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Guests: Sherrod Brown, Cynthia Tucker, Ron Christie, Steve McMahon
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: The third woman.
Let`s play HARDBALL.
Good evening. I`m Chris Matthews down in Washington now.
Leading off tonight: Third woman. Actually, third shoe drops. A
third former employee is accusing Herman Cain now of sexual harassment.
The Associated Press reported late today that a third woman says she
considered filing a complaint against Cain when she worked for him at the
National Restaurant Association back in the 1990s.
According to the report, she says Cain engaged in aggressive and
unwanted behavior, made sexually suggestive remarks to her and invited her
to his apartment. NBC News has not confirmed this report.
Question. Will this latest allegation force Mr. McCain -- or Mr.
Cain, rather, to explain the situation, at least to the satisfaction of his
loyalists? That`s where we start tonight.
Then, the Obama reelection campaign is trying to right those voting
wrongs. They`ve launched a counteroffensive against those new laws passed
by Republicans that make it harder for people to vote.
And more evidence President Obama may finally have the wind at his
back politically. He`s calling out Congress and invoking Ronald Reagan,
and it`s working. His approval ratings are up, and he tops Romney, Cain
and Perry in a new Quinnipiac poll. There`s still a year to go, but it
looks like the Republicans may be blowing their chance, perhaps, to beat
this president.
And it shouldn`t come as a surprise. Remember this?
GOV. RICK PERRY (R-TX), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: And it`s, like, Live
free or die! Victory or death! Bring it!
MATTHEWS: Well, Rick Perry is about the only person in the country
who thinks his bizarre speech Friday went well. That`s in the "Sideshow"
"Let Me Finish" with the importance of a young president learning from
his mistakes.
We`ll get to the latest with the allegations against Herman Cain, but
we start with his big foreign policy blunder this week. Howard Fineman is
Huffington Post`s editorial director and David Corn is "The Washington
Post" (SIC) bureau chief for "Mother Jones." Both are MSNBC political
We`ve got to get to this new development here tonight, Howard. How do
we weigh the fact there`s a third woman? And now we`re getting to me (ph)
a graphic depiction, at least, of what woman is saying. He offered -- "He
asked me to go to the company apartment." I`ll read it (INAUDIBLE) NBC
News hasn`t independently confirmed these allegations, but let me read what
the Associated Press is reporting late this afternoon.
Quote, "A third former employee says she considered filing a workplace
complaint over what she considered aggressive and unwanted behavior by
Herman Cain when she worked for the presidential campaign -- presidential
candidate in the 1990s. She says the behavior included a private
invitation to his corporate apartment. She worked for the National
Restaurant Association when he was its head. She told the Associated Press
that Cain made sexually suggestive remarks or gestures about the same time
that two co-workers had settled separate harassment complaints against him.
The employee described situations in which she said Cain told her he had
confided to colleagues how attractive she was and invited her to his
corporate apartment outside work. She spoke on condition of anonymity,
saying she feared retaliation. Cain`s campaign declined to comment."
Howard, sort of a grab bag of charges there, one that would be the
most graphic to most people, propositioned her, said, Come to my corporate
HOWARD FINEMAN, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Yes. Well, first, let me
say the story on its own is a little thin, by which I mean she didn`t file
any charges.
MATTHEWS: Back in the `90s.
FINEMAN: In the `90s. And she`s not come forth to say who she is.
So that alone -- that story alone would not merit all of the attention
that`s been paid to this issue and Herman Cain over the last 24, 36 hours.
The problem that he`s got is that he has given so many serial and
conflicting and painfully and slowly revealing explanations of where things
are that as this onion keeps being peeled back, no one knows what more is
there, nor do they know when they can really rely on him to be telling the
full story about behavior which in and of itself might be obnoxious, might
have resulted in a settlement, but would not in and of itself destroy his
MATTHEWS: So you think the mere fact that he`s been myriad -- or
rather, that he`s been -- what`s the right word -- discursive, trying to
move around--
FINEMAN: He`s been more than myriad.
MATTHEWS: Keeps changing the--
FINEMAN: It`s been more than myriad. First he didn`t remember
anything. Then he starts remembering things. Then it`s a settlement--
MATTHEWS: Well, who does it hurt him with, though? He`s really
appealing to the people in the Republican Party that don`t like Romney.
FINEMAN: Let me stipulate one or two things quickly here. First of
all, anything that the mainstream media, and that would include the AP,
throws at a candidate like Herman Cain, who has the strong conservative
Republican support that he has -- for the most part, it`s going to redound
to his benefit because those people don`t -- not only do they not believe
anything in the mainstream press, if it comes from the mainstream press,
they`re going to take it out against the rest (INAUDIBLE) politics.
DAVID CORN, "MOTHER JONES," MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Look what
happened yesterday and the day before. He doubled his fund-raising take
after Politico broke the story initially. I think that there`s a base of
conservative support which is going to stand by him, but -- and that may
help him in Iowa. But if -- if he manages to make it to January 3rd, which
I think is a 50/50 proposition, he still is going to have to convince
Republican voters that he`s the guy who can go up against Barack Obama.
And if this stuff is still hanging over him, if the -- listen, we
still are waiting to see if one of those accusers -- if he or the NRA, the
National Restaurant Association, is going to let her speak. That`s going
to play out through this week, as well.
This story could drag on for weeks, even if there is not a fourth or
fifth or sixth accuser. And I think for some Republican voters, that would
just be too much baggage. He cannot sustain this campaign over the long
run if this isn`t resolved somewhat quickly.
MATTHEWS: But does he remain -- and this is my question -- the victor
of the Western conference? Does he remain the chief conservative
challenger, the chief Tea Party champion in this race?
CORN: No, no.
MATTHEWS: Who overtakes him?
CORN: Listen, I think, you know, whether it`s going to be Rick Perry
or Rick Santorum or Newt Gingrich--
MATTHEWS: Wait a minute! Don`t be so casual.
CORN: No, no!
MATTHEWS: Who can overtake this guy, given all of this?
CORN: They will because they`ll be making the case to the Tea Party
types using their language that he cannot--
MATTHEWS: Name the person you predict will overtake him--
CORN: Name the person?
MATTHEWS: -- because of all this stuff. Who`ll do it?
CORN: I`ll bet you that come New Hampshire, Rick Perry is in a better
position than Herman Cain.
MATTHEWS: OK. You think that`s -- you see that--
FINEMAN: I`m not willing to take that bet. And one reason why I`m
not is that, as I said, attacks by the mainstream media, as it`s viewed by
conservative Republicans, especially one like this one today from the AP--
MATTHEWS: And rush is sticking with him.
FINEMAN: Yes. Now, I have enormous -- I have no -- there`s no higher
respect I have for any news organization than the AP, and I called them to
try to get a comment on this, but we were on deadline.
MATTHEWS: Right.
FINEMAN: I think when you come out with a story where somebody did
not file charges, did not file a civil suit and will not give their name
and saying they were thinking about it -- that`s just the kind of story
that the conservative Republicans will get their back up about--
MATTHEWS: Sure, but--
MATTHEWS: Here`s some context. On Monday night of this week, Greta
Van Susteren asked Mr. Cain if there would be more women coming forward.
Let`s listen to this response because it sort of sets up what`s been
developed today in the press.
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, HOST, "ON THE RECORD": Is there anything else out
there should we -- that we can lay on the table now?
HERMAN CAIN (R-GA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: To my knowledge, Greta,
no. Remember, I -- there wasn`t even an inkling of a sexual harassment
charge in all of the other jobs that I had all the way up until the time
that I worked for the National Restaurant Association. To my knowledge,
Is it possible that someone is going to make something up? Yes. But
is it going to be credible in terms of there was an actual sexual
harassment case filed? No, because I would have known about it. Is
someone going to step forward and say that I made some inappropriate
comments or acted inappropriately that they could call sexual harassment,
even though they didn`t file a formal complaint? Not to my knowledge.
MATTHEWS: Well, what was that about?
CORN: Oh, you know, he said initially that he didn`t know of any
harassment charges, then he just said, Well, maybe there are some false
charges against me. I think -- regardless of the third woman, I think we
have a story all week long, maybe going to next week, about what the first
two women actually happened. The details have yet to come out. And they
will come out. One way or another, they will come out. And he is going to
have to face those down, and that`s where some of the other Republican
MATTHEWS: OK, let`s -- let`s get back--
MATTHEWS: -- common sense to the average person who watches this. I`m
not saying particularly up-to-date person in terms of workplace rules, but
a regular voter out there, say a 50-year-old voter who will vote for Cain
Doesn`t it matter whether he may have told a joke at work or he tried
to pick up somebody at work sexually, take somebody to an apartment, a
company-owned apartment? Doesn`t that delineation mean much?
MATTHEWS: Wouldn`t that turn off some of the conservatives?
FINEMAN: Yes, but this is David`s point, which is that we haven`t
heard directly from the women yet. And the way the physics of this things
works, inevitably, we are going to hear from those women.
CORN: It will come out.
FINEMAN: And when we hear from those women, that`s going to be the
moment of judgment for Herman Cain. I don`t know what they`re going to
say. I don`t know how credible they`re going to be. But that question is
going to have to be answered. And he hasn`t helped himself on the truth-
telling front by the peeling-the-onion way he`s gone about this whole
MATTHEWS: Oh! So when it comes to the final public viewing of this,
the final public--
CORN: But also, you know, the lawyers will speak. We`ll find out how
these sentiments came to be and how--
MATTHEWS: Let`s look at how it`s combustible already. Let`s take a
look at -- today, there was a lot of pushing and shoving as reporters today
tried to question Cain, and his security detail tried to push the
journalists out the way. "The New York Times" later reported that one
reporter got hit in the face, and this was even before the latest story
broke. Here`s a bit of that exchange today.
CAIN: Let me say one thing. I`m here with these doctors, and that`s
what I`m going to talk about. So don`t even bother asking me all of these
other questions that you all are curious about, OK? Don`t even bother.
QUESTION: It`s a good question though.
QUESTION: But are you concerned about the fact that these women--
CAIN: What did I say?
QUESTION: Are you concerned about--
CAIN: Excuse me. Excuse me!
CAIN: What part of "no" don`t people understand?
MATTHEWS: Well, I don`t know where that`s headed, but it doesn`t look
like a happy day here.
CORN: He`s going to have to come clean, at least in saying these
women should speak. Karl Rove today, who I`m guessing--
MATTHEWS: Who`s trying to bring down Cain.
CORN: -- would like -- no, I think he`d like him to stay in the race
because Karl Rove wants to keep Rick Perry away from the nomination. If
Cain falls out, it helps Rick Perry. So Karl Rove, I think, has an
interest in Cain staying--
MATTHEWS: OK, what about--
CORN: He has to let the women speak. He has to say, I`m all for
MATTHEWS: That`s very smart. But I`m trying to figure out now -- it
looks like there`s an intramural fight going on right now. He`s now
blaming a Perry--
FINEMAN: Yes, and--
FINEMAN: There may be some politics within the National Restaurant
CORN: Oh, yes.
FINEMAN: -- board and staff. That`s a sort of Republican-oriented
lobbying firm. What the motives are of all the people who are on the
board, who were on the board, who they`re supporting, all that`s going to
be sorted out, as well. But I will tell you this. A scene like that with
-- with Herman Cain surrounded by the good doctors and being assaulted,
almost, by the media -- you play that for likely conservative Republican
caucus-goers in Iowa, and they`re going to vote for Herman Cain.
MATTHEWS: OK. Let`s (INAUDIBLE) The Cain campaign has just issued a
response to the AP story. Quote, "Mr. Cain has said over the past two days
at public events that we could see other baseless allegations made against
him as this appalling smear campaign continues. He has never acted in the
way alleged by inside-the-Beltway media, and his distinguished record over
40 years spent climbing the corporate ladder speaks for itself. Since his
critics have not been successful in attacking his ideas, they are resorting
to bitter personal attacks. Mr. Cain deserves better." That`s the end of
that statement.
I want to get back to something of real policy value here. The other
night, Mr. Cain showed that he did not know something that I think everyone
watching this program knows, which is really kind of profound. He didn`t
know that the red Chinese, as we used to call them back in those days, the
PRC, the People`s Republic -- didn`t know -- didn`t know that they had
nuclear weapons all these years, that they were thinking of developing one.
Cain seemed to try to clean up his China remarks later today. Here`s
-- well, let me give you the earlier one. Here`s the earlier one first,
and then we`ll have his cleanup attempt about nukes since the 1960s. Here
it is.
CAIN: I do view China as a potential military threat to the United
JUDY WOODRUFF, PBS "NEWSHOUR": And what could you do as president to
head that off?
CAIN: My China strategy is quite simply outgrow China. I plan to get
away from making cutting our defense a priority and make investing in our
military capability a priority, going back to my statement "peace through
strength and clarity." So yes, they`re a military threat. They`ve
indicated that they`re trying to develop nuclear capability, and they want
to develop more aircraft carriers like we have. So yes, we have to
consider them a military threat.
MATTHEWS: Well, today Cain seemed to -- he tried to clean up his
China remarks (INAUDIBLE) trying to show that he already knew they had
nuclear weapons. Let`s listen.
CAIN: I see China as a national security threat. They long for a
military like ours. They`re already testing -- they already basically (ph)
commissioned a brand-new aircraft carrier. They are testing in order to be
able to improve their nuclear arsenal. So for us to think that if we just
stay static that they are going to stop trying to develop their military
might, I think that is naive.
MATTHEWS: You know, it is -- you know, if somebody said that -- I
think Joe Scarborough said today that Sarah Palin was Averill Harriman
compared to this guy.
MATTHEWS: That her -- she maybe--
MATTHEWS: -- a sexist attitude that she didn`t have her facts
straight, didn`t know any facts. But this guy comes along and seems to not
have to know anything and be completely ignorant, and nobody holds it
against him.
FINEMAN: Well, here`s -- here`s--
MATTHEWS: There`s a new lower standard here.
FINEMAN: Here`s the thing. You said, Doesn`t need to know -- doesn`t
-- saying doesn`t need to know. What I find fascinating about his
candidacy, and really the tenor of a lot of what the Republican candidates
are saying, including Rick Perry, is they`re saying, We don`t need to know
all those fancy facts.
CORN: Yes.
FINEMAN: We have it in our heart. We have one or two simple things
that we know. Rick Perry knows how to create jobs, he says. Herman Cain`s
got his 9-9-9 plan. We don`t need to know all the rest of that stuff that
those intellectuals know. If I`ve heard Rick Perry say once, I`ve heard
him say a dozen times, Well, that`s an interesting intellectual question.
And Herman Cain said the other day, Well, I`m not going to know about
MATTHEWS: -- ought to know about China, China, China.
FINEMAN: Well, of course he ought to know about it! They`re
advertising their ignorance, is what I`m saying!
CORN: It would be great if he was running for election in 1956. And
you can tell just any time he`s come close to foreign policy, he`s, like,
trying to process index cards. He can`t do it. He doesn`t--
FINEMAN: We`re living in two different worlds here. The world of
Herman Cain and Rick Perry is one that doesn`t care about the judgments
that we make about who knows what. They think by appealing with heartfelt
emotion to the conservative Republican voters that they`re going to win,
regardless of what the mainstream media and other judges say about them.
MATTHEWS: Remember that guy, Joe Walsh, the Tea Party guy from the
MATTHEWS: He said -- I said, How do you -- how do you understand
international finance? He said, I`ve raised a family.
CORN: And he didn`t pay any child support, right?
MATTHEWS: There you have it. Touche! Thank you, Howard Fineman.
Thank you, David Corn.
Coming up: The Obama campaign is fighting back against those
Republican laws that make it harder for, well, Democrats to vote. That`s
You`re washing HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: Republican senator Marco Rubio was caught embellishing his
family history, but he may not be out as vice presidential running mate.
According to a new Suffolk University poll, if Rubio were on the ticket, 46
percent of Florida voters say they`d vote Republican versus 41 percent who
say they`d vote for Obama and Biden. The poll also showed that without
Rubio on the ticket, the best Republicans could do is run even in Florida.
We`ll be right back.
MATTHEWS: Back to HARDBALL.
Over the past few months, we have been detailing for you how many
Republican-led statehouses across the country have enacted changes to
voting rights laws that could affect many traditionally Democratic voters
to keep them from voting.
But now the Obama campaign is starting to push back. The fighting is
going on now. "The Wall Street Journal" reports today that the Obama
campaign has paired up with many state Democratic parties and to grassroots
organizations to educate voters and to challenge these new laws.
Ohio is the first state where the Obama camp has had luck pushing
back. The campaign won a temporary suspension of Ohio`s new law which
would have shortened the window for early voting, you see it that there, by
more than half for in-person voting and nearly half for absentee voting by
So will the Obama campaign`s new counterstrategy work?
We have joining us right now Senator Sherrod Brown. He`s the
Democratic senator from the state of Ohio. Also joining me right now is
Cynthia Tucker, who will be on in a minute.
MATTHEWS: Let me go to you, Senator.
Tell me what`s going on in Ohio in terms of what the Republicans were
up to and what you have been able to do to stop them.
SEN. SHERROD BROWN (D), OHIO: Sure.
First off, congratulations on your JFK book. That`s exciting.
MATTHEWS: Thank you.
BROWN: I heard you on the radio talking yesterday.
Well, last fall, the elections, as you know, were about lost jobs as
they should have been because people in Ohio and every other place almost
in the country are very anxious about the economic situation, but since the
election, it`s all been in state after state, and Ohio especially, they
have gone after bargaining rights, collective bargaining rights. That will
be on the ballot next week in Ohio because you can do what`s called a
referendum to roll back a law passed by the legislature if the voters -- if
you get enough signatures and if the voters vote that way.
We`re doing the same on voting rights, and they went after worker
rights. They went after bargaining rights, they went after voting rights,
they went after women`s rights in Ohio. And so the second petition, an
issue that will be on the ballot a year from now is on voter rights, and
there were lots and lots of volunteers. The state party was involved.
A lot of Obama volunteers were involved in the state and the president
was involved, but mostly it was a grassroots effort and an effort in Ohio
to sound the alarm. And I would just invite people to help us sound the
alarm in Ohio and nationally.
Come to SherrodBrown.com, come to my Web site, sign up to help us
sound the alarm about this rollback in voting rights. We haven`t seen this
in this country I think in 30 or 40 years, where after we have made this
progress -- and Republicans were helpful in these better more progressive
voting rights a decade ago, and now they want to roll them back because
it`s all part of this ideological mission they have.
MATTHEWS: Let`s get it straight in terms of the facts.
Ohio, they were trying to shorten the number of days that you could
vote ahead of time and also shorten the number of votes you could offer by
mail or in person. You have not gotten that on the ballot. They have to
pass affirmatively next November a ballot measure to shorten the number of
days you can vote.
Why would voters ever vote to limit the amount of times they could
vote -- or how often they could show up to vote?
BROWN: Well, because Republicans -- I don`t think they will in the
end. But Republicans will spend a lot of money next year in the November
election when it`s actually on the ballot.
The signatures were gathered this fall. They were gathered too late
to go on the ballot this year because it was -- the bill was passed late.
The new law -- the new rollback of voter rights doesn`t happen until after
November 2012, if the voters vote that way.
But I think you`re right. I think most voters are going to think, why
would we roll back voter rights? And Republicans have created this myth
around the country that there`s been vote fraud committed by individual
voters voting twice, using fake I.D., things like that.
Voters -- the real vote fraud in this country, when it happens, it
hasn`t happened that often, but when it happens, it`s by jimmying a
computer, it`s by transportation of ballots. Voters don`t vote five times
to try to -- to try to turn an election. You`re too likely to get caught,
and you`re not going to change an election by voting multiple numbers of
times or by voting under a different name.
So the real vote fraud is not that. The Republicans want -- they have
had a campaign, you know this, Chris, for years where they try to depress
voter turnout in low income areas, especially minority areas, and that`s
what they are trying to do here and it`s outrageous.
That`s why I`m encouraging people to come on SherrodBrown.com and sign
up and be involved fighting back in every state where they`re trying this.
MATTHEWS: Thanks so much. It`s great having you on, Senator Sherrod
Brown, Democrat from Ohio.
BROWN: You, too, Thanks, Chris.
MATTHEWS: Thank you very much.
Anyway, joining us right now to talk about the Obama campaign`s
efforts in this regard and trying to prevent any changes in voting rights
laws around the country is Cynthia Tucker, Pulitzer Prize-winning political
columnist and now a visiting professor at the University of Georgia.
Cynthia, so much it means to have -- I reversed my sentence. It means
so much to have you on.
MATTHEWS: Getting a little tired these days.
Let me ask you about the -- everybody knows what`s going on, right?
This isn`t complicated. When you shut the window down, you reduce it down
by half of when you can vote ahead of time, I -- because I`m on the road
covering elections, I have to go vote in Rockville.
CYNTHIA TUCKER, UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: Right.
MATTHEWS: And they have a little office you go in to, you ask for
your ballot and you vote ahead of time. Some people do it by mail. And if
you can`t do it oftentimes you can`t vote, because you will be out of town.
TUCKER: Well, Chris, it happens that I remember a time when
Republicans liked early voting.
MATTHEWS: Yes, the people who went on vacation trips.
TUCKER: They liked it because they thought it served their middle-
class constituents.
When did they become unhappy with early voting? After 2008. The
Obama campaign, we all remember, was extremely well-organized, and one of
the things they did was to encourage their voters to go to the polls early.
They did. After Obama took advantage of early voting, suddenly Republicans
say, oops, need to cut back that early voting.
MATTHEWS: Yes. You know why I think this is getting to be important?
It is not just about good government. I`m beginning to think over the last
two weeks, with my own brain calculating these things, is Obama will still
probably win by a squeaker. He will not win by a landslide. It`s too
tough, the economy.
TUCKER: Yes. Yes.
MATTHEWS: So he is going to win by picking up Ohio, we just talked
about, or holding on to North Carolina.
But the Republicans for a while there this summer looked like they
could pull off a big landslide, things were so bad they were going to win
big. I think that`s probably not going to happen. It`s a squeaker in
either direction next year.
TUCKER: Exactly.
MATTHEWS: And that`s why picking up a few points by restricting
voting access, they can squeak it their way.
TUCKER: Absolutely. All you need in the battleground states is to
shave off a few votes, a few votes of college students, for example.
MATTHEWS: You tell them they can`t vote on campus.
TUCKER: Exactly. Or tell them you can`t use your college I.D. It
has their photo. It`s an official photo I.D.
MATTHEWS: Good enough for booze.
TUCKER: But they have said you can`t use it to vote.
MATTHEWS: Right. Right.
TUCKER: So you shave off a few votes in battleground states and it
could turn the election their way.
MATTHEWS: It`s great having you here as my colleague. You`re coming
to the book party tonight.
TUCKER: Thank you, Chris.
MATTHEWS: You are coming.
TUCKER: Absolutely.
MATTHEWS: Thank you, Cynthia Tucker.
Up next, so what did Rick Perry think of his bizarre speech, you know,
that crazy speech all over the place this past Friday? Well, that`s coming
up in the "Sideshow."
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MATTHEWS: Back to HARDBALL. Now for the "Sideshow."
We`re all in agreement. When it comes to debates, Rick Perry is not
in his element. Well, today he reminded us of this. Take a look at what
he said last night on the topic.
GOV. RICK PERRY (R-TX), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I hate debates like I
used to hate spinning in an aircraft, T-37s. Then I finally did it and did
it and did it, and I got pretty good at it. So hold on. Maybe I will get
better at debates to.
MATTHEWS: Looks like he`s turned that into some kind of talking
But then there`s the speech he gave in New Hampshire this past weekend
that still has people talking, in fact asking, is there some inner Rick
Perry trying desperately to get out?
PERRY: The good news is that little plan that I just shared with you
doesn`t force the Granite State to expand your tax footprint, if you know
what I mean, like 9 percent expansion.
MATTHEWS: Well, as it turns out, Perry found the appearance to be
anything but a campaign misstep. Let`s listen.
PERRY: It was a great crowd, good response, and -- and, you know, I
guess you can do anything you want with a video and make it look any way
you want, but I felt good, felt great. I think the message got across very
well, so it was a good speech.
MATTHEWS: And good for a psychiatrist to study.
Up next: As the Republicans flatline, President Obama is enjoying a
nice bounce in the polls. He`s taking on Congress, invoking Ronald Reagan,
and it seems to be working numerically. We have got more evidence tonight
that the president may finally have found the wind to be at his back.
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CNBC "Market Wrap."
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It looks like European leaders are taking a hard line with Greece over
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In stocks, Comcast, the parent company of CNBC and MSNBC, topped
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MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL.
President Obama is keeping the pressure on Republicans and calling on
them to pass the pieces of his jobs ball, one by one, in fact. Today, at
the Key Bridge Marriott -- actually, it was the Key Bridge here in
Washington, Obama says the transportation piece of his Americans Job Act is
something even Ronald Reagan would support.
And there`s a rumbling among some conservative leaders that they would
rather lose to Obama in 2012 than have Romney stick around for eight years.
These are the topics for our strategists tonight. Number one, Obama
goes on offense saying even Reagan would support his efforts. Will this
strategy work? Number two, no love for Romney. Would conservatives rather
have four more years of Obama than nominate Mitt Romney and have him around
for eight more years?
Steve McMahon is a Democratic strategist. Ron Christie is a
Republican strategist up at Harvard.
It`s good to have you from Harvard.
RON CHRISTIE, FORMER SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO PRESIDENT BUSH: Thanks,
MATTHEWS: And we have got Steve McMahon, who is still just down here
with the regular people.
MATTHEWS: A new Quinnipiac poll has the president`s approval rating
at, catch these numbers while you`re chuckling there, Ron, 47 percent for
the president and 49 percent for his opponent, whoever -- oh, I`m sorry.
That`s approve/disapprove.
It`s a big improvement from last month , when his approval rating was
just 41 and his disapproval 55.
So, I will give you the chance at the beginning. It seems like he`s
done a lot of closure here, bringing it up to even, basically, within the
margin of error.
STEVE MCMAHON, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: You know what he`s done? He`s
sort of evolved from being the president of the United States to being a
candidate for president of the United States. The reelection campaign has
And before, he was sitting there in a situation that was more like a
referendum, where people were saying, ah, the president, how is he doing,
do I like the economy? And now he`s trying to turn that into a choice.
And the people when they are presented with a choice are choosing -- more
and more people are choosing the president.
MATTHEWS: Well, today, speaking at the front of the Key Bridge --
that connects, by the way, Washington with Virginia -- here in Washington,
President Obama said even President Reagan would support his jobs plan.
Let`s listen.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: If you don`t want to
take my word for it, take it from one of my predecessors, one of the
previous presidents.
He said that -- and I`m quoting here -- "The bridges and highways we
fail to repair today will have to be rebuilt tomorrow at many times the
cost." He went on to say that rebuilding our infrastructure is common
sense -- that`s a quote and -- quote -- "an investment in tomorrow that we
must make today."
That president was Ronald Reagan. Since when do we have Republicans
voting against Ronald Reagan`s ideas?
MATTHEWS: Well, there you have it, Ron, the president out there
building bridges, saying that the smart thing for us with so many
unemployed out there in the country is to begin working on our public
sector and working on things that are below safety code and need to be
What`s your counterargument?
CHRISTIE: Well, my counterargument is I`m glad that he invoked Ronald
Reagan. I think what Reagan said was exactly right.
The truth of the matter, Chris, is that when President Obama came into
office in 2009, the highway bill needed to be reauthorized. It expired in
2009. That is a six-year, multiyear effort to build our roads, bridges, et
cetera. So while the president is attacking Republicans for refusing to go
along with a part of his jobs bill, there are Democrats and Republicans in
the Congress alike who want a six-year reauthorization bill.
We have had this thing punted, several extensions. The most recent
one is going to expire in March of next year. We need six years so our
governors and our mayors and our elected officials at the local level can
actually put the federal money to use to rebuild the bridges and roads.
So, rather than going out there and campaigning--
MATTHEWS: So you`re with the general principle of -- you`re in the --
you`re with the president on the general principle of creating jobs through
road building and bridge fixing? You`re with him?
CHRISTIE: I am, but only if it`s done -- I`m -- only if it`s done on
a multiyear effort, because mayors and governors will tell you that if you
do this on a piecemeal, month-by-month basis, they can`t plan for it and
they can`t allocate the money.
CHRISTIE: So President Obama needs to step up and push for a
multiyear effort, Chris.
MATTHEWS: So, you want more. You`re loving it to death. You want
more of what Obama is promising.
Let`s listen to what Joe Scarborough said this morning because I`ve
had this hunch for a while. Interesting point. Let`s watch.
JOE SCARBOROUGH, "MORNING JOE": I`m hearing something remarkable over
the past week. I`m hearing conservatives, stalwart conservatives, starting
to say, you know what? I would rather lose to Barack Obama, I would rather
give him four more years than elect Mitt Romney and have him spend money
like George Bush and have another Republican who promises to be
conservative go liberal.
Conservative leaders this week, it`s like a light switch has come on,
and they say you know what? Fine. We would rather lose.
MATTHEWS: Are you hearing what Joe Scarborough is hearing, a lot of
people on the right would rather bash Obama around for the next years than
have to defend a moderate big spender as they see it in Mitt Romney -- Ron
CHRISTIE: What in the heck is he talking about? Look, I love
Scarborough, I do. Maybe he needs to get out of New York and actually
travel around the country and talk to conservatives.
MATTHEWS: Like up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the real people
are up at Harvard?
CHRISTIE: Exactly, where I think I have a caucus of one, Chris.
Look, I`ll tell you what. I look at his comments and I think that the
one thing that does unify the Republican Party is our opposition to this
president, his policies and the direction for the country. So, I
absolutely don`t know who Joe is talking to, but no one who I think is in a
position of influence within the Republican Party for what their vision and
what their ideology is, and that is to remove this president from office.
MATTHEWS: Steve?
MCMAHON: First of all --
MATTHEWS: Do you buy Scarborough`s argument? I think Rush Limbaugh
would rather bash this guy for four years than try to defend some weak
noodle ideologically in the middle?
MCMAHON: Yes, certainly better for his ratings, but the other thing
that you can see in the polling data and you`ve been able to see it
consistently is that Mitt Romney has a problem. And his problem is that 75
percent of the voters in the Republican primary don`t want him as the
He`s got -- you`ve talked about this before. He`s got a ceiling of
about 25 percent and we go through this rotating list of characters and the
people who are going to be the alternative to Mitt Romney and then they --
MATTHEWS: I think Herman Cain is the ultimate test. Would you rather
have him with all these problems than Mitt Romney, and they would? That
means they really don`t like Mitt Romney.
You`re great, Ron. Keep up your studies up there. I don`t know what
course you`re taking, but you`re getting all that inside intellectualism.
CHRISTIE: I`m teaching.
MATTHEWS: I`m sorry.
CHRISTIE: I`m teaching, dispensing wisdom to the youth of America.
MCMAHON: How is that going?
MATTHEWS: I`m sure they are benefiting. And I mean that.
Thank you, Ron. Thank you, Steve McMahon.
Put me in your class, maybe I`ll learn something.
Up next, Joe Scarborough and I had a great conversation on "Morning
America" -- I`m sorry, on "MORNING JOE" -- about my new book, "Jack
Kennedy: Elusive Hero." I really like the way he went after this book.
I`m so proud of my book and I`m so proud of my colleague and the way he
knew just right to talk about.
This is HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: Well, here`s a hot issue being taken up by Congress. The
House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to affirm "In God We Trust"
as the official motto of the United States. Never mind that the Congress
won`t pass the president`s jobs bills or that Eric Cantor promised to
prevent votes that weren`t substantive or meaningful. He made good on that
promise earlier in the year when the House never bothered to honor troops
who killed Osama bin Laden like the Senate did.
We`ll be right back.
MATTHEWS: We`re back.
My new book, "Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero," which came out yesterday,
is certainly something I`m immensely proud of writing and I have to answer
the question, or tried to throughout the book, what was Jack Kennedy like
in person? What was it like to be with him, to hang out with him?
Well, this morning on "MORNING JOE," my colleague Joe Scarborough and
I had a great conversation, really the best so far.
Let`s listen to some of that this morning.
SCARBOROUGH: Guys like you and me grow up reading biographies of
presidents, and I spent so much -- so much time reading about the Kennedys.
I can`t believe though some of the things that you pull out here. And I
wrote a couple of things down really quickly. Jackie saying that Jack`s
mother never loved him.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
SCARBOROUGH: Bitterly.
You drawing out that Bobby was the essential cog in the Kennedy
machine, the go-between between his old man and JFK. Ben Bradley, that
moment after West Virginia where Jackie is abandoned by Jack.
MATTHEWS: Oh, you remember that.
SCARBOROUGH: Oh, it`s just incredible. And some shocking things.
The old man getting it so wrong on Hitler, and yet also being against the
Marshall Plan because he thought communism in Europe would be good for his
business. And then -- and then this remarkable relationship between
Kennedy and Nixon.
MATTHEWS: Right.
SCARBOROUGH: You talked to Haldeman right before he died, and he
said, "I never got how these two guys had this affinity, this closeness
that the world never understood." There`s so much in here.
MATTHEWS: You`re so wonderful laying it out there. I`m glad --
because you`re an expert and the junkie like me about politics, and I
thought I couldn`t penetrate to the real Jack, and I said to myself I want
to find out what he was like. If you or I knew him or spending three or
four hours on an airplane with him, or in a room with him somewhere, middle
of the night drinking together, what would he be like then? And I killed
myself to find out what he was like in school, to be a classmate at Choate,
and what he was like in the Navy, way out in the middle of nowhere. What
was it like to have Jack Kennedy as your buddy out there, and that`s what I
went for.
SCARBOROUGH: You know, Chris, you talk about Choate -- it`s
heartbreaking really, and for a country that grew up loving all the
Kennedys, Rose Kennedy, it really is heartbreaking to read that this is a
mother that never visited him in Choate --
MATTHEWS: Yes.
SCARBOROUGH: -- when he had these horrible bouts with one disease
after another, mystery diseases. Really, the man was defined by the fact
that, as Jackie said to Teddy White right after he died, he had a mother
that never loved him.
MATTHEWS: He was a lonely kid, and I guess they had that sort of --
she also had a lot of other kids but, you know, Jackie made that point to
Teddy White in that first interview after Dallas and said his mother never
loved him. She liked being the mayor`s daughter, the ambassador`s wife,
she never loved him.
And then I got this story from his classmate. He said he was
absolutely remarkable at Choate, how the mother never once in four years
came to visit her son even when he thought he had leukemia. I mean, here`s
a mother getting phone calls, what`s your blood count? He`s thinking he`s
dying and nobody comes to see him.
And Jackie had that right. Now, some of that is mother-in-law to
daughter-in-law, but Jackie said he was a lonely kid who all his who all
his life, especially in his youth, was all alone out there, reading books
of heroes. He was always sick. I think he had the record at Choate for
most times in the infirmary. He was always going off to Chelsea Hospital
or Boston Baptist.
He was away for the longest time, sick and alone, reading history, and
becoming a lover of history. First, King Arthur, then Winston Churchill.
He`s 14 years old and he read Churchill`s entire history of World War I.
He read "The New York Times" every day in school. He got it by mail, I
guess, and analyzed article after article. He was a self-made guy.
SCARBOROUGH: And, Chris, what a great quote when Jackie said history
made Jack.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
SCARBOROUGH: Because he was so alone. He was lying in a hospital bed
and infirmary so often.
Also fascinating, you explain how he goes up to Choate as the second
MATTHEWS: Yes.
SCARBOROUGH: In the shadow of the remarkable Joe Junior, who you
reveal wasn`t so remarkable after all. A great line in there is how
observers said John Kenneth Galbraith said, Joe Junior started every
sentence with "Dad says".
MATTHEWS: Father said, like old world, there was just father says --
what a replicate he was, and yet Jack was this -- anybody`s a second son or
second daughter knows what I`m talking about. You`ve got to be a little
original. You`ve got to be a little rebellious. And he was.
He was very much like the character in "Brideshead Revisited," that
character, Sebastian. This guy Charles Ryder, the guy who comes back and
has older brother`s a straight arrow, does everything right, everything the
parents love, he`s almost one of the parents. And here`s this young Jack
trying to make his name. He`s not a jock.
You know, Jean Kennedy, his last surviving sibling said the same thing
that Jackie said right after he was killed. She said the key to Jack was
he was always so sick, he was always reading history, and becoming sort of
an intellectual that separated him from the rest of the family, who were
largely jocks. You know?
SCARBOROUGH: No doubt about it.
So, could you explain -- he gets into Congress in `46, he and Nixon --
MATTHEWS: Yes.
SCARBOROUGH: -- are fellow classmates and they immediately had an
affinity towards each other, and Nixon was taken aback, this son from a
powerful East Coast family comes up and is effusive in his praise. He had
a real affinity for this guy.
MATTHEWS: Jack always would be the kind of guy who would want to roam
with the quarterback. He`d always want to hang out with the top jock at
school. In case -- this case, Nixon was the star of that class in `46.
Nixon came having beaten Jerry Voorhis, was a big New Deal star from
And Kennedy didn`t care how he beat him when he beat him. He said
that was like beating John McCormick up in Massachusetts. They had their
first debate in 1947. They went out and took the train out to western
Pennsylvania, in McKeesport, a steel town. It was a booming town then.
They had this great debate, which really showed in the book who they were.
They actually never changed.
And what I really like in his story because you and I know about
politicians, and how they really are behind in the cloakrooms, between the
parties when they`re normal people, and they had hamburgers together at the
Star Diner. They get the midnight train back to Washington together,
Capitol Limited. They flip a coin or whatever for the top bunk. It`s like
"North by Northwest" with a somewhat different ending, of course.
SCARBOROUGH: Yes.
MATTHEWS: And Kennedy is on the top bunk. Nixon wins the toss, he
gets the bottom bunk. All through the night, these two young guys who had
been in a war together, both in the South Pacific Navy, talked about this
coming struggle with the Soviet Union. And they were both cold warriors,
even though we didn`t know the Cold War, Bernard Baruch hadn`t come up with
it -- for two weeks later, he came out with it.
And they talk about how they`re going to have to fight this new
struggle, having just won the war in the South Pacific. It`s an amazing
story of generations emerging, the young officer corps replacing the old
generals like Eisenhower. And imagine that scene of these two guys on the
bunk in the top. I mean, they ought to make a movie of this, the real
story of Jack Kennedy.
SCARBOROUGH: They really should.
MATTHEWS: I would want that in there. Definitely.
MATTHEWS: The name of my book, of course, is "Jack Kennedy: Elusive
Hero." It`s available in your book stores or Amazon. I mean, I really
want you to buy this book. It`s about our country. It`s going to make you
feel really good about, well, a progressive leader actually, Jack Kennedy.
Go to Facebook/Hardball.
When we return, "Let Me Finish" with something President Kennedy did
and President Obama should do, I think.
You`re watching HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: "Let Me Finish" tonight with this:
In the wake of the Bay of Pigs in 1961, when Cuban exiles backed by
the CIA hit the beaches of their own country only to face defeat, Jack
Kennedy took personal responsibility for the disaster. Quote, "I`m the
responsible officer of the government," he said. He then got his highest
approval ratings of his presidency, 83 percent in the Gallup poll.
What`s wrong with President Obama admitting that the stimulus bill he
won from Congress in 2009 didn`t do what it promised? Give the reasons,
but include the nature of the miscalculation. Otherwise, the prediction by
his chief economic adviser of an under 8 percent jobless rate is going to
trail him right through next fall`s debates.
It`s easy to spot the leader in any situation. He or she is the one
who deserves to take the lead, because he or she is the one who takes the
heat. Anyone disagree with that?
I once heard Arthur Schlesinger say that politics is a learning
profession. A young leader like Obama would do well to show he`s learning.
And the only way I know to do that is to learn from what hasn`t worked.
It`s how you build confidence that your leadership is going to be better in
the future.
Kennedy made a lot of mistakes in his handling of the Bay of Pigs in
1961, most particularly in is overreliance on his inherited advisers. A
year later, he was older and wiser, shown aerial photographs of Soviet
nuclear missile sites in Cuba, Kennedy asked for options. When the joint
chiefs called for either an air strike on the missile strikes or a full-
scale invasion, he resisted. He relied instead on a naval quarantine of
any new nuclear equipment then, and he also tied it to eventual secret
negotiations with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
The Soviet chairman would say in his memoirs that this was precisely
his intention, by the way, even if only one or two big ones were left, we
would still hit New York and there wouldn`t be much of a New York left. In
other words, if Kennedy had attack Cuba, Khrushchev would have hit missiles
into New York. By the way, it would have made a lot of force of will, it
took a lot of force of will to top that from being a nuclear catastrophe.
No one is going to believe President Obama is learning unless he seems
to be learning. Nobody is going to believe the second Obama term is going
to be better than the first unless Obama lets it be known that he`s learned
from his mistakes in the first term. And that`s common sense.
And that`s HARDBALL for now. Thanks for being with us.
"POLITICS NATION" with Al Sharpton starts right now.
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TORONTO - For 93 and a half minutes, it looked like Toronto FC were going to get their first home league win since last July 18. They needed to last 94 minutes.
A 94th-minute equalizing goal from an unlikely source, defensive midfielder Warren Creavalle, snatched a point for 10-man Houston Dynamo in a 1-1 draw on a frigid and windy Saturday afternoon in front of 15, 973 in attendance at BMO Field. Toronto took the lead through an equally unlikely source, converted holding midfielder Jeremy Hall, in the 58th minute.
Dynamo defender Jermaine Taylor was shown a red card for a foul on Robert Earnshaw while both were racing for a loose ball over the top.
With their fourth draw in a row, Toronto remain unbeaten at home, their longest unbeaten run in the league since a five-match stretch in late June/early July of last year. Houston continued the up-and-down nature of their early campaign, and are still looking for their first road win of the season.
Both sides showed clear intent to go for all three points in the first half, particularly TFC, who outshot Houston 16-7 on the day.
Toronto came closest in just the 6th minute, when striker Robert Earnshaw nearly added to his league-leading tally of five goals, but his curling rocket clanged off the crossbar.
The Dynamo's Ricardo Clark almost fired a shot into the lower corner in the 23rd minute when he ran onto a cross from the left at the top of the box.
Houston suffered a major setback at halftime, when midfielder Brad Davis, who had a quiet first 45, was subbed off.
Within minutes, his creative counterpart, Luis Silva, nearly broke the deadlock in TFC's favor. The playmaker ran onto a clever back-flick from Hogan Ephraim in the Houston area in the 51st minute, but he scuffed his shot wide of the target.
OPTA CHALKBOARD: Silva and Hall run the TFC midfield
Silva was then involved in Hall's goal in the 58th minute. Silva's dummy in the box created havoc in Houston's backline, and their clearance did not go far enough. Hall stepped up from his holding midfield position, won the 50-50 ball over Giles Barnes, and drove a low shot into the corner. Houston goalkeeper Tally Hall slipped as he tried to get across, but in the end there was nothing he could do.
Four minutes later, a moment that will surely spark some debate arose when Taylor was sent off. A long ball from Silva released Earnshaw on the run, side by side with Taylor. Taylor appeared to catch Earnshaw with his extended arm, though replays indicated the contact was less impactful than Earnshaw's reaction made it seem.
Toronto turned their man advantage into several good chances, including a spectacular bicycle kick from Earnshaw in the 63rd minute and Justin Braun's diving header saved by Hall in the 69th minute.
Houston pushed for the equalizer late, and it came in stoppage time. Ricardo Clark outjumped everyone to redirect a corner kick goalward, and Creavalle redirected it past helpless goalkeeper Joe Bendik.
Houston are next in action on Sunday, April 28 as they face off at home against the Colorado Rapids. Toronto, meanwhile, will try to kick off their Canadian Championship title defense against Montreal on Wednesday in another home fixture at BMO Field.
Toronto FC (1-2-4; 7 points) vs. Houston Dynamo (4-2-1; 13 points)
April 20, 2013 – BMO Field, Toronto, ON
Attendance: 15,973
Scoring Summary:
TOR: Jeremy Hall 1 (unassisted) 58
HOU: Warren Creavalle 2 (Ricardo Clark 2, Andrew Driver 1) 90+4
Houston Dynamo: Tally Hall; Kofi Sarkodie, Bobby Boswell, Jermaine Taylor, Corey Ashe; Andrew Driver, Adam Moffat (Warren Creavalle 41), Ricardo Clark, Brad Davis (Luiz Camargo 46); Giles Barnes (Eric Brunner 64), Will Bruin.
Substitutes not used: Erich Marschedier, Jason Johnson, Brian Ching, Boniek Garcia.
Toronto FC: Joe Bendik; Ryan Richter, Gale Agbossoumonde, Darren O'Dea, Logan Emory (Doneil Henry 89); Reggie Lambe, Luis Silva (Jonathan Osorio 74), Jeremy Hall, Hogan Ephraim; Justin Braun, Robert Earnshaw (Andrew Wiedeman 86).
Substitutes not used: Stefan Frei, Kyle Bekker, Danny Califf, John Bostock.
Misconduct Summary:
HOU: Luiz Camargo (caution) 54
HOU: Jermaine Taylor (ejection) 62
HOU: Corey Ashe (caution) 65
HOU: Warren Creavalle (caution) 87
Referee: Drew Fischer
Referee's Assistants: Joe Fletcher, Claudio Badea
4th Official: Mathieu Bourdeau

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With Christmas looming it's that time when we all look back on the things that helped get us through the previous year, so here at Domino we've compiled our lists of the things we happened to like the most, be it songs, food, gigs, basically whatever made us happy.
Mark Austin
- Helplessness Blues – Fleet Foxes
- My Morning Jacket at Somerset House – (gig)
- Josh T. Pearson – Last of the Country Gentlemen
- Being asked to join one of my favourite bands
- The Rolling Stones – Live in Houston (DVD)
- Le Tour
- Tom Waits - Bad as Me
- The Black Keys – El Camino
- Kool and the Gang at Glastonbury – ("This one's for all the Ladies!")
- The Beano
Emily Beaver
1. I, Partridge: We Need To Talk About Alan
2. The War On Drugs - Slave Ambient / Future Weather
3. Austra - Feel It Break
4. Vivian Girls - Share the Joy
5. Jessica Lea Mayfield show @ Bowery Ballroom, NY
6. Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
7. Ronnie Spector @ 'She's Got The Power' - A Girl Group Extravaganza, The Lincoln Center, NY
8. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
9. Beady Eye show @ Webster Hall, NY
10. The Smiths box set. I can't afford to own it but Mona lets me look at hers.
Peter Berard
- The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World (LP)
- Blue Daisy - The Sunday Gift (LP)
- Planningtorock - The Breaks (10")
- Fucked Up - Live @ LPR (NYC)
- King Krule - King Krule (EP)
- Nicoals Jaar - Space Is Only Noise (LP)
- The Field - Looping State of Mind (LP)
- Holy Other - With U (EP)
- Katy Perry - Firework (single)
- Balam Acab - Wander/Wonder (LP)
Matthieu Bourrit
- Still Corners "Creatures Of An Hour"
- EMA "Past Life Martyred Saints"
- Iceage "New Brigade"
- Baxter Dury "Happy Soup"
- Anna & The Atlas Mountains
- seeing Low, twice
- renting a flat in Lisbon
- Pitchfork Festival Paris
- being offered some Sub Pop sneakers
Paul Briggs
(In no particular order)
1. Garrard 401
2. Tannoy IIILZ
3. The Ginger Pig meat book
4. Dorati / LSO: Wagner Preludes and Overtures (Mercury Living Presence)
5. King Creosote and Jon Hopkins: Diamond Mine
6. Anna Calvi: Anna Calvi
7. Pol Roger "Cuvee Winston Churchill" 1999 vintage
8. Beethoven Violin Concerto / Brahms 2nd Symphony (LPO / Thomas Zehetmair / Jukka-Pekka Saraste): Front row centre seats at RFH
9. Visiting Vinyl Factory (ex-EMI Hayes pressing plant)
10. LBs AIM award
Lynden Campbell
1. Kurt Vile Smoke Ring for My Halo
2. PJ Harvey Let England Shake(can't help myself)
3. Arthur's Landing
4. Crystal Stilts - In Love with Oblivion
5. Gruff Rhys – Hotel Shampoo
6. Panda Bear - Tomboy
7. Alessi's Ark – Time Travel
8. Veronica falls (total teenage indie nostalgia indulgence)
9. Real Estate - Days
10. Paper Cuts - fading parade (second indie teen indulgence)
Mona Dehghan
1. The Smiths Box Set (so wonderful it literally takes my breath away...i'm still hyperventilating)
2. Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
3. Dirty Beaches - Badlands
4. Austra - Feel It Break
5. Future Islands - On The Water
6. The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
7. Trust - Candy Walls 7"
8. Alex Turner - Submarine Soundtrack
9. David Lynch - Crazy Clown Time
10. The Horrors - Skying
Honorable Mentions: I showed some restraint, but really wanted my top 10 to be overrun with our artists...(Please stop brainwashing me Domino!)
Arctic Monkeys Suck It And See, The Kills - Blood Pressures, Wild Beasts - Smother, John Maus - We Must Become Pitiless Censors of Ourselves, King Creosote + Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine, PJ Harvey - Let England Shake, Real Estate - Days, Cass McCombs - Humor Risk, Blood Orange - Coastal Grooves, Baxter Dury - Happy Soup, Amy Winehouse - Lioness, and that one M83 song is awesome.
Katie Dunne
1. Queens Of The Stone Age at O2 Academy Glasgow
2. Cass McCombs - "Humor Risk"
3. Ian Rickson's "Hamlet" at The Old Vic with Michael Sheen
4. Pulp at Hyde Park
5. Liza Minnelli at Kenwood House
6. Glastonbury
7. Bob Dylan at Feis
8. Wild Beasts at Pitchfork Paris
9 "The Shadow Line" on the BBC
10. "Days Of Heaven" lovingly restored on the big screen at the NFT
John Dyer
- Jay Z and Kanye album - Watch the Throne
- Girls album
- Real Estate album
- Kenny and Jon album
- Aerotropolis book - Greg Kasarda
- Polly Harvey album
- The 2 Cass albums
- Lykke Li album
- New series of 30 Rock
Fiona Ghobrial
1. Discovering New York
2. John Maus - Hey Moon
3. Washed Out - A Dedication
4. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
5. Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX - I'll Take Care Of You
6. Discovering Escape Bar, Soho
7. Peaking Lights - 936
8. Main Attrakionz - Perfect Skies
9. Lana Del Ray - Video Games / Blue Jeans
10. Glastonbury (Sunday) - healing & green fields in the sun
Kris Gillespie
1. The Smiths : Complete Smiths (Rhino)
The only band I would ever spend $500 on a box set for, but didn't: I could not have asked for a better 40th birthday present... thanks to my family.
2. Ada : Meine Zarten Pfoten LP (Pampa)
It took seven years, but the wait was worth it... rich, melodic electronics galore...
3. Vetiver : The Errant Charm LP (Sub Pop)
This record could have easily been made in 1975, and I mean that as a compliment...
4. Nest : Body Pilot 10" (Serein)
Twenty minutes of melancholy ambient bliss...
5. Wilco : The Whole Love (dBpm)
Wasn't expecting something so playful out of them...
6. Night Moves : Colored Emotions (self-release)
There's a weird mix of Buckley (Tim, not Jeff) and Rev (Mercury, not Martin) in this young trio from Minneapolis...
7. Carter Tanton : Freeclouds (Western Vinyl)
Erstwhile Tulsa frontman and now Lower Dens member somehow makes drum machines and acoustic guitars play nice with one another...
8. Eleanor Friedberger : Last Summer (Merge)
This the record I wish Fiery Furnaces would have made after "Gallowsbird's Bark."
9. The Young : Voyagers Of Legend (Mexican Summer)
Imagine if you left a copy of "Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash," "Alien Soundtracks" and "Vampire On Titus" on the sidewalk and they melted down into one, it might just sounds like this messy noise from Austin, TX.
10. The Weeknd : House Of Balloons (self-released)
Dark 'n' moody r 'n' b from Canada that samples Throbbing Gristle, Beach House and Siouxsie &The Banshees? Sign me up.
honorable mention tunes of the year:
Cass McCombs - "County Line" (Domino)
Boof - "Joi Is Smiling" (BubbleTease)
Real Estate - "It's Real" (Domino)
The Bombay Royale - "Solla Solla Enna Perumai" (Hope Street)
Colbie Caillat - "Shadow" (Universal Republic)
Justin Gressley
- J Mascis - Several Shades Of Why - Sub Pop
- Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues - Sub Pop
- Fucked Up - David Comes To Life - Matador
- Jay-Z & Kanye West - Watch The Throne - Def Jam
- Iceage - New Brigade - What's Your Rupture?
- Wilco - The Whole Love - Anti–
- Male Bonding - Endless Now - Sub Pop
- Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler / The Dream - In The Red
- Milk Music - Beyond Living - Perennial
- Jessica Jalbert - Brother Loyola - Old Ugly
Anne Haffmans
1.The Kills "Blood Pressures"
2. PJ Harvey "Let England Shake"
3. Apparat "The Devils's Walk"
4. Unthanks "Last"
5. Metronomy "The English Riviera
6. Wild Beasts "Smother"
7. S.C.U.M. "Again Into Eyes"
8. Beirut "The Rip Tide"
9. Anika "Anika"
10. Feist "Metals"
Paul Lambden
1. Drive - film and soundtrack
2. PJ Harvey live at the Troxy
3. Lake Garda, Italy
4. West Ham Utd 1 - Aldershot Town 2
5. Real Estate "Days"
6. The Cure "Reflections" live at the Royal Albert Hall
7. Stewart Lee live at Leicester Square Theatre
8. Wild Beasts "Smother"
9. My Brightest Diamond live at St Giles In The Field Church
10. Bobby "Bobby"
Steve Lowe
- Todd Rundgren at the Jazz Café
- Glen Campell at the Royal Festival Hall
- Real Estate at the Garage
- Dan Sartain at the Buffalo Bar
- Beautiful Rivers And Mountains: The Psychedelic Rock Sound Of South Korea's Shin Joong Hyun 1958-74" - Shin Joong Hyun LP
- Real Estate - Days LP
- Dan Sartain - Fuck Friday 7"
- The Nightmarchers - Thar She blows 7"
- Skiatikus at the Bethnal Green Workingmens Club
- Metronomy – English Riviera LP
Nikki Mahmood Chee
- Owen Pallett LIVE @ The Esplanade Recital Hall in January
- Villagers LIVE @ The Esplanade Recital Hall in January
- Cass McCombs "Humor Risk"
- King Creosote & Jon Hopkins "Diamond Mine"
- St Vincent "Strange Mercy"
- J Mascis w/ Kurt Vile LIVE @ The Great Hall in March
- In Each Hand A Cutlass "A Universe Made of Strings"
- Belle and Sebastian LIVE @ The Esplanade Concert Hall
- Efrim Menuck "Plays High Gospel"
- Kate Bush "50 Words For Snow"
Harry Martin
In no particular order
1. Domino Radio
2. Other Voices 2011
3. The Alabama Shakes shaking it up in Nashville.
4. Wilco – The Whole Love
5. The South Wind Blows on your radio on a Sunday night. Music, poetry & chat from the most westerly tip of the Dingle Peninsula
6. And the winner of the Ivor Novello Award 2011 is.......Villagers…Becoming a Jackal.
7. Ripping it up on a duet with Johnny Cash in Sun Studios, Memphis. Hard to believe, isn't it?
8. Cass McCombs - County Line
9. Let England Shake
10. The City of Barcelona.
Ryan McCann
Alva Noto - Univrs
Byetone - Symeta
Oneohtrx - Replica
Death Grips - Ex Military
Rustie - Glass Swords.
John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves
Autechre - EPs '91 - 2002
Music From Saharan Cellphones Vol.1
Seeing Khaira Arby at Cafe Oto
Senna (Film)
Clare McKinney
- Pinch & Shackleton "Cracks in the Pleasuredome"
- Mein Tay's goat curry
- Domino Radio
- Blawan "Getting me Down"
- Mouse On Mars Paeanumnion at the Barbican with Oval in support
- Mountain High - cycling climbs sure to inspire next years' holiday
- "If on a winters night a traveller" the book and Bill Ryder Jones score "IF"
- Clone Basement Series
- Getting some Budokon in my life
- Scuba - "Adrenaline" & SCB "Loss"
Michael Mercer
1. Beano Cheltenham 2012
2. Rihanna ft Calvin Harris – We Found Love
3. Skype emoticons
4. Essáy – Morning Mountain
5. http://www.hulu.com/watch/287085/saturday-night-live-digital-short-v-necks
6. The Field – Looping State of Mind
7. Purity Ring – Ungirthed (Sun Glitters Remix)
8. M83 - Intro
9. Washed Out – Within and Without
10. Joey Essex – Reem (Original Mix)
Christophe Moracin
- spending the year with Anna Calvi in France
- Seeing amazing Godspeed You ! Black emperor in many cities
- crying at Diabologum Reunion gig in Vendomes
- losing ears at Mogwai gigs (Roundhouse / Follie Bergère)
- Listening to Chad Van Gallen "Dipaer island"
- watching " Polisse"
- being amazed by Gisele Vienne's "This is How you will Disappear"
- Hoping Sonic Youth hadn't really split
- and Soyons les plus Beaux !
Ben Morris
1. Becoming a dad twice in the space of a minute.
2. Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
3. Kogi Taco Truck
4. Amazing TV: Boardwalk Empire, Breaking Bad, Game Of Thrones, Boss.
5. WU LYF - Go Tell Fire To The Mountain
6. Future Islands - On The Water
7. Sexy Sax Man Sergio Flores - Careless Whisper
8. The return of saxophone. Thank you Bon Iver, M83, Iron & Wine and many more.
9. Purchasing and watching every episode (again) of "Lost: The Complete Collection" on Blu Ray disc. Google it to be wowed.
10. LCD Soundsystem's (epic) final show. SAD FACE.
11. Joining the Domino family.
Elena Nehrman
Concert: Sade live at the O2 Arena Berlin
Concert: The Kills live at C-Halle Berlin
Journey: Hiking in France/ Central Massiv in September
Theatre: 50km of files - a walkable radio play about the STASI
Album: Bill Ryder Jones - If
Album: Grace Jones - Hurricane Dub
Album: Jamie Woon - Mirrorwriting
Film: Winter´s Bone
Food: Beetroot a la Stroganoff
Book: Thomas Harlan. Hitler was my dower. A conversation with Jean Pierre Stephan.
Stephen Newell
Records 2011:
- Wye Oak - Civilian
- Blood Orange - Coastal Grooves
- Zomby -Dedication
- Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
- The Field - A Looping State Of Mind
- Charles Bradley - No Time For Dreaming
- Walls - Coracle
- Washed Out - Within & Without
Sporting Highlights 2011:
- Ireland beating Australia in the Rugby World Cup
- Leinster beating Northampton in the Heineken Cup Final
Dan Ogden
1 – Going to Tokyo.
2 - Queens of the Stone age at the Roundhouse, London
3 – North Sea Radio Orchestra at St.Giles in the Field, London
4 - 'Limbo' Videogame
5 – Still Corners 'Creatures of an Hour'
6 – Blood Orange 'Coastal Grooves'
7 – 'Portal 2' Videogame
8 – 'The Walking Dead' TV Series 2
9 – Boris 'Attention Please'
10 – Toro Y Moi 'Underneath The Pine'
Jeff Pachman
My Brightest Diamond w/Y Music - All Things Will Unwind (Asthmatic Kitty)
Low – C'mon (Sub Pop)
LA Noire – (Rock Star Games)
DRIVE – feature film
Wilco – The Whole Love
Tom Waits – Bad as Me
Jenifer Jackson – "Bring on the Night"
The Miracles Club – "Light of Love"
YACHT – "Shangri La"
Keren Ann – "My Name is Trouble"
Dan Papps
- Real Estate - Days.
- Azari & III - Reckless With Your Love.
- Sun Ra Arkestra (directed by Marshall Allen) - Cafe Oto, 07/12/11.
- Julia Holter - Tragedy.
- Oral B Complete 'Fresh Mint' Toothpaste.
- Thundercat - Daylight.
- Sharon Van Etten - Serpent.
- Nas - Nasty.
- Juliana Barwick - The Magic Place.
- Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For Your Halo.
Special mention for the colour Navy Blue.
Pat Riley
1) Jackie (Woman)
2) Hiro (Canine)
3) Dirty Beaches "Badlands" (Compact Disc)
4) Handsome Furs "Sound Kapital" (Compact Disc)
5) Various Artists "Wheedles Groove Limited Edition 7" Box Set" (Vinyl)
6) Mogwai "Earth Division" (Compact Disc)
7) Austra "Feel It Break" (Compact Disc)
8) Shabazz Palaces "Black Up" (Vinyl)
9) Arctic Monkeys "Suck It and See" (Compact Disc)
10) my Cowichan sweater (Wool)
Honorable mentions: Anna Calvi live at Le Poisson Rouge, Adam Marnie "Locus Rubric" at Derek Eller Gallery, Daniel Chester French "Mourning Victory from the Melvin Memorial" and the Animation Hotline. I'm also enjoying Spotify even though I prefer my own version of it that I like to call Boughtify.
Alex Rose
top 10 songs of 2011 (in no particular order):
- The People's Temple - "Sons of Stone" (Sons of Stone, HoZac)
- Austra - "Lose It" (Feel It Break, Domino)
- OBN III's - "No Enemies" (The One and Only, Tic Tac Totally)
- Christmas - "Namiot" (S/T, Highfives and Handshakes)
- Real Estate - "It's Real" (Days, Domino)
- Föllakzoid - "IV, III, II, I" (Föllakzoid EP, Sacred Bones)
- Coasting - "Kids" (You're Never Going Back, M'Lady's)
- Thee Oh Sees - "Contraption/Soul Desert" (Carrion Crawler/The Dream, In The Red)
- Quilt - "Penobska Oakwalk" (S/T, Mexican Summer)
- YACHT - "I Walked Alone (Larry Gus Remix)" (Shangri-La, DFA
Paul Sandell
Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow
The War On Drugs - Slave Ambient
Julia Holter - Tragedy
Eleanor Friedberger - Last Summer
Craft Spells - Idle Labor
Bo ningen - Live at THe Raw Power Festival
The Caretaker -An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
Low - C'Mon
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine
Moon Duo - Mazes
Steph Seager
- Starting at Domino and trying my best not to drive Dan completely insane.
- Some amazing gigs since I've been to here so far – Anna Calvi at Shepherds Bush, Wild Beasts at Shepherds Bush, Arctics at the 02, Real Estate at the Scala, The Kills at Brixton… the list continues.
- Two words - Eugene. Mcguinness. Exciting times are most definitely ahead in 2012!
- Great times at Columbia and making some friends for life there. Highlights include - being part of team Miles Kane - watching him going from playing the Water Rats a year ago to two sold out Electric Ballrooms and finishing my Columbia career with a brilliant Radio One Live Lounge (well, I am a radio geek), working with the Manics - the nicest band ever - officially. The journey to Isle Of Wight and the discovery of Nick Nav. Being in the same room as Bruce Springsteen. Um, Madcon… or possibly not.
- The return of a deeply unhealthy obssession with the Foo Fighters at gigs from Carlisle to the Roundhouse to Milton Keynes. Tears were most definitely cried, pride was lost, it was all amazing.
- Finally learning after years of ignorance how to make a yousendit link and realising its really not very hard after all.
- Arthur!
- My friends, coffee and Jimmy Eat World 'The Middle' – the three things that can get me through any day.
- Films of the year include – Senna, Moneyball and anything with Ryan Gosling in it (even the shit ones), Back And Forth, Pearl Jam 20.
- Favourite non Domino albums of the year include – Foo Fighters, Noah And The Whale, The James Cleaver Quintet, Drake, Tom Waits, Tyler The Creator, Fucked Up, City and Colour, Bombay Bicycle Club.
Jack Shankly
1 - Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
2 - Pure X - Pleasure
3 - Zomby - Dedication
4 - Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Unknown Mortal Orchestra
5 - The Sandwitches - Mrs Jones' Cookies
6 - A$AP ROCKY - Live Love ASAP
7 - Araabmuzik - Electronic Dream
8 - Cass McCombs - Wit's End / Humor Risk
9 - Kuedo - Severant
10 - John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves
Sarah Stewart
- Phenomenon: Anna Calvi
- Party: Cityfox Street Parade Pool Party at Rimini Bar / Zürich
- Dancefloor: Daniel Steinberg at Salon Zur Wilden Renate / Berlin
- Festival: Four tet / Playground Weekender
- Album: Kurt Vile / Smoke Ring For My Halo
- Song: King Creosote & Jon Hopkins / Bats In The Attic
- Feel Good Music Video: Real Estate / It's Real (also best T-shirt!)
- Gig: Sufjan Stevens & Owen Pallett / Sydney Opera House
- Exhibition: China de la Vega / Riding Fences
- Inspiration: Steve Jobs / How to live before you die Stanford Commencement Address (albeit from 2005)
- Heartbreaker: Cass McCombs
Matt Sweeney
1. Todd Terje - Snooze 4 Love
2. Metronomy- The Look
3. Betty Harris - Mean Man
4. Bon Iver - I Can't Make You Love Me
5. M83 - Midnight City (Trentmoller Remix)
6. Kurt Vile - Runner Ups
7. I Break Horses - Winter Beats
8. Burning Hearts - Into The Wilderness
9. The War On Drugs - Baby Missiles
10. Julio Bashmore - Battle For Middle You
Henry Thomas
- The Apache Relay
- Two half cups of tea from Matt
- Zomby
- Mahavishnu Orchestra on office stereo during my 3rd interview
- Clare's Hackney bike route
- White Denim
- Being sandwiched between a Michael Mercer and Stephen Newell bromance
- Real Estate at the Garage and in general
- Lianne La Havas
- Being bottom of the Domino Fantasy Football league for so long that I had to leave
Nathan Thompson
- The Rapture - In The Grace Of Your Love
- Civil Civic - Rules
- M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
- The Do - Both Ways Open Jaws
- Sebastian - Total
- Real Estate - Days
- Wild Flag - Wild Flag
- Peaking Lights - 936
- Korallreven - An Album By Korallreven
... And at number 10 my Spotify premium account which has helped me discover so much great music this year.
Donna Vergier
- Domino Radio – the Event of the year
- The Kills – Blood Pressures album
- The Smith Westerns – Dye It Blonde album
- Arctic Monkeys live at Rock En Seine
- Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes album
- Francois and the Atlas Mountains live at QEH
- Crystal Fighters – Star Of Love album
- The Night Circus - book
- Anna Calvi live at L'Olympia Paris
- Independent Label's Market Stalls
Anna Warchol
1. Editions Mego
2. Conrad Schnitzler: Ballet Statique - 2011 edition (M=Minimal)
3. Mika Vainio: Life (...It Eats You Up) (Editions Mego)
4. Mist: House (Spectrum Spools)
5. Throbbing Gristle reissues (Industrial Records)
6. Mordant Music: ModernismuseuM (Mordant Music)
7. Regis: In A Syrian Tongue (Blackest Ever Black)
8. Shackleton: Fireworks (Honest Jon's)
9. Dopplereffekt @ XOYO
10. Sacrum Profanum 2011
Paula Williams
- ClayPigeon – Time Won't Cease
- Incubus – If Not Now, When?
- Skindred – Union Black
- Random Hand – Seething is Believing
- New Town Kings – M.O.J.O
- Korn – Path to Totality
- Jaya The Cat - More Late Night Transmissions With...
- One Day by David Nicholls (The book, not the film)
- Incubus @ HMV Forum 14/06/2011
- Capdown, The Skints, The Filaments & The JB Conspiracy @ Koko 06/11/2011
John Williamson
- Sky Full of Holes - Fountains of Wayne
- Real Estate - Days
- Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
- The Guard
- Moscow Olympics - Cut The World
- Metronomy - The English Riviera
- Midnight In Paris
- Those Dancing Days - Daydreams and Nightmares
- Silver Seas - Chateau Revenge
- The Feelies - Here Before
Kay Wrate
1. Toro Y Moi – Freaking Out EP
2. Major Lazer Party at Notting Hill Carnival
3. Zombie Boy
4. Ghostpoet live/album
5. Bobby
6. Beyonce at Glastonbury via the TV
7. Portishead ATP
8. Conor O' Brien's swag at the Ivors
9. The Horrors- Skying
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PARIS - The director of the Paris police service says he wants the officers implicated in the alleged rape of a Canadian woman out of his department.
Bernard Petit's remarks Monday to French radio station Europe1 came as authorities investigated two officers accused of raping the Canadian tourist at the city's police headquarters.
Both officers from the elite police unit, as well as a third who's considered a witness, have been suspended pending the outcome of an investigation that could take weeks or even months to complete.
French media have reported a 34-year-old Toronto woman met the off-duty officers in a bar last week and later went with them to their workplace.
As she left the station, she reportedly told another police officer she'd been raped, but a lawyer for one of the suspects told The Canadian Press the sex was consensual.
The police director told the radio station Monday he would not discuss the criminal allegations, but he called the behaviour of the officers from the noted anti-gang unit "absolutely unacceptable and intolerable."
"From an administrative point of view, things are clear in our minds," said Petit, who also noted they should have never have let someone from the outside into the headquarters.
"These boys no longer have a place within our unit."
The famed police headquarters, where the SWAT-like team is based, is often referred to in France simply by its address: 36 Quai des Orfevres.
A former French police officer, who now works in Montreal as a journalist and police analyst, said the building is well-known in France because of its many references in film and literature.
"It's a little bit like Scotland Yard," said Stephane Berthomet, who added he also worked for the French government on files such as organized crime and terrorism.
He said the police unit in question, known as the search and intervention brigade, conducts surveillance and carries out raids connected to major criminal activities.
Berthomet said that under French law a judge was designated to oversee the investigation because there was enough evidence that suggested an offence may have been committed.
Once the investigation is complete, he said the judge will either recommend that the officers be prosecuted in a criminal court or decide not to proceed due to a lack of sufficient evidence.
Sebastien Schapira, a lawyer for one of the officers, has denied his client did anything wrong.
Schapira told The Canadian Press on Sunday his client had "consensual" sexual relations with the woman.
He said the Canadian has since returned home, but he believes she should be in France while the investigation is carried out.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve announced over the weekend the officers had been removed from their posts during the investigation. He also said a disciplinary inquiry within the force is already underway.
— With files from Andy Blatchford in Montreal


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Fourth Grade Technology: 32 Lessons Every Fourth Grader Can Accomplish on a Computer
by Structured Learning IT Teaching Team
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I'm often asked what books I'd recommend for teaching technology in the classroom. Each year about this time, I do a series of reviews on my favorite tech ed books. If you want to fix some of last year's problems, I suggest you consider the nine-volume K-8 technology curriculum series that's used in hundreds of school districts across the country (and internationally). It's skills-based, project-based, aligned with Common Core and NETS national standards and fully integratable into state core classroom standards.
The fifth in the series, the 203-page Fourth Grade Technology: 32 Lessons Any Fourth Grader Can Do, (Structured Learning 2013), available in print or digital, and perfect for Smartscreens, iPads, laptops. It includes many age-appropriate samples, reproducibles, Web 2.0 connections, thematic websites, pedagogic articles, and how-to's. Because I edited this book, I made sure it includes pieces that I as a teacher knew to be critical to the classroom:
- K-6 vertically-integrated Scope and Sequence
- Certificate of Completion for students when they finish the year
- a summary of steps for a 45-minute class period–usually 2-3 activities, arranged temporally throughout the year for ease of understanding by students. For example, a lesson is likely to include 2-3 activities from among typing practice, student presentations, project that ties into core class activity, problem-solving that assists with 1:1 initiatives
- Common Core and ISTE standards supported
- domain-specific vocabulary
- Big Idea and Essential Questions for each unit
- integrations to core classroom units
- trouble-shooting solutions to the problems most likely to come up in the classroom
- enrichments for those precocious students who finish the lesson and want more
- a list of websites (PDF has active links). Both print and PDF can access a webpage on Ask a Tech Teacher that is updated yearly with new websites by grade level and category
- a help link (to this blog) to a teacher using the curriculum who will help you through the prickly parts of a lesson plan. This is FREE–no charge.
- Where lessons center around purchased software, the authors made an effort to offer free alternatives. For example, instead of KidPix, teachers can use TuxPaint. Instead of Type to Learn, teachers can use a list of online keyboarding websites like Dance Mat Typing and Typing Web
- pedagogy articles to help think through critical issues like keyboarding, use of the internet, how to use wikis in classrooms, and more
- wall posters covering critical technology issues (like mouse skills)
- monthly homework for grades 3-5
- FREE membership in a real-time teaching wiki where you can teach along side an experienced teacher using the curriculum every week
If you purchase the PDF, it's in full color with hundreds of active links so you can click through to enrichments quickly.
Here's the blurb:
The choice of hundreds of school districts, private schools and homeschoolers around the world and tens of thousands of students, this nine-volume tech ed curriculum is the all-in-one solution to running an effective, efficient, and fun technology program for kindergarten-eighth grade (each grade level textbook sold separately) whether you are the lab specialist, IT coordinator, or classroom teacher. Each lesson is aligned with both Common Core State Standards* (6th grade: aligned via Table of Contents) and National Educational Technology Standards, and includes an Essential Question, Big Idea, suggested Assessments, required materials, vocabulary, problem solving, teacher preparation required, how to extend learning, examples, grading rubrics, additional resources, and how students can collaborate/share projects. Using a tested approach that promotes literacy, critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making, students learn the technology required to prepare for their future. The secret for you, as teacher, is knowing what to teach and when. Each textbook includes a K-6 wide-ranging Scope and Sequence, 32 weekly lessons, monthly homework (3rd-5th only), student Certificate of Completion, a comprehensive list of websites to support learning, articles that address tech pedagogy, and posters ready to print and hang on your walls. With your purchase, you receive FREE access to a wealth of online resources including hundreds of teacher materials that differentiate instruction, websites that extend learning, and free help from professionals using the curriculum (membership included with purchase). Note: Color and embedded links shown in Click to Look Inside are included in pdf only.
Any questions? Post them to comments. I'll answer them!
Disclaimer: I am one of the editors for this series, though it's a collaboration of a team of technology teachers.
Where to purchase:
- Amazon.com (print books)
- Teachers Pay Teachers (ebooks)
- Publisher's website (print, ebooks, specials, sets)
Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years. She is the editor of a K-8 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum, and creator of technology training books for how to integrate technology in education. She is webmaster for six blogs, CSG Master Teacher, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, Editorial Review Board member for Journal for Computing Teachers, Cisco guest blogger, a columnist for Examiner.com, IMS tech expert, and a weekly contributor to TeachHUB. Currently, she's editing a techno-thriller that should be out to publishers next summer.


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Ask any tech professional, and they'll surely tell you a system migration is, at best, a challenge. But add poor communication and an inept project manager to the task, and you'll soon find yourself engulfed in chaos.
A couple of years ago, our company was bought out by a large global giant. The deal closed, and the layoffs and reorganization began. In the midst of all this, the mammoth task of merging the two firms' IT infrastructures was led by a team from the new company under the management of "John."
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I'd been proud to work at our old company. We'd maintained high standards with IT best practices, planned extensively for IT projects before implementing changes in phases to make sure nothing broke, and valued open communication between departments. In contrast, the new company was a disorganized hodgepodge of several acquired enterprises Band-Aided together like Frankenstein, had an attitude toward IT projects of "just throw it out there to see what happens," and didn't communicate between groups -- they were more siloed than a Midwest corn farm.
And like hot and cold air masses clashing over Oklahoma, destruction was brewing.
Before the storm: Preparing to migrate
John's team decided we should start the migration with the old company's corporate headquarters. The lack of planning was alarming, but John assured us all would be well; he and his team had done this dozens of times before.
The big project for IT support was to get users' accounts, mailboxes, and PCs onto the new company's domain. The migration team had used a "successful" procedure for the last several acquisitions: a third-party tool to automatically migrate all three items at once. We were to do this for everyone in the building, and our new manager told us we'd do this the night of Oct. 24. Of course, it was critical that both their user account and PC be migrated at the same time or they wouldn't be able to log in.
There was more: Oct. 24 loomed large for other teams within the company. For example, various silos had been tasked with migrating by Oct. 24 and 25. John's team also oversaw these departments' migration assignment, but failed miserably in scheduling and communicating these goals. And completely separate from the rest of IT, the network team had been working on its own merger project. To adopt the security practices of the new company, all network jacks that had not been used in six months were to be deactivated at midnight on -- wait for it -- Oct. 24.
As if that weren't enough, around the time the merger closed, we were in the middle of a rollout of new PCs to everyone in the building. Once the shakeup happened, the inventory backlog dropped down the list of priorities; about half the users had the wrong PC listed as their primary unit. We should double-check everything before the migration, we told John. His reply: "Nah -- it will be OK."
Last but not least, because workers at the new company's corporate headquarters were crammed in the building like sardines, a couple of departments would be moved to our already tight office. The Facilities department was to reconfigure hundreds of rooms. They did not communicate the new assignments, so none of this information was updated in Active Directory. We knew a move was happening but weren't told when.


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COIT Celebrates Indoor Air Quality Month With Online Quiz, Air Quality Recommendations
October is Indoor Air Quality Month, and COIT a leading supplier of specialty cleaning and disaster restoration services headquartered in San Francisco, has posted an online Indoor Air Quality Quiz to help homeowners around the country evaluate their indoor environment.
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) October 31, 2011 - October is Indoor Air Quality Month, and COIT a leading supplier of specialty cleaning and disaster restoration services headquartered in San Francisco, has posted an online Indoor Air Quality Quiz (http://www.coit.com/air-duct-cleaning) to help homeowners around the country evaluate their indoor environment.
"Our quiz asks questions that will help homeowners determine if they have a problem and need a solution," Bob Kearn, president and CEO of COIT, said. "For example, if anyone in a home has allergies, asthma, or other respiratory problems, it's especially critical to monitor indoor air quality. It's also important to be sure enough airflow is coming through vents in the home."
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, some of the most common sources of indoor air pollution include combustion sources such as oil, gas, kerosene, coal, wood, and tobacco products; building materials; wet or damp carpet; and central heating and cooling systems.
An HVAC system can cause indoor air problems if it is not serviced and cleaned on a regular basis. The system draws indoor pollutants and allergens (as well as outdoor air contaminants that have made their way into the home through open windows or on pets, clothes or footwear) into its air ducts. Over time, these pollutants can collect with dust on the sides of the air ducts, and be re-circulated through the indoor environment upon operation of the system. According to The American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology (ACAAI), allergic reactions to components in dust can range from a runny or stuffy nose to itchy, watery eyes or even asthma symptoms. Microscopic organisms called dust mites also breed in dust. The common phrase "dust allergies" actually refers to allergies to the droppings of dust mites.
Maintaining good indoor air quality is always important, but it can be more of an issue during the cold winter months, when the weather prevents homeowners from opening windows and airing out the home. As a result, Kearn notes that fall is a good time to re-evaluate indoor air quality and consider having air ducts cleaned.
"We recommend an air duct cleaning service at least every two years," Kearn said. "In addition to preventing the collection of contaminants and dust in the HVAC system, and therefore improving indoor air quality, a cleaning will help the system operate more efficiently." COIT uses an exclusive HEPA-Aire™ vacuum and Aire-Sweep™ compressor system that pulls air duct pollutants into a contained filtration system capable of capturing debris 1/300th the diameter of a human hair.
For more information about indoor air quality and COIT, call 1-800-367-2648. The company will direct you to the COIT location nearest to your home.
About COIT
With more than 60 years of industry experience in the U.S., Canada and Thailand, COIT is a leading supplier of carpet cleaning, upholstery anddrapery cleaning services. The company also provides tile & grout cleaning, air duct cleaning, and 24-hour emergency restoration services. COIT's impeccable reputation offers customers the peace of mind that comes from knowing every job will be done right the first time. For information on franchise opportunities, call Pat Saign at (800) 243-8797 X108. For online ordering, visit http://www.coit.com.
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Published in 1973, Arthur Tress' photo book, The Dream Collector, features visions of childhood dreams and nightmares. Tress began shooting these dream scenarios in the 1960s, first speaking with children about their dreams and nightmares, then staging an interpretation of the children's visions via photography. During the 60s, staged photography was a rather new development within the photography medium; most photographers were taking shots on the streets. Over the next 20 years, Tress developed his trademark black and white, mythological, surreal photography. The Dream Collector collection represents Tress' particular style while expressing "how the child's creative imagination is constantly transforming his existence into magical symbols for unexpressed states of feeling or being."
"The children would be asked means of acting out their visions or to suggest ways of making them into visual actualities," Tress explains. "Often the location itself, such as an automobile graveyard or abandoned merry-go-round, would provide the possibility of dreamlike themes and spontaneous improvisation to the photographer and his subjects. In recreating these fantasies there is often a combination of actual dream, mythical archetypes, fairytale, horror movie, comic hook, and imaginative play. These inventions often reflect the child's inner life, his hopes and fears…"
The Getty Museum recently acquired 66 of Tress' photographs from two collections, including images from The Dream Collector. (via juxtapoz and gothamist)