International Association

I am sure that this company does not exist in the UK. Can you provide more of an address and telephone number?

I have a flight that lands at 2:45AM at Delhi’s International airport. I then have a domestic flight that leaves at 5:45AM. Does that leave me enough time to go through security, pick up my luggage, take the bus over to the domestic airport and check in for my domestic flight?

Would I be better at taking a Taxi?

P.S: This is the first time I am doing this, so I am not very familiar with the area.

Thanks…

yup u have enough time ,it will take 10 -15 minutes indra gandhi international airport to palam airport(domestic) may be less than 15 minutes bec early in the morning there will no traffic .but its also depend on how long u r luggage or custom take .

I’m looking to fly from Canada to Egypt at the end of January 4 months from now.

I’m looking around at prices and they seem to be around $1400CAD. BA is having a sale until tomorrow and the price is $1380 (wow, big savings).

Anyhow, how does international flight pricing work? Am I for sure getting a good price booking 4 months ahead? Or is there a "sweet spot" in time closer to the departure when prices are lower? Or are they only going to get higher? Should I book now, or wait and shop?

I think you still have some time available. Use a consolidator site like lastminutetravel.com or something of that nature…try kayak.com. I think Expedia.com will e-mail you alerts when prices go down…priceline.com will do the same. It doesn’t mean you have to purchase from them, but its a convenient service. I booked our trip to China about 4 weeks before we left. The price was the same if I booked 3 months in advance.

I absolutely love Ding and always get my southwest tickets from there for trips. Is there any similar software or site I can use regularly to check if there are cheap international flights going out of my area with last minute deals?

Not off the top of my head, but if you’re looking for international flights out of the U.S, I tend to use www.atiflights.com – They’re prices are always cheaper than everywhere else and I ‘ve had no problems with them so far (knock on wood!)

my friend might not be able to give me a ride and im VERY low on money. i tried calculating by the miles and the 1/8 mile= 25 cents blah blah blah and got a number up in the fifties. That seems like a LOT. has anybody made the ride and know what it costs? or a cheaper way to get there? really rooting for the cheaper way here…

Supershuttle.com has a fare calculator and the fare from Regis to DIA is $25. Bear in mind that you’re sharing the ride with up to 10 people and the driver may make other stops before heading to the airport so book your reservation at least 3 hours before the flight leaves or whatever supershuttle’s recommendations are.

Article:
Seas Turn to Acid as They Soak Up CO2
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/10/05-0

Background:
What is ocean acidification?
http://www.obs-vlfr.fr/LOV/EPOCA/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=14&Itemid=39
"if CO2 continues to be released on current trends, ocean average pH will reach 7.8 by the end of this century, corresponding to 0.5 units below the pre-industrial level, a pH level that has not been experienced for several millions of years (1). A change of 0.5 units might not sound as a very big change, but the pH scale is logaritmic meaning that such a change is equivalent to a three fold increase in H+ concentration. All this is happening at a speed 100 times greater than has ever been observed during the geological past. Several marine species, communities and ecosystems might not have the time to acclimate or adapt to these fast changes in ocean chemistry"

What’s the likely impact/cost? What’s percentage of current human consumption comes from the oceans?

When will we reach the point where it’s time to start globally reducing drivers of climate change such as greenhouse gases and black soot?

What are possible and prudent responses? Can we afford to leave China and India out of greenhouse gas and black carbon emissions controls?

Second International Symposium on the Ocean in a High CO2 World
http://www.obs-vlfr.fr/LOV/EPOCA/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=68&Itemid=36
jim z – yes, the article mentioned that the gas is volcanic in origin. The recent injection of CO2 there makes that a useful place to study acidification. Do you understand now?

Do you dispute that the oceans are acidifying dramatically? As a geologist this should be right up your alley, and you should be able to provide ample evidence to back up your claim that there’s nothing to worry about.
johnnie b – Thanks for the good news, I guess we can tell all those scientists at the symposium in Monaco today that they can go home. Why don’t you do that, and let us know what they say?
jim z – Thanks for the link to the information from Zeebe. It says the following:

"On time scales shorter than ~1000 yrs, the natural reservoirs that exchange carbon with the ocean are the atmosphere (pre-anthropogenic inventory ~600 Pg C), the biosphere (~550 Pg C), and soils (~1,500 Pg C) and thus the oceanic inventory of ΣCO2 (~38,000 Pg C) can be considered essentially constant. Exceptions to this are potential rapid carbon inputs from otherwise long-term storage reservoirs. Examples are the current combustion of fossil fuel carbon by humans…"
Here’s Zeebe’s work paraphrased:

"The pre-industrial pH of the
ocean (~ 8.1) was the result of
a long-term balance among
carbonate shell formation
by marine organisms, supply
of dissolved bicarbonate by
rivers, deposition of carbonate
sediments on the seabed,
and dissolution of carbonate
sediments (Ridgwell and
Zeebe, 2005). The input of CO2
to the ocean is changing this
balance, driving ocean pH
lower and creating more acidic
(less alkaline) oceans."

CO2 emissions and climate change: ocean impacts and adaptation issues
http://staff.acecrc.org.au/ace-notes/PA02acidification.pdf

Would you like to offer a scientist who is coming to conclusions that you do not find despicable?

Taken as a collection, this is probably the most chemically ignorant set of answers I have seen, from the people who claim the natural pH of the ocean should be neutral to those who claim there is no way that atmospheric CO2 can affect ocean surface pH on short timescales. Congratulations to all of you so far.

There is nothing that can be done to compensate for ocean acidification due to increasing atmospheric CO2 aside from lowering atmospheric CO2 concentrations. On the plus side, given a few thousand years or so enough carbonate rock will weather to bring ocean pH back to around 8.3 (which is the endpoint of titrating calcium/magnesium carbonate with carbonic acid).

Does Iran have the right to pursue nuclear technology? Does the US not trusting Iran even matter?
So…The answers seem to suggest, in a nut shell, that the US is above the law and does not respect sovereignty.

Iran is a developed sovereign nation, not only is Iran within its rights to develop the technology, no foreign power has the right to stop it.

Iran has never invaded another nation and despite its rather divided leadership poses a threat to no one.

I would be more concerned about the more serious issue of nuclear weapons held by Pakistan in all it’s political turmoil.

Then there is Bush’s endorsement of US plans to place US nuclear warheads in a low Earth orbit, with a history of so many failures in terms of US very unreliable space technology, this weapons system is a threat to us all (including the USA).

USA can’t even keep its current sattelites in order and China is way ahead in terms of its own "Star Wars" missile defence system.

I have heard it is a violation of international law for ships to carry weapons. Is this true?
In light of the number of hijackings, I am wondering why these ships are not armed.

I searched through the international law at the first source link I posted below and could not find anything specific about merchant ships carrying weapons.

After reading the second source link, I’ve come to the conclusion that the carrying of weapons aboard merchant ships is regulated by a combination of ship insurance restrictions, ship company rules, and the laws of any country the ship needs to visit as part of doing business on the seas.

I will continue my research.

please give me the dates and don’t give me any repeats. I’m doing a history project and It should be from 1860’s to now.
Thanks!

Good god. There are a lot.

American Civil War, April 12 1861 – April 9 1865
Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871
World War I, July 28 1914 – Nov 11 1918
The Russian Revolution, 1917-1922
The Great Depression, began Oct 29 1929
Spanish Civil War, July 17 1936 – April 1 1939
World War II, Sep 1 1939 – Sep 2 1945
Establishment of the United Nations, 1945
The Cold War, 1947 – 1991
Korean War, June 29 1950 – July 27 1953
Chinese Invasion of Tibet 1950-1951
Space Race, began 1957 with the launch of Sputnik
Vietnam War, 1959 – April 30, 1975
The Cultural Revolution, May 16 1966-1969
The Persian Gulf War, Aug 2 1990 – Nov 30 1995
Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001
War on Terrorism Sep 11, 2001 – present
Darfur Conflict Feb 2003 – present

Those are just a few. I hope that helps…

Until 1958, Nigeria used the west african pound (equal to the UK pound) as a legal tender. In 1958, this currency was substituted by the nigerian pound.
Units for both West African and Nigerian monetary system then are:
12 pence = 1 Shilling
20 Shillings = 1 pound

In 1973 the naira was introduced at 2 naira = 1 nigerian pound rate. 1 naira = 100 kobo.