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It's easy - see the movie!
Sign up at www.bbbike.eu or a Station Terminal, accept the rules and then pay 10 PLN onto the Customer Account.
After registration you will receive a message with Login and PIN. You can change PIN on your account in the tab CHANGE PIN tab.
Charges for using BBbike are automatically deducted from the Customer Account, which might be top-up with the use of internet payment operator service (PayU).
The Customer Account is active (so you can rent bikes) if its balance is over 4 PLN.


Haga, N., Hata, J., Yabe, M. et al. (2013). The Great East Japan Earthquake Affected the Laboratory Findings of Hemodialysis Patients in Fukushima. BMC Nephrology. 14: 239.
The authors investigate the impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake on laboratory findings in chronic hemodialysis patients in Fukushima whose treatment was shortened for up to an hour after the disaster. Results indicated that treatment duration can be decreased without significantly affecting laboratory findings.


A variety of paddling photo galleries and videos from some of the kayaking travelogues and day trips featured here at Superior Paddling.
Known for the world's highest tides, Fundy offers some of the most spectacular shoreline kayaking in North America.
Paddling Ontario's Pie Island, Sleeping Giant, the Rossport Islands, and Battle Island Lighthouse.
A couple of paddlers crosses from the mainland to camp on a pair of islands, visiting an historic village and farming community, touring an important Great Lakes lighthouse, and exploring a modern-day shipwreck.
An other-worldly tour of this fog-shrouded urban port reveals an historic lighthouse, a classic Great Lakes schooner, and a personal encounter with a majestic lake freighter.
Solitary paddling along the Gulf coast of Santa Rosa Island to the historic site of pre-Civil-War Fort Pickens, escorted by dolphins, sea turtles, jellyfish, and the Blue Angels.
A late-winter paddle along the outer breakwall offers a glimpse of dynamic, melting sculptures of frozen spray, ice, and snow.
These intricately carved Apostle Islands sea caves are fully exposed to the fury of of Lake Superior, and are often inaccessible due to dangerous waves.
There was no paddling to be had this day, but here's a bit of video from the Milwaukee lakefront.
A trio of sea-kayakers tries their hand at a bit of high and fast water on the Upper Wisconsin Dells, at a place called the Devils Elbow.


SÓLO LA MEJOR MUSICA TROPICAL, CUMBIA, GRUPERA, SALSA, BACHATA, BANDA, ETC. ESPERO SEA DEL AGRADO DE TODOS USTEDES..
Música mezclada de los 80s 90s y parte de los 00's en varios géneros, creada con Virtual Dj, Sony Acid Music Studio 9.0,Sony Vegas, si eres amante de los clásicos este es tu canal.
Músicas raras e de qualidade!Rare songs and quality!Canciones raras y calidad!Canzoni rare e di qualità!
Point Blank is The Global Music School, with courses in London, LA, Ibiza & Online. Voted "Best electronic music school" - DJ Mag.
The Red Bull Music Academy is a world-travelling series of music workshops and festivals: a platform for those who make a difference in today's musical landscape. Here, you'll find exclusive downloads and streams from Academy participants, family, and friends.


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Q: 504 Gateway Timeout error while selecting 300,000 rows from MySQL database I have a table orders with 30000rows. I am using Linode Server with 2GB RAM
but when i executed my query using phpmyadmin it give me 504 Gatetimeout Error
SELECT * FROM `orders`

I don't understand what's is the problem? i am getting that error you can see the image below

A: Add the following line to the file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf in the http{} block:
fastcgi_read_timeout 360;
Restart nginx :
sudo service nginx restart

A: 504 Gateway Timeout error it appears in those cases when a server that hosts the website is unable to return to the set time limit HTTP-response.
As a solution to suit the increase in PHP max_execution_time parameter value

A: 504 Gatetimeout is a HTTP Error not a database error.
The database takes too long to collect your data.
You probably have to increase max_execution_time in your php.ini

A: Get 30k records at ones - it isn't a good idea, any way, you need to check your sql server configuration, 30k records isn't enough to get over default timeout. B/w if u just change timeout in web server it does not affect you b/c browsers have a default timeout to. Probably mysqltuner can help you to find configuration error.

A: nano /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/libraries/config.default.php

Add / edit:
$cfg['ExecTimeLimit'] = 1800000;

I hope you're gonna get rid of it.

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Q: Facebook chat/messenger integration php I am clearing my doubt here,
Can I integrate Facebook chat/messenger with my PHP application? I found that the API is deprecated on April 30th 2015 , is there any new API available from facebook? I am asking for facebook's own API.

A: @Rajith R., On April 30, 2014, Facebook developers announced the deprecation of the XMPP Chat API as part of the release of Platform API v2.0.
Refer this article about the deprecated Chat API


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Q: Increase the diagonal entries of a positive definite matrix Assume that we have a positive definite matrix $C$, and a positive definite diagonal matrix $\Lambda$.
Are all the diagonal entries of $(C + \Lambda)^{-1}$ smaller than those of $C^{-1}$? In other words, if we increase the diagonal entries of a positive definite matrix, will the diagonal entries of its inverse decrease?
If so, how to prove it?
Thanks a lot

A: The proof is as follows:
Consider $C^{-1}-(C+\Lambda)^{-1} $
$$
C^{-1}-(C+\Lambda)^{-1} = C^{-1} \left( [C+\Lambda] - C\right) (C+\Lambda)^{-1}
=C^{-1} \Lambda (C+\Lambda)^{-1} = C^{-1} \Lambda (I+C^{-1}\Lambda)^{-1} C^{-1}=
C^{-1} (\Lambda^{-1}+C^{-1})^{-1} C^{-1}
$$
The last matrix is clearly positive definite. Hence, its diagonals must be positive.
This shows that
$$\left[C^{-1}\right]_{ii} >\left[(C+\Lambda)^{-1}\right]_{ii}$$
Added in response to OP's question
If $\Lambda$ is only positive semi definite, then $\Lambda + \epsilon I$ is positive definite for any $\epsilon >0$. Hence, by virtue of previous argument
$$\left[C^{-1}\right]_{ii} >\left[(C+\Lambda+\epsilon I)^{-1}\right]_{ii}, \forall \epsilon > 0$$
By continuity argument, as $\epsilon \to 0$
$$\left[C^{-1}\right]_{ii} \ge \left[(C+\Lambda)^{-1}\right]_{ii}$$
Note that $\Lambda + \epsilon I$ is positive definite for any $\epsilon >0$ because
$$
x^T (\Lambda + \epsilon I) x = x^T \Lambda x + \epsilon x^T x \ge \epsilon x^T x \gt 0 \text{ if $x \neq 0$}$$
The trick of adding $\epsilon I$ to a semi-definite matrix to make is positive definite and then taking the limit as $\epsilon \to 0^+$ is the standard way to extend results from definite to semidefinite.


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La salată de vinete (amanida d'albergínies) és una especialitat culinària romanesa feta a partir d'albergínies al forn, pelades i trossejades finament, barrejades amb oli, llimona o vinagre, sal i pebre.

Ingredients
Per a 4-6 persones necessiteu 4 albergínies mitjanes, una mica de suc de llimona (o vinagre), prou oli de gira-sol, sal i pebre, per degustar també una mica de mostassa o un rovell d'ou cru i maionesa. En cap cas es recomana l'oli d'oliva.

Mètode de preparació
Coure les albergínies en una planxa de ferro o en una paella al forn escalfada a 200 ° C fins que es cremi la pell. Després de coure-les, poseu-les en un bol amb aigua freda, netegeu-les de cremades i poseu-les sobre un taulell de fusta. Un cop escorreguts, trossegeu-los finament i, a continuació, bateu-los bé en un bol, afegint-hi la llimona, la sal, el pebre i, si es vol, una culleradeta de mostassa o un rovell d'ou cru a mesura que l'oli es vagi convertint en una pasta. No s'ha d'utilitzar mai una batedora elèctrica. Poseu-ho a la nevera i, a continuació, serveix l'amanida amb les cebes tallades ben fines i els tomàquets a rodanxes. Les cebes no s'afegeixen immediatament a les albergínies, perquè s'oxiden i fan malbé el gust.

S'hi sol afegir maionesa o un oli que venen expressament, però amaga el gust de les albergínies. Però si el gust especial de l'albergínia és massa fort, posar-hi maionesa és una solució.

L'anet també es pot afegir a l'amanida i les olives a la guarnició. També es pot afegir telemea per completar el plat.

Referències

Enllaços externs

 Laura Laurențiu: amanida d'albergínies romaneses

Gastronomia de Romania

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Scientist Sophie Newbury studies the "dead zone," a rock layer in Karoo Basin.
Tens of millions of years before dinosaurs roamed Earth, their ancestors were all but eliminated in a catastrophic event called the Permian Mass Extinction. This was the greatest extinction event ever in Earth's history! The Permian period extended from 299 to 252.6 million years ago.
Geologists have made some discoveries that call into question popular theories about this Extinction.
Before, scientists thought they had found a distinct record of the Permian Mass Extinction in sedimentary rocks found across southern hemisphere continents. There was actually a layer in the rocks that scientists called the "dead zone" because of the lack of plant and animal fossils found there.
But recent work done in the Karoo Basin in central South Africa, where the best fossils records from the Permian time period are found, shows conflicting evidence in the layers of rock found.
They discovered that this dead zone layer is not found at the same physical position in the rock record at all places, even across a land area 1 kilometer across. As such, it is not a reliable marker of the mass extinction of terrestrial animals.
Lead geologist on this project, Robert Gastaldo, says that the research proves that "there is no evidence to support a terminal extinction event in the record of the Karoo Basin, based on the criterion of an unique event bed or dead zone."
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Organic Basil Seed is used to make various ayurvedic medicines. This seed is free from any insecticides, pesticides or chemical fertilizers and completely organic in nature. It is full of fiber and known for various health benefits. Basil seed acts as a coolant for the body as well as relives constipation and acidity. It is beneficial for healthy skin and hair as well. The seed of this plant can also be used in various dishes and cuisines to add a fresh & herbal flavor to them.


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Former Maldives President Nasheed Arrested Over Terrorism Charges
Maldivian Democratic Party presidential candidate Mohamed Nasheed, who was ousted as President in 2012, speaks to reporters in Male, Maldives, on Nov. 10, 2013
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By Rishi Iyengar
Former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed was arrested Sunday amid suspicions that he would try to flee the island nation to avoid facing terrorism charges.
Nasheed's detention led to clashes between his supporters and law-enforcement officers who used pepper spray to dispel crowds, Reuters reported.
Nasheed, Maldives' first democratically elected President, resigned in what he alleged amounted to a coup d'état in 2012 after protests over his order to arrest a prominent judge.
The 47-year-old had been accused of misusing military power to enforce that arrest under Maldives' antiterrorism laws, charges that were dropped last week. However, new charges pertaining to the same case were cited in an arrest warrant issued on Sunday.
"I call on the public to do all that is necessary to stop the harassment meted out to me and other politicians to save Maldives," said Nasheed, who had called on the Indian government to intervene in case current President Abdulla Yameen imposed emergency rule.
Nasheed's Maldivian Democratic Party called for his immediate release, according to the Associated Press, with party spokesman Hamid Abdul Gaffoor saying in a statement that "Nasheed had never absconded from court, nor has taken the opportunity to flee or go into hiding."
Write to Rishi Iyengar at rishi.iyengar@timeasia.com.

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A group of 15 fee-paying Tate members have sent a letter (see below) to the Tate Member's council in advance of tonight's Members' AGM at Tate Modern asking questions about the controversial relationship between Tate and BP. At last year's AGM, members of Liberate Tate handed over a petition of more than 8,000 people calling on Tate to drop BP as a sponsor.
As a member of the Tate I find it increasingly abhorrent that the celebration of human culture is tainted by a source of sponsorship in the form of BP, that is condemning humanity to a future devastated by climate change. Now, it is tainted further by hypocrisy, in that the Tate's Ethics Policy states it "will not accept funds tainted through criminal conduct." BP has just been given a record US criminal fine and is pleading guilty to 14 criminal charges over the Deepwater disaster.
A number of people are also taking part today in an en masse listening of the Tate a Tate audio tour – a three part sound work informed by BP sponsorship that is designed to be listened to in Tate Britain, Tate Modern and the boat journey in between. The mass listening starts at 2.45 at Tate Britain and runs up to the Tate Members AGM at Tate Modern at 18.45, including questions and answers with the different sound artists who made the audio tour.
We are writing to you as a collection of Tate Members to express our concern about Tate's ongoing relationship with BP and to ask why there doesn't seem to have been a response to Tate Members on the issues despite the repeated enquiries. This letter has been sent to all other members of the Tate Council as well as yourself.
This letter comes with a great deal of collective admiration for the work that Tate does and for the cultural contribution it makes to society. We pay our subscriptions to be Tate members because we feel good about supporting an institution that benefits the wider public. It is difficult for us, however, to feel good about our support when we also feel that by so doing we are legitimising the activities of BP. By helping BP to create a 'social licence to operate' through its sponsorship programme, Tate is playing an active role in BP's global environmental and human rights controversies and in accelerating the climate crisis.
Approval for a $12 billion expansion of BP's LNG Plant in Tangguh, West Papua, where indigenous communities resist both Indonesia's illegal occupation and the plant itself.
A renewal of the deal BP originally made with Gaddafi to drill 17 wells in Libya, both deepwater and onshore, in an area larger than Switzerland in the coming year.
The spilling of thousands of gallons of freeze protection fluids, seawater and crude oil by BP on the North Slope of its oil field in Alaska.
A fine to BP of $5.2 million for submitting false or misleading reports on energy production on Colorado tribal lands.
In addition, BP continues to expand its tar sands operations in Canada and now has a 20% stake in Russian oil giant Rosneft which has its own appalling environmental record. BP continues to face controversy in the USA over the compensation being paid to Gulf Coast communities. Recent testing has indicated that the Macondo well has yet to be adequately capped with continued risk to marine ecosystems.
Some of us have approached Tate staff before and voiced these concerns. When one of us approached Nicholas Serota at an event and tried to speak about this, our concerns were dismissed with the response that we had taken a bus to the event, we too had used petrol and were not therefore in a position to speak on this subject. All of us live in a society that is dependent on oil products and we recognise that personal consumption has a role to play in addressing the issue of emission levels. Many of us are taking measures in our personal lives to try to address this. There is a fundamental difference, however, between our responsibility as individual consumers, the choices we have available to us, and the institutional power and culpability of a company like BP – the fourth largest in the world. As individuals we don't have the power to lobby, advertise and influence 'democratic process' in the way that BP has done. We as Tate members are concerned about institutional relationships between oil companies and governments, and the role that Tate plays in smoothing the edges of BP's frayed reputation and making it a more acceptable company with which to do business.
Has the Council discussed the issue of BP sponsorship and, if so, what were the outcomes of those discussions?
Has the Council represented to Tate the fact that many members have been vocal in criticising BP sponsorship and were among the 8,600 signatories to the petition presented to the 2011 Tate Members AGM? Similarly. the recent Change.org petition was started by a Tate Member calling on Tate to accept The Gift as part of its permanent collection.
Has the Council sought to discover how much sponsorship BP is giving Tate so that a more open discussion can take place about finding alternative sources of funding?
Will the Council engage with concerned members about the controversy of BP sponsorship of Tate and provide a public forum for this debate to take place?


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Barbel Rivers and Captures
'Barbel Rivers and Captures' By The Barbel CatchersClub
Compiled By Mick Wood and Bob Singleton
There have been revolutionary advances in barbel fishing since the publication of Barbel by the Barbel Catchers Club (BBC) published by The Crowood Press in 1988, and the BCC has been at the forefront of these dramatic developments.
This long awaited, and entirely new volume written by BCC members comprehensively covers the modern barbel fishing scene, discusses the size of the fish now caught and illustrates the changes that have taken place in tackle, tactics and baits. There are individual chapters on each major barbel river in England from the smallest streams, such as the Lodden and the Holybrook, to the mighty Midlands rivers, the Trent and the Severn, to the Yorkshire spate rivers and the crystalline waters of the famous Hampshire Avon. Each river chapter is written by an experienced angler with proven success on the river in question and culminates with a fascinating account of the capture of a really special barbel weighing in excess of 10 lb.
This remarkable book provides a wealth of expert information and explores not only traditional fishing methods but also ground-breaking new ideas. Lavishly illustrated with 200 images including photographs, drawings and diagrams, and a colour-plate section, this is an indispensable volume for both the barbel enthusiast and general river angler alike.
Barbel Rivers and Captures is written by the Barbel Catchers Club and provides a vast amount of information about the contemporary barbel-fishing scene. Written by experts, it comprehensively covers all the major barbel rivers in England.
Indivual chapters on twenty-nine rivers, or sections of river
Detailed and fascinating accounts of the capture of a 'big barbel' on each river
Modern Baits-both pellet and HNV specials
Scores of photographs, some in full colour, of barbel catches over 10lb
Diagrams illustrating rigs, feeders and swims
A review of devolpments in barbel fishing since the late 1980's and a consideration of the future of barbel fishing
Details of the Barbel Catchers Club River Records and the Clubs 'top fifty' barbel.
The Barbel Catchers Club (BCC) were established in 1977 with the objective of providing a forum for debating key issues and discussing new ideas. Since its formation, the BCC has been extremely successful and has been at the forefront of virtually every breakthrough in barbel angling.
The club is organised by dedicated barbel anglers for barbel anglers and emphasizes the social aspect of the sport rather than its political and commercial divisions. The BCC is divided into seven regional groups, (Chiltens, Midland/Cotswold, Northwest, Southdown, Southern, Wessex and Yorkshire) and has its own website www.barbelcatchersclub.co.uk and its own Magazine entitled Barbus. All members write at least one article each year for the magazine, which also provides a forum for news and views.
To order your copy of this fantastic book, please visit:
www.barbelcatchersclub.co.uk
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ISRO presents the SPACE usage for solar technology
Indian Space Research and Observatory (ISRO) presented the usage of space technology for solar energy. The space center has included solar radiation data on the existing observation system VEDAS (Visualization of Earth Observation Data and Archival system). ISRO also presented the rooftop potential for smart cities, a government initiative to develop sustainable cities with world-class facilities.
November 20, 2017 Ajinkya Waradpande
ISRO launching satellite. ISRO now using space technology for solar analysis
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ISRO (Indian Space Research and Observatory) is advancing year by year. From 'Chandrayan' to 'Mars mission' and launching multiple satellites in one go, it has become one of the premier space institutions in the world. Now, with India making inroads into renewable energy development and initiating International Solar alliance, ISRO is contributing its part.
A presentation from SAC (Space Application center) of ISRO was made during the recent seventh ISA get together and stakeholders meeting held in New Delhi on November 15, 2017. The presentation addresses the utilization of space technology for solar energy, pointing out that there is an interaction between solar irradiation and atmosphere. The space agency explained the Lubos Matejicek satellite-based irradiance models, which are characterized as clear sky model and cloud model. Accordingly, the parameters and variables are evaluated.
During the presentation, ISRO showed the map of India with its solar radiation resource assessment stations. India has around 121 SSRA stations in different phases. These come under VEDAS (Visualisation of Earth Observation Data and Archival System). This data center collects all kinds of data of solar radiation through its stations. It presents the Solar Atlas.
The space center also discusses the methodology for collecting such data. KIRAN (Kalpana – 1 incident solar radiation) is a spectral irradiance model, which collects data through clear-sky transmission and three-layer cloudy sky model. The Indian Geostationary satellites Kalpana 1, INSAT 3A, INSAT 3D and INSAT 3DR, make multiple acquisitions per day from radiometer or imager over a continent. They also continuously monitor solar radiation and other variables and factors like fog, water vapor, dust, aerosol, etc.
VEDAS provides the monthly global horizontal insolation and annual solar insolation. And, the Android solar calculator helps in deriving different results, for example, capacity utilization factor, direct normal radiation, diffused horizontal irradiance, etc.
Rooftop potential calculation for smart cities
The inference of potential for rooftop PV in cities was made with these data visualization, collection and analysis. According to the investigation, the total built-up area of 98 cities that are planned to be made smart is 6360.92 sq. km, and out of the entire roof area of 1590.24 sq. km the total suitable roof area is 397.56 sq. km and the total expected solar energy output on suitable roof area is 103,510.29 GWh/annum. Thus, the available peak power generation potential is 31 GW. This is a vast potential for solar power in planned 98 smart cities.
ISRO discussed the solar energy potential of Ahmedabad city as a demonstration. This was done with the help of the interactive solar site suitability analysis app, and the calculations were made with the solar calculator; these tools are all part of VEDAS. In addition, Carosat – 1 stereo pair is used to analyze a 3D model of Ahmedabad. Simple and smart technologies are being applied to analyze data.
In the end, ISRO has concluded that VEDAS has prepared digital atlases for solar energy potential. It has executed the license agreement with industry (Adani) and has signed a MoU between NITI Ayog (National Institute for transforming India), NIWE (National Institute for Wind Energy) and NISE (National Institute for Solar Energy). Moreover, the space center has developed an Android app for assessing solar potential, and is validating a methodology for 15 minutes solar forecast. The solar potential for 98 smart cities and 60 solar cities is estimated.
According to ISRO, the data science is the way forward for development and advancement. ISRO an advance institution is implementing these tools for solar potential which would undoubtedly help India, for its execution of Renewable energy targets.


Dissertations are tough to deal and the students often get stressed out due to their dissertations. The most important thing while you are starting to write your dissertation is the time management. Remember that time management is very important as the proper time management allows dealing with your dissertation in an effective way. Here are some tips that will be helping you out to write an effective dissertation.
Collect the ideas for your topic. Write all the ideas you got from the brainstorming. Shortlist your ideas and come up with the final topic. Consider that which things you must emphasized on and what is relevant to your topic.
For expanding your knowledge related to the research methods consider the good books about the research methodology. This will allow you to know about the effective research methods and you will also get the guidance that which research method would be the most suitable for your work.
Discuss the ideas with your supervisor and tell him about your final topic. Your supervisor will be providing you to help to bring refinement to your main idea. Also, discuss him about all the confusions you have in your mind.
Follow the instructions that are provided to you carefully. Different universities have different requirements for the research proposal. Most of the universities provide a template for the dissertation proposal having the word limit for each section. Stick to the word limit.
After you got the approval, start working on your draft proposal. Collect the relevant data related to your topic. Write your aims and objectives of the research. Select a proper research method. Share it with your supervisor and make the changes according to his advice.
Use the authentic sources such as the published research articles, books, news articles, annual reports and the authentic websites to collect the data.
As you collect the data, note down the references to the sources in another document. Consider the referencing style provided by your university it could be APA, Harvard, Chicago, MLA or other. Follow the referencing guidelines provided by the university.
In the dissertation proposal, you are needed provide a timeframe for the whole dissertation writing process. This can be given in the form of the Gantt chart. Consider the time you have and divide your time effectively. For instance, literature review, results, findings and discussion chapters are the most time taking chapters so allocate more time for these. Also, allocate the time for editing and proofreading and the changes that your supervisor might ask you to make.
As you are just writing the dissertation proposal so you will not be able to predict the results here. Just conclude your proposal in an effective way.
These were some tips that could help you out to prepare an effective dissertation proposal. Try to select the topic of your interest, get it approved and start working on your dissertation proposal.


MIT Global Startup Labs partners with universities in emerging regions and organises advanced courses taught by MIT instructors. The intensive course focuses on mobile and Internet technologies, and is structured so that participants can realise the commercial possibilities of technology.
Components of the course include detailed technical curriculum, funded business competitions, guest lectures and networking events, all to help participants transition from being aspiring entrepreneurs to active entrepreneurs.
Professor Barry Dwolatzky, Director of the JCSE says the programme is particularly ideal for teams who have either begun to think about a startup idea they would like to pursue or are in the nascent stages of pursuing it already. "We are looking for teams that exhibit a sense of cohesion, drive, and creativity to be a part of what promises to be an exciting and fulfilling 2016 programme," he notes.
Since 2000, MIT Global Startup Labs has sent over 150 MIT instructors to teach over 2000 students in 14 countries, resulting in the creation of businesses and the addition of course offerings at partner universities.


UXT is a heat map of current & historical network experience in specific locations.
Shows all data flowing to and from devices in a location and can predict user experience to facilitate network planning.
Includes Cellular & Wi-Fi networks.


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United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Honor Circle of Excellence Award Winners
BizTUCSON May 13, 2021
United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona recently selected and honored its 17th Annual Circle of Excellence Awards winners. In unusual fashion this year due to ongoing limitations imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, this year's event was hosted at El Toro Flicks Carpool Cinema, a local drive-in theater. Local television news personalities Amanda Gomez and Lupita Murillo from KVOA emceed the event.
This annual event honors all the hard-working campaign teams, generous companies and talented individuals behind them who give of their time, talent, and treasure to build a thriving community.
This year's Circle of Excellence Award winners included:
Best of the Best ECL (Employee Campaign Leader) of the Year: Eric Bohorquez, AGM Container Controls
ECL (Employee Campaign Leader) Rookie of the Year: Savannah Elwood, Ooroo Auto
LIVE UNITED Award: Pima Community College
Building a Better Community Award: Citi
Cornerstone Award: Caterpillar, Inc.
Champions of Caring Award: Freeport-McMoRan, Inc.
All American Award: Michelle Trindade, Regional Vice President, GEICO
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Jose Reyes still can't believe Mets didn't win World Series
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It has been nearly eight years since Carlos Beltran looked at the last strike of the 2006 NLCS, nearly six since the Mets missed out on the playoffs on the last day of the season for the second straight year.
And sometimes, Jose Reyes can't help but look back and wonder how the pennant that was well within reach always managed to slip through their grasp.
"Sometimes, it goes through my mind, yeah. I say, 'How [do we not] make at least one World Series with the ballclub that we had?' " Reyes said before the Blue Jays' 3-1 loss Tuesday at Yankee Stadium.
"It's hard to think about. The closest we got was 2006. We're one hit away to go to the World Series, but we weren't able to get it done.
Jose Reyes and Carlos Beltran during the 2006 NLCS against the Cardinals.Anthony Causi
"We had a couple years in New York we should've at least made it to the World Series one or two times and we weren't able to do that. We had three straight years with an unbelievable ballclub and we weren't able to do anything. It's a little bit disappointing because as a player you work so hard to get to the playoffs. … It is what it is. In baseball you never know what's going to happen."
Reyes leading off Tuesday's game with a home run on the first pitch he ever saw from Masahiro Tanaka certainly fell within baseball's unpredictable element.
"I had that in mind before the game I was going to swing the first pitch if it's right there in the middle of the plate because it's hard to hit Tanaka with two strikes," said Reyes, who went 1-for-4 with a strikeout. "He can throw all his pitches for strikes, any count … he's one of the best in the game right now."
Reyes, whose shot to right field was his fifth of the season and 20th leadoff homer of his career — also the team's MLB-best 93rd home run — has been a big reason for Toronto's ascension in the AL East, following a slow start to the season.
Since May 8, Reyes is batting .333, reaching base in 41 of his past 43 games and hitting safely in 17 of his past 18 games.
Though the season is still young, Reyes has confidence the team can contend, with an offense the shortstop hasn't seen since he was young, and Beltran and David Wright and Carlos Delgado were driving him home.
"It's like '06. I always say that. It reminds me a lot of 2006 with the Mets," Reyes said. "These guys here are unbelievable. Every time you see them at home plate, it's like they're going to hit a homer."
Though the rest of the Blue Jays' bats were silenced by another brilliant outing from Tanaka, Toronto still holds a 3½ game division lead over the Yankees, a perspective Reyes hasn't seen since playing in Queens.
Since 2008, Reyes' teams haven't finished higher than fourth place, but being back on a contender is as good as he remembers.
"It's been long. I missed that," he said. "It's a different feeling, for sure. We're playing good baseball now. … This year we have a very good opportunity to [make the playoffs] and hopefully we can continue to play the way that we've played so far."
Facing a different pitcher should help.
"One run scored, it's hard to win games like that," Reyes said. "Hopefully we [win] tomorrow. There's no Tanaka tomorrow."
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100 Years Ago in the Forward
New York and environs have been rocked by what initially was thought to be a massive earthquake but turned out to be an explosion on a ship docked off New Jersey that was laden with dynamite. At least two dozen people were killed, and more than 200 wounded, in the enormous explosion, the root cause of which is unknown. The ship was docked at Pier 7 in Communipaw, N.J., across from Ellis Island, where the explosion caused a panic among immigrants waiting to enter the country. Miraculously, no ships had arrived on the day of the explosion — a rare occurrence — so the famed "Isle of Tears" was not too busy. There were only about 600 immigrants on the island when the explosion took place, and they were in the dining hall, eating dinner. Only one Italian boy was cut by shattered glass.
75 Years Ago in the Forward
David Frankfurter, a 26-year-old Jewish student from Yugoslavia, shot and killed the chief of the Swiss Nazi Party, Wilhelm Gustloff, in Gustloff's home in Davos, Switzerland. After turning himself over to the police, Frankfurter said that he assassinated Gustloff as revenge for the barbaric treatment to which the Jews of Germany were being subjected. Gustloff was a very active anti-Semite and an active promoter of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." He was also the subject of numerous anti-Nazi protests in Switzerland, with Swiss socialists and anti-fascists demanding that he be repatriated to Germany. As a result, it was initially thought that Frankfurter was a socialist. The assassination has left a deep impression on all of Switzerland.
The new movie about the birth of the State of Israel, "Exodus," was picketed in Philadelphia by a group of young Nazis that had been organized by George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party. Rockwell was warned personally by police to stay away from the area, which he did. Numerous arrests were made on the charge of "disturbing the peace," including the arrest of three young Nazis, all from Virginia. Also, about 75 counter-protesters, many of whom were armed with rotten tomatoes, were arrested, although they were freed shortly thereafter. One of the anti-Nazi protesters who remained under arrest had shown up with two revolvers and two large knives.


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China Anti-Organ Harvesting Campaign in Germany
A Dafa Disciple in Germany
PureInsight | October 22, 2013
[PureInsight.org] Falun Gong practitioners in Germany recently launched a campaign to stop the Communist Party-directed ongoing organ harvesting criminal acts in China.
In July of 2013, Germany's Wagner Opera Festival started its 200-year anniversary celebrations. Many opera fans as well as tourists from all around the world joined in the celebrations. Many of these people were doctors and some of these doctors had already visited China to help with organ transplantations there. Falun Gong practitioners took this opportunity to expose the Chinese government's organ harvesting practices to the people in Germany, and tried to collect petition signatures to stop illegal organ harvesting all together in China.
The petition to stop illegal organ harvesting in China was first initiated by an organization called "Anti-Organ Harvesting International Physicians Association." The petition asks the German legislature to propose bills that will demand the Chinese government stop the persecution of Falun Gong immediately, that will request German doctors to stop training Chinese doctors in the area of organ transplantation, stop referring any patients to travel to China for organ transplants, stop visiting Chinese organ transplant hospitals to train people and to carry out any further studies on human bodies or experimental drugs there.
Falun Gong practitioners passed out petition letters to people on the street and told them about the acts of brutal live organ harvesting that are still taking place in China. Falun Gong practitioners presented evidence of such inhuman activities in China. Many people were shocked to learn of the news, and some people asked questions that Falun Gong practitioners patiently answered. Many doctors told Falun Gong practitioners after they had learned of the news that they would help spread the news and stop this most wicked criminal act on the planet.
One doctor watched Falun Gong practitioners collecting petition signatures for a while and then approached the practitioners asking for more information on the petition. After the doctor read over the petition letter, he immediately told the Falun Gong practitioners that they had come to the right place to collect signatures. The doctor said that many of the people walking around were doctors and those doctors were the very people that should be more than willing to sign the petition. The doctor signed his own signature and said that he would share this information to help stop the persecution of Falun Gong in China.
Another doctor approached and started to ask some technical questions, "Why would so many people agree to have their organs harvested? What did they say?" A Falun Gong practitioner told the doctor that those organ harvesting victims didn't agree in the first place. The practitioner presented a report where a Chinese military physician witnessed some strange things on the more than 60,000 so-called organ donors' contracts. In each and every of those contracts, the signatures all looked the same. So it was obvious that one person had signed all those contracts for the so-called donors without the donors' own knowledge of the contracts. The doctor wanted to know more after hearing this. One Falun Gong practitioner shared further with the doctor, "In 2006, there was an article exposing the details of how live organ harvesting was performed in China. Whenever a patient needed an organ match from a potential donor, one Falun Gong practitioner that had been thrown into the forced labor camp would be released from the camp. As the Falun Gong practitioner was leaving the camp, people from behind would jump on him and beat him with bludgeons until the practitioner lost consciousness. The practitioner would then be transferred to some hospital and doctors would then start collecting the organs they needed from the practitioner. The organs were sold for huge profits. The furnace in the hospital would be used to cremate the Falun Gong practitioner's body. A life would thus disappear from earth in this way." After hearing this, the German doctor said he understood now, and he knew what to do next because he was also a doctor.
Two more doctors came over. "Why aren't you making money in China? Why are you collecting petitions here in Germany? We've got enough problems here in this country; there is not much we can do for China." One Falun Gong practitioner told the doctors that Germany had been training Chinese physicians in organ transplantation for more than 14 years. "Everyone knew the famous human body show that had been exhibiting around the world. That project was initiated by a German person, and this same person obtained the human bodies for the exhibition in China. Actually, there were two human body-processing factories in China that this German person launched with the help of former Chinese government official Bo Xilai and his wife. In the vicinity of these two factories, there were three forced labor camps. Many Falun Gong practitioners were illegally detained in those camps. Another former Chinese official named Wang Lijun published a medical thesis even though Wang didn't have any medical background. In the thesis, Wang claimed that he had obtained the results from 'more than a few thousand lives.'"
The Falun Gong practitioner continued: "In 2012, the 24th International Organ Transplant Conference was held in Berlin. Everyone was talking about the same topic during the conference: Germany didn't have an organ bank; people should go to China for organ transplant operations because there were many organ banks in China. It was simply too tough to get an organ in Germany so doctors kept referring patients to go to China." After hearing all these stories, the two doctors finally understood and said that they would go back and tell their colleagues about this issue. They said they would help stop the persecution in China, and that they would never want to directly or indirectly help the Chinese government with this inhuman live organ harvesting brutality.
Two senior ladies came to the Falun Gong practitioners and asked to sign the petition. One lady said, "We got this petition letter three days ago and read it last night. We couldn't stop crying while reading it. It's too brutal; how could they treat a female teacher like this? They took her organ without even giving her an anaesthesia shot. How can a human being do such a terrible thing?" The two ladies also said that they would spread the news among their friends and relatives. They also hoped that the more exposed this organ harvesting brutality was, the quicker it would end.
One couple approached and asked for three petition letters. The couple wanted to take the petition home and read it over. They promised that they would sign and then send the petition to the address listed on the letter. The couple said that they would also give the third letter to a friend of theirs. Right before leaving, the couple said: "This is an evil act; this is not a human act. You are asking for an end to this crime, and we all hope you will succeed."
Another person came over and asked for five petition letters and said that he would pass the letters among his friends to help stop the persecution.
One high school teacher signed the petition and then asked, "The students in my school are on a break. Can you guys come over and give us a presentation on this topic? You can answer all the questions that the students might raise. Yes, this evil act must be exposed to more people so that it can be stopped. Let's work together to stop this genocide, this live organ harvesting of good, young, healthy people. Many people around the world might have unknowingly helped this massacre to some extent, so it must be exposed."
When Wagner's great-granddaughter Eva Wagner was asked by Falun Gong practitioners to help spread the news about organ harvesting, she nodded and said she would tell her friends in the medical fields about this organ harvesting crime.
Two young people were riding on bikes. They passed the Falun Gong practitioners without stopping. After hearing Falun Gong practitioners' call to tell their friends to help stop organ harvesting, the two young people turned around and signed the petition.
Translated from: http://news.zhengjian.org/node/18334
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Rangers Blow Yet Another Late Lead In 4-3 Overtime Loss To Blue Jackets
December 28, 2018 December 30, 2018 Andrew Chodes
It's becoming a common theme now for the Rangers; blow a late lead, send the game to overtime, and fall in overtime. A Rangers late lead in the third period is almost bound to lead into a loss past regulation. While getting a point is much better than being blown out, these losses are so hard for Rangers fans to watch. And of course, Thursday night ended up being a familiar result for New York. The Ranger's had a one goal lead until Columbus scored in the final minutes and then scored early in overtime to secure a 4-3 victory against the Blueshirts.
At 9:17 of the opening frame, Blue Jackets foward Oliver Bjorkstrand scored to give Columbus the lead off a rising wrist shot. The play was set up by Boone Jenner who nailed a wide open pass to Bjorkstrand for the easy goal. At the 13:59 mark, the momentum shifted on the Rangers' first agressive offensive push of the contest. Vladislav Namestnikov took the puck away in the Rangers zone and sauced the puck to Kevin Hayes who made a lovely pass to Jimmy Vesey who fired the puck into the net. Vesey is on pace to score a career high in goals and points. Also, Kevin Hayes' assist extended his career high point scoring streak to eight games. Two minutes later, though, the Rangers gave the lead right back to Columbus when defenseman David Savard scored a goal that Lundqvist should have stopped. The puck slowly trickled into the back of the far side. The Rangers luckily escaped the period with the Blue Jackets having a 6-5 shot advantage.
In the second period, the Rangers got on the board quickly. At 1:38, Hayes passed the puck over to Zuccarello who took the shot and Chris Kreider deflected it past the Columbus netminder. There would be no more scoring the rest of the second period but Hank made some nice saves to keep the game close. The period ended with a 12-11 shot advantage for Columbus and the game tied at two.
Throughout the third, it was clear that neither team wanted to make a mistake in the third period as it was one of the most conservative periods that either team has played this season. There were very few opportunities for both team Early in the period, Brendan Smith was called for hooking. Lundqvist made some great saves in the period which was highlighted by a beautiful pad save on Cam Atkinson. The penalty kill clearly had an effect on the team and the Garden crowd and the Rangers controlled play when a dynamic rush by Brady Skjei led to Kreider's second goal of the game. With about four minutes left, the Rangers thought they had a two goal lead when they scored what they thought was their fourth goal. Vlad Namestnikov made a beautiful pass to Ryan Strome, streaking to the net, who put the puck past Korpisalo, it was called offside. the disallowment would end up being key in the final result. With 2:20 left in the game, Jimmy Vesey had a chance to exit the Rangers' zone, but the puck went all the way down the ice and that created an icing. After the faceoff, the Blue Jackets tied the score on a slapshot by Zach Werenski that hit Marc Staal on the way in and deflected past Lundqvist.
Only 32 seconds into the overtime period, Jackets' Pierre-Luc Dubois converted on a breakaway sealed the deal for Columbus. Dubois skated past Kevin Hayes at center ice and drove hard to the net and. Lundqvist got a piece, but it bounced over his right arm and into the net as the Jackets stole the victory. In the Rangers league leading 13th overtime matchup, they once again fell for the seventh time in games that have gone past regulation.
The Blueshirts will look to bounce back against an injury riddled Predators on Friday night. In addition, that game will begin a six game road trip. Quinn's crew will need to be sharp if they expect to get back into playoff contention.
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1. What is "foreign languages" in Japan?
The general trend of public opinion is that English alone is sufficient as a foreign language in the globalizing modern Japan. Starting from the 2011 school year, "foreign language activities" have become compulsory for fifth and sixth graders in elementary school. "Foreign language" here actually refers to the English language, as in the cases of middle schools and high schools.
Language has a practical aspect as a communication tool, and judging from this aspect, English is continuing to play the role of the intermediary language now and in the foreseeable future as globalization spreads primarily across the fields of the economy, military, and information transmission. Such reasoning, it is fair to say, lies at the center of the idea of emphasizing the importance of learning English as well as its promotion.
2. What does it mean to learn a new language?
One may wonder how the learning of a new language can affect the person learning the new language. Let us take a look at the relationship between language and human society. Saussure stated that "Language functions in activities directed between individuals, societies, and cultures. From this perspective, language is a collective representation as well as a social system." This means that language is a system of signs, which is composed of the inextricable association of the sounds and meanings of these signals, and the relationship between the sounds and meanings is determined freely in one community of language culture. The community is established by people who use their language in accordance with the rules, express themselves, understand others, and live within the limits of their customs as social human beings in the society that they belong to. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis states, "We make distinctions in the world of nature in accordance with the lines established by our mother tongues. This systematization is carried out largely through the language systems that work in our minds. We make distinctions in the natural world, systematize and conceptualize them, and regard them as significant. It is mainly because agreements have been established among us on the systematization of the natural world. These agreements reach every part of our language community but can neither be explicit nor clearly stated. These conditions absolutely must be complied with, however. We are therefore completely unable to exchange words unless we acknowledge the systematization of the data prescribed by these agreements and the method of distinction." As above, language defines how humans perceive things to some extent. There is still ongoing debate about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, but the latest research based on psychological experiments concludes that the hypothesis is basically correct.
Language is significantly influenced by human perception. Put another way, to learn a new language is to acquire the world of that language. For a person who belongs to a particular society, the acquiring of that society's language is necessary for that person's humanization and socialization. Socialization occurs by humanization through language, in other words, by the acquisition of the means of entering the world with information as a medium, through the formulation of the subject with the formulation of the self and having contact with one's environment. Language formulates along with the world. A unique way of perceiving things that language has to offer, or a different vision of the world, is formulated.
By learning other languages, we can obtain new ways of seeing things and recreate ourselves with new meaning and newly found values. Since perception through language is materialized through this representational system, the selves must be formulated as human subjects with the same capacity, through comparisons and contrasts made between the mother tongue and other languages. It is said that the changing of language is the changing of people. This is because thoughts change when language changes. By learning multiple languages, one can find multiple selves. This is the establishing of an other within oneself, which leads to the understanding of others. This also means the true understanding of oneself. By establishing lingual plurality and a multifaceted self within a single subject, one can see oneself clearly through the mirror of others.
Language planning based on this kind of perspective is taking shape in the EU. So-called multilingualism is a language policy for the knowledge of multiple languages (emphasis on the practical side of operational capability) or a policy where educational institutions provide the opportunity for multi-language education and encourage its learning where there is a state in which multiple languages coexist in a single society (or nation). On the other hand, the pluralingualism is based on the idea that language and culture are closely connected. If as many foreign languages as possible are studied with an understanding of other cultures, and if one's own culture could be relativized through this, one could have more respect for the cultural identities and diversities of others. That is, the pluralingualism aims for people and societies which, not isolating each language culture, but rather by extending the plurality of the language from language culture of the individual, the smallest unit, through the plurality of language within a household, to the plurality of the language of a social group, activate this plurality of language, culture, and furthermore, identity, and mutually. Language education based on such pluralingualism is an education that sees identity not as a singular entity but as multiple entities.
We actually all belong to one group or another, whether it is a home (family), community, nation, gender, occupational group, generaton, or other such group. This is also true with hobbies and preferences. The reason that we are able to find our own identities is because we are almost always a part of multiple groups of people. It is also because we have the freedom to select from among different relationships with others which ones we see as the most suitable to fit into various situations. This plurality of identity is reinforced by the plurality of language, and ensures the plurality of culture that is the other side of the same coin.
Born in 1951. Graduated the Faculty of Foreign Studies, Department of French Language and Studies, Sophia University in 1973. Completed the Master's Course in French literature at the Graduate School of Literature, Sophia University in 1976. Left the Doctoral Course in French Literature at the Graduate School of Literature, Sophia University, upon completing course requirements in 1979. Appointed to current post in 1997 after having served as Assistant Professor on the Faculty of Policy Studies at Chuo University from 1994.
Current research subjects include cognitive linguistics with the theme of spatial perception.


Maintaining a good bedtime oral hygiene routine is even more important than your daytime one. A lot can happen overnight while you are sleeping. Food debris and bacteria can wreak havoc on your teeth and gums during sleep time, when there is almost no saliva produced to wash away bacteria. Most of us have more time at night to properly clean our teeth, but wait until we are too tired to do so.
There are many ways to improve and maintain good oral health, even while you sleep. Here are a few helpful tips to get through the night.
You brush your teeth in the morning before leaving for work or going to school to remove bacteria and keep it at bay for the rest of the day. It is equally as important to brush before you go to bed. Proper brushing protects against plaque and bacteria buildup, as well as tooth decay and gum disease.
The best way to clean your teeth is to place your toothbrush at a 45-degree angle and move it back and forth gently in short strokes. Start with the outer tooth surfaces first, then work your way inwards, all the way back to the teeth you chew with. Use the tip of the brush and stroke gently moving up and down to clean the backs of your front teeth.
Flossing removes food particles and plaque buildup while it is still soft. If these debris stay on the teeth, bacteria will rapidly increase throughout the night and feed off them while you are sound asleep. Furthermore, if the plaque hardens, it becomes tartar, which can only be removed through a professional cleaning.
Worn tooth enamel, increased tooth sensitivity, or torn cheek tissues could be signs that you may be grinding your teeth while asleep. Though we can not stop you from doing it, we can recommend the use of a mouth guard as you sleep to protect your teeth from the effects of grinding.
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Welmoed (from Friesland), vocals, and Patrick ("made in Belgium"), guitar.
Complementary instruments that are being used, are bass-ukulele, mouthharp, accordeon and handdrum.
Homebase of BlueSunday is Friesland, the most Northern province of the Netherlands.
Before we started BlueSunday, in 2013,each of us made music for many years, with many different people.
Welmoed also as a solo-musician.
At this moment we mainly present covers.
The reason for that is that through time, unbelievably many, véry beautiful songs have been written that deserve to be heard.
We do look though for (almost) unknown songs from sometimes totally unknown, sometimes a little less unknown songwriters.
But each song worth being interpreted!
The style of music we bring, is roots music.
Roots music is a sub-style of Americana and can be considered a derived form of authentic blues, country and folk.
In some songs we reconstruct the instrumental part a bit, in some the lyrics, in some both.
Doing that, they become our own versions, but always with the deepest respect for the essence of the song!
We enjoy sharing this music with attentive listeners; in small churches, houseconcerts or at whatever intimate space you would like (ship, shed, etc.).
Our basis is semi-unplugged and we do have the equipment to perform fully plugged.


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BP CREATES NEW POWERFUL SAFETY AND RISK DIVISION
New safety division has sweeping powers to oversee and audit world-wide ops
BP has announced creation of a new company Safety & Operational Risk function with authority to intervene in all aspects of BP's technical activities.
The function will have its own expert staff embedded in BP's operating units, including exploration projects and refineries. It will be responsible for ensuring that "all operations are carried out to common standards, and for auditing compliance with those standards."
The organisation, headed by Mark Bly, will report directly to incoming chief executive Bob Dudley and will strengthen safety and risk management across the BP group.
The decision is one of a number of major changes announced by Dudley as he prepares to take over his new role on October 1 including:
re-restructuring the 'upstream' business into three divisions – Exploration, Development and Production;
wide-ranging review of how the company manages third-party contractors; and
review of how the Group incentivises business performance, including reward strategy, with the aim of encouraging excellence in safety and risk management.
The company said the planned review of its performance and reward strategy would focus on how to deliver better safety and risk management, allied with strong leadership and the creation of enduring value for shareholders.
Dudley said:
"These are the first and most urgent steps in a programme I am putting in place to rebuild trust in BP – the trust of our customers, of governments, of our employees and of the world at large. That trust is vital to the restoration of shareholder value which has been so adversely affected by recent events.
The changes are in areas where I believe we most clearly need to act, with safety and risk management our most urgent priority. This is a deeply challenging time for BP.
The Macondo incident was a tragedy that claimed the lives of 11 people, caused injury to many others and had a widespread environmental impact. Our response to the incident needs to go beyond deepwater drilling. There are lessons for us relating to the way we operate, the way we organise our company and the way we manage risk."
The massive difficulties at BP provide a reminder for all and particularly for larger construction businesses. The potential for harm arising from construction operations may be less than in the oil exploration and production sector – but it remains significant. The BP review of how the company "manages third-party contractors" may strike a chord with CDM principal contractors.
The best of boardroom intentions and messages on safety can be eroded, misinterpreted or ignored as they cascade throughout a management structure. A robust, powerful and independent safety function is vital to help maintain a sensible balance between competitiveness and protecting people or the environment.
The BP experience shows how quickly risk management systems and reputational risk can be shattered.
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MSU Federal Credit Union has launched The Lab at MSUFCU, a testing program for rapid development of technology solutions. But it's so much more...
For Michigan State University Federal Credit Union (MSUFCU), The Lab at MSUFCU is a testing ground for future technologies and a representation of how traditional finance houses are keeping in step with fintechs.
MSUFCU's venture into an incubator format for proving new technologies goes beyond stuffing a bunch of engineers into a room and hoping they'll create the next unicorn. In fact, it supports startups who can offer technology partnerships and brings the most successful ones to pilot stage, while training its own team to work with the new technology. MSUFCU gets to test the product, the partnership and its own team on a journey that goes from inception to implementation. But The Lab was not born overnight.
"The Lab is a combination of years of organic innovation formalized into a place to experiment with different fintechs and innovative companies and talk about those experiments, and get our members involved early on," says Ben Maxim, assistant vice president of digital strategy and innovation at MSUFCU.
The idea is that the process is "without fear" and to ensure that, unlike previously, potential partners do not feel pressure to present products that are "fully polished".
"What we're doing with The Lab is finding fintechs that offer niche services that make sense for a small portion of our membership. We try them out in a small pilot for a couple of months to experiment with and test it from our business perspective, looking at the ROI of what that relationship could be," adds Maxim.
It also acts as a training ground for employees. "We have some of our experts from
IT, including our development team. We have our UX team that helps us build out the prototypes, but then we pull in people identified as forward-thinking in their areas, those who are also looking for an opportunity to share their experiences. We have people from our call center from our branch network, from our accounting team, and several other departments. The combination of diverse experience helps us look at the different solutions holistically.
"We're also looking to gather and nurture employee ideas as well. We have an internal program within The Lab called CU Innovate where we solicit ideas from our employees," said Maxim.
Not only are employees brought into The Lab to contribute ideas and encourage innovation, they also vote on which projects should make it to the pilot stage.
The desire to innovate, Maxim admits, has been driven by a change in member behavior. Where once people came to the university and felt it made sense to "check out the branch near campus", the rise of fintech superstars, such as Chime or PayPal, has introduced competition, and the large national banks (themselves heavily investing in fintech companies and developers) promote customer loyalty from parent to child.
"We're trying to compete with that and help consumers understand what we offer them and how we can set them up for successful financial futures," says Maxim.
Currently under pilot are Keyno, a fraud prevention tool, Pocketnest™, a financial wellness dashboard, and ChangEd, for paying off student loans early through a transaction round up feature.
"We have a couple projects in the works that will target people while they're still in school, providing education and other related topics, and how to ensure you have a solid financial footing coming out of school. We want to have offerings that are available to everyone, then also personalize them so they do hit those markets."
Maxim started in this role at MSUFCU in January 2020, after 12 years on the software development team for the credit union and set out reading. He read a book by Eric Ries called The Startup Way, which along with Ries' The Lean Startup, is core reading for the Silicon Valley set. He was captivated by the idea of entrepreneurship within organizations, then following the process of getting buy-in from internal stakeholders, raising funds, recruiting a team and so on.
"A lot of [The Lab] is modelled on the principles in those books and really trying to avoid what's been coined as 'innovation theatre' where you spend the money on some fancy room or fancy building and then come up with all these ideas but there doesn't end up being any opportunity – or ROI – that comes from it.
"So we're either getting something out of it or we're showing ourselves that this isn't the right thing to do because our members don't want it or the ROI is just not there," added Maxim.
The program has transformed the speed of testing dramatically. POP/io, a video banking company, had been lurking near MSUFCU's project board for 18 months before being thrust into The Lab. "We were up and running in five weeks," says Maxim.
Tim Mielak, MSUFCU's chief information security officer, has also enjoyed the
organization's newfound agility. "The Lab has really caused us to look at our security review process. A traditional, classic security review process is really a gate, so we've had to develop over the past year in anticipation of doing this sort of innovation. We started to build out security systems that could rapidly adapt to the requirements of an innovation lab." The new process allows projects to move quickly through the security protocols "without being reckless".
With advances in the complexity of attacks being met by increasing layers of security, is it becoming easier to fend off threats, or much harder? "It's getting harder in new ways," says Mielak, "and easier in the old ways."
"It's the new avenues of security that are going to start challenging us. And I'll give you a great example which is artificial intelligence. AI is the buzzword. That's true for products, but it's also true for security. Imagine a future in, let's say, five years where security is entirely based on artificial intelligent bots combating each other and trying to outmaneuver one another. That's technology we haven't even really dreamed of yet. It's more conceptual. We have to embrace it, as a security department, along the same lines as The Lab.
"We have to embrace innovation, outside-the-box thinking, and security to try and not just support those efforts for our members, but also make sure we stay one step ahead of the threat actors who are evolving in their own right. And so, we spend a lot of time making sure that we've properly calibrated our security program to the threats that we actually face, anywhere from run of the mill phishing all the way up to nation state threat actors."
MSUFCU is also embracing digital transformation. "It's one of our main focuses right now, coming out of COVID," says Maxim, "and as part of that we had our business analyst team go through each of our business domains and share their ideas for how we can improve procedures and processes that were manual. We are also looking at how we can improve efficiencies through automation or custom AI solutions from the front line all the way to the back office. We're also really trying to improve our digital presence."
The credit union is keenly aware that almost a third of its members live too far away to make regular in-person visits to a branch, notwithstanding another pandemic lockdown or other unforeseen event.
"People have adapted to interacting with us digitally, and they don't come through the traditional channels with the same frequency as previously. We don't see as many in the branch every Friday to deposit their paychecks, because they do it with eDeposit; we don't have as many people calling in to check balances because they do that on the mobile app, and they can get text message alerts," said Maxim
This is the bedrock from which MSUFCU hopes to accelerate using The Lab. And that initiative has proven a testing ground not only for technologies but also for partnerships, such as with the fraud prevention tool Keyno.
Maxim explains, "They've been working on a product for a couple of years and have made some traction, and they were looking for a first client. We had a call and I instantly knew that this was something we wanted to explore. Keyno is one of our first pilots as part of The Lab. They had a ready-made pilot program set up where they had the technology built, but they needed some actual cardholders to try it with."
As testing rolls out to more cardholders, and the fourth quarter crunch for big ticket purchases comes along, MSUFCU is "already looking at how it can reduce fraud as a way to gain back some of the revenue we lost during the first few months of COVID, and set us up moving forward in terms of revenue."
Boost.ai is another key partner, enabling the credit union's chatbot to take over simple inquiries while MSUFCU employees help members with more complex inquiries.
"With the virtual assistant, you get more consistent answers across the board," says Maxim. "We did a pilot with Boost.ai and we asked individuals from our team with no experience to become certified Boost.ai trainers. We were able to build out the content and train the model in 10 days and then test it with a group of 60 individuals." User satisfaction reached almost 100% over the ensuing four weeks. Through the pilot, we determined we could automate approximately 2,000 employee-to-employee interactions each month.
"We decided this was a company we wanted to move forward with and we're currently scaling that out. We're learning AI. Yes, there's technology involved, but a lot of it has to do with the content, the training, business flow, and business process."
The Lab, which only officially launched in autumn 2020, is already creating alchemical results for MSUFCU. As the credit union looks to 2021 and beyond, it can look forward to seeing the reaction.
Paddy Smith
MSU Federal Credit Union
Benjamin Maxim


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William J. Ricci has become a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the premier legal associations in North America.
The induction ceremony at which Mr. Ricci became a Fellow took place during the recent 2016 Annual Meeting of the College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Membership in the College cannot exceed one percent of the total lawyer population of any state or province. There are currently approximately 5,800 members in the United State and Canada, including active Fellows, Emeritus Fellows, Judicial Fellows (those who ascended to the bench after their induction) and Honorary Fellows. The College maintains and seeks to improve the standards of trial practice, professionalism, ethics, and the administration of justice through education and public statements on important legal issues relating to its mission. The College strongly supports the independence of the judiciary, trial by jury, respect for the rule of law, access to justice, and fair and just representation of all parties to legal proceedings. The College is thus able to speak with a balanced voice on important issues affecting the legal profession and the administration of justice.
Mr. Ricci is a Founding Member of Ricci Tyrrell Johnson & Grey and has been practicing in Philadelphia for 37 years. He is an alumnus of Temple University School of Law.


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Reuben kick off 2005 with their brand new single 'Blamethrower', available on download only from April 18th on Xtra Mile Recordings. An angry, unrepentant anthem, 'Blamethrower' drives home their frustrations and anxieties over a grinding relentless bass line and guitar riff whilst still remaining catchy as hell in that distinctive Reuben way.
This single is the first release from their forthcoming second album 'Very Fast, Very Dangerous' (produced by Chris Sheldon – Foo Fighters, Feeder) due out in August, and follows on from a victorious 2004 that saw the band release their debut album 'Racecar Is Racecar Backwards' (10,000 sales to date), headline a Kerrang! show at London's Mean Fiddler venue, and be nominated for Best British Newcomer at the Kerrang! Awards. And that's not to mention Zane Lowe making both the single 'Freddy Kreuger' and the album 'Racecar…' Single/Album Of The Week on his Radio 1 show and the album entering the Independent Chart at Number 6.
2005 will propel the band even further towards the mainstream with further releases off 'Very Fast…', including the forthcoming 'proper' singles 'A Kick In The Mouth' due out in June, and 'Keep It To Yourself' two weeks prior to the album in August.
In support of the release of 'Blamethrower' Reuben will be heading out on tour in April throughout the UK including a special gig at Xtra Mile Recordings' 1 year anniversary party on April 7th. Support comes from Dive Dive.
11th April Birmingham Bar Academy
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14th April Wigan Cafe Nirvana
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17th April Peterborough Met Lounge
18th April Exeter Cavern
19th April Leeds Josephs Well
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Derafš Kaviani (perzijsko درفش کاویانی) ali Derafš Kavani  (درفش کاوانی) je bil legendarni kraljevi prapor Irana (Perzije), ki je bil v rabi od davnine do padca Sasanidskega cesarstva leta 651. Po porazu Perzijcev med arabskim osvajanjem Perzije je sasanidski prapor  dobil nek Zerar bin Kattab in zanj prejel 30.000 dinarjev.  Izročilo pravi, da so z njega odstranili dragulje, potem pa ga je rašidunski kalif Omar sežgal. Prapor so včasih imenovali tudi "Džamšidov prapor"  (Drafš-ī Jamshid درفش جمشید), "Ferejdunov prapor" (Drafš-ī Freydun درفش فریدون) in "Kraljevi prapor" (Drafš-ī Kayi درفش کیی).

Pomen in izvor
Ime Drafš-e Kāvīān pomeni "prapor kaja(-ev) " (tj. "kraljev", kias, kavis) ali "Kāva".  Slednji pomen je povezan z iransko legendo, v kateri bil Derafš-e Kāvīān prapor mitološkega perzijskega kovača-junaka po imenu Kaveh (perzijsko کاوه, Kave Ahangar), ki je vodil ljudsko vstajo proti tujemu, demonu podobnemu vladarju Zahaku (perzijsko ضحاک).  V obsežnem junaškem epu Šahname (Knjiga kraljev), napisanem okoli leta 1000, je Zahak opisan kot  hudoben  tiranski vladar,  proti kateremu je Kaveh poklical ljudi pod orožje, za  prapor pa je  uporabil svoj usnjen kovaški predpasnik, obešen na kopje. Po vojni so predpasnik okrasili z dragulji in je postal simbol iranskega nacionalizma in odpora proti tuji tiraniji.

Sasanidski prapor
V poznem sasanidskem obdobju (224–651)  je Drafš e Kāvīān postal prapor Sasanidske dinastije.  Predstavljal je tudi Sasanidsko cesarstvo - Ērānšāhr (Iransko cesarstvo). Eran Šahr v rednjeperzijskem jeziku pomeni  Arijsko cesarstvo. Prapor se lahko šteje za prvo nacionalno zastavo Irana.  Na škrlatnem polju z rdečim robom je bila zvezda  (akhtar), obložena z dragulji, iz katere so proti kotom segali zlati žarki. Zvezda je predstavljala srečo. Izguba ali uničenje prapora na bojnem polju je hkrati pomenilo izgubo sreče. Po porazu Sasanidov v bitki pri al-Kadisiji je prapor našel nek Zerar bin Katab in zanj prejel 30.000 dinarjev. Ko so s prapora odstranili dragulje, je kalif Omar ukazal, da se prapor sežge.

Drafsh e Kavian je bil kot simbol sasanidske države nepreklicno vezan na pojem  Eranšahr in s tem na pojem iranske narodnosti. Ko je leta 867 Jakub ibn Lajt iz Safaridske dinastije zahteval zase dediščino perzijskih kraljev in skušal "oživiti njihovo slavo", je  v pesmi, napisani v njegovem imenu in poslani abasidskemu kalifu, pisalo: "Z mano je Drafš e Kavian, preko katerega upam, da bom vladal narodom".  Čeprav ni dokazov, da bi Jakub ibn Lajt  kdaj poustvaril takšno zastavo, so zvezdne podobe na praporih  ostale priljubljene do vzpona simbola leva in sonca po letu 1846.

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Prapor predsednika Tadžikistana je bil uveden leta 2006 ob slovesni inavguraciji za tretji mandat Emomalija Rahmona kot voditelja države.  Na praporu je sredi  tadžiške trobojnice upodobljen Derafš  Kaviani. Znotraj Derafš  Kavianija je krilati lev na modrem nebu, nad njim pa krona in sedem zvezd.

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Healthcare Quarterly 13(2) March 2010 : 12-13.doi:10.12927/hcq.2013.21681
CHSRF Knowledge Transfer: Policy Priorities for Primary Healthcare Improvement: A National Conversation
Kevin Barclay and Laura Fletcher
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Primary care is the foundation of a nation's healthcare system – it is well documented that countries with a strong primary care system have better population health and lower healthcare costs.
Despite initiatives such as Health Canada's $800 million Primary Healthcare Transition Fund (Health Canada 2007), the development and performance of Canada's primary healthcare sector have lagged in comparison with those of other wealthy industrialized countries (Schoen et al. 2006, 2007), particularly in areas such as access, quality and the use of research to inform practice and policy. In her recent commentary on the state of primary healthcare in Canada, Barbara Starfield noted that "Canada seems to have stalled in its commitment to strengthening primary care. One reason for this lack of movement may be the poor investment in primary care research and evaluation. In this regard, Canada is probably at least 10 years behind" (Starfield 2008: 59).
Clearly, there is a need for a national effort to define priorities for primary healthcare research in Canada, with a focus on stimulating evidence-informed policy and practice that will strengthen the healthcare system and improve the health of Canadians. For example, the Primary Healthcare Transition Fund contributed to 68 projects and project envelopes within the provinces and territories. Some were successful, and some less so; yet insufficient efforts have been made to learn from these initiatives.
The Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF), in partnership with a number of national organizations, researchers and senior decision-makers, decided to address these issues through the formation of the Canadian Working Group for Primary Healthcare Improvement (CWGPHI). The purpose of the group is "to promote evidence-informed primary healthcare policy and practice for the benefit of Canadians" (CHSRF 2010).
The group's first step was to convene a national policy dialogue on primary healthcare improvement. CHSRF hosted a national symposium on primary healthcare on December 14, 2009, in Toronto, with the goal of promoting knowledge exchange across jurisdictions and encouraging pan-Canadian collaboration on improving primary healthcare as the foundation for an effective healthcare system. In attendance were 24 healthcare senior policy makers and decision-makers from almost every province and territory across Canada as well as 21 members of the CWGPHI. The primary objectives of the symposium were (1) to share new information on international and provincial indicators of primary healthcare performance and (2) to engage policy makers in a dialogue regarding the state of primary healthcare and to explore next steps in working toward primary healthcare improvement.
The symposium opened with a presentation of international comparisons of primary healthcare processes and outcomes by Jean-Frédéric Levesque (2009). Sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund, the study (Schoen et al. 2009) was significant because, for the first time, it provided Ontario and Quebec profiles along with profiles comparing Canada with other countries. On the whole, the study indicated that while Canada's performance, and that of Ontario and Quebec, is lacking on a number of primary healthcare indicators.
There was general consensus that the information presented helped confirm and quantify the perceptions that many of the participants brought to the meeting regarding the state of Canadian primary healthcare, particularly in comparison with other nations. Following a brief question-and-answer session, the policy makers in the group were asked to share their reflections and identify priority areas for primary healthcare improvement. Five main areas emerged after an active dialogue:
There is a need to enhance local coordination between primary healthcare and other healthcare sectors:
Primary healthcare is the foundation of any healthcare system, and it needs to be better linked to other components of the system.
Family physicians and inter-professional primary healthcare teams need to be engaged and aligned with the broader healthcare system in order to enhance the effectiveness of primary healthcare and the system as a whole.
Administrators of provincial systems need to find ways to connect regions to each other and to primary healthcare resources within their catchments.
There is a need to enhance national coordination on primary healthcare improvement:
More coordination is needed on common primary healthcare features across all Canadian healthcare jurisdictions.
Citizens should be engaged and educated about how primary healthcare in Canada is provided, and patients should be guided to become equal partners in their care.
There is a need to enhance communication and information technology within primary healthcare and between primary healthcare and the rest of the healthcare system. There needs to be a greater appreciation for the future benefits from up front investments in information technology
There is a need to encourage the use of more inter-professional teams:
The yardstick should be moved forward in integrating other professions into the primary healthcare system.
Inter-professional education and training should be enhanced.
There is a need to make changes on how we assess quality and on how we provide incentives for quality: the national community of researchers should be encouraged to lead the development of a common set of indicators that are meaningful in various Canadian contexts and useful in national and international comparisons.
Overall, participants reported that they found the policy dialogue valuable to their work. The opportunity to share ideas with colleagues from across the country and within their own provinces and territories was welcomed, recognizing that chances for this kind of reflection and exchange are rare. It was agreed that more dialogue is needed to create momentum on primary healthcare improvement, and participants expressed their commitment to be a part of this movement. As one individual commented, "It was good to know that across the nation there are stakeholders struggling with the same issues – and through more national forums like this, perhaps we could identify solutions and opportunities."
CHSRF is responding to the desire expressed for effective dialogue on primary healthcare improvement – it has committed resources to support the CWGPHI's 2010 work plan and will host its activities. CHSRF, along with its partners, will also host Picking up the Pace, an event taking place November 1–2, 2010, in Montreal. Picking up the Pace will highlight primary healthcare innovations, with a focus on sharing the successes and challenges of implementation. Participants from across disciplines and the country will consider strategies for adapting successful and promising initiatives to other parts of Canada. Picking up the Pace promises to be a key event for advancing improvements in primary healthcare.
Kevin Barclay, MA, is a senior advisor with the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, in Ottawa, Ontario.
Laura Fletcher, MA, is the program delivery training officer with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research in Ottawa, Ontario.
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Schoen, C., R. Osborn, M.M. Doty, D. Squires, J. Peugh and S. Applebaum. 2009. "A Survey of Primary Care Physicians in 11 Countries, 2009: Perspectives on Care, Costs, and Experiences." Health Affairs November 5: w1171–83.
Schoen, C., R. Osborn, M.M. Doty, M. Bishop, J. Peugh and N. Murukutla. 2007. "Toward Higher-Performance Health Systems: Adults' Health Care Experiences in Seven Countries." Health Affairs 26: w717–34.
Schoen, C., R. Osborn, P.T. Huynh, M. Doty, J. Peugh and K. Zapert. 2006. "On the Front Lines of Care: Primary Care Doctors' Office Systems, Experiences, and Views in Seven Countries." Health Affairs 25: w555–71.
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