A study by one of the biggest publicity firms in Tunisia (if not THE biggest) states that a Tunisian watches TV for three hours a day in average. Source
No wonder why the 22,74% of Tunisians who never read a book said they have no time to read. Source
Feed in tariffs are an effective instrument to promote renewable energies. I made this presentation for the module "Environmental Economics", it is a case study about the very revealing German and Spanish markets. I am very curious to see the outcomes of the Tunisian feed in tariff policy (introduced in February 2009). I recommend to see the slideshow in fullscreen. You can use the data and the findings after getting written permission and if you cite the source in your references.
This 9 year old boy is officially an engineer. He got his certificate as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), which means that he is a specialist of Network applications. Marko Calasan, from Macedonia, is a very funny character with a loot of self confidence :)
Hello folks, the dead laptop has been successfully replaced by a refurbished Macbook, so no more excuses for dooming the blog. From now on, the minimum is 3 posts per week! Cheers from Paris! Amin
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La réforme fiscale prévue durant la période 2010-2014 prévoit, entre autres, la mise en place d’un régime de restitution de la taxe sur la valeur ajoutée au titre des achats effectués par les touristes étrangers en Tunisie.
Whyyyyyyyyyyy???? As if Tunisia was not attractive enough for foreign (mainly european) tourists to do shopping, or as if we had more money than needed.
Isn't in enough that we are selling holidays for less than the cost to ensure some foreign currency, now we decided we've had enough of the currency, come for less than the cost and dont pay taxes!!!
I really can not get the point of such a law and I would be grateful to anyone who can explain...
A pure loss of time, the movie is done with all the stupidity on earth!
The scenario is shallow, the acting is so amateur, too bad Sir Connery is part of the cast, and the details are so much changed and ommitted: only the cliches are kept...
A recommendation by two of my dearest friends, and the first book originally written in arabic I read in long time.
It is the story of four or five generations of one family who used to live in Granada after the reconquista. The story starts with the surrender of Granada's king, and ends a century later, when the castalians ordered the complete epuration of Andalucia from the arabs.
The story is touching and sad, and it wont let you insensible to its events, you will sympathize with the characters, and live some amazing trips, attaching anecdotes...
It is very well written, and I recommed it to everyone who wants to read a good book, but I have to warn you that when you will reach the end, you will feel a bit melancholic...
Everywhere on Internet (especially Facebook) and in the media, the headline event is the murder of the muslim woman inside a German court by a German citizen.
The German government is saying that this is a single case, the guy was an unstable fanatic, and full stop.
In Egypt however, the case is taken much more seriously and millions are feeling offended, they are screaming to the increasing islamophobia, called the murdered woman the "Headscarf martyr" and asking for maximum sanctions for the killer.
People are angry and saying that the sign of this "islamophobia" is the murder of the woman... I am of course sad and I feel compassion for her familly, (especially the husband and the little daughter), but I still think that it was a single incident...
Lunatics and psychos exist everywhere, and a few years ago, a German policewoman was stabbed in the neck inside a German police patrol car, she died centimetres away from her colleague.
Was there a xenophobic act that day?Yes!
Was it the murder of the woman?No!
What was it?
When the German police entered the court to save the situation, they saw a blond guy with a knife covered with blood in his hand, an agonizing woman (18 stabs)on the floor, and her husband, also stabbed and screaming from shock and pain,, first thing the German policeman thinks: looks arab = danger ! And he shot the victim in his leg, assuming that the blond guy can not be the bad guy, and it is the other who looks more like a terrorist who should be the criminal!!!
That was the revolting act that day, and that is THE proof of xenophobia (I don't want to use the term "Islamophobia").
There were two victims that day: the woman and the man. The death of the woman can be described as a single case, but the man who was 100% innocent and who was shot by the German police (dont tell me they are psycho or fanatics) is definitely a victim of negative stereotypes and xenophobiaa. And this is much much worse than the murder of the woman by the killer.
If we should be angry, AND WE SHOULD!, then we should be angry of the German police acts, and not of the unemployed psycho!!
If anyone is still mad at the blond criminal more than at the German police, then he definitely is shortsighted, not to say an idiot! People! please open your eyes wide and put your fingers on the right signals!!!!
Risk doesn’t mean danger—it just means not knowing what the future holds. That insight resides at the core of risk management for companies, whether in managing the potential downside of an investment or putting a value on the option of waiting when making irreversible decisions. In this video Peter L. Bernstein also explains why in the real world the most sophisticated mathematical models can sometimes fail.
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