Wether you've had a big haul from the ocean, bush or supermarket, somtimes you need a heavy duty cutting board to prep with.
Especially if you are cutting awkwark items, like that big catch or using very sharp knives like our Camp Cook Knife Kit.
In comparison this board is 13mm in thinkness and our flexible cutting mats are 2mm. So it also provides a stable platform as well as a surface which it is why these are used in commercial kitchens.
Some people have even used them as jacking plate when bogged for emergencies...!
NOTE: These are available in a range of colours to code food types in a commercial kitchen. We have chosen to go with one colour, blue which is designated as 'raw fish/seafood'. It can still be used for anything you want and if you want another colour (white, yellow, brown, red & green) and we'll see what we can do.


We publish the findings from the first stage of our post-implementation review of the Retail Distribution Review.
The RDR was launched by the Financial Services Authority, the predecessor body of the FCA, in 2006. The rules aimed to make the retail investment market work better for consumers. They raised the minimum level of adviser qualifications, improved the transparency of charges and services and removed commission payments to advisers and platforms from product providers.
While developing the RDR proposals we committed to undertaking a post-implementation review to help us determine the extent to which the RDR was delivering the outcomes it was designed to achieve.
The majority of rules were required to be implemented by the end of 2012. As we are now approaching two years since RDR implementation we have commenced the first phase of the post-implementation review and commissioned external consultants, Europe Economics, to undertake the review so as to ensure its independence.
The first phase of the post-implementation review aims to indicate the extent to which the RDR is on course to deliver its original aims and to flag any immediate issues, rather than definitively evaluate whether or not all of the expected impacts of the RDR have materialised, which will take much longer.
Who is the review aimed at?
The next phase of the post-implementation review will be published in 2017 followed by a subsequent third phase of the review which will consider the longer-term implications.
In the meantime we will continue to monitor trends throughout the post-implementation review period.
Consumer understanding of advice offered – We are interested in hearing stakeholders' ideas for better ways to present information to consumers on the nature of advice services offered and advice charges. This work will form part of the FCA's wider work on the provision of information to consumers, due for publication in Q1 2015.
Innovation in advice models - We are keen to remove unnecessary regulatory obstacles that may stand in the way of innovations in advice models. In January, we will publish guidance in relation to sales that do or do not involve a personal recommendation. We also recently launched Project Innovate, an opportunity for businesses wishing to develop new simplified advice or other innovation which benefits consumers.


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Imagining lots of Holiday cooking and prep happening in this Kitchen this weekend.


Times flies when you're having fun! We opened our doors on July 13th, 1988 and in the blink of an eye, Water Street Cafe turns 30!
In celebration of our milestone birthday, we're showcasing guest memories from the past 30 years! We invite you to share your stories and photos to be part of our special celebration.
Throughout the month of November, 4 stories will be featured on our Facebook Page. Selected storytellers will receive a special tasting menu for two and tickets to our Celebration Gala in November! We'll also be serving the best of past menus all month long!
Thank you for making 30 years of memories with us! We look forward to the next 30 years!


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As part of the Group's continued expansion in the Middle East Region, RFIB Group Limited (RFIB), the international Lloyd's insurance and reinsurance broker, has established a representative office at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC).
An established broker in the area for more than two decades, RFIB already handles significant levels of marine and non-marine business in the Middle East. The creation of a permanent local presence in the form of a representative office marks an important next step for the group.
The Dubai office will be headed by former British Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, Mr Anthony Harris. Mr Harris has also worked directly in various Middle East markets since the late 1990s and is a former Director in the Middle East Corporate Finance Department of banking group, Robert Fleming.


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Resolute Costa Rica snatch surprise win against Japan
TEHRAN, November 27 (MNA) – Japan missed a golden opportunity to confirm their place in the last 16 of the World Cup after suffering a surprise defeat to Costa Rica at the Ahmed bin Ali Stadium.
Coming into the game on a high following their win over Germany, the Asian side was caught out by a late goal by Keysher Fuller as Costa Rica looked far more assured than their 7-0 thrashing by Spain.
Costa Rica snatch all three points in a shock 1-0 win over Japan - scoring with their first and only shot on target so far at the 2022 World Cup.
Costa Rica worked very well without the ball and was quick to pick up loose balls as well as making several terrific tackles.
The issue was that when they had the ball they didn't really know what to do with it, Eurosport reported.
Japan tried but failed to get a passing rhythm going, with Costa Rica's shape making it difficult for the Asian side to play through the lines.
Hajime Moriyasu made two changes at half-time and Japan greatly improved, having two quick shots on target of the match within the first two minutes of the second period.
Japan started to get on the ball and dictate proceedings, showing much better invention on the ball to play through Costa Rica.
Costa Rica really struggled to get up the pitch as Japan increased their intensity, but 10 minutes from time Keysher Fuller found space to bend one in against the run of play with Costa Rica's first shot on target of the World Cup.
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Original Article Source: Mehr News | Published on Sunday, 27 November 2022 12:15 (about 61 days ago)

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Microsoft requires paid parental leave for subcontractors
August 30, 2018, 10:29 a.m. EDT
(Bloomberg) – Companies that want to staff Microsoft's cafeterias, entrance desks and other positions will have to offer those workers three months of paid parental leave, the software giant said Thursday.
To qualify for contracts, companies will have to provide at least 12 weeks of paid time off, up to $1,000 a week, at the birth or adoption of a new child. The policy will apply to companies with 50 or more workers who perform "substantial" work for Microsoft. The requirement will be phased in over the next 12 months and is expected to impact thousands of workers.
"Companies like us are in a unique position to create positive impact within our broader ecosystem," said Microsoft General Counsel Dev Stahlkopf. "We'd like to focus our resources on companies that share our values."
Only 13% of private-sector workers in the U.S. get paid parental leave. As Microsoft improves its own benefits, the company has also been trying to raise the standards for its subcontractors. In 2014, some of those workers unionized and began pressuring Microsoft to make their employer provide paid leave and other benefits.
The following year, Microsoft announced it would require staffing firms to grant workers at least 15 days of paid time off. (Facebook has a similar policy.) The latest move makes Microsoft the first company to require their vendors to provide parental leave, according to Family Values @ Work, an advocacy group that promotes paid leave.
"Until recently most companies didn't think much about the treatment of the employees by vendors or companies they subcontract with," said Ellen Bravo, co-executive director of the group. "That's a problem, particularly when a company subcontracts vital parts of their work."
Bravo also encouraged Microsoft and other companies that see themselves as leaders on this issue to lobby for government policy changes that provide these benefits more widely. She also noted that only a quarter of employee leaves are taken for a new baby, which suggests companies should also consider benefits for family leave and other sick time. Microsoft's Stahlkopf said the company may look at that in the future.
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It was a clash of cultures, an accident waiting to happen, when the four-star United States general and his entourage of American business leaders came to Pyongyang to discuss security issues and the North Koreans wanted to talk business.
The North Koreans had assumed the general and his colleagues wanted to talk about investing in their isolated country, and were dumbfounded to discover that was one thing the visitors had absolutely no intention of discussing.
It wasn't entirely the North Koreans' fault – retired Air Force General Charles "Chuck" Boyd and his pals were from a high-powered Washington-based think tank called Business Executives for National Security (BENS), so business is definitely part of their brief – but not when it comes to North Korea.
The North Korean ministers whom Boyd met made no attempt to hide their shock when they discovered that the visitors had not come with thoughts of investing a handful of dollars at least in their country, even if it is under international sanctions, and that they were there to discuss the nuclear issue instead.
"I think they had a little bit of a misunderstanding about the nature of our objective, " Boyd told North Korean Economy Watch in a telephone interview.
"I think they believed that we came with business leaders who were interested in investing in North Korea, and of course that we had to make that clear to them right from the outset that nobody [in the BENS delegation] had any intention whatsoever of making any investments in North Korea and in fact could not" due to international sanctions.
"They were not particularly pleased to hear that. They wanted to talk about investments, they didn't want to talk about the linkage of those investments to a resolution of the nuclear issue," said Boyd, who has been president and chief executive officer of BENS since 2002 and steps down at the end of the year.
Kim Yong-nam, president of the Supreme People's Assembly, told him how threatened North Korea felt by its neighbours. "To the extent that I could I think I tried to relieve him of some of his anxiety about the external threats to the country," Boyd said. He told Kim that the division of the Korean peninsula was the fault of the Soviet Union, not the United States, and he hoped a Russian would attend their next meeting in order to underline this fact. "I think at the end of it we parted on pretty good terms," Boyd said of his meeting with Kim, who is often reckoned to rank number two in the North Korean hierarchy after Kim Jung Il.
The delegation also included Ross Perot Jr, chairman of the board, Perot Systems Corp, Maurice Greenberg, chairman and CEO, C.V. Starr & Co, Inc, and Boyd's wife Dr Jessica Mathews, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
The North Koreans were "certainly left with [an impression of] the firmness with which the private sector is in support of the need for resolving the nuclear issue," he added.
Boyd was a combat pilot in Vietnam and survived 2,488 days as a prisoner of war. He is the only POW from the Vietnam war to become a four-star general. He will be succeeded at BENS from January 1 by former US Army General Montgomery C. Meigs.
The six-member delegation from the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), led by Peter Agre, a Nobel laureate in chemistry, had traveled to Pyongyang on a mission to explore future opportunities for collaborative research activities in various fields.
The U.S. team "left here for home by air on Tuesday after discussing the matter of cooperation and exchange in the field of scientific research," the Korean Central News Agency said. It gave no further information.
Agre, director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute and president of the AAAS, said earlier that his delegation would meet with scientists, university and science policy officials in the North. He also planned to give a lecture for North Korean officials and students at the Kim Chaek University of Technology in Pyongyang.
Agre is a medical doctor and molecular biologist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of aquaporins. He is currently the chairman of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Another U.S. delegation visiting North Korea, consisting of businessmen, met with the North's Vice Premier Ro Tu-chol on Tuesday, state media said in a one-sentence dispatch. The team from the Business Executives for National Security (BENS), a non-partisan Washington-based organization led by Charles Boyd, a retired U.S. Air Force four-star general, arrived in Pyongyang a day earlier.
Regarding the North Korea trip: Following initial contact several years ago, the North Korean government recently invited a small group from Business Executives for National Security (BENS) to visit North Korea. BENS is a not-for-profit group of business executives with an interest in national security and foreign policy issues. BENS is not a trade organization.
The group hopes to learn first-hand the views of government officials in North Korea. The trip is solely for educational purposes and was coordinated with appropriate U.S. government agencies. The traveling party is now in North Korea. The travelers are: BENS President and Chief Executives Charles Boyd, Maurice Greenberg (Chairman and CEO, C.V. Starr & Co., Inc.) Corinne Greenberg, Ross Perot Jr. (Chairman of the Board, Perot Systems Corp.) Mark Newman (Chairman and CEO, DRS Technologies, Inc.), BENS Board Chairman Joe Robert and Dr. Jessica Mathews. Greenberg, Perot, and Newman are also board members of BENS. Ms. Mathews is President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Charles Boyd's wife. Reggie Gibbs, a BENS staff member is accompanying the group. Further details about the trip will be available when the group returns next week.
Thorson said the Americans talked with North Korean scientists on issues such as developing young scientists and bringing more women into the field. The faculty at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology gave presentations on their research work. "We were quite impressed by it, especially since the level of their physical equipment is below what we have [in South Korea] and in the United States," Thorson said.
The faculty "responded very well" to the Americans' presence, he said.
The unlikely science partnership between the United States and North Korea dates back to 2001. With the help of Donald Gregg, former U.S. ambassador to South Korea serving then as head of Korea Society, Syracuse University contacted the North Korean mission to the United Nations in New York. Often called the "New York channel," the North Korean UN mission links the United States and North Korea.
Thorson said his previous experience in dealing with China helped him get started with North Korea.
"I had worked on a similar collaboration with China in the 1990s, so we were comfortable working with countries whose political system was very different than our own," the professor said.
"That helps us build trust," he said. "As we share things in common, then I think we can begin to talk about other things sometimes, or perhaps even more importantly, people who talk to us can learn and begin to be more comfortable.
"This is especially important, in my view, to political science regarding North Korea and the United States, where in both countries, the other has been demonized and viewed as something other than a real place with real people," Thorson added.
Syracuse found its partner in the Kim Chaek University of Technology. They've since cooperated in building a digital library at Kim Chaek in 2006, and Syracuse has helped North Korean students at the International Collegiate Programming Contest, run by the Association for Computing Machinery.
Their partnership led to the founding of the U.S.-DPRK [North Korea] Scientific Engagement Consortium in 2007. It's made up of the U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Syracuse University and the Korea Society.
Thorson pointed to the digital library as an example of a positive outcome for the U.S.-North Korea science exchange. When the New York Philharmonic visited Pyongyang in 2008, some accompanying journalists went to the library and even accessed their Facebook pages from computers there.
Though Thorson realizes U.S.-North Korea relations do have an impact on science exchanges, he also thinks the worse the situation, the more such non-traditional diplomacy becomes necessary.
"My impression is that as relations get worse between the two countries, both countries realize that these informal channels are all the more important," Thorson said. "It's all the more reason to keep at science diplomacy with North Korea. The more difficult the problem, the more effort it takes to try to resolve that.
The Business Executives for National Security (BENS) is an American nonprofit organization established in 1982 by American entrepreneurs whose top concern is national security. Eight BENS members recently visited North Korea, led by the organization's current president, former Air Force Gen. Charles G. Boyd. The U.S. delegation included AIG's former CEO Maurice Greenberg, Chairman of DRS Technologies Mark Newman and Chairman of the Board of Perot Systems Henry Ross Perot, Jr.
They are said to have visited the North at the invitation of North Korean authorities, which have been in contact with BENS for several years. It is likely a coincidence that they visited Pyongyang after U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Policy Stephen Bosworth's visit to the North two weeks ago.
Nevertheless, we are paying special attention to their behavior because BENS helped abolish nuclear weapons in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) after the collapse of the Soviet Union. At that time, the U.S. removed more than 7,000 nuclear weapons in Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus. In return, the CIS countries were promised safety, economic incentives and incorporation into Western society, in accordance with the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program (CRT) in 1991.
Companies under the control of BENS were responsible for removing and destroying the weapons and other nuclear materials, after securing a commercial contract with the U.S. government.
The resumption of the six-party talks is still clouded with difficulties, but if North Korea decides to give up its nuclear weapons, there is a high possibility that the U.S. companies will spearhead their removal.
This map covers North Korea's agriculture, aviation, cultural locations, manufacturing facilities, railroad, energy infrastructure, politics, sports venues, military establishments, religious facilities, leisure destinations, and national parks. It is continually expanding and undergoing revisions. This is the sixth version.
Additions to the latest version of "North Korea Uncovered" include: A Korean War folder featuring overlays of US attacks on the Sui Ho Dam, Yalu Bridge, and Nakwon Munitians Plant (before/after), plus other locations such as the Hoeryong Revolutionary Site, Ponghwa Revolutionary Site, Taechon reactor (overlay), Pyongyang Railway Museum, Kwangmyong Salt Works, Woljong Temple, Sansong Revolutionary Site, Jongbansan Fort and park, Jangsan Cape, Yongbyon House of Culture, Chongsokjong, Lake Yonpung, Nortern Limit Line (NLL), Sinuiju Old Fort Walls, Pyongyang open air market, and confirmed Pyongyang Intranet nodes.
Disclaimer: I cannot vouch for the authenticity of many locations since I have not seen or been to them, but great efforts have been made to check for authenticity. These efforts include pouring over books, maps, conducting interviews, and keeping up with other peoples' discoveries. In many cases, I have posted sources, though not for all. This is a thorough compilation of lots of material, but I will leave it up to the reader to make up their own minds as to what they see. I cannot catch everything and I welcome contributions.
In North Korea nowadays, individual-use PCs concentrated in Pyongyang and Chongjin, Shinuiju and other large-size cities have been gradually increasing. The trend has been rapidly increasing due to the propagation of computers by North Korean party organizations, the administrative committee office and middle schools.
The computerized citizen registration project by the North Korean village office was completed around the Local People's Assembly representative elections last July.
A portion of the upper-class use the new model computers smuggled from China, but a majority use secondhand Pentium IV-processor or below imported from China. In North Korea's Shinuiju, a computer (Pentium II) which includes a used CTR monitor is 100~120 dollars and a computer which includes LCD monitor is 300 dollars. The offering price for a used laptop is around 300 dollars.
North Korea is the single country in the world that is not connected to an internet cable network. North Korea, while being endowed with the national domain suffix, "kp", does not operate a domain. People cannot use internet, but can use software programs set up on individual computers such as MS-Word, Excel, and Photoshop.
In North Korea, after 2000, the import of used and new computers from China, Japan, and South Korea through individuals and companies increased dramatically. Around 2001, around 2,000 Samsung, LG and TriGem Computer were provided to North Korea's main colleges such as Kim Il Sung University and Kim Chaek University of Technology.
North Korea prohibits internet, so computer education mostly focused on program usage are taught in colleges and high schools. In schools for the gifted and college computer majors nationwide, a new generation of software developers is being nurtured.
Major organizations in the area of software development are Chosun (North Korea) Computer Center (KCC), Pyongyang Program Center, and the Academy of Sciences.
Since 2002, North Korea has created a network connecting the libraries of Grand People's Study House, Kim Il Sung University, and Kim Chaek University of Technology. The network has been expanded throughout Pyongyang and the provinces. Currently, a few high officials in Pyongyang can use reportedly the Grand People's Study House's electronic publications service at home.
It will be quite a long time before Pyongyang earns its stripes as a hip and happening city if it ever does. But, judging by the glimpses revealed during the three-day summit, it seems that not all is gray and grim in the North Korean capital.
First lady Kwon Yang-suk and other South Korean officials ran into a room full of headsets Wednesday at Pyongyang's Grand People's Study Hall as students managed to keep a straight face scribbling down English conversations played on tape.
"Repeating is the best," said a North Korean student when asked what is the secret to learning English, providing no relief to his peers in the South who hear the same thing until their eardrums wear out.
Perhaps improving cooperation between the two Koreas will do little to better the foreign language skills of students from either side of the border who grab English books with the same enthusiasm as a kid force-fed vegetables.
However, it seems clear that Pyongyang's youngsters of today are more concerned about internationalization than they appeared in the first inter-Korean summit seven years ago.
South Korean delegates went on to tour the Kim Chaek University of Technology where they found students, mostly studying English, searching for video files and text stored in computers.
The university's library has 420 desktop computers, 2 million books and more than 10 million electronics books that can be accessed via a local area network (LAN) connection or from telephone modems at home.
North Korean officials were eager to show their elite students studying English to South Korean authorities, quiet a surprise from a country dominated by the "Juche," or self-reliance, ideology.
And at least on the educational front, it seems that computers are becoming a part of everyday life for Pyongyang's younger generation, although they are far behind their tech-savvy southern neighbors who have television on their cell phones.
Not every picture of change in Pyongyang was staged. South Korean correspondents have sent photos of young North Korean women gliding through the streets in clothes that seemed to be ripped from Vogue magazine. Some even had heavy mascara that would qualify them for a Johnny Depp pirate movie.
Bright colors of yellow and pink were easily seen among the women waving their hands to the limousine convoy of South Korean delegates upon their Pyongyang arrival.
Surely, North Korean fusionists have come a long way since their universally pale makeup and grayish attire seen by South Korean reporters during the 2000 summit.
Even North Korean government officials involved in the formal talks looked a little more contemporary than last remembered, with many of them suited up in tailor-cut, three-button suits.
The security officials looked better too. Gone were the bodyguards with big hats, khaki uniforms and oversized gun holsters who flocked around former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung back in the first talks.
Instead, North Korean bodyguards today were dressed in black suits and moved with a hand on their earpieces, making them hardly distinguishable them from their South Korean counterparts.
In a dramatic new sign that North Korea is emerging from isolation, the country's first international university has announced plans to open its doors in Pyongyang this fall.
Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST) will train select North Korean graduate students in a handful of hard-science disciplines, including computer science and engineering. In addition, founders said last week, the campus will anchor a Silicon Valley-like "industrial cluster" intended to generate jobs and revenue.
One of PUST's central missions is to train future North Korean elite. Another is evangelism. "While the skills to be taught are technical in nature, the spirit underlying this historic venture is unabashedly Christian," its founding president, Chin Kyung Kim, notes on the university's Web site (www.pust.net).
The idea for PUST came in a surprise overture from North Korea in 2000, a few months after a landmark North-South summit. A decade earlier, Kim had established China's first foreign university: Yanbian University of Science and Technology, in Yanji, the capital of an autonomous Korean enclave in China's Jilin Province, just over the border from North Korea. In March 2001, the North Korean government authorized Kim and his backer, the nonprofit Northeast Asia Foundation for Education and Culture (NAFEC), headquartered in Seoul, to establish PUST in southern Pyongyang. It also granted NAFEC the right to appoint Kim as PUST president and hire faculty of any nationality, as well as a contract to use the land for 50 years.
NAFEC broke ground in June 2002 on a 1-million-square-meter plot that had belonged to the People's Army in Pyongyang's Nak Lak district, on the bank of the Taedong River. Construction began in earnest in April 2004. That summer, workers–a few of the 800 young soldiers on loan to the project–unearthed part of a bell tower belonging to a 19th century church dedicated to Robert Jermain Thomas, a Welsh Protestant missionary killed aboard his ship on the Taedong in 1866.
NAFEC's fundraising faltered, however, and construction halted in fall 2004. The group intensified its Monday evening prayers and broadened its money hunt, getting critical assistance from a U.S. ally: the former president of Rice University, Malcolm Gillis, a well-connected friend of the elder George Bush and one of three co-chairs of a committee overseeing PUST's establishment. "He made a huge difference," says Chan-Mo Park, president of Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), another co-chair. South Korea's unification ministry also quietly handed PUST a $1 million grant–more than it has awarded to any other North-South science cooperation project. This helped the school complete its initial $20 million construction push.
At the outset, PUST will offer master's and Ph.D. programs in areas including computing, electronics, and agricultural engineering, as well as an MBA program. North Korea's education ministry will propose qualified students, from which PUST will handpick the inaugural class of 150. It is now seeking 45 faculty members. Gillis and other supporters are continuing to stump for a targeted $150 million endowment to cover PUST operations, which in the first year will cost $4 million. Undergraduate programs will be added later, officials say. PUST, at full strength, aims to have 250 faculty members, 600 grad students, and 2000 undergrads.
Some observers remain cautious, suggesting that the North Korean military could use the project to acquire weapons technology or might simply commandeer the campus after completion. A more probable risk is that trouble in the ongoing nuclear talks could cause delays. At the moment, however, signs are auspicious. Park, who plans to teach at PUST after his 4-year POSTECH term ends in August, visited Pyongyang last month as part of a PUST delegation. "The atmosphere was friendly," he says. "The tension was gone." The Monday prayer group continues, just in case.
Kimchaek University of Technology, the top college of science and engineering as well as a central higher educational institution of North Korea, is located in Pyongyang, not in Kimchaek.
Colleges and universities in North Korea are classified into two: central and regional. But criteria for the classification differ from those of the South. It's wrong to assume that those located in the capital are central institutes of higher education, and those housed in provincial cities and towns are regional ones.
Central higher educational institutions as referred to in the North denote "central-grade institutions of higher education founded in Pyongyang and elsewhere in the provinces for the purpose of educating prospective national leaders, engineers and scientists." Accordingly, colleges and universities located in Pyongyang are not necessarily central institutions of higher education; nor those situated in the provinces are all regional colleges and universities.
Chongjin Mining and Metallurgy College, the only one of its kind not only in the North but in Asia, and Wonsan Agriculture College, the first of its kind in the North, for example, are definitely central colleges, though the former is located in North Hamgyong Province, and the latter in Kangwon Province, respectively. The same applies to Shinuiju Light Industry College located in North Pyongan Province; Sariwon College of Koryo Pharmacy in North Hwanghai Province; and Hamhung Hydrographic and Power College in South Hamgyong Province. Though located in provincial cities, they are all central colleges founded with regional features taken into account.
On the other hand, Pyongyang Machinery College, Pyongyang Agriculture College, Pyongyang Printing Industry College, though all are located in the capital, are classified as regional colleges. Each province or special city under the direct jurisdiction of the central government in the North has two normal and teachers colleges and one arts and physical education colleges, all of which are typical regional ones. Factory, farm and fishing farm colleges attached to industrial entities also belong to the regional category.
What is the central criterion separating central high educational institutions from their regional counterparts? It depends on who administers and manages them. Those administered directly by the Education Ministry are central institutions of higher education; those administered by the Education Department of the People's Committee of a relevant province or special city placed directly under the jurisdiction of the central government are regional colleges or universities. Needless to say, no regional institutions of higher education are free from Education Ministry guidance; the guidance is only given indirectly through the People's Committee Education Department of a pertinent province or special city. In an exception, Kim Il Sung University, the most prestigious higher educational institute in the North, is placed under the direct jurisdiction of the cabinet.
Central colleges and universities, wherever they are located, recruit students from across the land, and their graduates are assigned to any agencies, factories, corporations or research institutes in the country. On the other hand, only seniors and graduates from senior high schools in pertinent provinces and special cities are eligible to enter regional institutes of higher education, whose graduates, when given job assignments upon graduation, are confined to offices or factories in their respective administrative areas.
North Korea has quite a few institutes of higher education that are called colleges, entirely unrelated to central and regional colleges, but whose nature and curricula are totally different. The Yalu River College trains espionage agents sent to the South under the jurisdiction of the Reconnaissance Bureau of the Ministry of People's Armed Forces; Pyongyang College of Technology, also called the State Security Agency Political College, produces prospective leaders of the intelligence agency.
The Automation College, once called Mirim College, is a special college founded for the purpose of turning out manpower needed for waging electronics information warfare, placed under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces. The College of People's Economics and International Relations College are institutes retraining leading staff of the party headquarters; the College of Communism run by each province or special city is a special educational institute retraining junior leaders of regional chapters of the Workers' Party.
Kim Chaek University of Technology has developed a new kind of water quality improver. The machine is made with the application of the cutting-edge science and technology such as nano technology. The kernel of the improver is a filter bar. A bar is capable of refining 2,500 liters of water as "spring water".
The filter bar, made with nano materials, consists of a layer for removing floating matters and microorganism, a layer for deodorizing smell, a layer for absorbing heavy metals and two physical filter layers.
The new improver is superior to other kinds of water purifiers in various points. It eliminates heavy metals, floating matters and microorganism harmful to the human body. The water purified by the improver is clean and low in chemical combination. It supplements microelements to and improves the digestion function of the human body, thus effectively preventing various diseases.
Dutch companies are increasingly conducting Information Technology projects in low-cost countries. Also known as offshore sourcing, this way of working means that labor-intensive activities, such as the programming of computer software, are being done abroad. Asia is the most popular software destination, and Indian IT firms are involved in large projects for Dutch enterprises such as ANB Amro Bank, KLM, Philips or Heineken. More recently, we notice a growth in the software collaboration with China.
As a Dutch IT consultant, I am specialized in offshore software development projects, and I regularly travel to India and China. Recently, I was invited for a study tour to an Asian country which I had never visited before: North Korea. I had my doubts whether to accept this invitation. After all, when we read about North Korea, it is mostly not about its software capabilities. The current focus of the press is on its nuclear activities and it is a country where the Cold War has not even ended, so I was not sure if such a visit would be useful. And finally, such a trip to a farshore country would at least take a week.
Nevertheless, I decided to visit this country. This decision was mainly based on what I had seen in China. I had already traveled to China five times this year, and the fast growth of China as a major IT destination was very clear to me. China is now the production factory of the world, but China's software industry has emerged to become a global player in just 5 years. Several of the largest Indian IT service providers, including TCS, Infosys, Wipro and Satyam, have established their offices in China, taking advantage of the growing popularity of this country. However, I also noticed that some Chinese companies themselves are outsourcing IT work to neighboring North Korea. And since my profession is being an offshore consultant, I have no choice but to investigate these new trends in country selection, so I accepted the invitation to visit Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. I happened to be the first Dutch consultant to research the North Korean IT-sector ever, and the one-week tour turned out to be extremely interesting. Quite surprisingly, the country offers interesting business opportunities for European companies.
My study tour was organized by KCC (Korea Computer Center), the largest IT-company in the country. Established in 1990, it is state-owned and has more than one thousand employees. It is headquartered in Pyongyang and has regional branches in eleven cities. My accommodation has been arranged at the KCC campus, which comprises of several office buildings. It also has iown hostel, with a swimming pool, for foreign guests. These guests are mainly Asian (during my stay, there were Chinese delegations), so I had to get used to having rice for breakfast. In the evenings, the restaurant doubled as a karaoke bar, and some of the waitresses appeared to be talented singers. The campus is located in a rather attractive green area, and the butterflies flying around were the largest I had ever seen. It also has sporting grounds, and basketball was during my one-week visit the most popular game among KCC staff. An internal competition takes place during lunch hours.
Korea Computer Center is organized in different specialized business units. Before their representatives started with presentations, I received a tour through the premises. As is the case in India and China, the programmers at KCC also work in cubicles. KCC develops various software products, of which some are especially designed for the local market. Examples are a Korean version of Linux and translation software between Korean, Japanese, Chinese and English. They also produce software for Korean character and handwriting recognition and voice recognition. Other products are made for export, and North Korean games to be used on mobile phones are already quite popular in Japan. There are also games for PC's, Nintendo and Playstation; their computer version of Go, an Asian chess game, has won the world championship for Go games for several years. The games department has a display showing all the trophies which were won during international competitions.
For several years, KCC is active as an offshore services provider and it works for clients in China, South Korea and Japan. For these markets, North Korea is a nearshore destination, and quite a few North Korean IT-staff do speak Chinese or Japanese. KCC also has branch offices in various Chinese cities, including Beijing and Dalian. It works for both foreign software product companies and end user firms, such as banks. For these clients, different types of applications have been developed, for example in the field of finance, security or Human Resources. Europe is a relatively new market for the North Koreans, and some of their products have been showed for the first time at the large international IT-exhibition CeBIT, in 2006 in Hannover, Germany.
The level of IT-expertise was high, with attention to quality through the use of ISO9001, CMMI and Six Sigma. KCC develops embedded software for the newest generation of digital television, for multimedia-players and for PDA's (Personal Digital Assistants). Surprisingly, it also produces the software for the mobile phones of South Korean Samsung. I was shown innovative software which could recognize music by humming a few sounds. In less than a second, the melody was recognized from a database of more than 500 songs. Also applications for home use were developed, such as accessing the Internet by using a mobile phone to adjust the air conditioning. KCC also Photo: KCC campus in Pyongyang made software to recognize faces on photographs and video films. They gave me demonstrations of video-conferencing systems, and applications for distance learning. There was a separate medical department, which made software to be used by hospitals and doctors, such as systems to check the condition of heart and blood vessels.
Supply of IT-labor In countries such as The Netherlands, the enrollment in courses in Information Technology is not popular anymore among the youth, and a shortage of software engineers is expected. This situation is different in many offshore countries, where a career in IT is very 'cool'. Also in North Korea, large numbers of students have an interest to study IT. I visited in Pyongyang the large Kim Chaek University of Technology, where there are much more applications, than available places. Although my visit took place during the summer holiday, there were still students around at the faculty of Informatics. In order to gain experience, they were conducting projects for foreign companies. I spoke with students who were programming computer games or were developing software for PDA's. A large pool of technically qualified workforce is now available in North Korea. Some of the staff is taking courses abroad and foreign teachers (e.g. from India) are regularly invited to teach classes in Pyongyang.
Some companies in Pyongyang are involved in activities in the field of BPO (Business Process Outsourcing), an areas which includes various kinds of administrative work. Because of the available knowledge of the Japanese language, the North Koreans are offering back-office services to western companies engaged in doing business with Japan.
In order to get an understanding of this type of work, I visited Dakor, which was established 10 years ago in cooperation with a Swiss firm. This joint venture is located at the opposite side of Pyongyang, across the Taedong river. It works for European research companies, and it receives from them scanned survey forms electronically on a daily basis. It processes these papers and returns the results within 48 hours to their clients. The company is also conducting data-entry work for international organizations such as the United Nations and the International Red Cross. Their data, which is stored on paper only, is being made available for use online. Dakor is also offering additional services, such as producing 2D and 3D designs for architectural firms, and it is also programming websites.
North Korea is already famous as a production location for high quality cartoons and animation. Staff of the American Walt Disney Corporation described the country as one of the most talented centers of animation in the world. The specialized state corporation SEK Studio has more than 1500 employees, and works for several European producers of children films. New companies are being founded as well, and I visited Tin Ming Alan CG Studio. This firm was set up in early 2006, and is located in a new office building in the outskirts of Pyongyang. Its main focus is in Computer Graphics and in 2D and 3D animation it uses the latest hardware and software, including Maja. Some of the staff of Tin Ming Alan speak Chinese and the company has a marketing office in China. They are hired by Chinese advertisement companies to make the animation for TV-commercials. It also works on animation to be included in computer games. Several employees of this young company come from other animation studios and have more than ten years of experience in this field.
The North Korean IT sector seems to be dynamic, where new firms are being established, and where business units of larger organizations are being spun-off into new ventures. I visited the Gwang Myong IT Center, which is a spin-off from Korea Computer Center. It is specialized in network software and security, and it produces anti-virus, data encryption, data recovery, and fingerprint software. This firmis internationally active as well; it has an office in China and among its clients are financial institutions in Japan.
My study tour revealed that North Korea has specific advantages. The local tariffs are lower than in India or China, thus giving western firms the option of considerable cost reductions. The commitment of North Korean IT-firms is also high, and the country is therefore also an offshore option for especially smaller or medium sized western software companies. Outsourcing work to North Korea could also be used to foster innovation (e.g. developing better products or new applications). This country can be used for research as well (from Linux to parallel processing). Based from my interaction with Korean managers and software engineers, I do not believe that the cultural differences are larger than with China or India. My communication with them, both formal and informal, was pleasant. Communicating with North Koreans is clearly less difficult than with Japanese.
The North Korean companies have experiences with a wide range of development platforms. They work with Assembler, Cobol, C, Visual Studio .Net, Visual C/C++, Visual Basic, Java, JBuilder, Powerbuilder, Delphi, Flash, XML, Ajax, PHP, Perl, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, etc. They can do development work for administrative applications, but also technical software, such as embedded software or PLC's. North Korea is very advanced in areas such as animation and games, and I have seen a range of titles, including table tennis, chess, golf, or beach volley. The design of many of their applications was modern and according to the western taste.
Over the recent years, North Korea is opening up for foreign business. This process makes offshore sourcing easier, and even investing in an own software subsidiary or joint venture can be considered. This does not mean that North Korea is potential software destination for every user of offshore services. The country is a subject of international political tensions. In addition, a number of circumstances require specific attention, such as the command of the English Language. As is the case with China, the North Korean IT staff are able to read english bu thtey do not speak it very well. Another issue is the relative isolation of the country, and in order to arrange an invitation, a visa is required. The limited number of direct flights is another disadvantage; one can only travel directly from Beijing or Moscow. If projects will require a lot of communication or knowledge transfer, it might be recommended to do some parts of the work in China, by the Chinese branches of the North Korean companies. Executing a small pilot project is the best way to investigate the opportunities in more detail.
North Korea has a large number of skilled IT professionals, and it has a high level of IT expertise in various areas. The country is evolving into a nearshore software destination for a growing number of clients from Japan, China and South Korea. An interesting example of their success is the work they are doing for South Korean giant Samsung, in the field of embedded software for mobile phones.
North Korean IT-companies are now also targeting the European market, and the low tariffs and the available skills are major advantages. Smaller and medium sized software companies can consider this country as a potential offshore destination, and should research the opportunities for collaboration or investment in more detail. Taking part in a study tour, as I have done, is an excellent way to get more insight in the actual business opportunities of a country – not only in the case of North Korea but for all nearshore and farshore destinations.
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Q: I keep getting open() failed (2: No such file or directory) for old deleted files I'm facing a peculiar problem.
When I migrated my Wordpress blog from one server to another, database copy went fine but media failed for maybe 10% of the time. Since those images were 3 years old, I moved on. New site was working fine until I realized the following:
I checked my nginx error log /var/log/nginx/error.logand found lots of following:
open() "/var/www/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/thumbnail-new.jpg" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 127.0.0.1

Now this file thumbnail-new.jpg is actually not available and it's not required anymore. So who's trying to access it? Search bots? Google?
I'm not sure.
But the problem is due to this error, my php-fpm processes are consuming a lot of CPU since most of them are waiting on an unavailable file.
What can I do? Please guide.

UPDATE 1
I checked with New Relic and all these requests are coming from search bots, Google bot, Bing bot etc.

And it's taking all my CPU

What should I do?

A: It absolutely normal, and can happen due to migration to other/newer applications.
Could you please share entire line, with 404 error, from access log? It have referrer link and actual url.
I would suggest to set 301 redirect for these kind of urls, process them before nginx passes it to upstream.
PS: Regarding cpu usage: nginx shell serve request with static file, instead passing it to php-fpm (usually). Could you please share rule that is responsible for static files serving as well? It would give whole picture.

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Welcome to the Sustainability Initiative!
The sustainability initiative aims at reducing the environmental impact of the Wikimedia projects. The reason for this is simple and can be found right in Wikipedia: Anthropogenic climate change is a reality and it is our shared responsibility to prevent it, while the Wikimedia projects have a significant carbon footprint, especially through power consumption and air travel.
The initiative currently focuses on three main goals:
green energy for the Wikimedia servers
remote participation at Wikimania and other Wikimedia events
a sustainable investment strategy for the Wikimedia endowment
In 2017, the board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation adopted a resolution as a result of this initiative, making a commitment to minimize the Foundation's overall environmental impact, especially around servers, operations, travel, offices, and other procurement and through using green energy. The 2020 Wikimedia movement strategy implementation recommendations pledge to "align our practices to support the environmental sustainability of our planet."
Barely passing: "D" score for Wikipedia in Greenpeace USA's 2015 "Click Clean Scorecard".[1]
The servers hosting Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects have a significant carbon footprint: In 2018, only 6% of the 2.8 gigawatt hours powering the Wikimedia servers came from green sources, resulting in a carbon footprint of 1.2 kilotonnes.[2] The 2018 Wikimedia Foundation sustainability assessment states that "moving servers to renewable energy options is the single most impactful thing to reduce the organization's carbon footprint".[3] Also, as one of the world's most popular websites, Wikipedia could inspire other websites to choose carbon-free hosting as well,[4] while big names like Facebook[5] or Salesforce[6] have already switched to green hosting.
What needs to be done?
The Wikimedia Foundation should ask its data center providers to switch to green energy, or choose providers that offer green hosting.
Who is the responsible for this?
Lydia Hamilton, Director of Operations, Wikimedia Foundation
What is the current status?
In August 2017, the Wikimedia Foundation sent letters to its colocation providers CyrusOne and Equinix asking about information regarding the servers' energy sources. Equinix responded by pointing to its recent acquisition of a wind farm of Oklahoma – which does not help reach the goal since the Wikimedia servers are located in a different electricity grid in Virginia. CyrusOne has not responded to their letter. In 2019, the Wikimedia Foundation published a strategic roadmap to "identify carbon-reduction opportunities" in its operations.[7] In November 2020, the Wikimedia Foundation was "looking into several options for a new data center that uses sustainable energy".[8]
Remote participation at Wikimania
Suvarnabhumi international airport, Bangkok, Thailand.
International travel makes up for a large share of Wikimedia's carbon footprint: In 2019, WMF-funded flights stays caused the emission of 1,600 tonnes of CO2.[9] Therefore, we need to look at ways to require fewer flights. Since it would be counterproductive to propose to discontinue Wikimania, we need to encourage remote participation at Wikimania and other Wikimedia events. The main channel for remote participation is offering video recordings.
The Wikimedia Foundation should offer video recordings for all sessions at Wikimania and other Wikimedia events.
Who is responsible for this?
Joël Letang, Events Team Manager, Wikimedia Foundation
At Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario, nearly every session was recorded on video. At Wikimania 2017 in Montréal and Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town, only a small share of the sessions was streamed online.
At Wikimania 2019 in Stockholm, some video recordings were created. Emission certificates were purchased for the estimated carbon footprint of the conference.[10]
In 2019, the Wikimedia Foundation published a strategic roadmap to "develop guidelines for remote vs. in-person participation of events, including meeting options to accommodate virtual participation".[11]
By investing in sustainable industries, we are putting our money where our mouth is – the Wikimedia Endowment should not support carbon-intensive industries if we want to reduce our environmental impact.
The Wikimedia Foundation should adopt an investment strategy for the Wikimedia Endowment that accounts for the environmental impact of its investments.
Lisa Seitz-Gruwell, Chief Advancement Officer, Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Endowment is currently invested at the Tides Foundation and the preliminary investment policy contains a very basic sustainability measure. In 2021, the Wikimedia Endowment will be moved out of the Tides Foundation and the Wikimedia Foundation is currently 'investigating' how to best reflect sustainability in the definitive investment policy. (The investment policy for the Wikimedia Foundation's own investments which was adopted in April 2018 states that long-term investments should be made in "companies with a superior sustainability profile, particularly relating to environmental factors", without further defining this objective.)
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Resolution:Environmental Impact – a resolution passed by the board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation as a result of this initiative, making a commitment to minimize the Foundation's overall environmental impact.
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↑ Greenpeace USA: Click Clean Scorecard: Key Findings & Scores Explained, 2015, page 43.
↑ 2018 Wikimedia Foundation sustainability assessment, p. 30, 42, and 46.
↑ 2018 Wikimedia Foundation sustainability assessment, p. 17.
↑ "[R]oom to claim leadership advantage", 2018 Wikimedia Foundation sustainability assessment, p. 17.
↑ Adding clean and renewable energy to the grid, Facebook Sustainability,
↑ Mark Hawkins: Why Sustainability is Good for Business, Salesforce blog, 13 April 2017.
↑ Wikimedia Foundation Sustainability Impact Statement, December 13, 2019, p. 4.
↑ Deborah Tankersly on Talk:Sustainability, 25 November 2020.
↑ Wikimania 2019: Carbon offsetting
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One of the biggest challenges most inexperienced daters face is the fear of rejection.
Every man knows this uneasy "butterflies in the stomach" feeling when he wants to approach a gorgeous-looking woman but is at the same time afraid to do so.
Many men who are losing in this competition convince themselves that they do everything right and that they keep trying. But if we take a look at their efforts, we will see that mostly they sit at home and strive to improve their profiles on various dating sites. Maybe they even work out and try to stay fit, but they still approach women on rare occasions. To make the long story short, they remain on the sidelines of the gratifying world of dating.
These men never actually "put themselves into the game" and lack the commitment and perseverance required for a successful dater. Why does this happen? The truth is that the fear of rejection overcomes both their desires and their gut instincts. Let's keep this in mind and see how this gruesome fear can be beaten, removing the overbearing anxiety that stands between you and the lady of your dreams. This will be especially helpful to you if you want to find a Russian bride or a Slavic woman in general, in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova or in another similar country.
First of all, evaluate the worst-case scenario that you may be facing when you solicit the attention of a woman. It is true that a woman, on any day, can reject your advances, but you have to remember that in most cases it will actually have nothing to do with you. She may have a dear someone already, she may be going through a difficult period after a break-up and is not ready for any relationship at all at the moment. There can be thousands of reasons none of which would have to do anything with you. The point is – she will just politely reject your attention, nothing really bad can happen to you if you behave yourself in a polite and civilized manner.
Actually, most women will be flattered by your attention. But don't take this statement for granted, go out there and see it for yourself. The keyword here is action – even miserable failures count as such.
We don't mean to sound cynical here, but practice is the cornerstone principle behind effective dating. Who knows, you may find not just a woman, but also a dear soul mate through your humble action.
Secondly, you need to visualize your success with a given lady, including the sweet rewards of such a success. Once you escape the pernicious habit of imagining how you are rejected and humiliated, you will be able to see why you really need to approach fabulous women. I have never met a man who believes that the life of a loner is preferable to the mome nt of disappointment when a woman tells him she already has a sweetheart.
The reward you will have, once you understand how to avoid this permeating fear of rejection, will surely exceed your wildest expectations. You need to imagine your success. It doesn't matter you are dating Moldovan women online or are after some Ukrainian beauties on the streets of Kiev, your aim should always be set high. When it comes to women, it is like everything else in this life – you must set very high goals, and this way, even if you don't achieve the high ones, you can always settle for something average. If you aim low, you may end up getting absolutely nothing.
What you definitely need to do is you should develop the sense of attraction for yourself. Very often being successful with women, contrary to some rather widely spread beliefs, is not about good looks or money. It is primarily about establishing an emotional connection with the woman of your dreams. It is about letting her see in you something that makes you unique and very special.
Insecurities and inner fears are a significant off-putter. We are not saying you should not have them at all, it is quite impossible to imagine our life absolutely without fears and insecurities. But bringing them to a minimum should be your ultimate goal. And, of course, you must learn to hide them well. You have to learn how to control your deepest and most insecure emotions. No woman finds a whining loser attractive. Slavic women are famous for not tolerating any indications of a weak character in a male. They are attracted to strong personalities full of self-respect and bedazzling stamina.


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Makin' up for lost time one day at a time
February 27, 2012 12:00 am by Elicia Mailhiot Views: 12
Sara Yager is 5, or 20, depending on how you look at it. She was born Feb. 29, 1992, and her birthday comes once every four years.
Yager, a sophomore nursing student at Castleton, is a leap day baby or a "leapling." According to leapyearday.com, the odds of a child being born on Feb. 29 is one in 1,461 births. Yager, originally from Brattleboro is proud of being a part of those odds, but that wasn't always the case.
"When I was younger, I hated it, but now that I'm older and know more people with the same birthday, I think it's awesome," she said.
She celebrates her big day on Feb. 28 of what she calls "off years," but her parents have always made the day feel special growing up, even if the day didn't exist.
"My parents would write in a 29 on the blank box after the 28 and we'd skip March 1 essentially," said Yager.
In a leap year, one additional day is added to the month of February in order to keep the calendar year in sync with the seasonal year. Yager's brother found this idea challenging as a child.
"When I was little, my brother would actually get confused as to why the calendar people forgot to put my birthday on during the off years," she said.
Yager herself was confused as to the phenomenon behind her birthday for many years, but in her wise five years, she has become more understanding and accepting of her big day.
"When I was younger and first learned, I hated the fact that I only had my birthday every four years. I didn't like explaining it to people because I didn't understand it myself. It just seemed like a hassle so I didn't talk about it much, but as I got older and started to know more people who shared it with me, I embraced it and learned to love it," she said.


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Burglary in Southsea home leaves family devastated
Police are appealing for witnesses or information about a burglary at a home in Southsea.
Sometime between 2.30 and 8.30am on Saturday, May 5, someone forced their way into Angela Parks home on St Andrews Road via the front door.
Angela told Heart that photos stored on it included her son's first birthday, baby scans and her wedding pictures. Most weren't backed up, and she's terrified she's lost them forever. She's appealed to the burglar to have a conscience and hand the laptop in to police.
Detective Sergeant Tony Lewis from Portsmouth's Priority Crime team said:
"They took an £800 pound laptop. It's a white Apple i-bookG4 and it contained a load of irreplaceable family photos.
"It's left the family absolutely devastated and Angela is desperate to retrieve the computer for sentimental reasons.
"We'd like to hear from any witnesses, anyone who saw anything suspicious on St Andrew's Road on Friday evening or the early hours of Saturday or anyone with information.
"I'd especially like to hear from anyone who's been offered a white Apple i-book G4 for sale in the last few days or anyone who's heard about a friend or family member who's recently come into possession of one."
Anyone with information is asked to contact DS Lewis at Fratton police station on 101 or the anonymous Crimestoppers charity on 0800 555 111.


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The healing oil is dedicated to St Claude de la Colombiere, the Jesuit Priest was the first to believe in the mystical revelations of the Sacred Heart given to St. Margaret Mary in Paray le Monial Convent, France. St. Claude not only believed, but dedicated his life to propagate the devotion, always spiritually united to St. Margaret Mary and trusting her discernment.
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Claude was born of noble parents in 1641 in Saint-Symphoriend'Ozon, which is between Lyons and Vienne in France. In 1659, he entered the Society of Jesus. After living the religious life for 15 years, Claude decided to make a vow to live as perfectly as he possibly could, observing faithfully the rule and constitutions of his order under the penalty of sin. All who knew him well and lived with him in the monastery attested to the fact that he did this with utmost exactitude.
He later was made superior at the Jesuit house at Paray-le Monial and while there became the spiritual director of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque. Being her spiritual director, he naturally developed a deep devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. He was sent to England in 1676 to be a priest for the Duchess of York and later the Queen of Great Britain. He still maintained his lifestyle as much as possible at the royal Court of St. James and continued his missionary work. Although separated from Margaret Mary, he counseled her through written correspondence.
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Devi river is one of the principal distributaries of Mahanadi. It flows through Jagatsinghpur district and Puri district across Odisha state in India and joins Bay of Bengal.

Course
The river forms the final part of a great network of Mahanadi river. Kathajodi river is the main southern distributary of Mahanadi river branching off at Cuttack, Odisha. Kathajodi river later acquires the name Devi as it flows further east. The river flows through Alipingal, Macchagaon and Naugaon blocks in Jagatsinghpur district and Astaranga and Kakatpur blocks in Puri district. It reaches Bay of Bengal  south of the mouth of Mahanadhi river, a short distance from the border of Cuttack and Puri districts. The mouth of the river is surrounded by dense forests absent of inhabitants.

Navigation
The river is navigable till Machgaon by small sloops. It is one of the best tidal channels in Orissa, but, yet big vessels can not enter the river upstream due to a large sediment of sand in the mouth of the river. Two fishermen were killed and two injured when a boat capsized near Astarang in the Devi River on 13 May 1988.

Turtle rookery
The mouth of the Devi river serves as a nesting ground for olive ridley sea turtles   during their breeding season. The first rookery in this area north of Puri was discovered in 1981. Nesting occurs on mainland India and dynamic sand bars which appear and change forms from year to year. About 800,000 turtles come to this region every winter for breeding. However, the turtle nesting has declined in recent years due to mass death believed to be brought about by increased mechanised fishing. Over 6,000 olive ridleys were killed in year 2003 alone. According to a 2007 estimate, over 130,000 turtles have been found dead on these beaches over the previous 13 years. The effort to set aside the mouth of Devi River and Rushikulya River as sanctuaries for olive ridley turtles were opposed by local fishing communities.

Water Pollution

Devi_Kandal island people are suffering a lot due to the river water pollution of Devi & Kandal rivers caused due to the surge of huge amount of untreated drain water from Cuttack municipality region. On the other hand, both the rivers are being distributaries of Kathajodi river get very less water supply due to the obstruction of a concrete wall made on the mouth or initial points of both the rivers at Naraj. It is done for keeping more water reserved for industrial houses.

In such a situation lesser water flow largely polluted by nasty drain water of Cuttack city makes the water of both the rivers very poisonous. As a result, one can observe drastic reduction in many species of fishes and other water animals in these rivers. The fisherman community are worst suffering for the reason. Common man, who use the water for bathing, cleaning clothes and agriculture purposes are getting too little water for it and also getting affected by various water borne skin diseases & jaundice etc. The ground water level in the region drastically goes down in summers as it depends upon the level and quantity of water in these rivers.

References

External links
 Mouth of Devi river in wikimapia

Rivers of Odisha
Tributaries of the Mahanadi River
Rivers of India

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Typescript of comments delivered by Carl Albert to House of Representatives in 1965. The speech includes discussion of the President's Message on the Cities and encourages the passage of the Housing and Urban Development Act during the 89th Congress.
Albert, Carl, 1908-2000. "Speech by Carl Albert." Original Typescript. Carl Albert Congressional Papers, Legislative Series, Box 87, Folder 28, Carl Albert Center Congressional Archives, University of Oklahoma. Accessed 21 April 2019. http://acsc.lib.udel.edu/items/show/282.


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The MPS World Summit, organized by the Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT) and EUROoCS, with the support of more than forty organizations, is proud to present the Microphysiological Systems World Summit.
The 2022 inaugural summit in New Orleans brought together a global audience and established the first steps in creating a roadmap for MPS technologies. The summit in New Orleans also served to officially establish the International MPS Society (IMPSS).
With the support of 54 sponsors and 665 attendees (450 of which attended in person), the 2022 summit was a successful start to facilitating stakeholder communication as well as providing networking opportunities for young scientists, researchers, and industry leaders in the MPS field.
The 2023 meeting will begin on Monday, June 26, 2023 with satellite events, networking opportunities, and the start of a week of scientific programs. This year's summit will once again feature an educational workshop as well for those who are interested in hands-on training in the newest MPS technology. The scientific sessions will include varying formats: workshops, roundtables, and scientific symposia.
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Q: NestJS: Resolving dependencies in NestMiddleware? I'm trying to combine express-session with a typeorm storage within NestJS framework. Therefore I wrote a NestMiddleware as wrapper for express-session (see below). When I start node, NestJS logs the following
Error message:

UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection
  (rejection id: 1): Error: Nest can't resolve dependencies of the
  SessionMiddleware (?). Please verify whether [0] argument is available
  in the current context.

Express is not started (connection refused), but the Sqlite DB (where the sessions should be stored) is created (also a session table, but not the columns).
To me it looks like there is a special problem in resolving dependencies with @InjectRepository from nestjs/typorm-Module. Does anyone have a hint?
Code:
import { Middleware, NestMiddleware, ExpressMiddleware } from '@nestjs/common';
import * as expressSession from 'express-session';

import { InjectRepository } from '@nestjs/typeorm';
import { Repository } from 'typeorm';
import { TypeormStore } from 'connect-typeorm';

import { Session } from './session.entity';

@Middleware()
export class SessionMiddleware implements NestMiddleware {
  constructor(
    @InjectRepository(Session)
    private readonly sessionRepository: Repository<Session>
  ) {}

  resolve(): ExpressMiddleware {
    return expressSession({
      store: new TypeormStore({ ttl: 86400 }).connect(this.sessionRepository),
      secret: 'secret'
    });
  }
}

A: It was my fault. Had the middleware in a module, but was configuring the session middleware at the app module level. On that level the following import statement was missing:
TypeOrmModule.forFeature([Session])

Moved now everything to non-app module including middleware configuration. That solved the problem.


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Local nameGare du Bourget
LocationDrancy, France
Gare du Bourget is a Réseau Express Régional train station in Le Bourget, a northern suburb of Paris, in the Seine-Saint-Denis département of France. The station is in Zone 3 of the Carte orange. It is on the RER B suburban railway line.
Gare du Bourget was the primary point of deportation for French Jews during the Holocaust. Between 27 March 1942 and 23 June 1943, 42 trains carrying 40,450 Jews left Le Bourget for Auschwitz concentration camp and other extermination camps in Poland. Most had been imprisoned in the nearby Drancy internment camp. Drancy was organised, staffed and initially commanded by the civilian French police, who rounded up most of the victims.
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Address 7 Place des Déportés, Le Bourget 93350, France
Coordinates 48°55'51.241" N 2°25'32.349" E
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