A dialogue with my utopian self ( with apologies, and thanks, to H. G. Wells )", by Gregory Claeys in Spaces of Utopia: An Electronic Journal, no 1, Spring 2006.

On December 16, 2006 he was transferred by the highly specialized, ICU equipped, Swiss Air Ambulance Bombardier Challenger Jet http :// www. rega. ch /, reportedly made possible and organized in a bold and daring action by the Swiss banker, Pascal Najadi, who was able to convince the REGA Flight Operations over the phone from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ( perhaps because he was an active patron of the REGA Swiss Air Ambulance ) to swiftly approve the decision to fly without any payment guarantees and assemble at highest possible speed within 48 hours the necessary flight plan, specialized doctors, logistics and Vietnam airspace ( Northern Sector ) entry clearances for the Jet to take off from Zurich HQ, via Lahore to Hanoi, then to proceed with the critical patient in full ICU care of specialized Swiss Doctors and immediate family on board, via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Edmonton to Boston, Massachusetts, where the plane was met by US Customs ( thanks to the help of Senator John Kerry ).

The Gower landmark topped the BBC Holiday Hit Squad nationwide competition ( 2006 ) and was voted Britain's best camping beach by The Independent thanks to its superb setting and quiet location ( 2007 ).

By the fourth quarter of 2006, Dell lost its title of the largest PC manufacturer to rival Hewlett Packard which was invigorated thanks to a restructuring initiated by their CEO Mark Hurd.

As of the end of 2006, the Council served approximately 35, 000 children thanks to 11, 000 volunteer leaders. Crossroads of America Council

However, in August, 2006, School Rumble was finally licensed by Funimation thanks to popularity of the series garnered from its manga release by Del Rey.

In 2006, Nine continued on its downward trend, losing most news weeks to Seven News and just winning the year thanks to its coverage of the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.

In 2000, All Saints Church, home of the Lambeth Orchestra, burned down, but it re-opened on the same site in 2006 thanks to the sustained work of parishioners and the local community.

In the first part of 2006, Australian guitar band Youth Group took their remake of " Forever Young " to No. 1 in the Official Australian Charts, thanks in part to exposure the track had received from being on popular US TV series The O. C.

The stadium has also hosted the Rugby League Tri-Nations, including the Final of the 2006 tournament in which Australia triumphed 16-12 over New Zealand in Golden point extra-time thanks to a try by captain Darren Lockyer.

Galvatron tolerated his service with amusement, aware of the irony in the situation — Starscream thought that working with Galvatron would ensure his future, but thanks to Galvatron, Starscream had no future, since he was destined to die at his hands in 2006 ( in the comic's alternate-future rendition of The Transformers: The Movie ).

Both teams made the PDL Final in 2006 and 2007, with the Bucks emerging victorious in ' 06 with a 2-1 win thanks to goals by Kenny Uzoigwe and Ty Shipalane, only for Laredo to get their revenge the following year with an epic penalty kicks win after a 0-0 tie in regulation time.

Several improvements were made in 2006 thanks in part to a $ 1. 7 million donation from the Houston Dynamo.

* 9 May 2006 — Roy Keane's testimonial is played at Old Trafford, with Manchester United beating Celtic 1 – 0 thanks to a second half Cristiano Ronaldo goal.

To revive this wine sponsorship and to give thanks for the commitment to the town of Oppenheim, the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit, was “ knighted ” on 11 March 2006 by Mayor Marcus Held, earning the title Wine Knight ( Weinritter ).

However, the team had vastly changed from the year before thanks to the purchase of closer Derrick DePriest by the Kansas City Royals on February 13, 2006.

It weighs Road & Track ( Feb 2006 ) compared to the E92 BMW M3 Road & Track ( Dec 2007 ) thanks to a carbon fibre reinforced plastic roof panel as well as thermoplastic front wings, aluminum doors and bonnet and compound boot lid.

But thanks to El-Gohary, the Jordan team reached its highest FIFA world ranking, which was 37th place in 2004 Just like Serbian Branko, El-Gohary also helped Jordan achieve great match results in FIFA World Cup qualifications for 2006 in Jordan's first round, but also failed to help Jordan qualify.

With Wight Jr still nowhere to be seen, Groves retained the title in 2006, although he had to wait a month longer than in the previous year thanks to a spirited challenge from Scott Moran.

This also includes his first play-off start on October 22, 2006 for the Fire, keeping a clean sheet in a game that the Fire won, 1-0 thanks to a goal from Justin Mapp in the 35th minute.

Bridges ' 15 goals made him very popular in Carlisle and thanks to them he reestablished his football career, but the fans were sad when he decided to leave Brunton Park on transfer deadline day, 31 August 2006.

During the 2010-2011 season, the Indiana Pacers advanced to the NBA playoffs for the first time since 2006 thanks to an end of the season win over the Washington Wizards coupled with a Charlotte Bobcats loss to the Orlando Magic.

Additionally, he has proved an extremely potent creative force thanks mainly to his pinpoint crossing ability and propensity for the killer pass, with his total of 12 league assists in the 2006 – 07 season being third to Cesc Fàbregas and Cristiano Ronaldo.

CRH is also restoring the railside infrastructure of Oswestry station to operational condition, and since 2006 has restored the former Oswestry South Signal Box, thanks to a £ 22, 000 grant from the Oswestry Visitor Facilities Infrastructure fund.

This was a large increase with the number of cell phones almost doubling from the 250, 000 in use in 2006.

In April 2006, researchers from Secure Network and F-Secure published a report that warns of the large number of devices left in a visible state, and issued statistics on the spread of various Bluetooth services and the ease of spread of an eventual Bluetooth worm.

Its trade deficit has been increasing at a large rate since 1997 ( See chart ) and increased by 49. 8 billion dollars between 2005 and 2006, setting a record high of 817. 3 billion dollars, up from 767. 5 billion dollars the previous year.

In 2006 the number of personal computers per 1, 000 people increased to an estimated 87 per 1, 000 inhabitants, a rate still below that in other large Latin American economies.

By 2006, although the price points of CRTs were generally much lower than LCD and plasma flat panels, large screen CRTs ( 30-inches or more ) were as expensive as a similar-sized LCD.

; Telephone system: large system ; underwent extensive upgrading during 1990s and is reasonably modern ; Telecom Egypt, the landline monopoly, has been increasing service availability and in 2006 fixed-line density stood at 14 per 100 persons ; as of 2007 there were three mobile-cellular networks and service is expanding rapidly

By 2006, such was the confusion from these multiple Acts, each amending the others ( and not all of which were ever actually commenced and thus were in the public record but not enforced as actual legislation ); and the amendments of Irish firearms legislation by other Acts ranging from the Wildlife Acts ( mostly relating to hunting law ) to the Road Traffic Acts ( relating to how and where firearms could be transported ) and others ; the large amount of secondary legislation ( Statutory Instruments, which set out regulations, the design of application forms for licences and so forth, as well as the details of when various parts of the Acts came into force ); as well as the introduction of EU firearms law into the canon of Irish legislation ; led the Irish Law Reform Commission to recommend that all the extant legislation be restated a legal process by which all the existing primary and secondary legislation would be read as one and a single document produced as the new Firearms Act ( and all prior Acts would be repealed ).

A 2006 study showed a large portion of adults who experienced sibling incest abuse have distorted or disturbed beliefs ( such as that the act was " normal ") both about their own experience and the subject of sexual abuse in general.

In May 2006, it was announced that a large search effort led by the Cornell team had been suspended for the season with only a handful of unconfirmed, fleeting sightings to report.

There also were large deliveries to brokers acting as intermediaries for several countries including Libya in 2005, 2006 and 2007.

But McNaught did extend the work to examine the placement of the Moon with trails and saw a large chance of a storm impacting in 1999 from a trail while there were less direct impacts from trails in 2000 and 2001 ( successive contact with trails through 2006 showed no hits.

( The very first example of a stony meteorite found in association with a large impact crater, the Morokweng crater in South Africa, was reported in May 2006.

According to Stephen Kinzer's 2006 book Overthrow, in 1898 the chief of the French Canal Syndicate ( a group that owned large swathes of land across Panama ), Philippe Bunau Varilla, hired William Nelson Cromwell to lobby the U. S. Congress for the Panama Canal.

A large number of such vehicles is exported from China as well ( 3 million units, worth 40 billion yuan ($ 5. 8 billion ), in 2006 alone ),

As of June 2006, the Porsche AG stake in VW AG had risen to 25. 1 %, giving Porsche a blocking minority, whereby Porsche can veto large corporate decisions undertaken by VW AG.

The loaning of fire related records to the military has declined since 2006, since a large number of such records now fall into the " archival records " category of military service records meaning that the records have been transferred from the military to the National Archives.

Standard with the Manufacture Year 2006 ( MY06 ) Forester came with larger side mirrors with indicator lights, curtain airbags giving a 5 star safety rating, remodelled centre console and exterior with a new look nose, lights and bumpers and the rear lost the large Suburu badge under the rear window.

During the Mesozoic era ( about 250 to 65 million years ago ) a large ocean ( Tethys Ocean ), floored by oceanic lithosphere existed in-between the supercontinents of Gondwana and Laurasia ( which lay to the south and north respectively ; Robertson & Dixon, 2006 ).

Turkey has a large and growing automotive industry, which produced 1, 024, 987 motor vehicles in 2006, ranking as the 7th largest automotive producer in Europe ; behind Germany ( 5, 819, 614 ), France ( 3, 174, 260 ), Spain ( 2, 770, 435 ), the United Kingdom ( 1, 648, 388 ), Russia ( 1, 508, 358 ) and Italy ( 1, 211, 594 ), respectively.

The airport underwent a large expansion project between January 2006 and September 2008.

* Beach Cup, Burla Beach Cup A large tournament, in 2006 hosted 70 teams, held every year in September in Viareggio, Tuscany, Italy.

In the 2006 edition, the university was described as follows: “ The University of Tulsa is one of the sleeper gems of the Great Plains, a private school large enough to house numerous top-flight programs but small enough to facilitate one-on-one instruction provided in a homey atmosphere .”

On the evening of August 31, 2006, the aquarium introduced a juvenile male caught outside Santa Monica Bay His first meal as a captive was a large salmon steak on September 8, 2006, and as of that date, he was estimated to be in length and to weigh approximately.

In 2006 the party announced that it would disband itself: it owed a large debt to the Ministry of Home Affairs, who had lent them money for the 2003 elections, and only a handful of paying members were left.