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Human-size vases, giant bells, umbrella stands, lamps, and gourmet cookware have been among David Greenbaum's clay creations over his 40 years as potter.
Human-size vases, giant bells, umbrella stands, lamps, and gourmet cookware have been among David Greenbaum's clay creations over his 40 years as potter.
Last year, after he and attorney Bob Levine closed their festive joint venture, Bluestone Gallery in Milford, Pa., Greenbaum and his artist wife, Joann, opened their own business, Bluestone Pottery, around the corner on Broad Street.
Joann displays her paintings there, and Greenbaum has a studio at the back of the shop, with kiln and potter's wheel, where he throws pots between greeting customers and schmoozing with artists from galleries down the block.
On Saturday, as few creatures stirred after the storm, Greenbaum talked about his pots and pottery history.
"The clientele base isn't huge, so I'm always pursuing new directions," he said. "Though I'm focused on stylization, with more attention to art pottery."
He pointed to a shapely pot with subtle ornamentation, which he said came not from a glaze but from hand carving with a guitar string and an ancient technique of burnishing with polished stone.
"At a microscopic level, it aligns clay particles like fish scales, creating a glossy reflective surface," Greenbaum said. "The method predates glaze. Prehistoric people used it to create a surface for cooking. It creates a sanitary, sealed surface, easily cleaned. The surface is part of the pot rather than applied veneer."
While he exhibits in shows around the country, a recent utilitarian effort has been pots with matte glazes for baking.
"You soak the pot in water for 10 minutes. It absorbs the moisture that's slowly released as steam into food. The nutrients are left intact," he said.
What can you cook that way? Chicken, fish and vegetables, he said.
He has been a vegetarian since college, even as a competitive athlete.
"It was the hip thing to do," he said. "All the girls were vegetarian."
The idea for his big Shohola bells emerged eight years ago. They required engineering as well as artistic expertise.
"They had to be durable and receptive to wind and accommodate freezing and thawing, and look and sound good," says Greenbaum. Accomplishing that took him two years.
How does he handle a failed experiment?
"I've screwed up pots in more ways than you can imagine," he says.
How does he handle big failures?
"Once I broke two knuckles hitting a wall. As a young man, I was more of a hothead," Greenbaum said. "But now, when things go amiss, I roll with it. I hadn't developed coping skills then."


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Opinion: UK's Cameron Pulling a Thatcher on EU?
WSJ Europe editorial page editor Brian Carney on British Prime Minister David Cameron's floating a referendum on the UK's EU membership. Photos: Getty Images
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Thermaltake Frio Advanced and Frio Extreme Review
Thermaltake is a name in this side of the computer world that everyone knows. Most likely, when it comes to naming off companies that manufacture heatsinks, fans, cases, power supplies, water cooling equipment, and even HDD enclosures and laptop coolers, Thermaltake is going to be one of the first three names that pop up in conversation. Additionally, when it comes to Thermaltake heatsinks, the name Frio lights up in our brains as well. The original Thermaltake Frio came to us over two years ago in 2010. Its performance was noteworthy for its price and many chose it for their own builds. About a year later came the Frio OCK, beating is predecessor by clear margins in cooling performance. Now, we are pleased to get our hands on two new Frio models: the Frio Advanced and the Frio Extreme. Both coolers are currently available, though the price difference is large at $59.99 and $99.99 respectively. The Frio Advanced is a single-tower cooler with five 6mm heatpipes and two 13cm fans, while the Frio Extreme is a dual-tower cooler with six 6mm heatpipes and two 14cm fans. Both support all recent sockets and are rated for 230W and 250W of heat dissipation.
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The packaging for both coolers is nearly identical with the exceptions being the size, shape, and pictures. The front of each box has a picture of the coolers with their fans in place, its wattage rating, and icons for its fan size, heatpipe configuration, and the fact that they are LGA 2011-ready. The right side of the Frio Advanced box lists its features in non-English languages, and the right side of the Frio Extreme package has eight pictures of individual features that I will cover shortly. The rear of the Frio Advanced box contains a graphic feature list and some other information; the rear of the Frio Extreme box has a tabular listing of its specifications and features. Finally, the left side of the Frio Advanced package contains its tabular list of features and specifications, while the let side of the Frio Extreme box contains the feature listing in non-English languages.
The internal packaging for each cooler is rather similar since both use Styrofoam on each side of the coolers (Advanced will be shown on the left, Extreme on the right for the remainder of the article). The installation manuals and warranty information is found directly on top of the packaging. The accessory box sits at the top of the Frio Advanced's box, and the accessory box for the Frio Extreme is located between its two towers. The Frio Advanced is already assembled with its fans though the Frio Extreme will require some assembly. The two coolers use similar mounting hardware (not entirely identical), although the Frio Extreme's mounting hardware is presented in a more elegant way than just several zip-lock baggies! With it, you get a nice black box with form-fit foam on the inside so everything has its own spot.
As far as the Frio Advanced goes, the only extra "loose" stuff in the box are the paper manuals and the box of mounting hardware. On top of the mounting hardware and paper manuals for the Frio Extreme are two pairs of fan clips, the two fans, a fan controller, and a 4-pin "jumper" cable. This fan controller looks interesting; I will be sharing more info on that soon. With both coolers removed, it's clear where the price difference comes in. The Frio Extreme is a larger heatsink that uses more material and offers the fan controller along with hopes of excellent performance. Both coolers look to be good specimens, and I am excited to see how they perform.


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CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: America to the rescue.
Let's play HARDBALL.
Good evening. I'm Chris Matthews in Washington. Here's the latest on the crisis in Haiti. Aid from around the world is trickling into Port-au-Prince right now, the capital of Haiti. Planes from the United States, as well as from China, from France and Spain, landed at the airport bringing water, which is desperately needed in that country, food and medicine, along with search and rescue teams, while aid workers say there's no system in place, certainly no government in place, to get that aid to the people. You're looking at the pictures right now of the situation today.
The International Red Cross meanwhile is estimating right now the number has gone down from yesterday, only—only -- 45,000 to 50,000 people dead in this earthquake, with another three million people in need of emergency relief.
Here in Washington, our nation's capital, President Obama promised an all-out rescue and humanitarian effort and announced $100 million in aid to the victims of the earthquake.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: To the people of Haiti, we say clearly and with conviction, You will not be forsaken. You will not be forgotten. In this, your hour of greatest need, America stands with you. The world stands with you.
MATTHEWS: Well, President Obama also called on former presidents George W. Bush—that's the younger Bush—and Bill Clinton to help lead the humanitarian response.
We begin with more on the relief effort with NBC's Michelle Kosinski, who is in the neighboring country of Dominican Republic—the Dominican Republic. Michelle, this is an extraordinary effort by the United States. I can't think of a time when you've seen such unity in our country in an emergency situation. It even beats our own response, certainly, to Katrina.
MICHELLE KOSINSKI, NBC CORRESPONDENT: Yes, possibly. I mean, no one really has the full scope of the magnitude of what happened in Haiti right now. But just seeing even the initial pictures coming out of that country, you knew instantly how bad this was. And that's part of the irony (INAUDIBLE) you know, a disaster of this scale hits such an impoverished country, you know that the human toll is going to be greater. But then because of the lack of infrastructure and the lack of government that is intact in certain areas at that time, that just makes getting the aid in and putting things back together that much tougher.
And now we're seeing pictures where aid is tough to reach certain pockets around the capital or is just starting to trickle in, you know, people desperate for water and that sort of thing. Now, people are asking, Why is it slow to arrive? We're seeing why right here in the Dominican Republic, where planes have been trying to land in Port-au-Prince for two days now, with some success, especially early in the day. And the priority is, of course, aid and cargo planes coming in, but it just gets to be too much.
The airport sustained quite a bit of damage. That's definitely part of it. But also just the staff there, the air traffic control, even with the U.S. itself, is having a hard time dealing with the influx. We were told about two hours ago that some two dozen planes were circling the airport in Port-au-Prince. They just can't land them all, especially with the cargo planes from earlier trying to get out of there and then trying to bring more aid in.
But it is heartbreaking. You see teams—like, we saw U.K. search and rescue. Their job is to get in there and find survivors. They know that their timeframe is limited. They had dogs with them. They flew here on a red-eye from London, eager to get into the country. They, like so many other teams, including the Red Cross, were told, OK, we've got you a flight plan. We'll get you up in the air, you know, waiting all day. They get in the air. They get above Port-au-Prince ready to land, and then air traffic control says, Hey, we just can't take any more. You're going to have to turn back around and land again in the Dominican Republic.
It was frustrating for them and for many people, as well as the pilots. But they know the situation there. They know it's going to be tough to get a steady stream and just a good infrastructure of help to make things work again—Chris.
MATTHEWS: Michelle, is that the role that the 3,500 American GIs, the military that are going in there? Is our main job going to be to secure that airport and get it running?
KOSINSKI: That's definitely going to be part of it. And we know that the U.S. has Air Force—is going to take control of air traffic control. And some of the pilots that we were talking to today say they were dealing with Americans today in some capacity, as opposed to yesterday, when it was more of a Haitian effort. I mean, things run smoothly for a time. It just gets to be as more and more planes come in—I know we know there's limited runway space, there such damage there. It's just tough for everybody to handle at once.
And now the Haitian government is saying, Look—to the U.S.—it's going to be a while before we can really get that steady stream of aid in here. Heartbreaking not only to the people trying to get in, then but when you see the pictures of the people who desperately need that help, there's just that lag that is inevitable with something this large.
MATTHEWS: We've got a death toll estimate from the Red Cross, Michelle, right now. You've—shared it with you, I'm sure. It's 45,000 to 50,000, which is down from the even higher number that was mentioned yesterday by the president of the country of Haiti.
But I'm concerned now, like a lot of us, about the fact that you have that many people dead all in the same place, not able to be buried or taken care of in any way, or burned, whatever, cremated, and you have that amount of potential for disease in an impoverished country. I wonder if that's not going to be the second shoe to drop in terms of this tragedy.
KOSINSKI: Yes, medical professionals are already looking at that. And that's been talked about for some time. I mean, for so many years, aid organizations have looked at Haiti for the possibilities of disaster, not so much focusing on earthquakes but focusing on medical issues and that sort of thing. I mean, those small groups have been doing work like that for so many years, trying to prevent a major disaster on a humanitarian level—you know, not necessarily a natural disaster like this—doing what they can.
I mean, even, you know, forestation being an issue for the health of the people, being able to produce enough food for themselves—there are so many problems in this country right now that this is just—you almost look at it and say, What do you do now? Any large effort sort of looks small in comparison to the destruction there.
I mean, you have to look at it—we know that it has not affected the entire country, and we are seeing pictures from places outside of the capital looking fine. And there are many structures, however shabby they might look, that were not touched by the damage here. But then you hear numbers like 40,000 to 50,000 dead, like you mentioned, and you see the level of destruction in the capital, the heart of the infrastructure that this country holds onto, and you just have to wonder how long it's going to take and then what comes next, really. It's disturbing on so many levels.
MATTHEWS: I think you hit on a point that a lot of people that have not gotten familiar with third and fourth-world countries overlook, and that is when you tear down the forest, when there's no forest at all, when 98 percent of the forest has been removed, you have no cover of the ground. You have nothing to stop erosion. You have no place to find fuel because it's all been eaten up, burned, basically, by desperately poor people.
You have a country that's not going to make it economically on its own. There's just nothing left in terms of the forests and the woodland. It doesn't exist. Whereas over the country you're in right on the border, you've got a fairly healthy ecology still.
So it's been, I think—this is my editorial for action—a terrible political system in Haiti for so many years that's left those people without water. I've been there before. You can't even get—I saw a kid drinking—I told this last night—drinking out of a pothole because there's no public water system at all, even in the major city of Port-au-Prince. It is a desperate situation that was already a disaster before the earthquake hit.
I find it interesting, from our point of view—what can you give us on this? The American government's getting involved, the Chinese government, the French, the Spanish, the United Nations. And in this country, our own, this interesting coalition of Bill and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, the U.N., the State Department, AID, and of course, the White House all working together in a great display, I think, of American unity.
KOSINSKI: Yes, it really is. I mean, there's talk here, too, in this corner of the world, the Dominican Republic—there's been so much tension between this country right next door to Haiti for so many years, and for many, many reasons, I mean, going back a hundred years and beyond, when Haiti was in the Dominican Republic and controlled it, et cetera. I mean, we don't need to get into that. But now, you know, those barriers are dropping. And the Dominican Republic wants to say, We feel (ph) these other countries helping our neighbor—you know, some people here talked of it as sort of an embarrassment that there wasn't more aid before.
But there are so many issues that kind of go back and forth, with the influx of workers and illegal immigrants from Haiti to the DR and to the U.S. You know, it's one of those problems that kind of mushrooms when you have such poverty, and then it creates this sort of ugly cycle.
You mentioned the deforestation. OK, well, that just makes disasters even worse. We see hurricane after hurricane after hurricane hit Haiti almost year after year during the bad seasons. Well, the landslides are partly man-made because of the way the country's treated. The cause of that, of course, is poverty. It's almost one of those things where the people who really care about this country look at it and say, What do you possibly do? How do you stop that cycle?
And you know, to think of a disaster like this hitting? Everybody knew that if something like this hit Haiti, it would be beyond comprehension, the level of human loss, but they didn't even want to go there. They didn't even want to think about it. It's like you have to look at the immediate situation and try to help, I mean, just basics—try to establish some roads, try to build literacy, try to build some schools. It's at that level in Haiti that many people look (INAUDIBLE) and say, What do you do?
And I guess what you do is what we're doing now, a coalition of countries to pour money in. The sad thing is, is that it's quite late now. All you can really do is try to help the survivors and clean up, I guess, Chris. It's one of those things that—it's really tough to get a start to it, I guess. And then when something like this happens, you just step back and say, Oh, my gosh, you know, could someone have done something earlier? Could this country have helped itself earlier, as well?
MATTHEWS: Well, in our own country, we saw this with Katrina. And I think it's always dangerous to make comparisons, but Katrina, we saw that the people in the state Louisiana realized after Katrina that politics wasn't, you know, a comedic spectator sport. It wasn't just something to enjoy, the Long family and all the—Edwards happening down there, Edwin Edwards and the corruption. It wasn't funny anymore when you really needed an effective government. And I think that state has grown up through the hardship of Katrina.
Perhaps the hell of this earthquake situation will create a different politics in Haiti. I'm not betting on it, after the Papa Doc era, the Baby Doc era, Aristide's failed government. It has not been a great history, as you know, Michelle.
Thanks for that great report starting off our program tonight. Michelle Kosinski, who's in the Dominican Republic, right on the border there, involved so much in the transportation situation in that part of the world, as difficult as it is.
Up next: The daunting effort to get relief in to the victims themselves of the earthquake. How do you get aid to people when the airport is closed down? How do you get it there when there's no government, no services, no utilities, no people working in an effective government? It looks like the United States and other donor nations are going to have to play a major role, a bigfoot role, as we say in journalism, 3,500 American GIs headed to that country right now to keep order and to keep that airport open.
You can help, by the way, with relief efforts by making a donation to one of many charities. We can't list them all. Two of them are the Catholic Relief Services and the American Red Cross. Get your money to them if you want to help. You can reach the Catholic Relief Services at CRS.org—CRS.org. And contact the Red Cross at 800-RED-CROSS -- 800-RED-CROSS. You can also text the word "Haiti," H-A-I-T-I, and write in 90999 to make an automatic $10 donation to the Red Cross. That's Haiti 90999 to give a $10 donation to the Red Cross for the Haiti relief effort. So far, over $2 million has been collected via texting. This country does react when it sees problems.
Our special coverage of the earthquake in Haiti—"America to the rescue" is not a bad title for what we're watching. It continues after this.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL and our special coverage of the crisis in Haiti. NBC News chief science and health correspondent, Bob Bazell, is in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. Robert, tell us what you can. I was mentioning to Michelle Kosinski the concern I've been hearing about 45,000 people, perhaps more, dead. What does that—what kind of a health challenge does that create in the next couple of days?
BOB BAZELL, NBC CORRESPONDENT: Well, it's not just the next couple days, Chris. It is the next couple days, and then weeks and months. And let me tell you about it. The first wave of this, of course, is the earthquake itself that killed all those people and injured a lot of people.
The next wave is occurring now and it'll occur continually over the next period of time because, as we hear over and over again, Haiti is such a poor country that one third of the people are—only have sanitation. One third of the people have access to fresh water. As a result of that, all kinds of diseases that exist in only in utter poverty are very common there already. So those are going to start spreading more widely among the population.
Untreated wounds will start to become more infected. And as those untreated wounds become more infected, there's not going to be any antibiotics around, despite this enormous relief effort, so people are going to start dying of secondary infections...
MATTHEWS: Wow.
BAZELL: ... that wasn't even necessary, because they weren't killed in the first crush of the earthquake.
MATTHEWS: And so you're going to have a situation where no penicillin available to people. People can't be treated. What about—back to my more morbid discussion. What about 50,000 bodies?
BAZELL: Well, of course, that's a health risk. But one of the things about that is that the situation in Haiti was already so bad that the—it almost doesn't matter. We have such a perfect storm now of people without shelter, without clean water.
Clean water, Chris, is the most important aspect of this. When people don't have clean water, they have diarrheal illness in such enormous amounts, it was already killing millions of people—excuse me, thousands of people a year in Haiti. Now it's going to kill a lot more because they're not getting water. They're not getting—there's not just dead bodies but there's human waste all over the place.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
BAZELL: So you could not imagine a situation that's more ripe for creating a all kinds of outbreaks of epidemics. And don't forget, this is also a country that has tuberculosis. It has cholera. It has an enormous amount of HIV/AIDS, the highest in the Western hemisphere. It's got tuberculosis. And a lot of those people with tuberculosis also have HIV.
So the health problems to begin with were enormous. This becomes this overwhelming challenge that's going to be like nothing we've ever seen, I think, certainly in the Western hemisphere in our time.
MATTHEWS: You know, I was mentioning last night—I think I mentioned it again tonight—that I was there back in the '70s, just as a tourist for a few days, and I was struck by the immense poverty, even on the way up to Petionville, which is the better part of town. I actually saw a young kid drinking water out of a pothole. I'd never seen that before, even in Mozambique, when I was here in the Peace Corps—a very impoverished country, but at least they had public fountains where you could go and get water down at the central square. You could get water pumped in, but there—coming in in a pipeline.
But as you say—what is it like if you don't even have water coming in in a pipeline, where you have to fetch for yourself, you got to find water, and the water's coming out of potholes and gutters and creeks? And that water is...
BAZELL: ... open sewers.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
BAZELL: So and then the thing that's really important about what your observation there is, Chris, is that since the late 1970s, when people did go there as tourists—and I've been coming to Haiti almost since that time over and over again because of the emergence of the AIDS outbreak here, the—it's only gotten worse and worse and worse.
The Duvalier regime raped the country, and then a series of dictators after that, as we well know, made it worse—made the situation far worse, so that 85 percent of the population makes less than $1 a year (sic). You imagine what that means. I mean, this is a country that's not very far from the United States. It's a three-hour flight—well, a two-hour flight from Miami.
And, so, you're talking about poverty on a scale and of a type that is almost unimaginable to start with. And then you add this enormous tragedy of this earthquake on top of it.
And then the next thing that's going to happen, after the infections and the—from the wounds and the infections from the sewage start to spread further, as respiratory illnesses, diarrheal illnesses of all kinds, and certainly including cholera and things we don't hear about very often, and with no antibiotics to treat them, the next thing that is going to happen is, the people who were fortunate to get some kind of treatment for their tuberculosis, for their HIV—and that was starting to happen—those people aren't going to get treatment anymore, because all the hospitals are gone.
So, then there will be another wave of misery that will follow because of a lack of access to the regular health care that some people were getting before this even happened.
MATTHEWS: God, it sounds, when you put it all together, with the AIDS pandemic that was already there, the poverty that meant people didn't have fresh water, the deforestation of the country, so there's no real hope for any kind of agriculture or of avoidance of erosion and the loss of—further loss of arable land, that there's no real hope there, unless you have almost a radical change in the situation.
Let's talk about the next couple days. What do you see as the role of U.S. aid donors? I mean, we have got 3,500 troops going in there just to keep the airport open. We have seen in situations like Somalia where a lot of that military role gets very tricky because of sensibilities of a foreign army coming into the country.
What positive role do you think we can play in the first week here?
BAZELL: Well, the most positive thing is to maintain order, because most people don't partake of rioting, or most—most people are not in armed gangs that tend to prey mostly not on the people, the aid workers and others and journalists, which is what we hear about, but they prey on their neighbors and they steal whatever they can.
So, maintaining order is not a small thing. And I don't believe—and I haven't—because of the situation Michelle described it like before, I spent the day trying to get into Port-au-Prince from here in Santo Domingo today. So I haven't been there yet.
But the—I can't imagine that most Haitians—and the ones I have spoken to who I have gotten through by e-mail—mind the Americans coming in. I think that, right now—down the line, maybe there will be some resentment of it, but right now there's just such a desperation. And maintaining order is one part of it, getting people water, as you pointed out.
If a C-130 arrives and off-loads pallets of water and manages to deliver it to Cite Soleil, that huge slum right in the middle of Port-au-Prince, that's going to make just a lot of people that live right there, by just giving them water, because, you know, it's temperatures in the 90s now.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
BAZELL: So, a country without—not—as you pointed out, not just lacking clean water, but lacking any water. And it's 94 degrees and there's no shelter, and people are afraid to even sleep in whatever shelters there are because of the continuing aftershocks.
MATTHEWS: Wow.
BAZELL: So, you have got people sleeping on the streets. You've got a lack of water, lack of food.
BAZELL: And so what can Americans do? They can get this stuff out there as quickly as possible.
But as we have seen in a lot of the logistic snafus that are occurring today, it's not that easy to get that much aid into a small place that was so poor to start with that has no infrastructure.
MATTHEWS: Well, you've drawn the picture, and it's a horrible one. Thank you so much, Bob Bazell, science reporter, correspondent for NBC, who's...
BAZELL: Yes. I'm sorry it's my job to draw horrible pictures.
MATTHEWS: It is. It is. It's—well, we have been watching a lot of it.
Thank you so much for being there.
Up next: how President Obama is handling the response to the Haiti crisis. This is a great challenge for our chief executive.
Our coverage of the earthquake in Haiti continues right after this.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: It's important that everybody in Haiti understand that at this very moment one of the largest relief efforts in our recent history is moving towards Haiti. More American search-and-rescue teams are coming, more food, more water, doctors, nurses, paramedics, more of the people, equipment and capabilities that can make the difference between life and death.
OBAMA: I have made it clear to each of these leaders that Haiti must be a top priority for their departments and agencies right now. This is one of those moments that calls out for American leadership.
For the sake of our citizens who are in Haiti, for the sake of the Haitian people who have suffered so much, and for the sake of our common humanity, we stand in solidarity with our neighbors to the south, knowing that but for the grace of God, there we go.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL.
That was President Obama speaking this morning.
Chuck Todd is NBC's chief White House companies and political director.
Let's talk. I don't want to talk politics. This is no time to talk partisan politics. But there you see the president of the United States, who has been accused many times of being too cool...
CHUCK TODD, NBC NEWS POLITICAL DIRECTOR: Right.
MATTHEWS: ... showing heart.
TODD: No, I—absolutely. And it's—I think part of it is, he's getting these reports. And you're seeing these pictures. And it's overwhelming when you see it all.
And I think that that's obviously hitting close to home. But let's remember, this is close. This is in our backyard. This is not the—the thing about the tsunami is how quickly, I think, the American public sort of, not forgot about it, but just sort of put it in the back of their mind, because it's far away. This isn't a place where a lot of people are familiar with.
Americans are familiar with Haiti, particularly if you're—particularly you live in the Southeast.
MATTHEWS: Again, without being political at all or partisan at all, throw in the fact that these are children of slaves. And his wife is the children of slaves. These are black people living in our hemisphere who were brought here as slaves.
TODD: Well, I just don't—I mean, I think that...
MATTHEWS: Their country has never really made it. That country's never really made it.
TODD: No, it's never made it, but I don't know—I think that this is—any American president...
MATTHEWS: You think anyone would have done it?
TODD: You have—this is Haiti. Look, and I think Haiti has been—
I think Haiti has been one of these countries that you have see what every
the recent American presidents have done, Democrat and Republican.
I think it's one of these frustrations, like, how is it—how is it that the Dominican Republic—how is it that all of—why Haiti? Why can't it...
MATTHEWS: It's a Fourth World Country.
TODD: Yes. And I think it's been a frustration.
MATTHEWS: Well, if you've been there, you know, just it's the worst politics in the world.
TODD: Absolutely.
MATTHEWS: It's tyranny without any effort to do anything for the people.
Here's more of President Obama today.
OBAMA: Finally, I want to speak directly to the people of Haiti.
Few in the world have endured the hardships that you have known. Long before this tragedy, daily life itself was often a bitter struggle, and after suffering so much for so long, to face this new horror must cause some to look up and ask, "Have we somehow been forsaken?"
To the people of Haiti, we say clearly and with conviction, you will not be forsaken. You will not be forgotten. In this, your hour of greatest need, America stands with you. The world stands with you.
We know that you are a strong and resilient people. You have endured a history of slavery and struggle, of natural disaster and recovery. And through it all, your spirit has been unbroken and your faith has been unwavering.
So today, you must know that help is arriving. Much, much more help is on the way.
MATTHEWS: Will he go?
TODD: Not yet. I think it's too much—he's too much of a distraction if you go. It's too much of a—you take away from efforts that are going on.
Will he eventually go? We will see. I think it depends. I think the leadership moment here is—there's always two or three different tests in these crises. So, we have the first one, which is acting immediately. And I think it's clear that the levers of government were pulled immediately. And it does appear as if everything we can do in the short term, we're doing it.
The question is, can you sustain it? That's the next—next leadership moment. And then the third one will be, on the rebuilding side, can you galvanize the public to support you doing this in the long term? Can you make the case that rebuilding Haiti and maybe giving—maybe this is the one last best shot to fixing Haiti, after 200 years of turmoil. You know, that's going to be—so, he's got—he's still got a couple of leadership challenges ahead of him.
MATTHEWS: You said that any president in modern times in recent history would have behaved as expeditiously as this president. That's a good argument and probably true.
TODD: No, and I think so because of—look, I will go with domestic politics here a little bit. I will be—you want to be politically crass, this is the state of Florida. This is—a lot of Haitians in the state of Florida. This would have been if—not acting in Haiti becomes a domestic political problem.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
Let me talk to you. Let me put this a little bigger in terms of how it will be seen by the world as we progress in this dramatic effort to save that country from disaster again, because it could get worse, much worse, in the days ahead. Poverty leads to disease. The earthquake is just part of that explosion of hell there.
This is the first African-American president. He was asked by his wife, the first lady now, why do you want to be president? And he said, because, if I'm president, some day, young kids will look at the world differently. They will say, I could be president some day. They couldn't have said that before I came along. The world will see the United States in a different context, as a country of true opportunity for all.
I'm just wondering how the world's going to see the first black president going into a black country with so much exciting action, if that's not going to be a really good thing for us in the world.
TODD: Well, I think it's going to be...
MATTHEWS: Well, I mean, it's a P.R. issue, I know.
TODD: It always is on these fronts. And this is usually where America gets world credit, is on humanitarian, because, as you pointed out yesterday, I mean, this country mobilizes very well when it comes to humanitarian aid, particularly in the private sector, as well as the public sector.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
TODD: It is always America at its best on these—on these fronts.
So, I think there's something to it. I just—I don't know if—I just don't know if the race angle plays here as much as...
MATTHEWS: We will see.
MATTHEWS: The whole world looks at us very carefully.
And, by the way, as credit to George W. Bush, tremendous credit, and he deserved it, for what he did to fight AIDS in East Africa.
TODD: That's right.
MATTHEWS: That was a major program, and it's working.
TODD: And it's President Bush—it's something President Obama always points out when he talks about him. And a lot of people say he criticizes Bush, but he...
MATTHEWS: We will be right back with Chuck Todd.
Thank you, Chuck Todd, for that.
We're going to get to the Massachusetts thing and take a little break
to talk politics. We will get back to what's going on in Haiti. But we
have to cover the politics, huge election coming up in Massachusetts. One
of my closest friends just called me and said he believes—and he's a pro
that the Republican will win Ted Kennedy's Senate seat next Tuesday.
That is one heck of a prediction. It's not mine yet, but it's close to home in terms of what I'm understanding is happening up there.
HARDBALL returns after this.
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MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL.
Well, we're almost into the crucial final 72 hours in that race for the United States Senate up in Massachusetts. We have got the most—well, we have got tremendous information about that campaign, Martha Coakley, or the Republican, Scott Brown, whether they're going to win or not.
Let's go to MSNBC's Mike Barnicle and the Associated Press's political reporter Glen Johnson.
Barnicle, would you predict that Scott Brown will win this race at this point, if it continues the way it's headed right now?
MIKE BARNICLE, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: No. I think he will come pretty close, if it continues the way it's going right now, which it appears it will. But, no, I don't think he will win it. She should still win it narrowly.
Glen Johnson, can you, as an AP reporter, give us—looking at all the polling data available, if you projected into Tuesday, next Tuesday night, will it carry the Republican underdog to victory?
GLEN JOHNSON, ASSOCIATED PRESS: Well, I mean, I think, earlier this week, there was definitely a groundswell of polling support moving Scott Brown's way.
But that's also awakened the Democratic Party from its slumber in this contest. And so you have seen other polls showing it coming back closer to Martha Coakley's way.
I mean, she has sort of an institutional advantage and an institutional lead here just by sort of sheer voter registration and history in the state. But he's definitely made it a much more competitive race in the last week or so.
MATTHEWS: You know, I guess we could get to the local aspects of this, Michael, the heart—the Ivy League sort of background of the Democratic candidate, the elitism issue, which you and I know pretty much.
But let's go to the main national forces here, the lousy economy, the questions, heavy questions about whether health care reform will bring in a much bigger government than we want or are used to in this country.
Is this a good testing ground for the Republican strategy to run against Barack Obama's economics?
BARNICLE: You know, Chris, I think it's a good strategy not only here in Massachusetts, a good testing ground for this state and throughout the rest of the country, as the year progresses, for something that I think Martha Coakley has that a lot of other people have in politics. It's a disease called incumbent-itis. She's been the attorney general of this state. She's very remote. She's running in the Senate in a state where people, as elsewhere in this country, are filled with anxiety about the large deficits, about what's this health plan going to cost, about what does the health plan mean to me, to our family.
And she hasn't really addressed it. She's been very remote. It's been a very poor campaign. She's gotten one of the principle rules of politics, taught to us by our old pal, the late great Tip O'Neill, when he first ran for the state legislature—the Mrs. O'Brien story, his neighbor. Tip was running for the legislature at a time when you could carry the guys at the gas station in a seat. And he saw on election day, Mrs. O'Brien, his neighbor, and he said, did you vote for me? She said, I haven't voted yet, Tom, but I'm thinking of it. I'm undecided.
He said, what do you mean? You've known me all your life. She said, yes, but you haven't asked. And everybody likes to be asked.
And Martha Coakley, until a couple of days ago, hasn't asked.
MATTHEWS: Yes, it was a curious comment she made to "The New York Times." I read it today. This you can objectively report on without any commentary. This is this—she said that she didn't think going out to meet strange people would help her in the campaign. That is the nature of campaigning, meeting people on street corners, at factory gates, at the tea, just wandering around meeting people at the Safeway. That's how you campaign and be seen doing it.
Michael's right. But even in wholesale politics, you want to be seen asking other people if you can't ask—didn't she say something like I can't reach enough people so why bother, or something extraordinary like that?
JOHNSON: I think she's been victimized by—to some degree, by the sort of uniqueness of this election. This is only the second time in state history that Massachusetts has had a special election of this nature. And she's had a lot of advisers telling her that you only need to target the hard-core Democrats, or the unenrolled who lean our way. So she's almost been surgical in her approach to this election, where Scott Brown has been bouncing all around this state, talking to anybody that will listen to him.
MATTHEWS: This is where I want to have some fun. Who are her top advisers telling her to campaign this way? Who's her media person?
JOHNSON: You listen to some of the people and they say the attorney general has too many attorneys around her, and not enough political people.
MATTHEWS: Does she have any smart political people around her?
JOHNSON: Sure she does. She has Dennis Newman helping—primarily running her campaign. He was somebody who was really close to Paul Tsongas, who won that Senate seat back in the '80s. He knows his way around the state here. He knows the political players.
But the DNC and the DSCC have basically done an airlift up here in the last week, and brought people up here to assist with the campaign. They're are fearful of losing that big vote.
MATTHEWS: We don't have time, but I'd love to know what Mike knows about who's behind her? Do they have the crowd that were around Senator Clinton? I don't know. They won big up there, but I think this is a tougher race. Thank you very much. There's not the advantage of having Bill Clinton right there as sort of a co-candidate. Thank you Mike Barnicle, sir. Thank you, Glen Johnson.
We're going to get back to the Haiti situation before the end of the show.
But up next, lots of other political news, including Sarah Palin's incredible interview with Glenn Beck. Boy, there's a duo made in heaven. But anyway, this interview is something you're going to have to watch if you have a problem with both these people, because you might learn something about what she doesn't know. Incredible lack of information by a public figure. I don't know whether you could get a job as a local news anchor with this lack of knowledge.
This is HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: We're back. Time for the politics fix, with Melinda Henneberger, the editor in chief of PoliticsDaily.com, and Sam Stein of the "Huffington Post."
It's unusual tonight, but we're going to show you right now a Glenn Beck interview with Sarah Palin. He asked her a fairly simple question. This wasn't a curve-ball. He asked her to name her favorite founding father. Of course, we know all of them, having grown up in this country and loving it. We know especially—well, everybody knows who the founding fathers are.
Take a look at her strange response. Its so much reminds us about her answer about what do you read. Let's listen.
GLENN BECK, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: Who's your favorite founder?
SARAH PALIN, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: You know—well, all of them, because they came collectively together with so much—
BECK: Bull crap. Who's your favorite—
PALIN: -- so much diverse opinion, and so much diversity in terms of belief collectively they came together to form—
BECK: Do you have—
PALIN: -- this union. No. And they were led by, of course, George Washington. So he's got to rise to the top. Washington was the consummate statesman. He served. He returned power to the people. He didn't want to be a king. He returned power to the people. Then he went back to Mount Vernon. He went back to his farm.
MATTHEWS: You know in school when you didn't read the book, and you had to answer the essay question of the book, and you didn't read it. I thought the book was really interesting at times. Sometimes it was boring, but a lot of it was very interesting. The book you didn't read; that's her story. America is the book she didn't read. Yet, she's running around the country as this patriotic icon of, what? She doesn't know us.
How could you not say Ben Franklin. How could you not say Thomas Paine? Thomas Paine's a major hero of the tea-baggers and he should be a hero to all. She doesn't know the names of the founding fathers.
MELINDA HENNEBERGER, POLITICSDAILY.COM: I think she's picking, though, George Washington, because she's saying he's a lot like me, that farm boy, who prefers—
MATTHEWS: She did make a good point, in all fairness. She made a good point. I've always espoused that the wonder of George Washington, of giving up the chance to be our first dictator and going back to—as George III once said, when he was told—he once asked during the American revolution, what will Washington do when the war's over. The guy was painting him and was an ex-pat and he said, I think he's going back to run his farm, his plantation. And George III was smart enough to say—and this is chilling to hear him say this—then he'll be the greatest man in the world.
So what she said was great. But the lack of knowledge, keep saying diverse—one thing there wasn't among the founding fathers was diversity. They were all a bunch of white, aristocratic land owners.
HENNEBERGER: I'm happy she sported diversity.
MATTHEWS: But how come she can't answer the most simple questions.
SAM STEIN, "THE HUFFINGTON POST": How un-bold is it? It's a very cautious answer. It's not trying to get in trouble.
MATTHEWS: What would have gotten in trouble? Ben Franklin, Madison?
Who would have gotten in trouble?
STEIN: Does it remind you of the newspaper answer? She didn't want to say a newspaper that could possibly get her in trouble with Republicans, "New York Times."
MATTHEWS: -- with I read the local newspapers, occasionally I read "USA Today" and the "Journal." That is a normal answer.
STEIN: I don't think there's anything wrong with answering. I think this is redemption for Katie Couric, who got nailed by Sarah Palin for asking a gotcha question.
MATTHEWS: Here it is. Let's look at this. There is a pattern here; when you don't know anything, you say everything. Here—use that word, everything. Let's go with that. Sarah Palin's greatest hits with Katie Couric. Let's listen.
KATIE COURIC, CBS NEWS ANCHOR: When it comes to establishing your world view, I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this to stay informed and to understand?
PALIN: I have read most of them, again, with a great appreciation for the press, for the media.
COURIC: What specifically? I'm curious.
PALIN: Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years.
MATTHEWS: Does somebody throw the newspapers in the window? In front of me? What a strange way to talk? I'm sorry. We are picking on her.
Let's go to a Democrat, Harold Ford, our colleague here. This guy went and he said he was a pro-lifer in Tennessee. Guess what, he's in New York State. What do you think he's calling himself? A pro-choicer? Yes.
HENNEBERGER: That is going to kill him. There's nothing worse for him that's happened in the last 48 hours, even this horrible interview.
MATTHEWS: He looks like a mood ring.
HENNEBERGER: Where he said, oh, yes, I know all the boroughs. I've flown over them.
MATTHEWS: He said he's visited Staten Island by—
STEIN: -- by helicopter. He picks his football teams based on his relationship with the owner of the team.
HENNEBERGER: Gets too cold on the subway.
MATTHEWS: I was at the Regency for New Year's Eve. I got to tell you, it's a great place to have breakfast. But it's not of the people.
STEIN: No.
MATTHEWS: OK, let me ask you, Sam, what is going on with Harold Ford? Can Gillibrand, the appointed senator, get beaten if somebody runs against her? Shouldn't we have democracy in this country? Doesn't Ford have a point? Somebody ought to run so there is an election?
STEIN: Sure. I think you should always have an election, because it keeps the candidates honest. In this case, however, Harold Ford's roll out has been totally disastrous. He's now asking her to oppose health care reform, which is not going to endear him to anyone in the party.
MATTHEWS: By the way, she jumped him on that one.
STEIN: She did.
MATTHEWS: Are you with Arianna on that one?
STEIN: What?
MATTHEWS: Against this because it's not --
STEIN: I play it straight.
MATTHEWS: I'm for the health care bill, as is—
STEIN: No one in the party—
MATTHEWS: Are you prepared to break with Arianna right now? Are you for the health care bill?
STEIN: I think the health care bill does a lot of positives, has a lot of negatives.
MATTHEWS: Are you for it?
STEIN: I think it's a good step forward for the country.
MATTHEWS: OK, good. Don't start talking like Sarah Palin here. I'm for everyone.
STEIN: I'm for them all.
MATTHEWS: Welcome to the show, Sam Stein, who is with "The Huffington Post," and Melinda Henneberger, who is state of the art as a reporter.
We'll be back to talk about Haiti, get serious again about what's going on there. We have to have fun, occasionally, here, and we do it in politics. You're watching a special edition of HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: Now back to the earthquake in Haiti. Louis Belanger is the Oxfam humanitarian director for Haiti. He was in Haiti earlier today. He joins us by phone now from Haiti's next door neighbor, the Dominican Republic, which is on the same island of Hispaniola.
Louis, what is it like today? You—give us a full picture of what you saw today in Haiti.
LOUIS BELANGER, OXFAM HUMANITARIAN DIRECTOR FOR HAITI: Well, I quickly went to the country, only to realize that those—the networks are still down and nothing was functioning. What I saw was only at the border. I saw quite a few Asian people coming in, in the Dominican Republic, to get help. Hospitals are even full here.
So I'm talking about two or three local hospitals in the south of the Dominican Republic, people going—driving for three to four hours to get treatment, just because the hospital's in Port-Au-Prince are overwhelmed.
Now, my colleagues in Port-Au-Prince—and I'm sure your viewers can
see the image. You know, it's a pretty grim scene still. You know, people
you know, there are still bodies on the street and there are still—there is still a lot of people stuck under the rubble.
So in terms—I just—I guess we didn't expect our network, the aid community, to be so dependent on communication, Chris. You know, it's -- we didn't have land line. We didn't have cell phone. And we are still lacking quite a bit of that. And we are so dependent on that in terms of coordinating the efforts that it just slows us down quite a bit.
But, you know, we had some good news today. Cargos are coming in.
The aid is really starting. So that is good news today.
MATTHEWS: Can you get around in Haiti today? We are looking at an aerial view as they traffic—the planes flying around the city. You don't see many cars moving. You see a lot of rubble. I wonder if you can even get around in that city of Port-Au-Prince.
BELANGER: I mean, to get—yeah, to actually get to Port-Au-Prince, I think it is not a problem. It is just a lot of rubbles are still in the street there. It is the heavy machinery. I think one thing they realize they need right away to get the aid flowing is heavy machinery, just to get those buildings out of the way, so we can get relief to these people. So that's one thing that I'm sure, you know, we are going to be bringing in very soon, as well as water, medication, et cetera.
MATTHEWS: What kind of injuries are you seeing in the people as they come to the border area? What kind of condition were people in as they arrived?
BELANGER: Lots of broken—lots of broken leg, lots of broken arms, some head injury. You see a lot of traumatized people, that's no doubt about it. But from what I first saw, there was a lot of broken—broken arms, broken legs and people being pretty shaken up by it.
MATTHEWS: What are they going to do with all these people that died, the 50,000, current estimate? I mean, is that country capable of even dealing with that loss of life, and dealing with the bodies of people? Can they handle that? I mean, it sounds so morbid to bring it up.
BELANGER: Yeah, it is morbid, but that is the reality. You are bringing something that is a reality today in Haiti.
BELANGER: I guess they are going to have to take them outside of the city, dig some—I don't know. But you can still see them on the street. People are putting them in—
MATTHEWS: Louis Belanger, thank you, sir, with Oxfam. You're doing
Good luck with your efforts over there. We need people like you.
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"I've never been a big fan of the trumpet per say…" (from an online music discussion).
"per say" for "per se" is already in the Eggcorn Database, but I thought I'd share this new example. It might be of interest to those who haven't seen this one before.
Ugly is in the eye of the beholder—how about its lovely head? (Yes, it's ugly too.)
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music sampling
There really no [Frooty Loops] samples pure say.They use the same samples as other [Digitial Audio Workstations].
(http://stuff.boxden.com/searchresults.p … Search#637)
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David Bird wrote:
There really no [Frooty Loops] samples pure say.
Wow, David, Ive never seen that version before. I'd say that it makes even more sense as an eggcorn than does the "per say" form.
It seems fairly rare. Googling "pure say" yielded 6160 hits, but of the sample I scanned (the first 100 hits), only 2 seemed to have the eggcornish meaning we're discussing:
"Unlike your Kawi, there isnt a belt adjustment pure-say."
"The point is when you open the box and take the game out. It is no longer a new game pure say."
(Although I'm not sure how to interpret this one, from a discussion of Role Playing Games: "Of course some guilds will set a pure say, 2hour window, and for those 2 hours go "defend" incase someone attacks.")
Meow! It even has a catty version:
" I have never heard of a Corsican cuisine Purr Say"
"I am not offended by that picture purr say, but ya gotta admit that it's damn hilarious"
Granted most hits for "purr say" are attempts at explaining the pronunciation of "per se" but there are more feline gems among them.
On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.
And here's another new one from a post on my local email bulletin board: "Just because a report is not about Smart Meters, as per say, it may be about the same technology containing same / similar amounts of RF Pulse radiation."
The last one Dixon posted "as per say" got me thinking… If someone refers to something said earlier, then he may do so "per said item." It kind of casts new light on the eggcorn for me.
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The last one Dixon posted "as per say" got me thinking… If someone refers to something said earlier, then he may do so "per said item." It kind of casts new light on the eggcorn for me.
Oh yeah, I never thought of that meaning before.
Well, it's been almost 3 years since we discussed this one here, so, for the benefit of anyone who hasn't seen this classic eggcorn yet, I'll share the example I just encountered:
It was an interesting thing for me that after "growing up " per say , I stopped jumping gleefully onto the scale at Frizelle Enos when shopping there…
http://www.waccobb.net/forums/showthrea … post174583
Here's a variation that's new to me, from a student's paper on music therapy:
Much knowledge has been gained as to how and where music is processed in the brain. For instance, we know there is no specialized center for music purse."
It took me a few seconds to realize that "purse" here meant "per se". I'd do a web search to see if there are other examples of this one, but I can't figure out what search terms to use to glean out the few (if any) eggcornish needles from the huge haystack of more prosaic uses of "purse".
BTW, I can't think of any eggcornish meaning connection between "purse" and "per se". We can't call this one an eggcorn, can we?
I can't see any eggcorn qualities. Looks like something Dogberry might say.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
Looks to me likely to be a spell-checker correction from pur se , which would be a reasonable misspelling.
Per say? ¶ www.englishforums.com/English/PerSay/hrxn/post.htm ¶ 9 posts – 1 author ¶ Can anyone tell me the meaning of "per say"? Please put it in a … I was just about to spell the term incorrectly in an email at work ( as "pur say"). Thanks for …
(There are several pieces of fascinating commentary from a number of perps at the above URL.)
Or a ?
Yes: pur se means even if. I add it has a quite formal sense and anche se is the colloquial form while sebbene and seppure stand somewhat in the middle.
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Mobile & Wireless Slideshow: 10 Ways Samsung Galaxy S III Trumps iPhone 4S
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The Samsung Galaxy S III's chief advantage over the iPhone 4S has to be its screen size. The device comes with a 4.8-inch screen, dwarfing the 3.5-inch display on the iPhone 4S. Don't think it's a major difference? Try viewing a spreadsheet or watching a movie on the device and see what happens.
A battle royale is brewing between smartphone superstars Apple and Samsung. Both companies are vying for the top spot in unit shipments, and according to recent data, they're both securing the vast majority of profits in the mobile device market. Suffice it to say that Apple and Samsung won't be satisfied until one of them has waved a white flag and given up all claim to the mobile space. Samsung's Galaxy S III, the latest flagship launch from the company, has its sights set firmly on Apple's iPhone 4S. From its elegant design to its connectivity features, here are 10 ways we think the Samsung Galaxy S III trumps Apple's iPhone 4S.
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The 2009 SnoWest Vintage Snowmobile Show, held during the Intermountain Snowmobile Show in South Jordan, UT, Oct. 23-24, was a great success. Twelve participants from three western states brought a total of 37 antique and vintage snowmobiles to display. Twelve different makes with models ranging from 1963 to 1989 gave show attendees a wonderful glimpse of their favorite snowmobile's history.
Participants were: Tony Crnkovich (Afton, WY), Darren DeGraw (Farr West, UT), Kent Egley (Mink Creek, ID), Jeffrey Fuller (Farr West, UT), Perry Hesteness (Hailey, ID), Bill Moss (Tooele, UT), Curtis Tate (Layton, UT) and Paul and Mary Joyce Tate (Roy, UT), Rex Whitaker (Ogden, UT), Tom Whitaker (North Ogden, UT), Fred and Shirley Lindsey (Montpelier, ID) and Dan and Tamara Fisher from the Clover Creek Inn (Monteplier, ID).
The original class consisted of 17 snowmobiles. Jeffrey Fuller received the 1st place award for the original class with his 1969 Sears Snow Cruiser. Fuller purchased this snowmobile earlier this year from its original owner. The story behind this sled is it was purchased from the Sears department store in Missoula, MT, in late 1969. Due to a certain turn in events, the owner never got to ride it, in fact, it has never been ridden. The owner retired to the warmer climate of southern Utah where this snowmobile had been in storage ever since. It is still "brand new." The front of the snowmobile features the image and signature of the famous mountain climber Sir Edmund Hillary of all things. Congratulations Jeffrey for such a nice find.
Other notable original sleds included the Whitaker family collection, which consists of top shelf Arctic Cats-a Lynx, Panther and El Tigre Z. The Whitaker's also displayed an Arctic Cat Kitty Cat which sported a custom made light blue Polaris hood displaying the name of "Allowance Operated," indicating that it may have once been ridden by a young boy using his allowance money. Tom Whitaker mentioned he picked up this snowmobile from the Lake Tahoe, NV, area. This sled has all of us now looking at how we can make mod sleds out of our Kitty Cats.
Bill Moss' original 1970 Sno Jet 399 was a real crowd pleaser once again. It was displayed with two good-sized tree branches wedged in the front bumper. This snowmobile was rescued from a tree which had grown up through its bumper. Talk about show `em how you found `em. Moss also displayed his MSV Hustler which won a restored award in 2008 and a 1989 Ski-Doo Formula Plus with only 99 miles on the odometer among others.
Next, Fred Lindsay and Dan Fisher displayed their original 1969 Yamaha SL351, which they had just picked up a week prior to the show. All they had done to it was wash it off. This 1969 snowmobile is quite a find considering 1968 was the first year of the Yamaha snowmobile. Yamaha's first snowmobile, the SL350 (2-stroke, twin cylinder), was introduced in 1968 and was the first snowmobile with slide valve carburetors.
Then there was the restored class. Twenty snowmobiles were in this category showing off some serious muscle, chrome and hard work. Perry Hesteness displayed his 1981 Ski-Doo Sno Pro which made its debut earlier this summer at the Racer's Reunion at the Northwest Museum of Vintage Snowmobiles in Spokane, WA. This fast sled sported a "go chrome or go home" look and had spectators looking it over all weekend long. Not to be overlooked, however, was Hesteness' 1979 Polaris RXL 250. This snowmobile is one of three know to currently exist. It hails from the dominant Midnight Blue Express era of the late 70s where the Polaris factory race team finished on top in 1977 and early 1978 racing seasons before the unfortunate and untimely death of Polaris racer Jerry Bunke on a Canadian race track in March 1978 led to Polaris discontinuing its factory oval race team.
Shiny, clean and chrome describes Tony Crnkovich's pair of Yamaha SRXs, one being a super-fast Sno Pro and the other being the 2008 Editor's Choice top award winner. Crnkovich also displayed his 1985 Yamaha Phazer. The Phazer was a very cool sled in its day and I am sure you all remember when it hit the market.
The Lindsey and Fisher families displayed their premiere restoration in a 1973 Yamaha GP433B as well. Spectacular paint and upholstery work made this restoration look very well done. Congratulation and thanks for making the show. You will find these and other snowmobiles at the Clover Creek Inn snowmobile show this coming Feb. 13-14, 2010 in Montpelier, ID.
Darren DeGraw's 1973 Rupp 440 was back, too. This Rupp was observed all weekend by spectators commenting how fast the Rupp machines were back in the early 1970s. This snowmobile has also been displayed in West Yellowstone during Expo weekend at the vintage snowmobile display. Thanks Darren for bringing it to the show.
Curtis Tate displayed his 1972 John Deere 500, 1973 Polaris TX 340 and 1975 Polaris Colt 340, along with his two Arctic Cat Kitty Cats and other select sleds from his Polaris collection. New this year was his 1966 Polaris Colt, complete with a reproduction sleigh from the 1967 and 1968 Polaris sales brochures. The 1966 Colt received the 2nd place restored award. Look for Tate's complete 60s Polaris Colt collection to be displayed next year. His 1966 and 1968 Polaris Colts will be joined by his 1967 and 1969 Colts, which will be completely restored by the fall of 2010.
Kent Egley's 1963 Polaris Sno Traveler L-60 was displayed by Paul and Curtis Tate who worked to restore this snowmobile in early 2009. The Sno Traveler received the 1st place restored award. It also won an award at the Clover Creek Inn snowmobile show last February in Montpelier, ID, and it received the People's Choice Award at the 6th Annual Vintage Snowmobile Round-Up in West Yellowstone, MT, last March.
SnoWest chose Hesteness' restored 1981 Ski-Doo Sno Pro as the Editor's Choice Award winner. Paul Tate's 1973 Polaris Colt S/S 340 received second place for Editor's Choice.
Thank you to SnoWest for allowing antique and vintage snowmobiles to be on display at this year's Intermountain Snowmobile Show.
Watch for other vintage snowmobile shows to be held throughout the year at an event near you. We invite you to visit the Western States Vintage Snowmobile Association's website at www.wsvsa.comfor more information and an event calendar.
2009 SnoWest Vintage Snowmobile Show Winners
Editor's Choice Award:
1st Place Perry Hesteness 1981 Ski-Doo Sno Pro
2nd Place Paul Tate 1973 Polaris Colt S/S 340
1st Place (62 votes) Jeffrey Fuller 1969 Sears Snow Cruiser 399
2nd Place (45 votes) Tom Whitaker 1975 Arctic Cat El Tigre "Z" 440
1st Place (178 votes) Kent Egley 1963 Polaris Sno Traveler L-60
2nd Place (70 votes) Curtis Tate 1966 Polaris Colt
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John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 10 blogs containing over 8000 articles with John having written over 4000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 16 million times. John also manages Healthcare IT Central and Healthcare IT Today, the leading career Health IT job board and blog. John is co-founder of InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and LinkedIn.
As a former system administrator that worked in a number of data centers, it's been really interesting for me to watch the evolution of healthcare data centers and the concept of healthcare cloud solutions. I think we're seeing a definite switch by many hospital CIOs towards the cloud and away from the hassle and expense of trying to run their own data centers. Plus, this is facilitated greatly by the increased reliability, speed, and quality of the bandwidth that's available today. Sure, the largest institutions will still have their own data centers, but even those organizations are working with an outside data center as well.
I had a chance to sit down for a video interview with Jason Mendenhall, Executive Vice President, Cloud at Switch Supernap to discuss the changing healthcare data center and cloud environment. We cover a lot of ground in the interview including when someone should use cloud infrastructure and when they shouldn't. We talk about the security and reliability of a locally hosted data center versus an outside data center. We also talk a little about why Las Vegas is a great place for them to have their data center.
If you're a healthcare organization who needs a data center (Translation: All of you) or if you're a healthcare IT company that needs to host your application (Translation: All of you), then you'll learn a lot from this interview with Jason Mendenhall:
As a side note, the Switch Supernap's Innevation Center is the location for the Health IT Marketing and PR Conference I'm organizing April 7-8, 2014 in Las Vegas. If you're attending the conference, we can also set you up for a tour of the Switch Supernap while you're in Vegas. The tour is a bit like visiting a tech person's Disneyland. They've created something really amazing when it comes to data centers. I know since a secure text message company I advise, docBeat, is hosted there with one of their cloud partners Itrica.


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As I've mentioned before, I've been working on a major review of Windows 8 for the October issue of GCN. Part of that process has been learning to use all the keyboard shortcuts that new OS offers.
But it occurred to me that some of the current shortcuts you use could be going away. They simply have no place in Windows 8. So while many of you are holding out on upgrading, the fact is that one day, you probably will be working with Windows 8, either at the federal agency you work for, or in your own home.
When you do, don't try to use these shortcuts, because they are being eliminated from Windows 8.
Crtl+Esc. This used to bring up the start menu, which was helpful if your keyboard did not have a dedicated Windows key. But since the start menu is being eliminated in Windows 8, this shortcut won't make the new team roster.
F6. You will still probably have an F6 key, but it won't do anything. It used to let you cycle through various elements in a window, such as when looking at an online form or a page with frames. I'm not sure why this one is being killed, other than perhaps as part of the effort to eliminate frames from Web pages, which is a good thing in terms of disability access and Section 508 requirements.
Alt+Esc. I always liked this one. It lets you cycle through windows on your desktop in the order they were opened. For someone like me who sets up his desktop every morning in a very meticulous way, I enjoyed being able to open windows in the order I was likely to use them and then scroll through them that way all day. My OCD may flare up at this one's loss.
Win+Home. This shortcut only ever worked in Windows 7. It lets you close every window on your screen other than the active one. It was useful, for example, if you opened a bunch of news stories in windows and then decided you weren't going to read them all anyway, -- or if you wanted to quickly free up memory.
Win+Shift+M. This only worked in Vista, so I'm not sure how many feds ever got the chance to use it. It opened up every minimized window on your desktop. For a three-button shortcut, it wasn't very helpful actually, but then again, neither was Vista.
That's all I've found so far, so not a very big kill list, but with Windows 8 coming out soon, this may be your last chance to use these soon to be extinct shortcuts.
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I just got a Surface Pro, and now I can't use F6 in my apps, because it opens the "share charm". I am looking for a way to change this back to original F6 functionality since I use it a lot in many applications.
Every one of these hotkeys work in Windows 8. You must have been misinformed.
I think we have some leaway before we have to worry about it in the federal workplace. We've only now gone to windows 7, and only 32-bit at that. By the time we go to 8, Microsoft will be rolling out Win 2100.
That F6 sounds like a browser (IE) shortcut rather than a Windows shortcut. Like F5, I would expect this to do different things in different programs.
Crtl+Esc can work if you install the start button. You can download and install start button from the link http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/
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New TV Season: Family Shows Resurgentby L. Brent Bozell IIIOctober
2, 1996
Much has been said about the quality - or lack of quality,
to be precise - of programming on prime time television. The mad dash toward
anything-goes social and sexual liberalism, without a care in the world for
its consequences on the public - especially impressionable children - has led
to a nightly line-up dominated by ? garbage.
It's a crazy world in Television Land. It's also going in
the opposite direction. Programs crafted with a family audience in
mind, which endorse and promote traditional family values, which are designed
with a real sense of social responsibility - series that were almost
nonexistent two years ago - are slowly but surely growing in number.
The trailblazer in the rejuvenation of family programming
was Ken Wales' "Christy," and as with many pioneering ventures, it
never enjoyed the full confidence, and financial backing, of its network (CBS)
to make it succeed. Yet the enthusiasm it triggered among those who watched it
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Williamson's beautiful "Touched By An Angel" and watched as in its
second season it became a bona fide hit.
The new season offers several new selections, of which two,
"Promised Land" and "7th Heaven" deserve applause - and
market success.
Ms. Williamson's success with "Angel" landed her
the opportunity to develop a new program for CBS, and again she's delivered
with "Promised Land." The central character in "Promised
Land," Russell Greene (Gerald McRaney) first made an appearance in an
episode of "Angel." An unemployed factory worker despondent about
the lack of direction in his life, Greene is befriended by one of the angels,
who suggests he take to the road in search of ways to help his fellow man.
Greene, with wife Claire, mother, two children and one nephew in tow, take a
motor home and do just that. What they find on their travels is the basis for
"Promised Land."
In the first episode they come to a small, economically
depressed town having heard on the local radio that one of its residents, Greg
Smith, is moving to New Zealand because "America [is turning] its back on
its families, its values ... Whatever America once stood for, it has
lost." The Greenes learn that most residents agree and so they set out to
change things. They learn that Smith is especially dejected because a local
youth center, to which he's devoted much time and energy, is scheduled for
demolition to make room for a jail. Claire appeals to those Smith has helped
through his volunteer efforts; many respond to her call. The sheriff, sensing
the town's renewed desire for the youth center to remain, and the political
ramifications the issue has for his re-election chances, changes his mind and
the youth center stays. Smith changes his mind and decides to stay as well, a
clear triumph for democracy and perseverance - and in trademark Williamson
fashion, a celebration of the human spirit.
"7th Heaven" is more of a surprise. The new WB
(Warner Brothers) television network, under the guidance of Jamie Kellner, has
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Like "Promised Land" it has a Main Street USA setting and revolves
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children. What makes this family unique is the father's profession, an
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When I met with Mr. Kellner several months ago, "7th
Heaven" was in production and this, he told me, was going to be just the
kind of show people like me were clamoring for. The pilot was a
disappointment. One plotline focused on the younger daughter's desire to
menstruate; another dealt with her older sister trying to practice kissing -
with her brother. Well, forget the pilot: Someone obviously got the message
because every episode since then has been a smashing success, with
heart-warming stories centering around real-life experiences where serious
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Some might scoff at the motives behind "7th
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Billed as the first Beach Soccer video game designed especially for fans of soccer and extreme sports, Ultimate Beach Soccer offers five-on-five action with lots of aerial passes, special moves, combos, intense shooting and scoring, spectacular goals and saves. Set in unique and exotic locations spanning the globe, including Rio, France, Japan and Venice Beach, California, Ultimate Beach Soccer offers detailed and exotic stadiums, with daytime and nighttime games, including spectacular pitch-side shows with DJs, cheerleaders and commentators all fully modeled and animated in-game. Game modes range from quick match to long-term competitions and custom tournaments. The game sports the Official Beach Soccer Federation License - Real Players, Real Teams and Real Locations.
Also known as: Pro Beach Soccer, Xtreme Beach Soccer
Release Region: United States
Release Date: October 20, 2003
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An online movement is calling for a day of "cease fire" on Friday, where gamers put down their controllers in honor of the victims in Newtown.
Antwand Pearman, the CEO of Gamer Fit Nation, is the man behind this call for action. He says he doesn't believe video games cause violence but thinks the community should put down their virtual guns in a moment of silence.
"It's not about politics, it's about a sense of us being human," he told HLN's Evening Express.
Check out the 'Day of Cease Fire for Online Shooter' Facebook event to learn more about the movement.
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The largest of approximately 41 wild species of canids, gray wolves vary in size based primarily on geographic locality, with southern populations generally smaller than northern populations. Total body length, from tip of the nose to tip of the tail, is from 1000 to 1300 mm in males, and 870 to 1170 mm in females. Tail length ranges between 350 to 520 mm. Males can weigh from 30 to 80 kg, with an average of 55 kg, females can weigh from 23 to 55 kg, with an average of 45 kg. Height (measured from base of paws to shoulder) generally ranges from 60 to 90 cm. Distance between the canines is around 4 cm.
Fur color of gray wolves also varies geographically, ranging from pure white in Arctic populations, to mixtures of white with gray, brown, cinammon, and black to nearly uniform black in some color phases.
North American populations have three distinct color phases. The normal phase is characterized by varying mixtures of white with shades of black, gray, cinnamon, and brown on the upper parts of the animal. The back is usually more profoundly black, and the muzzle, ears, and limbs have cinammon coloration as well. Under parts are whitish and the tail is conspicuously black over the tail gland, and paler below to the tip, which is nearly pure black. The black phase of North American populations is characterized by the upper parts varying from brown to black, with specks of white; the underparts are paler in tone, and there is often a pure white medial pectoral spot. The third color phase occurs during the first pelage of young wolves. The upper parts are drab-gray, overlaid with brownish-black. The underparts are paler as well, and the ears vary from black to buffy, depending on the subspecies (Young 1944).
Gray wolves have a dense underfur layer, providing them with excellent insulation against cold conditions.
Gray wolves can be distinguished from red wolves (Canis rufus) by their larger size, broader snout, and shorter ears. They are distinguished from coyotes (Canis latrans) by being 50 to 100% larger and having a broader snout and larger feet.
Range mass: 23.0 to 80 kg.
Range length: 870 to 1300 mm.
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Summer is a scene that keeps us thriving and vibing all day long. It's when the greens are their greenest, skies are their royalist and whites accent themselves tough and true. White is where the prism starts and it's the bright that's also a fresh canvas. It has the power to let everything else, and all of you, shine on around it - as bold and as brazen as it may be.
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Funny Summer Hats
Source: Martha Stewart Kids, Volume 14 2004
Whether you use a baseball cap or sailor's hat to make this headgear, your kids will love wearing it -- and their delicate skin will be protected from the sun. An island paradise complete with pretty shells, the most evil shark in the sea, and a bright (but slightly befuddled) lobster will sit just right on young silly heads everywhere.
Using the templates, cut shapes from felt and secure with fabric glue.
For island hat: Make eight leaves; stack in pairs, slightly askew; stitch together and to trunk. Cut 4-inch length of rickrack. For shells, starting at center of base, stitch "grooves" ending 1/8 inch from notches. Pinch shell at base; hand-stitch so it curves out. Glue pieces to hat.
For shark hat: Glue two fins together, stop 1/2 inch from bottom. Fold bottom flaps out; sew to top of hat. Glue on eyes and teeth.
For lobster hat: Fold one end of two pipe cleaners at 1/4 inch; sew to front of hat. Glue claws to brim and eyes to crown.