The Congress is organised by ROC, (Radiology Oncology Congresses) a charitable partnership of the British Institute of Radiology, The Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine and The College of Radiographers. Profile Productions are the current professional congress organisers.
This annual event consists of a three-day multidisciplinary scientific congress and technical exhibition which run simultaneously in one location. The event is aimed at all those involved in the field of radiological science and radiation oncology and attracts over 2,000 attendees. The 2019 congress is taking place on Monday 10 – Wednesday 12 June 2019 at the ACC and ECL Liverpool.
The 2019 theme is Personalise & Humanise. The scientific programme, that promises to be both innovative and varied will create a true multidisciplinary congress, covering the widest range of topics. A very strong team of Vice Presidents and programme committee members guided by UKIO President, Dr Julian Kabala, are working to create a challenging education programme including a number of plenary sessions and debates.
• Research; workforce & education; policy and QI.
• Imaging technologies and informatics.
The congress will include a wide range of topics, from current procedures to advances and new technologies, from clinical applications to management challenges.
For further information about the event, please visit www.ukio.org.uk.
• Offer a forum for high quality education and professional development.
• Provide a platform for the presentation of cutting-edge research and innovation.
• Showcase latest innovations in industry.
• Influence government and decision-makers.
• Educate and provide information and news from the imaging and radiotherapy field to the general public.
ROC is currently looking for Press and PR services for the 2019 congress – starting in January 2019 through to post-event reporting in July. As this is an annual event there is potential for a long-term contract after the first year. The PR work will sit alongside an existing marketing campaign of email and postal campaigns, social media, print and digital advertising, promotion at other events, Facebook ads, SEO.
• Lift the overall profile of the event.
• Improve visibility of the event to the existing audience, particularly bearing in mind that it has a new identity, name and brand that the existing audience may not immediately recognise.
• Create awareness of the event amongst other related healthcare organisations.
• Raise awareness amongst the general public of imaging and radiotherapy.
• Generate media coverage in the medical/healthcare and consumer press.
Who do we need to engage?
• Past delegates of UKRC and UKRO.
• Committee members and programme leads.
• Members of the BIR, IPEM and SCOR.
• Other related healthcare societies.
• Healthcare/scientific correspondents of mainstream media.
• Develop and expand the existing list of journalists in the diagnostic imaging and clinical oncology / radiotherapy sectors (national and international) and nurture relationships.
• Build a list of healthcare/scientific correspondents in the mainstream media and nurture relationships.
• Work with Profile Productions and UKIO leads (president/section leads and marketing group) to identify key stories based on specific programme themes or key speakers.
• Interview key speakers and protagonists.
• Generate press releases (1-2 per month) aimed at different audiences and be responsible for sell-ins to journalists.
• Manage involvement of Congress stakeholders / spokespersons with the press – including writing briefing documents, providing key messages to deliver etc.
• Work with industry/exhibitors to identify and support key stories and major announcements to be made at UKIO.
• Manage press accreditation for Congress – own the media invitations and manage the media guestlist.
• Support a press office onsite at the Congress.
• Generate onsite press materials and stories (including working with the marketing team of exhibitors where appropriate).
• Integrate online and other PR activities within the online marketing plan.
• Build online exploitation into all campaign ideas.
• Produce and help deliver a social media strategy.
• Work with key Congress stakeholders (committee, speakers, the three societies, partners, exhibitors) to integrate the Congress into their social media presence.
• Manage Congress social media accounts (Twitter, Facebook and Instagram).
• Write all social media copy.
• Link press releases to social media stories.
• Manage the Congress social media accounts onsite.
• Provide timely reports on PR activities throughout the planning process.
• Produce follow-up press releases post-Congress (e.g. on outcomes of debates, success of the conference etc).
• Gather feedback from journalists on the Congress.
• Produce a post-event report of event coverage for ROC.
• Liaise with the three societies – BIR, IPEM and SCOR – on focused PR for their members.
• Manage all reactive enquiries.
• Press coverage generated (in both healthcare/medical press and mainstream press).
• Social media engagement – pre-event and onsite.
We are looking to secure services ASAP, to run through the planning and marketing period of the conference to onsite in June and post-event reporting in July.
Proposals should be made in writing and emailed to julie.churchill@profileproductions.co.uk.
For any further information, please contact sue.elcock@profileproductions.co.uk or julie.churchill@profileproductions.co.uk.
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The Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology is a research institute of the Max Planck Society. It was founded in 1992 in the state of Bremen and employs around 200 people. In close cooperation with numerous university and non-university research institutions, we explore the diversity and function of microorganisms in the ocean and their interactions with their environment. Researchers from all over the world, engineers, technicians and administrative staff together make an important contribution to global marine and environmental research.
They independently and creatively arrange the work and direction of the press and public relations in consultation with their colleagues.
Together with the other employees of the press and public relations department they develop new communication strategies and measures.
They place our work in the media, answer press inquiries and maintain contacts with journalists and the media.
They represent our institute externally and internally, for example in relevant committees and at events.
They present our research using visual media, for example, creating science videos and other modern formats of science communication.
They look after our website and our presence in the social media.
They organize and supervise visits to institutes, events and exhibitions, possibly also on weekends.
We offer a responsible and varied work in a growing interdisciplinary and international research institute, a pleasant, collegial working environment and a modern workplace. A wide range of individual training opportunities is also at your disposal. The position is initially limited to two years, a takeover in an indefinite employment relationship is sought. Remuneration is based on the collective agreement of the public service TVöD (federal government).
Then we look forward to your meaningful application until 31.01.2019 . Applications to this position are made exclusively through our online application portal accepted.
The Max Planck Society endeavors to employ more severely handicapped people. Applications of severely disabled persons are expressly desired.
The British Pharmacological Society is inviting applications for an experienced Engagement Manager. The successful candidate will have experience of public/patient engagement, leadership of relevant science communication activities and will be able to demonstrate their ability to develop strong internal and external relationships. They will be a confident self-starter and team player, with experience of overseeing projects from start to finish.
This exciting role offers the opportunity to develop a series of projects aimed to engage different audiences with pharmacology. The successful candidate will not only do this themselves but coordinate and direct engagement activities, through others, using our ambassador scheme, volunteers and members.
The ideal candidate will therefore have experience of managing committees and other networks and be responsible for the engagement activities as part of the Society's objectives.
Your interest in the role that pharmacology plays in the discovery of medicines and your drive for good science communication will help you stand out. We are looking for someone with multiple examples of outstanding organisational and communication skills, attention to detail, effective time management and being a team player. The ability to work with and through others will underpin your success and ensure that the Society effectively engages with a range of audiences.
If you are interested in joining the team, please take a look at the job description.
To apply for this position, please email Anna Clark (anna.clark@bps.ac.uk) enclosing an up-to-date CV and one-page covering letter stating why you want to work at the Society and how your skills are relevant, before the closing date of 10am on Friday 18 January 2019.
Volunteer Co-ordinator needed for exciting Science & Arts Festival. Immediate start.
We are looking for a highly organised and adaptable volunteer co-ordinator to work at multi award-winning festival SMASHfestUK next month. SMASHfestUK is a narrative led arts and science festival based in Deptford, SE London which aims to increase diversity and participation in STEM. The festival runs from 12-16 February half-term 2018 at Deptford Lounge (Mon-Fri) and the Albany Theatre (Thurs & Fri). This role combines support and management of a diverse group of volunteers and assisting with our evaluation.
The volunteer co-ordinator is a hugely important and stimulating role at SMASHfestUK. Our volunteers are group of people from right across our local community and are at the heart of what we do. They include pupils at local schools, artists, scientists and students as well as a diverse group of adults from Deptford and the surrounding area. Ensuring that our volunteers have a positive experience is a priority for us and we are looking for someone who can help us deliver that.
We need someone who can start ASAP. The job is two to three days a week for the next three weeks (flexible working) and then full-time the week of the festival (12-16th February) plus one finishing up day.
We are a small and passionate team at SMASHfestUK. Please contact Sally Spurring sally@smashfestuk.com for more details if you would like to join us.


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import React, { Component, PropTypes } from 'react';
import { connect } from 'react-redux';
import classnames from 'classnames';
import moment from 'moment';

import {
    fetchMatchDetail,
    toggleSetScoreFormVisibility,
    setScore
} from 'actions';

import styles from './style.less';

const format = (date) => {
    return moment(date).format('DD.MM.YYYY, HH:mm');
};

class MatchDetail extends Component {
    componentDidMount() {
        const { id } = this.props.params;

        if (!this.props.matches[id]) {
            this.props.fetchMatchDetail(id);
        }
    }

    handleSetScore() {
        const matchId = this.props.params.id;
        const player1Score = this.refs.player1Score.value;
        const player2Score = this.refs.player2Score.value;

        this.props.setScore(matchId, player1Score, player2Score);
    }

    render() {
        const matchId = this.props.params.id;
        const match = this.props.matches[matchId];
        const { setScoreFormVisible } = this.props.matchDetail;

        return match ? (

{match.player1}

                    vs

{match.player2}

                { !match.played_at &&

                            Not played yet

                            { this.props.matchDetail.error &&

{this.props.matchDetail.error}

                            }

                                    {match.player1}
                                    <input ref="player1Score" type="number" min="0" defaultValue="0" className={styles.scoreInput} />

                                :

                                    <input ref="player2Score" type="number" min="0" defaultValue="0" className={styles.scoreInput} />
                                    {match.player2}

                                    {match.player1}
                                    <input ref="player1Score" type="number" min="0" defaultValue="0" className={styles.scoreInput} />

                                    {match.player2}
                                    <input ref="player2Score" type="number" min="0" defaultValue="0" className={styles.scoreInput} />

                                <button
                                    onClick={this.props.toggleSetScoreFormVisibility}
                                    className="btn btn-danger btn-lg"
                                >
                                    Cancel
                                </button>

                                <button
                                    onClick={this.handleSetScore.bind(this)}
                                    className="btn btn-success btn-lg"
                                >
                                    Set score
                                </button>

                        <button
                            onClick={this.props.toggleSetScoreFormVisibility}
                            className={classnames({
                                'btn btn-primary btn-lg': true,
                                [styles.hidden]: setScoreFormVisible
                            })}
                        >
                            Set score
                        </button>

                }

                { match.played_at &&

                            {match.player1_score}
                            :
                            {match.player2_score}

Played at: { format(match.played_at) }

                }

        ) : null;
    }
}

MatchDetail.propTypes = {
    fetchMatchDetail: PropTypes.func.isRequired
};

const mapStateToProps = (state) => {
    return {
        matches: state.matches,
        matchDetail: state.matchDetail
    };
};

export default connect(mapStateToProps, {
    fetchMatchDetail,
    toggleSetScoreFormVisibility,
    setScore
})(MatchDetail);

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Vaba Aed Ltd is located on Hiiumaa, second biggest island of Estonia. Our brand HIID represents organic food, healthy lifestyle and clean nature of Hiiumaa. Blue- berries, lingonberries and other wild berries and herbs from the islands forests provide the ultra nutrient dense powders for our superfood mictures and health products.
We use wild hand picked stinging nettle in most of our products, which is a real nordic superfood and is loaded with vitamins, minerals, fiber and proteins essential for a healthy body and mind, especially for people with restricted diets like vegans and vegetarians but also for all health conscious people who enjoy living a full and rich life.
HIID products are inspired by folk medicine and natural remedies that have been in use for centuries but we have developed them further in cooperation with scientists to make sure the products have clear and proven health benefits.
It is essential that the healthiest herbs and plants come from places where the air and soil are unpolluted and clean. That makes Hiiumaa a perfect place for gathering uncultivated herbs and berries from the wild and they make the cleanest products.


There are times when you need to hire a professional to fix problems with a home, but there are many types of repairs that you may be able to handle yourself. This not only saves you some money, but can be a fun learning experience. Advantage Inspection Service presents our series of do-it-yourself videos to show you how to do common home maintenance and repairs yourself.
GFCI Outlets – What Are They?


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package org.gospelcoding.versemem;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

import org.gospelcoding.versemem.R;

import android.media.MediaRecorder;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.Environment;
import android.preference.PreferenceManager;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.NotificationManager;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.res.Configuration;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnFocusChangeListener;
import android.view.WindowManager;
import android.view.inputmethod.InputMethodManager;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class QuizActivity extends Activity{

	private Verse quizVerse;
	private String quizStyle;
	//private int quizId;

	//for microphone quiz
	private boolean recordingNow = false;
	private MediaRecorder recorder = null;

	@Override
	protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
		super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
		//quizId = (new DbHelper(this)).getQuizId();
		displayQuiz();
	}

	@Override
	protected void onStop(){
		super.onStop();
		if(recordingNow){
			stopRecording();
			displayQuizMicrophone();
			recordingNow = false;
			Log.e("QuizActivity", "onStop!");
		}
	}

	private void displayQuiz(){
		long requizId = getIntent().getLongExtra(QuizResultActivity.VERSE_ID, -1);
		if(requizId > 0){
			quizVerse = Verse.getQuizVerse(new DbHelper(this), requizId);
		}
		else{
			quizVerse = Verse.getQuizVerse(new DbHelper(this));
		}
		setTitle(quizVerse.getReference());
		quizStyle = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this)
				.getString(SettingsActivity.PREF_QUIZ_STYLE, SettingsActivity.DEFAULT_QUIZ_STYLE);

		if(quizStyle.equals(SettingsActivity.KEYBOARD_AUTO) || quizStyle.equals(SettingsActivity.KEYBOARD_SELF)){
			displayQuizKeyboard();
		}
		else if(quizStyle.equals(SettingsActivity.MICROPHONE)){
			displayQuizMicrophone();
		}
		else if(quizStyle.equals(SettingsActivity.NO_INPUT)){
			submitQuizNoInput();
		}
		else{
			Log.e("QuizActivity", "Unknown quiz type: "+quizStyle);
		}
	}

	public void displayQuizKeyboard(){
		setContentView(R.layout.quiz_keyboard);
		((TextView) findViewById(R.id.quiz_text)).setText(quizVerse.getReference());
		getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);
	}

	public void displayQuizMicrophone(){
		setContentView(R.layout.quiz_microphone);
		((TextView) findViewById(R.id.quiz_text)).setText(quizVerse.getReference());
	}

	private String getRecordingFile(){
		String path = getRecordingFilepath();
		(new File(path)).mkdirs();
		return getRecordingFilename();
	}

	public static String getRecordingFilename(){
		return getRecordingFilepath() + "/recorded_verse.3gp";
	}

	public static String getRecordingFilepath(){
		return Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath() + "/versemem";
	}

	@Override
	public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig){
		super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);
	}

	@Override
	public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
		// Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
		getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.quiz, menu);
		return true;
	}

	@Override
	public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item){
		switch(item.getItemId()){
		case R.id.action_settings:
			startActivity(new Intent(this, SettingsActivity.class));
			return true;
		default:
			return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
		}
	}

	public void recordAttempt(View v){
		if(recordingNow){
			stopRecording();
			setContentView(R.layout.quiz_microphone_recorded);
			((TextView) findViewById(R.id.quiz_text)).setText(quizVerse.getReference());
		}
		else{
			startRecording();
			((Button) findViewById(R.id.button_record)).setText(R.string.stop_recording);
		}
		recordingNow = !recordingNow;
	}

	public void rerecord(View v){
		displayQuizMicrophone();
	}

	public void startRecording(){
		recorder = new MediaRecorder();
        recorder.setAudioSource(MediaRecorder.AudioSource.MIC);
        recorder.setOutputFormat(MediaRecorder.OutputFormat.THREE_GPP);
        recorder.setAudioEncoder(MediaRecorder.AudioEncoder.AMR_NB);
        //TODO handle case where there is no sd card
        recorder.setOutputFile(getRecordingFile());

            try {
				recorder.prepare();
	            recorder.start();
			} catch (IllegalStateException e) {
				// TODO Auto-generated catch block
				e.printStackTrace();
			} catch (IOException e) {
				// TODO Auto-generated catch block
				e.printStackTrace();
			}
	}

	public void stopRecording(){
        recorder.stop();
        recorder.release();
        recorder = null;
	}

	public void submitQuizKeyboard(View view){
		EditText quizAttempt = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.quiz_attempt);
		String attempt = quizAttempt.getText().toString();
		Intent intent = new Intent(this, QuizResultActivity.class);
		intent.putExtra(QuizResultActivity.ATTEMPT, attempt);
		intent.putExtra(QuizResultActivity.REFERENCE, quizVerse.getReference());
		intent.putExtra(QuizResultActivity.VERSE_BODY, quizVerse.getBody());
		intent.putExtra(QuizResultActivity.QUIZ_STYLE, quizStyle);
		intent.putExtra(QuizResultActivity.VERSE_ID, quizVerse.getId());
		//intent.putExtra(QuizResultActivity.QUIZ_ID, quizId);
		if(quizStyle.equals(SettingsActivity.KEYBOARD_AUTO)){
			boolean result = quizVerse.checkAttempt(attempt);
			intent.putExtra(QuizResultActivity.SUCCESS, result);
		}
		startActivity(intent);
		finish();
	}

	public void submitQuizMicrophone(View v){
		Intent intent = new Intent(this, QuizResultActivity.class);
		intent.putExtra(QuizResultActivity.REFERENCE, quizVerse.getReference());
		intent.putExtra(QuizResultActivity.VERSE_BODY, quizVerse.getBody());
		intent.putExtra(QuizResultActivity.QUIZ_STYLE, quizStyle);
		intent.putExtra(QuizResultActivity.VERSE_ID, quizVerse.getId());
		//intent.putExtra(QuizResultActivity.QUIZ_ID, quizId);
		startActivity(intent);
		finish();
	}

	public void submitQuizNoInput(){
		Intent intent = new Intent(this, QuizResultActivity.class);
		intent.putExtra(QuizResultActivity.REFERENCE, quizVerse.getReference());
		intent.putExtra(QuizResultActivity.VERSE_BODY, quizVerse.getBody());
		intent.putExtra(QuizResultActivity.QUIZ_STYLE, quizStyle);
		intent.putExtra(QuizResultActivity.VERSE_ID, quizVerse.getId());
		//intent.putExtra(QuizResultActivity.QUIZ_ID, quizId);
		startActivity(intent);
		finish();
	}
}


Recent developments in the world of live streaming hint at how that could start to change, however.
As noted in a previous post here, the NFL choose Twitter over larger rivals to live-stream Thursday Night Football games next season in part because the league is keen to learn how fans engage with the content and with each other when the content is embedded on a natively social platform.
Notably, the league's broadcast partners for the games, NBC and CBS will also live-stream the games, giving the league the opportunity to compare the social media experience with a more traditional, linear online experience.
Facebook, which was also angling for the Thursday Night Football package before dropping out of the bidding, is also banking on the advantages of a natively social platform to enhance the appeal of watching live content via Facebook Live.
At the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas this week, YouTube announced it will support 360-degree live-streaming beginning with next week's Coachella music festival. Viewers watching on a mobile device will be able to enjoy a full, 360-degree panoramic perspective on the event simply by moving their device around, much as virtual reality goggle let you see in 360 degrees by moving your head.
Thanks to the ability to implement 360-degree video on existing Android and iOS mobile devices, moreover, consumers don't even need to invest in new devices or equipment to enjoy those enhanced capabilities. All they need to do is download the latest YouTube app.
YouTube is also introducing a feature it calls spatial sound that creates a 360-decree aural space, further enhancing the live viewing experience.
Live-streaming specialist NeuLion also showed off its 360-degree chops at NAB, including the ability to sync a 4K live stream across a connected television, a PC and a mobile device, allowing viewers to switch their perspective seamlessly between the 4K main action on the big screen to a 360-degree view using their mobile devices.
Online video platform Anvato also announced support for 360-degree live streaming at NAB.
What all of these developments show is that the tools available for creating engaging, immersive and shareable experiences around live events online are beginning to outstrip what's possible on traditional linear platforms.
Live streaming still has its challenges, of course. Streams still freeze and rebuffer, and can lag behind the real-time action by a minute or more. But if you squint a little, it's possible to envision a future in which viewers and advertisers alike come to the regard the online experience of live events — in 360 degrees, with spatial audio, and embedded in your own social graph — as the reference version, leaving the traditional linear broadcast presentation looking like the poor cousin.
Given how much money is still riding on the linear version, both broadcasters and rights owners need to be careful not to usher in that future too soon.


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Assessing the Impact of the 2007 Tax Reform on Poverty and Inequality in Uruguay
PEP MPIA Working Paper No. 2011-14
45 Pages Posted: 3 Oct 2011 Last revised: 11 Jul 2018
See all articles by Cecilia Llambi
Cecilia Llambi
Centro de Investigaciones Economicas (CINVE - Uruguay)
Silvia Laens
Marcelo Perera
Mery Ferrando
Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE); Universidad de la República - Instituto de Economía
In the context of a sharp rise in the incidence of poverty and increasing inequality since the end of the last decade, a major tax reform was put into place in mid-2007 with the explicit goals of promoting both greater efficiency and equity in the Uruguayan tax system. Overall, the reform substantially increased direct taxes on personal income by increasing marginal rates, lowered indirect taxes and direct taxes on firms, harmonized employer contributions to social security across sectors and eliminated some highly distortionary taxes.
The joint effects of these changes on the macroeconomic equilibrium, labour markets, and poverty and inequality are assessed using a top-down static CGE, a microsimulation approach. It is shown that full implementation of the tax reform has substantial general equilibrium effects which generally strengthen the reduction of poverty incidences, poverty gaps and the severity of poverty exclusively due to the introduction of the personal income tax (without behavioural responses). Regarding poverty, the general equilibrium effects are significantly greater than the direct effects. Overall, we estimate a one-point reduction of the Gini index due to the reform.
Keywords: Tax reform, CGE models, microsimulations, poverty, inequality
JEL Classification: C15, D58, H20, I38
Llambi, Cecilia and Laens, Silvia and Perera, Marcelo and Ferrando, Mery, Assessing the Impact of the 2007 Tax Reform on Poverty and Inequality in Uruguay (September 1, 2011). PEP MPIA Working Paper No. 2011-14, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1937756 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1937756
Cecilia Llambi (Contact Author)
Centro de Investigaciones Economicas (CINVE - Uruguay) ( email )
Montevideo, CP 11200
Av. Uruguay 1242
Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) ( email )
34 Voie du Roman Pays
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, b-1348
HOME PAGE: http://www.uclouvain.be/mery.ferrando
Universidad de la República - Instituto de Economía ( email )
Joaquín Requena 1375
HOME PAGE: http://www.iecon.ccee.edu.uy/ferrando-mery/autor/8/es/

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Home News Ghanaian legislature will rise for Easter break on Friday
Ghanaian legislature will rise for Easter break on Friday
Daily Guide Africa
Speaker Doe Adjaho
Parliament is expected to rise for its first meeting of the second session this Friday, March 28, with the chief agendum for the week being the determination of formulae for the statutory funds namely, the District Assembly Common Fund (DACF), the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETfund) and the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIS) for the year.
Unfortunately, these statutory funds, which ought to be paid timely by the government for the intended purposes, have been in arrears basically due to the economic challenges currently facing the country.
The Committee of the Whole will meet today to discuss the formulae before motions on the formulae will be moved tomorrow.
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will also continue with its public hearing from today before parliament finally rises.
The committee will scrutinise the performance audit report of the Auditor-General on the management of the Petroleum Funds from May, 2011 to December, 2012.
Officials of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) and the Ministry of Energy are expected to appear today to defend the audit.
Meanwhile parliament on Friday ratified a petroleum agreement between the Government of Ghana, GNPC, Carmac Energy (Ghana), a subsidiary of Camac Energy in the US, Base Energy Ghana Limited, a wholly-Ghanaian oil company and the GNPC Exploration and Production Company Limited for oil exploration.
Under the contract, the above-mentioned companies are to explore oil for commercial purposes in the Expanded Shallow Water Tano Block offshore the Republic of Ghana.
The agreement is for a total of 25 years if commercial discovery is made but the agreement will expire after seven years if no commercial discovery is made within that period by those oil companies.
Article 4 of the agreement commits the contractor to a minimum exploration programme in three phases comprising the initial exploration period of two years, one and half years for the first extension period and another one and half years or two and half years for the second extension.
By Thomas Fosu Jnr
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Charles F. Berg Building facade on SW Broadway.
The Charles F. Berg Building, also the Dolph Building is an art-deco building in downtown Portland, Oregon. It is one of the few examples of commercial use of art-deco in Portland.
The structure was built in 1902, and remodeled into a women's clothing store with its signature facade in 1930. Charles F. Berg (1871–1932), the building's namesake, was the owner of the store once located inside. At the time, Charles F. Berg was an upscale store, and featured ornate and lavish interior fixtures such as a Tiffany-designed elevator. The facade includes inlays of 14 Karat gold.
Currently, the building is used as offices, with a retail arcade on the ground floor. The Berg building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
^ "National Register of Historic Places: Multnomah County, Oregon". http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/OR/Multnomah/state.html. Retrieved 2007-07-06.


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America's Next Top Model Voting
November 30, 2019 by Bryan Elvina
It is confirmed by the franchise, America's Next Top Model is going for its 25th cycle in year 2020. The Show inspires young women to achieve their dreams in modelling. The participants from the native region go through auditions to book their place in the main competition of the show. In this article, you can have all the details related to ANTM 2020 Voting.
ANTM features about 10-16 contestants in the show. These contestants have to earn points from judges and viewers from various modelling tasks given by the franchise. At the end of the week these contestants have to go through the elimination round.
The contestant who have earned the least points from judges and audience combined have to leave the show. Finally, the last contestants standing in the show is declared as the winner of the show.
These contestants work week in week out for their photoshoots, ramp walks and other activities. However, you can help them to achieve their goals. As the show allows votes from the audience and you can cast your vote for your favourite contestant.
To know more about the latest edition of the show and voting just scroll down and read it all out.
ANTM 2020 Voting
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America's Next Top Model 2020 Winner
If you want to see your favourite contestants to win the prize he/she desires then this is the time to react. In this reality competition show, you have the power to help your favourite contestant to move further in this competition. It is little but quite valuable for the contestants to continue their journey in the show.
You can cast your vote just in a minute or two lying on your couch and enjoying this modelling competition. Follow the given steps to cast your vote-
Go to the official VH1 website.
Now search for the show.
You'll find a voting tool on the website.
Select the contestant whom you want to cast your vote.
If you haven't logged in then it will ask you to login.
Then just click on submit button.
That's it you have cast your vote in the show.
NOTE- Your vote will only count if you have cast in the time given by the authority of the show.
If you don't want to use the official website or finding it hard to cast your vote. Do not worry! We have something more to share about voting.
You can use your social media account to cast your vote. We use our social media account all the time just few touches away and you can vote though your account.
Follow the official ANTM page or account available in different social media websites and applications.
In those social media post, you can find polls and other methods to cast your vote.
There is a tip, you can cast your vote through both mediums and they will all count for your participant in the show.
The show allows contestants from various regions of the US. These contestants participate in the auditions to be a part of the main journey. However, 10-16 participants from the auditions will get the chance to express themselves in the show.
These contestants have to perform various tasks as asked by the judges and authority of the show. From their performances these contestants are given points by the judges.
Moreover, the average audience votes also count in the show. After every week, eliminations took place. Contestant having the lowest score combining both the judgesscorecard and audience poll have to leave the show at that point.
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Sometimes two contestants can be eliminated at the same time or judges can ask for no eliminations whatsoever.
So do your part and cast your vote, your vote can save your contestant from these eliminations.
Now let us share some information about the winner of the show. This phase depends upon the viewers who cast their vote for their contestants. The result depends on ANTM 2020 Voting.
However, it is quite soon to tell you about the winner. So keep tracking us back as we will update this information as soon as the winner will be declared.
If we have started to talk about the winner let us check some of the previous winners of the show.
Kyla coleman
Jeana Turner
India Gants
Tatiana Price
NyleDiMarco
MaméAdjei
Keith Carlos
Will Jardell
Next time might be your favourite contestant make in this winner list. So keep voting and just enjoy the show.
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Miracle Principle 47 - The miracle is a learning device that lessens the need for time.
interval not under the usual laws of time. In this sense it is timeless.
Let me go over what I said earlier, and then we will apply it to this principle. The need we all share is to use time to help us realize there is no time, and to use time to get us off this carpet (see chart ). Let us say that we have a massive ego problem with certain specific people around certain specific issues, which would take a tremendously long period of time to get off this carpet.
The miracle lifts us above the world of time. Through our choosing to forgive this huge chunk of guilt, it carries us over and then drops us back down onto time. It establishes an "out-of-pattern time interval." Let us say, for example, that this time interval within the laws of the world would have been a thousand years. By lifting us above the world of time, carrying us over, and then dropping us back down, we saved that thousand years, and so that whole interval of time now has been abolished. Again, that is the idea of saving time. Let me repeat what I said earlier. A very difficult relationship -- one that brings up a tremendous amount of anger, hurt, resentment, guilt, anxiety, etc. -- then becomes a very powerful means, if we let it, for working through a huge chunk of guilt. For it is this deeply repressed guilt that has surfaced through the relationship. If you read the first paragraph on page 6 in the text (text, p. 6; T-I.11.6), you will see this process clearly discussed. It is a very nice encapsulated summary of much of what we have been talking about.
Helen once was complaining to Jesus: "How come my life is so difficult?" To anyone else, her life would not have seemed difficult. Externally, she did not have a very hard life, but internally it was very painful for her. She was complaining to him about it, and as an answer, he gave her the image of a mountain. Helen's understanding of the image and Jesus' explanation was: "You are walking through the mountain. It would be much easier, in terms of requiring less effort, if you walked up the mountain and then down the other side, but it would take you much, much longer. By walking through the mountain, which is much more difficult, you will save a lot of time. Walking through the mountain is walking through very difficult and very painful situations, which in the usual course of events would have taken you many, many lifetimes, which is the walking up the mountain and down the other side." A Course in Miracles aims at saving time by having more and more people have their minds healed more quickly go that the plan of the Atonement can be speeded up, so that people can find peace more quickly.
That is why for many people, when they begin working with the Course, things seem to got worse. It is not because God is punishing them. It is because the Holy Spirit has taken their request seriously. They are saying to the Holy Spirit, "I want to learn more quickly." That is why Goethe is reported to have said, "You always have to watch out for what you ask because you might get it." This is how the miracle works. In this sense, it is timeless because it undoes time. It still occurs within the dimension of time, but it abolishes time or collapses time.
The crucial point is understanding what the miracle does, and this cannot be emphasized enough -- in fact, if you leave today with nothing else but this idea, you would have come away with a great deal -- the miracle is the means that the Holy Spirit uses to teach us that we are not the victims of the world. Our problems are not what others or the world do to us, but rather what we believe we have done to ourselves. Let me repeat a line that I quote frequently: "Beware of the temptation to perceive yourself unfairly treated" (text, p. 523; T-26. X.4:1). I can be treated unfairly only by myself, and for that I have already been forgiven. This is the essence of the curriculum of A Course in Miracles.


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Q: A cool number-theoretic puzzle in IMAT: find the last digit This test is from IMAT 2015 (International Medical Admission Test):

When I made a hotel reservation online yesterday I was given an $8$
  digit booking reference which contained no zeros. It did, however,
  consist of three $2$ digit odd numbers followed by the sum of these
  three numbers, and all eight digits were different. The first digit of
  the booking reference was $4$. What was the last digit?

You don't actually need to solve the puzzle to find that the answer must be $7$. If the problem is legit, by noticing that the following $8$ digit booking reference satisfies all the conditions, we immediately conclude that either the answer is 7 or the problem is ill-proposed:
$$\text{4 5 2 3 1 9 8 7}$$
But does the problem have a well-defined answer? If yes, what's an easy proof for it?
I think I have a long proof that separates cases:

*

*Since the sum of three odd numbers is odd, the last digit must be odd.

*Since $4$+$2$ is $6$ and the sum must stay a two-digit number, one of the three numbers must be of the form $\text{1_}$ or $\text{3_}$. But $\text{3_}$ is not acceptable, because if so, the sum would still get larger than $100$.
So, we so far have a booking reference of this form:
$$\text{4 x 1 y _ z _ t}$$
Now let's consider $(x,y,z,t)$.

*$3$ and $7$ cannot show up together in the first three components because they sump up to $10$ and this will violate all eight digits being different.

There are only two choices left:
$(3,5,9)$ and $(5,7,9)$

*$(5,7,9)$ is not acceptable because $5+7+9 \equiv 1 \pmod{10}$.

Therefore the only possible choice for the last digit is $7$.
Q.E.D.
Can someone think of a shorter proof?

A: There are five odd digits in total and four of them must occur in the four unit places.
Also, some odd digit must occur among the tens places of the three summands as $2+4+6$ would be too big. Then the tens of the sum must be even, at most $8$. So the odd tens digit is at most $8-4-2$, hence $1$ is in some tens place and our four odd unit digits are $3,5,7,9$. If $d$ is the last digit, then $2d\equiv 3+5+7+9\equiv 4\pmod {10} $ and hence $d=7$.

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MAGIC!'s 'Rude' No. 1 on Hot 100, Sam Smith Surges
7/23/2014 by Gary Trust
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Mark Pellizzer, Nasri Atweh, Ben Spivak and Alex Tanas of Magic pose for a portrait during Mackapoolooza at Fontainebleau Miami Beach on July 19, 2014 in Miami Beach, Florida.
The Canadian pop/reggae group spends a second week at the summit, while Sam Smith's 'Stay With Me' lifts 5-3 after it became available for streaming on Spotify
MAGIC!'s "Rude" rules the Billboard Hot 100 for a second week, while Sam Smith makes the biggest move within the top 10, as "Stay With Me" pushes 5-3 after the song became available to be streamed on Spotify.
Not to be rude … but enough introduction. Let's get right into our weekly rundown of the Hot 100's top 10 and more.
"Rude" logs a third week at No. 1 on the Digital Songs chart with 195,000 downloads sold (up 6 percent) in the week ending July 20, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It tallies a second week at its No. 2 highpoints on both Radio Songs (159 million all-format audience impressions, up 4 percent, according to Nielsen BDS) and Streaming Songs (9.4 million U.S. streams, up 13 percent). "Rude" tops the subscription services-based On-Demand Songs chart for a second week (3.4 million on-demand streams, up 3 percent).
As previously reported, "Rude" takes over atop Adult Top 40 (aka, Adult Pop Songs), marking MAGIC!'s first airplay chart No. 1.
Iggy Azalea's "Fancy," featuring Charli XCX, holds at No. 2 on the Hot 100; it fell last week after seven weeks at No. 1. Still, it leads Streaming Songs for a 10th week (12.2 million, up 16 percent). It's just the third title to top Streaming Songs for double-digit weeks since the list launched early last year, and the first by an artist not named Miley Cyrus. Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" led for 13 weeks after previous single "We Can't Stop" reigned for 11. "Fancy" rebounds 4-3 on Digital Songs (which it led for four weeks), up by 1 percent to 155,000, while dipping 4-5 on Radio Songs (125 million, down 10 percent); it spent three weeks at No. 1 on the ranking.
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"Rude" widens its lead over "Fancy" atop the Hot 100. As the former gains by 7 percent in overall points and the latter, by 2 percent, "Rude" boasts a 6 percent points lead. Last week, "Rude" dethroned "Fancy" by a mere 1 percent margin.
"Fancy" crowns Hot Rap Songs for a 14th week and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for a ninth frame, while dominating the Songs of the Summer chart for an eighth week. It continues as the only song that's led the seasonal list since it made its annual return after Memorial Day.
Meanwhile, below the Hot 100's top 10, both Azalea and Charli XCX climb with follow-up singles. Charli XCX's "Boom Clap" lifts 16-14, spurred in part by its 39-24 vault on Radio Songs (44 million, up 36 percent), while Azalea's "Black Widow," featuring Rita Ora, bounds 65-45, up 33-23 on Digital Songs (59,000, up 42 percent).
Already perhaps making a play for the Hot 100's next No. 1? Sam Smith's "Stay With Me," which jumps 5-3 with dual top Streaming Gainer and Airplay Gainer honors. The ballad blasts 15-5 on Streaming Songs with a 70 percent gain to 5.9 million streams and storms onto On-Demand Songs with 2.6 million (up 386 percent from 534,000) after it became available on Spotify on July 12; following its first full week on the service, Spotify plays account for 37 percent of the song's streams in the tracking week. "Stay" claims the Airplay Gainer award for a second consecutive week and for the third time in four weeks. It lifts 5-3 on Radio Songs with a 10 percent increase to 139 million.
Trivia time: MAGIC!, Azalea and Smith lock up the Hot 100's top three with their respective first chart entries (as lead artists). When did rookies last control the top three simultaneously? April 28, 2012, when Gotye ("Somebody That I Used to Know," featuring Kimbra), fun. ("We Are Young," featuring Janelle Monae) and the Wanted ("Glad You Came") ranked at Nos. 1-2-3, in that order. For good measure, One Direction's debut hit "What Makes You Beautiful" followed at No. 4 that week.
Ariana Grande's "Problem," featuring Azalea, drops 3-4 on the Hot 100 (after peaking at No. 2 for five weeks), while Nico & Vinz's "Am I Wrong" slips to No. 5 from its No. 4 highpoint. Still, the latter leads Radio Songs for a third week (165 million, up 2 percent).
John Legend's former three-week Hot 100 No. 1 "All of Me" continues to rebound incrementally, rising 7-6 after ranking at No. 8 two weeks ago.
Maroon 5's "Maps" travels 8-7 to reach a new Hot 100 peak so far. It climbs 7-6 on Digital Songs (105,000, up less than 1 percent); bullets for a second week at No. 9 on Radio Songs (72 million, up 10 percent); and retreats 13-15 on Streaming Songs, but with a 1 percent gain to 3.6 million.
Jason Derulo's No. 5-peaking "Wiggle," featuring Snoop Dogg, slides 6-8 on the Hot 100, while Disclosure's "Latch," featuring Smith, ascends 10-9 and crowns the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart.
Calvin Harris' "Summer," which peaked at No. 7 on the Hot 100, falls 9-10 (and departs the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs summit after four weeks on top).
While no songs enter the Hot 100's top 10 this week, notable action outside the region (in addition to Charli XCX and Azalea's ascents) include jumps for Sia's "Chandelier" (13-11); Clean Bandit's "Rather Be," featuring Jess Glynne (32-22); and Meghan Trainor's "All About That Bass" (84-54), the chart's Digital Gainer, thanks to its 39-18 charge up Digital Songs with a 63 percent increase to 64,000.
Hot 100 debuts include 5 Seconds of Summer's "Everything I Didn't Say" (No. 24) and new Billboard 200 leader Weird Al Yankovic's grammar-lesson parody of Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines," "Word Crimes" (No. 39). The comic icon scores his fourth top 40 hit on the Hot 100, following "Eat It" (No. 12, 1984), "Smells Like Nirvana" (No. 35, 1992) and "White & Nerdy" (No. 9, 2006). Reinforcing his longevity, he's, thus, now sent a new single into the top 40 in each of the last four decades, something that only two other acts have done: Michael Jackson and Madonna, both of whom, he's, of course, ribbed in his inimitable good-natured way. (Jackson's streak actually stretches back to the '70s, as, earlier this year, "Love Never Felt So Good," with Justin Timberlake, rose to No. 9. The peak made the late King of Pop the first artist with top 10s in five distinct decades, and six if including his hits with the Jackson 5.)
Visit Billboardbiz tomorrow (July 24), when all rankings, including the Hot 100, Digital Songs, Radio Songs and Streaming Songs, will refresh, as they do each Thursday. The latest charts will also appear in the next issue of Billboard magazine (on sale on Friday, July 25).


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Diverse Viruses Show Signs of Common Ancestry
By Sarah Graham on March 27, 2002
The viruses that cause diseases as varied as AIDS, hepatitis and West Nile Virus may actually have more in common than was previously thought, new research reveals. According to a study that will appear in the March issue of the journal Molecular Cell, three major groups of viruses use similar mechanisms to replicate their genetic information after they have infiltrated the cells of a host.
There are six broad classes of viruses, each thought to represent a major evolutionary lineage. Michael Schwartz, Jianbo Chen and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin, Madison studied the viral replication process and found that key features of the procedure run parallel in three of the six groups. Positive-strand RNA viruses, reverse transcribing viruses and double-stranded RNA viruses, they report, use similar basic mechanisms to replicate, despite differences in how the viruses move between host cells. The scientists determined that the three groups, which together comprise more than half of the world's known virus families, all replicate their genome using messenger RNA and generate spherules to sequester them within newly infected cells. "This new virus-induced compartment, in which the virus genome is reserved and copied, shows surprising similarities across these different virus groups," notes study co-author Paul Ahlquist of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Such fundamental similarities in replication among the viruses suggest they may have common evolutionary origins, the authors write. "These results have added considerably to our understanding of these viruses, and any new basic knowledge is useful in control," Ahlquist says. "If you know the machinery, you know where to throw the wrench to mess it up."
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Antidepressants that target these brain chemicals may relieve migraine pain, he adds. Tension headache may also respond to biofeedback.
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Sleeplessness and other sleep problems are common for fibromyalgia patients, says Lesley Arnold MD, a psychiatrist at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Restless legs, or the overwhelming urge to move your legs when resting, may be up to 11 times more common in people with fibromyalgia than those without it.
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Q: How to force validation to run on model when other model changes? I have an input field with a number of $validators registered on it that updates the model.
Some of these validators does comparisons to other values on the scope (which are also updated with input fields).
How do I force AngularJS to run these validations again when the other values are changed on which it is dependant?
I've tried finding anything relating to this in the documentation and also created a $watch on the dependant field and just set the model value to itself (hoping it would force a revalidation) but no luck on either counts.

A: If you're using Angularjs 1.3+ you can use the $validate method.
Lets say your input "A" is the one which depends on the others inputs, lets call them "B"s.
You can add a function to each of the B's $viewChangeListeners which will just call the A's $validate method. This will have the following effect; each time you modify one of the B input, your A inputs $validators will run.

A: I know that this was answered a while ago, but I had a similar issue and I managed to cobble a suitable solution together from a stack of other answers and a bit of trial and error. I figure someone else might look for something similar one day...
Here's a method which (as far as I can tell ) ties directly in with the validation system. This particular example creates a match validation rule, which compares two models and validates if their value is identical.
<script type="text/javascript">
angular.module( "YourModule", [] )
    .directive( "match", function() {
        return {
            require: 'ngModel',
            restrict: 'A',
            link: function( $scope, $elem, $attrs, $ctrl ) {

                // targetModel is the name of the model you want to
                // compare against.
                var targetModel = $attrs.match;

                // Add the 'match' validation method
                $ctrl.$validators.match = function( modelValue, viewValue ) {
                    valid = $scope.$eval( targetModel ) == viewValue;
                    $ctrl.$setValidity( 'match', valid );
                    return valid ? viewValue : undefined;
                };

                // When the target model's value changes, cause this model
                // to revalidate
                $scope.$watch( targetModel, function() {
                    $ctrl.$validate();
                } );

            }
        };
    } );

Then use like this (obviously including a form, ng-app and ng-controller):
<input type="password" ng-model="password" />
<input type="password" ng-model="confirmation" match="password" />

The general idea is that when the match directive is processed, an additional function (match) is added to the $validators on the $ctrl object, which is where other validators (required field, min length, ...) seem to live. This sets up the validation on the field, but that rule is only processed when the field with the match directive is updated.
To combat this, a watch is then set up on the target model. When the value of the target model is updated, it will run the $validate() method on the original control, allowing validation to occur in either of the two fields.


French fries make the perfect drunken snack, burger side or full meal. (Yes, we're adults.) So the new FryGuys in the East Village is forgetting the mains and sticking with sides for an all–french fry restaurant.
The spot from owners McKenzie Foster and Marco Lanuto just opened yesterday, and the menu includes all your favorites: sweet potato fries, waffle fries and classic-cut fries. It goes a little crazy with other potato eats, including latkes and potato salad, but nothing too far from the beloved carb.
Meet McKenzie and Marco, the FryGuys. Two twenty-somethings who devised this genius idea the way most of us do, heading home after a long night out and in desperate need of some late night fried food.
While the concept of creating an all french fry restaurant is pretty awesome, the fries really speak for themselves. Have them wavy or "OG" style and dress them up however you'd like. With a selection of approximately 12 different dipping sauces, expanding soon to 16, there is certainly something for everyone. But I would have to say they have really nailed it with their "loaded fries" selection. From guacamole and queso to pulled pork and coleslaw, chicken and waffles to the bacon, egg and cheese fries, they have answered all of our fried dreams, hungry eyes and empty bellies.
Co-owners Marco Lanuto and McKenzie Foster aren't just sticking to the french fry model, though the majority of the opening menu includes riffs on the genre from classic to waffle to sweet potato, with the more rare cottage stuck in for good measure. Latkes, a seasonal specialty, will also be available for the opening, and next summer they'll serve "Marco's mother's 'like no other in the world' potato salad."


October is Domestic Awareness Month, and Justine Skye has something to let her fans know. She reveals that she was involved in an abusive relationship. Find out more details here.
'I was one of those people who thought, 'Oh! Nobody would ever put their hands on me,'' Justine shared in an interview with Billboard.
Have you ever been in such a terrible relationship? You can share your story with us if you want to so that others can learn from it.


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AEM Background
The gospel has been present among the Albanian people and part of the country's heritage from early times. Here are a few materials that trace the beginnings of the modern day Albanian evangelical church and the gospel movement among the Albanian people as well as the Albanian Evangelical Mission.
Edwin Jacques
Edwin Jacques was an American Baptist missionary in the city of Korҫë, southern Albania between 1932 and 1940. In the late 1930s a 'spiritual awakening' led to the unprecedented growth of the church in Korҫë and ultimately to the survival of a handful of believers throughout the years of severe Communist repression. In this 1984 recording, he recalls something of the history of gospel work amongst Albanian people.
In 1986 David Young co-founded the Albanian Evangelical Trust which later became the Albanian Evangelical Mission. He led the mission until his retirement in 2011, building a network of churches and individuals in the UK with awareness of and concern for the spiritual needs of Albania and Kosova. In the Albanian speaking regions of the Balkans, it was David Young's passion for the people and the language, and above all for the gospel, that led him to encourage mission and connect with believers in the years following the demise of Communism and the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia. He has written extensively on the history of the gospel amongst Albanian people and his own experiences. The following links are to talks he has recently prepared and circulated via YouTube.
Address : Albanian Evangelical Mission, The Old Stables, Church Walk, High Street, Ixworth, BURY ST EDMUNDS, Suffolk IP31 2HH
Email : albanianevangelicalmission@gmail.com
Tel : 01359 408431 or 07850798376
Donate : AEM welcomes donations from individuals and churches who take an interest in sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ with Albanian people and encouraging the life and work of Christian communities in Albania, Kosova and Macedonia. Follow this link to make an online donation.
You can also make your contribution by :
Using online banking or by standing order Please contact us for the details
Sending a cheque to our address
Naming AEM in your will


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Q: Android get wrong screen size I create android emulator with screen:
screen size: 7.5 inches
Resolution(width x height): 720x960
density: mdpi
And in Android virtual device manager it is shown xlarge screen size but in following code it returns Large screen size.
int screenLayout = context.getResources().getConfiguration().screenLayout;
screenLayout &= Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_MASK;

switch (screenLayout) {
    case Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_SMALL:
        return ScreenSize.SMALL;
    case Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_NORMAL:
        return ScreenSize.MEDIUM;
    case Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_LARGE:
        return ScreenSize.LARGE;
    case Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_XLARGE:
        return ScreenSize.XLARGE;
    default:
}

A: You will be able to get screen Height and Width using:
WindowManager wm = (WindowManager) context.getSystemService(Context.WINDOW_SERVICE);
    Display display = wm.getDefaultDisplay();
    DisplayMetrics metrics = new DisplayMetrics();
    display.getMetrics(metrics);
    int width = metrics.widthPixels;
    int height = metrics.heightPixels;

A: Use Below code to get Height and Width of Android Phone Screen .
DisplayMetrics displayMetrics = getResources().getDisplayMetrics();
int height = displayMetrics.heightPixels;
int width= displayMetrics.widthPixels;

A: getscreen Height and width use
int screenWidth = getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getWidth();
int screenHeight = getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getHeight();
get layout Height use
int layoutHeight = Layout.getMeasuredHeight();

A: public static int getScreenWidth() {
return Resources.getSystem().getDisplayMetrics().widthPixels;
}

public static int getScreenHeight() {
return Resources.getSystem().getDisplayMetrics().heightPixels;
}

A: You can try this:
/**
 * Get screen width
 *
 * @param context
 * @return  screen width
 */
public static int getScreenWidth(Context context)
{
    WindowManager wm = (WindowManager) context
            .getSystemService(Context.WINDOW_SERVICE);
    DisplayMetrics outMetrics = new DisplayMetrics();
    wm.getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(outMetrics);
    return outMetrics.widthPixels;
}

/**
 * Get screen height
 *
 * @param context
 * @return  screen height
 */
public static int getScreenHeight(Context context)
{
    WindowManager wm = (WindowManager) context
            .getSystemService(Context.WINDOW_SERVICE);
    DisplayMetrics outMetrics = new DisplayMetrics();
    wm.getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(outMetrics);
    return outMetrics.heightPixels;
}


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Maria believe it is important to residents to protect the quality of life we have in Basingstoke. That means local services need to expand before new houses are built, something that hasn't always happened in the past."Over the past 5 years Basingstoke has secured £35million to improve our roads, including Black Dam roundabout. A new school is being built in Rooksdown, there will be more than a thousand new school places across the Borough and there are plans for a new critical care NHS Hospital.
There is nothing more important than the NHS – it is a service we all rely on. We all have a moral obligation to make sure it provides the best care possible and is there for everyone who needs it.Over the past 5 years spending on the NHS has rightly increased every single year to make sure our healthcare system remains the envy of the world. Basingstoke has an ageing population and there is more pressure than ever before on our local NHS. We have to look for new ways to provide healthcare alongside greater demand for eldercare.
Maria's 20 years' experience in business makes her well placed to represent Basingstoke.As a working mum she has championed the modernisation of the workplace, spoken out for the need to invest in Basingstoke's success and worked to help make the internet a safer place for everyone.Maria holds a regular Advice Bureau at The Orchard and the Multi Cultural Forum in Chute House.


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Organic council gets backing for inputs study
The Organic Council of Ontario is receiving $16,120 from the federal and provincial governments for a feasibility study into whether a database can be created to provide information about who can supply inputs.
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A harvester works in a field of wheat. (File photo)
The council has found that one of the impediments to farmers transitioning to organic standards is trying to find organic input suppliers.
Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said in her first news release since being named to the post that, "the Canadian organic industry is one of Canada's fastest growing agricultural sectors and our government is proud to support this expanding industry.
Ontario Agriculture Minister Ernie Hardeman said "our government is committed to helping organic farmers and food businesses succeed through the Canadian Agricultural Partnership" which is providing the funding.
Anticipating the outcome of the feasibility study, he said "a central database could help these hard-working farmers to make their businesses more profitable."
Organic Council chairman and president Rob Wallbridge said "Finding inputs that are approved for organic production is a major challenge for Ontario's organic producers and processors, as well as those transitioning to organic.
"The onus is usually on the operator to find organic inputs, and there is no one list of products that is reliable and complete."
"The problem is more complex than you would think," said Ontario Organic Councll executive director Carolyn Young. "Reviewing inputs can be costly, but input suppliers don't have to pay to be approved unless they wish to be listed publicly.
"Furthermore, certifying bodies are each legally responsible for their decisions and can be held liable.
"This means that many inputs that have been approved for organic production are not publicly listed and operators are confused about what they can use," Young said.
FCC launches starter loans	 Dales resigns from Farms.com


We are excited to share news about an upcoming Seaton fundraising event.
On Saturday, June 3, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Seaton cafeteria, Pure Utterance Photography will be donating time to offer mini photo sessions. Sessions will last 10 minutes, and families will be able to select two digital images to keep. Additional digital images can be purchased from the photographer for $8 each. The cost for a mini session is $25 for Seaton families and $40 for non-Seaton Families.
We have a limited number of spots available, so e-mail to reserve your session. Be sure to note your preferred time slot, 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., 11 a.m. to noon, or noon to 1 p.m.
To schedule your mini photo session, contact: Gillian Willman at Gillian.klempner@gmail.com or (202) 841-2574.


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Bare metal is computer hardware that runs without an operating system.

Bare metal may also refer to:

 BareMetal, an exokernel-based computer operating system

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 Bare metal arc welding
 Bare-metal stent, in medicine
 Bare-metal restore, in data recovery
 Bare-metal server


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The Toyota Urban Cruiser
Toyota and Maruti Suzuki entered into a joint venture in 2017 to develop fully hybrid vehicles. This partnership has grown more vital, mainly because Toyota wants to replicate Maruti Suzuki's low-cost model. The first car which was born out of the partnership was the Toyota Glanza, which was just a badge-engineered Baleno with a hybrid system. So you would be mistaken to think the Urban cruiser will be entirely different from the car its base on, the Maruti Brezza.
The looks of the urban cruiser are mildly different from the brezza, with a more aggressive grille and projector headlamps. The car is powered by the same 1.5 litre 4 cylinder engine and comes equipped with a hybrid system, which will improve mileage. It also offers cruise control, and apart from this and the hybrid system, the urban cruiser is the same as the brezza. However, Toyota went the extra mile and gave it different alloys this time, unlike the glanza. The car will be launched in September 2020; it will start at 8.99 lakh ex-showroom Mumbai. The only saving grace of this car is the extended warranty and ownership Toyota India provides.
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Tata creeps up to industry leaders, 100%+ increase!
The Indian automotive industry was heavily hit by the slump in the economy. The COVID-19 pandemic compounded its problems.There were job losses in the primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors of the industry.
Audi RSQ8, an SUV that thinks its a Supercar, enters Indian shores.
It's here! The Audi RSQ8, Audi's entry into the ever-so-fierce category of fast SUVs. Highlight on the word fast because the adjective fast in front of the word SUV here is
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France's burkini ban wasn't just about Islam, but about men policing women's bodies, yet again
So good when nobody tells you what to wear.
Image: Reuters/Amir Cohen
Annalisa Merelli
Centuries of patriarchal history were captured in this week's pictures of policemen on the beach in Nice, France, forcing a woman to take off her shirt and headscarf to comply with the so-called "burkini ban."
Across countries and cultures, women have been seen as offensive for showing their ankles, necks, faces, hair, arms, legs—or, in turn, for failing to do so. Shaving is immoral. Not shaving is dirty. Wearing make-up is immodest. Not wearing it is sloppy. High heels are provocative. Flat shoes are unprofessional.
In the 1920s, US law required women to wear a full bathing suit—and a record-breaking swimmer was arrested for showing her knees on the beach. A century later, a full bathing suit got a Muslim woman in Cannes fined; the ticket she was given literally said her outfit was not respectful of "bonnes moeurs," good morals.
Men, or societies, that force women to undress are no better than or different from those that force them to cover up. What freedom or progress is there in armed men demanding that a woman take off her clothes? This wasn't about protecting France's secularism; it was about a man's right to police a woman's body—still.
Naturally, there was Islamophobia at the core of this, too. Nuns, Orthodox Jewish women, and surfers were not fined. But before a court overturned the ban, its apologists resorted to absurdities to justify it: Nice's deputy mayor Rudy Salles told the BBC that even Catholic nuns shouldn't be allowed to wear their habits on the beach.
The message is clear: no woman's right is sacred enough to get in the way. Even as women might be just about to run the world, their bodies are still the easiest battlefield, their freedom still the first casualty.
This was published in the weekend edition of the Quartz daily brief. To get the daily brief in your inbox six days a week, tailored for morning delivery in Asia, Europe and Africa, or the Americas, sign up here.


No Secrets here, the vocalist behind Musical Freedom's biggest hit of 2015, VASSY, is back on the record label with her standalone single, "Nothing To Lose", a high-energy dance-floor friendly masterpiece. Co-produced by the legendary label-head Tiësto, this progressive house gem is bound to fuel the urge to get up and dance. Filled with uplifting original lyrics and momentous energy, the record solidifies the versatility of VASSY as a quadruple threat: singer, songwriter, writer and music producer.
Since teaming up with the Dutch icon Tiësto and KSHMR on the IDMA award winning single "Secrets" last year, the record has reached Double-Platinum status in several countries. This year, VASSY continues to transcend from vocalist to full-fledged artist with her second single "Nothing To Lose". Debuting it live alongside Tiësto during his Ultra Music Festival performance this past March and again at the Tomorrowland Main Stage in Belgium, the highly anticipated single is finally ready to be unleashed.
In her new single, VASSY is influenced by, "The parallels between the challenges and joys of everyday life inspired me. While each day brings new challenges, whether or not you succeed is something that everyone can relate too". In addition to her hit dance collaborations "BAD" with David Guetta and Showtek – which went Double Platinum in seven countries – and "Secrets" with Tiesto and KSHMR, VASSY has been featured in campaigns for Frozen, Victoria's Secret, Target, Grey's Anatomy, and more. VASSY's productions range across the musical spectrum; from dance to indie to reggae, and her voice can somehow fit all styles.


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I'm using Atahualpa 3.4.9 with wordpresmu.
I was in the option «Varios Content items», then «Add html/css inserts» and finally «Css inserts».
It works partially, The background color hover is ok.
The menu page items have the color background that i've sent in «Page Menu Bar» / «Background color». How can i force to take my image as background for the page menu bar?
you need to play with it. The menu css is the most complicated in the page, it's over 400 lines of code. But you can muddle thru. do a forum search on 'juggledad menu cheat sheet' and put the code in your css so you can see what effects what.
If you follow Juggledad's layout in the cheat sheet you should see the changes in your menu and can reverse engineer it from there. One of the things I had to make sure I included in each line of code was the "!important" function. Without it, the changes I made wouldn't show.


Welcome to Teach Me Tuesday, friends!
Can you believe it's already December? And that Christmas is nearly 22 days away?! AHHHH! I promised myself that I would slow down a bit more this holiday season and really take it all in…because each year it seems to pass by more quickly. So over the long weekend, my daughter and I got our Christmas craft on! We are very excited to share the DIY Rudolph Shirt we made… and it's so easy you can make one too!
Lay out the newspaper so that you have a covered work space on the floor. Slip the cardboard into the shirt (to prevent paint bleeding through) and lay it on the newspaper.
Paint the bottom of your child's foot with brown fabric paint and press their foot onto the middle of the shirt. Lift the food straight up and wash foot.
Paint your child's hands with a darker brown fabric paint. Press the hands down on the shirt near the top of the foot stamp. Lift straight up and wash hands.
Paint eyes on the deer and use fabric glue to adhere the red pom pom to the shirt.
We added glitter to the antlers and green puff paint dots to the collar.
Tips: Allow 24 hours of dry time before wearing. Wash inside out in cold water and hang to dry.
So easy and such a fun and festive shirt for the holiday season. My daughter wore her shirt to a Christmas party and received a ton of compliments from her little friends. It's a keeper for sure! Oh and the adorbs head wrap she's wearing? That's a Vintage Rose Wrap of course. We have a large collection…go check them out!
Thanks for hanging out with us for a bit today! I have another fun Christmas project to share with you tomorrow, so I will see you then!


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UNICEF: Millions of Yemeni Children Face Disease, Malnutrition
By Lisa Schlein
A boy searches for food amongst litter in Sanaa, April 8, 2015.
GENEVA - Yemen's war is having a devastating impact on the country's children, putting millions of them at risk of malnutrition and preventable, potentially fatal diseases such as measles and pneumonia.
According to the U.N. Children's Fund, at least 279 children have been killed and 402 wounded since late March, when Saudi Arabia began its air campaign against rebel Houthi forces.
UNICEF reported 318 children have been enlisted as soldiers, but said it believes the true number recruited to fight in this war is much higher.
While these figures are alarming, UNICEF spokesman Christof Boulierac said children also face increasing dangers from disease and malnutrition because they are not being vaccinated.
Because of the conflict, he said health centers do not have electricity or the fuel they need to keep vaccines cold. And many children also miss out on life- saving vaccinations because their parents often are too frightened by the fighting to take them for their shots.
"The tragic result of this situation is that children are going to die of diseases like measles and pneumonia that would normally be readily preventable," he said.
He said "the interruption in vaccination services is putting an estimated 2.6 million children aged under 15 at risk of contracting measles ... As you know, measles is a potentially fatal disease that spreads rapidly in times of conflict and population displacement."
UNICEF said the number of children exposed to acute respiratory infections has more than doubled to 1.3 million since March. It attributed the dramatic increase to the inability to get children the treatment they need because hospitals and clinics are not functioning properly.
It said contaminated water, poor sanitary conditions, and the lack of oral rehydration salts are putting more than 2.5 million children at risk of diarrhea, which is often fatal.
Boulierac said malnutrition also is a growing threat.
"More than half a million children, more than 500,000 children under five years old will become severely and acutely malnourished over the next 12 months if the situation continues to deteriorate," he said. "Prior to the crisis, this estimate was 160,000 children suffering from ... severe, acute malnutrition."
Boulierac said UNICEF and its partners are doing their best to vaccinate children and provide life-saving therapeutic feeding to acutely malnourished children.
But he said providing the care needed is an uphill battle, given that provisions of safe water, hygiene and improved sanitation are critical for preventing a public health crisis.
Analysis: What's Next for Yemen?
Geneva peace talks involving Yemen's warring factions have failed to produce a cease-fire agreement, or even a humanitarian truce. Although the delegations in Geneva refused to sit down together, U.N. special envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said there was "a certain willingness from all the parties to at least discuss issues around the cease-fire." "We managed to get suggestions from both sides that we can build upon in coming days in order to…
By Mohamed Elshinnawi
UN: Famine Can Still Be Averted in Yemen
As the humanitarian situation in war-torn Yemen continued its downward spiral, the United Nations' humanitarian chief Stephen O'Brien said there is still time to avert a potential famine if the fighting stops. "We have time to avert this, if we can get the supplies in," O'Brien told reporters by telephone from Berlin. "That is why we are calling for a pause so that we can get that safety in place for access." Yemeni Health…
By Margaret Besheer
Lisa Schlein
Shoura - An Experiment in Reconciliation in Post-Islamic State Iraq
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