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Mrs PRENTICE (Ryan) (20:51): I rise to speak on the National Health Reform Amendment (National Health Performance Authority) Bill 2011. It proposes yet another statutory authority, to be named the National Health Performance Authority.
We are here tonight speaking, yet again, on an amendment. But this time the legislation being amended was not introduced when Labor first came to government in 2007, four years ago, giving us time to see what changes needed to be made. It did not even come in two years ago, or even 12 months ago. We are debating amendments to legislation passed by the House as recently as 21 March this year, less than six months ago. This seems incompetent even for this government. Then again, the legislation we are debating for amendment tonight, the National Health and Hospitals Network Bill 2010 was part of the reform put forward by former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. With that in mind current Prime Minister Julia Gillard's attitude towards the legislation is perhaps less surprising.
The former Prime Minister and the then Minister for Health and Ageing promised that reform of the health system would not create further bureaucracy, yet here we are again debating substantive change that creates yet another layer of bureaucracy. I understand that tonight's debate is regarding just the first of two proposed authorities, two more bodies that will generate boards, administration offices and staff, growing the bureaucracy instead of providing more hospital beds and hands-on carers. Given that two bodies are being proposed under changes to the health system, I wonder why we are debating their establishment separately. Why not put both bodies forward at the same time, as the coalition called for last year? Could it be that the government is concerned that the costs involved in establishing two new bureaucracies could be better spent?
We see horror stories, absolutely terrible stories, every day in our papers about how the health system is failing Australians, how patients cannot get surgery, how patients need to be rushed to larger hospitals sometimes hours away to be treated and how patients are dying unnecessarily. This week alone I read news articles about a young boy in Sydney who unnecessarily lost his life after suffering through 12 hours of a burst appendix, a diagnosis correctly made by the first doctor he saw. I read another story about a 13-year-old girl who gave birth on a runway in transit to a larger hospital as the local facility did not have the capacity to help her. We all know these stories—we have heard them in this chamber tonight—from the terrible conditions in Townsville to Gladstone patients being stabilised before being rushed to Rockhampton, two examples from members in my home state of Queensland alone.
Hopefully based on this, the government have identified that Australia needs major reform of the health system. They are right—something historic needs to be done to improve our health system. But their solution is more bureaucracy, a bureaucracy that will be charged with monitoring and reporting on the performance of local hospitals, primary healthcare organisations and other bodies that provide healthcare services. That is a very broad role for the National Health Performance Authority. It is an especially broad task when you read through the legislation and discover that nowhere is there a definition of 'performance'. This is a body set up to monitor performance without clarity on what a well or performing health service actually is.
This is obviously cause for reservations. There are no key performance indicators, KPIs. How then will this statutory body assess performance? That is a big question which has been left unanswered. It is a question that could have been resolved through a proper inquiry. The government did conduct an inquiry. However, true to form, it was brief, it was conducted in haste and it did not address many major questions and concerns that continue to hang over this debate, questions that none of the members opposite has been able to answer. The haste with which this inquiry was conducted is made clear in a statement made in the dissenting report:
… that a number of stakeholders that wanted to contribute to the Inquiry were unable to due to the haste with which the Inquiry was conducted.
It seems to me that the Gillard government may be trying to rush this amendment through for political reasons, rather than as true reform which will actually address health problems and provide real outcomes for Australians. Major stakeholders have concerns, including the Australian Medical Association which is calling for the legislation to be deferred as it would like to see an assessment of the impact of the legislation and details of what data must be provided to the authority by health provider organisations. That is right: as well as having no performance indicators, it is unclear what data health services have to provide.
Those opposite have spoken tonight about accountability, fixing hospitals and historic reform, but how will health providers be accountable to this body? It has no disciplinary powers. There is no way this body will be able to compel the states to improve services. Is it simply going to be a toothless tiger? Simply establishing an authority, a body of bureaucrats with the word 'performance' in its name, does not improve services. It does not make anyone accountable or improve performance in any way. Without any definitions, without indicators or benchmarks, how will this body work? That is the question stakeholders want answered, that is the question the coalition wants answered and that is the question Australians deserve to have answered.
Furthermore, as stated by the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association, the legislation:
… fails to recognise the formal role of state/territory governments as majority funders and system managers of public health services including overall responsibility … for the performance …
It is not real reform. It is, in fact, a backward step from what the current Prime Minister's predecessor announced. Then Prime Minister Rudd promised historic reform, yet when that agreement simply could not be reached, perhaps for reasons mentioned previously, Prime Minister Gillard still heralded her 'historic reform'. However, it seems that, while the current Prime Minister was busy announcing historic reform, her Minister for Health and Ageing was quickly realising that without some serious consultation with the states and subsequent amendments this legislation would be unacceptable since so many changes had been made without the states' agreement. An emergency meeting was called and the resulting communique from that meeting stated that ministers from the states and territories insisted that they are the performance managers of public hospitals in Australia. So what is the new body now going to do?
On top of this, we have heard tonight from the member for Hasluck that there are already many organisations that collect data about the performance of health providers—yet another example of duplication which again raises the question of why this body is needed. Why funnel more taxpayers' money to bureaucracy for information that is already being collected? Every dollar that goes into funding data collection for a statutory body is yet another dollar removed from frontline care, from saving the lives of those such as the young boy who died from a burst appendix.
Members opposite have attacked the Leader of the Opposition tonight, accusing him of standing in the way of Australians accessing health care. A statistic is not health care. A patient who is suffering in a waiting room for hours is not comforted by the knowledge that someone somewhere is recording how long they are waiting. They are confused and angry because that data collection just soaked up funding that might have meant they would see a doctor sooner.
A local surgeon in my electorate, Dr Christian Rowan, came to see me the other day. We were discussing the health system in Queensland, and he reminisced to me about completing his residency in Brisbane during the 1990s, recalling that an entire wing of his former hospital that was once full of beds is now full of bureaucrats. Queensland Health proudly announces on their website that they are the third-largest employer in Australia; however, a report put forward by the Australian Medical Association's Queensland branch shows that in 2008-2009 they employed 13,645 managerial and clerical staff—an increase from just 5,060 in 1995—compared to just 6,715 doctors. Additionally, these 6,715 doctors spend approximately 20 per cent of their time filling out paperwork, caught up in red tape. That is 20 per cent of their time not spent with patients, not addressing the 180,000-plus patients on the elective surgery list—20 per cent of time spent on bureaucracy on top of the paperwork already being administered by a bureaucracy twice the size of the doctors workforce.
This report was compiled back in the first round of 'historic reform' under former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and was put together to ensure such reform would be right for Queensland. I cannot imagine the disappointment that organisation would feel knowing that we are currently debating reform that is proposing to establish a bureaucratic body to somehow measure the performance of the health system that already suffers a problem with bureaucracy. When the legislation has no clarity, how will providers know how they will be affected? How will they know how their patients will be affected? Do the bureaucrats who will comprise these bodies know? Simply announcing 'historic reforms' does not cut it.
We need less talk, we need fewer bureaucrats and we need fewer amendments. We need more action; indeed, we need more outcomes. What we really need are more patients receiving better treatment, resulting in more healthy Australians. This bill simply does not give me any confidence that this will happen. It is unclear, it overlaps and it creates a growing administrative burden. It is flawed legislation, and I have grave doubts that it will provide any real outcomes for Australians.


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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off^ Kingdom would like to have a word with you
Album Rating: 3.5I loved Grace, nothing else. some of the other stuff was fine, just not stuff I WOULD KILL to listen to.
Album Rating: 3.0that one and lucky animals are cool but even then they got nothing on Supercrush, The Way Home, Bend it like Bender or even the Hyperdrive cover
actually i take it back, i think Kingdom tries a bit too hard to be heavy, it's just a constant chug riff. boring. his vocals are great though
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Album Rating: 2.5I'll always be aROUUND you
Album Rating: 4.5Did you happen to see on the AE thread that I said it is my least favorite album by him. For me, all of the straightforward stuff (Epicloud, Addicted, AE, Synchestra, Sex and Religion, The New Black) ranks at the bottom. I still love all of them, but I prefer his tendency to alienate people. >:D
All that being said, Addicted and Epicloud are level to me. They both have their clear downsides and both are super easy to love due to how immediate they are.
Album Rating: 4.5"actually i take it back, i think Kingdom tries a bit too hard to be heavy, it's just a constant chug riff. boring. his vocals are great though"
You have never listened to it on a good soundsytem then. :/ It is easily the best sounding track on the album (especially with that intro at the end of "Save Our Now").
Album Rating: 3.0AE is my favourite for sure but it's very close to being even with City, Infinite, Terria, and Addicted. Ocean Machine is also growing on me. i havent heard any post-Alien SYL
and it doesn't matter how "good" it sounds, it's still a boring song, sorry
Album Rating: 3.5am i the only one here who thinks Physicist Kingdom > Epicloud Kingdom?
Album Rating: 4.5Ki is the best album ever made. ;)
I guess it the whole Dillinger thing in reverse. All of their most characteristic work bores me and their fans completely love it.
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Album Rating: 3.5Physicist is fucking great, it just gets a lot of shit because of its production unfortunately.
Album Rating: 4.5@Skag No. Epicloud has the advantages of its booming bass and Anneke's vocals, but I will always love
the Physicist version more.
That being said, the Live EP version is the absolute best.
I feel like the complaints about Physicist's production are artificial in a way. For the aesthetic it
is going for, it is perfect.
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound OffYeah what? Those are two of my favorites by him actually everything but this is a favorite of mine... I'm a fanboy though...Always will be.
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Fix Version/s: 1.0-RC-1
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After having some time spent hunting a memory leak in our application, I've managed to narrow the problem to Groovy. Basically in our case we use a throw-away classloader that is then used to load a Groovy-generated class (to be more specific, we are using JasperReports with Groovy expressions).
The issue as I see it is linked to
GROOVY-375 which is where the use of WeakHashMap was introduced. The intention was correct as it was meant to allow garbage collector to release cached info that cannot longer be used (the info for throw-away classes in our case). However there is a restriction, described in the javadoc of WeakHashMap, that must be respected for this to work: the values stored in the map must not have direct or indirect strong references to their keys. This is not the case for the metaClasses map that maps Class instances to MetaClass instances because the MetaClass holds a direct reference (theClass) back to Class.
Basically this is the same issue as with java.beans.Introspector class which also stores values with strong references to their keys (ie: Class->Method[] in declaredMethodCache field where Method has a strong reference to its class). Introspector class provides flushCaches methods as a fix for this problem.
To demonstrate the problem I've created a junit test that can help to reproduce the problem and to test possible solutions.
One possible fix for this problem is to use the same approach as the Introspector class and to provide a flush method that could be called explicitly by the user. Personally I don't like this solution as it delegates the responsibility to the user of the library which is bug-prone. Another solution would be to replace the strong references with WeakReferences where required. The attached test can help to test this solution.
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John, can you provide more details? It has been some time since the bug was created so perhaps the patch needs to be updated? We are still using groovy beta10 at our place with the original patch and it works for us.
I've created a patch for the HEAD version of the MetaClassRegistry.java file. I've used a WeakReference to wrap the values that are stored in the WeakHashMap. There was a problem with default MetaClass instances that are initialized in the constructor:
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registerMethods(DefaultGroovyMethods.class, true);
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Apparently those should be always present in the HashMap overwise the unit tests do not pass (there is an error that says the String.plus() method cannot be found). To fix this I've mixed strong references with WeakReferences so that the default MetaClass instances are never garbage collected. There is a flag called "initializing" that is set to true during the MetaClassRegistry construction and that determines the references to be stored directly without wrapping them with WeakReference. Please see the patch for more details. With this fix all unit tests pass.


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Last year we took our son, daughter and son-in-law to Garmisch-Partenkirschen for the week after Christmas. We had a delightful, magical time and I wrote ecstatically about it in a report here called Winter Wonderland. As that title implies there was a lovely blanket of snow everywhere that enhanced our experience immeasurably. When we debated about where to spend New Years this year we were torn between wanting to recapture some of the magic we'd experienced last year and fearing that another trip to snow areas might not live up to the standard set in GAP. Nonetheless we decided to chance it and chose Salzburg as our destination. We were not disappointed in the least. It proved a wonderful venue for our family holiday.
With two such similar trips (indeed, I saw posts here debating the relative merits of the two destinations as others apparently struggled with a decision between the two) we found ourselves frequently comparing the two places and I intend to conclude this report doing just that. In the meantime bear with me while I tell of this year's wonderful trip.
(The bad part of the tale'skip it if you hate lengthy detailed reports of travel problems. There's much better stuff ahead)
Right off the bat, this trip proved worse in the logistics department. My husband, son and I traveled from Ft. Lauderdale and our daughter and son-in-law from MSP. We all had miserable connections'for us FLL to DTW then to AMS and then to MUC and finally a train to Salzburg. Our flight out of FLL was late by 3 hours requiring rebooking our flight to Amsterdam (but with an upgrade to Business Class to relieve some of the sting.) We had a 5 hour layover in AMS where we went into town then returned and bumped into our daughter and SIL at the airport lounge where they'd been waiting for 6 hours having missed their connection as well. Delay, then loss, of luggage when we arrived in Munich put us further off schedule for train connections to Salzburg (we'd originally scheduled a flight all the way to Salzburg but that got cancelled and I'd foolishly decided we'd just stop in Munich and train rather than reroute through DeGaulle with a 5 hour layover'little did I know then that that would have gotten us to our destination much earlier than we actually did) but we finally arrived at our ultimate destination about 30 hours after we left for the airport'minus our son's luggage including his new skis and boots that he was expecting to use for his eagerly awaited chance to ski Kitzbuhel the following morning.
The only thing worse than our flight to Salzburg was our flight home. We left in a blizzard pulling our luggage behind us over streets coated with 6 inches of slush topped with 12 inches of new snow. Nonetheless the intrepid Salzburg cab driver got us to the airport without problem and we only had a one hour delay for deicing as our Styrian Spirit pilot wooshed us out of the blizzard and above the clouds for our flight to CDG. There we spent time in line waiting for boarding passes and then were herded onto two bus trips (passing the same locales in two different directions) to finally arrive at the temporary gates for our flight to DTW. Again we had a 5 hour layover in DTW which stretched to 6 for the usual mechanical problems that NWA always seems to have these days. We arrived at our home in Ft. Lauderdale at 2 a.m. after leaving our hotel in Salzburg at 6 a.m. But we did better than our son, who missed his connection in AMS and again took the train into the city for a walkaround rather than wait at Schipol for 6 hours or so. I've promised that hereafter regardless of how much the difference in cost, I'll never book another trip with more than one connection. Ever. Lesson learned.
Hadn't expected to tour the city but when our connection problems materialized and we had 5 hours with no luggage and only an intereurope (rather than transatlantic where security takes longer) flight ahead, we quick grabbed a train for the approximately 20 minute ride into town. We walked around the city from the Central Station around the Singel canal, across Dam Square, to one of the churches and through a bit of the red light district. We were enchanted to see tiny snowflakes beginning to come down and then appalled to see them turn into blobs of wet, slushy snow as we struggled against the wind and blinding whiteness to return to our train. Sort of surprised to encounter so much snow so early in the season but it was to be our initiation into the conditions we continued to find throughout our trip.
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New Years in Salzburg
Last year we took our son, daughter and son-in-law to Garmisch-Partenkirschen for the week after Christmas. We had a delightful, magical time and I wrote ecstatically about it in a report here called Winter Wonderland. As that title implies there was a lovely blanket of snow everywhere that enhanced our experience immeasurably. When we debated about where to spend New Years this year we were torn between wanting to recapture some of the magic we'd experienced last year and fearing that another trip to snow areas might not live up to the standard set in GAP. Nonetheless we decided to chance it and chose Salzburg as our destination. We were not disappointed in the least. It proved a wonderful venue for our family holiday.
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Hotels—Zur Goldene Ente and Park Hotel Castellani
We booked two hotels for our party, Zur Goldene Ente for our son and us and Hotel Castellani for our daughter and her husband. The former was chosen after reading reviews on this site and because of its location in the old town; the latter because it had a fitness center and looked good on the internet. The Goldene Ente is on Goldgasse in the pedestrian part of Salzburg old town just off the main shopping street—Getriedegasse. It is perfectly situated for the tourist. We had the apartment (room 19) on the 4th floor (there is an elevator). It has two rooms, a bath with shower and a second half bath and even a kitchenette. It was quite spacious and worked perfectly for us and our son. It had recently been remodeled and had light wood floors and white walls and cabinets with spare but modern furnishings. The bedroom connected to the half bath had a sitting area, an antique ceramic stove and a canopy bed. The bedroom connected to the bathroom with shower had all a couple of chairs and of the closet space. So it's not perfect say for two couples but it is a really good deal for a family especially at 225 euros per night with buffet breakfast. The hotel also has a really fun and friendly restaurant on the ground floor with good Bavarian food and gemutlicheit ambiance. We ate one meal there and stopped for drinks on several nights.
Though the Park Hotel Castellani was about a kilometer from the heart of old town it was still on the same side of the river and walkable for our daughter and SIL. It is a more or less typical, modern business hotel with nice rooms (square leather chairs in the lobby and rooms, lots of glass and blonde wood, etc.) and a very nice fitness center which was the primary draw. At 170 euros per night with breakfast, it too, seemed a pretty good deal. It has a nice, if underutilized, restaurant—see food section of this report.
Skiing and kudos to Salzburg Tourist Office
For our son one of the best aspects of both our trips to Garmisch last year and to Salzburg this year was the skiing. He judged the skiing better this year than last and was pleased with the opportunity to take the Tourist Office supplied Salzburg Snow Shuttle (at 13 euros per day) to 4 different ski areas—Kitzbuhel, Schladming, Flachau and Salbach. SIL joined him for Kitzbuhel and Salbach. The rest of us even joined the bus trip and spent a day in Kitzbuhel. Nice feature. Actually we found lots to commend the Salzburg Tourist Office for, from their snow shuttle to their extensive information about New Years Eve festivities at most of the hotels and restaurants in the city, to information about concerts and skating, etc. on New Years Eve and Day.
Our first actual day in Salzburg was spent not in Salzburg at all but in Kitzbuhel. The Snow Shuttle follows a predictable schedule among the various ski resorts each week and Kitz (as the cognescenti call it) just happened to be that day, so off we all went getting on the bus at its load up point on Mirabellplatz in front of the Bar Bellini (a very cute place and worthy of a stop.) The shuttle stops at the ski lift so those of us not skiing had to take a local bus into the actual town of Kitbuhel.
Kitzbuhel is a very cute little village, in our case made cuter yet by a continual snowfall (which was, in the higher elevations where our guys were skiing, making for near total white out conditions such that at times they couldn't even see their skis, but which, with nerves of steel, one can report as "fun.") The buildings lining the two parallel main streets of town are very colorful—pink, green, yellow, even blueish-purple. The shop windows are beautifully decorated and the folks walking about are exceedingly well and expensively clothed. Lots of furs and nary a PETA protester in sight. Actually the place seems to be all about skiing—and money and the fashion that goes with it. Makes for infinite fun people watching, from small children in newly purchased, perfectly clean pastel snowsuits to women with hair to the shoulder on one side of their head and shaved on the other (possibly to make it easier to accommodate the ubiquitous cell phone) to George Hamilton type older men with perfect tans in loden hats and mile long scarves over shirpa jackets. Worthy of a short day trip.
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Salzburg itself—the sights
We spent altogether 3 full and one half days in the actual town of Salzburg. If you were just touring, it wouldn't demand all that much time but when you're hunkered down for a week of skiing, partying and soaking up atmosphere, it certainly doesn't get boring. We'd been to Salzburg three times previously, once on our very first trip to Europe in 1973, but not since 1988, and never in winter. The city is beautiful, especially when snow covered. The blue-green copper patina-ed roofs of the many churches stand above the rest of the snow-covered city and the Festung Hohensalzburg looms over it all on the hill above. It's breathtaking and DH must have taken about a hundred pictures just of the city. The view from the pedestrian bridge that crosses the Salzach River between old town and new town affords perhaps the best vantage point. And it's even more beautiful when lit up in twinkling white lights during the holiday season.
Among the sights we took in on our many walks about the city were:
The Dom Church, one of the most beautiful church interiors anywhere with brightly painted panels and dome in blues and burnt oranges; also the Fransiscan and the University churches; the Festung Hohensalzburg with its ancient rooms and early toilet for use by the archbishop who lived there; Getriedegasse, the wonderful long shopping street with metal signs jutting out over the street to mark and identify each shop including even the annoying McDonalds, and with the little side alleys leading off into cute little courtyards on all sides often sporting special displays of local Christmas handicrafts; the market on the street paralleling Getriedegasse in the area at the entrance to the University church with all manner of vegetables and treats to eat and warm you against the cold and snow; the Mirabell gardens without flowers but just as prettily attired in puffs of snow adhering to the bushes and trees and statues throughout; the horse fountain beneath the mountain; the walk along the river in the rain that thankfully changed over to snow; and even the new modern art museum on the hill above town juxtaposed against the fortress and suffering mightily by comparison but nice when you get the to top via elevator and see the wonderful exhibit space with floor to ceiling windows looking out onto perfect woods covered in yet more snow. It was all good. And so was our day trip to Vienna, so that's next.
Though our children had been to Vienna when they were small, our SIL had never been so although it was a 2 and a half hour train ride, it was a mandatory day trip—at least for all but our son who went skiing that day. We began by taking a taxi to the train station where we purchased our approximately 40 euro per person round trip second class tickets and waited about 30 minutes for the train which was coming from Innsbruck late for its 7 a.m. departure. So we arrived at Vienna West Bahnhof at about 10 or 10:30 a.m. Between then and when we arrived back in Salzburg at 10:30 p.m. or so, we completely blitzed Freud's city in what I think was a rather inspired plan that I'd recommend to anyone who wants to see much of what the city has to offer in a single day. Here's how it went.
Arrived at West Bahnhof and purchased day transport tickets for 5 euros per person, then immediately jumped on S Bahn to the Naschtmarkt, one of the best city markets in Europe. Walked about the completely operational market in the deep snow and photographed stands with olives, oranges and all manner of foodstuffs in the falling snow. Stopped for a little snit of sparkling wine to celebrate our return to our first and one of our favorite European cities and slogged on over to Karlskirche where we waited and froze in the pews while daughter and SIL took the elevator to the top to observe the painting of the dome and look out over the snow-covered city. Plodded over to Karlsplatz U Bahn station, took it to St. Stephen's and immediately walked down the Graben to Julius Meinl for lunch. I think I have BTilke to thank for turning me on to this place. Don't know why we never found it on previous trips but it will definitely be a pilgrimage site hereafter. This being the day before New Years Eve the place was filled with shoppers loading their baskets with all manner of expensive foodie luxuries from caviar to smoked salmon to lobster—and even Kellogg's Frosted Flakes from a very odd display of US breakfast delicacies. We had planned to have lunch in the restaurant but I'd not made reservations since we weren't sure of which day we'd select for our trip to the city. We were told everything was filled and my heart sank but daughter wisely asked if there was anything available at the bar and miracle of miracles there was a string of 4 stools right in a row and our party was seated instantly for what turned out to be the favorite meal of the trip. Among the various dishes that won our hearts—and stomachs—were perfectly done scallops, best ever lobster bisque and lobster, and monkfish atop a bed of celery root, fennel and artichoke. Though the bisque was light it was very flavorful and everything else had the wonderful if often forbidden taste of butter, butter and more butter. How could they miss?!! We loved our seats at the bar (I usually prefer bar to restaurant seating) but we envied the family seated around a horseshoe table with a view onto the Graben and its chandeliers of white holiday lights and promised ourselves that next time we'll book ahead for those seats.
Fortified and very, very happy, we walked through Michelsplatz and then the Hofburg until we got cold again and hopped onto the Strassenbahn to circle the ring and point out its many beautiful buildings to our SIL. After making the full circle, we got off at the Opera and walked up the Karnterstrasse shopping street, and back to St. Stephen's this time to enter and look around as hordes of others joined us in the late afternoon. We left that sanctuary for another, the wonderful wintergarden lobby of our favorite Vienna hotel, the Konig Von Ungarn, just around the corner from Stephensdom. That lobby of the favorite hotel of a recently departed former poster on this board to whom I shall always be greatful for his many recommendations which have taken me to so many fine places including the KVU, is just made for relaxing with a bottle of sparkling wine after a day of shopping or sightseeing—and we did. Then, however, we had to be on our way in order to fit in another meal before leaving the city to return to Salzburg. We chose Plachutta, having remembered it as a place that would be open for a very early dinner and one that serves a mean Tafelspitz. I had a combination appetizer plate—meat in aspic, steak tartare and carp mousse—and another combination plate of main dishes including marrow bone, boiled beef on bones and tongue--not for everyone but it satisfied me though the place wasn't a hit with daughter and SIL. It was, however, perfectly positioned to get us out of town fast. We walked out the door and across the street to the U Bahn that took us back to the Westbahnhof and back to Salzburg. Hard to imagine how one could fit more into a single day in Vienna though I thought longingly on the trip home of the time I'd hoped to squeak out to see the Judith and the other Klimts at the Belvedere—oh well, next time.
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If you've ever read any of my other trip reports, you knew I'd get to it sooner or later
I've already mentioned a couple of meals but here's the scoop on the rest.
Nordsee—a perennial favorite of all of those in our party. Salzburg has two venues within blocks of each other on Getriedegasse. This is my nomination for the world's best fast food. We had shrimp in dill sauce, herring, calamari, squid salad, salad nicoise, and herring and lox sandwiches and cursed ourselves for not being able to stuff in more yet. The places are always jammed but the one closest to the Domplatz has a nice, quiet area upstairs where you can stuff yourself in relative peace.
Stiftskeller St. Peter—Actually we didn't eat here but we'd intended to. I had advance reservations for their Mozart dinner but as we approached the podium for seating we found the maitre d' hopelessly engaged in an argument with a group of people who insisted they had reservations which she had no record of—and they wouldn't take no for an answer. Meanwhile folks who were in line behind us pushed ahead and managed to get a special table set up for them even though the place was totally full—apparently oversubscribed. They offered to seat us in an adjacent room with a partial view of the performaners—and next to the complaining, reservationless group. At this point we quietly asked for and got an immediate and full refund in cash of the deposit I'd made and went to a quite good Chinese restaurant (Chinatown) congratulating ourselves that we'd gotten the best of all worlds. We'd seen the beautiful room decorated for Christmas. We'd also seen the singers and musicians and decided the entertainment might be a bit tacky and we knew that service would be awful. Besides daughter hated the menu and everyone loved the Chinese. All's well that ends well. I know there are a lot of people on this site who have spoken highly of this place. I think this just wasn't the night for it.
Goldene Ente—This is the restaurant on the ground floor of the hotel where we stayed. It is as traditional an Austrian restaurant/beer stube as you can hope to find. We ate there the night we arrived late in Salzburg after the two day flight from hell and instantly forgot our woes and settled into the warmth and friendliness of the hotel and the city. Tafelspitz aspic appetizer proved quite light and modern for such an old-fashioned, traditional place but it was good and so was the pork roasted in beer and caraway seeds accompanied by bread dumplings and sauerkraut with bacon and lots of beer. Highly recommended and often filled with families.
Carpe Diem—As traditional as Goldene Ente was, Carpe Diem was modern and cutting edge. It's billed as "Finest Finger Food" and everything is served in savory cones brought to the table in what looks like glass candlestick holders. It's a little like sushi and a little like tapas—small, concentrated tastes and lots of them. The place is at the end of Getriedegasse near the horse fountain. There is a large bar downstairs. Indeed their bar business seems to exceed their restaurant business which is carried on upstairs. The whole place is beautiful with dark wood walls and art deco furniture plus lounge chairs presumably for after dinner lounging and drinking though no one ever went near them during our approximately 3 hour dinner there. The cones themselves are made with herbs or cheese but there seem only to be two different kinds which gets a bit boring after the 4th or 5th cone. Each is filled with condiments and then stacked with meat, fish, veggies or cheeses, the latter led me after several glasses of wine paired with earlier cones to sing softly but embarrassingly to our children about "the cheese in the cone, hi ho the dairy o, the cheese in the cone." Maybe it's because the whole thing gets to be a bit silly after a while. Also there were some combinations that just didn't seem to click. Nonetheless several of the offerings were very tasty and my husband who is usually not what sociologists call "an early adapter," enjoyed the meal thoroughly. At worst it was a faltering concept, at best a pretty good time. Interestingly enough the only thing that doesn't come in cones at this place is dessert (that comes in little straight up shot glasses, four layers per glass) and it was even more amusing when DH ordered ice cream and it came on a plate of all things.
Herzl—the less expensive tavern of the famed and otherwise pricey Goldener Hirsch. This, like our hotel restaurant, is quintessential Austrian cute, with green tablecloths overladen with pink ones and wood benches. Perhaps because the place is affiliated with GH, I was expecting more than I got. The herring with onion, apple and sour cream was pretty tasteless, and the bauernschmaus, that wonderful Austrian national dish of pork, dumplings, ham, sausage and kraut, was only competent with the ham feeling almost processed.
Blaue Gans and New Years Eve—This was the place we picked for our New Years Eve dinner from among the 30 or more possibilities I learned of in advance on the Salzburg Tourism internet site. I selected from pictures of the place and from reading its regular menu from the hotel's site. It also seemed to offer the best deal pricewise—for 99 euros per person, an 8 course dinner in a trendy art hotel, with a midnight champagne toast and a view of the famous fireworks over the Fortress from the rooftop—and an assurance that men could be attired in dressy sweaters rather than jackets and ties without embarrassment to themselves and others. Unlike the Mozart dinner at the Stiftskeller St. Peter, this place did not disappoint us—except that we never did find the rooftop. The hotel is modern, trendy, as I said. It's billed as an Art Hotel so you get the picture. Tasteful, modern décor but in an old building. There are three places to dine—a bar with tall tables and a very modern vibe, the dining room where we ate with regular height tables in a vaulted ceiling room like an old beer cellar but with modern furnishings, and a cave downstairs which I never descended to see. With a set meal at a set price and a full house, I wasn't expecting a great meal. Surprise. This time my expectations were not confirmed and happily so. We started with my idea of the single best dish of the trip—poached monkfish in an aspic of minestrone with delicate pesto flavor and tiny veggies. Light and sublime. Next came a linguini with duck, then apple sorbet followed by veal, beef cheeks and mashed potatoes and three desserts that I recall tasted good but that I'm ashamed to say have faded into a wine and champagne-induced haze. That dissipated quickly as we joined the other revelers on the street to watch the official fireworks explode over the festung and stepped lively to miss the unofficial ones exploding everywhere along the streets. Music and dancing was everywhere as tents had been set up to accommodate the crowds. There was skating on the ice rink in the Mozartplatz and a light show had images projected on several of the large buildings about old town. We walked to our hotel about 1:30 after a bit of participation in the merry making and a taste of the second best dish of the trip—a sandwich made of dried beef with raclette melted cheese on top from a food stand in the market. Fabulous. Happy New Year.
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K&K—Fueled by our raclette sandwich of the night before we set out in search of a complete raclette or fondue meal for our New Years Day lunch. We couldn't find it but in the process settled upon another traditional meal at a very traditional place on Mozartplatz, the K&K. More wood walls and wood booths and traditional Austrian food. I had a heavy appetizer of black pudding (blood sausage for those not into organ meats and other peasant delicacies) with roesti potatoes and then a more refined dish of lamb with ratatouille and more potatoes. One can never have too many potatoes, now can one? Everything was very good and service was excellent.
Salieri—You've got to hand it to the contrarians at the Park Hotel Castellani. In a town dedicated to Mozart (he was born there and every store has candy with his face on it and the airport is the W.A. Mozart airport), they dedicated their restaurant to his arch enemy Salieri. Our daughter and SIL had their inaugural meal there when they arrived in Salzburg after their marathon flight and liked it enough to suggest we join them for another. We ate there New Years Day night—alone. The restaurant isn't large but we did feel a bit lonely with no one else to observe or comment on. The emptiness couldn't have been because of poor food—more likely exhaustion and overindulgence on the part of the tourists and townspeople—because ours was just fine. Son and SIL especially enjoyed the cream of chestnut soup.
Romantik Hotel Gmachl in Elixhausen—Thwarted in our efforts to get raclette and/or fondue in Salzburg, we took to the internet in search of it and found two Romantik Hotels in the vicinity. This is a chain of mostly German and Austrian hotels usually with Bavarian cutesy but tasteful décor and food. We figured it was our best hope for a cheese-based lunch and we were in the mood for some small town atmosphere, so we chose the one of the two that looked cutest and closest and took the bus for a mini-day trip about 5 km outside Salzburg to the itty, bitty burg of Elixhausen. We miscalculated our stop and had to walk a half to three-quarters of a kilometer through deep and still driving snow to the center of town where the hotel was sitting directly across the street from another bus stop that we could have taken. But as a result, we arrived, hot, tired, thirsty and hungry in a perfect state for a nice cold beer at the darling little bar and then a great lunch at the lovely wood paneled dining room prepared by a chef whose work is rated 14 of 20 in the Gault Milleau guide. DH had trout that had been swimming in the tank minutes before. Son had wide noodle pasta with lobster and very garlicky spinach and I had veal with a lime crust atop couscous. Green candles were lit on the tables next to rosebud bouquets--a perfect setting and even cosier when you looked outside to see the snow coming down at an ever faster pace. No raclette and no fondue but this place fulfilled our needs completely. Since the snow had been piling up during our leisurely lunch we presumed the bus would probably not be on time when we trundled over to the stop across the street from the hotel. Thank goodness we were wrong. It was there right on time and took us back to Salzburg with nary a hitch. A wonderful little outing.
Comparisons—Garmisch-Partenkirchen (GAP) and Salzburg
So how did this year's trip stack up against our Winter Wonderland of last year? A couple of our party said Salzburg hands down—a bigger city, more to do, better skiing, better food with more variety, fabulous NYEve celebration. Others pointed out a few things that GAP had over Salzburg—We'd had a car in GAP which made day trips faster and easier, at least for the riders. We specifically didn't have one this year at my husband's insistence and, given the road conditions, he turned out to be right on. We'd never have ventured to Elixhausen in the blizzard that we did if we'd been driving rather than taking the bus. But taking trains and buses takes much more planning and more time and we had to forego several suggested day trips because they would take too long. We missed the cute little snow and ice bars that were set up everywhere in GAP and surrounding villages. Salzburg had outdoor bars but they were of the wood or plastic variety and lacked the charm of the real things. And we missed the small villages that transport and weather conditions prevented us from seeing this year that had been so much a part of our trip to GAP. We also missed the darling little breakfast room and the hospitality of the couple who owned and managed our Edelweiss hotel in GAP. That place felt like living in someone's home. We had very hospitable reception staff at our hotels this year but the feeling was still hotel like and not homey though we enjoyed the friendliness of the restaurant/bar immediately downstairs and our hotel's location directly in the heart of old town without need for a 5 or 6 block walk into town as we'd had at our cute little GAP place.
Overall both experiences were wonderful and we'd recommend either/both to anyone contemplating a holiday with lots of snow. Even as I say that, I'm still unsure that perfect snow/wonderland conditions are a given in either place. Perhaps we've just been lucky two years in a row. However it happened, we're pleased to have been blessed with wonderful conditions and great beauty both years and we'd highly recommend either place to others who want to have a truly wonderful winter holiday with family.
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Tagging to enjoy at leisure later. Julie, you write the best trip reports!
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Fine report, as usual, Julie.
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Julie, what a great thing to do with your kids! Those memories will last forever! As usual, you have painted a very detailed view of your trip in your report, and I can just imagine the places you went!
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Great report, thanks. It would be hard to choose between Salzburg and GAP. Two great destinations.
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Thanks for bringing back all of these fine memories for us Mom; A second gift - getting to experience it all over again. What a fabulous time, and how special to get to not only enjoy your company during our travels, but to read your perspective and reflections from the trip as well. I'm sure Chris will share ours soon - we need to convert written notes to electronic.
Anyone reading this and wondering what the "kids'" views are - just ask Julie to pass along your questions to her daughter. I'm happy to help out.
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Sounds like a great trip! Glad you liked Meinl; it's one of my favorite restaurants in Vienna and although the tables are almost always reserved in advance, the bar is kept open for drop ins.
How crowded was Salzburg at New Year's? We definitely want to a White Christmas next year and are thinking of spending the Christmas holidays in Oberstdorf. We can't decide whether to stay there over New Year's or perhaps check out around the 28th and spend NYE in someplace like Salzburg. But not if it's too mobbed.
Aside from the airfare headaches (kudos for not letting them sour your trip), sounds like a great time.
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SIL's Perspective:
Travel to Salzburg was one of the longer trips I've taken, but nothing really bad happened to DW and I. We had a tight connection in AMS, and missed it. The NWA mechanics didn't help us out by having us sit on the tarmac in MSP for over an hour waiting for some signoff. We landed in AMS with 15 minutes to make our next flight. We probably could've run and caught it, but would've lost our luggage for sure.
Next time we fly through AMS I'll keep some Amsterdam info on hand. We had six hours to kill and could've easily taken a peak at the town. I have a WorldClub membership (which DW thinks I should cancel) so it wasn't all bad. We drank champagne and watched movies on our DVD player.
The trip back went like clockwork. Our train left Salzburg on time. It arrived at Munich Ostbanhof on schedule. Our train to the airport arrived 4 minutes later on the adjacent track. Our flights from MUC to AMS, and AMS to MSP were business class, and everything was on time and easy.
Though DW and I will print out and save Julie's statement that she's "promised that hereafter regardless of how much the difference in cost, I'll never book another trip with more than one connection." Spending 2-1/2 days traveling for 7 day vacation is a lot.
The place is nice "business" hotel. Not that its a bad thing. Its located a little over 1km from Aldstat. Walkable but not very scenic. DW and I walked it 3 times, otherwise it was 7E taxi ride. Good breakfast. Friendly staff. Most importantly they had DW's favorite eliptical machine. I normally like to stay in the center of places, btu having DW happy all week was worth the extra taxi rides.
I skied with BIL at Kitzbuhel and what's known as SkiCircus (Saalbach, Hinterglemm & Leogang) I'd call myself a good intermediate skier. I'll ski most anywhere except off-terrain. BIL is an expert skier.
We both liked Kitz a lot. Its a huge area with 8 different peaks, a number of long expert runs that both BIL and I enjoyed. I'd recommend carrying a map with you. The place is so large and in our case there was numerous white-out conditions. It was tough to see what run you were on at the top. We found a great lunch spot on Hahnenkam. It was a ski-in/ski-out place that said it specialized in Tirolian Specialties. We enjoyed bratwrust, sourkraut and beer overlooking the town of kitzbuhel all while listenig to a little yodeling music. Perfect!
SkiCircus gave us the best skiing weather of the trip. It was crystal clear, their was fresh snow and temps were in the 30's. The town of Saalbach is surrounded by skiing on all sides. Sort of unique for a ski town. Wish I would've brought a camera.
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As Julie said a great service put on by Salzburg Tourism. Very friendly and knowledgeable guides. They all spoke English. You could purchase your lift tickets on the bus and fill out rental forms. The bus dropped you off near the local rental shop. You pick up your gear and by the time you're ready to head out they would have your lift tickets waiting for you. Then at the end of the day the bus would sell beverages. Very reasonably I might add, a beer was only 1.5E.
The train rides were long but worth the trip. What a great old Imperial capital. Huge boulevards ringing the palace. Buildings that just ooze majesty. We were there in a nice little blizzard. It added a pleasant little twist to the place. Julius Meinl was a fabulous experience. It's like a Dean & Deluca cubed, plus throw in formal dining environment adjacent to the market's cheese counter. Lots of fun! We rate all of our meals on our trips; 15 point scale - five each for food, serivec and ambiance. We gave Julius Meinl a 12.5. The only thing it missed on was our lack of a reservation. Sitting at the bar provied great service, but if we were sitting in one of the booths looking out on Graben it could've been a 13.5 to 14. That's up in "Venice" category! Since I mentioned Graben street I have to say the xmas lights on that street might be the best I've ever seen. All white lights that bow and cascade across the street with huge chandelier like configurations in the middle. Clark W Griswald would be impressed.
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Somewhere we heard that Salzburg is one of the top ten places for New Years. I'm not sure where that came from, or if it was just dreamed up by wishful thinking, but its not too far off.
As you heard we enjoyed dinner at the Blau Gaus. Nicely decorated for New Years and an enjoyable menu. Our only mistake was sitting down at 8pm. We should've let our reservations slip to 8:30 or 9pm. To much time to consume wine without a lot of movement.
We couldn't locate the roof for viewing fireworks so we didn't get "THE SHOT" for video, but being on the streets was a fun and daring experience.
People started shooting off fireworks around 4pm that afternoon. And this isn't like kids shooting of bottle-rockets in a park, people were lighting cherry bombs on Getriedegasse. This all reaches its crescendo at midnight. We were out in the middle of the street with out complimenty glass of champagne in hand and there were fireworks going off all around us. These were the full-on mortars, the same the city was shooting off from Hohensalzburg. While this is going on Mozart is playing and people are waltzing in the streets. Quite the scene!
After the initial pandemonium of the New Year let up a little we headed towards Residenceplatz and Mozartplatz. There were tons of drink/food tents. A band that played a lot of Bon Jovi songs, and thousands of revelers. DW and I hung on until about 2AM. I'm not sure if this is one of the top ten New Years offerings in the world, but its the best I've ever seen.
SALZBURG vs. GAP:
Tough call. Julie pressed the question often.
Salzburg being a larger town offered better sites and better food. GAP and the surrounding towns we visited had the fun winter festival feeling.
From Salzburg we trained to Vienna to see Schonbrunn Palace. From GAP we drove to see Neuschwanstein Castle.
In GAP we could skied just outside of Innsbruck at Axamer Lixum, home of past Olympics. It Salzburg we skied at Kitzbuhel and Saalbach, home of World Cup events.
New Year's eve in the GAP with dinner at Gasthof Fraundorfer. We had a wonderful meal, plenty of entertainment from the accordionist and the owners leiderhosen clad grandsons who did their dance with the foot and thigh slapping. Though not much happened beyond the walls of the restaurant.
Salzburg New Years - A hit! (Read Above)
CONCLUSION: I'm just lucky to have experienced both of these cities and vacations. I could've been sitting in Minnesota.
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Correction on Vienna. We saw the Hofburg Palace not Schonbrunn.
Typing without thinking...
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BTilke, to answer your question, about how crowded Salzburg was, I'd say "manageable." Enough people to make for a party atmosphere, but not so many that I felt like I couldn't move or enjoy myself. Admittedly I wasn't trying to get a glass of sekt at the stroke of midnight, but we didn't have any problems getting wonderful raclette sandwiches about 12:30 or so and we were able to get lunch reservations at K&K the day after new years by just walking in. A couple of days the crowds on Getriedegasse were fairly thick, but again, not so that you felt you needed to shove to get through. My husband hates crowds and never seemed crazed about the numbers he had to share the streets with. We felt fine throughout our visit.
Candert or Liz chime in with your reactions if different from mine.
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Thank you both for great reports. We were in Vienna and Salzburg in July, and it's great to get a perspective on what it would be like in winter. I'm inspired!
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What an excellent trip report! We are hoping to spend this NYE in Salzburg and will check out your restaurant.
I love your writing style.
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Hi Julie, we are in Salzburg now and I kept your rest. recs in mind. We plan to try the Goldene Ente in the next few days. Last night we ate at Herzl and got lucky, we both liked our dinners; I had a very good tout filet. Tonight we ate at the "bio restaurant" of the zum Hirschen; also very good.
Bonus: attended a free concert tonight at the Mozarteum by, of all things, the Notre Dame Univ. concert band. I never thought I'd be listening to the Notre Dame "theme" song here in Austria!
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BTilke, I trust things are lovely there right now. Flowering shrubs along the river, etc. Enjoy. Do stop by Carpe Diem for a drink and one cone just to see what modernization is doing to the Salzburg dining scene. The Blaue Gans is also a winner. Both quite different from Herzl and Goldene Ente though.
Hmmm, Notre Dame fight songs in Salzburg. Whoda thunk it!
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Actually, the weather was terrible! Rain (sometimes VERY heavy rain) every day. Much cooler than usual yesterday and today. We were in Zell am See early yesterday and the temps were not much above freezing; there was a coating of fresh snow on the hillsides (not the very tip of the mountains, much lower down). On the postbus from Salzburg to Zell am See, we even saw a few flakes ourselves. Mixed with the rain, of course. I'm glad I decided to bring a warm coat along--we saw some tourists in lightweight spring/summer clothes and they were absolutely miserable.
The flowers (at least in places like Zell am See) are much later than usual this year. Tulips were still in full bloom; peonies were not close to blooming yet.
Nonetheless, we had an excellent time (we just got back an hour ago). We packed a LOT into our six days. The only two disappointments were Berchtesgaden (it was absolutely pouring with rain when I went there, a real cloudburst, so I simply caught the next train back to Salzburg) and Bad Gastein, which was nice but MUCH too steep for my mother.
Schloss Hellbrunn was a big hit; I loved the Folkmuseum, which got so few visitors they kept the door locked--I had to hunt down the "reception" guy to let me in and I had the place to myself. I really enjoyed touring the castle and the water fountains. The SoM gazebo was a bust, though, not worth seeing. No wonder it's stuck way down where the group tour buses come in.
We did get a few minutes of blue sky here and there; whenever that happened, our cameras clicked away at everything in sight!
I don't think we'll be going back over New Year's, though. Over the week-end portion of our trip, it felt WAY too crowded; can't imagine what it would be like there over a holiday!
P.S. Never made it to Goldene Ente--my mother was too tired from all the walking in the rain and cold to make forays to restaurants every evening, so we ate in the hotel several nights instead. Next time!
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Thanks for the report I am heading that way for xmas and new years. I think after your report I will go to salzburg for new years. Maybe I should base myself there since I will have a car and go to different ski resorts.
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Resurrected whilst planning Salzburg Christmas 2012, many thanks Julie!
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DARLINGTON, S.C. - The Darlington Raceway is a tough place to jumpstart a season, and that's just fine with Sterling Marlin.
The driver who led the point standings for 25 weeks last year before suffering a season-ending neck injury at Kansas City, is looking for a spark heading into this afternoon's Carolina Dodge Dealers 400 (1 p.m., Fox).
He won last year's race at the 1.366-mile raceway and left with a 99-point lead in the standings. This year, he has only one top-10 finish and he's 20th in the rankings.
``You have to take the good with the bad,'' Marlin said. ``We've got a good race team and we're off in a couple areas, but it's something we can fix. It's nothing we can't fix. We can fit it pretty quick.''
A year ago Marlin started 43rd at Darlington after his team changed an engine after qualifying. It took him 195 laps to work his way through traffic, but he rallied to lead 57 of the last 98 laps.
This time around, he's eighth on the starting grid after qualifying at 168.816 mph.
``Look back the past two years and I think we led a lot of laps coming into Darlington,'' Marlin said. ``I think we might have led one or two laps this year. I think we're off. I think we're off in two or three areas. A 10th (of a second) here and a 10th there and we're back to leading races.''
Marlin was allowed to come back to work after doctors said the broken bone in his neck was completely healed. The only thing that's changed since he got hurt last September are rules that call for an exact body placement and a new front bumper. The changes are barely noticeable, but they've created a mountain of work for Marlin's Coors Light team.
``We had to cut every body off the cars,'' he said. ``The deal this year is they've got everybody with the same body location, front to rear. They made all different templates. Last year everybody offset their rear ends to the right. You could twist the car a lot to get the downforce you needed and still get through the templates they had last year.
``This year they came with different templates. They're supposed to fit every car the same. I guess they do. I haven't been up there to look at them. For some reason, we lost downforce in the rear of the car. The chassis setups we've been running, we had to change them up a little bit.''
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Winston Cup Series wrapped up its final practice session leading up to this afternoon's main event before rain settled into the Pee Dee area of South Carolina.
Michael Waltrip (crash) and Kurt Busch (blown engine) probably wish it rained earlier since their troubles will force them to move to the back of the starting lineup.
Matt Kenseth was the fastest in the final session at 167.385 mph, followed by Jimmie Johnson in second at 166.141, Jeff Gordon in third at 166.062, Joe Nemechek in fourth at 165.922, Jeff Green in fifth at 165.721, Ryan Newman and Sterling Marlin in sixth at 165.509, Kenny Wallace in eighth at 165.475, Mark Martin in ninth at 165.409 and Tony Stewart in 10th at 165.331.
Busch's engine failure continued a string of problems for Roush Racing. Martin blew an engine at Las Vegas two weeks ago, then four Roush-prepared cars lost engines last week at Atlanta. And both of Roush's trucks in Friday's Craftsman 200 suffered failures.
The car owner said he was responsible for most of the problems at Atlanta. He tuned the engines to create better fuel mileage and that put too much strain on them, he said.
PIT STOP: Kevin Triplett, NASCAR's manager of business operations, resigned to concentrate on another job outside of racing. His resignation is effective in June. Although he wouldn't confirm it Saturday, he's expected to run for political office near his Bristol, Va., home.
Published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Sunday, March 16, 2003.
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The Elias Sports Bureau statistical rankings have been released, so we can take our first look at which free agents could command draft-pick compensation this offseason.
Players who rate in the top 20 percent of their position group (catchers; first basemen, outfielders and DHs; second basemen, third basemen and shortstops; starting pitchers; and relief pitchers) are designated as Type A. Players who rank in the 21-40 percent bracket are designated as Type B.
If a Type A or B free agent's former club offers him arbitration, then it will receive compensation if he signs elsewhere. Type A free agents yield the signing team's first-round choice and a supplemental first-rounder, while Type Bs return only the sandwich-rounder. Clubs who finished in the bottom half of the major league standings can't surrender their first-round selection, and compensation picks for failure to sign draftees from the previous year can't change hands either.
With that out of the way, below are the potential Type A and B free agents by position (listed in order of Elias ranking). Not all of these players have filed for free agency yet.
|Potential Type A Free Agents
Catchers: Jason Varitek (Bos).
First Basemen: Mark Teixeira (LAA).
Second Basemen: Orlando Hudson (Ari).
Shortstops: Orlando Cabrera (CWS), Edgar Renteria (Det).
Outfielders: Manny Ramirez (LAD), Raul Ibanez (Sea), Bob Abreu (NYY), Adam Dunn (Ari), Pat Burrell (Phi), Brian Giles (SD).
Starting Pitchers: C.C. Sabathia (Mil), A.J. Burnett (Tor), Andy Pettitte (NYY), Mike Mussina (NYY), Ben Sheets (Mil), Oliver Perez (NYM), Derek Lowe (LAD), Jamie Moyer (Phi).
Relief Pitchers: Francisco Rodriguez (LAA), Brian Fuentes (Col), Russ Springer (StL), Damaso Marte (NYY), Ryan Dempster (ChC), Juan Cruz (Ari), Kerry Wood (ChC), Trevor Hoffman (SD), Doug Brocail (Hou), Darren Oliver (LAA), Bob Howry (ChC).
Potential Type B Free Agents
Catchers: Ivan Rodriguez (NYY), Greg Zaun (Tor), Paul LoDuca (Fla).
Second Basemen: Jeff Kent (LAD), Juan Uribe (CWS), Mark Loretta (Hou), Mark Grudzielanek (KC).
Third Basemen: Casey Blake (LAD), Hank Blalock (Tex).
Outfielders: Garret Anderson (LAA), Moises Alou (NYM), Ken Griffey Jr. (CWS), Luis Gonzalez (Fla), Mike Cameron (Mil).
Designated Hitters: Milton Bradley (Tex), Frank Thomas (Oak).
Starting Pitchers: John Smoltz (Atl), Brad Penny (LAD), Jon Garland (LAA), Randy Wolf (Hou), Paul Byrd (Bos), Greg Maddux (LAD), Braden Looper (StL), Randy Johnson (Ari).
Relief Pitchers: Alan Embree (Oak), Brian Shouse (Mil), Jason Isringhausen (StL), Dave Weathers (Cin), Brandon Lyon (Ari), Salomon Torres (Mil), Jeremy Affeldt (Cin), Arthur Rhodes (Fla), Joe Beimel (LAD), LaTroy Hawkins (Hou), Dennys Reyes (Min), Rudy Seanez (Phi), Luis Ayala (NYM), Eric Gagne (Mil).
- With the lack of successfully signing draft-eligible sophomores in recent years, what are the odds that the best in 2009 (Tennessee outfielder Kentrail Davis, Louisiana State shortstop D.J. LeMahieu and Baylor righthander Shawn Tolleson) will go in the first couple of rounds and sign?
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Kansas City, Mo.
Draft-eligible sophomores rarely go as high as their talent would merit because teams fear their extra leverage will make them more difficult to sign. Unlike juniors, sophomore-eligibles can re-enter the following year's draft and still have college eligibility remaining.
In the past two years, we've ranked 13 college sophomores in our annual Top 200 Draft Prospects lists. Only six of those 13 went in the first five rounds of the draft, and only one of those 13 went in the first five rounds and signed for more than slot money. That was Brad Suttle, whose $1.3 million bonus from the Yankees in 2007 set a record for a fourth-rounder.
While draft-eligible sophomores continued to sink in the draft this year, teams were more willing to pay to sign them when MLB didn't harangue them as much about watching the bottom line. In 2007, only five college sophomores signed in the first 10 rounds, and Suttle was the only one in the entire draft to exceed slot money.
Five college sophomores signed in the first 10 rounds again this year, but they included three slot-busters: Cole Figueroa (Padres), whose $400,000 bonus was the third-highest in the sixth round; Tim Fedroff (Indians), whose $725,000 bonus was the second-largest among seventh-rounders; and Stephen Caseres (Dodgers), whose $250,000 bonus ranked tops in the ninth round. The Indians also shelled out $725,000 for 22nd-rounder Bryce Stowell and the Athletics paid $675,000 for 28th-rounder Dusty Coleman after both starred in the Cape Cod League during the summer.
Unless they convince teams they'll sign quickly for slot money, Davis, LeMahieu and Tolleson may slip in the 2009 draft. But if teams are as generous as they were in 2008, it's likely that they'll sign.
Those three are the highest-ranking sophomores on our soon-to-unveiled 2009 college prospect rankings. Others to watch include lefthander Bryan Morgado (Tennessee) and righthanders Craig Fritsch (Baylor), Drew Storen (Stanford), Graham Stoneburner (Clemson) and Sam Dyson (South Carolina).
- How do you see the Mariners resolving their catching logjam? They gave Kenji Johjima a three-year contract extension through 2011, former first-round pick Jeff Clement is ready to go and they have two more catchers waiting in the wings coming off strong seasons in Triple-A (Rob Johnson) and Double-A (Adam Moore). Who plays where next year? What can they get for Johjima?
David Heckendorn
Andover, Mass.
Priority No. 1 should be figuring out if Clement can be a regular catcher in the big leagues. He should hit for power and some average, but he has yet to make scouts believe that his throwing, receiving and agility are up to par for a big league backstop. I'd let Clement play two-thirds of the games behind the plate and mix in some DHing, with Johnson serving as his backup. Johnson is also versatile enough to pick up some extra at-bats as an outfielder.
Moore still needs to polish his defense, so spending the bulk of 2009 in Triple-A would be good for his development.
As for Johjima? The three-year, $24 million deal that ownership (and not former GM Bill Bavasi) gave him was a mistake with all the catching depth the Mariners had on hand. Johjima didn't help matters by falling apart at the plate, and even when he was passable offensively in his first two seasons in the United States, he didn't hit enough to merit playing at another position.
There are plenty of teams that need catchers. New GM Jack Zduriencik should be willing to eat most of Johjima's contract so he can trade him for a mid-level prospect. Seattle isn't close to contending, and Johjima isn't going to be part of the solution.
- Now that the season is officially over, how would you rank the Yankees Top 10 Prospects?
Steve Montauredes
Beach Lake, Pa.
Prospect season is definitely upon us. We'll unveil our first organization Top 10 Wednesday with the Orioles, and we'll post our Yankees Top 10 next week.
As a sneak preview, I'll tell you that outfielder Austin Jackson ranks No. 1 on our Yankees list. Catcher Jesus Montero is No. 2, and as for the rest, you'll have to wait until Friday. Unless you subscribe, in which case our AL East Top 10 issue should be in your mailbox before then.
If you want even more prospect rankings for the Yankees (or any other team), don't forget that we go 30 deep for each system in the 2009 Prospect Handbook.


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WEST PLAINS, Mo. – The Missouri State University-West Plains Grizzly Basketball team got back on the winning track Thursday night, Feb. 23, with a 64-48 victory over Northeast Mississippi Community College of Booneville at the West Plains Civic Center arena.
The win upped the Grizzlies' overall season record to 21-8.
"We got a little sloppy at the end, and they shot very well for the first few minutes of the game, but in between those two times, we did a pretty good job defensively," Grizzly Basketball Head Coach Yancey Walker said. "We knew our scouting reports and guarded accordingly for most of the game."
The Grizzlies' defense only allowed the Tigers 19 buckets out of 50 attempts from the field for 38 percent and three baskets out of seven attempts from 3-point range for 48 percent. The Grizzlies also outrebounded the Tigers 43 to 27.
"We were a lot better defensively," Walker said. "We were in the right spots most of the time. We were just more of a complete team."
The Grizzlies hit 27 of 55 attempts from the field for 49 percent but only four of 19 shots from 3-point range for 21 percent. They were quite effective from the free throw line, however, hitting six of their seven shots for 86 percent. The Tigers hit seven of 12 free throws for 58 percent.
"We did a good job sharing the basketball and making the right play most of the time," Walker said, pointing to the Grizzlies' 16 assists. "Our point guards did a good job of getting us into our sets and putting people in position to score."
Sophomore Gage Wooten led the team in scoring with 19 points, followed by freshmen Kervin Rameau and Miles Gatewood each with 12 points. Wooten also had five rebounds, three of which came from the offensive glass. Gatewood had four rebounds and three assists, and Rameau collected three rebounds.
Walker said he was very proud of his team and its adjustment to some lineup changes made for this game. "We moved Kervin and Keaton (Jackson) into a starting role and brought Miles and Farbod (Farman) off the bench. All four did a great job handling the change," Walker said.
The Tigers' leading scorer was Tadarious Coburn, who had 12 points.
The Grizzlies will close out the regular season at home Saturday, Feb. 25, with a 7 p.m. contest against Region 16 rival Moberly Area Community College from Moberly, Mo., in the civic center arena. The contest will determine first seed in the Region 16 Championship Tournament March 9-10 at Jefferson College in Hillsboro, Mo. Right now, Moberly (18-7) holds a slight edge in the region standings with a 5-1 record. The Grizzlies are 5-2.
"We want to invite everyone to come out and bring a friend to Saturday's game," Walker said. "A win means at least a share of the Region 16 regular season championship. We'll need all the help we can get, and we want to send our sophomores off with a great experience."
For more information about the Grizzly Basketball program, including complete game statistics, visit the team's website at http://www.wp.missouristate.edu/grizzly/bb.htm or call the Grizzly Basketball office at 417-255-7993.


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Thursday, March 25, 2010
Sugar, sugar, you little devil you
Meet the new bad guy—sugar. Sugar contributes to diabetes by signaling more insulin, which may or may not appear. It makes you cranky if you're under 5 (why that stops, no one says, and some question if that's even true in the younger set).
Sugar makes you fat—especially if combined with chocolate and nuts into a candy bar or a nice cookie.
Our caretakers over in Washington tell us we need no more than 25 grams of the stuff for women and 37.5 grams for men. Well, not actually NEED—we don't NEED any—they just came up with a number for us.
OK—what is that in real numbers?
A 12-oz can of Coke—39 grams.
The problem is sugar is in everything—even in salt. It's in lunch meat, bread, low-fat meals and Activia yogurt.
Bottom line (in every sense)—we eat about 88 grams a day.
Sugar occurs naturally in fruit as fructose and in milk as lactose. That High Fructose Corn Syrup—good heavens, it's just about a crazy act of self-destruction to eat or drink any of that stuff. Why not grab some hemlock and be done with it?
Look on labels for ingredients that end in "–lose."
Catsup—that's the one that gets me. Full of sugar.
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Plot: Yash came to know that Aarti is pregnant in the Party. Here aarti does not have any complication regarding to her pregnancy.
Yash moves forward each step towards Aarti with full rage of anger in his Eyes. Aarti who is standing a few steps away from yash starts moving back. He catches aarti's hand and drags her inside. Suraj Prathap as well as other Scindhia family members keep silent as they are in banquet hall and all the guests are staring at them. They consider since it's a wife and husband issue, its better to give them some private time to talk to each other.
Yash pulls aarti inside their room and locks the door with a loud noise.
Yash : How dare you hide from me that you r pregnant with my child? When did you get this much courage?
Aarti did not answer anything to him. She was just looking away from the direction where yash is standing.
Yash: I am talking to you aarti. Answer me
Aarti is still silent.
Yash eyes turned red with anger. He takes aarti's hand and pulls her towards him with force. He holds her waist and asks" Tell me right now. Why didn't you? I asked you on the day of santhana sapthami pooja itself. Why didn't you ?
Aarti: yashji please leave me.
Yash: I asked you why did you hide from me. Answer me
Aarti: why should I answer you?
Yash: Because I am your husband and father of the child in your womb.
Aarti: Father? U urself told me that whatever happened that night was a mistake and in your view it's a SIN. I am only mother of your children and not related to you in any other way.
Yash: Does it mean that u can hide your pregnancy from me as if I don't have any relation with you or the child to be born?
Aarti: Yes. I am here only to be mother for Palak, Payal and Ansh. I am no way related to you.
Yash: Whatever happened is happened. The truth is I am father of the child in your womb and have all rights on both of you.
Aarti: How can it be yashji? Whatever happened is when we were in bhang effect. U never treated and accepted me as your wife. So don't waste yours as well as my time by talking about this topic.
Yash: achha!! So since we have consummated when we were in bhang effect it doesn't have any sense right. Now I am well aware what I am doing. So let us do it again now such that u can accept that I am ur husband having all rights on you.
Saying this he holds pallu of aarti and drags her towards the bed. Aarti could not digest what yash said. She was in a trance for few seconds. Then finally she understood what he is going to do with her. She tries protesting him with all her strength.
Yash lost his control seeing her protesting him. He pushes her on to the bed and leans on to her. Aarti starts crying but everything in vain. He was uncontrollable. Incidents of staring at her when she was drying her hair, the moment he saw her in the gold color saree, the way he dragged her on to the dance floor start revolving in his mind. He himself does not even think what all he is doing. He wants her that's it. He started forcing himself on her.
After some time, Aarti was in a state of shock. She was not able to digest what yash did to her.
That's when yash pulled her and said "Now you understood what rights I have on you or Shall I make it clear again?"
Saying that he left to washroom to have a shower. Aarti was still lying on the bed.
Yash came out and went straight in to the balcony without even looking to aarti.
He started pacing around. He could not understand why he becomes psychic when it comes to aarti. He himself asked her to stay away from him and now he cannot tolerate her being away from him. He feels that she is his property. He cannot bear aarti's silence. He loves her alot. Yash is the one who normally speak less and who could not pour out his emotions.
He knows well that whatever he has done to aarti is wrong. But he himself masked his love to her with his angry.
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