* Bohemian Rhapsody is named ' The Best Single Of The Last 25 Years ' by BPI.

Business Process Improvement ( BPI ) is a systematic approach to help an organization optimize its underlying processes to achieve more efficient results.

The goal of BPI is a radical change in the performance of an organization, rather than a series of incremental changes ( compare TQM ).

Yet, others have found that BPI is a valuable tool in a process of gradual change to a business.

It is imperative in any BPI exercise that the " Voice of Customer " be known, and factored in, when reviewing or redesigning any process.

* Carrying out BPI is a project, so all principles of project management apply.

* The first step in BPI is to define the existing structure and process at play ( AS-IS ).

The album is currently certified Platinum by the BPI and, according to the biography on the official site, has sold over two million copies around the world.

Many forms of these theorems are actually known to be equivalent, so that the assertion that " PIT " holds is usually taken as the assertion that the corresponding statement for Boolean algebras ( BPI ) is valid.

* BPI, the British Phonographic Industry ( website ) is the UK music industry association.

Baltimore Polytechnic Institute ( initialized as BPI, and informally Baltimore Polytechnic High School, Poly-Tech High, Polytechnic Institute, Polytechnic, or simply Poly for short ) is a U. S. four-year public high school founded in 1883.

( BPI, later part of Jones Radio Networks, is part of Dial Global as of 2012.

c-ANCA ( atypical ) is present in 80 % of cystic fibrosis ( with BPI as the target antigen ) and also in inflammatory bowel disease, primary sclerosing cholangitis and rheumatoid arthritis ( with antibodies to multiple antigenic targets ).

Bank of the Philippine Islands ( Spanish: Banco de las Islas Filipinas, commonly known as BPI ; ) is the oldest bank in the Philippines still in operation and is the country's third largest bank in terms of assets, the country's largest bank in terms of market capitalization, and the country's most profitable bank.

BPI is also the oldest bank in Southeast Asia and has a long and distinguished history that spans over a century.

While it is considered by many as an old institution, BPI is trying to promote itself as a dynamic institution that caters to its various clients, which hail from various sectors of Philippine society.

BPI is divided into the following subsidiaries and affiliates:

BPI is highly regarded as one of the best Philippine banks.

BPI is also known for its firsts which are listed below:

* BPI is the first bank in the Philippines, and in Southeast Asia.

* BPI is the first bank to issue the Philippine peso

BPI and Western High School, originally BPI's sister school, are situated on the same campus and share several amenities including a cafeteria, auditorium, and athletic fields.

During periods of major depression or mania ( in BPI ), functioning was on average poor, with depression being more persistently associated with disability than mania.

ELO collected 19 CRIA, 21 RIAA and 38 BPI awards, and sold over 50 million records worldwide during the group's active period of recording and touring.

* Becoming X ( 1996 ) – # 27 UK, # 111 U. S., # 1 U. S. Heatseekers – BPI: Gold

The album I've Been Expecting You sold almost 3 million copies in the UK and was certified 10x Platinum by the BPI.

The band's performance was described as " rough but right " by Rolling Stone magazine, but they would not perform together again until the 1988 BPI Awards.

The up-tempo " Bring It All Back " reached number-one in the United Kingdom singles charts, and after selling more than 600, 000 copies, was made BPI certified Platinum.

* A simulated Branch on Program Interrupt ( BPI ) instruction.

The album itself proved to be a minor success and peaked at Number 14 on the UK Albums Chart, and was later certified gold by the BPI in 1982.

The album itself charted at Number 4 in the UK Albums Chart, their highest ever position, and was certified platinum by the BPI in 1984.

1984 saw the release of the third Heaven 17 album, How Men Are, which reached Number 12 in the UK chart and was certified silver by the BPI.

The Tin Drum album itself peaked just outside the UK Top 10, and was the band's first record to be certified by the BPI, being awarded a Silver disc within a month of release, and reaching Gold status within four months.

It was also a commercial success, debuting and peaking at number 12 in the UK Albums Chart and being certified Silver by the BPI within a month of its release.

National groups and affiliate bodies include SNEP in France, Bundesverband Musikindustrie in Germany, RIAJ in Japan, BPI in the UK and RIAA in the US.

In essence, BPI attempts to reduce variation and / or waste in processes, so that the desired outcome can be achieved with better utilisation of resources.

This alignment can be brought about by integrating programs like Balanced Scorecard to the BPI initiative.

Accordingly, benchmarks assume an important role in any BPI initiative.

* Once the outcomes are determined, the organization's work force needs to be re-organized to meet the new objectives, using the variety of tools available within the BPI methodology.

Most resistance to BPI comes from within an organization.

The latest and, significantly, greatest fruit of this theatrical vine is The, an adaptation of Basho's classic frog-haiku by Roger Entwhistle, a former University of Maryland chemistry instructor.

That is larger by than the combined areas of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.

The tradition is often carried out at other sporting events, both professional or amateur, and even sometimes at non-sporting events where the anthem is played, throughout the Baltimore / Washington area and beyond, notably at Baltimore Ravens, Washington Capitals, Georgetown Hoyas, Maryland Terrapins, Virginia Cavaliers, Virginia Tech Hokies, West Virginia Mountaineers, Penn State Nittany Lions and Aberdeen Ironbirds games.

It is located in low wooded hills about north-northwest of Washington, D. C., on the property of Catoctin Mountain Park in unincorporated Frederick County, Maryland, near Thurmont, at an elevation of approximately.

It is bordered to the south and west by Maryland, to the northeast by New Jersey, and to the north by Pennsylvania.

Delaware is bounded to the north by Pennsylvania ; to the east by the Delaware River, Delaware Bay, New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean ; and to the west and south by Maryland.

* 1963 – Pan Am Flight 214, a Boeing 707, is struck by lightning and crashes near Elkton, Maryland, United States, killing all 81 people on board.

He is a graduate of Calvert Hall College High School and an alumnus of Towson University, both located in Towson, Maryland.

Edgar Allan Poe is buried in Baltimore, Maryland.

Also, the United States Army Communications and Electronics Life Cycle Management Command ( CECOM-LCMC ) Headquarters at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland is named Armstrong Hall in his honor.

Within the residential context, the best remaining example is the pristine Hammond-Harwood House ( 1774 ) in Annapolis, Maryland.

The series is set to be filmed in Baltimore, Maryland.

( At the College Park, Maryland, USA, store there is an interactive digital display which tells the history of a tavern which used to exist where the store is currently located.

* 1789 – Georgetown College, the first Catholic University in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland ( now a part of Washington, D. C .)

* 1877 – After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of nine rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.

The white gingerbread cottage that was Maroger's home in Baltimore is found on the east campus of Loyola College in Maryland and is used for drawing and painting courses.

* Introduction to Flight, John D. Anderson, Jr., McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-299071-6 – The author is the Curator of Aerodynamics at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air & Space Museum and Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland.

Loch Raven Reservoir is a reservoir in Baltimore County, Maryland.

is: Maryland

* 1996 – The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.

* 1972 – In Laurel, Maryland, Arthur Bremer shoots and paralyzes Alabama Governor George Wallace while he is campaigning to become President.

* 1963 – The U. S. Supreme Court case Brady v. Maryland is decided.