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Monday, December 17, 2007
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- Distributorcap said...
i have done nothing......even tho Hannukah has past, everything my family does is on christmas
heading to boston on sunday for the holiday -- and it looks like the present this year for everyone is cooking breakfast and dinner and of course cleaning....
- Randal Graves said...
Bought some junk for the kids, and that's the end of it. Oh, December 26th, come quickly please!
- niCk (Mem Beth) said...
You have a head start, compared to me.
I'm looking forward to January. I'm going to just try to ignore the next week.
(except for the Grandkids, of course)
- SB Gypsy said...
I have all my X-mas shopping to do, and I'm doin' MOST of it at the bank!
That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it.
- fallenmonk said...
It depends on the gift PoP. You and Mr. PoP are going to Sanibel for a holiday which will be great and no need for presents. Madam and I each get one gift from each other and that shopping is already done. So I am set.
- Sherry said...
i'm finished except for all the cooking for xmas eve.
i'm surprised at that. i'm usually very far behind.
- dguzman said...
I'm pretty much set, as I only have a couple of people to buy for. I really made an effort to start early this year (mid-November) and take my time.
- said...
We're doing no gifts this year so that's no problem. The Spawn got through a giftless Hanukkah without dying so a giftless Christmas should be just as easy.
Actually, other than a few decorations, we're going very low key. No cards. No parties. The charity gifts and the gift for the class gift exchange for our youngest have been purchased, wrapped and delivered to the school, so really that's it.
The only thing left is to bake a few cookies (a tradition) and hang around and watch XMas specials on DVD. Oh, and eat Chinese on XMas eve. (another tradition)
This no heavy spending thing could become a tradition, too. I hope!
Happy holidays to all.
- Mary Ellen said...
Like dguzman, I'm just about all set when it comes to the Christmas shopping. I had to get an early start because two of my daughters and two grandchildren live out of state and they had to be shipped early. Although, I just got a call from my daughter in Pennsylvania and she said my four year old granddaughter sneaked into the box of gifts, brought them to her room, unwrapped them and hid them under her bed. She even unwrapped her brothers gifts! Brat!!! Next year she gets coal.
The worse person to buy for is my 94 year old mother-in-law. If I buy her a really pretty outfit, even if it's in her favorite color, she won't wear it. It will hang in her closet. BUT, she then has her daughter drive her to the Salvation Army store and she buys clothes there that are not in the best shape. The important thing to her is that she only spent 50 cents for a blouse or $2 for a pair of slacks.
This year, I'm going to tell her I found the outfit I bought her at the Salvation Army or Goodwill and I only paid $2.50. Maybe she'll wear it then. Sheesh.
- Coffee Messiah said...
Hey, you've beat me by one! ; )
My Best to You and Yours! ; )
- annie said...
i have almost totally ignored the pressure to spend, shop, worry, and stress this year. a first! and it feels awesome. this week i will get the "kids" (15, 21, & 25) their gifts-the adults are not exchanging them. part of the inspiration to lighten the load has been economics. we had a very rough year, so why get deeper in the debt cesspool? just trying a different approach, for these very different times.
- Comandante Agí said...
We're about half way done with shopping. But this year we're trying to keep it simple. I strongly recommend watching the documentary What Would Jesus Buy?. It will make you think twice about the consumerist season.
Looks like Jessica Simpson jinxed your team. Romo should tell her to stay home next time...
- betmo said...
or not. we opted for not this year and i have to tell you- it's freeing. kids only gifts and taking the money we would have spent and going away for a weekend by ourselves is a heckuva lot better idea. we are quite pleased. next year- i think i am going to cut out the marathon baking too. just a few cookies here and there- and feasting instead. no more consumeristic holidays for the betmos!! cheers!
- robin andrea said...
We don't celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah, so we just slide through the buying season unscathed. We do celebrate the return of the sun during solstice. Nothing fancy, just a peek at the sunrise and a grateful welcome back.
- Colonel Colonel said...
We got the tree up this weekend, but haven't decorated it yet, and I got the outside lights up on the porch. Gift shopping? Oh, yeah, that...
- TaraDharma said...
maybe the 'program' this year is to kick back....
i announced early on that this is what I'm doing....it's been a fairly restful season so far. Ah....
- Candace said...
No tree or decorations up this year because the house is on the market, we have a new, very rambunctious cat, plus I'm not having a houseful over for Christmas dinner this year - yay!
Shopping? Done. Online. Everything's arrived, still in their packages, tho. So guess I should at least take them out and make sure they're what I ordered... Then wrap them. Yawn.
- dguzman said...
Commander Agi is right! That bimbo Jessica Simpson made us lose! It's just like Mickey said on Rocky: "Women! Weaken! Legs!"
PS--I tagged ya, and now yer it--see my birdy blog if you feel like obliging. If not, just curl up with Fred and Murray and have a good afternoon!
- Dave said...
Hey... Be positive... at least you have started. All the best fpr the rest of the week. :-)
- isabelita said...
Well, freaking out about HAVING to do a bunch of tasks for something that could be fun, like a wedding or a special day, seems useless to me. When people whine about all the work they HAVE to do for a wedding, I ask them, so why are you doing it? Elope! Same for this time of year. Bake a few cookies, or some panettone, but why feel obligated and unhappy?
As my almost 90 yer mother always used to say,"Is this REALLY necessary?" Most of the time, nope.
- Weaseldog said...
I'm getting my minivan fixed for Christmas!
It hasn't been road worthy in almost two years.
- Dr. Monkey Von Monkerstein said...
All I have left is to buy one more gift and then to wrap some. Nah nah nah.
- Sparky Duck said...
decorations outside-check
presents for wife-sorta check
family polyanna-not so good
work polyanna-ideas, though nothing purchased
xmas eve menu-half way done.
rest? never
- Forty Paws said...
Well, there is still a week left. Don't sweat it!
- Jazz said...
Um I'd rather just not think about that right now ok?
- Weaseldog said...
I'm still trying to find out what my wife wants for Christmas.
She has two lists.
The first list is the fantasy list of things we can't get or do. It is filling fast.
The second list is of things that are grounded in reality. It is empty.
- Tequila Mockingbird said...
giftmas is where it's at. booze, friends, family, food and presents.


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- Review of the evening as a whole;
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- 1970,
- 1977 single,
- 1977 magnum,
- 1980,
- 1983,
- 1985,
- 1991,
- 1994;
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1994 Smith Woodhouse
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1994 Smith Woodhouse
A triple vertical of Gould Campbell, Smith Woodhouse and Quarles Harris, at the RAF Club on Thursday 17th November 2011, in honour of the 30th Birthday of the organiser. Links:
Re: 1994 Smith Woodhouse
SW94. Taste was of very dark fruit, with lemon on the tongue. Not come together: perhaps the current phase of the 1994s.
Re: 1994 Smith Woodhouse
very dark red, slight bits of purple, classy restraint nose, a bit rasiny, quite long, despite closed very nice wine and well structured.
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Re: 1994 Smith Woodhouse
Deep red, very rich appearance; opaque. Sharp rhubarb on the nose, but less than on the QH94. Full bodied, with a thick texture and mouth-filling fruit flavours. Soft acidity, very gentle tannins and a beautiful balnce. Fruit and chocolate aftertaste before a long gentle finish of soft coffee. Terrific balance and great poise. 91/100.
Top Port in 2017 (so far): Graham Stone Terraces 2015 and Quinta do Vesuvio 1994
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Re: 1994 Smith Woodhouse
Very closed. A mid-weight wine that is very dry. Not giving much away at this stage.
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I never thought I could love someone so much that I've never met. Thank you for keeping my soul in good faith. Thank you for helping me strive to dream big. Thank you for the blessing of your little movements that amount to more than I could have ever imagined. My sweet Sydney, I love you and I haven't even laid eyes on you.
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Nearly every town in America houses some kind of franchise, whether that be a restaurant, hotel, home improvement store, hair salon — the list goes on. Franchises account for around 9 million jobs in America, making them an integral part of the economy.… Read More
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Whew, I have not posted for a week, did you miss me? Let's catch up on what's going on!
As usual at this time of year, preparing for Creative University has been taking up most of my time for the past few weeks. Less than a month away and still so much to do! The logowear is always a big deal, and I just revealed this year's new items to my CU students.
My husband and I traveled to Idaho to celebrate a very important birthday. My mother-in-law just turned 80. All four of her sons and their wives had a fabulous time and a swanky dinner at an elegant restaurant overlooking the river. So much fun to get away for a grown-up only weekend!
My ustream show last week on painted canvas did not record in full, dang it. So if you're looking for it, I had to remove the partially-recorded program, it just didn't make sense to leave it up, the "how-to" would have been a "what-now?" After months of trouble-free broadcasting, this is my month to screw up. I will re-visit that particular technique at another time, later this spring.
After much thought, and hard decision making, tonight's episode of Fabulously Artsy LIVE on ustream will be my last regularly scheduled show for a while. I love broadcasting the show, and will try to throw in an impromptu show here and there, but my time is just so limited right now. So much to do, and a weekly show is just not do-able at this time. After February is over, I'll be able to get back into the swing of things, but until then, I will miss everyone! For my loyal ustream viewers, don't give up on me, I'll be back as soon as I can! I'll still be posting regularly on my little blog, so you can get your Fabulously Artsy fix here!


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An interview with Deb Dana, LCSW about working with sex offenders. Deb clarifies the difference between pedophiles whose sexual desires only include children, and who are highly likely to re-offend, and sex-offenders who do have adult sexual desires but use the child victim to meet other needs and are less likely to re-offend. She offers tremendous hope for families where sexual abuse has taken place.
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Anxiety chest pain is very understandable, whichever comes first - the anxiety or the pain. Anxiety can tighten muscles which may be sore already, and put an extra load on our heart by speeding it up, bringing on angina.
A diagnosis of life threatening disease of any sort, is a recipe for anxiety +++
I am always very impressed with people who genuinely are not afraid of death, for whatever reason.
Modern advances in the care of heart disease, fortunately have dramatically reduced the risk of death from it.
If angina pain attacks make you understandably anxious, this may well prolong the attack. A little visualization exercise now may help you compose yourself and end the attack.
Sit down and close your eyes, then imagine you are somewhere quiet and peaceful, such as in a park. In your imagination, fill in some details of the scene and have something happening there for you to watch.
Another effective method for dealing with such anxiety chest pain, needs a clock with a second hand in sight. Watch the second hand and breath in steadily over 5 seconds, and out over the next 5 seconds. Continue this, putting all your attention on the air coming in and going out of your lungs.
People can be so used to having tight muscles, that they regard how they feel as normal.
In his book "Killing Pain Without Prescription," Harold Gelb describes a young patient who complained of numb areas, which turned out to be the only parts where she had no pain.
Tight muscles can be bordering on painful all the time. Any little extra tension, from even a fleeting anxious thought, can then produce an immediate pain (here anxiety chest pain, but also very commonly headache.)
Soldier's heart syndrome, or Da Costa's syndrome, has sharp left sided anxiety chest pain from such muscles (tight because of problems in cervical and thoracic spine usually.)
Precordial Catch Syndrome (PCS) also called Texidor's twinge, in young people, is the same condition, with the anxiety a secondary effect of the pain.
The next two pages of this site are to do with these muscles.
Another typical symptom of anxiety is a twitching in the corner of one's eye. This is a very good indicator of a dietary deficiency of the element magnesium, and responds rapidly to supplementation with chelated magnesium 500mg.
Bach flower rescue remedy drops can be rapidly effective,
The Schussler biochemic tissue salts, potassium and magnesium phosphate also can help.
Anxiety is like apprehension or fear - an emotional feeling.
Whatever other symptom is occurring with an anxiety disorder, there will have to be a physical basis for that symptom.
One anxious person will have headache, another diarrhea. There will be something wrong with upper body or bowel respectively, to produce their particular local symptoms.
That physical problem will usually have multiple factors contributing to it, which may be manageable.
We always need to look beyond the immediate presenting complaint, for both psychological and physical factors. Wheels within wheels.
I have seen very dramatic changes in people's level of pain and anxiety when they have changed employment, leaving bad situations.
If you have chest pain and palpitations of your heart, it might be anxiety, but it might be a tachyarrhythmia . This is an abnormal, very rapid heart rhythm.
At the front of your wrist, there is an obvious tendon passing down to your thumb. Your pulse is just beside this, between it and the bone on that side of your wrist.
Gently place the index finger of your other hand on the pulse, and count the beats in 5 seconds. Five beats is 60/minute, well over fifteen is too fast for ordinary heart beat (180/min.)
It's too fast for your heart to function properly, too. There isn't time between beats for it to fill with blood. This can produce heart pain, but it isn't anxiety chest pain.
On an individual level, one's body chemistry has an enormous effect on emotions.
Our brain needs a constant supply of fuel. Glucose sugar is its' only fuel. This is stored in the liver as a starch called glycogen.
Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) causes low brain sugar (neuroglycopenia,) a very dangerous emergency. Our brain tells the adrenal glands to secrete the hormone Adrenaline.
Adrenaline tells our liver to release sugar into the bloodstream, but is also the hormone responsible for our "fright, fight, flight" response."
You may have had a fright and noticed 30 seconds later your heart nearly jumping out of your chest. That's adrenaline!
Reactive hypoglycemia can follow eating "high glycemic index" foods which are rapidly digested and absorbed into our blood stream.
Blood sugar control is a problem in perhaps 10% of people without diabetes or impaired glucose tolerance.
Foods such as potato crisps, biscuits and sugar containing drinks are commonly involved.
The blood sugar rises and falls rapidly, over shoots the fasting level and can stay lower for some time.
Hypoglycemia symptoms occur during the rapid drop and when the level is too low.
In other people, symptoms occur when it has been a long time since last eating. The sugar is low for a different reason, but the effects are the same.
Do you ever feel unwell when you are hungry? People can then get symptoms like headache, palpitations, fine tremor (shake,) irritability and hunger pains in their stomach.
Symptoms such as these, relieved fairly rapidly after eating, can be due to functional reactive hypoglycemia.
This is regarded as a non-entity in conventional medical circles. You can read about this at
update.com, but my experience is that it is a very real thing and can be usefully treated. I think the investigators worked with the wrong patients.
When I first learned of this condition in the 80's, I drove our pathology provider mad, ordering 5 hour glucose tolerance tests to diagnose this condition.
These days I just use a questionnaire from an excellent little book by Emanuel Cheraskin, called "Psychodietetics."
In early (occult) diabetes the same symptoms can occur, due to the glucose level dropping abnormally low.
A prologued glucose tolerance test is needed to pick up this late symptomatic hypoglycemia of early diabetes. The glucose level only drops abnormally low about 4 or 5 hours after the glucose dose is swallowed.
Snacking on foods which are more slowly digested, including boiled egg, sausage, cheese and salad vegetables.
A long drink made with a teaspoon of glycerine, lemon juice and water may relieve symptoms without a let down afterwards.
Folic acid (vitamin B9) 5mg three times a day, can improve our liver's ability to manufacture glucose. This was described by Fred Hofeldt and others years ago, but hasn't caught on.
It is very important to rule out deficiency of vitamin B12 , before this is used. This will require a check by your doctor. The level of vitamin B12 in your blood isn't enough on its own.
Measurement of homocysteine is needed as well, as one is more suspicious of a low normal B12 when homocysteine is high normal. Homocysteine goes up when B12 goes down.
In this circumstance, I conduct a therapeutic trial of vitamin B12, before giving folic acid.
This can happen even when blood sugar levels are normal.
Here exactly the same types of symptoms happen, as our brain runs short of glucose due to insulin resistance. There is plenty of sugar in the blood but it can't get into the brain cells.
Chromium supplements may be of use now.
It is so important to maintain adequate blood sugar levels, that we have 4 hormones involved as back up. Adrenaline as was mentioned above, glucagon, growth hormone and cortisol...
As well as adrenaline, our adrenal gland also produces cortisol hormone to help keep our blood sugar level stable.
People get low blood sugar symptoms when they have adrenal insufficiency, when the adrenal glands cannot produce enough cortisol.
This condition can be due to disease of your adrenal glands, but can also happen because they have been working hard and not supplied with enough nutrition.
Reduction of stress levels and vitamin C supplementation are good starters.
Hormone replacement therapy has become another dirty word in medicine. The Womens Health Initiative trials turned ideas on their head.
When the WHI trials were stopped early because of side effects of the hormones used, many women decided to stop their HRT.
Some of the good effects previously attributed to the HRT, from evidence such as the Nurses health study, were shown to be due to other lifestyle choices made as well as the HRT.
The excess ill effects matched the excess good effects, in the WHI. Both were 18 per 10,000 per 5 years. The problem was that the bad effects included breast cancer from the synthetic progestin.
Breast cancer was not the reason the oestrogen only arm of the study, was ceased.
When women come to see me with their emotions every which way, along with hot flushes, at the age when menopause could be expected, oestrogen is a very useful treatment to try.
Blood levels of hormones are not particularly useful now, and the therapeutic trial will give a quick answer and treatment.
It is not the best long term answer, but in the absence of a tendency to blood clots, is OK short term.
Synthetic progesterone is exactly the same as our body makes, and may be a very good addition.
relief by treating muscles involved in your anxiety chest pain
A lot of people believe that testosterone deficiency affects (grumpy) middle aged men. I dunno, maybe.
Anxiety chest pain or any anxiety, Dr. Claire Weekes little book, "Peace From Nervous Suffering," (Hawthorn Books) is likely to be very helpful.
Greene HL, Stifel FB, Herman RH: "Ketotic hypoglycemia" due to hepatic fructose-1,6-diphosphatase deficiency-Treatment with folic acid. Am J Dis Child 124:415-418, Sep 1972
Greene HL, Stifel FB, Herman RH: Hypoglycemia due to fructose-1,6-diphosphatase deficiency and the treatment of two patients with folate. Pediatr Res 6:432/172, Apr 1972
Fructose-1,6-diphosphatase deficiency, hypoglycemia, and response to folate therapy in a mother and her daughter. Taunton OD, Greene HL, Stifel FB, Hofeldt FD, Lufkin EG, Hagler L, Herman Y, Herman RH. Biochem Med. 1978 Apr;19(2):260-76.
Hofeldt, F. D., "Reactive Hypoglycemia," Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America, 18 (March 1989): 185-201.
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Dr Jack Jacoby provides confidential mentoring support to senior executives. This service is termed "Mentoring-in-Confidence.
Managers and directors of large organisations and corporations are expected to master every aspect of their organisation, their environment, their future and their organisation's stakeholder needs and expectations. The sad reality is that few, if any, master all these complex elements, yet the complexity of the modern corporation suggests that real mastery is exactly what is required for success.
For cultural, image, cost, personality and other reasons, very senior managers and directors are often loath to be seen to ask for help or to openly undertake certain types of learning programs. Such help and assistance is often interpreted as inadequacy of the manager.
Both managers and directors have expressed the desire for access to a confidante who is experienced, knowledgeable, networked and strategic, and has enough cross-corporate experience to provide meaningful, timely guidance in an entirely confidential manner.
Research and observation of Australian management and its context contends that:
The MIC is the highest level professional mentor available in the counselling market and is an amalgam of business coach, life coach, executive coach and oracle mentor.
The service provides senior managers and directors in large corporations with confidential advice (hence the name) and technical support in a manner that is invisible to the client's organisation and staff but with the approval of the Board of that organisation.
Synopsis of service:
The MIC service should be used in the following contexts:
A MIC is a professional, very senior and generally mature person with a broad and deep understanding of people, organisations, commercial processes, political processes and organisational systems and structures.
The MIC has superior talents in identifying root causes of issues and quickly providing options for action.
The MIC acts as a strategic angel, confidante, network pivot, devil's advocate, "technical filter" and mentor who challenges, guides, suggests, helps, helps develop strategies, facilitates and coordinates for his/her client.
The relationship is guided by strict confidentiality, ethical, honest, open, sensitive, professional and forthright standards and discipline.
The relationship built between a client and a MIC often develops into life-long friendship.
Fees for MIC do not vary significantly but variation does exist. Some of the variables that impact price are:
The value delivered has two key components – the client organisation and the client him/herself.
Confidentiality is a crucial attribute of the MIC responsibility. The sponsoring organisation by virtue of its sponsorship, knows which executives are being mentored and what the key characteristics of the "needs" are in each mentoring relationship. However, in order to optimise the benefits to the client and the sponsoring organisation from the mentoring process, it is necessary, to define at the outset which areas and issues are "open" knowledge and to whom, and which need to remain confidential.
The diagram below, illustrates the complexity of the "overlaps" and the degree of clarification needed as part of the MIC / Client matching and commencement process:
Before a client and MIC commence their relationship, JCG facilitates and obtains agreement on, a Confidentiality Scoping Agreement. This agreement is intended to ensure that all parties clearly understand and agree what shall remain confidential between:


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Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine
Programmes of Study at the Department
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The Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine participates in the education of medical doctors and offers individual subjects at bachelor-, masters-, and PhD-level. We also offer further education for health professionals.
Medical programme
- Medical programme, second and fourth year
Master programmes and subjects
- Master in Molecular Medicine
- Master in Pharmacy
- Master in Clinical Health Sciences – programme option Obesity and Health (Norwegian only)
PhD training programmes
Further education
- Further education in ultrasound diagnostics for midwives (Norwegian only)
- Ultrasound examination of the foetal heart (Norwegian only)
Contact for education questions
Do you have questions about our programmes of study?
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New! Central Iowa Business Conference
The Central Iowa Business Conference features keynote speaker Gino Wickman, author of the award-winning book "Traction" and closing keynote speaker Vicki Halsey, co-author of "Legendary Service". This conference is being held on October 11, 2017.
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Luke Gibson
Growing up, I was greatly influenced by my Grandfather's incredible musical taste. Inspired by Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, and other musical heroes from the 50's and 60's blues and Rock'n'Roll era, I eventually turned to writing my own music. By the young age of nine, I started playing guitar. By my early teens, my older brothers followed the indie music scene and started a band of their own. After multiple attempts of joining the band, I was denied. This is when I decided to do my own thing.
I played my first gig at fifteen in Bathgate and have been playing music ever since. I have played at venues from Edinburgh to Glasgow – Dundee to Aberdeen. I have opened for such artists as Bill Ryder-Jones from The Coral, and Kyle Falconer from The View. This fall I will be playing at the EH6 Music Festival in Leith, Scotland.
My lyrics speak tales of a modern world with a sound greatly influenced by my heroes from that golden age of blues and rock and roll. From that, I have developed my own sound that tells my story. I hope you enjoy it.


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C. difficile more widespread in hospitals, APIC finds
Thirteen out of every 1,000 inpatients were either infected or colonized with the germ, the one-day study found. A total of 648 hospitals participated and 1,443 patients with the bacteria were identified. C. difficile, which is often associated with previous antibiotic use, is a major problem in long-term care facilities. It can cause diarrhea and spread quickly through a facility. The study took place on one day between May and August.
APIC estimates that C. difficile affects more than 7,000 patients each day in hospitals. Costs to care for the infection range from $17.6 million to $51.5 million, APIC said in its study. The rate is 6.5 to 20 times higher than previously thought, according to APIC.


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So many of us are working day by day with a long-term wish to retire bubbling under the surface of our regular lives. We want to be free from our jobs, but are often disheartened by the common wisdom that we have to work until we're 65, at which point we may or may not have the necessary funds from which to maintain our current lifestyle. Jan and I are here to reinforce the argument that the common wisdom is bullshit. We don't need to work until we're 65. In reality, all we have to do is change our expectations and we can retire far earlier.
We're not the first to challenge this dominant philosophy on retirement, which is why we used the term "reinforce" in the previous paragraph. There is a growing community of advocates for early retirement (Your Money or Your Life, mrmoneymustache, GoCurryCracker, MadFIntist, just to name a few) ; most espousing the same philosophies of how to achieve this utterly achievable by anyone goal. We're going to add our own elements for the Life is Comfy crowd because although we love the resources we mentioned, and follow them regularly, none of them speak directly to us and our way of living.
As we talk about in our ABOUT section, we believe that we should be who we are, test our biases, change our life as appropriate, but do so within an area of comfort, rather than through extremes. Many of the early retirement crowd tend to take extremes, which for them may be awesome. Yet, when we looked at similar paths for ourselves we found that the extremes just did not fit in with our life goals. No sense in being extreme in something unless it allows you to be who you want to be and live the life you want to live.
The first question we recommend you ask yourself is: What kind of life do you want? Would you like to:
Work for others
Work for yourself
Not work at all
Until you can answer this question, it's not worth reading the rest of this post or looking at the worksheet below. This question is key to realizing what path makes the most sense for you and for your retirement planning. Unless a financial advisor, certified financial planner, or simply your cousin the accountant who you talk to about your future plans asks you this question first, it may not be worth listening to the rest of what they have to say either because what advice they give you will not be in line with the life you want to lead.
So, what kind of life do you want?
Great, now that you know what kind of life you want, let's delve deeper.
If you want to work for others because there is an organization that you love to work for and you don't see yourself leaving it, then fantastic! Do all you can to be the best person you can be to help that organization flourish, demonstrate your utility, and achieve the job satisfaction and outcomes you desire.
If you want to work for yourself, then you need to know what kind of work you love that you can get paid to do. This is a whole process in its own right, but luckily for you one we've talked about in Declaring Your Life Purpose. In that post we've offered up a free worksheet to help you figure this out for yourself pretty quickly. Go check it out now, we'll wait.
If you'd like to not work at all, awesome. The only question we recommend you then ask yourself is what do you love to do so that you won't get bored off your . . . ? Many people approach retirement without any idea of what they'll do once retired. We do not advocate taking this path. Even if all you want to do is lounge on a beach someplace in the Caribbean for the rest of your life while people bring you endless Pina Coladas, chances are you'll eventually want to crack a book, visit a kid somewhere, or possibly share your experience with others. You'll want to have some of those things lined up before pulling the retirement plug, or at least be open to discovering them once you've had a break from the daily grind.
So, now that we've asked you what you want your life to be like, we'll let you in on the planning we have for ours.
Jan: Ok working for others, prefers to work for herself, but honestly that Pina Colada (well, maybe lemonade) lifestyle sounds pretty good! Keep the family and friends (and occasional lasagna around) and I'm happy. There's a lot I'd like to give back, whether that's through work or volunteering.
Jeremy: Wholly and utterly want to work for myself and would go insane if I tried to do nothing. I have a million (ok, honestly I have no idea how many) ideas of projects I'd love to do in my life and the key thing holding me back is scarcity of time. I'd like to focus on the few from which I gain the most joy, and hopefully over the course of time begin to return a modest (very modest!) income to support a lifestyle of self-sustainment through personal creativity.
Joshua: Play! Just Play! Usually having something to do with sand, a sand box, excavators, and other construction equipment. We'll see where this leads over time.
Jan and I love our kid, and will soon enough hopefully be offering and providing that love to a second child. We want to spend as much time with these kids as possible, raising them ourselves rather than relying upon someone else to raise them for us. We also love creating new things. Each in our own way, we're artists, offering our art to the world. We want to be able to focus on that creation once we are financially independent. Therefore, our ideal retirement is based around spending time with our kids and creating art for the world. That Pina Colada will have its rightful place, though!
How much do I need?
Now, ask yourself, what does it take to get to where you want to be from where you are now? In order to answer this question, think about what skills, money, practices or routines, as well as following you need to achieve the outcome you desire. What education would you need to get the skills required? What money do you need to save to have what you'll require? On the other side of that coin, what kind of lifestyle can you live now to improve the chances of achieving that monetary outcome? Then, look at how you currently conduct your day, spend your time, and your preferences for the life you want. Are you living now as you would like to live? Are you practicing the habits that will get you to where you want to be? Are your routines, (which we offer advice about developing in Routines Are Fluid), the kind of routines that will build your preferred life? Are you developing the 1000 true fans that you need to support the lifestyle you want, whatever it is that you choose to create?
The Money Part
Once you know what you need, then you can work on developing your skills, money, practice, and following through education (self-taught, through courses, or with mentors), financial planning (through systems like using Betterment and Personal Capital), Practice (through developing routines), and developing a following (check out Tim Ferris and the Art of Manliness as two great examples of how to do this! We're not talking about their content, although that's high quality, but rather what they've built and how. They are great examples of creating a following to support their goals.)
In order to figure out how much you'll need in terms of money, you may also find it valuable to consider this question: Where geographically do you want to be? Most of the world is far less expensive than the United States in which to live. Your money requirements can differ greatly depending on whether you'd prefer to live in the United States, live abroad, or have a life that combines the two in some way. If you're open to living outside of the borders of the United States then chances are you can push forward the point at which you'll be able to support yourself financially. If you're not willing to leave the U.S., then possibly finding parts of the country that are not as expensive as others will help you achieve your preferred lifestyle sooner. If none of that sounds good, and you want to live it up in Manhattan, San Francisco, or Washington D.C. then simply being realistic about your monetary needs will allow you to avoid frustration as you wait a little longer to achieve your financial freedom.
How much will it cost for you to live in any of the places you'd like to live? Great resources for this include Numbeo, International Living magazine, and salary.com's cost of living calculator. Check them out for the places you'd like to be. Chances are you'll discover new places you haven't even considered yet. Again, we'll wait.
What you're doing now
Great, so now you know what you want to do, maybe have a few ideas of where you want to be and how much it will cost to live your life there. Isn't that awesome! Let's check into what you already have, do, and know that's taken you any distance on the path toward your preferred life. Personal Capital is an awesome tool for figuring out what you have financially. It's a free app, as well as website. You will be contacted about using their advising service. This service may be for you, it may not. Feel no obligation to use it. Yet, the free program is fantastic for figuring out where you are financially, plugging in numbers into their Retirement Planning tool, and seeing how your plans stack up with reality.
Beyond the financial, though, what are you already doing that takes you down your path. If you want to work for yourself, are you building that business? If you want to do nothing, are you getting that lounge chair ready? Again that Pina Colada is sounding really good right now!
From where you are now, how far do you need to go to get to where you want to be?
- On the financial side, how much do you still need to save to live where you want to live on the savings and earnings you expect?
- On the working side, what more do you have to do to develop the business you want to build?
- On the lounging side, how far are you from that beach or golf course? Knowing this gap, you can now work to address it.
There are a ton of great ideas on how to save more money, invest wiser, and spend less on MMM, MadFIintist, and Personal Capital.
For the non-monetary side of this gap resolution, talk to others who've taken this path, listen to podcasts like Startup if you want to start a business, or find ones that make sense for you.
Some suggestions on gap resolution include:
Develop a Side Hustle out of your business idea. Get it launched, start doing it, and build it as you're working your regular job. At the point at which it provides what you need to live, say goodbye to your regular job.
In terms of education options, consider free online providers such as Coursera, Khan Academy, and others. Also, reach out to your local Small Business Development Office to take free classes with them.
Tracking Progress
Look into the gaps that exist between where you are and where you want to be. We recommend developing a realistic perspective on how long it will take to address that gap. Then, add some time to that, as nothing happens as fast as we expect. Building yourself a timeline, ideally with milestones along that time-frame so that you know if you're on the right path going forward, allows you to regularly measure your progress against your goals, and adjust accordingly so that you don't show up on your expected day of financial independence finding yourself far short of your anticipated goal.
When setting up that timeline, consider some alternative paths toward the desired outcome you seek. You could build that awesome app that goes viral. Or, you could launch that kick-ass blog everyone wants to follow. Yet, are there other ways to get to where you want to be that would make you happy? Consider testing the paths you think would work to find the one you enjoy most that is most effective in getting you to where you want to be. Not being wed to a single path will allow you to develop the life you want without the heartbreak if what you specifically want to do does not work out as you expect. You'll build in resilience for your plan, making it far more likely that you'll hit your goal on or around the time you expect to.
To sum up:
Decide what kind of retirement you want.
Where do you want this retirement?
What does it take to get to this retirement?
Where am I now?
What gaps exist that I need to address?
What paths exist to get to where I want to be?
What timeline, milestones, and adjustments can I make along the way to ensure I get there?
If your are a Life is Comfy subscriber (click here to become one), you have access to a handout you can use to answer these questions for yourself. Chances are, if you're honest with yourself about what you want and your needs, you'll find that unless you specifically want to, no one should have to work until age 65. People retire in their 30's following this path. Jan and I came to it a little late, so we're looking at our early-to-mid-40's, which still isn't bad.
We're happy to help any of you work this out, if you have a hard time working it out for yourself. Please ask questions in the comments.
What kind of retirement do you want? Where will you live? Can we visit? Will you have Pina Coladas?


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Deep Hope Investments
Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15 (NRSV)
1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of King Zedekiah of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar. 2 At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and the prophet Jeremiah was confined in the court of the guard that was in the palace of the king of Judah, 3 where King Zedekiah of Judah had confined him. 6 Jeremiah said, The word of the Lord came to me: 7 Hanamel son of your uncle Shallum is going to come to you and say, "Buy my field that is at Anathoth, for the right of redemption by purchase is yours." 8 Then my cousin Hanamel came to me in the court of the guard, in accordance with the word of the Lord, and said to me, "Buy my field that is at Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for the right of possession and redemption is yours; buy it for yourself." Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord. 9 And I bought the field at Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel, and weighed out the money to him, seventeen shekels of silver. 10 I signed the deed, sealed it, got witnesses, and weighed the money on scales. 11 Then I took the sealed deed of purchase, containing the terms and conditions, and the open copy; 12 and I gave the deed of purchase to Baruch son of Neriah son of Mahseiah, in the presence of my cousin Hanamel, in the presence of the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase, and in the presence of all the Judeans who were sitting in the court of the guard. 13 In their presence I charged Baruch, saying, 14 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Take these deeds, both this sealed deed of purchase and this open deed, and put them in an earthenware jar, in order that they may last for a long time. 15 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall again be bought in this land.
This sermon is about hope. When you think of Hope in scripture, perhaps you first think of Hebrews 11: "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." Or maybe the first reading that comes to mind is not actually from Scripture at all, but from Emily Dickinson:
"Hope" is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all –
And yes, that's true. But this passage we read in Jeremiah, also offers us a different depiction of hope. One that isn't made of feathers, perching on our souls, but one that instead involves grit, extreme forward thinking, and betting against the odds. It's about a terrible real estate investment – one that was essentially flushing money down the toilet.
Here's the deal. Jeremiah was a prophet to Israel. Israel was a small parcel of land, compared to its neighbors. It was small, but it had a water source, important for agriculture, and it connected to the sea, important for trade and national security.
But Israel was in trouble this time, and Jeremiah knew it, because Babylon was a much larger nation, and had been attacking and taking over its smaller neighbors on all sides. The last ruling King of Israel, King Zedekiah, might have known deep in his gut that Israel was about to be overtaken, but he would not admit that to anyone, nor would he allow Jeremiah or any other prophet to infest his people with weak thinking; He needed his people in Jerusalem to stay strong and fight the Babylonians; not surrender.
So, King Zedekiah had Jeremiah thrown into jail. And from jail, Jeremiah had this vision from God - this premonition - that his cousin, Hanamel, would offer to sell him his land at Anathoth. So, when Hanamel did indeed come visit him in jail and offer to sell him his land at Anathoth, Jeremiah knew he had to say yes. There was a reason behind this.
It was a crazy real estate deal. Israel is about to be taken over by Babylon. Jeremiah knows it. Israelites are about to be marched out of their homes with whatever they can carry on their backs; many of them will never see their homeland again. Their homes, businesses, synagogues, they're all going to be a distant memory as these people make a new life for themselves in Babylon. Why buy land you know you won't inhabit?
Why spend your precious silver shekels – a commodity that will trade in Israel or Babylon or anywhere you can go – to purchase land whose value is about to plummet?
It would be as crazy as a Syrian family whose home was bombed out in Aleppo purchasing the bombed out homes next to it with all the remaining cash they had. Meanwhile, there's very little clean water and food in the city. Prices go up every week. Bombings continue. Help is nowhere in sight. Most everyone who could get out has already left. This situation will not "go back to normal" in their lifetimes.
There's no real way to make sense of this land purchase from Jeremiah's perspective, except that he felt compelled by God and he had a whole lot of hope. So yes, he got a good deal on the land. He paid around four months' wages for the land, so he essentially bought it at less than foreclosure rates. He got a good deal because people with half a brain knew it would be essentially worthless for their lifetimes, because of Babylonian occupation.
But Jeremiah was compelled and he had a whole lot of hope. Because his understanding of time was not just his own understanding. Jeremiah was looking at the opportunity through the lens of God's time. Jeremiah had hope – not in King Zedekiah's ability to stave off the Babylonians – but that God would redeem Israel in God's own time, and when that time came, his people would hold the title to the land. You see, the field that Jeremiah bought was inside the gates of Jerusalem. Jerusalem – God's holy city that God would indeed reclaim.
Jeremiah, the prophet, was a realist. He knew Israel couldn't stand up to Babylon. But he also had a deep hope that God would redeem it in the long run. And what could send a stronger message of hope to the townsfolk than to hear Jeremiah was buying real estate in the city? The very man who told everyone to start packing was also the man purchasing real estate, preparing for a distant future when God would bring them home.
Today you are worshipping in a church that is one hundred eighty-eight years old. This sanctuary and the pews you are sitting on are one hundred thirty-two years old. This home for God and sanctuary for the people was built by people who did not know you. They did not know what a gasoline-powered car was, or air conditioning or cell phones or computers. They might have a hard time recognizing their church on the corner of Poplar and Third in the 21st century, but I'd like to think they would be proud of what we've done with the place.
Like Jeremiah, those who came before us built this community of faith to stand the test of time because they had hope that God would be at work in the future, just as they sensed God was at work in their community in the present.
That means they had a deep hope. Not the kind with feathers that gently lights upon our shoulders. Not the kind of hopeful wishing or hopeful thinking that we sometimes engage in to get us through a tense football game. We can hope for a win, but we have very little control over the outcome.
We often have that shallow kind of hope. We hope for the Presidential candidate of our choice to win. Or we can hope when our school principle comes up with a new policy, it will make a difference in the lives of the children. We can hope First Pres will have a vital role in nourishing faith and calling for justice in the next one hundred years.
But what is hope without investment? To me, there's a difference between the kind of hope with feathers that gently lights upon our shoulders, and the kind of hope that causes you to invest your time and hard-earned money in the future God envisions. If we truly have hope that God will work all things together for good for those who love God and are called according to God's purposes (Romans 8:28), then we will put our resources behind our hope.
If Jeremiah were in our midst this morning, I think Jeremiah would challenge us all to invest in the future we want to see. If you care who becomes president, vote. If you care about our city's poor children, become a tutor so one more child can learn to read. If you care about Memphis and the "least of these" we serve weekly through our outreach ministries, invest in the future you want to see. If Jeremiah were in our midst, he would challenge us to invest in this church property, even though organized religion is on the downtrend.
He would invite us to give our resources to the RAISE THE ROOF campaign, which is actively fundraising to pay for a new roof for the sanctuary, and to replace our non-functioning gutters, fix the portico and seal and paint the windows and doors on the North side of the church building – And he would challenge us to give not because we ought to do it to keep the building from falling down, but because we have a DEEP HOPE in the future that God is working out even now and for the people who will come after us.
Give because you care about the city of Memphis and about those on the margins. Give because you believe God cares deeply for those without homes. Give because you believe God fosters hope and action in young people – like those who will stay here in our church this summer with our new mission partner, Memphis Youth Mission. Give because you believe God cares for us and uses Sabbath time to refresh our spirits and reshape us into the Disciples we were created to be – to foster a DEEP HOPE in our homes and workplaces too.
We don't know who will worship here in 30 years when the lifespan of this new roof will expire. We cannot know how God will use this church in the future, just like those who came before us could not have known that this church would sustain the faith of thousands, birth multiple non-profits, and would become widely known for its outreach to neighbors who are homeless.
We cannot know what God will do in the future from 166 Poplar, but if we have a deep hope, we know God will use our investment to produce fruit for the kingdom. Because we serve the God of Hope. The God of restoration and re-creation and reformation. God is always doing a new thing out of old things.
I am not necessarily optimistic about all churches or organized religion in the US in the next century, but hope and optimism are different.
Cornell West helps us make the distinction between hope and optimism. He says, "Optimism tends to be based on the notion that there's enough evidence out there to believe things are gonna be better. It's much more rational and deeply secular, whereas hope looks at the evidence and says, "It doesn't look good at all. Doesn't look good at all. So we're gonna go beyond the evidence to create new possibilities based on visions. Visions that become contagious to allow people to engage in heroic actions always against the odds, no guarantee whatsoever. That's hope."
I have deep hope in God. And I plan to invest in God's future plans in this church, and I invite you into that deep and abiding hope too.
We are a part of something much bigger than ourselves here. Thanks be to God.
In the name of the One who was and is and will be to come,
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Trained by:
|Tim Martin
|Rosehill 2142 NSW View map »
(GST inclusive)
|Tim Martin
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This EXTREMELY ATHLETIC COLT is a HALF-BROTHER to 3 winners including our very own HIGHLY PROMISING 3yo PRIDE OF DARCI who was ULTRA IMPRESSIVE winning on debut recently.
Watch Pride of Darci's impressive debut win - http://racing.racingnsw.com.au/FreeFields/VideoResult.aspx?MeetDate=2017Aug10&VenueCode=MTE5NTk5Mg==&RaceNumber=2&MeetingCategory=Professional&VideoFileType=FullReplay
Not only is this colt by one of New Zealand's greatest ever stallions PINS (sire of 11 Group 1 Winners), he is also out of the half-sister to Group 1 Victoria Derby winner LION TAMER!
He comes from the great family of Group 1 winners Lion Tamer and Blue Denim and that of Group 2 winner and multiple Group 1 placed Harris Tweed.
He has a real Classic pedigree about him which is why we have labelled him our "Derby Horse". His dam Queen of Lions has a 100% winning strike rate in the breeding barn, having produced 2 foals to race with both of them being winners. In fact Superveloce has won his past 2 races in a row and looks to be on the way up.
As previously mentioned, this colt is also the half-brother to one of our own very exciting 3yo's named Pride of Darci, which is the main reason we purchased him. Pride of Darci is showing us an enormous amount of ability and Tim Martin has a huge opinion of him. His debut win was all class and Tim Martin expects him to be Saturday Metropolitan class at the worst. We are expecting big things from him which is why I had to have this colt also.
This colt is an extremely nice horse in his own rights too however and is quite similar to that of Pride of Darci. He broke in extremely well and our breaker Jamie Beatson commented "He was very straight forward and certainly looks to have a smart brain about him. He gave me a good feel and his temperament was perfect".
I am very confident we have another top notch galloper in our stables with this colt but I am not the only one who believes that. His breeder Tony Rider from Milan Park loved the horse so much, he just had to keep 10% in him!! Tony still owns his half-brothers Superveloce and Savapak and knows the family can run, so he made sure he kept an interest in this colt also!
A share in this exciting colt is only $2,499 for 2.5% or $4,998 for 5% or $9,996 for 10%. The share price includes mortality insurance (paid up until 28/02/2018), all sales related expenses, Karaka Millions Race Series Nomination, Golden Slipper Nomination, breaking in plus more. You will find all of the formation expenses listed in the PDS.
With 74 stakes winners he is not only distinguished as New Zealand's 4th leading stakes producer of all time, but also as the very best sire this country has ever seen in terms of stakes wins registered in Hong Kong.
With phenomenal consistency, PINS averages 8 stakes winners each season – invariably, one of these 8 is a star of international repute.
PINS currently commands international attention as the sire of Hong Kong's 5x G1 winning sprinter AEROVELOCITY - a horse that has twice defied the world to win the Gr.1 Longines Hong Kong Sprint.
Before AEROVELOCITY, it was NZ's best ever export to Hong Kong, the 2x HK Horse of the Year and 7x G1 winning AMBITIOUS DRAGON who held court. Before that the headline making likes of Cox Plate hero EL SEGUNDO, Singapore sensation WAIKATO, NZ's record breaker KATIE LEE and so on.
All told, PINS has produced 11 G1 winners, 7 million dollar plus earners and is one of just 7 stallions in Australasia to boast a stakes winners-to-runners ratio of 7.6% or better.
PINS' black-type prepotency is confirmed by his collection of international awards.
To date, he has celebrated 2 Hong Kong Sire premierships and has twice been honoured as the victor of the Centaine Award (global progeny earnings).
In 2015-16, PINS was Australasia's 4th leading sire for winners-to-runners.
With a lifetime ratio of 69.6% winners-to-runners, PINS ranks in a league of his own in terms of value and elite opportunity presented.
This colt is out of the King of Kings mare Queen of Lions who is an unraced half-sister to LION TAMER, dual Group 1 winner of the Victoria Derby and Underwood Stakes. This is her fourth foal. Her third foal (Pride of Darci) is a 3yo and is showing us plenty of ability.
Queen of Lions has produced 3 foals to race for 3 winners;
Superveloce (by Savabeel) has won twice and placed three times in 2016/17 and was unlucky not to have won more.
Savapak (by Savabeel) has won once and placed twice from four starts in 2016/17 winning his latest outing on the 24th of March 2017.
Pride of Darci (by Darci Brahma) super winner on debut and twice placed including once at metropolitan level in 2017/18.
This colt will be trained by IR's exclusive Gr.1 winning trainer TIM MARTIN out of his Rosehill stables. Tim has trained multiple stakes winners over the years including Gr.1 winners HEAVENS ABOVE, EXCEED AND EXCEL, TYPHOON ZED and REDOUTE'S DANCER, and the recent Gr.2 winner MORAL VICTORY. He is also the trainer of our very own multiple Saturday city winner KING DARCI.
Tim commented "In November last year I visited Waikato Stud and viewed Pins in the flesh. He really impressed me and I can see a lot of him in this smart colt. He is a forward, strong, well developed animal with that good New Zealand bone to carry him. The dam side is impressive with him being a close relative to the Group 1 winner Lion Tamer. We train his half-brother, Pride of Darci and we have a high opinion of him so we are very excited David and the team at Import Racing has secured this colt for us to train" TM
Tim's natural horseman skills are second to none and the results are clearly evident in his winners and impressive strike rate.
This colt is bred on a 20/20 mating cross. This occurs when a pattern has two or more Graded Stakes Winners with CSI values above 20. This indicates that this pedigree is exceptional as there are at least two superior horses with a very similar pattern.
Stakes winners bred on the same cross include Group 1 winners SNIPPETS, POROTENE GEM, CASUAL PASS, SNOWLAND, SKY CUDDLE and of Group 2 winners MACKINTOSH, DECORAH, ANTONIO LOMBARDO, LEGLESS VEUVE etc.
It was like Déjà vu when inspecting the Pins colt in Karaka this year. Just over a year ago, we had purchased Pride of Darci from the same vendor, located in the same stables, with a horse that looked nearly identical.
When I inspected the Pins colt, he gave me the same feeling Pride of Darci did the year earlier and I knew I just had to have him and was not going to leave the sale without him.
Pride of Darci has shown our trainer Tim Martin a great deal of ability and this colt reminds me so much of him.
Many people missed out on purchasing a share in Pride of Darci last year. Don't make the same mistake this year. Don't miss out on this colt!
I am extremely confident we have purchased another nice horse and am stoked to have him join the Import Racing team.
David Mourad
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|Bay or Brown colt
|Foaled 14th October 2015
PINS (AUS) (Bay 1996-Stud 2000). 7 wins-1 at 2, VRC Australian Guineas, Gr.1. Leading NZ Sire (worldwide earnings) twice. Sire of 1004 rnrs, 695 wnrs, 75 SW, inc. El Segundo (MVRC WS Cox P., Gr.1), Legs, Aerovelocity, Ambitious Dragon, Katie Lee, Porotene Gem, Econsul, A Touch of Ruby, Antonio Lombardo, Mackintosh, Legless Veuve, Shopaholic, Icepin - Regency King (H.K.), Rolling Pin, Gallopin, Lauren Tate, Pimms Time, Megapins, Pinsoir, etc.
1st dam
QUEEN OF LIONS, by King of Kings (Ire). Unraced. Half-sister to LION TAMER, Let Me Roar. This is her fourth foal. Dam of 3 foals to race, all winners-
Pride of Darci
2nd dam
LIONESS, by Generous (Ire). Unraced. Half-sister to Blue Grass. Dam of 8 named foals, 7 to race, 4 winners, inc:-
LION TAMER (c Storming Home) Joint Top of 2010-11 Australasian 3YO Classification (Extended). 6 wins-3 at 2-from 1100m to 2500m, NZ$90,375, A$1,234,000, Victoria Derby, Gr.1, MRC Underwood S., Gr.1, Counties Challenge S., L, ARC Champagne S., L, NSW Tatt's RC Ming Dynasty H., L, WRC Carpet One 2YO H., 2d MVRC AAMI Vase, Gr.2, 3d Waikato RC Star Way S., L, 4th Hawkes Bay Makfi Challenge S., Gr.1.
Let Me Roar (f Rip Van Winkle) 6 wins to 1400m, NZ$87,435, to 2016-17, Te Aroha JC Team Wealleans H., BOP RC NZB Insurance Pearl Series H., Waikato RC ANZ at Te Rapa H., 3d ARC Easter S., Gr.2.
Miss Lioness
Red Robyn
3rd dam
BLUE SATIN, by Pompeii Court (USA). 2 wins at 1400m, 1650m in NZ. Half-sister to Blue Music. Dam of 8 named foals, 7 to race, 3 winners, inc:-
Blue Grass (g Postponed) 3 wins from 1200m to 2000m, 2d Hawkes Bay Stella Artois H., Rotorua RC Happy Birthday Glen Martin H., 3d Taranaki 2YO Classic, Gr.3, CJC Blue Star Taxis H., Speight's H.
Lion - Lutalo (Aust.)
Equus Zephyrus
Mr Legs
4th dam
(MY) BLUE DENIM, by A Chara (Ire). 10 wins-2 at 2-from 1000m to 3200m, NZ$136,835, A$261,000, Auckland Cup, Gr.1, STC HE Tancred S., Gr.1, AJC Queen Elizabeth Randwick S., Gr.1, Rotorua Challenge S., Gr.3, ARC Doncaster H., Spring H., Rotorua RC Kiwi House H., Waikato Fillies Classic S., 2d VRC Melbourne Cup, Gr.1, AJC Sydney Cup, Gr.1, VATC Sandown Cup, Gr.2, ARC Mitchelson Cup, L, 3d AJC Oaks, ARC Royal S., Gr.2, STC Storm Queen S., Manawatu Breeders' S., Gr.3, Manawatu RC Eulogy S., Gr.3, Te Aroha JC New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders' S., Gr.3, Avondale JC Stretto S., L, 4th Avondale Cup, Gr.1, ARC Ladies Mile, Gr.3. Dam of 8 foals, 7 to race, all winners, inc:-
Blue Music (f Western Symphony) 2 wins at 2, NZ$104,300, 2d New Zealand Oaks, Gr.1, ARC Championship S., Gr.2, 4th Avondale JC Waikato Stud S., Gr.3. Dam of 3 winners-
Indianapolis (c Oregon) 4 wins from 1650m to 3200m, A$82,360, STC Oyster Bay H., 2d Queensland Cup, L, AJC Roy Higgins H., Grey Ghost H., 3d AJC Scotts Lawn Builder P.
(My) Arctic Blue
Magic Blue
HARRIS TWEED (g Montjeu) Head of The 2008-09 NZ 3YO Free H. 4 wins from 2000m to 2500m, NZ$83,600, A$1,338,400, STC Tulloch S., Gr.2, VRC Bart Cummings H., L, ARC First Sovereign Trust H., 2d MRC Caulfield Cup, Gr.1, Australian Derby, Gr.1, ARC New Zealand S., Gr.1, Pfizer Animal Health H., 3d AJC Sydney Cup, Gr.1, Chairman's H., Gr.2, Hawkes Bay Traderacks H., 4th New Zealand St Leger, L.