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Ray Fagen D-Day 4th Infantry Division "IVY"
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WWII - D-Day on Normandy Beach, 6 June, 1944. Private Ray Fagan was there! UTAH BEACH
In 1943 Ray joined the Army and was shipped to England on January 26, 1944 as a member of the Army's 4th Infantry Division, known as the Ivy Division, spending four months of training at Slapton Sands near Devon practicing amphibious techniques and rehearsing for D-Day. He participated in the June 6, 1944 D-Day Normandy Invasion landing on Utah Beach in Manche, France. During the last week of August of 1944 Ray participated in the Liberation of Paris. In early November of 1944 the 4th moved into the Huertgen Forest, and then moved through the Ardenns into Bastogne, Belgium where he fought in the Battle of the Bulge. Ray was injured in Belgium and received the PURPLE HEART.
The 4th Infantry Division ("Ivy Division") is a modular division of the United States Army based at Fort Carson, Colorado. It is composed of four organic infantry and heavy brigade combat teams. It is one of the most technically advanced and tactically proficient divisions in the United States Army.
The 4th Infantry Division's official nickname, "Ivy", is a play on words of the Roman numeral IV or 4. Ivy leaves also symbolize tenacity and fidelity which is the basis of the division's motto: "Steadfast and Loyal". The second nickname, "Iron Horse", has been recently adopted to indicate the speed and power of the division and its soldiers. "STEADFAST and LOYAL"
THE 4th Infantry Division claimed being the first surface-borne Allied unit to hit the beaches at Normandy on D-day, 6 June 1944.


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A ROBBER who attacked a woman walking home from work while on bail for robbing a taxi driver of his takings has been sent to prison.
A court heard how John Kearns, 20, had also only been given a suspended jail term for theft and assault just months before the attacks.
Preston Crown Court was told during the attack on the taxi driver, on New Year's Eve last year, Kearns, of the Salvation Army Hostel, in Heaton Street, Blackburn, led the victim on a 'merry dance' before snatching his earnings.
The defendant, 20, was arrested and bailed pending indentification procedures.
It was then on January 25 this year that he grabbed a handbag from Maria Hussain as she walked in Fielden Street in Blackburn town centre at 7pm.
She was pushed to the floor as her bag was pulled over her head causing her injuries to her knees.
The defendant pleaded guilty to the two robberies, being in breach of a suspended prison order and a conditional discharge.
Daniel Prowse, for Kearns, said the second robbery was a 'classic bag snatch'.
He said: "Finding himself in custody has come as a great shock. It perhaps has come as the the wake up call this young man needs to stop this drunken offending."
He added that since the defendant had allegedly been held a hostage with a knife put to his throat while in custody and as a result he was much more understanding of how his victims might have felt.
Sentencing Kearns to a total of 30 months behind bars, Mr Recorder Simon Bedford told the defendant he hoped his time in prison would help him deal with his alcohol problems.
He said: "Taxi drivers are a vital part of the community and they are entitled to be protected.
"They place themselves at risk from people like you who take advantage of them.
"You were arrested and bailed for identification procedures to be followed, but that did not deter you from committing further offences."


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ByJuro Osawa
The YotaPhone, a dual-screen smartphone from Russia, is moving closer to its debut, first in Russia and later in other markets possibly including the U.S.
Lau Geckler, chief operating officer of Yota Devices, said that the company is in talks right now with telecommunications operators around the world – including major U.S. carriers – to bring the new device to markets outside Russia.
From one side, the YotaPhone looks just like any smartphone. But if you flip it over, you notice the device has two screens – on one side a liquid crystal display just like many smartphones, and on the other side an electronic paper display, which is commonly used in e-book readers such as Amazon.com's Kindle.
The phone, powered by Google's Android operating system, is scheduled to launch in Russia in the fourth quarter, and then a few months later in other select markets.
The YotaPhone is entering the smartphone race very late, at a time when the market is already hyper-competitive and crowded with Apple's iPhone and numerous Android-based handsets from Samsung Electronics and others. But Yota Devices still sees opportunities.
"The (sales) volume this year will be limited, but we have high volume plans," said Mr. Geckler, who was visiting Singapore where The Wall Street Journal's Unleashing Innovation conference was being held.
The progress in the smartphone industry over the past several years has been mostly incremental changes to technological specifications, said Mr. Geckler. While many smartphones today look and feel similar, the YotaPhone is trying to offer a different experience, he said.
If users read longer text on the electronic paper display, which consumes less power compared to the LCD screen, the YotaPhone's battery could last longer. The e-paper screen, which can display a still image even when the power is turned off, could also be used for important reminders or notifications that need to be always kept at hand.
E-Ink Corp. worked on the e-paper screen, while the high-resolution LCD screen is supplied by Japan Display Inc., according to Yota Devices.
The YotaPhone will be assembled by Hi-P, a contract manufacturer headquartered in Singapore.


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THIS stunning chandelier is really 'putt-ing' a Nelson firm in the spotlight.
Staff at Chantelle Lighting swung into action when they were asked by the owners of the West Midlands hotel and golf course The Belfry for help to supply the lights for all 319 bedrooms, conference suites, corridors and reception areas.
And the 'high light' of the £26million transformation was a bespoke chandelier made from 140 PING golf clubs, which is the focal point of the main reception.
Anthony Holly, Chantelle Lighting Managing Director, a keen golfer himself, said: "The Belfry is a special venue for amateur and professional golfers alike.
"We were delighted to be asked to be involved in the renovations and are really pleased that the hard work of our craftsmen has produced this unique chandelier.
"We are sure the Ping chandelier will become an iconic part of The Belfry Hotel, welcoming amateur and professional golfers to the venue for many years to come."
Dave Fanning, Ping European Marketing Manager, said: "We were really pleased to be asked to supply some of our top of the range clubs to Chantelle Lighting for this innovative chandelier.
"It will provide a fantastic welcome to golfers staying at The Belfry Hotel and hopefully inspire them to play some excellent rounds of golf."
Linda Matlin, Head of fixtures and fittings at De Vere Hotels said: "We have worked alongside Chantelle Lighting on various projects, and, known for their expertise in bespoke lighting, we felt they were exactly the right people to create our golf club chandelier. The artwork was very impressive and we are delighted with the end result.
"We are confident it will prove a hit with the many golf fans visiting The Belfry every day."


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Microsoft's Lync enterprise communications platform has deep hooks into the 2013 versions of SharePoint, OneNote, Outlook, and other Microsoft Office apps. During an online meeting, for instance, Lync highlights a participant's Active Directory identity rather than his or her phone number--a convenient way to see the person's contact information in one view. Lync captures participant lists via Microsoft OneNote--a time-saver for meeting organizers--and allows meeting attendees to share and collaboratively edit notes directly from within Lync. The program extends into Skype too, providing enterprises with a powerful way to communication with clients, colleagues, and potential customers around the world.
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All legally wed gay couples, no matter what state they live in, are entitled to the same U.S. federal tax benefits as married heterosexual couples, the Obama administration said on Thursday.
The U.S. Treasury ruling, following a landmark Supreme Court decision in June, means that whether a married gay couple lives in New York, which recognizes gay marriage, or Oklahoma, which does not, federal tax benefits and responsibilities apply.
The Supreme Court on June 26 invalidated a key portion of a 1996 federal law, known as the Defense of Marriage Act, which had defined marriage as between a man and a woman.
There was some uncertainty after the Supreme Court ruling about how the tax status of gay married couples would be treated in dozens of states that have laws against gay marriage.
"Today's ruling provides certainty and clear, coherent tax filing guidance for all legally married same-sex couples nationwide. It provides access to benefits, responsibilities and protections under federal tax law that all Americans deserve," Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said.
There are about 130,000 same-sex married couples in the United States, according to estimates from the Census Bureau.
Gay rights backers said the ruling could spur same-sex couples in states where gay marriage is not legal to travel to states where it is recognized to wed.
"We will see many more couples from the more than 30 states without marriage equality come to New York," said Nathan Schaeffer, executive director of the Empire State Pride Agenda.
Under the ruling, effective September 16, gay married couples may file amended tax returns to change their filing status going back to tax years 2010, 2011 and 2012 to seek possible tax refunds, the Treasury Department said in a statement.
A Supreme Court ruling in June made California the 13th of the 50 U.S. states to recognize gay marriage. The District of Columbia also recognizes gay marriage. Thirty-five U.S. states have laws on their books restricting marriage to a man and a woman.
"With today's ruling, committed and loving gay and lesbian married couples will now be treated equally under our nation's federal tax laws, regardless of what state they call home," said Human Rights Campaign president Chad Griffin.
The ruling means legally married same-sex couples may choose to file their federal taxes as married filing jointly or married filing separately.
Marriage status under federal tax law brings both benefits and penalties. On the plus side, legally married spouses are exempted from the federal estate tax. On the other hand, some gay couples above a certain income threshold may face the "marriage penalty" that some heterosexual couples confront.
President Barack Obama and many of his fellow Democrats back gay marriage, but the number of supporters in both parties has been increasing in recent years. Republicans were parties to the Supreme Court lawsuit over the Defense of Marriage Act, but were mostly quiet after the court ruled.
A spokesman for John Boehner, the Republican speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, said he had no comment on the latest ruling announced by the Treasury Department.
Separately on Thursday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said same sex spouses will have access to coverage in the nursing home where their spouse lives under privately run Medicare health insurance plans.
Other government agencies are expected to make announcements soon to square their policies with the Supreme Court ruling.
For example, the Social Security and Veterans administrations have statutes that turn to state law in defining marriage. Gay marriage backers are awaiting clarification from those agencies on treatment of legally married gay couples.


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Hamadryas baboons at the Emmen Zoo in Emmen, in the Netherlands, on Wednesday. The baboons have not eaten and sit close together in the trees and in a small corner of their island. A few years ago the same group of baboons showed a similar behaviour of mass apathy that could not be explained by their keepers.
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USB-IF Updates Us on Type C Connector, Demonstrates USB SuperSpeed 3.1 Transfersby Brian Klug on 1/7/2014 2:36 PM EST
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ishmoo21 - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkSo if they can use type c to type c from the power adapter to device, what is the point of making the power adapters type a? Reply
extide - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkThere isnt one. The Type A to type C cables are for backwards compatibility. The idea is to have the 'new' type C connector on everything eventually. Reply
SeeManRun - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkRound connectors are always the easiest to plug in.. why not make it round for once. Reply
sgupt - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkRound takes up more space than flat, simple as that. Reply
spikebike - Wednesday, January 08, 2014 - linkSo? There's a round earphone jack on most phones/tablets already. My 10 year old dumb phone had a round charger, why not today's phones? Name a single device today to thin for an audio jack. Reply
spikebike - Wednesday, January 08, 2014 - linkSigh, too thin. Reply
psychobriggsy - Wednesday, January 08, 2014 - linkAudio jacks are okay for around 4 or 5 different signals, but it looks like they'll require more pins for this connector. A reversible flat connector is easy to plug in. Reply
wolrah - Wednesday, January 08, 2014 - linkThere are two reasons why not to use a round connector for USB or similar roles. First is power, a round connector makes it a lot harder to do hotplug safely, where the ground connects first and power can not inadvertently be shorted to other pins by partial or offset insertion. Live power also shouldn't be connected to exposed surfaces.
The second reason is high-speed signaling is very picky about electrical connections and positioning. Note how ethernet doesn't just connect the four pairs in 12345678 order, but mixes them up. This is to keep the signal lines appropriately separated. A connector that works over its width is a lot easier to do this with than one that has to be inserted inline.
A barrel plug like is usually used for power doesn't cut it for multiple signals and a stereo/headphone style jack has exposed conductors. Pretty much anything else isn't able to be inserted rotated, which would be the whole benefit of a round connector. Otherwise you end up with DIN-style connectors (think PS/2, ADB, and S-Video) which are just as bad as USB in terms of plugging in blind. Reply
BillyONeal - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkRound is even worse than the current design -- can't tell which way is up, and don't have only 2 orientations to try.
I think the 6 conductor FireWire connector (with the rounded end but square on the other end) is probably the best thing ever here. Reply
CharonPDX - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkOnly problem - over time the connectors can become loose, making it possible to plug it in backwards.
Which then puts high amperage power over the data lines.
Which is a bad thing.
(I'm sure you can guess how I know this.) Reply
SlyNine - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkBy carelessly forcing connectors in to each other :P Reply
Alexvrb - Wednesday, January 08, 2014 - linkYou just defined what happens when you have kids attempting to plug in their devices. No thanks! The more bulletproof the better. Reply
flatrock - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkNot enough space on a thin device for anything but a flat connector. Round is also only simple if you can have concentric contacts like a headphone jack. Otherwise orienting a circular connector is far worse than a flat one. A reversible flat connector does seem best. Reply
robl - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkI recently had to upgrade my nexus7 tablet, as the 2012 version uses the tiny usb port to charge, and it's fragile. Our kids kept tripping over it. Something bent inside and charging became very difficult. So ... I hope the new connector port builds some reliability into it to take abuse and keep working. Reply
SunLord - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkWhy were you charging where someone could trip over it? Reply
sweenish - Wednesday, January 08, 2014 - linkNot just trip, but constantly trip. Reply
name99 - Wednesday, January 08, 2014 - linkWell of course there IS a solution to this --- make the thing magnetic like Apple did...
I'm not sure why Lighting is not magnetic like MagSafe. I keep hoping it's because Apple didn't have time to iron the bugs out, and it's coming; but maybe it's basic physics --- maybe there simply isn't enough space to stick a magnet large enough to do the job in a phone, and prevent it from interfering with the speaker? Reply
nemesis4670 - Friday, February 28, 2014 - linkNonsense...the reason is because Apple is cheap and desperately clings onto insane profit margins. The Sony Xperia Z1 smartphone has a magnetic charger port just like MagSafe. They even sell a cool magnetic charger dock so you just plop the phone in and it charges. But also a magnetic charging cable with USB on the other end. It's on the side of the device. But it also includes a MicroUSB slot for data transfer. Reply
CharonPDX - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkObligatory xkcd reference:
http://xkcd.com/927 Reply
chekk - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkSo the sequential speeds are fine, but hopefully speeds for smaller files is improved. Overall, eSATA still beats USB3 by a huge margin when transferring pictures, etc. Reply
SunLord - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkI can't think of a single way USB3.0 would ever be able to beat or even be on the same playing field as eSATA when it comes to data transfer given the massive difference in speed they offer Reply
SunLord - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkI get that USB3.0 is rated at a theoretical 5Gbps vs sata 6Gbps but that doesn't really mean much when it comes to how the specs are designed to work compared to each other when transferring files Reply
name99 - Wednesday, January 08, 2014 - linkThe issue is not "theoretical" speed.
The issue is that the speed you are talking about is a PHY speed --- the speed at which individual bits are clocked on the wire.
(a) Nothing in the spec says this speed has to be sustained. Early HW is allowed to (did with USB 2, and likely does with USB3) have buffers that are large enough to send or receive a single packet at this speed, but without the overall throughput that allows this to be sustained for multiple successive packets,
(b) The PHY rate is not the MAC rate. USB is a bus with possible multiple devices on it. There is some MAC protocol for deciding who gets control of the bus when. This protocol appears to be pretty inefficient (at least in the case of USB2) dropping about 25% of performance on the floor, and I would guess the USB3 MAC protocol is pretty much the same.
(c) Most USB drives use the older USB MSC protocol for communicating with the drive, not the newer UAS protocol which is supposed to allow for higher performance (by allowing things like NCQ commands to travel over the wire). This doesn't necessarily speed up bulk transfers, but if UAS allows for larger packets than does MSC (I don't know if this is true) it would allow for higher speed. Reply
repoman27 - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkI can think of a bunch. SuperSpeed USB and eSATA 6Gb/s have nominal data rates of 5 Gbit/s and 6 Gbit/s respectively, and both use 8b/10b encoding. Theoretically this gives eSATA 6Gb/s a 100 MB/s advantage, however, if the connected drive is the limiting factor because it can't exceed 440 MB/s (as is often the case) this advantage is irrelevant. If both ports are provided by discrete controllers that only have PCIe 2.0 x1 connections to the host (another common scenario), then eSATA's advantage once again disappears. In order to support 6Gb/s operation, the drive, enclosure (if you're using one) and port you're connecting to must all support 6Gb/s, otherwise the pendulum swings in favor of USB 3.0.
Plugging a cheap USB 3.0 external that supports UASP into a SuperSpeed port provided by an Intel or AMD PCH/FCH is generally going to yield better performance than connecting a drive via eSATA to a port provided by a discrete controller, unless that controller has more than a PCIe 2.0 x1 back end, which would be a rarity on most motherboards. If the eSATA 6Gb/s port is provided by the chipset, it can put up a fight. However, UASP allows better use of the full-duplex channels provided by USB 3.0, and can actually reduce latency and protocol overhead compared to the still stuck on simplex SATA. Reply
chekk - Wednesday, January 08, 2014 - linkDespite what the theoretical numbers say, the actual behavior is quite different and why I'm currently unhappy with USB3 for file transfers. The only case where I have ever personally seen USB3 beat eSATA in writes was in large file transfers from an SSD. If every other case, even eSATA 3Gb/s was much faster. Particularly with small files where USB3 got slower until it leveled off at about 20 MB/s whereas eSATA was 60MB/s plus. I tried this with and without turbo mode in the BIOS.
Until I can see fast USB performance, I'll hang onto my external eSATA docks. Reply
repoman27 - Wednesday, January 08, 2014 - linkI'm guessing you're either using a port supplied by a discrete USB 3.0 controller, not experiencing any UASP love, or both.
Make sure whatever you are using for a SATA to USB 3.0 bridge supports UASP, plug directly into a USB 3.0 port provided by an Intel 7 or 8 series PCH or AMD A70M, A75 or A85X FCH with no intervening hubs and whatnot, and that you're running Windows 8/8.1.
A decent SSD connected via USB 3.0 to an Intel Z77 system can push 200 MB/s of small random reads/writes, which is comparable to any discrete eSATA 6Gb/s solution even at high queue depths.
Of course eSATA to SATA is still the only way to go for issuing an ATA secure erase command or updating firmware on most drives. Reply
psychobriggsy - Wednesday, January 08, 2014 - linkThere's still USB3.1, which will be out in the same timeframe as this connector is implemented in actual devices you can buy (2015). Reply
iaco - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkThat's what the USB Attached SCSI protocol is for. What I've read indicates UASP should close the gap between eSATA and USB. Unfortunately most USB 3 storage devices don't support it. Reply
HisDivineOrder - Wednesday, January 08, 2014 - linkWhy do they always do this? They do it with HDMI. They do it with USB 2 and 3.
Don't make a bajillion versions of the same standard. Make one cable and then stop. Oh, and making it reversible is always the right choice. Reply
nightbringer57 - Wednesday, January 08, 2014 - linkI don't think that the engineers who developed USB in the mid-90s, mainly for small computer periphals like mice, keyboards, or plug-it-and-forget-it things like printers, had ultra-thin smartphones in mind when they designed the connector ;)
And I prefer different mechanical connectors with a single universal interface rather than different interfaces. And backwards compatibility is quite handful.
And it is the same for HDMI. It was designed as a replacement for SCART/S-Video + audio connections. For TVs and stuff. It was not designed to be used with handheld device outputting full HD content, being constantly plugged on and off.
Of course, a single universal small connector is more practical. But I can understand that when people thought this connectors 10 to 20 years ago, they did not imagine what we would do with them now ;) Reply
xenol - Wednesday, January 08, 2014 - linkIt's good to know they're starting on all the right paths here. Reply


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I want to get cable service that uses less electricity than my current set top boxes...which according to the New York Times use more power than a refrigerator! What can I do? Get service without the boxes? Cancel Verizon and switch to Apple TV? Do you have more efficient set top boxes? Help! This cannot go on!
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Sutton United boss Paul Doswell has told defender Michael Boateng he will leave space for him in his squad for the coming campaign.
The former Bristol Rovers full back quit pre-season training at Surrey Sports Park this week to pursue trial opportunities with two League Two clubs and one from the Blue Square Premier.
Boateng made 26 starts for United after switching to Gander Green Lane from the Pirates in December, but still harbours ambitions to return to the full-time ranks.
And Doswell, who believes the club's new playing and budget structure is designed to get young players their chance in the Football League, insisted the defender goes with his blessing.
"Michael has got an opportunity and we have encouraged him to take it," he said.
"I'm keeping a space open for him if it doesn't work out, but we have options if it does.
"Because of the way we are set up now we are giving young players the chance to secure that dream move and that is what Sutton has always been about.
"We have experienced players on good money and for the youngsters the reward is the chance to play on a stage where they can realistically further their careers.
"We are using the same budget we have used for the last two seasons, we have just structured the spending of it differently."
Doswell has confirmed the capture of left-back Gareth Gwillim, midfielder Sam Rents, former Leyton Orient goalkeeper Tom Lovelock, centre back Jamie Stuart and forward Kezie Ibe this summer, with Gwillim, Lovelock and Ibe sealing their deals last week.
United kick-off pre-season preparations against League One Leyton Orient on Wednesday night and the Sutton boss is expecting big things.
"We have made five stellar signing this summer and it is obvious we have strengthened. Gareth was the best left-back in League Two last year," he said.
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In what started out as a pitching duel between Johan Santana and Cardinals starter Jaime Garcia ended in a 20-inning marathon. Even though the Mets won 2-1, they should be embarrassed in how it happened.
If there was ever a game a team didn't deserve to win, it was this one. Both teams exhausted their bullpens. The difference is the Cardinals started using position players to pitch and the Mets only could muster one run in the 19th inning. (Wacky stat: the Mets hold the record for most runs scored in the top of the 19th inning.)
Here is a note to Dan Warthen, Mets pitching coach. Next time an opposing position player pitches in a game, tell your hitters not to swing. Don't bunt when you have a man on first and no outs. You're just giving up an out. Make the pitcher throw strikes until it gets to a 3-2 count, then swing.
The fact that David Wright, Jason Bay and Jeff Francoeur couldn't get a hit off of two different position players, shortstop Felipe Lopez, who hit the game-winning grand slam in last night's game, and center fielder Joe Mather, is just embarrassing.
Someone who should be proud is Cardinals starter Kyle Lohse, who found himself playing left field when the Redbirds ran out of position players. He shagged two fly balls.
While Lohse was making do in his newfound position, Francisco Rodriguez wasn't in his role as closer. K-Rod allowed a run to tie the game and send it into the 20th inning. He is paid to do one thing: save games. He couldn't even do that when the team needed him the most up to this point in the season.
Instead of a save, he'll have to settle for a win. Rodriguez was the pitcher of record when the Mets scored their second run against Mather, who pitched two innings. He took the loss. Instead of K-Rod pitching another inning, Mike Pelfrey came into close the game. So, now Pelfrey leads the team in wins and saves.
So, yes, Mets. You want today's game, but you shouldn't be proud of it. A win's a win, but it's one that should be quickly forgotten.
Both teams now have to unwind before they meet each other in the finale of this crazy series tomorrow night on ESPN.


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We want to have better control over that space and to make it easier for Adobe projects to publish their releases on Maven Central, which is why I've requested a repository that we can use for this. We still need to figure out the internal processes by which new releases can be posted there, but at least the technical bits are already being taken care of.


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Wood chopping and fishing a very low Drava, making the most out of very short daylight hours! Christ it will soon be the shortest day and Christmas – what happened to the summer? Hard to believe that it hasn't snowed yet, I'm sure it would have done so had there been any moisture around. So I'm living on borrowed time, chopping as much wood as I can for the winter and (hopefully) next summer as well!


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Okay, I'm trying to get my head round modules here. Kinda embarrassing.
So here is a module from a program I am writing:
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file = open(lvl)
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print(" ")
print("Game loaded at level " + str(game_progress) + "!")
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The part I am struggling at is variables. I want to use 'game_progress' at other points in the program, however it doesn't carry over the whole program, as it's local(?).
I tried making it global by adding 'global game_progress' at the start of modules that used it, however, this had it's problems, and I have heard global variables are bad practice.
I know the brackets at 'def load_game():' can help with this but I don't quite know how. Do I put game_progress in there? No idea!
Sorry for my vague knowledge of python, I'm a beginner, and I've been doing well, but now I've started using modules I need to learn more about them.
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Congressman Rick Larsen, Coupeville Mayor Nancy Conard and Commissioner Helen Price Johnson released a statement Monday asking the Navy to gather additional public input on the basing of EA-18G Growlers.
The Navy announced last month that they are reconsidering the number of Growlers that would be based at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, which could affect the Environmental Impact Statement started last year.
The Navy said Monday that any changes to the Growler basing options would automatically include additional public input.
The Growlers, based exclusively at NAS Whidbey, have been the target of noise complaints by a group of residents who claim the electronic attack aircraft are louder and more disruptive than its predecessors, among them the EA-6B Prowler.
"We've listened to our constituents, and it is clear that any change to the number of Growlers on Whidbey Island will impact this community and their interactions with the base," the joint statement said. "We know our constituents will want to engage with the Navy in this process to discuss community impacts and to propose potential mitigation options."
Larsen, who is up for reelection this year, said Monday that he isn't aware of the procedures surrounding basing shifts during an EIS, but said he is glad to hear the Navy would be allowing the community another chance to comment if changes occur.
He added that he and the other local leaders were simply responding to constituent's concerns.
"There are people who are paid to know a lot more about the process than I am," Larsen said. "What's important is that constituents are informed well in advance so people can participate."
The Navy has put in an as-yet unfunded request for 22 additional Growlers for the 2015 federal budget, but if and how those aircraft will be funded hasn't been decided by Congress.
Larsen said that his assessment, based on discussions in both House and Senate arm services and appropriations committees, is that the final number approved will land in the mid-teens.
"It won't be zero and it won't be 22," Larsen said.
In an emailed statement, Price Johnson said that, while it is unclear how many planes Congress will fund, "We do know that further increasing the number of Growlers based at NASWI will have impacts locally.
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"I appreciate Congressman Larsen and Mayor Conard's collaboration. By working together we can more effectively advocate for our community."
If Congress chooses to include additional Growlers in their Whidbey Island basing strategy, a rescoping period, complete with additional public comment, would be required, according to Ted Brown, Navy's Installations and Environmental public affairs officer.
Brown said that the Navy will likely make an announcement regarding the EIS within the next few months.
Including new alternatives in the EIS will likely require re-scoping of the project and push out the completion date, the Navy's July announcement said.
Citizen's of Ebey's Reserve, or COER, which sued the Navy last year over the jet noise, released a statement last week denouncing the additional Growlers and the EIS delays.
"It is unreasonable for the Navy to expect local civilian communities in four counties to wait longer than originally promised for a draft EIS initiated in 2013 while the Navy continues to conduct Growler operations over those affected communities," the COER release said.
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If CFS had been truly interested in the location and safety of Phoenix Sinclair, they could have followed the money.
The inquiry into the child's short life and brutal death heard testimony from a welfare caseworker Monday morning. The woman, whose identity is hidden under court order, testified welfare kept clear records of who claimed to be caring for Phoenix and who expected compensation for doing so. CFS could have benefited from such a detailed record-keeping system used by social assistance, but that's an aside.
The source of referral (or SOR, as the inquiry calls witnesses whose identities are shielded) set the tone early. I think anyone who works with families has an obligation to look out for the children, she said. Indeed they do, and she tried, contacting CFS when she realized Phoenix was bouncing between her mother and father, both wanting money for looking after their own child.
Because the social assistance computer files can cross-reference claimants, the SOR quickly figured out that Steve Sinclair, Samantha Kematch and Karl McKay (the latter two would go on to murder Phoenix) all claimed to be raising the child at various points. Kematch had filed for, and received, the $477.42 child tax credit attached to Phoenix.
And so the SOR did what she believes any sensible person would do. She got in touch with Phoenix's CFS worker, trying to clear up her concerns. She'd been a little puzzled by the case all along. When she took over Steve Sinclair's case in 2004, he was supposed to be living with a cousin and caring for his daughter. When she talked to him in February 2003, he was essentially homeless, having been kicked out of his place by Manitoba Housing because he hadn't paid the rent. How you manage that while on the dole is a mystery to me, but he managed.
The SOR told Steve he had to find his own place and reclaim his daughter to keep getting benefits for her. He told the SOR Phoenix was staying with her godparents (Kim Edwards and Rohan Stephenson) and he was paying them about $100 a month for food and other necessities. That money, of course, came from the welfare he was getting for Phoenix. Sinclair expressed surprise he was supposed to be finding a job.
On May 21, 2004, the SOR emailed CFS social worker Lisa Conlin, asking her if Phoenix should be removed from Sinclair's welfare budget. Kematch had produced a letter at the social assistance office claiming she'd been looking after Phoenix since November 2003. She wanted financial assistance. The SOR was worried about the child being in her mother's care because she had been told neither parent was supposed to have her.
"If the child has been with the mother from Nov. 7/03 until now like she has stated to our department and legal aid, can you please get back to me as soon as possible," she wrote.
She testified she thought there was a child-safety issue. She sent Conlin another email on May 12.
"Sorry to keep bugging you but other people from the agency are really bugging me," she wrote. "They state their files say nothing about the child not being allowed to stay with mother Samantha Kematch but I do believe you told me the child is not to be in the mothers (sic) care. All I really want to know now is where the child is and for how long just so I can take her off of her father's case."
A CFS memo released at the inquiry Monday showed Kematch had Phoenix in November 2003 but took her to her godparents in January 2004 because she needed "time to set up home." Kematch visited occasionally, the note said. Steve Sinclair didn't visit at all. An April 2004 note said Kematch retrieved her daughter a month earlier. On May 13, 2004, Phoenix was officially removed from her father's social assistance payroll. When the SOR contacted Sinclair on May 17, he claimed he was still raising his child. He folded quickly when presented with the evidence.
Phoenix was added to Karl McKay's file on May 28. He filed for a deficit payment for the time Sinclair claimed to be taking care of Phoenix but Kematch and McKay actually had her.
If CFS had gone looking for the information, they would have had a clear path to the person who was getting welfare cheques to look after Phoenix. Karl McKay had her, along with a woman who was a clear and documented danger to her children.
And that was Monday's heartbreaking testimony. Yes, files were altered and more evidence of CFS malfeasance presented. But the heartbreaker for me is that Phoenix Sinclair was a money-maker for her parents and other so-called caregivers. The records show that while they provided very little actual care, they were quick to expense the system for their troubles.


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Head of Communications
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- Business / Industrial, Charity / Voluntary organisation, Education, Government, Media and New Media
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About the Tony Blair Faith Foundation
In today's world, religion remains at the core of life for billions of people, whilst at the same time, the world continues to become increasingly interconnected. But the majority of conflicts in the world have a religious or cultural dimension, and we have seen faith become hijacked by those who seek to use it for violent and subversive ends.
At the Tony Blair Faith Foundation we believe that understanding and respecting different faiths must be central to securing sustained and informed peace in the world. We advocate a positive alternative by giving voice to those who seek to resolve conflict and ensure peace in the present and for the future. We act, inform and educate about religion in the modern world through:
- Leadership: we seek to ensure that current and future leaders understand the role religion plays in the modern, globalising world.
- Literacy: we educate and support young people to help them become global citizens.
- Lives: we help religious communities in 140+ countries work together to save lives.
About the role
This is an exciting and challenging role at an important time for the Faith Foundation, when it is seeking to increase its public profile. The Head of Communications will be responsible for helping shape and executing the external communications strategy for the Foundation. This is a role that requires a hardworking self-starter with a collaborative and creative approach and the ability to work at a fast pace. The role requires excellent judgement and an understanding of the UK and international media. It also requires the ability to use proactive marketing, and public relations skills.
The Head of Communications will support the delivery of the strategic communications vision of TBFF, by enhancing the public profile of the organisation, ensuring meaningful and purposeful communications across all of our work. They will make sure that in its events and communications, TBFF is seen as a pioneering and innovative thought leader, and funder-friendly organisation.
The Head of Communications will have previous experience in a media, marketing or communications environment, will be confident in dealing with a variety of media outlets and experienced in generating stories and narrative. The nature of the Foundation's international work across multiple time-zones, and different political and cultural systems will require flexibility. They will have some experience in line management, and will report to the Director of Strategy and Communications.
Key responsibilities will include:
Working closely with the Director of Strategy and Communications and other communications staff (including members of the Tony Blair Office team) to help design and execute a proactive communications and brand strategy for the Faith Foundation. This will focus on
- Developing the Foundation as thought leaders around our key themes and our innovative programme models;
- Proactively stimulating debate and analysis around the Foundation's key themes through a variety of means;
- Showcasing the best of the Foundation's impact and activities around the world;
- Ensuring opportunities for Foundation staff, including the CEO, to have a more visible profile.
- Taking responsibility for sourcing, creating and encouraging diverse and interesting content. Working closely with colleagues so that content is co-ordinated appropriately across all our platforms.
- Having an active interest and experience in social and digital media and be a skilled writer, as well as be able to develop relationships with journalists around the world.
- Researching, drafting and writing press releases, briefings, articles, newsletters and content for digital channels relating to the projects and the Foundation as a whole, and providing support on other communications work relating to the projects as required. Proactively sourcing and generating media stories; researching, writing and distributing timely media releases, scripts and briefings.
- Working confidently with senior colleagues and able to manage media around set-piece events, visits and public events. Arranging press conferences, news briefings and media interviews; acting as media spokesperson when appropriate.
Taking responsibility for line management of other members of the communications team
(where necessary), including taking regular supervision and other meetings with them.
Helping monitor media and devise responses across various outlets where necessary, and
work with the rest of the team Providing regular planning reports and·to maintain the communications grid. updates for the Director of Strategy and Communications.
Candidate profile:
We are looking for an experienced, creative and forward looking person who will approach the role
with imagination, energy and enthusiasm. The post-holder will have exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, as they will deal with
people from many different religions, cultures and countries. They will have an understanding and respect of the sensitivities encountered when dealing with a diverse group of people. The postholder will work as part of a team and will also be required to work independently to achieve their personal targets.
The successful candidate will be part of a small but successful team, and should therefore demonstrate the willingness and capacity to multi task and manage own administrative needs, as well as possessing a strong sense of initiative and excellent team-working skills. This is a highly demanding post in an organisation which expects the candidate to deliver high levels
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Treatment barriers are factors that prevent people from seeking or accessing health or mental health services and treatment.
Some of these factors are practical such as the availability of childcare, money for transport. While other factors such as health attitudes and client attitudes and fears including dental phobia and fear of hospital are psychological in origin.
Even when initial contact with services is made, people may continue to have difficulty maintaining contact. So barriers may interefere with treatment compliance and may lead to treatment dropout and treatment refusal
Psychologial barriers to treatment may include:
- Fear of treatment such as ECT, needles dental pain etc.
- Concerns around privacy. eg not wanting to go onto mixed sex wards.
- Concerns over confidentiality.
- Fear of stigma
- Fear of other people in the treatment facility
- Bad previous experience of treatments and or their settings.
A number of assessment tools have beeen developed to assess treatment barriers. These include:
Mental health care barriersEdit
Treatment barriers in substance abuse treatmentEdit
See alsoEdit
- Client participation
- Health care delivery
- Health care utilization
- Health service needs
- Medically related phobias
- Nosocomephobia
- ↑ Allen K, Dixon M. Psychometric assessment of the Allen Barriers to Treatment Instrument. International Journal of Addictions. 1994;29:545–563.
- ↑ Richard C. Rapp, M.S.W., Jiangmin Xu, Ph.D., Carey A. Carr, M.P.H., D. Tim Lane, M.Ed., Jichuan Wang, Ph.D., and Robert Carlson, Ph.D (2006). Treatment barriers identified by substance abusers assessed at a centralized intake unit.J Subst Abuse Treat. 30(3): 227–235. doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2006.01.002 [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1986793/ Full text]
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- Allen K. Development of an instrument to identify barriers to treatment for addicted women, from their perspective. International Journal of Addictions. 1994;29:429–444.


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Every year, the Small Business Administration sponsors and promotes National Small Business Week. This year, it was May 4-8.
And while it's true that small businesses are an essential part of economic growth, research shows it's not the size of the business that drives economic growth, but the age of the business. New businesses, startups, drive most of the hiring and expansion in the U.S.
By Dan Delany
Chief Strategy Officer
Today I learned that my zip code destiny was a C+. Cook County, IL where I grew up currently is about an average place in terms of opportunity for its citizens.
On Tuesday, November 18, the three finalists in NFTE's National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge met President Obama in the White House.
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Are you an entrepreneur? Do you know one? Want to learn more about being an entrepreneur or entrepreneurship?
Here are nine Ted or Tedx videos - talks from Berkley, from a nine year old and an artist - about entrepreneurship you should watch.
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Today, in response to the national youth unemployment rate numbers released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, NFTE CEO Amy Rosen released the following statement: U.S. Youth Unemployment Still More than Three Times National Rate Today, the BLS report on the American employment picture shows a continuing bleak picture for young people - more than one in five of whom (20.2%) are unemployed. Below is a quote from Amy Rosen, CEO of the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, a 26 year old global non-profit which teaches entrepreneurship thinking and employment skills to young people.
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I am Professor and Associate Chair in the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, and a member of the Graphics, Visualization, and Usability (GVU) Center. I received my PhD from the Epistemology and Learning Group at the MIT Media Lab in 1997, and my BA in physics from Harvard University in 1987. I do research on collaborative computing, and am the founder of the ELC research group.
I study how people collaborate to create content online. Working together, people can create new kinds of products that were not previously possible. How do we support them in this creative process, and what new kinds of collaborations might be possible? How do interaction patterns shape the final product? How do software features shape interaction patterns?


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Evolution Hoax
One explanation offered for the origin of birds is the cursorial theory, according to which reptiles' forearms developed into wings as they needed speed in their attempts to catch insects. This theory lacks any scientific evidence. Moreover, insects are definitely able to fly, which means that evolutionists face the problem of the origin of insects. (See The Cursorial Theory.)
A 145-million-year-old fossilized fly. There is no difference between this fossil, found in the Liaoning region of China, and modern flies of the same species.
Flies emerge also suddenly and with their own unique structures in the fossil record. For example, a great many dragonfly fossils from the Pennsylvanian period have been discovered, all identical to present-day specimens.
The interesting fact here is that both dragonflies and flies appear at the same time as species of wingless insects. This invalidates the hypothesis that wingless insects gradually developed wings.
When insect fossils first appear, in the Middle and Upper Carboniferous, they are diverse and for the most part fully winged. There are a few primitively wingless forms, but no convincing intermediates are known.99
One important feature of those flies that emerge suddenly in the fossil record is their extraordinary flight techniques. Human beings cannot raise and lower their arms ten times a second, yet the average fly can flap its wings 500 times a second. Moreover, both wings beat simultaneously. The slightest irregularity in wing beats will upset the insect's balance, but this never occurs.
The better we understand the functioning of insect wings, the more subtle and beautiful their designs appear . . . Insect wings combine both in one, using components with a wide range of elastic properties, elegantly assembled to allow appropriate deformations in response to appropriate forces and to make the best possible use of the air. They have few if any technological parallels--yet.100
99. R. J. Wootton, C. P. Ellington, "Biomechanics & the Origin of Insect Flight," Biomechanics in Evolution, ed. J. M. V. Rayner & R. J. Wootton, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, p. 99.
100. J. Robin Wootton, "The Mechanical Design of Insect Wings," Scientific American, vol. 263, November 1990, p. 120.


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Calor League South & West
Bridgwater Town 4, Stratford Town 3
BRIDGWATER Town signed off the season in impressive fashion, coming out on the right end of a seven goal thriller at Fairfax Park.
Goals from man of the match, Jake Mawford, Tom Knighton, Karim Rendell and an own goal fired the Robins to victory, as they secured a 14th place finish in Calor League South & West.
Bridgwater went ahead after just three minutes as Mawford curled home a superb effort from the edge of the penalty area.
But Stratford surged back into the game and drew level on 16 minutes thanks to a neat finish from Chris Sterling.
Sterling struck again four minutes later to turn the tables and put the visitors ahead for the first time in the game.
Not to be denied, Tom Knighton levelled things up for Rich Fey's side on the half hour mark, as he capitalised on a lame punch from Stratford 'keeper Sam Brady.
And Bridgwater were soon back in the lead courtesy of a goal straight from a corner kick, from Kyle Tooze, with Brady again at fault.
The second half was a far quieter affair and it wasn't until four minutes from time that Bridgwater made the points safe.
Karim Rendell supplied the cool finish following good work from Tooze, to put the game out of sight.
There was still time for Stratford to score a third, with Tyrone Fagan popping up in injury time - but it was too little too late for the visitors, as Bridgwater rounded off the season in style.


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Philip Hudson wrote:Dawkins is a philosophical dinosaur. He rehashes hundred-year-old arguments as if he discovered them himself. While I am not a follower of modern philosophy, I know that rational thought has by-and-large gone by the way and the avant-garde is way into subjectivism. This might be seen as the rantings of a red-neck, mesquite tree pseudo-philosopher, I am what I am. But I respect everyone's right to an opinion.
He seems pretty fresh to me and I think his accolades speak for themselves. I would hardly describe Dawkins as avant-garde though of course if that is your belief, I might struggle to reconcile that with being a dinosaur? I'm fairly certain that rational is a better label for his work - which is accessible and well reasoned - than the profectitious myths of religion, either current or now discarded. Surely any religion is the antithesis of rational, enjoy it or not?


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Skills: 8-12 years as an Oracle DBA
Length: 3-6 months
As the Oracle DBA, you will be the go-to person for all administration of our 11i and Application Server 10g clients. This activity includes the primary responsibility of the day-to-day DB maintenance and operation of Oracle 10g environments to include performance diagnosis and tuning, operations monitoring, application tuning, query tuning, troubleshooting, and application-level change control migration.
You will also be responsible for the following key performance areas:
- Support multiple Oracle instances and Discoverer 10g administration
- Identify and install all upgrades and patching fixes
- Interact with Oracle technical support
- Support database clean-up, archiving, and architecture efforts
- Manage day-to-day communication with Linux, NT, and network administrators
- Identify opportunities to improve the application support process and administration
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If using small cups and popsicle sticks, partially freeze the juice in the cups, and insert the sticks when about half frozen so that they stand up straight. Continue to freeze until solid.
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August 22, 2012
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. – Coach Bobby Blanken and his Lady Mustangs kicked off their 2012 campaign with ferocity as TMC upset No. 23 CSU SanMarcos Cougars in front of a packed home crowd on Tuesday night in four sets (23-25, 25-23, 25-22, 25-16) at Bross Gymnasium.
TMC and CSUSM traded scoring spurts in the first set which kept the match close at 12-12. The Mustangs would then give up a 20-14 lead as the Cougars would capitalize off a 11-3 run. With the game tied at 23-23, the Cougars did not allow TMC to take the lead back as Taylor Degraaf would tally the final point and allow CSUSM to take the set by a score of 25-23 with one of her game-high 13 kills.
In the second set, the two teams rallied back and forth as they battled to an 18-18 tie. TMC's Ashley Newton (Henderson, NV) came up big and secured the set at 25-23. Newton later finished the night with 12 kills and four digs.
The Mustangs then used the momentum provided by 600 some-odd attendees and battled through a close third set. Both teams jockied for the lead until the Mustangs went on a 6-3 run. Master's lead grew to 19-15 before sloppy play slowed the game down, allowing CSU San Marcos to crawl back into the game. TMC finished off the set at 25-22 with a decisive kill by Ashley Newton.
The Mustangs came out swinging in the fourth set as coach Blanken and his squad notched an early 8-2 run. TMC never really let the Cougars back into the game as the Mustangs secured the victory at the tune of 25-16. In all, the Mustangs delivered a barrage of attacks and hit .323 on the evening.
"Our girls have been working really hard with two-a-days for the past two weeks" states Mustang coach Bobby Blanken on the season opener. "We're very happy with the way that we prepared. With the squad practicing in the heat for the past two weeks, it's moments like these that make all the hard work pay off. However, this is the beginning of a long journey and we don't want to put the 'cart-in-front-of-the-horse'."
The Mustangs have little time to dwell on their victory as the squad will travel to Biola University and participate in the 2012 Biola Summer Slam. The Lady Mustangs will return to action on Thursday afternoon as they take on #8 Lewis & Clark State (ID) at 12:30 PM.


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I'm trying to write a small email checking client which will pop up a window in the lower right corner when there's new mail, and where the window will go away when it is clicked on.
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So NotifyWindow is just a QWidget containing a single button which holds the text I want to display. When I test it out in the shell, it displays and vanishes when it should, with the text it should. keep_checking_gmail does what its name suggests, and it tells the NotifyWindow when and what to display. When I run this main method, it all seems to work correctly until it actually gets its first new email registered, then the NotifyWindow tries to show up, but never actually gets painted to the screen (it's all white) and I get an hourglass when I hover the pointer over the NotifyWindow. This continues (with the thread still chugging along in the background) until I kill the process or the program simply exits without an error message.
While I don't really know where in my code the problem is, I'm displaying the main method since that's almost the only thing that's run outside of the keep_checking_gmail function. Any help would be appreciated.
I'm using PyQt5 for Python 3.3 and Windows 7.
Note: I am terrible at GUI programming in any language. Please forgive me if this is a really stupid error on my part.


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The Way To A Strong & Independent Mind
At Assumption College we believe that how you learn is as important as what you learn. Yes, we help students compete for the best jobs and careers — but there's more to it than that. At Assumption, you'll develop the tools of reason and judgment and spark a confidence and strong sense of self that enables you to make sense of and contribute to an increasingly complex world.


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MOPA Presents After Ansel Adams
San Diego, Calif. – The Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA) wants to show you our National Parks. Anchored by Ansel Adams, arguably the most recognizable name in landscape photography, their upcoming exhibition, After Ansel Adams, features a number of his images plus photographs from nine other contemporary artists.
All the images in this exhibition were photographed in National Parks of the American West and the photographers bring a variety of styles and practices to landscape photography.
"While some of these artists are directly influenced by Ansel Adams, all of them are working in the landscapes Adams connected with on a deep emotional level," stated Chantel Paul, Assistant Curator at MOPA. "The photographs in this exhibition are diverse in their ability to capture the essence of the natural beauty available in these spaces as well as convey ideas of emotion beyond a documentation of place."
While the selection of images is centered around the familiar terrain of US National Parks, the work itself demonstrates the ability of the artist to create an image all their own. The similarities and differences in the featured photographs demonstrate that at the core of any great artistic work is a unique idea and vision.
"A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety."
- Ansel Adams
The featured photographers are:
Ansel Adams
Matthew Brandt
Bin Danh
Mark Klett & Byron Wolfe
Michael Lundgren
Chris McCaw
Takeshi Shikama
Millee Tibbs
Donna J. Wan
After Ansel Adams will be on display from May 17 through September 28, 2014 at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park.
For additional information please visit www.mopa.org/After-Ansel-Adams
Press Opportunities: To request high-resolution images, additional information or to schedule an interview, please contact Danny Cappiello at 619.238.7559 X203 or via email (email@example.com).
MOPA Information: MOPA is a center for visual learning, passionately dedicated to sharing and exploring the universal language of photography, film and video. Learn more at MOPA.org.


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iPhone 3GS (New)
I've been holding out on getting an iPhone all this time in the hopes that Apple would finetune it til it reached perfection and I think this iPhone 3.0 is it. It comes with an awesome video feature so now I don't have to get a Flip Video and it also has voice control. I want to marry this iPhone.


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They have to be joking, an unlocked 16GB 5C is 469 UKP including taxes, whereas a Moto G 16GB unlocked is 159 UKP including taxes. Punters in the UK that want an inexpensive unlocked PAYG smartphone certainly are not looking at Apple while there are decent Android phones available for far less dough
It's about time they saw the light!
Welcome aboard!
Strange how another site says "Analysts with Kantar Worldpanel ComTech found that over the third quarter of this year, Apple saw its share of the market in Germany, France, and the UK decline over the same period in 2012, a sign that the release of the iPhone 5s and 5c failed to attract consumers as did the launch of the iPhone 5."
iPhone slips in Europe as Windows Phone claims OVER 10% market share ⢠The Register
Nice wording in the title! The use of the word defecting works perfectly.
AndroidFixation's channel - YouTube if its OK with ModmyI.
this article is pure garbage. what are the numbers? people polled? carriers polled? retailers polled? Im sure by now you've seen that other garbage article floating around apple-land where supposedly Android users in India are flocking to the iPhone 5C--you know, the phone that's so massively popular that apple cut orders for it nearly by half just 30 days after it launched !!!
In the Indian article., they surveyed 3, yes 3 retail locations to come to their conclusion that the 5C is outting the S4 in India !! a whopping 3 guys out of a country of what, 1.237 Billion people.
If you can come back here with the source of this nonsense I'll eat my hat--on my youtube channel while holding my Air and praising it for being the best tablet I've ever had.
Your Bluetooth video shows that by design iPhones won't pair to Samsung devices. Makes perfect sense to me.
Not that I am trying to start any argument but it was my understanding that Apple cut production of the 5c in the U.S. as it was not selling due to most people here not wanting plastic phones. I know in my company most of the Smartphones were Android, except for myself a our managers but when the 5S came out most everyone switched to the iPhone, except for one guy that kept his Verizon S4.
Man it's just a phone. You like your android ? Cool. We like our iPhones. That's why we joined here. And honestly , I don't care what other people use. 12 years ago when I had a iMac and an eMac..... Every windows user used to gun me down when I said I didn't know anything about windows operating system. And for basically owning a Mac. But every time I sat down at my computer, I did whatever I wanted to do ....play online, listen to
Tunes...etc.... All my friends spent at least 25% of their time working on their pc's. dells and toshibas mostly. So it's whatever floats your boat. It's just an article. Just some random facts about 3 months of a certain year in a particular part of the world. Why is it so important ? Why is it equally important that you have to disprove any article posted at this site about iPhone in relation to sales or comparison to android? Are you bill Gates nephew ? Lol
you also see that iDevices dont even want to pair with each other, there are 3 of them in this video so it makes no sense to me. they don't pair with lots of things including a 2013 Ford Escape.
who wants to hope that BT will work with other devices?
the 5 should have been the budget phone which is what the 5C is but housed in plastic.
I almost never use Bluetooth, but the last vaca I took, I had a car that had it and it synced right up. That's my only experience with it.
Only really useful thing bluetooth is good for now is probably headsets and car hands free units. My wife uses one in the car and has never had an issue with it with her i5.
Oh, and in case you didn't realize jonGarett, this post below was directed at you. Read it, take it in, try and understand what hemp is trying to say here. Because quite honestly the whole android troll thing is old and tired now. We are over it. You like androids? That's great man, so do a lot of people, so do I. A lot of people like iOS devices too, including me. Why does this bother you so much?
To get actually results of the iPhone 5C being a win or loss would be to compare the iPhone 4 sales AFTER THE RELEASE of the iPhone 4S.
The iPhone 5C is nothing more then the iPhone 5 with different case.
Everyone who bought an iPhone 4 after the iPhone 5 was release got the phone for $0 w/ contract. However they bought a phone that was nearly 2 ½ years. Now, Apple drops all old phones and released 2 per year to avoid this type of issue. Each phone is released with the hardware to keep it up to date for future software updates.
Apple Release Dates
iPhone 4 - June 15, 2010
iPhone 4S - October 4, 2011
iPhone 5 - September 21, 2012
In relation to the article: It's nice to switch things up some or maybe they finally bit the bullet and paid the extra money to see what the iPhone is really about.
All Android owners I know have never had an iPhone due to the initial cost vs. the $0 Android. I'm not saying this is all or even a majority but there is still a significant group that only has an Android b/c it's cheap and not because the prefer it. Touting numbers is a silly game anyway. Let's ask the BILLION dollar question…. How many of the Android phones are free? Not much profit in free.


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Security Council: Statement by Ambassador Wittig on Post Conflict Peacebuilding
(Security Council: Statement as delivered by Ambassador Wittig in an Open Debate on Post Coflict Peacebuilding)
"Thank you, Mr. President,
As this is most likely the last public meeting of the Council in which I will have the honour to speak as the representative of Germany in the course of my country's current term on the Council, I would like to express my delegations gratitude to you and all Members of the Council for the excellent cooperation we have enjoyed during the last two years. It was a gratifying experience to work with all of you !
I also wish to express my delegation's sincere appreciation and thanks to the Security Council secretariat team led by Movses Abelian and to all other staff members of the United Nations, not to forget the interpreters, who have worked behind the scenes, for their professionalism und unwavering support during this period.
As we leave the Council, we will continue to serve the United Nations family as best we can, based on the very same principles that have guided us during these two years. Our best wishes accompany the five new incoming members.
Now on peacebuilding:
Let me begin by thanking you for organizing today's debate on Peacebuilding in the aftermath of conflict and for preparing a Presidential Statement which we fully support.
Let me also thank the Secretary-General as well as the Chairperson of the PBC, Ambassador Abdul Momen, for their insightful statements.
Germany aligns itself with the EU-statement to be delivered later on.
We share the analysis of the Secretary-General's report that progress has been achieved: in strengthening and expanding partnerships of the UN in the area of peacebuilding, including with International Financial Institutions, in launching the UN Civilian Capacities Initiative, in improving coordination between UN missions and country teams on the ground, and in providing timely support during critical phases of transition through the UN Peacebuilding Fund, to name just a few areas.
However, much more needs to be done in order to deliver on commitments and to further enhance impact on the ground. We need to continue to adapt our engagement in peacebuilding to changing and evolving circumstances in countries emerging from conflict. This also requires a regular (re-)assessment of the actual impact and effectiveness of our engagement on a post-conflict country's capacity to achieve its national peacebuilding goals.
In this context, let me briefly highlight four points that seem of particular importance to us:
1. Institution building and capacity building:
We need to understand the term institution-building in a very broad sense. This is the approach Germany adopts in its bilateral development cooperation. "Institution-building", or rather, "state-building", is not only about constructing government institutions and state capacity. It is about the whole social fabric of a society; about how a state interacts with its society. Thus, guaranteeing active participation of women, supporting the establishment of a vibrant civil society or integrating former child-soldiers into their local communities can equally be part of institution-building. Also, we must think in medium- and long-term perspectives. We all know: building states from scratch takes decades, not years. We therefore strongly support the Secretary-General's call on governments and their international partners to carefully pace, sequence and adjust institutional reform programmes, balancing long-term support for institution building with the need to achieve early and tangible outcomes through the restoration of core government functions and service delivery.
In this context, the UN's Civilian Capacity Initiative is a crucial tool in ensuring the transfer of knowledge on how to build institutions and how to train the people who will run those institutions. We welcome the establishment of the online platform CAPMATCH that connects those seeking expertise with potential providers, fostering, in particular, South-South and triangular cooperation.
2. Women`s engagement in Peacebuilding:
Every conflict is unique. There is no one-size-fits-all-approach. However, in all stages of the process of building peace, negotiating peace agreements or introducing development programmes we need a stronger role for women. We take note of the so far modest progress on the implementation of the Secretary-General's Seven-Point Action Plan on gender-responsive peacebuilding, bearing in mind that ensuring women's participation in peacebuilding is first and foremost the responsibility of national actors. It requires a sincere and long-term commitment to a full inclusion of women into national policies. We support the Secretary-General in his call on UN entities and Member States to take more systematic action to ensure women's participation in peace processes and to report to the Security Council on the concrete results of efforts in ensuring that gender-relevant provisions are included in ceasefire and peace agreements. Let me share with you that yesterday the Federal Government adopted the first German National Action Plan to implement Security Council resolution 1325 on women, peace and security. It should intensify and better coordinate our efforts to promote the role of women in peacebuilding.
3. On the role of the Peacebuilding Commission, I would like to reiterate that the PBC must make better use of the political leverage of its individual members. PBC member states need to do better in assisting the PBC Chairs in their important work. Members of the PBC Organizational Committee and the PBC country configurations have a responsibility to help the PBC having a true impact on the ground. The PBC was created from members of different UN bodies, including from seven members of this Council, precisely for the reason that these members bring in their political weight and experience from other bodies into the PBC's activities. The intergovernmental nature of the PBC needs to be much better used in order to support countries on its agenda in achieving their peacebuilding priorities.
Furthermore, the PBC Organizational Committee can be better in taking advantage of its unique intergovernmental structure. It thus potentially could serve as an ideal platform, a "connecting tissue", to create stronger links between developments that have taken place outside of the UN, such as activities of the World Bank, but also initiatives such as the New Deal, agreed upon in Busan in 2011, with the UN peacebuilding agenda.
Fourth and lastly: Peacebuilding and the Post 2015 process:
Progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals has been slow in fragile or conflict-ridden countries. The Rio+20 outcome document notes that countries in situations of conflict need special attention in achieving sustainable development and that this requires good governance, the rule of law and effective, transparent, accountable and democratic institutions. Any post-2015 process will also have to tackle the root causes of conflict. Germany therefore welcomes the Secretary-General's call on Member States to support the incorporation of peace and security considerations in the post-2015 development agenda. The PBC could facilitate constructive dialogue in this regard.
Mr. President,
While several countries appear to be graduating from fragility, there is scope to maximise the impact of peacebuilding efforts by further developing our strategic approaches and by bridging the gap between policies conceived in New York and their successful implementation on the ground.
Germany has supported the Peace Building Fund with a new contribution of 6,5 Mio. US $ in 2012, thus bringing up our combined contribution to 25 Mio US$. My country stands ready to work with the countries emerging from conflict, the UN and all relevant stakeholders.
I thank you, Mr. President !"


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1912 — Pennsylvania
The Charleroi Mail Newspaper - Monday, March 18, 1912
Famous "Greene County Giant" Dies at Washington Hospital
WILLIAM P. BANE, aged 63, better known as "Pat" Bane, the "Greene county giant," died at the Washington Hospital Saturday night. He spent the greater part of his life in Washington and Greene counties.
Bane served with the Ringgold Battalion in the Civil War and was reputed to be the tallest man in the Federal army. In his prime he measured seven feet four inches and weighed 300 pounds. He has attended practically all the national encampments of the G. A. R. and his figure became familiar from coast to coast. In parades he was usually placed at the head of the column to carry the flag.
Bane has visited Charleroi several times. His most notable visit was during the Ringgold Reunion that was held here some years ago. Bane was an expert shingle maker and spent much of his time after the Civil war among relatives in Greene county pursuing his trade.
The coffin in which "Pat" will be buried on Wednesday with full military honors will be the largest ever ordered from Washington measuring seven and one-half feet.