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Las Vegas thrives on fake. The place boasts imitations of the Eiffel Tower, the Pyramids, the Statue of Liberty, a Venetian piazza, Elvis... and we won't even catalog all the fake body parts on display.
When it comes to trade shows, however, Vegas is the real deal. There are planes flying in from all over, hotel rooms aplenty, amenities fit for the King, and more event space than you can shake a feather boa at.
"We are easy," says Chris Meyer, vice president of sales for the destination marketing organization Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, which owns and operates the Las Vegas Convention Center and Cashman Center. What he means is that it's a snap to book a room, get transportation to the hotel and exhibition hall, find fine cuisine at all hours, make valuable business connections, and experience world-class entertainment.
Also easy in Vegas: getting overwhelmed.
Between the long hours, the 24/7 amenities, the constant temptations, the intensive walking, and the dry desert climate, staying sane in Sin City requires a special level of commitment - not the drive-through wedding chapel kind. You don't need the best poker face to have a winning time at a conference here, but high-stakes style preparation is essential, whether the show brings together a few hundred people or a hundred thousand.
From keeping customers happy to keeping employees in check, it's time to put all the cards on the table.
Surviving a Las Vegas Trade Show: Be Prepared
Procrastinators could find themselves left in the dust. One of the most common rookie mistakes Meyer sees is the attendee or buyer who finally got around to reading the conference materials on the plane ride to Vegas.
"There are always time-sensitive cost savings in those materials," he says. Securing the best deals on accommodations and amenities avoids surprising high costs later. Reading the materials ahead of time also provides opportunities to attend unique networking events that usually require reserving a spot well in advance. "Maybe Bill Gates is at a cocktail reception, but you didn't RSVP in time and you can't go," Meyer warns.
Exhibitors should start planning at least half a year in advance while attendees should start coming up with an action plan six weeks in advance, suggests Candace Adams, an event and exhibition management consultant known as "The Booth Mom." Such a plan outlines who would be useful to see, what sessions to attend, and a daily schedule detailing the hours on the show floor, in classes, and in meetings. Adams also recommends doing a keyword search on the trade show website to make relevant connections. "It will bring up all the exhibitors who checked that off as a keyword," she says. "You want to be organized when you get there because time is not your friend in Vegas."
Vegas can be incredibly valuable to the bottom line. Creating leads at a trade show is far less expensive than creating them anywhere else, says trade show consultant Joyce McKee. She cites a Center for Exhibition Industry Research report from fall 2009 that found each face-to-face exhibition lead will cost a company $96 while the same kind of lead elsewhere costs $1,039. Exhibitors who plan well and have with booth personnel trained to ask the right questions can see an ROI of 12 percent or more. "If you're not planning," McKee says, "you're wasting money."
In March, Christina Gay attended and exhibited at a trade show in Vegas for the first time. As marketing communications manager for Atalasoft, a document imaging software company based in Easthampton, Massachusetts, she experienced days that started at 8 a.m. and kept going until 3 in the morning. "Everything you do, have a strategy in mind," she says. "You have to budget for everything, down to the number of beers you're going to have with a client."
Surviving a Las Vegas Trade Show: Surround Yourself With the Best People
Forget the fishbowl full of business cards, McKee tells exhibitors. "For current customers, I'd have your sales people hand deliver invitations whether they're in Vegas or not," she says. "Make them destination-bound to come see you." Using the company's database of current and future customers to communicate a product launch in Vegas will keep the target audience engaged and updated, whether they can make it to the show in person or not.
Identifying the right team to attend is another crucial step. For some workers, the temptations in Las Vegas will be too enticing to resist. The effect on a company's image could be devastating. No matter how great a salesperson's work, if he or she is battling demons, Vegas should not be the place for that fight. "You need enormous willpower to survive," says trade show industry consultant Susan Friedmann who goes by "The Tradeshow Coach." She knows of an employee who showed up to a trade show booth seriously hung over after a night of hard partying and was promptly fired. "There's only so much coffee you can drink," she cautions.
Dig Deeper: Tips for Trade Shows
Surviving a Las Vegas Trade Show: Stay On the Up-and-Up
In the era of camera phones and lightening-fast social networking, what happens in Vegas definitely does not stay in Vegas. "From the time you get off the plane to the time you get back to the office, you are on display," McKee says.
Despite the city's well-known shady side, it is possible to have fun, get work done, and not go overboard around The Strip. To strike that balance, Gay recommends setting realistic expectations ahead of time so employees know what the company thinks is acceptable, and what is considered grounds for getting the axe.
"You've got to have really good guidelines around your tradeshow policies: I expect you to be on time, neat, and not smelling of alcohol. I expect you to come show our product off," she says. "We are liable for what happens after hours." Sticking to smaller gatherings can help maintain the necessary focus and prevent socializing from getting out of hand.
Trade shows are work. One way to make that clear is by calculating what the trade show costs the company on an hourly basis and then communicating that to employees. Gay does this at Atalasoft and says that for her colleagues, putting a concrete dollar amount on time wasted puts the show in perspective.
That said, some socializing can be good for your team, and morale. So pick your plan for unwinding in the evening "If you're going to gamble, have a budget and absolutely limit yourself," Friedmann advises. "It's so easy to keep going and going, and before you know it you've lost a lot of money. The house has a tendency to win." Instead, motivate employees to stay on track by offering a reward for coming in under budget. Peers can look out for each other, too. Competitions that recognize the best booth staff encourages positive behavior.
Surviving a Las Vegas Trade Show: Think Like a Distance Runner
Carpet-covered concrete still feels like concrete. Spending hour after hour walking around on it will put the sturdiest footwear to the test. "Make sure you're bringing the most comfortable pair of shoes," says Las Vegas trade show veteran Karen Chupka, senior vice president for the Consumer Electronics Association, where she oversees the annual Consumer Electronics Show as well as the association's standalone events. "Don't worry about style. You're going to be walking a lot of distances."
This is the desert. Too much alcohol and too little hydration can be a recipe for an emergency room visit. "What's magic in Vegas? It's the water," Adams says. "If you don't have it you're going to literally drain yourself." Packing lists should anticipate the dry air and include provisions like lip moisturizer, lotion, and throat lozenges.
To save herself trouble later, Chupka asks for an extra room key as soon as she arrives at the hotel. She stores it in her wallet to avoid having to trek to the front desk at night in case she leaves it in the room. Those treks are annoying, and with feet swollen from a marathon day, they can be painful as well.
Surviving a Las Vegas Trade Show: Strategize To Save
The bigger the trade show, the longer the lines will be at the airport for a cab. "If you use a bellhop, for five bucks it's worth every penny," Friedmann says. "That's a tip somebody gave me and ever since I've known about it I use it all the time." Take a moment to find that designated area and then skip the crowds waiting for cabs.
Adams suggests picking up plenty of inexpensive water from a convenience store en route to the hotel. A few extra bucks spent on the cab for the stop will save far more on water costs. "It's cheaper than all the water I'm going to drink," she says. Buying bottled water from the room or a gift shop adds up quickly. An even cheaper alternative is to bring reusable bottles and fill them at the conference facility.
When booking a hotel room, Chris Meyer strongly suggests staying in the host hotel for the show. As tempting as it is to go with a slightly cheaper hotel option, the show organizer will usually sets aside a whole block of rooms and that has its own benefits. "Number one, you get the interaction with other attendees that you wouldn't get with other hotels," he says. Then there are the transportation costs incurred by not having access to rides back and forth between the host hotel and the showroom floor.
Use your tools, says Karen Chupka. The annual Consumer Electronics Show offers a mobile application to help attendees navigate it. Getting familiar with maps of the trade show and the area will save plenty of time because often there are multiple dropoff points along the way. "The Monorail is a great option, but sometimes you might have to walk 10 to 20 minutes to get to that station," Chupka says. That's more walking in those shoes that seemed comfortable when they were packed several time zones away.
At the end of the day - or night - Sin City will still be awake, alert, and flush with cash. With smart planning and preparation, so will you.


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MORE than 2300 Year 7 students in Queensland will head to high school this year as part of an expansion of a state-wide pilot program in 19 state high schools.
The pilot program started last year, with Year 7 students undertaking their studies at Murrumba State Secondary School instead of local primary schools.
Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek said the program would be extended to another 18 schools this year, in anticipation of the state-wide roll-out in 2015.
"Our newest pilot schools will draw on the experiences of Murrumba State Secondary College which, as a brand new school, became Queensland's first pilot school last year with Year 7 students only," he said.
"We look forward to more insights and lessons from the second year of the pilot program, which will involve Year 7 students joining older students in a high school setting."
The controversial move was started by the previous Labor government, and Mr Langbroek said it would continue, with junior secondary to be eventually added to every high school in Queensland.
"There will continue to be a major focus on making the transition to high school as easy as possible for Year 7 students," he said.
"There will also be 59 primary school teachers making the move across to teach Year 7 in our pilot high schools."
Mr Langbroek said the Newman Government was investing $328 million over three years to ensure that all Queensland schools had the infrastructure in place to accommodate Year 7 students from 2015.
"Many of the pilot schools have undergone significant upgrades and refurbishments to accommodate Year 7 students, while Pimpama and Mackay Northern Beaches are brand new schools," he said.
"More infrastructure will be rolled out in Queensland schools over the next two years, in preparation for the state-wide move of Year 7 into high school in 2015."
New Year 7 pilot schools:
- Springfield Central State High School
- Varsity State College
- Crows Nest State School
- Glenmore High School
- Clifton State High School
- Glenden State School
- Toolooa State High School
- Northern Beaches State High School
- Southport State High School
- Alexandra Hills State High School
- Cleveland District State High School
- Meridan State College
- Bray Park State High School
- Nambour State High School
- Bremer State High School
- The Gap State High School
- Pimpama State Secondary College
- Mackay Northern Beaches State High School


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Posté le: Jeu 02 Avr 2020, 12:43
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I use myDVDEdit on a daily basis as it is the only Mac app I have found that easily enables me to change the aspect ratio. I'm running OS 10.14.6 Mojave and I will be very disappointed if your app no longer works on the current Catalina OS. Thank you for an indispensable app and I hope you update it to be compatible with Catalina. Thank you.
Posté le: Mer 07 Août 2019, 13:57
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Like the previous post in your guest book ... I'm hoping you'll be able to update myDVDEdit for the 64 bit only versions of OSX.
If not; thanks for your great application which I'll miss (though in all honesty the need for it is passing once I get a pile of DVD-Rs sorted out!)
Posté le: Mar 05 Sep 2017, 14:28
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Hi. Thanks for MyDVDEdit, a tool that has been in my video toolbox for many years, probably since 2006, as that is the modification date on the v0.9.9 in my archive. I hope I will be able to use MyDVDEdit in the upcoming version of macOS, which as I understand it requires applications to be 64 bit. I hope you will keep MyDVDEdit compatible. If not, thanks for the many years that I was able to use it.
Posté le: Ven 12 Oct 2012, 23:55
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sorry gbnz, I have rejected your activation request. There are so many boots activation requests than sometime I miss real ones. Retry with the same pseudo, I'll be glad to activate it.
About your problem, when you have set the permissions of the folder, did you clicked the gear button and called the menu 'Apply to enclosed items'.
Posté le: Ven 12 Oct 2012, 23:29
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Hi I've got a Macbook Pro Retina and I am trying to use myDVDEdit to modify my iDVD project disc image as it is appearing as 4x3 despite being 16x9.
I have followed your guide -
but when I change the video aspect parameter from 4x3 to 16x9 letterbox the program crashes.
The project is on my hard disk with write access permissions set to "read and write"- but even when I open myDVDEdit it says, "The folder and some files are read only."
I go to my project file and select "Get Info", "Sharing and Permissions" then change to "You can read and write" - what am I doing wrong?
There is also no IFO tab only DVD/VTS/PGC - when I change from 4x3 I select VTS, is this correct given there is no IFO tab?
Can you direct me to a guide for version 1.1 and activate my login for the forum.
Posté le: Lun 12 Déc 2011, 00:19
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Bon Jour Jérôme,
merci bien!
I wish I knew more French, because I'd love to be able to tell you more of how much I appreciate your effort, in your native language!
I'm just starting here, to look around, but I had to thank you so much for all that it seems that you've done to create this place.
I work in Computing, as my job, and have created some pretty big programs, over the years, and I understand just how hard what you've done is. You can be assured that I will be contributing funds as my thanks of your work. I will try to decide just how much, after I've done a bit more investigating. I've been using tools like iMoview, FCExpress, and others, over the years, so I know just how hard it can be to work in these mediums. I've been wondering, in the past, just how to get more themes, makes changes, and more, and ended up with much frustration, as I'm sure you know!
Your work here must be substantial, because I know how hard it is to get information about these formats and programs. Thank you for all you do!
Merci beaucoup, mon ami! (see how bad my French is!)
¡usted se mece! (You rock!)
Posté le: Sam 07 Nov 2009, 23:19
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Bon Jour Jérôme,
merci bien!
if i only knew some more french then my thanks were much more euphoric
tipped you a small amount instead. i appreciate your efforts in this project very much and would like to encourage you to keep on with it. your little life-saver app plus the knowledge in the forum are a great find!
so once again- thank you Jérôme, merci
Posté le: Lun 20 Avr 2009, 12:24
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Thanks for creating this great app!
Since my last DVD creation project with FCE and iDVD two years ago, I had hoped all the bugs related to DV PAL widescreen handling had been fixed in the newer versions from Apple, but not so. Last time I struggled for a long time getting widescreen DVD menus to work on both 4:3 and 16:9 TVs. I finally succeeded after extensive debugging and modifications with MyDVDEdit - and after having learned a lot more about DVD formats than I ever wanted to
This time, when exporting DV PAL 16:9 from FCE to iDVD, I found I had to choose between getting the correct aspect ratio or Chapter Markers into iDVD. Fortunately, with MyDVDEdit, I knew I could fix the aspect issue later, and chose the Export as QuickTime Movie option to get Markers included. (I found an Apple support article explaining I would have to use the Quicktime conversion export command in FCE, and manually enter 1024x576 as aspect ratio, to have iDVD interpret DV widescreen setting correctly. However, this export method has no options for exporting markers).
Before I was allowed to generate VIDEO_TS files in iDVD, I had to click on Update in a "Modified Asset Warning" dialog, even though no media had been touched. The immediate result was that all start positions for the video sequences playing on the 24 movie chapter buttons were reset to the beginning of the chapter. I manually repositioned the movies again and was finally able to generate the DVD files. After fixing the widescreen flag in MyDVDEdit, I thought I was done. Big surprise during testing: All chapter buttons linked to the same chapter 7 movie!!!
I didn't want to start from scratch in iDVD and redo the whole project. Thanks to your excellent tutorial and DVD debug mode, I relatively quickly managed to find the 4 PGCs where the register values were erroneously always set to 7, regardless of which buttons were highlighted and clicked. Once I had checked all the button ids, it was a simple process to adjust to correct chapter numbers, and have a flawless DVD!
I´ll definitely donate some money for your program!
Posté le: Jeu 12 Fév 2009, 18:10
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Just wanted to say a
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for all your patience in answering all those stupid questions from guys like me who don't find the proper documentation
Posté le: Mar 02 Déc 2008, 19:44
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1st, the Guestbook is not the best place to ask questions.
2nd, I have just answer the same question few days ago. The search function is so hard to use ???
Posté le: Mar 02 Déc 2008, 01:08
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Jérôme a écrit:
Welcome to my Guestbook.
Drop me a line.
I was able to change my video's ratio to widescreen 16:9, and it works in my iMac's DVD player, but I haven't been able to save it to burn to a disc using iMovie 5 or Disk Utility yet. What do I need to do next? Thanks DanR
Posté le: Ven 03 Oct 2008, 02:55
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Salut et merci pour cet excellent logiciel !
Sans doute pas facile de mener bénévolement un tel projet, pourtant ça devrait être considéré d'utilité publique compte tenu du prix de revient de l'accès aux technologies MPEG2, que ce soit l'encodage, le multiplexage, l'authoring etc.
C'est pas très ouvert et c'est terriblement complexe.
Ne serait-il pas possible de financer le développement de nouvelles versions de myDVDedit à partir d'un projet audiovisuel intégrant un authoring avancé ?
Qui finance ce genre de projet ?
Pour ma part, je tente de mettre en place un projet de coopérative de films, un jour peut-être je pourrai payer quelqu'un en recherche et développement sur un projet comme celui-là.
Mais pour l'instant, je débute et j'ai tout à apprendre (sauf faire des films, ça je sais...)
Je laisse ces questions en suspends avec un grand merci et bravo pour toute l'intelligence qu'on trouve dans ce projet, et bonne continuation
Posté le: Dim 02 Déc 2007, 01:28
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I will not change my registration test because I have no spam any more since I change it. Robots can register the standard phpbb forums, not mine any more.
Posté le: Sam 01 Déc 2007, 23:23
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i had problems signing up i tried ejonesss using my yahoo account and it threw out the confirmation code.
so i tried again with my isp email thinking maybe it does not like the free emails
so once i figured out that you do the code differently instead of entering the code you have to add up the numbers i tried my isp email and i never got it there seems to be a delay so i re registered using ejoness and my yahoo account and was able to register
when you upgrade your forums it may be a good idea to go back to the common way of handling the code so others dont have problems
i also hope to get to beta test too.
Posté le: Ven 17 Août 2007, 13:28
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Logiciel vraiment super bien fait. Complet, facile à utiliser et incroyablement puissant.
Bravo pour ce développemenet et merci d'avoir été ci loin dans le décorticage du format DVD.
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We are back in Montreal for a few day of the usual excess. The weather is definitely better then Mont Tremblant at a crisp 8 degrees below zero; sure glad I bought my long johns and layers and layers of cashmere! Our "Host with the most" Luc Cartier has planned an array of activities for us and here are some of the highlights: On our first night, our dear, dear friend David Cooley from LA, was kind enough to lend us his stunning apartment in the old town of Montreal, where we cooked up an amazing "Welcome to Canada" dinner for a dozen of our Canadian and LA friends; the best part of this was spending all day with the whole gang shopping at some of Montreal's best food markets, like the charming Marché Atwater.
Atwater Market, opened in 1933, is a farmers' market located in the Little Burgundy area of Montreal. The Art deco's building interior market is home to many butchers, bakeries and restaurants, the outside market has many farmers stalls which sell both local and imported produce, as well as many cheese stores, wine stores and fish stores. We're all like a pack of wild dogs going from stall to stall buying up everything in site as if we haven't eaten for a month. If anything we are contributing to the local economy, not to mention…our waistline!
Marché Atwater's Art Deco building
The beautiful displays art the market
Amazing vegetable displays
At night yours truly, with the help of sweet Chad, cooked enough food to feed 20 people, though we are only 12. Another unexpected surprise on this trip is the arrival of one of my oldest and dearest friends from NYC who decided to join me for the weekend: Scott Currie. Scoot is probably the funniest person I have ever met and I don't mean funny…I mean hilarious, stomach cramps, tears and convolutions type funny! Needless to say he is the life of the dinner and I can't get enough watching my Canadian friends rolling on the floor crying in pain. The eating and drinking go on till the wee hours of the morning until we finally crawl back to our respective apartments for a good night sleep.
Martin Beaurivage with a hotel dolly full of groceries
Chef Kass mis-en-place
The following day Scott and I explore the streets of old Montreal; it's his first time here and leave it up to him to find the most bizarre selection of museum to visit, such as the Agatha Christy museum, where you can aw in amazement at such things as her typewriter and a hat collection. After a day of strange exhibits, a lovely lunch at Bistro Modavie on Rue Saint Paul (www.modavie.com), sightseeing and listening to Scott complaining about the streets and sidewalks in Montreal not being clear of the snow thus creating all sorts of hazards; we all get ready to meet at one of the best restaurants in the city…are you ready? The Grinder Restaurant (www.restaurantgrinder.ca) !!!
Beautiful Old Montreal
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Old Montreal
Old Montreal
The lovely Marché Bonsecours
Our lunch stop: Bistro Modavie
Scott Currie posing with Agatha Christy prop
Yes, Grinder, like the gay sex app that a Chinese company recently purchased; if you don't know what I'm talking about…look it up! I guess only in Canada you can get away with naming your restaurant Grinder! Besides the obvious, the restaurant turns out to be really great; full of life, gorgeous young people, great decor and decent food and drinks. The waiters are flirty and right up my alley!
Grinder Restaurant
Grinder's window
Grinder's Interior
My Steak Tartare
Martin & Shelly Bearivage and Chad Waterhouse
After dinner it's off to "Montreal en Lumière", a yearly festival in the freezing weather where everyone comes to the center for lots and lots of drinking and carnival style activities. People are flying over your head on cables from one building to the other, there are Ferris wheels and DJ's spinning away to the hundred of thousands of drunken Canadians on a rampage, dancing and vomiting in every corner. We last all of 15 minutes before we make our way through the very crowded streets to our dear friend Annie Delisle's infamous Club "Le 281" for a bottle of vodka and some eye candy. The rest of the evening is not PG 14 and will remain secret, let's just say, we had the best time as one can only have in Montreal!
"Montreal en Lumière" Festival
Crazy people dangling form a wire over our heads
Massive outdoor dance space with DJ spinning amazing music
The following day Luc, Martin and I have our farewell brunch at the hip Richmond Restaurant and Market (www.lerichmond.com) and one of my favorite eateries in Montreal. Half the place is a fine gourmet market with specialties form all over the world and the other is a super hip, yet casual bar and dining room all inside a stunning refurbished industrial warehouse. After the best duck comfit grilled cheese sandwich in the world, it's time for hugs and kisses and tears because this little piggy is off to LA and back to work.
The Richmond Restaurant and market
The Richmond Restaurant and market
Bar and dining room
The Richmond restaurant
Mr. Luc Cartier and Martin Beaurivage at The Richmond
I've been coming to Montreal now for over 2 years after my friend David Cooley kept telling me for years how much fun this city was and how I should really make an effort to visit. Well…since the first time I came to this city, now you can't keep me away! It's not just the fun places and the "everything goes" attitude, but the people of Montreal are really the nicest people I know, they are delightfully uncomplicated, real to the core, sans all the LA hang-ups and attitude and just a joy to be with! I made some very special friends here that quickly have become some of my closets and dearest and I always look forward to coming back to this crazy city!


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- I saw you added {{delete}} to Talk:That Thing There. We usually don't delete talk pages, we keep them as a record of the deletion. Thanks for the effort though! Biggest GTA Fan EverTalk 09:09, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
- Thank you for the information. I realise that now. Hbriz 09:11, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
- Oh, and just to note, I saw you added the reason for deletion under the template, to do that properly, simply type {{delete|reason here}}, which will place the reason inside the template, like here. And if you have any problems, questions or need help with anything, please don't hesitate to let me know! Biggest GTA Fan EverTalk 09:17, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
And just so I don't have you doing the wrong thing, let me just say that {{delete}} is for this page is useless and should be deleted right now. Use {{prod}} for a Proposed Deletion (I think this should be deleted because...). Thanks! Biggest GTA Fan EverTalk 09:24, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks, i will remember that now. Hbriz 01:18, 14 February 2009 (UTC)


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In the upscale Cairo suburb of Heliopolis, about a 20-minute walk from the presidential palace, the rally was in full swing. "We swear to the blood of the martyrs," the marchers chanted as they moved toward the palace. "A new revolution from the start!"
That, as much as anything, captured the mood of Sunday's wave of national protests against President Mohammed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood organization. After a year under Morsi, preceded by a generally unhappy 15 months of postrevolutionary military rule, the protesters — angry with a weak economy, deteriorating security and rising Islamism — want a reset.
In terms of sheer numbers, Sunday's anti-Morsi demonstrators had to be pleased with the turnout — in the hundreds of thousands. The figures equaled and possibly exceeded some of the highest peaks of the original revolution against deposed dictator Hosni Mubarak. Tahrir Square, on the edge of downtown Cairo, was packed to the point where crowds extended all the way across two bridges to the other bank of the Nile. And the crowds in Heliopolis were equally massive — completely covering the district.
Yet, given the sheer undiluted rage directed at Morsi by many of his critics these days, Sunday's protest atmosphere was surprisingly festive and optimistic. A large percentage of Sunday's anti-Morsi demonstrators seemed to genuinely believe that their people-power movement will succeed in forcing Morsi from office — and relatively quickly. Rasha Soliman, a 40-year-old protester, offered this prediction regarding Morsi's departure: "It will happen. Not in a day or two, but it won't take a long time either."
If this is indeed the beginning of a second Egyptian revolution, then it's starting right where the first one ended. Back in February 2011, the protesters generally stuck to the Tahrir Square area for the majority of the 18-day uprising. It was only at the very end — when Mubarak provoked outrage by refusing to step down in a Feb. 10 speech — that protesters took their fight to the walls of the presidential palace. Within hours of that march reaching the palace, Mubarak was unceremoniously shoved from the stage by his own military and the next time anybody heard from him was months later addressing a judge from inside a courtroom cage.
This time, however, the fight is starting with direct confrontation with the presidency. Throughout the day, army helicopters hovered over the rally — with many of the demonstrators openly cheering them. While the military has remained cryptic about where it stands, a percentage of the anti-Morsi protesters openly welcome the intervention of the armed forces to end the stalemate.
But amid the euphoria and talk of a second revolution, it's worth noting that this is not 2011 and Morsi — no matter what his detractors say — is not Mubarak. He was democratically elected, with the votes of many of the same people calling for his ouster on Sunday, albeit by a thin margin. And Morsi has his own sincere and impassioned support base that sees the movement against him as a counterrevolutionary attempt to rob them of their own democratic rights.
On Sunday, the Brotherhood and its Islamist allies staged their own counterdemonstration at a mosque a short distance from the palace. The pro-Morsi demonstrations — numbered in the several thousands — passionately chanted in support of their embattled President and even unveiled a cake to celebrate the beginning of his second year in office. Egyptian TV channels resorted to showing as many of eight different screens to keep up with the competing rallies in the capital and those happening elsewhere in the country. Presidential spokesman Omar Amer was forced to hold two separate press conferences Sunday evening in order to react to events. Amer, in his comments, repeatedly and testily dismissed any talk of "concessions" from the presidency and instead offered yet another round of national reconciliation talks with an opposition that has largely sworn off talking to Morsi or his people. "The President has opened the door of dialogue to everyone," said Amer. "Any request or input from any Egyptian citizen is welcomed."
Morsi, the Brotherhood and its affiliated Freedom and Justice Party have repeatedly claimed that he hasn't been given a fair chance to rule and that one year is simply too short for this kind of backlash. But the sheer size, scope and diversity of Sunday's anti-Morsi protests reveal, at the very least, a widespread dissatisfaction with his rule that the President will have to address in the coming days.
Morsi won't have long to decide. Late Sunday night, organizers of the Tamarod (Rebel) campaign — the grassroots anti-Morsi signature drive that helped kick-start this latest wave of protests — announced it was giving Morsi a deadline of 5 p.m. Tuesday to announce his resignation and early presidential election or it would launch a nationwide civil disobedience campaign. Egypt remains on edge.


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The jury will select 3 winning photos, 10 honourable mentions and 5 special prizes.


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Brezhnevian psychoanalytic xyloglottism
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Bureaucratic mentality
Speaking grosso modo, Dalrymple writes that prison officers he worked with were more astute and kinder than staff at psychiatric hospitals.
They had not had their heads filled with psychological jargon. When they came to me to tell me that a prisoner was not himself, or was acting strangely, or that 'he's not your typical con', I soon learnt to take their observations seriously.
Dalrymple says that prisoners he knew were in general
far more afraid of psychiatric hospitals than they were of prisons. One of their most plaintive cries was, 'You're not nutting me off, are you, doctor?'
In official reports of disastrous cases in psychiatric hospitals, salient phrases include 'lessons have been learnt' and 'errors of communication'.
One could write almost all reports on disastrous cases before they have occurred. By 'lessons have been learnt' is meant 'it will be exactly the same next time'.
The lesson that has been learnt
is always that a new form, longer and more complex than the old, should be introduced. The form-filling gets in the way of genuine contact with or concern for the patient. The form-filling is the work itself.
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As more and more people get their hands on copies of Office 2008, a lot of information on the good and bad aspects of the new release are beginning to appear. Actually, since Office is a Microsoft product and this is the Mac world, it's mostly information about the bad aspects, bugs, and glitches encountered by users. One problem that's received attention in the last few days is a flaw in Office 2008's installer, which causes a small security hole by incorrectly setting permissions for some directories.
If you've poked around in NetInfo manager at all, you'll notice that the first account on a Mac has a user ID of 501. Rather than set the permissions for Office 2008 folder to be owned by user 501 (the administrator), the installer sets the owner of /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008, /Library/Fonts/Microsoft, /Library/Application Support/Microsoft, and /Library/Automator to 502. User ID 502 is given to the second account created on a Mac, meaning that someone other than the (first) administrator has full access to the Office-related directories and some Automator actions.
It's a bit of a flub on the Mac BU's part, but it's not exactly a gaping security hole. Anyone with only one account on their Mac doesn't need to worry, unless of course they create another account in the future. And even if you do have a user 502 on your machine, all that person can really do is mess with your Office install. Annoying, yes, but not life- (or Mac-) threatening. Mac BU developer lead Erik Schwiebert is a member of our forums, and said the Mac BU is aware of the issue. They'll presumably fix up the installer and fix the permissions in a future update. In the meantime, make sure you watch out for malicious Office-tamperers until they do.
Update: Microsoft has posted instructions for changing the permissions and ownership to the correct values. There are only two steps to complete, and then your Office installation will be all better, so get fixed up if you're worried.


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Dell done: Meadow Creek breathes again
The latest piece of UVA's effort to bring daylight to the Meadow Creek and keep storm waters from becoming flood waters will be officially opened Friday in a media briefing.
The "New Dell," as it's now called, features an L-shaped pond on Emmet Street and 1,200 feet of Meadow Creek that had previously been trapped underground in a pipe.
Stretching from the UVA cemetery on Alderman Road to Emmet Street between Alumni Hall and the Education School, the Dell has recently been little more than a soggy bog by the road.
Now, says the project director Richard B. Laurance, it's a "showcase" featuring the latest in sustainable storm-water management.
The pond, after all, isn't just a pond. Incoming creek water drops down from a concrete-and-stone spillway into a "forebay," a special section of the pond designed to capture sediment. During heavy rains, overflows will spill into two "bio-filtration" basins.
The idea, says the UVA landscape architect Mary Hughes, is to recharge ground-water supplies, keep pollutants out of waterways, and reduce flooding.
"It's been tested in the recent rain storms," says Hughes, "and we see some tweaking that needs doing, but the system seems to be working very well."
Meadow Creek flows downhill to the Dell from Observatory Hill. But in the 1950s, conventional wisdom dictated putting the waterway in a pipe. Today's planners realize that such non-porous structures deprive the stream of its natural ability to harbor wildlife, cleanse the water, and deal with voluminous storm flows.
UVA's storm-water management efforts aren't limited to the Dell. A bio-filtration basin was unveiled last year at the new parking garage on Ivy Road.
In all, UVA expects to spend about $3 million on storm-water management by the end of 2006, says Laurance. The figure includes $1.2 million spent at the Dell, as well as work at the new basketball arena, the Ivy Road parking deck, and the proposed North Grounds Connector from the Route 250 Bypass.
The Dell was once the Italian gardens at the home of UVA prof and grounds superintendent William Lambeth. One late-twentieth century feature is the statue of two fighting stags. Last month, after spending the winter outside the construction trailer at the rising arena, the stags returned to the Dell.
"They're nicely placed in the woods there," says Laurence, "so they blend in."
The "daylighting" of Meadow Creek was the subject of The Hook 's August 14, 2003 cover story.


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The Ed Show for Friday, December 20th, 2013
Read the transcript to the Friday show
December 20, 2013
Guests: Mark Pocan, Tim Ryan, Mike Papantonio, Goldie Taylor
REP. PAUL RYAN (R), WISCONSIN: With a net majority of Americans are takers
not makers.
SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R), KENTUCKY: The broken promises, double standards
and raw power.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And what did Santa bring you, honey?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Merry Christmas.
BARACK OBAMA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PRESIDENT: I think 2014 needs to be
a year of action.
ED SCHULTZ, MSNBC HOST: Thanks for joining us tonight, folks. Republicans
have thrown unemployed Americans under the bus and Democrats are fighting
back in a big way as they said they were going to do.
Earlier today, President Obama came out and made a passionate case for an
unemployment extension.
OBAMA: Because Congress didn`t act, more than 1 million of their
constituents will lose a vital economic lifeline at Christmas time, leaving
a lot of job seekers without any source of income at all.
I think we`re a better country than that. We don`t abandon each other when
times are tough.
Keep in mind, unemployment insurance only goes to folks who are actively
looking for work. A mom who needs help feeding her kids when she sends out
her resumes or a dad who needs help paying the rent while working part-time
and still earning the skills he needs for that new job.
So when Congress comes back to work, their first order of business should
be making this right. I know a bipartisan group is working on a three-
month extension of this insurance. They should pass it and I`ll sign it
right away.
SCHULTZ: Do you agree with the President? He says that we are a better
country than that. Well, we`re going to find out. Republicans, you heard
the president. Send him an extension and he`s going to sign it. The
burden is on the Republican Party to pass unemployment extension.
Democrats on onboard. Not a problem.
One-point-two -- three million Americans are still on track to lose their
unemployment insurance on December 28th. There is some good news, my
friends. The Washington Post has reported Democrats are planning a two-
step Christmas media offensive to extend unemployment insurance. This is
their focus.
Democrats want to publicly pressure Republicans to do the right thing and
help the unemployed in this country. Senate Democrats are already speaking
SEN. DICK DURBIN (D-IL), MAJORITY WHIP: For many of these people,
unemployment benefits are their only source of income. It may mean the
difference of whether they`re homeless or have a place to live.
SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D), NEW YORK: The extension of unemployment benefits
will be the next test in the fight between the hard Right and the
mainstream Conservatives in the Republican Party.
SEN. HARRY REID (D-NY), MAJORITY LEADER: I am very, very pleased, happy
and proud of my colleague, Senator Heller, who joined with Senator Reed of
Rhode Island to introduce a three-month extension of unemployment
I hope we can get cooperation and set a vote before we leave. But if not,
we`re going to vote no later than January 6th or 7th.
The question is, how much can the economy grow in the next three months?
Well, if you look at the last year where we`ve had a two million jobs,
three months. There`s going to be a lot of people that are going to be
coming off unemployment if we continue to help them out right now because
they`re going to be able to continue to look for jobs.
Harry Reid`s vote on an unemployment extension will likely take place the
first week of January, and it should. Democrats know that they got a bad
deal in this, they`re trying to fix it, it`s the best they can do. This is
why liberal groups are planning a TV adlibs starting the day after
Christmas. This is what you`re going to see.
Groups like Americans united for change and a number of unions including
AFSCME and the UAW are backing this entire movement. The ads will run on
national cable shows and hit Republicans hard for letting benefits expire
for over a million Americans.
The House Democrats are also planning a big push to the local media.
Democrats are planning to use local news coverage to highlight the damage
effects -- the damaging effects of this unemployment situation that these
folks are in.
They want to tell stories just like we had been doing quite a bit on this
program on how residents in Republican districts are going to be impacted
by these cuts. I mean this isn`t just exclusive to some districts. It`s
everywhere. And the Republicans need to own up and help fix this economy
instead of patching it up. And this is a patch job.
Instead of passing a jobs bill to get people jobs, this is the conversation
we`re having right now and it`s the Republicans` fault. They`ve done
nothing on a jobs package.
Here`s what Democrats want to do. Democrats want local headlines like this
that hurt Republicans right where it counts. Here`s one out of
Poughkeepsiee, New York, "Unemployment benefits due to expire for thousands
in New York." In Ann Arbor, Michigan, a headline reads, "Cutting benefits
for Christmas." And in Visalia, California, one reads, "Crisis remains:
Jobless benefit still vital."
The idea is to get similar news coverage in every small market in the
country. This is going to be the conversation, "Where do you stand?" They
hope to pressure Republicans into an easy vote. Just to vote. Just give
us the vote, Mr. Boehner and the Congress in early January.
You can`t call this a dog and pony show, this is real stuff. Democrats
really want to get this done. This is what was excluded out of the budget
bill. And the Republicans know that the Democrats have been honest brokers
and come to the table and giving them things that they want. Tax loopholes
have not been closed. Taxes did not go up. There will not be a shutdown.
And there are more reasons to slam the Republicans on not extending
A new report from the Congressional Budget Office shows letting benefits
expire could cost 300,000 jobs nationwide. That`s a step backwards, folks.
And Economist believe that the economic growth will be four percent lower
next year because of the cuts.
Do you want that? Do you want that? Do you think that`s the right thing
to do? Now, these are the numbers, that`s not even talking about the moral
component. Passing an unemployment extension should be an absolute no-
brainer. It helps over a million people and our economy plus the American
people. I know we don`t count very often, but for the record, we do want
to see this thing get done.
A new Pew poll shows American`s favorite keeping current aid (ph) to the
poor over deficit reduction by 59 percent to 33 percent. These numbers
along with the Democratic media offensive put Republicans I think in a
pretty tough spot. This has to be the conversation.
This will be under serious pressure. There`s going to be some serious
pressure that`s going to be put on the Republicans and their districts to
extend this in the beginning of January. And if they don`t do it, it`s
just going to be more material for the President in the State of the Union
Address to draw the focus on the heartlessness of the Republicans.
Get your cellphones out. I want to know what you think tonight`s question.
Are Republicans using the unemployed as a political pawn? Text A for Yes,
text B for No to 67622. You can always go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com.
And on that blog, I would like someone from the Conservative side to post
on that blog. What have the Republicans done for the economy? I must be
missing it.
Let`s see, a year ago this time, we were having this conversation about the
Bush tax cuts. Can`t raise taxes on the job creators. That`s what we kept
hearing. This was after President Obama won reelection. And in December,
there were Republicans running around saying, "This is a job killer.
ObamaCare is a job killer. If we -- let the Bush tax cuts expire it`s
going to hurt the economy." I mean how many sound bites do you want us to
pull out, folks? That`s what all of them were saying. From Cornan (ph),
the whole bunch, the most critical of the president.
Guess what? We`ve had two million jobs, we`ve got unemployment down to
seven percent, the housing market is coming back, strongest November we`ve
had since 1990. The automobile industry has turned around, go to your
local car dealer and ask them if the economy is pretty good. So put on our
blog, ed.msnbc.com. Tell us, Conservatives, I must be missing the story.
What have the Republicans done to help this economy? I`ll blog tonight and
say not a damn thing.
For more, let me bring in Congressman Tim Ryan from Ohio. Congressman,
great to have you with us tonight. Congressman, if this extension fails in
early January and you can`t get it to the House floor, the Senate does its
job. How long is this campaign going to go on, Tim?
REP. TIM RYAN (D), OHIO: Well hopefully just keep turning up the heat, you
keep squeezing both on economic grounds but, you know, as some local
examples here, we`ve got a company called Rotec, they do gear manufacturing
for windmills, a cutting edge new industry, 180 workers locked out that
will lose their unemployments in a few days in Northeast Ohio up in Aurora.
We have a steel mill that closed down many months ago, a lot of those
workers two to 300 are going to lose their unemployment insurance benefits.
So a lot of people like to say, "Well, these people aren`t looking for
work." you take Rotec for example, they were literally locked out. They
didn`t go on strike. They didn`t quit. They didn`t stop working. They
got locked out and they`re going to be punished for this. And so I hope we
keep the heat up that those are all steelworkers. So I know the
steelworkers and others who just keep ratcheting up the heat because there
are still millions and millions of families that have not been able to grab
that last rung of the ladder .
SCHULTZ: Yeah.
RYAN: . of this economic recovery.
SCHULTZ: So, Congressman, how much political capital are the Democrats
willing to spend on this fight? And how would you define political
capital? I mean this is going to take time, it`s going to take focus and
it might not happen. How do you see this playing out?
RYAN: Well, here`s what I think. I think the Senate obviously is -- it
was good to hear Harry Reid take a strong leadership roles obviously harder
in the House because we don`t have control of the, you know, legislative
leverage to bring pieces to the floor necessarily. But Harry Reid can do
it. And we can ratchet up pressure.
And 2014 is in the midterm elections are all about turning out your base.
And if we can get the unions energized, if we can get people who are
concerned about this and are more focused on the demand side economics
instead of this trickled down voodoo economics that we`ve been seeing in
America for the last 30 years .
SCHULTZ: Yeah.
RYAN: . get our based rolled up, we could be able to affect. This is --
these people in the companies that I was mentioning earlier, Rotec,
RGSteel, $430 a week, Ed. That`s what they`re getting. They got a couple
of kids. They`ve got health problems. $430 a month when Warren Buffett is
made in 2013, $37 million a day.
And I love Warren Buffett and I`m not against him making a lot of money but
what I`m saying is there`s a huge disparity in America when we don`t have
the -- where with all to say, "Hey, these people should get $430 a month to
be able to make ends meet when they`re looking for work or they`ve gotten
locked out of their job while Warren Buffett`s making $37 million a day."
Some thing`s wrong with that picture. So the Unions .
SCHULTZ: Yeah.
RYAN: . I`m proud of them for stepping up and making this an issue.
SCHULTZ: Congressman, the President held his yearend press conference
today before he took off on Holiday vacation to Hawaii. And this was one
of the questions that caught my attention. I want to play this. Here it
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Has this been the worst year of your presidency?
OBAMA: What I`ve been focused on each and every day is are we moving the
ball in helping the American people, families have more opportunity, have a
little more security to feel as if they worked hard. They can get ahead.
SCHULTZ: Mr. President, let me answer that question for you. Firs of all,
where is the mindset of the media in Washington when they asked a question,
"Is this the worst year of your presidency?" Are they asleep at the
switch? How the heck you`re going to get unemployment benefits focused on
when you`ve got an attitude like that in the mainstream media?
Just for the record for that AP reporter, two million jobs. We let the
Bush tax cuts expire. We have private sector job growth every month since.
We have returned the automobile industry to a very vibrant situation.
We`ve got health care in this country where people are signing up. We`ve
got the housing market which is doing very well. We didn`t raise taxes.
Look at the stock market, are you paying any attention? It`s having record
closes day after day.
Congressman, my question to you, how are you supposed to get anything done
in an environment when you got reporters sitting in front of the president
asking them if this the worst year he`s ever had when it`s been nothing but
a year of accomplishments?
RYAN: Yes. Well, and reporters are supposed to have some sense of
history. Where were they in 2009, 2010 when we were getting battered
losing 700,000 jobs a month just trying to .
SCHULTZ: Amen.
RYAN: . plug holes in the economy. We weren`t sure what was going on in
districts and back in Youngstown, we thought General Motors was going to
potentially go under. And we have a huge General Motors plan here all
throughout the industrial Midwest. We thought we were going to lose the
auto industry, the supply chain.
We had foreign car companies come and then Governor Strickland saying, "We
need to help the American car companies because we`ll lose our supply
chain." I mean I asked, "Where were these reporters when that was going
on? We`ve had some hiccups this year but my goodness gracious, we`ve
certainly turned the corner and that`s part of the problem, Ed. How do you
get the message out? How do you rally .
SCHULTZ: Well .
RYAN: . the American people today when you have such a decentralized
SCHULTZ: Well, I think that we`ve had some good things happened. We`re
down to seven percent unemployment. Now, a lot of people like to argue
with that because they think that the numbers are higher to that, double
digit and what not. We`ve got income inequality. You show the graphs. We
show the graphs all the time.
Bottom line here is that people understand the economy and the y understand
hurt. And those who were unemployed who now have a job as that
unemployment rate has come down, they understand a three-month extension.
Let`s see if Congress does.
Before we leave this interview tonight, I want to show this picture. Here
he is. The young quarterback from Youngstown State, Tim Ryan. There it
is. That Howard (ph) kind of self that this man was extraordinary. He is
destined to help a country.
Congressman Tim Ryan .
RYAN: Wow.
SCHULTZ: . you have a great holiday. You have a great holiday. Good to
have you with us .
RYAN: A lot`s happened between then and now, Ed.
SCHULTZ: . and thank you so much. All right. See you buddy. Thanks a
Remember to answer tonight`s question there at the bottom of the screen.
Share your thoughts with us on Twitter at edshow and on Facebook. We want
to know what you think.
Up next, who would you put your money on in a fight between Ted Cruz and
Vladimir Putin? The Beckster (ph) is selling a delusional story line on
this one. Plus, cheap talk from Republicans on minimum wage. Stay with
us, we`ll be right back.
SCHULTZ: Time now for the Trenders, the Ed Show social media nation has
decided and we are reporting. Here are today`s Top Trenders voted on by
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He`s on fire.
SCHULTZ: The number three Trender, having a ball.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Former NBA star Dennis Rodman is defending his latest
trip in North Korea.
DENNIS RODMAN, BASKETBALL PLAYER: I hope to see it brings a lot of coaches
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Rodman is using his third visit to the repressive
communist state to train North Korean basketball players for a birthday
tournament honoring leader Kim Jong-un.
SCHULTZ: Dennis Rodman makes another visit to his dear friend in North
RODMAN: There isn`t (ph) and they`re afraid to come here. Don`t be
afraid, man. It`s all love. It`s love here.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Rodman plans to meet with Kim who just last week
allowed his own uncle to be executed for alleged treason.
RODMAN: This country is pretty cool, man. It`s pretty cool land.
SCHULTZ: The number two Trender, Olympic games.
GLENN BECK, RADIO HOST: You`re dealing with Vladimir Putin.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The strongest man in the world.
BECK: He`s a guy who`s always, you know, out, you know, in the frozen
thunder without a shirt. He`s got a harpoon in one polar bear and he`s
clubbing a baby seal to death with a killer whale.
SCHULTZ: Glenn Beck thinks we need a new giver (ph) to stand up to
Vladimir Putin.
BECK: We are headed for the time that Ronald Reagan, OK. And there you go
again. I`m going to be the first to say that Ted Cruz maybe Ronald Reagan.
That guy is a thousand times smarter than 99 percent of the politicians I
have ever met.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Don`t make me laugh. Ha-ha-ha-ha.
BECK: That guy is -- he might be Ronald Reagan.
SCHULTZ: And today`s top Trender, cheap talk.
JOHN BOEHNER, SPEAKER OF THE US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: When you raise
the price of employments you get less of this.
SEN. TED CRUZ (R), TEXAS: Unemployment among young people will go up if
the minimum wage goes up.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If you raise a minimum wage too high. You`re going to
have not more jobs but fewer jobs.
SCHULTZ: A new study destroys the GOPs minimum wage talking point.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Every time we`ve tried to raise the standard of living,
they`ve said, "Oh my goodness. You`re just going to kill off jobs." The
facts and statistics do not back it up.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And this is probably not going to have a strong
disemployment effect if you raise the minimum wage.
REID: We have income inequality.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If we raise the minimum wage with at least 10th in an
hour, about 30 million Americans would get a pay raise.
REID: We need to raise a minimum wage.
SCHULTZ: Joining me now is Congressman Mark Pocan of Wisconsin.
Congressman, good to have you with us tonight. I want to point out,
according to the study by the Economic Policy Institute, increasing the
minimum wage would affect almost 30 million workers in this country and
create around 85,000 new jobs by 2016.
You believe these numbers? And how can the Republicans be against it if
it`s true?
REP. MARK POCAN (D), WISCONSIN: Ed, not only do I believe those numbers
when I was in the Wisconsin legislature and we were looking at raising
minimum wage, looked historically and every time we raise the minimum wage
in Wisconsin, more people entered the workforce.
So I know what happens from practical experience in my state, we`re seeing
it happen from that report and we need to do what we can to help that
rising tide lift all boats so we can help improve the economy. The best
way to do that is to raise the minimum wage.
SCHULTZ: Well, Harry, Reid on the Senate side says that raising the
minimum wage is a priority once everybody gets back to work in 2014. Does
the Senate plan have a shot of passing and I think they`d pass it, you
know, in the Senate. Who wants to stand against workers? I think there
will be some Republicans that would break to get the 60 vote threshold.
But what kind of pressure would that put on Boehner in the House if
anything at all?
POCAN: Well, that`s the pressure we have to put from the outside. People
in districts, other members of Congress to make sure that we`re making it
an issue of priority just like making sure people have their unemployment
benefits. And these are bread and butter issues that affect middle class
families and when you look at the people who actually make the minimum
wage, that myth of a high school kid who`s doing it for a little part time
income isn`t true. These are head of households, these are people who are
working two or three jobs to get by and this is a sort of case we have to
make in Congress if we get this passed it`s really important and we have to
do everything we can to get more Republicans to realize if they don`t do
this there could be a political prize.
SCHULTZ: Recent ABC News-Washington Post poll is showing that 66 percent
of Americans support a minimum wage increase. Is it a political loser for
the GOP? I mean do you think that this would put the GOP in a position if
they were to be against the minimum wage and not -- a vote not to come up
that it would be a factor at the polls that it would straight the
Democratic candidates in the midterms?
POCAN: Absolutely. You take this on top of the fact that they didn`t want
to an employment benefit that there`s cutting things like food stamps and
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. There`s really been these so
many attacks on the middle class that I`ve seen just in the last year that,
you know, people are really going to start wondering who has their back.
And clearly the Democrats have been putting an agenda out there to raise
the minimum wage, to make sure we`re extending unemployment benefits, to
invest in the economy and create jobs. And the Republicans want to take
care of the special interest in the most wealthy. That message just gets
reinforced every time they turn down an idea like raising the minimum wage.
SCHULTZ: But how aggressive, Congressman, do you think that Democrats
ought to get with their messaging, OK? They`re doing this PR thing trying
to get, you know, the unemployment extension going in the New Year.
They`ve got -- no doubt about, they want to make sure that the minimum wage
goes. But what if Boehner doesn`t do it? I mean how tough can the
Democrats going to get? I mean if Boehner doesn`t go along with it and the
Republicans bad mouth that I mean isn`t it enough for the Democrats to come
up with probably one of the most aggressive strategies ever?
POCAN: I agree with you, Ed. I mean absolutely. This is important to
middle class families across the country and this is who we need to be
fighting for. The special interest have plenty of lobbyist in Washington,
they`re getting their way with the Republican majority. We`ve got to fight
for the average family. And one of the ways we do that is an unemployment
extension and raising that minimum wage.
And I think the Democrats should have a very aggressive messaging, not let
off, just keep pushing that issue because the more people see who`s on
their side, it will only gives them a little bit of rhetoric but doesn`t
vote on their behalf. That`s going to change the face of Congress.
SCHULTZ: OK. Congressman Mark Pocan, great to have you with us tonight.
Appreciate your time on the program .
POCAN: Thank you.
SCHULTZ: . thank you so much.
Still ahead, duck and cover. A dynasty of hate reveals more hypocrisy
within the Republican Party. Plus, Florida`s cocaine Congressman goes from
rehab right into our Pretenders tonight.
But I`m taking your questions next, Ask Ed Live is just ahead here on Ed
Show at MSNBC. We`ll be right back.
SCHULTZ: Welcome back to the Ed Show. We love hearing from our viewers.
I appreciate all the questions tonight in Ask Ed Live.
Our first question comes from Aria Harray (ph). "If you gave a Republican
a Christmas present what would it be?"
Now, that`s interesting. A Republican, not a law maker, just a Republican,
well I think that Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty has been in the news quite
a bit lately. He sure talks and acts and looks like a Republican. I would
probably give him a book on American black history and ask him to read it.
Our next question comes from Glen McIntosh, "How did you manage to get such
a beautiful wife?"
Well, you know, Wendy and I did meet until we were in our like late 30s.
But you know what? That picture right there, you`re right. She is
absolutely beautiful. It certainly wasn`t the football picture that I had
in college that made it happen and I`m glad that one still works for her.
Stick around, Rapid Response Panel is next. We`ll be right back.
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Today`s third quarter GDP report help push stocks higher. It showed the
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And one of today`s big movers, BlackBerry. Its earnings report failed to
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SCHULTZ: And in Pretenders tonight the cocaine Congressman Trey Radel,
after a four weeks staying (ph) in rehab, the law breaker from congress
claims that he is back in action and will not resign from congress.
REP. TREY RADEL (R) FLORIDA: I love what I do and I`m going to return to
what I do, what you sent me to do in Washington, D.C., which is working for
you and your family while I relish mine. And no one, no one will take away
my passion when it comes to serving Southwest Florida.
SCHULTZ: Nothing is going to takeaway his passion to serve South Florida
except when cocaine did of course.
Radel once voted for legislation that would have allowed states to make
food stamp recipients take drug test. According to Trey Radel, a failed to
drug test merits an empty plate for some and a get out of jail free card
for others. Radel isn`t ready for a return. He`s ready for retirement.
If Trey Radel thinks that he`s fit for anything but for ovation, he can
keep on pretending.
SCHULTZ: Welcome back to the Ed Show. I guess it all started with the
Duck call. In the past 48 hours, more reaction is pouring in over the Duck
Dynasty scandal and it is a perfect example of conservative double
standards on their core principles of free speech and the free market. The
right wing noisy machine is on full blast defense of Duck Dynasty star Phil
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (Inaudible)
ANN COULTER: It`s outrageous. It`s unbelievable and people who believe --
I mean, first as a Christian, but far beyond Christian is people who
believe in speech. I mean, there is nothing offensive about what Phil
Robertson said.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is all about freedom of free speech. You know,
so many American families have spilled blood and treasure to guarantee Phil
Robertson and everybody else is right to voice their personal opinions.
And once that freedom has lash (ph) on, everything is lost in our country.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: To express shock over his opinions now is B.S. This is
repressive tolerance of fear of angry activist. If A&E had guts, they
should have said, "Sorry, that`s Phil."
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is a family that speaks its mind. And so, if
you don`t like it, then don`t watch the show. Take care of it that way,
reflected in the ratings.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Duck Dynasty, we would be proud to have you.
SCHULTZ: And it just wasn`t the talking heads. Louisiana Governor Bobby
Jindal released a statement saying that Phil Robertson and his family are
great citizens of the State of Louisiana. The politically correct crowd of
tolerant of all isn`t -- is tolerant of all viewpoints, except those they
disagree with.
Senator Ted Cruz also jumped into the ring saying that "If you believe free
speech or religious liberty, you should be deeply dismayed over the
treatment of Phil Robertson." I mean, this is just amazing to me. No one
is infringing on Phil Robertson`s first amendment rights. The government
and the media aren`t curving his ability to express his opinions or
stopping him. So, Robertson has a right to be a bigot. But, Phil
Robertson`s employer has made a business decision in suspending him.
This is the free market at work folks, this is capitalism at work, and the
A&E network can say private business of business trying to protect its
relationship with viewers and advertisers. Suspending Robertson is a
business move plain and simple. And it`s also about image. Republicans
claim to be the party of business. It just seems really strange that they
don`t understand the suspension. No one in the government, no one anywhere
is telling Phil Robertson that he can`t go out anywhere across America and
say the exact same things tonight that he did in that interview to GQ
Joining me now for our Rapid Response Panel, Goldie Taylor of theGrio.com,
and also the Ring of Fire Radio Host, Mike Papantonio. Great to have both
of you with us tonight. I`ve got lot of opinions on this. My talk show in
the last two days has been one call after another. Pap, why are
politicians even jumping into this dispute? Ted Cruz is always jumping in
front of the parade. You got Bobby Jindal who`s got a successful show in
his own backyard from a business standpoint must feel -- compelled that he
has to defend the local folks. But I mean, this is that, you know, the --
Newt Gingrich is out there comparing Robertson to the Pope. What`s the
political upside of this?
MIKE PAPANTONIO, HOST, "RING OF THE FIRE RADIO": Well, they don`t want to
talk Ed, and you know, they don`t want to talk at all if you really
consider Ed, about the idea that we have an economy that`s improving has
improved for the last 45 months that we have. We have millions enrolled in
Obamacare. They don`t want to talk about positive things like 45
consecutive months of job growth.
So, this is one of those Black Santa kind of moments when they`d rather
talk about Daddy Duck and say this is this poor Malayan character and let`s
take our focus there. So, we see this quite often. I mean, you know, this
-- when they want to move away from issues that really matter to Americans,
they go to issues like this. It`s no surprise.
SCHULTZ: You know, no issue is certainly more important than the other.
But Goldie, I find it interesting that there are -- the endurably (ph) C.P.
has responded. But, what this man said about African-Americans and what
they have gone through in this country, the life of the black people in
this country before Civil Rights, I mean, I just find absolutely amazing.
Your response as a black woman. I`d like to know. Isn`t this just
GOLDIE TAYLOR, THEGRIO.COM: I think it is truly outrageous. In fact, you
know, my ancestors were sold through ports in Louisiana before they were
shipped into Tunica into their plantation. So, I know a little bit about
Louisiana and a slave trade as well as its post reconstruction era. And
even today, Louisiana itself has a very, very troubled history in terms of
its ratio heritage.
But, you know, at the end of the day here, Phil Robertson isn`t going to be
jailed tonight. He isn`t going to be beaten. He isn`t going to be
shocked. Nothing bad is going to happen to him within the confines of the
law tonight. And so, his purged (ph) to amendment rights are intact. His
right of privacy is intact. His right of free press, his right of free
speech, his right of freedom (inaudible) was all intact, the very
constitution that we cloak ourselves in everyday.
I encourage those people in the right wing to take another read because
this isn`t about free speech. This is about free market capitalism, the
very thing that they trumpet on a day in and day out basis, that A&E has
the right to decide what product they want to bring to market in accordance
with what audience they are after. And so, to say to A&E, that you don`t
have the right to cut off Phil, you know, it to go against those so called
free market principles that they trumpet day in and day out.
SCHULTZ: I want to play a clip of Newt Gingrich praising Phil Robertson.
Here it is.
REP. NEWT GINGRICH (R) GEORGIA: Ironically, if you read the whole
interview and that just take one section. He talks very specifically about
loving everybody. He talks very specifically about not being judgmental
towards anyone. That`s God`s decision, not his. I mean, it is remarkable.
There are sections there where he sounds a lot like Pope Francis.
SCHULTZ: What about that Mike Papantonio? Did you know that Phil
Robertson sounds a lot like the pope?
PAPANTONIO: Well, let me just tell you something. This is -- the Daddy
Duck here has run the gamut of hate talk. Look. Today, he`s attacking
sexual orientation. And the other day, he is attacking 107 million
Japanese because he doesn`t understand what Shintoism. I think is that he
believes it`s Nazism. Before that, as you pointed out, he`s attacking and
saying that Black Louisiana farmers were just happy with the idea in how
they live during in time when their family and friends were being lynched
from trees and buried in the swamps.
Look. We get it. We -- I understand. He makes millions pondering to the
same crowd that believes that Honey Boo Boo and the damn Gadermann is high
morale television. But when he becomes this red neck philosopher, this
theologian, preaching to us about Old Testament passages that supposedly
tell us to hate each other rather than to accept each other. He is moved
from simply being an old moon but TV oddity to something Moroccan (ph) to a
lunatic fringe that only has a place on places like Fox and Friends or
maybe Glenn Beck`s new TV show.
SCHULTZ: Yes.
PAPANTONIO: Daddy Duck is the new talking point. Daddy Duck is what they
call him. They say he`s a godly man and he`s not the same god that Jesus
preached about. I can assure you that.
SCHULTZ: GOP Congressional candidate Ian Bayne took in a step further in
an e-mail to his supporters writing, "In December of 1955, Rosa Parks took
a stand against an unjust societal persecution of Black people. And in
December 2013, Robertson took a stand against persecution of Christians."
Goldie, what`s your response to that?
TAYLOR: I had a very long conversation with a pastor friend of mine who
happened to be incredibly conservative. And his words to me were "Goldie,
they are seeing this not through their Christian hearts, but through their
political minds, that this has very little to do with the Jesus Christ.
You and I know, this has everything to do with talking your bigotry into a
Bible and trying to hide it.
The bigotry here, the period of hatred here, you know, is much bigger than
any Bible I think can hide. And so, I think that I`m offended on a number
of friends but I`m offended as a Christian first and foremost that you
would lay this out as some kind of religious thing.
SCHULTZ: Yes.
TAYLOR: . that you would hide behind that rather than the kind of, you
know, compassion and love that this current pope has called us to be.
SCHULTZ: Yes. Goldie Taylor, Mike Papantonio, great to have you with us
on the Ed Show.
Coming up, time is running out to sign up for full coverage under
Obamacare. We`ll tell you a bout a real surge that`s taken place. Stay
with us. We`ll be right back on the Ed Show.
SCHULTZ: Welcome back to the Ed Show. This is the story for the folks who
take a shower after work. Americans have exactly 78 hours to sign up for
insurance plans created under the Affordable Care Act to get coverage
starting on January 1st. New numbers show fewer Americans are losing
insurance and more are signing up everyday where the exchanges are in
President Obama addressed the growing enrollment just a short time ago at a
press conference.
OBAMA: More than half a million Americans have enrolled through
healthcare.gov in the first three weeks of December alone. In California,
for example, a state operating its own marketplace, more than 15,000
Americans are enrolling every single day. And in the federal website, tens
of thousands are enrolling every single day.
SCHULTZ: The Republican Party is still trying to spend the negative
sentiment out there about Obamacare. House Speaker John Boehner
successfully enrolled himself just last month, but he`s still denying it`s
a good thing for Americans and it`s a good thing for the country.
REP. JOHN BOEHNER (R-OH) HOUSE SPEAKER: President`s health care law
continues to recover (ph) on American families, small businesses, and our
economy. And it`s not just a broken website, this bill is fundamentally
SCHULTZ: Despite the negativity from the Republican Party, states are
seeing an uptake in demand.
DAVID SIMAS, W.H. DEPUTY SP. ADVISOR: 13,000 people on Monday, 19,000
people on Tuesday, over 20,000 people on Wednesday, 3,000 per day in
Kentucky, 2,000 per day in Connecticut, and a huge, huge uptake in the
federal market places. People have options and they`re taking advantage of
SCHULTZ: It`s all about the numbers folks. Many states are saying they
are expecting to see the numbers grow through the weekend leading up to
Monday`s deadline. Joining me now is Wendell Potter, Senior Analyst for
the Center for Public Integrity, a senior fellow and author of "Obamacare:
What`s in it for me?" What everyone needs to know about the Affordable
care Act.
Mr. Potter, good to have you with us tonight.
WENDELL POTTER, SENIOR ANALYST CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY: Thank you, Ed.
SCHULTZ: This is quite a nice holiday story for the Obama administration
who have stuck with this all along. Do you expect this surge in sign ups
to continue over the weekend and have a real impact?
POTTER: No. I`m sure it will. I think in fact, another weekends are
among the busiest times. And I think we`ll see the same thing on Monday,
the 23rd as well. I think we`ll see by the end of the day of the 23rd that
several million people will have signed up for coverage and will be many of
the newly insured stamp (ph) for the very first time in their lives or at
least since they were children on January the 1st.
SCHULTZ: Well, it looks like the American people are having confidence
that the website is fixed and it`s working properly now. And of course,
we`re seeing states reporting success stories. Why does Boehner still
stick to the talking point that it`s not any good?
POTTER: There`s no investment (ph) in this. Keep in mind. They began the
campaign against health care reform before the first word of legislation
was written. Back in 2009, they called it a government take-over of health
care from the very beginning. They`ve been spending in the inner allies
millions of dollars amidst the information campaign. They`re so heavily
invested in this that they`d got to keep that perception going. And I
think we`ll continue to see that through this year and in the next year
quite frankly.
SCHULTZ: The Department of Health and Human Services made an announcement
last night that people have the option of applying for a hardship exemption
that the insurance industry`s main trade group issued a statement saying
this. "The latest rule change could cause significant instability in the
marketplace and lead to further confusion and disruption for consumers."
What are your thoughts on this?
POTTER: Well, I think that`s nonsense. First of all, most of the people
who got those cancellation letters want to have coverage. They have
coverage that was discontinued. They will be signing up. In fact, most of
them already have signed up. My daughter Franklin was one of them who got
one of those letters and she got a letter from her insurance company just
last week saying that if she didn`t pick a new plan, she`d be assigned to
one. So, she`s got coverage. That makes you a lot of insurance companies
are doing that. Keep in mind that the America`s Health Insurance Plans
speaks for insurance companies and their CEO`s not for the American people
and that`s a big difference system that people that need to keep in mind.
SCHULTZ: Industry groups in the three of the states not expanding Medicaid
basically have effectively given up until political conditions change. Is
this a big blow to Obamacare across the board? Is there going to be a huge
difference between these states as time moves on?
POTTER: There will be a very big difference in these states and there will
be such a big difference. So that I`m betting that this time next year,
we`ll be seeing that most of the states will be -- they have not expanded
the Medicaid programs. We`ll do so for 2015. Not only will their
individual residence suffer those who are in low and moderate income
families, they are also going to see that hospitals and other caregivers
will be suffering as a consequence because they will not be getting the
same amount of money from the government as the states too that are
expanding Medicaid program. So, it`s going to be a very, very different
situation for people and hospitals in those states that are not expanding.
SCHULTZ: And we should point out Mr. Potter that they`re not done working
on the website.
POTTER: Right.
SCHULTZ: I mean, this is a play in motion, a constant upgrade of the I.T.
capability as we go on.
POTTER: Yes.
SCHULTZ: And finally, the attack on navigators, how much of a deterred is
that going to be?
POTTER: It`s so sad if they`re doing this. They`re attacking people who
are trying to help people enroll in coverage. It`s just really despicable.
But I think that the navigators.
SCHULTZ: Yeah.
POTTER: . are really wanting to make sure that people are covered. It
will go forward.
SCHULTZ: OK. Wendell Potter, great to have you with us tonight. I
appreciate your time here on the Ed Show this evening. You`ve done great
work on the Healthcare Act in informing people. I really appreciate you
being accessible to our program. It`s been a great resource. Thanks a
POTTER: My pleasure. Thank you.
SCHULTZ: There is a -- you bet.
There`s been a lot of talk in the media about Duck Dynasty. I`ve got an
idea for a new show. Come here buddy. Come on. Come on up here. Come
on. Come on. Come on. Come on Baxter. Come on. Come on up here. I
have an idea. I think we should have a show called Bax (ph) Dynasty. I
think Bax (ph) should have his own show. Hey, look at this, a good-looking
nine-year-old lab. I mean, nobody hunts better than this guy right here.
Here you go Baxter.
That`s the Ed Show. I`m Ed Schultz. Politics Nation with Reverend Al
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