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Article by Gary Evans
Looking to move to that all important next level? Are you seeking a method that can turbo charge your ability to manifest?
You're in luck By using my meditation you will undoubtedly manifest things more quickly and also experience more enjoyment when meditating.
Meditation is commonly mistaken for some mystic ritual or associated with monks and highly religious individuals. In my opinion, if you're not meditating then you're not connecting with your inner-being which means you will always have a partial detachment from the power that is natural to you.
When you focus your mind on something repetitive you automatically begin to quieten your mind which is the same as saying you are meditating. You reach a similar meditative state when you're watching the television or listening to music. Your attention is in one place only and that is all meditation is. The difference is that when you purposely meditate, you are relieving your body and mind of many other constraints that it would normally be dealing with if you are watching television or listening to music. Once relieved of these, you can slip into a deeper state of concentration.
Find a comfortable area that you may sit quietly and will not be disturbed. It's best to unplug the phone and turn off your mobile when you're meditating to avoid all distractions. You can meditate in any position you like as long as your spine and head are kept straight in a vertical line.
Next, close your eyes and start to notice your breathing. Take a couple of deep, but slow, relaxing breaths in and out. Focus your mind on breathing and nothing else. When thoughts and images come into your mind (and they will) just release them and do not give them your attention, focus only on your breathing. Do this for about 5 minutes.
When you feel comfortable to begin, start to visualize what it is that you want. Is it a new home? A different lifestyle? Or a new relationship? Start to think and dream about what it is that you want.
Real ly get i nto the feelings of the visualization and enjoy the moment. Live it just for a few minutes whilst you're in your meditative state. Think only about what it is that you want and pay no attention else where. For just a few moments, believe that what you are seeing in your mind is already yours.
Don't worry if you don't believe it at first, just keep practising the thought and visualization until it becomes a very familiar environment to you.
Once you've visualized all of your desires for about 20 to 25 minutes you can then gently bring yourself out of the meditation and feel good about yourself for completing masses of work in those 25 minutes
Repeat this meditation for the rest of your life. No seriously, why wouldn't you want to keep doing something that has two marvellous effects …
It brings you more joy and you're moving yourself one step closer to your desires every time you do this meditation.
This meditation is one the most powerful manifestation techniques that I've ever come across. As simple as it may seem, the rewards that you will reap from doing it everyday are insurmountable.
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Nice collection but you'd have thought that they'd have looked after them better.
Nice collection but you'd have thought that they'd have looked after them better.
when we went there was a guy around the back, and there his jags but he didnt end up restoring them as he lost sight in one eye.
oh and i would not let me take pics of them.
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Yeah we heared something so moved on, good job I didn't try to hotwire that v12!
A picture is not a picture without no depth of feeling....
That coupe is lovely. Bet they're not that far off a grand project. Look in better nick than some ive seen on the road.
Jagtastic stuff, what a great find.
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Is there an update on this place? as was going to pay it a visit last week but last minute checks before a nearly 2hr drive shows that the white primera estate that was there and also the brg xj6 are now taxed...!!!!! i did find a site with rumours of the house being brought by a chap who used to deliver flowers to this place when he was younger and it was care home.....any info would be great please

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I made a HUGE mistake by taking a fag from a friend about a week ago, we smoked one that night and before I knew it the next day I had bought a pack. I have been smoking all week.
I had quit for 20 weeks and this week would have been my 21st...I don't even enjoy it! Its just purely an addiction which my body is telling me I need. Is it always going to be this easy to pickup the habit if I cave in just once?
I need to nip this in the bud, fast.


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Cocktail Hour
Enjoy delicious cocktails at some of South Carolina's many noteworthy bars. Whether you're looking to grab a drink with coworkers or a quiet spot to enjoy a cocktail on a weekend getaway, the Palmetto State has got you covered.
Cocktail Hour
Enjoy delicious cocktails at some of South Carolina's many noteworthy bars. Whether you're looking to grab a drink with coworkers or a quiet spot to enjoy a cocktail on a weekend getaway, the Palmetto State has got you covered.
Sit back and enjoy a cocktail at some of South Carolina's best restaurants and bars.
Discover some of the best spots in South Carolina to enjoy a cocktail. From iconic college taverns to eclectic rooftop bars, there are plenty of venues to choose from when it comes to enjoying a cocktail in the Palmetto State.
Cocktail Hour in Charleston
As one of the most popular cities on the East Coast, it should come as no surprise that Charleston is brimming with cocktail hour hot spots. From scenic rooftop bars to award-winning restaurants and local breweries, the Holy City is the perfect place to enjoy a cocktail amongst friends.Read More
Cocktail Hour in Columbia
From farm-to-shaker cocktails to local craft beer, you won't have any trouble finding a spot for cocktail hour in Columbia. Enjoy everything from specialty cocktails to fine wine and craft beer at one of Columbia's many restaurants and bars.Read More
Cocktail Hour in Greenville
Enjoy an evening in downtown Greenville and discover a variety of premier restaurants as well as a booming craft beer scene. Here are the very best spots to grab a drink with friends and family.Read More
Cocktail Hour in Hilton Head
You don't need to travel far from the beach to find a good cocktail on Hilton Head Island. Enjoy a cold drink with friends and family at any of these cocktail hour hot spots.Read More
Cocktail Hour in Myrtle Beach
From famous bars to fine wine boutiques and local craft breweries, you don't need to go far to find a good drink in Myrtle Beach. Here's our list of the best spots to grab a drink after the beach.Read More
Cocktail Hour Around SC
From the mountains to the sea, you're never too far from a cocktail hour in South Carolina. Uncover local craft breweries, wine bars and more cocktail hour hot spots wherever you decide to venture to in the Palmetto State.Read More
Great Drinking and Dining All in One Place
Have a delicious meal and enjoy craft cocktails and beverages all in one sitting! Thanks to an exceptional culinary scene, this is pretty easy to do in the Palmetto State.Read More
Score a Great Brew and Food at SC's 19 Best 19th Holes
Discover some of the Palmetto State's 19 best spots to enjoy a drink and meal after a day on the course. From casual to fine dining, there's a venue to suit every taste.Read More
Cool Places to Have a Cocktail in South Carolina
Enjoy craft brews and cocktails at some of these top-rated spots in South Carolina.Read More
Six Great South Carolina Hotel Bars Not to Miss
Be sure to check out some of these hotel bars on your next trip to South Carolina. You won't be disappointed.Read More
Upstairs, Downstairs: SC's Best Rooftop and Basement Bars
From rooftops to basements, South Carolina's nightlife offers a wide variety of options when it comes to where you decide to enjoy that after-hours cocktail.Read More


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Harden Agrees to Richest Contract in NBA History
byon 07-10-2017 at 12:56 PM (1583 Views)
Move over, Wardell Stephen Curry II, a two-time National Basketball Association Most Valuable Player (2015 and 2016) who on June 30 agreed to a new five-year, $201-million deal with the reigning league titlist Golden State Warriors.
That?s because one week and a day later, the record for the richest contract in NBA history no longer belongs to him.
Last July 8, Houston Rockets guard James Edward Harden Jr., accepted a four-year, ?super-maximum? contract extension that is projected to be worth $170 million or more and will guarantee him at least $228 million through the 2022-23 season. This will be the largest ever NBA contract extension.
Adding the two years and $58.72 million remaining on his current pact with the Texas squad (which came about as a result of Harden?s inking a four-year, $118.1 million contract extension on July 9, 2016 with an early-termination option in the final year), the 6-5 guard will be earning $228 million (or more) over the next six seasons for the richest player contract in league history, surpassing Curry?s new deal that makes the 6-3 long-range bomber the first NBAer ever to reach the $200-million plateau.
Harden, who turns 28 in August, will earn $28.299399 in 2017-18 and $30.421854 million in 2018-19.
Depending on how the NBA salary cap escalates each year, Harden's annual stipend under the extension will vary although he is expected to bankroll $37.8 million in 2019-20.
The salary upgrade will go up to $40.8 million in 2020-21, $43.8 million in 2021-22 and $46.8 million in 2022-23.
Harden is taking advantage of a provision in the new labor contract (collective bargaining agreement), which takes effect starting the 2017-18 season, that allows contract extensions for top-tier players such as Harden.
?The Beard? became eligible to add four years to his current contract after securing a berth on one of the three All-NBA teams this past campaign.
During the 2016-17 wars, the California-born Harden played point guard for the Rockets for the first time in his pro career under NBA Coach of the year Mike D?Antoni, pacing the NBA in assists (11.2 apg) and ranking second in scoring (29.1 ppg) while norming 8.1 rebounds in 81 appearances ? an eight-year career high in all three categories.
Harden also placed second in the MVP polls for the second time in three years and was the lone unanimous selection on the All-NBA First Team in media balloting ? the third time in four years that the Arizona State product was a first-team pick following selections in 2014 and 2015.
With the arrival of playmaker de luxe Chris Paul in a trade with the Los Angeles Clippers in late June, Harden is likely to revert to his old role of 2-guard with the Rockets, who produced the third-best regular record (55-27) in the NBA last season.
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Avery Antonio Bradley Jr., the final link to the Paul Pierce-Kevin Garnett-Ray Allen Big 3 era in Beantown, became the scapegoat ? a salary cap casualty ? in the Boston Celtics? pursuit of Utah free agent Gordon Hayward.
But there?s more work to do by the Celtics to help Hayward secure a maximum contract.
Already Danny Ainge, the Celtics? president of basketball operations, has also pulled its qualifying offer to Kelly Olynyk (making the Canadian frontliner an unrestricted free agent and who has since inked a four-year, $50 million-plus deal with the Miami Heat). The club must likewise renounce veteran free agents Jonas Jerebko, James Young and Gerald Green, trade Terry Rozier, and then waive the non-guaranteed contract of Jordan Mickey. Additionally, it has another partially non-guaranteed pact in second-year point guard Demetrius Jackson, who could be waived or traded.
Even then, the Celtics will still be about $300,000 shy of rewarding Hayward a maximum contract with a first-year salary of $29.444533.
Could small forward Jae Crowder, who has three years and $21.9 million left in his contract, also be on the way out?
The Celtics need to prepare for the impending free agency of All-Star guard Isaiah Thomas, who led the all East players in scoring last season with an NBA third-best 28.9-point average, in the summer of 2018 .Thomas, who has a year left on his contract, will attract huge offers from other teams if the 5-9 guard opts to try his luck in the open market. A contract extension may now be in the offing.
The Celtics peddled seven-year veteran guard Avery Bradley Jr. (along with a 2019 second-round draft pick) to the Detroit Pistons (for Marcus Morris) to clear salary-cap space in preparation for the entry of Hayward and his proposed four-year, $128-million maximum deal, possibly through a sign-and-trade agreement with the Jazz.
Bradley, who had been in Hub City since breaking into the NBA in 2010-11, is coming off a career-high 16.3 points and 6.1 boards in 55 games with the Celtics (he missed 22 games in January-February due to a right Achilles tendon injury). The 6-2 guard is entering the final season of a four-year, $32-million pact and is scheduled to earn $8.8 million in 2017-18.
The 6-9 Morris, who turns 28 in September and is the twin brother of Washington's Markieff Morris, has two years left on his current deal and will be making $5 million in 2017-18.


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In the past two months, Apple has launched the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR, iPad Pro, Mac mini, and MacBook Air. The common thread? Apple is testing how much it can raise prices — and the prospect has Wall Street analysts salivating. Tech buyers may not be so happy.
Must read: Apple's new iPad Pro, MacBook Air, and Mac mini: Can features, specs retain business momentum?
If we've learned anything about Apple in recent months and years, it's that the company has pricing power. While Samsung customers may choke on higher prices and push the company into more of a value-oriented pitch, Apple remains the luxury device maker.
We're about to find out just how far Apple can push price increases. To be fair, commodity costs have risen, and China tariffs are going to hit at some point. In many ways, Apple is just part of a broader inflation trend in the US economy. In other words, Apple isn't the only company looking to raise prices to preserve margins.
Another point to ponder is that Apple has raised premium device prices, but offered other devices like the iPhone XR to appeal to those of us that don't want to go higher than $1,000 for a phone.
Are Apple prices justified? Think the iPhone is expensive? The iPad Pro has it beat | Apple's storage pricing oddities | Your old $99 Apple Pencil is now junk | iPhone XS Max: How much profit does Apple really make on each one sold? | iPhone XS Max teardown: Here's what $1,249 flagship costs Apple in parts | Apple's iPhone XS Max price tops out at $1,449 — and 8 other keynote takeaways | Apple 15-inch MacBook Pro (2018): Impressive performance at a premium price
Nevertheless, Apple's higher prices are hard to miss. Jefferies analyst Timothy O'Shea outlined the price increases following the iPad Pro and MacBook Air launch. He could hardly contain himself over the prospect of higher average selling prices boosting revenue.
O'Shea outlined what many of you are finding out as you configure Apple devices:
Hardware prices continue to rise across product lines. Starting at $799, the new 11-inch iPad Pro is 23 percent more expensive than the previous model's $649. Starting at $1,199, the new MacBook Air is 20 percent more expensive than the previous model's $999. And starting at $799, the new Mac Mini is a whopping 60 percent more expensive than its predecessor at $499. iPhone prices have risen 13 percent and 19 percent during the last two years.
O'Shea also noted that Apple has "clear pricing power in the near term" and is "clearly flexing its muscle here." The other wrinkle here is that accessory prices are going higher, too. The Apple Pencil costs $129, or 30 percent more than the first gen. The Smart Keyboard Folio starts at $179, 13 percent more than the older version. "Bottom line, after you spend 23 percent more for this year's iPad Pro, you also spend more on pricier accessories," he said in a research note.
Also: Best Apple iPad Pro alternatives you can buy right now
It's a nice gig, if you can get it. In technology, Apple is one of a few companies that can maintain pricing power. Analysts aren't going crazy raising their revenue projections for Apple, but they are likely to as soon as the company reports earnings on Thursday.
Apple is expected to report fourth quarter revenue of $61.57 billion and net income of $13.48 billion. For fiscal 2018, Apple is expected to report net income of $58.91 billion on revenue of $264.03 billion. And that windfall is before the full effect of Apple's hardware refresh and price increases are seen. Here's a look at Apple's historical as well as projections for the future via Thomson Reuters.
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Hi Everyone!
We currently have a babytrends infant car seat from Babies R Us, and we love it, because it attaches to the jogging stroller. It is the main reason we got it, because it was the only infant seat/jogging stroller combo I could find.
Anywho...Ella is going to outgrow the infant seat within the next 6 months and we will need to get a new car seat. We will need something for 22 lbs and up, hopefully something that will last for a good long time. Either a convertable car seat or even rear facing stage 2 seat. I would like it to be rear facing for as long as possible.
Of course I would like to save as much as possible, but I want something good, and don't mind spending the extra money if we are going to have it for a long time, which we probably will since I am hoping baby number 2 is on the way soon. I was just hoping to get some suggestions from people who may have researched convertable car seats and are using them. Which one do you have and what do you like and dislike about it, and about how much did it cost?
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THOUSANDS more men could lose their jobs in Yorkshire unless action is taken to tackle further closures in the county's coal mines.
The stark figures are in a research report, Coal: The Future, which also says £165m could be lost to the county's economy.
It was commissioned by the Yorkshire and Humber Assembly and published this week.
The report, which the assembly and the Yorkshire Forward regeneration agency hope will help develop Government energy policy and secure cash for the region's coal industry, shows how mining remains important, both for the regional economy and the nation's energy needs.
The report examines the current state and prospects of both the coal industry and coal-fired power stations, such as Ferrybridge and Eggborough.
Among issues highlighted are:
* The Yorkshire and Humber region produces 16.3% of the nation's electricity, but has only 8.3% of the nation's workforce
* High imports of low-sulphur coal and the switch towards gas means the contribution of coal to power generation is predicted to fall from 71% in 1980 to 21% by 2008
* Production of coal in the UK has dropped from 53m tonnes in 1995 to an estimated 25.5m tonnes in this year
* The Yorkshire and Humber coal industry workforce of 3,340 in December 2003 will be down to 1,530 by the end of this year
* Some 660 companies based in the region are direct suppliers to the Selby complex in North Yorkshire, where closures began last year.
The report also examines a number of key challenges facing what is left of the industry.
These include more cost-effective use of technology, competition from other energy sources, such as gas, types and quantity of waste produced and the implications of new or forthcoming legislation.
The Yorkshire and Humber Regional Energy Forum's chairman, Lord Woolmer, said the report gave a vital overview of the coal industry.
"The region has had a long and proud history of producing coal on behalf of the nation. But the stark facts are that today the industry faces an uncertain future," he added.
"In addition to the closures of the last 20 years, new legislation and the challenge of reducing greenhouse emissions potentially further threaten the industry's profitability.
"But investment and the use of new technology could provide a more secure future, both in terms of the mining industry and of being able to generate clean energy from coal."


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Airport security is being increased at UK airports after the United States called for heightened precautions amid reports two terror networks are working together on a bomb that could evade existing measures.
The Department for Transport said the extra measures – which have not been disclosed – were not expected to cause "significant disruption" to passengers and noted that the official UK threat status remained unchanged.
Changes were announced after Washington Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson ordered beefed up security at foreign airports from where aircraft fly directly to the US.
US officials were reported to have said the move was the result of intelligence that groups in Yemen and Syria had joined forces to plot an attack.
"We have taken the decision to step up some of our aviation security measures. For obvious reasons we will not be commenting in detail on those changes," a Department for Transport spokesman said. "The majority of passengers should not experience significant disruption."
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Most people have heard the phrase that begins, "The grass is always greener….." It's usually coupled with an "I wish X would change" type reflection.
We along Cottonwood Creek in Richardson have said that a lot in the past year or so. The creekbed was overgrown, and the water had stopped flowing along the many bends in the creek. "Clean it up," we asked the City. And so they developed a plan. And they asked our opinions, making sure we were in agreement with the erosion planning that was proposed. We didn't object. "How great is this? We don't have to pay for the clean up!"
Careful what you wish for.
Some of you know how nice it has been to hang out by the back fence, kind of like we were in the 'real' woods. We've enjoyed watching mallard ducks, coyotes, bobcats, bobcats eating mallard ducks, owls, blue herons (or something like that), and who knows what else. Each spring when the weather warmed up, we hear the woodpeckers in the morning, sounding their hammer to remind us they were home. Knock, knock, knock. Knock, knock, knock. Knock, knock, knock. Our own little Sheldon Cooper.
And now, I have to wonder….did we (once again) think only of ourselves when we asked for a creek cleanup plan? And where will my wildlife friends go now? If this makes me a treehugger, so be it. But they were our trees, and I will miss them. Along with the wildlife that called the creek 'home.'


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A brand-new position in Stevenage for a Senior QA professional with leadership experience, a life science degree or higher (Pharmaceutical Science, Immunology or similar) and significant industrial experience in a Quality-based role. You will join a genuinely exciting and unique organisation involved in the manufacture of Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products and Gene Therapies to treat cancer. You will manage a small QA team and have significant input into developing a QMS for GMP in a multi-product facility that delivers cell and gene therapies for clinical trials. The company is offering an excellent salary and benefits package and this will be a great opportunity to progress your career within a growing business.
The Company
A pioneering and ambitious Biopharmaceutical company who develop next-generation, programmed T-cell therapies to treat cancer. The organisation has existed for 4 years and is very well funded, with a clear strategy and expansion plan for the next 3 years and beyond. Scientifically, the company has extremely exciting technologies, using a broad suite of proprietary and modular T-cell programming to engineer precisely targeted, controlled and highly active T cells. Commercially, they have a pipeline of product candidates in development (for the treatment of haematological malignancies and solid tumours) and is increasing its GMP production capacity. Based in a state-of-the-art facility in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, you will join a team that is doing something genuinely meaningful.
The Role
This is a varied and exciting role which will include the following:
- Line management of Junior Quality Assurance colleagues (up to three line reports)
- Review and qualification (or disqualification) of starting material and critical raw material suppliers, including audits and desk-based reviews
- Continuous improvement of the Pharmaceutical Quality System (PQS)
- Operator training and competency assessment systems
- Process qualification and validation
- Analytical and Quality Control assay validation
- Manufacturing authorisation management, including GMP licence variations
- Clinical Trial Authorisation management, including amendments to Investigational Medicinal Product Dossiers
- Drug Product release following batch certification
- Retention and reference sample management and control of release for use in investigations
- Real-time review of Batch Manufacturing Records and Quality Control records
- Conducting self-assessments in accordance with a defined schedule
- Deviation management within a PQS including coordinating change controls, quality exceptions, microbiological out-of-trend and out-of-specification results and other environmental excursions
- Equipment and facilities validation and revalidation protocols
- Assessment and qualification (or disqualification) of raw material suppliers, including audits
- Audits of GMP contractors conducting outsourced activities
- Product Quality Review
- Risk assessments with respect to product quality and health and safety
In addition to a competitive salary (negotiable depending on experience), the company offers a very good benefits package including:
- 25 days annual leave
- Excellent pension scheme
- Life assurance (4 times basic salary)
- Group Income Protection
- Private Medical Insurance (paid for by the company for yourself only)
- Eye care vouchers
The successful candidate will have a PhD, MSc or BSc in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Immunology or similar, combined with significant QA management experience gained in a commercial GMP facility. You will need to have excellent people skills, the communication to communicate with colleagues and external partners at all levels, and first-rate organisational skills. Experience with MHRA and HTA inspections (either as a host or involved contract giver to a manufacturing site) is essential, as is having expertise in the manufacturing and testing procedures for advanced therapies.
Full details will be provided on application. Apply now!


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The secret formula to getting Supra 128 online
I will admit I dove into the Telnet BBS scene head-first anxiously wanting to get a BBS back up. But I didn't thoroughly investigate everything I needed. There is a previous post on that so I won't repeat it. What this post is about is the connectors between the PC and the Commodore. As it…Read More
The Fone Company will be back… in March
After running solidly for a full day around 11PM Tuesday night Supra decided it would go tits up and throw "RS-232 framing error, check baud rate" errors which made the software think a user had disconnected before hitting the graphic detection prompt. After futzing around with it for about an hour I gave up and…Read More
Jim Brain's telnet cable, downgrading to Supra 4.5
So I upgraded the site to Supra 4.6 thanks to WD Stewart sharing the code with me. It's super solid and has some amazing features I am dying to try out but there is a problem: all of those Swiftlink enhancements conflict with BBS Telnet Server. I spent a good portion of my weekend trying…Read More
Supra 128
So, I decided to switch the BBS software from Color 64 to Supra 128. Why? Well, that's a long story. But this is a blog and not a message on the BBS so I'm happy to explain. Why leave Color 64? It's a great BBS and getting into it for a few weeks reminded me…Read More
The base has been laid, and a TIFU moment
The development is moving ahead with Network 64. In the meantime I am continued to be impressed by the number of visitors to the BBS. If you're keeping score, here is the latest spreadsheet: During the initial development I was eager to shrink things down so I installed the msg ed ovl or Message…Read More
Getting to Work on TFC v4n+: Planning to plan
I am deeming this project "TFC v4n+" for the following reasons: This is really the 4th full iteration of The Fone Company, the previous being: Version 1: 1988-1989 (learning it) Version 2: 1989-1991 (I actually have a disc labeled "TFC ][" (that's how we spelt it then because we re radical, dude.) which was also…Read More
Adding a SCSI Zip Drive to the Rear Admiral HyperDrive
Special thanks to Larry Hedman of the CIB BBS for the help with the Zip Drive! As a kid running a BBS I wanted a hard drive so bad. I dreamed of 20 megabytes. Heck, I dreamed of 5 MB. Now we walk around with terabytes of storage on our phone and don't think twice…Read More
The Fone Company is back! What I learned…
It took a bit longer than I expected but The Fone Company v2, circa 1990 is back! Call it: tfcbbs.com port 23. After looking through all of my files and folders I realized there have been 3 iterations of the BBS software up until it died: v1: 1988-1990 – just learning Color 64 v2: 1990-1991…Read More
Connecting to telnet BBSes
I created a page which is a work in progress on connecting to Telnet BBSes. For now it focuses on CGTerm but will cover local emulators soon.Read More
Set up and log on to Color 64 BBS
In this post we are going to set up Color 64 BBS, get it running and log in. We will be using Vice so if you don't have it yet I suggest you get it and install it. Vice makes things easier on a modern machine and it makes screenshots much prettier. Plus we can…Read More


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Coup Introduction
There were 4 Venezuelan coups each caused by a different reason. A coup is like a campaign or rebellion in this case it was against the government. The main one was the 1992 coup which Hugo Chavez led to overthrow the president. Some of these coups were peaceful but some were violent attempts which sparked even worse troubles. These famous coups have gone down deep inside the Venezuelan history, and will never be forgotten.
Venezuelan Coup D'Etat 1948
This campaign started in November of 1948 and was a plan to overthrow the elected president. The president at the time was Romulo Gallegos who had just gotten elected. The campaign consisted of 3 military leaders that had a big hand in the overthrowing of the president Romulo Gallegos. The main reasons for this campaign were low pay for the army, lack of equipment, and bad conditions. This gave reason to stage a coup.
The coup led on for about 3 days when the president was finally overthrown. After the overthrowing of the president and parties, military Junta changed to government Junta. This could have turned out worse but luckily it didn't, and everything went smoothly after the coup. Later on in 1952 Perez Jimenez became the president. Soon after the election another coup began in 1958 which was even worse than this coup.
Venezuelan Coup D'Etat 1958
This was another coup led by the people of Venezuela to overthrow the dictator Perez Jimenez. Perez became a strict dictator soon after he won the election. The people of Venezuela decided that Perez had to go or he would cause more trouble so they started a violent coup. They managed to overthrow Perez, but there was lots of violence and Perez didn't go without a good fight. After the overthrowing Romulo Betancourt got elected as the next president, and he took office in February of 1959.
Venezuelan Coup D'Etat 1992
Carlos Perez was the president at the time, and during his presidency there was lots of poverty as well as economic issues. Chavez was the leader of this coup recruiting people to spy or fight to take Carlos off his place. Carlos wasn't a bad man he just didn't run the economy well, and he caused lots of distress. Chavez sent out five men to assault the military equipment of Venezuela as well as spy on them. This rebellion lead on for a very long time, and Chavez constantly caused damage to Carlos by destroying material.
In a few months Chavez had lost a lot of people they either got caught, left, defected or some other reason. Chavez got cut off to all communication with only a handful of people in a historic museum. While in other places Carlos had sent out soldiers to stop the uprising, most of Chavez's men had been hurt or some killed by now. Still some of Chavez's men had taken control of certain areas in Venezuela. By now Chavez was now surrounded by the police, and military forcing him to abandon the rest of the coup. Chavez was then arrested and the coup ended.
Venezuelan Coup D'Etat 2002
During the 1998 election the people elected Hugo Chavez as president of Venezuela. He was the people's hero at that time, and most people thought of him as a savior. Things sparked up when Chavez passed a 49 law package that included strengthening government control over oil company Petroleos de Venezuela. He also passed lots of other unfair laws like the land reform law in which he had more access to people's personal properties. All these got the opposing parties to start getting the people to hate Chavez.
During that time a coup was also in planning to get Chavez to resign or overthrown. The coup had actually been planned 9 months ago, but now they got more reasons for their coup. On April 11 2002 Chavez had gotten ousted from office for 48 hours. During the time the temporary president was Pedro Carmona, and he hated Chavez so he did all he could to help the coup. shortly after 2 days another coup led to an uprising that was in favor of Chavez. The uprising had been succesful, and had caused the opposing coup to flee. The opposing coup was unsuccessful, and Chavez was back in office.


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Why the Best Daters Are Divorced
I saw firsthand how those who learn from divorce enjoy amazing dating lives.
When I was working as a divorce lawyer, a common fear that my clients had was that they had now become damaged goods, and could never find love again. I heard this time and again from male and female clients both. They all had the fear to one degree or another that it was all over now; time to settle for the sad sack second chancers in the corner. Their shelf life was up.
I'm not sure where that idea comes from, but it's pervasive. Perhaps it's a leftover cultural bias from the 1950s, when divorce was allegedly still a scandal. I'm not convinced it was even such a big deal back then, but we all have our filters about the past.
At any rate, at first I didn't know how to comfort these clients, but before long I began to notice a very distinct pattern: Divorced people usually have amazing dating lives! I know that's counterintuitive and against much of what we hear, but stay with me. It turns out that the pain of divorce plays several important functions in love:
- It shatters the prince/princess fantasies that we all harbor to some degree, leaving us much more pragmatic about love.
- It teaches people what they definitely don't want, and that's very useful in determining what they definitely do want.
- It leaves people with the idea that since things can end, which makes them enjoy future relationships more and take them less for granted.
And finally, divorce affords a huge, often unspoken boon to those with kids: They get to be part-time parents, partaking in family life when the kids are with them, and part-time singles, dating and enjoying their independence when the kids aren't there. That's the best of both worlds.
I'm not making this up. I heard from my clients time and again that once they got over their fears of getting into the dating scene, it all worked out magically. That said, it can be hard to get started again, so here are some tips I gleaned from watching those clients take on the dating world time and again.
Don't Let the Numbers Get You Down
First, while the statistical evidence about second marriages may be daunting as you head back into the dating scene, know that there is more to the story. There are lots of theories for why second marriages have a higher divorce rate than first ones, some of which could be classified as "unhealthy" (spouses didn't take enough time to heal from their first divorce) and some "healthy" (because second marriages produce far fewer children than do first marriages, spouses in second marriage usually stick out a bad situation "for the sake of the kids"). At any rate, you are an individual, not a statistic. Having seen thousands of breakups and recoveries, I can tell you I know scores of people whose second marriages fared better than their first ones. When people are willing to work through the emotional challenges of a divorce proactively, and learn from the experience, they enter new relationships with more maturity and self awareness. That makes relationships after divorce not just more successful, but more joyful as well.
Stay in the Present
Be direct and straightforward about your divorce, but don't burden your new dates/partners with the past. There's nothing to hide or be ashamed of, and avoiding the topic sets the tone that you're afraid of something. Don't avoid the topic. On the other hand, nobody wants the past to dominate the present. Be here in the now with the person you're actually dating. They'll pick up on your interest and that is what sparks chemistry.
Try Not to Compare (Too Much)
You probably can't avoid comparing your current dates to your former spouse, because that's what we humans do. That said, notice when you're doing it and don't take it too seriously. If you're stuck in comparison mode, you can't appreciate your date for who they really are. And let's face it, making new encounters into nothing more than mental projections of your old relationship is kind of like playing an old song on a constant loop. If you do find yourself doing that, you just might benefit from ….
Therapy, Therapy, Therapy
Don't be shy about getting professional help. A divorce is the second most stressful event in a human life following the death of a spouse. If you're finding yourself obsessing over what went wrong in your marriage, or about comparisons between your ex and your current dates, that's probably a good indication that you have some emotional work to do in order to put your marriage to rest. This is what therapists are for. Your friends are helpful to a degree, but they're not trained to move your forward the way a good therapist is.
Adopt a Beginner's Attitude
Let yourself be a beginner. You've been out of the dating scene for a while, and it's okay to be a little rusty. You can't expect yourself to be a dating pro from the first moment you swipe right. Take it easy and take the process at whatever pace feels comfortable to you.
Be Yourself
Know that it's okay to be exactly who you are. You've grown and changed; you're stronger and wiser, and yes, you also have some wounds. Divorce is not easy, but the challenges in life are what cause us to grow. It's normal to put your best foot forward, but if you're hiding the truth of who you are in order to woo a new partner, you're setting yourself up for a fall. You want your new dates to like you for who you actually are, not some fantasy. So let yourself shine. Another word for freedom is nothing left to hide.
Did I miss anything? Let me know–I'd love to hear from you, and maybe I'll add your insights to a follow up article.
Erik Newton is the founder of Together.
Suggested Reading
Mars and Venus Starting Over: A Practical Guide for Finding Love Again After a Painful Breakup, Divorce, or the Loss of a Loved One


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I worked with Judy during my college days at a resort in Upstate New York. Think Dirty Dancing. It was an awesome time and the group of people were truly amazing. Still a cherished time in my life. We had a 25-30 year reunion in NYC that was truly a once in a lifetime thing. Unfortunately Judy was not there - she was one of the few people in the nation that died of Legionaries Disease. This sculpture pays homage to her with a young life just starting to blossom and then met an untimely demise.
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A brand's reputation is its greatest asset. During major announcements or in the midst of a crisis, a company's future success rests on its reputation. Organisations – companies, institutions and brands – are today faced with a new information paradigm that has profoundly changed the way in which opinions are formed. At the same time, the environment in which organisations operate has become more unpredictable. The election of Trump, Brexit, digital transformation, the collapse in oil prices, and the slowdown of the Chinese economy mark the start of an era in which societies experience radical changes in direction. These changes affect our economies. To cope with them, organisations need to become more agile, while resting on solid foundations in which they have complete confidence.
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This is my first time using the root pouch brand of fabric pots. They are made with a different material than I'm used to, but seem sturdy enough. I'm looking forward to seeing how they do. These are filled with Empire Builder potting mix.
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They look great! Do you think it's possible for a user to sew fabric handles on them? I don't know how thick they are, and am wondering if a regular home sewing machine would be able to handle the thickness. I'd love to buy some, but I really need handles. Any thoughts on this?
Root Pouch offers containers with handles as well! Visit rootpouch.com for more info!
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Recurring monthly on the last Thursday
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Come one come several to Franklinton's favorite monthly wine tasting! We'll have 10 wines available to sample for just $10 - from white to red, dry to sweet, and everything in between. Find some new wines to love and share!
As always, food is available for purchase at the bar as well as all bottles of wine at regular retail price. Please arrive by 8pm to finish the tasting by 9pm.
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Summer Show 20199 Jul - 6 Sep 2019We are back with our annual Summer Show, our first group exhibition since relocating. More information to follow and full artisr list tbc...Read more
HyperrealismMuseu del Tabac, Andorra 21 Jun - 30 Sep 2018Hyperrealism is an art form that is of significant importance in our contemporary society today and one that continues to develop as technology advances.Read more
Surrounded by images, signage, advertisements and mass-media in general, it has been said that the world in which we live, shapes and transforms our experience to the point that "reality" is recognised only when it is re-produced. The fine line between reality and our media- saturated culture is increasingly blurred.
Autumn Show20 Sep - 4 Nov 2017This September welcomes the annual Autumn Show, we invite you to take this opportunity and view the latest Hyper-realistic paintings by a selection of Plus One Gallery artists. New works...Read more
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Born: 8 August 2018
Colour: White
Acacia is one of the youngest of the cria born in 2018, she was the first baby from Fiorella and unlike her mum who was always very confident was quite shy.
She has a lovely fine bright white fleece just like her rosette winning parents, which will be turned into luxurious yarn for the Barnacre knitwear later this year.
Born: 29/05/09
Colour: Light Fawn
Amata is absolutely bonkers, she loves to paddle and lie in water, she's not fussy if the paddling pool isn't out then the water troughs will do! She has passed this trait on to her offspring!
She is a fabulous mum who has had three boys and one daughter so far, all named after varieties of tomatoes, long story! She is pregnant again to Merlin on of our light fawn champion boys, so we are very excited to see what they produce together.
Her fleece has been processed into yarn to create a warm rich golden fawn.
Born: 18 June 2011
Colour: White
Angelic was a birthday present! She has some fantastic Bozedown genetics, she also has an equally impressive fleece. Angelic is currently pregnant to one of our white Supreme Champion stud boys Thor.
Despite being a big girl she is quite nervous in nature, so tends to stay away from visitors. She is happy to share her fantastic fleece though which has been turned into luxurious yarn for our knitwear range.
Born: 8 June 2011
Colour: White
From our first Supreme Champion Legend of Spartacus and Willow one of our original three alpacas that we got way back in February 2007.
She is quite low down the pecking order which makes her slightly shy, although will still approach you (after someone else has first) and likes her fair share at feeding times and will happily eat carrots from visitor's hands.
Unsurprisingly Angelica first fleece was classified as ultra fine measuring 120mm with a mean of 17.7 microns, a 4.1 standard deviation and only 0.3% of fibres over 30 microns. Stunning!
Born: 4 June 2012
Colour: Brown
One of our best homebred girls, a triple brown Champion in the show ring and a fanstastic chilled out personality! If your Egyptian history is up to scratch you will know that Queen Nefertiti's third daughter was called Ankhesenamun who later became the Queen of Tutankhamun. And seeing as Ankha is our Nefertiti's third daughter the same seems very fitting. If you have seen Barnacre out 'n' about at the various shows and fayres we went to in 2013 then chances are you bumped into Ankha. She is so chilled out and friendly. Don't be deceived though, she has a stubborn streak and if she doesn't want to go somewhere then she doesn't go!
Ankha has a fabulous brown fleece, very dense and lovely crimp. One of the show judges when she won one of her brown championships suggested that anyone wanting to breed coloured alpacas should check out Ankha, praise indeed! Her first fleece measured an ultrafine 17 microns with a 3.3 standard deviation and a 100% comfort factor – nice!
Ankha produced four stunning babies so far, three boys and a girl. We haven't quite decided who to mate Ankha too this year but she is already keen to get on with it!
Born: 13 June 2018
Colour: Grey
Argente is the first daughter of Ashling and is a complete scruff, she loves nothing more than rolling in the dropped hay or a mole hill.
She is a very pretty girl with a fine dark grey fleece, we have plans to mate her to Flint in the future to try and add some of his consistent colour and density.
Born: 5th June 2014
Colour: Medium Fawn
Aryana is a very entertaining girl who loves to come running up to all visitors clucking and flirting!
She loves carrot (just like her mum Kimchee!) and is usually at the front of the queue if she sees treats on offer and being pregnant she thinks she's entitled to all of them!
Aryana is a fantastic mum albeit very protective! She has two sons so far who couldn't be more different, Esca her first born is a complete wimp whilst her second son Amparo is superfriendly.
Aryana is currently adopted by Mia Tatum.
Born: 18 June 2008
Colour: Dark Fawn
A bit of a nervous girl, Bambi joined us here at Barnacre in 2013 with her daughter Beverley. Since then she has given birth to another two daughters, Isla who is just like her mum and barges through anyone if they get in the way and Flossie who is great at disappearing into the herd!
We think Bambi as actually white with a fawn spot that covers her whole body as no matter what colour stud we mate her too we only seem to get white babies, but so far they have been all girls which is good. This year she is pregnant to one of our brown studs Darwin to see if he can introduce some colour, he's only every had coloured babies so far so the pressure is on!
Born: 26th May 2014
Colour: White
Belle has a fantastic bright white fleece with amazing crimp and did very well for us in the show ring, although was told a few times she needed to grow; well she has now!
Now she has finished her show career she's joined the breeding herd and we are looking forward to seeing her first cria, with Thor, in the summer.
Born: 15 September 2011
Colour: White
Beverley was scared and clearly very nervous when she arrived here at Barnacre with her mum, Bambi, in 2013. Since then she has gained much more confidence and has grown in to a good mum herself.
Beverley had her first daughter Dixie in 2016, she is currently pregnant to Darwin one of our brown studs in the hope of trying to bring some of the colour out that she has in her background.
Beverley and her sister Isla are very close and so we blended their fleeces with their mum Bambi and have made lots of beautiful knitwear that you can find in our online shop, on farm, or when we are out 'n' about with our animals and knitwear.
Born: 1 January 2003
Colour: Medium Fawn
Carol is an absolute fruit loop, bonkers, mad, take your pick, all describe her perfectly! She joined us here at Barnacre in 2012 with her daughter Gypsy (the main reason for the purchase!). She was a fantastic mum and super protective of her baby and everyone else's baby for that matter meaning that on weigh day we get spat at! However if you get hold of Carol she becomes so nervous she wets herself every time.
Despite two negative pregnancy scans by the vet in 2014, Carols' lack of interest in one of our stud boys Sunburst was clearly due to the fact she was actually pregnant. She produced the first Sunburst baby named Invisible Sam! In 2015 Carol gave birth to a fawn girl called Savanna from our brown stud Darwin, then after a year off (as she is getting older it takes her longer to recover from caring for her babies which she does very well) in 2017 she came birth to a boy called Morris. Carol is now retired from the breeding program.
Born: 19 June 2010
Colour: White
Casiphia is the result of a magical union between two of our top alpacas, Veruschka and Legend of Spartacus. She is Legend's (and Veruschka's) first daughter and we are very proud of her.
Unsurprisingly her fleece has great character and density. She was the shiest of the 2010 cria although has the best fleece!
Casiphia blew the judges and crowd away at the 2011 Border Union show at Kelso, the first time we have shown her. She was awarded 1st intermediate white female, white champion, best of British and Supreme Champion – what a girl! Her first fleece was then shown at the 2011 Scottish National fleece show where it scored a brilliant 80.5 and was awarded 2nd place junior white in a huge class of 25.
Her second fleece measured 135mm with a mean of 21.8, standard deviation of 4.1 and only 3.1% of fibres over 30 microns.
Sadly Casiphia died this summer leaving behind an orphaned cria Casper.
Born: 2 August 2007
Colour: White
First cria (Spanish for baby) and daughter of Willow, she sticks by her side and exhibits two of her personality traits: she is slow to the feeding troughs and when she gets there she rolls around on her back kicking her legs about! Her name is Spanish for 'the little one' and she was certainly a small baby at 5.96kg. The birth was a long two hours (less than one is more normal), but she was up and feeding in about 15 minutes.
Chiquita's fleece, inherited from her sire Blenheim Gideon is amazing with a bright copper/golden sheen close to her skin, the quality was recognised during the 2008 show season where she won ribbons in all four shows she attended, including Northumberland show where she was 2nd junior fawn female and reserve champion (details of shows can be found on the NEBAG website) at the Border Union show, Kelso, she was awarded 1st place junior fawn. In 2009 Chiquita was awarded 5th place (intermediate fawn) at the BAS National show and 4th place at the Northumberland show.
Chiquita has acquired Willow's features and has the most adorable long eye lashes. Her weight fluctuated between 18 and 20kg for several weeks and we were concerned that something might be wrong. So we asked our vet to check her over and took advice from some fellow alpaca breeders. The vet confirmed she was in good health and over the next few days we gave her a vitamin B12 injection; increased her vitamin A, D and E paste; put her on the last bit of fresh grass available (the back lawn!), laid on the best hay and finally gave her some 'jump start' (more vitamins). We have no idea which one or combination worked but her weight stabilised and started to tick up (23.7kg on 10 May) and on 3 March she decided to eat from the trough for the first time. Although still quite small for her age she is healthy and has won ribbons at shows! Her size didn't stop her from being desperate to be mated and because she is such a good girl we put her to Gianmarco's Masterpiece in August 2009 the product was an absolute cracker, a fawn male we called Minimus who was a tiny 4kg at birth, but who doubled in weight in the first 3 weeks. Is he the cutist alpaca ever? Her 2012 cria is another cracking fawn boy (sire Golden Guinea) called Pablo, in 2013 she gave birth to another stunning fawn boy Pasha, this time from Sandstorm and in 2015 it was a lovely rose grey boy from Sunburst called Chiquito and in 2017 it was another rose grey boy called Reetpetite. Here's hoping we might get a girl this year!
Born: 17 August 2016
Colour: Grey
Cinza is the best.
Born: 12 July 2013
Colour: White
Czara has a bright white dense fleece and did well in the show ring before she joined our breeding program. Unfortunately she had her first baby too early, probably because her best friend had given birth the day before (her and Diamanta were inseparable probably due to the fact that Diamanta's mum Pressure looked after Czara after her own mum died when she was four months old) despite our best efforts and a plasma transfusion we were unable to keep him alive.
Sadly Czara died last winter as a result of severe anaemia.
Born: 19 August 2013
Colour: White
Diamanta is a stunning white girl born with an abundance of white curly fleece and the cutest face. She has a lovely chilled out personality thanks to her mum, Pressure, who is one of the friendliest pregnant alpacas on the farm who will happily approach strangers in the field.
She has some of the best Austrian genetics going, including Purrumbete Highlander and Jolimont Encantador . Diamanta is part of our 2014 show team, and was awarded 3rd place Junior White Female at Northumberland County Show in May. She will hopefully do even better at Westmorland County Show and Thirsk later in the year now she has grown a bit!
Born: 24th June 2008
Colour: White
Divinity was one of our purchases from the first ever Alpaca Classic auction. She is a shy girl with a fantastically fine bright white fleece.
So far she has only every produced us boys to date so this year we are hoping that she will finally have a daughter.
Born:: 13 August 2014
Colour : Dark Rose Grey
Eclipse was the first grey cria from our multiple grey champion Sunburst and as with all of Geena (her mum) babies she required bottle top ups as mum didn't produce enough milk.
She is a friendly girls who loves to be hand fed rather than share a feed trough with the other girls.
Born: 27th May 2013
Colour: Light Fawn
Elfrida is the only daughter to date of Little Miss Irraquoy and is very close to her mum. Just like her mum and her brothers (with the exception of Jasper) likes to look down her nose at you knowing she is something special.
After a successful show career which included being a double Light Champion Elfrida has now joined our breeding program is currently pregnant to our brown stud boy Darwin, who has sired us a number of brown champions, a fawn champion and a supreme champion so we are hoping for good things!
Born: 24 May 2011
Colour: Grey
Elysian is one of our champion grey girls who is a valued member of our breeding program and a fabulous producer of one our our most popular grey yarns.
Born: 26 May 2011
Colour: Medium Grey
Some alpacas are shy and nervous, Emery is bonkers! Sired by Loki, our black stud and from Kate, our grey import with attitude, we didn't know how she would turn out.
Would you believe that she weighed a whopping 11.36kg at birth! The placenta was huge as well weighing in at 5.11kg. That means Kate was carrying over a quarter of her body weight in baby!!!
Emery is very nosey and approaches you in the paddock, carrot is her favourite treat!
Her fleece is classified as 'medium grey' although it is the spitting image of her mum, a steely blue colour and beautifully soft measuring 110mm with a mean of 21.7 microns, a 4.2 standard deviation and only 3.7% of fibres over 30 microns. Brilliant!
Born: 13 August 2009
Colour: Fawn
Fair Lady is the best
Born: 8 June 2011
Colour: Fawn
Fidra is the best.
Born: 1 August 2015
Colour: White
Fiorella is a lovely white girl who is full sister to our Supreme Champion Thor, whilst a rosette winner she isn't quite as good as her brother.
Fiorella became a mum for the first time in 2018 and has proved to be a very doting mum to her daughter who she is exceptionally close too, weaning isn't going to go down well with either of them! Both are very vocal so everyone is going to know about it too!
Born: 6 June 2015
Colour: Fawn
Flash Dance is the best
Born: 16 August 2010
Colour: White
Our first daughter from Gianmarco's Masterpiece, mum Oonagh has also done us proud with Freyja, the last cria of 2010.
Freyja was a text book delivery and weighed in at a healthy 7.6kg. Her name is from Norse mythology and is associated with love, beauty and fertility. We had better watch out though becuase in one poem, an 'aggressive exchange' takes place between Loki and Freyja – we hope not!
Rather strangely, Freyja constantly followed the (unrelated) black Geena morning, day and night. For this she received no thanks whatsoever, but she kept doing it. Strange, but funny so we decided to blend their fleece to produce a lovely light grey soft year.
Freyja has been adopted by Freya Kendrick-Erikesen .
Born: 21 May 2002
Colour: Medium Fawn
Where Gabby leads, Imala follows. She joined us on 5th October 2007 and is not the easiest alpaca to catch causing havoc in the field shelter, although she is fine when we do get hold of her. Athletic, strong and with a well defined physique, Gabby is also blessed with a beautiful fawn fleece: 21.9μ, SD 5.8, CV 26.4%, 7.3% > 30 microns (2003). Gabby is very partial to browsing the tree line.
We have noticed that Gabby spends a lot of time looking over the paddock fence – we wonder what she can see?! Gabby gave brith to a male cria in 2009, Duke who now lives with Jayne at Zanzibah alpacas in Scotland. On 3 July 2010 Gabby gave birth to Lady Godiva, sire Golden Guinea, and what a friendly character she is – not like her previous two mummy's boy siblings! In 2011 Gabby gave birth to another fawn girl who we called Nadia. 2012 saw Gabby give birth to a fawn boy and in honour of London2012 he is called Olly Impic, well he was born on the day of the opening ceremony! In 2013 she produced a little Mini-Me from Sandstorm who we have named Minnie and her 2015 baby is a gorgeous looking boy we have named Donald.
Born: 12 August 2002
Colour: Black
Geena is a very vocal alpaca, she can be nervous around strangers and is a protective mother who is very close to her offspring and dislikes change. During the first week at Barnacre Geena hummed constantly, but is now very settled, so much so that close encounters like the one on the left are not uncommon!
Geena has multiple prize winning progeny and a great solid black fleece: 25.9μ, SD 4.4, CV 16.8%, 11.7% > 30 microns (2003). Geena struggles to produce enough milk for her cria so they require topping up by bottle, this proved to be challenging with Gaussian, you can read all about it on our blog. On 27 July 2010 Geena gave birth to Rory, a cream boy from Gianmarco's Masterpiece. In 2011 she gave birth to Brinley, a brown boy sired by Golden Guinea. 2012 saw Geena give us a surprise when she finished off her pregnancy to a black male and gave birth to a fawn boy! Colour is as much an art as it is a science when it comes to alpacas!
Finally in 2013 Geena produced us a little girl who we have called Patience, well we had to have plenty of it to wait for a daughter from her! in 2014 she had another daughter Eclipse to our multiple grey champion Sunburst.
Born: 7 August 2009
Colour: Medium fawn
Golden Dawn is one of the big girls, one we have struggled to get to hold a pregnacy but whilst we continue to try she is producing us some fabulous fleece which we have spun together with her sisters to make a lovely fawn yarn.
Born: 8 December 2007
Colour: Medium Fawn
Born in Australia Duchess joined the Barnacre herd in late 2013 as part of a group purchase. Since arriving she has settled in to life in the North, when she first arrived she was a very shy girl keeping well away from any human interaction, now she is happy to take carrot from our hand although is still wary of being held. Her greatest pastime is paddling in puddles, the muddier the better, so if they aren't muddy to start with she has to dance in them first!!
Despite being 9 years old Duchess has never had a cria, this is such a shame as she has a lovely fleece and some fantastic genetics including Jolimont Sculptor and Purrumbete El Dorado.
Born: 21 June 2012
Colour: Brown
A lovely dark brown girl out of Bozedown Bourbon who has been on the show circuit along side Ankha, which has meant she has come second every time, not that she cares, she loves to show herself off! When tested her fleece measured an ultrafine 18.2 microns with a standard deviation of 4.1 and a 99.4% comfort value, which is fantastic for a dark brown.
Gypsy has a mischievous personality and is one of the first over to check out visitors, mainly to see if there is any carrot on offer!
With her show career now over Gypsy is now a valued member of our breeding program.
Born: 11 May 2018
Colour: Rose Grey
Horus is the best.
Born: 30 May 2009
Colour: White
Isadora is the best.
Born: 13 August 2013
Colour: White
Isla is a dainty white girl born to the most protective of mums, Bambi, which meant the earlier weeks were 'interesting' at the evening weigh in and putting her coat on (affectionately called her pyjamas!). .
In the first week of January Isla unfortunately broke her front leg after being pushed again one of the hay hecks. After five weeks in two different casts all had heeled well only for it to unexpectedly break again in exactly the same place. She underwent surgery to have a plate inserted into her leg and a bone graft from her hip and is recovering well. Fingers crossed this will be the end of her troubles. Luckily for us she is much more chilled out than her mum and is very accepting of her treatment.
Three years on Isla is now (hopefully) pregnant for the first time, so fingers crossed for a new addition in the summer.
Isla is currently adopted by Sue Dobson, Megan and Penny Round.
Born: 1 January 2005
Colour: Medium Grey
Allegedly an adult, Kate loves to play chase with the young alpacas, even though she is the resident grump and spitter. She was expecting her first cria in March 2008 (hence the 'bump' in the January 2008 photo) from Hornblower of Farrlacey. Unfortunately she gave birth over a month early to a very small 4kg black girl that only lived for a few minutes. Sometimes alpacas hold on to 'problem' babies like this and it is not very nice for all concerned. Kate was remated to Hornblower again and on 20 May 2009 gave birth to Midnight Star, an energetic little dark grey girl with Kate's white face.
Kate loves to throw herself at the haystack in the field shelter, much to the annoyance of everyone else. She also thinks that she is entitled to her own 9 foot trough at meal times and refuses to share with anyone else. Despite, or maybe because of travelling thousands of miles with Mary, they have regular disagreements and 'spit offs'. Kate has a lovely soft fleece (2nd fleece): 21.3 microns with 3.2% > 30 microns, this was acknowledged at the 2008 BAS Hope fleece show where she was awarded third place (grey fleece). At the 2009 BAS National show Kate was awarded 2nd grey fleece. Kate produced a lovely brown son called Ochre in 2010 from Golden Guinea. In 2011 Kate gave birth to Emery, a super grey girl sired by Loki. In 2012 Kate and Loki blessed us with a big and super grey boy that we (or rather Jeannine and Craig who reserved him at just 24 hours old!) have called Indigo, now he is trouble! She currently has another big grey boy at foot Earl Grey who just like the rest of her off spring is full of mischief!
Born: 1 September 2009
Colour: White
Kealani was our last born cria of 2009 but she has plenty of attitude, although she always looks very sad. Her sire is the Supreme Champion EP Cambridge Samson of Wellground Alpacas.
She was just like her mum, Oonagh, and refused to eat hard feed for months, even after weaning. Her favourite past-time was neck wrestling with Sandstorm and is now following her mum round the paddock…
Born: 10 August 2015
Colour: White
Kenya is the best.
Born: 29 June 2014
Colour: White
Khaleesi is the best.
Born: 21 July 2010
Colour: Light Fawn
Kimchee is a big but gentle girl with a lovely dense fleece which is retaining it's fineness. She is a super nosy girl who is always first out of an open gate and happy to eat from anyone's hand.
Kimchee currently has a big black male cria at foot Stargazer, from Darwin, who has grown fantastically well and just like his mum is super nosy and loves carrot! Kimchee was remated to Darwin so we are hoping for a female version of Stargazer this year.
Her third fleece measured an fine 21.2 micons with a 4.5 standard deviation and a 96.8% comfort factor, this is great for a breeding female.
Born: 3 June 2010
Colour: Mid Brown
From the union of Willow and Inca of Fowberry, Layla is a shade of brown that is a welcome addition to the Barnacre knitwear range. Note her dark skin features.
She has a healthy appetite and is same rotund shape as her mum and sister Chiquita. Layla is the most wary of all of Willow's daughters, but she has proved to be a fantastic first time mum who all grow at a fantastic rate. Layla has now gone on to have babies for someone else as we sold her.
Born: 29 May 2012
Colour: Black
Liberty was the first girl born at our new farm, Liberty Hill which is how she got her name.
Just like her mum, Mary, she is super chilled out, likes to come and say 'hello' when you enter the paddock and is rather greedy. As a baby she stripped so much condition off her mum we had to resort to topping her up with a bottle!
She is hopefully pregnant to our multiple grey champion stud Sunburst, she wasn't very convincing with her spit offs!
Liberty has been adopted by Ed Sivell, Kevin Hush, Elsie Taylor, Louis and Petra Hees.
Born: 26 May 2012
Colour: Grey
What a super addition to the herd Lily was, she is a very uniform shade of grey, very fine just like her mum and with good character in the fleece.
A real flirt, Lily likes to come clucking to visitors, she knows we love greys and shows her self off very well. Before joining the breeding program she had a very successful showing career during which time she collected a number of rosettes.
Sadly Lily died last winter.
Born: 29 May 2009
Colour: Black
Lucetta is the best.
Born: 3 September 2006
Colour: White
EP Cambridge Little Miss Irraquoy was acquired by us at the 2008 British Alpaca Futurity elite auction on 16 February 2008. She is the stunning result of multi-award winning Australian sire Eringa Park Peruvian Irraquoy (sire: NWA Ltd. Ruffo) and dam EP Cambridge Yola (sire: Jolimont Picasso). Irraquoy was pregnant to Australian import Cambridge Buckingham (sire: Jolimont Commisario and dam: Cambridge Trinity) but unfortunately did not hold it. This meant a 14 hour round trip in May to start again. Irraquoy is correct in frame and has an extremely fine, dense fleece, justifying 'best white female' at the 2007 Three Counties Show and 3rd white junior female at the 2007 South of England show. From the minute Irraquoy arrived at Barnacre she settled in and knows she is very special! Her first fleece at 11 months was: 18.2μ, SD 4.6, CV 25.3%, 1.9% > 30 microns (2007). In 2009 despite being one of our smaller girls Little Miss Irraquoy clipped the heaviest fleece which was awarded 2nd place (intermediate white) at the 2008 BAS Hope fleece show – pipped at the post by our very special white stud male, Legend of Spartacus, to who she gave birth to a son, Niveous on 4 July 2010. LMI was awarded 4th place at the 2009 BAS National fleece show.
In 2012 LMI gave birth to Pepe, sired by Gianmarco's Masterpiece, and in 2013 his full sister Elfrida arrived. In 2015 Irraquoy had her baby on a not very nice day and because she likes to have them early her new son got very cold so ended up in front of the Aga! Keano (aka Gorgeous) was partially bottle fed and has always been very close to Debbie, in 2017 Irraquoy had a lovely light fawn girl with Thor named Tory.
Born: 25 June 2008
Colour: White
A beautiful white girl from the exciting combination of Mr and Mrs Muscle (EPC Top Account and Blossom), the future is big and bright for Lualeni. She popped out in classic rapid Blossom style and was up and about in minutes. Lualeni was 8.72kg at birth, by 12 July had risen fast to 14.2kg, including 2.3kg in one week! On 23 August she was 23.3kg and posted the fastest weight gain of all our cria – that's the power of Blossom's milk for you! Big sister Oonagh was her constant chaperone – no wonder the boys stayed clear! She was weaned on 14 December 2008.
Lualeni, just like her sister Oonagh inherited Blossom's 'grumble', but unlike Oonagh, Lualeni began eating Camelibra supplement at an early stage.
With a fantastically bright white fleece, Lualeni had a great start to her showing career. She was awarded 3rd junior white at the 2009 BAS National show in a huge class, 2nd at the Northumberland show and 2nd intermediate white female at the 2009 Kelso show. At the 2009 Yorkshire show she was 1st intermediate white female and champion white female. Lualeni also achieved 4th place intermediate white at the very competitive (268 entries) 2010 Scottish National fleece show. Her second fleece stats are amazing at 16.0μ, SD 2.9, CV 18.4%, 0.4% > 30 microns and a 52.9º curvature. As a special reward we mated her in 2010 with Gianmarco's Masterpiece and they produce Neelie, a super white girl.
Her third fleece was shown at the 2011 Scottish National fleece show and was awarded 1st white adult with a score of 83.5 in a hugely competitive class of 14.
2012 and a pregnancy to Gianmarco's Masterpiece saw Lualeni give birth to Thor (Norse God of thunder) a cracking white boy of whom we have high hopes and in 2013 she produced another white boy, Hunterlee (named after on of our hills) to Legend of Spartacus and in 2015 she gave birth to Fiorella, full sister to Thor.
Sadly Lualeni died in 2018 however we do still have some of her amazing yarn in our knitwear collection.
Born: 15 June 2010
Colour: Brown
If you are up to scratch on Egyptian Pharaoh history then it will not be a surprise to discover that Nefertiti's second daughter we called Meketaten.
She has a lovely crimpy brown fleece and a trusting personality inherited from her sire, Golden Guinea.
Her first ever show was the 2011 Border Union show at Kelso. She came away with 1st intermediate brown girl, brown Champion and Reserve Supreme Champion (one of our other 2010 girls, Casiphia was Supreme Champion) – pretty amazing for a brown – and she is!
In the 2011 Westmorland show she was also 1st intermediate brown girl and brown Champion. The judge, Liz Barlow, was so impressed she awarded a 'special award' of the show (the only one!) to Meketaten – what a superstar! Liz described the feel of her fleece as running your hand through a silk carpet and suggested that breeders and public alike should check her out, which they duly did!
Her first fleece was entered in the 2011 Scottish National fleece show and was awarded 1st place junior brown with a superb score of 75.5 beating many of the whites!
Her second fleece measured 100mm and 24.5 microns, with a standard deviation of 4.8 and 10.3% over 30 microns. Nice!
Meketaten is the proud mum to Murphy, Tiaa, Anubis, Deja Vu and her 2018 cria who is yet to be named.
She is currently adopted by Holly Hart, Naomi Tindall, Joelle & Pauli, Melissa Best, Nadine Paschen & Liam.
Born: 20 May 2009
Colour: Dark Grey
Midnight Star is the first alpaca visitors comment on here at Barnacre. She has distinguished markings passed on from grey mum, Kate.
From almost the minute she was born Midnight Star has been running, pronking and doing her trademark leap in the air followed by a click of her back legs. She is bonkers! Star and Loki produced a super black boy in 2011 called Seymour (Chris – named in your honour!) who we have high hopes for.
2012 and the Star/Loki combination produced a lovely black girl we called Venus – now she is a mighty handful, a wild child! 2014 has seen her produce another lovely daughter Eris, this time Fawn who is a cheeky little thing.
Born: 15 July 2009
Colour: Fawn
Nicosia is the best.
Born: 12 July 2011
Colour: Dark Fawn
Sired by Golden Guinea and from Gabby, Nadia is full sister to the 'melt your heart' Lady Godiva. They obviously attended the same charm school and have very similar fleece statistics too. Whilst Lady Godiva is now pregnant and has new owners, Nadia is doing just nicely here at Barnacre if you want to come and meet her.
Her first fleece measured 120mm, with a mean of 20.4 microns, standard deviation of 4.7 and only 4.4% of fibres over 30 microns.
Nadia is now the proud mum of four daughters, Flash Dance, Summer Solstice, Eivissa and Baile.
Nadia has been adopted by Charlotte MacMurray.
Born: 20 April 2011
Colour: White
A very pretty and soft fleeced girl from Lualeni and our very fine white stud, Gianmarco's Masterpiece.
Born quite early in the year for us at Barnacre and at 322 days gestation (quite early) she was born modestly at 5.96kg and has grown nicely ever since.
Her fleece is lovely with the first one measuring 110mm, with a mean of ultra fine 17.5 microns, 3.3 standard deviation (fantastic) and only 0.2% under 30 microns. Absolutely smashing we think, what do you?
Neelie gave birth for the first time in 2016 to a lovely (but small) boy we called Marsden.
Born: 8 August 2005
Colour: Dark Brown
Barnacre knitwear is created using natural alpaca fleece with no dyes. We are keen to explore the 22 recognised alpaca colours and so on 27 August 2008 welcomed Nefertiti (sire: Peruvian Kim), who is dark brown, to our herd.
A bit of a loner on occasions, Nefertiti spends a lot of time round the hay manger, she is very easy to handle.
We named her first cria Sienna (after burnt sienna, a warm mid brown iron oxide pigment) and she is light brown in colour with a beautifully soft fleece. Nefertiti produced a super brown daughter in 2010 we have called Meketaten from our brown herdsire Golden Guinea.
In 2011 the same mating combination produced a super brown boy we called Spadicious, what a friendly chap he is! 2012 and Nefertiti gave birth to…are you ready for this…Ankhesenamun…more Egyptian history lessons required! By the way, Ankha ("An-ker") is a super brown girl.
Born: 17 July 2018
Colour: Light Fawn
Nika is a shy and quiet girl who is small for her age, despite this she produces lots of fabulous fleece for our knitwear range.
Born: 18 June 2007
Colour: White
Oonagh is Irish for 'lamb' and derived from the Latin una meaning "one". The first cria of Blossom (and Barnacre Alpacas) from the union with Blenheim Fernando. She used to follow mum into the field shelter at feeding time and preferred Blossom's milk to our camelid supplement – complaining continuously if she wasn't allowed any. Blossom got a bit fed up with Oonagh's constant drinking and kept sitting on her head, something OOnagh has gone on to do to her own cria, her mum would be proud! Oonagh, more than any of our other alpacas, loves to roll in the dirt, we think she secretly wants to be brown! Oonagh was 4th place (junior white) at the 2008 Northumberland show and 2nd (intermediate) at Kelso. Oonagh has gone on to produce us eight great cria so far, four girls and four boys.
Oonagh hates to share a trough and would rather go without than get involved in the pushing and shoving that occurs at meal times. She will come and see if you saved her any food to take from your hand, if not she will wander off 'grumbling' back to the hay.
Oonagh is currently adopted by Elizabeth Gilholme and Julia Balcerzac.
Born: 31 December 2005
Colour: White
Pressure is a lovely girl, fantastic genetics, adorable personality, great fleece for her age and wonderful mothering skills; what more could you want.
Pressure joined the Barnacre herd in the summer of 2013 and settled in immediately, despite being only a few weeks away from birth and having been moved about a fair bit she as still happy to come and greet you at the field gate and was so relaxed it is an absolute pleasure to be round her.
She has been a fantastic mother not only to her own cria Diamanta but also one year Czara who's mum sadly died very shortly after arriving here. Pressure always get very big in late pregnancy and has masses of milk, her udder is unusually large for an alpaca.
Born: 21 July 2008
Colour: Brown
Our last born cria of 2008 and what a cracker! Colour genetics are so tricky and unpredictable in alpacas so the dark fawn spot on (mum) Duchess could have presented challenges. However, we were blessed with a beautiful solid brown girl from the union of Duchess and Inca.
Birth weight was 7.6kg however she quickly put on weight and her first ten days saw the fastest weight gain of all that years cria. By 3 August she was 10.9kg and had overtaken Gaussian who was 2 weeks older and had a heavier birth weight! By 30th September she had risen to 22.4kg.
When weaned, Mallika, just like her mum took things in her stride and was not in the slightest bit concerned by the separation or the ride on the quad!
At the 2009 Yorkshire show she was 2nd intermediate fawn female and reserve champion fawn female.
Princess Mallika and Legend of Spartacus produced a super white girl for us in 2011 called Ellie-May. In 2012 Mallika gave us a real scare which you can read about on our blog posting titled a miracle.
Mallika is now owned by Milburn Alpacas and lives up in Scotland.
Born: 23 August 2007
Colour: Fawn
Shaylee is a water lover and loves to paddle. She is a valued member of our breeding program.
Born: 15 July 2012
Colour: Mid Grey
Strawberry was one of Debbie's little purchases at the 2013 British Alpaca Futurity. Whilst Paul was working away (bad move Paul!) Debbie's eagle eyes spotted her potential both in the show ring and as a future girl friend for our multi grey champion Sunburst.
She has had great success in the show ring including being Grey Female Champion as an intermediate at the Thirst Show in October 2013. Not only does she have a fanstastic fleece she has a lovely ultra nosey personality. If there is mischief to be had Strawberry is usually in the vicinity and her best friend Ankha isn't usually far away either!!
Strawberry's fleece is very dense meaning she will produce lots of lovely yarn, her first fleece was officially classified as superfine measured an 19.9 micons with a 4.7 standard deviation and a 96.6% comfort factor – this is great for a grey!
Strawberry sadly died of a blood clot.
Born: 21 June 2017
Colour: Fawn
Uncharacteristically for alpacas Summer was born on a wet miserable day, alpacas usually prefer a nice dry day, but her damp start didn't do her any harm. Like her sister Flash Dance Summer was very close to her mum (and sister) until weaning at the beginning of February 2018.
She has a lovely fawn fleece and sweet personality and is currently enjoying halter training as that means you get to go and explore the farm and usually get some carrot as a treat when you've finished!
Summer is currently adopted by Alison Glover.
Born: 8 June 2011
Colour: White
Sunkist is a shy girl, she got her name as she was on a very hot day.
She has a nasty infected jaw that sadly the vet has said in inoperable, she's managing ok at the minute and is on antibiotics.
Born: 4 June 2015
Colour: Brown
Tiaa just like the rest of her family is ultra friendly, very greedy and loves people, especially when they have food!!
Having done well for us in the show ring she is now pregnant for the first time and due to have a baby all being well in summer 2018.
Tiaa is adopted by Gergia Davies and Laura.
Born: 6 June 2012
Colour: Black
Venus is the first daughter of Midnight Star, named after the Roman Goddess of Love and Beauty. Just like her mum she is a complete livewire and almost impossible control! Despite being haltered trained, under duress, at 6 months old, within two months of not being on a halter you would think she had never seen one before let alone been able to walk on a lead!
Born: 20 August 2005
Colour: White
Our desire to build a herd of fantastic quality alpacas with fleeces to die for took a huge step forward on 27 August 2008 when Purston Veruschka joined the Barnacre herd. Sired by Wessex Fernando (sire: Purrumbete Ledgers Dream), her second fleece was placed 2nd to the Supreme champion (130 fleeces, judge Cameron Holt) in the 2007 Royal Fleece Show. Veruschka's fleece scored 89 marks, the second highest ever score recorded in the UK. Her abundant fleece is incredibly fine, dense and with an ultra soft handle. In 2007 her skirted blanket alone (11 months) weighed 2.5kgs and in 2008 it weighed 3.08kgs!
Her 4th fleece achieved a stunning 3rd place in the hugely competitive adult white class at the 2010 British Alpaca Futurity. Her 6th fleece won 4th senior white at the 2011 Scottish National fleece show.
Veruschka gave birth on 19 June 2010 to the first cria and stunning white daughter called Casiphia from our supreme champion, Legend of Spartacus. Show circuit, watch out!
2011 saw Veruschka give birth to Cazanova who now lives with Jeannine and Craig. In 2012 she produced Lacie, a white girl from Gianmarco's Masterpiece followed by Slug (don't ask!) and in 2015 a little girl called Kenya.
Despite being our biggest and strongest girl Veruschka is well down in the pecking order with Willow.
Born: 14 May 2004
Colour: Black
Vittoria is the best.
Born: 11 July 2004
Colour: (Very) Light Fawn
One of the first three alpacas to arrive on site, you may have noticed that Willow is the 'face' of our website banner. She has very appealing facial features and is alwalys noticed by visitors. Alpacas are very observant and Willow is usually the first to notice any 'danger', at which points she pretends she hasn't seen anything, looks at the floor, moves to the back of the herd and waits for Blossom to make the alarm call and then lead a 'charging party' comprising of Duchess, Oonagh and Kate!
When it comes to the herd pecking order Willow is firmly at the bottom of the pile, although when heavily pregnant with Chiquita she decided to stand up for herself and 'fight' with Blossom and Mary. She is last to arrive at feeding time, usually by several minutes, after stopping en-route to answer the call of nature. Willow is very gentle and nervous.
Despite our concerns she proved to be an excellent mother to her six (!!) daughters and in 2015 her first son. Willow had her last baby in 2017, another boy and she will now be retired from the breeding program, not tht she is going to be very happy about it!!
Born: 28 August 2012
Colour: Black
Wonder as she is referred to here (we didn't name her!), is a fantastic daughter of from our brown stud Darwin who arrived here in 2013.
Since arriving at Barnacre Wonder has been halter trained and had become much more confident within the herd and around people. She has been shown once at the NWAG Championships in April 2014 and really caught the eye of judge Cathy Lloyd, who said she was the finest in the class, she was awarded 2nd place Intermediate Black Female.
Her fleece has been professionally tested and is officially superfine at 19.4 microns which is for a black with a 97.2% comfort factor.
Wonder has a petite female cria at foot named Annie by Aileen at Aylswood Rare Breeds in the Scottish Borders.