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Guest: Douglas Brinkley, Willie Brown, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Steve McMahon, Todd Harris, Melinda Henneberger
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Living history.
Let's play HARDBALL.
Good evening. I'm Chris Matthews in Washington. Leading off tonight:
President Obama will go down in history as the man who achieved what so
many presidents before him wanted to, tried to but couldn't, extend health
care coverage to Americans who didn't have it. That will be the remarkable
first line of accomplishment in all his biographies and schoolbooks. The
president proved he had the muscle and courage to push through major change
in America. And we'll talk to a presidential historian tonight about this
political and legislative feat and what it means for the Obama presidency
and to both political parties.
Plus, more threats against members on both sides of the aisle. A
photo of a noose was faxed to a district office of House majority leader—
or House majority whip, rather, James Clyburn. And Republican
Congresswoman Ginny Brown-Waite of Florida received a voicemail message
threatening her life. Republicans are accusing Democrats of using these
threats to their political advantage, but who's really responsible for
fanning the flames of rage?
Also, Republicans want to campaign on the pledge of repealing health
care reform. President Obama says, Be my guest. So can the Republicans
ride that strategy to victory in November, even if it's a far-fetched
promise? Our strategists will battle that one out here tonight.
And reunited. It's the moment some people have been waiting for for a
while. Sarah Palin campaigned for John McCain today, the man who plucked
her from obscurity. There they are out there in Arizona today. We'll see
if she can get hard-right conservatives to rally behind a man that they've
often considered suspect.
And I'll finish tonight with some thoughts about how the Democrats
proved this week that things here in Washington can get done.
We start with the history made this past week. Doug Brinkley's a
presidential historian. His latest book is "The Wilderness Warrior" about
Teddy Roosevelt. And Willie Brown was mayor of San Francisco, and before
that, speaker of the California Assembly.
I want to start with Doug and then go to Mayor Brown for your
thoughts. But first, I want to show you an interesting montage our
producers have put together. Here's some presidents throughout our modern
American history, in the 20th and then the 21st century, on health care.
Let's listen and let's watch.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We have
accepted, so to speak, a second bill of rights under which a new basis of
security and prosperity can be established for all, regardless of station
or race or creed. Among these are the right to adequate medical care and
the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health.
HARRY S. TRUMAN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We must also act
promptly to improve the health of our nation, for women in the country
particularly know that in many areas, there are not enough doctors or
hospitals and that many families cannot afford the medical care they need.
UNITED STATES: The fact of the matter is, is that what we are now talking
about doing most of the countries of Europe did years ago. The British did
it 30 years ago. We are behind every country, pretty nearly, in Europe in
this matter of medical care for our citizens.
RICHARD M. NIXON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We will establish a
new system that makes high-quality health care available to every American
in a dignified manner and at a price he can afford.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Today I am
announcing the formation of the president's task force on national health
reform chaired by the first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
MATTHEWS: Well, there you have it, Doug Brinkley, that socialist SOB,
Richard Nixon, the far lefty guy, pushing for the employer mandate, which
is even more dramatic than what this president has just accomplished in the
Congress. But it's finally happened. History's been made, I guess. But
I'm asking you, the expert. Will this be the first line on his list of
accomplishments in the history books?
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN: Well, without question. I
mean, it's—any time you have the largest of something—people remember
big things, Lyndon Johnson signing Medicaid and Medicare, or FDR with
Social Security. The fact that Barack Obama was able to get this major
reform done, when all these other great political leaders that you just ran
tried to do it, too. It is a big moment for Obama. It is the first line,
and it'll be—people will have a second and third line on what a fight it
was. But it also shows, at the end, he's victorious. And you are going to
see an Obama presidency now run on health care in the mid-term election.
That seemed almost unthinkable a month ago.
MATTHEWS: Mayor Brown, you've been at the forefront of Democratic
Party politics for what, four decades at least, that I can think of. How's
this place in your—well, your pantheon of historic events you've
WILLIE BROWN (D), FORMER SAN FRANCISCO MAYOR: I think this is the
most incredible event, frankly, in my entire history of being associated
with politics. I arrived in California in 1951 from Texas and began the
quest for the kind of things that I'm associated with now. And believe me,
health care for all people—it's unbelievable, unimaginable. Three weeks
ago, I would have said it could not be done.
MATTHEWS: Well, here's the president on Tuesday of this week at the
signing ceremony. Let's listen to his account.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I'm signing this bill
for all the leaders who took up this cause through the generations, from
Teddy Roosevelt to Franklin Roosevelt, from Harry Truman to Lyndon Johnson,
from Bill and Hillary Clinton to one of the deans who's been fighting this
so long, John Dingell, to Senator Ted Kennedy. I remember seeing Ted walk
through that door in a summit in this room, a year ago, one of his last
public appearances. And it was hard for him to make it, but he was
confident that we would do the right thing.
MATTHEWS: Well, he was right to put Hillary Clinton there, as well as
her husband, Bill Clinton, because she was out front in that effort.
Well, let me go to Doug Brinkley on the negative side. Every time
history is made, I think of the election of Abraham Lincoln that certainly
stirred this trouble in this country. It caused the Civil War. When
things like this happen, they do stir bitterness on the losing side. Your
thoughts about the relatively peaceful reaction to this so far, in terms of
some broken windows, some threats over the phone.
And by the way, in all honesty, anyone in public life is familiar with
the phone calls. Thank God the phone calls often don't mean violence, they
mean somebody is venting their spleen, somebody's trying to scare somebody,
you know, spook somebody. It makes them happy. Fortunately, it doesn't
lead to violence, only to a bit of a stir.
Your thoughts about the reaction so far, Doug, on the negative side?
BRINKLEY: Well, I mean, the point of American history is to remind us
that our times are not uniquely oppressive. When you get some hate
literature going on or people being angry, this is nothing new in American
history. During the Civil War, congressmen were bashing each other with
canes, debating issues. My friend, Hunter S. Thompson, used to say during
Vietnam—he was against the Vietnam war—that every good American
should throw a bag of dead rats over the White House fence, and meaning
just get out there and make a lot of noise. So I think it's been fairly
mild this week.
I do think, though, that the leadership of the Democratic Party and
the Republican Party might want to do a joint message to the American
people that we're going to still—you know, there are going to be appeals
of health care. There's going to be fights. But we don't want the
rhetoric to get out of control. So I think there needs to be some bit of
Right now, it's a little too shrill. And so it's—we're on a bit of
a red alert, but I think it's going to dissipate fairly soon, at least for
that potential violence.
MATTHEWS: Mayor Brown, you probably heard late this afternoon, there
was word that Jim Clyburn, the great House majority whip, the number three
guy in the leadership with Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer, got another one of
those faxes of a picture of a noose, a photograph of a noose. Obviously,
that carries all kinds of history with it. Where do you place the violence
level so far, with the broken windows and the threats of death, even?
BROWN: Well I—I have been in the business long enough to know that
these things do occur. Seldom, if ever, are they translated into actual
action. There will be sufficient security provided to everybody who needs
it, on the congressional side and otherwise, whether they're Republicans or
Democrats. And I agree, I think there should be a dialogue uttered for the
whole, all of America, by the leadership of America, both Republicans and
But let me say this, Chris. I don't think the business of health care
is going to generate the same kind of reaction, let's say, that even the
war in Vietnam did, or even the Civil Rights passage of the bills and the
Voting Rights Act. I do think health care is so personal, and as it
unfolds, it will be so personal that there will be a dampening of the
enthusiasm of people to criticize. And of course, people will praise, just
as they did with Medicare.
MATTHEWS: And I suppose you're saying—well, let me suggest to you
you can follow this. They're going to check and see what impact it has
on them. If they're a senior, they'll know they can get prescription drugs
without interruption, depending on how much drugs they need—obviously,
prescription drugs their doctor has prescribed. They're going to discover.
if they're a young family or an empty nest family, have got young adult
kids, like we do, that those young adult kids can stay on your health care
plan. I think they're going—I think they're going to look at it
piecemeal, right? They're going to look at it and say, What's this do to
BROWN: Absolutely. There is a sufficient amount of benefits in this
bill that has now been signed into law that will come on line between now
and November of this year. And when that happens, the criticism, the
misrepresentation and all the information that has come from the opposition
will go by the wayside, and people will become more focused on their other
needs, jobs and things of that nature.
MATTHEWS: Well, I especially—Doug, you know, when my parents—my
father's a pretty conservative Republican, in many ways, though I think he
is a pragmatist. He loved Medicare, OK? I mean, these people that said
they didn't like the idea of government getting a little bigger when it
affected their lives positively—I mean, a lot of people—you know,
Doug, the weird comment people make is, I don't like the government getting
involved in health care. I'm on Social Security and I'm on Medicare. Wait
a minute. You're on—you're involved with a government program, which
you kicked into in your working years. You have a certain right to all the
benefits. It comes with having kicked in all your working years. But it
is a government program. It's not the enemy. Your thoughts.
BRINKLEY: Well, part of the Republican strategy has been to create
fear, fear in senior citizens, and it worked to a degree. It was able to
get rid of aspects of public option, on and on. But the truth of the
matter is, what President Obama has going for him is we're not going to
know the effects of this historic legislation for three years, maybe not
even the six years. It'll will be really two more election cycles until
historians are going to be able to say, Did it work?
MATTHEWS: Yes.
BRINKLEY: Did it break the back of the economy? And so while it's a
definite giant political and historic victory for Barack Obama now, we
won't really know whether this worked for American history for about six to
eight, ten years.
MATTHEWS: I love the way that kid was, who lost his mother because
she couldn't get health treatment, watching the president's signature and
watching him signing something. It's amazing to watch that history.
Here's President Obama Thursday in Iowa. That's yesterday. Let's
listen to what he said along these lines.
OBAMA: When I came here three years ago, I told the story of when
Lyndon Johnson stood with Harry Truman and signed Medicare into law. That
wasn't perfect, either. I'm sure there's somebody who was dissatisfied
with it at the time. And as he looked out over the crowd in Independence,
Missouri, that day, he said, History shapes men, but it is necessary—it
is a necessary faith of leadership that men can shape history. What this
generation has proven today is that we still have the power to shape
history. In the United States of America, it is still a necessary faith
that our destiny is written by us, not for us.
MATTHEWS: Well, gentlemen, I think one of the heroes of this—
there's a couple of heroes. I want you to talk about them. It wasn't just
the president and the big people like Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker, or Harry
Reid. There were some staff people involved. Somebody came up with the
idea of using reconciliation not as an alternative to passing this bill
with 60 votes, which they did last December, but to use it to complement
it, to tweak it so that it could correspond to the House bill. And
somebody figured out, whether it was Rahm Emanuel or somebody, that the
executive order on abortion funding would somehow ameliorate the
differences on that issue.
Mr. Brown, Mayor Brown, sometimes smart politics requires some
technicians along the way who help make this thing work.
BROWN: I would say at all times, it is technicians who come forward
with the great ideas. And believe me, this effort demonstrates great
ideas. Over the last three weeks, there's been a dramatic change in the
attitude of the people on the Hill, as well as the people throughout this
country. When it became clear that it could be achieved, even some of the
Blue Dogs resorted to the whole business of looking at it from their
personal standpoint. And they got lots of assistance from retired members
of Congress to do that.
So not only was it staff people, it was retired members, some on the
Blue Dog side, who really said, You've got to do it and here's the
technique, and don't worry about the criticism about the technique. At the
end, the product will dictate whether or not it's acceptable to the general
MATTHEWS: OK. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Mayor Brown. Thank
you, Doug Brinkley. Congratulations on your latest book. You're just an
amazing guy. You keep—you keep putting us all to shame with your—
your historical ability.
Anyway, coming up, much more on the threats against members of
Congress. With Republican leaders talking about Armageddon and the death
of freedom, to what extent is that kind of rhetoric, over-the-top heated
rhetoric responsible for this violence we're hearing, this so far not
horrible violence, just there? We don't know what it's going to lead to
this weekend.
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MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL. The reports and threats of
violence out there against members of Congress keeps growing, although it's
not horrific yet. Someone faxed a picture, as I said, of a noose to South
Carolina Democrat Jim Clyburn's office. Of course, he is coming out of the
Civil Rights movement. That kind of picture carries a lot of sad
information and memory. And Florida Republican Ginny Brown-Waite received
a death threat in her voicemail. I heard it's pretty rough. When will
these things calm down? This weekend may get worse. And who's to blame
for fanning these flames?
I wants to talk to U.S. Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. She's
chief deputy whip for the House Democrats. She really gets the vote out.
Thank you so much. I want you to watch something. We won't talk a lot
about this because I want to talk about you and your experience with the
health care system in this country.
Here's Sarah Palin today, just a few minutes ago, actually, talking
about the threats we've seen this week and her—well, her take on it.
Let's put it that way.
SARAH PALIN (R-AK), FMR. GOV., FMR. VP NOMINEE: We know violence
isn't the answer. When we take up our arms, we're talking about our vote.
We're talking about being involved in a contested primary like this—and
picking the right candidate, too, John McCain (INAUDIBLE) But this BS
coming from the "lame-stream" media lately about this—about this
inciting violence...
PALIN: Don't let—don't let the conversation be diverted. And
don't let a distraction like that get you off track. Keep fighting hard
for these candidates, who are all about the common sense conservative
solutions that we need.
MATTHEWS: You know, I think she took a risk there. I think, if
something really bad happens this weekend, and she's saying this stuff
didn't matter, she will be pulled into it. I don't think she should be
pulled into, but she put herself into it.
Your thoughts about the kind of rhetoric, the noose being sent, the—
the windows being broken, the threats to Stupak? I would have thought that
the people on the right would be sort of sympathetic to him. They're mad
of him, as an apostate, because he ended up signing the bill. What do you
make of all this?
REP. DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ (D), FLORIDA: Well, honestly, the
threats to Stupak, the threats to Jean Schmidt, who's a Republican, any of
the threats and violence is really just totally out of place, outrageous.
And what we need to be doing is condemning violence and bullying and
threats at every level, every opportunity we can, because we can—we can
disagree, but, in America, we disagree through civil discourse, not through
bullying and violence.
MATTHEWS: Well, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, my friend, who I really
like, I will now tell you I'm so impressed with you all these years, and
you faced a lot bigger threat in your life than somebody breaking your
MATTHEWS: So, tell us about what you have learned about health care
and what you have been through and to the extent you want to talk about it,
because it's personal, but it's also now—you're a public figure.
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: I tried to use my own personal experience with
breast cancer through this health care reform debate as a way to show that
there are many different faces to the need to reform our health care
system, many different faces of who is the uninsurable.
I, after being diagnosed with breast cancer two years ago, at 41, hit
with an illness out of the clear blue sky, never thought that I would
become sick for any reason, became a person who, if I lost my job tomorrow,
you know, I'm essentially uninsurable on the individual market, even though
I have taken all the steps I need to, to avoid a recurrence of breast
cancer in the future.
And there are thousands of Debbie Wasserman—millions of Debbie
Wasserman Schultzes around the country. And health care reform was so
essential because we need to put patients and doctors back in the driver's
seat and end the abusive insurance company practices.
And that's what we did. That was—you know, personally, for me,
it's just incredible that I know for my—for myself, but also for
millions of children who face illness, it's incredibly important.
MATTHEWS: Yes. Well, compared to me, I really think of you as a very
young person. And the fact that you have a term—you're subject to what
they call a preexisting condition.
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: Right.
MATTHEWS: And, usually, you think of an older man, for example, like
that, you know, very old.
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: Or a poor person or a homeless person.
MATTHEWS: Yes. But you have a condition which would prevent you from
going on the market and buying—and now—and how does the law affect
you, the Obama law?
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: Now, the way the law affects me, the way the
health care reform law affects me is that—well, this year, we will
immediately end the preexisting condition exclusions for children.
Then, by 2014, no one will be able to be denied coverage based on a
preexisting condition, whether they have a job, whether they're unemployed,
whether they're in between jobs. If you have a preexisting condition, you
will be covered. Your insurance will be guarantee-issue.
MATTHEWS: When you go back home to Florida, you have a middle-class
district, right?
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: Yes. Really middle-upper, but yes.
MATTHEWS: In some places, better-off people. Some people are better
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: Mm-hmm.
MATTHEWS: When you talk to them about this, it seems to me the
president is trying to address this to voters. You represent voters,
older, better-off, wealthier, whiter—white people. They tend to vote
relentlessly, perennially.
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: Yes.
MATTHEWS: They vote when there's no voting going on. They get out
and vote.
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: That's the favorite pastime in my district, to
MATTHEWS: And kibitzing about the voting, too.
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: Right.
MATTHEWS: Let's talk about it.
MATTHEWS: So, they have to be reached if you're a Democrat this year,
because they will have the votes more so than in a presidential year.
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: No, absolutely. They...
MATTHEWS: So, what's the president have to say and what do you have
to say to people who are not working poor? They're not the people that are
getting these subsidies, these 32 million people? These are the people who
are in the mainstream, who have some health insurance.
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: Right. What we talk about to those people, those
85 percent of Americans that had health insurance, is that this legislation
will provide you with the security and stability that you need to make sure
that you don't face those skyrocketing premiums.
And I had small-business owners all over my district stop me and say,
you know, I faced last year, 30, 40, 50, 70 -- somewhat told me they had a
172 percent premium increase with 30 employees because one of them is sick.
Those are the kinds of things that we are—we have stopped as a
result of this bill being signed into law on Tuesday by President Obama.
MATTHEWS: Are you confident this bill will look as good as it did
their, week when you passed it, five, 10 years from now?
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: I think it's going to look better. I really do.
I think, as we phase in the really wonderful reforms, and make sure that we
can reduce costs, provide that security and stability and cover the 32
million Americans that this bill covers, we are going to make sure that
people with health care challenges are going to be able to get the coverage
they need, but, more importantly, shift the focus from a sick-care system
it a prevention and wellness system.
MATTHEWS: It's great to have a real person on.
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: Thank you.
MATTHEWS: Nice person.
MATTHEWS: Thank you very much, Congressman Debbie Wasserman Schultz
of Florida...
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: Thank you.
MATTHEWS: ... one of the leaders of the House, probably a bigger
leader in the years to come.
Up next: Michele Bachmann—different story—takes credit for
seeing the future.
MATTHEWS: Wait until you hear this. It's—I can't write this
Back in 2008 here on HARDBALL, she said she was concerned that Barack
Obama was an anti-American. Well, wait until you hear what she has to say
right now. She's no longer in the apologetic mode. She's back to full,
full Bachmann.
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MATTHEWS: Back to HARDBALL. And now for the "Sideshow."
Tonight: The congresswoman says she was right. Here's what
Republican Michele Bachmann said here just over a year ago.
MATTHEWS: You believe that Barack Obama may—you're suspicious
because of this relationship—may have anti-American views. Otherwise,
it's probably irrelevant to this discussion.
REP. MICHELE BACHMANN ®, MINNESOTA: Absolutely.
MATTHEWS: So, you believe it brings into...
BACHMANN: Yes, I absolutely—yes.
MATTHEWS: So, you believe that Barack Obama may have anti-American
BACHMANN: Absolutely. I'm very concerned that he may have anti-
American views.
What I would say is that the news media should do a penetrating expose
and take a look. I wish they would. I wish the American media would take
a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out, are they
pro-America or anti-America? I think people would be—would love to see
an expose like that.
MATTHEWS: Well, Barack Obama has anti-American views? The media
should do an expose on members of Congress? Well, those remarks caused
serious concern out in her home state of Minnesota. At the time, she told
a local newspaper that she regretted using the term "anti-American." That
was then.
But, Wednesday night, at a closed-press—closed-to-the-press fund-
raiser, Congresswoman Bachmann was offering another assessment. She said
her HARDBALL appearance was in fact prophetic. That was her word,
prophetic—quote—"I said I had very serious concerns that Barack Obama
had anti-American views. And now I look like Nostradamus."
I can't beat that. Enough said.
Next: to Russia with love. This morning, at the White House briefing,
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talked—talked up the new arms
reduction agreement with Russia and the United States. She also offered
some special help in getting the Russian legislature to approve the treaty.
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: Just as we have to
go to our Congress, President Medvedev has to go to the Duma. And I think
President Obama has said that he would send Rahm Emanuel to Moscow.
CLINTON: And—and we all immediately endorsed that offer.
CLINTON: So, if—you know, if President Medvedev wants to take us
up on it, we're ready.
MATTHEWS: Well, talk about product placement. I guess Rahm's
reputation for getting votes rounded up is going global.
Finally, a look behind the curtain. This week, the White House posted
this photo to their online album. It's President Obama on September 9 of
last year with chief speechwriter Jon Favreau, a Holy Cross grad, editing
the health care speech he's about to give to a joint session of Congress.
Take a look at the edits on there. Look at them all. You can see the
president doesn't just read what's put in front of him. Look at all that
editing. He may use the teleprompter, but he likes to have his words
printed on it.
Now for the "Number."
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi celebrated yet another milestone today.
You can see there she was signing into law the new package of health care
fixes with her colleagues. They brought in a birthday cake. That's George
Miller there, her fellow congresswoman—congressman from California.
It turns out that Nancy Pelosi is 70 years old today, 70. That's
Nancy Pelosi. Pretty amazing, don't you think? Congratulations to the
speaker. She's 70 today. Is 70 the new 40? Tonight's not so "Big
Up next: Republicans are campaigning on the promise to repeal health
care reform if they gain back power. Well, President Obama says, go for
it. By the way, is repeal a winning strategy for the Republicans? We will
ask the strategists next coming here on HARDBALL, both of them, R's and
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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Now that they passed—
now that we passed it, they're already promising to repeal it. They're
actually going to run on a platform of repeal in November. You've been
hearing that. And my attitude is, go for it.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL.
President Obama, there he is, telling Republicans that, if they want
to run a—repeal health care reform, that it's a good time to go for it.
They would should want to have to do it. That's their plan, go for it.
Anyway, with health care reform now signed into law, what strategy
should Democrats and Republicans use in the midterm races?
Steve McMahon is a Democratic strategist. And Sweeney Todd Harris is
also with us. He's with the—he's a Republican strategist.
Anyway, Mr. Todd, since it's your turn to attack, what do you make of
this repeal and replace? The replace part sounds pretty namby-pamby to me,
like, gee whiz, I wish we had a health care plan, but we don't, so we're
going to pretend we do. And, by the way, it takes 67 votes in the U.S.
Senate to override a presidential veto.
What's this repeal talk? It's unrealistic. Your thoughts.
TODD HARRIS, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: Well, the—well, we do have a
health care plan that the Republicans have been pushing for all year.
But the—look, the repeal part of this, there's a two-pronged
approach. The first is repeal. And the second one is replace it with
something that the country actually wants and that we can afford. And
whether or not we can repeal the existing trillion-dollar bill this year is
Our campaign message is going to be vote Republican this November, and
help us replace this bill that the country doesn't want, that the country
can't afford, with something that will lower the costs, medical costs, for
every American, but will do it in a way that doesn't bankrupt the country
and doesn't cost jobs.
And that's a winning message for Republicans. It's a winning message
for independents. The only people that it probably isn't a winning message
for are people who are already voting Democratic anyway.
STEVE MCMAHON, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: Well, Todd, actually, it's not
a winning message for Republicans, because what's happening right now is
the newspapers and television outlets that people trust are telling people
what's in this bill, and they're telling them that, if you're a child, you
can't be denied for a preexisting condition. You can stay on your parents'
policy until you're 26.
If you're somebody who is worried about an annual or lifetime limit on
health care coverage, you can't be capped anymore. And I'm wondering what
Republican wants to repeal which pieces of this legislation that people are
now starting to look at and they're saying, this is a pretty good idea.
There are tax breaks for 4,000 small businesses to—that want to
provide health care for their employees to provide it. And Americans are
sitting there saying, well, now that I'm getting this information that I
trust from people that I trust, and not hearing these—this noise about
how the government is going to take over the health care system, this is
looking and sounding pretty good.
"USA Today" yesterday had a poll that showed 49 percent of Americans
thought it was a good thing this was passed. Only 40 percent thought it
wasn't. So, the numbers have already started to flip. And I think
President Obama is right. I hope the Republicans run on a repeal strategy.
HARRIS: Well, I think that we will make the president quite happy,
because the plan is not to run on a repeal strategy, but the plan is to run
on a strategy that says we're going to shelve this bill that the country
can't afford, and we're going to replace it with something that will lower
the costs, medical costs, for every American, but do it in a way that we
can afford that doesn't expand our government.
And Steve is right about preexisting conditions for kids. What he
leaves out is the fact that the bill waits for four more years to do
anything about preexisting conditions for parents.
MCMAHON: Todd, it would have waited forever. It would have waited
forever, if it had been up to Republicans.
MATTHEWS: Aren't you lying to the voters when you say you can repeal,
when it takes 67 senators to repeal? I look at all the races, as you guys
do. There's no way in hell that you guys can win 67 Senate seats this
fall. No way. You can win the greatest year in history, you could pick up
maybe ten and take you to 51.
You're at 41 now. How do you get from 41 to 67? You're promising
something that manifestly you can't deliver. That's the repeal of health
care. So why are you promising it? Why are you saying something you can't
HARRIS: There aren't going to be 67 Republicans after the fall
election, you are correct about that. But there are going to be a whole
lot more Republicans in Washington. And if people want Congress to do
something about this bill, that the country doesn't want and the country
can't afford, they can vote Republican. And once Republicans take over
control of Congress, we can sit down with the president and actually hash
out something that we can afford, that will lower the costs—medical
costs of every American.
MCMAHON: Todd, the president tried to get Republicans to sit down
with him and have this conversation that you're imagining for 13 months,
and they wouldn't participate.
HARRIS: No, he didn't. No, he didn't.
MCMAHON: Then, on the day he invited them to the White House, they
said no again. And he even included two or three of their ideas in the
final health care bill and they still said no. Not a single Republican in
either chamber voted for this health care bill. Why in the world would
anyone believe that the Republicans are serious about health care reform?
MATTHEWS: Your party had power in the White House. His name is
George W. Bush. You had control of both houses of Congress from 2002 to
2006. You had it. This thing about replace—you keep putting up this
Harvey character of yours, this imaginary character of a Republican health
care bill, when you had all the time in the world to pass it. You had all
the votes notice world to pass it. Why does it exist now and it never
existed when you had the power?
This is bogus, you keep saying, if we had the chance. You've had the
chance and never pushed a big health care bill. Why didn't you do it
HARRIS: We also had the small issues of 9/11, the war in Afghanistan
and the war in Iraq. But your point is well taken. Perhaps Republicans
should have—
MATTHEWS: We still had those wars, if you haven't noticed.
HARRIS: Perhaps Republicans should have pushed for some of these
market-based solutions when we were in power. I think what you'll see over
the next several months is Republicans across the country talking about
common sense market-based solutions that will lower medical costs for every
American. And they can be sure that when Republicans take control of
Congress this November, that it's something we'll be pushing.
MATTHEWS: This doesn't make—I'm getting into this fight. It's
your fight to make. But the leading candidate for the Republican
nomination—forget the fact you had four years to do it and didn't do it.
And, by the way, there's about 300,000 to 400,000 troops right now fighting
wars overseas, that we've all overlooked, unfortunately. They're out there
on post right now, facing the enemy. So there is wars going on right now.
We're just not fighting them personally.
Secondly, you've got a candidate out there named Mitt Romney. Mitt
Romney pushed through the biggest health care plan in the world up in
Massachusetts on which this bill was based. He's now leading in the polls
to be your nominee to run against Barack Obama. How can you run a guy as
your chief spear-carrier, your chief champion who has done already what
Barack Obama has done, and you say he's a socialist? I'm just asking.
HARRIS: I'll let—Governor Romney's not the nominee of our party.
But I think if he were on this program right now, the first thing that he
would talk about is the fact that, as Republicans have been saying all
along, there are state-based solutions to these problems. And Governor
MATTHEWS: State socialism. So that's your fall-back position. It's
socialism, but it's local. Is that—
HARRIS: All socialism is local, right?
MATTHEWS: So feeble. You're stuck with Romney and you're stuck with
your record and you can't win this argument. I'm sorry, I shouldn't get in
here. I should be a ref in these things. But Steve—
MCMAHON: Todd is making a valiant effort, and he's very good at this.
But what he's talking about simply is fantasy. The Republicans had a
chance—they had a chance—
MATTHEWS: Todd, you win some weeks on this show. You win some weeks
on this show, not this week. Thank you, Steve McMahon.
HARRIS: I thought I just won.
MATTHEWS: Maybe, in your own mind, in your own heart. By the way,
your mom thinks you won.
Up next, together again, Sarah Palin campaigns alongside the man who
made her famous, John McCain. Politics makes strange bedfellows, ladies
and gentlemen. Can Palin convince hard-line conservatives to stick with
McCain in his fight against J.D. Hayworth. This is HARDBALL. That's
HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
PALIN: It was such a privilege to be asked do run alongside him in
2008. And it's an honor to stand beside him now and ask that you, Arizona,
for the sake of your state and the sake of our country, that you send the
maverick back to the United States Senate.
MATTHEWS: We're back. Senator John McCain launched Sarah Palin's
political career on the national stage. And now she's trying to help save
his. The former running mates reunited for first time today since losing
that presidential election in 2008. Here's Governor Palin stumping for
McCain, who is fending off a tough primary challenge from J.D. Hayworth.
PALIN: Everybody here today supporting John McCain, we're all part of
that Tea Party movement, because I've had the privilege of traveling around
the U.S. and meeting with everyday Americans who are that great Tea Party
movement. And folks always ask me about my friend John McCain everywhere I
go. When you think about that first Tea Party, shoot, some may claim that
John was there at that first Tea Party.
MATTHEWS: MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell was at today's rally in Tucson,
Arizona, and Melinda Henneberger is editor in chief of PoliticsDaily.com.
Norah, you're laughing. I just want to know. We watched the whole
thing today on television. What couldn't we see? What was the smell of
the crowd? Were they pro-McCain, pro-Palin? Did they understand there was
a rift between them or what?
NORAH O'DONNELL, MSNBC ANCHOR: There was a bit of awkwardness, not
just because of that joke, where she was making fun of John McCain's age,
but also because it was clear that Sarah Palin was the main attraction.
John McCain may have been at the top of the ticket in the last presidential
election, but Sarah Palin is now the star of the Republican party.
And so while most of the people here were excited that John McCain was
here, they were ebullient that Sarah Palin was here. They were cheering.
They wanted their books signed. They loved Sarah Palin. I think that's
what John McCain wanted, in part, some of that star power to rub off on
Also, he needed Sarah Palin to vouch for his conservative credentials.
That's why she was talking about the Tea Party. She said John McCain is
just like someone that's in the Tea Party movement because he has been
campaigning against reckless spending in Washington for four decades,
according to her. Trying to sort of say, yeah, he's like one of us. He,
too, is angry at Washington. He, too, is going to change Washington. So
he's OK, guys. He's OK to vote for.
MATTHEWS: You know, Melinda, it must be embarrassing to have to get
an endorsement, if you're John McCain, from anybody out of state, but to
have to get it from somebody you pitched—you plucked from obscurity, and
you probably believe belongs there, as someone who has to vouch for you.
MELINDA HENNEBERGER, POLITICSDAILY.COM: And somebody who you think
ruined your campaign and may be a major reason you're not president of the
United States today.
MATTHEWS: He didn't carry Florida. There were a lot of states that
couldn't vote for her.
HENNEBERGER: A lot of conservatives said they had to be national
security concerns and health concerns about her, so -- to have voted for
the ticket. But sure it's got to be galling. Just to see the body of
language like him looking like he's in pain, and Cindy McCain was not even
trying. I mean, she was just standing there looking.
MATTHEWS: Norah, you're very good with observation, obviously. Give
us a report on your sense of the McCain reaction, physically, to the
presence of this star.
O'DONNELL: I think there was—it was like he had to do it. I don't
think he was happy about it. I think he's not happy that he is about to be
thrown out of office after 24 years in the U.S. Senate. I mean, facing
this very tough primary challenge, and that is led by Tea Party supporters.
It should be pointed out, there are four major Tea Party groups here in
this state. They're not endorsing. That's a big win for John McCain.
Nevertheless, they're a powerful force. And people don't think he's
been doing a good job. They don't trust him. Remember, he voted for the
Tarp, that multi-billion dollar bailout of Wall Street. Voters remember
that. They're angry about that.
As far as the atmospherics, you're right, Cindy McCain gave a very
lukewarm instruction to Sarah Palin, and John McCain didn't seem to be
paying attention for many parts of that. When she was talking about the
Tea Party, he was sort of looking away. He reached down into his pocket to
grab his notes to go over his own remarks that were going up.
Nonetheless, this party goes on, if you will, because Sarah Palin is
holding a fund-raiser for John McCain tonight. She's going to be
campaigning again for him tomorrow in Mesa. This is all part of his
effort. He brings in a lot of people. It was Scott Brown just a couple
weeks ago. He's invited Jeb Bush and other people to try and help him win
this Senate race.
MATTHEWS: I can't wait to hear what you tell me about that race out
there when you get back. Norah O'Donnell, thanks for that report. I want
to get the skinny on this. Your thoughts on this? In the end, is he going
to win?
HENNEBERGER: I don't know. It's a long way until then. Hayworth,
what does he have even to say to these Tea Party people? He has ties to
Jack Abramoff. He spent a lot of money, himself, when he was in Congress.
MATTHEWS: Melinda Henneberger, thank you.
When we return, we're going to have some thoughts about this amazing
week. We'll be right back.
MATTHEWS: The American people saw history made this week. They saw a
president, a speaker of the House and a Senate majority leader enact a long
promised reform of the country's health insurance system. It happened
because the president had the intense support of both the Speaker and the
Senate leader through grueling months of argument, courage, compromise, and
then more courage.
It happened because one party, in this case the Democrats, agreed to
carry the ball, to fight off every effort by the other side to cause it to
fumble, to sustain all the attacks that came across the aisle before,
during and after the voting.
What just happened offers an object lesson in how to have a
functioning government, in other words. You vote for a candidate and a
party that promises to do something and then they do it. We just saw
Barack Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Leader Harry Reid do what
they deeply believe is good for the country.
So if the country wants government to act it should vote in way that
allows that to happen. This is true no matter which party we choose. In
1980, the country voted overwhelmingly for Ronald Reagan. It voted to give
him a partisan majority in the U.S. Senate, and the kind of huge pickup of
seats in the House that allowed him to push through his big changes in
federal tax and spending policies that became the Reagan Revolution.
Today's polls show the public is conflicted on all this. While it
wants political figures to do what they promised to do, it's not at all
sure it wants to give them the power to do this. Those polls out there
today show that 60 percent of this country, believe it or not, prefers
having government divided between a president of one party and a Congress
of another. In other words, a prescription for log jam.
What I think the people most detest is government ground down by
conflict, by finger pointing and blame gaming and inaction. When Congress
rejects what the president proposes, or when the president refuses to back
what the Congress wants, you get government by standstill. You get loud
complaints, one side blaming the other, and nothing to show for it.
So the big question for voters out there watching right now is do you
want government to deal with the challenges of health, of energy
dependence, illegal immigration, bad education, or just keep kicking the
can down the road? If you do want government to act, pick the party you
trust to do it. If you don't, if you truly think the way things are in
this country are as good as they're going to get, split the vote up, divide
up the government, make sure neither party has the power to do anything.
That's HARDBALL for now. Thanks for being with us. Catch us again
Monday night at 5:00 and 7:00 Eastern. Right now it's time for "THE ED
SHOW" with Ed Schultz.
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Talk:1072: Seventies
Can someone comment on the S-es in image's title text? I can read it, but don't know what they mean. Probably some old spelling.
Done Blaisepascal (talk) 16:52, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
Answering machines certainly had been invented by the 1970s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answering_machine). The first practical commercial models started appearing in the 1960s and I had one that used an endless reel of magnetic tape in the 70s. Jonat (talk) 16:20, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
Touch tone phones were certainly around in 1974, although dial phones were still prevalent. Touch Tone dialing was introduced in the late 60s (it was a sufficient novelty that if you visited someone with TouchTone, they'd show it off) The "press 1" aspect came much later, with automatic voice response (AVR) systems, probably mid 80s, although dial phones were still in use ("or wait to be connected to an operator"). As noted by Jonat, answering machines with cassettes, loops, or reel to reel tapes were quite common in the 70s, as a result of the Carterfone decision allowing interconnection to the public switched system in the US.188.8.131.52 04:56, 22 January 2013 (UTC)Jim Lux
I've never encountered those "press 1 to leave a message"-type answering machines, only ones where it says: "[person you wanted to call] is not available at this moment. Please leave a message after the beep. *beep*". Maybe it's a US thing. 184.108.40.206 11:59, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
- Most voicemail systems here in the US, you just leave a message after the beep, and press 1 at the end for more options afterward before sending your message (e.g., to delete it and re-record). Some answering machines, though, (like the one on my landline) let a caller choose from several mailboxes by pressing a mailbox number during the outgoing message (e.g., "To leave a message for Aaron, press 1. To leave a message for Bob, press 2."). Most likely, Randall's just taking a small liberty to make the joke work. --Aaron of Mpls (talk) 20:20, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
Why does this revision say he has an incredulous look on his face, when he doesn't have a face? 126.96.36.199 03:04, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
- I've seen many incredulous chins in my time, and that chin reeks of incredulity. Kev (talk) 22:45, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
Anyone care to comment on why the alttext starts the quote with a single quote (UK-style, "'") and ends with a double (US-style, '"')? Was that a thing in the 17th century? Hppavilion1 (talk) 00:57, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
The image file seems to be missing here. Can someone look into it? RamenChef (talk) 13:39, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

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Tsavo wrote:If there is no issue with abuse, why are they only limiting them to a few minutes a year or at most "15 trips"??
If it doesn't make sense then it probably isn't true.
If there is no issue with abuse, why do they limit Grand Prix rides to one a day? Oh, maybe because the horses would get too tired?


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Sergio moves ahead, Tiger 1 back at Players
Ponte Vedra Beach, FL – Sergio Garcia fired a 7-under 65 on Friday and grabbed a 1-stroke advantage over Tiger Woods and overnight leader Roberto Castro midway through the second round of the Players Championship.
Garcia, the 2008 Players champion, highlighted his scintillating day with a 40-foot birdie putt on the eighth and closed 36 holes at 11-under-par 133.
Woods, who won this event in 2001, shot 67 for the second consecutive round and hit the clubhouse one stroke off Garcia's pace.
Castro, who carded a course record-tying 9-under 63 in his Players debut on Thursday, has one birdie through three second-round holes.
Lee Westwood and Kevin Chappell both fired 66s and ended 36 holes at 9-under 135.


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When it comes to keeping babies comfortable and clean, diapers are a top priority for parents—and one for which they spare no expense. In fact, Nielsen estimates diaper sales around the world will exceed $29 billion in 2015*. North America and Europe together account for 51% of diaper sales around the world (34% and 17%, respectively), while Asia-Pacific and Latin America each claim more than one-fifth of sales (23% and 21%, respectively).
The fastest growth is happening in developing markets. In terms of value sales, between December 2013 and 2014, the category grew fastest in Latin America (15.5%), fueled by a combination of rising prices—which increased 4.4% over the previous year—and strong volume growth in Venezuela and Mexico. Growth is likely to continue in developing markets, but manufacturers also face a unique challenge in these countries. In many developing markets, the diaper market is still in its nascent stages, and manufacturers must convince consumers to not only buy their brand but to purchase diapers of any kind. For example, diaper use in India has traditionally been limited, primarily for special occasions outside the home (although this is changing).
Penetration rates (the percentage of households purchasing diapers) are also higher in developing markets. Of the countries examined, category penetration is highest in Brazil, where 26% of households purchased diapers during the previous year. Penetration is lowest in the U.S. (6.2%), but there's some good news for manufacturers: the U.S. is the only country in the study where penetration increased (+1%) in the past 12 months.
"Penetration growth in the U.S. reflects the small uptick in births that occurred between 2013 and 2014, the first increase since 2007," said Liz Buchanan, director, Global Professional Services, Nielsen. "As the economy has improved, consumers may feel more financially stable and confident in their ability to provide for a baby. We expect to see moderate growth in the diaper category as consumers who delayed having children during the recession play catch-up."
Within the diaper category, which segments are growing most? We analyzed a subset of countries to understand directional growth in the category. While open diapers (traditional taped diapers with high absorbency) are the largest segment and experienced strong growth in 2014, rising 7% over the previous year, the strongest growth came from diaper pants, which slide on, but have absorbency closer to an open (taped) diaper. The diaper pants segment increased 20% over the previous year, with sales largely concentrated in Asia-Pacific and Europe.
In Asia, the tremendous growth in the diaper pants category has been driven by their convenience, comfort and competitive prices. Diaper pants are extremely easy to use and they're also airier and can be more comfortable than regular diapers, which need to be taped and, hence, are tighter than pants. In addition, sales in traditional trade and smaller stores have been strengthened through the introduction of smaller packs of diapers (one or two diapers per pack). As these packs cost less, they are a popular option for consumers.
Other findings include:
For more detail and insight, download Nielsen's Global Baby Care Report.
*Based on Nielsen sales data for baby diapers and wipes in 63 countries, which account for an estimated 90% of global value sales.
The Nielsen Global Baby Care Survey was conducted Feb. 23 - March 13, 2015, and polled online respondents in 60 countries who have made a baby care purchase in the past five years throughout Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and North America. The sample has quotas based on age and sex for each country based on its Internet users and is weighted to be representative of Internet consumers. It has a margin of error of ±0.6%. This Nielsen survey is based only on the behavior of respondents with online access. Internet penetration rates vary by country. Nielsen uses a minimum reporting standard of 60% Internet penetration or an online population of 10 million for survey inclusion. The Nielsen Global Survey, which includes the Global Consumer Confidence Index, was established in 2005.


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Rice University seniors devise wireless energy-transfer device for tiny heart pump
Heart-failure patients may someday get a life-saving charge from technology developed by students at Rice University.
A team of seniors designed and built a transcutaneous energy-transfer (TET) unit to power a minimally invasive ventricular assist device (VAD) being created by a Houston company. The VAD is a tiny pump inserted into the aorta via a catheter that helps increase blood flow and heal patients with heart failure.
Rice tCoil – Michael Torre, Erin Watson, Tyler Young, Trevor Mitcham, Hana Wang and Alex Dobranich – made a complementary device that sits a centimeter under the skin and feeds power to the VAD. The challenge presented to the seniors, who were required to complete a capstone design project by Rice's George R. Brown School of Engineering , was to charge the unit wirelessly.
"A lot of people need heart transplants, but there aren't enough hearts available," Young said. "One alternative is to have a heart pump implanted, but that carries risks. It's very invasive surgery, and afterward you have to have wire leads running out of your body" to a battery pack.
The portal through the skin to a power supply can become infected, he said. But the problem is avoidable by sending power to the VAD without wires. The students' prototype consists of a small coil and a battery that would be inserted one centimeter under the skin at the patient's waist and wired to the VAD. The patient would also wear a belt-mounted external battery and coil to generate alternating magnetic fields and induce alternating current in the subcutaneous coil. The coils charge the battery, which can operate the pump for more than three hours.
"The patient can take the belt off for a short time, to take a shower, for instance," Young said. "The pump will work safely off the coils or on the internal battery alone, but obviously it's best when they're both working."
The team demonstrated tCoil at the Engineering Design Showcase that was part of Rice's recent UnConvention open house. The students put the internal and external coils on either side of a baggie containing lunchmeat to simulate power transfer through the skin. The internal unit was wired to a demonstration pump that clearly pushed red-colored water through a sleeve inside a tank.
The student project was in response to a request from Rice alum Michael Cuchiara, director of research and development at Procyrion , developer of the pump.
"I mentored two senior design teams while I did my Ph.D. in bioengineering at Rice and helped bring a project to Maria Oden (a professor in the practice of engineering and director of the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen at Rice) for a different client company in 2009," Cuchiara said. "For this project, until recently, our company's expertise was not heavy in electrical engineering design, and I knew Maria could put together a good team."
He said the students, who were mentored by Oden and Gary Woods, a Rice professor in the practice of computer technology and electrical and computer engineering, came through for him. "The Rice team brought us a quick, capital- and resource-efficient proof-of-concept system to show we can power our device through TET," Cuchiara said. "There's was no reason to think we couldn't – but until you do it, you don't have it."
The project is far from complete, Young said. "Erin will work on it this summer, but at some point Procyrion will take it over and continue development," he said. "The next steps will be to miniaturize it and put it in biocompatible casing. Once that's done, it can be implanted for large animal testing." Ideally, he said, the long process of approval by the Food and Drug Administration will follow.
But team members will graduate with the satisfaction of a job well done and two awards: for Best Interdisciplinary Design Project at the Design Showcase and for best medical and rehabilitation technology at the third annual Rice Undergraduate Elevator Pitch Competition last November.
Cuchiara said TET will make ventricular assist available to an ever broader set of patients. "The concept that you can induce a current in another coil without connecting them electrically has been around since Tesla ," he said. "And VADs have been around for more than 10 years. But before, they were offered to people who were on their deathbeds. Now that we're able to take the risk (of passing a wire through the skin) out of the equation, we're starting to talk about bringing VADs to people who aren't that sick and can just use a little bit of support."


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Some important changes to seating and upgrades
Changes to seat select
Elite, Gold and Koru members can now request frequent flyer seating from any fare they purchase on Air New Zealand operated flights.
You no longer need to purchase The Works in order to request a seat in the reserved Frequent Flyer seating area on trans-Tasman and Pacific Island flights. Elite, Gold and Koru frequent flyers already have access to Space + zones on our A320 and 737 domestically regardless of fare purchased.
Here are some examples of what Elite, Gold and Koru members could select*:
Frequent Flyer seats in the Economy Space + zone with 33-35" seat pitch
Frequent Flyer seats in the Economy Space + zone with 33-34" seat pitch
Frequent Flyer seats are available in Premium Economy cabins, as well as towards the front of the Economy cabin
Economy seat with 31" seat pitch located in rows 15 and 16 near rear exit doors and in front rows
Economy seat with 31" seat pitch located towards front of aircraft
* Frequent Flyer seats are only available in the cabin to which the airfare applies. For example, an eligible member with an Economy airfare may select a Frequent Flyer seat from the allocation in the Economy cabin.
There will of course be times when all seats have been allocated. When this occurs, you will continue to get complimentary access to any available Standard Seats. Should you wish, you can purchase one of our paid seats, such as Preferred and Exit Row Seats, as usual.
Online display of available seats
To help with the seat request process, you'll be able to see some changes we've made to online Seat Select when you manage your bookings.
To highlight some of our changes, you will now be able to see:
- Where our Frequent Flyer seating is located
- When Frequent Flyer seats are occupied
- Which seats are complimentary
- When all Frequent Flyer seats are taken
You'll continue to see where Standard seating and paid Preferred seats are available. Any unsold paid seating is available free of charge for Elite, Gold and Koru members 48 hours before departure. There are also some seats that you can't select for operational reasons.
Here's a preview of the changes to the online Seat Select page:
Quick reference guide to Air New Zealand seating.
Changes to Airpoints upgrades
Improving the loyalty upgrade experience
When we introduced OneUp, we advised Elite, Gold and Silver Airpoints members to submit their loyalty upgrade requests (Recognition and Elite Standby Upgrades) at least 7 days before travel, so we could allow for them as we reviewed OneUp requests. Our usual approval parameters applied for the confirmation of upgrades - any time for Elite, 72 hours prior to travel for Gold and 48 hours for Silver members.
To ensure that loyalty upgrades are processed before OneUp requests, we will be confirming loyalty upgrades first on flights that have availability. This means that upgrade clearance timings will be amended.
The order of timing confirmation will be as follows:
- Elite Recognition and Standby Upgrades will continue to be confirmed into available upgrade classes from time of booking (355 days in advance).
- Six days from travel we will now manually check and confirm uncleared Elite Recognition and Standby upgrades from available unsold seats (excluding the number of seats held back for commercial sale).
- Gold then Silver Recognition Upgrades will be cleared in the same manner.
- Immediately following, appropriate OneUp offers will then be accepted.
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The redesigned 2013 Porsche Boxster and Boxster S go on sale in U.S. in mid-summer, with new sheet metal and more powerful engines. Stickers in the U.S. will start at $50,450 for the Boxster and $61,850 for the Boxster S. Prices include a $950 shipping charge.
Porsche said the third-generation models will be powered by direct-injection flat-6 engines that can be coupled with either a standard six-speed manual gearbox or the PDK seven-speed double-clutch gearbox.
The standard 2013 Boxster gets a 2.7-liter flat-6 to replace the previous 2.9-liter unit, with output rising from 255 to 261 horsepower. Output on the 3.4-liter six in the Boxster S is nudged slightly from 310 to 311 hp. Porsche says the standard Boxster will accelerate from 0-60 in 5.4 seconds, while the Boxster S will perform the same function in 4.7 seconds. The optional Sport Chrono package provides even better performance and driving dynamics.
A start-stop system and other tweaks also mean the engines will deliver up to 15 percent better fuel economy.
The 2013 Boxster gets new sheet metal, a new power-operated top that stows neatly behind the seats and a revised cockpit with more space for driver and passenger.
The chassis has been redesigned, and the car features lower weight, a longer wheelbase, wider track and larger wheels, as well as a new electromechanical power steering system.
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Jay-Z + Beyonce Break Bread With Florence Welch
Beyonce and Jay-Z have another fashion-forward, musical genius in circle aside from Kanye West. The dynamic duo dined with none other than Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine.On Monday night (June 25), Hov and Bey were out celebrating Solange's birthday in London at a private dinner at the Bistrotheque restaurant, and flame-haired Flo was happy to join in the festivities.
A source told The Sun, "Florence sat opposite Jay-Z and had a great time. They were all pretty animated throughout dinner," the source continued. "Florence was holding court for a bit then Beyonce drummed cutlery on the table while humming a tune. The restaurant was pretty empty so they were very at ease." So cute!
The diners reportedly enjoyed roast chicken and steak tartare (mmm!), and Jay-Z tossed back some of his own vintage red wine with the meal. We wonder what they chatted about. Maybe a collaboration or some covers are in order (we particularly love Florence + the Machine's rendition of Drake's 'Take Care')!
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Author and self-help guru Tim Ferriss gives tips on learning how to cook healthy and quickly from his new book "The 4-Hour Chef" on THE TALK as part of the "Talk Takeaway" series, Friday, January 25, 2013 on the CBS Television Network. Tim Ferriss, from left, Sheryl Underwood and Julie Chen, shown. Photo: Lisette M. Azar/CBS ©2013 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.


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Cheese plates and salads might be the place that most folks are used to seeing soft goat cheese, but it's an ingredient that's equally at home in the world of sweets. It makes a killer cheesecake, amazing brownies, and a dreamy filling for danishes. And these Chocolate and Black Pepper Goat Cheese Truffles from Joy the Baker Cookbook are not only out of this world but super simple.
Joy Wilson works soft goat cheese, dark chocolate, coarsely ground black pepper, and flaky sea salt into these petite truffles, rolling them in bitter cocoa powder to finish. They aren't over the top sweet, but they're plenty chocolaty. And they have just right amount of goat-y goodness both flavor-wise and in that great creamy-crumbly quality that we love in goat cheese.
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Jets score twice on power play, top Flyers in SOby Patrick Williams
WINNIPEG -- The Winnipeg Jets combined a much-maligned tool and an old reliable one to continue their successful ways with a 3-2 shootout win against the Philadelphia Flyers on Friday.
After a rare Winnipeg power-play goal late in the third period tied the game at 2-2 and an overtime in which the Flyers fired eight shots on goal, the Jets pulled out their third consecutive shootout win.
Bryan Little converted the deciding tally in the shootout's fifth round to give the Jets their season-high fourth straight win.
Winnipeg improved to 5-0-1 in shootouts.
"We'll take shootouts right now," Winnipeg captain Andrew Ladd said. "Obviously, you'd like to win it in regulation, but I like the way we battled back and found a way to win. Knowing we can get back into games is huge."
The Jets went 2-for-4 on the power play and once again got strong goaltending from Ondrej Pavelec, who stopped 32 of 34 shots.
"For me, it was a matter of time before these things started seeing the back of the net," Jets coach Claude Noel said. "Eventually they were going to go. You just had to stay with it and not let too much frustration to get into your game."
Winnipeg's Dustin Byfuglien, who had one goal this season entering the game, scored to tie the game at 2-2 with 5:37 left in regulation, the second of his two goals on the man-advantage Friday night.
The Jets ranked last in the NHL on the power play heading into action Friday. They had gone 0-for-20 in a skid that stretched over parts of eight games and had scored just once in their past 47 chances.
"[Converting on the power play] gives us a little bit of confidence," Byfuglien said. "We knew that as long as we stuck with it, it was bound to get a couple of goals on it. We had traffic, we kept shooting and it got there."
The Flyers used first-period goals from Scott Hartnell and Wayne Simmonds, spaced five minutes apart, to undo an early Winnipeg lead and carry a one-goal advantage for more than 42 minutes of play.
Byfuglien tied the game at 2-2 just 16 seconds into the Jets' fourth power play of the game with Flyers forward Steve Downie in the penalty box for hooking. Off the ensuing faceoff, Byfuglien took a pass from Olli Jokinen and ripped a left-point shot that climbed over Philadelphia goaltender Steve Mason's right glove.
Both teams had won three consecutive games. Philadelphia (7-10-2) was fresh off a 2-1 road win Wednesday against the Pittsburgh Penguins and had assembled a 6-3-1 mark that helped it dig its way out of a 1-7-0 start.
Philadelphia will begin a three-game homestand next week after finishing their three-game trip with a 2-0-1 record.
"Five out of six points I'd say is a pretty good trip," Hartnell said. "All in all, it was a good trip. We're doing better as a team, and we're playing the right way, and we've got to continue it [next] week at home."
Flyers coach Craig Berube cited improved team confidence as helping to drive Philadelphia's turnaround, but he wants to see still more from his players.
"I think [the players] believe they can win games," Berube said. "They play like it, but I still think we need to push more. We had the lead tonight in the third and we should have went and pushed more in the third period. Whether we sat back or whether we're tired, I don't know. I just think we can be more aggressive."
Winnipeg pulled off three straight home wins before going on the road for a 3-2 shootout win against the Detroit Red Wings on Tuesday.
The Jets play four of their next five games at home before beginning a season-long six-game road trip through the Eastern Conference that will span nearly two weeks.
The teams combined for several quality chances in the first period, and both goaltenders faced early pressure, including a 6-0 Winnipeg run in shots to open the game. Philadelphia's run of strong goaltending this season continued with Mason, who shut out the Ottawa Senators 5-0 on the road Tuesday, returning in net against the Jets after a one-game break. Mason stopped 36 Winnipeg shots.
"It's disappointing just because we had the lead with six minutes left in the hockey game," Mason said, "and we weren't able to close it out. Losing and not getting that second point, that's the disappointing thing."
Pavelec started his fourth consecutive game in goal for the Jets after he had put together a shutout against the Nashville Predators, beaten the San Jose Sharks at home and then stopped 41 shots in Detroit on Tuesday.
"I think we played a solid game," Pavelec said. "We played a great third period, and we were down one goal, but we were patient and the power play helped us to get the win tonight. I think the third period was one of our best we played."
Pavelec kept the Jets in the game during a busy first period and especially during overtime.
"Pavelec's play has been superb," Noel said. "He has been really solid, really solid for us. He really gives us a chance."
The Jets used their power play to open an early 1-0 lead. Byfuglien took Devin Setoguchi's pass from inside the Philadelphia blue line to the top of the right circle and snapped a high shot past Mason at 5:36 for his second goal of the season. Winnipeg had not scored on the power play since Blake Wheeler's first-period goal in a 3-2 loss at the St. Louis Blues on Oct. 29.
But Hartnell got the equalizer 49 seconds later, scoring on a wraparound for his third goal of the season. Philadelphia used its own power play to go ahead 2-1 at 11:45 when Simmonds shoved the rebound of a Hartnell shot under Pavelec.
The teams played a scoreless second period. Jets defenseman Zach Bogosian exited the game late in the period with a lower-body injury and did not return, leaving Winnipeg with five defensemen to finish the game. Winnipeg is already missing injured defensemen Paul Postma, Mark Stuart and Jacob Trouba.
Winnipeg's medical personnel will evaluate Bogosian on Saturday and determine whether he can accompany the Jets for their game at the Minnesota Wild on Sunday.


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Catholic patrons welcome schools report
Small demand for change in some areas but majority should not be displaced - Fr Drumm
Minister for Education Ruairi Quinn expects Catholic Bishops to cooperate in identifying suitable primary schools for the transfer of patronage. Photograph: Alan Betson / THE IRISH TIMES
There is a "measurable small demand" for change in school patronage in certain areas and parents should have a choice, chairman of the Council for Education of the Irish Bishops' Conference has said.
Catholic patrons have welcomed the primary school patronage report which showed demand for change from parents in 23 areas. However, attention must be given to the "large majority" of parents who expressed no interest in change, the council chairman Fr Michael Drumm said.
He was speaking as a survey on parental preferences for primary school patronage was published today by the Department of Education.
Catholic bishops in 23 areas across the State have six months to provide detailed proposals on how they plan on divesting primary schools of their patronage.
Of 23 areas, between 2.2 per cent and 8 per cent of parents with children in school favoured change, the council said. The areas "vary quite a bit", Fr Drumm said.
The report raised the issue of "displacement" of trying to cater for the views of a minority who want change, Fr Drumm said.
The problem on the ground was that numbers displaced could be greater than numbers catered for, he said.
In Celbridge, Co Kildare, some 100 parents desired a different type of school but the smallest Catholic school was 300 children, he said. It was about getting the "balance right" , he added.
Demand for choice was "lower than anticipated," Fr Drumm said.
The survey showed a "very strong affirmation" of Catholic schools with no real interest in change from 15 of 38 areas, he said.
Minister for Education Ruairí Quinn said this morning he expected Catholic bishops to cooperate in identifying suitable primary schools for the transfer of patronage.
The Department of Education will send surveys to the patrons seeking an initial response after three months and a final response in six months, he said.
"I would hope and expect during that period a suitable school will be identified by them within the various towns and arrangements will be made for the orderly transfer of the patronage of that school back to the Department of Education," Mr Quinn said on RTÉ Radio.
Mr Quinn said he expected cooperation from the Catholic Church because patronage had been identified as an issue by Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin.
It was about "parental choice" not a "general election", Mr Quinn said.
Out of 38 survey areas selected according to specific demographic criteria, 23 have demonstrated demand for "an immediate change in the existing school patronage", according to a Department of Education statement.
The majority of parents who took part in the survey named Educate Together as their preferred patron, chosen in 20 of 23 areas.
Educate Together was "delighted" and "honoured" that many communities had selected them as a preferred patron,chief executive Paul Rowe said in a statement. The results were "significant" and showed "demand for diversity", he said.
He praised the "goodwill" shown by the Catholic bishops to the process.
Two areas, Carrigaline in Co Cork and Celbridge Co Kildare favoured VEC community national schools as patron. The association representing vocational colleges has expressed concern about restrictions placed on VECs to promote themselves to parents.
It gave a "qualified welcome" to the report .
Because the VEC's community national school model was the "newest" available to parents, they needed to be "be allowed to promote and advertise their merits, and parents need to be made aware of the CNS as a possible suitable choice," Irish Vocational Education Assocation general secretary Michael Moriarty said.
Such advertising was not possible due to promotion restrictions imposed on the VECs by the Department of Education, he said.
"Insisting on a level playing field in these circumstances seems to favour those patronage models which have built a profile over some years," he said.
Co Cork VEC was "delighted" to be the preferred patron chosen by parents in Carrigaline, chief executive Joan Russell said.
If Co Cork VEC becomes patron of a Carrigaline school it would be its second primary patronage. It is due to open its first primary school in Mallow next year.
"I am aware this is only the first step… and am respectful of existing patrons," Ms Russell said.
The community national school model was "not well known" in Cork so the growth would allow parents to become familiar with it, she said.
Irish langauge patron An Foras Pátrúnachta was "delighted" to have been preferred by parents in Birr, Co Offaly where there had been "stong demand" in for a Gael Scoil for "quite a while", general secretary Caoimhín Ó hEaghra said.
However the organisation has raised concern about the use of the survey system to cater for a linguistic minority.
It noted demand for Irish speaking schools in other areas, with between 4 per cent and 31 per cent surveyed in different areas seeking education through Irish.
The organisation is already patrons of 59 primary schools with ttwo more opening next year.
Among the 23 schools identified in the report were Dublin 6, Malahide, Palmerstown, Portmarnock, Rush, Tuam, Westport, Ballina, Clonmel, Passage West, Dungarvan, Fermoy, Kells, Killarney, Leixlip, Loughrea, Cobh, Nenagh, New Ross, Shannon, Celbridge and Carrigaline.
Birr in Co Offaly, showed sufficient demand for a Gaelscoil. Several others specified VEC patronage as their preferred option.
There was insufficient demand in areas such as Wicklow, Skerries, Carrick-on-Suir and Roscommon, among others.
The level of demand required to support change was set at the minimum enrolment required for a four-teacher school, somewhere between 80 and 100 pupils. A total of 10,715 valid survey responses were received.


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T. Berlage, "A selective undo mechanism for graphical user interfaces based on command objects", ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 1(3), pp. 269-294, 1994.
Implementation based on a proposal by sjw.
From Berlage:
All buffer-mutating commands are stored (in abstract form) in an Undo list. The most recent item in this list is the action that will be undone next. When it is undone, it is removed from the Undo list, and its inverse is added to the Redo list. The last command put into the Redo list can be redone, and again prepended to the Undo list. New commands are added to the Undo list without affecting the Redo list.
Now, the above assumes that commands can be _redone_ in a state other than that in which it was orginally done. This is not the case in our text editor: a user may delete, for example, between an undo and a redo. Berlage addresses this in S2.3. A Yi example:
Delete some characters Undo partialy Move prior in the file, and delete another _chunk_ Redo some things == corruption.
Berlage describes the stable execution property:
A command is always redone in the same state that it was originally executed in, and is always undone in the state that was reached after the original execution.
The only case where the linear undo model violates the stable execution property is when _a new command is submitted while the redo list is not empty_. The _restricted linear undo model_ ... clears the redo list in this case.
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- setSavedFilePointU :: URList -> URList
- isAtSavedFilePointU :: URList -> Bool
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addChangeU :: Change -> URList -> URList Source
Add an action to the undo list. According to the restricted, linear undo model, if we add a command whilst the redo list is not empty, we will lose our redoable changes.
setSavedFilePointU :: URList -> URList Source
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isAtSavedFilePointU :: URList -> Bool Source
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that the buffer has not been modified since we last saved the file.
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the save.
undoU :: Mark -> URList -> BufferImpl syntax -> (BufferImpl syntax, (URList, [Update])) Source
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PITTSBURGH (AP) C.J. McCollum scored a game-high 19 points and led Lehigh to an easy 89-60 win over Robert Morris Monday night in the NIT Season Tip-Off.
The Mountain Hawks evened their record at 1-1, with five players scoring in double figures, including four starters: McCollum, Mackey McKnight with 15 points, Holden Greiner and Gabe Knutson with 12 apiece, and Stefan Cvrkalj's 11 points off the bench. He stuck three 3-pointers, one less than the Colonials' team total.
Robert Morris (0-2) was just 4 for 22 from beyond the 3-point arc, 21 of 62 total. The Colonials, who trailed 38-23 at halftime, committed 21 turnovers to just 11 for Lehigh.
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CoryS necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 50 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
Battle Phrog Brewery
My name is Cory, and I spent 10 years on active duty in the Marine Corps as a helicopter pilot, and am now in the Marine Corps reserve still flying the same helicopter. The helicopter I fly (the CH-46E) is nicknamed the "Phrog" or "Battle Phrog". That was the inspiration for the name of my homebrewery. I love flying the Phrog, and the community of people in the squadron. It's a 40 year old aircraft, but she's never let me down. I've got ideas in my head of what I want my logo to look like, but can't draw a darn thing.
Beer snobs, fellow web forum junkies, family and friends. I'm hoping to eventually start a microbrewery/brewpub so the audience would expand at that point.
The idea I have for my logo would be a cartoon frog wearing Marine desert digital cammies, helmet and carrying a rifle with a burning cigar hanging out of his mouth (think dirty, grungy, combat-weary Marine that is also a frog). Behind him would be a CH-46E approaching to land (I've included a picture of what that looks like). I don't really have any ideas for font, placement or style of the brewery name - but I definitely want that included in the logo. I also don't have a tag line - so feel free to throw one in that you might think appropriate. Other than the graphic idea listed above, I'd love to see your creativity! If you think you can come up with a design that involves Frogs, Helicopters & Beer that doesn't include what I envision above - I'd love to see it! Maybe your idea is better than mine!!
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People here have the freedom, support and mobility to move their career in a way that suits them, horizontally as well as vertically. Careers can take you across projects, internationally and up into more senior roles, while emerging areas, such as 5G, offer exciting prospects and new challenges.
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Jimenez helps Indians tame Tigers
Detroit, MI – Asdrubal Cabrera went 3-for-5 and drove in two runs as the Cleveland Indians knotted their three-game set with the Detroit Tigers with a 7-6 win at Comerica Park.
Michael Bourn and Jason Kipnis each scored twice while Jason Giambi provided two RBI, neither of which came on a base hit.
Ubaldo Jimenez (3-2) was terrific for the third straight outing, yielding just one run on three hits while striking out eight over six innings of work. Chris Perez allowed a run on a Torii Hunter single in the ninth but got Miguel Cabrera on a groundout to third to retire the side and pick up his sixth save.
"The key was I was able to mix my fastball and then mix my breaking ball," Jimenez said of his success. "I think they were sitting a little bit on my breaking ball and then we pitched them backwards."
Omar Infante had two hits and two RBI to pace Detroit, which has lost three of four. Justin Verlander (4-3) lasted just five innings for the second time this season and was tagged with four runs -- three earned -- while walking a season-high five Indians.
"They're just professional hitters," Verlander said of the Indians."You make your pitches and most of the time you get guys out, but when you get professional hitters like that, you have to make your pitches. They're not going to give in and make an easy out for you. They're going to battle you."
Cleveland tacked on one run apiece in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings on RBI singles by Mark Reynolds, Cabrera and pinch-hitter Mike Aviles. The Tribe was up 6-1 heading into the home seventh before the Tigers awoke.
Nick Hagadone took over pitching duties for Cleveland but was pulled before he could record an out. He gave up a double to Victor Martinez, walked pinch- hitter Matt Tuiasosopo then walked Peralta on nine pitches to load the bases.
Cody Allen entered and allowed all three of his inherited runners to score. Brayan Pena clubbed a pinch-hit sacrifice fly to plate Martinez and Infante followed with a two-run triple to right center. Infante then scored on an RBI groundout from Austin Jackson and when Torii Hunter finally grounded out to end the inning, Detroit had cut its deficit to 6-5.
Giambi provided Cleveland's bullpen with an insurance run, which would prove to be vital, on a sac fly to center in the top of the eighth.
Perez struck out Jhonny Peralta to start the final frame but Pena reached on a Nick Swisher error. Hunter's single two batters later made it a one-run game, but Cabrera failed to deliver with two on and two out -- grounding harmlessly to third.
Cleveland tacked on a pair of runs in the first inning. With two on and one down, Swisher doubled in Michael Bourn, who singled to lead off the game. Giambi then drew a bases-loaded walk two batters later to force in Cabrera.
One inning later, Cabrera's RBI double to deep right put the Tribe up 3-0.
Peralta led off the bottom of the third with a home run to left center to put Detroit on the board.
Game Notes
Cleveland left 13 men on base ... Peralta is on a 10-game hitting streak ... Detroit had won six of seven at home entering play ... The Tigers hit 2-for-10 with runners in scoring position.


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Java Servlets 2.3 and JavaServer Pages 1.2 specifications are supported.
HTTP extensions for the WebDAV protocol in compliance with RFC 2518 are supported.
NSAPI filters that enable the custom processing of HTTP request and response streams are supported.
HTTP compression through the use of native HTTP request and response stream filters is supported.
Legacy servlets, that is servlets configured through the servlets.properties, contexts.properties, and rules.properties files are not supported.
For information about migrating legacy servlets to web applications, see the Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Developer's Guide to Web Applications.Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Update 3 Developer's Guide to Java Web Applications.