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Ryan Reid has maintained a solid ratio of 2.2 ground balls per fly ball this season in Triple-A. (Photo Credit: David Hague) Right-handed pitcher Ryan Reid joins the Pirates' roster for their California road trip to provide relief for a tired bullpen. The Bucs optioned left-hander Kris Johnson to Indianapolis to make room for Reid following Johnson's strong six innings Sunday afternoon. Reid allowed only two runs over his 11 Major League innings this season for Pittsburgh, striking out seven batters and walking three. In a larger Triple-A sample of 51 innings this year, Reid posted a sparkling 2.12 ERA and 2.3 strikeouts per walk. The 28-year-old made his Major League debut on June 3 but was sent down one month later when A.J. Burnett returned from injury. He posted a 5.51 ERA over 16.1 innings in his month-plus in Indianapolis since the demotion. The recent struggles of Reid should not be of great concern, especially given the small sample size. Fact is, the Pirates needed a live arm from the 40-man roster. Pittsburgh's bullpen has been overworked this month by multiple extra-inning games and short starts from the rotation. Pirates Bullpen Usage (Per Game) Month-By Month April — 3.7 innings May — 3.3 innings June — 3.9 innings July — 2.7 innings August — 3.9 innings Pirates general manager made yet another call to arms for the presence of Ryan Reid. This time, Johnson's used arm from Sunday's loss was the casualty. The team does not overlook Johnson's 82-pitch MLB debut, even though he was marked with the 'L.' "I was just so proud of him," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. "One of the great honors you have as a Major League manager is to pencil a guy's name in the lineup or to put him in the game for his Major League debut. The job he did for us was exciting to watch, obviously well-needed for our club and bullpen."
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Dammam Port Airport Star Ranking
Rating : 0/10
The place is awful to both fly into and depart from. Unorganised chaos, poor facilities, rude immigration staff.
Just avoid it at all costs. I've flown into hundreds of airports all over the world and this place is the worst. I
would strongly advise flying out of Bahrain.
This airport is probably the worst airport I have visited so far. The seating area seats were very dirty, the
carpets were completely littered with chip wrappers. I didn't see any cleaners or airport staff cleaning the area.
The bathrooms are very in poor state, no hygiene whatsoever. The service was poor and unacceptable.
Dirty, old fashioned, no helpful staff, almost no facilities even to get a decent coffee while waiting to board.
Wifi has not worked in over a year.
This airport is so below standard as to make it worthy of being a bad third world airport. Sure the building is to
a good standard, but what is the point when the facilities are rubbish. Immigration: 4 hours or more standing,
there are few seats and with the staff telling you to stand. I have visited too many airports where you would
expect poor service due to it being a poor country, many have made you far more welcome, queues at least move,
people try and get you through. Words are not enough to state the lack of quality of this airport.
No flight information, no staff who can communicate in English, to clear customs for international flights will
take a very long time. The lounges are below standard, airports are old, taxis outside do not use meters and
therefore the drivers set the price. I have flown and travelled all over the world but when comparing Saudi
airports in general to other international airports, Saudi airports lack quality in just about every department,
very disappointing indeed.
Recently flew in and out of Riyadh airport and commented on how appalling the whole airport experience was.
Complete chaos on entering the airport, queues completely ignored, people pushing to the front with officials
ignoring the fact, passport control inefficient beyond words, total lack of customer care or basic respect for
other human beings. Leaving queues of people standing for up to 6 hours waiting for a totally disinterested
official to grunt and gesture at you, before begrudgingly stamping your passport allowing entry or exit. This time
I thought Dammam would be a viable alternative to the Riyadh experience, there cannot possibly be 2 airports in the
same country that are so appallingly below any reasonable standard can there? Yes there can, Dammam was actually a
slightly worse experience than Riyadh! The passport control people are clones of their Riyadh counterparts, total
disinterest in anything other than their tea breaks, socialising with their colleagues, staring at their mobile
phones, and generally sitting around doing nothing for long periods before waving the next unfortunate traveller
up to the desk. Please fill out an exit card before queuing, I was told there were no cards available when I
started, and told to join the queue anyway. By the time I got to the front, cards had actually appeared some way
back in the passport control area (no one was told this). So I was then turned away and sent to the back of the
queue again, told to fill out an exit card. There must have been 20-30 people straight after me who had this
experience. Basic levels of customer care are totally devoid here. In contrast I landed at Heathrow, disembarked,
passport control and picked up my case in 35mins - a shining example of what an airport can do when run by
intelligent, efficient, caring people - these places are two polar opposites!
Rating : 1/10
We have flown in and out of this local airport regularly for the past nine years. while the facility is
large/oversized, the service is far below acceptable international standards. Immigration and passport control on
entering the country is slow and can take over 2-3 hours depending upon your arrival time since this airport is the
first entry point for many Asian low wage workers. If you are in line behind a 747 full of new workers you will be
stuck for a very long time so presume the worst. The recent new rule requiring finger prints for all departing
passengers will now make exit worse, mandatory check in is now 4 hours before departure; with nothing to do this can
be rough.
I arrived in Turkish airways from Istanbul to Dammam. When I reached the immigration, I found more than
200 people standing in the available 4 counters for the first time/visit visa, of which there was just one
counter with a personnel. It was a total mess with few people coming to the counter for a few minutes and
then serving a few people and then going for a break. My flight landed at 01.00 am and I was only able to
clear the immigration at 07.00 am. When I tried to tell the person in counter about the 6 hour wait, he
pointed at some other passengers and stated that they reached at 10 pm. I found it total negligence and I
would not recommend any first time visitor to select this airport.
This is by far the worst airport I've flown into. I flew First Class from London to Dammam via Doha. The
immigration procedure is mind numbing. It took more than 2 hours to clear immigration having arrived along
with flights from Kenya, Bangladesh and Dubai. Immigration officials were busy chatting with each other and
having constant coffee breaks. On my return flight, departures took almost an hour - again, seeing
immigration officials taking coffee breaks instead of doing their jobs! I almost missed my flight.
I arrived at this airport from Dubai at about 10pm, and it took 2.5 half hours to get through immigration.
Staff were slow, unwilling to do anything to sort the queue and generally obnoxious.
Customer Rating : 2/5
Poor airport to be honest, and I've used it a number of times. The last time I flew, I got my boarding passes, and
went to go through passport control, only to be told the flight was delayed until the next day. I was turned away
with many others, I suspect people may have even left the airport. Eventually I was told it was on time, I then
joined a lengthy passport control queue. I waited around 45 mins, and got within 5 people of the front, to discover
the person running the queue had left without warning. He returned 20 mins later, staff seemed unfriendly, making
the whole thing even worse.
Customer Rating : 5/5
I've traveled via this airport many times for international flights using different airlines -
recently service has improved in terms of shops available as well as airlines serving this
destination. I would recommend using Dammam airport for travelling to the Eastern Province of
Saudi Arabia as the roads has also improved after constructing new tunnels and bridges, it
wouldn't take more than 45 minutes to reach the airport from any nearby city including Khobar
and Jubail.
Dammam Port Airport by N Mabani
11 May 2009 Customer Rating :
Saudi Airlines flight reached there in at 12.15 am but passengers and their relatives were
stood there more than 6 hours for immigration and customs clearance without food and water.
There is no clear procedure for clearance, and majority of staff are not behaving in good
manner to the passengers. First they will say stand there, first queue, and after some time
they will say people to go other queue - when they were reached the desk will say go to other
desk. Most of time staff are talking by telephone , drinking tea or will be talking with
other staff and laughing. Authorities has to make necessary action to improve behavior of
staff and has to take necessary steps to improve the clearance quickly.
Dammam Port Airport by Martin Brown
11 September 2007 Customer Rating :
Dammam airport is huge with about 65 gates, but in reality it doesn't need to be. Arrival was
painless. Immigration looks as if it will take forever at first, but as soon as immigration staff
realise it's going to be busy, they open more desks and the queue soon clears. Customs scan every bag
from every person as you leave. When returning, you must have your checked luggage scanned before
check in otherwise you cannot check the bag. Queues for check in weren't too bad, but then I was 3
hours early for the KLM flight. Be prepared before going through security as although the queue looks
long it moves fast and security staff get annoyed if they have to ask you to remove your belt, watch
etc, but they are very pleasant if you are ready. The flight I was waiting for was leaving at 1:15am
and there were a few international flights, but the cafe was closed. The only place to buy
refreshments was from a "trolley", however the coffee wasn't bad and wasn't too expensive but nothing
to eat that was hot. There is one duty free shop with various items for sale (including washing
powder?) and prices are okay. I walked from one end of the airport to the other, which took 10
minutes at normal pace, and only 6 gates had passengers waiting by them. Interestingly, there used to
be a few Business Class lounges, but these appear to have been closed and moved to one lounge, such is
the under use of this airport. I would be happy to fly though this airport again, mainly because,
even though there is nothing really to do, it is easy to find somewhere quiet to relax and plenty of
seats and the staff are mostly very friendly.
Dammam Port Airport by Nick Wallace
10 December 2006 Customer Rating : n/a
Not much to add to the comments below. Immigration tends to be slow.
Security very thorough requiring removal of belts with metal buckles and
shoes. Needless passport and boarding card inspections between departure
lounge and aircraft.
Dammam Port Airport by Peter Morison
22 August 2006
Dammam Airport is a fairly new construction situated in the desert about
60 kilometres from the Dammam/Dahran/Al Khobar metropolitan area and a
similar distance from the petro-chemical industrial city of Jubail.
It is large, pretty well organised and clean. It seems to be operating
well under capacity. Due to its distance from town reaching the
airport by road can take up to an hour and a half depending where you
start from and a taxi fare which is the only way to get there is going
to be high - around US$50+. Despite its size facilities for passangers
waiting for flights are pretty limited with a couple of unispiring cafes
and gift shops. A long wait there can be very boring and it makes sense
to obtain a bording pass in advance for Saudia flights from their
offices in town to reduce the amount of time spent at the airport. Of
course if your flight is delayed you have no choice but to sit tight and
wait. For very long delays as there is no hotel at the airport the long
trip back to Dammam to find a bed is a would be required. If you are
flying Saudia don't expect them to help much. An alternative worth
considering if you are traveling to or from the Eastern Province of
Saudi Arabia is to fly through Bahrain as the airport there is about the
same distance from the centre of Dammam as Dammam airport is. Crossing
the causeway is pretty straight forward outside of the Saudi weekend
when it becomes busy to Bahrain on Thursday afternoon/evening and Back
to Saudi on Friday evening. Bahrain airport much more customer friendly
but taxi fare will be more approx US100.
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London to Paris
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My plan had been to go to Budapest after my exams had finished. It started out as nothing more than a nice idea, but gradually I began to think I would really do it, and finally, the night before I left, I packed my bags and told everyone I was going.
In the morning, I headed for town. For probably the first time in my life, I arrived there before anything was open. I really wanted to get on the way, and so not letting the lack of either currency or insurance deter me, I headed for Victoria.
Here, two major setbacks awaited me. First, Boots had no Sausage, Egg & Bacon sandwiches. Second, the international ticket office had been closed down. Apparently, there are other branches at Euston and King's Cross, but given that the only place you can go from those stations which can remotely be called 'abroad' is Scotland, their use there is limited.
So I bought a ticket to Dover instead, ready to make plans from there. I was quite surprised to find a bloke selling 'Selected European Tickets' at the station in Dover, but when I asked him if I could get a ticket from Calais to Paris, he replied 'No, sir, you'd get that in Calais'. I walked to the ferry terminal instead.
I bought my ticket, and got on the ferry to France. The weather was marvellous, and the crossing was pleasant, even though there appeared to be no way to get out onto the deck to appreciate it. The ferry was almost empty, so I spread my things out over several tables, and enjoyed the ride.
Calais was really not a pleasant introduction to France. Bits of heavy machinery lay scattered around the road from the port to the town, like a scene from Mad Max, and the buildings looked like they'd been transported here from a war zone. However, by the time I got to the town, things look a bit nicer. I was almost tempted to stay, but when I got to the station, I found that there was a train to Paris going in 10 minutes. I bought a ticket, said goodbye to the Canadian girl I'd been chatting to, and hopped on board.
Despite the train being almost empty, the conductor moved me on when he checked my ticket, as I was sitting in a reserved seat. He sent me off down the train, but there seemed to be no way of telling which seats were reserved and which weren't. He had to move me on twice more before I got it right. To emphasise his absolute authority over the train, he then stamped my ticket seven times, swore a few times, and swaggered off.
At Boulogne, the train filled up with loud and obnoxious schoolkids. As they raced up and down the carriages, throwing things, picking their noses and burping, I found myself talking to a Pakistani bloke. He seemed to have been a refugee in most western European countries, and from what I could gather, he'd just been deported from Britain, and was going to try his luck in France. He'd already had experience of French bureaucracy – "Government write very much paper" – and didn't hold out too much hope of getting very far.
We arrive in Paris at 9pm. I strolled through the seedy area between Gare du Nord & Gare de l'Est, and tried to buy a ticket to Budapest. I found it was going to be a bit more than I'd hoped, and realised that if I went, I would have absolutely no money at all when I got back. So I revised my plans, and, seeing as there was a train to Munich leaving in 20 minutes, I bought a ticket and got on the way.
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My day started brutally early at 4am, and I finished packing with a hint of dawn in the sky. I left my flat for the last time at 5am, walked along to the East Gate and found a taxi. I was worn out by the time I got there, and regretted having bought so much stuff, which I would have to carry eight thousand miles home.
I watched the blocks of sky scrapers go by. As we drove along Chang'an, the sun was just peeking over the horizon, and the flag was being raised in Tiananmen Square. I got to the station in plenty of time and found my way to the waiting room. I got on the train at 7am, and found my way to my compartment. It seemed unbelievable to think that it would be my home for the next six days.
As we started to pull out of Beijing Station at 7.40am, I was feeling something like butterflies in my stomach with the anticipation of what this journey would be like. I watched as Beijing gradually melted away into the surrounding hills, and after a couple of hours we were in rural northern China. A few scattered parts of the Great Wall occasionally appeared on the tops of hills.
Tired from my early start, I slept a bit during the day, but mostly I was just watching the scenery go by. By 7pm, we were a few hundred miles from Beijing, and we were in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia. An amazing sunset was the last thing I saw in China, and a couple of hours after nightfall we reached the border with Mongolia at Erlian.
We spent five hours at the border. First of all, all the wheels on the train had to be changed, because the tracks in Mongolia are wider than the ones in China. Then we had passport and customs checks from the Chinese, a long slow rumble over the border to Dzamyn Ude, and then more passport and customs checks from the Mongolians. The Mongolian entry forms were printed in Mongolian and English only, and so I made many Chinese friends in my carriage by filling in all their forms for them. I had offered the favour to my three room-mates, not knowing that they had about twenty friends in neighbouring compartments. My wrist was aching by the time we left Dzamyn Ude at 2.30am.
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I woke up at 5.30am, and saw a fantastic sunrise over the Gobi Desert. I couldn't believe that I was really in Mongolia – to me, no country has a name that sounds more remote and forbidding. And the wild expanses were frighteningly empty. Nothing but grass stretched away into the distance as far as I could see. No signs of human habitation interrupted the view.
We sped across the country. Occasionally a single tent would appear in the midst of the howling wilderness, signifying that some solitary nomad was working the land. Then, in the early afternoon signs of people became more numerous, and we were approaching Ulaanbaatar. There were no buildings in the outer parts of the city – just tents. I'd never expected the capital to look like a giant campsite, but it seemed that even urban Mongolians did not wish to stray far from their nomadic roots, and were always ready to move on at a moment's notice.
The centre of the city was a different story. Unpaved muddy streets ran between concrete monstrosity buildings, and the whole thing seemed to me to be the ugliest place I'd ever seen. I had been talking to an Australian journalist on the train, who was about to live here for a year working for an English-language newspaper, and I wondered what she was thinking as we pulled into the station. I'd have been thinking "Screw this, I'm staying on until Moscow" if I'd been her.
We moved on. Southern Mongolia had been flat and grassy; northern Mongolia was hilly and barren. The lack of population was striking, and I had a huge craving to come here and trek in the emptiness. That would have to wait for another trip though. I watched the country go by, mesmerised by it.
In the evening I went to the restaurant car. Last night it had been a Chinese Railways restaurant car; we'd ditched that at the border and picked up a Mongolian one, so I got the classic Mongolian meal of mutton. I met a few other travellers over dinner, and once darkness had fallen we played cards until we reached the Russian border at Sukhbaatar. Last night's border crossing had been slow, but this one was even slower, despite there being no wheel changing operation. We arrived at 9.30pm, and spent a couple of hours going through the Mongolian formalities. Then we rumbled over to Naushki in Russia, and I was not surprised at all that the Russian formalities took a very long time. Part of the reason was the smuggling – a lot of people on the train were carrying a lot of goods on which they didn't want to pay import taxes, and a lot of distribution of possessions had gone on. Maybe some people get caught; more likely, a bribe or two is paid here and there. Everyone in my carriage got through the customs checks OK, and at 5.30am we powered off into Russia.
Around Baikal
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I was excited to be in Russia. Getting a visa had been the most difficult thing about my trip: I'd got my Mongolian one with the greatest of ease at 10am one sunny Monday morning in June, and so I thought I'd try and get the Russian one the same day. I walked through Hyde Park to Bayswater Road, and quickly found the queue. Equally quickly I realised it was going nowhere, and I decided to come back earlier the next day. I did that, but it was beginning to look like getting a visa would be more difficult than I'd expected, because I queued for two hours, until the consulate closed, and didn't even get into the building.
The next day was Russian Independence Day and the consulate was closed. The day after that I went into battle for the third time, arriving at the embassy at 8.15am. At 9am the doors opened and the queue moved forward, but it stopped before I got in the building. Three hours later, the queue hadn't moved and I was still visa-less. It looked like some serious early starting would be required and so my fourth queue experience began at 6.15am, after I'd got the first tube of the day from Bounds Green into town. This time at 9am I actually got into the building, and I felt like a visa was within my grasp. But again I was denied. The queue moved interminably slowly and I got nowhere near the front. When the shutters came down at midday, a scuffle broke out at the front with someone who needed a visa urgently banging on the glass and demanding to see the consul.
I spent the weekend wondering whether to entirely rethink my plans. It seemed almost totally impossible to get hold of a Russian visa without paying wads of cash to agencies to do it for you. I'd already spent almost twelve hours in the queue and now the only option seemed to be to sleep on the pavement outside.
In the end I decided to do that. Late one warm evening early in my second week of trying to get a visa, I packed up my sleeping bag, thermos and a bag of sandwiches and headed for Kensington for my first experience of sleeping rough. I reached the gate, and to my relief I was the first person there. I bedded down outside, and thought that these were ridiculous lengths to go to. But I was in too deep and I couldn't pull out of the battle. It was visa or death for me now.
At 2am another visa-seeker arrived, in disbelief that he was not the first in the queue. About half an hour later another person arrived, and people continued to join in ones and twos throughout the night. At 3am it began to rain heavily, and soon there was lightning and thunder. I crawled inside my sleeping bag.
By 6am it had stopped thundering, and an influx of people from the first tubes had started arriving. There were still three hours to wait until the doors would open, and my morale was slipping. I held on, though, and got into the building at 9am. If anyone had tried to push in front of me now, I would have killed them with my bare hands. I went to the window and handed over my forms, pulling twigs from my damp hair and brushing dirt off myself. Half an hour later, my forms had been processed, my passport was taken, and I was told I'd have a visa by the following day. As I staggered away, a security officer was shouting at the queue, saying that they were too noisy and that no more visas would be given out until there was total silence. I left the quietening embassy behind and went home to sleep.
Having gone through all that, I thought that Russia had better be good. And it was, here in the far east. When I got up we were in forests, but soon we reached the shores of Lake Baikal. It looked stunning under big blue skies, with misty mountains visible on the opposite shore. The waves virtually lapped at the tracks at times. We spent a few hours rolling along by the lake before reaching Irkutsk in the mid-afternoon.
In the evening I played cards in the restaurant car. Among the players this evening was a small Mongolian boy, whose parents were traders, travelling back and forth on the train, buying Russian things to sell in China and vice versa. This boy clearly had a lot of time on his hands to perfect the art of Shithead, and he won frequently.
Through the steppes
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With no border to cross during the third night, I got a good night's sleep for the first time since leaving Beijing. I slept right through Krasnoyarsk and the Yenisei River, which I'd wanted to see, but I woke up in time to see us pass kilometre post 3933, marking the half way point of our journey. One thing that surprised me was how fast we were going. The only other trains journeys I'd done of anything like comparable distance were in Australia, and there the trains never felt like they really got going, rumbling along slowly and averaging about 30 miles an hour. Here in Siberia we were racing along most of the time, eating up the miles, but still needing six days to cover the whole five thousand.
All across Siberia, there were women on station platforms selling hom-made food. At Mariinsk, I'd just bought a tasty bread thing with potatoes and herbs in it, when an out of breath German guy accompanied by two angry-looking Russians rushed up to me and asked me if I could possibly lend him 200 US dollars. I couldn't, but Andrew from Australia who I'd been talking to had lots of dollars, and by coincidence the German had a lot of Aussie dollars with him, so they came to a deal.
As the train pulled away, we found out what had happened. At a stop two hours earlier, the German had checked with the provodnik that we would be stopping for a little while, and then gone into the station building to buy some water. This involved crossing some tracks. When he came out from the building, there was a vast freight train going by on the tracks between him and us, and by the time it passed, our train had left. He'd got a taxi to the next stop, but arrived there just as our train pulled out. His first taxi driver didn't want to drive any further, so the two of them got into a second taxi and chased us down. They caught us up at Mariinsk, but then the two taxi drivers demanded extravagant payment. With Andrew's help, they were paid off, and the German was now laughing about the whole thing. I didn't think I would have been.
In the afternoon we passed Novosibirsk and crossed over the Ob river. The temperature was 30°C, which seemed strange in Siberia. We had 3335 kilometres and three time zones to cross before Moscow.
Over the Urals
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Today we crossed from Asia into Europe. The arbitrary line is marked by an obelisk which I imagine would be almost impossible to get a decent photograph, or even view of, from from the train, but everyone tries anyway. I tried, along with Martin from Sweden who I'd met in the waiting room at Beijing Station, and who'd been a regular in the evening games of Shithead. We walked down the train trying to find a window to try and spot the obelisk from, but people had been staking them out and every one was already occupied. Eventually we got to the restaurant car, and there was a door by the kitchen which was open, with just a small piece of rope to stop passers-by falling from the train. We thought this looked like a good place. But with two kilometres to go, the dragon who ran the restaurant car came and shouted at us, moving us on and looking like she wanted to kill us. By the time we found anywhere else with a view, we were already in Europe.
The dividing line between the two continents is the Ural Mountains, and we spent the day winding through them. They were very different to the endless steppes of Siberia, with rivers and hills and a generally verdant air. We reached Perm not long before sunset, leaving the Urals behind and now having only 1436 kilometres to go until Moscow.
In the night, an apocalyptic thunderstorm blew up. Lightning flashed all around, and rain lashed the carriages. The train suddenly came to a halt – a Russian-speaker who had asked a provodnik later told me it was because of a lightning strike to the overhead power lines – and we were stationary for a couple of hours. While we were stopped, the thunder was so loud and close that the carriages were shaking. Eventually the storm passed. Somehow, the train was restarted, and we pushed on towards Moscow.
Into Moscow
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I don't think I'd been tipping when I ate in the restaurant car. In China, there was no tipping. The first time I tried leaving some change on the table, the waiter came after me with it, thinking I'd left it by mistake. Russia was completely the opposite, and tipping lavishly is vital, especially when there is only one place to eat and you have to go there every day. But I had got used to not tipping, and I kept forgetting. By the final morning they had clearly got fed up of me. I was going to have a final breakfast with a bunch of people I'd been hanging around with, but the woman in the restaurant car wouldn't serve me. Everyone else got their food, but my order was met with a look of extreme disapproval and a sharp "nyet". Then we tried to play cards as we watched western Russia slip by, but the woman came over and shouted at us until we left.
Being hungry just added to the slightly melancholy air of my final morning. I actually didn't really want to arrive in Moscow, and I would have been quite happy to sit on the train for another six days. The kilometre posts were now in triple figures, so we'd travelled more than seven thousand kilometres, and I watched them slowly count down. It seemed odd to feel so close to the end, when were still a few hundred miles away yet.
We got to Moscow's pointy-roofed Yaroslavsky Station fifteen minutes early, after a journey of 132 hours. Just before I'd left Beijing I'd e-mailed a hostel to book a bed and a lift from the station, but they hadn't replied so I wasn't sure if I would be homeless or not, but there was a man outside the station with a battered car and a sign saying 'Roger', so off I went to the Hostel Sherstone.
I headed straight out into Moscow. I got lost on the way to Vladykino metro station, which was a good distance away through grim-looking estates full of box-like apartment buildings, and then got lost at the other end as well. Borovitskaya metro looked quite close to Red Square on the map, but I walked for quite some distance before I suddenly found it. I'll never forget the sight of St. Basil's Cathedral appearing in front of me, more preposterous and impressive in real life than it ever looked in all the photos I'd ever seen of it.
That night, back at the Sherstone, after I'd gone to bed and was laying in the dark, I had the sound of the train in my ears, and I felt like I was still rocking about as we clattered along the longest railway in the world.
Through Belarus
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I'd only meant to spend a couple of days in Moscow at first, but it had held on to me for six days and I really wanted to stay longer. But I was still almost two thousand miles from home and I had to be back at work in just over a week, so I bought a ticket for a train to Warsaw, via Belarus, and reluctantly left Russia.
Compared to the epic crossing of the vastness of Siberia, I thought the journey might seem quite quick, and it did. We left Moscow at 3pm, and it seemed like about five minutes later that we reached Smolensk. The Russian border was somewhere soon after Smolensk, but we didn't stop. It seemed that Belarus and Russia were only nominally separate countries.
One thing this journey lacked was food. All throughout Siberia there had been home-made food being sold on station platforms, and it was delicious. In western Russia no-one was selling, except for a woman with a box of ice creams on Vyazma station, three hours out of Moscow. One ice cream is not an adequate dinner, and I would have eaten something more filling in the restaurant car, except this train didn't have a restaurant car. The only other food available was a free croissant in the sleeping cabin.
We entered Belarus at sunset. I was sad not to be seeing any of this enigmatic country, but I only had a transit visa so I couldn't stop off. I woke up in the middle of the night when we stopped at Minsk station, and got off the train to stretch my legs. I was feeling quite adventurous, being in what is always described as Europe's last communist dictatorship, and a country with isolationist tendencies of almost North Korean proportions, but this feeling was shattered when I noticed a McDonalds in the station building.
I slept again until the border with Poland, which we reached at dawn. We stopped first at Brest, where everyone piled off the train into duty free and stocked up on booze. Vodka and toblerone were the only things on sale in the station shop. By now I was starving beyond belief, but didn't fancy toblerone for breakfast, so I stayed hungry until we finally rolled into Warszawa Centralna station at 9.45 in the morning.
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Hi everyone.
We just returned from an eight month cruise with our two teenage daughters. One is 15 and the other turned 18 two days ago. They respectively completed grades 10 and 12 on our cruise. The oldest has been accepted at the two universities she applied for entry into a science degree program.
The reason I post this is just to reassure those who think you can only go cruising with younger children. Yes, it is more complicated and you have to do some very careful planning. Yes your itinerary might be more affected than if they were much younger. Yes there are special stressful situations and issues. BUT here's the rub: It can be done. We've done it now - twice. The previous time they completed grades 8 and 10 respectively. Both times were wonderful and none of use would exchange our adventures for anything.
The only thing we missed was meeting other children roughly in that age category. With most cruisers being in their late fifties and sixties, it is a real problem to find teenage children. There are more young kids out there but we saw only the occasional teenager.
We believe this is one of the best things we could have done as a family; at a stage where many parents and their children drift apart, the exact opposite happened for us. It can for you too, BUT, the kids have to buy into the adventure wholeheartedly. If you force them, it'll be a disaster. Thus don't spring it on them, you've got to have a multi year strategy, JUST like getting the 'reluctant partner' to love sailing. It will take a number of years of careful and clever planning - but it can be done too.
If it is your dream to go cruising with your family but you waited too long and now find your children are teenagers, don't panic. Plan it right and this could be the BEST experience your family has ever had and likely to have.
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- When The Idle Poor Become The Idle Rich
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- When I'm Not Near The Girl I Love
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Did you ever wonder "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?" or what would happen under an "Old Devil Moon," or "When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich?" Enter the irresistible world of two Irish immigrants who come to America and live with poor, goodhearted American farmers; southern bigots — and a leprechaun! — in one of America's classic and most original musicals, with a brilliant set of songs, a show as timely now as when it was written: FINIAN'S RAINBOW. This version features a cast of 14 and a two-piano accompaniment.
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Book by E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy
Music by Burton Lane
Lyrics by E.Y. Harburg
Book revised in concert form by Charlotte Moore
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Narrator — A well-spoken gentleman.
Finian McLonergan — Completely Irish, father of Sharon. He is traveling America seeking his fortune by looking for a place to invest some gold, which he has "borrowed" from leprechauns at home in Glocca Morra.
Sharon McLonergan — A lovely young Irish colleen traveling with her father and wise to his ways.
Susan Mahoney — Woody's mute sister, a dancer.
Woody Mahoney — A young American, recently returned to Rainbow Valley from a stint in the Merchant Marines.
Og — A semi-mortal leprechaun following Finian's trail to recover the "borrowed" pot of gold.
Senator Billboard Rawkins — The prototypical southern politician, orator and barbershop baritone.
Buzz Collins — A dapper, cigar-smoking character with a derby hat and nervous manner. "Stooge" for Senator Billboard Rawkins.
Sheriff (Chick) — A small, plump man who wears a ten-gallon hat and speaks with a show, whining delivery.
Henry — A sharecropper's kid who "reads" Susans dance steps.
Howard — A black college student employed by Senator Rawkins.
Mr. Shears — Businessman, tall.
Mr. Robust — Businessman, short.
Three Gospeleers — The Passion Pilgrim Gospeleers, a black male quartet minus one baritone.
Various other parts as cast within the company.
Casting note: The Irish Repertory Theatre production was performed with 14 performers and two pianists: 8 principal contracts and 6 chorus contracts. The parts of Henry, Maid an Howard doubled as Gospeleers and Chorus as needed. The Narrator doubled as Mr. Robust.
The concert version of FINIAN'S RAINBOW opened in New York at the Irish Repertory Theatre, April 15, 2004 starring Melissa Errico as Sharon and Malcolm Gets as Og, the leprechaun.
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A really beautiful room, one of my favourites, large sized furnished double room with floor to ceiling windows with plenty of space, with all the bedding and linen provided at a very reasonable rate for the location.
The room is in a three room flat.
It has a fully fitted kitchen and a good-sized bathroom/wc.
The kitchen has all mod cons.
The flat is located approximately 3-4 minutes walk from Stepney Green Underground Station.
Numerous buses at the doorstep day or night that serve Canary Wharf, The City and The West End.
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Local Park-3 mins.
Victoria Park-10 mins.
Limehouse Canal-10 mins.
2 Major Supermarket-5-10 mins.
Library-5 mins.
Childhood Museum-5 mins.
Columbia Flower Mkt-10 mins.
Gym and public swimming pool-5 mins.
Brick Lane,Shoreditch-10 mins.
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A microcosm of London's shifting ethnic patterns, the area around Brick Lane in East London was once associated with poor slums and the scene of the crime for the Jack the Ripper murders. Whilst the notorious pub Ten Bells still stands, the area itself is now extremely popular with London's edgy and artistic crowd, featuring galleries, restaurants, markets and festivals throughout the year.
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NewCloud Networks Introduces White Label Cloud Computing, Powered by VMware, to IT VARS Across the Country
NewCloud Networks is launching White Label Cloud Computing for IT VARS across the country. The White Label Cloud service consists of a pool of NewCloud's VMware-powered infrastructure which can be subscribed to for a monthly fee, making it possible for IT VARS to offer their own Cloud Solutions using their own brand name.
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This book addresses a basic question in differential geometry that was first considered by physicists Stanley Deser and Adam Schwimmer in 1993 in their study of conformal anomalies. The question concerns conformally invariant functionals on the space of Riemannian metrics over a given manifold. These functionals act on a metric by first constructing a Riemannian scalar out of it, and then integrating this scalar over the manifold. Suppose this integral remains invariant under conformal re-scalings of the underlying metric. What information can one then deduce about the Riemannian scalar? Deser and Schwimmer asserted that the Riemannian scalar must be a linear combination of three obvious candidates, each of which clearly satisfies the required property: a local conformal invariant, a divergence of a Riemannian vector field, and the Chern-Gauss-Bonnet integrand. This book provides a proof of this conjecture.
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After his father passed away, in 2007, J.J. Frazer restructured his security business with a focus on staying humble—something his parents preached. Today, every New Horizon employee completes one good deed a day—changing a flat for someone, for example, or helping an elderly person carry groceries. It's mandatory, because Frazer wants to employ only people capable of kindness and humility. "They're trained to look good in a uniform, but no one has taught them how to be pleasant," he says.


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LONDON (Reuters) – Police have urged supermodel Kate Moss
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showed pictures of her apparently snorting cocaine last year.
The grainy images in the Daily Mirror tabloid prompted
several fashion houses to sever ties with the 31-year-old,
although her career has begun to recover since she left a drug
rehabilitation clinic in the United States in October.
"We would like to appeal for her to return, see us, and
tell us her side of the story," said London police Assistant
Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur.
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she speaks to us the better," he said in a statement on
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The scandal in September prompted British fashion house
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made against her, but issued a short statement after the
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Are you sure?
My Tetryon Glider after nerf do 48 damage per hit. Some calculations:
Dual Cannons/Turrets shoot 1.33 times/s on avarage
Dual Beams shoot 0.80 times/s on avarage
[avarage number of shoots per second = 1 / (DMG / DPS) ]
Tetryon Glider doing 48 Damage to all shield (192 damage total) do:
64 (256 to all shields) DPS per Turret/Dual Cannon
38 (153 to all shields) DPS per Dual Beam
I have 3 Turrets, 2 Dual Cannons and 1 Dual Beam, so total DPS given by tetryon Glider is:
64*2+64*3+38= 358 DPS to one shield
And it is 1433 total DPS vs all shields [and please note - if you are using abilities increasing number of shoots per attack, like cannon rapid fire, this value is even higher)
Stock Dual Heavy Cannon MK XII do 256 DPS (without modifiers).
Now please compare it with, for example, Jem Hadar set giving pity 7% damage increase to Polaron weapons...
Conclusion: Tetryon Glider is not useless. It is not even borderline op.
It is op as hell
, and I am not going to replace it with anything unless Cryptic make it as effective as other sets by either giving it damage cap of 15-20 or limiting its damage to one shield.