What if Google Morphed Into GoogleOS? What if Google expanded on its search-engine (and now e-mail) wares into a full-fledged operating system? [via Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley ] (And, by the way, is anybody else just a little nostalgic for the days when that was a good thing?) This BuzzMachine post argues that Google's rush toward ubiquity might backfire -- which we've all heard before, but it's particularly well-put in this post. Google is a nice search engine. Does anybody use it for anything else? They own blogger, of course. Is that a money maker? I'm staying away from the stock. I doubt the very few who actually read my blog have not come across this yet, but I figured I would put it out there anyways. John Donovan from Argghhh! has put out a excellent slide show on what was actually found and fought for in Fallujah. Click here To view it. He makes some good observations on a few of the pic's. One of the pictures shows a flag that was found in Fallujah. On the next two pictures he took screenshots of two beheading video's. Compare the flags to the Fallujah one. You have to see these slides....they are amazing. This Fallujah operation my turn out to be the most important operation done by the US Military since the end of the war. Let me join the chorus of annoyance over Google's new toolbar , which, as noted in the linked article, commits just about every sin an online marketer could commit, and makes up a few new ones besides. I'm not fond of the Google-hates-privacy argument (You don't need to use their site, you can opt-out of sharing your information, you don't need to send stuff to anyone with a Gmail account, and if -- wonder of wonders -- you're worried that you might send something to someone who would forward an excerpt to someone who would then store it on a Gmail account... you have far, far too much time on your hands). However, this toolbar is really bad news. On the other hand, it looks pretty cool. Iran says it is creating nuclear energy without wanting nuclear weapons. The United States doesn't believe the Iranian Government. One can suspect the Iranian Government. But there is no proof . I read an Article in Time magazine accusing the Iranian Government of being willing to start a nuclear war and I sympathise with the Article. They are certainly being nasty to the United Nations Security Council in connection with the anti-proliferation treaty. The President has also said he would like to see Israel wiped off the map which he couldn't even begin to try without nuclear weapons. But he has insisted that he wants nuclear power for peaceful purposes. Many people want to use diplomacy with Iran rather than military pressure. But will diplomacy work? And can anyone use military pressure without proof? One reader pointed out that the President watched the Americans in the embassy when they took them hostage. He has denied this. We don't have to believe him. But we can't prove it. It does seem that Iranians frequently make statements and then hide behind lack of proof. Angry crowds chanted anti-American slogans in the western city of Falluja (pop. 256,000) as the security police killed in a friendly fire incident by US troops were buried on Saturday. Reuters reported that "Sunni clerics in the town issued a 'Declaration by the people of Fallujah' condemning the deaths of the security guards and police, announcing three days of mourning, and calling for a general strike today." It read, "The people of Fallujah condemn the massacre which was committed on Friday against people dedicated to the protection of Fallujah. Let aggressive (American) leaders and soldiers know that we are capable of protecting the city's security and safety, and ask them to lift their hands from the city." The clerics demanded talks with local US commanders. Falluja has long been roiled by tense relations with the US soldiers there, since local Sunnis either remain committed to Arab nationalism or have become Sunni fundamentalists or even radicals. Cities such as Falluja received special treatment from Saddam and enjoyed a disproportionate share of the country's wealth and power. They know that the American advent implies for them a demotion, and an elevation of the Shiites and Kurds, and they refuse to go quietly. See http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=97508 The Supreme Court announced its ruling today in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld divided along idelogical lines with John Roberts abstaining due to his involvement at the D.C. Circuit level and Anthony Kennedy joining the liberals in a 5-3 decision that is 185 pages long. The actual vote is a little confusing. Stay with me now: John Paul STEVENS delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts I through IV, VI through VI-D-iii, VI-D-v, and VII, in which KENNEDY, SOUTER, GINSBURG, and BREYER joined, and an opinion with respect to Parts V and VI-D-iv, in which SOUTER, GINSBURG, and BREYER joined. BREYER filed a concurring opinion, in which KENNEDY, SOUTER, and GINSBURG joined. KENNEDY filed an opinion concurring in part, in which SOUTER, GINSBURG, and BREYER joined as to Parts I and II. SCALIA filed a dissenting opinion, in which THOMAS and ALITO joined. THOMAS filed a dissenting opinion, in which SCALIA joined, and in which ALITO joined as to all but Parts I, II-C-1, and III-B-2. ALITO filed a dissenting opinion, in which SCALIA and THOMAS joined as to Parts I through III. It will take me a little while to read the whole thing, but I rarely agree with a John Paul Stevens opinion. I'll post highlights from the opinion and dissents when I'm finished. Important news such as President Bush's miniscule calibrations on his marriage amendment/anti-gay (update: he's not against gays in the bedroom, just at the altar, where of course their relationships should not only be frowned upon but should be constitutionally excluded) has pushed Sudan not just off the front pages, or the A section, but out of the NY Times and Washington Post completely. I had to go to the BBC for this report . It's symptomatic, I suppose, of our fast-paced, 24 hour news-cycle lives, that the biggest short-term humanitarian crisis in the world would quickly be eclipsed, once our Secretary of State was finished with his whirlwind tour, from the newspapers. It's just disappointing. Most troubling, however, is the fact that the political will to end the crisis expressed a few short weeks ago seems to have ebbed. At that time, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan demanded steps be taken to end the ethnic violence in Darfur within 48 hours. Two weeks later, and the violence continues. The African Union is clearly not up to the task of keeping the peace, pledging 300 troops to an area that will need 15,000, according to analysts. And international donors have given only half of the relief aid that Darfur needs, according to the local UN officials. So hear we are, two weeks later, after that dazzling PR display two weeks ago by Powell and Annan, and the situation on the ground in Darfur appears basically unchanged. Warren Buffett is giving away 85% of his wealth , mostly to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It's a move that really worries me; Buffett's usual justification for keeping most of his money was that he was still compounding the value of his fortune at a pretty high rate, so any gifts now would mean significantly less money for the foundation later. It's a little hard to parse, but at this point his ostensible view is that the Gateses are very good money-redistributors, and he wants them to have the money as soon as possible. Which essentially sounds like he's worried that Bill or Melinda are going to die soon. I assume his actual reason is that he's worried that Berkshire Hathaway just can't grow quickly enough to justify his usual charity policy. I'm not sure how the market will react. It doesn't change the company's intrinsic worth, and as the article notes, the company might be added to a major index once the shares get more liquid. On the other hand, this is essentially a statement that the company is overpriced from the guy who knows it best -- and happens to be the best investor of the last century. em ... no ... the Gates foundation mainly invests in medical research and education, that means donating now adds a tremendous value compared to donating in ten years. Because the 10.000.000 people dying from malaria will otherwise be dead. i.e. He's not giving 85% away, he's giving a number of shares each year that decrease in number at the rate of 5% a year (until gone?). He mentions his wife's death having an effect on him. It sounds pretty rational that he's saying that Bill and Melinda are at a prime spot, so starting the money hose now is a good idea, but Buffet is still keeping most of his donation inside of Berkshire where it will compound. Bill over at The Fourth Rail has an excellent essay on how the MSM and the UN, even the leftist countries in Europe, are basically accepting terrorist organizations as legitimate forms of a political party: On the same day Palestinians protest in support of Hezbollah and Syria , the terrorist group Hamas has indicated it will participate in the scheduled upcoming Parliamentary elections . To the north in Lebanon, there is serious debate within Hezbollah about entering the Lebanese political process in light of Syria's promised withdrawal. Syria has agreed to withdraw under the conditions set forth in UNSC Resolution 1559 , which has already begun . UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has indicated it is time to "recognize Hezbollah" after easily being duped by "the message on the placards they are using". This acceptance of blatantly terrorist groups as legitimate freedom movements is a cancerous tumor on the United Nations and the media. Over three years after 9-11, the United Nations, despite their attempts to project strength in fighting terrorism , still cannot properly define the word "terrorist" , waffling over the issue of whether the murder of innocent civilians are terrorist acts. The media routinely obscures the lines between terrorism and legitimate resistance, as the recent article by Daniel Okrent of The New York Times demonstrates . ... The decision to sidestep the obvious to satisfy the need to avoid confrontation does not bring peace, but only delays the eventual conflict as the predators of Hamas and Hezbollah exploit the inherent weakness of the internationals and the media. I've been fuming over this fact for a few weeks now, ever since some organizations and governments suggested we need to accept the fact that Hezbollah will get involved in running Lebanon. Wtf is this? This is a terrorist organization plain and simple. This is the organization that bombed our Marine barracks in 1983, took Americans hostage throughout the 80's and now they should be considered a legitimate organization? This is just another reason to never trust the MSM, and certainly not the Europeans. The Iraqi Islamic Party lead by Muhsin Abdul Hamid, has been among the few Sunni Muslim groups willing to cooperate (even if rather lukewarmly) with the Americans. It is now threatening to pull out of the Allawi caretaker government. The IIP had also been the main force urging Sunni Arabs to participate in the elections scheduled for January, and had been opposed in this stance by the Association of Muslim Scholars. That the Iraqi Islamic Party is now contemplating leaving the Allawi government raises the question of whether a mass Sunni Arab boycott of the elections is in the offing, thus fatally weakening the legitimacy of any new government. Az-Zaman : The Association of Muslim Scholars forbade Iraqis to participate in the attack on Fallujah with the Americans. In a communique, the AMS said that for Iraqis to take part with "raiding forces" in the assault on a city, the population of which is Muslim (such as Fallujah) would be considered the most mortal of mortal sins. The Sunni AMS told Iraqis, "You sinned when you participated with occupation forces in the assault on Najaf, and beware lest you repeat this same sin in Fallujah. Remember that the Occupation is emphemeral." The radical Shiite Sadr movement issued a statement forbidding the participation of Iraqi troops in the attack on Fallujah, as well. The statement said, "We direct an appeal at the men in the Iraqi forces, whether national guards or others, the majority of whom are Muslim, calling upon them to refrain for commiting this enormous sin under the banner of forces that do not respect our religion or any principles of basic humanity, and we ask them to view this war as illegal." It called a "ploy" the assertaion that the attack was merely on foreign fighters at Fallujah. The convergence of views among the more militant Sunni Muslim clerics of AMS and the radical Shiites of the Sadr movement has been seen before, last spring during the initial US assault on Fallujah and during the US attack on Mahdi Army militiamen in Najaf. Most Shiites, however, are still reluctant to take major risks to support the Sunnis of Fallujah, many of whom had supported Saddam and his anti-Shiite pogroms. President Bush pinched a few nerves yesterday with his choice of words: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Muslim groups criticized President Bush on Thursday for calling a foiled plot to blow up airplanes part of a "war with Islamic fascists," saying the term could inflame anti-Muslim tensions. U.S. officials have said the plot, thwarted by Britain, to blow up several aircraft over the Atlantic bore many of the hallmarks of al Qaeda. "We believe this is an ill-advised term and we believe that it is counterproductive to associate Islam or Muslims with fascism," said Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations advocacy group. Which is why he didn't say we're at war with Islamic people. We're at war with Islamic fascists. By using the word "Islamic" as an adjective Bush was purposely not associating Muslims with fascism, hence the qualifier. And if you haven't heard by now, the roster of suspected terrorists has not a Tom, Dick or Harry among them: Umir Hussain, 24, London E14 Muhammed Usman Saddique, 24, London E17 Waheed Zaman, 22, London E17 Assan Abdullah Khan, 22, London E17 Waseem Kayani, 28, High Wycombe Waheed Arafat Khan, 24, London E17 Cossor Ali, 24, London E17 Tayib Rauf, 21, Birmingham Ibrahim Savant, 26, London E17 Osman Adam Khatib, 20, London E17 Shamin Mohammed Uddin, 36, Stoke Newington Amin Asmin Tariq, 23, London E17 Shazad Khuram Ali, 27, High Wycombe Tanvir Hussain, 24, London E10 Umar Islam, 28, (born Brian Young) High Wycombe Assad Sarwar, 25, High Wycombe Abdullah Ali, 26, London E17 Abdul Muneem Patel, 17, London E5 Nabeel Hussain, 21, Waltham Forest Lest you be confused with the suspects from an earlier plot foiled in Canada a few months ago: Fahim Ahmad, 21, Toronto; Zakaria Amara, 20, Mississauga, Ont.; Asad Ansari, 21, Mississauga; Shareef Abdelhaleen, 30, Mississauga; Qayyum Abdul Jamal, 43, Mississauga; Mohammed Dirie, 22, Kingston, Ont.; Yasim Abdi Mohamed, 24, Kingston; Jahmaal James, 23, Toronto; Amin Mohamed Durrani, 19, Toronto; Steven Vikash Chand alias Abdul Shakur, 25, Toronto; Ahmad Mustafa Ghany, 21, Mississauga; Saad Khalid, 19, of Eclipse Avenue, Mississauga. We've got a Steven, the one word that didn't crash my spell-check, despite it being followed by a Vikash Chand Abdul Shakur. Folks, if it's Islamic, and fascist, it's an Islamic fascist. But because we don't want to sound hateful we must pretend everyone's a possible suspect and make airline travel more miserable than it's ever been. On the internet site of Monotheism and Holy War (al-Tawhid wa al-Jihad) , the group allegedly declared, "We announce that the Tawhid and Jihad Group, its prince and soldiers, have pledged allegiance to the sheikh of the mujahideen Osama bin Laden." This pledge is a new development. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his group are said to have been bitter rivals of al-Qaeda during the Afghan resistance days. One witness at the Moutasaddiq trial in Germany alleged that Zarqawi had not allowed Monotheism and Holy War to share resources with al-Qaeda in the early zeroes of the 21st century. If the statement is true, it is a worrying sign that even the divided small radical guerrilla groups are being "picked up" by al-Qaeda. This consolidation is obviously a result of Bush's aggressive invasion of Iraq and of the botching of the aftermath. It is a setback for the war on terror. Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan was a group of only a few hundred "Afghan Arabs" who pledged personal loyalty to Usamah Bin Laden. It could notionally be expanded to encompass the 5,000-strong "55th Brigade" of the Taliban regime, though this is not the technical definition. Because Usamah is Saudi, my guess is that they were especially influenced by an extremist form of the Wahhabi school of Islam that predominates among Saudia's some 15 million citizens. In 1998 they were joined by Egyptians from the al-Jihad al-Islami group of Ayman al-Zawahiri (many of these were from Upper Egypt, especially Asyut and environs). After that point, al-Qaeda was a joint enterprise between the Egyptian extremists and the polyglot Arabs around Bin Laden, only some of whom were Saudi. Zarqawi is a Jordanian, and his Monotheism and Holy War group in Afghanistan probably had a distinctive coloration as mainly Jordanian, Palestinian and Syrian. They also had a special connection to some extremists in Jordan and Germany. They are probably especially oriented toward the Salafi school of modern Islamic thought, which has a Protestant-like emphasis on going back to the original practice of the early companions of the Prophet Muhammad. (Most Salafis are not militant or violent, though they tend to be rather narrow-minded in my experience, on the order of Protestant Pietists). Monotheism and Holy War obviously does have a violent interpretation of Salafism, rather as the the leaders of the so-called German Peasant Rebellion among early Protestants did. Another worrisome sign is that local Iraqi Sunni fundamentalists opposed to the US presence in Iraq have begun joining Monotheism and Holy War, and wearing its distinctive orange and black insignia. These have been sighted among Iraqi crowds on Haifa Street in Baghdad and in Samarra. So now there are hundreds of al-Qaeda members in Iraq where there had been none before. The consolidation of smaller local radical fundamentalist groups with al-Qaeda can also be seen in the case of the Fizazi group in Tangiers that morphed into the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group , had members who met with September 11 ringleader Muhammad Atta, and ultimately was in part responsible for the Madrid train bombings. The September 11 Panel will issue its findings on Thursday. It notes 10 points at which the US made key mistakes that might have stopped Bin Laden's plot. Four of these were under Clinton and 6 under Bush. Bush came out today and said that if he had known what was coming, he would have expended every effort to stop it, and that so would have Clinton. This statement is, despite its facade of fair-mindedness, so many weasel words. Of course Bush would have tried to stop 9/11 if he had known it was coming. The question is, "Should he have known it was coming?" The answer is, "Yes!" We now know that Bush and his administration came into office obsessed with Iraq. Cheney was looking at maps of Iraq oil fields and muttering about opportunities for US companies there, already in January or February of 2001. Wolfowitz contradicted counter-terrorism czar Richard Clarke when the latter spoke of the al-Qaeda threat, insisting that the preeminent threat of terrorism against the US came from Iraq, and indicating he accepted Laurie Mylroie's crackpot conspiracy theory that Saddam was behind the 1993 World Trade Towers bombing. If you believe crackpot theories instead of focusing on the reality--that was an al-Qaeda operation mainly carried out by al-Gamaa al-Islamiyyah, an Egyptian terrorist component allied with Bin Laden-- then you will concentrate on the wrong threat. Even after the attacks on September 11, Bush was obsessing about Iraq. Wolfowitz lied to him and said that there was a 10 to 50% chance that Iraq was behind them. (On what evidence? The hijackers were obviously al-Qaeda, and no operational links between al-Qaeda and Iraq had ever been found). Rumsfeld initially rejected an attack on al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan, saying there were "no good targets" in Afghanistan. (What about 40 al-Qaeda bases that had trained the 9/11 hijackers and other terrorists gunning for the United States??) The Pentagon did not even have a plan for dealing with Afghanistan or al-Qaeda that it could pull off the shelf, according to Bob Woodward. Bush did not have his eye on the ball. Neither did Cheney, Rumsfeld, or Wolfowitz. They were playing Captain Ahab to Saddam's great white whale. Imperial Hubris makes the case that lots of people in the CIA and counter-terrorism divisions elsewhere in the US government knew all about Bin Laden and the threat he posed. They were from all accounts marginalized and not listened to. Bush demoted Dick Clarke, among the most vocal and focused of the al-Qaeda experts, from his cabinet. Dick could never thereafter get any real cooperation from the cabinet officers, who outranked him, and he could not convince them to go to battle stations in the summer of 2001 when George Tenet's hair was "on fire" about the excited chatter the CIA was picking up from radical Islamist terrorists. As for the Clinton administration, let me say one thing in its defense. Clinton had worked out a deal with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in summer of 1999 that would have allowed the US to send a Special Ops team in after Bin Laden in Qandahar, based from Pakistan. I presume you need the Pakistan base for rescue operations in case anything went wrong. You also need Pakistani air space. The plan was all set and could have succeeded. But in fall of 1999, Gen. Pervez Musharraf made a coup against Nawaz Sharif. The Pakistani army was rife with elements protective of the Taliban, and the new military government reneged on the deal. Musharraf told Clinton he couldn't use Pakistani soil or air space to send the team in against Bin Laden. Look at a map and you try to figure out how, in fall of 1999, you could possibly pull off such an operation without Pakistani facilities. Of course, you could just go in by main force. But for those of you tempted in that direction, please look up Carter's Tabas operation. It should be easily googled. Clinton tried, and tried hard. The gods weren't with us on that one. that is how i want you to refer to me as "the king" i don't think so. i'm the king yeah sounds exciting. want to go to dinner with me before you have your 'matt time'? probablyl gonna just kick it you know, whatever. i will let you know later. what are you doing tonight. like what? i can think of a few things your retarded. i used to have one. they are great dogs. cockerspaniels are retarded. why do you think i should get one of those? can't believe you left last night. nice sarcasm. that's fine, i don't want to see you either, i just need to make a cd. i can't wait i was thinking somewhere that requires a jacket, like tony's. someplace that is like $30 an entree. yeah, i was thinking somewhere like mcdonald's. that may be too nice though. what do you think? we can go somewhere nice. real nice. oh. my bad. i must have had you messed up with some other girl i made the bet with. bet? really, i have no idea what you're talking about. you must be thinking of someone else. i don't even like a&m, i wouldn't bet on them. colorado beat texas a&m. i know you remember the bet. no. i got her number though. i want to hook up with that girl paige in the brown leather jacket. what happened to you? i had a blast that night. did you hook up with that blonde chick saturday night? no i am not lying. i flew here last night. are you lying? i am out of town. i am in portland. you can buy me dinner when we get back. i am sure they are. houston won't be too affected b/c most of the layoffs affect satelite offices. economy should be good here. hopefully she doesn't hose you. I'll probably start looking next weekend. I heard that more may be going up for sale in the next month or do. Someone told me that Chase is planning a shitload of layoffs. I am not sure how reliable that is, though. she is waiting to see if she can get financing. Mike McConnell 07/06/2000 14:57 John, Hello from South America. I just got your email and I certainly concur with Jeff making the call. He has maintained a good relationship with Mulva. This was a risk that we had but we did have assurances from Phillips regarding performance. I don't know how much it will help however. Richard Harper and Mary Nell Browning may have some ideas here but I am sure you've already gone through it with them. I am amazed how the details get fuzzy on an old project. When you discussed it, i was trying to think back to our remedies and discussions but the 3 years have made it difficult. I don't know if there is anything I can do but I'm always willing to help. Good luck, Mike These guys tried the Ken Lay route. Now they are part of your working group. Hilary E. Ackermann Goldman Sachs Credit Risk Management & Advisory Phone: 212-902-3724 Fax: 212-428-1181 E-Mail: hilary.ackermann@gs.com Dear Mr. Lavorato: Following up on your and Ken Lay's conversation with Gary Cohn, I would like to forward the following proposal, acting for each of Goldman Sachs Capital Markets and J.Aron. Hilary E. Ackermann Goldman Sachs Credit Risk Management & Advisory Phone: 212-902-3724 Fax: 212-428-1181 E-Mail: hilary.ackermann@gs.com Not going well Hello Louise, I know you must be going nuts with all the events, so I have not called. Hope you will be sorted. Call me if you have time. M Please update daily Louise, There are only two counterparties at this time who have overdue margin: Original Margin Call Margin Due Today Kinder Morgan $ 3,500,000 $ 1,250,000 AEP $19,250,000 $38,750,000 ------------------------------ Totals $22,750,000 $40,000,000 Please let us know if you need any additional information. Stephanie not sure, but i assume that the bluegrass songbook is mine. is it for guitar? I'll need to ponder. I'll try to get back to you pronto. FYI. We have this report? Hi David: Thought that you might be interested. Best, Jeff Well, he launched today. Have you seen the materials from the press conference that he launched today? I think this is actually a good thing--makes our proposal look like a much more preferable alternative by comparison, makes our support in the process more important, and sets Harvey up as the Ralph Nader equivalent in the election to fix California's broken system---a potential spoiler. Hi. Well, wouldn't you know it. I'm not driving tonite, but I bet that we could hitch a ride back with Anil. I'm not sure, but I think that he's got class tonite, too. I'll search him out before class or after that break and see if I can set it up. daily dose on enron - we are finished. i need to now get a job at house of pies b/c that is the only way to pay the bills. the economy is down and when enron collapses, the energy industry is going to be in a world of hurt. not to mention the market is going to be flooded with enron folks . can't go to anymore lsu games unless i get a free ticket. Since work has gone to hell, I am hoping to find some excitement in the possibility that LSU may play in the Cotton Bowl (if Rohan "Alabama" Davey shows up for the next 3 games.) However, do not purchase tickets until it is a done deal - a lesson I learned following the Ark game last season. http://www.theadvocate.com/sports/story.asp?StoryID=16473 http://www.theadvocate.com/sports/story.asp?StoryID=16475 http://www.nola.com/lsu/t-p/football/index.ssf?/lsustory/lsunotes08.html http://www.nola.com/lsu/t-p/football/index.ssf?/lsustory/secnotes08.html http://www.nola.com/lsu/t-p/football/index.ssf?/lsustory/lsufoe08.html i have stronger will than you think. house of pies here i come. i am sure i could have persuaded you to give me some action. why is enron blowing up? i didn't want you to go. i was just going to sleep anyway. i was too tired to give you any action. enron is blowing up. Vince, We are still trying to work the PSE swap transaction, now that the forex desk has been able to find a fix for CPI in the market. Further to my voicemail, our colleagues in credit are calculating the reserve on the PSE swap. They are currently using 9.5% fixed based on the 1 year implied volatility. Volatility of USD/DM has been in the range of between 7% and 11%. Can one of your research staff justify a suitable 20 year volalatility number for USD/Euro. Ideally, we would like a fast turnaround. In addition, is there someone who could consider the correlation between US CPI and the $/euro exchange rate. The credit guys are currently assuming that there is no correlation and may consequently be double dipping the credit reserve on this basis too. Grateful for any help or suggestions you could provide. Sid Vincent, I met you at the Risk conference last week in Houston. I enjoyed your presentations very much. I was wondering if you could give me some references regarding the calculation of correlation coefficients from a GARCH model. Thank you. Magali Van Belle Consultant PHB Hagler Bailly MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMIC CONSULTANTS PHB Hagler Bailly, Inc. (202) 828-3933 direct dial 1776 Eye Street, N.W. (202) 296-3858 facsimile Washington, D.C. 20006-3700 mvanbell@haglerbailly.com e-mail Andrew Edison@ENRON 06/02/2001 10:53 AM I have settled the Ecogas/Enron/Randy Maffett lawsuit. No need to thank me,just send me gifts. Seriously, I talked this morning with Tom Hall and we agreed that Ecogas would pay him $53,000. Hall has agreed to release Enron, Ecogas, Maffett and every affiliate, related party and subsidiary. He will also release any and all patent issues. The goal is for him to move on with his life and for us to move on as well. I have asked Doug Daniels to prepare the settlement papers reflecting such an agreement. Please handle. Becky Stephens@ENRON 06/12/2000 10:20 AM Richard, below is a list of oc invoices sent to you for approval on 5/30/00. Please verify receipt at your earliest convenience. Thank you for your help in tracking these invoices. Holland & Hart, LLP; #432785 dated 4/14/00 Michael L. Beatty & Associates, PC; #10461, #10469 & #10468 dated 5/28/00. Becky A. Stephens Litigation Unit, Enron Corp. 713/853-5025 EB4809 I am on board. If the PX comes back again, I will call their in-house attys. Christian Yoder/ENRON@enronXgate 06/04/2001 05:54 PM Can you pass this along to Elizabeth to ensure Sanders is on board as well? We are renewing our L/C's on a month to month basis for the PX per Sanders. However, the request below is to "replenish" the CASH that was drawn down...please advise. I agree with Steve's position stated in his separate e'mail. Don't give these guys a penny.----cgy Tracy, Do we have concerns here. We pointed out to the PX that there was excess credit. By using collateral to pay these bills are we not keeping required levels available? Sara, Attached below is Davis Thames' presentation regarding the proposed Project Bruin. I will forward the draft Bear Stearns term sheet separately. Paul Team, sorry for the delay on getting this around. Please advise when you can meet to discuss issues related to your area. Thanks - Davis Clint: I spoke with Mike Collins [203-719-8385 (phone) and 203-719-7031 (fax)] who conrfirmed to me that the cap included the remaining 2.5+million remaining shares. Please return an executed copy of confirm to me. Thanks. sara My assistant Joanne Rozycki has cell, car numbers to reach me. I'll be back on Monday. Sara Shackleton Enron Wholesale Services 1400 Smith Street, EB3801a Houston, TX 77002 Ph: (713) 853-5620 Fax: (713) 646-3490 Thanks. SS Sara, Currently we have a blank "sample" for our Paragraph 13s which are attached to our sample ISDAs for (a) US Corporate, (b) Hedge Funds, (c) Municipal. I will extract the one for the US corporate Paragraph 13 and email to your contact @ First Union Securities. The sample includes our "caveat", so it should be fine. Susan Susan: While Tanya is reviewing credit, can you please send a "blank form Paragraph 13" for this master. Just our standard. Caveat: subject to credit review even though there are blanks. Thanks. Sara First Union Securities, Inc. Hi Sara, I just wanted to follow up on whether you will have a chance to send a draft Credit Support Annex (similar in form to the one previously executed with ENA). I understand you may not have credit approval yet so perhaps we can leave the appropriate sections blank in the meantime. Thanks and regards, Vijay K. Suchdev Vice President Equity Derivatives First Union Securities, Inc. Telephone: (212) 909-0951 Facsimile: (212) 891-5042 email: vijay.suchdev@funb.com Michael Olsen@ENRON 12/07/2000 02:29 PM Daren, I was wondering if it would be OK for me to sit in with you one day to get a general feel of your end of the process. Pat had told me before he left that it would help me better grasp the process as a whole. I understand the imminent cold weather is making things crazy, so now may not be the best time to be in your way. But let me know if I can spend a day, morning, or even just an afternoon down there with you whenever it is a good time. I think it will help me very much in my role. Thanks. Mike The new fixed price deal with Equistar is #365013. D Daren We just did a deal for the rest of the month for 10,000/d at meter # 1552 QE-1 @ $4.355 .... can you let me and Robert Lloyd know what the sitara # is? Thanks Melissa, I show that we also had 20.000 at LS HPL for the 13th. Daren August 11,2000 Teco Tap 108.333 / HPL IFERC ; 20.000 / Enron LS HPL LSK IC 20.000 / Enron August 12, 2000 Teco Tap 85.000 / HPL IFERC ; 20.000 / Enron LS HPL LSK IC 20.000 / Enron August 13, 2000 Teco Tap 32.500 / HPL IFERC ; 20.000 / Enron I'm working hard for you! Now at 83.5. I need a new lawnmower, so I'll try to bump it up a little more. Hope you're doing good. D ??? KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. ? WE AT HOME LOVE IT AT $80+++ ? KEN These have been sold. Geoff, Thanks for the pictures. Looks like the kids had a great time! I hope you don't mind, but I've taken liberty to turn them into a web photo album at http://24.27.98.30/pictures/08-05_Garrett_Gayle_Bday. If you want to pass this web site address along to other folks, feel free. If you want a CD copy of this web site, give me a yell. Thanks, Ram Tackett, (mailto:rtackett@abacustech.net) Owner, Abacus Technologies 17611 Loring Lane, Spring, TX 77388-5746 (281)651-7106;Fax(281)528-8636 Web: http://www.abacustech.net - Ram Tackett (E-mail).vcf 4222 Debra Perlingiere Please give me a call to discuss Nov transaction. Debra Perlingiere Are you free for lunch some day this week? Also, I have an extra ticket for the Comets game on Sat. you said you wanted to go? The game is at 12:Sat @ Compaq Center. Would love for you to join us. I am bringing two of my girlfriends from LJ. Debra Perlingiere Stacey here is the Master draft we discussed. I am sending you a version with comments. dp Could one of you please email me a copy of the standard template you use for Enfolio gas purchase agreements? As we're getting more and more of those agreements, I'd like to add a template in Global Contracts. Thanks! Stacey Barclay Richardson Enron Net Works, LLC - Global Contracts Stacey.Richardson@enron.com (713) 853-0569 Office (713) 646-2495 Fax (713) 710-6084 Pager Today is good 12:30 ? Cafeteria is fine. I'm free any day but Tuesday. I better pass on the Comets game. My weekends seem to be taken up with condo matters, house hunting. Thank you though. Are you free for lunch today. I want to go to the cafeteria for vegetables. Let me know if you are interested. Janette Elbertson Administrative Coordinator EWS Legal, EB3326 Telephone: (713) 853-7906 Facsimile: (713) 646-2600 e-mail address: janette.elbertson@enron.com Are you free for lunch some day this week? Also, I have an extra ticket for the Comets game on Sat. you said you wanted to go? The game is at 12:Sat @ Compaq Center. Would love for you to join us. I am bringing two of my girlfriends from LJ. Debra Perlingiere ok call me Maybe 12:15? Janette Elbertson Administrative Coordinator EWS Legal, EB3326 Telephone: (713) 853-7906 Facsimile: (713) 646-2600 e-mail address: janette.elbertson@enron.com Today is good 12:30 ? Cafeteria is fine. I'm free any day but Tuesday. I better pass on the Comets game. My weekends seem to be taken up with condo matters, house hunting. Thank you though. Are you free for lunch today. I want to go to the cafeteria for vegetables. Let me know if you are interested. Janette Elbertson Administrative Coordinator EWS Legal, EB3326 Telephone: (713) 853-7906 Facsimile: (713) 646-2600 e-mail address: janette.elbertson@enron.com Move-Team@ENRON 09/20/2000 03:22 PM Sent by: John Salinardo@ENRON it is to late for me to add changes. We will have to correct them after the churn. Thank you for you patience. The Dow topped out in February of 1966 at 995. By September of that year the Dow had tumbled to 744. The Dow then rallied to a high of 943 in September of '67. By March of '68 the Dow had fallen to 825, only to climb to a highly speculative peak of 985 in December of '68. The Dow then sank to 631 in December of '70. By April of '71 the Dow had climbed back to 950, only to fall to 869 in February of '72. A big rally then took the Dow (unconfirmed) to a record high of 1051 in January of '73, turning everyone bullish. But by December of '73 the Dow had collapsed to 788. Think that was bad - by December of '74 the Dow had sunk to a bear market low of 577. At that time, the gurus and geniuses of Wall Street were predicting a 250 Dow and many were talking openly about the end of capitalism. Of course, that was the bottom And that's the way the greatest bear market since the Depression worked its way down. By late 1974 investors were dizzy, they were desperate, they were wrung-out, they had left Wall Street, many for good. great, we look forward to seeing you. DEBRA PERLINGIERE 09/20/2000 09:32 AM I will not be there at 7:30, but will see you arond 9:30 on Tuesday. Many thanks! Debra Perlingiere Edward Terry 09/08/2000 09:55 AM FYI, Per the memo, ENA's storage account will be REDUCED by 420,588 mmbtu!!!!!! Robert D Morgan 09/08/2000 09:36 AM The results of the February 26th PVT test conducted on Nville have been discussed with each of you over the last three months. As we have discussed....effective Sep 13th, Anita will make the adjustments to Enron's inventory and pad gas to reflect the February 26th results. I talked with Gary Wilson, and he confirmed that the revised values are correct. Attached is a spreadsheet that contains the values. The correction to the working gas includes TWO corrections. The results of the February 26th test reduces the working gas by 398,487MMBTU. In addition, there is a reduction of 22,101MMBTU which is the difference between the SCADA values (Best Available) that Anita showed on the February 29th Storage Sheet and the "official" February 29th values that Gary Wilson received from MIPS. To summarize: Enron's pad gas will now be 3,993,310MMBTU, instead of 4,223,000MMBTU. Enron's working gas will be reduced by 420,588MMBTU. Call me if there are any questions. fyi yeah i got yelled at also. i tried to say i wasn't that drunk but z wasn't having any of that conversation. she told me that after friday and saturday she felt i was slowly regressing. then i told her i felt i should be able to screw missy just once. she said that was ok. Did you get in as much trouble as I did this weekend - Lori seems to think I need to get help - I told her it's normal to drink all day at a bar, then go to dinner where you don't know half the people there and proceed to get extremely fucked up *******************Internet Email Confidentiality Footer******************* Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of my firm shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it. Job ID: J12746KM Job Title: Attorney Location: Houston, Texas USA Compensation: $60000 - 70000 Description: Our client is a small law firm that is looking for an individual to join their team handling toxic tort with some minor PI defense. They offer an exceptional compensation package including a healthy salary, comprehensive benefits program, and ample room for associates to grow within the firm. KM Requirements: You'll be able to use your 1-4 years of experience with Toxic Tort to complement your desire to stay with the firm. Company: Marvel Consultants, Inc. 28601 Chagrin Blvd. Cleveland, Ohio 44122 USA Email: recruiters@marvelconsultants.com Phone: 216-292-2855 Fax: 216-292-7207 thanks I've thought about you a few times in the last few months, didn't want to intrude upon an already bad situation with my bullshit questions. I'm hearing some pretty depressing stuff from the people I know at ENE. I wish I had the capital to open my own shop?there will be talent and opportunity a plenty on the market soon. I'll ask around?I've got some friends at Duke and Dynegy from B-school, the Gianoucous (spelling??) brothers (John and Dimitri?from elementary school) started their own outfit a while back, and my old man is at Schlumberger and has good contacts in general (if you aren't married to a trading environment). Give me a few days, and I'll be in touch. Michael you guys have any job opening for ex natural gas traders that made their now almost defunctc ompany over 40 million in the last two years? not sure how much longer ene is going to be around and i'm checking out my options! Rodgers As we discussed, here is a first effort at a revised TVA offer letter. I drafted the Into TVA Option as a series of calls tied to the MOPA delivery term and quantity - not sure if this anything close to what you all had in mind. Please let me know what shape you all think the offer ought to take and we can revise accordingly. Thanks Elizabeth 36349 see you there at 4:00 unless I call you Mark E Haedicke Sent by: Janette Elbertson 02/28/2001 03:16 PM Please use the form attached when preparing the top ten risks for your businesses. Please be brief! Mark E Haedicke Sent by: Janette Elbertson 02/28/2001 04:41 PM Please update the attached Legal Risk Report. Send the revised report by e-mail. Thank you. Mike Curry 11/14/2000 11:37 AM With Elizabeth's comments added to summary... yuk. so sorry to have to cancel that deal is making like it wants to close and the traders scheduled a 430 call to wrap it up don't they know we have better things to do here is to getting back on track after thanksgiving sorry again per my vm John Lamb@ENRON 11/15/2000 11:58 AM Attached are clean and blacklined drafts of the Enron guaranties to be made in support of EPMI's obligations under the Indian Mesa II Renewable Energy Purchase Agreement ("PPA") and Green Premium Sharing Agreement ("GSPA").? The guaranty for the PPA is blacklined against the Enron EPC Contract guaranty in favor of the banks which was granted in connection with our Cabazon Wind Power Project (the project most recently financed by EWC) and the GPSA guaranty is blacklined against the PPA guaranty. As we discussed last week, since the Enron guaranties will need to be in a form that will acceptable to our project lenders and equity participants, we thought that we should start with a form that was used in our last financing and that was negotiated by Enron and the banks. We plan to use the same basic form for the Enron guaranty that will be made in favor of EPMI with respect to the seller's obligations under the PPA. We will forward the draft of that guaranty to you later today. Please feel free to give me a call if you have any questions concerning the attached guaranties. Thank you. - PPA Guaranty.doc - GPSA Guaranty.doc - REDLINE GPSA Guaranty.doc - REDLINE PPA Guaranty.doc ? Sheila Tweed 03/26/2001 08:58 PM Mary Hain 03/23/2001 12:24 PM I am going to be the Senior Regulatory Counsel at ISO New England starting on April 9, 2001. My last day in the Portland area will be March 31, 2001. I enjoyed working with you and wish you the best of everything. My new address will be: Mary Hain Senior Regulatory Counsel ISO New England Inc.One Sullivan Road Holyoke, MA 01040-2841 (413) 535-4000 mhain@ISO-NE.com Mark Here is a revised draft of the CDWR risk memo. Events change everyday. This morning's paper reports that a rate increase of 40% may be imposed by the CDWR as early as today and the new bond issue amount is purported to be 16 billion (rather than the 10 initially discussed) Mark As we discussed, here is a copy of the draft memo. Thanks Elizabeth 36349 see you there on court 10 ps I may have to come back to work for a 615 call Here is latest draft of risk memo (STILL IN DRAFT FORM). I faxed comments to you on dash. Do you have any current info on deal status? Thanks Elizabeth 36349 Vince, Are you going to be able to make the power VAR meeting on Thursday? Frank Sheridan, I have just checked with RAC (David Gorte) and we have a green light to go ahead with the project. I shall you tomorrow to discuss the details. Vince Sheridan Titman on 01/24/2001 02:45:50 PM Vince: I just wanted to check with you regarding the consulting arrangement we discussed a couple of weeks ago. Perhaps, we should start with just a 1 or 2 day contract where I give some thoughts to the kind of issues that we discussed and come to Houston to present my preliminary thoughts and possible avenues for additional work. regards, Sheridan Sheridan Titman Department of Finance College of Business Administration University of Texas Austin, Texas 78712-1179 512-232-2787 (phone) 512-471-5073 (fax) titman@mail.utexas.edu Bryan, Did you have a chance to take a look at the resume I sent you? He looked like a great guy for your group. Vince David, A reminder. We discussed a few days ago a consulting arrangement with Prof. Sheridan Titman from UT. Any feedback from Rick Buy? Please, let me know. 42299 Vince Kevin Kindall@ENRON 01/24/2001 03:51 PM Per our conversation yesterday... Hi Kevin, Further to your call attached is a presentation I gave at the Canadian Risk Managers Conference in Edmonton in the fall of 2000. I'll try and send one of Peter Cox' as well but may have some problems due to file size. In any event, my presentation should give you a starting point. Mike - Cfoforum.ppt Darrell, Thanks a lot. A quick question: we haven't received your invoice for the last few model / paper reviews. Please, make sure that we are billed. Clewlow/Strickland book is out. I shall send you a copy today. Vince Darrell Duffie on 01/24/2001 03:17:01 PM Please respond to Darrell Duffie Vince/ Taiichi In case you are interested, I attach this paper on gas Storage value modeling. Best, Darrell _____________________________________________ Darrell Duffie mail GSB Stanford CA 94305-5015 USA phone 650 723 1976 fax 650 725 7979 email duffie@stanford.edu web http://www.stanford.edu/~duffie/ _____________________________________________ - Paper4.pdf Al, I have spoken with Mark Lay and he is interested. Even if we cannot help you here in Enron, he may be able to put you in touch with other CV groups in town. Please, call him directly and give my name as a reference. (713) 853-7408 Good luck. Vince Vince J Kaminski 01/24/2001 11:21 AM Al, I have called Mark Lay and left a message on his voice mail. Vince Al Arfsten on 01/24/2001 11:16:25 AM Vince: Your suggestion to introduce the concept discussed with one of the Lays is welcomed. I hope that this would mean that you would remain involved at some level. The design of the model and its potential economics could be key to how worthy the effort might be. Enron could be an ideal environment from which to the concept enhancement through to commercialization could be successfully accomplished. Please confidentially share matters as you think best and advise me of the interest generated. I am ready to meet there at your building or elsewhere that is appropriate. Best regards, Al Arfsten 713 965 2158 Martin, No problem. Please, ask Stinson as well. Vince I thought that since Chonawee has an optimization background, he would be good to have him go to dinner with Dr. Lasdon on Thrusday as well. Would this be fine? Thanks, Martin We are still trying to figure out some of the cash traders. Once we get the word from Lavo we'll let you know. Thanks KK Kam, Are there any new developments in the trader world? We still have the traders and books that you provided last week, but need to know if there are any changes to this. Please let us know if you need a change so that the deals will bridge with the correct books. Thanks, Dawn Hey, I am going to have to miss your wedding. Unfortunately, I will be in Plano that weekend. I wish I could make it. What's going on with the UBS weather position? Has that gone anywhere or are the other possibilities you had better? Talk to you soon, Kam Hey guys, I am being told by my better half that we need to get an accurate head count of who will be attending our wedding. If you would be so kind, could you possibly let me know of your status over the next couple of days? For those of you who already sent us an RSVP response recently, please disregard. Thanks for your help! Jeff WT Cal has been added. Could you run those additional post-id's? There are deals in the Aruba book so I'm not sure why you aren't picking those up. The deals are listed below. Thanks EY4096.1 PERFORMANCE 01-Feb-02 P 6,363,217 -$ 250,393 EY4096.3 PERFORMANCE 01-Feb-02 P 202,989 $ 195,610 EY4096.4 PERFORMANCE 01-Feb-02 F 0 $ 31,180 EY4096.7 PERFORMANCE 01-Feb-02 P -6,363,217 -$ 55,678 EY4106.6 PERFORMANCE 01-Feb-02 P -1,993,045 -$ 32,387 EY4106.7 PERFORMANCE 01-Feb-02 P 1,993,045 -$ 43,548 EY4106.9 PERFORMANCE 01-Feb-02 P 27,886 $ 27,361 EY4108.E PERFORMANCE 01-Feb-02 P 12,514,373 -$ 265,932 EY4108.F PERFORMANCE 01-Feb-02 P 112,610 $ 110,555 EY4108.H PERFORMANCE 01-Feb-02 P -2,239,879 -$ 36,398 EY4108.I PERFORMANCE 01-Feb-02 P -10,274,494 -$ 166,960 Thanks As seen below, Please start using the ENA DPR 0102 file rather than the EWS DPR 2002 file to send to Chris. The positions needed to be divided to reflect BCF's. Thanks Kam could you also CC me the first few times you send it? While our established schedules of Tuesday and Friday DPR's would have us reporting tomorrow's activity on Monday, we will change that for month end. Please email the January 31st DPR information for your respective groups to my attention by noon on Friday. You should use the same spreadsheet format used for the 1/29/02 DPR. All p&l and PRMA numbers should be in $'000's. Starting in February, you will be able to export the data, as opposed to using the spreadsheets. Thanks, Chris Abel Manager, Risk Controls Global Risk Operations chris.abel@enron.com 713.853.3102 Kristen, Attached are all live financial deals by risk type. As you can see, the price data is too large to fit into one tab. After tomorrow, I will no longer have access to the estate files. Greg Couch will be taking over the responsibility for the estate risk group and will be able to assist you with your requests going forward. Thanks Kam Ed, Here is a list of the risk people that will be with the estate. After this weekend, we will no longer have access to the estate files, these people will be able to help you with any of your questions. 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"Wei has given some virtuoso performances with brush and ink, often incorporating several different techniques into a single work," said Gordon S. Barrass, curator of the exhibition. In the world of "Wei's magic cubes," all seem to be ingeniously planned and tricky. All are mathematical, all are linguistic. In Wei's art, a logician could see mathematical logic, a cellist could see a ripple of nine bass notes, a country girl could see straw, and Harry Potter could see two accompanied green blazes. "...to gaze at Wei's art is like entering a floating world of dreams." --- The Art of Calligraphy in Modern China (British Museum Press, 2002) [http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39187928,00.htm] Photo from Technology News Wiki Media Foundation, the group behind the Wikipedia online encyclopedia project, said Friday that search giant Google has volunteered to host some of its content on company servers. (ZD Net) It looks like the war between Microsoft and Google is quickly brewing on the horizon. Microsoft is 4-0 (they took down Netscape, Suns Systems, MAC and IBM) and Google may be their next target. Google is probably making this move to counter Microsoft Search using Encarta (it's online dictionary). More below. But it looks like Google isn't opening it's mouth about the reason behind the offer as Linux News reports: "While we don't have anything specific to announce today, Google and the Wikimedia Foundation are collaboratively evaluating creative ways to support Wikipedia.org and its community." Sure Google, although this would put it on coarse for global domination of the internet by 2014. It will be interesting to see whether or not Google will finally slay the Microsoft Goliath, who has known no major defeat and seeks to vanquish all competition. Selah! -- Posted by Hidden Nook to Hidden Nook at 2/14/2005 07:03:00 PM Email: "Ruth" Hello there Action Network is a BBC website for people who are taking action on issues that concern them. I'm getting in touch because I think it could be useful to people campaigning about hospital closures. We've got a page dedicated to issues around hospitals ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/actionnetwork/C55153 ) and a group called NHS SOS have already put up a campaign about ward closures in Cumbria. I'm hoping to build this up to be a hub for all the campaigners - a place where people can exchange ideas and advice. It would be great if the person from CHANT who started this page would put up a short description of the campaign and a list to this group page on the Action Network site. Action Network is also a good place to post details of events, or try to rally together a group if you want to take action in your area. You can attach anything you write to pages for your local area, as well as to the 'issue' pages. I'm more than happy to help people with the site or answer any questions about Action Network - just drop me a message. Otherwise, hope to see you there! Kind regards Ruth Penycate www.bbc.co.uk/actionnetwork Winston Peters is visiting a school. In one class, he asks the students if anyone can give him an example of a "tragedy". One little boy stands up and offersthat, "if my best friend who lives next door was playing in the street when a car came along and killed him, that would be a tragedy". "No," Winston says, "That would be an ACCIDENT." A girl raises her hand. "If a school bus carrying fifty children drove off a cliff, killing everyone involved... that would be a tragedy". "I'm afraid not, "explains Winston, "that is what we would call a GREAT LOSS." The room is silent, none of the other children volunteer. "What?" asks Winston, "isn't there any one here who can give me an example of a tragedy?" Finally, a boy in the back raises his hand. In a timid voice, he says: "If an airplane carrying Winston Peters was blown up by a bomb, THAT would be a tragedy". "Wonderful!" Winston beams. "Marvelous! And can you tell me WHY that would be a tragedy?""Well," says the boy, "because it wouldn't be an accident, and it certainly wouldn't be a great loss!" [http://www.space.com/astronotes/astronotes.html] Photo from Space.com (Space.com) It looks like The Lunar Transportation Systems, Inc. is visualizing a "space highway" going from the moon to Earth (and back again). "Our new lunar transportation system utilizes a unique architecture that will establish the equivalent of a two-way highway between the Earth and the Moon," Kistler told SPACE.com. "Our plans include raising private capital to develop, build, flight test, and operate this Earth-Moon highway for the benefit of the country and the benefit of our investors." Wise decision to go through the private sector--NASA's budget may be kinda tight to fund a project like this. This group does sound pretty interesting though. The Lunar Transporatation Systems (LTS) is actually being funded by two space businessmen, Walter Kistler and Bob Citron. Both of these men are heavily involved in the private sector of the space industry, and both are also involved with another space company called SPACEHAB . They want to use LTS to tie into NASA's vision for Space Exploration, and seem pleased that the White House is moving in that direction. "We are so excited that the White House and the recent new government space policy underscores the need to involve the private sector in assisting NASA develop its plans for the new Vision for Space Exploration," said Walter Kistler, LTS co-founder and Chairman. With their proposal of a "Earth-Moon" highway, it looks like space tourism may become a reality sooner than we think. Selah! -- Posted by Hidden Nook to Hidden Nook at 2/15/2005 05:12:00 PM [http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/ft_050829_ksc_spacefuture.html] (Space.com) U.S. astronauts will launch to the moon on sleek, single, shuttle booster rockets and the first new upper-stage rocket this country has developed in more than a decade, NASA and the Pentagon have told the White House. Lunar landers and other gear needed for extended visits to the moon will be lofted by gargantuan launchers as big as the Apollo-era Saturn 5, the most powerful rockets ever flown. It looks as if NASA is transitioning away from the shuttle model, as in the past they have proven to be quite dangerous as Columbia has recently proved. Although these new rockets are probably more expensive, they will be able to go at a much greater range than it's shuttle cousins, as they can not only break free from the atmosphere but reach the moon as well. "NASA will initiate development of a Crew Launch Vehicle derived from space shuttle solid rocket boosters with a new upper stage for human spaceflight," said the letter, signed by NASA Administrator Mike Griffin and the Pentagon's top space official, ex-astronaut Ron Sega... "NASA then plans to develop a new 100-metric-ton-class launch vehicle derived from existing capabilities with the space shuttle external tanks and solid rocket boosters for future missions to the moon," the letter said. NASA is planning on using these new shuttles to replace the current models, with industry forecasters predicting a launch as early as 2014. The new rocket design will differ slightly from it's predecessors, in the fact that the crew and cargo would launch separately from two different rockets each and join up in space later on. Launching this way will hopefully avoid future disasters, giving more support towards NASA revisiting the stars. -- Posted by Hidden Nook to Hidden Nook at 8/30/2005 09:36:00 PM George and Lynne image001.jpg 51K Download Funny stuff lifted from another list Amy:-) ------ We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress. - Will Rogers I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog: "No good in a bed, but fine against a wall." - Eleanor Roosevelt ------ Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year. - Victor Borge ------ "By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates ------ I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. - Groucho Marx ------ My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. - Jimmy Durante ------ I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back. - Zsa Zsa Gabor ------ Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat. - Alex Levine ------ Money can't buy you happiness... but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. - Spike Milligan ------ Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was shut up. - Joe Namath ------ Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. - Herbert Henry Asquith ------ I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap. - Bob Hope ------ Don't worry about avoiding temptation... as you grow older, it will avoid you. - Winston Churchill ------ Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty... but everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out. - Phyllis Diller ------ By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere. - Billy Crystal __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around image_jpg_part 52K Download What language is talked in Iguazu? portuguese spanish Green Tea Or White Tea? Green Green Tea. Green tea What is this Miramar? It is a place in Argentina lol Does anyone know any good restaurants in cordoba? Not me sorry. Does anyone know of any good food in iguazu? Not me sorry. Which wonderful contact of mine is thumbs upping all my best answers ^^? =) What are some Major land forms in Ireland? 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Without a doubt..... bacon! :) thick cut bacon or really good sausages with my breakfast I like bacon and sausage when I having a big breakfast like a grand slam with pancakes and the works. Can police trace a cell phone even if it is switched off? Can police trace a cell phone even if it is switched off? Yeah you gotta burn it..thats the only way Yes , they all have secret locator chips , just like gps Yes. mazzoni's deli best italian food in phila pa? is mazzoni's deli at 3901 conshocken ave in phila pa really the best italian food in the country??? because all of the food blogs Ive read say so and I will travel from maryland if thats true yep Dinner and dancing in Chicago? I'm under 21+ and looking for a nice place to take my boyfriend out for dinner where they play music and there is a dance floor. It's okay if it's a little pricier. Any good suggestions would really be appreciated. Rumba Room Courage the cowardly dog? 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I do see myself as a conservative Arriving in Auckland on a direct flight from Canada.? Will we be allowed to take duty free bottles onto our connecting flight to Christchurch? In our hand luggage or do we have to put it into our checked luggage? Yes. I don't think it matters We'll see you on 'Border Patrol' Yes you can carry your duty free bottles, and liquids onto your connection as it is only a domestic flight :-) Studying in Quebec,Canada? If I went into the "pre-university" direction with business administration in mind. Say after I finished those 2 years and I found a job. would I be able to go back to school after a year break at a university to get a Bachelors degree in business administration? Any information would help. Thank you You should be able to no problem. Universities will take you whatever age you are. What would you call the device that hold up your photography backdrop? and where can I find them? Background support systems. Or background stands buy them in any good photography supplies shop. frame thumbs down??? odd considering this is a search on the net: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=backdrop+frame&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&safe=active&sout=1 Backdrop stand. Google the term or find photography supplies websites and put it in the search box (or look for studio equipment supplies). out of carnival, royal caribbean, and norweigan (cruises) which is the best and why? I prefer Royal Caribbean out of all these. There is so much to do onboard. The new NCL Epic does sound amazing, although I haven't sailed on her yet. None of the above. Of THESE three, it's a toss-up between Royal and Carnival. NCL is a notch below either, in terms of quality and service. Will USB cell phone chargers still charge even if they're hooked up to a computer that is turned off? Mine does. I have the HTC Evo. depends on the computer if the computer is completely shut off, the USB ports aren't getting power, so they won't charge your phone many PCs have sleep & charge now, that allow the PC to go into sleep mode, and still allow the USB ports to charge things like phones. what is a good slogan for an Argentinian restaurant? "In Argentina, beef is revered, respected, and praised. Come see how we continue this tradition." A taste of Argentina. Here are some articles that discuss the details of slogan writing. Why certain slogans work and why some don't. You will find these helpful in writing a new slogan. A Look at Slogans - http://www.small-business-software.net/look-at-slogans.htm Unique Selling Proposition - http://www.small-business-software.net/unique-selling-proposition.htm Goodluck! No Mad Cow --- Guaranteed! Which Compact System Camera Should I Get...? I'm looking for a camera that has really good zoom during a video and pictures; and good quality pictures /videos I'm planning on buying a compact system camera at best buy ; so please list the one(s) I should purchase. Also how much do compact system cameras drop on boxing day? **and i can upload my pictures and videos on the computer (facebook) have a look at sony wx10 I need creative art ideas? What are some cool ideas for making a postor usint the word MAD on a white paper in a weird or artsy way? The actual word "MAD" has to be on the cover and incorporated into the image. MAD means crazy, or angry, so you do a lot with it, i would put a gorrilla screaming , just the face, and just throw in a lot of brushes fifferent colors, make it look artistic. use photoshop. tttthhhhh Madonna! what is the fall of hanoi? can anyone tell me exactly what it is and what took place? I cant find any information about it When the French returned to Indochina at the end of WW II the Viet Minh were in control of the Red River Delta. They chased the Communists out of the capital (Hanoi) and retook control. Is that what you are referring to? You need to check out the French Indochina War (1946-1954) not the Vietnam War (1957-1975). Does a pacman absolutely need a uv lamp? Or maybe something humid or heat? I assume you are talking about a pacman frog. No, technically they do not need a UVB light; they are nocturnal. However, it certainly wouldn't hurt if you wanted to provide one. A pacman frog will need a heat source that creates a basking temp in the upper 80's F for at least 10 - 12 hours a day. don't forget to use a calcium supplement twice a week; captive reptiles are prone to calcium deficiency. surprise romantic cheap date night san francisco? looking for a surprise spot to take my bf. a bar would be nice but also something extremely unique. i would like to have one of those super random surprisingly nice nights out...suggestions? o and the cheaper the better (we are trying to save money now, sooo..thatd b helpful) thanks Why not put together a bottle of champagne, a picnic and have a date on Treasure Island. Cheap, great view, time together. There are plenty of cheap restaurants. Try SanFranGuide.com my lhasa apso hind legs are not working? for the past few days she has been shivering and wont eat but she could walk now her hid legs are not working but she is back to her self .. what should i do .? just pray for her ad=nd try to hlep your dog and do some physical therapy on the hind legs and take her to the vet and ig it costs a whole lot ask hlep from you friends and family adn since shes not eating feed her by hand Take her to the vet. obviously take her to the vet How much would it cost for me to take me and three friends to Andiamos restaurant for dinner? Hi, i'm looking to take myself and my best friend and his girl friend and this girl i really like out to dinner for my birthday. I really want to go to andiamos for my birthday and i was just wondering how much it would cost for the four of us to eat there Have no idea what kind of restaurant this is or where it is. Best count on $50 per person no matter what. Or more if you have drinks. I need suggestions for San Francisco restaurants with good food and good catering service.? I need suggestions on restaurants in San Francisco with good food and good catering service. I have two upcoming events one is for 200 and another is for 21. American Food, Soul Food, Mexican, Italian, and Chinese are the options. Here is a great list of different restaurants in San Francisco http://sanfranguide.com/restaurants/ well since i dont know your budget, i recommend Hakka Restaurant for chinese food its cheap and its good! prime ribs have very good food but its super expensive try yelp.com how many ounces in a pint in ireland? Depends of what. Ounces measure weight, pints measure volume. If you mean fluid ounces, 20, as opposed to the 16 in America. An Irish pint is larger than a US one. 20 fluid ounces in a Pint in Ireland as R-G said, there are only 16 in an American one. Know this well because I remember an 'irish' pub in the town in canada i grew up in used to advertise the cheapest pints of guinness in town, but they served them in american sized pints. That place didn't stay open too long :D need help finding irish music? i love The Script and know there from iraland. i would like more bands like them pleasseee The thing about The Script is they do not sound that Irish, I was surprised to hear they were from Dublin. Well if you are interested, I suggest you have a look at General Fiasco, Two Door Cinema Club and Wallis Bird. I think you will be pleased. I doubt you will get a sensible answer in the "TRAVEL" section. *Ireland And there's nothing distinctly Irish about them. You'd find similar bands to them that are from the UK and US. Women's rain coat...where can I find one? I'm going on a trip to Europe soon, and I need to find a good, quality raincoat. I've looked and looked, but cannot find one anywhere! I would prefer a simple, fitted black one. It actually needs to be relatively waterproof - the last one I bought had me soaked in anything more than light/moderate rain. I'll pay up to 200-250 for it if I have to. Look on the debenhams website in the craghoppers section they do some good waterproof raincoats heres the link: http://www.debenhams.com/women/craghoppers#catalogId=10001&lid=//productsuniverse/en_GB/product_online0Y/categories%3C0productsuniverse_186610/brand_description0.000000E+000craghoppers0/categories%3C0productsuniverse_18661_186820&ps=default&sfn=Categories&sfv=Coats+%26amp0+jackets&storeId=10001 I have a Kodak Camera (10.2 Megapixels)... Kodak AF 5x OPTICAL LENS... how do I pause it while recording? I have a Kodak Camera (10.2 Megapixels)... Kodak AF 5x OPTICAL LENS... how do I pause it while recording? You don't... there's no such thing as "pause" in digital recording. That's because of the buffer that holds the data until it's ready to be recorded to the memory card. When you press the button to stop recording the data is moved from the buffer to the memory card - no pause. All you can do is take each section (individual video) and edit them together on software. I have a Nacho Libre question.? When nacho is driving to cure the influenza guy does he say to the man with the cow i like your blouse or I like your cow because my friend thinks he says I like your blouse, but that wouldn't make sense. I know its in the wrong catagory, but still, I wrote this question for a reason, not for you to critisize me. Okay, FIRST, you have posted a question about an American movie, set in Mexico, in the Dining Out in Argentina category. Do you get what's wrong with this picture? No...that's all. No second. Nacho Libre is suppose to be inspired in Mexicans, not in Argentineans. is there any good places to get an ice-cream sundae from in Invercargill New Zealand? so i live in Invercargill New Zealand and i want to know if there are any good places to buy an ice-cream sundae from other than mc donalds lol Fast food chains, supermarkets, dairies you live in NZ and you eat McDonalds ice cream? you're mad! Any of the tip-top places have great ice-cream, get them to mix it up. any Ice Cream In NZ no matter where as New Zealand has the best bl**dy ice cream in the world I was in NZ for a few weeks had some Ice Cream and really enjoyed it I will go back just to eat some Ice Cream best burger chain in the Chicago area? which is the best burger chain in the chicago metro area like for example burger king portillos white castle which one do like the best? Red Robin. Onion Rings are great and the fries are endless. Fudruckers. idk ur choice Chain? Does 5 make a chain? Hackney's has a great burger formula that started about 80 years ago. There are currently 5 locations: http://www.hackneys.net/ The latest spot for a real Hackney's is Printers' Row: http://www.hackneysprintersrow.net/ See what DD&D showed at the original place on Harms Rd in Glenview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2lDF0XU3NI Along with the great burger try a brick of onion rings if you are with someone. Otherwise a 1/2 brick will be fine: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jellybeanjill13/532522805/ My dog has threw up yellow bile for two days but does not have dhirea. What should I do? I've tried bland white rice but he wont eat anything. What could it be? Should I be concerned? Call a vet would be a good idea with a sick dog VERY CONCERNED!!! plz bring your dog to the vet ASAP!!! esp if not eating - if it had only happened once and could get him to eat right away - it could have been you missed his meal time and he needed to eat - since it sounds like it has happened several times over two days - then he may have gotten int to something that needs to be attended to RIGHT AWAY!!! or has acquired some type of disease and that too needs to be attended to... why are there two statues of David? i doing a research paper on donatello and i notice that there are two statues of David, a bronze one and marble one. Michelangelo made the marble one but why did he do another if Donatello had already made one? so im a little confused , why is there two statues of David? different generations , the donatello is of a boy david as a young sheep Herder, the Michelangelo is the grown up man david as slayer and king Because he liked making statues of David! :D Obviously, he should have been arrested and jailed - imagine making a statue or painting on the same subject as another artist - clearly insulting and disrespecting - wasted time that could have been used making a statue with clothes on. Name of specific Hibachi restaurant in Chicago? I have a friend out in Chicago this week, and I am trying to remember the name of an awesome hibachi style restaurant i visited while out there a couple years ago. I think it was in the Lincoln Square area but don't quote me on that. It's 'gimmick' was that you fill your bowl cafeteria-style from raw ingredients and leave it on the counter with a chopstick listing your table number on it. Four guys around a large square open hibachi cook your food, and when it's finished a server brings it to your table. All-you can-eat style deal. It was pretty epic as I remember and would love to send my friend there. Any help? That is Flat Top Grill What's the best time to start a trip around the world? Well,I'm about to graduate in less then a year,and I'm planning to study medical school.But since in my country it lasts for minimum 6 years,and I want to go aground the world,what do you think,should I do it before or after medical school? If you can afford to go before, then by all means, GO. If you have to wait, due to financial reasons, then wait. I would much rather put it off until I can afford to have the vacation of a lifetime as I'm sure this trip is intended to be. Airfare alone will be incredibly expensive so make sure you have the money and of course free time to take your time and have a great time. canon t2i stops working? My canon t2i stops working at times as in the power bottom is switched to "on" but the camera does not respond to any function. the camera only begins to work again when i take out the battery and put it back in. did anyone have this issue? is it worthy to send in for warranty repair? thanks! Sounds simple enough to me . Your camera isn't acting normally, you got warranty, let Canon deal with it. I would agree. I shoot a t1i and haven't had such an issue. I also agree it's under warranty so get in touch with Canon. It sounds like a firmware issue and the camera requires a re-boot just like what happens in a computer - needs a re-start from time to time but it shouldn't be happening in a camera. Call Canon Cheapest airline ticket from Raleigh to Philippines? I'm going on a vacation to the Philippines in May 2012, and I'm starting from Raleigh, NC (RDU Airport). Which airlines should I look into and when should I buy my ticket? The sooner the better but I'd probably wait until after the holidays. Use Travelocity or Expedia and see what you come up with. My friend goes to the Phils every 6 months or so and she has found that Korean Air has had the cheapest fares lately. Raleigh to Chicago, Chicago to Seoul and then Seoul to Manila. Compare compare compare - that's the key to getting the best deal. Ask a travel agent! On my last 6 trips here from the states I used "Fly genesis" based in Seattle, Wa. They gave the best service & rates I could find. What is the best place to get discounts for San Francisco restaurants? I just moved into the city, and I'm wondering if there's a place I can get good deals on restaurants here. I don't want to have to deal with those deal-a-day websites like Groupon. I just want a simple way to get a good deal to whatever Restaurant I want, whenever I want. Any suggestions would be really helpful, thanks! I usually use ZebraKlub. They basically buy daily deals from Groupon, Living Social, and all sorts of other places. So you can pretty much get whatever deal you want anytime. Most of the deals let you eat for 500ff, and some of the deals are even free. If you want to eat cheaply without worrying about all those daily deal emails every day, ZebraKlub should be perfect for you. Where can I go on a first date (adults)? Looking for something on the casual side and we want it to be fun. May seem a little silly, but, taking a long ride on the Metra system or the "L" system is a great way to see the city and sites without spending a fortune. Or how about visiting the Chicago Botanical Gardens and see the change of colors and enjoy the air, They also have many inside exhibits you might enjoy, food is pretty good to. go 2 starbucks dont spend more than 20 bucks :) Bike ride in the park, followed by coffee. You are busy, you don't have to sit face to face to try to make convo, it's short, so if things go great, you can extend, and if you want to end it, you just say bye, gotta go. I decided to get a 150 gal aquarium, what can I fill it with? I was thinking cichlids? Possibly a freshwater tank with a ton of different species in there. I've never kept cichlids though. I know saltwater is a possibility, can you give me a possible stocking option for that too? I'll choose the one that sounds the best after looking into all the fish :) Here is the stocking for my 150 gallon tank i upgraded it to 200 at the weekend because of the clownloach A 200 gallon with 6 pairs of Breeding Angel fish fire mouth honey Gouramis 5 8 inch clownloach a Krib and 5 1 inch clown loach with 16 cory cats 5 Australian Rainbows If you took out the clown loach it would make a nice 150 gallon tank. fill it with water :) lol for a tank that size i would suggest oscars or piranha every time awesome fish!! never response the phone call Great deals, great pizza! Great gym and great services. Dr. White is the best! Good clean store nice car wash It's well cool. :) Awesome service with a smile :) WHAT A GREAT DEAL THANK YOU The pancakes are to die for. Best fried shrimp in the state! Fast and great service on pool covers Friendliest place I have ever stayed! The best pilates on the Gold Coast! It taste better than In and Out.... Good local steakhouse, I recommend it! Dessert was good. Rest was too oily. it was a little to high dollar for me Very Informative website with alot of good work wow wow wow. the bast cab in minneapolis Great food and nice people very pleasant experience. Tire Gooroo David Bundren is the Tire GooRoo. good it is a cute little nice and quiet library they recovered the pics geeksquad deleted. many thanks local crew!!! home team - thanks 4 playin!!! Great Service, Thanks Don. Nice Top Lights. Best ceviche that I'd had so far! :) A very nice park. The architecture is simplz splendid. the service is quick. and the people are sweet :) Yeah they ruined some shirts I had too. Horrible! very reasonable prices. quick in & out. Friendly service. This is my favorite coffee store. Just ask American Express Too many kids, too many knifings, too many taserings. Thank you for fixing the leak on my bathroom! Thanks! this is the worst Sams club I've ever been to Got to love this place. Everyone is relaxed and having fun!!! Friendly service. 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Room was amazing. hard to forgive such an awful margarita and steep prices but the food can be good Linda I would highly recommend Landscape by Hiro. Excellent customer service and quality work. I love this place lots of people to talk to and school is across the street! Drove all the way over from the highway... closed at 7. Who does that?! You are the only one auto glass repair shop in the area I would count on. Great job on my roof and the pricing was fair. Will use again in the future. Kyle with Bullwark Great job! Listened to my problem and took care of it. Thanks! AWESOME food! Make sure to put OILY sauces on your food to make it moist! YUM This is a Ralph's I just called this number and it is a Ralph's Market. Hospitality.! Very good hospitality offered.! Keep it up. - Shree Ghatkopar Bhatia Mitra Mandal Close to my house, this is the only reason I would go to this particular QT. Mens and Boys Barbers, on the number 9 Bus route. Ladies room, Open Sundays This is a great place to get a permit I had to get a permit here, it was cool best Best pedi mani Ive ever had. Darla is amazing, I would recoment her to anyone. You guys do everything wonderful! We honestly cannot think of even 1 thing we didn't like! kudos to Allentown Post Office staff The staff in Allentown are friendly, helpful and a delight to know.. amazing, fun, great beers. service could be a little better but its an all round good place Amazing service! I just had the best experience at this Kal Tire location. Courteous, fast and friendly. Quality has fallen over the years, but still the best go-to burger place on the East Bay. STAY AWAY Horrible service. Absolutely rude. Did services I asked them NOTto do and was still charged. Highly recommended My 8 year old daughter loves this place. The best climbing club around. Hooray for Craggy. The food is excellent, but very overpriced. How do you run a cafe, with no refills on coffee-? telephone number the telephone number is incorrect - our new mobile number is 07551310002 or landline 01634 710033. thank you the team at barton car wash was very friendly . and did great job . i was very pleased with the service. I appreciate the quick, good service and the reasonable prices and will definitely use American Pride Irrigation & Landscaping again. I like I Move CA - Los Angeles Movers, they moved me before, but this time they were awesome :) Poor Taste There is no lower rating for Noonan's Liquor, owners and employees. A negative number is not available. CLH Very friendly people offering a brilliant service. Sent scented flowers home instead of postcards. Recommend you call in for a look. Worst experience ever like a sardine can and the bartender downstairs is the rudest person I have ever met. DONt Go here Restaurant on top was renovated, food was decent, price was way to high for Duluth for quality, new decor seems tacky Rude and Untrustworthy These guys took Customer Service 101 from a Neanderthal. They are especially rude to women. Do not trust them! Good food, good location, and good prices. But the servers don't pay attention to you whether it's busy or not. One of the better vegetarian sandwiches I've had in Seattle. And from a place that specializes in high quality meat, too. Old time grocery, best steaks I have ever had! Great meats that are already cooked, easy to take home for dinner. Inford Media Media, Software, Fun and Games, Website design, Web Promotion, B2B, Business Promotion, Search Engine Optimization. Relish A Top Quality Sandwich made to artistic standards. The best darlington has to offer in contemporary sandwicheering. Drum and bass as standard. Will never use again. Very rude and unprofessional. The workers sped up and down the street with no mind to the small children playing. ipad reiew they are the best orthodontics in the world. i went there since i was four. now i will have really straight teeth. Pam the Pom Fantastic couple of days. Breathtaking views and fabulous accommodation. Nothing too much trouble for Ian, thanks for a great stay. Daniel and his assistant both did a great job. Very professional and great results. Many thanks from myself and all of our wedding guests! what a mindblowing servicing They treat there employees with respect and concern and expect that they will extend the same politeness to there customers. absolutely fantastic experience getting my iphone upgraded at Zion ... Sheer contrast to getting it done at karol bagh which is done under the wooden plank Decent place to stay, I would stay there again. Rooms were clean, plenty of things to do near hotel, and safe part of town. Best Electrician in Florence I have been using Steele Electric for years. They have always done a great job at a reasonable price. Highly recommended. Not impressed. Overpriced and the doctor acted arrogant and rushed at a time when there was very few clients in the facility. I won't return. A thoroughly comprehensive service; excellent communication and best of they are transparent with their fee (ie nothing is simply implied or assumed). I gave Dr. Rohatgi 2 stars because her assistant was very pleasant. However, I did not find her very helpful and her receptionist was rude. Extremely greasy. Hit or miss on the service. My fries weren't fully cooked last time I went there. Pretty spendy for really not great quality The management and staff are superb. I worked with Sam Mones who took great care of me. This is by far the best run dealership in Miami. The company gets busy but you never have to wait long because they ARE orginizied, so you are in, out, and paid well for your scrap Winning Attorney! The only 10.0 "Perfect Score" AVVO Rated Attorney I Have Ever Met. I Highly Recommend, The Law Offices Of Dale Gribow!! Sanctuary is amazing! Sanctuary serves delicious, somewhat healthy food in a great restaurant/fast food style. The employees are really friendly. And they deliver! What a Preschool! If you want the best for your child, don't hesitate in visiting this wornderful school. This is the very best in the Gables. What a Dump! The food is terrible. The place smells and the owner is very very rude! I could go on and on! Just don't go there. house closing Mrs. Tolchin provided us with excellent service and came with a great deal of knowledge and professionalism! Her flexibility and accessibility made for an easy closing. Food is often expired so check the dates every time! Also more often than not you end up with a healthy dose of nasty rude attitude from the employees! No complaints I have no complaints about the service I received.This man was polite, professional, clean and quick. I never felt worried and walked away satisfied. THE TEACHING THERE SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL OF THE TEACHERS THERE ARE SO MEAN THEY GET MAD AT YOU FOR NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS THE WORST SCHOOL IVE BEEN TO!!!!!! Staten Island Computers Superior work - always comes through when we need him. We have tried many different computer people until now - we will stick with Qualitech Computers!!! not impressive enough It's a fine place, I'm just a little mystified about the Michelin star. Nothing wrong with it, just better options at this price point. exelent Job "Thank you so much for the superior job well done. We love everything about the fence. You company and services will be recommended by us to everyone." An Hour Of Prego Bliss! I schedule my weekly appointment here just to get a chance to lie comfortably on my tummy. And the massages are heavenly! Very friendly place. Love Hop City This place is great! Craig and Nate are wonderful. I know now where to get all of my wine and beer. No need to go to a grocer again. Excellent energy efficiency Compact's Corona dryers remove at least twice as much water as the previous dryers, allowing a production increase of over 10% and a significant energy saving. We would like to thank our emergency plumbers who visted our shop in Morningside Road today. A fast service, saved a bad situation getting alot worse. many thanks 2scompany... The best Thai food I've ever had in Australia, very fresh and so much favor of authentic Thai . The restaurant is the most beautiful thai restaurant in Geelong... just love it Fresh and unic! Very professional, talented, unic and fresh work. Paula has an amazing gift for creativity, vision and the ability to combine art to / with commercial purpose. Bravo! OK Food, Slow service The food was incredibly bland. Their Thali was not brought out as described (no saag). Expensive for the level of food and the quality of service. Fantastic professional service - These guys really know their stuff .. they have almost anything you could want in terms of spy and surviellance equipment. Truly james bond style stuff ... would recommend So delightful. What a group! I wouldn't want any other company in my time of need. Great people! So professional! These guys know what they're doing! Way to go! Terrible customer service Fried rice has NO flavor, it literally taste like water. When I tried to return it they refused, so I had to leave without a refund and still hungry. wow, the representative went way above and beyond in helping me with my account set up. i wish the other utilities i had to set up had people to work with like this.. Bad Service Definately won't be returning. Travelled 40mins after calling to see if a product was in stock. Told that they had plenty. Get there and there was nothing. Not impressed!!! Would not recommend I Was in a fair amount of pain for several weeks. his clinic is very very dirty he is a real disaster to go totally not organized for every step he take . Best Limo Limousine service in all of Dallas Great Limos company int he DFW fort Worth Metro area. I use their limo services for all of my airport car services and airport transportation needs Very knowledgeable and friendly design build firm. They specialize in financial institutions, medical, and retail projects. These guys know what they're doing and helped me in all phases of our project. The waiting staff is really friendly, its like every one knows each other, the manager is really sweet and the food..well no complaints from me. Yes, its that good. They have fresh flowers, lasted a long while in the vase, and the two ladies at the shop know the business well. I had no problem with my delivery. I will go there again. Out of business? I think this location is no longer in business. If you check RecWarehouse.com, they don't list this as a location. You'll have to drive 10 miles down 75 to Allen. Awesome Landscaping Job MFJ Inc transformed our run down back yard into a place of beauty. The work was completed within one week, and everything was cleaned up on completion. Highly recommended landscaper!!! spot on this kebab shop is one of the best around the meat is good and fresh and the chilly sauce is the best, keep them lovely kebabs coming and a happy new year to all the staff Feel good I just wanted to try your clinic because I was not totally happy with my current therapist I regularly see. Now I've found someone who can manage to do what I really want. Worst Tasting Pizza This place had the worst tasting pizza I have ever tasted it was possible the worst food I've ever eaten. I don't recommend this place to anyone or even anything to eat. Not so good Not worth the money. Bland and over cooked. I felt as if I was in an over priced Olive Garden. I was hoping to have found a regular place to eat. But not so. I have used Bright Futures for the last 7 years. I have 3 children there and they are the Best. They are like family. Your children will be taken care of and loved by a professional staff. Great Service Great People Bisconti wanted over $300 to fix my laptop and these guys fixed it for $90! Call them today! Had it fixed within a few days (had to order a part). Great Manicure This place offers a great manicure and pedicure. My nails looked great for the better part of 2 weeks! Also very friendly and the stylists are not in the "been there/done that" mood! Fast Service Called them one hour ago and they just left my house five minutes ago. My house already feels fresh and good thanks to the Battery Park Pest I'm enjoying my time indoors much better. no feathers in stock!!!! I was very upset when I went to Mother Plucker, they had NO FEATHERS and the quality is TERRIBLE. I had to dig in a bag to find one nice feather, what a joke! Gets the Job Done We have utilized Mr. Pozza and his firm twice now in our family and both times have been very pleased. I would not hesitate to use him again or refer him to my family or friends. Farrell Electric is a very good electrical contractor. I'm pleased that someone referred me to them for my commercial business. I own a property management firm and need a contractor with the credentials that Farrell Electric has. Cleanest guesthouse i have been to Stayed here for 2 nights. The owner was very friendly and helpful. The rooms were very clean and the breakfast was excellent. Good location and off road parking made our stay very convenient. These guys do great work at VERY reasonable prices. I have use them four times for fixing items from pushing out a dent in a bumper to fixing the fender on my beloved Miata. I have never been disappointed. Don't waste your money on the jukebox The bartender is a douchebag and he has a little console behind the bar where he can delete songs he doesn't like, and you end up paying for it. Not enough seating. spoken english rushi can ever & never forget the training undergone here which made my life step onto the successful job without any hurdles. The staff, material provided, infra structure, environment &low fees totally above the satisfactory mark Rubbish Took 1+ hour to deliver to Chatham, hair in food, driver didn't know area. Noticed a few of these Cookie cutter places opening in Summit and New Providence. Stick to Hop Hing, 20 year+ resident. Great place Really great service and kind staff. The haircut was inexpensive and so were the salon services (eyebrows were cheap!). It's a nice, relaxed place to get stuff done and relax. I plan on going again. Amazing customer service I think the women at this salon know that their business is based primarily from referrals. :) They were amazingly hospitable. Edit was the best massage therapist I've ever had and I would HIGHLY recommend her! good outside, bad inside the apartment only looks good outsize, inside is too bad. too many bugs some you even never seen before. the attitude of some staff is terrible, did not solve anything only say i can do nothing. great tmobile service I was with verizon and I checked my service with tmobile and it was great so I thought I would try tmobile. It turned out being very good quality tmobile service and I was happy with the new tmobile phone. Walgreens on University My pharmacy order is always correct and promptly delivered but the pharmacy staff are always very short with me and don't seem to like answering questions. Clean store, friendly check-out staff up front. Good selection. Great Place! Love this place!! Has another store in the st. charles mall. Place is next to carval and walmart. Dont go to the one by pepco, I got confused!!! Bad place. Go to ATLANTIC WIRELESS!! I love them!!! BEST DENTIST EVER - Very fast and efficient service. I have had several dentists in my life, but Dr. Deters is by far my favorite. I never wait in the waiting room more than two minutes and the cleanings are quick and painless. This is a great place to shop. I've been a regular customer at this store since it opened, and love the fact that all of the employees are friendly locals. Particularly the lady who operates the front register, she's very kind! AMAZING Absoul is the greatest donair man on the planet. Highly recommended. If you enjoy amazing things, you must go to World's Finest Donair. Lest you be lame!!! I give this place 11/10. 3 thumbs up. Bon appetit! Great quality doors and great quality people! The door is easy to use and it keeps the cold out during the winter. The sales staff and the installation staff were all easy to get along with. I highly recommend Garage Pros to my friends. umm... okay, I dont have a review, but why in the hell would you name your business something that has the initials KKK....is there something behind the scenes at this place? Like I'm legitimately concerned at this point...lol Fresh and Excellent Quality We order take out from here all the time and we are never disappointed. The food is always fresh and delicious. It can be a little on the spicy side but just ask them exactly what you want and they are very helpful. I really want to like this place since I work right around the corner. Unfortunately, I've given it a couple of tries at different times and decided to stop going. The employees don't really seem to enjoy what they are doing and it shows. Class act. It was late in the day and I was worried I would get charged an arm and a leg and have to wait forever. They picked my car up in Yarmouth and towed to Bath for a great price. Would do business with them again. Great service We at R&L Plumbing Services are pleased with your professionalism and the extra mile you went to get out computers working correctly, you will be our first call if anything happens again and we will refer you to other people with computer issues. Don't judge a book by its cover From the outside Ichiban looks like it will be terrible. This couldn't be farther from the truth. The food is amazing, and the prices cannot be beat. The sushi is great, and they have a great selection. Great work! The people at Gulf Coast Siding were very easy and clear to work with. They walked me through all the steps involved in the the installation project so that there were no surprises. I found them extremely professional and would highly recommend them. Thanks Natasha A real pleasure training with Natasha. Always professional and reliable, sessions are good fun and suitably challenging. She really listens to what it is you would like to achieve, and I am very happy with my results. I would highly recommend her services. slow service I used to take my cars there all thetime, but management changes hands too frequently, the service has been slow, and they often try to "add on" extra services, which sometimes is not needed. I dont go there anymore Great service These people were so helpful this week and did everything to sort out my windscreen and insurance. It was all sorted with no hassle at all and I'm really grateful - they were fab. The best customer service I've come across for long time. Absolutely amazing job! Susanna is the best dress maker/tailor I've ever come across in my whole life! She makes every item fit you perfectly. She is always so busy, too, which is a good indication of her talent. She's the best! teeth this dentist want to pull the tooth out always.. always wants to do the cheapest for his benefit.. not unless he knows you. and hopefully you do not know the same people because he tells others about you payment status. Which should be a private issue I hired this company to unlock my car. The price they gave was good so I said hey this seems great. After they showed up there was a little trouble to get my car unlocked, it took quite a bit of time but the job was well done. Bulwark regarding service by Eric Just wanted you to know that Eric came by as scheduled today and sprayed our house for scorpions. He seemed to understand how important it was for us to make sure the whole house was sprayed so he took his time. Thank you! A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE! I remain unhappy. I still have noticeable scarring. I still have surgically induced hair loss. My results were just AWFUL. My post-op treatment was TERRIBLE. I wouldn't recommend this place last year, and I certainly wouldn't recommend them this year. Hidden Treasure. Strip mall asian it is not! Go in and you will not think you are in Chesapeake. The setting feels like a Sushi bar in NYC; small, cozy, but with flair. Get great service, fantastic menu, and relax. Best in HR so far! Excellent medical care!!!!!! Highly recommend I went to this urgent care center and was blown away with their service. Finally a convenient place close to home. Wonderful staff and physician. Clean and superb. Thanks for the great care!!!! Will definitely go back when I need medical care. excellence in glasgow Iv just had my bmw z3 rear window replaced by the guys at kelvin trimmers. The team who work there are helpfull, friendly and extremely knowledgeable and will help you as much as they can with thier years of hands on practice. Highly recomended. My favorite place... My daughter and I stayed here again from the 7th to the 14th of December.yet again it was a great stay from begiinning to end.Okay our room was at times noisy but we were in a mega busy city at an extremely busy time of year. A Definite No Incompetent servers, kitchen and management. Expect either undercooked or mushy food and lackluster service. The investors put big bucks into the building but are clueless about what makes a good dining or bar experience. Even the least discriminating diner would know not to eat at Sprecher's. Wonderful Atmosphere I have been going there since I was a little girl and love the friendly and relaxing atmosphere. Dr. Stiefvater has always been very professional and helpful. I would recommend Bayside Chiropractic to anyone who is in need of a regular adjustment or is suffering from a chronic condition. Channel Guide Believe it or not, but the channel guide has been most helpful to my family members that visit and don't know where to start when it comes to watching satellite tv. I just give them guide and they can find anything they need. Thanks again, Directv. Michael helped shoot the majority of my firm's website and we could not have been happier. We went through six photographers to find the right photographers that would represent our firm in the light we wished to and Michael and his team made that happen. He's worth every penny. Average food and deathly slow service I have eaten here several times and everytime the service is slower than slow. One time we even left after sitting at the table for 20 minutes and not being greeted with a drink order. Ridiculous. There must be a better mexican place in Rockland. I am in love with the giant plate of nachos! Last time I went however, my beer was warm and the service was so-so. I get that careless teenager kind of treatment from some of their staff...perhaps they should hire more serious adults to help serve/cook. nice friendly local bagel place there might be bigger and more well known bagel places in the area but Family Bagels are nice people, small shop and incredibly friendly. While other may be ok waiting in line at Town Bagel we are happy with the quality and service we get at Family Bagels Very Mediocre donuts! The Donuts were very over proofed, making them stale and bready. The service was friendly and fast, but this just doesnt make up for the lack-luster product. We tried 4 different style of donuts, they were all the same when it came to quality. a staple! I live in the neighborhood and this place is one of my favorites for a tasty, quick and inexpensive meal. Branch out and try something other than the Pad Thai, the curries are fantastic. Fast and friendly service, they know my order when I walk in the door! On time, Clean and very nice I called over the weekend due to clogged kitchen sink. Scheduled appointment for 8:30 Monday morning. Rich was here before the scheduled time. He was very clean, very nice to work with and gave a very reasonable price. HIGHLY recommend. thanks Rich Seth K. Deep tissue massage helps with pain in neck and shoulders Seth provides deep tissue massage which has significantly reduced the pain in my neck and shoulders and added flexibility and movement back to the area. He listens and is excellent in diagnosing, addressing and explaining the specific issues and suggesting exercises to use. “While much of the digital transition is unprecedented in the United States, the peaceful transition of power is not,” Obama special assistant Kori Schulman wrote in a blog post Monday. 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Today, Khanzir may be a lonely pig, but he isn’t always alone. “We’ve requested other nations to help us populate the zoo with different species of animals, including a pig,” Saqib said. There was a time, Mr Panvalkar said, when he felt that they should leave the building. She has also been charged with trying to kill her two-year-old daughter. She killed Andre Price III by pressing his face into an air mattress in her sitting room before trying to do the same to her daughter, Angel, police said. "I'm going to jail either way, hope it was worth it." First one of the Yazidi women started crying, then one of her friends. Mr Osborne signed up with a US speakers agency after being sacked in July. Michael Fallon said the date for cutting the first steel would help secure new investment and safeguard hundreds of skilled jobs until 2035. The promise of new Royal Navy orders to secure the Clyde shipbuilding industry was made before the Scottish independence referendum in 2014. It's most obvious when a celebrity's name is initially quite rare. And by 2007, at the height of its popularity (and, perhaps, Knightley's) it was a top 50 name, with three times more babies named Keira than Kiera. The South Korean company initially thought a battery fault was to blame, and switched its own component for a third-party power cell. Several analysts have suggested Huawei is best placed to benefit from Samsung's setback. The Mate 9 phones lack an artificial intelligence interface, like the Google Assistant or Apple's Siri. But one travel expert warned in-flight internet was often unreliable and was unlikely to influence travellers' airline choices. "But it may be that BA and IAG have cracked it and can offer something vaguely reliable." The company told the BBC it would be the responsibility of each airline brand to decide whether to charge passengers an access fee. "Most people would find airport wi-fi more useful than being able to send emails on a plane." It's like a super power sometimes. The scheme makes money through sponsorship and advertising. The 10-week course has been "certified" by UK spy agency GCHQ. But some security experts raised questions about the need for the course and the intent behind it. Previously the jets had only been seen by bloggers. Naturally China will be presenting plenty of other military hardware this week from attack helicopters to seaplanes. And with China set to become the world's biggest aviation market in the next decade, the show is an opportunity for Beijing to demonstrate its ambitions in civil aviation as well as defence. "Unfortunately once again the few ruin it for the many," wrote Jesse LaBrocca, founder of Hack Forums, in a message explaining why the section was being closed. The "recent events" are likely to be the attacks of 21 October that briefly took down popular websites such as Reddit, Twitter and Spotify as well as many others. Analysis revealed that historic amounts of data had been used to cause the disruption. A UN review of national plans to cut carbon says they are well short of the levels needed to keep the rise in global temperatures under 2C. Many scientists say that technology to remove carbon from the air will now be needed to meet the Paris targets. "We are moving in the right direction: the Paris Agreement will slow climate change, as will the recent Kigali Amendment to reduce HFCs," said Erik Solheim, head of UN Environment. Investments in this area were up by 6% in 2015 to $221bn. It's fantastic that they got the Paris Agreement but their contributions at the moment are nowhere near the 1.5-degree target. It was conducted just off the Mexican coast from April to June. This will put new limits on the nature of the environmental changes that overtook the Earth and sent so many species - not just the dinosaurs - into oblivion. A telltale of this meteoritic material will likely be high levels of the element iridium. Just over 70% of the plants grown from Earth seeds were alive after 17 days - just slightly more than the plants grown from space seeds - just over 66%. The results from this experiment provides further support that rocket seeds can be flown and stored on the International Space Station for six months without having any significant impacts on their ability to germinate and grow on Earth. The RHS collected comments sent in by schoolchildren and teachers involved in the experiment. "There is still a 'yuk' factor to the whole idea of buying and wearing other people's body parts," she says. In China the hair is typically put in a chemical bath to remove the cuticle completely, Tarlo explains. Throughout history, the international hair market has always had a political dimension, says Tarlo. "Tonight we are carrying out punishments using a high beam," the post reads. Shenzhen's traffic police have opted for unconventional penalties before. Who are they? Much of the debate, from the Democratic side this year, has been about white male identity. I asked her afterwards if she understood why people might vote for Trump. Not everyone can rise above it. "Luckily, someone in Sony Australia was like, 'Hey, by the way, did you guys notice this?'" says Pall. Seagal made headlines when he described Russia's actions in Crimea, which it annexed in 2014, as "very reasonable". A keen guitarist, he played a concert there the same year. Seagal, whose grandmother was from Vladivostok in Russia's far east, has made frequent trips to Russia in recent years and visited Kamchatka and Sakhalin in September. Earlier this year Seagal was given Serbian nationality after offering to set up a martial arts school in the capital Belgrade. A police spokesman told the Associated Press there was "an exchange of words" followed by an "altercation" but that no injuries had been reported. Cuaron, whose last film was the Oscar-winning Gravity, was reportedly not on set at the time of the incident. According to the city's police department, a fight broke out after "a large group of people... who identified themselves as district authorities" arrived on set on Tuesday. Researchers have been investigating potential for male hormonal contraceptives for around 20 years. He added: "This has been one step in a long journey of finding the right combination for male hormonal contraception." However there are many MLAs with deeply-held religious beliefs who oppose any new legislation. Researchers say analysing tumour DNA may help explain the underlying causes of other cancers. The analysis shows a direct link between the number of cigarettes smoked in a lifetime and the number of mutations in tumour DNA. However, they could not find this same pattern in tissues such as the bladder, which are not directly exposed. Ms Pugh has received treatment at Papworth and Addenbrooke's Hospitals in Cambridgeshire. But a scan has shown the tumour in Ms Pugh's right lung is growing, and she has had to leave the trial. "If Donald Trump becomes president, the government here will still have to work with him to advance whatever shared agenda there is, to ensure that Canadian businesses and interests are represented in Washington." Trudeau will extend that invitation to the 45th president of the United States, whoever he or she may be. Despite the release of a photo this morning, police in B.C. say they have more questions than answers about an apparently homeless man charged in the fatal stabbing of a teen girl at her Abbotsford high school. Police in B.C. said earlier Klein did not appear to have a criminal history and released vague details about his recent whereabouts. "We do not believe the suspect has ties to this school, or to the two girls, or specifically to the Abbotsford area," she said. He also said Klein was uncommunicative, uncooperative and unwilling to walk up from cells under the courthouse to attend his hearing. The association that represents real estate agents in Ontario says more needs to be done to protect consumers and punish agents found to have engaged in unethical behaviour. He'd also like to see greater enforcement and investigative powers for the Real Estate Council of Ontario (RECO), which regulates agents in the province. Currently, the maximum fine RECO can levy against an agent is $25,000. But China's growing middle class has been unusually vocal in its complaints about toxic air in cities like Beijing, which can see day after day of lung-choking smog. "We are seeing many, many countries and especially large new emitters like Brazil, South Africa, India and China stepping up to the plate in terms of playing a role in reducing emissions," said Guilbeault. He could also wait until the end of his first term to use a provision in the Paris agreement to pull out of the pact. Clinton and allies, meanwhile, are seeking to keep the spotlight on Trump, charging that his disparaging comments about women and minorities, and his temperament make him unfit for office. That's not what we need in our country, folks. Trump's wife, Melania Trump, made her first appearance on the trail since the Republican convention in July. Students like Rai have been meeting with counsellors at the school to talk about what happened, but she said the biggest comfort has come from seeing her friends. "This is a disaster for pain patients," Mailis said in an interview Thursday with CBC News. "Physicians don't have these tools, they have only a prescription pad and an injection," Mailis said. The Ontario Independent Police Review Director, Gerry McNeilly, set the terms for his review this week after "alarming questions" were raised about how officers interact with Indigenous peoples. The review is also investigating inflammatory Facebook posts from September, alleged to come from police officers in the northern Ontario city. The executives also received so-called "performance pay" for succeeding or surpassing expectations, sharing a pot of $1.5 million among them, or an estimated $15,000 each on average. Its annual budget is more than $1.4 billion, and it employs more than 6,000 people. The federal government proactively reports on aggregate performance pay and bonus levels for each department, but the latest web posting is for 2013-2014 — or two years out of date. The total for performance pay and bonus that year was $1.5 million, about the same level as for 2015-2016. Gomery, who led the commission of inquiry into the federal sponsorship scandal between 2004 and 2006, said such bodies are essential to help restore public confidence in the rule of law. That led to revelations over the last two days that at least six other Quebec journalists were targeted by provincial police surveillance operations. "There should be no preferential access to government, or appearance of preferential access, accorded to individuals or organizations because they have made financial contributions to politicians and political parties," the guidelines read. The judge in Duffy's fraud and breach of trust trial ultimately ruled they were within the Senate's rules when he cleared Duffy of all charges. Our cellphones are so much more than phones these days. "It is amazing," reported SaskTel unlimited data customer Lindsay Gay last month. He also pointed out that Rogers recently introduced a new app tool that helps customers monitor their data usage. That's what keeps us coming back for more. "These estimates coincide with the percentages of new condos entering the rental market upon completion, indicating the important role (domestic) investors play in the GTA housing market." "This strain helps with back pain, this strain helps with nausea, this product makes you sleep at night," says Dietrich from the company's headquarters in Denver, Colorado, where pot is sold legally. But without a legislative framework, and with the grassroots origins of pot as a mood-altering folk remedy, companies are left guessing. Iron is an essential element the body requires to produce hemoglobin, the protein found in red blood cells that's responsible for transporting oxygen to tissues in the body. The current waiting period is eight weeks. It's possible to have normal hemoglobin levels, but to have low iron stores overall, says Canadian Blood Services (CBS). The new iron guidelines mean more donors are needed. What started as a routine ultrasound became complicated when expectant mother Margaret Boemer, of Plano, Texas, was told her unborn child had a rare condition and needed surgery to survive. A sacrococcygeal teratoma is a tumour that develops before birth and grows from a baby's tailbone. It is the most common tumour found in babies, occurring in one of every 35,000 births. She was 84 years old. He described her as a "remarkable" and "loving and wonderful" woman who left her mark in the literary world with her stories. "Some men get it and Bono is one of those guys," Leive said in a recent interview. At just 20, she is a strong voice against bullying and a positive one in helping girls embrace their own standards of beauty. "Her voice literally went around the world," Leive said. As soon as the official party photos were released, social media lit up with comments — and they were less than favourable. Many people, including Indigenous groups, argue they trivialize First Nations culture. The purpose of these CRTC hearings is to field responses from industry stakeholders and the public. This would not only apply to entertainment content, but equally to education, to scientific research and, perhaps most importantly, to political discourse. After all, the internet is not a luxury; it is an essential tool. The debris formed a ring around the Earth's equator and was eventually drawn together by gravity to form the moon. Still, there are questions left unanswered. In the town of Hillsborough, just outside Chapel Hill, someone firebombed the Republican Party headquarters last month. After North Carolina passed its restrictive voting-rights bill in 2013, Campbell went around to churches teaching people how to deal with challenges to their registration. He could detect the effects of the election around him, in the bursts of conflict and the curious intersection of new ideas with old ones. This discordance between economic data and political rhetoric is familiar, or should be. Republican economists caution against taking this data as proof that their party is lousy at economic policy. “I don’t know what G.D.P. growth was during the Washington and Lincoln Administrations, but the institutional developments in those terms had large and long-lasting effects.” There are more differences between Sulla and Trump, Rome and the U.S., than there are similarities, but that doesn’t discredit the resemblances. And, she granted, “you have to look at where she has acknowledged that we need to do something different—we can do better—and where she has expressed regret.” But, as the criticism of Clinton as First Lady became more caustic, Karel became more empathetic. “When I’m playing him, I feel powerful,” the Donald Trump impersonator John Di Domenico explained to Slate last year. As the hysteria of the 2016 Presidential election intensifies, a more troubling threat than bullshit preoccupies Karel. They’re usually artists who want to do a bunch of stuff. Then the commercial ends. Miami Bass producers were clinical in the art of moving butts—their main concern. In a recent interview, Zay and Zayion described recording their version of “Knuck If You Buck” on a home laptop. But challenges, and the songs that score them, add a connective, traceable nervous system to the writhing mass of grainy video loops. Their revivals underscore the appeal of a good challenge, artistic or otherwise: discomfort, growth, and a meaningful connection. It would be much safer, Plato thought, to entrust power to carefully educated guardians. Like many people I know, I’ve spent recent months staying up late, reading polls in terror. Caplan dismisses retrospective voting, quoting a pair of scholars who call it “no more rational than killing the pharaoh when the Nile does not flood.” But there was nothing else obviously artistic about her or in her behavior with other people. In 2010, the foundation released a typeset edition of “Zettel’s Traum,” removing the bar to entry for those who balked at the draft-like feel of the photo-offset. Corresponding with Woods by e-mail, I tried my hand at uncovering an etym. “Complete neglect of his own health,” his wife, Alice, reported. Each map in the exhibition tells its own story, not all factual. Also being exhibited for the first time are British Ministry of Defence maps which imagine cold war battles and which were used in military college exams. The constituency is in the council area of North Kesteven, where 62% of voters backed leaving the EU. His skill in getting answers for taxpayers will be sorely missed. Christian Wolmar, who has written a number of books on railway history, will stand in the contest on 1 December. The Liberal Democrats, who represented the affluent suburb until 2010, are hoping to snatch it back with their candidate Sarah Olney. Meanwhile, the estranged wife of a government whip has launched her campaign to take the seat. He was utterly gracious and took it like a man, I am beyond furious. More than 330 crew are onboard the ship. Vega suggested that, because of their age, many would be unaware of its history. People got killed there. A coal-fired power station in Badarpur, south-east Delhi, will stop operating for 10 days, along with diesel generators in the city. He then spent four years with BBC World Service radio at Bush House. He worked for the BBC for a decade. One of their many grieving Facebook posts has a line which would have delighted Chris: “More African than you, I have not known.” Who can stop this Australia side? Was their divine right to the mantle as the world’s best no longer warranted? They have one crack at redemption, beating England. South Africa are almost at the point of no return and we have to be able to match their desire. He has got that hard edge to his game but also the soft hands. We have a great squad and it is an opportunity for us to take the ship forward. You have to stand up to that and I would rather someone ran at me rather than round me. It was as though he was flicking the ball back and forth underneath three upturned cups. Australia, hardened by their recent games in the Rugby Championship, were in a higher gear. A Donald Trump victory would immediately make the world more worrying and unsettled than it already is. Mrs Clinton has a reputation for a hawkish outlook, but this will be tempered by war-weary public opinion in the US. He’s spoken in favour of torture. I also struggle with passwords. Then there are the so-called true stories that get posted in a series of meaningful pictures with text running underneath. Of course, I do understand that modern-day Germany must be separated from the Nazi regime. In the corner is a girl in a headscarf and jeans who looks so unassuming I think it’s another assistant. Artists reach people at their heart; it’s the only time we meet in one place and put our differences aside. His more unusual accolades include global ambassador for New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, and a place at Harvard Business School. I can just do that with my life. I wanted to watch it with them, but they decided they’d rather watch it without me in the end. We can’t let the presidency go to Donald Trump, someone so racist, sexist and incredibly unqualified to be commander-in-chief. “More people are turning to credit … While this borrowing might be manageable now, a sudden change in circumstances could lead to debt problems.” Her reason is that it provides insufficient protection to American workers whose jobs and living standards it might harm. In this context, railing against trade makes sense. Theoretically, a couple could open four Tesco accounts and earn 3% on £12,000 – £360. Meanwhile, Bank of Scotland customers earn 3% on balances of £3,000-£5,000 when they add the free Vantage option to their account. With this, in theory, you are able to access your money whenever you like. That 3% rate also applies to Nectar cardholders looking to borrow from £15,001-£19,999 over a period of between two and three years. Sulphur is a key plant nutrient vital to healthy growth, but UK soils are naturally deficient in this essential mineral. Fast forward to 2016 and this is increasingly worthy of attention. Surprising as it may seem, even acid rain clouds can have a silver lining. The world may be enraging and absurd – yet at least someone has the self-respect to keep protesting against that fact. You end up listening more acutely for the next noise and getting more irritated when it comes. That’s just legitimately horrendous. It’s fair to say that Rocco Catalano works, lives and breathes retro. I think that’s why they immersed themselves in pattern and colour. Catalano moved back to the area after living in London and then Glasgow, where he had studied jewellery design at Glasgow School of Art. “I loved the tropical colours,” he says. “I visit the degree shows at Northampton University to spot new talent,” he says. But, when I suggest that she get Frank to model for her, she laughs. Naturally, the office landscape features many clothes and little in the way of food. Wintour herself appears briefly, and is filmed putting her sunglasses on before being interviewed. I looked at motocross and the more I looked, this one woman’s face kept coming up, in photographs that looked as if they were from the 1970s. I love to play with that and I am always looking for muses that fit that bill because it is so interesting making a collection when I find one. At best it is naive and at worst it would yet again let the shooting lobby off the hook. Their head of nature policy, Jeff Knott, stated: “I’d be amazed if either a ban or licensing was introduced off the back of it”. The RSPB’s stance has also brought it into conflict with many leading conservationists, from the author of the petition, Mark Avery, to the TV presenter Chris Packham. Let’s just say he’s wrong. And what about Australia’s position? On this, one diary point in Morocco will be the middle Saturday, when developed countries get to publicly question each other about their plans and ambitions. “We are actively thinking of possible ways to limit the scope of litigation to only those with a real standing in a project,” he was quoted as saying. “Celtic Sea cod could collapse,” without the proposed limits, one EU official said. But big reductions have also been pencilled in for cod, sole, plaice, megrim and pollack in the Celtic and Irish Seas. Conservationists welcomed the commission’s announcement. Only 50 were marketplaces. “Agora was invitation-only but many of these marketplaces are easily accessible if you know how to search,” Dr Lee adds. They didn’t have them in our day, and people without children express through their disapproval all their hatred of modern parenting. I don’t call it a beast lightly. Day three, I was back on the EMicro. The world – and by extension the UK – is facing a shortage of people with the skills needed to mount an effective defence. Companies may try to set up a firewall between sensitive systems and foreign powers, but it does not always work. But they can at least lay booby-traps to confuse and deter – a concept known as “active defence”. After I discovered a rich seam of internet discussion on the subject, my list had grown inordinately long and covered almost every state in the union. I spotted a few. My next stop was Bellingham, right up near the Canadian border. Back on the train, we continue southwards. A small town with two minarets glides by. At each station, a red-capped guard presides over the platform and a wheel-tapper walks along the train with a hammer, gently knocking the undercarriage. Afterwards, browse at the morning market (6.30-10am): rice lollipops, wasp cocoons (the pupae are considered a delicacy), buffalo lung, betel-nut bark and leaves, live toads and catfish. The intervention is potentially the most far-reaching by Beijing since the 1997 handover of Hong Kong from the UK. The oath involves lawmakers swearing allegiance to Hong Kong as part of the People’s Republic of China. The Hong Kong government, which is led by pro-Beijing lawmakers, have argued that the pair should not take office. “Beijing believes its intervention is necessary to prevent a continued legislative paralysis in the city,” he said. Hong Kong, meanwhile, appears to be bracing for a wave of protests. He told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show: “A general election is frankly the last thing that the Government wants.” It is his dream to end his career here. To draw a game you have dominated is easy to brush off, but to do so three times is a row suggests a weakness. We are so disappointed because we have dropped six points playing at home. That was definitely the case for Andy when he played Benoît Paire in Monte Carlo in April. But right now everything is out of kilter and he seems to be seeking answers all the time. I also wonder whether the Davis Cup played a part. The annual survey also revealed that worries about taking on fresh financial burdens has rocketed. Ms Hopley added: “The spike in political risk should not go unnoticed.” News of the company’s deceit - which had run for years - wiped tens of billions of euros from VW's value and cost chief executive Martin Winterkorn his job. It has also opened VW up to huge compensation claims, legal action and has seen it take more than €16bn of provisions. The probe began in June, focusing on Mr Winterkorn and brand chief Herbert Diess, who remains at the car maker. He was promoted to chairman in October 2015, the month after the scandal was unearthed. Businesses had expected to start contracting in July, immediately after the Brexit vote, but instead have managed to keep growing steadily. Retail and wholesale businesses expanded as shoppers remained upbeat, and consumer services companies also grew. There will be limits to his ability to spend, however, as the Government is still running a substantial budget deficit. The cost will change monthly and the price is expected to rise in winter as usage increases. Eon’s fixed rate tariff costs £760 and Avro Energy customers would pay around £760 for its Simple and Select tariff. Or is it an expensive standard or prepayment tariff? An investor with average luck and £10,000 in bonds could expect to receive £125 in prizes per year. If they did, Premium Bonds would be indistinguishable from ordinary savings accounts. The money invested in Premium Bonds, and in other National Savings & Investments accounts, is used to help fund Government spending. This has not stopped investors flocking to put their money in the funds. It was followed by the Aviva Investors Multi Strategy Target Return and Income funds, into which investors put £2bn and £1.4bn respectively. This means that they have not benefited from the uplift that the fall in sterling has given to overseas assets. Adidas is helping to clean up the Earth's oceans by using the waste floating around the world to make shoes. The consumer can boost the demand for change. A major report in January said oceans would contain more plastic than fish by 2050 unless the world took radical action to stop rubbish leaking into the seas. After some genius surgery and a lot of very tough rehab, I have made a full recovery. Warning that the NHS was now under "enormous pressure," he urged the public to take more responsibility for their own health. Four in 10 adults have been injured due to bad weather while nine in 10 underestimate how chilly Britain can get in the winter time. They will play on Saturday, 10 June. Last year was an incredible year and I’m ready for us to come back even better in 2017. She started out at the RSC in the mid-Sixties playing an asylum-inmate in Marat/Sade. The dress is contemporary. Where does all her energy come from? Or that voice, which can blast out with a force to induce shockwaves? Her neck pushes forward in vein-accentuating confrontation, her hands shake. But having allowed Glenda to score such a blinder, who can blame it? He worked on the news and current affairs side of radio and TV for decades. In theory, if done right, it’s un-detectable. Drop the mic. According to the director's own count, to date he has made eight feature films. "Cinema had changed so drastically that Hollywood had alienated the family audience." From the director's point of view, the film is a precarious balancing act, between cheery family hijinks and hard-hitting social drama. On one level, it works as an amiable, unpretentious heartwarmer that seems tailor-made for Sunday afternoon viewing. And, of course, there's Bob, a constant source of entertainment. The result, then, is hardly the cat's pyjamas. To modern audiences, most of whom will have little experience of frontline conflict, Doss’s feats belong to the realm of the unimaginable. Doss’s story also has an unlikely quality to it that makes it all the more appealing. All the medics were armed, except me. When Millican died, we assumed that was the last we’d see of glitchy, twitchy Odi too. Is series two working so far? “Superheroes are outside of human experience and so is this, so I treated it like a drama,” Zimmer says. But Cotton’s dark deeds did not occur due to some sort of compulsion to kill. Cotton was born on October 31, 1832, in a village near Sunderland. Perhaps it won’t matter as I won’t be troubled long. No longer a throwback to the Seventies, flock – or coating a surface is material – is flying again. London’s landmark South Bank Tower commissioned interior designer Rachel Winham to design the show apartment. Of course, the tactile trend is closely linked to our growing obsession with making things. Two years later, Jutting, now 31, is on trial at Hong Kong's High Court, charged with two counts of murder and one of preventing lawful burial. I don't know why I chose her ... In Hong Kong's High Court, two years later, Jutting appeared largely composed. After all, our organizational performance is seldom measured in terms of how safe we are or how many rules we follow. As a result, many people quickly open emails or mindlessly click on links and attachments with nary a thought of its consequences. First, we must educate people on how to protect themselves better online. Finally, we must make it easy for people to report suspected breaches and malicious emails. Voting has, in the vernacular of terror, become the new soft target. This is a homeland security issue of the most existential kind. Tuesday is all about getting out the vote, but it means nothing if a registered voter isn't on the list. Enough of those, in a highly contested area, will lead to chaos election day. North Carolina is ground zero in this election. Donald Trump is a pompous, arrogant, entitled person that cares about himself, and his temperament is toxic to the United States. More than 5.7 million Floridians have already hit the polls after about two weeks of in-person early voting. The GOP lead was carried by strong numbers in absentee voting, and their overall edge stood at about 16,500 earlier this week. It's the election, of course, not "Game of Thrones." Martin has yet to finish two of the remaining books in his acclaimed series, currently billed as "The Winds of Winter" and "A Dream of Spring." The Dutch students have yet to decide if they will be commercializing their electric motorcycle. A Harley-Davidson spokeswoman said timelines that have been floated in the media -- 2017 or 2020 -- aren't accurate. U.S. stock futures are surging by more than 1%, alongside European markets. Investors are selling out of government bonds, with U.S. and Australian bonds feeling the biggest impact. He is credited with helping efforts to tackle the mountain of debt accumulated by local governments in China. But it only came forward after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency alerted the world to the issue. China's insatiable appetite for fried chicken used to be a big reason why investors loved KFC-parent Yum Brands. With help from the American Civil Liberties Union, they eventually challenged the state, in a case that eventually went to the U.S. Supreme Court. As the movie makes clear, the Lovings -- and Richard in particular -- were reluctant participants in history. "Loving" opens with Richard and Mildred already a couple, eliding over a courtship that would have been interesting to see, if only in brief. Celebrities, fans and even CNN reporters are dressing up like "Stranger Things" characters this holiday. I hadn't seen a lot of the episodes and then my phone started lighting up. As one of Negan's (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) top guys, he's afforded certain freedoms. "Norman is one of my good buddies, so it totally sucked to see him in that emotional state." New episodes are followed by after show, "The Talking Dead." "In the cities where we've launched or are under construction, our work will continue," Barratt said. The Internet effort was said to be the main driver of capital expenditures for the unit. For now, analysts are hesitant to write off the service for dead. In the Netherlands, authorities have taken a lower-tech approach to tracking drones. Microsoft announced on Wednesday a new workplace chat tool poised to take on industry darling Slack. There's also an option to send emoji, GIFs, custom memes and stickers via the platform, and connect your Twitter feed. The move highlighted the company's desire for users to start thinking of its products as more than just productivity tools. But its latest effort into the workplace chat game is a part of a larger trend from tech companies. Isner, who produced some of his best tennis as he leveled at one set all and forced a decider, also paid his tribute. "I have to congratulate Andy -- to get to No. 1 in the world that's an incredible achievement," the American said. "Pair prank their way into North Korean golf tournament," read Brisbane's Nine News. Two Australians, who by their own admission are terrible golfers, bluffed their way into a premier golf tournament in North Korea. Snowman would jump the high fencing that separated the two properties and always return to where he felt was home. He kept on turning up at my barn and I joked to the guy that clearly he didn't want to be sold. "Snowman didn't think anything of Johnny Carson getting a step ladder and sitting back to front on him," he adds. I was just a boy with muddy shoes. There is no parade and there never has been. It's an event Mexico hopes will eventually rival the Carnival of Brazil. Alejandra González Anaya, one of the parade's creative directors, explained to CNN why Mexico have decided now is the time to put on such a show. "There are 1200 volunteers working for the parade alone," González Anaya says. So it's wonderful to be able to rescue that and bring it to a new format and a new tradition for Mexicans. By completing this maglev line, I think the government is expecting bigger economical development in Japan. An F1 ticket grants access to the concert on the same day. The Yas Marina Circuit website has exact timings. For anyone who wants to see the capital in all its glory, November's a great time to go. It's also fuelled the emergence of modern high-rises -- like the visionary MahaNakhon, Bangkok's tallest building. Not all transformations in the region have been successful. Buried 100 meters (328 feet) underground, the Pyongyang Metro is one of the deepest commuter systems in the world. She spoke to CNN Style about the experience. In Pyongyang I did see some people on their smartphones, but far fewer. "But architecture can build a bridge between the living and the dead and, to some extent, blur the boundaries." When people die of old age in India, it is supposed to be a celebration. Designed by Juan Carlos Salas, the award-winning building has a sculptural appearance and every detail carries meaning. "Architecture won't help deceased people, but it helps to keep their memories alive among the living," he says. The charter allowed for the creation of a merchants' guild, run by the town's burgesses to tax people passing through the borough. It is exceptionally rich in minerals, containing large deposits of gold, diamonds, and ores of manganese, lead, zinc, nickel, cobalt and molybdenum. Outside the extreme northwest, the taiga is dominant, covering a significant fraction of the entirety of Siberia. The 2019 Winter Universiade will be hosted by Krasnoyarsk. Examples are the Line Islands in the Pacific and the Maldives in the Indian Ocean. Granite islands include Seychelles and Tioman and volcanic islands such as Saint Helena. An example of a desert island would be the small islands off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. The Greek city-state of Athens in the 5th century BC, which was dependent on grain imports from Scythia, maintained critical alliances with cities which controlled the straits, such as the Megarian colony Byzantium. Darius's highly regarded commander Megabazus was responsible to fulfill the conquers in the Balkans. The Achaemenid troops conquered Thrace, the coastal Greek cities, and the Paeonians. Eventually, in about 512-511 BC, the Macedonian king Amyntas I accepted the Achaemenid domination and surrendered his country as a vassal state to the Achaemenid Persia. The multi-ethnic Achaemenid army possessed many soldiers from the Balkans. Moreover, many of the Macedonian and Persian elite intermarried. In 1912 was founded the first film company (Athina Film) and in 1916 the Asty Film. In 2007 the most successful film was El Greco, directed by Yannis Smaragdis. In July 1918, the Franco-Monegasque Treaty was signed, providing for limited French protection over Monaco. The executive branch consists of a Minister of State as the head of government, who presides over a five-member Council of Government. Its police includes a special unit which operates patrol and surveillance boats. Current land reclamation projects include extending the district of Fontvieille. However, there are important differences in law and procedure between Northern Ireland and England and Wales. The Bergeron classification is the most widely accepted form of air mass classification. While air mass identification was originally used in weather forecasting during the 1950s, climatologists began to establish synoptic climatologies based on this idea in 1973. A monsoon is a seasonal prevailing wind which lasts for several months, ushering in a region's rainy season. A variety of Germanic and major Slavic tribes crossed through Moravia during the Migration Period before Slavs established themselves in the 6th century AD. At the end of the 8th century, the Moravian Principality came into being in present-day south-eastern Moravia, Záhorie in south-western Slovakia and parts of Lower Austria. In 833 AD, this became the state of Great Moravia with the conquest of the Principality of Nitra (present-day Slovakia). Their first king was Mojmír I (ruled 830–846). Louis the German invaded Moravia and replaced Mojmír I with his nephew Rastiz who became St. Rastislav. In addition, statute determines the election of assembly of regions, and metropolitan districts. Although Iceland was under the political control of Denmark until a much later date (1918), very little influence and borrowing from Danish has occurred in the Icelandic language. There are also languages derived from Finnish, having evolved separately, known as Meänkieli in Sweden and Kven in Norway. Consonant gradation is a feature in both Finnish and northern Sami dialects, but it is not present in south Sami, which is considered to have a different language history. The northern portion of the Caucasus is known as the Ciscaucasus and the southern portion as the Transcaucasus. The atmosphere is a chaotic system, so small changes to one part of the system can grow to have large effects on the system as a whole. During rains precipitation, the water droplets absorb and dissolve carbon dioxide from the surrounding air. A recent example of weather control was China's preparation for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. Shaped by global plate tectonic forces that have created the East African Rift, East Africa is the site of Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya, the two tallest peaks in Africa. The latter also spread Islam to the coastal belt, but most Bantu never had contact with Islam and remained African Traditional Religion adherents. France integrated the economy of Cameroun with that of France and improved the infrastructure with capital investments and skilled workers, modifying the system of forced labour. On 1 October 1961, the formerly British Southern Cameroons united with French Cameroun to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon. Department of Labor Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor reported that 56% of children aged 5 to 14 were working children and that almost 53% of children aged 7 to 14 combined work and school. The Sahel's climate is similar to, but less extreme than, the climate of the Sahara desert located just to the north. In June to August 2010 famine struck the Sahel. Several ancient civilisations were located around the Mediterranean shores, and were greatly influenced by their proximity to the sea. It provided routes for trade, colonisation, and war, as well as food (from fishing and the gathering of other seafood) for numerous communities throughout the ages. Due to the shared climate, geology, and access to the sea, cultures centered on the Mediterranean tended to have some extent of intertwined culture and history. Two of the most notable Mediterranean civilisations in classical antiquity were the Greek city states and the Phoenicians, both of which extensively colonised the coastlines of the Mediterranean. Later, when Augustus founded the Roman Empire, the Romans referred to the Mediterranean as Mare Nostrum ("Our Sea"). The Blindleia is a skerry-protected waterway that starts near Kristiansand in southern Norway, and continues past Lillesand. In Danish, the word may even apply to shallow lagoons. Like fjords, freshwater lakes are often deep. Alcoholic drinks like beer, mead, bjórr (a strong fruit wine) and, for the rich, imported wine, were served. Whatever the rules were, the fights often resulted in the death of one of the stallions. The Schlei and the wetlands between the Danevirke and Husum had frozen solid in a hard winter, and the territory immediately south of the Danevirke had been conquered by the advancing German army. This retreat came as a surprise to the Austro-Prussian army, and almost all of the Danish army succeeded in completing the evacuation. It resulted, however, in the abandonment of important pieces of heavy artillery, and it remains a matter of historical debate why the railway to Flensburg was never properly used for the evacuation. News of the retreat came as a great shock to Danish public opinion which had considered the Danevirke to be impregnable, and General de Meza was promptly relieved of his command. The Danevirke has remained in German possession ever since. The amount of goods transported on the Danube increased to about 100 million tons in 1987. The greater part of the Danube Delta lies in Romania (Tulcea county), while its northern part, on the left bank of the Chilia arm, is situated in Ukraine (Odessa Oblast). The climate is so dry that these plains are sometimes thought of as part of the Sahara. It differs from the western portion of the country in that its prominent topographic features do not parallel the coast. Northern Algeria is in the temperate zone and enjoys a mild, Mediterranean climate. The first and foremost was the Ohio River, which flowed into the Mississippi River. At the heart of the conflict was the question of whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free state or slave state. National reaction to the events in Kansas demonstrated how deeply divided the country had become. In color, the leaves show a great variety of greens, ranging from yellowish to bluish. Native Americans across the Americas relied on it as a staple of their medical treatments. Christian churches in northwestern Europe and Ukraine often used willow branches in place of palms in the ceremonies on Palm Sunday. The Alps provide lowland Europe with drinking water, irrigation, and hydroelectric power. Although the area is only about 11 percent of the surface area of Europe, the Alps provide up to 90 percent of water to lowland Europe, particularly to arid areas and during the summer months. Cities such as Milan depend on 80 percent of water from Alpine runoff. Water from the rivers is used in over 500 hydroelectricity power plants, generating as much as 2900 kilowatts of electricity. Major European rivers flow from Switzerland, such as the Rhine, the Rhône, the Inn, the Ticino and the Po, all of which have headwaters in the Alps and flow into neighbouring countries, finally emptying into the North Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, the Adriatic Sea and the Black Sea. The study of volcanoes is called volcanology, sometimes spelled vulcanology. This magma tends to be very viscous due to its high silica content, so it often does not reach the surface but cools at depth. They generally do not explode catastrophically. Global warming has caused a change in the pattern of the rainy seasons. It contains a tiny lagoon, which has all but dried up. It was declared a wildlife sanctuary in 1975. Investigation and expeditions to the island continue. Such settlements probably began around 1000 BC, when eastern Melanesians travelled north. During the family's years in Kentucky and Indiana, Thomas Lincoln worked as a farmer, cabinetmaker, and carpenter. Habitat destruction vastly increases an area's vulnerability to natural disasters like flood and drought, crop failure, spread of disease, and water contamination. On the other hand, a healthy ecosystem with good management practices will reduce the chance of these events happening, or will at least mitigate adverse impacts. Agricultural land can actually suffer from the destruction of the surrounding landscape. Over the past 50 years, the destruction of habitat surrounding agricultural land has degraded approximately 40% of agricultural land worldwide via erosion, salinization, compaction, nutrient depletion, pollution, and urbanization. Humans also lose direct uses of natural habitat when habitat is destroyed. Papua New Guinea is often labelled as potentially the worst place in the world for gender violence. These plant families are still present in Papua New Guinea. North America and South America are treated as separate continents in the seven-continent model. Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to the West Indies in 1492, sparking a period of European exploration of the Americas. These are not very popular due to the often remote and roadless locations. Various private interests own the remaining land, totaling about one percent of the state. This is also the only region in Alaska in which the average daytime high temperature is above freezing during the winter months. Numerous indigenous peoples occupied Alaska for thousands of years before the arrival of European peoples to the area. It was here they stole a small canoe left by the Australian Aborigines of the region. As Brisbane grew, the condition of the river worsened until at its worst it was no more than an open sewer and waste dump. 1987 was proclaimed the "Year of the River" by the Lord Mayor of Brisbane at the time, Sallyanne Atkinson. Sand and dust storms are natural events that occur in arid regions where the land is not protected by a covering of vegetation. Dust storms usually start in desert margins rather than the deserts themselves where the finer materials have already been blown away. As a steady wind begins to blow, fine particles lying on the exposed ground begin to vibrate. At greater wind speeds, some particles are lifted into the air stream. When they land, they strike other particles which may be jerked into the air in their turn, starting a chain reaction. However, in Thailand, urbanization has also resulted in massive increases in problems such as obesity. Thunderstorms are rare, as the city reports thunder on just seven days per year. By 1340, Cairo had a population of close to half a million, making it the largest city west of China. Meanwhile, additional controls of the Nile fostered development within Gezira Island and along the city's waterfront. Nevada's industrial outputs are tourism, mining, machinery, printing and publishing, food processing, and electric equipment. The name "Caribbean" derives from the Caribs, one of the dominant Native American groups in the region at the time of European contact during the late 15th century. After the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus in 1492, the Spanish term Antillas applied to the lands; stemming from this, "Sea of the Antilles" became a common alternative name for "Caribbean Sea" in various European languages. During the first century of development, Spanish dominance in the region remained undisputed. From the 16th century, Europeans visiting the Caribbean region identified the "South Sea" (the Pacific Ocean, to the south of the isthmus of Panama) as opposed to the "North Sea" (the Caribbean Sea, to the north of the same isthmus). The Caribbean Sea had been unknown to the populations of Eurasia until 1492, when Christopher Columbus first sailed into Caribbean waters on a quest to find a sea route to Asia. Unfortunately, rapid population growth and urban sprawl has covered much of these ecosystems with development. Cape Town's local government is the City of Cape Town, which is a metropolitan municipality. The essay, published as Undersea, was a vivid narrative of a journey along the ocean floor. She also took advantage of her personal connections with many government scientists, who supplied her with confidential information. By mid-1962, Brooks and Carson had largely finished the editing, and were laying the groundwork for promoting the book by sending the manuscript out to select individuals for final suggestions. This brought the book to the attention of the chemical industry and its lobbyists, as well as a wide swath of the American populace. In the 1350s, King Gongmin was free at last to reform the Goryeo government when the Yuan dynasty began to crumble. Since the 1960s, the South Korean economy has grown enormously and the economic structure was radically transformed. It usually involves a low level of development, such as rustic picnic areas, benches and trails. Australia's Royal National Park, established in 1879, was the world's second officially established national park. First and foremost was the provision of open space for the benefit of townspeople and local residents within an area that was being rapidly built up. With the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911, Mongolia under the Bogd Khaan declared independence. But, the newly established Republic of China considered Mongolia to be part of its own territory. Yuan Shikai, the President of the Republic of China, considered the new republic to be the successor of the Qing. Bogd Khaan said that both Mongolia and China had been administered by the Manchu during the Qing, and after the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911, the contract of Mongolian submission to the Manchu had become invalid. The area controlled by the Bogd Khaan was approximately that of the former Outer Mongolia during the Qing period. In his haste to capture Kadesh, Ramesses II committed a major tactical error. Indeed, the first scholarly report on the battle, by James Henry Breasted in 1903, praised the sources that allowed the reconstruction the battle with certainty. Ramesses, logistically unable to sustain a long siege, returned to Egypt. The Egyptian pharaoh thus found himself in northern Amurru, well past Kadesh, in Tunip, where no Egyptian soldier had been seen since the time of Thutmose III almost 120 years earlier. This time he claimed to have fought the battle without even bothering to put on his corslet until two hours after the fighting began. The exact year of the marriage of Herod Antipas and Herodias is subject to debate among scholars. Given that Herod was in Jerusalem at that time, Pilate decided to send Jesus to Herod to be tried. According to the New Testament, Paul spent eighteen months in Corinth, approximately seventeen years after his conversion. The latter date can only have fallen on a Friday if an exceptional leap month had been introduced that year, but this was favoured by Newton. It is possible to establish the phase of the moon on a particular day two thousand years ago but not whether it was obscured by clouds or haze. Forts were also built in the older portions of New France that had not yet been settled. It set the basis for integration where the economic and judicial mechanisms of the state could be applied throughout the Mediterranean as was once done from Latium into all Italy. Each poem narrates only a part of the war. In later ages playwrights, historians, and other intellectuals would create works inspired by the Trojan War. It was foretold that he would either die of old age after an uneventful life, or die young in a battlefield and gain immortality through poetry. However this was reversed when Julian was killed in battle in 363. The last Olympic Games are believed to have been held in 393. Shen Kuo soon impressed Wang Anshi with his skills and abilities as an administrator and government agent. In 1072, Shen was sent to supervise Wang's program of surveying the building of silt deposits in the Bian Canal outside the capital city. Using an original technique, Shen successfully dredged the canal and demonstrated the formidable value of the silt gathered as a fertilizer. He gained further reputation at court once he was dispatched as an envoy to the Khitan Liao Dynasty in the summer of 1075. The Khitans had made several aggressive negotiations of pushing their borders south, while manipulating several incompetent Chinese ambassadors who conceded to the Liao Kingdom's demands. Medicine was also studied, especially in southern Italy, where Islamic medicine influenced the school at Salerno. Tiberius reportedly regretted his departure and requested to return to Rome several times, but each time Augustus refused his requests. He seems to have wished for the Senate and the state to simply act without him and his direct orders were rather vague, inspiring debate more on what he actually meant than on passing his legislation. The gods represented distinctly the practical needs of daily life, and they were scrupulously accorded the rites and offerings considered proper. This was by boat from continental Europe. Cultic remains discovered at the site were a row of ten large standing stones, known as massebot, oriented north-south, the tallest of which was 3 meters high, with an altar-type structure in the middle, and a large, square, stone basin. The exact purpose of these megaliths is still debated, but they may have constituted a Canaanite "high place" from the Middle Bronze Age, ca. 1600 B.C.E. The Canaanite city was destroyed in a fire, presumably in the wake of a campaign by the Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose III. The oldest known historical reference to the city is to be found on an inscription of conquered sites at Thutmose's temple at Karnak. The Tell Amarna letters, dating from the 14th century BCE, include ten letters from the kings of Gezer swearing loyalty to the Egyptian pharaoh. Thai birth certificates record the date, month and time of birth, followed by the day of the week, lunar date, and the applicable zodiac animal name. Her zodiacal animal is the Monkey and her traditionally significant sixtieth anniversary year was 1992. Thai auspicious colours of the day are given in the table of weekdays, followed below it by a link to the Buddha images for each day of the week. Chinese New Year and other feasts observed by Thai Chinese vary with respect to both, as these are calculated according to the Chinese calendar. In addition, he strengthened defenses between Egypt and Asia, building the Walls of the Ruler in the East Delta region. He reigned only fifteen years, which is evidenced by the incomplete nature of many of his constructions. Despite this, they both seem to have held at least parts of lower Egypt. On September 9, 2002, Aldrin was lured to a Beverly Hills hotel on the pretext of being interviewed for a Japanese children's television show on the subject of space. Aldrin has been married three times. In 1519, he became ruler of the Habsburg empire, and he gained the title Holy Roman Emperor in 1530. Charles, despite his harsh actions, had been seen as a ruler empathetic to the needs of the Netherlands. In 1566, a league of about 400 members of the nobility presented a petition to the governor Margaret of Parma, to suspend persecution until the rest had returned. Its struggle against the Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranean Sea put serious limits on the military power it could deploy against the rebels in the Netherlands. A Bronze Age astronomical observatory was constructed there around 1900 BC and continuously served the nearby community that lived there until about 700 BC. The central space was used to observe the rising of the sun and full moon. Three markings locate sunrise at the summer and winter solstices and at the two equinoxes. Four more give the minimum and maximum declinations of the full moon: in summer, and in winter. Two measure the lengths of lunar months. Its importance resides in two facts. During the Post-Classic period in Yucatán a third system was in use. The origin of the word Hispania is much disputed and the evidence for the various speculations are based merely upon what are at best mere resemblances, likely to be accidental, and suspect supporting evidence. But the impact of Hispania in the newcomers was also big. During the first stages of Romanization, the peninsula was divided in two by the Romans for administrative purposes. By the 3rd century the emperor Caracalla made a new division which lasted only a short time. They had been so moved by the beauty of the Rudyard Lake area that when their first child was born they referenced it when naming him. During his time there, Kipling also met and fell in love with Florence Garrard who was boarding with Trix at Southsea (to which Trix had returned). Stephen Wheeler, the editor, worked Kipling hard, but Kipling's need to write was unstoppable. Back in Lahore, some thirty-nine stories appeared in the Gazette between November 1886 and June 1887. By this time, he had been increasingly thinking about the future. Jin Ping Mei, published in 1610, although incorporating earlier material, marks the trend toward independent composition and concern with psychology. Higher male secondary school enrollment, per capita income and economic growth rate all had significant effects on reducing the chance of civil war. Specifically, a male secondary school enrollment 10% above the average reduced the chance of a conflict by about 3%, while a growth rate 1% higher than the study average resulted in a decline in the chance of a civil war of about 1%. The study interpreted these three factors as proxies for earnings forgone by rebellion, and therefore that lower forgone earnings encourage rebellion. Phrased another way: young males (who make up the vast majority of combatants in civil wars) are less likely to join a rebellion if they are getting an education or have a comfortable salary, and can reasonably assume that they will prosper in the future. Low per capita income has been proposed as a cause for grievance, prompting armed rebellion. Its guarantee of liberties promised to dissolve inter-communal tensions and transform the empire into a more harmonious place. The Arab Revolt which began in 1916 turned the tide against the Ottomans on the Middle Eastern front, where they initially seemed to have the upper hand during the first two years of the war. It specifically discusses in several passages the socially and culturally degenerative effects of war on humanity itself. Dominican priest Heinrich Kramer was assistant to the Archbishop of Salzburg. In 1538 the Spanish Inquisition cautioned its members not to believe everything the Malleus said. Forced baptism was contrary to the law of the Catholic Church, and theoretically anybody who had been forcibly baptized could legally return to Judaism. Spain had expelled its Sephardic population in 1492; many of these Spanish Jews left Spain for Portugal but eventually were targeted there as well. The Macedonian eastern border with Thrace was now secured at the river Nestus (Mesta). Philip next marched against his southern enemies. In Thessaly he defeated his enemies and by 352, he was firmly in control of this region. The Macedonian army advanced as far as the pass of Thermopylae which divides Greece in two parts, but it did not attempt to take it because it was strongly guarded by a joint force of Athenians, Spartans, and Achaeans. Having secured the bordering regions of Macedon, Philip assembled a large Macedonian army and marched deep into Thrace for a long conquering campaign. Catherine of Russia was also very satisfied. Throughout the war, Pearl Harbor was frequently used in American propaganda. This idealized vision of the Romanov monarchy blinded him to the actual state of his country. The Russian Empire was an agglomeration of diverse ethnicities that had shown significant signs of disunity in the years before the First World War. This city-state emerged in the same period as Sukhothai. This contact with the West during the 16th century lead to a period of profound economic growth as lucrative trade routes were established. The Army performed well in combat in Cuba. However, it was too oriented to small posts in the West and not as well-prepared for an overseas conflict. It relied on volunteers and state militia units, which faced logistical, training and food problems in the staging areas in Florida. The United States freed Cuba (after an occupation by the U.S. Army). By the peace treaty Spain ceded to the United States its colonies of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. The offensive against the huge army enlisted by Venice was launched from France. By 1563, the population of Venice had dropped to about 168,000 people. Education during the Renaissance was mainly composed of ancient literature and history as it was thought that the classics provided moral instruction and an intensive understanding of human behavior. There has, however, been extensive statistical analysis of demographic and population data which includes women, especially in their childbearing roles. Most of the information about the period comes from burial sites and the grave goods contained within them. At this time there were only around forty families living there with plenty of good farming land and grazing for cattle. As Greece sent out colonies west towards Sicily and Italy (Pithekoussae, Cumae), the influence of their new alphabet extended further. Bananas and plantains, which were first domesticated in Southeast Asia, most likely Papua New Guinea, were re-domesticated in Africa possibly as early as 5,000 years ago. Besides being a direct source of food, certain animals could provide leather, wool, hides, and fertilizer. A fundamental change in working principles was brought about by Scotsman James Watt. The Industrial Revolution created a demand for metal parts used in machinery. In the Second Messenian War, Sparta established itself as a local power in Peloponnesus and the rest of Greece. Ford T was proclaimed as the most influential car of the 20th century in the international Car of the Century awards. The success American Motors' compact-sized Rambler models spurred GM and Ford to introduce their own downsized cars in 1960. This convention is only slightly relaxed in modern age and now it is still unadvisable among friends to use the given name, but use of the family name is still common. In the case of the imperial family, it is considered extremely inappropriate to use the given name. Since Emperor Meiji, it has been customary to have one era per Emperor and to rename each Emperor after his death using the name of the era over which he presided. Prior to Emperor Meiji, the names of the eras were changed more frequently, and the posthumous names of the Emperors were chosen in a different manner. Outside Japan, beginning with Emperor Shōwa, the Emperors are often referred to by their given names, both whilst alive and posthumously. In Asia and the Pacific, between 3 million and more than 10 million civilians, mostly Chinese (estimated at 7.5 million), were killed by the Japanese occupation forces. In Europe, before the outbreak of the war, the Allies had significant advantages in both population and economics. Land warfare changed from the static front lines of World War I to increased mobility and combined arms. British cavalry troopers also received excellent mounted swordsmanship training. Some historians, such as Chandler and Weller, assert that the British heavy cavalry were destroyed as a viable force following their first, epic charge. According to a genetic study on autosomal data on Roma the source of Southasian Ancestry in Roma is North-West India. Explanations of the origin of music depend on how music is defined. Among humans both males and females are ardent singers, and making music is mostly a communal activity. In 1839, China found itself fighting the First Opium War with Great Britain after the Governor-General of Hunan and Hubei, Lin Zexu, banned the foreign trade of opium. China was defeated, and in 1842 agreed to the provisions of the Treaty of Nanking. Hong Kong Island was ceded to Britain, and certain ports, including Shanghai and Guangzhou, were opened to British trade and residence. In 1856, the Second Opium War broke out; the Chinese were again defeated and forced to the terms of the 1858 Treaty of Tientsin and the 1860 Convention of Peking. The treaty opened new ports to trade and allowed foreigners to travel in the interior. Lamarr accompanied Mandl to business meetings where he conferred with scientists and other professionals involved in military technology. Lamarr's earliest inventions include an improved traffic stoplight and a tablet that would dissolve in water to create a carbonated drink. She was offered several scripts, television commercials, and stage projects, but none piqued her interest. Joseph Darnand, who became an SS officer and led the Milice paramilitaries who hunted down members of the Resistance, was executed in October 1945. De Gaulle had instructed that there be no excessive displays of public affection towards Churchill and no official awards without his prior agreement. The film chronicles the destruction of Carangi's life and career as a result of her addiction to heroin, and her decline and death from AIDS in the mid-1980s. It was completed rather late in the war; although a number of B-29s were equipped with Eagle and it worked well, it came too late to make much difference. The radar system for which Alvarez is best known and which has played a major role in aviation, most particularly in the post war Berlin airlift, was Ground Controlled Approach (GCA). Using Alvarez's dipole antenna to achieve a very high angular resolution, GCA allows ground-based radar operators watching special precision displays to guide a landing airplane to the runway by transmitting verbal commands to the pilot. The system was simple, direct, and worked well, even with previously untrained pilots. It was so successful that the military continued to use it for many years after the war, and it was still in use in some countries in the 1980s. With population growth, new indigenous quarters were created. The Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo rebels captured Lubumbashi in April 1997. The high altitude serves to cool the climate, which would otherwise be very hot. Failing health reduced Hitchcock's output during the last two decades of his life. Hitchcock's films sometimes feature characters struggling in their relationships with their mothers. Hitchcock preferred to work with the best talent of his day—film poster designers such as Bill Gold and Saul Bass—who would produce posters that accurately represented his films. A mental clash gripped Herzl, between the craving for literary success and a desire to act as a public figure. On March 10, 1896, Herzl was visited by Reverend William Hechler, the Anglican minister to the British Embassy. During one episode, he is shown to be an adept guitar player. Lenny is a persistent bachelor who has poor luck with women. On one occasion, it is implied he is an undercover agent whose target is Homer. Deciding to pursue drama, Winstone enrolled at the Corona Stage Academy in Hammersmith. Winstone met his wife, Elaine, while filming That Summer in 1979. Winstone was declared bankrupt on 4 October 1988 and again on 19 March 1993. Disney also found out that Universal owned the intellectual property rights to Oswald. Disney won another Honorary Academy Award, which consisted of one full-sized and seven miniature Oscar statuettes. This card gives an allowance that can be withdrawn from ATMs in order to buy school needs such as books and uniforms. He also built and renovated five traditional markets in 2013 and four traditional markets in 2014. However, his rival Prabowo Subianto also declared victory, leaving Indonesian citizens confused. Prior to taking office Jokowi sought for outgoing President Yudhoyono to take responsibility for the decision to further increase fuel prices by further removing subsidies. His official biography also claims that Kim composed six operas and enjoys staging elaborate musicals. With advice from Alexander, he was able to work out a compromise: he would attend a university, but would study literature. Barrie enrolled at the University of Edinburgh where he wrote drama reviews for the Edinburgh Evening Courant. He graduated and obtained an M.A. on 21 April 1882. Following a job advertisement found by his sister in The Scotsman, he worked for a year and a half as a staff journalist on the Nottingham Journal. He then returned to Kirriemuir. Only 3000 copies were published of the first edition. By 2009, total sales of The Power of Now and A New Earth in North America had been estimated at three million and five million copies respectively. Some Christian scholars criticize Tolle's teachings, while others praise them. Between 1991 and 1997, she ran a school for children with learning disabilities. Her latest non-fiction is about Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox. She found the transition to fiction easy, explaining, "Every book is a learning curve, and you have to keep an open mind." To avoid experiencing a similar dilemma with Jasmine, the filmmakers ultimately decided to have the princess animated entirely at one studio. With her appearance finalized, Jasmine became Disney's first non-white princess as opposed to being of European heritage. Thematically, Jasmine also represents civil rights, racial tolerance, social hierarchy, as well as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. However, there was no further public recognition of her wartime resistance and humanitarian work until after the end of communist rule in Poland. Really Really Love You was released in August and reach the top 50; "Shaky Ground", the related single, appeared in September but Geyer was already in the US. Having enjoyed a career peak at home in Australia, Geyer returned to live in Los Angeles in 1984 to concentrate on breaking into the musical scene there. After its progress had stalled in the Billboard 200 at No. 96, Thought 'Ya Knew climbed to No. 31 in the UK, but the album charted for only two weeks in the UK. Following her dismissal, Peniston took playing as Glinda the Good Witch in a theatrical production of musical play The Wiz. Wilkes was re-elected and expelled twice more, before the House of Commons resolved that his candidature was invalid and declared the runner-up as the victor. Grafton's government disintegrated in 1770, allowing the Tories led by Lord North to return to power. George was deeply devout and spent hours in prayer, but his piety was not shared by his brothers. George was appalled by what he saw as their loose morals. In 1770, his brother Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, was exposed as an adulterer, and the following year Cumberland married a young widow, Anne Horton. Her 1981 album Wild West was one of her biggest sellers. By this time, extravagant spending and a string of bad investments by her investors had left her nearly broke. In June 2012, the Icelandic band Sigur Rós released a video for the song "Fjögur Píanó", starring LaBeouf, in which he appears nude. Louis Post Dispatch called it one of LaBeouf's best performances. The car burst into flames, and Kenseth walked away. Elliott was attending his father's funeral on the day of the race. In 2003, he dominated in the points standings and leading the last 33 of 36 races and became the 2003 NASCAR Winston Cup champion, the last driver to ever hold that title. Rafferty released two further albums in the 1990s in what musician Tom Robinson later described as "a major return to form". On a Wing and a Prayer (1992) reunited him with his Stealers Wheel partner Egan on several tracks. It included three tracks cowritten with Rafferty's brother Jim, also a singer-songwriter, who had been signed to Decca Records in the 1970s. Rafferty recorded a new version of his Humblebums song "Her Father Didn't Like Me Anyway" on the album Over My Head (1994). These were the last two records Rafferty produced with Hugh Murphy, who died in 1998. At least 330,000 people, including 10,000 technicians, were involved. Stalin had begun to encourage Abakumov to form his own network inside the MGB to counter Beria's dominance of the power ministries. The patterns presented by the data from the Petén region and Uaxactun allowed for these sites to fit within the cultural development of the Maya lowlands. The article by Thompson assumes that the Maya were ultimately “peaceful” people since they lacked apparent defenses. Sails are not represented in prehistoric Mesoamerican iconography or texts, instead, it is theorized that canoes were used as a primary mode of water transportation for the ancient Maya. Starlin took over as plotter the following issue, and began developing an elaborate story arc centered on the villainous Thanos, and spread across a number of Marvel titles. Concurrently in the mid-1970s, Starlin contributed a cache of stories to the independently published science-fiction anthology Star Reach. Through his grandmother, Mishima was a direct descendant of Tokugawa Ieyasu. In 1955, Mishima took up weight training and his workout regimen of three sessions per week was not disrupted for the final 15 years of his life. Mishima espoused a very individual brand of nationalism towards the end of his life. In 2011, Blunt was named the ambassadress of the new Yves Saint Laurent fragrance, Opium. Blunt starred in the 2011 British comedy film Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, directed by Lasse Hallström and co-starring Ewan McGregor and Kristin Scott Thomas. Also that year, she briefly appeared in Disney's The Muppets, as Miss Piggy's receptionist. She starred in the 2012 film The Five-Year Engagement, directed by Nicholas Stoller and co-starring Jason Segel. In January 2011, Blunt began filming an American science-fiction film, Looper, directed by Rian Johnson and co-starring Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt; the film was released in September 2012. Valentino tried to distance the character from a stereotypical portrayal of an Arab man. Joseph Schenck was interested in casting his wife, Norma Talmadge, opposite Valentino in a version of Romeo and Juliet. Lord Halifax, the Lord President of the Council, visited Germany privately in November and met Hitler and other German officials. In addressing the Cabinet shortly after German forces crossed the border, Chamberlain placed blame on both Germany and Austria. In May, Czech border guards shot two Sudeten German farmers who were trying to cross the border into Czechoslovakia without stopping for border controls. During this time, Marcelle was often left alone in the room while Piaf and Mômone were out on the streets or at the club singing. These were almost completely forgotten until after Smith's death. Another theme of the Skylark novels involves precursors of modern information technology. As early as 1926, Meyer had written to Irène Joliot-Curie suggesting that Rona work with her to learn how his laboratory could make their own polonium samples. Once Hans Pettersson was able to secure funds to pay Rona's expenses, Joliot-Curie allowed her to come and study polonium separation at the Curie Institute in Paris. Rona developed an enhanced method of preparing polonium sources and producing alpha-emissions. Gaining recognition as an expert in the field, she took those skills back to the Radium Institute along with a small disc of polonium. This disc allowed Rona to create lab specimens of polonium, which were used in much of the Institute's subsequent research. During the 2013 off-season she appeared on CTV Montreal as a guest weather anchor. She next faced defending champion and top seed Sara Errani, but was defeated. Bouchard suffered a shocking three-set loss. When their daughter Cecily married Richard Plantagenet, the 3rd Duke of York, and had several offspring, including Edward IV and Richard III, Joan became the grandmother of two York kings of England. John of Gaunt died in 1399. The knight Lyvet was released and his follower thrown into the Tower. Not long ago he was divorced from the actress, Gloria Holden, but carried the torch after the marital rift. He co-starred as Humphrey Bogart's younger brother, a carefree playboy, in Sabrina (1954), played by Audrey Hepburn. He chose not to seek a third term in the following election cycle. The 1980 presidential campaign between Reagan and incumbent President Jimmy Carter was conducted during domestic concerns and the ongoing Iran hostage crisis. Republicans captured the Senate for the first time since 1952, and gained 34 House seats, but the Democrats retained a majority. He recovered and was released from the hospital on April 11, becoming the first serving U.S. president to survive being shot in an assassination attempt. Reagan believed that God had spared his life so that he might go on to fulfill a greater purpose. Bloch is concerned to establish hope as the guiding principle of his Marxism and stresses the implied humanism inherent in mystical tradition. A proper theology would therefore have to be constructed in the light of its future goal. Pebe moved the family to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1991 after securing a new publishing deal for her songwriting. Kesha and Pebe co-wrote the song "Stephen" together when Kesha was 16, Kesha then tracked down David Gamson, a producer that she admired, from Scritti Politti who agreed to produce the song. As of August 2015, Kesha has released little information about her upcoming third studio album. This time it reached him, but he refused to believe that she no longer wanted to be married to him. Wright was born in Poole, Dorset, but grew up predominantly in Wells, Somerset. Wright has a brother, Oscar, who is a comic book artist, contributing storyboards, conceptual art and promotional pictures for Edgar's films. Wright is a friend of fellow director Garth Jennings, and made cameos in his films The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Son of Rambow. The Great Powers did not fulfill the requests for recognition of Albania. At the beginning of the London conference in December 1912 the ambassadors of all six Great Powers rejected the plan for establishing an independent Albania. Instead, they decided that Albania would be under Ottoman suzerainty but with an autonomous government. After it became obvious that Ottoman Empire would lose all of Macedonia and its territorial connection with Albania, the Great Powers realized they had to change their decision. The Treaty of London, signed on 30 May 1913, partitioned significant part of territory claimed by Albania, regardless its ethnic composition, between the Balkan allies reducing the territory of Albania to its central regions. The officers were able to subdue the 53 year old during the act on Sunday morning. King Salaman replaced the political veteran with the head of financial oversight, Mohammed al-Jadaan. Oil, gold or food products, such as wheat, are natural resources, in which investors invest billions worldwide. With 71 goals in 137 international matches, he has shot a record number of goals for the DFB. With the help of debit card data, the Essen police are investigating four people who stood by and watched while a retiree died in a bank. The spokesman did not rule out the possibility that others would also be investigated. Because series 1 is no longer the old one, many users can save 100 euros. The photo clearly shows the narrow touch display bar above the keyboard that has been anticipated in rumors. One doesn't know in which way both dramatists would have worked together. A Swedish study has shown that animals seldom, if at all, land after the 2 month breeding period. According to Parker, Russian Secret Service agents are active in large numbers in Great Britain. Russia announced a suspension of the contract at the beginning of October. The law delineates a number of conditions whose fulfillment could bring the agreement back into effect: the USA would have to withdraw all of its troops from countries who joined NATO after 2000, rescind all of the sanctions against Russia as well as reimburse the costs that have been incurred as a result of the sanctions. It is a political process and I have decided not to be present, so it was said. If a Turkish employee quits, then the Turkish work councils come. From this point of view, stale structures and a self-satisfied elite are the reason why the health system, education and foreign trade in the USA is in such bad shape. Kühn can only shake his head. The newspaper "Die ZEIT" first inquired with the real estate business about its dubious cash flows and the threat of insolvency in July. The witching hour starts up at least by the time the scary organ is played, such as in the 60s hit Monster Mash. Von Beust justified the cost increases as lack of detailed planning. Simon Krätschmer gropes around alone through the dilapidated, sinister barrack. That is because each and every miracle and each specialized district occupies an entire field. Production of the smartphone model was completely discontinued. It was August 30, 2015, as an army of ducks conquered the internet. The smartphone generation received an app it deserved, where, in the best case scenario, the most idiotic situation received an audience of millions. On the other hand, Vine was art in six seconds. And now he is also world champion. For Kerber, the season finale nevertheless marks the end of an unbelievable year. After the sensation at the Australian Open, the 28 year-old lost for the first time in the final game against Serena Williams. It is now only unclear, in which one. Do you argue with your alarm clock? It's clear: Men could have more responsibility in matters of contraception. According to Christian belief, a grave which had been embedded in the chalkstone was the last resting place of Jesus. The reason for advertising the video in Germany is unclear. I was asked by the officers, in their inimitably dumb way, whether I knew the writer Günter de Bruyn and whether we are intellectual relatives. The Canadian investigator of the plane crash Larry Vance told SPIEGEL that he is convinced that one of the pilots had intended to land the machine on the ocean surface - so that it would sink. The Australian experts drew new conclusions from the investigation of a landing flap from Boeing that had washed up in Tanzania in East Africa. The issue might not be over for Barroso. The exchange of Barrosos caused a big stir. The current arrests are "a continuation of the shenanigans against us," said Dündar. For the time being, the deal between Aoun and Hariri has brought the two enemy factions closer together. The husband of the current candidate for the White House, Hillary Clinton, pardoned a number of people, also including Rich, on the last day of his presidency, January 20, 2001. Dündar warned Europe about having too much understanding for Erdogan's course. Adnan Z. Amin, General Director of the International Organization for Renewable Energies (IRENA) is certain: "Offshore wind power can become the top power generator in a global economy that is free of coal-based energy." The good numbers in Asia promptly pushed the stock markets up. One expects a bump from the booming real estate market and increasing federal expenditures. The two paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder on display are especially eye-catching. Therefore the irksome signs will not completely disappear: According to information from the news agency dpa, they will only be activated if, for instance, the artist or record label is not a member of GEMA and does not have an agreement with YouTube. The contaminants not only attack the undeveloped lungs of the little ones; they can also lead to long-term impairment in the development of the adolescent brain. It is no surprise that the federal and state governments have classified the National Natural Heritage as a nation-wide endeavor of the highest priority and have documented it starting in 2005 in a coalition contract. Unlike that of the 28th of October, Mr. Comey's letter has hardly been commented upon. If his Democrat opponent were to be elected, he assured that she would be 'under investigation for years'. "If somebody can't handle a Twitter account, they can't handle the nuclear codes," Obama mocked. According to the programme, she will speak at 23.45. On Tuesday, the United States of America could elect the first female president in its history. On the other hand, Ms. Clinton's relations with the continent over the past twenty years leave much to be desired. The AKP's Islamic conservatives have taken this refusal as justification for the questionings. A third-party majority is needed, specifically the votes of 367 MPs (out of 550), whereas 330 votes are required in order to trigger a referendum. On Thursday, the 3rd of November, the mayor of Saint-Gaudens (in the Haute-Garonne region) decided to suspend the urban development agreement with the government formed in 2014. The latter is overseeing the Republican primaries, in which Rachida Dati supports Nicolas Sarkozy's candidacy. In the message, the former Minister for Justice accused Brice Hortefeux of being a 'fascist', 'Minister (moron) of the Interior' and a 'thug'. What are the limits that could inhibit the expression of religious beliefs in private companies? Even if the majority of situations that arise in the workplace can be resolved without conflict. Are workers allowed to keep religious objects on their desks? The Force Ouvrière union regrets that its remarks on the content of the guide were not included: "There wasn't really any consultation," said Ms. Gillard. The guide is problematic, firstly because it has been developed "in the context of a state of emergency". This clause included the time taken to travel to clients' homes in working hours. The two organisations launched an appeal which was thrown out by the Court of Cassation on the 12th of October. It aims to take the journey time into account after deducting this from the working hours actually completed, without being able to measure the real journey time. The working time undertaken in this first hour is more or less equal to 45 minutes. "ETA is on its way out," the French contingent revealed. He also remarked that "the existence of such a document could lead to consequences that are as likely as they are unacceptable". The French Digital Council, which advises on bills in line with questions of digital technology, could also scrutinise it. According to Le Figaro, this government plan could free up 42 million euros, of which 15.5 million would go towards security. France doesn't have a good reputation. Tina Anselmi was born on the 25th of March, 1927 in Castelfranco Veneto; she grew up in an anti-fascist Catholic family, which was marked by the persecution of her militant socialist father. Having always been close to the Catholic Union, Tina Anselmi attended particularly to the rights of textile workers and teachers. It is difficult to think that Italy has fewer km of underground line than Madrid. It has been emphasised that we absolutely cannot continue with those who are completely against Italy. We will evaluate whether and how to continue onto the next section. The hit song is "Geronimo" by Sheppard. Those of age will be offered 500 euros by the state, to be spent by 31st December 2017. A voucher is generated that can be saved on your smartphone, or presented at the till. From the 1st of January there will be an increase in petrol and diesel. The CGI Mestre have stated in a note, that there will be no rise in VAT, for 2017 at least. A level that in both cases is at the top of the EU. The latest figures relate to the 24th of October last year, and tell us that our diesel costs 1,335 euros per litre, compared with the eurozone average of 1,165 euros. A significantly higher cost which clearly exceeds the average of the countries that adopt the single currency, which is equal to 1,365 euros per litre. Corrado Passera withdraws the offer for Mps due to "the attitude of total closure that the Bank has shown to us". As stated, the decision is the prerogative of the ECB and would appear inappropriate for the Bank to speak on its behalf by excluding the possibility of looking at other alternatives. This is what has been written in a note to Mps after the decision of the ex-minister to leave the party. It will go for assessment. Students at LUISS University were told during the course of a meeting which took place in Rome. This morning, Pope Francis met Mark Zuckerberg and his wife at Casa Santa Marta. Four students at Roma Tre University have developed a motorcycle helmet that can 'read thoughts' by helping to anticipate drivers' actions. One of the examples of research applied under safety measures has also produced a humanoid robot to compete with Valentino Rossi. In return, Uber will receive a billion dollar investment and a seat on the board of directors of the Chinese company. More and more tech companies are calling the shots more than ever before on Wall Street, even more than in Silicon Valley. Amazon has become the fourth American company with the largest market capitalisation, surpassing ExxonMobil. Leaders of companies such as Spotify, Tesla, Uber and Snapchat will attend a private event in addition to the Mountain View Summit. The president of the Community of Madrid, Cristina Cifuentes, represents the most conservative, while leaders of the party, such as the Sectorial Under-Secretary, Javier Maroto, represent the most progressive. Durán acts as spokesman and Ángel Pintado as treasurer. For the first time in the last six years the rate of unemployment has dropped below 20%, and there are already 600,000 more people employed than there were a year ago. Its management, however, hasn't been devoid of criticism. The unions have been very combative and on several occasions have called for the repeal of the legislation that Fátima Báñez is proudest of. This department now faces new challenges. Furthermore, the Government will have to deal with another "hot potato". The Minister of Defense has allowed her to remain General Secretary of the party for now. The consulted sources have said that it is "100% Cospedal". In spite of them, not everyone in the party understood the messages that the president tried to send to them yesterday. Barón de Claret, the only one in Government with a noble title. Pedro Sánchez, like many other socialists, said in the programme Évole that Spain is a nation of nations. And what about the parties in what, in historical rights? Federico Fellini once said: "The clown is to humanity as the shadow is to man". He stands alone in front of the audience and, ultimately, he has to bring out the best of himself in order to make the audience laugh. In the war films or cowboy and Indian films the battles, fights and beatings were out of this world. Emphasis, fine irony, blunt innuendos and other well used verbal devices fit into parliamentary oratory, but flicking at each other and slapstick comedy do not. He believes that nobody waiting for us waits for us. Perhaps that's why a surge of tears clouds his pupils while the syllable of time unearths his crop and surrenders his mystery to the bound waters. And they must be greeted with an open spirit and clear mind because they form the new generation of beauty and hope. As a result, Trump isn't very worried about the Latin American vote at a national level. The early voting suggests that this time the Latin Americans will come out to vote in greater numbers, but it is unclear whether the increase will have an impact. "There will be protests and other things, it's all already planned," the opposition told El Mundo. Dozens of FSLN followers are already celebrating the victory in the Plaza de las Victorias. May has received great criticism for avoiding and not responding openly to the media after the judicial ruling on Brexit. Founded in 1925 as games for everyman, the open air theater on the great steps in front of St. Michael still attracts a diverse public. The festive dedication took place on April 30, 1955. In 1882, a telegraphic system equipped with 34 fire alarm signals was put in operation. In 1992, grounds of the former puppet theater, which had been left to the commune, were taken over by players and employees. This has to do with one of the few buildings in the city center that was spared from destruction by the end of the Second World War. In 1832, the former cloister was sold to the manufacturer Georg Reichenbach by the state of Württemberg with the stipulation to establish a cotton factory there. The Islamic citizens who have settled since the beginning of the 1960s emigrated primarily from Turkey. Among them is the former cloister from the abbey church of St. Peter and Paul. The historical city hall in Obermarsberg originates from the 13th century and was refurbished after the Thirty Years' War. There are different theories about the reasons for leaving the place. Golden Gate Park, which is over four kilometers in length, offers a botanical garden, planetarium, Japanese garden and an aquarium. It serves as a local place of rest and relaxation for San Franciscans. The Yerba Buena Garden was built at the beginning of the 1990s on the roof of the Moscone North Convention Center. It contains a monument to Martin Luther King, Jr. Since the 1960s, the city's economy has been in steep decline. During the 2010 general election, the Labor Party was able to win all seven voting districts. Both the time and the sequence of events of this incident were vigorously discussed. In April 2012, the Turkish Minister President Erdogan announced his government's plans to free Bosphorus by building the Istanbul Canal parallel to it. The Ottomans wanted to prevent grain from being further transported because they had a great need for it. The Ottoman Empire and Russia were denied permission to keep their war fleet in the Black Sea. In its scope it belongs to the most far-reaching cultures of the time, in which many sites are known. Like the majority of sites in southern Europe, the finding dates back to the early 5th century BC. Likely the most well-known person from the Copper Age is Ötzi, the frozen mummy who lived during 3300 BC. They were primarily on hills. In addition, its process of gilding copper is technologically noteworthy. The severity and the presence of the revolution in the countryside alarmed the Court and National Assembly in Versailles. The event was known about in Paris and caused more upset in a mood which was already charged by the persistently high price of bread and lack of provisions. The king did not take special precautions during his escape and was recognized multiple times during his stays. The hymn was well received and the audience demanded an encore. I declare the first international Olympic games over. The First World War brought about shifts and new developments in colonial politics. The Industrial Revolution took place in Great Britain earlier than in any other country. The Suez Crisis showed the limits of the old colonial powers such as Great Britain and France in a changing world. After the seizure of power by the National Socialists in 1933 there were dispersed attempts to win back the old colonies. After the Russian Revolution in 1917, some countries, such as Finland, Poland and the Baltic States, won their independence. One of his last means of placing pressure on Hungary was the threat of imposing general and free elections. After the Compromise, Emperor and King Franz Joseph I. took great care to treat both of his monarchies equally. The Disibodenberg cloister was disbanded and fell into ruin as a result of the Reformation. Today, expansive ruins can be viewed there. The Rupertsberg cloister was destroyed during the Thirty Years' War in 1632 by Swedish troops. The displaced nuns were moved to the Eibingen cloister. The ruins were later built over. After these successes, he signed a contract with Team Telekom and moved in with his girlfriend in Merdingen in Südbaden, where he lived until 2002. At the Olympic Games in 2004 in Athens, Ulrich, as winner of the street race, pursued the goal of winning his second gold medal. The censorship disposed of all undesirable opinions; participation in public life had become practically impossible. The traces of blood on the clothes were in the shape that they were reported to have by the news reports on the day of the murder. Weiss was honored with the literature prizes from the cities of Cologne and Bremen. Privately as well as publicly, Springer vigorously pursued reconciliation with the Jewish people and took many trips to Israel. The chalet burned completely down. In the following year, 1977, he received the distinction of the American Friendship Medal for the friendly position of his press toward the USA. The Viguier and La Conte districts contain the majority of the city's social housing, where the population is mainly made up of immigrants or those of immigrant origin. The history of Carcassonne is directly linked to that of its fortified city. In the early 2000s, there were five doctors per 100,000 inhabitants. Amnesty International cites newspaper articles from 2008 describing the murder of fifty people accused of witchcraft. Von Bellingshausen sighted Antarctica on the 27th of January 1820, three days before Bransfield sighted land, and ten months before Palmer did so in November 1820. In the Endurance expedition in 1914, the British ship Endurance, captained by Sir Ernest Shackleton, set sail with twenty eight men to cross the Antarctic. This drawing up was the founding act of Roman law, the institutions of the Roman Republic and the mos maiorum. However, Pyrrhus was forced to leave Sicily in order to attend to business in southern Italy. In the 8th century BC, Greece began to emerge from the Dark Ages which followed the fall of the Mycenaean civilization. Literacy had been lost and Mycenaean script forgotten, but the Greeks adopted the Phoenician alphabet, modifying it to create the Greek alphabet. From the 9th century BC, the first Greek texts began to appear. Greece was divided into many small, self-governing communities, a pattern largely dictated by Greek geography: every island, valley and plain is cut off from its neighbours by the sea or mountain ranges. From about the 8th century BC city states began to appear: small, self-governing territories with their own political systems. In the Middle Ages, most Christians did not have access to the Bible in their mother tongue. However, they did not expand until ships big enough to cross seas were built. Trade was developed by establishing commercial outposts throughout the Mediterranean, a technique that had not been used until then. This affair can be seen as the starting point for his career as a radical revolutionary. In Pluviose year III (January-February 1794), easing off the pressure of the Reign of Terror, he took various measures to liberate the suspects. Financed entirely with Bernard Tapie's own money, these schools were closed in 1994 when he was declared bankrupt. Despite being the number one distributor of equipment and textiles worldwide, the German company was in financial trouble. To get away from it all, the Remis resided in Switzerland for most of summer 1947. On their return, they entertained the idea of living in South America, far away from the problems of postwar Belgium. In spring 1948, in hopes of adapting Tintin for the cinema, the Belgian artist wrote a letter to Walt Disney, asking in vain for his support. In the summer, Georges and his wife returned to Switzerland, accompanied by Rosane, an 18 year old who was the daughter of one of Germaine's friends. During the holiday, he began an extra-marital affair with the young girl, which he admitted shortly after. In the lower part, there are three palm trees overlooking the sea, which represent the love that the people of this Island have for their land. Furthermore, the occurrence of hurricanes on the island is possible during the summer. The islands are located at the Indo-Australian Fault; the Fault arose due to the collision of the Indian and Australian plates. An element supporting this hypothesis would be the intense royal livestock of horses that took place at Villa Pelucca, in Sesto San Giovanni. In 1928, a 90-hectare golf course was built in the north-eastern part of the park, next to the racetrack. In 1976, the racecourse was no longer used; in 1990, a fire destroyed what remained of the wooden grandstands, which were later demolished along with the stables. In August 1969, Pope Paul VI removed the death penalty from the Vatican law and revoked it from all offences. The issuing of coinage is predominantly numismatic in nature, with the intention of being sold mainly to collectors. The inner part of the region is flat and hilly, with no clear distinction between one area to the next. There are many prehistoric artifacts, including several different menhirs and dolmens. The second Apulian and Calabrian Royal Region was then established, also including Samnium, parts of Molise and the oriental Basilicata. During the thirteenth century, the name Apulia was used by some authors to signify the southern part of the Italian peninsula. Historian David Crouch suggests that Stephen abandoned from the challenge around this time to focus on other issues. Only a handful of them (earldoms) had existed under Henry I and these had been largely symbolic. During the War of the First Coalition, light quickly began to be shed upon a young Corsican artillery officer, following the French Revolution: Napoleon Bonaparte. Although not a resolver of the conflict, the French victory at the Battle of Marengo forced the Austrians to give Italy up for the second time. The blockage of Villeneuve's fleet resulted in giving up the invasion plan of the British Isles, also because new developments were taking place in the continent. Napoleon was confident that the clear success of Austerlitz could lead to a general peace treaty, but his hopes were soon dashed: the new British Prime Minister Lord Grenville refused any agreement, and so did Tsar Alexander. With regards to religious practices, Fiorello was educated within the Episcopal Church, and remained a member of the Protestant Church throughout his life. The man told him that a war between the two universes is coming, as he and Walter had predicted; it is for this reason that Olivia, among others, was trained as a child. Both students of Goffredo Petrassi, Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai met at the Santa (Saint) Cecelia conservatory. Between them bloomed a long professional and amicable relationship that lasted for years. Nicolai collaborates on various cinematic scores by Morricone as Metti, one night at dinner; some of them were written by both together. However, the friendship has fallen apart due to unofficial collaborations between the two, which has given rise to legal disputes. During their various collaborations, it is not clear who between the two conceived of some stylistic solutions in the arrangements that later on characterised both artists' style. In the 20th century, between 1904 and 1914, Antonio Gaudí brought about a reform that lasted ten years. It has three parallel chapels at the apse and many lateral chapels between the buttresses. Tradition has it that the theme was selected intentionally because of the great number of converted Jews who lived in Palma. Before the Andes were formed, the western margin of South America had already been the site of several orogenies. The central Andes belong to the so-called 'Andes de tipo andino' which were formed by the subduction of the oceanic crust. However, the breakdown between him and Linares and the discontinuation of the progressive line provoked the Revolution of Vindication which overthrew him in 1879. Under his administration, the female vote was approved, political parties were legalised, all of the exiled were allowed to return and the remaining political prisoners were freed. The collapse of and intervention in dozens of banks lead to a flight of capital, causing businesses to go bankrupt. It is the portion from this second boundary up to the outer boundary, the imaginary line that connects the lighthouse landmark at Punta del Este to the lighthouse landmark at Punta Rasa. Things started to change in October 1777 when British forces under the command of General John Burgoyne surrendered in Saratoga in the north of the state of New York. This was the coup de grâce and encouragement the settlers needed to get their independence. Indians arrived from Canada, led by Joseph Brant; they supported the British because the colonists were expropriating more and more of their lands. The expedition was led by General Joseph Burgoyne who intended to reach Albany. However, they were intercepted and had to do battle in Freeman, close to the Hudson River. Golden Age Spanish or Early Modern Spanish is the variant of the language that constitutes the transition from Medieval Spanish to Modern Spanish. On the other hand, external history contains references to the history of Spanish speakers, their historical vicissitudes and the social use of the language. Nonetheless, if the English law had been accepted, the daughters of Luis X, Felipe V and Carlos IV would have had more of a claim to the throne, above their aunt Isabella of France. The attempts at making peace finally ended in spring of 1415 and Enrique decided to execute his plan: an invasion of the entire Kingdom of France. He also discussed the federalization of the City of Buenos Aires, the extension of the commercial code and the appointment of new generals to the army. In 1976 he met with a friend who worked with his record label The Rocket Record Company, Kiki Dee, to record what would be another remarkable success for him: "Don't Go Breaking My Heart". Pompey took command of two legions in Capua and began to raise levies illegally, an act that, as was predictable, took advantage of the Caesarians who were in his favor. César was personally informed of Pompey's actions by Curio, who at that time had finished his term in office. Meanwhile, his place in tribune was occupied by Marco Antonio, who held the position until December. But when the Senate answered him definitively by prohibiting him from competing at the consolate and giving him the option of either withdrawing his troops or becoming a public enemy, he understood that, whatever alternative he chose, he would surrender unarmed into the hands of his political enemies. On the 1st January 49 BC, Marco Antonio read a declaration from Caesar in which the proconsul declared himself a friend of peace.