<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32325696</id><updated>2011-12-14T21:48:26.084-05:00</updated><category term='earned'/><category term='Master'/><category term='Bachelor'/><category term='years of schooling'/><category term='study'/><category term='money'/><category term='PhD'/><title type='text'>freepostingplace</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>pricecorner</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>21</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32325696.post-1451730781464622262</id><published>2010-11-02T00:49:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2010-11-02T00:50:02.128-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Khi người ta không còn yêu nhau nữa</title><content type='html'>http://nhatky.name&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Khi người ta không còn yêu nhau nữa&lt;br /&gt;Câu hỏi thăm cũng trở nên thừa&lt;br /&gt;Sự quan tâm nay trở thành khó chịu&lt;br /&gt;Như sợi dây nào níu giữ cánh diều bay....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Khi người ta không còn yêu nhau nữa&lt;br /&gt;Kỷ niệm qua như gió cuối chân trời&lt;br /&gt;Mười năm hẹn, vàng theo mùa hoa cải&lt;br /&gt;Để con bướm vàng, ai đó rong chơi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Khi người ta không còn yêu nhau nữa&lt;br /&gt;Con đường quen xa ngái đến lạ lùng&lt;br /&gt;Người không tới, hay đi hoài không tới&lt;br /&gt;Giọt mưa chiều rơi xuống giữa mông lung&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Khi người ta không còn yêu nhau nữa&lt;br /&gt;Nụ cười xưa, nay gượng gạo mất rồi&lt;br /&gt;Đôi mắt nhìn không còn men sóng sánh&lt;br /&gt;Bên cạnh một người mà cứ dõi xa xôi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Khi người ta không còn yêu nhau nữa&lt;br /&gt;Duyên nợ, số trời, người lấy để biện minh&lt;br /&gt;" Mình không hợp thôi chia tay người nhé&lt;br /&gt;Rồi mai sau gặp người khác hơn mình"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Khi người ta không còn yêu nhau nữa&lt;br /&gt;Cứ tự nhủ mình phải cứng cáp lên&lt;br /&gt;" Người đổi thay đâu phải người có tội&lt;br /&gt;Can cớ gì mà nghĩ nhớ hay quên?"&lt;br /&gt;(st)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32325696-1451730781464622262?l=freepostingplace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/feeds/1451730781464622262/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32325696&amp;postID=1451730781464622262' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/1451730781464622262'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/1451730781464622262'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/2010/11/khi-nguoi-ta-khong-con-yeu-nhau-nua.html' title='Khi người ta không còn yêu nhau nữa'/><author><name>pricecorner</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32325696.post-564724678474409181</id><published>2010-05-25T18:05:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-25T18:06:29.063-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Who does time favor?</title><content type='html'>20-25: time favors both men and women in love&lt;br /&gt;25 and up: time punishes women for being single&lt;br /&gt;25-35: time rewards men for being alone&lt;br /&gt;35 and up: time punishes men too, if he's financially unstable&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32325696-564724678474409181?l=freepostingplace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32325696.post-5807895757582115528</id><published>2010-05-25T18:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-25T18:05:10.742-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Marriage is not a fair game</title><content type='html'>Girls and boys are almost equal in love, each has their own say, defend their own interests, and trying to change each other to suite them. But when it comes to marriage, or the process of making that decision, men always have the advantage.&lt;br /&gt;No matter how independent the woman is. By the end of the day, it's her that need the security of a family. Maybe not now, maybe not yet, but eventually it is. It's her who need a man, several kids and daily routines of cooking, tidying, washing and sleeping.&lt;br /&gt;Men on the other hand, is the creature of randomness, unorganized, adventurous and no need for long term security. They don't feel lonely often. Sexually, they are also easier satisfied, either by hanging out in pubs, or by legal/illegal prostitution. Women don't have those 'advantages', society doesn't look down on them greatly doing such things. Socially, men get more girls when they grow old and grow rich. Women, just get less or actually none when they grow old, and become rich might actually turn out a nightmare of loneliness. Psychologically, women get worried when they have no man. Men, on the contrary, feel exhilarated when they get freedoms from woman's influence. Men are the creatures that are best at hit and run. Women, get hit and get the bruise.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32325696-5807895757582115528?l=freepostingplace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/feeds/5807895757582115528/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32325696&amp;postID=5807895757582115528' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/5807895757582115528'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/5807895757582115528'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/2010/05/marriage-is-not-fair-game.html' title='Marriage is not a fair game'/><author><name>pricecorner</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32325696.post-6899984359582167155</id><published>2010-03-11T15:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-03-11T15:40:11.797-05:00</updated><title type='text'>ImportError: No module named osgeo - Solution</title><content type='html'>I was playing with this &lt;a href="http://gvlt.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/tutorial-thematic-mapping-with-the-google-maps-flash-api/"&gt;Thematic Mapping with Google Map API&lt;/a&gt; and want to run their python code (to get the coordinates out in my format). Getting Shapely (and its osgeo library) to work on Windows took me 2 day without success. This error just hard to get by:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ImportError: No module named osgeo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So my advice is to run it on Linux. Here's how to do it on Ubuntu&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First make sure you have python working. You can install it by:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;sudo apt-get install python-setuptools&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Install gdal&gt;osgeo library&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go to System &gt; Administration &gt; Synaptic Package Manager&lt;br /&gt;- Search gdal in 'Quick Search' box. Select it and choose 'Mark for installation'&lt;br /&gt;- Search gdal-python. Mark it for installation as well.&lt;br /&gt;- Click Apply button on the toolbar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The packages will be installed, about 20 of them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After they finish, you can run python (Type 'python' in terminal) and this command should work:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; from osgeo import ogr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Credit: Neeraj Kumar&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32325696-6899984359582167155?l=freepostingplace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/feeds/6899984359582167155/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32325696&amp;postID=6899984359582167155' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/6899984359582167155'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/6899984359582167155'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/2010/03/importerror-no-module-named-osgeo.html' title='ImportError: No module named osgeo - Solution'/><author><name>pricecorner</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32325696.post-8347952313392214457</id><published>2010-01-11T01:19:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-03-11T15:28:43.274-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Sun Virtualbox - A disk image already registered error</title><content type='html'>If you receive this error (like I do after playing with Chrome OS)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A disk image with UUID {4c656719-39df-4129-ac50-3e54f5a2faa3} or file path 'D:\Downloads\chrome-os-0.4.22.8-gdgt.vmdk' is already registered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Result Code: &lt;br /&gt;E_INVALIDARG (0x80070057)&lt;br /&gt;Component: &lt;br /&gt;VirtualBox&lt;br /&gt;Interface: &lt;br /&gt;IVirtualBox {2d3b9ea7-25f5-4f07-a8e1-7dd7e0dcf667}&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Solution:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open: C:\Users\adminNUS\.VirtualBox\virtualbox.xml and delete the troublesome entry. In this case: &lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;Image uuid="{4c656719-39df-4129-ac50-3e54f5a2faa3}" src="D:\Downloads\chrome-os-0.4.22.8-gdgt.vmdk"/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;inside &amp;lt;DVDImages&amp;gt; tag.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32325696-8347952313392214457?l=freepostingplace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/feeds/8347952313392214457/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32325696&amp;postID=8347952313392214457' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/8347952313392214457'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/8347952313392214457'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/2010/01/sum-virtualbox-disk-image-already.html' title='Sun Virtualbox - A disk image already registered error'/><author><name>pricecorner</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32325696.post-1444237985090932592</id><published>2010-01-07T12:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-07T13:00:01.287-05:00</updated><title type='text'>How many times a day a clock’s hands overlap?</title><content type='html'>Seem likes many have been beating around the bush with lengthy answers. I think this analytical solution will answer it once and for all:&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Let t be the time (in minute) from 00:00 when the two hands first overlap. The angle each hand makes to number 12 is:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;minute hand: 360/60t = 6t (degree) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;hour hand: 360/12*60 = 0.5t (degree)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Two hands overlap if&lt;i&gt; 6t mod 360 = 0.5t&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;equivalently:  0.5t + 360k = 6t (for non-negative integer k=0,1,2,...)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;OR &lt;i&gt;t = 360k/5.5&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So within a day you need t &amp;lt; 24*60 = 1440 =&amp;gt; max k = 22&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We can easily find the exact moment where two hand matches.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;First moment after 0:00 is for k=1 =&gt; t = 65.4545 or 1h5 minute and 27.272727.. seconds&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;and so on.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32325696-1444237985090932592?l=freepostingplace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/feeds/1444237985090932592/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32325696&amp;postID=1444237985090932592' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/1444237985090932592'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/1444237985090932592'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-many-times-day-clocks-hands-overlap.html' title='How many times a day a clock’s hands overlap?'/><author><name>pricecorner</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32325696.post-4717477873846306961</id><published>2009-04-16T01:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-16T01:30:52.729-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Harvard Publishing Case</title><content type='html'>Some case study from Havard Publishing that I found.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Li &amp;amp; Fung (A): Internet Issues&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) (A)&lt;br /&gt;Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) (C)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Paypal Merchant Services&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Download: &lt;a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/221911394/Financial.rar"&gt;Financial.rar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pass: hbss&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please say thanks.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32325696-4717477873846306961?l=freepostingplace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/feeds/4717477873846306961/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32325696&amp;postID=4717477873846306961' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/4717477873846306961'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/4717477873846306961'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/2009/04/harvard-publishing-case.html' title='Harvard Publishing Case'/><author><name>pricecorner</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32325696.post-1441989062581511894</id><published>2009-04-06T22:41:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-06T23:02:36.619-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='study'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='earned'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bachelor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='years of schooling'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PhD'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Master'/><title type='text'>Hourly earned vs. Years of schooling</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MzQWYWUArwI/Sdq9Z-knCOI/AAAAAAAAAkg/tELbyzqZXJk/s1600-h/years_of_schooling.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:480px;height:261px" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MzQWYWUArwI/Sdq9Z-knCOI/AAAAAAAAAkg/tELbyzqZXJk/s320/years_of_schooling.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321774163682592994" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Click to enlarge&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12 years is equivalent to finishing high school&lt;br /&gt;16: finish college&lt;br /&gt;20: finish graduate school (PhD)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;Some of my interpretations:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Majority of people who finish high school will perform as well as majority of those just finish college (12yr vs. 16yr).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Some drop-outs from colleges do quite well (13 years, we also know some famous examples)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Best-doers in colleges seem to get highest pay (highest point in 16 year column)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Masters have minor advantage, you should have just stop at high school instead :))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;PhD definitely do better than all those who just halfway in secondary school (7 years). Congratulations!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Smartest PhD can't beat smartest bachelor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Drop out late in your PhD is expensive (you are worse than both Masters and PhDs)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;All who study more than 21 years are ....dead :D:D&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What do you think?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32325696-1441989062581511894?l=freepostingplace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/feeds/1441989062581511894/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32325696&amp;postID=1441989062581511894' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/1441989062581511894'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/1441989062581511894'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/2009/04/hourly-earned-vs-years-of-schooling.html' title='Hourly earned vs. Years of schooling'/><author><name>pricecorner</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MzQWYWUArwI/Sdq9Z-knCOI/AAAAAAAAAkg/tELbyzqZXJk/s72-c/years_of_schooling.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32325696.post-116662434631147253</id><published>2006-12-20T09:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-20T09:19:06.363-05:00</updated><title type='text'>London - places in details</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Buckingham Palace&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CHANGING THE GUARD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;The regular hand-over of guards in the forecourt of Buckingham Palace draws thousands of visitors to watch the soldiers and listen to the music. Known as Changing the Guard or Guard Mounting, the process involves a new&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;guard exchanging duty with the old guard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.royalparks.gov.uk/display_images/teaser_changingguard.jpg" align="left" /&gt;The soldiers are drawn from one of the five regiments of Foot Guards in the&lt;br /&gt;British Army: the Scots Guards, the Irish Guards, the Welsh Guards, the&lt;br /&gt;Grenadier Guards and the Coldstream Guards.&lt;br /&gt;The handover is accompanied by a Guards band. The music played ranges from&lt;br /&gt;traditional military marches to songs from the shows and even familiar pop&lt;br /&gt;songs.&lt;br /&gt;When The Queen is in residence, there are four sentries at the front of the&lt;br /&gt;building. When she is away there are two.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Queen's Guard usually consists of Foot Guards in their full-dress uniform of&lt;br /&gt;red tunics and bearskins. If they have operational commitments, other infantry&lt;br /&gt;units take part instead.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Units from Commonwealth realms occasionally take turn in Guard Mounting. In&lt;br /&gt;May 1998, Canadian soldiers from Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry&lt;br /&gt;mounted guard at Buckingham Palace for the first time since the Coronation in&lt;br /&gt;1953.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Time&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is no Guard Mounting in very wet weather.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Buckingham Palace &lt;/strong&gt;Changing the Guard takes place at&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;11.30 am&lt;/span&gt;. December -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;odd&lt;/span&gt; dates&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Windsor Castle &lt;/strong&gt;Changing the Guard takes place at&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;11.00am&lt;/span&gt;. December -&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;odd&lt;/span&gt; dates&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Horse Guards Arch &lt;/strong&gt;Daily at &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11am.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tower of London &lt;/strong&gt;Daily at &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11.30am&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace is a permanent space dedicated to&lt;br /&gt;changing exhibitions of items from the Royal Collection, the wide-ranging&lt;br /&gt;collection of art and treasures held in trust by The Queen for the Nation.&lt;br /&gt;Constructed forty years ago on the west front of Buckingham Palace out of the&lt;br /&gt;bomb-damaged ruins of the former private chapel, the Gallery has recently been&lt;br /&gt;redeveloped. It was reopened by The Queen on&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;21 May 2002 and is now open to the public on a daily basis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;St James' Park&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p class="intro"&gt;St James's Park is the oldest Royal Park in London and is&lt;br /&gt;surrounded by three palaces. The most ancient is Westminster, which has now&lt;br /&gt;become the Houses of Parliament, St James's Palace and of course, the best&lt;br /&gt;known, Buckingham Palace. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="black"&gt;The Park was once a marshy watermeadow. In the thirteenth&lt;br /&gt;century a leper hospital was founded, and it is from this hospital that the Park&lt;br /&gt;took its name. In 1532 Henry VIII acquired the site as yet another deer park and&lt;br /&gt;built the Palace of St James's. When Elizabeth I came to the throne she indulged&lt;br /&gt;her love of pageantry and pomp, and fetes of all kinds were held in the park.&lt;br /&gt;Her successor, James I, improved the drainage and controlled the water supply. A&lt;br /&gt;road was created in front of St James's Palace, approximately where the Mall is&lt;br /&gt;today, but it was Charles II who made dramatic changes. The Park was redesigned,&lt;br /&gt;with avenues of trees planted and lawns laid. The King opened the park to the&lt;br /&gt;public and was a frequent visitor, feeding the ducks and mingling with his&lt;br /&gt;subjects. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="black"&gt;During the Hanoverian period, Horse Guards Parade was created&lt;br /&gt;by filling in one end of the long canal and was used first as a mustering ground&lt;br /&gt;and later for parades. Horse Guards Parade is still part of St James's Park. The&lt;br /&gt;Park changed forever when John Nash redesigned it in a more romantic style. The&lt;br /&gt;canal was transformed into a natural-looking lake and in 1837 the Ornithological&lt;br /&gt;Society of London presented some birds to the Park and erected a cottage for a&lt;br /&gt;birdkeeper. Both the cottage and the position of birdkeeper remain to this day.&lt;br /&gt;Clarence House was designed for the Duke of Clarence, later to become William IV&lt;br /&gt;and was also the home of the late Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="black"&gt;Outside Buckingham Palace is the Queen Victoria Memorial, which&lt;br /&gt;celebrates the days of the British Empire. The memorial includes not only the&lt;br /&gt;marble statue of Victoria and the glittering figures of Victory, Courage and&lt;br /&gt;Constancy, but also the ornamental gates given by the Dominions. These are the&lt;br /&gt;Australia Gate, South Africa Gate and Canada Gate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;St. James's Palace&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;has been the setting for some of the most important events in Royal history.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Built largely between 1531 and 1536, St. James's Palace was a residence of kings&lt;br /&gt;and queens of England for over 300 years. It remains the official residence of&lt;br /&gt;the Sovereign, although, since the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837, the&lt;br /&gt;Sovereign has lived at Buckingham Palace. High Commissioners present letters and&lt;br /&gt;Ambassadors are still formally accredited to the Court of St. James's for this&lt;br /&gt;reason.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The palace was built by Henry VIII on the site of the Hospital of St. James,&lt;br /&gt;Westminster. Much survives of the red-brick building erected by Henry VIII,&lt;br /&gt;including the Chapel Royal, the gatehouse, some turrets and two surviving Tudor&lt;br /&gt;rooms in the State apartments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Buildings later sprawled to cover the area of four courts now known as&lt;br /&gt;Ambassadors' Court, Engine Court, Friary Court and Colour Court. The great Tudor&lt;br /&gt;Gatehouse at the southern end of St. James's Street still bears Henry VIII's&lt;br /&gt;royal cypher HR, surmounted by his crown, above the original foot passages&lt;br /&gt;leading through to Colour Court.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Henry VIII's illegitimate son Henry Fitzroy, whom he contemplated recognising as&lt;br /&gt;his heir, was living in the Palace when he died in 1536 at the age of seventeen.&lt;br /&gt;From then on St. James's House, as it was known, saw a succession of Royal&lt;br /&gt;inhabitants who lived there while playing their part in some of the more famous&lt;br /&gt;events in English history.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn, stayed there the night after her&lt;br /&gt;coronation. Before she was discarded following the birth of Princess (later&lt;br /&gt;Queen) Elizabeth, the initials HA entwined in a lovers' knot appeared on a&lt;br /&gt;couple of Tudor fireplaces in the State apartments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was in St. James's Palace in 1558 that Mary Tudor signed the treaty&lt;br /&gt;surrendering Calais. Elizabeth I was resident during the threat posed by the&lt;br /&gt;Spanish Armada and set out from St James's to address her troops assembled at&lt;br /&gt;Tilbury, to the east of London.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The future Charles II and James II were both born and baptised at St James's, as&lt;br /&gt;were Mary of York (Mary II), Anne of York (Queen Anne) and James Francis Edward&lt;br /&gt;Stuart (the Old Pretender).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the destruction of the Palace of Whitehall, all monarchs until William IV&lt;br /&gt;lived at St. James's for part of the time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1809, much of the east and south ranges of the Palace was destroyed by fire,&lt;br /&gt;but the State rooms were restored by 1813. At this time the Prince Regent (later&lt;br /&gt;George IV) was living at Carlton House, but four of his brothers were provided&lt;br /&gt;with houses within the Palace walls. Frederick, Duke of York was given Godolphin&lt;br /&gt;House, now Lancaster House, and William, Duke of Clarence (later William IV) was&lt;br /&gt;given Clarence House, today occupied by The Prince of Wales.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;William IV was the last Sovereign to use St. James's Palace as a residence.&lt;br /&gt;After his death, Court functions were still held in the State apartments, which&lt;br /&gt;had been enlarged by Christopher Wren and embellished by William Kent. Some&lt;br /&gt;rooms were later partly redecorated by William Morris. Queen Victoria married&lt;br /&gt;Prince Albert in the Chapel Royal in 1840, and court levées continued to be held&lt;br /&gt;at St. James's Palace until 1939.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The State Apartments of the Palace contain many beautiful items of furnishing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are Mortlake tapestries ordered by Charles I as Prince of Wales in the Old&lt;br /&gt;Presence Chamber, and a fine display of arms and armour in the Armoury.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The State Apartments also contain an interesting range of Royal portraits from&lt;br /&gt;the time of Henry VIII, including important works by Mytens, Van Somer, Michael&lt;br /&gt;Wright and Wissing; portraits of military and naval heroes painted for George IV&lt;br /&gt;by Reynolds and Hoppner; a portrait of George IV by Lawrence; and important&lt;br /&gt;battle pieces by Wootton and George Jones.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Windsor castle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;Windsor Castle is an official residence of The Queen and the largest&lt;br /&gt;occupied castle in the world. A Royal home and fortress for over 900 years, the&lt;br /&gt;Castle remains a working palace today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Visitors can walk around the State Apartments, extensive suites of rooms at the&lt;br /&gt;heart of the working palace. For part of the year visitors can also see the Semi&lt;br /&gt;State rooms, which are some of the most splendid interiors in the castle. They&lt;br /&gt;are furnished with treasures from the Royal Collection including paintings by&lt;br /&gt;Holbein, Rubens, Van Dyck and Lawrence, fine tapestries and porcelain, sculpture&lt;br /&gt;and armour.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Within the Castle complex there are many additional attractions, including the&lt;br /&gt;Drawings Gallery, Queen Mary's dolls' house, and the fourteenth-century St.&lt;br /&gt;George's Chapel, the burial place of ten sovereigns and setting for many Royal&lt;br /&gt;weddings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page574.asp&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sherlock Holmes Museum&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A privately run &lt;a title="Museum" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;museum&lt;/a&gt; and popular&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Tourist" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourist"&gt;tourist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;attraction dedicated to the fictional detective&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Sherlock Holmes" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sherlock Holmes&lt;/a&gt;. It is situated at 239 Baker Street in central&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="London" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London"&gt;London&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The house was formerly an eighteenth century&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Boarding house" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boarding_house"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;boarding house&lt;/a&gt;, and was purchased in 1989 on behalf of The Sherlock Holmes&lt;br /&gt;International Society. The Museum initially operated a ground-floor restaurant,&lt;br /&gt;'Mrs. Hudson's' with the museum open to the public on the upper floors. The&lt;br /&gt;local council agreed to unveil a blue plaque at the house signifying it as the&lt;br /&gt;original location of 221B Baker Street, an address which had previously been&lt;br /&gt;adopted by the&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Abbey National" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_National"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Abbey National&lt;/a&gt; Building Society at 215-229 Baker Street.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Museum - like the address itself - was to prove controversial, and was&lt;br /&gt;denounced as a '&lt;a title="Tourist trap" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourist_trap"&gt;Tourist&lt;br /&gt;trap&lt;/a&gt;' by the competing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="new" title="Sherlock Holmes Society of London" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sherlock_Holmes_Society_of_London&amp;action=edit"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sherlock Holmes Society of London&lt;/a&gt;, which disapproved of the project while it&lt;br /&gt;was busily arranging the opening of another Holmes museum in&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Switzerland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Switzerland&lt;/a&gt; that finally opened in October 1990. In the late 1990s, the&lt;br /&gt;restaurant closed and the Museum's lucrative shop moved from the attic to the&lt;br /&gt;ground floor.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Museum also operates one of the few Victorian&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Hansom Cab" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansom_Cab"&gt;Hansom Cabs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;remaining in the country, but it had to be withdrawn a few years ago because it&lt;br /&gt;was refused entry to the Royal Parks as it carried the Museum's advertisement on&lt;br /&gt;the side panels. There are plans to bring it out again in mid 2006.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Museum hires a number of actors in character. A&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Victorian era" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_era"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Victorian era&lt;/a&gt; policeman acts as doorman. Several Victorian housemaids in&lt;br /&gt;attendance can be seen around the museum. A Dr Watson character is stationed in&lt;br /&gt;the first-floor living room. Sherlock Holmes impersonators can be seen handing&lt;br /&gt;out cards at Baker Street&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Tube station" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube_station"&gt;tube&lt;br /&gt;station&lt;/a&gt;, and around tourist attractions in central&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="London" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London"&gt;London&lt;/a&gt;. These&lt;br /&gt;actors are of a wide variety of believability - some bear strong physical&lt;br /&gt;resemblances and display an impressive knowledge of the canon to tourists, while&lt;br /&gt;others bear no resemblance at all!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Despite its short history, the museum continues to be a highly successful&lt;br /&gt;attraction, drawing in several hundred thousand visitors a year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Museum consists of a tour of three floors of the small&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Grade II listed" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_II_listed"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Grade II listed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Georgian architecture" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_architecture"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Georgian&lt;/a&gt; house, with two rooms on each floor, arranged to resemble the rooms&lt;br /&gt;occupied by Sherlock Holmes. The sitting room is faithfully reproduced, usually&lt;br /&gt;with an actor pretending to be Dr Watson or Mrs Hudson in attendance. Sherlock&lt;br /&gt;Holmes' bedroom adjoins. The second and third floor contain a few waxworks and&lt;br /&gt;display cases purporting to contain 'exhibits' from the cases. The Museum's&lt;br /&gt;staff and programme eagerly propound that this is the 'real' 221B, and that&lt;br /&gt;Sherlock Holmes lived there(at least according to the stories). The rooms of Mrs&lt;br /&gt;Hudson and Dr Watson are on the second floor. ..............&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;London Stock Exchange&lt;/b&gt; (&lt;b&gt;LSE&lt;/b&gt;)&lt;img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/71/LSE_PATERNOSTER_THESOURCE-GREYWORLD.JPG/180px-LSE_PATERNOSTER_THESOURCE-GREYWORLD.JPG" align="left" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;is a&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Stock exchange" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_exchange"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;stock exchange&lt;/a&gt; located in&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="London" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London"&gt;London&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="England" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England"&gt;England&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Founded in &lt;a title="1801" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1801"&gt;1801&lt;/a&gt;, it&lt;br /&gt;is one of the largest stock exchanges in the world, with many overseas listings&lt;br /&gt;as well as UK companies.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a name="History" id="History"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;It traces its history to&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="1698" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1698"&gt;1698&lt;/a&gt; when the stock&lt;br /&gt;brokers were expelled from the&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Royal Exchange (London)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Exchange_%28London%2529"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Royal Exchange&lt;/a&gt; and John Castaing, stationed at an office in&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Jonathan's Coffee-House" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan" house=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jonathan's Coffee-House&lt;/a&gt;, published the prices of stocks and commodities&lt;br /&gt;called &lt;i&gt;The Course of the Exchange and other things&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The former&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Stock Exchange Tower" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_Exchange_Tower"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stock Exchange Tower&lt;/a&gt;, based in&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Threadneedle Street" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threadneedle_Street"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Threadneedle Street&lt;/a&gt;/Old Broad Street was opened by&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II_of_the_United_Kingdom"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Queen Elizabeth II&lt;/a&gt; in&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="1972" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972"&gt;1972&lt;/a&gt; and housed the&lt;br /&gt;Trading Floor where traders would traditionally meet to conduct business. This&lt;br /&gt;became largely redundant with the advent of the &lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Big Bang (financial markets)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang_%28financial_markets%2529"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Big Bang&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; on&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="October 27" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_27"&gt;27 October&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="1986" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986"&gt;1986&lt;/a&gt;, which&lt;br /&gt;deregulated many of the Stock Exchange's activities. It eliminated fixed&lt;br /&gt;commissions on security trades and allowed securities firms to act as brokers&lt;br /&gt;and dealers. It also enabled an increased use of computerised systems that&lt;br /&gt;allowed dealing rooms to take precedence over face to face trading.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a title="July 20" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_20"&gt;July 20&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="1990" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990"&gt;1990&lt;/a&gt; a bomb planted&lt;br /&gt;by the&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Provisional Irish Republican Army" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IRA&lt;/a&gt; exploded in the men's toilets behind the visitors' gallery. The area had&lt;br /&gt;already been evacuated and nobody was injured.&lt;sup id="_ref-bbc_0720_on_this_day_0" class="reference"&gt;&lt;a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Stock_Exchange#_note-bbc_0720_on_this_day"&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The long term trend towards electronic trading had been reducing the Exchange's&lt;br /&gt;status as a visitor attraction and although the gallery reopened it was closed&lt;br /&gt;permanently in &lt;a title="1992" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992"&gt;1992&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;In July &lt;a title="2004" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004"&gt;2004&lt;/a&gt; the&lt;br /&gt;London Stock Exchange moved from&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Threadneedle Street" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threadneedle_Street"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Threadneedle Street&lt;/a&gt; to&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Paternoster Square" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster_Square"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Paternoster Square&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a title="London EC4" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_EC4"&gt;EC4&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;close to&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="St Paul's Cathedral" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Paul" s_cathedral=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;St Paul's Cathedral&lt;/a&gt;, still within the "Square Mile" (the&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="City of London" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;City of London&lt;/a&gt;). It was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II once again,&lt;br /&gt;accompanied by The&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Philip,_Duke_of_Edinburgh"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Duke of Edinburgh&lt;/a&gt;, on&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="July 27" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_27"&gt;27 July&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="2004" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004"&gt;2004&lt;/a&gt;. The new&lt;br /&gt;building contains a specially commissioned dynamic sculpture called "The&lt;br /&gt;Source", by artists&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Greyworld" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyworld"&gt;Greyworld&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Shakespeare's Globe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="med"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The Globe Theatre is a faithful reconstruction of the open-air playhouse&lt;br /&gt;designed in 1599, where Shakespeare worked and for which he wrote many of his&lt;br /&gt;greatest plays. The theatre season runs from May to October with productions of&lt;br /&gt;the work of Shakespeare, his contemporaries and modern authors. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Each year the Globe Theatre Company rediscovers the dynamic relationship&lt;br /&gt;between the audience and the actor in this unique building. The Globe also&lt;br /&gt;welcomes international theatre companies to share the impact Shakespeare’s plays&lt;br /&gt;have had worldwide. Today, audiences of this ‘wooden O’ sit in a gallery or&lt;br /&gt;stand informally as a groundling in the yard, just as they would have done 400&lt;br /&gt;years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Paul of Tarsus" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_of_Tarsus"&gt;St&lt;br /&gt;Paul&lt;/a&gt;'s Cathedral&lt;/b&gt; is an Anglican cathedral on&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Ludgate Hill" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludgate_Hill"&gt;Ludgate&lt;br /&gt;Hill&lt;/a&gt;, in the&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="City of London" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;City of London&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="England" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England"&gt;England&lt;/a&gt; and&lt;br /&gt;the seat of the&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Bishop of London" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_of_London"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bishop of London&lt;/a&gt;. The present building dates from the&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="17th century" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_century"&gt;17th&lt;br /&gt;century&lt;/a&gt;, and is generally reckoned to be London's fifth &lt;i&gt;St Paul's&lt;br /&gt;Cathedral&lt;/i&gt;, although the number is higher if every major mediaeval&lt;br /&gt;reconstruction is counted as a new cathedral. The cathedral is one of London's&lt;br /&gt;most visited sites.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="storySmaller"&gt;A Cathedral dedicated to St Paul has overlooked&lt;br /&gt;the City of London since 604AD, a constant reminder to this great commercial&lt;br /&gt;centre of the importance of the spiritual side of life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The current Cathedral – the fourth to occupy this site – was designed by the&lt;br /&gt;court architect Sir Christopher Wren and built between 1675 and 1710 after its&lt;br /&gt;predecessor was destroyed in the Great Fire of London. Its architectural and&lt;br /&gt;artistic importance reflect the determination of the five monarchs who oversaw&lt;br /&gt;its building that London’s leading church should be as beautiful and imposing as&lt;br /&gt;their private palaces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As the Cathedral of the capital city, St Paul’s is the spiritual focus for the&lt;br /&gt;Nation. This is where people and events of overwhelming importance to the&lt;br /&gt;country have been celebrated, mourned and commemorated since the first Service&lt;br /&gt;took place in 1697.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since then important services have included the funerals of Lord Nelson, the&lt;br /&gt;Duke of Wellington and Sir Winston Churchill; Jubilee celebrations for Queen&lt;br /&gt;Victoria, King George V; peace services marking the end of the First and Second&lt;br /&gt;World Wars; the launch of the Festival of Britain; the Service of Remembrance&lt;br /&gt;and Commemoration for the 11th September 2001: the 80th and 100th birthdays of&lt;br /&gt;Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother; the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, to&lt;br /&gt;Lady Diana Spencer and, most recently, the Thanksgiving for the Golden Jubilee&lt;br /&gt;of Her Majesty the Queen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over the centuries, St Paul’s has changed to reflect shifting tastes and&lt;br /&gt;attitudes. Decoration has been added and removed, services have been updated,&lt;br /&gt;different areas have been put to new uses. Today, the history of the nation is&lt;br /&gt;written in the carved stone of its pillars and arches and is celebrated in its&lt;br /&gt;works of art and monuments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the crypt are effigies and fragments of stone that pre-date the Cathedral,&lt;br /&gt;relics of a medieval world. From Wren’s original vision, Jean Tijou’s beautiful&lt;br /&gt;wrought iron gates of 1700 still separate the quire from the ambulatory;&lt;br /&gt;children still test the acoustics in the Whispering Gallery; and the 1695 organ&lt;br /&gt;which Mendelssohn once played is still in use.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The magnificent mosaics are the result of Queen Victoria’s mid-19th century&lt;br /&gt;complaint that the interior was “most dreary, dingy and undevotional.” The&lt;br /&gt;American Memorial Chapel stands behind the High Altar in an area that was&lt;br /&gt;bomb-damaged during the Second World War – a gesture of gratitude to the&lt;br /&gt;American dead of the Second World War from the people of Britain. An altar has&lt;br /&gt;now been installed on a dais in the heart of the Cathedral, bringing services&lt;br /&gt;closer to those who attend them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Throughout, St Paul’s has remained a busy, working church where millions have&lt;br /&gt;come to worship and find peace. It is a heritage site of international&lt;br /&gt;importance which attracts thousands of people each year, a symbol of the City&lt;br /&gt;and Nation it serves and, above all, a lasting monument to the glory of God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;St Paul’s Cathedral is the cathedral of the Diocese of London. The Diocese is&lt;br /&gt;made up of five episcopal areas: Willesden, Edmonton, Stepney, London and&lt;br /&gt;Kensington. Four of these have an Area Bishop, to whom the Bishop of London, The&lt;br /&gt;Right Reverend and Right Honourable Richard Chartres, delegates certain&lt;br /&gt;responsibilities. The Bishops are assisted by Archdeacons. Archdeaconries are&lt;br /&gt;further divided into deaneries which are groups of parishes. The Bishop of&lt;br /&gt;Fulham is the Suffragan Bishop for the whole Diocese. In 2004 the Diocese&lt;br /&gt;celebrates its 1400th anniversary. The administrative centre is London Diocesan&lt;br /&gt;House. For more information please go to&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a target="_new" href="http://www.london.anglican.org"&gt;www.london.anglican.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="text"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 class="titleAbout"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;British Library&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The British Library is, as national libraries go, relatively young. Its roots&lt;br /&gt;lay in the report of the National Libraries Committee under the Chairmanship of&lt;br /&gt;the late Lord Dainton issued in 1969, followed in 1971 by a White Paper&lt;br /&gt;recommending the setting up of a national library for the UK ('the British&lt;br /&gt;Library'). In 1972 &lt;a href="http://www.bl.uk/about/blact.html"&gt;The British&lt;br /&gt;Library Act&lt;/a&gt; was passed by Parliament bringing the Library into operation&lt;br /&gt;with effect from 1 July 1973. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Under the Act the following institutions were administratively combined to&lt;br /&gt;form the British Library: the library departments of the British Museum (which&lt;br /&gt;included the National Reference Library of Science and Invention), the National&lt;br /&gt;Central Library, and the National Lending Library for Science and Technology&lt;br /&gt;(the centre for interlibrary lending, located at Boston Spa in Yorkshire). In&lt;br /&gt;1974 the British National Bibliography and the Office for Scientific and&lt;br /&gt;Technical Information joined the UK's new national library. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Two additional institutions subsequently became part of the Library&lt;br /&gt;increasing the breadth of its collections: the India Office Library and Records&lt;br /&gt;(1982) and the British Institute of Recorded Sound (1983). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Constituent parts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Library of the British Museum &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;To the library community and the public at large, the best known component of&lt;br /&gt;the new national library consisted of the library departments of the British&lt;br /&gt;Museum. The Museum's Department of Printed Books was founded in 1753, the year&lt;br /&gt;of the foundation of the Museum itself. Over the intervening two hundred years,&lt;br /&gt;the library of the British Museum had grown into one of the largest in the&lt;br /&gt;world, sustained by its privilege of legal deposit whereby it was entitled to a&lt;br /&gt;copy of most items printed in the United Kingdom - not only books and&lt;br /&gt;periodicals, but newspapers, maps and printed music. In addition, the Museum's&lt;br /&gt;comprehensive holdings of non-legal deposit items had reportedly earned it the&lt;br /&gt;accolade from Lenin of possessing (in the 1900s) a more comprehensive collection&lt;br /&gt;of Russian books than libraries in Moscow and St Petersburg. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lenin was one of those privileged to use the Museum's spectacular domed&lt;br /&gt;reading room. Designed in the 1850s at the instigation of Sir Anthony Panizzi,&lt;br /&gt;then Chief Librarian, the reading room and surrounding bookstacks were&lt;br /&gt;constructed in the courtyard of the British Museum providing its library with&lt;br /&gt;impressive premises in the heart of what was already an overcrowded building.&lt;br /&gt;The Reading Room had been thrown open to all for a short period at the time of&lt;br /&gt;its opening in May 1857, thereafter admission was by pass only, giving access to&lt;br /&gt;its collections an aura of selectivity and exclusiveness. In addition to Lenin&lt;br /&gt;(who used the pseudonym Jacob Richter), the roll call of those holding reader&lt;br /&gt;passes included Karl Marx, Charles Dickens, George Bernard Shaw and Virginia&lt;br /&gt;Woolf. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Patent Office Library (from 1962 National Library of Science&lt;br /&gt;and Invention)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another constituent part of the British Library was the library of the Patent&lt;br /&gt;Office. Its origins lay in the Patent Law Amendment Act of 1851 which required&lt;br /&gt;"true copies of all specifications to be open to the inspection of the public at&lt;br /&gt;the office of the commissioners", the Patent Office library itself opened in&lt;br /&gt;1855. For the remainder of the nineteenth century this was housed in cramped&lt;br /&gt;accommodation and it was not until 1902 that purpose built premises were opened&lt;br /&gt;in Southampton Buildings off Chancery Lane - an impressive 'Galleria' style&lt;br /&gt;structure by the architect Sir John Taylor. As with the Museum's library,&lt;br /&gt;despite new premises, the Patent Office collections soon suffered severe&lt;br /&gt;shortage of space. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Second World War highlighted the need for a comprehensive scientific and&lt;br /&gt;technological network in the UK, specifically for a national library of science&lt;br /&gt;and technology. In the late 1940s and 50s there was considerable debate among&lt;br /&gt;the Scientific Community whether the collections of the libraries of the British&lt;br /&gt;Museum or the Patent Office should serve as the nucleus of this: the position&lt;br /&gt;was resolved in 1959 when a Working Party on the issue recommended that the&lt;br /&gt;proposed library should be based on the collections of both libraries and put&lt;br /&gt;under the control of the Museum Trustees. The National Reference Library of&lt;br /&gt;Science and Invention (as it was called) was set up in 1962, administratively as&lt;br /&gt;part of the British Museum library. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32325696-116662434631147253?l=freepostingplace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/feeds/116662434631147253/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32325696&amp;postID=116662434631147253' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/116662434631147253'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/116662434631147253'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/2006/12/london-places-in-details.html' title='London - places in details'/><author><name>pricecorner</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32325696.post-116619687733076924</id><published>2006-12-15T10:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-15T12:09:16.803-05:00</updated><title type='text'>London - dining</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;Lunch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Al's Cafe&lt;/span&gt; (City area) funkiest cafe, best known for lunch&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;11-13 Exmouth Market (no reservation), ~ £4.5 - 6, tube: Angel or Farringdon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;Dinner&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Le Piaf&lt;/span&gt; comfortable candelit dining room, unbeatable prices&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;6 panton St., main course £6-11, tube:Leicester Sq.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cafe in the Crypt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;cafeteria-style restaurant, croissants, salmon with lemon-line, spinach-and-nut roulade&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;In the church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafagar Sq., £5.95-6.5, close 7pm, tube:Charing Cross&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Gaby's Deli&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;cozy; home-cooked: stuffed eggplant, Hungarian goulash, lamb curry (~£6/ each main course)&lt;br /&gt;(cheaper when buy and take away)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;Tea for Two&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Authentic tea is expensive and served in top hotels, where jackets and ties are required for men.(e.g. £27 at &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Ritz Hotel&lt;/span&gt;, world's most famous spot for afternoon tea, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Piccadilly,tube: Green Park &lt;/span&gt;, £22 at &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Brown's Hotel&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Albermarle and Dover streets, tube: Green Park&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;Book 1 week in advance.&lt;br /&gt;Choices: teas, traditional sandwiches, scones, yummy pastries&lt;br /&gt;Time: 2-6pm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Orangery&lt;/span&gt; ( suitable for tea after visiting Kensington Palace)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32325696-116619687733076924?l=freepostingplace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/feeds/116619687733076924/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32325696&amp;postID=116619687733076924' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/116619687733076924'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/116619687733076924'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/2006/12/london-dining.html' title='London - dining'/><author><name>pricecorner</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32325696.post-116620235958754796</id><published>2006-12-15T10:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-15T13:04:29.276-05:00</updated><title type='text'>London - Events</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;Latest travel info&lt;/span&gt; from http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/explore-london/festive-season.asp&lt;br /&gt;Tube, DLR and tram run all night on New Year's Eve. Free from 23:45-04:30AM.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/downloads/pdf/DL-Festive-Season-leaflet.pdf)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shopping&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;main artery of London shopping: Oxford; Regent streets,&lt;br /&gt;King's Road a mile-long street&lt;br /&gt;Youth-oriented &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Camden Markets&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Harrods&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;87-137 Brompton Rd., tube: Knightsbirdge&lt;/span&gt;, world's largest department store. Closed on Sunday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 255);"&gt;Shows www.ticketmaster.co.uk&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Event listing: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/fares-tickets/oyster/deals/index.asp&lt;br /&gt;Concerts &amp; Ballets www.ballets.org.uk&lt;br /&gt;Only show obtainable from link above (for Dec '06):Alice in Wonderland 2 for 1 Adult Ticket for Oyster (link above) 35 pound&lt;br /&gt;Call 0870 145 2200 quoting Oyster 2 for 1, phone booking only&lt;br /&gt;28,29/12 7:30pm, 31/12 3pm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Show listing: Time Out, What's on and Where to go in London&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Britain Visitor Centre, 1 Regent St. (tube: Piccadilly Circus)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Shakepeares' play&lt;/span&gt; at GLobe Theatre, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Bankside, tube London Bridge&lt;/span&gt; Royal National Theatre&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;South Bank, tube:Waterloo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Opera&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Royal Opera House&lt;/span&gt; www.royaloperahouse.com&lt;br /&gt;first hosted opera in 1817, most advanced computerized set changes in the world.&lt;br /&gt;Backstage tours:Mon-Sat 10:30am, 12:30pm,2:30pm, £7 (£6 students).&lt;br /&gt;Cafe at rooftop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;tube: Covent Gardent&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;London Coliseum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;home to English National Opera, box office open Mon-Sat 10am-8pm, £6.5-55&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;St. Martin's Lance, tube: Leicester&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Entertainments&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Covent Gardent&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;Markets&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Notting Hill Gate (tube)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Portobello Market:antiques, 8am-4pm best time, other times fruits&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Camden Market (above)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;old fashion by young designers, cafes, pubs (some offerig live music). Regent's Canal (open Saturday and Sunday 8pm-6pm)&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Camden High Street, tube:Camden&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Brixton Market, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;heart of African-Caribbean Lodon&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Electric Avenue, tube:Brixton&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;Practical Information&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Discount ticket booth are at Leicester Square at hafl price. Booth open Mon-Sat 1-6:30pm. ISIC can be used.&lt;br /&gt;All West End theaters closes on Sunday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;West End are for the rich while East End are much poorer.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32325696-116620235958754796?l=freepostingplace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/feeds/116620235958754796/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32325696&amp;postID=116620235958754796' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/116620235958754796'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/116620235958754796'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/2006/12/london-events.html' title='London - Events'/><author><name>pricecorner</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32325696.post-116620009376861272</id><published>2006-12-15T09:47:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-31T02:34:29.896-05:00</updated><title type='text'>London - Places</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Buckingham Palace&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Changing of Guards&lt;br /&gt;Home of one of the world's few remaining monarchs. Built 1703, sovereign's London residence since 1837. When the queen is at home, the Royal Standard is flown from the flagstaff on the building's roof.&lt;br /&gt;Not open for visitor in December (but August, September)&lt;br /&gt;Tickets to see the State Apartments sale at 9am onwards on Constutution Hill, south side of Green Park. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Royale Mews&lt;/span&gt;, ornately glided carriages.&lt;br /&gt;Link: www.royale.co.uk&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;     St. James' Park&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;opposite Buckingham Palace&lt;br /&gt;Most beautiful of London's parks&lt;br /&gt;swan, gees, pelicans&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sherlock Holmes Museum &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;http://www.sherlock-holmes.co.uk/home.htm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(64, 0, 128);font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;the world's most famous address, &lt;/span&gt;Open every day(except Christmas Day) 9.30 am -6pm. Admission: Adult £6.&lt;span style="color: rgb(64, 0, 128);font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;"Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson lived at 221b Baker Street between 1881-1904, according to the stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The famous 1st floor study overlooking Baker Street is still faithfully  maintained as it was kept in Victorian Times."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;221b Baker St, Marylebone Rd.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Tower of London&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ceremony of Keys at 9:30pm. Book 6 weeks in advance :-?&lt;br /&gt;Lyrical London landmark, call for information about scheduled openings for the following weeks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;British Museum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Village" like streets: Hampstead, Chelsea, Highgate: pretty streets, mews&lt;br /&gt;Fleet Street&lt;br /&gt;Bloomsbury (around the British Museum)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Big Ben, Houses of Parliament, Westminter Abbey&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;near Waterloo station (arriving by Eurostar from France)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.tourist-information-uk.com/images/housesofparliament.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.tourist-information-uk.com/images/bigben.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Victoria &amp; Albert Museum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt; World's greatest&lt;/span&gt; repository of the decorative arts&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;London Stock Exchange, Bank of England&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bishopsgate&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;nearby &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Museum of London&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Courtauld Institute Galleries&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Impressionist and post-Impressionist works: Manet's &lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Bar at the Folies Bergere&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;British Library &lt;/span&gt;www.bl.uk&lt;br /&gt;Free. Tours:Premium tours includes visit the Reading Room.&lt;br /&gt;Normal tours: Fri-Mon, Wed 3pm + Sat at 10:30am, Sun at 11:30am £4&lt;br /&gt;96 Euston Rdm tube: King's Cross or Euston&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;British Museum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Britain's&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt; largest and oldest&lt;/span&gt; national museum&lt;br /&gt;spectacular collection from Asia and the Middle East.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Shakespeare's Globe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10-5pm (Oct-Apr). look for Shakespeare's play (see London - events)&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;New Globe Walk, Bankside, £7.5, tube: London Bridge or Southwalk&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;National Gallery&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;great gift shop&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;St. Paul's Cathedral&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;architect Sir Christopher Wren's masterpiece, &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;largest domes in Christendom. Whispering Gallery, Golden Gallery, Millenium Bridge.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tate Modern&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;modern art collection, across the Thames from St. Paul's Cathedral&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Hyde Park&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;most popular, Serpentine lake, Rotten Row bridle path, lively on &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Sunday with artists&lt;/span&gt; hang their wares along the Bayswater Road fence&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Kensington Palace&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Old residence of British monarch.&lt;br /&gt;Kensington Gardens open daily to sunset: Albert Memorial, Princess Diana Memorial Playground&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Freud Museum&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;20 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead, tube:Finchley Rd&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Wallace Collection&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Masterpieces by Rembrandt, Rubens, Murillo, Van Dyck&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Regent's Park&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;famous for zoo, concerts, open-air theater in summer :(&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Tube: Regent's Park or Camden Town (for zoo)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;At a distance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cambridge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Audio Tourist tracks available for download. 2 parts: Part 1: City life and Open spaces &amp; Part2 : Classic Cambridge&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/14204800/Cambridge_Tour.zip"&gt;http://rapidshare.com/files/14204800/Cambridge_Tour.zip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alternative (may expire soon)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://gre.mappier.com/misc/Cambridge%20Tour.zip"&gt;http://gre.mappier.com/misc/Cambridge%20Tour.zip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sponsored Links: &lt;a href="http://gre.mappier.com/misc/Cambridge%20Tour.zip"&gt;http://gre.mappier.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Greenwich&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Set aside a morning and ride the bus no. 188 from Euston to Greenwich&lt;br /&gt;Few miles from Piccadilly Circus&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;National Maritime Museum&lt;/span&gt;, largest and most important museum of its kind in the world. Admiral Nelson's blood-stained coat.&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;£6 (students)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Salisbury &amp; Stonehenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14.5km north of Salisbury&lt;br /&gt;3,500-5,000 years old&lt;br /&gt;Network Express train departs hourly from Waterloo Station for Salisbury, 2hrs.&lt;br /&gt;Bus depart 4,5 times from Victoria Station,2h30min.&lt;br /&gt;From Salisbury takes Wilts &amp;amp; Dorset bus.&lt;br /&gt;At Salisbury: &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Salisbury Cathedral&lt;/span&gt; 38 years to complete (while customarily it takes 3 centuries to build a cathedral) Chapter House (note the fine sculpture)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Windsor Castle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;largest inhabited castle in the world, a home to monarchs for more than 900 years.&lt;br /&gt;Can view State Apartments, St. George's Chapel&lt;br /&gt;Call for opening period.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Bath: A Georgian &amp; Victorian spa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;mineral springs of bath, 185km from London&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Practical information&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Travel around: weekly bus pass (11 pound), one day bus pass (3 pound)&lt;br /&gt;Acces to many London museums: Free (British museum, National Gallery)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32325696-116620009376861272?l=freepostingplace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/feeds/116620009376861272/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32325696&amp;postID=116620009376861272' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/116620009376861272'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/116620009376861272'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/2006/12/london-places.html' title='London - Places'/><author><name>pricecorner</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32325696.post-116611732978345677</id><published>2006-12-14T12:06:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-14T12:28:50.086-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Paris - repas</title><content type='html'>Theatres:&lt;br /&gt;For half-price tickets, go to the Kiosque-Theatre at the northwest corner of the Madeleine church (Metro: Madeleine), buy on same performance day&lt;br /&gt;Principal opera stage: Opera Bastille&lt;br /&gt;Opera Garnier&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Night clubs:&lt;br /&gt;Moulin Rouge (Metro:Blanche)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Typical Paris show: Viva Paradis at Paradis Latin, Metro: Cardinal-Lemoine&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Restaurants:&lt;br /&gt;Le Petit Yvan&lt;br /&gt;La Rotisserie d'en Face&lt;br /&gt;Costes: 239 rue St-Honore, Le Grand Vefour, 17 rue St-Honore, Metro: Tuileries&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cafes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Cafe de Flore&lt;/span&gt;, 172 bd. St-Germain, Metro:St-Germain-des-Pres, &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Les Deux Magots&lt;/span&gt;, nearby&lt;br /&gt;Cafe Beaubourg&lt;br /&gt;Cafe Marky&lt;br /&gt;Cafe de la Paix&lt;br /&gt;La Dureee&lt;br /&gt;Le Flore en l'Ile&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shopping:&lt;br /&gt;rue du Faubourg St-Honore&lt;br /&gt;avenue Montaigne (dress with stlyes to enter these shops)&lt;br /&gt;St-Germain-des-Pres&lt;br /&gt;rue d'Assas&lt;br /&gt;rue du Four&lt;br /&gt;Rue st-Placide&lt;br /&gt;Rue d'Alesia&lt;br /&gt;Forum des Halles&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hotels near the Eiffel Tower&lt;br /&gt;Grand Hotel Leveque&lt;br /&gt;Hotel Amelie&lt;br /&gt;Hotel de l'Alma&lt;br /&gt;Hotel du Champ de Mars&lt;br /&gt;Hotel les Hauts de Passy&lt;br /&gt;~ 70 euro/double room&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32325696-116611732978345677?l=freepostingplace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/feeds/116611732978345677/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32325696&amp;postID=116611732978345677' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/116611732978345677'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/116611732978345677'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/2006/12/paris-repas.html' title='Paris - repas'/><author><name>pricecorner</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32325696.post-116611393952045258</id><published>2006-12-14T11:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-14T11:32:19.530-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Paris - evenements</title><content type='html'>Au Château de Versailles&lt;br /&gt;De septembre à décembre :&lt;br /&gt;Fêtes baroques&lt;br /&gt;Grandes journées Marin Marais&lt;br /&gt;Grandes journées Mozart &lt;br /&gt;Ticket: 01 39 20 78 00&lt;br /&gt;ou vous connecter à www.cmbv.culture.fr &lt;br /&gt;Link: http://www.chateauversailles-spectacles.fr/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Events map at Versailles: http://www.cmbv.com/fr/centre/fscentre.htm&lt;br /&gt;Ticket: http://www.acadequestre.fr/index-36-tarifs-fr-0-29-0.htm&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32325696-116611393952045258?l=freepostingplace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/feeds/116611393952045258/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32325696&amp;postID=116611393952045258' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/116611393952045258'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/116611393952045258'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/2006/12/paris-evenements.html' title='Paris - evenements'/><author><name>pricecorner</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32325696.post-116603631583269103</id><published>2006-12-13T12:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-14T12:29:00.160-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Paris - places</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Palais de Chaillotet&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;For the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition_Internationale_des_Arts_et_Techniques_dans_la_Vie_Moderne_%281937%29" title="Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (1937)"&gt;Exposition Internationale of 1937&lt;/a&gt;, the old Palais du Trocadéro was demolished and replaced by the &lt;i&gt;Palais de Chaillot&lt;/i&gt; which now tops the hill. It was designed in classicizing "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moderne" title="Moderne"&gt;moderne&lt;/a&gt;" style by architects &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Louis-Hippolyte_Boileau&amp;action=edit" class="new" title="Louis-Hippolyte Boileau"&gt;Louis-Hippolyte Boileau&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Carlu" title="Jacques Carlu"&gt;Jacques Carlu&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=L%C3%A9on_Azema&amp;amp;action=edit" class="new" title="Léon Azema"&gt;Léon Azema&lt;/a&gt;. Like the old palais, the palais de Chaillot features two wings shaped to form a wide arc: indeed, these wings were build on the foundations of those of the former building. However, unlike the old palais, the wings are independent buildings and there is no central element to connect them: instead, a wide esplanade leaves an open view from the place du Trocadéro to the Eiffel Tower and beyond.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The buildings are decorated with quotations by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Val%C3%A9ry" title="Paul Valéry"&gt;Paul Valéry&lt;/a&gt;, and they now house a number of museums:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_national_de_la_Marine" title="Musée national de la Marine"&gt;Musée national de la Marine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (naval museum) and the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_de_l%27Homme" title="Musée de l'Homme"&gt;Musée de l'Homme&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (ethnology) in the southern (&lt;i&gt;Passy&lt;/i&gt;) wing,&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;the &lt;i&gt;Musée national des Monuments français&lt;/i&gt; in the eastern (&lt;i&gt;Paris&lt;/i&gt;) wing, from which one also enters the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_national_de_Chaillot&amp;action=edit" class="new" title="Théâtre national de Chaillot"&gt;Théâtre national de Chaillot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, a theater below the esplanade.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;It was on the front terrace of the palace that &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler"&gt;Adolf Hitler&lt;/a&gt; was pictured during his short tour of the vanquished city in 1940, with the Eiffel Tower in the background. This became an iconic image of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_World_War" title="Second World War"&gt;Second World War&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;It is in the Palais de Chaillot that the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly" title="United Nations General Assembly"&gt;United Nations General Assembly&lt;/a&gt; adopted the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights" title="Universal Declaration of Human Rights"&gt;Universal Declaration of Human Rights&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_10" title="December 10"&gt;December 10&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948" title="1948"&gt;1948&lt;/a&gt;. This event is now commemorated by a stone, and the esplanade is known as the &lt;i&gt;esplanade des droits de l'homme&lt;/i&gt; ("esplanade of human rights").&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/PalaisdeChaillotetTourEiffel.jpg/800px-PalaisdeChaillotetTourEiffel.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La Tour Eiffel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/109/303675341_b62496bf4c.jpg?v=0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/107/314035168_3a9c9db8a8.jpg?v=0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/125/321212341_5e55c01550_m.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/107/309501914_2b23976c61_t.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Avenue des Champs Élysées&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/100/299917194_e2d699ea45.jpg?v=0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rue de Rivoli&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Louvre&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look for statues&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/31/36459464_05f7b44cd9.jpg?v=0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Louvre Richelieu Wing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/144/321258892_1872cceb1d.jpg?v=0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jardin du Palais Royal (Metro:Louvre)&lt;br /&gt;Parc Monceau, Metro: Monceau or Villiers, bus:30,94, most romantic&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joan d'Arc&lt;/strong&gt; on horseback. Statue in Paris, France; Rue de Rivoli, near Place de la Concorde and Louvre museum.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fa/Joan-of-Arc-Paris.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sacred coeur in Montmartre&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/133/320712120_3ddd0711f4.jpg?v=0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/119/304263650_565587da58_m.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/135/321453191_b7dd4f901a.jpg?v=0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/122/305711090_51d2fa2073.jpg?v=1164467839" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;View taken from Monmartre&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/122/305711088_b1c34edf2f.jpg?v=1164467473" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esplanade des Invalides&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/141/321134068_7cffa703c7_m.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;St Chappelle&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/124/321416116_cf61c2213f.jpg?v=0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/127/321408529_efe65e294d_m.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/129/321350851_00dec626df_m.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Paris Opera&lt;br /&gt;Marc Chagall - Ceiling of the Paris Opera&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/115/310420509_43a4cbc13e_m.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interior - Palais Garnier et de l'Opéra&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/6/8623459_ae14af363d.jpg?v=0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La Mairie de Paris&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://flickr.com/images/spaceball.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brandenburg gate&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pantheon&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Musee de la Musique (avant-garde architecture)&lt;br /&gt;Notre Dame de Paris&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/144/321269858_07ad3f91c2.jpg?v=0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/132/318097678_d6593eb22e.jpg?v=0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/8/8623460_6c72722769.jpg?v=0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/35/116630386_ce22cfbe62.jpg?v=0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/87/245400380_18f52d069a.jpg?v=0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Headless Saint - at the front portico of Notre Dame Cathedral&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/137/321204329_aa7a1eee19.jpg?v=0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'Arc de Triomphe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/105/317143554_a42f89d2ed.jpg?v=0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/101/299371750_5d3088052e.jpg?v=0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Galleries Lafayette&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/138/320065463_75faa7caf1_m.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/95/227011325_6314448b08_m.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La Seine&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/144/320066041_95ae820215.jpg?v=0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hôtel de Ville, Paris&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/137/319764997_2098c5619c.jpg?v=0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Musee d'Orsay&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/131/319869578_621b0c1e68.jpg?v=0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/143/320712688_35e7eb837a_m.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/45/135908783_389c57ee1d_m.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can find street artists in front of the Musee d'Orsay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Plaza Vendôme&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/143/320647787_a4ccccd495.jpg?v=0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pont Alexandre III&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/137/319924934_cd3e04399e.jpg?v=0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/128/321471661_22bc493b08.jpg?v=0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marais&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Latin Quarter&lt;br /&gt;for Roman ruins, medieval streets, hidden squares&lt;br /&gt;  Institute du Monde Arabe&lt;br /&gt;  Centre Pompidou&lt;br /&gt;  Bastille's Opera&lt;br /&gt;Bibliotheque National&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Musee d'Orsay&lt;br /&gt;Centre Pompidou &amp; Musee National d'Art Moderne&lt;br /&gt;Musee Picasso&lt;br /&gt;Musee Carnavalet&lt;br /&gt;Musee Marmottan-Claude Monet&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Conciergerie&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Department store La Samaritaine&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jardin de Luxembourg&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jardin de Tuileries (cf post Paris - repas:cafe Le Grand Vefour, Costes)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chateau de Versailles&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Virtual tour http://www.gvn.chateauversailles.fr/fr/index.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;École Polytechnique&lt;br /&gt;Address: 91128 Palaiseau Cedex&lt;br /&gt;15km from Paris&lt;br /&gt;How to get there: http://www.polytechnique.fr/campus/campus_plans.php&lt;br /&gt;Access from Lozère (RER B) station&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Google Maps: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=%C3%89cole+Polytechnique&amp;sll=50.064192,11.601563&amp;sspn=23.918548,59.765625&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;z=16&amp;ll=48.713194,2.211685&amp;spn=0.005989,0.021629&amp;t=k&amp;om=1&lt;br /&gt;Info: http://www.polytechnique.fr&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fontainebleau&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Practical Information:&lt;br /&gt;Buy Cart Orange for going around Paris&lt;br /&gt;For acess to Museum: La carte Musees et Monments (3 day pass)&lt;br /&gt;Show your ISIC&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Bordeaux&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cathedral de Saint-André&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/115/288787252_962eae5f20.jpg?v=0" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32325696-116603631583269103?l=freepostingplace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/feeds/116603631583269103/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32325696&amp;postID=116603631583269103' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/116603631583269103'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/116603631583269103'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/2006/12/paris-places.html' title='Paris - places'/><author><name>pricecorner</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32325696.post-116597995069752005</id><published>2006-12-12T22:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-13T14:03:22.876-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Giờ khớp lệnh tại HSC &amp; VCBS</title><content type='html'>VCBS&lt;br /&gt;Khớp lệnh đợt 1L 8h40&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Khớp lệnh đợt 2 9h30&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Khớp lệnh đợt 3 10h30&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HSC&lt;br /&gt;Từ 09h đến 09h20       Nhận lệnh đợt 1              09h20              Khớp lệnh đợt 1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Từ 10h đến 10h30       Nhận lệnh đợt 2              10h30              Khớp lệnh đợt 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Từ 10h30 đến 11h       Giao dịch thỏa thuận       11h                  Thị trường đóng cửa&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32325696-116597995069752005?l=freepostingplace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/feeds/116597995069752005/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32325696&amp;postID=116597995069752005' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/116597995069752005'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/116597995069752005'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/2006/12/gi-khp-lnh-ti-hsc-vcbs.html' title='Giờ khớp lệnh tại HSC &amp; VCBS'/><author><name>pricecorner</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32325696.post-116567881824490042</id><published>2006-12-09T10:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-09T10:41:25.220-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Techinical Analysis</title><content type='html'>support line&lt;br /&gt;resistant line&lt;br /&gt;trend must be confirmed by same-trend volume.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moving average according to peak cycle&lt;br /&gt;Characteristics: lagging indicator&lt;br /&gt;Usage: confirm price trends.&lt;br /&gt;Period chosen:common 9/10,18/20,40/50,100/200 why?&lt;br /&gt;or mostly to be cycle of the instrument.&lt;br /&gt;Note:MA must be use in concurrent with price.&lt;br /&gt;use two MAs&lt;br /&gt;Signal: buy if short-term(ST) cross from below to above AND price is above cross point&lt;br /&gt;sell if short-term(ST) cross from above to below AND price is below cross point&lt;br /&gt;Special cases: Golden Cross, Death Cross.&lt;br /&gt; short MA fall below long MA  imply a bearish trend in which volume is low&lt;br /&gt; conversing indicating a hold position&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Candle light&lt;br /&gt;    filled:&lt;br /&gt;    closing price lower than opening:bearish?&lt;br /&gt;MACD&lt;br /&gt;    sell when MACD falls below its signal line&lt;br /&gt;    buy when above&lt;br /&gt;RSI&lt;br /&gt;    when RSI reaches its peak and start to fall -&gt; signal to start selling&lt;br /&gt;    when it rebounds from a trough -&gt; price tends to start rising&lt;br /&gt;    divergence pattern&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stochastic Oscillator&lt;br /&gt;    %K rise above %D: uptrend&lt;br /&gt;    %K fall below %D: downtrend&lt;br /&gt;    whipsaw condition: buy/sell signal reverse quickly redering signals invalid.&lt;br /&gt;    not rising above 20% mark, no significant change -&gt; may hold.&lt;br /&gt;Chart analysis&lt;br /&gt;    triangle&lt;br /&gt;    wedge&lt;br /&gt;    flags&lt;br /&gt;    pennants&lt;br /&gt;    head and shoulders&lt;br /&gt;    double/triple top/bottom&lt;br /&gt;    Cup and Handle&lt;br /&gt;Cup &amp; Handle: Cup should last about 1 to six months, have depth less than 2/3 of previous advance.Handle lasts up to a month, depth up to 1/3 of the cup advance.&lt;br /&gt;    price expect to rise from cup trough to right end if accompagny with high volume.&lt;br /&gt;predict from last days&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Volume is a useful measure of the strength of price movements. high volume acts as a confirmation of price direction.Low tends to be a warning of lack of interest at that price level,hence a risk of price direction change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;if prices are in uptrends and volume rises when price rises and falls when price falls, volume is confirming the trends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uptrend: time to buy or go long. Bull market.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Downtrend: time to sell or go short. Bearish: selling with a view to buying later.&lt;br /&gt;(in equity market normal investors may not go short -&gt; either be in or out the market)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;uptrend:&lt;br /&gt;Description: three consecutive rising low points.&lt;br /&gt;Signal: break up: strengthen&lt;br /&gt;    break down: warning of reversal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;downtrend:&lt;br /&gt;Decription: three consecutive falling high points&lt;br /&gt;Signal:&lt;br /&gt;   break up: warns the possible end of downtrend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reversal: p.62&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Triangles:&lt;br /&gt;Common:to see the breakout of a triangle following an uptrend gives rise to a short sharp rise before a price fall occurs - bull traps.&lt;br /&gt;if it's a downtrend - bear trap.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rectangles:&lt;br /&gt;If breakout follows the direction of the trend, then price will continue to rise, but if the breankout is in the opposite direction then it should be considered a major reversal pattern.&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes after breakout there may be pull back.&lt;br /&gt;Gaps: indication of a bull/bear market conviction which is so strong that a given price range has been completely ignored.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Head and shoulders:&lt;br /&gt;Confirmation: at the right shoulder, the volume must decline.&lt;br /&gt;signal: price break below the neckline - strong indication that price will fall.&lt;br /&gt;Inverse head and shoulders in an equity market is less pronounced.&lt;br /&gt;How much profit y to take after breakout: y = x where x is the difference bwt head and neckline.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Double top/bottoms:&lt;br /&gt;Signal: intermediate or longterm changes in trend. Eventually buyers of sellers win and the trend is reversed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Extra:&lt;br /&gt;Bollinger bands.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32325696-116567881824490042?l=freepostingplace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/feeds/116567881824490042/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32325696&amp;postID=116567881824490042' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/116567881824490042'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/116567881824490042'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/2006/12/techinical-analysis.html' title='Techinical Analysis'/><author><name>pricecorner</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32325696.post-116555855438088817</id><published>2006-12-08T00:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-08T01:43:29.293-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Apply for French Visa from Singapore</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Where to apply&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;101-103 Cluny Park Road SINGAPORE 259595 Phone : (65) 6880 7834 (visa) Fax : (65) 6880 7801&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;When&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Office hours: The Visa section is open from Mondays to Fridays (9am to 12pm).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;How to get there&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Location : The French Embassy is located beside the junction of Bukit Timah and Farrer Road, opposite the Botanic Gardens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Buses : Boarding the following buses and alighting at the respective stops will bring you to the embassy:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bus Nos. 66 - 74 - 151 - 154 - 156 - 157 - 170 and 174. Alight at Coronation Plaza.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Useful links&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.france.org.sg/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=137&lt;br /&gt;map: http://www.france.org.sg/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=43&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;What to bring&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All visa application forms should be submitted with the following documents (both original and photocopy must be produced):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;1 Schengen application form (available at the Embassy or on French embassy website)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;1 loose passport-size photograph (no scanned photos, on white background only, must be less than one year old)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;passport (+1 photocopy of the main pages, + all stamped pages for Filipinos, Indonesian and Pakistani nationals)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;employment pass/dependant pass/student pass/ blue I.C. with re-entry permit (+1 photocopy)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;a company letter(+photocopy) stating that the person is an employee and the reason of the visit OR for students, a letter from the school or university stating the person is a regular student&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;a two-way air-ticket (Itinerary sufficient + photocopy, Issued paper ticket or E-ticket receipt should be produced upon collection)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;a hotel reservation (email bookings are accepted only if they carry a confirmation number)&lt;br /&gt;OR&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;if visiting a friend or a relative, the original copy of a "certificat d'acceuil" must be produced (it is an official attestation given by the townhall (Marie) at the request of the host in France).&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A letter of invitation (must be original) from the company in France, Greece, or Austria, only if applying for a business visa (+photocopy)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Important:&lt;/span&gt; It takes quite a lot of time and effort of you and your friend to have this troublesome certification, so you may consider booking a hotel/hostel (7) instead of (8) for more convenience, even though you may not stay there. You only have to pay small amount of deposit for booking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;travel insurance (medical coverage for the period of stay in France, 2 extra days from return date required for safety)+ photocopy&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A bank statement or bank booklet + photocopy for the past two months (necessary for tourism and business trips)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;The above requirements are from French embassy website, with notes added.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Fee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;35 Euro (70 SGD)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Some facts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;There is no phocopy machine at embassy, you will have to walk 500m to Coronation Plaza, second floor. There's no phocopy service at Serene centre (which the officer may tell you, it stops doing photocopy there already). &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Send a letter from Paris to Singapore using Fedex takes 60 Euro and 2 days&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Send by ordinary post takes about 7-10 days or more, cost: a few euros&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Get a "certificat d'acceuil" from the townhall cost 15 Euro (and a lot of your friend's time and efforts) To get that certification, you friend must: Be owner of the house/be renter in contract of the house&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The house must be spacious enough to accommodate you, 14 sq m/each&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;If your friend is not French citizen, she/he must bring: &lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;un timbre fiscal O.M.I. de 15 euros. This your friend has to buy before going to the townhall&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;passport, carte de sejour&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;bail/contract de location + derniere facture EDF/Telecom&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;dernier avis d'imposition sur les revenus ou attestation bancaire&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;1 envelope with your name and address (so that the townhall send the cert back to you)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just paste french text to your friend, he/she will know what it is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you find any other "troubles" when applying, comment here and I will consolidate it. Thanks and good luck.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32325696-116555855438088817?l=freepostingplace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/feeds/116555855438088817/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32325696&amp;postID=116555855438088817' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/116555855438088817'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/116555855438088817'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/2006/12/apply-for-french-visa-from-singapore.html' title='Apply for French Visa from Singapore'/><author><name>pricecorner</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32325696.post-116529910862197072</id><published>2006-12-05T00:25:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-05T01:11:48.636-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Evaluating stocks</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;EPS = Net Earnings / Outstanding Shares&lt;/span&gt;: The EPS is helpful in comparing one company to another, assuming they are in the same industry, but it doesn’t tell you whether it’s a good stock to buy or what the market thinks of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;P/E = Stock Price / EPS&lt;/span&gt; : what the market is willing to pay for the company's earning. Investors may read high P/E as overpriced stock, however it may indicate the market has high hopes for this stock future.&lt;br /&gt;A low P/E may indicate a vote of no confidence by the market.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PEG = P/E/(projected growth in earnings)&lt;/span&gt;:   For example, a stock with a P/E of 30 and projected earning growth next year of 15% would have a PEG of 2 (30 / 15 = 2). This means the lower the number the less you pay for each future earnings of its growth. So even a stock with a high P/E, but high projected earning growth may be a good value.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the opposite situation; a low P/E stock with low or no projected earnings growth, you see that what looks like a value may not work out that way. For example, a stock with a P/E of 8 and flat earnings growth equals a PEG of 8. This could prove to be an expensive investment. &lt;p&gt; A few important things to remember about PEG: &lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; It is about year-to-year earnings &lt;i&gt; growth &lt;/i&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; It relies on projections, which may not always be accurate&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Price to sales P/S = Stock price / Sales price per share OR = Market cap / Revenues:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Much like P/E, the P/S number reflects the value placed on sales by the market. &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;The lower the P/S, the better the value&lt;/span&gt;, at least that’s the conventional wisdom. However, this is definitely not a number you want to use in isolation. When dealing with a young company, there are many questions to answer and the P/S supplies just one answer. This ratio is used for young companies where growth history is not available, the company may have no earnings at that time to apply other ratios.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="gHd"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Market capitalization&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; or market cap = current stock price x number of outstanding shares&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;is a way of measuring the size of a company.&lt;br /&gt;For example, if stock price of SJS (Sudico, CTCP Đầu tư phát triển Đô thị và Khu công nghiệp Sông Đà) is 400,000VND and number of outstanding shares (KL lưu hành) is 5,000,000, market cap of SJS is: 400,000 x 5,000,000 = 2,000,000,000 (2 thousand billion VND)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Price to Book P/B = Share price / Book value per share:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like the P/E, &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;the lower the P/B, the better the value&lt;/span&gt;. Value investors would use a low P/B is stock screens, for instance, to identify potential candidates. They will 'sleep' on it until the stock price pops up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Dividend payout ratio DPR = dividends per share / EPS:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  For example, if a company paid out $1 per share in annual dividends and had $3 in EPS, the DPR would be 33%. ($1 / $3 = 33%).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Growing companies will typically retain more profits to fund growth and pay lower or no dividends. &lt;p&gt; Companies that pay higher dividends may be in mature industries where there is little room for growth and paying higher dividends is the best use of profits (utilities used to fall into this group, although in recent years many of them have been diversifying). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Either way, you must view the whole DPR issue in the context of the company and its industry. By itself, it tells you very little. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt; Dividend Yield =  annual dividend per share / stock's price per share &lt;/b&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; For example, if a company’s annual dividend is $1.50 and the stock trades at $25, the Dividend Yield is 6%. ($1.50 / $25 = 0.06)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you are an investor that looking for dividends income, this is the ratio you need.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt; Book Value = Assets - Liabilities&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;This is  another way to  look at the value of a company (the first way  is to look at its market cap, above). The book value means that if you wanted to close the company, how much would be left after you settled all the outstanding obligations and sold off all the assets.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To compare between companies, you should convert the book value to book value per share (by dividing to the number of shares)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Return on Equity (ROE) =  Net Income / Book Value:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;is one measure of how efficiently a company uses its assets to produce earnings. A healthy company may produce an ROE in the 13% to 15% range. Like all metrics, compare companies in the same industry to get a better picture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While ROE is a useful measure, it does have some flaws that can give you a false picture, so never rely on it alone. For example, if a company carries a large debt and raises funds through borrowing rather than issuing stock it will reduce its book value. A lower book value means you’re dividing by a smaller number so the ROE is artificially higher.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are other situations such as taking write-downs, stock buy backs, or any other accounting slight of hand that reduces book value, which will produce a higher ROE without improving profits. &lt;p&gt;It may also be more meaningful to look at the ROE over a period of the past five years, rather than one year to average out any abnormal numbers. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Given that you must look at the total picture, ROE is a useful tool in identifying companies with a competitive advantage. All other things roughly equal, the company that can consistently squeeze out more profits with their assets, will be a better investment in the long run.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Source: http://stocks.about.com/od/evaluatingstocks&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32325696-116529910862197072?l=freepostingplace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/feeds/116529910862197072/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32325696&amp;postID=116529910862197072' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/116529910862197072'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/116529910862197072'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/2006/12/evaluating-stocks.html' title='Evaluating stocks'/><author><name>pricecorner</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32325696.post-115495361461000515</id><published>2006-08-07T07:56:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-08-07T08:26:54.620-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Lolita over time, Eyes wide shut, Clockwork Orange, Jull Metal Jacket</title><content type='html'>Lolita 1962 &lt;a href="http://linc.nus.edu.sg/search/cPN1997+Lol/cpn+1997+lol/-2,-1,,E/browse" _base_target="_parent"&gt; PN1997 Lol&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- field v --&gt;&lt;!-- field # --&gt;  dvd   NUS library&lt;br /&gt;American Beauty  &lt;a href="http://linc.nus.edu.sg/search/cPN1997+Ame.A/cpn+1997+amea/-2,-1,,E/browse" _base_target="_parent"&gt;PN1997 Ame.A&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- field v --&gt;&lt;!-- field # --&gt;  dvd&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- field % --&gt;Xiu xiu: the sent down girl CDV38R   VIEW IN LIBRARY&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clockwork orange&lt;br /&gt;Eyes wide shut&lt;br /&gt;Lolita&lt;br /&gt;Full Metal Jacket&lt;br /&gt;ftp://217.20.163.37/.1/ALL_Movies-Not_for_All/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32325696-115495361461000515?l=freepostingplace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/feeds/115495361461000515/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32325696&amp;postID=115495361461000515' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/115495361461000515'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32325696/posts/default/115495361461000515'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://freepostingplace.blogspot.com/2006/08/lolita-over-time-eyes-wide-shut.html' title='Lolita over time, Eyes wide shut, Clockwork Orange, Jull Metal Jacket'/><author><name>pricecorner</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32325696.post-115495166672654140</id><published>2006-08-07T07:53:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-10-21T08:32:16.313-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Bus to Funan the IT Mall, Singapore</title><content type='html'>SBS 166 , 80, 197, 51&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-------Disclaimer----&lt;br /&gt;All information provided on this site are provided as is. 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