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Synchrony Financial will accept the award at the The CIO 100 Symposium & Awards Ceremony, on August 16th, at the Broadmoor Resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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A plaza in central Delhi -a spot outside the Mandi House Metro station - is perfect for watching people. It is proving more popular than its planners could have dreamed.
Dense shrubs, a smattering of palm trees, and even an art installation—-a giant eagle made of wires. This plaza in central Delhi is proving even more popular than its planners could have dreamed.
On this particular afternoon, the sprawling paved expanse at Mandi House Metro is dotted not only with the inevitable romantic couples, but countless other citizens as well. Happily basking in a cold day's sunny warmth.
The plaza itself is huge. A good 10 minutes is needed to do a round. And when one finally settles in, the first few moments might be a tad tedious. But as the minutes drip-drop, the rush of city life slows down. You observe people who look so very relaxed—do they have an agenda?
Every so often the public buses disgorge handfuls of passengers onto the plaza. Some rush away. Others stick around, wandering idly about with their books and briefcases, or root themselves to the earth like a tree.
It is equally absorbing to gaze upon the birds flying about the wired eagle.
Just behind the plaza is the National School of Drama (NSD) producing some of our finest acting talent. You can see any number of current students rehearsing acting techniques in the school lawns. But those earnest girls and boys ought to check out the plaza and study the everyday people scattered about — facial expressions, perhaps, or the rhythms of body language. It can all come in handy on the stage or films.
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Pastor Kepsie Elodo is one of the PNG representatives on the Survey Commission.
"Praying for the Spirit of Elijah" was the theme of a recent prayer conference held at Stuarts Point, NSW.
More than 150 people attended the event run by the North NSW (NNSW) Conference.
"This is the third year that we've run this prayer weekend," said NNSW Conference prayer coordinator Colin Hone.
As the name implies, the attendees spent much of their time during the event in prayer. Each individual wrote down the names of 10 friends or family members they knew who had left the Church and put those names into a "prayer bag". Groups then spent time praying for "divine appointments" with the people they'd named and opportunities to bring them back to church.
"I'd love to see prayer for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and for reconciliation taking place in every church in the South Pacific Division."
Pastors William Moala and Rome Ulia testified to the power of intercessory prayer, sharing how they had been involved in gangs but had returned to God because of their mothers' prayers.
Other guest speakers at the conference included Pastor Kepsie Elodo, president of the Papua New Guinea Union Mission (PNGUM), and Charissa Fong from the Discovery Centre at Adventist Media (NSW).
Pastor Elodo discussed the reconciliation work taking place in Papua New Guinea and Miss Fong spoke about the relevance of the Elijah message for God's church.
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Q: Print "Lexical, Syntactic" using if else statement in Python I'm new on Python, I have problem to print "Lexical, Syntactic" in my elif statement. The result shows "Lexical" even in the str have both Lexical and Syntactic words. There's something wrong with my elif statement and already tried ways to recover it but still haven't get it right.
It only print "Lexical", should be it prints "Lexical, Syntactic" because in str there are 'and' (from syntactic) and 'reference' (from lexical)
Thank you in advance for your helps :)
lexical = [' bound ', ' break ',' call ', ' content ', ' continue ', ' contract ', ' count ', ' direct ', ' even ', ' express ', ' form ', \
          ' forward ', ' function ', ' get ', ' job ', ' level ', ' name ', ' notice ', ' number ', ' out ', ' part ', ' position ', ' record ', \
          ' reference ', ' return ', ' set ', ' source ', ' special ', ' standard ', ' string ', ' subject ', ' switch ', ' tail ', ' throw ', \
          ' translate ', ' try ', ' under ', ' value ', ' way ']

syntactic = [' and ', ' but ', ' or ', ' so ', ' because ', ' however ', ' after ', ' since ', ' during ', ' then ', ' unless ', ' that ', ' while ', \
             ' also ', ' if ', ' only if ', ' if then ', ' for ', ' just ', ' just as ', ' neither ', ' nor ', ' either ', ' not only ', ' whether ', \
             ' yet ', ' once ', ' whenever ', ' while ', ' although ', ' not only ', ' but also ', ' before ', ' as much as ', ' as soon as ', \
             ' as long as ', ' as though ', ' though ']

semantic = [' all ', ' some ', ' more ', ' a lot of ', ' enough ', ' any ', ' most ', ' lots of ', ' less ', ' many ', ' not many ', ' each ', ' a few ', \
            ' least ', ' several ', ' both ', ' fewer ', ' a little ', ' little ', ' very little ', ' a bit ', ' large amount ', ' large quantity ', ' much ', \
            ' none ', ' not any ', ' a lot of ', ' plenty of ', ' a number ', ' large number ', ' majority of ', ' great number of ']
pragmatic = [' I ', ' he ', ' she ',' it ', ' me ', ' her ', ' him ', ' them ', ' hers ', ' his ', ' its ', ' your ', ' their ', ' our ', ' herself ', ' himself ', \
             ' itself ', ' ours ', ' ourselves ', ' yourself ', ' themselves ', ' yourselves ', ' that ', ' theirs ', ' these ', ' they ', ' this ', ' which ', \
             ' who ', ' you ', ' yours ',' anyone ', ' everyone ', ' somebody ', ' anybody ', ' everybody ', ' something ', ' anything ', ' everything ']

str = "one two three four five and reference "

if any(x in str for x in lexical):
    print ("Lexical")
elif any(x in str for x in syntactic):
    print ("Syntactic")
elif any(x in str for x in semantic):
    print ("Semantic")
elif any(x in str for x in pragmatic):
    print ("Pragmatic")
elif any(x in str for x in lexical and syntactic):
    print('Lexical, Syntactic')
else:
    print ("Clean")

A: Only the first match in your chain of if/elif statements will be executed. Others will be checked only if the previous statements do not evaluate to true (hence the name else if). In your case, this first match happens immediately at the first statement, so the one you expect it to match is ignored.
Simple solution
The simple solution would be to move this case up to the top, and order your elif statements from most to least specific:
if any(x in str for x in lexical and syntactic):
    print('Lexical, Syntactic')
elif any(x in str for x in lexical):
    print ("Lexical")
elif any(x in str for x in syntactic):
    print ("Syntactic")
elif any(x in str for x in semantic):
    print ("Semantic")
elif any(x in str for x in pragmatic):
    print ("Pragmatic")
else:
    print ("Clean")

Better solution
Although this produces the right result for your question, it will quickly become difficult to maintain, since there are a lot of combinations possible. A simple way to check for words in each of the lexical/syntactic/semantic/pragmatic lists is like so:
lexical = [' bound ', ' break ',' call ', ' content ', ' continue ', ' contract ', ' count ', ' direct ', ' even ', ' express ', ' form ', \
          ' forward ', ' function ', ' get ', ' job ', ' level ', ' name ', ' notice ', ' number ', ' out ', ' part ', ' position ', ' record ', \
          ' reference ', ' return ', ' set ', ' source ', ' special ', ' standard ', ' string ', ' subject ', ' switch ', ' tail ', ' throw ', \
          ' translate ', ' try ', ' under ', ' value ', ' way ']

syntactic = [' and ', ' but ', ' or ', ' so ', ' because ', ' however ', ' after ', ' since ', ' during ', ' then ', ' unless ', ' that ', ' while ', \
             ' also ', ' if ', ' only if ', ' if then ', ' for ', ' just ', ' just as ', ' neither ', ' nor ', ' either ', ' not only ', ' whether ', \
             ' yet ', ' once ', ' whenever ', ' while ', ' although ', ' not only ', ' but also ', ' before ', ' as much as ', ' as soon as ', \
             ' as long as ', ' as though ', ' though ']

semantic = [' all ', ' some ', ' more ', ' a lot of ', ' enough ', ' any ', ' most ', ' lots of ', ' less ', ' many ', ' not many ', ' each ', ' a few ', \
            ' least ', ' several ', ' both ', ' fewer ', ' a little ', ' little ', ' very little ', ' a bit ', ' large amount ', ' large quantity ', ' much ', \
            ' none ', ' not any ', ' a lot of ', ' plenty of ', ' a number ', ' large number ', ' majority of ', ' great number of ']
pragmatic = [' I ', ' he ', ' she ',' it ', ' me ', ' her ', ' him ', ' them ', ' hers ', ' his ', ' its ', ' your ', ' their ', ' our ', ' herself ', ' himself ', \
             ' itself ', ' ours ', ' ourselves ', ' yourself ', ' themselves ', ' yourselves ', ' that ', ' theirs ', ' these ', ' they ', ' this ', ' which ', \
             ' who ', ' you ', ' yours ',' anyone ', ' everyone ', ' somebody ', ' anybody ', ' everybody ', ' something ', ' anything ', ' everything ']

str = "one two three four five and reference "

output_string = ''

if any(x in str for x in lexical):
    output_string += "Lexical, "
if any(x in str for x in syntactic):
    output_string += "Syntactic, "
if any(x in str for x in semantic):
    output_string += "Semantic, "
if any(x in str for x in pragmatic):
    output_string += "Pragmatic, "

if output_string == '':
    output_string = 'Clean'

print(output_string)

Here, we create an output string which will contain all of the matching categories and append to that string each time we find a match. Note the use of if statements instead of elif, so that each case is checked and not ignored when a match is found. At the end, we check if the output string is empty (in which case no match has been found) and we set the output string to 'Clean'.

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SAMSUN (Agos) — An attack was carried out on the Samsun Agape Church by a man wielding a stick, who reportedly went on to insult church staff. However, the police did not bring charges against the attacker.
According to a SAT7 news report, on Saturday night, a man wielding a stick turned up at the Agape Church, rang the door bell, and then went on to insult church staff, also saying 'You are making our children violate our religion'. When a staff member realized the individual was carrying a stick, the police was notified.
A police patrol that arrived at the scene did take the stick off the man, however they did not detain him. According to witness accounts, the attacker continued to wander around the church building for a while, and then tried to re-enter the church.


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An Interview with Interventionist Earl Hightower, BRI-II, CCDC. Earl Hightower has performed over 2,000 interventions and has been doing interventions for over 20 years. Visit his intervention site for more information.
Without hesitation, Earl Hightower responds to the question, "Is there such a thing as a failed intervention?"
"You should never regret an intervention. It's the beginning of a process. Even if the identified patient is unwilling to go into treatment right then, they now know that the rules have changed."
Earl goes on to explain how intervention is not an event; it is a process.
"My opinion is that intervention is ongoing. You're not done. And the mistake that a lot of interventionists make is that they hang their hat on that event within the process. They do the pre-intervention work to a certain degree, they go and they intervene on the person; if they don't go into treatment, they're out. That's it, because they like that finite process and that's what they believe they get paid for. We get paid a pretty substantial sum for what we do, and that's for the process, and the whole process includes the post-intervention work."
"If they say no to treatment, we remain involved with the family in helping to continue to press the agenda. What we try to tell every family we work with is that we need to present a fork in the road to the identified patient. There are options here and we understand that. And we understand it is a hard decision that we're asking them to make: to stop using and enter into treatment. But what we want to make very clear is that neither fork involves going back to business as usual. It's different now. If you intervene effectively you're not going in and engaging in a dialogue; you're going in and delivering information to somebody who is unable or unwilling to protect themselves. And we've come to protect them in the face of that. And this information that we're giving them lets them know that we can never go back to the way it was. We're through loving you to death; we're through co-signing or giving you the impression on any level that this is okay with us, because it's not. So we're going to talk about the elephant in the room now. So the options before you do not include, you say no and we say okay nice try and go back to business as usual. Not going to do it."
Earl says that an intervention re-trains the family on how to interact with the identified patient to move them toward treatment.
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I recently watched It's A Wonderful World on TCM. I'd only seen it once, and that was years ago.
The film, a screwball comedy pairing Jimmy Stewart and Claudette Colbert, isn't well-remembered. In fact, bring it up and most people will thing it's a typo for It's A Wonderful Life.
It's interesting to see Stewart and Colbert together in 1939. He was an up-and-comer at MGM while she was a more established star who usually worked at Paramount. The movie is about Stewart, a detective, trying to prove his client didn't commit murder. Stewart himself gets in trouble for harboring a fugitive and spends most of the picture hiding from the cops. He comes across Colbert and soon they're on the run together.
Five years before, Colbert had starred in (and won an Oscar for) one of the greatest love-on-the-run comedies in It Happened One Night, which essentially started the screwball craze. And in 1939, audiences had another chance to see her in a classic screwball, Midnight.
Meanwhile, Stewart, in 1939, also made Mr. Smith Goes To Washington and Destry Rides Again, and would do even better in 1940 with The Shop Around The Corner and The Philadelphia Story (for which he won an Oscar).
It's A Wonderful World can't compare to those titles, but at least these two gifted farceurs are making a comedy. Consider Carole Lombard, queen of screwball. In 1939, she appeared in Made For Each Other--with the very busy Jimmy Stewart--as well as in In Name Only with Cary Grant. She was working with two of the greatest comic actors of the time, but both films are melodramas.
The script of It's A Wonderful World is by Ben Hecht, one of the busiest writers in town, and one of the best, though I wouldn't call this one of his major efforts. It's got a murder plot which, for a screwball comedy, is fairly nasty, and doesn't mix that well with the overall tone. It's interesting since the director, Woody Van Dyke, had shown he knew how to mix murder with comedy in the Thin Man series.
And the characterizations, even for screwball, aren't that believable. Stewart's character is fairly bad-tempered, and he's pretty harsh with Colbert. But all she needs to do is discover he's not such a bad guy--which she does off-screen--and suddenly she's falling for him. Meanwhile, he can't decide if he likes her or not. Compare this to the comedies I mention above to see how a relationship can form the core of a comedy, holding it together no matter how nutty the story gets.
For that matter, look at the scene in It's A Wonderful World where Colbert and Stewart are playacting to fool people about their identity. Not bad, but compare it to Colbert and Gable doing the same thing in the far superior It Happened One Night. Their work is far more natural and thus funnier, and helps establish their growing feelings for each other.
And for a farcical plot go, look at the complications screenwriters Brackett and Wilder created in Midnight, which has delightful escalation as Colbert gets in deeper and deeper with her impersonation (the title itself comes from the moment when Cinderella's masquerade is over). In It's A Wonderful World, things get frenetic, going from one plot point to the next (the film, in fact, has quite a bit of plot), but it doesn't necessarily whip the comedy into a frenzy by making things increasingly complex.
Still, the film moves well, there's funny stuff, and both leads are quite charming. On top of which, it's a feast of great characters actors, including Guy Kibbee, Nat Pendleton, Edgar Kennedy, Ernest Truex, Grady Sutton and a very young Hans Conried.
Back then audiences probably figured Hollywood would be putting out this sort of film indefinitely. Little did they know the era of great romantic comedies was coming to a close.
So even if it's not top-tier, we can enjoy it as a decent example of something we rarely get any more.
PS Most of the promotional photos for It's A Wonderful World have Colbert on the right. I presume that's because she thought her left profile was her better side. You can notice this as well in how she's shot in her movies.