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Easter weekend TRANSCRIPT: 4/10/20, The Last Word w/ Lawrence O'Donnell
Guests: Laurie Garrett, Zach Armstrong, John Hickenlooper, Betsey Stevenson, Jared Bernstein, Michael Stelmaszek
April 11, 2020, 2:00 AM UTC
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RACHEL MADDOW, MSNBC HOST: Behold the Edgewood Congregational Church in Cranston, Rhode Island, "Services cancelled. God is making house calls." This is from Athens, Tennessee. "Folks, it`s okay if the church is empty on Easter, the tomb was empty, too." Not a bad point.
And this is the Journey of the Faith Church in Windsor Mill, Maryland. "Jesus rode an ass into Jerusalem. Keep yours at home." Truer words. Happy Easter everyone. It`s still Easter with everything else. Stay inside. That does it for us tonight. We will see you again on Monday. Now, it`s time for "The Last Word" where Ali Velshi is in for Lawrence tonight. Good evening, Ali.
ALI VELSHI, MSNBC HOST: Good evening, Rachel. You have a safe weekend and I`ll see you on Monday.
And tonight, the stark difference between how some red and blue states are handling the coronavirus pandemic and why some states are far more successful at flattening the curve.
Plus, listen to this quote. Trump is treating life-saving medical equipment as emoluments he can dole our as favors to loyalists. That`s from a scathing editorial in the "Denver Post" accusing the president of playing politics amid a national health crisis.
We`ll talk with former Colorado governor and current senate candidate John Hickenlooper about the controversy that could hurt his state`s ability to keep its residents alive.
And at the end of tonight`s show, this is an extremely difficult time but the social distancing measures that we`re following are working. An important message about sacrifices that we`re making in tonight`s "Last Word."
But we begin tonight with the numbers. The number of deaths linked to the coronavirus worldwide has now passed 100,000. As of tonight, there are now nearly 1.7 million reported cases of coronavirus around the globe.
Here in the United States, we`re coming up on the half a million mark for known infections at 18,638 reported deaths from coronavirus in the United States.
In New York, where I am, the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States, hundreds of new deaths are still being reported daily and now, there are sobering new images that show the depths of the tragedy that New York City is facing.
Trenches are being dug on Hart Island in the Bronx. Now, these trenches are being used as mass grave sites to alleviate overwhelmed morgues around the city. It`s unclear if these burials include those who have died from coronavirus or if they are people who have passed away before the pandemic and are being moved to create space for the newly dead.
Despite this horrific development there is cause for some hope in New York State, however trepidatious we might be to use the word hope at this time.
Today, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that for the first time, the number of coronavirus patients being treated in intensive care units across the state fell by 17 people from the day before. Now that might seem like a small number, 17.
But just a week ago, the number of ICU patients was growing by more than 300 a day. It`s a remarkable achievement in a short period of time and it`s an indication that the social distancing guidelines that most states have put in place are working.
But just when the social distancing guidelines seem to be working in certain areas of the country, the president of the United States is pushing to end those guidelines and re-open the country despite pleas from medical professionals to stay the course.
This weekend, Easter Sunday will mark the deadline that the president had originally wanted to re-open schools, businesses and public places. Trump has now pushed that deadline back to May 1st, but health officials and his own government agencies are warning that ending these orders too soon could spell disaster.
"The New York Times" reports new federal projections show a spike in infections if shelter in place orders are lifted at 30 days. "If the administration lifts the 30-day stay-at-home orders, the death toll is estimated to reach 200,000 even if schools remain closed until summer, 25 percent of the country continues to work from home and some social distancing continues."
Here is what President Trump said today about his plan for when the country will re-open.
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I want to get it open as soon as we can. We have to get our country open, Jeff.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Can you say, sir, what metrics you will use to make the decision?
TRUMP: The metrics right here. That`s my metrics. That`s all I can do.
VELSHI: Now we try not to play a lot of recording from the president on this show, but we needed to highlight the preposterousness of that sentiment. For starters, the president has little power to re-open anything. The White House cannot unilaterally re-open the country.
Though the CDC issues federal guidance, it`s state officials who put the force of law behind those suggestions. More over, the president can use actual metric not just the ones in his head when pushing for the country to open back up. Metrics like the ones Governor Andrew Cuomo has laid out.
GOV. ANDREW CUOMO (D-NY): The key to re-opening is going to be testing. I`ve said that from day one. It`s not going to be a light switch where you flip this economy like you flip a light switch. And it`s going to be reliant on testing -- testing of antibodies, testing for diagnostic results, and testing on a scale that we have not done before.
VELSHI: Now, President Trump claimed today that he would listen to his advisors if they said it was necessary for the country to remain closed beyond May 1st, but it`s hard to take the president seriously on that point when he`s saying demonstrably untrue things about the effectiveness of stay-at-home orders like this.
TRUMP: You know what? Staying at home leads to death, also. And it`s very traumatic for this country. But staying at home, if you look at numbers, that leads to a different kind of death perhaps but it leads to death, also.
VELSHI: So let`s make this point clear. We should be listening to the medical experts and the government officials who are listening to the medical experts. If the president wants to start taking this seriously and listen to the professionals around him, that`s great.
But until then, we shouldn`t take his words at face value and we should acknowledge the potential danger that his words pose. Now, fortunately, there are some voices in the federal government to whom we can listen, whom we can trust like Dr. Anthony Fauci who would become the scientific voice of reason during the White House press briefings.
Dr. Fauci has repeatedly urged Americans that now is not the time to stop the social distancing and for now, it seems that the state officials in charge for the most part agree with him. Dr. Fauci did provide a little light at the end of the tunnel moment for us today when he said this to Brian Williams.
DR. ANTHONY FAUCI, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES: I would hope that by November we would have things under such control that we can have a real degree of normality. That`s my interest and my job as a public health person.
VELSHI: As much as the president complains about social distancing and stay-at-home orders, it is important to remember that we are not just following these guidelines for our own health, but for the health of others.
Like Jessica Vlaming, a physician`s assistant at Ruth University Medical Center in Chicago. Jessica is on the front lines fighting coronavirus every day and she recorded this video diary about the importance of remaining at home.
JESSICA VLAMING, PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT, RUTH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: We know that social distancing is starting to have an effect and it is starting to work. We look at the doubling time of new cases and the deaths and this doubling time is increasing, which is good, but that is a reflection of the past one to three weeks of how we`ve been acting as a community.
So, please don`t let this progress set you back and give you a false sense of security because we need social distancing and isolation to continue and it takes everyone to participate and everyone to do their part otherwise it does not work.
VELSHI: Leading off our discussion tonight, Dr. Irwin Redlener. He is the director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness in Columbia University. He is an MSNBC public health analyst, and Laurie Garrett, a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter covering global pandemics. She`s a former senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, and both of these two are people to whom we have been turning for the last few months to get a good understanding of what is going on.
Irwin, let me just start with you. Where are we in this process? It looks like the stay at home is working, but every opportunity the president gets, he looks ready to turn those things around. So, where do you think we are?
IRWIN REDLENER, MSNBC PUBLIC HEALTH ANALYST: Well, where we are is I think it`s -- it was actually good, of course, to see the data that Cuomo and others presented that looks like things may be leveling off, but really it`s only been a few days.
We have no idea of how long it`s going to take the system to really show results that we are actually, you know, turning around the curve and we`re slowing down and we`re having less deaths and less ICU admissions, et cetera.
That may be, but I`ll tell you something, the president needs to be very, very careful, Ali, about over promising the American public about whenever it is that we`re going to decide to reverse some of the restrictions, which we all want to do. Everybody wants to get back to work and back to their routine.
But if you over promise and then we see a second surge and a second wave, which I think is almost inevitable at this point, not only are people going to lose even more confidence than they`ve already lost than the president, but it also represent a danger of people feeling like they can suddenly be not worried about that contracting this virus, which is still going to be around.
I mean, that`s one of the reasons that we`re going to see resurgence. And if we get a resurgence after being, in a sense, promised by the president that everything is fine, we can go back to business as usual even we go there gradually, that`s going to have an economic repercussion as well that I shudder to think of what`s that going to do to our sense of confidence in the economy.
So, the president really needs to be very, very careful and I`m very worried about, you know, what`s in here as these criteria for beginning to loosen the restrictions. We are going to need data and we`re going to need a lot of it and that data is going to come from a lot of testing and it`s going to come from a renewed interest in tracing contacts of people that may have been affected.
So, a lot of work to be done. Hopefully, it will happen quickly, but we have a lot of work to do before we can say now is the time to start letting people go into society again.
VELSHI: And Laurie, you know, you and I have been talking about this for a while with Irwin, with other public health experts, all of whom, I mean, there are certainly variations amongst experts on what, you know, re- entering or re-opening America looks like. But that`s not really the nuance that is reflected in what the president has to say.
It seems that there is a real fight in the White House amongst those who think that the economic damage that is -- gets done by continuing to stay at home is politically very dangerous for the president and he doesn`t want to head toward a November election with people still sitting at home.
LAURIE GARRETT, PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING REPORTER: We definitely have that tension between ongoing balancing money versus jobs, versus stopping this epidemic. I think we fortunately don`t have to make it up out of whole cloth. We can look and see what other countries that are ahead of us on the curve of this epidemic have done.
And we can see that in China they`ve issued two kinds of tests. Every single person has to get two different tests in order to get a card on their or an app on their phone that signals that they`re certified okay and they can travel and leave Wuhan.
One of them is an antibody test and one of them is a PCR test. So, one is measuring the presence or absence of virus and the other is measuring whether or not the person ever was infected. No, we don`t have either of those tests, routinely available right now.
And it`s inconceivable that we could in the next 20 days have 360 million antibody tests and 360 million PCR virus tests and the capacity and a system set up such as the scale of what`s going on right now in China so that we can test everybody and say you, you can go back to school. You, you can go back to work. You, you need to go into quarantine.
We don`t have that. So in 20 days, you know, we`re going to suddenly tell everybody go back to work? Go back to the streets? The other thing is that I`m sure Irwin would back me up on this 100 percent. The weather is going to get better and better every single day going forward now.
And everybody, you know, cabin fever is tolerable when you look outside the window and it`s gross out there and it`s cold and it`s yucky. But the tulips are coming up. The forsythia is blooming. And it`s going to get harder and harder and harder to get people to stay inside as they look out the window and it`s gorgeous.
And it`s, you know, if we don`t have a 100 percent commitment coming down from government, clear message, there is going to be people scattering out to see the flowers, to take a roam, have a quick walk.
VELSHI: Yes. I`m going to grow a full a head of hair before we get a free - - before we get a clear message from the government, I think. Irwin, let`s just talk about this. At some point, we`ll have a vaccine and that will be terrific.
REDELENER: Yes.
VELSHI: But the fact is, at this point, it does not look practical that we`re able to test everybody for coronavirus. We have some people who are presumed to have it and if they isolate themselves or are treated for it, many of them, most of them get better -- unfortunately some die.
Now, at some point we`ve got these tests that Laurie is talking about. Is it practical that at some point we are able to test 100 percent of the population for either the PCR or the antibodies to be able to determine who is safe to go back to work, and if we had all those met metrics, could we then actually have a serious discussion about how we get back to work in America?
REDLENER: Well, we certainly would be a hell of a lot closer to being able to make that determination. I completely agree with Laurie that we`re so far behind in terms of both kinds of testing and we will need both kinds of testing.
I`m sorry to say to that, those tests that may be negative, you know, today, may not be negative in a week or two. We`re going to have to figure out systems for tracking people with symptoms, retesting them, if necessary.
There`s not going to be any single passport that`s going to say I`m completely fine going forward forever. That`s just not going to be happening. And, you know, for people that are in charge of workplaces or schools, they`re going to need a lot of guidance and direction and protocols for how we`re going to manage a return that is going to happen eventually. But thinking about this in the next 30 or even 60 days in my mind is not likely going to happen at all.
VELSHI: Thank you to both of you, Dr. Irwin Redlener and Laurie Garrett. Thanks for joining us. Coming up, thanks to the video diaries from the E.R. and interviews with doctors and nurses. We`ve got a clearer picture of what our health care heroes are facing at work, but we don`t always see the enormous sacrifices that they are making at home.
Coming up next, we`re going to talk to an E.R. doctor in Kentucky who is taking extraordinary steps to keep his family safe as he exposes himself to the virus every single day.
VELSHI: Now, a glimmer of good news from Kentucky where the state`s patient zero has made a full recovery, but as NBC`s Miguel Almaguer reports, it was not an easy road.
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MIGUEL ALMAGUER, NBC NEWS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In the state of Kentucky, Julia Donohue was the first known coronavirus patient.
JULIA DONOHUE, FORMER CORONAVIRUS PATIENT: I`d be gasping for air and it felt like I was suffocating.
ALMAGUER (voice-over): Donohue spent nine days on a ventilator and almost didn`t make it to her 28th birthday.
DONOHUE: Nobody is safe from the virus. You don`t know how it`s going to affect you.
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VELSHI: Kentucky started social distancing on March 7th. Today, Kentucky Democratic Governor Andy Beshear announced a new order heading into the Easter weekend. If a person goes to a mass gathering this weekend, that person`s license plate will be recorded and the information will be given to local health departments.
Local health officials will then go to that person`s door with a 14-day self-quarantine notice. Joining me now is Dr. Zach Armstrong, he`s an emergency room doctor at the University of Louisville Jewish hospital.
Dr. Armstrong, thank you for being with us. You are -- let`s first talk about you. You`re going in dealing with the emergency patients every day. How is that going?
ZACH ARMSTRONG, EMERGENCY ROOM PHYSICIAN: Thankfully, in Kentucky it`s going rather well. Beshear has put a lot of things in place that have kept our cases and our case load lower so far in Kentucky and we have not seen the number that a lot of other places have seen so far.
So, I think we are best case scenario at the moment and I don`t know if there is a best case everywhere, but I think I`m thankful for what we have at the moment.
VELSHI: Talk to me about what you`re doing. You have you have a family and you are, in theory, exposed to people with coronavirus every day. How are you living? How are you dealing with that?
ARMSTRONG: Well, for us, you know, the decision was kind of difficult. I`m currently in a trailer on the street outside of our house. I`m going to be exposed to coronavirus every time I go to work. That`s a given. I can do what I can to protect myself and thankfully I`m in a health care system that`s doing very well managing PPE and taking care of its employees and physicians.
And so I don`t worry about that so much, but it`s not -- the risk isn`t zero and, you know, people are dying from this of all ages and it was just a much more -- better option for us for me to kind of eliminate myself as a variable for my family.
If I`m not there, they don`t really have on exposure and hopefully they can ride it out safely and I hope it`s that way, too, but, you know, at least if I can take that variable away from them, then I`m happy to do that.
VELSHI: I want to just sort of compare Kentucky to Tennessee. There are 36 cases of coronavirus per thousand people in Kentucky. There are 72 cases per thousand people in Tennessee.
The number of deaths is about the same at this point but according to a "Buzzfeed" article, "The peak in Kentucky is now projected to be at mid- May, roughly a month after Tennessee`s and that`s a sign that the state took more effective measures to flatten the curve and spread out serious hospitalizations."
The title on that article, "The National Coronavirus Experiment is Playing Out in Kentucky and Tennessee." The implication is that Kentucky from a policy -- from a public health policy standpoint is being more effective. Do you share that view?
ARMSTRONG: I think it has -- I think the measures put in place by our state government have been effective. I really, you know, I`m not -- I don`t have access to all the numbers. It`s not what I do. I`m working more on a patient to patient basis.
But at least in what I`m seeing day to day in the emergency department, I think it`s been effective. We`re having cases, everywhere is, but we haven`t seen a huge influx in what we have at the moment. Hopefully it stays that way.
Hopefully it`s a much more gradual appearance of these cases because that does make it easier to manage and allows our hospital system to kind of absorb that and have the resources necessary to take care of those patients.
You know, it`s that big surge that we all fear, you know, that storm that`s coming. And from at least in my experience, I think Kentucky has done a very good job of trying to minimize that. So, that`s firsthand from what I`m seeing.
VELSHI: Well, from the projections, the storm is still coming. You look like you`re about a month away from it. We wish you well. Must be difficult for you to maintain that separation from your family when you really -- I think at the end of the day, just want to see them and hug them.
But thank you for all you`re doing. You represent a group of people who are keeping us all safe and healthy across this country. Dr. Zach Armstrong is an emergency room doctor at the University of Louisville Jewish hospital.
Coming up, Donald Trump is playing political games with lives. Those are the words of the editorial board at the "Denver Post" after the Trump administration stepped in to take an order of 500 ventilators that the state of Colorado had ordered from a private company.
Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper who is now a Democratic Senate candidate -- John Hickenlooper -- will join us next on that.
VELSHI: Now to a state that`s been called an emerging hotspot, Colorado. The NBC station in Denver reported the story of Dr. Anna Zimmerman, a neonatologist whose job is treating young children. And then her four-year- old son contracted coronavirus.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (voice-over): Sneezing turned into a fever. Fever became trouble breathing. Lincoln spent seven days at Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children. The same hospital where his mom works and where his mom says he tested positive for COVID-19.
ANNA ZIMMERMANN, NEONATOLOGIST: And so I went from I`m a mom, I`m a pediatrician, I`m not worried about my son at all to, oh my gosh, he is getting worse every hour and I`m watching him get worse every hour and how far down the line are we going to go, and being really, really scared.
VELSHI: OK. Rashad Lincoln (ph) back at home now. He`s recovered. But this is a reminder that the virus doesn`t discriminate by age. Tonight, Colorado has 6,510 confirmed cases of coronavirus, and officials predict that the virus is not going to peak in the state until May.
In an effort to prepare for those projections, Colorado`s Democratic Governor Jared Polis wanted more ventilators in his state. And because Donald Trump has told the states to essentially fend for themselves, the Governor Polis arranged to purchase 500 ventilators from a private company. Then the Trump administration blocked the order. FEMA took the ventilators for itself. Governor Polis described the infuriating situation.
GOV. JARED POLIS (D-CO): Either be in or out, folks. That`s kind of my message. Either you`re buying them and you`re providing to the states and you`re letting us know what we`re going to get them and when we`re going to get them or stay out and let us buy them.
VELSHI: On Wednesday, President Trump announced the federal government would be sending 100 ventilators to Colorado at the request of Republican Senator Cory Gardner, who is a vulnerable incumbent who`s up for reelection in November.
Now, Colorado is still 400 ventilators short of the original order. "The Denver Post"" made the ventilator debacle the subject of a scathing editorial, writing, quote, "President Donald Trump is treating life-saving medical equipment as emoluments that he can dole out as favors to loyalists. It`s the worst imaginable form of corruption, playing political games with lives. For the good of this nation during what should be a time of unity, he must stop. We find it hard to believe decisions are being made on such a morally bankrupt basis, but Trump is doing this nation no favors by giving us the impression that politics will drive his administration`s response to a virus that has already killed thousands of Americans and will kill thousands more."
Joining us now, the Former Democratic Governor of Colorado, John Hickenlooper. He was a presidential candidate, and he is running for the U.S. Senate against Cory Gardner.
Governor, good to see you again. Thank you for being with us. This story is kind of hard to believe because it was hard to believe for most Americans when they would listen to those press briefings with the President who said basically everybody is in it for themselves, Jared Kushner said we have a stockpile and the states have to deal with their own stuff. So Colorado took the President at face value and ordered its own ventilators.
FMR. GOV. JOHN HICKENLOOPER (D) COLORADO SENATE CANDIDATE: Yes. Well, it`s hard to imagine that this is the reality that we face. And I give Governor Polis a lot of credit. And obviously, Colorado is grateful for the 100 ventilators we got, but what is the process by which you get measured?
When I was Governor, we had - the federal government was careful and made sure that that population and infection rates and overall need would be the criteria by which necessary supplies that you don`t have enough of, that`s how they would be circulated and distributed. That`s obviously not happening if you`re using them as political favors.
VELSHI: Governor, talk to me about how you think this went down. Because Governor Polis orders these through a private company, FEMA then takes the order for itself, and then apparently, Cory Gardner has made a request for some, and the President now, as a courtesy to Cory Gardner, lets this go.
That`s the thing that`s got "The Denver Post" hot under the collar. The editorial went out of its way to not be broadly critical of the Trump administration`s handling of this, but highly specifically, of what they are calling an emolument, a favor, to Senator Cory Gardner.
HICKENLOOPER: Well, they were outraged, and they weren`t the only ones. I mean, I probably had more people talk to me in the last 24 hours about this one issue than anything I`ve heard certainly in this entire crisis. I mean, the very fact that people`s lives are at stake where doctors - you just saw a doctor having to worry about her own child - and people are uncertain if we`ll have enough ventilators. We know we don`t have enough face masks. Where is all the PPE that people have every right to expect?
We`re not - as government, we are not delivering, and I think at the end it`s reflecting very well upon governors - Governor Polis, Governor Inslee in Washington, Governor Cuomo in New York. All these governors are stepping up and making the hard decisions, going out into open markets and trying not to compete with each other.
Governor Newsom is trying to create a consortium. I mean, that`s what the federal government (inaudible) - organize this in a systematic way so it`s distributed fairly, the ventilators are distributed, the face masks, all this infrastructure necessary for a medical response, make sure it`s fair to every state.
VELSHI: I want to ask you about what "The Denver Post" continued reporting on. "Colorado has successfully pushed back its expected peak in coronavirus cases until at least next month, an important shift to give health officials and hospitals more time to prepare for a potential surge in COVID-19 patients, a top state public health official said." This is outside of the editorial. This is separate reporting.
Tell me what the situation is in the state because you do have a lot of cases.
HICKENLOOPER: Well, we do have a lot of cases. And again, I think Governor Polis took early action. Mayor Hancock in Denver also took strong early action. And that kind of leadership taking this seriously right from the beginning is what Colorado needed and I think it`s what the country needs. I think we are clearly flattening the peak, and we`re going to have - because of that, we`re not going to have as much pressure at one time on our hospitals.
I mean, that`s - that`s the worst nightmare if you talk to any doctor or the executives of any hospital that they end up with people in critical condition and no place to put them, no intensive care units with enough beds to service everyone who`s needed, and then you have to decide who gets care and who doesn`t - the worst situation for any medical professional.
VELSHI: What do you think of the federal government`s response with respect to Colorado? The Governor has taken swift action in Colorado, and that does seem to be helping. But Colorado is a test case for what the President said, that states should handle their own matters when it comes to stockpiles and emergency management. That`s not the understanding that most American citizens had about the way things go, but we`re learning that that`s what the President thinks should happen. This is an instance where that hasn`t worked exactly.
HICKENLOOPER: Well, this is not the first time that the President has said one thing and then 24 hours or 48 hours later has completely reversed himself, which in a time of crisis is one of the worst things you can do because people need to - they have to have confidence and trust in their leadership, they have to know what they`re hearing is fact-based and they can rely on it.
I don`t want to keep litigating this issue about the ventilators. We are grateful we`ve got the 100 ventilators. I know Governor Polis will do everything possible to make sure we get the ventilators we need in time to - so that they can be useful.
But we also should be looking at why we still don`t have testing capacity. I mean, at some point, we`re going to want to transition back into an economy that`s going to grow again, and if people don`t have confidence that - where if they`re going into a retail store or a coffee shop or whatever, if they don`t know that they`re safe going out, they`re not going to go out. And - but certainly not go out in numbers.
We don`t even have a fraction of the testing capacity we need to begin moving back into a transition back into an economy. I think that - I mean, all of these things - it`s the face masks. How do we have food workers make sure they`ve got face masks so they can handle food safely. All these things are not getting the attention they need.
VELSHI: Senator - Governor, good to see you. Democratic Senate candidate, John Hickenlooper, Former Governor of Colorado. Thank you for joining us tonight.
HICKENLOOPER: Thanks so much.
VELSHI: Coming up, the economic crisis, which is now being talked about in terms of a depression rather than a recession. What might federal help start to do and how much will go toward helping regular people, many of whom are out of work dealing with the bills that are piling up? That`s next.
VELSHI: The economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic is growing as the shutdown of the country goes on. Nearly 17 million Americans filed for unemployment in just the last three weeks. But that might not be the full picture, as economist Betsey Stevenson points out, 6 million to 7 million unemployment insurance initial claims per week might be telling us that that`s the system`s capacity to process claims per week, not how many people are trying.
Many people are now turning to food banks. This stunning photo is of 10,000 people waiting at a food bank in San Antonio. A food bank worker in New York says these lines are different.
RICHARD SLIZESKI, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BROOKLYN: There`s people coming who`ve never come to a food pantry in their lives. That`s a big difference. And for some people to realize that that`s their need, it`s a tough thing.
VELSHI: Joining us now is Betsey Stevenson who served as a member of the President`s Council of Economic Advisors and as the Chief Economist at the Department of Labor in the Obama administration, as well as Jared Bernstein, Former Chief Economist and Former Economic Policy Advisor to Vice President Biden He`s a CNBC contributor.
Betsey, I want to start with you because your comments about the 6-million- plus people who filed for first-time unemployment benefits roughly two weeks in a row does draw one to wonder. It`s like, it`s kind of interesting how the numbers were almost exactly the same. People have reported difficulty in being able to file for their unemployment benefits. So you`re thinking there might be a backlog, there might just be more people who haven`t been able to do it.
BETSEY STEVENSON, FORMER MEMBER, PRESIDENT`S COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC: Well, these are just extraordinary numbers that we`re seeing every week. Just not that long ago, a month ago, they were trying to process 200,000 claims a week, and now we`re asking, at really the same people, the same computer systems to process, 6 million to 7 million claims a week, I mean, it`s actually extraordinary that they`re doing that many, and it wouldn`t surprise me at all if that`s just the maximum capacity.
What that means is even though the economy has been shut in a lot of states for several weeks now, we`re going to see people continuing to apply for unemployment insurance as we work through that backlog.
VELSHI: So, Jared, people think that maybe 10 percent of the working population is out of work right now. I`ve heard some estimates that it`s 13 percent, I`ve heard estimates from the St. Louis Fed that it could go up to 32 percent. We talk about 6 million people a week.
What that does is it takes away the reality of the story that there were 40 million Americans who were food insecure before this thing started. And then you see those lines, and you realize there are people who never thought they`d be at a food bank, who`ve never been to a food bank, but for whom this may be their reality as they wait while the government processes a $1,200 check for them or while their unemployment payment gets processed.
JARED BERNSTEIN, FORMER CHIEF ECONOMIST TO VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN: You`re raising a really important point, which is the economic fragility of so many families in this nation before the virus hit. We know from lots of research that families in the bottom half of the income scale have very little, even zero or negative amount of savings, meaning they`re indebted. And these are folks who typically don`t receive paid leave. So if they`re laid off or furloughed, they don`t get a paycheck. And that is a stark difference in the curt economy between people who are still drawing paychecks and people who aren`t.
And it doesn`t surprise me, I hate to say, when hearing the numbers that you and Betsey were just reflecting on, to see these kinds of food banks when you recognize just how uninsulated so many American families are from this kind of probation a couple of weeks away from real concerns about meeting basic needs, putting food on the table, avoiding eviction.
VELSHI: Betsey, I want to ask you because you were a chief economist at the Department of Labor. I want to quote from "The Washington Post" in which it says, "In recent days, Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia, who has expressed concern about unemployment insurance being too generous, has used his department`s authority over new laws enacted by Congress to limit who qualifies for joblessness assistance and to make it easier for small businesses not to pay family leave benefits. The new rules make it more difficult for gig workers like Uber and Lyft drivers to get benefits while making it easier for some companies to avoid paying their workers coronavirus-related sick and family leave."
It does underscore the fact that the United States is distinct amongst developed nations in not actually having adequate preparation for things like this. It is harder to get benefits as American worker than it is in most western countries.
STEVENSON: Well, we seem to be trying on the one hand to bolster our safety net. That`s what Congress did with the CARES Act. They tried to expand the amount of unemployment insurance that was available to expand it to a wider group of people. And then you have the Department of Labor trying to undo some of the bill that the President of the United States just signed into law.
So we do have a weak safety net. That weak safety net is difficult for us in this situation. It`s worth thinking about the fact that where did unemployment insurance come from. It came out of the Great Depression where we knew we needed a better system to support people.
And I think there will be real questions about what kind of safety net do we really need in the United States as we come out of this pandemic.
VELSHI: Jared, there is an interesting experiment going on with the airlines right now, and we`re not sure where this is going to go. I want to read you from CNBC. It says, "Treasury guidelines states the department said it may demand warrants, options, preferred stock or securities in exchange for the grants that are going to airlines. Industry members, unions and others have argued that if the Treasury Department is too aggressive in its demands, such as by insisting on large equity stakes, it could deter airlines from taking the grants altogether."
The experiment was to give the airlines money that was to pay their staff, to keep their staff on payroll. End of story. Those were grants, very similar to the small business loans that are going out.
Now, Mnuchin is talking about transferring that to an equity or an ownership stake, which is an interesting discussion for us to have another time as to whether that`s valid, but what is at stake is the deal to keep these airline employees paid.
BERNSTEIN: Yes. Well, by the way, that`s what we did when you talk about taking a stake in the companies. That`s what we did with the auto companies, and that worked out well. Look, the airlines need help if they`re going to avoid bankruptcy. And by the way, just to be clear, many of the airlines we know and fly today and who are highly profitable have been through bankruptcy numerous times before. So it doesn`t scare me when they talk about that.
Look, what I`d say to the airlines if any of them are listening, to those executives, if you don`t want to hold the American taxpayer harmless while we provide you with grants so that you can survive this, then go ahead and shop elsewhere. I`m not at all moved by their threats that if the government doesn`t help them, they`ll look for help elsewhere. That`s kind of a deal of a quid pro quo. We help you, you help us. There`s no reason for there not to be the kind of conditionality on these grants or loans, or for that matter, any of the other policies that are helping businesses right now.
VELSHI: Thanks to both of you, Betsey Stevenson and Jared Bernstein, for joining us tonight.
If you`re worried about your finances these days, tomorrow morning on my show, I`ll be talking to Suze Orman, personal finance guru. She`s going to join us with her advice on what people can do to weather the economic crisis. So I`ll be talking to her at 9 o`clock a.m. tomorrow.
Coming up, if you`re feeling down about a holiday weekend spent in isolation, we`ve got something to show you that might make you feel a little better and prouder about what you and all of us are doing in this extraordinary time. That`s next in tonight`s Last Word.
VELSHI: The City of Detroit has been hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic. Today, Detroit City residents account for over 25 percent of the 1,281 reported coronavirus deaths in Michigan. But Detroit may be turning a corner in its battle against the coronavirus.
According to the Mayor of Detroit, Mike Duggan, the coronavirus is, quote, "starting to weaken in the Motor City."
Here`s Mayor Duggan this week.
MAYOR MIKE DUGGAN (D-MI): We`re seeing the beginning of a glimmer of light. The trends that we`re seeing, it`s not because the doctors and the nurses do anything different. They`ve been doing a phenomenal job from day one. The reason this is flattening out is because of you. The people of this city have been honoring social distancing.
VELSHI: A local ad agency in Detroit recognized the importance of practicing social distancing. So it made a video to tell the story that the people of Detroit and, frankly, the people across the country making tough sacrifices in this pandemic needed to hear and probably still need to hear, perhaps more than ever right now when many Americans would be celebrating Passover and Easter with their family and friends or just outside enjoying the arrival of spring.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (voice-over): It feels unnatural to not be in motion, for the city built on four wheels to stand still. But these vacant streets, empty stadiums are not signs of our retreat, but of our resolve. This is not us sitting out the fight. This is us winning it. Our fist doesn`t need to move to have strength.
If he were alive today, even Henry himself would have put it in park. So take this isolation as a sign of our togetherness, as we take care of ourselves and the ones close, because although it`s time for America`s motor to stop, we`re coming back with all eight cylinders. Because here, we don`t stop in the name of fear. Here, we stop in the name of love.
VELSHI: All right. Joining us now is the writer of that ad, the Executive Creative Director at Doner Detroit Advertising, Michael Stelmaszek. Michael, that is some remarkable writing in there. But before we get to the way you put this together - I mean, it`s so Detroit, and it`s so specific to Detroit, your musical allusions and the automobile allusions and the manufacturing work, and yet it is a universal message. It`s not just sort of interesting to those of us who don`t live in Detroit. I can`t imagine anybody in the world not appreciating the way you put that together. How did you conceive of this? Because the way you`re thinking about it, I think, is cathartic for the rest of us.
MICHAEL STELMASZEK, EXECUTIVE CREATIVE DIRECTOR, DONER DETROIT ADVERTISING & WRITER, "WHEN THE MOTOR STOPS": Well, first of all, thank you very much for the kind words. But the real inspiration for the piece came from wanting to help. It`s an instinct that I`m sure so many of us have these days, of wanting to do something.
And a young man, a really smart guy in our strategic planning department named Alex Demuth reached out to a few of us, and he said, look, we`re an advertising agency, we don`t have manufacturing capability. We can`t make ventilators, we`re not going to make a million masks a month like others. But we have creativity. We have tremendous production resources. So he called our Director of Content Zeke Anders and myself, and he said, let`s see what we can do.
VELSHI: And I think that`s the part that resonates with the rest of us because what`s going on out there is - it does feel like a war. It does feel like battle. People are actually dying. It is changing our lives. And yet, there are some people, our frontline workers, our EMTs, our police, our doctors, our nurses, our essential workers who are still out there risking their lives, but there are many of us whose job it is to stay home and not doing so may risk our lives and the lives of our fellow country people.
STELMASZEK: You`re right. And I think some of that is that the solution is kind of counterintuitive. Right? Like I said, we all want to jump in and help. We want to take action. We want to band together with others and come together and solve this thing and get out and do what needs to be done. But what needs to be done right now is stay apart from people, stay in our homes. And so, by reframing that, repositioning that as not sitting out the fight but winning it is not resigning ourselves to anything but a sign of our resolve.
And also from the Detroit standpoint, I think while the global messages are good, something of, by, and for Detroit, hopefully it`s hitting home a little bit better.
VELSHI: A city that has known adversity before and will overcome it again. This is not us sitting out the fight. This is us winning it.
Michael Stelmaszek, thank you for joining us. That is tonight`s "Last Word". I`m Ali Velshi. I`ll see you back here tomorrow morning on "Velshi" with a special guest, Suze Orman.
And another programming note, Sunday night, Richard Engel explores the lasting impact of the coronavirus pandemic, "On Assignment: Pandemic" airs Sunday at 9 p.m. Eastern here on MSNBC.
"The 11th Hour with Brian Williams" begins now.


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PULASKI - The Red Raiders outscored the Ships by 15 points at the free line in the game where 46 fouls were called.
Jasmine Litt and Isabel Majewski shared scoring honors for Pulaski as both scored 10 points. Litt also had seven rebounds.
Massendra Musial led Manitowoc with nine points.
Manitowoc: Musial 9, Delmore 7, Bartow 6, Zimmer 6, C. Swoboa 4, A. Swoboda 4, Balaban 2, Gunderson 2, Goral 2. 3-pt: Delmore. FT: 9-15. F: 26.
Pulaski: Litt 10, Szymanski 10, Majewski 7, Hernandez 7, Wiese 6, Gilson 6, Flauger 5, T. Gilston 5, Stienbrecher 3, McQuillan 2. 3-pt: Szymanski, Hernandez, Flauger. FT: 24-32. F: 20.
SHEBOYGAN - The Hornets started the second half with a 14-4 run as they went on to win.
Taylor Sleger and Carley Duffney each finished with 11 points for Preble, with Sleger hitting the game-winning 3-pointer.
Julia Scharinger paced Sheboygan North with 14 points.
Green Bay Preble: Duffney 11, Sleger 11, Bialkowski 9, Renard 5, Beauchamp 4, King 3. 3-pt: Sleger, Bialkowski, Beauchamp. FT: 12-17. F: 12.
Sheboygan North: Scharinger 14, Opie 9, Vogel 7, Martin 5, Bichler 3, Rietbrock 3. 3-pt: Scharinger 2, Opie 2, Vogel, Bichler, Rietbrock. FT: 4-9. F: 17.
DE PERE - The Pirates used a balanced scoring attack to defeat the Redbirds in a Fox River Classic Conference matchup.
Grace Krause and Alaina Abel scored 10 points each to lead Bay Port. McKenzie Johnson and Emma Nagel added nine apiece for the Pirates.
Jordan Meulemans scored 15 points to lead De Pere, while Natalie Cerrato added 14.
Bay Port: Krause 10, Coughlin 2, Krueger 6, Abel 10, Johnson 9, Nagel 9, Draak 5. 3-pt: Krueger 2, Johnson 3. FT: 20-30. F: 15.
De Pere: Cerrato 14, J. Meulemans 15, McCarty 6, Kerkhoff 10. 3-pt: Cerrato 3, J. Meulemans, Kerkhoff 2. FT: 9-12. F: 18.
GREEN BAY - The Tritons built a comfortable 14-point lead in the first half and then cranked up the defensive pressure in the second half to handily defeat the Redwings.
Sammy Opichka led Notre Dame with 19 points. Charley Apple and Georgia Gregoire added 13 and 10 points, respectively, for the Tritons.
Sheboygan South was led by Lindsey Horen's 12 points.
Sheboygan South: Ognacevic 4, Stricker 2, Horen 12, Bergen 1, Bushy 2, Urben 3, Boldt 9, Pfile 4. 3-pt: Urben. FT: 10-11. F: 10.
Notre Dame: Hardwick 3, Apple 13, Blindauer 4, Cribben 5, LeFever 5, Lemens 2, Opichka 19, Gallagher 4, Barrington 3, Gregoire 10. 3-pt: Apple 4, Blindauer, Cribben, LeFever, Barrington. FT: 5-7. F: 12.
MARINETTE - The Eagles scored 27 points in the second half to get the win after trailing by a point at halftime.
Kylee Stelzer led Suring with 13 points.
Alexa Pristelski paced St. Thomas Aquinas with 24 points, including seven 3-pointers.
Suring: Bubolz 4, Wagner 8, Runge 2, Stelzer 13, Krueger 7, VanBellinger 6, Huth 2, Smith 4. 3-pt: Wagner 2, Stelzer 3, VanBellinger 2. FT: 14-22. F: 15.
St. Thomas Aquinas: Pristelski 24, Bulin 2, Beranek 3, Lefebvre 6, Benson 5. 3-pt: Pristelski 7, Lefebvre 2. FT: 5-13. F: 16.


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My dad, it must be said, is something of a Health and Safety sort of chap. That is not to say that this was his career before retirement. He was, in fact, an English teacher. Nevertheless my sister Jane and I have grown up with his maxims and mottos on the various danger points of modern day existence.
For instance, he maintains that the highest percentage of drowned people are swimmers as opposed to non-swimmers. This is because, logically, more swimmers are found in the water. They dare to take on that fickle element and they fail. You would assume that staying on dry land would be a counter to this, not so; You could get run over by a horse or stampeded by cows. If you have the window open in a moving car you will get Bell's Palsy. Beware the rogue scone with its unpasteurised cream, the recalcitrant seafood starter and public swimming pools where you can contract anything from Lyme Disease to trench foot without leaving the reception area. Stepladders should not be used on any day without an 'R' in it and only then if you have a team of steeplejacks on red alert.
I used to think that his wariness and, on occasion, pessimistic panic stemmed from a childhood spent inside World War II. Many are the tales he will tell of nightmare evenings huddled in the air raid shelter listening to the bombers overhead on their way to the docklands of Salford. Death stalked the streets back then and might make anyone cautious about retaining their grip on Life.
But there are other tales he tells. These are the ones that involve his childhood pyromania. Yes. I used the word 'pyromania', meaning my dad loved to light fires, to the point of arson. He lit fires in all his relatives' houses, and not necessarily always in the grate. Aunties Alice and Emily might find him tending a small pyre in an unexpected corner of the scullery or parlour on any given afternoon. An experiment with the chimney one morning resulted in his being tardy for school and getting a lift there on the returning fire engine.
Children and fire have always been a dangerous combination. The lure of the flickering flame speaks to us all. My grandmother gave him the matches and the task of lighting the fire in the grate each morning to try and assuage his lust for flame. It worked. To a point.
I doubt she ever gave a second thought to the explosive qualities of the Tate & Lyle Golden Syrup tin. I've always seen them as rather decorative, often saving them after I have finished using the contents for flapjack or treacle tart. My dad, when he'd finished his syrup butty, used the tin for, well, blowing stuff up.
He was encouraged in this enterprise by my grandfather, his dad, Joe. My grandfather, on his return from definitely being right in the very middle of World War II in the Middle East, was only too happy to trot down to Taskers, the pharmacist, with his only child, and acquire the kind of substances that nowadays are only available via specialist online suppliers, the purchase of which can get you listed on a very black list indeed and might even get your passport confiscated. In order to obtain these substances my granddad had merely to offer the cash and sign The Poisons Book. Life was simpler then.
A childhood in the 1940s (makes a change from the 70s doesn't it?!) was a different beast. Alas, my dad was denied the digital and virtual delights of The Sims or Assassin's Creed as at that point in our history even Television was still something that smacked of science-fiction. There was rumoured to be a set in Little Hulton but no one was certain. The paperback book had only just been invented and was not widely available to anyone who wasn't T S Eliot. My dad therefore indulged in other more post-war era pursuits. He read Hotspur, played chess and tennis, was head choirboy in the church choir and he made bombs.
Yes. You know. BOOM. In the absence of an android phone and Facebook, he would idle away an hour or two in post-war Britain stripping the zinc from batteries and, using the alchemy of a conical flask and hydrochloric acid, he would make hydrogen. Yes. That one. H. The explosive element one.
If the appeal of hydrogen manufacture waned a little there was always time to tinker with the gas cooker, a syrup tin and some sodium carbide. Another tick in the Poisons Book for that one. Their neighbour Mrs Berry never complained once about his football going over the yard wall, instead she would knock on the door, her freshly nuked hair still smoking and request that he stop blowing things up as it was frightening her hens. Mrs Berry's hens, the only kind to lay pre-boiled eggs.
These pastimes were all things he had learnt the bones of in Chemistry at the Grammar school. Ah, the Grammar School system, the one they are considering bringing back.
Today, we moan because children don't get out much. They are chained to their computers and tablets, mesmerised by games. Only in recent days has 'Pokemon Go' and its treasure hunt delights prised many a teenager from their swivelly computer chair into the burning August sunlight. We often hark back to a brighter age, where children had a more innocent time and 'played out'. Sometimes we forget that theirs was a world scarred by global warfare and that they played on the bombsites and derelict buildings of our half dead cities.
Despite all his wary warnings I note that he now keeps his electric lawnmower in the garden. For convenience. It is a faff getting it out of the shed.
"But it's raining." I said the other afternoon.
"Only a bit." was his reply. "And the plug is in a margarine tub with the lid on."
I should be thankful, I suppose, it isn't in a Golden Syrup tin.

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The completion of Polavaram Project issue has become the subject of dispute between the ruling TDP and BJP. The state government led by the Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu has alleged that BJP led NDA government has ignored the concerns of the state mentioned in the state division act and added that it is state government which is completing the challenging task. On the other hand, BJP leaders have raised their voice stating that it is center which is bearing all the cost towards the project.


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Brian Connor, 62, who has a heart condition, was spurred into action after youths tore down the hedge around his garden in Larch-dale Close, Whitby.
The hedge had sentimental value, as he met his wife Joan in 2001 while she was pruning it.
Mr Connor distributed leaflets detailing the offence to other houses in the area, and was stunned when residents gave him the names of several suspects.
He has now passed these to Ellesmere Port police together with a CCTV recording of those allegedly responsible.
But he says he is disappointed officers didn't respond immediately to the incident, or do any detective work themselves.
He had to hire a JCB to dig up the damaged hedge and re-turf the area, costing him £150.
Mr Connor said: 'On Thursday, February 19, at 8.30pm, youths flattened a 20-year-old hedge at my house and damaged a wooden fence belonging to a neighbour.
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That our blogs had a dual, in some cases even a dubious identity. Presenting an anagarammatic version of the blogs listed on At Home, Writing. Enjoy the wacky, inane, intelligtent, perfect, outrageous second identities. I hope I covered all blogs linked here. Sorry if I missed any. Oh wait, maybe you are happy I missed yours!
sternest: Sharp, saner cold feet.
sternest: I'm a white-hot if inkling.
sternest: Oh No! Sexiest spurners.
sternest: Beauty! Traitors owe now.
webuser: No rules. Just write.
sternest: Jam on slobbish angel.
sternest: O My! Is wounded wit.
sternest: Satanists win powerful smudging.
sternest: Vend 'n' scenic 'n' vivid vend.
sternest: Am headiest ball and chain.
And just in case you are wondering if I've had too much time on my hands lately, no, that's not the case. I am no anagram champion either. I was introduced to these hidden identities of our blogs here. So you see, I am not to blame!
Sury, oh my, I was laughing so hard I couldn't breathe.\"Fetching, throatily." I'm not sure I like the sound of that! 😉 My favorites were Innocent A-Blog and Writing After Dark.Genius. Sheer genius. Thanks!
To and wrath. Could of been cooler, but there is a bit of truth to it. What a cool tool that is!
"The gentle uretha?"~howls~You delightful, wicked child.
Little aghast wit?Yeah, that sounds about right. :-)This was a lot of fun Sury, I love this kind of stuff. Oh man, I'd list my fsavorites, but the list would be too long.
My favorite:webuser: Shameless wordssternest: Wordless shamesAmazing link, Bhaswati!
webuser: So you want to be a writersternest: Beauty! Traitors owe now.webuser: Southern Expressionssternest: Oh No! Sexiest spurners.So funny! And now I have a name for a blog if I ever want an altae-ego.Thanks, Bhaswati!
Too funny Sury! Thanks for sharing. "It gang bold"…WOW! This is way too cool.
Oh, I love it, Sweeter Grid! Much better than the way it looks when the URL is written out: Writer Sedge.
What-ho! Unfitness and heathy musky. Grunt now highlight huge halo.Translation: That was funny. Thanks. You had me laughing through the whole thing.


See Classifications of Motions for more information relating to motions.
To take from the table takes precedence of no pending question, but has the right of way in preference to main motions if made during the session in which it was laid on the table while no question is actually pending, and at a time when business of this class, or unfinished business, or new business, is in order; and also during the next session in societies having regular business meetings as frequently as quarterly. It yields to privileged and incidental motions, but not to subsidiary [Section 12] ones. It is undebatable, and no subsidiary motion can be applied to it. It is not in order unless some business has been transacted since the question was laid on the table, nor can it be renewed until some business has been transacted since it was lost The motion to take from the table cannot be reconsidered, as it can be renewed repeatedly if lost, and, if carried, the question can be again laid on the table after progress in debate or business.
1. See foot note of To Lay On The Table. For the Congressional practice. As stated there, Congress has abandoned the ordinary parliamentary use of the motion to lay on the table and has converted it into a motion to enable the majority to kill a measure instantly. Therefore Congressional practice in regard to laying on, or taking from, the table is of no authority in assemblies using these motions in the common parliamentary law sense.
This motion is peculiar in that the making of the motion has a higher rank than its consideration, and for a certain time prevents anything being done as the result of the vote it is proposed to reconsider. It can be made only on the day the vote to be reconsidered was taken, or on the next succeeding day, a legal holiday or a recess not being counted as a day. It must be made by one who voted with the prevailing side. Any member may second it. It can be made while any other question is pending, even if another member has the floor, or after it has been voted to adjourn, provided the chair has not declared the assembly adjourned. It may be made after the previous question has been ordered, in which case it and the motion to be reconsidered are undebatable.
While the making of the motion to reconsider has such high privilege, its consideration has only the rank of the motion to be reconsidered, though it has the right of way in preference to any new motion of equal rank, as illustrated further on; and the reconsideration of a vote disposing of a main question either temporarily or permanently may be called up, when no question is pending, even though the general orders are being carried out. The motion to reconsider cannot be amended, postponed indefinitely, or committed. If the reconsideration is laid on the table or postponed definitely, the question to be reconsidered and all adhering questions go with it. The previous question and the motions limiting or extending the limits of debate may be applied to it when it is debatable. It is undebatable only when the motion to be reconsidered is undebatable. When debatable it opens to debate the merits of the question to be reconsidered. It cannot be withdrawn after it is too late to renew the motion. If the motion to reconsider is lost it cannot be repeated except by general consent. No question can be twice reconsidered unless it was materially amended after its first reconsideration. A reconsideration requires only a majority vote, regardless of the vote necessary to adopt the motion reconsidered.
The Effect of Making this motion is to suspend all action that the original motion would have required until the reconsideration is acted upon; but if it is not called up, this effect terminates with the session [Session Section 63], except in an assembly having regular meetings as often as quarterly, when, if not called up, its effect does not terminate till the close of the next regular session. As long as its effect lasts, any one at an adjourned, or a special, or a regular meeting, may call up the motion to reconsider and have it acted upon, though it is not usual for any one but the mover to call it up on the day it is made if the session lasts beyond that day and there is no need of prompt action.
Reconsider and Have Entered on the Minutes. The motion to reconsider, as previously explained in this section, provides means for correcting, at least on the day on which it occurred, errors due to hasty action. By using the same motion and having it entered on the minutes so that it cannot be called up until another day, a means is provided for preventing a temporary majority from taking action that is opposed by the majority of the society. This is needed in large societies with frequent meetings and small quorums, the attendance in many cases not exceeding ten per cent of the membership. It enables a society with a small quorum to protect itself from injudicious action by temporary majorities, without requiring previous notice of main motions and amendments as is done in the English Parliament. To accomplish this, however, it is necessary to allow this form of the motion to be applied to a vote finally disposing of a main motion, regardless of the fact that the motion to reconsider has already been made. Otherwise it would be useless, as it would generally be forestalled by the motion to reconsider, in its simple form, which would be voted down, and then this motion could not be made. As this form of the motion is designed only to be used when the meeting is an unrepresentative one, this fact should be very apparent, and some members of the temporary minority should vote with the temporary majority on adopting or postponing indefinitely a main motion of importance, when they think the action is in opposition to the wishes of the great majority of the society. One of them should then move "to reconsider the vote on the resolution [or motion] and have it [or, request that it be] entered on the minutes," which has the effect of suspending all action required by the vote it is proposed to reconsider, as previously explained, and thus gives time to notify absent members of the proposed action. If no member of the temporary minority voted with the majority, and it is too late for any one to change his vote so as to move to reconsider, then some one should give notice of a motion to rescind the objectionable vote at the next meeting, which may be done by a majority vote after this notice has been given.
2. In Congress it is usual for the member in charge of an important bill as soon as it is passed to move its reconsideration, and at the same time to move that the reconsideration be laid on the table. If the latter motion is adopted the reconsideration is dead and the bill is in the same condition as if the reconsideration bad been voted on and lost. These Rules, like the common parliamentary law, carry the bill to the table, from which it could be taken at any time. [See note, 35] Unless there is a special rule allowing it, the two motions could not be made at the same time in an ordinary society.


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Effect of The Sin of Adam
"Gate of Reincarnations": Chapter Three, Section 2
By Rabbi Yitzchak Luria as recorded by Rabbi Chaim Vital; translation from Sha'ar Hagilgulim by Yitzchok bar Chaim; commentary by Shabtai Teicher
Ibur While Alive (3:1)
Additional Blemishes (3:3)
With respect to the concept of gilgulim, we will begin the discussion with Adam HaRishon, the First Man, to more easily grasp the matter.
To begin with, when Adam HaRishon sinned he blemished all the sparks [nitzutzot] of his Nefesh, Ruach, and Neshama. Just like a person's body contains many sparks throughout his 248 Limbs and 365 Tendons, and consequently there are many sparks in his head, in his eyes, and in every limb—it is the same with a Nefesh as well.
The human body is comprised of the 248 Limbs and 365 Tendons, and as such they denote the form or "shape" of the human body. The body is composed of Holy Sparks..dispersed throughout it and within its limbs.
The Nefesh is in the same "shape" as the human body; more correctly said: the human body is in the same shape as the Nefesh. The body is composed of Holy Sparks that are dispersed throughout it and within every one of its limbs. It is exactly the same with the Nefesh, only more ephemeral.
When Adam HaRishon, the First Man, sinned, he blemished all the sparks throughout the spiritual form of his Nefesh, and his Ruach and Neshama as well. To explain this, the Arizal now digresses to a deep explanation of the Midrash.
The Midrash Tanchuma (Ki Tisa 12) and Midrash Rabba (Ex. 40:3) provide an explanation for the verse (Job 38:4), "Where were you when I founded the earth?"
Job is complaining about his lot, and arguing with G‑d. He answers him, "Where were you when I founded the earth?" In other words, G‑d is answering Job that he has no right to question G‑d unless he also knows from what part of the soul of Adam the spark that constitutes Job's soul originally came. If he does not know from whence his soul was hewn, then he does not know his own history. Consequently, he can never fully understand the things that are happening to him.
Actually, the Midrash starts off by quoting a verse from Ecclesiastes: "That which was/it was already called by name [from the beginning]/and it is known that it is Adam…" (6:10) In other words, all that exists "was already called by name" from the beginning, and that beginning or source is Adam HaRishon, when he was created.
When Adam was created, the Holy One, Blessed is He, showed him every righteous person who would ever descend from him: from his head, his hair, his neck, his two eyes, and some from his nose. His Ruach is also divided in this way, as is his Neshama.
From the sparks that comprised all the various limbs of the Nefesh, Ruach and Neshama of Adam were descended the souls of all the people that would exist throughout history.
When he sinned, he blemished the majority of the sparks of his Nefesh, Ruach, and Neshama, causing them to become immersed in the kelipot.
The kelipot are the husks or shells that imprison the fallen Holy Sparks. When Adam sinned, the Holy Sparks of his Nefesh, Ruach and Neshama fell into the kelipot. In the sense in which it is being used here, the concept of kelipot refers to the entire realm of evil into which the souls and the Divine Presence have been exiled. This realm is the mirror image of the realm of Holiness [Kedusha], but in the depths of spiritual impurity.
The Divine Presence is exiled amongst the kelipot.
This is the sod [meaning "secret"] of what is written in Sefer HaTikunim (Ch. 5), on the verse, "like a bird that wanders from her nest …" (Proverbs 27:8) The Divine Presence is exiled amongst the kelipot. The [souls of the] righteous tzadikim wander after Her from place to place.
This is talking about a quality naturally inherent in a human being that allows him to return to his Creator, as a bird does to its nest. The deeper meaning of the verse refers to Soul-Sparks of righteous people pursuing G‑d while they are within the realm of the kelipot.
The place to which the sparks are exiled in the realm of the kelipot is according to the aspect [of the soul of Adam] from which they have come. If they have come from the head, then they are exiled into the head of the kelipot; if from the eyes, then to the eyes, etc. This is the sod [meaning "secret"] of the idea of the "exile of the souls" that is mentioned there.
As explained, the spiritually impure world is a mirror version of the spiritually pure world, except in an unholy and impure way. Thus, when the souls fell into the world of impurity, they fell to the level that corresponded to their own. For example, the souls that are derived from the sparks of the eyes of Adam's Nefesh fell into the kelipot of the eyes of the Nefesh. If they fell from the thighs of the Ruach, then they fell into the thighs of the Ruach of the kelipot. It is from their specific place of exile in the kelipot that the soul-sparks must be redeemed.
[Translator's note:The Hebrew words that have been translated here, "When Adam was created…," are "mutal golem." The implication of the word mutal is that he was lying around lifeless. The word golem will be more familiar, from the stories of the creature that was made by the Maharal of Prague. Whereas G‑d breathed into the lifeless lump that was Adam the spirit of life, the Maharal imbued the spirit of life into a lifeless lump by the use of Holy Divine Names.]
Thus, the literal translation of the Midrash at this point is as follows. "When Adam was a lifeless unformed lump…." Concerning that time it is written, "And the Lord G‑d formed the Man out of the dust from the ground, and He breathed into him a living soul…"(Gen. 2:7). It was at that moment also, according to our Midrash, that G‑d manifested the potential of all the human souls for posterity that would be descended from Adam, the Primordial Man.
[The verse quoted by the Midrash from the Book of Job (38:4) is: "Where were you when I founded the earth?" The Hebrew word for "where" is ayfoh, comprised of the letters alef — yud — peh — hei. The Midrash notes that these letters can also be read as ayfah. An ayfah is an amount of dough that has not yet been kneaded into the shape of the loaf that will be baked. Therefore, the verse, when it is read with the indication [remez] ayfah, also hints at this moment when Adam was a lifeless lump, like an ayfah. This is the moment when G‑d gives form and life to the lifeless lump, and manifests the potential souls of the entire human race, the moment when Adam was created.]
[Commentary by Shabtai Teicher.]
Rabbi Yitzchak Luria […Ashkenazi ben Shlomo] (5294-5332 = 1534-1572 c.e.); Yahrtzeit (anniversary of death): 5th of Av. Buried in the Old Cemetery of Tzfat. Commonly known as the Ari, an acronym standing for Elohi Rabbi Yitzchak, the
G-dly Rabbi Isaac. No other master or sage ever had this extra letter Aleph, standing for Elohi [G-dly], prefaced to his name. This was a sign of what his contemporaries thought of him. Later generations, fearful that this appellation might be misunderstood, said that this Aleph stood for Ashkenazi, indicating that his family had originated in Germany, as indeed it had. But the original meaning is the correct one, and to this day among Kabbalists, Rabbi Yitzchak Luria is only referred to as Rabbenu HaAri, HaAri HaKadosh [the holy Ari] or Arizal [the Ari of blessed memory].
Yitzchok bar Chaim is the pseudonym of the translator, an American-born Jerusalem scholar who has studied and taught Kabbala for many years. He may be contacted through: [email protected]. He translated the Ari's work, "Shaar HaGilgulim;" his translation into English (but with much less extensive commentary than offered here). Information about his translation in book form may be obtained through www.thirtysevenbooks.com
Rabbi Chaim Vital c. 5303-5380 (c. 1543-1620 CE), major disciple of R. Isaac (Yitzchak) Luria, and responsible for publication of most of his works.
Shabtai Teicher, a descendant of the fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, the Rebbe Reshab, was born in Brooklyn in 1946 and settled in Jerusalem in 1970. He studied for over 7 years with one of the outstanding and renowned kabbalists of our generation, Rabbi Mordechai Attieh, and also studied deeply in various other fields of Jewish scholarship. He was a specialist in Lurianic Kabbala, edited and annotated the first eleven chapters of our English rendition of "Shaar HaGilgulim," and completed his manuscripts for "Zohar: Old Man in the Sea," in both Hebrew and English, shortly before his unfortunate passing in November 2009.
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David Dome Edgware, Middx via kabbalaonline.org April 16, 2012
kelipot when Hashem breathed life into Adam " G-d manifested the potential of all the human souls for posterity that would be descended from Adam, the Primordial Man."
Then there's the mirror of that potential in the kelipot as it's written "the nefesh of the eyes of Adam fell into the nefesh of the eyes in the kelipot.
So , is the world of Kelipot simply an evil version or reflected dark version of Adam before he sinned ?
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describe("Test 001 - Simple one", function() { it("This is a simple expect to test the conexion", function() { expect(true).toBe(true); }); });

describe("Test 002.0 - User Controller", function() {

    beforeEach(module('hiperionApp'));

    var userCtrl, scope;

    beforeEach(inject(function($controller, $rootScope) {
        scope = $rootScope.$new();
        userCtrl = $controller('UserCtrl', {
            $scope: scope
        });
    }));

    it('test 002.1', function() {
        expect(scope.user.name).toBe('');
    });

    it('test 002.2', function() {
        expect(scope.user.lastName).toBe('');
    });
});

describe("Test 002.1 - User Controller", function () {

    beforeEach(module('hiperionApp'));

    var userCtrl, scope;
    var rolesFake = [{ name: "Administrator", id: 1 }, { name: "User", id: 2 }, { name: "Collaborator", id: 3 }];

    beforeEach(inject(function ($controller, $rootScope, roleService) {
        scope = $rootScope.$new();

        spyOn(roleService, 'getRoles').and.callFake(function () {
            return {
                success: function (callback) { callback(rolesFake) }
            };
        });

        userCtrl = $controller('UserCtrl', {
            $scope: scope
        });
    }));

    it('test 002.3', function () {
        expect(scope.tableParams.count()).toBe(5);
    });

    it('test 002.4', function () {
        expect(scope.userRoles).not.toBe(null);
    });

    it('test 002.5', function () {
        expect(scope.roles).not.toBeUndefined();
    });

    it('test 002.6', function () {
        scope._loadRoles();
        expect(scope.roles.length).toEqual(3);
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describe("Test 002.2 - User Controller", function () {

    beforeEach(module('hiperionApp'));

    var userCtrl, scope;
    var rolesFake = [{ name: "Administrator", id: 1 }, { name: "User", id: 2 }, { name: "Collaborator", id: 3 }];

    beforeEach(inject(function ($controller, $rootScope, roleService) {
        scope = $rootScope.$new();

        spyOn(roleService, 'getRoles').and.callFake(function () {
            return {
                success: function (callback) { callback(rolesFake) }
            };
        });

        userCtrl = $controller('UserCtrl', {
            $scope: scope
        });
    }));

    it('test 002.5', function () {
        expect(scope.roles).not.toBeUndefined();
    });

    it('test 002.6', function () {
        scope._loadRoles();
        expect(scope.roles.length).toEqual(3);
    });
});

describe("Test 003 - Home Controller", function() {
    beforeEach(module('hiperionApp'));

    var controller, scope;

    beforeEach(inject(function($controller, $rootScope) {
        scope = $rootScope.$new();
        controller = $controller('HomeCtrl', {
            $scope: scope
        });
    }));

    it('test 003.1', function() {
        expect(scope.title).toBe('HOME');
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    it('test 003.2', function() {
        expect(scope.addComment()).not.toBe(null);
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    it('test 003.3', function() {
        expect(scope.title).toMatch('H');
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});

describe("Test 004 - About Controller", function() {
    beforeEach(module('hiperionApp'));

    var controller, scope;

    beforeEach(inject(function($controller, $rootScope) {
        scope = $rootScope.$new();
        controller = $controller('AboutCtrl', {
            $scope: scope
        });
    }));

    it('test 004.1', function() {
        expect(scope.description).not.toBe('');
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Debit, a white variety native to Croatia's Dalmatian coast between the cities of Šibenik and Zadar, was once considered a workhorse grape of great proficiency, so much so (the story goes) it gained its nom de plume during the Napoleonic Era when Dalmatian land owners would barter and pay off their tax debts with their crop instead of coin. This was possible because debit, when unmanaged in the vineyard and left to its own devices, will produce high yields (and consequently simple, one-dimensional wine). So, debit's proficiency and reliability served the locals well during the Napoleonic era–and later through the 20th century during Croatia's time as one of the republics in Yugoslavia, when Socialist-style cooperatives demanded quantity over quality.
In a recent packet of samples I received a bottle of Terzolo 2008 Teran – a wine I've never tried and about which I have been very curious (and heard good things).
As anyone who follows this blog already knows, I am a big fan of Teran and believe that it will be the next Big Thing to come out of Croatia – eventually taking its rightful place as one of the top three native red grape varieties in Croatia.
This particular Teran comes from a small family property near Nova Vas in the Istria sub-region of northern Coastal Croatia.
Istria as a wine region is most noted for its white wines, particularly the local indigenous variety, Malvazija Istriana. For more background information on the producer and the Teran grape, please see this post on the Blue Danube Wine Company's website.
Originally I planned to drink the Terzolo Teran on Thanksgiving Day. I had actually included it in my original line-up of wines for the day's festivities, as seen by the photo that I posted on Facebook (below).
However, the lavish and overwhelming nature of Thanksgiving dinner with my family got the best of me, and the wine ended up lost in the fray and was never opened that day. This was for the best, I think, because by the time we got around to it, I think everyone's senses already would have been dulled and overwhelmed. As a result, the wine would have been underappreciated; simply tossed back without a thought.
So I rescued the bottle and returned it to my "pending" pile of samples until the right opportunity came along to open it.
It didn't take long. A few days later I got around to reading Eric Asimov's Thanksgiving-themed ARTICLE in the NY Times called "Giving Thanks for the Options" ("Wines for Thanksgiving Dinner" in the online edition). In it Mr. Asimov supports the notion of serving red wine with the Thanksgiving meal (as opposed to common wisdom and tradition, which often favors whites – and in my case, Riesling).
More specifically, Mr. Asimov insists that any wine – red or white – served with turkey, stuffing and dressing must be of a more "gentle" character (no big, bold reds) and offer "grace and refreshment" (in other words, fresh acidity).
All of this got me thinking about Teran again.
Lo and behold, that same evening my sister-in-law invited me to dinner. In offering to bring wine, I asked what she would be serving. She declared that she was preparing a "Little Thanksgiving": stuffed turkey breast with roasted cauliflower and broccoli.
True to my suspicions – and confirming Mr. Asimov's thesis, the Terzolo Teran was a perfect turkey wine. To begin with, who could not be impressed by its deep violet purple color, opaque and richly extracted, belying the vibrant freshness within?
On the nose, initial aromas of black cherry, kirsch and pomegranate juice gave way to developing hints of barnyard, cola, and savory black olive. Adding power and structure to the nose were alluring mineral notes of lead pencil and iron.
But be not fooled. As dense and deep as the wine appears and breathes, it is a vibrant fellow – imagine Darth Vader dancing like Fred Astaire. Swirling black cloaks and all the energy of the universe channeled and condensed into your wine glass.
Such is the magic of Teran. At once it can be dark and intense, dense and brooding, yet lively and elevating, giddy and somewhat precocious (and sometimes obnoxious if not made well). It can readily change disguises, showing characteristics of Gamay, Cabernet Franc, and Rhone Valley Syrah, all in the same glass.
Turkey meat (it should be noted) has the odd habit of leaving a bitterly metallic aftertaste when paired with certain wines. Not the Teran. Every bite washed down deliciously. The wine practically sizzled on my tongue, its vibrancy cleansing the palate and inducing the appetite to march on. Crunchy bright red and black fruits were offset by smooth tannins, subtle cured meat smokiness, and savory mineral notes. Blood sausage came to mind.
My brother, taking a sip, paused, studied the bottle and asked, "What is this?" With him this is always a good sign. It caught his attention; he wanted to know more. Needless to say, the rest of the bottle went down remarkably easy and was soon relegated to the library of happy memories.
By the way, since we are on the subject of Teran, I will go ahead and make this prediction: Teran will one day become the second most important red grape variety in Croatia. It eventually may even challenge Plavac Mali for the Number 1 spot in terms of popularity among consumers (with Babic holding steady at Number 3).
Based on what I have tasted from Terzolo and other Istrian producers, Teran demonstrates convincing potential. I would argue that it could eventually be placed in the same league with Loire Valley reds, with Cru Beaujolais, or Italy's food-friendly, northern reds (in fact, it reminded me of an excellent Sagrantino I recently tried).
Whatever the case may be, the 2008 Terzolo Teran is certainly a wine of "grace and refreshment" – and at around $20 it won't break your budget at the holidays or anytime.
P.S. Blue Danube Wine Company has informed me that the 2008 Terzolo Teran is now sold out in the U.S. The 2009 vintage though is on the way and should arrive shortly. Please check the Blue Danube website for availability, and stay tuned here for future reviews.


It's all about bacon in this work shop! We'll walk you through the process of curing and smoking Central Park Farms pork. We'll be preparing 2 varieties of smoked bacon- a honey cured and a beer brined bacon! Then we'll move on to pancetta, the Italian style bacon were the belly is cured, rolled and hung. Keeping with the Italian theme, we'll go through the process of making guanciale( cured jowl bacon). Finally Canadian bacon- the maple cured loin! We'll discuss safety procedures, different curing and smoking techniques, and of course a sample of everything that is made! Everyone will also get a package of what was made to take home!
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