This activity is meant to help your participants discover and develop their dreams and goals. Dream Catcher is based on the SMART goals theory that goals and dreams must be Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-Bound.
Organize participants into a circle and place the bucket in the middle of the circle.
Round 1: The goal is for each participant to say their dream and place it in the "Dream Catcher" as quickly as possible.
Round 2: Challenge the participants to restate their goal, making it more specific and time bound. The team still has the same goal for this round: Each participant says their dream and places it in the "Dream Catcher" as quickly as possible.
Round 3: This time the group gets even more specific and has the same goal: Each participant says their dream and places it in the "Dream Catcher" as quickly as possible.
In between each round, challenge the participants to really think about their dream and start to "own it" by declaring that they will achieve their dream each time they share it with the group. The group always has the goal of completing the activity as quickly as possible while every participant "achieves" their dream. They may start out by tossing their dream into the Dream Catcher or even running to the middle to place their dream in the Dream Catcher. There are no rules on how their dream gets into the Dream Catcher, and they can even pick it up and pass it around the group.
You can use this activity just as a dreams activity without the actual initiative involved.
Do the activity with five rounds and follow the SMART goal steps.
Were the participants inspired by each other's dreams?
Were there any ideas or options to help them more quickly "achieve" their dreams?
Could they have moved the bucket? Are there any things in their actual life that could help them achieve their dreams?
Use the processing time as an opportunity to help the participants plan out ways to achieve their dreams.
Challenge the participants to come up with a dream that is actually achievable or attainable.
Almost everyone has a goal or a dream, but many do not know how to make their goals SMART Goals. This activity will help participants make their goals more specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound.
Props: A piece of paper per participant (any size will work, but the larger the better) & writing utensils.
Give participants a piece of paper and ask them to fold the paper in half 5 times.
For the last step, ask the participants to unfold the paper one last time, flip it over, and write their new SMART Goal. Ask them to sign the paper and date it.
After the activity, the participants should now have a piece of paper with their SMART Goal, some factors that say how they could achieve the goal (attainable), their reasons for attaining that goal (relevant), and a date to accomplish the goal (time-bound).
Encourage participants to draw or paint their goals, this will help them become more realistic.
Bring old magazines and newspapers, scissors, and glue to let the participants make their last page into an art masterpiece.
What did it feel like once you had a SMART Goal?
Do you feel like you are closer to achieving your goal now?
What is the next action step now that you have a SMART Goal?
What were some of the things on your relevant page? Why do you want to achieve this goal?
Who can help you achieve this goal?
It is usually very beneficial to combine this workshop with a brief introduction to SMART Goals. It works to explain SMART Goals either before the activity, or as a step-by-step guide during the initiative.
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Way back on January 1 of this year I declared my goals and resolutions for 2012. Yesterday, July 2, was exactly the half-way point for the year, so I decided to check up on my goals and evaluate my progress.
Last Friday I took a fitness assessment at our wonderful new gym. The personal trainer took me through a variety of tests which compared my metabolic age to my actual age. After the strength training and cardiovascular portions of the exam I had the prowess of an 18-year-old. I had the body-fat percentage of a 25-year-old. So far it was looking good for your old pal the goal-setter. The test was not over unfortunately…I still had to take the flexibility assessment. The trainer sat me on the floor and asked me to reach as far as I could toward a box against the wall. Most normal people were asked to push a sliding lever as far as they could on top of the box. The trainer asked me if I could touch the lever (I'm not going to tell you if I could or couldn't…I couldn't). I had the flexibility of a 70-year-old man, and I think that is only because that is the maximum age on the metabolic scale.
I tell you this story because I have not stuck to my New Year's Resolution. I had all these plans to stretch every day, to sit on the floor and touch my toes while I watched TV, to stretch before and after exercise. Unfortunately, I have decided to sleep in everyday, eat while I watch TV and jump right into exercise.
I know my weaknesses, and flexibility is on that long list. I am going to start stretching every day, my assessment at the gym was a real wake-up call. If I do not change something I am going to become an old, brittle, inflexible man someday. That changes this second half of the year. The trainer showed me some great stretches, and gave some solid advice, and I feel as if I am on the right track.
Goal #1: Pay off student loans.
Kristin and I paid off our student loans (well, my student loans) in February of this year. According to Dave Ramsey, we now completed baby step number 2, and we are moving on to baby step number 3. This was a huge relief for us, since the only debt we now have is our mortgage. This frees up money for us to save, share and give.
Goal #2: Save $10,000 for an emergency fund.
We are well on our way to completing baby step number 3. Having money in our emergency fund will allow us to put more money into retirement, save for baby Jane's college fund (or her extravagant wedding), and will allow us to have financial flexibility heading into 2013 and beyond.
Goal #3: Facilitate 25 paid EA events.
As of July 2nd, I have facilitated 13 Experiential Adventure workshops. I love doing these trainings, and I have several more in July to help me achieve my goal. I have facilitated in three states and Brazil. This is one of my goals I am the most excited about, because I thought it would be one of the hardest to accomplish.
Brazil Baby! What a wonderful trip. I am currently working on a post specifically reserved for the amazing things we were able to do in Campinas, Sao Paulo and Rio. This is the second continent we have facilitated on, and we hope to add one more to the list before the huge Antarctica trip in 2014.
This one was completed in a hurry. Murr, my personal assistant, was able to find a training in Boston in January that fit our needs. We loaded up on a plane, flew to the Northeast and had a wonderful time. Our experiences at PA strengthened my resolve, stretched my abilities, and increased my repertoire. I fully intend to have this goal on my list in 2013 since this training was so beneficial. Also, because of Murr's excellent personal assistance during this trip, I have noted it on his annual performance review.
Goal #7: Check 12 things off of the Bucketlist.
I love my Bucketlist. So far I only have checked four things off my list this year.
Spend the night in a haunted house.
Eat at a Brazilian Steakhouse in Brazil.
Visit an orphanage in a foreign country.
Stand beside the Christ the Redeemer statue.
I fully expect to check more things off of my list when I have the opportunity. I have already booked a trip to Europe at the end of this year, and will certainly get to check off a few more (1. Try to make a guard laugh at Buckingham Palace, 2. See Stonehenge, 3. Kiss on top the Eiffel Tower, 4. Walk around the Colosseum in Rome).
However, I still have some work to do before I can accomplish this goal. I still want to skydive, bungee jump, visit Mt. Rushmore and get six-pack abs. Of course, if something awesome happens between now and then that is Bucketlist worthy, you better believe I will add it to the list and then check it off.
Goal #8: Set a World Record.
I will admit…I have done absolutely nothing to achieve this goal. I have done all of the necessary paperwork to set a world record, but I have yet to train or attempt to have my name entered into the Guinness Record Books. After I complete the Branson Half-Ironman in September, I hope to focus more of my time on this goal.
Goal #9: Get six-pack abs.
I currently weigh 200 pounds, and I will not achieve this goal unless I weigh no more than 185 pounds. I have exercised and trained fairly well for the past six months, but I have not achieved the results I desire. I am putting in extra time right now to achieve this goal. I know the six-pack is under this layer of fat, I am just trying to find it.
Goal #10: Get back into church.
Kristin and I attend Sanctuary in South Tulsa, but they just moved their campus to Jenks. We are searching for a new church that Jane can grow up in and establish her own faith. The trip to Brazil did wonders for my faith, and I am continuing to grow as a man and as a Christian.
Welp, those are my goals I set forth over 6 months ago. Three goals are completed, and most of the others are over halfway there! Help keep me accountable. If you see me, ask me how my goals are coming along.
How are your goals at this halfway point? There is still so much of 2012 left to accomplish amazing things. If you haven't started on your goals, write some down and start accomplishing them today.
Welcome to 2012! How was your 2011? My 2011 was awesome, and in case you missed it, we welcomed Sweet Baby Jane, I traveled to Cuba, completed The Labor Day Challenge, wrote a book, and of course started Experiential Adventure.
This isn't gross at all.
Anyone that has ever witnessed me trying to sit on the floor knows I am ridiculously inflexible. Not just inflexible, but pathetically inflexible. It's not that touching my toes would be nice, but I would jump with joy if I could touch my ankles. I would love to be able to sit on the floor without having to support my back. I do not know when I became inflexible, but I have struggled with it my whole life. I never passed the President's Fitness Challenge as a kid because I failed the stretching test every year (dominated the run, however). Breaking my hip in high school and a lifetime of never stretching has made things worse over time. Becoming flexible has been a constant resolution on my get-better list, and obviously it hasn't happened. Now, I am getting older, and it is getting worse.
I plan to stretch for a minimum of five minutes per day. I plan to occasionally practice yoga. I plan to stretch after each workout. I will measure my progress by writing on my legs as I start to stretch lower and lower. (Not really..but maybe) Seriously though, I will be happy if I could touch my toes and sit on the floor with ease.
You know what is awesome about goals? Very few people know how to realistically set goals. You may be asking yourself, "why would he say that is awesome?" It is awesome because once you correctly learn to set SMART goals, it is almost as if you are predicting the future. Whaaaaaaa?
If you determine that you will positively, without a doubt, no questions asked make your goals a reality, you are determining the direction your life is headed. Eric Pio says, "If you know it's going to happen there's no need to call it a dream." Let's change our mindset about goals. Let's become SMART about the goals we make for our life. Let's start directing our future…might as well start today, might as well make 2012 the year.
1. Pay off student loans.
I graduated…into $20,000 of debt!
Going to college was one of the smartest decisions I have made in my short life. Some of the decisions I made in college, not so much. I started at NSU in the fall of 2001 as a bright-eyed freshmen with a full scholarship. I graduated 5 years later with a degree, amazing experiences, and nearly $20,000 in student loan debt. What happened you ask? Well, I'd like to blame it on a tough major (pre-physical therapy), my busy fraternity and social lifestyle, girls, or even my professors. However, I was lazy, unmotivated, and ill-prepared for the rigors of collegiate academics. I lost my scholarships and had to pay my own way. Eventually I regained my scholarships, and even attained a master's degree, but not before I racked up thousands in debt. I do not regret the loans, I did what I needed to survive, but it will sure be nice to not have the $205 payment every month.
Kristin and I owe $3,808.26 to student loan debt (Kristin graduated with 151 hours and a 4.0 in four years with no debt at NSU…I hope Jane is like her momma and not her dad!). We typically pay $205 a month to OSLA, but since it is the only debt we have other than our mortgage, we are able to pay more each month. We also plan on placing our entire 2012 federal tax return on the student loans. I expect to be out of student loan debt by March.
2. Save $10,000 for emergency fund.
One of the most influential books I read last year was Dave Ramsey's "The Total Money Makeover." It was a eye-opening look at how to handle finances, and I have been following his plan with gazelle-like intensity since I finished the book. Ramsey explains "baby steps" a couple should follow to become debt free, and eventually rich. Step 1 is to save $1,000 for an emergency fund (check). Step 2 is to pay off all debt using the debt snowball (almost check). Step 3 is to save up 3-6 months emergency funds (2012 check). The reason Kristin and I have so little student loan debt now is because we nearly depleted our savings account paying our student loans. We still have the $1,000 emergency fund, but Ramsey suggests using your built up savings to pay off debt to avoid heavy interest payments. So far this has been extremely successful for our family's finances. After we pay off our student loan debt in March, we will only have our mortgage as debt, and we will be able to place over $1,000 a month into our savings account. This was money we were paying every month into several different types of debt and interest, but now will be freed up to place in savings.
3. Facilitate 25 paid EA events.
I started Experiential Adventure in January 2011 as an opportunity to make some money off of one of my hobbies. I truly envisioned it as a means to my dream of traveling with my work. If you know me at all, you know I love to explore the world, regardless of destination or reason. I thought Experiential Adventure would allow me to get paid to travel, meet new people, and hopefully share some of my passion of experiential learning with others who wanted to better reach their students/clients.
I never dreamt that I would have presented events in four states and Cuba in one year. I facilitated at church camps, leadership camps, universities, and at ropes courses. The highlight of Experiential Adventure so far is definitely the Cuba International Leadership Conference, where we worked with 300 Cuban youth leaders to better reach their students.
This upcoming year I want to facilitate 25 paid events. I have already booked 10 events for 2012, but my overall goal is 25. I hope to meet my overall EA goal of training trainers, presenting keynote addresses, and facilitating the international trips. I am going to follow-up my leads from exhibiting at SWASAP, and I am going to present in TX, OK, NM, LA and AR.
As stated above, I traveled to Cuba in July of 2011 to host the Cuban International Leadership Conference. I have a long-term goal of hosting a leadership conference on 6 continents by 2014. I am currently at 1! We have researched hosting camps in Thailand, Brazil, and Australia in 2012, but it seems certain that our international leadership conference will be in Romania.
Jerrod Murr, my personal assistant (inside joke) for Experiential Adventure is gathering the details of this trip as we speak. I am currently in the process of raising funds to make the trip a reality.
Project Adventure is an experiential-based non-profit organization based out of the Boston area, and they are by far the Godfather of challenge course facilitating, adventure based programming, and all things awesome. I was fortunate enough to travel to Beverly, MA with NSU ETS in 2007, and this trip specifically ignited my passion for experiential learning and leadership. I have used their initiatives and activities with my students in Educational Talent Search, and with my EA programming.
I need to go back. I need to enhance my skills. I need to meet the facilitators who are the experts in the field. I need to learn what it will take to become an experiential-based expert.
I have saved up money and allocated some funds specifically for this training. As of now, the hardest part of making this trip is finding the time. I declare 2012 as Boston or Bust.
I read about 20 books in 2011. Books of all types and genres covering 100s of years of literature. My favorite book of 2011 was "The Success Principles" by Jack Canfield. I also really enjoyed Karl Rohnke's "On the Edge Games for Youth Leaders," "Great Expectations" by Dickens, and "Of Mice and Men" by Steinbeck. I am about a quarter of the way through "The Leadership Challenge" by Kouzes and Posner, and I have a stack of books I am very interested in reading.
A book a week. This will require steadfast dedication to reading, and I plan to set aside time every day to read. I will read on breaks, listen to audiobooks, and turn off the TV, computer, and iPhone in lieu of a good book. I don't know if I will accomplish this goal, but I will certainly be better off for trying.
7. Check 12 things off the Bucketlist.
Let's be clear, I love checking things off my Bucketlist. I am constantly looking for things to add to my list an researching how I can accomplish these tasks. However, 2011 was not a good year for my Bucketlist.The only thing checked off my list was on June 28, when I took my first Yoga class. This year is going to be a different story. I am officially declaring 2012 "The Year of the Bucketlist." I have a goal of checking 12 items off the list in 12 months.
These are the 12 items I am going to try to accomplish. I will work very hard to accomplish one item each month throughout the year.
Of course, if anything ridiculously awesome happens to me that I want to add to my list and check off…I'll make it happen.
8. Set a World Record.
I think most people want to set a world record. Most people aren't able to, which is why it is a world record…makes sense doesn't it?? This past year, I applied to attempt a world record. You can't just break a record and then call the Guinness people to get your name in the book. One must apply to attempt a record, then get approval to break said record, and then break the record.
I applied to attempt a unique record…"Fastest mile hopped on one-leg." I heard back from Guinness and got the approval. I have been waiting for the right time to break this record…and I have decided 2012 is the year.
I plan to "train" for this event once a week until I feel prepared to actually pursue the record. After I am ready, I will need to find an official timer for the event, and someone to officially measure the course. After these things happen, I simply need to break the record!
Insert this goal under the self-vanity category. I have been half-way pursuing this goal for several years now (my whole life). I know this a frivolous pursuit, but I tell myself that the reason I want six-pack abs is to prove tom myself that I can do something ridiculously hard. I of course do this to ease my conscience a little.
I have conquered being skinny recently, and it was a challenge. Getting a six-pack takes an unreal amount of dedication and perseverance. You not only need to be physically fit, you must workout consistently, eat well, and stay focused for months. It will literally take me almost all year to accomplish this goal.
I have found an effective abs routine that works for me. The problem is it is no fun and very hard. I will complete this exercise 3 times a week. I will also follow the Abs Diet for as long as it takes to get the six-pack. I need to weigh around 185 to have a six-pack, and I currently sit at about 200 lbs.
10. Get back into church.
Yes, I was that skinny!
I recently facilitated activities at the Assembly of God Oklahoma Student Leadership Retreat in Turner Falls. This place holds a special place in my heart, and every time I go back I am flooded with nostalgia. I remember times of Mud Mountain, KP duty, Brandon Nickell and the MG, and of course awesome services in the old outdoor tabernacle. As I walked up the hill to the cafeteria past the concession stand, I thought about how important my church family was to me as a teen. I lived and breathed Muskogee First Assembly. I was there Sundays, Wednesdays, and any other day I could catch a ride to the church. I literally grew up under the pews. I was saved there, baptized there, and even married there.
The fine folks at M1A helped me build the foundation of character I depend upon today, and I am who I am at my core in large part due to my tenure at that church. At some point I stepped away from attending church, not because I didn't like it, but because it wasn't convenient. I got busy, I had things to do, and going to a service on Sunday morning to hear someone preach something I had probably already heard did not fit into the schedule.
In the next few months I am going to take Sweet Baby Jane back to M1A to be dedicated. I am going there for the dedication for a couple of reasons, primarily because of my past history and my parents involvement in the church, but partially because I have no where else to go. I am still a Christian, and I still have my core beliefs gained as a youth, but I have no home church. This needs to change in 2012. I know that my baby girl needs the same opportunity to seek in her life. A chance to see if growing up in church is the right thing for her.
Kristin and I have already discussed, and every Sunday we are in town we are going to church. We plan on getting involved in a small group. We are currently attending a small group with our good friends the Hahns on Sunday nights, and we plan to keep that up too.
Those are my goals. I hope that you didn't fall asleep while reading my aspirations. I at least hope you enjoyed the photos. I am going to check in every quarter (every three months for you non-business types). I will update my results and hopefully my successes.
What are your resolutions? What are your goals? Is there anything I left off the list? Is there anyway you can help me achieve my goals? (If you feel so inclined to help, Number 2 would awesome) I challenge you to develop your own resolutions and goals. I challenge you to take control of your future and make your life the life you have always desired. It starts today and continues tomorrow. Take this life one day at a time and 366 days later, it will be 2013 and we can build upon 2012.


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The World of Eric Carle™ launches a three-and-under Chick-fil-A Kids' Meal promotion.
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, The World of Eric Carle™ launched a3 and under Chick-fil-A Kids' Meal promotion featuring Eric Carle's unmistakable collage art and iconic characters in a series of board books. The promotion kicked off in early February and will run through April 30, 2019, in participating Chick-fil-A restaurants nationwide.
Upon request, customers will receive one of five mini board book premiums, while supplies last, developed exclusively for Chick-fil-A with the purchase of a Kid's Meal. The books will focus on key themes: Jungle, Sea, Sky, Woodland and Backyard animals.
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The 2021 National budget of Bangladesh was presented by the  Minister of Finance Mustafa Kamal on 3 June 2021. The National budget is for the fiscal year beginning on 1 July 2021, and ending on 30 June 2022. The budget was the second to be presented amid the Coronavirus pandemic.

History
The National Budget is the annual financial statement of Bangladesh; an estimate of income and expenditure of the government on a periodical basis. Under Article 87.(1) of the Constitution of Bangladesh, it is a compulsory task of the government. Upon achieving independence, the first budget of Bangladesh was presented by Tajuddin Ahmad.

Significant announcements

 The total expenditure for the budget is , a 6.28% increase from the previous fiscal year. This consists of  allocated for operating and other expenditures, while  has been allocated for the Annual Development Programme.
 The total revenue collection has been fixed at , of which  is due to be raised by the National Board of Revenue, while  will be raised from non-NBR sources and  will be supplied from non-tax sources.
 The allocation for Education is , a 11.9% increase.
 The allocation for Health is , a 3.8% increase.
 The allocation for Defence is , a 8% increase.
 The allocation for climate change is , an increase of 9.53%. The allocation for climate change will be spent across 25 ministries and divisions.
 560 model Mosques of excellence at district and upazila levels, each mosque costs  in district town or city areas,  in upazila areas, and  in coastal areas. The project is aiming to spread Islamic fraternity, real Islamic values and practices, conduct research, create infrastructure for prayers for both men and women, and provide religious teaching and training.

Controversy

After allocating  to the Ministry of Religious Affairs under the ADP for the next fiscal budget, on 29 May 2021, the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council expressed discontent and issued a press statement terming the allocation as "a continuation of sharp discrimination against minorities" over the allocation of  for religious minorities under the Annual Development Programme (ADP) of the proposed budget in the upcoming fiscal year.  was first allocated in 2017. The organisation demanded an allocation of  to eradicate the discrimination minority communities have been facing over the years. They also demanded a separate ministry for religious minorities similar to India and Pakistan.

On 19 June 2021, Bangladesh Jatiya Hindu Mahajote's secretary-general Gobinda Chandra Pramanik, at Dhaka Reporters Unity, demanded the construction of at least one model temple in each of the upazilas across the country, a separate election system for the Hindu community, keeping 60 reserved seats for Hindus, the formation of a ministry for minority communities, appointing a cabinet minister from the minority community, and allowing a one-day government holiday to observe Rathajatra.

References

Further reading
Full text of budget speech delivered by Finance Minister Mustafa Kamal.

National budgets of Bangladesh
2021 government budgets
2021 in Bangladesh

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Access Cards – the case for RFID.
Access Cards – RFID security and saving costs.
Access cards play an important role in safety and security levels within any company. These cards are used to record an employee's or access cards clients personal particulars and grant access to certain areas and information within a business. They are also used to provide clients with access to areas such as gyms, libraries and much more. Many companies require access cards to be printed on a monthly basis and need to outsource this service if they do not have a card printer of their owner.
Every corporation is always looking for ways to improve the running of their business. Whether it is in regards to their finances, the safety of their staff and clients, or the overall method with which they govern their company, we know that forward thinking will get you far in life.
Since the first use of RFID in the 1980s, the corporations have been relying more and more on this technology. Not only does it help to manage their staff, it helps them to keep track of their supply line, and manage everything from afar.
There are two main uses of identification cards in the corporate environment.
RFID cards are a perfect way to gather information. One of the benefits is being able to pull up information about where certain staff members are at certain times. Also keeping track on what time they arrive or leave the company premises.
RFID cards also allow you to gather information about any members you might have. If you run a gym, for example, you will be able to see the days and times that your members generally turn up to your establishment. As well as the average time they spend there. This can help you offer them deals and packages that relate to their own personal gym experience and increase your customers overall satisfaction.
Some corporations offer RFID membership cards for other reasons too. They could have started up a scheme whereby points are collected for purchases in certain shops. When the RFID card is used, they will be able to gather information about which shops the customers generally frequent, so that they can build up a better idea of which other industries to partner with. This will also help them to create deals and packages that are suitable for their client base.
Safety is an important part of any business. Not only do you need to keep your customers or clients safe, you also need to keep your staff safe.
By using an RFID identification card, it will allow you control over the areas that your staff can access. Also denying access to customers or clients on certain areas of your premises. There are many uses of corporate identification cards, especially those with RFID integration.
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Delivery driver from Bridgwater found to be more than eight times drug-drive limit
He tested positive for a controlled drug and cocaine
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The defendant had cocaine in his system (Image: Getty)
A delivery driver who drove to a residential street in West Huntspill and began sounding the horn in the early hours of the morning was found to be more than eight times the legal limit for a cocaine-related substance.
When police arrived at the scene they suspected James Stephen Turberville had been drinking, but after giving a negative breath test result he was found to be over the limit for drugs.
The defendant was arrested by police and when he appeared in the dock before Somerset Magistrates at Yeovil he was given a 16 month driving ban.
Turberville, 31, of Bath Road, Bridgwater, pleaded guilty to driving a Renault Clio on Old Pawlett Road, West Huntspill, on February 4 when the proportion of a controlled drug, namely Benzoylecognine, exceeded the specified limit.
He admitted a second identical offence involving exceeding the limit for cocaine (class A).
Prosecutor Emma Lenanton said that the police were called to Old Pawlett Road shortly after 5am after reports of the defendant being in a vehicle and sounding the horn.
"When officers arrived they found Turberville who admitted driving his vehicle to that location and they suspected he had been drinking," she said.
"However he passed a breath test but analysis of his blood revealed he was over the drug drive limit for cocaine."
Following tests he was found to have had a reading of 24mcg of cocaine in a litre of blood when the limit is 10.
He was also positive for the cocaine metabolite Benzoylecognine where the reading was 404mcg per litre of blood when the limit is 50.
Defending solicitor Greg Peters said the defendant cooperated fully with the police and when officers arrived at the scene they found Turberville sat in the driver's seat with the keys in the ignition but the engine was not running.
"These two drugs were one of the same substance rather than the defendant being involved in poly drug use," he said.
"He has been driving since the age of 17 and works via an agency for Hermes as a delivery driver and is aware he will be disqualified today and will therefore lose his employment.
"He has three children and the loss of his licence will have a severe impact upon him."
He added that Turberville was not driving an LGV at the time of the offence and was not carrying any passengers.
Alongside the disqualification the magistrates fined the defendant £300 for the cocaine offence and ordered him to pay £85 costs and a £30 victim surcharge.
No separate penalty was imposed for the other matter.
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Stockholm Syndrome
Stockholm Syndrome are a DJ / producer duo based in Melbourne, Australia made up of Iain Mac aka Pyz and Brett Wilson aka Wil-tron. After DJing together at the same party and recognising their similar tastes they formed Stockholm Syndrome in late 2013.
Hailing from Edinburgh, Scotland, Pyz has been DJing and promoting for over a decade. Residencies at Split, Access and We… Electric allowed him to support amazing artists including DJ Hell, The Hacker, Surgeon, Agoria and Luke Slater. After moving to Melbourne he formed "Stray" in 2012 and has been heavily involved in Yaldi Boomtime as resident and co-promoter.
Australian born Wil-tron discovered electronic music after dropping out of a fine art degree when a friend introduced him to artists like Dopplereffekt, Aux 88 and Anthony Rother. He started producing his own tracks and after six months he made his live debut performing at Melbourne institution Meccanoid. Since then he's went on to play various gigs, supporting acts including Legowelt, Bangkok Impact and Modeselektor.
Their style varies widely and can't be neatly wrapped up into a single genre. They're drawn to dark, moody, sub 120bpm techno, the energetic, raw and powerful mex-tech, the slow and the Balaeric, drug chug and the strange. In the two years since they formed, they've clocked up an impressive gig list, DJing at many of Melbourne's iconic venues such as Revolver Upstairs, New Guernica, Section 8 and Boney.
2015 saw them play an inspired closing set at the inaugural Piknic Electronik, Melbourne, a twisted genre bending set at Unfold/001, and their first two original productions have been well received by other artists such as Gemini Brothers and Death by Repetition. 2016 started off with a bang when they opened the Sunset stage at Rainbow Serpent, widely regarded as one of the best music, art and lifestyle festivals in the world.
Stockholm Syndrome are continually kept busy with gigs, working on new productions, running their website and getting set to host their own series of Cognitive Dissidence parties, the first of which kicks off in February 2017 at Section 8.


In the article the types of spatial scale urban farms which appear in urban renewal projects are disscussed. Regeneration method for creating agricultural zones in cities is an innovative, future-oriented urban redevelopment model transformation based on the principles of sustainable development. The use of different variations of this strategy in urban regeneration programs will depend on the progress in agricultural production technology in an urban environment, and in particular their self-sufficiency in raw materials and energy and on optimization of the costs of construction and operation of urban farms.


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Publish Date April 28, 2021
Quizartinib Combination Therapies Effective in Frontline and First-Salvage Therapy in AML
Ariela Katz
In this phase 1/2, open-label study, the primary objective was to assess the safety of quizartinib paired with either azacitidine or cytarabine.
Combination therapies using quizartinib with either cytarabine or azacitidine are safe and effective in both frontline and first-salvage treatment for patients with FLT3-ITD-mutated acute myeloid leukemia (AML), according to study results published in Haematologica.
Mutations in the FLT3 gene are common genetic alterations in patients with AML. Quizartinib is a type 2 inhibitor that targets the inactive conformation of the FLT3 kinase domain, making it a likely candidate to help treat patients with these mutations.
In this phase 1/2, open-label study, the primary objective was to assess the safety of quizartinib paired with either azacitidine or cytarabine, as well as to determine the dose-limiting toxicity. The researchers also assessed the efficacy of the drug combinations.
Eligible participants included adult patients with myelodysplastic syndrome or AML with relapsed or refractory disease who had received no more than 1 prior therapy. A total of 73 patients were treated, 34 as frontline treatment and 39 as first-salvage treatment. Of these, 70 completed at least 1 cycle of study treatment. A total of 38 patients received quizartinib with azacitidine (quizartinib/AZA) and 32 received quizartinib with low-dose cytarabine (quizartinib/LDAC).
The median duration of response (time from best response to either death, disease progression, date of stem cell transplantation or last follow-up, or off treatment) was 4.2 months (range, 0.2-30) with quizartinib/AZA and 3.7 months (range, 0.2-17) with quizartinib/LDAC.
Of the patients treated with quizartinib/AZA in the frontline (n=14), 8 patients (57%) had a complete response (CR). Of the patients treated with quizartinib/LDAC in the frontline (n=18), only 1 had a CR. Of the patients with relapsed or refractory disease treated with quizartinib/AZA (n=24), 2 (8%) had a CR. Of the patients with relapsed or refractory disease treated with quizartinib/LDAC (n=14), only 1 had a CR.
Among responders, minimal residual disease (MRD) was assessed in 11 patients (85%) in the quizartinib/AZA group and 12 patients (86%) in the quizartinib/LDAC group. MRD was undetectable in 5 (45%) patients treated with quizartinib/AZA and 3 (25%) with quizartinib/LDAC.
The most common nonhematologic adverse events (AEs) for the quizartinib/AZA group included hypomagnesemia (68%), hyperbilirubinemia (63%), and hypokalemia (60%). The most common hematologic AE was thrombocytopenia (15%).
The most common nonhematologic AEs for the quizartinib/LDAC group included pneumonia (58%), febrile neutropenia (36%), and hypotension (36%). The most common hematologic AEs were leukopenia (42%) and neutropenia (42%).
In assessments for survival, the median overall survival (OS) for all patients treated in the frontline was 12.4 months. The median relapse-free survival for these patients was 8 months, and it was significantly longer for patients in the quizartinib/AZA group vs the quizartinib/LDAC group (10.5 vs 6.4 months; P =.044). Patients with relapsed/refractory AML had a median OS of 6.2 months, with a trend for longer OS for those treated with quizartinib/AZA (12.8 vs 4 months; P =.053).
"With the limitations of comparisons across studies, the [composite response] rates and the median OS observed in patients treated frontline with quizartinib/AZA in this study seem to compare favorably to what has been reported with similar combinations using other FLT3 inhibitors," the authors concluded in their report. "Our study demonstrated that quizartinib, in combination with AZA or LDAC, can be administered safely in patients with FLT3-mutated AML, whether as initial therapy or in first salvage."
Swaminathan M, Kantarjian HM, Levis M, et al. A phase I/II study of the combination of quizartinib with azacitidine or low-dose cytarabine for the treatment of patients with acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome. Haematologica. Published online April 15, 2021. doi:10.3324/haematol.2020.263392
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The tour begins with a twinkling of chimes, as Ursula Rucker, the Philadelphia poet and artist, materializes on a smartphone screen. She stands at the base of the Philadelphia Art Museum steps—"the Rocky Steps, as some like to call them," she says. "The people's place." As one scans their phone around the steps, and look out across the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, virtual signs, maps, photographs, and text boxes appear, an invite to "dig deeper" into the history of the space.
With its new augmented-reality app, called OverTime, Monument Lab, the public art and history studio that grew out of research at the Weitzman School, is hoping to provide a more immersive way of experiencing public space. The app, which launched in March with a prototype tour at the Art Museum steps, "offers educational, self-guided tours of a public space by unearthing the multiple layers of history, meaning, and interpretation of that site through a personal smart device." In addition to providing information that may not be visible to the unaugmented eye, the app invites users to add stories of their own.
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"The idea behind this, fundamentally, is that history is being written all around us, by us," says Paul Farber, senior research scholar in the Center for Public Art and Space and co-founder of Monument Lab. "We want to actually learn from people who use the app. There's more to learn from users and there's more stories being written about this place. Any time you see a monument in public space, there's countless stories that are also present—they just aren't always marked in the same way."
Monument Lab began working on the idea for the app before the COVID-19 pandemic began. The pandemic, which has forced people to socially distance while increasing the demand for outdoor experiences, only made the app more timely, Farber says.
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not what people fight for, not what people believe n.mitt romney can quote america the beautiful, but this campaign he's put together has putrified it. and that's "hardball." thanks for being with us. stay with msnbc now for full coverage of the iowa caucuses. good evening and thank you for being with us. this is a night we've been waiting for for a long, long time. the doorps at caucus sites across the straight state of iowa have opened at this hour, and the voting, the actual voting is finally about to get under way in the first contest of the 2012 republican presidential race. the last time iowa owned the national spotlight it was this underdog senator from the great state of illinois who made history on the democratic side. that same night four years ago the republican party's eventual nominee came in fourth place in iowa. republican four years ago who outspent all other republican candidates in iowa combined that year, he also ended up lose that
night. he lost to a former arkansas governor who cap toured the hearts of iowa evangelicals and took iowa by storm. mike huckabee won the iowa republican caucusesy in 2008 with a ten-point victory over the second place finisher, mitt romney. tonight mitt romney is back. sherunning at or near the top of the polls. his campaign had initially steered clear of iowa this year, but now they are all in. the latest challenger to romney's front-runner status is former pennsylvania senator, rick santorum, a candidate whose cause was once so lost he held an iowa rally attended by one other person. looking at him now you would never guess that. >> we've got the organization, and our summon coming in better than it's ever come in. when we do well tonight, we expect we'll have the resources to be able to compete in new hampshire and compete all the way through. >> after polling in 2008 at 10% in the iowa calk yeses, congressman ron paul's standing
in the polls now is roughly double that number, and his campaign is confident. they say the organizational demands of caucusing play to their greatest strengths as a campaign. few republican insiders believe that congressman ron paul could be the one to win the nomination, but almost everyone believes tonight that he has a chance to win in iowa. former speaker of the house and former iowa front-runner newt gingrich is not going down without a fight. he says his numbers have dropped from his front-runner status because of other campaigns going so negative against him. he initially complained about that negativity, but now newt gingrich is fighting fire with fire. >> are you calling mitt romney a liar? >> yes. >> you're calling mitt romney a liar? >> well, you seem shocked by it, yes. this is a man whose staff created the pavjt his millionaire friends fund the pac and he pretends like he has nothing to do with the pac, it's
baloney. it's not true, like the pretense he's a conservative. >> for barack obama, he'll be making his presence felt in iowa as well holding teleconferences with democratic iowa voters. >> i'm rachel maddow here at msnbc headquarters in new york city. chris matthews is leading our coverage from des moines, iowa tonight. let's say hi to chris. how are you tonight? how is everything going in des moines? >> great, rachel. you know, i think the big weapon out here we saw unleashed tonight and through therese these weeks leading up to the caucuses tonight is pretty ferocious. it's based upon a court decision, citizens united. it allows a candidate and his rich allies to spend all kinds of money, in fact, unlimited money, destroying an opponent candidate without ever putting
their names on that list, never identifying themselves, never associating themselves with the candidate they are favoring. they can destroy an opponent. totally anonymously, and they can do it without ever hurting their own canned day. now, of course, mitt romney is using that weapon in this campaign and has used it to destroy, it looks like for purposes of tonight, newt gingrich. see if he's destroyed him permanently but real victim, of course, is any kind of democracy as we know it. if you can run a campaign now with anonymous money, if you can use it without putting your name on negative ads and can destroy an opponent without paying any price for it and your friends never have to have their names known and can spend all the money they want to spend to do t it, this is not my idea of democracy, but that weapon has been unleashed here, and the only fairness in this thing is that newt gingrich is one of those on the right that supports the right of money to call itself democracy. >> chris, thank you. joining us here in our coverage is republican strategist steve in schmitt, a chief strategist
with the mccain/palin campaign and also the host of "the ed show" on msnbc, ed schultz, lawrence o'donnell, the host of "last word" and the host of msnbc's "politics nation," the reverend al sharpton who himself has been a presidential candidate and knows what it is to compete in iowa. gentlemen, thank you all very much for being here. this is going to be a fun night already. let me start with getting some first thoughts from you about what you think the stakes are tonight and what you're watching forks steve? >> well, i think what tonight does is set up the next several contests going to new hampshire, to south carolina and to florida, and if the polls are to be believed, we will see an order of finish that is romney, that is santorum, that's ron paul, jumble. too tough to predict who is going to finish where, but there will be three tickets out of iowa heading into new hampshire. you'll see some of the candidates heading direct throw south carolina, rick perry, michele bachmann where they will make their last stand. we're at last point of the race where candidates will start to get out of it because their
campaigns are out of money, and i think us a look ahead tonight, i think no matter what the outcome is and the order of finish, it's going to be a pretty good night for governor romney because i think it's tough to see scenarios where senator santorum and ron paul in particular will have much staying power. >> in terms of who might go home tonight, who is most at risk of doing so poorly that it's the end of their campaign? >> clearly michele bachmann. governor perry is in a lot of trouble. no one wants to be the first person to drop out. no one wants to be the first person to concede the obvious after a loss in iowa, so they will lang on for a little while. presidential campaigns end when they run out of money, and there's going to be a conversation in the perry campaign, in the bachmann campaign i think before very long where people come into the room, say, hey, governor, hey congresswoman, there's no money left to pate bills, hand that's what ends the campaign. >> ed schultz, first thoughts tonight? >> well, first thoughts are the ground game means everything in the way this is all set up and when rick santorum says they have the organization, that means he's got people that are going to be able to stand up in the caucus meetings and make the
pitch. it's a very parochial setting in iowa. a lot of friends, a lot of neighbors, small groups. come on, joe, vote this way. what do you think, johny? a lot of that es on, and so i think santorum has done the groundwork. the 99 counties, the social conservatives, no matter how you look at it, they carry big stick in iowa. they are about 60% of the vote, and keep in mind that huckabee won this with 40,000 votes. mitt romney got 30,000 votes in 2008. the question is what has he done to build on that number? i think santorum is the wild card here tonight. if there's a big turnout and the social conservatives are strong and they leave bachmann and they don't spend too much time with perry, i think santorum could win this thing tonight, and the fact that they have got three social conservatives in this race is the best thing that could happen to mitt romney. >> al sharpton, have you been in iowa in a lot of different capacities, including running there. what are you looking for in terms of the big picture? >> several things. one, turnout. it's going to be very
interesting if there's a low turnout because it will signal that these candidates don't even excite their own base. second, how much damage they do in terms of how the american public is going to view them because at the end of all of this someone is going to have to run against president obama. if they are in such an extreme right position, they can win and lose it all tonight because there's no democratic caucus, so they have the full stage to themselves. america is looking at them. they can lose independents. they can lose a lot of moderates tonight, even if they win the caucus because they had to go so far to the right to win in iowa that they lose the rest of the country, and how much damage do they do? with this citizens united rule that has come back to haunt them, they are reaping what they have sowed. they may hurt themself so president obama doesn't have to do anything because they will destroyed themselves before the main match, so it's very funny to me because if -- if it was a
rock band, i used to, as a kid be around james brown, if you kill yourself in rehearsal, the guy on the main show doesn't have to do anything but sing on note. >> do you feel -- this is what chris was talking about in his opening thoughts, too. do you think that -- and we always see negative ads and see candidates get torn apart. do you think that things are materially qualitatively worse in terms of the negativity because people don't have to put their name on their ads? >> when you have the night before the first caucus, we haven't even gotten to a primary yet, one of the candidates calling another one a liar, the other one saying the other one's too liberal. i mean, all of this is absolutely nothing but music to the ears of the dnc, and i think that they can damage each other so until it will be hard to unite the party and, again, there's no one looking at the democrats tonight in america. they are all looking at them. so unlike '80 and in other races, you don't have what's happening on the democratic side, what's happening to the republican side.
you've got the whole stage to yourself. knock yourself out so the americans can say with one out of every two americans near poverty, with the income gap, these are the people that i'm going to put in charge of country? we couldn't have wrote this script better if we did it ourselves, rachel. >> lawrence o'donnell, host of "the last word, "kwhat are you looking for? >> tonight marks the end of the year of idiocy in republican campaigning. the most single embarrassing year of modern campaigning within the party. the fake candidacies that the media fell for, most embarrassing political performance for the media, too. fell for sarah palin, couldn't read the clues when she started quitting her job, clear she was never going to run for anything. they fell for donald trump and the republican voters, and they got infatuated with michele bachmann and in-fat fatated with impossible candidacies. the insanity is over, and the
reality starts tonight and it turns out when we get to 2012 the reality candidacies are a former governor and a former senator. big surprise. no game show host, no junior member of congress like ms. bachmann, no edgy, flaky guy like ron paul, always been where it's been, a former governor and former senator. >> if ron paul places first in iowa which he has a chance to do? >> aunter meaningless candidacy in terms of the final outcome. he's a decoy. an additional prop on this set, and he can stay on the set for a long time because all he needs is airfare to the next town to keep this thing going. he's never going to be president. he's never going to get the nomination. he represents something fascinating for democrats which is who are these republicans who are voting for the most anti-war candidate since gene mccarty in 1968.
who are those voters because those voters are people that the obama campaign should figure out how to talk to? >> they are the most interesting people in american politics, and i think they have been since 2008, at least that's how i've felt about it. we'll joined by our political director chuck todd to take a look at what is at stake tonight by the numbers. mr. todd, thank you for joining us. what are you seeing at this hour? >> well, rachel, what i'm curious about, the one advantage we have to looking at this race is romney ran four years ago so we can look at what the entrants polls said four years ago in iowa and figure out motivations. one thing i've been fascinated by when it comes, to and let me get our app going here tonight, is what is going to be the motivation of the voter as they go in? are they looking for a candidate that they personally believe in more, has core set of values, or are they looking for electability and experience? four years ago 80% came looking for a candidate that connected
with them on core beliefs and said what they meant and mike huckabee destroyed mitt romney in those voters. those that show up for electability and experience, if you look here, only 21% of them. finally came up. we're working out the kinks here right now. they went for romney. now, is it going to be 21% this time that shows up thinking about electability first and experience, or is it going to be say 35%, 40% in the more people that show up tonight thinking about the general election, the better mitt romney does. the more it looks like four years, shares my values, core beliefs, that's a rick can strum electorate tonight, so that's a question we have on our entrance poll. we'll know that in 90 minutes we hope, and that will tell us sort of the makeup tonight, are these republican activists focused on their conservative beliefs or simply thinking about november and beating the president? >> chuck, the iowa caucus goer is such an experienced political animal. it's a minority of republican
voters. >> yeah. >> in iowa, and it's folks who know what they are doing and are willing to spend several hours doing when almost nobody in the state is. do you find in general that they are thinking more strategically about the race, that they are thinking in terms of how it's going to affect further states, or are they voting as if they are voting essentially for the president of iowa? >> well, the thing is the answer is yes, i've run into both of those type of republican activists. you're right. there's all sorts of political analysts and pundits, guys that get involved in their local politics so they know and are gaming this out. a lot of iowa republicans don't want to coronate mitt romney tonight. they believe eventually they will be for him and the second choice, for instance, for a lot of newt gingrich and rick perry voters but he has to work harder to woo conservatives, hasn't done enough and not quite sold. iowa's job is winnow the field, not simply end the race, but then there are others. i ran into one woman who to me
epitomized what mitt romney was trying to woo, and she said i love michelle bachmann, i wish she had a chance, she doesn't, i guess i'm going to caucus with romney because she didn't want to be with a losers and last night's mitt romney speech, if you read it carefully, everybody said was he going and gaming to say that i'm going to win this thing, he was trying to send a subtle messages, hey, i'm going to win this thing. maybe it's going to take me five weeks, maybe it will be tomorrow night, but don't you want to be with a winner? we're going to win this thing in the end and be the ones that go on to november, and i think he was trying to send that because that could have an impact on some of these -- some of these folks that show up tonight. >> of course, the risk of that, saying we're going to win, is if you don't you've set up your own expectations which is a huge part of implication of what iowa results mean. >> absolutely. >> we'll be checking in with you later. nbc's ron mott is northeast of iowa in johnston, home to one of the larger caucuses that's
happening tonight in iowa. ron, what can you tell us about what's happening tonight and what you expect? >> reporter: hey there, rachel, good evening to you. you can see they are making final preparations to get some seats down for the folks who are going to come to this middle school to caucus tonight. this is one of about 1,800 of these meetings that will take place across iowa. all those 99 counties getting involved, and for people who don't really know what the caucuses mean, it really is what tip o'neill said, all politics is local. this is the community coming together, open politics in front of everyone. and what they will do is they will start the meeting here with the pledge of allegiance, have some administrative things to take care of at the top of the meeting and then surrogates for all the candidates will be invited to come up and make one final appeal to the voters. we understand former congressman from oklahoma j.c. watts, a little star power coming to speak upon behalf of newt gingrich, trying to close the deal for him in this caucus here so they will have their final pitches to voters, and then they hand out blank pieces of paper to the voters. they write down who they want to support, turn it back in and tabulate votes, they -- they announce it to the crowd here
and send the results off to the state headquarters. everyone dashes back home to turn on the televisions and radios to see if their candidate ends the night as the leader of the pack, so it's very involved. expect to hear hey lot of applause lines coming from the surrogates to w.h.o. speak before the voters, trying to clothes deal, and what's interesting is so many people said they were coming to the caucuses tonight undecided 4. 1% in the later "des moines register" poll so a lot of folks may be swayed by what they hear in caucus meetings across this state tonight. a very interesting night, rachel. >> nbc news correspondent ron mott. thanks. we'll be checking in with you later on. i love the fact that people would go out on a very cold january night and be willing to spend definitely a minimum of several hours signature around talking politics while 40% of them have not yet decide what had they want to do. not going there for a crusade, not going there because they have got to get something done that they know they have to get something done for a specific candidate. going before they even know what they want to do. i love it. coming up, we'll be checking in with former republican national committee chairman michael
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welcome back to msnbc's continuing coverage of the iowa caucuses. let's check back in now with chris matthews who is in des moines. chris? >> joining me right now, as you said, rachel, i've got michael steele, the former chair of the republican national committee and eugene washington, the great columnist of the "washington post." gentlemen, i want to saw tough question. what's the most consequential result tonight in terms of who wins? >> oh, in terms -- in terms who have comes out of this thing on top tonight. if it's mitt romney, it's, you know, sort of of a firmation of everything up till now didn't
matter. at the end. day he got the number he needed to go forward to new hampshire and beyond to take the nomination. if a santorum wins, for example, it's the big deal, a base sending the message to romney, that 25%, you're going to need more if you want that nomination, and right now our love is with somebody like santorum. >> if romney wins, the establishment candidate moves ahead to new hampshire, wins again and perhaps wins the nomination. >> yeah. >> if the challenge comes from santorum effectively tonight. >> the base sending a message. >> means something that we don't like the way this is going? >> right? >> gene? >> and i agree with michael, but if santorum, for example, were to win big what, that would do is slow this whole thing down. >> yes. >> and then would you no longer be able to assume that romney just walks -- walks, you know, cakewalks to the nomination because it would provide an opening for if not santorum, maybe newt to come back. >> that's right. >> maybe perry. >> that's right. >> the perpetual candidate of next month comes back.
>> so there's different results. if it's mitt romney, means mitt rom i? on the way to winning it. if santorum wins mitt romney is not on the way to winning it but we don't know who is. >> not necessarily. i wouldn't even say the number, the gap between the number one and the number two matters. >> exactly. >> if there's a five, seven, eight-point gap that's a comfortable win. >> what i love is whoever wins, wins, there's no spread stuff, she didn't meet the spread. everybody thinks the top three about get 25%. romney gets about 25, santorum gets about 25 and maybe ron paul gets a little less than that. where is the other 25 going tonight? that's my big routine. you're the pundit here. where's that 25 go? it's a phantom 25%. >> half it is going to go to perry. >> it will get divide up. >> he'll get 12. >> 12, maybe 15. >> yeah, okay. >> and the rest -- >> bachmann will get 5 or 10. >> yeah. >> that's exactly sgligts what would be a big win, somebody said there would be a big winner
tonight. can anybody get 30 tonight? >> plus 30. >> if you get 30, that's a huge win, particularly given how the numbers have played here in iowa up until now. do you believe there's 41% undecideded? >> yeah. >> a congressman sitting in that seat a few minutes ago who said -- i think this is some of this is bs, says he doesn't know how to vote. >> knows how he's going to vote. just didn't want to say. >> why is 41% undecideded? >> the same problem that romney has had from the day he's announced is the base has not gravitated to him. >> he's dog food the dog won't eat? >> that's one way to put t.one way to put, it yeah. >> eat your peas and your bran, you know, that's mitt romney. >> that bad? >> lack of love. >> just to sum this up, only have a minute. the candidate that wins tonight gets a clear win, nobody has to beat the spread. you win, you win. you get the headline. do you still get the covers of the weekly magazines, "newsweek" and "time?" >> that depends who is closest to you. if it's a small gap, usual
sharing the headline, see what i'm saying? >> if there's a 1% or 2% -- >> i hope the editors of "newsweek" and "time" are watching. >> right back to rachel. take it away, rachel. >> still ahead, much more from ed schultz, steve schmitt, lawrence o'donnell and reverend al sharpton here in new york and we'll be talking with one of mitt romney's senior advisers, ben ginsberg. you're watching msnbc's coverage of the iowa caucuses. [ woman ] my boyfriend and i were going on vacation, so i used my citi thank you card to pick up some accessories. a new belt. some nylons. and what girl wouldn't need new shoes?
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we're back here hon this iowa caucus night with our panel. steve schmitt, senior strategist to the 2008 john mccain campaign, now an msnbc political anly. also ed schultz, the host of "the ed show" and lawrence o'donnell, host of "the last word" and the reverend al sharpton, former presidential candidate himself and host of "politics nation" and krz also joins from us iowa tonight. guys, i feel like most discussion has been about who has the most to gain tonight, the conventional wisdom that if
romney can do very well in iowa that will make him a more forment dabble front-runner, but i've been looking more at the downside. i feel like the only candidates who have no risk, nothing could happen tonight that could hurt them are jon huntsman, because he didn't campaign at all in iowa, so if he gets 1%, wow, it's a windfall for jon huntsman, got 1% and even ron paul. even if ron paul does not place in the top three, which everybody says he has chance to do, ron paul hats wherewithal and campaign mindset to keep chugging. he won precisely zero states in 2008. they not drop out until june. mitt romney was out in february and mike huckabee out in march. ron paul was still chugging away in june, and i think he still has that mindset so i don't think either of those guys can be hurt tonight, but everybody else does sort of really face some risk tonight, don't they? >> well, i think the biggest risk tonight is -- is probably mitt romney. i mean, he has --
>> got the biggest downside, you think? >> spent the most money going after newt gingrich. he is the biggest name in the field. he has done a pretty good job the last couple of weeks in iowa, but if he doesn't finish, you know, first or second, i think the social conservatives are going to smell some blood, and they are going to say, hey, wait a minute, you know. i really believe that iowa is so different. it really is a crap shoot all the way down to the end. even the governor of iowa said that. it's a tough one to call. if you're polling in high double digits and if you're good on the ground and you've got a bunch of undecideds going into that room tonight, you have just as good a chance as everybody else to win. i don't think mitt romney has done anything over the last nfor year to turn the key for more votes in iowa. those social conservatives that went with huckabee, they are still there. the pie is divided a little bit
different, but surging guy has been santorum, so i think real the guy i think that could lose a lot tonight as far as confidence is concerned is mitt romney. >> the question is if they do smell that blood in the water, does that make them coalesce around anybody else because i think they have sensed mitt romney's weakness from the very beginning but that hasn't made them coalesce around anybody else who could topple them? >> but i think that he had is right. romney has the most at risk, but you've got to look at again, turnout. because suppose romney brings out the voters he brought last time, but the other side does not bring out, then he doesn't need to go from 30% to 40% because the 30% he had becomes 40%. i'm looking at the fact there's not a lot of excitement on the ground, and that's what gives a ron paul the edge because he may be able to bring his people out. and i think that that is going to be the story when this is over. you've got more people going to the sugar bowl than will vote for one of these guys tonight,
but they will be the face of this party. the other thing i thought that was interest, rachel, maybe chris could tell us, is i didn't see when ron was showing us the setup where the voter i.d. booth was. these guys believe in voter i.d., they will let people walk in without state i.d. and caucus tonight. this is amazing. >> they have change that had a little bit, have they not, rachel? >> got to show an i.d. in order to register to vote in iowa tonight, but don't have to show voter i.d. in order to vote tonight if you are already a registered voter even though iowa republicans in the legislature tried to make that the rule. >> clearly a double standard for what you're talking b.what's a good turnout, 120,000, 140,000? >> 120,000 was in 2008, a record, the highest it's ever been. >> suppose if they do 110,000, what would that say? >> that would be a huge number. >> that would be a huge number, but if romney can bring back his same numbers with 110,000 people voting, he got 30,000 out of
110,000. >> see, i think if ten people showed up and mitt romney couldn't get over two and a half of them, why can't he improve his 25% over four years of campaigning. spent $10 million. >> it's $9 million newt is going to put on him between now and new hampshire and south carolina is going tonight problem. >> there's nothing but blue skies for governor romney tonight provide he had finishes in the top three. his most dangerous opponent that emerged during this, you know, year of asininity as lawrence pointed out was speaker grinchings and spe gingrich, and speaker gingrich has been hobbled by the pros nez iowa so the most dangerous opponent governor romney had to face is going to come out very weak. i will say this by governor huntsman. his calculus what happens in iowa doesn't affect what happens in new hampshire, that he could campaign in new hampshire pretending iowa didn't matter what. will be interesting to see if in fact senator santorum has a good night tonight as the poll
suggest, does he skyrocket past governor huntsman in new hampshire as the romney alternative, and that will be one of the interesting things to see. i think it's tough when politicians enter this process and decide to start playing in the third inning. and -- and we'll see what governor huntsman's strategy yields. >> i will say though that i think while newt gingrich has been a formidable opponent for mitt romney, i think the jon huntsman ads against mitt romney, maybe nobody has seen them but substantively they are the most devastating anti-romney ads i've seen. i don't know if anybody will pay attention to jon huntsman. maybe starting in the second inning in new hampshire will be too late for him, but i think when he trains his sights on mitt romney, his whole life has been about running against mitt romney and can you see it in the sharp hess of those ads. >> no question. >> chris, you've fwhn iowa doing your show from there and take the temperature there. when you look out there, you're horrified by the negativity of the ads, but is anybody doing them any better than anybody else? >> no, the ads by the romney
folks, the front group basically for him are basically doing the job of destroying newt gingrich. what i think is fascinating and comes out of what ed says and what steve said. what happens if the whole result of the next several events here, caucuses tonight and in new hampshire and then down to south carolina and on through florida is that romney never really gets beyond about 25%. do people basically say they don't like him, but he beats his main opponent which is newt gingrich, so, in other words there, he's no one else around that's a real alternative who could win and beat him, and yet he's unpopular. what happens when the republican voter who is reading the paper and watching television says wait a minute, what happened here? we agreed we don't like mitt romney but romney has cleverly destroyed the only person we could beat him. are we forced to beat for somebody we don't lyrics even if we want to change presidents? this is a real quandary for thoughtful republicans now. if they don't like romney and they like a change in presidents and there's no one else to vote for, what do they do, and i
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we're back with msnbc's continuing coverage of the iowa caucuses. i'm rachel maddow here in new york, and i'm joined from des moines, iowa, by chris matthews. chris? >> i'm joined by howard fineman, editorial director of "the huffington post. "you've been out here all week, me almost as long. let's go to that question if they don't like romney and doesn't get his usual vote beyond the 25%, what do voters do from here on out? >> what i've been struck by here is the general lack of stirring enthusiasm really for any of these candidates, and -- and in that kind of dreary atmosphere mitt romney has a chance to win what would be sort of a pyrrhic victory because if we finishes first, which is possible, he'll do it in a context where i don't think there's going to be a big turnout. talking to everybody all day about turnout, 140,000 would be
huge. "the des moines register" said 135,000. i don't think it's going to be anywhere near that. doesn't feel as exciting. there's something grudging almost and last resortish about almost all of the voters and all of the candidates. the exception to some extent is hard core for ron paul. the exception is a growing hard core for rack santorum, but beyond that and including mitt romney there's no great enthusiasm so what that portends to mesa long twilight struggle in which mitt romney is almost kind of like the occupying force of a party that he doesn't really control or in which he's not beloved. can he win the nomination in that kind of situation? yes, i suppose, but it's proportional representation this time. it's not winner take all. >> yeah. >> so it could be a long struggle, and i think we'll look back on iowa and say this was the beginning what have could be a long struggle. mitt romney is fully aware of this which is, why i've been told, he's going to go straight to new hampshire for a day or two and then dip right down to south carolina.
he thinks he's okay in new hampshire, at least for now. we'll see, but he's going to go straight to south carolina. he announced to the world the other day that he'd become more conservative. >> that ought to do it. going swear to this? >> iowa is the bath that has made him more conservative and going to south carolina because if he gets his butt kicked in south carolina, that really means civil war all the way through. >> back to you, rachel. >> thanks, howard, thanks, chris. joings joining from ing us headquarters is ben ginsberg for the romney for president campaign. really happy to have you here this evening. good evening. >> thanks, nice to be with you, rachel. >> let me ask you if you anticipate that your candidate, mitt romney, will be able to improve on his 25% showing in the iowa caucuses in 2008. it's been a long time, a lot of water under the bridge since then. do you expect a better showing tonight? >> well, we think the voters of iowa have herd mitt romney he's message and that he'll do quite well tonight.
the benchmarks are the benchmarks, but he's going to do well, and, in fact, tonight it will already be a victory in the sense that not six weeks ago you were saying he couldn't possibly win and tonight we're in the hunt. >> in terms of the competition from his fellow candidates in iowa, newt gingrich does not appear to be polling as a top three candidate right now, although quite recently he was in the lead. mr. gingrich made a lot of waves this morning when he said mitt romney is, and i'm quoting him, a liar. he described mr. romney a liar for denying responsibility for the negative tone of ads run by a pac which is not directly associated with mr. romney but is clearly in his camp. he also called mr. romney a liar for claiming to be a conservative. do you have a response to those allegations? >> oh, i've known newt gingrich since 1985 and worked with him since then, and to me it's just sad that as his campaign is floundering he's turning to sort of personal attacks about that,
and -- and i'm saddened by that more than anything else. >> hey, ben, it's lawrence o'donnell. you're one of the great republican power broker lawyers and one of the great thinkers behind citizens united. >> sounds like a setup. >> it is a setup. it's playing out exactly the way you wanted it, to isn't it? you've got all this money bombing the other candidates without any technical legal association with the romney campaign. >> well, it's the way i think we expected it to play out which is not the same thing as want it to play out. the whole campaign financing scheme has south to limit candidates but yet constitutionally it can't limit what outside groups do, so have you a disparity in the system. i'm not sure that's particularly healthy, but it is the inevitable result of a robust
first amendment and legislative limiting on what candidates can do so i don't think this outcome should be surprising to anyone. >> ben, i know that the candidate cannot specifically coordinate with the super pac, but any candidate can say, and romney can can s-- can say, i want all of the negative advertising to stop what. prevents him from saying that? >> well, what prevents him from saying that is the plain wording of the law that says you can't coordinate -- >> i'm saying he can say i don't want negative advertising in this campaign, without any reference to that super pac so he avoids the legal technicality. >> lawrence, if -- i'm sorry, but if he could say that, then he could also say i want you to buy 800 points worth of time in the northwest corner of the state that targets 18 to 28-year-olds, and would you say that was illegal. >> no, ben. >> and there's no substantive
difference. i disagree. >> you're distorting the law. >> lawrence, you and i have talked about this. i understand this is not the outcome or the result that you want. nonetheless it is what the law is. >> i'm going to jump in here to allow chris matthews in a different part of des moines to jump in with you, mr. beginsberg. chris go, ahead. >> ben, it seems like you and the candidate are speaking differently on this because governor romney just said that he could, of course, tell them to tone it down and stop being so negative but he said if newt can't stand the kitchen, he ought to -- can't stand the heat he ought to get out of heat. he said going further in this argument there will be a hell's kitchen coming from the obama campaign. he admits he can tell them to tone it down to stop the negative and newt gingrich ought to be able to take the negative. you're saying as his lawyer he shouldn't be saying that. did he say something wrong there? did he break the law in saying that? >> you're mixing -- you're
mixing -- no. chris, i love you, but you're mixing apples and oranges there. one is the comment about what's involved with the law. the other is the comment that politically whoever the republican nominee is is going to go through the hell's kitchen of barack obama and he is negative ad barrage which has already been directed on mitt romney this cycle through barack obama's super pac. are you not quite so outraged about that, however. >> ben, back to the point you were talking about -- >> the point is not a veiled point. >> your candidate said -- he's wrong. you're saying he's wrong to say that he could tell the super pac to cool it? >> no. >> you're saying he was wrong to say that? >> no. my candidate is never wrong, but you're mixing apples and oranges in what you're trying to get me to say. one is the legal standard and one is the politics. >> your candidate finally broke his leash and said something you don't think he should have said which is to say he could tell
them not to go negative. >> i'm not accepting this characterization in the least, chris, i'm just not accepting it. >> it's not a characterization. just an acknowledgement. you'll be able to check the wire copy, the candidate and his counsellor are not on the same page. >> thank you. want to get al sharpton in here. >> mr. ginsberg, let me ask you this. >> why don't you let schmidt ask something. >> you do know that nurt nutewt gingrich has attacked the negative campaigning over and over again and called you liars. are you prepared to say that newt gingrich broke the law by saying that negative campaigning and these pacs should be saying this, by saying what your candidate cannot say? are you saying that mr. gingrich went over the lines of the law? >> well, i'm not sure i follow the question, but i think
mr. gingrich was not necessarily speaking as a legal matter today. he was speaking more as the political matter which is the point i was frying to make with chris. >> and he said throughout the process he's been attacking the pacs for what they are doing, and particularly saying the pac of mr. romney, of your campaign that he felt was connect canned to your campaign. are you saying what he was saying was wrong, that no candidate should be address any of that, are you saying that that bends the law or breaks the law? >> i don't -- no. again, i think you're mixing two different things. i think if newt gingrich is talking about a super pac that has nothing to do with them, nobody is really going to accuse him of coordinating it. that would not be true -- >> why canned the candidate do the same thing? >> in the way this is all framed. >> why can't mitt romney say the super pac shouldn't be doing that? >> if newt gingrich has a super pac -- the same thing, the same
thing would be if newt gingrich runs a super pac affiliated with newt gingrich, then mitt romney could comment on it. >> ben, did you just say that super pac is affiliated with mitt romney? >> yes, they. >> you're saying -- >> then i misspoke. >> you're saying the super pac is affiliated with mitt romney? >> that was -- that was -- i believe that was the way you framed the question. there is a super pac who ran ads that said things about mr. gingrich, and mr. gingrich accused it of being affiliated with mr. romney. >> and it is affiliated with mr. romney and that's why you're saying -- >> you -- >> it's not -- come on. let's not -- >> that's what you said. >> let's not try to play gotcha word games here. anything else you want to ask about? >> ben ginsberg, chief counsel and senior adviser to the romney campaign, i feel like i'm sort of throwing you a life ring just by offering you the chance to say good-bye but i also hope
this means you will never come back? >> well, it's a pleasure to be with you. say hi to steve sch myodt, too. >> steve is perfectly -- steve is more capable of anyone that i november jumping in on his own terms. i'll never invite him unless he wants to be invited. aim right, steve? >> oh, the republican damning with faint praise all night long. the role of negative advertising playing in iowa. whether or not those pacs are affiliated with the campaigns. speaking of the ads focused on newt gingrich, and we'll be speaking with one of mr. gingrich's biggest supporters. for 80 years, we've been inspired by you. and we've been honored to walk with you to help you get where you want to be. ♪
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negative campaign ads have played and outsized role in iowa this election selection. nbc news investigative reporter michael isikoff has more on what the role of those ads has been.
good evening, mike. >> good evening, rachel. look, one of the biggest stories out of tonight's iowa caucuses the power of the attack ads funded by so-called super pacs. the best example, the pro-romney super pac called restore our future. a figure to keep in mind, 2.8 million. that's how much restore our future spent on tv ads in iowa, and it's actually nearly twice as much as the 1.5 million spent by romney's own presidential campaign, and almost all of that super pac ad money has gone for hash attacks against newt gingrich like these. >> newt has more baggage than the airlines. he was fined $300,000 for ethics violations and took $1.6 million from freddie mac. >> i made a big mistake in the spring. >> haven't we had enough mistakes? restore our future is responsible for the content of this message. >> how much of an impact did these ads have? look at this. on december 4th gingrich is number one in iowa with 26% in the polls.
that's the -- that very week the super pac ad blitz girns and by the end of the month, newt's support is cut in half to just 13%. now, most political analysts say the attack ads played a big factor, if not the only factor in, gingrich's fall. they were made, this is interesting, by larry mccarthy, a restore our future founder and veteran republican media consultant, who was best known for making the willy horton ad that was so devastating against michael dukakis in 1988. >> he allowed first-degree murderers to have weekend passes from prison. one was willie horton who murdered a boy in a robbery, stabbing him 19 times. >> this year restore our future isn't the only super pac that has been bombarding the airwaves in iowa. all the presidential candidates have them, but what they do have in common, thanks to that supreme court ruling which you were discussing before, they can take unlimited donations from
wealthy donors and corporations, and all that is resulting in millions for attack ads that are changing the course of this presidential campaign. >> nbc's michael isikoff. thank you for that. i want to get reaction to that now from the gingrich campaign. rick tyler was an early supporter of newt gingrich and served as his campaign spokesman until he left the campaign with a lot of other staffers in june. rick has returned to the fold, and now he's part of the winning our future super pac that is running ads in support of mr. gingrich. mr. tyler, thanks very much for joining us tonight. we're happy to have you. >> hey, rachel, glad to be here. >> do you agree with the basic thesis that when people can donate money and not have their name attached to that money and when candidates can have pacs affiliated with them without technically being affiliated with them that there's more freedom to run more negative and in some cases more false advertising? >> well, that's certainly been the result of the super pakz for the romney campaign, and i think the whole system is broken. you know, why shouldn't
candidates have this ability to raise all the money they can can themselves and be transparent about it about who hats money. that's what we get when politicians try to cull free speech. supreme court narrowly ruled and here we are with super pacs and the first result may not be the candidates out of iowa but iowa itself. if in fact it proves that the candidate that spent the least amount of time and most amount in negative ads wins iowa, people will pretty quickly get the idea you don't have to eat the pork chop on the stick and go to 99 counties, forget going to the businesses, just run negative ads, that's what it takes to win iowa. i hope that's not the case. >> rick tyler with the winning the future super pac. looking forward to talking with you over the course of the evening as this unfolds tonight. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> the doors are about to open at caucus sites throughout iowa. we'll be back in just a moment. our team here in new york and in des moines. we'll be here throughout evening as the results start to come in from iowa. right now the polling heading into tonight's race, it's very,
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