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Melbourne - Old Trafford Apartment
N.º máximo de huéspedes5
Cuartos de baño1
Tamaño100 m²
- Apto para familias / niños
- Cocina
- Aire acondicionado
- Lavadora / secadora
- Aparcamiento disponible
- Desayuno
- Piscina
Resumen del alojamiento
|Old Trafford, Berwick, 3806 Melbourne, Australia
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We are a young family of 5 heartily involved in sports & church activities. We love keeping fit and live on a quarter acre (1000m2) block in middle class Berwick, We have a large 7 bedroom house which includes a 3 bedroom upper floor apartment (which is where you will be staying). The main bedroom (Summer Room) has a Queen size bed & base with your own private bathroom, toilet & living area with stereo and 32" LCD TV. A second bedroom (Autumn Room) is available with another Queen size bed for extra travelers if required. There is also a third bedroom with a single bed. Add to all this a separate access via an external stair so you can come & go as you please.
There is an in ground pool to cool off in as well as dedicated on site parking. Fresh towels and linen, shampoo & conditioner provided.
We love meeting new people and have traveled via backpacker units as a family. You can eat upstairs in privacy as dining facilities are provided. Daryl works as a Building Designer & Deanna is always around the house to help with advice on local transport, eateries and things to see.
We are 2 minutes by car from the Monash (M1) Freeway entrance and 5 minutes bus ride (15-20 minute walk) from the Berwick railway station. Buses run every 20 minutes on weekdays and hourly on weekends. We are a 40 minute drive by car on the Monash Freeway (over 1 hour drive at peak hour)to Central Melbourne's shopping precinct , MCG and Etihad stadiums for AFL football, international cricket, Australian Open Tennis and all it's other attractions. Train takes about 70 mins to city. Only 1 hour drive to the Phillip Island Moto GP and access to Gippsland is just 5 minutes down the road. Access to the Great Ocean Road is just 90 mins away.
You can walk to over 10 different takeaway outlets and the supermarket in just 5 minutes and Berwick has some wonderful a'la carte restaurants. There is also an extensive network of bicycle trails which connect us with the South Eastern corridor of Melbourne and all the way into the city.
If you're arriving via the airport (Tullamarine or Avalon) then you can get the SkyBus to Southern Cross station in the CBD (where the SkyBus terminates). Then ride the Pakenham Line train to Berwick Station. The train ride takes about 70 minutes. We can be contacted via mobile from the train or station to pick you up on arrival at Berwick. Alternatively you can catch the 839 bus from Berwick Station to 100m from our doorstep.
Please note that there are no cooking facilities in the apartment other than a convection microwave & electric frying pan. Also the apartment is above our children's bedrooms and, due to noise, not suitable for children under 13 years of age. Therefore no booking will be accepted with children under the age of 13 years.
Normas del alojamientoGuests should park in the designated visitors area.
Guests should enter via the side gate
1. While the apartment is completely separate to our house it is directly above the lower floor where we live. In normal living situations you may hear some muffled sounds from us & we may hear some from you. That's just how it is. This has never been an issue for any of our guests.
2. You will have to use outside stairs to enter into the apartment.
3. You will need a car to get around Melbourne. Public transport will take you in & out of the CBD but not to all the tourist spots.
4. Public transport requires purchasing a travel Myki card first.
5. Please keep communication lines open about arrival times and arranging pick ups from the Berwick station.
|Precio semanal para 1 huésped
|Tarifa para > 1 huéspedes
|$ 17 US por huésped/noche extra
|N.º máximo de noches
|3 semanas
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muy bonito apartamento moderno, limpio y tranquilo.
very nice modern apartment,clean and quiet.
Daryl y Deanna son tan buenos anfitriones. Parecen como una gran familia. Era un apartamento tranquilo, preciosa y amplia que nos alojamos, el único "ruido" fue una ocasión feliz celebrando el cumpleaños de su hija. Nos regocijamos con ellos. Ellos nos dan un montón de espacio y la necesidad de la vida privada. Son gente tan amable y agradable, que parecía que hemos conocido durante años, divertido eso! Fue una lástima que nuestra estancia fue muy corta, que el momento nos despedimos, hemos estado pensando en ellos y ellos ya desaparecidos. Lo recomendamos sin reservas Daryl y Deanna cualquier momento para cualquier persona que le encantaría explorar Melbourne y todavía abrigar un "hogar" lejos de casa.
Daryl and Deanna are such great hosts. They seem like a great family. It was a quiet, lovely and spacious apartment that we stayed in, the only "noise" was a joyous occasion celebrating their daughter's birthday. We rejoiced with them.
They give us lots of space and need for privacy. They are such friendly and personable people, that it seemed we have known each other for ages, funny that! It was a pity that our stay was so short, that the moment we said our goodbyes, we have been thinking of them and missing them already.
We would unreservedly recommend Daryl and Deanna any time for anyone who would love to explore Melbourne and still cherish a "home" away from home.
Disfrutamos de la estancia mucho. La amabilidad del Famiulie es muy grande. Gracias por una estancia agradable
Wir haben den Aufenthalt sehr genossen. Die Hilfsbereitschaft der Famiulie ist sehr groß. wir bedanken uns für einen schönen Aufenthalt
Bonito lugar, muy cómodas camas, ideal para viajar a Melbourne y sus alrededores. Los anfitriones eran muy informativo con respecto a los lugares a visitar, etc y Berwick Village tiene algunos buenos lugares para comer en la noche. Miré a varios lugares antes de reservar Old Trafford, y no nos decepcionó. Muchas Gracias.
Nice place, very comfortable beds, ideal for travelling to Melbourne and the surrounding areas. The hosts were very informative with regards to places to visit etc and Berwick Village has some nice places to eat out in the evening.
I looked at a number of places prior to booking Old Trafford and, it didnt disapoint.
Many Thanks.
Realmente disfrutamos de nuestra estancia en Melbourne. Daryl y su familia fueron los anfitriones agradables y el apartamento era absolutamente genial - muy limpio y bien equipado. Muchas gracias!
We really enjoyed our stay in Melbourne. Daryl and his family were nice hosts and the appartment was absolutely great - very clean and well appointed. Thank you very much!
Acogiendo con satisfacción me hosts.Picked hasta de la clase station.First accommodation.Spacious cómodo con todo lo que el servicio de autobús needed.Excellent a Berwick luego el tren a la ciudad. Realmente disfruté de mi estancia y la compañía de Charlie el perro.
Welcoming hosts.Picked me up from the station.First class accommodation.Spacious comfortable with everything I needed.Excellent bus service to Berwick then train to the city.
Really enjoyed my stay and the company of Charlie the dog.
Tuvimos una excelente estadía en casa de Daryl y Deanna. Excelente apartamento área de estilo superior, muy cómodo y tranquilo. Gran desayuno y los aperitivos siempre, muy recomendable.
We had an excellent stay at Daryl and Deanna's house. Excellent apartment style upper area, very comfortable and quiet. Great breakfast and snacks provided, highly recommended.
Deanna y Daryl han sido los mejores anfitriones que alguien pueda pedir. Ellos nos han dado como un "todo incluido" paquete con respecto a la vivienda hermosa y consejos de tantos Cómo obtener lo mejor alrededor. La familia hoyo nos dio una bienvenida tan cálida, que nosotros hayamos amado a Australia desde el primer día.
Deanna and Daryl have been the best hosts someone can ask for. They have given us like a "all included" package with regard to the beautiful apartment and so many hints how to get around best. The hole family gave us such a warm welcome, that we loved Australia from the very first day.
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My daughter and I arrived at Old Trafford to a wonderful welcome from Daryl and Deanna. The apartment itself was just asdiscribed and even better. The main reason for our visit was to spend time with my grandaughter who is a student in Deakin University so the apartment was ideally placed for visiting her and she was able to stay over with us whenever she could. We visited Sydney for 6 nights over Easter and where allowed to leave a lot of our luggage in the apartment at no extra cost. I cant speak highly enough about our hosts, Deanna gave us some great tips on places to visit in the area and Daryl was very helpful, even Charlie the dog was very welcoming. I highly recommend this apartment to anyone who wants to stay within easy reach of Melbourne and within easy reach of the beautiful beaches and countryside. Celia and Carol.
servicio muy muy bueno para recomendar
trés trés bonne prestation à recommander
- Alojamiento de calidad asegurada
- Verificamos telefónicamente a cada anfitrión
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Tempest, Bob Dylan's 35th studio album due out this fall, is said to show the darker side of Dylan. He originally set out to make a religious album, but in the end, he created something deeper and darker than he intended.
What does "the darker side of Dylan" mean?
For starters, the album's title track is reportedly a 14-minute ode to the sinking of the Titanic. Though the track is about a real event, Dylan told Rolling Stone that the song is not an entirely truthful account of what happened. He even mentions Titanic film star Leonardo DiCaprio in the lyrics ("Yeah, Leo," Dylan said. "I don't think the song would be the same without him. Or the movie.")
"People are going to say, 'Well, it's not very truthful,' " Dylan said. "But a songwriter doesn't care about what's truthful. What he cares about is what should've happened, what could've happened. That's its own kind of truth. It's like people who read Shakespeare plays, but they never see a Shakespeare play. I think they just use his name."
Other songs that show a heavier side of Dylan are "Tin Angel," about a man's search for his long-lost love, and "Pay In Blood," a track where he repeats the line, "I pay in blood, but not my own."
As far as his initial, religious intentions go, Dylan said he felt he didn't have enough religious songs in his repertoire.
"I wanted to make something more religious," he said. "I just didn't have enough [religious songs]. Intentionally, specifically religious songs is what I wanted to do. That takes a lot more concentration to pull that off 10 times with the same thread – than it does with a record like I ended up with."
Tempest is set for release September 11. Dylan has not yet released an entire track from the album, but new song "Early Roman Kings" soundtracks a lengthy preview for the Cinemax series Strike Back.
– Sarah Scroggins, WCBS-FM; additional reporting from Jillian Mapes, CBS Local

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Titrleist appears to be unveiling their prototype ball that manyy of us had the chance to play late last year to the masses. I really like the new V1X and it should help lower my score around the greens this spring.
I saw that and was wondering if out feedback helped them go ahead with the next generation of Pro V's
Certain it validated some of what Touring Pros spoke of.
i cant wait until they come out
If you consider Titleist's V1 & V1X ball sales it would be interesting to know what the ratio is (Pro/Amateur % -to-other %). I'm pretty sure Titleist designs these two ball for the professional so they maintain premium product placement (#1 Ball in Golf) but being able to demonstrate longer distance, more control and softer feel certainly appeals to the masses which is probably a very large percent of sales if I had to guess. I got a few sleeves through Team Titleist and filled out the survey for each. They must put a value on that even knowing that I'm not a low handicapper as I seem to always get solicited for feedback from them of which I'm happy to provide.
Anyone have any insight on golf ball sales?
It's hard to imagine they could improve the existing ball all that much, considering it's already the best ball out there IMO. Looking forward to trying the new one out though.
I have a box of the new X's sitting at home, wanted to try them last weekend but caught the Flu :( Should get out and give them a go this weekend!
I thought they were terrific. I noticed a 5 yard +/- difference in most shots. They also felt better off the face of the club.
Don't know about the design differences, but I did notice just today that Titleist has initiated a Sweepstakes for personalized 2013 Pro-vi and Pro-vix balls. Grand Prize winner gets 6 dozen; weekly (2nd place) winners get 1 dozen each. Check it out.
PatCCraigIt's hard to imagine they could improve the existing ball all that much, considering it's already the best ball out there IMO. Looking forward to trying the new one out though.
I like the current ProV1X ok, but the current ProV1 will not work for me on a windy day. That thing is one of the least stable balls in the wind I've played. The X is better, but still not great. That being said, the "Test" ball I played with this fall (black numbers so I'm assuming ProV1) is remarkably better than the current ProV1. Much more stable in the wind, doesn't balloon when hitting directly into the wind, but still has the drop-and-stop capability that we all love from the ProV1. I'm looking forward to testing a sleeve each of the new ProV1 and ProV1X with my current ball.
SmithjssTitleist appears to be unveiling their prototype ball that manyy of us had the chance to play late last year to the masses.
I got a sleeve of those "test" balls last fall but it was so late in the year when I go them that my golf season was over. I felt I sort of shirked Titleist by not being able to get out and give them a true test.
theres too much snow on the ground for me to worry about the new pro v's at this time...for those of you that can play right now let me know how the new balls perform compared to last years...


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Tiger's old man also played out of bounds.
A decade before copping to "infidelities" of his own, Tiger Woods was a "victim" of his late father's cheating ways, the champion golfer's high school sweetheart told E! News.
"He would just call crying and say, 'My dad is with another woman,' and that would be all he could say," Dina Parr told E! "He would be so upset, so I just tried to be there for him and listen to him."
Parr, 34, said she dated Woods starting when he was a junior in high school through the golf phenom's freshman year at Stanford University in 1995. Their breakup "shocked" and "devastated" her at the time, she said (click here to see the handwritten letter Woods penned to end their relationship).
After a bevy of women have come forward to dish of alleged affairs with the world's No. 1 golfer, Woods' wife Elin Nordegren is reportedly readying a split of her own.
Parr said she has decided to speak out so people might keep in mind that Woods' "life wasn't perfect and [he] did have a hard childhood."
"I remember he was crying and very upset in this one conversation, and he was like, 'I can't even believe the type of women he's going out with! She's disgusting,'" Parr told E! about Earl Woods' effect on his son. "He didn't exactly have the nicest words to say."
Still, Parr said Woods used to idolize his father, who died of cancer in 2006.
"His dad was his hero, he was everything to him, and his dad had given up a lot of things for Tiger and done so much for him," she said. "You could feel the love they had between them, the connection they had was very strong."
Parr added: "His dad was a good role model in many other ways, but in that particular area [marital fidelity]...he wasn't. And I know that was the one thing about his dad that he could never get over. So yeah, it's interesting that it's turned out that he's doing the same thing."
Only the number of Tiger Woods' alleged mistresses – about a dozen – and the ability to "get away with it as long as he did" surprised her, Parr told E!
"But this personality trait that I started to notice in college, this untouchable arrogance, it certainly seems that it's escalated, because when you're with this many women, you have this untouchable attitude, and I think, unfortunately, it's caught up to him," she said.


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Career Journal: How to Make the Most of a Lean Week at Work
Most people will get a short respite from work this week as India celebrates Diwali on Tuesday and, for other days, the pace of business slows.
But if you are one of those stuck in the office, you have a choice. You can daydream (or feel slightly bitter) about being on vacation. Or you can use the free time to your benefit.
Here are a few ways:
1. Meet clients: If there are clients you haven't spoken to in a long time, Diwali gives you a reason to re-connect. Have a long telephone conversation, schedule a lunch or catch up over coffee. Sending Diwali gifts or cards is also a good idea. Also, remember to reply to old emails you didn't have the time to respond to earlier.
2. Catch up on some reading: Now is the time to sit with a book, put your feet up and read in peace. Clogeny Technologies, a Pune-based software development firm, for instance, shares a reading list with its employees. They ask employees to use their free time to read about something they always wanted to know more about and to "update their knowledge by reading articles and blogs on new technology," says Chirag Jog, company co-founder.
3. Take stock of your health: Often you read about how important it is to be healthy at work yet somehow your routine doesn't change. We recently wrote about how a few simple adjustments could protect you from repetitive strain injury, which is caused by frequent movements like typing. So use these few days to see if your computer monitor is at eye-level, and that the back of your chair is straight.This is also the time to make use of your company's health facilities. Kavita Nadkarni, Mumbai-based vice-president of service delivery at an Indian telecom company, asks people to hit the office gym and take yoga sessions to relieve stress.
Another great stress buster is spending time with your family, especially with kids who will be home for the Diwali holidays. So if you can, leave the office early.
Here are some other health tips you could use.
4. Update your resume: If it's been a long time since you took a look at your resume, do it now. Also, remember to update your online profiles, on LinkedIn, Facebook or on your blog. With companies looking at a candidate's Internet presence and the Internet becoming a tool for networking, an updated profile is important.
If you don't have a web profile, you could start building one.
5. Organize: Work becomes easier and faster if you have everything organized. "Clean up the papers that keep piling up on the desk," says Ms. Nadkarni. Put all your documents in order, update your contact list and delete mails you no longer need.
6. Get to know your colleagues: It is seldom that you get the time to have a relaxed one-on-one conversation with people in the office. If you are the team leader, take the team out for lunch or dinner.Mr. Jog suggests organizing talks in the office. For instance, he says, an employee could give a talk to colleagues on a subject he is an expert on.
Also, use this time to network with people from other teams and departments. You'll know the right person to reach out to later when you need help.
7. Work harder: There is always that pile of work that never becomes smaller. But with comparatively less work to do this week, go ahead and finish it.Some experts suggest that it's good to work harder when the boss is holidaying or most of your colleagues are out. It impresses your boss and gains the respect of your colleagues.
You could also do extra work in anticipation of a holiday you want to take, or you could also offer to do a part of a job for a colleague who is on leave.
8. Have an office party: But we understand most people are gloomy because they have to work when others are on vacation. So bring the festive cheer to work and organize an office outing or Diwali party. It will not only lighten your mood but also give you a rare chance to interact casually with people at work.
What do you do in your free time in office? Tell us in the Comments section.
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There seems to be a fair amount of primitivism amongst the natural/organic foods movement, which includes the outrage over GMO crops. I do sometimes choose organic products because there are certain aspects of the designation that I do think are worthwhile, but there are others which there seems to be relatively little scientific evidence for.
Yeah, I've seen a lot of this, and it kind of keeps me away from people who buy in too much to this kind of philosophy. I actually really like things like free-range organic chickens and the eggs from them because they simply taste better, but I dislike a lot of the rhetoric that goes into trying to sell it. It's kind of a shame, because I think the taste argument is quite strong on its own.


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Kick Swalwell out, he Won't help with these phone calls
Original post made by do not call list worthless, Another Pleasanton neighborhood, on Feb 25, 2014
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a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Feb 25, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Everybody in the entire country has this problem with calls from telemarketers. You think that this is what Smallwell should somehow be fixing? How out of touch with reality are you? If this is your biggest problem than you have it pretty good. People are out of work, struggling to feed their children, foreclosing on their homes.....yet Smallwell needs to do something about those crushing telemarketers! Put the phone down, leave your house, and get a life.
a resident of Dublin
on Feb 25, 2014 at 2:30 pm
I don't see him working on much of anything else either. My health care costs have skyrocketed since ES took office but when I contacted his office with concerns about why the new .gov program was more expensive than the COBRA I had prior the response was alarmingly similar to what the original poster received.
Pretty much I see an elected official that's taking jobs away from people when he pretends to be a drive through barista. Did anybody elect him to serve coffee?
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Feb 25, 2014 at 2:37 pm
How nice of you FWP to tell me about what should be my concerns. It happens that I am presently working THREE jobs to try to make ends meet. My phone woke me each time from sleep when people who should be fined ignored my DNC preference. Oh, and don't bother to tell me to turn off my phone while sleeping. My 80 yr old mother is in the hospital and I need to be available 24/7 in case she needs my help.
Take care of your own business before you pretend to know how the rest of us should live. It happens to be very serious when these calls come all day every day and I am not able to get any sleep.
a resident of Downtown
on Feb 25, 2014 at 2:52 pm
I have seen Swalwell around, and been aware of his representation, more in the last two years than the previous 20+ years of Pete Stark…
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Feb 25, 2014 at 2:53 pm
Yes, yes, yes!!!! I know most of the people who claimed on FOX News that their insurance rates have gone up because of the ACA (Obamacare) have been proven to be liars, I'm NOT lying when I tell you that my premiums jumped 6000%. Sometimes I think me and Ted Nugent are the only truthtellers left in this country!!!!! (Comment partially removed by Pleasanton Weekly Online staff)
a resident of Bonde Ranch
on Feb 27, 2014 at 1:59 pm
Probably because he is involved in them himself. I just received a robo call from Stalwell himself this morning asking that I join his Townhall by phone. Isn't it odd that a Townhall is supposed to be in front of the people and he wants to do it by phone. Just another politician who is worthless.
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Three new fights have been added to the previously announced two for the free Facebook stream accompanying Saturday's UFC Fight Night 24 event, officials today confirmed.
The new additions include welterweights John Hathaway (14-1 MMA, 4-1 UFC) vs. Kris McCray (5-2 MMA, 0-2 UFC), bantamweights Michael McDonald (11-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) vs. Edwin Figueroa (7-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC), and heavyweights Sean McCorkle (10-1 MMA, 1-1 UFC) vs. Christian Morecraft (6-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC).
They join featherweights Alex "Bruce Leroy" Caceres (4-2 MMA, 0-0 UFC) vs. Mackens Semerzier (5-3 MMA, 1-3 WEC) and heavyweights Jon Madsen (7-0 MMA, 4-0 UFC) vs. Mike Russow (13-1 MMA, 2-0 UFC) on the free stream.
UFC Fight Night 24 takes place at Seattle's KeyArena, and the night's main card airs on Spike TV (10 p.m. ET/PT). The Facebook stream now begins at 7:30 p.m. ET (4:30 p.m. PT) at www.facebook.com/ufc.
This marks the most fights the UFC ever has streamed during one event.
The official UFC Fight Night 24 card now includes:
MAIN CARD (Spike TV)
- Antonio Rogerio Nogueira vs. Phil Davis
- Dan Hardy vs. Anthony Johnson
- DaMarques Johnson vs. Amir Sadollah
- Leonard Garcia vs. Chan Sung Jung
PRELIMINARY CARD (Facebook)
- Alex Caceres vs. Mackens Semerzier
- Jon Madsen vs. Mike Russow
- John Hathaway vs. Kris McCray
- Edwin Figueroa vs. Michael McDonald
- Sean McCorkle vs. Christian Morecraft
- Mario Miranda vs. Aaron Simpson
- Johny Hendricks vs. T.J. Waldburger
- Nik Lentz vs. Waylon Lowe
For more on UFC Fight Night 24, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.
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Taunton's Farmers Market got off to a fresh start on Sunday at the First Parish Church, with locally grown vegetables on sale in the center of the city.
Taunton's Farmers Market got off to a fresh start on Sunday at the First Parish Church, with locally grown vegetables on sale in the center of the city.
"We've begun our summer season," said Doug Cook, volunteer market manager for Taunton's Farmers Market. "We've got farmers and others vendors. I think we're off to a flying start. And as the summer goes by we'll have even more opportunities for people to buy fresh, local produce."
The market has returned this summer for its 18th year and is now being held on a different day of the week. Taunton's Farmers Market is being held on Sundays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the First Parish Church on Church Green, while previously it was held on Thursdays.
"We hope midday on Sunday will be when consumers have some free time and they might want to spend a little time at the farmers market speaking to farmers and having a little fun," Cook said. "The benefits are two-fold. First of all, we support local agriculture. We've got local farmers doing fresh, and in some cases organic, produce. And, with this type of shopping in downtown Taunton, it brings an opportunity for those who might not otherwise get an opportunity to get produce of this quality for this price."
The Rehoboth-based "A Summer Place Farm" was one of three local growers that were selling produce on Sunday, the first day of the farmers market season in Taunton. Sue and Jeff Olson, along with one of six grandkids who are all involved with the farm, were selling lettuce, baby spinach, snap peas, summer squash, string beans and fresh eggs by the dozen.
"Any vegetable in season, we'll have it," said Jeff Olson, who took up farming in his retirement about 10 years ago. "We're pesticide free. We try to get our grandkids involved. They like to pick the snap peas, the string beans and the carrots."
Sue Olson said that she appreciates the farmers market format, calling it "the first form of commerce," likening the friendly community environment to an old-fashioned market place where everyone went for all their goods. Olson said that she is glad that farmers markets are becoming more popular recently, as consumers make conscious efforts to eat locally grown foods for a variety of reasons.
"Farmers markets are getting more popular," said Sue Olson, who brought her 9-year-old granddaughter Skyla along. "People used to come to the market years ago for everything. It's a nice little community farmers market."
Taunton's Farmers Market is sponsored by the Heart of Taunton, a nonprofit dedicated to improving commerce and culture in the city. The organization's treasurer, Jeffrey Silva, was at the market on Sunday, and said it is "the best" place in the area to get fresh, local food.
Joann Evangelisa, who shopped at the Taunton's Farmers Market on Sunday, said it's a great location to grab some veggies and other products.
"I hope it catches on," Evengelisa said. "I hope more people come. It's a nice shady spot."
Bob Peasley, of Breazy Knoll Farm in Rehoboth, said the Taunton's Farmers Market is one of three that he sells his produce at. Peasley was doling outs dozens of ears of corn at a table at the market, along with pickling cucumbers and a few other veggies he grows at his 22-acre farm.
"You're get a lot more small acreage farmers than ever before," said Peasley, who retired and became a full-time farmer eight years ago.
Michael Clautier, of Greenleaf Garden in Berkley, displayed signs with his crops that read "PESTICIDE FREE, FRESH VEGETABLES." Cook said several other farmers are expected to join the market in the weeks to come.
In addition to the farmers, there are also other vendors, including a seafood supplier, a cinnamon bun baker and a specialty pickle maker.
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Longtime Temecula Finance Director Genie Wilson was placed on paid administrative leave Wednesday, Nov. 14, a day after City Manager Bob Johnson was suspended by the City Council.
Acting City Manager Aaron Adams declined Thursday to state why he removed Wilson from her post, citing personnel privacy. He called the decision difficult.
In addition, he dismissed speculation that the city's budget surplus in fiscal year 2011-12 was an error.
"The city closing the books with $2.7 million in revenues over expenditures is true and accurate," said Adams, who will serve as city manager until a permanent replacement is named.
Since 1991, Temecula has been recognized by the Government Finance Officers Association for excellence and achievement in financial reporting. A representative from that association, however, said the recognition is bestowed on agencies based on their successful submission of reports and not on the validity of the data submitted.
Wilson, one of City Hall's most senior employees, was absent from the Tuesday night meeting during which City Attorney Peter Thorson unexpectedly announced that council members unanimously voted to place Johnson on leave.
Johnson had held the city manager position since Jan. 1, replacing longtime manager Shawn Nelson, who retired. Citing the same privacy concerns, council members have declined to comment on the reason for placing him on paid administrative leave. They plan to discuss formally dismissing Johnson, a 35-year government veteran, during the Nov. 27 meeting.
In the six months he led the city, Johnson overhauled City Hall, redistributing responsibilities among department heads. The redistribution, Wilson stated recently, contributed to a $2.7 million budget surplus last fiscal year.
If fired, Johnson could take home as much as six months salary in severance pay. His base salary was $215,000, plus benefits.
"Residents will not feel this (change in leadership)," said Adams, who was a candidate to replace Nelson. "Residents of Temecula have no need to worry. We will continue providing a high level of services just as we always have."
Neither Wilson nor Johnson could be reached for comment this week. Thorson has not responded to several requests for interviews.


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A little over a week ago my seven year old grand-daughter asked her mom, do hurricanes ever come to Ohio. Mom answered "of course not". Well, guess what. We got hammered by Sandy with winds off of lake Erie approaching 80 miles per hour.
Bay Village, home of my residence and business, was one of the hardest hit areas, with lots of trees blown over. In turn, power was disrupted – no, not disrupted – but devastated.
Our power went out at 10:00 PM Monday and came back on at 3:00 Sunday afternoon. Even with a fire going in our fireplace every night, the temperature still dropped to 52 degrees on Sunday.
My wife and I were not entirely in the dark, however. We found a new use for battery powered Ektralamp music lights. They make wonderful reading lights during a power outage.
To those of you who have ordered lights, know that our production came to a standstill last week, but we are now back in business. However, we are still about one week behind. Thank you for your patience.
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Zuma T-shirts dominate at ANC Eastern Cape conference
Many ANC Eastern Cape delegates to the party's provincial nominations conference wore yellow T-shirts bearing President Jacob Zuma's image on Friday.
They sang hymns and bowed their heads for prayer as the conference got underway at the University of Fort Hare on Friday afternoon.
Provincial chairman Phumulo Masualle, who opened the meeting around 12.30pm, told journalists earlier he "wasn't sure" how long the nomination process for leaders, ahead of the ANC's elective conference in Mangaung in December, would take.
"The finish depends on the process," he said.
"You do not know. Maybe we have to do two rounds of voting to confirm who the candidates will be."
Masualle said the party should finish nominating its top six leaders on Friday.
The conference was scheduled to start on Thursday, but Masaulle said it was delayed to allow for more time to verify delegates from the party's 613 branches.
"In terms of the rules of the electoral processes, the branches whose delegates had not passed verification will still continue with the verification exercise," he said.
Earlier this month, the ANC in the Eastern Cape was hit by reports of "ghost members" on its membership books.
The regional secretary for the Alfred Nzo area, Sicelo Bani, told the Dispatch newspaper on Friday that region had 79 branches, of which only 63 had passed the verification process.
OR Tambo regional secretary Jackson Sabona, said his locality had been experiencing similar problems.
"We discovered some delegates' names do not appear in the registration list," he said.
The conference comes after the ANC said it would not recognise a unanimous vote by the OR Tambo region in Mthatha for Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe to lead the party.
Provincial secretary Oscar Mabuyane said the meeting of the ANC's second-largest region was "irregular" and "not properly convened".
"So many branches in that region were stuck with disputes," he said.
"Regions are allowed to hold such meetings. For the purposes of this conference, that meeting was out of equation in terms of guidelines."
All 107 delegates at the regional meeting had supported Motlanthe to take over as ANC president, with Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale as his deputy, and Sport Minister Fikile Mbalula as secretary general.
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Arsenal end trophy drought with FA Cup win
Arsenal ended its nine-year trophy drought on Saturday, coming from two goals...
Fifth-seeded Martin Klizan was among Tuesday's opening-round winners, while seventh seed Grigor Dimitrov was an upset victim at the Zagreb Indoors tennis event.
The rising Slovakian Klizan came from behind to beat Italian qualifier Matteo Viola 4-6, 7-6 (8-6), 6-1, while the Bulgarian Dimitrov lost to 6-foot-10 Croat Ivo Karlovic 7-6 (7-3), 7-6 (7-3) at Dom Sportova. The massive-serving Karlovic fired up 18 aces and was not broken by Dimitrov, who also held his serve throughout en route to defeat.
Slovenian Grega Zemlja overcame Serbian qualifier Ilija Bozoljac 6-7 (5-7), 7-6 (7-4), 6-2 and is rewarded with a second-round match against top- seeded Croatian crowd favorite and two-time Zagreb champion Marin Cilic.
Also on Day 1, Indian Somdev Devvarman got past German and two-time Zagreb runner-up Michael Berrer 0-6, 7-6 (8-6), 4-1, retired; Slovenian Blaz Kavcic overcame Slovenian Aljaz Bedene 6-7 (5-7), 6-3, 6-3; Dutchman Igor Sijsling whipped Croatian wild card Nikola Mektic 6-4, 6-2; and German qualifier Philipp Petzschner topped Croatian wild card Mate Pavic 7-5, 6-2. Berrer succumbed to fatigue and exhaustion on Tuesday.
Russian Mikhail Youzhny, seeded third this week, defeated Slovak Lukas Lacko in last year's Zagreb finale.


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On March 15 & 16, Christine Sun Kim, in collaboration with the Center for Experimental Lectures, will initiate a conversation led by seven presenters, all of whom will give a lecture without using audible voice. This is the final event in Feedback, Sun Kim's six-part Session at Recess.
Throughout Feedback, Sun Kim, deaf since birth, has performed auditory investigations that initiate a slippage of audio into visual. Using non-vocal methods of dialogue to form collaborative vision with visitors to Recess and a cast of collaborators, the artist has created multiple aural perceptions through the use of bodies in motion, microphones, delay pedals, and more.
For the final iteration of Feedback, Isaac Newton's alignment of the color wheel and the octave will serve as a point of departure for conversations that do not privilege audible voice. Each of the seven presenters is assigned a particular color/note.
Some presenters will use their assigned color/note as a place to begin research while others will focus on topics in and around individual voice. Each presenter will engage his or her own specific interests and varied backgrounds.
Coming from a variety of disciplines, presenters will offer research-based lectures that critically engage the notion of transmuted, embodied voice. They will employ projected images, laptops, tablets, the physical body, and other communicative tools that do not require their vocal chords.
Visitors are free to come and go as they please.
Presenters: Christine Sun Kim, R. E. H. Gordon, Tom Finkelpearl, Corrine Fitzpatrick, Marc Handelman, Stephen Lichty, R. Lyon, Jesse Prinz, Eugenie Tsai
Image: Newton's color circle, from Opticks of 1704, showing the colors correlated with musical notes. The spectral colors from red to violet are divided by the notes of the musical scale, starting at D. The circle completes a full octave from D to D. Newton's circle places red, at one end of the spectrum, next to violet, at the other. This reflects the fact that non-spectral purple colors are observed when red and violet light are mixed. Isaak Newton. Opticks. 1704, from Book I, Part II, Proposition VI, Problem 2. Feb. 21, 2013.


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Some viewers probably gave it a thumbs-up or left a comment. Better yet, they shared it with friends over email and social media, fattening your audience in the process. Maybe--just maybe--the video made enough of an impression that some of the people in that audience will remember your business and its message down the road. If you really dare to dream, a few of them may become paying customers.
The safe bet? They probably watched another YouTube video.
YouTube's sheer size--800 million unique visitors watch more than three billion hours of video there each month--is both a blessing and a curse for small and midsize businesses (SMBs). The potential audience is too large to ignore for many marketers. But when your video ends, the next one--often having nothing whatsoever to do with your business--is a quick click away, even if you've embedded the video in your own website.
"YouTube is about YouTube," said Tom Telford, CEO of Cedar Creek Cabin Rentals, in an interview. "Whenever [viewers] were done with a video, there were just too many ways for them to go off the [Cabin Creek] site."
Telford sees online video as a must-have means for engaging potential customers--especially in his high-end travel business. "They want to see the product," Telford said. He started out with YouTube because, well, it's YouTube. He later began kicking the tires on alternative video players and settled on Viewbix, one of several upstarts looking to put more control, features, and analytics in the hands of businesses that create videos for marketing and other purposes. Viewbix, which works with better-known platforms like YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook, enables users to add calls-to-action, apps, and other functionality to their video content. It also enables publishers to exercise more control over their brand and how videos appear on their own website.
"I was looking for a way where I could engage [with viewers] and it was self-contained within the player on my site, where there wasn't an easy way for somebody to click and go off the site, go into YouTube, and all of a sudden they're gone--they're looking at other videos," Telford said.
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After an initial investment of about $200, Telford said he's attributed 11 new sales--worth around $5,500--to people whose very first introduction to Cedar Creek was through one of its videos. He uses Hubspot's online marketing platform, not Viewbix, to arrive at that analysis. Telford noted that there are likely other viewers that have become customers, though video may not have been their first engagement with Cabin Creek.
"It's got to be a lot more than [11 customers]," Telford said, because if someone first visited other content on the Cedar Creek site, than the sale wouldn't necessarily be attributed to video. Telford likens it to Facebook; the Cedar Creek page has more than 10,000 fans, but he can't precisely quantify how many of them are reflected in the company's bottom line. "There's no way that I know to tell if [Facebook] helped to get the booking," Telford said. "If you know of a way, please do tell."
Another Viewbix user, Aish.com, has had its share of YouTube hits. Several of the Jewish educational site's videos have clocked upwards of 2 million views, including "Google Exodus," which generated 3.2 million views. Yet the Aish team was dissatisfied with how little it had to show for that large audience. The nonprofit wanted viewers to consume other site content and subscribe to its email newsletter, but most viewers simply went about their online business without any further engagement with Aish. Since adding in-video calls-to-action and apps for things like email subscription, the company estimates it has seen a 15-20% uptick in sharing, clicking to other Aish.com videos and content, and email sign-ups.
Cedar Creek's Telford also finds video to be a good way to attract eyeballs in crowded organic search results. Search "Helen, Ga. tubing" and you'll get a trove of links related to leisurely rides down the Chattahoochee River in northern Georgia, where Cedar Creek's cabins are located. Telford's business isn't the first listed, but it's the first with a video image next to it. "Your eyes are drawn to that picture," Telford said.
Adding Viewbix, Telford said, has helped mitigate the initial conflict: YouTube's about YouTube, but Cedar Creek's videos are about Cedar Creek. The Viewbix player includes YouTube integration, and Cedar Creek's videos are still hosted there. But Telford said his website visitors are now less likely to click over to a cute kitten video once they're done touring a rental cabin.
"That was the biggest thing. You either pay for someone to come to your site, or you do all that work to get them to come to your blog, and then they go to a video and--boom--they're off the site," Telford said. "That's just a nightmare."
SMBs have saved big buying software on a subscription model. The new, all-digital Cloud Beyond SaaS issue of InformationWeek SMB shows how to determine if infrastructure services can pay off, too. Also in this issue: One startup's experience with infrastructure-as-a-service shows how the numbers stack up for IaaS vs. internal IT. (Free registration required.)


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Mena Suvari: Sweet American Pie
Can any of us honestly say we've been able to truly enjoy a slice of hot apple pie since seeing the original American Pie? The entire cast of the 1999 comedy is currently filming American Reunion, where they will mostly likely destroy our enjoyment of yet another delicious dessert. The good part is that we will once again see Mena Suvari in the role of the sexy chorus geek who made chorus look hot way before Glee. To get you prepared you can follow Mena's Twitter account and check out her gallery below.
UPDATE : We recently had a chance to ask Mena Suvari the Gunaxin Six Questions, in conjunction with her role as Island Reporter for the Captain's Island Challenge.


text: If you're a big fan of Plants vs. Zombies like I am, then you're going to love these handmade Plants vs. Zombies lawn ornaments. A must-have game on your iPad (and iPhone, and computer for that matter), one superfan actually made this pottery collection as a homage to her favorite game. I'd have to give her a round of applause and ask — when are they going on sale!? It's enough to get me into gardening.


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body odour will affect the colleagues in the narrow confines of a
space shuttle," according to Shi Binbin, 454th Air Force
Hospital doctor recently said.
Specifically, there are 100
physical and mental requirements that must be satisfied before
advancing in the program, including no runny noses. China isn't
currently involved in the International Space Station (ISS) project,
but the country plans to launch a space module in 2010, then hopes to
dock with it in 2011.
JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata, who
recently returned to Earth aboard shuttle Endeavour, didn't
change his underwear for one month, which will allow scientists
to better evaluate the development of new high-tech underwear.
Wakata said there were no complaints, and the underwear worn has
built-in anti-bacterial, odor-eliminating, anti-static,
water-absorbent, flame retardant features.
For long-term space
missions -- including possible trips to Mars -- underwear that
doesn't require frequent washing may be vital, and similar
experiments could be possible.
A new panel looking into future
NASA space missions plan to tell President Barack Obama it would be
wiser to research deep space and stop putting so much emphasis into
moon and Mars landing missions. The panel believes sending
astronauts to unexplored, far-reaching parts of the solar system may
be better than focusing on the moon and Mars, which would likely be
delayed for several decades.
The future of NASA has been
widely discussed, especially as the retirement of the current shuttle
fleet is less than one year away. In the near future, the U.S.
space agency plans to work on the ISS, then will shift focus to a
possible moon landing by 2025. Other space nations, including
China, Japan, India, and Russia also plan to launch missions to the
moon -- including manned shuttle launches, probes, and possible
Aside from missions, money also has been widely
"In fact, it is unclear whether NASA has
the financing for any scenarios that do anything important beyond
low-Earth orbit prior to 2020," said Princeton professor
Christopher Chyba, who serves on the 10-person panel. "If we
really want to do this, we have to provide a realistic budget for it.
Otherwise, let's be clear about the limits placed on us by the
actual budget."


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The Real Housewives of New York Are Making Bank
Thanks to a deft culling of the herd, there are only two Real Housewives of New York left to terrorize the Big Apple and they're being rewarded with a healthy raise. It seems like they're actually going to make some real money now.
Apparently Ramona Singer and Countess
Luann de Lesseps Crackerjacks, the only remaining original housewives now that Jill Zarin and Alex McCord got fired and Bethenny Frankel moved onto her margarita kingdom in the sky—are going to pull in $500,000 for the 18 episodes in season five, a dramatic increase from the $275,000 Bravo paid them for season four. Half a million sure is a lot of dough, but these ladies still aren't bringing in Jersey Shore money.
What's causing a rift is that my girl Sonja Morgan and the new vajazzled cannon fodder aren't making nearly as much as their O.G. counterparts. We've seen these ladies fight over more ridiculous things before, finally they're going to resort to something so crass as squabbling about money.
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Robinson more mid range oriented.
and Carmelo Anthony had a very talented squad in Denver, so we can put the fantasy assumptions to rest. He's not that kind of player if we're speaking on a LeBron level or Wade, or Kobe, Shaq, etc or even Steve Nash for example who impact on the game is far greater than Melo has ever been. Guy won two MVP's so theres no argument there.
I rated Melo fairly giving him credit to where credit due and pointing out whats also true...not really worth replying to this you were really better off just telling me you have a problem with me not overrating Melo.
To be MVP, it takes the entire season, you don't win it in one month. MVP is not rewarded to the best player in April.
Tier 1 is LeBron and Durant
Melo isn't on that level, you HOPE and DESIRE for him to be, but when you sit down and slap yourself in the face and take time to be honest with yourself, you would understand why Durant and LeBron rank higher and also without question rank in a different level ahead of Melo.
Anyone in here who would choose Melo over Durant and LeBron is obviously full of crap.


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Production of the Flexity Freedom gear is scheduled to begin next year, with delivery beginning in the summer of 2016. The council also can exercise an option for 14 additional cars.
The order follows two others involving Bombardier and Toronto, for the moment still the sole operator of LRT in Ontario. Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) has 204 Flexity Freedom cars on order, mostly for its existing city streetcar network, while Metrolinx expects 182 similar vehicles to be used for LRT expansion the Toronto metropolitan area.
The Waterloo region order is in some ways technically an add-on order to the previous orders made by TTC and Metrolinx. But the Waterloo Regional Council order is a significant indicator of LRT and/or streetcar expansion within Ontario but outside the city of Toronto, also involving Ottawa, the nation's capital, which is purchasing Alstom Citadis Spirit equipment.
The Waterloo region, including Kitchener, Cambridge, Wateloo, and four smaller townships, lies roughly 65 miles west of Canada's largest city, with a population of about 500,000.
Plans for the regional LRT include a first-state line of roughly 12 miles between Waterloo and Kitchener, with Cambridge given a Bus Rapid Transit line. A second stage would add 11 more miles to the system, linking Cambridge with its municipal brethren.
In June 2011, the Waterloo Regional Council approved the C$818 million rail plan. Federal funds of about C$265 million are identified for the project.


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I'm beta-reading for someone who's having a little trouble getting Bellatrix's character right, so I told her I'd advertise here for some fics she could read.
Does anyone know of any fics that really nail Bella's character? One-shots or short chaptered fics would be preferred, both before and after she's in Azkaban.
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Events Bring Aviation History To Life
It's a busy time of year for aviation enthusiasts -- coming up in the next few weeks are the debut of a new 3-D version of the 1986 film Top Gun in Imax theaters around the country, a tour of classic Commemorative Air Force warbirds in the Southwest, a symposium at Fantasy of Flight in Florida featuring five of the original Tuskegee Airmen, and a new Nova documentary re-examining the famous Lindbergh baby kidnapping case. The Top Gun film is in theaters for only a week, starting Feb. 8; tickets and locations can now be found online. CAF is launching its Southwest tour February 22 through April 4, featuring the famous B-29 Superfortress bomber Fifi, the only one of its kind still flying, and a changing roster of historic aircraft including a British Spitfire and a Japanese Zero.
The full schedule for the CAF tour, with stops in Arizona, California, Nevada, and New Mexico, is posted online. Fantasy of Flight's Legends & Legacies symposium with the Tuskegee Airmen will run Feb. 7 to 9, with five more symposia on aviation history scheduled throughout the year, featuring aircraft and airmen from the two World Wars and the Cold War era. Nova's documentary on the Lindbergh kidnapping case will air Wednesday, Jan. 30, on PBS and is also for sale as a DVD. Nova says the program will re-examine the famous crime with a team of expert investigators using state-of-the-art forensic and behavioral science techniques.


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Headshaking Supplement Efficacy Tested
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The team concluded that there were no significant differences in headshaking when the horses received the supplement and when they consumed the placebo.
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Sure, many horse owners add feed supplements to their horses' diets to help maintain joints, hooves, and hair coats. But what about to stifle headshaking? Researchers at the University of Liverpool in England recently tested the efficacy of a feed supplement designed to alleviate this behavior in a trial involving 32 horses previously diagnosed with chronic, idiopathic (with no discernible cause) headshaking.
Study horses consumed the supplement for four weeks, followed by a placebo for four weeks, with a two-week interval between the two treatments. The researchers videotaped the horses at rest and at exercise at the outset of the study, after the first treatment, and after the second treatment. Two veterinarians assessed the headshaking recordings using a ranked scale in a blinded, randomized setup. Owners also completed a ranked questionnaire assessing their horses' headshaking throughout the treatment course.
After reviewing the videos, the team concluded that there were no significant differences in headshaking when the horses received the supplement and when they consumed the placebo. Likewise, owners scored headshaking signs similarly whether the horse was on the supplement or on the placebo. Researchers concluded this supplement provided no benefit towards alleviating headshaking.
"There was no effect detectable in any of the horses treated with the placebo or the test material when assessed by a panel of experienced veterinarians," noted study author Derek Knottenbelt, OBE, BVM &S, DVM, Dipl. ECEIM, MRCVS. "The findings are only significant insofar as they emphasize the importance of testing claims made by anyone in terms of treatment for any disease. The fact is that claims can be made when there is no medical implication, but the number of companies which subject themselves to this kind of trial on an open forum is extremely low."
Interestingly, the team noted, owners reported overall improvement when their horses received either treatment—supplement or placebo—as opposed to no treatment at all. "It was clear from the results that there was a perception of improvement with either the placebo or the test material when the results were scrutinized by the owners themselves," said Knottenbelt. "This proxy placebo effect is well-recognized."
Chronic, idiopathic headshaking is a frustrating and potentially dangerous disorder. "This disease needs to be sorted out," Knottenbelt said. "We do not understand it at all, and yet it is a major welfare condition that affects a significant proportion of horses of all types under all conditions across the world. The reality is, however, that the human equivalent of this diseasehas attracted literally billions of pounds of research funding, and they are very little further forward than they were 25 to 30 years ago. It should not be said that there is no progress, but it is painstakingly slow and is extremely difficult because of the nature of neurologic disease."
This study, "A randomised, blinded, crossover study to assess the efficacy of a feed supplement in alleviating the clinical signs of headshaking in 32 horses," was published in May in the Equine Veterinary Journal.
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dude wheres the podcast? its been like a month!
i need my fix, there's like so much to talk about!
they haven't even discussed the 6900 series... omg my head is gonna esplode
jkjk i know TR staff have been super extra busy with CES and the website.
awesome job by the way!
just let us know when we can expect the next installment!
i apoligize in advance if this is posted in teh wrong section or there is already another thread about this


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Here's a 278 mile on that will take you to Gettysburg. It's more congested that the others, running through what is called the West Shore towns near Harrisburg, and on Route 11. But that's the price for getting to Gettysburg without swinging way to the west.
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Rockbottom - we're thinking of a lunch spot in Carlisle on our way to Bloomsburg. Thinking that Middlesex Diner might be the spot. A good choice?
You interested in joining us on that Thursday?
-- 1995 Dark Blue K75 (sold to a friend)
-- 2006 Vespa GTSie (sold)
-- 2003 R1150R - gorgeous ride.....
I've driven or ridden past it literally thousands of times and never stopped. (I actually live in Middlesex Township rather than Carlisle Borough). And one of my daughters worked there over the summer. It has a huge trucker clientele though.
They're slightly more work to get to but I'd recommend
Market Cross Pub
Boiling Springs Tavern
Let me know as the details develop.
Thanks, guys, for putting these routes out there. I am not familiar with the PA roads. These suggested routes are perfect for the anticipated day trips during the rally.


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OCEAN CITY – A car driven by a local man lost control and struck the front porch of a house in downtown Ocean City yesterday morning.
At about 9 a.m., Paul Michael Toulottei, 51, was driving southboud on Philadelphia Avenue when he claimed to be experiencing muscle cramps in his left leg, according to a police report. He reportedly bent down to grab his leg at the same time he began to cough and gag. Toulottei then reportedly lost control of his vehicle striking a telephone pole in front of Ocean City Weekly Rental Office. The car then went across the east crosswalk at 7th Street and Philadelphia Avenue and crashed into the front porch of 608 Philadelphia Avenue.
OCPD patrol officers responded to the scene and the driver was transported by Ocean City EMS to Atlantic General Hospital for treatment of minor injuries. No parked cars were struck and no other injuries were reported. The side staircase and front porch of 608 Philadelphia Avenue sustained major damage.
Toulottei has been charged with failure to reduce speed to avoid a collision, negligent driving, driving on sidewalk when prohibited and failure to drive on right half of roadway when required.
For all the week's news, see The Dispatch print or online edition on Friday.


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The House voted 87-0 to pass a bill by Rep. Mark Biviano, R-Searcy, that would designate the state Education Department and not the Board of Education as the primary authorizer of charter schools.
The Board of Education would still have the power to review those decisions, but the primary responsibility would fall to the Education Department. The measure would require the state education commissioner to appoint a panel of his staff to review and approve charter school applications.
Some education advocates had been pushing to strip the Board of Education of its current power to authorize new charter school and give that responsibility to an independent commission. They said that an independent body would be more likely to expand access charter schools in the state — a goal that was highlighted at a January rally at the Capitol with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
Under Biviano's original proposal, the commission would have been composed of five members — one appointed by the governor and other four appointed by legislative leaders.
Although the bill that passed Thursday keeps charter school authorization under the state's direct control, Biviano told lawmakers that the changes would still bring greater attention to charter school issues generally.
"The idea was to raise the awareness about charters schools and their contribution as a tool in our educational system," he said.


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SANTA ANA – A vacant bakery building was set on fire Wednesday morning after an attempt to steal copper wire, authorities said.
Orange County Fire Authority responded to the former Lily's Bakery, 1005 S. Harbor Blvd., at 5:20 a.m. after smoke was seen escaping the building, Capt. Marc Stone said.
Officials entered the boarded up building to find a fire on the roof, Stone said.
Officials believe the fire was caused by transients burning off insulation surrounding copper wire they intended to steal, Capt. Dan Moorhouse said.
Officials said the fire was put out at 5:48 a.m. with the aid of the Garden Grove and Fountain Valley fire departments. No injuries were reported.
The estimated damage cost is $50,000, Stone said.
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It's been two games and there has already been some talk in the forums about how the raptors have been shafted from the refs etc. etc.
I don't think the Raptors have been particularly singled out in any way, but I have definitely been cringing at the ABYSMAL refereeing so far. Bennett Salvatore is known for sucking (he's responsible for like half of the calls in this ref-sucking montage), but I feel like these past two games have been especially bad.
I swear it's worse than it's been in the past -- anyone else noticing this?


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I don't watch much international b-ball. Whose an up and coming baller coming out of that tournament??
damn egypt finished 11th, we need more focus on basketball back there. all they focus on is soccer over there. **** when i go and play a pick up game the kids are amazed at my skills and im just good not great loll.
DaTPRiNCE...That EGYPTiAN Fella, #MeloMafia


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f-28 is a serial communication error. either your main cntrl or motor control is going to be bad. hard to say which one without a multi meter and the machine in front of me though.
If your OHM meter is set to RX1 then the motor is bad. Infinite readings on the motor windings mean a bad motor, according to the Tech Sheet. Have you run the Diagnostic tests mentioned in the tech sheet yet?
Jimbo is this one of them reversing dryers with 3 phase dc motor?
My dryer just quit working It gives me just one error code f-28. Model Number: wfw8500sr0
Scott, you'll find the MCU on the floor in the left front corner, part # W10163007It may also need to be replaced if the motor went out. Try to go to the motor and make sure none of the small wires going to it are damaged. I have replaced a lot of harnesses between the MCU and the motor before due to broken wiring on the connector harness.
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Bradley Cooper Wears Pink Rollers in His Hair on Movie Set
Bradley's gettin' his hair did! After a very busy awards season, Bradley Cooper is back to work, and collaborating again with Silver Linings Playbook director David O. Russell on an as-yet-untitled flick. Shooting recently began in Boston, and on Friday, the Oscar-nominated hunk, 38, was snapped prepping with a script -- and with his hair being set in tiny, pink rollers!
PHOTOS: Aww -- Bradley and other stars who brought family members as their Oscar dates
As he exited from a trailer, the cutely coiffed Best Oscar nominee wore an open army-green shirt. Cooper's Silver Linings costar Jennifer Lawrence is also set to costar in the film, about the Abscam scandal of the late 1970s and early 1980s -- in which a U.S. senator and other powerful leaders were convicted in an FBI sting operation.
Back in January, Cooper told E! News back in January that he actually permed his hair to screen test for the flick. "I permed my hair today," Cooper explained. "We did a camera test today and we were playing with the idea of [my character] having curly hair. Like rollers in the hair!"
PHOTOS: His celebrity man makeover
As for Cooper's first-ever Oscar nomination? "I don't want to win an Oscar," he told British GQ before losing the statue to Daniel Day-Lewis. "It would change nothing. Nothing. The things in my life that aren't fulfilled would not be fulfilled."
This article originally appeared on Usmagazine.com: Bradley Cooper Wears Pink Rollers in His Hair on Movie Set
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The mineral wealth of Yukon has been known since the famous Klondike gold rush of the later 1890s, but the combination of an Arctic climate and remoteness from markets has limited the economic exploitation of such resources and the development of modern settlement. Instead, the territory remains among the few frontiers on the North American continent, a sparsely populated and largely unspoiled wilderness. Area
Much of the territory remains unspoiled wilderness, but the impact of people on the environment is apparent. Near the settlements reliance on wood for fuel has destroyed timber, and in remoter places forest fires have often gone uncontrolled. In addition, surface mining has scarred the landscape near Dawson, in the west-central part of the territory, and near Whitehorse.
Yukon lies within the mountainous cordilleran region of western North America. The more-settled areas lie in a large central plateau surrounded by mountains, notably the Selwyn and Mackenzie ranges of the Rockies to the east; the Logan, Pelly, and St. Elias ranges to the south; and the Ogilvie and Richardson ranges to the west and north. Some of the surrounding mountains are spectacular, especially the St. Elias in the southwest; the range has some of the highest peaks in North America, including Mount Logan at 19,551 feet (5,959 metres) and Mount St. Elias at 18,008 feet (5,489 metres), on the U.S.-Canada border.
Most of the territory is drained by the Yukon River, which flows northwestward into Alaska, and its tributaries; the largest of these are the Pelly, Macmillan, Stewart, White, and Klondike in the south and the Porcupine in the north. Other important rivers are the Liard in the southeast and the Peel in the northeast, both tributaries of the Mackenzie, which flows north through the adjacent Northwest Territories to the Arctic Ocean. Yukon also has a number of scenic alpine lakes, best known of which are Kluane and Aishihik in the St. Elias Mountains. Teslin, Laberge, and Kusawa are other large lakes also located in the southern part of the territory. In the north are large stretches of flat and poorly drained tundra with widespread permafrost, a permanently frozen ground that makes construction difficult.
Summers in Yukon are short, but their days are long, especially in the northern part of the territory lying above the Arctic Circle. Although temperatures vary, sometimes reaching summer highs in the mid-90s F (about 35 °C) and winter lows below the low −60s F (about −50 °C), the monthly average readings are not unlike those found in some Canadian cities farther east and south. Precipitation is light, averaging only about 10 inches (250 mm) annually at Whitehorse.
Vegetation is sparse in many regions because of the dry, cool climate and poor soils. There are few trees in the southwest and north; the extreme northern portion of Yukon is above the tree line, but some of the southern valleys are heavily forested. Aquatic vegetation thrives in lakes and wetlands, near which orchids can also be found blooming in the summer months.
Animal life abounds in Yukon. Native to the area are a number of large mammal species, including significant populations of grizzly bears and Dall sheep, as well as smaller fur-bearing mammals. Waterfowl and other common North American birds inhabit wetlands, as do muskrats. Common species of fishes include the Arctic grayling, lake trout, and northern pike.
About one-fourth of the people are American Indians (First Nations; [see Sidebar: Tribal Nomenclature]); most belong to groups speaking Athabaskan languages, of which the Gwich'in (Kutchin) group is the largest. Registered First Nations people in the territory are a federal responsibility. The rest of the population comprises people descended from European immigrants or of mixed aboriginal and immigrant descent.
Some two-thirds of the total population of Yukon lives in Whitehorse. The city of Dawson and some older villages such as Old Crow, which is situated well above the Arctic Circle, are set in locations of great natural beauty and retain a picturesque appearance. Centres of mining and transportation, such as Whitehorse, Watson Lake, and Mayo, resemble towns of like size elsewhere in western North America, offering a familiar range of popular fast-food and other retail franchises. Housing is a problem in Whitehorse and most other communities due to the high cost of construction, the harsh climate, and fluctuating economic conditions. Much of the existing housing stock tends to be of substandard quality—overcrowded, lacking indoor plumbing, and suffering from structural deterioration. The Yukon Housing Corporation, a territorial government agency, works with the housing industry, local communities, and families to help improve housing in the territory.
Health and welfare services improved greatly over the course of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, contributing to a decline in the total mortality rate. A high infant mortality remains a serious problem, but fertility rates are above the Canadian average, giving the territory a high rate of natural increase in population. The ability of the economy to accommodate this increase has become a matter of concern.
The federal and territorial governments play important roles in Yukon's economy. The territorial government has assumed increasing responsibility for building roads, airfields, and power-generating facilities, as well as for providing incentives to private companies interested in developing resources in the area.
Few people continue to make their living by hunting, fishing, or trapping, and, except for some isolated groups, most of the people are now dependent upon wage employment. Wages and salaries are unusually high in most occupations, but, since nearly all food, fuel, building materials, and manufactured goods are imported over considerable distances, the cost of living is also high. Marked differences in living standards exist between those who find employment in mining, transportation, and public service and those who lack the education required for such employment.
Forest resources are limited, but commercial logging is carried out in some southern areas. Small sawmills produce some of the lumber required for local building, for mining timbers, and for fuel, although imported fuel oil is replacing both wood and locally mined coal as the principal fuel. Farming is possible in some locations, but climate and soil conditions make it so unprofitable that virtually no settlement is undertaken for agricultural purposes. Trapping is still important in some places despite its overall decline, and fox, beaver, wolf, and lynx are caught for their pelts.
Since the late 19th century, mining has been Yukon's most important extractive industry, although market fluctuations can cause sharp variations in production. The extensive and varied mineral resources include deposits of combined silver-lead and lead-zinc ores and of copper, coal, iron, and some petroleum and natural gas. Commercial production of copper concentrates, silver, lead, and zinc has been accomplished, but the economic feasibility of developing other known mineral deposits remains uncertain. Exploration for oil and gas began in the 1950s. Commercially significant gas reserves were discovered in the 1960s, and there has since been extensive exploration throughout the territory for petroleum resources.
Yukon rivers provide ample opportunities for hydroelectric power generation. A public utility, Yukon Energy, operates three hydroelectric plants: at Whitehorse on the Yukon River, at Aishihik Lake in southwest Yukon, and at Mayo in central Yukon. Their energy output meets nearly all the requirements of both domestic and commercial consumers in the territory. Some remote communities rely on diesel generators. Wind and solar energy sources are also being developed.
Remoteness from markets and a lack of inexpensive labour supplies limit manufacturing. A small industrial base includes the production of wood products, printing and publishing for local use, and similar small-scale activities.
Prior to the late 1990s the federal government was responsible for both the management of natural resources and the collection of revenues from their exploitation in Yukon, as in the other Canadian territories. In 1998 the government of Yukon entered into a devolution and revenue-sharing agreement regarding petroleum resources. Subsequent negotiations with the federal government, in which Yukon First Nations representatives also participated, have led to devolution and revenue sharing for other nonrenewable resources as well as forestry. While those new revenue sources have enhanced Yukon's political status, the territory remains heavily dependent on financial transfers from the federal government. Territorial tax revenues, of which income taxes are the most important, account for more than half the territory's own-source revenues.
Tourism is a rapidly expanding sector and a mainstay of the territorial economy. Wilderness tourism—encompassing activities such as guided river travel, backpacking, and horseback riding—represents a large part of Yukon's attraction for tourists, and a number of protected areas have been established. Two large national parks, Ivvavik and Vuntut, are located in the remote northwestern part of the territory. They help protect the important Porcupine caribou herd—which migrates across northern Alaska, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories and is important to the Gwich'in people—as well as several species of migratory birds.
Yukon has a number of transportation links to other Canadian provinces and elsewhere in North America. The Whitehorse airport is the most important in Yukon. Scheduled air services operate between Whitehorse and Edmonton and Calgary, Alta.Alberta, and Vancouver, B.C.British Columbia, and connect the capital to other cities and larger towns in the territory. Until the White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad (WP&YR) suspended operations in 1982, it carried freight and passengers between Whitehorse and Skagway, Alaska, from which point ocean services to other west coast ports were available.
Yukon's system of roads is concentrated mostly in the southern and southwestern regions, although an important highway link, the Dempster Highway, connects a point on the Klondike Highway near Dawson with Inuvik, in the Mackenzie delta, Northwest Territories. The Alaska Highway is Yukon's connection to the North American highway system and serves as the backbone of the limited territorial network of roads. Helicopters and light aircraft are the normal means of travel to remoter areas.
Yukon has had local telephone services since the gold rush era in the late 19th century, and a landline telegraph connection that linked Dawson to Hazelton was built by the Canadian government in north-central British Columbia. The telegraph link was abandoned in 1936 and replaced by shortwave radio communications. A landline built along the Alaska Highway during World War II provided long-distance telephone service to the outside world. Subsequently, a subsidiary of Canadian Northern Railways consolidated telecommunications services in the region that eventually extended throughout most of the Canadian north, including Yukon. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries a number of other commercial firms began offering Internet services and mobile wireless connections in the more settled areas.
The status of Yukon as a political entity within the Canadian federal system of government is defined by a statute of the federal government (the Yukon Act [1898]), in contrast to the provinces, whose existence is enshrined within the Canadian constitution. Nevertheless, Yukon's governmental structure is very similar to that of the provinces, and the territorial government exercises most of the same powers over matters of local importance that provincial governments do. The head of government is the premier, the leader of the majority party in the Legislative Assembly. The head of state is the commissioner, who is appointed by the government of Canada to a term of no less than five years and performs a role similar to that of a provincial lieutenant governor. General elections are held every three to five years and are called by the premier. Residents of the territory are represented in the federal Parliament by one elected member of the House of Commons and one senator, who is appointed by the Canadian prime minister.
Educational, health, and welfare services are administered by the territorial government with financial assistance from the federal government. Comprehensive medical and hospital services are provided on the same publicly financed basis as elsewhere in Canada. Major hospital facilities are located in Whitehorse, and a system of nursing stations serves remoter centres. Police services are provided by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Primary and secondary education are provided by a territorial school system, and Yukon College, with its main campus at Whitehorse and a network of community branches, provides two years of university-level courses and a number of vocational and adult education programs.
There has been a revival of interest in cultural activities relating to Yukon's heritage. There are a range of programs aimed at encouraging the development of crafts, literary and visual arts, and new media. Promotions, both public and commercial, help keep alive the romanticized image of the Klondike gold rush era, which was embodied most famously in the poems of the English-born writer Robert W. Service as well as by the writings of Tom MacInnes. Reminders of the gold rush days are preserved in museums and displays in Whitehorse and Dawson, and that period is commemorated during the Sourdough Rendezvous, an annual (February) celebration of Yukon's history and culture held in Whitehorse since 1964. Some historical sites, notably the Palace Grand Theatre in Dawson, have been restored as tourist attractions. The Yukon Arts Centre, located at Yukon College, is the main theatrical venue for Whitehorse and is also home to the Public Art Gallery. The MacBride Museum of Yukon History is a popular attraction in downtown Whitehorse.
Big-game hunting, fishing, river rafting, and camping are popular summer outdoor activities. In the winter many people enjoy dogsledding, snowmobiling, skiing, hockey, and snowshoeing. Three large parks—Kluane National Park and Reserve, Ivvavik National Park, and Vuntut National Park—offer extensive outdoor recreational opportunities. Athletes from Yukon are regular participants in the annual Arctic Winter Games, which have been held in Whitehorse several times since their inception in 1970.
Whitehorse has a daily newspaper, the Whitehorse Daily Star, and some communities have local newspapers that are published less frequently. The Literary Society of the Klondike publishes a biweekly newspaper, the Klondike Sun, based in Dawson. Satellite television is available throughout the territory. A number of publicly and privately operated radio and television stations serve the region. Radio and television programs reflecting aboriginal interests are produced by Northern Native Broadcasting, Yukon, located in Whitehorse and owned by the 14 Yukon First Nations.


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I'm Swedish, but I'm fluent in English, and got a fair grasp of German - though I lack confidence to speak it, I understand it pretty well. I don't have a natural talent for language, but I'm stubborn, which is a good asset.
As a Swede I get bombarded with English language all the time, through US and UK movies, television and culture. I've always had a fascination for the English language, and consumed a lot of UK culture - be it music, literature, movies etc. I always found it fun, so I never really considered practising it a chore. In high school a friend and I had an unhealthy interest in Monty Python, and memorising and re-enacting sketches was a good way of practising pronunciation*. In my 20's, I could easily fool anyone I was a born and bred Englishman. In later years, I've kind of lost the edge, and my Swedish accent cuts through a bit, and I've lost some grammar skill.
German is a lot harder. I really have to work on that, because it doesn't come as natural - TV does not show many German shows, for example. I've bought comics in German, listen to German radio, watch German movies etc. All this has increased my understanding of the language. However, I need to write and speak it more to become fluent. There's just no short cuts there, I find. At least not for me. It's like learning to play an instrument. You simply have to put in the hours.
I think the thought of learning a whole new language, fluently in 5-6 months is a bit naïve. It's doable, but you'd have to do nothing else, and you'd need tutoring, and probably a whole lot of innate inclination for language. But don't let that put you down. Just keep in mind that this will be likely to take you years to achieve.
My suggestion is to get a book of the language basics, and perhaps take an evening course. Then there are great tools like Duolingo, Babbel and other site's to help practice grammar and vocabulary.
I also suggest you read a lot. Perhaps you have a favourite book you know very well in English, then get that in your new language. I know there used to be German and French classics with the original text printed on one page, and the English translation printed on the opposite. Get magazines on topics you're interested in in a foreign language - be it sports, music, fashion.
If you're really serious, you might want to move to the country in question. If you're a student, check out which exchange programmes are available. If you're young, with no children or big career going, try to find an easy job and make the move there.
* I remember once in civics class, everyone in the class was to pair up, and in front of the class had to act out a job interview - one being the interviewer and the other the interviewee. I'm not sure why the teacher thought this was a good idea, and everyone found it really rather boring. And after watching two or three pairs of you class mates try to play job interview at the teachers desk, it got really boring. When my fellow Python fan and I were up, we sat down opposite each other. Dan looked at me and simply went: "I would like to have an argument, please." After which we acted out the whole sketch, word for word. (I know it's lame, but it's how I learned to speak English with a British accent.) Luckily, the teacher turned out to be a big fan, and was impressed with out English skills. Perhaps she also realised the assignment was a bit lame, because after we were done, no one else had to do it.