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that was their 98th version, the 2000'th version was much better however they went back to version 10 now and that seems to be light years ahead of their 98th version, they should have stuck with that in the first place what took them so long to decide to use version 10 instead of 98? I think it's some crazy time travel conspiracy. windows 98 and now in 2016 we use windows 10.
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On Monday, August 10, Havaianas (known for energetic and vibrant Brazilian designs in footwear) announced a new strategic alliance with the Walt Disney Parks & Resorts in the United States and Disney Vacation Club. "We are thrilled to have entered into this relationship with the Walt Disney World Resort, the Disneyland Resort and Disney Vacation Club because they embody instant joy much like Havaianas," said Marcio Moura, Havaianas' U.S.A. President.
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Anonymous said...
Flip flops, the official footwear of third world countries.
Anonymous said...
a new strategic alliance ??? For flip flops? Finish the construction and stop with all the partners.. same ones as at the $$ store but better colors.. come on
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Ferrari is the first Formula One team to ditch the problematic KERS energy-boost system, electing not to use it for this weekend's Chinese Grand Prix.
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"We need to understand what happened to the system from the point of view of safety and reliability," Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali said. "It has delivered a performance benefit, but if it is not running safely and reliably, we can no longer take the risk of running it."
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The teams that have used KERS so far this season have had little success, despite added straight-line speed, and the device does add extra weight to the car.
BMW's Robert Kubica will use the technology in China, having opted out in the opening two races. His teammate Nick Heidfeld had used it in both Australia and Malaysia.
China will also witness the first attempts by rival teams to mimic the controversial diffuser designs used on the Brawn, Toyota and Williams cars. Those diffusers survived a legal challenge this week, putting the onus on other teams to come up with similar designs to match the clear speed advantage of the three teams already using it.
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An entirely new design would require an overhaul of the bodywork and aerodynamic package, and Ferrari is one team that will wait until a return to the European races to match the two-tiered diffuser, which channels and distributes air under the cars.
That meant Brawn, Toyota and Williams should retain their edge in Shanghai.
"If we do a good job, we should be ready by the time we return to Europe for the Spanish Grand Prix: at least, that is our current target," Domenicali said.
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Post run data really comes alive on the Garmin Connect service. After signing up for a myGarmin account, you can view workout details and analysis in a treasure trove of statistics. View run details on Garmin Connect. You can also relive the run using a player which flies through a map of your journey, feeding out the recorded statistics along the route.
We have some criticism of the service, however. Users needs to download the software from the company's website, whereas we would have liked to see this included either in the packaging or ideally on the included USB ANT+ stick, even if you may be later required to download an updated version for the latest features. The ANT+ stick plugs into your PC and provides a wireless connection to the watch for syncing data.
Also, we registered a username and when we subsequently tried to sign in, were told that no such user existed. When we tried to join again with the same name, the system said that the username was already registered.
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On both of the runs in Las Vegas, the final split time of the last incomplete mile was recorded incorrectly. While the bright lights of The Strip can cloud some reviewers' judgement, even I would have remembered a pace of Mach 1.4. This didn't affect the overall pace of the report, or the post-run data on the watch, but it shows that the Garmin Connect service has some bugs to sort out.
We also found the web page went down twice for maintenance during our testing period, once in the evening for forty five minutes, which we found irritating as we could not upload to Garmin Connect on our work PC as we don't have the required installation rights.
A word of warning to anyone wishing to share their run details online. The option exists for runners to share their efforts in twenty seven ways ranging from Twitter and Facebook to Wordpress or the humble email, however the default settings on Garmin Connect are set to public, so if you share one run you share them all, leading lurkers directly to your doorstep if that's where you have started any of your other recorded runs.
It's easy to change the settings back to private and choose runs to share on an individual basis, but this isn't made clear when you proudly share that first run.
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@Cliff - I have a HTC Desire with SportsTracker Pro and a Bluetooth HR band (Zephyr HxM). I stick the phone in an arm band and off I go. I would be curious to get a review of this solution as (1) the screen is better (2) the Sportstracker website sounds better and (3) the HR band is only USD$99 and the software £5 on Android market so its cheaper (well, ignoring the phone cost but I am taking that as a "sunk cost" because I already had it).
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Been running with the Forerunner 410 for a few weeks now. I find the bezel to be beyond excruciating. Maybe mine is faulty (or perhaps I have faulty fingers)? In operation it reminds me a little of the touch-sensitive click-wheel on my 2004-vintage iPod, except for the not-working-at-all-predictably aspect.
I can spend a couple of minutes before a run trying to change a single setting while it randomly registers my presses as short taps, long taps, scrolls in either direction, or doesn't register them at all. It even (in the dry... I know about its problems in the wet) registers spurious presses a second or two after I've taken my fingers off the bezel.
I guess not everybody's experience with the bezel is as bad, but I think it's supposed to be a distinctive, premium feature whereas I find it fiendishly aggravating and would rather have the buttons of the cheaper models.
That said, the auto-scroll feature does resolve the problem of the unusable bezel and wanting to see your stats during the run.
I also share your annoyance at finding Garmin Connect down. It's not okay to design a system where your users entrust their hard-won data to the cloud and then give the cloud temperamental availability. But that aside, I was very impressed with Garmin Connect, and hope there won't be too much more downtime in the future.
And the watch as a whole is, otherwise, bloody brilliant... but the Bezel is very hard to forgive.
@sthair - In the next review I'm going to go into more detail comparing the MiCoach app on the iPhone to the GPS on a sport watch. There's quite a variation in the tracking which makes a bit difference over a greater distance. I would also like to look at Android apps. Apps have the advantage of being far cheaper and incorporating training plans, voice coaching and better sharing options right from your handset.
@simonm - It lets down an excellent watch. To be fair, I think I'm using it more because I CAN, because it's there. If it weren't, I wouldn't miss it, but I think Garmin have created a rod for their own backs, because they can't please everyone, and all-weather, stats-hungry runners will be irritated by it. But there are ways around it, as you say. As for Garmin Connect, it is an excellent service, which records stats which the manufacturer's basic watch models don't report on. For example, if you're running with a 210, you can look up altitude information on your climbs even though the watch can't display that information while you're running. I'd like Garmin Connects to have training plans which can be uploaded to the watch and activate alarms to remind you what run you need to do as you edge towards your goal. Either way, we're in an exciting time for sport tech and we hope to review more kit soon.
I've got a similar comment to sthair except I use an iphone 4 and runkeeper pro (pro version is free on itunes if you are quick). Here is a route I run fairly regularly http://runkeeper.com/user/D.... I have noticed slight gps tracking error but you can manually edit your routes too. Posts to Facebook, nifty speed and altitude graph as well.
I'm not sure about a score of ten for features. Have you seen the Ki Fit (BodyBugg in the US). It has/measures an Accelerometer, heat flux, Galvanic Skin Response(sweat I think!) and skin device. Can I have all of the above and gps and a heart rate measurement please. I guess that would be 11/10 for features...
David - Good point, and great job getting the miles in. The Runkeeper Pro free trial period for January was extended indefinitely in the US and the trial period notification in UK iTunes in the UK has been removed, so I assume they're going to keep it free. Posts to Facebook is definitely something MiCoach should incorporate.
The KiFit is a weight loss management and clever though it is, it's about tracking more than training and it's not a sport watch. Rating features is always a tough call, because it's based on what's around on the market at the time. I've no doubt better products will come along, but at the time of writing the Garmin 410 has everything you would expect and more.
Something like this is what I would find extremely useful for my sport as training is very much HR based. But as my sport is swimming Im a little stuck. I've tried a number of chest band + watch combo's and none work.
Its fine if your going to do head up granny breastroke all session, but if you're swimming properly and a serious lick it all just falls apart. Literally. No matter how tight you have the chest strap, it will end up round your waist thanks to drag from the water. Especially off of turns where you have peak speed and becuase of using a streamline position, your chest changes shape allowing water to get in underneith the strap.
Bulky watches dont help either, often just damaging your feel of the water a little bit. 100% of the time I end up going back to good old fashioned finger on your pulse and count it for 6 seconds and x 10 (or count for 10 and times by 6)
I've got a Garmin 305 and really happy with it.
I see nothing in here that makes me want to upgrade other than it being a bit smaller and less silly looking, but I'm a fat lad running so I think I have more to worry about that a silly looking watch.
Also the 305 is still available for a little over £100 http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/...
This works really well with the Garmin Connect website too.
I bought my husband a garmin 210 2 years ago and it stopped working after 3 months. Never got round to sending it back. It does not pick up the 5th signal. It turned out to be a very expensive everyday timepiece. Very disappointed.
I have had the 410 for 4 days and regret buying it.
While it has a great deal of data and the computer based Training Center is great, the controls are terrible and the instructions inadequate.
Once it is set up the way you want it, it is easy to access the 3 fields and heartbeat, but changing anything is a nightmare.
The heart monitor belt is thoughtlessly designed with the connection at your back so it is needlessly inconvenient to put on and off.
The recharging unit is like a Meccano set and falls to bits if it is bumped, so you can find that the unit has failed to recharge.
The online data program has a good map but is hard to use.
The 410 has great potential ruined by the computer nerds who designed its interface. If you have a lot of patience and do not mind wasting time setting it, you might find it acceptable, but for most users there is likely to be something better out there.
touch dial is extremely sensitive. Drops of sweat change it from timing to pace calculator. Sometimes get lost in the menus and can't get back to simple training use. Takes forever to find the satellite. Sometimes 10 min. Out and back runs demonstrate inaccuracy. run 3.0 km, turn around and its 3.25 km back home.
This week drops of sweat managed to change the Training 1 data fields from Time Run to Last Lap Speed. (that's pretty deep in the menu tree to get with sweat drops, but this is the Garmin 410) In my 40 years of running, i never met anyone who trained based on kilometers per hour running speed. If that one person in the world is out there and uses this feature, I am happy for you, but its a total waste of space on an already over populated options list. Can't wait to get a simpler GPS watch. I just want time, distance and fast GPS capture.
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In Patch 4.1, Blizzard introduced this feature:
"Spells bound to a key now start to be cast when the button is pressed down by default, instead of waiting for the key to go up. This is an option that can be turned off in the Interface menu under Combat. Mouse clicking has not changed and operates on mouse click up."
This feature had previously been used by players as part of a separate addon: Snowfall Keypress.
Fast forward to now, and it appears that Bartender is stopping this feature from working. I've tested it very carefully, making sure I hadn't unchecked it by accident. It works when Bartender is disabled only.
As you can imagine, this is cause for worry with me. I'd gotten very used to the "action on key down" playstyle. Having it removed spells a DPS loss for me.
Has anyone else experienced this? What do you suggest doing?
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Augustus, 16 January 27 B.C. - 19 August 14 A.D., Emerita, Hispania Lusitania
M�rida, Spain was founded by P. Carisius in 25 B.C., as Emerita Augusta, the name referring to the discharged soldiers who populated the city, by order of Augustus to protect a pass and a bridge over the Guadiana river. The city became an important city in the Roman Empire and the capital of Lusitania province. M�rida preserves more important ancient Roman monuments than any other city in Spain (including a triumphal arch of the age of Trajan).SH84707. Silver denarius, RIC I 9b, RSC I 398, BMCRE I 291, BMCRR Spain 128, BnF I 1039, Hunter I 124, SRCV I 1627 var. (head right), gVF, full circle centering on a broad flan, mint luster, weak strike areas, die wear, small edge cracks, weight 3.775 g, maximum diameter 21.8 mm, die axis 90o, Emerita Augusta (Merida, Spain) mint, P. Carisius, c. 25 - 23 B.C.; obverse IMP CAESAR AVGVST, bare head left; reverse P CARISIVS LEG PRO PR (P. Carisius Legatus [Augusti] pro Praetore), bird's-eye view of town with walls around, EMERITA inscribed above gateway in front with three battlements over two arched entrances; from the Marcelo Leal Collection; $1600.00 (�1424.00)
Roman Republic, M. Plaetorius Cestianus, 69 B.C.
The moneyer, M. Plaetorius Cestianus, was from Praeneste, in Latium, 23 miles east-southeast of Rome, home of the great temple to Fortuna Primigenia. Her sanctuary was an immense complex of buildings rising up the hillside on five vast terraces, connected with each other by grand staircases, visible even from the sea. The reverse likely depicts a pediment in the sanctuary. The epithet of Primigenia means "Original." She was represented suckling two babes, said to be Jupiter and Juno, and she was especially worshiped by matrons. The oracle continued to be consulted down to Christian times, until Constantine the Great, and again later Theodosius I, forbade the practice and closed the temple.SH76980. Silver denarius, BMCRR Rome 3524 (same wheel control); Crawford 405/1b; Sydenham 800a; SRCV I 340, F, banker's mark, weight 3.563 g, maximum diameter 19.5 mm, die axis 135o, Rome mint, 69 B.C.; obverse diademed and draped bust of Fortuna Primigenia right, hair in net, wheel (control symbol) behind; reverse temple pediment, ornamented with sculpture of an anguipede (snake legged) giant holding a club(?) in his left hand, M PLAETORI (AE ligate) on the architrave, CEST S C in exergue; very rare; $720.00 (�640.80)
Macrinus, 11 April 217 - 8 June 218 A.D., Kyzikos, Mysia
Colossal foundations of the Temple of Hadrian, sometimes ranked among the Seven Wonders of the World, are still visible at Cyzicus. The columns were 21.35 meters high (about 70 feet), the highest known in the Roman Empire. Those at Baalbek in Syria, the next highest, are only 19.35 meters (about 63 feet). Columns from both structures were recycled under Justinian I for the Hagia Sophia.RP76803. Bronze AE 26, cf. CNG e-auction 311 (25 Sep 2013), 873 (apparently otherwise unpublished), VF, nice portrait, green patina, reverse about 1/5 off-center cutting of part of legend, minor flan crack, weight 10.185 g, maximum diameter 26.0 mm, die axis 180o, Kyzikos (Kapu Dagh, Turkey) mint, 11 Apr 217 - 8 Jun 218 A.D.; obverse AV K M OΠEΛ CEOYHP MAKPEINOC, laureate and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind; reverse KVZIKHNΩN NEOKO,PΩN (last three letters in exergue), octastyle Temple of Hadrian at Cyzicus; apparently only the second known of this extremely rare type; $360.00 (�320.40)
Septimius Severus, 9 April 193 - 4 February 211 A.D., Augusta Traiana, Thrace
Augusta Traiana (Stara Zagora, Bulgaria today) was founded by Trajan, c. 106 A.D. During 2nd - 3rd century A.D., it was the second largest city in Roman Thrace, after Philippopolis, and was fortified by strong walls. The city struck bronze coins from the time of Marcus Aurelius to Gallienus.RP83509. Brass AE 31, Sch�nert-Geiss Augusta Traiana 163, Varbanov II 1009 (R7), SNG Cop -, BMC Thrace -, F, well centered, centration dimples, weight 15.997 g, maximum diameter 30.8 mm, die axis 0o, Augusta Traiana (Stara Zagora, Bulgaria) mint, 9 Apr 193 - 4 Feb 211 A.D.; obverse AV K Λ CEΠTI - CEVHPOC Π, laureate head right; reverse AVΓOVCT-HC TRAIAN-HC, tetrastyle temple on raised platform, flanked on each side by a tree and a stag leaping outward, Artemis standing right within the temple, holding bow in left hand and drawing arrow from quiver on shoulder with right hand; big 31 mm bronze!; very rare; $300.00 (�267.00)
Byzantine Empire, John V Palaeologus, 15 June 1341 - 16 February 1391 A.D.
John V was made emperor three days short of his ninth birthday. Anna of Savoy was appointed regent for her son. After Anna was defeated in a civil war, John V was made junior emperor to his former advisor John VI Kantakouzenos and he married John VI's daughter. John VI ignored his young colleague and in time even replaced him with his own son Matthew. John V Palaeologus obtained Genoese help, overthrew his rivals, took sole rule and banished John Kantakouzenos to a monastery. John V converted to Catholicism in an attempt to obtain aid from the West against the Turks, but even this failed. Without allies, the Byzantine state was forced to become a vassal of the Ottoman Empire, permitted to exist only by the grace of the mighty Sultan.BZ84652. Bronze stamenon, Lianta 887; Bendall PCPC 317; B-D LPC p. 238, 8; SBCV 2525 (assarion); DOC V -; Sommer -; Grierson -, aVF, full flan, edge cracks, excellent for the type, weight 0.956 g, maximum diameter 21.7 mm, die axis 180o, Thessalonica mint, 1365 - 1369 A.D.; obverse Saint Demetrius standing facing, nimbate, wearing tunic, breastplate, and sagion, inverted spear vertical in right hand, resting left hand on grounded shield at side, flanked on each side by a long cross with three bars, anepigraphic; reverse emperor standing facing, wearing crown with pendilia, stemma, divitision, collar-piece and loros, staff topped with a cross in circle in right hand, model of city in left hand, Manus Dei (the hand of God) above, star in lower right field; very rare; $300.00 (�267.00)
Hadrian, 11 August 117 - 10 July 138 A.D., Koinon of Bithynia
The mint location for the Koinon of Bithynia is uncertain but it was probably Nicomedia. Nicomedia was the Roman metropolis of Bithynia. Diocletian made it the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire in 286 when he introduced the Tetrarchy system. Nicomedia remained as the eastern (and most senior) capital of the Roman Empire until co-emperor Licinius was defeated by Constantine the Great at the Battle of Chrysopolis in 324. Constantine resided mainly in Nicomedia as his interim capital for the next six years, until in 330 when he declared the nearby Byzantium (renamed Constantinople) the new capital. Constantine died in his royal villa in the vicinity of Nicomedia in 337. Due to its position at the convergence of the Asiatic roads leading to the new capital, Nicomedia retained its importance even after the foundation of Constantinople.RP84486. Bronze AE 21, RPC Online III 1017 (3 spec.); Rec Gen I.2 p. 241, 38; SNG Cop -; SNGvA -; 38; BMC Pontus -, gF, brown patina, some roughness, smoothing on reverse, reverse die breaks, cracks, weight 25.115 g, maximum diameter 33.2 mm, die axis 180o, uncertain (Nicomedia?) mint, 2nd issue; obverse AYT KAIC TPAI A∆PIANOC CEB, laureate head right; reverse octastyle temple (Temple of Rome and Augustus at Nicomedia?), Corinthian columns, on podium of two steps, pellet between middle columns, pediment ornamented with a small figure holding a scepter and sacrificing on an altar, KOI-NON in divided line flanking across center, BEIOYNIANC over prow right in exergue; from the Dr. Sam Mansourati Collection, ex Classical Numismatic Group e-auction 349 (22 Apr 2015), lot 263; better than the RPC plate coin; very rare; $240.00 (�213.60)
Probus, Summer 276 - September 282 A.D.
In 278, Probus defeated the Alamanni, expelled the Franks from Gaul, reorganized the Roman defenses on the Rhine and resettled the Germanic tribes in the devastated provinces. He adopted the titles Gothicus Maximus and Germanicus Maximus.RA76944. Silvered antoninianus, Hunter IV 32 (also 3rd officina); RIC V, part 22, 185; Cohen VI 530; Pink VI-1, p. 56-57/4; SRCV III -, Choice EF, near full silvering, superb portrait, light marks, weight 4.097 g, maximum diameter 24.1 mm, die axis 180o, 3rd officina, Rome mint, emission 4, 279 A.D.; obverse IMP PROBVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right; reverse ROMAE AETER (eternal Rome), statue of Roma seated facing inside a hexastyle temple, head left, Victory in right, long scepter in left hand, R pellet in crescent with horns up Γ in exergue; $225.00 (�200.25)
Elagabalus, 16 May 218 - 11 March 222 A.D., Dium, Coele Syria
Rosenberger describes the altar as a "figure (?) with plumes headdress, on pedestal." The Rosenberger coin is worn and the "figure" is a bit taller and thinner than our altar, but the coin does seem to be this same type.
The site of ancient Dium (Dion, Decapolis) has not been conclusively identified. The four leading candidates for Dium are Tell al-Husn and Edun, both near Irbid, in north Jordan, Kufr Abil, near Pella, and Tell al-Ash'ari, near the Syrian border town of Der'a.RY77849. Bronze AE 22, Rosenberger 9 corr., Spijkerman 10 var. (legends), Sofaer 10 var. (legends), Meshorer -, SNG ANS -, SNG Hunterian -, BMC Galatia -, aF, earthen deposit highlighting, tight flan, corrosion, weight 7.701 g, maximum diameter 22.0 mm, die axis 180o, Dium mint, 219 - 220 A.D.; obverse AV KAI MAV ANTWNINO, laureate and draped or cuirassed youthful bust right, from the front; reverse hexastyle temple, flaming altar within under central arch, ΓΠ-C (year 283) divided above roof, ∆IHNWN in exergue; very rare; $225.00 (�200.25)
Koinon of Macedonia, c. 244 - 245 A.D., Portrait of Alexander the Great
The two temples and legend on the reverse indicate "Two Neokorie," advertising the Koinon of Macedonia held the highly prized designation "double temple guardian" of the imperial cult. The first Nekoros was awarded by Nerva. The second Neokoros, indicated by B (the Greek number two) or rarely ∆IC (double in Greek) on coins, was first received under Elagabalus. The title was rescinded but then later restored by Severus Alexander, probably in 231 A.D.RP79978. Bronze AE 28, AMNG III 833; Mionnet supp. 3, p. 229, 446; BMC Macedonia -; SNG Cop -; SNG Hunterian -; SNG Bar -; SNG Saroglos -; Lindgren -, gF, obverse rough, smoothing on reverse, weight 11.370 g, maximum diameter 28.2 mm, die axis 90o, Macedonia, Beroea(?) mint, c. 244 -245 A.D.; obverse AΛEΞAN∆POY, diademed head of Alexander the Great right; reverse two hexastyle temple fronts, KOINON / M-AKE∆-O in two lines above, B NEΩKOPΩN / EOC (Era of Actium year 275) below;
very rare; $220.00 (�195.80)
Septimius Severus, 9 April 193 - 4 February 211 A.D., Pautalia, Thrace
The site of Pautalia (modern Kyustendil, Bulgaria) was settled in the Iron Age by the Thracian Dentheletes tribe. It was located near thermal springs and remains of the ancient city include a temple of Asklepios and Roman baths. In the 1990s, excavation of nearby 2nd century A.D. tumuli unearthed bronze surgical instruments and a small bronze case containing a variety of medicines.RP63965. Bronze AE 30, Ruzicka 264 (same reverse die), Varbanov II 4653, SNG Cop -, BMC Thrace -, aF, smoothing, weight 26.306 g, maximum diameter 30.3 mm, die axis 180o, Pautalia (Kyustendil, Bulgaria) mint, obverse AYT K Λ CEΠTI CEYHPOC ΠEP CEB, laureate head right.; reverse HΓE K AIΛIOY ONEPATOY OYΛΠIAC ΠAYTAΛIAC, tetrastyle temple seen in three-quarters perspective, no steps, Apollo-Bonus Eventus standing within, flanked by a tree left and another right; thick sestertius-like flan; rare; $200.00 (�178.00)
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With such a collection of egos at the top it is perhaps surprising BSkyB manages to function at all. It also makes for a hotbed of speculation; stories doing the rounds yesterday to explain why Pearson had given up the chairmanship and handed it to Granada only a few weeks after the flotation of the company on the Stock Exchange, were legion.
Unfortunately, the most probable explanation is also the most innocuous. Frank Barlow, the Pearson man who has chaired BSkyB, brought in Greg Dyke to run Pearson's TV interests. They include BSkyB, but he was hardly qualified as a new boy to go straight to the chairmanship. That meant Mr Barlow had to step down from the top job to let him on to the board at all.
Pearson watchers none the less see plenty of hidden meanings in the move - some believe it to be a subtle way of speeding Mr Barlow towards retirement. The politics of the BSkyB board are easier to fathom. John Thornton of Goldman Sachs, the investment bank, is there to hold the ring, and mighty tough he sometimes finds it too. The strongest power is Rupert Murdoch, who holds the position of chief executive through Sam Chisholm - a no-nonsense New Zealander who thinks most Euros are wallies. For Mr Murdoch to nominate his own chairman would make it look like a News International takeover. So soon after the float that was plainly not an option.
Chargeurs, the French shareholder, is widely seen as too obstreperous to be suitable for the chairmanship, though insiders say it has calmed down since the float. With Pearson's new director too junior, that left Gerry Robinson, chief executive of Granada, as the only viable candidate.
In other respects, however, he is an odd choice. Sooner or later, Granada is going to sell its remaining BSkyB shares. A complex agreement with other shareholders means that Granada's first opportunity to sell is at least six months away. For practical purposes Granada will therefore have to stay in for the short to medium term. Even so, to appoint the chief executive of a direct competitor of BSkyB as chairman looks curious at best. Mr Robinson, it appears, was the only choice everyone could agree on. At BSkyB that's progress of sorts.
Fur may fly in war of the petfoods Britain spends a fortune on its pets. Doggies, but more particularly moggies, are fussy creatures. Their refined palates encourage indulgent owners to shell out large sums at the supermarket for brightly coloured tins of gourmet pet food. Such delights as salmon and chive (with jelly), and worse, are now on offer. It seems a good, growth business to be in. Dalgety certainly thinks so.
Under its chief executive, Richard Clothier, the company is streamlining itself to concentrate on just three businesses: petfoods, food ingredients and agri-business. In pursuit of this strategy, the company plans to sell its Golden Wonder and Homepride businesses so it can add the Felix and Fido brands to its Spillers portfolio of petfoods. Recently Mr Clothier acquired the Paragon Petcare and Nido businesses in Spain. In-fill acquisitions are also planned for the food ingredients business.
So far the strategy looks a sound one. The snackfood business Dalgety plans to leave is notoriously cut-throat and the company has admitted it is just too small to battle internationally with the likes of PepsiCo (which owns Walkers Crisps) and United Biscuits which owns the KP brand. The fancifully titled Crisp Wars have already damaged several players - witness the near £7m loss announced by little Bensons Crisps on Thursday. Even the once proud Golden Wonder, owned by any number of companies in recent decades, now has a market share of only 10 per cent and slipping.
In petfood, however, Dalgety reckons it can hold its own with the likes of Mars. The scope for cost-cutting at Quaker looks substantial. Certainly Dalgety believes it is overmanned. Quaker's European strenths also dovetail neatly with Spiller's UK stronghold. The question is whether the European market can be expanded the way Dalgety hopes.
In the UK, prepared petfood accounts for nearly two-thirds of all food consumed by the nation's cats and dogs. In countries such as Italy and Spain it is less than 30 per cent. Dalgety is banking on convincing the southern Europeans that feeding il coccolato on salmon and chive (with jelly) is a better idea that throwing it scraps from the table.
Another potential problem is possible retaliatory action from Mars. This is a company known for aggressively defending its market position. To spoil Dalgety's grand plan it will not hesitate to cut prices substantially. Mr Clothier admitted as much yesterday and also conceded that he had set money aside for such an eventuality.
Even so, a brutal price war could easily upset the pleasing symmetry of Dalgety's strategy. For the time being, however, Mr Clothier has to be given the benefit of the doubt. Once regarded as a dog of a company, Dalgety now has a deal that promises to change a few minds.Reuse content


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I tried to login to the community via the android app tonight and got a blank page. I am posting this from my phone so I know I am entering the correct credentials. When I hit Login it goes to a blank page.
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related issue I cant post through the android. I sent them a Ticket. Waiting to hear back.
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Off the Grid: What the NFL's Moneyball looks like, Greg Cosell and more
When the Browns hired former baseball executive Paul DePodesta to be their chief strategy officer on Jan. 6, the response was tentative at best. Most of the skepticism surrounding the move was rooted in the fact that the Browns and owner Jimmy Haslam were at the helm of this decision. If the Patriots had hired DePodesta, we'd all be talking about how forward-thinking this move really was. But when you've cycled through 61 different coaches, three general managers and two team presidents in less than four years, your choices are ripe for criticism no matter what.
Beyond the "That's so Browns" comments, however, was the latest example of a long-standing bias against the full-scale use of analytics in the NFL. Brian Billick, the former Super Bowl-winning coach and current NFL Network analyst, trotted out a new version of an old mindset when he was asked about the DePodesta hire on ESPN Radio last week.
"One of the most common questions I get is, Can you do Moneyball, for lack of a better term, in the NFL? And the answer is no, you can't," Billick said on Mike and Mike last Thursday. "You can't quantify the game of football the way you do baseball. It's not a statistical game. The parameters of the game, the number of bodies and what they're doing in conjunction with one another."
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This mirrors what six-time Executive of the Year and current ESPN analyst Bill Polian had to say about the idea in December 2012.
"As a practical tool, Moneyball does not work in the NFL because there are very few undervalued players and no middle class because of our salary cap," Polian told Tim O'Shei of Buffalo Business First. "There is no middle class in football because the minimum salaries are so high, and because of the salary cap, a player will reach a point where you can't keep him. They go. They're going to get big money elsewhere. ... Truly, on any given Sunday and in any given year, anybody can win. Now, you can't win for long, which is why nobody will ever go to four straight Super Bowls again. The system is designed to take good teams and rob them of players. That's the way it is."
Well, that may be the way it was. I wonder how both men might change their tunes if they were still in the league. Billick hasn't coached since 2007, and Polian hasn't been a general manager since 2011. That's nearly a decade for the coach, and half a decade for the GM. Half a decade is half a lifetime in football years. In reality, so many teams are doing whatever they can with different kinds of analysis to get an edge in everything from situational tendencies to free agency to draft philosophies.
As a writer for Football Outsiders from 2006 through 2012, I had a firsthand look at how many teams wanted to know what site founder Aaron Schatz was thinking, and I've talked to enough of those people to know that most teams are now doing far more than dipping a metaphorical toe in the water.
How do teams on long-term losing tracks change their thought processes, and how do teams that consistently win stay ahead of the game? In that regard, the Moneyball motif is simply another tool to use to forward a team's effective mentality and ability to win.
"The problem with a discussion of analytics in football is that it seems like we're stuck having the discussion in a framework based on where baseball stood in 1982," Schatz told me. "Enough of the 'scouting vs. stats' nonsense. The stodgy old men of the football commentariat are obsessed with what analytics can't do instead of thinking about where it can be a useful tool. Nobody who does football analytics believes that numbers can measure everything, or that we don't need scouting."
DePodesta's return to football is the culmination of a longtime dream, but as he said in the statement announcing his hiring, this is about more than throwing a series of Excel spreadsheets at the Browns' obvious problems.
What may make DePodesta the man to reform a dysfunctional organization can be found in an open letter to Dodgers fans in 2004 titled "The Genesis, Implementation, and Management of New Systems." You can read the whole thing here, and it's a fascinating look into his particular vision of management principles.
"When I joined the Cleveland Indians in 1996, the baseball world was really rich for reform ... crisis was emerging and the existing operating paradigm in baseball was totally incapable of solving these new problems," DePodesta wrote in that open letter. "I had a distinct advantage over everybody else in the industry at the time in that I knew absolutely nothing. I'd played baseball in college but that was about it. Because I knew nothing I observed everything critically and took nothing for granted. I spent my first few years with the Indians analyzing all of their systems, from contracts to player development and scouting. Because I had no preconceived notions over how an organization ought to be run, this was an education for me."
That approach shows why DePodesta could be extremely valuable to the Browns. He doesn't know the macro-level details of how an NFL team is run, but who would want to know how the Browns have been run, anyway? Who on earth would want to pull from any of that junk? DePodesta clearly impressed Cleveland's brass as an executive who would look at every system in place, tear it down to the studs if necessary, and rebuild in a more intelligent fashion.
Whether you're talking about baseball, football or any industry, that's the true essence of Moneyball. You destroy the things that you're "supposed to do" when they don't make sense, and you replace the old models with structures that work in the new world.
DePodesta put it very well: "The A's, like everybody else in baseball, had ceased to do one very critical thing—to ask the naïve question: 'If we weren't already doing it this way, is this the way we would start?' "
And that, folks, is the naïve question every organization must ask itself, no matter what its on-field product looks like at the moment.
Several different NFL executives have embraced metrics in the last few years, and former Bears GM Phil Emery provided a good example of how things can go wrong. I spoke with Emery at the 2013 scouting combine and was impressed on the surface by how far he'd come. However, Emery—who talked with everyone from STATS, Inc. to Pro Football Focus to get a better handle on what numbers could do for him—was fired at the end of the 2014 season after just three years, and the Bears' record got worse in each of those three seasons. It didn't seem at any time that the Bears had truly embraced a new way of thinking, and if all you're doing is looking at a few advanced stats based on someone's game-charting, the Luddites like Billick and Polian are right: That won't get you anywhere.
I've talked with Jaguars senior vice president Tony Khan more than any other of the NFL's leading analytically-minded executives. Like the Browns now, the Jaguars were a hot mess when Tony's father, Shad Khan, bought the team in January 2012. On the precipice of continued organizational failure, the Khans had two choices: They could try a new version of the same old thing and hope their guys were better than the other guys, or they could dig for new ways to think about established processes and win by spotting previously undervalued assets. Jacksonville's slow and steady ascent in recent years, especially on the offensive side of the ball, is the personification of that vision.
A big part of Tony's job has been to marry his deep diving with analytics to the more traditional evaluation done by general manager Dave Caldwell, head coach Gus Bradley and their staffs.
"I've spent hundreds of hours with Dave over the last couple of years, while he's been discussing evaluations he's made from tape," Khan told me in 2014. "We've done a lot of analysis with the raw data. So, I've got a good stack of numbers to compare to Dave's tape evaluations, and we match a lot of things up. I go in and we compare notes, to a certain extent. We watch a lot of these guys, and we talk through it, and I think Dave takes it into account. You're putting the two things together, and it might result in asking a question about a player you might not have graded so highly [based on tape]. Is there a reason to re-evaluate a guy based on these statistics?"
Pro Football Focus now consults with 20 different NFL teams and has an angel investor in former Bengals receiver and current NBC analyst Cris Collinsworth, who has come around to understand the big picture. As a lot of people are now doing. More teams than ever before have their own analytics departments, but even the teams that don't are outsourcing to organizations like PFF.
Bill Belichick has been digging into analytics for years. His work with Patriots director of football research Ernie Adams is largely secret but fairly legendary. Whether it's the Cowboys using computers in the 1960s to create the first player databases, or coaches like Dick Vermeil delving into as much as they could find back in the day, performance-based metrics actually have a fairly long history of success in the NFL.
Do analytics need to be merged with scouting to work correctly? Absolutely. Do analytics need to be central to the thinking of any front office? Without question. But to deny their usefulness at this stage of the game is to embrace a fiction in one's own head.
Sounds like what the old Browns were doing, right?
Podcast: Greg Cosell of NFL Films and ESPN's NFL Matchup
There are few better football minds in the business than Greg Cosell. He's been with NFL Films since 1979, invented the game-tape TV show format in 1984 with Steve Sabol as the executive producer of NFL Matchup and watches more game tape on a daily basis than just about anybody in the media. I sat down with Greg for a special divisional round preview podcast, and here are a few snippets of his analysis:
On Kansas City's defense: "First of all, they have quality at every level of their defense. The defensive line, linebackers and secondary, combined with a scheme that can do a lot of things. Because [defensive coordinator] Bob Sutton has worked with Rex Ryan, he's done a lot of things on his own, and he has very good blitz concepts. So, you get a combination of personnel and scheme that is very effective. They're difficult to play against. They can match up man-to-man on the outside, they have a multi-dimensional safety in Eric Berry, and in today's NFL, that style of safety can really help a defense. They can rush the quarterback from the perimeter, and they're strong and physical from the inside. Most people know about [defensive tackle] Dontari Poe, but a lot may not know about [ends] Allen Bailey and Jaye Howard, who are really good players. Last year, I started to notice Josh Mauga at inside linebacker next to Derrick Johnson, and in a defense filled with names, Mauga doesn't get much attention, but he's a really good player who fits well within the context of this defense."
On what makes Arizona's passing game special: "What good offensive coaches do, and you obviously need a veteran quarterback to execute this at its highest level, is based on coverage. You'll have routes on one side of the formation that are zone routes, and routes on the other side that are man routes. The quarterback will read the coverage, and let's say it's zone. He'll work to the zone side of the route concept. If it's man, he'll work to the man side. Normally within those concepts is some kind of deeper throw. None of this is 100%—nothing is 100%—but that's what the Cardinals often do. There have been numerous examples of that over the years, and this year in particular, you see a quarterback in Carson Palmer who's so comfortable with the offense. It's a high, high-volume offense. There are a ton of plays in it—a lot of concepts, and the really good passing games are about concepts."
On how Aaron Rodgers has been forced to create big plays outside of structure: "There's a fine line there between it being a positive and a negative. The positives are the great plays we see in the highlights all the time, but we don't see the negative plays. We don't see the incompletions. We don't see the breakdowns, and there are more of those. On their fifth possession against Washington in the wild-card game, where they ended up scoring, he hit James Jones for 34 yards, and that was classic Rodgers. The play was the quick game with pick-a-side, and he didn't pick the right side, and he ended up moving around, navigating the pocket, and finding Jones late in the down. It was a classic second reaction play, and it's the kind of play that gets Rodgers into his own kind of rhythm. But it comes back to that whole point: Can you live with that? Can you be consistent with that? Clearly they weren't over the last two months of the season."
On how Russell Wilson has turned things around as a pocket passer: "I would say that this has been all Wilson to me. I know [center] Patrick Lewis is a better player than Drew Nowak, but it's not like their offensive line miraculously became the 1992 Cowboys' O-line. It's not like Doug Baldwin automatically became Jerry Rice. The other players are all the same. But when the quarterback drops back, hits his back foot and throws the ball with timing and rhythm, isn't it remarkable what happens? We just talked about Aaron Rodgers being kind of an off-beat, jazz-beat player, right? Well, Russell Wilson became a rhythm player. And all of a sudden, it looks different because there's a rhythm and a continuity to the passing game that did not exist before. [Offensive coordinator] Darrell Bevell has also done a very good job with some route concepts, which we didn't see as much before, which provides Wilson with the ability to get the ball out on time."
History Lesson: 'The Hammer' gets hammered in Super Bowl I
Though I'm not generally a fan of open-letter journalism, I did appreciate the intent my SI colleague Peter King put forth in this open letter to NFL players after the Steelers-Bengals wild-card round debacle. Some will say that the tone of Peter's letter is too nursemaid-y and unrealistic, but when he talks about the perception of the game in general—especially to parents of kids who might be NFL players a decade from now—he's absolutely right. The game has never been more popular, and it's never been pilloried more often in the court of public opinion.
Agree or disagree, the game is in trouble from that perspective. However, when Peter brought up Super Bowl I as a moral and ethical benchmark, I was a tad confused.
"If you have a chance Friday night, watch a re-airing of the lost tapes of Super Bowl I," Peter wrote. "A very cool TV show, showing the first Super Bowl, played 49 years ago this month. In the show, you'll hear legendary coach Vince Lombardi exhort his team to show the country just what a great game football is. 'I want you to be proud of your profession,' Lombardi said. 'It's a great profession. You be proud of this game. You can do a great deal for football today, a great deal for all the players in this league and everyone else.' "
"You can do a great deal for this game too. To start: Keep the game clean. Insist on playing with honor. That won't matter with Super Bowl 50. It will matter with Super Bowl 100, though. If football's still being played."
Great advice, but not advice the players in Super Bowl I actually took, especially Chiefs cornerback Fred "The Hammer" Williamson. In the week before the first Super Bowl, Williamson openly bragged that he would take out Packers receivers Boyd Dowler and Carroll Dale with his "Hammer" move—a combination shoulder shiver and karate chop that generally went unchecked back in the day.
"Two hammers to Dowler, one to Dale should be enough," he said as the game loomed large.
Ironic, of course, because neither Dowler nor Dale felt the sting of that hammer. Dowler left the game early with an injury, but backup receiver Max McGee, who was still working his way out of the previous evening's libations, torched Williamson and Kansas City's other defenders for seven catches, 138 yards and two touchdowns. The Packers won, 35–10, and Williamson himself was concussed in the fourth quarter when the knee of Packers running back Donny Anderson met Williamson's helmet. In the official Super Bowl I highlight film, you can see this happening, and you can see Packers players on their sideline laughing at the fact that one of their fellow players has been robbed of his senses.
One could say that Williamson brought it on himself with the threat of violence, but one could also say that the game has always been this way. As I hypothesized to Peter in his most recent Mailbag column, football has always been this way, but now we see everything as it happens on a global scale, and we're not in the market for myths anymore.
Bro-fficial Review: Dean Blandino makes sense of Steelers-Bengals
Dean Blandino, the league's V.P. of Officiating, has a tough job. Not only are his referees blowing calls at an all-time rate, he can't even spend time on Jerry Jones's party bus without people freaking out. Here, we give Blandino, the most bro-like NFL executive, equal time to counter the slings and arrows headed his way.
"Remember -- it's not Oh-fficiating, it's BRO-fficiating! pic.twitter.com/LqKHtLGi5M
— Doug Farrar (@SI_DougFarrar) December 14, 2015
"BRO-HO-HO!!! Que pasa? So, that Steelers-Bengals game was, like, a bad look for the NFL, bro, I get it. Our BRO-missioner, Roger BRO-dell, was on the Bro Phone with me right after the game ended! I knew it was important because it was past his bedtime!
"That was not BRO-fessional behavior, Brocahontas. We know! But we've already given Vontaze Burfict a three-game suspension, and we, like, admitted that Steelers coach BRO-ey Porter shouldn't have been on the field starting up all that mess. What are we going to do with Adam Jones? Don't know, but it's gonna be BRO-SERIOUS.
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Liilia Talts Morrison (August 20,1937 / Estonia)
Poems by Liilia Talts Morrison : 46 / 684
Again And Yet Again - Poem by Liilia Talts Morrison
In life I've traveled highways
built by the hand of man
but always fell and stumbled
again and yet again
The lanes and sidewalks narrowed
as I paid time it's toll
until I reached a detour
around a gaping hole
I always had been cautious
obeying every sign
but now my gaze turned upward
I'd reached the finish line
And then I saw a highway
appearing from above
and saw the Master reaching
his hand to me with love
Today I travel gently
on paths that do not bend
well-worn by friends of Jesus
again and yet again.
Topic(s) of this poem: roads
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Quite a while ago I accidentally found the Kindle for PC on the amazon.com site and immediately downloaded it. I had not realized that you did not need a Kindle to download ebooks. There are so many free ebooks available through the Amazon Kindle store, both permanently free, such as the classics, and temporarily free, such as the self-published new books of many authors. These latter can be found easily by scouring the different Kindle store pages; Amazon keeps a running list of what is free. I now have over 1,000 free ebooks on my Kindle for PC. I love it.


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From : Adam Black <email@example.com>
Reply-To : Discussion of aroids <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Sent : Saturday, May 13, 2006 6:28 PM
To : Discussion of aroids <email@example.com>
Subject : Re: [Aroid-l] Orontium seed germination
Dear Adam,
Based on the additional info. which you supplied, you might want to
germinate the seeds as I described, and once firmly rooted in the
substrate, the pots, containing the mix you describe, can be submerged
completely underwater a little at a time with the tops of the leaves
just 'floating' at the waters surface till they are like the ones at
Monroe`s place used to be in his fish ponds. I`m certain that you
will be sucessful with your plan! Good luck!
The Orontiums where I collected my original plant were growing in
black soil in extremely shallow water at the edge of a slowly flowing,
very shallow stream near Sebring, Florida, and in the dry would have
been out of the water.
Good Growing,
Thanks for your reply, Julius. I am familiar with your method for
growing aquatic aroids in pots that you have described before (and use
it on my Cyrtospermas), but always assumed that was more geared for
those species that prefer swampy but not regularly submerged ground as
opposed to those sp. that seem to be predominantly emergent aquatics.
I realize that both types of habitat preference experience both dry
and wet extremes, but it seems like Orontium prefers to be grown as an
emergent (at least I have never seen it growing in unsubmerged places
during times of "normal" water levels). I had not considered your
method as I figured it might be too exposed and thought more water
might be required and more natural for germination of seedlings. It
sounded like you are recommending growing this plant to maturity using
your potted method once the seedlings are established (as opposed to
germination), but these are intended to be planted out as large
display colony in the water gardens at the botanical gardens where I
work around the single plant we currently have, rooted in the bottom
sediments. I am also starting a hardy aroid garden featuring
terrestrial as well as aquatic aroids, where I intend to include some
Orontium as well.
In my original message I had not specified the components of my "soil"
I was using. I was using a 50/50 mix of peat and coarse sand, the same
mix we use for propagating water lilies. The cattle trough (also used
for water lily propagation) has been set up for years and is
biologically active (including fish, amphibians and various
invertebrates) and includes a pump to gently circulate water around.
Thanks again for all your help!
Julius Boos wrote:
From : Adam Black <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Reply-To : Discussion of aroids <email@example.com>
Sent : Saturday, May 13, 2006 1:23 AM
To : Discussion of aroids <email@example.com>
Subject : [Aroid-l] Orontium seed germination
Dear Adam,
I cultivated Orontium from a collected adult plant a few years ago,
and had it bloom and produce seeds which I grew in cultivation to
adulthood. Dr. Croat photographed my plants of Orontium in bloom
during a visit to my home back when. All that you report re: the
structure of the seeds, etc (below) is correct.
I refer you to an article I wrote and which was published in Aroideana
Vol. 16 in 1993, ''Experiencing Urospathas", in which I suggest ways
to sucessfully grow aquatics for long periods without the 'soil'
rotting and killing the plant by being immersed under water. In case
you do not have access to this article, basically the method consists
of using a half-and-half mix of heavy/coarse sand with a little leaf
mulch or other compost/soil mixed in. However---this is placed above
a 3" layer of larva stones, crock, etc. placed in the bottom of the
pot. The soil-mix is placed on top of the stones, and the seed or
plant potted in this 'soil'. The pot is then placed in a large
saucer or other container which contains no more than 2" of water, and
so the 'soil' mix is kept ABOVE and out of the actual water while
being kept constantly wet. Water these pots/plants from above till
you observe roots growing out of the pot`s drain holes into the saucer
of water, this is super-important as at first the soil-mix is never
wet enough from just absorbsing water from below for some aquatics
until this happens. Change out the water in the saucer
regularly/weekly. Fert. w/ a VERY weak liquid fert. on a regular basis.
In a few weeks, when you check your pot of 'soil' that you have
submerged in your cattle trough, below the 'soil' surface will stink
like a rotting body, and no plant can grow in this. The late and
GREAT Dr. Monroe Birdsey did grow some aquatics (Typhonodorum,
Urospatha, Lasia) in pots that were completely submerged in his
concrete fish tanks, but his pots were of pure sand, and their fert.
consisted of the fishes waste products. He confided that on occasion
he placed a fert. tablet or two buried deep in the sand in these pots,
he knew which brand of tablet to use which did not poison the water
and so kill his fish!
For germinating/growing the larger seeds of Orontium, don`t peel the
seeds, and I`d use the same method/pot that you have, but change out
the soil for mainly coarse sand, and place the surface of the sand in
the pot a tad above the surface of the water till they root. I
believe in nature the seeds drop into water and float for a while till
they wash up on the sides of the body of water, where they take
root. Those that sink before they 'hit the beach', as it were, may
not make it! By the way, the above method works well with
Montrichardia, Typhonium and Typhonodorum, all have simular seeds and
germination stratagies
Good Luck, I hope this helps.
Does anyone have any tips for growing Orontium aquaticum from
seed? I know the seeds germinate within the fruits, float for a while
after becoming detatched from the infructescense, and then sink, but
that is about all I know. A few of the fruits that I opened up had
already started to germinate, so I assume they are ready? Do I need to
peel the tough covering off the seeds, or does this protective
covering need to stay intact and the seedling will penetrate through
it? These are very different from Anthurium and other Aroid seeds I am
used to with a soft fruit that the seeds are simply squeezed out of.
Right now I have a pot filled 3/4 full of soil, submerged in a cattle
trough so that there is a couple of inches (which equals something
like several centimeters - but this in an American aroid!) of water
over the soil line, but the rim of the pot is above the water line to
contain the floating unpeeled fruits. Does this sound like I am on the
right track? Would it be better if the seeds were in wet but not
submerged conditions? Any other suggestions would be much appreciated.
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Two Shot Outside National Zoo
Two people are hospitalized after being shot outside the National Zoo in Washington, DC.
No arrests have been made in the late afternoon incident across from the zoo entrance.
One victim was shot in the left hand and the other in the left arm but neither injury is believed to be life-threatening.
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Coach Graham to appear at Talking Rock Ranch
May 1, 2012
Todd Graham, first-year head football coach at Arizona State University, will appear in Prescott, Ariz. at Talking Rock Ranch, noon, May 7. The lunch and program, "Talking Victory," is presented by the ASU Sun Devil Club and the ASU Foundation President's Community Enrichment Programs.
Graham, who was named the head football coach of ASU in December, has vowed to be a visible and accessible force in the Arizona sports scene since his arrival in Tempe. From national, regional and local radio shows and television appearances tocampus tours and community events, he has placed a high priority on transparency and building greater exposure for the Sun Devil football program.


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The Verdict
12th July 2010
Both Rupert and I quickly learned that the waiting didn't get any easier. After the first hearing Rupert came and joined me in my vigil outside the courtroom, holding my hand for support. Father would never let us inside and neither of us dared speak to Isabelle. I felt sorry for Rupert, I could tell how desperately he had wanted things to go well with our mother, but it was clear that nothing was going to be simple.
Days turned into weeks and before I knew it the first month of the court case had passed us by. I didn't pretend to understand what was going on behind the doors I waited outside, but whatever it was, it was clearly going to take a lot longer than I had thought. No one could decide who was in the right and who was in the wrong. The process was painful and far too long.
But it was nothing like the agony of waiting for the verdict on the final day of the trial.
6th March 2010
Nauseous. That's how I would describe the way I was feeling as I waited outside the courtroom for the final verdict.
"Can you stop pacing up and down like that," Rupert complained from the cold plastic seat he was sitting on. "You're making me feel ill."
"I can't help it," I protested. "If I stay still for more than five seconds I feel like I'm about to throw up." My stomach had tied itself into more knots than I thought possible. I hadn't been able to eat for days, except when Rupert and Lewis forced something down my throat.
"Well could you do something a little less...annoying."
To shut Rupert up I took the seat next to him, trying my hardest to sit as still as possible.
"I've found you," Lewis said as he turned the corner and walked briskly towards us. "I was beginning to get worried."
"What are you doing here?" I said, standing up again and throwing my arms around Lewis, relaxing as he held me.
"I thought I should come to make sure you two are OK. I thought you might need someone to hold your hand for you while you wait."
I felt so grateful towards Lewis for all he had done for me over the past months. I had no idea how I was going to repay him for the kindness he had shown us but I knew I would find a way. I just hoped that he would stick around after all of this was over. I had grown quite attached to him.
"You didn't have to do that," Rupert said.
"I wanted to. I felt that I should be with you, seeing as it's my fault that you're all here to start with."
"It's not your fault," I insisted, squeezing his hand. "How were you supposed to know we would end up here? For you it was just a job, nothing more."
"You mean so much more to me than just a job Evelyn," he replied. "So much more."
"Why are they taking so long?" Rupert complained, totally ignoring the moment that was happening between me and Lewis. "They've been in there for hours. How long can it realistically take?"
"Who knows," Lewis shrugged. "Nothing has been clear cut in this case. It's a question of what the jury thinks is right and wrong so it's not going to be an easy decision to make."
The three of us sat down in the uncomfortable chairs, my hands clasping those of both Rupert and Lewis. Seconds felt like hours as I waited, expecting the doors to open at any second and for my father to walk out with a small smile on his face. He would hug me tightly and everything would be alright. I convinced myself that is what would happen.
12th July 2010
But it wasn't going to work out like that.
On 6th March 2010, my father was convicted of the kidnap and abduction of myself and my brother. I couldn't see the difference between kidnap and abduction but clearly the jury knew the difference and the convicted him on both counts. The lawyers told me it was because my father refused to let me or Rupert testify in his defence. He said it implied that we didn't care about what happened to our father so he must be guilty.
We appealed of course but to no avail. My father received an eighteen month prison sentence for the crime, enduring without complaint. I have visited him every week since he's been locked away. I'm not going to abandon him. Not ever.


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I have to go into the hospital for a 5 day stay to figure out why I am seizing. How do I prepare my son for me being gone and the changes in his routine? The doctor is trying to schedule this for October so he will be in school during the whole time I am gone. Aiden is such a routine child, any changes upset him. I had to tell him 4 times this afternoon that we had to go to the store tonight and yes we would get supper while out. Please help me figure out how to help him, thanks.
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