I went through a similar quandry. In my case I had an Environmental Studies BA and was considering a MS in Hort with a design emphasis or a MLA degree. I interviewed half a dozen people in the field including an LA and everyone told me that field experience was more valuable than degrees unless I specifically wanted to do the types of large projects an LA degree gives one access to. In the end I did take some additional LA & Hort classes but did not go for an additional degree. In my experience clients that care about degrees are quite rare. One caveat, California is a more regulated place than Maine so regulatory considerations may force your hand (I side with Ivan Illich on this matter). I do think field experience in both garden maintenance and installation is extremely valuable for would be designers/ LAs. I have worked on projects designed by highly academically credentialed people who made a hash of it - they had good concepts but they didn't understand how the elements behaved in the real world. Rosarians are often niche specialists. If you're really good and good at promoting yourself you might make a go of it as rose expert alone. If you don't already have a strong IPM background I'd work on that.

I'm sorry I think this is user set up error here. After the creation of a message rule did you select the "Apply Now" button? Did you select all the "OK" buttons when exiting? I ask as I have been remiss in clicking all the necessary buttons when building a rule, and it has failed. In your frustration to get the message rule option to work, did you create multiple entries for the same rule? If so, remove all but one. In a last ditch effort you could remove all the message rules and start from the beginning. DA

Outlook Express is a free email program produced by Microsoft. Sounds like your original program might be corrupted, so you could try downloading a clean version (it's free). Hopefully the new version will copy across all the messages and addresses from your old version (fingers crossed), but it's a good idea to print out anything you might miss if it were lost. Then you can download the version of Outlook Express that suits your operating system (Windows or Mac). Many sites offer Outlook Express for downloading, incuding MS itself (www.microsoft.com). I used to use Tucows (URL shown below). Here is a link that might be useful: Tucows

Power down the router / modem for a bit, then turn them back on. I would also clear temp files. <b>Clean out your temporary internet files and temp files.<b> Download TFC by OldTimer From here <A HREF=" http://oldtimer.geekstogo.com/TFC.exe">click Here</a> to your desktop. Double-click <b>TFC.exe</b> to run it. <b>Note:</b> If you are running on Vista, right-click on the file and choose <b>Run As Administrator</b> TFC<i> will close all programs</i>when run, so <b> make sure you have saved all your work before you begin</b> * Click the <b>Start</b> button to begin the cleaning process. * Depending on how often you clean temp files, execution time should be anywhere from a few seconds to a minute or two. *<b> Please let TFC run uninterrupted until it is finished.</b> Once TFC is finished it <b>should</b> restart your computer. If it does not, please <b>manually restart the computer</b> yourself to ensure a complete cleaning.