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Why be satisfied with just the same old "Paperwhites" for indoor bloom? The same "magic" happens with these narcissus--bloom takes a bit longer, but the flowers are not white. Erlicheer is famous for its lovely double lemon yellow blooms. Any planter will do. It's easy!
How to grow Indoor Narcissus Almost everyone knows "Paperwhites," the fragrant miniature narcissus on long stems that bloom quickly indoors, much like an amaryllis. (Each bulb produces a "bouquet" of several flowers.) Like the Paperwhites, this narcissus is also from the famous "tazetta" group, and will perform just the same for you. To make indoor pots and bowls, simply arrange the bulbs in a shallow bowl or pot so they don't touch one another. Surround them with pebbles, sand, or even soil, but no soil is really needed. Be sure the bulbs are about half into the planting medium, with the top half sticking up in the clear. Then, just water. Almost instantly, the bulbs will sprout, and in just 10-12 weeks, you'll have a flurry of fragrant daffodils right there on the coffee table.
Indoor narcissus are great for making holiday gifts that will bring weeks and weeks of pleasure during the holidays or anytime during a long winter.
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I will buy again. Healthy bulbs.
By Denixf
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Love the fragrance. Makes my bedroom smell really nice or any room for that matter. Not a long blooming season but worth it.
Lovely outdoors!
By okieflowergirl
from Stillwater, OK
I have these under a tree in our frontyard in Oklahoma. One of my favorite flowers! They have done well even with 2 summers of record heat & drought. Only con for me is they break dormancy early, so severe freeze can leave some foliage looking a little less than lovely. American Meadows has a much better price on these than where I got my bulbs. Glad to have found these, I will be ordering more.
By Hopeful Gardener!!
from South Glens Falls, N.y.
These bulbs were substituted to replace my original order!! We planted them to be delivered to our Church Home Bound Folks right before Easter!! Directions said 10 to 12 weeks from planting to bloom!! We found that after 6 weeks we had to start delivering and even then they were tall and straggly and we weren't very proud of our gift!! Flowers were very sparse or non existant on some of the plants!! unforunately...we would not order these again!!
2. Place bulb in vase.
3. Place the vase in a sunny, warm location. Paperwhites are tropical bulbs and prefer temperatures around 70 degrees Fahrenheit.
4. If you place the Paperwhites in a cooler spot (45-55 degrees Fahrenheit) directly after planting for 3 to 4 weeks the stems will stay shorter.
5. Every week for the next weeks add or replace the water in the vase, filling the vase to the fill line so that the bulb itself is not sitting in water.
6. All flowers grow toward the light, to ensure a straight stem turn vase regularly.
7. Plant bulbs in 2 week intervals for a constant display of flowers.
2. Water the bulbs thoroughly, allowing time for the soil to absorb enough water so it is thoroughly soaked.
3. Place your pot in a sunny, warm location. Paperwhites are tropical bulbs and prefer temperatures around 70 degrees Fahrenheit.
4. If you place your Paperwhites for 3 to 4 weeks in a cooler place (45-55 degrees Fahrenheit) directly after planting, they generally stay shorter which prevents them from falling over when in full bloom.
5. In 6 to 10 weeks you'll have a mass of pure white, multiple blooming Narcissus in your room. When the plants begin to flower, remove them from direct sunlight for a longer enjoyment.
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Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita, Ada, or Ardor) is not what one would call a traditional mystery story. You won't find it among the likes of Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, Father Brown, or Phillip Marlowe in the mystery section of your local bookstore. Instead it's shelved in the classics section with Ulysses, The Adventures of Augie March, Mrs. Dalloway, and other noted literary titles (Pale Fire came in at #53 on the list of the Modern Library 100 Best Novels). And, yet, I can't think of a greater mystery.
Pale Fire presents a puzzle and then begins unraveling the plot through a set of carefully planted clues, like bread crumbs for an inquisitive robin, and like any good riddle, it serves up these morsels as red herrings that take the reader far off course. But Pale Fire is not so much a whodunit (though those elements certainly exist) but a who-wrote-it? Of course, literally, Nabokov penned it but, let me clarify:
In the novel, John Shade composes a 999 line poem in four cantos called Pale Fire. It's a brilliant tour-de-force about his life, wife Sybil, the tragic death of his daughter Hazel Shade, the supernatural, the quest for knowledge, and the hopes that gods are "playing a game of worlds" to offset what appears to be a chaotic randomness of life. The famed and picturesque opening lines begin:
I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
By the false azure in the windowpane;
I was the smudge of ashen fluff—and I
Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky.

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I see this in posts from time to time and i would like to let all of you know that walmart buys from local greenhouses .
so do most smaller hardware stores and even some small greenhouses . I sell to walmart and last year a lady was at my greenhouse and she said that walmarts wave petunias were nicer than mine. most likly cause they were almost twice as much.... |
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- Posted by john__showme__usa 5 (My Page) on Thu, Apr 26, 07 at 15:15
A good majority of the walmarts in my experience buy plants from Bonnie Plants and they are darn nice plants. However, my mom in Minnesota has better luck with sweet peppers grown locally. Canadian walmarts I'll bet do buy locally. Shipping anything to Canada is a pain in the butt. Acclimation to a specific area in the country can count for a great deal as to successful growing of store-bought plants. |
wife works for walmarts and i am going to have to agree with SHOWME that they buy from bonnie plants. the bad thing at lest in ohio they never have the same type two years in a row. dan let it burn |
All my pepper seedlings I bought from HomeDepot and Walmart are Bonnies. Good to hear ya'll think highly of bonnies....As I was a bit worried buying from Walmart |
The only worry I have about buying from our local Wal-Mart (and some of the other big-box stores in my area, for that matter) is the way they take care of their plants. If I can pick up a plant fresh off the truck, before they've had a chance to mistreat it, great. But I don't ask them for advice because they either don't know the answer or don't have time for me. Please note that I'm not talking about ALL Wal-Marts - just the one I have experience with! |
Walmart hooked me up this year. I stopped there this year expecting a poor selection, but they had the best selection of plants, all in great condition. I had alreay filed many spots in my contatiner garden, so I didn't buy much, but I could have done my whole garden for the year with what they had there. Last year Target had the best to pick from. This year, Target didn't have much that looked good. Home depot and Lowes are pretty consistent. With the big box stores, it's all about timing and luck. You have to make your rounds looking for the fresh deliveries, all the while trying to decide whether to hold out for something better, which may never come. |
- Posted by wayassfasterthanyou (My Page) on Fri, Apr 27, 07 at 2:03
ok kids look at this ... quote"In the year 2000, our business had grown to 24 growing stations and a sales force of 175. Five years later in 2005, we have 35 stations in 25 states. 293 route salespeople deliver quality vegetable and flower plants to over 8,000 accounts throughout the United States. " end quote. This is what i am getting at. you guys may buy from walmart and you may be buying Bonnies but you may also be getting a plant bonnie did not grow. in the end who cares .... really?? we have 1 store that buys from 5 or 6 of us sellers. we all do our best and if it goes bad it is usally cause some moron has no idea what watering means... 12 million wave petunias are hard to grow as they need alot of attention. these hot peppers are a little more forgiving at least the 7 or 8 i take on. next year i will post a thread on the hardest pepper to grow. no ... i will post it now../ shayne |
- Posted by john__showme__usa 5 (My Page) on Fri, Apr 27, 07 at 5:12
We had a hard freeze here about 2-3 weeks ago and my local W*M didn't even attempt to bring their plants inside or even cover them up. What a sorry looking mess the next day. A week or less later they had all new plants. Ask the dept mgr when new deliveries are coming in and be there early before they kill the plants. It just so happens that the mgr at my store is an old friend & he knows virtually nothing about gardening other than the selling end. Shayne, Are you saying that even if a Bonnie label on the plant it doesn't mean that they grew it? I get the picture now. Seems alright to me as am sure they wouldn't distribute bad plants. jt (a little slow at times) |
I have a friend that is a contract grower for Bonnie Plants with a station in Montana. They have the freshest plants. Deliver twice a week to every box store. Most vendors only deliver every two weeks and drop off a semi load. Stores do not take care of plants very well. Bonnie salesmen go more often with smaller loads so there is always something new out of the greenhouse depending on the season. Plants are grown in a cooler house and not forced with too much heat or fertilizer. This makes a hardier plant. If you can't find what you want at WM go across the street to Lowes or HD and they probably will have something different. Just wanted to set the record straight for all you wondering. happy planting. |
- Posted by john__showme__usa 5 (My Page) on Thu, May 10, 07 at 6:15
> Plants are grown in a cooler house and not forced with too much heat or fertilizer. mich44, Thanks for the info! Does Bonnie use growth retardants to keep the plants stocky and healthy looking after delivery? jt |
- Posted by john__showme__usa 5 (My Page) on Thu, May 10, 07 at 6:19
I forgot to add that keeping seedlings cool and little or no fertilizer is my seedling strategy too. jt |
I go check out Walmart early in the season. They have a pretty good selection and plants are small, cheap and healthy (for the most part). I assume they buy from local growers, especially up here in Canada, and I like that. It is later in the season that Walmart becomes a poor choice for plant shopping. They don't seem to repot plants that have outgrown their pots, the selection is much narrower, and they don't seem to take care of their plants very well. In my experience, Walmart (and other large chains) tend to kill or seriously stunt plants if they are left in their care for too long. The time to shop is early in the season, when the plants are just arriving from the growers. |
I am a supporter of my local nursery...family owned for like 100 years! I might pay 20 cents more to buy things there...and literally...it is 20 cents more for a tomato or pepper plant....but at least I know their employees get paid well and return back year and year, some of them for 20 years!!! It is nice to see the same people working not to mention, if I have a problem with a plant they help out BIG TIME and take it back for a new one if I do something terrible and screw it up! The only time I try to buy plants at a boxstore is at the end of the season when things are 50% off or more! Then I drop perennials in for the next year and they are good to go! My mom used to buy from the nursery and box stores and all her plants always seemed the same!!! |
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Has anyone ever bought off the website? |
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Yes, it is a great and reliable website. |
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Yes!! It's completely reliable and safe to order lighting (or anything they sell) through -- I've ordered numerous things from them and it's always the same as if you ordered from an individual company. |
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Hold On: HodgePodge for Jan. 23
January 23, 2015 | by Tony Scida
Rubbing elbows
Good news: the media elite put their pants on one leg at a time and eat lunch at their desks just like the rest of us.
Bridge to nowhere
Freakonomics Radio takes a look at the stock answer preamble "that's a good question."
The alibi
I've lost all sense for what constitutes a legitimate development among all the pieces of Serial-related news, but this seems relatively important: Asia's new affadavit.
How to save a life
More good news: going from extremely lazy to only mostly lazy could make all the difference in your health, so remove that ultramarathon from your bucket list and add in, say, taking out the trash, I guess?
The story of us
Fast Company has the "untold story" of the invention of the video game cartridge. I hope they make a movie version staring Benedict Cumberbatch.
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0 commentsPosted in: HodgePodgeState of the (Social Media) Union
January 22, 2015 | by Kelsey Leavey
If predictions about the most recent State of the Union (SOTU) address are correct, a little more than 30 million people watched the SOTU from the comfort of their home on their television sets. That's a significant drop from an average of 42.3 million people watching the speech during the past two decades.
When you compare that statistic to the 125 million Americans that log onto Facebook every day, 30 million viewers starts to sound quite small. On Facebook alone, President Obama boasts more than 44 million likes. Couple this with the fact that 44% of Americans reported finding their news on social media platforms and now you're likely starting to understand why social media played a major role in the SOTU communications strategy.
Instead of just accepting the fact that the TV audience is dwindling, the White House embraced social media and used it to set the stage for and amplify the President's message leading up to the address. For example, senior advisor Valerie Jarrett penned a post on LinkedIn pushing for paid sick days and family leave policies. Additionally, a video about the expansion of broadband access was posted by the Administration to Upworthy. The President also expanded upon his proposal for free community college with a video posted to Facebook. Lastly, the White House made the full text of the SOTU speech available on Medium before the address, a privilege that is usually only afforded to the press.
In further acknowledgment of the power of social, the White House continued its multi-media and multi-platform outreach during his address. Here's a few examples of how they handled communications on the major platforms:
- Twitter: Excerpts from the speech were live tweeted during the speech. Some tweets even had accompanying graphics and video to drive home key points. According to Twitter, there were more than 2.6 million tweets sent related to #SOTU from the start of the speech through the end of the Republican response.
- Facebook: Longer excerpts from the speech were shared during the SOTU along with embedded video clips that showed the sound bite as well as additional information related to the topic.
- YouTube: A livestream broadcast (that you can now watch on demand) incorporated a split screen to provide viewers with relevant graphs and charts to supplement the President's speech. Three YouTube "stars" are also set to interview the President on 1/22. A strategy sure to appeal to the younger American demographic.
- State of the Union Landing Page: Contains a link to the YouTube version of the speech. There are also bits and pieces of the SOTU that have been broken down into messages crafted for sharing on social media. By now, I'm sure you've all seen this one.
Social media wasn't just utilized by the White House. According to the New York Times, "members of Congress (or their staffs) wrote more than one thousand tweets during President Obama's address." And this shouldn't be surprising, these channels give politicians the ability to carefully craft and control messages.
While this year's SOTU certainly wasn't the first presidential speech given since the rise of social media, it was the first time that social media was intentional and where the end user – and their channel preferences – took a front seat in the outreach planning process.
0 commentsPosted in: Public Relations | Social MediaWikinomics and the importance of sharing
January 20, 2015 | by Caroline L. Platt
One of the most influential books I've read in my career is Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott. You know those books where you can still remember just where you were, what you were doing and what you were feeling as you read them? Well, this one ranked up there for me and I think about it to this day.
Wikinomics is about breaking down barriers. It describes a new kind of economy where sharing knowledge and expertise and trusting that others will do the same for you is not just something you do with trusted colleagues, but is critical to even the largest, most successful enterprises. In light of trends like "brand journalism" and "content marketing" the idea of sharing expertise openly and transparently may sound almost quaint. But in 2006, it was new and I was rapt.
Having been baptized in Tapscott's belief that sharing is a sound business practice, I'm thrilled to be joining the University of Richmond's School of Professional and Continuing Studies as a part-time instructor with its Institute on Philanthropy. On January 25-31, I'll work with marketing experts from across Richmond to present a curriculum on non-profit marketing.
The goal of the program is to arm non-profit leaders with essential tools for marketing their organization—strategy, excellent written content, a command of rich media, social/digital media and public relations. I'll focus on media outreach. If you want to see how the media pros at The Hodges Partnership build media lists, connect with journalists, write press releases, distribute news and measure success, I'll be covering all of the above in detail. And while my expertise certainly doesn't rise to the level or value of the business acumen detailed in Wikinomics (sorry, no gold mines here) I will take some pride in sharing openly and freely what I know and what I've learned through more than a decade of slogging it out on the front lines of PR.
I think Tapscott would approve.
(Photo: Caroline with Don Tapscott at the 2014 Niagara Summit in Las Vegas. Don was as keynote speaker and Caroline presented on social strategy.)
0 commentsPosted in: Public Relations | Social MediaNever Say Never: HodgePodge for Jan. 16
January 16, 2015 | by Tony Scida
News you can use
It's impossible to keep up-to-date on all the news, so of course media and technology companies have been working for years on ways to make it easier to get caught up. In Fast Company, Harry McCracken takes a look at one such app, called Timeline.
Disappearing money
If you were wondering how much it costs to advertise on Snapchat, the answer is $750,000. A day. (If you don't know what Snapchat is, ask a teenager.)
Have you tried turning it off and on?
If you've used a Windows PC, you've almost certainly had to press Ctrl+Alt+Del to reboot a stuck machine at some point. Turns out it was never even meant to be consumer facing.
But did they use their hands?
How soccer fans saved the Seattle Seahawks.
Contageous sparkles
Mathew Carpenter thought it would be funny if you could anonymously ship glitter to people. It backfired when he had to, you know, actually ship glitter places.
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0 commentsPosted in: HodgePodgeThe 2015 marketing Crystal Ball: What others think
January 15, 2015 | by Jon Newman
Sonali and I got together last week to plan our upcoming Hodges Starters presentation for next Wednesday (shameless plug: you can register here). While we have things pretty nailed down I have to admit it was harder than usual to gain consensus around what 2015 will bring in the PR/marketing/social/digital work.
So while I know you're waiting with baited breath to see what Sonali and I say, here's a rundown of links from other PR/marketing folks as they looked into their crystal ball.
I really like what Lee Odden did as he talked to a bunch of folks and got some consensus around content and writing.
The folks at Sprocket Communications also talk about trends in traditional PR like media relations.
We promise (fingers crossed behind my back) not to "borrow" too much from these great lists and ideas but this is a great way to get us all in the right mindset for next week.
Please share your thoughts on 2015 in comments below and we can share it with the class.
Also click below to register for our event on the 21st. Hope to see you then.
0 commentsPosted in: Hodges Digital Strategies | The Hodges PartnershipThe Year of ???
January 12, 2015 | by Jon Newman
So if you're like me you've consumed all of the "year-ender/year-beginninger" marketing guru roundups. You know the ones where marketing leaders are asked about the big trends of the year and they each proclaim it as "The Year of The (insert the cool marketing word here)."
I admit I've been guilty of doing that in the past inserting words like "social" or "content" or "personal" into the void as a way of simply describing what the coming year will be known for in public relations and marketing.
Next week, Sonali Shetty from Hodges Digital and I are hosting the first 2015 Hodges Starters event where we will look into our marketing Crystal Balls to talk about what to expect this year.
There are a limited number of seats available to our early morning event on Wednesday the 21st, please click here to register.
I will tell you in past years the answer to that question has come to me pretty easily.
This year, not so much.
Not that there's nothing new or things aren't trending in a certain direction, but because more than at any other time I think the practice of public relations has reached a true tipping point. Media relations as we knew it isn't quite dead but it is quite different. Social is now content which is now also paid which sounds a lot like advertising but really isn't.
We are seeing a maturation of PR, content, social and digital so maybe instead of this being the year we talk about this stuff and experiment, this is The Year of Implementation?
I can't promise to have it all figured out by next Wednesday but Sonali and I will share our thoughts on our marketing disciplines and how technology continues to drive all these changes.
Again please join us on Wednesday the 21st at 7:30am.
Looking forward to seeing you.
0 commentsPosted in: Hodges Digital Strategies | Public Relations | Social Marketing | The Hodges PartnershipWelcome back: HodgePodge for Jan. 9
January 09, 2015 | by Tony Scida
And the selfie goes to…
Awards season officially gets underway this weekend with the Golden Globes (sorry People's Choice Awards) and Facebook and Instagram are aiming to make it the "most social Golden Globes to date."
In 1911, T. Kennard Thomson proposed filling in the East River as part of a plan that would add 50 square miles of land to Manhattan.
The other enigma
But can it fly?
Wired drove(?) the self-driving car of the near future.
Play to pay
If you're stuck on a project, it might be time to get out your guitar or pick up that knitting project.
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0 commentsPosted in: HodgePodgeYour 2015 PR Resolution: Add a data breach section to your crisis manual
January 07, 2015 | by Greg Surber
If we keep up at this pace, hackers may very well be Time's 2015 "Person of the Year." By now, we're all familiar with the Sony/The Interview/North Korea saga, where North Korea allegedly hacked Sony's servers—releasing loads of damaging emails, contract details and the like—with the United States allegedly shutting down the country's Internet for 36 hours in response.
Then over the holidays, news broke that Amazon was hacked, putting thousands of passwords and credit card numbers online. As an Amazon Prime evangelist, this one struck a nerve—especially after I found out my credit card was used to buy a cup of coffee in Brazil. (Note: I was not, nor have I ever been, in Brazil.)
And finally this week at the annual Consumer Electronic Show, The New York Times noted how the Internet of Things is ushering in a new era for gadgets—and clothing for that matter. (Think Internet-connected ceiling fans.) But as you can imagine, having virtually every personal and home device online in some capacity creates some enormous security concerns, which companies are still grabbling to figure out.
Back in October, I attended a seminar on the future of PR and big data at the International PRSA Conference, led by Kathy Stershic of Dialog Research & Communications. Her advice for PR professionals: the question is no longer if your company will experience a data breach, but when you will experience one. Like any crisis, how you respond when that day comes will have a huge impact on your organization's reputation—and most likely your bottom line. If it isn't there already, you might want to add a data breach section to your crisis communications manual at some point in 2015.
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0 commentsPosted in: Crisis Communications | Public RelationsCounting to 10: Tips to steer clear of a social media crisis
January 06, 2015 | by Lindsay Grant
So, you're the content manager for your company's social media channels. Congratulations! You've been selected as the voice of the company and the one who "gets it." On top of that, everyone thinks you're hip and in tune with what's going on in the world. Life is pretty good for you, my friend.
Until there's a social crisis. Then, all eyes are on you and everyone will wonder how you let this happen.
My advice? Don't let it happen.
Growing up, my mom often reminded me to "count to 10" before I opened my mouth. At the time, I didn't listen and often found myself in trouble. Today I remind myself of this nearly every day as a communications professional. (Thanks, mom!) One could argue that it's the cornerstone of all sage advice. Sure, "think before you speak" also falls into this advice but, for me, there was something about those 10 seconds.
Just think, if Congressional aide Elizabeth Lauten had "counted to 10" and considered the tips below, then this mess would have never happened and she'd likely still have her job on the Hill. However, the urge to chime in and be snarky led to a highly inappropriate comment that rubbed nearly everyone the wrong way.
Now, let's not be literal, please allocate more than 10 seconds to your social media planning - but you get the sentiment. Below are some keep tips to consider when taking the reigns as social content manager.
Count to 10 before you post.
This should dovetail into most of the tips below but always think about the gravity of what you're about to post. Who will be affected? Will people be insulted? Do we sound sincere? Is this on brand? If it's current event-related, are we adding to or detracting from the conversation? (Bonus: This can be applied to your professional and personal social media practices.)
Know your audience.
Are you a brand that's speaking to a wide range of people with varied and diverse backgrounds? If so, then your content needs to be one size fits all.
Recognize the weight of your words.
Whether you're representing a brand that employs thousands or a nonprofit that helps thousands, there's a lot that could be at stake from poor judgment on social media. Remind yourself that your role as social media content manager matters to more people than just you and the effect of your misstep could be far reaching.
Know your humor (or lack thereof…).
Any good speechwriter will tell you to avoid all attempts at humor unless you are 100% positive it'll be well received. Certainly humor has been done well on social, but I can promise you that considerable time and thought went into that post. When using humor, go ahead and count to 100.
Plan your content.
I'd be willing to put good money on that a large amount of ill-fated social media posts have come from the immediate need for content. The struggle for good content is real - and when forced, we often fall flat on coming up with that genius 140-character post. Take a tip from the pros and plan out your content in advance. We're fans of the social editorial calendar.
Tighten up your password security.
Even though everything worked out for Burger King, they learned a major lesson in online security. Maintain strong, bullet-proof passwords and change them regularly.
Let others know where the bones are buried.
You can't be everywhere all the time. You'll need to make sure others have access to updating social platforms when needed. Put a reminder on your calendar to share updated passwords with those who can fill your shoes in the time of need.
If it's a current event, consider whether you need to weigh in.
Oftentimes this is where brands make a mistake. Social "newsjacking" has been done incorrectly and insensitively many times. Should you choose to contribute to the conversation, make sure it's tasteful, objective and appropriate. When in doubt, sit it out.
React quickly when a problem arises.
Experts are still waiting on the research to come in but it's been said that time moves faster on social media. A spill can become a mess in no time. Should you find your brand in the line of fire, take immediate control of the situation. Whether that means apologizing for something inappropriate that was said, addressing a disgruntled customer, changing passwords if you've been hacked, etc. Time is of the essence on social media.
Recovering from a social crisis is an uphill battle. Even after the apology and work to win back followers, you'll spend hours creating content just to dig yourself out of a hole. Don't let that happen to you.
I look back on all those weekends I spent grounded throughout middle school and I know that mom was right - I should have counted.
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December 23, 2014 | by Josh Dare
Let's take stock in 2014 — the highs and lows, the gong-able and wrong-able moments of the year.
The Gong Show.
That yard-wide brass gong in our lobby is not there for some staff production of The Mikado; it's for celebrating client success — loudly and with enough reverberation to affect the drive-thru window at McDonald's across the street. Among 2014 media hits still ringing in our ears:
- Reginald's Homemade peanut butter made a star turn on the TODAY Show and in the pages of Cooking with Paula Deen, Triathlete and USAirways' in-flight magazine and on SouthernLiving.com.
- Sandler Training showcased it expertise in Fortune, USA Today, Inc. and Entrepreneur.com.
- ChildFund International's work was profiled in The Wall Street Journal, al Jazeera, BBC, USA Today and The Washington Post.
- Collared Greens collared a nice full-page hit in Coastal Living.
- The University of Richmond's professors were quoted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today and by the Associated Press, which all told, reached almost 340 million eyeballs in 2014 (that's assuming everyone has two of them).
Write on.
The year included some notable op-ed placements that appeared in The New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer¸ Seattle Times, Huffington Post, al Jazeera, The Washington Post, and The Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Lead Gen.
Whatever you call it — content marketing, brand journalism, social media — our expertise in this dynamic space has helped clients like Sandler, Hilldrup and Passion Roses (as well as THP ourselves) generate new client leads and stay top-of-mind among key client prospects.
What happens in Vegas.
Our social media campaign to promote Tridium's Niagara Summit in Las Vegas led to 40 percent increase in followers and included up-to-the-minute posts at the conference to its 1300 attendees.
Bon appetit.
Our resident foodies helped open two new restaurants in 2014 — the new Chuy's location on Hull Street in Chesterfield and the new Cooper's Hawk restaurant on West Broad in Short Pump. (A couple of us may still be hung over.) We also broke out the grand opening scissors for the opening of four new Kroger stores this past year.
Let's get Starters.
The past year saw the kickoff of our new Starters series, a set of workshops that serve the same roll as Toto tugging the curtain back on the Wizard. Our first two sessions — on content marketing and media relations — seemed to be as well received as the donuts.
Play ball.
Our annual baseball outing included a visit to DC's Newseum as well as Nats Park.
The year was not without its disappointments, even beyond the excess Kardashian news we were made to endure. Some of the low points included:
- When Belgium scored twice in extra time — despite the Herculean efforts of USA keeper Tim Howard — the air went out of the building at 1805 East Broad Street. See you in Kazan in 2018.
- The Hall of Fame's Golden Era Committee failed to elect Gil Hodges to the Hall, extending an indignity that has lasted more than 35 years.
- Josh's doctor tells him to lose 30 pounds, telling him his BMI is too high. When Josh points out that Adrian's Peterson's BMI is even higher, the astounded doc says, "are you for real comparing yourself to Adrian Peterson?" Point taken.
- Five short-sighted members of Richmond's city council keep Shockoe Bottom from moving into the 21st century by failing to support a downtown ballpark, a new Hyatt and Kroger, new apartments and a slave memorial. Definitely the year's low point.
Lots to look forward to in 2015. See you in January.
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The deal was important. SeaMicro offers AMD a chance to take share in the mainstream server-computer market, in which Intel sells about 96% of the chips, according to IDC. If the effort succeeds, it could lift AMD's stock substantially. At a recent price of $3.94, the shares are up 64% this year, but still down 32% in the past 12 months, as last spring's fleeting hopes of a sustained turnaround faded.
This time could be different. SeaMicro's technology looks good; its management team, astute; and the market opportunities, promising. One newly converted bull, Dan Niles, who bought AMD this year after being negative on its prospects last year, thinks the shares could go to over $8. Niles, who works at AlphaOne Capital Partners, sees this happening if AMD's revenue grows to $7 billion by 2015, and if its stock multiple of enterprise value to trailing 12-month sales rises from 0.7 times now to 1.3 times, which would bring it closer to Intel's 2.2. He considers this very possible.
The 30-year circus of AMD versus Intel is at a particularly interesting juncture. The SeaMicro deal places AMD's server-microprocessor business under the purview of the start-up's founder, Andrew Feldman, a Stanford University brat and an economist by training, who built SeaMicro by allying with Intel and teaching the semiconductor giant how to better use its own chips.
This comes at a time when the plain old personal-computer market is terrible, a concern for both companies, albeit more so for Intel, which sells the vast majority of PC microprocessors.
Markets that neither chip maker dominates, such as those for tablets and "microservers," a new class of server computers, offer lots of opportunity for both companies. The tablet market could expand by more than 50% this year, while microservers are a brand-new market.
Along with Feldman, much of the AMD management team is relatively new, including CEO Rory Read and Lisa Su, head of its global business units, each of whom came aboard in the past two years.
At AMD's offices last week, Feldman wildly scribbled diagrams about the server market on a whiteboard, and made it clear that he relishes the irony of battling his former partner.
Feldman built SeaMicro by convincing Intel of the promise of microservers. Intel wanted to sell traditional Xeon chips—among its most expensive—to SeaMicro to use in microservers. But Feldman insisted on much cheaper Atom chips that Intel sells for tablets and smartphones. These are vastly weaker than Xeon processors, but can be grouped to accomplish specific tasks, such as serving up Web pages or databases. "What I was able to show Intel is that we would sell four times as many Atom chips as Xeon chips, and that Intel would make 1.7 times the revenue as they would have with Xeon," says Feldman.
THE WAY FELDMAN DID THAT was to design a "fabric" chip that combines all the Atom chips with the memory and network bandwidth they need to operate in concert. He had concluded that power consumption is the biggest variable cost facing companies such as Google GOOG 1.0404386309624056% Google Inc. Cl C U.S.: Nasdaq USD539.95 5.56 1.0404386309624056% /Date(1422050400172-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2259276 AFTER HOURS USD539.5 -0.45 -0.08334105009723122% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 16209 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 366961347070.999 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 1355410 More quote details and news » (GOOG) that are building the world's biggest data centers. A fabric chip lets the Atom do needed tasks while using much less power.
The microserver promises to boost ARM Holdings ARMH -2.0781379883624274% ARM Holdings PLC ADS U.S.: Nasdaq USD47.12 -1 -2.0781379883624274% /Date(1422050400117-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1363845 AFTER HOURS USD47.1 -0.02 -0.042444821731748725% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 34823 P/E Ratio 75.2234993614304 Market Cap 22239859011.9706 Dividend Yield 0.5132173174872665% Rev. per Employee 444649 More quote details and news » (ARMH), which sells designs to all of Intel's competitors, including AMD, to make small, power-efficient chips for mobile phones and tablets.
A new technology from ARM, called the Cortex A57, is that company's first attempt to help partners such as Qualcomm QCOM 0.37549544537931995% Qualcomm Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD72.175 0.27 0.37549544537931995% /Date(1422050400058-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 8047340 AFTER HOURS USD72.28 0.105 0.14547973675095255% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 94713 P/E Ratio 15.258985200845666 Market Cap 119226541274.747 Dividend Yield 2.3276757880152408% Rev. per Employee 846230 More quote details and news » (QCOM), Nvidia NVDA 0.29055690072639223% NVIDIA Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD20.71 0.06 0.29055690072639223% /Date(1422050400154-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2963387 AFTER HOURS USD20.68 -0.03 -0.14485755673587639% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 47002 P/E Ratio 19.723809523809525 Market Cap 11256650509.4571 Dividend Yield 1.6417189763399325% Rev. per Employee 519438 More quote details and news » (NVDA), and AMD storm the server market, where the ARM camp has had no presence. Feldman's microprocessor team will sell ARM-based chips, as well as the x86 chips that are compatible with Intel processors. "All you have to ask is, Will ARM win? And will AMD win with ARM?" says Feldman.
The ARM camp can, indeed, win in servers, he contends, given that history shows that smaller, higher volume, lower cost technologies of the kind ARM develops usually win the day against big, overdesigned parts like Xeon.
Even some analysts who appreciate Intel's strengths agree that chips running on ARM technology will capture share in the server market. FBR Capital Markets' Christopher Rolland, who recently raised his rating on Intel to the equivalent of a Buy, writes that ARM-based parts will steal 10% of Intel's business by 2018.
Of course, AMD isn't unique in offering the guts of a server on a chip. FBR's Rolland observes that Intel recently purchased Valley start-up Fulcrum Microsystems, and has bought various product lines from Cray CRAY 1.364877161055505% Cray Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD33.42 0.45 1.364877161055505% /Date(1422050400228-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 137743 AFTER HOURS USD33.42 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 17892 P/E Ratio 33.42 Market Cap 1361129706.84265 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 582564 More quote details and news » (CRAY), the supercomputer giant, and QLogic QLGC -1.2791572610985704% QLogic Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD13.12 -0.17 -1.2791572610985704% /Date(1422050400173-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 505291 AFTER HOURS USD13.12 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2311 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 1156449233.07678 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 461802 More quote details and news » (QLGC), the storage-networking vendor.
This week, AMD will announce details of its server-chip strategy. Feldman thinks its chips, which will ship in 2014, will be very competitive with Intel's next server processor, code-named Avoton, which will use the same technology that the Atom does for phones and tablets. Yes, Intel has learned the lesson Feldman taught it. "Whether Avoton will close the gap with AMD is hard to say right now," comments Linley Gwennap, whose Linley Group evaluates microprocessors. "Intel really hasn't given sufficient details to make that conclusion."
High sales of server chips could help AMD, starting in 2014. The company's revenue fell 17% last year, to $5.4 billion, following gains in 2010 and 2011. That was in part the breakdown of the PC market, still a concern for AMD, but also in part the onslaught of Intel in server chips, where the Xeon line, although expensive, did rack up gains.
Overall, AMD's prospects look better than they have in quite some time. It has already won the business to power both the new PlayStation 4 game console from Sony SNE 1.9395579612088407% Sony Corp. ADS U.S.: NYSE USD22.6 0.43 1.9395579612088407% /Date(1422050577042-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2942451 AFTER HOURS USD22.6 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 20315 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 26891910448.0044 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 552079 More quote details and news » (SNE), as well as the rival next-generation Xbox from Microsoft MSFT 0.10608953957139826% Microsoft Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD47.18 0.05 0.10608953957139826% /Date(1422050400192-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 25752011 AFTER HOURS USD47.27 0.09 0.1907587961000424% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 459583 P/E Ratio 18.286821705426355 Market Cap 388897785308.488 Dividend Yield 2.6282323018228064% Rev. per Employee 714094 More quote details and news » (MSFT). But the server business could be an even bigger prize.
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Apple is looking to pile on with a Galaxy S III ban, despite that phone not being involved in the case.
South Korean analyst: Samsung "may lack in innovation, but right now, no one can beat Samsung in playing catch-up"
The crippling U.S. patent court
$1.05B USD copyright infringement verdict
against the
world's largest smartphone maker
, Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (
), is far from over.
I. Ban 'Em All
Apple, Inc. (
) is pushing the San Jose, Calif.
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
ban all currently on-sale products
that were found to infringe in the case
another couple products not listed in the case, which include Samsung's flagship
Galaxy S III smartphone
Apple previously tried to ban the Galaxy S III,
but failed
I predicted
it would now try to lump in such a ban on the wings of its massive victory, and indeed it did.
If Apple's request is granted, Samsung would essentially be banned from selling any smartphone other than its Focus 2 Windows Phone and its non-Android quasi-smartphones.
In Samsung's home nation of South Korea, shock is in the air. Days before the U.S. verdict a Korean court had ruled that
both companies had infringed on each others' work
. That verdict stood in stark contrast to the American jurors, who decided that Samsung stole a plethora of technologies and designs from Apple, and that Apple stole nothing from Samsung.
Questions of bias persist -- at least one of the jurors had a family member
who held a large quantity of Apple stock
, according to past reports -- but South Korean analysts fear that there may be a hint of truth in the ruling. They fear that perhaps their culture relies a bit too much on imitation when looking to conquer a new field. But many of the critics also express feelings of pride in the company. Even if Apple does "kick it out" of the U.S. market, what Samsung did -- beating Apple in an unregulated market battle -- was impressive.
Comments James Song, KDB Daewoo Securities' Samsung-centric analyst, in
an interview
The New York Times
, "The ruling makes us reconsider the brand value of Samsung because it depicts Samsung as a copycat. But a copycat or not, what Samsung has done with its smartphones was a brilliant move. Look what has happened to companies like Nokia, Motorola and BlackBerry, which didn't do as Samsung did. Samsung may lack in innovation, but right now, no one can beat Samsung in playing catch-up."
Indeed -- outside of Samsung, nearly ever phonemaker that isn't named "Apple" is in bad financial trouble. Google Inc.'s (
) Motorola and Taiwan's HTC Corp. (
) are
disappointing earnings and shrinking market share. Research in Motion, Ltd. (
) is
creeping ever closer
to a breakup liquidation/fire sale. And Nokia Oyj. (
) is
requiring deep financial support
from Microsoft Corp. (
) to stay afloat.
JoongAng Ilbo
, a local newspaper, takes a more cynical bent, commenting in an editorial, "Copying and clever upgrading are no longer viable. Samsung must reinvent itself as a first-mover, despite the huge risks involved in acting as a pioneer, if it hopes to beat the competition."
II. Can Samsung Stay Ahead of Apple?
South Korean analysts acknowledge that Samsung's phones are "similar" to Apple's and that it arrived cautiously to the smartphone market, versus some other early adopters, such as RIM and Nokia, who plunged in headfirst. But they point out that for the similarities, Samsung established a unique look for its products, made them cheaper than Apple's, and endowed them with arguably superior hardware.
The company's expertise in display and chip-making gave it a key advantage, when it eventually did elect for a full-on smartphone push.
Anthony Michell, author of "Samsung Electronics and the Struggle for Leadership of the Electronics Industry", tells
The NYT
, "Koreans do things quicker than almost anyone. Samsung Electronics and the Struggle for Leadership of the Electronics Industry. This allows them to change models, go from design to production faster than anyone at the present time. Korean companies continually set themselves challenges, like the challenge to overtake Sony in terms of brand value in the past."
Some say its legacy of rapid adaptation will allow it to survive Apple's patent assault.
Some say despite the pending bans, Samsung may be able to stay ahead of Apple.
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Even with Apple seeking to ban all its U.S. Android smartphone sales, Samsung is racing to modify its operating system to remove features -- such as "rubber-band" graphical flourishes that the
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
granted Apple exclusive rights to animate
in a mobile user interface setting.
If Samsung is able to remove the features, the ban could be reduced from months to days or weeks.
Some analysts are convinced that Apple will actually fall farther behind Samsung in U.S. sales in Q3, despite the damage to its image and potential bans. Comments Kevin Lee, an analyst at Korea Investment and Securities, "The patent ruling and Samsung's copycat image will have a negative impact on Samsung's sales of cellphones and other products. But Samsung will further widen the gap with Apple in the third quarter, though not as much as expected before the ruling."
And, of course, Samsung also
has an appeal
of Apple's court win in the U.S. federal court pipeline too -- so it potentially could undo or mar Apple's greatest legal triumph somewhere in the near future.
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I don't personally think the outcome of the trial will change consumer opinion of Samsung or Apple, really. The details are a bit too much for the average person to really care much about.
The simple truth is the judgement will make Samsung devices, and presumably ALL non-Apple / non-MS lesser than they were befor, but it will be so minor that the majority of people won't know.
No one will decide on a phone because one has an elastic-like animation. Consumer's are enthusiastic about Samsung and I honestly thing that will be true regardless of whether it's Android or WP8 and especially regardless of this judgement.
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The New York Times | December 04,2012WESTLAKE, La. — In an ambitious bet that the glut of cheap natural gas in the United States will last for many years, a South African energy company announced Monday that it would build America's first commercial plant to convert natural gas to diesel and other liquid fuels.
The company, Sasol, which is based in Johannesburg, has been a pioneer in a technology that has tantalized energy scientists for decades over its potential to produce liquid fuels without using oil, which has historically cost far more than natural gas.
Having already built smaller plants in South Africa and Qatar, Sasol has designed its new Louisiana plant to produce 96,000 barrels of fuel a day using its "gas to liquids," or GTL, technology. It will be the second-largest plant of its kind in the world, after Royal Dutch Shell's Pearl plant in Qatar, and will cost $11 billion to $14 billion to build.
"By incorporating GTL technology in the USA's energy mix," David Constable, Sasol's chief executive, said in a statement, "states such as Louisiana will be able to advance the country's energy independence through a diversification of supply."
The facility will include a gas processing plant, a chemical plant and a refinery. All are required to perform the alchemy of converting natural gas into diesel, jet fuel and other chemical products.
What makes this southwestern corner of Louisiana attractive to Sasol is its proximity to bountiful shale gas fields just north of here and west in Texas. A boom in shale drilling has reduced the price of natural gas in the United States in the last four years by more than two-thirds, encouraging many energy and chemical companies to build and expand manufacturing plants around the Gulf of Mexico to produce a variety of petrochemicals.
Sasol estimated that the plant would create at least 1,200 permanent jobs and 7,000 construction jobs. Production is scheduled to begin in 2018. The state encouraged the project with more than $2 billion worth of tax credits and other incentives.
The company said it would put off previously announced plans to build a separate gas-to-liquids plant in Canada, giving priority to the Louisiana effort.
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Blessings offer some really good bonuses, so it's always good to have the gods on your side. Every city has a temple devoted to one, or a few, of the Nine Divines. Each one offers a different effect: Arkay, for example, grants you a health boost. To get blessed, find their shrine and 'activate' it with the action button.
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Whenever you find an enchanted weapon - one with a status effect, like 'Orcish Sword of Flame' or 'Dwarven Sword of Leeching', don't sell it if you don't plan to use it. Instead, find an arcane enchanter table and disenchant the object. This will let you learn its effects and apply it to standard weapons (providing you have a filled soul gem). The benefit here is that your enchanting will level up rapidly and you can sell the magic items for a pretty penny.


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But other candidates, such as Richard Mourdock, Todd Akin, and Ken Buck, manifested a habit of saying very impolitic things long before they ended up popping off with something that immediately ended their campaign. Just as you would look at someone's past votes, you have to look at their past public statements for any things that would be very difficult to explain. You have to look for a pattern that would show real message discipline, or an inability to deal with things that would almost certainly become a problem late in the campaign.
But what I said wasn't meant as a conclusive statement about Representative King or that Senate campaign.
Geraghty: In setting up the Conservative Victory Project, have you talked with Mitch McConnell or anyone at the National Republican Senatorial Committee?
Law: No I haven't .
Geraghty: Do you have any sense of whether they see this as a good idea or a bad idea?
Law: There's fairly widespread concern about candidate quality. It's a really important issue. There's a general feeling that candidates who were nominated in Indiana and Missouri this time basically lost races that should have been won. There's also a feeling that candidates who were nominated in Delaware, Colorado, and Nevada in 2010 also blew opportunities for us. Those are a little bit more debatable, but nevertheless, there's a concern those candidates didn't perform well.
That's part of the backdrop, and that's part of the reason people who are more conservative are sensitive to the fact that only they are being singled out. What they say, and I think they're right, is that in addition to those candidates that self-destructed more spectacularly, there was also a failure to perform among some establishment candidates, leading to our view that we need to improve this on all sides.
Geraghty: In some of the examples you've cited, the, shall we say, quirkiness was visible from Day One. But in the case of Mourdock, he had already been elected statewide as secretary of state, and was not seen as some nut job who was going to blurt out controversial statements. How do you know if someone is going to be prone to making a fatal gaffe, before he says it? Doesn't the mission you guys are setting out to do require a certain amount of clairvoyance?
Law: (Laughter) That's our secret weapon! No, it is hard. We hope that by having another voice at the table, and by dealing with folks with a number of different perspectives, we can analyze these things better and have a clearer sense of who might be a strong candidate and who might not be.
On Mourdock: I know he said before the primary, "I like being in politics because it lets me inflict my opinion on other people." I know there were at least a couple of instances of similar statements.
But you're right, Mourdock is a bit of a hard case. He was strongly conservative and had a successful record.
Geraghty: Don't GOP-primary voters have the right to pick their own candidates?
Law: Absolutely, and they do. There are lots of groups who are involved already trying to influence that choice. Some of those whom we hope to work with are based in Washington and do it very aggressively. They have every bit as much right to be involved and to help primary voters make the right choice as we do.
Geraghty: I remember sitting down with you guys last cycle and discussing what you were seeing in focus groups and so on. Do the 2012 results raise questions about the effectiveness of TV advertising? Could it be that ads that seem to be effective when put before a focus group — when you have their attention — end up not having much impact when they're surrounded by the noise of all the other political ads during every commercial break?
Law: I think there's something to that. I think that there was an over-reliance — not just by us, but by others as well — on research that may have trumped judgment and experience. Not to a massive degree, but somewhat. I continue to believe that television is tremendously important when your goal is to persuade people. There is no stronger tool, and clearly the Obama campaign believed that, because they spent massively on TV all the way through Election Day.


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The game was played at Peoria's pace. The Panthers held a clear advantage on the boards. Saguaro's trademark three-point shooting was M.I.A. most of the night.
No. 2 seed Peoria (22-7) got everything it wanted in Thursday's 4A-I boys basketball semifinal against No. 3 Scottsdale Saguaro (23-8) at Jobing.com Arena. Except a victory.
Saguaro matched Peoria's defense stop for stop and made five of six free throws in the final 1:22 to squeak into the finals with a 36-33 win.
"I was proud of our kids because it isn't our pace. We tried to push the tempo, but we couldn't hit our transition buckets," Saguaro coach Bob La Rue said. "I don't think that we won the rebounding battle, but we got the ones that we had to. That's why I'm proud of the kids because this wasn't our style. I'm not exactly sure how we won, but we hit some big shots when we needed to."
Both teams knew this game would be markedly different than the Sabercats' 66-50 win Feb. 8 on their home floor. Peoria was without leader, junior point guard Dewayne Russell, who missed the contest after being ejected Feb. 3 against Avondale Agua Fria.
Russell leads the Panthers in scoring (21.7) and assists (6.9). Yet his insertion Thursday had the effect of bringing the score down, thanks to his ability to hound Saguaro's shooters on the perimeter and to slow the game's tempo.
"That's why we held them to 36. Him being able to defend (sophomore Ryan) Berg like that takes one aspect of their offense away," Peoria coach Michael Serwa said. "It allowed Lawrence to solely focus on (senior guard Jack) Connors, who hit tough shots. I thought we did a great job defensively."
Russell was the Panthers' offense in the first half, putting in 11 of Peoria's 14 points. His three from the top of the key five seconds before halftime gave the team a one-point lead.
The first two minutes of the second half was an offensive explosion - by this game's standards. Peoria scored six points, and Saguaro picked up eight, including two treys by senior guard Ross Heyl, to go up by one.
But both teams quickly settled back into a trot, combining for five points in the last six minutes of the quarter. With Russell receiving most of the defensive attention, fellow junior Lawrence Pierce broke free, scoring seven of the Panthers' nine points.
Still, Peoria never really solved Saguaro's zone and occasional half-court traps. The Sabercats made things tough for Russell - who did not score in the second half - and Pierce. No other Peoria player scored more than four points.
"What they did was they just kind of pushed us off our spots and forced us to start our offense further back than we needed to be," Serwa said. "They overloaded on Dewayne and Lawrence and we needed guys to step up on the weak side and get strong screens and seals. We didn't have that tonight. Their defense was tough. They really took a lot away."
On the other end, Saguaro kept missing good, but contested, looks from beyond the arc. The Sabercats shared the offensive load more evenly but struggled with Peoria's lateral quickness.
"We dind't shoot well at all and we had good looks all day. Part of that might be the arena, part of it was nerves," La Rue said.
The teams entered the fourth quarter tied at 23. Pierce continued to roll, making a layup off a pretty feed from Russell.
Connors began to match Pierce on the other end, tying the game at 25.
On Peoria's next possession, senior center Jason McAuley grabbed an offensive rebound and hit a cutting Goch Ajak for a layup before his momentum carried him out of bounds.
McAuley played heavy minutes in the post, giving the Panthers a more active option against Saguaro's shooters than 6-11 starting center Stephen Hadley. He swept the glass all night, finishing with a game-high 14 rebounds.
"He was a monster tonight on the boards. I tease him a lot about being soft, cause he's not, he's a Division 1 tight end," Serwa said. "That's how we know Jason, to be tough and physical. I'm definitely going to miss that kid. (Fellow senior) Gerrick Burns is another one. He's a really tough defender. We'll miss a lot of his leadership as well."
Heyl regained the lead for Saguaro by driving for a layup, getting fouled and making his free throw. Burns responded with two free throws after Russell fed him the ball.
With 2:55 remaining, Connors hit the big three the Sabercats had been waiting for. His step-back jumper put Saguaro up 31-29.
"Jack hit some tough shots. Ross hit a few big shots," La Rue said.
Pierce was called for traveling, but Peoria regained the ball after senior forward Arthur Martinet's short turnaround rimmed out. McAuley grabbed another huge offensive board and followed to tie the game at the 1:59 mark.
On Saguaro's next trip, senior forward D.J. Blum drew a foul and made his second free throw. Peoria missed and Martinet was fouled while grabbing the rebound. He made both shots.
Another offensive rebound and follow, this time by Ajak, gave the Panthers life with 27 seconds left. Connors was fouled. His first free throw just rolled in and the second swished through.
Peoria trailed 36-33 and had 14 seconds to tie. Russell got off a three from the top of the key, which bounced off the front of the rim.
It was a sad bit of deja vu for Peoria's star, whose three to tie against Dysart in a 2010 quarterfinal rimmed out.
That near miss was a catalyst for this team's drive to the final four. And with Peoria's top three scorers, rebounders and passers - Russell, Pierce and Ajak - returning, there's plenty of fuel for the 2012 team.
"(The push for 2012) has probably started right now. Dewayne is thinking about that right now," Serwa said. "He's a competitor. He understands winning and he deserves winning. He took the steps to make himself a better player this year. We'll talk about this game forever and be better prepared next year."
Saguaro gets a title shot at 4 p.m. Saturday against 4A's Cinderella story, No. 5 seed Nogales, which stunned No. 1 Kellis 66-63 in Thursday's second game. The Sabercats enter the finals riding a 15-game winning streak. Thursday, Connors was the only Saguaro player in double figures, tying Pierce for the game high with 12.
"They've had to listen to me for three years about Saguaro basketball. The last two years we haven't lived up to expectations, and I think they got tired of listening to me talking about the past," La Rue said. "Somewhere after Christmas we started competing on every possession, instead of throwing away some possessions like we did early on."
Serwa said the only thing he could ask for this year was four more points. The first-year head coach replaced the retired Ken Troutt and described his inaugural varsity squad as a pleasure to coach.
"We really were a family, from the assistant coaches, to the managers to the players. We never had any issues on the team," Serwa said. "I'm going to miss the bonds that we had together. We've just got to forge one next year and keep going."


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