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Large flat - Sea view & Private Parking
Size190 m²
Floor No.2(with elevator)
- Family/child friendly
- Kitchen
- Parking available
- Elevator in building
- Towels
- Internet/WiFi
- Washer/dryer
- Dishwasher
Accommodation summary
|Rua José Gomes da Silva, 4450-171 Matosinhos, Portugal
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The apartment has 4 bedrooms but the 3rd and 4th bedroom will only be open to guests if the group is more than 4 or 6 people respectively.
To avoid any misunderstanding, the bedrooms offer works like this:
1 to 4 guests = 2 bedrooms available
5 to 6 guests = 3 bedrooms available
7 to 8 guests = 4 bedrooms available
So, for example, if you are only 4 people but you want to use the 4 bedrooms, you will have to mention on your inquiry that you are 7 people because, only this way you will have access to the 4 bedrooms.
Nevertheless, all the other areas (Kitchen, 2 bathrooms and the large Living Room) will be available in any option, and the apartment will be (in all cases) only for you because I will not book bedrooms to more than one group of guests at the same time. You will be the only group of people staying in the apartment.
A big kitchen and a 90 Square meters Living room where you can enjoy the Sea views and City Park's gardens. Clean bath towels, Linen and tableware are included and the kitchen if fully equipped with microwave, stove, oven, fridge, toaster and kettle and all you need to prepare your own meals.
Is included in the price, bed linen, bath towels and cleaning at end of stay. Free Wireless internet (100 Mbps Download speed and 10 Mbps Upload speed). 40" wide LED Smart TV in the Living Room with Cable channels. Baby cot available for 5€ extra per night.
The apartment has a underground parking garage for 2 cars.
Just 15 minutes by car from the Airport and 7 minutes by car to Porto's city center. Lots of Restaurants and Bars in the area and a Supermarket named "Pingo Doce" at 250 meters. The Beach is just at 200 meters with a well known Surf's Spot.
The bus stops at the door and line 500 will take you in 20 minutes into the historical centre of Porto (near Ribeira) for € 1.85 per person. The bus trip to the historical center of Porto is very beautiful, first along the sea promenade and then along the Douro river.
Metro is at 800 meters, that will take to all sides of Porto including to the Main Train station (Campanhã) and to Porto's Airport (Sá Carneiro).
The green lungs of the city. Parque da Cidade has 83 hectares of green areas, footpaths and varied sports equipment, it is the largest park in Porto. It is a pleasant place of about 10 km of paths and rich and varied fauna and flora.
Finish your day eating a francesinha in Edifício Transparente, watching local surfers, or visit the Lota de Matosinhos and have some charcoal-grilled fish or some shellfish.
Late check-in is acceptable until 01:00 a.m.. Late check-out is possible if we don't have new guests on the same day.
We don't accept groups of friends younger than 30 years old and we don't allow parties in the apartment.
If you need to rent a car, we can take care of everything and you just have to pay to the rental company. The car can be delivered at the airport or at the apartment and the rental company will wait for you at the airport if the flight delays.
House rulesOrder, respect and commom sense, treat this house just like yours.
After booking, please kindly inform us your estimaded arrival time so we can plan the best way to clean the apartment. Late check-in is acceptable and late check-out is possible if we don't have new guests on the same day.
We don't accept groups of friends younger than 30 years old and we don't allow parties in the apartment.
|Price for > 4 guests
|16 € per guest/night extra
|Maximum nights
|3 weeks
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Reviews of this property
Beautiful apartment, with all the necessities you need Located just on the border of the beginning of Porto and the fishing village Matosinthos what really close to walk to and get delicious fresh fish Very easy to reach Porto city by very good bus and subway connection Beautiful artwork in apartment, excellent bathrooms and panoramic views over the beach By across the street is large park with palvilioen of the expo in Lisbon really recommend this apartment only One thing I can fault, no bike rentals were found in neighbors Would be nice if there in apartment would be a couple to use for the remainder tip top and smorgens nearby bakery with tasty sandwiches and pistolekes Christina and John thank you friendly people and always accessible via Windu
Mooi appartement,met alle benodigheden die je nodig hebt Gelegen net op de scheiding van het begin van Porto en Het vissersdorpje Matosinthos welke echt dichtbij is om naar toe te wandelen en lekkere verse vis te gaan eten Heel makkelijk om Porto stad te bereiken door heel goede busverbindingen en metroverbinding Mooie kunstwerken in appartement,prima badkamers en panoramisch zicht over strand Aan overkant straat is groot park met het palvilioen van de expo uit lissabon Echt een aanrader dit appartement Enigste wat ik kan aanmerken,geen fietsverhuur gevonden in geburen Zou leuk zijn als er in appartement een paar zouden staan om te kunnen gebruiken Voor de rest tip top en smorgens bakker vlakbij met lekkere broodjes en pistolekes Christina & John dank u Vriendelijke mensen en steeds bereikbaar via Windu
We had a wonderful time in this large three-bedroom apartment. The
benevolent ribbon windows overlook the Parque da Cidade and the
Atlantic Ocean. The old fishing village Matosinhos with very good and
inexpensive restaurants is at walking distance. Matosinhos is the
hometown of Portugal's most prominent modern-day architect: Álvaro
Siza Vieira. The village houses a couple of his early works, such as
the Boa Nova tea house and a swimming pool overlooking the sea at Leça
de Palmeira. But the metropolis of Porto is not far away. The metro
line takes less than half an hour to reach the city center with its
broad vistas, small alleys in the medieval town called Ribeira and its
wonderful bridges over the river Douro. Porto, a city to fall in love
Appartement conforme à la description : spacieux, calme, propre. John nous a accueilli avec beaucoup de sympathie et a pris le temps de nous indiquer les lignes de bus, métro, lieux de visites, restaurants... Ses conseils nous ont été précieux. L'appartement est bien situé pour visiter Porto et sa région (en train) et en face une grande plage de sable fin. Merci beaucoup, nous avons passé d'excellentes vacances !
Nuestra estancia fué perfecta. El apartamento muy amplio y en buenas condiciones. La localización estupenda, cerca del mar y con una línea de autobuses que te dejan en Oporto en muy pocos minutos y el recorrido es precioso.
El anfitrión encantador y muy dispuesto.
Reviews for this host's other properties
Wow John & Christine - Christine & John . No matter how you turn it they are the best hosts of rentals we have had contact to so far.
Fair price , immediate response kind and precise .
Great location in the middle of the historic center of the beautiful city of Porto.
In the walking street, just across the house where Ernest Hemmingway lived for some time in the twenties,( now under renovation) I reach of all interesting locations within 1 km reach.
No charge for late arrival or a little delayed checkout and no extra fee for cleaning .
The building is beautiful and the apartment is a charm. A dream of a vacation rental.
And with the delicious odour from the cafe' just below where you can have waffles and coffee and ice ☕
We had one of our best vacations in this fell good rental ⛪
Best regards. Jie , Kurt , Thomas & Sofie
Most beautiful appartment in Porto! In the middle of the town with everything you need. Cristina, you should mention that there is a hairdryer :-).
Wonderful stay in Porto in great location !
We arrived at midnight and our hosts were already expecting us. They were extremely friendly and gave us very valuable information on the city. We felt very welcome in the apartment which we had rented for 11 days. The two rooms are spacious. The hallway is big and contains closets for belongings. The kitchenette contained all kinds of equipment which we did not use. But we used the electric water heater to prepare our morning tea which we enjoyed on the small balcony in the morning sun.
The location is absolutely excellent, 10 minutes from the Douro Ribeira, 15 minutes to Bolaho market. Just a couple of houses up the road is a small bistro serving wonderful little dishes of organic food.
A great big thank you to John and Christina. We will definately visit Porto again and this apartment will be our preferance for accomodation!
Great appartment in a central location!
Staying at the apartment of Cristina and John was great. Both are wonderful hosts. Cristina and John made us feel very welcome and given us a lot of information about Porto. The apartment was spotlessly clean and decorated with lots of charm. The historic ambience was maintained by a gentle stylish renovation. In the apartment nothing was missing and the views of the cathedral from the balcony was awesome. The apartment is very quiet and is located in the pedestrian zone. Everything is very good erreichbat on foot. We thank our hosts Cristina and John very much for everything. We are happy to return to this place wunscherschönen.
Christa and Selina
Der Aufenthalt im Apartement von Cristina und John war grossartig. Die beiden sind wunderbare Gastgeber. Cristina und John haben uns herzlich willkommen geheissen und uns viele Informationen über Porto mitgegeben. Die Wohnung war blitzsauber und mit viel Charme eingerichtet. Das historische Ambiente wurde durch eine sanfte stilvolle Renovation beibehalten. In der Wohnung fehlte es an nichts und die Aussicht auf die Kathedrale vom Balkon aus war einmalig. Die Wohnung ist sehr ruhig gelegen und befindet sich in der Fussgängerzone. Alles ist sehr gut zu Fuss erreichbat. Wir danken unseren Gastgebern Cristina und John ganz herzlich für alles. Wir kehren gerne an diesen wunscherschönen Ort zurück.
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Prop 8 funding - very interesting
Original post made by Grace, Foothill High School, on Oct 29, 2008
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If you select "CA" for state, it will then allow you to select "Pleasanton" for city. Check it out. I find it *very* interesting the number of very high donations FOR Prop 8 from folks here in Pleasanton -- $25,000 donations, many $10,000 donations, etc. The donations AGAINST Prop 8 are more what you'd expect from individuals -- $25, $50, $100.
This makes me wonder two things: 1) Are these very large donations FOR Prop 8 really from individuals, or has a church funneled money from a general fund through these donors? and 2) Has a church (or churches) told their members that if they donate large sums of money, this would be considered their "tithe" for the year (or subsequent years)?
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a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 29, 2008 at 3:12 pm
I think you will find the largest to be Mormons, exhorted by their church to donate...
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 29, 2008 at 3:28 pm
I think you will find the largest to be CTA teachers, exhorted by their union to donate...
a resident of Foothill High School
on Oct 29, 2008 at 3:59 pm
What you said is a bit confusing. So the biggest contributors are teachers, and they are FOR Prop 8?
If that's not what you're saying, then you might take a look at the chart. Every one of the donations over $1000 is in support of Prop 8, and there are some hefty figures in there. Aside from a single $1000 donation and a single $385 donation, every one of the donations to the AGAINST Prop 8 is $250 or less.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 29, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Perhaps the largest is Jeb and the Pleasanton Weekly???
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 29, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Grace, check the CTA contribution that teachers were forced to contribute to "whether they like it or not". That money came from contributions from the members via the union.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 29, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Mormon donations FAR outweigh the CTA, go check the facts
a resident of Kottinger Ranch
on Oct 29, 2008 at 4:36 pm
(Comment deemed inappropriate by Pleasanton Weekly Online staff)
a resident of Downtown
on Oct 29, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Grace, good source of info about donations. Is the "Joanne Mccolm", listed as a "homemaker" who donated $25,000 related to Larry Mccolm the property owner at 350 Main? Has the mormon church actually told them that this $25,000 is a "tithe"? You can bet the IRS is gonna find out. They check these donor records regularly. I personally know one LDS family who mistakenly included me on the CC line of a mass email stating that everyone should donate $10,000 or more **and be sure to use it as a charitable deduction on the tax returns**.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 29, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Prop 8 funding - very interesting
These folks had a choice to donate or not.
My point is that I find it more interesting in looking into why CTA Members are forced to support a cause with their hard earned money to raise over a million dollars for a political cause not directly related to their work conditions. Now that's very interesting.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 31, 2008 at 12:29 am
I'm with you, PJ. The point, and comparison, went right over Grace's head.
And what's with all the Mormon hating? Do you think for one minute the Catholic's and other Christian groups are not feeling some moral compass here?
And besides...it is not only a religious issue. There are other reasons some will be considering...like, say, "redefinition" of the term "marriage" used for over 2000 years.
Give the Mormons a break!
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 31, 2008 at 12:30 am
Oops, that should have read "Catholics, Jews, and other religious groups"...
a resident of Foothill High School
on Oct 31, 2008 at 8:53 am
Actually, Mac, the comparison did not go right over my head, since at the time I was referring *only* to the figures for donations *in* Pleasanton, and there was no California Teachers Association entry for Pleasanton. THAT is why I asked PJ for clarification. What he said was confusing in that context, and that is the context that we were discussing at the time.
Note that I did not mention the Mormon church once. I had written "church (or churches)".
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 31, 2008 at 9:01 am
That is a freedom we have, to donate money where we see fit. As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints nobody "forces" me to pay money, it is my choice. As for "tithe", to even say such a misconception just baffles me. Writing a check to prop 8 is entirely different then writing a check to the church.
Yes, these individuals have paid the money themselves. Why? Because they stand for something they believe in. It should be no surprise to the World that the Mormon faith holds family in the up most importance. They put the money where their mouth is. These Mormons that you are trying to point out do not just preach, they act, they live their religion everyday. And if your home burned down and you had no insurance and they were asked to help you finacially and physically-- they would be there! No matter who you are or what you believe in. Guaranteed! And the labor and money would be their own- not from tithe.
I read in a newspaper that this "list" has been used to target individuals, to threaten them. Please do not go after people who have the "right" as much as you do to be heard. I respect any "individual" who donates what they can to whatever cause they believe in, even if it is Yes or No on Prop 8.
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Oct 31, 2008 at 9:05 pm
I think that's terrible people have been targeted! We should be able to express our views without fear of any sort of retaliation.
a resident of Dublin
on Nov 16, 2008 at 6:56 pm
This is the most ridiculous article i've ever read! I'm sure you can come up with something better than that! Of course there are high donations in Pleasanton because there are a lot of wealthy people living in Pleasanton. There are also a lot of Mormons in Pleasanton and their willingness to donate so generously to this cause only shows how passionate they are about traditional marriage. Members of the Mormon church are used to donating generously because they donate 10% of their income to the church already. Maybe Mormons have learned to put their morals about their money. A $25, $50, $100 donation? What is that? A night at the movies? A dinner? If that's how passionate the "No on 8" supporters were then it's no wonder they lost!
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Threads get so annoying when they become about bashing Mao's technical abilities. Yep, the triple axel is so easy that is why everyone does one? No. Mao is the only one.
Threads get so annoying when they become about bashing Mao's technical abilities. Yep, the triple axel is so easy that is why everyone does one? No. Mao is the only one.
Yes, the mollycoddling of Mao's got to stop - "letting" her do 3As! In fact, all the other senior ladies should do one also, then how would she feel! Oh, wait... Actually, since so few ladies can do a 3Lz-3T consistently, maybe we shouldn't "let" any senior ladies do that either? I mean, why should ANY lady have any unfair advantage? Maybe everyone should just stick to doubles, and we can see who does those best, and all will be fair & square...
What about musicality? Some skaters just don't have any, poor things. Isn't that unfair on them? Let's get rid of the music also.
In fact - skip the jumps altogether! Let everyone skate the exact same thing - oh, we could call it... figures! Yes, let's put the figure back in figure skating, and let that be ALL that the skaters do. We can leave all the vulgar jumps & music to shows and such, and let the pure essence remain... "Theatricality and deception are powerful agents to the uninitiated... but we are initiated, aren't we Bruce? Members of the League of Shadows... " Oops! Did I let myself get carried away there? Well, never mind! In this thread - who will notice!
(Also, I wonder how many will think my post is 100% serious? Ah, sweet irony... )
So you're now saying that Yuna deserved to be off podium, when Yuna and Mao landed same number of triples at Worlds? If you think judging was unfair at Worlds, why not write a letter to ISU saying Yuna basically stole Caro/Mao's gold and deserved to be off-podium?
Also, if you look at Mao's protocols from this season, she never landed a clean 3F+3Lo. Who won NHK with 5 triples?
Put it this way, rules changes implies there are something wrong with the old rules in the first place, and tomorow's on going changing rules can mean there's something wrong with today's rules. However in reality, it doesn't make better skating, it can however manipulate the favourable outcome of the potential winners.
Ask yourself, if there's no Mao or Yuna in the ladies do you really think the culmination of these particular sets of rule changes would have occurred at that particular time regardless? Similarly, if Mao was born in Korea, and Yuna is born in Japan, would the same rules changes occur in that exact sequence and timeline? That is perhaps a fun hypothetical question worth asking.
That is what I love about Yuna's recent triumph, where every critic has practically counted her out, yet she came back with unfathomable self believe and do what all champions should able do, prove their critics wrong. Forget the Superstar, the uber nickname 'Queen'. She is a simple girl who work hard and deserve her success. She wins big despite the system and not because of it.
Are you suggesting that other skaters dont work as hard and deserve less sucess? That is an unfair assessment. Yuna is not a poor little girl she is the top skater of the world and has acess to the best, as does mao and caro. Every skater that shows up the a competition works hard and are deseving. Some are better than other, but all work hard.
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Judges get excited when a skater goes clean and the marks can be a bit higher than is maybe reasonable - but that's okay because said skater skated PERFECTLY so the judges have a reason to get excited and hand out big marks. That is why Yuna's FS scores at the Olympics and Worlds this year were so high. If Mao skates clean, then, no, she isn't likely to overtake Yuna, but I have a feeling that her score would be higher than the one people calculate just by adding up all the elements as if she skated cleanly because if Mao was perfect, she'd probably get some love from the judges for skating perfectly too and the gap between her and Yuna wouldn't be all that big, and this gap would be deserved because Yuna is a much stronger jumper than Mao and also has a lot more speed and this differential is larger than the one created by Mao having much stronger spins and spirals, and sometimes footwork, than Yuna because jumps are worth a whole lot more under IJS and the GOE is factored differently allowing skaters to gain more points for jumps as opposed to spins and spirals. We saw Zijun Li get 127 points at Worlds and then the rest of the season with one mistake she is under 120...the big jump up in scores was because she was perfect at Worlds, the same thing goes for Gracie Gold at Nationals.
I really have no issues with Yuna's scores when she is foot perfect, and if people are complaining about getting "held-up" for bad performances, Mao and Carolina are way more representative of that. Yuna rarely skates badly and during the few instances she did, she either did not win the event or did not get hugely inflated scores:
SC 06 - wins SP, 4th in FS, 3rd overall
Worlds 07 - wins SP, 4th in FS, 3rd overall
Worlds 08 - 6th in SP, wins FS, 3rd overall
GPF 08 - wins SP, 2nd in FS, 2nd overall
SA 09 - wins SP and overall, but was 2nd in FS with a score of only 112
Worlds 10 - 7th in SP, wins FS, 2nd overall
Worlds 11 - 1st in SP, 2nd in FS, 2nd overall
Sure Yuna has won a lot but she is no Patrick Chan, when she doesn't skate close to her best she usually doesn't win. And really, in those events I mentioned, she didn't really bomb for the most part, someone else just skated better. Mao, Carolina, and especially someone like Patrick Chan have won events skating far worse in one of their programs than Yuna did in most of the ones I just mentioned.
In the LP just as it was skated, and without needing to upgrade anything, Mao made four major errors. If she had skated cleanly, with +1 GOE on each of the four imperfect jumps, she would have gained the following increase in points on the TES side.
2Lz +1.7
3F+2Lo+2Lo +1.85
This is a total of 10.85 points that Mao left on the table on her four faulty jumps.
She lost the TES portion of the LP by only 8.77 points. A clean Mao would have won over Yuna's actual performance by 2.09 points.
On the PCS side, with a perfectly clean, exquisitely gorgeous skate, IMHO Mao is capable of something like
SS 9.25 (speed is the only advantage Kim and Kostner have over Mao in this category)
Tr 9.25
This adds up to a total PCS of 75.2. Kim's was 73.61.
With a stronger performance Mao could have won in both TES and PCS in the LP. (If you like I can do the short program, too, and try to figure how much Mao left on the table by making major errors on two of her three jumping passes.)
It is possible that, PCS-wise, I am more enamored of a perfect Mao program than the judges are. To me, the floating like a butterfly thing is front and center.
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To me, except Yu-Na Kim, I don't think necessary that Kostner and Asada are sure to get a medal.
Don't forget that all Olympic experience from Kostner was a failure. and Asada need to be consistent with her jump, she is impredictable, she could be amazing or have a meeldown. I prefer to not predict about Kostner and Asada because their performance are unpredictable.


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Surprise! HHS pilot program to send 2 million poor seniors from Medicare into … "voucher" programs
posted at 11:01 am on September 8, 2012 by Ed Morrissey
I know that every campaign promise Barack Obama makes has an expiration date … but this is ridiculous. The confetti is barely off the floor at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina after Obama's acceptance speech, and already we find out that he's flip-flopped. Remember this part of the speech, in which he attacks the Paul Ryan plan to apply free-market reform and cost controls to Medicare?
And I will — I will never turn Medicare into a voucher.
No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and the dignity they have earned. Yes, we will reform and strengthen Medicare for the long haul, but we'll do it by reducing the cost of health care, not by asking seniors to pay thousands of dollars more. And we will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it, not by turning it over to Wall Street.
Expiration date — the very next day, courtesy of some fine reporting by National Journal's Margot-Sanger-Katz [see update]:
In his convention speech in Charlotte, President Obama vowed to block the Republican Medicare reform plan because "no American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies."
But back in Washington, his Health and Human Services Department is launching a pilot program that would shift up to 2 million of the poorest and most-vulnerable seniors out of the federal Medicare program and into private health insurance plans overseen by the states.
The administration has accepted applications from 18 states to participate in the program, which would give states money to purchase managed-care plans for people who are either disabled or poor enough to qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid. HHS approved the first state plan, one for Massachusetts, last month.
Bear in mind that Ryan's plan made the vouchers optional; seniors could choose the traditional government-run Medicare plan or opt for a private insurance plan from a federal exchange of approved insurers. Ryan also allows all seniors to choose, and didn't force the poorest seniors to take the voucher option. Not only will Obama push just the poorest seniors into this plan, in some states they'd have to know to opt back in to traditional Medicare:
California is already counting on more than $500 million in budget savings from its own program this year. Most states are proposing to automatically enroll people. Those who don't want to participate would need to opt out. The Massachusetts plan includes that feature.
Talk about leaving seniors — the poorest seniors! — "at the mercy of insurance companies." And why has HHS decided to roll out this pilot program? As Paul Ryan has argued all along, the competition will drive down costs, especially given the headaches associated with government bureaucracy for dual-qualified seniors:
Potential cost savings are a big incentive for states. Patients who qualify for both federal health programs are a costly population and include many who need nursing-home care or other expensive services. About 40 percent of Medicaid's costs go toward patients who are also eligible for Medicare. Advocates of the pilot program also say it could lead to better coordination of care for patients who often struggle to navigate the two different programs.
Don't get me wrong — this sounds like a good program to test. In fact, it sounds a lot like the Medicare Advantage program that Obama gutted to pay for his Medicaid expansion in ObamaCare. It's similar to the approach Ryan wants to use to drive down costs, except that Ryan didn't propose to use the poor as guinea pigs to test it out. And he certainly didn't propose his plan quietly while hypocritically railing against private insurance and Wall Street just as the program got ready to start.
Update: A couple of commenters object to my description of this as a "voucher" program — but that's how Democrats describe Ryan's plan, and that doesn't have "vouchers," either. It's a premium-support plan in a federal exchange of insurance plans approved by Medicare for coverage. That's what Medicare Advantage did too, and Obama raided it to pay for the Medicaid expansion in ObamaCare. This plan doesn't even have the federal exchange that Ryan envisioned, but fifty different exchanges doling out federal dollars. Like I wrote, the plan and the experiment is worth trying, but it's precisely the kind of push into private insurance that Obama swore the day earlier he'd never do … and he's doing it with the poorest seniors with only an opt-out in some states rather than the opt-in that Ryan's plan provided. I'll put quote marks on "voucher" in the headline, but this mechanism only differs from Ryan's in that the exchanges get managed by the states rather than Medicare.
If Obama supporters don't like the term "vouchers" or want to gripe about its accuracy, look first to the beam in thine own eye.
Update II, 9/10/12: Usually, I try to mention the name of the publication when I link, and especially when the reporter does really good work. Margot Sanger-Katz did a great job in catching this, and I completely forgot to mention her name and National Journal's. I've fixed it, albeit a couple of days late.
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1. Forsyth LM, Preuss HG, MacDowell AL, et al. Therapeutic effects of oral NADH on the symptoms of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 1999;82:185-91.
2. Bender DA, Earl CJ, Lees AJ. Niacin depletion in Parkinsonian patients treated with L-dopa, benserizide and carbidopa. Clin Sci 1979;56:89-93.
3. Cotzias GC, Lawrence WH, Papavasiliou PS, Duby SE. Nicotinamide ineffective in parkinsonism. N Engl J Med 1972;287:147.
4. Birkmayer JGD, Vrecko C, Volc D, et al. Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD). A new therapeutic approach to Parkinson's disease. Comparison of oral and parenteral application. Neurol Scand 1993;87(Suppl 146):32-5.
5. Birkmayer JGD. Coenzyme nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide: New therapeutic approach for improving dementia of the Alzheimer type. Ann Clin Lab Sci 1996;26:1-9.
6. Wright JV. Interview: Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, NADH research. Jorg Birkmayer, M.D. Nutr Healing 1997;May:5-6.
7. Dizdar N, Kagedal B, Lindvall B. Treatment of Parkinson's disease with NADH. Acta Neurologica Scand 1994;90:345-7.
8. Birkmayer JGD. Coenzyme nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide: New therapeutic approach for improving dementia of the Alzheimer type. Ann Clin Lab Sci 1996;26:1-9.
9. Birkmayer JGD, Birkmayer W. The coenzyme nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) as biological antidepressive agent: Experience with 205 patients. New Trends Clin Neuropharmacol 1991;5:19-25.
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TORRINGTON - The Register Citizen Newsroom Cafe's July artist of the month is Torrington resident Donna F. Morency. Her work will be on display and for sale in the Newsroom Cafe at 59 Field St. for the month of July.
Morency's works primarily are portraits done in oil and pastel. Her paintings hang in many private and corporate collections throughout the United States, Europe and Africa. In addition to her paintings Morency has also created educational material for children, and has written and illustrated two children's books.
As a child, Morency worked as an illustrator's model and continued posing into adulthood. That early involvement in the art world led to her beeing an artist.
"I grew up in a family of artists. My father was a cartoonist and my aunt and unlce were illustrators. I was an illustrators model at the afe of 7. I got my first set of oil paints and an easel when I was 13. I took my first life drawing class at Silvermine College of Art at the age of 14," Morency said of her start in art.
From her first class at Silvermine she has been creating ever since and has the list of accomplishments to show for it.�Morency has exhibited at the Burlington Library (2011), Gallery on the Green (2010) (2007), UConn Health Center Gallery (10/2004 - 2/2005), Academic Artists Association Juried Exhibition (2004), Pastel Society Renaissance International Exhibition (2003), Marie Louise Trichet Gallery (2002), Norfolk Artisan's Guild, Torrington Chamber of Commerce, Norfolk Library, and Connecticut Academy of Fine Art, Northwest Bank.
In addition to her exentisive shows Morency has also received many honors for her art. She is a six-time winner in pastel from the Connecticut Classical Arts. She has received the William McKillop award for Pastels from the Kent Art Association, as well as the YAAF award for outstanding work in graphics from Fairfield University. Morency is also a juried member of the Canton Gallery on the Green.
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Hi, I was wondering how you treatment free beekeepers make it without Fumidil-B? I live in a place that has long, cold winters and can have cold, damp springs and falls, which from what I've read encourages nosema.
Hi, I was wondering how you treatment free beekeepers make it without Fumidil-B? I live in a place that has long, cold winters and can have cold, damp springs and falls, which from what I've read encourages nosema.
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I noticed which hives seemed to have poop around and on them last winter and didn't increase from those hives.
The most prevalent nosema is N. ceranae according to stats. Fecal marking of hive fronts is the typical tattle tale of N. Apis. but usually not seen with ceranae. I would be interested to hear how most people discover it is affecting them.
In 37 years of beekeeping, I've never used fumidil. Living without it has never been an issue. Neither has Nosema. Sometimes after confinement there is some dysentery, but that' s normal.
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How do you treatment free beekeepers make it without Fumidil-B?
That is the 64,000 dollar question, or at least what the answer will cost.
Nosema ceranae seems to kill every time, Nosema apis, very little. Don't breed from dead hives.
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I'm in a much warmer climate, but from what I've heard N. ceranae doesn't need the damp weather.
Last 2 winters we've only lost one hive. Don't have a microscope to check nosema levels Though. Took 7 into winter last year.
Good genetics. Buckfast bees were overwintered in nucs in a cold wet environment. Survivors were bred. Losers were culled.
Thanks for your replies all. I have a carniolon hive that didn't get as much fumidil-b as it should, and if it makes it through the winter and spring maybe I'll breed from it.
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Treatment Free = No Treatments
Fumidil-B = Treatment
Therefore . . .
Treatment Free beekeepers don't use Fumidil-B ever.
I'm left scratching my head over this thread. How does treating every hive with a product on the off chance that it might come down with a disease fit into a plan to prevent resistance to that treatment?
Naturally, the answer would be that it doesn't.
Why do you ask? Resistance to treatments isn't the topic, nor would it be in the Treatment-Free Beekeeping forum.
My question on resistance management stems from the presumption in the question originally asked in this thread how anyone "not treating" bees could possibly get by without applying a medication preemptively. That presumption seems based on a belief that all hives are equally inoculated and equally susceptible to a pathogen, or that hives should at least be medicated for that belief. From a massive medication regimen, resistance management should always be a consideration.
You're correct, it likely doesn't belong in a "treatment-free" thread, but the entire topic maybe doesn't belong in this section.
Thank you for the clarification.
I asked myself if it belonged, but if one doesn't ask, one will be less likely to find out. I'd rather the forum be open for the asking of any serious question.
So if the question (minus the presumptions) does not belong in this forum. Where does it belong?
I read the OP as inquiring how to be able to stop treating. So far the answer seems to be to let the bees die. Sounds to me like the answer to never having any of the problems associated with beekeeping is to not keep bees. and this sort of problem solving is supposed to be admired, why?
Daniel, that last one is a good question, but it is too far off topic to be developed fully in this thread. Please start a new thread. Keep in mind that this forum is about discussing treatment free beekeeping, not for its adherents to be required to defend it.
I think the real point here, Daniel, is that simply applying a medication like this isn't really necessary. I've never used this particular product, and I haven't experienced any problems with Nosema. (I do not consider my beekeeping practices to be "treatment-free," and I would use various methods in beekeeping if conditions warranted.) Other beekeepers in this thread have already stated that they do not use this product and do not suffer losses from the target organism.
Wow, you guys read alot more into his question than I did. I believe he has a valid point. How do you control a know pathogen Nosema, without using any treatments (per the definitions here)? For you that have not experienced Nosema, it can have a 90 percent winter mortality rate in northern climates. That is unsustainable. With mites being a vector, I expect all of you to experience it soon.
The answer may lie in irradiation, an expensive method. I do not believe it is considered a treatment on your list, because you are not treating the bees, but rather the hive that the bees have been in.
SOl- IS my prediction starting to make more sense?
Crazy ROland
My problem with trying to answer it is, in 37 years I have never used it. Asking me how do you "make it without Fumidil-B" is like asking someone in a primitive village how can they possibly live without air conditioning...
But I think the real answer is that a natural system with the proper microbes will displace pathogens, where a system that is driven by antibiotics will have all kinds of issues as those beneficial and benign microbes have been wiped out.
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President is a lying scumbag
Many of you by now have already heard of Joe Biden's hotel bill in London of $459,388 for one stay.
Our president has routinely gone out golfing with Tiger at about $750,000 per trip on Air Force One. The president's family couldn't go together on a Hawaii vacation so they spent about a million dollars per trip on Air Force One.
They must think they are royalty to willy nilly spend taxpayer money.
Then the president has the guts and lack of integrity to tell the nation if he doesn't get a 10 percent increase in next year's budget instead of the sequestered 7.5 percent increase, drastic things will happen. Like kids won't be able to get their health shots, meat won't be inspected, there will be long lines at airport security checks, no White House visits by school children and on and on with gross exaggerations.
Over my 80 plus years I have always had a healthy respect for our presidents — until now. If I said how I really feel about this president I could never get the article published, so I will tone it down to calling him a lying scumbag.
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Thanks. I just saved the actual means I needed and defined a category variable. Used the bar option, and got almost what I wanted.
The remaining problem is how to put all three charts into the same "frame". Can't use the by-option as I see it because this require three equal plots just for different categories.
What I want is to combine the three different plots given here into one box:
. graph bar (mean) X1, over(quart)
. graph bar (mean) X2_a (mean) X2_b, over(quart)
. graph bar (mean) X3_a (mean) X3_b, over(quart)
Is there a simple add-plot option for bar charts that could work?
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But also look at -bandplot- from SSC.
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Subject: st: RE: use of histogram option
What you want aren't histograms in Stata's sense, or in the standard statistical sense either. So, don't look to -histogram- or -twoway histogram- commands for these.
They are all bar charts and -twoway bar- is your best bet at getting them, but each one will need some preparation.
Linn Renée Naper
I want to use Stata to make some nice histogram showing some distributional features of my data, but unfortunately I have some problems in finding out how to do it. I've been able to do the following in Excel earlier, but I like the look of the Stata graphics much more, so I hope someone can give me a clue:
Well, I want to use three variable making the histograms.
The first is an indicator of size for my observations (population size in districts), and the two other variable are a dummy variable and a continuous variable describing the districst.
First; I'd like to make a histogram with five boxes. The first box should simply give me the mean of the dummy variable for all district, whereas the four next should give the mean of the dummy variable within each population quartile of the sample.
Second I'd like to add another histogram under the first one where I in the same way show the mean of the continuous variable, only here I'd like to categorize the boxes both by population size and the value of the dummy. Thus, the first two boxes should give the mean value of the continuous variable for all districts with dummy value 0 and value 1. The next two should give the same figures for the districts only in the first population quartile, then the second quartile and so on. I would also be nice if I could add some extra space between the boxes for the total sample, and for the four different quartiles respectively.
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Good Morning!
I often read about using a scales to weigh a hive. What type of scales do you use?
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Good Morning!
I often read about using a scales to weigh a hive. What type of scales do you use?
Dave W
I carried enough 50 lb bags of feed, 50 lb boxes of nails, 100 lb bags of feed, I just heft it and guess.
In the Book "50 years amoung Bees" Dr C.C. Miller shows how to use the old fashion spring scales to lift a hive. Dale
Hi Dave and Everyone,
I have had the same experience as Michael and have lifted thousands of hives to estimate their weight.
When indoor wintering I needed a more accurate figure so I use a bathroom scale. My hives are set on pallets and I lift on end of the hive and place the scale between the pallet and the bottom board to get a value. With a few tests and a little experience, an accurate figure can be obtained.
I no longer winter indoors but still use the scales as I couldn't get within 30lbs with my hefting.
This method doesn't give a continous reading through the season but meets my needs.
[This message has been edited by BWrangler (edited February 10, 2003).]
My son is a catfish fisherman and he has a fish scale that goes over 100 pounds. You could just hook it on the back of the bottom board and lift until it moves to see the weight of the hive.
I beleive he bought it from Cabela's.


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Good day! I picked up a swarm LATE last night and will be installing them in my first TBH this morning. I received the swarm call yesterday morning, but was out of town so couldn't get to them until about 9ish. Luckily, they were still there, but the little spruce branch they landed on had broke by that time and they were all in a pile in the grass. I wasn't sure how I was going to go about getting them in the box, but they sort of made the decision for me. The mass of bees started migrating across the grass to the left, so I laid the box on edge in front of them and, voila, they moved right in.
SO! Getting to the point, I'm really excited to finally having bees in my TBH. This is a new adventure for me


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So now I seem to have too many drones and even the brood seems to be mostly all drones. There also is not much brood, but a lot of honey but still not building up the comb in the one super I have on. Which is another question, how can you tell if a hive is honey bound vs. normal honey storage?
I did see the queen on this inspection. I had requeened this hive earlier this summer but they didn't like her and had requeened themselves- she wasn't only laying drones before, is this something that can change in a queen, that they start drone laying or are not laying as much as before. I am assuming she is the same queen I saw a month ago. Not sure if I am over-reacting or if there is something I can do.
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Mirror Pond ballot measure proposed
Foster Fell says limit on city funding aims to 'reopen discussion'
BEND, Ore. - A Bend parks activist who failed to win a seat on the Bend Metro Park and Rec Board last year is seeking a return to the ballot in a different form – proposing an initiative that would limit city funding of any fix to the muddy woes of Mirror Pond, unless it helps trout and ends the need for periodic dredging..
Foster Fell's proposed ballot measure would prohibit the city from using any tax or bond dollars on Mirror Pond unless "aquatic and streamside conditions resulting from the project shall enable a key indicator species, namely native red band trout, to spawn, be reared, thrive, and to have unimpeded passage."
The second element of the measure would forbid city funding of a fix for Mirror Pond unless "no periodic dredging will be required, as a result of the project."
Fell would need to gather at least 7,048 signatures from city residents to put the proposal on the November ballot. First, a legal notice has been published, setting a Feb. 4 deadline for any Bend voter who wants to send the ballot title to a review in circuit court. Signature-gathering can begin after that process is complete.
In the legal notice, City Attorney Mary Winters gave the ballot title as: "Restriction on use of city funds for Mirror Pond projects." What Fell proposed in his prospective petition filing was a grander goal that makes clear he falls into the remove-the-dam camp: "For a healthy, free-flowing Deschutes River at the present site of Mirror Pond."
Many in Bend might remember Fell for organizing a July 2010 memorial for 109 Drake Park geese that federal fish and wildlife agents euthanized with CO gas, sparking dismay among many animal-lovers who thought there had to be a better way. (Other means of population control have been used since then.)
The ballot measure proposal comes at yet another sticky turning point in the years-long debate over what to do about the iconic pond, filling with silt and mud, and the Pacific Power hydroelectric dam that formed the pond on the Deschutes River over a century ago. The last dredging was in the 1980s.
A community survey, open houses and studies found a split among those wanting the silt gone and the dam retained to those desiring a free-flowing river. Members of the Bend Paddle Trail Alliance has drafted a compromise with elements of both options.
But the issues grew even muddier last year, when the wood-and-rock dam sprang a leak, significantly lowering the water levels. After an inspection of the aging dam, the utility indicated it wishes to divest itself of the dam and is willing to entertain community proposals on how to do so.
There have been talks, but no resolution so far, as the park district pushes for dam repairs before next summer's recreation season, when thousands of visitors and citizens float the pond and river.
Fell said Wednesday of his measure, "It will reopen the discussion."
"I don't think there's been enough talk about river health," Fell said. "There's been talk about a lot of other issues, but not enough about the actual conditions of the river."
City Recorder Robyn Christie said Fell would need to gather signatures from at least 15 percent of the registered voters in the city, or 7,048 signatures. Last May, Fell garnered 4,672 votes, or 42 percent of those casting ballots, in his unsuccessful run for a park board seat against Daniel Fishkin, who won with 6,341 votes.
Fell's initiative only addresses city -- not park district -- funding, but he said Thursday he is considering a second initiative petition to address that aspect.
"There is always the concern that a taxing district such as BPRD would go to the voters with a tax or bond measure to preserve the pond in an off-year/odd numbered election year," Fell wrote. "In such elections, the turnout is low (30%) and the typical voter seems to be "conservative," connected, and tied in with the status quo."


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Ardi redefines the branch between apes and hominins
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The best thing about paleontology is the surprises.
No matter how carefully you have analyzed the fossils, no matter how insightful your understanding of the links between anatomical form and function, Mother Nature always comes up with something totally unpredicted.
Surprises certainly have been sprung by, and on, the international team of paleoanthropologists and paleontologists that looks for fossils in the remote Aramis region of Ethiopia where the Afar people live. The team is co-led by Berhane Asfaw of the Rift Valley Research Service in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Yonas Beyene of the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture in Ethiopia;the late J. Desmond Clark, formerly of the University of California, Berkeley; Giday Woldegabriel of the Los Alamos National Laboratory; and Tim White of the University of California, Berkeley. With a nice touch of delicacy, White refers to Clark as "inspiring but no longer making decisions" about the project.
On October 2, 2009, the team published in Science their analyses of a hominin (member of the human lineage) called Ardipithecus ramidus. The best representative of the species is a partial female skeleton nicknamed Ardi; she is 4.4 million years old and is certainly astonishing and noteworthy. There are parts of at least 35 other individuals in the collection, in addition to thousands of specimens of plants, invertebrates, fish and assorted nonprimate mammals from the same location.
Ardi is the oldest partial skeleton in the hominin lineage at present, but she doesn't represent a new species. Ardipithecus ramidus has been known since the first research paper about it was published in Nature in 1994 under what might be considered an "alias": Australopithecus ramidus.
The naming of Ardi has had some singular twists and turns. The genus into which the type specimen of Ardipithecus was initially classified was Australopithecus, meaning "southern ape," a term created in 1925 by Raymond Dart to accommodate a face, jaw and endocast (a natural cast of the braincase) of a young juvenile hominin found in South Africa. The "Taung baby," as it was nicknamed, was the oldest (about 2.5 million years) and first member of the human lineage to be found in Africa at that point. Skepticism from the scientific establishment at the time of discovery was rife. The hoaxed Piltdown skull, with its large brain (variously estimated between 1,000 and 1,500 cubic centimeters) and seeming antiquity, had been announced in 1911–12 and was still believed to be genuine. Thus the small brain (about 340 cubic centimeters) of the Taung baby was so unexpected that many anthropologists dismissed the fossil as merely an immature, if ancient, ape. Surely our large brain was a fundamental human characteristic extending back to the beginning of our lineage! "Surely"—but not in fact.
More than 25 years passed before the anthropological community realized what Dart had recognized from his fossil: Our ancestors had humanlike teeth long before they had a large, humanlike brain. Instead of brain size being the fundamental adaptation that separated our earliest ancestors from the apes, it was our teeth and, later discoveries showed, our bipedal locomotion. How surprising—and disappointing to those who had prided themselves on their big brains.
Since 1925, many different species of Australopithecus have been described and named, including Australopithecus afarensis, the species to which the famous partial skeleton Lucy belongs. All are bipedal hominins, although not necessarily directly ancestral to modern humans. Some apparently ate fruit, whereas others had a more fibrous diet. Some were larger, some smaller, and most species showed a striking difference in body size between males and females (a trait called sexual dimorphism). Some probably made stone tools. They lived in both East and South Africa and may have been more widely spread across the continent between 4.2 and 1.2 million years ago.
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Its been a few days since the first post in this series, and I have learned a lot about clustering in Windows Server 2008 with SQL Server 2008. The first thing I learned over the last few days is that there are some significant changes in Windows 2008 Clustering that affect how you will roll out a cluster for testing purposes. A lot of the changes have to do with Windows 2008 clustering configuration and not necessarily with clustering SQL Server 2008 directly, but since clustering SQL Server is dependent first on successfully clustering Windows Server 2008, they are important to note.
The first problem that bit me in working on this project is that there are changes in Windows Server 2008 clustering that made my original attempts to use an OpenFiler iSCSI target for clustering inadequate. Primarily the problem has to do with the requirement for SCSI-3 Persistent Reservations.
This is not currently supported under any of the Linux open source iSCSI targets that are readily available online. (If you happen to know of one, send me a contact through here, I'm interested.) This meant that I had to first change my iSCSI target implementation out for SCSI-3 Persistent Reservation support. Luckily StarWind supports SCSI-3 as a part of their Express Edition, though it requires Windows to be running which requires more system resources than the comparable Linux implementation.
This being the first and only cluster I have setup from scratch, I have to say, that while somewhat aggravating at times, it wasn't overly complicated to actually get online and running. A majority of the problems that I encountered had to do with my lack of understanding the requirements for building a Windows 2008 Cluster, like SCSI-3 Persistent Reservations. Fortunately, I have experience installing and running SQL Server 2008 on Windows Server 2008. For a quick run down, here are more or less the steps that I followed along the way to building my first successful cluster:
If you can follow all of these steps, you should have a complete SQL Cluster. I had considered posting a step by step guide as a part of this process. However, one of the lessons that I learned during this process is that I could have saved a lot of time, and a lot of headache by doing a bit of research before diving in head first. There is already a really good write up in a four part series written by Edwin Sarmiento that uses StarWind and builds a very similar cluster to the one that I built.
I should know by now to follow the Latin statement nanos gigantum humeris insidentes, or standing on the shoulders of giants, meaning "One who develops future intellectual pursuits by understanding the research and works created by notable thinkers of the past". I should know at this point in my career to do my research up front, but I still tend to attempt to roll my own first and then find the corrections directions later on. As a part of this process I ordered a new book:
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based on a posting I found while trying to figure out a problem I was having with MSDTC while on my second of three attempts at installing my cluster. While I haven't received the book yet, I did get a message from Ross pointing me to his book after purchasing it in response to a question that I posted on Twitter. If you haven't happened to jump on the social networking site yet, I'd highly recommend that you do and get involved in the SQL Community online. The amount of information you can get in a few seconds while working on a project such as this is simply phenomenal. Another member of the SQL Community who provided responses to my clustering questions and postings on Twitter was none other than clustering guru, Geoff Hiten, who I've met a few times personally, and I frequently send links to questions on clustering on the forums when I can't help with them.
So now that I have installed a functioning Windows Server 2008/SQL Server 2008, I am off to install a second cluster, but this time on Windows Server 2003 with SQL Server 2005 so I can play with performing upgrades. So much to learn, but so little time....
Just to let you know, you can upgrade a SQL Server 2005 cluster to SQL Server 2008, however, a rolling upgrade from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 is not supported. Happy Testing!!!
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Critical topics that you need to know and are covered in this treatise include:
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