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2006, Volume 40, Issue 3
- 383-408 Performance Measurement for Railway Transport: Stochastic Distance Functions with Inefficiency and Ineffectiveness Effects
by Lawrence W. Lan & Erwin T. J. Lin
- 409-424 On The Choice between Strategic Alliance and Merger in the Airline Sector: The Role of Strategic Effects
by Philippe Barla & Christos Constantatos
- 425-447 An Analysis of Airport Pricing and Regulation in the Presence of Competition Between Full Service Airlines and Low Cost Carriers
by Xiaowen Fu & Mark Lijesen & Tae H. Oum
- 449-472 Are Spot Freight Rates Stationary?
by Steen Koekebakker & Roar Adland & Sigbjørn Sødal
- 473-501 Higher Airfares to Small and Medium Sized Communities - Costly Service or Market Power?
by John D. Bitzan & Junwook Chi
2006, Volume 40, Issue 2
- 173-201 Spatial Implications of Transport Pricing
by Daniel J. Graham & Stephen Glaister
- 203-223 Modelling Strategic Responses to Car and Fuel Taxation
by Pim Heijnen & Peter Kooreman
- 225-254 Scheduling in On-Route Competition
by Peran van Reeven
- 255-277 Network Pricing: Service Differentials, Scale Economies, and Vertical Exclusion in Railroad Markets
by Mark Burton & Wesley W. Wilson
- 279-296 The Optimal Choice of Commuting Speed: Consequences for Commuting Time, Distance and Costs
by Jos Van Ommeren & Joyce Dargay
- 297-314 Long Range Air Traffic Forecasts for the UK: A Critique
by Geoff Riddington
- 315-328 Are Shocks to Air Passenger Traffic Permanent or Transitory? Implications for Long-Term Air Passenger Forecasts for the UK
by Nenad Njegovan
2006, Volume 40, Issue 1
- 1-44 Are Britain's Railways Costing Too Much? Perspectives Based on TFP Comparisons with British Rail 1963-2002
by Andrew S. J. Smith
- 45-67 Demand Forecast and Elasticities Estimation of Public Transport
by Antonio García-Ferrer & Marcos Bujosa & Aránzazu de Juan & Pilar Poncela
- 69-94 Road Safety Valuation under a Stated Choice Framework
by Luis I. Rizzi & Juan de Dios Ort�zar
- 95-118 Cost Efficiency in Regional Bus Companies: An Application of Alternative Stochastic Frontier Models
by Mehdi Farsi & Massimo Filippini & Michael Kuenzle
- 119-134 Behavioural Change in Activity-Travel Patterns in Response to Road User Charging
by Bertold Keuleers & Vincent Chow & Neil Thorpe & Harry Timmermans & Geert Wets
- 135-160 Stable Service Patterns in Scheduled Transport Competition
by Peran van Reeven & Maarten C. W. Janssen
- 161-171 The UK Project Appraisal Framework for Ports: A Critique
by Michael Asteris & Alan Collins
2005, Volume 39, Issue 3
- 241-258 The Economics of Cost Recovery in Transport
by Kenneth Button
- 259-278 Rail Infrastructure Charges in Europe
by Chris Nash
- 279-294 Paying for the Fixed Costs of Roads
by David Levinson
- 295-322 Competitive Tendering as a Contracting Mechanism for Subsidising Transport: The Bus Experience
by David A. Hensher & Ian P. Wallis
- 323-340 Financial Distress and US Airline Fares
by Christian Hofer & Martin Dresner & Robert Windle
- 341-362 Airport Infrastructure for the Airbus A380: Cost Recovery and Pricing
by Peter Forsyth
- 363-378 Small Market Air Service and Regional Policy
by James Nolan & Pamela Ritchie & John Rowcroft
- 379-390 Some Speculations and Empirical Evidence on the Oligopolistic Behaviour of Competing Low-Cost Airlines
by D. E. Pitfield
- 391-410 Recovering Costs by Increasing Market Share: An Empirical Critique of the S-Curve
by Kenneth Button & Jonathan Drexler
2005, Volume 39, Issue 2
- 127-154 Explaining Variations in Public Acceptability of Road Pricing Schemes
by S. Jaensirisak & M. Wardman & A. D. May
- 155-166 Local Exclusive Cruising Regulation and Efficiency in Taxicab Markets
by Daniel Flores-Guri
- 167-190 Price Competition between International Airline Alliances
by Volodymyr Bilotkach
- 191-208 A Time-Varying Risk Premium in the Term Structure of Bulk Shipping Freight Rates
by Roar Adland & Kevin Cullinane
- 209-224 General and Specific Deterrent Effects of Traffic Enforcement: Do we have to Catch Offenders to Reduce Crashes?
by Richard Tay
- 225-240 Speed and Income
by Mogens Fosgerau
2005, Volume 39, Issue 1
- 1-24 Equity Implications of Vehicle Emissions Taxes
by Sarah E. West
- 25-52 Calculation of Economies of Spatial Scope from Transport Cost Functions with Aggregate Output with an Application to the Airline Industry
by Leonardo J. Basso & Sergio R. Jara-Díaz
- 53-74 Road Wear and the Kilometre Charge: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis
by Richard Johnsson
- 75-92 An Integrated Approach to Urban Road Pricing
by Hanna Armelius
- 93-108 Deriving Values of Statistical Lives From Observations of Speed Limits and Driving Behaviour
by Jon Strand
- 109-126 Alcohol, Public Policy, and Highway Crashes: A Time-series Analysis of Older-driver Safety
by Patrick S. McCarthy
2004, Volume 38, Issue 3
- 333-344 Travel Time - Variable or Constant?
by David Metz
- 345-369 Urban Congestion Charging: A Second-Best Alternative
by Georgina Santos
- 371-402 Congestion Control and Vehicle Ownership Restriction: The Choice of an Optimal Quota Policy
by Winston T.H. Koh
- 403-423 Will Mixed Logit Change Urban Transport Policies?
by Philip A. Viton
- 425-446 Identifying the Influence of Stated Choice Design Dimensionality on Willingness to Pay for Travel Time Savings
by David A. Hensher
- 447-466 Determinants of Mode Choice between Road and Shipping for Freight Transport: Evidence for Four Spanish Exporting Sectors
by Leandro García-Menéndez & Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso & Delia Pinero De Miguel
2004, Volume 38, Issue 2
- 157-190 Assessing the Efficient Cost of Sustaining Britain's Rail Network: Perspectives based on Zonal Comparisons
by John Kennedy & Andrew S. J. Smith
- 191-215 The Acceptability of Urban Road Pricing: A Theoretical Analysis Applied to Experience in Lyon
by Charles Raux & Stéphanie Souche
- 217-246 Alternative Forms of Economic Regulation and their Efficiency Implications for Airports
by Tae Hoon Oum & Anming Zhang & Yimin Zhang
- 247-274 Public Choice about the Value of a Statistical Life for Cost-Benefit Analyses: The Case of Road Safety
by Georges Dionne & Paul Lanoie
- 275-307 Cost-Benefit Analysis for Transport Networks: Theory and Application
by Yukihiro Kidokoro
- 309-332 Chinese Railway Reform and Competition: Lessons from the Experience in Other Countries
by Russell Pittman
2004, Volume 38, Issue 1
- 1-27 Meta-Analysis of Airport Noise and Hedonic Property Values
by Jon P. Nelson
- 29-43 Ethanol Subsidies and the Highway Trust Fund
by Kevin N. Rask
- 45-75 Dynamic Distributions of Productivity Growth in European Railways
by John Loizides & Efthymios G. Tsionas
- 77-107 Competition in Air Transport
by Mar González-Savignat
- 109-125 Congestion in European Airspace
by Marianne Raffarin
- 127-156 Product Differentiation on Roads
by Erik T. Verhoef & Kenneth A. Small
2003, Volume 37, Issue 3
- 297-318 Induced Supply: A Model of Highway Network Expansion at the Microscopic Level
by David Levinson & Ramachandra Karamalaputi
- 319-352 Hypercongestion
by Kenneth A. Small & Xuehao Chu
- 353-381 An Experimental Comparison of Track Allocation Mechanisms in the Railway Industry
by Gunnar Isacsson & Jan-Eric Nilsson
- 383-416 Collude, Compete, or Both? Deregulation in the Norwegian Airline Industry
by Kjell G. Salvanes & Frode Steen & Lars Sørgard
- 417-438 Managerial Earnings Trends in Deregulated Transport Industries
by James Peoples
- 439-450 Marginal Effects of Changing the Vehicle Mix on Fatal Crashes
by Richard Tay
2003, Volume 37, Issue 2
- 133-155 Impact Analysis of Car-Related Taxes on Fuel Consumption in Japan
by Masayoshi Tanishita & Shigeru Kashima & William J. Hayes
- 157-199 The Introduction of the Automotive Catalytic Converter in Chile
by David Bauner & Staffan Laestadius
- 201-225 Railroad Costs and Competition: The Implications of Introducing Competition to Railroad Networks
by John D. Bitzan
- 227-259 Price-Cost Margins in the US Airline Industry using a Conjectural Variation Approach
by Thorsten Fischer & David R. Kamerschen
- 261-277 From the Single Line Model to the Spatial Structure of Transit Services: Corridors or Direct?
by Sergio R. Jara-Díaz & Antonio Gschwender
- 279-296 Cost Economics of Aircraft Size
by Wenbin Wei & Mark Hansen
2003, Volume 37, Issue 1
- 1-28 Costs and Benefits of Electric Vehicles
by Fredrik Carlsson & Olof Johansson-Stenman
- 29-46 Behind the Subjective Value of Travel Time Savings
by Sergio R. Jara-Diaz & Cristián A. Guevara
- 47-68 Moral Hazard in Traffic Games
by Pål Andreas Pedersen
- 69-94 Optimal Pricing of Transport Externalities in a Federal System
by Bruno De Borger & Christophe Courcelle & Didier Swysen
- 95-110 The Cost of Road Crashes
by Margaret Giles
- 111-132 The Effects of Price Regulation in Contracting out Transport Services
by Yukihiro Kidokoro
2002, Volume 36, Issue 3
- 355-387 Private Financing of Transport Infrastructure: An Assessment of the UK Experience
by Olivier Debande
- 389-405 Airport Barriers to Entry in the US
by Martin Dresner & Robert Windle & Yuliang Yao
- 407-445 A Stochastic Model of Congestion Caused by Speed Differences
by Jan Rouwendal & Erik Verhoef & Piet Rietveld & Bert Zwart
- 447-467 Dockworker Earnings, Containerisation, and Shipping Deregulation
by Wayne K. Talley
- 469-490 Induced Travel Demand and Induced Road Investment: A Simultaneous Equation Analysis
by Robert Cervero & Mark Hansen
- 491-495 The Prisoner's Dilemma and Vehicle Safety Some Policy Implications
by Richard Tay
2002, Volume 36, Issue 2
- 163-188 Car Ownership and Economic Development with Forecasts to the Year 2015
by Kenneth B. Medlock & Ronald Soligo
- 189-209 European Airline Reform: An Empirical Welfare Analysis
by Youdi Schipper & Piet Rietveld & Peter Nijkamp
- 211-231 Estimating the Benefits of Traffic Calming on Through Routes: A Choice Experiment Approach
by Guy D. Garrod & Riccardo Scarpa & Kenneth G. Willis
- 233-266 Product Quality and Environmental Taxation
by Gareth D. Myles & Ayse Uyduranoglu
- 267-304 The Expectations Hypothesis of the Term Structure and Risk Premiums in Dry Bulk Shipping Freight Markets
by Manolis G. Kavussanos & Amir H. Alizadeh-M
- 305-340 Diesels in Europe: Analysis of Characteristics, Usage Patterns, Energy Savings and CO 2 Emission Implications
by Lee Schipper & Céline Marie-Lilliu & Lew Fulton
- 341-354 Developments in Transport Policy: The Evolution of Capacity Charges on the UK Rail Network
by Stephen Gibson & Grahame Cooper & Brian Ball
2002, Volume 36, Issue 1
- 1-25 The Demand for Automobile Fuel: A Survey of Elasticities
by Daniel J. Graham & Stephen Glaister
- 27-48 A Political Economic Approach to the Domestic Airline Merger Phenomenon
by Joseph A. Clougherty
- 49-72 The Off-peak Demand for Train Kilometres and Train Tickets: A Microeconometric Analysis
by Daniel Van Vuuren & Piet Rietveld
- 73-91 The Demand for Local Bus Services in England
by Joyce M. Dargay & Mark Hanly
- 93-113 A Service Quality Index for Area-wide Contract Performance Assessment
by David A. Hensher & Paola Prioni
- 115-138 Inter-Island Travel Demand Response with Discrete Choice Models: Functional Form, Forecasts, and Elasticities
by Juan De Dios Ort�zar & Rosa Marina González
- 139-162 The Impact of Passengers' Preferences Regarding Time and Service Quality on Airline Network Structure
by Oliver W. Wojahn
2001, Volume 35, Issue 3
- 353-362 Editorial
by Jan Owen Jansson
- 363-380 Pricing European Transport Systems: Recent Developments and Evidence from Case Studies
by Chris Nash & Tom Sansom
- 381-397 Environmental Pricing-Theory and Practice: The Swiss Policy of Heavy Vehicle Taxation
by Stefan Suter & Felix Walter
- 399-416 Traffic Insurance and Accident Externality Charges
by Gunnar Lindberg
- 417-456 Transport and Location Effects of Road Pricing: A Simulation Approach
by Jonas Eliasson & Lars-Göran Mattsson
- 457-471 The Experience of Urban Toll Cordons in Norway: Lessons for the Future
by Odd I. Larsen & Knut �stmoe
- 473-489 The Politics and Economics of Transport Investment and Pricing in Stockholm
by Ingemar Ahlstrand
- 491-511 Towards achievement of both Allocative Efficiency and X-Efficiency in Public Transport
by Kjell Werner Johansen & Odd I. Larsen & Bård Norheim
2001, Volume 35, Issue 2
- 137-160 Recent Evidence on Car Cost and Time Elasticities of Travel Demand in Europe
by Gerard de Jong & Hugh Gunn
- 161-193 Subsidy and Local Bus Service Deregulation in Britain: A Re-evaluation
by Peter Romilly
- 195-222 A Model of Scheduling in Airline Networks: How a Hub-and-Spoke System Affects Flight Frequency, Fares and Welfare
by Jan K. Brueckner & Yimin Zhang
- 223-237 Why States Toll: An Empirical Model of Finance Choice
by David Levinson
- 239-256 Actual, Adjacent, and Potential Competition Estimating the Full Effect of Southwest Airlines
by Steven A. Morrison
- 257-284 Highway Investment Benefits under Alternative Pricing Regimes
by H. C. W. L. Williams & D. Van Vliet & C. Parathira & K. S. Kim
- 285-299 Anomalies in the Value of Travel-Time Changes
by Lars Hultkrantz & Reza Mortazavi
- 301-326 Inter-Urban Travel Demand Elasticities with Emphasis on Trip Generation and Destination Substitution
by Thomas Sonesson
- 327-341 Number of Points Served and Economies of Spatial Scope in Transport Cost Functions
by Sergio R. Jara-Díaz & Cristián Cortés & Freddy Ponce
- 343-348 Supply Curves for Urban Road Networks: A Comment
by Peter J. Hills
- 349-352 Supply Curves for Urban Road Networks: A Rejoinder
by A. D. May & S. P. Shepherd & J. J. Bates
2001, Volume 35, Issue 1
- 1-2 Editorial
by Steven A. Morrison
- 3-30 Michael Beesley and Cost Benefit Analysis
by C. D. Foster
- 31-70 A Tale of Two Cities: Relationships Between Urban Form, Car Ownership and Use and Implications for Public Policy
by John F. Kain
- 71-98 Measurement of the Valuation of Travel Time Savings
by David A. Hensher
- 99-118 Competition in Urban Passenger Transport in the Developing World
by K. M. Gwilliam
- 119-135 Reforming UK Airport Regulation
by David Starkie


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Brisbane Range is NOT in Brisbane City
VT have now removed Brisbane Range from Brisbane page so no more confusion.....Brisbane Range is a bushland mountain area near Nanago
Just so you are not confused when you are reading about Brisbane ,the capital of Queensland, on Virtual Tourist please do not try to find Brisbane Range because it does NOT exist in Brisbane.
People do live in range areas around Brisbane but none of the places are called Brisbane Range.
There are no buses, no trains,no roads to Brisbane Range because it does not exist. It is a mistake from the early days of VT and for some reason is difficult to fix.
Unique Suggestions: Yes there is a Brisbane Range ...an actual range....unpopulated...about 160 K north of Brisbane city
and serves as a catchment area for the Brisbane River.
Fun Alternatives: So if you are exploring Brisbane city do NOT look for Brisbane Range...you are in Brisbane or one of the many suburbs in The Greater Brisbane Area.
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Gateway Bridge Toll
The simplest and best way to cross from the south (Gold Coast side) of Brisbane to the north (Sunshine Coast side) is the Gateway Bridge which is a toll bridge. And the same applies to go south to Pacific Highway or to branch off to Ipswich, Toowoomba or Warwick.
All manual toll booths are now closed and removed
Though at times there is a lot of congestion this is the most direct route and leads to the airport and ship terminal as well which are on the north side..
Unique Suggestions: If you have hired a car make sure it is fitted with a transponder or has a prepaid "go viavideo " account to save all the hassle.
You will hear one beep as you pass through the check point if all is OK with transponder. Another option takes a photo of number plate..
If you are in your own vehicle and do not have a transponder or the video option note the telephone number and call ASAP to avoid the fine. You have 3 days or penalties apply.
There are" go via "retailers somewhere! Otherwise phone the numbers listed below.
Fun Alternatives: If you want to pass from the south to the north side of Brisbane there is the Story Bridge which takes you through the Valley, the route through the city centre, or one that skirts the city via the Centenary Highway (Ipswich side)
The last two are more complicated though there is an inner city bypass and I would recommend a study of maps to get your bearings and not just rely on GPS.
Call the RACQ for advice. 131905
Traffic Reports 131940 for Gold Coast, Brisbane and Sunshine Coast.
.You have 3 days to pay if you go through without transponder. PH. 133331
Members who find this useful may like to visit Mind the Round-a-Bouts and do not miss Know Your Exit Number
ALL my driving review links are now(2013) listed here
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Queensland Weather
You hear all the time what beautiful weather we have in Queensland. And we do. But not all the time. Along the coastal strip can be quite different to the places on the other side of the range...The Great Dividing Range that is.
Once you cross the range you could well be colder or hotter than the coast. Usually the heat is dryer. Go outback and you could be extremely HOT or COLD.
But the weather in places such as Toowoomba and Warwick can be very temperate more like England (and the gardens and surrounds reflect this.)
We have a "wet season" too. Very wet ..and roads can flood and bridges are washed away and you are cut off ...maybe for quite a while. The further north you go the more of this type of weather can come your way.
"Only in Queensland" says the add on TV for an insurance company and you see a hail storm
or cyclonic winds lashing someones home. Thunder storms can brew very quickly in the summer. There is usually a greenish tinge if hail is likely and hail stones can be like ice chips or as large as an orange or great chunks of ice (rarer)
Then sometimes the wind will blow dust across the coastal strip and all around you is dusty brown.
Unique Suggestions: Check on the weather which is usual for the time you are here. Carry appropriate gear.
Plan your trip around known weather patterns. We would not consider going outback in mid summer unless for some urgent reason.
Always carry water and some food when travelling. Never drive into water without checking safety aspects.
Fun Alternatives: First there is a good site to check
Queensland weather.
The RACQ always has information on the condition of roads.
Brisbane ,Gold Coast, and Sunshine Coast Up to date road information for those areas Click here or Phone 131940
So remember we do have heaps of beautiful weather and warm winter days...but not always.
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Two Blackall Ranges...Road and Drive
Sunshine Coast Hinterland
Not to be confused
Just be aware that Blackall Range Road and Blackall Range Tourist Drive are not the same. And I am sure that you will be looking for the Tourist Drive
You can read about The Blackall Range Tourist Drive here This drive starts at Landsborough and encompasses Maleny, Witta, Reeseville, Montville, Flaxton, Kondalilla, Mapleton and Cooloolabin.
Another place to read about the drive comes from the Caloundra Guide where it is listed as Tour 23
The Range Road is in West Woombye and you can look at this map
Unique Suggestions: Just be aware of the names...one is Blackall Range Road....the other Blackall Range Tourist Drive...and you want the Tourist Drive....don't you?
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In Time for Your Plane
The tourist trap is to underestimate how long it will take you to reach Brisbane Airport ....Domestic and International are quite separate by the way.
Brisbane peak hour can be very slow as can travelling from the Gold Coast. The train from Gold Coast is good but from Sunshine Coast the train can be delayed and it is NOT a direct airport train.
The road section I most worry about is the Sunshine Coast to Brisbane airport although the new tunnel has improved things. But an accident can block both lanes and there are only a couple of exits...the one to the old Bruce Highway (Steve Irwin Way) and not any more opportunities from the southbound lane for a long time.
Unique Suggestions: Allow plenty of time and then some...better to wait at the airport than have to reorganize flights.
Avoid peak hour to travel but remember on some roads an accident can cause very long delays.
The shuttle buses get caught too...I always go earlier than they suggest.
Fun Alternatives: Go back to first 'Tourist Trap'
Go back to Queensland page'Related to:
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Why I call Australia Zoo a tourist trap, is because it still plays on the name Steve Irwin, plus the admission prices are extremely high, too high for the average family wanting a day out.
I have found other zoos to have just as good shows and more animals on display for HALF THE PRICE!
The price is ridicuously high, just imagine taking the family and paying $35 for a 3yr old child that most probably will fall asleep for some of the time!
Once in there, prices for food and anything else you wish to buy is very expensive too.
Make sure you take a bag load of money when you visit here, you will need it!
Open....9-5pm daily
Beerwah on the Sunshine Coast, north of Brisbane.Related to:
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Its not made in Australia
You buy a cute little koala toy or maybe an Australian flag. Sometimes it is a T-shirt and you find to your horror it is not made in Australia. An Australian souvenir "made in China" .Who would want that to remind them of a stay in our beautiful country?
Unique Suggestions: You can certainly check the label.
It is important to keep the thought in your mind or you could buy without realizing.
Fun Alternatives: Choose souvenirs that are definitely of Australian origin. An opal from the shop on the Bruce Highway just before the Etamogah Pub. Or maybe some Aboriginal art.
And you could also look for a shop or web-site that advertises "Australian made".
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Long Distances between Attractions
If you are used to seeing one magical sight after another in other parts of the world it may not be the case in Queensland.
How many times does the British Isles fit into Qld...About 7.1 times. And there may only be one extinct volcano to see after miles(kilometers)of travel.
There is a great little pub to visit on the way to Monto in Qld. Is it too far just to have a meal and see the memorabilia? (see my things to do in Qld) tip.
So it is not a deliberate trap but a trap none the less if you travel far on lonely roads for a very small reward.
Unique Suggestions: Check the distances you need to travel and relate this information to travel at home or somewhere you know. I would have to travel from London to York 4 times there and back to see this attraction. Read up on the attraction . Ask in VT.
Call on the phone to check opening times....sometimes things change.
Fun Alternatives: Sus out something else that you would enjoy doing that is within range. See local VT tips or ask on forum
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Christmas time
Themeparks on the gold coast at christmas/ new years time get VERY busy. The lines will be huge and you will not get to ride many rides.
Unique Suggestions: Dreamworld- ride the giant drop and brand new motocoaster
Whitewaterworld- hydrocoaster, green room
wet n wild - don't bother
sea world- animals are good
Fun Alternatives: Visit the tallest tower on the coast, Q1 and go to the top.Related to:
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- School Holidays
When departing from every park exhibit or whatever
You have to pass through the fleecing section. Ripley's Believe it or not ensnares the unaware with a penny arcade at the exit..........the Australian Zoo exit is through quite a large shop of souveniers and everywhere we visited adopts this attitude of well we will get your last cent if you don't put your blinkers on and head straight out, after you have seen this wonderful place.
The upside of course is that you have already had more than your money's worth in Ripleys........a fantastic display and experience........even the 2 year old enjoyed it so do go.............(blinkers on on the way out OK?)......The same goes for Seaworld and Australian Zoo...........all fantastic places and must sees in my opinion.
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While out for a run the other morning I observed an annoyingly familiar, seasonal phenomenon: a guy chasing a handful of leaves around his lawn with a leaf blower that belched exhaust fumes and roared loudly enough to be heard more than a mile away. When I loped back nearly an hour later he was still at it.
Knowing how most people react to unsolicited advice, no matter how politely offered, I resisted stopping to suggest a quieter, more environmentally friendly and healthier alternative to his use of a gas-powered engine – but still, it rankled.
Loyal readers will recall my longtime aversion to leaf blowers in favor of a simple rake, which I have always maintained accomplishes most clearing tasks more efficiently and expeditiously. Often when I've made this claim leaf-blowing loyalists have sneered, "Prove it."
So finally, I decided to do just that – stage a man vs. machine contest. The rules would be straightforward: Mark off two equal sections of lawn and pit me with a rake against a man with a leaf blower; first one to push all the leaves from one end to the other wins.
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To avoid accusations of stacking the deck in my favor I chose as my adversary one of the fittest people I know, Spyros "Spy" Barres of Mystic, who spends half his waking hours in a gym and the other half logging phenomenal miles on roads and trails.
Earlier this month Spy placed first overall in a field of more than 700 at the Tarzan Brown 5.5-mile road race in Mystic; he has bicycled across the country, run a 100-mile race in the Himalayas and one year ran from Mystic to Boston to compete in the Boston Marathon.
Spy and I have run, hiked and kayaked together for years – once we paddled together to Block Island and then ran the 9.3-mile road race; we've climbed Mount Washington during a January blizzard and Mount Katahdin in snow and ice; he was part of a "Summit New England" expedition I once organized in which a bunch of crazy people spent 40 straight hours being driven to and climbing to the highest points of all six New England states; last year we swam with a group from Fishers Island to Noank – repeating a feat we accomplished a few years earlier in the opposite direction.
Although we're good friends and Spy seems pretty laid back when we're on a casual outing, once the gun goes off he turns into a ruthless competitor.
The Great Lawn Competition took place in Ledyard on the front lawn of Betsy and Bob Graham, also longtime runners and friends, with Bob officiating. The day before Bob and I measured adjoining 45x50-foot sections of lawn perfectly suited such a contest, with two giant oak trees in the middle and one on each side. Since mature trees, I've read, produce about 250,000 leaves, each of us would be dealing with about half a million.
The day before the contest it snowed for the first time this season, but luckily it all melted by the next morning. Still, it was just above freezing and windy when Bob blew the whistle. I stripped down to a light fleece jacket while Spy donned a winter parka.
Almost immediately a mechanical malfunction delayed Spy's progress and we had to call the leaf blower owner, Rick Ely – a champion triathlete and co-owner of the Mystic Cycle Centre, who uses the machine to clear trails for a bike race at Bluff Point in Groton.
Rick made a few adjustments and gave Spy some pointers before firing up the machine. The race was back on.
My strategy was as simple as the wood and plastic tool I wielded: Rake forward for a few feet, move sideways, repeat. When I came to the end of the row I pushed the pile ahead and proceeded down the line.
Spy, I noticed over my shoulder, adopted a similar approach, but as his pile grew he began getting bogged down. Critics may remark that I had cleverly outfitted him with a lower-powered, hand-held model instead of a backpack blower than can generate a blast of air up to 270 mph – but that was my point.
Most people I've seen use the smaller blowers for lawn jobs, and even giant machines with 747-style engines have their drawbacks, sending great clouds of leaves spewing in all directions. You think you can do better, stage your own contest.
Anyway, I gradually built up a comfortable lead – so comfortable, in fact, that I decided to take time out for a short massage administered by Rick's wife, Laura, a health coach and Reiki master. I also had to sit out a short penalty called by referee Bob for inadvertently – oh, all right, deliberately – raking a tiny amount onto Spy's section.
Even with these delays I'm happy to report that man smoked machine. In about 45 minutes I pushed the last pile to the edge of the driveway and Bob blew his whistle one final time. It was my greatest triumph since a third-grade spelling bee.
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Contrary to some perceptions, I'm not a Luddite, survivalist or Trappist monk.
I drive a car, live in a house with electricity and indoor plumbing, use a computer and own assorted power equipment.
I'm continually bothered, though, that contemporary culture increasingly relies on machines and technology to perform simple tasks once accomplished with hand tools, more efficiently and economically, with greater environmental sensitivity and less noise. As a bonus, in the case of raking leaves, you get a good upper-body workout.
Speaking of noise, manufacturers have reduced the sonic output on newer models to about 65 decibels – from a distance of 50 feet about as loud as an air conditioner turned to the highest speed. Electric models also are quieter and don't produce exhaust.
That hasn't stopped more than 100 municipalities across the country – mostly, suburban communities – from restricting or outright banning the use of leaf blowers. I'd like to see similar ordinances in cities, where the racket reverberating off buildings seems more deafening than an ambulance siren. A broom on a sidewalk works just as well as a rake on a lawn.
One other drawback to leaf blowers: In addition to leaves they blow dust, leaf mold, animal feces and other debris you'd rather not inhale.
I do concede that blowers – originally developed in the 1950s to spray chemicals and later adapted to its present application – can be handy for clearing leaves from bushes, rain gutters, stone walls and other hard-to-reach locations.
But for a typical lawn you're much better off with a rake.
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New Kensington man shot by father arraigned on assault, trespass charges
A New Kensington man who police say was shot by his father was arraigned Monday on several charges stemming from incidents that occurred before he was shot.
Christopher Scott Allias, 35, of Kimball Avenue was charged with four counts of simple assault, a count of making terroristic threats, and a count of defiant trespass.
As of Monday afternoon, Allias was being held in Westmoreland County jail in lieu of $5,000 bond.
Two of the assault charges and the defiant trespass charge stem from an incident police said occurred on Feb. 10 at about 10:50 a.m., when they were called to Allias' parents house on Jefferson Avenue in Lower Burrell.
Earlier that morning, the Allias men got into a physical altercation in New Kensington, according to police, and Christopher Allias made a verbal threat to his father. The argument took place outside of Christopher Allias' residence, which his father owns.
New Kensington Police arrived but neither man wanted to press charges.
According to court documents, Allias went to his parents' home in Lower Burrell to talk to his mother, Sue, about the earlier incident.
Police said Charles and Sue Allias repeatedly told their son to leave their property. Police said that when Christopher Allias refused, his father picked up a pipe wrench and ordered him to leave. When he again refused, his father struck him in the shoulder with the wrench.
According to his arrest papers, Christopher Allias then grabbed his father by the neck and threw him to the ground. Charles Allias told his wife to call the police.
When Sue Allias tried to call the police, her son grabbed her phone and threw it, police say.
Charles Allias started to make his way toward his bedroom, and his son followed. Police say Charles Allias once again told his son to leave in the bedroom.
Christopher Allias responded by saying, "What are you going to do, shoot me?"
Charles Allias then shot his son in the leg with a .38-caliber revolver, according to court documents.
Police say one of the simple assault charges stemmed from an incident the day before, when Christopher Allias confronted his girlfriend.
Court documents said that Allias and his girlfriend were arguing when Allias threw a candlestick at her, hitting her in the back.
His girlfriend went to an area medical center for treatment for cuts on her back and bruises to her wrists, according to court documents.
Lower Burrell police did not return calls for comment in regard to whether Charles Allias will be charged for allegedly shooting his son.
R.A. Monti is a freelance writer for Trib Total Media.
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In the article, titled Expert on Mental Illness Reveals Her Own Fight, Linehan says:
"[Once she recovered and became a clinician] I decided to [study] supersuicidal people, the very worst cases, because I figured these are the most miserable people in the world -- they think they're evil, that they're bad, bad, bad---and I understood that they weren't," she said. "I understood their suffering because I'd been there, in hell, with no idea how to get out."
In particular she chose to treat people with a diagnosis that she would have given her young self: borderline personality disorder, a poorly understood condition characterized by neediness, outbursts and self-destructive urges, often leading to cutting or burning. In therapy, borderline patients can be terrors--manipulative, hostile, sometimes ominously mute, and notorious for storming out threatening suicide.
Dr. Linehan found that the tension of acceptance could at least keep people in the room: patients accept who they are, that they feel the mental squalls of rage, emptiness and anxiety far more intensely than most people do. In turn, the therapist accepts that given all this, cutting, burning and suicide attempts make some sense.
In that passage, Dr. Linehan decribes the "conventional" type of BP few non-BPs in family member communities would recognize: those who willingly go into treatment and are self-destructive. Over the last 15 years, thousands of family members on Welcome to Oz and other online communities have told of their struggles with people who are the exact opposite of that described by Dr. Linehan.
I call these higher-functioning, acting out BPs the "invisible BP" because they are invisible to the mental health profession (but not to everyone else). They may be miserable somewhere in their souls, but to most people they come off as very charming people who have friends and do well at their job.
In private, however, they make family members miserable by their intense and pervasive blaming, false accusations, irrational jealously, and verbal and emotional abuse (such as calling people horrible names and cutting them down in hostile ways). They project all that misery onto others and, perhaps, make them feel as bad inside as they themselves do.
These tactics work all too well. Where there was one miserable yet high functioning person, now there are two or more miserable people with at least one showing signs of post traumatic stress disorder.
And there's something else.
By coincidence, yesterday I received a book in the mail called, Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder by Shari Manning. Manning takes Linehan's DBT techniques and shows family members how to use them when communicating with their BPD family member.
One section caught my eye that turned the BPD world I live in upside down. When I read it, I actually laughed. Here it is, in part.
"It Was All My Fault," (said Laura, a person with BPD)
Laura had been sobbing for hours, begging her husband Steve to understand that her sadness was out of control. She wanted him to do something--anything--to make the pain stop. ..."I shouldn't be feeling this way at all, and now I'm hurting you, the person I love most....I'm a terrible person and I don't deserve to have you.." ...[the author continues] People with BPD often have times when they beat themselves up, insisting the are worthless, undeserving, and inept.
This is true--for a smaller subset of those with BPD. They're called "consumers" because they "consume" mental health services. In other words, by definition, they are treatment seeking.
If you have read any of my books based on the experiences of hundreds of family members (especially partners) you know that your situation is completely the opposite. the non-BPs family member gets all the blame--and I mean ALL the blame--and is accused of being worthless in language I can't use here. Sometimes these BPs show flashes of insight, but often not enough to save the relationship.
I've been dealing with this "great divide" for many years: the one clinicians write and talk about and the ones my family members experience. And I'm getting more and more frustrating that people in the clinical community either really don't see or chose to ignore (and invalidate) the aptly-named "invisible" BP and their family members. In my experience, some are more concerned about terminology than the suffering of thousands of people, non-BPs and BPs alike. That's a strong thing to say, but someone needs to say it, and I guess that's me.
In fact, my belief is that the higher-functioning, blaming BPs are the rule and those in therapy are the smaller subset. A recent study showed that the incidence of BPD is nearly triple the 2% statistic in the DSM-IV-TR. Where did all these extra people come from? Not from the hospitals. From the community.
I believe that a certain percentage of these blamers have comorbid NPD because they fit so many of the NPD criteria. NPs have no awareness of their problem and don't seek treatment. They criticize others for being less superior. Studies have found that about 35% of people with BPD also have NPD (and people with NPD also have BPD).
But many of the "invisible" BPs show no signs of NPD.
In some ways, it's nice to have a publishing niche that no one else has. But on the other, it is terribly sad to see there's almost no recognition (let alone help) for "invisible" BPs and their family members. I donj't know what it will take to change it. There is barely enough research money now, and what's the point of developing resources for people who don't seek treatment? Right?
I urge family members of invisible BPs to keep letting the clinicial community they exit, and that they need help too.
Like everyone else, I feel proud of Dr. Linehan for making this announcement. I should have mentioned that at the beginning of this blog post, even though I used it as a springboard to discuss a larger issue. The mental health system must have a way to treat such a large and needy population. And to that end Dr. Linehan has (as I think it is obvious) been probably the most important person in advocating for their needs (not to mention developing an effective treatment written about the world over). She and John Gunderson, M.D. are probably the mother and father of the classification and treatment of this disorder.
I will leave it up to others who are much closer to Dr. Linehan and the DBT community to write more about her announcement, since I am not an expert in that area. My purpose in this post wasn't to talk about her but the population she represents, and those she does not represent. We've gone far in giving visibility to one subgroup of the borderline population. We have a very long way to go to make the "invisible" group not invisible anymore.
For anyone interested in listening to an expert's take on the BPD classification I mentioned, I recommend listening to this audiotape from the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder http://www.borderlinepersonalitydisorder.com/audio-pres.shtml. Go to MAY 2009
NEA-BPD Call-in Telephone Hour with Dr. Robert Friedel.
It is by Dr. Robert Friedel, Distinguished Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Virginia Commonwealth University, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Duke University, and completed an internship in internal medicine and a residency in psychiatry at Duke. He served for two years as a research fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
We differ in that he believes the "invisible" BP is the subset rather than the "conventional" kind. But he reviewed and approved of my categories.
Previously, Dr. Friedel was Heman E. Drummond Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has also served as chair of the departments of psychiatry at Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Michigan, and Executive Director of the Mental Health Research Institute at the University of Michigan. Dr. Friedel has worked in the private sector as Senior Vice President, Physician-in-Chief, Director of Research and as a member of the Board of Directors of Charter Medical Corporation.
Dr. Friedel's research interests have focused, in part, on developing effective pharmacological treatments for patients with borderline personality disorder, and on identifying biological defects in patients with this disorder. He has founded Borderline Personality Disorder Clinics at UAB and at MCV/VCU, and now directs the MCV/VCU Clinic. In 2004, Dr. Friedel published a book for patients with borderline disorder, their families and mental health professionals titled Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified.
Dr. Friedel serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder, and was named a Psychiatrist of the Year in 2007 by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). He is co-editor-in-chief of Current Psychiatry Reports, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology. He is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and a number of other professional and scientific organizations. Dr. Friedel has published over 100 scientific articles, book chapters and books, and is listed in Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare and in Who's Who in America.
To read more about Dr. Linehan's announcment, go to http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/dsm5-in-distress/201106/the-road-recovery-1
Following is more information about the categories mentioned in this article.
The types are lower-functioning conventional, higher-functioning invisible, and combination.
Characteristics of lower-functioning, "conventional" BPs:
1. They cope with pain mostly through self-destructive behaviors such as self-injury and suicidality. The term for this is "acting in."
2. They acknowledge they have problems and seek help from the mental health system, often desperately. Some are hospitalized for their own safety.
3. They have a difficult time with daily functioning and may even be on government disability. This is called low functioning.
4. If they have overlapping, or co-occurring, disorders, such as an eating disorder or substance abuse, the disorder is severe enough to require professional treatment.
5. [PC2] Family members' greatest challenges include finding appropriate treatment, handling crises (especially suicide attempts), feelings of guilt, and the financial burden of treatment. Parents fear their child won't be able to live independently.
Because lower-functioning conventional BPs seek mental health services, unlike the higher-functioning invisible BPs we'll talk about next, they are subjects of research studies about BPD, including those about treatment.
Higher-functioning, invisible BPs:
1. They strongly disavow having any problems, even tiny ones. Relationship difficulties, they say, are everyone else's fault. If family members suggest they may have BPD, they almost always accuse the other person of having it instead.
2. They refuse to seek help unless someone threatens to end the relationship. If they do go to counseling, they usually don't intend to work on their own issues. In couple's therapy, their goal is often to convince the therapist that they are being victimized.
3. They cope with their pain by raging outward, blaming and accusing family members for real or imagined problems.
4. They hide their low self-esteem behind a brash, confident pose that masks their inner turmoil. They usually function quite well at work and only display aggressive behavior toward those close to them. Family members say these people bring to mind Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
5. If they also have other mental disorders, they're ones that also allow for high functioning, such as narcissistic personality disorder (NPD).
6. Family members' greatest challenges include coping with verbal, emotional, and sometimes physical abuse; trying to convince the BP to get treatment; worrying about the effects of BPD behaviors on their other children; quietly losing their confidence and self-esteem; and trying-and failing-to set limits. By far, the majority of Welcome to Oz (WTO) members have a borderline partner.
BPs with overlapping characteristics:
Many BPs (perhaps a majority) possess characteristics of both lower-functioning conventional BPs and higher--functioning invisible BPs. Get Me Out of Here author Rachel Reiland is typical of a BP with overlapping characteristics. When she insinuated she was going to shoot herself, her psychiatrist admitted her to a psychiatric hospital. Yet she held a job as a full-time mother and was active in church. Although she acted out toward her husband and psychiatrist, she was able to appear non-disordered toward most people outside her family.


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Glad you bought KOTOR2 on the Steam Sale. You wont regret it. Since there still seems to be some confusion about where to install it, here a quick explenation.
When asked for the location, DO NOT use the default already set. That's for the disk version. For Steam it's either;
C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Knights of the Old Republic II\
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A custom set Steam location (for example I use D:\Steam\)
Depending where you installed Steam (so check where it is in your folders!).
If you have crashes at the Obsidian logo, try going windowed. In the swkotor2.ini change BOTH fullscreen=1 to fullscreen=0, and under [Graphics Options] add AllowWindowedMode=1.
That's the most common crash issue for Steam.
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