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Iraqi officials have given their American counterparts clear signals that Baghdad is willing to let U.S. fighter jets operate out of Iraqi air bases, a move that would allow planes to stay airborne longer and deliver more strikes. But the Obama administration, at least for now, doesn't seem all that interested.
The back-channel discussions over the bases, which have not previously been reported, highlight the White House's uncertainty about escalating its low-level air war against the Islamic State. President Barack Obama proudly pulled all U.S. troops out of Iraq in late 2011. He has repeatedly stressed that the military campaign there that began Aug. 8 will be limited in both scope and duration. With broad swaths of Syria and Iraq under Islamic State control, key U.S. allies are pressing the administration to step up the fight. Taking off from Iraqi bases would make it much easier to do so because it would put the American aircraft closer to their targets.
"Everything is harder when you're doing it from the outside," a senior military official said.
At issue is a little-noticed aspect of this air campaign: None of the strikes against Islamic State targets inside Iraq have been carried out by U.S. aircraft based inside Iraq. Since the bombs began falling, U.S. aircraft have carried out more than 84 strikes. F-18s taking off from the aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush, which is in the North Arabian Sea, conducted more than a third of those strikes. The remainder were carried out by U.S. aircraft assigned to bases inside Qatar and other nearby countries.
The latest airstrikes hit an array of Islamic State targets Wednesday near the Mosul Dam, the scene of fierce fighting between the militants and Iraqi and Kurdish troops. Defense officials said the strikes destroyed or damaged six Humvees, two armored trucks, and an array of other militant equipment and fighting positions. The administration's public case for the military campaign initially focused on alleviating a humanitarian crisis and protecting U.S. personnel in the country. The new attacks seem to be directly targeting the Islamic State, raising questions about whether the mission is expanding beyond the administration's stated goals and objectives. Pentagon officials on Wednesday insisted that the scope of the mission hadn't changed.
It's difficult to gauge how much the strikes are helping. According to the White House, the bombing near Mosul helped Iraqi and Kurdish forces retake the dam. The Pentagon, though, has conceded that the airstrikes have only minimally hindered the militants' overall fighting strength and stressed that Iraqi forces aren't up to the task of retaking large areas — including Mosul, the country's second-largest city — under militant control.
"It would be a totally different story," said David Kilcullen, a counterinsurgency expert who spent several years as a top advisor to Gen. David Petraeus when he lead the U.S. war effort in Iraq. "Right now you're stuck with a remote option that limits how long you're in the air or how far you can fly. If you had bases [in Iraq] you could fly for more than 45 minutes at a time and maintain combat air patrols over different Iraqi cities."
A senior Iraqi official said that Baghdad is ready to give U.S. aircraft access to bases throughout the country, including several that had been key American hubs during the Iraq War. Baghdad, he said, is waiting for a formal request from Washington.
"We would have no issues with that whatsoever," the official said. "We would have no objections."
But the White House has not asked, said a person familiar with the matter. The White House declined to comment, referring questions to the Pentagon. A senior defense official said it is unlikely that the United States would base planes inside Iraq anytime soon. "I just don't see it," the official said.
To be sure, setting up American air operations at an Iraqi base would be a difficult undertaking, and would require the Obama administration to make a much bigger commitment to the effort in Iraq. The massive Baghdad International Airport is likely too crowded to use. The sprawling Al Asad facility in western Iraq is seen as one of the likeliest homes for any U.S. aircraft. But the Pentagon would have to assign hundreds of maintenance personnel there, as well as security for the American pilots, support crews, and planes themselves. Even though such troops could technically operate inside the base and still not be considered "combat boots on the ground," it's likely that such a move would only come if the administration was willing to sign off on an expanded U.S. mission with no clear end date, the military official said.
Still, Pentagon officials acknowledge that running air operations from outside Iraq makes conducting them that much harder. It takes longer — and more fuel — to get fighters or drones to their targets. From a tactical standpoint, that can sometimes contribute to less effective targeting. It can take a jet fighter more than an hour just to get from western Iraq to an area north of Baghdad, the military official said. If jets need to stay in the area over a potential target longer, they require refueling. That means another aircraft, a tanker, must be on call in the area. And that contributes to the complex nature of such operations.
"It becomes very challenging because without a tanker, you end up with time-on-station limitations," the senior military official said. "In other words, you've got to get up there, you've got to be used right away, or you're going to 'bingo' out of there, you're going to run out of gas."


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Tower Cafe, Sacramento CA best French Toast ever!
2009/08/01 11:28:34
Worth a visit if you're anywhere in the area. Two giant slabs of french bread soaked overnight in custard and likely deep fried (it's a secret). Very vanilla-y, crisp outside and creamy inside. Get a half order, you won't be able to finish a whole. But you might want some for later. Killer chicken apple sausages and crispy potatoes with peppers. Tower eggs (benedict with tomato) are a favorite. Order the special coffee "La Flor" and don't forget to check out the dessert counter. All in a gorgeous, south American kitsch atmosphere, with outdoor seating in a heated or misted cozy tropical garden. Very vegetarian-friendly. Check out an indie movie at the historic Tower theater next door. Avoid on weekends, too busy. 1518 Broadway.
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It is a very pretty place,unique for sure ...also historical- the site of the very first Tower Records , and the old neon sign (really worth seeing for those who love that sort of thing ) still hangs . Gotta try that French toast!!
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Have you opened msconfig and disabled any third-party software?
Start > Search Programs and Files > Type (without quotes) "msconfig" > Startup tab:
Disable any third-party software (typically bloatware) and keep your AV and any drivers which you may need.
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Have you opened msconfig and disabled any third-party software?
Start > Search Programs and Files > Type (without quotes) "msconfig" > Startup tab:
Disable any third-party software (typically bloatware) and keep your AV and any drivers which you may need.
Hope this helps,
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I found the primary suspect - XBMC.
I booted without it and memory usage was ~45%
I rebooted with it enabled and memory usage was ~75%.
now how do i solve this...
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What is XBMC? Were you able to boot properly without it enabled?
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As a teenager, Philip Reeder envisioned a dream career: working for the National Geographic Society, traveling the world and making discoveries. His father told him to go for it, so he did. "And, really, I ended up kind of doing that.'' He doesn't work for National Geographic, but as an underground map-maker with the University of South Florida, he does travel the world, and he has taken part in what may be a blockbuster discovery: the lost city of Atlantis.
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Reeder isn't ready to speculate on what's under the mud at Doñana National Park in southwest Spain. But maps he has made from tests show unusual structures about 12 feet under the surface. Scientists wonder if they could be the remains of the harbors of Atlantis.
The project is featured in a National Geographic Channel special, Finding Atlantis, which first aired in April but is scheduled to repeat at 8 p.m. Tuesday.
Reeder worked with a team led by archaeologist Richard Freund, who appears prominently in the special report. Though it features some of Reeder's maps, viewers won't see his face.
"I was left on the editing room floor,'' he says.
Still, his work proved integral. Freund notes that the structures he mapped are massive and ancient and that their location coincides with the site of Atlantis as described by Plato in 360 B.C.
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Greek philosopher Plato wrote that Atlantis, the shining capital of an ancient civilization, was surrounded by rings of harbors near the Pillars of Hercules, now known as the Straits of Gibraltar. It sank into the sea in one day, he wrote.
The debate over whether it was real or a legend has endured through the centuries. Some sources say it sank, indeed, during an earthquake about 1600 B.C.
Reeder, 52, is a geography professor and director of the Environmental Science and Policy Program at USF. He also has worked for 13 years on various projects with Freund, director of the Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford.
On most sites, narrow holes are drilled so that archaeologists can retrieve and test samples of the buried materials. Reeder interprets readings from ground-penetrating radar and electrical current, plus powerful metal detectors, and makes maps that help eliminate guesswork.
"It really pinpoints places you can go and dig without wholesale trying to dig everything up,'' Reeder said.
Freund's team incorporates a variety of evidence — from literary and historical records to archaeological, geological and geographic findings — to complete the underground picture. The team has worked on about 20 projects, including the Dead Sea Scrolls caves and the Cave of Letters in Israel; an ancient synagogue in Spain; and Sobibor, a Nazi extermination camp in Poland.
Typically, they spend a few weeks at a site, as opposed to archaeologists, who stay months or years. Team members turn their findings over to the resident archaeologists and move on to the next job.
Reeder, who lives in Temple Terrace with his wife and three sons, first learned how to map underground structures as a graduate student in geography at the University of Kentucky. He earned his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin.
He has honed his skills during his own 20-year project, finding Mayan artifacts — including what appeared to be a blood-sacrifice platform — in jungle caves in Belize. Freund recruited him in the late 1990s, when they were colleagues at the University of Nebraska.
German scientists Rainer Kuhne and Werner Wickboldt suggested the Doñana site as the possible location of Atlantis after satellite images seemed to show formations of concentric rings under the vast marsh.
The excavation nearby of "tribute cities,'' built on the same design as Atlantis — possibly by the survivors of the disaster — bolsters the theory. By drilling small holes, Spanish archaeologists tapped into wood and pockets of methane gas, indicating the decay of a lot of organic material. Tests dated the material as about 4,000 years old, which also lends credence.
No samples have yet been retrieved from the intertwining structures that Reeder mapped. Even if tests show the remains of adobe brick, indicating harbors or buildings, it's uncertain that the place will be excavated.
Not only is it a national park, Reeder notes, but the unique nature of the topography makes it a United Nations-designated World Heritage Site, like the Grand Canyon.
Without excavating, scientists can draw conclusions only from building evidence to a "tipping point,'' Freund explains.
"It is not like finding King Tut's tomb or the Titanic, but it's what science does. We accumulate data, and if the data suggests that there is more evidence to say that this is the location of Atlantis and that another location is not, that is how a determination is made.''
The team worked at the Doñana site in the summer of 2009 for six weeks when water wasn't covering the area. Members are called in only when the resident archaeologists want them, so Reeder can't say if he will go back.
Should archaeologists excavate and prove that it is the Atlantis site, Reeder says he would be astounded. And thrilled.
"That would certainly be the hallmark of my career as a researcher.''
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Valuing Long-Term Leases: The Option to Redevelop
Long-term leases on property are popular in many jurisdictions, both with private vendors and with local governments who want to retain future control over land use. A puzzling issue for vendors and purchasers has been how to value these leased properties relative to fee-simple properties. Simple present-value models suggest that there should be little difference between the price of fee-simple land and the price of long-term leases. Transaction prices in Canada on 80-year to 100-year residential leases, however, are 20 percent to 40 percent less than comparable fee-simple properties. The authors outline a financial model for valuing leased properties. The value of the option to upgrade or redevelop is considered. They show that the large part of the discount of leased properties from fee-simple properties can be explained by this option to redevelop. Copyright 1991 by Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Have Cat Questions? Ask a Cat Vet Online.
Tumors which are benign (non-cancerous) do often grow slow. The meaning of cancer, however, is rapidly dividing cells. These are the tumors which grow fastest. Other than an abscess, which is a pus and fluid filled growth that your vet would have gotten fluid back from, cancers are the fastest growing growth there is. Unless the lab says this is indeed an abscess, it will likely require some type of removal regardless.
It is not completely hopeless, however. First, there are inflammatory masses which can also grow quite fast, which are a type of auto-immune problem and with removal can be completely cured. Also, certain types of cancers with successful removal, can cause no further problems for your kitty. There are also options like radiation treatment, even for tumors that are non-cancerous, and chemotherapy, but these are expensive and time consuming. If the biopsy does not give definitive answers, you may want to consider removal quickly regardless, as this is likely to continue growing and due to where it is, will get to a point where completely removal is difficult for the surgeon.
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I have heard of ganglion cysts, but they are not generally diagnosed in our companion animals. Instead, if this growth or swelling appeared just after an injury, which you did not mention earlier, chances are much higher it is more along the lines of inflammatory mass. Any type of cyst with liquid filling can be managed by withdrawing the entire amount of fluid, and I'm curious why your vet chose to not do so. after doing so, an x-ray could have been taken for further diagnostic of what occurred, knowing an injury did occur just prior.
I am very sorry for the diagnosis, but you made a very smart move getting that amputation done a.s.a.p before any sign of metastasis. In my experience, in which we've dealt with this many many times, cats do amazing well with 3 legs. In fact, the majority of cats we've amputated don't seem to even notice a difference and are moving about upon waking up from anesthesia. It's more difficult in dogs with broad chests and narrow waists to distribute their weight differently, but cats, being much closer to the ground already and having amazing sense of balance, rarely have a problem. A couple I have seen avoided moving much about 2 days post-op, but that was more likely to being a bit out of it from the amount of pain meds on board, and started slithering soon after, then walking about with no problems. I've never seen a cat not able to move about ever after an amputation, so don't worry about that.
While you'll likely have some future metastasis checks (chest x-rays, maybe an ultrasound far in the future), having had this done gave your cat an amazing chance at a well-extended life now, and I'm smiling to hear how quickly you acted on this and your cat's chances, which are extremely good.
You should feel very good about this now and I'm sure your cat will be recovering quickly from this.
Again, good luck with everything, and I'm still available on this thread should you need anything further.


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WASHINGTON — Badly burned and bleeding, the suspect in the Christmas Day flight to Detroit tried one last gambit as he was led away: He claimed there was another bomb hidden on the plane he'd just tried to destroy, officials said.
There was no second bomb, federal agents learned after a tense search. But the Nigerian suspect's threat began hours of conversations that are now the subject of a fierce political debate over the right way to handle terrorism suspects.
In interviews with the Associated Press, U.S. officials described for the first time the details of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's arrest Dec. 25 at Detroit Metro Airport.
Captured after a bomb hidden in his underwear ignited but failed to explode, Abdulmutallab spoke freely and provided valuable intelligence, officials said. Federal agents repeatedly interviewed him or heard him speak to others. But when they read him his legal rights nearly 10 hours after the incident, he went silent.
Since the attempted bombing, several prominent lawmakers have argued he should have been placed immediately in military custody, and the nation's top intelligence official said he should have been questioned by a special group of terror investigators, rather than the FBI agents who responded to the scene.
The officials who spoke to the AP said on-scene investigators never discussed turning the suspect over to military authorities. And their accounts show that as the hours passed, the FBI turned to its own expert counterterror interrogators and made no effort to involve the special unit, which was not yet up and running.
The officials provided an account of the law enforcement response to the holiday bombing on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to disclose details.
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Shortly after noon on Christmas, federal agents were notified that Northwest Airlines flight 253 had arrived at the Detroit airport from Amsterdam, with a passenger who had lit an explosive device on the aircraft.
After being restrained and stripped bare by fellow passengers and crew, Abdulmutallab was handed over to Customs and Border Protection officers and local police.
The officers decided the suspect needed immediate medical attention, and an ambulance crew took him to the burn unit at the University of Michigan Medical Center.
Along the way, Abdulmutallab repeatedly made incriminating statements to the CBP officers guarding him. He told them he had acted alone on the plane and had been trying to take down the aircraft.
Abdulmutallab arrived at the hospital just before 2 p.m. Still under guard, Abdulmutallab told a doctor treating him that he had tried to trigger the explosive. The Nigerian said it didn't cause a blast, but instead began popping and ignited a fire on his groin and legs.
FBI agents from the Detroit bureau arrived at the hospital around 2:15 p.m., and were briefed by the Customs agents and officers as Abdulmutallab received medical treatment.
Shortly after 3:30 p.m., FBI agents began interviewing the suspect in his hospital room, joined by a CBP officer and an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.
The suspect spoke openly, said one official, talking in detail about what he'd done and the planning that went into the attack. Other counterterrorism officials speaking on condition of anonymity said it was during this questioning that he admitted he had been trained and instructed in the plot by al-Qaida operatives in Yemen.
The interview lasted about 50 minutes. Before they began questioning Abdulmutallab, the FBI agents decided not to give him his Miranda warnings providing his right to remain silent.
While the Miranda warning — based on a 1966 Supreme Court ruling — is a bedrock principle of the U.S. justice system and a staple of television cop shows, there is a major exception which could apply in Abdulmutallab's case.
Investigators are allowed to question a suspect without providing a Miranda warning if they are trying to end a threat to public safety.
In a future trial in a federal court, prosecutors would likely justify Abdulmutallab's questioning without a Miranda warning by arguing that the FBI agents needed to know quickly if there were other planes with other bombs headed for the United States. The Sept. 11 attacks and other past plots have shown al-Qaida's penchant for synchronized attacks in multiple locations.
Abdulmutallab's interview ended when the suspect was given medication and the investigators decided it would be better to let the effects of the drugs wear off before pressing him further.
He would not be questioned again for more than five hours. By that point, officials said, FBI bosses in Washington had decided a new interrogation team was needed. They made that move in case the lack of a Miranda warning or the suspect's medical condition at the time of the earlier conversations posed legal problems later on for prosecutors.
Last week, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair said the federal High-Value Interrogation Group should have been called in after Abdulmutallab's arrest. But even if federal officials wanted to expand its use to domestic cases, the special team was not ready for action, FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress last week.
Having rested and received more extensive medical treatment, Abdulmutallab was told of his right to remain silent and right to have an attorney.
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I just had my first laser hair removal treatment today, I am a dark skinned Aftican American and was told my setting was 6. When it first started, it was very painful at the level 23 and was dropped down to level 19. A few hours after treatment I notice very...very dark splotches on my skin in the shape of the laser...I look like a dalmation. It seems that every single spot that was touched by the laser has been darkened. Is this permanent? I don't want to even go outside. Is make-up okay to use
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On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 18:53, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> writes: > > "this is broken on so many levels..." > > The issue here is that the second transaction has already set its > snapshot when it enters the function body; so even though its LOCK > command faithfully waits for the first transaction to commit, the > second transaction can't see (and so can't update) the two rows > inserted by the first transaction. It doesn't really see the update > of the original row either, except for purposes of its own UPDATE. > I understand that, but what I don't understand is why does the first function call see it's changes (as evidence by the different information in the raise notices -- 0,10) but the second query is unable to see either the first functions changes or its own? (raise notice returns 0,0) The fact that functions behave differently when run concurrently seems dangerous to me. Consider rewriting the test case function as this: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION locktest1(integer) RETURNS INTEGER AS ' DECLARE x INTEGER :=1; y ALIAS FOR $1; foo INTEGER; BEGIN LOCK TABLE locktest IN EXCLUSIVE MODE; INSERT INTO locktest(a) VALUES (y); LOOP x:= x + 1; EXIT WHEN x >= 1000000; END LOOP; INSERT INTO locktest(a) VALUES (y+1); SELECT a FROM locktest ORDER BY c ASC LIMIT 1 INTO foo; RAISE NOTICE \'original entry in column a is %\', foo; UPDATE locktest SET a=a+y; SELECT a FROM locktest ORDER BY c ASC LIMIT 1 INTO foo; IF foo > 0 THEN UPDATE locktest SET a=a+100; END IF; RAISE NOTICE \'original entry in column a is now %\', foo; return y; END; ' language 'plpgsql'; the check for foo returns true in the first function, returns false in the second function, which will cause the functions to behave differently given the same logic. This seems very dangerous to me. > It would work more like you're expecting if you'd issued the LOCK > before calling the function. I realize that's not convenient in > many cases. inconvenient to say the least. one of the major reason to use functions is the ability to capture business logic within the database so that it can be used by multiple apps. Given the need to issue locks in the application code, this functionality takes a major hit. (Your left hoping the application programmers put locks in all the right places, otherwise your data may get corrupted) > > > OTOH if functions ran as if they we're in serializable mode, the second > > function would, upon attempt to update the first record, see that the > > record was already updated, and throw a "ERROR: Can't serialize access > > due to concurrent update", which could then be dealt with accordingly. > > It would do that, if you had run it in serializable mode. I get: > > regression=# begin; > BEGIN > regression=# set TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL SERIALIZABLE ; > SET > regression=# select locktest1(20); > NOTICE: original entry in column a is 0 > WARNING: Error occurred while executing PL/pgSQL function locktest1 > WARNING: line 15 at SQL statement > ERROR: Can't serialize access due to concurrent update > regression=# > true. however again, this work around requires code in the application, since there is no way to set the transaction level within a function. what we need is self-contained solution for functions. > > In the read-committed case, there has been some talk of executing > SetQuerySnapshot between statements of a function; search the archives > for "SetQuerySnapshot" to find past threads. I'm leaning in favor > of that myself, but no one's yet given a convincing analysis of what > this would change and what the downside might be. I've done a bit of searching on this and I don't see any cases where the current way setQuerySnapshot works is improving the situation. My feeling is it seems there might be cases where functions would not work atomically if they always saw what other peoples changes were doing. Imagine a function that selects a value, does some computation, then selects again. If that first value changes in the middle of the function, it might throw off what is supposed to happen. This is a result of the fact that some functions should work instantaneously, but can't always do so. > > (A compromise less likely to break existing code might be to do > SetQuerySnapshot only after a function issues LOCK, but still the real > effects of this would need to be clearly understood before such a > proposal is likely to pass.) > I've thought about this too, and I think it is a decent compromise. If there is one case where your really likely to want an updated QuerySnapshot it's when you grab a lock on a table, after all, why would you want to lock data that you can't see? I can't think of a case where this would break things given that right now we are blindly acquiring locks; how can actually knowing what you've locked cause you problems? Furthermore, this would help ensure that further queries inside the function will be looking at a more consistent snapshot. I would lobby that this should go in 7.3.1 as it at least gives people a viable, self contained work around. I think ideally what would be good would be the ability to create functions as inherently serializable or read committed (perhaps though a parameter passed in at function creation like iscacheable). This would force the function to behave in one of the two modes as documented for transaction types, and update the query snapshots accordingly. I think the default would be serializable in order to preserve atomicity. One last thing, and correct me if I'm wrong, but any fix would need to happen for all of the function languages, not just plpgsql, right? Robert Treat
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Considering Singapore is filled with Chinese people, I wonder if any one else finds it strange that we have a Chinatown. (well technically, the demographical breakdown is as follows: Chinese 76.8%, Malay 13.9%, Indian 7.9%, other 1.4%, according the CIA Factbook). In any case, there's a Chinatown in Singapore, and apart from the usual deluge of restaurants (no Chinatown is complete without the requisite offerings of food), the rest is more Chinoiserie than Chinese, mostly an oriental show put up as a tourist offering, tacky souvenirs at every turn. But despite my misgivings, it provided an interesting enough subject to shoot.
The Camera
This is my 5th day of shooting with the X-Pro1, and now that I know the camera likes to set a shutter speed of 1/52 with my 35mm lens (sometimes resulting in camera shake), I chose a shutter speed of 1/250, manually selected my aperture, and let the camera deal with the ISO. This worked a treat, and until Fuji decides to update the firmware to allow users to set a minimum shutter speed, this will be the way I shoot.
Couple walking along Smith Street
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Hanging on the door
Roasted chestnuts for sale
Chinese opera masks
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Former Texas Tech running back Baron Batch told a packed Lubbock worship hall how his struggles in the National Football League gave him lessons in faith.
As a guest speaker for First United Methodist Church's Wednesday Night Corner contemporary service, Batch, who played for Tech for five years until graduating in 2010, described how his journey from being a Red Raider to a Pittsburgh Steeler strengthened his faith and taught him to appreciate his life despite setbacks.
"One thing God taught me this year is just really how to trust," he told an audience of nearly 300 in the church's Christian Life Center in downtown Lubbock. "He's really taught me the process of trusting."
Batch recalled the uncertainty he felt as he waited to know if he would play in the NFL following his college career.
He said the most difficult time was during the NFL lockout last summer, when players and owners were caught up in negotiations and Batch was left waiting to see if he would make the cut.
"That's probably one of the hardest things to do," he said. "One reason I think you have this waiting period is the waiting period is probably one of the biggest tests."
He said faith in God encouraged him not to stress or dwell on the uncertain wait.
"Literally, God was like, 'Chill out. Trust Me. Why can't you be happy with where I put you?' " Batch said.
Batch described the process of going to training camp and playing against seasoned NFL players for the first time.
He said fellow Tech football player Eric Stephens teased him about having to block such players as Steelers linebacker James Harrison.
"Eric said, 'You have to go block James Harrison,' and I was like, 'I can block James Harrison right now,' " Batch said, playing confident but with concern in his mind.
Batch said self-doubt is another lesson of faith.
"Everybody at some point has that question where you doubt yourself," he said. "You say, 'Can I get through this? Am I strong enough?' "
God wants people to have confidence in their abilities, Batch said.
Batch said another test of his faith came when he tore his anterior cruciate ligament during preseason practice with the Steelers.
He said he understood some would question why God was punishing them or throwing an obstacle in their way.
But Batch said he took the season-ending injury in stride.
"That's OK. I'm not going to ask why — I'm cool with it," he said. "That was the first time I was like, 'I'm good with where I'm at.' "
Wednesday's service was the second in First United Methodist's new, weekly contemporary service, said the Rev. Shera Atkinson, associate pastor.
Organizers were hopeful the event would share a hopeful Christian message, but left the topic up to Batch, she said.
"He is one of the finest young men and role models who exemplifies being a good Christian," she said.
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This baby has been half standing, FREE half standing, all evening! Half standing for a few second, longer and longer each time! I may have another walker on my hands this week!
At the farmer's market, he was pointing at the fruit and saying, "apple" "strawbear" and "bluebear".
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When Owl Sports Watch spoke with Eli Dickerson last week he had narrowed his list of school choices down to only two, Rice and Stanford.
Today the list is one.
Dickerson ended speculation as to which school he would choose this morning when he called Rice coach Craig Naivar to commit to the Owls. The big left tackle called Naivar just before noon today to join the Blue and Gray.
"I got back from Stanford late last night and had talked to my parents about committing this morning. We decided why not? there's really nothing more that I needed to see to know Rice was where I wanted to go."
Turns out the Stanford trip didn't go quite as well as Dickerson expected.
"I tweaked my knee at another camp before going and wasn't really at 100%. I had to ice it a little the first day; but I participated in all the drills on the second day."
Taking nothing away from Stanford, Dickerson enjoyed the campus and the weather there.
"It was really a beautiful place. The weather was awesome and you just can't find much wrong with the school. But for me there were just a lot more pros than cons in staying home to play at Rice. The education is on par with Stanford and the football team is going to be great with Coach Bailiff there. I just felt more comfortable at Rice."
Dickerson contacted Coach Naivar while the Rice Co-Defensive Coordinator was driving.
"Coach said he almost had a wreck. He said he did a back flip in the car. He was very excited," Eli said with a laugh.
In making his decision today Dickerson said he just didn't see a reason to wait any longer.
"I just couldn't find a reason not to commit. It feels great to be a Rice Owl. I'm feeling very secure in my decision. I think the program is going to do great things."
Dickerson becomes the 6th commit in the 2010 class.
Owl Sports Watch is your home for the latest in Rice recruiting and sports news.


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Nicole Richie will not face her DUI charges in court until August, after a LA Superior Court Commissioner granted a delay request by the defense earlier this morning.
Yesterday, Richies lawyer appeared in court early to ask for the continuance on the case as their expert Dr. Terence Sean McGee was unavailable to testify until next month. The Commissioner told them to return today to argue the motion. Moments ago, a Commissioner approved their request and the case has been continued until August 16.
Richie was ordered to appear in court at that time.
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The motion to continue the case was originally filed in court on June 26. The request was made because the defense claimed their witness — Dr. Terence Sean McGee was unavailable to testify immediately. They claimed in the motion, his testimony will be critical to Miss. Richies case in the filing as he can challenge the prosecutions scientific evidence and the conclusions reached by the drug recognition expert.
Richie, 25, was not in court for the brief hearing. Because she faces a misdemeanor charge, she was not required to attend.
Allan Parachini, a spokesman for Los Angeles County Superior Court, said Tuesday that Richie would have to decide whether to accept a plea deal offered by prosecutors.
Terms of the deal were not made available and the district attorney's office declined to comment.
Richies lawyer left court immediately after the hearing and was unavailable for comment on a possible plea deal.
Richie was arrested early Dec. 11 after witnesses reported seeing her black 2005 Mercedes-Benz sport utility vehicle headed the wrong way on a freeway in Burbank.
She allegedly failed a field sobriety test and authorities said she told them she had smoked marijuana and taken a prescription painkiller. No drugs were found on her or in the vehicle.
She pleaded not guilty in February to the DUI charge.
Richie co-stars on "The Simple Life" with Paris Hilton, who was recently released after being in custody for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case.
Besides the single DUI count, Richie's case contains an allegation that she had a prior misdemeanor DUI conviction in June 2003.
The California Vehicle Code says that if convicted of DUI twice within 10 years, a person can be sentenced to between 90 days and a year in jail and have driving privileges suspended.
Richie's legal problems come amid reports that she's pregnant. Her publicist has not answered repeated telephone and e-mail messages.
Some observers believe Richie could help herself by attending the proceedings.
"Anything that appears humble before the court is wise," said Hollywood publicist Michael Levine. "I think there's a backlash afoot because of the Hilton trial and anything to nullify it would be a good idea."
Others believe the Commissioner will be unmoved by the controversy surrounding the case against Hilton, who was initially given an early release to home confinement.
"I think it's going to be in the back of his mind," said defense attorney Mark Geragos, who has represented Winona Ryder and Michael Jackson. "But if it's a second DUI offense, it usually carries a mandatory amount of jail time."
Richie, the daughter of singer Lionel Richie, made the late-night talk show rounds recently, telling CBS' "Late Show" host David Letterman that she was worried about going to jail but was "willing to face whatever consequences come my way."


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John Maddalozzo (john(at)journyx(dot)com) reports a bug with a severity of 2 The lower the number the more severe it is. Short Description spin lock aborts in 7.0.3 Long Description Running many backends on a 7.0.3 postgres server RedHat 6.2 PostgreSQL 7.0.3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc egcs-2.91.66 Its been pretty reliable, but we have an inceasing frequency of spin lock aborts. Apr 22 15:49:10 db01 postmaster: FATAL: s_lock(4001506c) at spin.c:111, stuck spinlock. Aborting. Apr 22 15:49:11 db01 postmaster: FATAL: s_lock(4001506c) at spin.c:111, stuck spinlock. Aborting. They always come in pairs like that. Then grief... Apr 22 15:49:11 db01 postmaster: Server process (pid 21833) exited with status 134 at Mon Apr 22 15:49:09 2002 Apr 22 15:49:11 db01 postmaster: Terminating any active server processes... This is painful because the corporate website as well as some 500+ backends representing 210 DB instances go byby while postgres reestablishes itself. I've seen some suggestions this is because an application terminates with a segsegv, leaving a lock. We see frequent messages in the log file like this postmaster: pq_recvbuf: unexpected EOF on client connection These occur much more frequently than the spinlock aborts, so there is not a 1:1 correspondence. The pq_recvbuf errors in the two I just looked at were 2+ and 4+ minutes prior to the next spinlock aborts. I believe the majority of these are command-line scripts opening connections and not propperly closing them. We're addressing that problem separately. But the operations that seem to trigger the abort right now are DB schema creation, although there's another in there during the nightly vaccuum. I can pretty much re-create this, every second or third instance setup. I've done a lot of searching around and haven't found a definitive answer to what fixes this. I'm willing to upgrade, and willing to generate traces or whatever if someone can tell me will might lead to a resolution. Sample Code No file was uploaded with this report
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Sea, sky and city
Plein-air drawing workshop
Join us on an outdoor drawing workshop inspired by the modernist landscapes of Roy de Maistre and Roland Wakelin. Led by artist Celia Gullett, the program begins with a guided discussion of the Sydney moderns exhibition followed by a full day sketching en plein air at Berry's Bay where Wakelin and de Maistre experimented with light, colour and form.
This workshop focuses on the use of colour, shape and treatment of space. Learn how to simplify, compose, notate form and light in the landscape, and improve your understanding and application of colour. Under Celia's guidance, participants will complete a number of monochromatic compositional studies before translating them into colour.
Participants are asked to bring their own materials. At the Wednesday exhibition viewing and discussion, a suggested materials list will be provided along with information about where to meet at Berry's Bay, which is located on the north side of Sydney Harbour between Waverton Peninsula and McMahons Point.
Please note that you must be 18 or older to participate in this workshop.
Image: Roland Wakelin Down the hills to Berry's Bay 1916 (detail)
Wednesday 21 August 2013
6pm – 7pm (exhibition viewing)
Saturday 24 August 2013
10am – 5pm (workshop)
$70 Art Gallery Society of NSW member & student
Includes exhibition entry
Bookings essential
Bookings and enquiries: 02 9225 1740
In case of wet weather, the workshop will be postponed to Saturday 31 August
Related exhibition: Sydney moderns
Exhibition viewing
Meet at the information desk
Wednesday 21 August 2013 6pm – 7pm
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1. Moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces, particularly at night. Her tears fell with the dews at even. (Tennyson)
2. Figuratively, anything which falls lightly and in a refreshing manner. The golden dew of sleep.
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dew is used in combination; as, dew-bespangled, dew-drenched, dewdrop, etc.
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Bloomberg: Ukrainians cannot get rid of their addiction to dollars
. Ukraine's affair with the dollar stretches back at least 21 years. Ukrainians learned to covet the U.S. currency during the hyperinflation of the early 1990s, and never quite kicked the habit to the extent that their neighbors in Russia did, according to an article "Ukraine's Costly Addiction to the Dollar," which was posted by Bloomberg.
"What European country has more U.S. dollars in circulation than it does its own currency? What capitalist democracy is home to a thriving black market in foreign exchange? Unlikely as either may seem, there is an answer: Ukraine," the author of the article said.
According to economist Oleksandr Okhrimenko, the supply of the national currency, the hryvnia, is equivalent to USD 25 billion today, while about USD 80 billion in U.S. cash circulates in the Ukrainian economy, reads the article.
"The slightest concern can send Ukrainians running to exchange offices to stock up on U.S. currency. Ahead of the Oct. 28 parliamentary elections, Ukrainians bought some USD 3.34 billion amid fears that the government would stop propping up the hryvnia once the vote was over. The panic buying, the greatest since the financial crisis of 2008, forced the central bank to spend some USD 2.4 billion in currency reserves in an effort to keep the hryvnia stable," the author said.
The high interest rates required to keep money in hryvnias -- 25 to 28 percent for bank deposits, which translates into similarly elevated lending rates -- are strangling investment, according to the article.
The author gives some economic forecasts for Ukraine, including zero economic growth in 2012 (citing a statement by Prime Minister Mykola Azarov), and the current account deficit at 5.6% of GDP this year, compared with 2.2% in 2010 (according to IMF estimates).
"The government, however, is still unwilling to let the hryvnia drop from the 8-per-dollar perch where it has sat since 2009. Instead, officials have found all sorts of creative ways to prop up the currency. The central bank has required exporters to sell half of their foreign-currency earnings for hryvnias. Parliament has considered imposing a 15-percent tax on purchases of dollars, and set up a committee to combat illicit currency trading. The committee's head, central bank official Yuriy Horshkov, went so far as to warn that black marketers could face criminal punishment," reads the article.
Commentators in Ukraine were quick to point out that repressive moves would only strengthen the black market, the author said. He also recalls statements made by "two wealthy capitalists who [held] ministerial positions in Yanukovych's government, Petro Poroshenko and Serhiy Tihipko." Former acting Finance Minister Ihor Umansky called the proposal on a 15-percent tax on purchases of dollars a ruse to cheat Ukrainians out of the dollars under their mattresses.
"Of all the economic indicators Ukrainians may read about in the news, a stable exchange rate is what they value most. That's the way they have been conditioned since Soviet times. So if the government wants to find solutions to the country's economic woes, it will probably have to look elsewhere. Twenty-year-old addictions are hard to cure," reads the article.


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U.S. intelligence sources tell ABC News they are "dismayed and alarmed" by published reports that nine men arrested last year during a raid on "al Qaeda's winter headquarters" have been released.
The nine men are family members of a local cleric, who is wanted by Pakistan for providing "extensive help and protection" to al Qaeda's No. 2 man, Ayman al Zawahiri, intelligence sources tell ABC News.
Pakistani intelligence officials believe Zawahiri is hiding somewhere in a 40-square-kilometer area of Bajaur, near the Afghan border.
"Al Qaeda's winter headquarters" was a high-walled compound located near the village of Shin Kot, about eight miles from the Afghan border, U.S. and Pakistani sources tell ABC News.
A U.S. intelligence source said CIA and special forces had the compound under such close surveillance, "We could see their children playing soccer in the courtyard."
According to that source, al Qaeda's operational commander, Abu Faraj al Libbi, was among those staying at the house. He was captured elsewhere in May 2005.
The CIA and the Department of Defense decided not to raid the compound, fearing civilian casualties and harm to U.S.-Pakistani relations.
The "winter headquarters" compound was later burned to the ground by Pakistani officials.


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The Ladies' Note-Book And Calendar
The front cover begins at the top with the title "The Ladies' Note=Book And Calendar" and continues with an illustration of a mother writing a letter while her son and daughter read. The father and little girl are watching from the right side of the table. At the bottom, "Compliments of World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N.Y." is stated in black lettering. The back cover features a drawing containing a six story building which houses the manufacturer of Dr. Pierce's Standard Medicines. Below, there are two paragraphs titled "Consistency, Thou Art A Jewel" and "Do Likewise." The front end page begins with the heading "Beware of Swindlers" and is followed by an informational paragraph titled "Common Sense vs. Prejudice." The inside pages are dedicated to various receipts and "memoranda" pages. The receipts listed fall under the categories of soup, fish, cake, icing, pudding, and meats. All receipts entail the ingredients needed plus directions on how to prepare the dish. The "memoranda" pages are made up of blank lines for the purchaser to write down memos. The back end page is titled "Dr. Pierce's Compound Extract of Smart-Weed or Water Pepper" and contains promotions for various medicines offered by Dr. Pierce.View this piece: jpg pdf
Donor: Sliker, Shirley Brocker
Brand Name: Dr. Pierce's Family Medicines
Publisher: World's Dispensary Medical Association (Buffalo, N.Y.)
1924 (ca.)
24 p.
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Language: English
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Citation: The Ladies' Note-Book And Calendar. The Alan and Shirley Brocker Sliker Collection, MSS 314, Special Collections, Michigan State University Libraries. Available at http://www.lib.msu.edu/exhibits/sliker/detail.jsp?id=7841


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An autopsy shows that a Ventura County jail inmate who became seriously ill died from natural causes.
Department officials say Pamela Bucciarelle became ill early Wednesday morning, while in her cell at the county's Todd Road jail facility.
The 56 year old woman was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead about three hours later.
Craig Stevens, with the Ventura County Medical Examiner's Office, says the Simi Valley woman died from complications from a ruptured gastric ulcer.


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What's The Right Length For Your Cruise?
Written by: Kuki
That does mean the short cruises can be very busy, and a whole lot of fun, but as result of it, they also aren't really representative of the "full cruise experience". Those who first try the busy, always something happening scenarios of shorter cruises, may hve the wrong idea when they venture forth to take a longer cruise.
And those who board looking for the cruise to offer them a quieter, more relaxed vacation, may also get an unrepresentative view of the cruise experience. They may think: "This is just much too busy; no chance to just relax".
Of course, there's others like me, who will just fall in love with cruising, and see past what is actually going on, and understand just how good things can be, even if some of what they're experiencing does not meet their preconceived expectations.
My own recommendation is to leave the short cruises to the experienced cruisers. They're prefect for those want a quick, generally inexpensive escape, but who also understand that's what they've bought. From my own experiences I know I return home from short cruises needing a vacation from the cruise.
Cruises seven nights in duration are the standard for the vast majority of cruise ships. Most often they'll sail on a Saturday or Sunday, which requires passengers to only use one week of vacation time from their jobs. While you can still stay as busy as you like, with all variety of scheduled activities, there is still down time built into the cruise, where you can sleep in, relax out on deck, or grow two pant sizes at the buffet.
Also, with seven day cruises, the ships have more time to cover greater distances, so you're ports of call are going to offer more variety, than the shorter cruises. You'll not only get more ports of call to visit during your cruise, you'll get a choice of several destinations that aren't available on shorter cruise itineraries.
8 and 9 night cruises are becoming slightly more common of late. Generally cruises doing this length of trip are designed so you can visit more ports, but still only have to take one week of vacation time from your job. They'll leave early on one weekend, and return late the following weekend.
Once you step out of the routine seven day cruise you are going to notice a slight uptick in the average age demographic. And that will increase slightly as you go from an 8 night cruise to a 9 night cruise.
Cruises over 10 days in length will find you on ships with significantly less children and families onboard. You'll also find a yet again older average demographic. There's several causes. 1. A 10 – 15 day cruise requires using a full two weeks of vacation time. 2. Longer cruises are more costly, simply because you are paying for the services for extra days. 3. The older people are at a stage in their life where they can afford the time for longer cruises. For them, it's the money, not the time that might be an issue..
Planned ship's activities on the longer cruises are adjusted and targeted to the demographic the cruise lines have learned to expect on cruises of this length.
The next step up for lengthier cruises would be repositioning cruises, which quite commonly run from 16-18 nights. Cruise lines offer these when repositioning ships from distant global points, such as in the fall when they bring ships which summer in Europe back to the Caribbean.
On these cruises you're once again going to likely find a more senior demographic, and once again, the activities and entertainment are geared towards them.
There are no hard and fast rules which are always true, with no variation, within any of the classifications I've discussed here. However I believe what I've described here is close enough to accurate to be qualified as general rules, which should prove true, and therefore reliable.
The last category would be World Cruises, which can run anywhere from 90 days and up. I have no experience with world cruise, though I'm assuming those require you to be old and rich. I'm approaching qualifying for the first criteria, but sadly very far from qualifying for the latter.
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Posted: December 8th, 2009 under Kuki.
Comment from donna
Time December 9, 2009 at 10:36 am
Right now, a 7 night cruise just works best. I supposed there will be a day when working isn't an issue and I can take longer ones. After a week cruising, I'm usually ready to be home again.
Comment from MARIANNE GILMORE
Time December 9, 2009 at 11:31 am
We are new to cruising. Our first was 14 days to Hawaii and I loved the sea days more than shore days. We have tried a four day, and had we not been visiting friends who live near the port, I would not ever consider a short cruise. It would have been not worth the packing and airfare.
Ideally, I would like to find 2 14 day cruises (not necessarily on the same cruise line or itinerary) with a couple of days between them to do laundry and repack for the second cruise. For us, it is the cruise, not the destination, which we enjoy.
Comment from Dave Beers
Time December 9, 2009 at 3:36 pm
7 nights is the best fit for us. We've done some 8 night cruises too which are fine. That extra day makes it special. I am not a big fan of shorter cruises although I just finished one. Given the hassles of getting to a port, I am not going to waste air fare for a 3 or 4 night cruise. 3 night cruises are a total waste of time to me and I simply won't do them. If I lived near the port I might have a different opinion though. As it is, the closest port is Mobile and that is still a 6 hour trek by car.
I'd say 11 nights would probably be my high water mark before I was ready to be home again. 14 days would be the maximum. I absolutely do not have the personality or patience to go on cruises which are 21 days or longer. While the thought of a world cruise is enticing, I know I'd be ready for a padded room before the first month was finished!
Comment from bigapple
Time December 9, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Like the cruises of 10 days or more as the fellow cruisers are seasoned and are more in the know as to dress codes etc.Very few children running around the ship which makes a more relaxing atmosphere.
Comment from Kuki
Time December 9, 2009 at 6:14 pm
Last winter/spring we did a 4 day, 5day, and 18 day back to back to back, and I have to say I could have stayed on… of course the 18 day was on SilverSea, so we were in the lap of luxury! And what a GREAT time it was!
Comment from floridanamaw
Time December 9, 2009 at 7:36 pm
We've only been on 3 cruises so far. Our first one was a 5 night cruise. We wanted to see our we would like it. We loved it. Our last 2 have been 7 nights which I think will be what we do for a while. If we ever get to have more time off I would like to try a longer one. I think that for anything shorter than 7 night it's just not worth the trouble of packing, driving, etc, at least for us anyway.
Comment from Mike Lawson
Time December 9, 2009 at 8:04 pm
Kuki, interesting topic. We normally have to fly to the port and for that reason seven days never seems like enough. We have been on many ten and twelve day trips. Twelve seems like the right amount of time you still don't want to get off the ship but are starting to miss home. Take care, Mike
Comment from Master Chief
Time December 10, 2009 at 8:07 am
Kuki, we like the 7-8 days cruises. Actually I like the 14 day ones more than my wife so we compromise. We have cruised 12 times all 7-8 days with one 14 day cruise. We are destination cruisers and are constantly looking for new itineries. I just completed a 3 day cruise by myself as wife was off to baby showers with the kids. Way to short for me. As someone said 7 days and longer gives you more time to relax (I really like sea days) and being retired the demographics are more to my taste. I also would recommend a 5-7 day cruise for 1st timers. It will give you more of a feel as to what a cruise is about. Tha being said if I was offered a 3 day cruise for free I sure wouldn't turn it down!! Smooth sailing.
Comment from Mike M
Time December 11, 2009 at 12:57 pm
My wife and I are at the point where seven day cruises are too short. We enjoy port intensive cruises to parts of the world we haven't visited. My wife always loves saying on day six of a cruise "If this was seven days I'd be packing now".
We have found that ten to twelve days are the best. It allows us a day or two pre and/or post cruise stay in a port of departure so we can experience it more than just getting off the plane and going to the ship. Those extra days in a port can really enhance the cruise experience. The downside is that it does significantly add to the cruise budget.
A three-five day cruise isn't something we would no longer consider. We did one five day cruise and it seemed like it was over as soon as it began.
Take care,
Comment from Marc
Time December 14, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Seven days is just too short. I think 14 days is really are minimum with 21 being the maximum while working. Most of my friends that I cruise with are working folks in their 40s and 50s so I don't find the age that much higher on two week versus one week cruises. Although never having had the opportunity to take a World Cruise, I do know of children who are on World Cruises.


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