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Life can be absolutely hilarious in its irony.
I began this summer staring hopelessly at the big, scary expanse of time in front of me, completely bewildered - four months in Toronto, no job, certainly no traveling, and no friends who didn't completely remind me of high school.
I felt like I was slowly being pulled backwards in time, to a period where I was so sure I had moved from. But one funny thing about life is that in order to prepare yourself for the future, you have to reconcile your past. And Past Jessica was the one person I had spent three years desperately running from. Past Jessica is that ugly, misshapen, mothbitten sweater flattened in the bottom of a closet, beneath years' worth of less embarrassing, probably more expensive other garments. But, of course, what happens when the shiny new clothes have been taken to the cleaners or moved into a new home in another province?
I had left my baggage in Montreal. Before leaving, I had emotionally detached myself from some of my closest friends, lost interest in a new romantic prospect and had stopped looking. The weeks before leaving, I spent my nights sweating and shaking alone in my empty apartment, battling an existential crisis into the early hours of the day, squeezing my eyes shut and helplessly unable to keep my mind from asking questions darker than the last about life, and death, and what comes after.
I thought a lot about death those days - wondering how it would feel, when it would come, what would go on after, accepting that it was going to happen eventually, and just as quickly as my university career had swiftly passed before me, so would the rest of my life. I worried about the future, crammed my early adult life with enough plans as to not waste these fleeting years - if I was lucky enough to make them through alive. Lying in fetal position, I would mutter between gasps, "Please get me through these few nights. Please get me at least enough to get back home to my family. Please don't let me rot here in this bed, ignoring calls until they finally find me when my lease is through and they need to break down the door to forcibly evict me."
When the sun rose the next day and I woke from my blurred half-sleep, I would literally let out a sigh of relief and say a quick prayer to get me through the day.
I was ready to go home. There was very little left for me in Montreal. And then, inevitably, time folded and sighed and I was back in Toronto.
Between May and July, I slept irregularly, often going to bed at 5 AM and waking up at 11, still entertaining my dark thoughts. But some time in those months, a strange intruder slowly crept into my mind. She blew the dust out of some of the forgotten corners of my brain and wafted through the vents and awoke some old familiar habits. I had rudely set myself up in her domain, so she made her presence known to me. It was Past Jessica, back to haunt me.
She re-opened the floodgates of all my insecurities, my awkwardness with men, my vanity, my selfishness, my jealousy and my temper - all parts of me that I shrunk and slowly grew out of. She floated into my speech, made gossip more biting, lit the short fuse, spurned my parents and my friends, and I was helpless against her. She argued with me into the night, mocked me relentlessly, cut me down when I felt high. But slowly, like a babysitter dealing with an impetuous child, I got tired of her antics and ignored her when she lashed out. I got busy. It was a gradual shift, I was just so sick of worrying and battling. So I threw myself into project after project. I did the Fringe festival, I tutored English. and she, the jaded teenager, slowly slunk back into her space and blasted her angry music. And in those situations, the only thing you can do is let it rest and then wake up wthe next morning and talk it out. It was time to stop running away and finally face her.
Between Montreal and Toronto, I had left everything behind - my friends, relationships, school drama, and had violently intruded her space with this air of self-importance, bringing back with me nothing but tension and negative energy. And the more I willed myself against her presence, the more she acted up.
I sat her down in a quiet edge of my brain and asked her, finally, what it was that she wanted. She replied matter-of-factly: I want a room. She wanted to be able to settle back in with me. What else was to be done? I let her back in. I unlocked my door, found her a space with a bed and blank walls for her to hang her punk rock posters on, poured some tea for me and got a bottle of Coke for her, and suddenly, she just lived there.
I talk to her sometimes now. She's got her room in an attic in my brain, and constantly offers her two cents. When I get into an argument with my parents and shrink away silently, boxing myself up in my own isolation, a discipline that I have practised over the years for these situations, she with her biting honesty will sarcastically snarl, "So, what, you think you're, like, better than this now? Who the hell do you think you are?" When I am faced with moments of heartbreak and in typical Jessica fashion, turn my back and check out, the over-emotional teenager will rip off her headphones, leap out of the bed in her attic, land in that unignorable little crook that connects to my eyes and my eardrums and scream, "FEEL SOMETHING!!!!!!!" so violently it reverberates through my body.
Okay. I tell her, calmly, shaking, and finally allow myself to feel something.
I'm back in Montreal now, after the four months, and I've taken her with me, the little brat with her angry music and her cold shrugs, but also with her moments of youthful wisdom. Together, we slid the key into the lock, stepped in and looked around at the apartment that I spent three years away from her to cultivate. Being there after all that time was eerie. It was suddenly not my home now; it was haunted by a different presence. Standing in my kitchen felt like I was meeting a stranger who somehow suddenly knew every detail about me - my interests, my friends, my history. This strange presence, I gathered, must be Future Jessica, waiting for me to catch up, beckoning Past Jessica and Current Jessica to sit down at the couch and chat over tea - and, of course, a bottle of Coke.
I wonder what we'll find out about her.


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Glsof is two separate utilities (Queries & FileMonitor) to the command line utility Lsof by Vic Abell. Both applications are written in Java. Another fundamental requirement is the command line Lsof that has to be installed on your system. Lsof is supported by most of the Unix/Linux systems including Mac Os X.
Filemonitor monitors the activity of files, processes and network connections in 'real time' via lsof, returning them in a list. One of its main features is the possibility to control a remote system running it as "client" (included Windows systems) and a separate "server" on the target system. More information here.
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RAMALLAH [MENL] -- Jordan's King Abdullah held a brief visit to thePalestinian Authority concerned over how an Israeli-Palestinian peaceagreement would affect the Hashemite kingdom.
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ABU DHABI [MENL] -- Bahrain and Kuwait are planning to expand militarycooperation.
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ANKARA [MENL] -- For the first time in more than a year, Turkey has accusedits neighbors of harboring Kurdish insurgents.


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The John Murray Show Monday 4 March 2013
A lively mix of topical stories, human interest and lifestyle features with John Murray
Alan Davey is being taught to surf on Lahinch Beach in Co Clare by his friend Brian Miller. They found a ball of ambergris or Whale Vomit which is used by perfume companies to attach scent to the human skin and is potentially very valuable.
Comedy Cellar at the International Bar in Wicklow Street in Dublin was set up in 1988 by Ardal O'Hanlon, Kevin Gildea, Barry Murphy with Dermot Carmody and there has been a comedy show there every Wednesday since. It became the home of comedy in Ireland. The Cellar went on to discover some of the comedians who are now household names.
A new play called Payback is currently running in Bewley's in Dublin's Grafton Street. It's about the phenomenon reported by women that when they hit middle age they become invisible to society! John met the writers and actors, Maria McDermottRoe and Marion O'Dwyer, outside Bewleys to put their claims to the test.
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Despite competing in a tough market with such giants as SAP, Oracle and Microsoft, Sage North America has remained a player in the market for business applications for SMBs and a key vendor for many application solution providers. But, it's been a difficult year for the company and its channel partners.
The problems began last year when the company announced plans to rebrand some of its products, a move that upset many partners who were heavily invested in older brands such as MAS 200 and 500. Earlier this year came a new subscription pricing plan and changes to perpetual license prices that angered some partners. And at the annual partner conference in August, the company announced plans to phase out some aging products.
All this has created trepidation among the company's resellers, and some have been signing up with other application vendors such as NetSuite, SugarCRM and Microsoft.


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Bob wrote:Don't expect him to stop hijacking this thread, Moshe. He picks on people like a bully, and won't stop until the thread is full of his insane unintelligible rants. I'd suggest complaining, but he's a de facto moderator on the eplaya.
Rei says in his first post he's been doing Burning Man since 2002, and I'd think eplaya readers would start from a basis of trust that he knows what's appropriate or inappropriate at the event -- if they were intelligent & rational people, that is. Plenty of people identify their camps, art projects & themselves as coming from a particular place or culture.
That said, when you deal with some people from San Francisco, you might encounter a unique kind of racism. Good luck.
ha. the sad part is i know. I know a troll when I smell one. I was just nibbling at bait. This is why i avoid these conversations in the real world. I hereby check out! thanks.


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SAG and AFTRA Announce Member Caucuses
The 2005-2008 Screen Actors Guild Codified Industrial and Educational Contract and the AFTRA 2005 – 2008 National Code of Fair Practice for Non-Broadcast Industrial/Educational Recorded Material expire on April 30, 2008.
All SAG and AFTRA members who work under these Contracts are invited to attend these caucuses. Open to all paid-up members and participation will be limited due to fire rules. Come early and bring your membership card.
Your participation is vital to a contract negotiation responsive to the working members. Attend and share your thoughts on these contracts with your fellow actors.
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text: Doris Hamilton of Tiskilwa was honored Saturday night by the Prairie Arts Center in Princeton with a Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Award at the Ye Olde Underground Inn in Princeton. The award was presented at the Prairie Arts Center annual fundraiser gala, which also included a live and silent auction plus refreshments. Hamilton joins previous award recipients Dick Dorsch, Nedda Simon and Mary Win Norris.


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text: Dilla Month is heating up with some exciting projects dropping every day. Atlanta's Darryl Reeves recently released a mixtape featuring his band's renditions of their favorite Dilla beats and it's not something to pass up. The Dillaquarium Mixtape boasts live covers of "Fantastic," Donut Man," and more in the seven-track voyage through Dilla hits.


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Capricornus [1]
A wide swath of the southern sky is known as the Celestial Sea — a series of constellations associated with water. All of them were created and named millennia ago, at a time when their appearance in the night sky heralded a rainy time of year.
The leading edge of that wave of watery constellations is Capricornus. It's fairly low in the southern sky as night falls at this time of year. Its brightest stars form a wide triangle that looks like the bottom of a bikini bathing suit.
The constellation itself represents a "sea goat" — a creature with the head and shoulders of a goat and the tail of a fish. One story says it represents the god Pan, who dived into the water to save himself from a nasty monster. He transformed his lower body into a fish in the process.
Capricornus doesn't have any particularly bright stars, so you need dark skies to pick it out. But its borders do contain an interesting deep-sky object — a globular star cluster known as M30.
It's about 30,000 light-years away, and it's a ball of stars that spans about a hundred light-years. Its stars are among the oldest in the galaxy — billions of years older than the Sun. Such stars are all small and faint. So even though M30 contains more than a hundred thousand stars, you need binoculars to see it.
To give it a try, scan to the lower left of the constellation's pattern of bright stars — the edge of the great Celestial Sea.
More about Capricornus tomorrow.
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This was my friends doing, I take no responsibility....
It was a 2s, charger was programmed for a 3s...battery started hissing, placed in a trash can outside, few minutes later it started on fire. ENJOY and BE SAFE!
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What charger was he using?
My Skycharger won't even start charging if not set correctly
try again I originally had it on facebook, then realized you needed his friend request, its on youtube now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=Zlv4wv24jHg
It was a Onyx 235 Charger
I'll take "why I don't want to go lipo" for $1000 please Alex.
Snake my charger is the same way also it's a good idea to always charge in a fireproof bag
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Crappy charger. Dont go cheap on the chargers guys. Mine does a battery check first and if anything is not correct it wont charge
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That is weird. I the cheap charger I had would detect how many cells a Lipo had and charged appropriately. My expensive charger, you have to program the battery in before you use it. If the battery doesn't match what you put in, it wont turn on. Your charger must be just craps! What kind is it, so i dont accidentally buy one?
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i use the hitech x4 ac/dc charger and love it... easy to use ... i was skeptical at first about going to lipos but since i got the hang of it ... i love my lipos ... but now seeing this makes me even more cautious when i charge them... wow... i also have a onyx 245 charger ... i have to make sure i set that one right as well... wow is all i can say
Here is an extreme failure...
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Is an onyx 235 a cheap charger? What's a good charger?
LiPos never just blow up randomly. Only if there's an accident with them or you treat them wrong. NiMh batteries can explode too, and unlike LiPos, which usually just smoke or burn (unless overcharged, which is your own fault generally), they have a nice frag grenade effect to them.
@Greatscott: that also was the fault of the owner.. using a softcase lipo in cars is not recommended in the first place, and having a screw digging into the lipo.. downright stupid.
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There was a time when Lipos were first introduced that they were considered hazardous, mostly due to people not understanding the need to keep them in between 3v-4.2V per cell, balancing cells, and so on. They were expensive, and while they had a lot of capacity, discharge ratings were low, and easily exceeded by some motor setups. Instructions with the new LiPo batteries were also few and far between, and unless you bought a Lipo specific charger with instructions(assuming an average person would know they needed a specific charger), or had someone to tell you the basic ins an outs of them, there was a good chance you would kill or cook one. Low voltage and auto cell detection ESCs were pretty rare, there was a TON of misinformation, and many packs weren't built as well as they are now.
Times have changed, everyone probably has at least a couple Lipos that they charge and use outside of the RC hobby, and they seldom if ever cause fires, laptops, cameras, cell phones, cordless tools, and many others. RC Lipos are also widespread enough that LiPo specific hardware/software like LVC and cell detection on ESCs, LiPo charging software and balancer equipped chargers are common, and it is commonly understood they are needed. What causes fires is the gelled solvents in the cells, it is this flammable chemical that heats up and smokes or combusts when the pack is short circuited, punctured, over discharged, or overcharged. Most LiPo chargers detect cell count through the collective voltage, or balance port, but being some voltages can overlap (charged 5 cell is 21v, completely discharged 6 cell is 18v) some chargers show the detected cell count, but won't stop you from setting and charging the wrong count, even though they usualy warn you, and display the detected count beforehand. With a decent charger set properly, a LVC and cell detecting ESC, and hard cell cases where sharp debris or impacts are an issue LiPos are very safe.
I am not sure if this case is the fault of the charger. I use onyx 245, and when plug in, it shows you the current voltage, then you set it up to lipo, and charge rating. If 2 cells, it charges the batt to 8.4V, and 3 cells charge up to 12.6V and stops, signals you with sound that charge is complete. It's very simple and easy to use charger, and I guess the onyx 235 is similar.
yes the problem was, he was trying to charge the battery and leave it in the car, and some how confused another battery and plugged it in, instead, causing the charging settings to differ. But the onyx 235 has programmable features, that showcases the charging settings and finished sound. He has recently built a fireproof box just in case
I tried to duplicate your problem today and everytime I did I got a cell message error and flashing lights/warning buzzer during the self test before charging. If he really charged it with the wrong settings, I would give onyx a call and see what they will do. I have two of the same model chargers and have had great luck with them, they are a good quality charger, definetly not cheap-look at the retail price!. I would bet the problem was with the battery, but would try to duplicate it to be sure there's not something wrong with your unit. My chargers would not charge the battery if they were set wrong.
good luck, mfr422
mfr422: okay will do, I know I have accidentally forgot to plug in the balance plug for it once, and it beeped at me, So ill have to run some tests. I didn't think it was a cheap charger. Thanks for the response
As for the sharp stones, of course they are dumped out after running, but that's 25 minutes of running with stones under or next to the battery.
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As for the stones, put some tape over the vent holes and problem solved.
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IDK...I did this to an FLM 'Pede chassis and the battery was fine.
Of course, it took severe abuse to do this, so all bets are off when one is being stupid enough to perform the equivalent of dropping an RC vehicle out of a 3rd or 4th story window. I've never seen E-Revo battery damage that was not attributable to extreme lateral impacts or sliding movement in the battery bay.
Can we see some pics of the claimed damage?
Alt-248 on the number pad = °
I'd say it mujst have been the battery then, good to know your charger wasn't messed up!
ok found out what he did.....He didn't connect the battery balance connector and had the wrong settings, causing the charger to not run the balancing check.
I was thinking he didnt have the balancer hooked up. That is user error. My Onyx chargers have been flawless (235 and 245)
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We're on total lockdown; they're locked tight right now. Frank Valentini has sealed up all the leaks. He wants this for the audience.
In the '80s, that's what made the show so exciting. You didn't know what was going to happen next. He wants to make it like that again. All of the actors are so excited about what we're doing. I honestly don't know what's coming up – Frank doesn't tell us too much in advance.
After reading this I scanned several popular soap opera message boards looking for GH spoilers. There were so many and from so many different sources it's hard to believe there is a crackdown. While some are vague and only tease the story, others reveal quite a bit of detail. Can't the show just stop teasing story at all other than a few very vague spoilers per week?
At the height of daytime soap's ratings success there were no spoilers in the many print publications covering the genre. Of course, many people only had a handful of television stations to choose from as well.
What do you think? Has the abundance of spoilers taken away your enjoyment of your favorite daytime soap? Do they actually make you want to watch more? Even if you try to avoid them it's not always easy. In the past we've had critical outcomes of stories revealed on magazine covers before we watched it on TV. It would be nice if we didn't know the resolution of the Friday cliffhanger before it even airs. Weigh in below in our Comments section.
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Manchester City are 'lying in wait' over Real Betis midfielder Benat Etxebarria, according to reports.
The Daily Express claims Citizens boss Roberto Mancini is set to 'redouble his efforts' to sign the Spanish international midfielder, after the player's agent admitted his client is not discussing a new contract with the club.
"We are not talking about a new contract with Betis. Benat's future is, probably, far away from Seville. We are not going to wait until his contract runs out, but we will look for a club at the very top level where Benat can play regularly," said Jose Vicente Biurrun, according to the paper.
However, a worry for Manchester City would come in the shape of Italian transfer rivals, with the agent going on to name-check three Serie 'A' sides as good destinations and strong clubs.
"Juventus, Milan and Inter are good destinations. Although at this moment there is no contact, they are very strong clubs and we are open to considering any offer," he added.
Benat joined Betis from Athletic Bilbao in 2009, and has hit top form at the Benito Villamarín after being promoted to the first team a year later.
However, his time with the La Liga outfit appears set to come to an end, and the Express claims Manchester City are once again keen after failing to land the player last summer.
The paper goes on to report that Samir Nasri could be on his way out of the Etihad Stadium in the summer, with Benat a possible replacement for the Premier League champions.
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Craving brights? These new 42 Color- Double Stack Eye Shaodow & Blush combo palettes available from CoastalScents.com are really, um, bright. Available in both Matte and Shimmer versions, there's something for everyone. These are some of the brightest pressed eye shadows I've seen. On the skin, most of the colors have the effect of a mineral eye shadow or loose pigment. Pretty impressive. Since there are so many colors in each, ranging from these bright primary shades to a few neutrals, I only swatched a few of the brighter colors. But as you can see from the pictures below, these palettes are not for the timid, they are VERY colorful!
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The palettes themselves are pretty small closed...
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The blush colors are the same in both palettes
Overall, the payoff of the blush colors are pretty great too!
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ORLANDO — Think of this as the first double victory during this win streak.
Not only did the Miami Heat keep alive the second-longest streak in NBA history, they also provided another opportunity for one of their stars to recuperate. Guard Dwyane Wade sat for a second straight game because of knee soreness, but it didn't matter in a 108-94 victory Monday against the Orlando Magic at Amway Center.
LeBron James nearly recorded a triple double with 24 points, 11 assists and nine rebounds, pulling the Heat closer to league history. They have now won 27 straight games and are just six victories shy of tying the 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers' record of 33 consecutive. The Heat also now just need either a win or a New York Knicks loss to clinch the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs.
As they have so many times during the streak, the Heat went through lulls before turning it on when it counted. The Magic tied the score at 68 only to see Miami close the third quarter with a 10-0 run.
The spurt began with a James dunk. He followed that with a 3-point play, which was made possible by Chris Andersen running the length of the court to block a layup attempt from Maurce Harkless. Ray Allen then hit a 3-pointer and James closed with a pair of free throws.
Game over.
The Heat improved to 12-1 on the second night of back-to-backs, giving coach Erik Spoelstra his 250th victory. He reached the milestone faster than any coach in franchise history.


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WARRENSBURG, MO (Jan. 22, 2013) – The University of Central Missouri's Gallery of Art and Design opens the spring semester with three new exhibits planned for Jan. 23-Feb. 15.
Tanya Alexia Hollander: Are You Really My Friend?
Photographer Tanja Alexia Hollander examines the social dynamics of the world of Facebook friendships in the Outer Gallery with her exhibit "Tanja Alexia Hollander: Are You Really My Friend?" Hollander is interested in how we define friendship and who we let into our private, yet very public online lives. Through a series of portraits of her Facebook friends in their homes, she creates an exploration of American culture, relationships, economy and class and society networking as it relates to community building.
A native of St. Louis, Hollander earned a degree in photography and feminist studies from Hampshire College and currently resides in Maine. "Are You Really My Friend?' recently was exhibited at the Portland Museum of Art. Her work has been exhibited nationally at galleries in New York City and Boston, and has twice has been selected for the Portland Museum of Art Biennial, winning a purchase prize in 2007. In 2009 she was chosen for a month-long residency at the La Napoule art foundation in La Napoule, France.
Hollander will be on campus at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 5 to discuss her work in the Outer Gallery.
HACK: Pictures from a Chicago Cab
"HACK: Pictures from a Chicago Cab," an exhibit of drawings by Dmitry Samarov, will be featured in the Main Gallery. The paintings are featured in his book, "HACK," which documents his experiences as a cab driver in Chicago. An artist and painter trained at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Samarov began driving a cab in 1993 to make ends meet. His exhibit recounts tales that will delight, surprise and sometimes shock.
Samarov will read from "HACK" and discuss his artwork at 5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26 in the Main Gallery.
John Lynch: A Life in Art and Design
The work of the late John Lynch, longtime professor of art and design in the UCM Department of Art and Design, will be featured in the exhibit "John Lynch: A Life of Art and Design" in Gallery 115.
The exhibit of Lynch's varied works will celebrate the establishment of the John W. Lynch Memorial Scholarship Fund through the UCM Foundation. An opening reception for the exhibit is planned for 3-6 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26 in Gallery 115.
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Port UI to PyGObject
Port the Anaconda UI from PyGTK to PyGObject.
- Name: Will Woods
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 17 (or earlier)
- Last updated: 12 Jan 2011
- Percentage of completion: 0%
Detailed Description
Anaconda's UI is written in PyGTK, which provides Python bindings for GTK+ 2.x.
PyGTK will not support GTK+ 3. pygtk.org says:
Existing authors of PyGTK applications are also recommended to port their applications to PyGObject to take advantage of new features appearing in GTK-3 and beyond. More information on PyGObject and GObject-Introspection can be found at http://live.gnome.org/PyGObject.
(from the PyGTK 2.22.0 release notes, 25 Sep 2010)
Thus, if we want Anaconda to use GTK+ 3, we will need to port to PyGObject. While this isn't immediately necessary there's some good reasons to get started now:
- The Anaconda UI code is old, messy, and inflexible, and could use some reworking anyway.
- There are several other features that also involve major changes to the Anaconda UI - including ThreadedGUI and the entire UX Redesign project.
- In the not-too-distant future, GTK+ 2.x will be deprecated. It would be good to have this fixed before it becomes an emergency. (Colin Walters suggests that won't happen before Fedora 17.)
Benefit to Fedora
- Future-proof Anaconda against the eventual transition to GTK+ 3
- Prettier UI, with a GTK theme that matches the rest of the system
- Cleaned up Anaconda UI backend
This involves porting all the UI code to use PyGObject. Exploratory work is underway to determine how much effort this will take.
There is a script to help convert PyGTK to PyGObject.
Test Plan
Unit tests will be written to ensure the UI behaves as expected, at least for the simple cases. More complex UI interactions will be tested as a side-effect of other Anaconda testing.
User Experience
Anaconda's UI uses the same nice GTK3 code and themes as the rest of the system, making the UI prettier and more responsive.
Requires the availability of pygobject2 in the installer image.
Contingency Plan
Continue using the existing UI and providing PyGTK and its dependencies in the installer image.
Release Notes


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Guests: Chris Matthews, Jim Cramer, Howard Fineman, Matt Nesto, Tom Ridge, John Negroponte, Steve Kornacki, Joan Walsh, Chris Cillizza, Robert Reich
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Divided we stand.
Let's play HARDBALL.
Good evening. I'm Chris Matthews down in Washington. Leading off:
Denial. The Bush loyalists have been nasty on the offense lately, blasting Obama on everything from not saying the word "terrorist" enough to being a socialist and to not being an American. But the rear guard, sadly for them, are not so sharp when it comes to defense. Catch this whopper today from former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
RUDY GIULIANI ®, FORMER NEW YORK MAYOR: What he should be doing is following the right things that Bush did. One of the right things he did was treat this as a war on terror. We had no domestic attacks under Bush. We've had one under Obama.
MATTHEWS: Really, there were no domestic attacks under President Bush? How about the one the president was deliberately, clearly and memorably warned about, the one that was coming, in August of 2001, "Bin Laden determined to strike in U.S."? And what about the attacks of 9/1, which, as Joe Biden liked to say, Rudy Giuliani made the chief component of every sentence he spoke running for president? Is this the new Republican strategy, to speak and act and pretend that 9/11 was some bad memory they inherited from a previous administration and hope that it sticks?
Plus, great new details about the 2008 presidential election in the new—hot new campaign book "Game Change." Here's one, a campaign staffer warning that Sarah Palin's debate performance would be, quote, "a debacle of historic and epic proportions." The inside stuff in that book—in that new book. We have the excerpts tonight.
Plus: What do the new jobless figures tell us about the economy and whether President Obama and the Democrats are ready to stage a comeback? Also, when President-elect Obama asked Hillary Clinton to be his secretary of state, she told him there was a problem. The problem, she said, was her husband, Bill, who she said would create a circus. We'll go into the circus later. In fact, we'll visit the circus.
And Rudy Giuliani isn't the only Republican who thinks denial is just another river in Egypt. Wait until you hear what Michael Steele is denying while he's on his book tour. He's denying that he ever ran for the office of chairman of the Republican Party.
We start with Giuliani's, of course, whopper. Tom Ridge served as the first Homeland Security secretary and former director of national intelligence John Negroponte is the vice chair of McCarty (ph) Associates now. Gentlemen, thank you for joining us.
I don't want to do a lot of partisanship tonight, but there has been some today. What does Rudy Giuliani mean when he denies—well, let's watch him here—when he denies there was an attack on Bush's watch?
GIULIANI: What he should be doing is following the right things that Bush did. One of the right things he did was treat this as a war on terror. We had no domestic attacks under Bush. We've had one under Obama.
MATTHEWS: Is that a mental error, a head fake, or a game that's being played by the Republican Party to somewhat act like 9/11 wasn't part of the problem?
TOM RIDGE, FORMER HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY: I think you'd have to ask Rudy. Maybe he meant the second term. All I do know is that...
MATTHEWS: But you don't think there's a game out there being played...
RIDGE: I hope not.
MATTHEWS: ... that somehow, the shoe bomber and all these things happening since 9/11 are Democrats' problems and everything before were Democrats' problems, as well?
RIDGE: No, I hope not. I mean, it's political theater, sometimes at its best, sometimes at its worst. Both parties have used the politics of terrorism to advance an agenda.
But there's much bigger issues right now that we ought to be talking about, and I would rather have Rudy out there saying President Bush made the FBI the tip of the spear on our counterterrorism effort. It was President Bush that created the NCTC that's had some problems over the past couple months. It's President Bush that beefed up the CIA. There are a lot of good things that he should be talking about. But suggesting that there was nothing happened on President Bush's watch I think—perhaps he misspoke, and I think he needs to clarify it, not me.
MATTHEWS: Mr. Ambassador, what do you make of Dick Cheney and others' comments that make this partisan?
JOHN NEGROPONTE, FMR. DIR. OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE: Well, I mean, I'm a career professional. I happen to be a Republican, but I'm concerned about foreign policy, national security and intelligence. And there are a lot of big issues out there, and I think that's probably the more important thing to be talking about.
MATTHEWS: OK, let's get to it.
MATTHEWS: Everybody—I remember reading—like all of us, we grew up with the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban missile crisis. We've seen how presidents learn on the job. We've seen how we all have to learn. And certainly, we learn as citizens. We learn as journalists. You folks in public life have to learn. Politics is a learning profession.
What happened, do you think, with the CIA? When a father comes into the Lagos bureau—the station chief, and says, My son's dangerous, he's got something going on with Yemen, and then you find that in Yemen, at the same time, the Yemen station chief is hearing at the CIA, My God, there's a Nigerian they're going to use for some kind of attack. Why didn't those two station chiefs talk to each other and compare notes?
NEGROPONTE: Yes. I'm not sure that they did or didn't. I don't know what exactly they did. I guess what I'd say is that, as John Brennan has said, these were fragments. They were dots.
MATTHEWS: But they weren't fragments. They were—a father comes in to the head of a foreign intelligence service and says, My son is dangerous. That's not a fragment. That's a human situation. You go, My God, some big banker in this country, one of the big shots in this country, just warned us his son is dangerous and brought this information to our CIA. That's not a fragment. That's not a dot on the screen.
NEGROPONTE: Well, my point is simply, Do you draw from that, the fact that he said his son is dangerous, that he's ipso facto the terrorist...
MATTHEWS: No, but you call Yemen and say, Have you heard anything about that kid who's gone up there, is he causing trouble? And you find out immediately from the station chief up there, yes, we're looking for a Nigerian, this must be him.
RIDGE: Yes, well, my experience...
MATTHEWS: I bet the president's mad about this. My sense is that the president's having this kind of conversation with his people. Well, you've been there, you guys.
RIDGE: Well, you know, this is—I don't want to say it's an exact analogy, but I know even when we were building the shop, the homeland security entity within the White House, even before we had the department, I had a couple of people that literally would not wait for the next e-mail, not wait for the next fragment of information, but when something seemed unusual, when it broke the norm or was an anomaly, they got on the phone. They started tracking down through all those other agencies.
And I guess the question is here—not only here in this instance, but with the FBI seeing an e-mail trail between an active duty...
MATTHEWS: Yes.
RIDGE: ... Army colonel and a radical cleric in Yemen—well, somebody just didn't use a little common sense, exercise a little judgment, a little initiative, pick up the phone, ask somebody, What's going on over there?
MATTHEWS: Yes. Aren't you worried about Awlaki? This guy's apparently the one who brought into action, recruited Nidal Hasan, the medical officer down in Ft. Hood. Then he brought into action this kid in Nigeria. He's out there recruiting right now as we speak and sending people to cause death in America right now, Mr. Ambassador.
NEGROPONTE: Yes, and we've been concerned about him for a number of years. I mean, he is an American citizen. He's been over there in Yemen for a number of years, and he is a cause of concern. The other thing that bothers me...
MATTHEWS: I'm worried about American people of Islamic background, particularly, being drawn into this jihad. Aren't you?
NEGROPONTE: Well, that's certainly one of the problems that Europe confronts. That's what the British have seen. I don't think it's happening on the scale in this country that it happened in the U.K., but it's a risk. And we've seen now some examples of that and it's something we've got to be alert to.
MATTHEWS: What do we do about it?
RIDGE: Well, I think one of the biggest challenges...
MATTHEWS: Is the president right in saying, Let's not get into—well, you heard him yesterday—We're not going to change our country because we got a couple thousand people out there after us.
RIDGE: Yes, I don't think...
MATTHEWS: What do you think about that?
RIDGE: Well...
MATTHEWS: This fight that goes on, the partisan fight, would—I have a point of view about it, and you gentlemen certainly have one, too. The president—I mean, the other side, the Republican side keeps saying, Say terrorism, terrorism, terrorism. Pete King is a good guy from New York. He's a congressman. He says we just have to keep reciting this over and over.
Here's Bob Barr, by the way, challenging that. He's the former congressman. He said, "The sniping at the president by Republicans, including former vice president Cheney and by conservative radio and TV commentators borders on, if not passing into asinine. Partisanship truly has pervasively infected our political system when a reasonable, measured, factual, timely and substantive response by a president to a single security incident, the roots of which clearly indicate long-simmering problems that predated this—his tenure in office is publicly blasted as irresponsible. Those leveling such counterproductive attacks are the ones engaging in irresponsible behavior."
Your thoughts.
NEGROPONTE: Yes, well, don't get me—I mean, I think he's done the right thing. I think he...
MATTHEWS: Bob Barr's right and the president's right.
NEGROPONTE: I think the president has acted responsibly. He's acted in a timely manner. And they're taking corrective steps. It's like the pilot of the airplane getting out, looking at the wingtips, kicking the tires and showing some leadership in his commander-in-chief role. I think he's probably going to have to do more of that in the weeks and months ahead.
RIDGE: Yes, I...
MATTHEWS: Are you afraid that—are you afraid, as Americans, that if you have somebody out there who's constantly sending people out—well, you've been there with TSA. Well, you've been there as Homeland Security secretary. When you went to bed every night, would you be thinking—what would you be thinking what the enemy looks like? Is it a pocket in Yemen, a pocket in Afghanistan? How many pockets are there out of there masterminds thinking against us, plotting and sending out these young people to their death?
RIDGE: Well, I think...
MATTHEWS: How many are there?
RIDGE: Well, Chris, I don't think we can put a number on it. We just know there's a lot. And I think there's—there is an intersection between cautious language and the real world. I mean, the president yesterday talked about a war against al Qaeda. I mean, he's really toughened up his language, and I applaud him for that.
But he also earlier talked about isolated extremism. We have to get away from that. It's not isolated. It's ongoing. It's global. They're out there actively recruiting every time.
And by the way, I thought this report—I read the six or seven-page summary. It's open. The disclosure of the report and the transparency's I think very, very important. And what it basically said, I think, is the system, frankly, that President Bush built is fine. We didn't use it very effectively...
RIDGE: ... and we better use that...
MATTHEWS: Here's my question. What good does it have us to have this sort of cosmic environment, like we had in the cold war growing up, together, all of us, where you thought a lot about communism because there was a worldwide effort by some big countries, especially the Soviet Union and all its satellites, wars of liberation everywhere in the world, constantly coming at us—this was a global threat. This thing is a couple thousand people, apparently, al Qaeda and its related networks, right?
What's the average person supposed to do? We don't have—we don't have the draft. Taxes don't go up. We don't have war bond drives. They never educate us to what to do on airplanes. We're never told to do anything. What are we supposed to do, just vote Republican?
When I listen to people like Cheney, that's all I hear, get real angry
or Peter King—get real angry, get in a bunker mentality and vote right wing. That's somehow the solution. But is there something we're supposed to be doing besides hating jihad?
I'm just asking, what are the American people supposed to do?
RIDGE: Well...
MATTHEWS: What are you supposed to do when you get on an airplane?
RIDGE: Well...
MATTHEWS: I'm waiting for these guys on either party to say, You get on an airplane and you're a full-bodied male or strong woman or something, you got a job to do, take down anybody that tries anything that—like in Israel. But nobody ever educates us. They just want us to vote right wing.
RIDGE: Yes.
MATTHEWS: What are you supposed to do in the battle against terrorism?
RIDGE: Well...
MATTHEWS: What am I supposed to do? What's anybody supposed to do?
RIDGE: Well, I think...
MATTHEWS: Except do this, wave your arms, vote Republican, yell counter-jihad.
RIDGE: Well, I think—first of all, I think commentators and analysts and pundits could help to follow maybe Barr's suggestion. We need to have a rational thought. We need to put some of this political theater away, put it aside us and really accept the notion that we, as a country, have a new norm.
You mentioned the cold war. During that cold war, the threat was
real. Yes, it was. Is the threat with al Qaeda real? Yes, it is. Is it
the same dimension? No. But is it as serious? Yes, because we're part of
the homeland has already been a battlefield. So what are we supposed to do about it? Let's have thoughtful reflection on policy and approaches.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
RIDGE: And I think we need a little less theater and a lot more thoughtfulness.
NEGROPONTE: ... of the threat. I'm glad Tom mentioned the word "threat" because...
RIDGE: Threat.
NEGROPONTE: ... we have to understand where it's coming from, how it's behaving. I mean, for example, the threat from Iraq has obviously diminished. We've had considerable success against al Qaeda there. In the Taliban, it was taken down in Afghanistan. And now you still have this continuing threat in the federally administered travel area. Let there be no doubt about it. I think those—there are people in that area that are still plotting against the United States.
MATTHEWS: Right.
NEGROPONTE: And now you're starting to see it move. I think that's the...
MATTHEWS: In Yemen.
NEGROPONTE: That's the big story now. It's moving towards the Horn of Africa and towards...
MATTHEWS: OK, gentlemen, we don't have enough time. Thank you.
MATTHEWS: ... Mr. Tom Ridge.
RIDGE: Thanks, Ambassador.
NEGROPONTE: Appreciate it.
MATTHEWS: Thanks for your service, both of you.
MATTHEWS: Coming up: There's a new book out about the 2008 presidential campaign, and I love it. It's a classic, many believe. It's full of new information, like how badly Sarah Palin's debate prep was going. Steve Schmidt says he was warned it would be a debacle of epic proportions. How that's for good language?
Anyway, Hillary Clinton also warned Barack Obama about putting her—about dealing with her husband if he made her secretary of state. Talk about being sacrificial. It's all in the new book. We're going to have a lot of that coming up on HARDBALL tonight.
You're watching it, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL. There's a new book coming out. It's going to be a classic, and I love it. It's called "Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin and the Race of a Lifetime." That's all in the long title. You see the cover there. The authors are "Time" magazine's Mark Halperin and "New York" magazine's John Heilemann. That book—we're going to—both those authors are going to be on this Tuesday, when their embargoes open. But there's plenty of stuff out there in the air already about this book, and here to talk about it are "Newsweek's" Howard Fineman, who's an MSNBC political analyst, and the Washingtonpost.com's Chris Cillizza.
Gentlemen, let's take a look at this. Here's what CBS reports on
"Game Change." Everybody's getting a piece of this now. Quote, "When
President-elect Obama called Clinton"—that's Hillary Clinton—"again
to convince her to be his secretary of state, Secretary Clinton"—well,
future Secretary Clinton—"told him there was a problem." Says Heilemann
he's one of the authors, "At that point, she says, "There's one last thing that's a problem, which is my husband. You've seen what it's like—what this is like. It will be a circus if I take this job," Heilemann (ph) reports.
Howard, this was very sacrificial on Hillary Clinton's part. She was about to pass up, I think, the job of the world, which everybody I know would like to be, secretary of state for the United States, our chief foreign minister around the world, by admitting that her husband might be a major distraction.
HOWARD FINEMAN, "NEWSWEEK," MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, first let me say it looks like they've got some great nuggets in here.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
FINEMAN: The whole world knew that Bill Clinton would be a distraction. For her to say so is the news. But I don't think it's because she didn't want the job. I think she wanted to have absolution in advance.
MATTHEWS: Right.
FINEMAN: I think she wanted to have...
MATTHEWS: Don't blame me!
FINEMAN: ... have pre-disastered (ph) in advance...
FINEMAN: ... and also—and also make sure -
MATTHEWS: Is that like one of those medicines they sell on television...
FINEMAN: Pre-disastered?
MATTHEWS: ... "May cause other problems"?
FINEMAN: And also, don't forget she already knew that Bill had the Clinton Global Initiative and all that. I mean, Hillary's got...
MATTHEWS: It had a wider swirl to it than that.
FINEMAN: Yes. She was getting advance permission.
MATTHEWS: Hey, Chris, I don't know what—I mean, they have a great relationship. Well, it's probably different. All marriages are different. But you got to wonder how he responded when he said, Oh, Hill, I'm glad to see you're putting a warning label on me!
CHRIS CILLIZZA, WASHINGTONPOST.COM: Well, you know, actually, Bill Clinton is someone who is, in my opinion—and knowing people who know him somewhat well—relatively aware of both his weaknesses and his strengths. So he actually may not have—he may not have been as stunned as you might think.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
CILLIZZA: I do think—I do think, though, Chris, it is evidence that—we all know this. Hillary Clinton is a very savvy individual when it comes to both her political life and her public image.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
CILLIZZA: She understood from the very start that separating herself from her husband—impossible. And she, I think, didn't want it, in fact, to get in the way with the business that she was going to take on in this job.
MATTHEWS: Yes, but...
CILLIZZA: She wanted it to get...
MATTHEWS: ... some credit to both of them that she was willing to admit the potential problem of a fallout or a confusion or whatever, a distraction on all kinds of fronts.
FINEMAN: Can I add one other thing?
MATTHEWS: Yes.
FINEMAN: Which is that Bill Clinton has turned out to be an asset and a helpmate...
MATTHEWS: And he hasn't been distracting at all.
FINEMAN: He hasn't been a distraction at all.
MATTHEWS: No.
FINEMAN: As a matter of fact, he was over at the White House yesterday...
MATTHEWS: I know. He's been great.
FINEMAN: ... talking with and counseling Obama.
MATTHEWS: Let's take a look—here's Steve Schmidt, who ran the McCain campaign, nobly, I thought, if not so successfully—he's on the "60 Minutes" program coming up Sunday. They've released this from "60 Minutes." Here he is, talking about what he heard from a debate preparer for Sarah Palin and this is what got him worried. Let's listen.
STEVE SCHMIDT, FMR. MCCAIN CAMPAIGN ADVISER: He told us that the debate was going to be a debacle of historic and epic proportions. He told us she was not focused, she was not engaged, she was really not participating in the prep.
Rick Davis and I sat in the back of the room for a few minutes, suggested everybody take a break, asked everybody to leave the room. And we had a conversation with her.
ANDERSON COOPER, "60 MINUTES": What did you say to her?
SCHMIDT: I said to her, I said, Governor, this doesn't seem to be going very well to me. And she assented. She agreed. She said, you know, I think that's right.
MATTHEWS: And here's more from that CBS interview that Anderson Cooper did with Steve Schmidt. Here it is. Quote, "Palin had a reflexive tendency to refer to Biden as O'Biden. For some reason, every time she said the name Biden, she forgot or somehow got the idea his name was O'Biden, and it was a real problem with her." He says that others in the campaign came up with a solution. "It was multiple people—and I wasn't one of them—who all said at the same time, just say, 'Can I call you Joe?,' which she did."
And, so, here it is in action at the debate. Let's watch how she avoids saying O'Biden.
SARAH PALIN ®, ALASKA GOVERNOR: Nice to meet you.
SEN. JOSEPH BIDEN (D), DELAWARE: It's a pleasure.
PALIN: Hey, can I call you Joe?
BIDEN: You can call me Joe.
MATTHEWS: Wow. So, she made a point of not saying O'Biden by saying, "Can I call you Joe?"
We didn't know any of this. And in the actual debate, Governor Palin did actually slip up and did call him O'Biden. Let's listen.
PALIN: And we're building a nearly $40 billion natural gas pipeline which is North America's largest and most expensive infrastructure project ever to flow those sources of energy into hungry markets.
Barack Obama and Senator O'Biden, you've said no to everything in trying to find a domestic solution to the energy crisis that we're in. You even called drilling—safe, environmentally-friendly drilling offshore as raping the Outer Continental Shelf.
MATTHEWS: Chris Cillizza, what's...
MATTHEWS: I don't know what to make of it. I don't know how you get into a speech problem like O'Biden. Where do you get that from?
CHRIS CILLIZZA, "THE WASHINGTON POST": Well, the—the—the thing that strikes me, Chris, is that, in the two big live events, her—her big speech at the Republican National Convention and in the debate, she actually was quite good, in my opinion.
MATTHEWS: Sure.
CILLIZZA: Now, you can say, well, she cleared a low bar. Say whatever you like.
MATTHEWS: Don't spoil my party, Cillizza. Will you get back to the thing about somebody who has something in their cranium the notion somebody has got an O. in front of their name, when nobody has ever put it there but her, and she couldn't get it out of her head. Explain.
CILLIZZA: People have called me Chris Cizzilla for my entire life, despite the fact the L's are way before the Z's. It just happens.
MATTHEWS: They have never called you O'Cillizza.
MATTHEWS: Let me go..
MATTHEWS: O'Fineman, it's...
HOWARD FINEMAN, NBC CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: That's the Fineman. That's the Irish pronunciation.
MATTHEWS: O'Fineman, that's right.
FINEMAN: It's because she had to say Obama and Biden. So, the natural tendency was to say O'Biden.
MATTHEWS: All the time? But every time she saw the name Biden or thought of this guy, she called him O'Biden.
FINEMAN: It's a tick. It's a tick. And I don't want to spoil your party either.
FINEMAN: However, the Steve Schmidt interview is part of an ongoing campaign by Steve Schmidt and everybody else who was associated with the McCain campaign...
MATTHEWS: To do what?
FINEMAN: ... all of whom who were in on picking Sarah Palin.
MATTHEWS: To put the dunce cap on her.
FINEMAN: Yes, in picking Sarah Palin...
MATTHEWS: By the way, the dunce cap is sitting up there.
FINEMAN: And, by the way, they were playing rough game out in—in Saint Louis...
FINEMAN: No, in Saint Paul to push her right after she was nominated, and then retreated.
MATTHEWS: So, you're saying nobody is innocent here.
OK. Let's take a look at Senator McCain and Palin. CBS News reports in the—in the upcoming "60 Minutes" when they talk about this book "Game Change.
"Until days before the Republican Convention, Senator John McCain was still thinking Senator Joe Lieberman would be his running mate, until the blowback was so strong. They feared Lieberman would be rejected by the party, forcing a last-minute choice of Palin for the role."
Again, Howard, this is fascinating, because if he was just on the—we had heard this from other sources—was right on the verge of trying a real game-changer in having a Democrat run with him, a hawkish Democrat, does that mean that Joe Lieberman was ready to join that ticket on the other side, to become the Republican ticket? Was he willing to go that far?
FINEMAN: Well, I don't think there's any question about it. He spoke there. And he's behaving, in many respects, especially on foreign policy, today as a Republican.
As a matter of fact, I think the White House is concerned about the
hearings on Homeland Security that he's going to chair as chairman of that
chairman of that committee in a couple weeks, for example.
MATTHEWS: And he might go after the president?
FINEMAN: And I think he might go after the administration a little bit more...
MATTHEWS: Right.
FINEMAN: ... than they would find comfortable.
FINEMAN: So, I think he was ready to do it. I—this begs the question. And I hope they answer it in this book. Who exactly pushed him aside at the end, that is, Lieberman, and put Palin in his place—in her place?
FINEMAN: I don't know the answer exactly.
MATTHEWS: Chris...
CILLIZZA: Howard is exactly—Howard is right.
Look, John—John McCain—we have known this—John McCain wanted to pick Joe Lieberman, his personal friend. He thought it would be a game-changer, to borrow their topic.
The—the sort of senior staff level in the McCain campaign wanted Tim Pawlenty, safer choice, governor of Minnesota. I think what happened is, they basically worked themselves into an absolute deadlock, and, at the last minute, they picked Sarah Palin. This idea that Sarah Palin had long been considered, that is—it's not accurate.
Tim Pawlenty, Joe Lieberman were the two axes on which the campaign argued over the last few months about who the vice president was going to be.
CILLIZZA: And wound up going with neither.
MATTHEWS: It's such a transition. It's like, I can't have a steak.
Give me a fish and chips.
MATTHEWS: I mean, it's a weird decision to make between Pawlenty, who is a heavyweight governor of Minnesota, and Sarah Palin.
FINEMAN: I totally agree, which is why it wasn't going to be him to McCain.
FINEMAN: But I want the scene. Maybe they got the scene of who says, you know what, it can't be McCain—it can't be Lieberman, it can't be Pawlenty. I want to know who and how they threw Palin in there at that last minute.
FINEMAN: And I hope they got it.
FINEMAN: It's the story of the campaign.
MATTHEWS: Maybe they got a call from Bill Kristol.
MATTHEWS: Anyway, thank you, Howard Fineman, Chris Cillizza.
We can't read the...
CILLIZZA: Thanks, Chris.
MATTHEWS: ... wait to read the whole book.
I would like to say something nice, by the way, and true about Jean Biden, the vice president's 92-year-old mom, who passed away today. I was fortunate to meet her a few times. But let—let's let her son do the honors.
BIDEN: As a child—as a child, I stuttered, and she lovingly would look at me and tell me, "Joey, it's because you're so bright you can't get the thoughts out quickly enough."
BIDEN: When I was not as well-dressed as the other kids, she would look at me and say: "Joey, oh, you're so handsome, honey. You're so handsome."
BIDEN: And when I got—when I got knocked down by guys bigger than me—and this is the God's truth—she sent me back out and said, "Bloody their nose, so you can walk down the street the next day."
And that's what I did.
BIDEN: You know—and after the accident, she told me, she said, "Joey, God sends no cross that you cannot bear." And when I triumphed, my mother was quick to remind me it was because of others.
My mother's creed is the American creed: No one is better than you.
Everyone is your equal, and everyone is equal to you.
MATTHEWS: Back to HARDBALL. Time for the "Sideshow."
Well, when it comes to Michael Steele, the hits keep coming. Just a year ago, Steele ran a hard-fought race, beating out a quartet of party rivals to win election as chairman of the Republican National Committee. Can you imagine anyone forgetting then that being Republican leader is a job you have to run for, a top political position, that you need to run a campaign to get, that it isn't just bestowed on you, like a kingship?
Well, someone did forget. That someone is Michael Steele. Here he is yesterday on Dennis Miller's radio show acting all non-ambitious about things.
MICHAEL STEELE, CHAIRMAN, REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE: I mean, I didn't ask for this. I didn't seek this job. I didn't ask for it. It wasn't part of my, you know, charted course in life to wind up as chairman of the RNC. You know, there was a convergence of moments here.
MATTHEWS: Didn't ask for the job? He ran for it.
Speaking of the Republicans, "National Journal" asked their group of Republican insiders who they thought was most likely to win the party's presidential nomination in 2012. The results? Well, tied at number five position, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels and Sarah Palin.
Hey, did you expect a bunch of insiders to pick the right's most popular outsider? At number-four position, that smart good old boy Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour. Just ahead of Haley, Senator John Thune, the comer in the pack. He's pulled up to number three. In the number-two position among the insiders, Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, who is, of course, good old good and plenty, and, number one, according to party insiders—again, these are the insiders—Mitt Romney.
I'm still skeptical about Romney, about Mr. Right being the genuine article. I just don't see the excitement with this guy, no palooza. Then again, Republicans tend to nominate the guy who came in the second last time. Look at Dole. Look at McCain. Look at Nixon. Look at Bush. That's the way they do things.
Anyway, that gets us to tonight's "Big Number."
What percentage of Republican insiders say Romney is the most likely nominee two years from now? Sixty-two percent, three in five. That's a huge percentage, a total landslide. Sixty-two percent of party Republican insiders place their bets on Mitt Romney being their nominee come 2012.
That's the "Big Number" tonight.
Up next: The jobs number out today, well, the White House wasn't hoping for this number. so, when will the numbers start going down? I'm talking about jobless figures? CNBC's Jim Cramer, Mr. Excitement, and former Labor Secretary Robert Reich are going to be here to two-team this one.
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Well, today's jobs report was a reality check for investors, 85,000 jobs lost in December, the unemployment rate holding steady at 10 percent, manufacturing and construction showing the biggest losses, but some sectors did see modest gains. Professional business services increased payrolls by 50,000, and 35,000 jobs were added in the education and health services sectors.
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MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL.
Jobs, jobs, jobs. After months of fighting over health care, President Obama is making a hard pivot to talk about jobs. Can he make the case that the economy is getting better if the jobs numbers stay bad?
Jim Cramer is the host of CNBC's "Mad Money," of course. And Robert Reich is the former labor secretary for President Clinton.
Let me start with Jim.
Jim, what would the unemployment rate—it's 10 again today, 10 percent, and holding there—what would it be if the Republicans had won last November? What number would we have today facing us this—in this report for November—for December?
JIM CRAMER, HOST, "MAD MONEY": My thinking, it would be exactly the same.
MATTHEWS: Exactly the same?
CRAMER: Exactly the same. I mean, he was dealt a bad hand. Whoever came in would be dealt a bad hand. This is a very difficult economy.
I think it's turning on its own, through private enterprise. First quarter will be good, but I don't see any difference between Republican and Democrat about where this rate is right now.
MATTHEWS: Are you confident that the rate will continue or begin to go down, and go down, and not go up again to, say, 10-plus or say 12 or something like that? Are we definitely heading no worse than we are right now? Is that a definite?
CRAMER: Absolutely. Absolutely, things are better.
CRAMER: They will be better. I think we will be at 9 by midyear.
MATTHEWS: Let me go to Robert Reich. Let me go to Robert Reich.
It's Friday, late in the afternoon. It's the dark part of the year. We have no sun in most of the country this time of day now. It's not a happy time, right after the holidays. Do you have any good news? Will the economy get better, Robert Reich?
ROBERT REICH, FORMER U.S. LABOR SECRETARY: Oh, you put it that way, I
you know, it's very hard. You put me in a corner here.
MATTHEWS: That's what I do.
REICH: I wish and hope the economy would—would get better, Chris, but, look it, 85,000 job losses, that's 40,000 on average the last two months. There's not a great positive trend here.
I think that, had there not been a big stimulus package, the unemployment rate would be much higher today. There would be many, many more job losses.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
REICH: The Fed has had a big part to play. If the Fed had tightened too early, and if it does tighten too early, in terms of money supply and interest rates, we're going to see a double-dip recession.
But I will tell you something. These are not great numbers, and not good for the administration.
MATTHEWS: Well, I agree with you on 2009, but I'm worried about 2010. I still want to try to get an answer from both of you. Where are we headed? And what policies do we need to change if we're not going the right way?
Here is President Obama today talking about the jobless number that came out. As I said, it's the same as it was, 10.00.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The jobs numbers that were released by the Labor Department this morning are a reminder that the road to recovery is never straight and that we have to continue to work every single day to get our economy moving again.
For most Americans, and for me, that means jobs. It means whether we are putting people back to work.
Now, job losses for the last quarter of 2009 were one-tenth of what we were experiencing in the first quarter. In fact, in November we saw the first gain in jobs in nearly two years.
Last month, however, we slipped back, losing more jobs than we gained, though the overall trend of job loss is still pointing in the right direction.
What this underscores, though, is that we have to continue to explore every avenue to accelerate the return to hiring.
MATTHEWS: Let me ask you, Jim. You know that great movie "Jerry Maguire"? Remember Cuba Gooding, when he said, "Show me the money"?
CRAMER: Right.
MATTHEWS: At some point, people are going to say to Barack Obama, show me the jobs. And I'm going to ask you again...
CRAMER: Sure.
MATTHEWS: ... and, as we go toward these November elections, will anything change dramatically? Is there something dramatic he has to do to make it happen?
CRAMER: I think it would—it could get worse. I actually—remember, I think private industry is getting better. But small business is paralyzed. That's who does most of the hiring. They're paralyzed because of Congress, not because of lending problems. The banks will give you a loan. But Congress, we doesn't know what they're going to do. How much is it going to cost to hire someone with health care? What's it going to cost with the EPA coming down with the jackboot all over the country. What's it going to cost with cap and trade?
Congress is making things too dicey for small business to hire.
MATTHEWS: You sound like such a Republican, Jim.
CRAMER: Listen, I'm a lifelong Democrat.
MATTHEWS: It's the regulators. It's the government. I want to ask Reich to respond to this. Robert, that is classic, local boosterism. That's the stuff you hear here at the Lion's Club and the Rotary. What do you have to say?
REICH: That is the line the Republicans are going to be using. They're also going to be saying the Democrats are creating a gigantic deficit and that hangs over the American economy like a sword of Donicles (ph).
The fact of the matter is this: in the short term, whether we like it or not, we need more deficit spending, because consumers don't have any money. They don't have th money to buy all the goods and services that capable of being produced at full employment. And businesses are not going to make new investments when there are not consumers out there going to buy.
In classic Keynesian way, we need the government to do even more spending. I'll tell you what's going to happen. Obama is not going to announce a big new second stimulus. Instead, there are going to be a whole bunch of policies, extended unemployment insurance, more cash for clunkers, maybe a new jobs tax credit, a whole bunch of things that, when you add it up, is sort of a second stimulus, won't sound like one, but will at least convince the public that the Democrats and the Obama administration are focusing like a laser on jobs.
MATTHEWS: Well, I would like to know -- an old saw of mine—why don't we make a major capital investment, amortize it over years from now, fast rail transit in this country, not just intra-city, but inter-city. Why can't we be like the Europeans? The past president we had would make fun of the French. He would make fun of them. But they have a rapid train system in their country which is beautiful to ride on. You don't know you're going 300 miles per hour.
Why are the French, who have a tunnel all the way to England—and you can do that in no time at all, a couple of hours—why are we behind the times in terms of infrastructure? I just want to know.
REICH: You are asking America to look to France as our leader?
MATTHEWS: I'm asking why we're not state-of-the-art. Why aren't we state-of-the-art in terms of—Jim, I want an investment program. I want to build trains, build rail, build stuff, give real jobs to real people, not this unemployment compensation.
CRAMER: The president was talking about wind power today. He should be talking about building major highways, using United States made steel, using Caterpillar tractors. Democrat, Republican, it doesn't matter. The projects he's talking about are small, tiny. He's worried about trying to be able to cut the negatives in carbon. Go natural gas. We can hire hundreds of thousands of people.
MATTHEWS: Robert Reich, I appeal to you as a liberal. Pat Moynihan believed in this, and Maglev (ph) and fast transit. Everybody that goes back and forth from Philly to New York, New York to Boston, Boston down to Washington—we're going down to Richmond more and more. The northeast corridor is real. We could have a corridor that goes to Chicago. We could have a country that's united like a north by northwest. A real America again, instead of being tied up by airplanes and terrorists. We could be a country that moves safely. It could happen.
REICH: Anybody who travels around the world comes back to America, to airports, and tries to get from the airport to even the city that's supposed to be next to the airport, is embarrassed. We don't have any kind of light rail. We don't have a public transit system. We don't have any kind of the public investments—
MATTHEWS: You know what we have in Washington, D.C.? We have busses to take you from the airport back to the terminal. Busses.
REICH: Can I just say one thing? Look it, the big question politically is whether Obama is going to basically blink when Republicans say, we've got to turn now to deficit reduction and debt reduction, or whether he's going to say, we have got to do more public investment; we have to re build the country; this is our best opportunity.
MATTHEWS: Thank you very much, Robert Reich, a liberal who is right, and Jim Cramer, Rotarian, nice try. Thank you, Jim Cramer. Go Eagles this weekend. Go beat Dallas!
CRAMER: We'll beat them!
MATTHEWS: It ain't America's team. "Mad Money," it airs weeknights at 6:00.
Up next, let's go back to Rudy. Rudy Giuliani says there never was a terrorist attack under President Bush's watch, and there's already one under Obama. You have to get back to Rudy. Is this lunacy going to spread? The politics fix is next. This is HARDBALL.
MATTHEWS: It's Friday and we're back with the fix. Steve Kornacki is the "New York Newspaper," a great newspaper, and Joan Walsh is the great editor in chief of "Salon."
Let's take a look at what Rudy Giuliani said today about—well, it's about whether we were hit under the Bush administration.
GIULIANI: What he should be doing is following the right things that Bush did. One of the right things he did was treat this as a war on terror. We had no domestic attacks under Bush. We've had one under Obama.
MATTHEWS: We had no domestic attacks under Bush. Steve Kornacki, how do you think like that, if you're Rudy Giuliani, with soot all over your face? The one thing you're known for is 9/11, and you forget it. By the way, later, he said he didn't really mean to skip that.
STEVE KORNACKI, "THE NEW YORK OBSERVER": That confuses me more. This sound crazy to say, but even if you put 9/11 aside, there was still an identical incident under Bush, Richard Reid the shoe bomber. He's taking Obama to task.
MATTHEWS: December 2001.
KORNACKI: Same point in his presidency, December of the first year.
There was a near terrorist bombing of an airline. Same thing.
MATTHEWS: Has this become almost the mantra, Joan, where you don't think anymore, you just repeat this over and over again? We weren't hit; they might get hit. If they do, they blew it. We'll come back into power. Is that the game that's being played here, the brutal game?
JOAN WALSH, "SALON": I think it is. This started, Chris, with Mary Matalin, a few weeks ago, saying that the Bush administration inherited 9/11 from the Clinton administration. So they are going to try this. It's not going to work.
I think the really, really stark contrast here is between George Bush and President Obama yesterday afternoon, standing there, looking angry, looking resolute, telling the American people within two weeks of the incident what had gone wrong, promising to fix it, and finally saying, but the buck stops with me. We never saw that from President Bush, under any circumstance.
So they are afraid of that contrast. We are in danger. Something else may happen. We can't be kept perfectly safe. But this president has a way of governing that is going to make a difference, I believe. And he's got a demeanor and candor that their guy could never match.
MATTHEWS: I never heard President Bush—and I'm not going to knock him any way. He's been out of the action. I think he's been handling this protocol very well.
WALSH: Yes.
MATTHEWS: He never came out and said, yeah, I did get a briefing that said al Qaeda to strike within the United States, a clear briefing the month before, and I blew it. I didn't take any action. Nobody's ever gone back and whacked him for that. And he said he never—they've whacked him, but he's never come out and said, you got me.
KORNACKI: Of course. The interesting thing is from very close after 9/11, there was an effort by Republicans to make it Clinton's tragedy, Bill Clinton's tragedy.
KORNACKI: Do you remember that he ignored all of these warning signs in the 1990s, all of these terrorist incidents here, Kenya, whatever it was. You remember when he was on Fox News Channel three or four years ago -- I think it was Chris Wallace. And Chris Wallace tried to play that argument with him. And I have never seen Bill Clinton in an interview, on a substantive matter, as heated as he was when he went back at Chris Wallace for saying, did you miss this sign, did you miss that sign. Because Clinton is very sensitive, obviously, to his legacy, as all presidents are, and to this specific attack that the Republicans have been pushing since 9/1.
MATTHEWS: He should have known when he went on Fox that he was going to get that.
KORNACKI: Sure, nothing helps his standing with --
MATTHEWS: I think it's fascinating that you said that, that Mary Matalin has the ability to sort of create the lingua franca (ph), the way you talk, the language you use, and then people of Rudy Giuliani's stature are starting to talk like that, as if this is the way you talk. You just say it never happened, or the Democrats did it.
WALSH: To go to Steve's point about Clinton, it was a terrible, terrible crusade to hang it on him. It didn't work. It came back again, in a way, when Dick Cheney—let's bring him in here—immediately, before inauguration, started talking about how Obama will not keep us safe. That is the worst—Bill Clinton got angry because that is the worst thing you can say about an American president. You can say he lied, he stole, but he didn't keep us safe.
So it just shows you the effort they made from day one to say that this president is a failure, and the worst kind of president that you could be, and they are not going to give up.
MATTHEWS: Steve, what bothers me is that they never tell the American people what to do, the real hawks, about terrorism. I don't mind if they say terrorism all the time. But tell us what to do besides vote Republican.
KORNACKI: I was going to say, they tell you to do—
MATTHEWS: Tell us something to do. When you get on an airplane, be ready to be alert and ready to act. Pay higher taxes, maybe, to pay for some of this cost for the anti-terrorism, bond drives, something, recruitment to work in the military.
We'll be right back with Steve Kornacki and Joan Walsh. Ask us to do something besides just vote Republican.
This Monday at 9:00 a.m. Eastern, join Chuck Todd and Savannah Guthrie for a new show every morning at 9:00 Eastern, "THE DAILY RUN DOWN." Their first guest Monday morning will be Rahm Emanuel. That's Monday at 9:00 Eastern.
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MATTHEWS: We're back with the "New York Observer's" Steve Kornacki and the "Salon's" Joan Walsh for more of the fix.
Let's go to this question; the "New York Magazine" is going to have a big excerpt of "Game Change"—that is the new book coming out on the '08 campaign. It focuses on John Edwards. Here's their tease: "Edwards pursued an affair with loopy videographer Rielle Hunter so brazenly that his aides planned to sabotage his campaign, while his wife combusted in rage and self-delusion. And all of that before Edwards tried to strike a secret deal with then candidate Obama, first to be his running mate and then his attorney general."
Steve? That's a lot of soap opera.
KORNACKI: Yeah. And I can feel for the people who sort of gave their lives to John Edwards and then found out what a complete fraud he was.
MATTHEWS: Should they have stuck around to sabotage—
KORNACKI: I've been very skeptical that there was this plot afoot to sabotage the campaign, if he got—and I think by the time—if you read the chronology of this, by the time everybody sort of realized that this was legit and this was happening, his campaign was kind of going to pieces anyway.
And the story about he tries to forge this alliance with Obama to be his VP or to be his attorney general—I've said before, they actually did have an informal alliance between Edwards and Obama between Iowa and New Hampshire in 2008. It looked terrible.
MATTHEWS: In the book, it's very clear, Joan. Leo Hindery, the entrepreneur, was the go-between. He was commissioned by John Edwards. He was one of the big supporters of Edwards, one of the fund-raisers—to go talk to Obama's people, to try to cut a deal, right when it was clear that he wasn't going to win, to get number two spot on the ticket like he had in '04. Then he went back again to get AG. It was all in the book and it was all documented.
WALSH: It's crazy. We've heard about it for a long time. He is truly delusional to think that he could have brought that kind of baggage and that mess to the Obama campaign. It's unthinkable that he thought that that was a good possibility for the Democratic party, the country, and his family. He—shame knows no bounds.
MATTHEWS: The important thing is he basically was willing to be the poison pill of the campaign. If he got the job of running mate, and all of this crap came out about his private life, the whole campaign would have gone down.
KORNACKI: Not to mention, all Barack Obama had to do was pick up the phone and call John Kerry and say, hey, how loyal was he as a running mate?
MATTHEWS: I have heard that, by the way. One thing in the book we'll get to is whether he ever reads anything. Steve Kornacki, thank you. And Joan Walsh, the book is really good. I've been reading it. I can't talk about it yet. Join us again Monday night at 5:00 and 7:00 Eastern for more HARDBALL. Right now it's time for "THE ED SHOW" with Ed Schultz.
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In the largest national survey of its kind, researchers from UCLA and UC San Diego measured medical students' attitudes and beliefs about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and found that three-quarters of them felt conventional Western medicine would benefit by integrating more CAM therapies and ideas.
The findings will be published in the online issue of Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (eCAM) on January 20, 2010.
"Complementary and alternative medicine is receiving increased attention in light of the global health crisis and the significant role of traditional medicine in meeting public health needs in developing countries," said study author Ryan Abbott, a researcher at the UCLA Center for East-West Medicine. "Integrating
CAMinto mainstream health care is now a global phenomenon, with policy makers at the highest levels endorsing the importance of a historically marginalized form of health care."


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Yonder to Return to Red Rocks in August
Yonder Mountain String Band will return to Morrison, CO's Red Rocks Amphitheater on August 10. The Colorado-bred group will headline the night and The Devil Makes Three will supply support duties. Yonder performed at Red Rocks every summer from 2005-2011. Their earlier shows at the venue were a mix of festival dates and co-headlining appearances while their more recent shows were proper headlining slots. Last year, Yonder hosted the Kinfolk Celebration in Lyons, CO instead of headlining Red Rocks. A Fan Community presale will begin Wednesday, February 13 at 10:00am MT.


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St. Louis, Mo - Michigan State scored four unanswered goals to rally from an early 2-0 deficit to post a 4-2 victory over Maine on Thursday in the NCAA semifinals in St. Louis, Mo. The Spartans now play for the third national championship in school history on Saturday evening at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis.
Nick Sucharski potted the game-winner early in the third frame, after Chris Mueller and Chris Snavely scored in the opening and middle frame, respectively, to get MSU back into the game after watching the Black Bears stake a 2-0 lead just 3:24 into the game. Jeff Lerg made 29 saves, shutting out the Maine offense for the final 36 minutes of the game to record his 25th victory of the season.
The Black Bears jumped on the scoreboard just 23 seconds into the game. Josh Soares had the puck in the left corner and fed Keith Johnson with a nice pass on the doorstep, and he beat Jeff Lerg five-hole.
Soares potted Maine's second of the game three minutes later, of a shot from the hash marks which eluded Lerg high stick-side. He got the pass from blueliner Travis Ramsey and one-timed it past Lerg for his 20th goal of the season.
Mueller's tireless effort below the goal line led to cutting the lead in half at 7:25. Heavily defended behind the net to the right of Maine goalie Ben Bishop, Mueller tried to throw the puck in front for Bryan Lerg, and recollected the puck after it bounced off the leg of a defender. Mueller put his own shot on net that was saved by Bishop, but the rebound bounced out to the netminders right - and Mueller batted it out of midair into the back of the net to get the Spartans back into the game.
One of the top storylines - the potent Maine powerplay against the shutdown kill of the Spartans - got its first go-round midway throught he first when Tim Kennedy was whistled for cross-checking. Maine cycled well, got traffic in front of Jeff Lerg, and generated four shots, but Lerg was up to the task.
The MSU power play got its first work at 15:20 in the opening period, when Michel Levielle was whistled for tripping deep in the offensive zone. The Spartan power play - recently potent in its own right (8-for-32, 25.0 percent in six postseason games) got two shots on net, but Bishop made both - including on a one-timer by Tim Crowder early in the kill - to keep MSU from getting an equalizer.
Michigan State opened the middle frame with more than three minutes of a man advantage, as it carried over 1:22 from a first-period call against Soares and a slashing penalty whistled against Brent Shepheard. The Spartans generated chances (four shots on net), but the Maine kill weathered the storm and killed off the consecutive infractions.
The second period featured good chances at both ends, including a chance by Crowder on the doorstep with 13:00 elapsed in the period. Crowder was stationed at the top of the left side of the crease and put a soft shot on net, but Bishop was able to poke it harmlessly into the corner with the tip of his glove.
Snavely got the equalizing tally for Michigan State at 16:32 of the middle frame. The blueliner carried the puck up the right side with Justin Abdelkader. Snavely passed the puck off to the centerman as they crossed the blueline, but Abdelkader left a nice drop pass for Snavely at the top of the circle, and he fired a laser that beat Bishop stick-side over his blocker. This sent the teams into the second intermission deadlocked at two.
Maine had just its second power play opportunity of the night early in the third period, bt the Spartans held the Black Bears without a shot on the man advantage. Shortly after the penalty expired, the Spartans took their first lead of the night after an opportunistic goal by Nick Sucharski. Jay Sprague cycled the puck below the goal line, and put the pass into the crease for winger Matt Schepke on the doorstep. Schepke's offering was saved by Bishop, but the loose puck squirted out into the scrum of bodies. A crashing Sucharski lifted the puck through the bodies in front and past a sprawling Bishop for the Spartans' third straight goal of the game.
Jim McKenzie added an insurance tally to boost the MSU lead to 4-2 with just over ten minutes remaining in the game. McKenzie picked up the puck at the blue line and saucered it to Mueller at the left point. Mueller drove to the net, but his shot bounced off the shoulder of Bishop. The puck ricocheted off to the goalie's left - where McKenzie batted it out of midair for his 12th goal of the season.
The Black Bears pushed over the balance of the game, but could not generate another tally to climb back into the game. Bishop was pulled for the waning seconds, but finished his night with 29 stops.
The Spartans will look to add the program's third national championship, and first since 1986, on Saturday evening in a 7 p.m. ET game which will air live on ESPN.


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Anthony Rizzo socked a two-run homer in the bottom of the 10th inning to lift the Chicago Cubs to a 4-2 win over the St. Louis Cardinals in the rubber match of a three-game set at Wrigley Field.
Stymied by St. Louis pitching since the second inning, the Cubs clinched a series victory when Rizzo followed a leadoff single by Starlin Castro with an opposite-field blast to left off Trevor Rosenthal (0-1).
"It's nice this early in his career to get his first walk-off in big-time fashion, and a home run, too," Cubs manager Dale Sveum said. "Off a guy throwing 97, 98 mph, to take that pitch opposite field and not try to do too much. It was awesome."
James Russell (5-0) worked around a two-out single by Yadier Molina in the top of the 10th to earn the win for the second consecutive day.
The Cubs improved to 12-3 in their last 15 home games.
Paul Maholm authored another solid outing, holding St. Louis to one run on four hits and four walks in 6 2/3 innings. The veteran left-hander hasn't allowed more than one run in each of his last six starts.
Adam Wainwright gave up two Chicago runs on six hits over six frames.
"Adam did a nice job of controlling the damage early on and kept us in the game," Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. "A two-run game in this park isn't anything."
The Cardinals trailed 2-0 heading into the seventh. David Freese, back in the lineup after missing the previous two games with cramping in his right calf, stroked a one-out single and Matt Carpenter doubled before Tyler Greene's sacrifice fly put the visitors on the board.
Maholm couldn't get the final out of the inning, walking both pinch-hitter Lance Berkman and Daniel Descalso to load the bases. Manuel Corpas entered from the bullpen and preserved the lead by retiring Allen Craig on a fly ball to right.
But St. Louis tied the game in the eighth when Carlos Beltran homered to left off Shawn Camp.
Castro drove in the Cubs' first run with a groundout in the first. Castro knocked in David DeJesus, who had led off with a triple.
Chicago added another run in the second. Darwin Barney hit a leadoff double and Luis Valbuena walked before Maholm slapped a chopper to drawn-in first baseman Carpenter. Valbuena was erased at second, but Descalso's poor throw to first enabled Barney to scamper home.
Game Notes
Rizzo matched Barney with three hits...Maholm and Wainwright both recorded five strikeouts...Wainwright surpassed 1,000 innings pitched for his career...Freese extended his hitting streak to 10 games.