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I was born close to the Cancer Leo cusp. Am I a Cancer or am I a Leo?
A cusp is the moment one sign changes to the next. The cusp between Cancer and Leo happens at a precise moment, which varies from year to year. If you were born before it you would be Cancer, and after it you would be Leo.
The moment of the Cancer Leo cusp is not related to calendar dates. It's not as simple as saying July 22nd is always Cancer and July 23rd is always Leo. One year the cusp may be at 11pm at night on July 22nd, and the next year it may be early in the morning on July 23rd etc.
To find out for sure which sign you are you will need to know when exactly you were born. Specifically you will need to know:
- Your date of birth (must be accurate)
- Your time of birth (can be approximate but accurate is better)
- Your town of birth (within 50 miles or so is fine)
With that information an astrologer can calculate which side of the Cancer Leo cusp you were born on, and therefore which sign you are. I'll be happy to do so for free if you want to send me a note of the above information. Feel free to Contact me (also available from the menu of any page of this site)
If you don't know your birth time then things get a little more complicated, but it is often possible to figure it out "backwards" from major life events. That's a technique called birth time rectification. I won't confuse things here by going into it, other than to say it exists for that scenario.
Cancer Leo Cusp - the best guess approach
Another way to establish which sign you are is simply to look at the list of Cancer traits compared to Leo traits. Cancer and Leo have very different characteristics so it's often fairly easy to see which one you are. It's important to note that you may have other placements (such as your moon, mars, mercury etc) in either sign which make you relate to that sign, even though you're technically the other sun sign. In other words this approach isn't conclusive. It is however a quick and easy way to estimate which side of the Cancer Leo cusp you were born on.
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Oregon senior guard Taylor Lilley has been selected to take part in the State Farm Slam Dunk and Three Point Championships at the 2010 NCAA Final Four in Indianapolis on Thursday night.
The 22nd annual State Farm College Slam Dunk and Three-Point Championships are making their first official appearance at the NCAA Men's Final Four. The event will be televised on ESPN, and will bring together college basketball's top three-point shooters and slam dunk artists competing in four separate competitions: men's three-point shooting, women's three-point shooting, men's vs. women's three-point champions and the slam dunk competition.
The event will air at 6 p.m. PST, Thursday on ESPN. A full participant list has not been released yet.
Lilley's leaves Oregon as undoubtedly the program's most prolific 3-point shooter. The senior set a trio of records at Oregon, and leaves the women's basketball program with the single-game (9), single-season (124) and career (270) records for 3-pointers.
This season, Lilley averaged a team-leading and career-high 17.7 points per game. She was named to the Pac-10 all-conference team for the second time in her career, and was also voted Team MVP by her Oregon teammates.
Her 124 3-pointers this season lead the country, and rank third all-time in NCAA single-season history. The total was also a new Pac-10 single-season record. Lilley's 270 career 3-pointers rank third all-time in the Pac-10

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Housler's second NFL season comes to an end with the former Florida Atlantic product catching 45 passes for 417 yards. He injured his shoulder trying to make a catch Sunday against the Bears.
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I bought a Florida King Peach and a Goldkist Apricot. I need to know the approx. size of the mature trees, so I know where to plant them. I live in Southern California (OC) zone 10.
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- Posted by gardenguru1950 SunsetZ15 (My Page) on Thu, Feb 2, 06 at 13:39
Sanda: Did you buy "standard", "semi-dwarf" or "dwarf"? A standard will get maybe 15-25 feet. A semi-dwarf maybe 10-15. A dwarf is usually in the 5-10 range. Joe |
I have to go home and look at the tags. I got them at Costco. How wide do they get? Thanks for your response, Sanda |
These trees can grow very large, you should take a look at the concept of Backyard Orchards: http://www.davewilson.com/homegrown/BOC_what-is.html The overall concept is to keep your fruit trees pruned to a height that allows you to pick fruit off them without a ladder. Unless you are into preserving or doing other things that require hundreds of pieces of fruit, what you end up with by allowing a tree to grow to full size is hundreds of pieces of fruit over the two weeks that the fruit ripens and then nothing else for the rest of the year. I sat though a class on this just last weekend at my local nursery, the guys from Dave Wilson do talks all over the place, their schedule is here: One of the cool things they have on their website is a Harvest Chart, so if you like Apricots (say) you can plant 4 varieties close together with different harvest times. By keeping the trees small you get Apricots at 4 different times a year instead of just once. For what it's worth, I have a very old Apricot in my backyard (inherited when I bought the house) that is around 25' tall and probably 20' spread. It drops hundreds of Apricots every June and I end up making Apricot wine and giving most of the fruit away. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Backyard Orchard Guide
That's a great site. I've tried their method with my apricots and so far, so good. They are about 5 yrs. old and I've been able to keep them around 10' tall and about 6' wide. I have two and that is plenty for me and my neighbors (DH doesn't like them). Apricot wine - sounds yummy. I've only made apricot jam and the freezer kind at that. I'd probably blow up the kitchen if I tried anything more adventurous. lol! |
I was told by the guy from Dave Wilson (or maybe L.E. Cooke), that there really is no such thing as dwarf or even semi-dwarf; that they will get to be full size trees 25-30' or even taller. The key is to keep them pruned. He said that you can cut them anywhere as long as it is above the graft. Mind, this is second-hand knowledge, but it came from a reliable source. wanda |
- Posted by gardenguru1950 SunsetZ15 (My Page) on Sun, Feb 5, 06 at 10:24
wanda: I'm not sure what the guy from Wilson or Cooke was actually saying but there ARE dwarf, semi-dwarf and standard (and in-between) rootstocks for fruit trees. And they DO affect the growth rate of trees. The fact that one should prune fruit trees to best keep them shaped and at the right size is a given. Unfortunately, training-pruning fruit trees is coming close to be a lost science/art. One of the more important points about home fruit tree culture is the practice of summer pruning. Contrary to popular belief, winter pruning is not the most important or best time to prune. It's fine for making serious, heavy-duty cuts (on older trees) but the most critical pruning is done starting after flowering and fruiting and through the growing season. Not only does this lead to healthy trees, it's also much easier than winter pruning. With that aside, rootstocks do influence how frequently you prune and where you can make key cuts (internodes are shortened on dwarfer rootstocks). Joe |
When you plant your trees, you might want to ask the person who sells you the tree about planting some kind of sand barrier around the rooting system. Subterranean termites like these kinds of trees. I just took down a nectarine tree because of them, & another Cal grower previously posted he had the same problem with a peach & apricot tree. The person who planted the tree put sand around the roots, but it was minimal. They also need to be planted in a well ventilated area to avoid powdery mildew. |
baci - I can appreciate the damages done by subterranean termites. Last year, I accidentally removed a section of bark from a 20 to 30 year old plum tree. It had almost 5 ft x 1 ft. of termite damage and active insects. I thought it would surely die, but it still produced a sizable crop of nice plums anyway. I did buy another plum tree, however, as I expect it will not survive its invasion/damage much longer. Bejay |
bejay9, I tried for 3 years to save mine – I loved that tree. It was probably 15 years old. Unfortunately, I had a neighbor who would had termite infested wood close to my tree & would not remove it. I do not know whether it was the same species, but it certainly did not help. That neighbor has now moved & I am now fixing anything that could attract this pest. That stuff spreads, and although I will not stop it, I am certainly going to do my part in preventing more damage. I did find that the termites invaded from the limbs down and from the trunk up. I could easily identify the limb damage, but could not see the trunk damage until I started getting deep into the stump. They can not burrow through a certain particle size of sand supposedly, which is why it is believed to deter them. I am glad you shared your experience with plums. They also like camphor trees. I like stone fruits, but where I live now, I would put them in pots or boxes, & treat the rooting systems with repotting. Maybe that is not necessary, but this experience has made me very nervous. |
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This damage sounds like tree bores that attack soft fruit trees. There's spray and topical insecticides for them. I plant garlic around my trees and it seems to help. |
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Melange Chat System is vulnerable to a buffer overflow. By using an overly long file name containing more than 250 characters, a local attacker can overflow a buffer and cause a core dump on the system.
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- BID-4508: Melange Chat System /yell Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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- BID-4510: Melange Chat System Long Filename Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
- CVE-2002-0552: Multiple buffer overflows in Melange Chat server 2.02 allow remote or local attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) a long argument in the /yell command, (2) long lines in the /etc/melange.conf configuration file, (3) long file names, or possibly other attacks.
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noun \ˈyärd\Definition of YARD
a : a small usually walled and often paved area open to the sky and adjacent to a building : court b : the grounds of a building or group of buildings
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Middle English, from Old English geard enclosure, yard; akin to Old High German gart enclosure, Latin hortus garden
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Middle English yarde, from Old English gierd twig, measure, yard; akin to Old High German gart stick, Latin hasta spear
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noun (Concise Encyclopedia)Unit of length equal to 36 inches, or 3 feet (see foot), in the U.S. Customary System or 0.9144 metre in the International System of Units. A cloth yard, used to measure cloth, is 37 in. long; it was also the standard length for arrows. In casual speech, a yard (e.g., of concrete, gravel, or topsoil) may refer to a cubic yard.
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Ok... I used to have beautiful lily gardens, due to a break up I ended up moving and 2 friends offered me the use of their garden for two years. Eight months later I was settled and went to collect half my collection as the deal was they were keep half for the use of their spaces. Needless to say a 10k plants, shrubs, roses, rugoas and bulbs are "dead" nothing left -grapevine basically said they sold them and gave them away to their friends and planned to tell me they died over a period of two years. I didn't say anything what could I say. So, lesson learned, starting over in a rented house, but want to put my lily bulbs in pots on a deck because living in town the deer here in town come anywhere in the yard and eat every thing in site. I have spent 1k on bulbs so far and want to enjoy them and not have them eaten. I bought cheap laundry baskets from the dollar store lined them with brown paper bags, good drainage can put 5 bulbs in a basket. Each basket was anywhere from .50 to 1.00 each. I have access to under the deck, an unheated garage and the basement. We get anywhere from 30 below to 58 below for a couple of weeks at a time. This last winter was very soft and maybe got down to 30 below for shorter stretches. Now if I put these basket of bulbs in an unheated garage it does get below zero easily in there and would I need to water them? If I chose the basement it gets about in the 50's..... and would I need to water them or just move them down there and leave them alone? I also want my bulbs to be kept portable in case I might have to move again. I have over 4 thousand daff and tulip bulbs in the ground and will be fighting the deer on that... I just don't want to get my lilies eaten and want to enjoy them. Any ideas? |
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Sorry to hear about all your troubles, but glad it sounds like things are back on track. I would put them in the garage before any hard frosts begin. The lilies should be going into dormancy then and will wait out the winter. Find the warmest spot, group the pots together and maybe cover with an old blanket? They shouldn't need any water and having them a little on the dry side might actually help. Hopefully they can handle the lows in the garage. I thing the basement will be too warm and they'll start growing earlier than you want. I'd like to hear what other people suggest, I sometimes have trouble overwintering bulbs in pots. You might want to get a roll of landscape fabric to line your baskets. The fabric kind, not the plastic. It will last longer than the paper. |
- Posted by missmyrnaloy 3 (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Sat, May 4, 13 at 19:42
Will try that... it is tough starting over again... collecting different varieties and years of good growth. |
Are you growing native lilies, hybrids, or orientals? |
- Posted by missmyrnaloy 3 (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Mon, May 6, 13 at 14:57
Orientals, doubles orientals, asiatic, oriepent... pretty much all I could find.. all zone 3... a couple zone 4 have had success with that as well. |
- Posted by Gertie_in_CO (My Page) on Fri, May 10, 13 at 13:40
I've got some in a half-whiskey barrel and they do quite well - as a matter of fact, this year they are really going nuts - lots of "baby" shoots. I dug up another garden because it was under a tree we cut down, and I put those lilies (all asian, btw) in the same barrel. They're also popping up. I forgot that I had put two in another big pot, and they're up too and looking better than they did when they were in the garden. I'm in Colorado, my zone is 5/6. |
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy seems destined to be the next electoral casualty of the euro-zone sovereign-debt crisis. Sarkozy is deeply unpopular at home, but his expected defeat in this year's presidential elections could be a setback for France.
The likely victor, François Hollande, is a socialist whose policies would create uncertainty in the short term and foment further economic stagnation in the longer run. Like much of the euro zone, France is plagued by diminishing competitiveness, high unemployment, and excessive government spending. Hollande has proposed raising the state's tab, which could worsen the other problems and punish business.
Sarkozy and Hollande will lead in the first round of voting on April 22, but neither is likely to garner enough votes to declare an outright victory. All polls point to a win for Hollande in the May 6 runoff, but the French have pulled surprises in the past.
Sarkozy, 57, was elected president in 2007, and is paying the price for failing to deliver on his campaign promises amid the worst financial downturn in Europe since World War II. He has earned plaudits for persuading Germany, Europe's largest economy, to take a softer approach to the euro-zone crisis, but domestic issues matter more to French voters. France is flirting with economic recession, and in January was stripped of its prized triple-A credit rating by Standard & Poor's.
Hollande, also 57, is a graduate of France's prestigious École Nationale d'Administration, which boasts presidents and prime ministers among its alumni. But his political experience is limited, encompassing a decade as secretary of the Socialist Party and a stint as mayor of a provincial town. Ségolène Royal, his former partner and mother of his four children, lost to Sarkozy in '07. Hollande secured the party's nomination last year, after scandal enveloped the favorite, Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
A pro-European, Hollande is a protégé of former European Commission President Jacques Delors, one of the architects of the euro. To maintain stability and continuity in Europe, he will need to emulate Sarkozy's cozy relationship with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. But the relationship could be complicated, as they occupy different sides of the political spectrum. At some point, Merkel may need to check Hollande's soft Keynesian tendencies: Germany doesn't have the resources to bail out France.
Hollande's economic policies would do little to boost France's competitiveness, and his goal of eliminating the budget deficit by 2017 is apt to remain elusive. He aims to kick-start the economy by adding jobs and creating growth, but that means even greater government outlays. Government expenditures currently equal 57% of gross domestic product, one of the highest levels in Europe and nine percentage points more than in Germany.


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While sapphires are best known for being velvety blue, it was decided long ago to consider all gemstones of the mineral family corundum to be sapphires. Non-blue sapphires are termed "fancy" and can be nearly any color, including yellow, green, white/colorless, pink, orange, brown, purple, golden and even black. Red corundum is the exception, however, and was given the special name of "ruby." Since pink is really just a light red, the International Colored Gemstone Association has resolved to consider light shades of the red hue to be included in the category ruby, as it is too difficult to legislate where red ends and pink begins. In practice, however, pink shades of corundum are known as either pink ruby or pink sapphire. All sapphires rank a 9.0 on the Mohs Scale, second only to diamonds in hardness.
There are a great number of varieties of sapphire, many of which are quite rare and highly sought-after in the gemstone market. A rare orange-pink variety, known as padparadscha, can be even more valuable than blue sapphire. Pronounced PAD-PA-RAD-SHAH, the name comes from the Sinhalese word for lotus blossom. Endowed with both pink and orange color components, its hues range from pastels to fiery shades. Padparadscha sapphires are usually heat treated to improve and intensify their color, while the color of untreated stones will fade over time. An untreated padparadscha sapphire that has faded will return to its original pinkish-orange color, however, if exposed to sunlight for about an hour.
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The stone is mined in many parts of the world. The oldest sapphire mines are situated in Ceylon, today called Sri Lanka, where gemstones were mined in ancient times. Most blue sapphires today come from Thailand or Australia, but sapphires from Kashmir and Myanmar (formerly Burma) are considered the most rare and highly prized. Sapphires are readily available in sizes of up to 2.00ct, but gems weighing 5.00-10.00ct are not unusual. The cushion-cut Logan Sapphire from Sri Lanka weighs an astounding 423.00ct and can be seen at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. There is also a 258.00ct stone set in the Russian crown, which is kept in the Diamond Fund in Moscow.
Because the gem has long symbolized sincere love and enduring faithfulness, blue sapphires are often given in engagement rings to express commitment and loyalty. Many women throughout the world decide on the blue stone for their engagement rings, as the gem also represents truth, friendship, harmony and consistency. Sapphire blue has become a color related to anything permanent and reliable, making it an ideal stone to symbolize the promise of marriage.
Often referred to as "Gem of the Heavens," sapphire also symbolizes a noble soul. It is September's birthstone and is traditionally given as 5th and 45th wedding anniversary gifts. Star sapphires are given for the 65th anniversary. The color sapphire-blue is known for representing clarity and competence. In fact, the first computer to ever declare victory over a chess grandmaster and world champion was named "Deep Blue."
Sapphires have been associated with magical powers throughout the ages. The Greeks identified white sapphires with Apollo and the oracles at Delphi used them to tap into the subconscious and super conscious. During the Middle Ages, sapphires symbolized the tranquility of the heavens and wearing them was thought to bring peace, happiness and purity of the soul. The color blue became the symbol of the union between a priest and the heavens, so sapphires came to be adorned on the rings of bishops. Soldiers wore them to prevent capture by enemies and kings wore the gemstone to defend against harm and put themselves in divine favor. This supposed "divine favor" is why sapphires were often the gemstone of choice for high priests and royalty throughout history. In fact, the British Crown Jewels contain a number of notable sapphires.
Today, sapphires are still believed to hold special powers. The stone is said to provide healing properties for mental illness and depression. It can be considered an aid to psycho kinesis, telepathy and clairvoyance, while providing spiritual enlightenment and inner peace. White sapphires, like diamonds, are considered the guardians of love, enhancing it and ensuring fidelity in marriage. The most powerful type of the gem is said to be the star sapphire. They are believed to protect against negative energy and have a calming effect that allows the mind to experience tranquility, joy and clear thinking.
"Ammolite" is the name for a type of fossilized mother-of-pearl, not be confused with "ammonite", which is the sea creature that lived in the shell.
Ammonites were squid-like creatures that swam the seas more than 70 million years ago during the Cretaceous period. Their shells were constructed into a unique series of air chambers that allowed them to float and move through the water using jet propulsion. Today, these complex chamber walls appear as intricate patterns in the fossils. Ammonites were abundant in all the oceans until they became extinct around the same time as the dinosaurs.
Because each gemstone is a fossil, ammolite is regarded as one of the rarest gems on earth. The preserved mother-of-pearl went through a mysterious geological and mineralization transformation, giving it light refracting characteristics that qualify it today as a precious gem. Ammolite is capable of splitting sunlight into every color imaginable, a fact that illuminates why the stone came to be known as the "Seven Color Prosperity Stone" by Feng Shui masters.
Ammolite is only found in the Bearpaw formation that extends from Alberta to Saskatchewan in Canada and to Montana in the United States. Those found in and around Alberta display the most vivid colors. Ranking 5-7 on the Mohs Scale, pricing is based on size, shape, number of colors present, brightness of those colors, and overall appearance. Each ammolite is unique and the rarest stones show three or more colors.
In 1908, a member of the National Geological Survey team found fossils of ammonite along the St. Mary's River in Alberta. It was not until 1981 that enough high-quality ammolite was discovered to make mining commercially viable. The International Commission of Colored Gemstones officially recognized it as a gemstone at that time.
Being one of the three organic gemstones, in addition to amber and pearl, ammolite is commonly impregnated with a colorless hardened substance to increase stability. It has been compared to opal in that it can either be spinel-capped or a natural doublet. The spinel-capped version is very similar to the opal triplet, while the natural doublet is similar to an opal doublet.
The stone was named for Ammon, the ancient Egyptian god of life and reproduction, because the shell of the ammonite was similar in appearance to the ram-headed deity's horns. The Roman historian Pliny the Elder regarded ammolite as the holiest of stones because it was said to evoke prophetic dreams. The Blackfoot Tribe of North America came to know ammolite as the "buffalo stone", as it signified wealth and abundance and played a key role in their traditional culture and magic.


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Document Type Doctoral Thesis Author Ramgolam, Judy email@example.com URN etd-05242011-114758 Document Title Identity, place and displacement in the visual art of female artists at the Vaal University of Technology (VUT), 1994-2004 Degree DPhil Department Visual Arts Supervisor
Advisor Name Title Prof J van Eeden Supervisor Keywords
- political reading
- landscape
- displacement
- place
- identity
- female artists
- postcolonial
- Vaal University of Technology
Date 2011-09-08 Availability unrestricted Abstract The first ten years of democracy (1994-2004) in South Africa was an important period marked by a plethora of research activities in South Africa. The 2004 exhibition of artworks by academic staff from the Vaal University of Technology (VUT) was an example of one such event. A critical reading of these artworks exhibited diverse representations of their world views and also informed the initial research for this study. All the artworks on exhibition illustrated a commonality of purpose in the artists' interrogation and representation of their fragmented identities in a transforming political landscape. Therefore, this thesis considers a political reading of the ideas of identity, place and displacement in the artworks of thirteen female artists at VUT from 1994 to 2004.
The rationale of this thesis was to examine in what way the artists' construction and representations of identity, place and displacement were influenced by the environmental factors of the historical, political and academic culture in the microcosm of the Vaal region. However, the inclusion of Tracey Rose in this study extended the discourses of identity, place and displacement to consider the disjunctures and continuities of cultural practices in ethnicities in South Africa. This thesis furthermore proposed to address the gendered omissions of female artists from contemporary literature and therefore focuses on the creative productions of female artists from VUT. The significance of this study lies in the contribution of knowledge on the existing body of literature of art and artists in South Africa and in initiating the exercise of documenting the visual history of the Vaal region.
The theoretical underpinnings are informed by the discourses of cultural studies, postcolonial studies and feminism/s. The thesis delimits the political and historical events of South Africa from pre-history to contemporary South Africa. A postcolonial reading of history is carried out in order to draw attention to inconsistencies and fallacies inherent in the colonial recording of historical events relevant to this study. The influential historical and political events in the discourse of place and displacement have been included in view of their depiction or references made by the artists discussed in this study and to contextualise the geopolitical space of the Vaal Triangle. The political events before and after the decline of apartheid were included to frame the strategy of decolonisation of the new political dispensation. A context for the shifting identities of the artists in a neoliberal democracy, namely the political and historical events germane to the Vaal Triangle and to the artists dealt with in this study, is provided to position the ideological divide between Afrikaner nationalism and a neoliberal democracy.
The thesis provides a brief overview of South African art in order to delineate a national perspective and framework for the discussion of the artworks later in the study that are located predominantly in the Vaal Triangle. An average of three artworks per artist were selected for discussion. The selected artworks reflect heterogeneous interpretations of the discursive themes of landscape, the positions of women, shifting timelines and contemporary politics in South African social and cultural practice. There was an observable divide in the artworks that displayed explicit and implicit signifiers referring to the constructs of identity, place and displacement. Identities formed in the spaces of colonisation and in the dislocated, displaced, raced and gendered identities, inform the world views of the artists selected for this study.
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James G. Pennock, 99, of Gilmanton, N.H., died on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014 at the home of his son, Larry Miller in Cleveland.
He was the son of James Glynn Pennock and Cynthia Nelson Pennock Brown, and was born June 27, 1914, in Woodsville, N.H. He lived in Gilmanton for more than 70 years.
.He was an army veteran of World War II and was awarded the Victory Medal for his service. He was a proud member of the American Legion for more than 50 years. He was an accomplished musician and played several stringed instruments, including guitar, violin and double bass fiddle.
He was the great-great grandson of Luke Brooks, who was part of the Franconia surveying crew who are credited with being the first white settlers to observe the Old Man of the Mountains. He was employed by Scott & Williams in Laconia, Eastman Foundry in Concord, and Laconia Ball Bearing. He also cut right-of-way for public service.
He was the current holder of the Boston Post Cane (the presentation of which was originated by the Boston Post newspaper), which is presented to Gilmanton's eldest resident. It was deemed especially fitting that Mr. Pennock received the cane, as he delivered the Boston Post newspaper when he was ten years old.
He is survived by four sons and three daughters-in-law: James Pennock of Laconia; Larry and Naomi Miller of Cleveland, Tenn.; Norman "Buzzy" and Carol Miller of Idaho; Dennis and Barbara Miller of Oregon; daughters; Winnie Martin of Derry, Joy MacDonald of Connecticut, and Elaine Fontes of California; 11 grandchildren; and 18 great-grandchildren; he is also survived by his son John's widow, Kathy Pennock of Pittsfield.
He was preceded in death by his first wife, Florence; his second wife, Doris;and his son, John.
A graveside memorial service in celebration of his life will be held at the Smith Meeting House Cemetery in Gilmanton, on Saturday, June 28, 2014, at 10 a.m.
For those who wish to make a memorial donation, the family suggests that it be made to "Feed the Poor Disaster Relief", 304 20th Street SE, Cleveland, TN 37320.
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does anyone mix and match these all of these together , as they all need good drainage. i have areas of full sun, morning sun, shade( no sun but bright along a north facing house) do all these qualify as xeriscaping. low maintenance |
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- Posted by cactusmcharris 4 / Interior BC (My Page) on Thu, Dec 13, 12 at 21:54
Yes, all of those mentioned, or at least a great many species, will grow where you described. They certainly do qualify as xeriscaping and low maintenance. |
I have found through trial and error (a lot of both) that just about any plants can be grown together (at least here in Southern California).. I grow bamboo, palms, cacti, agaves, most succulents, bromeliads, Sansevierias, Hoyas, cycads, vines, conifers and orchids all side by side, all getting the same water (some less sun than others) and all happy as can be. I have found that most species do well in these situations, and the exceptions are the minority (unless you get into some of the pickier succulents, like Mesembs and sun-needy cacti) or ultratropical things. I have certainly rotted and dessicated my share of plants, but have beem mostly surprised how many adapt to their neighbor's water needs. AS long as the soils are well draining, I find it is hard to overwater most species (depending on the time of year). Light is the main problem I run into, not water needs... many species require way too much light and eventually die due to their neighbor plant shading them out. |
- Posted by Dzitmoidonc 6 (My Page) on Sat, Dec 15, 12 at 0:45
Growing some cacti in FL is different than most other places. The big problems are lack of cold to get some to bloom well, but the other bigger problem is the rain. Winters are fairly rain free, but the morning dews yield about as much water as a shower. A string of wet mornings with temps in the 40sF is enough to melt many plants from the deserts of Peru and Chile. I've seen more things like Epiphyllums and wretched Deamia testudo, sometimes in the Selenicereus genus. Wretched because it does not do well as an indoor plant, is commonly available, and I have let one take over and still got no bloom. There are a lot of Cereus peruvianus grown down there, in all its forms. Spinefull and spineless, 4 ribs or more, tree-like and a nuisance. Common and blah. Something like a big Cleistocactus, that would be stunning. Colored flowers that last 3 days and are open in the day. You don't get that with Cereus. You draw Hummingbirds with a Cliesto, not cockroaches, another plus. They can be watered like a begonia during the summer, can go down to freezing even if wet, and grow reasonable fast. What's not to like? The real water hogs of the cactus world could be the Melocactus. Their reputation as needing warm is overstated. They are not very frost hardy, but in Z-10 that is not often a worry. The water that usually drowns other cacti makes these laugh. They are one of the only cactus genera that has been seen swimming. Them and the Opuntias, but Opuntias have paddles. Opuntias do well there, but that is not a blessing. Everybody who plants one of the sprawling varieties (like Ficus indica) should be arrested, and those who propagate the crawling kinds should be rolled in the pads for 10 minutes each day until they change their ways. They are not sociable plants. Agaves do very well. They are called Spanish Bayonets or Century Plants down there, and a large property can grow monster specimens. Small species do exist, and even a middling nursery will have a dozen species. Other succulents that do well down there (succulents in the broadest terms) are Bromeliads and Tillandsias. A shady spot is all the ask. The climate is well suited to those plants, and it has to be a bad drought that makes them need water. Some good nurseries in the Miami area used to carry many many species. Bottle Palms are often used in small areas that don't get watered. Most solitary Palms are care free. I wouldn't plant the ones that make a lot of fruit, that draws insect life. They call them Palmetto bugs, they're actually cockroaches. Don't plant Palms from Madagascar, they generally collect a lot of water. The boot of the palm (the boot is the wrap-around part of the frond on the stem) holds a quart of water, more places for insects to breed. Back to cactus. The sand down there is poor substrate for succulents. It holds tons of water. Crushed shell also won't grow a cactus. There are some pits in western Dade. (You say you are Z10. Can we assume Dade or Collier County?) |
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A quick update.
My VAR suggested that I try and switch off "Enable background updates"
I appears to have improved the performance at this stage. With all the files open, I did the following test:
- open the Rev table.
- moved one dimension
- Zoomed in
- Pan
- Zoom all
The slowest performance was around 10 seconds, but it averaged 1 - 2 seconds, which is slower than 2012, but MUCH better.
I will keep this thread updated as the day goes on, especially when it comes to another bulk drawing release, thats when I realy struggle.
The shaded views is a good idea, I will keep that in mind, thank you.
The VAR suggested that I make a new project file, I will try that as well.
Keep you updated.
A quick update at the end of the day.
Sorry to say that it started slowing down again.
I was working on two very basic drawings, after afew hours it started it's trouble again, the only way to fix it was to re-start inventor.
Keep you all posted.
one of my customer has the exact same problem and he could check the same drawing on Inventor 2012 and 2013 and the difference is clear.
On 2012 he can see that all the core are used when panning the view or other simple operations in the drawing, and on 2013 only one is used at 100% and it slows down.
I think there is a real problem but i didn't install Inventor 2013 yet to check by myself but will do it soon for sure.
One idea, maybe useless but anyway... Do you have the same problem on Inventor DWGs ?
I have been playing around a bit, and to answer the question about DWG's, I can't say for sure, as I only create one or two per data set, and they are generally the GA marking plans, so yes, they are big and chunky, so inherently slow.
The biggest thing that I have done is Disable "Enable Quick File Open" This setting has made a difference. I can now work without wanting to slit my wrists every time I need to review a drawing pack.
Below is a quote of email I sent to the VAR. (Note: the above setting was not tested at the time of sending this mail)
Things done to date:
- Changed Undo file size from 1GB to 256MB, no change, so I changed it back.
- Drawing Tab: Switched off Enable background updates, no difference. (Was even slower)
- Switched on Memory Saving mode, this is currently on at the moment, this has made a small difference, I can work for longer before it starts dying on me.
- Yesterday afternoon I switched off "Enable Quick file open" This still has to be tested properly.
- Created a new project file.
- Migrated the files before working on them. (Only the next project due for work, I must admit it did not complete, as I ran out of time and had to carry on working, so only 80% of the files were migrated, the rest were done via "file save")
- The Temp directory gets cleared often, I always have it in "c:\temp" that way I can find it and manage it.
The issue with the first core sitting at 100% seems to have resolved itself due to one of the settings made above, can't say which one.
The slowdown is progressive, it is fine in the beginning.
On my computer the starting memory usage is around 2.8gig to 3.5gig. When working in drawings, this climbs to around the 4gig mark, anything over 4.6gig and the machine starts to struggle, e.g. Takes 10-15 seconds to delete a rev cloud, when I have to delete 10 rev clouds on one drawing, that's more than 2 minutes just staring at screen, multiply that by 20 to 50 drawings, it is a lot of time wasted just looking at the screen, that just one scenario.
Anyway, the memory consumption does not climb much higher, and the processor does not work excessively hard. What I do is close all files and track the memory, it will dump perhaps 500meg, i.e., it will go from 4.6gig to 4.1gig. If I close inventor and re-open it, the memory goes back to the starting value (2.8-3.5)
This is just an observation, that is why I have switched of the "enable quick file open", perhaps it's a file caching issue.
It is a lot better, nowhere near the same performance as 2012, but manageable if I restart inventor regularly.
While modelling though, I have not experienced any issues.
Update for the morning.
I had to markup a few drawings.......#$^*%$#
NO CHANGE, Slow down as per usual.
What started it all was adding and moving REV clouds. The system just gets slower and slower, ending up with 45 seconds to Zoom all, WTF.
I restarted Inventor which took another laborious 5 minutes to close all the open drawings, Progressive slow down to complete the rest of the job, but manageable, as by the time the system became painfull I was on the last drawing of a set of 10.
Good luck.
Autodesk don't read this type of problem.
My company has subscription with Autodesk since 2008 ver. now we use 2012.
Since I start work here 2 years ago and I just stop the Inventor Subscription last year.
I told my company the new version of Inventor just like the new car every year there are new car come out but it not much different than the last year version. May be the bumper look different and the head light.
I will get the subcription back if Inventor assembly support multi core.
Keep playing
I am very happy with the new version, I keep on finding things that are better than the last. It is definitely making my life a bit easier. It is just the drawings which are a pain in the arse. Even the detailing side has some cool new features. I must admit though it's taken me a while to get to know the new materials library. (On a side note, I only discovered yesterday that Aluminium is the American spellling, after all these years, LOL)
I just wish I could put my finger on something definitive to see what is causing the slow down, then I could send Autodesk something to work with. I feel like a woman taking a car to the dealership and describing the fault as "It makes a noise sometimes"
rhasell wrote:I feel like a woman taking a car to the dealership and describing the fault as "It makes a noise sometimes"
Been there done that ... lol
Reg, some Americans spell Aluminium like this: Aluminum (no i after the n), The British and other countries (Australia) spell it: Aluminium (i after the n).
Some Americans also pronounce it differently something like: Aloom-in-num whereas the British say something like: Al - you-mini-um.
Just in case you were wondering
Personally, I have no idea which way is correct, but being Australian, we tend to follow the British
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