Have high level verbal and written Japanese (native or near native).
Closing Date: 23.59, 16th January 2019.
Interview Date: 18th January 2019.
Please note due to the tight turn around for the class the interview date is not flexible on this occasion.


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Leading the Way...One Newscast at a Time!
There is nothing more powerful in the realm of education than the voice of our students. Allowing students to deeply root themselves into the culture of a school by sharing what they are passionate about, enables the school culture to thrive. Prairie View Elementary school does just that with their Leader Vision crew. What started as a club sponsored by a Northwest ISD Education Foundation (NEF) grant in 2018, has grown into a pivotal communication tool for the school.
Every single day, the Leader Vision team, championed by Mrs. Tiffany Dold and Mrs. Jennifer Casey, Prairie View Elementary's Library Media Specialist and GATES teacher, respectively, sets the tone for great learning through the broadcasting of their completely student-driven newscast. Leader Vision brings the news daily to the kids at our school and keeps them informed of events and opportunities happening on our campus. Teachers come to the team with special announcements or segments to add in. Mrs. Dold believes this program benefits PVE by giving students and teachers ownership of school announcements, making this a relevant source of information for the campus. Mrs. Casey shares that they constantly talk about the habits as part of our Leader Vision group, as expectations to uphold in the classroom, as well as brainstorming ideas for the segment about LIM. Students create content to teach the 8 Habits of Leader in Me on the announcements such as providing examples how to live the Habits, hand motions, and reminders about each habit.
Because of this illustrious morning announcement crew, in one week PVE was able to increase campus DI enrollment by 500%. To ensure that everyone has their voice heard on campus, the team also includes a Language of the Week segment where the Dual Language Hawk Leaders teach the campus Spanish phrases. During Hispanic Heritage month, 2nd – 5th grade Dual Language students created more culture and historical awareness by researching and preparing a report on an important Hispanic person.
So how does this well-oiled machine function so that everyone has the opportunity to listen to the newscast during their Hawk Huddle? Students were divided into teams of broadcasters and given one day of the week to plan and broadcast. The students were given a template to use to plan the broadcasts. Then they collect the information needed (lunch menus, birthdays, campus news, and Habit of the week, etc.) and brainstorm ideas for specific segments. This 9 weeks we are really challenging the kids to draw on their own LIM experiences to add to the broadcast. There are two cameramen/producers that are responsible for setting up the mic, preparing the recording area, using the recording software, editing, and uploading the final broadcast. This process starts with these students preparing the iPad for filming and ensuring that they have created the background image. This year the Leader Vision is using DoInk, a greenscreen app, that allows their students to have full control over what the newscast looks like. The producers record their video, apply the desired background, and export the video to YouTube. The final step of the process is to upload the video directly into the Google Site that is shared across the entire campus. This process seems intense, does it not? The amazing fact is that this group functions so well that all of this happens within the span of about 15 minutes before the final bell rings to start the day of learning. That is efficiency at its finest.
When asked about future goals for the Leader Vision Program, Mrs. Casey and Mrs. Dold shared the following aspirations. Casey expressed that, "We would like to involve more kids in the news broadcast. In the spring, we will hold auditions again to rebuild and train a new crew for our departing 5th graders. Flipgrid helped us to determine a student's on screen presence and a google form let us know about the applicants and their interest in Leader Vision." Dold added, "We also have a long term goal of live announcements and a short term goal of pre-recording everyday."
When we asked these young newscasters what they enjoy about the Leader Vision program the most, one student shared that, "He enjoyed being part of a team that was beneficial to the school and being able to film on the iPad." Another student shared that her favorite part was "recording and being able to tell students about the lunch menu and birthdays."
Though this writer may be signing off for now, one thing is for certain; the Leader Vision crew will continue to deliver the news and drive the Prairie View Hawks forward toward success.
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Cancer research at SSIM is currently focused on the use of Raman spectroscopy to identify and detect cancerous tissues down to the cell level, as described below. These technologies will enable realtime diagnosis and treatment of cancers in the operating room.
If you are interested in any SSIM project as an investor, philanthropist, or potential partner, please email dellis@diref.org or complete the short form at the bottom of this page.
Handheld MicroRaman Based in vivo Detection and Identification of Brain GBM, Necrosis, and Normal Tissue
We are performing research for the in vivo distinguishing or detection of normal, necrosis, and glioblastoma regions and their boundaries by a hand held Micro Raman Spectroscopy device and software algorithms. Raman spectroscopy is a non-destructive surface technique which provides a molecular signature of the region under examination. When light is incident on a sample, most of it is scattered back at the same energy and wavelength. However, in rare cases (1 in 107 photons), there is an energy exchange between the incident photon and the molecule under examination, causing the scattered photon to shift its wavelength, called the Raman effect.
We currently have a Raman unit in the Henry Ford Health Systems Neurosurgery OR investigating real time diagnosis under an approved IRB. We have performed 100 cases and over 500 spectra. The results are very encouraging as we can tell in real time tumor, gray matter, and white matter which is critical to tumor boundary identification and patient outcome.
Raman Spectroscopy, Fluorescence, and X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Imaging of Lung Tissue
Multimodal advanced imaging techniques (specifically Raman spectroscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy, and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy {XPS}) can provide synergistic atomic and molecular information which can elucidate mechanisms of change in smoking and in lung cancer. This is joint with HFHS Pulmonary.
Raman Spectroscopy and X-Ray Photoelectron Analysis to Understand Atomic Changes Associated with Breast Cancer (with NCI)
This program maps out the molecular and chemical makeup of breast cancer. A joint program with NCI. The work provides molecular signatures of 80 breast cancer tumors from a small area in Poland that has high cancer rates. Molecular makeup and chemical constituents are correlated with outcomes to aid in determining what makes certain breast cancers resistant to treatment and others responsive. On a molecular level we seek to determine why some cancers are aggressive and others less invasive.
Raman Study of Thyroid Needle Biopsies for Real-Time Diagnosis
Patients undergoing FNA biopsy at the 5A UHC clinic were invited to participate in the study. After providing informed consent, patients underwent a routine FNA procedure using 4 passes per nodule (27 gauge needle). An on-site cytopathology team evaluated samples at the time of the procedure by staining using two needle rinse samples for cell block. If those samples were adequate for routine diagnosis, the remaining two samples were saved for Raman spectroscopy. Each pass was treated as a unique sample. In cases where additional material was needed for routine cytopathology, it took precedence over Raman specimens. In cases where no full passes were available for Raman spectroscopy, a portion of needle rinse was requested from cytology. At a later date, the patient's medical records were reviewed for final cytopathologic and, if available, surgical diagnosis.
While the samples obtained and measured over the course of the study period did not display the range of clinical diagnoses we had hoped for, we were able to make significant progress toward developing a protocol for testing cells from thyroid fine needle aspiration, and in developing a Raman spectral database of cells from thyroid nodules. Spectra of three distinct cell types were measured, including platelets, presumed nodular cells, and an unknown cell type, and we began to work towards defining distinct Raman signatures of cells from colloid nodules versus follicular nodules.
Toward the goal of obtaining spectra from a larger variety of thyroid pathologies, we have developed a human subjects protocol to obtain cell scrapings from excised thyroid tumors. We feel that this will aid in rapidly developing a database of known cell types, as the diagnosis of the excised tissue can be obtained directly from the surgical pathology report, and abundant cells will be available for measurement.
In future work, we will also explore the use of immunohistochemistry and other dyes/stains which can be applied to provide accurate diagnosis of single cell measurements.


THERE are no new government secrets in Daniel Ellsberg's ''Secrets.'' But you can hardly blame him for finally ruminating after the age of 71 on the familiar yet still startling events 30 years ago when his history and the nation's fatefully collided.
For a new generation, here is the story of how Ellsberg, a former Pentagon and State Department official and defense consultant at the Rand Corporation, came to appropriate a top-secret 7,000-page government archive on the history of America's catastrophic war in Vietnam and how he gave it to The New York Times in 1971 at considerable personal risk in the hope that proof of presidential deceits would shock the nation into a withdrawal from Southeast Asia. That archive came to be known as the Pentagon papers and prompted a landmark ruling by the Supreme Court against practically every kind of censorship on national security grounds.
But the war slogged on while the papers provoked an even more dramatic turn. A furious President Richard Nixon, frantic to prevent further leaks, set out not only to prosecute but also to smear Ellsberg personally by creating a hit team of ''plumbers'' to rifle the files of his former psychoanalyst. That break-in and other governmental misconduct destroyed the legal case against Ellsberg, but the plumbers survived to run other White House errands. And their break-in at the Watergate offices of the Democratic Party in 1972 eventually caused Nixon to commit obstruction of justice, the cover-up of which led in 1974 to the threat of his impeachment, his resignation and -- at long last -- the collapse of America's defense of a non-Communist South Vietnam.
An obviously intelligent, highly emotional and impulsive man, Ellsberg tracks the evolution of his sense of patriotism from bureaucrat to whistleblower. From his first days as a Pentagon aide and analyst in 1964, he saw how the bonds of secrecy and loyalty caused even the highest officials to suppress their doubts about presidential policy and to lie in its defense. On daring ventures into combat to report on conditions in Vietnam, he recognized the futility of the American cause and the fakery of internal reports of progress there.
Not until he got to work on the history that become known as the Pentagon papers, however, did he decide that the more serious lying ran in the opposition direction -- that every president back to Truman had simultaneously misled the public about our right to interfere in Vietnam and our chances, with every military escalation, for success. America was bleeding for stalemate at best, to avoid losing terrain to the Communists and votes at home. ''For Kennedy, as for Johnson, in fact, it was the president who was deceiving the public, not his subordinates who were deceiving him,'' Ellsberg writes.
There are, of course, more generous interpretations of presidential action, but Ellsberg no longer credits them. As he himself once believed, American leaders thought that Communist advances in nations left divided after World War II -- Germany and Korea as well as Vietnam -- had to be resisted to avoid a wider war. Their further belief that North Vietnam's attacks on the South were part of a global Chinese-Soviet aggression was surely a terrible mistake, as was the hope that a military stalemate would eventually produce a negotiated compromise that would preserve the credibility of other American commitments. Not all misjudgments, however, are crimes.
And so Ellsberg removed the stamps of ''Top Secret'' on every page and furtively photocopied the documents that he thought proved his case. He hoped in vain that critics of the war in Congress would publish them (at less risk to himself). That failing, and believing that Nixon would keep on fighting and bombing even as he slowly withdrew American ground troops, Ellsberg finally released the papers in a conspiratorial dance with the Times correspondent Neil Sheehan. When the courts temporarily stopped The Times from publication, he gave the papers to The Washington Post, and parts of them to a dozen other publications. The Pentagon history stopped in 1968, but Nixon feared that other disclosures would reflect on him as well as on the Democrats. So he called for his plumbers, and drowned in their criminal flood.
There remains, however, a vexing personal secret at the heart of the Ellsberg morality tale: what peculiar combination of genes, brains and circumstance produced such an adventurer? Ellsberg repeatedly risked life and limb in Vietnam for a few morsels of information and takes obvious pleasure now in reproducing long, indeed tedious accounts of his derring-do. As a Marine officer and civilian cold warrior, he was drawn to the thick of the action and came to feel superior to those who shunned such risk. And so it was when he switched sides, longing for a leading role in the army of war resisters. Neither modesty nor moderation are much in evidence in his life and memoir.
So why not truly reveal himself? Readers should feel cheated by Ellsberg's reluctance to surrender more of his inner loves and torments. The drama of his life lay in his extreme exchange of idols, as he puts it, from the worship of a gun-toting John Wayne to the veneration of pacifist fighters like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. Yet the crucial moments of his transformations are only sparingly examined.
What is the meaning and relevance of the cryptic fact that Ellsberg was raised as a Christian by Christian Scientist parents, but told by his father that ''we were Jews, though 'not in religion' ''? What was his upbringing and schooling? Why psychoanalysis? And was it only coincidence that his shifts of public career and conviction ran parallel to his private affections?
It was when married to the daughter of a Marine colonel that Ellsberg became a Marine officer, ''enjoyed'' life as a platoon leader in a rifle company and extended his term of service to stay with his unit in a Middle East hot spot. Years later, while he was awaiting divorce, his first date with Patricia Marx took him to a protest rally against the Vietnam war. But when he then misinterpreted her ''burst of feeling for a radical German poet,'' he suddenly fled the safety of the Pentagon and volunteered for high-risk missions in Vietnam.
All these obviously influential female and family spirits make only cameo appearances in Ellsberg's memoir. He has left room for a genuinely revealing sequel.


We are responsible for the maintenance of the cemetery grounds which includes hedge cutting and grass cutting. We also maintain the churchyard. As it is a country cemetery, special consideration is given to conserving and promoting flora and fauna and there are designated conservation areas where wildlife is encouraged. It is also home to some rare plants and fungi and they are protected as part of the maintenance programme.
The Lychgate at the entrance is owned by the Parish Council and, although it looks much older, was built around the turn of the twentieth century. Here on a notice board you will find details of our maintenance programme and a fascinating account of the type of wildlife and plants that can be seen on a walk through the cemetery. It is intended that the cemetery is a peaceful place for quiet reflection and we strive to maintain it to a high standard. In return we ask our visitors to observe the rules of the cemetery.
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Q: What are the relations and differences between formal systems, rewriting systems, formal grammars and automata? I  learned from  Herre & Schroeder-Heister's "Formal Languages and Systems" that

A formal system is based on a formal language $L$, endowing it with a consequence
operation $C: 2^L\to 2^L$.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rewriting says

In mathematics, computer science, and logic, rewriting covers a wide
range of (potentially non-deterministic) methods of replacing subterms
of a formula with other terms. The objects of focus for this article
include rewriting systems (also known as rewrite systems, rewrite
engines1 or reduction systems). In their most basic form, they
consist of a set of objects, plus relations on how to transform those
objects.

It lists

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*abstract rewriting systems,

*string rewriting systems, and

*term rewriting systems
(After reading them, I am not very sure of the differences   between the three.)
What are the relations and differences between formal systems, rewriting systems (including the three listed), formal grammars and automata  (considering their state transition functions)?

*

*Is a rewriting system a formal system?
Is a formal system a rewriting system? (Both seem yes to me, because the consequence operation and rewriting rules seem the same.)

*Is a formal grammar a rewriting system?
Is a formal grammar a formal system? (Both seem yes to me, because the grammar rules seem to be both consequence operation and rewriting rules.)

*Is an automaton a rewriting system?
Is an automaton a formal system?  (Both seem yes to me, because the state transition functions seem to be both consequence operation and rewriting rules.)
Thanks.

A: None of the notions you list (formal system, abstract/string/term rewriting system, formal grammar, automaton) has a single, widely accepted formal definition. Automata in particular come in hundreds of different flavors. For each of my general definitions below you can find a book or article that uses the notion in a different way.
A formal system often consists of a language $L \subset \Sigma^*$ of valid formulas and a set of inference rules of the form $I \subset L^{n+1}$ that allow the deduction of a new formula from $n$ known formulas: $(v_1, \ldots, v_n, w) \in L$ intuitively means that the statement $w$ can be deduced/computed/produced from $v_1, \ldots, v_n$. Sometimes (some of) the $v_i$ are consumed in a deduction step and cannot be reused. Sometimes axioms from which the deductions start are part of the definition. We may then be interested in the language of those formulas that can be reached from the axioms by iterating the deduction relation, or maybe the dynamics of the relation itself. Herre and Schroeder-Heister have decided to use a more general abstract definition that nevertheless corresponds to an intuition of producing new formulas from existing ones in discrete steps.
A string rewriting system, in general, consists of a relation $R \subset (\Sigma^*)^2$, where $(v, w) \in R$ is understood as "$v$ can be transformed into $w$". It can be seen as a formal system with only one inference rule that has $n = 1$. We can split $R$ into more than one rule if we want to differentiate between them for some reason. Rewriting systems are used to model computation, especially if the rewriting relation is local in the sense that it only contains pairs of the form $(a v b, a w b)$ for $a, b \in \Sigma^*$ and $v, w \in F \subset \Sigma^*$, where $F$ is finite (or otherwise "small" or "simple"). There may be a special initial word from which the computation starts, and/or a sub-language where it halts. Abstract and term rewriting systems are similar, but instead of words, they use elements of some abstract set or labeled trees, respectively.
A formal grammar is usually a specific kind of rewriting system where the alphabet is divided into terminal and nonterminal symbols, and all inference rules are local and involve a nonterminal on the LHS. The computation starts from a specific initial nonterminal and halts when the word contains only terminals. The set of possible resulting words is the language defined by the grammar.
An automaton models a physical device that performs computation by processing a string given as input. It typically has a finite set $Q$ of internal states and a "head" that moves over the input and scans it one symbol at a time. It may be allowed to move freely on the input, or only in one direction. In addition, it may have counters, pebbles, stacks, read-write tapes or other types of memory that it can use. A typical automaton accepts an input word if it eventually reaches an accepting state (which are just some subset of $Q$). In this way it defines a language. Most automata can be simulated by rewriting systems, and in some books they are defined as specific kinds of rewriting systems. In addition to finite words, automata can be defined on infinite words, trees, graphs etc. and they can compute functions instead of deciding language membership.

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There are many tools comes default in Windows. we can use those tools for doing some options. For example :- Calculator and Character Map (which will display all fonts with character), we can copy the character which we want and paste no need to know what key we need to press in keyboard.
Here is the few list of useful commands for Windows.
Hi these idea very nice….
but may i know why some commands in this list are not worked say like appwiz.cpl. it not works for me?
Most of the commands are XP base.. and few are not working in Vista or Win 7 & 8..


The outlook for a radio reading service for the blind and visually impaired in the Pittsburgh area is unclear, a consequence of the pending sale of WDUQ(FM).
The 35-year-old Radio Information Service is based at the station studios on the campus of WDUQ licensee Duquesne University. The university announced the sale of WDUQ to Essential Public Media in January and the FCC is reviewing the deal.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports WDUQ picked up some of the reading service programming when the non-profit board that ran the reading service stopped operating in August 2009 because of debt. At the time, about 800 people subscribed to the service, according to the account.
Since 2009, the reading service has relied on volunteers to continue broadcasting. Its audio programs are broadcast on FM subcarrier and heard on special receivers, as well as on the Web, a dial-in service and a local cable service, according to the RIS website.
Essential Public Media is a subsidiary of WYEP(FM), Pittsburgh. WYEP GM Lee Ferraro told the paper he was unsure of the future for the service beyond July. He said it would be broadcast through the next month and would not be affected by programming changes that began over the holiday weekend.
The paper interviewed a reading service volunteer who said there have been numerous cuts to the service over the years and RIS listeners should be bitter if the service ends.


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New SA Record Holder, Carina Horn Announced for Liquid Telecom Athletix Grand Prix Final
by Newsport Media | Mar 19, 2018 | Uncategorized |
Seen here: Carina Horn in action at the ASA Senior Championship in Pretoria on Thursday, 15 March 2018. Photo Credit: Roger Sedres
Fresh off her SA record run in the women's 100m semi-finals at the national championships on Thursday, 15 March and winning the national title on Friday, 16 March, Carina Horn has confirmed her appearance in the same event at the Liquid Telecom Athletix Grand Prix Series Final on Thursday, 22 March 2018 in Paarl.
Horn blitzed the race in 11.03sec to outrightly own the national record after having shared it with Evette de Klerk for 3 years. De Klerk ran 11.06sec in 1990 to set the South African record, a record that was shared since 2015.
"It is a big monkey off my back," Horn said after the race. "I have tried for years to break the joint record and now finally it is mine. The next target is to break the 11sec barrier."
Horn has come close to breaking de Klerk's record on a few occasions. The first time was in Madrid on 11 July 2015 where she equaled the record. The second time was a year later in Durban at the CAA 20th African Senior Championships where she finished second behind Murielle Ahouré, clocking 11.07sec.
"My coach and I discussed the record before the championships (ASA Senior T&F Championships) and we agreed that if the weather was good, we would try and break it. It all worked out perfectly in the semi-finals."
In near perfect conditions, Horn ran the 11.03sec that sees her crowned as the new SA Record Holder. She has had a spectacular indoor season in 2018, breaking the indoor national record twice over 60m, first running 7.10sec in Eaubonne (France) on 09 February, before breaking it again two days later in Metz where Horn was timed at 7.09sec.
"We were a bit surprised about her indoor season as her start is not (yet) the best," said her coach Rainer Schopf. "But that bode very well for the Championships. Once we get her start right, the sub 11 is definitely on the cards.
After her record breaking performance in the semi-finals, Horn returned the following day to claim the national title, winning in 11.08sec. Horn will now line up as the headline act in the women's 100m at the Liquid Telecom Athletix Grand Prix Series Final on Thursday, 22 March in Paarl.
EVENT INFORMATION: Liquid Telecom Athletix Grand Prix Series
The Liquid Telecom Athletix Grand Prix is more than just a show, it enables athletes the opportunity to compete against South African and global talent; for them to be nurtured and invested in, so that they have the potential of becoming green and gold medalists.
Dates and Venues:
Thursday, 22 March 2018 Dal Josaphat Stadium, Paarl
Main Pavilion Tickets
Standard Ticket: R 100 each
Children under 16 years of age: R 50 each
Open Stand/Grass Banks
Standard Ticket: R 50 each
ONLINE TICKET SALES are open and can be purchased via www.webtickets.co.za
Tickets can also be purchased at the gate of each event.
Visit the event's Facebook page for daily announcements!
Facebook: AthletixGrandPrix
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ABOUT LIQUID TELECOM
Liquid Telecom is a leading communications services and solutions provider across 13 countries in Eastern, central and Southern Africa that serves carrier, enterprise and retail customerswith high-speed, reliable connectivity and digital services.
It has built Africa's largest independent fibre network, spanning over 50,000km, and operates state-of-the-art data centres in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Nairobi, with a combined 6,800 square meters of rack space.
This is in addition to leading cloud-based services, such as Microsoft Office365 and Microsoft Azure, and innovative digital content provision, including Netflix, NBA, TED and Kwese Play.
Through this combined offering, Liquid Telecom is enhancing customers' experience on their digital journey.
About Athletics South Africa:
Athletics South Africa (ASA) is the national governing body for the sport of athletics (including Track and Field, Cross Country, Road Running and Race Walking) in South Africa, which is a member of the IAAF, and the Confederation of African Athletics. The association is based in Johannesburg.
Semenya Brings The House Down in Paarl at final Liquid Telecom Athletix Grand Prix Series Meeting
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Ok I know that BPS will not work on a 2008 but this is my issue. One of our sales guys instead of coming to me to ask whether it will work went off on his own and sold BPS, extra cals, BES on 10 handsets. So now I am left with the issue that the customer is not happy as I have said I can not support you with this installation. He is adament that he wants to try it to which I have said fine but we want no comebacks on our company.
So. With Domain server 2008 with a member server with exchange 2007 Is there a way of getting it up and running? After speaking to Rim about it they seem to think that there is a way but they do not want to disclose it as it is unsupported and if it went down 6 hours later then they wouldn't want to know.
Sorry I do knot know of a way, but you could run it in a Windows 2003 VM on the server.
Could you install the BPS onto the exchange server or is that a big no no?
BES will knot install on 2008.
You can run a VM on the exchange server and install 2003 and then BES according to the manual.
With very little experience, you will have a fun challenge ahead of you as this can be a difficult task for even experienced admins. It is possible that if you follow the directions to a T you can do it, some admins think they know better and that where the fun begins.
I am not ashamed to admit that I know very little so I think my best course of action is to pass this over to the customers IT and the sales man who sold it to rectify the situation.
I think me trying this is a BAD idea.
We have a situation just like this but on an SBS 2008 box. I'm not the engineer on this project but I have been consulting with the lead engineer.
BPS is intended to run on the Exchange box.
You could run a 2K3 Standard VM running Exchange 2003/2007 on the 2008 box but then you need to consider backing up the IS. Backup solutions for a VM environment can be just as expensive if not more than setting up a 2003/Exchange box with BPS.
I recommended that our customer put the BPS on a different box running 2K3 Std., install Exchange 2003/2007, and then install the BPS.
Technology is good, good ain't cheap, and cheap ain't good.
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Will this work? If so how would it work? Any guides available to how we set it up?
My best advice is to wash your hands of this sale guy mate, BPS (which I do run myself) seems to be coming to the end of it's life as far as support and service packs go from RIM.


Dr. Lucie Genay (Université de Limoges, France): "From Reconstruction to Charlottesville 2017: Legacies of the Civil War in the US South"
In November 2018, the Texas Board of Education voted to change the way schools in the state will teach the US Civil War (1861-1865), with slavery as the primary cause of the war while states' rights and sectionalism will be downgraded to contributing factors. Why did it take so long for the Lone Star State to make a decision that seems long overdue to the descendants of the victims of the slave-labor system in the US? Do the statues of Confederate Generals and the Confederate flag belong in museums rather than in front of southern states' capitols? Did slave labor truly end with the 13th Amendment in 1865 and does President Abraham Lincoln deserve his reputation as the Great Emancipator? How did US prisons come to be disproportionately filled with African-American inmates? These are the questions that will be addressed in this lecture on the legacies of the Civil War to put the struggles of today's US society under the enlightening beam of the past.


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Q: How to remove duplicated words in csv rows in python? I am working with csv file and I have many rows that contain duplicated words and I want to remove any duplicates (I also don't want to lose the order of the sentences).
csv file example (userID and description are the columns name):
userID, description

12, hello world hello world

13, I will keep the 2000 followers same I will keep the 2000 followers same

14, I paid $2000 to the car I paid $2000 to the car I paid $2000 to the car

.

.

I would like to have the output as:
userID, description

12, hello world

13, I will keep the 2000 followers same

14, I paid $2000 to the car

.

.

I already tried the post such as 1 2 3 but none of them fixed my problem and did not change anything. (Order for my output file matters, since I don't want to lose the orders). It would be great if you can provide your help with a code sample that I can run in my side and learn.
Thank you
[I am using python 3.7 version]

A: To remove duplicates, I'd suggest a solution involving the OrderedDict data structure:
df['Desired'] = (df['Current'].str.split()
                          .apply(lambda x: OrderedDict.fromkeys(x).keys())
                          .str.join(' '))

A: The code below works for me:
a = pd.Series(["hello world hello world",
               "I will keep the 2000 followers same I will keep the 2000 followers same",
               "I paid $2000 to the car I paid $2000 to the car I paid $2000 to the car"])
a.apply(lambda x: " ".join([w for i, w in enumerate(x.split()) if x.split().index(w) == i]))

Basically the idea is to, for each word, only keep it if its position is the first in the list (splitted from string using space). That means, if the word occurred the second (or more) time, the .index() function will return an index smaller than the position of current occurrence, and thus will be eliminated.
This will give you:
0                            hello world
1    I will keep the 2000 followers same
2                I paid $2000 to the car
dtype: object

A: Solution taken from here:
def principal_period(s):
    i = (s+s).find(s, 1)
    return s[:i]

df['description'].apply(principal_period)

Output:
0                                 hello world
1     I will keep the 2000 followers the same
2                     I paid $2000 to the car
Name: description, dtype: object

Since this uses apply on string, it might be slow.

A: Answer taken from How can I tell if a string repeats itself in Python?
import pandas as pd
def principal_period(s):
    s+=' '
    i = (s + s).find(s, 1, -1)
    return None if i == -1 else s[:i]
df=pd.read_csv(r'path\to\filename_in.csv')
df['description'].apply(principal_period)
df.to_csv(r'output\path\filename_out.csv')

Explanation:
I have added a space at the end to account for that the repeating strings are delimited by space. Then it looks for second occurring string (minus first and last character to avoid matching first, and last when there are no repeating strings, respectively) when the string is added to itself. This efficiently finds the position of string where the second occuring string starts, or the first shortest repeating string ends. Then this repeating string is returned.


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The healthcare insurance is based on the BES Healthcare Insurance Decree (Besluit zorgverzekering BES) and the BES Healthcare Insurance Claims Regulation (Regeling aanspraken zorgverzekering BES).


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Q: Do best friends have to "add you back"? When a friend is visiting you can click someone's name to add them as best friends in New Leaf then, for you, they're a Best Friend. Does that make me a best friend for them too, meaning they'll see when I come online and such? Or do we have to both add each other akin to the 3DS friend code system? Best friends seem to work fine on my end with no confirmation/adding back, but I'm unsure if I show up in the friend's best friend list as well or not.

A: Apparently yes? A friend added me as a best friend and I show up in his list, but I forgot to add him, and he does not show up in my list. So be sure to make sure both parties add each other as best friends! You CAN add best friends without reciprocating, but in that case you will know when they're online but they won't know when you're online.
I am unsure if you can send messages to friends who haven't reciprocated a best friend request at this moment.
Note your friend will need to enable sharing their online status; click the "friends list" icon and click the big "on" button. You may need to change your Parental Controls settings to enable this, even if parental controls are off you aren't allowed to share online status in ACNL before explicitly enabling a parental control option.


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Your Christmas decorations won't be complete without these creative and affordable DIY Christmas wreaths. The majority of these wreaths cost between $5 and $10 to make. Many of the supplies can be found at Dollar Tree or Walmart. These Christmas wreaths are festive and easy to do. Most of them take less than 30 minutes to make!
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Small paint or sponge brush. You can get them for $0.50-$1 at Walmart.
Use a glue gun to glue the peppermints to the wreath.
This project will probably take a least an hour.
Use a glue gun to glue them together. You can also make a garland using these snowflakes.
Paint the foam wreath white and wrap the boa around it. Then, add the lights.
Use twine to knot ornaments onto a floral pick. Then, push pick tightly into the boughs. Add a bow-tied ribbon.
Cotton Balls + Burlap Ribbon + Foam Wreath.
Love this. I'm in my 70's and was a girl scout leader for many many years. Some of these we made as gifts or fund raiser projects. Thanks for the Happy Memories.


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One of London's favourite metropolitan festivals, South West Four will bring big hitters like Pendulum, Tinie Tempah, Eric Prydz and Sigma to Clapham Common on the Saturday, with Deadmau5, Marco Carola and Knife Party among Sunday's headliners. With after parties following at Electric Brixton, SW4 is offering a full weekend of exhilarating music.
Already established as an outrageously cool festival after only one year in the business, Sunfall has the power to pull together The Black Madonna, Ben UFO, Helena Hauff, Madlib, Theo Parrish and more of the world's most exciting DJs. Throw Shanti Celeste, Move D, Floating Points and Peggy Gou into the mix and things are looking silly - even before mentioning that Larry Heard aka Mr. Fingers will be debuting a first new album in 15 years.
Idris Elba, Jamie Jones b2b Seth Troxler and more will close up elrow Town's biggest ever UK show, so you can expect a popping party atmosphere from Barcelona's favourite party animals.
Fashion icon Grace Jones headlines in Oxfordshire, making Wilderness one of the most stylish festivals in the UK this year. Bonobo, Two Door Cinema Club, First Aid Kit and more will also be appearing.
A delightful new addition to the festival circuit, Cardiff's Depot in the Park brings The Sugarhill Gang, The Hackney Colliery Band and Greg Wilson to The SSE Swalec.
Ska legends bring back their August bank holiday festival for another year of fun at Clapham Common, this time featuring De La Soul, David Rodigan and Craig Charles.
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Bellevue Literary Press was founded in 2005 by Erika Goldman and Jerome Lowenstein, author, M.D., and Professor at New York University School of Medicine, where he also began the Program for Humanistic Aspects of Medical Education. Bellevue is currently headed by publisher and editorial director Erika Goldman, who cofounded the press after over twenty years with a variety of major New York publishers.
The mission of Bellevue Literary Press is "publishing literary fiction and nonfiction at the intersection of the arts and sciences," and the press quickly established itself with groundbreaking titles that transcend the simple categories of fiction and nonfiction, art and science.
Just a few of Bellevue's notable titles include the novel Tinkers by Paul Harding, which gave Bellevue national mainstream recognition when it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2010, The Leper Compound by Paula Nangle, a girl's coming-of-age story like no other, set in the last years of war-torn Rhodesia, Jerome Charyn's A Loaded Gun, a imaginative and unprecedented look at Emily Dickinson that is part biography, part literary criticism,and altogether fascinating, and The Cage by Gordon Weiss, a nonfiction account of the devastation suffered by Sri Lankan civilians when the Sri Lankan military defeated the Tamil Tigers in 2009. The Cage was such an important exposé that United Nations diplomat Charles Petrie credited it when reporting on the atrocities committed during the last stages of that war.
Bellevue Literary Press also engages in several outreach programs, most notably within the New York University School of Medicine, where their authors have served as lecturers at the NYU Medical School's Colloquium of Medical Ethics in the Master Scholars Program, and also guest lecturers at Medical Grand Rounds at the NYU School of Medicine.
Erika Goldman shares with Ploughshares what drives Bellevue's unique editorial objective, and what it's like to helm a press that has truly changed the literary landscape, if not, in some small measure, the world.
KF: Your titles all carry such a weight of importance with readers, in part because of the subject matter but also because of the quality of the storytelling, no matter the topic. When you're choosing a manuscript or working with an author, what qualities would you say contribute to this merging of story with subject, art and science?
EG: While we are committed to publishing books of ideas, it all comes down to the craft; a fine writer can write about any subject and make it compelling.
KF: What is a common error authors commit whose work comes close, but doesn't get accepted by BLP? What pitfalls do you see writers struggle with when they have a powerful story to tell?
EG: I'm afraid I can't and don't focus on books that are submitted to us but miss the mark. Publishing is a very subjective craft, and we've certainly rejected books that have gone on to be published by esteemed colleagues. I'm lucky enough to have the opportunity to work with skilled writers who tell their stories effectively. With fiction particularly, I'm unlikely to sign up a writer who struggles with language, though I do occasionally work with them toward fully realizing specific elements of character and narrative. I'm avoiding the word "plot" here, since we rarely publish plot-driven writing.
KF: What do you think is one of the most important benefits to having your authors lecture at the NYU school of medicine? What about your other outreach programs?
EG: With Bellevue Literary Review and the Literature, Arts and Medicine Database (LitMed), we belong to the NYU School of Medicine's Division of Medical Humanities, and are committed to bringing the power of literature to bear in substantive discussions of issues that are pertinent to medical students and staff as well as the entire community. We also work with the NYU Center for the Humanities, which has featured our authors in its programming. One of our most important ongoing initiatives is our BLP Conversations series. In it we bring our authors into dialogue with individuals from the other side of the "Two Cultures" divide, to demonstrate how the sciences and the arts inform and enhance each other.
We are a publisher, however, and with a staff of three (including myself) don't have the resources to originate a lot of programming, but we happily partner with other organizations whenever we can. Our authors have appeared in educational settings of all types, community centers, libraries, and prisons; we've collaborated with Words Without Borders to bring our authors to New York City high school students. To encourage academic use, we produce free downloadable teaching guides and provide free reading group guides as well to many of our books.
KF: Bellevue Literary Press publishes books that look at the "big questions" of the human condition. What's one "big question" do you hope a future BLP author will address? What upcoming titles are you most excited about releasing?
EG: I'm always interested in writing that explores various aspects of consciousness, from a medical and existential perspective. And we are passionate about each book we publish—I never pick favorites!


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Q: SVN to Git conversion - branches not pushed to Bitbucket I'm new to Git and having some issues migrating my SVN. I was able to correctly convert to a git repo that looks good on my local machine. When I push it to bitbucket however, I only see the master and none of my branches (which I can see on my local git. )
I see something like.
On my local machine:
$git branch -vva
* master
  remotes/branch1
  remotes/branch2

Bitbucket only shows this master and no branches.
These branches can basically become tags at some point ( mostly just old revisions of the code that are no longer in use.) But I would like them to still exist in the git version.
How can I push what I have locally to bitbucket easily ?

A: There are two possible reasons that you are not seeing the branches on Bitbucket.

*

*Your question is a duplicate of Firedrill: Recreate central git repository from developers clones, as @ThorbjørnRavnAndersen points out.

*You have remote tracking branches in your repository that you are trying to push.

If it's the later, you should know that Git only pushes your local branches to the remote and not your remote tracking branches.
Your local branches are the ones that git prints when you run
git branch      # show only local branches

Your remote tracking branches are the ones that git prints when you run
git branch -r   # show only remote tracking branches

But what you were running was showing you both the local and remote tracking branches
git branch -a   # show both local and remote tracking branches

To make a remote tracking branch a local branch you can run
git branch <local-branch-name> <remote-branch-name>

Or in your specific example
git branch branch1 remotes/branch1

However, I have a feeling that there's more to your repository than you mentioned because the remotes/branch1 is not really the correct convention for branch names... The reason I say that is that the remotes keyword is special and used in refs/remotes/ which is the official prefix of all remote tracking branches.
Can you please provide us with the output of the git branch and git branch -r commands (appropriately redacted for a public forum), and let us know which branches you expect Git to push to Bitbucket?
Edit: From @DanielMoss's comment referring to the Atlassian SVN import process:

Branches and tags are not imported into the new Git repository as you
  might expect. You won't find any of your SVN branches in the git
  branch output, nor will you find any of your SVN tags in the git tag
  output. But, if you run git branch -r, you'll find all of the branches
  and tags from your SVN repository. The git svn clone command imports
  your SVN branches as remote branches and imports your SVN tags as
  remote branches prefixed with tags/.


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Just Beyond The Veil
Do you know why the expression 'beyond the veil' is used to describe the state of connection to full Consciousness?
It's because that Consciousness, that Light-aspect of what we are in Truth, is so close as to not actually be separate from the organism we think we are. And what separates us from That is so fine, so ephemeral, it barely exists.
The irony is, we create that separation by our insistence on clinging to identification with the body/mind/personality. "This is me"—defining ourselves as so-and-so, such-and-such, and by so doing place ourselves securely in a prison of our own making— trapped.
And the suggestion that there's something greater seems to evoke an irrational fear that we won't still be 'ourselves,' and/or a resistance based on the idea we'll lose the pleasure of the sensory/sensual aspect of life.
But that's just not so. The enjoyment is still there, the pleasure is still there, even heightened, because we are fully present to the moment and not filtering it through some emotional or psychological lens.
The only thing that disappears when we take that little step is the suffering—because once no longer locked into the human identity, the constructs that keeps us mired and wallowing in our emotional/psychological prison are dissolved and we are free to experience what life has to offer at a Higher Reality.
If this sounds attractive, take a giant step back from the character you're so identified with—in pride, arrogance, shame or distress—and melt into the arms of the One who really Loves you—who would embrace you, merge with you, and welcome you—just beyond the veil.
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