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HILL END ARTS COUNCIL: Mark a date in the diaries! Open House Day Hill En...
HILL END ARTS COUNCIL: Mark a date in the diaries! Open House Day Hill En...: Just imagine….then and now…. As the autumn leaves start tumbling down it is time to once again head to Hill End's Open Day on...
Mark a date in the diaries! Open House Day Hill End
Just imagine….then and now….
As the autumn leaves start tumbling down it is time to once again head to Hill End's Open Day on Sunday 10 April.
A number of the villagers are throwing open their homes, their school, their hall, their church and their studios to allow you to peek inside and see how they now live, work and play in an historic gold town.
Imagine the town as it was….and then see the buildings now.
Most of the buildings open for viewing were constructed between the 1870s and the 1900s and have seen generations of families through their doors. Some were almost in ruins when they were lovingly "adopted" by people with a passion and on Open Day they wish to share this with you. Many years of painstaking restoration and preservation (and never mind the dollars!) have gone into conserving these buildings as useful and comfortable dwellings.
They are not museums, they are everyday buildings, still being used for their intended purposes and now all the more treasured for being so. Some have the "mod cons" but these are skilfully integrated into an eclectic environment where they seem right at home. "Why didn't I think of that?" will be your constant comment.
What will you see? Well, remember your school days, come and visit our school and see how education has changed in an electronic environment yet still retains an historic link to a school that was built in 1872. A church with no electricity? – not a problem, Ted lights the myriad of kerosene lanterns that add a reverent atmosphere to an evening ecumenical service. A cottage with the bathroom "out the back" means that it is a place to escape to and relax in a lingering tub. Leave the mobile phone on the dining room table; it probably won't work out there anyway!
View the family portraits in the Royal Hall and watch out as their eyes follow you around the room…Visit the artists who have given up city life for a brief tree change to absorb the creative atmosphere once enjoyed by Donald Friend, Margaret Olley and many others. Wander down the streets that will be alive with autumn colour. Don't forget your camera and a good pair of walking shoes.
This is your opportunity to speak to these people, who are proud of their village, in a relaxed friendly atmosphere and ask them the questions that have surely arisen as you wander around town. Volunteers will be available at all venues to guide you to your next place of exploration. C'mon in!
MURRAYS COTTAGE - Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Residency
ENGLISH COTTAGE - Home of Hill End Press
HAEFLIGERS COTTAGE - Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Residency
FOR BOOKINGS: To experience this great day out on Sunday 10 April 2016 are essential and can be made by phoning
(02) 6337 8306
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Registration and payment is at the Royal Hall in Beyers Avenue, next to the Royal Pub.
Cost: $25.00 per person/$18.00 concession.
(Sorry, cash only on the day)
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In this guest post my friend Dave Schneider is going to share in-depth how to find speakers for your virtual summit… even if you have no network.
Dave reached out and wanted me to take a look at his software NinjaOutreach, and I was very impressed after testing it for a bit. I've also stumbled across a few of Dave's epic guest posts on Boost Blog Traffic and other high profile websites, and I asked him if he could write something extremely valuable I could publish on my blog as well related to virtual summits. I couldn't be more excited to have Dave write this awesome guest post on my site.
You'll enjoy this — take it away, Dave!
Navid has made the case time and time again as to why you should host a virtual summit.
Undoubtedly, when Navid hosted The Branding Summit in 2014, it was the most pivotal business event in his career to date, completely transforming his life and allowing him to quit his job and move abroad.
Chances are, if you've been following his blog, you're onboard with the concept – so now it's time to focus on the execution.
And where, traditionally, is one of the hurdles with running a virtual summit?
Finding speakers.
And not just any speakers… but the "right" speakers for your summit!
For the most part, everything else involved in running a virtual summit (coming up with a profitable virtual summit theme, positioning, a unique hook, your summit name, designing a landing page, and promoting it etc.), depends entirely on you and your ability to hustle. You know if you work hard, you can get it done.
But what about speakers – how do I find them and convince them to get onboard?
That is the subject of this ultimate guide on how to find speakers for your virtual summit (even if you have no network).
What Makes A Good Speaker For A Virtual Summit?
Before we get into the tactical aspect of finding speakers, we want to first identify what it means to be a great speaker.
I realize the go-to thought process here is "people with a large audience", and that's fine that that's "a" criteria, but it certainly shouldn't be the only criteria.
The fact is speaking is an art, and some people have mastered it and others flounder.
I remember my college days at Harvard. All of the professors were extremely gifted researchers and in many cases world renowned.
But that didn't prevent some of them from being awful lecturers.
Teaching, like speaking, is an art, and it takes practice and sometimes, honestly, just the right personality.
As someone who has spoken about 20 times in front of a live audience, sometimes in the hundreds, I can say from first hand experience that the speeches I give now are far superior to those I gave 10 years ago.
So what's an example of a great speaker?
Recently I attended Inbound, Hubspot's annual marketing conference held in Boston for 14,000 people. At that conference I had the pleasure of watching behavioral psychologist Dan Pink give a speech.
Dan is an excellent speaker.
Here's a video of him performing a Ted Talk. It has over 14 million views.
What makes Dan a great speaker?
- He's funny
- He's vulnerable
- He tells a story
- He engages the crowd
While this article isn't about how to be a great public speaker, you should have some awareness of what makes a great public speaker – because you want your conference to rock, and that means focusing on quality, and not vanity metrics like having a large audience or impressive credentials.
Therefore, we're going to tailor our speaker lead generation to target people who we not only believe are seasoned speakers, but ideally people who we can listen to ahead of time to be sure.
Then we'll add in additional criteria such as have a large following.
How Can I Find Speakers For My Virtual Summit?
Alright – time to get our hands dirty. We're looking for speakers, and great ones at that.
So we're going to focus on people who have a history of public speaking, and ideally those who we can verify upfront by actually listening to them talk.
People Who Run Podcasts
People who run podcasts are great candidates for speakers. These people show up every week and have to be engaging, via audio only, to their audience.
What's also great about podcasters is:
- It's easy to find them
- It's easy to tell if they have a large audience
- It's easy to listen to some of their recordings to know they'll be a good fit
- It's easy for them to be a virtual speaker, since they already have all of the equipment in place.
See – easy.
So how do we find podcasters?
Method 1: Google
The easiest method is Google. This is because podcasters have made it very easy for us, since podcast pages usually contain the same keyword – podcast.
Leverage Google Advanced Search Operators to find titles and URLs that have podcast in it for your topic.
[Your-Topic] inurl:/podcast/
[Your-Topic] inurl:category/podcast/
[Your-Topic] inurl:/podcasts/
[Your-Topic] inurl:category/podcasts/
[Your-Topic] intitle:podcast
[Your-Topic] intitle:podcasts
As you can see, there will be no shortage of results (in this case I am running a branding summit like Navid)
You may find a few red herrings of articles that are about running a podcast, but are not actually podcasts – but those are relatively easy to filter through.
Now, here is how you can export the results from the SERPs:
Click on settings in the bottom right of the Google homepage and click Search Settings:
Change Google instant predictions to "Never show Instant results, and move the "Results per page" to 100.
Now, when you run a Google search, you'll show 100 results per page.
Next, download this free tool from Moz to extract search results.
It works for Chrome or Firefox.
Run a search for what you're looking for:
With the Moz toolbar, you can export these results to a CSV in Firefox or Chrome.
You can open that up (in this case in Google docs), and it's going to have a ton of columns:
Through this method you can easily capture hundreds of podcasts in your niche.
BTW, it also works for other things like guest posts, product reviews, etc.
Method 2: iTunes
There's another method that involves leveraging iTunes as a search engine.
First, download iTunes – https://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
Open it up, in the top right you will see a search. Type in your keyword, for example, "Startup". It will show you results like this:
In the top right, you will see "See All". It will expand the number of podcasts visible, like this:
Click on each image and collect the person's name and website. It will look like this:
Get those two things and put them in a spreadsheet.
Some additional fields you may want to put into the spreadsheet include:
1. The number of episodes they've run
2. The number of reviews they've received
3. The overall rating of the podcast
Those additional three things, which you can get from the same page as above, will help you determine the size and quality of the podcast.
People Who Appear On Podcasts
The next group of people we're going to be targeting is people who appear on podcasts.
These people are excellent choices to be a speaker for a variety of reasons. Firstly, we can assume that the podcast host has done some degree of due diligence to determine that the guest is important. In the same way that you're looking for quality speakers with a large audience who have done interesting things, so are they for their podcast guests.
Additionally, they're easy to find and you can listen to how they speak and engage the host.
Once you have the podcast links from above, you can easily find guests by looking at the episode history. If you see the mention of many other names, it implies that the podcast is inviting guests.
For example, here is Entrepreneur On Fire.
Now that I know this podcast has guests, I can go over to the podcast website and see the actual show notes:
Which will often contain links to their website, Twitter, and sometimes contact information.
I can add this to the spreadsheet in a separate tab for Podcast Guests, with fields such as:
- Name
- Website
- Twitter Handle
- Contact Information
- Podcast they appeared on
The final one will be useful for the outreach, because it will help us personalize the script.
People Who Identify Themselves As Speakers
The obvious people we haven't mentioned yet is people who actually claim to be speakers.
For this, I prefer to leverage Twitter. Often, if someone is a speaker, they will mention it in their Twitter bio.
So how do we find all of the Twitter bios in my niche that have the word "speaker" in it?
I'll show you two tools that can help.
Note – you can also use this method to find podcasters and authors too!
Full disclosure, this is my software.
NinjaOutreach is a blogger outreach software, but it has a neat Twitter search functionality that allows you to search Twitter bios.
For example, if I'm looking for people who have the word "Branding" and "Speaker" in their bio, I can do that.
What's neat about this is that:
- It will sort by follower count, so we see the people with the largest audience on top.
- In many cases it will have contact information.
- The tool functions as a CRM and outreach tool.
Here's what it looks like after I save them to a list.
Without getting into the full on details of NinjaOutreach, you can definitely use this tool to help manage the entire process of this article, from prospecting, to finding contact information, to outreach. Check out our ultimate guide for more details.
FollowerWonk is a Twitter database that functions similarly to the above. You put in keywords, and it shows you the Twitter Bios that match.
Just to highlight a few differences with NinjaOutreach:
- FollowerWonk allows you the search for free (NinjaOutreach does not), but if you want to export results, you have to be on a paid plan, and it starts at $99/month so not the cheapest tool out there.
- They have a large Twitter database, probably 5x what NinjaOutreach has.
- It does not have contact information, only fields that are available in Twitter, so you'll have to get that yourself.
Using either of these tools is a fantastic way to identify seasoned speakers in bulk.
People Who Have Spoken At Conferences Before
Alright, let's say you want to find people who have spoken at conferences before, but you don't want to use any tools – is there a way?
There's always a way, it just might not be as easy.
The simplest way is to identify conferences in your niche and see who has spoken at them before.
For example, if I'm looking for speakers in the Branding niche, if I didn't already know of some conferences I would run a search:
Often conferences on their website will list keynote speakers. It's not something they're generally trying to hide, as it's part of their marketing strategy.
Additionally, some conferences actually show videos from previous years, so you can use that to not only find speakers, but also to watch them.
For example, here's Microconf 2014, a conference for bootstrapped softwarepreneurs.
These people will be big names, so it won't be hard to do some online research and identify their website, Twitter Bio, contact information, and add it to the spreadsheet, as well as the conference that they spoke at for personalization.
How To Group Speakers Into A, B, and C Listers For My Virtual Summit?
Alright, so we have a massive list of potential speakers, who we have reason to believe will be an excellent fit for our virtual summit.
So who do we reach out to?
Navid tells us we should have several tiers of speakers. A, B and C Listers.
A Listers are people who have a huge audience and are the top thought leaders in your space.
B Listers are people who have a good sized audience, are seen as an authority and on their way to be a top thought leader in a few more years.
C Listers are people who have a great message and content, have a smaller audience, but will hustle to help you get the word out.
So here's the process we go through:
1. Go through your list and label everyone who you right away know is an A Lister. These are the people who you don't need to run any checks on because they're big enough names you can be confident they're great speakers and have a large audience. Chances are you've probably listened to or seen them before.
2. For the remaining people, try to go through and listen to them speak to determine if you find them interesting, entertaining, and engaging. Anyone who does not meet this criteria – remove.
3. Now you have a list that is filled with talented speakers and some already known A – Listers, and you want to go through and assign A, B, and C to the remaining ones based on their audience size. As far as predictive metrics to leverage for audience size, I recommend Twitter Following as a starting point (but not always accurate if they aren't very active on Twitter for example). This is the easiest to get ahold of and evaluate. Like all things it depends, but I might say:
a. A-lister – >15k+ followers
b. B-lister – 5k-15k followers
c. C-lister – 2k-5k followers
Depending on the niche and how large or small it is this could vary. A way to normalize it would simply be to get the Twitter following for everyone in your list, and say everyone in the top 10% is an A lister, 10-50% are B listers, and the bottom 50% are the C listers.
I would also look at how engaged their following is where they hang out the most, and once you start inviting speakers on board, then you can ask them how big their email list is, which is what really matters at the end of the day. If you already know they're an A-lister with a massive following, don't bother to ask about this, but if they're a C-lister or B-lister, it can make sense to ask just to make sure, so you can estimate your numbers a bit, and how many opt-ins you can potentially get from each speaker if they promote your summit to their audience.
A-lister – >15k+ email subscribers
B-lister – 5k-15k email subscribers
C-lister – 2k-5k email subscribers
This also depends on your industry of course, but it's good to keep this in mind. The most important thing I tend to look at as I mentioned is how engaged and passionate their following is, that's the key metric that matters at the end of the day.
How Can I Pitch Speakers For My Virtual Summit
We're onto the final step – pitching.
The thing about pitching is you never really know what response rate to expect – it depends.
Additionally, you probably have a limited number of spots available for speakers assuming the event is not going to run on forever.
As a result, you want to pitch to your list in stages, starting with the A listers (or some portion of them).
Then, evaluate the response rate and the number of "Yeses", and move onto the B listers.
For the actual pitch process I'm going to borrow from this case study on how to create an epic virtual summit in which Aj Amyx and his business partner, Andy Zitzmann, created the Movement Marketing Summit.
It goes like this:
Break The Ice Over Twitter
Try to engage them in conversation through Twitter. This can be done by sending them a Tweet or better yet responding to something interesting they said. If you can get a conversation started all of the sudden your cold outreach becomes a lot warmer.
If someone doesn't respond via Twitter it doesn't mean you can't send them an email, but realistically it just makes them that less likely to respond in general.
Just Ask
Once you've gotten the ball rolling via Twitter, just ask. Make sure your pitch has the following in it:
- Reference the conversation – Assuming you've engaged them on Twitter, reference it, so they know where you're coming from. Send the email the same day as the Twitter conversation so it's fresh, and include that in the subject.
- Explain why it's a win for them – Remember what speakers are after: exposure. This means they're going to want to know how many people you expect to attend, where you'll be promoting the conference, and how you'll be promoting them.
- Explain the logistics – Let them know when and how they'll be presenting, so they can confirm it's something they're comfortable with.
Here's a pitch example of how AJ did it after engaging Peter Voogd via Twitter. Note that this pitch is entirely customized to their summit, and that he checks the boxes on all of the above.
BTW, this is Peter's reply:
One thing I would have liked to see in this conversation (maybe it was in subsequent talks/emails), was an ask for a referral.
Surely Peter has important friends in the niche and might be willing to pass this information along to them. A warm introduction goes a long way to getting someone to say Yes.
Finally, once you have your first A lister onboard, be sure to leverage that social proof in additional outreach emails. This is also part of the reason why we stagger the outreach, so that in future emails you can reference important people who have said yes, which will increase the likelihood that other people will join.
Conclusion And Next Steps
If you've made it to the end of this article you have everything you need to find and outreach to speakers for your virtual summit in practically any niche.
I would say in about one day you could come up with a quality list of several hundred potential speakers for your virtual summit. If you don't have that kind of time to devote to finding speakers (maybe you shouldn't be running a virtual summit), but you can also outsource this very easily to a virtual assistant.
Did I miss any ways to find star speakers for your virtual summit?
Let me know in the comment section below!
About The Author
In 2012 Dave quit his corporate job to travel the world with his girlfriend. Together, they visited over 40 countries across Asia, Europe, and Australia, and have been earning a living entirely online. Currently, Dave is the cofounder of NinjaOutreach, an innovative new Blogger Outreach software for marketers. You can also find him on Twitter @ninjaoutreach and at SelfMadeBusinessman.

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James Bell got the green light from Fenger coach Tom Lyons Thursday and pointed the Fenger ``Fun Bunch`` in the right direction--toward Springfield.
It was Bell`s bases-loaded single in the 11th inning that gave his Titans a dramatic 1-0 victory over Simeon in the battle for the city title. It was a victory that also meant a berth for Fenger in next week`s state Class AA playoffs.


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Handbook of Atmospheric Science: Principles and Applications
Handbook of Atmospheric Science: Principles and Applications
Apr 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
648 pages
DescriptionThe alarming consequences of global climate change have highlighted the need to take urgent steps to combat the causes of air pollution. Hence, understanding the Earth's atmosphere is a vital component in Man's emerging quest for developing sustainable modes of behaviour in the 21st century.
Written by a team of expert scientists, the Handbook of Atmospheric Science provides a broad and up-to-date account of our understanding of the natural processes that occur within the atmosphere. It examines how Man's activities have had a detrimental effect on the climate, and how measures may be implemented in order to modify these activities. The book progresses through chapters covering the principles of atmospheric science and the current problems of air pollution at the urban, regional and global scales, to the tools and applications used to understand air pollution.
The Handbook of Atmospheric Science offers an excellent overview of this multi-disciplinary subject and will prove invaluable to both students and researchers of atmospheric science, air pollution and global change.
Part 1: Principles of Atmospheric Science.
1. Chemical Evolution of the Atmosphere (Richard P. Wayne).
2. Atmospheric Energy and the Structure of the Atmosphere (Hugh Coe and Ann R. Webb).
3. The Earth's Climates (John G. Lockwood).
4. Biogeochemical Cycles and Residence times (Dudley E. Shallcross, Kuo-Ying Wang, and Claudia H. Dimmer).
5. Source of Air Pollution (Andrea V. Jackson).
6. Tropospheric Photochemistry (Paul S. Nonks).
7. Stratospheric Chemistry and Transport (A. Robert Mackenzie).
8. Aqueous Phase Chemistry of The Troposphere (Peter Brimblecombe).
9. Atmospheric Particulate Matter (Urs Baltensperger, Stefan Nyeki, and Markus Kalberer).
10. Atmospheric Dispersion and Air Pollution Meteorology (David Carruthers).
11. Synoptic-Scale Meteorology (Douglas J. Parker).
12. Atmospheric Removal Processes (Brad D. hall).
Part 2: Problems, Tools, and Applications.
13. Global Air Pollution Problems (Atul K. Jain and Katharine A.S. Hayhoe).
14. Regional-Scale Pollution Problems (Crispin J. Halsall).
15. Urgan-Scale Air Pollution (Jes Fenger).
16. Atmospheric Monitoring Techniques (Rod Robinson).
17. Emission Inventories (David Hutchinson).
18. Pollutant Dispersion Modeling (Yasmin Vawda).
19. Climate Modeling ( William Lahoz).
20. Critical Levels and Critical Loads as a Tool for Air Quality Mangement (Wim de Vries and Maximilian Posch).
21. The Practice of Air Quality Management (Bernard E.A. Fisher).
BES Teaching Ecology Group Newsletter, September 2003 <!--end-->
"Overall, the editors and authors are to be congratulated for producing a comprehensive, well-referenced and current book on atmospheric science suitable for teaching, industrial and research environments. For readers wanting current information on a particular atmospheric science topic, or topics, this book could well be the place to start."
Environmental Sciences, 2004
"The book is excellently written, provides just the right mixture of theory and applications, is up to date with is references, and includes the relevant older literature that led to our current understanding. Thus, this handbook receives a full recommendation."
Environmental Geology, June 2006


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jay and deans mom has a rusty taco
by owhole August 18, 2008
It is the act of cunnilingus on a woman during her menstruation.
I don't give a fuck, I still ate that rusty taco anyways.
by Rustytaco November 02, 2015
It's the art of the double dip on a divorced lady who hasn't had sex in years. You do her in the butt, and she has bloody stool. Then, while having tons of bloody shit on your dick, you slide it into her bloody period vag, thus resulting in a brown/red vagina-or a Rusty Taco.
Picking up the last skanky cougar at a bar, usually with wrinkly overly bronzed tits, sporting a Sturgis t-shirt and you wonder how the fuck she burns down so many Marb Reds without igniting her 80's glamour shot hair sprayed pube farm of hair. Also, guaranteed to give you a bj in a dumpster while wearing ass-less chaps that are coated in her rusty taco sauce. She may be missing a tooth, but she can suck a mean hog as she most likely started blowing Hells Angel thugs at age 17.
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Your nail's cuticles (the skin that surrounds the hard part of your nail) keeps your nails healthy and protects them from fungal infections. Cuticles are quite sensitive to injury. Do not cut them or pick at them; this may damage them permanently. Instead, after a shower, bath, or after soaking your nails, use a soft wooden stick to gently push back the cuticle. Overgrooming cuticles may cause them to thicken so be sure to use gentle care when grooming.
· Cleaning - If nails are dirty, use a bristled nail brush to remove debris from around cuticles or from under fingernails. Remove all polish with nail polish remover; do not pick at polish as that can damage the surface of nails.
· Shaping - Nails should be gently filed with a fine emery board, never with a metal file that can cause damage. File in gentle, long strokes from corner to center; do not "saw away" at nails. Keep the emery board poised at a 45 degree angle in relation to the fingertip to prevent damaging the nail layers. Do not file deep into corners of the nail; this weakens the nail. In general, shorter nails are easier to maintain.
· Protecting - Do not use your nails to scrape or lift anything, or to pull anything open. Wear gloves when washing dishes and use nail and hand lotion daily to keep hands and nails moisturized.
· Polishing - You may wish to use only a ridge-filling colorless coat on your nails to give them extra shine and strength. If you polish your nails, use a ridge-filling base coat followed by color and then a protective top coat for the best results. Give your nails at least an hour to dry before using your hands.
Original posted by Miss Fashion
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Nail Troubleshooting.
The most widespread nails problem and how to fight them.
• Dry, brittle nails - Moisturize often with a hand cream or oil. Eat more foods with essential fatty acids, such as eggs, meat, seeds, whole grains, and fish. Also, avoid overusing nail polish removers which contains acetone which can dry the nails and wear gloves when washing dishes.
• Chipping nail polish - Use quality nail polish; cheap nail polish chips more easily. When you polish your nails, be sure to use a ridge-filling base coat, two coats of colored polish, and a protective top coat. These coats keep polish from chipping and help protect nails.
• Nail infections - Nail infections may cause itchy, dry nails, blisters, and a loosening of nails. See your doctor for anti-fungal cream or tips.
• Bitten nails - Biting or picking at nails can damage them permanently. If you bite nails, coating them with anti-biting liquid can make you think twice about biting.
• Hangnails - These bits of dead skin next to the fingernail can be very painful. Trim the hangnail carefully, moisturize nails, and take Vitamin B and C supplements or eat more foods such as green leafy vegetables, peppers and citrus fruits.
• Ingrown nails - This painful condition occurs when the nail grows into the skin on the side of the toe. Soak nails in water. Run a soft rosewood stick between the nail and skin to separate. Trim carefully if needed. If nail does not improve, see a podiatrist.
Monday, October 02, 2006
Nail Care. Make your nails healthier.
Anyone can have strong, healthy, and well-groomed nails by following just a few simple rules. Your nails, like your hair, are made of the protein keratin, and consist of dead cells. They grow quickly (about .1 millimeter per day) and protect the skin at the ends of your fingertips and toes. Nails can also be an indicator of certain health conditions or vitamin deficiencies.
· White lines or spots can be a sign of a zinc or iron deficiency or protein deficiency. More rarely, these white patches or lines can signal liver, heart or kidney disorders.
· Thin, flat nails may indicate a Vitamin B-12 deficiency.
· Ridged nails may indicate an iron deficiency.
· Brittle, dry nails may indicate a calcium deficiency.
· Frequent hangnails may indicate a Vitamin C deficiency.
· Yellowish or discolored nails may indicate a Vitamin B-12 deficiency, or may indicate diabetes, allergies, liver problems, or poor health.
· Greenish nails may indicate infections in the nail bed.
· Bluish nail beds may indicate breathing problems or severe malnutrition.
Otherwise, healthy and well-manicured nails, short or long, should be smooth, without spots, hollows, or ridges. If they are unpolished they should be pinkish and clean. If they are long the ends, they should be curved and filed smooth.
Nails grow faster in young people. With age, nails may become thicker, harder, and may develop ridges. This is why caring for your nails becomes more important as you grow older.
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Super pumped to dig in to this one!
Hi B.I.S, It's Ghurron from New York City! Dj ease's vinyl mix and interview with Tim Sweeney is bliss!
Hi Dj Tim Sweeney, It's Ghurron from n.y.c & you mix after DJ Ease has dexterity and optimistic mood music amigo!
Bloody marvellous from dj ease. Be interested to know what ever happened to boy wonder. Old Sheffield crew
thank you for playing our track,Tim : )
anothe pleaseant mix of you Tim
Thanks EASE for dropping the Beatconductor and Frank Booker cuts from the label... you da man!
panama murga edit was the sh*t! great cuts + mixes!!
Shintaro Sakamoto - めちゃくちゃ悪い男 ! Yeah !!!
Fatima ...great
whats the second track on part 1....melodies of life or love?
whats the 2nd track on part 2 (tim sweeney).....melodies of love or life?
Breaking my heart wide open!
What's Track 6 on Tim's set? It starts 25 minutes in.
Sun Beat - Dazzle Drums Edit
what a nice remake.. any idea where to get that (vinyl/digital)?


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#1 - Choosing the right Realtor: Your home is most likely your biggest investment so do your homework before hiring an agent. Listing with a Realtor who lacks experience or does not do what's in your best interest will cause you to lose thousands of dollars. You need someone who is very responsive to property inquiries and will do a spectacular job during offer negotiations.
#2 - Pricing Your Home Correctly: Overpriced homes can quickly become stale and more time on the market causes buyers to be suspicious that something is wrong with the home. Start off on the right foot by pricing your home correctly. If you don't like the price initially recommended by your Realtor, then pay a few hundred dollars and get an appraisal before agreeing on an asking price.
#3 - Marketing: The more buyers that see your home, the better your chance of getting an offer (or multiple offers). To maximize exposure, make sure your Realtor has a spectacular digital marketing strategy since 92% of home buyers are looking online. Facebook had 1 billion users in a single day, for the first time, on August 27, 2015 (that's 1 in 7 people on Earth) so good social media exposure is essential! Photos and videos must be top quality to entice the buyers to view the home in person.
#4 - Condition of the Home: Carpet and paint are the least costly home improvement materials that provide the biggest return on investment. Are there things around the house that need fixing? If so, fix them before selling because the more things wrong that the buyer discovers, the harder they will look for other issues! Also, make sure the landscaping looks great!
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Quigley Down Under (1990)
Directed by: Simon Wincer
Starring: Alan Rickman, Chris Haywood, Laura San Giacomo, Tom Selleck
Continuity mistake: In one of the final scenes where Tom Selleck has a gunfight with Alan Rickman, the time of day during the few minutes (in movie time) the scene takes place varies from noon (full sunlight) to dusk. Just prior to the gunfight, when Selleck is getting ready to draw on Rickman and his two henchmen, there are almost no shadows and there is bright sunlight indicating it is in the middle of the day. Just after the gunfight there are now long shadows on the characters and moments later the camera pans across the hills and the sun is setting.
Factual error: In the scene where Quigley engages Marsten's men who are attacking the Aborigines, we see a man hit by a bullet and fall from his horse, then we hear the report of Quigley's rifle. When the man who gets away reports to Marsten, he estimates the range at three-quarters of a mile maybe. Marsten asks him how long after the bullet struck before he heard the report of the rifle. He answers two maybe three seconds. While this scenario would be plausible for a more modern high-powered cartridge like the .30-06, it is not accurate for the .45 2-7/8 Sharps Quigley is using. That cartridge loaded with 110 grains of black powder will propel a 540-grain bullet (best case) at around 1475 feet per second. Since the bullet is supersonic when it leaves the muzzle it will indeed precede the sound of the weapon's discharge for short distance. But not by very much and not for very long. The bullet goes transonic in about 400 yards and the the sound waves catch up to the bullet a little beyond 600 yards. After that, the rifle's report, travelling at a constant speed, gets progressively further AHEAD of the bullet which is gradually slowing. At three-quarters of a mile (1320 yards) the bullet's time of flight is about four seconds, while sound waves travel that same distance in three-and-a-half seconds. The man should have been struck at nearly the same time as, or up to half-second AFTER the report, depending on the actual range.
Plot hole: During the night-time firefight in the town, Quigley puts a 45 caliber, 500+ grain chunk of lead through a bad guy's thigh. Even supposing it didn't shred the femoral artery, it would have shattered the femur, making it unlikely that the evildoer could dash off into the night..
Suggested correction: It's entirely possible the bullet missed both the bone and the artery.
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Benzodiazepine tablet consumption for patients receiving long-term benzodiazepine therapy who were treated with placebo or controlled-release melatonin and successfully discontinued or failed to discontinue benzodiazepine therapy by week 6 of treatment.
Mean sleep-quality scores for patients receiving long-term benzodiazepine therapy at baseline and during the benzodiazepine therapy discontinuation study periods. Patients were treated with controlled-release melatonin during periods 1 and 2 or with placebo during period 1 and controlled-release melatonin during period 2. Values presented are mean ± SD for 34 patients for period 1 (weeks 1-6) and mean ± SD for 30 patients for period 2 (weeks 6-12). The range for sleep-quality score is 1 to 10 (1, poorest quality of sleep; 10, excellent quality of sleep).
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Benzodiazepines are the most frequently used drug for the treatment of insomnia. Prolonged use of benzodiazepine therapy is not recommended. However, many patients, particularly older patients, have difficulties discontinuing therapy. Melatonin, a hormone that is produced at night by the pineal gland, promotes normal sleep in humans and augments sleep induction by benzodiazepine therapy.
To assess whether the administration of melatonin could facilitate the discontinuation of benzodiazepine therapy in patients with insomnia.
Thirty-four subjects receiving benzodiazepine therapy were enrolled in the 2-period study. In period 1, patients received (double-blinded) melatonin (2 mg in a controlled-release formulation) or a placebo nightly for 6 weeks. They were encouraged to reduce their benzodiazepine dosage 50% during week 2, 75% during weeks 3 and 4, and to discontinue benzodiazepine therapy completely during weeks 5 and 6. In period 2, melatonin was administered (single-blinded) for 6 weeks to all subjects and attempts to discontinue benzodiazepine therapy were resumed. Benzodiazepine consumption and subjective sleep-quality scores were reported daily by all patients. All subjects were then allowed to continue melatonin therapy and follow-up reassessments were performed 6 months later.
By the end of period 1, 14 of 18 subjects who had received melatonin therapy, but only 4 of 16 in the placebo group, discontinued benzodiazepine therapy (P = .006). Sleep-quality scores were significantly higher in the melatonin therapy group (P = .04). Six additional subjects in the placebo group discontinued benzodiazepine therapy when given melatonin in period 2. The 6-month follow-up assessments revealed that of the 24 patients who discontinued benzodiazepine and received melatonin therapy, 19 maintained good sleep quality.
Controlled-release melatonin may effectively facilitate discontinuation of benzodiazepine therapy while maintaining good sleep quality.
INSOMNIA IS a common complaint that is particularly troublesome in the elderly. Treatment with benzodiazepines, the most commonly used drug in the treatment of insomnia, is considered safe.1 Nevertheless, the consensus guidelines for benzodiazepine therapy recommend prescription for the short-term therapy of insomnia, limited use for periods not exceeding 2 weeks, or intermittent courses.2 However, some patients continue benzodiazepine therapy for prolonged periods and this, particularly in elderly people, may be associated with impaired functional status.3 At least 50% of those receiving benzodiazepines have been reported to be willing to stop its use.4 However, development of physical and/or psychological dependencies and rebound insomnia seem to interrupt most attempts at discontinuation.4,5
Melatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxy-tryptamine), a hormone produced and secreted by the pineal gland into the blood circulation at night, plays a major role in the induction and regulation of sleep.6 Benzodiazepine therapy has been found to suppress the nocturnal rise in plasma melatonin and shift its day-night rhythmicity7; this suppression may interfere with normal sleep-wake rhythmicity.
Melatonin therapy has been found to significantly improve sleep quality in elderly insomniacs (>55 years)8-11 and in elderly insomniacs who had been undergoing benzodiazepine therapy for a prolonged period.12 In younger populations of insomnia patients (mean age, 33.4 and 46 years, respectively) the effects of melatonin therapy on sleep were equivocal.13,14 We have recently reported that the administration of melatonin enabled rapid discontinuation of benzodiazepine therapy in a 43-year-old woman who was "benzodiazepine addicted."15 Our main objective in this placebo-controlled trial was to assess whether melatonin therapy could facilitate the discontinuation of benzodiazepine therapy in long-term users.
The clinical study was performed in accordance with the guidelines set by the World Medical Assembly (ie, the latest version of the Declaration of Helsinki). Thirty-four patients who were living independently expressed willingness to discontinue benzodiazepine therapy, gave signed informed consent, and were enrolled in the study (9 men, 25 women; mean ± SD age, 68 ± 13 years; range, 40-90 years). None of these patients had cognitive impairment or liver or renal disorders (serum creatinine levels <133 µmol/L [1.5 mg/dL]). All subjects reported undergoing at least 1 type of benzodiazepine therapy daily for over 6 months; 27 received a single type of benzodiazepine therapy for sleep and 7 received a combination of 2 types (oxazepam [n = 13], brotizolam [n = 11], flunitrazepam [n = 5], lorazepam [n = 5], alprazolam [n = 4], nitrazepam [n = 2], and triazolam [n = 1]). All subjects received 0.5 to 2 benzodiazepine tablets per day.
Before entering the study, subjects were asked to collect all urine excreted between 10 AM and 10 PM and between 10 PM and 10 AM. Urine was collected, the volume was measured, and 1-mL samples from each collection were frozen for future measurement of levels of urinary 6-sulfatoxymelatonin (6-SMT), the main melatonin metabolite, in duplicate by radioimmunoassay (Stockgrand Ltd, Guilford, Surrey, England).
Patients received a controlled-release formulation of melatonin (CRM) that overcomes the fast clearance of melatonin (serum half-life of about 40 minutes)16 and has been found to improve the nocturnal sleep of insomniacs.8,9,12,15 A gradual benzodiazepine-tapering protocol was employed in an attempt to alleviate possible psychological dependence and enhance compliance.
The study included 2 periods. In period 1, subjects were randomized (double-blinded) to receive either 2 mg of CRM therapy (Circadin; Neurim Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Tel Aviv) or a placebo that was identical in appearance, 2 hours before bedtime (9-11 PM) for 6 weeks. During this period, patients were encouraged to reduce their usual benzodiazepine therapy dosage 50% during week 2, 75% during weeks 3 and 4, and then to discontinue benzodiazepine completely during weeks 5 and 6. In period 2, CRM therapy was administered (single-blinded) to patients of both the CRM therapy and placebo groups for another 6 weeks (weeks 7-12 of the study). Subjects who did not succeed in stopping benzodiazepine therapy during period 1 were encouraged to further reduce benzodiazepine dosage 50%, 75%, and 100% during weeks 8, 9 and 10, and 11 and 12, respectively. Subjects were informed that they were receiving at least 1 period of active treatment during the study, but they were unaware of whether they were receiving CRM therapy or placebo during each of these periods.
Throughout periods 1 and 2, benzodiazepine consumption and subjective sleep-quality scores were reported every morning by all subjects using a simple questionnaire. In this questionnaire, benzodiazepine consumption was reported as the number of tablets, and subjective assessment of sleep quality was reported as numerical ratings from 1 to 10 (1, poorest quality of sleep; 10, excellent sleep quality). Sleep-quality scores were averaged for each of the 12 weeks of the study. Collection and entry of all data were completed before revealing the randomization codes of the study. Only those subjects who had absolute 0 consumption over week 6 of the double-blind or single-blind periods were considered to have successfully discontinued benzodiazepine therapy.
Following the study, subjects who wished to continue treatment were given the same dosage of CRM every evening. Reassessments of subjective sleep quality and benzodiazepine and CRM consumption were performed after 6 months.
The placebo (n = 16) and CRM therapy (n = 18) groups were comparable with regard to the female-male ratio (11:5 vs 14:4, respectively; mean ± SD age, 68 ± 16 vs 69 ± 11 years; range, 40-87 vs 52-90 years, respectively), daily prestudy benzodiazepine consumption (1.23 ± 0.61 vs 1.08 ± 0.38 tablets, respectively; range, 0.5-2.0 tablets), the types of benzodiazepine therapy administered, and the mean ± SD sleep-quality scores (6.13 ± 2.71 vs 6.82 ± 1.56; range, 2-10 vs 5-10, respectively).
Only 13 (8 women, 5 men) of the 34 patients complied with urine collection. The mean ± SD level of excretion of 6-SMT in 24 hours was 121 ± 173 (median, 57 µg/24 h; range, 12-617 µg/24 h). Ten of the 13 subjects manifested a paradoxical melatonin cycle; their mean ± SD daytime level of 6-SMT excretion (92 ± 126 µg/12 h; range, 6-435 g/12 h) exceeded their mean ± SD nighttime excretion level (56 ± 69 µg/12 h; range, 2-196 µg/12 h).
Detailed descriptions of the tapering patterns for benzodiazepine therapy in patients who succeeded and failed in the CRM therapy and placebo groups are presented in Figure 1. An overall tapering of benzodiazepine dosage with time was evident in both groups, as indicated by a significant time effect on benzodiazepine consumption (F5,150 = 54.07; P<.001). By the end of period 1, the benzodiazepine therapy discontinuation rate in the group receiving CRM therapy significantly exceeded that of the placebo group (11 of 18 vs 4 of 16, respectively [χ21 = 3.86; P = .05 for week 5] and 14 of 18 vs 4 of 16, respectively [χ21 = 9.47; P = .002 for week 6]).
The mean sleep-quality scores in the CRM therapy and placebo groups during period 1 are shown in Figure 2. Despite a higher rate of benzodiazepine discontinuation in the CRM therapy group, the sleep-quality scores in this group did not decrease. This is indicated by the lack of treatment and time effects (F1,29 = 1.97, P = .17 and F5,145 = 0.45; P = .82, respectively) and by the lack of interaction between treatment and time (F5,145 = 2.04; P = .08). Moreover, sleep scores computed for week 6 were significantly higher for the CRM therapy group than the placebo group (t test, P = .04).
Of the 34 enrolled patients, 30 (15 of 18 of the CRM therapy patients and 15 of 16 of the placebo patients) were willing to participate in period 2. Following 1 week of CRM treatment (on week 7), 6 additional subjects from the placebo group discontinued benzodiazepine therapy. Altogether, the number of patients who discontinued benzodiazepine therapy during periods 1 and 2 was 10 of 16 in the placebo group compared with 14 of 18 in the CRM therapy group.
The mean sleep-quality scores during period 2 (weeks 6-12) are shown in Figure 2. Just as in period 1, sleep quality was maintained in period 2 despite benzodiazepine discontinuation; this was indicated by the lack of time and treatment effects (F5,145 = 0.45; P = .82; and F1,29 = 1.97; P = .17, respectively) and the lack of interaction between treatment and time (F5,145 = 2.04; P = .08).
All 30 subjects who completed period 2 chose to continue CRM therapy; 24 of these subjects discontinued benzodiazepine therapy during period 1 or 2, and 6 failed to do so. After 6 months of CRM therapy, 19 (79%) of 24 patients who discontinued benzodiazepine therapy during the study still received melatonin therapy and remained free of benzodiazepine usage, while only 5 of the 24 who had discontinued benzodiazepine therapy during the study later resumed benzodiazepine treatment. The 6 patients who failed to discontinue benzodiazepine therapy during the study continued both CRM and benzodiazepine therapy. After 6 months of CRM therapy, the mean ± SD subjective sleep-quality score for the 19 subjects who discontinued benzodiazepine therapy was significantly higher than their mean ± SD prestudy score (8.05 ± 1.0 vs 6.26 ± 2.36, respectively; P = .002).
There was no apparent association between successful benzodiazepine therapy discontinuation and the specific type of benzodiazepine treatment used. The discontinuation rate was 8 of 13 for oxazepam, 8 of 11 for brotizolam, 2 of 5 for lorazepam, 1 of 2 for nitrazepam, 1 of 4 for alprazolam, and 1 of 5 for flunitrazepam therapy.
Overall safety and tolerability were good and identical for both groups. The most commonly reported adverse symptom in the CRM therapy and placebo groups was headache (2 vs 1 subject, respectively). No subjects withdrew from the study because of adverse effects.
Our results indicate that CRM therapy significantly facilitates the discontinuation of benzodiazepine therapy for long-term users compared with placebo. Despite the high rate of benzodiazepine therapy discontinuation in the CRM therapy group, sleep quality did not diminish. Moreover, by the end of period 1, sleep quality was significantly better in the CRM therapy group (in which 14 of 18 patients discontinued benzodiazepine therapy) compared with the placebo group (in which 12 of 16 patients still received benzodiazepine). The rate of benzodiazepine therapy discontinuation found in our placebo group (25%) is somewhat higher than that of spontaneous discontinuation (16%) reported in the United Kingdom in an 8-month follow-up study of 3234 patients receiving benzodiazepine,17 possibly because of our tapering protocol.
The higher benzodiazepine therapy discontinuation rate in the CRM therapy compared with the placebo group cannot be attributed to differences in benzodiazepine therapy starting dosages or to subject compliance, since when given CRM therapy (in period 2), patients who had initially received placebo achieved benzodiazepine therapy discontinuation rates and sleep-quality scores comparable with those of the CRM therapy group. Moreover, the mean tablet consumption rate of the patients in the placebo group who succeeded to discontinue benzodiazepine therapy was slightly higher than that for those who failed benzodiazepine therapy discontinuation; the opposite was true for the melatonin therapy group. The significant time effect also indicates that attempts to reduce benzodiazepine consumption during the study were similar in the 2 groups.
Some patients who could not stop benzodiazepine therapy completely did reduce their dosages while receiving CRM. Many of those patients insisted on taking "a quarter" of the benzodiazepine tablet they had been using for years, probably owing to psychological dependence. However, as our study goal was to achieve complete discontinuation of benzodiazepine therapy, we categorized those patients as treatment failures.
The facilitation of benzodiazepine therapy discontinuation by CRM therapy was achieved with each of the different benzodiazepine preparations used by our patients, including those with a short half-life, which are considered to be more difficult to discontinue.18 However, a larger group of patients should be studied to clarify whether CRM therapy would be equally effective for discontinuation of benzodiazepine therapy with different pharmacokinetics.
There are several possible explanations for maintaining the same or even better sleep quality despite discontinuation of benzodiazepine therapy. First of all, subjects may have developed a tolerance to benzodiazepine before entering the study.19 Their sleep quality may have already been reduced and therefore not significantly affected by discontinuation of benzodiazepine therapy. Second, melatonin therapy has been shown to shorten sleep latency in healthy young individuals as well as in elderly insomniacs.8-11 Hence, the success of CRM therapy in facilitating benzodiazepine therapy discontinuation may be attributed, at least in part, to beneficial effects on sleep induction. This hypothesis is further strengthened in light of a recent report showing that the depth of sleep (decreased stage 1 sleep and increased stages 3-4 sleep) and sleep latency were the best predictors of subjective sleep satisfaction in older adults with insomnia.20
Notably, a majority of those subjects who complied with urine collection produced normal amounts of melatonin (6-SMT, >50 µg/24 h) but with a paradoxical greater excretion during daytime. This is compatible with a previous report7 and hints at the possibility that the efficacy of melatonin in benzodiazepine therapy discontinuation is possible in patients producing sufficient amount of endogenous melatonin but in whom circadian rhythmicity is impaired.
Not uncommonly, a person may initiate benzodiazepine therapy for any indication (eg, anxiety or insomnia) and for some reason continue to take it for several weeks or months. Long-term benzodiazepine therapy may impair the endogenous melatonin rhythm, which may in turn induce or aggravate sleep disturbances. Administration of CRM may break this vicious cycle by normalizing the night peak of melatonin and reinstating a robust nocturnal melatonin signal that results in improved night sleep. Such improvement may enable discontinuation of benzodiazepine therapy, which in many cases is already ineffective, counterproductive, and perhaps even unnecessary.
One may doubt the clinical benefit of benzodiazepine therapy discontinuation, arguing that we are merely substituting 1 type of drug (CRM) for another (benzodiazepines). A number of studies in elderly insomniacs, children, and patients with delayed sleep-phase syndrome as well as 2 case reports of a blind man and a sighted woman8,21-23 reported that patients receiving melatonin therapy did not develop tolerance to the hormone during prolonged periods of use8,21-23 and experienced no withdrawal effects upon discontinuation.23
Accepted for publication August 3, 1999.
We thank Judith Laufer for the devoted and careful coordination of the study and Neurim Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Tel Aviv, for the medications and the financial support of the study nurse.
Statistical evaluations were performed by Ricardo Tarasch, MSc, Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University.
Corresponding author: Nava Zisapel, PhD, Department of Neurobiochemistry, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel (e-mail: email@example.com).


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Since everyone seemed to enjoy seeing a picture of the gold dragon I stitched, I thought I'd toss up a couple more pics of older designs I have done, just so you have something pretty to look at since you loaded my page. :)
Love Home Joy
Designer: Ursula Michael
I saw this design in the June 2005 issue of "The Cross Stitcher" magazine. I started stitching it when I saw it again while I was re-reading my magazines and finished it on July 12, 2006. It took me two weeks and it was my first sampler. It captured me somehow and I ended up stitching for hours every day until it was done. I loved the way the greens and blues worked together. The pic isn't great though.
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Designer: Paula Vaughn
I finished this in 2001 after 18 months or so of stitching. This was difficult to do beacuse I did it on 18ct Aida. I hadn't tried evenweave at that point and my one earlier attempt on linen drove me batty. But I wished I had tried evenweave because there were a lot of 1/2 and 3/4 stitches on this piece and over 2 threads make those stitches so much easier! This is the one piece of my stitching that I have no clue what happened to it. A former friend of my son's had looked at it and said his mother would have loved to receive something like that. I told him I would teach him to stitch then put it back in the storage drawer. Well the next time I went to pull it out, it was gone and I have not found it anywhere. I figure that boy stole it because he did steal other things (video games and toys from my son), which is one of the reasons he is no longer my son's friend. Eventually I will stitch it again, it was a very enjoyable stitch and I figure it will be even better (and easier) on evenweave.
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I finished this piece, on aida, in 3 months. I started in Dec of 1998 and finished in Feb or March of 1999. The only reason I finished such a complicated chart so quickly was because I was bedridden so I stitched all day long, every day. I gave this piece away to a friend of mine and she still has it to this day and still loves it. I bought it as a kit, and as usual (in my experiences anyway) for a kit I ran out of thread. Luckily it contained and was charted for DMC so I just pulled the appropriate colors from my small stash (was small then, not anymore!) and finished it.
Hopefully I will have some new stitching to show tomorrow. I will be in bed again, but I am able to sit up longer before having to lay down, so hopefully I can stitch on something!


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Calumet acquires Americain, Melbourne Cup winner, for stallion duty
Group 1 winner Americain, retired earlier this month, will begin his stud career in 2013 at Calumet Farm in Lexington, Ky.
A 7-year-old Dynaformer horse who captured Australia's Group 1 Melbourne Cup in 2010, Americain is scheduled to arrive in Kentucky in December. Americain becomes the second stallion added to the Calumet roster since Brad Kelley acquired the operation. In May 2012, Kelley purchased Calumet for about $36 million from a trust that had been established by the late Henryk de Kwiatkowski, and he moved his Hurricane Hall and Bluegrass Hall breeding and racing operations to the historic property. Earlier this month, it was announced that multiple graded stakes winner Aikenite will enter stud at the farm next year.
Calumet purchased a half-interest in Americain, with Gerry and Val Ryan and Kevin and Colleen Bamford, who campaigned the horse on the track, retaining the other half. The Ryan and Bamford concerns plan to send mares to the Northern Hemisphere to breed to Americain, while Calumet owns several mares purchased with the intent of breeding to the late Dynaformer who will now visit Americain.
The globe-trotting Americain won 11 of 34 career starts and earned $5,780,679 while competing on four continents. His biggest victory came in the 150th anniversary edition of the Melbourne Cup, which he won by 2 3/4 lengths. The Melbourne Cup was the third consecutive group stakes victory at that time for Americain, who prepped by winning the Group 2 Prix Kergorlay in France and the Group 3 Geelong Cup in Australia.
Americain, who also won the Group 2 Sandown Classic and Group 2 Moonee Valley Gold Cup in Australia in 2011 and the Group 2 Prix Vicomtesse Vigier in France in 2009, was Group 1-placed on three other occasions. He was named Europe's champion stayer of 2010 and Australia's champion stayer in 2011.Out of the Group 2-winning Arazi mare America, American is a half-brother to Group 2-placed winner Spycrawler and stakes-placed winner Amarak.


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It's hard to believe, but a Missouri dog breeder described as "one of the worst puppy mills in the country" by the United States Humane Society, could make thousands of dollars selling its dogs, even though it has reached an agreement with the Missouri Attorney General that forces the breeder to go out of business by the end of the month.
More on that, later.
In a series of scathing inspection reports filed during the last 3 years, inspectors with the United States Department of Agriculture found repeated examples of sick and neglected dogs kept in terrible conditions at S & S Family Puppies. State inspectors also found many violations in recent inspections. According to the consent agreement, the owners are Charles and Diana Stephenson of Milan, Missouri, but USDA records also identify Brandi Cheney, the Stephenson's daughter, as one of the principals in the operation, although the Stephensons insist Cheney owned her own kennel and was simply listed as a co-owner of S & S on the USDA reports.
How bad was S & S Family Puppies?
During a routine inspection on April 13, USDA inspectors found a thin three week old puppy laying on its side shivering. They found an "abnormal soft spot" on the puppy's head that was 1 inch long and 1/2 inch wide. The owner told them that its head was too big for its soft top. QA veterinarian had not seen the puppy, instead the Stephensons were "letting it run its course."
During another USDA inspection 6 weeks earlier, inspectors found 8 dogs needing immediate veterinarian care. Many of them were thin, looked sick and had prominant bones that looked like they were sticking out. Several sdogs had exposed skin that had turned red.
I could continue, but the issues with many other inspections also reflect the poor care and filth found by the USDA this year.
I talked with S & S owner Charles Stephenson this afternoon. He told me "48 or 49" dogs will be auctioned off on Saturday, and that he will be able to keep some of the profit from the sale, though it's not clear how much. Mr. Stephenson claimed the USDA was "picky on little things," and that "we didn't feel like we neglected the dogs." He told me the violations looked worse on paper than the dogs did in person.
Mr. Stephenson said he and his wife had owned the kennel for 28 years. Under the consent agreement they will be forced out by the end of the month. He emphasized that they were "voluntarily getting out," but he later admitted that they felt like the state was going to force them out anyway. So, why not agree to it, then pocket some of the profit from the sale?
The Stephensons will be able to collect profit from the sale, but the consent agreement prohibits them from running a commercial kennel for at least 8 years. That means they will not be buying back any of their dogs. The same rules didn't apply to notorious dog breeder Jewell Bond in 2007. After she "surrendered" her dogs, the state agreement allowed her to pocket more than $28,361 from the sale. She spent $3,442 buying back some of the same dogs she had just surrendered to the state. Two years later, there was a raid on Bond's property, and investigators seized more dogs. She was not allowed to buy any of them back. Here's a link to the story we did on Bond 2 years ago.
When we broke the story about Jewell Bond's auction buyback, the new Agriculture Commissioner, Jon Hagler, called it "unacceptable." He told me nothing like that would happen on his watch. It's clear after reading the consent agreement that if the Stephensons can't run a commercial breeding operation, it won't benefit them to buy any of the dogs up for auction. However, their daughter Brandi, who runs her own kennel, has the right to buy her parents' dogs.
Charles Stephenson insists he wasn't treated fairly by inspectors, but it looks like S & S Family Puppies had more than a few opportunities to clean up their act and provide better care for their dogs. They failed repeatedly. Now, the dogs will get another chance at life, though it may very well be in a different puppy mill.
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