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It is my great pleasure to be here today to welcome President Karzai and the Afghan delegation , thirteen months since the Tokyo Conference on Reconstruction Assistance to Afghanistan . She lends this distinctive style to { Floating Opera } , a beautiful collaboration with fellow Lincoln musicians including representatives of the Millions , Mercy Rule , Jazz Monks , Thirteen Nightmares , The Return , Jumpin ' Kate , and contributions by the Lincoln Symphony . And here I am , thirteen years of publishing pedigree and learning everyday how different and rewarding collection development can be at the sharp end of things . Burroughs , thirteen years old , told his mother that when his team needs to rally , ' I've been asking God to give me something to hit . In Africa , for ten , eleven , thirteen years and more , people under Portuguese domination , who have lived and suffered the presence of this regime for almost 500 years , rose in struggle . When I was a young teenager ( twelve , thirteen years old , maybe eleven ) when we had moved to Virginia Beach , the only way you could get into town ( if your parents did n't take you in the car ) was to catch a Trailways bus , and we would catch that on the corner to go into downtown Norfolk . For FY 2003 , the average number of days to resolve disputed issues was 266 days , thirteen days below the target of 279 days . Take California : if its fifty-two representatives were grouped into four districts , thirteen members from each district would go to Washington - - and among them would be ethnic and racial minorities and members of the Green Party .