mike carey

They are different, obviously, and if you were interested both would be worth taking. The Baltic Sea cruise suggestion wasn't directed at @Benjamin_Nicholas's comment but at a poster who was not interested in a tropical getaway and said he'd prefer a North Sea cruise. The Baltic Sea suggestion was more, 'If you must take a cold climate cruise, the North Sea is probably a bad idea, try this.' I would suggest going to the Antarctic Peninsula or the high Arctic, but that's just me.

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It's in a great time zone to watch live but winter sports don't excite me, so I may watch some.

I think some of the reactions to them have been as over the top as they were, but that said I see the crowd behaviour as being that of a typical tennis crowd, just not one at normal tournament play. It was very much what you might see from a Davis Cup home crowd. As you noted in your most recent post it's a throwback to a former era, but with Dylan Alcott [sadly losing] on Rod Laver Arena a harbinger of a new one when wheelchair tennis can receive top billing, and a big crowd. And lots of eager 'wheelie kids' in the crowd.

Apparently your irony here was lost on some readers.

Imagine! A resort that's been reimagined!! I don't imagine I'll be there any time soon, but who knows, or can imagine?

The website Seeking Arrangement, I suspect.

In the absence of cricket from our TV screens (the national short form competition is in the finals stage and there is a gap in the schedule, and the international series between the Australian and England Women's teams is in a break between fixtures) I fitted in some serious tennis time yesterday. Two men's five setters, the Barty Party rolling on and for lighter relief a men's doubles match. Rafa went the distance against Denis Shapovalov, but coverage on the TV was interrupted at times when it dropped to be the third choice of the broadcaster which was only using two of its channels to cover the tennis. Great game but I wasn't glued to the set as I expected Rafa to win, and he duly did, although not as easily as I had expected. Also not expected (at least by me) was the way Ash Barty blew Jessica Pagula out of the water. Will she face any serious opposition and if she does will she be ready for a tough match. I have to think that she will be ready and boy will it be awesome to watch. Now on to a semi with surprise opponent Madison Keys. The main cause of the interruption to coverage of Nadal/Shapovalov was the Kyrgios and Kokkinakis doubles match which was thoroughly entertaining and a bit of a roller coaster ride, although not as much a roller coaster as was to come in the main evening match. The Special Ks won against Puetz and Venus in three sets and were suitably enthusiastic in their celebrations. The unexpected highlight of the day was the evening match, which started at 9pm our time (2am PST/5am EST) and prevented me from going to bed until 1am (you do the maths). More than once I had decided that the match was done only to have yet another twist. The contrast between the third and fourth sets when Berrettini could get nothing right and Monfils nothing wrong, and the fifth where Berrettini steam-rolled his opponent was epic to watch. I make no comment on his cuteness or otherwise. Two moments of grace from the last couple of days. In the doubles match Kyrgios hit a ball into the crowd and directly hit a young boy. Kyrgios grabbed a racquet from his bag, walked over and handed it to the lad. Cue TV interviews of a beaming little boy and his mother.Earler, after her match against Simone Halep, French player Alizé Cornet was interviewed on court for Channel 9 by Jelena Dokic. As Dokic wound up the interview, Cornet asked to say something and proceeded to offer an emotional tribute to Dokic' career (they had almost played in the 2009 AO). https://www.sportingnews.com/au/tennis/news/alize-cornet-shares-emotional-moment-with-jelena-dokic-following-australian-open-upset/nh00iqcuibov1n9subpr6e1ej

To clarify, and this is something the those replying above are well aware of, there is not 'a website' that lets you access the comments. You have to navigate to the regular RM website via an IP address that is outside the US, in most of the examples cited above NL or DE, typically a proxy server or VPN. Alternatively you could move to another country and the comments would be visible when you log on normally (I suspect this was not a particularly useful suggestion, but it would work!).

I've only met Matt socially at Palm Springs weekends, but I'm not surprised.

I'm the opposite in a way, I read PMs first where I first see them be that in my e-mail (Outlook) or in the forum. Either way I will usually open the e-mail if only so it doesn't show up as unread in my trash folder. A couple of days ago I was using wi-fi that blocked the forum (my recollection from a previous time, not actually checked this time) and was able to read the text of the PM in the mail item. I replied later.

What he said. I relate completely to that description., so sign me up. I've read enough of Benjamin's blog to have seen varied accounts of him guiding and directing a companion though intimate situations. Of course that relies on his accounts being accurate and he could be faking it. Somehow I doubt it.

Thousands of people (mostly or exclusively men but that part is largely irrelevant), the complete range of ages, add in some party (and other) drugs, a new and unpredictable disease and unaccustomed levels of activity (vertical and horizontal) in tropical heat, the surprise would be if there weren't more deaths. Natural causes alone would have suggested as much in that demographic mix even before 'culturally specific' characteristics of the group concerned were considered.

I saw this story earlier today on OMAAT. Emirates, JAL and Air India have apparently already cancelled most US flights, Emirates stopping all destinations except LAX, IAD and JFK (for reasons that are not clear). There is a high degree of scepticism in the OMAAT commenter community, and that's to be expected. The issue seems to be mainly with B777 radar altimeters, and primarily for low visibility instrument landings, although it's not clear those are the only area of concern. The issue apparently is not with 5G per se but with the C-band spectrum being used for 5G deployed in the US. It remains to be seen whether this degree of caution is justified or excessive.

Oh, good, you've only got two weeks to wait then!

Hobby. Hobbier. Hobbiest.

The Full Bench of the Federal Court has unanimously dismissed Djokovic' appeal against the decision to cancel his visa. The court ruled on whether the decision was irrational or unreasonable in law, not on the merits of the decision. They have not yet released their reasoning and have foreshadowed doing so in the coming hours or days. The chief justice made the a point of saying that it was not role of the court to assess the merits of a decision of executive government.

You assume that an overnight is eight hours, but I'm not sure how commonly that is the case. I'm sure it is for some. My first overnight was in LA (I wrote about it here at the time) and was $1800. It went from 7pm to 10am (the last hour and a half at breakfast). If he were still working I would probably pay his rate again. I would probably not pay the AUD equivalent for an overnight now in this country, it's not easy to look past the number of dollars. AUD 2500 sounds more than USD 2000 even though I know it's not. (Also the local currency dollar numbers in the going rates seem to be similar in the two markets, maybe slightly higher here recently.)

I'm not sure why you asked that, his phone number looks valid.

This is why the WHO designates variants of interest only when the virus manifests sufficient variation to warrant separate tracking, Those variants were allocated a Greek letter designator. Only a minority of variants of interest are elevated to variants of concern, IIRC Alpha, Beta, Delta and Omicron so far. So far successive variants have out-competed their predecessors (if they didn't, they would probably have faded away instead). The earlier versions seem not to exist in the same populations as a later one except while the newer one is establishing itself. At the moment Delta is still around but being replaced by Omicron, although there may be residual clusters of it where Omicron is yet to appear.

There has been an interesting and predictable side-effect of the Djokovic shitstorm over the past week (court still sitting at 1315h so no resolution) and that is that everyone else has been flying under the radar. It has been a distraction for some of the bigger names who have been asked t comment and expressed frustration that people were talking about him and not the tennis. Ash Barty has had a free run with none of the concentration that could have been expected on whether she could play well, and who might win the women's tournament. The only coverage I've seen of here preparation was winning one lead-up tournament. And the good news story from an Australian perspective has been Thanasi Kokkinakis winning his first ATP tournament at Memorial Drive. So, a home town win a couple of days before the big dance starts.

French phone numbers are of the format 0x xx xx xx xx (so a two digit area code stating with zero and an eight digit phone number). 06 is an area code for mobile phone numbers (mobiles do not use the normal local area codes). Calling from abroad the leading zero in he number is dropped. His phone number has the correct number of digits. Whether it is the correct phone number is a separate question.

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The Minister's decision was not based on the health threat from his being unvaccinated. The detailed reasoning the Minister released after his public statement cited the danger that allowing him to stay would pose because it would fan anti-vax sentiment. His lawyers say that there is no evidence to support that claim, and that is what they say is irrational. The hearing in the Federal Court will resume tomorrow (16 Jan) at 0930.

Thanks for the clarification/correction, Shawn. I dad been thinking about Rentmen when I wrote that, and obviously based on what I see as a client there. In other countries the rates show near the top of the ad with rates for In, Out and Overnight allowed. That can either nave a number or the word 'ask' in each field. I haven't seen those fields in ads for any escorts in the US (I clearly haven't looked at them all). I haven't seen 'ask me' about rates for escorts there either, although if it's not where I'm used to seeing it where I do for non-US escorts, I could easily have missed it.