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Lewis Hamilton: "It's been an interesting weekend so far here in Melbourne. Qualifying was a lot harder for everyone with the tricky conditions and it was a real challenge out there today. We were on the edge with the tyres and it was difficult to know which way to go at times. It's the first time I've driven the car on the limit in the wet, but it felt great and I'm so happy with the job the team has done. To be on pole here today is a fantastic result for us. It was great fun and I'm really looking forward to the race tomorrow. It's going to be tough, but we'll do our best and see what happens. I am very proud to have scored pole number 100 for Mercedes-Benz in Formula One. I have only driven with Mercedes power since my debut in 2007 and the whole Mercedes team has done an incredible job meeting the challenge of these new rules. It's just as special to equal Nigel's record of pole positions for a British driver. I owe it to the great people I've worked with throughout my career."
Nico Rosberg: "That was a really tricky qualifying session out there this evening. Starting from third place on the grid is not the optimum but okay for me. I know that I have a good race car and that makes me quite confident. With a good start, I should have a nice chance of scoring a strong result. It will be a very interesting race because fuel consumption and tyre wear will be on the edge. So there might be some surprises tomorrow."
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Daniel Ricciardo: "It was exciting out there - the weather definitely added to the mix and the whole session went well. Q1 looked like it was going okay for us and then, when the rain fell, it's the first time we've driven these cars on the limit in wet conditions. It was tricky, but at the same time a lot of fun and it was nice to always be up there. The engineer was always on the radio saying the pace was good and that we were P1, P2 P3 and in the battle for the pole position, so it was definitely a really nice first qualifying session with the team. I'm happy for us to have a front row start - it wasn't looking like this a few weeks ago, so I'm pretty pleased right now."
Sebastian Vettel: "I think we have made a big step forward with the car, but of course I'm not happy that we didn't make it to Q3. I think the car is quick, but we struggled this afternoon with drivability which, in these conditions, made it even worse. The car seems good and Daniel did a very good job to be on the front row, so congratulations to him. It's going to be a long race tomorrow and reliability will be the most important thing to make it to the flag, but I think there will be lots of opportunities for us."
Kevin Magnussen: "I'm really happy. Those were difficult conditions, especially as I've never driven this track in the wet - it was quite tricky to get the lines and the braking points right. It was much trickier than anything I've ever done! But I don't think I could have asked for any more today. I made a mistake and went off on my last lap, so I might have been able to go quicker, but I'm still happy. The car was really good, and the team did a fantastic job of preparing me for this. I'm proud of myself, but also proud of the whole team for doing such a massively good job of preparing me over the winter. I always knew what was going on, and I knew the procedures, so it's clear that they taught me really well. The race is tomorrow, and so are the points - so we need a good Sunday. I'll try to enjoy tomorrow and do the best I can - getting onto the podium won't be easy, especially if it's dry. But if it's wet, anything could happen - so I guess a wet grand prix is what I'll be hoping for."
Jenson Button: "The rain this afternoon was initially good for me - I got the tyres in pretty good shape for my lap, and I was pleased with my first run in Q2. The car felt pretty good, too - I was quickest when I did my lap, and I was in the top 10 until the end. But, unfortunately, I didn't get my final run on new tyres in because I was caught out by the yellow flags in Turn Three. In the wet conditions, I think we had a very good chance of qualifying closer to the front, because our car isn't quite so quick in the dry. Not getting into the top 10 was sheer bad luck - but, hopefully, I won't be so unlucky tomorrow. I love this place, the car is working well, and, but for the yellow flags, we could have qualified much better than we did. Hopefully we'll be quick in the race - there's one team that's clear of the rest, but I think we can fight the others."
Fernando Alonso: "I think fifth is a good result in such a difficult qualifying session, especially as it's the first time we've run in the wet with the new car and because from this position, a podium finish is possible, which is worth a lot of points. We were lucky in Q1, when the rain came just after I'd done my quick lap and in Q2 we were also able to run when the track was at its best. I knew that the results of free practice did not reflect the reality of the situation and that the hierarchy would only become clear today, with Mercedes a step ahead of the rest. It would also give a clearer picture than the one we had from testing, when we couldn't be sure what the other teams were testing. Now we have seen in which areas we need to improve and the aim is to do so in the next few races. I don't think the consumption factor will change things too much, because when saving fuel, all the cars lose half a second. On top of that, the weather will come into play tomorrow as the forecast isn't clear. The priority is to finish the race and to do better than the others in the coming months. I am sure that with practice, we will learn how to get the most out of the car and simplify all the procedures."
Kimi Raikkonen: "Qualifying wasn't straightforward today, especially because of traffic. When I was on a quick lap, I had a car in front of me at every corner. That stopped me getting a clean lap and at the end of Q2, I spun off damaging the front wing. I don't think I'd have gone quicker anyway, as I had already reduced my speed at this point, because I knew already I wouldn't make it to Q3. It's a shame, because compared to yesterday we have made some steps forward. In the wet we were quick and I had more feeling for the car. We know we have a lot of work to do in every area, especially on car set-up, but at the same time, we are sure we are going in the right direction. Tomorrow's race will be tough, the weather forecast is unclear and on top of that, with the new rules, it's hard to predict how things will go. But it's only the first race of the year and we will do our best to get a good result."
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When the previous owners of my flat decided to sell it and move on, the bloke came in and fixed a few things (they allowed me to stay here despite having to do all these repairs, for which I'm grateful). Some of his 'repairs' were a bit dodgy though, and seemed more like a quick patch-up so the place could get sold. For example, there's a stubborn leak in the roof over where the toilet is, and despite trying to fix it time and again, the owner had never quite been able to isolate the problem. So when it came time to sell, he simply went into the bathroom, sanded down and plastered over the decaying, mouldy section of ceiling (due to damp from regular leakings), and gave it a fresh coat of paint. So, not fixed at all, rather just plastered over, and made so that it could not be noticed. But over time, the decay became visible again, and it looks even worse now than before.
Why I started smoking regularly, why I even allowed this to kick in as a habit, I suspect was a bit like that. I suspect I was doing it to distract myself from certain powerful, uncomfortable, and sometimes painful emotions. And so long as I kept drip drip dripping a little bit of the nicotine in, the emotions were kept at bay. Now that I've stopped totally, they are back with a vengeance. I've felt more in the last three days, than I would normally feel in a month.
Taking any drug, even an 'allowable' one like nicotine, is like plastering over our feelings / emotions, imo. I notice such a difference in how I feel, now I'm getting free of it. Emotions are deeper, I can feel them more in my body again, I can feel the connection with my surroundings more fully, it's a subtle thing but life is just that bit more real, vibrant, alive. But the cost is, emotional honesty. I can't hide so well, whatever comes up is 'right here' and wants to be dealt with right now. So when emotional pain comes up, it can cut like a knife. But that is the price we pay, for being truly alive, to truly live.
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Rubbing one's shitty anus on a friend or loved one, usually for amusement or sexual enjoyment.
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Getting ass-fucked by an Irish guy.
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Now, during that period, there's been a short Rifts campaign, a quick poke at Rolemaster, a Pathfinder campaign I briefly appeared in as a players, an abortive Stars Without Number campaign, and one or two old school convention games using something akin to Microlite 75. But my favorite games, the ones I feel most comfortable running, have to be Castles & Crusades and Mongoose Traveller.
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11 comments:
- R.J. Thompson said...
C&C is definitely my go to fantasy RPG these days.
- June 27, 2012 at 12:41 PM
- Bonemaster said...
I've been getting a lot of miles out of Savage Worlds as of late. For which the core book is $10.
- June 27, 2012 at 1:47 PM
- Chet Cox said...
As much as I loved the original Runequest, Traveller, and DragonQuest, there are only twogames which hold my attention today: Tunnels & Trolls (better than ever) and Castles & Crusades with its ability to adapt to almost any situation and style.
- June 27, 2012 at 8:57 PM
Funny, I've also discovered both C&C and Mongoose Traveller recently, as I've become disillusioned with WotC offerings and looked into both OSR and older material. I have to say, these two gems might become my go-to games for fantasy and sci-fi respectively :)
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It's certainly not a bad way to go!
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Early at the start of his career as a musician, Ray Price aided in helping Willie Nelson record one of the most covered country songs of all time by the name of "Night Life". He the collaborated with Ray Price and joined Price's touring band as a bass player. While he played in the Cherokee Cowboys band and with Ray Price, most of Nelson's songs turned out as major hits for a few pop and country music's largest stars of that time. Some of these famous songs include "Funny How Time Slips Away" (Billy Walker), "Pretty Paper" (Roy Orbison), "Hello Walls" (Faron Young) and one of the most famous songs, "Crazy" (Patsy line). The song "Crazy" resulted in becoming one of the biggest hits on the jukebox of all time. In 1980, Nelson recorded an album with Ray Price which was known as "San Antonio Rose". In 1961, he signed a contract with the Liberty Records and released numerous singles which also included "Willingly" which was later sung with his second wife Shirley Collie and also the hit single "Touch Me".
In the 1980s, Willie Nelson gave a series of massive hit singles such as: a cover of the Allman Brothers song, a song that Nelson had recorded for the soundtrack of The Electric Horseman, "Midnight Rider" (released in 1980), "On the Road gain" (released in 1882) a soundtrack for the movie Honeysuckle Rose, and a famous duet with Julio Iglesias by the name of "To All the Girls I've Loved Before". Nelson also recorded and produced famous albums such as WWII (released in 1982 alongside Waylon Jennings), Pancho & Lefty (released alongside Merle Haggard in 1982), and Take it to the Limit (released in 1983 alongside Waylon Jennings).
In the 1980s, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash created a band together by the name of The Highwaymen. Astounding, the band found a lot of success. They received platinum record sales and successfully managed to do some extensive touring all over the world. At the same time, Nelson got himself involved in charity work. He sang songs for charity; out of which one of the most memorable ones is "We are the World", a hit single released in 1984. In 1985, Nelson also set up Farm Aid events and concerts.
All through the 1990s and 2000s, Willie Nelson has been touring endlessly. He has released some great albums during this time which have received diverse reviews, only with the exclusion of the album Teatro, an album that had been produced by Daniel Lanois in 1998, who is better known for his work with the Irish band U2. Later in 1998, Nelson became a member of the rock band called Phish for their onstage performances for a few songs of the bands'. This collaboration with the Phish band was a part of the yearly Farm Aid festival that Nelson was supporting. That very year he also collaborated with his fellow Highwaymen band member Johnny Cash and performed a duet concert with him which was recorded for the VH1 Storytellers series.
Willie Nelson has won more than 40 prestigious awards. He has also won the Life Time Achievement Award at the Grammy's and a President's Award. He is known for giving some of the greatest on stage performances. Nelson's career that has spanned for more the 54 years, has gained him much fame, popularity and success. He has a colossal fan following in the United States of America as well as internationally. This legendary artist is soon scheduled to give some really awesome live performances. This is the ideal time for you to grab hold of the Willie Nelson tickets, and enjoy a truly remarkable musical journey!
Born on April 1933, the singer, songwriter, actor and philanthropist Willie Nelson is most prominent for his contributions towards the "outlaw country" a subgenre challenging the conservatism of Nashville. Throughout his career, he has produced some of the most popular country songs of all times that became country standards including Crazy, Hello Walls, Pretty Paper and Funny How Time Slips Away and many more.
Willie Nelson has written more than 2,500 songs and has released around 300 albums so far. He wrote his first song at the age of 7 and toured locally in high school with Bohemian Polka as their guitar player and lead singer. Dropping out of college to pursue his musical career, Nelson continued writing songs and move to Nashville in 1960. Soon the long-haired, bandana-wearing guitarist garnered a fan following and started producing top hit albums. Critical success of his albums Shortgun Willie in 1973, Red Headed Stranger in 1975 and Stardust in 1978 made him one of the most recognized artists in the country music. Stardust became most successful album of his career reaching no. 1 on Billboard Country Albums chart and selling five million copies. The album's single Blue Eyes Crying in The Rain was Nelson's first song to reach no. 1 and it earned him his first Grammy Award for Best Country Local Performance in 1975. But that was just the prologue of the singer and songwriter who re-drew the borders of country music. Throughout 80s and 90s, he produced hundreds of hit songs and became the icon of country music.
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Westwood Acres is this fat quarter bundle of Allison Glass's Bike Path print in her Lucky Penny collection. Such pretty colors and a great blender fabric. I'm getting up the courage to actually open the bundle.
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Westwood Acres is this fat quarter bundle of Allison Glass's Bike Path print in her Lucky Penny collection. Such pretty colors and a great blender fabric. I'm getting up the courage to actually open the bundle.
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Great fabrics Amy and don't worry, your winter will soon be over and then you'll be hot all the time during summer.ReplyDelete
It's funny, the rest of the UK is covered in snow (to the extent that both my parents, who were travelling home from working away in different places yesterday, got stuck on the motorways because lorries were playing silly buggers and getting stuck on the hills. My dad got home at 3 am, and my mum at 4 am, although she was definitely worse off as she'd just left Barcelona at 22C before she flew home!) we've not really got any - it tried a couple of evenings, but it didn't come to anything, and now it's raining and thawing the rest of the country too fast, so it's going to flood.ReplyDelete
I do love your fabric though lol
As always Amy you have such pretty things to show us !ReplyDelete
Those are great photos! And great fabrics!ReplyDelete
That would brighten my day for sure:) I can't wait to see what you make with the lovely pearls!!!ReplyDelete
Your new fabric would brighten my world Amy!! Great photos. It's been miserable cold here and our road trip south to warm weather looks like it is going to be delayed by an ice storm.ReplyDelete
I'm with you - I do love the winter for the no-guilt sewing time. Not that it stops me in the summer, but this way, I don't have to worry about yard work. Just some shoveling of snow every now and again.ReplyDelete
Lovely fabrics. I like playing with bright colors in the winter. Bring my own sunshine into the sewing room!
I think stamped is saying hi to the American Jane who lives inside you...ReplyDelete
Good thing you took those photos before the fog hit this weekend! This smog is going to kill us! Or depress us. Good thing we have sewing and fabric to keep us happy in Utah!ReplyDelete
drooling over the pearl bracelets!ReplyDelete
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The snow flake pictures are so pretty.
I can't get over how tiny and perfect
each one is!
Your fabrics look like lots of fun!
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Fabric shopping is a great way to cure the winter blues. ;) I love the colors you picked. So cheerful!ReplyDelete
Beautiful photos! I must get some of that Lucky Penny bike path before it's all gone!ReplyDelete
Would be really hard for me to use any of those pretty fabrics. Just wanna drool over them for a while. So ready for winter to be over, but I guess spring is just around the corner!ReplyDelete
Amy, now you have become a fabric enabler. I just might have to pick up a few of those prints. I did already buy the 1/2 yard stack of the Pearl Bracelets. Aren't they yummy?ReplyDelete
I keep going back to look at the Stamped collection too! That bag Anna did was gorgeous! I might have to go get some finally. ;)ReplyDelete
I love this post. Especially because I love color and your amazing shots of those snowflakes.ReplyDelete
It might be blah for you, but for me Down Under it looks sooooo pretty!! Love those fabrics - have availed myself of some bracelets.....!ReplyDelete
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The Washington Post (http://wapo.st/17YjfLC ) reports funding for the $2 million job training contract awaits approval by the D.C. Council. The program aims to help district workers learn career skills for a position.
The hotel is slated to open in 2014.
Goodwill bid for the project in conjunction with the University of the District of Columbia Community College, the United Way and the hospitality industry group Progressive Partners. The local United Way chapter pledged to contribute $350,000 to support the program.
The job training contract is set to run through Dec. 15, 2014.
Information from: The Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com
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Anti-Puppy Mill Group Protests Puppy Parlor Pet Shop
Companion Animal Protection Society protests pet shop in Lisle, Illinois for selling puppy mill dogs.
LISLE, IL, February 2, 2013 – Local pet shop Puppy Parlor advertises on their website huge store-wide sales but they exclude puppies. They find other ways to entice buyers with already low prices on dogs. The problem: selling pets from puppy mills might be a cost cutting move, but it comes with a high collateral price.
LA Bans the Sale of Puppy & Kitten Mill Pets
Publication name: Care2
URL for more info: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/los-angeles-ordinance-bans-retail-animal-sales.html
They don't call it the City of Angels for nothing. We're not being sarcastic — Los Angeles has a serious soft spot for little furry critters. Last month, on Halloween, the L.A. City Council pulled off an impressive trick: formalizing its approval of an ordinance that bans the retail sale of dogs, cats, and rabbits, becoming the largest American city to do so.
You heard right. In the future, the dogs, cats, and rabbits seen in Los Angeles pet stores will be from shelters or rescue groups. Products of puppy and kitten mills will simply not be available for sale in L.A. Animal advocates around the country are cheering this as a giant leap toward the Golden State becoming the largest no-kill community in the country. Way to go, Los Angeles
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Puppy Protestors Voice Safety Concerns
Publication name: NorthFork Patch
URL for more info: http://northfork.patch.com/articles/puppy-protestors-voice-safety-concerns
Demonstrators who have gathered outside The Puppy Experience in Aquebogue to raise awareness about puppy mills are concerned about public safety.
Barbara Dennihy, of the Companion Animal Protection Society said this week that demonstrators who congregate on Route 25 outside the store on weekends are "very concerned" about the number of cars that cross the double yellow line to enter and leave the parking lot of The Puppy Experience.
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CAPS comment for USDA's proposed regulation of Internet breeders
CAPS comment for USDA's proposed regulation of Internet breedersFounded by President Deborah Howard in 1992, the Companion Animal Protection Society (CAPS) is the only national nonprofit organization dedicated exclusively to protecting companion animals from cruelty in pet shops and puppy mills. CAPS actively addresses the abuse and suffering of pet shop and puppy mill dogs through investigations, education, media relations, legislative involvement, puppy mill dog rescues, consumer assistance and pet industry employee relations.
Below are examples of investigations and outreach concerning the sale of puppies via the Internet. We are also including a chart that summarizes some of our complaints. CAPS has an online complaint form for purchasers of puppies, kittens and other animals.
Puppies Direct, MissouriCAPS has been investigating online puppy sellers since the early days of the Internet. In 1998, we investigated Puppies Direct (Appendix A-1), a consortium of then current and former USDA-licensed Missouri-based (one Iowa) breeders led by Mickalyn Crawford in LaGrange. CAPS investigated Crawford in 1999 and 2001 and rescued several dogs from her facility, where we documented many AWA violations.
Crawford would only provide us with the first name of the breeders. However, we were able to figure out who they were. Most of these breeders still have USDA licenses. When we were investigating these breeders in 1998, Tammy Burchett and Joe McVeigh had dropped their USDA licenses. Burchett, who is now in Missouri, obtained another license in 2010. Joe McVeigh was charged with animal cruelty in 1998.
According to a December 1, 1997 USDA inspection report signed by Harold Becker, McVeigh had no non-compliant items. The Scotland County Sheriff's Department raided McVeigh's facility on January 20, 1998. Humane Society of Missouri employees and Mary Martin, an inspector from the Missouri Department of Agriculture (MDA), went with two sheriff deputies. They found seven dead dogs on the property – all who had starved to death. There were cannibalized dogs and skeletal remains in the snow. McVeigh had more than 120 live dogs. The Humane Society of Missouri report stated that the ground under the raised wood and wire pens was saturated with urine and feces. There was about an inch of snow on the ground. There was no food or drinkable water in any of the pens. Some of the bowls contained frozen water.
In the fall of 1998, CAPS investigators visited Joe McVeigh's kennel in Memphis, MO. McVeigh was using hog panels to construct dog runs on the ground. The pens stood independently of each other and did not appear to be soundly constructed. One can disassemble and move these pens. Our investigators noted that McVeigh must move the pens periodically in lieu of proper cleaning and sanitizing. The watering containers were plastic buckets around five gallons in size. The water was not clean and potable. McVeigh allowed dogs to run freely on the property near the main highway. McVeigh remarked that he had been "raided by the Missouri Humane Society in early 1998."
McVeigh had about a dozen dogs at the time of our investigation but had no federal or state license. Yet, he was selling puppies through Crawford's Puppies Direct online business. Burchett appeared to be out of business.
CNN Story about Wizard of Claws
On May 11, 2006 CNN aired a lengthy segment entitled, "Sick Puppies Dog Some Online Purchasers." In this story on Internet puppy sales, CNN Consumer Correspondent Greg Hunter interviewed CAPS President Deborah Howard, who addressed the issues involved with Internet puppy buying and showed video footage of puppy mills that sell to The Hunte Corporation, the largest puppy brokerage facility in the country. The story focused on Celebrity Kennels (aka Wizard of Claws) in Florida, which obtained many of their puppies from Hunte. Celebrity Kennels also sold puppies both through a strip mall storefront, where they showed puppies to consumers who sit in a waiting room, and over the internet. Just because pet shops and online sellers have celebrity customers doesn't mean that these puppy merchants obtain puppies from reputable breeders. Wizard of Claws went out of business as the result of a consumer class action lawsuit.
Robin Schulder, Queens, NYIn 2007 and 2008, CAPS received a number of consumer complaints about Robin Schulder, who had several Internet puppy businesses selling various breeds, including one that sold expensive "guard dogs." She also claimed to be running a rescue. See Daily News article and email correspondence between CAPS President Deborah Howard and Robin Schulder (Appendix A-2). We turned over these complaints to the Office of the New York Attorney General. Schulder was selling sick puppies and violating the New York lemon law. We also gave them undercover footage taken by a CAPS investigator who visited Robin in her home to look at puppies. She lived on a 2,000 sf lot; there was no evidence that she was breeding dogs herself, although she claimed to be a breeder of the dogs she was selling. See attached Petition by the State of New York dated January 6, 2010 (Appendix A-3), Stipulation of Settlement dated April 6, 2012 (Appendix A-4) and Order Authorizing the Stipulation of Settlement, etc. (Appendix A-5). Schulder filed for bankruptcy so it was only just recently that funds were released to the state to satisfy the settlement on behalf of the consumer plaintiffs.
North Country KennelsCAPS also received several complaints about sick puppies sold by North Country Kennels (mixedbreedpups.com) in Ironton, MN. See attached CAPS fact sheet: Why You Shouldn't Buy That Puppy in the Window (Appendix A-6). Because this Internet seller lives in Minnesota, which has no state licensing and inspection program, she never gets inspected. The site lists 17 types of "designer" small breed dogs and seven types of purebred dogs. One can only imagine how many breeding dogs she has on the property. On the FAQ page, she states that the facility is inspected – every two or three years by AKC.
Korean Teacup Puppy DealersCAPS has been investigating Internet sellers of Korean teacup puppies. We have complaints for two dealers: Ashley Anderson and Ginger Turk (Appendix A-7):
Boutique Teacup Puppieshttp://www.mspuppyconnection.com/ and http://www.boutiqueteacuppuppies.com/
Ashley Anderson
Las Vegas, Nevada.
Relocated from Mississippi to Las Vegas in April. Only her personal Facebook account is visible: https://www.facebook.com/#!/Ashleynanderson82
See CAPS complaint for Nichole Casper in Boston area who bought a puppy that died of parvovirus. Broker was Jung Puppy Club (see below).
The Mississippi Attorney General's Office is investigating Anderson's previous online dog businesses.
Beverly Hills Teacupshttp://www.beverlyhillsteacups.com/
Ginger Turk
Folsom, CA
Formerly Once Upon A Teapup. She is using a different name, probably because the other company was involved in a fraud complaint, forging signature of a vet. Ginger forged her vet's name to CVIs, resulting in her being charged with forgery in CA. Ginger was previously using Jung Puppy Club, which may be associated with Victory Puppy Club.
Other CAPS Complaints from Internet CustomersSee attached chart summarizing some of our complaints (Appendix A-8).
Internet Sellers Acting as Brokers Without a Federal LicenseCritters and Pets, a San Clemente-based online seller of puppies illegally brokered to I Heart Puppies in Corona del Mar, California (now out of business). They did no breeding and instead obtained dogs from USDA-licensed facilities in the Midwest, such as Barb Crick in Nebraska 47-A-0426, who is under investigation by APHIS. We filed a report with Dr. Gerald Rushin in July 2011. We can no longer find a website for them.
Judy Hulett sells to individuals via a website but also brokers to Puppy Town in Sarasota without a license; there are no CVIs filed with Florida Department of Agriculture.
Name: Hulett, Judy
URL: janddkennels.com
Address: 91 Pittman Farm Rd
City: Rhine
State: GA
Zip: 31077
RecommendationsWhile complaints filed with CAPS about sick puppies from pet shops still outnumber Internet puppy complaints, this may change as more municipalities pass ordinances banning the sale of pet shop puppies/kittens and some pet shops offer adoption animals only. Some Internet breeders or sellers have a USDA and/or state license while others, such as North Country Kennels, aren't subject to any government licensing or inspection. That is why it is imperative that USDA/APHIS implement a regulation that closes a loophole that has allowed breeders and brokers to sell dogs and cats sight unseen over the Internet or via the phone or mail without being subject to federal licensing and inspection. Websites that have numerous breeders selling puppies, such as Next Day Pets, Terrific Pets and Puppy Find, will need to be monitored. We are glad to hear that companies and individuals that broker (no breeding at all) to individuals via the Internet will also be covered.
Over the years, we have investigated individuals, such as Wendy Laymon (previously in Washington but moved to Missouri due to numerous legal problems and serving time in WA) who sold puppies through newspaper ads. These individuals did no breeding and instead obtained puppies from commercial breeding facilities, mostly USDA-licensed, in the Midwest. Those who sell through newspapers should also be covered, whether they are breeding themselves and have at least five breeding females or are obtaining puppies and other animals from other sources. People who sell through newspapers typically meet prospective customers in a parking lot. Wendy met customers in McDonald's and WalMart lots. The customers saw just one puppy and could not see the conditions in which these puppies lived.
Wendy Laymon lost her USDA license for three years effective April 2009 and now sells online:
USDA – Failure to enforce Animal Welfare Act – Companion Animal Protection Society
USDA's Failure to Enforce the Animal Welfare ActThe USDA has been extremely negligent over the years in its enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) as it pertains to commercial dog breeders and brokers. CAPS has been investigating this problem since 1995. In some instances, we have investigated facilities the day after or before a USDA inspector found no violations. CAPS investigators found numerous non-compliant items. Falsifying an inspection report is a federal felony.
Under the U.S. Criminal Code, it is a federal felony for a government employee to falsify a federal document, such as a USDA inspection report. It is also illegal for government officials to knowingly use fraudulent federal documents, as top-level USDA officials have allegedly been doing, to prepare required annual reports to Congress. Falsification of records, conspiracy to falsify records, and conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government are federal felony crimes punishable by up to five years imprisonment and/or a fine.
USDA officials like to emphasize the word "minimum" with respect to animal care standards. Sadly, USDA is not even enforcing the minimum standards. Because USDA continues to make excuses for its failure to enforce the AWA, congressional oversight hearings are an absolute necessity.
CAPS and its pro bono lobbyists have been meeting with members of congress to present the findings from our investigations of numerous USDA licensed facilities. CAPS is requesting oversight hearings on the USDA's failure to enforce the AWA, advocating changes to the AWA and recommending new policies regarding the actions of USDA inspectors.
To keep building our case against the USDA and its failure to enforce the AWA, CAPS' evidentiary findings must stay current. We must demonstrate that this disregard of the AWA is pervasive throughout USDA's AHPS/Animal Care and not just a question of a few bad inspectors. Thus, it is essential that CAPS continue its in-depth investigations of USDA licensed facilities. Investigations - we also rescue puppy mill dogs as evidence of the cruelties being committed at these facilities - are costly.
Below is a white paper prepared by Crowell & Moring, CAPS' pro bono lobbyists in Washington DC. It outlines CAPS concerns about the USDA's failure to enforce the Animal Welfare Act and lists some suggested solutions. We provide this white paper (with attached Poor, Lorton and Wee investigation reports) to congressional aides prior to meeting with them.
The Animal Welfare Act Needs Strengthening and the USDA's Administration of the Act Must be Overhauled.
As the only national organization dedicated exclusively to protecting companion animals, the Companion Animal Protection Society (CAPS) is committed to ending the abuse and suffering of puppy mill dogs. Since 1995, CAPS has investigated over 100 puppy mills, with our most recent puppy mill investigations having been conducted in Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri, and Iowa. Further, CAPS works closely with the media, and has generated stories with "Dateline," "20/20," "Hardcopy," and magazines such as Life, People, and the Readers' Digest, as well as television stations in Boston, Chicago, and elsewhere.
Based on our years of investigative experience, CAPS has concluded that although the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) gives the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) the power to license, inspect and regulate breeders and brokers who deal in dogs for commercial purposes, the USDA's implementation of AWA has been grievously insufficient - fulfilling neither the letter nor the intent of the AWA.
Sadly, the problems we have identified are not new. In a March 1992 report, the USDA's independent Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) could not ensure the humane care and treatment of animals as required by the AWA. Indeed, in a subsequent January 1995 report, the OIG, recommended new legislation to strengthen and enhance APHIS' authority.
CAPS believes strongly that the time has come to fix these problems once and for all, and we urge the Congress to take the actions necessary - including oversight of the USDA's activities and enactment of remedial legislation - to achieve this goal. A brief summary of our concerns and some suggested solutions are set forth below.
Summary of Concerns
Importantly, although some improvements in the USDA's regulations are warranted, the larger problem is that the USDA is simply not enforcing them adequately. The USDA's rules (see generally, 9 CFR Parts 1-4), are too often ignored, not only by those who are regulated, but also by the regulators themselves. Thus, although the USDA's rules establish fundamental standards intended to provide for the humane care and treatment of dogs and other animals, unfortunately, as CAPS finds repeatedly in our field investigations, the standards for housing, ventilation, lighting, interior surfaces, primary enclosures, sanitation, pest controls, feeding and watering, outside shelter, compatibility, adequate veterinary care, and handling are, in all too many cases, being ignored. Complete copies of our field investigations are available upon request. Simply put either through omission, misfeasance, and (we fear) in some cases, even malfeasance, the USDA is not getting the job done. CAPS urges Congress to act swiftly to remedy the systemic failures we have identified.
Suggested Solutions
We question whether the USDA is even institutionally capable of adequately implementing the puppy mill protection provisions of the AWA. Thus, we believe the appropriate congressional committees should conduct prompt and vigorous oversight of the USDA's management of this program with the following questions in mind:
- Does APHIS have sufficient funding and personnel to carry out its statutory mission?
- Does APHIS have the requisite management and training structures in place to fulfill its mission?
- Are APHIS inspectors qualified and properly trained to do the job?
In addition, and at a minimum, the Congress should strengthen the AWA to:
- require mandatory semiannual unannounced inspections of each licensee's facility, and mandatory reinspections, within thirty days, of any facilities where violations of USDA's standards and regulations have been found, to ensure they are corrected in a timely fashion;
- require mandatory unannounced inspections of facilities at which licenses are not renewed by the licensee no later than two months from the expiration date of such license;
- punish through imprisonment or fine (or both) any person who gives advance notice of any unannounced AWA inspection;
- provide a mechanism to allow representatives of animal welfare organizations to file written complaints regarding licensed facilities, including the right of such representatives to accompany APHIS inspectors as they inspect licensees' facilities in response to such complaints;
- require mandatory suspension of dealer licenses if cited violations of USDA's standards have not been corrected in a timely fashion;
- require mandatory revocation of dealer licenses if the dealer is found to be in serious violation of AWA regulations or standards (e.g., lack of food or water, adequate veterinary care) during any three mandatory inspections (See S. 1478/H.R. 3058, the Puppy Protection Act of 2001);
- provide for mandatory unannounced inspections of facilities at which licenses are suspended or revoked, within two weeks of such suspension or revocation, to ensure that dogs are not being sold; and
- prohibit the use of gunshot as a form of euthanasia, the conduct of Cesarean sections by anyone other than a licensed veterinarian, and the weaning of animals before six weeks of age.
Please write the following USDA officials and ask them to enforce the Animal Welfare Act as it pertains to federally licensed dog breeding and brokering facilities and to implement the above solutions suggested by CAPS.
Ms. Cindy J. Smith
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Animal and Plant Inspection Service
Room 312-E, Whitten Building
1400 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, DC 20250
Mr. Kevin Shea
Deputy Adminstrator
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Animal and Plant Inspection Service
Room 312-E, Whitten Building
1400 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, DC 20250
Dr. Chester A. Gipson
Deputy Administrator of Animal Care
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Animal Plant and Inspection Service
USDA-APHIS-AC, Rm. 2D13
4700 River Road, Unit 97
Riverdale, MD 20737
Mr. Tom Vilsack
Secretary of Agriculture
U.S. Department of Agriculture
1400 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, DC 20250
Ms. Kathleen A. Merrigan
Deputy Secretary of Agriculture
U.S. Department of Agriculture
1400 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, DC 20250
(awaiting congressional approval)
List of USDA licensed breeders and brokers:
Look under Facility Lists and then Dealers. "A" dealers are breeders and "B" dealers are brokers. Breeders raise animals for resale to brokers. Brokers then transport and sell these animals directly to pet shops. They may also breed.
USDA Declares Kathy Bauck Unfit to Raise Dogs
USDA Declares Kathy Bauck Unfit to Raise Dogs, Files Motion for Summary Judgement to Revoke her USDA LicenseURL: http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/20477675/detail.html
Publication date: 2009-08-20
Publication name: ABC Boston
Headline: USDA Declares Kathy Bauck Unfit to Raise Dogs, Files Motion for Summary Judgement to Revoke her USDA License
Summary: As a result of the CAPS undercover investigation into Kathy Bauck's practices as a large-scale dog broker, which resulted in her criminal conviction, the USDA has filed a summary judgement to revoke her license. President of CAPS Deborah Howard will appear on ABC Boston Channel Five's special report on the case tonight at 11:00pm. For more information on the Bauck case, visit www.caps-web.org.
CAPS' Oversite of USDA
Here are some of the important issues we will be discussing with USDA officials during meetings in Washington, DC next year:
Office of Inspector General Report
CAPS is celebrating a major victory – one we have been working toward for many years! We hope that as a result of this victory, USDA's APHIS/Animal Care, the division that oversees the inspection of thousands of federally licensed dog and cat breeding and brokering facilities, will implement significant changes with respect to enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA).
In late May, the Office of Inspector General for USDA released a scathing 69-page report for an audit and investigation conducted between 2006 and 2008. This audit and investigation was prompted by a meeting that CAPS and Crowell & Moring attorneys had with OIG officials in May 2006.
As a member of CAPS, you are well aware that the USDA has been very negligent in its enforcement of AWA regulations with respect to commercial dog breeders and brokers. USDA APHIS/Animal Care uses inspectors, including veterinarians, to conduct "unannounced" inspections of federally licensed dog breeders and brokers who supply puppies to the pet shop industry.
CAPS has been investigating the USDA's failure to enforce the AWA since 1995, and with the assistance of Crowell & Moring, has been lobbying members of Congress for oversight hearings regarding USDA's lax enforcement of the AWA.
In the last 15 years, CAPS has been to approximately 1,000 puppy mills, most of them USDA licensed, often comparing our findings to those of the USDA inspectors. You can read some of our detailed reports and view photographs and undercover footage on our website under Investigations.
For many years, CAPS has been working hard to ensure that APHIS pursue egregious and repeat violators of the AWA. Many of the recommendations that CAPS has advocated for years are apparently being addressed in the current APHIS initiative – increased program oversight, focused enforcement of federally-licensed facilities with an emphasis on repeat violators, more inspectors and better training for inspectors, consistent and effective inspection guidance and documentation of violations, better transparency, and enhanced stakeholder involvement.
Ongoing investigations of USDA licensed puppy mills are imperative in order to provide evidence of serious violations of the AWA that aren't being documented by Animal Care inspectors.
Kathy Bauck License TerminationWe also plan to discuss the Kathy Bauck case with USDA officials. Based on evidence from a six-week CAPS employment investigation, a jury convicted Bauck, one of the largest USDA licensed dog dealers in the country, of animal cruelty in March 2009. As a result of this conviction, a USDA Judicial Officer denied Bauck's appeal and terminated her license in December 2009. Bauck appealed this decision to the Eighth District Court of Appeals. The license termination was stayed pending Bauck's federal court appeal, which was ultimately denied. USDA officially terminated Bauck's license in August 2010.
It is unfortunate that Bauck was allowed to keep her license during this yearlong process. We tracked her sales during this time through interstate health certificates (most of the stores were in New York and New Jersey). After Bauck's criminal conviction, Crowell & Moring submitted a petition for rulemaking requesting that AWA regulations be amended to require the automatic revocation of a USDA license upon the conviction in a court of law of a licensee, such as Bauck, for animal cruelty.
Although USDA claims that an automatic termination is a violation of due process, we believe that our petition put pressure on USDA to use the expedited means of a Motion for Summary Judgment to terminate Bauck's license.
CAPS will continue to keep an eye on Kathy Bauck. Her husband Alan applied for a USDA license using a kennel name. The USDA denied his license, so he has appealed. In addition, Kathy Bauck signed health certificates in May as the agent for a USDA licensed breeder in Minnesota. This breeder was selling to most of Bauck's pet shop accounts (odd coincidence). CAPS wants to make sure that Bauck doesn't use other USDA licensed breeders and brokers to sell dogs.
Bauck will still be able to sell dogs on the Internet. The Animal Welfare Act does not cover Internet breeders. However, if proposed legislation in Minnesota requiring state kennel licenses is passed, those convicted of animal cruelty and their business associates will be banned from obtaining a license.
Interstate Health CertificatesOver the years, CAPS has examined thousands of interstate health certificates, mostly to track the shipment of puppy mill dogs from brokers and breeders to pet shops.
Here are the issues and recommendations we plan to discuss with USDA regarding health certificates:
Only USDA licensees should be listed as the consignors (not their relatives, agents, employees, etc); they should be required to list their USDA number.
The USDA number for the breeder of each puppy (if exempt, then their name and address) should be listed on the certificates immediately after each puppy. Since brokers ship most puppies going to pet shops, there is no quick way to ascertain the breeders who sold the puppies listed on the health certificates.
Clarification is greatly needed for pet shops that have dealer licenses. One USDA APHIS official said a pet shop doesn't need a license to purchase its own dogs, yet another person at APHIS told one of our Minnesota Advisory Board members, they do. Why then do some of these larger pet shops have B (broker) licenses? Others, such as the large Chicago area-based Happiness is Pets chain, the target of CAPS protests, don't have a federal license, yet they can transport dogs across state lines without any inspections. Why should they be exempt from interstate transportation requirements?
Certain pet shops in Florida aren't using the interstate health certificates appropriately – for example, the owner of a pet shop chain in the Orlando area is listed as the consignor on interstate health certificates, yet he has the B license under his pet shop name. He never uses a street address, just a town and state (Missouri).
His half-sister, the owner of another well-known Florida pet shop lists her booking agent as the consignor and her pet shop as the consignee. If she is brokering her own dogs, then we can't trace the source of the puppies (this may be why she has a B license). If someone has a Missouri kennel license and busy within the state, there is no way to track the source of these puppies. We believe that there should be intrastate health certificates for puppies shipped within a state. Both pet shop owners have a Missouri kennel license.
Animal Welfare Act RegulationsThe definitions of revocation, termination and cancellation must be clearly defined. We discovered after the USDA terminated Bauck's license in December 2009, that this termination is good for only two years. USDA informed us that termination is used for licensees who are convicted of animal cruelty, such as Kathy Bauck. However, if USDA conducts the investigation, then they can use a revocation, which is indefinite. When USDA subpoenaed all of the evidence from our Bauck investigation, we thought they were going to conduct their own investigation. Sadly, they did not.
Surgical procedures and euthanasia should be clearly defined and banned under the regulations. Merely saying that USDA follows AVMA guidelines and/or issuing a one-time policy letter isn't sufficient.


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