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- "So much better in Technicolor.'" - Lois Lane, Lazarus
The Superman Suit is an outfit given by Martha Kent to her adopted son Clark Kent.
Season Three
A fellow classmate of Clark's named Jordan Cross had the ability of precognition. From a single touch, he saw a vision of a fluttering red cape with a yellow S inside of a pentagon on a red cape, surrounded by an endless expanse of space and the stars.
Season Nine
When Clark first encountered Doctor Fate who foresaw his inevitable destiny, Doctor Fate told Clark that his fate was utterly binding and he was of great value who will lead this generation of heroes into a new era of heroism.
After a dream, Clark woke up gasping for air. He looked around confused, and noticed a black box sitting near him in the loft. He opened the attached card which read, "If you choose to stay, Love Mom." He opened the box and lifted it. The red, blue and yellow House of El emblem reflected in his eye in full color.
Season Ten
Lois Lane went to Clark's loft and found the box. She was tempted to peek inside, and quickly gave into the temptation and looked inside. Moving aside the red cape, she saw the House of El symbol in red and yellow on a blue suit, commenting that it was much better than his black and gray suit.
Clark later went to his loft to take the costume and wear it, believing that he had fulfilled his destiny and was the world's greatest hero. As he went to pick it up, the key activated and teleported Clark and the suit to the Fortress of Solitude. There, Jor-El told Clark that he would never be Earth's greatest hero; Clark told Jor-El that he was wrong, but Jor-El went silent and Clark left. Later, it was shown that Jor-El had frozen the suit in a solid ice crystal in the Fortress until Clark was ready to fulfill his destiny.
When Clark was accidentally transported to the future of 2017 by the Legion ring worn by Brainiac 5, he encountered his future self who has become a full-fledged superhero known as Superman. He witnessed his future self fly off to save the city with a red and blue streak trailing behind him in the sky.
When Clark completed his final trial and took flight, Jor-El revealed the suit to Clark, which was given to him by Jonathan Kent. While flying high upwards out of the Fortress, Clark donned the suit and headed straight towards the collapsing Air Force One, adjusting the plane back on course. Through the window, Lois sees Clark in full costume as he acknowledged to her through a simple reassuring gesture that everything will be all right.
Clark then flew towards the approaching Apokolips as it descended to Earth and, with his super strength, pushed it upwards back into space, hurling it far from Earth. For a brief second, Clark observed a safe and secure planet Earth from space.
By the year 2018, Clark has been fully established as the superhero known as Superman. During this time, he continued to live his life as a mild-mannered reporter with his fiancée Lois at the Daily Planet. When a disaster occurred, Clark discarded his civilian attire, revealing his super-suit underneath as he transformed into Superman.
Season Eleven
Six months later, Clark changed his costume. Gone are the red trunks, replaced by a red belt trimmed in gold with a gold buckle.
Blue-gray bands now run lengthwise along his sides from under the arms to his boots. The Mark of El on the cape is now in dark silhouette with all the yellow removed.
Clark explained to Lois that he put lead in the shield of his new suit to protect himself from being shot with Kryptonite bullets.
Superman's belt buckle can also be used as a communication device for Watchtower, and has a holo-computer.
- Season Three: Hereafter
- Season Nine: Absolute Justice, Part 1, Salvation
- Season Ten: Lazarus, Homecoming, Prophecy, Finale, Part 2
- Season Eleven: Guardian, Detective, Haunted, Effigy, Argo, Valkyrie, Olympus, Hollow
- Smallville Miniseries: Titans, Alien, Lantern, Chaos, Continuity
In the Comics
Over the years since his introduction, Superman has had several versions of not only his origins and history, but also the creation of his costume. In some versions, Clark's uniform was normal material that became invulnerable through physical contact with his body, while in others the costume's invulnerability was a result of the fabric itself being from Krypton. However, nearly all versions have had Martha Kent acting as the designer behind the costume, either by her own imagination or through inspiration that she and Clark gained from his Kryptonian heritage.
Most recently, Clark's origins have been retold in Superman: Secret Origin by Geoff Johns, which has been stated as the "definitive" origin story of Superman. Secret Origin combines various aspects of Clark's Silver Age origins while still incorporating various twists from John Byrne's 1986 The Man of Steel mini-series. As a result, Clark's costume origins have also be retold using a combination of each different era, including certain aspects from Mark Waid's 2003 and 2004 Superman: Birthright.
When Clark decided he was going to use his powers to help humanity, Martha creates the costume using the material from the red, yellow and blue blankets baby Kal-El was wrapped in when she and Jonathan found him. Martha does this because she realizes that ordinary clothing isn't durable enough for Clark when he's out there saving lives by using his abilities. Usually his clothes get ripped, shredded, stained, frozen and even burned in the process. The reason Martha uses the material from the blankets to form the suit is because it appears to share the same invulnerability properties as Clark which she had discovered when a small fire had occurred in the attic, Jonathan managed to put out the fire before it had a chance to spread out quickly and engulfed all of their possessions. He then made a startling discovery that Clark's red baby blanket shielded all of Clark's baby items that were wrapped around it, but everything else that wasn't wrapped in one of Clark's blanket was burnt up. Jonathan tells Martha about his discovery and Martha gathers all three blankets and stores them in her chest box for a time she believes they'll come in handy someday. Martha get the inspirational design for the look of the suit from the Kryptonian clothing style she had seen in the holographic imagery coming from the sunstone crystal that houses the entire Kryptonian heritage that Jor-El and Lara had placed in Kal-El's ship for him to learn about his heritage.
With Martha's amazing sewing skills and Clark's heat vision to heat-weld the seams together, the suit begins to take shape. The suit consists of a blue costume complemented by red trunks, red boots and a long, flowing red cape. A yellow belt encircles the waist, and there is a highly stylized insignia of the family crest of the House of El consisting of a large red letter "S" inscribed within a yellow pentagon shield, which is bordered in red emblazoned on the chest. The back of the cape bears the House of El insignia except that this one consists of a yellow letter "S" inscribed within a yellow pentagon shield bordered in yellow. Clark choose not to wear a mask with his hero outfit because he wanted to earn peoples trust and by seeing his face, no one would ever suspect he has something to hide.
In addition to making Clark's Superman suit, when Kara arrives on Earth and decides to follow in the footsteps of her cousin as a superhero, Martha designed a Supergirl costume tailor-made for her as well. Martha also designed a cape specifically for Krypto to wear around his dog collar with the traditional yellow pentagon "S" engraved on the cape. She also made it possible for the cape to be hidden beneath the collar for when Krypto wasn't on duty as the Superdog. It can be assumed that although Superboy (Conner Kent) no longer wears a tradition uniform (instead using a t-shirt and jeans), Martha is responsible for creating his black t-shirts with the S-shield on them.
For a period of time, Clark lost his normal Kryptonian abilities and instead gained electricity-based powers. In order to control these powers and to keep Clark from destroying himself as a result, Lex Luthor and his then-wife, the Contessa, designed a fabric that would contain Superman's then-uncontrollable abilities. Dr. Emil Hamilton had the fabric designed into a blue and white uniform. After donning the costume, Clark flew to the Kent Farm, where he showed it to Martha and Jonathan. Martha, while impressed with the suit, felt it lacked something, and suggested that Clark add an alternate version of the House of El shield, that looks more like a lightning bolt than a letter. Clark would use this suit for a short period, until returning to his standard powers and costume.
In the New 52 universe, Clark once again didn't begin wearing a costume until early adulthood. As a kid he only wearing his cape as well as a blue t-shirt and jeans when he helps people in secret. Becoming Superman before his powers are developed to the point of flight, he wears a cape over jeans and a t-shirt with his emblem which he wears when When he's working for the man on the street, doing every day stuff. Superman travels to the ship to find many alien bottled cities, Kandor included. The alien identifies himself as a being from the planet Colu where he was known as C.O.M.P.U.T.O and on Krypton he was called Brainiac 1.0. He claims that without Superman and the ship that brought him to Earth, his Kryptonian collection is incomplete, and for that he must pass a test: pulling the life support of both the Kandor and Metropolis bottles, he must decide which city to save, using indestructible Kryptonian armor he also preserved. Superman decides on neither and wears the Kryptonian armor (which instantly morphs in the familiar Superman costume and later only wears it when, but when he's facing intergalactic threats as well as when he's with the Justice League, the suit's durability comes in handy, and likewise symbolizes his family, his heritage).In DC's rebirth reboot continuity, The Original version of Superman (Pre-Flashpoint) has returned taken up the reigns after the death of New 52's Kal-El. His new suit is a mixture of the classic elements with an incorporation of his counterparts design. the suit is a one-piece outfit that is cloth fabric instead of armored. The red trunks are gone as well as the Red boots. The Cape once more house the yellow plated House of El insigna upon it. The Belt is red with equipped with a homing beacon and two-way communicator device.
- As an homage to his colors of red and blue, Clark wore a new costume at the end of Shield, which consists of a blue shirt and dark-red leather jacket with an embossed House of El emblem, all shades being similar to the Superman Returns suit. However, the emblem used on this new suit seems to be the traditional \S/ shield, not the sharp, modern updated 3-D version used since 2006. This whole gesture seems to be a nod towards Clark moving on from his dark times after Doomsday and Season Nine, and finally coming into the light to make the final steps to fulfill his destiny.
- In the finale, it is clearly seen that the Superman suit is almost like the traditional suit from the comics that features the classic House of El family crest emblem in yellow embedded into the cape.
- The changes to the Superman costume - from the traditional/Superman Returns-inspired look in Finale, Part 2 to a look similar to the "New 52" style featured in the current DC Comics Superman titles - are explained during the first few chapters of the first arc, Guardian. The main visual changes include the removal of the suit's red trunks, altering the yellow belt to a mostly red counterpart where only the round buckle remains yellow, and the yellow \S/ on the back of the cape now tweaked to a simple black outline. These changes do cause continuity issues with the red trunks and yellow belt being present in Clark's vision for the year 2013, in addition to the yellow \S/ on his cape in the year 2017 (along with Jordan Cross's vision of Kal-El's final fate), thus it remains to be seen if the comics will either return Superman to these traits or ignore the emphasis in the show itself.
- It is unknown what exactly the suit is made of. In the comics, there were two instances. One, where the suit was made of invulnerable Kryptonian fabric from the sheets Lara Lor-Van sent with Clark, and one where it was made of an Earthly material, which becomes invulnerable when it's skin-tight against Clark's skin.
- Clark's costume has two different versions of the S shield. On his torso is the Superman Returns S shield, while on the cape is the classic S, like the one seen on his Blur jacket.
- The suit seen in Season Ten's Lazarus and Finale, Part 2 is the Superman costume worn by Brandon Routh in Superman Returns.[1] In the Smallville universe, however, the major difference is that the suit has the emblem of the House of El on both the chest, and the cape, while the suit seen in Superman Returns only has the symbols on the chest and the belt, and on the soles of the boots.
- Although Tom Welling is seen wearing the upper half of the Superman suit in two rear shots (when checking on Lois in Air Force One) and the climatic shirt-rip by the final reveal of the shield, he never wore the entire suit. Including the mentioned shots, all shots of Superman's suit are CGI. The only exception to the CGI is Tom's face, when the closeup shots of Superman are done.
- Although it appears different on screen, based on continuity, the cape was the one given to Clark by Rachel Davenport.[2] The confusion about the cape has arisen due to many factors; when the suit was in the box, the cape was bright red and made of a fabric, but when Jonathan Kent's spirit handed the suit to Clark, the cape was different (maroon leather) reminiscent of the Returns cape (most likely because the Returns suit is fixed the way it is and cannot be altered). Nevertheless, despite the change in its appearance throughout the show, the origin of the cape remains.
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Science Provides Foundation for Saltwater Fishing Regs
AUSTIN, Texas — It was a warm November evening in 1975 when a Texas Parks and Wildlife Department coastal fisheries crew set the first gill net in Matagorda Bay.
By 6:30 a.m. the next day, biologists faced 3-foot seas and a cold, north wind as they counted and measured their catch.
That event marked the end of fisheries management "by hunch" in Texas.
In the more than three decades since, the TPWD coastal fisheries division has collected more than 20,500 gill net samples and more than 60,000 trawls in bays and the Gulf of Mexico.
Together with thousands of bag seines and oyster dredges and the creel survey program, started in 1974, the data give fisheries biologists a pretty good idea of what's happening in Texas waters.
"Because we have such a long-term database, using the same gear, the same way, over time, we can look and see if there's any change in the population, either in abundance or size structure," said Mark Fisher, Ph.D., TPWD Coastal Fisheries science director .
When the coastal fisheries monitoring program turns up evidence of a declining population — whether from angling pressure or from a natural event, like a freeze or red tide — biologists can propose changes to fishing regulations in an effort to help a species rebound.
According to Fisher, creel surveys — where fisheries technicians and biologists interview anglers about their catches and count and measure what they kept — are not, by themselves, a reliable indicator of a fish population's relative health.
"Sport and commercial fishing is not standardized like our monitoring program, so comparisons between bays and years is not possible, and market forces drive the commercial fishery — not necessarily abundance," Fisher said.
Rule changes don't always act to restrict fishing. The coastal fisheries resource monitoring program also sometimes gives managers grounds for loosening regulations.
Normally, biologists propose regulation changes through an annual regulatory review. After fall resource assessments and a review of recommendations received from various groups throughout the year, proposals are presented to the public for input in a process called "scoping."
If the science shows a rule change is warranted in Texas, it is normally backed-up with a wealth of data. But science and even the scoping and public comment periods aren't the only deciding factors in the rule-making process, Fisher noted.
The department annually conducts angler surveys to better understand behaviors, motivations and attitudes about coastal fisheries issues. By gathering information on both the fish and the fishers (anglers), TPWD attempts to put conservation first while being sensitive to what anglers want and will support.
Fisher gives a frank assessment of how the regulatory review process works.
"Often, in fishing, it's hard to separate science from politics," he said. "We do realize we're affecting people's livelihoods and their favorite pastimes. The human dimension comes into consideration, definitely. The science gives us a solid foundation. Otherwise it becomes one person's opinion over another, and that doesn't work out too well."
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The Martin Luther King Jr. Social Action Committee Inc. (MLK-SAC), Food Lion LLC and Citadel of Hope Christian Fellowship will present the ninth annual MLK Memorial Peace Conference at 2 p.m. April 4 at the Fairway Room at the Springs Golf Course, 1821 Springs Club Road.
The celebration will mark the 44th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This year's theme is "Remaining Hopeful through the Storm."
Because of the tough economy – with rising gas and grocery prices – one local church has made it a mission to make meals more affordable for struggling families in the Lancaster area.
New Horizon Community Church, in conjunction with food marketing company Supreme Sales and Marketing LLC of Braselton, Ga., has launched a new food box program offering groceries at a discount, as a helping hand for those in need.
Come join us Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Tractor Supply Co., 593 S.C. Bypass East (the old Bi-lo) for a day of fun as we showcase the 4-H activities in Lancaster County at the fifth annual Family Fun Day.
Editor's note: The Lancaster News is tracking the progress of Katie Stogner and Jeff Holden as they undertake the Island Sun Tanning and Fitness 12-week Challenge for 2012. Here are their first blogs. You can also follow their progress at stevelewisplan.com.
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It's been two weeks and I still cannot believe I'm actually doing this in front of a camera.
At first, I was really nervous, but now I'm just excited.
The statewide late winter/early spring wildfire season is still about a month away but the S.C. Forestry Commission has launched a safety campaign so those planning to burn can take the appropriate steps.
The seasonal outlook for the next few months indicates an increasing potential for high wildfire activity for most of the Palmetto State.
Although it may not seem like it due to recent rainfall, precipitation amounts for this portion of the Piedmont are already about 1.2 inches below normal.
The American Cancer Society's Relay for Life of Lancaster County gives everyone in the community a chance to help the organization save lives and create a world with less cancer and more birthdays.
Register your team today by visiting RelayForLife.org or by calling 1-800-227-2345.
If you feel like pulling the covers back up or staying home today, don't worry.
You aren't alone. Friday the 13th has a way of doing that.
According to research, as many as 25 percent of the population believe Friday the 13th is a day of calamity.
The fear of Friday the 13th is known as paraskevidekatriphobia ("para-ska-vee-decka-tri-phobia"), which stems from the Greek words for fear, Friday and 13. Friday the 13th happens three times in 2012 – today, April 13 and July 13.
Each year, more than 42.8 million guests step through the gates at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Fla.
That works out to an average of 117,260 visitors per day.
Given that, what are the odds of being pulled from the throngs and selected as grand marshals to lead a parade down Main Street USA at the Magic Kingdom?
Carolyn McDow isn't quite sure, but she said dreams can come true.
Thanks to cyberspace, cell phones, Twitter, and e-mail, reaching someone halfway around the world is almost instantaneous with very little face to face interaction.
There's nothing wrong with using technology to your advantage, but that's not always the way the Rev. T. Edward Kofi, director of African Christians Fellowship International (ACFI) does things. Yes, Kofi has a Facebook page, but he prefers to reach out in love.
Editor's note – The Lancaster News recently asked readers on its Facebook page to share memories on family members who proudly served in the United States military. Here is Mickey R. Hinson Sr.'s story on his dad, the late John Harry Hinson, who died Feb. 16, 2008, at the age of 92.
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While there has been much speculation about the politics, we think there could be more substance than that to Gov. Bobby Jindal's election as head of the Republican Governors Association.
True, it's a very part-time post and one in which politics does matter a great deal. As Jindal himself said, the main political achievement, obviously, is to help elect or re-elect Republican governors in the states. And just as obviously, it does give Jindal a reasonably high-profile job to use to travel around the country on political tasks.
But we have hopes that association with his fellow governors will also rub off in terms of ideas that could fuel useful reforms in state government.
In a time when the states, because of retrenchment in federal spending, face large financial challenges, the GOP governors will have to find a way not only to work with the administration of President Barack Obama, but also to generate ideas or programs that work. Successful ideas are the meat and potatoes of future political successes.
As the governor also observed in his Politico.com interview about the GOP's future, the party must have ideas and proposals — not to mention a track record in the states it controls, such as Louisiana — that can appeal to a national audience in the presidential election of 2016 and further in the future.
A rigid ideological slant in the Jindal administration hasn't always served Louisiana well, in our view, but we are open to ideas that have been tried in other states, and have that track record of success. And success for a governor in Vermont or Massachusetts might be different than that in the South, and Jindal's new job will involve sharing good ideas of whatever provenance with his fellow governors.
At the annual meeting of the Bureau of Governmental Research in New Orleans, conservative columnist Kathleen Parker got a laugh when she recalled her "interview" with Jindal — a blizzard of commentary that she jokingly said left her only with the impression that "he is really smart."
Well, active listening is a part of being smart, too. We hope that the governor can polish those skills in RGA and its related attendance at the events of the bipartisan National Governors Association.


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niceghost wrote:i think this kind of society used to exist. Of course i was not there but through the chinese old movie u can see that. Without police,without laws. To win u must be the strongest. So i think im lucky because im not in that place( im not a spiderman or Jackie Chan)
Lennye if u want to live in such that society, u better pratice your kungfu now
milococosiro wrote:living in a society that had no police, people have to have a sense of civic responsibility.
Xkalibur wrote:LennyTran wrote:I hate police, but I don't think I would prefer a society without them. No security, no life!
Why do you hate them?:roll:
I saw a TV program about the American Police, and they seemed to me very polite. You should be lucky and proud about your police.
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- BSO Case Number: 19-1311-00009
- PIO Number: 13-11-2
- Date: 11/1/2013
- Time: 6:39 a.m.
- Place of Occurrence: Southwest 52 Avenue, just south of Hallandale Beach Blvd., Pembroke Park
- Jurisdiction: Pembroke Park
- Makeda Elliott, 17, female, Pembroke Park
- Unknown
Description of Incident:
A group of teens beginning to gather at a school bus stop were met by gunfire Friday morning in Pembroke Park.
About a dozen teens scrambled as they heard the shots fired just after 6:30 a.m. Makeda Elliott, 17, was walking toward the bus stop when she was grazed in the neck by a bullet. She called her dad to notify him of the incident and her father transported her to Jackson North Medical Center in Dade County. Elliott was then taken to Ryder Trauma Center where she was treated and released.
The shooting happened on Southwest 52 Avenue, south of Hallandale Beach Boulevard and just past Watkins Elementary School. Luckily the elementary school had not yet opened for the school day at the time of the incident.
No one else was injured.
Broward Sheriff's Office Violent Crimes and Crime Scene detectives are investigating.
Anyone who was in the area or has any information about the shooting is asked to contact BSO Violent Crimes Detective Timothy Metz at 954-321-4224 or Broward Crime Stoppers, anonymously, at 954-493-TIPS (8477). A reward of up to $3,000 is available for information leading to an arrest.
- INVESTIGATORS: Dets. Metz & Torres, VCU CID; Crime Scene; Pembroke Park
- THIS REPORT BY: Keyla Concepción/PIO 11/1/13 1635
Posted At: 11/01/2013 04:36 PM
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This is making no sense what you guys are saying. I'd get it if you meant Hill should come off the bench to play the 1/2 but the one dude said Augustin and Hill would be the starting back court.
And what should Collison be playing in this league? Because George Hill stole his starting job.


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As Padres pitchers and catchers reported to Peoria, Ariz., Tuesday for spring training, top team and Time Warner Cable executives met for about an hour in Los Angeles to discuss the TV impasse that blacked out last season's games across much of San Diego County.
Participants are being tight-lipped about what happened and what's next so there's no way to know how many of Time Warner's 185,000 area customers will remain optimistic -- or even remain customers.
Some customers said Thursday they wouldn't wait long before switching to a provider carrying Fox Sports San Diego, and that was before a Time Warner spokesman emailed me this uncompromising statement at 8:30 p.m.
"We were happy to meet with the owners of the Padres, but they were not there to negotiate; the negotiations are handled by Fox," Time Warner spokesman Dennis Johnson wrote. "Our offer of last year to Fox for carriage of the Padres stands."
Every other TV provider in San Diego has already agreed to carry Padres games on Fox Sports San Diego. The channel will air 160 games this year, starting with the team's first on April 1st. All but two Saturday tilts -- on June 8 (at the Rockies) and June 22 (versus the Diamondbacks) -- will be broadcast. So what did the Padres accomplish at Tuesday's meeting, if anything?
Team spokeswoman Sarah Farnsworth called the meeting "cordial and informative" and also "good" but didn't elaborate much beyond that. Baseball-loving Time Warner customers won't be thrilled with the team's apparent lack of progress or the company's rigid stance and may now be wondering what the point of the meeting was.
"Our household, for one, will not spend another season without the Padres broadcasts," one person wrote me. "Time Warner has a month to do the right thing or we are moving to AT&T. (And in case you are interested, even without Fox Sports, TWC has just increased their rates almost $20.00 a month. Just doesn't seem right.....)"
Still, the meeting itself is a step in the right direction after months and months of stalled negotiations between Time Warner and Fox Sports San Diego, which bought the rights to Padres telecasts for 20 years last season and which is one-fifth owned by the Padres.
Here is what Farnsworth emailed me when I asked her about the meeting: "Ron Fowler, Peter Seidler and Tom Garfinkel had a very cordial and informative meeting with TWC leadership. Ensuring all Padres fans have access to Padres games remains a club priority." Fowler and Seidler are co-owners. Garfinkel is the team's CEO.
I had emailed Sarah, Tom and Ron several questions Thursday about the meeting. Her response prompted more questions, as you might imagine.
I wrote back, "Can you share where it was, how long it lasted and who else was there? For instance, I've heard conflicting reports that the mayor was there. Also, what's next?"
She replied: "They drove to LA and it was leadership from TWC New York office. No one else participated in this meeting besides the Padres ownership and Tom. I believe it lasted over an hour. It was a good discussion. They all had never met which is always important."
So there you have it. And you'll have more as I know it. As for my Twitter and Facebook posts Tuesday that I'd heard San Diego Mayor Bob Filner would attend the meeting, that turned out not to be true. I'd heard that from one of my #PadrestothePeople emailers who said the mayor had personally said this past weekend that he was meeting Tuesday with Time Warner and the Padres and that the impasse was on his agenda, as he promised it would be at my rally outside Petco Park this summer.
"He acknowledged his campaign promise and said he would bring pressure to get it resolved," the person wrote me.
Based on that information, I emailed the Mayor's Office daily starting Tuesday for a statement on the meeting. I'll include that exchange below, if for no reason other than it seems kind of funny now given that he wasn't there.
"When it's ended, can I get a statement from the Mayor about his meeting today with the Padres and Time Warner? I'd like to know what he thought of the meeting and what he thinks the future holds. I'd also like to know who specifically was at the meeting from the city, from the team and from the media company; where the meeting was and how long it lasted. Could he also share his thoughts on what he sees as the chances of reaching an agreement, when he thinks one might happen and what his next steps might be, if any.
Many thanks.
As you know, I really appreciate his involvement.
Hearing nothing, I wrote back Wednesday, "Hey guys, Just making sure you saw this request yesterday. Thanks!"
"Hi Matt," came the terse response. "We have it."
"Cheers," I replied. "When should I expect something?"
"I don't know," came the answer.
"Request No. 3." I wrote Thursday morning. "Thanks."
There's no need for another email now, I guess. But that is not the same as saying there's no need for the mayor to get involved.
As I wrote in October:
This disastrous impasse reminds me of the 2002 mess when nearly 3 million New York area Cablevision customers went a full season without the YES Network or Yankees games. That dispute ended the following year, when mediators worked out a deal in Mayor Michael Bloomberg's townhouse with spring training already underway.
Memo to San Diego's next mayor: Clean your house in case you have visitors.
I've emailed this post to the Mayor's Office. We'll see if they respond. Stay tuned, San Diego.
July 5: You are to blame for the Padres TV fiasco
July 14: Can't catch the Padres on TV? Here's my pitch
July 22: Padres fans demand TV coverage at Petco rally
Aug. 1: TV execs start to scramble without Padres on TV
Sept. 1: Hold off on renewing your Padres tickets
Sept. 7: DeMaio, Filner rip Padres TV impasse
Oct. 3: A lame, lost Padres season lurches to a close
Jan. 20: Will Padres TV impasse drag on?


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There was hardly any thought put into this trade. I just really don't like Tinsley, and this trade would excite me.
Tinsley for Earl Boykins, straight up.
Boykins averaged 4 apg this year, and averaged 4.5 apg last year. We don't need a scorer at PG (though he can) and we need a nice exciting backup to AJ. lol thoughts and opinions?


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" Brand: Tesco / Misc House Type: Pen "
Everyone needs a pen from time to time, whether that's for taking phone numbers, addresses, names or even for asking for someones autograph!
These pens are lightweight and can easily slip into a coat or trouser pocket and with the assorted colours of three black, 3 red and 4 blue these would be ideal even for teachers to lend to pesky students who are always stealing them and also make a really good companion for markings due to the inclusion of the red pens.
We always keep a pack of these pens in the glove box of our car along with a notepad for taking things down because we always find that this is the main place where we need one!
However i would like to point out that i have found that one or two of these pens can be a little 'scratchy' on paper if you know what i mean and a couple of them ran out of ink rather quickly, however saying this it could be because of them being kept in the car throughout the winter etc.
The value of these pens is remarkable. Coming in at just 4 pence each (10 pens at 40 pence a pack) these are a bargain! I can't believe how they manage to sell them this cheap.
I can't really give an overall review on how long these last for as i just pick one up but i will say that they are all still working despite the couple of pens that ran out due to the way they are stored (in the car) but i cant really complain at the price of them!
No pens have 'exploded' or leaked on me yet (Touch wood) and they all seem like a good investment especially since you can pay up to £2.00 for a pack of 4 pens which do the same thing, write!
I would definitely recommend that you pick up a few packs of these for your journey if you're going anywhere.
I have lots of grandchildren who tend to nick my good pens to write and draw when they come to visit my home. I am forever looking for my good pens and know where they have landed up, usually in their bags and taken to their home. When I spotted these pens at a cheap price, I decided to buy them for my grandchildren and hide my good pens from their nosey noses.
There are 10 pens in a clear plastic wrapper, there are 3 black, 3 red and 4 blue pens and all of them have removable tops. They are very light to hold and I find they are good enough for my grandchildren to write with them being much lighter than some other pens you can buy. I find I can write with them with no problem but I do prefer a more heavier pen but these pens do serve the purpose really well indeed.
They write a fine line on paper and it can be seen without writing too heavily to see the coloured ink on the paper. The ink flows well from the nib and it does take a couple of times continuing to write with them before the ink flows better but this is what I often find anyway with most pens I buy.
Some of my younger grandchildren have used them for colouring but it does take them quite a while to fully colour whatever they have happened to draw. My older grandchildren have used them for doing their homework which they have brought with them if they have had to do it when they have come directly to my home after school for the weekend. These pens are ideal for general writing on paper for homework.
I was really surprised how well these pens actually work for writing on paper, I have often found myself nicking my grandchildren's pens when I have needed to find a pen fairly quickly to jot down notes while on the telephone.
These are handy little pens and well worth the price indeed. They only cost 40p for 10 pens, I think this is a huge amount of pens and are ideal to stock in the home or to leave a couple in the car to use if you may need to use a pen while out and about or to leave in a bag.
I have no grumbles using these pens, they work well and release the ink from the pens really well indeed. Cheap to buy and handy little pens for the home or for out and about. Once I had tried them and knew how well they worked I went back and bought a few more packs to stock up and readily available for when we lose them.
Very good value for money pens and a good choice of colours for every day usage.
I will buy these again in the future because they are suitable for my grandchildren and myself to use to write on paper. Cannot go wrong buying these value pens and you will be surprised how nice they actually are for the cheap price.
I highly recommend these pens if you are looking for some for your household.
I rate them 5 stars.
When in desperate need of pens the first place to go is your local supermarket but in future i'm going to boycott all cheap "value" pens because I've had enough of these disgraceful things. Their quality is shockingly unacceptable. Quite frankly these are very good sitting in the bin since they aren't very good at being pens.
There's value as in value for money and then there's cheap, the later of which being poorly built, not good value for money and therefore I think, a waste of money. It's a false economy to pay 40p for pens only to put them in the bin and go out and buy the old Bic's or Staedler 430's.
These pens leak everywhere, they don't have a flow control on the end so when you've been scribbling for a while the ink just continues to gush out and form little blobs on the end of the pen. This ink then dries hard and you have to sort of pick it off either with fingers and a bit of water or with tweezers. This ball of ink is a complete waste bear in mind.
Most of the pens break, explode, leak, split and everything in between. In the end I got so sick of them I just binned them and never looked back, even the ones I hadn't used yet because I just couldn't put up with the ink spillage. They are flimsy and if you knock them about a lot they will pretty much explode or leak ink from inside the tube.
The plastic is thick but you can sink your teeth into it and leave marks. The lids are no different. The lids do fit well over the top of each pen and there is a small piece of plastic so you can hook these over the top of a pocket.
These are no bigger or smaller than any other biro's i've had but frankly this is irrelevant, as no matter how neat you write these pens will leak and explode over your documents anyway, a complete waste of time and money.
These pens also leave blobs all over the place because the ink isn't regulated. Sometimes no ink comes out and they stop working followed by a whole drainage of the inside of the pens for no obvious reason other than the fact that they are disgustingly poor quality.
Absolutely disgraceful. Don't buy.
I nearly always use Bic bal point pens but a little while ago I decided to try some Tesco Value Pens as they were a lot cheaper and as I've bought Tesco Value things lots of times before and they have worked out good value for money, I thought I'd give these pens a try.
A pack of ten pens costs only 40p! Unbelievably cheap and really this was the main reason I decided to give them a go. We always seem to 'lose' a lot of pens in our house and whenever I need one I find myself scrabbling around in various drawers and cupboards and unable to find even one. Other times, (when I don't need one) there invariably seems to be loads of them lying about all over the place. The pens are in different colours, namely blue, black and red.
Now, for only 40p for a pack of ten, I wasn't expecting a fanatic quality pen, however, I was expecting them to be about halfway decent. These pens are the most rubbish things I've ever come across. They are shaped to look like the better and more expensive Bic Ball Point pens, though looks is where the similarity ends.
They are not as comfortable to hold as a Bi pen and as soon as you pick one up, it's immediately apparent that the quality is just not the same. They are lightweight, made of flimsy thin plastic and just don't feel 'nice' to hold onto when trying to write.
The ink flow is the worst thing by far about these pens. It's just not there half of the time. When the pen is used for the first time I have to scribble like mad on paper to get the ink to start to come out. I don't really mind having to do this, but I would have hoped that once it had started to flow, that it might be sustained.
The ink comes out in dribs and drabs and I have to re-trace over what I have written loads of time in order to make my writing look legible. I hate having to press down really hard with a pen and as my handwriting is not good at the best of times, these pens make it look so much worse.
We have thrown away all but two of them now. My husband goes mad when he looks for a pen and says he's not using 'one of those ones', as he knows how bad they are.
I'm pleased I only wasted 40p on this pack of pens and glad I didn't spend any more.
Please don't waste your money - they are truly awful.
I mainly buy bic biros when in need of a pen as I mainly write in biros rather than the ink pens I used to love using in school. However I thought it would be nice to just have a few pens lying around quick on hand for when I needed to jot something down whilst on the telephone or in the kitchen etc.
I found tesco sold these value pens for 35-40p. They came in a pack of 10 and had 4 blue pens, 3 black and 3 red. I would have preferred it to have more black pens as I write mainly more in black rather than blue but still the pens should in theory last a while and it shouldn't make much difference.
The pens come wrapped in clear wrapping so you can see them and the packaging does not state much on it apart from that they are biros and medium. On opening the pens and using them I found I had to scribble quite a bit first on paper for the ink to come out, but thought nothing of it as this is standard for pretty much all pens.
I found after a few scribbles the pens worked fine and I could use it like any other biro with no problems with the ink. However after leaving it lying around and picking it up the next time I used it, I just could not get the ink flowing out of it!.. for instance I was on the phone and needing to write a phone number down and I remember it just wouldn't write properly and the ink was not coming out fully for writing a single number. I thought this might of been the post it note I was writing it on, but changed paper and found the same.
In the end I had to pick up a different pen altogether.
I came back to the pens to try them out once more and found it unreliable.. I tried rubbing the pen between my hands and shaking it (does that even work?! but I know we all do it when the pen is not working properly) and when I tried to write a sentence down on paper it would only half write it so that when looking at the written text is was very scratchy and not a solid line. I tried a different colour and found this to be the same so it was not just limited to the black.
I couldn't understand why the first time I used it, it seemed ok but when I went back to it - it just didn't want to write!.. I figured it was because in the first use the pen managed to get some ink out properly but the more you used it the more it didn't want to know lol.
Although the pen is cheap, I wouldn't really recommend it.. I can see the user pinklady1 on here from her past review had a good experience with it and gave the product 5 stars but I think she was just lucky as the most of us who have used these pens have rated them lowly.
I would have to give the product 1 star, it's definitely not one I would re-purchase.. even if I did just get a faulty pack of pens.. but it seems like i'm not the only one! These just didn't seem of good quality and it really wasn't worth the extra effort in trying to write something down with them.
They look fine and like any other standard biro in shape and design, but it is the ink flow that really lets it down.
Thanks for reading :)
(this review may also be on ciao)
Tesco Value Assorted Pens come in a pack of 10 and cost the incredibly low price of 40p. The colour ratio is a bit odd - four blue, three black and three red pens, though my pack actually had two black and four red. Generally with work and filling in forms etc I need to write in black, and keep blue pens for birthday cards and very rarely use red pens - but at the time I figured it was decent value for money at 4p a pen even if I didn't use the reds much or at all.
But unfortunately, much as these pens look like Bic with their barrel style (clear with facets), pen lid style (long and pointy) and colours, they are nothing like Bic. I find Bic biros so easy to write with, long lasting, with a smooth ink flow, and very comfortable to use. The Tesco Value Assorted Pens are the polar opposite of that!
Firstly there is the comfort factor. They're made of a cheaper plastic which is quite brittle and the pens are quite flimsy as a result - after a week in my handbag or in my laptop bag for work, most of them ended up with cracks and shattering / plastic weakness. Not a good start!
Secondly, the ink flow is really poor. They are pretty weak in terms of line definition and often the ink stops flowing altogether even though the barrel is full. You really have to press on to your paper to get even a half decent line out of these and even then it seems to go weaker and stronger within seconds, meaning your writing looks strange and fragmented. Often when filling out a form I have to go over my writing twice which is rather frustrating.
Given that these pens were 4p each you'd think that these niggles would be liveable but they're really not! I hate these pens and whenever I am looking for a pen and I find a stray one of these I keep looking, unless I am really desperate! I keep throwing them away and they keep reappearing, I am sure they are spawning.
Overall I can't recommend these pens whatsoever, they're poor quality, frustrating, and generally annoying, I'll stick to Bic in future, they're worth every penny more! Avoid Tesco Value Assorted Pens, they're an assortment of hassle!!
I bought these pens because late last year I was making up some shoe boxes of goodies to go to a charity which send the boxes out to children in Romania, Ukraine and a few other countries of which are then given to the children at Christmas time. These children live in a poor environment and never receive any presents for Christmas. My friend asked me if I could do a few boxes and pop a few cheap items into them for the children and I was very happy to buy some items for the little children.
The pens come inside a plastic packet which is transparent and very basic looking. No fancy design and just the usual colours of the Value range from Tesco. There are 10 pens in the pack and so quite a lot for the price. There are 4 blue, 3 black and 3 red pens, so a mixture of pens for general use. The stem of each pen is also a transparent plastic and they have a coloured removal top. The tops are very easy to pull off the pen with no problems having to keep on tugging etc. Also the tops can be placed at the bottom of the pen to store and not lose it and it just pushes back into place again after using the pen. I myself don't always do this and just either lose the top or throw it in the recycle bin. They are also very comfortable pens to hold and not flimsy, they don't bend when pressure is used to write with them. They are strong ones to hold.
The nib of them is sharp and the ink flows well onto paper, the ink gives an even line on the paper too, not quite a thicker line as some other pens but adequate enough to see it on the paper. I do find with some of them that I need to scribble on the paper for a few seconds to release the ink flow but it isn't a major issue for myself and I am sure the children will know how to do this when they begin using a pen which doesn't flow well immediately. Not all of the pens need to be used in this way but I do find some branded pens need to be used in the same way to release the ink, so I am happy with the way these write after a few seconds of scribbling. I actually bought 5 packs of these and kept one pack for myself because I am forever losing pens and I need some more. I have found they are not as strong an ink as some other brands but they do the job very well. I can see my writing clear enough on the paper too. I wanted to also test them first before I placed any into the boxes because I didn't want any of the children who receive a box not to be able to write with a good enough pen. These one are really suitable for the children in my opinion. The children need some pens and stationery to use for learning to write etc and these are more than ideal for them to use in my opinion.
I have used the black colour to write on a document which required me to write only in black ink. The black showed up well on the document and clear to see by just writing in the normal way. I have used the red colour to draw circles around my family tree notes on paper. I write in either a blue or black coloured ink but when I am wanting to go back to a name on my family tree I like to be able to see a name I am working on at the time. The red shows also well on the notes. Stands out without having to keep going over the word with the pen.
The blue I just use for general writing and for writing a shopping list etc. All the colours write in exactly the same way, there is no difference at all in the way they appear on the paper. I have used them on normal writing paper and also on cardboard. I think these pens are ideal for older school children who may need some extra pens in a pencil case and to just add a few more in the case, just in case they lose one of their favourite pens. They would most certainly be a quick fix pen for their pencil case in my opinion. Also ideal for just having a few extra pens to jot things down at home.
I am so pleased I bought these pens and kept one pack for myself to use at home. They are more than suitable for the little children to receive in their gift boxes at Christmas time and I am sure they will be delighted when they open their box and see a pack of 10 pens which they will be able to use for quite a while.
They only cost 35p for the pack when I bought them just before Christmas and for this price I think it is an amazingly good value price. The quality of the pens is really good considering they are so cheap. The pens are going strong since I bought them. I would most definitely buy these ones again in the future because they write really well and much better than I expected them to be. Cheap enough to buy for any budget in my opinion and well worth the money.
I do like to do my bit for charity whenever I can and for the little children who have no pens to learn how to write, these pens will help them enormously along the way in my opinion. Bless their little hearts. Just cannot go wrong for 35p.
I am not sure how long these pens will actually last ink wise because mine are all still in use but I'm sure they will last for quite a while before the ink runs out. If I am on the telephone, I often doodle on a piece of paper lol, this is a bad habit I have done for many years and these pens come in handy for my conversations on the phone to pass the time away if someone is boring me a little or nattering on a little lol. They colour the picture or circle I have drawn really well lol.
I highly do recommend these pens for anyone looking for a very cheap set of pens to add to a collection or just to keep handy in a drawer for when they need a pen at home immediately.
Also on Ciao under my username pinky50.
I give these pens 5 stars.
Thank you for reading my review and I hope it has been of some help.
Tesco Value are hit and miss but if I don't give these things a go then I won't know. My son needed pens for school and not being spoiled for choice whilst shopping I grabbed a pack of value. He only writes in black but for 40p for 10 pens I reasoned that at 4p each it didn't matter that there's only 3 blacks as I would use the blue for my jottings. The pack contains 4 blues, 3 blacks and 3 reds- no-one uses red but the kids do sometimes write in red to high light notes.
The pack of pens is simply packaged, just plain plastic wrap. The pack I had was the old red and blue value design and not the new jazzed up Everyday Value packaging. The quality of the casings and lids aren't overly bad- none have snapped during use. The pens are slender white and rounded, no ridges which I prefer to hold except they're abit too thin to hold comfortably, the colour co-ordinated lids fit okay and don't fall off.
How do they perform?
They all seemed to work, just not very well. The nibs are incredibly scratchy and write with a very thin ink line. Lack of ink prevents the pen from writing fluidly. The colour of the ink is poor, which is a big problem when filling out forms which require a black pen, it's just not dark enough. I didn't bother using them up, but my son does alot of writing and for him they didn't last as long as 'proper' pens.
I wouldn't buy these again, in future I'll stick to Home Bargains. I didn't expect much from them and I only grabbed them as we needed them there and then, but for 4p each I can't really complain as they are pens and they do write!!
Product: Value Assorted Pens
Quantity: 10
From: Tesco
Price: 40p
I'm a huge stationary fan with my favourite stationary store being Paperchase. Whilst browsing around various supermarkets I always find myself browsing in the stationary aisle much to my Fiance's amusement.
When shopping in Tesco one evening I was yet again browsing in the stationary aisle and I came across the Tesco Value Assorted Pens. The pens came in a pack of 10 and were priced at just 40p, that makes each pen just 4p, for that price I added them into my shopping trolley along with the weekly shop.
The pens come packaged in a clear see through plastic wrapping. The wrapping as the noticeable Tesco Value blue and red label along with the product title and any other relevant information.
As I mentioned above the pack contains 10 pens; 4 blue, 3 black and 3 red. When opening the packaging and getting to actually feel the pens the first thing I noticed was how thin and cheap the plastic of the pens were. I wasn't expecting great things from the pens afterall they were only 40p but the quality of them really was shocking.
The pens had that scratchy feel to the paper whilst I was writing, the ink was faded and some of the pens didn't even write at all.
I would rather put my 40p towards a pen which I know is going to work and one which I know will last me longer than a few seconds or so. These were that bad that I binned them.
Dooyoo Stars: 1/5
I bought these pens to use as a cheap pen for revision quite a while ago. The pack contains 10 biros. 4 blue coloured ones, 3 black coloured ones and 3 red coloured ones. The packet of 10 biros cost me 40p, making each Biro worth 4p each.
The pens look and feel cheap, with the barrels made of thin plastic, and the lids made out of slightly thicker plastic. My other half stood on one of the pens I had dropped and it didn't just split like other Biros would, it shattered into loads of pieces. Just holding the pens to write, you had to be really careful as the barrel felt extremely brittle.
I was quite realistic in the fact that I knew cheap pens like this would not allow me to write beautifully etc, but I did expect them to actually work! I went to use one of the black pens, and the ink was extremely faded and on the paper looked like the pen was running out. And after a few sentences, the pen did stop working. After shaking it to try and get the ink flowing, it worked again, but the ink was still very faded. The process of the pen working then not working went on and on until I gave up trying to use the cheap pens. Some of the packed did not work at all!
When the Biro did work, the nib was 'scratchy' feeling against the paper and not in the slightest bit smooth, which is what I like in a pen. When I used it on the cheap paper I had bought for my revision, the pen made a few small holes in the pen, where I had to drag it to make it write.
The colours in the pens that did work were faded and not well pigmented at all. The black was the worst in my opinion, and actually this is the most important colour for me, as anything official I write, has to be in black ink.
I would not buy these again, I am all for saving money and buying cheap things like pens, but these do not even work. I would give them 0 stars but that is not an option so they will begrudgingly get 1 star.
If ever there was a false economy then these pens proved the point, you might think you are getting a bargian at only 4p a biro as you get ten of these pens in a pack, four blue, three black and three red pens in total for 40p so they appear to be cheap enough but the old adage "you get what you pay for" certainly rings true with these pans as a quarter of the pens did not work at all and went straight into the bin and those that did were not very nice to write with and did not last that long either.
They are pretty standard pens and are cheaply made, one of them has pratically disintegrated in the meaty hands of my other half when he gripped it too tightly, he was swearing at the time having done something wrong but it was not as if he was applying too much force. I also found the tips to be very severe and with the lack of flow of ink then in a couple of cases the paper got damaged, not a big issue as it was just things like shopping lists but it would have been a lot more annoying if it was a card or an officail form that I was signing or writing on.
The pens that did work ok were acceptable but the ink does not exactly flow and they are a little scratchy feeling. Out of all of them the red ink seemed to have the most depth to it, the balck was a little insipid and the blue pens were the most likely to fail with 50% of them n ot writing at all and one each of the other colours.
Personally these are not worth spending the money on them even if they are very cheap indeed, just think of the damage to the environment products like these cause given all the plastic and the waste of materials used to make them.
I bought this brand of pens once and this made me adamant that I would never buy them again.
First off, build quality.
I am genuinely scared of crushing these pens with my bare hand as I wrote. Either I am unusually strong or these pens are unusually brittle. I would prefer the first to be true but alas, as I spend most of my day at a computer I am sure you can guess the reality towards my strength.
Now to the ink. Actually, what ink?
I swear that they just placed coloured plastic inside some of the pens as they failed to ever write a single word. Most of the time the tips of the pens acted like a knife for my paper.
For the ones that did work, they weren't too bad but then again definitely weren't the best pens I have ever used. These pens do not have the smoothness or glide that other pens have and it feels as it the metal is catching on the paper in some cases when writing. Obviously you cannot expect too much from such cheap pens but your experience with the pens does suffer because of it.
The holder tab on the cap broke off very easily, I do not usually use this anyway but certain people may do and therefore this would be a disadvantage of this pen for them
I'm trying to kick off the new year being all organised and what not, so I was in Tesco and bought some paper, pens, plastic wallets to try and properly organise all my finances such as car insurance, daughter's child trust fund documents and other lovely bills!
Of course, being quite frugal when I spotted this pack of pens for a mere 40p I just thought they were right up my street. The pack is from the now advertised Tesco Everyday range and has 4 blue pens, 2 black pens and 3 red pens. I am not too fussed about writing in blue or black so didn't mind that there were only 2 black pens, but my other half did notice this to be a bit weird! I like the variety of colours though, as it is good to have a mixture of pens as when I am writing as I can't bear to write in one boring colour!
The pens are the usual standard size, made of plastic and have colourful lids to match the pen ink. The lids also have a longer piece so it can sit snugly in the cusp of a pocket. The lids also fit easily on the tip of the pen so they don't get lost during use, but I find somehow I always end up losing the lid anyway! This doesn't pose too much of a problem as even with losing the lid the pen doesn't dry out and can still be used.
Using the pens, they are quite basic hence costing only 4p per pen, and I found the ink didn't print too well and I really have to lean on a wad of paper to get the ink to come out properly. These pens are easy to hold, abut again the ink doesn't last very long and runs out quickly but if I lick the nib it writes a bit better bot sadly not for long!
Overall, these are some basic pens but for a quick jotting down a phone number on a pad of paper they are fine, but if I were essay writing I would avoid these like the plague. At only 4p a pen they are cheap and cheerful but as with a lot of budget products there is a reason why!
As I work as a carer I always have to have a pen but it has to be black, I hate writing in black ink so I use blue ink whenever I use a pen away from work. When I ran out of pens for work I was in Tesco so I decided to try a pack of their pens figuring that they were cheap and had both black and blue in the pack along with red which my daughter would be given as she is forever asking for a pen to practice her writing and it is never to be seen again.
The pens are from the Tesco Value range or the Tesco Everyday range as it is now known, I don't know if the packaging has now been changed sue to the brand chaning but the pack I got were in a see through wrapper with the well know Tesco Value logo in red and blue on a white background.
Inside the pack you get 4 blue pens, 2 black pens and 3 red pens so 10 pens in total and they cost me 40p so 4p per pen which I think is fantastic value. The pens are of standard size and have a see through length with a plastic push on lid on each one showing the relevant colour of the ink, the pen has a long bit attached to the lid so that you could clip it onto your shirt or in my case into the pocket of my uniform so it doesn't fall out.
The pens are not the nicest to use and I find that the writing they produce is very fine and feel like the nib of the pen scratches against the paper. The pens are comfortable to hold but not nice to write with, I am using the black ones for work as they are forever growing legs and walking in the home I work in but I won't be buying them again.
Pens, pens everywhere but never one that works when you need one!! I tend to buy pens all the time but when you need to write down a telephone message, can you ever find a pen?? No! I have a corkboard in the kitchen (supposedly to write shopping lists on when food runs out) the pen kept going missing so I tied a pen onto the board with string, its still gone awol!
Tesco's sell a pack of 10 assorted ball point pens, it is part of their Value range, and they cost 40p and come in the value red, white and blue packaging. There are four blue pens, three black and three red pens. I find that unless you are a teacher or a young girl who draws hearts everywhere, the red pens never get used, they can never be found but I don't remember ever using a red pen for anything. There are four blue pens and three black, I would have thought that black would have been more popular that the blue ones but that's just my opinion. They are made of clear plastic with the lid and end being the colour of the ink inside.
These are your average ball point pens, they have a lid which pops on and off quite easily enough. I did find with these pens that a couple of them didn't work when I got the pack home. The pens that did work, are a little scratchy, which makes writing quite hard and challenging, they also tend to splodge globules of ink out a lot, I find I have to wipe the nib of the pen on tissue or on another piece of paper every fourth or fifth work which just works out quite annoying. I gave some of these to my son to use at school and he had one leak in his bag (which ruined his P.E. Kit and books, and when he tried to actually use another pen it didn't work.
I have always been a fan of Bic pens and will stick to buying them in future as these value pens, are not really that good for value when they don't work a lot of the time, then you can't stop the ink from flowing other times. Too much value, not enough actual working going on here.


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Thorpe's three-hit shutout gives Ducks series win over UW
EUGENE, Ore. - Tommy Thorpe and Jimmie Sherfy combined on a three-hit shutout to lead No. 12 Oregon to a 1-0 win over Washington in Pac-12 Conference baseball action Friday night at PK Park.
Thorpe (4-2) got the win holding the Huskies to three hits in eight innings, while striking out seven and walking three. Sherfy picked up his eighth save getting the Huskies in order, including a pair of strikeouts, in the ninth.
Freshman Josh Graham and sophomore Steven Packard both went 2-for-4 helping Oregon (21-6, 7-1 Pac-12) finish with eight hits. The Ducks clinched the three-game series with the win after beating Washington 5-3 in 10 innings on Thursday night.
Graham put the Ducks on top 1-0 in the bottom of the second. The Roseburg native doubled off the top of the wall with one out and then scored on a squeeze bunt by J.J. Altobelli.
The Ducks looked to add a run in the bottom of the seventh, but Kevin Minjares was thrown out at home plate trying to score on a one-out Tyler Baumgartner ground ball to shortstop Erik Forgione.
Minjares did make a run-saving play at third base in the first inning. The Huskies (6-18, 2-6 Pac-12) had runners at the corners with two outs when Minjares robbed Ryan Wiggins of a RBI double when he dove into foul territory and then threw the Washington catcher out at first from his knees to end the inning.
Austin Voth (3-4) took the loss for Washington despite allowing just one run on seven hits in seven innings. He struck out four and walked two.
The Ducks and Huskies wrap up their three-game series Saturday at 7 p.m. at PK Park. The Pac-12 Networks will televise the game.


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Cant wait to try it! just tried the original orange colored moscato last night and loved it =]
Sutter Home Moscato Goes Pink!
August 24, 2011
| Posted by Megan for Sutter Home
Moscato. Everyone loves this sweet, fun wine. We have been making our Moscato for over 50 years and we recently launched Bubbly Moscato. Now we bring you.....drum roll please....Pink Moscato!
Enjoy the luxurious aromas of creamy white peaches and caramel. Of course those sweet scents are not to be outdone by the luscious passion fruit and honeydew melon flavors. A hint of sweet vanilla makes this a perfect partner for a fresh berry tart.
Watch our fun Sutter Home Pink Moscato video to learn more!


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Wolfgang Weber, the Wine & Spirits Italian Wine Guru, snuck some Movia into the Trinchero barrel room, as an aperitivo. Before long, bloggers Eric Asimov, Tyler Coleman and Alder Yarrow were coming by for a sniff or a sip. Poor Alder, Wolf didn't see him before the bottle was empty. Alder was talking to another symposium attendee, coincidentally about Movia, when they looked down the table and saw a bottle that looked strangely familiar.
Wolfgang also brought a stellar bottle of 2002 Calera Reed Pinot Noir. As if we didn't have enough to drink at the table, with wines supplied by the Napa Valley Vintners. But we wine bloggers are a greedy and avaricious lot. Why have 15 wines when you can have 17?
Earlier in the day one of the seminars was about breaking the news with Cyril Penn, Corie Brown and the venerable Frank Prial. I had just had lunch with Frank and we shared stories about Old Napa Valley, old wines and young Beaujolais. To sit with someone whose writing has recharged me over the years was a righteous treat.
Speaking of treats, the chickpea fries with Romesco sauce at Ubuntu in Napa is right up there for Best of in 2009. Maybe I should do a Best Chickpea Fries post. Something to ponder.
While we're schlepping our Best Of's, the hanging duck and bacon at Koi Palace in Daly City was our Sunday entertainment, as we made our way through the Dim Sum service. San Francisco is a Mecca for Chinese food and Koi Palace is a landmark for dim sum.
We mommy blogged our way through the City on Sunday, stopping in Japan town for some tea and chimes and then finally to Biondivino. Ceri Smith was there with an open bottle of Frappato and a fancy heater-guitar gizmo. Biondivino is a great stop along the Italian wine trail, and Ceri's knowledge of Italian wine is only surpassed by her infectious enthusiasm. There is a future in America for Italian wine and folks like Ceri are the reason.
And of course along with the better angels of our nature we also have to tag the bad boys. Everybody loves the bad boy, and these two are doing their part to make the world a better place for Italian wines. Thanks, gents.
It has been a long day and thus my mommy blog will have to suffice for the time being. More later when I get a breath.


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OSU Mansfield 2013 Student Exhibition
Friday, April 5, 2013
11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Presented By: OSU Mansfield
The annual student exhibition showcases artwork created by students at The Ohio State University Mansfield during the academic year. A variety of mediums and approaches are featured, including ceramics, life drawing, photography, digital imaging, and time-based explorations.
The exhibit will be in the Pearl Conard Art Gallery on the OSU Mansfield Campus. Gallery hours are Monday-Thursday 11:00am-4:00pm and Fridays 11:00am-2:00pm
A public reception will be held Tuesday April 2, 12:30pm-2:00pm
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Our California king snake brumates in the winter months. Visitors to the museum this time of the year may be disappointed that Prometheus is not moving around under the sun lamp in front of the grassland diorama.
Brumation is a reptile's way of hibernation.
He spends his time coiled up in his glass-fronted burrow -- the coldest part of the display. We can usually see his beautiful thick brown bands and alternating creamy white stripes pressed against the glass. He doesn't eat and he doesn't come up for months. This is the behavior of a wild snake -- an adaptation to survive through the winter.
As we don our layers on cold days, and go into our warm homes, take some time to observe, question, and speculate how the wild species around us survive the cold.
There are some fascinating strategies in the natural world.
One of my favorite adaptations to cold is the ice cube frog. Some frogs, including our local Pacific chorus frog, can tolerate a frozen state. Sheltered under debris, in crevices or burrows through the cold season, they can freeze solid. Even the heart stops. With the first warm rains, they thaw out, find their heartbeat and head to a pond to begin their breeding calls.
Large mammals -- mountain lions, bobcats, coyotes and foxes -- rely on thicker winter fur and fat reserves to stay warm, while many small mammals such as our local ground squirrels and bats go into hibernation or a daily torpor.
This involves lowering body temperature and metabolic rate, and slowing breathing to conserve energy.
Deer have an interesting winter adaptation to respond to a change in their diet from grasses and leaves to twigs and bark. They produce and cultivate different digestive enzymes and bacteria for these winter months.
Insects overwinter in different stages -- eggs, larvae, pupae, or as adults -- dependent on the species. Our local monarchs cluster in eucalyptus and cypress through the winter months as adult butterflies.
Grasshoppers will burry their eggs deep underground, whereas many flies overwinter as pupae. Some insects, such as the wooly bear moth caterpillar, avoid freezing by creating a chemical similar to car anti-freeze in their tissues that prevents ice forming.
Warm up in museum this winter and connect with many of our regional native animals. Get involved in the new year.
We're hosting our winter Docent Training Jan. 7-14. Learn local natural history and share that knowledge with others. For details, go to santacruzmuseums.org or call 420-6115.
Keep active, stay warm and we will survive.
Deborah McArthur is the education manager at the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, a nonprofit organization that provides education programs to school groups and the public. Visit www.santacruzmuseums.org.


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Update: Valerie Harper's Cancer 'Close To Remission'
In March I originally found out that actress Valerie Harper had terminal cancer and that she had about 3 months to live. Here it is close to September and Valerie is still alive.
Valerie Harper's rare, terminal brain cancer may be close to remission, the actress' neuro-oncologist revealed exclusively on NBC's Today show Thursday morning.
A recent MRI showed that the Rhoda actress' leptomeningeal carcinomatosis is "pretty close to remission," Dr. Jeremy Rudnick told Meredith Vieira in a sneak peek at an upcoming special about Harper's battle.
That development "defies the odds," Rudnick said, but he cautioned that her condition could change at any time.
"They develop resistance to the therapy," Rudnick said of patients undergoing treatments similar to Harper's. "And it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when."
So what this news really means is that Harper has more time, during which, hopefully, a more effective treatment will come along.
Harper revealed her terminal brain cancer diagnosis in March. Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis is a disease in which cancer cells spread into the membrane surrounding the brain.
Actress Valerie Harper has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and she says that doctors have given her only about three months to live.
Harper says she will try to face her last days with humor and courage. 'I don't think of dying,' she said. 'I think of being here now.'
This is her second bout with cancer. In 2009, she battled lung cancer despite the fact that she was a non-smoker.
In recent years, she has appeared on The Simpsons, Desperate Housewives and Til Death. She also wrote her recent memoir, I, Rhoda.
She won 3 Emmy awards as best supporting actress for her work on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
That work earned her a starring role on her own show, Rhoda, which earned her an Emmy in 1975. After the show ended in 1978, she appeared in several shows and movies, until returning to television for Valerie in 1986.


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Posted on: 30 November, 2016
Competing against choir professionals and more experienced singers, the East Central University Chorale claimed the top prize in the Mixed Choir: Level of Difficulty I category at the Golden State Choral Trophy 2016, an international competition conducted in Monterey, California, Nov. 24-25.
The ECU Chorale vied for the trophy in the finals with four other choirs, two from the United States and two from Poland. Eighteen choirs in all were selected to take part in the festival, representing the Philippines, Croatia, Afghanistan, the Netherlands, Poland and the U.S.
Posted on: 30 November, 2016
Twelve area teachers were recognized for excellence during East Central University's 2016 Marvin Stokes Endowed Lectureship on Nov. 7 in the Estep Multimedia Center of the Bill S. Cole University Center. Pictured with Dr.
Posted on: 29 November, 2016
In an effort to promote excellence in math and science education, East Central University is establishing the Institute for Math and Science Education, thanks to a massive initial donation of $350,000 from Coalgate resident Pauline Lanoy.
Education is vitally important to Lanoy and her late husband Leon. Because of their generous giving, their family name adorns the recently remodeled education building on the ECU campus and the couple have provided funding for a scholarship under their name.
Posted on: 22 November, 2016
The East Central University Jazz Ensemble and Wind Ensemble will be performing a free concert on Thursday, Dec. 1, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ataloa Theatre inside ECU's Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center.
The ECU Jazz Ensemble will be performing Jingle Bells (1857), by James Lord Pierpont and arranged by Ernie Wilkins, Christmas Time is Here (1965), by Vince Guaraldi and arranged by Tom Kubis and Sleigh Ride (1948), by Leroy Anderson and arranged by Harry Connick, Jr.
Posted on: 21 November, 2016
Dr. Rebecca Nicholson-Weir, East Central University assistant professor of English and Languages, was recently awarded the 2016 South Central Modern Language Association Prize for Best Paper in Historical, Literary and/or Cultural Studies.
Her paper was entitled "Time and Place Will Have Their Say: Experimental Narration in Zora Neale Hurston's Dust Tracks on a Road." This essay examines Hurston's autobiography in the context of modernist experimental writing.
Posted on: 16 November, 2016
The East Central University community is mourning the loss of one of its own.
Twenty-year-old nursing student Nisha Karki passed away in the early morning Wednesday, Nov. 16.
It was believed that Karki had a pre-existing condition.
"This is a tragic loss for the ECU community. Our thoughts remain with Nisha's family and friends," said ECU President John R. Hargrave.
Posted on: 15 November, 2016
OKLAHOMA CITY – The Regional University System of Oklahoma is conducting a national search for the ninth president of East Central University located in Ada, Oklahoma. The board invites nominations and applications from qualified candidates who have a proven leadership in developing and executing a vision of academic excellence.
Posted on: 11 November, 2016
ECU SCREENS continues its season with the fastest-selling production in British theatre history: "Hamlet," starring Benedict Cumberbatch, at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16, in the Raymond J. Estep Multimedia Center of East Central University's Bill S. Cole University Center.
Open to the public, the screening is $5 for students and $10 for members of the community.


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SAN FRANCISCO — After more than six years of planning, the San Francisco Wholesale Produce Market in mid-September signed the paperwork needed to start a major expansion project that will ultimately enlarge it by 60%.
Many of the market vendors, who are bursting at the seams, said they can't wait for the additional space.
"It's going to be good, but it's going to take too long to get done, said a smiling David Camarda, a co-owner of North Bay Produce. "It's like they can't rebuild it fast enough."
Scott Salisbury, a produce industry veteran and partner in S&L Wholesale Produce, said the market expansion proposal also brought people together.
"We focused on a common good," he said. "Merchants have always been very supportive of the market, which I think is an anomaly to this market. It gives us a chance to gather as a group, as merchants, and make decisions and look at really how things will affect this market."
New facilities should draw new customers and new vendors to the market, Salisbury said.
Stanley Corriea Jr., president of Stanley Produce Co. Inc. and president of the merchant association, said he's among the tenants with too little space.
But it's a good problem since it reflects on a thriving business, he said. In fact, Corriea runs his wholesale business out of one stall and his delivery business out of a stall further down the dock.
Jack Pizza, owner of Washington Vegetable Co. and past merchant association chief financial officer, pointed to the market's vibrancy as the impetus behind the expansion.
"This market's doing really well right now," he said. "I think we have some forward thinking merchants as far as the product lines they carry. I think we're very customer friendly. We need to make sure the customer has a good experience getting in and out of here fast."
Pizza, who said he was in the process of obtaining food safety certification, said more modern facilities should make complying easier.
Bob Pizza, owner of What A Tomato Produce Co., said the expansion also should better position the 138-year-old market for the future.
"All of the bigger wholesalers down here do need more space," he said. "If it all goes the way it's supposed to, we should be good for the next 50 years or so."
Construction set to begin
The three-phase project will ultimately add 200,000 square feet to the market's existing 300,000-square-foot footprint, said Michael Janis, market general manager. It also will rebuild and modernize existing structures as well as reroute a street that currently cuts the market in half and creates safety issues.
The first phase will involve constructing an 86,000-square-foot two-story building with closed docks that will be built to LEED gold standards — one of the top rankings for environmentally friendly construction.
Janis said he expected the building, valued in the low $20 millions, to be completed in 10 to 12 months.
The market also has undergone what he referred to as "retenanting." Tenants signed new leases this spring and some requested new locations that offered larger spaces.
VegiWorks Inc., for example, plans to leave its 12,500-square-foot facility in October and move across Jerrold Avenue into Earl's Organic Produce's former 20,000-square-foot building. Earl's is moving next door into an even larger facility that opened up when Whole Foods sought a much larger building off the market.
The last time the market expanded was in 2000, when the Earl's/Whole Foods building was built.
"We've been able to really draw upon that experience," Janis said. "There are very few things we would do differently."
Public investment
He also credited city and county leaders for support of the project. The city and county own the land on which the market sit as well as the lot destined for the new building. The two entities last year signed a 60-year lease with the market. The market's old 50-year lease was set to expire this year.
Without having that type of long-term commitment, Janis the market would not have been able to obtain the necessary financing and proceed with such an expansive project.
"It shows that San Francisco sees the value of the market," Janis said. "They see the economic contributions we make. They see the importance that the market plays in the food economy."
Under the plan, money put aside from rents will be used for initial construction expenses. The market will borrow the remainder, using rent revenue to repay the loan.
The improvement plan is being guided by a newly created governing board, a third of which is merchants. Remaining members come from other nonprofit groups or are volunteer members selected for their individual expertise, such as branding.


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Hear ye, hear ye! Do you long for a sketch revue set in an age with more chivalry and less in-door plumbing? Forsooth! Who doesn't? Come enjoy a night of courtly ruckus filed with sketches about such foreign and non-contemporary issues as economic instability, wartime anxiety, and women's rights. And singing jesters.
Starring Emily Anderson, Robert Bacon, Neil Jacobsen, Marie Maloney, Carley Moseley, and Eric Oren.
Directed by Monique Madrid.
Created by Bryan Berrey.
Performance Dates: Fridays, 11:59pm, November 16, 23, 30, December 7, 14, 21
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The Tastiest Home You'll Ever Build: How to Make A Full-Size Gingerbread HouseDavid Cross in Novelty Real Estate • 1 comment Dec 9, 2013
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Astros showcase top prospects against Mets
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Astros manager Bo Porter gave most of his regular players the day off Wednesday after the team arrived home late Tuesday following a game in Tampa. That also allowed Porter to bring several of the team's top prospects to Tradition Field to face the Mets.
Eighteen-year-old shortstop Carlos Correa, last year's No. 1 overall pick in the First-Year Player Draft, and first baseman Jonathan Singleton, the team's No. 1 prospect according to MLB.com, joined outfielder George Springer in the lineup against the Mets. Correa singled in his first at-bat and stole second base.
"It's always a big thrill and a special opportunity to not only start, but to just go out and play," Springer said.
Springer, the team's first-round pick in 2011, is likely headed to Double-A Corpus Christi to start the season. He played most of last year at Class A Lancaster and got his feet wet at Corpus Christi at the end of the season.
"From the at-bats I got, I know how it's going to be," he said. "I got to face the same stuff out in the [Arizona] Fall League, and I know what I'm getting myself into. Being here and being in camp with the Triple-A guys has prepared me for it."
Second baseman Delino DeShields, who was named the club's Minor League Player of the Year after stealing 101 bases last year, is likely headed to Lancaster after nearly two full seasons at Class A Lexington.
"I've been working my butt off trying to make a team," he said. "It's not where you start, it's where you finish. I'm going to do what I did last year and see where I end up."
DeShields and Singleton will leave on the charter with the Major League club on Thursday and will play in this weekend's exhibition games at Minute Maid Park against the Cubs.
"I'm pretty excited to travel with the team and get a good feeling for what that's going to be like," DeShields said. "Getting to play in that stadium, it's going to be a really good feeling. It just means they're looking at us, they're watching us and they're excited for the future. I'm just happy to be out there."
Brian McTaggart is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, Tag's Lines. Follow @brianmctaggart on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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I'm trying something new this year. Every season there are a large number of players that suffer a season ending injury. I'd like to use this thread as a sort of injury tracker. When news comes out that a certain player is out for the year, let's list the player and any article regarding the injury here.
Unfortunately, our first victim is none other than a popular player on this forum:
Carl Landry - Torn Hip Flexor
Kings' Landry to have surgery for torn hip flexor
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Kings' Landry to have surgery for torn hip flexor
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Sacramento Kings power forward Carl Landry will have hip surgery Tuesday and probably miss much of the season.
Landry tore a left hip flexor muscle during a recent practice and is expected to miss three to four months. The team said Monday that Dr. William Meyers of Philadelphia will operate.
Landry signed a $26 million, four-year contract in July. He averaged 10.8 points and six rebounds in 23.2 minutes off the bench to help the Golden State Warriors reach the second round of the playoffs last season.
He opted out of the final year of his two-year, $8 million deal with Golden State last month to become a free agent.


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With the demand for locally grown produce on the rise, small-scale growers are starting to move up the ladder a bit in response to the need for more supply.
"We have seen farmers that sell at a farmers market or farm stand increasing their production with the goal to get into food chain stores," said Mark Powell, chief of marketing and agribusiness development for the Maryland Department of Agriculture.
Powell said he expects to see other farmers follow in that pattern.
"I think we'll see some smaller farmers get bigger," he said.
Bill Walker, agriculture marketing specialist, New Jersey Department of Agriculture, said he also has seen smaller growing operations increasing in size and produce offerings.
"I see people taking input from customers and maybe planting some new crops or varieties in addition to adding acreage," Walker said.
These increases also work the other way.
In New Jersey, where there are several food desert areas, Walker has seen some of the state's larger producers participate in farmers markets in addition to the wholesale or retail markets.
This helps provide local produce in other areas.
Kathy Means, vice president of public affairs for the Produce Marketing Association, said it's possible for smaller-scale growers to move up although it isn't a given.
"For one thing, land limitations can be restricting. There's only so much land available, so they'll have to be more productive on their current acres or stay the same size," Means said.
In addition, not all growers are likely ready to make the jump to a larger-scale operation.
"If they have succeeded up to this point, they are fairly good business folks, so they'll try to assess the market and see if it makes sense," Powell said.
Of course, local isn't the only answer for produce.
"In a lot of areas, local can't be the solution. For instance, I can't imagine life without bananas, and those can't be grown locally, although consumers may not understand that," Means said.
Moreover, local seasons often can't supply year-round supplies.
"Local isn't going to supply the year-round supply you want. It may supply a lot, but to eat half of our plates in fruits and vegetables we need a global supply chain," Means said.


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Farmers and others in agriculture are watching Environmental Protection Agency's actions associated with the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Specifically the attention is focused on regulations pertaining to Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) for the East Coast watershed.
The reason it's garnering attention in the Midwest and elsewhere is that EPA's actions toward the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, could be a warm up for a future focus on the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes. Among the concerns is that EPA's TMDL model is flawed and will create another regulatory burden on states, rural communities and agriculture/food production.
"The TMDL is what EPA calls a 'pollution diet.' It's a firm limit on the amount of nitrogen, phosphorous and sediment that can be discharged into the bay," says Glenn Thompson (R-Penn.) and member of the House Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.
Six states are in the Bay's watershed, and officials in several are concerned about the EPA's process of developing the estimates for required reductions. In fact, there are additional concerns that EPA may disregard the states' plans and impose costly additional limits.
"Agriculture is one of the top industries in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed and has been disproportionately affected during the cleanup process so far," Thompson notes. "Restoring and maintaining the health of the Bay is a worthwhile pursuit, but EPA must be fair and realistic with this process."
To hear more from Thompson's discussion on the U.S. House broadcast of The Ag Minute, click here.


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