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So Mrs Epa and I went to the Donald Trump Rally in Bgr
Empty seats were only below, behind and in the corners of the TV/Press stand which totally obscured views
Protestors - 8 in 3 groups who stood up, yelled (frankly in a good natured way), and were quickly escorted out to Trump stating we had the nicest protestors in the nation. We saw ONE group of 3-5 people outside with Hillary t shirts, laughing and pointing at themselves. TV showed some group (5-10) with the Trump/Racist/HATER meme.
Trump's Stump - 90% of what he talked about was jobs and the economy, and trade. He was VERY effective rebutting the criticism of the Chamber of Commerce, 'what,… are they against better trade deals for the US?'
He had a list of what he would do or trade which was relatively specific, INCLUDING the promise that if Mexico and Canada rejected renegotiating NAFTA, he would being the withdrawal process.
He had a list of acts on how to end Chinese currency manipulation, cyber thefts of intellectual property etc, and INSISTED that China was NOT engaged in free trade.
He stated over and over he had NOTHING against the Mexican or Chinese govt, but against OURS for being incompetent, corrupt or both.
He mentioned the WALL, ONCE about 85% of the way thru the talk.
He mentioned military power was there to be a deterrent/respected not to PUSH THE BUTTON.
He outined the commonality in his observations and Bernie's
Other than that, his talk was about the American economy recovering through industries MAKING THINGS here. He returned to this over and over and over.
The crowd was WAAAAAAY younger than we expected.


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'This Week' Transcript: Economic Roundtable
Google's Eric Schmidt, FedEx CEO Fred Smith, Rep. Barney Frank & Sen. Jim DeMint
Feb. 1, 2009 -- ABC'S "THIS WEEK WITH GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS" FEBRUARY 1, 2009
STEPHANOPOULOS: Good morning, and welcome to "This Week."
The economy dives.
OBAMA: This is a continuing disaster for America's working families.
STEPHANOPOULOS: In the headlines this week, 5 million jobless claims, more than 100,000 jobs lost, the weakest economy since 1982. But does President Obama have the right fix?
(UNKNOWN): A trillion dollars is a terrible thing to waste.
STEPHANOPOULOS: That debate this morning on a special economic roundtable, with two of the country's leading CEOs and two members of Congress at the center of the action.
Then, will a faltering economy weaken us abroad? An in-depth look at that challenge and all the week's politics with George Will, Martha Raddatz, David Sanger of the New York Times, and Bob Woodward of the Washington Post.
And, as always, the Sunday funnies.
JAY LENO, TALK SHOW HOST: Starbucks announced today they're laying off 1,000 workers and could close more stores. Yes, they say, by the year end, experts predict we could be down to just two Starbucks on every corner.
ANNOUNCER: From the heart of the nation's capital, "This Week" with ABC News chief Washington correspondent George Stephanopoulos, live from the Newseum on Pennsylvania Avenue.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Hello again.
The lead story in today's New York Times magazine says that, for the first time in more than 70 years, the epicenter of the American economy is not Wall Street, not Silicon Valley, not the industrial Midwest, but right here in Washington.
No doubt that's a debatable proposition, but there's also no question that the decisions made by President Obama and Congress in these next few days and weeks will determine how and when the country recovers from our worst recession in memory.
We've assembled a plugged-in and opinionated panel this morning to debate those decisions. I'm joined by Republican Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina, Fred Smith, the chairman and CEO of Federal Express, Congressman Barney Frank, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, and Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google.
Welcome to all of you. And we do have a lot to cover this week.
And, Senator DeMint, let me begin with the stimulus package, because I think you've called the president's plan the worst plan since the 16th Amendment paved the way for the income tax. But polls show that a majority of Americans actually support what the president's trying to do. What are they missing?
DEMINT: Well, I think all of us support the fact that we need to do something. And all of us believe that the way to move our economy forward and protect jobs is to infuse more money so that consumers have more to spend, businesses have more to invest, buy capital equipment.
But there are two ways to do that, George. One is for the government to take it out of the private sector through taxes and then decide where it's going to go through political manipulation, as they've done in the House. The other is just to leave more money in the private sector for consumers to spend and businesses to invest.
And that's the American way. And that's -- that's the approach we're pushing. Unemployment is...
STEPHANOPOULOS: All tax cuts? No increases of spending of any kind? Yet more economists say that investments -- the right kind of investments create more jobs than tax cuts.
DEMINT: Well, I'm not sure what economists you're talking to, but we've met with a lot of them over the last week. You can look back in history, and leaving more money in the economy through tax cuts is the way that works. And government spending is -- you can see little bumps.
But this plan is a spending plan. It's not a stimulus plan. It's temporary, and it's wasteful. And a lot of the spending is going to end up being permanent, George.
So we have to decide if we want to be a free-market economy and let -- and let the money stay there or if we want to be a government- directed economy, which is where we're headed with this plan.
STEPHANOPOULOS: You voted for the package?
FRANK: I did. And the -- I regret Senator DeMint saying that this is the American way. Let's -- let's just agree that we're all Americans here, Jim, and that nobody's got the American way versus presumably the non-American way.
And as far as spending versus tax cuts, I think we need to fix some highways and bridges. I never saw a tax cut fix a bridge. I never saw a tax cut give us more public transportation. The fact is, we need a mix.
We need -- and I think we've suffered from an extremism in this country in the past of relying only on private-sector activity and having too little government. It's possible to have too much government, no question. But it's possible to have too little. And some parts of this stimulus -- extending unemployment benefits, helping with food stamps -- you know, we have two purposes here. One is to stimulate the overall economy. The other is to go to the aid of some people who, through no fault of their own, have been damaged. You can't just look at the aggregates.
I think we've gotten in trouble by looking only at the aggregates. If the GDP goes up but income inequality greatly increases and a lot of average workers are feeling put upon, it's a problem.
But I want to see some improvement in our transportation structure. I'd like to see some improvement in education. We have state governments laying people off, cities being told they're going to have to lay off firefighters. A tax cut isn't going to keep the city of New Bedford...
STEPHANOPOULOS: Those are all the broad...
FRANK: ... from laying off firefighters.
STEPHANOPOULOS: You mentioned a lot of the programs, yet one of the criticisms the House plan has gotten is it also includes a lot of spending for things that don't seem to be stimulative, contraception, things like that.
FRANK: Well, you have some -- well, one, I thought, contraception was out of the bill. I guess the people resented the fact that it was out of the bill.
There is some money now I guess to fight sexually transmitted diseases. Those are jobs. By the way, very few people volunteer to fight sexually transmitted diseases. They get paid to do it.
FRANK: And if all you do is construction, you're providing employment to one sector of the economy, but not others. But, yes, we are telling the city of New Bedford, which I represent, that if we give them money, if we pick up a bigger share of Medicaid through government spending, then we'll lay off firefighters, then we'll lay off police officers and health workers. And I don't see how a tax cut is going to keep firefighters at work in New Bedford.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Mr. Smith, your company depends a lot on -- on a healthy infrastructure in this country. And it does -- we -- estimates I've seen are about a $2.2 trillion gap between what we have and what we need.
SMITH: No question about it. The -- the infrastructure of the country has been underfunded for a long time. It certainly would be a wise thing to -- to invest in all kinds of infrastructure, including advanced electrical grids, or I.T., and electrify the short-haul personal transportation system.
But in -- in our view, after you take care of the folks who have been adversely affected by the economy -- I agree with Chairman Franks on that -- you've got to understand that the reason we've gotten into this problem is because for years the tax code has favored the financial sector to the detriment of the industrial sector. And by industrial sector, I'm talking about big service companies like FedEx, manufacturers, I.T. companies, agriculture, mining.
When interest is deductible, the government is subsidizing speculation and debt, where capital investment is taxed cumulatively -- and if there were one thing that in the tax code that could be changed that I'd recommend to Senator DeMint and Chairman Franks, it would be to allow industrial companies to write off or expense capital investment and software when the investment is made.
STEPHANOPOULOS: That was not included in the president's plan. Do you agree with that?
SCHMIDT: I do. The business community needs action now. There's a sense that things are getting worse. People are saying the March quarter or the June quarter are going to be particularly difficult in business. It's time for government action.
There are plenty of cases where directed spending does help things to happen more quickly. The stimulus package is -- most of the money, actually, goes to reasonably short-term things in education, state relief, various other things that help people in the very short term.
Some combination of all that money has got to get out now to get people going again.
STEPHANOPOULOS: One of the most controversial aspects of this new plan are so-called buy-America provisions. The House bill, I think, requires that iron and steel be bought from the United States. The Senate bill may expand on all of that.
The administration appears to be of two minds. Watch this.
BIDEN: I think it's legitimate to have some portions of buy- American in it.
GIBBS: The administration is reviewing that provision. It understands all of the concerns that have been heard not only in this room, but in newspapers produced both up north and down south.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Hasn't reached a final decision.
FRANK: Looks like one-and-a-half a mind.
STEPHANOPOULOS: One-and-a-half mind. That's sort of -- they're trying to figure out where they're going to be.
And I want to bring this to you, Mr. Smith, because I know you're a strong opponent of these buy-America provisions. Yet when you've got the industrial Midwest at 45 percent capacity, 40 percent of the people working in steel companies and other manufacturers laid off, why isn't this the right thing to do?
SMITH: Well, the reason it's not the right thing to do is that the growth of global trade has been enormously beneficial to the United States. The problem with trade is that the benefits are diffused and the pain is localized. But the benefits of having a global economy have created an export sector in this country that provides our highest-paying jobs.
So you listed there the companies and the people that have been adversely affected. That's why I started off by saying the first thing that the Congress should do is take care of those people who are dislocated, but there are lots of people who are dislocated because of technology.
And I was growing up, there were a lot of people that were telephone operators. Those jobs all went away. You don't have the same argument about the loss of those kinds of jobs. It's only when it comes to trade.
If the Congress passes this buy-American provision, I can assure you -- and we operate in 220-some-odd countries around the world and are a huge part of the import-export infrastructure of the United States, we will get retaliation, and it will be American jobs at risk.
FRANK: Well, I -- I -- let me just say, by the way, on the tax code, if I could. I would very much like to see that. And I think you can do that in a revenue-neutral way.
I voted to raise the tax on so-called carried interest for hedge funds. And I think we have undertaxed some of the financial manipulation, and I would be for a package that would shift that. So I appreciate it, and I think it can be done in -- in a way that -- that is not going to increase the deficit and is stimulative.
FRANK: Beyond that, ideally, I agree with Mr. Smith, but people need to understand, I don't think there has ever been in American history -- certainly not in my memory -- a greater split between the opinion of people you would describe as the elites in the economy and the academy, et cetera, and the average American.
The fact is that the average American feels that, even when there was growth, he and she wasn't getting a piece of it. And I appreciate you saying, Fred, that we need to take care of the people dislocated, but you have to broaden it.
I will tell you, I believe, until you get a better social safety net, actions that you're not going to like are going to continue. And let me give you an example.
We were passing a bill in the House to say that we want very different rules on the TARP program, the -- the economic rescue program. And Congresswoman Sue Myrick, a Republican from North Carolina, offered an amendment that said no country -- no company receiving any financial help under this can do any outsourcing of customer service.
And that passed unanimously. Nobody wanted to vote on it; nobody wanted to vote against it.
I understand the logic there. And I just read in Great Britain there were riots now because the British workers are saying, "Don't have Italian workers," violating European Union rules.
But until the country does a better job of -- and you've said it very well. There's localized pain, diffused benefits. Until you relieve the localized pain better, the average American will block things like trade, like outsourcing that you think we ought to do.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Is that a bargain you could sign on to?
SMITH: Yes, but do it for a period of time. Somehow the government only does permanent things. This whole stimulus discussion is about a two-year period. Let's get the government, the one source of real liquidity, to help people get going again.
America's an amazing country. We have tremendous innovation. We have all sorts of new ideas, people just waiting to get new products out. Their customers are not buying, because they cannot get loans. They're getting laid off. Let's get that behind us. You'd much rather be in America than, for example, in Europe, where it will take 10 years to work this through. We can do this very quickly, get to the other side of this, and get back to business.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Do we have a deal here?
DEMINT: Well, the quickest way to -- to get money in the economy is not to take it out in the first place. And it's interesting, as we talk, like buy-American. We all -- we all want to buy American.
But then we have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. We've got a regulatory system that makes us less competitive. So we -- we actually put these people out of work, ship jobs overseas with bad policy, and then we want to put our hand up and stop our imports from coming in.
And this is a government-managed economy which doesn't work. It's inefficient. We obviously have to help people. But the quickest way to get a stimulus is -- is not to be taking so much money out of the economy, for particularly what Fred is -- is saying.
If we could expense -- if companies like FedEx could expense buying an airplane immediately, instead of over a number of years, a lot of companies would make those capital equipment purchases now rather than waiting.
And so it really comes down to a basic argument: Do you want a government-directed plan or do you want the free markets to work?
FRANK: Well, yes, I do want -- I want highways. I want better medical care for people laid off. This notion -- and the one thing I would most disagree with is you say we overregulated. It was the complete absence of regulation in the financial area that led to the crisis we're in today.
DEMINT: It was bad policy.
FRANK: Jim, can I please?
DEMINT: OK, sure.
FRANK: The policy was, yes, to put no restrictions on people outside the banking system who are extending themselves in the financial area into instruments which they couldn't back up. It was even within the banking system, letting people go with things that were off the balance sheet.
The complete absence of regulation in the financial area has, I think, been a disaster. And I think we're back to where we were when Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson stepped in or Franklin Roosevelt.
But beyond that, the notion that everything is solved by a tax cut, of course there are sensible tax policies you could have. But there are public needs we have in this society...
DEMINT: Sure.
FRANK: ... that cannot be accomplished by a tax cut. No tax cut builds a road. No tax cut puts a cop on the street. No tax cut educates a child in -- in the way that it ought to be done.
So this -- only tax cuts, at a time when I think we have a deficiency in some areas that are important for the quality of our life is a big disagreement.
DEMINT: But, George, we -- we have programs. I mean, we're reauthorizing our highway bill this year.
FRANK: At too low a level.
DEMINT: And -- well -- well, let's talk about making it a higher level, but let's don't say it's a stimulus when it's a government spending plan. And all of these things, the needs in our society, education, these are things we debate every year.
FRANK: Spending can be stimulus. I don't understand what you think stimulus is.
DEMINT: But this is the largest spending bill in history, and we're trying to call it a stimulus when it's just doing the things that...
FRANK: Well, let me tell you what I think is the largest...
DEMINT: ... you wanted to do anyway.
FRANK: The largest spending bill in history is going to turn out to be the war in Iraq. And one of the things, if we're going to talk about spending, I don't -- I have a problem when we leave out that extraordinarily expensive, damaging war in Iraq, which has caused much more harm than good, in my judgment.
And I don't understand why, from some of my conservative friends, building a road, building a school, helping somebody get health care, that's -- that's wasteful spending, but that war in Iraq, which is going to cost us over $1 trillion before we're through -- yes, I wish we hadn't have done that. We'd have been in a lot better shape fiscally.
STEPHANOPOULOS: That is a whole another show, so I'm going to...
FRANK: That's the problem. The problem is that we look at spending and say, "Oh, don't spend on highways. Don't spend on health care. But let's build Cold War weapons to defeat the Soviet Union when we don't need them. Let's have hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars going to the military without a check." Unless everything's on the table, then you're going to have a disproportionate hit in some places.
STEPHANOPOULOS: There is also about $1 trillion to be spent on the banks, maybe even more, coming up in the next several weeks. And one of the hot-button issues there -- and you talk about this populist anger -- has been over whether the bankers are benefiting at the expense of the taxpayers.
And Senator Claire McCaskill took to the floor of the Senate this week. She wants -- she has a new proposal. She's heard about these $18 billion in bonuses on Wall Street last week and says, if any bank is going to get federal money, they should make sure that no banker gets paid more than the president of the United States.
MCCASKILL: They don't get it. These people are idiots. You can't use taxpayer money to pay out $18 billion in bonuses. Should these people be making more than the president of the United States? Not really, should they?
STEPHANOPOULOS: Mr. Smith, you actually took a pay cut in December. You announced a 20 percent pay cut because of the performance of FedEx over the last year, because of the tough economic times.
And I wonder, number one, what do you think of the bonus structure now on Wall Street? And, number two, does Senator McCaskill have a point?
SMITH: Well, I -- I think the -- the compensation structure on Wall Street is basically built on -- on bonuses, much more so than in the industrial sector. As I understand it, the average bonus in that $18 billion is about $100,000 a year. The bonuses on Wall Street are down about 44 percent.
So certainly up at the very top of the pyramid, people may be getting more than the president of the United States. But I think you have to go into the -- to the detail there.
Now, when you take government money, then obviously the Congress has the right to put any kind of restrictions that it wants on -- on the government money. I don't think anybody would -- would argue that.
But it's a little bit, I think, an exaggeration to say that all the money is going to -- you know, the top few people on Wall Street. There are a lot of middle-level folks that -- that live on -- on those bonuses. And the lack of those bonuses, probably the biggest people are getting hit are the state treasuries of the state of New York and the city of New York, so...
STEPHANOPOULOS: He brings in (inaudible) but to what extent have CEOs brought this on -- brought this anger on themselves?
SCHMIDT: It's a judgment issue. And, you know, when you're asking for the government, you need to moderate your behavior. I think people understand that.
We're in this for the long term. And in the businesses that I'm familiar with, people are primarily compensated with stocks. Stocks are down. Stocks will eventually return. People will make money that way. That's a much better way to compensate people.
STEPHANOPOULOS: And that's -- one of the things they're considering, I hear, as the president tries to roll out this new financial rescue plan, that the compensation should be in stock. And also some talk -- although it's very difficult to do -- of trying to get back some of these bonuses?
FRANK: Well, the clawback, yes. You -- you should have future -- we put this into the bill that we passed last year. And the problem is not just the amounts of money. And Fred Smith makes a good point. Don't lump every bonus in together.
Now, maybe they would be better off with straight salaries rather than bonuses, but it's true that some people at the working level, bonuses there are different than bonuses at the -- at the top level.
And, you know, but here's the problem we have. We have this -- we're all familiar with the -- with the concept of collateral damage, which is in the wars you don't want me to talk about, but where you want to kill some bad guys and tragically some good people get hurt.
We have the reverse problem in trying to restore the credit system. It's called collateral benefit. We need to restore the credit system. Eric talked about this. The only way -- but you can't create a whole new banking system de novo.
So the only way you can help the banking system get back into credit is to do some things that will probably provide some collateral benefit to people, people don't like. And what they shouldn't do is make it worse for us.
DEMINT: But, look...
FRANK: There's one other point, though, I want to make, and that is, it's not simply the dollars we're talking about. And this is, again -- Fred made a good distinction between the non-financial and financial parts -- the problem in the financial area in particular has been a perverse incentive in the -- in the compensation structure.
It's not just the dollars. But you had top decision-makers being told that, if they made a bet and it paid off, they got money. But if they made a bet and it lost, they didn't lose any money. It was a "heads, I win, tails, I break even," and that incentivizes more risk- taking than is in the interest of the economy.
SCHMIDT: I'm sure this stuff is going to get fixed by -- by you guys, because you're working very hard on it...
DEMINT: I wouldn't count on it.
SCHMIDT: And, by the way, you guys need to get this thing fixed. What we need is very simple. We need some form of a jobs program, something that causes jobs to get created, and we need credit to get -- get going again. That's what we should be talking about as a country.
SCHMIDT: And we can debate exactly how to do it, but get it going now.
FRANK: Well, excuse me. You (inaudible) it's called democracy, Eric. I'm sorry, but it's inevitable.
Secondly, the point I'm making is this, and I think Fred understood it. There is so much anger now on the part of the average citizen who's lost his -- you know, and the problem with traders (ph), and this is one difference we have with Europe. Americans will lose their health care, most of them, if they lose their job. We've got to, I think, fix that situation.
FRANK: I think we need to break the nexus between health care and employment from the standpoint of an efficient economy, as well as a fair one. But until you cannot get some of what you want in the credit area -- the jobs area is different -- but in the credit area, if you -- if you do not do things simultaneously to alleviate the anger, the American voter is not going to let you do it.
DEMINT: We can take $1 trillion out of the economy and we're saying we might create 3 million jobs. If we leave it in the economy, the economists at the Heritage Foundation said we create 18 million jobs.
I mean, this is something we know. And it actually -- Eric, to your point, it happens much quicker. When we don't take it out, there's an immediate jolt to the economy. But if we take -- we know only half of this $1 trillion is actually going to be spent over the next two years.
SCHMIDT: I'm worried -- I'm worried that tax cuts alone -- tax cuts won't work because -- won't be sufficient because people are not paying any taxes because they're not making any money. The stimulus bill has tax credits in it...
FRANK: How many roads are going to be built by a tax cut? How many police stations?
DEMINT: We're building roads now. And...
FRANK: If you think...
DEMINT: The Democrats control Congress. If you want to spend more for roads, let's do it.
FRANK: Excuse me, no, that's -- that's...
DEMINT: But let's don't call it an economic stimulus package.
FRANK: ... an inaccuracy. First of all...
DEMINT: Only 5 percent of this bill goes to roads and infrastructure, and you're trying to tell the American people this is an infrastructure bill. It's... (CROSSTALK)
FRANK: No, I am not trying to do that. You will check the transcript. You will find I haven't.
I also think it's helpful if you don't have policemen and firefighters laid off in New Bedford. That's jobs that would be lost that won't be lost.
I also disagree that we're taking money, quote, "out of the economy" if we improve public transportation, if we improve highways. That's your concept. You're taking money out of the economy if you make sure a bridge doesn't fall down. I think you keep people out of the water. You're not taking money out of the economy.
STEPHANOPOULOS: And on the -- on the issue of credit, there's -- it's a separate question. The president is going to probably have to come forward and ask for potentially hundreds of billions of dollars more for the banks. Is that something you can support?
DEMINT: Well, we're calling these Wall Street guys idiots for their bonuses. I think maybe the real question about intelligence comes from the politicians who are giving these guys money.
A lot has to sort out in the market here. We're rewarding failure by bailing out the worst of the banks instead of rewarding success. The first round of TARP did not support lending, which was its whole point. We've got to loosen up the credit markets.
I'm not convinced the guys from Wall Street who are running Treasury know how to do it. They know how wealth is traded, but they don't know how it's created on Main Street.
So, obviously, we need to loosen up credit, but what we've been doing hasn't been working. And if government spending, Barney, got our economy going, we would have the best economy in the world. We have never...
FRANK: Spending on Iraq was never going to do that. Can I just say, too -- we're talking -- I agree that, under the Bush administration, you introduced...
DEMINT: Bush is gone.
FRANK: Excuse me, Jim. You talked about Democrats and Republicans.
DEMINT: I have not.
FRANK: He's gone, and it is a mistake to assume that the Obama administration hasn't learned from the mistakes of the Bush administration. I believe they're going to do it very differently.
I agree that Secretary Paulson, whom I generally admired, made a mistake in not pushing them to do more lending. I think you're going to see the Obama administration, having learned from that, push for much more lending. There are going to be some real rules in there.
SCHMIDT: But you could just publish -- you could just publish what people are doing, and we could figure out where the money's going. All you have to do is put these things on Web sites.
FRANK: They are going to be.
SCHMIDT: One of the ways -- in fact, one of the issues with TARP was it wasn't generally known where the money went. If we simply -- as part of your work got every single dollar and where it went, we could prove whether your argument is right or your argument is right.
DEMINT: But you assume we can actually track that stuff.
FRANK: Excuse me. Can I just say, first of all, our guys -- I would say, putting on a Web site, you're not entirely disinterested...
SCHMIDT: Of course.
FRANK: ... but that's OK. Fred might want us to mail them to everybody, deliver them -- deliver them in a package. But the point is, we're going to do that.
In fact, the new inspector general, who was set up -- we've set up a special inspector general. Confirmation was delayed in the Senate. And Mr. Barofsky is now about to demand of every recipient of TARP, past and future, that they do exactly what you say and that we will publish on our Web site.
So there was -- I agree. It was not -- I think it was better to have had it than not, but it is going to be done.
SCHMIDT: But my point is, you could change -- you could change the way we...
FRANK: I'm saying we're doing it.
SCHMIDT: ... change the way...
FRANK: Did I not agree with you?
SCHMIDT: Yes.
FRANK: We're doing it.
SCHMIDT: Chairman, the fact of the matter is, that if the government simply told everybody what you all were doing...
SCHMIDT: ... and then people could track it and figure out whether it's actually working...
FRANK: But we are going to do that.
SCHMIDT: ... we could get through these classic fights that you all have.
STEPHANOPOULOS: As you know...
FRANK: Well, no, I differ -- differ with you on that. Please. Let's not obviate democracy. There are legitimate different philosophical differences between Jim DeMint and myself. Please don't treat them as some sideshow.
STEPHANOPOULOS: And we will hear -- we will hear more about the...
FRANK: They're important to democracy.
STEPHANOPOULOS: We're going to hear more about them this week. We only just have a few seconds left. I just want to ask you quickly. We learned this week that President Obama's nominee for the Department of Health and Human Services, Senator Tom Daschle, has had to pay about $128,000 in back taxes. Is that disqualifying to you?
DEMINT: It may be. I -- I want to find out more about it.
But it's disheartening, obviously. I mean, people are struggling to pay taxes on a very small amount of income. And when he's got this huge amount of -- you know, I can see now why liberals don't mind if the tax rate goes up, because they're not going to pay it anyway.
And so, yes, it frustrates me. It did with our Treasury nominee. But we need to look at it. And I would just -- I wish they would just say, "Hey, our tax code is just incomprehensible. We need to change it."
STEPHANOPOULOS: You got that last plug in. Gentlemen, thank you all very much. It was a great discussion.


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recently completed Perfect Game World Showcase in Fort Myers featured one of
the most talented groups of players ever to play in this long running event,
which dates back to 1997 and was the original Perfect Game showcase.
The 1999
World Showcase featured at least 15 players who have since played in the Major
Leagues, while the 2003 event has graduated 11 participants to baseball's
highest level. It's safe to say that
when we look back in 10 years or so, the 2011 World Showcase will feature at
least somewhere in that 10-15 area and perhaps more.
I was
able to watch and evaluate all the drills and batting practice for the six
teams of players last weekend and scout all but two of the World Showcase games
(I've read the notes for the other two games).
The "official" top prospect list will come out after all the reports
have been written and PG grades assigned, but here's one person's take on a Top
25 list from the event.
Note: The World Showcase included a couple of top
2012 prospects, along with a number of players eligible to sign immediately,
including an impressive group of players from Panama. Players are 2011 prospects unless otherwise
1. SS Carlos Correa
(2012/Santa Isabel, PR): The 6-3, 185 lb
Puerto Rican has the chance to be the best prospect from the island in at least
a decade, if not longer. He's a
potential 5-tool player right now, with present bat speed, power, defensive
ability, 6.79 speed and one of the best throwing arms anywhere.
2. 1B Dan Vogelbach (Fort Myers, FL): The ball makes a different sound when it
comes off the big first baseman's wood bat.
His 400' opposite field blast in batting practice was fun to watch.
3. C Tyler Marlette (Oviedo, PR): A little bit of rest has done Marlette's body
wonders, as the all out gamer looked loose, strong and quick behind the plate
and in the batter's box.
4. SS Julius Gaines (Locust Grove, GA): Gaines is one of the handful of best
defensive prospects in the 2011 class and has big league actions and tools at
shortstop right now.
5. CF Tanner English (Murrels Inlet, SC): English was one of the keys to the Diamond
Devils WWBA 17U World Championship team last summer but we had no idea he had
this kind of raw tools. The 5-9 right
handed hitter ran 6.37 and threw 97 mph from the outfield while also showing
plus bat speed.
6. C Eric Haase (Westland, MI): Haase, a Michigan native signed with Ohio
State, was the big surprise of the event.
He ran 6.81, threw just as well as Aflac All-American Marlette and
pounded the ball both in batting practice and in games.
7. OF/RHP Ryan Harris (Jupiter, FL): Harris hasn't pitched at a PG event since
2009 (when he threw 93 mph) but his athletic tools and hitting ability make him
an upper round prospect as an outfielder as well.
8. MIF Jesmuel Valentin Diaz (Manati, PR): Diaz is the son of long-time big league
infielder Jose Valentin and has Major League tools himself. He's a switch-hitter with some serious pop in
his bat from both sides of the plate.
9. SS Nico Slater (Jupiter, FL): The 6-0, 200 lb Slater stood out defensively
at shortstop, which makes his strong right handed bat all the more impressive.
10. RHP Jace Herrera (Apopka, FL): The Miami signee has improved significantly
over the past year and hasn't reached his physical ceiling yet. He threw in the upper 80's and his 81 mph
slider is a very good upper level pitch.
11. OF/LHP Javier Reynoso (Odessa, FL): The 90 mph lefty didn't pitch in Fort Myers
but his switch-hitting ability and arm strength from right field make him a
legit 2-way player at the college level should he make it to Coastal Carolina.
12. 3B Vicente Conde (Oviedo, FL): Conde has got much stronger from last summer
and that added muscle shows in his bat speed and power. His blast off the right field wall on a 90
mph Jorge Lopez fastball was impressive.
13. SS Avery Romero (2012/St. Augustine, FL): Romero continued to show he is one of the top
bats in the 2012 class. The Florida commit took an excellent BP and the ball
jumps off his bat.
14. RHP Jorge Lopez (Cayey, PR): The slender 6-4, 175 lb Puerto Rican was the
event's hardest thrower, topping out at 91 mph.
He has an effortless, loose arm and should continue to gain velocity as
he gets stronger.
15. OF Jesse Winker (2012/Windemere, FL): Winker's left handed bat plays high and he
has the classic strong armed right field tools to go with it.
16. C Skyler Ewing (Arlington, TX) :The 6-2, 215
lb Rice signee reminds me a bit of former LSU catcher Micah Gibbs (3rd
round/2010/Cubs) without the switch-hitting ability but with more juice in his
17. RHP/3B Alex Santana (Cape Coral, FL): Santana has long been considered an upper
level third base prospect but we saw him for the first time on the mound and he
might have a higher ceiling there. The
6-4 righthander threw 88-89 mph consistently with an easy, loose arm.
18. SS Rafael Aries-Medina (FA/Bronx, NY): Aries-Medina was an eye opener and will
hopefully be signed by a Major League team soon, as most teams had scouts at
the World Showcase. He's a 6.77 runner
with quick shortstop actions and a cannon for a throwing arm.
19. C Brian Olson (Black Diamond, WA): Olson's bat still has some work to do to get
to prospect level but he can flat catch and throw with the best receivers in
the country.
20. C J.C. Coban (Boca Raton, FL): Coban would definitely be on the very short
list of the strongest players at this or any other event, but he is still loose
and agile in his athletic actions and swung the bat very well in game
21. 1B/LHP Michael Gunn (Wilson, AR): Gunn isn't a big, physical 1st
base type slugger but has a very quick bat and packs plenty of power in his
6-1, 195 lb frame. He also throws in the
mid 80's from the left side off the mound.
22. 3B Dalton DiNatale (2012/Parkland, FL): DiNatale has a nice projectable 6-4, 195 lb
build, enough athleticism to stay at third base and a left handed bat that
projects very nice power in the future.
23. RHP Robert Michael Garcia Quiroz (Mexico
City): The loose and athletic Mexico
native topped out at 86 at the California Underclass Showcase a year ago but
was up to 90 mph at a time when most pitchers are at less than full
velocity. That's a good sign there's still
more to come.
24. OF Michael Bradshaw (Crestwood, NY): We didn't even know that the 6-5, 215 lb
Bradshaw had started switch-hitting until he launched a home run left handed
(after doing the same right handed) during batting practice. His skills are still raw in all areas but
Bradshaw has some serious tools.
25. SS Mitchell Morales (Wellington, FL): Morales is a very fluid shortstop with nice
quickness and a strong arm and should be able to stay at the position way up
the baseball ladder.


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"Linton-Stockton School Corporation will strive to identify and meet the needs of high ability students with a challenging, differentiated curriculum allowing them the opportunity to work at an appropriate pace and level in mathematics and language arts." (Adopted Nov. 19, 2007)
Definition of High Ability
"Students with high ability perform or show the potential to perform at remarkably high levels of academic accomplishment in math and/or language arts when compared with others of their age, experience, or environment. Linton-Stockton School Corporation recognizes there are such students in all cultural and economic groups and strives to identify high ability students K-12 in order to provide the challenging curriculum and instruction they need to develop their potential." (Adopted Nov. 19, 2007)
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Posted by Editoress on 02/26/09
Tour de Kootenays Cancelled
The Tour de Kootenay stage race that was scheduled to take place in BC's interior this summer has been cancelled. Bob Hennessy, the executive director of the race, blames the Nelson office of the B.C. Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MoTI) for imposing requirements that would be too costly to implement. Organizers appealed to the Premier of BC to intervene, but received no response.
Hennessy wrote in a letter to Nelson MoTI District Technician Hugh Eberle: "it is clear to me (as I am sure it will be to anyone who acquaints themselves with the particulars of our application) that you, your staff colleagues and supervisor at the Nelson office of MoTI will take any steps, however unreasonable, impose any requirements, however costly, to frustrate the realization of the Tour de Kootenays."
In the local Castlegar News, Hennessy went further:
Hennessy believes the civil servants are opposed to it because too much traffic will be backed up on highway six in the valley.
Hennessy is frustrated with MoTI because he does not believe the MoTI truly understood the implications of canceling the event.
"If Canadians win points at our race Canada can field more teams at the next Olympics," he said.
Adding, "mid level civil servants in a town of 9,000 people have stopped an event which is equivalent, in the cycling world, to the Tour of California," he said.
(Editor's Note: 'equivalent to the Tour of California' is clearly an exaggeration...)
Read the Castlegar News story Here.
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"The Voice" entered a new, more focused sort of battle round Monday, as pairs of teammates picked the songs they'd face off singing, and vied for even fewer steals should they fall short.
The pairings laid bare not just the quality of the talent, not just of the "Voice" title hopefuls, but of their guest mentor, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, as well. They also underscored the contestants' ability to rise to an occasion -- choosing a song, rehearsing it diligently and then turning in committed, electric performances.
But each coach got just one steal this go-round, and that meant they were being exceptionally choosy -- and that some of their favorite talent wound up unceremoniously sent packing.
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The first of those was Team Blake's country-turned-rock diva Megan Ruger, who lost her battle on Miley Cyrus' "The Climb" to moody country belter Audra McLaughlin. As Shakira noted, Megan's performance may have been technically superior, but Audra's connected more with the coaches. Audra moved on in the competition, while the coaches passed on stealing Megan.
Next came Usher's pairing of his team's two modern soul singers, TJ Wilkins and Cierra Mickens, whom he'd recently stolen after she lost a battle to remain on Team Shakira. The two chose to duet on Oleta Adams' "Get Here," and onstage, they took to heart Chris Martin's advice to focus on establishing an intense connection with each other.
Their battle sounded perhaps more like two desperate people battling to express their desperation than it did like chemistry -- but it was electric nonetheless. When Cierra growled a big line mid-song, her former coach Shakira shot Adam a look that suggested she wished she hadn't let her go from her team.
But Shakira may not have regretted the move enough to take Cierra back. Though the coaches were wowed by both performances, Usher picked TJ as the winner of the battle, leaving Cierra set to head home -- making her perhaps the night's most accomplished singer to leave empty-handed.
The first steal of the night came with the next pairing, when Team Blake's teen country singer Jake Worthington faced NFL cheerleader (and former Team Usher member) Tess Boyer. The duo was tasked with John Hiatt's "Have a Little Faith in Me," and their performance of it elicited effusive praise from the coaches. Adam remarked that he felt like he had just watched a performance by country stars at the Grammys or the CMAs, while Shakira reserved her praise for Tess's performance.
"You blew me away!" Shakira said, calling Tess' performance "unbelievable" and her voice "powerful" and "sweet at the same time."
Blake wound up citing team loyalty and choosing Jake as the winner, prompting all three rival coaches to slam their buttons for Tess -- her former coach Usher included. Adam touted his past "Voice" wins and dismissed Usher as having "abandoned" Tess, while Shakira chimed in of Usher, "He's done it once; he'll do it again."
Shakira's excitement over Tess' performance won her over, and she chose Shakira as her coach, giving Shakira her first and final steal of the second round of battles.
The next two battles' losers weren't so lucky, though. Team Adam's Sam Behymer lost her battle with Christina Grimmie on OneRepublic's "Counting Stars," as Christina's energy and precision beat out Sam's less predictable vocal "finesse," as Blake put it.
When Team Shakira's two rock singers Josh Murley and Patrick Thomas, good friends and fellow former Team Adam members, went head-to-head on Bryan Adams' "Run to You," their coach called it an evenly matched battle of powerful rock singers. But she picked Patrick as the winner, saying she needed a voice like his on her team and was confident she could be a better coach for him.
For the final battle of the night, Team Adam's other remaining Josh, Josh Kaufman, faced off with his fellow soul singer Delvin Choice on Stevie Wonder's "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" in a high-spirited performance that pitted Josh's smooth vocals against Delvin's rich tone and powerful theatrics.
Blake picked Delvin as the winner, as did Shakira, who remarked, "You surprised us all, really." Adam agreed, adding that the performance was "flawless" from both men but picking Delvin as the winner.
That left Josh free for the taking, and Usher did just that, stealing the low-key crooner for his team. "That was one of the most incredible performances of the competition, and I feel like we could go all the way to the end, man," he told his new team member.
The second round of battles will continue Tuesday, as Blake and Adam look to exercise their remaining steals.
"The Voice" airs Mondays and Tuesdays at 8/7c.


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Chicken & broad bean tagliatelle
Nutrition and extra info
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal524
- fat10g
- saturates5g
- carbs62g
- sugars2g
- fibre5g
- protein50g
- salt0.47g
- 4 skinless chicken breasts
- 1 tsp olive oil
Olive oilol-iv oyl
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- 300g tagliatelle
- 175g frozen broad beans
Broad beanbraw-d be-en
A member of the legume family, broad beans are pretty hardy and adaptable – they grow in…
- 85g reduced-fat crème fraîche
- juice 1 lemon
Oval in shape with a pronouced bulge on one end, lemons are one of the most versatile…
- 6 tbsp parmesan, finely grated
Parmesan is a straw-coloured hard cheese with a natural yellow rind and rich, fruity flavour. It…
- small handful parsley, chopped
One of the most ubiquitous herbs in British cookery, parsley is also popular in European and…
Heat grill to high. Put the chicken onto a roasting tray, coat with the oil, season, then grill for about 12 mins, turning halfway through the cooking time.
Meanwhile, boil the pasta, adding the beans for the final 3 mins, then drain, reserving 150ml of the cooking water.
Shred the cooked chicken and put into the pasta pan with the crème fraîche, lemon juice, 4 tbsp Parmesan and the reserved cooking water. Heat gently, season to taste, then stir in the parsley and pasta. Serve sprinkled with the remaining Parmesan.


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Good Medicine
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What's hot on the World Wide Web
Good Medicine
The bad news about the Net is it's a petri dish for computer viruses that can destroy critical files, even knock your processor into unconsciousness. Every file download exposes you to viruses--and lately evil geniuses have even concocted viruses that hook onto e-mail.
"What the jet plane was for the biological virus, the Internet is for the computer virus," says Rusty DeSantis, a virus expert with McAfee, an anti-virus software company. Viruses aren't just nerd pranks. A recent survey by the National Computer Security Association found that 70 percent of corporate computer networks have been infected--with huge resulting costs in lost productivity and data.
The good news is that prevention is easy and cheap, with the newest anti-viral software upgraded to guard against infection from the Internet. Top choices include Norton Anti-Virus 2.0 (about $70; download a demo at0 http://www.symantec.com) and McAfee's Virusscan Deluxe (about $70; a demo is available at http://www.mcafee.com). Both provide continuous system monitoring and swift virus elimination as well as file repair.
For heavy Net users, there's also McAfee's WebScan (about $29), which integrates into most Web browsers (including Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator). Prevention, not repair, is WebScan's mission--it monitors incoming data, and when it finds suspect files, they're isolated for your later deletion or repair with McAfee's anti-virus feature.
One caveat: McAfee and Norton products don't mix well--if you install both on one machine, crashes are probable. So stick with one company; both McAfee and Norton provide top-grade virus protection.
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NW - District - District Council Meeting (Barrhead District)
|Start Date: May 05, 2020 6:30 PM
|End Date: May 05, 2020 8:00 PM
|Location: AgBarn BARRHEAD AB
Program Description:
Barrhead District Meeting
The Club Representative to the District 4-H Council -- Be An Effective District Council Representative
As with many things in life (so they say), the key to being an effective Club Representative to the District 4-H Council is communication. As a representative to the District Council you are an important link for your club to the events and opportunities that the District Council is responsible for. These include various events, such as public speaking, judging, and record book competitions, member retreats, etc.
Communicate with your club the topics under discussion at your district. As your club rep, you are responsible for ensuring that your club knows about district events and competitions. You are in a unique position to push your club members to become involved in opportunities beyond the club level by bringing them the information from District Council meetings
Communicate with your District Council the activities that your club is up to. You have the opportunity to bring the concerns of your club to the District Council and have your voice heard. If your club has a great idea for a social event or training workshop, that you could use the cooperation of other clubs on, the District Council is the place to raise such ideas. Remember that as a representative, you have voting power on the District Council—do you know how your club would vote on certain issues? Is your club aware of the issues that you are voting on?
To be an effective communicator you must be prepared. Review the meeting agenda before going to the meeting and think of ways the topics might affect your club. Ask the members of your club if they have anything to share on a specific issue. You may want to prepare a list of questions or points that you would like clarified. Also, have your club report ready—what are some key activities your club does that you want to highlight? Identify points that your club wants to communicate to the District Council. Is there a spot in your club meeting agenda for reports from the District Council? And what will you say when your turn comes up? What news can you bring them from the District Council? Are there any items that require feedback from the club? The more your club is informed, the greater voice they will have in District Council, through you.
Ask yourself some basic questions about your role as club representative to assess your effectiveness: Is your club aware of District activities? Are members involved? Do you want/need more member participation? Does the District Council know what's going on in your club? Your club is counting on you to bring forward their voice to the District Council, and the Council is counting on you to communicate with your club. Be the best representative that you can be for your club and your district!
Club Representatives to the District Councils have a vital role in the communication link through the 4-H Council system. Your responsibilities include:
1. Represent your 4-H Club at District Council meetings along with ____ other people.
2. Attend District Council meetings. ( ____meetings per year)
3. Prepare your Club's Report for the District Council Meeting. Give a written copy to the council secretary.
4. Get involved with district projects and committees.
5. Take reports/information from District Council to your 4-H Club.
6. Take concerns/ideas/ proposals from your 4-H Club to the District Council.
7. Prepare for the meetings by reviewing the minutes and agenda:
to organize your thoughts.
to have any presentations completed.
to determine the wishes of your club when voting on issues.
8. Assist the president to hold a successful meeting by:
keeping discussion to the point.
making decisions and voting on motions.
accepting the decision of the majority.
Acquire a copy of the District 4-H Council's Constitution, District Council's program, and District Executive and Committee contact list.
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Leading the Way - The Club Representative to the District 4-H Council
Northwest Region web page
|Region: Northwest
|Who can apply: Clubs , Families , Leaders , All Members
For more information contact: Stacy Murray, Phone: 310-0000 then 780-674-8250, Fax: 780-674-8309, Email: email@example.com


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Milwaukee man to deliver furniture to Hurricane Sandy victims
Donations tabbed for Rockaway, New York
A Milwaukee man hasn't forgotten about the damage left behind by Hurricane Sandy. His plan is to turn houses back into homes in storm-stricken Rockaway, New York.
"I was sitting down Saturday morning speaking with my wife, and said 'I'd love to do something,' and one thing led to another," Souheil Badran said.
Badran has friends who live in the affected area. His thought was to collect furniture -- rather than clothes -- in an effort to help return lives back to normal.
"You've got your bedroom, your clothing upstairs, but downstairs is where you have your furniture, your dining room. That's what they lost," Badran said.
Badran said he collected $2,500 within two weeks as furniture from donors came pouring in.
The Johansen family. of Whitefish, parted with an old sofa.
"It was a spare, so we weren't using it, and being the holiday season and all, we knew there were people that needed it," Brian Johansen said.
Badran will begin driving the donations to New York, but not before a donations drive at Dominican High School in Whitefish Bay on Wednesday.
If you'd like to make a donation, bring your items to the school from 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Badran is asking for:
- Non-perishable food
- New mattresses
- Bedding and furniture
- Blankets/batteries/flashlights
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Using the OpenESB J2SE version and netbeans
As I mentioned in JBI deployment options, OpenESB can run as a standard J2SE application. This is a nice option that has some advantages such as getting started quicker without the need of downloading the rather large (300+MB) OpenESB bundle that includes glassfish/openesb and netbeans. The JBISE version is only 4.3MB. For those of you not needing a J2EE container this might be a valid option.
The only other missing piece is the tooling support to create Composite Applications. This is included in Netbeans v6 which is a part of the large OpenESB bundle. But since you are not downloading that you need to ability to get netbeans v6. Here is the netbeans v6 nightly builds location: http://bits.netbeans.org/download/6.0/nightly/.
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Gwyneth Paltrow is about to take another step toward pop music stardom.
The "Country Strong" actress is set to sign a $900,000 contract with Atlantic Records, reports AOL Music.
Paltrow, who may have gotten the music bug from rocker husband Chris Martin of Coldplay, has been showing off her vocal chops in a variety of different settings over the last year. Besides starring on the silver screen as a washed-up country singer, she's popped up on Fox's hit musical comedy "Glee" in a reoccurring cameo role and even performed a sanitized version of Cee Lo Green's hit "F#$# You" with the rap and R & B star at the Grammy Awards.
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Though she's been highly visible since this particular aspect of her career has taken off, it's not the first time the star has showcased her musical abilities. She did some singing in the 2000 film "Duets."
While a rep for the star told People that the deal is not firmly in place yet, it does appeart imminent and her sound has been classified as "country pop" by an insider.
Selected Reading: New York Daily News, AOL Music, People


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SDSU needs a healthy James Rahon ... for his D
James Rahon scored 30 or more points seven times as a senior at Torrey Pines High, and 41 once. He broke the freshman record for 3-pointers in a season at Santa Clara. He made 43.7 percent of his 3s as a sophomore at San Diego State, and scored in double-figures 13 times as a junior.
As a senior, he ranks third in the nation in fewest turnovers per minute.
But the reason SDSU coach Steve Fisher's mood brightened Monday afternoon when he saw Rahon practicing for first time since spraining his right shoulder nine days earlier had little to do with his offensive reputation.
It has to do with one of the best-kept secrets in the Mountain West: The 6-foot-5 senior guard has quietly become one of its best perimeter defenders.
It also has with the Aztecs' opponent Wednesday night: New Mexico.
The No. 14 Lobos (23-4, 10-2) are coming off their biggest win of the season, 91-82 at Colorado State to give them sole possession of first place, and that was in large part due to a career-high 46 points from guard Kendall Williams, and Rahon's usually draws Williams on defense. In their last meeting, SDSU's 55-34 defensive clinic at Viejas Arena on Jan. 26, Williams made one 3-pointer and finished with 14 points; he drained 10 beyond the arc against Colorado State and scored 18 points alone over the final six minutes.
"James has become our best defender chasing guys off screens," Fisher said. "He never gets tired. He fights through screens and doesn't get stood up, doesn't get taken out by screens. He's relentless. And he has size to go with it. He has a little length about him.
He's by far our best defender in that regard."
Or just look at what happens when he doesn't play. Nevada guard Malik Story made seven treys and had 33 points Saturday – the most against an SDSU team in 61 games – with Rahon sidelined.
"I think," Fisher said, "he would have run Story off a couple of those screens."
It was the one screen Rahon couldn't avoid, from 6-foot-8, 240-pound UNLV freshman Anthony Bennett on the game's first possession, that got him hurt two Saturdays ago. Rahon hadn't practiced or played since.
"I didn't know it was coming," Rahon said. "It was Bennett, and that's not a good person to hit. It felt like I hit a brick wall."
Rahon didn't participate in the entire SDSU practice Monday, but he was able to raise his arm high enough to shoot and he did step into a few full-contract drills against the scout team. He said Wednesday still figures to be a "game-time decision," but he admitting being "pretty encouraged with how much I did today."
He credits two things for his transformation from a guy who can shoot it to someone who stops guys who can shoot it: added strength "to dictate where they're going to go," and insider knowledge.
"I think just playing for four years, you kind of get to know what players do out there," Rahon said. "I'm used to coming off a lot of screens, so guarding someone, I kind of have a feel for what they're going to do."
Takes one to know one.
Rankings ranklings
Despite a pair of easy wins, the Aztecs still received no votes in the Associated Press Top 25 again this week. In the USA Today coaches' polls, they were fifth in others receiving votes with 13 points, one point ahead of UNLV and three ahead of Colorado State.
Despite being in a virtual tie with the Big Ten for the nation's No. 1-rated conference according to RPI (both are at .5856), the Mountain West has just one team in either of the major polls: New Mexico is 14th in both.
The Big Ten has five teams in the AP poll: Indiana, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State and Wisconsin. The Big East, rated third in RPI, has six: Georgetown, Louisville, Syracuse, Notre Dame, Marquette and Pittsburgh.


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Sunday, April 15, 2012
Déjà vu
19 comments:
First of all--- love the quote!ReplyDelete
I am having chair seat issues my self. The key for me is to keep my lower leg back which means plenty of two point for me too! :) I am glad you are back in the saddle again!
I think all athletes benefit from videos and riding is certainly an athletic sport. Good for you for having yourself video'd. And you'll have a good record of your progress and your fitness returns. I was asked yesterday what I plan to work on this week to improve my horsemanship with. So instead of saying I'll be working on side passing, or disengaging the hind quarters, or walk/trot transitions or canter departs, I said I'll be taking extra time to work out in the gym. I know I need to lose weight and improve my fitness to be the kind of rider my horse deserves.ReplyDelete
I simply have to get back into the riding routine. I need to be more fit anyhow and the horses should be doing something.ReplyDelete
Once again, I need motivation. Heaven help me if anyone took a video of my riding about now. I'd probably be scandalized.
Love a trained horse like Dusty. Makes the day brighter all around.
- AnonymousApril 15, 2012
Videos are very good - it's hard to get a handle on this stuff without them. My biggest fault is I tend to lean forward and look down - I'm working on that.ReplyDelete
I love videos! They are for my own personal viewing, however. ;-) After viewing my most recent video, I apparently have the Lazy-Boy chair position when I lope. In fact, I am so out of shape, I look like a Lazy-Boy chair! Yikes! How wonderful that Dusty can pick up where she left off. Blue will get there.ReplyDelete
SO glad you're getting back in the saddle. Position and fitness will come with time, for you and the horses.ReplyDelete
That quote is my all time favorite, and one that it's good to repeat to ourselves often.
That two-point position is a killer but magic for strength and balance if you can manage to walk away after a session without half collapsing to the floor.ReplyDelete
Videos are helpful but it does take some getting use to!
It's good that you rode even if it's only for a short while.ReplyDelete
My horses and I are very out of shape because I haven't been riding much over the winter but I've found that they do remember everything just like I rode them yesterday.
I'll make a deal with you. You get j to video you, K will video me, we'll trade, blindfold ourselves, watch each other, and critique. :)ReplyDelete
All I can say is that if I wait until I am perfectly fit to ride, that day might never come. When I go ahead and ride it feels wonderful and things get stretched out nicely by the time I get off again. (that said I am NOT doing two point with no stirrups! :0)
I've got Apache and I signed up for back-to-back ACTHA rides this coming weekend even though we're both out of shape and she's only been ridden a few times this year so far.ReplyDelete
Each day's ride is 7 miles, but I know these trails well and they're mostly flat or gently rolling and I don't expect her to have to do anything but mozy down the trail at a slow walk.
Apache really enjoys heading out on the trails and if I left her home, she'd just be mozying around our pastures anyway. And be terribly bored. Why not take her and I someplace new and interesting so we can have some fun together?
I have never tried posting slowly at a walk. I'll have to try that. What a great idea!
Oh, big ugh! I hate the video tape!! I used to have my instructor tape me and I couldn't believe it when I'd watch it back. But, it does help you make quicker progress to what you should be doing. At least you can see and understand it!! Best wishes getting in shape!! Kick some butt!!ReplyDelete
I have a feeling you will be back in shape in no time, muscle memory should kick in soon. I never thought about posting at a walk, that really sounds like a great work out! I wish I could try it. Someday soon, I hope. I totally get the whole video thing and the blind guy. It is good for the individual and maybe (big maybe) an instructor, other than that, eyes off. It's good you have it though so you can really see yourself progress.ReplyDelete
That fitness thing is a killer! It was hard when I first got Winston after not being able to ride Jackson in nine months. It does come back though -- and the scale is friendlier too. :)ReplyDelete
Good to hear you're back in the saddle ... and opted to be filmed - brave! Weird when you think you're doing it right till you see yourself -- still remember my 'ugh' moment when I watched myself!!ReplyDelete
Dusty is amazing - what else is there to say?! And Blue will get there, I'm sure. Hey, if I can lose weight, I'm sure he can too ;o)
Good luck with the fitness thing!
I find ditching the stirrups and riding bareback (at a walk) to be extremely helpful for fixing and/or deepening my seat (plus it's awesome for balance :o)ReplyDelete
I'm usually somewhere between surprised and impressed at how many things horses retain (that can be kind of a mixed bag though *laugh*).
I love your quote for the day - the only emotions that belong in the saddle are patience and humor!!I'm going to remember that!!ReplyDelete
I laugh at your humorous writing - if I had a video of me no one would see it either!! Sometimes even photos point out to me how bad my posture is at any random moment. It's good to remind ourselves and then work on it personally. Bless our horses' hearts - for forgiving our posture problems!!
The groundwork you've done is still very valuable- just as valuable, really, as riding. It gives you and the horse little exercises to work on, reading each other's language, etc, so it was time well spent. Now, transitioning to riding will bring new challenges. But you are up to it! Good work!!
Good to hear you are riding again. You were brave to be videoed - I was ages ago and, while it was undeniably useful, my ego was dented somewhat! But then, horses do that to us all the time.ReplyDelete
Having recently started riding again after the winter, even after a short initial hack, I was sore.
Go Dusty! And even if you feel out of shape, it's great that you just hopped on her and started riding. You're right about video being a cruel task-master. Nothing works faster to show me what I'm doing wrong and what I need to fix. I'm so glad Dusty is fully mended thanks to all your excellent nursing.ReplyDelete
It's so nice of you to take the time to visit. I appreciate your stopping by and commenting on what I've written. Even though I sometimes don't have the time to reply to each comment, I do enjoy reading them.


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More people are taking their smartphones to the bathroom, so Kohler, a manufacturer of home products such as toilets and faucets, has introduced a new showerhead that connects to your mobile device.
Kohler said that 75 percent of smartphone owners take their device into the bathroom. The showerhead, called Moxie, doubles as a portable battery-operated wireless speaker that taps into your device's playlist via bluetooth.
Only thing is, most people are not bringing their smartphone into the bathroom to take a shower. A survey released earlier this year by 11mark, a marketing agency, found that 63 percent of smartphone owners have answered a phone call in the bathroom, and 41 percent have initiated a phone call. About two thirds of the respondents have read a text, and 38 percent have surfed the Internet on their smartphones in the bathroom.
Here's hoping that they washed their hands afterward — or took a shower.


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Berkeley approved a 25-cent fee on disposable cups, along with additional regulations requiring take out containers to be compostable and only using reusable plates and utensils for those eating in.
This is similar to a proposal Michael Carnacchi made while running for Sebastopol City Council in 2016. His proposal was never adopted, or as far as I can tell, seriously considered.
One notable difference between Carnacchi's proposal and Berkeley's new ordinance is that the restaurants will keep the new fee, whereas Carnacchi's proposed that the revenue (w I remember as being surprisingly high) goto the city. I prefer the revenue go to the city (why should the restaurants benefit?), but I'd be OK with it going to the restaurants to help quell their resistance.
I strongly support this idea and clearly it's time has come!
Berkeley approves 25-cent fee on disposable cups


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We are guilty as charged. For years now we have been brainwashed into believing the Green Bay Packers are far superior to their NFC North rivals. Lets look at the last 21 NFL seasons. In 336 regular season games, the Packers have won 214 times, while the Minnesota Vikings and Chicago Bears have 184 and 161 wins, respectively.
In those 21 years the Packers have made 15 NFC playoff appearances, while the Vikings appeared in the postseason on 12 occasions and the Bears five.
And in the last generation the Packers have played in three Super Bowls, winning twice, while the Bears have played for the championship once. Meanwhile, the Vikings are working on 37 years and counting without a conference championship. I would include the Detroit Lions, but all one needs to know is that they have lost in the state of Wisconsin in each of those last 21 seasons.
How dare people continue to drink the Kool-Aid and remain "brainwashed," in the words of controversial wide receiver Greg Jennings, into believing that the other three teams in the NFC North are 'tiers below' the Packers.
Maybe we shouldn't let facts and the scoreboard get in the way of rational thinking. Then again, if my life were so sheltered that my only source was KFAN, Greg Jennings, and the Vikings radio play-by-play man, I would also be convinced that the Green Bay Packers have become the evil empire.
It is also interesting that Lambeau Field has been sold out for decades while the Vikings struggle to sell tickets to the point that one of this year's home games has been outsourced to London, England.
Greg Jennings' choice of verb in his latest volley towards his former organization is indeed interesting.
I will give Jennings credit; he finally ruffled the feathers of usually unflappable Green Bay Head Coach Mike McCarthy.
The buzzword McCarthy used in a press conference (where he didn't even wait for a reporter to ask about Jennings latest barb) was culture.
When an organization averages 10 wins per year over a 21-year period, it is safe to say the culture around 1265 Lombardi Avenue is positive.
That is over a 336-game span. Think of a Major League Baseball team winning 100-plus games for two consecutive seasons. That is what the Packers have done over two decades. No wonder the players and coaches that have come through Green Bay come to believe that their team is "the best," as Jennings would say.
Greg Jennings has been an annoyance for about a year now, since he started doing Old Spice spots, and did a fluff piece with Yahoo!'s Angela Sun telling the world what a swell guy he was.
Then there was Jennings' sister calling out Aaron Rodgers during the Packers-Vikings regular season finale, and finally his cheesy full-page ad in the Milwaukee fish-wrap after signing with the Vikings. That came complete with the obligatory praise to God and bible verse thrown in.
So Packers players continue to be "brainwashed" – I'm trying to figure what the problem with that is supposed to be?
As I speak, brainwashing continues in all 32 NFL camps. There are coaches and players convincing (the more accurate term) themselves that they are every bit as good or better than the competition.
A reporter can grab a microphone and head into the Jacksonville Jaguars or Cleveland Browns locker room and find players who truly believe their team can contend. It's a mandatory part of the job description for any player or coach in the NFL.
The same thing goes on in college football and every level of the sport on down, and in any profession. The best culture comes from the belief that your corporation is better than the one across the street. That is called competition.
Vikings head coach Leslie Frazier is busy instilling a winning culture in his organization, and has already told Jennings to shut up.
The Packers remaining a perennial contender in the NFL is a fact backed by statistics. Just like Aaron Rodgers remains one of pro football's elite quarterbacks and Adrian Peterson is the best running back.
Jennings should be reminded there are still four weekends before the start of the regular season, and there are 30 other teams in the NFL.
One gets the feeling that Jennings' continued "look at me" attitude will eventually come back to bite him.