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How will rising interest rates impact housing market in 2023? Experts weigh in
By Stephanie Weaver
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How high interest rates are impacting the housing market
The feds announced another aggressive rate hike — the third consecutive increase of three-quarters of a percentage point and the sixth rate hike this year alone. Lawrence Yun, chief economist with the National Association of Realtors, discusses its impact on the housing market.
LOS ANGELES - During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Reserve kept interest rates historically low, and this meant a home buyer could borrow money at an incredibly low rate.
Now, experts say the housing market looks completely different compared to the last two years of extraordinary performance, causing house hunters to grapple with suddenly high rates, rising home prices and a tight supply of properties on the market.
"It has completely changed," Lawrence Yun, chief economist at the National Association of Realtors (NAR), told FOX Television Stations. "The mortgage rates have more than doubled and it's limiting the homebuyers' ability to take out a mortgage."
High mortgage rates impact housing market
The feds recently announced another aggressive rate hike — the third consecutive increase of three-quarters of a percentage point and the sixth rate hike this year alone.
It's a streak that has made mortgages and other consumer loans increasingly expensive and heightened the risk of a recession.
A house is seen with a "For Sale" sign on it on July 25, 2005 in Pasadena, California. (Credit: David McNew/Getty Images)
"Interest rates have increased at the fastest rate in four decades and they are at 20-year highs. As a result, the interest rate-sensitive sectors of the economy such as housing, autos, appliances, furniture, etc. have materially declined," Sam Khater, vice president and chief economist of Freddie Mac's Economic and Housing Research Division, told FOX.
The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage — which was just 3.14% a year ago — surpassed 7% late last month, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported, the first time in two decades.
According to new data released Friday by the NAR, the monthly mortgage payment on a typical existing single-family home with a 20% down payment was $1,840 – up 50% year-over-year.
And, consequently, the mortgage rate, which is the lifeblood of most home purchases, has quickly reduced the pull of eligible buyers.
"It's certainly having its impact on the housing market, there's no question about that," Jon Grauman, a founder and agent at the Grauman Rosenfeld Group in Beverly Hills, California told FOX.
Grauman and other experts note the rise in rates has also reduced the number of home sales on the market.
According to the NAR, sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in September for the eighth month in a row, matching the pre-pandemic sales pace from 10 years ago.
Housing market projections in 2023
But even though the number of sales has decreased as mortgage rates have surged, experts say home prices are still rising or holding steady in many parts of the United States.
"A lot of people think interest rates are going up so housing prices are going to fall off a cliff. That's actually not what's happening," Grauman explained.
RELATED: Fed delivers fourth 75 basis point rate hike, may soon slow pace
The difference this time around, Grauman notes, is a supply and demand issue.
Sellers are less motivated to sell in an economy with higher interest rates, so with so few properties on the market, experts say this is helping push home prices higher, even in a slowing market.
How interest rates are affecting the housing market
Jon Grauman, founder and agent at the Grauman Rosenfeld Group discusses the impact of interest rates on the housing market. He also discusses his role in the new Netflix series 'Buying Beverly Hills.'
"Even though there are less transactions happening, we haven't really seen much of a dip in home values, and frankly, I don't anticipate that we are going to," Grauman continued.
But as the market transitions, most experts agree that the strength of the housing market in 2023 will depend on next year's mortgage rates.
If mortgage rates begin to decline next year, Yun believes we will see an increase in homebuyers who want to get back into the market. But, if mortgage rates continue to remain elevated, this will lead to more sluggish market conditions and slowing sales.
Khater's sentiment is similar noting if the economy falters in 2023 due to the higher rate environment, this will weaken the housing market even more.
Federal Reserve raises interest rate by three-quarters of a point
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell held a news conference to discuss the latest interest rate hike.
"Changes in interest rates have long and variable lagged impacts on the housing market. The housing market has still not felt the full impact of the most recent increases in rates during the last couple of months, so I expect home sales and home prices to remain weak throughout 2023," Khater continued.
RELATED: Federal Reserve raises interest rate by three-quarters of a point
One thing that may not change much in 2023 is the U.S.'s rising home prices due to the economy's limited supply of inventory.
New data shows single-family existing-home sales prices grew in nearly every measured metro area – 181 of 185 – in the third quarter of 2022, the NAR revealed Friday. The national median single-family existing-home price climbed 8.6% from a year ago to $398,500.
"Right now, I think the market is still trying to find its footing - it's literally shifting beneath our feet," Grauman said, adding, "What people have been waiting on is this, sort of, wave of new inventory to help balance the market, and I hate to be the bearer of bad news, it's not coming."


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An SAS trooper collecting toys for children was stabbed when he helped stop a suspected shoplifter in east Perth.
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With a 0-41 Breeders' Cup record, is this finally John Sadler's year?
The Southern Californian is 0 for 41 in Breeders' Cup races but has the Classic favorite in Accelerate.
With a 0-41 Breeders' Cup record, is this finally John Sadler's year? The Southern Californian is 0 for 41 in Breeders' Cup races but has the Classic favorite in Accelerate. Check out this story on courier-journal.com: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/horses/breeders/2018/11/02/breeders-cup-2018-year-trainer-john-sadler/1834412002/
Jason Frakes, Louisville Courier Journal Published 6:40 a.m. ET Nov. 2, 2018 | Updated 2:26 p.m. ET Nov. 2, 2018
John Sadler is the trainer of Accelerate, the favorite to win the Breeders' Cup Classic. Oct. 30, 2018.(Photo: By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal)Buy Photo
John Sadler won't just be fighting the competition in Saturday's $6 million Breeders' Cup Classic at Churchill Downs. He'll also be battling his own bleak history.
Sadler, the 62-year-old trainer from Southern California, has the Classic favorite in Accelerate, the 5-year-old with four Grade 1 victories this year.
Sadler also has this number – 0 for 41. That's his Breeders' Cup record, starting with Olympic Prospect's seventh-place finish in the 1988 Sprint and continuing with Stellar Wind's eighth-place finish in last year's Distaff.
In between, there have been two runner-up finishes – Switch in the 2010 Filly & Mare Sprint and Stellar Wind in the 2015 Distaff – but never a win.
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No trainer in Breeders' Cup history has had more starters without a victory, and Sadler seemingly has been asked about it at every stop this week in Louisville.
"I'm not really thinking about it," said Sadler, who also has favorite Catalina Cruiser in the Dirt Mile, Selcourt in the Filly & Mare Sprint and Catapult in the Mile. "I'm just thinking about being in the moment and doing the process this week. These are nice horses, and all of them have nice records."
Indeed, Sadler seems unfazed about the unofficial title of "Best Trainer to Never Win a Breeders' Cup Race." And he can find solace in the stories of at least two other trainers who battled similar droughts.
Hall of Famer Bobby Frankel was 0 for 38 in Breeders' Cup races before Squirtle Squirt won the Sprint in 2001. Todd Pletcher was 0 for 24 in the Kentucky Derby before Super Saver's victory in 2010.
"Somebody said, 'Do you feel extra pressure this year?'" Sadler said. "I said, 'Pressure is when you're 40-1.' When you're down there at 5-2 or 3-1, that's good pressure. We're happy."
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Accelerate has given Sadler plenty of reasons to smile.
A son of Lookin At Lucky, Accelerate got a late start as a 3-year-old and capped his season with a third-place finish in the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile. He was 1-3-3 in eight starts as a 4-year-old, his only bad race coming when he finished ninth in the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile.
Sadler said Accelerate suffered a quarter crack in that defeat.
"Since then he's just had a beautiful year," Sadler said. "He's a really healthy, strong guy. As a 5-year-old he's been able to come out of those classic races in good shape physically and continue to train right on. It's been a great year for him. We're really proud of him."
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Accelerate, with Joel Rosario up, wins the Breeders' Cup Classic at Churchill Downs on Saturday. November 3, 2018 Michael Clevenger and Erik Mohn/Courier Journal
The start of the Breeders' Cup Classic. November 3, 2018 Pat McDonogh, Michael Clevenger and O'Neil Arnold/Courier Journal
Accelerate, background, with Joel Rosario up, wins the Breeders' Cup Classic at Churchill Downs on Saturday. November 3, 2018 Michael Clevenger and Kelly Estep/Courier Journal
Accelerate, with Joel Rosario up, wins the Breeders' Cup Classic at Churchill Downs on Saturday. November 3, 2018 Michael Clevenger/Courier Journal
Accelerate, with jockey Joel Rosario aboard, wins the Breeders' Cup Classic at Churchill Downs. Nov. 3, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Accelerate, left, with Joel Rosario up, wins the Breeders' Cup Classic at Churchill Downs on Saturday. November 3, 2018 Michael Clevenger and O'Neil Arnold/Courier Journal
Accelerate, with Joel Rosario up, wins the Breeders' Cup Classic at Churchill Downs on Saturday. November 3, 2018 Michael Clevenger and Michael Goodwin/Courier Journal
Joel Rosario celebrates after winning the Breeders' Cup Classic on Accelerate. Nov. 3, 2018 Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
Jockey Joel Rosario tosses flowers in the air after winning the Breeders' Cup Classic aboard Accelerate. Nov. 3, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Fans cheer as Drayden Van Dyke wins the 4th race on Stormy Liberal. Nov. 3, 2018 Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
Scenes from Breeders' Cup 2018. Nov. 3, 2018 Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
Michael Giddings wore a top hat to the paddock area at Churchill Downs to watch the Breeders' Cup races. Goddings is from Michaigan. Nov. 3, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Jockey Frankie Detori reacts at the finish line as he guides Enable to victory over Magical in the Breeders' Cup Turf. Nov. 3, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Jockey Frankie Detori celebrates after guiding Enable to victory in the Breeders' Cup Turf. Nov. 3, 2018. by Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Jockey Frankie Detori jumps in the air after guiding Enable to victory in the Breeders' Cup Turf. Nov. 3, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Jockey Frankie Detori celebrates after guiding Enable to victory in the Breeders' Cup Turf. Nov. 3, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Jockey Mike Smith during a parade before a race. Nov. 3, 2018 Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
A chill in the air left people trying to stay warm at Breeders' Cup 2018. Nov. 3, 2018 Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
Monomoy Girl with Florent Geroux aboard, center, wins the Longines Breeders' Cup Distaff. November 3, 2018 Michael Clevenger/Courier Journal
Monomoy Girl with Florent Geroux aboard, center, wins the Longines Breeders' Cup Distaff. November 3, 2018 Michael Clevenger and Christopher Granger/The Courier Journal
Florent Geroux screams as he wins the Longines Breeders' Cup Distaff on Monomoy Girl. Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
Jockey Florent Geroux celebrates after winning the Breeders' Cup Distaff aboard Monomoy Girl. Nov. 3, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Jockey Florent Geroux reacts after winning the Breeders' Cup Distaff aboard Monomoy Girl. Nov. 3, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Jockey Florent Geroux wins the Breeders Cup Distaff aboard Monomoy Girl. Nov. 3, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Jockey Florent Geroux celebrates after winning the Breeders' Cup Distaff aboard Monomoy Girl. Nov. 3, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Abby Maccord adjusted her hair while attending the Breeders' Cup wearing a top hat. Nov. 3, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Amanda Stauffer walked through the crowd at the Breeders' Cup wearing a blue and white fascinator. Nov. 3, 2018 By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
A new entrance greets fans who may have attended the last Breeders' Cup in Louisville. Nov. 3, 2018 Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
A man looked over a Breeders' Cup program between two buildings at Churchill Downs. Nov. 3, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Jockey Frankie Dettori jumps from the saddle in the winners circle after winning the Breeders' Cup Mile LAURA STANTON
Jockey Frankie Detori jumps in the air after winning the Breeders' Cup Mile aboard Expert Eye. Nov. 3, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Expert Eye with Frankie Dettori wins the Breeders' Cup Mile. November 3, 2018 Michael Clevenger/Courier Journal
Jockey Frankie Detori tosses flowers in the air after winning the Breeders' Cup Mile aboard Expert Eye. Nov. 3, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Jockey Frankie Detori reacts after winning the Breeders' Cup Mile aboard Expert Eye. Nov. 3, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Jockey Frankie Detori celebrates after winning the Breeders' Cup Mile aboard Expert Eye. Nov. 3, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Expert Eye with Frankie Dettori wins the Breeders' Cup Mile. November 3, 2018 Michael Clevenger and Trace Kirkwood/The Courier Journal
Roy H with Paco Lopez in the irons wins the TwinSpires Breeders' Cup Sprint. November 3, 2018 Michael Clevenger and O'Neil Arnold/The Courier Journal
Roy H with Paco Lopez in the irons wins the TwinSpires Breeders' Cup Sprint. November 3, 2018 Leonard Zhukovsky, Michael Clevenger and Michael Goodwin/The Courier Journal
Roy H with Paco Lopez in the irons wins the TwinSpires Breeders' Cup Sprint. November 3, 2018 Michael Clevenger and Erik Mohn/The Courier Journal
Roy H with Paco Lopez in the irons wins the TwinSpires Breeders' Cup Sprint. November 3, 2018 Pat McDonogh, Michael Clevenger and O'Neil Arnold/The Courier Journal
Roy H with Paco Lopez in the irons wins the TwinSpires Breeders' Cup Sprint. November 3, 2018 Michael Clevenger and Christopher Granger/The Courier Journal
Roy H with Paco Lopez in the irons wins the TwinSpires Breeders' Cup Sprint. November 3, 2018 Michael Clevenger and Kelly Estep/Courier Journal
Roy H with Paco Lopez in the irons wins the TwinSpires Breeders' Cup Sprint. November 3, 2018 Michael Clevenger/Courier Journal
Roy H, with jockey Paco Lopez aboard wins the Twinspires Breeders' Cup Sprint. Nov. 3, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Mark Drake, of Paoli, IN., made his Breeders' Cup picks from the paddock fence. Nov. 3, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Sistercharlie, left, with John Velazquez aboardholds off Wild Illusion to win the Maker's Mark Breeders' Cup Fill and Mare Turf Race. November 3, 2018 Michael Clevenger and Trace Kirkwood/Courier Journal
The first pass of the Maker's Mark Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf. November 3, 2018 Michael Clevenger/Courier Journal
Sistercharlie, left, with John Velazquez aboardholds off Wild Illusion to win the Maker's Mark Breeders' Cup Fill and Mare Turf Race. November 3, 2018 Michael Clevenger/Courier Journal
Sistercharlie, left, defeats Wild Illusion, center, in the Maker's Mark Breeder' Cup Filly & Mare Turf. Nov. 3, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Sistercharlie, left, defeats Wild Illusion, center, in the Maker's Mark Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf. Nov. 3, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Sister Charlie, left, defeats Wild Illusion, center, in the Maker's Mark Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf. Nov. 3, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Jockey John Velasquez is all smiles after winning the Makers Mark Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf aboard Sistercharlie. Nov. 3, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Javier Castellano celebrates aboard City of Light after winning the Breeders Cup Dirt mile. November 3, 2018 Michael Clevenger/Courier Journal
Javier Castellano celebrates aboard City of Light after winning the Breeders Cup Dirt mile. November 3, 2018 Michael Clevenger/The Courier Journal
City of Light with Javier Castellano aboard wins the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile. November 3, 2018 Michael Clevenger/The Courier Journal
Jockey Javier Castellano celebrates at the finish line after winning the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile aboard City of Light. Nov. 3, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Javier Castellano kisses a flower after winning the 5th race on City of Light. Nov. 3, 2018 Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
Jockey Javier Castellano celebrates after winning the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile aboard City of Light. Nov. 3, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Jockey Javier Castellano celebrates after winning the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile aboard City of Light. Nov. 3, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Javier Castellano wins the 5th race on City of Light. Nov. 3, 2018 Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
Stormy Liberal with Drayden Van Dyke aboard celebrates after winning the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint. November 3, 2018 Michael Clevenger/Courier Journal
Jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr. celebrates in the winner's circle. Nov. 3, 2018 By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
A woman moved through the morning crowd at the Breeders' Cup wearing a large fethered hat. Nov. 3, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
A new mural photo opportunity inside the main gate greets fans who may have attended the last Breeders' Cup in Louisville. Nov. 3, 2018 Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
Larry Rochau released the smoke form a cigar while enjoying the Breeders' Cup from the paddock area at Churchill Downs. Nov. 3, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Stormy Liberal with Drayden Van Dyke aboard wins the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint holding off World of Trouble. November 3, 2018 Michael Clevenger and Trace Kirkwood/The Courier Journal
Stormy Liberal with Drayden Van Dyke aboard wins the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint holding off World of Trouble. November 3, 2018 Michael Clevenger/Courier Journal
A new series of ticket booths greet fans who may have attended the last Breeders' Cup in Louisville. Nov. 3, 2018 Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
Dave Clark, of Des Moines, Iowa, wore a Michael Jordan inspired cap to the Breeders' Cup. Nov. 3, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
The start of the Breeders Cup Classic. November 3, 2018 Michael Clevenger and Kelly Estep/Courier Journal
Accelerate, with Joel Rosario up, wins the Breeders' Cup Classic at Churchill Downs on Saturday. November 3, 2018 Michael Clevenger and Kelly Estep/Courier Journal
Jockey Joel Rosario is congratulated after winning the Breeders' Cup Classic aboard Accelerate. Nov. 3, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Accelerate, with Joel Rosario up, wins the Breeders' Cup Classic at Churchill Downs on Saturday. November 3, 2018 Michael Clevenger and Christopher Granger/Courier Journal
Joel Rosario celebrates winning the Sentient Jet Breeders' Cup Juvenile on Game Winner. Nov. 2, 2018 Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
Game Winner, with jockey Joel Rosario aboard wins the Sentient Jets Breeders' Cup Juvenile for trainer Bob Baffert. Nov. 2, 2018 By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Jockey Joel Rosario celebrates after winning the Sentient Jet Breeders' Cup Juvenile on Game Winner on Friday evening at Churchill Downs. Nov. 2, 2018 Alton Strupp/Courier Journal
Jockey Joel Rosario celebrates after winning the Sentient Jet Breeders' Cup Juvenile on Game Winner on Friday evening at Churchill Downs. Nov. 2, 2018 soobum im, Alton Strupp/Courier Journal
Trainer Bob Baffert looks on after jockey Joel Rosario won the Sentient Jet Breeders' Cup Juvenile on Baffert's horse "Game Winner" on Friday evening at Churchill Downs. Nov. 2, 2018 soobum im, Alton Strupp/Courier Journal
Jockey Joel Rosario tosses flowers in the air after winning the Sentient Jets Breeders' Cup Juvenile aboard Game Winner. Nov. 2, 2018 By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Joel Rosaeio wins the Sentient Jet Breeders' Cup Juvenile on Game Winner. Nov. 2, 2018 Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
Jockey Albin Jimenez leads the back through the final turn on "Knicks Go," but jockey Joel Rosario and horse "Game Winner" would hit another gear to claim the win in the Sentient Jet Breeders' Cup Juvenile on on Friday evening at Churchill Downs. Nov. 2, 2018 Alton Strupp/Courier Journal
Jockey William Buck is congratulated after his mount, Line of Duty, was declared the winner of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf following a foul claim against the horse and rider. Nov. 2, 2018 By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr. reacts after losing on "Mind Control" to jockey Joel Rosario and horse "Game Winner" in the Sentient Jet Breeders' Cup Juvenile on on Friday evening at Churchill Downs. Nov. 2, 2018 soobum im, Alton Strupp/Courier Journal
Ryan Johnston pufs on a cigar before the start of Sentient Jet Breeders' Cup Juvenile Grade 1 on Friday evening at Churchill Downs. Nov. 2, 2018 Alton Strupp/Courier Journal
Jockey William T. Buick celebrates after winning the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Grade I on "Line of Duty" after a near disqualification for contact near the finish. Nov. 2, 2018 Alton Strupp/Courier Journal
Jockey William T. Buick celebrates after winning the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Grade I on "Line of Duty" after a near disqualification for contact near the finish. Nov. 2, 2018 soobum im, Alton Strupp/Courier Journal
A trainer celebrates with "Line of Duty" after winning the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Grade I after a near disqualification for contact near the finish. Nov. 2, 2018 Alton Strupp/Courier Journal
JOckey Jose L. Ortiz leads down the first stretch on "Somelikeithotbrown" during the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Grade 1 on Friday evening. Nov. 2, 2018 Alton Strupp/Courier Journal
Jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr. reacts after winning the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf aboard Newspaperofrecord, at Churchill Downs. Nov. 2, 2018 By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr. celebrates after winning the Breeder's Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf Grade 1 race on Newspaperofrecord Friday during the first day of Breeders' Cup races at Churchill Downs. Nov. 2, 2018 Alton Strupp/Courier Journal
Jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr. spoke on the phone to race stewards following a foul claim that he made against the jockey William Buck during the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf. Ortiz's claim was disallowed and Buck's horse, Line of Duty was declared the winner. Nov. 2, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Trainer Steve Asmussen, right, talks with jockey Ricardo Santana, Jr. following the Sentient Jets Breeders' Cup Juvenile. Nov. 2, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
A spectator looks on anxiously during race five Friday during the first day of Breeders' Cup races at Churchill Downs. Nov. 2, 2018 soobum im, Alton Strupp/Courier Journal
Jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr. gives a thumbs up after winning the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Churchill Downs aboard Newspaperofrecord. Nov. 2, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr. gives Newspaperofrecord a ear rub while heading to the winners circle after winning the Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf. Nov. 2, 2018 By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
A spectator watches as horses take to the track Friday during the first day of Breeders' Cup races at Churchill Downs. Nov. 2, 2018 Alton Strupp/Courier Journal
Spectators look over race programs Friday during the first day of Breeders' Cup races at Churchill Downs. Nov. 2, 2018 Alton Strupp/Courier Journal
A spectator wears a peacock themed fastener Friday during the first day of Breeders' Cup races at Churchill Downs. Nov. 2, 2018 Alton Strupp/Courier Journal
Jockey Javier Castellano celebrates after winning the Breeder's Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint race on Bulletin Friday during the first day of Breeders' Cup races at Churchill Downs. Nov. 2, 2018 Alton Strupp/Courier Journal
Some spectatos were all smiles during race five Friday during the first day of Breeders' Cup races at Churchill Downs. Nov. 2, 2018 soobum im, Alton Strupp/Courier Journal
Denny Wertz took a selfie with Nina Phillips. The couple traveled from Montana for the Breeders' Cup. Nov. 2, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Race horses make their way through the paddock Friday during day one of the 35th Breeders' Cup event at Churchill downs. Nov. 2, 2018 soobum im, Alton Strupp/Courier Journal
Crowds were in high spirits Friday during day one of the 35th Breeders' Cup event at Churchill downs despite the gray, chilly weather. Nov. 2, 2018 soobum im, Alton Strupp/Courier Journal
Spectators look on from the upper levels Friday during day one of the 35th Breeders' Cup event at Churchill downs. Nov. 2, 2018 soobum im, Alton Strupp/Courier Journal
Fans await the the start of race five Friday during the first day of Breeders' Cup races at Churchill Downs. Nov. 2, 2018 soobum im, Alton Strupp/Courier Journal
Guests look over race programs Friday during day one of the 35th Breeders' Cup event at Churchill downs. Nov. 2, 2018 soobum im, Alton Strupp/Courier Journal
Jordan Moore wears an orange fur vest over black attire Friday during day one of the 35th Breeders' Cup event at Churchill downs. "I just wanted something to feel fall, be warm and work for every area of the track," Moore said. Nov. 2, 2018 soobum im, Alton Strupp/Courier Journal
Guests look on from the stands Friday during day one of the 35th Breeders' Cup event at Churchill downs. Nov. 2, 2018 soobum im, Alton Strupp/Courier Journal
An attendant looks over program while seates by a horse balloon Friday during day one of the 35th Breeders' Cup event at Churchill downs. Nov. 2, 2018 Alton Strupp/Courier Journal
Jockeys head toward the paddock Friday during day one of the 35th Breeders' Cup event at Churchill downs. Nov. 2, 2018 soobum im, Alton Strupp/Courier Journal
Jockey Adam Beschizza headz to the paddock area Friday during day one of the 35th Breeders' Cup event at Churchill downs. Nov. 2, 2018 soobum im, Alton Strupp/Courier Journal
Debbie Eisenback wears a purple hat with horse earrings Friday during day one of the 35th Breeders' Cup event at Churchill downs. Nov. 2, 2018 soobum im, Alton Strupp/Courier Journal
Jockey pins adorn a blazer Friday during day one of the 35th Breeders' Cup event at Churchill downs. Nov. 2, 2018 soobum im, Alton Strupp/Courier Journal
Patch ridden by jockey John Velazquez had a poor showing Friday during day one of the 35th Breeders' Cup event at Churchill downs. Nov. 2, 2018 soobum im, Alton Strupp/Courier Journal
Cindy Kelsey Payne is wearing a Arturo Rios hat at Breeders' Cup in Louisville. Nov. 2, 2018 Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
Englishman Matthias Horseman carries his tea cup in a holster while attending the Breeders' Cup at Churchill Downs. Nov. 2, 2018 By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Fans take photos and roll video of horses schooling in the paddock at Churchill Downs during the Breeders' Cup. Nov. 2, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Fans take photos with their phones of the horses schooling in the paddock at Churchill Downs during the Breeders' Cup. Nov. 2, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Edgar Prado signs an autograph for a fan outside the jockey's quarters at Churchill Downs following the first race of the day. Nov 2, 2018. by Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Scenes from Breeder's Cup 2018. Nov. 2, 2018 Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
Hendrick's Ginn brought their garnish machine that tops off each cup of gin with a slice of cucumber. Nov. 2, 2018 Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
Maker's Mark brought a virtual reality game that let's people dip the bottles in the wax and get scored. Nov. 2, 2018 Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
A muddy track made for rough travel during the Breeders' Cup in Louisville. Nov. 2, 2018 Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
John C Servis wins the 7th race on Jaywalk. Nov. 2, 2018 Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
Sadler said the Santa Anita Handicap victory on March 10 was a key moment for the horse. On a wet track, Sadler cruised to a 5 1/2-length victory over Mubtaahij.
His other Grade 1 victories this year came in the Gold Cup, the Pacific Classic and the Awesome Again.
Check out: Mike Battaglia's free expert picks for Friday's Breeders' Cup races
Perhaps the biggest knock on Accelerate is that just one of his 21 career races have come outside of California. He finished second by City of Light in the Grade 2 Oaklawn Handicap on April 14 in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
But at least one opposing trainer is not swayed by that fact.
"I've been watching Accelerate," Bob Baffert said, "and he's definitely the horse to beat."
Accelerate will face a full Classic field that includes accomplished older horses, rising 3-year-olds and European invaders.
Baffert has a pair of top contenders in West Coast (5-1 second choice) and McKinzie (6-1 co-third choice).
West Coast returned from a six-month layoff to finish second in the Awesome Again, 2 ¼ lengths behind Accelerate, and is expected to retire after the Classic. McKinzie missed the Triple Crown races because of a hind-leg injury but returned Sept. 22 to win the Grade 1 Pennsylvania Derby.
"What I love about [McKinzie] is that I don't think we've seen the best of him," jockey Mike Smith said. "He's a very talented 3-year-old. He's very athletic."
Mind Your Biscuits (6-1 co-third choice), who finished third in the six-furlong Breeders' Cup Sprint each of the past two years, was a somewhat surprising entry into the Classic.
See also: Great name, great horse: Mind Your Biscuits set for Breeders' Cup Classic
Catholic Boy (8-1 fifth choice) missed the Triple Crown series but has emerged as one of the leaders of this 3-year-old crop with three graded-stakes victories, most recently capturing the Grade 1 Travers.
"It's nice to be one of the last men standing, so to speak, from the 3-year-old crop," Catholic Boy trainer Jonathan Thomas said. "He started out at the beginning of the year like everybody else, so it's a testament to him and his fortitude. … We realize it's a big jump from 3-year-olds facing 4-year-olds. We're going from college right into the pros against some really good, battle-tested horses. We'll learn a lot about him."
Roaring Lion (20-1) will be making his dirt and U.S. debut after compiling an 8-1-2 record in 12 career starts in Europe.
While Accelerate is the favorite, Thomas noted the field's top horses are "numerically a couple of points within each other."
"This is going to be a rider and a trip race," he said. "I think we might look back on this race and find whoever gets the best setup and trip is probably the most likely winner."
Read more: Accelerate is Breeders' Cup favorite but must overcome outside post
Breeders' Cup 2018: See a week's worth of photos at Churchill Downs
Catholic Boy, trained by Jonathan Thomas, workouts at Churchill Downs. Catholic Boy is one of the favorites in the BreedersÕ Cup Classic. Oct. 30, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Jockey Mario Rodriguez waited for his next mount in the D. Wayne Lukas stables during morning workouts at Churchill Downs. Oct. 30, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Breeders' Cup Distaff entry Abel Tasmen is bathed following a morning workout at Churchill Downs. The filly is trained by Bob Baffert. Oct. 30, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Bella Laura puts in a morning workout at Churchill Downs. The Norm Casse trainee will compete in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf. Oct. 30, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
A horse and rider leave the track during morning workouts at Churchill Downs. Oct. 30, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Trainer Bob Baffert taks with a friend during morning workouts at Churchill Downs. The track will host the Breeders' Cup this weekend. Oct. 30, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
A horse and rider gallop past a tree showing its fall colors at Churchill Downs. Oct. 30, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Horse and rider gallop over the Churchill Downs track during Breeders' Cup week. Oct. 30, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
May Lilly, trained by Greg Foley, is bathed on the backside at Churchill Downs. Oct. 30, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Brody Wilkes wore Joker makeup while exercising horses at Churchill Downs on Halloween. Oct. 30, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
McKinzie gallops over the Churchill downs track prior to his race in the Breeders' Cup Classic on Saturday. Oct. 30, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Steam rose from a horse being bathed on the backside of Churchill Downs. Oct. 30, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Breeders' Cup Classic hopeful Discreet Lover heads back to the stable after a morning workout at Churchill Downs. Oct. 30, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Trainer Mark Casse watched his horses workout in the morning at Churchill Downs. Casse has several horses entered in the Breeders' Cup. Oct. 30, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Security person Terri Hill held a barn cat while monitoring traffic on the backside at Churchill Downs. "Cats just love me," says Hill. Oct. 30, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
A thoroughbred is hot walked around the shed row following a workout at Churchill Downs. Oct. 30, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Breeders' Cup Distaff hopeful Wonder Godot is lead onto the track for a morning workout at Churchill Downs. Oct. 30, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Breeders' Cup Distaff hopeful Mopotism workouts in the morning at Churchill Downs. Oct. 30, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Danielle Rosier is the assistant trainer and exercise rider for Helen Pitts Racing Stable, rubs her horse on the neck before taking it to the track for a workout. Oct. 30, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Breeders' Cup Classic favorite Accelerate stands while his feet are washed following a trip to the Churchill Downs track for a morning workout. Oct. 30, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
An exercise rider talks on the phone during a break in the training at Churchill Downs. Oct. 30, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
John Sadler is the trainer of Accelerate, the favorite to win the Breeders' Cup Classic. Oct. 30, 2018. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
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While it may not seem important to casual auto industry observers who simply wish to find out which Japanese sedan was America's best-selling car in July 2012, commercial vans form a key part of an automaker's plans in the United States. Well, some automakers.
Ford, for example, scored 6.7% of its total July volume with the E-Series and Transit Connect. With 11,201 sales between the two, these cargo (and sometimes personal use) vans were more important, on volume terms, than the Mustang, Taurus, Fiesta, Edge, Expedition, or Flex.
At General Motors, the Chevy Express and GMC Savana combined for 11,980 sales in July 2012. Combined, Chevrolet's Tahoe and Suburban didn't come up with that kind of volume.
Over at Mercedes-Benz, the Sprinter was delivered to 473 more new owners than the CL, S, SL, SLK, SLS, G, and R-Classes put together. You can argue that the Sprinter doesn't make quite as much money for Mercedes-Benz as, perhaps, an S63 AMG, but with 2.6 times the volume and a simple chassis, Mercedes-Benz is probably quite thankful to have the Sprinter on its side.
Historical monthly and yearly sales figures for all these vans can be accessed through the first dropdown menu at GCBC's Sales Stats home or near the top right of this page. Below you'll find detailed July and year-to-date data.


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Q: django-cors-middleware does not work I've been trying django-cors-middleware for days, but I just cannot figure out how to set it up.
Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong please?
Below is the test project setting I am using.

*

*django-version: 1.10.3

*python-version: 3.5.2

*Project Name: cors_test

*App Name: appone

*appone/urls.py
urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^$', views.test_cors, name='test_cors'),
]

*appone/views.py
def test_cors(request):
    return render(request, 'appone/test.html', {})

*appone/templates/appone/test.html
<html>
    <script type="text/javascript">

    var url = 'https://www.google.co.jp/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=BuxgWJ-_LIyL8QfIgYe4BQ';
    var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
    xhr.open('GET', url, true);

    xhr.onload = function() {
     var responseText = xhr.responseText;
     console.log(responseText);
    };

    xhr.onerror = function() {
      console.log('There was an error!');
    };

    xhr.send();
    </script>

</html>

*settings.py
INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'corsheaders',
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'appone'
]

MIDDLEWARE = [
    'corsheaders.middleware.CorsMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
]

CORS_ORIGIN_ALLOW_ALL = True

And that's it! That is every setting, and I ran server by
python manage.py runserver

Below is what I get by running above

*

*error from console,

(index):1 XMLHttpRequest cannot load
  https://www.google.co.jp/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=BuxgWJ-_LIyL8QfIgYe4BQ. No
  'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested
  resource. Origin 'http://127.0.0.1:8000' is therefore not allowed
  access.  (index):14 There was an error!

*

*Request Headers
:authority:www.google.co.jp
:method:GET
:path:/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=BuxgWJ-_LIyL8QfIgYe4BQ
:scheme:https
accept:*/*
accept-encoding:gzip, deflate, sdch, br
accept-language:ja,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.6
cache-control:no-cache
origin:http://127.0.0.1:8000
pragma:no-cache
referer:http://127.0.0.1:8000/
user-agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.87 Safari/537.36
x-client-data:CJe2yQEIpbbJAQjEtskBCPucygEIqZ3KAQ==

*Response Headers
alt-svc:quic=":443"; ma=2592000; v="35,34"
cache-control:private, max-age=0
content-encoding:gzip
content-type:text/html; charset=UTF-8
date:Mon, 26 Dec 2016 10:48:37 GMT
expires:-1
p3p:CP="This is not a P3P policy! See https://www.google.com/support/accounts/answer/151657?hl=en for more info."
server:gws
set-cookie:NID=93=Mg89hJyAP7FyVu5AT9RzCWxyPndiWPZdKTDgipYBJhJwEBRXdMLTa5aPOBvLjVW6mwUCY1qSaOnPPIlqMvT2x1VjdoPhdlyK67ufk5bOFJJC9eKaEtfngw2xWBhSTSyI; expires=Tue, 27-Jun-2017 10:48:37 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.co.jp; HttpOnly
status:200
x-frame-options:SAMEORIGIN
x-xss-protection:1; mode=block

*General
Request URL:https://www.google.co.jp/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=BuxgWJ-_LIyL8QfIgYe4BQ
Request Method:GET
Status Code:200
Remote Address:216.58.197.195:443

A: The django-cors-middleware app allows you to control access to your Django app from different domains. It doesn't let you control access to google.co.jp from your Django app. You don't control the headers that google.co.jp returns, so you can't use the middleware to enable cors.
If the third party does not enable cors or jsonp, then you can't access it using javascript. You'll have to fetch the content in your view instead.

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In Canada, a resume tells employers about your skills, objectives, experience and qualifications. It is an important determining factor in considering you for a job. A resume is normally sent with a cover letter. A cover letter introduces yourself, and your qualifications and abilities. You can find resume writing tips on the Dalhousie University website.
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Corten Rounds ASTM 588, A572-50 Weathering Steel . When you are looking to purchase Corten rounds it will be referred to as ASTM A 588. Stock lengths for ASTM A588 rounds is 240". We can cut lengths if required. See graph below for available sizes.
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Anyone who drives in northern states understands the importance of proper seasonal maintenance. Safe driving isn't just about adapting to changing conditions—it's also about having the right equipment for the weather, in all of its unpredictability.
While visibility and road conditions may involve guesswork—and a bit of hope—some driving needs are easier to anticipate. Diesel fuel, for example, behaves differently in colder temperatures than in the heat. That's why, among other important winter preparations, treating fuel is essential in winter months. Across the colder parts of the United States and Canada, winter diesel is always treated with the appropriate additives.
The Need: Why Treat Diesel?
Like all fluids, diesel fuel becomes more viscous in colder temperatures. This effect is exacerbated by the fact that diesel often contains paraffin, which precipitates out of the fuel at lower temperatures. As a result, winter conditions can cause diesel to thicken (or gel) to the point where it no longer flows through the fuel lines, or filter. This causes the engine to stall or fail. It can also prevent the engine from properly heating the cab, which compounds the danger for drivers stranded in colder weather. To prevent this from happening, diesel is treated with additives when the temperature drops.
The Process: How Does It Happen?
In order to prevent diesel fuel from gelling, additives that alter the characteristics of the fuel are added. Additives can lower the gel point by preventing wax particles from coagulating and forming larger chunks that clog the engine lines. Other additives help "dry" the fuel by reducing the moisture content, thus diminishing the effect of freezing temperatures. Either way, fuel sold in northern areas comes pre-mixed for the consumer, so no additional steps are necessary on the part of the driver.
As noted, the consequences of diesel gelling are significant. While there are additives that may be helpful in "thawing" or "dissolving" gelled fuel, it can take time to get them to stranded vehicles if the driver doesn't have them on-hand. It is obviously far preferable to prevent such issues by switching to winterized fuel by late October, or whenever the weather starts to get cold in the local area, to ensure that trucks have the fuel they need when the mercury dips.
Switching to winterized fuel at the appropriate time of year is a relatively simple step that can prevent a long list of mechanical and safety challenges. It is a crucially important aspect of winter preparedness.


I am really excited about the developments in the green beauty industry lately. Years back you couldn't find many truly organic products on the high street but now times are changing and shops, including supermarkets, have started to focus more on ever growing natural and organic market. One of the brands which you will now be able to purchase easily is Danish organic beauty specialist, Urtekram (the name translates to 'herbal-hug'). In Tesco, you are now able to find a range of Urtekram haircare products, including their conditioners.
Urtekram has been founded in 1972 and is renowned for creating plant-based products which are wholesome and natural. In their extensive range of products you will not only find shampoos and conditioners but also body lotions, shower gels, hand creams and much more.
Urtekram products are cruelty-free, certified by Ecocert and are Vegan Society approved. What's more, these products are really affordable with prices starting from as low as £1.75.
Urtekram Aloe Vera Shampoo was one of my favourite shampoos from the collection. Although it says on the packaging that it's suitable for normal hair, I found it great on my fine hair which gets greasy really quickly. The combination of aloe vera shampoo and conditioner didn't weigh my hair down and my hair didn't get greasy any quicker.
The aloe vera shampoo foams well and the Aloe Vera Conditioner detangles hair well but not as good as Faith in Nature conditioners do. I would give it 7 out of 10 for detangling. After use, my hair feels smooth and soft, manageable. My ends are still on the dry side but that's just normal.
Aloe Vera is well known for its soothing and regenerating properties so I think the shampoo would be great for the itchy and dry scalp as well. Aloe vera is also moisturising and shampoo also has an addition of glycerine for that extra care.
The scent of Urtekram Coconut Shampoo is not that 'coconutty', it's not that kind of smell you find in the usual coconut products. Perhaps that's because this shampoo contains coconut nectar, not the coconut oil/butter. The shampoo is suitable for normal hair but it's intended to moisturise hair and at the same time to revitalize it with an addition of seaweed extract.
I found Urtekram Coconut Shampoo quite runny but it foamed well. I would prefer it if it was less runny though.
The Coconut Conditioner is less runny than the shampoo and it has a similar detangling effect to the aloe vera conditioner.
Although the shampoo and conditioner have ingredients to nourish hair, my hair didn't feel weighed down and didn't get greasy any sooner which I was worried about.
Urtekram Rose Shampoo is thicker than the coconut shampoo and the texture feels more gel-like. It cleans my hair well. You can just smell the rose in the shampoo, it's not very strong.
Rose geranium oil is known for its calming and very nourishing properties and the rose shampoo is suitable for normal hair. I found a combination of Urtekram Rose Shampoo and Rose Conditioner a little bit heavy on my hair – my hair got greasy sooner than after using the Aloe Vera range. But I think that's because of the conditioner, not the shampoo. I concluded that I may be using too much conditioner on my hair so it's better to use less if you don't want your hair to feel weighed down. It's also important to rinse it really well to avoid any residue.
Urtekram Nordic Birch shampoo is thicker than the rose or coconut shampoo. I found the scent quite nice, better than scents from other shampoos. It seems that this scent comes from corn flowers.
An addition of birch leaf extract in both, shampoo and conditioner, is intended to strengthen hair.
Urtekram Nordic Birch Shampoo and Conditioner are quite nourishing to the hair so I think they are more suitable for dry hair or just 'normal hair'. Nordic Birch Conditioner is 'super moisturising', it says on the label, and that's due to ingredients such as aloe vera, lecithin and glycerine.
Comparing to the other Urtekram shampoos & conditioners, my hair did feel different after using the Nordic Birch range. It felt slightly softer but unfortunately, my hair got greasy sooner so I wouldn't recommend it to people with hair like mine (fine, gets greasy quickly). I think Nordic Birch Shampoo would be great for dry and frizzy hair and normal hair which needs a bit of TLC after a holiday period.
Urtekram No Perfume range has been approved by Danish Asthma & Allergy association and can be safely used on children. Urtekram No Perfume Shampoo & Conditioner are suitable for normal hair and are enriched with glycerine and aloe vera extract which both moisturise the hair.
Although No Perfume Shampoo & Conditioner don't contain any essential oils, they still have this distinctive smell which is hard to describe. I cannot associate it with any natural ingredients but I am wondering if it's aloe vera extract which is a third ingredient on the list? Or is it sodium coco sulfate which is responsible for the foaming action? I just don't know. Anyhow, if you have sensitive skin, suffer from allergies or you want to add your own scent to your haircare products, the Urtekram No Perfume range is worth considering. I found it ok, nothing stood out too much for me.
Having tried all five Urtekram shampoos & conditioners which you can now find in Tesco, I can now say that my favourite scent is definitely the Nordic Birch but unfortunately, this range is a little bit too nourishing for my fine hair. It would be great for dry hair though or hair which needs a little bit of TLC. Saying that, the Nordic Birch range makes my hair feel the most amazing – really soft and smooth with ends feeling less dry.
In terms of scent I found Aloe Vera and Rose shampoos great, not the most amazing scents, but alright. To be honest, the scent is the least important for me as I always look for hair care products which wouldn't weigh my hair down. It already gets greasy pretty quickly as it is so I don't want to make it worse by using the wrong products.
It's difficult to choose my favourites from the whole collection but I certainly got on with Aloe Vera Shampoo & Conditioner and No Perfume Shampoo & Conditioner.
Overall, Urtekram organic shampoos & conditioners are not bad at all – they are certified organic with 100% natural origin, they foam well and leave the hair feeling squeaky clean. The added bonus is that they are also vegan and cruelty-free and what's more important, they are affordably priced at £6.00 and you can find them in Tesco (and also in Ocado).
Have you heard of Urtekram before and have you tried any of their products yet?
* This is a collaborative post, all opinions are my own.


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Branding is a continuous process, so Lynne always starts with strategy. Which means that you get clear about who your brand is and what it stands for (your Brand Strategy). Her next step is to define the colours, logo, typography, font family, voice and imagery that expresses your true brand style and tone (your Brand Identity).This makes it faster and easier to create stunning marketing materials which are on brand and on point for your clients (your Brand Collateral).
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Alexander Robert Herbert (March 28, 1914 – June 18, 1960) was a Canadian politician who was a Member of Provincial Parliament in Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1951 to 1960. He represented the riding of Simcoe Centre for the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party. Born in Haileybury, Ontario, he was a businessman. Herbert died in office in 1960 of a heart attack.

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Ask 8 Questions Before You Skip a Vaccine
As anti-vaccine folks get more attention because of the rise in outbreaks of vaccine-preventable disease, in addition to more folks getting vaccinated, we are seeing some of the leaders of the anti-vaccine movement get more vocal.
Are measles outbreaks a sign that the anti-vaccine movement is "winning?"
Meetings, dinners, rallies…
They are doing everything they can to get their misinformation and propaganda out so that you don't vaccinate and protect your kids.
If you see any of these folks, ask them a few questions…
If Andrew Wakefield was right, and the MMR vaccine is associated with autism, then why are you worried about thimerosal? The MMR vaccine never contained thimerosal…
If Robert F. Kennedy, Jr is right, and it is all about thimerosal, then why are you worried about the MMR vaccine? The MMR vaccine never contained thimerosal…
If you are worried about thimerosal and aluminum, then why are you worried about the MMR vaccine? Not only has it never contained thimerosal, as a live vaccine, but it has also never contained aluminum.
If vaccines are associated with autism, then why don't the counties with the highest immunization rates have the highest rates of autism?
If better hygiene and sanitation got rid of vaccine-preventable diseases, then why didn't it do it for all diseases at the same time? And why hasn't it gotten rid of RSV, Ebola, Zika, HIV, Norovirus, and all of the diseases that we don't have vaccines for?
If measles is so mild, then during the measles epidemics from 1989 to 1991 in the United States, why were 11,000 people hospitalized and why did 123 people die?
If you are concerned about vaccines that have a distant association with abortion, then why don't you vaccinate your kids with all of the vaccines that don't use WI-38 and MRC-5 cells lines?
If your arguments are so solid, then why do you need to keep moving the goalposts (it's autoimmune diseases they are worried about now, not autism) and why are they so easy to refute (vaccines aren't associated with autoimmune diseases either)?
The answers will be predictable.
They will revolve around three basic core beliefs of the anti-vaccine movement.
The belief that vaccines are toxic, full of poison, and always cause damage and injuries.
The belief that vaccine-preventable diseases are mild and you are better off getting natural immunity.
The belief that vaccines don't even work.
Is that what you believe?
Will you let those kinds of beliefs scare you away from vaccinating and protecting your kids?
Are you going to put our kids at risk because you believe those things?
Are you really making an informed choice to skip or delay a vaccine when all of the scary things that people are telling you about vaccines aren't even true?
More on Questions to Ask Before You Skip a Vaccine
VAXOPEDIA – Anti-Vaxxers Should Be Able to Answer These Questions Correctly
VAXOPEDIA – How Do Anti-Vaccine Folks Think?
VAXOPEDIA – Dear Anti-Vaxxers,
VAXOPEDIA – This Is the Modern Anti-Vaccine Movement
VAXOPEDIA – The Moral Outrage of the Anti-Vaccine Movement
VAXOPEDIA – Answers To Frequently Asked Questions About Immunizations
VAXOPEDIA – Making Sense of Anti-Vaccine Arguments
VAXOPEDIA – What Are the Pro and Con Arguments for Vaccines?
VAXOPEDIA – Challenging the Concept of Herd Immunity
VAXOPEDIA – Vaccine Analogies and Metaphors
VAXOPEDIA – Show Me the Vaccine Insert!
VAXOPEDIA – Personal Stories About Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
VAXOPEDIA – What Are the Demands and Goals of the Anti-Vaccine Movement?
VAXOPEDIA – Answers to Anti-Vaccine Talking Points
VAXOPEDIA – 50 Ways to Get Educated About Vaccines
Andrew Wakefield
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Bob Sears
Del Bigtree
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Robert F Kennedy
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Making Sense of Anti-Vaccine Arguments
Have you ever tried to understand or make sense out of the things anti-vaccine folks say?
Consider what a group of anti-vaccine folks did with the above post about a child with severe complications to a chicken pox infection…
It's always a vaccine injury…
What are some of the big complications of chicken pox infections? Complications that help make chicken pox deadly?
That's right, secondary skin and soft tissue bacterial infections (cellulitis and necrotizing fasciitis). In fact, bacterial super-infections of the skin are the most common complication of chicken pox infections.
"Necrotizing fasciitis can lead to sepsis, shock, and organ failure. It can also result in life-long complications from loss of limbs or severe scarring due to surgically removing infected tissue. Even with treatment, up to 1 in 3 people with necrotizing fasciitis die from the infection."
Necrotizing Fasciitis: All You Need to Know
No, chicken pox is not necrotizing fasciitis, but all of the breaks in the skin from chicken pox lesions give bacteria, including group A Streptococcus (group A strep) and Staphylococcus aureus, plenty of opportunities to enter a child's body and quickly spread.
No one in the Netherlands dies with chicken pox???
We often hear that chicken pox isn't serious in other countries that don't routinely use the chicken pox vaccine. Don't believe them.
On average, about two young children die in the Netherlands each year due to chicken pox.
"Based on the results presented in this study we estimate that between 3 to 8% of all Dutch patients with varicella, depending on age, consult a GP due to a complication. Our findings are similar to data from Germany, France and the United States of America, were it is estimated that in approximately 2 to 6% of cases attending a general practice. Furthermore of these varicella patients 1.7% experiences complications severe enough to seek hospital care."
Pierik et al on Epidemiological characteristics and societal burden of varicella zoster virus in the Netherlands
And folks in the Netherlands have similar rates of complications as we did in the United States in the pre-vaccine era and many are hospitalized.
Do you understand what's happening in these comments? When folks choose to skip or delay their child's vaccines, they will work hard to justify their decision.
Escaping cognitive dissonance explains a lot of anti-vaccine arguments.
That's not surprising.
"the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change."
cognitive dissonance definition
If you aren't going to vaccinate your kids, do you want to think that you are leaving them at risk for such a serious complication, even if it is rare, or will you make up reasons for why the story can't possibly be true?
Now these folks become skeptics?
Sure, these folks believe every vaccine injury story on Facebook without any proof, but all of a sudden they all become skeptics when faced with a story highlighting the known complications of a vaccine-preventable disease.
That's the modern anti-vaccine movement.
More on Making Sense of Anti-Vaccine Arguments
VAXOPEDIA – Who Dies from Chicken Pox?
VAXOPEDIA – 10 Myths About Chicken Pox and the Chicken Pox Vaccine
VAXOPEDIA – Believe It or Not, Chicken Pox Parties Are Still a Thing
VAXOPEDIA – Is the Chicken Pox Vaccine Creating a Shingles Epidemic?
Logical Fallacies and Cognitive Dissonance
Why It's Hard to Admit to Being Wrong
Cognitive Dissonance Helps Explain Why We Hate To Hear The Truth
"There must be a reason," or how we support our own false beliefs
CDC – Chickenpox Can Be Serious
CDC – Necrotizing Fasciitis: All You Need to Know
Early diagnosis of post-varicella necrotising fasciitis: A medical and surgical emergency
Necrotizing fasciitis secondary to chickenpox infection in children
Necrotizing fasciitis in an infant secondary to varicella zoster infection
Necrotizing fasciitis – A possible fatal varicella complication
Post-varicella epiglottitis and necrotizing fasciitis.
A case-control study of necrotizing fasciitis during primary varicella.
Necrotizing fasciitis as a complication of chickenpox.
Periorbital varicella gangrenosa: A rare complication of chicken pox.
Periorbital Varicella Gangrenosa.
Study – The epidemiology of varicella and herpes zoster in The Netherlands: implications for varicella zoster virus vaccination.
Study – Epidemiological characteristics and societal burden of varicella zoster virus in the Netherlands
December 24, 2018 June 5, 2019
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Vaccine Analogies and Metaphors
Analogies and metaphors are a good way to explain things, including that vaccines are safe and necessary.
As the CDC explains, we are sunk if we stop vaccinating.
Here are some of my favorite vaccine analogies and metaphors.
Getting vaccinated is like:
applying sunscreen before going to the beach
applying insect repellent before going camping in the woods
making sure that your kids are wearing a seat belt or sitting in an age-appropriate car seat or booster seat when you get in the car
installing anti-virus software on your new computer
When do you put on your seat belt? When you get in the car, before you get in an accident. Just like a vaccine. You get it before you get sick. Yes, some vaccines do work after you have been exposed to an illness, but they don't work after you are already sick.
There is a problem with these metaphors though; they don't include the risks to other people.
These do:
taking driver's ed and getting your license before driving
taking swimming lessons before going in the water without a life jacket
putting your gun in a locked safe
putting a fence around your backyard so that no one in your neighborhood can drown in your pool
making sure folks don't text and drive
That's right.
Vaccination equals protection.
And not just protection for the person getting vaccinated. Being unvaccinated puts others at risk too, as you might start an outbreak.
Getting your kids vaccinated is like taking them to swimming lessons instead of just throwing them in the lake. Either way they can learn to swim and have protection/immunity from drowning. But one method (throwing them in the lake) is much more dangerous than the other.
Analogies can also help explain how vaccines work.
"Vaccines are a like a wanted poster, they just show your body what the bad guys look like, so when faced with them for real you are ready, prepared, and able to stop them before they cause harm."
Can vaccines overwhelm the immune system?
Are there analogies that explain the idea of free-riders – folks who intentionally don't vaccinate their kids and attempt to hide in the herd?
"If all my child's friends are vaccinated, won't he be protected by herd immunity? Why should I put my child at risk for vaccine reactions if all the other children around him are already immune?
This is like riding in a carpool where everyone contributes each month to pay for gas, repairs and parking. One morning, a new neighbor shows up and says, "I think I'll ride along with you. But I'm not going to pay, since you're going downtown anyway and you have an empty seat." If enough people choose to take a free ride on other children's immunity, herd immunity will soon disappear."
Why is herd immunity so important?
And to explain the idea of what some folks consider vaccine injuries.
"I have found that it sometimes helps to give parents an analogy. I ask them the following: If they were to put gas in their car and then later got a flat tire, would that mean putting gas in the car had caused the flat tire? No. The two events were just a coincidence."
Karen Lewis on What Vaccine Safety Means
What are some good analogies to describe how some anti-vax folks think?
Since that bridge isn't 100% safe (I Googled that some bridges have collapsed), I'm going to let my kids swim across this river with fast moving water.
Have you heard the bridge analogy?
There are also versions with crocodiles in the water…
In case it's not clear, in this analogy, walking across the bridge is like getting vaccinated. Swimming across the river is like intentionally not vaccinating your kids.
There are plenty of other good analogies that help to explain the importance of vaccines.
"Clusters of unvaccinated people are like patches of dry grass that, with a single match, can start a wildfire that will burn not only dry material, but sometimes wet as well. The match could be a student who returns from a trip abroad with measles or a train commuter with whooping cough."
Saad Omer
It's also important to remember that anyone, even those who are well prepared, can get burned in a wildfire. That's why the analogy works so well.
"Vaccinating one's children is like paying taxes. We all have a moral and a legal duty to pay taxes because we have a moral and a legal duty to contribute to the upkeep of our society and to its public goods (e.g., a good public health system, national defence, etc.)."
Vaccine Refusal Is Like Tax Evasion
Why are we concerned about those who are unvaccinated if our own children are fully vaccinated?
"Think of camping as an analogy. If everyone at a campground properly stores their food, bears won't be enticed to come around. If even one person leaves their food unprotected, it invites bears in to investigate all the campsites for opportunities to eat."
How does choosing not to immunize affect the community?
These analogies help explain how unvaccinated folks put others at risk.
"Being intentionally unvaccinated against highly contagious diseases is, to carry Holmes' analogy a bit further, like walking down a street randomly swinging your fists without warning. You may not hit an innocent bystander, but you've substantially increased the chances that you will.
One might usefully analogize the risk of disease to a crapshoot. A person's chance of being infected is, as Dr. Singer acknowledges, a matter of luck. But is it really OK for the unvaccinated to load the dice to increase the odds against other people? If so, by how much?"
Ronald Bailey on Vaccines and the Responsibility To Not Put Others at Risk
Of course, there are plenty of bad vaccine analogies and metaphors that anti-vaccine folks push:
getting vaccinated is like rape
getting vaccinated is like the Holocaust
"genes load the gun but the vaccines pull the trigger"
vaccine manufacturers are like tobacco manufacturers
I won't set my child on fire to keep yours warm (this doesn't work as a vaccine analogy, mostly because there is no benefit to setting your child on fire. Would an anti-vaxxer let their child start a campfire to keep their friends from dying in the cold?)
getting a vaccine is like eating a handful of M&Ms out of a big bowl when you know that a few have been poisoned
getting a child vaccinated is like giving 1,000 kids 1,000 cupcakes, telling them to pick one and eat it, knowing that one of the cupcakes is poisoned (it's maybe like letting a child with a severe peanut allergy choose a cupcake, knowing that there is a one in a million chance that the cupcake he chooses has been made with peanuts…)
I want safer cars, but that doesn't make me anti-car
You understand why the anti-car one is a bad analogy, right? Folks who want safer cars generally still drive and ride in cars!
Have you heard any good or bad analogies or mataphors about vaccines?
More on Vaccine Analogies and Metaphors
CDC – Why Immunize?
Poisonous M&Ms: The Irrational Monstrosity of Bigotry
I Will Not Follow the Herd
AAP – Why is herd immunity so important?
Isn't vaccinating my personal choice?
Anti-Vaxxers Use A Car Analogy To Effectively Prove Stupidity
Anti-vaccine activists try out a new metaphor
Refusing Vaccination Puts Others At Risk
Vaccines and the Responsibility To Not Put Others at Risk
The Rules of Logic Part 7: Using Consistent Reasoning to Compare Apples and Oranges
When Analogies Attack
A vaccination tool every parent could use
'Are Your Children Vaccinated?' Is the New 'Do You Have a Gun in the House?'
ADL slams RFK Jr. for vaccines-Holocaust analogy
California Doctor Invokes Holocaust Analogy, Compares Non-Vaccinating Parents To Persecuted Jews
The (Not-So-Thinking) Mom's Revolution makes an amazingly silly analogy about vaccines
If stop signs work, why should my refusal to stop hurt you?
The annals of "I'm not anti-vaccine," part 11: Vaccination portrayed as rape
Vaccination as "rape": Meryl Dorey and the Australian Vaccination Network
The intellectual dishonesty of the "vaccines didn't save us" gambit
Balancing unreason: vaccine myths and metaphors
natural immunity
unvaccinated
What Are the Pro and Con Arguments for Vaccines?
Is it still OK to "debate" vaccines and vaccine safety?
Using fallacious arguments and anti-vaccine propaganda can not be part of any real debate about vaccines.
What's not up for debate anymore is the idea that vaccines aren't safe or necessary or that vaccines don't work.
Folks who use those arguments against vaccines aren't debating, they are pushing anti-vaccine talking points.
Why talk about pro and con arguments if we know that vaccines are safe and necessary?
It's because vaccines aren't perfect.
Vaccines save lives. Shots hurt.
Vaccines are cost effective. Vaccines are expensive.
Vaccines work most of the time. Vaccines aren't 100% effective.
You are much more likely to get shingles after having a natural chickenpox infection. You can get shingles after having the chickenpox vaccines.
Vaccine preventable diseases are much more likely to cause febrile seizures, non-febrile seizures, and worse. Some vaccines cause febrile seizures.
Most vaccine side effects are mild and they prevent life-threatening diseases. Vaccines aren't 100% safe.
Vaccines can create herd immunity. Some people can't be vaccinated.
Kids can get protected against at least 16 vaccine-preventable diseases. Kids get at least 13 different vaccines.
Immunity from some vaccine preventable diseases isn't lifelong either and some diseases, like tetanus, don't even provide immunity. Immunity from some vaccines isn't lifelong.
Some vaccine-preventable diseases, like polio, only provide protection against a single serotype, not against all forms of the disease (there are three serotypes of polio). Some vaccines require booster doses.
Fewer people die from vaccine preventable diseases these days because most people are vaccinated and protected. No one dies from measles anymore.
And sometimes it doesn't make sense to recommend a vaccine, except in specific circumstances.
"A MenB vaccine series may be administered to adolescents and young adults aged 16–23 years to provide short-term protection against most strains of serogroup B meningococcal disease. The preferred age for MenB vaccination is 16–18 years."
ACIP on Use of Serogroup B Meningococcal Vaccines in Adolescents and Young Adults: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, 2015
The MenB vaccine, for example, unlike most other vaccines, only has a permissive recommendation – parents may get it for their kids, but they don't have to.
"First-year college students living in residence halls should receive at least 1 dose of MenACWY before college entry. The preferred timing of the most recent dose is on or after their 16th birthday."
ACIP on Prevention and Control of Meningococcal Disease: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices
In contrast, the recommendation for most other vaccines state that kids "should" receive them.
Why the difference?
Experts aren't yet sure that the pros of the MenB vaccine, helping avoid MenB disease, outweigh the cons, which include the high cost of the vaccine, short duration of protection, and that it doesn't cover all MenB subtypes. The cons aren't about safety.
The Real Vaccine Cons
What about the "cons" you see on some websites about toxins, vaccine-induced diseases, and vaccine deaths?
Beware of folks trying use anti-vaccine talking points to scare or con you when talking about vaccines.
This is when it becomes helpful to understand that the word "con" has multiple definitions.
These sites use anti-vaccine experts and other anti-vaccine websites as sources, present anecdotes as real evidence, and cherry pick quotes when they do use real sources.
They also work hard to:
Scare you away from vaccinating and protecting your kids by never mentioning the benefits of vaccines and overstating the side effects and risks of getting vaccinated.
Downplay the risks of vaccine-preventable diseases and overstate the benefits of natural immunity over the protection you can get from vaccines.
Make you think that vaccines don't even work.
Worst of all, they talk about informed consent and choice, all of the while taking away many parents' choice to make an informed decision by confusing them with misinformation, myths, and propaganda.
Of course, parents who have taken the time to get educated about vaccines don't fall for any of these arguments.
They know that the evidence overwhelmingly shows that vaccines work, vaccines are safe, and vaccines are necessary.
What to Know About the Pro and Con Arguments for Vaccines
In any real debate, getting vaccinated and protected wins every time, because vaccines work and they are safe and necessary.
More About the Pro and Con Arguments for Vaccines
The Vaccine "Debate"
What do we do about politicians and physicians who promote antivaccine misinformation?
Battling misinformed consent: How should we respond to the anti-vaccine movement?
"Misinformed consent" rears its ugly head in Pediatrics
Informed Consent and Vaccines
Benefits vs. Risks of Vaccines
The Modern American Vaccine Debate
The vaccine debate has a real cost
ACIP – Use of Serogroup B Meningococcal Vaccines in Adolescents and Young Adults: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, 2015
ACIP – Prevention and Control of Meningococcal Disease: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices
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8th Oncodistinct meeting | Oncodistinct | 9th and 10th May 2019!
After our 7th Oncodistinct meeting in Brussels last November, we are very happy to announce that the 8th Oncodistinct meeting will take place at the Institut Universitaire du Cancer de Toulouse, in France on the 9th and 10th May 2019!
This will be the opportunity for Oncodistinct members to gather together and to discuss about ongoing and future studies.


Hello Pink Lobsters! This is the first post of all the posts that I'll keep writing here where I'll be sharing with you all the knowledge that I have for helping you to get the love that you want.
With this in mind, let's start with the most important message that you need to learn before you to go looking for one of your soulmates. Yes, you read it well, one of them as we have more than one soulmate. So the most important message, and it might seem contradictory, is that love can only be found within us. We have to love ourselves before we can love others. Once you're loving yourself, you're content, you're trusting life, you're in alignment with yourself, universe/god/source/divine energy…whatever you call it depending on your beliefs, will bring that amazing woman into your life, it's the law of attraction.
But there are two ways of attracting that love: the way that comes from our fears, a shallow way: "I want a woman who makes me happy, who makes me secure, and so and so". Or the way that comes from that part of you where you accept yourself, where you trust that the universe loves you and just wants to make you happy, where you don't have needs that others will fill up as you know you're the only person responsible for filling them up. That's the way we should go, and for doing it we need to raise our level of consciousness. So just start being aware of how you're loving yourself.
Most of the time we're talking negatively about ourselves: "I'm not good enough, how awful I am, I can't do that",..how can the universe can bring you something good if that's the way you're talking?
Also, the love that we express outside is a reflection of the love that we have for our deeper self, our true self, which is love. When you're making a choice, ask yourself: am I loving myself doing this? You can't be truly loving yourself if you're getting angry at other people, if you aren't treating your body well, or if you are dismissing your emotions.
So the first exercise that I'd recommend you to do this month is the "Mirror Work" that Louise L.Hay created. Look at yourself in the mirror and say "your name" and "I love you". Observe your reaction, feel your emotions, your thoughts. Do this exercise for 5 minutes every day. Maybe it looks silly, but just do it and feel it. Love is like a flower, if you don't put water on it, if you don't take care of it, it won't grow up. If you really want to attract your perfect partner, you have to keep working every day on yourself.
Stop looking for your right person as the right person is a reflection of who you are. Instead of looking for that, become that right person.
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BEIJING, China (AFP) — Fifteen people were killed in China on the night of the Lunar New Year in two family tragedies, after one man started a fire and another went on a knife rampage.
As people celebrated to welcome in the Chinese New Year Monday night, a man surnamed Lu set fire to the home of his brother in the northern province of Shaanxi, killing seven, according to police in the town of Baoji.
The brother, his wife, their fathers and their three children died in the blaze, police said on the Twitter-like Weibo platform.
A few hours after the incident police arrested the suspect, who had just tried to kill himself.
During the same night, a man surnamed Guo, who suspected his wife of adultery, stabbed eight people to death and injured seven in a village in the northwest province of Gansu, according to police in the commune of Baiyin.
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Above And Below Ground: A Comparative Study Of The R...
ABOVE AND BELOW GROUND: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE ROOT AND SHOOT GROWTH OF PASTURE LEGUMES
M. C. Campbell, S. J. Bennett and P. S. Cocks
University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6907, Centre for Legumes in Mediterranean Agriculture, Perth, WA 6907.
Successful establishment of a crop or pasture species depends on a number of environmental factors. It is also dependent on inherent growth characteristics to allow adaptation to the specific stresses that might arise. The relative root and shoot growth of the seedling may be a critical parameter in determining the species potential to establish reliably in the face of competition from other plants or moisture stress. An experiment was carried out to compare the root and shoot growth of 4 annual and 8 perennial pasture legumes with that of Medicago sativa cv Sceptre (lucerne) twelve weeks after germination. The results indicated that lucerne was generally more productive than the other perennial Medicago species and equal to the annual species. However, Trifolium pratense (red clover) and T. vesiculosum (arrowleaf clover) had significantly more laterals branching off the main taproot and a greater total root length than lucerne.
Key words: Pasture legumes, competition, Medicago, Trifolium, Ornithopus, lucerne, root growth.
Lucerne has often proven difficult to establish, as the seedlings do not compete well with weed species in contrast to some other pasture species. (2). Knowledge of the characteristics that enable the seedlings of some pasture species to compete successfully with weeds would be valuable. Once established, lucerne can withstand considerable moisture stress due to its deep taproot. The aim of this study was to compare the early growth characteristics, energy partitioning and the survival of seedlings of 12 pasture legumes and lucerne in order to define the strengths and weaknesses of lucerne relative to other successful species. Selection guidelines could then be defined which might be useful in improving the establishment of lucerne.
The experiment was carried out at the University of Western Australia Field Station located at Shenton Park, Perth. PVC storm water pipes, 16 cm in diameter and 1 m in length, were sunk into the ground and filled with a sandy loam soil. Three germinated seeds of the thirteen different species were planted in each of these pipes at the beginning of June 1997, with 6 replicates of each species. All seedlings planted were allowed to grow. The species evaluated were; annuals; Medicago lupulina (black medic), Ornithopus sativus cv Cadiz (pink serradella), Trifolium subterranean cv Dinninup (subclover), T. vesiculosum, cv Cefalu, wild type perennials; M. arborea,(tree medic), M. cancellata, M. falcata (yellow lucerne), M. marina, M. polychroa, 2 lines of M. sativa, and the commercially-bred perennials; M. sativa cv Sceptre and T. pratense cv Caprera. As the appropriate rhizobia for some of the perennial Medicago species has not been defined, a fertilizer application rather than seed inoculation was employed as the nitrogen source. The seedlings were not irrigated. Whole plants were removed and the roots carefully washed out for all surviving plants 12 weeks after germination.
Measurements taken included maximum root depth, total root length, number of laterals off the taproot, dry weight of the roots, number of trifoliate leaves at sampling, total leaf area and shoot dry weights. The data was analysed using Dunnet's test. (1).
The mean values for the measurements taken are given in Table 1. As a group, the annuals had a longer total root length, a greater number of laterals branching from the taproot and a heavier dry root weight than the perennial medics. The annuals also, had a larger total leaf area and a heavier shoot dry weight. However, in a comparison of individual species, the roots of T. pratense, a perennial, grew the deepest, had the longest total length and the heaviest dry weight. T. pratense also had the largest total leaf area. T. vesiculosum, an annual, had the greatest number of lateral roots and the heaviest shoot dry weight.
Table 1. Means of the character measurements taken for each pasture legume.
Max Root Depth (cm)
Total Root Length (m)
No. of Laterals
Root dry Weight (g)
Number leaves
Shoot dry Weight (g)
Total Leaf Area (cm2)
Shoot/Root Ratio
M. lupulina
O. sativus
T. subterranean
T. vesiculosum
14.5*
M. arborea
M. cancellata
M. falcata
M. marina
M. sativa 124
M. polychroa
M. sativa I1937
M. sativa, Sceptre
T. pratense
Average number of plants surviving = 11-15, except for M. marina = 3
*Using Dunnets test: species significantly different from lucerne (P<0.05).
The lucerne was either equal to or more productive than the other perennial medics for many of the characteristics assessed (P<0.05). However, T. pratense and T. vesiculosum had significantly more laterals branching off the main taproot and a greater total root length. Ornithopus sativus, T. vesiculosum and T. subterranean had higher shoot to root weight ratios than the lucerne, suggesting a stronger competitive ability of the seedlings stages providing that water was freely available. Medicago marina had the least number of surviving plants and for many characteristics, it had the lowest measurements. However, as it grows naturally in an environment inhospitable to most other plants, competition from other plants is of less concern than its adaptation to its niche.
Under the conditions of this study, for the measurements taken, the lucerne was more productive than the other perennial medics were; this is perhaps a reflection of the 3,000 years of lucerne cultivation. T. pratense and T. vesiculosum were the only species evaluated that were significantly (P<0.05) more productive than lucerne for any of the characteristics measured. As this was for the number of laterals produced from the taproot and also the total root length, selective breeding in lucerne to increase these characteristics could be an aid to improving the establishment and early survival of lucerne in the field.
This project was funded by a grant from GRDC
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