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Saracens wing Chris Ashton has shrugged off "unfair, unjustified" criticism to hit top form demanding an England recall, according to team-mate Kelly Brown.
Ashton has been left out in the international cold in 2014, his last appearance coming in England's 30-22 New Zealand defeat at Twickenham in November.
The 27-year-old set a new one-season try-scoring record in the Heineken Cup as Saracens dispatched Clermont 46-6 on Saturday to book their place in next month's final.
Scotland flanker Brown admitted he thought Ashton was little more than a finisher when he arrived at Saracens from Northampton in 2012.
Following two seasons of close-quarters work with the ex-Wigan Warrior, Brown rates Ashton as an asset England cannot afford to ignore.
"It's up to the coaches of course but I think he's an incredible player," said Brown.
"When he first signed for Saracens I thought he was a good player, I thought 'he gets on the end of things'.
"But I didn't actually understand the work he does off the ball until I'd played with him.
"He pops up all over the place, his work-rate's incredible; he's unbelievably fit, his defence is pretty good and improving all the time.
"He chases kicks all day and he scores tries, so it's brilliant to be playing in the same side as him.
"And I'm sure if he keeps it up he'll be back in the England side soon.
"From my experience he's a very, very good player, and I wasn't aware quite how good he is until I'd played with him.
"I just think he brings something a little bit different.
"I know there's been talk of England wanting something a bit different on the wing but I think he's the only player in England who plays the way he does.
"He follows things: he gets on the end of breaks, and in terms of stopping him, that's very difficult."
Ashton ploughed through England's 2013 RBS 6 Nations campaign clearly short of form and battling to regain full confidence.
Scotland skipper Brown believes Ashton copped far too much flak, but hailed his determination in shaking off his detractors.
England head coach Stuart Lancaster has tilted his wing selections in a different direction since dispensing with Ashton's services, with Jonny May and Jack Nowell to the fore in the 2014 Six Nations.
Marland Yarde is widely regarded as England's premier wing, but has been hampered by injury this term, as has Wasps flyer Christian Wade.
Brown still believes fellow Saracen Ashton can state a compelling case to England coach Lancaster and force his way into the World Cup 2015 squad.
"It's been a test for him, because he has obviously taken a bit of criticism," said Brown. "Quite a lot of that is unfair and unjustified, but that's the challenge as a rugby player.
"Ultimately what's said about you doesn't matter: it's about making sure you keep on working hard, and striving to improve.
"And that's exactly what he does, he works hard every single week.
"On the first training day of every week he comes in and does a fitness session first thing in the morning, and that's something he doesn't need to do, but he's just striving to keep on improving and to keep getting better.
"I'm sure if he keeps going he can get back into that England mix."

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Blonde's Ambition Endangers Aspen Internet Dudefest
No one has been an Internet microcelebrity longer than Hilary Rowland, who began her Web career in 1995. But her hunger for attention could doom an April ski party for startup founders. Oh no!
The Summit Series, an event for Internet entrepreneurs under the age of 36, is gearing up for a third get-together, this time in Aspen.
Rowland, the founder of Hilary Magazine and New Faces, a modeling agency, was one of the few women who went to the last Summit Series, a phenomenally ill-timed November junket in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, for some 60 Internet-industry second-raters who partied and drank in the midst of an economic meltdown. (One attendee, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, came straight from laying off 8 percent of his workforce.)
The event was supposed to be off the record, with no names released, no photos posted, and no mention made of the event's existence. But Rowland, a very attractive blonde with a decidedly unattractive penchant for name-dropping, issued a press release and posted photos of the event for her vast number of Facebook friends. The summit's stated mission was the exchange of ideas and the promotion of charitable works. Perhaps that happened! But if so, Rowland's photographs did not document it:
Among the people Rowland exposed: Drop.io founder Sam Lessin, the son of a Wall Street banker who took 19 of his closest friends to his dad's vacation home in Cyprus, where they filmed a video of their frolics. The clip leaked and the event, promptly dubbed "Camp Cyprus," became an infamous example of the Web 2.0 set's irrational exuberance. In other words, Summit Series Mexico was only the second money-wasting event Lessin, whose startup is hardly setting the world on fire, got caught attending.
And that's the problem that the Summit Series' organizers are now facing. Rowland has proven that they can't keep the event private, and the likes of Lessin surely don't want to be caught out as wastrels a third time. Elliott Bisnow, the event's founder, is also trying to cajole invitees to the four-day Aspen event to pay $3,000; past events were free save for airfare. (Here's the full text of his emails, including an amusing followup to beg for ticket purchases.)
I suppose Bisnow could disinvite Rowland. But there will always be someone willing to barter privacy for a little taste of fame. Isn't that what the Internet was made for? With all her experience, Rowland should know that better than anyone.


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How Obama Can Win Over Congress on the Iran Deal
The interim agreement reached between Iran and six world powers is supposed to be the first step on a long path of international diplomacy. Yet the accord, which temporarily freezes Iran's nuclear program over the next six months, is already proving contentious with the Obama administration insisting on the deal's merits and congressional critics highlighting its concessions. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), for instance, urged that the agreement be met "with healthy skepticism," while Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said that it "does not seem proportional."
If the White House wants talks to move toward a more comprehensive disarmament deal, it will need to make its case not just to allies in the region but also to a skeptical congressional audience — and soon. For the Iranians, a key component of a more permanent agreement is the rollback of sanctions, which fall to a U.S. Congress that has already been itching for further penalties. Diplomacy with Iran hinges not only on the Islamic Republic's compliance then but also Congress's buy-in.
It is ironic that U.S. policy toward Iran is becoming so divisive since beneath all the bluster and bombast, this has been one of the most bipartisan issues in a Capitol perennially divided against itself. The Obama administration would be wise to nurture this rare bipartisan unity as much as the international coalition it has assembled against Iran.
It was Condoleezza Rice's State Department, after all, that originated the notion of a two-track policy of steadily increasing economic pressure on Iran while seeking a diplomatic settlement of the nuclear issue. Rice marshaled the United Nations Security Council to repeatedly censure Iran and demand that it suspend all of its nuclear activities. The Treasury Department, meanwhile, pursued an imaginative policy of segregating Iran from global financial institutions. The Obama administration inherited this policy, refined it and implemented it with discipline.
On the legislative side, all the Iran sanctions bills to date have passed with overwhelming bipartisan majorities. Liberals and conservatives have come together to punish the Islamic Republic for its nuclear transgressions and sponsorship of terrorism. During the past three decades, while many countries have been enticed by Iranian commerce, Congress has distinguished itself by persistently holding Tehran responsible for its human rights abuses. It is inappropriate to attribute this consensus to the prodding of pro-Israeli groups. American legislatures are perfectly capable of being offended by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's penal colony without such advocacy.
The Obama administration can use this precedent of cooperation to its advantage, but it must also acknowledge that diplomacy with Iran cannot be concealed from congressional scrutiny. It is time for the administration to breach its own walls of secrecy and fully and frankly brief congressmen and senators about what happened in Geneva. Going forward, the administration would be prudent to take into consideration congressional concerns as it plots its course of action. What's more, future American delegation to Iran talks should include key Republican staffers from the relevant committees — not as mere ornaments but as active participants in the talks and the many planning sessions that usually precede such meetings. By firmly tethering the two branches of government together, the White House can ensure that a potential accord rests on a firm anchor.
Those who lament such an activist congressional role should pay closer attention to how two legislative giants changed the course of American foreign policy. On the left, the famed 1966 Vietnam hearings of Sen. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) awakened the nation to the tragedy of that war. Less known were Fulbright hearings on China that established the intellectual foundation for the subsequent reconciliation between Washington and Beijing. No arms control agreement negotiated during the height of détente in the 1970s escaped the critical eye of the hawkish Sen. Henry Jackson (D-Wash.), who forced Henry Kissinger to renegotiate, reconsider and even abrogate various provisions of his contemplated agreements. Two presidents, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, complained bitterly of such meddling, and yet, America is better off because of those efforts.
The White House might be tempted to fire back at its critics, but it would be a mistake to deride skeptical members of Congress as "marching to war" with Iran. The most realistic alternative to diplomatic stalemate or a bad deal is not war but a more concerted pressure strategy that may yet compel further concessions from a battered Islamic Republic. Republicans, in turn, should desist from cheap comparisons of President Barack Obama to Neville Chamberlain. This is not the 1930s, and Iran is not Nazi Germany.
It remains to be seen whether a comprehensive agreement imposing stringent and permanent curbs on Iran's nuclear ambitions is possible. Iran has long been an unreliable negotiating partner — acceding to compromises under stress only to violate those commitments at a more convenient time. Still, the White House cannot simply negotiate an accord between Iran and the United States in secret conclaves and then spring it on an incredulous legislature. If Congress is not there on the takeoff, then it is unlikely to be there at the landing.
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Phillips, Wendell (29 November 1811–02 February 1884), orator, abolitionist, and women's rights and labor advocate, orator, abolitionist, and women's rights and labor advocate, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of John Phillips, a well-to-do politician and philanthropist, and Sarah Walley. The youngest of eleven children, Wendell received strict and loving attention from both of his parents. From the first he was trained to see himself as a great leader, committed to addressing the great moral and political questions of his age. This drive for leadership was compounded by his early discovery that he possessed extraordinary gifts as an orator. Athletic, handsome, and intelligent, he impressed teachers and classmates alike with his unusual capacity to express himself and to influence others with eloquent speaking. After attending the Boston Latin School, he graduated from Harvard in 1831 and obtained a Harvard law degree in 1833. For the next three years Phillips resided in and around Boston as he attempted, halfheartedly, to establish a legal practice, a career for which he felt no great enthusiasm. Instead he yearned to pursue a vocation worthy of his august legacy. That vocation, finally, was the cause of abolitionism, which he discovered through the process of courtship and marriage....


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Instead of filming this selfish, food-hoarding behavior, — which is admittedly adorable — this dog's overlords should probably be creating a more peaceable animal kingdom by teaching the dog how to share with other species, even when they have a terrifying red face like this duck. The dog is white so I'm going to go ahead and call it a Samoyed in order to share a suddenly relevant anecdote about how gluttonous Samoyeds can be: My aunt bakes Christmas cookies — big, frosted, chewy, delicious Christmas cookies — every year for the entire extended family, and, since everyone loves cookies, there end up being like a 150 of them. One year, after frosting about 80 of these cookies, she foolishly left them on the kitchen counter while she ran some errands and her Samoyed named Spork ate them. All of them. Guess who didn't get any cookies that year and now hates yet still aesthetically admires Samoyeds?
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Hello Summer!
So I thought Dave just went out there to pick whatever was ripe and ready… wellllllllllll… guess what happened after that….
That's in one pickin'! Dang, he's good! bwahahahaha
Zucchini, yellow & red tomatoes & cucumbers! mmmmm
19 Responses to "Happy Summer! WW"
Sheesh, it looks like you've got a bounty there ma'am!
I bet you're going to have fun incorporating those into meals 🙂
You betcha! When you coming over? I have to tell you though I'm getting pretty good at this. I tell my neighbor want some cukes and maters? How about zucchini? I love zucchini bread, but I have yet to learn how to make it. Well, give me that big one and I'll make you some she says. hehehehe I got it today and it's delicious. My first friend said well, give me some and I'll drop some off for you! ooooooooooooo got five mini-loaves out of that one. I still have yet to learn how to make that darn zucchini bread!!! LOL
I'm still waiting for my garden box, girlfriend!
I can almost tastea yummy salad
I didn't know you could ship something like that. Oh heck, forget that noise just come on over and I'll put a couple of burgers on the barbie and we'll have a great ol' time! Woo Hoo Tasty too! 🙂
This reminds me, I have some cucumbers I need to use up.
Thanks for visiting us at KHEL 666.
LOL well I am sure you will make something very tomatoey and cucumberish heheh!
Have a vegtastic week & thanks for ploughing by 😉
PS: Don't do anything I certainly would 😉
I love garden fresh veggies, especially tomatoes! I'm happy the local tomatoes are better this year than they have been in the past couple of years. During the Summer months I always look for Grainger County tomatoes. They are kinda famous in these parts for being the best ones. I hope the bounty of good veggies keep it up! Enjoy what's left of summer. I know your winters are horrible! Happy #WW!
Oh yum!!!! That all looks relish 🙂
Thanks for hosting!!
That's a great harvest. 🙂 Happy WW. 🙂
Ooohhh lovely colors of your veggies! Its summer here too in the UK and yet feels like autumn already =P #ww
Oh, do those look good! Much better haul than what we ever get. Course the hot desert will just suck the life out of our veggies. I have basically given up with trying to grow a garden.
Hi Marie, aren't you lucky to have such fresh veggies from the garden! Have a nice day and enjoy the rest of the week.
I'm going to miss summer. It's my favorite. We grew a lot of our own this year to. Now we have to process it all.
AHAHAHA! That's funny! Love that Farmer Dave harvested so much goodness! 😉
That settles it! I need to dig a garden for next year! 🙂
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What a great harvest you have going, there is nothing better that fresh cooked and eaten. We just enjoyed some summer squash.
great harvest!! I'm thinking a salsa, or tomato sauce? yummy!
Great harvest! We are growing red onions, two kinds of tomatoes, bell peppers, banana peppers, garlic chives, rosemary and spicy globe basil! Thanks for linking up on MeHimAndTheCats.com!
That is quite a haul Dolly!
I wish I could be as productive at gardening.
That's a nice bounty!!!
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Americans For Prosperity: It's really not working
[This post was co-authored by Lisa Mux and Phil Scarr. All spelling or grammatical errors belong exclusively to Phil]
We watched agape as Americans for Prosperity held an "It's Working Wisconsin Town Hall" meeting at the Waukesha Expo center. And as an added bonus, Lisa got a big hug from Mark Block… It was a magical event!
It was a crisp, bright Saturday morning when eight hundred and fifty Waukesha-area residents gathered under the silver dome of the Waukesha Expo Center to listen to several speakers assembled by the Wisconsin chapter of Americans For Prosperity. They were there to gloat over the "success" of the Republican economic and social legislation. To the assembled throng of Scott Walker acolytes, these reforms are "working." But they didn't come to talk politics, they said. They came to "separate the rhetoric from the reality." We were there to bear witness to this alternate version of "reality" firsthand.
As we sat listening to the pre-event conversations going on around us, quietly whispering "Oh my god, did you hear that?" to one another, a young man passed out bumper stickers. Lisa was shocked to find that her brand new blog business cards were eerily similar (i.e. identical!) to the "God Bless Gov. Scott Walker" bumper stickers we'd just been handed. It was an eerie foreshadowing of the stranger things yet to come.
We settled into our seats behind a woman wearing an Andy Griffith Show t-shirt who said delightedly that she owns twenty such t-shirts. The black and white visages of Andy & Barney looked back at us appearing somewhat bewildered in this strange brew of libertarians, Tea Partiers and Movement Conservatives. The room slowly filled as we bopped our heads to tunes from the Beach Boys, The Beatles and Steppenwolf. Phil began to feel the dissonance resonate behind his eyes as John Lennon belted out his anthem Come Together, rumored to be a political anthem in support of Dr. Timothy Leary's Presidential bid in 1968.
He wear no shoeshine
He got toe jam football
He got monkey finger
He shoot Coca Cola
He say I know you, you know me
One thing I can tell you is
You got to be free
Come together, right now
Over me
Yes, the AFP crowd was humming along to a John Lennon acid trip song, conveniently forgetting that John Lennon was definitely not one of them. Around us, fellow attendees agreed with one another with many an "I know, I know" that the state of our state was dire. The damage done by the unions and the greedy public sector workers was only barely surmountable and that thank the lord that Scott Walker was there to lead them into the sunlit uplands of prosperity! We were through the looking glass where Alice was nowhere to be found. She was hanging out with the Red Queen whom she found eminently more reasonable than any of these folks.
Shortly after 10am, Luke Hilgemann was introduced as the new State Director of the Americans For Prosperity Foundation. Luke served as the Chief of Staff for the Majority Leader of the State Assembly, and helped craft one of the most reactionary legislative agendas in our state's history, including such gems as Conceal and Carry, Voter ID, and the Castle Doctrine.
Hilgemann said, "This forum is meant to arm you with the facts, so that you can spread the Good News in your neighborhoods and communities. While we welcome opposing viewpoints, we will adhere to a strict zero tolerance policy for outbursts and interruptions of today's discussion, and we have several law enforcement officers and personal security to help us do so… Unlike Madison, we can and will have respectful dialogue here today." In other words, get out of line, hippie, and it's the pepper spray for you.
At that point, Lisa wanted to scream into a pillow.
Phil busied himself by focusing on the Reality Distortion Field that was being constructed before our very eyes from "charm, charisma, bravado, hyperbole, marketing, appeasement, and persistence." And a very, very, very selective use of data.
For instance, we've all heard the stories from the right about how the "tools" are working, about how the state managed to avoid thousands of layoffs. We heard speakers tell us how well the "tools" were working and the state managed to avoid thousands of layoffs. We saw a video telling us how well the "tools" were working and the state managed to avoid thousands of layoffs. We heard how this district or that district had saved money or lowered taxes. But the reality is that, across the state, tax bills are up. And not by a little, but sometimes by quite a lot.
But we were told how layoffs were avoided because of the "tools." The crowd cheered. The crowd knew that these heroes on the stage were the real friends of the workers! It was these men who had saved the teacher's jobs! And taught them the value of "shared sacrifice" to boot! Civic virtuousness writ large!
This is what "no layoffs" of public employees looks like in Wisconsin.
We don't know about you, but if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, and falls off a cliff like a duck… I'm willing to bet it's a duck. Now whether this duck was achieved with pink slips or intimidation, the economic result is the same. More people out of work in Wisconsin. I'm always amazed that Republicans believe that money spent by public sector workers is one color, while money spent by private sector workers is another color. Last time we looked, there weren't two kinds of money. It was all (mostly) green.
"Wisconsin is stronger than ever," we heard. But yet there was no mention of the loss of private sector jobs across Wisconsin. The ongoing hemorrhaging of good paying work was unsurprisingly absent from the lectern. Where was this chart, for instance?
"We're not here to talk about politics. Instead, we are here to separate the rhetoric from the reality on what the budget reforms … have done for our state."
Apparently anything that can be done for the state can be done to the state, and to the citizens. This brings me to the next linguistic quirk Lisa and we noticed from each and every speaker. The Expo Center was not filled with citizens, it was filled with taxpayers. Understand? This was a room full of victims of greedy unions and public workers, not members of a community.
Citizens versus Taxpayers
Citizens have responsibilities and obligations in a democratic society.
The obligations of citizenship were deeply connected into one's everyday life in the polis. To be truly human, one had to be an active citizen to the community, which Aristotle famously expressed: "To take no part in the running of the community's affairs is to be either a beast or a god!" This form of citizenship was based on obligations of citizens towards the community, rather than rights given to the citizens of the community. … Also, citizens of the polis saw obligations to the community as an opportunity to be virtuous, it was a source of honour and respect. In Athens, citizens were both ruler and ruled, important political and judicial offices were rotated and all citizens had the right to speak and vote in the political assembly.
But taxpayers are only obligated and put-upon. A taxpayer is someone forced to pay a tax.
A tax may be defined as a "pecuniary burden laid upon individuals or property owners to support the government […] a payment exacted by legislative authority."[1] A tax "is not a voluntary payment or donation, but an enforced contribution, exacted pursuant to legislative authority" and is "any contribution imposed by government […] whether under the name of toll, tribute, tallage, gabel, impost, duty, custom, excise, subsidy, aid, supply, or other name."[1]
Being a citizen is an affirmative state, you are a participant in the social contract, but a taxpayer is a victim of the capricious and avaricious state. The rhetorical use of taxpayer as a replacement for citizen permits conservatives to play the victim, something they have done throughout history to help define themselves.
But I will say this: the sensibility you describe – experiencing or identifying oneself as a victim — is a consistent feature of conservative thought. Regardless of whether the ideologue or camp follower of conservatism sees him or herself as a victim, the idea of victimhood plays a critical part in conservatism. Going back to Burke. Marie Antoinette is the first great victim of the conservative canon. The sovereign who Joseph de Maistre recommends be restored to power once the counterrevolution prevails – someone Maistre describes as being schooled in the ways of adversity, who's been brought low by fortune and thus learned a thing or two – he's a victim (and Maistre recommends him to power on the basis of that victimhood). William Graham Sumner's "forgotten man" is another victim. Nietzsche's master class, in fact, is a victim. So is Nixon's silent majority. And so on.
Initially, I thought this was all instrumental and cynical: understanding that the lingua franca of democratic thought is the democratic appeal to the masses, the conservative turns the possessor into the dispossessed. But over time I've come to think that the victim is a far more fundamental, and sincere, figure in the conservative canon. Because not only does he appeal to us as a figure of compassion or pity, but he's also someone who has a very particular claim on us: he demands to be made whole. In other words, he's a rallying figure, someone whose losses – a country house, a plantation, a factory, a white skin – ought to be recompensed.
What's more, when you turn your privileged class into a group of victims – not just rhetorically but in reality (the French Revolution really did produces losses among the aristocracy; Emancipation really did divest the master class of privilege and property) – they come to possess an attribute that is universally shared: loss. Their loss is quite different from that of the ordinary run of humanity, but loss is loss. I've sometimes wondered whether that might not be the right's singular bid for universalism: it speaks for the loser everywhere.
But as you say, it speaks for the loser not by democratizing society – making things more equal – but by making it more elite, more privilege, more unequal.
It was an amazing experience to hear these folks talk about how the world was against them and how the greed and spite of the unions was driving the state to wreck and ruin. How the unions were stealing their money. In this sense, these folks certainly were not citizens in any way, shape or form.
Naomi Klein Makes an Appearance!
Early on, the audience was told that the forces arrayed against the beleaguered taxpayers told everyone that "the sky would fall" if these budgetary actions were taken. These false victims of the left were lying. The sky did not fall. But they neglected to remind the audience that the entire premise of the "budget repair bill" was based on the belief that… for the lack of a better term… the sky would fall if we didn't end collective bargaining and crush the public unions. That "Shock Doctrine" of a faux fiscal crisis was used to justify the actions taken by the Republicans. It wasn't the Democrats or the Unions who said the sky would fall, it was the conservatives!
Naomi Klein was right. The Republicans used the words of disaster capitalism to advance their radical agenda to destroy what makes Wisconsin great, and they then turn aournd and accused their political adversaries of using the rhetoric of disaster when in fact they were the ones who warned of disaster.
They used the Shock Doctrine to impose their radical agenda on the citizens of Wisconsin and then they accuse their opponents of claiming the sky was falling. Hutzpah, indeed!
Taxes Went Up Not Down!
Contrary to the rhetoric of lower taxes, the facts show that taxes in Wisconsin went up. Behold, the lie of lower taxes
MADISON—State-local governments collected $25.9 billion in taxes and fees in fiscal year 2011, 5.4% more than in 2010. This year's tax burden was the highest since 2006, reflecting 2009-10 tax increases and a modest economic recovery. These findings are from a new Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance (WISTAX) report, "Postrecession Snapshot: Total Taxes in 2011." WISTAX is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to public policy research and citizen education.
Where are the Qualified Workers?
Another theme that permeated the discussion of economics was the assertion that many companies can't find qualified workers. The claim was made that there are 32,000 unfilled positions for skilled workers that employers cannot find. Why? Because we continue to discount the value of education for our workforce, training and re-training has taken a back seat to unprecedented corporate austerity in training budgets.
A recent survey of Wisconsin businesses conducted by the WMC confirms this problem. Training dollars for employees have declined in recent years and this may go a long way to explaining why employers are struggling finding qualified people.
And yet, despite the difficulty of finding qualified applicants, Wisconsin business leaders continue to starve their employees for training.
From a training peak in 2005, training dollars have dropped ever since.
Representative Vos: "When you hear the facts that you have today, and your neighbor or your friend or your spouse, decides to complain about what's been done, take a moment…and share the facts because the only way we are going to win this argument is because we know the truth is on our side." Is it, Mr. Vos? Is it really?
On our way out, we thought we might catch a glimpse of Mark Block aka The Smoking Man, and we were tickled to find him in the front of the Expo Center. Confronted with the reality of The Smoking man, we were unable to develop a coherent question, so Lisa loitered nearby as Phil tried to snap a picture. Without warning, Lisa was drawn into his malodorous embrace, and the photo was snapped for posterity.
After this "Close Encounter of the Block Kind," we rushed for the door, fleeing the shadows of Reagan and GW Bush and darted into the cold winter sunshine. We had survived, bruised but unbroken.
37 Responses to Americans For Prosperity: It's really not working
Palli says:
Mark Block looks like the kind of man who unhealthily smells. You are confirming this impression, I take it?
Phil Scarr says:
Well, we originally caught up to him right after he had a cigarette so yeah, he was kind of smokey / stinky… 🙂
But he is the Smoking Man!
John says:
Great coverage and fact based commentary. It's the party of projection.
Jake formerly of the LP says:
These people really live in a bubble world where facts don't matter. We need to be clowning and hammering them at every turn.
And nice to know they hang out with Mark "Banned from Wisconsin Politics" Block. You know, the same guy who Tim Russell visited by embezzling Veterans' funds. And it all comes around….
Great report, sewers aren't as full of shit as the average Walker supporter.
Suze says:
The tactic they are espousing works, Walkers reforms don't. As long as WE continue to engage in civil discourse illustrating why Walker is wrong we will prevail. Talk to your neighbors, write letters to the editor and stay engaged.
Dan Stebnitz says:
Must be nice to lay claim to every psychedelic song ever written and most especially by John Lennon. You lefties are truly pathetic!
Phil Scarr says:
Dan, stop listening to the voices in your head. They're lying to you. Nowhere did I
lay claim to every psychedelic song ever written and most especially by John Lennon.
The voices are wrong.
Dan Stebnitz says:
Oh yea….do you have one of those charts to show us how you know Lennon or any other classic rocker was not "one of them"?
Phil Scarr says:
Dan, why do you make it so easy to prove you're a fool?
When John and Yoko moved to New York in 1971, they became friends with radicals Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. Rubin and Hoffman co-founded the Youth International Party, nicknamed the "Yippies." From the visitors' balcony, Hoffman, Rubin, and others disrupted the New York Stock Exchange briefly on August 24, 1967, to make a statement on Vietnam. Later they organized massive rallies during the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention to protest the Vietnam War. Rubin convinced Lennon to perform in Ann Arbor, Michigan on December 10, 1971, to free John Sinclair, leader of the White Panther Party, who had been arrested for selling two joints of marijuana to undercover policemen. (The White Panther Party worked in tandem with the Black Panthers to promote cultural revolution.) John and Yoko were joined onstage by Phil Ochs, Stevie Wonder, Bob Seger, Allen Ginsberg, Jerry Rubin, and Bobby Seale, head of the Black Panthers. Lennon performed the song "John Sinclair," which would later be released on his album Accoustic in 2004. Sinclair was released from prison three days after the rally when the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that the state law regarding marijuana possession was unconstitutional.
Noting Lennon's appearance at the Sinclair rally, Senator Strom Thurmond sent a memo to Attorney General John Mitchell in February 1972 declaring that Lennon could pose a serious threat to the re-election of Richard Nixon that year. Lennon could allegedly mobilize the youth vote against Nixon as well as donate sizeable sums of money for rallies that would disrupt Nixon's idea of an orderly America. The following month the Immigration and Naturalization Service began a four-year effort to deport Lennon based on his 1968 conviction of drug possession.
No charts needed…
Dan Stebnitz says:
Just like you lefties to call me names. Shame, Shame, Shame!!!! Lennon was actually beginning to turn more conservative in his later life and he was not necessarily pro-union, and you lay claim of Woody Guthrie with your photo. You really must have a complex.
Phil Scarr says:
If the shoe fits, fool… I notice you provide no evidence to support your baseless assertion
Lennon was actually beginning to turn more conservative in his later life
Care to back that up with data? Oh wait, you can't because neither of your silly assertions are true!
What exactly were Lennon's political views at the end of 1980? Late that November, Lennon spoke out on behalf of striking workers in Los Angeles and San Francisco. (The story is told in my book Come Together: John Lennon in His Time.) The strike was against Japan Foods Corporation, a subsidiary of the Japanese multinational Kikkoman, best known for its soy sauce. The US workers, primarily Japanese, were members of the Teamsters. In LA and San Francisco, they went on strike for higher wages. The shop steward of the LA local, Shinya Ono, persuaded John and Yoko to make a public statement addressed to the striking workers:
"We are with you in spirit.… In this beautiful country where democracy is the very foundation of its constitution, it is sad that we have to still fight for equal rights and equal pay for the citizens. Boycott it must be, if it is the only way to bring justice and restore the dignity of the constitution for the sake of all citizens of the US and their children.
"Peace and love, John Lennon and Yoko Ono. New York City, December, 1980."
Lennon was quite a lefty right up until the time he was assassinated, and he was a supporter of labor unions much like Woody Guthrie.
But take heart little Dan. Perhaps one day you can aspire be not just the fool, but the Fool on the Hill instead!
Dan Stebnitz says:
Oh yea, all you reported to me above is really old news from a different time and era in this country. I am not sure but I dont think you would have liked the democratic party back then. A bunch of racist, stuffed shirts!
Phil Scarr says:
Oy vey…
all you reported to me above is really old news from a different time and era in this country
That's when John Lennon was alive, you fool!
Tim Gray says:
John Lennon had a secret admiration for Reagan toward the end of his life.
Check it out: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2009562/John-Lennon-closet-conservative-fan-Reagan.html
Zach W says:
You're basing your statement on hearsay from a man who the article notes was forced to apologize in court to Lennon's widow in 2002 after he was accused of stealing hundreds of the star's personal photographs and letters.
Hardly someone whose character is above reproach.
Phil Scarr says:
You beat me to it, Zach. 🙂
Nomi Rene says:
LOL! I don't know who you are, Phil Scarr, but your responses are CRACKING ME UP!
But I gotta ask – were they REALLY playing "Come Together"??? Isn't that by the same rebel rock group that did "Revolution"? Well, well…you know!
Phil Scarr says:
Nomi, I am the blogger your parents warned you about.
Lisa and I were witnesses to the event. I will swear to it in court (though as a confirmed atheist, not on a bible… a copy of Origin of Species perhaps…) that their playlist included Come Together and (I love this one), Magic Carpet Ride by Steppenwolf.
The only song that was missing was Time out of Mind by Steely Dan
Tonight when I chase the dragon
The water may turn to cherry wine
And the silver will turn to gold
Time out of mind
to make it a true drug-induced trifecta!
Steve Carlson says:
I'm surprised they weren't playing this one.
wi_n8ive says:
I really appreciated your graph on the number of jobs created over Walker's tenure. I'm sure this graph will interest you as well.
I wait with baited breath, your negative review of this politician's policies and the fact that he has not been able to deliver on his promises to create jobs either…
Phil Scarr says:
Ahhh, yes. Oh, I've seen that. Here's a better version of it.
You see, the stimulus worked. Had congress acted in a more timely fashion, unemployment would have been held at a lower figure.
Only fools use Cato data…
wi_n8ive says:
As to voter identification – I also have an interesting picture from a union election for Boeing.
Seems these elections are unfair too?
Oh and a video that may be of interest – what happens when you don't check voter's ID.
Phil Scarr says:
Let me suggest you go make your own blog, that way you can spread your fact-free propaganda to your heart's content.
BTW, most of those idiots in New Hampshire are facing prosecution. Well done, morons!
Jeff Simpson says:
I tweeted Breitbart for a response but havent received one:
JeffSimpson7 Jeff Simpson
hey skipper @AndrewBreitbart looks like your little Gilligan @JamesOKeefeIII tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/electi… is a fraud and committed it! #Wiunion #p2
Phil Scarr says:
Heh… keep us all posted!
Lew says:
A RESPONSE – just for GRINS – 🙂
• First, I will not comment on the whining in the beginning of the blog – about the Andy Griffiths T-Shirts, and the bumper sticker/business card similarities – this is just answered by a resounding SO WHAT?
• As for the John Lennon piece – "…Yes, the AFP crowd was humming along to a John Lennon acid trip song, conveniently forgetting that John Lennon was definitely not one of them."
o What petty tripe! I have heard all manner of Gentile music at Barmitzvah's too, and I did not assume that the performers were or had to be Jewish in order to be played there. This is what's commonly known as a "red herring" argument. I will spare you the definition, since your blog seems to have a pretty good handle on posting definitions… Fact is, there is evidence that even John Lennon had somewhat changed politically toward the end of his life. But, whether or not he would have had any agreement or objection to having his music played at an event supporting the Walker reforms is material for an episode of the Twilight Zone. Meanwhile, playing a song entitled "Come Together" at this event seemed entirely appropriate to me, and is in no way mutually exclusive to any group's events.
• "…We were through the looking glass where Alice was nowhere to be found. She was hanging out with the Red Queen whom she found eminently more reasonable than any of these folks."
o Can't really argue with your perspective – you would have to be in some "wonderland" altered reality to NOT recognize the dire state that decades of Democrat and union (but I repeat myself) control have left Wisconsin. Or, perhaps you are one of the beneficiaries of the payoffs from that control, and therefore insensitive to the effects of it?
• "Hilgemann said, "This forum is meant to arm you with the facts, so that you can spread the Good News in your neighborhoods and communities. While we welcome opposing viewpoints, we will adhere to a strict zero tolerance policy for outbursts and interruptions of today's discussion, and we have several law enforcement officers and personal security to help us do so… Unlike Madison, we can and will have respectful dialogue here today." In other words, get out of line, hippie, and it's the pepper spray for you."
o No, in other words, since there is overwhelming historical evidence of un-hinged shouting, physical violence, intimidation, and bullying – by those who object to the results of legal representative republic elections – it is necessary to preclude that sort of nonsense from the start. NOT to silence that voice, but to preserve the right of the other seldom covered or heard voice from being able to be exercised. BTW – I heard NO rule or process that stopped any progressive attendee from standing up and expressing their views in the same way as the rest in attendance – calmly, and in turn… oh wait, maybe that was the real problem?
• "At that point, Lisa wanted to scream into a pillow" – My above point is proven… 🙂
• "Phil busied himself by focusing on the Reality Distortion Field that was being constructed before our very eyes from "charm, charisma, bravado, hyperbole, marketing, appeasement, and persistence." And a very, very, very selective use of data."
o Not impressed with the copying of a definition from WIKIPEDIA. The assertion about selective use of data, hyperbole, and persistence is however a point of expertise that I concede to the blogger's side…
• "This is what "no layoffs" of public employees looks like in Wisconsin."
o I have had a hard time finding the chart that is used here to verify for myself the data points, and the meanings. But, there is also no data to support the reason why? Certainly, I can find no data that indicates it is because "this is what layoffs look like" – probably because it is NOT what layoffs look like. Indeed, the rest of the commentary in the blog seems to indicate that there is no evidence that the reforms (or layoffs) are the cause. The argument here is apparently satisfied with estbalishing the eroneous concept of "correlation as causation" – which of course is the antithesis of the first thing one is taught in economics 101. Fact is, many government employees retired. In my little school district alone, 7 teachers cut and run with their bloated retirement packages (an exodus rate above the norm). Even so, whatever the aggregate reasons were or are, there were NO wholesale layoffs. Bottonline – this whole argument is the definition of a straw-man… Oh, and what these Liberals always seem to overlook is that even though the money that public workers spend is indeed green, it has to come from the taxpayer first. There is no (or at least very few) public job(s) that are self-sustaining in the monetary economic cycle without having to rely on the private sector for funding…
• "…But yet there was no mention of the loss of private sector jobs across Wisconsin. The ongoing hemorrhaging of good paying work was unsurprisingly absent from the lectern."
o This is perhaps the ONLY true issue that is presented. The jobless rate is horrible, and THAT IS ONE OF THE PRIMARY REASONS WHY WALKER WAS ELECTED. The economic prospects of the state's crushing debt, and regulation environment – left us from the previous decades of progressive rule in Wisconsin – will need to be countered – and is being countered. As Thomas Jefferson correctly noted – "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." – Thomas Jefferson We are now on that path. Better days are now in store if we can keep these reforms in place, and build on them… FYI – Almost every day, Governor Walker posts the details of the job actions, meetings, and business announcements he is driving and promoting throughout the state. Our president is covered in nauseam the few scattered times he decides to have some sort of useless job summit. Governor Walker is working to create a REAL environment for business to create jobs almost every day, and there is nothing in the biased news… 🙂
• Now, here's the fun part! The whole 'citizen versus taxpayer' discussion is the money part of this blog.
o First – again it is completely unimpressive to copy a definition and masquerade it as argument. The dissertation about citizens having an active part in the community, and the entire obligatory lecture that follows is complete and total academic crap! To imply that these taxpayers in attendance (at this event and throughout the state) are somehow not citizens in the 'strictest sense', is not only short-sighted, but flat-out wrong. I would stand the civic activities of these taxpayers – in their respective communities – against this blogger's any time!
o Second, there is no greater REAL contribution to citizenship than to reliably FUND the government in which the citizen and taxpayer resides, works, and votes.
* NEWS FLASH – RELIABLY PAYING ONE'S TAXES IS A PRETTY DAMN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION! It requires thought, action, knowledge, intent, and competence…
o Third – This is where the victim discussion comes into play. The taxpayer citizens of this state have been reliably funding this rigged game for so long now, this blogger's public employee "citizens" believe that it is the absolute height of oppression that the taxpayers (their benefactors) should want to figure out why the buckets of money that they have thrown at public employees is still not enough? How is it that taxpayers have to pay for their own benefits, and then have to turn around and continually pay more and more and more for public worker's benefits – benefits that are way beyond what they have access to? Where is the "occupy" mentality of FAIRNESS when it comes to this? Do we need to have an OCCUPY PUBLIC BENEFITS movement? Another huge issue that has victimized the taxpayers. Imagine an insurance company owned by the very same union that represents the insured (WEA TRUST). Now, imagine that THEY collectively bargain with politicians that THEY help to elect to purchase THEIR insurance product. And, at a rate that is way above what could be competitively bid in the open market. But, hay – it's OK – it's the taxpayer's money – not THEIRS! If Governor Walker's reforms fixed nothing but this, it would be more than worth it!!! This is just the tip of the public-sector scam iceberg that has been perpetrated on the "CITIZENS" of this state for decades upon decades… Suggestion – take your esoteric lecture on citizenship to someone who cares – like perhaps your civic responsibility class professor – at get a clue U!
• "But they neglected to remind the audience that the entire premise of the "budget repair bill" was based on the belief that… for the lack of a better term… the sky would fall if we didn't end collective bargaining and crush the public unions."
o Again – a totally wrong assertion based on a fundamental revision of historical fact. The premise of the reforms was that the state was BROKE, IN DEBT, AND ON THE BRINK OF WHOLESALE LAYOFFS & CUTS IN SERVICES if the funding model was not brought into sanity (see Illinois and California today for a real-time laboratory experiment of what would have been here). For your benefit, and edification – Walker's reforms could just as easily be called FISCAL RESPONISIBILITY INITIATIVE – look it up, an amazing concept.
• "Taxes went up not down"
o This too is a miss-representation. In many districts around the state, school tax levies have gone down for the first time in many years (present company included). My property taxes went down a small amount, but even had they remained exactly the same that would be the first time in the ten years I have owned this property.
o While some property taxes may have increased for various reasons – the statistics that are used to attempt to justify the blog's claim have to do with the following – Higher tax collections in 2011 were largely driven by increases in individual income and property taxes—mostly income. And here's the money piece -Those increases included a new tax bracket for the state's highest earners and a reduction in the capital gains exclusion included in the 2009-11 state budgets – WHICH WERE ENACATED IN AN OVERNIGHT RAM-THROUGH LEGISLATIVE ACTION BY THE DOYLE ADMINISTRATION. FYI – no Republican legislators left the state – no activists marched around the capital, and no recalls were initiated. Hmmm, wonder why?
• "Where are the Qualified Workers?" "The claim was made that there are 32,000 unfilled positions for skilled workers that employers cannot find. Why? Because we continue to discount the value of education for our workforce, training and re-training has taken a back seat to unprecedented corporate austerity in training budgets." And yet, despite the difficulty of finding qualified applicants, Wisconsin business leaders continue to starve their employees for training."
o So, it is now the government's responsibility to monitor businesses to see if they are spending an 'appropriate' amount on training – BECAUSE the public schools certainly are NOT increasing their level of even basic training? This is the sort of government dereliction of duty, and meddling where it does not belong, that has gotten us into this mess. FACT IS PROGRESSIVE PUBLIC EDUCATION IS FAILING TO PRODUCE "QUALIFIED" CANDIDATES FOR REAL WORLD JOB POSITIONS.
"In 2008–09, more than half of the 1.6 million bachelor's degrees awarded were in five fields: business (22 percent), social sciences and history (11 percent), health professions and related clinical sciences (8 percent), education (6 percent), and psychology (6 percent)." "Over 317,000 waiters and waitresses have college degrees (over 8,000 of them have doctoral or professional degrees), along with over 80,000 bartenders, and over 18,000 parking lot attendants. All told, some 17,000,000 Americans with college degrees are doing jobs that the BLS says require less than the skill levels associated with a bachelor's degree."
Why is this? "…the growing disconnect between labor market realities and the propaganda of higher-education apologists is causing more and more people to graduate and take menial jobs or no job at all."
Work cited – http://chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/why-did-17-million-students-go-to-college/27634
o We have leading employers in this state that are not manufacturers of anything. The idea that one should go to school to learn how to actually do something has almost been totally lost. We are impressed if our high-schools can even produce students who can read! Decades of Liberal/Democrat/Union control of school districts – like MPS – have almost totally lost whole generations on citizens. All we get from them year after year after year is the next "literacy initiative" which results in NOTHING… There is an opportunity NOW for REAL reform, without having to cow-tau to the teacher's union every time you want to make a useful and practical improvement.
o Suggestion – start encouraging students to go into the trades, and learn actual skills in technology, and mechanics – instead of herding them into feel good and useless liberal arts degrees, turning them loose to work at George Webb's, and then crying about unemployment… Years ago when my Dad went to high school in Milwaukee, there was a trade school that many-many students (including my Dad) went to for the purpose of learning trade skills – interpretation: real job skills. Students who knew they were not college candidates, or didn't want to be – but were none-the-less qualified to be electricians, plumbers, and so on – went there. This was one of the reasons that Milwaukee was once known as the machine-shop of the world, and provided the means to lift several Milwaukee working generations into a comfortable, and rewarding middle-class life, and in some cases far beyond that. Today that school has a good day if the police do not have to be called to pick up a body, or break up a fight! Very progressive…
Lisa Mux says:
It's great that you hold us to such high standards. I hope you hold the mainstream media to the same such standards.
I don't have time this morning to address all of your points, sorry, but I will take credit for the mention of the Andy Griffith t-shirts. I like to include details like this in my posts so readers can get a feel for the flavor of the events, and because I have A SENSE OF HUMOR.
Thanks again for reading our post, and for taking time to dissect it. 🙂
Dan Stebnitz says:
Well said Lew!!!!
Jeff Simpson says:
Way too much in that dissertation to even respond to. I will just say with you PLEASE stop quoting Thomas Jefferson please?
Every time a "tea partier" quotes Jefferson, Ben Franklin loses a kite! That is a proven fact. Be kind to Ben and Thomas and the rest of us and just stop!
You do understand that that room was full of Tories right?
Lew says:
Stop qouting TJ – I like qouting TJ.
Anyway, that's my s-Tory, and I'm sticking with it – 🙂
Lew says:
Pretty much as I thought – even though I did not have this when I wrote my response… 🙂
Lew says:
@Lisa, I wish I COULD hold the media to a "high standard", but I am no match for that fool's errand.
I also have a sense of humor, and I have no objections to Andy Griffiths T-Shirts – I have one myself. I only got the impression that it was somehow a derogatory comment meant to proactively strengthen the false premises that were about to be developed. If I was wrong (about the derogatory comment), I stand corrected.
FYI – I generally don't do this kind of dissection, but in this case the opportunity, time, and target-rich material all lined-up for me…. 🙂
Regards, Lew
Tomato Addict says:
A person with twenty identical Andy Griffith shirts does seem a little odd, but given the circumstances they may have been the least odd person in the room – Excepting Phil and Lisa of course.
The fist graph would be more convincing if it showed several years of data for comparison, and better still if it had the number of new hires and the number leaving employment. … AND then I noticed the units are in thousands … a 2% deviation out of 400,000 is a much larger shock than 2% of 400.
John Schraufnagel says:
Boy! This blog is just further evidence of how out-of-touch liberals really are. Even with the facts in hand, they manage to twist and distort them to serve their own socialistic and liberal elitist agenda. If I read this tripe long enough, I might actually start to believe that I was in the 1% of Americans or maybe that my taxes really did go up – NOT! Wake up people! Money doesn't grow on trees and private sector workers are not going to stand for the union, public sector double standards any longer!
Zach W says:
John, what double standards are you referring to?
Phil Scarr says:
private sector workers are not going to stand for the union, public sector double standards any longer!
Then the 1% win…
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Avoiding problematic social media activity.
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Q: How can I avoid problems with social media? What not to do with social media.
A: As much as we would like to believe that we are entitled to coach at, swim at, or be a member of our preferred swimming venue, in most cases we are not. Participation is a privilege, not a right, and losing that privilege can be devastating. No Masters coach or swimmer wants to receive the news that theyre no longer welcome at their aquatics facility.
While inappropriate behavior should never be tolerated at the pool, neither should it be tolerated away from the pool. This includes all forms of negativity on social media. While coaches and program leaders can't monitor every post every day, they can establish written standards that all members should agree and adhere to when interacting with other program members and stakeholders. Remedies should also be included in the swim program's standards and guidelines for program participation.
The two most common misuses of social media are cyberbullying and negative messaging.
Bullying may seem like nothing more than sophomoric banter but it's not. It's hurtful and has no place in a Masters program. If you're a coach who needs to tear down people to build your own ego or self-esteem, find another profession.
If you become aware of others in your program who engage in bullying at or away from the pool, insist that they cease and desist immediately. No coach wants to have a member removed from the program. However, you as the coach, and leader of the program, must protect the integrity of the program and ensure the enjoyment and safety of all.
Negative messaging and pejorative behavior on social media can lead to a multitude of potential problems.
Here is an example of an email no coach wants to receive:
"Coach Upacreek,
I regret to inform you that your Masters program is no longer welcome at the aquatics center. It has come to my attention that members in your program have disparaged our facility and staff by communicating negative, false and misleading statements in various media within the community. I've attached a copy of recent social media posts that have been brought to my attention.
The aquatics facilities' reputation within the community is of the utmost importance and I can no longer tolerate your member's inappropriate activities. Good luck finding another facility."
Please don't have your members wage war with or air complaints about your pool or program on social media. Yes, we have First Amendment rights. No, one of our inalienable rights is not to swim where we please. If there are issues that need to be addressed, schedule a time to meet with the aquatics facility decision makers and resolve the issues. Your program's relationship with the pool, whether you rent pool space or youre a program of the facility, should be a partnership. If you need help strengthening your partnership or need help resolving issues, contact the USMS national office and Club and Coach Services and resources will be provided.
Keep the use of social media positive and uplifting. Use it to share program updates, information, and upcoming events. And, whenever possible, celebrate the accomplishments of your members in and away from the pool.


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ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ARC announced today that Lauri Reishus has been promoted to vice president and chief operating officer. Reishus, who joined ARC in 2005, has most recently been vice president of operations and has been the driving force behind the updating of ARC's Agency Reporting Agreement, announced earlier this year. She will continue her responsibilities in overseeing ARC's agency and carrier participation programs, including agency accreditation, airline ticket sales settlement, fraud prevention and customer support services.
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In a separate announcement, Business Travel News named Reishus to its list of the 25 Most Influential Executives of 2012. BTN Group editors determined the list based on industry-nominated suppliers, buyers and intermediary professionals who exerted their influence and impacted change in business travel. This is the 29th consecutive year in which BTN has provided industry professionals with this honor.
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We just received word that on Sunday, June 3rd, a program called Animal Superpowers: Extreme Hunters will air on the National Geographic Wild channel. The website says 9 p.m. eastern, but please check your local listings. Dolphin Research Center's dolphins and Director of Education Kirsten Donald demonstrated dolphin acoustic abilities and echolocation for the program. The show spotlights some of the interesting abilities different animals have that help them forage and find prey. DRC's help provided a greater understanding of other cetaceans like sperm whales in the Azores. The segment was filmed at DRC last September. We're excited to see the finished program and hope that you get to tune in too!
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Also seasonally appropriate!
It's simple math, really:
Christmas bells > rice > birdseed > bubbles > everything else you can throw at weddings
Last year on our wedding day, my husband and I decided we wanted to something a little unusual for our portaits. So we traipsed through the mall, stood in line next to all the kids in their holiday best, and got our picture with Santa!
Can't think of a better ending to a play, really! Or beginning, or middle, for that matter.
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good bite!


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Vision cables
The choice of cabling for an application is driven by the following considerations:
- Cable flexibility
- Transmission distance
- Connector integrity and material
- Environment
- Cable routing
Cable flexibility
Most cables have a degree of flexibility, in that you can bend them to fit into a system chassis or machine. For applications where the camera will be moving, standard cables are not sufficient as they are not designed to withstand continuous bending and flexing over time resulting in higher abrasive wear and failure. In these applications robot or track-grade cables should be specified. These cables are tested with repeated movements to simulate use on a robotic system or drag chain. The parameters that define this type of cable are: the minimum radius angle of the flex and the number of flexes in a given time period.
Track-grade cables are typically designed to survive more than 1 million flexes with a minimum radius. Robotic-grade cables go through an additional torsional flex test which specifies repeated twisting of the cable through up to 360° over a specified length. This simulates the stress on a cable used in connection with robot arms. Most interface cables are available in higher flex formats.
Cabling - transmission distance
In principle cables can be produced to any length within the constraints defined by the interface standard.
Cabling - connector integrity
Industrial applications usually require a secure connection and it is desirable to lock the cables in position. Many industrial and commercial interface solutions specify connectors that lock, such as BNC (bayonet lock) and Hirose (push pull) for analogue systems, MDR26 for CameraLink (screwable) and CAT5e/CAT6 (screwable) for Ethernet and other specifications. This ensures that the connector cannot be accidentally removed by pulling on the cable or in case of vibration.
Interfaces such as USB and FireWire A or B, have no universally agreed locking standard defined. The connectors for these interfaces are often of a simple 'push-fit' design, making them problematic when used in industrial applications. However as this type of cable is usually cheaper due to the large volumes manufactured and therefore is often used despite the mechanical disadvantages.
Two choices of locking connectors exist, screw locks where screws fix the connectors together, and latching that have a push latch that needs to be depressed to remove the cables.
Cable routing
Normally cables are bought off-the-shelf and not wired in-situ. Problems often occur when cables need to pass through bulkheads or tight places where cable connectors do not fit. Limited space therefore often leads to complicated cabling solutions. With many of the new digital interface standards, the ability to self-wire cables is a very complex task and if not manufactured correctly can cause data errors..
Extending cables
Some applications require longer cable lengths than the interface standard allows. Using optimized transmission material on a copper base, data can be transferred securely over medium range distances.
For situations requiring significant cable lengths, selecting an alternative interface might solve the problem, however sometimes there are reasons that make this impossible. For all digital interface standards repeaters enable lengths to be extended typically between 2 and 4 times the standard length. Longer distances can be achieved using fibre optic cable solutions where cable lengths can be extended up to a few hundred meters with multi mode fibre and up to a few kilometres using single mode fibres.


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According to the president of Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Craig Kornblau, if 30 per cent of a movie's sales are Blu-ray, that's pretty damn good.
Consider the big picture laid out in the WSJ piece: Blu-ray, as a format, despite costing more per individual movie, only pulls around 14 per cent of the revenue that DVD does. If you compare the formats at the same year in their life cycle, Blu-ray, in its fourth year, only has revenues that are about a quarter of what DVD made in its fourth year. Hrm, I guess those Flipper discs make a lot more sense now. [WSJ]


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6 Nations
Scotland call up reinforcements for Ireland clash
Scotland Head Coach Gregor Townsend today added front-row pair Fraser Brown and Murray McCallum to Scotland's 2019 Guinness Six Nations squad.
Glasgow Warriors hooker Brown joined the group in non-contact training last last week and is expected to take full part from today, with fellow Warrior and hooker Grant Stewart returning to the club.
Prop McCallum (22) last featured for Scotland on the 2018 summer tour and joins as fellow Edinburgh tightead Willem Nel continues his recovery from a calf strain sustained in the national team's opening victory over Italy at BT Murrayfield Stadium on Saturday.
Sam Skinner injured his ankle early in the
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Official. Eddie Jones signs new England Deal.
England men's head coach Eddie Jones and the RFU have agreed a contract extension which will see him continue his role until the end of the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France.
Jones joined England Rugby at the end of 2015 and has coached the men's national side on 54 occasions winning 42, drawing one and losing 11 – giving him a win ratio of 78%, the highest in the history of England coaches.
Under Jones, England has won two Six Nations titles including a Grand Slam in 2016, a 3-0 away Test series win against Australia in the same year, an unbeaten run of 18 matches equalling New Zealand's record and were finalists at last year's Rugby World Cup in Japan.
Jones said: "The extension is a great honour for me, but in the current environment, it is only right to acknowledge what a difficult time the world is facing. We are all looking forward to a time when we can get back to playing rugby and use the sport as a force for good in bringing people back together. I never thought coming here four years ago I would be doing a second four years but the circumstances are right. Obviously it is important for the team that we keep improving and my focus will be solely on that.
"I am excited about raising the standards again. We have a great team. We set out four years ago to be the best team in the world and unfortunately we missed that by 80 minutes. Now we want to be the team that is remembered as being the greatest team the game has ever seen. It's a big ambition but I believe we are capable of doing it. We have players with an enhanced reputation, we have a team that is expected to do well, so it's a great opportunity for us to keep moving forward."
Bill Sweeney, RFU CEO said: "My thoughts and those of all of us at the RFU are with everyone impacted by COVID-19, both across the country at large but also within our own rugby union community. In exceptionally difficult times, we are pleased to be sharing some good news. We are delighted that Eddie will continue as head coach to run England's campaign to take us to the 2023 Rugby World Cup. His record since joining speaks for itself and he has proven why he is one of the best coaches in world rugby. The progress shown by England since 2015 has been indisputable and having fielded the youngest-ever team to play in a World Cup final, we know even more growth is possible. We are all excited by what this squad can do and having Eddie leading the team is very important to us.
"We reached an understanding soon after returning from Japan but there were some things that we wanted to make sure worked for both sides. We have announced Eddie's contract extension a few weeks later than planned as our focus was diverted to support the English rugby community during this difficult time, we are now turning our attention to developing plans to support the rebooting of rugby and a winning England team will provide a vital role in that."
Ahead of the Guinness Six Nations Jones confirmed Simon Amor and Matt Proudfoot would join Steve Borthwick and John Mitchell as his assistant coaches. Jason Ryles will join later in the year as skills coach following Borthwick's departure towards the end of the season.
6 Nations
RFU CEO gives COVID-19 planning & support update
Bill Sweeney – RFU, CEO
My thoughts and those of all of us at the RFU continue to be with everyone impacted by the difficult and exceptional situation we are all facing, both across the country and within our own rugby union community.
Earlier today we held a virtual board meeting and I am writing to advise you of the actions that have been agreed to offer a support package directly funded from the RFU worth £7m to provide support for community clubs in England.
To support clubs we are today announcing that the RFU will be providing a £7m relief package for community clubs. The package includes monies ring fenced and diverted for the community game as well as additional funding. These measures include:
• An early release of £800,000 cash due to clubs through the ticketing fund.
• Early release of final funding payments (£600,000) to Constituent Bodies and suspension of the activity plans against which this was allocated, enabling them to utilise this to provide "immediate support grants" to clubs most in need. In addition £400,000 will be made available to Constituent Bodies who elect to match fund from their own reserves.
• A suspension of the Quarterly loan repayments for clubs with outstanding loans due in March (£335,000).
• The creation of a £5m support loans programme, offering loans of between circa £2k and circa £10k to clubs, with deferred re-payments for six months and repayable over three years.
We will be providing more details on this financial package in the coming week. We will also be issuing regular club recovery updates with practical advice on how government grants can be accessed as well as other business management advice.
We welcome government interventions which will provide business rate holidays and grants for clubs.
The RFU will continue to provide a free helpline to assist clubs with legal and tax related matters: https://www.englandrugby.com/participation/running-your-club/legal-and-administration
Significant progress has been made on the process for considering the implications of ending the season early. We will ensure a fair and balanced outcome for the game and are now committed to update on this by the middle of April.
No one can predict every possible outcome of the COVID-19 outbreak particularly with regard to the duration of this crisis and we are managing in the unknown. We have modelled three potential scenarios and are working on an assumption based on a medium term impact with a view to a return to rugby in the autumn. We will continue to monitor against this assumption and review and revise planning where necessary.
The RFU had budgeted for a loss making year within a four year cycle due to the costs of the 2019 RWC campaign and hosting only two home Six Nations games. The loss will now be considerably more as we face challenges similar to businesses across the country.
The RFU's biggest asset is also a major cost and the closure of Twickenham Stadium has a significant impact on the revenues we can generate to re-invest back into the game. In that sense we are like every other club in the Union, when we do not stage matches and events we do not generate revenue.
Based on our planning assumption we estimate RFU revenue losses over the next 18 months to be approximately £45-£50 million and have a firm plan in place to mitigate this. The RFU Executive Team will be taking a cut in remuneration in excess of 25%. In addition, combined Board fees will be reduced by 75%.
We are continuing our support to ensure colleagues and communities are given help to follow government advice and are providing recommendations on how to stay fit and healthy and a range of new content will be made available to players and fans across our social media channels.
We are discussing with government and the NHS the role the RFU and Twickenham Stadium can play in providing volunteers as well as support for the NHS including accommodation, parking and meal provisioning.
I am confident that rugby will play a big role in energising communities across England after this difficult period. In the meantime, we are working hard with the wider rugby community to take the necessary measures to safeguard a financially resilient Union so that we can.
6 Nations
Rodney Parade to help in fight against coronavirus
Rodney Parade has become the latest sporting venue to open its doors to help stop the spread of coronavirus.
The Newport stadium has been provided free of charge as a base for front-line NHS staff to check if they have the virus and are able to continue working. At this stage only NHS staff are eligible to be tested at Rodney Parade to see if they have COVID-19. Dragons managing director Mark Jones said: "The health service and care workers are doing an incredible job in such difficult circumstances so we are happy to offer our help and support in any way we can.
"Playing our part in the local community is at the heart of what we're about at the Dragons and in times of crisis people stick together. We would urge everyone to follow the latest NHS advice on protecting themselves from the virus, particularly to stay at home and avoid unnecessary travel."
A statement from Aneurin Bevan Health Board read: "The health and wellbeing of our staff is essential for delivering services for the people of Gwent. It is fundamental during this time when the most vulnerable people need us most.
"We have set up a drive-through facility to test staff for the Coronavirus (COVID-19) and help us get our teams back in to work on the front line. The testing site is located at Rodney Parade in Newport and we ask that everyone practises the stay-at-home guidance and does not visit the site.
"Everyone at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board would like to thank the team at Rodney Parade for their community-focused approach and accommodating us during these difficult times."
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"Big Brother" host Julie Chen revealed this week on CBS' "The Talk" that she underwent double-eyelid surgery to make her eyes look "less Asian," at the behest of her former TV station, NBC affiliate WDTN in Dayton, Ohio.
Chen said an ex-boss told her she'd never get on the anchor desk looking that Chinese, that her eyes were "small" and "unexpressive." An agent later told her the same thing, so she says she felt it necessary to oblige and surgically alter her face, to Westernize her look.
After all the media attention and public outcry, that Ohio station issued an apology, blaming old management. Better late than never.
"We are sorry to hear about what happened to CBS' Julie Chen in 1995 when she was a reporter at WDTN-TV," Joe Abouzeid, the station's president and general manager, said in a prepared statement. "The station was under different management and ownership during that time. At WDTN and WBDT, we don't tolerate racism or discrimination of any kind."
Chen says her career post-surgery took off, so she's conflicted about her decision. She wasn't sure if going under the knife was "giving into 'the man,'" she said on "The Talk" panel Wednesday in a special episode about "secrets revealed."
Find Jennifer Wadsworth on Twitter at @jennwadsworth.


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Too many Chiefs
The Bisons and Chiefs have met six times in the first 16 games of the season and unlike years past, Buffalo has had their struggles. On Sunday afternoon, Syracuse knocked off Buffalo 4-0 to make it six straight wins over the Thruway rival.
Freddie Bynum used a leadoff homer and 2-run base hit to drive home three of the four runs for the Nationals new affiliate.
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The mud flaps rule. Can't wait to see them jiggle, when ya make a vid...
I'm surrounded by inner tubes at work, now I know something to do with them.
I prefer the crappy photos. That way, the bar is set low enough.
Another superb set of results Richard.
Your extra personal details make it so much fun to watch and every build you teach me something new... thanks!
Woo I got a new background! I've never seen one of these in person with the top off and I must say it looks awesome!
Aim low. Aim so low no one will even care if you succeed. Dinner's in the oven. If you want some butter it's under my face.
I built some items to bounce around in the truck. Snow brush, cardboard for the oil leak and a parking brake.
Then I hit the trails. All the recent rain made some awesome washouts. The truck is sort of capable and slow. My favorite combination. I am very happy with this toy truck and I foresee many hours of fun both at home and abroad.
SBG Junior Vice President in Charge of Jerps
Stunning scale awesomeness and big smile on the builder. Congrats on achieving 2 of life's most important things. Glad to see it getting out on the trails!
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|Fotografía de Hisaji Hara
Estudio de "La víctima", 2009
Hisaji Hara
Selected articles
Ko-e magazine Sep-Oct 2010, "The Fog of Time"
Hisaji Hara, A Study of 'Therese', 2009 and Balthus, Therese, 1938
The legacy of Showa Japan runs deep and is also evident in your photographs. What is your attraction to Showa?
The building that appears in the pictures was a privately-run clinic built in the Taisho era (1912-26) and actually used until Showa 40 (1960). Discovering this building was the direct catalyst for my having realized this series. If this series exudes the feeling of Showa at all, then I think that's largely due to the atmosphere of the building itself. Of course, having been born in Showa 39, I think that the age carries a lot of meaning for me. The values of Showa have probably had no small effect on the formation of my character.
However, for an artist like me who expresses himself through photographs, Showa pretty much means the 20th century just as it was. Photographs that appeared in the 19th century define the way of life of that age, certainly for having spanned some 100 years, and those 100 years mostly overlap with Showa, too. Living now in the 21st century, I'm seeking new means of photographic expression and to that end I think it's essential that I look back and consider the 20th century with a critical eye.
Your photographs deftly balance innocence and eroticism. Can you please comment on this?
Is there in fact an underlying concept of innocence pairing off with eroticism? I suspect that reading an antithesis between these two components in the series comes from a 20th century mode of photographic expression. In the original Balthus paintings that I chose to use as my motif, quite a bit of the young girl's arms and thighs appear. While that might be deemed eroticism, at the same time, a sense of tranquility hangs about it, as in early Italian Renaissance religious paintings. Perhaps the reason why Balthus dared to paint the limbs of a young girl was that he was attempting to provoke narrow-minded 20th century notions of eroticism. And so in this photographic series the dual presence of innocence and eroticism points to the objectification of 20th century values, which is itself an important part of the work.
Can you talk a little about your work flow (art direction, setting up, development, etc)?
Can you talk a little about your work flow (art direction, setting up, development, etc)?
Vis-à-vis the thousands—we might even say tens of thousands—of years of painting history, photographic history is but 200 years old. And yet, you can consider photographic history in the same context as the history of the discovery of photosensitive materials. Assuming that photography is an expression born of our gazing at the world, then I believe that photography should be included in the long history of painting.
To recreate in this series the same feeling of depth that appears in the paintings, I used a smoke machine to artificially create fog. It was one of those huge smoke machines normally used in concert halls. While the rooms depicted in Balthus' paintings have a kind of flat illumination, he still manages to provide a fitting context for his figures and backdrop. I found that it was necessary to fog my backdrop with the right amount of smoke in order to control this sense of depth.
Also, the perspective in the paintings is different from the optical perspective of a camera lens. When shooting this series, I intentionally impaired the authentic perspective of the lens, and to achieve that, I had to take various multiple exposures. I made a huge matte box to surround the camera and lens. I then attached a mask to it that would cover up part of the picture and took multiple exposure shots. Because I was shifting the focus as I took the multiple exposures, the optical perspective was impaired and I got a really attractive sense of space.
Taking multiple exposures also has another benefit. When you combine the various frames that you've taken, you can reproduce your trusted model and have her perform elsewhere in the picture. Artists would often use a model they liked and paint that figure multiple times into their picture.
You sometimes appear in your own photographs. Why?
Taking multiple exposures also has another benefit. When you combine the various frames that you've taken, you can reproduce your trusted model and have her perform elsewhere in the picture. Artists would often use a model they liked and paint that figure multiple times into their picture.
You sometimes appear in your own photographs. Why?
I only appear once in this series. That piece is based on Balthus' own self-portrait. Going by 20th century definitions, a photographic self-portrait is very different from a painted self-portrait. In an age where identification photographs can be forged because of digital technology, do meanings based on 20th century definitions hold any water? I think there is quite a bit of opportunity to investigate this notion. Of course, this isn't confined to a discussion of self-portraits alone, but perhaps even all the modes of photographic expression.
Who are some photographers you admire and why?
Who are some photographers you admire and why?
It's not really photographers whom I admire, but the incredibly accomplished Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. It seems to me that he was a director who created his own cinematic devices, rather than rely on the cinematic devices shared by most 20th century works. That's why his work never seems to grow old.


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A legal grandparent DNA test can determine whether a child is biologically related to the alleged grandparents.The test is often performed when a child's alleged father is unavailable for paternity testing and the child's grandparents have doubts about whether the child is truly related to them.
A legal grandparent DNA test is based on the fact that a child inherits half of his or her genetic profile from each biological parent. When one of a child's parents is missing or deceased, we can look to the grandparents to determine if they contributed DNA to the child's genetic profile.


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