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I know a woman who has been a shotokan black belt for years and has had a distinguished career in competition, yet she wears a plain black belt without any dan bars or stripes and no way to determine what dan level she may have based on just looking at her belt.

I heard that they are changing the product to add features such as a camera.

What airlines provides the best service between Washington and Buenos Aires?

I am looking to learn advanced tonfa katas. My interest is traditional Okinawan karate style.

I am looking for a written description of the Okinawan tonfa kata "hama higa no tonfa." I have a video of the kata, but I would like to use a written description of the movements to use while I practice.

The French prince, Jean d'Orleans, Duke of Vendôme, and son of Henri, Count of Paris [a pretender to the French throne] was married to Philomena de Tornos y Steinhart, a Spanish-Austrian aristocrat, in Senlis, a city in the northern part of France. This marriage was attended by the Belgian royal family, Princess Marie-Christine of Lichtenstein, and French Interior Minister Rachida Dati. Why don't royal watchers care about this wedding?

http://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/2009/04/28/je...

http://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/2009/05/04/do...

http://www.leparisien.fr/societe/le-prince-jean-d-...

http://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/dossiers/journa...

It seems that all of the major stores there have American (English language) movie DVDs, and I have difficulty finding any films directed by Alain Resnais, Bertrand Tavernier, Philippe de Broca, Pierre Cardinal, or Patrick Chesnais.

I think I am not ready for the test for the next level in Karate. The head instructor thinks I am. I feel that I need to perfect my technique and should not test for at least another month. I think I need more experience.

I would like to learn weapon-specific tonfa katas, such as Tonfa Kata Ichi, but the Master who runs the dojo where I am a member really has no background in weapon-specific katas. He would prefer I incorporate the tonfa into a karate kata such as H-Form 1. Can I really learn a tonfa kata from a video on YouTube?

I have been driving a Volvo 850 for the past 12 years (now have almost 240,000 miles on it). My friend, the mechanic, said I should consider a General Motors vehicle as my next car because the warranty is better than that available on Volvo's.

Inch'Allah dimanche is a 2001 French film by director Yamina Benguigui about the life of an Algérian immigrant family in France in the 1970's. I find the music quite captivating.

I know that the late actor Dan Blocker (Hoss Cartwright from Bonanza) had an engineering degree. I know that rocker Mick Jagger passed three A-levels and had attended the London School of Economics. Are there any other entertainers that have advanced educations?

Félix Faure was Président of France in the 19th Century.

Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. It is a Linksis Wireless-B 2.4 GHz router. What baffles me is that my wife's laptop always picks up the signal from the router, but my laptop only picks it up intermittently. And furthermore, my laptop also picks up signals from about 3 or four other wireless routers in the neighborhood.