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I checked out an e-book from the library the other day (my first e-book checkout!) titled the "100 Most Significant Events in American Business." It has been an interesting read.
It made me ponder the overlap between Quentin Skrabec's book and the "100 most significant events for the American produce business."
There will be many events that overlap between general business and the produce business. Here are a few that caught my eye from Skracbec's book:
Revolution, famine and immigration (1848)
Western Union Telegraph Company (1851)
Transatlantic cable (1857)
Transcontinental railroad completed (1869)
First commercial telephone (1877)
Henry Ford wins race of the century (1901)
Income tax (1913)
Panama Canal opens (1914)
Hoover Dam (1931)
First Credit Card (1950)
First Walmart and Kmart open (1962)
First customer scan of a bar code (1977)
For the produce industry, transportation and growing/handling/packing technology have got to figure heavily in any "most significant" list.
From The Packer's Century of Produce publication, here are just a few selected personalities among the "100 who made a difference" between 1893 and 1993:
Harvey A. Baum: As an executive with The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., Harvey Baum introduced fresh fruits and vegetables -- and also packaged produce -- to the chain-store system. And he used his influence to encourage the growth of large scale agriculture production through cooperatives. He is credited as being the first to use refrigerated cases and mirrored displays in stores. In the 1920s,
Baum expanded the offerings through 17,000 A&P Red Front stores beyond hardware items like potatoes and onions and, for the next 30 years, supervised the annual sale of more than 100,000 carlot equivalents of fresh fruits and vegetables. In 1927, Baum worked with Florida shippers and packaged oranges in 8-pound bags for A&P. The bagging of apples and other Florida citrus followed soon after. He supervised the openings of packaging plants in Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Florida. In order to create suppliers to handle A&P's large volume, Baum formed grower cooperatives. He began his career with A&P as a produce buyer in 1920. By 1925 he had organized the Atlantic Commission Co. Baum worked his way up from general manager to president and finally to an executive position with A&P until his retirement in 1954. That same year, the 65-year-old Baum became president of Consolidated Growers Exchange, a position he held into the 1960s.
Luther Burbank: ``Plant Wizard'' Luther Burbank ranks as the most prolific and important produce breeder in American history. He created the Burbank potato, which still was the most widely grown potato variety 120 years after its introduction in 1873. He also bred more than 100 varieties of other plants, most notably plums, some of which remained in commercial cultivation into the 1970s. Inspired by the work of geneticist and evolution theorist Charles Darwin, 26-year-old Burbank headed west in 1875 on a train from his home in Lunenburg, Mass., with the $150 he received for selling a ``better'' potato. With him he took 10 of the potatoes, enough to eventually introduce the Burbank variety to the West Coast states. From the experimental nursery he began in 1875 in Santa Rosa, Calif., his extensive cross breeding efforts created a plethora of new plants in the next 60 years. His plants were grown worldwide and featured in virtually every seed catalog on the market. As Burbank's varieties became famous, so did he. He was unanimously elected an honorary member of the American Breeders' Association at its opening meeting in St. Louis in 1903. He pushed Congress to recognize the right of plant breeders to patent their products. Edward Wickson, former head of the Department of Horticulture at the University of California, a noted Burbank scholar, wrote in 1905 that Burbank had more than pioneered fruits. He ``has unearthed the laws that have governed their production and made bare truths that will live and benefit humanity even if they should ever cease to eat plums or care for potatoes.''
Joseph John ``J.J.'' Castellini J.J. Castellini founded what became know as the ``House of Castellini'' in 1923 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and began building the firm into a major force in Midwestern produce distribution. Through a strategy of carrying broadline products, vertical integration, partnerships and stakes in such businesses as trucking, intermodal transportation, fresh-cut produce, brokering and service wholesaling, the firm became one of the few old-line commission merchants to thrive into the 1990s. At 15, Castellini began his career in 1891 as a clerk and fruit handler for the M. Fugazzi & Co. commission merchant firm in Cincinnati. By night he was a student, taking bookkeeping courses. With his new skills he took a position with A.H. Gray & Co. and in 1898 -- with $500 to his name -- the 20-year-old Castellini became a partner with William M. Gray and William H. Krohne under the name William M. Gray & Co. Two years later he bought out his partners and incorporated the firm in 1923 as the J.J. Castellini Co. Four years later it became The Castellini Co. Castellini's son Robert led the company for a time and formed the Cincinnati Produce Growers Association and was instrumental in the evolution of the wholesaling business into a full-service, value-added marketer. J.J.'s granddaughter, Claire (Thornton), and grandson, Bob, helped build the firm into a distribution network serving 25 states by the 1990s
Arthur U. Chaney In 1907, Arthur U. Chaney founded the American Fruit Exchange -- which a year later became the American Cranberry Exchange. He was a pioneer in organizing growers into sales and marketing blocs. He also fought for the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, enacted in 1930, which sought to restrict fraudulent produce marketing practices. Chaney was born on an Illinois farm in 1874 and later lived in Des Moines, Iowa, with his brother, Chester. They operated cranberry bogs in Wisconsin, which at the time was a state that paid growers individually for the fruit they brought in. That gave Chaney, who was known to growers as A.U. Chaney, the idea to become a fresh fruit broker for an organized group of farmers to develop orderly marketing conditions. Chaney headed to New York City where the exchange represented and handled sales for New Jersey, Massachusetts and Wisconsin. Chaney operated the cranberry exchange until his death in 1941. The American Cranberry Exchange changed its name to Eatmore Cranberries Inc. in the early 1940s and continued to operate until 1954. At that time it closed its doors because most growers were diverting to processing with Ocean Spray.
Bruce Church: An innovator, a calculated risk-taker and a leader, Bruce Church helped push technological ventures that changed the fruit and vegetable industry. He was a leading lettuce breeder, and his investment and leadership in the Growers Ice and Development Co. and The Vacuum Cooling Co. spurred development of reliable refrigerated produce storage and shipments. In 1922, Church began his stint in the industry, working for the Tracy Waldron Fruit Co. in San Francisco. He returned to his Salinas Valley roots in 1927 and met his future business partner, Whitney Knowlton. He eventually bought out Knowlton and created Bruce Church Inc. in 1931. Church formed another partnership with Ken Nutting, Gene Harden and Russ Merrill in 1937. These four men created Growers Ice and Development Co. to provide the industry with much-needed ice-packing services for shipping fresh vegetables. Another of Church's innovations was one of the first seed and soil research programs. His research program produced about 50 percent of the lettuce seed used in the industry at the time. Church worked with the Salinas Grower-Shipper Vegetable Association to set up mandatory quality produce standards. He worked to improve relations between the Western Growers Association and government agencies. At the time of his death in 1958 he was dictating a speech for the WGA. He also was civic-minded. He led the produce industry battle against federal efforts to provide price supports during the Korean War and donated land to build the Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital.
Andrew and Stephen D'Arrigo: Andrew and Stephen D'Arrigo, in 1922, founded the D'Arrigo Bros. Co., which was the first to commercially grow pack broccoli in the United States. They also introduced Pascal celery to California. The company also was first to successfully employ brand identification for its produce products. Andrew D'Arrigo and his brother Stephen left their homeland of Messina, Italy, in 1904. After World War I, in which they fought with U.S. forces, they entered the grape juice business. Andrew remained on the East Coast while Stephen supervised shipments from the West Coast. In 1922, the business officially became the D'Arrigo Bros. Co., specializing in a variety of fruits and vegetables favored by Italian Americans. Broccoli, a foreign commodity to U.S. consumers at the time, became their greatest hit. The brothers developed their own broccoli seed lines from seeds sent by their father in Italy. In developing their Andy Boy label, still in use on all D'Arrigo premium products in 1993, they used a photograph of Stephen's 2-year-old son. Stephen D'Arrigo served as board chairman of the Western Growers Association in 1947. He worked with Canadian industry and government officials to try and re-establish an Arbitration Board to settle industry disputes between Canada and the United States. In 1993, D'Arrigo Bros. was a full-service, vertically integrated produce firm farming more than 14,000 acres in California and Arizona and occupying 17 units in the New York Terminal Market. The company continues to grow on both coasts under the management of second and third generation D'Arrigo's.
That's only just a taste of the "100 who made a difference" identified by The Packer. Apart from the personalities, what do readers think were the most important "events" in the produce industry? Immigration events, food safety outbreaks, the Food Safety Modernization Act, citrus greening; for the past 30 years, what are the top three most significant events for the U.S. produce industry? What would your top three look like?


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Anode|ION|JOKERi|MD2|FD|TD|PD|LEGENDaParks wrote:If the posts on this forum are any indication, the PD is like a Teebird with sunshine coming out of its butthole so hard that it flies faster.
jubuttib wrote:Star usually breaks in and overall wears much faster than Champ, and there's no way a DX or Pro disc would be broken in in like 25 throws, unless you hit the trees every time.
ladysmanfelpz wrote:So i am noticing more how certain discs are better in certain plastics. My question for everyone here is how long does each plastic type seem to last for everyone before it breaks? I don't mean break in, but like breaks where it is too unpredictable to be useful anymore. I had a dx boss which was fun for a bit, but then I hit a tree hard and I could just tell the way it came off it wasn't going to be right. I play wooded courses and ive hit trees with plenty of dx and I can tell they will be alright, but sometimes with a weird hit I can tell it "broke" by the way it came off. So now this boss can get some alright flights, but will have a weird and unpredictable turn. It will turn very hard when it definitely wasn't supposed to. Same thing with my pro starfire. Great disc and had plenty of flight left in it, but it took a hard smack into a tree. The way it came off I could tell it broke. Sure enough next through it came off right and started to do its soft turn and then got more fluttery mid flight than at release which is very odd and became very understable and never came back. So I needed a mid and wanted to try a good run plastic so got a z buzzz. First day out with it it was sick. Did everything I wanted it too. Could forehand it 300'+ and rip backhands. Nearly got 2 aces with it my first day. I know a disc breaks in, but after that first day, I can no longer forehand it. I am throwing it very different know and it seems less predictable to me. Still a sweet disc, but I am surprised by how much the z changed after one day of play. So far doesn't seem so much tougher than the dx I usually buy even playing in the woods. My dx destroyer has lasted I would say about 80 throws and taken a few good smacks, but nothing where it look like it broke. So what do you think the life of each type of plastic is? Have you noticed a champ or star run plastic "break"?
I'm saying:
Dx/D: 10-20 throws to break in. Life ~100
Pro/elite: 25 throws to break in. Life ~180
Z/Champ: 30 to break in. Life ~250-infinite
Star: 60 to break in. Life ~200-infinite
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Hey guys. I usually don't post in game threads (busy with kids and all), but I'll try to keep up with you and the game tonight.
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Hey guys. I usually don't post in game threads (busy with kids and all), but I'll try to keep up with you and the game tonight.
Long time PACER fan!
rush i demand u score 20 or more tonight
Close game so far..
Rush is starting to play like I imagined he would...now if only Diener would follow his lead...
Diener can't even get on the court lol
R.I.P. Bernic Mac & Isaac Hayes
Hulk has given us some good minutes off the bench...on both ends of the court.
Long time PACER fan!
Imsitting direcly behind jack ramsey. They're about to interview him
what is with JT...is he trying to prove the refs won't give him a foul call?
[~]) ... Cheers! Go Pacers!
What the hell is Jamaal doing tonight??
Man, our whole team is out of sorts. We're leading, but it doesn't feel like it. If we could put together 4 minutes of solid ball, we could blow this open.
Tinsley through Shaq's legs!
This space for rent.
If that's the case, he know he won't win that battle. . .Pacers never get calls
R.I.P. Bernic Mac & Isaac Hayes
Can this be true? Tinsley has 16 shot attempts in the first half?
That's more than JO/Foster/Dun/Danny (the rest of the starting unit) combined, as they only have 11. Add Murphy and Daniels for 5 more shots... so.
Tinsley has shot the ball more than Jermaine+Foster+Dun+Danny+Murphy+Quis. That's just insane.
And Tinsley shoots again, going against 2 guys. He got the and-1, but still. This isn't like him... what's the deal?
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Sorry but Tinsley should be somehow replaced..he's really forcing it!
Slick on the P's radio just said coach called a time out to "calm Jamaal down."
[~]) ... Cheers! Go Pacers!
Playing poorly and still leading? Guess I'll take it.
What is JT doing? Did he suddenly forget that he has 4 teammates?
We need to start playing team ball.
Actually it's more like when he's clanking everything he shoots. That's when I don't want him taking a lot of shots, or playing for that matter.
The guy looked like a bust since the last Heat game, he hardly did anything, he's recently picked it up and started getting back on track. I'm glad for him and I'm glad he has his confidence back.
Super Bowl XLI Champions
2000 Eastern Conference Champions
5 for 16
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Super Bowl XLI Champions
2000 Eastern Conference Champions
Tinsley and 1.
He's taken 17 shots, Clark just mentioned.
Super Bowl XLI Champions
2000 Eastern Conference Champions
17 Shots by Tinsley? Wow, he's been playing well lately, but that's too many.
Long time PACER fan!
Danny with the slamma!!!
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Supporters of the Townscape Heritage Initiative for Bacup will submit their full bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund in July.
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Mr Presto said that 20 students should receive work placements during the course of the THI scheme, and six local contractors would receive professional development training.
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Wet weather or dry, the pests are with us, though which ones are troublesome varies with the weather. Weather conditions in 2012 and the spring of 2013 stressed plants in extreme ways and those who study these pests and diseases. The results have raised questions about efficacy of existing controls and the pests themselves.
Last year's heat and drought and the extremely heavy and prolonged rains in many areas this spring created textbook opportunities for studying insects and pests as corn and soybean planting stretched out into mid-June and in some cases later. Fields of newly emerging corn and soybeans sit alongside fields with seedlings inches, or in some cases, a foot and half to two feet taller.
"Last year's heat speeded planting and the development of insects," said Matt O'Neal, field crop entomologist, Iowa State University (ISU). "Growers were concerned by defoliation from Japanese beetles on plants in May and June, a pest that is normally seen in July and August. The early emergence of this pest was worrisome because it is not controlled by seed treatments. We also had the worst spider mite outbreak since 1988. Spider mites do very well in dry, hot conditions. This year the cold weather slowed the development of these pests, likely reducing their impact in 2013."
When interviewed in late June, O'Neal was still waiting to see if the wet soils would increase insect mortality. He was surprised to hear reports of early and high levels of soybean aphids. Because of the extreme weather, everything is up for grabs. In a normal year, predator insects tend to emerge with prey. This year, O'Neal suggested, that may not be the case.
"The delays in planting and emergence may delay a predator response as well," he said. "Predators need insect prey to fl ourish. How strong their response will be is the question."
In 2012, one pest that was hard to measure was aphids temperatures," said O'Neal. "This year appears to be the opposite of 2012, with cooler spring temperatures allowing soybean aphids to establish and later colonize soybean fields. The evidence is they are out there, and we may see populations we haven't in the last couple of years."
He suggested that heavy populations in areas that have a history of problems with the pest might encourage farmers to consider aphid-resistant soybean varieties. Work done at his lab at ISU emphasizes the benefits of multiple or pyramided resistant genes. He noted that plants carrying a single aphidresistant gene benefi tted from a seed treatment. However, plants with two resistant genes were so aphid-clean that no benefit in aphid control could be seen with a seed treatment.
"A single resistant gene can reduce aphid populations from thousands to hundreds," said O'Neal.
"When two genes are combined, survivors drop from hundreds per plant to tens. What we don't know is how this works, whether by producing a toxin or simply allowing the plant to ignore the aphids."
While other pests such as corn rootworm have developed resistance to gene-based protection, work in the O'Neal lab is focused on preventing this from happening with the soybeanaphid.
Although single and pyramid aphid resistance is available, it is not found in many varieties. Through his website, O'Neal reports the commercial sources of soybean aphid resistant varieties (http://www.ent.iastate.edu/soybeanaphid/files/SBAresistance2012corrected.pdf).
"The limited use of the aphid-resistant genes contributes to preventing soybean aphids from becoming resistant to these genes," O'Neal said. "By using a pyramid line, farmers are employing a strategy that can also limit soybean aphids from becoming resistant to these genes as well."
O'Neal's lab is exploring other tactics that may be necessary to prevent resistance from developing if more farmers use soybean aphid-resistant varieties. "With funding from the Soybean Checkoff program, we are developing Insect Resistance Management (IRM) plans for the long-term use of aphidresistant varieties. We are exploring if a refuge-in-a-bag strategy that is used for corn rootworms can be used for soybean aphids."
What is made clear by such extreme weather years is how much is yet to be learned about crop disease. Dean Malvick, Extension plant pathologist, University of Minnesota, reported he will be keeping a close eye on phytophthora, rhizoctonia and white mold diseases of soybean. The wet spring with prolonged
planting set the stage for problems with them as well. Smaller plants in wet but warm, high organic soils are also favored by rhizoctonia. He cites cases with soybeans planted following peas in central Minnesota where half the field was killed. This year, similar conditions are much more widespread. The warm and wet field conditions in many fields also increase the risk of phytophthora rot, which is being seen in a number of fields.
The wet weather pattern may increase the risk of white mold if it continues into flowering and pod set, although hot weather during that time will tend to decrease this disease.
How well the crops are protected by seed treatments and resistant varieties, where applicable, may be telling. For example, there are many different races of phytophthora in Minnesota that render the common resistance genes in soybean ineffective in some fields. Malvick also reported that some seed treatments appeared to miss their target.
"Pythium is generally controlled by the seed treatments targeted at a few previously identified species," he said. "But pythium seemed to overcome the seed treatments in some areas."
What is yet unknown is whether it was the environmental conditions or the species that may not be very sensitive to the seed treatments. Malvick reported finding more than 20 different pythium species while sampling soybean fields. He admitted that much is unknown about them.
"We don't know about their relative aggressiveness or pathogenicity, when they thrive or under what conditions," he said. "Pythium is generally considered to thrive in cool and wet conditions; however, some of these species may prefer warmer soils.
He cited the loss of several thousand acres of corn in south central Minnesota in 2012 as likely being caused by pythium root rot. Although drenching rains caused crusting, it appeared to be the root rot that killed the seed-treated corn.
"Based on work in other states, it appears pythium species are not all equally susceptible to seed-treatment fungicides," said Malvick. "We need to understand what these different species are doing in Minnesota."
More information is needed on fusarium as well. Malvick noted that while it has long been known to be a problem in soybeans and corn, no highly effective treatments have yet been found. Although soybean varieties have been developed with resistance to the fusarium species causing SDS, that is not the case with other species. His concern is that the problem is more complicated than previously thought and may be getting worse.
"We have found 12 different fusarium species while looking at root rot in corn and soybeans," said Malvick. "The issue is whether we look at enough fields under the same conditions to really know if things are changing. It is difficult to get enough information, but fusarium appears to be thriving and possibly changing to be a little more effective on corn and soybeans. That may be the case with pythium as well."
Malvick pointed to new tools on the horizon, including new seed treatment fungicides and biological seed treatments, some of which are already included in seed treatments. The wet conditions in the upper Midwest and resulting disease pressure are providing ample challenges to current control methodologies. These new controls may well prove extremely valuable.


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text: Americans make more charitable donations than people of any other country, and this is the time of year they dig the deepest. In Little Rock, Arkansas, that means the anti-poverty charity, Heifer International, is going full throttle. Contributors purchase living things, which are donated to struggling families in 52 countries.


text: Coincidence but I started watching The Sopranos earlier this week as well. I've seen the later seasons when it aired on TV but I felt like watching it properly form the start again. I'm already on season 2 ep 6, first season was very addictive, like the struggles in a hierarchy is probably my favourite theme to have in any kind of story (Films, shows, books) and season 1 was all that, well at least his Mafia side of things.


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Whether you're at home in the sunshine or heading away on holiday, its important put in the ground work in to your garden to prepare it for the height of summer.
The Royal Horticultural Society has put together a handy 10-step-guide to help prepare plants for the summer heat. So get weeding, pruning and mowing to ensure your garden stays fresh throughout the summer's final months.
1. Hoe borders regularly to keep down weeds
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5. Position summer hanging baskets and containers outside
6. Mow lawns at least once a week
7. Plant out summer bedding
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TUBAC, Ariz. — Two Nogales produce legends were honored at the Fresh Produce Association of the Americas 43rd annual convention.
The 2nd annual Pillars of the FPAA on Nov. 5 recognized Al Harrison and Walter Holm, and the awards were accepted by Al Harrison's grandson Brent Harrison and Walter Holm's son Axel Holm, respectively.
Al Harrison founded Al Harrison & Sons, a pioneer in watermelon importation and promotion, so much that Harrison was known as the "Watermelon King."
Harrison died in 1985 at the age of 74.
Brent Harrison, president of Al Harrison Produce Co., Nogales, and his sister and company vice president Shelley Harrison-Valdivia, said their grandfather was an inspiration for their careers.
Walter Holm sold tomatoes for a Mexican grower in the 1930s and in 1936, he founded Mexican Produce Company. Later he founded Walter Holm & Co. and build a packinghouse in downtown Nogales to sell "Holm Grown" brand tomatoes.
He was instrumental in growing the vine-ripened tomato deal, and in 1944 he was one of the four founding members of the West Mexico Vegetable Distributors Association, which would later become the FPAA.
Axel Holm said his father was the kind of leader who let others take the limelight, so he was proud his father was recognized in this way. Walter Holm died in 1986 at age 84.


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WASHINGTON, Texas — Learn how the Lone Star State's pioneer women lived during a "True Texas Women" presentation at Barrington Living History Farm at Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site the last weekend in March.
The special program is being held from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on March 27 and 28 to celebrate Women's History Month and Texas History Month. Admission is $5.00 for adults, $3 for students, and it's free for Texas State Park Pass holders. Children 6 and under are free. Discount tickets are available to tour the state historic site's Independence Hall and Star of the Republic Museum.
As men tamed the Texas frontier in the mid-1800s, the women and girls of the family often endured difficult and extreme hardships, but their determination earned them the title of "gentle tamers and sunbonneted helpmates." The ladies of Barrington, using authentic letters and diary entries, will tell the stories of these women's lives, and a re-enactor portraying one of the more flamboyant and rowdy women of the day, Pamelia Mann, will make an appearance to talk about her life and times.
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SOME of Swindon's sharpest minds got to put politicians on the rack during the town's first-ever appearance on BBC Question Time.
The BBC One current affairs programme, hosted by David Dimbleby, was recorded at New College in Walcot around an hour it was broadcast on the flagship channel at 10.35pm on Thursday (20feb).
The panel included Defence Secretary Philip Hammond, Shadow Health Minister Liz Kendall, former leader of the Liberal Democrats Charles Kennedy, author Jeanette Winterson and philosopher Roger Scruton.
Charles Kennedy, who was the first to answer a question form the audience, was pleased to be able to take part in Thursday's episode.
He said: "I have been to Swindon a number of times over the years but it is the first time I've been back in a few years.
"I am very impressed with this facility at New College and I hope the production company have taken note, since it is the first time it has come to Swindon.
"The audience is half of what makes the programme and it was a brilliant vibrant audience, so hopefully people will enjoy it."
The panelists were put to the test by audience members on a range of issues, including benefit fraud, the increased use of foodbanks, whether we should use Chinese methods to teach our children maths and whether 'yobbery' in Prime Minister's Questions is acceptable.
Phil Webb, of Waverley Road, was one of the audience members who had an opportunity to ask a question.
He said: "It's something which I said that if it ever came to Swindon then I would try to go on.
"It was great, there were lots of different topics discussed.
"I asked about building on flood plains. Tadpole Lane, Blunsdon and Wanborough are all flood plains but they are building on them."
Albertine Davies, from Eldene, was one of those fortunate enough to get a spot in the audience.
The 34-yeaer-old said: "It was brilliant fun.
"There was a really convivial atmosphere.
"David Dimbleby spoke to us beforehand to tell us how it was going to go and we got to ask him questions like, 'have you ever had to throw someone out'.
"I watch it occasionally at home and like when you watch a live show it was better to see it live. Rather than sitting at home shouting at the television it was good to be able to be there."
It is the first time the programme has recorded from Swindon, and New College were thrilled to be able to host it.
New College Principal, Graham Taylor, said: "This is the first time Question Time has been to Swindon and we are delighted that they have chosen New College and our Phoenix Theatre as the venue.
"The BBC kindly allowed our Media Make-up and Media Studies students to shadow the programme and help the panellists.
"The Question Time format is a great learning tool for our Debating Society students and students taking Government & Politics, General Studies, Critical Thinking – in fact the humanities in general, which all involve debate, understanding and appreciating different viewpoints and aiming to construct and present arguments based on facts not prejudices."
People who missed the show can still watch it by visiting www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03w4b0d/Question_Time_20_02_2014.


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El Segundo's Chevron refinery is counting on the state Lands Commission to approve a new lease for its marine terminal in the Santa Monica Bay, despite protests from environmentalists over terms of the long-term deal.
The proposed lease - which comes up for a vote today - would lock in Chevron's use of its terminal about a mile and a half offshore for another three decades, and at a base price of roughly $1.3 million per year that would escalate annually.
The lease covers roughly 221 acres of the bay where tankers carrying crude oil and raw materials can link up to two berths that are connected to the refinery via underwater pipelines.
Chevron maintains the terminal - which has been around for the duration of the plant's nearly 100-year-existence - brings in 240,000 barrels of crude oil daily and is essential to refinery operations. Without it, public and government affairs manager Rod Spackman said bluntly: "We would cease to exist."
"We've always had an operation of this kind, and it's a fundamental element of the operation of our business," Spackman said.
Beyond that, the lease would ensure the refinery's future viability and allow Chevron to make investments needed to meet low-carbon fuel standards required by the state's 2006 global warming act, Spackman said.
"A lease that's reasonable and appropriate allows us the flexibility to do that," he said. "It would make no sense ... if you didn't have the flexibility to amortize that investment."
The commission's meeting in San Diego marks its last under the current administration. The three-member panel will retain two commissioners - Controller John Chiang and Finance Director Ana Matosantos - but bring on incoming Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom next year.
The lease terms were negotiated by the commission staff, which can recommend leases on state lands covering a few months to 49 years, commission Executive Officer Curtis Fossom said.
The proposed deal assigns a base rent of $1.29 million, which would be adjusted each year based on the Consumer Price Index. It also calls for Chevron to pay $2.4 million to cover prior years in which the lease apparently was in question.
According to a staff report, the commission in 1977 assigned a 15-year lease to the marine terminal, including three 10-year renewals. When the initial term expired, Chevron exercised the first of the extensions with the belief that it could do so without commission approval. But the commission disagreed, and has considered the lease to be in a "holdover" phase.
Not all agree the length of the proposed deal or the agreed-upon annual lease payments are fair terms.
Among those raising concerns is the environmental group Heal the Bay, which recently penned a letter to the state along with Santa Monica Baykeeper and Defenders of Wildlife, Heal the Bay's Mark Gold said.
Gold, the group's president, argues the value of the lease for the use of the bay is far too low, considering the environmental risks, such as an oil spill or a whale strike by a tanker.
"We just feel that this is a major issue that has kind of gone under the radar. It's about tankers that are sitting in the Santa Monica Bay every day," Gold said. "The state of California, especially during this economic crisis, should not be giving away priceless resources.
"Each and every day we look out at Santa Monica Bay, and it's the most beautiful view you can have in Southern California, and those tankers are there. ... There's got to be a price on that."
And Gold argues an environmental impact study didn't go far enough in analyzing alternatives to Chevron's offshore terminal - including the feasibility of using pipelines linking Chevron to the Port of Los Angeles.
Such a shift was not supported by the Lands Commission staff, which says in the report that while moving terminal operations to a nearby port could be a "viable alternative," it also could result in the loss of an alternative supply of crude oil if port operations were disrupted by a terrorist attack or natural disaster.
Chevron's Spackman also rejects the idea, saying the existing infrastructure isn't capable of bringing in the amount of raw material needed for daily refinery operations, which would force the company to construct a new pipeline.
But Gold said he favors a shorter lease - such as a 10-year deal - so the alternative could at least be further analyzed.
"We're getting painted by Chevron as saying we're trying to shut down the refinery, which is ridiculous," Gold said. "We could be seizing the day and saying, we don't want another Valdez (oil spill), or another Gulf oil spill. ... We're just saying 30 years is way too long."
Chevron hasn't faced a significant spill since 1991, according to Spackman, who has worked in El Segundo for 25 years.
That spill released 21,000 diesel gallons of oil into the bay, according to old Daily Breeze reports, while the 1989 Exxon Valdez incident sent an estimated 11 million gallons of crude into the Prince William Sound. The recent BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico was recently estimated at 172 million gallons.
But Chevron's March 1991 spill shut down Malibu Surfrider Beach as an oil slick formed over the water.


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For Immediate Release: October 23, 2012
Meredith MacMillan
Media Advisory: 2012 NAEYC Annual Conference & Expo
More than 300 Companies Will Showcase the Latest Products for Teaching and Learning from November 7–10 in Atlanta, Georgia
Hundreds of exhibitors will showcase the latest materials, products, and services for teaching and learning to thousands of early childhood teachers and administrators at the 2012 National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) Annual Conference & Expo.
The NAEYC Annual Conference & Expo is the largest gathering of early childhood educators in the world. The conference brings together thousands of educators from all 50 U.S. states and more than 30 countries to discuss the latest research and best practices in early childhood education.
The conference's vibrant Expo features more than 300 exhibitors in over 1,000 booths. Exhibitors will showcase a wide range of new and innovative products and services, including:
• Art materials
• Books and videos
• Children's music
• Classroom equipment, furniture, and supplies
• Computer software
• Curriculum materials and resources
• Educational toys and games
• Fundraising and incentive programs
• Family resources and support
• Playground equipment and supplies
• Photographic services
• Professional development resources
• Teaching resources
• Undergraduate and graduate schools
A full list of exhibitors is available online.
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Media are invited to attend the conference and talk to exhibitors, speakers, and education leaders in attendance. NAEYC can also help to set up interviews with specific presenters. Media must register in advance with Meredith MacMillan or present press credentials on-site at NAEYC Headquarters, Room 307, Georgia World Congress Center. For more information, visit our website or follow the conference on Twitter.
This year's conference is made possible in part through the generous support of the following sponsors:
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Founded in 1926, the National Association for the Education of Young Children is the largest and most influential advocate for high-quality early care and education in the United States.


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Calls for the Government to ditch green policies in order to bring down the price of energy to consumers have been branded "short-sighted and foolish" by Business Secretary Vince Cable.
Mr Cable confirmed that arguments over subsidies for renewable energy were raging within the coalition, with Liberal Democrat ministers fighting pressure from Conservative colleagues to shift focus away from carbon reduction commitments.
His comments came as the chief executive of energy company SSE, which has raised its prices by up to 10%, called for a debate on the "green agenda" which he claims will lead to more bill hikes in the future.
Alistair Phillips-Davies said SSE's price hike, which will push a typical dual-fuel customer bill up by £106 to £1,380 a year, would be "helpful" if it focused the nation on its spending priorities.
SSE believes bills would fall by £110 per household overnight if the Government covered green energy subsidies and the cost of other schemes, such as free loft insulation, through the tax system.
Mr Phillips-Davies told the Daily Telegraph: "A price rise is never a good thing to do, but if it focuses everyone on to a debate about what we as a nation should be spending money on, then in one way it will be helpful.
"We need to think about what people really want to pay for; maybe it's time to retreat from decarbonisation and focus more on the cost of living. I think we have to have a debate about it.
"Do we want to be replacing one bit of (energy) generation that we can keep going for a bit longer with a new bit of generation that's going to cost more?"
He added: "I doubt the public like price increases of this magnitude, but if we carry on firmly behind the green agenda we will continue to have price increases like this."
But Mr Cable insisted that the consumer will gain in the long run from investment in renewable energy sources like wind, and denied that green policies were a major factor in pushing up prices.
"The rise in energy prices is due to a whole variety of things, by far the most important of which is what's happening in world energy markets," the Business Secretary told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"We've had over a period of years very rapidly rising demand in Asia, particularly in China, we've had restrictions on supply from countries like Iran. A combination of these things has pushed up oil and gas prices and that is what has fed through to consumers."
"What we shouldn't be doing is scrapping our environmental policies. That would be very short-sighted and foolish.
"If you are taking a long-term view about shifting the British economy on to a less polluting, less carbon-based system, we have to provide those incentives. What will happen in the long term is that the costs of renewable energy will fall. We've already seen this with solar power, it's beginning to happen with offshore wind.
"We are investing very heavily in it, Britain is the largest offshore wind sector in the world and the more we do, the more costs will fall, and the consumer will benefit from it."
Mr Cable acknowledged that Liberal Democrat ministers had to fight for carbon reduction policies within the coalition.
"It is a continuing argument in the coalition, because Liberal Democrats have been arguing that we need to maintain a long-term priority towards a less carbon-based and polluting economy, and we have to make the decisions associated with that," he said.
SSE's decision to hike bills is expected to trigger a series of increases by the other Big Six energy suppliers - Centrica, EDF, Scottish Power, E.ON and npower.
The company said wholesale energy prices were up 4%, paying to use newly upgraded networks by 10% and Government-imposed levies up 13%.
Labour leader Ed Miliband insisted the suppliers were "ripping people off" and said the increases - which will take effect on November 15 and affect an estimated 7.3 million customers - reinforced the need for a 20-month freeze on energy prices.
Martin Lewis, of the Moneysavingexpert website, said the price hike would mean many people this winter will have to choose "between heating and eating".
SSE's price hike will see an average increase of 8.2%, three times the rate of inflation, affecting 4.4 million household electricity customers and 2.9 million gas users. It has around 9.5 million customer accounts, many of which are on fixed-price tariffs.
Regional variations mean rises will range from 7% in northern England and parts of Scotland to 9.7% in the South East. They will be higher for those who use a high proportion of cheaper energy at off-peak times.
SSE, which trades as Southern Electric, Swalec and Scottish Hydro, said the rise would come into effect from November 15, and it pledged not to lift them again for a year.
It last increased tariffs a year ago, by 9%, just before a bitterly cold spell.


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OMR, your driving up Sat morning then? We are heading up tmro get there around 2-3. My friends and I will probably be lining up well behind you, They are about a 8:50 pace if im lucky. I think I would be easier to spot seeing as I will be 1 of what 5-8 black people in Fargo.
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OMR, your driving up Sat morning then? We are heading up tmro get there around 2-3. My friends and I will probably be lining up well behind you, They are about a 8:50 pace if im lucky. I think I would be easier to spot seeing as I will be 1 of what 5-8 black people in Fargo.
8 easy tonight, legs are a bit thrashed lately.
Just popping in to wish good races to OMR and GP! (and thanks for running chipless, GP).
Busy busy busy, so a drive-by.
Did an interval workout Tuesday, easy miles on Weds, pool-running today, and a short tempo run tomorrow. Racing my first track mile in about 8 months on Sunday, after two consecutive cycles of marathon training. This should be interesting.
Good luck to OMR and Ghetto!
Yes, good luck to OMR and GP! I have been slacking a bit since the OC Half on May 5. I have a 5K this Saturday that I am simply running with friends. I'm doing my first Tri (a reverse spring) on the following Saturday, May 25th. Then a 5K I am racing on June 1. Then it will be time to settle into a training schedule for the Long Beach (CA) Marathon in October.
Tuesday a 5K of speed work (Sprinting between traffic lights, and then a RI waiting for the slowest runner in the group). Today, an easy 5K.
GPOPS Yup, winter in may and summer in January, crazy stuff right!!! Sydneysiders are in my opinion soft, if the temps drop below 15C everyone seems to think it's freezing breaking out the scarfs and gloves. Good luck for Sunday bro .
OMR Although 5000 missed crossing the line I'm sure a number will BQ again lowering the number. I guess with that and the increased number of people in general wanting to run will make that BQ -5 group very tight
pepperJ - maybe being a paperboy way back when got me used to the morning thing
itstonz - keep on pumpin!
gpops/omar - curious to see if you guys hook up
darkWay - goo luck with that racing mile. What inspired you?
pluto - busy schedule (dunno what a reverse spring is). Have fun with the friendly 5k
Another morning run for me. Maybe four miles at whatever pace. Wasn't paying attention. Way relaxed.
Super busy...
Happy Birthday FB!
Good luck OMR and Ghetto.
DW ~ Where? I may be doing PVTC 3K (obviously not tapering...); good luck to you too.
Nick ~ Nicely done w/ the medals
Did what I think is my favorite workout last night: 24x200m @ "mile" pace (5:30 avg).. wow do I feel it!
NIce having racing this weekend.
Gpop and OMR -- good luck this weekend.
Guys -- I have relatives in Fargo (grandfather on my father's side family). Say hi for me.
Glad to hear BAA is letting the people who didn't finish run again without re-qualifying. Seems fair to me. My guess is that they're going to expand the field, but who knows. That also means that I don't think we can guess the qualifying time cut-off. It's going to be interesting to watch.
Did another triple yesterday. I'm friggin tired. Going to try to get through this week at this level, and then cut back next week. Oh. And swim.
Oh, I get up early, that's not a huge issue. But I get sorta lazy after I run and tend to sit around instead of getting ready. Yesterday I was out the door by 6:40 and only did 4 miles, but I still managed to be slightly late for work.
No run this morning, had to drop my dog at the vet for a dental (she's the reason I get up early). Hopefully I get word soon it went ok...
PJ - hope the pooch is OK
FB - swim, what the heck. Are you training for a tri or something....
Dad - rocking that mile pace!
Runbo - relaxed is a good way to be
Tonz - if they were 50% off AND orange I would have had a bunch of boxes to open..... Hope that cool weather is treating you right
Puto - slacking is not allowed
Wave - racing a track mile sounds like fun.... and painful at the same time
Stig - what's got the legs all thrashed
Gpops - chipless makes it better
Omar - there is no charge for the first class.... I hope all the sale shoes you find have orange in them
Demo - yes we did!
Hey all
Raining, slept in, will run this evening.
Putoluto - I sense a 5K theme. What's a reverse spring tri?
Tonz - I'm with you - BQ-5 may be tough. On another note, what's with the crazy anti-cat guy in Kiwiland?
Runbo - my coach really strongly encourages us to race short stuff in the summer, especially for marathoners - the idea is that it develops the power and mechanics that get put aside during marathon training.
Dad - yup, PVTC. It will be cool to see you, if you're there this weekend! 24x200m sounds..hard to count. What's the recovery?
FB - triples? What madness is this?
PJ - it is funny how, when you run less, you don't have any more time..
NS - I thought visibility in the rain was why one wore bright orange....
9.5 miles for me today, including an abbreviated tempo workout (3200m in 12:37 - 6:20/6:17). And lotsa drills - I am a shuffler extraordinaire, and I'm trying to work on that.
Just found out that the Bibs have the chips in them
FB , run, bike and swim?
Dad, very nice Track workout. Hope the legs recover.
Halfway to Fargo(Alexandria) Hardees Jim Beam Burger and Ranch Bacon Fries for lunch. Haha laters nizzles.
run. bike. run. It's a different sort of tri. The dry tri.
Quick drive by.
Good luck to gpops and OMR this weekend. All I know about Fargo is from the movie. Which was mostly not set in Fargo. Oh well.
Puto - That kind of speed work is tough on the slower runners - they get shorter recoveries. Been there, done that.
FB You'll try a dry tri? Oh my. Aim high!
Nick - Nice medal presentation. Mine are just hanging on a curtain rod. I'm thinking of thinning the herd, just keeping the important ones.
BAA decision seems popular. Of course it's a zero sum game - let one group in and others get shut out. That's till true even if they increase the field size a bit. The thread about it is pretty entertaining, if you like watching people insult one another. Should we register guesses for the cutoff time? I'll try BQ - 4:30.
PJ - Ah, pet dentistry. Hope the pooch, (and your wallet) come out OK.
darkwave - Another shuffler here. It's hard to change. Are you doing high knees and drills like that?
Dad - 24 x 200 @mile? Yikes.
Skipped it today. I have a 10-mile trail race on Sunday. My course PR is 80 minutes (yes, it's hilly). That's going to be tough to beat this time. Maybe I can get close to it with smart pacing, we'll see.
Just a quickie....
Good luck to Ghetto and OMR this weekend!
Well done on the medals, nickS. I mostly give mine to my kids, but Boston is one that I might have to keep.
Dad - how do you keep count?
Ghetto - Hardee's is some nasty stuff.
Jim - I'm going to go with BQ-1:22 (based on the fact that I'm at BQ-1:21).
Strange week with lots of really short runs for me. Easy 3.25 this morning, followed by weights and another easy 3 this afternoon. Short on time.
Hardees is kinda awesome.
Zuni is awake. Going to pick her up in about an hour. She did lose teeth, though.
Gpops - Those bibs, you can usually peel the chip off of the back of the bib. Or just take an exacto knife and slice it. THey're pretty fragile - I didn't get timed at Army 10 Miler one year when my bib got torn a bit.
FB - I could get behind a dry tri. I am a lousy swimmer. Of course, I'm a crappy cyclist also.
Jim - yes, I've historically done drills 2-3 times a week. Includes high knees, A and B skips, cariocas, etc. But now I'm upping it. My coach spent a bit of time refining how I do them this morning, and OK'd me to do them every time I run.
I'm actually fairly flexible, so it's not range of motion that limits me in my shuffle. More muscle memory. I'm also not explosive at all. I can squat pretty heavy (up to 170, if I only go half way) but my 200m repeats aren't much faster than my 400s, which aren't much faster than my 800s.
I'm trying to fix this, since I think it's my limiting factor. Whether I do a fall marathon in part depends on how much I improve my speed this summer. If I'm still not where I want to be in September, I'll spend the fall focusing on shorter distances instead of running another full.
Re BAA - I don't think they could have made a wrong decision here, but the decision they did make is likely the more popular choice. I do think the BAA is in a different spot from NYRR - the Boston Marathon was specifically targeted and so automatically gets sympathy, while the NY Marathon was more of a side casualty that was later (I think unfairly) characterized as profiting off of others' suffering. The BAA benefits from a ton of sympathy that makes it easier for that organization to come across as acting correctly.
Good luck to the runners this w/e.
1st = 3:44 (2010)
5th = 3:04 (2013)
NRC : Read your RR a while back and my first Boston was also my worst race ever with my first walk break at mile 7. I learned a ton from it and wanted a revenge so bad...which I got 12 months later.
BAA : I think the 5000 offsets for NYC '12. I'm voting on all BQs getting in. Traditionally, BQ-5 makes up about 40% of the entrants.
After Patriot's Day, I did a planned 2 weeks of no running, then 2 weeks of light running. So I'm back at it more seriously this week and signed up for the NYC lottery and a half in Sept.
Gpop. Where's home and what takes you to the great northern plain?
For that matter, where is everybody from? I'm on the left coast on the Monterey peninsula where it's never hotter than 65 and March is our best weather month. Think fog. And stationary bike.
NS - that is so orange I got my daily dose of Vitamin C. Thanks.
FB - I'm from the DC area. Was a resident of the city of Washington until about 6 weeks ago, when I moved to the very close in burbs (which are just about as urban as DC). So now I'm a Virginian.
Hey Darkwave, a reverse sprint tri is the shortest of the four standard triathalon distances (sprint, olympic, half-Ironman, and full Ironman). Reverse means that instead of the standard Swim, then Bike, then Run, you do the tri in reverse order, running the 5K first, then Bike the 10-13 miles, and then a few-hundred yards (usually in a pool instead of an open water lake or ocean). This one will be my first. I picked it because it is a sprint distance, and because I get to to the run first (can't imagine trying to cycle and run while dripping wet from the swim).
There are also duathlons which is two of the events.
Jim E., only some of us do the speedwork. The slower runners (they do 5K, 10K, and occasionaly a HM) but they run a 12:ish pace. The three mile run we do at lunchtime they do as a solid 3 mile run. The faster runners do it as speed work sprints and then wait for the slower runners to catch up. This way we all start and finish as a group, and we aren't too far from each other if anyone needs help.
Pepperjack, I'm glad Zuni is all well. I have a coupla dogs that need some dental cleaning, It's just so expensive to put them under. I sometimes see ads for no-anasthesia teeth cleaning, I wonder how well that works...
NickShawn, those Brooks look pretty sharp!!!
darkwave - You were not a Virginian, and now you've become one. Is that possible? Oh wait... Never mind!
puto - Ah.
Kia Ora everyone
NICK I had a look at the new Brooks, I was even less of a fan then my last pair, they do a job on my second toe. The medals look fantastic, mine are in a box under the bed aside from Boston and NYC '12, I gave them to Mum last time I was home. She loves them.
PJ Glad the pooch is ok, will the diet needs change?
FB Happy Birthday mate. Thick Fog eh? Lovely. I'm in Sydney Australia, where it's summer in winter and winter in summer. Even in winter you can still get 80f days, life is tough.
JIM I think it'll almost all those that BQ will get in so I'll go BQ -45 seconds. I still think there will be a bunch who BQ again and I can see many of the charity runners running for cash again add to that some that wont make it. That 5000 could be very much lower, much like the big number (quoted at about the same) who deferred last year wasn't an issue this year. The biggest issue will be the extra number trying to get in.
DW I've had my words about the way NYRR handled their issues last year. They were both differing situations, Mayor Bloomburg being the biggest past, but the way the BAA kept everyone in the loop was the big difference. Also the cash grabbing from NYRR was an issue before Sandy turned up. RE Crazy Catman, he's a special bloke. He gave his kid some cash to start a NZ Ebay/Craigslist and then got very rich when it was sold. He does have a point. Cats are introduced the NZ and do a lot of damage to native bird species, birds are our thing, no mammals are native to our wee islands. Putting a bell on a collar would do a job too, and owners cutting back on unwanted kittens.
RAOUL That's a good plan, wish I was that smart. Good luck with the NYC Lotto
GPOPS Go easy on the Hardee's, maybe a post race thing
Going out for a light run soon, once I get out from under the blanket and Mythbusters is over.
Have a great weekend everybody
darkwave - You were not a Virginian, and now you've become one. Is that possible? Oh wait... Never mind!
Doesn't sound as fun as the traditional path.
Darkwave ~ EZ 200m recovery, so pretty lengthy.
McBen ~ Garmin laps. I did lose count twice.
Raoul ~ Smart plan. I wish I was more disciplined/patient. What did you learn b/c Boston kicked my azz quads and I was in bad shape very early.
PJ ~ Good.
FB ~ Northern Virginia, a bit south/southwest from Darkwave. Originally from NYC. In between: NJ, MD, AL, CO, WA, AZ, Germany, VA (another county south), KS, NC, Seoul, PA (20 years in Army).
4 whole miles today; all at once. Pretty slow too.
FB, I was born/raised in Nashville, TN. Have lived in Marietta, GA (suburb of Atlanta) since 1985.
Western side of Tennessee for me. More cows and cotton than people, and we like it that way
6.4 warm ones this evening @ 8:08
Representing NJ
Was as Air Force brat as a kid, so I've lived everywhere
Pre-Race shout out.
OMR Im the wet black guy in the back of the line.
8 easy tonight, legs are a bit thrashed lately.
First, despite looking at this guy's avitar repeatedly, I never noticed. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
Second, true story: Not long after I joined this group, I saw a post from RDR that must've been plucked. Because in his avi, he most definitely was black. So for the longest time, I assumed RDR was a black guy. It was really confusing the first time I saw a full-size picture of him being, well, the opposite of black.
obligatory hot dog avatar joke...
10 pretty easy this morning. And with that i've hit quadruple digits for the year.
OMR crushed it.
Turned out to be a beautiful day up here. Paced my buddy through 10 miles 5 water stops and 2 potty breaks. Then mile 11 he said he had to take a dump. I ditched him and finished 8 minutes before him. Leg felt good all but a half mile. Time to refuel and then hit the road.
Just a quick drive-by to post results from this morning...I'll type up a race report later...
Time: 1:27:18
54th place overall
4th AG (45-49)
Extremely pleased with this one.
Gpops: I saw 6 black people involved in the actual race this morning, none of whom were you. One was a female HM runner, one was on security detail (or a volunteer), one HM runner who looked to be in his 20s, and the other 2 were leading the FM as I was running back up Broadway Avenue around mile 9. I was going to stick around to try catch you at the finish, but...
Not sure if this was a BOTT effort, but it definitely was a POTT effort...as in "poop on the toilet." I wound up having a bad case of diarrhea after I finished, and spent a lot of post-race time in the bathroom. Then I decided I just needed to head home while I thought I could make it before another "episode"...which I did.
Thanks to everyone for the well wishes, etc. I'll try to get caught up later.
Wow OMR! Congrats! Blazing time!
Oh.. And I am currently from SF East Bay - pretty awesome running weather in the morning all year around...
Time: 1:27:18
54th place overall
4th AG (45-49)
Extremely pleased with this one.
Wow, omar, just wow.
Really impressive result, but you deserve it.
I've gotten runs in on three straight days now, including a 9 miler today. Might go for 10 tomorrow, but it's pretty slow, most of it. Just enjoying it.
Grats again OMR, I saw that HM chick to, passed her twice I believe. Hope the bowels get better
Runbo, nice getting back into groove.
OMR - Well done. I would accept an attack of the runs for a time like that. Shame about not meeting gpops, unless he was one of those guys leading the FM!
I'm British but somehow washed up in the East Bay. Great running.


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PHILADELPHIA— Kyle Kendrick isn't just the bargain of the Philadelphia Phillies' star-studded staff, he's become the ace.
Ryan Howard and Domonic Brown hit solo homers to back Kendrick and the Phillies beat the Miami Marlins 7-2 Thursday night.
Kendrick (3-1) allowed two runs and seven hits in seven innings to earn his ninth straight win against the Marlins, dating to May 28, 2010.
"He did a good job," manager Charlie Manuel said. "They hit some balls hard, but he made pitches when he had to."
Kendrick followed up a three-hitter against the New York Mets with his fifth consecutive solid start. He's outpitched Philadelphia's three aces — Cole Hamels, Roy Halladay and Cliff Lee so far. While they have three Cy Young Awards, a World Series MVP Award and 14 All-Star appearances on their resumes, Kendrick has never won more than 11 games in a season.
But Kendrick has a 2.43 ERA this season and the Phillies are 4-2 in his starts. Hamels, Halladay and Lee are a combined 5-8 with a 4.85 ERA, and the Phillies are 5-13 in their starts.
"I've always kind of expected this," Kendrick said. "It hasn't always been there. Hopefully now I can be consistent every time out. I feel comfortable and confident I can do that."
Kendrick is making $4.5 million this year. Hamels, Halladay and Lee will earn a total of $64.5 million.
He's not just a one-year wonder, either.
Kendrick is 10-5 since returning to the rotation last August.
"In the last two years, he's had a harder workout routine," Manuel said. "He's stronger in the core, his sinker is better velocity-wise and he's improved his command."
Justin Ruggiano hit a solo shot for Miami. Alex Sanabia (2-4) gave up four runs — two earned — and six hits in five innings.
Howard gave the Phillies a 2-1 lead in the fourth when he hit a towering, opposite-field drive that just cleared the left field wall. That temporarily gave him more homers (four) than walks (three). He then got an intentional pass in the fifth and drew another walk in the eighth, his first multiwalk game since Sept. 1 against Atlanta.
Brown lined a shot over the right field fence to tie it at 1 in the second. He had an RBI single in the eighth and finished 3 for 4, his fifth multihit game in the last eight. He's 12 for 31 with two homers and seven RBIs in that span.
"He's got the talent to be a good hitter," Manuel said. "He can not only be a high average hitter, but a power hitter, too."
A pair of unearned runs in the fifth helped the Phillies take a 4-1 lead. Chase Utley drove in a run with a sacrifice fly and Jimmy Rollins scored on a passed ball after reaching on a fielding error by second baseman Donovan Solano.
Juan Pierre walked to start the game and went to second on Solano's single. Pierre swiped third base for his 600th career steal and scored when Placido Polanco grounded into a double play.
"It feels good to be mentioned with guys like that," Pierre said after becoming the eighth player since 1920 to have 1,000 runs, 2,000 hits and 600 steals. "But I really don't feel like I should be mentioned with those guys. It's nice to have played all this time and accomplished something."
Ruggiano hit one out to straightaway center leading off the sixth, cutting the deficit to 4-2.
Notes: Kendrick is 11-3 overall vs. the Marlins. ... The Phillies are 8-3 behind Kendrick, John Lannan and Jonathan Pettibone. ... Phillies CF Ben Revere wasn't in the lineup because of a swollen right ring finger. ... Delmon Young started his first game in right field for the Phillies after DH'ing in Cleveland in his first two games of the season. ... Adeiny Hechavarria was activated from the 15-day disabled list and tripled in the fourth. ... The Marlins called up OF Matt Diaz from triple-A New Orleans. Nick Green was designated for assignment and LHP Brad Hand was optioned to New Orleans. ... Pierre is the ninth-fastest player to reach 600 steals, doing it in 1,907 games. ... Ricky Nolasco (2-2, 3.82) faces Jonathan Pettibone (1-0, 4.35) on Friday night. Nolasco is 8-5 vs. Philadelphia.


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San Bernardino County firefighters came to the 17000 block of Spencer Road at 1:30 a.m. and saw smoke coming from the attic vents. Firefighters cut multiple holes in the roof to vent the blaze in the attic and keep it from spreading.
Firefighters found between 30 and 40 mature marijuana plants in the master bedroom, which had been converted into a cultivation room. A firefighter suffered a minor injury when he touched a live wire from the grow operation's illegal modification of electrical wiring, fire officials said.
The firefighter was not taken to a hospital.
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