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- Author: Ben Faber
This is a story about phone calls that come in to my message machine. Yesterday I got 3 calls from PCAs (Pest Control Advisors) and two from growers. The two from growers were from a Papaya grower and the other from a dragon fruit grower that I am working with to develop an industry here in Santa Barbara/Ventura. One is in Carp the other in Montecito. The PCA calls were from two that work on avocado and the other from a citrus grower. I either get a call from an avocado grower direct because they can't afford a PCA or from the manager or the PCA of larger farms. From citrus it is usually the manager or the PCA. These are more developed industries and the grower usually lets the workers take care of problems because they are so familiar with the operations. When it 's a new crop, the owner steps in. They want to know all that can go wrong with this new crop.
Blueberries are expanding now along the coast and when we first started working on them 15 years ago, our collaborators were in touch with us constantly. Now it's the managers who call. Its now a developed industry. The same for coffee. When we started working on it we worked closely with out cooperators, now there is a coffee cooperative that takes care of itself. We work with new things. One of the calls from an avocado PCA was about a farm that is being infested with bagrada bug. Everything in the area has dried up from the drought. The bagarada bug normally goes after plants in the brassica family (cabbage, mustard, etc.), many of which are native and growing along streams and on hillsides. The streams and hills have dried up and the bug is now going to the new avocado leaf tissue and the PCA wanted the bug identified and to provide a solution to the problem.
Sometimes the weather works for us and sometimes against us. We've got a parasitic wasp for controlling olive fruit fly. We went out all over southern Santa Barabara county to groves of olive trees to determine where to release the wasp and could find healthy olives, but no olive fruit. No where to make to make releases this year. The weather plays tricks on us. But we keep looking for solutions. Maybe next year we will be able to study if and how the wasp controls olive fruit fly. It does in France.
- Author: Neil O'Connell
Since the first publication of this article on vole damage in citrus, a recent field observation regarding vole activity is worth noting. Voles prefer a situation where there is cover and shelter generally from weed or grass. In some orchards established in the last few years a plastic strip has been installed along the tree row for weed management (Fig 1). These strips appear to be offering a sheltered environment for vole activity in some cases (Fig 2). Recent observations in two such installations, one a block planted in 2013 and the other an eight year old planting exhibited significant vole activity. The young orchard at this point does not exhibit obvious tree damage although active tunneling is apparent (Fig 3). In the older orchard feeding damage to the trunks is very obvious (Fig 4).
Meadow Mice (Voles) can cause serious damage in a citrus orchard resulting in partial or complete girdling of a tree (Fig 5). Trees often exhibit damage to the bark of the tree from the soil line up 6-8 inches (Fig. 6 ). On close inspection, an open hole 1-1.5 inches in diameter may be found at the base of the tree (Fig 7).
Five species belonging to the genus Microtus are found in California, two of which "Microtus californicus" and "M.montanus" are reported to cause damage. Damage has been reported in permanent pasture, alfalfa, hay, artichokes, Brussels sprouts, carrots, cauliflower, potatoes, sugar beets, tomatoes, grains, nursery stock and the bark of apple, avocado, citrus, cherry and olive trees.
Microtus are often found where there is grass cover. They generally do not invade cultivated crops until the crop is tall enough to provide food and shelter. Meadow mice are active all year round. They forage at any time during the day or night but are chiefly nocturnal. They are usually found in colonies marked by numerous 2-- inch wide surface runways though matted grass. Small brownish fecal pellets and short pieces of grass stems along the runways are evidence of activity. The burrows consist of extensive underground tunnels, nest chambers and storage chambers. Home range is typically small, less than a 60 foot radius in the case of "M.californicus". All meadow mice swim well. Therefore, irrigation ditches will not serve as effective barriers against meadow mice movement into fields. Meadow mice may forage beyond the sheltered runways. Food consists of tubers, roots, seeds, grain, and succulent stems and leaves.
Females breed at 4 to 6 weeks of age with litter size of "M.californicus" averaging around 4. Under natural conditions a female Microtus may produce from 5 to 10 litters a year. The major breeding season corresponds with the season of forage growth. Microtus populations build up to a peak every 3 to 4 years, followed by a rapid decline during the next breeding season. The exact causes of the cycle of buildup and decline are not known, though disease, food shortages, physiological stress from overcrowding, and other factors may be involved. It is assumed that in cultivated areas Microtus populations are permanently based in favorable habitat such as roadsides, canal banks or adjacent noncultivated land. Invasion of cultivated cropland occurs when the population builds up or when the wild habitat becomes unfavorable. Coyotes, badgers, weasels, snakes, hawks, owls, herons and gulls are among the principal predators. It is believed that predators are not able to prevent or control a population eruption because of the birth rate of the fast breeding Microtus population. Meadow mice are classified as nongame mammals by the California Fish and Game Code. Nongame mammals, which are found to be injuring growing crops may be taken at any time or in any manner by the owner/management. The most effective management options in an orchard situation are a reduction in ground cover and the use of toxic baits. Meadow mice are cover dependent. In situations where cover removal is not possible or is insufficient to solve the problem, the next best option is the use of toxic baits. Many bait carriers are used (e.g., oat groats, wheat bait). Baits: Crimped oat groats are the most satisfactory bait although crimped whole oats are used (e.g., oat groats, wheat grains, pelletized formulations, etc., but crimped oat groats have typically been most effective). The primary toxicants used for meadow mouse control include zinc phosphide, diphacinone, and chlorophacinone. Directions for management including baiting can be obtained by contacting the Agricultural Commissioner's Office. * Portions taken from J.P.Clark Vertebrate Pest Control
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By now almost everyone growing tree crops in California is undergoing some amount of mandatory water cutbacks, especially if they are buying water from water districts. Some districts in the San Joaquin Valley have had really severe cuts, up to 80%. For a lot of growers who are not buying water, they may be facing severe water shortages due to water tables that are dropping.
San DiegoCounty is a good example. In 2008 all of the avocado and citrus growers in San Diego
County had a mandatory 30% water cutback, if they
were in the water discount program known as the Interruptible Ag Water Program. Fearing that the cuts would be even higher in 2009 if they stayed in the program, most growers opted out, but were then faced with paying full price for their water. Now, it looks like most of these growers will be faced with a mandatory cut of about 8% (this depends on the water district), and will have to pay full price for ag water. But wait! Because the districts aren't selling as much water, they need to raise prices to cover their fixed costs. For instance, Fallbrook
Public Utility District recently announced they were raising prices 13%. Many districts in San DiegoCounty have simply followed water wholesalers (MWD and SDCWA) in their price increases.
Please make sure that you are in touch with your local water district. They may have a different cutback rate than the 8% mentioned as well as conservation guidelines and regulations. You are responsible for knowing this information and you could be looking at some hefty fines for using more water than allowed.
So what can you as a grower do when faced with this scenario? Before we start with our recommendations, let's start by thinking about what you can't do. (This always confuses the issue, so let's get this off the table).
- You can't make it rain more. We are in a prolonged drought, this happens periodically in California, and that's just the way it is. Can you lobby for more storage for when it does rain in excess? Yes!
2. You can't solve the Delta smelt issue, not unless Congress cancels the Endangered Species Act. A solution for bypassing the Delta with a pipeline from the Sacramento River down to the State Water Project canal which supplies Southern California would certainly help. Researchers at UC Davis have determined that the canal would be the most economically feasible way to fix the delta issues. However, given California's budget woes, it probably won't happen soon.
- There are no magical solutions that work to "inactivate" the salts in your well water. There are a lot of devices sold that make lots of claims, but there is no University research evidence that shows that any of them work. The only thing that does work is reverse osmosis, but be careful because these systems produce brine which must be disposed of legally. The brine cannot go into the local creek.
OK! Let's Strategize. There are four steps for everybody to consider, it doesn't matter if you have a backyard lawn and landscape or if you have 700 acres of avocados.
1. Maintenance: Irrigation System and Cultural Practices
2. Improve Irrigation Scheduling
3. Deficit Irrigation
4. Reduce Irrigated Area
1. Maintenace
a. Irrigation System.
- Fix leaks. Unfortunately, there are almost always leaks for all kinds of reasons. Pickers step on sprinklers, squirrels eat through polytube, branches drop on valves, coyote puppies like to chew….the system should be checked during every irrigation
- Drain the lines. At the beginning of each year every lateral line should be opened in order to drain the fine silt that builds up.
- Maintain or increase the uniformity of irrigation so that each tree or each area gets about the same amount of water. Common problems include different sized sprinklers on the same line or pressure differences in the lines. Where there are elevation changes, every line should have a pressure regulator, they come pre-set to 30 psi. Having all of your lines set up with pressure regulators is the only way you can get an even distribution of water to all of the trees, and it solves the problem of too much pressure at the bottom of the grove and not enough at the top.
- Clean the filters often. You don't have a filter because you think that the district water has already been filtered? Hah! What happens if there is a break in the line in the street and the line fills with dirt during the repairs? All of your sprinklers will soon be filled with dirt.
- Is water flow being reduced at the end of the lateral line? It could be because scaffold roots are growing old enough to pinch off the buried line. The only cure is to replace the line.
b. Cultural Management.
- Control the weeds because weeds can use a lot of water.
- Mulch? Mulching is good for increasing biological activity in the soil and reducing stress on the trees, but the mulch will not save a lot of water if you are irrigating often….the large evaporative surface in mulches causes a lot of water to evaporate if the mulch surface is kept wet through frequent irrigation. Mulches are more helpful in reducing water use if the trees are young and a lot of soil is exposed to direct sunlight.
2. Improve the Irrigation Scheduling.
- CIMIS will calculate the amount of water to apply in your grove based on last week's water evapotranspiration (ET). You can get to CIMIS by using several methods; for avocado growers the best method is to use the irrigation calculator on the www.avocado.org website. If you need further instruction on this, you can call our office and ask for the Avocado Irrigation Calculator Step by Step paper. You need to know the application rater of your mini-sprinklers and the distribution uniformity of your grove's irrigation system.
- CIMIS tells you how much water to apply, but you need tensiometers, soil probes or shovels to tell you when to water.
- "Smart Controllers" have been used successfully in landscape and we have used one very successfully in an avocado irrigation trial The one we used allowed us to enter the crop coefficient for avocado into the device, and daily ET information would come in via a cell phone connection. When the required ET (multiplied automatically by the crop coefficient) reached the critical level, the irrigation system would come on, and then shut down when the required amount had been applied. Increased precision can be obtained by fine tuning these devices with the irrigation system precipitation (application) rate.
3. Deficit Irrigation.
- Deficit irrigation is the practice of applying less water than the ET of the crop or plant materials. Deficit irrigation is useful for conserving water in woody landscape ornamentals and drought tolerant plants where crop yield is not an issue. Water conserved in these areas may be re-allocated to other areas on the farm or landscape.
- There hasn't been enough research on deficit irrigation of avocado for us to comment. We suspect, however, that deficit irrigation will simply lead to dropped fruit and reduced yield.
- Stumping the avocado tree could be considered a form of deficit irrigation. In this case, the tree should be stumped in the spring, painted with white water-based paint to reflect heat, and the sprinkler can be capped for at least 2 months. As the tree starts to re-grow, some water should be added back, probably about 10-20% of the normal water use of a mature tree.
- Regulated Deficit Irrigation for Citrus is an important method for saving water, and in some cases will reduce puff and crease of the peel. In one orange trial done by Dr. David Goldhammer in the San JoaquinValley, an application of 25% of ETc from mid-May to Mid July saved about 25% of applied water for the year and reduced crease by 67%, without appreciably reducing yield.
- 4. Reduce Irrigated Area.
- Taking trees out of production. Trees that are chronically diseased and do not produce fruit (or the fruit is poor quality) should be taken out of production during this period. Also consider: trees in frosty areas, trees in wind-blown areas, trees near eucalyptus and other large trees that steal the water from the fruit trees.
- Changing crops. You may want to take out those Valencias during this period and replant to something that brings in more money, like seedless, easy-peeling mandarins. The young trees will be using a lot less water.
- Fallow Opportunities. You may decide to do some soil preparation, tillage or cultivation, or even soil solarization of non-irrigated areas.
We have found that this four step process is a logical way to achieve water cutbacks with least impact. It is possible to achieve a ten percent reduction in water by only improving irrigation system uniformity and scheduling procedures. Often, these two measures also result in better crop performance and reduced runoff. Reducing irrigated area or taking areas out of production should be a last resort and a well thought out decision. Plan for the future, hopefully water will be more available in future years.
- Author: Ben Faber
Citrus is a messy botany. It loves to cross with anything and in so doing creates very complex ancestry. C-35 rootstock is a citrange and was created for its tolerance to cold, but is also good in Phytophthora situations and creates a slightly smaller tree. Oddly, it is deciduous, a cross between Poncirus and Citrus. It's a trifoliate hybrid. 'Meyer' lemon is the same mess, a cross between a lemon and an orange/mandarin. You would think these two messed up cousins might do well, but in several instances there is an incompatibility. 'Meyer' has been grown successfully on 'Macrophylla' and 'Yuma Ponderosa', both of which are also complex hybrids.
- Author: Neil O'Connel
Installing tree wraps on young trees provides protection to the trunk from applications of herbicides during weed management operations. Additionally, the wraps minimize light interception by trunk tissue thereby reducing sucker growth. During hot weather tree wraps provide shade to the trunk and reduce the incidence of sunburn. With the increasing incidence of earwigs, damage to young trees and the tendency for the insect to congregate under the wraps, tree wraps are being removed in some cases. Recent laboratory data from Dr. Beth Grafton-Cardwell (confirmed by observations in the field) suggests that as the season progresses adults become less and less interested in feeding on leaves (peak of feeding in March and April, declines to next to nothing by June). So, a management consideration would be to check the earwigs in the wraps in the summer, and if there are only adults present there is less concern than if there are immatures present. Another point would be to consider treatment with an insecticide such as Lorsban if wraps are to be left on for sunburn protection.
If wraps are removed a uniform coating of sun protective material should be applied to the trunk to protect against sun damage. Trunk surfaces should be monitored to ensure that a uniform coating is in place. Sun damage to unprotected trunk tissue can result in partial or complete girdling of the tree.


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Samsung's gorgeous 40-inch skinny screen is an edge-lit LED delight
Samsung UE46C8000: Overview
This elegant edge LED-lit UE40C8000 is Samsung's skinniest TV ever. But its 24mm profile is just one of its many attributes, with 3D capability, DLNA networking, USB recording and internet TV among the auxiliary features that complement those jaw-dropping looks.
With its transparent-edged, brushed titanium bezel and ultra-black screen there's no doubting the 40C8000's place in pole position on Samsung's 40-inch TV grid, just ahead of the marginally fatter, brown-framed 40C7000.
Both sets have the polished X-shaped Quad stand but the 40C7000 doesn't come with the gorgeous backlit brushed metal remote control, nor can it record TV to an external hard disk or flash drive.
This is also Samsung's most expensive 40-inch model. If you want to witness the joys of Samsung's flagship C9000 series you need to scale up your size ambitions to at least 46-inch while tripling the amount of hard earned cash it will cost you in the process.
But where the C9000 series is an exercise in elevating Samsung's name to wannabe-aristocratic brand status, the UE40C8000's relatively affordable price tag keeps it within reach of ordinary people.
Samsung UE46C8000: Features
The 40C8000's slimness means bespoke adaptors are needed for many of the connections including Scart, RF, component video, Ethernet and composite/stereo phono connections, all of which face downwards.
Pointing to the side are the CI slot and four normal HDMI sockets. These are positioned too close to the edge of the bezel so that your HDMI cables can be seen from the front protruding beyond the frame as they curve their way out and down the back of the set. The unacceptable solution is to use ultra-bendable/cheap cables.
Multimedia options abound. The Ethernet slot can be used both to feed the internet video portal or to make a wired network connection with access to JPEG, MP3, DivX, MKV and AVI files on a computer or external drive. There are also two multi-function USBs. You can set up a wireless network (using an optional extra USB Wi-Fi adaptor), or connect a USB flash memory or HDD to play multimedia files and/or make PVR recordings from the digital HD tuner.
As you'd expect, there's a sack-full of picture adjustment options, with two expert pattern images (one greyscale and one colour) to aid the calibration process. Enthusiasts can spend countless hours tweaking numerous parameters including black tone, flesh tone, dynamic contrast, gamma, colour tint and space and white balance, with a 10-point interval option available.
The screen's 50Hz processing can be multiplied to 200Hz by engaging the set's Motion Plus function with three pre-set modes on offer and a custom option. For green-minded users there's a clutch of eco-settings to choose from that reduce the screen's brightness and a natty little onscreen VU style-meter that sadly doesn't give the actual power consumption, just a relative idea of how eco-friendly you're running the screen. Typical power consumption is around 160W.
The term internet TV is somewhat ambiguous and here it refers to Samsung's slew of internet services optimised for the screen and delivered by means of a broadband connection. So there's no browser as such and each service can be regarded as an extra channel, which vary greatly in usefulness and quality. Samsung is gradually expanding its provision with an App store to complement pre-installed offerings such as BBC iPlayer, Facebook, Google Maps, and YouTube.
Another major draw – or is it? – is the set's 3D capability. Accessed quickly by pressing a dedicated button on the remote control the set can handle all 3D formats and (much to James Cameron's consternation, probably) throws 2D-to-3D conversion into the bargain.
Samsung UE46C8000: Picture
The 40C8000 serves up what are unarguably some of the finest pictures ever seen on a 40-inch screen. As on its larger 46C8000 stablemate, the LED backlighting is flawlessly even and has more than enough brightness to hand.
It's still common to find Freeview products that are less watchable than West Ham, but the combination of a good quality tuner and excellent processing means that standard-definition Freeview images are a delight. Common defects such as video noise and mushiness on low bit-rate channels are effectively rendered unnoticeable.
Although they don't quite hit the heights achieved by the larger 46C8000 those 2,073,600 pixels are more than capable of delivering pin-sharp HD pictures. With the screen properly calibrated and the right viewing mode selected, both broadcast HD and Blu-ray sources look simply gorgeous in terms of clarity, although both can seem a little soft when the set is first switched on.
Colours are exceptionally accurate for an LCD screen and skin tones look completely realistic. Judder doesn't seem much of an issue and the various Motion Plus settings make it possible to have perfectly fluid pictures albeit with the usual side-effect of making filmic sources look like video. Happily, though, there's hardly any haloing introduced as a result of using Motion Plus.
Black levels are a revelation, showing how far LCD has come since the bad old milky grey days but despite tweaks for adjusting the intensity of the black level it's very hard to find a setting where you see sufficient levels of detail without cranking up the brightness to the detriment of the rest of the picture.
Watching 3D images on a 40-inch screen is not something we can readily recommend. Bearing in mind most 3D sources create an image that extends in to the screen rather than towards the viewer, when truly effective it's like looking at miniature objects or people that seem further away from you – and hence smaller – than in 2D. Combined with the loss of resolution of Sky's 3D channel, some crosstalk and the variable effectiveness of different material it can be a challenge to find something that looks better in 3D than 2D.
Of course, Blu-ray doesn't drop in terms of resolution, but the issue of crosstalk is more pronounced, for example with Monsters Vs Aliens as the camera pans down the church spire and on the Golden Gate Bridge. And once you notice crosstalk it's impossible to ignore it.
Samsung UE46C8000: Sound, value and ease of use
Given how ridiculously thin the 40C8000 is, its downward-firing speakers crafted into the rear of the panel are surprisingly clear. There are a number of preset modes comprising standard, music, movie, clear voice and amplify, with the latter intended to boost high-frequency sounds for the benefit of the hearing impaired.
In practice, there's little difference between each one and the likelihood is that once one mode is selected it gets forgotten about – at least for a while – so it's worth choosing your preferred mode for everyday viewing and just switching to an external multichannel sound system for dramas, movies and so forth.
Samsung seems to have priced the C8000 range far more realistically than its flagship UC9000 series. Prices can vary greatly, of course, but the £1,300 typically being asked by retailers doesn't look unreasonable for as highly specified a screen as this.
You can probably score yourself an LG 42LX6900 with mostly similar features for a bit less but the likes of Panasonic's TX-P42VT20 plasma is painfully pricey at £500 more than the Samsung (although its 3D performance is much better with reduced crosstalk).
Ease of use
Setting up and using the 40UC8000 is not the ordeal of some TVs, but is more of a challenge than it should be. There's a terrific amount of technology packed in under the hood and while the instruction manual is nicely laid out with good clear descriptions the onscreen menu structure is a bit of a muddle.
It's good that the Tools button on the remote provides shortcuts to a number of features such as the picture mode, Anynet+ (networking), audio adjustments and energy saving settings but several adjustments and functions seem randomly distributed.
It would be much more helpful if the source menu could be edited so that only active inputs appeared in the list, reducing the amount of scrolling to get from say Freeview to Sky or Blu-ray coming in on an HDMI.
No complaints about the Freeview EPG, which gives you two hours' worth of programmes across six channels, with the live broadcast showing in the top left corner. The full EPG information is comprehensive and you can set reminders or the USB record timer. The quick view programme info bar is also superior, with full EPG scrollable access rather than just the more common 'now and next.'
The set isn't fussy about what device it will record to, pretty much any make or model over 4GB should work except RAID type hard-disk drives. With automatic recording activated you can treat the set as a PVR with live pausing, fast forward and so on. What you can't do is take the drive and watch the recordings on another screen or copy them to another drive.
The internet TV portal has an encouraging opening page with sizeable icons for each service and a large Samsung App store window. Some services are more user-friendly than others. The iPlayer is a real boon and the likes of YouTube and Getty Images are straightforward, but the Rovi TV guide lists only 15 channels (none in HD), it's impossible to zoom in on Google Maps and a pain to enter text using the remote control.
Clearly, connected TV services are not yet the finished article.
The 3D experience is not as problematic as some. The active specs are pretty comfy and the dedicated 3D button on the remote makes it easy to engage and disengage 3D. You have to choose which type of 3D source (side-by-side, frame sequential or 2D-to-3D) it is but it's about as efficient as you get without a fully automatic process.
Samsung UE46C8000: Verdict
With the 40C8000 Samsung has delivered an edge-lit LED screen that looks sensational even before you switch it on: the styling is classy and the depth almost defies belief.
The mind-boggling features list includes just about every feature available on a contemporary TV including internet video services, 3D pictures, multimedia capability with DLNA networking and even a willingness to record pictures from its Freeview HD tuner to an external hard drive.
We liked
While its brushed titanium frame might not be to everyone's taste, we adore its achingly attractive look. Using the set is fairly straightforward and the truly classy remote handset works as well as it looks.
The PVR function might be superfluous to many but if required it's a cinch to use, as is the iPlayer on the internet video service. The Freeview EPG sets the standard for built-in TV guides and the screen's tuner is first class, combing with an excellent panel to serve up superbly detailed, noise-free images with realistic colours and judder-free movement. HD sources look sublime.
We disliked
The TV's menu system seems a little baffling at times with some illogical folder structures. Images lack detail in darker areas and it can take a while for the screen to warm up before full clarity is achieved. It's improving for sure but the LED Motion Plus function still can't deliver flawlessly smooth movement without some side effects.
Some of the internet video services are of marginal interest or little use without a proper keyboard or better way of navigating the screen. Even more irritating, however, is that HDMI cables stick out from behind the screen because the sockets are too close to the edge of the frame. This spoils the set's otherwise impeccable appearance.
Final verdict
The 40C8000 is a gorgeous screen that delivers on many levels. It's bursting with cutting-edge tech, it's versatile and it's easy to use. Its 2D picture performance is excellent but it is not a compelling 3D proposition because of the presence of crosstalk.
But anyone seriously devoted to 3D is going to look elsewhere – at a larger screen – and for the rest of us, this is nearly as fine a 40-inch set as we could hope for.
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Remember last year when Danny Ainge spoke about how he did not see the Celtics as major players at leading up to the 2010 NBA trade deadline?
The Celtics have to make a tough decision over the next couple of weeks. Are they going to try and acquire a few pieces to better the club or are they willing to dismantle the team in hopes of a brighter future? Only times will tell and with Danny Ainge at the helm, expect the unexpected.
Shockingly though, history shows that the Celtics are not major deadline deal traders.
The Celtics have made only 11 deadline trades since 1987.
Let's review:
Trade #1. Celtics send center Kendrick Perkins and guard Nate Robinson to the Thunder for a 2012 first round draft pick (Clippers), forward Jeff Green and center Nenad Krstic.
Trade #2. Celtics send forward Luke Harangody and center Semih Erden to the Cavaliers for a second round draft pick.
Trade #3. Celtics send guard/forward Marquis Daniels to the Sacramento Kings for Cash.
Celtics send JR Giddons, Bill Walker and Eddie House to Knicks for Nate Robinson and Marcus Landry
In a three team deal, the Celtics send Patrick O'Bryant to the Raptors, the Kings send a second round pick (2014) to the Celtics and the Raptors send Will Solomon to the Kings.
Celtics send Jiri Welsch to the Cavs for a 2007 first round draft pick (Rudy Fernandez).
Celtics send Gary Payton, Tom Gugliotta, Michael Stewart and a 2006 first round draft pick (Rajon Rondo) to the Hawks for Antoine Walker and cash.
Yes, Rajon Rondo. On August 19, 2005 the Hawks sent Boris Diaw, the Celtics 2006 first round pick (Rondo) and a 2008 first round draft pick (Robin Lopez) to the Suns for Joe Johnson. During the 2006 NBA Draft, the Suns traded Brian Grant and Rajon Rondo to the Celtics for a 2007 first round draft pick (Rudy Fernandez).
In a three team deal the Celtics send Mike James to the Pistons, and send Chris Mills to the Hawks. The Hawks send Rasheed Wallace to the Pistons. The Pistons send Zeljko Rebraca, Bob Sura and a 2004 first round pick (Josh Smith) to the Hawks, and send Lindsey Hunter, Chucky Atkins and a 2004 first round draft pick (Tony Allen) to the Celtics.
Celtics send Shammond Williams and a 2003 second round draft pick (Sani Becirovic) to the Nuggets for Mark Bryant and Mark Blount.
Celtics send Andrew DeClercq and a 1999 first round draft pick (Andre Miller) to the Cavs for Vitaley Potapenko.
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And not many people know what those swear words even mean.
I'm not perfect, so I swear occasionally. But I don't use swear words I don't know or swear words that are very crude.
Swear words are said so much that they're not even offensive sometimes.
So one day, I decided to explain the meaning of asshole to my sis. I told her this:
You're like an asshole because all that comes out of you is shit.
Her reaction was pretty funny.
Use swear words appropriately for more effectiveness.
Mom: How do you spell "team"?
Me: T E A M
Mom: T A M
Me: T E A M
Mom: T E A M
Me: Yea
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Me: … Yes, there is no R.
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Mom: How do you spell "tree"
Me: T R E E
Mom: There's no M right?
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Today I tried McDonald's Cadbury Creme Egg McFlurry. I tasted okay, but I'm not a fan of the chunks of chocolate in it.
We'll to be honest, I'm not a fan of chunky foods.
Like Dairy Queen's Oreo Blizzard… they have like a whole Oreo in there!
I'd rather them just give me some ice cream and a plate of Oreos…
My brother asked me how "awkward" was spelt.
I ignored him for a bit to do some tumblring.
He got a bit mad so I just told him to pronounce it.
He says he tried.
So I pronounce it for him.
So I go: AWU-KUH-WARD!
Brother: Just tell how to spell it!
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Canadian singer and rapper Drake hits Hartford's Comcast Theatre June 11, on the tail-end of his 27-city North American "Club Paradise" amphitheater tour. Tickets for most dates went on sale Friday, March 23, but there's no word yet when tickets go on sale for Hartford, or how much they'll cost. J. Cole, Waka Flocka Flame, Meek Mill, 2 Chainz and French Montana round out the bill.
Drake, who got his start as an actor on the Canadian teen soap "Degrassi: The Next Generation" (which has almost nothing in common with "Star Trek: The Next Generation"), last year released "Take Care" (review), the highly successful follow-up to his highly successful 2010 debut, "Thank Me Later."
He's steadily moved his way up to bigger Connecticut venues, starting with Toyota Presents Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford in 2010 (review), and the XL Center in Hartford last December (review), neither of which was particularly memorable. Comcast Theatre will be his biggest play yet.


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WASHINGTON — The Braves won again, defeating the Washington Nationals 6-2 behind starter Julio Teheran and four-run fifth inning that chased Nationals starter Stephen Strasburg.
Here's a link to the updated column on MyAJC.com.
WASHINGTON — It's not going to garner the national attention of the Final Four, but Julio Teheran vs. Stephen Strasburg qualifies as pretty good theater.
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We've gotten a lot of queries about the current widespread Mac malware infection. Here's a quick list of answers to frequently asked questions.
What's in the new Mac virus and when did it strike?
The malware, called Flashback or Flashfake, isn't actually a virus, strictly speaking. Rather, it's a "Trojan horse" that's taken on several forms since it was first spotted last fall.
Back then, Flashback used a fake Adobe Flash installer to infect Macs. But it's evolved to become a drive-by download that hides in legitimate websites and infects machines unlucky enough to visit those sites.
How does the new Mac virus work?
Right now, Flashback exploits a known flaw in Oracle's Java runtime engine (not to be confused with Javascript), a mini-operating system that runs within OS X, Windows or Linux to handle various applications.
Flashback does not need you to type in an administrative password in order to install itself. It infects your machine silently and without human assistance.
What can I do to protect my Mac?
Apply the security updates for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and 10.7 Lion that Apple released last week. If you have an Intel-based Mac running OS X 10.5 Leopard, upgrade to Snow Leopard and apply all security patches. However, there's a chance you may already be infected.
How do I find out if my Mac is infected?
Use two AppleScripts that the social-networking-news site Mashable wrote. Here's the download link, and here are the instructions. If the scripts return pop-up boxes saying that each searched-for file "does not exist," you're in the clear for now.
What should I do if I am infected?
Fire up your Mac's Terminal command-line utility. The Finnish security firm F-Secure has posted detailed instructions on how to remove the malware, but they're not for the faint of heart.
If you're not comfortable with obscure Unix commands, then take your Mac into the nearest Apple Store and have the Geniuses clean it up. They may try to charge you for the service, but remind them that much of this problem can be considered Apple's fault.
(Update: Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab has just released a removal tool. We haven't yet had a chance to try it ourselves.)
Why is this Apple's fault?
It isn't entirely, but Apple was egregiously slow to respond to this threat. Its delay gave the operators of Flashback plenty of time to incorporate the Java flaw into the Trojan's exploit toolkit and infect hundreds of thousands of Macs.
A quick timeline: The Java flaw was discovered in mid-January. Oracle patched the flaw for Windows and Linux machines on February 17. Apple insists on doing its own security updates, and did not have a patch ready until April 2.
Apple has also, deliberately or not, led Mac users to believe they are inherently immune from viruses and other forms of malware. That has never been true — some of the first viruses were written for Macs — but Apple has done nothing to correct that false belief.
In fact, other than issuing the two Java patches, and updating one of them a few days later, Apple has said nothing publicly about the current Flashback outbreak.
Do I really need Mac antivirus software?
You absolutely do. You needed it a year ago, when the MacDefender scareware drive-by download was flooding users' browsers with porn. You needed it six months ago, when the DNSChanger Trojan was redirecting browsers on PCs and Macs alike to scam sites.
And you really need it now, because Flashback is no joke. It will literally open the door to all sorts of other malware.
What if I have a PowerPC Mac or other old Apple computer?
You should disable the Java runtime engine. (Open the Java Preferences app in the Utilities folder.) Apple no longer supports PowerPC Macs and is no longer issuing security updates for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
Disabling Java can cause problems if you're running Adobe software, such as Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign, since those programs need Java to run properly. If so, it's time to upgrade to an Intel-based Mac.
How many Macs are infected?
Two Russian security firms, including the well-known Kaspersky Lab, estimate that 600,000 Macs are infected with Flashback worldwide, most of them in the U.S., Canada, Britain and Australia. That's a significant chunk of the Mac user base.
Will I have to worry about other Mac malware in the future?
Almost certainly. Apple's share of the personal-computer market has been growing steadily for the past few years, riding on the coattails of the iPhone and iPad.
It's arguably hit the malware "critical mass" — the point at which the Mac share of the overall PC market is large enough to make it a worthwhile target for malware writers and cybercriminals.
The fact that a shockingly low percentage of Mac users, estimated at somewhere between 15 and 25 percent, has anti-virus software installed just makes the market segment even more ripe for the picking.
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Originally, Colfax was known to residents of Denver in the early 20th century as "No Man's Land", and "Jim Town." This area was sparsely settled but did contain several mansions of wealthy families as well as scattered squatters' shacks.
A large wave of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe came into the area in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Attracted by others with similar language, cultural and religious backgrounds, the immigrants made "No Man's Land" into Denver's version of a European neighborhood.
As the neighborhood grew, so did its problems, and this lead to an interest in incorporation. Two factions appeared: those who favored incorporation of the whole community under the name "Colfax" and those who would have the business section, a strip along Golden Avenue just west of the river, remain separate under the name "Brooklyn." When Colfax did incorporate in 1891, Brooklyn seceded but then returned the following year. This area, 9.5 blocks long and 2.5 blocks wide, had, at the time, 300 inhabitants. The town of Colfax was annexed to Denver in 1897. The name "Golden Avenue" was officially changed to "West Colfax Avenue." This great cross town avenue was named for Schuyler Colfax.
West Colfax Avenue was the main street of this small town. It was lined with two-story brick commercial buildings, stores, saloons, a restaurant, a meeting hall and even a hotel. West Colfax had a constant flow of hay wagons and peddlers, since all traffic en route to Denver from the agricultural communities of Golden and Morrison converged here.
In the 1920's two public schools, Colfax and Lake Junior High School, were opened in the area to meet the challenges of a growing neighborhood. The Depression years saw little or no development in the West Colfax neighborhood. In the 1940s and mid 50s, a housing boom occurred, characteristic of the "Filling In" era. Most vacant land west of Utica Street was purchased for home building. West Colfax, along with the Barnum and Sloan Lake areas experienced this housing boom simultaneously.
The mayoral administrations of the 1950s promoted civil bond issues that funded the construction of public housing in and near West Colfax. The 1960s brought a wave of Latino immigration. The 1970s brought young Anglo families into the neighborhood, and in the mid 70s the first wave of southeast Asian families settled in the neighborhood. Today, West Colfax is a neighborhood of varied ethnic make-up with Anglo, Jewish, African American, Latino, Native American, and southeast Asian residents.
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Khal Drogo, without a doubt, is one of George R. R. Martin's best written characters. Drogo's death ranks as one of, if not the most mourned over characters in the entire A Song of Ice and Fire series. In that regard, he joins such characters as Lord Eddard Stark and his son, Robb. In the HBO series Game of Thrones, he was expertly portrayed by Jason Momoa.
Drogo is described as having the copper colored skin of his native Dothraki, with long black hair, and fierce black eyes. In keeping with Dothraki tradition, he has a long braid with bells interwoven, symbolizing that he has never been defeated. By the age of thirty, Drogo commanded the largest Khalasar on the Dothraki Sea, at over forty thousand strong.
Khal Drogo is first introduced in the series, when Illyrio Mopatis arranges the marriage of Daenerys Targaryen to Drogo, in trade to her brother Viserys, for support in retaking the Iron Throne. Although Dany had no say in the marriage, she quickly grew to love Drogo, because he was not the vile barbarian she thought him to be, when the two consummated their marriage. Dany thought she would be raped, but Drogo was gentle, and would not begin to consummate until Dany was ready. The couple grew ever closer, and Drogo affectionately referred to Dany as "Moon of my life" while she called him her "Sun and Stars".
After Drogo learned that Daenerys was pregnant with his child, he lead his Khalasar to the Dothraki city of Vaes Dothrak, where he hoped to present his Khaleesi to the wise women there, known as the Dosh Khaleen. Because the Dothraki considered Vaes Dothrak a holy city in their culture, they adhered to a long tradition, that no blood was to be spilled within the city walls. Dany's brother Viserys, who was growing tired of waiting for Drogo to fulfill his promise to provide warriors, drew his sword and threatened to kill Dany and Drogo's unborn child.
Drogo kept to the rules of drawing no blood, and poured a pot of molten gold on Viserys' head, proclaiming that he had fulfilled his promise by giving the prince a golden crown. Afterwards, the Dosh Khaleen proclaimed Dany and Drogo's unborn son, the Stallion Who Mounts the World, a prophesied Khal that would become the greatest Khal the Dothraki had ever seen.
Drogo continued to show little or no interest in sailing across the narrow sea, in order to take back the Iron Throne for his bride, until an assassination plot was thwarted by Jorah Mormont and it was learned that Robert Baratheon was actively trying to kill the last of the Targaryen line. Enraged, Drogo renewed his promise to take the Iron Throne, so that his wife would be returned to the throne of her father, and eventually his son could be the King.
On the way to a port that his Khalasar could leave from, Drogo attacked village after village in Lhazar, in order to gather slaves to trade for ships. While there, he comes across another Khal named Ogo, and kills him, taking a minor wound to the chest in the fight. Fearing for her husbands safety, Dany orders a witch from one of the defeated tribes to heal Drogo. The woman, who Dany had saved from raping by Drogo's warriors, applied a poultice to Drogo's wound, but it itched and irritated the great Khal, and he pulled it off. Eventually, the wound festered, and Drogo fell from his horse, which was a sign to the Dothraki, that he was unfit to lead.
Once again, Dany turned to the witch to heal her husband, but the woman betrayed her, and in a blood ritual, killed Dany's unborn son, and turned Drogo into a catatonic state. Realizing that Drogo would never recover, Dany smothered Khal Drogo with a pillow. Drogo's Bloodriders left the Khalasar, taking with them most of the warriors, leaving only the women, children, and elderly.
Daenerys commanded her remaining warriors to build a funeral pyre and placed Drogo's body on top, along with the petrified dragon eggs she received as a wedding gift. She then had the witch tied to the pyre, and set it ablaze. Dany then walked into the fire against the wishes of her remaining bloodriders and Jorah Mormont. The next morning, as the fire died away, Daenerys emerged with three baby dragons. In honor of her Sun and Stars, Dany named her black dragon, Drogon. Drogon grows to become the fiercest and most deadly of her three dragons, and is believed to be the reincarnation of the greatest Targaryen dragon, Balerion the Black Dread, who Aegon rode in his conquest of the Seven Kingdoms.
What did you think of Khal Drogo? Where do you rank him in the list of George R. R. Martin's characters? Let me know in the comments below, and while you're there, tell me who you would like to see as the next countdown character.
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It is often argued that health inequities—including those across racial and ethnic groups—are important because they identify lives that can be saved. If there is no "biological" reason why poor people should be sicker than rich people or why blacks or American Indians and Alaska Natives should be sicker than whites, Hispanics, or Asians, then Americans who are poor or black or from native populations are obvious targets for health interventions. Yet it is not clear whether such targeting is the most effective way, from a medical standpoint, of improving population health.
One issue that naturally arises when group differences in health are discussed is the question of within-group heterogeneity in health. The need for health care is best identified by health status, not by membership in a socioeconomic or racial or ethnic group. Many poor people are not sick, and many rich people are. If the objective is to improve health, one should simply select people by their need for care, not by their socioeconomic status or ethnicity. In many cases, though, selecting on health status may be too late to do much good. If the goal is to prevent a disease or health-threatening condition, one needs to select people at risk, and although race or ethnicity is never the sole relevant risk factor, it is often a major risk factor. So, for example, a strategy for reducing hypertension or diabetes may target racial or ethnic groups that are at high risk for those conditions once other risk factors have been taken into account.
It is also worth asking why health differences matter from a research perspective. For example, it costs money to collect data on health differences, especially for small, hard-to-sample ethnic groups, and policy makers must decide whether or when public support for such efforts is justified. Policy priorities also depend to some extent on what causes health differences, so that it becomes an important goal of research to uncover mechanisms. For example, some people argue that health differences that are "chosen," through differences in behaviors, are a less important issue for public policy than are differences that are involuntary or that are imposed by other people's behavior. In particular, if research shows that black-white health differences are in large part attributable to differences in health care, the policy agenda would be much clearer than it currently is. One good reason for caring about black-white health differences is the possibility that this might be the case, that there are more "preventable" deaths among minorities, and that some relatively straightforward policies could bring the health of blacks closer to that of whites. The extent to which health care


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If nothing else, the phrase 'gamer entitlement' has lost its edge, serving as a lazy sit-in for an actual argument.
This is a bit dated now, but since it is my sincere belief that the word "entitlement" has been sorely misapplied to upset gaming consumers, I think I'll address it nonetheless.
Erik Norris at Crave Online has a post in which he lays out the three most "severe" cases of gamer entitlement outside the Mass Effect 3 ending controversy. "This sense of entitlement from the fans is obnoxious and is doing nothing but hurting the image of gamers as it makes us look like whiny little brats," writes Norris.
Because, you know, demanding a quality product makes you look like a whiny brat. Or something.
Norris lays out three cases of said gamer entitlement that he thinks are examples of gamers making gamers look bad.
1. Valve fans demand info about the future of Half-Life.
Fans who want more transparency from Valve on the future release of Half-Life 3 (or whatever it ends up being) are acting entitled, Norris argues. "While I fully understand the group's desire to know the status of their favorite gaming franchise considering a new title in the series hasn't released since 2007, the fact of the matter is that Valve doesn't owe the fans any sense of transparency at all," he writes.
This is true. Valve doesn't owe fans transparency. But it's also not really that big of a deal to have fans petition you for details. Bloggers and reporters "petition" companies all the time for this sort of information. We're not "entitled" to it, of course, but we want answers. So do fans. If anything, the petition simply shows how much fans love Half-Life – and how badly they want to be thrown a bone.
My advice to fans (self included) is be patient. I'm sure whatever they come up with, it's going to be fantastic. But if you can't be patient, go ahead and pester the people at Valve. They can handle your persistent, and yes possibly obnoxious, love.
2. PSN users demanding compensation following hack.
When hackers brought the PlayStation Network to its knees, Sony made up for it by giving users free games. "Sony paid their debt in full and yet people still bitched," Norris writes.
I'm going to plead a certain level of ignorance here, partly because Norris doesn't link to any of the complaining people directly. I can imagine that a lot of people were upset by having their PS3s offline for a month or so, and it was good of Sony to give away some free stuff as a peace offering.
But of course you can never please everybody, and there will always be a few angry voices in the crowd even when companies do try to make amends. This is hardly unique to the gaming industry, however. It exists everywhere – from food service to retail to every other form of art and entertainment. It's puzzling that so many people focus solely on gamer entitlement, and make it sound as though any upset customer in the gaming industry is somehow unique and different than upset customers in any other industry.
3. The lambasting of BioWare's Jennifer Hepler.
Everybody knows the story of Jennifer Hepler by now. A writer at BioWare, some of the statements she made in interviews and on Twitter angered fans. Those fans then overreacted and said a lot of really unhelpful stuff to and about Hepler. This was stupid on so many levels it's hard to know where to begin. Long story short: Do you think it's helpful to make Hepler a martyr? Yeah, didn't think so.
"The only good things to come out of this situation, in this writer's humble opinion, was GameSpot's "The Dangers of Gamer Entitlement" article," Norris writes. Not really. The only good thing that might come out of this is the realization that being an upset customer is totally fine, but requires a certain level of maturity as well. Attacking people online is not the same thing as entitlement. But it's still not a very savvy approach to being heard, and it lends credence to lots of other low opinions of the gaming community.
Constructive criticism does not have to be nice; it doesn't have to be "constructive" in the way so many people like to talk about criticism. People like to think that any negative critique is a de facto "destructive" critique, but this is simply untrue. You can be harsh, scathing even, and most importantly brutally honest and still be constructive. That constructiveness falls off a cliff, however, when it morphs into ad hominem – especially the sort that came up in the Hepler affair.
Putting The Sword To An Ill-Used Phrase
So what to make of all this?
- Norris's first point is an example of fans wanting information. Hardly a great example of "entitlement" – but a pretty good illustration of just how passionate some Half-Life fans can be. Score one for Valve and for gamers!
- Norris's second example, so far as I can tell, is better at helping us understand that across all industries it can be hard to please everyone. Calling consumers "entitled" however seems oddly unique to the gaming industry.
- Norris's third example illustrates how not to take out your frustration, but it does a poor job at illustrating "entitlement." This strikes me as two distinct issues, and resorting to "entitlement" arguments muddies, rather than clarifies, any potential insights into human behavior.
Undoubtedly customers in any industry can act badly, and there is a line somewhere between honest criticism and just plain rudeness. The customer may always be right, but they're not always right.
Charlie Brooker tries to tread this tightrope over at The Guardian. He can't decide if the fact that BioWare will release expanded endings for Mass Effect 3 is "depressing or sweet."
"On the one hand," writes Brooker, upset ME3 fans are "spoiled little emperors with a mind-boggling sense of entitlement: it's one thing to be disappointed by the end of a story, but another to demand the author sits down and writes you a new one RIGHT NOW. You need "further closure"? What's wrong with you? But on the other hand, it's a sign that players sometimes invest so much of themselves into the characters they play, they care about them to a degree that should make any author jealous."
"Spoiled little emperors" is a great line even if I disagree with it (one can admire prose one disagrees with, after all.)
More to the point, it's a peculiar phrase for Brooker to use given the following sentences. Are gamers spoiled little emperors with a mind-boggling sense of entitlement, or are they justified in their demands given how much of themselves they placed into the game and their choices in the story?
All told, we're left with the notion that gamers should simply "show some respect" to hard-working developers, whatever the situation. And while I agree that showing respect to fellow human beings, and especially those who work hard to create products you love, is a good thing most of the time, it's also a two-way street.
We rarely hear of corporate "entitlement" but surely it exists. Do some of these game developers and publishers act as though they can take their fans for granted? Do they use pernicious forms of DRM and licensing that make it almost as if gamers don't even own the games they "purchase" and force customers to leap through irritating hoops simply to play in the first place? Do they listen to their fans complaints or simply brush them off with clever, and at times downright combative, PR?
The simple fact of the matter is this: a customer is entitled to spend their money however they choose. They're also entitled to make their concerns and complaints about a game or any other product known.
Companies themselves are not entitled to much of anything. They're not guaranteed sales of the games they make, or a fawning customer base, or anything else for that matter. They have to earn all that; consumers simply have to buy something. It's not an even playing field. And it never will be in a market economy.
So let's put the sword to this overgrown, ill-used, and much abused notion that somehow upset gamers are acting "entitled." Even if they are, well they're entitled to that. It's all a piece of the "vote with your wallet" philosophy. You may not be able to just up and leave America if you're not patriotic enough for the rah-rah crowd, but you can up and leave a brand (at least outside of the healthcare industry) without batting an eye – though you may shed a tear.
People too often act as though complaining about a product and voting with your wallet are two distinct acts, but they're not.
If anything, acts of gamer "entitlement" are mostly attempts at giving second or third chances to a developer or publisher. It's a customer basically telling you exactly what's wrong with your product before saying "We won't buy your product ever again!"
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Tests are good when we have enough time to watch.