From: Jean O'Boyle on

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" <evgmsop(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:hqihqc0bhl(a)news1.newsguy.com...
>
>
> Poetic Justice wrote:
>> EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote;
>>
>>> Really???? You actually think anyone with
>>> half a brain watches FOX for anything but
>>> laughs?
>>
>> I assume the sitcoms really suck this season then:-).
>
> Actually they DO (big-time)!
>
>>
>> Also Google "fox news ratings" or "fnc ratings" but you won't like the
>> results. Regards, Walter
>
> You're right, I don't "like" them, but it pretty much confirms my opinion
> of the deteriorating IQ of the average America. (There are times I think
> we deserve what we get, in terms of government - and am grateful I'm not
> likely to be around more than a maximum of twenty years more.)

Oh woe is me, with a son who graduated from Yale and MIT, and is a research
scientist attending the Neuroendocrinology Meeting in Rouen, France, this
July..I so agree with you (NOT) about the deteriorating IQ in America. And
that is not mentioning the other four of our children who have BS or M.Sc.
degrees and who all have chosen fields where they help others and are
"givers" not "takers". Not like our present administration....Give it up,
Evelyn...there is good in this world. You need to get out and see it...

--Jean


From: Hatunen on
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:18:14 +0200, Martin <me(a)address.invalid>
wrote:

>On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:18:23 -0700, Hatunen <hatunen(a)cox.net> wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 13:09:15 +0200, Martin <me(a)address.invalid>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 12:27:02 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Martin writes:
>>>>
>>>>> KLM is only a logo. KLM is 100% owned by Air France.
>>>>
>>>>So?
>>>
>>>So call it Air France.
>>
>>And British Airways should call Iberia "British Airways". Or is
>>it the other way around?
>
>No because it is a merger not a total take over.

Oh, my. Is there sonme sort of criterion to discriminate between
a merger and a takeover? In any case, the Economist article on
the merger/takeover said that Iberia would keep its identity,
implying that it's not a given.

Per
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=axZhctYNEXNcall
the stock will be of a single company:

"According to a memorandum of understanding signed by the
companies, British Airways investors will get one share in the
combined entity for every existing share they hold and Iberia
investors will get 1.0205 shares for each Iberia share."

Further:

"The two carriers will continue as separate brands and operating
divisions under a holding company registered in Madrid but with
its main offices and primary stock-exchange listing in London."

At Bloomberg is also quoted as

"The merger would consolidate British Airways� rank as Europe�s
third-biggest carrier, expanding routes to Latin America and
allowing growth beyond its London Heathrow base."

In other words, it's considered to be a new, larger BA.

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From: Hatunen on
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:38:38 -0700,
"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" <evgmsop(a)earthlink.net> wrote:

>
>
>Hatunen wrote:
>> On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 13:12:20 +0200, Martin <me(a)address.invalid>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 12:28:37 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Martin writes:
>>>>
>>>>> It is a real shame that you discovered this so late in your life.
>>>> I've known it all my life, so it's not a discovery.
>>> You haven't managed not to snip relevant context after all these years of
>>> posting to news groups.
>>>
>>> So why didn't you stay in the USA?
>>
>> He prefers to pontficate on the evolving culture in the USA from
>> a safe distance rather than through personal experience.
>
>There are times when I envy him! (Unfortunately, with my retirement
>income all in U.S. Dollars, retiring abroad just wasn't feasible.)

Mexico. Lake Chapala near Guadalajara.

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From: Hatunen on
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:51:11 +0200, Martin <me(a)address.invalid>
wrote:

>On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:59:11 +0200, Giovanni Drogo
><drogo(a)rn.bastiani.ta.invalid> wrote:
>
>>>> & what my wife wants to know is "how will Obama go to Poland for the
>>>> funeral?"
>>>
>>> He didn't.
>>
>>Neither Berlusconi did. However he flew Rome to Milan for the Furniture
>>Exhibition. Had to ask whether state flights were not covered by the air
>>traffic closure (the conclusion was that since they are operated by Air
>>Force pilots they are allowed).
>
>A big NATO air forces exercise in the north of the Netherlands has been
>cancelled.

I'm sourprised that a big NATO air forces exercise will fit in to
part of the Netherlands.

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From: erilar on
In article <831lb6FfqqU1(a)mid.individual.net>,
S Viemeister <firstname(a)lastname.oc.ku> wrote:

> On 4/18/2010 8:02 PM, erilar wrote:


> > I've been reading BBC and German news on line without paying for it
> > since G�tterd�mmerung began just as I was getting ready to fly to
> > Germany. Crossing fingers for Tuesday.
> >
> I wish you luck. If your flight does go, you're not likely to have an
> empty seat next to you - the planes will likely all be as full as they
> were just after 9/11.

Well, my flight is supposed to leave tomorrow. . . if they don't kick me
off to make room for a returning German!

--
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist


http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo