In 1979 this movement evolved into the Workers ' Party of Belgium ( PVDA-PTB ), which is at the moment the biggest communist party in Belgium and is represented in various municipal councils, but not in any of the parliaments in Belgium.

In 1979 the first congress was held, which adopted a Maoist programme and changed the name into PVDA-PTB.

The PVDA-PTB is also known for its 11 medical centres of Medicine for the people, which provide free access to primary health care, and the two progressive law firms of the Progress Lawyers Network.

Following its electoral defeat in 2003, the PVDA-PTB has fundamentally changed its working methods and communication.

On one hand, the PVDA-PTB said it would refocus on working with factory workers as well as on field work in the communities where it operates.

On the other hand, the PVDA-PTB said it would officially break with what it calls its sectarian past to get closer to the concrete demands of citizens.

On March 2, 2008, the work of the Eighth Congress of the PVDA-PTB was completed with a closing meeting at the Free University of Brussels.

This ' shift ' seems to have produced some positive results as a slight increase in membership and a rebound ( albeit moderate ) of the electoral score of the PVDA-PTB in the latest elections.

The PVDA-PTB, the newspaper Solidarity and Medicine for the People organize " Manifiesta ", a yearly festival of solidarity between the communities and the left in Belgium.

UD Arena also hosts the Winter Guard International championships, at which hundreds of percussion and color guard ensembles compete from around the world.

The lake Maschsee hosts the International Dragon Boat Races and the Canoe Polo-Tournament.

The Great Garden hosts every year the International Fireworks Competition, and the International Festival Weeks Herrenhausen with lots of music and cabaret.

The Melbourne Cricket Ground hosts an One Day International | ODI match between Australia and India.

Teaching organizations include the European Board of Urology, as well as the Vattikuti Urology Institute in Detroit, which also hosts an annual International Robotic Urology Symposium devoted to new technologies.

The Headquarters and main campus of UPEACE also hosts the International Secretariat of the Earth Charter Initiative, whose stated mission is " to promote the transition to sustainable ways of living and a global society founded on a shared ethical framework that includes respect and care for the community of life, ecological integrity, universal human rights, respect for diversity, economic justice, democracy, and a culture of peace.

The city hosts Ca ' Foscari University of Venice founded in 1868, Iuav University of Venice founded in 1926 and Venice International University an international research center founded in 1995 located on the island of San Servolo.

UNCTAD hosts the Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting ( ISAR )

In the early network, each computer on the network retrieved the hosts file ( host. txt ) from a computer at SRI ( now SRI International ).

Events such as the Thessaloniki International Trade Fair and the Thessaloniki International Film Festival are held annually, while the city also hosts the largest bi-annual meeting of the Greek diaspora.

Palermo International Airport has been named Falcone-Borsellino Airport in honor of the two judges and hosts a memorial of the pair by the local sculptor Tommaso Geraci.

The city also hosts the Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival and a Bach Festival.

The Haifa Cinematheque, founded in 1975, hosts the annual Haifa International Film Festival during the intermediate days of the Sukkot holiday.

Bangui hosts a river port and is served by Bangui M ' Poko International Airport ( IATA airport code BGF ); the former handles the overwhelming majority of the country's international trade.

* Sepang International Circuit, a high-end racetrack that hosts the Malaysian round of Formula 1

CCTV-NEWS ( English International Channel ) program hosts

Cal State Northridge is home to the National Center on Deafness, and each year the university hosts the International Conference on Technology and Persons with Disabilities.

UNPO chose for its founding headquarters in 1991 The Hague in the Netherlands because the city aimed at becoming the International City of Peace and Justice and hosts internaitonal courts like the ICJ and ICC.

The university hosts the Martin Luther King, Jr ./ Human Rights Celebration every January and presents numerous cultural festivals and activities, including the International Food Song and Dance Festival and the Seven Arrows Pow Wow.

The first Saturday in November, Terlingua now hosts two competing international chili championships: the Terlingua International Chili Championship, and the Original Terlingua International Chili Cookoff.

The County is also host to Rockingham Dragway, an International Hot Rod Association-sanctioned drag strip, which hosts over 90 drag racing events per year.

Additionally Arlington hosts the Texas Rangers ' Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Cowboys Stadium, the International Bowling Campus ( which houses the United States Bowling Congress, International Bowling Museum and the International Bowling Hall of Fame ), the headquarters for American Mensa, and the theme parks Six Flags Over Texas ( the original Six Flags ) and Hurricane Harbor.

Still, the centre hosts some examples of modern architecture dating back to the Communist era.

Unexpectedly to his hosts, his speech challenged the Communist leadership in Moscow.

The Volxtheater Favoriten is based out of the Ernst Kirchweger Haus ( EKH ), the former headquarters of the Austrian Communist Party in Vienna, a legalised squat that hosts migrants and refugees, community activities, and political groups.

In order to develop this unification process, the Workers Party of Belgium hosts the International Communist Seminar in Brussels, which is attended by 150 organizations around the world.

Even though they do not compete directly with cultivated plants, sometimes winter annuals are considered a pest in commercial agriculture, because they can be hosts for insect pests or fungal diseases ( ovary smut – Microbotryum sp ) which attack crops being cultivated.

It was Australia's second consecutive innings defeat in a wet summer, and the hosts were in strong positions in the two drawn Tests, in which half the playing time was washed out.

In the South of the city you can find Aachen's biggest tennis club " TC Grün Weiss ", which hosts the famous ATP Tournament once a year.

The help which he wanted from the West was simply mercenary forces and not the immense hosts which arrived, to his consternation and embarrassment, after the pope preached the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont later that same year.

He hosts The Adam Carolla Show, a talk show distributed as a podcast which set the record as the " most downloaded podcast " as judged by Guinness World Records.

In between, there was the pressing matter for Charlton of the 1966 World Cup for which England, as hosts, had not needed to qualify.

The island town hosts a range of attractions including the Castle Coole Estate and Enniskillen Castle, which is home to the museum of The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards.

The house is one of the two main attractions of Giverny, which hosts tourists from all over the world.

* Chrysi island ( Ierapetra, Lasithi ), which hosts the largest natural Lebanon cedar forest in Europe.

Apart from the famous endangered Mediterranean monk seal, which lives in almost all the coasts of the country, Greece hosts whales, sperm whales, dolphins and porpoises.

The hosts run a contest called the " Puzzler ", in which a riddle, sometimes car-related, is presented.

South of Dayton in Kettering is the Fraze Pavilion, which hosts many nationally and internationally known musicians for concerts.

BOOTP introduced the innovation of a relay agent, which allowed the forwarding of BOOTP packets off the local network using standard IP routing, thus one central BOOTP server could serve hosts on many IP subnets.

Also, while in New Guinea, he visited the Lutheran missionaries Otto Thiele and Christian Keyser, in the Finschhafen district ; there, while in conversation with his hosts, he uncovered the discrepancies in Hermann Detzner's popular book, Four Years among the Cannibals in German Guinea from 1914 to the Truce, in which Detzner claimed to have seen the interior, discovered several species of flora and fauna, while remaining only steps ahead of the Australian patrols sent to capture him.

Bridges also overcame the limits on total segments between two hosts and allowed the mixing of speeds, both of which are critical to deployment of Fast Ethernet.

Attacking obligate bacterial endosymbionts may present a way to control their insect hosts, many of which are pests or carriers of human disease.

The UK hosts two national competitions in which schools compete against each other directly ; the Public Schools Fencing Championship, a competition only open to Independent Schools ,< ref >

The FAO hosts DAD-IS, the Domestic Animal Diversity Information System, a communication and information tool for the management of animal genetic resources which provides the user with searchable databases of breed-related information, management tools, and contacts for the Regional and National Coordinators for the Management of Animal Genetic Resources programme.

They are often hosts for ticks, especially in the area around the genitals, which has thinner skin than other areas.

One such attempt is The Overbite Project, which hosts various browser extensions and modern clients.

The town hosts the annual Common Riding, which combines the annual riding of the boundaries of the town's common land with the commemoration of a victory of local youths over an English raiding party in 1514.

Some points of interest are the Tropical House, the Cactus House, the Canary House and the Orchid House, which hosts one of the world's biggest collection of orchids, and free-flying birds and butterflies.

In the latter case, the disease may only be defined as a " disease " ( which by definition means an illness ) in hosts who secondarily become ill after contact with an asymptomatic carrier.