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We estimate that the net proceeds to us from this offering and the concurrent
private placement will be approximately $309.82 million after deducting
underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable
by us, based on the initial public offering price of $14.00 per share. We
intend to use the net proceeds of this offering and the concurrent private
placement, together with our $1.13 billion of committed debt financing, to fund
the remaining scheduled installment payments totaling $1.42 billion under our
eight new LNG carrier construction contracts. We intend to use the remaining
proceeds of this offering and the concurrent private placement, if any, for
other general corporate purposes.
We operate in markets that are highly competitive and based primarily on supply
and demand. Generally, competition for multi-year LNG time charters is based
primarily on price, ship availability, size, age, technical specifications and
condition, LNG shipping experience, quality and efficiency of ship operations,
shipping industry relationships and reputation for customer service, and
technical ability and reputation for operation of highly specialized ships. In
ddition, in the future our ships may operate in the more volatile emerging spot
market that covers short-term charters of one year or less.
Although we believe that we are one of the few independent owners that focuses
solely on newly-built, technically advanced LNG carriers and provides in-house
technical management of the fleet, other independent shipping companies also
own and operate, and in some cases manage, LNG carriers and have new ships
under construction. There are other ship owners and managers who may also
attempt to participate in the LNG market in the future. We believe that our
strategy of focusing on multi-year charter contracts with initial terms of five
to seven years, as well as the scale of our technical ship management
operations, differentiates us to some extent from other independent owners.
In addition to independent owners, some of the major oil and gas producers own
LNG carriers and have in the recent past contracted for the construction of new
LNG carriers. National gas and shipping companies also have large fleets of LNG
carriers that have expanded and may continue to expand. Some of these companies
may compete with independent owners by using their fleets to carry LNG for
third parties.
We are a growth-oriented international owner, operator and manager of liquefied
natural gas ("LNG") carriers providing support to international energy
companies as part of their LNG logistics chain. Our owned fleet consists of 10
wholly owned LNG carriers, including two ships delivered to us in
2010 and
eight LNG carriers to be constructed by the world's leading LNG shipbuilder,
Samsung Heavy Industries. We currently manage and operate 14 LNG carriers,
which includes our owned ships, as well as 11 ships owned or leased by BG
Group, a leading participant in the global energy and natural gas markets, and
one additional LNG carrier in which we have a 25% interest. All of our ten
owned ships are, or when delivered will be, newly-built LNG carriers equipped
with the latest tri-fuel diesel electric propulsion technology, which lowers
the fuel cost to charterers and environmental emissions compared to traditional
steam-powered LNG carriers. We have secured multi-year time charter contracts
for the two ships delivered to us in 2010 and six of our newbuilding ships on
order that from December 31, 2011 provide total contracted revenue in excess of
$1.2 billion during their initial terms, which expire between 2015 and 2021.
Our owned fleet includes:
• the GasLog Savannah, a 2010-built LNG carrier currently operating under a
time charter to a subsidiary of BG Group, the initial term of which expires
in 2015;
• the GasLog Singapore, a 2010-built LNG carrier currently operating under a
time charter to a subsidiary of BG Group, the initial term of which expires
in 2016;
• four LNG carriers on order at Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea,
scheduled for completion in 2013, for which time charters commencing upon
delivery have been secured with a subsidiary of BG Group for initial terms
of five years (two ships) and six years (two ships);
• two LNG carriers on order at Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea,
scheduled for completion in 2013 (one ship) and 2014 (one ship), for which
time charters commencing upon delivery have been secured with a subsidiary
of Shell for initial terms of seven years; and
• two LNG carriers on order at Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea,
scheduled for completion in 2014 (one ship) and 2015 (one ship), for which
we are continuing to evaluate charter opportunities.
In addition to our committed order book, we have options to purchase two
additional LNG carriers from Samsung Heavy Industries that expire in 2012 and,
as mentioned above, we have a 25% interest in an additional ship, the Methane
Nile Eagle , a 2007-built LNG carrier technically managed by us that is
currently operating under a 20-year time charter to a subsidiary of BG Group.
We have not yet decided whether we will exercise the options.
The total contract price for our eight newbuilding ships on order is
approximately $1.55 billion, of which $124.4 million has been paid to date. We
have entered into four loan agreements aggregating $1.13 billion to finance a
portion of the contract prices of our eight newbuildings. Borrowings under
hese facilities will bear interest at floating rates, will be repayable over
periods ranging from six to 12 years, will require us to comply with certain
financial and operating covenants and will be secured by mortgages on the
ships. We expect to fund the balance of the total contract price with the
proceeds of this offering. In the event we decide to exercise our options to
order two additional ships from Samsung, we expect to finance the costs with
cash from operations and a combination of debt and equity financing.
We have structured our order book of new LNG carriers to have staggered
delivery dates, facilitating a smooth integration of the ships into our fleet
as well as meaningful annual growth through 2015. Upon delivery of the last of
our eight contracted newbuildings in 2015, our owned fleet will have an average
age of 1.9 years, making it one of the youngest in the industry.
We currently focus on multi-year time charters, as we believe that their
economic terms offer us a combination of return on our investment, rate
stability and re-chartering flexibility. Our current time charters have initial
terms of up to seven years and include options that permit the charterers to
extend the terms for successive multi-year periods under hire rate provisions
that are comparable to those prevailing at the end of the expiring term. We
will continue to evaluate the attractiveness of longer and shorter term
chartering opportunities as the commercial characteristics of the LNG carrier
industry evolve.
Our wholly owned subsidiary, GasLog LNG Services Ltd., or "GasLog LNG
Services", exclusively handles the technical management of our fleet and has
been the sole technical manager of BG Group's owned fleet of LNG carriers for
over 10 years. As a result, we have had a longer presence in LNG shipping than
many other independent owners of LNG carriers currently in the industry, and
during that time we have established a track record for efficient, safe and
reliable operation of LNG carriers.
GasLog Ltd. is an exempted company incorporated on July 16, 2003 under the laws
of Bermuda. We are registered with the Registrar of Companies in Bermuda under
registration number 33928. We are a holding company and we conduct our
operations through various subsidiaries. We maintain a registered office in
Bermuda at Clarendon House, 2 Church Street, Hamilton, HM 11, Bermuda.
Our principal executive offices are at Gildo Pastor Center, 7 Rue du Gabian, MC
98000, Monaco. Our telephone number at that address is +377 97 97 51 15. Our
website is www.gaslogltd.com.
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Actress Jenny McCarthy slams a report that her son Evan had been misdiagnosed with autism.
The actress blasts a report that claimed her son's autism was misdiagnosed.
Jenny McCarthy came out firing with both barrels over the weekend, slamming a report that her son Evan had been misdiagnosed with autism and calling the report "blatantly inaccurate" and "completely ridiculous".
McCarthy took to Twitter to set the record straight on the matter Saturday, adding that her position on autism has not changed and that she is "taking every legal measure necessary" to push back. "Stories circulating online, claiming that I said my son Evan may not have autism after all, are blatantly inaccurate and completely ridiculous. Evan was diagnosed with autism by the Autism Evaluation Clinic at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital and was confirmed by the State of California (through their Regional Center)," McCarthy, co-host of The View, wrote.
"The implication that I have changed my position, that my child was not initially diagnosed with autism (and instead may suffer from Landau-Kleffner Syndrome), is both irresponsible and inaccurate."
McCarthy went on, "These stories cite a 'new' Time magazine interview with me, which was actually published in 2010, that never contained any such statements by me. Continued misrepresentations, such as these, only serve to open wounds of the many families who are courageously dealing with this disorder. Please know that I am taking every legal measure necessary to set this straight."
According to E! Online, McCarthy's missive came after a report on Radar Online – which has since been removed – suggested that McCarthy's son had been misdiagnosed. McCarthy has drawn her share of controversy for her claims that vaccinations are related to autism. — Reuters
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Wednesday November 19, 2014Carnegie Mellon University will unveil its latest robot and present lunar exploration technologies at a technology fair, "Meet Andy: Technology for the New Moon," from 10 to 11 a.m., Monday, Nov. 24, in the Planetary Robotics Laboratory, located on the first floor of the Gates and Hillman centers.
Tuesday November 18, 2014A Carnegie Mellon University programming team called XP-Developer earned a trip to the Association for Computing Machinery-International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals with a second place finish at the East Central North America ACM-ICPC competition.
Monday November 17, 2014Stephen Smith has found a twist to a sticky situation.
Monday November 17, 2014A report on the business of robotics by CNN's Maggie Lake that was shot at Carnegie Mellon last summer will air Nov. 17 and 18 on CNN International.
Thursday November 13, 2014More than 250 faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute will gather this weekend to celebrate the institute's 20th anniversary at HCII20. The event kicks off on Friday, Nov. 14, with a day of workshops and tutorials ranging from Fabrication Techniques for HCI Prototyping to Intro to Game Design. Attendees will gather for a cocktail reception that evening in the institute's renovated lab space at 407 South Craig Street.
Wednesday November 12, 2014Four inventions that trace their origins to the School of Computer Science and, particularly, the Robotics Institute, have been honored by the annual Best of What's New Awards by Popular Science.
Thursday November 06, 2014PITTSBURGH—Martial Hebert, a leading researcher in computer vision and robotics at Carnegie Mellon University since 1984, will become director of the university's Robotics Institute, effective Nov. 15, School of Computer Science Dean Andrew W. Moore announced.Hebert succeeds Matthew Mason, who has led the institute for the last decade. A professor of robotics, Mason will return his focus to teaching and to his research on robotic manipulation.
Wednesday November 05, 2014PITTSBURGH—Smartphones wouldn't be so smart without their apps, yet many free apps pinpoint a user's location to deliver targeted ads or share contact lists with third parties without alerting the user. Which apps behave themselves and which don't? A new Carnegie Mellon University project, PrivacyGrade.org, can help sort them out.
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Finally! They finally updated their app after 3 years with an outdated version. A pleasure to use now.
Terrible App - not worth it Could not login, had to send email to customer service. They ignored me for a day, then I sent a reminder. Then they said to try again, at which point it started working. If you already have an account, apparently they have to do something to get it to work on your android device. Once I got in, I was thoroughly disappointed to find that these are just pictures of the printed newspaper. This app was also written back in 2011. Is the Honolulu Star Advertiser truly out of touch with the online world? Sadly, it appears so. C'mon Star Advertiser, make your online edition available for the android, not just silly pictures of your newspaper!
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Episode of the Week: Hide and Q
PICARD: You said you had the realisation of impossible dreams to offer us. When this rescue is completed, I am prepared to listen carefully to whatever proposal you wish to make and subject to it being acceptable
Q: Subject to your foolish human values? Oh, come, Picard. Why do you distrust me so?
PICARD: Why? At our first meeting you seized my vessel. You condemned all humans as savages, and on that charge you tried us in a post-atomic twenty first century court of horrors, where you attacked my people. You again seized my vessel.
Q: And that angered you, did it? Seized my vessel, seized my vessel.
PICARD: You interfered with our Farpoint mission. You threatened to convict us as ignorant savages, if, while dealing with a powerful and complex life forms, we made the slightest mistake, and when that didn't happen
Theyre mistreated by a more powerful being, and Picards response is to bark at him like an alpha dog? This is the guy Roddenberry wants in charge of first contact?
[Planet surface]
(sand and rocks under a green sky with yellow horizon)
I love this set. It reminds me of TOS.
PICARD: Security, this is the Captain. Security? Engineering, this is the Bridge.
(Control panels don't operate. Doors don't open)
PICARD: Turbolift Control, do you read? This is the Captain.
(But answer came there none)
Oh no, its Mark of Gideon!
TASHA: You've gone too far!
Q: Game penalty!
(Tasha vanishes)
What the fuck was she thinking?
TASHA: Well, I, er. It sounds strange, but I'm in a penalty box.
PICARD: A penalty box?
TASHA: Q's penalty box. It sounds strange, but it definitely isn't. I know that one more penalty by anyone and I'm gone.
PICARD: Gone?
TASHA: Yes! I am gone! It is so frustrating to be controlled like this!
PICARD: Lieutenant. Tasha, it's all right.
TASHA: What the hell am I doing? Crying?
No, Denise, you are not crying. What you are doing is delivering one of the worst performances in franchise history.
Granted, lines like this set you up to fail, but still...
PICARD: Don't worry. There's a new ship's standing order on the Bridge. When one is in the penalty box, tears are permitted.
TASHA: Captain. Oh, if you weren't a captain.
When one is in the 1960s, this scene is permitted.
(He does a test firing. A rock blows up most satisfactorily)
WORF: Drop your weapons!
RIKER: I'm afraid that was me, Worf. I was checking to see if the phasers still operate.
LAFORGE: Incredible, Worf! You came out of nowhere.
WORF: A warrior's reaction.
He doesnt know who or where the sniper is, so he jumps into the field of fire, points his phaser in a random direction, and shouts. A warriors reaction.
WESLEY: Worf!
(He dashes to Worf)
RIKER: Look out!
PICARD: Wesley, no!
(Wesley gets bayoneted from behind. I confess, I cheered)
What the fuck was he thinking?
The I cheered snark is Chrissies, not mine.
(Wesley is transformed from teenager to hunk)
RIKER: You're ten years older. A man.
LAFORGE: Hey, Wes. Not bad.
RIKER: Well, my friend, I know what you want.
(He waves his hand in front of Geordi and takes off the visor)
LAFORGE: (to Tasha) You're as beautiful as I imagined, and more.
How come he can appreciate Wesleys good looks with his VISOR but needs normal vision to appreciate Tashas?
RIKER: Proud warrior Worf, without a single tie to his own kind.
(A Klingon woman is kneeling at his feet. She gets up, tries to swipe at Tasha, and gets knocked down by Worf)
WORF: No! She is from a world now alien to me!
LAFORGE: Worf, is this your idea of sex?
WORF: This is sex. But I have no place for it in my life now.
He demonstrates his power by giving his friend a sex slave? Is this the 24th century or the 4th?
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I was playing around with the LEGO Digital Designer app the other day, and as a quick, single-evening challenge, I decided to design and build the Adobe logo (I'm an Engineering Manager on Adobe's XD team). In order to ensure I'd be able to build it with pieces I already had, I used only the most common bricks (1x2, 2x2, 2x3, and 2x4). And, of course, it's built for maximum rigidity.
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This article was originally published in News at SEI on: March 1, 2000
In this Roundtable interview, we present a wide-ranging discussion of open source software—its current popularity, its advantages and disadvantages for software developers and users, the implications for computer security, and whether it is appropriate for Department of Defense (DoD) systems.
The participants are Chuck Weinstock, Pat Place, Scott Hissam, and Dan Plakosh, all members of the SEI's COTS-Based Systems Initiative, and Jed Pickel of the CERT Coordination Center at the SEI. The moderator is Bill Thomas, editor of news@sei.
Bill Thomas: Why do you think that open source software warrants research at this time?
Chuck Weinstock: One reason is that it appears that the community is treating open source software as the next silver bullet. We all know that silver bullets very seldom find their target, and the community moves on to the next silver bullet.
Pat Place: I would add that there is a substantial amount of software available these days that is open source. If you are interested in building systems out of existing components—be they open source or any other form of source—you need to understand at least the risks as well as the benefits of doing so. If we can say anything that helps, then I think that's a good thing.
Scott Hissam: The phenomenon that is happening with the Linux environment is getting everybody's attention to open source software—more attention than has ever been paid to it before, at least in the media. People are enamored and believe that Linux is a successful, stable development environment, and that somehow every piece of open source software that they get is going to be just as stable and just as reliable as the Linux platform—if you believe that it is as stable and reliable as it is touted to be in the press.
Jed Pickel: Open source has been around for a long time—probably more than 20 years. I think one of the reasons why it's getting so much attention now is because commercial interests are developing it. That's why we're seeing the media interest.
Is There a Community of Developers?
Dan Plakosh: You can release your source code, but I'm not sure people really know what to do with it. I released open source software two years ago and I've had very few people dive into developing it.
Place: It gets even worse when you get something that is hundreds of thousands of lines or a million lines. The historical aspect is interesting because you can look back at the history of programs that were open source, or close to open source, with lots of people helping and providing fixes. You can start to see what was successful about them and what is different about what is becoming the current open source movement, which I honestly believe is going to lead to disaster. I can provide anecdotal evidence of examples where you've got something like a tcsh [an expanded version of the original C shell for the UNIX operating system] which is not that complicated a program, but has features and peculiarities that are so weird that you'd never even want them. And yet somebody has said, "Oh, I'll just go and stick this thing into the system." For example, in tcsh, if you have time displayed as part of your prompt and it happens to hit the hour, it'll go "ding" instead of printing the time. I mean, this is insanity: feature upon feature upon feature that leads to code that's got more junk in it than you can possibly be interested in. It ends up becoming ultimately unmaintainable code.
Hissam: But I would say that the tcsh example that you gave is an unbounded development activity that nobody really paid attention to. Nobody really cared about it and that's why it got unwieldy. Not every piece of open source software is developed in that way.
Place: That's exactly true. I think that's the key to the difference between those things that have been and will be successful and those things that will not be successful. Somebody or some very small group of people have a very clear idea as to what that system is going to be, what it's going to do, and how it's going to be architected. And they keep it that way.
Weinstock: Some people refer to those people as the "arbiters of good taste."
Place: That's the phrase that was used primarily about the original UNIX developers. They were arbiters of good taste. With all of the stuff that people from all the universities shipped to them back in the mid-1970s and early '80s, they decided what went into the source and what was not in the source. For the longest time with Linux, Linus Torvalds [the Finnish graduate student who created the original Linux operating system] was the person who did that. He had a vision as to what it was going to be. That seems to be drifting out. Linux is perhaps losing some of that arbiter-of-good-taste quality.
Pickel: On your tcsh example: there are plenty of examples of closed source software having very similar things. For example, one commercial product is such that if you hit certain key sequences, you can end up with a flight simulator—which is a little bit different from tcsh beeping at the end of a line. The difference, though, is that should the community come across that item in tcsh, and feel like it needs to be removed, and there are enough people who agree with that, then it would be removed from tcsh. You can easily go and change that if it bothered you enough.
Place: Absolutely. I've done that because I wanted tcsh to be as small as possible and I've used it as small as possible.
Hissam: So you removed a whole bunch of things out of tcsh that you didn't like. Right? Now let's say the next version of tcsh comes out and you want to adopt it.
Place: I have developed the version of the shell that has the capabilities I need. If anything does come out in tcsh that I'm interested in, I might take that as a patch file and patch my source with those changes. But I'm not taking all their stuff again.
Weinstock: You now own the problem.
Place: Yes, absolutely. I willingly accept that. Of course, the advantage is that it was open source. I could choose to take on the risk and build something that was what I wanted.
Thomas: It seems that no one has any accountability with open source software. It's strictly "buyer beware."
Pickel: I would disagree with that. Let's go back to the tcsh example again, because I think that's a good one in that a person maintains it and is accountable for listening to the users. Pat didn't speak up in this case. He decided to split off his own version and now he's accountable for that.
Someone wants the X widget or the Y widget, so they just go and put that fix in, and you get this loss of sanity.
Place: If you look at the actual source code, you'll see all of these different names of people who've added this and added that. The risk I see with open source is that all of these features are getting thrown into a basically good system. Someone wants the X widget or the Y widget, so they just go and put that fix in and you get this loss of a sense of stability of the project—this loss of sanity. tcsh going "ding" is kind of stupid. It goes to my notion of good taste; it's below the cut line.
Pickel: What you're describing is an example of open source working in the most optimal sense in that there are people who have different goals from a project than you do. You decide to split off your own version; that's open source working right there.
Hissam: It depends on what your own goals are. If your own goals are to keep up with the latest and greatest, then him vectoring off his own version—he's stuck.
Place: That's disaster if you want to keep up with the latest.
Plakosh: I don't think people develop open source software with the intent that people will take it and go off and build their own products from it. I think it's more so that people will contribute to mature whatever piece of software that they're doing.
Place: The freedom for anyone to make a change leads to the fact that the product will never mature because it will always be in a state of flux.
Plakosh: There is not the freedom for anybody to make a change. I really think you're looking at isolated cases. For example, take Linux. The majority of people who use Linux never look at the source. In the majority of most open source products, I would bet that people do not look at the source. They don't care. They don't recompile it. They don't want to have anything to do with it. It's only the people who are working toward the development of Linux who are looking at the source, or occasionally someone who has the in-depth knowledge finds a bug and looks at the source. They may fix it but they may also submit it to one of the Linux working groups to have it corrected.
Hissam: Let's go back to the earlier question about accountability. We disagreed about whether anyone is accountable. What does it mean to be accountable? It means that there's liability on the part of somebody.
Place: I wouldn't even go as far as that. Dan has released source. He's put his name up saying, "I think this is a good piece of source." In an open source project, other than a couple of special cases, there's a substantial body of existing code that gets released and then people can work on it, rather than working on stuff from scratch. I see a potential split there. Take Linux. Who is accountable for Linux these days? Does Linus put his name on it saying, "I think this is all good source code"? I don't think so anymore.
Hissam: No. The worst thing that can happen to the people who are "accountable" for Linux is that the world turns their back on it. But concerning accountability: I think the answer is that no one is accountable outright and I think it is buyer beware.
Weinstock: So that's why people go to places like [Linux vendor] Red Hat instead of just downloading it off the Web.
Hissam: Because they want to hand money to somebody. They want to be able to say, "Give me this and give me that."
Weinstock: Red Hat also sells support. You can go just buy a Red Hat CD and you get nothing with it other than the CD. But you can also go to them and get support for Linux.
Pickel: That's how Linux has made it into the corporate world: doing support.
Plakosh: I've dealt with support before and support is not typically all that it's cracked up to be. Support is usually geared toward people who have problems in reading the documentation or who don't understand things. Linux got into the commercial domain mainly due to the attractiveness of it being free and being somewhat reliable.
Thomas: Let's backtrack a little bit here. What would you say are the benefits and drawbacks of developing software in an open source environment, from the standpoint of the developer?
Weinstock: There are different ways of looking at that. Why would I want to participate in the development or why would I want to put myself more out there for free...
Place: I'll tell you at least one person's motivation for the latter. For the last two years, he's been unable to further his software at all, so since it was previously freely available, he said, "Okay, let's make this an open source project in the official open source project way. We'll get people who have ideas and have some suggestions for developing this further, and/or who have bug fixes to be able to maintain this thing."
Hissam: So, would you say that the rate of change on this project has increased or decreased, and have those changes been dramatic?
Place: Well, it's certainly increased. There's also one place where you can get an official source version that has the bug fixes in it, which you couldn't do previously.
Thomas: Would you say that putting out a program with open source code is a way of testing the market for it?
Pickel: Exactly. That's another good point that I wanted to make. One of the interesting things about open source is that you build on other people's software. When you release something, you never quite know how other people are going to make use of it. You learn quickly that way because they give you immediate feedback and contribute changes. It's a great way to figure out market demand.
Hissam: That would be a benefit. But if that evolution is unchecked, you're going to get the tcsh phenomenon. It's almost like a cancer: cancerous features.
Pickel: You choose the branch of the code that most suits your goals at a given time.
Weinstock: But that presents the consumer with a real problem, right? Which branch? What happens to the uneducated consumer who doesn't have a basis for picking a branch?
Pickel: They go to places like Red Hat.
Place: If you want a version of BSD [a popular version of UNIX; BSD stands for Berkeley Software Distribution], which one do you pick right now? There are three versions of BSD that are all based upon 4.4, BSD Light, which was the last release. So which one do you choose?
Weinstock: Getting back to what you said about consumers going to Red Hat because they don't know how to make that choice: That's fine for an open source project where there is a Red Hat, but my guess is that most of them don't have a Red Hat. I mean, how do I know which Emacs to choose, for instance?
Plakosh: The only reason you have companies like Red Hat out there is because the distribution package for Linux is so large and so complicated—or at least it's viewed that way by the consumer. For a small piece of software, you're not going to have these distributors.
Pickel: Going back to your point about what to do if there is no Red Hat: I think these companies are out there for the purpose of infiltrating the corporate world—getting this kind of software into the corporate world. The techies and the geeks aren't necessarily interested in a Red Hat, though they may use it because they don't necessarily care to package all the software. But there are projects that don't have corporate backing behind them, or a very organized way of going about things. They're just not going to make it to as large an audience. They won't make it into the corporate world quite as easily.
Hissam: Every techie and geek on the planet right now, and every open source activity, started with dreams of IPOs [initial public offerings of stock]. They want to be the next millionaire. They want to start the next company.
Pickel: If you look at the past year or so, that might be one of the motivations behind open source software: people think they're going to make a killing off it. If you look over the past 20 years, there haven't necessarily been financial reasons. One of the ways you get paid for leading a successful open source project is by getting your name out there, by getting well known, by becoming the guy who started that project.
Weinstock: Let's talk about open source as applied to our Department of Defense client. What are the advantages of developing something using the open source model? When applied to the DoD, the notoriety factor is probably not important to them.
Place: There's another question that I should like to raise with respect to DoD customers. What systems do you envision the DoD would like to build with open source? Is it the weapons systems? Is it the payroll systems? How many people out there are interested in the payroll system?
Weinstock: It would seem to me that we're probably talking about subsystems first of all. Pieces of systems.
Place: So we're talking back at the level of things like the operating system (OS), the database, the underlying components—the bits that we take for granted. That's one of the issues, when we talk about DoD customers. We need to understand that they're not going to build systems with this stuff.
Weinstock: But they will build systems that contain parts.
Place: Then the question is, which parts? Clearly it's going to be exactly those things—the OS parts, the database parts, the GUI [graphical user interface] parts.
Hissam: We can go back to the premise that these large organizations, be they DoD or not, think that they can get something done with access to a large, talented pool of engineers. There's some belief that they can get access to a lot of peer reviews, beta testers, people out there to look at their software and make it better and get it done quicker. That seems to be the running belief. If that's a model of success in Linux, then it must be true for every piece of open source software. But we should debunk that. Past performance should not be used as an indicator of future performance. That's one of the reasons that the Software Engineering Institute has to start looking at the processes that are used in open source development. What are the criteria that have to be there in order for it to be successful?
Place: There are instances of projects that have been very successful. I would claim that Linux certainly has been one of them. It has achieved a level of reliability. The BSDs are reasonably successful, and some other open source things are reasonably successful. One of the common themes I've seen through either open or freely available source projects over the last 20 years is that there has been a substantial body of software—i.e., the system is basically there—before its release. People are bug fixing rather than developing new features, so that you've got a system with a structure and a design, and other people are now fixing the things that "he forgot" or that "he got wrong."
Weinstock: That suggests that it should start off with a user base or some sort of base of people who care about it.
Place: You certainly need people to care about it, and the people who care about this typically are the users.
Plakosh: But if you look at how Linux kicked off, it kicked off by being more or less the toy of software engineers to build upon. It came with a lot of people's research projects. There were a lot of people looking at this functionality and that functionality. The user base of Linux was people who developed software, not users of software, per se.
Place: That's a good point. The other thing, in thinking about what has been successful, is that the initial release was something that was a well-designed system.
Thomas: Let's talk a little bit about open source from the user's perspective. What are the advantages to using open source software?
Hissam: Let me start off by cutting to the chase. It's a two-edged sword. The advantages are that users can get the latest and greatest and the fastest fixes. The disadvantages are that they have to get the latest and greatest and the fastest fixes. They might spend 75% of their time using a product and 25% of their time upgrading the product.
Plakosh: That's not necessarily true. Just because a product is out in open source doesn't mean that I, as a user, have to track it. There are a lot of internal releases that I don't need to worry about or that I may not want to worry about. That perspective is somewhat from the mentality of the world that we live in, developing software.
What Are the Security Implications of Using Open Source Software?
Pickel: From a security perspective, you could look at it from a couple of standpoints. You really have to pay close attention to the software because if the community becomes aware of a vulnerability, then they're going to exploit it. So you need to beat them.
When you were talking about the double-edged sword, I realized that it also applies to the perspective of the developers in that there's an advantage to having people working on your software, but you also have to be ready to deal with them. If you have a lot of demand, and a lot of people developing your software, it's going to be tough to deal with them.
Place: You raised the issue of security. What trust do you place in open source software, given that it's changing so rapidly? How much analysis can you do on the 5,000 fixes that came in last week?
Weinstock: Do you use Linux in a secure environment?
Pickel: Absolutely. Actually, I run Linux on all my machines. I'm not going to look at every single line of code. I'm not going to look at every update. But the thing is that there are people out there who are.
Weinstock: You hope. Do you believe that every nook and cranny of Linux has been looked at with that in mind?
Pickel: Not necessarily. But I believe that a lot more nooks and crannies have been looked at than are looked at in closed source environments.
Plakosh: That's an interesting statement because I would tend to bet that there is a difference between theory and practice. In theory, you would think that you're releasing source and you would have people combing over the code looking for security holes and trying to fix them. In practice, I don't think that's necessarily the case. In theory, it sounds great: the more people have it, the more people are looking at the source code and the more people are going to try to find bugs or security holes so that they can try to fix them. That sounds great. In practice, I think the only people who are trying to do that are maybe people who are trying to break into a system.
Pickel: Exactly. And they're part of the community. If they identify a hole and start exploiting it, people will notice that.
Hissam: You're saying that even the bad guys, in a sense...
Pickel: ...they're part of your development.
Place: But you only find out after the fact.
Pickel: That's still a better environment than closed source.
Plakosh: Actually, that's not necessarily much better because some of these holes that you can find in open source code you never would have found if it was closed source. They never would have existed.
Hissam: If I were a hacker, I could get the latest distribution from Red Hat, go to my garage, close the doors, get a lot of Twinkies and Coke, and start mulling over it until I can find a hack. Then I can just turn on my modem and go attack somebody who's using Linux.
Pickel: Certainly, there's some potential of administrators not noticing. This is an issue that we deal with every day in the CERT® Coordination Center. It's quite common that somebody will break into a site and the site administrators don't know how it happened. But when you deal with the sophisticated administrator, you can usually track down what program was the source, the problem. Then, maybe there's a new vulnerability in that. So, a lot of times, we look through the vulnerabilities, get in contact with vendors, and have the problem fixed. So there, in that situation, a few people were compromised. But the community as a whole is now operating on more secure software.
Place: Then there is the difficulty of getting customers to upgrade with the patch. Don't underestimate the number of people who are behind the curve.
Thomas: Is it any better in a closed source situation?
Hissam: Closed or open source, when a vulnerability is discovered, people have to react. I think the other thing that is interesting is that a hacker can become very intimate with some of the underlying protocols that are used. There may be that somewhere in the code it says, "You'd better check for null value here and the packet header for this because if you don't you could lock up the machine." The hacker says, "Wow! I hadn't thought of that before. If I tried this against Windows, I wonder what it would do?" Just by reading the source code, they could learn some very sophisticated, obscure attack.
Weinstock: There's also a big push to use COTS [commercial off-the-shelf] software, and widely using COTS raises all sorts of problems. At least some of the same arguments that apply to COTS apply to open source software.
Place: You might get an instability argument more so with open source than with COTS.
Plakosh: You'll get quality arguments too.
Weinstock: But it's the argument that "you own the solution if you try to modify it in any way."
Hissam: Let's say a contractor is using open source in a government program and they're having some success. Then they run into a roadblock. They decide, "All I have to do is change this one line of code and we'll save the government millions of dollars." And they do it. Now let's say the open source community doesn't want to adopt that change because it's very specific to whatever the government is doing. Now the government—by virtue of a contractor—is in the business of maintaining and competing with that open source.
Plakosh: That may or may not be true. I think one of the best advantages to me as a software developer is to take somebody else's open source and save development time, if it does do that for me. And I don't intend to track it in the future.
Weinstock: Yes, but suppose there's a security compromise that's found in some future version and the four-star says, "That rolls back to the version you modified seven years ago—or six months ago." Now you've got to find someone who's even smart enough to put the changes in.
Plakosh: No you don't. You've taken over maintenance of that. That's fine, and you move on.
Weinstock: And the technician who worked on it seven years ago is still there, on the payroll, and there ready to help?
Plakosh: No. But we're just talking about another method of software reuse. You're equating it to a product and having to track versions, rather than someone looking at open source software and saying, "Man, I could use these features. Let me rip them out and use them." You've taken the code from an open source product and reused it elsewhere.
Weinstock: But you've lost a supposed benefit of open source, which is that vast community of developers.
Plakosh: But if you weren't interested in that, it doesn't matter. You've gained. You didn't have to write that. You didn't lose anything. That's the benefit to a lot of people who are using open source. They don't have to reinvent the wheel. Somebody's already invented it. Yeah, I have to maintain it. Yeah, I'd better take a look at what I'm getting. Yeah, I'd better check the quality of it.
Weinstock: I'm not disagreeing with you. That's certainly a valid, good thing about open source. But if the whole world had that view of open source, there wouldn't be open source. All I'm saying is that it's sort of outside the spirit of open source as I see it.
Plakosh: What's the spirit of open source? Open source has two motives. One is that you want other people to work on your code; you want resources. So you want to obtain free resources.
Weinstock: Right. And you taking the code and going you own way and not feeding back to the community does not accomplish that.
Plakosh: But that's one motive. It's for your own—how can I put it—personal glory, corporate gain, whatever. The second advantage is for other people just to advance technology and to advance people's growth. People give things out so that some other people can learn how to do something. For other people, it fosters new ideas. That's why I give out source code. I don't do it for my personal gain. I do it so that other people can look at it and use it for whatever they want to use it for.
Weinstock: That's from a developer's perspective.
Plakosh: I think it's great if someone reuses and finds benefit from something that I wrote, and if it saves them some time. Just like if I'm going to write a piece of software, I go out looking. I'm not going to try writing everything from scratch when I know that there is software that I can lift.
Pickel: The real benefit of open source, in my opinion, is that you build on things that are already available. You're furthering technology, and then people build on what you've done.
Place: You get the function you want as well. That's the other thing. If you're buying from Chuck's House of Software, you get what Chuck wants to sell you, not what you want.
Pickel: But you do have to be a developer to get that. I've been a user/developer of these things for a long time. If you're not a developer, you don't get it. I suspect that one of the results of this is that there will be more people who are developers out there. It's going to convince more people to look at the source code.
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What doesn't change as the elevation rises is the importance of the kitchen. It doesn't seem to matter what kind of house you call home, the kitchen is still the heart of your home. This is the center of your day. It begins and ends there. The kitchen is also where romantic meals find their savor, where parties are blessed with mouth watering delicacies, where the loved tastes of the holidays begin and where comfort foods are ever at the finger tips.
A garden performs many of these same functions for the out of doors. It is in the garden where we find rest and stress relief as you care for you plants. Loves are found, strengthened and lost along strolling garden paths. Laughter on warm July nights and magical ice crystals that sparkle in the dawn of Christmas are found and live in memory of the garden. A garden is the heart of the yard.
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High rise living has many advantages and conveniences, gardening is not one of them, but that does not at all mean that you can't have a garden. Why not take your garden indoors and introduce the heart of a yard into the heart of your home?
Squeezing an entire garden into even the largest of kitchens is not a feasible idea. You will have to pick and choose your plants with the limited size of your kitchen in mind. There are also a few other difficulties with planting your garden on your kitchen counter tops that might spoil the fun.
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The first thing to consider is that of light. All seeds need light to grow. You're your kitchen have a window? You are in business. Plant your seeds in pots, cans or even an empty egg carton and set them on the window ledge. Natural sunlight is of course the best option but you can get around this if your kitchen does not have a window or if the window does not catch enough rays to keep your plants happy. An inexpensive lamp with a clamp that can be attached to a nearby cupboard can serve as a solar stand in if needed.
Size also matters in the kitchen. Large plants like corn or vines like zucchini will not thrive in limited space (unless you get REALLY creative). It is a much better idea to select plants that are small or dwarf varieties of larger plants. Remember just because this is a kitchen garden does not mean you are limited to growing food stuffs. Potted flowers really brighten any kitchen space.
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End of the road for Beijing's Man in Pyongyang.
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Beijing, in contrast, rolled out the red carpet for Jang, a "lao pengyou" (old friend), scheduling meetings with all of China's key leaders, including then-president Hu Jintao. Beijing's leaders were familiar with Jang, in contrast to his young nephew. Despite a secret "getting-to-know-you" visit to China in 2010 in the company of his late father, the young Kim remains largely an enigma to the Chinese leadership. Jang Song-thaek, by contrast, was a frequent visitor to North Korea's embassy in Beijing in the 1990s. He was also a promoter of a style of economic reform, with no liberal political strings attached, which was music to the ears of the Chinese leadership. Beijing is known to be concerned by the abysmal state of the North Korean economy, which requires continued, generous subsidies from China. Jang had not only visited China frequently over the years but even South Korea. In the heady days of Seoul's "sunshine policy" in 2002, Jang saw how economic engines like the Samsung conglomerate produced the South Korean miracle on the Han River.
Economic reform in North Korea, however, has proved no easy path to maneuver. For unlike the vast Chinese mainland of 1.3 billion people which, so far, has had little to fear from the contrasting example of a democratic and free-market Taiwan of 23 million, South Korea is a potentially enormous magnet. With twice the population and a GDP roughly 40 times that of North Korea, the example of South Korea is a constant, potential threat to opening and reform by Pyongyang.
Those who advocate economic reform, like Jang Song-thaek, are always at risk of being suddenly purged. Such was the fate of Kim Jong-u, a Kim family cousin, who touted economic reform as chairman of North Korea's Committee for the Promotion of External Economic Cooperation during the Great Famine of the 1990s. His activities included hosting an economic seminar attended by over 300 foreigners in 1996 in Rajin-Sonbong. (Like Jang Song-thaek, he had connections to the Rajin-Sonbong Free Economic and Trade Zone near the Russian and Chinese borders.) But as North Korea made a marginal recovery from famine, and fear of external "impure elements" increased, the door to economic reform abruptly shut. In 1998 it was reported that Kim Jong-u was purged and then executed, just as two of Jang Song-thaek's closest aides were recently.
Jang himself also suffered when the bloom of economic reform faded. He was reportedly sent in 2004 for "re-education through labor" to a steel mill, although his marital tie to the only daughter of the Great Leader Kim Il-sung likely spared him a firing squad. Jang's relationship to his spouse, four-star general Kim Kyong-hui, did not appear to be any less dysfunctional than was the case with the rest of the Kim family. Kim Kyong-hui, who suffers from chronic health problems related to alcoholism, reportedly drove their only child to suicide. Their daughter Jang Kum-song died of an overdose of sleeping pills in Paris in 2006, where she was studying. She had reportedly been ordered back by her mother to Pyongyang in order to break up a relationship with a boyfriend.
The purge of Jang Song-thaek was as abrupt as Kim Jong-un's purge of Vice Marshal Ri Yong-ho in July 2012. The removal of the former chief of the general staff of the Korean People's Army (KPA), who had been described as "a mentor" always at the side of Kim Jong-un during the transition to the new regime, was as much a shakeup of Pyongyang's military establishment as Jang's is in the political sphere. This was followed this past May by the sudden removal, after only six months, of hardline general Kim Kyok-sik as the minister of defense and his replacement by an unknown general. Kim was kept on for three months as chief of the KPA general staff until he was completely removed from the scene in August following the seizure by Panama of a North Korean vessel carrying a shipment of illicit arms. General Kim has long been involved with North Korea's arms smuggling, most notably to Syria where he was once an assistant military attache, and he is credited with carrying out two major attacks on South Korea in 2010, the torpedoing of the Cheonan naval vessel and the shelling of Yeonpyeong Island. He reportedly allowed Kim Jong-un to take the credit for these operations, permitting the young and inexperienced leader to gain a measure of gravitas with older, skeptical North Korean military brass.
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NEW YORK (AP) - First-time movie producer and mom-to-be Chelsea Clinton has premiered a short film at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Clinton is the executive producer of the short Of Many, a documentary about the friendship of two religious leaders at New York University. One is a rabbi, the other is an imam. Clinton was previously an assistant vice provost at NYU.
The 34-minute film made its Tribeca debut Thursday night. The screening was attended by Clinton, 34, and her father, former president Bill Clinton.
Chelsea Clinton announced Thursday that she and her husband, Marc Mezvinksy, are expecting their first child this fall.
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Hiking and camping gear shop in the city of Nazca,Peru
Where can I buy a camping gas stove in the city of Nazca,Peru?
Good practical travel tips about life in Paracas
Hi, I'm going to Paracas in August. Can anyone give me any good practical travel tips about life in Paracas?
terminal tepsa bus
what are the possibilities for a waiting area arriving at 3.45 by tepsa bus in nazca and a flight at 8.00 over the nazca lines?
Paracas in July
Is Paracas too cold, foggy and windy to visit in July? Is is true that the ocean is sometimes to dangerous to go and visit the Ballesta Islands? We also would like to do some Sand Buggy and Sand boarding, is it possible to do all this in July?
Ballestas Island & Paracas National Reserve
We are hesitating if we should pre-book the tour for Ballestas Island & Paracas National Reserve before we go to Peru or should do the trip ourselves.
Somehow, we have a good search online, there aren't many tours which combine both places.
Any idea which is the best arrangement to visit both places as a day trip from Lima?
Ballestas Islands vs.Huacachina ?
Some tours I am considering involve visiting Balestas Islands and Paracas reserve. Someone suggested to me, instead of visiting Ballestas Islands, to instead, have a tour of Ica and Huacachina oasis?
What do suggest and why? Thank you.
Nazca Lines: Is Weather A Concern?
I understand to view the Nazca Lines, you fly over in a plane. I know that sometimes, in general, weather can affect tours that involve flying. Is weather a concern for Nazca Lines flights? Will be traveling in early May. Is it better to take a flight in the morning, or afternoon, or does it not matter? Thanks!
Ice to Ayacucho
I don't have much hope of receiving a reply in this forum as even the most recent activity is some time ago. However, hope springs eternal......
How would we go from Ica to Ayacucho by bus? Would we need to change in Pisco i.e. stand and hope on the Pan Americano? Which bus companies?
Thank you.
Bus from Ica to Ayacucho
I don't have much hope of receiving a reply in this forum as even the most recent activity is some time ago. However, hope springs eternal......
How would we go from Ica to Ayacucho by bus? Would we need to change in Pisco i.e. stand and hope on the Pan Americano? Which bus companies?
Thank you.
from puno what is the best way to get to Nazca line?
bus? I know there is no airport really at puno and I think bus is cheaper and safer, how long will it take to get there?
also what is the good company to use for flight over the nazca line?
Lima - Pisco taxi
We plan a trip to Peru in September. We are seniors and would like to avoid travelling by buses.
Do you know how much a taxi from Lima to Pisco would cost?
Any guesses? It's about 250 km drive.
Thanks so much!
Flight to Nasca
We plan a roundtrip from Lima to Nasca (landing in Nasca).
Because the land trip is very long and tiring, we desperately look for flights.
There are no commercial flights, chartered ones are way too expensive.
Do you guys know any travel agancies that organize such flights?
If not directly from Lima, maybe at least from Pisco or Ica?
Thank you for any helpful comment!
A Pisco desde Lima
Debo ir el próximo martes 23 de noviembre a eso de las 6,60 am en direccion a Pisco para visitar Aceros Arequipa(Planta Pisco). Mi intención es regresar a Lima a mediodia.
Quisiera conocer los horarios yy pido instrucciones para reservar pasaje
Lima to Huacachina
Where / how do we get the bus from Lima to Huacachina? Thank you
Can you fly from Ica to Cusco?
Does anyone know if you can fly from Ica to Cusco? If so, could you tell me what airline?
Things to do on 01 January in Nazca
Hi everyone,
I might be in Nazca on 01 January. I found out that many tours don't run or they charge more because it is a public holiday... Therefore, I will probably do the 'regular tours' and the flight over the Lines one day later / or one day before. Is there anything to do in Nazca on 01 Jan., e.g. any markets or is it possible to get to the sand dunes, any place to swim...? I'm not a big fan of museums. Any suggestions? Thanks!
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Safe airline for Nazca Line flight?
Hi everyone,
Can anyone recommend a rather safe airline for the Nazca Lines flight? I want to fly from Nazca - just the 30-40min flight over the lines.
There have been quite a few stories about the safety of the planes for the Nazca Lines flight in the last few weeks.
I don't know whether it is true, but I heard that Aerocondor doesn't have a licence for scheduled flights anymore due to safety reasons (they are only allowed to do charter flights). The Nazca Lines flights would be charter flights but I can't reach their website anymore. As far as I know, Aerocondor was considered to be (one of the) safest airlines for the Nazca Lines flight...
Are there any news about AeroCondor? Have they given up the Nazca Lines flight?
Thanks for your replies in advance.
Daytrip to Pampas Galeras Vicuna NP
I'm interested in doing a daytour from Nazca to the Pampas Galeras National Park to see the vicunas there. I only found one tour operator that offers such a daytour (www.mysteryperu.com), but they don't reply to my e-mails. Some other operators offer mountain bike tours at the Pampas Galeras, but mountain biking's not what I want.
Does anyone know of a tour operator that offers such a tour?
Thank you very much in advance.
Best regards,
Lima to Nazca to Arequipa
Hi all,
I'm planning a trip to Peru in August and I really would like to see the Nazca Lines. Ideally, I'd like to leave from Lima, see the Nazca Lines, and eventually end up in Arequipa, in around 2 days if possible. Does anybody know of tour operators who do this route, or if there's an easy way to arrange it myself?
Thanks a million!
Lima to Nasca or Cusco to Nasca
Hello everyone,
I will be visiting Lima as well as Cusco. What's an easier (shorter) route, Lime to Nasca or Cusco to Nasca?
Thanks a million!
Traveling from Nazca to Arequipa
I am traveling to Peru in 4/2008, and am trouble figuring the safest way to travel between Nazca to Arequipa. Does anyone know of safe and reliable lines that travel between these destinations, or recommend a town or two to stop in en route?
Peru in April 2008, Need Tips on How to Get Flight Over Nazca Lines
Hi, traveling to Peru in April 2008 and wanted to know how best to go about getting a flight over the Nazca lines. I've heard that it's best to book in advance (before leaving U.S.) but I'd like to find a reputable company either way. Have also heard that it's expensive, but it sounds worth it. Would appreciate any advice. Thanks!
do you just nab a driver and buggie once you get there?
yo, i am gonna try this sandboarding thing out and i was wondering if this is like most things in peru and i am going to have lots of options when it comes to who i can hire to take me out on a sandbuggy?
Bus Nazca - Arequipa - Puno - Cusco
Which bus company is the best and safest on these route? Do you have a schedule and duration?
Are there a lot of tourist who have a problem on this route with the attitude?
Nazca Flyover
Does anyone know of a Nazca Flyover which leaves from Lima and returning to Lima without any other stops or transfers.
The closest I can find is a flight from Lima that transfers to another flight over the Nazca Lines followed by a tour and then a return flight to Lima. I would like to find a way just to make the flyover and directly back to Lima airport. Thanks for any advice.
Sandboarding in Nazca?
Is it possible to do Sand boarding in Nazca? So far, I've only read about sandboarding in Ica, although I think I've read that Nazca is very near the Cerro Blanco? Will it be too difficult for beginners?
Otherwise, is there any affordable one way "package" available which brings me from Lima to Ica for Dune buggy rides and then ends in Nazca, all in one day?
Paracas Boat Trip $$?
I know this was some time ago, but do you remember how much it cost for the boat tour? I'm planning on heading down to Paracas in December.
internet cafe info
I recently lost a cd that i had burned in an internet cafe in Huacachina that had all my peru pics on it,they did have the pics on their hard drive and i was looking to see if i could have them forwarded to me at email@example.com,I dont think there are to many such places in Huacachina
Casa De Arena's Contact Info?
Does anybody have the correct telephone number for the Casa De Arena Hostel? I have been trying to book us a room for our stay but having trouble finding their correct phone number or email. The phone#/emails I found for them on the web don't work.
Anybody who has recently stayed there might help me out with their contact information. Or even any information on how to book a room in advance would help too.
arequipa to nazca with overflight
Can you help us? Visiting Peru in June and July 2006. Saw a Cruzdelsur tour,but it has expired, and we don't seem to be able to book any other. We want to go from Arequipa to Nazca (preferably overnight bus, stay one night in Nazca with a fly-over, and go on to Ica,or Pisco,(?) because going on to Huancayo next. Prefer not to go to Lima only to return via the same route to Huancayo. We don't mind paying for an Arequipa,Nazca,Lima tour and getting off ourselves before reaching Lima. but, all on-line tours seem to be beyond our scope. Has anyone done a similar trip? Mahlalo (Hawaiian for Thank You)


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MY Lincoln town car's rear suspension is inoperable. I changed a flat tire without turning off the air suspension system as required (it was 2: 30 in the morning and I was just back from a long trip and not thinking). After putting the spare on, the air suspension worked fine for a couple of days, then has not worked since then. I have tried resetting the system (by disconnecting the battery overnight), but that's all I thought of doing. I was hoping that it was something simple that I need to do.
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