Azerbaijan: The president of Azerbaijan has attended the opening of the 0.4Mt/yr Ağdağ gypsum plaster plant built by Matanat-A in Baku's Garadagh District on 30 January 2016. The plant has been built using US$0.9m loan from the national business promotion fund. It employs more than 800 workers.
Suppliers supporting the project include Boemer, Saake, Haver and Boecker, Atlas Copco, ABB, Caterpillar, STP and Erisim. Half of the products made at the plant will be exported to Russia, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Iran.


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Michel Simion, né à Bucarest le , est un essayiste, traducteur de textes théologiques et professeur de relations internationales reconverti du secteur de l'informatique.

Biographie
Michel Simion est titulaire d'une licence en mathématiques et diplômé du Centre international de formation européenne de Nice (1981), de l'Institut d'études politiques de Paris (1983) et de l'Institut de théologie orthodoxe Saint-Serge (2016).

Il a enseigné  au CESEM Business School de Reims (1983-1984) et l'histoire contemporaine au Pôle universitaire Léonard-de-Vinci de Paris (1996-2001). Par la suite il a été chargé de cours en géopolitique à l'ICD Business School de Paris (2006).

Outre son activité d'enseignement universitaire, il a assuré pendant une trentaine d'années, des fonctions de directeur marketing, France et Europe, dans différentes entreprises informatiques d'édition de logiciel (les dernières en date étant Stratus Technologies et l'éditeur de logiciel Compuware).

À partir de 2013, il se consacre exclusivement à la théologie orthodoxe et à son rayonnement en France. Il publie des articles, des recensions et des traductions dans des revues de théologie orthodoxe, comme Apostolia, Contacts, Orthodoxie.com .

L'écrivain roumain , a publié en 2014 sa correspondance avec Michel Simion dans le volume Scrisori către Mihai, (Lettres à Michel).

Michel Simion a traduit et a fait connaitre en France les homélies de Nicolae Steinhardt. Elles ont été publiées, sous le titre Donne et tu recevras. Michel Stavrou, professeur H.D.R. de théologie des dogmes, note dans la revue française d'orthodoxie Contacts  : . Le père professeur Nicolas Ozoline, souligne également l'importance de cette publication et la qualité de la traduction . À la suite de la publication du livre Donne et tu recevras, Michel Simion a présenté la vie et l'œuvre de Nicolae Steinhardt dans des émissions et des débats, à la radio et à la télévision, notamment sur France Culture et France 2.

En 2020, Michel Simion publie le livre La souffrance - Regard d'un orthodoxe, aux Éditions Apostolia, un ouvrage .

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 https://orthodoxie.com/tag/michel-simion/
 https://revue-contacts.com/parution/contacts-n-253/
 https://www.strategies.fr/guides-annuaires/nominations/r88178W/michel-simion-directeur-marketing-de-compuware-europe-du-sud.html
 https://www.silicon.fr/compuware-portrait-michel-simion-performance-81240.html
 https://www.journaldunet.com/solutions/dsi/1032090-donnees-personnelles-la-tentation-grandit/
 Notices d'autorité : Bibliothèque nationale de France. Fichier d'autorité international virtuel
 Émission interview radio France Culture, 11 oct 2020
 Émission interview radio France Culture, 29 oct 2017
 Interview (émission de télévision Orthodoxie diffusée sur France 2, 26 oct. 2018).

Naissance en octobre 1956
Essayiste français du XXe siècle
Élève de l'Institut d'études politiques de Paris

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The art pickings are a bit slimmer (as we all tend to be) over the summer — but in recent weeks I have managed to see a few exhibitions: the "Here and Elsewhere" show of Arab art at The New Museum (exciting and provocative — and so dense I need to revisit at least once more); "Bringing the World Into the World" at the Queens Museum (tiny and charming); the Garry Winogrand show (a big, fat eh) and Amie Siegel's "Provenance" (ahhhhh) at the Met.
I quite like these walnut vitrines.
But Holy Mary, Mother of God, am I ever looking forward to the fall! Such an embarrassment of riches!
In recent years several students and friends have asked if they might join me on my art outings. So, I figured I'd plan a little something for next weekend — Saturday, 9/13, to be precise. I'm just gonna do my normal thing — which involves packing as much activity into an afternoon as possible, walking myself into the ground, stuffing visions and ideas into my brain until paint starts leaking out my ears — and hope folks can keep up!


In Austria, two 8-year-old Muslim boys beat a classmate and carved a cross on his back. No surprise that the boys are Muslim. The horror of Islamic supremacism and the hatred of the non-believer are inherent in the most brutal and extreme ideology on the face of the earth.
Brutal attack in a Tyrolean Folk School: Two eight-year-old children should have a classmate dragged into the toilet and scratched him with a knife a cross in the back. The prosecutor's office confirmed a corresponding thereto incident.
The incredible scenes are said to have already played last week in elementary school 1 in Jenbach. As the "crown" learned a child of two classmates was brutally beaten with Turkish roots in the wardrobe. The next day, the dispute shall be but then only really escalated.
The young ruffians dragged her victim in the bathroom and abused it really there. After the two eight year old the boys had his T-shirt pulled over her head, she should have brandished a knife or other sharp object and thus scratched him on a cross back into the skin.
"The police have told us about this incident," says Hans Jörg Mayr from Innsbruck's Procuratorate and adds: ". The suspects have denied but the fact" Since the two students are strafunmündig anyway, you have but the process must be set. Now the youth welfare office was on the train.
Otherwise, there is silence about this case. "I can not say anything," said director Anne Marie Prantl. Also the father of the boy wanted to express not closer. Also at the Youth Office invoking of confidentiality.


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Q: Solve transformation of expected value I try to solve for $a > 0$ the integral
$$\int_\mathbb{R} e^{ax} f(x) \,dx$$
where $f$ is the density of a $\mathcal{N}(0,1)$-distributed random variable (w.r.t. the Lebesgue measure) using the knowledge that for $Z \sim \mathcal{N}(0, \sigma^2)$ we have
$$\mathbb{E}[e^{Z}] = \exp(-\frac{\sigma^2}{2})$$
Sadly I can't see how to use this knowledge, since the factor $a$ can't be brought in front of the integral. Also I can't transform the random variable, since this would involve the density as well. What am I missing?

A: $$\int_{\mathcal{R}}e^{ax}f_X(x)dx=\int_{\mathcal{R}}\frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}}e^{-\frac{1}{2}(x^2-2ax+a^2)}e^{\frac{a^2}{2}}dx=$$
$$=e^{\frac{a^2}{2}}\int_{\mathcal{R}}\frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}}e^{-\frac{1}{2}(x^2-2ax+a^2)}dx=e^{\frac{a^2}{2}}\int_{\mathcal{R}}\frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}}e^{-\frac{1}{2}(x-a)^2}dx=e^{\frac{a^2}{2}}$$

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WATCH: Beto O'Rourke Asks People to Save the Life of a Kitten By Donating
Talk about desperation. Beto O'Rourke asked people to donate $5, $10 or $15 to his failing campaign or else the kitten Miss Whiskers may not be around much longer.
This was said jokingly by O'Rourke (or was it?) while doing an interview on the stage of TribFest. It illustrates just how desperate he is.
TribFest is a three-day annual event sponsored by The Texas Tribune in Austin. It's an uber-liberal event where people like Nancy Pelosi aren't far left enough for them. Her message was met with mild approval as the super-woke crowd was looking for more.
Beto tried to make an impression with the crowd by threatening the life of Miss Whiskers.
"You know, it's kind of raising the ante or the bar for how we compete for those dollars," O'Rourke said. "I mean, I could maybe do a Facebook livestream with a kitten and, say, you know, 'Now, we don't want anything to happen to the kitten … and so, you know, send your $5 or $10 or $15 in now. And, you know, Miss Whiskers is going to be fine.'"
O'Rourke claimed he was kidding, but he also said, "I can't say it didn't cross my mind."
What a psycho!
Campaigns are really upping the ante for End of Quarter fundraising. I could do a Facebook Live with a kitten and say, "We don't want anything to happen to Miss Whiskers so send your $5." I'm not gonna do that, but if you want to donate, here's a link: https://t.co/5Qz24HzZwN pic.twitter.com/otBcHuyTu9
— Beto O'Rourke (@BetoORourke) September 28, 2019
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J.P. Donovan of Incline Village and Meghan Wolf of Reno were the fastest man and woman Saturday at the 43rd annual Ponderosa Ridge Run.
J.P. Donovan was in a familiar position on a sunny and warm Saturday during the 43rd annual Ponderosa Ridge Run — alone and out front.
Donovan, 30, of Incline Village, outdistanced a field of 18 runners to win the challenging 9.5-mile trail race from Spooner Summit to Kingsbury for the fourth time in five years. He finished in a time of 1 hour, 7 minutes, 36 seconds on a course that starts at an elevation of 7,300 feet and climbs nearly 2,000 feet in the first 4½ miles to its summit near Genoa Peak.
Donovan, honored as USA Triathlon Off-Road (amateur male) Athlete of the Year in 2014, previously won the Ridge run in 2013, 2014 and 2015.
Patrick Parsel, 31, of South Lake Tahoe finished second overall in a time of 1:12:03. Parsel formerly ran at U.C. Davis (his best 5,000 time was 14:32.30 and 30:38.32 for 10,000), sixth-place at the 2016 Tamalpa Headlands 50K (USATF Trail 50k National Championships).
Todd Rose, 44, of San Francisco finished third overall and as the first masters runner (40-and-over). Rose, 44, placed eighth in the master's 10K (33:23) in December at the USATF National Club Cross Country Championships and ran 14:37 for 5,000 meters when he was at Edinboro State College (Pa).
Ivan Lieben, 47, of San Francisco ran 1:23:40 and Andy Starostka, 49, of Reno ran 1:24:55 to round out the top five.
Meghan Wolf, 42, of Reno was the first woman to finish and 11th overall in 1:54:11. Tiffany Anderson, 39, of Reno was the second woman across the finish in 2:03:53.
The oldest finisher was Tony Cupaiuolo, 73, of South Lake Tahoe in 2:49:35.
Rick Gentry set the course record of 1 hour, 1 minute and 23 seconds in 1986.


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All Stars will launch on June 15th 2018 and will run on Friday evenings, 5-7pm. We know from experience and feedback that our children can't always easily access after-school activities and we want to change that by making sporting activities accessible to all. All Stars will offer fitness, fun and friendship to 5-16 year-olds and includes activities such as football, rugby, kurling, archery, boccia, hockey and more, as well as offering parent/carers the chance to catch up over a coffee.
It is thanks to the Remembering Nell Foundation that we are able to launch All Stars next month. Their generosity has funded our new All Stars equipment, from giant games to dodgeballs and sports nets. Nell, loved to help others, so, to build a lasting legacy to her and celebrate her life, Nell's family and friends have set up a foundation in her name. Nell's Foundation will help to improve the lives and wellbeing of young people in the North West by supporting and introducing people to new charities and we are honoured to have been chosen as one of their three nominated charities for 2018.
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Recurrence of Johnny Cueto's lat injury adds to Reds' mounting woes
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Johnny Cueto's injury struggles continued on Friday, as he had to leave his start in the second inning. [AP]
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The good news for Cincinnati is that Cueto's replacement in the rotation is rookie Tony Cingrani, who took over for Cueto vs. Texas and has thus far made seven starts in his stead this season. Cingrani has actually out-pitched Cueto on the season (3.12 ERA, 0.99 WHIP, 4.91 K/BB to Cueto's 3.21, 1.05, 2.86 in a similar number of innings) and, coming off a season in which he threw 146 minor-league innings, should be able to pitch as much as the Reds need him to going forward this year.
Indeed, the Reds' biggest problem at the moment is not their pitching but, as my battery-mate Jay Jaffe detailed Thursday, their hitting. Unable to pick up their fragile ace, the Reds were shut out by Texas rookie Martin Perez and two relievers, dropping their rate of runs scored on the month to 3.4 per game.
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Srinagar, Feb 27: The Islamic University of Science and Technology (IUST), Awantipora, has postponed all semester examinations till further orders, Controller of examination of the university said on Wednesday.
However, the Kashmir University conducted examinations which were scheduled to be held today.
In a notice issued today he said it is notified for the information of all the concerned that all semester examinations of the university have been postponed till further orders.
He said the examinations will be conducted as per the new date-sheet to be issued separately. However, no reason was given for postponing the examinations.
The university was scheduled to conduct examinations from February 26 after winter vacation from January Ist, 2019.
The Cluster University, Srinagar, had also postponed examinations which were to be held today and tomorrow.
However, the examinations in the Kashmir University (KU) were held on Wednesday as per schedule.
It is reported that due to prevailing situation in the Kashmir valley, the examinations were postponed and winter vacation in educational institutions were extended till March 2. However education institutions will reopen on March 4.


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Don has recently has co-written and Studio coached 4 songs for Charlotte Zone, with worldwide known, Vancouver based Producer/Songwriter, Adam H.
Her first single and video being released in March, 2016.
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Charlotte Zone is the youngest of four siblings, was born in London and lived in Camden Town across the street from the late, great Amy Winehouse. Although she is only 10 years old, she derives her musical inspiration from bands such as Queen, the Beatles and Billy Joel. She attends the same theatre school as film and TV star, Julie Andrews, who received wide acclaim for her role as Maria, in the Sound of Music. Interestingly enough, Charlotte found herself starring in the same show, portraying Gretl, to sold out audiences in Cairo and Beirut.
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It is one week left until Star Wars Celebration Anaheim!
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We're looking forward to meet our friend from Japan and overseas.
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with your pictures, taken by your local and area landmarks.
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Vidalia has a total population of 10,491 and a student population of 1,972. Of these students, 1,972 are enrolled in schools that offer healthcare administration programs.
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In 2010, 6 students graduated with a healthcare administration certificate from one of Vidalia's healthcare administration schools. If you decide to join their ranks, you can expect to pay an average of $2,043 per year in tuition costs.
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After graduating with your credentials in healthcare administration, if you decide to work as a healthcare administrator in Vidalia, your job prospects are good. In 2010, of the 10,570 healthcare administrators in Georgia, 160 were working in the greater Vidalia area. The government projects that the number of healthcare administrators in Vidalia will increase by 29% by the year 2018. This projected change is faster than the projected nationwide trend for healthcare administrators.
As a healthcare administrator in Vidalia, you can expect to make an average salary of $67,340 per year. This is lower than the average salary for healthcare administrators in the state.


For once, I don't think many USC fans will disagree with him.
First, I'll give the man his credit: I agree with most of what he said. The odds were stacked against the 2012 Trojans. With so much pressure to be perfect, anything less than an undefeated season would have disappointed many, so it was unlikely that the third-year coach would please everybody.
But he didn't do himself any favors along the way.
At this point, it would be quite redundant to hash through all of Kiffin's missteps last season, which went far beyond the win-loss figures. The jersey switching, the football deflating and the beatwriter banning have all been well-documented.
Kiffin's off-the-field transgressions have proved to be distractions and, if we are to believe his words, distractions were something that his players already had had enough of.
This is where many have taken issue with Kiffin. Over the course of his relatively short career, he has been called many things: petulant, arrogant and dishonest, to name a few. His reputation precedes him wherever he goes to the point that I'm not sure many people outside of his defenders at USC have any nice things to say about him.
But he has also been called something else: a good football coach. A current USC football player said just as much recently, while also criticizing Kiffin for the lack of control he had over the USC locker room. That lack of control was evidenced by the reported incident involving several players. It has been characterized as a "disagreement" by some and a "full-on brawl" by others following the loss to Georgia Tech in the Sun Bowl.
Regardless, few have questioned Kiffin's knowledge of the Xs and Os. He has excelled in that regard, as well as in recruiting. But it is in the area of managing and leading people, namely kids in their late teens and early 20s, that Kiffin appears to have failed. One needs to look no further than his comments about his own players making plans for Miami before the season even began.
For Kiffin's sake, and for USC's, he must improve in this facet of coaching. Whether or not he can remains to be seen. But admitting there is a problem is the first step in combating it, and Kiffin did that this week — a reassuring development. But his other comments were equally troubling.
Kiffin claims there was "no intent to deceive." If that is the case, then what was the intent? To see how redshirt freshman quarterback Cody Kessler looked wearing jersey No. 35?
Kiffin's refusal to budge on this topic speaks to his stubbornness, a trait that has its positives and negatives in the college football world. With national signing day right around the corner, it will most certainly be an asset in persuading high school players to come to USC following last season's poor showing. Even with scholarship reductions, Kiffin's 2013 class has already been lauded as one of the nation's best, and a strong finish will earn him some goodwill among his detractors.
But past incidents like the jersey switch will always find their way into the conversation, and as a result, forming an opinion on Lane Kiffin will never be as simple as black and white.
In the results-based institution that is college football, I believe Kiffin can succeed. He proved it two seasons ago, and I believe he can do it again. You may never consider yourself a "Lane Kiffin fan" because of his many offenses, but he doesn't need to win a popularity contest to be the right man for the job of USC's head coach. He needs better results on the field, not to convince people to like him.
But by winning more games next year, he might just be able to do both.


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Ghana's Finance Minister Kenneth Ofori-Atta escaped a vote of no confidence in parliament Thursday (November 8) after ruling party lawmakers pulled out of a vote on his handling of the country's economic crisis.
President Nana Akufo-Addo's government is currently under pressure as it negotiates up to $3 billion in bailout loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Opposition lawmakers in parliament - divided between the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) - were seeking to oust the finance minister over a series of allegations.
According to House Speaker Alban Bagbin, the opposition minority voted 136 votes in favour of censure on Thursday, meaning it did not reach the two-thirds majority required to oust the minister.
Ghana to swap local debt in fight to regain economic stability https://t.co/ZMtk1nCzrO
— africanews ? (@africanews) December 6, 2022
Majority NPP lawmakers had walked out before the vote.
President Akufo-Addo has called on Ghanaians to support his efforts to manage the crisis as inflation has reached 40% and the national currency, the cedi, has devalued by more than 50% against the dollar.
Ghana is a major producer of cocoa and gold and has oil and gas reserves, but its debt service payments have soared. And like the rest of sub-Saharan Africa, it has been hit hard by the consequences of the global pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
An IMF team is currently in Ghana negotiating the terms of a loan agreement.
Ghana's president sacks junior finance minister over corruption allegations https://t.co/WOVq0yzdnF
— africanews ? (@africanews) November 14, 2022
Opposition lawmakers had questioned the finance minister over allegations of misappropriation of public funds and "alarming incompetence and ineptitude that led to the collapse of the Ghanaian economy.
Last month the minister denied any wrongdoing in parliament, but he also apologized to Ghanaians for the hardships they were facing.
The president has the final say in removing a minister from office.
Last month, Akufo-Addo fired Finance Secretary Charles Adu Boahen after allegations of corruption.
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The reserve protects the mangroves that grow in the estuary that incoporates the rivers Cayapas and Mantaje in the north of the Esmeraldas province; in doing so it safeguards both the area's high biodiversity and the many traditions of the communities and ancient peoples in the surrounding area, who rely on the mangroves the mangroves for their livelihood. Within this protected area there are records of mangrove trees of up to 60 metres tall; considered the largest in the world. The mangroves thrive here as result of abundant nutrients and the stablility of the climate, which enjoys a small annual temperature range.
This protected area has several entrances. We recommend getting to the cities of Ibarra or Esmeraldas depending on the places that you are planning to visit.
From Quito: Take the route Quito-Calacali-La Independencia-Esmeraldas (314 km) or the route Quito-Sto. Domingo-Esmeraldas (322 km). You can also take Panamericana Norte that joins Quito with Ibarra (123 km) and then the route Salinas-San Lorenzo.
From Esmeraldas to Majagual: You arrive through the route Esmeraldas-Borbon until you reach Parroquia Las Peñas (95 km), from where you have to keep going north on an excellent road for about 12 km, until the Centro de Interpretación Majagual.
To the Tola. You arrive through the route Esmeraldas-Borbon until Parroquia Las Peñas (95 km). From here you go North to Parroquia La Tola. Here you'll find a boat service for both locals and tourists.
To Borbon. You arrive through the route Esmeraldas-Borbón (117km). from here you can enter the protected area by boat.
The reserve protects two hydrographic basins in the northwest of the country, the basin located in the North of the Mantaje River and the one on the south of the Cayapas River, from which the name of the reserve is derived. The basin of the Mantaje River is bi-national since we share it with Colombia. The Cayapas River originates outside the reserve.
Its main tributaries from inside the continent are the Santiago and San Miguel Rivers. The delta system that both rivers form at the mouth of the ocean include estuaries, canals, islands, islets, sandbanks and several types of beaches.
A notable aspect that characterizes this area is the presence of warm currents throughout the year (between 26-29 ºC or 78-84 ºF), these circumstances make the thermic fluctuation to be the least registered in Ecuadorian waters, from where they get their great climatic stability.
Camino Largo – Casa de Pargo. It is a 6.5 km long trail of medium difficulty in which tour guides are recommended to experience the natural scenery and wildlife of the area.
La Mongonera - La Trocha. 3km boat ride.
Caraño - Pichangal. 1km boat ride through the mangrove.
Sta. Rosa - El Bajito. 2km boat ride.
Guachal - Los Atajos. 3km boat ride, mangrove tour.
Changuaral - Cauchal. 1km boat ride.
For all the river routes mentioned above a tour guide is needed.
More than two thousand year ago La Tolita, one of the pioneering pre-Hispanic cultures in the art of metal melting, flourished in the forests that make up the reservation and in its surrounding areas. The metallurgy of the Tolita – Tumaco (north of Esmeraldas and south of Colombia) is considered one of the most exquisite of the continent, not only for the creativity in its designs but also for their skill in their melting, blowing, and casting metal techniques.
They are considered pioneers in the melting of gold and platinum. During the decade of 1980, the mangrove swamp was greatly affected throughout the Ecuadorian coasts due to the uncontrolled and unregulated installment of shrimp ponds; the Ecuadorian state responded and, with the means to protect these mangroves, declared them Ecological Reserve in 1995.
By doing so many afro-Ecuadorian communities that inhabit within and surrounding this area were also were greatly benefitted, given that the mangrove swamps are their main source for survival. From the ecosystem they collect conchs, clams, shells, oysters, crabs, shrimp, fish and prawns.
Mangrove swamps, given the vast and diverse amount of nutrients they receive, are generally considered to be one of the world's most productive ecosystems. Mangroves are a very special type of tree, adapted to living in saline environments. One of the defining characteristics of a mangrove tree is the strength of its roots, which need to be able to cope with the continuous pounding of the waves, much like an anchor. There are also other native species associated with the mangroves, ferms and small palms known locally as as 'ranconchales' and 'bromelias'.
Seabirds are some of the most abundant and easy to spot animals: pelicans, frigates, cormorants, herons and kingfishers, amongst many others.
Attracted by an abundance of food and nesting sites, the number of seabirds found within this ecosystem will amaze you. Less evident and more difficult to observe, are mammals including the crab-eating racoon, the nine-banded armadillo, ocelot, sloth, otter, agouti, anteater and even white-tailed deer and wild boar species.
The great attraction of the reserve are the mangroves that grow in the rivernouths at the ocean. Here, plants and animals are adapted to living in a mixutre of fresh and salt water. The mangroves are connected by canals or estuaries that also serve as access to and from the towns of San Lorenzo, Borbón, La Tola, and Valdez (Limones). The canals that are used most are El Pailón, Boca de Mataje and Bolívar. The most famous mangrove, called Majagual, is located near to San Lorenzo.
Bird island is located in front of Bolívar canal, and it is here that millions of pelicans, herons, gulls, blue-footed boobies, ducks, frigates and other birds arrive to rest or mate.
Another great attraction is the archeological site La Tolita. In the south of the reserve vestiges of the Tolita's culture have been identified; a race that lived in the area between 500 BC and 500 AD. The site also has various 'tolas', small mounds that cover the tombs where they would bury their dead along with ceramics, gold and platinum jewelry, and food that would accompany the dead on their transition to the other life.
Clothing: Light clothes and rubber boots to walk in the trails of the área.
What to Bring: Sunblock, insect repellent, camera and/or binoculars, and enough drinking water.


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HomeRemembering Herman Wouk's Bestselling Confidence And Modesty
Remembering Herman Wouk's Bestselling Confidence And Modesty
Benjamin IvryMay 17, 2019Getty Images
In the annals of best-selling authors, modesty is a rare element. The American Jewish writer Herman Wouk, who has died at the age of 103, is a happy exception to this rule. Despite his fame for the novel, play, and filmed versions of the "Caine Mutiny,", "The Winds of War," and "Marjorie Morningstar," Wouk repeatedly expressed humility, as in "This is my God," a description of his own personal understanding of Orthodox Jewish belief which mentions the much-lauded biblical scribe Ezra:
"Now my hand slows. The task needed an Ezra, and it found only this poor pen. I have done the best I could to tell my brothers that our law of Moses is great and honorable, now as when it first came to us."
Nor was Wouk's self-deprecation limited to religious subjects. In the preface to "The Winds of War," Wouk quotes from the French Jewish philosopher Julien Benda's "The Betrayal of the Intellectuals" (La Trahison des Clercs;1927):
"Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind. In this sense the most insignificant writer can serve peace, where the most powerful tribunals can do nothing."
Wouk never saw himself as one of the "most insignificant" among writers, as his self-confident production of thousands of pages of fiction attests. Benda accused 19th and 20th century European intellectuals of embracing racism, nationalism, and war; Wouk was unafraid to be classed as an anti-intellectual. The historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. termed "The Caine Mutiny" the "great anti-intellectual novel," pointing to Wouk's coda to the court-martial trial, when the Jewish defense lawyer Barney Greenwald charges that the overeducated, mutinous officers of the Caine, and not the psychotic Captain Queeg whom they deposed, were in the wrong. Greenwald explains that fighting Nazis was paramount, and "Proust 'n' 'Finnegan's Wake' and all" was less urgent. In wartime, when Nazis were rumored to produce soap from Jewish corpses, Queeg "deserved better at my hands. I owed him a favor, don't you see? He stopped Hermann Goering from washing his fat behind with my mother."
Wouk knew that his blunt, middle-brow prose style would never enchant readers in search of higher esthetic sensations. Critic Paul Fussell, while slating Wouk's "War and Remembrance" as literature for its lack of the "crucial dimension of the lunatic, the cruel, and the self-destructive," ranked Wouk alongside the acclaimed historians Samuel Eliot Morison and Basil Liddell Hart as a describer of battles. The historian Thomas Cutler wrote with quasi-embarrassment in his "The Battle of Leyte Gulf" (1994):
"My former colleagues in the Naval Academy's history department and professional historians everywhere will cringe at what I am about to say, but a truly wonderful (accurate and insightful) account of [The Battle of Leyte Gulf] is included in Herman Wouk's novel 'War and Remembrance.'"
In an essay, even the permanently snooty Gore Vidal had to admit discovering unsuspected (for him) qualities in Wouk's plain descriptions of historical characters in "The Winds of War":
"I have never before read a book by Herman Wouk on the sensible ground that I could imagine what it must be like: solid, uninspired and filled with rabbinical lore…To my astonishment, ["The Winds of War"] is splendid stuff. The detail is painstaking and generally authentic. The naive portraits of the great men convince rather more than subtler work might have done…. This is not at all bad, except as prose.'"
Only rather late in life – he was born in New York in 1915 to a family of Russian Jewish origin – did Wouk express some restive rivalry with more highbrow writers. His novel Inside, Outside (1985) about four generations of an American Jewish family features a character, Peter Quat, who wins fame by writing objectionable novels about Jews with titles like "Onan's Way." This allusion to Philip Roth's "Portnoy's Complaint" surely did not discourage Roth, who despite being eighteen years younger than Wouk, retired from novel writing before his elder contemporary. Yet it is a rare example of Wouk's usually reticent literary persona, aware of his flaws and limits, reaching to mock another writer's literary posterity which he never aimed for.
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My son was punched several times & raised his hand telling the coach-- coach said he didn't want to hear no tattling. He gets back to classroom and tells teacher--the little boy gets in trouble.
Husband's solution punch back-- son says dad that's not right. I told him to yell as loud as he can STOP!-- says he will get in trouble and have to sit on the wall. I told him shouldn't get in trouble if he stopping someone from hurting him. I told him I was proud of him for telling the teacher. If one adult will not listen tell another.
Maybe I don't want to hear the coaches side and turn a blind eye to him like he did my son. If I do have a conference I wonder if then will the coach single him out. You know you never know-- For the moment I will observe & taking note of this. I will mention it to his regular teacher. No one wants their child to tell them they been hit but, the way my son handled it was good.
Although, I think this is just the case of rough & rowdy boy, not bullying. In Bully situations, wonder how many kids was discouraged from the first adult they tried to tell. Something to think about.
Lemme say one thing that your son and you need to hear from a former public school teacher. It is the teacher and the coaches job to listen and intervene on his behalf. Coach needs to be in a conference asap. Getting punched is not whining it is assault. Every district has a no bullying policy and no child should be the victim of assault period. Every teacher signs a contract that includes clauses such as protecting the kids in their care and reporting instances to the appropriate group.
The coach is doing the boys will be boys routine and needs to get back on the program of doing his job. Good luck and tell your son to keep his head up.
my son was beaten on the playground when he was 7 an their were 3 teachers sitting on a bench an not watching,when he came home I saw he had red dirt all over his shirt,this boy who had been held back twice an was much bigger than the others pushed his face in the dirt an rubbed it in,,apparently they didnt see his little face covered in dirt either,,sooooo,I marched myself up there an pulled his teacher out of class an questioned her,an ask her how she would feel if it had happened to one of her sons,,she said she wouldnt an I told her then that IF something like this ever happened again I would go to not only the principal but the superintenant,,they are out there to watch them not sit an chat ,,,gosh I was so mad I felt like jerking her outside an putting her face in the dirt,,,but I restrained myself an it didnt happen again
My daughter was bullied and her teacher told her to go sit down and be quiet because no one likes a tattle tale. The child who was bullying my child was much bigger than her. I went to school called the teacher in the hall she was 5 foot 1 I am 5 foot 7, I wore heels that day so I would be five nine. I stood over the teacher and asked her if she felt uncomfortable having someone bigger and angry standing over her. She double swallowed said yes, I asked her what she planned to do..because I didn't think the principal liked tattletales, she turned red and said I get your point...needless to say that other child wasn't allowed to bully
Robin Quick said...
In elementary school every time my child was bullied he was told not to tattle. So when he got into Jr High & had been getting bullied for a few weeks in PE he was afraid to tell the teachers/coaches. My husband & my brother both told my son to stand up for himself & if the boy punched him again to punch back. So one day at school my son was coming out of PE and the boy walked up behind him yanked him around & sucker punched him in the nose. My son defended himself & they fought. We were called to come pick our son up. Both he & the bully got 3 days alternative school together! I was furious! The Vice Principal said if he had known about the bullying that it would have been stopped. My husband that just so happened to have gone to school with the VP said "You know as well as I do that telling on people only gets you bullied more. You know like you did me when we were kids." The VP's face turned red & he stammered around & said " Well kids will be kids." I let him know that I was furious that my son had to go to Alt school for defending himself! They even made them sit right next to each other at Alt. school! When I complained about that I was told "They have to learn to get along." I told the school that if anything happened to my son I would hold them accountable & what happened to my son was assault & I would press charges if it happened again! Bottom line is, if kids "tattle" they get bullied & if they defend themselves they get in as much trouble as the bully does. So what are our kids suppose to do, stand there & get the crap beat out of them? Its up to us parents to force the school to protect our kids! So if your child is bullied do whatever it takes to make sure the school follows policy and enforces the zero tolerance policy against bullies!
jamie braun said...
i have a 12 year old daughter, and thank god, we havnt had to deal with this situation yet. im hoping if & when it does happen, that the adult listens. ts sad, what happened to your son


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Countries That Spend the Most on Health Care
Michael B. Sauter
Last Updated: March 30, 2020 5:53 pm
5. Luxembourg
> Total expenditure on health per capita: $4,808
> Expenditure as % of GDP: 7.8% (7th least)
> Annual growth of total health expenditure: +8% (6th most)
> Life expectancy: 80.7 years (tied for 12th highest)
Health care expenditure in Luxembourg is $4,808 a year, or 7.8% of national GDP. This is the greatest decrease among OECD countries. Of that, public expenditures account for 84% of the total, the eighth-highest rate among OECD countries. The country's system faces some difficult challenges in offsetting unhealthy lifestyle choices. For instance, Luxembourg has the highest annual rate of alcohol consumption at 15.5 liters per capita.
4. Netherlands
> Expenditure as % of GDP: 12% (2nd most)
> Annual growth of total health expenditure: +16.4% (the most)
> Life expectancy: 80.6 years (14th highest)
Health care costs in the Netherlands amount to $4,914 per person each year. The Dutch health expenditure is equivalent to 12% of the nation's GDP — the second greatest relative health expenditure of every nation in the OECD except the U.S. Total expenses jumped by 16.4% between 2008 and 2009, the most among OECD nations. Despite this increase, total out-of-pocket expenses per capita are just $227 per person, the fourth-lowest in the OECD.
3. Switzerland
> Expenditure as % of GDP: 11.6% (5th most)
> Annual growth of total health expenditure: +2.8% (17th most)
> Life expectancy: 82.3 years (2nd highest)
Switzerland currently spends the third most on health care per capita, or the equivalent of 11.6% of the country's GDP. Switzerland has one of the most privatized health care systems in the world, with 30.9% of expenses coming out of pocket. Because of the wealth of country, this comes to $1,650 per person, more than double every country in the developed world except the U.S.
2. Norway
> Expenditure as % of GDP: 9.6% (16th most)
> Annual growth of total health expenditure: +8.4% (4th most)
After its neighbor, Denmark, Norway has the most nationalized health care system in the developed world. Of the country's $5,352 expenditures per person, 84.1% are covered by the public sector. Access to health care in the country is high. There are approximately four physicians per 1,000 people, the third most in the OECD. Despite the high percentage of total costs covered by the public, the nation's residents still pay more than $800 per person on health care.
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1. United States
> Expenditure as % of GDP: 17.4% (the most)
> Annual growth of total health expenditure: +2.2% (14th least)
The U.S. has, by far, the highest total expenditure on health care per capita. America spends approximately $2,600 more per person annually than Norway, the second-highest spender. Only 47.7% of this amount is public expenditure — the third-smallest percentage among developed countries. However, the actual amount of public spending, $3,795, is among the highest. The U.S. also spends the largest amount on pharmaceuticals and other medical nondurables. The country has fairly low rates of doctors and hospital beds relative to its population. It also has the eighth-lowest life expectancy, at 78.2 years.
–Michael B. Sauter, Charles B. Stockdale
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Charter lawyer: City cannot pass language regulations on private signs unless it's a reasonable limitation for a justifiable social need.
Oct 20, 2014 6:19 PM By: Graeme Wood
Coun. Chak Au stands next to an almost entirely Chinese advertising board at a bus stop near city hall. Au feels the signs are symptomatic of a more complex cultural issue.Graeme Wood/Richmond News
Is mandating private business owners to put some English on their signs a reasonable and proportional limit to their right to freedom of expression under Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedom?
This is the question that Richmond City Council would need to explore following extensive public consultation, according to a law firm that specializes in constitutional rights.
Monday, at a general council meeting, city councillors unanimously agreed to a resolution directing city staff to conduct broad public consultation, including consulting business owners and multicultural community groups, in addition to investigating the "effects foreign language signs have on community harmony."
To be justified in enacting a language-specific sign bylaw, the city would need to establish there is a "compelling or sufficiently important issue" to be remediated and that the proposed regulation is both "proportional to the issue to be remediated and only minimally impairs freedom of expression," according to lawyer Sandra Carter of the Valkyrie Law Group.
She said the Supreme Court of Canada would be more likely to restrict freedom of expression if the city engaged in public consultation to determine the scope of the issue, if there was one to be found.
"To be justifiable as a limit on a Charter freedom, the city would need to establish that compelling health, safety, economic and social welfare objectives are at stake," noted Carter in a letter to the city.
Furthermore, the city would need to prove, with a "strong factual basis," that resolving the problem could not be done without a bylaw.
As such, councillors agreed to investigate the issue more. Mayor Malcolm Brodie and Coun. Harold Steves expressed opinions that the city had not done enough to educate the public to date.
Phyllis Carlyle, the city's manager of law and community safety, noted in a report that 31 — or about 3.5 per cent — of all new signs in the city over the last three years have been solely Chinese, while 15.8 per cent were mixed. Notably, the study didn't indicate the size and context of the signs.
At issue are non-Chinese-speakers, including Chinese-Canadians, feeling like Richmond, or at least a large portion of north Richmond, is exclusionary.
"It's much more than those 31 signs," said Coun. Evelina Halsey-Brandt, who requested a motion last week at city council to investigate the legalities of enforcing some form of English (or French, presumably) on signs that fall under the existing sign regulation bylaw.
"It's a social issue. There's a segment of the population feeling disenfranchised," she added.
Carter noted the city would need to have the regulatory authority to enact such a bylaw.
Carter noted there is no direct authority granted by the Community Charter (municipal constitution) to regulate content on signs. And according to a letter from MLA John Yap's office, dated March 2012, "there is no provincial laws regulating the inclusion or exclusion of languages on signs, including any part of the Local Government Act."
If reasonable measures are taken for a justifiable objective, Carter suggested case law may favour a language bylaw in Richmond.
Carter pointed to a recent case in Russell, Ontario whereby the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld a sign bylaw requiring both French and English, in some form, on signs.
A businessman wanting to put up English-only signs had challenged the township.
The court ruled the bylaw violated the man's Charter rights.
"Freedom of expression consists in the absence of compulsion as well as an absence of restraint," the court noted, citing the Supreme Court of Canada, according to the National Post.
However, the court also said the violation was justifiable under section one of the Charter, as the violation was a reasonable limit.
The court accepted expert opinions that that "the bylaw indicates that the French language has value in the community outside of schools and family life."
In other words, as Carter noted, the court ruled the bylaw addressed the social welfare of the township.
Carter said more analysis would be required to determine whether a B.C. court would reach the same conclusion.
She did not mention how Richmond's case is different in so much that the city is dealing with a non-official language.
Of course, these legal questions would only arise should they be challenged in court. The city could pass a bylaw requiring English or French on signs and theoretically have it go unchallenged.
But Brodie, a lawyer by practice, said he would anticipate a challenge.
Richmond already compels business owners to voluntarily address official languages on signage through its social development strategy, although Steves suggested this hasn't been carried out on the ground.
The BC Civil Liberties Association said regulating signage on the basis of language would "constitute an unwarranted and unjustified encroachment upon the freedom of expression of Richmond residents and people doing business in the city."
The Richmond Chamber of Commerce asserted market forces should let the matter settle itself.
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IV. The Development of Piano after Cristofori's Death
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After Cristofori's death, other instrument builders made piano in radically different sizes and shapes, as well as mechanisms unlike Cristofori's.
Silbermann made improvements on the Cristofori piano based mostly on Johann Sebastian Bach's criticisms of it in 1736-that the action was heavy and unpredictable, and the tone of the treble too weak. Silbermann introduced the damper stop using hand-stop to the piano. The stop raised all the dampers at once, so that the player could obtain more resonance. When Bach played on Silbermann piano eleven years later at the court of Frederick the Great in Potsdam, he seemed satisfied enough with the improvements made and even signed his name as agent on the sale of a Silbermann piano to Count Branitzky of Bialystok.
Cristofori's pianos were the size and shape of a harpsichord, though their mechanism was radically different. As the piano became more popular, the piano-makers began to make adjustments to the harpsichord-shaped piano to make it more adequate to new needs.
The square piano was made in 1742 by the German maker Johann Söcher, although it was Silbermann's pupil Ersnt Christian Friederici who was often credited with its invention. The square piano has a close similarity in appearance to clavichord except for the heavier metal strings, strengthened frame and the hammer action of the former. It was Johannes Zumpe who adopted and popularized the square piano in London.
During the 1770's, the design of grand pianos took different directions between London and Germany. Since public concerts account more for the professional performance on the piano in London, English piano makers pursued greater power of sound. In Germany and Austria, the piano was mostly performed in courtly gatherings. The Germans strive for greater fleetness and subtlety in the response of the instrument to the player's touch. Aside from this major difference, there were also important differences in the design of the case, the stops and other features.
The English designers gave their action a direct-blow design instead of Cistofori's intermediate lever. The action was modified by Robert Stodart in 1777. It was adopted later by John Broadwood in his grands in 1785 and became the standard in English and some French pianos for about one hundred years.
The English grands generally had two stops namely a damper lifter and a keyboard shift or una corda. These stops were activated by pedals which were attached to the front legs of the instruments, with the damper pedal on the right and the una corda on the left. Later the pedals were attached to a frame under the middle of the keyboard.
At about the same time, on the other side of the Continent, Johann Andreas Stein introduced the Stein action which came to be known as the Viennese grand action. This action was lighter, more responsive to touch thus making it more conducive to subtlety of expression than the English action.
For stops, German and Viennese makers used knee levers, tucked inconspicuously under the front of the case below the key board. After 1800, they switched to pedals, after which they also increased their stops, sometimes reaching up to seven. There was a buzzing "bassoon" stop, a muting "moderator" stop, a thumping and jingling military stop among others, aside from the two basic damper lifter and una corda stops.
Both the English and German grand pianos grew in range and size. By the beginning of the 20th century however, piano manufacturers favored the English tradition over the Viennese in action design as well as choice of stops.
Pianists, however, complained that the English action was stiff and could not give rapid repetition. Sébastien Erard, a leading French piano manufacturer, patended in 1821, a design he called "repetition" or "double escapement" action. With Erard's design, pianists no longer need to choose between the power of the English action and the speed of the Viennese action. This action was improved upon by pianist and piano manufacturer Henri Herz in 1840. It later became the standard in grand piano action.
The upright piano, an up-ended grand, was developed and patented by William Stodart in 1795. Its main advantage was that it does not take up as much floor space as the grand piano. The English upright rested on a stand of table height such that the top end almost reaches the ceiling. The German and Austrian counterpart of an upright was called the "giraffe." Unlike the English upright, these pianos had cases extending down to the floor, making it more stable with no loss of instrumental quality. At the turn of the 19th century, the stand of the English upright was dispensed with altogether, allowing the instrument to rest squarely on the floor. The early upright was enclosed in rectangular cabinets, with the vacant space within, above the shorter treble strings, fitted with shelves to hold music, books, spirits or knick-knacks.
The upright and square pianos were also being designed to emulate the touch and sound of grand pianos. The upright was built as big as a grand to capture the advantages of its large soundboard, long strings, and the resulting full tone. But the enormous expansion of the piano market in the 19th century depended on the creation of smaller pianos. In 1836, Robert Wornum of London developed the "cottage piano," which stands less than four feet in height. To fit the strings of a length that would give a decent tone in the shortened case, he hung the strings diagonally. Henri Pape of Paris built an even smaller upright in the late 1820's, only about 36 inches high. To achieve a tone approaching that of a grand, he devised a scheme of "cross-stringing," wherein the longest bass strings ran diagonally from lower left to upper right, while the shorter treble strings ran in the opposite direction and the longer ones crossed above the others. The bridge for the lower strings was also located where they would resonate more richly. This innovation was eventually adopted in grand piano design, to make them sound even grander.
Meanwhile, an escapement for square pianos was developed. In 1786, John Geib, patented an action for the square that contained the intermediate lever that made the actions of Silbermann's pianos so responsive. To keep up with the grands, squares were also built bigger, with wider key boards, heavier hammers, thicker strings, and louder tone.
Early pianos had wooden frames. Pianos of different shapes showed strains of increased tension in different places. Squares tended to warp upwards at the right front and left back corners due to the diagonal arrangement of the strings. Grands, especially the English and French grands, tended to warp at the right cheek, where the case curves inwards. German and Viennese grands tended to warp less because of their sturdy A-frame bracing.
The increased tension on strings brought about by the demand for ever louder sound for pianos, coupled with the ease with which pianos went out of tune, lead to the development of the iron frame to address the need for a stronger frame. Alpheus Babcock introduced the iron frame in 1825. The iron frame is considered to be the most significant development in the history of piano technology. With the iron frame, the string tension could be increased without the accompanying problems as in a wooden frame. But the piano suffered from an unpleasantly metallic tone, even with the improved version of Jonas Chickering in 1840. This problem was overcome with Steinway's introduction in 1855 of the Overstrung Scale, a system whereby the bass strings crossed over the others in a fan-like pattern. The iron frame was first use in square pianos and then in grands in 1840.
The Overstrung Scale introduced by Steinway to grand piano, was adopted from cross- stringing developed by Henri Pipe. Steinway, aside from cross-stringing, incorporated several previous innovations by other builders and which were pioneered in squares and uprights: Babcock's one-piece iron frame; the split bridge invented by Broadwood; the felt-covered hammers pioneered by Henri Pape; the agraffe, a method of securing strings at the tuning-pin end used by Erard; and the full present day range of seven octaves. Together, these innovations produced the Steinway sound that set the industry standard-louder, richer and more blended than previous piano sounds. It also became the sound that manufacturers of smaller pianos tried to emulate.
By 1860s, most European piano manufacturers stopped making squares, and the Americans followed their lead by the end of the century. Only the uprights and grands were continued to be produced. Although the grand defined the ideal sound for all pianos, it was the upright that dominate the market
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