A funny story from a referee site called START DEVELOP FINISH
I'm not sure if the story is true or some part truth / urban legend but it makes sense if you are an umpire or a basketball referee. A patient whistle or call is the best. Let the play start, develop and finish, then make the call. It's all about timing.
In basketball, they say anticipate the play, not the call. In baseball, there's a tendency to make the call too quickly. I've done that behind the plate and you make a call, ball or strike, and the kid late-swings and fouls it off, or the catcher interferes with the bat. Or on the bases, on a close play, I've made a safe call in the past where the runner was already turning and heading back to the dugout. Sometimes there are late clues to be picked up on in the final stages of a play. Those are signs that you are making the call too quickly. If you make the call as the play is still in the developing stage, but before it finishes, the potential for a blown call arises.
Nice to see there is a corporate version of the same phenomena.
from www.startdevelopfinish.com
This story has nothing to do with sports but everything to do with officiating. it is funny too. THIS REALLY IS PRICELESS. If you've ever worked for a boss who reacts before getting the facts and thinking things through, you will love this! Arcelor-Mittal Steel, feeling it was time for a shakeup, hired a new CEO. The new boss was determined to rid the company of all slackers. On a tour of the facilities, the CEO noticed a guy leaning against a wall. The room was full of workers and he wanted to let them know that he meant business. He asked the guy, "How much money do you make a week?" A little surprised, the young man looked at him and said, "I make $400 a week. Why?" The CEO said, "Wait right here." He walked back to his office, came back in two minutes, and handed the guy $1,600 in cash and said, "Here's four weeks' pay. Now GET OUT and don't come back." Feeling pretty good about himself, the CEO looked around the room and asked, "Does anyone want to tell me what that goof-ball did here?" From across the room a voice said, "Pizza delivery guy from Domino's." See the whole play, before you make that call, it can save you a lot o embarassment later.
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More from Xtranormal
If you can get past the F - bombs (there are a few) and one G-D, this is hilarious.
I hope at the next Humphrey-Hawkins hearing everyone, and I mean everyone, addresses him as either "Ben Bernank" or "the Ben Bernank"
from zerohedge.com:
Just because a cartoon can explain QE and POMO better than the mainstream media and blogosphere combined, here is all you needed to know about making money. In short: "Buy the f*@#%ing dip." And, h.m.m.m., this is not PG-13.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jllJ-HeErjU&feature=player_embedded
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THE CATCH PHRASE OF THE YEAR
from publiusforum.com
http://www.publiusforum.com/2010/12/01/surrender-our-liberty-for-a-little-security/#more-17981
Surrender our Liberty for a Little Security?
December 1, 2010 - By Don Boys, Ph.D.
Now I know where all the perverts go after a short stint in prison or with ACORN: they work for the Federal Government, specifically for TSA. All sane people agree that safety must be a major concern in this day of Muslim terrorism, but the fools, fanatics, and fascists have taken control at various levels of government. A virus seems to have infected people in power: it results in a loss of common sense, self-respect, modesty, and gratitude for the privilege of working for the American people.
Just the thought of a stranger, even one with a badge, gun, and in uniform running his or her hands up a ladies’ dress (“until resistance is reached”) or grabbing a man’s genitals is indicative of the spiritual, mental, and political condition of the American public. Moreover, it is staggering that any sane person would defend such molestation of anyone especially helpless children.
Janet Napolitano (who has her job because of her support for Obama) says that we must put up with this “inconvenience” for the sake of safety, but that is outrageous. Moreover, it is not an inconvenience but a power grab by the U.S. Government. For a TSA supervisor to say that we have a choice not to fly is appalling, arrogant, and asinine. Americans have a right to travel (not a privilege) without being harassed, hassled, or humiliated by Federal thugs. Federal thugs need to be reminded that we pay their salaries, and they are not being paid to irritate, intimidate, and insult innocent people. That does not go with the badge, gun, and uniform.
I know we laugh and dismiss the fears as over-the-top and irrational at times but this is where stuff like the scam-eras and TSA searches in the name of security and safety lead too.
The camels nose is already too far under the tent. This is the "boiled frog" phenomena in action. And who wants to be like a boiled frog. It seems like the over-reactionary, scalded frog ends up better situated in the end.
The boiled frog phenomena for those that don't know:
If you take a frog and put it in a pot of extremely hot water, it’s obvious that frog will jump and try to get out of the water. However, if you put that same frog in a pot of water that is tepid, and turn the heat on very low, that frog will lay there very quietly; and as the water gradually heats up the frog will calmly fall in a state of unconsciousness; and eventually allow itself to be boiled to death.
Read the following news article from BlacklistedNews.com.
http://blacklistednews.com/article/WikiLeaks%3A-Saudi-King%3A-Use-Force-to-Surgically-Implant-Microchips-in-Guantanamo-Detainees/11695.html
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia told a senior White House official to consider surgically implanting homing devices under Guantanamo Bay detainees’ skin. That’s one of the many potentially embarrassing comments from diplomatic back rooms now being made public by WikiLeaks.
During a March 2009 meeting with John Brennan, President Obama’s closest counterterrorism adviser, Abdullah proposed shooting electronic chips into the residual Guantanamo population, “allowing their movements to be tracked with Bluetooth.” Abdullah appears to have come up with the idea on the fly during their meeting — “I’ve just thought of something,” the cable quotes him saying — and considered forced subcutaneous chip implantation uncontroversial, since it’s already “done with horses and falcons.”
Brennan appears to have gingerly waved him off: “[H]orses don’t have good lawyers,” he replied, “but agreed that keeping track of detainees was an extremely important issue that he would review with appropriate officials when he returned to the United States.”
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Words of Wisdom from a famous ex-President:
“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all… The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic… There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.” - Theodore Roosevelt
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