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France salutes the 'almost Queen of Canada'
French-speaking Canada extends well beyond Quebec, Governor-General tells Sarkozy in Paris, provoking separatists at home
The Globe and Mail – May 8, 2008 09:50 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Canada: Quebec
French-speaking Canada extends well beyond Quebec, Governor-General tells Sarkozy in Paris, provoking separatists at home
The Globe and Mail – May 8, 2008 09:50 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Canada: Quebec
Second Thoughts
JEFFREY Epstein, who made a trip to Israel last month, thought about staying there, as Roman Polanski did in France, rather than face trial and possibly jail on charges of soliciting sex from prostitutes. But the money manager came home. "Would you...
New York Post – May 8, 2008 09:22 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Entertainment: Celebrity Gossip
JEFFREY Epstein, who made a trip to Israel last month, thought about staying there, as Roman Polanski did in France, rather than face trial and possibly jail on charges of soliciting sex from prostitutes. But the money manager came home. "Would you...
New York Post – May 8, 2008 09:22 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Entertainment: Celebrity Gossip
Charest criticized for skipping Quebec anniversary event in France
QUEBEC -- While France is kicking off a year of commemorationmarking the 400th anniversary of Quebec City by rolling out the redcarpet for Gov.-Gen. Michaelle Jean , Quebec Premier Jean Charest isunder fire for missing out on this week's festivities.
Canada.com – May 8, 2008 08:50 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Canada: British Columbia
QUEBEC -- While France is kicking off a year of commemorationmarking the 400th anniversary of Quebec City by rolling out the redcarpet for Gov.-Gen. Michaelle Jean , Quebec Premier Jean Charest isunder fire for missing out on this week's festivities.
Canada.com – May 8, 2008 08:50 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Canada: British Columbia
Jean condemns modern-day racism
Governor-General Michaëlle Jean denounced modern-day racismin France and Canada yesterday as the legacy of the brutal slavetrade that brought her ancestors from Africa to Haiti.
Canada.com – May 8, 2008 07:50 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Canada: Quebec
Governor-General Michaëlle Jean denounced modern-day racismin France and Canada yesterday as the legacy of the brutal slavetrade that brought her ancestors from Africa to Haiti.
Canada.com – May 8, 2008 07:50 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Canada: Quebec
France's LeToux first to sign with new Sounders FC
The Seattle Sounders FC of the MLS signed French forward Sebastien LeToux to a multiyear contract, the expansion team announced Wednesday.
CBS Sportsline – May 8, 2008 06:36 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Sports: Soccer
The Seattle Sounders FC of the MLS signed French forward Sebastien LeToux to a multiyear contract, the expansion team announced Wednesday.
CBS Sportsline – May 8, 2008 06:36 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Sports: Soccer
Best Buy in $2.1 bln joint venture with Carphone Warehouse
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- U.K. mobile phone retailer and telecoms group Carphone Warehouse said Thursday that it's agreed to sell a 50% stake in its retail business to Best Buy Co. for 1.1 billion pounds ($2.1 billion). The deal covers 2,400 stores in nine European countries as well as Carphone Warehouse's share of its existing relationships with Best Buy. Carphone Warehouse will continue to own 100% of its fixed line telecoms business and its share of the Virgin Mobile France joint venture. It added the deal is intended to help Carphone continue to grow its existing business and to build a significant market share in consumer electronics retailing through the roll-out of Best Buy stores in Europe starting in 2009. The deal is expected to close by the end of August.Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.
MarketWatch.com – May 8, 2008 06:31 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- U.K. mobile phone retailer and telecoms group Carphone Warehouse said Thursday that it's agreed to sell a 50% stake in its retail business to Best Buy Co. for 1.1 billion pounds ($2.1 billion). The deal covers 2,400 stores in nine European countries as well as Carphone Warehouse's share of its existing relationships with Best Buy. Carphone Warehouse will continue to own 100% of its fixed line telecoms business and its share of the Virgin Mobile France joint venture. It added the deal is intended to help Carphone continue to grow its existing business and to build a significant market share in consumer electronics retailing through the roll-out of Best Buy stores in Europe starting in 2009. The deal is expected to close by the end of August.Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.
MarketWatch.com – May 8, 2008 06:31 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean meets with French President Sarkozy
The Canadian Press - PARIS - Gov. Gen Michaelle Jean took steps Wednesday to quell complaints Quebec has been overshadowed by Canada during her trip to France, mentioning the province several times during events.
Yahoo! – May 8, 2008 03:50 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Canada
The Canadian Press - PARIS - Gov. Gen Michaelle Jean took steps Wednesday to quell complaints Quebec has been overshadowed by Canada during her trip to France, mentioning the province several times during events.
Yahoo! – May 8, 2008 03:50 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Canada
Court ruling releases woman from administrator’s control
Emma France can go back to California after David Mouton, Jasper County probate judge, on Wednesday set aside orders that made the 95-year-old former Carthage resident a ward of Rita Hunter, the county public administrator.
The Joplin Globe – May 8, 2008 01:54 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Emma France can go back to California after David Mouton, Jasper County probate judge, on Wednesday set aside orders that made the 95-year-old former Carthage resident a ward of Rita Hunter, the county public administrator.
The Joplin Globe – May 8, 2008 01:54 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: Missouri: Joplin
May 8, 1790: Liberté! Egalité! Métriqué!
1790: The French National Assembly decides to create a decimal system of measurement. The metric system is born.This came after the storming of the Bastille but still before the declaration of a republic and the execution of King Louis XVI. But revolution was in the air: "National Assembly" was simply the new name the upstart Third Estate had given itself.The assembly was acting on a motion by Bishop Charles Maurice de Talleyrand. Under the ancien régime, France measured with an inch, foot and fathom (pouce, pied and toise) about 6.6 percent larger than their English counterparts.The first meter was based on clockmaking: the length of a pendulum with a half-period (a one-way swing) of one second. Responding to a proposal by the French Academy of Sciences, the assembly redefined the meter in 1793 as 1/10,000 of the distance from the Equator to the North Pole.The system was elegant. All conversions were based on 10, with Greek prefixes (deka-, hecto-, kilo-) for multiples and Latin (deci-, centi-, milli-) for fractions. The gram unit of weight was defined by the weight of one cubic centimeter (aka milliliter) of water.The new "Republican Measures" became legal throughout France in 1795 and were made compulsory in 1799 when definitive platinum meter bars and kilogram weights were constructed. But resistance to the new measures lasted for decades.France also used a quasi-metric Revolutionary Calendar with each month consisting of three décades of 10 days each. (Revolutionaries even attempted a metric day of 10 hours of 100 minutes each of 100 seconds each.) But Napoleon returned France to the Gregorian calendar in 1806.The current International System of Units -- or SI, for Système International -- is based on the Treaty of the Meter signed in Paris on May 20, 1875. The United States was a signatory, and the metric system is the legal system in this country, although the legal alternate English system remains more widely used. (An online conversion engine can make translation easy.)The meter was formally redefined in 1960 as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths in a vacuum of the orange-red light radiation of the krypton 86 atom (transition between levels 2p10 and 5d5). The new standard was 100 times more precise than the old. The current definition, adopted in 1983, makes the meter the distance traveled by light in a vacuum during 1/299,792,458 of a second.That's 39.37 inches to counter-revolutionaries.Source: Various
Wired News – May 8, 2008 01:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Technology
1790: The French National Assembly decides to create a decimal system of measurement. The metric system is born.This came after the storming of the Bastille but still before the declaration of a republic and the execution of King Louis XVI. But revolution was in the air: "National Assembly" was simply the new name the upstart Third Estate had given itself.The assembly was acting on a motion by Bishop Charles Maurice de Talleyrand. Under the ancien régime, France measured with an inch, foot and fathom (pouce, pied and toise) about 6.6 percent larger than their English counterparts.The first meter was based on clockmaking: the length of a pendulum with a half-period (a one-way swing) of one second. Responding to a proposal by the French Academy of Sciences, the assembly redefined the meter in 1793 as 1/10,000 of the distance from the Equator to the North Pole.The system was elegant. All conversions were based on 10, with Greek prefixes (deka-, hecto-, kilo-) for multiples and Latin (deci-, centi-, milli-) for fractions. The gram unit of weight was defined by the weight of one cubic centimeter (aka milliliter) of water.The new "Republican Measures" became legal throughout France in 1795 and were made compulsory in 1799 when definitive platinum meter bars and kilogram weights were constructed. But resistance to the new measures lasted for decades.France also used a quasi-metric Revolutionary Calendar with each month consisting of three décades of 10 days each. (Revolutionaries even attempted a metric day of 10 hours of 100 minutes each of 100 seconds each.) But Napoleon returned France to the Gregorian calendar in 1806.The current International System of Units -- or SI, for Système International -- is based on the Treaty of the Meter signed in Paris on May 20, 1875. The United States was a signatory, and the metric system is the legal system in this country, although the legal alternate English system remains more widely used. (An online conversion engine can make translation easy.)The meter was formally redefined in 1960 as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths in a vacuum of the orange-red light radiation of the krypton 86 atom (transition between levels 2p10 and 5d5). The new standard was 100 times more precise than the old. The current definition, adopted in 1983, makes the meter the distance traveled by light in a vacuum during 1/299,792,458 of a second.That's 39.37 inches to counter-revolutionaries.Source: Various
Wired News – May 8, 2008 01:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Technology
DFW AA Flight Continues Trip Despite Plane Damage
An American Airlines plane - damaged shortly after takeoff from DFW - continued on to fly all the way across the Atlantic to Paris, France. Photos taken of the damageshow one of two air conditioning packs exposed on the jet's underbelly after the panel was ripped off.
cbs11tv.com – May 8, 2008 12:57 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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An American Airlines plane - damaged shortly after takeoff from DFW - continued on to fly all the way across the Atlantic to Paris, France. Photos taken of the damageshow one of two air conditioning packs exposed on the jet's underbelly after the panel was ripped off.
cbs11tv.com – May 8, 2008 12:57 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: Texas: Dallas-Fort Worth