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In the 1970's TK Productions was 10 times more powerful than Cash Money Records is today. Company President Henry Stone had more artists, more hits, greater distribution, and more sales. But when 1980 hit it all came crashing down and the company went bankrupt.
One of his first million selling records of the 1970's was called "Cleanup Woman."
Clarence "Blowfly" Reid and Willie "Deep City" Clarke wrote the song, Willie "Little Beaver" Hale composed its unforgettable triple guitar line, Ron Bogdon played the bass, and little Betty Wright sang the hell out of it.
Stone's ears heard a hit, so he paid off all the local DJ's to play it on their radio shows. The reaction from the public was immediate. They all rushed to record stores to buy it.
See also: Willie Clarke on the Rise of Deep City Records
Stone pressed up more copies of the single, paid off key DJ's in New York and Florida, and got the same huge reaction. So he called up his old buddy Jerry Wexler from Atlantic Records, made a deal to lease the single to him for national distribution, and it became a million seller.
But Henry Stone wasn't just recording, he was also a powerhouse distributor. Instead of just putting records out in his official territory of Florida, which was only 2% of the national buying market, he would order more records than the state could handle, pay less per disc than everybody else in the country, and sell outside his turf in places like Philly, Detroit, New York, and Chicago.
By leasing his own music to Atlantic, he'd found a way for someone else to pay the cost of massive manufacturing, and by transshipping he was making money on both sides of the deal, as a label, and as a distributor.
When Atlantic put a stop to it by forming their own distribution network in the early 70's, Stone countered by going into the manufacturing business himself and using his distribution contacts to move albums nationwide, and more importantly, around the world. He started TK Productions, released Timmy Thomas's "Why Can't We Live Together," and began a 25 Gold Record run that saw his company ship more than 150 million pieces.
His biggest act was KC & The Sunshine Band (who wrote all their own music). But Willie Clarke and Clarence Reid had a hand in almost everything else, which were thousands of sides cut by mostly local artists, thus cementing TK's position as the originator of the "Miami Sound."
Then, in 1979, a Chicago disc jockey started the "Disco Sucks" movement and initiated a chain of events that led to TK's bankruptcy.
Willie Clarke remembers exactly how he felt the day he found out the company was done for. "You talk about lovin' something...I am so in love with writing songs and producing music that when TK had to close down that was devastating to me.
I can only speak for myself but it was almost like someone trying to kill me. What'd I do? I lost my place behind the board calling shots and being in control. Having the last word over all these talented people, all of us sharing ideas and them counting on me as the last to leave the boat and get it all done and mixed down.
When they burned all those disco records in that stadium in Chicago, TK Studios looked like one of those movies where everything is dark and scary, and too quiet. It was like a tomb and Henry Stone was just sittin' in there by himself in the dark.
They told me what happened with the bank cutting off backing us. How the whole disco thing was over.
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Truth is, all that good r&b we had, we coulda gone with that. We had all this material a long time, but disco took over the scene, and we did really well during that cause we were one of the creators, but at the end of it we were just left lookin' at each other.
It was truly a highlight of my life and a wonderful adventure.
After that, I had to go back to teaching school."
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Murendeni Mos Mpolosi
Nice place , clean pools great out door near one of the large dams in Limpopo (NANDONI). Great hospitality and a very clean place as a matter of fact.
Mary Ramagoma
It well cleaned and easy to access
The pools are clean, the water is circulating, there are clean showers, good dj for any music, place for kids, wheelchair friendly, the place is just super
Ndamu Phuluwa
nice place to relax and clean pools
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nice place to relax, clean pools, just by the roadside which is good for public transport users
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I love iy
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My stay was memorable. Big up to Tshireledzo who always had a smile on her face.
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The rooms are very clean and well conditioned
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Loved everything about this place except all the pools have cold water but this is a lovely place
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Beautiful pools
TripAdvisor Reviewer
Best restaurant and great food. Excellent service overall. Clean and well managed swimming pools. Playing of loud music at night during the week is a serious concern to hotel guests who have to work / wake up early the next day. WiFi accessibility is also a challenge (need an upgrade). More...
Ramulongo Peggy
The rooms are spacious, linen clean ,food delicious, not to mention the friendly staff. I enjoyed my stay.
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good place for a good family gateway
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Everything went well. The staff was friendly and professional. I would suggest that the Hotel Management add more towels per room. The food was excellent and of high quality. We loved the beautiful environment.Keep up the good work. More...
silence mabasa
A very good place, nice music, very good and clean swimming pools, friendly workers, high security. Luxury rooms for accommodation, high qualiry restraunt. Picnic sites, shop and bar. There is alot of things at Jericho. When you visit there you will want to go back again. More...
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its beautiful and attractive
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Friendly staff, quiet and private location.||Property designed for leisure, can improve some rooms to accommodate business travellers. e.g. have Wi-fi, easily accessible and suitable plugs for chargers.|| More...
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Is beautiful and homely
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Friendly staff, their rooms are neat, quiet and private. They can improve on their kitchen services as their food takes very long to prepare.
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Precious Cbow
A place to be whenever you need to distress
Antonio Bowers
Beautiful hotel. If you live local African music this is the place to. It is self-catering.
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Found in the rural area of Thohoyandou, looking good, close to the main road, visible at night, next to Nandoni Dam, clean surroundings,peaceful sleep, air conditioned rooms,secured parking and good food. I like the hotel my only concern is that the staff need to be well trained, especially at the reception, they need to have a good understanding of their work. More...
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My partner and I had such a wonderful time. The staff is amazing and friendly. The place is affordable but beautiful and comfortable. I had the most amazing breakfast. I recommend this place as the place to stay. More...
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On our way helping with transport forum
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This place is a hidden gem. Absolute beauty it will definitely take you by surprise. The view of the country side is amazing on the drive to here. …MoreThis place is a hidden gem. Absolute beauty it will definitely take you by surprise. The view of the country side is amazing on the drive to here.The staff must say are very friendly and go definitely for the extra mile they leave no stone unturned to make your stay very pleasant.I would definitely come back for a revisit here kudos to the architecture. More...
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It was my second time there n this time I went for the VIP section though I was quite dissatisfied with how people in the general area are able to see what was happening at the VIP. The water was amazing I must say. Please install mirrors in the female toilets. More...
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given thay you charge so much you should provide decent and elegant decor
While the people are busy at the wedding your radio at the pool area was soo disturbing .
Revisit your plan of conducting events.can't have my wedding while other people are braaing at the door step of the hall ,that so unacceptable. More...
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The best water park in the region
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Azwihangwisi Muvhango
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We enjoyed too much thnx
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thembi mulaisi
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Friendliness of the staff, the facilities and scrumptious food..
Adelaide Rabothata
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M R Tshifaro
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Staff: 4,Facilities: 4,Cleanliness: 3,Comfort: 3,Value for money: 3,Location: 3
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+The different facilities available.
+Friendliness of the staff, the facilities and scrumptious food.. -Nothing.
dillan bubb
Friendly staff
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Faith sikhathi
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Derick Ndonyane
Very beautiful and safe place to be with the family
Abednigo Chauke
A nice place to be, but why should u expect a car entrance fee where as one pays for VIP, there are so mmany ways to increase profit and control over crowding, the price for VIPs is fair enough to also cater cars for those who are @the VIPS …MoreA nice place to be, but why should u expect a car entrance fee where as one pays for VIP, there are so mmany ways to increase profit and control over crowding, the price for VIPs is fair enough to also cater cars for those who are @the VIPS and maybe vs general. U don't control clients by price hikes, but analysing what's best for the customer. Service we feel we cant touch it More...
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Disclaimer: Shareinvestors is not authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority to give investment advice. Terms such as 'Buy', 'Sell' and 'Hold' are not recommendations to buy, sell or hold securities, these statements and other statements made by the author have the meaning only to express the author's personal views on the quality of a security. Independent financial advice from an authorised investment professional should always be sought before making investments. CAPITAL AT RISK. Full Disclaimer here.
I covered Hurricane Energy (HUR.L) here shortly after the Lancaster Pilot hole flow test in September 2016, tipping the shares at 38p with a BUY target of 55p. This initial share price target was reached last week, returning investors 45% in just shy of 7 months. There has been plenty of positive newsflow in the past few months, so I take a look at what has happened since my first tip and whether I believe there is further upside from here.
Hurricane Energy plc is engaged in the exploration of oil and gas reserves offshore of UK. Based on its most recent CPR the Company has two basement reservoir discoveries and has approximately 450 million barrels of 2C Contingent Resources on its acreage.
Vital Statistics as at 23rd February 2017 market close:
|Current Share Price
|All Time High
|58p – 7th Feb 2017
|52 Week Low/High
|58p – 7th Feb 2017
10.05p – 1st March 2016
|Market Capitalisation
|Enterprise Value
|C£635m, minimal cash/no debt
|Fully Diluted Market Capitalisation
|£652m, 30m share options outstanding
|Not applicable for where Hurricane is in the cycle
There have been three key developments for Hurricane Energy since my last post, they are 1) further progress on the Lancaster Early Production System (EPS), 2) an exploration discovery on the Lincoln prospect and 3) the exploration spud of the Halifax prospect on newly acquired 'out of round' licence acreage. Let's take at look each in turn:
1) Lancaster Early Production System (EPS) development
Hurricane via RNS confirmed in November 2016 that it had signed Heads of Terms with Bluewater Energy Services for the use of the Aoka Mizu Floating Production Storage Unit. For oil and gas novices this is essentially a floating platform which will be hooked up to the two subsea production wells planned for the development. For the anoraks among us, you can find the full specs of this little beauty here.
The Aoka Mizu has been deployed at the Ettrick and Blackbird fields for Nexen Petroleum UK since 2009. However, after just 7 years the field is now being decommissioned and the Aoka Mizu was retired from its duty. Hurricane and Bluewater have though reached an agreement to salvage poor Aoka from the Nautical graveyard and instead do various upgrades to bring her to the Lancaster field.
I covered the concept of the EPS in my previous piece but there have been some slight revisions to the core assumptions worth noting; Plateau production is now expected to be 17,000 barrels oil per day on producible reserves of 62 Million Barrels, previously reserve estimates were 53 million barrels. OPEX per Boe is now estimated to be $26 compared to $35 back in May 2016, a big improvement and most likely linked to improved terms on the FPSO lease. Moving in the other direction though CAPEX per Boe has increased from $318m to $400m.
It is worth remembering that the EPS is designed to produce for a period of 18-24 months and will unlikely form part of a larger Lancaster field development. One of the reasons for the EPS is that there is no existing production on the UKCS from basement reservoirs. The EPS will therefore give a long term indicator of reservoir performance and establish decline rates. This information, if positive, will allow the full field development to become 'bankable' and of course prove many doubters wrong in the process. The Hurricane team do though have an option to extend the FPSO for a further 10 years which gives flexibility on how a potential full field development plan could pan out. I have crunched the numbers and I believe a 15 year development on the EPS alone could given an NPV £430m on an unrisked basis. More on that later though….
2) Exploration Success on Lincoln
Hurricane announced a placing and open offer to raise £70m in late October. The proceeds were to fund a two well exploration campaign on two prospects nearby to Lancaster. One was the Lincoln prospect, which can be seen on Figure 2 below:
The Lincoln well was completed late in December taking around 40 days to drill down to a True Vertical Depth (TVD) of 2,135m. The initial results were very encouraging, a significant hydrocarbon column was encountered of at least 660m. This led Hurricane to state that '250 million barrels of recoverable oil for the Lincoln prospect may be conservative.' We also later learnt that the Lincoln is likely a separate reservoir from the Lancaster, with no impact on the existing reserves of Lancaster. Furthermore the undrilled Warwick prospect is also likely to be part of the larger Lincoln field.
The well was not tested though, so as yet we don't know whether the oil will flow nor we have no indication of the API of the crude, i.e. a sweet or heavier hydrocarbon. It's clearly encouraging news though and I have prepared a very crude (pun intended) valuation below which I believe could place an unrisked valuation of at least £1bn on this prospect alone. Clearly though a few more ducks need to be lined up yet before we start throwing these figures around with more credence!
3) Halifax Drill in Progress
Halifax is the second of the two drill prospects and was acquired through an out of rounds licence application which gave us the P2308 licence. A previous well was drilled on this licence in 1998 by Arco, which revealed hydrocarbon shows just above the basement. Hurricane believe their seismic model indicates a well fractured basement similar to Lancaster and the belief therefore is that Lancaster actually extends well beyond the existing licence boundary of P1368, as illustrated on figure 2.
Given the Halifax well could be a critical input to the the broader full field Lancaster development, this well is also planned to be Drill Stem Tested (DST) if hydrocarbons are indeed present, which will give an early indication of flow rates. The Halifax well was spud on 16th January and although not explicit in the announcement I assume the targeted TVD of the well is circa 1620m, i.e. inline with Lancaster. Although this well is 500m shallower than Lincoln given the ferocious swell in the West of Shetlands around this time of year I don't think we will hear anything until the first week of March at the very earliest. The DST piece, not conducted at Lincoln needs a particularly stable weather.
It is not uncommon to have some drilling delays in the West of Shetlands during the Winter months, rapid demobilisations during peak swell can often lead to integrity issues downhole. There could of course be a cost factor associated with any overruns, assuming a rig rate of $300,000 per day then we a probably looking at a total cost of around $42m for Lincoln/Halifax campaign to the end of Q1. Hurricane raised $85m (£70m) for the drilling campaign, to order Lancaster long leads and complete the FEED on the EPS. I therefore don't believe there is much for shareholders to worry about at present, at least until we get further into in March without news. It's also worth noting that in the grand scheme of what Hurricane are chasing then any overruns will likely be a pittance in the long run.
The last year for Hurricane has been pretty much perfect, nothing could have gone better in my view, but what can investors look forward to over the next few months? The most material news of course is likely to be the Halifax result, but there are also two other catalysts for a share price move.
a) Halifax Well Result
As mentioned above we are likely to hear something from operations within 3 weeks. The chances of geological success are always slim so brace yourself for disappointment. But if the Halifax well 'comes in' then what reserves could we be talking about? Hurricane have not teased us with any figures at this stage, I think the only thing we can say is a 'material uplift'. I therefore have discounted Halifax from my valuation (addressed later), but of course this represents a huge upside to the share price. Conversely, I also expect the share price to take a large knock if Halifax does not come in as prognosed and the speculators exit. This could represent a buying opportunity in my opinion though, the resources in the CPR will be more than enough to make Hurricane a major independent player, with our without Halifax.
b) Independent Reserve Report
The last CPR was completed in 2013 and the resources assigned to Hurricane at the time are summarised below. For those not familiar with the terminology please see this guideline.
My expectation is for a revised CPR shortly after Halifax is completed, so probably around April/May. I think we will likely see some shift in the categories for Lancaster and Lincoln, i.e. from prospective to Contingent and probably within contingent resources too. We will also likely see some upwards revisions of the numbers. Perhaps the most significant though will be the first reserve booking on Lancaster, I am expecting at least 60 MM Boe to be booked to the 2P category, i.e. commercial reserves.
The Hurricane team have already put out their own views on the potential size of Lancaster and Lincoln, so I would be very surprised if the revised CPR itself causes much of a reaction upwards in the share price, this document will be critical though in the financing process…
c) Financing the EPS
Hurricane needs to raise around $400m to fund the EPS, with the stated strategy being to bring a partner in through a farm out process. The Oil and Gas M&A market is really picking up at the moment so I would be really surprised if management can't achieve this objective. The obvious candidate is likely to be BP given the proximity to its operated Schiehallion Field. Funding a share of this project would be a drop in the ocean for BP and potentially give them access to a much larger prize. It would also be a PR coup for BP, a British company investing in the next generation of North Sea oilfields. I am sure this would have the government and BP PR guys salivating. There are plenty of other matches for Hurricane too, but whomever it needs to be someone with a strong balance sheet.
A cautionary note, BP et al are notoriously hard to negotiate with and the issue for Robert Trice and the board will not be whether they can generate interest in Lancaster, it will be at what level of NPV that a potential partner places on the assets. I have every faith that Hurricane will do the deal which maximises shareholder value and with that in mind they are certainly not dependent on the traditional 'farm out' method. Looking at the deal put together by Sirius Minerals to fund a major project at sole risk then Hurricane can have every confidence that they can achieve what would be smaller fund raise. I have therefore in my own valuation have assumed a mix of 50% Debt and 50% equity.
Hopefully you are still with me after this long piece! Cutting to the chase, my own risked valuation is 75p per share as illustrated in figure 4, i.e. a 42% upside based on the current share price. This is inline with the latest broker targets of 69p-91p.
Now for the caveats; this valuation is something I have put together using very high level assumptions, I have had no input from the company other than the core assumptions on the Lancaster EPS which are in the public realm. The Lincoln and Lancaster Full field valuations are particularly high level given they are Pre-FEED assets. However, for those who want to get behind the valuation in more detail, my workings are here and please do go through them adjusting for areas where you might be more bullish or bearish.
I have tried to be as prudent as possible, assuming equity dilution, large risk factors, no success on Halifax and the assumption that we won't get to $100 oil prices until 2043! I have also tried to keep things simple, assuming 100% field share.
Any further risks or upsides to consider?
The biggest risk to this company in the long term is being unable to get satisfactory long term production from the EPS. As all of the prospects are basement plays any disappointment could scupper the chances of the entire greater Lancaster region being developed. We won't really get a feel for that though until the end of 2019. Before then the financing of the EPS is perhaps the key near term risk, I am fairly confident that an attractive financing can be put together, but the use equity and convertible debt could reduce the NPV per share significantly. The usual combination of CAPEX overruns and oil prices are also a risk too, but this is far from unique in this sector.
As a final note I would like to give credit the Hurricane Management team, what Robert Trice and his team have achieved in one year puts the boards of many junior oil companies to shame. Hurricane have managed to raise equity at premium at the very bottom of the oil M&A market, they have secured an out of round licence award and worked up a drill ready prospect in just a few months, not to mention further progress on the EPS. Amazingly they have achieved this with just 15 or so Full Time employees. We don't know how the story will end but I don't think anyone can claim management were not committed!
Buy – Target 75p (42% upside)
There is still plenty of upside at the current share price levels in my opinion, even without Halifax. As development proceeds there is plenty more growth to come and I expect we will be see £1 within 12-24 months, barring any major disasters. The stock is though still somewhat speculative, so make sure it is part of a diversified portfolio.
This post is purely my opinion and should not be taken as financial advice. I welcome any alternative comments and will consider adjusting posts based on information made available to me.


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Have you ever gotten this Error: The selected field is a required field and cannot be deleted ? Scratching my head, wondering how I checked "Field IsRequired". The official solution, export the feature class to another feature class and do some field mapping magic, then delete the original, import the changed one......not. See, all of my feature classes are baked into an enterprise geodatabase with all kinds of dependencies and relationships (that's kinda the point of an enterprise geodatabase, right?).
There's a quicker and easier way to resolve this issue. I spend a lot of time editing metadata in its native XML (faster, and I can automate things easier), so why not edit a feature class definition, which is also in XML? Feature class definitions live in a XML column (Definition) in the GDB_ITEMS table.
Click on the xml in the definition column, and you'll see the raw schema for the feature class. Look for the name of the attribute that allegedly won't let you delete it:
<GPFieldInfoEx xsi:type="typens:GPFieldInfoEx">
Note the Required tag. Ok, so we've figured out what's causing the problem, now, how to fix it. Updating XML in SQL is pretty straightforward, if you're replacing the entire string. Updating specific nodes and elements in SQL is a little trickier (but possible). In the code below, note the =N' before the xml definition. I've left out a lot of the other xml, but what I did was copied the entire XML definition and pasted it after the =N' . There's a ' at the end. Also note the WHERE [Name] = 'WETLANDS.DBO.GRSM_HYDRO_WETLAND_PT' which constrains the update to just that feature class with the supposedly undeletable attribute.
UPDATE [dbo].[GDB_ITEMS]
SET [Definition] =N'<DEFeatureClassInfo xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:typens="http://www.esri.com/schemas/ArcGIS/10.5" xsi:type="typens:DEFeatureClassInfo">
<ConfigurationKeyword />
blah blah blah
<GPFieldInfoEx xsi:type="typens:GPFieldInfoEx">
blah blah blah
<FilteredFieldNames xsi:type="typens:Names" />
WHERE [Name] = 'WETLANDS.DBO.GRSM_HYDRO_WETLAND_PT'
You'll see, somewhere in the middle, I changed the attribute restrictions to be just like any other attribute: one I can delete.
Close and restart Arc Catalog to see the change (and delete the attribute). It goes without saying that you should pull a full back up of your SQL before doing this, and should test this on a non-production database, first! Also note this won't work on a GlobalID field (e.g if you have a GLobalID attribute but it's not named GlobalID), there's a few more changes you have to make to alter that one, and you shouldn't view this method as a way to alter the table schema physical design.
Disclaimer: Editing the underlying GDB tables in this manner is not not supported by ESRI..with that out of the way, there's a lot of DB administration you can pull off with manipulation of the XML definitions. I've used this with great success in exporting a "workspace", editing the XML to implement some find and replace changes, then import as a new GDB.


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Delicious pies and cakes made of natural ingredients can be enjoyed in the cosy cafe and restaurant of Café Grand. Everyone finds something for his or her taste whether it is a lemon, cheese, chocolate, cottage cheese or some other cake.
The favourite of our customers through years is cake Victoria which among others can also be ordered as an entire cake.
Our confectioner makes also cakes for different occasions based on orders – weddings, jubilees, birthdays.
Cafè Grand is open every day from 11:00 - 23:00.
If you prefer not to indulge on the spot, it is possible to buy cakes to go.
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1955 MG TF-1500. HDC46/7211 with original XPEG/977. Built 23-27 September 1954. Dispatched to USA 28 September 1954.
I am the sixth owner of TF7211. It's probably always been a Florida car.
Owner #1 unknown
Owner #2 owned the car 1963-1967. Restored it, autocrossed it, showed it ("Best TF" at the first GOF-South) , and was very early member of Classic MG Club, founded 1963. Lives only a couple of miles from me.
Owner #3 used car dealer. Owned it for short time. Purchased from #2 to provide funds for down payment on house.
Owner #4 was college student. Owned short time. Was not kind to the car.
Owner #5 owned the car for 43 years. Restored it. Loved it.
Owner #6 (me) bought it Friday Dec 13, 2013 - bad omen! Fell in love with the car the first time that I saw it. Looked good; made needed and usual repairs; needed simple paint job; started disassembly in 2017; Oh-Oh found wood damage; still in process of total restoration.
Lonnie Cook
Orlando, FL


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Working families in the United States have many struggles today: expensive child care, not enough time to cook healthy meals, disconnection from nature, a sense of social isolation — what the sociologist Robert Putnam famously called "bowling alone" — and more. Older Americans, a booming population, often end up segregated generationally and in dire need of care and companionship.
What if there was a potential salve to all of these struggles? One that was introduced to Americans 25 years ago, but hasn't yet gone to scale?
That potential solution is cohousing, a form of shared living in which groups of families with their own private homes (usually about 15 to 40 households) also share common spaces — a kitchen and eating area, often a garden, tool shed, or laundry facilities, or all of them, and a set of principles and practices about living interdependently.
Since 2013, I have experienced the benefit and challenges of living in cohousing as a resident of Temescal Commons, an interfaith community in Oakland, Calif. The principles of these communities vary, depending on their size and type (urban vs. rural, religious vs. secular, intergenerational vs. over 65); still, most groups hold in common a belief that a high quality of life is achieved not through self-sufficiency, but through a village mentality. Families will often share meals, yard work and repair labor, sometimes even cars; they also help one another spontaneously in many other ways.
Louise Dunlap, 78, has rented a studio apartment in a nine-unit cohousing community for the last six years. "Interdependence," she says, "goes beyond turning the compost and fixing the washing machine. I get a chance to share meals and deep conversations. There's a kind of love that grows out of these connections — not romantic love, not family love, but something about our common humanity. I wish everyone could experience this."
The first distinctive cohousing community in America, Muir Commons, was built in Davis, Calif., in 1991 by the architects Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett, who became familiar with cohousing while studying architecture in Copenhagen in the 1980s. They have written an authoritative book on cohousing in America and today run their architectural firm, the Cohousing Company, from Nevada City, Calif.
Europeans have been the pioneers in this particular form of shared living; there are more than 700 cohousing communities in Denmark alone. In comparison, according to the latest count done by the Cohousing Association of the United States, there are only 160 established in just 25 states across the country.
So why have we been so slow to catch on?
First, there's a lack of awareness. People often picture hippie communes when they hear "cohousing." Alice Alexander, the executive director of the Cohousing Association, draws this distinction: "There's nothing wrong with communes, but cohousers actually value privacy and structure highly."
Another big hurdle is financing. When they set out in 2009 to create a 24-unit cohousing community in downtown Durham, N.C., Alexander and her co-founders were turned down by 10 institutions before getting a loan. The project didn't officially open until 2014.
The problem, Alexander says, is that "banks have no mechanism set up to get a loan for a cohousing community to buy land or fund marketing so you can find your 'tribe.' "
Traditionally, many people who want to build a home finance the purchase of the land themselves and then use the property as collateral for a building loan. But if you're buying the larger piece of land necessary to build a comprehensive cohousing community, the cost can be prohibitive. Alexander says that National Cooperative Bank is on the cutting edge of trying to figure out new mechanisms, but it's slow going. Cohousing communities are typically structured and incorporated as homeowner associations, condo associations or housing cooperatives.
But there are alternatives to building from the ground up. More recently, people have been gravitating toward what is called "retrofit cohousing," in which neighbors transform an existing neighborhood over time. There are 11 retrofit cohousing communities operating in the United States today, and more in development, according to the Cohousing Association.
Americans' interest in cohousing is growing. The Cohousing Association knows of 120 communities currently in formation. The 2015 National Cohousing Conference was the largest yet, and dozens of architectural firms and real estate developers have specialized in working on these types of communities. At Alexander's community alone, 300 people are on a waiting list.
According to Alexander, aging baby boomers are driving the expansion; many want to downsize and find supportive communities. Additionally, millennials, many of whom experienced co-op living in college, are just starting their families. They are accustomed to a sharing economy that subscribes to many of cohousing's principles and practices.
For some, the many benefits of cohousing make the challenges of creating or finding such a community feel worth it. In expensive cities, it can be cost-effective and stimulating, intellectually and emotionally, to share regular meals in a group. Rather than depending on the nuclear family unit to meet all emotional needs, cohousing participants have a wide range of people to talk to.
Proximity and regularity matter. A recent study found that most people report having only two close confidants with whom they have important discussions on a regular basis. It's a lot easier to sit down next to someone at a weekly common meal and spontaneously troubleshoot how to handle a rude boss or health problem than it is to call an equally stressed friend in hopes that it is a moment when he or she can talk. Matthew Brashears, an assistant professor of sociology at Cornell University, who conducted the research, told NBC News: "Discussion partners provide both emotional support and ideas for how to solve problems, so a shrinking discussion network may lead to more stress and poorer outcomes."
Cohousing also can provide a safety net at times of natural disasters like heat waves or hurricanes. Eric Klinenberg, a sociologist, has found that the tight-knit bonds that are formed set these neighborhoods apart — more so, even, than money or preparedness — in effectively surviving such calamities.
Evidence of these benefits and others has mostly been anecdotal, at least in the United States, but it is drawing new attention from social scientists, some of whom have created a national Cohousing Research Network. A study they conducted in 2011 found that 96 percent of people interviewed who lived in cohousing reported an improved quality of life; 75 percent felt their physical health was better than others their age; and 96 percent had voted in the 2008 presidential election.
Angela Sanguinetti, the director of the network and a postdoctoral researcher at University of California, Davis, recently published a paper in The Journal of Environmental Psychology on a survey she did of 559 cohousers. They reported a greater connection to nature based on two different widely used scales. (Many cohousers build sustainably, often using solar panels and other techniques that meet Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design standards.)
Heidi Berggren, an associate professor of political science and women's and gender studies at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, found that interdependent living often coincides with greater involvement in civic or political action, or both, including voting at twice the rate of the average American. Her research was recently published in Social Science Quarterly.
While the research of both Sanguinetti and Berggren suggests that cohousing could benefit society as a whole, there is little public support for it. One reason may be that the majority of those who benefit from cohousing, so far, have been white and relatively affluent. Susan Friedland, the executive director oft Satellite Affordable Housing Associates, an Oakland-based nonprofit organization, was part of a team that built a cohousing community designated affordable housing in Sebastopol, Calif., in a project funded by the federal government as well as private dollars. She said the federal support latter hamstrung them in many ways.
"Federal fair housing policies are in place for good reason — to prevent discrimination," she said. "But they also prevent us from giving preference to people who want to live in cohousing or involve low-income residents early in the design process."
As a result, Petaluma Avenue Homes, as it's called, has had a mix of people, some of whom love the cohousing aspect, and some of whom are understandably lukewarm to the experience, quite possibly because they've been subjected to the obligatory bureaucratic requirements and vetting often required of the poor by government agencies.
Nevertheless, Friedland retains faith in the concept. "Developers, architects, builders, we could all learn from the design principles of cohousing — the common house, moving the parking out of the central space, having the front porches, the centrality of the gardening. All of these are based on human experience and a balance of privacy and connectivity."
Of course another formidable hurdle is how difficult it is to predict the dynamics of a complex group. Many cohousing communities fall apart early on because they fail to agree on principles, practices and finances.
"Life together hasn't been a Cinderella story," Kate Madden Yee, a founding member of Temescal Commons Cohousing, has written. "It's not easy, hanging in there with one's fellow cohousers, despite disagreements, disappointments and disillusionment. Yet therein lies the reward: In our time together, my neighbors and I have learned a thing or two about how to not only create, but negotiate our common life with more ease and compassion."
Twenty-five years in, although the experiment is still small scale, it has yielded a generation of Americans who grew up in cohousing. Many are evangelical about the ways in which the experience has shaped who they are.
Ravenna Koenig, now 26, grew up in Vashon Island Cohousing in Washington. "It taught me communication," she says, "not just as a tool, but as a value. When you share your home with 17 other families, all those conversations that you'd normally just have with your spouse or your kids — about what to do when two kids from different families get in a fight, or whether to prioritize filling potholes or weeding the garden first — those conversations become much bigger. You have to learn how to articulate what you want, and empathize harder than you ever thought you could."
Update: This article has been revised to include the information that the author lives in the Temescal Commons cohousing community.


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Why Inflation's Higher Than It Looks
But there's a good reason why the government's estimates don't match up with your experience: They aren't designed to.
Like any statistic, the Consumer Price Index, which measures inflation, is only as effective as the assumptions it makes -- in this case, about what you spend money on. If you spend more on certain things than most people, then the CPI will do a terrible job of reflecting the prices you actually pay.
Understanding the Consumer Price Index
The CPI looks at a "basket" of different types of goods and services that the Bureau of Labor Statistics thinks reflects the typical household's expenditures . The biggest category in the CPI is housing, which makes up 40% of the index. Food and transportation each contribute another 15%. The remaining amount is spread across recreational activities, education, health care, and other goods and services.
The BLS specifically says that the CPI won't match up with the experience of any specific individual. But because of the way it's constructed, many people will see some dramatic differences.
What It Means for Retirees
In particular, retirees often don't fit the CPI profile well at all. Many retirees have already paid off their mortgages, and despite still having to cover utility costs, property taxes, and maintenance and upkeep, their spending on their housing needs falls well short of 40%. And declining home prices have only benefited those who didn't own homes prior to the housing bust. Far from getting any benefit, retirees who own their homes have taken big hits to their finances.
At the same time, medical care places an ever-increasing drain on many retirees' finances. Hospital costs have risen at nearly twice the rate of overall inflation in the past 12 months, and over the longer run, health care has seen huge price increases that are straining government programs like Medicare and Medicaid to the breaking point. Yet, medical costs make up only 7% of the CPI -- a far cry from the estimated $230,000-$250,000 that retirees can expect to pay for health-care expenses over the course of their retirement years.
And Then There's the New Threat
Even worse, some are looking to reduce cost-of-living increases in Social Security benefits that are linked to inflation. When the so-called "supercommittee" met last year to discuss ways to cut the federal budget, one proposal suggested using what's known as the "chain-weighted" CPI to calculate cost-of-living increases. According to estimates, using the chain-weighted CPI would save $200 billion over 10 years -- $200 billion that would come from lower annual raises for retirees' Social Security benefit checks.
What to Do
As you plan for your own retirement, keep in mind that just because government numbers may reflect relatively low inflation in recent years, you can't necessarily count on prices staying low in your own personal budget.
If you do everything you can to build some leeway into your personal expenses, you'll be better able to handle whatever price shocks may come around in the future. With new calls for $5 gasoline, hanging onto every penny you can is only going to get more important in the coming months and years.
More on retirement:
- Do the Rich Deserve Social Security?
- Social Security Is Failing Faster Than We Thought
- This Simple Move Could Save Social Security
- Inflation-Proof Your Portfolio


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More than 65 cybersecurity professionals and academics have come out against a trio of bills moving through Congress that are meant to enable information sharing about digital threats between businesses and the government.
In a letter sent today to ranking members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees and the chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, they are urging Congress reject the controversial Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act and two similar bills.
"We do not need new legal authorities to share information that helps us protect our systems from future attacks," they wrote. "Generally speaking, security practitioners can and do share this information with each other and with the federal government while still complying with our obligations under federal privacy laws."
The signatories of the letter take issue with the potential privacy implications of the bills. "The bills weaken privacy law without promoting security," they said in the letter.
This is not the first time the information sharing bills have been criticized by privacy advocates. Previously, critics have argued that an information sharing law could expose even more personal data held by tech companies to agencies such as the National Security Agency or to the FBI.
In order to support an information sharing bill, they have asked that it contain the following elements:
- "Narrowly define the categories of information to be shared as only those needed for securing systems against future attacks;
- Require firms to effectively scrub all personally identifying information and other private data not necessary to identify or respond to a threat;
- Not allow the shared information to be used for anything other than securing systems."
Signatories include representatives from technology and security companies such as Amazon, Cisco, Twitter, Rapid7, and Veracode, as well as academics from the University of California at Berkeley, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Yale University.


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Gmoke writes, "Pure Home Water (PHW), the same people who make AfriClay Filters -- a locally-sourced clay pot water filter -- in Taha, Ghana are now building toilet blocks for local schools. In June 2013, PHW built a 6-stall toilet block in 30 days for a school in the village of Taha. They are planning to build the same toilet block for the neighboring village of Gbalahi and are looking for $8,600 over the next two months."
Toilets for Schools - Improving Sanitation in Ghana
(Thanks, Gmoke!)


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So our little princess boinga was in the paddock with not one, but two suitors. It was easy to tell the female because: firstly she was the one being chased after and secondly she wasn't really hopping, but bouncing around in a very delicate manner. The boys chased after her and then did the standing up really tall and straight stuff. She hadn't made a firm decision one way or the other when she was in our territory. What happens is that when the female is ready, she will lick the neck of the male she has chosen. They will then have a small boxing match and then get down to business. After this, the male will nick off and the wallabies will go back to their soltary existence. Anyway, I'm guessing we shall see a baby boinga in the not too distant future. Here's a pic (sorry about the quality)
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Boinga mating
Crikey! Don't know what it's like at your place, but the paddock is about as hot as Mount Vesuvius on eruption day. At least the summer flowers are coming out. There are a few daylillies around the place to cheer up overheated paddock workers. These flowering plants originated in China and like all chinese plants, thrive in Oz. The name daylilly was an easy choice as the flowers last for a day. But, in flowering season, there are plenty of buds so you get a new flower each day. The daylillies I have were gifts from various people when we first moved here. They tend to make a new plant every year or so and can then be divided. People who are mad keen on these things hybridise them to try and achieve a new flower which they can then grandly name. So if I were to hybridise one, (which I surely won't), I could call it Responsabilis Puberus for the Responsible Adult. Anyway, back to when we got here. So there was much fuss over the growing and particularly the selling of these plants. Unfortunately, the growers appeared to tackle competition as something to be smothered rather than joining together to make us the Daylilly capital of Oz or something. Prices got quite high – not quite like the great tulip bubble in the 17th century, but still very pricey. These days, you can buy very nice ones for about a tenner, but your best bet is to find other growers and swap your divided plants. Costs nothing. Here's a pic:
Moving mulch
A paddock workers best friend in the paddock is mulch. Obviously that refers to inatimate objects and not to the Resposible Adult who is this paddock workers best friend in regard to humans. Mulch helps to retain moisture in the soil and to keep that harsh Oz sun from heating and baking the soil. It brings worms and micro organisims into the garden and eventually breaks down and becomes humus in the soil. So having established an area in front of the groovy pad for a garden, it is time to mulch and plant. The cheapest mulch is called forest blend. Forest blend is the chipped remains of trees that some other person wanted removed. If I ever have a tree removed, then the resulting forest blend stays on the paddock, but some people actually want it removed! So, you just phone tree removers and ask them to bring you someone elses unwanted mulch.
Having had your bloody big pile of mulch delivered, it then needs to be moved and spread on your garden beds. The easiest way to move this, or any other big pile of stuff is to lay your barrow on a low angle and start raking the stuff in. You can get a fair bit in this way without having touched a shovel. Then stand your barrow up and shovel until absolutely full. Obviously, if you were shifting somethin heavier, say gravel, then half a barrow load is probably heavy enough. But with mulch, you should go really full so as to save a few trips.
Kangaroo Paws
Don't fret – this has nothing to do with gruesome dismembering of Australia's national animal the boingaroo. As well as being something that boingaroos use for boxing matches, kangaroo paws is the name of a flowering plant native to Western Australia. Normally in the paddock, I grow only species that are endemic to our specific location. I figure the wildlife will appreciate those plants the most. But around the groovy pad, I am happy to plant other Australian plants. And lets face it, birds in particular travel great distances. Lots of them are nectar feeders and love plants like grevillia. Anyway, kangaroo paws don't necessarily look that great, but if you give them a bit of love, they will flower profusely and provide a nice bit of colour. Here's what they look like:
Old Boots
As a fashion concious Paddock Worker, I always insist on wearing Blundstone Boots. These very chic boots originated in Oz specifically for our tough conditions. For the clumsy oaf, they can come with steel caps. After making the boots in Tasmania for 137 years, the company sacked its 300 staff during the Christmas break in 2007 and their product is now made somewhere else – India? Indonesia? – who knows? Anyway, after this act of business bastardry, they still produce the best boots for manly workers. Unfortunately they don't last forever but you should expect about 5 years worth of rabbiting around your paddock. So, then, what to do with the old ones? See pic:
The Boinga had a baby
Our resident Red Necked Wallaby turned up with a friend a while ago. I couldn't get a shot of the friend as he was very timid. He was also bigger than our resident thus solving the question of gender. Our wallaby being smaller has turned out to be a female. The big male turned up for a couple of days then disappeared. This is typical behaviour for the species. Red Necked Wallabies are solitary by nature so it wasn't hard to guess why he popped in for a sleepover. Sure enough, our dear little boinga has had a baby boinga. The joey grew quite quickly and once out of the pouch, like his Dad, only stayed for a couple of days.
These wallabies have enjoyed settlement. Since humans no longer hunt them, they have benefitted from land clearing that turns forest into pasture as well as construction of small dams etc which provides water. Of course the other side of the coin is that forest dwelling species such as paddymelons are dwindling.
Here's a pic:
Bringing back from Bali – little Temple
Almost everywhere you go in Bali, you will see a little Temple or offering box. Each day, some incence is lit and small offerings like flowers are put in the box. I picked one up for about a fiver. I decided that I would like a Garuda in mine which I found for about $30. Most days I remember to light up a bit of incence, but I can't quite get into a daily ritual. Still, it is nice to burn a stick sometimes in rememberence of things. Like a couple of days ago when Jack Bruce died, I lit up some incence and played the old Cream songs at volume. Here's a pic:
Kookaburra and other dicky birds
Watching dicky birds has become a bit of a pasttime down at the groovy pad. The old cubby house was surrounded by trees, so it was a bit can't see the dicky birds for the forest. Down here, we can see far more of the lovely little feathered friends. It is particularly nice of an arvo to sit on the deck with a nice coldie and watch them travel up and down the valley. There's a mob of kooka's that like to spend the night on a deceased wattle tree in the paddock. The wander in about half an hour before sunset, have a good laugh or two before tucking their heads under their wings for the night. Anyhow, one of them popped over for a good gawk at us before going to bed. Here he is:
Herbs in Strawberry Pots
Geez. Long time no blog. What happened is that the Responsible Adult and I finally moved into the groovy pad. Part of the idea of building our little retirement home was to, well, retire. I figured that house maintenence would be a snap. Just a bit of landscaping and I could lay back and enjoy with minimal weeding perhaps 5 minutes a month. Well, the landscaping has been keeping me busy, busy, busy. And there's a whole lot more to go. But, in between mixing loads of cement, I have been having fun with container gardening. Over the years, starting about 37 years ago, I have bought strawberry pots with the idea of growing herbs in them. Well, long story short, I never got round to planting them until now. Hope you like them. From left to right – the bay tree (see earlier blog), thyme with a rosemary top, strawberries, oregano with garlic chives top. And a minature rose just to be pretty.


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Synthetic Biology
Synthetic biology brings together engineering and the life sciences in order to design and construct new biological parts, devices and systems that do not currently exist in the natural world or to tweak the designs of existing biological systems. Synthetic biologists, engaged in a kind of extreme genetic engineering, hope to construct designer organisms that perform specific tasks such as producing biofuels or other high-value compounds.
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a. a dull yellow or yellowish-brown colour
b. (as adjective): buff paint
a. a cloth or pad of material used for polishing an object
b. a flexible disc or wheel impregnated with a fine abrasive for polishing metals, etc., with a power tool
1. To clean and polish a surface so that a high luster results.
2. To grind down and/or polish a floor finish of terrazzo or other exposed-aggregate concrete.


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Do you ever find yourself running out of ideas for fun family activities? This summer, try some of these family fun tips – without emptying your wallet.
Scavenger hunt: Scavenger hunts can be held during the day or evening. They can also be held just about anywhere, including parks, your home or neighborhood, or even a school. Create an item list, set up clues and let the hunt begin. Give each team a digital camera to document their findings.
Backyard Campout Night: Pop up the tent in the backyard and enjoy a convenient vacation. Try including things that you would normally have on a camping trip such as s'mores and sleeping bags.
Visit a local farm: Bring your family to a local farm and pick out some fresh fruits and veggies. Prepare a healthy meal with the kids. They will enjoy preparing dinner with the fresh produce they picked out.
Obstacle course: Set up an obstacle course in your backyard using items around the house. You can use hoola hoops, jump ropes, pillow cases for a potato sack race and potatoes for a hot potato toss. Compete for best time and invite the neighborhood kids. This is a great way to provide exercise for the whole family.
Have a blast and stay safe this summer!


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One of the best distractions to use on a prison guard turns out to be PopCap's Plants vs. Zombies.
A prison break in Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines could have been avoided were it not for casual gaming. Five inmates were reportedly able to escape while a prison guard was busy trying to protect his home from zombies.
In Plants vs. Zombies, that is: A tower defense-style game that tasks players to defend their homes from waves of invading zombies with powerful plant defenders. The inmates said that escaping from the prison wasn't hard. The guard actually left the keys lying around while he became engrossed in a round of Plants vs. Zombies, which could potentially go on for quite some time if he was doing well enough.
I'm imagining quite the humorous situation, with the inmates tiptoeing behind the guard as he exclaims things such as: "Stop!" The inmates think they're caught, but he's only referring to the encroaching zombie attack, and they resume their slow, silent movements to make it out of the prison. That's how I think it went, anyway.
Four of the inmates were caught soon after the escape, but one still remains at large. It's said that he was fortunate enough to hide in the back of a garbage truck waiting for him once he made it past all of the prison guard's plants.
A word of advice to all you aspiring prison guards out there: Don't leave the cell keys within reach of the inmates. Isn't that pretty much Prison Guard 101? Once you follow that simple advice, it'd be perfectly fine to forget your troubles while you defeat zombies dressed in disco gear.
Source: GlobalNation via GamePro


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Visual System Integrator
Embedded systems are getting increasingly complex. Lack of visibility into the system causes additional difficulties to developers, because they are not able to check the components of each device as well as their interactions. Visual system integrator (VSI) from Systems View Inc. makes it simple to integrate FPGA and Embedded systems and to describe complete heterogeneous systems in an intuitive easy to use graphical environment. This is the only product on the market that allows both describing a platform and building a system using the platform in the same environment.
Download VSI or read the documentation at the Visual Systems Inc. website.Evaluate now – free for up to 90 days
Mandelbrot demo application
This demo shows a Mercury KX1 module mounted on a Mercury PE1 base board, connected via PCIe to the host PC. The Mandelbrot fractal set is calculated in the FPGA fabric as well as on one core of the PC's Intel i7 processor. The data calculated on the FPGA is transferred to the host via PCIe.
The system was designed in Visual System Integrator from Systemview, which allows the development of applications spanning different resources, within the same tool.
The demo shows how FPGAs can be integrated seamlessly into a CPU-based system to accelerate computational tasks.
The FPGA design consists of 14 identical Mandelbrot cores; each of these cores calculate a 64 x 64 pixel block. The complete image consists of 209 blocks.
Supported products
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Published on July 23rd, 2015 | by Sarah Jubb
George V And The Great War
George V took to the British throne in 1910 after the death of his father, King Edward VII. He was the grandson of Queen Victoria, the longest reigning monarch in British history, and he only became the heir after his elder brother died suddenly. Upon taking the crown he became the King of the United Kingdom and its British Dominions, as well as the Emperor of India.
Due to the fact that his brother, Prince Albert Victor, was expected to be king, George instead joined the Royal Navy and was in active service all over the world. He had to leave this career when his brother died as he was now the heir to the throne, meaning he had to take up the duties of his elder brother.
A Constitutional Crisis
He married his brother's fiancée, Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, a year after his death and they had six children together. George was also an avid stamp collector and he helped to expand the Royal Philatelic Collection, paying large prices for rare stamps. A visit to India in 1911 marked the first time a King-Emperor had made this journey.
At the time of his accession there was a constitutional crisis in the British government over the attempt to curb the House of Lords power. The Liberal government managed to gain the promise of King George that more Liberal peers would be created in order to overcome the Conservative opposition. As a result, Parliament Act 1911 was passed and removed the power of the Lords to veto bills, with a few exceptions.
The Great War
The most important aspect of George's rule was the First World War which began in 1914. Kaiser Wilhelm II was George's first cousin and the prevalence of German royalty in the British royal family clashed with the anti-German sentiments at the time. As a result of this, in 1917 George issued a royal proclamation that officially changed the British royal house from House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to the more British sounding House of Windsor.
He was also popular among his people for his many visits to the troops and hospitals, showing a caring side to the monarchy. The Russian Revolution of 1917 saw the overthrowing of another of George's first cousins, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. There were initially attempts to give the Russian imperial family asylum, but this fell through and they were eventually killed by Bolsheviks in 1918. Some of the extended imperial family were rescued and brought to Britain.
The Russian imperial family was only one of many royal families in Europe to fall after World War One, which saw many revolutions across the continent oust their royalty. It also saw huge change for Britain as nationalists in Ireland fought for independence, resulting in Ireland being partitioned in 1922 into the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland.
Changes in the Empire
The Statute of Westminster in 1931 allowed the British Dominions to pass laws without having to refer to the United Kingdom laws, giving them more independence from the UK. It also meant that any changes to the succession of the throne, such as the Perth Agreement in 2011 that saw all the Commonwealth nations agreeing to replace male-preference primogeniture with absolute primogeniture, allowing females to take precedence over younger sons and also allowing ending the ban on marrying Catholics.
King George V died in 1936 after years of various illnesses, only a year after he had celebrated his Silver Jubilee. He was succeeded by his son Edward, who became King Edward VIII and caused a constitutional crisis before the year was out due to his marriage proposal to the American Wallis Simpson.


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Bike Calgary is pleased to announce that Calgary has been awarded the 2019 Winter Cycling Congress to be held in February, 2019. The conference, which is coming to Canada for the third time, will bring 400 to 500 delegates from around the world to Calgary and area. The main goal of the conference is to create opportunities to help cities around the world learn what it takes to develop, implement, and maintain bicycle-focused transportation systems year round.
Bike Calgary was pleased to support the bid, partnering with the Town of Banff, the Town of Canmore, the City of Calgary, and the University of Calgary.
Bike Calgary is a non-profit cycling advocacy group with over 2,900 members. For the past 5 years, Bike Calgary has hosted Winter Bike to Work Day with the support of local partners. We continue to provide feedback and work with the Transportation Planning Department, Parks and Roads to advocate for improved snow clearing and route maintenance in Calgary. Many of our members will participate and be involved in the organization of the conference.


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For the beef marinade:
- 3 pounds beef chuck, cut in 3 inch chunks
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 small onion, grated with juices
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 teaspoons ground cumin
- Juice and zest of one orange
For the braise:
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 cup dry white wine
- Juice of 2 oranges
- Soft tortillas, warmed
- Garnishes: salsa, sliced avocado, sliced jalapeno peppers, black beans, chopped fresh cilantro, lime wedges
Marinate the beef:
Cut beef chuck in 3 inch pieces. Salt and pepper on all sides. Place in a bowl or container. Add garlic, onion, olive oil, cumin, orange juice and zest. Turn the beef to coat with marinade ingredients. Cover and refrigerate at least 3 hours or preferably overnight.
Prepare the braise:
- Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a deep skillet or pot. Add beef in batches in one layer without overcrowding. Brown on all sides. Transfer to a plate and repeat with remaining beef. Pour wine into the pan to deglaze. Return beef. Add orange juice. Cover and simmer, occasionally basting with juices, until beef is very tender and easily falls apart, about 3 hours.
- Transfer beef to a plate. Boil pan juices over medium-high heat until reduced and thickened, about 20 minutes. Add salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste. Shred beef and return to pot; keep warm.
- To serve, spoon some of the beef over a warmed tortilla. Top with optional garnishes, such as salsa, fresh avocado, jalapeno peppers, black beans, cilantro and freshly squeezed lime juice.


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"If the animals knew about this book they would, without doubt, confer on Wayne Pacelle, their highest honor."
—Jane Goodall
"The Bond is the best overall book on animals I have ever read. Brilliant and moving."
—John Mackey, CEO and Co-founder of Whole Foods Market
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The president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States, the world's largest animal protection organization, Wayne Pacelle brings us The Bond, a heartfelt, eye-opening exploration of the special bond between animals and humans. With the poignant insight of Animals Make Us Human and the shocking reality of Fast Food Nation—filled with history, valuable insights, and fascinating stories of the author's experience in the field—The Bond is an important investigation into all the ways we can repair our broken bond with the animal kingdom and a thrilling chronicle of one man's extraordinary contribution to that effort.


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The Continental Properties 117 unit building being sold by Erik Mehr and marketed by Rennie Marketing appears to have a name. vik Ballard. Oddly enough I heard about it on KEXP though for days I thought it was Bik Ballard and couldn't find it online. Guess advertising does still (sorta) work!
All we learned from their very basic site is 117 units, pricing starts at $269,900 and 50 units will be under $349,000. If you know more, fill us in!
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John Adams to Charles Adams, 13 December 1795
John Adams to Charles Adams
Philadelphia Decr 13. 1795
My Dear Son
So great a Part of my Life has been and Still continues to be Spent in travelling that I seldom trouble my Friends in Conversation or by Letter with the Inconveniences or Adventures I meet upon the Road: otherwise I might give you a Romantic History of my Journey from N. York. The Roads were bad enough and the Company but Speak well of the Bridge that bears you well over— They behaved civilly to me.
I have read Mr Randolphs Statement of Faih as far as it has been printed tho no part of it is yet published. The whole is advertised for Publication on next fryday.1 I am afraid there will appear a disposition in Some of our Countrymen to be corrupted if they could. but shall be glad if it appears that foreign Powers will neither corrupt them, nor be corrupted by them.
As a Vindication of Mr Randolph, it must I think be a Vindication of his Resignation. If he had not resigned his Continuance in office would have needed Vindication. But how his Character and Conduct in office are vindicated I have not been able to discern. There is such Evidence of Imbecillity and such suspicions of Something a Stretch beyond Weakness remain that I wonder he has Suffered it to be communicated to so many Persons as he has. It is a dark enigmatical Business at best. I never had any great opinion of his Genius or Talents his Penetration, Steadiness or Consistency: but I Supposed he was good natured and doubted not his Integrity. Now all is problematical.
The Speech and the Answer of the senate are Smooth enough.2 Whether the House will ruffle the Waves I know not. The Consequences of any damnatory Vote of the House, would be Such at home and abroad that I cannot think the daring ones will have courage to venture. If the Hopes of the Posts and of Compensation for Losses at sea are dashed and all our Commerce exposed as they must be by any ill temper of that House, I think that the popular Men will become very unpopular.3
I Shall be obliged to you, if your Leisure will allow you to write me, the Sensations and Reflections of your City from time to time as the Measures of Congress devellope themselves.
My Love to my Daughter Adams, the first I have had since your sister changed her Name My Friendship to your excellent Governor. His Palace at New York will not be the largest he will ever inhabit as I guess. While the Idols of Jacobinism & Democracy, Jefferson and Clinton think themselves dying of Rhumatisms amidst the Hozannas of the Mob. I fancy that Health and Spirits will be given to the Man whose Effigies have been so much honoured, that he will live to see the Federal City and inhabit its proudest House. The Passions of the People are not the most Steady Part of them.
Farewell my Dear son. May you enjoy in private Life more Comforts than ever were allotted by the Public to your affectionate Father4
RC (MHi:Seymour Coll.); internal address: "Charles Adams Esq."
1. JA indicated in a letter to AA of 13 Dec. that he had received printed but not yet published pages of Edmund Randolph's Vindication of Mr. Randolph's Resignation from Sen. Alexander Martin of North Carolina. JA extracted portions of it for AA, notably from Jean Antoine Joseph Fauchet's dispatches, and informed her of its impending publication "next Fryday: but I still doubt whether it will come out unmutilated. The Copy I have stops short at the most material Thing" (Adams Papers). All of the material he copied to AA did in fact appear in the published version, as did the remainder of Dispatch No. 10.
2. The Senate appointed a committee of three members to draft a response to George Washington's address. The draft was submitted and deliberations occurred on 11 December. Most of the draft was routine, congratulating the president on the negotiations with the Native Americans, Morocco, Algiers, and Spain, and met with no opposition. But the fourth and fifth paragraphs of the draft caused some consternation. The fourth paragraph suggests that, on account of the Jay Treaty, "we derive an expectation of the extinguishment of all the causes of external discord, that have heretofore endangered our tranquility, and on terms consistent with our national honor and safety." The fifth paragraph, directed explicitly to Washington, reads, "Circumstances thus every way auspicious demand our gratitude, and sincere acknowledgments to Almighty God, and require that we should unite our efforts in imitation of your enlightened, firm, and persevering example, to establish and preserve the peace, freedom, and prosperity, of our country."
Stevens Thomson Mason offered a motion to strike out these two paragraphs, arguing that they attempted to force the minority that had opposed the Jay Treaty to now speak in support of it. Debate ensued, including a lengthy speech by Pierce Butler in support of Mason's motion. Butler argued, "Our situation, as far as it respects Great Britain, … was not in the least ameliorated" and "depredations on our commerce have not been less frequent of late." He also felt that describing Washington as "firm" was inappropriate: "Why firmness? he asked. To what? or to whom? Is it the manly demand of restitution made of Great Britain for her accumulated injuries that called forth the praise? for his own part he could discern no firmness there." Others, including Jacob Read and Oliver Ellsworth, spoke in favor of retaining the two paragraphs, noting that the Senate had assented to the treaty and that the president had an obligation to "not sacrifice … his own conviction" to the opinions of the people. The motion failed on a vote of eight to fourteen, and the address was approved as originally written by the same margin (Annals of Congress, description begins The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States [1789–1824], Washington, D.C., 1834–1856; 42 vols. description ends 4th Cong., 1st sess., p. 14, 15–23).
3. Following discussion on 9, 10, and 14 Dec. regarding the process by which an address would be drawn up and presented to the president, the members of the House of Representatives finally began discussion of the substance of their response on 15 Dec. in a Committee of the Whole. After an extended debate centering largely on whether the House should express its "undiminished confidence" in Washington, a decision was reached to expand the committee that had produced the original draft and request that it resubmit a new version. This was accomplished on 16 Dec., and the House moved quickly to approve it. The final text of the House's response, which was delivered to Washington on 17 Dec., endorsed the president's work to negotiate with the Native Americans and expressed particular satisfaction "that the late scene of disorder and insurrection has been completely restored to the enjoyment of order and repose." Avoiding the phrasing that had caused consternation among some members, the response concluded its praise of Washington: "In contemplating that spectacle of national happiness which our country exhibits, and of which you, sir, have been pleased to make an interesting summary, permit us to acknowledge and declare the very great share which your zealous and faithful services have contributed to it and to express the affectionate attachment which we feel for your character" (same, p. 128–129, 134–135, 144–149, 150, 154–155).
4. On the same day, JA also wrote a short letter to TBA reporting on news of CA and AA2 in New York City and the impact of the Senate's new galleries (private owner, 1961).


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Anyone who can share information about albany bloodline?
Anyone who can share information about albany bloodline?
Sir pogibots,
Albany's are mostly yellow legged with pea combs, this bloodline crosses well with any light strain. They are also deadly cutters with power and smash og a Hatch fowl.
keep on cocking.......
if you guys are looking for world class ALBANY....pm me and I will give you this guys email add, he got them straight from Glen Justiss....
long before the advent of the different albany families, the first Albanies were called the STRAIGHT ALBANY. at that time, it was a blend of arguably the 3 gamest bloodlines (HATCH, WHITE HACKLE, MAHOGANY). if my notes are correct, the composition of the STRAIGHT ALBANY is:
they werent considered top notch fowls at that time, but they also werent noted to run or sulk when the going gets tough.
the Johnny Moore Albany is a blend of STRAIGHT ALBANY and REGULARY GREY with the GREY BLOOD bred out. it is said that they will throw an occasional blue or green legged in 1 out of 50
albanies are large powerful red fowls with broad saddles. they are mostly yellow legged.
our JM Albanies are rose combed and prefer slugging it out in the ground. they did well crossed to DF Sweaters and Doc Robinsons Hatch. our crosses with RH tamed their temper only just a bit. their winning fights ended with billholding.
when we sparred the broodcocks, the Albany are always tagged by the RH and Sweater in the air. bagsak sila sa lupa..hehehe. pero kapag nakahawak, diretso kami sunggab para awatin. ganyan ka tindi ang palo ng Albany.
the Amphil bros showed some Albanies in the WSC, you'll get an idea on how they fight watching the fights.
ive noticed that broad saddled fowls (whatever the bloodline) are stronger. this is just my opinion.
Nice info bro. I use Albany to blend with asil
THE ALBANYS By: E.T.Piper (August 1965)
Every time we read in a game journal or hear someone arguing about how a famous strain was bred, it used to make us smile. Now, after a lot of developing into the history of present day families of fowl, it makes us laugh right out loud. If any man ever hit the nail on the head, it was Henry Ford when he said, much to the disgust of our scholarly element, "History is the bunk!" Much of the history taught in our schools is just that, or at its best inaccurate reporting of past events, and all game fowl history is absolutely bunk. Ninety-five percent of us gamefowl breeders don't know how our own fowl are bred further than two or three generations back. A whole hell of a lot of us are not positive how last season's chicks were bred, and them right on our own yard at that. Sounds silly, but it's true. Let's take the Allen Roundheads as a well-known example. We know they were good. I can show you a man who claims to have letters from Allen in which he claims his strain was kept good by careful inbreeding.
I can show you another who says he has letters to prove the best cocks Allen ever showed were crosses of Green's Japs; and still another who contends the best Allen ever fought, and this over a period of years, were not bred by Allen at all, but sent him each year by a New England saloon keeper. And, all three of these men claim to have positive proof of their contentions. What's the difference how they are or aren't bred, or who bred them? If they are good today, that's what you want and need. If they aren't good, a silly pedigree of long, pure breeding isn't going to improve them a particle. Recently, we talked to a well-known cocker and a competent man. We asked him about some fowl he had tried out for three years. He said, "I had to get rid of every drop of the blood. All the damned things would do is stand there like fence posts and take whatever the other cock handed them." Now, we happen to know a considerable amount of those fowl and their owner. He can write out the pedigree of any chicken on his yard and trace it right back to 1865 or '70; not another drop of outside blood in all those years.
are positively jokes. Keeping pedigrees of animals and birds was begun simply becauseThey are famous today among paper fighters. Yet, compared with today's best cocks, they it furnished (for future reference) a record in writing of how outstanding individuals were bred, who their fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, and the proper place for their pedigrees is in the trash can. In two different issues of the Warrior some time last summer, we gave you the history of the Albany fowl; one of today's winning strains of fowl. We had been much interested in these fowl for the past 9 or 10 years, or longer, ever since we saw some of them back in 1930 or '31. Since then, at every opportunity, we have tried to get a line on how they were originated and bred, up to today. Finally, we thought we had it right and gave in to you. On a recent trip to Troy, we found out it was only approximately correct, so, here it is again. If you are tired of reading our stuff on these fowl, we don't' blame you a bit, and promise this is our last word on the Albanys. Back years ago or more, Mr. hatch of Long Island, N.Y., fought a main in Eastern New York.
When we arrived home, he found someone had stolen three cocks from his shipping coops, the ones he had taken along for the main. Two of them were yellow legged and one a green leg. While the men who have us our information said they would take their oaths they didn't know who stole these cocks, they did know who eventually got them. The two yellow legs were bred and produced nothing worthwhile. "Army" Fox of Utica, N.Y. got the green leg. He was a large, straight comb, broad backed, dark red, with green legs. Army later talked with Mr. Hatch about having the cock, and he told him what he was, that all of that family were straight combs, etc. Army said he would send and get him. His friend told him the cock had died, and that he wasn't his type of chicken anyway. However, he had raised two or three stags form him , and a hen that was in breeding, Pogmore Whitehackle and Henny, and offered to send Army one of the stags. When he arrived, he was a beautiful, long feathered, large stag, black and red in color. He was bred to the Slade Roundhead hens and a dozen or so stags were produced. About half of them looked like Hennies, and while game, better than the Hennies, and that's about all that could be said of them. About this time and for some years previous, Tom Foley of Troy, N.Y., had a strain of extras good ginger colored fowl, and Army Fox sent to him and asked for a good cock to breed. Just about this time, and Albany crowd one of his Gingers, a spangle (and the only one out of 50 or so to come that color), to fight in the main. He was a big cock and didn't fall in (but in a hack after the main won a very classy battle), and was sent on to Army Fox for a brood cock.
Army bred him to the pullets, or perhaps hens by then, that were sisters to the Henny stags that were out of the Hatch Pogmore Henny cock and Slade hens. This mating, for some unknown reason, produced all very small fowl, 4.0, 4.04, 4.06, etc., too small for practical purposes although they were exceptional fighters and very game. Practically all of them were given away. Shortly after this, Army met a friend of his in Albany, whom we must refer to as Mr. X. He had always had gamefowl, but a few years before had gotten into politics. At that time, he gave up the fowl. Army suggested he get back in the game again, that new blood was needed among the big shots, and especially new blood with a bankroll. He laughed and said perhaps he would, but where would he get good fowl?
my albany st com wl
Attachment 49176 Albany stag these are some good fowl
Bump this up. And reading and
learning. And reading a lot. New to this bloodline.
Do Albanys come straight comb? or pea comb only? A buddy of mine has some Ozark Albanys and some of them come rose comb ( I think asil influence) but am curious about the Johnny Moores if they come str8 or pea or both.Any input appreciated
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here's my brood cock he is going on 5 yrs old. Breeding them to some deadend blueface I got from a friend.
Thanks Jake hill, reason for asking is my brother that gave me the grey hens said they are half shorty grey and half JM Albany. Got a couple pretty pearl legged stags with straight combs. Just wondering about the Albany side. He insists the shortys are all straight comb.They never had a pea comb shorty ever,the whole time they had them.


text: No babies allowed. That's what supermodel Karolina Kurkova was told the other night when she and her baby's daddy, Archie Drury, brought Tobin, 6 months, to Kastel restaurant in the new Trump Soho for the birthdays of Rosario Dawson and of Jamison Ernest's Yellow Fever clothing line. So the parents took turns baby-sitting outside while the other went inside to mingle with models Selita Ebanks and Jessica Hart, U2's Larry Mullen, Bon Jovi's David Bryan and designer Yigal Azrouel.


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We have to monitore a network (shinken is outsite of this network) and have no access from outsite.
So we use NSCA with passive checks.
On my server I have made tests and my receiver is limited to 34k checks / 5 minutes.
There is a possibility to have multiple receivers?


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IBE (CSIC-UPF): Identified the pathways and key genes associated with dormancy in butterflies
News from IBE (CSIC-UPF)
Gene expression profiles across the different developmental stages in the wood white butterfly (Leptidea sinapis) have been compared with the aim of identifying key genes and pathways associated with diapause regulation. This species, which is distributed across western Eurasia, shows photoperiod-induced diapause with variation in critical day-length across populations at different latitudes.
The results of this international research, with the participation of Roger Vila, investigator at IBE, were published in Molecular Ecology. Expression differences between light treatment groups of two monoamine regulator genes (DDC and ST) were observed already in instar III larvae. -CS/PRBB
Reference article:
Leal, L.; Talla, V.; Källman, T.; Friberg, M.; Wiklund, C.; Dincă, V.; Vila, R.; Backström, N. Gene expression profiling across ontogenetic stages in the wood white (Leptidea sinapis) reveals pathways linked to butterfly diapause regulation, Molecular Ecology, 2018 Feb;27(4):935-948. doi: 10.1111/mec.1450
More information:
IBE website


text: At the height of the Red Scare, Angela Calomiris was a paid FBI informant inside the American Communist Party. As a Greenwich Village photographer, Calomiris spied on the New York Photo League, pioneers in documentary photography. While local Party officials may have had their sus-picions about her sexuality, her apparent dedication to the cause won them over.When Calomiris testified for the prosecution at the 1949 Smith Act trial of the Party's National Board, her identity as an informant (but not as a lesbian) was revealed. Her testimony sent eleven party leaders to prison and decimated the ranks of the Communist Party in the US. Undercover Girl is both a new chapter in Cold War history and an intimate look at the relationship between the FBI and one of its paid inform-ants. Ambitious and sometimes ruthless, Calomiris defied convention in her quest for celebrity.


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Vaccinating your horse provides protection against various infectious diseases. A course of vaccinations needs to be completed to ensure adequate protection. These normally involve 2-3 injections depending on the diseases you are vaccinating against followed by regular booster injections. Prevention is better than cure and vaccination is a key element in the fight against infectious disease.
As a minimum requirement all horses, ponies and donkeys should be vaccinated against Tetanus. Tetanus is caused by Clostridium tetani which is found in the environment. This bacterium enters the blood via wounds. After an incubation period of 7-21days clinical signs become apparent. Often by this time the original wound may be healed and unnoticeable. Clinical signs include stiffness, muscle spasms, nostril flaring and a wide eyed expression. 90% of unvaccinated horses that develop tetanus die. To cover your horse against tetanus two injections should be administered 4-6 weeks apart followed by an annual booster. Thereafter boosters are only required every 2 years. Pregnant mares should be given a booster 4-6weeks prior to giving birth to provide protection through her milk for the first 6-12 weeks of life.
Influenza is a highly contagious viral disease of the respiratory system which is spread either by direct contact with a previously infected horse or indirectly through the air/environment. While symptoms often subside after a number of weeks the disease can develop into life-threatening bronchitis or pneumonia.
To cover your horse for influenza and tetanus, as per the Jockey Club guidelines, your horse needs to have a primary course.
Day Zero: first vaccination (against influenza and tetanus) is given.
21-92 days after the initial vaccination: second vaccination (against influenza and tetanus)
150-215 days after the 2nd vaccination: A booster of an influenza vaccination is given
After the third vaccination, your horse only needs an annual booster. This needs to be done before or on the date of the previous vaccination. Unfortunately if you go past the date, you will be required to re-start.
FEI regulations state these injections cannot be given 7 days immediately before a competition. FEI rules also state a booster must be given within 6 months before arriving at the FEI Event. This may be extended by a maximum of 21 days if necessary.
Pregnant mares should be vaccinated during the 5th, 7th and 9th months of pregnancy for Equine Herpes Virus (EHV) as an aid to reducing the risk of abortion.
Pregnant mares may also be vaccinated in 8th, 9th and 10th months against Rotavirus so as to provide cover to the foal against a potentially life threatening diarrhoea which may be evident within the first few weeks of life.


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Thank goodness hubby works shifts and next week he's on lates, so I'll have 4 football free days.
I'm sure I'll be able to distract myself by doing some baking too. Plus I need to try out my new cooker as I haven't made any cupcakes in it yet. First up are some Black Bottom Cupcakes that I've been wanting to bake for ages.


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