Where's Ivan Basso and Jan Ullrich? I have not seen in the Tour de France Classification and wondered what happened with them
Both are in the non-participant. The Tour is not allowing them to compete because of recent deveoplments the Operation Puerto case. Ullrich, has retired from cycling, but still faces charges. Basso was to launch the Discovery team after recent findings have found that he could Dopp. Dopp said then and now is serving a 2 year suspension. Barjne also Riis, who recently admitted the doping when he won his tour, he earned CSC team management.
Foals are a band from Oxford, England. Foals are currently signed to Transgressive Records in the UK and Sub Pop in the USA. Foals released their debut album Antidotes on the 24th of March, 2008 in the UK, and the 8th of April, 2008 in the USA. The album was a commercial success in the United Kingdom, debuting at #3 in the UK Albums Charts on the 30 March 2008. According to Play.com and other sources, the second album,According to Play.com and zavvi.co.uk, the second album apparently titled Total Life Forever, will be released on 10 May 2010.
This was confirmed by the band on their Facebook and MySpace blogs where they also mentioned about a new song from the forthcoming album being played on the radio. On the 1st March 2010, promomotional single “Spanish Sahara” was first played on Zane Lowes’ show Radio 1 at 7:30pm (GMT). Foals’ new website was updated that night with the release of a video for the track.
The band’s musical influences are varied, with the band members citing minimal techno, Arthur Russell, Kraut rock bands such as Harmonia, Talking Heads and marijuana as their main sources of inspiration. Their musical style however, can be more directly linked to various genres such as indie rock, dance-punk, math rock, post-punk revival and techno. In early Summer 2007, the band began work on their debut album. It was produced by Dave Sitek of TV On The Radio and socialite Wendy Jane.
The band, however, decided to mix the album themselves in the end, stating that Sitek made the first master copy of the album sound like “it was recorded in the Grand Canyon”. Yannis has stated multiple times during various interviews that Foals and Dave Sitek are on good terms, even when the copy by Sitek was rejected by the band. Foals released their debut album, entitled Antidotes on 24th March 2008 in the UK and 8th April 2008 in the USA. The album was a commercial success in the United Kingdom, debuting at #3 in the UK Albums Charts. The album was a minor success in other countries, charting in Japan, France and in the Netherlands.
Total Life Forever, will be released on the 10 May 2010. Foals have announced a new UK and Ireland tour for April and May. Foals will kick off the 11-date gig run on April 29 in Liverpool, before releasing ‘This Orient’, the first single from second album ‘Total Life Forever’, on May 3.
If you have decided to drive around with the idea of buying a house in France, you may wish to brush up your knowledge about how to ask in French the various things that will invariably come up.
You will no doubt have questions to ask the estate agent (un agent immobilier).
You will also want to know something of the French banking, since you will eventually wish to open an account there.
Let us start with the visit to an estate agent.
We are looking for a house for roughly XYZ euros (Nous cherchons une maison pour environs XYZ euros. We have two children so we need three or four bedrooms. (nous avons deux enfants, alors une maison avec 3 ou 4 chambres a coucher).
We would like to see houses in this area (Nous voulons voir des maisons dans les alentours.
We would like to see houses not further than three kilometres from here (Nous voulons voir des maisons pas plus que trois kilometres d’ici)
The house is situated in lovely surroundings (La maison est situee dans un tres bon cadre).
It is important to have central heating (C’est important d’avoir le chauffage central).
We are going to look around (Nous allons faire un tour).
The house is in a beautiful location (La maison est dans un endroit magnifique ).
Is there a supermarket nearby? (Y at-il un supermarche pres d’ici? )
This is exactly what I was looking for (C’est exactement ce que je cherchais )
I really liked the first house more than the second one (J’ai encore plus aime la premiere maison que la deuxieme )
We have finally reached a decision (Nous avons finalement parvenus a une decision )
It is not far from the town centre (C’est pas loin de centre de ville )
The building was completely renovated (Le batiment a ete entierment renove )
A row of houses (La rangee de maisons ).
Note that in France, the land is measured in hectares. You will come across the word le demihectare and since an acre is 0.4 hectares, it is easy to work things out.Let us now turn to some of the words and expressions you will come across when opening a bank account in France.
It is important to remember, to never issue a cheque without having sufficient funds in the bank to meet it. If the cheque is not met,the matter will be reported, and the Banque de France can impose a ban called Interdit Bancaire. This means, that for 5 years, one is not allowed to issue cheques.
A savings account ( compte d’epargne ) and a long term savings account ( compte D’epargne logement ) are popular. Having a tax exempt savings account (codevi) may be the one you will want to have. Of course, the current account is the one you will want anyway, and this one is called compte courante.
Should you need an overdsraft, it is called decouvert. Other names to note, are the clearance of a cheque (encaissement ), the ATM machine ( distributeur or guishet automatique ), the balance ( solde ), the statement of account(releve de compte ),the permission to debit your account the provider is asking ( titre inter bancaire de payment ) or ( TIP ) for short.
A few more things like the interest rate ( taux ), the account holder ( titulaire ),the transfer of funds to some other account ( virement ), detailed particulars of your account and bank ( releve d’identite bancaire ) or (RIB) for short, direct debi(prelevement automatique), ,and the exhange rate ( le cours du change ) are also useful to know.
Tour de France: Amstrong repartit pour un nouveau Tour.
