Prior to 31 December 2010, deposits with building societies of up to £ 50, 000 per individual, per institution, were normally protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme ( FSCS ), but Nationwide and Yorkshire Building Societies negotiated a temporary change to the terms of the FSCS to protect members of the societies they acquired in late 2008 / early 2009.

Prior to the 2009 season, the Royals renovated Kauffman Stadium.

Prior to 2009, the Pleistocene was defined to be 1. 805 million years ago to present, such that the present definition of the Pleistocene includes a portion of what was prior to 2009 defined as part of the Pliocene.

Meanwhile, a delegation from the African Union Commission praised the election for taking place with " calm and serenity " Prior to the 2009 election, Tunisia amended its constitution to allow more candidates to run for president, allowing the top official from each political party to compete for the presidency regardless of whether they held seats in parliament.

Prior to the 2009 season, the maximum team roster size was changed from 13 players ( 11 active and 2 inactive ) to 11 players ( all active ).

Prior to 2009, the United States was the leading issuer of IPOs in terms of total value.

Prior to the 2009 – 10 NHL season, the Blackhawks made another major free agent purchase, signing Marian Hossa to a 12-year contract worth 62. 8 million dollars.

* Lizbeth Neuman, 49, of Prior Lake, MN ( died October 17, 2009 )

Prior to 13 December 2009, the Circle line formed a simple loop with 27 stations and of track, as shown below:

Prior to the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires, the park was renowned for being home to the tallest tree in Victoria.

On April 10, 2009, zebra mussel shells were discovered on the shore of Lower Prior Lake.

Prior to 2009 students attended Parkdale Elementary in grades K – 2, and Main Street Elementary for grades 3 – 8.

Prior to March 2009 digital music files with digital rights management were available for purchase from the iTunes Store encoded in a proprietary derivative of the AAC format that used Apple's FairPlay DRM system.

Prior to his death, he was collaborating on a project with former Black Sabbath bandmates Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Vinny Appice, under the moniker Heaven & Hell, whose only studio album, The Devil You Know, was released on April 28, 2009.

Prior to 2009, the requirement was for six concerts in addition to the Last Night when purchasing a ticket in advance.

Prior to 2009, the party had only been out of power for a brief 11 month period between 1993 and 1994.

Prior to March 11, 2009, XMRO was included with XM Radio subscriptions, or was available separately for $ 7. 99 / month to Internet-only subscribers.

Between October 2008 and June 2009, Askham Bryan College of Agriculture opened its Guisborough Centre, located on the same site as Prior Pursglove College.

Prior to retirement in 2009, she chaired Harvard College's influential Committee on Undergraduate Education.

Prior to the 2009 constitutional reforms, if no candidate received half the popular vote, the president was chosen by a vote in a joint legislative session from among the top two candidates ( prior to 1995, the top three candidates were eligible ).

Prior to its closure in 2009, the Valley of the Fallen was the third most visited site of the Patrimonio Nacional after only the Royal Palace of Madrid and El Escorial.

Prior to the 2009 NASL split several other cities had been mentioned as being locations where future USL-1 franchises might be launched, including St. Louis, Missouri ( led by the current PDL franchise St. Louis Lions ), Orlando, Florida ( with Mexican side Pachuca being rumored as connected to it ), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Detroit, Michigan, Hamilton, Ontario, San Antonio, Texas and Ottawa, Ontario.

Prior to 2009, the final was played as a single leg at the higher seed's stadium.

Prior to 2010, MSNBC was not available to Verizon FiOS and AT & T U-verse TV subscribers in portions of New York, northern New Jersey, and Connecticut that overlapped Cablevision's territory.

Prior to joining CNN, Banfield worked for MSNBC and reported from numerous overseas locations, including the Middle East and Central Asia.

Prior to joining MSNBC and Fox News, Colgan was a Democratic Party fundraiser and political consultant.

Prior to joining WNCN, Fitzgerald was an anchor for MSNBC.

Prior to joining MSNBC, Fitzgerald served as weekend anchor and general assignment reporter for the NBC owned-and-operated station WVTM-TV in Birmingham, Alabama.

Prior to this stint in Phoenix, Sean was chief meteorologist for MSNBC, joining the United States-based 24-hour cable news television network in July 2004.

Prior to his years at FOX, he worked as a writer for MSNBC and in radio at WOR-AM in New York City.

Prior to Fox News, Cuomo made similar appearances on CNBC, MSNBC and CNN.

Prior to modern times, there was no distinction between architects, engineers and often artists, and the title used varied depending on geographical location.

Prior to the emergence of the term Mizrahi, the term " Arab Jews " was sometimes used to describe Jews of the Arab world.

Prior to this definition, it was used by Persian-speakers ( and others influenced by Persian ) to denote the Pashtun people.

Prior to the Smartmodem, modems were almost entirely manual in operation, having developed from acoustic couplers that used a traditional telephone for dialling and hanging up.

Prior to the development of the pound lock in 984AD in China by Chhaio Wei-Yo and later in Europe in the 15th century, either flash locks consisting of a single gate were used or ramps, sometimes equipped with rollers, were used to change level.

Prior to the standardization of rapid radiosity calculation, some graphic artists used a technique referred to loosely as false radiosity by darkening areas of texture maps corresponding to corners, joints and recesses, and applying them via self-illumination or diffuse mapping for scanline rendering.

Prior to 1970, writers only voted for the best pitcher and used a formula of one point per vote.

Prior to the invention of tension rods drum skins were attached and tuned by rope systems such as that used on the Djembe or pegs and ropes such as that used on Ewe Drums, a system rarely used today, although sometimes seen on regimental marching band snare drums.

Prior to J2000. 0, astronomers used the successive Besselian Epochs B1875. 0, B1900. 0, and B1950. 0.

Prior to the 1996 Australian Grand Prix, an earlier configuration of the current circuit was used for both the 1953 and 1956 Australian Grands Prix.

Prior to version 0. 7, Freenet used a heuristic routing algorithm where each node had no fixed location, and routing was based on which node had served a key closest to the key being fetched ( in version 0. 3 ) or which is estimated to serve it faster ( in version 0. 5 ).

Prior to FORTRAN 77, a number of preprocessors were commonly used to provide a friendlier language, with the advantage that the preprocessed code could be compiled on any machine with a standard FORTRAN compiler.

Prior to the IEEE-754 standard, computers used many different forms of floating-point.

Prior to Nazism, however, the term was used throughout Germanic language countries without negative connotations ( e. g. in Hermann Broch's novel The Sleepwalkers ), or often to refer to their homelands much as the word " motherland " does.

Prior to this work, the concept of a set was a rather elementary one that had been used implicitly since the beginnings of mathematics, dating back to the ideas of Aristotle.

Prior to 1958 a method of raising energy in the coven's circle was by the practice of " binding and scourging ", mostly used as an initiation rite, and related to the Roman Catholic scourging used to heighten the initiates sensitivity and spiritual experience.

Prior to 1953, a Tudor Crown was used

Prior to the introduction of plastics, it was used for billiard balls, piano keys, Scottish bagpipes, buttons and a wide range of ornamental items.

Prior to the Civil War, militia units were sometimes used by southern states for slave control.

Prior to the emergence of quantum mechanics as a separate theory, the mathematics used in physics consisted mainly of formal mathematical analysis, beginning with calculus ; and, increasing in complexity up to differential geometry and partial differential equations.

Prior to contact with Europeans, most tribes used similar weaponry.