Flying Queensland filly Houtzen has re-ignited her winning two year old form with a gutsy win in the Group 3 $200,000 The Man Shake P J Bell Stakes (1200m) on day one of The Championships at Randwick today.
Houtzen, above in grey colours, scores a brave win in the P J Bell Stakes at Randwick. Photo by Steve Hart.
Back to three year old fillies grade, Houtzen was able to sit on the speed from barrier eight and fight off all of the challengers in the straight to record a welcomed return to the winner's stall.
Winning jockey Glyn Schofield was having his second ride on the Toby Edmonds trained filly after the pair finished third last start in the Listed $125,000 Fireball Stakes (1100m) at Randwick on March 10.
Schofield had Houtzen ($8.50) stalking the leader, Debonairly ($81), and she responded bravely in the straight when the challengers came at her all the way down the straight.
Runner up Manicure ($21) edged to with a head of Houtzen but the I Am Invincible filly had plenty in reserve to pull away to record a neck win with Problem Solver ($15) in third position.
Houtzen was the star two year old in her early juvenile season which culminated with an all the way win in the 2017 $2m Magic Millions 2yo Classic (1200m) at the Gold Coast.
The filly had one win from four start during the 2017 Spring Carnival and Edmonds was happy to see back in the winner's stall today.
"We knew we had her quite underdone when we came here a month ago, we took her home and really stuck a bit of work into her and you could see today she looked super," Edmonds said.
Following her win in today's P J Bell Stakes, bookies at Ladbrokes.com.au have shortened her up to be marked at $13 for the Group 2 $600,000 Arrowfield 3yo Sprint (1200m) at Randwick next Saturday.


When the leaves start to turn colors, it's time to think about how ready you are for the late fall and winter. Of course that means raking the yard and getting decorations for the holidays, but there are plenty of other tasks which are needed to make sure you'll have a warm and cozy season.
One of the most important appliances in your house will be the furnace. Gas or electric, it's vital to get it inspected to make sure everything's working well. You might know how to check and light the pilot light on your own, or even change the furnace filter, but you want an expert to take a look at the belts, motors, and everything else to be sure you're in good shape. It's not a bad idea to run the furnace once or twice before you get someone out, so you can tell if you hear squeaks or whines when it starts—indicating the need for new belts—whether the air feels all that warm, or if the thermostat seems o recognize the proper temperatures. The pros can also make sure you're within safe levels for carbon monoxide or know whether you should cover the AC unit outside.
As long as you're calling inspectors, might as well find someone to check your chimney and hearth. There might be buildup of creosote in the walls, or birds nesting in there, or blockages in the flue that you'll want to deal with. They should also go onto your roof and make sure there aren't leaks into the chimney.
Walk around your house without any air conditioning and heating going, especially on a windy day, and see if you can feel drafts. Take a close look at windowsills, window jambs, and doors. Rubber weather seals can wear away or be damaged with use, and are easy enough to replace. Sometimes you'll want to caulk around windows, make sure storm windows are shut, and consider weather you'll want to use plastic window insulation. Even a modest attempt to reduce leaks can help your energy bills.
While you're outside, might as well put your garden to bed and get your lawn ready. Wait until the first frost to work on the perennials, trees, shrubs, and the like. Pull the annuals and weeds, and if you're going to compost, start the bins now. Fertilize your lawn and put down seed if you need it, and plant bulbs for the spring. Cover the beds if necessary.
After you work on the lawn, make sure to clean your tools. Put away the gardening implements, drain lawn mowers and anything else that runs on gasoline, and clean them before you store them. Turn off all the outside plumbing and put away either the houses or make sure all the irrigation tubing is sealed up.
Get up on the ladder and make sure there are no holes, leaks, or weak spots in your roof. See if there are any tree branches that overhang and cut them back so they don't come down in a storm.
While you're on the ladder, clean up the gutters. You especially don't want blockages that will turn into dams in ice and snow. Nothing like a flood of freezing water spilling down the side of your house to remind you to work on these chores.
Look for small cracks that will expand during hard freezes, and patch them up if you can. As you're doing this, check drainage from gutters or across the lawn, with an eye to where water puddles on a walkway. That's where you'll have a lake of ice in the winter, so fix the drainage. This is also the time to stock up on ice melt and a sturdy snow shovel.
Once this is done, you can have a happy and warm fall and winter!


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Q: Mobile Computing: Putting Importance on Efficiency once more? I've been getting my hands dirty lately working on development for the iPhone. Development on this platform adds (and on others I am sure) considerations that are not there when developing for desktop computers

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*Battery life (need to keep cpu/network or any hardware usage to a min to preserve battery life)

*Reducing Network traffic (most people pay by the amount of network traffic)

*Reducing memory foot print ( mobile phones don't have GBs of RAM and GBs of swap space that we are used on the desktop)

*Fast load and quit time ( people who use mobile phone apps usually only have it running for a short time, so can't afford to wait as long as they would on a desktop)

Since mobile computing is all the rave these days, does this mean designing and writing efficient software will once again become an indispensable skill a Software Developer must have as it was in the early days of personal computing?

A: Well, I'd crankily suggest it was, or should have been, important anyway, but yes, I think so.  Memory discipline, and the fact that iPhone (and other mobile device) users don't expect their phone to crash, hang, and otherwise misbehave should mean that people who produce fast, high-quality software that doesn't consume massive resources will have a market advantage.
What should that tell us?  Basically, there are three rules:

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*Keep it simple

*Keep it simple

*Keep it simple.

Trying to make a complicated desktop app fit in an iPhone is a mistake and will eventually hurt you.
Make budgets for the amount of time you want use cases to take, eg, application starts up in ≤ 10 seconds.  Build up the software incrementally, and test these things as you go.  It's a kind of urban myth that you should save all optimization until the very end; by then you may have gone far down the wrong road.  But by building incrementally and budgeting, you can effectively do development with performance in mind.

A: Not especially: the biggest effect is simply that it limits/constrains your choice of framework and/or of high-level programming language.
I think that any mobile phone already has far more memory and computing power that an early personal computer did.

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At Las Vegas CES 2016 exhibition we have finally had a chance to see LeTV Le Max Pro, which is actually a first smartphone with Snapdragon 820 chipset. We was so excited because after so many leaks and benchmarks now is finally introduced by this Chinese company. Also at this moment it is on the top in all benchmarks!
From what we can see LeTV Le Max Pro is amazing smartphone with powerful hardware. For the beginning we can say that this phone is bigger than average device because it has 6.3 inch screen with Quad-HD resolution – 2,560-by-1,440-pixels. So we can say that this device is a phablet, but you can normally hold it. We think that this is a good choice because lately many people likes smartphones with bigger screen. Talking about design it is very similar to iPhone Gold seris.
Apart from build quality and design, as we said in the beginning under the hood it has very powerful hardware. LeTV Le Max Pro has Snapdragon 820 Quad-core custom 64-bit Qualcomm Kryo with speed up to 2.2 GHz with Adreno 530 GPU and 4GB of RAM.
We have also tested the phone with AnTuTu Benchmark 6.0 and the score is really impressive which was actually more than 100,000! Definitely interesting because now LeTV Le Max Pro is on the top.
Talking about operating system it will come with Android Marshmallow (v 6.0). From what we can see it works really fast thanks to Snapdragon 820. Also apps are opening and working also in an instantaneous manner.
At this moment we don't know the price and the release date of this smartphone but we hope that we will find out soon. LeTV at this moment is not internationally famous but with think that with Le Max Pro can achieve this goal.


While getting a loan for your home may seem fairly simple and straightforward in concept, there are actually several different types of mortgages. There are also some pretty massive differences between the different types, especially when it comes to how much money you will end up paying and when you will be paying. To help you out, here is a comparison of two popular loan types: fixed-rate mortgages and balloon mortgages.
With a fixed-rate mortgage, you will acquire a loan for a certain period of time at a very specific interest rate. When combined, these two factors give you a comprehensive schedule that tells you exactly when you need to make each of your payments. Every payment will be the exact same, and the schedule will last for the entire duration of the loan.
A balloon mortgage is very similar to a fixed-rate mortgage, but often lasts a fraction as long. While an FRM might last for 15, 20, or 30 years, it's common for balloon mortgages to be less then a decade long. For each of your payments, you will only need to make small payments, roughly comparable to payments that you would make on an FRM.
The big difference is that you will need to pay the entire outstanding balance after the duration of the loan is up. This means that you will only pay a fraction of the mortgage over the course of the actual loan, and the rest in a single huge payment.
When is a fixed-rate mortgage a better choice?
If you can't pay for the price of your home over the course of a decade, then a fixed-rate mortgage will often be a much better option. Although you may end up paying a bit more over the full course of the loan, you will also have a much easier time managing each individual payment. Without the threat of a huge final payment looming on the horizon, you might find yourself with better morale and budgeting might be much easier.
When is a balloon mortgage a better choice?
On the other hand, if you know that you will have enough money to pay for your home sometime in the next decade, then a balloon mortgage can end up saving you money in the long run. If you make substantially more than you would need to make monthly FRM payments or if you are just getting a large sum of money at some point in the next few years, then a balloon mortgage can be easily affordable. Contact a residential real estate lawyer for more information about your homebuying options.


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By Northern Soul
22 October , 2009 in Other Great War Chat
Posted 22 October , 2009
Old Sweats
When, on the declaration of war, Reservists were mobilised, how exactly did the general call to them to report to their depots and stations etc. go out. I assume there were some that could not be contacted? what happened about these men/
Ron Clifton
Location:Cambridge
Interests:War Establishments (composition of units) and Orders of Battle (composition of formations)
I think that reservists were recalled by telegram but in any case notices were posted in post offices all over the UK, and possibly police stations as well. Other countries used a very similar system.
When a man was transferred to the Reserve he was given documents telling him where to report, including a railway warrant to get him there.
The response was, I believe, fairly good and provided enough men to fill the original BEF's units. Later reportees could then be absorbed and sent out as reinforcements as and when required.
There is an article on the British mobilization 1914 by Peter Scott (the then editor) in STAND TO! Issue number 11 in abouit 1984. It will be in Volume 1 of the recent book of reprints.
Thanks for that Ron. I have to confess I'd often wondered how the message was disseminated so quickly in an age where there were no phones or emails. If telegrams were sent out then it must have cost a small fortune !
another question: for men on the Reserve, were there any restrictions on them moving abroad to seek work, and if not, were they expected to make their way home when the message of mobilistaion finally got through to them?
Do you know if there were many instances of men who did not heed the call to report to their depot and what happened to them? Were they technically AWoL?
Ian Riley
Location:Warrington
Interests:Liverpool Scottish King's (Liverpool Regiment) 55th and 57th Divisions Applications of mathematics to warfare Development in operations and logistics
I have to confess I'd often wondered how the message was disseminated so quickly in an age where there were no phones or emails. If telegrams were sent out then it must have cost a small fortune !
Andy,
It was apparently possible for a postcard to be posted in the centre of Liverpool in 1914 and for it to be delivered by the afternoon. Somewhere I have a stamped and postmarked card from just before the war suggesting that the recipient (admittedly only a few miles from the city centre) should come down to the Fraser Street Barracks in Liverpool 'this evening'.
Regulations for Mobilization 1914 specify that 'notices to join' were to be kept with addressed envelopes for all reserves including Territorials. Presumably notification, apart from notices in post offices, police stations and barracks, was by post. They were, however, 'not to be posted in the usual manner' but handed in directly at the post office.
Officers i/c records were directed to strike absentees off the reserve and they were to be 'advertised as deserters when the necessary certificate on A.F. D 498 had been received', a shade stronger than AWOL. This seems to apply to reservists and special reservists.
Territorial absentees were to be dealt with under TF regulations. Here it gets a bit murky as the 1912 TF Regs, amended to January 1914, appear to specify that failure to appear on embodiment can be treated as desertion under Section 12 of the Army Act or 'absenting himself without leave' under Section 15 of the AA ('according to circumstances') unless the soldier has reasonable excuse such as sickness or leave of absence (which should cover being abroad). Delving further into TF Regs, it would appear that if an NCO or man illegally absented himself on embodiment (which I presume includes failing to report) a week's grace should be allowed and, if the absence had not been satisfactorily accounted for, an AF B 124 was to be forwarded to the Editor of the Police Gazette at New Scotland Yard (Whitehall 1212 for Forum members still tuned to the Home Service on the wireless - I suspect there are quite a few).
I have not gone through all the references in Mob Regs and TF Regs but this seems to be the gist.
Leave of absence for Territorials to proceed abroad might be granted for periods in excess of 30 days to officers and men by an officer not below the rank of brigadier-general. If absence abroad was less than 30 days, an officer need only notify his CO; there does not seem to be any regulation for other ranks for absence abroad of less than 30 days. If an officer or soldier wanted to go France or Germany or to countries outside Europe other than bits coloured red (Empire) or the USA, it seems necessary to involve the War Office. Again, there are pages of this stuff but I hope that I have the general idea correct.
Can't find the position for reservists - probably in King's Regs
Location:Darlington, Co.Durham
Interests:Researching and collecting militaria to the Northumberland Fusiliers from the raising of the regiment to 1968, and the new Royal Regiment of Fusiliers from 1968 to present day. My other interests are the study of British Army in general, and in particular units raised during the Great War, especially the Volunteer Training Corps/Volunteer Force.
Somewhere within the Forum are a number of Army Forms, some relating to mobilisation, which were put together a few years ago by members from their collections.
The reservists who were living in the various dominions were also called up. Those from Australia left in various convoys but the first ones left here in Nov 1914 & arrived in UK late December 1914.
I'd often wondered how the message was disseminated so quickly in an age where there were no phones or emails. If telegrams were sent out then it must have cost a small fortune !
I think the letters and telegrams would have been sent free "O H M S". In any case, it would only have involved transfers between two government departments, so the effective cost would have been nil.
There were telephones in 1914 of course, though far fewer than today. It is an interesting fact that in the 1880s, the British forces in Afghanistan had more telephones than there were private subscribers in London!
As Andrew says, postal services were more frequent then, too. Even in the 1960s, before we had first and second class post, my letters home from Cambridge, if posted before 5 pm, were delivered the next morning in the London suburbs, and vice versa.
Those Pals who have a copy of Grierson's Records of the Scottish Volunteer Force may like to look at the chapter on the great review of the Volunteers by Queen Victoria some time in the 1860s. There is a cpoy of a Post Office notice detailing the effects on deliveries, as many postal workers were also Volunteers.
truthergw
Telegrams were sent but probably not to the OR reservists. The local police station could be used to pass on messages. As stated, posters in the local Post Office. Both of these institutions were much more common then than now.
Muerrisch
Strange as it may seem in these 'much better informed, better educated, more street-wise, sophisticated' times, the turn out of Reservists was very high, and even included erstwhile deserters who reported back at their own expense. This response was not unique: it was equally good for the SA War in 1899.
A senior officer friend said of this that 'we could never do it again'. And added something under his breath that I did not quite catch, but it sounded very unwarlike.
per ardua per mare per terram
Location:Greater Mercia
The Naval reserves were called out before war was declared, on 2nd August, by Churchill and Battemberg following on from their test mobilisation in July. So the Army knew what was coming.
Don't forget the newspaper sellers would also be shouting the information and even in rural communities the milk trains etc would have carried out the news and national newspapers would be distributed.
joerookery
Location:Pensacola Florida, USA
Interests:Imperial German history and doctrine
In Germany, the primary means of communication was the newspapers. They actually printed special editions and posted both the newspapers and piece of paper sized posters for the people to read. In the major cities, crowds gathered to await the next issue of the paper. Specific instructions were issued by the Army Corps district and posted but these were rubberstamped as the only thing you are required to do was make your way to the Kaserne for your regiment. For the most part this was local.
Posted 23 October , 2009 (edited)
If telegrams were sent out then it must have cost a small fortune !
Given the other costs of WWI the amount would have been miniscule in comparison. Probably it was barely the price of a few Vickers machine guns.
Edited 23 October , 2009 by per ardua per mare per terram
I'd often wondered how the message was disseminated so quickly in an age where there were no phones or emails.
The local gossip and over the wall new carrying speed was almost as high!
Old Sweat
Mobilization began on the 29th of July with the instigation of the "Precautions Act" Special Service Sections of the TF and Class A Reserves where mobilized the same day. On the 30th of July they where at their war stations, the main body of reserves and TF mobilized on the 4th August 1914. All "Notices to join" had the Rail Warrants (if Required) signed and stamped, envelopes sealed and posted. Class II reserves sent postcards and notices to join on the 7th August.
Regards Charles
Staffsyeoman
Location:London UK
Interests:Royal Warwickshire Regiment, Medals and Awards, uniform
To go slightly off-topic, a policeman knocked on the door in 1939 to hand my grandfather his call-up (he was an ex-WW1 South Stafford who had been in the RASC between the wars). In 1950, a policeman called on my father's family house to ascertain why his elder brother had not answered his recall to serve in Korea, with dire warnings of arrest etc. So he was invited in to see him in his coffin in the parlour...
Steven Broomfield
Location:Formerly, but no longer, SO50, SW1 and South Western Railways
Interests:10th Royal Hussars (PWO), 11th Hussars (PAO), The Royal Hussars (PWO), The King's Royal Hussars
As we speak, someone is probably writing his Master's dissertation on The Use of e-mail and SMS texting in the Mobilisation of Reservists in 1914
The title will be shorter than that - there will be fewer, if any, vowels in it.
You mean he's writing it in Welsh
No, then it would be longer, although still with fewer vowels.
We'll have to be careful, or *wyn or **wyn will spot us!
Petroc
In my neck of the woods Reservists and Territorials who lived in the more remote areas were often notified by Boy Scouts on bicycles or by locals on horseback, the mobilisation notice having been received at the nearest village police station or post office and then forwarded on by members of the immediate community
So they had a remarkable efficient system with out a mobile in sight!
Location:Liverpool
Interests:Liverpool FC Traditional Irish Music Genealogy
I was under the impression that TF units were already "mobilised" because they were on route to their annual training camps when the order came for them to return to their HQ depots.
Is this incorrect?
dycer
Location:Macclesfield Cheshire
Interests:8th Royal Scots.
Simon,
From the Diary of J.M. Marchbank.
"About mid-July the Company went to camp at Stobs,where there were rumours of war but we came home.
On the 4th of August war was declared and my call up papers came through the post.It read "Embodiment Notice to Join.4585 Boy J.M.Marchbank,8th Royal Scots.The Army Council,in pursuance of His Majesty's Proclamation,has directed you to attend for enlistment immediately.Bring rations and fuel light to last 24 hours.
We were collected in Haddington and put in three months of very hard training.The main component of which was foot slogging."
You can see the actual Notice on John Duncan's Web-site-Newbattle at War-in the Boy Soldier section.
Bombadier
Location:Portsmouth Hampshire England
There's a 1914 call up telegram on e bay at the moment.
Item number 150382915008
Hello Simon
Yes, a lot of TF units were at annual camp (it was the August Bank Holiday weekend) and this greatly sppeeed up the process. But not all Terriers were at camp, and possibly not every unit was at camp at that time.
Even so, it represents an impressive vindication of the pre-war planning and a proof of the loyalty of those who had accepted the obligation to serve.
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Today I'm writing a cover letter to apply for a job and drafting a presentation I will give at the end of the month (the content of it is related to my prior job). I have three appointments for various things. So fitting those two projects in between the appointments will make it a full day. Yet the to-do list grows and grows. I'm spending one extra day per week with E so far. I'm getting enough sleep on average, and I've read a book and 3 magazines, so those are the signs I don't have a job anymore. It doesn't feel like loads of free time, but I'm trying to make the most of it.
E's cold is practically gone, just a little cough and stuffiness. We had one night (Saturday) when coughing fits kept her up most of the night, sleeping maybe 30 minutes at a time, at most. Finally got 2 or 3 solid hours when I moved her to the couch and arranged us so that she was sleeping semi-reclined, propped up on me. David came home from his train trip around suppertime Sunday, took us to Old MacDonalds for dinner, and left again Monday morning for Fayetteville.