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Welcome to the Simon Bolivar Spanish School - Ecuador
Simon Bolivar Spanish School is just the right place to learn Spanish in Ecuador.
The superb quality of its services and the professional and extensive experience of its teachers provide the right combination for a unique language learning program. Our mission is to promote the outstanding natural and cultural diversity of Ecuador to the international community through teaching Spanish.
Learn Spanish in one of the Best Schools in South America
While you will find dozens of different schools in the country, Simon Bolivar Spanish School is definitely the leader, being one of the oldest and most successful Spanish schools in the region. Over the years, we have built up a team of talented and experienced teachers who offer the perfect Spanish learning experience that suits your individual needs. Our friendly staff will always do their best to answer all your questions and requirements promptly and efficiently.
Courses are available from a few hours per week to intensive programs of one-to-one Spanish lessons at the colonial Andean cities of Quito and Cuenca. We also organize one-week programs to the amazing Amazon Jungle and the relaxing Coastal area. Group lessons are also available for beginner levels.
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Our schools in Quito and Cuenca offer varied fun extracurricular activities, such as tropical dancing, cooking or cocktail lessons, movies, soccer games, as well as lectures about the culture, history and idiomatic expressions of our country, and many others. Out of town trips to other cities, towns and national parks are organized during the weekends.
In addition, with our On-line Spanish Lessons we apply the same excellent methods we use for our individual lessons, same professional teachers & our well established curriculum.
It all adds up to a complete and personalized service that will exceed your expectations
Simon Bolivar Spanish School is highly recommended by our students and many independent organizations. We invite you to explore our webpage for more information about our programs, rates, pictures and comments from former students.
We can help you arrange a tour to the Galapagos Island as well to de Amazon Jungle. You can contact us to have more information!


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Former paratrooper Jaidee jumps into three stroke lead in Durban
FORMER paratrooper Thongchai Jaidee jumped into a three-stroke lead over Ernie Els and Louis Oosthuizen when the Volvo Champions began at a wet and windy Durban Country Club today.
However, it was not the Thai golfer's superb seven-under-par 65 that Els found himself mostly talking about afterwards, but one particular shot from Belgian Nicolas Colsaerts.
The Open champion could not believe his eyes when Europe's biggest hitter launched a drive of 419 yards at the downwind third hole.
"I've been coming here since 1986 I think and I've never seen a ball there, nobody has," Els said.
"They should put a plaque down. I was coming from a different zip code. And I've got to compete against these animals!"
Els had the last laugh, though. He matched his playing partner's birdie and out-scored him by five to keep his victory hopes firmly alive.
Jaidee, part of the 33-strong winners-only field thanks to his victory at the Wales Open last June, was out on his own from the time he birdied six of the first 10 holes.
The 43-year-old led by five at one point, but that was cut to three late in the day despite the two South African stars having to contend with heavy rain.
"We probably got the bad side of the draw, but that's part of golf," said Oosthuizen, who faced similar conditions during his runaway seven-shot win in the 2010 Open at St Andrews.
He and Els still had the advantage of local knowledge, however. Jaidee is on his first-ever trip to South Africa.
"I enjoy the course," he said. "You have to think a lot - I hit the driver on only two holes - and put a three-iron in my bag only 15 minutes before we teed off."
Seven players share fourth place in the race for a first prize of almost £283,000.
Scottish trio Paul Lawrie, Richie Ramsay and Scott Jamieson all shot 69, as did Welshman Jamie Donaldson, England's Danny Willett, Dane Thomas Bjorn and Indian Jeev Milkha Singh.
Lawrie got the better of playing partner Colin Montgomerie by three after an unusual start to their round.
There was a 10-minute hold-up on the opening green because the flagstick was stuck in the hole and damage was caused in yanking it out.
"I've never seen that before," said Lawrie, who then came close to winning a £32,000 excavator when his six-iron tee shot to the 170-yard 15th hit the flag, but stayed out.
Jamieson knows only too well what the weather can be like in the city. It was only last month that he won at nearby Royal Durban in an event reduced to 36 holes because of rain.
Padraig Harrington began his 2013 with a 70, but Paul Casey - winner in Bahrain two years ago, but unable to defend last year after dislocating his shoulder snowboarding - could do no better than 74 like Jose Maria Olazabal and Darren Clarke was one worse than that like defending champion Branden Grace.
Clarke's fellow Northern Irishman Michael Hoey would have shared second spot with three closing pars, but instead double-bogeyed the 16th and 18th for a 72.
Hoey reckoned he had drunk too much water. "I felt bloated and lost so much concentration," he said.
The former British amateur champion will need his focus back for the second round. Amateurs from the final of the Volvo World Challenge join the action for one day only.


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Welcome to the HZB User Facilities
The Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB) operates two large scale research facilities: the upgraded medium flux research reactor BER II on Lise-Meitner-Campus in Berlin-Wannsee and the third generation synchrotron source BESSY II on Wilhelm-Conrad-Röntgen-Campus in Berlin-Adlershof. In addition, it is home to a number of state-of-the-art on-site laboratories and HZB CoreLabs. All these research facilities are designed to serve researchers from universities, foreign research institutions and industry.
Please note: BER II operation will cease end of 2019
User Facilities User Access BESSY II and BER II
BER II offers a complete set of continuously renewed instruments for neutron scattering and imaging with thermal as well as cold neutrons. Unique research opportunities are provided due to a continously expanded world-leading sample environment for complex neutron experiments under extreme conditions, e.g. at highest magnetic fields and lowest temperatures.
BESSY II provides ultrabright photon beams from the long wavelength Terahertz region to hard X-rays with complete control of the polarization of the radiation and energy range. The combination of brightness and time resolution makes BESSY II the ultimate microscope for time and space, since both femtosecond time and picometer spatial resolutions are available.


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Located at the top of Italy's heel, the ancient, gritty port of Bari has become one of southern Italy's most prosperous cities in recent years. Once considered slightly rough, Bari's horn-shaped medieval old city and handsome waterfront, the Lungomare, have been beautifully restored and many visitors now linger here before heading for the beaches and historic towns nearby.
Bari has been around for 2,500 years, a history on show in sights such as the Romanesque St Nicholas's Basilica, the Castello Svevo fortress and the 19th century Teatro Petruzzelli. Beyond its many monuments, Bari is also a very pleasant place to relax, browsing the food and crafts at Bari Market, drinking in the increasingly chic bars of the old city or tucking into local dishes such as squid linguini or rice baked with potatoes and mussels. Bari's location in the north of the province of Puglia means its backyard is also one of Italy's most beautiful and least discovered areas. Near the city are the rocky coves of the Tremiti Islands, the bone-white hill town of Ostuni, the cave city of Matera and the huge white sand beaches of the Salento area, as well as peaceful villages of trulli, Puglia's distinctive cone shaped traditional houses.
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DETROIT, April 22 (UPI) -- Damien Brunner had a goal and an assist and Jimmy Howard notched a shutout Monday, helping Detroit stay in the playoff hunt with a 4-0 win over Phoenix.
Brunner set up Johan Franzen's tally 2 1/2 minutes into the first period and then found the net himself late in the frame, putting the Red Wings on the path to a key victory.
Franzen added an empty-netter while Valtteri Filppula also scored and Henrik Zetterberg supplied three assists in the win.
Howard turned aside all 34 shots he saw en route to his fourth shutout of the year for Detroit, which moved within one point of a Western Conference with three games to play.
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Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings cruised past Jennifer Kessy and April Ross for their historic third consecutive beach volleyball gold medal Wednesday.
The legends won as they usually do, in straight sets, 21-16, 21-16, and secured their place as the greatest ever.
"Misty and I have something really special. The world knows it, we know it, and we embrace it," Walsh Jennings told NBC.
U.S. & World
They finished their third Olympiad undefeated, losing only one set in 21 total matches.
May-Treanor and Walsh Jennings won on a long serve by Ross. They both fell to the sand, then began celebrating.
May-Treanor began doing a funky jig to rival the scantily clad cheerleaders who entertain the sold-out crowds and the Olympics' iconic venue during timeouts, the Associated Press reported.
The victors hugged their family and friends in the stands — although not May-Treanor's husband, Matt, a Los Angeles Dodgers catcher who was watching on a computer from the team's clubhouse — and high-fived just about everyone holding an American flag, according to the AP.
"It's insane. It doesn't feel like it's real," Walsh Jennings told the AP. "I told Misty when we were getting our medals, 'If I wake up tomorrow and we have to replay this match, I'm going to be furious.' Because it feels like I'm in a dream. It truly feels surreal and it didn't feel like that the first two times for whatever reason. But this, it's almost too good to be true."
Wednesday's match marked the first time that an Olympic beach volleyball final pitted one American duo against another. Ross and Kessy settled for silver, which they accepted with the knowledge that they lost to a pair of women who have been about as close to perfect as possible.
"They're the best team of all time," Kessy said.
Early in both sets, the teams traded one-point leads. Kessy and Ross arguably had the advantage in power, with top serve speeds in the 70 mph range, a good 20 mph faster than May-Treanor and Walsh Jennings. But the defending champions played a much better finesse game, and Kessy and Ross were unable to match their opponents' skill at placing shots into open sand.
Despite the lopsided score, the 40-minute gold medal match illustrated America's continued dominance in the sport, which was born on the sands of Southern California and became an Olympic sport in 1996. Since then, U.S. teams have won six of nine gold medals in the men's and women's divisions.
Wednesday's match not only made history, but also marked the end of an era. May-Treanor plans to retire, breaking up an 11-year partnership.
"I'm a little speechless right now, because I can't believe this is my last match," May-Treanor told NBC. She said she's going to keep watching Walsh Jennings, who will now search for a new partner.
May-Treanor and Walsh Jennings became a team before the 2004 games in Athens, where they steamrolled over their opponents without losing a single set. They did the same in 2008 in Beijing. The straight-set streak ended in London, where they entered competition ranked third in the world. They lost their first set to a team of Austrian sisters, Stefanie and Doris Schwaiger, in preliminary rounds.
Then the steamrolling continued.
To reach the finals, May-Treanor and Walsh Jennings beat the second-ranked team, Zhang Xi and Xue Chen of China. Kessy and Ross, who entered the Olympics ranked fourth, beat the top-seeded team, Larissa Franca and Juliana Felisberta Silva of Brazil, in a semifinal thriller.
The Brazilians won the bronze medal match in three sets over the Chinese earlier on Wednesday.


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IRBIL, IRAQ: Iraqi Army units backed by Shiite militias battled Islamist insurgents for control of the Iraqi city of Tikrit for a second day on Saturday in a fight that�s critical to government efforts to regain control of the country.
Both sides tend to exaggerate progress in combat, leaving the situation unclear beyond widespread reports of heavy fighting. Tens of thousands of local residents fled, claiming their neighborhoods have been bombarded by government helicopters.
A Sunni tribal leader told the Associated Press that commandos held portions of Tikrit University and an airfield once used by the U.S. Army during its 2003 to 2011 occupation of Iraq, but that the rest of the city was still under the control of fighters allied with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
With much of central, western and northern Iraq in the Islamic State�s hands, the central government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has been pushing infantry and Shiite militias to secure a major north-south highway that leads to Baghdad and that has been largely under ISIS control since June 11.
Official military spokesmen claim that the army and its militia allies have broken the siege of Samarra to the south of Tikrit and now control not only the highway but the outer suburbs of Tikrit as well.
Iraqi Army spokesman Gen. Qassim Atta claimed that ISIS was withdrawing in the face of assault. �Reports and surveillance show that ISIS leaders have ordered a retreat,� he said.
But pro-ISIS Twitter accounts claim the offensive has stalled outside Samarra at a heavy cost to the government forces.
Samarra was one of the few cities in north central Iraq not to fall to ISIS during an onslaught that began June 10 with the surprise collapse of the Iraqi army in Mosul, Iraq�s second largest city. As ISIS forces quickly swept south, the Iraqi government reinforced Samarra with Iraqi commandos and Shiite militia, in part to protect a venerated Shiite shrine whose bombing in 2006 touched off years of sectarian violence. But Tikrit fell to ISIS, which claimed it had slaughtered 1,700 Shiite soldiers it captured there.
Securing Tikrit, Saddam Hussein�s hometown where opposition to Maliki is strong, would be both a symbolic and a strategic victory. A defeat there, however, would likely trigger both more questions about Maliki�s ability to continue to lead Iraq and more questions about the competence of the Iraqi military, as much as half of which is unable to conduct operations, according to recent military briefings.
The Tikrit fighting began Thursday with a helicopter assault on the city�s university area by commandos from a unit that reports directly to Maliki. It was followed by the dispatch of Iranian-trained Shiite militiamen who seized tall buildings in the university area. Elsewhere, shelling by ISIS troops in Mosul of nearby villages controlled by forces loyal to the Kurdistan Regional Government sent refugees fleeing into the autonomous Kurdish region.


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Transplant surgery
Human heart from Robert Moss, who received a heart transplant in August 2000
The journey of a transplanted organ
Transplant surgery is dramatic, complex and fast. The clock starts ticking as soon as an organ is removed from a still-living body, placed carefully in a special cold container and then transported at speed to the seriously ill patient waiting for the replacement organ. Some organs are transported many miles by ambulance, or even by helicopter, as the organ will start to deteriorate unless it is transplanted quickly.
Early transplantation attempts from 1908
Surgeons have been experimenting with transplantation techniques for many years. Alexis Carrel came up with a method to transplant organs as early as 1908, but many of his experiments failed as organs transplanted from one animal to another were eventually rejected.
New drugs lead to successful transplants from the 1950s
The first successful transplant - of a kidney - occurred in 1953. The organ was not rejected because donor and recipient were identical twins and therefore genetically identical. However, new drugs such as cortisone, which appeared in the 1950s, and ciclosporin, which arrived on the scene in the late 1970s, were developed to lessen the problem of rejection. Combinations of drugs are now used to prevent rejection in transplant patients.
Christiaan Barnard and successful heart transplantation in 1967
The most famous transplant surgery occurred in South Africa in 1967 when Christiaan Barnard carried out the first heart transplant. The patient, Louis Washkansky, lived for 18 days with the heart of a 25-year-old woman beating inside him. This may now seem like a short time, but it was a major breakthrough. So extraordinary was this event that it was celebrated the world over. Yet by 1984 the procedure had become almost commonplace and even children were receiving heart transplants.
Replacement surgery - implants
Implants are mechanical body parts that are inserted by orthopaedic surgeons when the original parts have worn out, a process which is known as replacement surgery. Often they take the place of joints that have worn out due to age or disease.
The development of transplantation from the 1950s to the present day
In the second half of the 1900s, the options for transplant surgery continued to grow. Artificial hearts have been with us since the 1950s. Since the late 1970s it has been possible to offer some deaf people the chance to hear with the aid of cochlear implants. In 1981 the first successful heart-lung transplant was performed in Stanford. Despite this, replacement surgery remains a highly technical and very specialised profession. Its success also depends on the availability of suitable organ donations, and in many places in the world there are not enough to meet the demand. This can raise serious ethical questions and, some fear, lead to the body being treated as a commodity.
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J Anderson, F Neary and J Pickstone, Surgeons, Manufacturers and Patients: A Transatlantic History of Hip Replacement (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007)
C Barnaard, One Life (Cape Town: Harold Timmins, 1969)
R Calne, `History of Transplantation', The Lancet, 368 (December 2006), pp 551-552
K Jeffrey, Machines in Our Hearts: The Cardiac Pacemaker, The Implantable Defibrillator and American Health Care, (Baltimore: John Hopkins, 2001)
D Joralemon, `Organ Wars: The Battle for Body Parts', Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 9/3 (September 1995), pp 335-356
Novels and Patient Experiences:
A Kelley, The Bower Bird (Luath Press, 2007)
T Stark, Knife to the Heart: The Story of Transplant Surgery (London: Macmillan, 1996)
Surgical operation to introduce organ or tissue from one person (the donor) to another (the recipient). It may also refer to the transfer of tissues from one part of a person's body to another part of the same person's body.


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Accueil du site Doctorat Allemagne 2008 Dynamics of soil processes under extreme meteorological boundary conditions - response of below-ground carbon, sulfur, and iron cycling in fen soils
Titre : Dynamics of soil processes under extreme meteorological boundary conditions - response of below-ground carbon, sulfur, and iron cycling in fen soils
Auteur : Knorr, Klaus-Holger
Université de soutenance : Universität Bayreuth
Grade : Doktor der Naturwissenschaften (Dr. rer. nat.) 2008
Northern peatlands store approximately 30 % of the global soil carbon stocks. On the other hand, peatlands contribute about 3-10 % to the global methane burden into the atmosphere. Climate predictions foresee not only an increase in the global mean temperature, but also a change in precipitation patterns. As peatlands critically depend on hydrological conditions, a change in precipitation distribution is likely to affect the carbon sink and source function of peatlands. Thus, these ecosystems have become the focus of an increasing number of studies over the past decades. Low water table levels, high temperatures, and a higher nutrient availability were mostly found to increase respiratory activity, but to reduce methane production and –emission. Existing studies, however, investigated changes in average environmental conditions in the long term, while the impact of extreme weather on peatland elemental cycles is still uncertain. Moreover, most studies do not provide a mechanistic understanding of the redox processes underlying the response of peatlands to fluctuations of the water table level. Based on laboratory studies, a thermodynamically constrained competition of the different terminal electron accepting processes for common electron donors was postulated. A detailed validation of this concept under natural or near-natural conditions is, however, still lacking to date. Furthermore, the processes that renew alternative electron accepting capacity during drought are still not yet understood. Fens were also identified to be notable sources or sinks for arsenic. The close association of arsenic with the iron- and sulphur-dynamics – and thus redox dynamics during fluctuations of the water table level in general – is already known. Nevertheless, there exist hardly any study investigating arsenic dynamics and solid phase associations for fens. The main objective of this work was therefore to study the effects of more pronounced drying and rewetting events on redox processes of carbon, iron, and sulphur – and concomitantly arsenic – in an electron acceptor rich fen-ecosystem. In contrast to some existing studies, we could not find a notable effect of the drying/wetting treatment on the overall carbon budgets of the peat. There was an obvious effect of drying/wetting on respiration within the soil, increasing drastically during drought, but the net carbon budget was by far dominated by the autotrophic activity of the vegetation (55-65 %) which was hardly affected by the treatment. Due to the drought event, methanogenesis was effectively suppressed in the unsaturated part of the profile and re-established after rewetting only after a notable time lag of some weeks. This suppression of methanogenic activity – in the laboratory and in the field approach – could successfully be explained by a reoxidation of reduced iron and sulphur compounds, providing alternative electron accepting capacity during and after drought. Only after depletion of alternative electron acceptors, methanogenic conditions could re-establish. Locally, however, in micro-environments especially in the uppermost, intensively rooted layers, methanogenesis re-established even before alternative electron acceptors had been depleted. Based on the obtained data, we propose the high availability of easily degradable organic material, a still high water content, and poor aeration of the peat to responsible for this observation. These factors could support a local depletion of alternative electron acceptors and methanogenesis could thus occur in locally distinct micro-environments. The analysis of the isotopic composition of the dissolved CO2 and the methane produced suggested that the methane was formed via the CO2-reduction pathway with H2 as the electron donor. This pattern was not affected by the drying/wetting treatment. Exceptionally high isotope fractionation factors suggested thermodynamic conditions to be quite unfavourable for methanogens. This coincided with the observation that most of the peat was likely structured in small micro-environments of locally distinct redox conditions and the rapid switches between methanogenic and methanotrophic conditions. The arsenic dynamics under variable redox conditions generally followed the dynamics of ferrous iron, especially in the intensively rooted uppermost soil layers. Coincidingly, a major part of the arsenic was found in the reactive iron-hydroxide fraction, readily available for microbial reduction. Although the total arsenic content in the solid phase was comparably low in the fen under study, concentrations of arsenic exceeded common drinking water standards mostly by far. Methylated arsenic species did not play a noteworthy role in this fen and the immobilization of arsenic in sulfidic phases during reducing conditions was also negligible when compared to mobilization from iron-hydroxide reduction.
Mots Clés : Biogeochemistry , climate change , peatlands , methane , arsenic
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President Barack Obama's response to increasing evidence of chemical weapons use in Syria seems to have as much to do with Baghdad as with Damascus.
The ghosts of the Iraq War weigh heavily on the president and his top advisers handling the Syria crisis, according to former officials and analysts close to the administration: They don't want to get it wrong. They don't want to move too quickly. They don't want to spend the second term getting embroiled in toppling another Middle East dictator and cleaning up the aftermath after spending the first term getting untangled from the last war.
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Thursday, the administration joined Israeli and European intelligence in saying there was some evidence that President Bashar Assad did use sarin. That left them balancing all those concerns against Obama's repeated vows that the use of nerve agents or poison gas by Assad's regime would be a "red line" and a "game changer" that would force the U.S. to have a stronger reaction to the ongoing conflict than it's had for over two years.
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"It has to be a factor," Greg Craig, who served as a foreign policy adviser on Obama's 2008 campaign and as his first White House counsel, said when asked about the impact of the Iraq history. "He does not want to jump to conclusions or shoot from the hip."
As officials consider the U.S. intelligence community's assessment that chemical weapons were likely used in Syria, Obama aides have firmly in mind Central Intelligence Agency Director George Tenet's 2003 statement to President George W. Bush that it was a "slam dunk" to conclude that Iraq had nuclear weapons. No such weapons were ever found.
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A White House official who briefed reporters on the Syria issue Thursday never used the word "Iraq," but the lingering impact of that conflict was clear.
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The challenges that U.S. troops did find in Iraq are also a key factor — perhaps the central factor — in Obama's wariness about getting more deeply involved in Syria by directly arming rebels or setting up a no-fly zone. After some predicted American troops would be greeted with roses, the conflict turned out to be a quagmire that took the U.S. five years to extract itself from — and played a central role in delivering Obama to the Oval Office.


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The four football-playing members of the University Athletic Association have been accepted as affiliate members of other conferences and will have access to automatic bids in future seasons.
Carnegie Mellon and Case Western Reserve will join the Presidents' Athletic Conference as affiliate members in football starting with the 2014 season, while Chicago and Washington U. will join the recently formed Southern Athletic Association starting in the fall of 2015.
The UAA has just four teams playing a conference football schedule, not enough to receive an automatic bid. The conference is eligible for Pool B bids but has not had a team in the playoffs since 2009.
As a result of the cooperative efforts of the three conferences the four UAA schools will continue to play each other once they begin their affiliate memberships. Carnegie Mellon, Case, Chicago, and Washington will continue as full members of the University Athletic Association in their other sports.
"We have been working hard for several years to address the challenges of maintaining a consistent, reliable football schedule against institutions with similar academic and athletic standards and program philosophies given that we have four football-playing members," said UAA executive secretary Dick Rasmussen. "The affiliation of our members with the PAC and SAA is a win-win for everyone, especially our student-athletes. These affiliations will provide our institutions and our student-athletes the kind of consistent and challenging football schedule we have been seeking."
"On behalf of the entire conference, I would like to welcome Carnegie Mellon and Case Western Reserve football back home to the PAC," said Joe Onderko, PAC Executive Director. "Head coaches Rich Lackner at CMU and Greg Debeljak at Case, along with their respective coaching staffs, have each built quality Division III football programs that are widely respected and should instantly raise the level of competition in the PAC to new heights. In addition, both programs share the PAC's commitment to the highest level of student-athlete academic success and development."
The PAC will be playing an unbalanced schedule at that time, with eight conference games and two non-conference games. Case and Carnegie Mellon will be playing the same 10 teams every season, the eight PAC games, Chicago and Wash U.
Debeljak welcomed the opportunity to compete for an automatic bid. "Having just gone through a 9-1 season and not making the playoffs I know our kids were a little disappointed. Competing for an automatic bid is certainly a possibility as we go forward."
"Washington University is honored to affiliate its football program, effective with the 2015 season, with the newly formed Southern Athletic Association," said Wash U. athletic director John Schael. "We have a history with several SAA member institutions dating back to 1962 when the Bears were a member of the former College Athletic Conference. It will be nice to reconnect."
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MosambikMozambique is a country in Southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest.
The capital city is Maputo formerly known as Lourenço Marques.
Between the 1st and 5th centuries AD, Bantu-speaking peoples migrated from farther north and west. Swahili and later also Arab, commercial ports existed along the coasts until the arrival of Europeans.
The area was explored by Vasco da Gama in 1498 and colonized by Portugal in 1505. Mozambique became independent in 1975, and became the People's Republic of Mozambique shortly thereafter. It was the scene of an intense civil war lasting from 1977 to 1992.
Mozambique is endowed with rich and extensive natural resources The country's economy is based largely on agriculture but with industry, mainly food and beverages, chemical manufacturing, aluminium and petroleum production, is growing fast.
The country's tourism sector is also growing. South Africa is Mozambique's main trading partner and source of foreign direct investment. Portugal, Spain, and Belgium are also among the country's most important partners. Since 2001 Mozambique is one of the world's top ten for annual average GDP growth. However, Mozambique still has one of the lowest GDP per capita, one of the worst human development index and one of the highest inequality in the world, as well as having the world's lowest life expectancy.
The only official language of Mozambique is Portuguese with roughly half of the population speaking it as a second language and few as a first language. Languages widely spoken natively include Swahili Makhuwa and Sena The largest religion in Mozambique is Christianity, with significant Muslim and African traditional religious minorities. Mozambique is a member of the African Union, Commonwealth of Nations, the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, the Latin Union, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and Southern African Development Community.