Since July 2007, following the 2006 Palestinian legislative election and the following Battle of Gaza, Hamas has functioned as the de-facto ruler in the Gaza Strip, forming an alternative Hamas Government in Gaza.

Now, voters must consider whether the alternative option is closer to their original preference ( Bara and Weale 2006 ).

In November 2006, Minsky published The Emotion Machine, a book that critiques many popular theories of how human minds work and suggests alternative theories, often replacing simple ideas with more complex ones.

While not technically a squat until 14 December 2006, it was a social center used by squatters and people involved in alternative culture more generally.

Reports surfaced late in January 2006 that Apple's iWork had leapfrogged WordPerfect Office as the leading alternative to Microsoft Office.

Consistent with his work for liberal causes, Newman publicly supported Ned Lamont's candidacy in the 2006 Connecticut Democratic Primary against Senator Joe Lieberman, and was even rumored as a candidate himself, until Lamont emerged as a credible alternative.

London in 2003 and extended in 2007 ( see London congestion charge ); Stockholm in 2006, as seven month trial, and then on a permanent basis since August 2007 ( see Stockholm congestion tax ); and since January 2008, Milan introduced a traffic charge scheme as a one-year trial, called Ecopass, that exempts higher emission standard vehicles ( Euro IV ) and other alternative fuel vehicles.

The Electoral Administration Act 2006 removed Maundy Thursday as an excluded day on the electoral timetable-therefore an election can now be held on Maundy Thursday, prior to this elections were sometimes scheduled on the Tuesday before as an alternative.

* " Mystery " ( Live song ), from the 2006 album Songs from Black Mountain by alternative rock group Live

* In a 2006 episode of Saturday Night Live, an opening sketch portraying U. S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi includes the House Speaker discussing the constitutional rights of Americans to engage in " alternative or rough sex " and promotes her preferred and favorite safeword: " palomino ".

" According to John T. Edge ( Donuts, an American passion 2006 ) the alternative spelling “ donut ” was invented when the New York – based Display Doughnut Machine Corporation abbreviated the word to make it more pronounceable by the foreigners they hoped would buy their automated doughnut making equipment.

Across the street is Glenmor High School, the alternative school, built in 2006 .< BR >

Since 2006, Hindalong has also been an official member of the alternative country supergroup Lost Dogs.

* " Phenomena " ( song ), released in 2006 by alternative New York band the Yeah Yeah Yeahs from their Show Your Bones album

Granite High School, originally opened in 1906, was changed from a traditional high school to an alternative high school in 2006.

Following the announcement of the UPN / WB merger creating The CW network, News Corporation announced the creation of MyNetworkTV to provide an alternative network for its O & O UPN affiliates on February 22, 2006.

:# Individuals with Disabilities Education Act has stated that " Restraints may not be used as an alternative to adequate staff " ( McAfee, Schwilk & Miltruski, 2006, p. 713 ).

In 2006 Intrawest was purchased by the alternative asset management firm, Fortress Investment Group.

A combination of accounting changes and governance issues led options to become a less popular means of remuneration as 2006 progressed, and various alternative implementations of buybacks surfaced to challenge the dominance of " open market " cash buybacks as the preferred means of implementing a share repurchase plan.

In 2006, Bolivia, as a result of alternative development programs, exported US $ 28 million of Banana, US $ 1. 9 million of pineapple, and US $ 7. 0 million of palm heart.

In the 2000s, the term " alternative archaeology " began to be instead applied by academics like Tim Sebastion ( 2001 ), Robert J. Wallis ( 2003 ), Cornelius Holtorf ( 2006 ), and Gabriel Moshenka ( 2008 ).

Thirty-five years later ( in 2006 ) fellow Mancunian Johnny Marr of English alternative rock band The Smiths said:

The male co-leader position was vacant following the November 2005 death of Rod Donald until the 2006 annual general meeting when Norman was elected using the alternative vote system by party delegates from electorates around the country.

* Calin Tantareanu, " Bridge agraffes, an alternative to traditional bridge pins ", 2006

In May 2006, Pérez illustrated the cover art to one of the alternative covers to the direct market release of the annual Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide ( 36th edition ) featuring Wonder Woman.

Number of minorities ( 1st and 2nd generation ) in Bonn by country of origin per 31 December 2006

alt = This article incorporates public domain material Bulgaria country profile ( October 2006 ) from websites or documents of the Library of Congress Federal Research Division.

" In 2006, the state with the largest number of students enrolled was South Carolina, but many of these were married students who had moved from other parts of the country to attend the University.

Bo Diddley performed a number of shows around the country in 2005 and 2006 with the fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Johnnie Johnson Band, featuring Johnson on keyboards, Richard Hunt on drums, and Gus Thornton on bass.

But in June 2006 coverage was expanded at least to Berberati in the western part of the country.

Due to failure to curb deepening unrest in the northern part of the country, Gambi was in July 2006 replaced with Bozizé ’ s old friend from the military academy, Jules Bernard Ouandé.

During a UN mission in the northern part of the country in November 2006, the mission had a meeting with a prefect who said that he could not maintain law and order over the military and the presidential guards.

In 2006, Chile became the country with the highest nominal GDP per capita in Latin America.

The country ’ s teledensity ( the density of telephone lines in a community ) is relatively high for Latin America ( 17 percent in 2006 ).

In March 2006, the parliament overturned a veto by President Václav Klaus, and the Czech Republic became the first former communist country in Europe to grant legal recognition to same-sex partnerships.

Since the July 2006 elections, the country is led by a semi-presidential, strongly-decentralized state.

The 2006 Carnegie Foundation classification listed Dartmouth as the only " majority-undergraduate ", " arts-and-sciences focus ", " research university " in the country that also had " some graduate coexistence " and " very high research activity.

During this time, England played at a number of different venues across the country, though by the time of the 2006 World Cup qualifiers this had largely settled down to having Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium as the primary venue, with Newcastle United's St. James ' Park used on occasions where Old Trafford was unavailable.

Speaking at 30th anniversary celebrations on 26 July 2006, Commander Bradley Bower said that the greatest challenge facing the navy of a maritime country like Fiji was to maintain sovereignty and the maritime environment, to acquire, restore, and replace equipment, and to train officers to keep pace with changing situations.

* 2006 – Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares Proclamation 1017 placing the country in a state of emergency in attempt to subdue a possible military coup.

On 3 July 2005, the country became the first country in the world to give full marriage and adoption rights to homosexual couples ( Belgium has allowed same-sex marriage since 2003 and co-parenting since April 2006, and the Netherlands has allowed same-sex marriage since 2001 and now has a law in preparation to provide full adoption rights in equal conditions to opposite-sex marriages ).

Important production centers are the Hallertau in Germany ( which, in 2006, had more hop-growing area than any other country on Earth ), the Yakima ( Washington ) and Willamette ( Oregon ) valleys, and western Canyon County, Idaho ( including the communities of Parma, Wilder, Greenleaf, and Notus ).

Estimated foreign-born population by country of birth, 2006 figures.

Through much of 2006 the country and Congress was immersed in a debate about these proposals.

In 2006, General Sir Michael Rose revived the call for the impeachment of Tony Blair, then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, for leading the country into the invasion of Iraq in 2003 under allegedly false justification.

The club is the third oldest of its kind in the country and has spent the majority of its history, with the exception of the 2006 – 07 season, in the top flight First Division ( known as Serie A since 1929 ).

In 2006 the country had 367 kilometers of natural gas pipeline and 16 kilometers of oil pipeline, after adding 167 kilometers of natural gas pipeline in 2003.

In November 2006, the Afghan Ministry of Communications signed a $ 64. 5 million US dollar deal with ZTE on the establishment of a countrywide fibre optical cable network to help improve telephone, internet, television and radio broadcast services not just in Kabul but throughout the country.

In 2006, the country had approximately 5, 000 fixed lines installed, almost exclusively in the Monrovia area.