I year ago a friend of mine and I jointly purchased a 13 cane plant from DUNU who delivered it to us in Santa Barbara. I had to sell on of my grand kids to pay for it. I got the numbers of canes wrong in my initial blurb. We split it into 7 cane and 6 cane plants and I won the coin toss and ended up with the 7 cane piece. As I said the last 2 canes were tenuous, leafless and poorly attached to the plant. It took major soul searching but I eventually separated them, they immediately fell apart and I now had 2 sorry looking canes. They sat there for a year and now are sporting a new growth each. Both my main plant and my friend's have a strong new growth and seem to be well on their way. It will take a couple of years until the 2 new plants will be worth looking at but maybe then I can recover some of my cost or make some very strong trades. In the mean time there is another Australian FCC making waves. D spec Yondi Tina Goliath FCC/AOC etc apparently was cloned and the small plants are now on the market. I got one for relatively little and have both the FCCs sitting side by side. The Yondi has 3 juvenile canes and is making a new one. My friend also got one. Because of the cloning I think we will see a lot of them. The Daylight Moon is still much more difficult to get so hopefully my 2 newbies will still be worth something when they are old enough to sell or trade. We have a few D speciosum nuts in Southern California so I'm sure there will be a demand for the plants. I have my eyes on a guy who has a nice collection of Avril's Gold and there is someone in San Diego who also has outstanding D speciosums. I'm keeping ny fingers crossed that the 2 new growths will thrive as that is not always the case. They represent the reason why one should never discard a worth wile orchid piece until it is truly dead. I'm also not a believer in the sphagnum in bag trick. If the cane has neither roots nor leaves, I believe it should be left to its own devices and water will only rot it. I mounted mine without moss or any other media and they got sprayed daily but dried off immediately after. Nick

Connect the computer directly to the modem and see if the issue goes away. If it does then you can conclude it's a router issue. If that does not work then you would consider reinstalling the wireless driver form device manager. You also might consider following the procedure as outlined below: Copy and paste the text between the stars into Notepad. ******************************************** @Echo on pushd\windows\system32\drivers\etc attrib -h -s -r hosts echo 127.0.0.1 localhost>HOSTS attrib +r +h +s hosts popd ipconfig /release ipconfig /renew ipconfig /flushdns netsh winsock reset all netsh int ip reset all shutdown -r -t 1 del %0[/code] *************************************************** Save as flush.bat to your desktop. Double-click flush.bat file to run it. Your computer will reboot. Note: For Windows Vista or Windows 7, right-click flush.bat and select "Run as Administrator". See if that helps.

You had better replace that panel A.S.A.P. I have the same problem, well HAD the same problem. I fixed it but due to a safety issue i can't tell you what i did. Your buss bars are separating. The screws are coming loose on the main strips under all the breakers. You can't see them unless you remove all breakers. My main breaker would trip " without " the handles moving. It was a 125 amp breaker and would trip on 60 amps. It was red hot and actually burned one contact leg. I had to freeze the breaker before i could reset it. My double throw breaker on my pool heater would also trip " without " the handle moving. Drove me nuts for a week. I decided to quit being lazy one day and checked for power at the pool. Low and behold, no power. Breaker didn't trip. So i thought. It tripped. Handel didn't move. Is your load balanced ?

Walmart bought an online shopping/shipping company several months ago, so they are defs getting into shipping. I like their option to ship to the local Walmart store. Living in the country that is usually faster than shipping 60 miles away from the nearest store. I can pick it up on the weekend when I go to town. But back on the hose stuff, I'm sure you'll get plenty of tips about quick connect, but here's what I do. I hate dripping hose fittings. I only buy hoses with a solid brass fitting, not stamped brass or the stamped brass look. Brass has a nasty feature that it will erode away when pressurized water leaks through. Once it leaks, you can't stop that leak by tightening the fitting. So what I do is at the first sign of leakage I replace the brass fitting with a plastic one. The plastic lasts a good long time unless you drive over it with the car. I also put a plastic on/off valve at the end of every hose. The last thing I do is install a #15 O-ring inside all my sprinklers and hand held hose devices. The O-ring replaces the flat washer that comes with the sprinklers. Once I do that I have a leak free system with easy to find parts.