 2-0 win over Uruguay and 1-0 win over neighbours Belgium, courtesy of Samuel Umtiti sent them to the final.
World Cup winners list
Switzerland 1954 – West Germany
West Germany 1974 – West Germany
Italy 1990 – West Germany
USA 1994 – Brazil
Korea and Japan 2002 – BrazilMexico replaced Brazil as Latin America's top M&A market in the first half.
America Movil’s $27.4 billion acquisition of 100 percent of the stock of Carso Global Telecom – both companies controlled by Mexican mogul Carlos Slim – was the top announced deal worldwide in the first half of this year, according to Thomson Reuters.
The other top 15 deals involved acquisitions by US, Swiss, Indian, Spanish and Australian companies.
Meanwhile, the value of mergers and acquisitions announced in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Chile nearly doubled -- 91.4 percent -- to $5.4 billion.
As a result of the Carso acquisition (and the $7.6 billion purchase of Femsa by Netherlands-based Heineken), Mexico’s announced M&A value jumped from $1.2 billion in the first half of 2009 to $47.1 billion in the first half of this year.
The Carso purchase forms part of Slim’s plans to merge several of his telecom holdings. Earlier this month, America Movil announced that it had acquired 94 percent of Telmex Internacional for $5.5 billion from other investors.
The Carso purchase also meant that Mexico managed to dethrone Brazil as the top M&A market in Latin America. The value of announced M&A’s in Brazil reached $44.2 billion in the first half, a 51.3 percent increase from the same period last year.
However, leading M&A experts predict that Brazil will drive M&A's in the second half of the year, with significant growth in Colombia and Peru as well.
All in all, announced M&A’s in Latin America reached $119.4 billion in the first half, a 134 percent increase from last year, according to Thomson Reuters.
HKU Scholars Hub: How Latino American and European American adolescents discuss conflicts, sexuality, and AIDS with their mothers.
Developmental Psychology, 2000, v. 36 n. 3, p. 315-325 How to Cite?
The authors examined how the structure of mother-adolescent conversations differs by ethnic group, age, and dyadic and individual factors. Mother-adolescent dyads of European or Latino descent participated in conversations and reported on their relationship and AIDS knowledge. Latina American mothers dominated conversations more than European American mothers, independent of socioeconomic status. Mothers dominated conversations about sexuality and AIDS more than conversations about conflicts. Mothers of older adolescents reacted more negatively, and older adolescents reported less satisfaction, less openness, and more sexual discussions with persons other than their mothers. Latino American adolescents whose mothers dominated conversations more reported fewer sexual discussions. Latina American mothers who dominated conversations more reported more openness and satisfaction. When mothers dominated conversations more, adolescents had lower AIDS knowledge.Lensing nimbly lowers herself into the waiting area chair next to Sally's and tells her in a tone of woman-to-woman straight talk that mania—and she refers to it as if it is a separate entity, a mutual acquaintance of theirs—mania is a glutton for attention. It craves thrills, action, it wants to keep thriving, it will do anything to live on. "Did you ever have a friend who's so exciting you want to be around her, but she leads you into disaster, and in the end you wish you never met? You know the sort of person I mean: the girl who wants to go faster, who always wants more. The girl who serves herself first and screw the rest. It could be a boy, too, of course, I'm just giving an example of what mania is: a greedy, charismatic person who pretends to be your friend. We may not be able to resist her every time, but one of the things we're going to try to learn is to recognize her for what she is."
"You're talking about me. I'm that girl," says Sally.
"Sally, they don't make them any smarter than you. Now come on, let's get cracking."
To me she says: "We'll spend about 40 minutes alone together, then, if it feels right, I'll ask you to join us. Okay?"
After about half an hour, Lensing reappears, inviting me into the sanctum: a large, shabby south-facing room with a ripped couch on which Sally is stretching herself and yawning, soporific yet restless.
"Your daughter is a pleasure to work with, Mr. Greenberg."
They giggle like girlfriends sharing a private joke, and I marvel at the instant rapport Lensing seems to have struck with her.
"Sally and I have agreed upon a goal: for her to be in shape to return to school in September. We have five, maybe six weeks. Right now, for her to try to go to school would be like running a marathon with a broken leg. So that's our first piece of good fortune: We're lucky it's summer."
August stretches before us like a desert we haven't the stomach to cross. Sally's irate euphoria ignites without warning, in the middle of the night or at 1 in the afternoon. Tearing out of an unreachable stupor, she berates me for my ignorance, my fear, my helplessness, my attempt to control her, to keep her down. "I feel locked up," she says, and she doesn't only mean in the apartment—to Pat, she confesses a powerful desire to rip herself open as if she were zippered inside a fur suit.
By mid-August, Lensing is speaking of Sally's "measurable steps toward real recovery." "Remission" is the word she often uses, to keep us from nursing unreasonable expectations.
"It wouldn't be obvious to you who are with her all the time, but it's happening. I can see it clearly."
When Sally is in the bathroom, she tells me: "I persuaded her to visit the coffee bar on Greenwich Avenue where she had some of her most disturbing moments while manic. The idea is for her to demystify these places, to see that they are ordinary, that the things she believes happened there were all in her mind. When I asked her what it was like to be there, she said, 'What kind of question is that? It's a coffee shop. I had a cup of coffee.' I loved that answer. I'm going to lower her haloperidol, starting today. If all goes well, it will be the beginning of a gradual tapering off."
"We can't be too careful about this. The adjustment will be slow. She's still having psychotic flashes. Short in duration. Sometimes no longer than a minute."
"What kinds of flashes?"
"She thinks a neighbor is watching her or that she's being followed. That sort of thing."
Find out how Select helps parents do their homework on education fee planning.
"What's the most expensive purchase many people will make in a lifetime?"
If you answered "real estate", you'd be right... most of the time. That's because total spending on educating our children from elementary to college is catching up fast. This is understandable when you consider that getting a good education is seen as essential in today's competitive world.
Notice the percentage changes. Total college expenses are increasing annually at between 4.41% and 5.93%. This should definitely be factored into your education fee planning since a 6% annual increase has the cost of a college education doubling in just 12 years! And those numbers are for just one student.
It's only fair to point out that there's no one 'correct' answer to education fee planning.
However, before you make any long term educational decisions for your children, why not have a friendly, no-obligations chat with one of our knowledgeable financial advisors? We've advised many people worried about how they're going to give their sons and daughters a quality but expensive education.Chickens, Whales, and Lumpy Goods: Alternative Models of Public-Goods Provision

The game-theoretic literature on the problem of the provision of public goods has concentrated almost exclusively on one model—the Prisoner's Dilemma game. Several other simple games may be more applicable in certain situations. In particular, the game structure known as Chicken seems to provide a better description of an important sub-class of games where the good is lumpy rather than continuously divisible. Many environmental public goods belong to this category. A distinct paradox of public-goods provision occurs within games of Chicken.Home General Steve Who?
Steve Alan, that’s who. Apparently (and unbeknownst to me), he’s quite the designer, and has his own line of clothing (men’s and womens), and all the associated accouterments. Within that category, of interest to us, would be the watches. Now, most fashion brandsseem to hone in solely on quartz pieces – but surprisingly, they have some affordable automatics in the mix.
The model (truly just one, in two case colors) is simply named the 21 Jewel Automatic. It features a Japanese-made movement (guessing it’s a Miyota of some flavor) driving the three-hander plus date display. With the styling of the piece (specifically the hands and polished case), I’m tempted to call it