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Guests: Ron Allen, Richard Engel, Sue Herera, Chapman Bell, Richard Wolffe, Abderrahim Foukara, Ned Walker, Roger Cohen, David Corn
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Good-bye, Mubarak. Hello, freedom.
Let's play HARDBALL.
Good evening. I'm Chris Matthews in Washington. Leading off tonight:
Freedom on the Nile. These scenes of jubilant Egyptians in Tahrir Square will eventually take their place in history alongside the fall of the Berlin wall and the release of Nelson Mandela, which happens to have been exactly 21 years ago today.
Less than a day after he defied the protesters and said he was staying, President Hosni Mubarak announced, through his vice president, that he was giving it all up. The peaceful revolutionaries had won in the capital of the Arab world.
Last night's speech was the tipping point, apparently. NBC's Richard Engel reports that the Egyptian military told Mubarak they would no longer stand behind him. With the support of the military gone, the result was a bloodless coup d'etat and the end of a 30-year dictatorship.
There are so many unanswered questions now. How do you take the ousting of a dictator and turn it into a democracy? Who's in charge now? What role will the military play in the coming days? And will these events inspire similar movements in other Arab capitals?
Let's start with NBC News correspondent Ron Allen in Cairo. Ron, I don't know how you stay awake. Maybe it's adrenaline, sir. But congratulations. I watched you last night. You have established a rapport with the people you're covering. What is it that you can't—that we can't capture? I always ask this question when something really, really big happens. What don't you see on television? Is there something you see we don't, or feel?
RON ALLEN, NBC CORRESPONDENT: Well, I was trying to come up with a way to explain what's really happened here. And I think—thought back to when we first arrived here a couple of weeks ago and we were down in the square trying to interview people. And so many people were afraid. They didn't want to give us their names. They didn't want to tell us a lot about themselves. They didn't really want to speak to us. They were very cautious.
And you contrast that with what you're seeing all over Cairo, all over the country for that matter, now, people just feeling free, liberated in spirit, in mind, in mentality, in their outlook towards life. And that is how far some people have come on an individual basis over the past couple of weeks.
You know, when President Obama was speaking, he quoted Martin Luther King, Jr., when he said that there's something about the soul that yearns for freedom. That's what was happening all the past couple of weeks in that square. You could see it in people's eyes that they just wanted something better. They were—this was an act of courage. It was an act of defiance. It was an act of thinking differently about life and thinking about the possibilities of life in a way that so many of these people never had before. And that's what was happening on an individual basis there.
You know, there were individual acts of courage when there were groups of anti-Mubarak protesters, as we call them, clashing with police and clashing with other demonstrators. But this was, in many ways, a mental and emotional journey that so many people are on, getting to this place where they now can stand in Liberation Square and just celebrate and party and let all this wash over them, and just feel so relieved and so hopeful about the future in a way that they just never dare dreamed just a few weeks ago, Chris.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
ALLEN: A really remarkable thing.
MATTHEWS: I'm trying to appreciate what it's like. It seems to me this isn't like a successful soccer game, where you're cheering the team that won. You are the team that won. Isn't that the difference, that they are the people that feel like they did it, they did do it?
ALLEN: Yes, these analogies to soccer games or to the 4th of July or to New Year's Eve—they seem in some ways so trite compared to the depth of what has happened in this square and across this country. We've been in the square, but it is really a national thing.
Yes, the streets are packed with people. There are parades. You can't—it's hard to get through town because there is so much—there are so many celebrations going on. But it has really been an emotional and internal journey that these people have been on over the past few weeks or so, where they are just in a completely different place now and this nation is in a completely different place.
You know, we met a lot of very smart people in the square. We met a lot of people who are very thoughtful, people who are Internet-savvy, tech-savvy, people who were—who are global in their outlook. They know how people live in other parts of the world, people in their own peer group, people who are 20-something, 30-something, college graduates in many cases, and people who are not. But they just sensed there there was something better out there, and now they feel like they have it. They feel as if they've become part of the 21st century, part of the world that so much of the rest of the world lives in.
It's really just hard to put into words, but when you look at people and you see the smiles on their faces, these people light in their eyes, you just see people now sensing a whole new range of possibilities and a whole new sense of freedom. It's a word that has so many connotations, but it's just—when you witness it and when you feel this new energy and this new vitality that people have, it's just a wonderful thing to be a witness to, and frankly, a wonderful thing to be a part of, to have the opportunity to really experience this with these people over the past few weeks, Chris.
MATTHEWS: You know, I was thinking just now the old ad for the United Negro College Fund, "A mind is a terrible thing to waste." And I was thinking of all these people with their master's degrees and—perhaps in economics or something—I met one of them once—and they may have studied with the same textbooks that you and I used, but they haven't had a chance because they're not connected. They don't have the right brother-in-law or the right father or whatever.
ALLEN: Right. That was—yes, you heard that grievance so often, that there are people who felt like they couldn't get to the next level in life or they couldn't get an opportunity. I remember meeting a young college student who felt like she wasn't going to get what she wanted because all the cronies from the regime were going to get those slots in schools or were going to get those job offers once they graduated. And it's that class of people, as well.
But it's also people like taxi drivers. You know, there was a man who we met who worked and earned a living day-to-day, and he just felt like he shouldn't have to live that way. He just knew in his heart from meeting tourists who come to this country in such huge numbers that there was a better way. He was meeting all these people every day from around the world, and he couldn't—he just knew that something was better out there.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
ALLEN: And just don't underestimate how much courage it took for people to stand in that square. You know, I come back to what I started this with. People who were afraid to tell us who they were three weeks ago are today just standing up, proud of who they are, infused with a new sense of dignity, a new sense of just self, self-worth, and they are just brimming with confidence and just determined to take on this world and get everything that they feel that they and even more so their children really deserve and want.
MATTHEWS: Ron Allen, I don't think you know how good you've been as a reporter. You have been unbelievable. I get the feeling, and I think I get some of the reality from your wonderful, inspiring reporting from the streets of Cairo. Thank you so much. We'll be talking to you again in the days ahead.
Let's go to Abderrahim Foukara, who's with the Washington bureau—in fact, he's the bureau chief here of Al Jazeera. You know, I think Al Jazeera's gotten a whole new respect out of this, a sense that we have that it's not part of the enemy, it's not part of the terrorist camp. But more importantly, this week—and you and I have been talking—for the people of this country, to see the face of the Middle East—we never get to see it. You may meet a person who works at a job here, perhaps a driver or somebody who works in a hotel, you know what I mean, the emigre community. You may get to see a terrorist face, usually two or three days' growth of beard in a mug shot. And that's all we've seen. And now we're seeing the masses of working and middle class hope. Never seen it before in this country.
ABDERRAHIM FOUKARA, AL JAZEERA: You know, Chris, I've lived in this country for 10 years, and I've certainly seen the energy and the enterprising spirit of this country. And I think what we have seen coming out of Egypt over the last two, three weeks, what the American people have seen coming out of Egypt over the last three weeks is some—it just gave them a picture of what they could actually be getting plugged into, something that they can recognize, something that they can relate to because it can relate to them.
MATTHEWS: I think of all the people who've come here who are overeducated for the jobs they get here, you know what I mean? You'll meet a guy who's driving a limo who's a fabulous guy. You're talking to him about the most sophisticated matters. And he's probably got a master's degree, you know? And I see these people, many of them—maybe they're not dressed up for this occasion, but they're educated, right?
FOUKARA: Absolutely.
MATTHEWS: But how do you translate these hopes tonight, at midnight over there, as you go to sleep in this euphoria—how do you translate that? They don't have a Franklin Roosevelt. They don't have a left of center, brilliant redistributer or a New Dealer, do they? There's nobody like that there.
FOUKARA: They don't. But what they do, they have the genius of a civilization that's about 6,000 years old, as President Obama said earlier today. What we have seen over the last three weeks—you mentioned Nelson Mandela. Nelson Mandela is obviously an iconic giant and will go down as an iconic giant in human history.
This is certainly something in terms of its possible repercussions not just for the Middle East but for the whole world, something much bigger than that. It took Nelson Mandela and the ANC, the African National Congress, several decades to bring about the end of apartheid. It has taken these guys about a month. They're young people. They have the savvy. They have the creativity. They have the organization. And they have the will. And they have done it.
MATTHEWS: Do you believe, based upon limited evidence, but profound evidence perhaps, that the military, the top command, gets it, that they have a transitional role here, they must be guardians in the short term of democracy? Do they know that?
FOUKARA: I think they do, despite all the conflicting signs that they've sent to the Egyptians and to the outside world over the last three weeks. On the one hand, they're telling the demonstrators, you know, We are here to protect you. But on the other hand, we hear reports from the human rights organizations that they have been partaking in kidnappings and so on.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
FOUKARA: But I think, overall, they do recognize the immensity of the moment, and I think that they want to be part of that. I think what we could be seeing, at least as far as the eye can see from here, is the army doing the role that the Egyptians want it to do, i.e., protecting them, protecting the nation, but allowing the space for this democratic movement.
MATTHEWS: That's a little ululating there! The declaration of amnesty is probably an important indicator that they want to be with this, not against this. Let me ask you about the region you cover and Al Jazeera covers. Freedom is contagious, a man hold me in Hungary one day in April of 1989, and then everything came from that, just watching television. Hungary opened up the Iron Curtain. The Berlin wall became irrelevant. Yeltsin finally faced down the tanks by '91. Took two years for it all to happen. Everything fell.
Is this going to happen in the Middle East, or will the strong arms of the Ba'athists in Syria and the strong arm of the ayatollahs in Iran prevent this kind of thing from happening?
FOUKARA: I think, without a doubt, the Middle East is not going back to where it was two months ago. And maybe a week ago, I would have said the Middle East is not going back to what it used to be two months ago, not passing judgment value good or bad. But I think after what we've seen, the way the protests have been organized and the way they've speared the protests from violence, I think is a good sign that other countries will be watching. I do not—
MATTHEWS: Will they permit these peaceful demonstrations?
FOUKARA: Well, that's the thing. It's important to note, though, today, that today it's obviously a far cry from what happened in Iraq 2003. But also today is the 32nd anniversary of the Iranian revolution. What a difference from that to this.
MATTHEWS: OK. Thank you. Abderrahim Foukara, thank you very much.
It's great to get to know you.
FOUKARA: Thank you.
MATTHEWS: Thank you. Great reporting from Al Jazeera.
Coming up: The people got what they wanted, Mubarak's gone. But what's next? Can Egypt make itself a democracy and make it work? And later, NBC's Richard Engel—boy, has he been doing a job! -- talks to the jubilant Egyptians in Tahrir Square. I can't wait for that.
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RICHARD ENGEL, NBC CORRESPONDENT: (INAUDIBLE) anything in their life. They're celebrating. What are people so happy about there? Their dogs, their children, their liberation. This has become a giant birthday party for the country here.
ENGEL: Raise your head up high. You are Egyptians. That is what they are saying here over and over again, that this is a proud moment for Egyptians, a proud moment in which they can hold their heads up high.
MATTHEWS: Well, that's the great Richard Engel in Tahrir Square. By the way, you'll hear more of him in our program tonight. I must say, just as a note here, that I've always argued in my life because I've noticed this that if you really learn something, eventually in life, it's going to come in handy. He speaks Arabic. He lived with the people over there. In fact, he lived with the Muslim Brotherhood people in their neighborhoods, the poor neighborhoods of Cairo, for all those years so that he could do what he's done this last couple weeks. Nobody can do it like Richard Engel. We've seen it all last night and we'll see it again tonight.
Let's go now—we've got former ambassador—American ambassador to Egypt and Israel, Ned Walker. So you got a nice American background. You're one of us. And you can translate this because we've been getting this wonderful cross-cultural vision of what's going on over there from the people we've met. But as an American who's lived over there, what's your reaction? Are you amazed that this is happening?
NED WALKER, FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR TO EGYPT: Oh, I'm amazed at what's happening, yes. But in a way, when you start looking at what's happened to the whole environment of that are, it's not so amazing.
MATTHEWS: If you had heard a month ago there's going to be a mass uprising—
WALKER: Oh, I'd have said you're nuts.
MATTHEWS: -- in Egypt and it's going to overthrow Mubarak, would you have been afraid of it?
WALKER: No. I wouldn't have been afraid of it.
MATTHEWS: You wouldn't have been afraid of it.
WALKER: No.
WALKER: I wouldn't have been—I wouldn't have said I wouldn't have agreed with you that it was going to happen, but I wouldn't have been afraid of it because I have too many friends who are Egyptian and they're not wild, crazy, radicals. They're not like most of the other people in the Middle East, frankly.
MATTHEWS: They're Egyptian.
WALKER: They're Egyptian, which is—
MATTHEWS: And I—I was struck with that when I came home from the -
and went there for a while coming out of the Peace Corps. I said these are like guys, they wear Arthur Godfrey—
WALKER: Absolutely.
MATTHEWS: -- summerwear, you know I mean, the American sports shirts.
They seem to be Western.
WALKER: Yes, they—
MATTHEWS: They work in jobs. They take the bus to work.
WALKER: But the big that's happened is you've had a huge change in generations.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
WALKER: This new generation is not respectful of authority the way the old generation is. It's more independent, and that's—
MATTHEWS: Why do you think those people there weren't afraid two, three weeks ago of the military? Why weren't they afraid?
WALKER: They weren't—
MATTHEWS: They've always been afraid before.
WALKER: They—
MATTHEWS: Their names being taken.
WALKER: Because the military made it very clear to them that the military wasn't going to shoot them. And where there were a couple of incidents which appeared to have the military, it was probably the Presidential Guard.
MATTHEWS: Yes, be undiplomatic, sir! I don't know you well enough to do this. Bibi Netanyahu tonight, when he goes to sleep, he puts his head on the pillow tonight. What's he worried about?
WALKER: He's damn worried about Egypt and he's even probably more worried about Jordan, both of which are, of course, the treaty members, and both of which can totally change and stress his military. He has to guard the southern front. That's a huge difference.
MATTHEWS: Are so sure—I talked to David Ignatius in "The Washington Post" today. He's a real Middle East expert. He believes they'll hold to the treaty.
WALKER: I know they will.
MATTHEWS: How so?
WALKER: Why? Because the military finds that it's in its interests and the military's in charge now.
MATTHEWS: So even with elections this September, you don't think they will yield a break in the treaty?
WALKER: No.
MATTHEWS: More cold peace.
WALKER: Well—
MATTHEWS: Well, let's go back to your worries about Jordan, if you're an Israeli or an American. The king's there. Queen Rania took some heat the other day—
WALKER: Yes, she did, but she usually does.
MATTHEWS: How so?
WALKER: Well, she is seen not to be part of the people and even though—she is Palestinian. But she's—maybe she's too exotic.
MATTHEWS: Well, she's beautiful.
WALKER: I know. That's what I mean.
MATTHEWS: They think that's too exotic, just too princely, too—
WALKER: Too princely, too remote from the people.
MATTHEWS: Right. Yes.
WALKER: And—but he still has a lot of strength in Jordan. People respect him.
MATTHEWS: Abdullah?
WALKER: Yes, Abdullah. He was special forces, special ops before.
MATTHEWS: OK. Let's go through the weak countries that might fall.
What about the Emirates, those little principalities?
WALKER: There's no problem in the Emirates.
MATTHEWS: Nothing is going to happen there?
WALKER: Nothing is going to happen there.
MATTHEWS: How about Saudi, where you have all those people that are not part of the royal family? What about them?
WALKER: Well, the Saudis have an enormous cushion, and it's called cash.
And they also have a great deal of respect, because people are afraid of what would happen if the family was out. That is a place that could really go violently to Islamists.
MATTHEWS: Islamists, to troublemakers.
MATTHEWS: Let's go to the countries that—let's go across the—the North Africa scene. Let's go to Morocco. Is it in danger of being overthrown there, the king there, King Mohammed VI?
WALKER: The king is—again, a fairly stable situation.
MATTHEWS: Oh, he's stable.
How about Algeria?
WALKER: Algeria, no, that is a place that could go off.
MATTHEWS: OK. Libya?
WALKER: Libya, anybody can—
MATTHEWS: And already Tunisia.
WALKER: And Tunisia is already there.
MATTHEWS: And let's look back to Egypt now, the chances of between now and September them getting—I hate to use the phrase, but get your act together. Will they be able to form decent political parties, be able to organize coalitions and face the public with real options this September?
WALKER: Chris, you've got to be kidding me. You can't do that. It's not possible to do it in that time frame. They are going to have to find a way to extend the process, so that they can put themselves together. I think they can do it, but it will take longer.
MATTHEWS: How long to get a good, honest election over there?
WALKER: Six months. Six months to a year.
MATTHEWS: Beyond September?
WALKER: Beyond September.
MATTHEWS: Will that—will that be OK with these people tonight?
WALKER: It will be OK with these people if they see some things that happen in the meantime, such as changes to the constitution, such as the beginning of forming of parties, such as bringing civilians into the decision-making process. So, it's a process.
MATTHEWS: OK. If you were the military command, the military council right now, would you spend this weekend to maximum effect by bringing in some kind of mix of representatives of the people in the streets there?
WALKER: I would.
MATTHEWS: And form some kind of transitional government council?
WALKER: Yes, I would, because, you remember, they have—they have canceled out the government. They have fired the Parliament—the Parliament—Parliament as well.
So they have got to have some kind of representation to show that they are being open and they're going to be inclusive.
MATTHEWS: Well, who's calling the shots tonight when somebody commits a murder tonight or commits a rape, or—who is the legitimate authority in that country tonight, after this celebration is over?
WALKER: The legitimate authority is the supreme military council.
And they have taken over the powers of the presidency.
MATTHEWS: So the police report to them now?
WALKER: The police will report to them.
MATTHEWS: And do you think they will be good at keeping order for the next couple weeks, while they sort the thing out?
WALKER: Yes. Yes. They're pretty good at that. They will have to do it without violence, though.
MATTHEWS: OK. If you're an Israeli prime minister right now, Bibi Netanyahu—by the way, the only world leader with a Philadelphia accent, I should point out.
WALKER: Yes, I know. It's wonderful.
MATTHEWS: Because he went to school in the suburbs.
MATTHEWS: Do you think that he will try to establish relations now formally with the government that's now in place now? The treaty will assume to preside.
WALKER: Right.
MATTHEWS: It will continue, but will he begin to talk to the military command—
WALKER: I would be very surprised.
MATTHEWS: -- or to talk to Suleiman?
WALKER: I would be surprised if the Israeli military wasn't already talking to the military in Egypt, because, after all, they have to coordinate on the Gaza border, for one thing.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
WALKER: I think it's premature for Bibi to try and intercede, or it will seen—
MATTHEWS: Will they recognize this government? Will that be necessary?
WALKER: That won't be necessary.
WALKER: It's not a permanent government. It's a transitional government.
MATTHEWS: You know, it's interesting. I have watched the interviews with our people. And everybody knows we're a close friend of Israel. I haven't seen any attacks on Israel.
WALKER: It's been amazing.
MATTHEWS: None.
WALKER: No—no flags burned.
MATTHEWS: No down with Israel, the Zionist entity.
WALKER: No.
MATTHEWS: None of that stuff.
WALKER: It's been amazing. And that shows that other issues are a lot more important.
MATTHEWS: Well, I think it's—you say it's an Egyptian nationalist revolution.
WALKER: Right. Absolutely.
MATTHEWS: And largely secular.
WALKER: Yes.
MATTHEWS: Good news from an expert.
Thank you, Ambassador Ned Walker.
WALKER: You bet.
MATTHEWS: Thank you from—ambassador, former ambassador to Egypt and to Israel more recently, and former assistant secretary of state.
Up next: The crowds in Cairo's Tahrir Square have been celebrating since word came that Mubarak is down. He's now in Sharm el-Sheikh hiding out, surrounded by a military compound. Our own Richard Engel has been the -- among these ecstatic Egyptians for all day now. We are going to get directly to him for the most exciting coverage available in our country from Richard Engel—coming up in just a minute.
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MATTHEWS: We have been showing you pictures from Tahrir Square, where our own Richard Engel has been talking to jubilant Egyptians. We have got much more of Richard with the crowd right now.
RICHARD ENGEL, NBC CHIEF FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT: People say that this is their wedding day, that this is their moment. They are celebrating. They are very, very excited.
They also feel that they have taken ownership of this country. We are hearing people say that they're going to clean the streets. They don't want to pay bribes anymore, that they feel this has become Egypt for the Egyptians, with the Egyptians now in charge.
And if this positive energy can be channeled forward, these people are totally convinced that Egypt will become a better country.
ENGEL: He's saying—he's saying—he's saying: "We are just happy because we have now taken our freedom."
ENGEL: He says: "We are—this is our country. We are going to stay with it. We are going to stay in it day and night."
ENGEL: Yes. He's saying that the Egyptian people have shown their
strength, that they have shown their ability to—to be dignified, that
this is not just a moment—not just a moment of liberation. They are
saying it is a moment of national pride, of showing the Egyptian character
the Egyptian character on display.
You—you speak English?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, I—
ENGEL: OK. What are—what are you—why are you here?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is—
ENGEL: Why—what do you feel today?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is—this is our day. This is our country.
This is my Egypt. This is the revolution, revolution (INAUDIBLE) people.
It's our—our Facebook.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We are—we are the (INAUDIBLE) revolution. We are (INAUDIBLE) Egypt will be—will be rebuilt with us. Egypt will be rebuilt with us.
ENGEL: Egypt will be rebuilt with you?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. Yes.
ENGEL: That is a theme we're hearing over and over, that Egypt will now be rebuilt, that they will—will channel this energy and take ownership of the country.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, no, I am speaking—
ENGEL: They're saying—they're saying—
ENGEL: Anyway, they're saying that Egypt will be built with democracy and liberty and their struggle.
And you can see people standing on that tank --
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I want to say something.
ENGEL: -- tanks that were people were afraid of when they first rolled into Cairo. When the police pulled back after clashes here, and these tanks took a position, people thought maybe they were going to fire on the people. And the tanks never did.
Now they are standing on the tanks, people here cheering the army, saying, hand in hand, the people and the army are together.
ENGEL: He's saying Egyptians are very, very happy.
ENGEL: He says 80 million people are happy today.
ENGEL: He's—he's saying—he's saying he's upset that tourists left the country.
ENGEL: He said tourists should come back. They have nothing to fear.
He's saying, thank God—
ENGEL: He's saying, thank God everyone is happy. Eighty million people are happy.
MATTHEWS: Well, that's Richard Engel with the crowd in Cairo earlier today.
When we return, we're going to go back to jubilant Tahrir Square on a day that's been called the greatest in Egypt's history.
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SUE HERERA, CNBC CORRESPONDENT: I'm Sue Herera with your CNBC "Market Wrap."
Stocks edging higher to close out a positive week, the Dow average climbing 44 points, the S&P 500 adding about 7.25, and the Nasdaq gained 19.
Investors greeting the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak with relief. Many are just glad to be able to turn that focus towards events closer to home. But banks are higher, pretty much a direct result of easing uncertainty about stability there.
Nokia shares plunging 14 percent on word it is teaming up with Microsoft to take on Google and Apple in the smartphone market.
And Ford moving higher after announcing it will pay down another $3 billion in debt in its first quarter.
Clorox shares spiking in just the last hour of trading on word that investor Carl Icahn has taken a 9 percent stake in that company.
Overall, a week of pretty solid gains for the markets. Take a look at the Russell 2000, a lot of interest returning to those small- and medium-cap stocks.
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MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL.
NBC News producer Chapman Bell has been down with the crowds in Tahrir Square for the past few days. And he joins us now to talk about the mood of the people.
Chapman, you have been unbelievable, like your colleagues over there.
Are you—how many hours have you been awake right now?
CHAPMAN BELL, NBC NEWS PRODUCER: I'm not even sure. We have just been getting by.
But with all the excitement here, it's—it's hard to even think about sleeping too much. It's more important to be out and see—see this change, this revolution taking place.
MATTHEWS: You know, most times, when you have a celebration in our
country, they last maybe a half-a-day, and then people go home. But this -
are these people going to stay all night; is that the plan, do you think?
BELL: I—I think it will stay at least all night.
I mean, it's—it's funny when you think about it. They had stayed -
they have been in this square for 18 days, and have said they would stay in this square until Mubarak stepped down as president. Now that he has done that, they're still in the square. In fact, there are probably more people in the square this—right now than there was this time tonight. I think the celebrations has—has far surpassed the—the protests for this time this—this—
BELL: -- for today.
MATTHEWS: Well, what do you thinks' -- what—can you tell from your conversations and from your reporting whether people are going to continue, and this is going to be a celebration, or is it a continued sort of protest?
BELL: Well, I mean, today and this evening, it's a celebration. It's purely a celebration. They finally feel that the people got what they have been asking for. They have been protesting that they wanted Mubarak to step down from—as Egypt's president. And, today, they got their wish.
They feel like they had the—the power of the people prevail. They said, for 30 years, they have been suppressed and—or oppressed—and now they are looking forward to freedom and democracy. So, for—for the time being, they are very proud of their accomplishments.
MATTHEWS: What has been the reaction to you personally over the last several days? Has it changed to positive from more negative over the last four or five days?
BELL: Well, I mean, you know, I have actually only been in the square now for a couple of days.
And, you know, yesterday, it was—they were angry. But they were—
they were angry at the president. They were angry at the president. But -
but they were very peaceful. And they—today, they have changed. They are so happy to—to have accomplished their goal. And they're very—and they're very excited this evening.
MATTHEWS: Do they know what the two fingers mean, when they go like this with the two fingers in the air? Do they know it stands for victory?
MATTHEWS: I thought that was an English word, but everybody is saying it in Arabic.
BELL: So, this is peace, correct?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It means that (INAUDIBLE) that we're so happy.
BELL: It's happy. They're happy.
BELL: That's what—
BELL: They're happy.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Very happy.
MATTHEWS: OK. I guess V. means happy in Arabic.
Thank you so much. Your reporting has been great, Chapman Bell, for NBC News.
Let's go to "New York Times" columnist Roger Cohen. He joins us now
by phone from Cairo.
Roger, I have been reading "The Times" for the last several weeks now. It seems like your newspaper is pretty optimistic about the turn of events here the last several days and weeks.
ROGER COHEN, COLUMNIST, "THE NEW YORK TIMES": Yes, hi, Chris.
Well, definitely. How can you not be? There's a fantastic mood in Cairo right now, kids dancing on tanks, women dancing on cars. And this has been a very repressive system for a pretty long time. And a leaderless group of young Egyptians rose up and—and overthrew a despot.
So, I think that's a moment of hope for the Arab world. You know, it's been a kind of "Jurassic Park," with all these aging leaders across the Arab world. And—and change is sweeping across the region now.
MATTHEWS: Well, just to look back a few hours, what was it in that—was there a kind of conversation going on between the protesters, as a mass movement, and the people in the military council? Were they listening to the crowd and deciding that Mubarak wasn't going to be able to get away with giving some authority to his vice president?
COHEN: I think from the outset, you've seen a very professional military that took upon the (INAUDIBLE) decision, that was not going to go down with Mubarak. The army took the view that it is here to protect the nation, protect the people.
And about six hours before Mubarak resigned, there was a communique from the high command which said that the Egyptian army wants to be the guarantor of a process that leads to the fulfillment of the people's wishes, i.e. liberty and democracy, and spoke of the honest people standing up against corruption.
What the army will do in the next days, weeks remains to be seen. But it was very clear from the first protest on January 25 that the army was not going to fire on its people. And this was a very fundamental thing.
You know, the U.S. has invested $1.3 billion a year or more in the Egyptian military. And I think, you know, we've seen a very professional army. Now, let's see how it performed in the crucial transition role it will have in the days ahead.
MATTHEWS: Do we know how the conversation went between the army and Mubarak over the last couple of days, when he went out and made that rather pathetic offer to hand over some authority to his vice president, who he had selected in recent days—did he think or was led to believe that somehow that would be satisfactory to the army and to the people or not—to the people and then to the army?
COHEN: Pathetic. You said it, Chris, pathetic. It was possibly the worst political speech in history, completely incomprehensible, and he went on for 17 minutes. There are reports filtering out that the army had not approved that speech, which would stand to reason. Gosh, I'd really love to know what had gone inside the palace over the last 18 days.
Clearly, tensions rose between Mubarak and the army to the point that somebody went to him today, perhaps the Defense Minister Tantawi, and said, Mr. President, this ain't going to fly—because he was scrambling last night to try and salvage something. And somebody said to him today, "Game over, Mubarak," as one of the signs I just saw in the streets said.
So, you know, we have had the (INAUDIBLE) here on what went on within the palace, but that—I would—I would suggest that's a very good subject for some strong journalism.
MATTHEWS: You know, we've been trying to—sitting here in Washington, watching this, trying to get a clear notion as to the goal of the protestors, all million of them, perhaps. And for a while there, was exile, banish this man, send him out of the country. And yet when word came today, early today or midday today that he had been taken by the military to Sharm el-Sheikh, within the country, everyone was jubilant.
How do you figure—how do you figure that?
COHEN: Look, I think the goal—it wasn't about geographic location, primarily, Chris. It was about, he's got to go, he's got to get out. It's got to end. This rule has to end. He has to quit.
And he quit. So, I don't think, for now, people are too concerned precisely where he is. He's gone. Now, what will happen to him—that's going to be a critical subject in the weeks and months ahead, and what happens to all the people around him and those closest to him. You know, a lot of people are already suggesting that it's very important for Egypt perhaps to have a process similar to South Africa of truth and reconciliation.
MATTHEWS: I see.
COHEN: And to pursue a course of, you know, a more vengeful course that might involve trials, that kind of thing. You know, it could be extremely divisive. Let's recall, Egypt has not known any kind of democracy since the coup of 1952, that's 60 years ago. Everything is going to have to be built from the ground up, political parties, democratic held, free and fair elections. It's all work that lies ahead.
So, you know, there are going to be some—and all this in a country with near 30 percent illiteracy and huge amounts of poverty.
So, this is a joyous moment. I don't think we should think about the problems tonight. This is a moment to celebrate.
MATTHEWS: I understand that.
COHEN: But there will be issues going forward.
MATTHEWS: Well, as I say, with every country that gets its independence, it's a poor country. I wish them a Franklin Roosevelt if they can find one, something who can distribute, rebuild, give them relief, reconstruct, create something in the long-term and deal with the vast aspirations of the people.
Roger Cohen of "The New York Times"—thank you very much, sir, for joining us tonight from Cairo.
Up next: what's ahead for our relationship with Egypt? President Obama promises will be a friend and partner to Egypt. But what will the Egyptians want for us and what will democracy in Egypt actually, well, look like?
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OBAMA: There are very few moments in our lives where we have the privilege to witness history taking place. This is one of those moments. This is one of those times. The people of Egypt have spoken, their voices have been heard, and Egypt will never be the same.
MATTHEWS: We're back.
That was President Obama today reacting to the big news in Egypt and here's a little more. Let's listen.
OBAMA: These scenes remind us that we need not be designed by our differences. We can be defined by the common humanity that we share. And above all, we saw a new generation emerge—a generation that uses their own creativity and talent and technology to call for a government that represented their hopes and not their fears. A government that is responsive to their boundless aspirations.
MATTHEWS: We're joined now by a couple of pals of ours, MSNBC political analyst Richard Wolffe and David Corn—you know—from "Mother Jones."
You know, I'm a little jubilant now, a little bit frisky I'll say something that will bother people. But if you have—a lot of the people in this country think the president of the United States is Muslim—which he is not. He's Christian. They think he's foreign born—which he's not. He's American born. But they have this attitude about him, the people on the right, a lot of them, right?
DAVID CORN, MOTHER JONES: Yes.
MATTHEWS: And here he is, and he comes in this jubilant situation in Egypt, where the first time in our lives we get to see people from the Arab world in a very positive democratic setting, not as terrorists or not as people fighting Israel or whatever. Not mouthing epithets against the West, but people like us.
CORN: Right, celebrating.
MATTHEWS: In a way, it's like—it took Obama to have this happen. Or it's just so serendipitous. His critics will probably say, yes, we knew this was coming.
CORN: Well, I mean, I think the speech he gave this afternoon—
MATTHEWS: Yes?
CORN: -- the remarks, were right on point. I mean, he celebrated but he also set a standard. He says nothing less than genuine democracy. And he praised the military for the restraint it has shown and for making all the right statements so far, but set the standards, want fair and free elections, to lift the emergency law.
MATTHEWS: So, he's talking to the military?
CORN: That's the game here. In terms of power politics, that's the game. And he wants to encourage them to keep the word they've already given.
MATTHEWS: OK. Now, we have a free bit of communication going on, Richard Wolffe. We know who we're talking to. We're not talking to a dying despot, or a leaving despot.
RICHARD WOLFFE, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Right.
MATTHEWS: We're talking to a very powerful military that is very professional and it's proven its discipline. They can control events to some extent now. Is that the way you read it, Richard, that we're trying to send in the right direction?
WOLFFE: They've been controlling events all along, and Mubarak was a military guy as well. So, the danger here is obviously the military install one of their own people and they stay on forever. Of course, the channels of communication, military to military, have been very good. So, that's one important factor here.
Also American military aid. That's what $1 billion or $2 billion goes to. That's an important measure here as well.
But the tricky thing, as complicated as it's been for the administration up to this point, the hard thing here is moving this democratic reform along without making it seem like whoever they're helping, whether it's in the opposition or people inside the current government, trying to spin out and establish themselves, without making them seem like American Stooges, because that's the kiss of death.
So, for all the experience America has in helping civil society, helping opposition parties, free and fair elections around the world, it's important not to make this an American-led thing. And that's why actually, all the conservatives who said, you know, this president needs to go out there and say, "Yay for America, let's see the same in Iran and Syria."
MATTHEWS: Yes.
WOLFFE: -- that's why he was right not to do that today.
WOLFFE: It can be counterproductive.
MATTHEWS: One of the smartest and more mature conservatives in this country, George Will, he almost seems progressive by his stand, as some of these people—
WOLFFE: Sometimes.
MATTHEWS: -- has said, you know, hands off isn't a bad policy right now.
CORN: No, no. Right now things are going in a positive direction. You have an amazing power within the people, and they have their opposition leaders, and it's a diverse opposition. And so, I don't think the administration has to weigh in an explicit manner. But out of $1.5 million in aid we give Egypt year, $1.3 billion of that goes to the military.
MATTHEWS: Right.
CORN: So, there's a lot of contact going on before this.
MATTHEWS: And, Richard, every time one of these occasions happened, whether it's the birth in the new South Africa, I keep wishing they would find a Roosevelt—probably someone from the center left, someone who can be democratic and also strong and brilliant, in giving people what they need in the short run, and building toward what they need in the long run. It's so hard to find leaders like that.
WOLFFE: It is. There are not many Nelson Mandelas out there. That's why they're great figure.
But, of course, the danger, and the people inside the West Wing have been worried about this from the beginning, the danger is that a charismatic figure turns out to be a radical, someone we don't know, and someone even beyond the Muslim Brotherhood.
And, by the way, as part of this, let's just remember, we saw regime change in Egypt today—very different from regime change in Iraq. And how much more successful? For all those people—
MATTHEWS: Right.
WOLFFE: -- on the right who said this administration has stumbled, this is regime change that did not cost American lives.
MATTHEWS: Thank you. Well said.
CORN: Or Egyptian lives to the amount that we had losses in Iraq.
MATTHEWS: You don't need a Second Amendment to do this stuff.
Anyway, thank you, Richard Wolffe. And thank you, David Corn. Have a nice weekend. It's a weekend to celebrate, I believe.
When we return, "Let Me Finish" with the roots of revolution. The disillusionment of so many Egyptians and how they're seizing the opportunity now to make their country better.
You're watching HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: "Let Me Finish" tonight with a feeling. For those who care about politics, this today in Egypt is what we care about. It's about people—people who think and care taking a hand in their country's destiny.
It will not always be pure or perfect. People are not always alert or smart or even good in their intentions. But in the ancient land of Egypt, the fall of Mubarak today is the result of an alert, smart and good people. They saw their chance, they saw a way to do it and they pursue a national good.
Watching this on television is an opportunity for us in America to see something we don't often get to see—people far from us but not different from us, people of a different culture but a similar aspiration. You go to school, you work to learn. You have hopes. You want a chance to follow your dream.
To the young adults of Egypt, that's been a frustrating, brutal existence. You sit in a cafe and talk about what you want to do, what you could do but can't. And you watch those few at the top, the in-laws and cousins and other connected ones who get the posts in government, the business breaks, the partnerships, the openings in the crack. If you speak out, you're jailed.
As a tourist, you see none of this. Egypt is scenic to the visitor. It's not scenic to live in a police state, to face prison and torture if your voice gets too loud or too listened to.
So, once again, we see the power of democracy. It was the sight, in fact, of people pouring through it that brought the Berlin Wall down. It's simply people who wanted to vote that changed South Africa, not the gun, not the little conspirators hiding in rooms planning to plant bombs or using airplanes to blow up buildings. Not hijackers or other suicidal killers with bombs planted in their underwear. None of those have overthrown a dictator.
Here the people did it with only their voices, their arms waving with feeling, their souls on fire.
Again, democracy is only rarely perfect, only rarely pure. But here in its beginnings, it is close to it. It is nonviolent, it is popular and it has a happy face. With the people of Egypt, this great land, so much older than ours, this democracy, so much younger, we say and agree, God is great.
That's HARDBALL for now. We'll be back in an hour with another live edition of HARDBALL.
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The week in review
Hardest-fought terrain: The East side of McIntire Park. With a pedestrian bridge and the Meadowcreek Parkway bringing change, the golf-only terrain could be carved to include a botanical garden, soccer field, and skate park, according to Charlottesville Tomorrow.
Biggest speed trap: Charlottesville police stage a spontaneous enforcement operation on the U.S. 250 Bypass March 21, lining up on Meadowbrook Heights Road to swoop in on offenders and writing 252 tickets, the Newsplex reports.
Biggest alleged speeder: Junaid Muhammed Kazi, 27, of Lynchburg is clocked at 126mph on U.S. 29 in Amherst around 1:40am March 7, and is charged with reckless driving and driving under the influence, the Amherst New Era-Progress reports.
Biggest rejection: Nelson County supes rebuff property reassessments done by a Staunton company called Blue Ridge Mass Appraisal, and decide to stay with pre-bust 2008 assessments, the Nelson County Times reports.
Biggest blockage: An overturned tractor trailer on Burnley Station Road at 7:45am March 26 in a single-vehicle crash closes that road for seven hours, according to WINA.
Best news for encopresis sufferers: UVA Health System researchers unveil a website called UCanPoopToo.com to help children who suffer from fecal incontinence. An estimated two million children have the condition, and the subscription website is designed to work in conjunction with a doctor's treatment.
Biggest hail to the chief: Despite quitting as president, UVA English professor John Casteen, a British literature specialist, earns a still-presidential $487,000 annually, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Best news out of Richmond: The Senate passes a two-year $85 billion budget March 26.
Latest unfunded mandate: An amendment requiring the state or insurance companies to pay for those forced ultrasounds for women seeking abortions fails to pass the General Assembly.
Latest shift from state to county: State funding for secondary road maintenance in Albemarle has dropped from $5.1 million a year in 2004 to just over $300,000 for the next five years, Aaron Richardson reports in the Progress.
Worst collision: The driver of a passenger car dies in a crash with a construction dump truck around 1pm March 27 at Seminole Trail and Boulders Road, according to police. The name of the deceased was not released at press time.
Worst Buckingham flooding: Goochland woman Maureen Corle Poindexter, age 61, dies attempting to cross Grease Creek near Gladstone, NBC29 reports. She's discovered March 26 in her Ford F150 that had been missing since the night of March 24.
Most heroic: Chuck Worden, the man who saved nine-year-old Adrian Rowe from the Rockfish Run flood waters last April 16 in Waynesboro, receives the Carnegie Medal. According to Bob Stuart of the News Virginian, Worden didn't celebrate, and still feels remorse for the two lives he couldn't save: Adrian's mother, Tina Marie Allen, 41, and Lacy Elizabeth Taylor, 8.
Most dubious number two spot: Virginia has the second-most amount of toxic chemicals dumped into its waterways– 18 millions pounds, according to a report by Environment Virginia. The New River is the hottest toxic dumping ground, followed by the James and Shenandoah rivers.
Most shocking headline: "Washington County Fifth-Graders Arrested" comes from WINA about two boys, 10 and 12, in Bristol who came to school with a gun and allegedly a plan to attack staff and students.
Worst lunchroom fracas: Two teen girls are injured at Robert E. Lee High in Staunton when a 15-year-old boy flips a cafeteria table during an altercation, the News Leader reports. The girls, 14 and 15, are taken to the hospital, the younger with a possible concussion, and charges are pending against the boy.
Oddest trend: Cash Mob. A group of about 50 people, each with at least $20, swarm C'ville Arts, a Downtown Mall gallery, on March 24 to support a local small business, the Newsplex reports. The hour-long event puts $1,700 in the store's cash register, an amount that matches what the gallery typically grosses in two days.

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Yield: 4-6 Servings
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In response to federal budget cuts, the CBC and Radio-Canada plan to switch off more than 600 analog transmitters countrywide on July 31. Canadians outside major cities such as Montreal (where analog transmitters were upgraded to digital last summer) will lose free access to the CBC and Radio-Canada over the air using bunny ears or rooftop antennas. Affected communities need to act if they want to stop this change.
Reaching all Canadians in communities of at least 500 people was a goal of the national broadcaster in the 1970s to link the country coast to coast. It was a massive infrastructure project similar to the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. All that is about to change. Rural Canadians (and even Canadians in such cities as London, Saskatoon, Quebec City and Sherbrooke) will be forced into subscription TV services to see programming that their taxes have already subsidized.
It seems a double blow for rural Canadians, who already pay more for high-speed Internet and cellular phone service (if such services are even available to them). What happened to "bridging the digital divide?"
There's also the sticky issue of the two solitudes. In many instances, free over-the-air broadcasts of CBC and Radio-Canada will still be available in the majority language (e.g. French in Quebec City and English in Calgary), but the official-language minority will lose access (e.g. anglophones in Quebec City and francophones in Calgary).
Until the purse-strings are loosened again for public broadcasting, the CBC is unlikely to be persuaded not to switch off its aging rural transmitters on July 31. They shouldn't be scrapped, however: communities should be given the option to maintain them. The towers can be used not just to continue free TV service, but to set up local wireless Internet or mobile services, and community television and radio. The CBC's infrastructure is a vital digital lifeline for rural Canadians, and should be kept in public hands and out of the dumpster. Similarly, the channels the CBC uses to broadcast its signals should be set aside for community use, so they're not gobbled up in the next round of spectrum auctions by telecommunications companies.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has begun a public consultation on the CBC's plans. The deadline for submissions is June 18. The organization I work with, the Canadian Association of Community Television Users and Stations (CACTUS), is urging town and band councils, community media groups and concerned citizens to ask the CRTC and CBC to make CBC equipment available for local use. CACTUS has urged federal departments and the CBC to develop a program like the Heritage Lighthouse Program, in which communities maintain lighthouses that would otherwise be torn down. Ontario educational broadcaster TVO has already contacted more than 100 communities affected by a parallel shutdown of TVO transmitters to offer communities its towers and satellite equipment free. So far, however, the CBC has said it is not planning to consult affected communities and that it wants "fair market value" for its equipment, even if communities maintain it.
Community rebroadcasting already exists in dozens of small towns in Canada. Valemont, B.C., rebroadcasts six TV channels and three radio channels, for $40 per household per year. The city of Fredericton maintains free local wi-fi. While it seems there is no longer a business case for large telecommunications companies – and now even the CBC and TVO – to serve small and remote communities, most communities don't realize how cost-effective it has become to offer these services using digital technologies, especially if the towers are already there.
An information package produced by CACTUS and the Canadian Media Guild that describes how community rebroadcasting works is available at cactus.independentmedia.ca/node/437. More information is also available from Friends of Canadian Broadcasting (friends.ca/free_cbc) and openmedia.ca/lifeline.


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"The LB 942 microplate reader is great! It's easy to use and, most importantly, highly functional. The reader is extremely sensitive and results are highly reproducible. Furthermore, the machine is compact and doesn't take up too much bench space. As a regular user I am extremely satisfied with it."
Member since: 2016
Organization: University Lyon, France
Would not change for anything else.
Application Area:Analyze parasite growth in vitro
"Perfectly matched our requirements. Gives high reproducibility and avoids multi-control processes."
Member since: 2016
Organization: Pharmazie uni. Marburg
I am very satisfied with this product.
Application Area:Enzyme kinetics
"The reader is fast and the results are reproducible."
Member since: 2016
Organization: Goethe University
Sensitive and very user friendly device!
Application Area:Reactive oxygen species measurements_Redox signalling
"Our Lab has been using Berthold luminometers since more than 30 years. We acquired the new device last year and are having a very positive experience . It is sensitive, easy to operate and the software makes the whole analysis very intuitive. We experienced some troubles by using a specific probe, apparently due to a crosstalk with OD filter. However, Berthold team is giving us full support on this."
Member since: 2016
Organization: University of Oxford
Good piece of kit
Application Area:Perform calcium (dye and GECI) and luminescence reportergene assays.
"We have this machine for over 4 months now and this is a good piece of kit for performing simple luminescence based reporter gene and fluorescence calcium assays. In terms of data acquisition and reproducibility, it's is as good any other readers (we use readers from 3 other manufacturer). The acquisition software ICE is straightforward and simple to use and gets you going pretty quickly. As we do most of our analysis in prism/excel we can't comment on the additional microwin data analysis package that you can purchase. Additionally, the price of this machine is pretty competitive."
Member since: 2016
Organization: Université Laval I.U.S.M.Q.
Great machine
Application Area:Protein interaction with BRET, Luciferase assays, Fluorescence assays
"We obtain very reliable results. But big problems with the filter sliders that scratched and was not fixed in a very efficient way. We had to send the machine away twice for fixing the same problem. User guide was misleading for priming and washing procedures, we had to have the plate reader fully cleaned because of spillage. For this problem, after service was great and efficient. Berthold provided new software avoiding the shooting of 2 injectors at the same time during priming and washing procedures."
Member since: 2016
Organization: Universitäres Herzzentrum Hamburg
Reliable results and easy to use
Application Area:Analysing human samples
"The machine is relatively easy to use and provides valid results, which are reproducible. Sample preparation is not difficult"
Member since: 2016
Organization: The Assam Kaziranga University
Easy and safe handling, efficient and consistent results
Application Area:Benzene metabolite
"High quality reproducible results obtained. Real value for the cost. Easy to handle."
Status:Advanced Reviewer
Member since: 2016
Organization: M.S. University of Baroda, vadodara
Awesome results, I love it
Application Area:Metabolic study in tissue and cells, transfection, expression studies
"Reproducible and authentic results. It is simply unbeatable"
Member since: 2016
Organization: National center for cell science
Excellent instrument
Application Area:Luciferase assays aggregation kinetics with fluor dyes, absorbance
"Great product, easy to use, work horse for our work. service staff in India are good and knowledgeable. "
Member since: 2016
Organization: Loyola University Chicago
Good instrument. Would recommend.
Application Area:Luminescence after viral infection
"The instrument is quite effective and easy to use. The measurement values obtained are quite consistent and the multi-purpose capability of this machine is what makes it more attractive."
Member since: 2015
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Reliable, great plate reader!
Application Area:Measure cell proliferation by fluorescently labelled kit
"Results were reproducible and it is relatively easy to use. I recommend it for your lab."
Member since: 2016
Organization: Took University of dentistry
I got many great results. I'm satisfied with it except for the price of machine.
Application Area:Analyze the intracellular Ca2+ levels and FRET experiments.
"I like the machine quality and service. Results are very consistent and reliable. But the price of the machine is a little bit expensive."
Member since: 2016
Organization: University of Zurich / Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
A very useful and reliable machine
Application Area:ELISA assay absorbance and Fluorescence, Enzyme activity assay with Luminescence
"Very easy to use multitalented machine that gives very accurate results. The service and support is an excellent one with very personal help."
Member since: 2016
Organization: Thermo Fisher Scientific
Well reproducible
Application Area:Analyzing vitamins
"it works well, results are well reproducible, the handling is quite simple, the machine is nothing super innovative but very handy."
Member since: 2007
Organization: Swansea University
Great results
Application Area:Analyze GPCR signaling by ELISA
"It is relatively easy to use. It has very good after sales care and value for money."
Member since: 2016
Organization: Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
Good results with an easy-to-use interface, suitable for many different applications
Application Area:Luciferase Assays, Protein concentration determination (e.g. Bradford), Dissociation kinetics
"I mainly use the TriStar2 for in vitro translation assays and Bradford concentration determination. The plate reader gives stable results with low background signal. We also use the plate reader successfully in student courses. We save a lot of time using the TriStar2. The software is easy-to-use and flexible enough for a lot of different experiments. We just recently needed a new filter for GFP-detection in lysates and got in contact with the customer service who offered different filter options to best fit our experiments. "
Member since: 2016
Organization: BWH
Once you've tried this out it's hard to go back to the old way.
Application Area:Analyze cytokine production in assays
"It was easy to learn to use, and results were reproducible."
Member since: 2016
Organization: Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Time saver
Application Area:Reporter virus readout
"Using this machine to replace conventional readouts saves me time and adds reproducibility."
Status:Advanced Reviewer
Member since: 2016
Organization: Smithsonian Institution
Great results for sure! I am not going to change for another product!
Application Area:Oxidative stress quantification, enzymatic activity quantification
"I got great results! In short time and totally reproducible thanks to your product."
Member since: 2016
Organization: NIRT-ICER
Great results
Application Area:Analysis of quantitative assay
"This instrument is very good. More accurate results. Good reproducibility. Instrument is easy to use. More comfortable instrument."
Member since: 2016
Organization: MPI
Great device and helpful to analyze reporter expression
Application Area:Analyze reporter expression in transduced cells
"Easy to use, especially regarding template settings, easy to export data with all information of your runs, replicable results when using luciferase filters; less reproducible when using GFP filters; injector is very convenient when you have many samples and need to add substrate. Still some issues with shaker that couldn´t be resolved by the manufacturer."
Member since: 2016
Organization: Centre of Investigation on Aging
Great results
Application Area:Tissue samples
"Friendly use and reproducible results are the key for the high quality."
Member since: 2016
Organization: Imperial College London
Very happy
Application Area:Analysis of BRET
"Easy to use, seemed to get reproducible results. Recommended."
Member since: 2016
Organization: Unimedizin Mainz, Toxikologie
Easy to understand and great to use!
Application Area:Viability assays
"It's very easy to use. The TriStar is very customer friendly and the software is easy to understand and has a good handling. The results are always satisfying."
Member since: 2016
Organization: MPI for Psychiatry
Good, compact and diligent device. Recommended.
Application Area:Reporter Gene Assays
"Setup and running the instrument is pretty easy and convenient. Since I developed a new but kind of special Assay I ran into some troubles with the software which crashed if I wanted to use the desired option. Customer service was very friendly and updated the software and even gave me a beta version to start running experiments. I advise making a sample run in presence of Biotech expert to rule out mistakes you can make to optimize your results."
Member since: 2016
Organization: RWTH Aachen University, Department of Plant Physiology
Very good
Application Area:Microbial growth kinetics; enzyme assays;
"We had initially a few problems with the reader, but we were very much supported to solve the problem. Since then we are using the plate reader for microbial growth kinetics and various enzyme assays routinely. This works very well and gives stable and reproducible results. "
Status:Advanced Reviewer
Member since: 2009
Organization: University of Minnesota
A good platform with no glitches or hang ups
Application Area:Multi-Mode Plate Reader
"The Berthold Tristar is a reliable, consistent, effective multi mode plate reader. It has up to 4 available injectors. Reads absorbance, fluorescence and luminescence. It is relatively user friendly, you can set up your own protocols with a minimum of effort and easily save variations on each protocol. The analysis software takes a little bit of use to become familiar with, however it is a good platform with no glitches or hang ups. The service personnel at Berthold are great. They can help you fix many issues just over the phone. I highly recommend the Tristar. Great value."
Member since: 2015
Organization: ELDC BV
The TriStar is a great machine, easy to maintain, affordable and well-supported by local Berthold staff.
Application Area:Elisa, chemistry, surface-chemistry
"This machine is very powerful yet has a small foot-print. Perfect for a small Elisa-technology based lab as ours. We have three detection-methods built in: Absorbance, Luminescence and Fluorescence. Also one dispensing unit is provided, very handy for flash luminescence applications. We use the TriStar even for chemistry end-point measurements in glass microtiter plates. Also measurements in non-SBS-format plates, tubes and vials can be done, supported by the easy-to-use but powerfull operating software. On occasions we needed a software update or minor repairs, which were done swiftly and effectively, and in a way we never were without an instrument, so we had no delays in our analysis output."
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We challenge our 8th graders in this event each year. Our winner this year is Ethan Nielson who will compete at the next level in the spring.
Congratulations to Ethan and a big thank you to Mrs. Gardner for sponsoring and hosting the Geography Bee at our school!


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Back in the days when Stella McCartney was clothing Maria Kirilenko, the designer's recognizable style were outfits in subtle colors, the shades of grey, beige, white, light pink, and the like. In 2010, Stella's first full year of cooperation with Caroline Wozniacki, until the very end of the season everything was grey, as you can see in all the outfits Wozniacki wore on the court that year. This season, the brand has fully departed from excess material and ruffles, in favor of clean lines, and the eye-catching red and yellow tones dominated the 2012 color palette.
It's common for players to start a new season wearing clothes that closed the previous year. As the top ranked player in the world, Caroline Wozniacki opened 2012 with a light yellow dress that was my absolutely favorite Stella McCartney design of 2011.
The solid red dress was first shown in November 2011 in the Turkish Airlines commercial, but it saw its on-court premier at the Australian Open. Below is another look at the dress, from the Sony Ericsson Open.
2011: Fashion retrospection of Adidas by Stella McCartney on world No.1 Caroline Wozniacki
2010: Caroline Wozniacki's first year in Adidas by Stella McCartney
2009: Caroline Wozniacki in Adidas Adilibria and Stella McCartney
Bright yellow was introduced in Stuttgart, Madrid and Rome, and in time for Roland Garros it took over the entire outfit.
Wozniacki was contrasting the red courts of Roland Garros in the color of sunshine.
A white tank paired with yellow skirt was a tune-up for an all-white Wimbledon.
*Retrospections of WTA players' yearly outfits*
The Wimbledon dress had a patterned mesh fabric bodice and a flounce skirt.
At the London Olympics, Wozniacki wore regular Adidas in the colors of the Danish flag.
At the tournaments leading up to the US Open, Stella again resorted to yellow for Wozniacki, but a more subtle look was in store for the New York Grand Slam. A black racer-back dress with rose tan layer underneath adorned the Dane, although for one match only, as she lost in the first round to Irina-Camelia Begu. However, the dress got the exposure it deserves at the Tournament of Champions in Sofia, at which Wozniacki reached the final and returned to the Top 10.
Color-block skorts in blue/white/cobalt and black/white/neon pink with matching tanks were Stella McCartney's fall 2012 looks alongside the black US Open dress.
How do you find Caroline Wozniacki in Adidas by Stella McCartney this season? I think that this year's designs are working in Wozniacki's favor much more than previous years' lines. Are you also glad the ruffles are history? (photos: danpalmer, Tennis Buzz, sr_cranks, Moo's Tennis Blog, Laurent Lecerf pictures, © Neal Trousdale)


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Who is Spend Matters?
Azul Partners, the parent company of Spend Matters (US), was founded in January 2004 and is headquartered in Chicago. The blog Spend Matters launched in November 2004, making it the first blog and social media site in the procurement and supply chain sector.
While we still very much embrace the description blog – and we refer to ourselves as bloggers rather than analysts in polite conversation – our venture has grown into something much larger. In maintaining its roots and values, our core site has become a global content community dedicated to examining a range of procurement and supply chain issues. Today, we publish more research than all of the traditional industry analyst firms combined, and the level of depth of our content reflects an insider's eye that only former senior practitioners, consultants and true technology experts could bring to the procurement and operations table.
In 2010, Azul Partners expanded when it acquired Aptium Global, a consultancy and owner of MetalMiner, a blog that launched in December 2007. MetalMiner is now the largest metals information site in North America, examining manufacturing sourcing strategies. Publishing 30+ new articles per week with a diverse audience that consists of procurement, supply chain, producers, distributors, traders and banks, MetalMiner reaches 35,000+ unique visitors per month. MetalMiner also publishes the MetalMiner IndX, which contains over 600 daily price points of specific value to industrial buyers, and MetalMiner Indexes (MMI) for over ten metals categories. MetalMiner contributes to Spend Matters PRO in the areas of industrial distribution/MRO, lead sourcing and supplier management strategies, demand aggregation, commodity forecasting and related areas.
Also in 2010, Spend Matters UK/Europe was born. A joint venture between Jason Busch and Peter Smith, an ex-CIPS President and 25-year veteran of CPO roles, procurement consulting, writing and speaking, it has rapidly become one of the best known procurement websites in Europe, with over 20,000 visitors a month. The site combines in-depth insight and analysis with a keen eye on procurement news and events, including in the UK government sector where its influence goes to the most senior levels. And the "comments" section has become a must-read destination in its own right!
Most recently, Azul Partners launched Healthcare Matters in the fall of 2011, with the support of healthcare and supply chain guru, Tom Finn.
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Three Things to Expect From Obama's Syria Address
President Barack Obama goes on national television Tuesday night to make what has become a high-stakes and uphill argument for action against Syria: an argument that figures to divide into three broad categories. Jerry Seib breaks them down on the News Hub.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... the the ... we'll take the case for a strike against Syria to the public in a nationally televised speech Tuesday night ... Jerry slide continues with us with witty things to look for him and address I'd Jerry you right now the fuss long and expect from present Obama is a moral want ... what he mean by that ... well it was a sense that we can stand by as the world community and watch a country ... I'd use poison gas on its own people back with a moral responsibility here I think secondly he's going to try to make better an argument that ... proponents of action that think he has made to the well which is ... the national security or here's why American security is threatened ... is bad actors and bullies ... can amassing use chemical supply of mass destruction but I think is ultimately credibility argument that ... he may not agree with me that military action is is the best solution here but I think you should be able to agree with me that if the US ... threatens to do something and then doesn't follow through the loss of credibility and the loss of of effectiveness of American threats and and to its word ... it ... can have serious consequences around the world so those are the three main arguments I think there were many years Marnie and the Credibility aka made it this is the ... of the one that has a lot of new wants isn't that right when I when I look at this time thinking up to the mall want some of the B sample of national security want a little less simple but ... still fairly simple ... the credibility ... and you might find that it's fairly ... easy to make the case that yes ALM Credibility's import most of the time but maybe people can say that this is a very grey areas of the lot of bad people on both sides in the civil war ... and maybe the U S today it's quite understandable to us with more maps sit this one ounce ... well that's what you know some people who are eager to see military action are making that are not look that this is a borderline case every oral understands that they're not going to equate this with the situation which American Express are clearly on the line ... and so therefore Credibility's gnarly gonna be eroded in different circumstances people will be stiff conclusions one the other hand you can hear the president say I'm quite sure that if we are saying to the Syrians you cannot use chemical weapons they use them and there's no consequence what are the Iranians go to believe always say you cannot develop ... a nuclear weapon or there'll be consequences will they believe there will be consequences ... and I saw in the first instance you know there's also the question of what the Iraqi government a U S security promises seriously it looks as if the US is backing away from its role in the Middle East whoa the Egyptian military have reason ... to listen to the U S when it says ... temper your your ... your push against the Muslim Brotherhood in your own streets where looks is if maybe the US is receding as a player in the region to begin with so there are other places in the Middle East and that these aside the rest of the world where there may very well be a credibility issue ... if the US threatens clusters and doesn't ... I'm one of the attic the ice actors in the Middle East is because ... it is riled ... pot which has nuclear weapons and is small and is being constantly threatened by new round ... is there a risk of credibility risk a m if if the US doesn't act is well will feel threatened and decide to strike against a wham bus ... well that is I think that's a question of time and people will debate how serious the risk is I do think ... the fact is that the Israelis have gotten more comfortable over the last couple of years with the idea ... that President Obama is serious when he says ... I will not allow the new the Iranian regime to develop a nuclear weapon and I will take actions as necessary to make sure that doesn't happen ... I think the Israelis certain had come to believe that and more comfortable holding back a little bit waiting to see what the Obama administration could work out and confident that there was the possibility of military action if nothing in the past ... the question now is will they still believe that possibility exists if the US takes a pass on Syria ... this of us will we will be looking for on national TV some are not present Mama speaking we'll see ... how little strikes out thank you Brian


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I hope that no one has been holding their breath this morning waiting for me because you surely would have passed out by now! More on my morning in a minute. Lets name our lucky winners.
Our good old Random Number generator produced the numbers 13 & 85 which means Jodie and Suzi are our Autumn Amy Butler winners! I will get in touch with you ladies to get your mailing addresses.
Let me just say here, many thanks for your lovely comments. It was a lovely, uplifting thing to read such kind sentiments. Thank you. Blogging is such an interesting thing. As I'm sure many of you have noticed, it's sometimes a weird sensation to publish something without any idea of who is out there consuming it or what they think. A couple of times people have randomly told me, "Oh, I read your blog!" and I always get a little embarrassed and start replaying old posts in my mind, wondering if this person thinks I am a buffoon. lol. So thank you again for the bloggy love and encouragement. I think if we all met each other in person, we'd have a really fun time hanging out. 🙂
In other news, I have been sewing (when what I really should be doing is assembling shelves) and I'm off to do more. I will share tomorrow!
Apologies again for the delay this morning. Things are a little off-kilter around here. My 3-year-old is displaying very strange behavior lately. Things like thinking it is hilarious to take off his clothes multiple times a day- especially when he is protesting something, or casually sliding his full bowl of cereal and milk off the edge of the table and onto the floor. I'm not sure whether to attribute this behavior to normal 3-year-old stuff or to some kind of anxiety about our move and new surroundings and unfamiliar routines. I'm sure it's a combination of all of the above, but it's getting a little old. Also, last night I discovered my daughter who said she has been doing her piano practicing all week, has not been doing all of it and is not remotely ready for her piano lesson today. So this morning as I was sitting with her at the piano before school, holding her hand through her practicing, my boys decided it would be fun to be streakers through the living room. Life keeps me on my toes. But as I type right now my little guy is happily entertaining himself with his trains. I will milk this moment and go look at more quilt festival quilts!


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Despite its growing popularity in hospitals, most Americans remain unaware of the comfort and benefits palliative care can provide some terminally ill patients.
"There is a clear need to inform consumers about palliative care and provide consumers with a definition of palliative care," researchers commissioned by the Center to Advance Palliative Care advise. According to Public Opinion Research on Palliative Care, seventy percent of the general population doesn't know anything about palliative care, and 14 percent were "somewhat knowledgeable."
The researchers also found that it is difficult to inform physicians about palliative care, because they often wrongly equate it with hospice or end of life care.
Palliative care becoming more popular
Palliative care is treatment that enhances comfort and improves the quality of life for patients in life's last phase. No therapy is excluded from consideration, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).
Palliative care is becoming increasingly widespread. There are more than 1,600 hospitals that have palliative care programs in the U.S., according to Dr. Diane Meier, director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Some 85 percent of large hospitals have a palliative care team. Sixty-seven percent of small hospitals have programs.
Dr. William H. Frist, a heart transplant surgeon and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader, recommends palliative care. "[A] brand new field in medicine is making chronic, agonizing, and even terminal illnesses much more manageable… palliative care has emerged as the best solution for those facing serious, painful diseases, and introduces the very real possibility… that we can now live with these diseases for a long time," he wrote recently for The Week.
Palliative care also costs much less than aggressive end of life regimens. Patients who receive palliative care services cost hospitals between $1,700 and $5,000 less per admission, according to findings published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
Hospice care remains overlooked
Hospice care is different from palliative care; its aim is to manage symptoms so that a person's last days are spent with dignity and quality. The care is not intended to treat the disease but the person, according to the American Cancer Society.
Hospice is most often used when curative treatment is no longer effective, and a terminal patient is expected to live about six months or less.
"Many people believe that hospice is only for people who have cancer. This may be due to the fact that many of the patients cared for in the early days of hospice were cancer patients," Becky Hillier, public relations director for Rocky Mountain Hospice, wrote for the Montana Standard. Less than 25 percent of hospice patients admitted to the hospice are cancer patients.
The NHPCO reports that 36 percent of hospice patients die or are discharged within seven days of treatment. Many terminally ill suffer more than they need to because they wait to enroll in a hospice program.
"We continue to see more dying Americans opting for hospice care at the end of their lives, yet far too many receive care for a week or less," said the NCPCO's J. Donald Schumacher. "We need to reach patients earlier in the course of their illness to ensure they receive the full benefits that hospice and palliative care can offer."
One reason the terminally ill wait for hospice, he said, is due to the misconception that hospice means giving up.