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I also did not know he got such a huge contract last year.

The tomatoes are broken down into their individual constituents, then combined in very specific ratios. Once you start sourcing the raw ingredients, he said they weren’t always sure it was a tomato as the source. I was a skin care product manager at the time and was discussing with him our strategies for the ingredient listing on a label when he told me this story. Cosmetics are regulated but there is also room for creative license. Some of our competitors had taken it to unethical extremes and put us in competitive disadvantages. Our customer base was nurses and we were surprised they could be duped so effectively, but then again, why would they have that knowledge? We ended up selling our line to the worst competitor who eventually discontinued our products.

He said there aren't really that many real tomatoes left in the product. An engineer once came to him with a formulary recommendation that provided some benefits (I forget what they were) but would also eliminate the need for any tomatoes. My buddy declined, because he didn't want to go down in history as the product manager responsible for removing the last bit of tomatoes from Heinz ketchup.

than MO and were disappointed we didn't accept. In fact, he added they still wished that had happened. This was in 2021. The AD didn't really know me other than we kept bumping into each other in the Columbia (SC) Marriott, while their MBB team was in town to play South Carolina. He may have been embellishing, but he seemed pretty genuine.

abused all of us with his leaping ability. At 5'11" he was posting up people and getting his elbow near the rim. We were walking off the court when someone finally told me who he was and he would be coming to VT. It was pretty amazing to see him on TV a few years later having alley oop plays run for him at St Johns.

$95k. This strikes me as little to no motivation to do your job well as the financial incentives do not vary. The testing results are good, but it seems likely the demographics are pretty helpful. We ended up sending our kid to private. On his own, he found a school that offered an International Baccalaureate (IB). We got very lucky with him, and my wife was all over his education from the jump. His HS cost us quite a bit, but he did well and the teachers were very good. Everyone, including the parents really cared about the education. This school kicks people out even a few weeks prior to graduation. On the other hand, it was a pretty open campaign headquarters for one party during elections. A friend of ours got into their administration and found almost zero motivation amongst her peers. After being coached to slow down her pace, she left. That part aside, it's a great academic environment. The only other controversy is if your kid had ambitious college plans, they really didn't encourage it. They might be right, but they didn't think kids should be obsessed with getting into the most prestigious schools. Some parents took issue with that.

Here in PA we could get if for 69.95. Actually, you still can, but you have to be at the liquor store within 30 minutes of its opening on the random morning they receive the product. Each store gets two cases 1-2x per month.

He then ran up to the sliding glass door looking ready to come inside, jump all over the furniture and play with our son, who is home for the holidays and a dog favorite. I knew I had to go out with the watering jug and rinse off his leg first. When he saw me coming, he hung his head low in shame, full well knowing the red jug means a good leg rinsing. Well, I must have gotten some water on my hand, as it stuck to the sliding door handle. I looked in the sun room, and there's my wife wiping our spastic dog's leg dry. After finally making eye contact, she gave me that classic "you're an idiot" look. At least I know I have a gift bottle of Blanton's waiting for me this evening. Merry Christmas! ** Edited by pfishe at 12/24/2022, 6:29:39 PM

get a big raise. Smart move for you. We've been here much longer than anticipated, though we got very lucky on property taxes. Our township is the lowest taxing authority within Bucks County by about 1/2. It was shear luck. If we moved our house across the river we'd pay about $15k more in property taxes. Plus more income tax.

service by law. PA has huge gas taxes, and they own all the liquor stores. My wife's best friend is a lawyer who pointed out it's illegal for us to cross state lines to buy our liquor, which we rarely do. I bet she'd have a problem with us buying NJ gas, too. I'm thinking/hoping she's lightened up over the years.

He only told me the story once, which was odd considering he talked nonstop. He took out 3 machine gun nests. When they were finally able to inspect those nests, it turned out they were "manned" by women. He said after that, all his buddies called him a real "lady killer." He was a real character. He seemed to know everyone in VB. He was head of his teamsters union and had leadership roles in the marine alumni association (or whatever it's called). He also used to lecture me on how waking up at noon in the summer, then riding my bike to the beach was not something the marines taught him would work in life. He took being a valuable contributor to his community seriously. He passed a couple years ago. Because of him and the stories my father-in-law (navy) told me about the WWII pacific campaign, I've always loved marines.

nurseries tend to be burnt orange. We are between Philly and NYC.

This one already lost some leaves, but it did pretty well this fall, considering the drought and the young buck going after the trunk. ** Edited by pfishe at 10/25/2022, 1:20:56 PM

We planted these last fall. My wife thought I was crazy, because I told the nursery we wanted Hokie colors in fall, which shouldn't be too hard given our colors. He recommended a sugar maple (burnt orange) and a hybrid maple (chicago maroon), and he pretty much nailed it, though he cautioned it would vary by year. This past summer we had a bad drought, and we had neighbors knocking on our door recommending we water our new trees. Luckily I'm a man with an extra long hose (100 ft). We planted 5 along the common area's tree line, meaning we don't own them but we are the primary beneficiaries.

tony as well. Whenever I drive by, I've never seen a golfer on the course. I suspect it gets lots of play, but it must be highly controlled. You can tell it's unbelievably well maintained. That is one thing I always see in progress: course maintenance and/or improvements. I'm a 15 and wouldn't attempt a course like that. I did get invited to Trenton Golf Club, the one Roebling helped establish. Tiny, hilly greens where it you don't land it right on par 3s, it could roll off the green and 50 yards back toward the tee.

wrote it because his daughter was truly depressed because the world was ending from climate change. It turns out surveys throughout the world show young people believe the hype. In England, 25% show signs of depression related to this belief. Michael has actually received awards for his climate change support. However, he offered very specific insight into how much of the climate reporting is hyperbole and infected with politics. The best mitigation strategy is to improve your economy, and this is from someone who started out his adult life supporting communism. The book I'm reading now is from the Obama Administration's Undersecretary of Science, Stephen Koonin. Amazing credentials. He was charged with assessing the strengths of the climate modeling, and he details why they are very inaccurate. One interesting point he made is the models have realized that clouds formed from ocean-based evaporation are 30x more impactful on our climate than all of human-produced matter. He really takes down his fellow scientists for exaggeration, misleading conclusions and outright terrible science. He names names, but he does it in a very balanced way. He also states clearly things are no way near as dyer as portrayed, yet there are reasonable interventions that some of the well-supported science indicates. His premise is huge public policy decisions need to rely on objective science.

pilot. My dad was career Navy, and he would always reply, "It's a good job if you live." After a few years of this, I finally asked him what he meant by that. He shared just a few stories, and I have never forgotten that conversation. I would have pursued being a pilot anyway, because like most young men, I thought none of that crap would happen to me. I was just more turned off by the # of years it would take to pursue it, before you actually were in a fighter jet.

He’s a life long environmental advocate who now fully supports nuclear. Interesting read on how his thinking evolved, significantly influenced by his teenage daughter’s despondency.

They have a boat ride that's pretty interesting. Amazing, pricey houses all over that lake. We enjoyed the trip so much we looked into what a house might cost and quickly realized we couldn't afford those friends. ;) There was a decent tour of the fort at the south end of the lake. We did a day-trip to Lake Placid. Very much worth the drive. Once you get off the interstate, it's like you are in Colorado.

in my eyebrow, I called my dermatologist at 4:30PM on a Friday. He waited in his downtown Atlanta office for me, because he suspected it was shingles. That was very cool of him to do. The pain progression was impressive, and it resulted in multiple doctors' visits over the next week with infectious disease folks, too. I've gotten the first shingles vaccine, and it sucked. I'm going to double-check whether I need another, given I've already had it. The pharmacist said I did, but dang, I'm getting a second opinion.

years ago. At first I thought I had lucked out. There was an empty seat next to me, and when they did a final count, they went back out and let on someone on stand-by. My luck is normally a sweaty guy who was running to my flight. When this model sat beside me, it seemed my luck was changing -- until she started talking, and talking, and talking. After about 30 minutes, it occurred to me I must be getting older, because my appreciation for this model was fading fast.

hypocritical statements versus actions from both sides of the aisle concerning Saudi Arabia and other despotic regimes. It seems the only rule is you're supposed to say that they are awful despite what our actual policy entails.

through his initial speech about we'll get you going ASAP, he added, "By the way, masks are now optional." Half the plane removed their masks, including me. From all the studies I've read, it's an incredibly low risk environment, and man did it contribute to some asinine behavior -- which I never got either. The rule may suck, but you're on their plane and the rules are known in advance.

saying, "no," but he finally wore me down. Right when I was thinking this isn't Europe, he's going to get me fired, I felt a hand on my shoulder. It was our global VPs. A little later I said thinks for all this. He just nudged me and pointed at those two VPs, who now had pints in front of them.

There's a lesson on there somewhere, I guess. ;)

how much the Navy hated them. Evidently, the first version had a lot of technical problems, which they supposedly fixed, and the concept of being so close to shore and therefore closer to enemy fire doesn't sit too well with those onboard. Cool looking ship though.