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Guests: Chuck Todd, Howard Fineman, Bertha Coombs, Michael Isikoff, Hansen Clarke, Scott Tipton, Shushannah Walshe, Martin Tolchin, Susan Tolchin
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: The Daley show. We're talking Bill Daley.
Let's play HARDBALL.
Good evening. I'm Chris Matthews up in Philadelphia tonight.
Leading off tonight: A presidency reborn. The change on Capitol Hill this week has triggered a big change in the White House today. President Obama named Bill Daley as his chief of staff. The former Clinton Commerce secretary would mark a new beginning for this administration and send a strong signal to Republicans that this president has a hard-core political veteran, a grown-up, if you will, in his inner circle. The West Wing shake-up and what it means for his presidency is our top story tonight.
Plus, how will this freshman class make its mark in the new Congress, and when will the battles begin? We're going to talk to two newcomers, a D and an R.
And watch out, Sarah Palin. Michele Bachmann may try to ride that Tea Party wave all the way to the White House. She's got a brand-new post on the Intelligence Committee, of all places. She's already introduced a bill to repeal the entire Wall Street financial regulatory bill. She's speaking in Iowa soon. And when asked if she's weighing a run for 2012 for president, her people say it's entirely possible.
Also, you know how lawmakers have decried the use of earmarks and patronage and all those bad words? Well, it turns out that that forbidden fruit is secretly quite popular.
And "Let Me Finish" tonight with today's bright sign that the lights are on at the White House and somebody's home.
Let's start with the big staff build-up at the White House. Chuck Todd is NBC's chief White House correspondent and political director, as well as co-host of "THE DAILY RUNDOWN," and Howard Fineman, our friend, is political editor for The Huffington Post and an MSNBC political analyst that had a piece of the breaking story today.
Here, gentlemen, is Bill Daley. Let's listen.
WILLIAM H. DALEY, INCOMING WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF: Thank you very much, Mr. President, Mr. Vice President. You have honored me and my family by giving me an opportunity to serve you and to serve our nation. You, Mr. President, have proven your strength, your leadership, your vision, during a most difficult time for our nation and for the world. You have also shown through your example that public service is an honorable calling, and I am pleased to answer your call. This team will not let you down, nor the nation. Thank you very much for this extreme honor.
MATTHEWS: Let me go now to Chuck. Chuck, let's look at this in the usually perverse way I like to look at things, which is from the other side. Does this disturb the Republicans on Capitol Hill and the hotshots up there thinking they can get the White House back in two years, to see that this kind of rebuilding's going on right in front of their eyes?
CHUCK TODD, NBC POLITICAL DIR./WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Well, it should because I think when you see what a guy like Daley's been brought in to do—this is a former cabinet secretary. So number one, this means they're actually going to figure out how to use the cabinet. That has been a big criticism—
MATTHEWS: Right.
TODD: -- among some in the first two years, that they haven't figured out how to dispatch their cabinet. Two, this is a guy that knows how to work with governors and mayors. Well, why does that matter? Governors and mayors are a little more important when you're worried about a reelection than folks on Congress and on Capitol Hill.
Three, the business community is going to look around and say, You know what? We're going to give this president another chance. They may have been ready to say, We give up on him, we're going to wait and sit back and wait for—see if Republicans can take the White House. That's no longer the case. They're going to feel as if they have somebody they can pick up the phone and talk to in the White House.
So yes, I think, when you look at those folks totally in a strategic way, Chris, if that's the way you want to frame it, I think they'd sit there and say, Well, look, this guy is going to be a pretty formidable guy, meaning President Obama. He knows—somebody described him to me today as, like, Look, he's figured out—he figures out—he may not be a pragmatist—some people say he is—is, and he's a pragmatist to his core, but—but he knows how to—evolve's not the right word, but he knows how to sort of adapt. He's an adapter.
MATTHEWS: Yes, I love it.
TODD: He seems to be adapting to what he has to do.
MATTHEWS: You think in the same—you know, Howard, it reminds me—
remember that guy at 17th and Penn, right near the White House, where the -
well, you've always been working—and it seems me—remember that guy, Ron whatshisname, used to play all the different musical instruments on the corner? Like, he had a drum and he played the harmonic and he's playing all these (INAUDIBLE) That's what this administration's been too much like, I think. It hasn't leveraged its cabinet. It hasn't leveraged surrogates. It hasn't been a nationally powerful institution, like it could be.
Do you think Billy Daley can do that, can take the president's power and bring it all across the cabinet (ph) and build a phalanx of power for this guy?
HOWARD FINEMAN, HUFFINGTONPOST.COM, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, to put in slightly different terms what Chuck so neatly summarized, this is Chicago writ large. And what's going to happen now is Bill Daley, in the service of Barack Obama, is going to try to turn the whole country into Chicago, meaning that Chicago is known as the city that works.
And the Democrats in Chicago, going back to Bill Daley's father, the original Daley mayor of Chicago, figured out a way to get the unions and the big banks and the business community and traditional progressive Democrats from the North Side, and eventually, yes, even the African-American community in on the deal. Everybody was in on the deal. All the aldermen knew what they were doing, to use the analogy that Chuck made about governors and mayors and think of them as the board of aldermen. And that's the way it's going to be organized.
Bill Daley is the ultimate inheritor of the big city Irish-American political tradition.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
FINEMAN: He really knows how it's done. He cares about loyalty. He cares about consistency. And I think it's a very—Republicans—to answer your other question, it's something the Republicans should be impressed by because, as Chuck said, Barack Obama knows how to adapt.
The funny thing is Barack Obama, when he got elected president, wasn't really a big player in Chicago. When he first ran, he wasn't a big player at all. Now he's the ultimate Chicago Daley—player, with a Daley at his side.
MATTHEWS: Let me go to that question—go back to you, Chuck—the old line from Chicago is, "I don't want nothing nobody sent." Who sent—who sent Billy Daley to the White House? Where'd he come from? Who pushed him on the president, or did the president quietly go out there on cat's feet and not tell anybody what he was doing the last couple weeks while he was in Hawaii and come up with this guy?
TODD: It's not quite that he wasn't telling anybody what he was doing, but looked, Pete Rouse was charged—even before Rahm Emanuel left, Pete Rouse has always been sort of the long-term planner of this White House. And he was charged with coming up with sort of, OK, what is Obama 2.0? That's what the younger staffers around here call it. What is 2.0 going to look like, particularly in the Republican-controlled House, the world that now sits here in Washington?
And so they were bringing in a lot of people to give advice. Some of them met with the president personally. Most of them met with Pete Rouse. They bring in former senators. They bring in former governors. They brought in people like Bill Daley. Well, you know, the first time, it was a get to know you, get his advice.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
TODD: The second time, it was a—look, these are—look, David Plouffe's been a part of this project for a while, trying to figure out what is 2.0 going to look like. And so, there are a—the Daley idea was popular among a lot of operatives, some of whom were in the Obama inner circle, like Plouffe, and some of whom are in the cabinet secretary—in the Clinton world, sort of the Clinton Democrats that are not really involved in this White House—
FINEMAN: Chris? Chris?
TODD: -- but certainly enjoy providing advice.
FINEMAN: Chris? Chris?
MATTHEWS: Howard?
FINEMAN: This was—this was—this was essentially—all that's true, but this was essentially a David Axelrod-Rahm Emanuel deal. This is a Chicago deal. This is Barack Obama realizing—
FINEMAN: -- that the people in Chicago know how things are done, and he brought him in to do it.
MATTHEWS: Here's Robert Gibbs explaining it to Chuck. Here he is.
ROBERT GIBBS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: I don't know that it's fair to say they didn't have any relationship, but I don't think you would necessarily put Bill Daley in sort of an inner group or a close group with the president, you know, prior to somewhat recently.
TODD: So this qualifies as a new, outside voice—your argument would be, This is a new outside voice. It's not like you've been talking with Bill Daley over the last couple of years.
GIBBS: No. I think it would qualify as that's something new.
MATTHEWS: OK, I can hear all the good reasons—by the way, I'm totally thrilled by this thing myself. I love the idea of an executive coming in there, somebody who's going to be a good COO for this president and make things get done and do everything, Chuck, that you said—get the cabinet involved. This cabinet is invisible.
TODD: It is.
MATTHEWS: Get surrogates out there. I don't understand why these people aren't on the Sunday talk shows and out on our kinds of programs all through the week, selling the story like grown-ups!
FINEMAN: Well, Chris—
MATTHEWS: They don't seem to do it!
FINEMAN: Chris, Bill Daley knows everybody—even though he's in Chicago, he knows everybody in politics and everybody in journalism. I, for example, have been dealing with him for the better part of three decades. I know him going all the way back to the Mondale campaign and all the campaigns since. He knows everybody. Has relationships with everybody. As you said in the opening, he's an adult. He knows—he tells you what he thinks in no uncertain terms.
MATTHEWS: Right.
TODD: Yes.
FINEMAN: But does it with everybody. There are no enemies—there
are really very few enemies in Bill Daley's world. There's almost nobody -
TODD: And that—
FINEMAN: There's almost nobody you can't talk to.
MATTHEWS: OK, I can think of some enemies. I can think of some enemies, Chuck, and they are the netroots people, the people that are looking for—
TODD: Sure.
MATTHEWS: -a progressive voice. Will the president now balance his appointment off or urge Daley to balance the appointment off with somebody who is closer to the left, if you will, someone who is very much identified with the progressive movement out in country and in the netroots, of course?
TODD: You know—
MATTHEWS: Will he try to do that?
TODD: -- I could see some symbolic—I don't know that he will. I'll be honest—Daley—it's funny you say that—I feel like the left, they've been—they're not thrilled with this pick. But even Richard Trumka today, who's with—the head of the AFL-CIO—now, he didn't name Daley at all in the release, so it's kind of interesting—look, they're not thrilled with it because Daley, of course, is a guy that got NAFTA passed for Clinton. So they—this is not something that excites them. But he didn't go negative because—
MATTHEWS: That was the murkiest statement, Chuck. That statement was So hard to read. It was like—
TODD: Well—
MATTHEWS: -- one of these—
FINEMAN: No, it wasn't.
TODD: That's right. They want—
FINEMAN: It wasn't hard to read.
TODD: Richard Trumka wants to make sure he can still get a meeting in the White House.
TODD: If he—if he trashed Daley in a release, guess who was going to have a hard time getting a meeting in the White House?
FINEMAN: Exactly.
MATTHEWS: OK. OK, Howard—
TODD: But by the way, one other point I want to make here, Chris, very quickly is that the president and Bill Daley—everybody says, Oh, this is Chicago. And yes, this is obviously part of the Chicago world. You can't have somebody named Daley and not think of the Chicago connection. Ironically here, the president and Bill Daley didn't have much of a relationship.
MATTHEWS: Right.
TODD: They're not personally close. The Daleys professionally got behind Barack Obama basically because they had to because he was the Chicago guy running. They probably would have been with the Clintons, had it not been for Obama's candidacy. Remember, they were with the Clintons the first time.
MATTHEWS: Yes, well, I'll bet there's another piece of this. I'll bet he's hearing from people like Robert Wolf (ph), his friend on Wall Street at UBS, and people like who are saying, You have to have somebody in the White House that when we come to see you, there's somebody there's who's interested in hearing what we have to say and actually transfers that information to you, somebody who really does want to hear from business.
Here's Obama today with Daley. Let's listen.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Few Americans can boast the breadth of experience that Bill brings to this job. He's led major corporations. He possesses a deep understanding of how jobs are created and how to grow our economy. And needless to say, Bill also has a smidgen of awareness of how our system of government and politics works. You might say it is a genetic trait.
OBAMA: But most of all, I know Bill to be somebody who cares deeply about this country, believes in its promise and considers no calling higher and more important than serving the American people.
MATTHEWS: Will he be a real chief of staff, Chuck, first, and then Howard? Will he be able to hire and fire in the White House, or will everything have to be approved by the president?
TODD: Well, no, I mean, I think it's—he's going to have real power. This is—this is not to say he has to get everybody approved, but I think there's going to be a little more of an inside-outside game. He's not going to be the guy that's going to be trying to legislate Congress. You know, Obama 1.0 was about working with Congress. Obama 2.0 is about getting this message out in the country and figuring out how to use the presidency and the executive branch without having to deal with Congress as much. It was sort of the challenge that Clinton had after Republicans took control of Congress.
And that's what he's going to be. He's going to be more of an outside game, where Pete Rouse, who's still staying—he will be there to deal with the inside game. He's the one that knows how the Senate works in and out—
TODD: -- and you'll have Daley be the outside guy.
MATTHEWS: Howard, you think he cut a deal where he has real power over the other staff people, or will he have to let the president pick the next press secretary, or will he pick him? What kind of power is he going to have?
FINEMAN: Oh, I think he's going to have a lot of power. I agree with Chuck about the division of responsibility. And Daley knows the whole country, as well as Washington. But I think he's going to have real power, and I think that's probably a lot of what he and the president were talking about over the last day or two. Knowing Daley as I do, he's no figurehead. When he was the chairman of Al Gore's campaign in 2000, that was not a figurehead deal. I mean, he was in every strategy meeting, and what he said had a lot to do with what Al Gore did and didn't do.
MATTHEWS: Fascinating stuff. Thank you, guys. Couldn't have two better guys than you, Chuck and Howard Fineman. By the way, Howard, congratulations. You got the first interview with Daley, I hear.
Coming up: It's a huge freshman class in the 112th Congress, and we've got two members of that class, a Democrat and a Republican, to duke it out here coming up next.
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MATTHEWS: The number of Americans who identify themselves as Democrats is hitting new lows. According to new polling analysis by Gallup, just 31 percent say they're Democrats last year. That ties the lowest level of Democratic Party ID since 1988. Just two years ago, 36 percent of Americans said they were Democrats. Well, the news isn't so great for Republicans, either. Only 29 percent of Americans—that's a lower number—say they're with the GOP, a number which has risen somewhat in recent years. Thirty-eight percent, by the way, the biggest number say, We're independents.
We'll be right back.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL.
Battle lines are already being drawn in the House, where Republicans are ready to deliver on their campaign pledge to basically undo everything Obama ever did. Joining me right now are two freshmen who rode the anti-incumbent wave in both parties. Republican congressman Scott Tipton of Colorado defeated John Salazar out there and wants to see health care reform repealed straight away next Wednesday. And Democratic congressman Hansen Clarke of Michigan, from the Detroit area, defeated long-time congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick in the primary. He's the first Bangladeshi-American to serve in Congress.
Gentleman, thank you. I want you both to look at something that happened that's kind of disturbing. Here's U.S. Congressman Frank Pallone. He was heckled by a birther today as he read the Constitution on the House floor. The a woman created a commotion when Pallone came to that section in the Constitution that said only natural-born citizens may become president.
Let's listen.
REP. FRANK PALLONE (D), NEW JERSEY: No person except a natural-born citizen or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution shall be eligible to be the office of president. Neither shall—
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (INAUDIBLE) Obama! (INAUDIBLE) Obama!
MATTHEWS: Well, there you hear it. And there was—after that, NBC's Brian Williams asked the House Speaker, John Boehner, if he's willing to speak out against those birthers. Here's what the new Speaker of the House said. Let's listen and parse it.
REP. JOHN BOEHNER (R-OH), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: The state of Hawaii has said that President Obama was born there. That's good enough for me.
BRIAN WILLIAMS, ANCHOR, "NBC NIGHTLY NEWS": Would you be willing to say that message to the 12 members in your caucus who seem to either believe otherwise or are willing to express doubt and have co-sponsored legislation along those lines?
BOEHNER: Well, Brian, when you come to the Congress of the United States—there are 435 of us. We're nothing more than a slice of America. And people come regardless of party labels and they come with all kinds of beliefs and ideas. It's the melting pot of America. It's not up to me to tell them what to think.
MATTHEWS: Well, more of Brian's interview with Speaker Boehner on the "NIGHTLY NEWS" tonight.
Let me go to Congressman Hansen Clarke. You're a Democrat from Michigan. What do you think of the leader of the other party not willing to basically tell his party to knock it off with this questioning of the president's Americanness?
REP. HANSEN CLARKE (D), MICHIGAN: You know, Chris, look, first of all, I represent metro Detroit. You know, our people are struggling. We need to get back to work and get out of debt. This whole issue about the president's citizenship is really a distraction, literally today in the House chamber and just nationally. Look, it's proven. The president was born in the United States. We have seen the birth certificates. Let's move on to how we can put people back to work and bring them financial stability. That's the real focus right now.
MATTHEWS: Well, let me go to Mr. Clarke. Why do people in the Republican Party keep raising this issue? Why do you have people out in the galleries raising the issue, echoing members of Congress who have raised it?
CLARKE: You know, I choose not to focus on why people are not addressing the key issues.
See, my job being here, even as a Democrat, is not to make the Republicans wrong, but actually help put people back to work and get them in a stronger financial position, and give them peace of mind. That's all people want.
Now, I represent metro Detroit. We're really hard-hit economically, but there are many areas around the country right now where people are feeling financially insecure. All they want is this.
They want government to work for them, not campaigning on these idea ideological platforms just to make the opponents look wrong. This is not about making people look wrong or being right. It's about serving and helping the taxpayer that funds us right here in Washington.
MATTHEWS: Is that the issue, Congressman Tipton, or is it this continued talk about birthers and all that keep being—nobody creates it in the media. People yelling out in the Congress and congresspeople backing them up is the problem.
TIPTON: Well, I don't think that we can actually take into consideration one person yelling from the gallery as any kind of general opinion.
Congressman Clarke and I happen to agree. This is going to be about jobs. It's going to be about the economy. It's about getting people back to work in this country and government off the backs of the American people, so that we can get that entrepreneurial spirit moving once again.
MATTHEWS: Well, what about your party? Aren't you pushing issues like if people have a child in this country and they're not documented, they're not here legally, that that child should not be an American? Aren't you raising this birther issue in another way?
TIPTON: I think, for many of us, Chris, it's actually prioritization.
First of all, we do need to be able to secure the borders of this country. We need to stand up for the citizens that are born here to be able to provide for their education, to be able to create jobs for those families, to be able to provide for their future as well. But there's going to be an order and a process that we will go through.
MATTHEWS: Well, wait a minute. Wait a minute here. Are you for this taking away a person's citizenship if they're born here?
TIPTON: Taking away if they're born here?
MATTHEWS: Yes.
TIPTON: Obviously, no. That's a settled question. They're American citizens.
MATTHEWS: OK. So you're not against birth citizenship? You're not against—you're not going to change the 14th Amendment? You're not one of those guys?
TIPTON: No.
MATTHEWS: OK. Let me ask you about this whole thing about immigration, where I don't trust the Republicans. Do you believe in punishing people who hire people illegally?
TIPTON: You know, I think that we're going to have to hold a lot of the business community accountable. We're going to have to make sure that they have the tools to be able to verify that people are here legally.
MATTHEWS: Good. I'm with you on that.
OK. Let's go to Detroit and the problem of unemployment. It seems to me you've got—I was talking to Jesse Jackson recently, Congressman, and he points out something pretty scary. In the entire city of Detroit, apparently, there are no supermarkets. Now, you talk about ghettoization, where the economy is basically cut off from people.
Is it that bad, that you don't even have like a regular system of supermarkets in Detroit?
CLARKE: No, that's true. A lot of people in the city of Detroit have to go to supermarkets and drugstores to get their food.
And that's one reason why we have chronic health conditions. It would be a low-cost way—and this is what I'm going to do as a member of Congress. Instead of using taxpayers' dollars to buy myself some big vehicle, like a luxury vehicle, to drive around the district, I'm going to rent a van and take the senior citizens who really can't get out of their apartments and take them to a great supermarket, where they can get fresh fruits and vegetables a couple of times a month.
MATTHEWS: It's unbelievable.
CLARKE: That's going to help reduce health care costs, because people are going to have a decent diet.
MATTHEWS: Well, it's a strange thing. There are—a lot of people outside the inner circle don't realize how bad it's gotten in the big city.
Let's take a look at this. Here's Speaker Boehner today. He couldn't name a program he'd like to cut. Now, this is kind of interesting for a veteran leader. Let's listen to him.
WILLIAMS: Do you consider the defense budget sacred?
BOEHNER: Absolutely not.
WILLIAMS: Do you consider the homeland security budget sacred?
BOEHNER: No.
WILLIAMS: Name a program right now that we could do without.
BOEHNER: I don't think I have one off the top of my head. But there is no part of this government that should be sacred.
I believe there's room to find savings in the Department of Defense. There are a lot of needs at the Department of Defense. And I think Secretary Gates has a reasonable plan, to allow the service chiefs to go in there and root out the wasteful spending, so that they can find the money they're going to need to make sure that we have the weapons of the future.
MATTHEWS: Well, Congressman Tipton, let me ask you about that. Can we cut out some of the agricultural spending out there? Can we cut out other programs, get rid of them?
TIPTON: You know, I think that we're going to have to look at every program.
MATTHEWS: Can we save money on agriculture?
TIPTON: You bet, where they design for the big corporate entities, where they design to make sure that the family farmer and the small elements are going to be able to survive.
Those are some of the prioritization decisions that we're going to make. And it is, Chris. It's going to be across the board. We're going to have to have some shared challenges, but it's going to be prioritization. And that's going to take some leadership and—and aggressive acts by Congress to make sure that they're standing up for the American people, not continuing to build on a $14.3 trillion debt in this country.
MATTHEWS: I agree with that. Let's go.
Thank you very much, Congressman Scott Tipton of Durango. I have been to Lake Mancos Ranch out there. I love that place out there in Colorado. Thank you, sir, for coming here.
TIPTON: Thank you, sir.
MATTHEWS: And Congressman Hansen Clarke, what a story you have, sir.
It's so great to meet you. What a story. Thank you for joining us.
CLARKE: It's great being on your show.
And I just want to send a message out. We have got to stop foreclosures. That's the best way to help save our neighborhoods and strengthen our economy. We're going to have another wave coming, and the Congress has got to take decisive action to keep people in their homes.
MATTHEWS: I hear you.
Up next: Vice President Biden's number-one piece of advice to all the daughters and granddaughters of the new members of Congress. This is really Biden territory. Check out the "Sideshow" coming up next.
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MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL. And now for the "Sideshow."
Yesterday's opening session of Congress welcomed all those new faces to Capitol Hill, as well as those who have been serving for decades. Some of the old-timers might not be as happy and excited as they used to be.
Last night, Jon Stewart zeroed in on a longtime Arizona Republican, John McCain. And, well, Stewart had a little fun with him. Let's listen.
JON STEWART, HOST, "THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART": McCain's old man crankiness has gone off the charts.
STEWART: On the scale, he's clearly gone from a man of wisdom all the way to full "Gran Torino."
STEWART: But, tonight, on "Let's All Stand on John McCain's Lawn,"
we welcome a new member of the "Daily Show" team, and quite surprising
that he'd be willing to play ball with us after all we have talked about him here.
Please welcome to the program, puppet Senator John McCain.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: Ah, phooey, the lights are too bright. They burn my skin. You're going to make me look like a Mexican. Build the dang fence.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: Build it.
MATTHEWS: I'm just guessing that the real John McCain won't be a guest on "The Daily Show," because he won't want to be, any time soon.
Next, Joe Biden caught himself in a bind yesterday while swearing in members of the Senate. Oregon Senator Ron Wyden's 3-year-old got a hold of Biden's script and wouldn't give it back to him. Take a look.
JOSEPH BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I need to borrow that back. No. William won't give that back to me? Hey, I will trade you. Here's the deal. You see this? If you can tell me which hand it's in, you can have it.
BIDEN: Which hand? Look at that.
BIDEN: Hey, you got it.
BIDEN: It's a mint.
MATTHEWS: Well, that poor kid never had a chance.
Anyway, that brings us to the "Big Number." As you just saw, Joe Biden met a lot of Senate family members at the swearing-in yesterday. And the always charming V.P. had a little advice for the young women in the receiving line. Let's listen and watch.
BIDEN: All of you women under the age of 30, no dates until you're 30.
BIDEN: Just remember, no dates until you're 30.
Just remember, no dates until you're 30.
Remember, no dates until you're 30.
BIDEN: You're not allowed to have any dates until you're 30 years old.
Just remember, no dates until you're 30 years old.
BIDEN: Do you remember that?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Smile.
BIDEN: No, not smile. No dates until you're 30.
Just remember, no dates until you're 30.
All right, just remember, no dates until you're 30.
BIDEN: No guys until you're 30.
Girls, remember, no dates until you're 30 years old.
No dates until you're 30.
BIDEN: Just remember, no dates until you're 30.
BIDEN: Just remember, no dates until you're 30.
BIDEN: Just remember, no dates until you're 30.
No dates or boys until you're 30 years old.
MATTHEWS: Well, as they say in show business, it's easier to find a new audience than new material.
By our count, that's 18 times the vice president repeated that same advice, no dating until you're 30, to all the young women -- 18, our number tonight.
Anyway, up next, Michele Bachmann—well, we're in the humorous category here—may be thinking about running for president, but she is playing coy on that subject. But she has a much bigger role in Congress, introducing a bill to repeal last year's financial regulatory bill in toto.
And she has also landed a seat—now, this is great irony here—on the Intelligence Committee. Wonder what the rules are for getting on that committee? I guess they're pretty lenient. What's Bachmann up to? We want to know.
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MEREDITH VIEIRA, CO-HOST, "THE TODAY SHOW": How seriously are you considering a run for president?
REP. MICHELE BACHMANN ®, MINNESOTA: Well, I'm very serious about going to Iowa and going to various states and having this discussion about how we can become better again as a country, because, right now, we have 9.8 percent unemployment. And, quite frankly, we can't continue to tolerate gas going up to $5 a gallon.
VIEIRA: But how serious are you about a run for the presidency in 2012?
BACHMANN: What I'm serious about is focusing on the issues. I think it's mistake—I'm not concerned about my own personal ambition.
MATTHEWS: Wow. Welcome back to HARDBALL.
That was of course Meredith Vieira trying to get information from Michele Bachmann. It's always a tricky matter. That's not exactly a no, by the way, from the congresswoman from Minnesota. Raising her profile and expanding her influence in the new Congress, today, she introduced a bill to basically wipe out the entire financial regulatory reform bill of last year.
And, by the way, she's been tapped by the speaker, Boehner, for whatever reason, to be on the Intelligence Committee. You have got to wonder about that. And, as you just saw, she's being asked about her presidential ambitions because she's heading off to Iowa to do some sort of trouble out there.
Michael Isikoff is an NBC News—in fact, he's our investigative reporter.
And Shushannah Walshe—I want to start with her—writes for The Daily Beast.
Shushannah, here's the question. What—is this all just a brilliant sort of phantasmagoric publicity machine? To announce that you're going to get rid of the entire financial regulatory bill, which you can't do, of course, because it will never get through the Senate, never get signed by the president, what is it all about?
Heading off to Iowa, getting on Intelligence Committee, heading up the Tea Party, what's the game here for Michele Bachmann, who seemed to have started on this network, on this program one night, when she said: I want to investigate all the Democrats in Congress for anti-American activities, like we're going to back to HUAC or something. Go ahead.
SHUSHANNAH WALSHE, THEDAILYBEAST.COM: I think you said it, that really she is a publicity machine.
She's very good at raising money, and she's very good at raising publicity for herself. And this is what this is all about, her visits to Iowa, which I think there will be more than this one trip. She will make a few. Is she really going to run for president? I don't think so.
But being part of that conversation, does she want that? Absolutely. And same with trying to repeal this financial reform. It's keeping her name attached to it. And, also, she wants to be the leader—she clearly wants to be one of the leaders of the Tea Party movement.
She founded the Tea Party Caucus. So, attaching her name to this is also good for her. It shows Tea Party members that are just coming in, freshmen, that she's going to be the leader that they should turn to.
WALSHE: I mean, I think it's absolutely—it's all about keeping her name in the headlines every single day. That's why we're here talking about her also.
MATTHEWS: Well, there's a—there seems to be an element of appeasement here by the leadership with the Republicans. John Boehner already coming in here as Mr. Clean, and the first thing he does is basically give away the store and put this person on intelligence.
Michael, I want you to watch something she said on this show a couple of years ago and tell me if you think this is the kind of person who belongs on the intelligence committee—if you're just objective about it. Let's watch her in action saying what she thinks our job in the media is to do. Let's listen.
REP. MICHELE BACHMANN ®, MINNESOTA: 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: An expose. I mean, that's where her head was at. I don't know if she's gotten more developed or not, Michael. But why would they put her on the intelligence committee? To catch her like a mouse trap so she'll start talking and Boehner can get rid of her that way? Or what's he up to?
MICHAEL ISIKOFF, NBC NEWS INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER: Well, that's exactly the question a lot of people are asking. You know, it's not just, Chris. I mean, she's got, you know, a pretty long history of saying some pretty provocative, "out there" things that have not always been completely substantiated during—remember when President Obama last November flew off to India after the election and there were all those stories about that was going to cost taxpayers $100 million, $200 million a day. All of which were bogus taken from some account on some obscure Indian newspaper.
MATTHEWS: Right.
ISIKOFF: Michele Bachmann was one of those who was feeding that and saying, well, I heard it from a newspaper.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
ISIKOFF: So, therefore, it was justified in saying it.
So, do you—the question that's being asked, including by some intelligence committee members, is: is this the kind of person you want to have on the intelligence committee, the guardian of the nation's secrets? Somebody who really can't talk about anything in that committee because most of it is highly classified. Shushannah called her a publicity machine. You know, a publicity machine doesn't quite mesh with the profile of somebody you'd normally be looking for to serve on a committee like that.
MATTHEWS: Let me get back to Shushannah. Well, put it all together, what is her purpose? Is it publicity?
Is it—there's something about the way she presents herself. I got to be careful here, but I don't get it. Is it—is it—I don't know what is it. There's so much an odd look you get when you talk to her on television. I don't know.
What do you make of her sort of persona? What you can tell us about her that we don't know?
WALSHE: Well, I think that the question what is it all about is an important question. I think that her ideals, what she believes in, she does very much want to be passed on to the rest of the country to believe in as well. But I think that a lot of it is also being the center of attention.
And, you know, I had spoken to a lot of former staffers. She's had a problem with keeping staffers. She got a lot of turnover. And even ones that still like her talk and hold her on high seat, talk about how much she needs to be the center of attention.
And you're talking about somebody who's gone from six years of complete obscurity, to somebody who is a huge national celebrity. Somebody who's we can—she's talking about running for president. I mean, that's incredible. And so—
MATTHEWS: Well, what is the religious piece? Because I don't want to push it too hard. But is there kind of a Joan of Arc thing going on here. The way you write that piece makes it sounds like she's on a kind of crusade. I'm serious. What was a (INAUDIBLE) which goes beyond what we normally consider politics in America.
WALSHE: Well, I mean, I wouldn't say Joan of Arc, but I think that her religion is a very important part of her. And it's definitely driving her. It is one of the reasons she said publicly several times that she turned to God when she decided to run for Congress. She—you know, when she's trying to either pass legislation, when she's praying, thinking about legislation, she does turn to prayer and she's been open about that.
When I was running a profile about her and I spoke to close associates and friends, they said that she often turns to prayer in moments like this, and I think that that is what is very much propelling her in all ways, whether it's pushing legislation or higher political goals.
MATTHEWS: Yes, I pray, too and I think prayer is wonderful myself and I believe in it. So, I'm going to knock her. I'm just wondering whether her ambitions are a bit enlarged here beyond just political office. Does she see herself—final question here—leading some kind of crusade to change America in—this thing about having us investigate Democratic members of Congress for any American activities is the kind of extreme stuff we grew up reading about in the late '40s and early '50s.
ISIKOFF: Chris.
MATTHEWS: Go ahead, Michael.
ISIKOFF: Chris, if I get—yes, I just—look, this really does, the intelligence, if we can just go back to the intelligence committee—
MATTHEWS: Sure.
ISIKOFF: -- component of this. This has the added benefit, if she is interested in higher national office, of burnishing her national security credentials. She hasn't served on any international affairs committee, anything—any committee that deals with national security issues. So, by getting on intelligence, she's able to at least make some claim or have some credibility in national security issues.
And I think—I think you've got to look at this assignment, which is raising a lot of eyebrows in the House in that context. And I should say, although she didn't go far on the "Today Show" with Meredith this morning, her spokesman was quite blunt about that today when I spoke to—
MATTHEWS: Everything's on the table. Yes.
ISIKOFF: She's not taking anything off the table. Clearly leaving the prospect out there that she might well be running and that's the reason for her trip to Iowa.
MATTHEWS: Well, I think we started her here. Intentionally or not, I think we started Michelle Obama on her projectile from this show.
Anyway, thank you, Michael Isikoff. And thank you, Shushannah, thank you very much.
WALSHE: Thanks, Chris.
MATTHEWS: And up next, why do earmarks get such a bad rap? Well, maybe they deserve it, maybe they don't. A new book out on earmarks and patronage and all that stuff, when we come back.
This is HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: NBC News has confirmed that President Obama will name Gene Sperling to the head of the National Economic Council, replacing Larry Summers. Sperling is a veteran of the Clinton administration. The president will make the announcement tomorrow.
HARDBALL back in a minute.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back.
Earmarks and patronage, talk about—talk about savory words—unsavory words. Late last week, I spoke to a couple of authors of a new book making the case that only are they good, but we need them for the government to work.
MATTHEWS: Susan and Martin Tolchin, the authors of "Pinstripe Patronage: Political Favoritism from the Clubhouse to the White House and Beyond" thank you for joining us tonight on HARDBALL.
Let me ask you—Susan, first. I know from my pre-investigation of your interview here tonight that you were going to talk about earmarks as well as patronage. Are earmarks good or bad? Because they get a very bad press where senators and Congress people can simply say, spend this money in my district, whether it passes muster anywhere else or not.
SUSAN TOLCHIN, CO-AUTHOR, "PINSTRIPE PATRONAGE": Earmarks are both
good and bad. I mean, it depends on how you're looking at them. They are
they've been with us for a long time. They were called "pork barrel."
They have lots of different definitions.
But earmarks are form of congressional patronage and they're going to be with us for a very long time.
MATTHEWS: But they—Marty, you covered for "The Times" all of those years, I know that. And you—these guys are now promising on their word, we're going to get rid of it. Maybe the top guys aren't, but everybody else is saying, "No more earmark. No more special pork barrel. It's just going to be clean living by senators from now on."
MARTIN TOLCHIN, CO-AUTHOR, "PINSTRIPE PATRONAGE": Right. Well, you know, John Boehner has never taken an earmark in his entire career in the House. He's never had an earmark. And he's determined to end earmarks in the House.
In the Senate, the Senate's taken a vote to continue earmarks. So, it will be quite interesting to see what happens when that—the Senate passes earmarks and the House wants to ban them.
MATTHEWS: Susan, a lot of Republicans are scared to death they're going to be the Tea-Partied. In other word, they're going to get primary by somebody to their right who's running against earmarks. Isn't that going to scare them?
S. TOLCHIN: I think it's going to scare them but it really shouldn't because they're going to use different words for it. They're already using words like "letter-marking" and, you know, other kinds of words. Soon, they're going to be called "liberty projects" so we're going to see earmarks for a long time.
MATTHEWS: Let me talk to you about patronage because that's really the heart of your book.
M. TOLCHIN: Right.
MATTHEWS: And, Marty, start in here, because we all grew up—I was talking earlier in this show over the years, I have talked about Tip O'Neill, my old boss, would do things like—
M. TOLCHIN: Right.
MATTHEWS: -- they'd give away snow buttons to people, if you work for the party, then you would get a job when the snow fell, you'd get 8 bucks an hour, 5 bucks an hour to go out and shovel snow. You got first in line.
M. TOLCHIN: Absolutely.
MATTHEWS: Is that ever going to go away or is it already gone away, that kind of patronage?
M. TOLCHIN: It will never go away, but now, it has expanded. Now, the recipients, the political supporters want big bucks. So, in addition to the snow buttons and the low-level jobs, blue-collar jobs, pinstripe patronage goes to people who are more at home on the boardroom than on the assembly line, and it includes huge contracts for a Halliburton, and—
MATTHEWS: Do you think that Dick Cheney helped them get that job?
M. TOLCHIN: He didn't have to do a thing. He didn't have to raise an eyebrow. He didn't have to say anything. They knew that Dick Cheney was Halliburton.
MATTHEWS: OK. Let me talk about a famous case, infamous, however. I think it was during Katrina, Susan, that we saw the disaster of federal aid not getting to Louisiana, to New Orleans, during the flood down there, and we saw the president of the United States, George W. Bush, go up and a slap on the back with a guy named Michael Brown, saying, "You're doing a great job, Brownie." It turned out that he ran the Arabian Horserace Association as his justification of being hired as head of federal relief services, FEMA.
Is that notorious enough, or is that something that's more common than we think, hiring dunces, people who are clearly unqualified to do important jobs?
S. TOLCHIN: Well, that—you've just given a very good example of how easily patronage can morph into corruption and cronyism. And it's OK if your cronies are good. But in this case, cronyism was very bad and Bush's polls went right down right after that. So, it shows you that patronage can be—can be really—can be very dangerous as well as—
MATTHEWS: Martin Tolchin, to sell your book—this is what people want to know—give meet worst case of patronage you've come across in your years of tutelage on the subject and study.
M. TOLCHIN: Well, it's hard to choose, but one of the worst was John Murtha who was the chairman of the Defense Sub-committee of the Appropriations Committee, sent tens of millions of dollars to the John Murtha Airport in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, which was used by about 30 people a day. That—that is sort of egregious. But I had a wealth of material to choose from.
MATTHEWS: What was the—do you know the "bridge to nowhere" was?
M. TOLCHIN: Yes.
MATTHEWS: What was the "bridge to nowhere"?
S. TOLCHIN: Well, the "bridge to nowhere" cost $443 million, and would it take—if built, it would take 200 people from a little island off of Alaska onto the mainland. So, it would had been very nice for those 200 people, but many people question whether it was worth $443 million. And that's really what made—that's one of the things that made earmarks famous.
S. TOLCHIN: Because it was an earmark.
MATTHEWS: Susan and Martin Tolchin, experts of the question and it drive you crazy if you read the book. And maybe you should for that reason. The title of the book is "Pinstripe Patronage: Political Favoritism from the Clubhouse and to the White House and"—as we know now -- "Beyond." Thank you very much for joining us.
S. TOLCHIN: Thank you.
M. TOLCHIN: Thank you, Chris.
MATTHEWS: Thank you.
MATTHEWS: When we return, "Let Me Finish" with the president's smart move today bringing in a top flight, COO, a chief operating officer.
You're watching HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: "Let Me Finish" tonight with a very bright sign from the White House.
President Obama's appointment today of William Daley as his chief of staff is solid evidence that the lights are on at the White House and somebody's home.
He's needed a good rep with the business world, now he's got one.
He's needed a chief operating officer, a ramrod to carry out his orders to get the cabinet cracking for once. Now he's got one.
He's needed a clear chain on command on the domestic orders, parallel to the one he's got on defense and foreign policy. Now, he's got one.
He's a Democratic president who needs to show that Democrats are as good at the government as they are committed to. He needs to show that he's got more than press secretaries, communications' people, and speechwriters, that the presidency is an executive operation. Now, he has and he's got himself a top kick to do it.
This brings us to the key to the Daley appointment. President Obama no longer controls the Congress. To dominate politically in the next two years, he will need to do his heaviest lifting from the executive branch.
This is a good day for the Obama administration. It's good—always good, to show that you're a live, thinking, growing, surprising your opponents and embracing your believers.
That's HARDBALL for now. Thanks for being with us.
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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
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The 20th Century and Beyond
Hugh Trevor-Roper, Lord Dacre (1914-), is retired Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford. Among his works are The Last Days of Hitler, The Gentry, 1540-1640, The Rise of Christian Europe, The Plunder of the Arts in the Seventeenth Century, Princes and Artists: Patronage and Ideology at Four Hapsburg Courts, 1517?1633, and The Hermit of Peking.

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'Updated with Motorola's newest Mobile Computing System, which is comprised out of a natural language processor, contextual computing chip, and a quad-core 2.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 SoC coupled with 2GB of RAM, we're seriously impressed by the Moto X's super snappy responsiveness. '
'However, sharpness is slightly disappointing at the resolution, with less fine detail in evidence than the best 8-megapixel phones. '
'With normal use, we could picture most people getting an entire day's life without any battery-saving adjustments. '
Google and Moto almost made a truly standout Android phone
'The Z30 is arguably the best BlackBerry to date, but it's devoid of any truly unique features that might draw fans from the other side of the fence.'
'The BlackBerry Z30 is a great phone for messaging, whether it's through SMS, email, Whatsapp, BBM or Facebook Messenger. '
'The good news is that the Z30 is unquestionably the best touchscreen BlackBerry to date. '
'The app ecosystem needs to be more advanced.'
'It is big, bright, beautiful, and perfectly suitable for every task. '
'Thin and wide the overall impression is of ultimate portability, a robust handset with a nice if plasticky finish. '
'Image and video quality is very similar to the Samsung Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note II, which is to say good but not as stunningly detailed as the S4. - Lastly, the phone has physical front buttons rather than capacitive.'
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Large, pretty screen, Snappy performance
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Nice design, frame feels solid in the hand
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Clear call quality, a decent 5-megapixel shooter
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Rising Storm is a mod for the soon-to-be-released title from Tripwire Interactive, Heroes of Stalingrad. It will bring the intense and realistic firefighting of 'Heroes of Stalingrad' to the Pacific Theater, 1942-45, pitting the US Army and Marine Corps against the Imperial Japanese Army and Special Naval Landing Forces. The bloody multiplayer battles will be fought out across the Pacific from the Philippines through to Okinawa and will feature all the innovations of 'HoS' and a few more of its own. The development team features some of the leading lights of the Red Orchestra modders along with some very strong candidates from the various CG communities that can be found across the world. There are over 20 of the top 'stars of the future' on the team, thanks to the support of Tripwire. The mod team team have been given advance access to the development tools to bring all the latest features of the Unreal engine to bear on this project, promising a superlative gaming experience.
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Two Excel Tools for Sourdough
Two new tools:
Sourdough Spreadsheet
Sourdough Rye Spreadsheet
Lately, I've been playing around with my sourdough quite a bit. In particular, I've started keeping a very small amount of starter in the fridge -- about 30 grams or so -- and then building the starter I need from just few grams of "mother" starter over several builds or stages.
Doing the math is a pain. Especially when you're not only mucking about with builds, but also playing around with how much pre-fermented flour you want to use: 20% vs 30% makes a difference in terms of flavor and length of rise.
And then, if you get really nuts, you can start playing around with the Detmold three-stage process for making hearty rye breads, a fairly complicated arrangement that drastically changes how much flour you add and the hydration of each stage.
I got tired of searching for scratch pads and pencils to do all the math required to figure out how much flour I needed and when. So I build these two spreadsheets.
The first is for plain sourdough. Floyd was kind enough to upload it for your downloading pleasure HERE.
If you're using volumetric measurements (cups), I'm afraid this won't be much use to you. There's already a ton of variation in the weight of one cup (In The Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book, for example, a cup is roughly 5.25 ounces! 3 cups = 1 pound!), and with sourdough starter, all bets are off due to all the pretty bubbles.
Any generic weight units will do, so long as they're all the same. Grams are easiest, because they're more precise. As such, I've set the default for most cells to round off to the nearest whole number. But if you'd like to change the defaults to enable decimals so you can use ounces, I'll be glad to show you how to do it.
A few points:
The second spreadsheet is for rye breads, and it's almost exactly the same, except that it allows you to determine the percentage of rye you want in your bread. Download it HERE.
I'm using this spreadsheet to build my first 70% Detmolder rye with whole wheat. Hee hee! I'll post the results next week. Saturday is baking day. Can't wait!
Hope you enjoy these tools and find them useful!


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If you've ever sat shotgun in a new Porsche Cayenne you know that some cars aren't as roomy on the inside as they look on the outside. Others are masters of space efficiency.
I, for instance, remain completely dissatisfied with any FWD car with a floor shifter and a transmission hump between the front seats. I've logged many hours in a second gen Prius and (WARNING: complimentary statement about a Toyota Prius is about to follow. Please get your barf bags ready) I'm still happy at how there's no center stack and just lots of room below the dashboard. That's the joy of pushbutton controls and a dash shifter, something understood by Gr8Dane.
There was a bit of a discussion about 4x4s on our maybe zombie-proof Honda Ridgeline post. Gr8Dane said he was happy with his '98 S10 Blazer 4x4 LT because "Blessed be thy Push-Button Transfer Case." Thebloody323 wasn't impressed.
Push button?
Bro do you even lever?
That's when Gr8Dane revealed the wonderment of space efficiency.
I used to in my old 4Runner, but then discovered the magic of column-shift + push buttonsand how much free-storage-area they allowed for.
The old way suddenly seemed like a waste of space.
Yes, space efficiency is something to be appreciated in any car, from the lowliest Mini Cooper to the biggest COE Chevy.
What car (or truck) made you marvel at is tidy packaging and outstanding roominess?
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Some say that the cross like the flag, is only symbolic. While the flag is not in the Bible, the cross is. Albeit a method of traditional Roman execution at the time of Christ on earth, without the cross there is no Calvary, no crucifiction and therefore no Christ, who died and shed his blood for us on the cross. Should the cross be displayed in an OP church sanctuary? Does the OPC Book of Church Order and the reformed tradition discourage its display? Is it "optional"? It is difficult for me to accept its not being present in the church sanctuary. My pastor tap dances around this issue when it's addressed to him. Would I be allowed to join an OP church given my belief and my desire to voice this?
Thank you for your question to OPC.ORG. I can tell this issue is important to you and that you have positively benefited from the presence of a cross in your prior church experiences. The interesting thing about your question is that use of a cross in church architecture is not explicitly mentioned in either the Westminster Standards (Confession of Faith and Catechisms) nor the OPC Book of Church Order (BCO). So there is a very real sense in which your question is hard to answer. Still, there are some things that I can share that may at least shed a little light on the subject and give you something to think about that I hope will be helpful.
There are OPCs with crosses in them and some that intentionally do not have them. The reality is that each local church session is free to determine on this matter what they believe will be most honoring to God and edifying to the church. That this is a matter of liberty (to be determined by each session) is affirmed in another Q&A (here), and is also the implication of the BCO. So why do some churches have them and others not? To be honest, I hesitate to answer, as each church should be free to answer this for itself. It appears that you have already discussed this with your elders or pastor. If you were to look at our Directory for Public Worship, or the Westminster Larger catechism on the second commandment (questions 108 and 109), you will not see crosses mentioned. You will, however, be told that we are to refrain from including things that are considered irreverent or distracting, or even superstitious. At the same time, we are told to worship biblically, reverently, and joyfully. In many respects, the issue of whether or not to include the cross is a value judgment each session must make. In other words, does the value of having it outweigh the potential negatives of having it? I certainly respect your perspective, as many sessions would, that a cross could be considered an aid to the faith. But I can also appreciate the posture of a session that determines not to have one. So where does this leave you?
Let me make an observation by way of question: when did churches begin to include crosses in their architecture? Now I grant that the question is virtually un-answerable. But it makes a valid point. It was without question a long time before the New Testament churches had their own buildings, and arguably a longer time before they began to fix crosses on the walls. Was their worship hindered by not having them? The answer has to be "no." Whatever value you might say that a cross adds, you cannot say that the worship of the early disciples was hindered because they did not have crosses (let alone buildings). My point is that not only is a cross un-essential for a church, it is also un-essential for worship. Thus you do not need it even though you may prefer it. While you are free to prefer it, and to truly wish they had one, it should not be made a point of contention. You suggest your pastor "tap dances around this issue when it's addressed to him." This concerns me a bit. It sounds like you are angry or bordering on accusing him of a form of legalism. Please remember that while your leaders cannot require you to do things the Bible does not teach, we also cannot fault them for not doing things the Bible does not teach. In other words, they are just as free to prefer not to have crosses as you are free to prefer them. But God has called them to serve the church by doing the things they believe are the most edifying. I hope that you can be gracious to them, and submit to them (even if you do not agree), recognizing that they will have to give account to God for the ministry to you (Hebrews 13:17). I am sure they take that very seriously.
The last thing I will address is your question about church membership. I would be very surprised if you were not allowed to join the church because you prefer to have a cross inside. But I could also really wonder what you mean when you refer to your desire to "voice this." That could be taken a lot of ways. I am sure this is something you can talk about with your elders. The peace and unity of a church is always a frail thing. Everyone (including the pastor, no doubt) has things he might prefer to see done differently in the church. Our consciences are bound to Scripture only, but Scripture does command us to strive for peace, and not to disunite over things that are clearly matters of liberty (John 17, Ephesians 4, Romans 14). Thus, I hope you can all work this out in a way that keeps Christ's cross at the center of your worship and fellowship, even if it is not in the center of your sanctuary.
"Questions and Answers" is a weekly feature of the OPC website. The answers come from individual ministers in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church expressing their own convictions and do not necessarily represent an "official" position of the Church, especially in areas where the Standards of the Church (the Scriptures and the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms) are silent.
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The new Podcast is live! Starring our very own Christopher Barrett, it will give you an excellent insight into the art direction for the new map packs and a great look at the general process of building, polishing and testing them. It's a good show and well worth the wait. The Marty podcast is also in the can (finally) and will be coming fairly soon.
This morning, at 7 a.m., Jonty Barnes and I did a live Q&A with Eurogamer – you can read it here:
Tyson Green, aka Ferrex, aka lead multiplayer designer, popped into the Optimatch forums with a detailed update on the new playlists waiting in the wings. Rather than mangle his erudite digest of what's going on, here's his post verbatim:
"Hey guys!
Sorry, it's been a very busy week, and we've been head down in hustle mode. There's a lot to get done before the studio breaks for Christmas. But I have a few free minutes (posting over dinner, heh), so here's a status update:
December 11 UpdateThe December 11 playlist update is well into testing. This playlist is going to include a playlist specifically for the new Heroic DLC maps (so that early adopters can get their fix in), as well as incorporating those maps into the general playlists. In addition, we're reasonably sure that variety updates to almost all of the playlists will be included. This includes some long requested BR Start variants, wider map selection in the Ranked playlists, and a couple of map variants that we're going to try in BTB to start with. We're a little hamstrung on this first update because the studio resources are giving priority to finishing and testing the Heroic DLC maps, but we do have more in mind for December. Hence...
December 18 Update
An extra week buys us some extra testing time. The December 18 update will include the Team Hardcore playlist. I will post some specifics about the composition of this playlist by the end of the week--we're still playtesting. What I can be pretty sure about is that we're trying to stay true to Halo 2's THC playlist, which means nothing crazy, but a solid variety. I fully expect this playlist will be a fixture of our playlists from here on out, so it will refine and improve over time too. In addition, the current plan includes an overhaul for Team Objective. This playlist will henceforth be focused on CTF (both One Flag and Multi Flag variants, as has been frequently requested) and Assault (One Bomb, Multi Bomb, and Neutral Bomb) variants. VIP is out, until we have some time to bang on it and get something we're happy with.
No more Territories?
Not in Team Objective. However, we are going to introduce a playlist called Team Control, which is based on zone control gametypes like Territories, Land Grab, and a little bit of Team King (but incorporating some suggestions to make it more about map control, and less about grenade spam.) We're going to see how people react to this new playlist, and play it by ear. We're hoping that the sum is greater than the parts here, and that some teams will find their niche in this playlist.
Any update on Ranked BTB?
Actually, yes.
And for at least of few of you, it should be good news. In investigating ways to improve upon Social BTB's match quality, we hit a snag--it turns out that a key matchmaking setting (that restricts matching between teams of roughly equal sizes) is not being used in social playlists. Having explored the problem, I do not believe we can give you guys the match quality we want to without it--so, we will be introducing a Ranked BTB playlist early in the New Year.
Slow down.
There is a lot of testing that will have to go into this playlist, and because Bungie has some other irons in the fire (and a damned inconvenient Christmas-New Year break in the way), I can't get that playlist ready and tested before sometime later in January. It is my priority for the new year, though, and if we get nothing else updated in the playlists, I'll try to make that my priority. In planning the addition of a Ranked BTB playlist, we'll be looking over a lot of the feedback you guys have given, and continue to give. So keep that discussion going, because it does help, and will have an impact. And even though it sucks to have to ask this, please be patient--it's coming, but it's not a trivial change.-Ferrex"
Thanks for the info, Tyson.
Now one of the first questions posed after reading this will be: "Does this mean I can't matchmake if I don't have the new maps?" and the answer is, "Relax, you can matchmake fine, and you won't know or really see any difference."
Specifically, if you have Halo 3 on the 11th, but not the new maps – you will be able to see the new Playlist, but you won't be able to enter it. A polite message will pop up and explain that you don't have the content. As Tyson has mentioned, there will be a playlist devoted entirely to the new maps, and those maps will also be incorporated into "normal" playlists. In the "normal" Matchmaking Playlists that incorporate the new maps, a bit of code will check to see who in the lobby has the new maps – if it's everyone, then there's a greater chance it will pick a new map, and if even one person doesn't have the map, it will pick one of the original shipping maps, so nobody misses a beat. In theory…
Now I'm excited right now. For two reasons. One of them is that Bungie's Studio Manager Harold Ryan and I are off to the filming of the Spike Video Game Awards tomorrow – I don't know if we've won anything, but I do know that the Red Vs. Blue guys made an amazingly funny video for the show and I can't wait to see it. Rumor has it that it might be the first chance anyone gets to see the new maps…
It's airing on this Sunday December 9th, 9 p.m EST/PST on Spike TV. It's well worth your attention.
The second thing I'm excited about is that as I write this, I am getting ready for a last minute bugbash for the Heroic Map Pack against the rest of the Bungie crew. Luke and I have had a miserable (for me anyway) record playing DLC this week, with him owning me constantly. Tonight is revenge.I think you folks are really going to enjoy the new maps, price gripes aside, I am pretty sure that all three of these, for entirely different reasons, are among the best maps we've ever made. Tyson's playlist updates above, add a layer of smoothness and ease of access that simply wasn't possible before.
Obviously Standoff has the makings of a classic in the mould of Blood Gulch – although the fact that it's more compact adds a level of freneticism that wasn't guaranteed in either Blood Gulch or Coagulation. Although there's vehicles galore in Standoff, they don't have the freedom or relative safety found in bigger maps like Valhalla.Rat's Nest on the other hand can be a paradise for vehicles, although that idea is neatly bifurcated by the path cutting between the two straightaways of its looping track. Players on foot can have a remarkable degree of control of the map too. It's really not precisely like any map we've ever made.The same can be said of Foundry, but for entirely different reasons. The default layout for Foundry is a maze of walls and alleys, but never quite dead ends. We've played some King of the Hill matches in there with Hammers and we've played plenty of Team Slayer and in some ways it's one of our best small team maps as it stands. The ideal purpose of Foundry is something quite different.
The new Forge palette available in Foundry (with some of those new items shared among Standoff and Rat's Nest) will fundamentally alter the way you think about Forge. Although people have done amazing things with the existing tool – they have always been limited by the initial intentions of the map designer, and literally constrained by the architecture and landscape hard-wired into it.
Foundry is a blank slate. It can be emptied (or, if you buy the maps you can grab a pre-emptied version from Bungie Recommends next week) and build something from scratch. Walls, floors, doors, stairs, ramps, shields, roofs, rooms, tracks…you name it, you can do it. The only limit is your Forge budget and your imagination. We expect amazing things and very quickly.
There are a number of things that make this simpler for you, without ramming it down your throat. For one – if you examine the floor of Foundry, you'll see that it has a not-so-subtle metal grid pattern that makes it easy to measure, count and orient objects quickly. No more wondering if something's at a right angle or not.
We've also included some cool objects that make tall, immovable walls quickly – literally one of the building blocks of a believable level – so no more building walls out of concrete barriers and dead guys (although you can still do that, if you so desire…).For a little bit more on Foundry, check out Sketch's feature on Foundry Soccer and in case you missed the Heroic Map Pack screenshot tornado, click over to the Screenshots Gallery.
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Orientation Letter For CD 1, Spring 2007
Child Development 1, Growth and Development
Faculty: Elmida Baghdaserians, M.A.
Associate Professor, Child Development
Los Angeles Valley College
Welcome to CD 1 on-line. I look forward to teaching this class. This will be my second semester teaching on-line, therefore I feel more comfortable in facilitating this course and providing you with as much support as possible. Please know that I would like to do what I can to make this a great learning experience for you, so please be patient and keep up with due dates. I do want to take this opportunity to apologize for miscommunication or difficulties that you might experience as we all adjust to this new system of learning on-line.
What to Expect!
Course Description
This course is designed to explore current theories on child development from pre-birth through adolescence. A developmental approach is used to explore the process of typical development.
Course Objective:
1.) To identify the developmental domains in young children.
2.) To differentiate between the various child development theorists and their theories.
3.) To evaluate the environmental and psycho-social events that influence development.
4.) To identify developmental stages for infants & toddlers, preschoolers, school-age children and adolescents.
Required Textbook
K.S. Berger: The Developing Person, Through Childhood and Adolescence 7th Edition. Worth, Publishing. Additional resource: Exploring Child Development, A Tool Kit for Understanding Development
Please be sure to purchase your book before the course begins, as you will have activities and assignments to complete as early as the first week of class. Remember this course will meet entirely on-line and not in a traditional classroom setting. There are great advantages to taking an on-line course such as saving gas, avoiding traffic and organizing your own time and fitting the course into your own schedule. There is not a set time that you will need to be on-line, with the exception of exam dates, when the exam will be available from 8:00 am to 11:59 pm on the day it is due.
This type of learning requires a great deal of discipline and organization on your part. We will be working at the same pace in this course as you do in a traditional class and you cannot make up for incomplete work at the end of the course. You will be required to complete assignments and participate in discussions on the regular basis. You will need to log in to ETUDES-NG several times a week to follow up with assignments and discussions. Class participation is checked weekly. Make sure that you can commit to this format.
You don't need to be a computer genius to take an online class, but you need to know the basics. You will be e-mailing, participating in discussion, sending attachments, links, searching the web, etc.
I hope this orientation has been helpful. More information regarding expectations and due dates will be posted when the course begins…
Looking forward to an exciting semester!


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Oracle's latest Cloud Insights research has found that less than 30 per cent of enterprise apps currently reside in the cloud. With the benefits of cloud adoption so well-known, we spoke to Manuel Pallage, General Manager at NSI, to discuss the obstacles that are holding enterprises back from achieving transformation through the cloud.
Placing your IT in the cloud is the beginning of a long-term relationship. As the saying goes, "marry in haste, repent at leisure", and that applies as much to the cloud as it does to marriages.
That's why I'm reasonably relaxed by the findings in Oracle's new research. As a company that helps customers with application development and infrastructure deployments, we're keen to help end users start realizing the benefits that cloud can bring. But we also understand that each business moves at its own pace, and faces unique challenges that might slow their pace of cloud adoption.
As the report points out, cloud application deployment is a matter of 'when', not 'if'. This tallies with our experience, which is that senior management is usually perfectly aware of the benefits of cloud. Yet there is clearly something that's preventing organisations placing that critical mass of applications into the cloud.
In my view, the main obstacles to cloud adoption are maturity and mind set. What I mean by this is that many organisations aren't psychologically ready to move their key business data off their own premises. They worry, for example, that moving to the cloud somehow represents a gamble with their security.
It's understandable that organisations are nervous about making this leap into the unknown, especially given the spate of high profile hacks and security incidents over the last couple of years. But the idea that keeping your applications and data on-premises is safer than trusting a reputable cloud provider, with all their security resources and expertise, shows how much work we must do to change end users' mind set.
"Placing your IT in the cloud is the beginning of a long-term relationship. As the saying goes, "marry in haste, repent at leisure", and that applies as much to the cloud as it does to marriages."
Unfortunately, the problem often lies in organisations' IT department which, for a variety of reasons, are reluctant to see their application estate migrate to the cloud. They may often have very good reasons for arguing against this strategic shift, such as a lack of IT maturity or the difficulty of moving legacy applications; at the same time, it may be down to a simple desire not to relinquish control over their empire.
Ultimately, the IT department in any organisation carries enormous clout, and quite rightly so. But when IT takes a protectionist attitude and seeks to retain as many applications in-house as possible, this can end up damaging the business' wider strategy.
We feel that to close this disconnect there has to be a strong, pro-cloud voice coming from the board, which means arming them with the knowledge they need to make informed decisions and, where necessary, correct their misconceptions about the cloud.
"In my view, the main obstacles to cloud adoption are maturity and mind set. What I mean by this is that many organisations aren't psychologically ready to move their key business data off their own premises."
These conversations should cover factors such as security – for example, by pointing out how the overwhelming majority of high-profile security incidents are not caused by cloud, but rather by poor internal security practices and overstretched IT teams.
We also need to find a more sophisticated way of talking about the cost savings of cloud. When one presents a cloud solution to an IT director or FD, they will always seize on the OPEX / CAPEX figures. Important as these are, it's a rather reductive way of explaining the long-term benefits of cloud. Traditional TCO costs tend to focus too much on the hardware, whereas the cloud industry has developed many innovative new cost models in recent years which should give a much more comprehensive and compelling rationale for moving to the cloud.
Providing this clarity is especially important because we often see IT departments take advantage of this "fuzziness" over costs as an excuse to keep infrastructure and applications in-house. Even when data security or location isn't an issue – for example, with an ERP application – a lack of clarity over the cost model can stymie the deal, to the detriment of both vendor and end user.
Oracle's research should serve as a wake-up call for vendors, and especially their marketing departments, to focus on educating decision-makers at board level. While they shouldn't neglect the advantages of moving apps to the cloud, they should anticipate the common arguments against migration, such as costs and security.
One way of doing this is to use the example of start-ups – especially those that are competing with, and stealing market share from your customers. None of these disruptive new businesses contemplated having a server in their own offices. They are not using the cloud because they are strapped for cash – even start-ups that are awash with VC funding are taking a cloud-first approach; nor do they have the slightest worry about keeping their data and intellectual property in the cloud.
While cloud vendors should ultimately stress the positive benefits of placing their applications in the cloud, they shouldn't be afraid of gently reminding customers of the risk of letting their competitors stealing a march on them. If we focus our efforts on education, then we can expect to see many more 'cloud mature' companies in next year's report.


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convocation winter 2016
Short link the information below on the IMS blog: https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?p=4441 and even shorter one: http://scsu.mn/1RsQErr
Weds 6th–
Session I 10-11:15 Voyageurs North (Atwood)
Engage your students: connect CMS (D2L) to social media to enhance the learning process.
Plamen Miltenoff and Emil Towner
Join us online via Adobe Connect: http://scsuconnect.stcloudstate.edu/ims (please login as a "guest" and use your real name)
In this rapid succession of examples, one can experience a showcase how to enhance students' engagement by modernizing D2L experience through connection with social media. Bring your own examples and participate in a discussion, which aims finding the right tools for your class and field of study.
beginners to advanced
come with your own social media accounts: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Vine
By the end of this session, the participants will have an idea about peculiarity of each of the social media tools: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Vine
By the end of the session, the participants will be familiar with the integration of each of the social media tool into D2L
By the end of the session, the participants will be able to asses to what extent each particular tool fits their field of study
By the end of the session, the participants will be able to compare the pedagogical advantages and disadvantages of the social media tools compared to D2L
Useful links to contact us via social media:
IMS blog: https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims
IMS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InforMediaServices?ref=hl
IMS Twitter: https://twitter.com/SCSUtechinstruc
IMS Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/scsutechnology/
IMS Instagram: http://instagram.com/scsutechinstruct
IMS YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_UMIE5r6YB8KzTF5nZJFyA
IMS Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/115966710162153290760/posts/p/pub
IMS LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/scsuinstructionaltechnology
Plan – Plamen Miltenoff:
- Introduce each other and share the reason and interest to attend this discussion; what are the expectations from this discussion
- We offer free technical assistance in a close relationship with your pedagogical goals:
- Why social media in education? What are the advantages, disadvantages?
Please consider the following presentations as a foundation for this discussion:
Please consider the following survey about your opinion regarding social media in education:
please have the short link: http://scsu.mn/1Z8EFFx
most recent contemplations about blogs and social media in general:
- D2L and Facebook
What is the problem with D2L? https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2015/04/09/lms-as-a-concept-under-scrutiny/
Facebook in a learning environment MUST BE conducted using a Facebook group.
Unless the instructor is SPECIFICALLY using h/er FB account strictly for educational reasons and there is no personal content, the instructor can create a class-related group, with their personal FB account. While the account is personal, the FB group has NO access to the personal FB account.
Facebook Page is different from Facebook Group. The first is commercially oriented and thus, not recommended and to a great degree not suitable for educational purposes.
Facebook Provides New Admin Tools for Managing Page Communication
Facebook Improves News Feed for Slower Network Connections:
Facebook group account can be used for: discussions, sharing materials / visuals, calendar
D2L Discussions compared to Facebook Group discussions – http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/facebook-groups-pages/313736
D2L content compared to Facebook Group Wall
D2L calendar compared to FB calendar
D2L news RSS compared to FB Group alert.
- D2L and Twitter
microblogging of 140 characters is often viewed as limiting. However, it can be the ultimate test how well students understand the learning material: making someone sum up in 140 characters what they learned this particular week in their class can take a lot of rewriting.
D2L allows a widget on its main page, where students can view and tweet. Students also can view and tweet from their mobile devices.
Tweeting during class is becoming mainstream in K12, also called "backchanneling." Harnessing peers help to understand a concept discussed in class can save both time and efforts on the instructors' side
Twitter is "making your twitter.com timeline more immersive by uncropping photos, so you can experience and present them as they were meant to be viewed." https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2015/12/13/improvements-in-social-media-tools/
- D2L and Instagram
Instagram is a social media service, which allows both still images and videos (15 sec).
The bottom-line to evaluate if fitting your field of study is: can the content be narrated or is it much better if visualized. If the latter, Instagram can be your salvation for quick and dirty way to bring imagery, instead of trying to explain by words.
Instagram can be shared vertically across Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and other platforms.
Instagram in the classroom
Master Instagram in 8 Simple Steps https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2014/09/11/how-to-master-instagram-in-8-simple-steps/
- D2L and Pinterest
QR codes are used by Lorie Crane from Nursing as a gamification techniques for students to learn human bones. The disadvantage of the QR codes is that they physically are placed in the classroom. Pinterest can provide the same gamification environment, but the students can access it anywhere/anytime with their mobile devices. The links to the pin[s] can be provided in the D2L : content area (as learning materials/readings), discussion area, News area. They can be also used as part of the D2L quizzes
Instagram defines and shapes brands while Pinterest sells brands.
Pinterest is about curating and discovering information.
Using hashtags: https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2014/07/13/3-things-you-didnt-know-you-can-do-on-pinterest/
16 Ways Teachers Use Pinterest https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2014/02/10/16-ways-teachers-use-pinterest/
Free Pinterest-Style Education Service Hosts Common Core Teaching Aids https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2013/11/20/free-pinterest-style-education-service-hosts-common-core-teaching-aids/
Teachers on Pinterest – A Great Resource for Teachers ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2013/11/02/teachers-on-pinterest-a-great-resource-for-teachers-educational-technology-and-mobile-learning/
- D2L and Vine
Vine is a social media services, which provides the ability to share 7 sec videos. Vine is becoming more popular then Instagram (15 sec videos), with the simplicity to create short videos. Students can take sequence of short videos, which amount to 7 sec to reflect the main points of a project. E.g.: chemical reaction, biology dissection, progress of engineering planning, solving a math formula.
URL to the vine can be posted in the D2L discussion area for further collaborative effort or for peers' and instructions evaluation
Vines are a click away from a FB group page or, with the right handle and hashtag, to a Twitter discussion
The bottom-line to evaluate if fitting your field of study is: can the content be narrated or is it much better if visualized. If the latter, Vine can be your salvation.
How to Create Social Videos With Your Smartphone https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2015/01/10/social-videos-with-your-smartphone/
- D2L and YouTube, EdPuzzle (https://edpuzzle.com/), etc
YouTube Unveils New Trending Tab
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2015/12/13/improvements-in-social-media-tools/Per SCSU IT disclaimer: MediaSpace (Kaltura) is a free, cloud-based video repository solution for campus that allows faculty and staff to upload and distribute video and audio content for academic or administrative purposes. Facilitators will discuss potential uses of MediaSpace for campus, demonst rate how to create Webcam and screen recordings, upload audio/video, and embed or link to MediaSpace content from D2L or a web site. YouTube is owned by Google and the integration, including statistics and analytics by Google are way beyond MediaSpace. The only selling point of MediaSpace is the FERPA requirement by MnSCU to host privacy data on a MnSCU owned server
- Google+
Google+ is indirect competition with any CMS, D2L included, with its GOogle Classroom platform (https://classroom.google.com/ineligible). K12 and higher institutions are outsourcing to GMAIL and with Google Hangouts (Skype also), one can share video, audio and desktops, which makes Adobe Connect + D2L way behind in integration even before Google Drive is mentioned.
Google Introduces Shared Albums in Google Photos:
8 Ways to Use Google+ Hangouts for Your Business https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2015/09/23/google-hangouts/You can record hangouts directly to your YouTube channel for future use.For private Google+ Hangouts, choose Google+ Video Hangouts, which allow you to have up to 10 participants in a video chat that is accessible only to the people invited.
Plan – Emil Towner:
- General stats on integrating social media and things to consider
- Here is a link to view the presentation I'll use: https://prezi.com/esw2sbjp425o/integrating-social-media-aspects-to-consider/
- NOTE: Perhaps we could open up with this; I can cover it in 5-7 minutes and set the stage for the rest of the session)
- Integrating LinkedIn Assignments
- See the attached Integrating-Social-Media (PowerPoint saved as PDF)
- I can cover this in 5-15 minutes, just let me know what you prefer
- Integrating Facebook Groups
- I will show a couple of groups that I have used
- I can also come up with an "exercise" that participants can do, just let me know: (1) if you want me to and (2) if participants are suppose to have a Facebook account that they can log into during the session
Session K 2-3:15: 2PM Wed, Jan 8. Location: CH455
Engage your students: gaming and gamification in the learning process.
As part of the broader discussion, a short discussion segment to form and agree on definitions and terms regarding games and gamification. Another short segment to seek consensus if this SCSU campus is ready to departure on the path of gamifying education. After several examples, of how games are used in education and gamification techniques, a discussion on how gaming and gamification can be streamlined amidst shrinking budget and increasing workload. More details and information about gaming and gamification at: http://scsu.mn/1F008Re
beginners to advanced
By the end of this session, the participants will have a working definitions on play, games, serious games, game-based learning, digital game-based learning, gaming, gamification and badges. (more at http://scsu.mn/1F008Re)
By the end of the session, the participants will be familiar with the possibilities for integration of games in the educational process and for gamification of the educational process.
By the end of the session, the participants will be able to asses to what extent games and gamification fit their field of study
- Introduce each other and share the reason and interest to attend this discussion; what are the expectations from this discussion
- We offer free technical assistance in a close relationship with your pedagogical goals:
- Your Brain on Video Game
(use presenter, ask for mobile devices)
Work on the definitions: play, games, serious games, game-based learning, gaming, gamification and badges
- How does the nation-wide call for games and gamification fit in the MnSCU, SCSU, personal plan as instructor
- Examples for gaming the learning process
- Examples for gamification of the learning process
- Discussion on how gaming and gamification fits the personal interests and curricula in various disciplines.
- More:
Digital game-based learning levels up digital literacies: https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2015/05/31/dgbl-and-digital-literacies/
Friday 8th
Session M 10-11:15: CH 455
Present and be presented: engage your students with modern ways to share information
Two trends plague education: the swamp of PowerPoint presentations and the lack of visual literacy. In this rapid succession of examples, one can experience a showcase of various cloud-based tools, which brings visual presentations way beyond PowerPoint and align with the Millennials demand for current social interaction. A discussion on how relevant these tools are to various disciplines and details on improving the interaction among instructors and students during the presentation. Ongoing discussion about design as part of visual literacy and the difference between blended learning and technology integration.
beginners to advanced
By the end of this session, the participants will have understand the movement "Death by PowerPoint" and will understand the advantage of cloud-based presentation tools to MS PowerPoint
By the end of the session, the participants will be familiar with several tools, which successfully replace PowerPoint and well beyond.
By the end of the session, the participants will be able to asses to what extent games and gamification fit their field of study
By the end of the session, the participants will be able to discriminate between technology integration and blended learning.
- Introduce each other and share the reason and interest to attend this discussion; what are the expectations from this discussion
- Effective presentations: https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2016/01/07/effective-presentations/
- More
TIs on this topic are offered for in-class, hands-on working sessions:
- Blended Learning vs. Tech Integration
(use presenter, ask for mobile devices)
- Death by PowerPoint: https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2015/09/30/4003/
PowerPoint alternatives: https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2014/11/19/powerpoint-alternatives/
- Zaption and Zaption Presenter
- EdPuzzle https://edpuzzle.com/
crops the video so one can watch only a segment. Does not make much sense, since YouTube gives an URL to the reference point, but it allows instructor's audio feedback. It is still too much "instructor's proprietary" and not so much students-engaging as Zaption Presenter and Kahoot.
- Kahoot and clickers
- Powtoon https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2015/11/11/powtoon-as-ppt-alternative/
- ITTT https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2015/11/24/ifttt/
- videonotes for flipped lessons https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2015/12/04/videonotes-for-flipped-lessons/
- Other presentation tools for teaching, including free image sources and other multimedia sources:
presentation templates: https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2015/09/23/presentation-templates/
21 Top Presentation Tools for Teachers : https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2015/08/27/presentation-tools-for-teaching/
Voice Over Presentation: solutions – https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2015/04/28/voice-over-presentation-solutions/
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