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So a week and a half in on my Nutrisystem journey and I'm down 13 pounds. For the first time in a week and a half I was in a situation that required to eat out. Scary huh? I can't even begin to explain how much anxiety this gave me.
Last month I got really awesome numbers at work and my boss took me out for sushi today over lunch. Usually my lunch break is going to see my personal trainer for 35 minutes and getting my ass handed to me. Today it involved two spicy tuna rolls, a salad and miso soup.
I'm sure I could have made much worse choices but I'm still feeling super guilty for going off track, even though Nutrisystem says you can go out to eat once a week. I got back to work and went to the website and chatted with a Nutrisystem counselor about it. She told me that she thought I made good decisions when I went out to eat and that I should just continue my day as I normally would by having my second snack, dinner and final snack of the day. Even though she told me it was alright, I cant help but dread that the scale is going to disagree tomorrow.
I must say I LOVE that Nutrisystem offers online counselors to help you out when you have questions, concerns or just straight up anxiety about funking up And this is all included in the price of Nutrisystem. I have never been on another diet plan that offers that feature.
Well So long and thanks for all the fish, I will check in with you soon and let you know how my sushi affected my journey.


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The Biket Medical Center – Biket – at Osogbo in Southwestern Nigeria is a modern 40-bed hospital that would be termed a "general" hospital in Nigeria: it is for a large population and attends to patients with all sorts of ailments. Although the city has a Teaching Hospital, a government-owned General Hospital and many private hospitals among which [the Catholic's] Jalẹyẹmi stands out as the best and the oldest – Biket is the first choice of city residents for quality care that scores very high in every category.
Unlike most hospitals in Nigeria that are into general practice but run by specialists, Dr. Adebisi Adenle who is a cardiologist and the medical director, has been able to put his specialization into a pre-eminent position in his practice. It is not the oldest or the largest private hospital in Nigeria but Biket has put Osogbo AND Nigeria on the world's medical map as the first private hospital in West Africa where open heart surgeries have been successfully performed.
Biket has been around at Osogbo since the early 1980s, a venture started by Dr. Adenle in his home town to cater to the [then] growing need for quality health care delivery with the establishment of the [now defunct] Nigerian Steel Rolling Mill and the Nigerian Machine Tools. Adenle had risen to the post of a Consultant in the Department of Cardiology at Nigeria's premier University of Ibadan Teaching Hospital (UCH) before venturing into private practice.
Even while trying to run a practice that would earn him a living, Dr. Adenle kept his focus firmly on his passion: running a first-class hospital that would eventually have cardiology at its center so that he would be able to put into practice all that he's learned not only at medical school but during his post-graduate at Minnesota, USA, and at various involvements outside Nigeria, especially India.
It was this goal that made him invest in the area of cooperating with a medical outfit in India to which he has travelled for many years on short trips to enable him participate in open heart surgeries and related cardiac treatments. Dr. Adenle never fails to reminisce how he was struck by the efficiency and lack of – how can I describe it without making it sound irreverent – grandeur that characterize Indian medical practice during his first trip. He was met at the airport and was whisked straight to the hospital where, after the usual preps, he was in an operating theater!
The hospital has now proved itself capable of performing open-heart surgeries successfully but to continue to do so, it needs support which does not necessarily mean being handed oodles of cash to support what is a private initiative, a private enterprise. It is not unprecedented in other countries, though, to have public-spirited individuals contribute to this kind of enterprise just as there are those who now donate buildings, equipment, et cetera to the UCH and other government institutions in Nigeria.
The most urgent needs for Biket right now are patients who will come supported to pay all necessary costs for their treatments because as things stand, the hospital has had to shoulder the burden of paying not only the Nigerian professionals from the Universities of Ife & Ibadan from where it draws the local participants for each Mission but also the costs of flights, hotels and remunerations of professionals from outside Nigeria. I could not believe it when I saw the loan documents to meet the costs of the last Mission that saw ten (10) Nigerians operated on successfully.
Nigeria has all the advantages that India offers to the foreign medical tourism trade most of which originates from the United States: it has well-qualified and competent English-speaking personnel, there are affordable hotels in the major centers and there are direct flights between three major US cities and Lagos: Washington, D.C., Houston and Atlanta. Getting to Nigeria from the United States to Nigeria is definitely cheaper than the other places. And, perhaps above all, the costs should be below India, Thailand and Dubai if emotional and rational pairing down of costs are done.
Of course a lot would have to be done before Nigeria gets to that stage: training of non-professional staff in hospitality, et cetera.
The field of "medical tourism" is fast becoming a very lucrative one not only in India but in Thailand, Dubai and even right near home in South Africa, and Nigeria must endeavor to get on the train – yeah, it is a gravy train for any country but I did not want to add that glib word for such a serious business.
Nigeria has the trained personnel to achieve the level of Indian medical know-how that has continued to enable the sub-continent reap billions of dollars annually not only from "medical tourism" but in the manufacture of drugs, especially generics, through the acquisition of patents that have lapsed. It is through such developments that Nigerians can benefit from the availability of very affordable drugs unlike the present situation that can see a patient die because he cannot afford the high cost of high blood pressure drugs.
Biket will be among the outfits in the vanguard of such medical boom in Nigeria if it can get the necessary support.
In his attempt to pass acquired knowledge and expertise in the field of cardiology, Dr. Adenle was, for some years, involved in teaching at the Ladoke Akintola Teaching Hospital in addition to his heavy work-load, a commitment he finally had to drop. He still takes in from time to time medical students who need the exposure that Biket can afford but that may be lacking in their institutions.
Dr. Adenle is supported in the delivery of services to patients by many medical doctors both in-house and sourced from UI and Ife, technologists, et cetera AND nurses. Mrs. Uche Adenle, a UCH-trained nurse who graduated in the 1970s and who had risen to "Nursing Sister" status before joining her spouse, is Director of Nursing Services.
Biket Medical Center is situated along Ikirun-Ọfa Road at Osogbo, a city that can now boast of one more claim to world fame than the world-renowned annual Ọṣun Festival.
Dr. Adenle is the younger brother of blogger's significant other, Dr. Depo Adenle.
NEXT is an EXCERPT FROM MAIL CIRCULATED TO MEMBERS OF 'The Cardiac Society of Nigeria' after one of the missions.
"Safe conduct of complex open heart surgeries" performed by a private medical center in Nigeria
The Biket medical centre owned by our very senior colleague, Dr Adebisi Adenle successfully performed this feat due to the passion of Dr Adenle and his commitment to cardiology and cardiac surgery in Nigeria thereby making The Biket Medical Centre the very first private hospital in West Africa to successfully perform open heart surgeries. The open heart procedures performed are: Complete repair of a double outlet right ventricle (in a 1-year old boy), 2 total corrections of tetralogy of Fallot, 2 mitral repairs (for severe rheumatic mitral regurgitation) and 2 VSD closures. In addition, there was a diagnostic left and right heart diagnostic catheterization (for a 10-year old with a large VSD) and a therapeutic balloon pulmonary valvotomy ( for a 1 year old with valvular pulmonary stenosis)
Surgeries were conducted by combined cardiac surgical teams from Biket Medical Centre, Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife and the Congenital heart centre of the Sheba Medical Centre, Israel.
I believe this effort by Dr Adenle needs to be publicised and applauded by all because this opens a new vista for the safe conduct of complex open heart surgeries in Nigeria. Kindly find attached some pictures of the outreach.
[Since the last Mission during which Biket performed ten successful operations, there have been publicity in the media, including television. The following interview by Daniel Anzia of the Guardian is one of such publications. The original of the interview is slightly edited by blogger.]
WHY HEART DEFECTS ARE RISING IN NIGERIA – Dr. Adebisi Adenle, The Guardian – Daniel Anazia
Dr. Adebisi Adenle, Medical Director, Biket Medical Center, Osogbo, Nigeria.
The number of young people who have holes in their hearts has been on the rise in Nigeria. Why is this so?
Dr. Adenle
Hole-in-the-heart is common in any population of the world. It's a structural defect as a result of mal-development of walls that separate the chambers of the heart. We have it in America, in Europe, Asian and in Africa. Unfortunately, it is now that we have the state-of-art equipment to detect these problems and that is why it appears as if it's becoming a household name. When we discover this problem, the only suggestion for the mothers and relatives of the patient is for them to close it up, otherwise, the muscles of the heart will be overloaded. When the muscles are overloaded, it stretches beyond its elasticity and will malfunction. When one of the hearts is overloaded, especially the right, it pumps more blood in the lungs. The lungs will then be flooded with water or fluid and the resultant effect is that air cannot move freely.
The blood, which should have gone to the body properly, sometimes, from the left side of the heart and to the body, is denied that passage. As a result, the whole body becomes short of nutrients. We have two parts of the heart, the right and the left sides. The right carries all the blood that has gone through tissues of the body. In most cases, good things like oxygen have been taken away from them and it returns to the heart for purification. Carbon-dioxide is taken from the body in an exchange for oxygen and it passes through the left side of the heart to the body. But when there is a hole in the heart, and the left heart is stronger, the blood is shunted from the left to the right and each shunted blood now over-floods the lungs. At this point, an unfortunate child is presented with cough and inability to breathe among others.
Initially, it might be misconstrued to be ordinary cough but when it's frequent, then try to see a doctor, and through a process of echocardiography, it will be detected. Without treatment, the child cannot survive adulthood. Sometimes, they won't even survive the first year or even the fifth birthday. Unfortunately, we don't have enough centres in Nigeria where this could be treated. Most times, we send them to India. And one must actually praise some of these institutions that champion the surgical management of these problems. We have come on board because we do much investigation and management of the heart. Sometimes, when we see this problem, we feel impotent, not being able to offer solution. This is why we have invested in the surgical management of this problem. We invested money in this because to open the heart and close the hole is not an easy task.
For you to do that the heart must not be beating and you must use a heart-lung machine. The exchange of gasses in the body will be taken over by the machine. It's like you killed the patient, you stop the heart and lungs. Their functions are taken over by a machine and now you are able to close the hole and once that is done, you recharge the heart with blood again, and it begins to pump. All these are simple ways of treating it but a very complex procedure, needing a quite other equipment to support the work of a surgeon. It looks daunting, but with the cooperation of some of our colleagues at the University of Ife and Ibadan, we are able to start.
Have you at any point in time ventured into open heart surgery as a private practitioner?
Of course, we did the first one and at that time, they were eight patients. Some of them have holes in the lower chamber of the heart, while other at the upper chamber. Some were at the level of big vessels, emanating from the heart. Out of eight cases, we lost one of them. The reason was not because the surgery was not done properly but the hole had gone too far. And once it has gone too far, the chances of getting a good result becomes very difficult. This is why we are encouraging people to get this surgery done early enough when it has not affected the walls of the heart badly. Apart from that, the seven others were successful and still alive today. We have been following them up and they are doing fine. We were encouraged by this result and we did another mission, where we have five cases and all the five cases came out fine from the theatre and are still alive today. We are about to do another one this year November, and we are looking at, at least, 15 cases. We are quite optimistic that they will, as usual, be successful. We have been careful in the choice of the patients. Those that have gone too far that are not likely to do well; we have not attempted to put them in the list.
This task is capital intensive and quite challenges. What spurred you into it?
Well, I training in 1979 in Minnesota in USA, and throughout my stay in the school, I found that it was not beyond us. So, it has always been in my mind that I would get to a stage where I could solve such problems. Since 1979, I have been engaged in it although it was only in the last 10 years that we decided to garner resources and make sure that we get the equipment of international standards needed for it.
When the Israelis working alongside our local experts came for one of the missions, they were amazed at what they saw. One of them said our equipment was the same as one available in any centre in Israel. When other people from India came, they expressed the same opinion. It is why we've been able to record big success in the practice, and it is the reason they have not denied us audience each time we invite them. If our equipment are substandard, they would not have wanted to continue to partner with us.
Do you have any form of financial assistance except the technical support you got from India and Israel for the mission?
Now, what we have done was borrow money from the bank at very high interest rates to fund the missions, and we are still grappling with the interest on such loans. But as you know, the consumables used in open heart surgery are extremely expensive, but if we are able to remove the cost of transportation for both the child and parents, it would go a long way in reducing the cost of treatment. And we are trying to reduce the cost of treatment so that the surgery becomes possible within the environment of the patients.
If you have to go to America, for instance, you will have to secure visas, transportation and all that. While I'm not saying that some cases will not have to be referred to India and other countries, it would have to be more complex cases.
We have to start somewhere to do the less complex cases so that we would have all the experiences to do more complex ones. We have also partnered with Kims Hospital in India. Apart from the technical help, we are still hoping to get some funds, which have to do with buying of equipment or paying for the consumables.
In the last two missions, there were quite a number of patients that were unable to pay. We have committed ourselves and patients admitted. Some said they were coming with the money but when they got to the hospital, we discovered that they were not able to pay. There was a case of a boy who had only N20, 000, and you know that such is nothing in open heart surgery. Before we knew this, we had taken him to the theatre. We tried to take him back again but the surgeon said he was going to operate on him.
Then we have donations from people around and still couldn't offset his bill. There are other cases that have not paid anything but we operated upon them because they were already within the hospital. But certainly, we need help from philanthropists, governments, wellwishers, corporate organisations, religious groups, associations, social clubs and politicians among others because this project should mature to a stage where it would create jobs for doctors, nurses and lives are saved.
What kind of help do you intend to get?
Well-wishers could come whenever a mission is on, identify with and donate for the surgery of some of the patients that would otherwise not be able to pay their bills.The Governor of Osun State has done that on a number of cases, paying for three patients out of the cases in our records. And we are grateful to him. We have a number of patients that the government cannot continue to pay for. So, we need help from public-spirited individuals and organizations.
In India, in one of the surgical homes, I was told that banks actually donated money to their organisation to ensure that indigent patients are treated. Banks, churches, politicians can do same here. This will give them their lives back. We have Biket Medical Heart Foundation, wired along this organisation but run on a different account in Oshogbo. We are on internet. Those who wish to assist can come to Oshogbo to see what we are doing. You cannot donate your heart as in the case of kidney but you can donate your heart by paying to relieve an individual that is afflicted!
Based on these staggering challenges, how do you hope to embark on November mission?
Again, we hope our target of at least 15 cases for the next mission is met so that we can come close to breaking even. We are going to be operating three patients per day for five days. And by the grace of God, we hope to to meet this target. Some religious organisations have indicated interest to pay for some patients. Unique FM in Ilesha has alsp taken it as a challenge collecting money to pay for one of their patients. If many people or organisations do this, we will be able to move forward.
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5 October 2019
Welcome Back Utah
To tip off the 2019 NBA preseason the Utah Jazz defeated the Australian National Basketball League's Adelaide 36ers 133-81. The night began with a tinge of disappointment for Jazz fans who were eager to see all of the teams stars on the court together for the first time. Many of the team's biggest names sat out for rest providing Utah fans with their first taste of 'load management', a practice that figures to play a part in the 2019-20 season due to the team's immense depth. Still, it was only logical to give players such as Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell some time off following their active summer participation in the FIBA World Cup.
Regardless of the load management disappointment, Jazz fans were given the opportunity to see a lot of promise in new players, veteran players, and the three rookies signed in the offseason.
The Newbies
The Jazz started the night rather slowly. After taking note of the starting lineup, the slow start seems understandable if not unavoidable. Out of the gates the Jazz proffered a group of Nigel Williams-Goss, Joe Ingles, Bojan Bogdanovic, Jeff Green and Ed Davis. With four new faces on the floor being asked to run a new offense against a well coached, experienced and disciplined 36ers team, there were bound to be some mistakes.
Much of the early offense seemed to devolve to one-on-one drives and missed reads. The newbies struggled to get much going as the game got underway. That is not, however, to say that there were no good signs. Green figured things out as the game went on and shot a highly efficient six of eight from the field en route to 16 points in 18 minutes. Not too shabby for the newcomer. Bogdanovic added 10 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists for his own part, including two nice three pointers that are sure to have fans salivating over whats to come. The two players also hooked up with one another for what may have been the play of night, a reverse alley-oop from Bogey to Green in the first quarter.
Nonetheless, while the newbies showed some strong signs of the potential they have to offer the Utah Jazz this season, it was clear that they could use a bit of time to continue to work with each other and get a better handle on the Jazz system. As Green said in his postgame interview, it's all about repetitions. That's what preseason is for, and if the progression shown as the night went on is any sign, the Jazz should be in decent shape come time for the regular season.
The Vets
Notably missing from the starting lineup (many believed he would be the starting PF this season), Royce O'Neale was the star of the night for the Jazz. It remains to be seen if his bench role was due to the number of players resting or whether that will be his permanent role this year, but O'Neale's presence was undeniably felt tonight. He finished with the highest plus-minus on the team — a plus 34 — and immediately righted the ship upon checking into the game. He finished with 12 points and a team high six assists. O'Neale consistently made the right reads and brought the same tenacious attitude that has endeared him to Jazz fans in past seasons.
Joe Ingles was the sole starter from last season's squad to play tonight, determined to play against his country's team despite his eventful FIBA filled summer. While it wasn't the most efficient game of the season, he played well and his veteran presence appeared to be a calming force for all of the newcomers. He hit two threes, a stepback after his defender went under a screen and a pull up transition three from the elbow. He too contributed six assists along with three rebounds and 10 points in just 22 minutes. He generally looked quite comfortable and had a few quick touch passes while diving to the rim that were rather exciting.
All things considered, the vets stole the show tonight, as well they should have. They put the game out of reach for the 36ers and were able to sit out for most of the second half.
The Rooks
I want to make a prediction. At least one of the Jazz's three second round picks in the offseason is going to end up being a solid rotation player in the NBA. To be frank, Miye Oni and Jarrell Brantley have been rather impressive in both their summer league stints and their preseason openers.
Brantley played a significant portion of his minutes tonight bringing the ball up the court and finished with five rebounds and four assists in just 10 minutes of court time. He has the strength and athleticism to battle for boards down low and displayed an impressive vision on the offensive end tonight. He needs to shoot the three more consistently, but there is a lot to like about Brantley's game.
Oni played well defensively and was also able to get involved on the rebounding front, securing five rebounds in his stints on the floor. The rebounds coming from these two wing players are significant. For a team that whose rebounding was a bit of an asterisk coming into the season, especially after losing Ricky Rubio, an excellent rebounding guard, and Derrick Favors, they are going to need the wing players to step up and battle for the boards. Both Brantley and Oni showed that they are willing and capable of competing for the boards down low.
Finally, Justin Wright-Foreman didn't look bad. The issue is that he hasn't had a whole lot of eye openign stints in his time with the team either. The nation's second leading NCAA scorer last year has not shown an ability to transfer that scoring prowess to the NBA level just yet. His size is a bit of an issue, even if he is able to jump out of the gym. While I love watching him play and want to see him succeed at this level, he certainly has a lot more work to do if he is going to be able to stick in the league.


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By Andrea Warner
The glass of wine in Amy Millan's hand is as trademark as the sexy coo that is her singing voice — that of a little girl who's seen too much, who grew up too fast. The Montreal-based Millan, in addition to her best-known role as singer and co-songwriter in Stars, seemingly has her hand in every major indie act in the country, from a permanent guest spot with Broken Social Scene to occasional backing vocals for Apostle of Hustle.
But right now, the 35-year-old is deep in the midst of the first round of publicity for her second solo album, Masters of the Burial, a gorgeously moody collection of pop songs that takes plenty of detours into folk and alt-country territory, and even finds Millan crafting an uptempo cover of Death Cab for Cutie's evocative downer, "I Will Follow You Into the Dark."
WE spoke with Millan over the phone just as she was melting into a chair with a bottle of vino, after a long day that started before the sun rose.
You've had back-to-back interviews all day, I hear.
Millan: It's been quite a day, but coffee and wine make it all better now.
Just alternating mouthfuls? Double-fisting?
You know, start out with a coffee to jack you back up, and then even it up with a nice glass of red wine.
I've been listening to Masters of the Burial pretty much non-stop, and a lot of the songs seem to be quite hopeful, even when they're incredibly sad.
I appreciate that you got that. I definitely never want to be maudlin about anything. I think it's importance to have a balance of everything. And it's funny: With Masters of the Burial and Honey from the Tombs [her first solo album], everybody's like, "What's with the whole death thing, man?" And it's not. Honey from the Tombs is from a Tom Waits song about how the mummies were buried with honey, and [the honey] preserved and still tasted as sweet as when it was buried. And Masters of the Burial is a comment on the human condition, and that in our lives we all suffer horrible embarrassment and betrayals and tragedies and loss, and in order to continue living and seeking out hope, we have to bury a lot of things we've been through. It's kind of a tip of the hat to the human, really, and about being alive and not being dead. With these songs, I'm trying to poke at these places that maybe people are trying to forget, and liberate them in a way that maybe won't lead them down a road of depression, but feel comfort that everyone's going through similar things.
I should be asking, then, what your most embarrassing moment is...
Oh, I could never tell! (laughs)
So, instead I'll invite you to talk a bit about what your influences were when you were writing the album.
Welllll... Uhhhhh.... I saw some people suffer in their relationships, who were close to me. That really broke my heart to watch somebody who had been in a relationship for quite a long time and have it dissolve in front of their eyes, and then not really knowing how to maintain it, but knowing that it can't be maintained... It's so difficult sometimes to cut the cord when you've been in a relationship for a really long time. I just find it so sad to watch, something turning into ash that was a big fire at one point.
I heard Stars is recording, and you're obviously in the midst of promoting Burial. How are you coping?
It's busy. On top of everything, I'm doing a complete gut of my house. (laughs) I just thought it wasn't enough, you know? But as busy as I am, it's the longest period of time I've gone without touring, because Broken [Social Scene]'s been recording, and Stars are recording, and my record's just come out now. Stars hasn't played a show since February. It's been one of the calmest times of my life, actually, because when you're travelling every day, your soul is kind of far behind, and it takes a while to catch up to you. I've been literally around the globe in a six-week period at one point. The fact that I've been still and enjoying my city and really discovering Montreal — because I hadn't been able to do that, I've just been on tour since I've moved there.
Do you have a fair bit of anonymity in Montreal?
Oh, they don't care about indie-rock in Montreal. The French people could care less about Arcade Fire, even. It's really refreshing, you know, and I think that's why so much good music comes out of Montreal. There isn't the industry there, and the pressure.
Amy Millan performs Saturday, Oct. 24 at Biltmore Cabaret (395 Kingsway), 8 pm. Tickets $13 from Ticketmaster, Zulu, and Red Cat.


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(Reuters) - Keysight Technologies Inc (KEYS.N), a provider of software and equipment to the electronics and wireless communications industries, is in talks to acquire U.S. data technology company Ixia XXIA.O, according to people familiar with the matter.
A deal would come as the increasing volume of data traffic flowing through social media, smartphones and cloud computing tests the resilience and integrity of networks, making Ixia's equipment and applications more popular with its clients and coveted by its peers.
Keysight is not the only bidder participating in an auction for Ixia, and there is no certainty that its bid will prevail, the people said this week. The negotiations are expected to continue for several more days, the people added.
The sources asked not be identified because the negotiations are confidential. Ixia, which has a market capitalisation of $1.4 billion, declined to comment. Keysight did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Based in Calabasas, California, Ixia makes equipment that monitors and tests networks so enterprise customers can have their data travel smoothly without bottlenecks. Its customers include the world's largest networking gear maker, Cisco Systems Inc.
Ixia also makes hardware that helps secure networks. Its chief executive officer said on its latest earnings conference call that 35 percent of its total business was tied to security products.
Ixia was founded by Errol Ginsberg in 1997 and went public in 2000, as internet traffic started to increase.
Ixia's former chief executive, Vic Alston, resigned in 2013 for misstating academic credentials and other details such as his age and job history, the company said at the time. The company recruited a senior networking executive from Hewlett Packard, Bethany Mayer, to be its chief executive in 2014.
Ixia generated revenue of $123.9 million in the third quarter, down from $125.9 million in the same quarter a year earlier.
Based in Santa Rosa, California, Keysight helps companies test products that have electronic components. It has a market capitalization of $6.3 billion.
Reuters first reported last month that Ixia was exploring a sale.
(This story corrects Ixia CEO surname to Mayer from Meyer in eighth paragraph.)
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As always, I loved your reports. I'd heard of Castles and Coasters, but didn't know that Wildlife World was a thing. If I ever make it out to that area, I'll definitely check them out.
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Thanks! It was the same thing for me about Wildlife World until I was poking around RCDB one day and noticed it. That happens quite a bit on RCDB.
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Glad to see you "enjoyed" what little this Grand Canyon State has to offer in terms of Theme parks. If you ever make it back out here, be sure to check Schnepf Farms. It is only open occasionally but it has the best coaster in the state. It may not be very tall but it sure has some "OH MY GOD WHAT THE HELL" airtime moments when you sit in the back.
We visited Wildlife World the month the new Roller Coaster opened (our third time at the park) and it was a nice addition. to the park. I really dislike that you still have to pay for a ticket to get into the park and then pay additional charges for EVERYTHING ELSE! And you are correct, there is no ATM in the park (although I believe there was one at the restaurant when we went). So expect to spend a lot of money if you want to do everything. I believe it still is one of the largest Privately Owned and Operated Zoos in the country...but that might have been a worker talking BS when we visited.
Jimmy "Nice to see some love in the desert" Bo
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I just looked up that kiddie coaster at Schnepf Farms and the back seat riders really look like they're getting yanked down those drops. That looks right up there with Knott's Timberline Twister for a kids coaster that gives way more air than it should.
I have heard somewhere that Wildlife World was the largest privately owned zoo (maybe another TR on this site?) and maybe that helps explain the pricing structure.
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The West Edmonton Mall has always been on my bucket list; however, getting there from Boston is a royal pain. After a work trip to Mexico dumped me off on the West Coast, I saw my opportunity and jumped on it. And I have no regrets whatsoever.
The mall is an attraction in itself and I'll post a separate TR covering the World Waterpark, the aquarium, and all the other goodies in the West Edmonton Mall. This report will focus entirely on Galaxyland, the park that they claim is the world's largest indoor theme park.
Was there any doubt where my first stop would be? After being denied Quimera, Mindbender seemed like one heck of a consolation prize. And I have to say that it's one of the most imposing coasters I have ever seen. The scale of the coaster is astounding considering it's indoors. Plus it has a deafening roar that echoes through the park. When Mindbender is running, everyone knows.
The recent reports I've seen from Galaxyland have called Mindbender uncomfortable. The ride's layout is aggressive for sure, but painful? Not if ridden correctly. It is absolutely imperative that you let the accordion restraints bottom out on your shoulder. This will prevent any unwanted headbanging or neck-chopping. If you don't follow this step, I can see how one would call this ride rough.
When everyone anyone talks about Mindbender, they always talk about the insane Gs those loops pull. All three loops are among the most forceful on the planet. The second one in particular is a real doozy since it occurs immediately after the first and you have no recovery time.
But I rarely hear about the rest of the ride. The first has a ridiculously tight curve and the steepness yielded a freefall sensation. All of the subsequent drops and ascents have equally as abrupt twists and offer some powerful laterals.
And for good measure, the finale doesn't peter out. I find quite a few of these Schwarzkopfs just mail it in after the final inversion. Mindbender has a surprise hill with some excellent floater air and an extremely disorienting final helix. The helix isn't overly intense, but it encircles a mirrored support column, which can only be described as mind bending.
As an added bonus, all of these crazy elements occur in the tight confines of the mall. The ride also contains a non-stop barrage of headchoppers with the ceiling, supports, and pathways. Mindbender was the main reason for my visit to the Mall and it did not disappoint. This may be Schwarzkopf's crowning achievement and it's a coin-flip if I prefer this to Quimera. 9.5 out of 10
In total, I racked up 13 rides on Mindbender. And to be honest, I would have gotten more if the operations weren't so brutal. Going in, I knew Mindbender closed for periodic inspections. There were three scheduled inspections over the course of the day, each about 45-60 minutes in length.
What I wasn't expecting was 10 minute dispatches. The ride had two trains and two operators. But in one of the most bizarre operational policies I've ever seen, each operator "owns" one train. What this means is that one operator sits off to the side while the other operator admits guests, checks restraints, and dispatches the train. It didn't seem very efficient to me. Further, they often wouldn't load the train until the prior completed its run.
That's one piece of the puzzle. The other are those restraints, which consist of a seatbelt, lap bar, and accordion shoulder bars. Riders are not allowed to adjust their own restraints, so the operator takes about 30-45 seconds per person to adjust these click by click, soliciting feedback from riders at every click if it's tight enough.
Galaxy Orbiter is an interesting spinning coaster. The coaster has a modest height, but goes on forever thanks to a standard lift plus two booster sections. Without a doubt, this has the best layout of the Gerstlauer spinners. It basically tours the whole park a la Mall of America's Nickelodeon Streak, mixing in 2-3 solid drops and an intense figure 8 finale.
But while all the other Gerstlauer spinners are smooth as glass, this one was extremely bumpy. I was not expecting that at all. In the end, I think I'll take it over the Pandemonium clones, but this could have and should have been so much better. 6 out of 10
The last obtainable credit for adults is Autosled. This is Galaxyland's version of the Zierer coaster with an absurdly long train that aimlessly winds around like Jaguar. I remember there being one drop with some good whip in the back, but for the most part it rode more like a monorail. 5 out of 10
Beyond the coasters, Galaxyland had a small but solid flat ride collection. Unfortunately their Chance Unicoaster was closed for its annual rehab and they had removed some notable flats like Solar Flare, but I did find two that I really liked.
The first was Space Shot, which is actually a double shot. I believe this ride stands where the old Intamin freefall once stood. The ride stands inside a giant column complete with cutouts to the rest of the park and the outside world. Normally I'd take an Intamin Gen 1 over an S&S tower, but not in this case.
The ejector pops at the top are tied with Hershey's towers for the strongest I've experienced on a ride of this type. And the descent actually produced an honest to god freefall sensation better than most of the turbo drops. Maybe it's the ride itself or maybe it's mental since it's pretty disorienting shifting from a view of the outside world to a darkened column and back to a chaotic amusement park. 9 out of 10
Havoc is the parks newest attraction. I think it's one of those KMG Spinouts. The one I rode at the Alameda County Fair had a cycle focusing entirely on sustained hangtime. Havoc mixed it up with some abrupt, airtime inducing swings not unlike a frisbee before finally holding us upside down for an eternity while all the blood rushed to my head. 9 out of 10
I've always been intrigued by Coney Island's El Dorado Bumper Cars because of the ride looks like its housed in a nightclub. Cosmo's Space Derby had a similar (albeit cleaner) vibe to it, so I was intrigued enough to ride. The atmosphere was cool, but the cars were weak. They were so weak that head on collisions were allowed. Too bad they were nothing more than a love tap. 6 out of 10
Galaxyland also has an odd mix of dark rides. The most notable is Quirks in the Works. This ride is an absolute WTF. I don't know for sure what a Quirk is, but I think they're the random aliens you take aim at during the ride.
The actual ride building is pretty small and there aren't many targets. But the ride cleverly gets around this by utilizing slowly moving rotating vehicles. This allows you to cycle between the same few targets again and again without it feeling repetitive. 8 out of 10
There's also a building tucked underneath Mindbender that houses both a fun house and a haunted walkthrough. The Fun House was a major disappointment. 90% of the attractions is a gagless stroll through a blacklit room. The other 10% are actually a solid door maze and vortex tunnel, but it's not enough to save this attraction. 3 out of 10
Haunted Castle was better. I think the age requirement was 16, so I figured it may have some good jump scares. However, the gags were slow developing and often delayed. But it is cool how there's barely any walls or guards in there. Some of the props have a pretty wide range of motion and there's no way this would be allowed in America as someone would stupidly grab a scissor lift or something.
It's worth noting that there are no live actors and the finale is a vortex tunnel that's actually shared with the Fun House. 7 out of 10
The last ride worth mentioning is the Galaxy Express. At first glance, this looks like your standard kiddie train. But upon closer inspection, you may notice that it has 2-3 tunnels. These tunnels actually have some cute little dark ride scenes. 5 out of 10
Outside of Mindbender, the dispatches on individual rides were actually pretty good. However, there was one other frustrating operational quirk. At Galaxyland, a 7 pm close means a 7 pm close. Right at 7 pm on the dot, they power off the arcade games, cease the music, and gate off 3 of the 4 entrances.
And that leads to the attractions. I've seen parks close queues off early. Galaxyland doesn't do this. Instead, they let people enter queues right up to closing. But the final train of the day must be back in the station by close. Indiana Beach is the only other park I've been denied a ride at closing even though I was in the queue.
Ultimately, I really enjoyed my day at Galaxyland. Mindbender is legit and Schwarkzopf fans should absolutely consider making a pilgrimage to Edmonton. The park isn't particularly big, but they utilize every inch of space and indoor parks always have a unique vibe to them.
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Great report! This place has been on my bucket list for a very long time. Since the Canadian Mindbender's southern cousin SFoG Mindbender is one of my favorite rides ever - I've always wanted to ride it.
I also wanted to mention that one of the things I REALLY enjoy about your reports is that you can always see your joy at being at a park. Things have to be SERIOUSLY F&^@ed up for you to mention negatives. You seem to enjoy yourself, roll with things and you don't bitch about every little inconvenience.
Just wanted to mention that as I appreciate it.
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HA. .that pic of you on Mindbender is Awesome-sauce.
still giggling over it.
really looking forwards to your full mall report, as I've always wanted to go to this place to check it out. (maybe not bucket list, but bubbling just under bucket list).
spoil a bit tho. . was the Aquarium worth it?
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Oh look it's my boy Galaxyland! That one underrated park that nobody ever talks about, even with an incredible Schwarzkopf crammed inside it! I've been here multiple times— I have family in Edmonton and I have gone to this park since I was little. I rode Mindbender in July 2017, and it became my favorite coaster of all time for a few weeks besting Fury, Skyrush, Mako and Lightning Rod. You just have to lean forward on the restraints and get your neck above the "Accordions of Death".
1. The Voyage 2. Intimidator 305 3. Maverick 4. Skyrush 5. Mindbender (Galaxyland) 6. Fury 325 7. Kumba 8. Goliath (Georgia) 9. The Beast 10. Phoenix
I've ridden 139 Coasters, and have been a coaster enthusiast since 2013.
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Thanks! Ultimately I'm at the park to enjoy myself and not criticize them for a bulb being out or paint chipping. I definitely will note if operations are poor or rides are closed, but usually I end up leaving on a high note so I have a positive impression in my mind. And honestly I can just poke fun at a park sometimes for its shortcomings (see Camden Park).
As for Galaxyland's Mindbender versus Georgia's Mind Bender, I think they're very different rides. The two share the same manufacturer and forceful loops, but the rest of the ride feels way different. Georgia's feels graceful while Galaxyland's feels like a bat out of hell.
Thanks! The mall as a whole was a really neat experience.
As for the aquarium, unfortunately it wasn't what I expected. What they had was very good (in particular a sea lion show in the middle of a mall), but the place was extremely small. I'm talking walk from one end to the other in 30 seconds small.
I prefer the airtime centric rides of the coasters you mentioned, but I did really love Mindbender. Thankfully Robb taught everyone on the Oktoberfest trip how to ride coasters with accordion restraints since they definitely had the potential to ruin a great ride if worn incorrectly.
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That Schwartzkopf looks really good! I love how it almost touches the roof of that huge mall and those diving drops look sick. I had never heard of this coaster before and wasn't aware Edmonton had an amusement park as well but I am well aware of their indoor water park. Did you experience their water park too that looks really fun?
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Alistair Cooke's first Letter from America - initially called American Letter - was broadcast in March1946. It was to be the first of 2,869 such broadcasts, spanning 58 years, making it by far the longest-running talk programme of any radio station in the world.
He had written to the BBC a month before, proposing "a weekly personal letter to a Briton by a fireside about American life and people and places in the American news".
"The stress will tend always to be on the springs of American life, whose bubbles are the headlines, rather than the bright headlines themselves," as he put it.
His first letter was true to this promise, as were all the others until the last, broadcast in 2004, only a month before his death at the age of 95. It was an account of a journey back from Southampton to New York aboard the liner Queen Mary, in the company of a couple of thousand "GI wives" - British girls who had married American soldiers while they were camped in Britain during the war.
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Cooke transformed the image of America for the ordinary, middle-class Briton"
There were moving descriptions of their tears as they departed from Britain and the warmth of their welcome in New York.
The letter then changed gear to talk about postwar shortages of goods in the United States, created not by the simple lack of them, as in Britain, but by hoarding and racketeering.
He never wanted the British to think that everything was much better in his adopted country. He wanted instead to bring the two countries closer together in understanding and affection.
It may sound strange now, but there was enormous ignorance in Britain at that time of American history and culture.
Alistair Cooke 1908-2004
- Cooke, the son of a metalworker from Salford, won a scholarship to Cambridge, where he read English and edited the student magazine, Granta
- He fell in love with the US on his first visit in 1932 and returned in 1937 as a journalist for the BBC, never to live in Britain again
- He became an American citizen in 1941
No serving British prime minister until Winston Churchill had ever visited the United States, and the American way of life was widely suspected in Britain of being crass and alien. Alistair Cooke made it his task to rectify this.
It would be no exaggeration to say that Cooke transformed the image of America for the ordinary, middle-class Briton.
From the beginning until the end of his series of talks he conveyed an inner certainty that America was the most interesting country on earth, and many Britons who had never thought so before were persuaded to agree with him. Cooke managed to dispel the widespread fear and distrust of America that was felt in Britain after World War II.
The cosy way he said "Good morning...", with a seductive upward lilt on the last syllable, was enough to reassure middle-class British people as they rubbed their eyes at 08:45 on a Sunday morning. They couldn't feel frightened of America after that.
Cooke did not peddle opinions. An instinctive liberal - he was for 25 years also the much-admired chief US correspondent of the Guardian newspaper - he may not have shown much sympathy towards the Reagan presidency, but his main purpose was to be interesting, enlightening and entertaining.
He extolled all the things he loved about America - its show business, its popular music, and its sports, as well as its politics and its higher culture - and he did so in talks carefully pre-written to sound as natural, discursive and conversational as possible, and delivered in comforting, mellifluous tones.
If his "letters" seemed to lack construction, this was deliberate. He liked to digress, as people do naturally in conversation, and he liked to surprise by initially concealing what the main theme of his talk was going to be.
For example, his letter following the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers in New York began by casually implying that he was going to write about a tropical storm heading towards the city from the Caribbean.
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- Alexander Chancellor CBE is a British journalist and Spectator columnist
- Editor of the Spectator (1975-84)
- Author of a memoir, Some Times in America
But then came "the most startling, awful morning I can remember. Not because this was the most awful disaster ever, but because, for the first time in American experience, a first act of war aroused, and television pulverised, our senses in a way we had never known".
And as so often, he tried to bring home this experience to the British by comparing it to one of their own: "It's the same feeling of bewilderment and secret fear - what next? - that Londoners felt after the first night of the Blitz in September 1940."
One reason for the appeal of Cooke's broadcasts over here was the way he treated the United States and Britain with equal respect. We British were never made to feel that he was addressing us as an inferior nation.
Perhaps because of the unfortunate timing of his adoption of American citizenship - in 1941, Britain's darkest hour - he was troubled for many years by a problem of national identity. He did once say that he felt "totally at home in both countries", but this could equally well have meant that he didn't feel quite at home in either.
Cooke on the BBC
- You can now listen and download more than 900 editions of Letter from America, broadcast from 1946-2004
- Alvin Hall travels across the US to discover whether Cooke's letters are still relevant today - In Alistair Cooke's Footsteps is on Tuesdays at 09:30 on Radio 4 from 6 November
- The Unseen Alistair Cooke, a 2008 TV documentary including 8mm home movies shot by Cooke from 1933 is on BBC Four on 7 November at 22:30 GMT
According to Leonard Miall, the BBC's first Washington correspondent after the war, he was chosen by American television to host a British drama series, Masterpiece Theater, "because he was regarded here as the quintessential Englishman. Yet for decades he had been broadcasting his Letter from America to a British radio audience which regarded him as a particularly sympathetic kind of American."
Cooke himself recognised the problem when he said: "Here [in America] they think I'm an old English gent, and in England they think I'm an enlightened American."
But he must have been uncomfortable in his "English gent" role, much as he had sought to cultivate it, for at Cambridge, when asked to list his pet abominations, he included among them "the English gentleman".
He also once said that he had gone to America to escape "the seediness and snobbery of English life". But no-one has ever done more to bring our two nations closer together.
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It was only a few years ago when it was impossible for Lydia to get out of bed. Staring at the ceiling, "wasting the sun," she was paralyzed by the loss of her 19-year-old brother to a heroin overdose.
The siblings were only 15 months apart in age. Lydia's loss of her younger brother was shocking, confusing, and life-changing. But like there can be no light without darkness, the Phoenix singer-songwriter's grief has evolved into something she carries with her, not something keeping her from the world.
"Since talking about it and telling people what I and my brother have been through, a lot of people have come to me and opened their hearts," says Lydia, whose full name is Rachel Lydia Ellis. "A lot of the shame is what's keeping people quiet. That's keeping information out of people's hands and keeping people isolated, which just makes it worse. I feel like just talking about my experiences might help somebody."
Lydia, who is 26, has always expressed herself through music, from when she was a kid who would harmonize with her family to "Goodnight Sweetheart" before bedtime, to when the self-taught guitarist posted her first original song about a childhood crush to her MySpace page when she was 14.
But after her brother died, the summer before her senior year of studying biomedical science at Northern Arizona University, she experienced writer's block. She says it took her a year and finishing her degree before she could process what she was feeling in musical form.
"Once I did, it just flowed out of me very, very quickly," Lydia says. The songs that came from the trauma, as well as musings on existentialism, formed her 2016 four-song EP Gravitas.
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Lydia says she had no inkling of her brother's addiction to opioids. They were always close throughout their lives, and even now, she still calls him her best friend. The last time she saw Joshua was when he dropped her off at the airport for a volunteer trip in Nicaragua. It was there that she got the call her brother had died.
Lydia mentions a local organization as a resource for addicts, called Shot in the Dark, which is a Phoenix-based syringe access program offering clean syringes, syringe disposal, treatment referrals, educational resources, and more to drug users in the Valley. Joshua had started the detox process before relapsing and overdosing.
"Often, opioid addiction will start because someone is in pain, and they go and get a prescription from their doctor," Lydia says. "That makes them become dependent and then addicted to that substance. Then they can't get that prescription anymore, so they turn to other uses, whether it's to numb whatever physical pain they're having, or mental/emotional pain ... It's affecting so many people, and unfortunately there's such a shame in talking about it."
Lydia talks about her tragic personal experiences during her shows. The sad story is such a juxtaposition to the positivity she emanates on stage. Now a full-time musician, Lydia traded in her aspirations to go the MD or physician assistant route to instead heal people a different way: through her music.
She often plays open mics at Shady Park in Tempe. They're hosted by Travis Ryder, singer/guitarist of local band Japhy's Descent. Ryder says in the past year as he has watched Lydia perform, he has witnessed a growth and drive that stands out among Valley musicians.
"She's genuine, kind, has an honest approach and beautiful voice and songwriting," Ryder says. "All the good intentions you can tell just shine out of her while she's playing and how she interacts with the crowd. Her positivity is one of the biggest things that shines through."
Besides sharing her story at shows around the Valley at places like Tempe Center for the Arts and Rogue Bar, Lydia also recently received a City of Tempe Vibrant City Grant. The grant will support her Rae Lydia Project, whose funding began through a GoFundMe campaign. The Rae Lydia Project will bring live music and songwriter sessions to the Valley homeless population at local food banks. Lydia is currently working with a cohort to launch the nonprofit, which should begin operating this spring.
Lydia experienced bouts of homelessness herself in high school. During her senior year, she sometimes slept in the park to escape an abusive living situation. No matter what friend's home she found refuge in or where she slept for the night, one thing was always a constant presence: her Dean guitar, which she still plays today.
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"My guitar was one of the few things I was able to carry around with me when I was really struggling," Lydia says. "I recognize how important it is to have music. If you don't have a reliable source of electricity, you're not going to have a lot of access to music you want to listen to, let alone be able to go out to bars and pay entry for live music. It's such a human right, I believe, to experience that kind of art."
Amid her philanthropic efforts, Lydia is also working on an upcoming 10-song album, due for release this fall. Titled Lux, the Latin word for "light," Lydia describes the music as having a "deep sunshine" theme. There will still be some heartbreak-themed tunes, but Lydia says the album will be more of a "feels album," and less sad and contemplative.
"If there's anything I want my music to do, it's at least to let people know they're not alone in what they're going through," Lydia says. "You can't have light without shadows."
For more information, visit raelydia.com.


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May I extend my warmest greetings to members, auxiliary members and families of MWVO and wish all of you in physical and spiritual wellbeing.
Myanmar War Veterans Organization has uploaded MWVO website. MWVO, organized by prescribing law, is a Non-Government Organization is indeed to render mutual assistance among members and to participate in national security matters as a reserved force. Information such as objectives, missions and implementation, organization, activities and rule and regulation of MWVO will be released in the website for the entire people, members and auxiliary members.
Apart from that, information about MWVO, member of VECONAC, is available for international veteran's organization as well as information about international veterans organization can be utilized by us.
As we have uploaded MWVO website with the support of State, Region and township war veterans organizations, it is to be informed that we all can share news from multi-sectors in timely manner and achieve veterans affairs with great momentum.In this very first occasion of website uploading, I wish all of MWVO members and auxiliary members well and urge to unitedly participate in the cause of the nation and the MWVO.
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Myanmar War Veterans Organization Special Conference (2018) held at the conference hall of the MWVO Headquarters in Dakkhinathiri Township, Nay Pyi Taw Council Area, this morning.
Patron of MWVO Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Min Aung Hlaing attended the above mentioned metting and gave an opeaning speech.
The meeting was also attended by Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Commander-in-Chief (Army) Vice-Senior General Soe Win, Union Ministers Lt-Gen Sein Win and Lt-Gen Ye Aung, Chief of the General Staff (Army Navy and Air) General MyaTunOo, Commander-in-Chief (Navy) Admiral Tin Aung San, Commander-in-Chief (Air) General MaungMaungKyaw, Lt-Gen Aung Htwe(Retd),Lt-Gen Kyaw Win(Retd), Lt-Gen Ye Myint(Retd), Lt-Gen Khin Maung Than(Retd),Lt-Gen Tin Aye(Retd) senior military officers from the Office of the Commander-in-Chief, MWVO CEO Chairman Maj- Gen Mya Win (Retd) and members, the commander of Nay Pyi Taw Command, chairmen of war veterans supervisory committees, conference delegates and invited guests.
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Today's win with Fine Evader is an excellent example of horse, jockey, owner, trainer and strapper all playing pivotal roles in getting to the winner's stall.
This fellow, who we call "Rusty" is the class clown of our team, and with him being such a big horse many would be intimidated by his antics. But our long term team member, Nikki, didn't take long to work this guy out and instantly become his biggest fan - she rides him work and straps him on race day.
His lovely owners, Frank and Lesley Monish bred Rusty and have raced many horses with us over the years, most of them with "Fine" in their name. They are loyal and patient owners who give their horses every chance to mature and even though they've been lacking some luck lately, they travel far and wide to watch their horses race.
Jamie Mott's ride was perfect. He is a true horseman and no frills jockey who can match it with the best.
It's always a happy day for us when we reward our owners with a win!