mike carey

Some amazing works! On a recent visit to the National Gallery of Victoria I spent some time in a couple of galleries of art from a similar period. Many were on a theme of the Cult of Saint Katherine, including both semi-iconic images and other narrative art of her persecution and torture. It was interesting to observe both the art for itself and to reflect on the overwhelmingly religious nature of it, and also on the contrast between the iconography of art in Orthodox Christianity and the art in later Latin rite Christianity.

I'm not sure that @Simon Suraci is looking for people, especially those outside the five boroughs to tell him what does and doesn't work, and what he can and can't do in New York (so I have just disqualified myself, as I should anyway), but rather for New Yorkers to tell him what they would and wouldn't do, and specifically if they'd take the Metro-North or Path train a few stops to see someone, or to see him. For those who haven't, perhaps go back and read the situation he posed in his OP rather than simply launch into a boiler-plate 'what works in the big city' response to the thread.

It was an attempt at a geometric pun, but I guess it failed.

Is that a tangent?

The OP said 'near' DCA and that DC proper and Alexandria work too. King Street Metro meets that requirement and those two hotels are a couple of minutes' walk from the station. Convenient for him and for the guest he later mentioned. I've stayed at those and, at the Embassy Suites and a Marriott at Crystal City, and I would pick Alexandria over them. But I guess the luxury of a free shuttle in a van can be important.

I had wondered why you typed in cuneiform.

Cheques really aren't a thing in Australia any more, and this bank doesn't offer them with its accounts, so that won't be an issue. Some people still use them, but very few, and most banks both issue them and accept them, but not all. Shops won't take them and the government will no longer issue cheques from 2028.

Yes, @RadioRob, the search I mentioned above now returns the set of results I would have expected, which it didn't yesterday. Thanks.

Did you mean Toulon? Toulouse is inland.

I had similar issues today looking for a thread that I knew was there about an escort. I tried a variety of combinations of words and search options and eventually resorted to Google where I found two threads.

Interesting development from a bank I use almost as much as my main one (it's not an on-line bank but close enough, it has so few branches). For some time they've been paying 4.75% on their savings account and on their transaction account. As a result I've been lax in transferring funds into my savings account. I just received an e-mail from them that from Thursday they will increase the savings rate to 5% and cut the transaction account rate to 2.75% (still a good rate for that type of account). If my discipline in minimising the transaction account balance is anything to go by, they'll probably end up paying less interest in total. The RBA hasn't yet started post peak-inflation cuts to its cash rate from the high of 4.35%, and is still suggesting it'll be next year before it does, but in the last few days the commercial bank prognosticators are starting to predict a 25 basis point cut this year.

Trains only as far as I know - Biden and Johnson certainly travelled to Kyiv that way. The older review says 'Горячий кавказцев' which is 'hot Caucasians' in Russian, and that's as in men from the Caucasus not the usual meaning we use.

As is often the case with respiratory viruses, probably not, but it is likely to reduce the severity of an infection if you contract the disease.

Correct, so I've moved it here where the topic had already been discussed.

Moderator's Warning A gentle reminder that this thread is about types of lube to use, not about condom use (although which lubes are compatible with condoms is okay). Off topic comments will be removed, as some already have.

Yes, I knew that!! Perhaps I should have added a smiley emoji!

OUTRAGEOUS!! The map in that video showed New Brunswick and Nova Scotia as parts of the US.

Welcome to the forum, @LukePhx, I think you've made a perfect landing here! For the record, I'm one of those weirdos who will read reviews as well as look at pics and stats.

I was just reading an article in the Economist that noted that the coastal water in the Gulf was 31 degrees (88 F) when Helene was about to cross. That high temperature boosted the amount of water the storm took up and likely contributed to the severity of the rain as it moved inland. As I type, Milton has sped up, which if it continues at that speed will reduce the amount of rain that falls (it will cross the peninsula more quickly). We are getting rolling coverage on morning TV here, not exclusively but along with significant local news. It has noted that the authorities are being ruthless in their warnings, one of which apparently was, 'If you chose not to evacuate, please attach a label to your wrist with your name and next of kin, so we can identify your body'. Brutal! Thoughts from afar for those affected by Helene, and now Milton. (Storms between H and M were either near Bermuda or off the Cabo Verde Islands in Africa.)

Virgin Australia went into administration in 2020 during the pandemic and was bought by Bain Capital. They have planned several dates to relist it on the stock exchange but haven't yet managed to do so. A week or so back Qatar Airways announced it was taking a 25% stake in Virgin, and under the deal it will wet lease jets to VA to resume long haul international flights, this time to Doha. This has been described as a sneaky, or alternatively 'elegant' work around to the Australian governments widely criticised rejection of a request last year to double their flights to Australia, a decision seen as being at the behest of Qantas and its Middle East partner Emirates. (Oddly Qatar is a fellow member of Oneworld with Qantas but already had a commercial arrangement with Virgin.) The charm offensive with the government and public has now started in earnest. Hot on the heels of Qantas announcing repatriation charter flights for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade from Cyprus for Australians evacuated from Lebanon (there are upward of 15,000 citizens and permanent residents there), Qatar announced that it too would operate charters. It's unclear what the financial arrangements are between the government and either airline, but both would have had to disrupt their schedules to some extent to operate the flights. Qatar was the first to operate a flight, understandably as they had a shorter prepositioning flight than Qantas, and arrived in Sydney last night (Monday). The first Qantas flight arrived this morning. Qatar is staging through Doha, but Qantas is operating non-stop from Larnaca to Sydney in Boeing 787s, a slightly longer flight than their regular Perth to London flights. Flights on both charters are free for the passengers, and Qantas and Virgin are offering free onward travel to other Australian cities for passengers of Qantas and Qatar flights respectively.

The link he posted has been edited and now works, but this is double assurance!

3 ... 2 ... 1 Mod's Note This call may come as a surprise, but can you all limit your comments to the escort in question and not take any time out to talk about each other. Members are entitled to post their comments about him and any reservations they may have. Most members have enough experience to make reasoned assessments of an ad (doesn't mean they are always correct) and don't need a character assessment from others when they do so. Members who have met an escort also don't need such an assessment for posting their thoughts. Please stay on topic henceforth.

I've never caught yellow fever, and I haven't been vaccinated since 2002.

Well, 're-formed' is a thing we all go through!