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Berlin: die Sinfonie einer Großstadt
(Berlin: The Symphony of a Great City)
Also known as [Berlin: die Symphonie einer Grosstadt], [Berlin, the Symphony of a Big City]
(1927) German
B&W : Feature film
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Survival status: Print exists in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.
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Keywords: Germany: Berlin - Synchronized sound film
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Castello Di Amorosa take the $35 tour and reserve tasting. the castle tour is a lot of fun, and you'll taste 13 wines.
Del Dotto take the last $40 tour offered during the day. the tour will last much longer, and you'll taste some of the best wines in the valley.
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I am planning a fall wine country trip with 3 days in Sonoma and two in Napa. For the Napa part, we know we are visiting Pride because we've been there before and love it. (We also went to Domaine Carneros, Peju, Whitehall Lane, V. Sattui, Rombauer and Chateau Montelena). Some of the wineries we are interested in are: St. Clement, Grgich Hills, Flora Springs, Castello Di Amorosa, Del Dotto, Pine Ridge, Goosecross, Domaine Chandon, Clos Du Val and Silverado Vineyards. Has anyone been there and can let me know what they think? Also, they have a Taste Downtown Napa $20 pass to visit the collective tasting rooms and wine shops in the town of Napa. Has anyone done that? Is it recommended?
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Fort Crown Point
Ruins of the fort
|Crown Point, New York, NY
|Nearest city
|Burlington, VT
|44°01′45″N 73°25′52″W / 44.02917°N 73.43111°WCoordinates: 44°01′45″N 73°25′52″W / 44.02917°N 73.43111°W
|11,800 acres (4,800 ha)
|Governing body
|New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
|NRHP Reference #
|Significant dates
|Added to NRHP
|November 24, 1968[1]
|Designated NHL
|November 24, 1968[2]
Crown Point, was a British fort built by the combined efforts of both British and Provincial troops (from New York and the New England Colonies) in North America in 1759 at narrows on Lake Champlain on the border between modern New York State and Vermont. Erected to secure the region against the French, the Fort is located near the town of Crown Point, New York and was the largest earthen fortress built in the United States. The site is now administered as Crown Point State Historic Site.
The French second built a fortress at Crown Point in the 1730s with 12-foot (3.7 m) thick limestone walls named Fort St. Frederic. British forces targeted it twice during the French and Indian War before the French destroyed it in the summer of 1759.[3]
The Crown Point fort was constructed by the British army under the command of Sir Jeffery Amherst following the capture of Carillon, a French fort to the south (which he renamed Ticonderoga), and the destruction of Fort St. Frédéric. Amherst used the construction of the fort as a means of keeping his men working through the winter of 1759 after pushing the French into modern Canada.
The Fort was never directly assaulted. Mostly built after the threat of French invasion had ended, it was used largely for staging rather than as a position in its own right.
On April 21, 1773, a chimney fire broke out in the Soldier's Barracks. It quickly spread, burning for days.[4] British military engineer John Montressor described the fort (post fire) with the following words: "the Conflagration of the late Fort has rendered it an amazing useless mass of Earth only". Montressor proposed expanding and improving one of the outworks rather than attempting to repair the main fort.[citation needed]
After the French and Indian War the British left only a skeletal force at the Fort, which yielded easily to Capt. Seth Warner and 100 Green Mountain Boys, an American militia, on May 12, 1775 in the battle of Crown Point at the start of the American Revolution. The 111 cannons captured from the British at Crown Point, so early in the War for American Independence, soon proved valuable in driving the British out of Boston Harbor.[clarification needed] The Fort was used as a staging ground by Benedict Arnold during the Revolution for his navy on Lake Champlain. After the destruction of that navy in 1776 during the Battle of Valcour Island, the Fort was abandoned to the British in 1777. It was abandoned for good in 1780.
The large earthen walls of the Fort are still visible today. A massive, accidental fire in April 1773 entirely destroyed the log and earth fortress, leaving the empty stone ruins of two barracks buildings standing. These ruins still stand and are being carefully preserved.
The Fort was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1968.[2][5][6]
Visits by Founding Fathers[edit]
- Benjamin Franklin, traveling to Canada, seeking an alliance against the British[3]
- George Washington, July 21, 1783, the farthest north he ever traveled[3]
- Future Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in 1791[3]
A south view of Crown Point 1760 by Thomas Davies.
Port Henry from Crown Point, Crown Point, N.Y. Photograph shows view across Lake Champlain at hills in the distance on December 23, 1902.
See also[edit]
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23.
- ^ a b "Fort Crown Point". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. 2007-09-12.
- ^ a b c d Carola, Chris, Associated Press (July 18, 2008). Crown Point excavation begins. Burlington Free Press.
- ^ ""Crown Point - An Online History", by Gregory T. Furness"..
- ^ ["Fort Crown Point (Amherst)", by Charles W. Snell PDF (228 KB) "National Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings"]. National Park Service. 1967-10-25.
- ^ [Fort Crown Point--Accompanying photos, from 1967. PDF (2200 KB) "National Register of Historic Places Inventory"]. National Park Service. 1967-10-25.
External links[edit]
- Crown Point State Historic Site at NYS OPRHP
- Government buildings completed in 1759
- Infrastructure completed in 1759
- Forts in New York
- French and Indian War forts
- Military history of Canada
- National Historic Landmarks in New York
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Named Sets and Block Computation in SSAS 2012
Greg Galloway (who really should blog more often!) recently came across an otherwise undocumented query performance optimisation in SSAS 2012: using named sets inside aggregate functions in MDX no longer prevents the use of block computation/bulk mode. This was something that was explicitly called out as a Bad Thing To Do in Books Online (the link to the page in question is now dead though, possibly because it's being updated), but here's an example of a query that will now run much faster in SSAS 2012 Multidimensional than it used to in R2:
set myset as {[Customer].[Customer].[Customer].members}
member measures.demo as
sum(myset,[Measures].[Internet Sales Amount])
select measures.demo on 0,
[Date].[Calendar Year].members on 1
from [Adventure Works]
There are still situations where block computation can't be used however, namely when the Current() function is used (which are going to be very rare I think):
set myset as {[Customer].[Customer].[Customer].members}
member measures.demo as
, iif(myset.current is [Customer].[Customer].&[20075]
, 0, [Measures].[Internet Sales Amount])
select measures.demo on 0,
[Date].[Calendar Year].members on 1
from [Adventure Works]
Thanks also to Jeffrey Wang for the background on this.
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I fully agree about Greg blogging more often. :-)
Yes, I've tested the same query now (on SQL 2012 BI edition) mentioned in your previous post (http://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/referencing-named-sets-in-calculations/)
CREATE SET [Adventure Works].ALLCUSTS AS [Customer].[Customer].[Customer].MEMBERS;
CREATE MEMBER [Adventure Works].MEASURES.TEST1 AS
, [Measures].[Internet Sales Amount])
CREATE MEMBER [Adventure Works].MEASURES.TEST2 AS
, [Measures].[Internet Sales Amount])
CREATE MEMBER [Adventure Works].MEASURES.TEST3 AS
, [Measures].[Internet Sales Amount]);
CREATE MEMBER [Adventure Works].MEASURES.TEST4 AS
, [Measures].[Internet Sales Amount]);
SELECT [Date].[Calendar Year].MEMBERS ON 0,
[Product].[Product].MEMBERS ON 1
FROM [Adventure Works]
–the results are: 2 sec; 11 sec; 1 sec; 1sec
Hi Chris,
Question 1: in the May 2013 Sydney training, did you say the SSAS 2012 version has to be certain patch/hot fix? or did you say it was SSAS2008R2 hotfix.
Question 2: we have similar but different issue again in 2012, see below details, did you have similar experience and what is our work around?
sorry, the details get filtered out as I was using comment characters:
details: when calculated member is using a named set
In 2012 version:
our test result conclusion is:
if the set3 is defined as
Exists(SET1,SET2, MeasureGroup)
or if the set3 is defined as
Filter(Set1, logical expression)
then the member which is defined as
… use the Set3 in the calculated member (our example use function COUNT of set 3
the performance goes way down for browsing the meta-data (e.g. browse attribute hierarchy members in SSMS) of the cube;
our workaround for this is:
copy all definition of set1, set2, set3 into the calculated member, and then get rid of set1,set2,set3; it worked fine.
we did not test the query which uses the calculated member, because our focus was not the query performance at the time.
CREATE MEMBER CURRENTCUBE.[Measures].[The Measure] //This member contains slow sets that should not be separated out (meta-data browsing issue)
EXISTING { — this is set3, which is built by set 1 and set 2
NONEMPTY — this is set 1
[Broadcast].[Broadcast ID].[Broadcast ID].MEMBERS,
[Measures].[Count of Viewing]
,Filter( — this is set 2
[SessionDegenerate].[Session ID].[Session ID].MEMBERS
,[Measures].[Consecutive Duration]>=[Measures].[Reach Condition]
,"The Measure Group Name"
I found named set actually helps for block calculation. I ran the query in sql as 2012, AdventureWorksDW2012Multidimensional-EE.
set allpro as root([Product])
member measures.a as
sum( ( [Date].[Date].&[20050101] : [Date].[Date].&[20051208]) *
, [Measures].[Internet Sales Amount])
select measures.a on 0,
non empty
[Customer].[Customer].[Customer] on 1
from [Adventure Works]
If I use root([Product]) in measures.a instead of set allpro, it will take longer time and does more cell calculation. I am not sure if root function prevents block calculation. Can someone have any thought?
Should this also apply to dynamic sets? We use them because it's still the only way to detect subselects. According to this link http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb934106.aspx it applies only to static sets.
Interestingly the affected calculated members are way faster when defined in the query and not in the cube script and I don't understand why. Shouldn't it be the other way round?
Hi Michael,
The 'slow' problem you described is similar to the one I commented above, see posts "24 – 28th October 2013″ and here: https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/484865/calcuated-member-with-a-reference-to-dynamic-named-set-kills-the-cubes-performance
In the end we had to move the definition of the dynamic set inside of the calculated member, and got rid of the dynamic set.
Of course, I saw people were suggesting to use 'StrToSet/SetToStr' to avoid this problem too.
As Chris suggested, my issue was not really related to the original post, so I did not follow up.
Hi Min,
you are right it's similar but not the same since I only experience slow performance when using the calculated member which is referencing the named set. Overall cube performance is not reduced. I even have to include a dummy calculated member ([Measures].[SelectedCalendarYearsStr] in my example above) with a direct reference (not wrapped in StrToSet) to the named set to see the performance gain on real calculated member ([Measures].[PerformanceTest]). Anyway I guess there really is something wrong with dynamic sets in the cube script and I will have to go with workaround.
After struggling with "slow" performance (SSAS 2008 R2) of a query generated by a 3rd party tool, I came across this. Besides being a good reason to upgrade to 2012/2014, why don't they just allow named sets to work?
What's crazy is that I can take the body of the named set, put it in the where close, and it just works fine. There is no code difference between having that code in the where clause directly, and the definision of the named set, except that I have to follow up with adding a second member that aggregates that named set. This is a huge performance hit if your named set is an Except set on a very large dimension…


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stfusexists says: Lying to your boyfriend about the number of sexual partners you've had is A-OK! If he gets upset about it, it's because he's sexist!
Interesting that you link directly to these blog posts so that your readers can see that you're blatantly lying and twisting other people's words to get a cheap reblog. In fact, what I said, in the post that you link directly to, is that it is no one's business how many sexual partners someone else has. No one has the right to control anyone else's body, and to denigrate another person for their sexual choices (especially choices before you were in a relationship with them), and that's what I responded to.
Do I think she should have lied about her number of sexual partners? No, lying doesn't solve anything. I think "That's none of your business since I have always and continue to practice safe sex" would have sufficed. But he didn't get upset about the lying, he didn't call her a whore because she lied. He got upset about her super high number of FIVE sexual partners*. How that fits into your accusatory misrepresentation, I'm not sure.
1: "my boyfriend recently found out the real number of boys I slept with" shows that she* lied about it before - or, at the very least, knew he had a fake number. The rest of your post is clearly calling him sexist for it. Nothing I said was a lie.
2: Even, as you just said, you didn't think she was lying, "That's none of your business since I have always and continue to practice safe sex"? 'Refusing to tell your boyfriend about the number of sexual partners is A-OK' is not much better. It's still being dishonest** to your boyfriend.
3: And I really should've said this in the first post - a relationship is the one place where sexual experiences DO matter! For a stranger to complain about a girl's promiscuity is slut-shaming, but for a boyfriend there's loads of reasons for him to complain: he wanted her to be a virgin so the first time is special; he wanted a girl with as much experience as him; he fears that it means the girl may be more inclined to cheat on him; he's concerned about his reputation; he doesn't want to kiss a mouth that's been… places. Yes, all of those reasons are either petty or short-sighted, or both, and if you had said "people who care about how many sexual partners their SO had are stupid" I'd probably agree - but the point is that there ARE reasons for a boyfriend to actually have a relationship preference in this. And to be visibly angry when it turns out that his girlfriend wasn't as perfect for him as he thought isn't sexist, it's not "he wanted complete control of her body", it's just human nature and any sex would do the same.
4: Also, you're not really suggesting that, upon finding out their boyfriend is promiscuous, no woman would ever react poorly, are you?
5: And finally, because I didn't notice it the first time: "His reaction stems from that ingrained belief that women's bodies are everyone else's property, their fathers', their boyfriends', their husbands', their senators'". Please explain to me how believing that men control women's bodies means that other men can't have sex with a woman? That is what he's upset about, after all: that other men had sex with this woman.
*For the sake of argument, I'm also presuming the person is a female. Calling the boyfriend sexist doesn't make sense if the person is also male.
**By dishonest, I mean not telling the truth. I'm not sure whether 'dishonest' officially means that or if it means being deceptive.
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Instead of a streetcar route that serves only one corridor north to the University of Cincinnati, I propose that we think about a route that would provide stimulus to 95 percent of the downtown area.
This 2½-mile streetcar loop would run from Second Street north on Main Street to Liberty Street, then west to Race Street, then south to Second Street, then returning east to the start at Main Street. Now Over-the-Rhein becomes part of downtown and The Banks is not isolated by Fort Washington Way. One can leisurely have lunch in Over-the-Rhein, then shop downtown, and go to the movies on The Banks.
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Suburban shopping centers killed the downtowns of American cities. They provided free parking and convenient access to our shopping needs. If we are going to bring people back downtown, we will have to be equally as innovative.
There is no reason we cannot compete by providing free parking and free access to a far more diverse shopping experience. With increased taxes from expanding businesses paying the bill, soon there would be two, even three, futuristic streetcars chasing each other around our fair city.
From reading letters to the editor, it is obvious that the public thinks a streetcar at this time is a huge boondoggle. Streetcar routes are simply more expensive than and not as flexible as bus routes. We should start planning to move to hybrid busses locally, and high-speed trains for travel to neighboring cities.
However, my brazen plan could be audacious enough to once again bring people back downtown and put Cincinnati back on the map.
Mr. McKnight included a map of his proposed alternate route.
As for the route, it doesn't appear remarkably different from the downtown portion of Cincinnati's plan, except Mr. McKnight proposes to use Race Street instead of Walnut Street, which arguably could provide better access to the more western areas of downtown, including the Convention Center and Paul Brown Stadium. However, Mr. McKnight's plan appears to stop at Second Street whereas the City plans to go further toward to The Banks by taking the route down to Freedom Way, creating better access to Great American Ball Park, the Freedom Center as well as The Banks.
In addition, by not building tracks to Clifton and all of the landscape grades that implies, the City could come in well under budget. But does this plan allow for rail growth out into the community? What would the next steps be?
It still seems that for the project to be an overall success, it must grow to include other neighborhoods, and for that to happen, the City will need to start somewhere. Why not Clifton?
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Thanks to EF, I get a lot of people asking me what else is out there in the way of fics that show a loving, mutual, one might say, gentle, D/s relationship. Now, I believe even the really hard, 24/7 TPE stuff is still loving and mutual, but I get where they are coming from. So this is my personal kinder, gentler D/s fic rec list.
It's a work in progess for sure, and I'll try to update often, and if anyone knows of any that I might want to include, please let me know!
No Envy, No Fear by Neaf
16 chapters, 59k, D/s AU
Everybody already knows what they are before their marking day. You're a Dom, or you're a Sub, and it's pretty easy to figure out which one you are once puberty hits and the hormones kick in. But when Kurt Hummel is marked a Dom on his sixteenth birthday, nobody believes it. The jocks (all Doms themselves), irritated that they have no power over him, decide to make his life a living hell. But, Kurt figures, that's just high school. It doesn't change anything. The only problem is, one of the jocks is a boy he doesn't know. A boy he never sees, shy and hidden behind the others in a sea of letterman jackets. Blaine Anderson is a Sub, but nobody knows it. And he was just fine keeping it that way, until he saw Kurt Hummel.
Everything Neaf writes is beautiful and there's a reason this story is one of the Klaine D/s heavy hitters. It's beautiful and gentle and everything you could possibly want from this trope.
Unwanted and 525,600 Minutes by portraitofemmy
Unwanted - 26k, D/s AU, Age Difference
525,600 Minutes - 32k, D/s AU, Age Difference
Kurt's a Dom who never wanted a sub. Blaine's a sub who's never been wanted. This is a story about finding the things you need in the place you least expect them.
I feel like Unwanted and Expectation Fails are conjoined twins. They always seem to be mentioned together. Which I love because this is a really beautiful story. This is a 'verse where subs who don't get dominated regularly get sick, so teenage Blaine, unclaimed, has to visit a sub house when things get too bad. Kurt is older, visiting his family in Lima, when he goes to the sub house and has an encounter with Blaine. And keeps coming back.
The sequel follows a year in their life together after the end of Unwanted.
9k, some dirty talk and slut shaming
Written for this prompt on the kink meme: after Kurt and Blaine have been in a sexual relationship for a little while, Kurt starts to suspect that what Blaine really wants is to be dominated. Blaine's embarrassed by these urges and won't talk about it, though, so one night when Blaine's parents aren't home, Kurt basically just turns up at Blaine's house and starts ordering him around (bonus points if he orders Blaine onto his knees) and they have really intensely good sex in which Kurt makes Blaine beg for it and Blaine pretty much takes to subbing for Kurt like he was born to do it. When they talk about it after, Blaine admits that it's something he's always wanted, and Kurt tells Blaine how much he loved being in control, and they agree to explore the whole D/s thing together.
It's no secret that I love Jude's writing, and I was so happy when she started to explore D/s stuff. This is not a D/s AU, just two boys exploring new dynamics. The actual sex scene in this story is perhaps a little harder than in the other gentle D/s recs, but a huge part of the story is Kurt & Blaine in a non-D/s relationship discovering that they both want to go in this direction. The scene Kurt sets up is dirty-talk heavy, even touching on slut-shaming, but the point is the care and communication that goes into what happens before and after. So gentle it is, because despite being scorchingly hot, it's more about their relationship and how and why this dynamic fits it.
Heart of One by Coribird
35k, Werewolf AU, One scene of non-con
In which the boys are werewolves but Kurt has no idea what Blaine claiming him as a mate really entails.
I think this is the first fic I ever commented on. It's still one of my favorites. Kurt and Blaine are werewolves (although all the action happens in their human forms). Kurt is submissive and lives with the other unclaimed submissive wolves at the sub court. Just before he comes of age, Blaine, son of the Alphas, visits to see if he can find a mate there. And he does. But Kurt, who hasn't been taught anything about sex, has no idea what to expect from him.
I'm usually not a big fan of innocence in the context of teenage characters being clueless about sex, but Cori keeps it really light and uses it well and Kurt is in no sense childish, just uneducated in this one area. What I really love about this story is that it feels like an old-fashioned romance, despite the dom/sub landscape it takes place in. There's very little actual dominance here - no bondage or typical D/s practices in the interactions - it's more an emotional place that Kurt and Blaine live as submissive and dominant. But Kurt has a lot of agency here and it works.
So yes, there is one scene that is non-con, but it's in the context of instincts taking over, both for Kurt and Blaine, and they are both trying to fight it and you just have to trust me that this story, even with that, definitely belongs on the gentle list.
15 Chapters, 54k, D/s AU
Blaine needs to find a dom to keep him healthy, but he ignores the signs of his oncoming Sickness. When things become desperate at the Sectionals competition, Kurt agrees to help, but the emotional consequences of their encounter are more than they ever expected.
This is such a great story by Nadiacreek. Kurt happens to be around around and fills in when Blaine is having a crisis and their relationship grows from there. They've both been thrown by their unexpected encounter and it's really sweet and beautiful to watch them negotiate their way to being boyfriends, within the landscape of the D/s AU.
Virtually Indistinguishable by Lepidopteran
11 Chapters, 33k, Virtual reality future fic
Blaine is an inexperienced sub looking for an introduction to D/s through a virtual reality program called SafePlay. Unbeknownst to him, a bug in the program makes the program match him with a real person instead of the AI he thinks he's getting. But the more sessions Blaine has with Kurt, the more he wishes that Kurt were real…
This is a lovely story that has a little SF bent to it, for those of us who also bend that way! It's such a unique take on the D/s trope. It's not a D/s 'verse, though. But Kurt is so gentle and wonderful with Blaine and their interactions are perfect.
Little Yellow Tags by Lurkdusoleil
Kurt starts—and continues—a relationship with McKinley's newest Skank.
Riah is another writer who made me so happy by turning to D/s. Little Yellow Tags is actually a whole series of stories, some chaptered, some one-shots, about Kurt and Skank!Blaine falling into a relationship that comes to include D/s elements. Just go read the whole series. They're as beautiful as you'd expect and the D/s elements are both gentle and really beautifully explored. Slight warning for mentions of eating disorder.
Pull the Blindfold Down by Sparrow30
In this one (which is not an "everybody's a dom or sub" AU) Kurt & Blaine are a couple and they are exploring D/s. Sebastian, who's trying to fight his submissive needs, notices their dynamic and when he messes up royally with the Warblers one day and feels like he needs to be punished, he goes to the only dom he knows. Blaine is very okay with Kurt helping Sebastian and there's a lovely Sebklaine sequel in the works now. Sparrow has a real gift for Sebastian, so if you've never really gone for Kurtbastian or Sebklaine, this could definitely be your gateway fic!
I usually only venture outside the Glee fandom for short, sweet PWP, but sometimes I come across a story that's so good I think everyone should read it.
Moirai by Xela (on AO3)
This is a gorgeous fic in the Star Trek fandom. (Star Trek reboot, that is. Karl Urban. Yum.) The pairing is McCoy/Chekov, so there's age difference as well as D/s. It's especially lovely because McCoy is reluctant to do anything with Chekov, as he's so young, but Chekov knows exactly what he wants and needs and, in a very sub way, has to court the doctor until he finally gives in. Then the exploration of the emotional progress of their relationship is just lovely. You don't have to know anything about the show to enjoy this story of two people figuring out how to love each other (while enjoying very kinky sex).


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My idol... I want to be able to create such maps that can fuel imaginative thoughts and ideas.
Thanks much!
Your maps are awesome! Exactly the style I would like to make, I'm going to have my first go at cartography in the morning and post a WIP thread
Beautiful work, Max!
Thanks Vidar
What a map. what an inspiration!
Glad you like it!
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There are so many varieties you would be best to Google it and see what they offer.
Argeretum is normally used for blue bedding
Don't worry. It's all about pruning. Last year one of my climbing roses that grows against a south facing cream wall had it's 1st flower on 26th Feb! I'd pruned it quite early in October (I have a lot to do and not much spare time to do it). It still flowered all summer. Deadhead back to 2 leaf axils on the flowering stems and feed after each flush.
Deffo looks like hemerocallis to me.
Roses can grow in a variety of ways. They can grow from seed, cuttings etc. just like any other shrub. Cuttings will be true but seed will always be variable as most garden roses today are hybrids. The rootstock is used for consistency and also to establish the size of rose. For commercial purposes growers need consistent quality and grafting onto a root stock is the only way to ensure this but ordinary cuttings should grow well for us gardeners.
I think that spelling's wrong!
I think it's a gaultheria
I agree, a verbascum. Probably yellow-flowered.
Check it for scale insects too as when they're poorly they're prone to infection by scale. They look like brown waxy bumps or 'pimples' on the stems and underside of leaves. You'll probably have to spray with a pest killer to get rid of it.
Their bulbs are good but their plants rarely live up to expectations. Bought some plants from them years ago including 10 x hemerocallis. I'm still waiting for some to flower as they were so small when they came and so far, apart from one yellow one, they're all 'Sammy Russell' type. Unfortunately that's the one variety that I already had! Every other plant, whether shrubs or perennials, have all failed and they're not cheap. I've had better results from Wilkos plants and they are cheap.


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There needs to be mechanism to block "a bunch of made-up votes". Someone
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More important is the issue of *disappearing* votes. Voter gets a
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A Vlog Series on youtube about the hijinks of Alternate Character Interpretation versions of Demyx, Axel and other members of Organization XIII from Kingdom Hearts. The show was originally like a vlog in format but later episodes grew some seriously dramatic plots, with a few random videos thrown in in between full episodes. Between hilarious hijinks, and gobs of Ho Yay, the show got enough popularity to warrant it's own panel at Metrocon twice.Since its debut, the show has expanded the cast from Demyx and Axel to the entire organization, and occasionally Namine and Sora. It's also changed its format from a talk show/vlog series to a kind of sitcom spiced with affectionate parodies.Found here.
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RT @oaklandlocal: First Mayoral Candidate Forum hosted by Oakland Tech students: Mayor Jean Quan faces serious challengers. http://t.co/Fc…
Mayor Jean Quan faces serious challengers to her reelection this year. Polls from last month have her in third place with the support of 10% of those polled. Councilmember Libby Schaaf is in second with 16% and Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan at 18% despite the fact that Kaplan has no intention to run. A plurality of voters are still undecided however, and the other candidates are beginning to raise money and cultivate name recognition. Oakland Tech students were the first to bring all the challengers together for a city hall panel last Saturday the 22nd. The primary issue of the race is shaping up to be public safety, how to combat the crime problem and how to pay for it.
Though there are officially 16 candidates, not all made themselves available for contact and not all invited showed up. Here's a quick list of the six candidates that participated on the panel (not including Mayor Quan):
No one emerged as a clear audience favorite. Schaaf and Parker managed to each get applauses and Courtney Ruby was certainly stirring in her rabble rousing. Tuman made the boldest attacks on Quan's performance, McCullough's delivery was compelling even if what he was saying seemed to grate against the popular sentiments held by Oaklanders. Siegel's politics excited this radical reporter the most but his dour presence did not promise political triumph.
Almost all the candidates, including the Mayor, pledged to hire more police. Schaaf emphasized community policing as a way of repairing OPD's relationship with the public. Parker also proposed sensitivity training for police to undo a history of mistreatment.Many candidates focused on police retention as a means of saving money and sustaining consistency in beats. Tuman advocated for programs that would encourage local students to join the force and stay in Oakland like housing loans. Most candidates seemed to endorse Quan's Ceasefire program and her efforts to economically support young people as a means of stemming crime.
Ruby and McCullough were the staunchest advocates of empowering OPD with more autonomy and funding. "I don't believe the department has a problem with acting unethically," said McCullough, "they have a problem with perception and scapegoating." Ruby repeatedly emphasized OPD's need for "leadership, leadership, leadership," explaining that until we are able to retain a fit Chief of Police, OPD will suffer.
Siegel was the only candidate to argue against growing OPD. He argued instead for decentralizing and reorganizing the department, civilianizing every job without a gun, and instituting a zero-tolerance policy for misconduct. "OPD is costing us millions in settlements over misconduct," said Siegel. "We need to stop gang injunctions, stop profiling, stop surveilling and hire a police force that looks like Oakland."
There was much dispute over the crime data itself. Quan trumpeted a decrease in the murder and general violent crime rates over her term in office. Tuman insisted that fluctuations over the span of a year are meaningless in terms of real crime trends. A member of the audience claimed that Quan was lying about the statistics she reported, to many nodding heads.
When asked about a long term crime strategy, Parker, Schaaf and Quan emphasized the importance of youth support and education. Tuman emphasized economic development and prosperity, pledging to make Oakland business friendly. Siegel admonished against a punitive legal system, arguing that funding for law enforcement and imprisonment would be better spent on education and social welfare.
Ruby and McCullough took up the opposition on this chicken and egg debate. "We can't thrive until our basic security needs are met," said Ruby, "it's the first priority, everything else follows." McCullough stated simply, "It would be nice to solve all the problems of inequality and education in order to solve crime, but what if we can't? In the meantime we're just going to let crime happen?"
When the candidates were asked how they planned to unite Oakland, Parker, Ruby and McCullough again returned to public safety. Tuman focused on cultural clashes, pledging to "model civil discussion of our [racial and class] differences." Others echoed the sentiment of "celebrating diversity." Siegel focused on economic inequality, advocating for Oakland to raise its minimum wage and stop subsidizing big corporations in order to invest in small local businesses.
Unless Rebecca Kaplan decides to enter into the race, Schaaf's name recognition and generally uncontroversial record make her the most formidable threat to Quan. However, there is plenty of time for Parker, Tuman and Siegel to develop strong campaigns.
The writer identifies her self as "radical?" Radical in what way? Going to the roots in terms of political ideology of why Oakland has had so many unsolved problems over the years?
Schaaf has an "uncontroversial" record? According to whom? Has the writer talked to anyone who lives in District 4 to see whether citizens think Schaaf has accomplished anything significant?
Schaaf has a name recognition advantage while Ruby, the single panel participant elected (and more than once) to citywide office, does not?
"A plurality of voters is still undecided?" Of course! We're months and months ahead of the election. Very early polls are seldom of any value.
Radically uninformed and biased I would say.
Did you notice how Siegel's politics "excited" the author's radical politics? Did Liza see starbursts?
His politics, and Q's have controlled Oakland for the 30 years I've been here (as well as the school board) and the results are dystopia with not a wit of reflection and ownership of the beast they have created.
But there is a single issue which I think Siegel was dead right on, and not mentioned in this article. The first public question was in regards to the retention of the sports teams, meaning A's and Raiders. On this, Siegel gave the exact right answer: we can give the efforts to retain the teams moral support but not an iota of public money. In fact, not a single other candidate spoke out strongly against using taxpayer money to help rich people bring their gladiator games to our citizens.
I give Siegel kudos for being sensible for once. Of course, a broken clock is right twice a day, and there is no second issue for which Siegel has an ounce of sanity.
Two limited videos of the event were posted.
youtu.be/Ui497gyfKQc by @davidcolburn
the other by Zennie Abraham. (don't have the link to Zennie's video)
Sponsors of the next forum, MOBN, have announced they will stream video.
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AMD has trumpeted its next-generation GPU architecture, painting the design as a radical departure that has one foot in the graphics world and the other in what AMD, Microsoft, ARM, and others dub "heterogeneous computing". Essentially, the new architecture is a parallel-processor, throughput engine that can serve both graphics …
I wonder..............................
what alien technology they reverse engineered to come up with this?
This is why I have always bought and continue to buy AMD, and the dirty games played by Intel......
Obligatory Question...
...yeah, but will it run Crysis?
Nothing runs crysis
At least not at a consistantly playable framerate. The end sequence even on teh most powerful hardware of today still reveals how absolutely terrible that engine is.
It's so bad you'd almost think it was made by DICE.
So basically
Your computer will be the Beowulf cluster. Cool
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"so its sorta got SMT [simultaneous multi-threading] properties".
I'm irked by reading superfluous faffy phraseology like "kinda", "sorta" etc. from CEOs / CTOs / CFOs and others who ought to set a leading example for others to aspire to. I'm not singling out anyone here, because this is a growing trend, particularly when quoting prominent people in the I.T. industry. We all make mistakes, but this habitual use of faffy language is unprofessional and not something we should adopt. Please stop it! </RANT>
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Though you kinda have a point, it's sorta silly to tell US that you want someone ELSE to use different language.
Lazy language
I couldn't agree more! We lost so much when academic papers and reports stopped being delivered in Latin.
"I want to create realities that you can't tell that you're not looking through a window"
Nice. How about creating realities that I can't tell I'm in a computer game ?
Such as trees that fall in front of a tank, or get blown to shreds by bombs, or torch and burn down if a flamethrower is pointed at them. Or walls that cannot resist a tank, not to mention packs of C4, and houses that get flattened by aerial bombardement.
How about realistic craters from a bomb ? One that a soldier can hide in and shoot from ? And can we once and for all get rid of indestructible doors that only open once a certain condition has been realised, and ignores any attempt at brute force ?
Making prettier environments is nice, but I'd wager Medal of Honor, Battlefield 2 and Gears of War have already demonstrated a very pretty world. Making environments more "realistic" does not mean just veined leaves on trees.
Unfortunately one of this technology's primary uses will be........
...........holo-porn. Being able to watch group sex from all angles apparently being performed in the middle of your living room carpet will undoubtedly go gangbusters (or do I mean gangbangers?) in the marketplace.
You laugh, but....
Look at technology. What are the main two drivers? War and Sex. I would welcome holodecks, even if their primary driver was porn.
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I DID try Vista and it really ran like a dog so I switched back to XP for a while until Windows 7 came out and went straight to Windows 7.
OK the LATER SP versions of VISTA were probably better the poor hapless souls who had the operating system forceably pre-installed on less than adequate hardware certainly DID hae a point in saying the OS was next to useless on these older machines.
Windows 7 is the product VISTA should have been -- maybe it was just corporate greed or bad management decisisons getting a product out of the door WAY BEFORE it's time - especially considering the hardware that was in use at the original time of VISTA's release.
Of course by the time the service packs were released some hardware had improved considerably so VISTA could run almost passably -- however thats history as Windows 7 is better every which way you care to look at it.
I just wondered why it's taken so long to overtake VISTA.
It will still be a long while before XP is out of the picture as there are millions of perfectly satisfactorily running machines out there a lot with some really old peripherals and other legacy hardware -- where many of the original manufactureres don't exist anymore so driver updates won't appear. These machines will be used until the relevant hardware no lomger functions.
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Another 2 cents worth ... used Vista Ultimate on a work computer. It worked as well as could be expected. Comparing it to a companion XP Pro computer that performed flawlessly, Vista was also flawless. Maybe because our IT folks didn't scrimp on the hardware. The Vista machine had way more than Microsoft's minimum recommended specs for CPU, RAM, etc. We also had a few machines that were still running Windows 2000 w/SP4. And they were still going strong. I guess like all things beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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I agree with you JMH, however I had bad experiences with Vista. I bought Vista and never got it working on my 2 Dell computers. Dell certified them Vista Ready. My mother bought a laptop with Vista and has had nothing but problems. (To be upgraded this month).
I went back to Windows XP on my Dell machines after fighting with Vista for 9 months. I then went from XP to 7 and I have not had any issues. Just my 2 cents.
Must have been before you found Windows Vista Forums
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Like others have said, there's absolutely nothing wrong with Vista. I'm glad 7's market share is growing as much as it is, but that shouldn't be taken as evidence of Vista being a poor operating system, because it isn't. If we didn't have Vista, we wouldn't have 7 as we know it.
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Pardon me if I'm wrong here...
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I agree with Jan on this, Vista is a very good OS and I do not see any urgent need to switch to Windows 7 though I have nothing against it at all.
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Most of the people I know hated vista 9 months after it was released but mainly because it was usually installed on hardware that could barely run it.
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Is there a list somewhere of the improvements of Windows 7 over Vista? Other than the fact that "more people like Windows 7", I just cant see it. At the same stage of development, it works better over all, but largely because lots of the incompatibilities with other HW and SW vendors has had a few years to get worked out. But what are the improvements INISDE WINDOWS that you like? Search? missing Quick Launch? a ton of unnecessary and irritating changes in Windows Explorer? If I had a choice, I would go back to Vista. Maybe Microsoft hired Karl Rove to help out with Windows 7.
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Windows 7 Home Premium x64
Is there a list somewhere of the improvements of Windows 7 over Vista? Other than the fact that "more people like Windows 7", I just cant see it. At the same stage of development, it works better over all, but largely because lots of the incompatibilities with other HW and SW vendors has had a few years to get worked out. But what are the improvements INISDE WINDOWS that you like? Search? missing Quick Launch? a ton of unnecessary and irritating changes in Windows Explorer? If I had a choice, I would go back to Vista. Maybe Microsoft hired Karl Rove to help out with Windows 7.
Windows 7 is more stable than Vista. It contains thousands of optimizations for the user experiences (changes in Explorer "unnecessary and irritating"? "Open in new window" is a life-saver). It greatly improves the Aero interface, giving a smoother more realistic look. For most people, it's faster. It's like the difference between a finely-crafted sword and a club.
I'm not sure why you can't go back to Vista, I'm guessing you're using Windows in a corporate environment, or in some other form where you don't have control of the software. Several people I know of have reverted to Vista; all have returned to Win 7 in short order.
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right but it's a stretch to say that it's dying
Really??? (585 comments)
It is? Doesn't Microsoft dominate the OS marketshare, wasn't Windows 7 a huge hit, isn't xbox 360 kicking ass right now, or are we just judging Windows Phone 7? Cause if we are then i gotta say it's a bit early for that. Come on CNN atleast don't make link baiting so obvious and Slashdot stop putting inaccurate shit on the front page.
Old News (1 comments)
Accidently submitted it thinking it was more recent. Sorry
Re:That's not a tablet (2 comments)
sorry i meant "a fugly"