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I don't think it was a Manta Ray, they are filter feeders. I still don't know what it was, it ate a live spot.
Fished the Hot Dog Sunday seems like the hot spot the past couple of weeks chunking. Plus the weather was supposed to be a little bad. Got to the dog and as expected everybody was there. New boat only has 150 anchor rope so we had to drift decided to stay outside the fleet so we didn't drift into anybody. Picked up a nice 60/70lb. YFT. Did several more drifts when over the radio someone kept saying that the 6 boats just north of the fleet were all hooked up. After hearing the troller say it 4 or 5 times we decided to go check it out everybody in the fleet probably was laughing when we picked up and headed north after the radio report when we got there just like the guy said everybody was hooked up we got our second YFT soon as we dropped in another 60lb.
then we got hit hard on a live spot. I decided to fight this on I usually drive/ leader/ gaff The fish easily spooled a Penn 30 wide we picked up and chased it for an hour it spooled the 30 4 times before we could get it 75 feet from the boat it looked like a couple hundred pound Manta Ray Could not get it any closer After 15 minutes of full drag it broke off I never seen or heard of them begin around here. Another wild time offshore on a day I thought would be called off because of the weather.
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I don't think it was a Manta Ray, they are filter feeders. I still don't know what it was, it ate a live spot.
Not sure what type of Ray you guys hooked but years ago - it was not unheard of to hook big 6-7 foot across Rays while shark fishing near Jackspot.
Heard many got killed by accident by trawl netters so we do not see them as much.
One shark fisherman hooked the same Ray three times in one day. The Ray had an odd fin so they could recognize it.
Congrats on some nice YFT - way to break the new ride in.
What could be more mundane than dying of old age or of natural causes when there is death by misadventure to be pursued ? Skip
I caught a ray also , It was about 200 lb and took me 1 hr to get it 5 foot from the boat then i buttoned down the drag and snapped the 30 lb leader. It was odd it also hit a live spot. well at least i caught something. oh yea we did get video of it but that's in OC with the go pro. Congrats on the y-fins
It was a roughtail stingray.
Nice going Lair
Yea that's what I thought it was too. A huge BFT but after 1/2 hr we knew it was something else nice to know now that it was a big ray
everything big we hooked this year has been on a 30 I used to like 30's better than 50's or 80's because there lighter.
Not no more!
Larry good fishing with you, look forward to another ride soon if you'll have me:) J
We've hooked a bunch of rays while chunking, my friend calls it natures version of the 5 gallon bucket trick. I think they just run into the line as they swim and get snagged when the hook reaches them. The hard part is you need to fight it until you see it because you never know...
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@nate1222 this game is the only game that's made me want to get a PSP.. and now I'm checking ebay :|
Eventually, I'm gonna break down and get a PSP. Just for games like Dissidia and the PS1 goodies on PSN.
I've watched a few taiwanis tv shows all the way through with subtitles, and the way the characters in this and the last game talk is a lot like how they talk in those shows. A lot of abstract talk about feelings and who you are and why you are there and stuff like that. The reviewer isn't approaching the story from a japanese perspective really.
Makes me want to buy a PSP... Maybe I can afford one once the price goes down after the Vita's released.
enjoyed the first one, but is this just more of the same with new characters? im not sure if i should get it.
Been playing it for a week, give or take a day or two, and I think it's great. Definitely a must-have if you have a PSP. And if you think of the story as a "fan fiction", it's not THAT bad. Like bugside said, compare it to other fighting games like Tekken, it's gotta be better.
This game is way better then the first one and it got alot of new thing, but it have some old thing too!
The story may not be great, but if you compare it to other fighting games, like Tekken or Dead or Alive for example, than this is pure Shakespeare.
@darkspectre87 Umm... He didn't mention this in the review, but it actually comes w/ BOTH games; beat this one, you unlock the WHOLE entire other game, along with improvements to it.
you actually dont need the first one to understand anything in this one. It even has the story mode of the the first dissidia
Do I need to play (buy) the first game, Dissidia: Final Fantasy in terms of story? Or I could skip it and just get this?
I still play the first one. It is the perfect "I'm waiting for the microwave to heat a hot pocket" game as well as if you want to play for the long haul. In fact, I'm in the process of beating the Shade impulse as well as the extra chapters with each character...again. I disagree on the story in the sense that the story is honestly not better or worse than Final Fantasy is. If you're a fan, having the individual FFs stripped down to "How does main hero and main villain in the FFs relate to each other". If you're not, I can see where you would roll your eyes at the story.
this game looked like its a amazing game, even tho i dont even own a PSP..just seems well made to me
Kevin forgot to say that you unlock the original Dissidia Final Fantasy once you beat the game.
Sucks that the PSP gets all these good games and not on the PS3 :( - i have seen time and time again awesome PSP games being released that should of been done for the PS3!
I want the Japanese dub 'cause Aya Hirano is one of the dubbers I want to hear her voice here.
Sadly I don't have a PSP, but this game does look good. Vivi and Auron HAVE to be included if there's a third game!
This looks great, but the in-battle dialogue sounds kinda repetitive. In those few seconds Laguna was there I was already sick of "There you go!"
i need ppl to ad hoc fight on dissidia... i've NEVER done ad hoc... ever. sucks. though i still love fighting the cpu.
I played prologus, and now i feel that this is going to be the same of the past year.... ok with 8 new characters... but I was expecting more from SE, If they couldn´t add new ways of gameplay, at least they could´ve added a bunch of new characters, x2 the past dissidia roster would be nice, but that didn't happend... Or at least add good and representative characters like vivi, seymour, zell, ashe, vincent, balthier, basch, cid raines or vayne solidor to name some... but that didn´t happend too (with some exceptions - lightning, tifa yuna and vaan are nice additions)... Instead of that they gave us prishe, gilgamesh and laguna...Come on!... I think I´ll wait for a price drop to buy this game, I lost all my expectatives after playing prologus...


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"Hey Bob there's a lightbulb out in the detector room" "Which one" "Oh I dont know. Just go check it yourself."
Ha! Really they are photo detector/multiplier tubes so they absorb light instead of make it. They had a big accident a few years back where one tube collapsed and that caused chain reaction where very many they broke. But they fixed it eventually and even better all the other experiments that are similar learned from it and have procedures to help mitigate the risk now. Sadly I don't know what those are beyond inspection. http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/28561
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. - The state of manufacturing in the US is improving. The rush to outsource to foreign countries has slowed and in some sectors, the tide is reversing. The reasons why manufacturing jobs are returning to the US are varied but almost everyone can point to the bottom line as a common thread. "Managers are learning now the cost of globalizing in a big way," said Rockhurst University professor of Economics Michael Tansey. "They are finding out, you know what, better to keep it at home."
That doesn't mean all the jobs are coming back. Tansey says the low-end jobs are gone. One local company knows that first-hand. A&E Custom Manufacturing in Kansas City, Kansas rebranded themselves from a stamping company to better fit the available market. They recently added robots to the work floor to increase production.
"We're trying to make our work process as efficient as possible so we can get as much work through the plant as we can," said Bill Goodman. The robots enable the company to give the customer exactly what they want at the same time cutting down the lead time from design to delivery, another leg up for local manufacturers. "Our world has changed. We're no longer competing with somebody down the street," said Goodman. "We're competing with similar companies across the world."
The current economic conditions around the world are also lending a hand in jobs returning to the US. Rising fuel prices increase shipping costs. Foreign wages are starting to climb. Supplier's inventory levels are low too. But communication is becoming a bigger factor. "American business has found it very costly when those communication gaps occur," said Tansey. "Particularly on a globalized level."
Goodman feels this rebound, while good, can fall short because manufacturers need more skilled workers. "We have to have skilled people to run this incredibly expensive and technical equipment," said Goodman. His company is hiring and will train new employees but they need to have some technical skills. Goodman adds that US manufacturing is facing a shortage of workers and that shortage could reach a critical level within the next ten years.
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Phew – I am sure glad the last blog-post subject line had a question mark in it!
Guess what disappeared… the mortgagee letter that was on HUDs website about this ability to "use the $8000 First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit" – yeah… its gone!
As of today you can not use the tax credit for a down payment. True, there has been a lot of discussion on this, but as of now it is not currently an option. Those statements were made by the Secretary of HUD yesterday and a HUD/FHA letter was published on the website Monday night.
Then…the new Director of HUD pulled that Mortgagee letter this morning and is no longer even available on the HUD website. [Notice ML 09-15 has been pulled]. This theoretical program is not something that is deliverable as of yet. Sometimes I wonder if they are intentionally trying to sabotage the marketplace. They, once again, have gotten people worked up in a frenzy over something that might – maybe – possibly – happen… then they act as if it was not said at all!? OMG, are you kidding me?
This is why, more than ever, it is important to have a trusted mortgage broker in your corner. I will deliver the news to you as it comes out and if/when they change it, you will know about it first - here. Thank you for the trust you place in me, it is not something that I take lightly. If you have any questions don't hesitate to call me, for now…..and if anything should come to market officially you will see it here.
Just as an FYI – before this could happen, there would need to be:
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Although it is observed frequently with women, deformation and loosening of the abdominal skin due to excessive weight gain is observed at both genders. The most common reason with women is pregnancy. The loosening of the abdominal skin occurs not only due to accumulated fat, but the rupture and separation of the muscle caused by the fat cells. An abdominoplasty operation can restore the tummy.
The ideal solution is a tummy tuck as it is commonly known, which not only flattens the stomach, but removed access skin, tightens the inner tissues.
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* If your stomach skin has thinned and sagging
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Operation process: The operation is performed under general anesthesia and has two options, a mini abnominoplasty and normal abnominoplasty. The first is suitable for minor corrections and the later for more extreme cases. Both require a liposuction to be followed by the correction of muscle tissue and the skin. A drain is inserted to discard fluids that may build up and the entire operation lasts up to 2 hours. Any incisions made are hidden in skin folds, in the bikini area. If there is no skin extension, only liposuction is made to remove fat
Post operation care: hospital stay up to one day is required and the patient should rest for a few more at home. In order to facilitate blood circulation, walking is highly recommended, bed rest is not preferred even though patients have difficulty in standing up straight. The drains are removed the day after the operation. The bruises and swelling will heal in time, and final results will be visible in a few months. If liposuction is made, wearing the corset is required and the patient can return to his or her daily life in a week.
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Descartes boldly claimed: "I think, therefore I am." But one might well ask: Why do we think? How? When and why did our human ancestors develop language and culture? In other words, what makes the human mind human?
Evolution of Mind, Brain, and Culture offers a comprehensive and scientific investigation of these perennial questions. Fourteen essays bring together the work of archaeologists, cultural and physical anthropologists, psychologists, philosophers, geneticists, a neuroscientist, and an environmental scientist to explore the evolution of the human mind, the brain, and the human capacity for culture. The volume represents and critically engages major theoretical approaches, including Donald's stage theory, Mithen's cathedral model, Tomasello's joint intentionality, and Boyd and Richerson's modeling of the evolution of culture in relation to climate change.
No recent publication combines this breadth of evidential and theoretical perspective. The essays range in topic from the macroscopic (the evolution of social cooperation) to the microscopic (examining genetic data to infer evolutions in brain structure and function), and from the ancient (paleoanthropological reconstructions of hominin cognitive abilities) to the modern (including modern hominin's similarities to our primate cousins). Considered together, these essays constitute a fascinating, detailed look at what makes us human.
Gary Hatfield is Adam Seybert Professor in Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania.
Holly Pittman is Bok Family Professor in the Humanities and Professor of History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, and Curator in the Near East Section at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
The pre-Columbian city we call Tikal was abandoned by its Maya residents during the tenth century A.D. and succumbed to the Guatemalan rain forest. It was not until 1848 that it was brought to the attention of the outside world. For the next century Tikal, remote and isolated, received a surprisingly large number of visitors. Public officials, explorers, academics, military personnel, settlers, petroleum engineers, chicle gatherers, and archaeologists came and went, sometimes leaving behind material traces of their visits. A short-lived hamlet was established among the ancient ruins in the late 1870s. In 1956 the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology initiated its fourteen-year-long Tikal Project.
This report chronicles documented visits to Tikal during the century following its modern discovery, and presents the post-Conquest material culture recovered by the Tikal Project in the course of its investigation of the pre-Columbian city. Further research on the nineteenth-century settlement was carried out in 1998 in its southern part by the Lacandon Archaeological Project (LAP) under the direction of Joel W. Palka of the University of Illinois at Chicago. The material culture recovered by the LAP supplements the Tikal Project collection and is referenced here. Historical Archaeology at Tikal, Guatemala is intended as a contribution to nineteenth and early twentieth century Lowland Mesoamerican research. It is rounded out with several appendices that will be of interest to historians and historical archaeologists. The printed volume includes many black and white photographs and drawings. A gallery of color photographs, several from Palka's 1998 excavations, is included on the accompanying CD.
Hattula Moholy-Nagy is Consulting Scholar in the American Section, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Some of the most dramatic new discoveries in Asia Minor have been made at Gordion, the Phrygian capital that controlled much of central Asia Minor for close to two centuries. The most famous ruler of the kingdom was Midas, who regularly negotiated with Greeks in the west and Assyrians in the east during his reign. Excavations have been conducted at Gordion over the course of the last 60 years, all under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
In spite of the economic and political importance of Gordion and the Phrygians, the site is consistently omitted from courses in Old World archaeology, primarily because Gordion lies too far to the west for many Near Eastern archaeologists, and too far to the east for classical archaeologists. Moreover, there is no book that offers a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the material culture of Gordion during the Phrygian period, a gap that will be filled by this volume. The chapters cover all aspects of Gordion's Phrygian settlement topography from the arrival of the Phrygians in the tenth century B.C. through the arrival of Alexander the Great in 333 B.C., focusing on the site's changing topography and the consistently fluctuating interaction between the inhabitants and the landscape. A reexamination of the material culture of Phrygian Gordion is particularly timely, given the dramatic recent changes in the site's chronology, wherein the dates of many discoveries have changed by as much as a century. The authors are among the leading experts in Near Eastern archaeology, historic preservation, paleobotany, and ancient furniture, and their articles highlight the interdisciplinary nature of the Gordion project. A significant component of the book is a new color phase plan of the site that succinctly presents the topography in diachronic perspective.
C. Brian Rose is Pritchard Professor of Classical Studies and History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania and Curator-in-Charge of the Mediterranean Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
This is the climactic volume on the archaeological and architectural history from ca. 31 B.C. to A.D. 365 of the extramural sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya. It deals with the impact of Christianity on the cult and the causes of its decline, with particular emphasis on the largest body of evidence recorded anywhere for iconoclastic damage, presumably by Christian populations, to sculpted images of worshippers and twin goddesses. The volume traces the characteristics of major Demeter sanctuaries elsewhere (e.g., Eleusis, Corinth, Pergamon, Acragas, and Selinus) and places Cyrene's sanctuary within the context of this development.
The volume also presents the sanctuary's important lapidary and lead inscriptions as analyzed by Joyce Reyonlds. It is the eighth volume in the final reports series for the excavations conducted for the University of Michigan, and subsequently the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, between 1969 and 1981.
Donald White is Curator Emeritus of the Mediterranean Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
The New Chronology of Iron Age Gordion argues that the history and archaeology of the site of Gordion, in central Turkey, have been misunderstood since the beginning of the excavations in the 1950s. The first excavation director, Rodney Young, found evidence for substantial destruction during the first decade of fieldwork; this was interpreted as proof that Gordion had been destroyed ca. 700 B.C. by the Kimmerians, a group of invaders from the Caucusus/Black Sea region, as attested in several ancient literary sources. During the last decade, however, renewed research on the archaeological evidence, within, above, and below the destruction level indicated that the catastrophe that destroyed much of Gordion occurred 100 years earlier, in 800 B.C., and was the result of a fire that quickly got out of control rather than a foreign invasion.
This discovery requires a reassessment of Anatolian history during the entire first millennium B.C. and has serious implications for our understanding of the surrounding regions, such as Assyria, Syria, Greece, and Urartu, among others. The New Chronology of Iron Age Gordion is the product of a multidisciplinary research program, with dendrochronology and radiocarbon dating working hand in hand with textual and artifact analysis, each of which is treated in a separate chapter in this volume. All of these categories of evidence point to the same conclusion and demonstrate that we need to look at Gordion, and much of the ancient Near East, in a completely new way.
C. Brian Rose is Pritchard Professor of Classical Studies and History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania and Curator-in-Charge of the Mediterranean Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Gareth Darbyshire is Gordion Archivist at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Persian has been a written language since the sixth century B.C. Only Chinese, Greek, and Latin have comparable histories of literacy. Although Persian script changed—first from cuneiform to a modified Aramaic, then to Arabic—from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries it served a broader geographical area than any language in world history. It was the primary language of administration and belles lettres from the Balkans under the earlier Ottoman Empire to Central China under the Mongols, and from the northern branches of the Silk Road in Central Asia to southern India under the Mughal Empire. Its history is therefore crucial for understanding the function of writing in world history.
Each of the chapters of Literacy in the Persianate World opens a window onto a particular stage of this history, starting from the reemergence of Persian in the Arabic script after the Arab-Islamic conquest in the seventh century A.D., through the establishment of its administrative vocabulary, its literary tradition, its expansion as the language of trade in the thirteenth century, and its adoption by the British imperial administration in India, before being reduced to the modern role of national language in three countries (Afghanistan, Iran, and Tajikistan) in the twentieth century. Two concluding chapters compare the history of written Persian with the parallel histories of Chinese and Latin, with special attention to the way its use was restricted and channeled by social practice.
This is the first comparative study of the historical role of writing in three languages, including two in non-Roman scripts, over a period of two and a half millennia, providing an opportunity for reassessment of the work on literacy in English that has accumulated over the past half century. The editors take full advantage of this opportunity in their introductory essay.
Brian Spooner is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania.
William L. Hanaway is Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania.
Sustainable Lifeways addresses forces of conservatism and innovation in societies dependent on the exploitation of aquatic and other wild resources, agriculture, and specialized pastoralism. The volume gathers specialists working in four areas of the world with significant archaeological and paleoenvironmental databases: West Asia, the American Southwest, East Africa, and Andean South America, and contributing to research in three broad time scales: long term (spanning millennia), medium term (archaeological time, spanning centuries or a few thousand years), and recent (ethnohistoric or ethnographic, spanning years or decades).
By bringing an archaeological eye to an examination of human response to unpredictable environmental conditions, informed by an understanding of contemporary traditional peoples, the contributors to this volume develop a more detailed picture of how societies perceive environmental risk, how they alter their behavior in the face of changing conditions, and under what challenges the most rapid and far-reaching changes in adaptation have taken place. Sustainable Lifeways enhances our understanding of both the forces of conservatism and innovation which may have been in play in major transitions in the past, such as the development of complex society, and the expansions of early empires. Studies present examples of cattle herders in East Africa, hunter-gatherers and pastoralists in the Levant, South American fisher/farmers, and farmer/hunters of the U.S. Southwest.
Naomi F. Miller is Research Project Manager in the Near East Section, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Katherine M. Moore is Consulting Scholar in the American Section, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Kathleen Ryan is Consulting Scholar in the African Section, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
A podcast interview with the editors is available at the Penn Press Podcast page.
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has had a long-standing interest in the archaeology of Iran. In 1956, Robert H. Dyson, Jr., began excavations south of Lake Urmia at the large mounded site of Hasanlu. Although the results of these excavations await final publication, the Hasanlu Special Studies series—of which this monograph is the fourth volume—describes and analyzes specific aspects of technology, style, and iconography. This volume describes a group of ongoing research projects, most of which provide new information on Iron Age technology. A theme that runs through these studies is the degree to which ancient workers varied the composition of their products to create desirable colors and textures.
The book begins with a description of the wooden furniture fragments along with fittings and decorative elements for furniture. It presents the first detailed description of the charred textiles, and places these textiles in their archaeological contexts, suggesting the roles that textiles may have played in daily life. Later chapters assess the significance of Hasanlu in the history of glassmaking, describe the archaeometallurgy of the Hasanlu IVB bronzes, and present a catalog of the bladed weapons. Also, the book presents the evidence for deliberate violence against individuals as indicated by their skeletal injuries and the results of a project undertaken to determine whether DNA could be used to obtain a better understanding of the population history at Hasanlu.
This publication also includes an accompanying DVD with appendices and color plates.
Maude de Schauensee, Associate Editor of the Hasanlu Publications Series and former Keeper of the Near East Section at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, is the author of articles on bronze working at Hasanlu, horse trappings and Assyrian reliefs, and other northwestern Iranian topics.


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musketeer writes:
I agree with all you say about religious tolerance. From Europe, it looks very much as if America needs far more people speaking out as you have done. I doubt that Christ would ever have expected people claiming to be his followers to be consumed with so much hate as some display.
However, my real reason for writing is that you suggest that Oliver Cromwell caused the English Civil Wars. This is not true. He was a member of parliament when the Civil Wars broke out and only came to prominence later.
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Air France-KLM is a European airline holding company incorporated under French law with its headquarters at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport near Paris, France.
It is the largest airline company in the world in terms of total operating revenues, and the third largest in the world in terms of passenger-kilometres and passenger fleet size.
The company's CEO is Jean-Cyril Spinetta.
Air France-KLM is member of the SkyTeam airline alliance. They offer a frequent flyer program called Flying Blue. The company's namesake airlines rely on two major hubs: Roissy-Charles de Gaulle International Airport, near Paris, and Schiphol Airport, near Amsterdam.
Air France-KLM is one of the most profitable companies in Europe, transporting 74,8 millions passengers a year.
Private shareholders own 81.4 percent of the company, with 37 percent held by former Air France shareholders and 21 percent held by former KLM shareholders. The French government owns the remaining 18.6 percent.
In June 2008, Air France-KLM agreed to pay $350 million to settle charges of cargo price fixing in an investigation conducted by the U.S. Justice Department. Cathay Pacific Airways, Martinair Holland, and SAS Cargo Group also agreed to fines, bringing the total to $504 million.
Air France-KLM also owns half of Martinair and has minority interests in Kenya Airways (26 percent), CCM Airlines (12 percent) and Alitalia (2 percent).
In a recent opening for a majority takeover of the loss-generating Alitalia, Air France-KLM was one of three bidders, and was favoured by the board of Alitalia.. However, on 2nd April 2008, it was reported that negotiations have been abandoned. Air France - KLM, has announced it is interested in purchasing Austrian Airlines.
As a result of the deal, the French government's share of Air France was reduced from 54.4 percent (of the former Air France) to 44 percent (of the combined airline). Its share was subsequently reduced to 25 percent, and later to 18.6 percent.
At the time of the merger in May 2004, Air France and KLM combined offered flights to 225 destinations in the world. In the year ending March 21, 2003, the two companies combined transported 66.3 million passengers.
In October 2005, Air France Cargo and KLM Cargo, the two freight subsidiaries of the group, announced a merge of their commercial activities. The Joint Cargo Management Team now operates the organisation worldwide from the Netherlands.


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Salem's Liberty Utilities prepares for storm
The company has already initiated an emergency readiness plan in anticipation of Nemo, spokeswoman Deb Daigle said.
Liberty Utilities provides electrical services to 43,000 Granite State customers in the communities of Acworth, Alstead, Bath, Canaan, Charlestown, Cornish, Derry, Enfield, Grafton, Hanover, Lebanon, Lyme, Marlow, Monroe, Orange, Pelham, Plainfield, Salem, Surry, Walpole and Windham, according to Daigle.
Team members will be in place early Friday and ready to respond as soon as conditions are safe. "We have approximately 35 crews ready to go including line workers and tree clearing crews," according to Del Vecchio. "They are being deployed to our Salem, Lebanon and Charlestown service areas for quick response."
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