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A small, run-down town at the northwestern tip of the country, surrounded by sea inlets and mangrove swamps, SAN LORENZO isn't exactly inviting with its ramshackle houses and pervasive sense of anarchy and disarray, evident in its dirty, potholed streets strewn with rubbish and periodically turned into muddy soup by the rain. Still, the town's considerable number of Afro-Ecuadorians – largely the descendants of colonial African slaves and later labourers from the plantations and mines of Colombia – do provide a distinct cultural flavour, refreshingly different from the rest of the country, part of what sociologists call the "Pacific lowlands culture area", extending down the coast from Panama to Esmeraldas province in Ecuador. One of its manifestations is the colourful sound of the marimba, the wooden xylophone whose driving rhythms are a key feature of music and dance on the north coast. The town has several groups that stage occasional performances, and it hosts an annual international marimba festival during the last week of May. You'll also get plenty of fun and music at the town's main fiesta from August 6–10.
San Lorenzo's fortunes have long been tied to the railway from Ibarra. When the train opened in 1957, the population of this forgotten port doubled virtually overnight, but the anticipated economic boom never materialized; the train operated at a loss from the day it opened, and it became increasingly difficult to fund the repairs caused by frequent landslides and rockfalls. Damage from El Niño storms put an end to the full service in 1998, and it doesn't look likely to reopen any time soon. The surviving portion of the railway runs only 25km inland to San Javier de Cachaví, and is serviced fairly regularly by a train that leaves when demand is sufficient. San Lorenzo is now connected by paved road to Ibarra and Esmeraldas; coastal through-traffic does not pass nearby, meaning San Lorenzo is once again becoming a forgotten port.
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Rebecca from Florida sends us a photo of her Christmas Eve dinner, her dad's pasta aglio e olio—"whole wheat pasta with olive oil, garlic, and many herbs such as basil, mint, and parsley, topped with Daiya"—and vegan cranberry apricot stuffing. That package at the top left of the photo is a English-style Christmas cracker, made by her mother. Rebecca's had "organic 'cruelty-free' lavender bath salts, a Twilight Go Max Go candy bar, and a couple of vegan-related jokes (What does a Vegan Zombie say? Grainnnssss!)."
Later, Rebecca's six-year-old sister set out soy milk and Healthy Happy Life's chocolate-chip walnut cookies for Santa. AWW, YOU GUYS. What family!
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"Me and my Dad are the only vegans in my family. For our Thanksgiving Feast, we cooked a ton of food to bring to my aunt's house. My Dad made vegan stuffing and a Field Roast and I made mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie, and Snickerdoodles. My Dad and I even convinced the rest of the family to have an organic free-range turkey instead of a factory farm one (I know free-range doesn't necessarily mean cruelty-free, but getting my very Hispanic extended family members to have something slightly less than traditional is a HUGE step). I've been watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade while drinking Pumpkin Spice Silk with my little sisters (one of them wants to become a vegan, but my mom is to busy to cook different meals and tells her that she can become a vegan when she can cook for herself, like me) all day and we can't wait until the feast tonight! Happy Thanksgiving!!"
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And now, they're coming for your Social Security money - they want your fucking retirement money - they want it back - so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They'll get it. They'll get it all from you sooner or later. Because they own this fucking place. It's a Big Club: and you're not in it.
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By welcoming Beats into his portfolio, Apple CEO Cook is acknowledging a shift away from its pioneering iTunes pay-per-song model and toward streaming audio. He also is side-stepping founder Jobs' insistence that all Apple hits be crafted in-house.
I guess we're not counting iTunes (which started life as SoundJam MP until Apple bought, re-skinned, and renamed it) and of course iPod, which was Apple industrial design around the PortalPlayer reference platform and Pixo software. So, yes, excepting those two massive omissions in the most directly comparable field to that which you are writing about, Jobs insisted on only Apple crafted hits.
Additionally worth noting that Jobs apparently outsourced Apple misses. Looking at you, Cube.
— Steve Jobs, at the time Disney board member and majority share holder, in periodic calls to Disney CEO Bob Iger.
To me, this is the first real sign that the shine could come off, and quickly:
The report also noted that [Apple Retail VP John] Browett said Apple's retail outlets need to "learn to 'run leaner' in all areas, even if the customer experience is compromised."
During fiscal 2011, Apple's retail stores generated $14.1 billion in revenue and $3.1 billion in profits. The chain has operated at around a 22 percent profit margin over the past five years
Were Steve Jobs alive and running the company, this guy would be gone before he got back from lunch. These sorts of paper gains that put the long game in hock to better favor a slight quarterly bump, all just ahead of what would appear to be the biggest, most important launch in the company's history? Utter lunacy. You should be adding employees, my friend. The money involved is completely and utterly beside the point at your margins (and, no: forget Apple's margins for the moment, I mean just the margins of the Store). Would the cuts even cover your own salary? Will they help you at your new job? I certainly hope so.
But here's some unsolicited advice: the Apple Store isn't a store like Best Buy. It's equal measure retail operation and, critically, brand identity. The experience of it needs to be every bit as delightful as the latest iDingus. If it's not, you've damaged the brand. And once that's gone, it ain't coming back at any price. I feel certain Apple would operate the store at break-even or as a slight loss leader; it's more valuable as an icon and an experience than it is as a raw profit center churning out new doodads for the masses. Apparently Browett didn't get the memo. Time will tell…but I'd say the Store is now officially the leading indicator for the company. As it goes, so goes Apple. When it starts seeming like Best Buy in there, sell short.
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— Steve Jobs, talking to Wired in 1996.
— Rupert Murdoch on Steve Jobs. I'd quibble with the "invented" being more of a "popularized," but otherwise spot on.
Equally amazing (to me, anyway) is that the transition from "let's sell everyone personal computers" to "let's sell everyone wireless things that people don't really even realize are computers" took place within the span of one CEO's lifetime, though not one continuous tenure with Apple (since we're talking Jobs here).
Color me unimpressed with The Daily, though. Just the sort of crap magazine I avoid in print, much less on the iPad. Reeder is the really disruptive technology if you're asking me. And I know you are.
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Verizon is the perfect corporate partner for Apple. This is precisely how Steve Jobs himself would deal with a balky battery door. With a branded sticker. Accept no cheap substitutes; only Verizon-brand stickers give you the confidence today's multitaskers demand.
Re: this and this prior post, Fake Steve Jobs reports on the chat he had with AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson. Here's some highlights:
Now, the thing about ["Meet the Beatles"] was, on the day [the album] hit the U.S. the whole world changed. Like, before that day, the world was one way, music was one way, culture was one way — and then after that day the world was never the same ever again, and as soon as you heard that album you knew that, and even if you were only nine years old, which I was, you just knew. You knew. Sales were crazy.
[…] there was a lot of demand for that record — so much that the plant that printed the records could not keep up. Now here's the lesson. Do you think the guys who were running Capitol Records said, Gee whiz, the kids are buying up this record at such a crazy pace that our printing plant can't keep up — we'd better find a way to slow things down. Maybe we can create an incentive that would discourage people from buying the record. Do you think they said that? No, they did not. What they did was, they went out and found another printing plant. And another one and another one, until they could make as many records as people wanted.
Absolutely goddamned right. AT&T's metaphorical Meet the Beatles response to the iPhone data-deluge seems to be:
"we need to figure out a way to keep people out of record stores. Prevent them from entering, dissuade them from buying the records if they're already in there. That is the winning formula."
Which is precisely the reaction that puts AT&T out of business. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon (and for a long time). Back to (fake) Steve:
Yes, 3% of your users are taking up 40% of your bandwidth. You see this as a bad thing. It's not. It's a good thing. It's a blessing. It's an indication that people love what we're doing, which means you now have a reason to go out and double or triple or quadruple your damn network capacity. Jesus! I can't believe I'm explaining this to you. You're in the business of selling bandwidth. That pipe is what you sell. Right now what the market is telling you is that you can sell even more! Lots more! Good Lord. The world is changing, and you're right in the sweet spot.
Indeed they are. Reaction? Let's piss it away for some modest, short-term gains. The model, you'll recall, is to sell crippled phones that, since people can't actually use, don't tax our network at all. AT&T simply doesn't understand that the world has turned and left them there, in the past, with a shitty flip phones business while everyone else is up here, in the "future," waiting on good pipes. Praying someone will take their money for those (still mythical) good pipes. That AT&T doesn't see it that way is mostly because of the sentence to which I added emphasis: AT&T doesn't want to believe that they are only selling pipe. They think they are selling something else entirely. I'm quite sure they can't vocalize exactly what that thing is, but they inevitably deny the notion that they are, in fact, already a dumb-pipes company, though a very bad one. And this is why they fail. They think their subscribers care who is providing them with the dumb pipes instead of how well the dumb pipes work. And it is on this point that (fake) Steve really, really gets going:
Guys like you took over the phone company and all you cared about was milking profit and paying off assholes in Congress to fuck over anyone who came along with a better idea, because even though it might be great for consumers it would mean you and your lazy pals would have to get off your asses and start working again in order to keep up.
[…] everyone focused on just getting what they can in the short run and who cares what kind of piece of shit product we're putting out […and…] it was all about taking all this great shit that our predecessors had built and "unlocking value" which really meant finding ways to leech out whatever bit of money they could get in the short run and let the future be damned. It was all just one big swindle, and the only kind of engineering that matters anymore is financial engineering.
Empahsis added to point out (fake) Steve likely recapitulating the secret mission statement of AT&T. They sell pipes, for chrissakes. And yet they think it is in their interest to restrict and deny people access to those pipes, which said people feel they have contracted for access to and have every right to access. Worse, AT&T seems to feel this is a winning strategy. And maybe it is. For 2009, and even some of 2010. But 2011? Not so much. I guess Randall and his lot will have vested and retired to Nantucket by then.
That this sort of shit seems to be the organizing concept of American industry for the past half-century or so is, uh, totally unrelated and nothing to worry about, I'm sure. Fake Steve sums it up:
I had this vision of the future — a ruined empire, run by number crunchers, squalid and stupid and puffed up with phony patriotism, settling for a long slow decline.
Apple has been working on such a Swiss Army knife tablet since at least 2003, according to several former employees. One prototype, developed in 2003, used PowerPC microchips made by I.B.M., which were so power-hungry that they quickly drained the battery.
"It couldn't be built. The battery life wasn't long enough, the graphics performance was not enough to do anything and the components themselves cost more than $500," said Joshua A. Strickland, a former Apple engineer whose name is on several of the company's patents for multitouch technology.
Another former Apple executive who was there at the time said the tablets kept getting shelved at Apple because Mr. Jobs, whose incisive critiques are often memorable, asked, in essence, what they were good for besides surfing the Web in the bathroom.
Oh god I hope he really said that.
Me too, though I wonder what in the hell else he thinks it needs to do. Oh, right: tip-calculation, the hobgoblin of the lesser platforms since the dawn of mediocre service.


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Oklahoma City, OK, United States (4E Sports) – Kevin Durant matched his season high 37 points to lead Oklahoma City Thunder past Houston Rockets, 120-98, on Wednesday night.
Serge Ibaka scored 23 points and blocked six shots and Kevin Martin added 17 points for the Thunder.
Oklahoma City took the lead for good with an 18-4 run, including the first nine points of the second quarter, and went up 36-25.
The lead grew to 49-33 after James Harden's foul allowed Durant to convert a four-point play.
Patrick Patterson scored 27 points and Omer Asik had 17 points and 12 rebounds to lead the way for the Rockets.
Daequan Cook scored 18 points while starting in place of injured Rockets forward Chandler Parsons (shoulder). James Harden contributed 17 points but was limited to 3-for-16 shooting. He had six shots blocked by the Thunder.
Harden missed all eight of his shots from the field in the first half as Houston fell behind 57-45. He also missed his ninth in the second half. By the time he made one, the Rockets were down by double digits in the second half. They never got closer than 10 after that.
The Rockets made a stop in Minnesota earlier in the day to attend the funeral of coach Kevin McHale's daughter then flew to Oklahoma City, arriving at the arena less than 5 hours before game time.
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Areas of Responsibility: Medical affairs, quality management, patient safety, clinical care redesign and pharmacy. Leads the organization forward in the implementation of strategic clinical quality and patient safety initiatives. Also serves as liaison between the health system and the medical staff, with a goal of strengthening those relationships to drive further engagement and cooperation, and guiding and supporting medical staff development.
Bio: Dr. Lohmuller, a general surgeon in private practice since 1991, was named the health system's first Chief Medical Officer in April 2013. He joined the Genesis leadership team in February 2012 as Vice President of Medical Staff Affairs for GMC-Davenport. Dr. Lohmuller served as the Trauma Program Medical Director at GMC-Davenport for 18 years; was the Clinical Medical Director at the Genesis Kenneth H. McKay, M.D., Center for Breast Health; is a past president of the GMC-Davenport Medical Staff; and, serves on numerous committees. He is an Adjunct Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine in Iowa City.
In addition to his activities at Genesis, Dr. Lohmuller has served as President of the Iowa Chapter, American College of Surgeons and the Mayo Surgical Alumni Association. He holds positions on the boards of directors of MEDIC EMS, MedForce Helicopter EMS and the Kahl Home for the Aged and Infirm and serves on several association committees. In 2011, Dr. Lohmuller was named an Iowa Hospital Hero by the Iowa Hospital Association, and has been honored with the prestigious American Medical Association's Physician Recognition Award. Dr. Lohmuller also is the Medical Director of a medical mission team that serves in Arequipa, Peru, through Medical Ministry International, providing medical, surgical, and dental care to the underprivileged of that country each year.
Dr. Lohmuller holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Notre Dame and, in addition to his Doctor of Medicine, earned a Master of Science in Medical Genetics from Indiana University. After completing his residency in General Surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., in 1991, he joined the Davenport Surgical Group, PC, Davenport, Iowa, where he continues to care for patients.
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With these new opportunities available we have decided to create a Hunting Stimulus Package for Families. Our own families are reaching the age where they are becoming more involved with our hunting pursuits. And with this, the reality is there will be a definite increase in costs if we want them to continue with our outdoor lifestyle. With this realization, we decided to create an affordable opportunity for hunting families. Archers Choice and The Choice have always put strong emphasis on family and the hunting lifestyle, so we figured what better place to introduce our new plan.
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Steven Greenhouse is the labor and workplace reporter for The New York Times, having held that beat since October 1995.
He joined The Times in September 1983 as a business reporter, covering steel and other basic industries. He then spent two-and-a-half years as the newspaper's Midwestern business correspondent based in Chicago. In 1987, he moved to Paris, where served as The Times's European economics correspondent, covering everything from Western Europe's economy to the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. After five years in Paris, he became a correspondent in Washington for four years, first covering economics and the Federal Reserve and then the State Department and foreign affairs.
As labor and workplace reporter, he has covered many topics, including poverty among the nation's farm workers, Wal-Mart stores locking in their workers at night, labor's role in politics, the shortcomings of New York State's workers compensation system and the battles to roll back collective bargaining rights for public employees.
Mr. Greenhouse, a native of Massapequa, N.Y., is a graduate of Wesleyan University in Connecticut (1973), the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (1975) and the New York University School of Law (1982).
Immediately before joining The Times, he clerked for Judge Robert L. Carter of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. From 1976 to 1979, he was a reporter at the The Record in Hackensack, N.J.
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The Senate voted Friday to confirm President Obama's pick to head the beleaguered Internal Revenue Service, which has been under intense congressional scrutiny over its treatment of Tea Party groups seeking tax exempt status.
John Koskinen was confirmed in a 59-36 vote, below the 60-vote approval threshold that would have been required before Senate Democrats changed the chamber's rules to prevent Republicans from continuing to block presidential nominees.
Obama immediately praised the confirmation, but Republicans mostly opposed it, in part because they are angry over the rules change and want a greater say in deciding who will next head the troubled tax agency.
In May, a Treasury Inspector General report found that the IRS had issued a "Be on the lookout" order for groups seeking tax exempt status with names that signaled a conservative bent, like "Tea Party" or "Patriot."
Many of the Tea Party groups that applied for tax exempt status had their applications delayed ahead of the 2012 presidential election, prompting some to suspect the targeting was politically motivated.
Congress has held numerous hearings on the matter and several top IRS officials were forced to resign because of it.
Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., led the GOP's failed opposition to Koskinen's confirmation, citing the ongoing congressional investigation into the IRS targeting.
"It's unclear to me how seriously the White House is taking this investigation," McConnell said. "In many ways it seems to have treated the scandal more as a public relations problem to get past than a serious problem to solve.
"Now," McConnell added, "they just expect the elected representatives of the people to roll over and rubber stamp a new presidential nominee to head the IRS. They want Congress to forget what happened too, and just move on."
But five Republicans voted for Koskinen, who has a reputation as a government problem solver.
Koskinen, 74, was praised for leading the federal government in its preparation for "Y2K" issues ahead of the new millennium and was tapped to head the troubled housing agency Freddie Mac in 2008. From 2000 to 2003, he served as deputy mayor of the District of Columbia, which was at the time was struggling after years of mismanagement that resulted in the District being placed under the control of a federal oversight board.
Koskinen will take the place of another troubleshooter, Daniel Werfel, who Obama tapped at the height of the targeting scandal earlier this year.
"Throughout his career, John has always acted with the absolute integrity Americans demand from those in public service, and his strong leadership and unquestioned expertise make him the right person to lead the IRS," Obama said in a statement following the Senate vote.


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Some days CEOs would be better off staying in bed.
Last month, I introduced a new weekly series, the "CEO Gaffe of the Week." Having come across more than a handful of questionable executive decisions last year when compiling my list of the Worst CEOs of 2011, I thought it could be a learning experience for all of us if I pointed out apparent gaffes as they occur. Trusting your investments begins with trusting the leadership at the top -- and with leaders like these on your side, sometimes you don't need enemies!
This week I want to highlight the now former CEO of Diamond Foods (DMND): Michael Mendes.
The dunce cap
Seriously, where to begin?
Diamond Foods, one of the largest manufacturers of snack foods and the name behind Emerald Nuts and Pop Secret, announced yesterday that it was placing CEO Michael Mendes and CFO Steven Neil on administrative leave. The reason for their departure was an internal accounting probe which discovered that Diamond had made improper payments to walnut growers over the past few quarters, and that these payments would necessitate a restatement of its 2010 and 2011 results. In short, Diamond was knowingly making late payments to its walnut growers to artificially inflate its profits.
Those three sentences more or less sum up the chaos at the top of Diamond -- but there's more to this story than meets the eye.
Diamond Foods also agreed last April to purchase the Pringles brand from Procter & Gamble (PG) for $1.5 billion in an all-stock deal. If successful, this deal would make Diamond the No. 2 snack food company in the United States, behind only Frito-Lay, the snack food division of PepsiCo (PEP) that owns the Fritos, Cheetos, Doritos, and Ruffles brands, to name a few.
That deal is looking significantly less likely as of now because of the "material adverse change" clause that's built into its buyout agreement. Procter can choose to walk because the earnings restatements may result in up to a 50% reduction in Diamond's 2010 and 2011 total EPS -- a fact that I feel would entice any court to side with P&G.
In addition, P&G isn't likely to accept the deal on the grounds that Diamond is backing the purchase with its stock, and the last time I checked, its share price was approaching losses of more than 75% since September.
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But wait -- there's more!
The Justice Department in January launched a criminal probe into alleged impropriety related to those payments made to walnut growers. Although the Securities and Exchange Commission hasn't launched a formal investigation into Diamond's practices, I'd consider it just a matter of time before that happens. Let's not forget that you can almost assuredly expect a littering of shareholder lawsuits to hit over the next few weeks following the admission that a restatement of earnings is needed by the company.
Right now, Diamond looks like a shell of its former self (oh, I made a funny), but its near-term outlook is no laughing matter for shareholders. P&G will more than likely look elsewhere for a buyer of its Pringles brand, and I happen to think (on a purely speculative basis, mind you) that Kraft (KFT) would make a perfect pairing with its Ritz and Oreo brand names.
If we were in a nine-inning baseball game, this debacle hasn't even hit the halfway point yet. Mendes has assaulted Diamond Foods shareholders' wallets and completely destroyed his company's image -- all in a years' work.
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CATHERINE BARNARD has been a college psychology teacher for 29 years, the last 16 of them at Kalamazoo Valley Community College in Michigan. When she started there, she earned $1,800 per three-credit course. Now, after her years of service, she's worked her way up to $2,478 and holding—and holding and holding and holding.
About 13 years ago, she mentioned to the human resources director that she had completed her doctorate. That's nice, she was told, but don't expect a pay increase because of it.
The subject of relative pay for work actually has come up in Barnard's classes, she says, where "students have said, 'Hey, you get megabucks for helping us here. We only get minimum wage!' I can tell them that, for what I do—preparing for courses and class, teaching in class, grading—those in minimum wage jobs make more than I do.' If you're looking at me as a highly esteemed faculty member,' I say, 'think again.' Their jaws drop."
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When TV viewers last visited the immaculate streets of Chatswin on Suburgatory, George Altman (Jeremy Sisto) was having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad couple of days. After deciding to co-habitate with his girlfriend Dallas (Cheryl Hines), George's daughter Tessa (Jane Levy) protested and left to move in with her mom. Then, Dallas dumped George, but only after he had purchased a hideous house for Dallas that he didn't even like.
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TEAMS: Boston Celtics, Denver Nuggets, Miami Heat
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Paul Pierce and the Celtics have had a chance to show their toughness with Rondo out The Boston Celtics won their seventh straight game Sunday, this one a triple overtime epic against the Denver Nuggets. It was another bar fight for a Celtics team that has become accustomed to them over the past two seasons. Even in the wake of that game, the major national story remains the same as it ever was. It is the story of Boston Celtics star point-guard Rajon Rondo who tore his ACL two weeks ago and missed the national television bout against the Miami Heat. Since that win, the Boston Celtics have won seven in a row with the key being without Rondo, their supposed "best player". Suddenly, all of the trade rumors over the years involving Rondo seem to make sense. These Celtics are better without Rondo and the sooner they trade him, the better. This is the thought. I don't believe this. I refuse to believe this. There are other reasons for the success of the Celtics besides the wicked witch of Kentucky is dead and gone. I can't be told that without Rondo the Celtics win the Eastern Conference a season ago if the Celtics are really so much better without Rondo. My own eyes told me he was the very reason that they were a game away from reaching the Finals. Without his performances, the Boston Celtics sputter out against the Hawks or the 76ers. Rajon Rondo carried them, playing nearly every minute and willing the team game after game. Compare last years team with the Celtics as currently constructed. Last years team succeeded because they learned quickly who they were and how they played basketball. When injuries ravaged the team, they developed a rigid nine man rotation based on defensive pressure and Rondo's ability to create easy shots for a mostly jump-shooting team. Until Rondo's injury, the extended bench of the Celtics actually make it more difficult to establish a rotation, chemistry, even an identity. The injury jump-started that process this year. With more personal on the roster that can create shots with the ball, not necessarily without it in a point-guard dominated offense. The offense no longer has a point-guard; no one person dominates the ball. It moves around and allows more creation by individuals. Some like Jason Terry have even thrived in it and enjoying the unpredictably of multiple ball handlers. If anyone is a "point-guard" it's Paul Pierce who has revived his early career role of "primary" ball-handler, with primary being a nice way of putting it. The Celtics also do their best with their backs against the wall and in the "nobody believes in us role". Last year with everyone calling them old and shallow, the Boston Celtics fought back to win the Atlantic Division and make the Eastern Conference Finals. This after being written off numerous times over the season. This year, same thing. They were being written off after every losing streak this season and more so after Rondo went down. The Celtics are at their best in these situations, reaching deep inside for that fire that gets them going, the grit and balls that gave them their swagger a year ago. Don't say they are better without Rondo. Without Rondo everything gets a little bit tougher for the Boston Celtics and it also means they lose National Television Rondo. NTVR shows up every day in the playoffs and is a top-five player in the entire league. That is an almost indisputable fact. They aren't a better team, just a more energized team. They continue to try to prove people wrong and this has just been another bump in the road. Its simply a benefit of of being one of the toughest teams in the league.
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COEUR d'ALENE, Idaho -- Road construction in downtown Coeur d'Alene has hurt some businesses in the area.
Sherman Avenue in downtown Coeur d'Alene closed from Second Street to Fourth Street for the McEuen Park Renovation. Crews are installing traffic signs and putting in new stormwater equipment. Crews hope to be finished up by June 13.
Several shop-owners said that they have seen up to a 50% drop in profits since constuction started in late May. They said that the timing is the unfortunate part.
"It came at prime time during the summer months season anytime from this point forward is selling season," said John Shults, owner of JJ Shoes. "A lack of foot traffic and car traffic, and therefore a lack of customers."
"Its been really dead downtown. No one wants to be walking around when it's loud and noisy," said Dannea Mensching, the manager of Shenanigans Toys. "It's probably the worst time they could have done it. Why didn't they do it a few months ago?"
Both store owners reported around a 30% drop in sales during the usually busy time of the year.
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Jefferson at Lamar County
When, where: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Trojan Field, Barnesville
Records, rankings: Jefferson is 10-2, the No. 2 seed from Region 8 and No. 8; Lamar County is 12-0, the No. 1 seed from Region 4 and No. 1.
Last meeting: This is the teams' first meeting.
Three things to know: 1. RB Lawrence Austin rushed for 250 yards and three touchdowns in Lamar County's 38-20 second-round victory over Thomasville. He also intercepted a pass, and his brother, QB/DB Lance Austin, intercepted two. Lawrence Austin has rushed for 1,195 yards on the season. Lance has rushed for 853. Lamar County averages only about five passes per game. 2. QB Evan Shirreffs came off the bench in the fourth quarter of Jefferson's 61-57 victory over Heard County. Injured in October, Shirreffs threw one TD pass to his temporary replacement at quarterback, T.J. Skelton, on a 9-yarder that was the game-winning score. Shirreffs had passed for three touchdowns and run for a touchdown in what was the third-highest-scoring game in state playoff history. Shirreffs is 75-of-125 passing for 1,084 yards on the season. 3. This is a matchup between the No. 1-ranked team (Lamar County) and the defending champion (Jefferson). Both made the semifinals last season. Lamar County lost to Calhoun, Jefferson's opponent in the final.
Maxwell Ratings' projection: Lamar County by 15
Winner plays: Calhoun/Benedictine winner
Calhoun at Benedictine
When, where: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Savannah State University's T.A. Wright Stadium, Savannah
Records, rankings: Calhoun is 11-1, the No. 1 seed from Region 7 and No. 5; Benedictine is 12-0, the No. 1 seed from Region 2 and No. 6.
Last meeting: This is the teams' first meeting.
Three things to know: 1. Calhoun has won 20 consecutive home playoff games, the longest active streak of its kind in the state, but lost a coin flip to host the quarterfinals as Benedictine also is a region champion. The trip to Savannah State, where the game will be played, is 320 miles. Benedictine, which frequently has chosen to play in classifications higher than its enrollment dictates, has been home to only eight state-playoff games in its history and had only one victory (1996 vs. Northside of Warner Robins) until this season. 2. Brandon Blaylock kicked a 33-yard field goal with 1:37 left for the winning points in Calhoun's 31-30 victory over Greater Atlanta Christian. GAC missed a 26-yard field goal with eight seconds left. Tydus Curtis had a 74-yard pass reception and 90-yard kickoff return. Curtis has 45 catches for 952 yards on the season and has scored 13 touchdowns. Distant cousin Chandler Curtis leads the team with 16 touchdowns and has 755 yards receiving. 3. Benedictine RB J.J. Gaines rushed for 128 yards and scored two touchdowns, one on a reception, in a 51-7 second-round victory over Fitzgerald. Gaines, the team leader in rushing with 811 yards, is one of three Benedictine running backs with 15 or more touchdowns overall. Gaines has 15. Chance Jackson (694 yards) and Mike Huggins (583) have 17 each. QB Stevie Powers is 63-of-88 passing for 1,445 yards.
Maxwell Ratings' projection: Benedictine by 2
Winner plays: Jefferson/Lamar County winner
Lovett at Laney
When, where: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Lucy C. Laney Memorial Stadium, Augusta
Records, rankings: Lovett is 11-1, the No. 1 seed from Region 6 and No. 2; Laney is 10-2, the No. 1 seed from Region 3 and unranked.
Last meeting: This is the teams' first meeting.
Three things to know: 1. Lovett RB Grant Haley has rushed for 100 yards or more in each of his past four games, all against playoff opponents. He has 1,081 yards on the season with 19 touchdowns. Lovett's strength is defense. The Lions are allowing 97.2 yards rushing and 62.2 passing to Class AA opponents. 2. Laney limited Vidalia to 125 yards in total offense and held 1,500-yard rusher Tra Hardy to 78 yards rushing in a 22-13 victory in the second round. QB Horatio Keller rushed for 97 yards on 12 carries, and his 38-yard TD run with eight minutes left put Laney in control. Keller was 9-of-14 passing for 143 yards. 3. Laney won the coin toss between region champions to get home-field advantage. Laney is 11-1 in home playoff games since 2000, its only loss to Benedictine in 2002. Laney has made the semifinals three times (2002, 2003, 2004) in that time. Lovett is trying to get back to the semifinals for the 12th time overall and first since 2010.
Maxwell Ratings' projection: Lovett by 26
Winner plays: Bowdon/Brooks County winner
Bowdon at Brooks County
When, where: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Veterans Stadium, Quitman
Records, rankings: Bowdon is 11-1, the No. 2 seed from Region 5 and unranked; Brooks County is 11-1, the No. 1 seed from Region 1 and No. 7.
Last meeting: This is the teams' first meeting.
Three things to know: 1. Bowdon rushed for more than 300 yards in the first half, taking a 35-7 lead, in a 48-13 victory over third-ranked Washington-Wilkes in the second round in what might be the most surprising score of the playoffs this season in any class. Washington-Wilkes beat Bowdon 66-28 in the first round last year. 2. Brooks County QB Malkom Parrish scored three touchdowns and passed for two in a 55-28 victory over Bleckley County in the second round. The AJC Super 11 pick, who has committed to Georgia as a defensive back, will go over 1,000 yards rushing and passing for the second consecutive season. 3. Bowdon has made the quarterfinals 12 times and semifinals five times, but neither since 2005. Brooks County is aiming for its first semifinal since 2008 and fourth in history.
Maxwell Ratings' projection: Brooks County by 6
Winner plays: Lovett/Laney winner
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November 27th, 2013
12:57 pm
Mr. Maxwell still picking against Calhoun, eh? When will they ever learn . . .
November 27th, 2013
1:02 pm
Maxwell's model puts all the weight on the Carrollton loss, he was wrong last week he will be wrong this week.
November 27th, 2013
1:27 pm
Lovett's never been to Cat-ville in the AUG…they are about to get a SERIOUS wake-up call….Laney's TEAM speed is underestimated…TILL U PLAY THEM!!!! Can't wait for Calhoun to teach 'dem BC boyz what REAL: football is all about…travel makes no difference-everybody's got to take a bus ride of some sort from here on out
November 27th, 2013
2:48 pm
Looks like 4 head-knocking games, no matter which way ya slice it….
November 27th, 2013
2:50 pm
Lovett will beat Laney easily! We beat Laney 38-0 and we also played Lovett in a game we had to come back in the 4th from being down 33-21 to win the game in ot 36-33! So Lovett will win very easily!
November 27th, 2013
5:34 pm
Writers, Pollsters, Fans, or Whomever….. Go ahead and sleep on my Wildcats if you want to. We will shake up the state of Ga 2A Classification this Friday night in Augusta. My Laney squad will not be denied this year. And oh yeah…. Do not forget about the Wildcats Boys and Girls B-Ball Teams. Both will play for state titles in a few months.
November 27th, 2013
5:37 pm
All Day Waco…. we was a few men down when we played you guys, so don't get it twisted. Waco got every call that night. Waco you all better be looking out for Buford. Private Schools playing public schools really SUCKS. Change the rules GHSA back to 1.5 !!!
November 27th, 2013
8:36 pm
BC (Benedictne) actually won it's 1st round state playoff game last year. Also, it beat LeGrange(think it was them, but won 2 that year) in ('96) same year they beat Northside. Not to mention lots of playoff wins before the State went to a 32 team bracket and each region had a 'region championship' 4 team playoff.
November 28th, 2013
12:40 am
Go bc
November 28th, 2013
12:47 am
For all those bc haters who think we can't compete against those supposedly badass atlanta/north georgia schools I can't wait to show you how real men play football come from Friday night. By the way all you guys above who love Laney I got a news flash, handled you pretty easily last year. Oh for bill price can't wait for my bc boys to show your Calhoun wusses what bc smash mouth military football is all about. My call bc 28 Calhoun 14.
November 28th, 2013
5:37 am
@Wildcat! Yeah ur bball teams mite do good but ur football team will be knocked out fri and for Buford, we dont meet them unless beat we beat the team fri. We play the day and take care business there 1st then move on to the next game if we win.
November 28th, 2013
7:00 am
Bowdon is focused. Playing as a team for the first time this year. They will be hard to beat. Should be a great ballgame.
November 28th, 2013
2:57 pm
Thanks Todd, that would make since because that win in '96 vs Legrange was on the road. I read it wrong. I now feel like I went to public school, not BC
November 28th, 2013
4:34 pm
Jackets have left the nest…will spend the night somewhere around statesboro…safe travel to the jackets nation…see y'all in Savannah. ….
November 28th, 2013
8:37 pm
dont hate on da wildcats we aa an yall aaa an we had people out with yall we will handle lovett an kill yall in basketball on the way to a state title.
November 28th, 2013
8:41 pm
all day waco bring that mess to wildcat country in basketball we goona crush everybody in route to another state title.
November 29th, 2013
5:16 am
Cool big guy! Gud luck to u and ur team!
November 29th, 2013
1:21 pm
Calhoun will win again!
November 29th, 2013
3:04 pm
I'm at SSU..looks like a nice stadium…Go Jackets lets do what we do…..
November 29th, 2013
3:25 pm
The Champ is here: They just rebuilt that stadium 2 years ago, they did a great job with it, which is one reason we play our games there.
November 29th, 2013
8:20 pm
It was T.J Skelton who had a total of 5 touchdowns. 1 rushing, 3 passing before catching the game winner from Shirreffs. Just trying to give credit were credit is due. I serious typo by AJC columnist. GO DRAGONS!!!!!
November 30th, 2013
1:30 pm
I went to see a good high school football game last night in Savannah ,but that was a GOOD old FASHIONED BUTT WHIPPING!!!!!


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The art and adaptation of the mango have taken our Florida mangos to new frontiers. The Japanese have been growing Miami's very own 'Irwin' since the 1980s under glass in heated greenhouses at north latitudes equivalent to central Minnesota. It is a long way, both in distance and mind set from northwest Miami – home of the 'Irwin' – to the temperate forests of Saporo, north Japan. Yet, here it grows, in such a small space, adapted by the Japanese grower to their needs. Just as the art of bonsai was brought to Japan by Chinese monks looking to expand their religion into the kingdom of Japanese, the modern Japanese growers use highly detailed pruning and shaping of the mango to gain acceptance of the mango as a fruit of the Nobles.
This was my second trip to Japan and this opportunity I was invited as a guest speaker at the Fruit Growers Association meeting held in Miyazaki. More than 100 mango growers attended the meeting and my role was to give advice on new cultivars for the Japanese market.
I was still filled with good memories from my first visit to Japan in 2009, where I had the opportunity to see the history of 'Irwin' grown on the southern Japanese Island of Okinawa. Okinawa is comprised of 150 islands, where farming is molded to its subtropical climate, which is a little cooler than our winter in South Florida. Okinawa is located in the Temperate Zone and has four seasons. The annual precipitation is over 2,000 mm, and during the winter, the temperature can drop to zero or below. That is the reason mangos are in greenhouses to protect the trees from heavy rains and cold. I met in that time one of the pioneer mango growers in Okinawa, who was an immigrant from Taiwan and brought the seeds that are still used today. They keep using them as a rootstock. He was a master pruner and his 30 year old mangos have been pruned every year, removing wood to rejuvenate the canopy and have more points for production. In Okinawa they do not induce blooming, as it occurs naturally during the cool winter season.
By 2009, the annual production in Japan was about 1,460 MT per year, and has increased by 50%, through the use of modern and innovative agricultural techniques that allow them to grow mangos in the snow in places like Soporo in the north of Japan.
Dr. John Yonemoto, a long-time friend of Fairchild Garden, also extended an invitation to Soporo to see his mango operation. Here I am in Soporo, picking mangos in the snow!
The temperature in Soporo, was 4C below zero.Traditional growers leaves two principal branches horizontaly to support the canopy for the rest of their life. This will provide light in the most eficient way acording with him. We had a long discussion about mango managment. The harvest season is in June and the average wholesale price of mangos at the Okinawa central wholesale market is 100 yen/kg.
I really enjoyed this visit to see for myself how the Japanese have been domesticated Florida mangos according with their tradition and cultureultural crops include sugar cane, vegetables, flowers and fruits. Mangoes were introduced to Okinawa in the early 1900s, and since the technique for mango production using plastic greenhouses was established, mango production has been increasing year by year. Recently, mangos have become an important part of the Okinawan horticulture industry. The current mango production in Okinawa is about 1460 MT per year. I thought to myself that this was not mango weather when he told me to be ready in the morning for mango picking. It was dark and gloomy and snow was expected in the morning. I spent the night at his house and his lovely wife prepared dinner for us. In the morning, we walked to the greenhouses and went from a brisk 2C outside to a balmy 35C inside, where the heaters were running all the time. This is mango season in Soporo. They spend $200,000 a year to heat one greenhouse on1/4 acre.
Mangoes are usually harvested from spring through summer in Japan. But they learned how to produce mangos for Christmas when they can get a premium price. Dr. Yonemoto explained to me his research, based on limiting the root system, pruning and training trees from an early age, solar radiation, and temperature.
Limiting the root system can be done by growing trees in containers, or by burying non-woven fabric to limit the root system before greenhouse construction and planting. Planting density is 120 to 240 trees per 1,000 square meters. The first year is spent preparing the rootstock; second or third year in grafting and growing the tree. By year five, trees are harvested for the first time. In the 7th year, the targeted value of production is 2000 kg / 1000 square meters.
The Japanese are making a mango bonsai of sorts; mango trees that exhibit their nature within a limited growing space. To accomplish this, the mangos trees are carefully pruned every year, removing wood to rejuvenate the canopy and have more points of production.
He leaves two principal branches horizontally to support the canopy for the rest of their life. This will provide light in the most efficient way. They still have many challenges such as thrips and anthracnose in the greenhouses.
Dr. Yonemoto has divided the greenhouses into two different groups to control environmental conditions to have two mango seasons, one during the summer and the other for Christmas. He increases photosynthesis by applying carbon dioxide in the enclosed greenhouse environment. He also is embedding piping underground to run cold snow melt water during the summer months, and water from the hot springs in the fall and winter. Although controlling the temperature remains a challenge, they believe that it is ideal to grow mangos through the use of local natural energy resources and an abundance of sunlight.
He uses honeybees for pollination. Each box contains approximately 12,000 bees. Besides honeybees, Dr. Yonemoto also uses flies for pollination; they are cheaper but less effective. Flies have a shorter flight distance and less efficiency than bees. They are not actually beekeepers; they purchase the hives every season and reuse the survivors for next season. In Soporo there is limited sunlight available.
Dr. Yonemoto uses a creative way to increase light. A white square of paper will do the trick. In order to attain a full red color they carefully expose the fruit to the sunlight until they get full ripeness and they can be harvested. The target is to get 100% red color that brings the premium price. These are techniques we have developed for cultivating delicious and beautiful mangos. Labor is very intensive, and the dedication and detailed effort are impressive. They wait until the mango drops into a net, and farmers harvest fruit as soon as possible to prevent injuries. Every fruit it's evaluated before going to the packing house.
Every single fruit is carefully wrapped and transported to the packing house. Quality control determines the rate of fruit to specific market. The sorting machine they use in the packing house has an infrared scanner to measure sugar content and select color, as well as pulp consistency to assure quality of the fruit. It's an expensive machine and capacity is very low. But high quality! The machine sorts 1,500 fruit a day and costs about $500,000.
Mangos at the Central wholesale market are 100 yen/kg. Look at this, 2 mangos for $180.00 in Tokyo. The local mangos in Japan are very expensive, but they satisfy urban consumers by replacing the low quality imported fruit. Mango varieties from all over the world reach Japan. The most prevalent variety is Carabao from the Philippines. Tommy Atkins comes from Mexico, and Nan-Doc-Mai from Thailand.
Why Irwin? I asked them. They said we love fruit that are juicy, fresh and fully ripe. The Irwin cultivar is juicy with a sweet aroma. Irwin mangos can be harvested when fully ripe. In their experience, Irwin is the only mango which naturally falls from the tree when fully ripened. Dr. Yonemoto is testing other cultivars. I had an opportunity to see some of the trees he brought from Fairchild's collections years ago, including Nam Doc Mai, Rapoza, Lippens, Mallika, and our Turpentine as a rootstock. He is also growing avocados, sugar apple, persimmon, passion fruit, dragon fruit, bananas, and carambola.
We flew to Miyzaki from Soporo to meet the growers at the conference. In the morning we all went on a field trip to visit a mango farm. Miyazaki city is situated at latitude 32 degrees north. Winter in Miyazaki is cold, and minimum temperatures in December and January can be as low as 2C and sometimes there is snow during the winter. Mango production in Miyazaki started in 1986. At present, the total cultivation area for mangos is more than 55 hectare. The volume of production is 700 tons. This value includes young groves whose volume of production is 13 tons per hectares.
Mr. Kazunori Yokoyama is showing us his farm to share his secrets on how he can produce more than 10% the top quality mangos in Japan "the egg of the sun". He works with his family, no workers. Their main production is based on the variety 'Irwin', like the rest of the people in Japan. The rootstocks used are a polyembrionic type from Taiwan. Some of traditional growers do not induce blooming, as it occurs naturally during the winter. Mr. Kazunori is developing a protocol to synchronize blooming by pruning, low the temperature, heating soil, and water stress. He sprays phosphorus to decrease nitrogen for the trees to slow down for blooming. The terminal leaves are stripped five inches from the bud tip to synchronize blooming.
l winter season. Trees are heavily mulched and intensely managed by pruning. Traditional growers leaves two principal branches horizontaly to support the canopy for the rest of their life. This will provide light in the most eficient way acording with him. We had a long discussion about mango managment. The harvest season is in June and the average wholesale price of mangos at the Okinawa central wholesale market is 100 yen/kg. I really enjoyed this visit to see for myself how the Japanese have been domesticated Florida mangos according with their tradition and culture.They heat the water for irrigation, and control growth temperature to induce blooming as well.
My visit to Japan gave me a lesson of high quality agriculture standards. Clean agriculture, dedication, discipline, and love for agriculture. It may be impossible in our modern days to achieve these lines especially with the modern mango industry which is based in production and low prices. The growers are subsidized by the government, and this is the only reason they still survive.
I am indebted to all my friends in Japan for the opportunity to experience what has been done with our Floridian mangos. These small, manicured trees symbolize the high level of patience and creativity of the Japanese grower. It is a life time of care; an opportunity to grow mangos out of the mango zone in South Florida and into the unknown of the northern United States and beyond. We can use some of these experiences to apply to other models where quality is the goal. Costs, in both time and money are high, but the reward is a labor of love that only the mango can command.


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