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Some of the content I have in the paragraphs are longer than the others and the button will be uneven
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A: Just simply need to add another row

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A: If you don't want to add another row you could use flexbox on each column and then add margin-top: auto to button.
Here's an example: https://codepen.io/apieceofbart/pen/xpLPRd

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Al idrisi
International Cooperation Cells
Poster and flyers
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Who can apply for a scholarship?
How long can I stay?
What does the scholarship cover?
What disciplines are offered?
Application and selection procedure
Documents to be uploaded
Academic offer of the partnership
For nationals from Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia
For nationals from a member state of the European Union
Sorted by host university
Sorted by field of study
Selection result
Erasmus Mundus - Al Idrisi II: A scholarship scheme for exchange and cooperation between Europe and North Africa is an Erasmus Mundus Action 2 - Strand 1 partnership for Lot 1 (Algeria, Egypt, Ligya, Morocco, Tunisia) that will establish an active institution-based mobility network among 19 North African and EU partner universities and 6 associate universities supported by 3 associate institutions and the Ministries of Higher Education in the region. The project will allow undergraduate, master and doctoral students, post-doctoral fellows and academic and administrative staff to gain valuable experience, knowledge and contacts abroad. Some North African students will even have the possibility to return to their home countries holding a relevant master or doctoral degree. The project focuses strongly on regional needs in North Africa and the development of specific and relevant areas that were defined by the partners. Furthermore, the project will provide improved education and training opportunities for vulnerable groups and socio- economically disadvantaged students and promote equal access to higher education for students from less developed areas.
Erasmus Mundus - Al Idrisi II is co-financed by the European Commission in the framework of the Erasmus Mundus programme.
If you are interested in the scholarship scheme, please have a look at the menu items Scholarships and How to apply.
To set up a renewed institution-based sustainable Europe-North Africa mobility network focusing on regional needs
To promote the forthcoming EU educational programmes (Erasmus+, Horizon 2020) and help to prepare the partner and associate universities for increased mobility flows
To produce a pool of 288 well-trained and responsible students, post-doctoral fellows and staff
To provide improved education and training opportunities for vulnerable groups and socio-economically disadvantaged students and scholars
To promote equal access to higher education for students and scholars from less developed regions
To foster the teaching and research capacity at the partner universities
To promote mutual understanding and enhanced political, cultural, educational and economic linkage between the European Union and North Africa
To transfer knowledge, know-how and experience between Europe and North Africa
To set up, promote and support international cooperation cells in research, teaching and administration
To promote common areas of higher education and explore opportunities for the development of joint degree programmes and co-supervision of doctoral candidates
To set up an alumni network
To detect and benefit from synergies with partner projects
Since its main goal is to set up a mobility scheme for exchange of students and staff between the European Union and the five North African countries Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia, the project is conceived as a multilateral network of universities that operates on two levels: a global structural and a local operative level. The global structural level concerns the policy of the consortium as a whole and the common rules and standards required for a smooth organization of the mobility flows. The local operative level concerns the implementation of the mobility flows at each partner university and is dealt with by a Local Operative Unit. The activities to be carried out at the global structural level are conferred to the Partnership Coordination Board (PCB) consisting of one representative of each partner university. For the sake of an increased and simplified operability, the Partnership Coordination Board elected two committees among its members: The Advisory and Selection Committee (ASC) and the Quality Assurance Committee (QAS). The project coordinator (Universidad de Granada) will establish a Project Management Unit (PMU) at its International Office that is assisted by a Co-Coordination Unit (CCU) set up at the Université Hassan 1er (Settat, Morocco). Together with the set of Local Operative Units they will be in charge for the implementation and coordination of the project.
Dissemination and visibility
The partnership will put into practice a common visibility, awareness rising and promotion strategy for the project and its mobility scheme. Based on the structure of the different target groups, a twofold approach will be followed: A local visibility campaign in order to increase the awareness for intra-consortium mobility flows and a nationwide campaign with a special focus on less favoured regions and social strata. The Project Management Unit assisted by the Co-Coordination Unit (CCU) will pay regular personalized promotion visits to selected partner and associate universities, embassies and consulates of participating European Countries and the EU Delegations in Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia. A comprehensive website (http://www.al-idrisi.eu) will contain all the basic information about the project and its partners, an explication of the scholarship scheme, the call for applications with clear information about the admission requirements and the selection mechanism, access to newsletters, a section with frequently asked questions, etc.
Scholarship selection
An impartial and transparent selection process is one of the cornerstones of the project. It will work exclusively on the basis of merit and equal opportunities for all targeted students and scholars taking into account also the cross-cutting requirements of gender-balance and real participation of socio-economically disadvantaged people.
Service and support for grantees
The International Offices or equivalent structures at each partner university will play a key role managing the incoming and outgoing mobility flows of the grantees. They will help and guide the incoming students and scholars, provide assistance for obtaining visa and residence permits, and give all the necessary administrative support and orientation. The Local Operative Units at the host universities will assign a supervisor or contact person to each incoming student or scholar. They will organize regular individual and joint meetings with the grantees that will allow problems to be detected and possibly avoided at a very early stage. The quality assurance policy will be defined by the Partnership Coordination Board and then entrusted to the Quality Assurance Committee for implementation and monitoring.
The quality of the project will be assessed on a strategic and an operative level. The strategic level refers to the achievement of the general objectives and the specific goals. The quality control on an operative level will address the performance of the project during its life time and focus on the detection of weak points and possibilities for improvements. A final global evaluation will be performed by an external expert provided by one of the associates.
The partnership will continuously identify international projects that target or allow for academic cooperation between North Africa and Europe (Tempus, LLP, FP7, ..., Erasmus+, Horizon 2020) and invite them to become a partner project, to determine synergies and possible ways of collaboration. Mutual support will allow the partner projects not only to benefit from additional visibility and dissemination channels but also to gain increased operability and effectiveness.
Transfer of knowledge and know-how
Transfer of know-how and, of course, the expertise gained will be enhanced through a series of workshops and seminars that will usually be organized in connection with the Partnership Coordination Board meetings. The list of possible topics includes (a) support services and structures for international mobility, (b) bi- and multilateral recognition of study periods and degrees, (c) quality assurance in mobility, (d) academic cooperation: joint and multiple degree programs, etc. On request of the partners, these seminars can also be included in the awareness rising campaigns.
Brain drain prevention
In order to avoid brain drain, the project will adopt a series of measures and agreements for any type of mobility and target group. In particular, the project partners will be encouraged to promote long-term academic collaboration through joint research, teaching and other cooperation activities that will open up an additional window for a prosperous future for the scholars after having returned to their home institutions.
International Cooperation Cells (ICC)
International Cooperation Cells (ICCs) are a structured way to promote and consolidate cooperation channels that were or will be opened with the help of Erasmus Mundus - Al Idrisi scholarships. They will be proposed by former or future grantees and tackle specific topics in research, teaching, training or administration among at least one partner or associate university in Europe and one in North Africa. Selected International Cooperation Cells will have preference for 6 months doctorate, 6 months post-doctoral and/or 1 month staff grants during the 2nd and eventually also the 3rd call for Erasmus Mundus - Al Idrisi scholarships.
Comment: If you would like to read this information for the first edition of Erasmus Mundus - Al Idrisi, please click on the following link: Al Idrisi I: The project
Al Idrisi Scholarships
Erasmus Mundus - Al Idrisi II is a project for exchange and cooperation between Europe and North Africa that provided scholarships for undergraduate and master students, doctoral candidates, post-doctoral fellows and academic and administrative staff. The third and last call for applications closed in January 2016. Further calls are not expected. We invite you to stay informed and subscribe to our News Alert!
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Alright. I finally got out there and shot some images of my bike. Some were taken in the Rose Bowl parking lot and some were taken up on Angeles Crest Highway. They all came out terrible so I'll probably go and do another round of shooting today. That's what I get for putting down my camera for almost a year.
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How Well Do You Speak Fighter Pilot?
'The Battle of Khasham' saw US troops rout Russian mercenaries in Syria
By Team Mighty
The United States sent its forces into Syria in 2014 to hasten the demise of ISIS. After the fall of the "caliphate" capital in the Syrian city of Raqqa three years later, the U.S. remained. It was determined to conduct operations that would bring…
U.S. accuses Russia of sending jets to Libya to support mercenaries
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The United States says Moscow has deployed military jets to Libya to provide support for Russian mercenaries helping a local warlord battle the North African country's internationally recognized government.
The Russian military aircraft flew …


Frequently considered the song that rescued his solo career and made Robbie the household name artist he is today, Angels is a towering, incredible ballad. Written at a low point, the song was reportedly written in just 20 minutes with Robbie's longtime songwriting collaborator Guy Chambers. One of the most recognised (and sung) love songs in the world and Robbie's second entry in our top 40, it's no wonder this tops our Most Played Classic Love Songs of the 21st Century.
Aretha Franklin began her singing career in gospel, performing in her father's church. I Say A Little Prayer's romance is very much couched in faith, bringing gospel aesthetic and religious imagery to the love song to create this classic track.
One of the most wonderfully upbeat tracks in the world, Lovely Day is an enduring anthem to the best of life and love. Bill holds an amazing 18-second long note towards the end of the song - still the longest of any Official Charts top ten song!
From 1971, this incredible classic was, unbelievably, something Al Green had to be convinced to release as a single. He wasn't confident in his own falsetto vocals and had to be persuaded by co-writer and producer Willie Marshall.
Eurythmics first and only Official Charts number one, There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart) is an incredible song in its own right. An interesting bit of musical trivia, though is that the harmonica solo is by none other than Stevie Wonder.
A New Romantic classic, Spandau Ballet singer Gary Kemp was inspired to write True by unrequited love, taking swoony lyrical inspiration from 60s soul.
Joan's first charting single, Love & Affection became an instant classic. A ballad with some bite, it also features the vocals of Clarke Peters, who went on to play Lester Freamon in US TV series The Wire.
Turned down by Aretha Franklin, Dusty Springfield recorded this classic in 1968. Alesha Dixon says "Son Of A Preacher Man to me is just a classic record that is never going to grow old, that I can imagine my children and my children's children appraising this song, it's just genius."
This classic tale of boy meets girl, boy realises potentially insurmountable societal class differences between himself and girl, uses dragonslaying and/or a jukebox to overcome this has been told and told again. Rarely as irresistibly, charmingly foot-tapping as Billy Joel's take, however.
From wild-at-heart movie Coyote Ugly, Can't Fight The Moonlight was a rockier departure from Leann's early work. Una Healy, formerly of the Saturdays says "It's a more edgy love song - at the time I was with a boyfriend that I really loved and I just remember that feeling"
Inspired by Elvis Presley, Freddie Mercury claimed he wrote this song while having a bubble bath and then scribbled down the lyrics while still wearing a towel.
Heady, steamy and raw - Love Is The Drug was one of the most successful songs of the 70s and still sounds current. Intoxicating and co-dependent, it's less about romance and more about immediacy - reportedly, Bryan Ferry's vocal was recorded in just one, frantic take.
Written by Al McKay and Maurice White from Earth, Wind and Fire this is an instantly recognisable disco-soul classic that can't fail to fill a dancefloor. It spent five weeks at the top of the US charts in 1977 and is one of the band's biggest hits, sampled by Mariah Carey and Cheryl Lynn.
Bryan Adams is truly no stranger to a love song - his massive hit Everything I Do (I Do It For You) is still the UK's longest-running official charts number one. It's this rockier track that makes our chart, though, roaring in with a passion.
BBC Radio 2 tweeted "At 16 in #R2LoveSongs we pick up a plectrum with @BryanAdams' anthemic Run To You - @NoelGallagher ❤❤❤s it http://bbc.in/2kpeYOd "
Released in 1991, the band's management persuaded DJs to play this track by naming distant stars after them. In 2017, we're still happy to fall straight into this song's arms!
It might be irrevocably associated with the Richard Gere and Julia Roberts film of the same name but when it was originally released (only two weeks after it was written!) this got to number one in a gigantic 22 countries simultaneous.
A Motown classic, Baby Love is an instantly-recognisable invocation of pure, unadulterated crush. The Supremes were the first girl group ever to reach the UK top spot and this remains one of their biggest hits.
The Canadian who brought crooning to the 21st Century wrote this deeply romantic track for his then-girlfriend; it must have worked, as she went on to become his wife!
The Real Thing were the most successful black British group of the 70s - and the first Liverpudlian act to top the charts since the Beatles. Spice Girl Geri Horner says; "Everybody who remembers the 80s, had their moves and their braces, this was one of those love songs that you had your first kiss to."
Written by the legendary Diane Warren, this was Belinda's breakout solo hit after success in The Go-Gos. A combination of classic, almost gothic, late 80s drama and Belinda's irresistable vocal this is beloved of karaoke fans, dancefloors and anyone with a hairbrush to hand.
24. The Shirelles - Will You Love Me Tomorrow?
Written by Gerry Goffin and the legendary Carole King, Will You Still Love Me was The Shirelles breakout hit after forming at school. The tenderness of the track, infused with a wise naiivete, has kept this track moving us for decades.
The bands biggest UK hit, Love Changes (Everything) reached number 2 on the official chart and won an Ivor Novello for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. An electronic-infused power ballad, it embodies the romance of 80s pop.
Recorded in 1958 for her debut album, Little Girl Blue, this song didn't hit the UK until 1987 when it was used in a perfume commercial and became one of Simone's biggest hits, peaking at 5 on the official chart.
Estimated to be the sixth highest-earning song of all time, Ben E King's Stand By Me is an evergreen classic. Inspired by Sam Cooke's powerful gospel version, Ben E King says the song just flowed out of him.
Inspired by seeing a woman on the London Underground, You're Beautiful is a song as successful as it seems to be divisive. The haters don't bother James, though, whose album Back To Bedlam went on to sell 11 million copies from the song's success.
29. Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love?
Written and recorded for the movie Saturday Night Fever, How Deep Is Your Love was never meant to be a Bee Gees song. However, when Robert Stigman heard it he insisted that no one other than the brothers should record it and their iconic version was cut.
Whatever he said, whatever he did, he didn't mean it and we're very happy to have Take That Back For Good. Written by and with lead vocals from Gary Barlow, this is one of the band's biggest hits and was their 6th UK number one.
Unbelievably, singer Steve Ellis was just sixteen years old when he recorded this - a record with true romantic longevity.
A rare Robbie hit that he didn't write himself - this was penned by Karl Wallinger for his own band, World Party. Robbie's version annoyed the original writer for a long time, as he apparently sings the words wrong but we think everything's right with this gorgeous ballad.
A truly romantic ballad, Hero has sold over 8 million copies since it was released in 2001. The emotional heart of the song has given it near universal appeal - even the normally-quiet drummer from McFly, Harry Judd, performed it on tour.
Inspiring Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Presley, Jackie Wilson was a soul legend whose incredible vocal for this Motown classic was recorded in just one take.
Originally recorded as an acoustic ballad years previously, this song's heart remains in the tenderness of its lyrics.
A cover of the Ronettes, produced by Phil Spector this classic love song actually features only one member of the legendary punk quartet - Joey Ramone lends his distinctive vocal.
Originally written as a prayer, Have I Told You Lately is a wedding classic.
Composed by Neil Diamond's roadie, this hit was made famous by the Bellamy Brothers' country styling.
The first single to sell a million copies in the 2010s, Someone Like You is a towering ballad composed about Adele's relationship breaking down.
The 1964 classic was written by Smokey Robinson for The Miracles but he gave it to The Temptations after realising it was perfect for lead singer David Rufflin's voice.


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Genetics & reproduction
Pig Management
Cooperative Network Launched to Tackle Zoonoses
SCOTLAND, UK - Quality Meat Scotland is supporting a new cooperative network to help tackle zoonotic infections and disease which was launched yesterday (18 May) in Edinburgh.
The network aims to bring together individuals and groups from academia, policy, government agencies, industry, veterinary and public health bodies to facilitate inter-disciplinary initiatives and innovative approaches to reduce the impact of zoonoses.
Zoonoses are diseases or pathogens transmitted between animals and people and can involve a wide range of infectious agents including, parasites, bacteria, viruses, fungi and prions. Zoonotic pathogens may be transmitted by direct contact or through contaminated food or water supplies. Around 62 per cent of all known human pathogens are zoonotic and 75% of emerging diseases are zoonotic. Prevention and control of zoonoses requires a coordinated approach involving many different sector groups, in particular those involved in veterinary, agriculture, land management, environmental and public health.
The keynote address at the launch meeting was given by Dr Roger Sokol, Director of the New York State Department of Health's Bureau of Water Supply Protection. Dr Sokol is responsible for the regulatory supply of over 10 000 public water supplies in New York State. In his presentation Dr Sokol described their experience of protecting the watershed that provides 9 million people with 1.1 billion gallons of unfiltered drinking water every day.
Dr Sokol commented: "I applaud Scotland in establishing a cooperative research network focusing on zoonotic pathogens. I believe strongly in a cooperative approach and bringing different stakeholder groups together to focus on delivering effective control and prevention strategies. The cooperative watershed management approach taken in New York is an excellent example of how such an approach can really deliver results."
The meeting was attended by Quality Meat Scotland and a wide range of different experts from Research Institutes, Universities, Government, Industry, Health Protection Scotland, Food Standards Agency Scotland, Scottish Water, National Pathogen Reference Laboratories, Land managers and other interested parties.
This initiative was developed from a meeting held last year at Moredun Research Institute to discuss how to tackle food and water borne pathogens. Following this meeting a steering group comprising Professor Chris Spray (UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science, University of Dundee); Professor Charlotte Maltin (Quality Meat Scotland) pictured; Dr Anna Whyte (Food Standards Agency Scotland); Professor David Smith and Dr Lee Innes (Moredun Research Institute), was formed to take forward the proposals from this workshop.
Professor Chris Spray commented: "We are delighted to launch this network building on the aspirations and enthusiasm generated by participants in the original forum. The strength of this network will be the diversity of expertise and experience that we can bring to bear to tackle zoonoses within an integrated and holistic framework."
Pig outlook: Chart consolidation in lean hog futures this week is not bearish
US lean hog futures remained choppy this week and Asia's potential pork consumption is in the spotlight.
Dosatron has launched "smart dosing" with their newest medicator system.
Pig outlook: futures market in solid price uptrend as traders expect increasing demand in coming months
US pork exports are up year on year and China seeks to stabilise domestic pork prices.


London, 27th March 2018 – Volume sales of PC workstations through Western Europe's largest distributors were up by +11% year-on-year in the first two months of 2018 following +6% year-on-year growth in 2017, according to data published by CONTEXT, the IT market intelligence company.
Most of the top Western European countries were able to leverage this momentum at the start of the year; year-on-year, volumes were up by +11% in Germany, +18% in Italy, +22% in France and +9% in the United Kingdom. Even though the number of workstation sales continued to be low overall, their high prices made them important revenue drivers.
Workstations accounted for only 2% of all PCs sold through European distributors in early Q1 2018 but, with an average selling price of €1,199, generated 5% of the revenues.


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New Cruises and Ports
Get a look at the newest cruise destinations and itineraries. This year, cruise to Honduras, Dubai or Rio … or stay a little closer to home with a river cruise down the Mississippi.
Cruises Travel's Best
A new cruise ship terminal is set to open in Dubai in 2012, allowing a total of 5 ships to dock at a time (currently, there is only space for 2). Expect more ships to add Dubai to their itineraries, and consider cruises to the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf and those that follow the Spice Route to India and Asia.
Long a popular destination for foodies, Singapore will become easier to cruise to this year thanks to a brand new terminal. While here, check out the infinity pool on top of the Marina Bay Sands hotel -- made up of 3 giant towers connected by a sky terrace on the roof.
OK, so cruising in Europe isn't exactly new … but this year, more ships are slated to stay in the Mediterranean through the winter instead of making their traditional journeys to the Caribbean for the season. This winter, consider taking a cruise to the Canary Islands or Morocco during off-peak months for a fraction of the price.
With Rio the host of the World Cup, the 2012 UN Earth Summit and the 2016 Olympics, the city is expected to be a hot destination over the next few years. Luckily, the city is investing plenty of money in the existing cruise port, making travel to nearby attractions even easier.
Canada is quickly becoming a more popular cruise destination. This year, Carnival, Regent Seven Seas and Disney are all adding new Canada cruises to their rosters.
Galveston, TX, is fast becoming the home port to a number of megaships. Carnival and Royal Caribbean both have ships docked here now, and the Disney Magic and Crown Princess are set to begin sailing from Galveston later in the year.
A new cruise port is set to open in London in preparation for the mass influx of visitors to the city for the Olympic Games.
Cruising down under is heating up this year, thanks to the additions of ships in Melbourne and Sydney by Princess, Celebrity, Carnival, Holland America and Royal Caribbean. In addition to circuits of Australia and New Zealand, new itineraries even include trips to Fiji and New Caledonia.
N'awlins is back! For the first time since Hurricane Katrina, the port will be full of cruise ships again this year. Carnival, Royal Caribbean and Norwegian will all be offering cruises from the Big Easy.
Royal Caribbean recently opened a new port in the small 18th-century town of Falmouth, Jamaica, making it the fourth cruise port in the country. Visitors to Falmouth can easily visit Ocho Rios and Montego Bay, each about 30 minutes from the port.
Set to open later this year, Trujillo on the Banana Coast will be Honduras's first port. Cruisers will be able to explore Honduras's pristine beaches and marvel at its lush tropical rain forests.
The Mississippi has seen a steep decline in cruising in recent years after its 2 biggest cruise lines went bankrupt. But fear not! Two new cruise lines are setting their sights on the Mighty Mississippi: one with a totally refurbished steamboat named the American Queen, and another with a brand-new paddlewheeler named the Queen of the Mississippi.
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The Skempton Building's ten classrooms can be hired individually split or up into smaller areas ranging in capacity between 30 and 98, making them ideal rooms for meetings, training sessions, and seminars. Three lecture theatres, ranging in capacity between 52 and 160, benefit from great acoustics and come equipped with audiovisual equipment.
The lecture theatres can also be used in conjunction with the classrooms as a breakout space. For large conferences, the Skempton Building can be used along with the Sir Alexander Fleming Building, located just opposite, to provide additional lecture theatres, classrooms and a reception area.


Myles Pistorius enters his fourth season with the Miami Dolphins as senior vice president and general counsel. In his role, Myles is responsible for oversight of all legal matters related to the Miami Dolphins and Hard Rock Stadium.
Pistorius joined the Dolphins after 15 years at the National Basketball Association where he last served as senior vice president of business affairs & content. Prior to that, Pistorius was senior vice president of legal & business affairs at the NBA.
Pistorius started his legal career as a corporate associate with the law firm of Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett in New York City. He received his Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School, and a bachelor of arts degree with honors in political science from Rutgers University.
Pistorius resides in Parkland with his wife, Robin, and their three children.


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Joint press point with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and the Chairman of the Tri-Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dragan Čović
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Speech by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to university students in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Joint press conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and the Chairman of the Tri-Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mladen Ivanić
Joint press point with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and the Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bakir Izetbegović
Joint press point with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and the Chair of the Bosnia & Herzegovina Presidency, Bakir Izetbegovic
Joint press point with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Željko Komšić, Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Opening remarks by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the joint press conference with the Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Nebojša Radmanović
Joint press point by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and the Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Bakir Izetbegović
Secretary General encourages new Government in Bosnia and Herzegovina to work together towards reform
I commend the people and Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina for the smooth and peaceful conduct of the elections. I hope that the elected leaders will work to find common ground and pursue reform, which is essential to help the country move closer to Euro-Atlantic integration.
Joint press point with NATO NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nikola Spiric


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OSPI awarded nearly $1 million in grants to improve access to computer science and related educational programs in Washington state.
West Sound STEM Network, which received $78,040 (with South Kitsap School District as the backbone agency), is one of 24 in the state receiving grants for 2018-19. This grant is a collaborative proposal from a consortium of districts in the region: Bainbridge Island, Bremerton, Central Kitsap, Chief Kitsap Academy, Chimacum, North Kitsap, North Mason, Peace Lutheran, Port Townsend, and South Kitsap in partnership with Western Washington University, Olympic College and MacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions.
The grants allow districts, schools, and nonprofits to train teachers and provide and upgrade technology. In addition, the grants expand computer science access to groups of students who have historically been underrepresented in computer science programs and careers.
See the press release for more information on this OSPI grant.
West Sound STEM Network, in partnership with Washington Space Grant at the University of Washington, North Central Educational Service District 171, Pacific Science Center, Central Washington University, Museum of Flight, Museum of the Rockies, Oregon State University (OSU), Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, and Montana State University (MSU) was recently notified of our selection for the grant, "Northwest Earth and Space Science Pipeline (NESSP).
West Sound STEM Network will receive $450,000 over five years. Goals are to expand the existing OSPP K-12-higher education partnership, ensure alignment with state learning standards and cohesion with 4 Teaching and Learning initiatives, develop a Network that also serves as a regional model, create and strengthen the P-20 STEM pipeline, and broaden stakeholder participation.
Anyone setting foot in Kitsap Mall on Saturday, April 30, was bound to feel the buzz of energy fueled by a couple thousand kids experiencing science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in new and exciting ways. The 4th annual STEM Showcase, organized by the West Sound STEM Network, was designed to get students and the public excited about STEM. An estimated 2,000 children and their families attended the 5-hour long event.
Nearly seventy groups whose core activity revolves around these academic subjects (STEM) offered free, hands-on learning experiences for anyone with a few minutes to spare. Kids flocked around activity booths, experimenting with orthopedic surgery simulations, robotics, solar energy, and electrical circuitry. In one place, visitors could try their hands at structural engineering, using stir sticks and gum drops to build the tallest towers. At another, local high school students invited passersby to experience 'green screen' technology—the same technology used by television and cinema to create digital backdrops for weather broadcasts and special effects. At virtually every turn, booth hosts beckoned to curious onlookers, inviting them to explore. Even adults joined in the fun, testing their skills at 3D printing, logic puzzles, and virtual reality games designed by the local technical college.
Every year the STEM Showcase offers a challenge to students in advance. Guidelines are distributed in the spring, and students can create structures for entry into a friendly competition the day of the Showcase. In 2014, catapults dominated, flinging marshmallows for distance, impact and accuracy. This year, the challenge focused on construction of weight-bearing bridges. Three build categories allowed children of varying ages to test their engineering skills. Parents and students alike watched as carefully constructed bridges and trestles resisted and then finally succumbed to gently added weights, simulating stability and resistance to collapse from heavy loads.
Next year's STEM Showcase is slated for the end of April, with the date yet to be determined. Community groups and businesses interested in hosting a booth at the event are encouraged to contact Corinne Beach at corinne.beach@navy.mil or West Sound STEM Director, Dr. Kareen Borders, at kborders@oesd.wednet.edu.
April 30, 2016 - Area elementary, middle school and high school students participated in a bridge challenge at the 2016 STEM Showcase at Kitsap Mall in Silverdale.
On a recent spring evening, dozens of educators joined West Sound STEM Network for the 5th STEM Cafe of the year. Highlighting the "S" and "E" in STEM, the evening focused on Astronomy and Aerospace—a theme designed to demystify the universe and show educators how to introduce students to space-based engineering design challenges. This exploratory evening ties in with an educational shift toward Next Generation Science Standards. As part of the learning process, participants entered a portable planetarium for a tour of the universe, engaged in a design challenge of their own, and heard from STEM experts talking about their work and how space science education is relevant from kindergarten through college.
West Sound STEM Network: What's New?!
The past school year was a busy one for the West Sound STEM Network. With the support of Washington STEM, the Network focused on building a sustainable infrastructure and developing a business plan to provide guidance for the next three years. We are happy to announce that as a result of this planning process, the West Sound STEM Network was granted $200,000 in ongoing funding to partially support operations through 2017.
An important aspect of the new infrastructure included changes in governance, and the development of the Senior Leadership Team: representatives from the six targeted school districts, Olympic College, Kitsap County, and various industry and business partners. These key team members bring to the table the authority, knowledge and leadership to ensure that the Network's activities benefit each of their organizations.
The planning process also enabled the various partners to identify common objectives, aligning resources to boost our reach in the areas of education, partnerships and communication. The business plan was produced using a collaborative, highly inclusive process - a great accomplishment, symbolic of things to come. The final product--a 98-page business plan that represents months of collaboration--was branded and polished to a shine by marketing and communications partner Rebecca Graham of Impact Writing & Design (www.createimpact.com). Through her, the Network also redesigned and branded the publicity materials for the STEM Showcase, and redeveloped our website.
Since effective communication and PR tools are critical to the growth of the network, our business plan includes continued emphasis on developing a rich and user-relevant online portal, as well as high quality promotional materials that bolster the image of the Network and effectively communicate key messages to partners and participants alike.
Outreach continues to be a priority for the West Sound STEM Network. Three Science Cafés took place, designed to share STEM topics with the public. Plans include more to come. The first Café, presented by Ken Austin of NAVCO, focused on earthquake detection and imaging systems. The second featured the Pacific Planetarium in Bremerton. In May, Michael Steele from The University of Washington Climate Group presented current developments on the impact of global warming in the Arctic region.
In addition, the West Sound STEM Network hosted a STEM Open House at the Washington State University Mechanical Engineering Lab on the Olympic College Campus. The lab is a feature of the 4-year Mechanical Engineering program offered by WSU in our region.
Our largest outreach event was the second annual West Sound STEM Showcase, held this year at the Kitsap Mall. The event grew significantly, proudly hosting 68 booths and at least three times as many participants as the previous year. We incorporated a STEM Catapult Challenge to encourage student involvement, and provided support for teacher stipends and buses. Team member Corinne Beach was awarded a LASER Science Education Advocate Award. Various dignitaries attended the event. West Hills STEM Academy students conducted an audience survey, expanding our email mailing list and resulting in data showing that 98.4% of the respondents would like to attend again. The Kitsap Sun article and a short video from the event can be seen here.
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Read this Kitsap Sun letter to the editor from Rep. Drew Hansen, Bainbridge Island, regarding the 2014 STEM Showcase.
Follow this link to a Kitsap Sun article by Chris Henry on Bremerton's West Hills STEM Academy science and technology fair.


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Q: How to know if your Unit Test is "right-sized"? One thing that I've always noticed with my unit tests is that they get to be kind of verbose; seeing as they could also be not verbose enough, how do you get a sense of when your unit tests are the right size?
I know of a good quote for this and it's:

"Perfection is achieved, not when
  there is nothing left to add, but when
  there is nothing left to remove."
  - Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

A: One reason why them become verbose is that they're testing multiple things. I try to make each unit test test one thing, and one thing only. So I end up with a lot of tests, each asserting one piece of functionality. It works well since a failure won't disguise another failure by bailing out of the unit test before other assertions are made.
Writing fine-grained tests like this means that if you're not careful, you'll duplicate a lot of setup/teardown code, and that's the stuff you need to spend time on, abstracting it out (in whatever way is suitable).

A: I know a unit test is done when one thing changing in the code could cause the test to fail.  If it's testing too many things, that might be good right now, but doesn't help me in the future when I run the test again.  I want a failing test to point me right to the thing that caused the failure, not a whole list of possibilities.

A: I've never worried too much about the unit tests being really clean, short and concise code.  Sometimes I have 100 line functions which are lots of copy and paste in unit tests, and I don't see that as too large a problem considering most unit tests are setting up some dummy data, and then testing for the correct results based on that.
However, I would say I know I have enough unit tests when I can't think of a single thing in the code which could be wrong.
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In response to your edit:  I don't look for perfection in unit tests.


A large number of school visits take place successfully each year. However, misunderstandings about health and safety law can sometimes discourage schools and teachers from organising these activities.
To tackle some of the myths about red tape and prosecution, HSE has published a policy statement to encourage all schools (in both maintained and independent sectors) and local authorities to remove wasteful bureaucracy imposed on those involved in organising school visits and outdoor learning activities.
that HSE's primary interest is real risks arising from serious breaches of the law. Any HSE accident investigation will be targeted at these issues.
Where sensible and proportionate steps have been taken by a school and its staff, it is highly unlikely that there would be a breach of health and safety law involved, or that it would be in the public interest for HSE to bring a prosecution.
Prosecutions taken by HSE invariably involve a fatality (or near fatality) where there was recklessness or a clear failure to adopt sensible precautions. The fact that an accident occurs does not mean there was a breach of health and safety law if sensible, proportionate and appropriate precautions have been taken. Fears of prosecution by schools and their staff have been grossly inflated and are unwarranted. Such fears should not be a barrier to school trips taking place.
HSE statistics indicate that in the five-year period between 2005/06 and 2009/10 HSE has brought two prosecutions involving school visits.
HSE has produced a number of case studies to illustrate and encourage proportionate responses to the planning and delivery of school visits.
HSE enforces health and safety legislation in relation to school visits. The education departments in England, Scotland and Wales also provide guidance and resources for schools.
Approximately 30% of the reported injuries involved employees. The remaining 70% involved non-employees, such as pupils.
Slips, trips and falls remain the most common cause of major injuries in every workplace - and schools follow exactly the same pattern - they account for around 40% of all injuries reported.
HSE has carried out 29 prosecutions in the education sector - 18 in the primary, secondary and vocational sectors.
Of the 18 prosecutions, two related to breaches during school trips.


I had debated writing a post on the previous episode of this series after watching them conducting an interview with an alcoholic. I was feeling. Channel 4's What's Your Emergency?, has been promoting itself who boasted that he had an IQ of "Not at the moment you haven't. The dispatches of the emergency services of Blackpool, Lancashire are followed. Ambulance (TV Series ) Observational documentary series revealing the dramas and dilemmas faced by staff of some of the UK's largest ambulance services on a daily basis.
The so-called "silent solution" protocol for calls to the emergency calls should be reviewed after murder victim's call did not reach police. I defy anyone watching this to not want to increase the higher tax rates. handlers and the emotional impact of dealing with the emergency rule was shocking. TV review: Hillsborough – The Search for the Truth; What's Your Emergency; Leaving. Hillsborough's victims and their families do not need.
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"Gentle on My Mind" is a song written by John Hartford, which won four 1968 Grammy Awards. Hartford himself won the award for Best Folk Performance and Best Country & Western Song (Songwriter). The other two awards Best Country & Western Solo Vocal Performance, Male and Best Country & Western Recording, went to American country music singer Glen Campbell for his version of Hartford's song. It was released in June 1967 as the only single from the album of the same name. It was re-released in July 1968 to more success. Glen Campbell's version has received over 5 million plays on the radio. Campbell used "Gentle on My Mind" as the theme to his television variety show, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour between 1969 and 1972. Dean Martin's version, recorded in 1968, was a major hit in the United Kingdom; three versions of the song, Campbell's, Martin's and Patti Page's, all reached the top ten of the U.S. easy listening chart in 1968. The song was ranked number 16 on BMI's Top 100 Songs of the Century. (Wikipedia)
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Academic IELTS Reading Practice - 105 - Literate Women Make Better Mothers?
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Children in developing countries are healthier and more likely to survive past the age of five when their mothers can read and write. Experts in public health accepted this idea decades ago, but until now no one has been able to show that a woman's ability to read in itself improves her children's chances of survival.
Most literate women learnt to read in primary school, and the fact that a woman has had an education may simply indicate her family's wealth or that it values its children more highly. Now a long-term study carried out in Nicaragua has eliminated these factors by showing that teaching reading to poor adult women, who would otherwise have remained illiterate, has a direct effect on their children's health and survival.
In 1979, the government of Nicaragua established a number of social programmes, including a National Literacy Crusade. By 1985, about 300,000 illiterate adults from all over the country, many of whom had never attended primary school, had learnt how to read, write and use numbers.
During this period, researchers from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, the Central American Institute of Health in Nicaragua, the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua and the Costa Rican Institute of Health interviewed nearly 3,000 women, some of whom had learnt to read as children, some during the literacy crusade and some who had never learnt at all. The women were asked how many children they had given birth to and how many of them had died in infancy. The research teams also examined the surviving children to find out how well-nourished they were.
The investigators' findings were striking. In the late 1970s, the infant mortality rate for the children of illiterate mothers was around 110 deaths per thousand live births. At this point in their lives, Those mothers who later went on to learn to read had a similar level of child mortality(105/1000).For women educated in primary school, however, the infant mortality rate was significantly lower, at 80 per thousand.
In 1985, after the National Literacy Crusade had ended, the infant mortality figures for those who remained illiterate and for those educated in primary school remained more or less unchanged. For those women who learnt to read through the campaign, the infant mortality rate was 84 per thousand, an impressive 21 points lower than for those women who were still illiterate. The children of the newly-literate mothers were also better nourished than those of women who could not read.
Why are the children of literate mothers better off? According to Peter Sandiford of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, no one knows for certain. Child health was not on the curriculum during the women's lessons, so he and his colleagues are looking at other factors. They are working with the same group of 3,000 women, to try to find out whether reading mothers make better use of hospitals and clinics, opt for smaller families, exert more control at home, learn modem childcare techniques more quickly, or whether they merely have more respect for themselves and their children.
Cleland warns that the Nicaraguan crusade was special in many ways, and similar campaigns elsewhere might not work as well. It is notoriously difficult to teach adults skills that do not have an immediate impact on their everyday lives, and many literacy campaigns in other countries have been much less successful. 'The crusade was part of a larger effort to bring a better life to the people,' says Cleland. Replicating these conditions in other countries will be a major challenge for development workers.
Write the correct letters, A-J , in boxes 14-18 on your answer sheet.
The Nicaraguan National Literacy Crusade aimed to teach large numbers of illiterate 14 .................. to read and write. Public health experts have known for many years that there is a connection between child health and 15.................. However, it has not previously been known whether these two factors were directly linked or not. This question has been investigated by 16.................... in Nicaragua. As a result, factors such as 17 ...................... and attitudes to children have been eliminated, audit has been shown that 18................ can in itself improve infant health and survival.
Do the following statements agree with the claims of the writer in Reading Passage 105?
19 About a thousand or the women interviewed by the researchers had learnt to read they were children.
20 Before the National Literacy Crusade, illiterate women had approximately the same levels of infant mortality as those who had learnt to read in primary school.
21 Before and after the National Literacy Crusade, the child mortality rate for the illiterate women stayed at about 110 deaths for each thousand live births.
22 The women who had learnt to read through the National Literacy Crusade showed the greatest change in infant mortality levels.
23 The women who had learnt to read through the National Literacy Crusade had the lowest rates of child mortality.
24 After the National Literacy Crusade, the children of the women who remained illiterate were found to be severely malnourished.
B Similar campaigns in other countries would be equally successful.
D Improving child health can quickly affect a country's economy.
E Money spent on female education will improve child health.


Two return train services have operated between Chester and Liverpool Lime Street via the Halton curve today. They were operated by Transport for Wales unit 175104. The first regular services are expected to begin in May 2019.


There can be many opportunities and issues co-existing in the K-12 school system. As a teacher, you can make a bright career in this system. Learn additional skills that keep you prepared for the emergencies to save precious lives. This helps in boosting your teaching career through credentialing. In many American states, it is mandatory for the school teachers to learn CPR and AED techniques for helping the students in emergency situations. If you have previously enrolled in this course and you presently need to recertify, you can opt for online CPR recertification courses that can work around your busy teaching schedule.
Why Should You Get a CPR Certification?
Before assessing the need for recertification, you should understand why you should take a CPR and AED certification course. There can be unforeseen circumstances happening in the school where you may be the only one around a child who needs immediate CPR help. In such situations when emergency services are on the way and a patient needs prompt attention, this course can equip you with the desired life-saving skills. You can prevent a disaster from turning into a tragedy.
Once completed, CPR online courses are typically valid for 2 years in most of the states. In some states, teachers need not renew their CPR training when they renew their teaching credentials. However, it is recommended to get an online CPR recertification periodically.
If you already have an online certification, you should check whether it is outdated. Here, it is important to take note that CPR guidelines are continuously updating. There are new regulations to follow and new skills to learn for the certification holders. You should get recertified to stay updated with these new skills. If your school district is not offering these recertification courses and if you are too busy to learn these skills, it is better to opt for an online course.
The online courses will equip you with the right knowledge and skills without spending too much of your time in a classroom module. Avoid a commute to a training facility. Rather, you can learn these skills at your pace. Most importantly, you will feel more confident in case of emergency upon completing this mandatory course.
What's Needed for CPR Recertification?
For completing an online course, you would need a computer with an active internet connection and the desired software. Now, you need to find the time to undergo the modules of this course. Set your schedule and learn these skills. When you are prepared, you can take the quiz and get the recertification.
In the educational industry, you need CPR recertification to boost your career opportunities and ensure the safety of your students. A CPR certification will help you possess the right knowledge and skills.


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Action Group on Coral Reef Protection and Restoration
Coral reefs provide a home to about 25 per cent of all marine species and are the most diverse of all the planet's ecosystems, rivalling the diversity found in the Amazon rainforest. Estimates suggest that up to two million different types of animals thrive within or around coral reefs. Millions of people depend on that biodiversity for their livelihoods and food security.
Coral reefs are also one of the most sensitive ecosystems in the world, acting as a barometer for global warming. For example, just a small rise in the temperature of the oceans will cause coral reefs to bleach and potentially die if the higher temperature is sustained.
Urgent action is needed to protect these vibrant underwater habitats from the effects of climate change, pollution, overfishing and other problems caused by people – such as cyanide fishing, coral mining and poor tourism practices.
Some 250 million people – many in small island states and developing countries – depend directly on coral reefs for food and income, making them particularly vulnerable to their loss. Coral reefs also provide vital protection to low-lying communities at risk from coastal flooding.
Experts say the decline of these precious underwater ecosystems can be prevented. It might be possible to regenerate them – as long as the commitment to do so starts now – to ensure they can be enjoyed by future generations.
of global tropical coral reefs occur within Commonwealth jurisdictions
Coastal ecosystems play a vital role in many Commonwealth countries, by supporting tourism, food security and recreation, and by providing coastal protection from storms. However, for a variety of reasons, most shallow coral reefs have become degraded. Active interventions to aid their recovery are necessary.
Australia, Belize and Mauritius are co-championing the Commonwealth Blue Charter Action Group on Coral Reef Protection and Restoration. This Action Group will highlight good practices in the restoration of coral reefs. Each champion is bringing relevant expertise and experience to the Action Group, to be shared and developed with interested member countries. It will be a platform to promote collaborative research, workshops and seminars, showcasing successful case studies among the Commonwealth.
of the world's reefs have already suffered irreversible damage
Australia's Great Barrier Reef is the largest reef system in the world
Covering less than 1% of the ocean floor, coral reefs support an estimated 25% of all marine life
One square kilometre of healthy, well-managed coral reef can provide more than 15 tonnes of fish and other seafood each year
Fragments of Hope – Community-Led Coral Reef Restoration, Laughing Bird Caye National Park, Belize
Laughing Bird Caye National Park (LBCNP) was declared in 1994 and is one of seven protected areas making up the Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System, a World Heritage Site. While the land area is just 1.4 acres, the marine component of the park is 4,095 hectares. This protected area is one of the best examples of the unique type of atoll formation in the Caribbean.
LBCNP provides significant social and economic benefits to the local society. It is an important tourism resource, with over 10,000 visitors per year, given its proximity to Placencia Village just 11 miles away, and it provides sheltered snorkeling sites. In 2017, the Natural Capital Project at Stanford University valued LBCNP at almost US$5million/year (Nawaz et al., 2017). Because the site has no fishing allowed, it harbours good populations of conch, lobster and finfish, which then spill into local fishing areas.
Fragments of Hope (FOH) is a non-profit community based organisation that was formally established in 2013; FOH focuses on the restoration of coral reef habitats and advocacy for sustainable management of associated habitats. LBCNP was the first restoration site in Belize (2006) by FOH and is considered by most experts the best example of reef restoration in the Caribbean.
Master Reef Guides Programme, Great Barrier Reef, Australia
The Master Reef Guides programme was launched in 2019. It builds the capacity of tourism staff working on the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland, Australia, to provide an appealing industry- and government-recognised qualification. Master Reef Guides pass through a comprehensive selection and training process.
Coral reef tourism contributes $36 billion to the global tourism industry annually. Irresponsible reef tourism can put great pressure on coral health. However, responsible and informed operators can help educate and inform tourists, providing a more impactful, value-added experience with increased awareness.
This case study describes one programme that is demonstrating success in contributing to the management and conservation objectives of the Great Barrier Reef, and that could be of interest for application in other regions.
Rust can damage reefs
'Protecting coral reefs'
Diverse nature of reefs
Coral reefs facts
UN Environment Programme (UNEP), 'Coral reef conservation and restoration'
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Global coral reef bleaching monitoring
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Children's book: Message in a Bottle 8 July 2019
Blue Charter group gears up to protect and restore 'priceless' coral reefs
All Champions Meeting of the Commonwealth Blue Charter
Commonwealth countries rally behind ocean action


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The prices indicated are per house or room and include VAT.
The tourist tax is mandatory and is not included in the price (over 16 years).
If the reservation is made online, the card introduced will guarantee the reservation and authorize the charge of the amount for payment and signal or penalty for cancellation or breach of dates, equivalent to 30% of the reservation and minimum one night.
Group bookings (+ of 6 people) must be contacted via email or phone to confirm the reservation.
Possibility of attaching an extra bed with a charge of € 20 (in special cases).
Free cot, according to availability and prior reservation.
If the cancellation occurs 15 days or more before the date of entry you will have the right to recover the payment and minus the management fees.
If the cancellation occurs 15 days or less from the date of entry will lose the right to recover the payment and signal.
When the reservation is made through an intermediary there may be some variation, check the conditions they provide.
Extra bed under 16 years, supplement 20 € / night, check availability.
Children under 2 years old in a free cot, check availability.
Apartments and Houses: for stays of more than 8 nights free intermediate cleaning.
Apartments and Houses: cleaning service price during your stay: Mas Pou Apartments € 32.00, Mas Llop Houses € 40.00.
Hoses Mas Llop I and II: pets allowed prior communication, fee: € 10.00 per pet per night.
Can Barnosell, rooms with breakfast: additionally you can hire the right kitchen, 4 available, the price is € 12.00 per night.
Can Barnosell, rooms with breakfast. Price double room with individual use discount.
Without prior authorization, the entry of people not registered in the facilities is not allowed.
In case of authorization, unregistered persons will have restricted access to the swimming pool and the gym and may require payment of € 20 / person to access the facilities.
Opening hours: From 2:00 pm to the Can Barnosell Room and from 5:00 pm in the Apartments and Houses.
Departure time: before 11 am but you can stay in the facilities until 2 pm.
Pool opening: From June 1 to September 30 approximately, from 9 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.


Harry Chapple and Paul Honey saw off the challenge of Charlie Trayhorn and Keith Harris to win November's round of the Tom Evans Foursomes winter series competition by two shots.
Chapple and Honey finished with 38 points and will go on to represent the club against Newbury & Crookham in February.
Countback was needed to settle the rest of the top five with Andy Wilson and Andrew Chandler edging Paul Kowalik and Roy Burt into fourth.
Simon Powell and Steve Darby finished fifth after all three pairs scored 35 points.
The day's special prize went to Lee Souster and Mike Wrangles.
Jason Methven took home the Founders Trophy, while the Millenium Bowl was won by Darren Gatward and Kowalik.


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Nile Dam: Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan Reach 'Major Common Understanding' On GERD
Caroline Finnegan July 22, 2020
Picture Courtesy- ESI Africa
Leaders from Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan on Tuesday agreed to resume talks to break a deadlock on the controversial Nile dam, reported Reuters.
Ethiopian leader Abiy Ahmed, Sudan's Abdalla Hamdok, and Egypt's presidency made the announcement separately after a virtual mini-African Union summit that was called after they failed to reach an agreement earlier this month.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's office said the three countries had reached a "major common understanding which paves the way for a breakthrough agreement" and more talks were imminent.
The statement came as some new satellite images show the water level in the reservoir behind the nearly completed $4.6 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is at its highest in at least four years. It suggested that enough water had accumulated to enable Ethiopia to test the Nile dam's first two turbines.
"The dam under construction is already overtopping," the statement from Abiy's office said.
It added that Ethiopia was committed to a "balanced and win-win" negotiation that ascertains that the river will benefit all the three countries involved.
The Egyptian presidency also released a statement confirming that negotiation talks on the Nile dam would continue and focus for the time being on giving priority to coming to a legal agreement covering all the rules for filling and operation of the dam.
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa, who chaired the virtual meeting of the AU on Tuesday, confirmed there would be further negotiations.
"The trilateral negotiations remain on track," Ramaphosa wrote on Twitter.
Notably, Egypt and Sudanboth fear the $4 billion hydroelectric dam could lead to water scarcity in their own countries. Egypt, which gets 90% of its fresh water, is concerned that already limited Nile waters will be further restricted.
The Nile dam has been under construction since 2011. Once completed, it will become the largest dam in Africa.
Egypt: Foreign Ministry Summons Ethiopia's Top Diplomat Over Nile Dam Issue
Egypt To Impose Partial Curfew For Two Weeks To Counter Covid 19 Outbreak


Migliaccio salato aka a savoury ricotta and semolina cake. I plan to make this again as part of my next charcuterie board. It would be great for a picnic!
Looks like green mush but this is one of my favourite Spring dishes. It's a Roman specialty consisting of braised peas, white onion, lettuce, fava beans and artichokes. A heathy meal all on its own!


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Q: How to draw a line every 25 words? Using iTextSharp, I create a pdf writing some text into it.
What I need is to draw a line to delimiter the text every 25 words, like the following image:

Basically, I need to do that: draw a line every 25 words, just like the image.
I'm aware there's a way of finding the position of a word on a page, but considering I'm writing the text to the pdf file, I guess there could be a way of calculating this without really having to find the text position, right?

A: Please take a look at the Every25Words examples. In that example, I read a text file into a String with the readFile() method. I then split the text into words based on the occurrence of spaces, and I add each word one by one:
public void createPdf(String dest) throws IOException, DocumentException {
    Document document = new Document();
    PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(dest));
    writer.setPageEvent(new WordCounter());
    writer.setInitialLeading(16);
    document.open();
    String[] words = readFile().split("\\s+");
    Chunk chunk = null;
    for (String word : words) {
        if (chunk != null) {
            document.add(new Chunk(" "));
        }
        chunk = new Chunk(word);
        chunk.setGenericTag("");
        document.add(chunk);
    }
    document.close();
}

The magic happens in this line:
writer.setPageEvent(new WordCounter());

chunk.setGenericTag("");

First we declare an instance of the WordCounter event. You may choose a better name for that class, as not only does it count words, it also draws a dashed line:
public class WordCounter extends PdfPageEventHelper {

    public int count = 0;

    @Override
    public void onGenericTag(PdfWriter writer, Document document, Rectangle rect, String text) {
        count++;
        if (count % 25 == 0) {
            PdfContentByte canvas = writer.getDirectContent();
            canvas.saveState();
            canvas.setLineDash(5, 5);
            canvas.moveTo(document.left(), rect.getBottom());
            canvas.lineTo(rect.getRight(), rect.getBottom());
            canvas.lineTo(rect.getRight(), rect.getTop());
            canvas.lineTo(document.right(), rect.getTop());
            canvas.stroke();
            canvas.restoreState();
        }
    }
}

Do you see what we do between the saveState() and restoreState() method? We define a dash pattern, we move to the left of the page, we construct a path to the right of the word, then we draw a short upwards line, to finish the path with a line to the right. Once the path is constructed, we stroke the line.
This onGenericTag() method will be triggered every time a Chunk is added on which we used the setGenericTag method.
This is what the result looks like every25words.pdf:


Here's the flat-out truth about running a small business: you, the business owner, are where the buck stops. Period. Small businesses are a great way to start earning more money, but they're not easy.
When something goes wrong, it's up to you to clean it up. Yes, you may have employees who will take care of it, but those employees are far from perfectly reliable – and often, when you're in startup mode, you don't have employees to take care of the problem.
You've also got the demands of needing a certain level of income, either to survive off of the business or to earn enough to jump into the business full time, which means that when something does go wrong, you've got a powerful motivator to drop everything and fix it.
How do you manage all of the chaos of a small business without going crazy? That's the topic of Clate Mask and Scott Martineau's book Conquer the Chaos. Small business really is a juggling act, particularly during the startup era. Does this book have solid advice for dealing with this? Let's find out.
When you make the choice to dig into entrepreneurship, you find yourself constantly have to make very difficult choices between your small business and your personal life. Do you choose to spend this evening watching a movie with your wife or building a better website? Do you meet with this great potential customer or do you make it to your daughter's recital? No matter what you choose, you'll have some regret about missing the other choice. Even worse, you're often making these types of choices – the things that form a huge part of the foundation of your life – on the complete spur of the moment. It's stressful and chaotic.
Making the challenge more difficult is that your business has a very simple imperative, especially during the startup phase: grow or die. Most businesses don't open the doors with the ability to pay the bills. They have to grow to make it. In order to grow the business, you're going to be pushed strongly towards the "business" choices instead of the "personal" choices, especially at first.
What you begin to find is that you have only so much passion inside of you. How are you going to use that passion? Are you going to channel that passion into your personal life and view the business as merely a support structure (one that probably won't survive over the long term)? Or are you going to channel that passion into the business, growing something tremendous? Alternately, you can try to split the two, but this will deal a lot of difficult choices onto your plate.
The solution? Discipline. Spend some time figuring out what the priorities are well in advance so that you're not stressed out and torn when a challenging decision comes before you. Better yet, resolve those priorities to the point that you feel good about your choice and you feel optimistic about what you're building, whether it's your family or your business or whatever you decide.
Another challenging factor is the double-edged sword of independence. Independence means you get to make your own decisions, but it also means that you don't have the guidelines, advice, and parameters that a typical job has. My best solution for this is to find a mentor who can guide you through some of this difficult transition.
The rest of the book really focuses on some of the resolutions for these problems, after the authors made clear what the challenges are.
One thing that many harried small business owners do is that they keep tossing in "solutions" for specific problems. While this can help in the short term, eventually there are so many "solutions" in place that the regular operation of the business can be confusing. You're far better off centralizing things with only one system for handling everything – much like GTD handles everything for your personal tasks.
Another thing that often happens with small businesses is that you find yourself with tons and tons of loose ends, all of which need to be followed up on. While it's often tempting to just go start new initiatives, it's usually more rewarding in the long run to devote time to tying up all of the loose ends in front of you before moving on. If you don't do this, the sheer weight of all of the loose ends will crush any forward progress you want to make because so many of the things you need in order to move forward will simply be undone.
This chapter doesn't refer so much to automation as it does to having a series of very standardized procedures for various things you'll be doing as a small business owner: customer follow-up, inventory, and things like that. Part of that standardized procedure relies on having a reliable calendar that reminds you of when specific steps of that procedure needs to be done. An example: if you would ideally like to follow up with a new customer three times at certain intervals after their initial purchase, these can be entered into your calendar immediately after the purchase. Then, on that day, you just look at your calendar and boom there's the reminder of the follow-up you need to do.
Once you get things rolling well, it's easy to sometimes fall back into chaotic situations. One easy way to tell whether or not you're falling back or you're about to run into trouble is to ask yourself if your business would survive if you disappeared for a few weeks. If you can't say yes, then you're on the verge of backsliding – your systems aren't up to snuff to avoid potential chaos.
Is Conquer the Chaos Worth Reading?
I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is in the planning stages of running a small business or is having difficulty with their current business. Conquer the Chaos really isolates what most of the common problems are for a small business owner and provides at least the outline of some solutions for those problems.
I would probably couple this book with a great book on time and information management, like GTD, which focuses heavily on implementing a centralized system that can deal with a lot of the challenges in this book.
This book works best when it's applied during the "thinking" and "planning" part of small business preparation – once the ship has started to sail, much of what's in this book is harder to implement and consider. In other words, if you're looking at entrepreneurship in the future, particularly the short term, give this book a read.


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Q: What rules do I have to follow in order to ensure that a C++ type is POD?
Possible Duplicate:
What are POD types in C++?
What are Aggregates and PODs and how/why are they special?

I'm writing an interpreter in C++ and I want to make sure that certain C++ data types have a predictable layout for when they are accessed via interpreted code, particularly when using reflection. So for example, I want to make sure that the first data field is always at offset zero from the address of the object. Now, this is trivial for purely POD types. I'm wondering, however, if this can also work with objects that have inheritance or have constructors, as long as I avoid obvious things like virtual functions or multiple inheritance. Is it reasonable to assume that the compiler will layout these types the same way a C compiler would, or would the "unspecified behavior" in the C++ standard be something I would need to worry about?

A: c++11 defines the standard layout :

Standard layout is intended to capture the first intent -- creating something with a layout the same as you'd get in C

and this is what you are looking for. Therefore your check should be :
static_assert( std::is_standard_layout<A>::value, "not standard layout" );


Know This Before Deciding to Sell Your Home | Henry & DeGraaff, P.S.
If you're a homeowner who is selling his or her home for any of the following three reasons, think again: 1) you can't afford the house payments, 2) you owe income taxes with a tax lien on your house, and/or 3) your mortgage modification application was rejected.
In my last blog I told you the first three of ten reasons why you should get advice from a bankruptcy attorney before selling your home. Here are the next three. All of these are about saving you money, and helping you make much better decisions about your home.
1. Can't Afford the House Payments: It's sensible to sell your home if it's more house than you need, or you're not able to make the payments. But you may really need to hang onto the house, and are selling it because you think you have no choice. If so, you may instead be able to keep your home either by reducing the debt attached to the house or by reducing the rest of your debt so that you can afford the house debt. I gave you some ways to reduce the debts on the house in my last blog, and will give some more in the next one. As for reducing or getting rid of the rest of your debt, even if you are resisting the idea of filing bankruptcy "just so I can afford my house," you still owe it to yourself to know your options. We live in truly extraordinary times in terms of home values and economic uncertainty. So especially now, it's wise to be open to creative ways of meeting your financial needs.
2. Have Income Tax Debt: If you owe back income taxes, these taxes may have already attached to your home's title with the recording of a tax lien. Or that may happen in the near future. You may feel extra pressure to sell your home to pay those taxes. But Chapter 7 and 13 bankruptcy options can often help you deal with your tax debts, sometimes in ways better than you expect. Some income taxes can be legally written off altogether. Others would likely be able to be paid much less than outside bankruptcy, through huge savings in interest and penalties, and other possible advantages. The details are beyond what I can cover in this blog. But if income tax debts or tax liens are part of why you are selling your home, first find out how bankruptcy would deal with them.
3. Your Mortgage Modification Application Was Rejected: Mortgage modification programs—both governmental ones like HAMP as well as private ones—have been tremendously controversial and of questionable benefit to homeowners. They are almost always terribly frustrating to go through. Without getting into all that here, there are definitely times when mortgage modification requests are rejected because the homeowner did not fully complete the application or the mortgage lender did not process it accurately. Often it is not really clear why the modification was not approved. After going through this challenging process without a reduction in your mortgage payments, understandably you may well feel like you have no choice but to sell your home. But sometimes a bankruptcy filing—either Chapter 7 or 13, depending on the circumstances—can help get a mortgage modification approved, either the first time or in a renewed application. Reducing your debts through bankruptcy provides you more resources to put into your house, generally making you a better candidate for mortgage modification.
Deciding whether to sell your home involves a whole lot of factors–personal, financial, and legal. Virtually every time I meet with new clients who are thinking about selling their home, they learn a bunch of things which puts that decision in a whole different light. Often, my clients are pleasantly surprised by options and advantages they did not know were available. Let me help you, too, make an informed and wise choice about most important asset.


"It's been incredible to be part of the BVI rebuild and this week to be out on the water on a boat that was recovered from Irma and to win in class. I can't thank everyone enough for making this happen. Next year is going to be even better!"
Sutherland-Pilch raced with Team Nai'a on Odyssey, a Beneteau First, in CSA Jib & Main 2.
"We needed to win both races today to catch up with Fujin, our toughest competitor - the racing was great and we really enjoyed this regatta. Race Committee did a wonderful job."
"We had half a point lead going into the second race and fortunately had a great race. There was a huge left shift at the start, our trimmers did a great job and allowed us to extend every leg. This is one of my favorite regattas anywhere - it's a fun competitive class that makes us want to come back, the atmosphere has been fantastic."
Winning CSA Racing 3 and the Best BVI Boat, Henry Leonnig from Tortola and his crew on the Melges 24 Fire Water said, "I'm truly humbled to receive this award after living in the BVI for 16 years. My crew were fantastic, we were determined to win today and had great starts - in race 2, which was pin-biased, we executed flawlessly and sailed really well. It was a great regatta."
"We lost to Cachondo in the first race and knew we needed to beat them in the upwind leg of race 2 as they have a bigger kite and taller mast so do better in the downwind. It was an amazing play of minds and sail trim - just fantastic!"
"We didn't think that we would do as well as we did on the race course but had high expectations for a fun-filled week and it went beyond expectations. We sailed with three close friends on a good boat with good crew work, and the race committee were just great."
In Bareboat 1, Charlie Garrard helming for Team Merlin (SAIL) won class on Jada, a Moorings 48, and in Bareboat 2, Blowing the Blues Away, a Moorings 45, helmed by Mike Graham took first, 2 points ahead of Jim Proctor on Senior Moment, a Moorings 45. Proctor also won The Guy Eldridge True Spirit & Enthusiasm award. For the past 6 years Proctor has been bringing friends to BVI Spring Regatta to race and have fun - this year his group chartered five boats, showing awesome support for the event.
"I didn't expect to do this again but when they gave me a charter, I couldn't resist! We had a wealth of experience on board this week with an average age of 72 years - I relied on everyone else for sail trim, they all told me what to do and I just tried to sail to whatever they told me!"
Tattersall was again awarded the International Yacht Club Challenge ... and another Sunsail charter for 2020.
BVI dignitaries were present at the prize giving, welcoming the entire regatta fleet to the BVI and presenting prizes. Judy Petz, Regatta Director noted that the event was expanded the event this year to include more entertainment and businesses in the Regatta Village.
"We wanted to help generate more income for local businesses and charities," Petz said. "Our message for 2019, "Building BVI Back, Bigger, Better, Stronger," was heard and embraced by the sailors and visitors from around the world who absolutely helped us accomplish that goal. The backbone of the event are the people who make it all come together - we have such dedicated volunteers giving up to 14 hours a day to create its success on and off the water."