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Exercise Easy Small Group FitnessTuesday and Thursday Mornings from 6:30-7:30am
Camberwell South Scout Hall, 101 Glen Iris Road Ferndale Park Glen Iris Melbourne Victoria 3146
Ingrid Pich from Exercise Easy runs this early morning small group fitness program for busy people who want a personalised group fitness experience that is specifically designed for men and women over the age of 40.
The existing group is made up of local business owners who really enjoy a comprehensive workout before going to the office, but everyone is welcome.
Ingrid doesn't just explain what to do in the program, she does it with you!
Fitness Program
We start with a comfortable cardio warm-up (jog or skip).
Then it is time to choose a variety of individual training that suits you on a rotation basis, including weights, spin bike, one-on-one boxing and core strength exercises.
Next, we come together as a group for the high intensity interval training incorporating weights, cardio exercises and floor work.
To wrap things up and cool down, we do resistance training with gym sticks, therabands and tubing.
Social Program
At the end of the class, everyone enjoys a freshly prepared vitamin kick-starter juice (celery, beetroot, carrot and ginger) and a short social chat.
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Sound good? Well why not come along and join us and see if it suits you!
If you haven't exercised in a while, don't worry, the program is designed for people of all abilities and is adjusted to suit your needs.
You are welcome to arrive at 6:15am if you would like to have a quick chat with Ingrid beforehand. We look forward to seeing you there!
ingrid @ exerciseeasy.com.au
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This iron axe was discovered in 1840. Its design is typical of axes made during the 17th and 18th centuries. Its discovery in the middle of the north meadows in Greenfield, Massachusetts, near what had been the junction of the Hinsdale and Punch brooks, suggested to some historians that it was a part of the plunder taken from the town of Deerfield, Massachusetts, during the February, 1704 raid. The town was attacked in mid-winter by a combined raiding force of French and Native Americans from Canada, who took a number of captives north to Canada. Previous tradition held that the raiding party had camped in the frozen swamp just west of the Nims family's farm. The axe's presence alone is not conclusive, however; it may have been discarded or lost at any point after the arrival of Europeans in New England.
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So... I'm always curious to know more about people and I think it helps me to connect better when I learn about stuff we have in common. I'm thinking that this would be a great way for us to share some things about ourselves in an old fashioned "bucket list" way. If you want to participate, feel free. If not, don't feel guilty... It's just something a little FUN for us to do. So let's each share our top three bucket list items. If you don't have three on there yet, that's okay. If you want to share more, go for it!
For anyone who doesn't know what a bucket list is. It is a list of things you've always dreamed of doing, but either due to time, money, or physical constraints haven't been able to but want to do before you "kick the bucket". These are the things you would do if there were NO Limits set on you preventing you. So dream away!
So, here are my top three:
1) Travel Abroad: Australia, Ireland/Scotland, & France, most specifically.
2) Start a horse back riding therapy ranch for handicap children. Like a summer camp for children ages 3-21, for the parents to get a mini summer break/holiday too. I would love to minister/help these families in so many ways.
3) Learn to speak (& hopefully become fluent) in at least 2 foreign languages: French being my first choice (due to my family heritage)
OK so I'm cheating, I couldn't leave off my # 4) Learn to play the drums!!! and NO I don't have a lick of musical talent, that would be my hubby
Looking forward to hearing what you ladies have on your lists!!!


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Chief Yonas advice on how to lose belly fat by eating selected foods
If you've been unsuccessful in losing weight around your middle, here's some good news! The key ingredients found in the Flat Belly Diet (learn more about Flat Belly Diet)—"MUFAs" (monounsaturated fatty acid—a healthy fat!) hold the power to truly change your body and specifically target hard-to-lose belly fat. Pair these fabulous MUFA foods with a reduced-calorie eating plan and you'll slim down where you want to—your belly. Here, 10 belly-fat-fighting superstars.


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Hurricane Sandy, aka Frankenstorm, brought a storm surge Monday that broke the high-water record at Battery Park in Lower Manhattan. The late-season hurricane slammed the Eastern Seaboard and hit land on the Jersey Shore. Once the hurricane is over land, the storm loses the energy derived from the ocean and downgrades in magnitude.
The storm damages are from the high surge of water from the Atlantic causing flooding and the strong sustained wind speeds. This reminds me of the late 1990s when the 100-year storm hit Southern California causing Newport Harbor and Huntington Harbour bay water levels to rise above average due to the runoff from the storm drains and creeks causing some docks to break free of their supports.
Sadly, Hurricane Sandy helped sink the famous movie ship HMS Bounty, killing at least one crew member. The captain remains missing as of Tuesday morning.
This 180-foot-square-rigged, three-masted replica ship was built in 1962 for the movie "Mutiny on the Bounty," and the tall ship was also used in "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest."
"We received a distress call for Bounty at 1830 Sunday evening October 28th that the Ship lost power and the pumps were unable to keep up with the dewatering," a post on the Bounty's Facebook page says. "At that time we immediately contacted the USCG for assistance."
Being a professional captain, I can attest to system and equipment failures that can put a vessel in peril. Remember "peril" is a legal term in the nautical world. "Peril of the sea" refers to natural accidents on the sea, but in some cases, it is related to natural causes.
However, I digress. Once the Bounty lost engine power, the dewatering pumps failed when the batteries were drained. Reports have surfaced that the vessel was taking on water at a rate of two feet an hour, which is not reason to abandon ship for a vessel of this size, unless the pumps fail, as in this case.
Without power and steerage, the boat would be tossed in the trough of the swells as it sat broadside to the seas, so the 16-member crew decided to abandon ship. They sent a mayday, and boarded the life rafts.
Unfortunately, 42-year-old crew member Claudene Christian was not on board a raft, and the Coast Guard found her unresponsive Monday evening. I believe the 63-year-old captain, Robin Walbridge, held to the professional code of conduct of passengers and crew first, and he might have been trying to save the ship.
Why was the Bounty sailing during a hurricane? Well, big boats, like the Bounty, typically leave port and head out to sea to escape a storm and skirt the outer winds. The Bounty was already on a cruise to Florida, and the executive officers probably decided to round the edge of the hurricane. They would have survived if the mechanical equipment did not fail, sending the ship to its demise.
Tip of the week is to think about how you would respond in a man-overboard situation. It can be very difficult, depending on the ocean conditions, to spot someone who has fallen overboard. It can be especially tough to pluck them out of the water.
The first person to realize someone is overboard spreads the alarm in a loud voice and let's everyone know which side the person fell over, such as "Man overboard — port side." Most importantly, a pointer is immediately assigned to continuously point to the victim in the water.
The skipper can immediately mark the location with GPS if so equipped, plus the skipper can alert the Coast Guard or local authorities if help will be required. Do not get overly excited, but if you see the person fall in, immediately turn the boat in the direction of the person overboard to get the stern (propellers) away from them, and sound the danger whistle signal of five short blasts.
At the same time, throw the life ring or a life jacket to the side that the person is in the water. Someone, who is not the pointer, will don a life jacket to be ready to jump in the water as a rescue swimmer but only as a last option.
The skipper will advise on a leeward or windward recovery, and do not forget to use your swim ladder. Lastly, plan and prepare how you would recover someone who is in the water before you venture off the docks.
And don't forget: Tune in to the No. 1 boating radio talk show in the nation, Capt. Mike Whitehead's "Boathouse Radio Show," broadcasting coast-to-coast on the CRN Digital Talk Radio syndicated network at noon Saturdays and replayed at 10 a.m. Sundays.
Safe Voyages!
MIKE WHITEHEAD is a boating columnist for the Daily Pilot. Send marine-related thoughts and story suggestions to email@example.com or go to http://www.boathousetv.com.


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Red Pack Qualifies For Nationalsby Brent Harris • November 13, 2010 Share:
The Wabash cross country team accomplished one of its season goals Saturday with a dominating performance at the NCAA Division III Cross Country Regionals. The Little Giants finished second out of 33 teams, earning an automatic team bid to the upcoming national championship meet.
Senior Seth Einterz came within seconds of winning the individual title. He took second place with a time of 25:10, trailing individual winner Nick Kramer from Calvin's winning time of 24:57.
Kevin McCarthy, Donavan White, and Brian David were three of six Wabash runners posting their fastest times of the season. McCarthy added another top-five performance, grabbing fourth place with a time of 25:17. White ran to a 30th-place finish, crossing the finish line 25:57. David blistered the course in 25:58 to finish 34th.
Senior Justin Allen missed the North Coast Athletic Conference Championship meet two weeks ago with an injury, but recovered to run his best time of the year (26:18) as well to finish 52nd. Kenny Farris was 82nd for the Little Giants with a time of 26:43, also a season best. Freshman Jake Ponton added his best time of the year, finishing with a time of 27:22 to take 137th place.
Calvin won the meet with a total of 57. Wabash scored 122, easily outdistancing Albion in third with 177. Ohio Wesleyan was fourth with 199 points.
The NCAA National Championship Meet will be held next Saturday in Waverly, Iowa. Wartburg College will serve as the host school.


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Bravo Media's "Inside the Actors Studio," hosted by James Lipton, commemorates the life and career of legendary actor James Gandolfini with a special broadcast of his appearance on the award-winning series on Sunday, June 23, at 6 p.m.
Bravo will encore the episode, which originally aired on Oct. 17, 2004, on Monday, June 24, at 10:30 a.m. and Wednesday, June 26, at 6 p.m. For a look back at the episode, visit:http://www.bravotv.com/inside-the-actors-studio/videos/james-gandolfini
"When James Gandolfini was on 'Inside the Actors Studio,' our students discovered how thoughtful the real James was - and how knowledgeable and caring he was about the craft he practiced so effortlessly that it didn't look like acting at all," Lipton said. "Like all of the finest actors, James convinced you that whatever you were seeing and hearing was just James being James, with no artifice or design. In fact, it was James being precisely what the writer had written and the director had asked for. We've lost a wonderfully skilled actor."


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MONDAY, July 29, 2013 (MedPage Today) — Candy is dandy — for causing children to choke.
That's one of the findings of the first multiyear, nationally representative study of food-related nonfatal choking injuries to kids, according to Gary Smith, MD, of the Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, and colleagues.
On average, 12,435 children, ages 0 to 14, are treated in emergency departments a year because of choking on a food item, they reported online and in the August issue of Pediatrics.
The most important cause of such events is hard candy, followed by other forms of candy, meat, and bone.
Choking is an important cause of morbidity and mortality among children, the researchers noted; in 2001, some 17,537 children under 14 received emergency care for a nonfatal choking episode involving either food or nonfood substances, such as small toys or coins.
New regulations since then have aimed at reducing the risk of choking from small toys, but choking on food — the largest part of such episodes — remains "a relatively under-addressed problem," Smith and colleagues noted.
They used data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System–All Injury Program, a nationally representative sample of hospitals, which each year collects data on roughly 500,000 injury-related emergency ward visits.
The data yielded a 9-year national estimate, for 2001 t0 2009, of 111,914 cases involving children under 14, for an annual average of 12,435 and a rate of 20.4 visits per 100,000 population.
On average, kids treated for non-fatal food-related choking were 4.5, and children younger than a year accounted for 37.8 percent of cases.
Boys were more likely to be involved, accounting for 55.4 percent of episodes.
Hard candy was the cause of 15.5 percent of cases, while other forms of candy caused 12.8 percent of choking episodes, and meat and bone caused 12.2 percent and 12 percent, respectively.
More than four-fifths of patients (87.3 percent) were treated and released, 10 percent were admitted to hospital, and 2.6 percent left against medical advice, Smith and colleagues found.
Given that almost 90 percent of children were treated and released, the episodes "might not be a big deal," although they're frightening for parents, commented Wendy Pomerantz, MD, of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
"We just don't know the severity of the injuries," she told MedPage Today.
"It would be interesting to look and see which ones were the most important ones, which ones caused admission," she said.
But physicians can help parents by counseling them about the risks of choking on hard candies and seeds and nuts, as well as foods such as such things as hot dogs that are the approximate size and shape of a child's airway.
The researchers cautioned that the data did not include all choking incidents because many would have been resolved at home. Also, the actual cause of an incident was sometimes difficult to pin down, so that some cases of food-related choking might not have been included.
Finally, the data wasn't sufficient to pin down answers to such questions as whether adults were present during the choking episode, how the child obtained the food, the use and success of choking rescue attempts, and the use of any diagnostic or therapeutic medical procedures.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 283 diseños de 68 diseñadores freelance.
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• A daily summary of global reports on security issues.
The Russian media is reporting that, according to an anonymous Russian official, Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi is willing to step down from power if he receives security guarantees. The report comes amid a diplomatic push to end the Libyan war by Russia, which has vocally criticized NATO's tactics in Libya. But other statements by both the Libyan government and the rebels cast doubt on whether Mr. Qaddafi's willingness to depart is real.
"The colonel [Qaddafi] is sending signals that he is prepared to relinquish power in exchange for security guarantees," Kommersant quoted the official as saying, according to Reuters. (See original report in Russian here.) Other countries have already said they're willing to provide the guarantees.
However, Reuters also reports that Qaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam, said there would be no negotiations to end his father's rule, while the rebel government withdrew its offer for Qaddafi to stay in the country if he steps down – a condition that Qaddafi has insisted on.
The Russian report comes a day after South African President Jacob Zuma and NATO Secretary General Andre Anders Fogh Rasmussen visited Russia to meet with officials there about negotiating a resolution.
President Zuma, a vocal opponent to the NATO intervention, has offered to serve as a mediator, The New York Times reports. Moscow's unofficial channel to Libya, the president of the World Chess Federation, made a second trip to Tripoli at the same time to meet with Qaddafi, who told him he would not agree to any settlement that ordered his departure from the country.
Russia's negotiation efforts have increased since a meeting with President Obama in May. The Times writes that Qaddafi is a "major buyer" of Russian weapons and President Dmitry Medvedev agreed to use his country's leverage with Qaddafi to try to convince him to cede power.
The report also follows possible negotiation meetings between the Libyan government and the rebels that the rebels deny are happening. The National Transitional Council's head, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, said no negotiations between the two governments were taking place and also said earlier reports that the rebels would allow Qaddafi to remain in the country were false, the Associated Press reports. In Tripoli, Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaim told reporters that his government has been talking with rebel officials for two months, although he acknowledged that there are several members opposed to talks.
According to the Times, Mr. Abdul-Jalil said reports about allowing Qaddafi to remain in the country were based on comments of his to Reuters that were misconstrued as official policy. Abdul-Jalil said in a statement "that [Qaddafi] can resign and order his soldiers to withdraw their barracks and positions, and then he can decide either to stay in Libya or abroad."
"I would like to confirm that there is absolutely no current or future possibility for Qaddafi to remain in Libya," the statement read. "The N.T.C. has at all times been committed to achieving peace and stability for Libya and its people. As part of this commitment, we have been obliged to consider all kinds of scenarios, and I provided one such former example in today's interview that was discussed by the N.T.C. some time ago.
"There is no escape clause for Qaddafi – he must be removed from power and face justice. This is a fact further highlighted by the arrest warrant issued by the Internation [sic] Criminal Court for the crimes that Qaddafi has committed against our civilians."
Although Russia has taken a lead role in negotiations with Libya, it remains critical of NATO's military intervention in the country. A routine NATO-Russia meeting in Russia on Monday put a spotlight on the disagreement, with NATO head Mr. Rasmussen vociferously defending NATO's actions. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lazarov said that disagreements about Libya were hindering cooperation efforts in other areas, BBC reports.


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Thanks to the good recommendations on this forum, I went to the Rancho Gordo site last week and ordered three bags of heirloom dry beans - white tepary, flageolets and cannellini. They arrived Thursday, one week to the day after I ordered, which struck me as just a little slow for an $8 flat-rate shipping charge, although in fairness they were right on their estimated arrival for DHL Ground.
The beans all looked great, and I was especially impressed with the cannellini, which are the size and shape of very large white lima beans. So today, a pleasantly cool late spring morning, I made a batch of Tuscan beans, following the soaking and simmering recommendations listed under "Rancho Gordo method" on the rather generic card that came with the legumes: Soak four to six hours (I let it go close to six, being a little suspicious that they didn't have you go overnight), and simmer one to three hours, adding no acidic ingredients or salt until after cooking to avoid toughening.
At that point I went over to an old traditional Tuscan recipe - simmer with a half onion and several sprigs of fresh sage, salting after they're tender and seasoning with ripe, green olive oil and black pepper when served.
I got a little nervous when the beans were still hard and raw after 90 minutes, but just about on the three-hour point they just suddenly snapped to al dente, then beautifully creamy, infused with onion and sage flavors. In short, they were absolutely outstanding, as good as any beans I've ever eaten - and I've made this dish many times before, usually with Great Northern or navy beans or cannellini more the size of Great Northerns. These were better.
Nitpicks: I'd love it if Rancho Gordo sent more detailed information along with each bean variety - it would have been useful to know that the big cannellini were going to take the full three hours, although in retrospect I might have figured that out based on their size.
But, bottom line, these were incredibly good, and I love it that Rancho Gordo has so many different bean types and varieties, including European beans, American heirlooms and even really unusual Southwestern American Indian indigenous varieties like the teparies. I can't wait to try the other bags I purchased, and I'll definitely be going back for more.


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Sergio Garcia was in the trees left of the 18th fairway. Ahead of him was Rory McIlroy, giving his 35-foot birdie putt a little body English before it fell for birdie.
Garcia never lost command of the Bridgestone Invitational on Saturday in Akron, Ohio, even after a storm delay of just over three hours. He started with a three-shot lead, stretched it to six shots at one point and closed with three good pars for a 3-under 67, three shots ahead of McIlroy.
The Spaniard just lost a small measure of comfort.
McIlroy, coming off a wire-to-wire win in the British Open, might be the last player anyone wants to see right behind.
"I've got to keep doing the same thing, make sure that I have good confidence in myself, that I play nicely, and then see what happens," Garcia said. "If Rory comes out, or whoever is behind us comes out and get crazy like I did on Friday, then it is what it is.
"But hopefully, I'll be able to play well again and be all the way up there tomorrow."
Garcia, who seized control with a career-best 61 on Friday, was at 14-under 196. McIlroy birdied his last two holes for another 66 and a spot in the final group.
Today is set up as a replay of The Open, only with roles reversed.
McIlroy had a six-shot lead going into the final round at Hoylake. Garcia, playing in the group ahead, got within two shots late in the round until he faltered and McIlroy pulled away.
"Obviously, Rory is playing great and we get along nicely as of right now," Garcia said. "I think we're both excited about it. We're definitely going to play hard. It will be nice to see if I can do the same thing he did to me a couple of weeks ago. So we'll see."
This time, it's McIlroy who has to chase.
"My goal today was to try and get in the final group," McIlroy said. "Sergio didn't quite have that luxury of seeing what I was doing on the last. It will be nice to play alongside him tomorrow and at least keep an eye on what's going on. Try to apply a bit of pressure when I can, but just really looking forward to getting in there and having another chance to win a tournament so soon after what happened at Hoylake."
Marc Leishman had a 68 and was five shots behind while Adam Scott returned from the rain delay carrying only his long putter, the only weapon he needed to convert one last birdie for a 65 that at least left him with a slim chance. He was six shots behind, along with Keegan Bradley (68) and Justin Rose (70).
Defending champion Tiger Woods, an eight-time winner at Firestone, made only one birdie on Saturday and shot 72. He was 15 shots behind.
PGA Tour
Geoff Ogilvy got up and down for birdie from a greenside bunker on the par-5 closing hole to take a three-stroke lead in the Barracuda Championship in Reno, Nev.
Ogilvy, the Australian who won the 2006 U.S. Open, had seven birdies and two bogeys in a 12-point round at Montreux in the modified Stableford event to push his total to 35.
Nick Watney, the leader after each of the first two rounds, was tied for second with Jason Allred. Watney scored six points, and Allred had 14.
Champions Tour
Kenny Perry eagled the last hole after waiting out a thunderstorm to take a one-shot lead after the second round of the 3M Championship in Blaine, Minn.
Perry shot a 9-under 63 to reach 16-under 128 at TPC Twin Cities. First-round leader Marco Dawson was second after a 66.


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Tobold writes about the Guild Advancement system that Blizzard plans to introduce into WoW with the next expansion. You will be able to earn 'guild xp' for your guild by activities such as completing quests, earning reputation, killing raid bosses, PvP, and so on. As your guild increases in guild level, up to a max of level 20, it will gain more bonuses for members. Also there will be some kind of guild talent system where officers can decide on which bonuses would best fit the guild, and guild achievements. More controversially, there was also mention of guild crafting recipes and heirloom items which could be given to guild members but would revert to the guild if they /gquit.
Scott Andrews writes a thoughtful column at wow.com about how he thinks this might affect existing guilds. Elnia@The Pink Pigtail Inn worries that the whole expansion sees the triumph of the social player, and wonders what will happen to soloers if everyone is being nudged towards joining a guild.
In any case, two things are clear:
- Blizzard wants to make guilds front and centre of the expansion. The game so far has been heavily achievement oriented – can they add more social appeal too?
- We don't have enough hard details yet to make solid predictions. But changes will affect the community, and that may mean upheaval.
Until we know more, people will be nervous about how Blizzard will choose to reward guilds and to which activities they will award points. They're right to be nervous. Social engineering in MMOs has the capacity to cause massive trauma in the player base. Players are nothing if not adaptable, but we design our communities to beat the game we know, not the one that might be here next year. If the game changes or the challenges change or the rewards change, then who knows what might happen?
Blizzard in particular know this. At the beginning of TBC, when 40 man raids were phased out, all the raid guilds who had been organised around 40 man raids were thrown into turmoil. Some survived. Others did not. I know my old guild had a messy breakup that left a lot of players burned out after a couple of months in TBC, and I left WoW for about 6 months to clear my head of it. I doubt any raider who played at the time survived completely unscathed.
This will not be as bad. The sky is not falling.
If you look at the list of activities they intend to reward with guild xp, you'll see that it covers a wide range of play styles. Even if some are rewarded more than others, all guilds with minimal activity will eventually get to level 20 and I think that's the goal. If the system rewards hardcore guilds more than casual ones in the long run, then it's broken. Those guilds are already rewarded by being able to run hardcore content.
No, what Blizzard really need to do is to reward the behaviour they would like to see from guilds. That means rewarding activity of any sort. It means rewarding stability as well. A successful social guild is just as good as a successful hardcore guild, even though they measure their success in different ways. If they both keep their members happy and occupied and are able to organise activities that their members enjoy, then they're both good guilds.
The system as described so far would do this. The hardcore guild gets xp from raid boss kills. The social guild gets xp from people levelling alts, levelling tradeskills and gaining reputation – all things which can be done solo or casually. It won't matter if they don't gain xp at exactly the same rate, they'll both get there in the end and will be able to pick guild talents that fit their players' requirements.
This really leaves two types of guilds out in the wilderness.
- Large guilds who have players with a wide variety of interests. It might not be easy to pick guild talents if you have one bunch of players who raid and another bunch who PvP.
- Very social/ roleplaying guilds. If the main activity isn't something that is specifically rewarded then they might be forced to PvP or PvE for their xp. I think it's unlikely that there are any guilds in WoW that are so social that they don't level alts or run instances at all.
There's also some question about how any of this might relate to guild alliances. While the individual guilds in the alliance will still gain xp (maybe at different rates but in the long run they'll all get to level 20), they might be shut out of achievements that require 75% of a raid to all belong to a single guild.
Currently there are a lot of successful raid communities on RP servers that give people a chance to raid without having to leave their guild. We'll just have to see if Blizzard will either change their stance to support alliances, or whether the lure of achievements (and maybe other rewards) will break these comms up.
The march towards communism
The corps is mother, the corps is father.
Psi Corps, Babylon 5
I had notes written up for a post wondering whether despite all the goblins who espouse hardcore capitalism, our MMOs actually run on socialist principles. It was going to be a great post! Just I kept thinking 'Nah, who's interested in that?' and putting it off. (If you're curious, it was my ponderings about whether devs consider the players to be part of a society and how this affects patches and balance tweaks.)
With the introduction of heirloom items, we will be going one step beyond socialism towards the introduction of communist guilds. Many raid guilds already run along the lines of communist dictatorships – people put in as much effort as they can and are rewarded with loot according to some arcane DKP 5-year plan. There is an expectation that you will put your guild first in all things.
Heirloom items merely formalise the idea that even the loot belongs to the guild. If you leave the guild, you could lose everything. It's not necessarily a bad thing – and there will be plenty of non-heirloom loot around too – but it gives a great deal of power to guild leaders. A simple /gkick could become quite devastating.
Despite all that, I think the new system might encourage guilds to be active, to run in-guild PvE and PvP events, and to recognise the contributions of soloers (ie. by levelling alts, reps, and tradeskills) to the guild xp. I do think that is Blizzard's goal here. Maybe it will even make better guilds in WoW, it will be interesting to find out.


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JDB Pocketware has a nice selection of Windows Phone apps over at the Marketplace including Handyscan, SkyManager and 7Dialer. To celebrate reaching 1,000 likes over on Facebook, the Windows Phone developer has decided to share the joy by offering all their titles for just $.99 this weekend.
Just head on over to JDB Pocketware's Facebook page and "like" them. You'll then be sent to a page that has the link to JDB Pocketware's software sales page where you can send the app links to your Windows Phone. The sale covers JDB Pocketware's entire app catalog including the latest title Fat You (a photo morphing app) and their financial app, MoBudget.
For many of the Windows Phone apps, this is a $2.00 savings. So if you were thinking about moving from Handyscan Free to the paid version, now's your chance to save a few bucks.
Update: If you don't have a Facebook account, you can still take advantage of the sale prices. Just go to the Marketplace and search for JDB Pocketware (or the software title itself). The listings should reflect the sales prices. Just remember the sale ends on July 2nd.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oprah Winfrey's OWN television network said on Wednesday that it will produce a documentary series about St. Louis Rams football player Michael Sam, the first openly gay player to be drafted in the NFL.
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Preservation. How do you make sure that your family's records and recordings last a long time?
More Kodak Moments of Closure: Kodak Gallery, Ektachrome
The Death of Kodak announcements, they keep rolling in. No sooner do I post about America's Storyteller, Kodak, shedding parts of their photo businesses, and they announce a couple more endings. Kodak Gallery to be sold to Shutterfly, and Ektrachrome will go the way of Kodachrome: Away. Dead. Finis.
Kodak Gallery: In which I say something and am immediately proven wrong
I had this IM conversation last week. A friend read the previous entry and said
Friend: "I didn't realize Kodak was going out of business. That's unbelievable."
Susan: "I don't think kodakgallery is on the chopping block…"
I said that because I'd read from the ending-of-digital-camera announcement that Kodak would be concentrating on their printing business. After all Kodak Gallery is a printing business, right? Upload photos, and get them printed. Alas, no. It looks as though Kodak will sell its Kodak Gallery site to Shutterfly. (The "printing business" is digital printers and inks) It's a good thing I ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on March 04, 2012 in
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Kodak: From "Remember The Day In Pictures" to "Remember using a Kodak camera?"
For nearly 125 years Kodak's reason for existence has been to provide the tools for people to create memories.
"Remember the day in pictures."
"Keep 'Family History' in snapshots."
"Remember the visit with snapshots."
"For over 100 years people have trusted their memories to Kodak film."
Kodak, the company that started in 1880 and popularized the film camera and invented the digital camera, recently announced that they're no longer going to manufacture digital cameras and photo frames. How does one think of a dying behemoth? And not just any corporate behemoth, but a company that has been integral to capturing and storing our memories? Their 1970s ad said, "We're America's storyteller celebrating life with you –picturing the stories of everything you do." Now Kodak is transforming into a memory.
There are three ways to consider this transformation.
The "Wow. Just wow." factor
Most of the stories I've seen fit in this category . Wow. Kodak is no longer making digital cameras. Wow. Kodak is the company that invented the digital camera. The company has been around, like, forever. Look at that. Such a change. Wow. It just takes your breath away.
Over my lifetime, I've shot pictures with an Instamatic camera, and a Pocket Instamatic (using Kodak film, of course.) When I got a 35mm Single Lens Reflex, I kept using Kodak film—lots of Kodak film. When I took a photography class, I bought Kodak chemicals and photo paper. I got a Kodak slide carousel projector ...สล็อตออนไลน์ ได้เงินจริงRead More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on February 29, 2012 in
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Shocking Truth about Thin-skinned CDs (or why you should never write on a CD with a Sharpie)
I'd heard the adage that the top surface of a CD or DVD is thinner and more fragile than the bottom surface, but until I went on a cleaning bender, I didn't get it. I reallly didn't get it. It's true, it's true– the top layer of CDs and DVDs are thin. Shockingly thin. Here is a photo gallery of the CD that taught me just how fragile a writeable CD is.
After the holidays, I went on a desk and home office cleaning frenzy. Under a pile of papers, I discovered a disk that failed when I'd burned it. (also known as a "coaster!")
"Oh bummer," I said. "A Bad CD. What's it doing here? I should toss it out." Then I remembered that I've wanted to destroy a disk just to see how it was put together. "Allrightie, then! I'm going to break this lil' puppy!" I began to bend the CD. I figured that it would soon snap, but it bent and kept bending. At the crease, I noticed that a ripple appeared. It looked like a buckle or oblong bubble in the rainbow foil.
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Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on February 22, 2011 in
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June 9 is International Archives Day
Celebrate the Archives in our midst. June 9, 1948 was the founding of the International Council of Archives. The anniversary is suitable for celebrating the founding of those institutions which keep and maintain the collective memory and documents of our society and culture.
Go visit some archives today! To whet your appetite, here are some archives and listings.
The National Archives has a resource center devoted to genealogists and family historians.
Oral History collections, as listed by In The First Person
White House Tapes.
Between 1940 and 1973, six American presidents from both political parties—FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, and Nixon—secretly recorded on tape just under 5,000 hours of their meetings and telephone conversations. The Miller Center's Presidential Recordings Program is a unique effort aimed at making these remarkable historical sources accessible.
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Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on June 09, 2010 in
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I'm following Digital Death Day today. Remotely
What happens to your bits after you die? That's the premise behind the Digital Death Day unconference, currently in progress. (On twitter, check out the #ddd2010 hashtag). I'll be posting provacative tweets and topics here on an ongoing basis.
Why does Family Oral History deal with digital death? The recordings of conversations that are saved in digital formats is the deliberate creation of digital bits that are meant to last longer than the speakers whose voices are recorded therein. It's an edge-case of the central phenomenon explored at the conference. What happens to your bits once you die?
Here, in no particular order, are tweets from those in attendance, as a kind of thought-piece about the digital lives we have. Plus, for me, having experienced three deaths of people close to me in less than a year (and many more remote as friends' parents shake off this mortal coil), it's highly relevant.
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on May 20, 2010 in
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Not your father's iPod… well, actually it is (a Walkman)
For Sony Walkman's 30th anniversary, 13-year old Scott Campbell tries it for a week. Hilarious for us oldsters to see our old fave equipment through a young-person's eyes.
My dad had told me it was the iPod of its day.
He had told me it was big, but I hadn't realised he meant THAT big. It was the size of a small book.
Size? cumbersome. Handy belt-clip, but with that weight? (you hafta read the article to find out its effect for current 13 year olds).
When I wore it walking down the street or going into shops, I got strange looks, a mixture of surprise and curiosity, that made me a little embarrassed.
Though one teacher got nostalgic. Two tantalizing questions:
How long did it take for Campbell to figure out that there was a side B to this tape?
And how did he create his own impromptu "Shuffle" effect?
You hafta read the article to find out the ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on June 29, 2009 in
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Restored Reel-to-Reel Tape Decks as Art.
A Gallery of Custom Tape Decks, wherein Jeff Jacobs restores old audio technology as art, via BoingBoing Gadgets. I love the meta-line here. Jacobs restores tape decks, which I think of as tools for restoring (and digitizing) audio. If tape decks are art, then there's a ton of art at Richard Hess's audio tape restoration studio! In decades to come, when those machines grow ever scarcer, the BoingBoing post points to another source to find those long-obsolete tape decks of the world: the personal collections of geeks.
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on February 12, 2009 in
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CDs and DVDs: Tons of good info
The Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs, A guide for librarians and archivists. Found while researching the layer-cake sandwich of materials in an optical disk. Disk structure page. Did you know that the top side of a CD-R is thin and fragile? I mighta mentioned it before, but this underscores it, in a big way.
Also of note: the tests for aging and shelf-life of CDs and DVDs that you can burn yourself is that their pre-writing shelf life is limited to some 5 years or so. By all means, stock up, but don't stock up too much.
Gold disks are the best. But that's a topic for another post.
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on December 19, 2007 in
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Motion picture sci/tech report on archiving
[updated] Hollywood Reporter reports that (the Oscar organization)'s Science/Tech council's released 64-page report on archiving. From the looks of it, the limits of digital are being manifest. I'd like to look closer to see how much of an overlap there is for motion picture industry's archiving existing work and how to preserve audio and visual recordings that are born digital.
Update [18 November]: I went to the web site and inquired if the paper was available. Not in downloadable form, but if I supplied my name and address, they'd send me a copy. I did. The paper just arrived. It's 74 pages (full color, nice production!) I'll give it a read and report on any findings relevant to people doing family oral history.
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on November 06, 2007 in
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Making a recording self-explanatory
I've been finalizing an Audio CD of a 1980-era recording that my Mom gave to me. (For her birthday). I'm making copies for her and for a brothers and a coupla cousins that will be at a family gathering. The "think long term" mindset has dug in and changed the way I mark CDs and my other "metadata" (data about the data) that I'm including with the CD. The recording came to me with some gaps in info, a generation and family branch removed, so I'm learning by doing and trying to create as dense a nugget of info to pass on to others with the CD as I can.
I was amused by a little in-situ metadata that was part of the recording itself, identifying who the main speakers are. The original recording was made by my grandfather's cousin, Bud or George (I hafta ask my Mom again. I wasn't there, I don't know. Have never met either.) It opens with my grandpa telling a story. At the end, the narrator's voice comes on and says, "That was Bruce B[ family name]." My great uncle, his brother, also told a story. The narrator identified him, too. It's obvious he made this recording for his side of the family, and identified the speakers on the other side—that would be my side. I, of course recognize the voices that he identified, and am frustrated by ...สล็อตออนไลน์ ได้เงินจริงRead More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on July 18, 2007 in
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(UPDATED) Storyofmylife.com goes beta: Their Terms of Service Stopped Me Cold
The promise of storyofmylife.com is compelling. Store information about your life. Forever. They're thinking way far ahead– they've established a non-profit foundation to store the stories in perpetuity. Sounds great. But I'm not going to use the site. (Well, beyond a quick signup and look see.) The Terms of Service has a big gotcha in it: You grant storyofmylife.com and its parent company, Eravita, a 6% (minimum) royalty of any money you make on the proceeds of any commercial creative endeavors of the story of your own life.
UPDATE: I heard from the site's COO. They've changed the TOS and deleted the objectionable part. Continue reading the original post and, at the end, the relevant portion of email from Storyofmylife.com's COO.
The TOS was brought to my attention by my friend Cynthia, who visited the site the first day it was open.
Today's the first day I've had a chance to visit, and I'm rockin' back on my heels. I'm scared to even sign up to see what is behind it.
Here's the part of their TOS in the big capital letters (side note: Why oh why does the most important stuff get printed in all caps, which, when presented in paragraph form, make the most important stuff the hardest to read?)
Note: They updated their TOS, view note at end of this post for more info.
NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING HEREIN TO THE CONTRARY, USER HEREBY GRANTS TO ERAVITA, INC., A ROYALTY IN AN AMOUNT TO BE NEGOTIATED BUT CONSISTING ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on July 07, 2007 in
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End of the Reel for Cassette Tapes
Telegraph, UK: Curry's, biggest retailer, announces that it'll stop selling cassette tapes. News story is a sad lovesong to the format used by many a man to woo his woman. [via Practical Archivist] Having just digitized a 1980s-era cassette tape myself, I've a fondness for the format.
The High Street chain also predicts that this Christmas will be the last time it sells any hi-fi system with a tape deck included.
[...]The portability of the format moved out of the living room and on to the street. In 1989, helped by falling prices of hi-fi systems, 83 million music cassettes were sold in the UK. This fell to 53 million in 2000, and just half a million in 2005, according to Understanding & Solutions, a market research firm.
Last year only about 100,000 of the items were sold. However, this figure excludes audio books and blank tapes, which still attract a small, loyal fan base, with four million blank tapes sold last year and 1.5 million audio books.
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Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on May 09, 2007 in
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Oral History Conference Swag
Swag: Freebies. Giveaways. Schtuff. What kind of swag do you get at an oral history conference? Last weekend's SOHA conference was the first oral history conference I've attended.
Now, I've gone to trade shows, I've gone to tech conferences. Heck, I even put ON a conference once. And when I worked for a software company, I remember the mad rush to create swaggy handouts for a trade show. What kind of goodies have I brought home with me? I've gotten pens and pencils flashlights, and carry bags and keychains, and sweatshirts and tee shirts and baby bibs and a condom (true!) and small flash memory drives. (See Flickr photos of Swag and Schwag)
The swag freebie available at the reception a week ago was a little different. The more I think about it, the more I like it.
There it was, a stack of boxes. "Free. Help yourself." the sign said. An empty flat box.
Now mind you, this was a reception in a meeting room on the third floor of the library of Cal State Fullerton. Go through the door on the left, and you're in the office of the Center for Public and Oral History. Weave your way this way and that and you're in the stacks amid reel-to-reel magnetic tape, and (possibly) cassette tape and other audio media. And typed transcripts and other boxes. (off topic, but worthy of note, is the CSUF "house wine" they served at the reception. The merlot was good. Very nicely balanced. Fruit forward. But I digress.)
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Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on April 27, 2007 in
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Digitization Resources
I could spend a good, long day getting lost in these Digitization Resources links by Hurst Associates at Digitization 101. From a workshop Jill Hurst-Wahl led at the Comptuers in Libraries conference.
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on April 18, 2007 in
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The Lost last 20 years; and a plea for paper (!!!)
1980-2000 has disappeared into the ether. Sorry. The history that's being written right now does not have this kind of sensory fulness (if it's being saved at all): "I have recently spent many hours in the National Archives, ferreting through the wartime records of MI5. The sheer richness of written material is overwhelming: letters, memos, telephone transcripts, diaries, scribbled notes in the margins. You can smell the pipe smoke and personalities wafting off the pages."
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on March 26, 2007 in
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Archives and manuscripts comprise a significant number of the department's most heavily researched collections. The department is home to the University of Florida Archives and manuscript collections supporting each subject specialty of the department, most notably Florida and the Caribbean.
The University of Florida Archives was established in 1951 with the aim of preserving the university's most significant administrative records. Sixty years after the opening of the Archives, the Office of Archives and Records Management was formed, integrating the Archives with records management services. In addition to administrative history, the Archives documents the university's diverse student life, its achievements in inter-collegiate sports, and its contributions to applied and theoretical research. The Archives serves as a museum for campus memorabilia, as a library for university imprints, as an archive for sound, film, and video recordings, and as a repository for tens of thousands of historical images.
Florida manuscripts embrace every period of state history from the Seminole Wars to the present and every aspect of Florida's development from farming to real estate. The department has one of the nation's largest political archives containing the papers of Florida's most prominent political figures. Other Florida manuscript collections document African-American history and the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s, educational reform, and the state's battle to protect its natural environment. Among the many Florida collections are the records of the state's first major agribusiness, Chase & Company, the papers of African-American educator A. Quinn Jones, and the Senate papers of George Smathers and Bob Graham.
Caribbean manuscripts have been collected since the 1950s and several collections related to Cuban and Haitian history figure prominently in the department's holdings. The Jérémie Papers contain the records of thirty 18th century French notaries in Saint-Domingue. The Rochambeau Collection documents Haiti?s struggle for independence in the early 1800s. The largest and most significant archive is the Braga Brothers Collection containing the records of a leading Cuban sugar producer and exporter. Other collections document various aspects of Caribbean culture and history from colonial to modern times.
Literary manuscripts focus on Florida authors and include three of the state's most lauded novelists, Zora Neale Hurston, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and John D. MacDonald, along with more recent writers such as Carl Hiaasen and James Haskins. Literary figures outside Florida are represented in the manuscripts of Irish short story writer Frank O'Connor and biographers Alden and Allene Hatch as well as smaller collections from a number of American and European authors.
The Popular Culture Collections include the manuscripts of several Florida-based personalities including playwright Cal Yeomans, dancers Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, costume designer John David Ridge, and radio and television scriptwriter Preston Wood.
The Architecture Archives was formed in collaboration with the UF School of Architecture to preserve records pertaining to the architecture and architects of Florida and the Caribbean. The collections enhance our understanding and appreciation of the region?s architectural styles and themes and the contributions made by Florida architects and landscape architects. The Archives includes records of architectural firms and individual architects, drawings and plans, photographs, and ephemera. Initial collecting focused on such prominent modernist architects as William Morgan, Tim Seibert and John Ormsbee Simonds. Earlier Florida architecture is documented in the records of Carrère & Hastings? buildings in St. Augustine and the papers of preservationist Herschel Shepard.
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Indigenous News from the North
Thank you so much to Solangel for inviting me to participate on the blog. As she kindly wrote in her introduction, I also help Matthew Fletcher run a blog on Indian law over at TurtleTalk. While we do offer some commentary, we also spend much of our time pointing out interesting stories or cases our readers might be interested in. I use our Twitter account (@ILPCTurtleTalk) for the same purpose. What I've been interested in is watching Indigenous social action in Canada and how those stories are disseminated and talked about on Twitter. I think the perception from the United States is that Canada somehow has a better relationship with its Native Nations than the United States. In fact, the very different legal systems have led to different relationships between the federal government and tribal governments on either side of the North American border. The Canadian one is not necessarily a better one.
Here are few stories we've been following:
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (#MMIW)
The RCMP recently confirmed there have been more than a thousand missing or murdered Indigenous women in the past thirty years. The Harper government continues to ignore calls for a public inquiry. One traveling exhibit, Walking With Our Sisters, uses vamps, or the beaded tops of unfinished moccasins, to draw attention to both the issue and the women. The work is currently in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. Various direct actions over this issue have happened in Tyendinaga and in Toronto.
Ongoing Truth and Reconciliation Hearings on Residential Schools
Much like in the United States, the Canadian government used boarding, or residential, schools, to forcibly remove Aboriginal children from their families and attempt to assimilate them. Children were abused, tortured, and many died. A lawsuit against the government and the churches that ran the schools led to the largest class action settlement in Canada and the creation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The ongoing proceedings of the TRC , and the federal government's continued resistance to them has been the subject of repeated news stories and court orders. One of the leading advocates for Indigenous children in Canada, Cynthia Blackstock, has been the subject of federal surveillance.
Fracking on or near Reserve and/or Crown land has been a particularly controversial issue. This past fall, direct resistance to the testing by SWN Energy Company on land near Elsipogtog First Nation led to a raid by the RCMP and numerous arrests. New Brunswick courts issued various injunctions to both sides, ultimately siding with SWN. SWN's promised return to the area for more shale gas testing will likely lead to continued clashes this summer.


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Happy Friday! I saw this yesterday on my way home and it made me laugh so hard I had to share it. Hope you enjoy it too (whether you are a child of the 80s or not!).
Don't forget to check out http://www.ridehappy.com.au/ - the new home of Ride Happy.
Friday, May 27, 2011
Something to make you smile
Posted by Lisa Jacobs at 1:11 PM
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Have a happy weekend!
Love it! All we need now are happy pants and we'll have a complete 90s MC Hammer revival!ReplyDelete
I'd click "love it" Lisa, but having spent 4 hours with MC Hammer in my head on today's ride, I'm not so sure now.ReplyDelete
Keep up the good work.
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WIMAUMA, Fla. Adding ammo to better compete against hothouse tomatoes, Red Diamond Farms is introducing a brand of field-grown tomatoes.
A division of Tomato Thyme Corp., Red Diamond is also planning to expand tomato production to northwest Ohio.
The grower-shipper of vine-ripes, heirlooms, grapes and roma tomatoes is rolling out trademarked Ruby Ripes specialty tomatoes.
In December, Red Diamond introduced the tomatoes to some northeastern and southeastern retailers and plans to begin bigger volume of production Jan. 15 in south Florida and expand production to central Florida in April, said Michael Lacey, director of sales and marketing.
Tomato Thyme markets the flavor attributes of the tomatoes, packed in 1-pound clamshells, as "Little gems, ripe and ready to eat."
"We are coming into an area where we feel we can compete," Lacey said. "A lot of people want to compare them to hothouse product, but they"re not grown the same and they"re not the same seed. Customers we have shown them to are excited about the flavor and pricing."
Lacey said the tomatoes possess higher brix than some hothouse tomatoes.
To keep consistent year-round supply and better serve its northeastern retail customers, Red Diamond plans to begin in Tiffin, Ohio, northwest of Columbus, Ohio. August through fall production should also help retailers desiring locally grown produce, Lacey said.
Tomato Thyme owner Javier Torres used to run a foodservice company that he sold in 1999. Keeping the company name, Torres began focusing on specialty tomatoes.
"Our company has been built around the vine-ripe," Torres said. "We don"t want to be just another company growing thousands of acres and picking them green. We"re staying away from the gassed greens. That will separate us from the others."
Red Diamond grows tomatoes in Apollo Beach, Sarasota and Homestead from October to late May, in Quincy June through mid-July, and in Tennessee July through October.


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Phillips dazzles as Reds down Brewers
Cincinnati, OH – Brandon Phillips homered, drove in a pair of runs and possibly saved several others with a sensational play in the field as the Cincinnati Reds opened their three-game series against the Milwaukee Brewers with a 4-3 victory at Great American Ball Park.
Zack Cozart and Jay Bruce each drove in a run for the Reds, who were coming off a series loss to the Braves but have still won five of their last seven games.
Alfredo Simon (3-1) threw two scoreless innings to highlight a strong relief effort behind Tony Cingrani, who needed 85 pitches to get through four frames. The rookie lefty gave up five hits and two runs -- both on homers by Jean Segura and Ryan Braun in the fourth inning.
Yovani Gallardo (3-2) also labored through his four-inning start and was charged with three runs on five hits and five walks to take the loss.
"Throwing (100) pitches in four innings is not what he normally does. I know he's not a guy who is going to go nine innings and throw 80 pitches, but it is still unusual to do that," Brewers manager Ron Roenicke said of his starter.
The Brewers opened their 10-game road trip with their seventh loss in eight games. They went 0-for-5 with runners in scoring position and stranded eight.
Braun came up in a big spot in the seventh with one out, runners on first and second and the Brewers trailing by one. Phillips and Cozart converged on Braun's dribbler up the middle and nearly collided before Phillips stepped in front and barehanded the ball while going to the ground. He tagged second base with his left knee and in one motion threw a one-hopper to first that Joey Votto scooped to double-up Braun for the final out.
Phillips came up second in the bottom half of the inning and hit a no-doubter to left field on the first pitch he saw for a 4-2 lead.
"I was sitting on something off-speed because I knew Jay Bruce was hitting behind me, and he wouldn't want to throw me anything hard. I just tried to get the head out and get a hit. It felt good," Phillips said of his homer.
The insurance run proved vital after Aroldis Chapman's wild pitch allowed Norichika Aoki to score in the ninth. Chapman battled back and struck out Segura to secure his eighth save of the season.
In the third, Shin-Soo Choo worked a leadoff walk, stole second with two outs and scored when Phillips punched a payoff pitch into left field for a single. Bruce followed with a line drive to right field that went off the heel of Aoki's glove as he tracked it down just before the wall.
Phillips scored without a throw for a 2-0 Reds lead that quickly got erased when Segura and Braun cracked back-to-back homers to start the fourth. Segura sent a 90 m.p.h. fastball into the right-field seats, and on the next pitch Braun did the same for his eighth homer of the season.
The Reds went ahead again with a run in the fourth as Donald Lutz, pinch- hitting for Cingrani, reached on a single, stole second and scored on Cozart's looping base hit to right.
Simon stranded a pair in the fifth, Sam LeCure tossed a scoreless seventh thanks to Phillips' highlight-reel play and Jonathan Broxton worked around a leadoff walk in the eighth.
Game Notes
The Reds improved to 14-6 at Great American Ball Park despite leaving 13 runners on base ... Braun extended his hitting streak to 11 games ... Gallardo, who had won his previous three decisions, threw only 53 of his 100 pitches for strikes ... Game time: 3:49.


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What's the first thought that comes to your mind when you hear "accessible browser game"? Probably something along the lines of games that work purely in text, played by clicking links and filling out the occasional form. However, modern Web Browsers are capable of much, much more. In fact, what if I told you a "browser game" could be just as immersive as a typical audio game written in BGT or VB6? Recently, 2 new games have been released that push the boundary of how an accessible browser game could feel like.
First up is a game that has been around for a while now, Dark Defender (link to forum thread). Based on the 80's arcade classic defender, you must shoot down the alien invaders before they pick up humanoids from the planet you're flying over. If one does get captured, you may still be able to shoot the alien ship out of the sky and rescue the whoever it was carrying. The game can be played using Google Chrome on the web, or downloaded for either Windows and Mac.
And finally, we have Cyclepath from DragonApps. An endless runner style game where you can choose one of many unlock able bikes and drive in several locations avoiding cars, jumping ramps, and picking up coins to unlock more stuff. The game features binaural audio in the style of PapaSangre or a blind legend. It can be downloaded for Windows, Mac and Linux or played on-line on just about any web browser, including on iOS and Android phones.
That's it for Browser news, but it doesn't mean we're out of updates. If you'd rather play something with more text, and more strategy, perhaps the new mud-based Yu-gi-oh! game by tspivey will be up your alley, featuring over 7000 cards from the physical game. You could also take a look at this new Maze Game concept, which also features binaural audio. Perhaps you'd like to go on a great adventure. The famous Bokurano Daiboukenn 3 game's English translation project just hit a major milestone, now the entire game has been translated. So if you've been put off by the language barrier, Now's a good time to try it out!
And as always, we have some more Choice of games that you can check out if you like your games more text heavy.
Be sure to periodically check out the New releases room of our forum to find out about any new and interesting concepts looking for your feedback, or if post there yourself if you have anything cool to share. You never know, you might end up on the front page yourself!
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If you live in North America, indeed much of the world, you are unlikely to have avoided the spell that has been cast over modern culture since the day Walt Disney opened the gates to his Disneyland theme park in California in 1955.
If you were a lucky child, your parents loaded up the station wagon and headed to Anaheim at least once during your childhood, cramming the family into a little offsite motel and letting you and your siblings run wild for a few days to scream and beam on rides like Autopia and the Jungle Cruise and the futuristic Monorail. You ate cotton candy and hugged Mickey and curtsied with Minnie and stayed up late to watch the fireworks over Main Street, and when it was time to come home, you took with you a suitcase full of memories.
The first time I went to Disneyland was more than 30 years ago, when my son was just five. Our little family of three drove down the Pacific Coast in our little Volkswagen Bug, taking our time along the way. I don't remember where we stayed in Anaheim, or how much money we spent or even how long we were there.
What I do remember, and the old photographs are cheery evidence, is that my son didn't stop smiling for days. There he is, in a Mickey Mouse shirt. There he is, with his dad, racing around the Autopia track. There he is, sitting on a bench in the Main Street square. There he is being squeezed by Donald Duck.
Thirteen years later, in 1993, I was back, just my daughter and me. She was nearly 10, and we had been through some tough times. We stayed at the Saga Inn, right across the street from the park, and we swam and played minigolf, and during the day explored Disneyland until our feet ached. There she is, in her Minnie Mouse sweater, with Tigger and Goofy. There she is, sitting on the bench in the Main Street square. There she is, lost in a cloud of cotton candy. There she is, wearing a big-eared hat embroidered with her name.
And then nearly 20 years flew by, without a return visit. Until recently, when Disney issued its press invitations to explore its newly opened Cars Land attraction.
For me, the lure of Disneyland has always been less about commercialization and retail temptation and more about knowing that Walt Disney, who built the park because he couldn't find a fun wholesome place to take his own daughters, intuitively understood children. He knew how to turn a pile of dirt into a place of magic, how to enchant children and, yes, even scare them a little bit. He knew for his big playground to work that, beyond those turnstiles, it had to be a safe haven, squeaky-clean, where every-thing seems suspended in another time, a time of perpetual cheerfulness and good deed, where kids can just be kids, and parents can, too.
It is the reason, perhaps, that 600 million mom and dads and kids have passed through those gates these past 57 years, and why we go back again and again.
And why those of us who are now grandparents can't wait to relive the experiences we so fondly remember, can't wait to introduce our children's children to the wonder of the place, to revel in their anticipation and wide-eyed absorption.
So two weeks ago, I took my son's son and my daughter's daughter to Disneyland. Jack is five, the same age his father was when he went, and Charley is seven, a bit younger than her mother was.
To return after all these years was to discover change, both in oneself and in the place.
Like the society around it, Disney-land has morphed over the years. There has been expansion, to Florida and Japan and Paris and (soon) Shanghai, and even within the Anaheim enclave itself, which now encompasses 500 acres of rides and attractions, and includes a Downtown Disney shopping area and three on-site hotels. In 2001, a second theme park opened adjacent to the original, where the old parking lot used to be: California Adventure recreates the Hollywood back lot (with a vintage-inspired Starbucks) and an oldschool Coney Island-style boardwalk with rides like a huge Ferris wheel and roller coaster, along with a "Golden State" outdoor area that includes a white water raft ride, a redwood wilderness. And then there's the latest attraction in Cars Land, a charming 12-acre nod to the ever-expanding Disney movie vault famous for iconic films from its 1940s Fantasia to modern-day blockbuster Disney-Pixar collaborations such as Cars.
But while everything seems so much bigger, and so much better, you soon discover that some things haven't changed. The kids, magically, still don't mind waiting in line. There is still no litter. Everyone is still happy, and polite. The rides are fun. The food is still good, and the trinkets still irresistible. And old friends, like Auto-pia, and the Submarine Voyage and the Matterhorn, are just as you left them. But mostly there is still some-thing unspeakably special, and spectacular, about the place, and especially about going over old ground with a new generation. And when you're roaring around Big Thunder coaster, which no longer scares you, you realize that like everything you experience as a grandparent, even Disney-land is suddenly richer and more meaningful.
There is your grandson, in his Mickey Mouse regalia. And there is your granddaughter, wearing a big-eared hat embroidered with her name.
And you look at them, and it's as if your life has sped by in a second and yet is somehow frozen in time, your past and your future captured in their shining faces.
Is Disneyland the happiest place on earth? For a few short days, yes it is.