neck, improved training of otolaryngology residents and fellows in the removal of difficult tumors, and the innovative reconstructive work of facial and plastic surgeons, otolaryngologists are now considered the go-to specialty for performing these challenging surgeries.
"Historically, skin cancer of the head and neck has been treated by the dermatologist and the plastic surgeon," said Stephen S. Park, MD, chair of the department of otolaryngology–head and neck surgery and director of the division of facial plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville. In fact, the vast majority of skin cancers are still treated fairly simply by dermatologists by either direct excision under local anesthesia or with Mohs micrographic surgery (MMS).
"In the last 20 years, Mohs surgery has become the standard of care for localized skin cancer," said Adam M. Zanation, MD, the Harold C. Pillsbury Distinguished Professor and director of advanced rhinology, oncology and open/endoscopic skull base surgery fellowship at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. But Mohs has its limitations, he noted. For larger, more complex lesions involving deep structures, or in the setting of invasive melanoma, the ability to clear the surgical margins using the technique is very limited. In those cases, he said, the dermatologist will usually refer to the otolaryngologist for treatment and repair.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, skin cancer is reaching epidemic proportions (See "Risk Factors: Not Just Sun Exposure," below). As the number of patients has increased, the role otolaryngologists play in the management of advanced skin cancer continues to evolve, especially in the treatment of melanoma of the head and neck and advanced basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas.
Our specialty [is]particularly suited to provide the best resection outcomes as well as the best reconstructive and long-term functional outcomes. —Adam Zanation, MD
Every board-certified otolaryngologist is qualified to manage facial skin cancers, Dr. Park said. One of the first things to do is screen patients for suspicious lesions, even those coming in for other issues. "If you don't look for it, you won't find it, especially in our aging patients, who grew up in an era that was unaware of the damages of sun exposure," he added.
Once a suspicious lesion is found, Dr. Park encourages physicians to lower their threshold for performing a biopsy. The pathology report will determine the definitive diagnosis as well as the architecture in terms of its aggressive behavior. "If it is a relatively small lesion [<1 mm] in a forgiving place, such as the cheek or the neck, and is well circumscribed—nodular and you can see the lesion very clearly and, more importantly, where it is not—the otolaryngologist is more than qualified to excise and close the lesion," Dr. Park said.
Dr. Zanation is less convinced: "In my practice, I still think Mohs surgery is a better treatment option for non-advanced skin cancers—with a primary excision, we removed more normal tissue than is needed." But certainly, for anything beyond a localized lesion, the otolaryngologist should be called, he said.
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package org.praisenter.data.song;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;

import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;
import javax.xml.stream.XMLInputFactory;
import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamReader;

import org.apache.commons.text.StringEscapeUtils;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
import org.praisenter.data.DataFormatProvider;
import org.praisenter.data.DataReadResult;
import org.praisenter.data.InvalidFormatException;
import org.praisenter.utility.MimeType;
import org.praisenter.utility.Streams;
import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;

final class Praisenter2SongFormatProvider implements DataFormatProvider<Song> {
	private static final Logger LOGGER = LogManager.getLogger();

	@Override
	public boolean isSupported(Path path) {
		try (Reader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(path.toFile()))) {
			XMLInputFactory f = XMLInputFactory.newInstance();
			// prevent XXE attacks
			// https://www.owasp.org/index.php/XML_External_Entity_(XXE)_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet#XMLInputFactory_.28a_StAX_parser.29
			f.setProperty(XMLInputFactory.SUPPORT_DTD, false);
			f.setProperty(XMLInputFactory.IS_SUPPORTING_EXTERNAL_ENTITIES, false);
			XMLStreamReader r = f.createXMLStreamReader(reader);
			while(r.hasNext()) {
			    r.next();
			    if (r.isStartElement()) {
			    	if (r.getLocalName().equalsIgnoreCase("songs") && "2.0.0".equals(r.getAttributeValue("", "Version"))) {
			    		return true;
			    	}
			    }
			}
		} catch (Exception ex) {
			LOGGER.trace("Failed to read the path as an XML document.", ex);
		}
		return false;
	}

	@Override
	public boolean isSupported(String mimeType) {
		return MimeType.XML.is(mimeType) || mimeType.toLowerCase().startsWith("text");
	}

	@Override
	public boolean isSupported(String resourceName, InputStream stream) {
		try {
			XMLInputFactory f = XMLInputFactory.newInstance();
			// prevent XXE attacks
			// https://www.owasp.org/index.php/XML_External_Entity_(XXE)_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet#XMLInputFactory_.28a_StAX_parser.29
			f.setProperty(XMLInputFactory.SUPPORT_DTD, false);
			f.setProperty(XMLInputFactory.IS_SUPPORTING_EXTERNAL_ENTITIES, false);
			XMLStreamReader r = f.createXMLStreamReader(stream);
			while(r.hasNext()) {
			    r.next();
			    if (r.isStartElement()) {
			    	if (r.getLocalName().equalsIgnoreCase("songs") && "2.0.0".equals(r.getAttributeValue("", "Version"))) {
			    		return true;
			    	}
			    }
			}
		} catch (Exception ex) {
			LOGGER.trace("Failed to read the input stream as an XML document.", ex);
		}
		return false;
	}

	@Override
	public List<DataReadResult<Song>> read(Path path) throws IOException {
		try (FileInputStream stream = new FileInputStream(path.toFile())) {
			return this.read(path.getFileName().toString(), stream);
		}
	}

	@Override
	public List<DataReadResult<Song>> read(String resourceName, InputStream stream) throws IOException {
		String name = resourceName;
		int i = resourceName.lastIndexOf('.');
		if (i >= 0) {
			name = resourceName.substring(0, i);
		}

		List<DataReadResult<Song>> results = new ArrayList<>();
		try {
			results.addAll(this.parse(stream, name));
		} catch (SAXException | ParserConfigurationException ex) {
			throw new InvalidFormatException(ex);
		}
		return results;
	}

	@Override
	public void write(OutputStream stream, Song song) throws IOException {
		throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
	}

	@Override
	public void write(Path path, Song song) throws IOException {
		throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
	}

	/**
	 * Attempts to parse the given input stream into the internal song format.
	 * @param stream the input stream
	 * @param name the name
	 * @throws IOException if an IO error occurs
	 * @throws InvalidFormatException if the stream was not in the expected format
	 * @return List
	 * @throws SAXException
	 * @throws ParserConfigurationException
	 */
	private List<DataReadResult<Song>> parse(InputStream stream, String name) throws ParserConfigurationException, SAXException, IOException {
		byte[] content = Streams.read(stream);
		// read the bytes
		SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
		// prevent XXE attacks
		// https://www.owasp.org/index.php/XML_External_Entity_(XXE)_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet
		factory.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/external-general-entities", false);
		factory.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/external-parameter-entities", false);
		factory.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/nonvalidating/load-external-dtd", false);
		SAXParser parser = factory.newSAXParser();
		Praisenter2Handler handler = new Praisenter2Handler();
		parser.parse(new ByteArrayInputStream(content), handler);
		return handler.songs.stream().map(s -> new DataReadResult<Song>(s)).collect(Collectors.toList());
	}

	// SAX parser implementation

	/**
	 * SAX parse for the Praisenter 1.0.0 format.
	 * @author William Bittle
	 * @version 3.0.0
	 */
	private final class Praisenter2Handler extends DefaultHandler {
		/** The songs */
		private List<Song> songs;

		/** The song currently being processed */
		private Song song;

		/** The lyrics currently being processed */
		private Lyrics lyrics;

		/** The verse currently being processed */
		private Section verse;

		/** Buffer for tag contents */
		private StringBuilder dataBuilder;

		/**
		 * Default constructor.
		 */
		public Praisenter2Handler() {
			this.songs = new ArrayList<Song>();
		}

		/* (non-Javadoc)
		 * @see org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler#startElement(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, org.xml.sax.Attributes)
		 */
		@Override
		public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String qName, Attributes attributes) throws SAXException {
			// inspect the tag name
			if (qName.equalsIgnoreCase("Song")) {
				// when we see the <Songs> tag we create a new song
				this.song = new Song();
				this.lyrics = new Lyrics();
				this.song.setPrimaryLyrics(this.lyrics.getId());
				this.song.getLyrics().add(this.lyrics);
			} else if (qName.equalsIgnoreCase("Part")) {
				this.verse = new Section();
				String type = getType(attributes.getValue("Type"));
				int number = 1;
				try {
					number = Integer.parseInt(attributes.getValue("Index"));
				} catch (NumberFormatException e) {
					LOGGER.warn("Failed to read verse number: {}", attributes.getValue("Index"));
				}
				this.verse.setName(type, number, null);
//				try {
//					int size = Integer.parseInt(attributes.getValue("FontSize"));
//					this.verse.setFontSize(size);
//				} catch (NumberFormatException e) {
//					LOGGER.warn("Failed to read verse font size: {}", attributes.getValue("FontSize"));
//				}
			}
		}

		/* (non-Javadoc)
		 * @see org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler#characters(char[], int, int)
		 */
		@Override
		public void characters(char[] ch, int start, int length) throws SAXException {
			// this method can be called a number of times for the contents of a tag
			// this is done to improve performance so we need to append the text before
			// using it
			String s = new String(ch, start, length);
			if (this.dataBuilder == null) {
				this.dataBuilder = new StringBuilder();
			}
			this.dataBuilder.append(s);
		}

		/* (non-Javadoc)
		 * @see org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler#endElement(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String)
		 */
		@Override
		public void endElement(String uri, String localName, String qName) throws SAXException {
			if ("Song".equalsIgnoreCase(qName)) {
				// we are done with the song so add it to the list
				this.songs.add(this.song);
				this.song.setName(this.song.getDefaultTitle());
				this.song = null;
				this.lyrics = null;
			} else if ("Part".equalsIgnoreCase(qName)) {
				this.lyrics.getSections().add(this.verse);
				this.verse = null;
			} else if ("Title".equalsIgnoreCase(qName)) {
				// make sure the tag was not self terminating
				if (this.dataBuilder != null) {
					// set the song title
					this.lyrics.setTitle(StringEscapeUtils.unescapeXml(this.dataBuilder.toString().trim().replaceAll("\r?\n", " ")));
				}
			} else if ("Notes".equalsIgnoreCase(qName)) {
				// make sure the tag was not self terminating
				if (this.dataBuilder != null) {
					this.song.setNotes(StringEscapeUtils.unescapeXml(this.dataBuilder.toString().trim()));
				}
			} else if ("Text".equalsIgnoreCase(qName)) {
				// make sure the tag was not self terminating
				if (this.dataBuilder != null) {
					String data = StringEscapeUtils.unescapeXml(this.dataBuilder.toString().trim());

					// set the text
					verse.setText(data);
				}
			}

			this.dataBuilder = null;
		}

		/**
		 * Returns the type string for the given type.
		 * @param type the type
		 * @return String
		 */
		private final String getType(String type) {
			if ("VERSE".equals(type)) {
				return "v";
			} else if ("PRECHORUS".equals(type)) {
				return "p";
			} else if ("CHORUS".equals(type)) {
				return "c";
			} else if ("BRIDGE".equals(type)) {
				return "b";
			} else if ("TAG".equals(type)) {
				return "t";
			} else if ("VAMP".equals(type)) {
				return "e";
			} else if ("END".equals(type)) {
				return "e";
			} else {
				return "o";
			}
		}
	}
}

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Daren Bates
Team: Tennessee Titans Ht/Wt: 5-11/225
Position: LB Born: 11/27/1990 Birthplace: Memphis, TN
College: Auburn Draft: Undrafted
Mar. 14, 2016 10:41 AM PT11:41 AM MT12:41 PM CT1:41 PM ET17:41 GMT1:41 AM 北京时间10:41 AM MST12:41 PM EST11:41 AM CT21:41 UAE13:41 ET16:41 - Bates has signed with the Oakland Raiders after playing his first three seasons with the Rams mostly on special teams.
Analysis: Bates had 10 tackles last season and one pass defensed. He also had 10 special teams tackles in 15 games. An undrafted free agent in 2013, Bates has played in 44 games and has made 24 special teams tackles and two fumble recoveries. He blocked a field goal and scored a special teams touchdown on a fumble recovery.
2013 StL 15 0 - 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 1
2014 StL 14 1 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2016 Oak 16 3 1 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2017 Ten 16 0 - 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 105 9 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 1 0 3
Year Team G Punt Ret Yds Avg TDs Kick Ret Yds Avg TDs
2015 StL 15 1 0 0.0 0 0 0 - 0
Totals 105 1 0 0.0 0 0 0 - 0
2016 Oak 1 1 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2016 Oak 1 0 0 - 0 0 0 - 0
2017 Ten 2 0 0 - 0 0 0 - 0
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Lorraine Hansberry's classic A RAISIN IN THE SUN starts slow and takes a while to get to where it's going, but the cast at the Arden handles the hefty, far-reaching script with grace and wit.
Money is coming to the blue collar Younger family—insurance money, and a lot of it, from a deceased father whom we never see. Everyone has their own intentions for it, but there is much more on the table here, touching on issues of race, education, parenthood, cultural identity, and the dark side of ambition. There's a lot of ground to cover, but despite the epic run time (two hours and forty-five minutes, with one fifteen minute intermission and one three-minute "interval") the rewards are high for sinking one's teeth into this dense narrative.
Intellectual Joseph Asagai (Segun Akande) and rich kid George Murchison (Peterson Townsend) are polar-opposite suitors of unfortunately-named medical student Beneatha Younger (Jaleesa Capri); Akunde and Townsend provide the production's highlights. We prefer Joseph, but George's bourgeois cynicism—"You read books—to learn facts—to get grades—to pass the course—to get a degree. That's all—it has nothing to do with thoughts"—elicits some knowing chuckles from the audience.
To see Raisin done plainly and respectfully—with a remarkable, expansive set by Daniel Conway—is a delight, and though script's fatal flaw is its attempt to tell too many stories at once (Beneatha alone has enough subplots for her own spin-off), the stories remain compelling in the hands of director Walter Dallas and his actors. George Murchison's brand of cynicism is just one of many obstacles facing the Younger family, and by the close of the play we want to share in the hope that binds the family together as they start their next chapter. In that vein, the Arden's production is a success.


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Avoiding Pack Ice in Antarctica
My Trip to Antarctica
In 2004 I took a trip to Antarctica. I had always wanted to go, having dreamed about it since childhood. When I got the chance, I jumped on it in a heartbeat.
I flew down to Ushuaia at the tip of South America and boarded a boat called the Akademik Shokalskiy bound for the Antarctic Peninsula.
Getting there meant we crossed the dreaded Drake Passage, a notoriously stormy area where the Atlantic, Pacific, and Antarctic Oceans all converge.
During our 2 day trip through the Drake Passage, we (the ones who weren't suffering from sea sickness) attended free lectures on everything from the birds, to whales, to seals we would be seeing to the strict laws governing visits to the Antarctic continent (take nothing, leave nothing), to lectures on ice. Yes, there is a lot to know about ice, and it's rather interesting.
Pack Ice
Pack ice is a condition caused by super chilled water – in the case in the picture above, it happens to be in sea water. You can find such unusual formations in the Arctic and Antarctic. This photo was taken when I visited Antarctica in 2004 on a trip with Quark Expeditions.
Pack ice is rated on a scale of 10 points based on its thickness and connectedness. Basically, small pancake like structures of ice begin to form on the surface and as they have water sloshed over them, more ice forms – much like layers of candle wax do when you repeatedly stick your finger in it.
Eventually these small pancakes of ice become many inches, and even feet thick and begin to join together forming massive solid-like blockades. Even during the Antarctic summer when I visited, this is very much a threat.
Pack ice is not attached to the shore and drifts about freely, blown by the wind and moved by the ocean currents. Sometimes it blows into a channel and can block it up. This is particularly bad when the seas do not otherwise seem to be producing ice and you head into a bay with only one way out. On our trip, we saw pancake ice, which looks a lot like phyllo pastry, very frequently. However, once we ran into a really bad mess of pack ice.
The picture here is of that pack ice as seen through a port-hole. I found that by going to a lower deck and getting closer to the ice, you really got a feel for how abusive it was to the ship to pass through. It was extremely loud and sounded like people were scraping it and banging on the hull with hammers. When you hear it all around you, you say a silent prayer (regardless of whether or not you are religious) that the boat builders were really on their game when they built your boat.
Normally, we were free to roam about the ship and go up to the bridge so long as we stayed out of the way. When this happened, everyone was sent out since the crew really had to be careful and focus on getting us out safely. Our vessel was not capable of ice-breaking and should we have gotten stuck, which is very possible, we could have been crushed long before nearby vessels could have reached us.
Another boat did get trapped during our voyage, but they were fortunate that an icebreaking ship was nearby. It was apparently full of students, from what I was told. They got the people off of the trapped boat safely. I'm not sure what happened to the boat that became stuck.
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Frank Douglas: The Definition of a Free Man
by: Robert Goldberg |
Not many people are told, at gunpoint no less, by a dictator to take the next flight out of his country and never come back. Fewer still have replied by asking the dictator to pay for the trip, let alone live to do so.
But such quiet acts of defiance connect the "Defining Moments of a Free Man From a Black Stream" by Frank Douglas. Douglas, one of the most highly honored and respected leaders in the pharmaceutical industry, could have written an entire book about his many careers ranging from a physician, a drug development executive, venture capital advisor, biotech CEO and director of two initiatives to accelerate the commercialization of academic life science research and that alone would have been interesting, informative and inspiring. But the formative experiences, the events that truly defined the life of Frank Douglas, were forged not in corporate boardrooms or high-level meetings but instead in how he chose to act when faced with beatings, homelessness, outright racism, and political intimidation.
The autobiography opens with a 12 year Frank Douglas being whipped by his mother after being told that he deliberately dumped a week's worth of groceries from his bicycle basket by her emotionally unstable and sadistic sister, Edith. It wasn't the first time. Edith took a sick delight in blaming Frank for things he did not do, knowing that it would lead to a beating. After this incident, Frank decided he had no choice but to kill himself by plunging into the deep waters off the coast of his native Guyana.
He asked himself how much "hope is there for a boy of twelve when in his own home he cannot defend himself or defend against injustice?" Ever the rational being, Frank realized that the possibility of jumping and living in pain wasn't worth the effort to commit suicide. Instead, he "concluded that there had to be a different solution to my dilemma."
He ran to the home of a woman he called "Moms" who is the mother would take to visit every Sunday after church and declared he wanted to live there. It was then that Moms told Frank that her son was his real father. The revelation did not devastate him, it made him stronger. He went home, no longer a victim, and told his mother and aunt Edith he would not be beaten or manipulated again.
Such defiance was forged from faith and fearlessness in confronting events and forces that appeared to be beyond his control. Much like Jacob wrestled God from darkness into dawn before receiving the name Israel, Frank Douglas truly earned his name (which literally means a free man from a black stream) by virtue of his willingness to confront malevolent, even violent forces throughout his life.
Throughout his academic career which took him from a small private school in Guyana to Lehigh University and then to Cornell for a Ph.D. in Chemistry and a medical degree, Douglas faced outright racism. Others would have endured it or, especially today sought to triumph by being defined as a victim. Instead, Frank Douglas took on the threats, often without regard to short term consequences, by confronting those who wanted to squash him because he was black.
If he had acted otherwise, the world would be a lesser place. His novel approaches to conducting drug discovery and development spread from the companies he worked for and transformed practice throughout the industry. The hundreds of students and entrepreneurs that sustain medical innovation would be fewer in number and less effective. And those fortunate enough to have read the book would not have the privilege of being taught an ageless lesson about the human condition: that our character is not just our destiny, it is the legacy we leave behind. And as Defining Moments demonstrates, that heritage is shaped by the work of our own hearts and hands and not the faceless, inexorable traverse from past to future.


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Impeachable dispositions
Own correspondent
To 'impeach' a transaction means to call into question its validity. The Insolvency Act [Chapter 6:07] has a number of sections designed to safeguard the interests of the creditors and some of the sections are intended to protect the creditors where the insolvent has entered into transactions prior to insolvency, and which have the effect (upon insolvency, sequestration and corporate rescue) of being detrimental to the general body of creditors.
Such transactions are called 'dispositions' because it involves a disposing of an estate asset (including money). Our Insolvency Act defines a disposition as 'any transfer or abandonment of a right to property and includes a sale, mortgage, pledge, delivery, payment, release, compromise, donation, suretyship, security interest under the Movable Property) Securities Interest Act [Chapter 14:35] or any contract therefor' and this does not include a disposition in compliance with a High Court order.
An insolvency practitioner, trustee or a creditor may impeach a disposition (i.e. bring its validity into question) by making an application to the High Court of Zimbabwe to have it set aside. If the High Court is of the opinion that the disposition should be set aside, the disposition is therefore retrospectively invalid and the asset (or its value) is retrieved (from the party to whom the insolvent disposed the asset to) and it is available to be distributed amongst the creditors of the insolvent. The following are the major sections on impeachable dispositions:
Disposition without value
Dispositions without value include those dispositions which the insolvent made before the liquidation, sequestration, or corporate rescue proceedings; but for which the insolvent did not receive any value in return. According to Zimbabwean insolvency laws, if an insolvent company makes a disposition of any of its properties without value, then such a disposition may be set aside by the High Court. For the High Court to rule as such, the disposition would have happened within two years before the presentation of the:
 application for liquidation to the Registrar of Companies, or
 resolution commencing corporate rescue proceedings to the Registrar of Companies.
The period above is three years if the disposition was made in favour of an associate of the insolvent company.
'Value' in this context has its ordinary meaning, that is any kind of reciprocal benefit/consideration and not merely monetary/tangible one. Whether or not value has been received for a disposition must be determined by taking all the circumstances under which the transaction was made into account. Value must not be speculative and must be value to the insolvent company.
If anyone opposing the impeachment can prove that at any time after making the disposition, the liabilities of the insolvent company exceeded its assets by less than the value of the property disposed of, then the disposition may be set aside only to the extent of such excess value.
A disposition of property not made for value, which would have been set aside or which was not completed by the insolvent company, does not give rise to any claim in competition with the creditors of the insolvent company unless the disposition was made by way of suretyship, guarantee or indemnity; and unless the disposition has not been set aside by the High Court.
The beneficiary in question may compete with the creditors of the debtor's estate for an amount not exceeding the amount by which the value of the debtor's assets exceeded his or her liabilities immediately before the making of that disposition.
Voidable preferences
A voidable preference occurs when there is a transfer of assets to a creditor shortly before a debtor files for insolvency. The recipient of these assets must return them to the insolvent company.
Every disposition of property made by an insolvent company, which has the effect of enabling one of the creditors to receive a benefit that they would not have been entitled to had the insolvent company been under liquidation/corporate rescue at the time of making the disposition, may be set aside by the High Court if:
 the insolvent company's liabilities exceeded the value of its assets immediately after concluding the disposition; and
 the disposition was made within six (6) months before the presentation of an application for liquidation/resolution commencing corporate rescue proceedings of the insolvent company to the Registrar, or within twelve (12)
months before the said presentation in the case where the disposition was made to an associate of the debtor;
The disposition may not be set aside if the beneficiary from the disposition proves that it was made in the ordinary course of the insolvent company's business and that it was not intended to confer preference to one creditor above the others. If the beneficiary is an associate of the distressed company, they will have to also prove that they were not aware and had no reason to suspect that the insolvent company's liabilities would exceed the value of its assets immediately after concluding the disposition.
A disposition is not made in the ordinary course of business if:
 it was made by way of payment of a debt that was not due and payable or not legally enforceable;
 it embodied payment in an unusual form or a form other than that originally agreed upon.
Any disposition of property by an insolvent company at a time when its liabilities exceed its assets, made with the intention of preferring some creditors above others, may be set aside by the court if the application for the liquidation of the estate of the debtor is presented to the registrar within three years after the making of the disposition.
For the purposes of this section a surety of a debtor, or a person by law in a position analogous to that of a surety, isdeemed to be a creditor of the debtor.
Every disposition of property made under a power of attorney, whether revocable or irrevocable is, for the purposes of this section, deemed to have been made at the time at which the transfer or delivery or mortgage of such property took place.
Collusive dealings for prejudicial dispositions of property
Any transaction entered into by an insolvent company before or after its liquidation/rescue, in collusion with another party for the disposal of a property belonging to the insolvent company in a manner that prejudices its creditors orprefers one creditor above the others, may after the liquidation/rescue of insolvent company be set aside by the HighCourt.
Any party to such collusion is liable for any loss incurred by the insolvent company and must pay a penalty for the benefit of the creditors and the penalty is determined by the High Court. This amount is not more than the value benefited by the party if the disposition had not been set aside; and, if the party is a creditor, it will also forfeit its claim against the insolvent company. The compensation and penalty may be recovered in any proceedings for the setting aside of the transaction in question.
Rights not affected by improper disposition
The impeachable dispositions discussed above do not affect the rights of any person who would have acquired a property in good faith and for value from any company other than a company that is subsequently liquidated/placed under corporate rescue framework. The setting aside of a disposition made by a debtor in terms of section 24, 26 or 27 shall not discharge a surety for the debtor.
Set-offs
Where the insolvent company was involved in set-off transactions with another party, the liquidator/corporate rescue practitioner of the insolvent company may abide by the set off. He/she may also, if the set off was not effected in the ordinary course of business, disregard it and call upon the party to pay to the insolvent company for the set off. The party is obliged to pay that debt and may prove a claim against the insolvent company as if no set-off had initially taken place.
It is therefore critical for anyone entering into any transaction with a party that could be liquidated/placed into corporate rescue framework as a result of insolvency to assess whether that transaction falls into one of these impeachable categories. Although in principle, an agreement could constitute an impeachable disposition, there is no simple answer to the question in a particular case and each case must be dealt with on its own facts and circumstances.
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5 Reasons to Stop the Norwalk Casino
On May 7, 2013 the people of Warren County are going to be voting on whether or not to legalize gambling in Warren County. Wild Rose Entertainment has proposed to build a casino in Warren County, and they have promised millions of new tax dollars for the county and schools, as well as hundreds of new jobs.
Our opposition, the gambling industry, has been spending big dollars to convince people that there is a need for a casino in Norwalk, and The FAMiLY LEADER would like to assist local residents looking to stop this vice industry from coming into their community. The FAMiLY LEADER is in need of $5,000 to run a strong final push before the election. A gracious donor has contributed $2500 to the cause. That means we just need an additional $2500 by Tuesday to fund our final efforts.
Please help us reach $5000 to fund our final push in the next few days before the election and donate $35, $50, or $500.
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1. This state of 3 million people already has too many casinos.
The promises being made to Warren County are all stories Iowans have heard before: "If we build this casino it will bring in hundreds of jobs and jump start economic growth in our city." Ever since legalizing riverboat casinos in 1989, Iowa has turned into a "Cornfield Vegas." The state of Iowa has 18 casinos, with the proposed additions of Cedar Rapids and Norwalk, Iowa would house 20.
2. Economic development modeled after Nevada bankrupts the community.
It appears that Iowa has become reliant on casinos to pay for its government, and as a source of economic development. Its's as if we are trying to become another Nevada, which has the notorious gambling cities of Reno and Las Vegas. Unfortunately, Nevada is known for more than casinos. A few other "accolades" include: highest bankruptcy rate in the country, highest high school dropout rate, highest violent crime rate, third worst overall crime rate, fifth highest suicide rate, and according to Forbes Magazine, Nevada is one of the worst states to retire in. Gallup polling also found Nevada to be the fourth worst state to live in, while her neighboring state, Utah, was rated the best state to live (Utah is one of two states in America that doesn't allow gambling). For those who say gambling does not have an effect on culture, please explain Nevada.
3. Casinos have tremendous societal costs.
Norwalk should carefully weigh if all these so-called "new money and jobs" are what Norwalk really needs. Norwalk is currently known as a quiet, safe community with excellent public schools and as a great place to raise a family. Bringing in a casino would fundamentally change the city's culture. The once quiet, peaceful town would be filled with a gaudy Vegas-like atmosphere. It would no longer be the attractive community close to Des Moines that young families desire to move to. Instead, "What happens in Norwalk, will stay in Norwalk."
4. Norwalk doesn't need a casino to grow and develop.
As the Des Moines metro continues to grow more and more, young families will desire to move to communities like Norwalk. If they build the casino, all Norwalk will receive is short-term, quick growth with lingering socio-economic problems. Without the casino, Norwalk will continue to grow at a steady rate, but will grow in a way that will be much more beneficial for the community long-term. Waukee doesn't have a casino, and it seem to be doing well. In fact, Hy-Vee and multiple other companies are looking to locate in Waukee. Norwalk will benefit much more in the long-term if they choose to not build the casino.
5. Casinos make millions by taking millions.
Casinos prey off of the most vulnerable in society who often turn to casinos out of a desperate last resort. Some get lucky and win big, but a vast majority find themselves on the fast track to bankruptcy. What will casino customers have to show at the end of a gambling day besides an empty wallet and the constant sounds of slot machines echoing over and over in their heads? Big, fancy casino buildings aren't built by giving away too much money. The only way casinos can give millions, is by making millions more off Iowa residents.
The state of Iowa should abandon the idea of an intentional vice as a source of economic development and government growth. Iowa needs to find true economic development that brings good paying jobs to our state and doesn't prey on the poorest of our society. Norwalk, please protect the culture and image of your beautiful community and vote No on this casino.
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a lover of sunshine, sweet tea, golden retriever puppies, and all things southern –– oh, and I'm a senior portrait and wedding photographer, too.
I don't get the chance to photograph college seniors too too often and when I do they're almost always in the spring. There's a huge rush to get all of the photos in front of campus AND head to the beach with everyone who is in town for the nice weather.
Kristen was a December graduate, which meant we had all of the sunshine, beach, and time with the seahawk that we could want! We did have to compete for parking spots with the surfers, but that's better than the summer crowd!
Then we headed to the south end of Wrightsville Beach. This is one of my favorite locations because the wind is much calmer than the ocean side, which lets us get the water but also not completely mess up hair from the wind!
She honestly looked like a MERMAID. Between the glow from the sun, her hair, and the flowiness of her two piece dress…I was in awe. This is definitely one of my favorite sessions to date.
Here are my favorites from her gallery!!
The sun came out for the most beautiful glow.
I love the classic seahawk "celebration" photos!
Her natural laugh is SO PRETTY.
Now to the beach…I cannot get over this sunlight or this outfit!
This is one of my favorites from the whole day!
It was actually pretty cold in these shots…Wrightsville Beach looked pretty but everyone was wearing sweatshirts by this point haha.
Doesn't she look like a mermaid?!
do it for the insta.


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Pet ads on craigslist
PETA and AALAS have been kind enough to provide the following perspectives on this controversial subject:
1. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) [www.peta.org]
We are writing in regards to the "free to good home" advertisements that appear on the Craigslist website.
As you may be aware, animals given away for free can, and unfortunately often do, meet gruesome fates. They can end up in the hands of animal abusers like Barry Herbeck, a Wisconsin man who was convicted last year of torturing and killing animals he obtained through "free to good home" ads. He confessed to taking his kids with him when responding to the ads so people would be comfortable turning animals over to him. People known as "bunchers," who obtain animals illegally from random sources to sell to research facilities for profit, often acquire animals by answering "free to good home" ads. Small animals advertised as "free to good home" are sometimes acquired by individuals who intend to use them as bait in training other animals to fight. Gerbils, hamsters, and young kittens are often acquired to be used as snake food.
Animal protection organizations all over the United States work diligently to educate people about the proper procedure for placing animals and frequently assist people in finding good homes for their animals. We routinely contact individuals who place "free to good home" advertisements to alert them to the potential perils for their animals and continuously receive appreciative calls from people who say they never knew these dangers existed.
Craigslist could do its readers and the animals a great service, while setting a very progressive example, by posting a brief warning at the top of the pets section about giving animals away for free. To supplement the warning people could be informed that they can contact us for more information about placing animals and screening potential adopters.
2. American Association for Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS) [www.aalas.org]
What assurances exist that stolen or lost pets are not used in research?
While some research requires that dogs and cats are used, the vast majority of laboratory animals are rodents specifically bred for research. Nearly half of the dogs and cats needed for research are also bred for that purpose. Since state laws and local policies prevent many animal pounds and shelters from providing dogs and cats to research facilities, animal dealers are the primary source for the other half of the animals scientists require. These dealers must be licensed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and must adhere to Animal Welfare Act standards of care. Both dealers and research facilities can obtain dogs and cats only from specified sources and must comply with detailed record-keeping and waiting-period requirements. In addition, USDA conducts unannounced inspections of dealers and research facilities for compliance to help ensure research animals are not missing pets.


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Rocky Vista University (RVU) hosted a Global Medicine Open House at the Frank Ritchel Ames Memorial Library on Monday, November 12th. The open house celebrated RVU's Global Medicine Program and its successful training of student doctors in providing quality healthcare for rural and underserved communities worldwide.
l-r: Jen Daniels, OMS II, and Kelsey Boghean, OMS II.
During the event, several displays showcased past medical missions and community outreach programs, which provide student doctors with exposure to osteopathic medicine in an international setting, to improve and develop cultural sensitivity and communications skills, and to expand student knowledge of chronic and unusual diseases. Cultural artifacts from each trip were also on display and offered a tangible connection to the people and values of those communities.
Guests at the Global Medicine Open House had the opportunity to explore the National Library of Medicine's traveling banner exhibition "Against the Odds: Making a Difference in Global Health." The exhibition showcased the collaborative work of physicians, scientists, communities, and international organizations across a wide range of issues, including the global AIDS pandemic and the impact of war on healthcare services, in an effort to prevent disease and to improve quality of life for all.
To view photos from the event, visit RVU's Facebook page at https://bit.ly/2Q2rGqa.


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hey , so today i finally found out where my trunk was leaking from after stripping my car out ... i was at the local car wash and noticed water dripping from where my spoiler is mounted!! .
what would be a good solution to use on the inside of the holes?
im guessing a type of silicone?
i dont have washers nor clear silicone , but i do that type of gasket maker silicone that i used to do my oil pan gasket with .. would that be good to use?
Your from Quebec. Go to Crappy Tires and pick up silicon seal for like $5 bucks. You'll find use for that tube later on.
Heh. Well Benson's Auto wanted spark plug wires for $160 while Canadian Tire wanted them for $120. Both of which are still expensive since they go for around $70 off eBay.


As a professional event producer specializing in galas and fundraisers, A.J. Steinberg was a hot commodity.
With over twenty years of successful events under her belt she was the go-to gal to jumpstart under-performing events and freshen up boring galas. As her reputation and business grew A.J. realized that only a handful of the biggest, well-funded nonprofits could afford the cost of her services.
It seemed wrong to her that the smaller organizations that needed help the most with their events were the ones who could least afford event producers' sky-high fees. And so, in 2016 she decided to change all that and started Queen Bee Fundraising.
Her goal with Queen Bee Fundraising was to create affordable, easy-to-follow resources that could be accessed by nonprofits no matter how small their budgets. She spent two years consolidating her extensive event planning knowledge into web courses, workshops and online resources that could level the playing field when it comes to profitable and meaningful events.
"All nonprofits deserve to succeed with their special events," claims A.J., and she has made that her priority. As a topic expert with CharityHowTo.com, she reaches thousands of nonprofit professionals and volunteers each year through her webinars and courses. She also leads workshops and speaks nationally on the topics most critical to a nonprofit's success with special events.
A.J.'s pet project, the e-course Exceptionally Successful Events created in conjunction with CharityHowTo.com, is what she is most excited about.
"My focus was to create an on-demand course which would lead nonprofit professionals and volunteers through each specific step of event planning." Her course, now available through CharityHowTo.com, has twelve easy-to-follow units that include event committee management, event marketing, silent auctions, and running the day of the event like a professional event planner.


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Q: Express floating point numbers in non standard notation in python? I am trying to print 1.2e-08 as 12e-09 for display purposes but cannot seem to get the format specifiers.
Is there a way to express floating point numbers in a non standard form without resorting to string operations or using regexes?
Edit: If the question is not clear, I am looking for something that lets me express any number in any scale for example if I want to scale everything in scale of 1e-12 then I should have something like 12000e-12
Thanks

A: Check out the decimal module. It should be able to put it out in the format you want.
http://docs.python.org/library/decimal.html
For what you are describing (engineering notation), there is a to_eng_string() method.
EDIT
In light of your clarification, you can build the number in parts:
myNumber = 1.2e-8
myBase = 1e-12
mantissa = myNumber/myBase
print "{0:1}{1:s}".format(mantissa, "{0:1}".format(myBase)[1:])

Which would print:
    12000.0e-12
If you knew you would always go to an integer number for the mantissa, you could adjust the format accordingly.

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DL Hughley Show Interviews
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Spike Lee Is Inspired By The Events Of Today
DLHS Staff
Spike Lee is responsible for the all the hit films and shows we love like Doing The Right Thing and She's Got To Have It. Excited to hear about his next upcoming projects, D.L. catches up with Lee.
In today's day and age, a filmmaker has a lot to be inspired by whether it's good or bad. D.L. wanted to know if anything that's been going on today has affected Lee's work.
"I just finished my new film and the star is John David Washington, Denzel's oldest son. And the film is called Black Clansmen," explained Lee. "True story and even though it takes place in the early 70's it is so on the mark with what's happening today with agent orange and the rest of these guys in the White House."
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/*!
	@file
	@author		Albert Semenov
	@date		09/2010
*/

#include "Precompiled.h"
#include "SettingsResourcesControl.h"
#include "SettingsManager.h"
#include "Localise.h"
#include "FactoryManager.h"

namespace tools
{

	FACTORY_ITEM_ATTRIBUTE(SettingsResourcesControl)

	SettingsResourcesControl::SettingsResourcesControl() :
		mResourceAdd(nullptr),
		mResourceDelete(nullptr),
		mResources(nullptr),
		mTextFieldControl(nullptr)
	{
	}

	SettingsResourcesControl::~SettingsResourcesControl()
	{
		mResourceAdd->eventMouseButtonClick -= MyGUI::newDelegate(this, &SettingsResourcesControl::notifyClickAdd);
		mResourceDelete->eventMouseButtonClick -= MyGUI::newDelegate(this, &SettingsResourcesControl::notifyClickDelete);

		delete mTextFieldControl;
		mTextFieldControl = nullptr;
	}

	void SettingsResourcesControl::OnInitialise(Control* _parent, MyGUI::Widget* _place, const std::string& _layoutName)
	{
		Control::OnInitialise(_parent, _place, _layoutName);

		assignWidget(mResourceAdd, "ResourceAdd");
		assignWidget(mResourceDelete, "ResourceDelete");
		assignWidget(mResources, "Resources");

		mTextFieldControl = new TextFieldControl();
		mTextFieldControl->Initialise();
		mTextFieldControl->eventEndDialog.connect(this, &SettingsResourcesControl::notifyEndDialog);

		mResourceAdd->eventMouseButtonClick += MyGUI::newDelegate(this, &SettingsResourcesControl::notifyClickAdd);
		mResourceDelete->eventMouseButtonClick += MyGUI::newDelegate(this, &SettingsResourcesControl::notifyClickDelete);
	}

	void SettingsResourcesControl::loadSettings()
	{
		mResources->removeAllItems();
		SettingsManager::VectorString paths = SettingsManager::getInstance().getValueList("Resources/AdditionalResource.List");
		for (SettingsManager::VectorString::const_iterator item = paths.begin(); item != paths.end(); ++ item)
			mResources->addItem(*item);
	}

	void SettingsResourcesControl::saveSettings()
	{
		SettingsManager::VectorString paths;
		for (size_t index = 0; index < mResources->getItemCount(); ++ index)
			paths.push_back(mResources->getItemNameAt(index));
		SettingsManager::getInstance().setValueList("Resources/AdditionalResource.List", paths);
	}

	void SettingsResourcesControl::notifyClickAdd(MyGUI::Widget* _sender)
	{
		mResources->addItem("");
		mResources->beginToItemAt(mResources->getItemCount() - 1);

		mTextFieldControl->setCaption(replaceTags("CaptionAddResource"));
		mTextFieldControl->setTextField("");

		MyGUI::Widget* widget = mResources->getWidgetByIndex(mResources->getItemCount() - 1);
		if (widget != nullptr)
			mTextFieldControl->setCoord(MyGUI::IntCoord(widget->getAbsoluteLeft(), widget->getAbsoluteTop(), widget->getWidth(), widget->getHeight()));

		mTextFieldControl->doModal();
	}

	void SettingsResourcesControl::notifyClickDelete(MyGUI::Widget* _sender)
	{
		size_t index = mResources->getIndexSelected();
		if (index != MyGUI::ITEM_NONE)
			mResources->removeItemAt(index);
	}

	void SettingsResourcesControl::notifyEndDialog(Dialog* _sender, bool _result)
	{
		mTextFieldControl->endModal();

		if (_result)
		{
			if (mTextFieldControl->getTextField() != "")
			{
				mResources->setItemNameAt(mResources->getItemCount() - 1, mTextFieldControl->getTextField());
				return;
			}
		}

		mResources->removeItemAt(mResources->getItemCount() - 1);
	}

	void SettingsResourcesControl::OnCommand(const std::string& _command)
	{
		Control::OnCommand(_command);

		if (_command == "Command_LoadSettings")
			loadSettings();
		else if (_command == "Command_SaveSettings")
			saveSettings();
	}

}


Haikyuu!!: Lev Genzan! tells an original story that reveals "a surprising side of a popular player." In Haikyuu!!: vs. Akaten, which takes place after the first season, Hinata and Kageyama fail a test and find that the make-up exam conflicts with their training camp.
Inspired after watching a volleyball ace nicknamed "Little Giant" in action, small-statured Shouyou Hinata revives the volleyball club at his middle school. The newly-formed team even makes it to a tournament; however, their first match turns out to be their last when they are brutally squashed by the "King of the Court," Tobio Kageyama. Hinata vows to surpass Kageyama, and so after graduating from middle school, he joins Karasuno High School's volleyball team—only to find that his sworn rival, Kageyama, is now his teammate. Thanks to his short height, Hinata struggles to find his role on the team, even with his superior jumping power. Surprisingly, Kageyama has his own problems that only Hinata can help with, and learning to work together appears to be the only way for the team to be successful. Based on Haruichi Furudate's popular shounen manga of the same name, Haikyuu!! is an exhilarating and emotional sports comedy following two determined athletes as they attempt to patch a heated rivalry in order to make their high school volleyball team the best in Japan.


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Q: Rails: Single Record, Many Polymorphic I'm sure there is a better title for this, so sorry about that.
I've got a Verification model. Ideally, there would various other model types that are able to associate themselves with the a single Verification record. For instance.

*

*Verification(id: 1, verifiable_type: 'Reference')

*

*Reference(id: 1, verification_id: 1)

*Reference(id: 2, verification_id: 1)

*Verification(id: 2, verifiable_type: 'Degree')

*

*Degree(id: 1, verification_id: 2)

*Degree(id: 2, verification_id: 2)
I was hoping for something as simple as a dynamic :class_name option on the the has_many:
class Verification < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :verifiables, class_name: -> { dynamic_class_name }
end

I am 99% sure that the reverse associations would actually work out of the box. So, using the records from above, the following should be no problem:
class Reference < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :verification
end

class Degree < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :verification
end

Any suggestions?

A: Instead of
 has_many :verifiables, class_name: -> { dynamic_class_name }

replace it with
 def self.varifiables(type)
   where(verifiable_type: type)
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John of Patmos one of the Two Witness's?
I'm proposing that John of Patmos was one of the Two Witness's, just as John the Baptist was, and Both were operating in the Spirit of Moses & Elijah, one each of course, Moses or Elijah.
Revelation 10:11 Written By John of Patmos, 11 And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings. Revelation 11 Talks about the Two Witness's and the Little Book John ate that was sweet in his mouth but when he ate it was Bitter.
I'm proposing that the reason the Book was firstly Sweet was, that God was going to Deliver his People. And Bitter because God was about Judge the World before the Start of the 1000 year reign, and 2/3rds of the World would Perish making it a Bitter Sweet Revelation, and then at the end The 1000 Years, the Anti-Christ shows up on the Scene, then the Final Battle & Judgment.
I know for me it's Bitter Sweet if true, and from what I have read and studied it fits, Do you own research, that's How it see it at the moment.


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The Crime Report: What's the Matter With the Death Penalty?
There have been three "botched" executions across the country in the last six months.
On January 16, Dennis McGuire in Ohio gasped for air for some 25 minutes before succumbing to Ohio's new two-drug lethal injection protocol.
On April 29, during Clayton D. Lockett's execution in Oklahoma, he "began breathing heavily, writhing on the gurney, clenching his teeth and straining to lift his head off the pillow." The director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections halted the execution—Lockett died of a heart attack 43 minutes after the process began.
Just last week in Arizona, the execution of Joseph R. Wood, III began at 1:57 p.m. and he was pronounced dead at 3:49 p.m. The execution did not go as planned.
"I've witnessed a number of executions before and I've never seen anything like this," Dale Baich, one of Wood's attorneys, told The Washington Post. "Nor has an execution that I observed taken this long."
Stephanie Grisham, spokeswoman for the Arizona attorney general's office took a contrary position. "I'm telling you he was snoring," she told the Arizona Republic. "There was no gasping or snorting. Nothing. He looked like he was asleep."
Even those witnessing the execution couldn't agree on what happened.
One thing for sure: the three executions described here were not what Americans have come to expect from lethal injection—the accepted and antiseptic form of state-sponsored death.
Since 2009, when Ohio Governor Ted Strickland stopped Romell Broom's execution because prison personnel took more than two "painful" hours to search for a suitable vein, executions have been more or less routine, sterile and swift.
Between Broom and McGuire there were 170 lethal injection executions (not to mention two electrocutions and a firing squad) without incident. All of those executions were uneventful and swift. For some, it was too swift and too easy.
In researching my book "The Executioner's Toll, 2010," I found that some of the victims' families were struck by the ease with which the condemned slipped into a lethal slumber.
"I think the way he went . . ." a family member said as she paused, breaking into tears, "It was too easy for him."
"It was like laying down and going to sleep," said the relative of another murder victim.
Speaking after his daughter's killer was executed, an angry father put it this way, "I wish my daughter could have died the way he died today. Wasn't no pain."
What is different today than in 2010?
As states scrambled to obtain increasingly scare execution drugs, new compounds were being used in new combinations. Within two months of Broom's failed execution in Ohio, the state carried out a single-drug execution using sodium thiopental.
Prior to Broom, every state used a similar lethal three-drug cocktail to carry out executions. But, in 2010, Oklahoma changed the drugs in its execution protocol to include midazolam; in 2011 Ohio switched to a single dose of pentobarbital; in 2013 Florida changed the drugs in its three drug protocol; in 2014 Ohio switched to a two-drug protocol to include midazolam; this year Arizona switched its protocol to include midazolam.
Lethal injection has been around since 1982, when Texas first used the method touted as the most humane way to carry out an execution. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed. In 2008, the Supreme Court decided in Baze v. Rees. The opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts ruled that lethal injection was humane and constitutional.
However, Justice John Paul Stevens made an interesting observation in a concurring opinion in Baze. "I am now convinced," he wrote, "that this case will generate debate not only about the constitutionality of the three-drug protocol, and specifically about the justification for the use of the paralytic agent, pancuronium bromide, but also about the justification for the death penalty itself."
The paralytic agent was added to the original three drug protocol not because it made the execution more humane for the condemned offender, but because it made the execution more tolerable for witnesses.
State officials did not want the inmate to squirm, gyrate and writhe during the process—offending the sensibilities of those observing.
Should states be concerned with those sensibilities?
Just before Woods' execution in Arizona, U.S. 9th Circuit Court Chief Judge Alex Kozinski dissented to an order halting his execution. He wrote: "Using drugs meant for individuals with medical needs to carry out executions is a misguided effort to mask the brutality of executions by making them look serene and beautiful—like something any one of us might experience in our final moments."
And he added: "Executions are, in fact, brutal, savage events, and nothing the state tries to do can mask that reality."
Kosinski told the Los Angeles Times he would scrap lethal injection for other forms of execution.
"I personally think we should go to the guillotine, but shooting is probably the right way to go."
The guillotine was quick and "pretty much foolproof," he said, but probably would not be accepted by the public. A firing squad would be "messy but effective."
The guillotine has never been used in the U.S. in a state sanctioned execution. However, the firing squad is not that far-fetched. Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed by firing squad in Utah in 2010. In fact, Deborah W. Denno, a law professor at Fordham University and an expert on the death penalty told the New York Times the most humane way to carry out the death penalty is through the use of a firing squad.
Denno said the firing squad is quick, effective and affordable.
"It's the most humane procedure," he said.
Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney ruled in Jones v. Chappell that California's death penalty violates the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment, reported the Los Angles Times. The state's death penalty, he held, is arbitrary and no longer serves the purposes of deterrence and retribution because of systemic delays.
Has the death penalty come full circle?
In Furman v. Georgia, the 1972 decision that struck down the death penalty, Justice Potter Stewart wrote: "These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual."
Justice Potter further noted, "I simply conclude that the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments cannot tolerate the infliction of a sentence of death under legal systems that permit this unique penalty to be so wantonly and so freakishly imposed."
Carrying out an execution today is as freakishly arbitrary as imposing the death penalty was in 1972. There are about 742 inmates on California's death row, a state that has not carried out an execution in more than eight years.
If one of those inmates is suddenly scheduled for execution—wouldn't that be a lot like being struck by lightning?
Matthew T. Mangino is of counsel with Luxenberg, Garbett, Kelly & George P.C. His book The Executioner's Toll, 2010 was recently released by McFarland & Company. You can reach him at www.mattmangino.com and follow him on Twitter @MatthewTMangino
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Q: NameError: name 'insert_sql' is not defined This is Bank.py file:
from customer_dbScript import *
from tkinter import *
from tkinter import messagebox

window = Tk()
window.geometry("300x420+30+30")
window.resizable(0,0)
window.title("Bank of Tkinter")

def put():
    # accessing values from UI
    name = txt_name.get()
    dob = txt_dob.get()
    phno = txt_phno.get()
    email = txt_email.get()
    adhar = txt_adhar.get()
    pan = txt_pan.get()
    city = txt_city.get()
    user = txt_user.get()
    pwd = txt_pass.get()
    bal = txt_bal.get()

    data = (
        name, dob, phno, email, adhar, pan, city, user, pwd, bal
    )

    res = insert_sql(data)

    if res:
        # root.destroy()
        # menu()
        messagebox.showinfo("Alert!", "worked")
    else:
        messagebox.showinfo("Alert!", "Wrong username/password")

# Button
btn_submit = Button(window, text="Register", command=put)
btn_submit.place(x=100, y=370)

window.mainloop()

This is customer_dbScript.py file
from Bank import *
import mysql.connector
from tkinter import messagebox

mydb = mysql.connector.connect(
    host="localhost",
    user="root",
    db="python_db"
)

mycursor = mydb.cursor()

# inserting into table
def insert_sql(tup):
    # insert query
    sql_insert = "INSERT INTO customer (name, dob, ph_no, email, adhar, PAN, city, username, password, balance)" \
                 "VALUES (%s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s)"
    mycursor.execute(sql_insert, tup)
    mydb.commit()
    messagebox.showinfo("Message", f"{mycursor.rowcount} record(s) inserted")
    return True

when I clicked on submit button it gives following error:

File "D:\Python Spark\TkinterDemo\Bank.py", line 88, in put
      res = insert_sql(data)
NameError: name 'insert_sql' is not defined


BOLIVAR -- David J. Lint, 57, of Bolivar, formerly of Sugarcreek, died peacefully Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010, at Aultman Hospital in Canton, after a courageous battle with kidney disease. David will be sadly missed by family and many friends.He was born Sept. 30, 1953, and is survived by sisters, Doris (William "Joe") Reese of Bolivar, with whom he had made his home, and Lisa (John) Dague of Sugarcreek; a brother, Gene Contini of Dover; his stepfather, Peter M. Contini of Dover; 12 nieces and nephews; and nine great-nieces and nephews.David enjoyed his time with his youngest great-nephew, Maximus Aurelius Bryan "Max" Rhoads (14 months old). Each day he would look forward to seeing and playing with him.He graduated from Garaway High School in 1972 and Lincoln Technical Institute in Indiana as a licensed diesel mechanic. He had served his time in the U.S. Navy aboard ship during the Vietnam era as a boiler man.Services will be Saturday, Oct. 23, at 2 p.m. at Smith-Varns Funeral Home in Sugarcreek, where friends may call from 1-2 on Saturday prior to the services.Following the services in keeping with David's wishes, cremation will take place and he will have a burial at sea.To share a memory and sign the guest register, visit www.smithfuneral.com.


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MID-DAY UPDATE: McDonald's is hiring, oil at 2.5-year high
Katharine Crnko Apr 4, 2011
https://www.marketplace.org/2011/04/04/mid-day-update-mcdonalds-hiring-oil-25-year-high/
Here are today's top headlines from the Marketplace Morning Report and around the web.
McDonald's is hiring. The company will hold its first national hiring day on April 19th to fill — get this — 50,000 jobs at its restaurants across the country. That's in part to keep more of its restaurants open 24 hours a day.
Oil is at a 2.5-year high. That strong jobs report from the Labor Department on Friday sent the price of crude bubbling up to 108 dollars a barrel.
Low-cost carrier AirTran had the best overall performance of the 16 largest U.S. carriers last year in an annual study of airline quality.
Minmetals Resources says it wants to make an all-cash offer of $6.5 billion to buy Equinox Minerals. Minmetals is the Hong Kong unit of China's biggest metal trading firm.
General Electric Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt defended the nuclear industry's safety record on Monday during a trip to Tokyo to show his support to the operator of a stricken nuclear plant using reactors designed by the U.S. conglomerate.
As baseball season gets underway, Facebook wanted to see which teams are the most "liked". Well, here are the stats: Phillies fans are the most loyal because they are least willing to "like" other teams. The Yankees, the Indians and the Blue Jays have the most fair weather fans — who only like them when they're winning. While Los Angeles is home to the two teams that are most lacking in Facebook friendship.
A New York man had an idea. Buy one of those old Staten Island Ferries and convert it into college dorms for students. But docking fees cost waaay too much. New York wants $1,000 a day to dock in Manhattan. So Jacques Guillet told the Wall Street Journal he needs to sell the boat — no takers yet. His broker thinks he's off his rocker for buying the boat in the first place. Some interested parties are thinking about using it as an antique gallery,with all the stuff on board for sale. Or for floating wedding receptions.
You can read the rest of today's stories from the Marketplace Morning Report here.
The complicated history of McDonald's and Black America
From financial advisers to restaurant workers — where wage gains are above average
Black former McDonald's franchisees are suing over discrimination accusations
For some workers, big pay raises. Others, not so much.
U.S. economy rebounded to grow at record 33% annual rate last quarter
After the fanfare, Amazon's HQ2 slowly gets going in Virginia
Mid-day update


Welcome to our new "Hole in One Club" website page! Congratulations to all the people who have a Hole in One here at Moccasin Run Golf Club. The "Hole in One Club" began in 1989 and continues today! May you be the next golfer to join this exclusive club!


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Severiano Goiburu Lopetegui (8 November 1906 – 31 July 1982) was a Spanish footballer who played for the Spain national team. He played for many clubs in La Liga, most notably Barcelona. He is known for scoring the decisive goal in the 1929 Spain v England football match.

Club career
Goiburu spent his entire club career in the Spanish first division, including FC Barcelona for 5 seasons. He moved to the Catalan club from Osasuna for a fee of 25,000 pesetas (150 Euros) in 1929, following the match against England.

International career
Goiburu made his first appearance for Spain against Hungary on 19 December 1926. On 15 May 1929, Spain played a friendly match against England, who were widely considered to be the best football team at the time. They had previously beaten France and Belgium 4–1 and 5–1 respectively. However, Spain ended up upsetting the Three Lions and won the match 4-3. Goiburu had scored the decisive goal in the 82nd minute to give Spain the victory, despite being the only amateur footballer on the pitch. He won 12 caps and scored 5 goals in total for his national team.

International goals
Scores and results list Spain's goal tally first.

References

Spanish footballers
1906 births
1986 deaths
Spain international footballers

1982 deaths


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Victorias plan for value creation and capture
Victoria's plan for value creation and capture
By Paul Kenny	6 April 2017
Environment & Planning Government Infrastructure Property & Development
The Victorian Government has released the Victorian Value Creation and Capture Framework which articulates its policy on value creation and value capture in the planning and delivery of public projects. The intention of the framework is to harness the potential of government investments to create additional value for the community and signal to the public, private and community sectors how the Victorian Government will go about doing so. Partner Paul Kenny and Lawyer Patrick Easton report.
The 'menu of mechanisms'
A first
How does it affect you?
The Victorian Value Creation and Capture Framework (the Framework) is a guide to government departments and agencies as project sponsors and their private delivery partners on the approach to be taken in assessing the economic, social and environmental benefits of public investments in Victoria.
The Framework is mandatory for high value projects with a total estimated government investment of at least $100 million and is directed in particular at precinct projects, the development of public land and capital investments.
Each proposed high value project will be supported by a Statement of Intent setting out the project objectives and a Value Creation and Capture Plan, approved by the relevant Minister.
The Framework provides guidance on how the Victorian Government views the generation of value from public projects and how it will assess proposals by its private delivery partners.
The Framework follows the October 2016 policy paper Value Capture – Options, Challenges and Opportunities for Victoria (and a federal discussion paper on value capture – see our Client Update: Value capture for major transport infrastructure projects discussion paper) in relation to the use of value capture mechanisms for public projects in Victoria.
It sets out a comprehensive statement of principles. In line with recent policy discussion, the government stresses the need for value capture mechanisms to be equitable, fair and proportionate to the private value created.
The Framework distinguishes between value creation and value capture as follows:
Value creation refers to delivering enhanced public value, in terms of economic, social and environmental outcomes. This enhancement is the public value above and beyond what would ordinarily be achieved as a direct consequence of the relevant government investment.
The Caulfield to Dandenong Level Crossing Removal Project is provided as an example. In this project, the Level Crossing Removal Authority consulted with stakeholder groups and the Victorian Government Architect before, during and after designs were released to inform the value to be created in, for example, the creation of new adjacent public facilities, reduction of noise and enhanced public safety through improved design.
Value capture
Value capture refers to government capturing a portion of the incremental economic value created by government investments, activities and policies. This capture may generate alternative revenue streams, assets or other financial value for government which could assist in funding those investments.
Beyond the broader economic, social and environmental benefits flowing to the public from government investment, private benefits may flow to private beneficiaries such as transport users, nearby property owners, occupiers and developers, businesses and private infrastructure operators (ie, toll road, train and tram operators).
These private benefits may be captured through various mechanisms to supplement existing funding sources, like taxes.
Only high-value projects with a total estimated government investment of at least $100 million are required to comply with the Framework, with the remainder of government projects expected to apply the Framework as a guide. The Framework is directed to specific project types seen as having potential for significant value creation and/or value capture opportunities, namely:
precinct projects (eg, urban renewal of the Moolap precinct in Geelong);
developments of public land (ie, public or private development of public land); and
capital investments, such as infrastructure projects.
For each project, government departments and agencies, as the project sponsors, will be required to prepare a project-specific Statement of Intent setting out the project objectives and a Value Creation and Capture Plan (VCC Plan) for approval by the relevant portfolio Minister. The VCC Plan will include value creation and value capture options which are appropriate to the project type and circumstances.
A 'menu of mechanisms' is provided in the Framework for government departments as project sponsors and the private delivery partners to consider in creating and capturing value.
The mechanisms referred to in the Framework for assessing value creation in project development, include:
Strategic Land Use Assessments (ie, government plans determining optimal use of land);
land creation (ie, rezoning land and decking over projects);
land consolidation, acquisition and reservation (eg, the consolidation of properties for the Revitalising Central Dandenong project);
planning scheme amendments (ie, rezoning land prior to sale);
planning conditions (eg, the Victorian Government's provision for floor area uplift in return for the provision of public benefits);
third party incentives (ie, grants to councils for achieving density targets);
procurement conditions (eg, the application of the Victorian Industry Participation Policy for training and skills development);
procurement model selection (ie, the use of early contractor involvement, alliancing or PPP models to harness private sector initiatives); and
design review (eg, using the Office of the Victorian Government Architect's Victorian Design Review Panel).
The Framework encourages government project sponsors and private partners to consider value capture opportunities, including:
property development rights, including land, air and joint venture rights;
commercial opportunities (eg, the fibre optic cable for broadband installed along VicTrack rail corridors);
infrastructure levies on development (eg, the existing Growth Areas Infrastructure Contribution charge in Victoria);
user charges (eg, road tolls);
private asset manager user charges and efficiency dividends (eg, savings and revenue for private asset managers generated by public infrastructure investment); and
voluntary contributions by key beneficiaries (eg, contributions to the London Crossrail Project by Heathrow Airport and the Canary Wharf Group).
Victoria is the first Australian jurisdiction to adopt a formal value capture policy. It will be interesting to see if other jurisdictions follow.
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Partner, Sector Leader, Government
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Phillip Cornwell
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Emma Warren
Partner, Practice Group Leader, Projects & Development
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The nation was captivated when we helped to unearth the colossal Whitechapel fatberg in 2017, which has gone on to be the subject of TV programmes, radio shows and a museum exhibition. But this is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the scale of the problem in our sewers and waterways….
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Horry and Georgetown patrols last year identified a record 221 nests, including four by a green sea turtle. Most S.C. nests are made by loggerheads. The green's nests on busy city beaches were moved to the state park, where volunteers had a total of 30 nests, 24 relocated from locations where a low hatching rate would be the norm.
"This is our fifth season,'' Mataya says of the North Myrtle Beach patrol, which has grown to 136 volunteers including more children and teens. When the patrols begin, as many as 24 walkers will start at sunrise to look for signs of a nest. The turtles dig in the sand with their flippers, lay eggs, cover them and return to the ocean. They do not return to nests and the hatchlings are on their own.
Strandings are another aspect of the Marine Turtle Conservation Program of the Department of Natural Resources. During training in Charleston for patrol leaders such as Mataya and Wilson, a call was received at SCDNR about a leatherback stranding. Jenna Cormany of the DNR says the turtle was on Daufuskie Island. It had been tagged in Trinidad. Typically, stranded sea turtles are dead, but they sometimes are alive.
Leatherbacks eat jellies (jellyfish) and can easily mistake plastic bags for food. "This trash business is awful,'' says Sue Habermeier, leader of the Garden City Beach patrol which covers about six miles of beach.


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Briefing: UK says Huawei poses 'limited' risk to 5G
by Eliza Gkritsi Feb 19, 2019 Jun 8, 2020
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UK says Huawei is manageable risk to 5G – Financial Times
What happened: The Financial Times reported that UK National Cyber Security Agency has concluded that security risks posed by Huawei in 5G networks can be mitigated. Quoting two anonymous sources close to the investigation, the report runs contrary to US claims that Huawei should be barred from future 5G networks because its close ties to Beijing jeopardize national security.
Why it's important: As a member of the Five Eyes Intelligence Network, an intelligence-sharing alliance that also includes the US, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, the UK has unique access to sensitive US intelligence. Earlier on Monday, New Zealand announced it will conduct an independent assessment. If the UK endorses Huawei publicly, it could sway governments across the European continent in favor of the Chinese telecoms giant. Most recently, the US approached Canada and Eastern European states, arguing that 5G is a greater liability to national security since it will embed a range of objects to the internet, notably cars. China claims that the US is trying to hinder Huawei's development, which last year overtook Apple in terms of smartphone sales. Despite Washington's efforts, Huawei has secured 25 commercial contracts to supply 5G technology. It is running tests with a further 50 companies worldwide.
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A while back, I arrived at an old parking lot near the South end of the city. This was where most illegal stuff happens. People there like the Emoji movie and Despacito. Anyways, I needed some food and there was a seven eleven ahead so I decided to park there. However, there was a sign that said 'no parking'. Like a savage citizen, I put on a wig and sunglasses for a disguise and parked there anyways. I laughed at my 'savageness' when I saw the moss covered fence. I got curious so I walked up to it. There was a pretty flower and before I could stop myself, I touched it and it lit on fire. I pulled my hand back and called the fire department. The end. I'm pretty sure I wasn't supposed to write a story but whatever.