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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Peaches from China?
I got sucked in to buying these Dole packaged peaches at Publix this past week. It's hard to pass up a "BOGO" deal and these little things make life easy for feeding a toddler a quick snack. I bought them with a little wince because I don't like the non-environmentally-friendly packaging but sometimes I let some ideals go in order to relieve snack-stress.
So here I am thinking I am feeding my baby peaches from here in America... I don't like that I know that they are probably not locally grown, but it's okay for this week.
Then I flip over the package only to see that these little peaches CAME FROM CHINA!?!? What?! I just bought a product that came from halfway across the globe to California and then traveled across the country to SC?!? No telling the crazy chemicals in those things and think of all the fuel and energy it took to transport it across the world?! Why are American companies perpetually the slave-to-cheap and will sacrifice using a locally grown, sustainable, and quality product for just saving some cash?
I have peaches growing just 10 minutes away. I will again take the effort to go buy those juicy, fresh beauties. No amount of packaged "ease" is worth spending my money on...especially for a fruit being grown who-knows-how halfway across the planet.
Sometimes BOGO isn't a great deal after all.
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Awesome post! I think I am going to call the 1-800 number on their package in your picture and let them know I will not purchase China peaches!
Thanks for bringing this to my attention!!
- August 25, 2010 at 12:07 PM
- Chrysanthemama said...
Isn't that crazy?? I thought the same thing when I was browsing the produce at Walmart. Oranges from AFRICA. Hello, doesn't Florida have oranges too?
- August 25, 2010 at 1:07 PM
- eyelandgirl said...
Great post! It's also great that you noticed where the peaches came from. I think many people just rush through life without being aware of how their choices are affecting the future of our world. You brought a global issue into our kitchens where we can do something about it!
- August 25, 2010 at 1:24 PM
- Bonita said...
That's insane! Particularly when there are orchards chock full of peaches all over SC and GA!
That's one thing I've really tried to pay attention to with fresh produce lately. I look to see that it's a product of the USA, with bananas being my exception. However, it never occurred to me to check packaged fruit and veggies. Thanks for the revelation.
- August 25, 2010 at 2:10 PM
- Emily (Laundry and Lullabies) said...
Wow. I knew things were crazy but you're right, that is REALLY crazy. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
- August 25, 2010 at 4:06 PM
- contented sparrow said...
thanks for posting! it is horrifically crazy, isn't it?! i'll call, too.
- August 25, 2010 at 4:15 PM
- Rachel at Stitched in Color said...
Yep, I was tempted by that BOGO too. The darn things always contain high fructose corn syrup, you know to disguise that yucky, natural sweetness.
- August 25, 2010 at 7:45 PM
- THE CHETNEY 3 said...
So crazy! A little while back, my mother-in-law alerted me to the fact that the store brand pickles we were both buying were coming from India. India?! I had never even thought to look. Bick's, however, are made in Canada, so that is now the brand we use. The same store also brings in their beef from Ecuador. Hello?! We live in the Canadian prairies where beef is SO plentiful. What is wrong with this picture?
- August 26, 2010 at 1:44 PM
- kristinwithani said...
And the expiration date?!?!??!
- August 26, 2010 at 2:45 PM
Why would we want to eat food processed in a country that has so little concern for poisons and toxins (lead in baby's toys and mercury in seafood)??? I am concerned that they (China) might not even have safety standards for food packaging. Is the FDA or Dole even inspecting this food for safety? I think we just bought our last Dole product...
- August 29, 2010 at 6:17 PM
- Kimberly said...
Yup. You've got to look for it! I bought two jars of peaches awhile back from the natural food store and didn't think to look. I opened the first and then saw they were from China. We ate them, but I returned the second jar and told them when I returned them that I wanted to only buy food from America. Local/homegrown and organic are best, but not always possible I know--but China?? Come on!
- October 1, 2010 at 11:43 PM
I was duped too purchasing Dole peaches from Walmart that were made in China but distributed by a CA address. The amazing thing is our government passed the food safety bill S510, that bars us from selling or giving away produce grown in our own yards or farms without a permit, yet lets these imports in without a problem. Keep spreading the word. If we don't buy them, they will stop making them in China.
- August 18, 2011 at 9:14 AM
I myself am no longer purchasing Dole simply because of this China problem and have attempted to contact Dole. They only supply an e-mail for comments, no address to be found. I left an e-mail, no response of course. Keep your eyes open. Last weekend I was tricked at Costco too when I purchased the freeze-dried fruit. The bananas are from China. Threw them all away.
- April 30, 2012 at 12:53 PM
- Dave said...
We're trying to get Dole's attention. See http://www.madeincommunistchina.com
- June 3, 2012 at 12:27 PM
Upset Sue **** I just purchased some of those Dole Peaches today at Costco and they are going back.
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On my most recent trip, I was concentrating on whether or not my Soft Cell would be checkpoint friendly, but I also achieved another milestone: a longer-than-overnight trip with just my "laptop bag".
I'm really pleased with the second slot of my Brain Bag, and how much roomier it is than the "daypack" of my Eagle Creek rollaboard (the bags that are now relegated to permanent dust-collecting in the corner of my room).
As an experiment, I decided to forgo the usual "laptop bag plus clothes bag" routine for this recent 5-day trip. Keep in mind that as a guy in relatively warm weather, I can get away with a single pair of pants and a few short-sleeve shirts for a 5-day trip, counting my "all black day-of-travel spill hiders" as one of the sets.
I recently purchased the Convertible Packing Cube to replace my Eagle Creek-equivalent for holding my toiletries, and double as a fanny pack for the light day trips at my destinations. I normally stick this in one of the end slots of my Aeronaut.
I also purchased the Convertible Packing Cube/Backpack to replace the "main" cube inside my Aeronaut. I'm intrigued by this unit again for its dual-nature... it would seem to be not much more bulk than the large packing cube (in which I'd held my shirts and pants), but double as a light day pack on the road, for those days where carrying the entire Brain Bag would seem like overkill. (I often find myself carrying just my laptop and partial loadout of camera gear onto a cruise shore-excursion for picture taking and cheap internetting.)
So for this 5-day trip, I loaded up the Convertible Packing Cube with my toiletries (no liquids!), and my CPC/B (Tom Bihn needs a better name for this) with 3 t-shirts (from http://scottevest.com) and undergarments. Those two cubes fit comfortably in the second slot of my Brain Bag (sitting below my Snake Charmer for the electronics cables), and my laptop and Soft Cell were happily in the first slot already. I was concerned that this would make the laptop unwieldly large or overly heavy, but neither turned out to be true.
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wow - another BIG job ... but sounds great with the 4e conversion - looking very much forward to seing what you come up with... for now, my only criticism is for the high-res map, the walls texture seems a little blurry
Inspired by MadCartographer's attempt to build the World's Largest Dungeon, I've finally taken the plunge as well. I played through this bad boy a few years back and I want to dust it off and give it another whirl. Two of my current group played in the first time around and they'd like to take another crack at it. Since we only did about half of the regions, I'll just excise those and concentrate on what they didn't do. Still lots of material to play with.
I'm planning on making a number of changes. One thing I want to add is verticality. Stairs, platforms, pit traps and chute traps that lead to other areas, that sort of thing. So, I'm going to break up each region into six or seven levels with various methods for traveling between levels. We'll see how that goes.
Also I want to avoid the big monster small room problems with the original, so I'm going to expand a number of the room.
Additionally, this is going to be a 4e effort, not d20, so I have to really concentrate on making each section of each level work as a sort of stage complete with props, things to challenge the characters and various other terrain effects. I'll be adding those later as time goes on, quite possibly the night before play.
So far, I've been using Gimp and Rob A's Subterainean Map Prettier script. I took the original pdf image (freely available from AEG), chopped out the bit I wanted to work with, used the threshhold tool to make it black and white and then cleaned it up. Then I fiddled for a while making sure all the walls and whatnot snapped to the grid. Maybe not as artistic as it could be, but I hate half squares.
Here's two versions of the first map, sans any dressing. The first is higher res and probably a very bad idea for any sort of VTT play. The second one weighs in around 500k, so it should be fine on Maptool or Open.
Criticism is most certainly welcome.
wow - another BIG job ... but sounds great with the 4e conversion - looking very much forward to seing what you come up with... for now, my only criticism is for the high-res map, the walls texture seems a little blurry
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Hussar, I like yours alot better. Nicely done. Wish I could do as nice work as yours. (someday I shall, I hope).
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Hey Mad C, don't fret too much. My talents are pretty much entirely computer assisted. That script for Gimp from Rob A is the artist here, I'm just banging away.
Essentially, what you do is draw a black and white template of the map - outline the walls in one color and everything else is in the other. I use white for floors and black for walls, but that's not all that necessary. Once you have the black and white template, run the script that I linked to above and voila, pretty map. All I've really done is create a couple of brushes - one 5 pixel brush for creating walls and one larger, 27 pixel brush for doing bigger areas. I set the grid for 12 pixels and click on snap to grid. Add a transparent layer over the imported image from the pdf files and redraw the walls and whatnot, making sure everything snaps to grid. The first time took me a while, but, it seems to get easier as time goes on.
I then scale up my black and white template to 50 pixel=5 feet scale and then run the script. The first map, above, is blurry because I ran the script and then scaled up. Hopefully this next area - the area immedietely to the right of the entrance, will look better.
Ok, banged away at the next area.
As I said earlier, I'm making some changes. In the standard map, this would be the rooms immediately to the east of the entrance. Instead, I intend to add some stairs to the room in the bottom south east that lead to the room to the bottom south east of the second map. I then rotated the map 90 degrees counter clockwise and placed this second map on top of the first map. I also added a stream flowing through the upper area which will drain from the pond in the west into the secret room in the first map (the room with no entrances in the upper center of the first map)
I need to label these maps to reduce confusion and make it easier to type.
Like I said, I'm very much learning as I go. This was my first stab at a stream. Looks not too bad, but, I'm not sure if I'm totally happy with it.
This area is intended to be filled with a fair number of kobolds and their naga leader (who hangs out in the pond room). The kobolds are one of the four factions in this region. The original WLD had a kobold tribe hanging out in Region A, so, who am I to buck tradition. 4e doesn't have darkmantles though, so, no flying squids this time around. ((Good, there were entirely too many of these the last time around)). The other three factions, at least for now, are a group of dwarves under the thrall of a sucubus, a group of dark ones and shadar-kai and also the Dungeon's own inhabitants- mostly cruthiks and constructs for now.
I'll post more about what's actually going on in the Dungeon (at least my take on things) as I get the energy.
So, anyway, enough rambling, here's Region A, Area D in both hi-res jpg and low res jpg for VTT play.
Well, continuing on.
This area is a rebuild of the north western corner of Region A. In my rebuild, it is now placed below the entrance and Area D (which I did last time). Interestingly enough, when I placed the maps on top of each other, I realized that the water from Area D would not drain into the Entrance area, but would flow straight down into Area A, which meant I needed a puddle. Still working on trying to make that pretty. I think it's worked out rather well, but, meh. Also toying around with the distortion on the dungeon builder script. I wanted this bottom layer to look a lot less "finished" than the rest of this region. I slapped on some noise over top as a layer as well. That seems to have "dirtied it up" nicely.
Anyone have any thoughts?
No real update tonight. Just a quickie to let anyone know what I've got planned. As I said, I chopped the Region A up into smaller chunks and I'm rejiggering everything to add verticality and some other features. Also expanding this and that to allow for larger arena's for encounters. It's starting to get a bit challenging, making things line up. I can see that the next couple of areas are going to be a right PITA.
Anyway, here's a quick graphic to let you know what I've planned. I've chopped the region up into seven areas, Entrance and A through F. I've placed the areas at different elevations and stacked some of them to allow for things like chutes and pit traps to let you travel between areas. Adding more ways to travel is one of my goals.
On another note, the basic premise I'm working from so far is that the WLD is a living creature. It's a sort of parasite, growing and spreading below ground until it eventually buds (I knew that World Eater was going to come in handy) and generates new Dungeons out in the wilderness. The initial region, this region, is the newest growth for the creature, thus everything is fairly clean and neat. The inhabitants, by and large, don't know anything about this, but the WLD itself generates various "antibodies" in the form of Far Realmsy type tentacular horrors to ingest invaders. Region A, as I have planned it out, is currently the home of three factions (well, the Dungeon itself would be a fourth, but it's not particularly good at making informed decisions) that are trying to take control of the region.
Anyway, more on that later. Here's that graphic:
Well, the next area went easier than before. I'm finally starting to get into a bit of a routine - learning as I go. Drew out the area in black and white and then fiddled with it a bit to get the rubbley areas. That took a bit of figuring, but, I think I'll do better next time. This is Area B, on the same level as the entrance and is intended to be the base home of a group of kobolds and their naga goddess.
Onwards and upwards. Area C should come next. Finish that up and I'm about 2/3rds done the region. Schweet.
Whoo, the next area, C, wound up being a bit too big, so it got chopped up. Not a huge problem, but something to keep in mind for hte future. With this, I've only got two more areas to do, and Region A will be complete. Well, sort of. I'll still need to stick it into Maptools and do all the decorating, add monsters, doors, that sort of thing. But the Gimp end of things will be done. Yay.
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In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Barry Morris, CEO & Co-Founder of NuoDB, Inc., will through customer examples and performance benchmarks explore the new rules for a 21st century Cloud Data Management System and discuss the critical new roles databases play in customers' strategies and how to resolve today's web-scale challenges.
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As the software delivery industry continues to evolve and mature, the challenge of managing the growing list of the tools and processes becomes more daunting every day. Today, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) platforms are proving most valuable by providing the governance, management and coordination for every stage of development, deployment and release. Recently, I spoke with Madison Moore at SD Times about the changing market and where ALM is headed.
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Many private cloud projects were built to deliver self-service access to development and test resources. While those clouds delivered faster access to resources, they lacked visibility, control and security needed for production deployments. In their session at 18th Cloud Expo, Steve Anderson, Product Manager at BMC Software, and Rick Lefort, Principal Technical Marketing Consultant at BMC Software, will discuss how a cloud designed for production operations not only helps accelerate developer...
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Much of the value of DevOps comes from a (renewed) focus on measurement, sharing, and continuous feedback loops. In increasingly complex DevOps workflows and environments, and especially in larger, regulated, or more crystallized organizations, these core concepts become even more critical. In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 18th Cloud Expo, Andi Mann, Chief Technology Advocate at Splunk, will show how, by focusing on 'metrics that matter,' you can provide objective, transparent, and meaningfu...
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Small teams are more effective. The general agreement is that anything from 5 to 12 is the 'right' small. But of course small teams will also have 'small' throughput - relatively speaking. So if your demand is X and the throughput of a small team is X/10, you probably need 10 teams to meet that demand. But more teams also mean more effort to coordinate and align their efforts in the same direction. So, the challenge is how to harness the power of small teams and yet orchestrate multiples of them...
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As enterprises around the world struggle with their digital transformation efforts, many are finding that innovative digital teams are moving much faster than their hidebound IT organizations. Rather than struggling to convince traditional IT to get with the digital program, executives are taking advice from IT research firm Gartner, and encouraging existing IT to continue in their desultory ways. However, many CIOs are realizing the dangers of following Gartner's advice. The central challenge ...
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The goal of any tech business worth its salt is to provide the best product or service to its clients in the most efficient and cost-effective way possible. This is just as true in the development of software products as it is in other product design services. Microservices, an app architecture style that leans mostly on independent, self-contained programs, are quickly becoming the new norm, so to speak. With this change comes a declining reliance on older SOAs like COBRA, a push toward more s...
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In a crowded world of popular computer languages, platforms and ecosystems, Node.js is one of the hottest. According to w3techs.com, Node.js usage has gone up 241 percent in the last year alone. Retailers have taken notice and are implementing it on many levels. I am going to share the basics of Node.js, and discuss why retailers are using it to reduce page load times and improve server efficiency. I'll talk about similar developments such as Docker and microservices, and look at several compani...
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In the world of DevOps there are 'known good practices' – aka 'patterns' – and 'known bad practices' – aka 'anti-patterns.' Many of these patterns and anti-patterns have been developed from real world experience, especially by the early adopters of DevOps theory; but many are more feasible in theory than in practice, especially for more recent entrants to the DevOps scene. In this power panel at @DevOpsSummit at 18th Cloud Expo, moderated by DevOps Conference Chair Andi Mann, panelists will dis...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Peak 10, Inc., a national IT infrastructure and cloud services provider, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 18th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Peak 10 provides reliable, tailored data center and network services, cloud and managed services. Its solutions are designed to scale and adapt to customers' changing business needs, enabling them to lower costs, improve performance and focus inter...
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Last week I had the pleasure of speaking on a panel at Sapphire Ventures Next-Gen Tech Stack Forum in San Francisco. Obviously, I was excited to join the discussion, but as a participant the event crystallized not only where the larger software development market is relative to microservices, container technologies (like Docker), continuous integration and deployment; but also provided insight into where DevOps is heading in the coming years.
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Wow, if you ever wanted to learn about Rugged DevOps (some call it DevSecOps), sit down for a spell with Shannon Lietz, Ian Allison and Scott Kennedy from Intuit. We discussed a number of important topics including internal war games, culture hacking, gamification of Rugged DevOps and starting as a small team. There are 100 gold nuggets in this conversation for novices and experts alike.
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The notion of customer journeys, of course, are central to the digital marketer's playbook. Clearly, enterprises should focus their digital efforts on such journeys, as they represent customer interactions over time. But making customer journeys the centerpiece of the enterprise architecture, however, leaves more questions than answers. The challenge arises when EAs consider the context of the customer journey in the overall architecture as well as the architectural elements that make up each...
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Admittedly, two years ago I was a bulk contributor to the DevOps noise with conversations rooted in the movement around culture, principles, and goals. And while all of these elements of DevOps environments are important, I've found that the biggest challenge now is a lack of understanding as to why DevOps is beneficial. It's getting the wheels going, or just taking the next step. The best way to start on the road to change is to take a look at the companies that have already made great headway ...
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In 2006, Martin Fowler posted his now famous essay on Continuous Integration. Looking back, what seemed revolutionary, radical or just plain crazy is now common, pedestrian and "just what you do." I love it. Back then, building and releasing software was a real pain. Integration was something you did at the end, after code complete, and we didn't know how long it would take. Some people may recall how we, as an industry, spent a massive amount of time integrating code from one team with another...
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From the conception of Docker containers to the unfolding microservices revolution we see today, here is a brief history of what I like to call 'containerology'. In 2013, we were solidly in the monolithic application era. I had noticed that a growing amount of effort was going into deploying and configuring applications. As applications had grown in complexity and interdependency over the years, the effort to install and configure them was becoming significant. But the road did not end with a ...
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I have an article in the recently released "DZone Guide to Building and Deploying Applications on the Cloud" entitled "Fullstack Engineering in the Age of Hybrid Cloud". In this article I discuss the need and skills of a Fullstack Engineer with relation to troubleshooting and repairing complex, distributed hybrid cloud applications. My recent experiences with troubleshooting issues with my Docker WordPress container only reinforce the details I wrote about in this piece. Without my comprehensive...
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Much of the discussion around cloud DevOps focuses on the speed with which companies need to get new code into production. This focus is important – because in an increasingly digital marketplace, new code enables new value propositions. New code is also often essential for maintaining competitive parity with market innovators. But new code doesn't just have to deliver the functionality the business requires. It also has to behave well because the behavior of code in the cloud affects performan...
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Struggling to keep up with increasing application demand? Learn how Platform as a Service (PaaS) can streamline application development processes and make resource management easy.
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If there is anything we have learned by now, is that every business paves their own unique path for releasing software- every pipeline, implementation and practices are a bit different, and DevOps comes in all shapes and sizes. Software delivery practices are often comprised of set of several complementing (or even competing) methodologies – such as leveraging Agile, DevOps and even a mix of ITIL, to create the combination that's most suitable for your organization and that maximize your busines...
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Digital means customer preferences and behavior are driving enterprise technology decisions to be sure, but let's not forget our employees. After all, when we say customer, we mean customer writ large, including partners, supply chain participants, and yes, those salaried denizens whose daily labor forms the cornerstone of the enterprise. While your customers bask in the warm rays of your digital efforts, are your employees toiling away in the dark recesses of your enterprise, pecking data into...
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Comments On Apr 08, 2013:I've used this for year. Works great, I have used it lots of time. I was wondering if it seals well. I have used part of a Co2 6 gram and left it in my pack only to use it over a week later an the pressure was still there. So small, so light, so easy to use. One 6 gram fills one rear tire.
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Comments On Apr 14, 2008:This little thing works GREAT! It is very small which makes it a plus for carrying in a trail pack. The cartridges screw on securly and ALL the air comes out of the cartridge (unlike some others I've used). One does need to wear gloves while discharging the CO2 though, they do get cold!
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Kit Kat Bars & He-Man
I dressed as a skeleton for Halloween. It's the same costume I wore last year, and the year before too.
Next Halloween I'll break out the ol' bones wrap yet again.
And why not? It fits perfectly, is light-weight and age-appropriate, as far as adult costumes are concerned!
Betcha didn't know Kit Kat bars are my favorite Halloween candy, either. Loved them since I was playing Little League and dressing up as He-Man.
If Kit Kat bars were starting pitchers, I ate the entire rotation this afternoon. I just can't help myself; they're so darn tasty and chocolaty!
Meanwhile, have you any idea that nine of the past 10 teams to win Game 3 –with the World Series tied 1-1– have gone on to win the series?
The lone exception being the 2003 Yankees, who lost three straight against the Florida Marlins.
How do I know Andy Pettitte is a future HOF? His 17 postseason wins is the MLB-record. The guy's in, believe me.
Chase Utley went 0-for-4 ending his amazing streak of reaching base safely in 27-straight postseason games.
That's big-time people, and a feat much more deserving than the barely noticeable attention its receiving from the media.
With NY up 2-1, I'd rest CC another day instead of throwing him again Sunday. Pitchers don't fare well on three-days rest, at least historically speaking.
Sabathia, on the other hand, has been an exception to the rule on short rest, but why hurry him back to the bump if you don't have to?
Phils appear doomed without Cliff Lee. So is J-Roll's Phillies-in-five prediction.
They have to take Game 4; it's a must-win. No way Philly takes three straight and the final two games at New York.
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HAPPY 4TH OF JULY! Learn more about Operation USA in AmericaBy opusa • Jul 2nd, 2013 • Category: Featured, In The News, News, OpUSA Blog
OPERATION USA – CELEBRATING AND SUPPORTING AMERICA As you celebrate the 4th of July, take a look closer at our programs here in America. California Clinics Program For more than 30 years, Operation USA has provided a wide range of supplies to more than 200 nonprofit clinics in California. Operating on tight budgets with limited more »


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Today marks two weeks since the Dream Defenders first camped inside Florida's Capitol.
The protestors intend to stay as they continue to press for a special legislative session, consideration of changes to the state's Stand Your Ground law and debate of other issues involving racial profiling and juvenile justice policies.
By late Monday afternoon, roughly 15 protestors sat or stood in a circle in Gov. Rick Scott's office, discussing strategies and offering encouragement to each other. As many as 160 protestors and supporters flooded the Capitol over the weekend to spend the night.
At the conclusion of events on Friday, including a visit from renowned entertainer and civil-rights activist Harry Belafonte, some protesters crowded into the Capitol's first floor jumped in jubilant support. Florida Department of Law Enforcement officials were concerned about the portraits of past governors displayed in the hallway leading to the governor's office. Fewer than a dozen portraits were hung there, including former governors Charlie Crist, Jeb Bush, Lawton Chiles and Bob Graham.
"Those were taken down merely as a precautionary measure," said FDLE spokesperson Gretl Plessinger, adding the jumping at times shook the rotunda floor.
The original portraits were removed Monday morning by the Department of State. Plessinger said she didn't know when they'd be mounted back on the walls.
Food was scarce this weekend for protestors.
By Monday, food was not an issue.
"With the Capitol back open, we're able to get the food we need in and we just know not to rely on anybody to try to get us food after the time when the Capitol closes," Dream Defenders Executive Director Philip Agnew said.
Agnew and the group, are preparing for a mock legislative session today at the Old Capitol. Today's events will include an overview of topics to be discussed, panels and a number of proposed resolutions.
"This is just one tactic," Agnew said of the peaceful sit-in at Scott's office, noting two Dream Defenders are calling all Florida lawmakers to seek support for a special session. "We are securing the necessary petitions to force a poll of all lawmakers. We are changing hearts and minds every day we are here."
Gov. Rick Scott has rejected the group's call for a special session and reiterated his support for the state's Stand Your Ground law.
"We've come and presented a menu of options with which we would be willing to come to the table and negotiate and he's come with nothing," Agnew said of Scott.
A special session can also be called by both presiding officers of the Legislature, acting in tandem. Senate President Don Gaetz said Monday at a separate event that he did not support a special session.
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What I prefer is below. ( If you could do these things it would please me very much)
1) Old- styled looking map
2) I would like this to be an island. It is fairly wooded island except for around the port cities.
3) I'd would prefer this to be a flat map, not a sphere map (round).
4) I would like the towns to be on it, if possible.
Ruling capital: Crossburg
Forest towns: Pinewick, Tasmountain, Dark Hollow, CamPoint
Port cities: Coreswitch,Siddur
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Click here for one of my favorite Halloween songs. I got some weird looks driving in on 360 to work today, doing a bit of head banging in my mini.


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The Power of Independent Thinking
William J. Watkins, Jr. on Patent Trolls
Recorded: Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Research Fellow William J. Watkins, Jr. appeared on XMSatellite radios Innovation Navigation show to talk about his new book Patent Trolls: Predatory Litigation and the Smothering of Innovation. The cost of patent trolls is staggering, both in terms of lost work and in court costs and attorney fees. The outmoded patent system in the US is discussed, including proposals for reforming the patent system.
Experts: William J. Watkins Jr.Type: RadioIssues: Antitrust, Competition, and Monopoly, Business, Economic History and Development (U.S.), Litigation, Regulation and Deregulation, Science, Technology
Stephen P. Halbrook on Gun Talk Radio
Recorded: Sunday, May 18, 2014
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich, appeared on Gun Talk Radio with Tom Gresham. Halbrook talks about the Second Amendment and the traditions of liberty and limited government.
Experts: Stephen P. HalbrookType: RadioIssues: Constitutional Law, Culture/ Society, Gun Control, History (International), Political Ideology and Philosophy, Politics, Public Health/ Consumer Protection
Ivan Eland on FSN Radio: Americas Presidents & Foreign Policy
Recorded: Thursday, May 15, 2014
Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland appears on The Financial Survival Network with host Kerry Lutz to talk about his book Recarving Rushmore which will be updated in the fall of 2014. The book ranks U.S. Presidents on issues of peace, prosperity, and liberty.
Experts: Ivan ElandType: RadioIssues: Diplomacy and Foreign Aid, Economic Policy, Government Power, History (International), History (U.S), Political Ideology and Philosophy, Politics, Terrorism and National Crises
Benjamin Powell on Sweatshops as Means to Escape Poverty
Recorded: Sunday, May 11, 2014
Sr. Fellow Benjamin Powell discusses the unintended consequences of anti-sweatshop activism and the real recipe for escaping poverty: economic freedom.
Experts: Benjamin W. PowellType: RadioIssues: Business, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Culture/ Society, Economic History and Development (International), Economic Policy, Labor and Employment
Bruce Benson on the Tom Woods Radio Show
Recorded: Friday, April 25, 2014
Sr. Fellow Bruce Benson, author of The Enterprise of Law appeared on the Tom Woods radio show to speak about the increasing frequency of private police in areas of our society. In an upcoming article in The Independent Review, Benson will update some ideas about private, market-based justice processes and less government police abuse.
Experts: Bruce L. BensonType: RadioIssues: Criminal Justice/ Prisons, Culture/ Society, Free Market Economics, Law Enforcement, Politics, Public Health/ Consumer Protection, Taxes
Benjamin Powell Discusses Sweatshops on Vancouvers CKNW Radio
Recorded: Thursday, April 24, 2014
Sr. Fellow Benjamin Powell appears on Vancouvers CKNW radio to discuss the one year anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh. Powell talks with host Mike Eckfordabout conditions in clothing factories in Bangladesh and markets for labor and the products manufactured there.
Experts: Benjamin W. PowellType: RadioIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Culture/ Society, Economic History and Development (International), Free Market Economics, Labor and Employment, Regulation and Deregulation
Burton Abrams on KKSF's Bob Zadek Radio Show
Recorded: Sunday, March 30, 2014
Research Fellow Burton A. Abrams appeared on the "Bob Zadek Radio Show" on KKSF in San Francisco. Abrams talks about the MyGovCost calculator and his book The Terrible 10 and the top ten economic blunders in the last century.
Experts: Burton A. AbramsType: RadioIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy, Government Waste/Pork, Political Ideology and Philosophy
Stephen Halbrook on the 13 Folds Radio Show
Recorded: Thursday, March 20, 2014
Research Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich, appeared on WBOB radio's
13 Folds Radio Show. Halbrook talks about his most recent book detailing the events leading up to the Nazi confiscation of guns from German Jews. The program also touches on the vast experience of Halbrook defending rights of gun owners and protecting Second Amendment rights.
Experts: Stephen P. HalbrookType: RadioIssues: Culture/ Society, Gun Control, History (International), Political Ideology and Philosophy


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Who Quit on Whom?
- Monday, September 20, 2010 11:46 AM
- Written By: Dodgers Diaries
Call me a cynic, but Sunday's comeback win over the Rockies doesn't prove to me that the Dodgers aren't quitters. It proves that baseball is a funny game where the better team doesn't always win.
As for these Dodgers, it's not so much the players who quit as the management team around them. Over the 2009-10 winter, the front office quit on the team by failing to sign players to replace the departing Orlando Hudson and Randy Wolf, both of whom left without even a draft pick in return. Hudson was the offensive sparkplug for the 2009 team, hitting for the cycle in his Dodger Stadium opener. He hit a surprising .283 and OPSed .774, better even than the $10 million man Rafael Furcal at short. Wolf led the team in starts and innings pitched, but the Dodgers thought it was a career year and let him go.
Jon Garland put up serviceable numbers in his short career with the Dodgers, but they let him go as well.
As the trading deadline loomed, management again quit on the Dodgers, failing to acquire the kind of players who would make the team better. Off went Cliff Lee. For the third time in two years, no less. Off went Roy Oswalt. Ted Lilly came west, but only at the price of weak-hitting Ryan theriot. Octavio Dotel was another drain on the farm system that didn't seem to indicate any immediate upside.
By the time the non-waiver deadline approached, the Dodgers were barely in contention, but kept trying to have it both ways. They wanted to unload Manny Ramirez and his hefty contract. But instead of simply dealing him, they waited until the last minute to see if the team would magically re-enter the pennant race. Still, they refused to play Manny for fear that he might get hurt and ruin the deal worked out with the White Sox.
Finally, Joe Torre quit on the team, announcing last week that he would not return in 2011. He also revealed that he had made his successor, Don Mattingly, a contractual part of his deal with the team when Torre signed in 2008. There never was, and never would be any discussion about who would follow Torre, because it was even more in writing than the name of the McCourt who owned the team.
Torre clearly had to know his mind before September 15. The timing of his announcement, however, followed the remarks by former Dodger owner Peter O'Malley, who said the McCourts had disgraced the proud Dodger franchise. You know, the one the O'Malleys sold to those fine citizens, the Fox broadcasting company. Still, the PR hit left a mark, one that could only be erased by a new news cycle in which Grandpa Torre passes on the family farm to Little Don.
Does the Jackie Robinson signing automatically exempt the Dodgers from having to do anything on behalf of minorities ever again? The team had to scramble to find an African-American player to introduce Rachel Robinson in 2006 and 2007. The 25-man roster in 2010 has had no more than four black players at a time: Matt Kemp, James Loney, and Russell Martin, with Kenley Jansen, replacing Garret Anderson when the latter proved no better a hitter than the former.
The 2010 Dodger season was over before it even began. There were flashes of above-average play, but nothing inspired other than an early season stretch where the team averaged six runs a game. Their fielding was sloppy, the pitching was uneven, and players could not stay off the disabled list. They looked like an older, duller version of the 2009 team that started out so strong and merely hung on to win the division.
The 2011 team looks to be just as awful. There will be no budget for free agent signings, and no farm system to raid for dividends that pay sooner. Mattingly may wish he had taken the opportunity to learn in the minor leagues under Tim Wallach while the team struggles through the horrible McCourt divorce. It's going to be a long run and the temptation to quit will be just as great.