I like to shear half my plants at a time, leaving one half of them to blossom while the second half is getting started on its new round of blooming.

As Player began his second round in a twosome with amateur Bill Hyndman, his share of the gallery was not conspicuously large for a contender.

* 1925 – Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.

In the third round game ( Trinidad got a bye in the second round ).

If your side has two aces and a void, then you are not at risk of losing the first two tricks, so long as ( a ) your void is useful ( i. e., does not duplicate the function of an ace that your side holds ) and ( b ) you are not vulnerable to the loss of the first two tricks in the fourth suit ( because, for instance, one of the partnership hands holds a singleton in that suit or the protected king, giving your side second round control ).

Déby won the country ’ s first multi-party presidential elections with support in the second round from opposition leader Kebzabo, defeating General Kamougue ( leader of the 1975 coup against Tombalbaye ).

Bozizé won on the second run-off round on 8 May 2005, defeating Martin Ziguélé, who ran on the ticket of the MLPC, the former ruling party.

Further, members of Kolingba's Yakoma tribe in the south posed a potential threat to Bozizé's government because of their widespread boycott of the second round of the legislative elections.

The dealer flips a button to the " On " side and moves it to the point number signifying the second phase of the round.

The second round wins if the shooter rolls the come bet point again before a seven.

The second round wins if the shooter rolls a seven before the don't come point.

That same year he received a second round of funding from the Rosenwald Fund to travel South, and he spent extended time at Atlanta University.

After this second round, if there is still no winner, during the regular season the game ends as a tie.

Bangladesh progressed to the second round for the first time, after defeating India, and they later went on to defeat South Africa in the second round.

Ireland making their World Cup debut tied with Zimbabwe and defeated Pakistan to progress to the second round, where they went on to defeat Bangladesh to get promoted to the main ODI table.

During world war one and two service personnel were issued pressed fibre Identity disks, one green octagonal shaped disc, and a red round disc ( some army units issued a second red round disk to be attached to the service respirator.

A woman casts her vote in the second round of the French presidential election of 2007

With Colorado beating Detroit in the third round in 1996, in the second round of both 1999 and 2000, and the Red Wings beating the Avs in the third round in 1997, the battles between these two teams had become one of the fiercest in the league.

Lofton finished second in AL Rookie of the Year balloting with a. 285 average and 66 stolen bases.

Smith finished second in MVP balloting to Andre Dawson, who had played on the last-place Chicago Cubs, largely because Smith and teammate Jack Clark split the first-place vote.

Members of the Electoral College could only vote for president ; each elector could vote for two candidates, and the person who received the second largest number of votes during the balloting became vice-president.

He defeated George Brown, who was hampered by a reputation as an erratic figure and who was mistrusted by the likes of Denis Healey ( Wilson's predecessor as shadow foreign secretary ) and Anthony Crosland, in a straight contest in the second round of balloting, after James Callaghan, who had entered the race as an alternative to Brown, had been eliminated in the first round.

Statistically speaking, Puckett had his best all around season in 1988, hitting. 356 with 24 home runs and 121 RBI, finishing third in the AL MVP balloting for the second straight season.

Hull quickly blossomed into a star, finishing second in the rookie of the year balloting his first season.

Brock finished second to Steve Garvey in the balloting for the 1974 National League Most Valuable Player Award.

The closest since then have been Toby Gerhart and Andrew Luck, Stanford players who were second in the Heisman balloting each year from 2009-2011.

He won Pac-10 Player of the Year honors in 1980 and 1982, was a consensus All-American, and finished second in Heisman Trophy balloting as a senior.

Thurmond placed second to Chamberlain in the MVP balloting in the 1966-67 season, and averaged over 20 points per game each season from 1967-68 through 1971-72, and played in seven NBA All-Star Games while with the Warriors.

In, he had a 23 – 13 season with a 2. 56 ERA and finished second in Cy Young balloting to New York Mets sensation Tom Seaver.

Long led the party balloting for the second position in state government, but he lost the runoff to Verret, whose only previous elected experience had been as a member and president of the Iberia Parish School Board.

Aparicio finished second to team-mate Nellie Fox in the American League Most Valuable Player Award balloting, and won his second Gold Glove Award as well as another All-Star selection.

It was said that then Edwards wanted to face Livingston in a general election ( or would not have bowed out if the opponent had been a Republican ), but Edwards pulled out of the second round of balloting to prevent Roemer from consolidating majority support.

Snider finished second to teammate Roy Campanella in the 1955 Most Valuable Player balloting conducted by the Baseball Writers Association of America by just five points, 226-221, with each man receiving eight first place votes.

In the 1999 – 2000 campaign, Grahame started the season back in Providence, but was called up to the Boston Bruins mid-season to back up Byron Dafoe in the Bruins ' net, where he played credibly and was second in balloting to the league's all-rookie team.

During the 1984 convention which elected John Turner as Party leader, Campagnolo created a minor furor within the Liberal Party: she said that second-place leadership candidate Jean Chrétien was " second in the balloting, but first in our hearts ".

He finished second to third baseman Mike Schmidt in NL MVP balloting, whose Phillies took the National League East by one game over the Expos.

His 29 homers and 279 total bases were second in the league to Williams, and his. 496 slugging average trailed only Williams and DiMaggio ; Gordon again finished seventh in the MVP balloting.

He was named to the NHL Second All-Star Team for the first time, finishing second in balloting for right wingers behind Jágr ( he also mistakenly received a first-place ballot as a left winger ).

He led the league in wins ( 23 ) for the second year in a row, and also led the league in innings pitched ( 328 ) and complete games ( 30 ) to finish second to the Baltimore Orioles ' Jim Palmer in the American League Cy Young balloting.

In August, three medals were awarded after a second recommendation by Hunter-Weston ; under the original 1856 warrant establishing the award up to four VCs could be awarded as a result of balloting the units involved.

The doctrine was formulated in the second century in the first of the three senses given by Ramsey, originally as a response to Gnostic claims of having received secret teaching from Christ or the apostles ; it emphasised the public manner in which the apostles had passed on authentic teaching to those whom they entrusted with the care of the churches they founded and that these in turn had passed it on to their successors.

Their best finish of this period was under the management of Englishman Jesse Carver, when in 1954 – 55 they finished as runners-up, after Udinese who originally finished second were relegated for corruption.

The grouping was originally Argentina, Brazil, and Chile in one group, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela in the second group, and the last group which included Bolivia, Ecuador, and Paraguay.

The Batavi were an ancient Germanic tribe, originally part of the Chatti, that lived around the Rhine delta, in the area that the Romans called Batavia and that is currently the Netherlands, from the second half of the first century BC to the third century AD.

Usually, only the second and fourth line of a quatrain are rhymed ( in the scheme a, b, c, b ), which has been taken to suggest that, originally, ballads consisted of couplets ( two lines ) of rhymed verse, each of 14 syllables.

The name is misleading, for it is simply the second revision ( A. D. 392 ) made by Jerome of the old Itala version originally used in Rome.

As with most public transport in Cuba, the vehicles used are second hand, and the flagship Tren Francés (" French train ") between Havana and Santiago de Cuba is operated by coaches originally used in Europe between Paris and Amsterdam on the ex-TEE express.

In his youth Diderot was originally a follower of Voltaire and his deist Anglomanie, but gradually moved away from this line of thought towards materialism and atheism, a move which was finally realised 1747 in the philosophical debate in the second part of his La Promenade du sceptique ( 1747 ).

In 1998, Sullivan-County. com was originally the Virginia / Tennessee affiliate of WUD and the second deism site on the Web.

It is not unheard-of, however, for a band to redo old tracks that originally left them displeased for an album re-release on a major label or a second edition.

Bowie's second album, Space Oddity, followed in November ; originally issued in the UK as David Bowie, it caused some confusion with its predecessor of the same name, and the early US release was instead titled Man of Words / Man of Music.

Luke may have originally begun with verses 3: 1-7, a second prologue.

When Walpole admitted to his authorship in the second edition, its originally favourable reception by literary reviewers changed into rejection.

GSM ( Global System for Mobile Communications, originally ), is a standard set developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute ( ETSI ) to describe protocols for second generation ( 2G ) digital cellular networks used by mobile phones.

A third satellite, GIOVE-A2, was originally planned to be built by SSTL for launch in the second half of 2008.

The Pashtuns ( Pakhtuns or Pathans ), originally from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, FATA and northern Balochistan, are now the city's second largest ethnic group in Karachi after Muhajirs.

Some 26 months after the Earth Return Vehicle is originally launched from Earth, a second vehicle, the " Mars Habitat Unit ", would be launched on a 6-month long low energy transfer trajectory to Mars, and would carry a crew of four astronauts ( the minimum number required so that the team can be split in two without leaving anyone alone ).

MOS Technology, Inc. (" MOS " being short for Metal Oxide Semiconductor ) was originally started in 1969 by Allen-Bradley to provide a second source for Texas Instruments ( TI ) designed electronic calculators and the chips inside them.

The Saints originally planned to wear white jerseys at home for the 2006 season, but during the season, the players voted to wear the black jerseys at home after the second game.

PM states: " The present work was originally intended by us to be comprised in a second volume of Principles of Mathematics ...

According to the estimates of Jacques Necker in 1788, the capitation tax was so riddled in practice, that the privileged classes ( nobles and clergy and towns ) were largely exempt, while the lower classes were heavily crushed: the lowest peasant class, originally assessed to pay 3 livres, were now paying 24, the second lowest, assessed at 10 livres, were now paying 60 and the third-lowest assessed at 30 were paying 180.

He was originally assigned to design the second Doctor Who serial, The Daleks, which would have entailed realising the famous alien creatures.

The second generation system, originally called SN-1 but later SN-MIPS, was released in July 2000, as the Origin 3000.

In the second edition of January 1860, Darwin quoted Kingsley as " a celebrated cleric ", and added the phrase " by the Creator " to the closing sentence, which from then on read " life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one ".

* The second, was a tugboat, originally named Edward Luckenbach, purchased by the Navy in 1898 and renamed.