Britons and former bond traders Michael Pennington and Simon Crookall -- having moved abroad themselves in the past -- set it up as a way of connecting people who are planning to move, or who have just arrived in the city, and need help getting started with accommodation, employment and social opportunities.
Subsequent orders have arrived just as rapidly, including one I placed during an industrial-strength New England snowstorm.
"I think there are a lot of people who have arrived here who just want to give something back from their travels, " he says via satellite phone.
He himself, he told them, was fast becoming a tourist attraction, and if too many American tourists arrived his people would just have to leave to make room for them.
It was always going to be hard for the UN to enforce a ceasefire on a country of 23m with just 300 people, of whom 270 have arrived.
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Newly arrived, jet-lagged tourists who have just loaded up on cash at ATMs make prime targets.
The Israelis had just arrived from Tel Aviv and were to have traveled to a beach resort about 50 kilometers (30 miles) away, he said.
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Just as the discussion seemed about to fizzle out, two new contributions have arrived.
You may have seen ViaSat's van driving down Southern California's freeways, but the rig has just arrived in Orlando, for some additional testing a few degrees away from the company's Carlsbad home.
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"Since I got to the States, I have been working just to pay to live in a basement, " says Mr. Rios, who arrived in mid-December and shares the one-room space with five other foreigners who work at the same outlet.
Horsfield arrived at Vale Park in July 2009, but a series of injuries have limited him to just one start for the club, which came on the opening day of the season against Rochdale.
In injury time, an equaliser might have arrived when Jonathan Spector's cross found the back of Cole's head, but the ball just sailed over the corner of Sorensen's goal.
"A lot of coloring-in pencils have been donated, crayons and paper, " Tamara tells me before Angela interrupts to introduce a man who has just arrived with the offer of a self-contained flat beneath his home.
We step into that great continuum of mankind that has triumphed over grease flare-ups, cheap margarita mix and wives who wouldn't believe that the grill would clean itself if you just left the fire alone. l Now, 120, 000 years along in our evolution, we have arrived at a time--summer, 2007--when a person can bake the pizza of his dreams, the pizza he damn well deserves, right in his own backyard.
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