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A story in Politico published late Sunday that provides an inside-look at GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's campaign is causing a stir in the political world.
The piece, headlined "Inside the campaign: How Mitt Romney stumbled," leaves readers viewing the campaign as disorganized, which is all the more surprising given Romney's experience running companies and the Salt Lake City Olympics.
The story, by Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei, details how problems with Romney's acceptance speech at the GOP convention emerged and provides more background into how Clint Eastwood wound up on the stage talking to an empty chair.
Much of the criticism from Romney's aides and friends in the piece is directed at Stuart Stevens, a top aide to Romney who the reporters describe as having "a mad-professor aura." But the authors also write: "To pin recent stumbles on Stevens would be to overlook Romney's role in all this."
Some highlights from Politico's piece:
- The campaign tapped multiple writers to work on drafts for Romney's acceptance speech at the convention in August. One of the speeches referenced the war in Afghanistan — an issue that Romney did not mention in his speech. The speech that was ultimately given was written by Stevens and Romney.
- Stevens is serving as Romney's "chief strategist, chief ad maker and chief speechwriter," the authors write. "It would be as if George W. Bush had run for president in 2000 with one person playing the roles of Karl Rove, Mark McKinnon and Michael Gerson. Or if on the Obama campaign of 2008, David Axelrod had not been backed up by Jim Margolis, Robert Gibbs and Jon Favreau."
There's much more in the piece. Check it out here.


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Beyonce's new bob, which replaced her pixie, performed in the UK this weekend. She whipped it around in the wind machine and the world is right. Like I've been saying, when the choreography is designed for hair that moves, how long could she have kept it short for, really?
These are the kinds of bobs we used to wear back in the 80s for a while. Long at the front, shaved at the back, remember that?
In other Beysus news, she posted a new video on her website and, amazingly, shares the spotlight with someone else:
The Kid President
To promote World Humanitarian Day, Beysus and her new bff sit down for a very serious, hard-hitting interview. This kid KILLS me. And if you're not smiling through the whole thing, well, even Tom Hardy and the puppy won't help you.


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Karl was the fourth of six children born to Roman Catholic Gypsy parents in the village of Wampersdorf in eastern Austria. The Stojkas belonged to a tribe of Gypsies called the Lowara Roma, who made their living as itinerant horse traders. They lived in a traveling family wagon, and spent winters in Austria's capital of Vienna. Karl's ancestors had lived in Austria for more than 200 years.
1933-39: I grew up used to freedom, travel and hard work. In March 1938 our wagon was parked for the winter in a Vienna campground, when Germany annexed Austria just before my seventh birthday. The Germans ordered us to stay put. My parents converted our wagon into a wooden house, but I wasn't used to having permanent walls around me. My father and oldest sister began working in a factory, and I started grade school.
1940-44: By 1943 my family had been deported to a Nazi camp in Birkenau for thousands of Gypsies. Now we were enclosed by barbed wire. By August 1944 only 2,000 Gypsies were left alive; 918 of us were put on a transport to Buchenwald to do forced labor. There the Germans decided that 200 of us were incapable of working and were to be sent back to Birkenau. I was one of them; they thought I was too young. But my brother and uncle insisted that I was 14 but a dwarf. I got to stay. The rest were returned to be gassed.
Karl was later deported to the Flossenbürg concentration camp. He was freed near Roetz, Germany, by American troops on April 24, 1945. After the war, he returned to Vienna.


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The Ed Show for Monday, April 30, 2012
Read the transcript to the Monday show
Guests: Richard Wolffe, Howard Fineman, Joan Walsh, David Cay Johnston
ED SCHULTZ, HOST: Good evening, Americans. And welcome to THE ED
SHOW tonight from New York.
Mitt Romney`s team, I`ll tell you, they`re a dandy. They lied about
the war on women, the automobile loan and the death of the world`s number
one terrorist. Tonight, I`m going to set the record straight.
This is THE ED SHOW -- let`s get to work.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I`ll just recommend
that everybody take a look at people`s previous statements in terms of
whether they thought it was appropriate to go into Pakistan and take out
bin Laden.
SCHULTZ (voice-over): Mitt Romney is running away from his rhetoric
on Osama bin Laden, and he`s digging a deeper hole in the process.
MITT ROMNEY (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Even Jimmy Carter would have
been given that order.
SCHULTZ: Richard Wolffe on Romney`s Osama bin disaster.
OBAMA: Time after time, the Republicans have gotten together and
they`ve said no.
SCHULTZ: The president makes the case to workers. Republicans are
the problem.
OBAMA: I send them a jobs bill that would have put hundreds of
thousands of construction workers back to work repairing our roads, our
bridges, schools, transit systems. They still said no. Howard Fineman, on
the president`s big speech on jobs.
SCHULTZ: It was another war on women train wreck for Republicans on
"Meet the Press."
RACHEL MADDOW, MSNBC HOST: It`s about policy and whether or not you
want to fix some of the structural discrimination that women really do
face, that Republicans don`t believe is happening.
SCHULTZ: Salon`s Joan Walsh has the latest.
And Paul Ryan has a dirty little secret in his budget and the
corporations love it. David Cay Johnston on the tax shelter plan in the
Republican budget that no one is talking about.
SCHULTZ: Good to have you with us. Thanks for watching.
Republicans have spent the last few days relentlessly attacking the
president for saying made the right call when he ordered the raid on Osama
bin Laden. They`ve have also hammered the president`s team for questioning
whether Mitt Romney would have made the same decision. But the president
is not backing down.
OBAMA: I just recommend that everybody take a look at people`s
previous statements in terms of whether they thought it was appropriate to
go into Pakistan and take out bin Laden. I assume that people meant what
they said when they said it. That`s been, at least, my practice. I said
that I`d go after bin Laden if we had a clear shot at him, and I did.
If there are others who have said one thing and now suggest they`d do
something else, then I`d go ahead and let them explain.
SCHUTLZ: The president was responding to a remark Mitt Romney made
earlier today on the campaign trail.
REPORTER: Would you have gone after bin Laden?
ROMNEY: Of course.
REPORTER: You would have given the order, Governor?
ROMNEY: Well, of course. Even Jimmy Carter would have given that
SCHULTZ: Nice cheap shot. Mitt Romney tried to use former President
Jimmy Carter as a distraction. This is what Mitt Romney said about bin
Laden during his 2008 campaign. "It`s not worth moving heaven and earth,
spending billions of dollars just to try to catch one person."
To set the record straight, Jimmy Carter gave that order. He approved
the helicopter rescue of the American hostages in Iran. The failure of
that mission really raised the stakes of the bin Laden raid which was
called on by President Obama.
President Obama made good on a promise that he made on the campaign
OBAMA: If we have bin Laden in our sights and the Pakistani
government is unable or unwilling to take them out, then I think that we
have to act, and we will take them out.
We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our
biggest national security priority.
SCHULTZ: Right after he took office, he told Leon Panetta to make
finding bin Laden his to priority. He refocused the intelligence community
on finding bin Laden after this guy dismantled the bin Laden unit.
GEORGE W. BUSH, FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT: I don`t know where he is. You
know, I just don`t spend that much time on it, to really be honest with
you. We hadn`t heard much from him. And I wouldn`t necessarily say he`s
at the center of any command structure.
And, you know, again, I don`t know where he is. I repeat what I said.
I`m truly not that concerned about him.
SCHULTZ: History will prove George W. Bush took his eye off the ball.
Six months after the attacks, Bush had already thrown the towel in finding
bin Laden, which could explain why conservatives don`t want President Obama
talking about how he succeeded where Bush failed. Bush was too focused on
his next project, invading Iraq, which he immediately politicized. W.
openly celebrated the end of major combat operations in Iraq after mission
accomplished, 4,347 more troops died, bringing the total to 4,486.
Conservatives want to turn national security into a political
football, criticizing President Obama and anyone else who says taking out
bin Laden was the right thing to do.
Romney advisor Ed Gillespie broke out the hypocrisy this weekend.
ED GILLESPIE, ROMNEY ADVISOR: This is one of reasons President Obama
has become one of the most divisive presidents in American history. He
took something that was a unifying event for all Americans, an event that
Governor Romney congratulated him and the military and the intelligence
analyst in our government for completing the mission in terms of killing
bin Laden. And he`s managed to turn it into a divisive partisan political
attack. I think people will see it as a sign of a desperate campaign.
SCHULTZ: You know, that isn`t how Ed Gillespie felt back in 2004 when
he was the chairman of the Republican National Committee and helped push
the argument that electing John Kerry would make this country less safe.
The Bush team went as far as saying if you didn`t vote for W, there
would be another terrorist attack.
DICK CHENEY, FORMER U.S. VICE PRESIDENT: It`s absolutely essential
that a couple of weeks from today, on November 2nd, we make the right
choice. If we got the wrong choice, the danger is that we may get hit
again. And we`ll be hit in a way that will be devastating in the
standpoint of the United States.
SCHULTZ: Cheney`s fear-mongering was just a tip of the iceberg. No
one was better at dividing America than the Bushes.
AD NARRATOR: In an increasingly dangerous world, even after the first
terrorist attack on America, John Kerry and the liberals in Congress voted
to slash America`s intelligence operations by $6 billion -- cuts so deep
they would have weakened America`s defenses, and weakness attracts those
who are waiting to do America harm.
BUSH: I`m George W. Bush and I approve this message.
SCHULTZ: Today, Republicans are hoping we have national security
They want you to forget about all the fear-mongering they did in 2004
and they want you to forget one year ago, President Obama delivered on his
biggest campaign promise to capture or kill Osama bin Laden.
Well, Romney has never made a decision remotely as significant in his
entire political career. His only foreign policy experience is vacationing
in France and hiding cash in the Cayman and Swiss bank accounts. But I
think Mitt Romney can clear this whole thing up if he just comes out and
gives a speech on foreign policy and explains what experience he really
has. If he can`t do it, maybe Ed Gillespie can come out and tell us how
good their candidate is when it comes to foreign policy. What has he done?
The only 3:00 a.m. phone call that Mitt Romney has ever gotten is
probably from the dogcatcher. The bottom line here is, is that Mitt Romney
is probably the least experienced candidate that the Republicans have ever
put forward for foreign policy. That`s why they`re trying to degrade every
move that President Obama has made. And they`ll take out more commercials
to say it.
Get your cell phones out. I want to know what you think. Tonight`s
question: who has done more to divide the country over national security?
Text A for Republicans, text B for Democrats, to 622639. You can go
to our blog at Ed.MSNBC.com and leave a comment. You ought to be able to
do that. This is a hot topic. Ands, of course, we will bring the results
later in the show.
Joining me tonight is MSNBC political analyst Richard Wolffe.
Richard, good to have you with us tonight.
RICHARD WOLFFE, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Thanks, Ed.
SCHULTZ: Why do you think they are, for lack of a better term,
dogging the Obama administration so much on national security? Is it
because Mitt Romney can`t speak to this with any experience at all?
WOLFFE: I think there`s something deeper going on here, Ed, and
that`s -- you know, for many years, the Bush administration, conservatives,
Republicans have felt they had a monopoly on this idea of having a strong
foreign policy. They thought -- remember, there are lots of conservatives
out there, conservative commentators, politicians who said a year ago that
this wasn`t really because of President Obama. This was really the result
of the Bush policies and their intelligence efforts.
They want the credit. They don`t feel that this president or
Democrats in general should have any credit for having a strong foreign
policy. In fact, the premise of the entire Republican contest was that
this president has appeased America`s enemies. He`s engaged in working to
help America`s enemies and undermine its allies.
They said that time and time again. That`s what Romney has said. And
this just doesn`t fit. The facts don`t fit to what they want or what they
think the reality is.
SCHULTZ: Where does this all fit on the hypocrisy scale for
Republicans? This has been a big weekend for lies and distortions. This,
of course, is one of the biggest ones.
But where does this fit on the hypocrisy scale in your opinion?
WOLFFE: Ed, of course, it`s hypocritical. But there`s actually
something far worse than hypocrisy going on here.
You know, there -- underlying this, there is actually, for a start,
the kind of politics that we saw through the last eight years of the Bush
administration and through this whole Republican contest which is the
politics of fear, right? It`s not just about tone.
Say you agree with their premise, which I don`t, but say you agree
there`s some politics going on around this anniversary for the Obama folks.
Let`s compare the politics, shall we? You`ve got a concerted effort
through 2004 and beyond saying that President Bush was going to keep us
safe even when the evidence from Iraq and elsewhere was that we were less
SCHULTZ: Yes.
WOLFFE: There was the idea that fear was what we needed to expand the
government. They say it`s such a terrible thing when it expands, on
homeland security, on illegal and unwarranted wiretapping. You have a
whole range of things where the politics is fear. The politicization of
the war on terror was expanded.
It`s not hypocrisy. It`s being wrong on the policy.
SCHULTZ: I think the president is doing a great job by reminding the
American people of just how big a lift this was and how he came in and
refocused the entire team ongoing out and getting the world`s number one
Now, the question is, is Mitt Romney going to be able to shake the
etch-a-sketch, so to speak and really live up to his comments that he made
back several years ago when he was running in 2007 and 2008? Or is this
going to haunt him throughout the campaign?
WOLFFE: Well, what Mitt Romney has said, he`s made it clear that he
has a very low bar for military action in Iran. He actually thinks that
withdrawal from Iraq was a complete unmitigated disaster.
Remember it`s not just about the order to kill here, the order to go
ahead with the mission with bin Laden. It was having a singular focus on
degrading al Qaeda`s core leadership. That could only happen because this
president was winding down the operations in Iraq and devoted the right
people to going after al Qaeda`s leadership.
SCHULTZ: Yes.
WOLFFE: So, the question is, are his national security priorities
correct? And given what we`ve seen of his rhetoric on Iran, the chances
are he wants to go back into war at the slightest drop of a hint of
SCHULTZ: I don`t think Mitt Romney understands the gravity of some of
the decisions that are made in the Oval Office. I think he owes Jimmy
Carter an apology. I mean, Jimmy Carter put lives on the line and made a
tough call and then had to abort the mission.
And Mitt Romney, for him to say that, you know, Jimmy Carter would
have made that call. What do you make of Romney`s cheap shot?
I mean, I make it`s just that. It`s low rent. It`s cheap shot.
Romney`s never been there and never done that. He doesn`t know what it`s
like to make a decision like that.
To invoke a former president and his action and to degrade him like
that. Your thoughts. Richard? I haven`t seen this before.
WOLFFE: Jimmy Carter is -- look, he`s a prickly character and so,
people, and he lost an election, so people find it easy to kick him around.
But here`s a president that had a 10 times better jobs record than
President Bush did. He was responsible for Camp David. That`s not a bad
record for anyone.
Certainly for someone who`s had one term as a Massachusetts governor,
it`s time to pay a little bit more respect than that.
SCHULTZ: Yes. Richard, always great to have you with us here on THE
ED SHOW tonight. Thank you.
Remember to answer tonight`s question at the bottom of the screen and
share your thoughts on Twitter @EdShow. We want to know what you think.
Coming up, Republicans say President Obama can`t run on his
accomplishments. The president is proving them dead wrong. Howard Fineman
is here to talk about the latest Obama campaign strategy.
And everyone is talking about how Apple gets away with paying so
little in taxes. Congressman Paul Ryan`s budget would make it even easier
for big companies to avoid taxes. And no one is talk about it. It`s that
dirty little secret in the Ryan plan. David Cay Johnston joins me for the
Stay with us.
SCHULTZ: Coming up, President Obama goes on offense and is calling
out Republican obstruction. We`ll play his new ad and I`ll talk to Howard
Fineman of "The Huffington Post" on that subject coming up.
Rachel Maddow, well, she takes on Republicans claiming there`s no pay
gap between men and women? Joan Walsh and I will give commentary. Weigh
in on that.
And the president takes on the GOP talking points at the White House
correspondents` dinner. We`ll play some of the highlights. They`re great.
Share your thoughts on Twitter using #EdShow.
We`re right back.
SCHULTZ: President Obama made his pitch to the American worker today.
He spoke to the members of the Building Trades Union about the Republican
anti-labor agenda.
OBAMA: Over the last year, I sent Congress a whole series of jobs
bills to put people to work, to put your members back to work. And time
after time, the Republicans have gotten together and they`ve said no.
The easiest bill to pass in Washington used to be getting roads and
bridges built because it`s not like only Democrats are allowed to use these
things. Everybody is permitted.
SCHULTZ: Republicans spent the last three years obstructing the
president`s economic agenda. Now, the GOP says President Obama has no
record to run on. But the Obama team is proving them wrong with a seven-
minute campaign ad highlighting the president`s accomplishments.
AD NARRATOR: The president`s stimulus plan saved up to 4.2 million
jobs, including teachers, construction workers, police and firefighters
working to build a stronger America. When a flag ship of the American
economy was going down, his auto rescue forced companies and workers to
retool and restructure saving 1.1 million jobs.
SCHULTZ: The final two minutes of the ad is a rolling list of
accomplishments. It focuses on nearly 30 policy achievements. The ad
doesn`t shy away from calling out Republicans from stopping many of these
REP. JOHN BOEHNER (R-OH), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: Put me in the no
SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY), MINORITY LEADER: Vote no.
REP. ERIC CANTOR (R-VA), MAJORITY LEADER: Vote no.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Republicans are getting wrap as the party of no.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yesterday, in the end, not a single Republican
voted for the bill. And apparently, the merits of the legislation had
little to do with it.
MCCONNELL: Our top political priority over the next two years should
be to deny President Obama a second term.
SCHULTZ: It would be one thing if they were acting on behalf of the
American people but they have opposed plans the American people have
favored. Take for instance the jobs bill.
When the president introduced it, 63 percent of the country was in
favor of it. A tax on income over $1 million was proposed to pay for the
jobs bill. As recently as February, 65 percent of Americans supported the
millionaire`s tax. But Republicans said no to all of it.
The GOP is protecting .2 percent of the American people at the expense
of the rest of the country of what the president was talking about today.
But, Republicans have also attacked the very people who need the
economic security. President Obama reminded the union crowd today about
the attack on the middle class.
OBAMA: If you ask them what`s their big economic plan in addition to
tax cuts for rich folks -- it`s dismantling your unions. After all you`ve
done to build and protect the middle class, they make the argument you`re
responsible for the problems facing the middle class.
SCHULTZ: The Republican strategy has been economic obstruction and
middle class destruction. President Obama is right to call them out on it.
I find it interesting he goes to the union and speaks like this in such a
frank manner -- because there`s a lot of union people who just don`t vote
Democrat. In fact, there`s a pretty healthy percentage of them.
All this talk about how the unions are in the back pockets of the
Democrats, if they vote their own economic interest, a lot of them will
make the turn in November. That`s what the Obama administration is
counting on.
Let`s turn to Howard Fineman, NBC News political analyst and editorial
director of "The Huffington Post" Media Group.
Howard, great to have you with us tonight.
HOWARD FINEMAN, HUFFIINGTON POST: Hi, Ed.
SCHUTLZ: How does this play in states like Ohio and Pennsylvania?
FINEMAN: Well, first of all, let me say as far as the union workers,
in the previous segment you were talking about Barack Obama as commander-
in-chief -- that plays there, by the way, before we get to economics. I
just thought I`d mention.
SCHULTZ: Sure.
FINEMAN: As far as the economy is concerned, David Axelrod, who`s
basically running the campaign out of Chicago, told over the weekend that
he thinks there`s more spots of good news around the country in terms of
the economy than people inside the Beltway yet have grasped. You know,
we`re about six months behind the curve at least, if not decades. And I
think they are hoping -- the Obama campaign is hoping that by bragging
about their accomplishments.
You know, there`s some dubious claims in that seven-minute ad, to be
sure. But there are a lot of good things that the president has done and
attempted to do. It`s worth taking that positive tone, they feel, because
that`s going to help bring out whatever other positive news there is around
here in the country. And they are hoping by the summer and the fall, that
the American people will understand that.
SCHULTZ: Well, the president was talking about infrastructure
spending today and brought up another president. Here it is.
OBAMA: Ronald Reagan once said that rebuilding our infrastructure is
common sense -- an investment in tomorrow that we need to make today.
Ronald Reagan said that. That great socialist, Ronald Reagan, couldn`t get
through a Republican primary these days.
SCHULTZ: Very profound point there. Can the president and the
Democrats win over these Reagan independents, so to speak? These Reagan
Democrats or these Republicans that normally say they`re independent but
then they slide to the right when it comes time to vote.
I mean, this is really who I think the president has got to win over.
Your thoughts.
FINEMAN: Right. Well, it`s hard to do but he`s got to try. He`s got
to spend a lot of the campaign trying. As I said, foreign policy
commander-in-chief is part of it.
But the notion that the investments that were made, the efforts that
were made are beginning to pay off and there`s tangible evidence of it, is
important. I thought what was significant about the seven-minute ad, Ed,
is that it didn`t mention the millionaire`s tax, it didn`t mention the
Buffett Rule.
SCHULTZ: Yes.
FINEMAN: It wasn`t playing on the populist theme. It was saying,
look, there are things we have done here, there are things that help you,
that help your family, that will help you and your family in the future
that are beginning to take hold, that were beginning to get traction on.
That`s classic incumbent`s pitch for a second term.
And the fact that -- it`s an interesting fact is that the Obama
campaign felt there was enough of case to make that they should make it
right away. On tactical grounds, I completely agree with them. If they
don`t brag about what there is to brag about, nobody else is going to do it
for them.
SCHULTZ: Well, there`s going to be an avalanche of negativity with
all those money thrown around. They`re going to have to brag a little more
than normal.
FINEMAN: Exactly.
SCHULTZ: A column on "The Washington Post" this weekend, by two
political centrists blamed Republicans for Washington gridlock. Is this a
convincing argument for middle class Americans?
FINEMAN: Well, I saw that article and the guys who wrote that are
very serious people. They are pretty even handed. I think it`s a case
that President Obama is making, will make and I think it will have some
success in making because you show the clips of Mitch McConnell and John
Boehner and the others saying essentially, no, that our entire theory is to
stop President Obama, stop his programs and his platform and so on.
They have been quite frank about their sort of oppositional approach.
Paul Ran has had an interesting plan or here. There`s been a Republican
proposal here and there.
But, by and large, the Republicans have defined themselves in
opposition to Barack Obama. They`ve been very frank about it.
So, again, tactically, the president is going to call them on it and
dry to deepen that impression of blame as the campaign gets is under way.
It`s clear what the strategy is.
SCHULTZ: Yes.
FINEMAN: Blame the Republicans for obstructionism, claim credit for
whatever economic successes there have been, and attack the heck out of
Mitt Romney. You saw it all on display today.
SCHULTZ: Howard, great to have you with us. Thanks so much.
FINEMAN: Thanks.
SCHULTZ: A Republican strategist and former Romney advisor says women
are not paid less than men. Rachel serves him the facts. Joan Walsh will
weigh in.
And President Obama saves the American automobile industry, so the
Romney camp says it was Mitt Romney`s idea. You don`t want to miss this
one. Stay with us.
SCHULTZ: Republicans are trying to deny there`s a GOP war on women.
Now they are trying to deny that women have been paid less for equal work.
Women make just 77 cents for every dollar a man makes in America.
Yet GOP consultant Alex Castellanos and Republican Congressman Cathy
McMorris Rodgers went on "Meet the Press" yesterday to challenge the fact.
McMorris Rodgers is so confident in her beliefs, she actually voted against
the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Unfortunately, should I say, for her,
fortunately, for those who seek the truth, my colleague Rachel Maddow was
here to set them both straight.
RACHEL MADDOW, MSNBC ANCHOR: The Romney campaign wants to talk about
women and the economy. The -- women in this country still make 77 cents on
the dollar for what men make. So if -- women don`t make less than men?
CASTELLANOS: Actually, if you start looking at the numbers, Rachel,
there are lots of reasons for that.
MADDOW: Don`t tell me the reasons part. Do women make less than men
for doing the same work?
CASTELLANOS: No, because --
MADDOW: Wow. OK. We`re working from different facts.
CASTELLANOS: Men work an average of 44 hours a week. Women work 41
hours a week. Men go into professions like engineering, science and math
that earn more.
MADDOW: This is not a math is hard part of this conversation. No, it
CASTELLANOS: Yes, it is.
DAVID GREGORY, "MEET THE PRESS: Let Rachel frame it.
MADDOW: Right now, women are making 77 cents on the dollar for what
men are making.
CASTELLANOS: That`s not true.
GREGORY: Let Rachel make her point.
CASTELLANOS: Then every greedy businessman in America would hire only
women, save 25 percent, and be hugely profitable.
MADDOW: I feel like this is actually -- it`s weird that you`re
interrupting me and not letting me make my point, because we get along so
well. So let me make my point.
CASTELLANOS: I will.
MADDOW: But it is important, I think. The interruption is important
because now we know, at least from both of your perspectives, that women
are not fairing worse than men in the economy, that women aren`t getting
paid less for equal work. I think that`s a serious basis -- a difference
in factual understanding of the world.
But given that some of us believe that women are getting paid less
than men for doing the same work. There`s something called the Fair Pay
Act. There was a court ruling that said the statute of limitations, if
you`re getting paid less than a man, if you`re subject to discrimination,
starts before you know that discrimination is happening, effectively
cutting off your recourse to the courts.
You didn`t know you were being discriminated against, you can`t go.
The first law passed by this administration is the Fair Pay Act, to remedy
that court ruling. Mitt Romney campaign put you out as a surrogate to talk
-- to sure up people`s feelings about this issue after they could not say
whether or not Mitt Romney would have signed that bill.
You`re supposed to make us feel better about it. You voted against
the Fair Pay Act. It`s not about whether or not you have a female
surrogate. It`s about policy and whether or not you want to fix some of
the structural discrimination that women really do face, that Republicans
don`t believe is happening.
GREGORY: It`s policy is the argument.
CASTELLANOS: It`s policy. I love how passionate you are. I wish you
were as right about what you were saying as you are passionate about.
MADDOW: That`s really condescending. I mean, this is stylistic
issue. My passion on this issue is actually me making a factual argument
on it.
SCHULTZ: Let`s bring in Joan Walsh, editor at large, Salon.com.
Joan, great to have you with us tonight. Quite the volley there. Rachel
was terrific. The U.S. Census Bureau reports among people who worked year
round and full-time in 2009, men earned a median of 47,100 dollars and
women earned 36,300 dollars, or 77 cents for every dollar earned by men.
I don`t know what this dude Alex doesn`t get, but he calls this an old
discredited liberal myth. Why doesn`t the Republican party just admit the
number, because that`s what it is, and say we have some work to do, instead
of fighting this? Your thoughts.
JOAN WALSH, SALON.COM: It`s a fascinating question. I mean, there
were so many things about what he did, Ed, that need to be commented on.
But one of them, the most hilarious, was starting out by saying well,
actually, no, it`s not true, and then quickly saying it is true, but there
are reasons.
So you know, they are trying to have it both ways desperately. The
facts are exactly as Rachel laid them out. Now you know and I know you can
break down individual cohorts of workers and things don`t -- things look a
little bit different. There is a pay gap. It`s big. It`s troublesome.
And they don`t want to admit it.
SCHULTZ: Well, Castellanos was trying to say hours worked, that men
work longer than women.
WALSH: Right.
SCHULTZ: Look, it is about pay. Mitt Romney needs to square himself
with the American people on this. Would he vote or would he move to change
the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act? This is a fundamental question now going
into this? Where does he stand on women in the workplace? The laws
namesake, Lilly Ledbetter, she`s not buying it. She says -- she was up in
New Hampshire campaigning for the president today and said "that doesn`t
mean he won`t because he has been known to flip-flop quite a bit."
Well said. It would seem to me that Romney`s got to be clear on this
on how he feels about this law and what he would do. What do you think?
WALSH: Yes. Even if you say that the gab is smaller than it is, even
if you have a different set of facts, why wouldn`t you ban discrimination?
And why wouldn`t you create mechanisms like Lilly Ledbetter does to enforce
those laws against discrimination.
That`s what`s going on. Look, even if Alex is right and men do work
marginally more than women, that would mean there`d be like a six point pay
gap, not a 23 point pay gap. And the other point that they make all the
time, women want flexibility. Women do pay disproportionately for having
children and for taking care of children. That is sexism as well.
So however you want to explain it or slice it or dice it, it all comes
down to sexism. And they just won`t admit it.
SCHULTZ: I was waiting for the Romney campaign today to make a
statement saying, Alex Castellanos, he doesn`t speak for us. That`s how
deep I think they`re into this. And how do the Republicans make up ground
with women at this point, when they have exchanges like that?
WALSH: Well, right. Women across America, I watched Twitter and
Facebook explode in joy when Rachel slapped him down. I mean, he really
was a condescending jerk. You know, we`ve got -- we`ve all got to
discredit Hilary Rosen for what she said about Ann Romney. If the world
were equal and Democrats had to do what Republicans do, Mitt Romney would
have to answer for such a condescending reaction.
SCHULTZ: Joan, great to have you with us. Joan Walsh, Salon.com,
thank you.
There`s a lot more coming up in the next half hour of THE ED SHOW.
Stay with us.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They went through that managed bankruptcy process.
It`s exactly what Mitt Romney told them to do.
SCHULTZ: The Romney Etch a Sketch is getting a work out. He`s lying
about the auto loan and we`re calling him out.
Paul Ryan wants big business to be able to hide even more money
offshore. David Cay Johnston has the report.
And the president had us rolling in the aisles this weekend.
OBAMA: In my first term, we ended the war in Iraq. In my second
term, I will win the war on Christmas.
SCHULTZ: We`ll tell you why his comedy routine was even better than
you thought.
SCHULTZ: Welcome back to THE ED SHOW. There`s a provision tucked
away in the Paul Ryan budget and it`s getting virtually no attention. The
Ryan Plan, which of course the Republicans voted on -- the Ryan Plan would
grease the skids for major corporations to outsource profits, so they can
get away with not paying their fair share of taxes. Sound familiar?
Here`s an example of how easily this is done under the current system.
Look no further than Apple Computers. Apple has offices in Ireland, the
Netherlands, Luxembourg and the British Virgin Islands, to take full
advantage of tax loopholes, according to the "New York Times." It`s all
legal, of course.
There`s even a cool name for avoiding all those taxes. The tax
accountants call it a Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich. The bottom line
is a company like Wal-Mart pays an effective tax rate of 24 percent. But
Apple pays 9.8 percent.
The Republican budget guru, Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin,
chairman of the House Budget Committee, would make it even easier for
bigger corporations to outsource profits and hide income from the Internal
Revenue Service. Ryan`s plan would introduce a so-called territorial tax
system, exempting offshore profits from U.S. income tax.
Let`s turn to David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
and columnist for "Reuters," and author of the book "Free Lunch."
Boy, I tell you what, this would be a "Free Lunch." You got the right
title there, David Cay. We know what these companies are doing. It`s been
well documented. But what would this territorial tax do, which is in this
Ryan Plan, which the Republicans voted on? Where would this take us?
DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, "REUTERS": Well, what it would encourage
companies to do is to take all their intellectual property that they
haven`t moved and anything else they can out of country, so that they earn
a dollar here in the U.S. and they show it to their shareholders, and then
they may magically send it to the Cayman Islands and it disappears to the
So even if they are making things here in the U.S., they`ll be able to
move profits out of the country by having their intellectual property out
of the country. Secondly, if they find a place that has similar rules,
then you move the jobs offshore and you can still earn tax free profits.
SCHULTZ: This would really grease the skids for more outsourcing of
jobs, would it not?
JOHNSTON: Absolutely, Ed. Here is the magic words you need to hear
from somebody who really wants to reform the system. No more separate
company accounting. That`s the phrase to remember. To the tax man, these
companies are thousands of companies, not one company. So they have
different tax rules.
But if they are treated as a single company -- no multiple company
accounting, only single company accounting, then all of that game playing
can stop.
SCHULTZ: This could rob the United States -- and I say rob. I think
rob is the correct word here. You make a dollar on our soil with American
workers, you got to pay tax on that profit. This, of course, in the Ryan
Plan, the territorial tax, hasn`t gotten any attention whatsoever. We got
to have a big discussion on it.
This is robbing the treasury. How damaging would this be?
JOHNSTON: It could be very devastating to us. Here is an interesting
thing to think about, Ed. From 1961 to 2011 -- that`s half a century --
the amount of the economy -- the corporate income tax fell by 2.8
percentage points. It`s now only 1.2 percent of the economy. Social
Security taxes went up by almost exactly the amount that the corporate
income tax fell.
So it`s working people. It`s not executives. It`s not companies.
It`s working people who have made up for the corporate income tax. Those
guys` goal is to get it to zero.
SCHULTZ: Well, keep in mind, the Ryan Plan passed in the House. It
will never see the light of day in the Senate. But this is where the
Republicans want to go if they get power. They will go right down. This
will grease the skids of the corporations. They will get their pockets
lined with corporate donations.
This is how the game is going to work. Of course, Mitt Romney says,
hey, he loves the Ryan Plan. He called it a marvelous budget, a marvelous
plan. Now according to the Citizens for Tax Justice, the Ryan Plan would
cut on the richest 10 percent and raise taxes on the bottom 90 percent, and
reduce revenue by two trillion dollars over 10 years. Do you believe those
JOHNSTON: Oh, yes, absolutely. I did my own less sophisticated set
of numbers and came up with a similar conclusion. This is a redistribution
plan. Take from the many, give to the already rich. The Republicans, Ed,
have told us that they know America`s economic problem. It is that the
rich don`t have enough.
And they have a solution. They`re going to take it from working
people and the poor and the disabled and the children, so the rich can have
more and then everything will be great.
SCHULTZ: OK. So I don`t know how Paul Ryan could do any media
interviews anywhere without being asked about the territorial tax. Because
this is new and it`s in the budget. It`s in what they voted on. And
obviously it`s something that could just hurt our economy and our treasury
even more.
David Cay Johnston, you`re the best. Thank you.
President Obama`s greatest economic achievement was really Mitt
Romney`s idea. Did you know that? That`s according to a top Romney
advisor. You can bet we`ll take a closer look at that next. Stay with us.
SCHULTZ: Welcome back to THE ED SHOW. The Romney campaign now says
President Obama`s greatest economic achievement was actually Mitt Romney`s
idea. Here is Romney advisor Eric Fehrnstrom.
ERIC FEHRNSTROM, ROMNEY ADVISER: The fact that the auto companies
today are profitable is because they have shed costs. The reason they shed
those costs and have got their employee -- labor contracts less expensive
is because they went through that managed bankruptcy process.
It`s exactly what Mitt Romney told them to do. So consider that, the
crown jewel, the only economic success that President Obama has had is
because he followed Mitt Romney`s advice.
SCHULTZ: Hold the phone here. You know what`s happening here. You
got Mitt Romney running from his own printed word. I seem to remember
Romney`s op-ed in the "New York Times" four years ago, "Let Detroit go
Bankrupt." Romney definitely did not support those auto loans during the
Republican debates.
MITT ROMNEY (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Should they have used the
funds to bail out General Motors and Chrysler? No, that was the wrong
source for that funding.
SCHULTZ: It was the auto loans that made all the difference in the
world. President Obama signed off on billions in loans to the automobile
industry because he wasn`t going to stand by and let Detroit go bankrupt.
And it was not a popular decision at the time.
Now General Motors is number one until the world again. So it`s time
for Mitt Romney`s Etch a Sketch moment. The Romney advisor who says saving
the automobile industry was Romney`s idea is the same advisor that said
FEHRNSTROM: Well, I think you hit a reset button for the fall
campaign. Everything changes. It`s almost like an Etch a Sketch. You can
kind of shake it up and we start all over again.
SCHULTZ: but you can`t change the facts. Romney would have let
Detroit go bankrupt. It would have cost hundreds of thousands of jobs.
Up next, President Obama responds to his critics at the White House
Correspondents dinner. We have the jokes you won`t want to miss. Stay
SCHULTZ: ED SHOW survey tonight, I asked who has done more to divide
the country over national security. Ninety five percent of you say the
Republicans; five percent of you say the Democrats.
Coming up, President Obama poked fun at himself and his Republican
opponents at Saturday night`s White House Correspondents Dinner. We`ll
bring you some of those highlights next.
Don`t forget to listen to my radio show. I`m on there, Sirius XM
Radio, Channel 127, Monday through Friday, from noon to 3:00 pm. Follow me
on Twitter @EdShow, and like THE ED SHOW on Facebook. We`re coming right
OBAMA: I know at this point many of you are expecting me to go after
my likely opponent, Newt Gingrich. Newt, there`s still time man.
SCHULTZ: President Obama at the White House Correspondents dinner on
Saturday night. I was there, enjoyed it. My wife and I enjoyed it. I
thought the president did a fantastic job, just poking fun at his
Republican rivals as well as himself. Stories about the candidates and
dogs have been part of the news cycle over the past few weeks.
Now we all know Mitt Romney strapped his dog to the roof of the car.
But in response, right wingers dug up an old detail from President Obama`s
memoir where the president recalled being served dog meat as a child
growing up in Indonesia.
President Obama had a little fun at Mitt Romney`s expense and hit back
at his own critics with a fake super PAC ad. Take a look. It`s a dandy.
OBAMA: Of course, I know everybody`s predicting a nasty election.
And thankfully, we have all agreed that families are off limits. Dogs,
however, are apparently fair game.
And while both campaigns have had some fun with this, the other day I
saw a new ad from one of these outside groups that, frankly, I think
crossed the line. I know Governor Romney says he has no control over what
his super PACs do, but can we show the ad real quick?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Back in 1983, you took your Irish Setter Seamus on
a 12 hour road trip tied to the roof of your car in a kennel.
ROMNEY: He climbed up there regularly, enjoyed himself. My guess is
he liked it a lot better in his kennel than he would have liked it inside.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Finally, a candidate with the courage to fight for
a dog`s freedom to feel the wind in his fur. What about Barack Obama?
Under his failed leadership, man`s best friend has been forced into
government controlled automobiles.
Just imagine the European style dog socialism Obama has planned for
the next four years.
More government hand outs. A life of government dependency.
Indoctrinating our children, a left wing social agenda, leading from
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: America`s dogs can`t afford four more years of
Obama. For them, that`s 28 years. Our dogs need leadership now.
ROMNEY: Who let the dogs out? Who, who?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This guy. That`s why we need to join Mitt Romney
in sending a message this November. I`m an American, and dog gone it, I
ride outside.
Paid for by the Woofpac.
OBAMA: That`s pretty rough, but I can take it. Because my stepfather
always told me it`s a boy eat dog world out there.
SCHULTZ: The president also took on the right wingers` criticism of
his job as president. Conservatives are trying to hit the president on
likability. They say he`s too cool. Neocons, who lied about Iraq, say
that the president is week on foreign policy. Right wingers who don`t want
gays to openly serve in the military are attacking his ability to be
commander in chief.
Well, the president gave those critics a preview into what a second
term of President Obama would be like.
OBAMA: If I do win a second term as president, let me just say
something to all the -- let me just say something to all my conspiracy
oriented friends on the right who think I`m planning to unleash some secret
agenda. You`re absolutely right.
So allow me to close with a quick preview of the secret agenda you can
expect in a second Obama administration. In my first term, I sang Al
Green. In my second term, I`m going with Young Jeezy. Michelle said yeah.
I sing that to her sometimes.
In my first term we ended the war in Iraq. In my second term I will
win the war on Christmas. In my first term we repealed the policy known as
Don`t Ask, Don`t Tell.
OBAMA: Wait. In my second term, we will replace it as a policy known
as It`s Raining Men. In my first term we passed health care reform. In my
second term, I guess I`ll pass it again.
SCHULTZ: That`s THE ED SHOW. I`m Ed Schultz. Thanks for joining us
tonight. "THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW" starts right now. Good evening, Rachel.
Congratulations. Great job yesterday on "MEET THE PRESS."
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Review: Corsair Vengeance LP 1600 C9B 8GB review
AMD's CPUs can't compete with Intel's when it comes to processing power alone, but when it comes to integrated graphics, the situation is a bit different. Our today's weapon of choice is AMD's Trinity A10 5800K with HD 7660D graphics engine, which has 384 shader cores. The same embedded GPU is a part of the A10 5700K.
In its core, the HD 7660D is much like the discrete GPU. Memory bandwidth is important factors for performance but since the embedded GPU depends on system momory, the bandwidth will depend on system memory speed.
Today we will look at Corsair's 8GB kit, precisely Vengeance LP CML8GX3M2A1600C9B memory. This set, which consists of 2x4GB modules, goes for only €35. Speed is rated at PC3-12800 (1600 MT/s).
CML8GX3M2A1600C9B specification:
- Warranty Lifetime
- Size 8GB Kit (2 x 4GB)
- Performance Profile XMP
- Fan Included No
- Heat Spreader Vengeance
- Memory Configuration Dual Channel
- Memory Type DDR3
- Package - Memory Pin 240
- Package - Memory Format DIMM
- Tested Voltage 1.5
- SPD Voltage 1.5
- Speed Rating PC3-12800 (1600MHz)
- SPD Speed 1333MHz
- Tested Speed 1600MHz
- Tested Latency 9-9-9-24
- SPD Latency 9-9-9-24
The Vengeance LP kit arrives safely boxed in a transparent plastic blister which is packed into a small cardboard box that features a big image of the module on the front side, and a small window on the back for a better presentation of specifications.
Corsair Vengeance LP DDR3 memory is equipped with Low Profile heat spreaders which have a reduced height of 1.03" (26.25mm) compared to normal Vengeance. They're designed for high-performance systems with extra-large CPU coolers, small form factor system builds, or any other space-constrained application where standard Vengeance memory might not fit.
You can find this module under code name CML8GX3M2A1600C9B. Letter B at the end is for the color name (other possibilities are Special Edition Arctic White and Jet Black. It is designed to operate at 1.5V. The Special Edition Arctic White models operate at the ultra-low voltage of 1.35V.
Each module is flashed with SPD that provides basic information. Intel Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) is recognized by both the BIOS and CPU-Z. If you notice that the memory is running slower and you're not the overclocking type, just enable XMP in BIOS and it will automatically select the right settings.
For all tests we used AMD A10-5800K with HD 7660D graphics engine. From the whole 8GB of system memory IGP got only 512MB. This memory was allocated by system and we did not have influenced this.
IGP memory speed mirrors system memory speed. If you wish to increase memory bandwidth, and in turn IGP performance, we can do that by overclocking system memory. AMD advises users to use system memory running at 800MHz, or up to 993MHz, which is the official maximum supported AMD's APUs. GPUZ screenshot confirms that CML8GX3M2A1600C9B works at 800MHz (1600MHz DDR3).
As you can see, the results of memory overclocking show on the bandwidth numbers.
By default CML8GX3M2A1600C9B works at 800MHz. At this speed, we could not tighten the timings any further from 9-9-9-24. If you want memory to run at 933MHz, you'll have to increase the voltage from 1.5V to 1.65V.
On the following pages, you'll notice that overclocking the memory from 800MHz to 933MHz improved the gaming scores up to 14 percent. This number is closer to 30 percent when you compare 666MHz and 933MHz memory.
This benchmark measures the typical delay when the CPU reads data from system memory. Memory latency time means the penalty measured from the issuing of the read command until the data arrives to the integer registers of the CPU. The code behind this benchmark method is written in Assembly, and uses 1 MB alignment, 1024-byte stride size. Memory is accessed in forward direction.
Memory Latency benchmark test uses only the basic x86 instructions and utilizes only one processor core and one thread.
We can't confirm this but AIDA64 discussion forum leaked a piece of info claiming AIDA64 will soon completely drop all current memory benchmarks.
SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is a 32 and 64-bit Windows system analyser that includes benchmarking, testing and listing modules. It tries to go beyond other utilities to show you more of what is really going on under the hood so you draw comparisons at both a high and low-level in a single product.
Change Log for Sandra 2013:
- Updated Device Performance Certification
- New Drivers/Firmware Notification
- Windows 8 support
Any significant memory boost quickly shows on bandwidth numbers, up to 6 or 7 percent on our tested speeds.
Aliens vs Predator (medium)
API: DirectX 11
Quality: Medium
Resolution: 1920x1080
Anti-Aliasing: 0X
Anisotropic Filtering 4X
Texture Quality: Medium
Shadow Quality: Medium
SSAO: On
Tessellation: On
Advanced Shadows: Off
Comparison: Average FPS
Aliens vs Predator (low)
API: DirectX 11
Quality: Low
Resolution: 1680x1050
Anti-Aliasing: 0X
Anisotropic Filtering 0X
Texture Quality: Low
Shadow Quality: Low
SSAO: Off
Tessellation: Off
Advanced Shadows: Off
Comparison: Average FPS
Overclocking the memory from 800MHz to 933MHz improved the gaming scores up to 14 percent. This number is closer to 30 percent when you compare 666MHz and 933MHz memory.
Crysis 2 (high DX11)
API: DirectX 11 (DirectX 11 Upgrade Patch)
Hi-res Texture: Off
Quality: High
Resolution: 1680x1050
Anti-Aliasing: 0X
Map: Central Park
Runs: 3
Comparison: Average FPS
Crysis 2 (high DX9)
API: DirectX 9
Hi-res Texture: Off
Quality: High
Resolution: 1680x1050
Anti-Aliasing: 0X
Map: Central Park
Runs: 3
Comparison: Average FPS
Overclocking the memory from 800MHz to 933MHz improved the gaming scores up to 8 percent. This number is closer to 18 percent when you compare 666MHz and 933MHz memory.
Sniper Elite V2 (medium)
API: DirectX 11
Resolution: 1680x1050
Texture Detail: Medium
Shadows Detail: Medium
Draw Distance: Medium
Anti-Aliasing: Off
Advanced Shadows: Low
Supersampling: Off
Anisotropic Level: 1
Compute Shaders: Off
Ambient Occlusion: Off
Motion Blur: Off
Comparison: Average FPS
Sniper Elite V2 (low)
API: DirectX 11
Resolution: 1680x1050
Texture Detail: Low
Shadows Detail: Low
Draw Distance: Low
Anti-Aliasing: Off
Advanced Shadows: Off
Supersampling: Off
Anisotropic Level: 1
Compute Shaders: Off
Ambient Occlusion: Off
Overclocking the memory from 800MHz to 933MHz improved the gaming scores up to 14 percent. This number is closer to 17 percent when you compare 666MHz and 933MHz memory.
Vengeance LP Blue 8GB kit launched more than a year ago at €50, but can now be found at €35. We're talking about memory that is tested and known to work at 800MHz (1600 MT/s), as well as overclockable to 933MHz (1866 MT/s).
Low profile, i.e. standard heatsink, is another plus for this kit because it enables placing the memory underneath low CPU coolers, which are mostly found in HTPC systems.
This kit can be very interesting for AMD APU owners. Today we showed that memory clock plays a significant role when it comes to IGP performance. Of course, passionate gamers will still rely on dedicated graphics cards. However, if occasional gaming is all you do, then AMD's APUs may very well be all you need. If we lower image quality settings in games, depending on the game and resolution, we can end up with playable frame rate.


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Our top moments of the week:
14. Best Non-Reunion: We were all, "I don't want to wait!" when we heard about the Dawson's Creek reunion planned for Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23. And while we were Sad Dawsons not to see James Van Der Beek, Michelle Williams, Joshua Jackson and Katie Holmes together again, we were pleased with Busy Philipps' hilarious cameo and an appearance by Zack Morris himself (Mark-Paul Gosselaar), who offers James a few words of wisdom from his book Ta-Da! Finding the Now about not letting an iconic role define him and purging the past. In this case, that means detonating a Creek-style rowboat in a pond in Central Park (ignited by June's heinous autumnal sweaters, of course). Something tells us we haven't heard the last of a Creek reunion on Apt 23 though...
13. Worst Surprise Appearance: On the season finale of Switched at Birth, Angelo and the Kennishes win their series-long battle against the hospital. But as Bay and Daphne sit alone in an empty courtroom talking about how much their lives have changed, in walks a very pregnant woman looking for Angelo. Looks like a new person — and baby — is about to thicken the plot. Let's at least hope Angelo and said pregnant friend know to use a different hospital this time.
12. Best (Worst?) Aim: After a group of trouble-making teenagers get Gloria all fired up on Modern Family, she starts worrying that her hormonal pregnant state has made her too much of a hothead. Jay calms her down by telling her that her fiery disposition makes her a great mom. So, when Gloria spots the teenagers again on Halloween, she runs them down and pelts them with eggs. Punch line: We later learn that one of those teens is Manny, whose first night out with the cool kids took an unexpected turn.
11. Most Surprising Cover-Up: Pure she ain't! This week's episode of American Horror Story reveals that Sister Jude wasn't always a paragon of virtue. In fact, she used to be a lounge singer — and the town bicycle! Even worse, one night while driving home drunk, she hit a little girl with her car and drove off. How many Hail Marys is that?
10. Biggest Threat: Just when it looks like Eli has successfully quashed a story about Peter's alleged affair with a campaign worker on The Good Wife, his dreams of moving past the scandal quickly cave in when he receives a phone call from a mysterious blogger named Jimmy V. He tells Eli that he knows that a magazine is sitting on a story about Peter's alleged indiscretion and that his blog plans to write about the story within the hour. All right, Kalinda, it's time to step away from the estranged husband and get to work!
9. Most Unexpected Hack Job: While helping the few surviving prisoners on The Walking Dead fend off the zombies, Rick finds himself dodging attacks from Tomas, who insists that taking a swipe at his head and shoving a walker in his path were mere accidents. Fighting off a zombie horde is just so chaotic, you know? Oh yes, Rick knows. To wit: In an unguarded moment, he takes his machete and plants the blade in Tomas' skull. Ricktatorship restored!
8. Most Devastating Cover-Up: After Kristina endures a long, painful lumpectomy on Parenthood, she and Adam are devastated to learn that she will still need to undergo chemotherapy. In a complicated twist, though, the two put on brave faces and flat-out lie to eldest daughter Haddie about the results so she'll return to college and not worry about her mom. It's hard to tell which is more heartbreaking: the look of relief and happiness on Haddie's face as she hugs her mom or the scared, unsure look on Kristina's face as she leans in to the embrace.
7. Worst Coming Out Party: You'd think by now that the Pretty Little Liars girls would know to lay low on Halloween. Nope! Instead, they hop on a train for the Rosewood Halloween party. It isn't long before Aria is drugged and wakes up — hands tied — stuck in a box on top of the moving train. When Spencer, Emily and Hanna finally help Aria escape, they also discover the dead body of Garrett, who it turns out was stuck inside with her.
6. Up in Smoke Award: What's in the
box suitcase? When Jane finds an old suitcase in the basement on 666 Park Avenue, she inexplicably brings it back to her apartment. It quietly takes up residence at the foot of her bed until the final seconds of the episode, when the Smoke Monster a cloud of black smoke seeps out and forms a creepy man. Does this mean we have to go baaaaack? Is there a Sideways universe to The Drake? Does Terry O'Quinn have a "must work with smoke-based apparitions" clause in his contract?
5. Freefalling Award, Part II: At Amanda's baby shower on Revenge, Emily instructs the expectant mom to confront Victoria with the visitors' log at Kara's mental institution and press for details about her mother. Victoria stomps out and tells Amanda, "Your mother tried to kill you," before yanking the log out of her hand. Just as she does, Amanda — who's in a way-too-tight dress to qualify as maternity wear — falls backwards over the balcony. She's in a coma, and her son is delivered and placed in the NICU. The real kicker? When Emily goes to see Amanda, she sees Kara at her bedside and has a flashback to when Kara tried to drown her as a child. So Victoria was telling the truth!
4. Best Surprise Appearance: Just when it looks like long-distance lovers Leslie and Ben are finally going to get their happy ending and move in together on Parks and Recreation, Ben gets the chance to run a gubernatorial campaign... in Florida. Leslie returns to the house they were supposed to rent together to say goodbye when she turns around and finds Ben, just in from D.C., standing and then kneeling down. "I'm thinking about my future," he says as he pops out the engagement ring and Leslie — after a hilariously long pause — answers with a resounding yes. First things first, does anyone know if J.J.'s Diner caters weddings?
3. Best Tease: On Happy Endings, Jane calls her husband Brad, who she thinks is unemployed, and suggests they have a nooner. Brad, who's been secretly working, has to rush home and get in that bubble bath he said he was taking so they can "play Loch Ness Monster." With no time to disrobe, Brad jumps under the bubbles in his suit and still carrying his briefcase. His wife, who enters the bathroom comically naked and pixilated, soon discovers his ruse. Sorry, Brad, no Nessie sighting for you.
2. Best (Worst?) Reunion: Now that Homeland's Carrie knows the truth about Brody, the show finally has an excuse to put them in a room together. And before you can say "Abu Nazir," the pair falls effortlessly into their crazy-sexy-paranoid chemistry. Hoping to put Brody on his heels, Carrie meets him at a hotel bar and drops some hints about the CIA's investigation. But when Brody asks about Carrie's electroshock therapy, she lets down her guard and, worse, begins to worry that he knows that she's working him. So, despite the risk of blowing the operation, she storms into his room, calls him out on his lies and has him arrested. "I liked you," Brody says as Carrie protests, "I loved you!" Homeland certainly isn't resting on its laurels. In fact, it's not resting at all.
1. Freefalling Award, Part I: After Gilles Marini and Peta Murgatroyd perform their ultra-leggy rumba on Dancing with the Stars, Carrie Ann Inaba declares, "Let the baby-making begin!" And since she's basically like this, the former Fly Girl falls off her chair and straight on to her back. Marini comes to her rescue, but the best part is how fellow judges Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli just laugh and don't even bother helping her up. Still no word if any baby-making occurred.
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Sure, Sony has had its problems this year—PS3 production problems, massive battery recalls, less-than-expected enthusiasm for its PSP—but Sony's a massive worldwide corporation and one of the strongest brand names in the world. How much could a few production missteps hurt them? A lot more than you might think.
Sony has just announced a revision of its projected performance numbers for the 2006 fiscal year, which ends on March 31, 2007, and it's a grim tale. While the sales and operating revenue projections remain unchanged, the company's operating income will plummet from ¥130 billion to ¥50 billion. That's a drop of 62 percent.
To understand why Sony expects to make so much less money this year, take a look at the chart below, which is compiled from the company's own figures. At the left of the chart is Sony's most recent forecast, which projected the ¥130 billion of operating income. That number will be boosted substantially by strong performance in consumer electronics such as televisions and cameras, and by changing foreign exchange rates that work in Sony's favor. Also, at the far right of the chart, you can see that Sony's corporate restructuring will cost them ¥10 billion less than anticipated. That's the good news.
Data source: Sony
The bad news begins with the charges Sony will incur from its worldwide notebook battery recall, an amount large enough to offset the performance and foreign exchange gains. Not being able to produce enough semiconductors for the PS3 will lower income by another ¥33 billion, while the cost of subsidizing the hardware will cost ¥30 billion. Sluggish sales of the PSP mean that Sony is taking another ¥30 billion off of its estimate.
The result is ¥50 billion in projected operating income, not ¥130 billion. That's a substantial hit, even to a company of Sony's size. The company does project a much stronger 2007, though, and is banking on a successful launch of the PS3 to boost income in the next year.


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Dutch chemists develop switchable antibiotic
Scientists at the University of Groningen have developed an antibiotic whose activity can be controlled using light. It is possible to 'switch on' the substance immediately before use, after which it will slowly lose its activity. Thus release of the active antibiotic into the environment might be prevented. This discovery was published on the website of the scientific journal Nature Chemistry on Sunday 15 September 2013.
Antibiotics protect us against lethal infections and are also widely used in agriculture. However, after use they end up in the environment, for example through the sewage system, where they can promote the development of resistant bacterial strains.
With this in mind, the Groningen scientists investigated whether an antibiotic could be developed whose activity could be controlled. After all, if only deactivated antibiotics enter the environment, there will be no risk of resistance.
Ben Feringa, professor of organic chemistry, is a pioneer in the field of light-activated molecular switches. His PhD student Willem Velema created variants of an antibiotic to which a photoswitchable group was attached. 'It is difficult to predict what will happen to the activity when a group in a molecule is changed', explains Velema. The new group will, after all, influence the effect of the antibiotic. 'And that will have to happen in exactly the right way.'
Velema made nine variants, one of which appeared to work very well in tests that were carried out in collaboration with the research group of molecular biologist Arnold Driessen. The switch ensures that the antibiotic does not work in the normal position. However, after radiation with ultraviolet light, part of the switch molecule flips, activating the antibiotic. In chemical terms: the switchable group changes from a trans-isomer to a cis-isomer.
In the Nature Chemistry article, the researchers demonstrate that it is possible to switch on the antibiotic at any time. Subsequently, the molecule flips back by itself from the active cis-isomer to the non-active trans-isomer. The half-life is approximately two hours at body temperature.
Feringa emphasizes that the experiments are only meant to demonstrate that it is possible to control the activity of an antibiotic using light. 'The path from this idea to a working drug is very long, it could be another ten years.' In addition to switchable antibiotics not burdening the environment, they could also be used to treat very specific areas in the body. Feringa: 'You could take an inactive antibiotic for a skin infection and then activate it at the site where it is required. No useful bacteria in the intestines will be killed this way.'
Bacterial growth
For the time being, the switchable antibiotic is especially useful for research. 'It is possible to inhibit the growth of bacteria very specifically at a particular site and at a specific time.' You could, for example, investigate which factors influence the growth of the bacterium and the action of the antibiotic or the origin of resistance.
'But this article's most important message is that it is possible to externally control the action of a drug, composed of a relatively small molecule, in this case using light,' says Feringa. 'That is a whole new way of thinking about drug research.'


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Mother of 7 Suffers Complications After Forced Sterilization in China
A Chinese mother of seven has been hospitalized after suffering major complications from an earlier forced sterilization surgery.
Zhong Xuexiang was treated in Guangzhou, China, for internal bleeding, months after doctors cut into her large intestine during a forced sterilization. Though she sought treatment earlier, she was only granted surgery after she began throwing up blood and became unable to walk, according to All Girls Allowed.
"The doctor who performed the surgery told Zhong Xuexiang that she is really struck with luck that she was alive," said a U.S.-based case worker (name withheld for security reasons) for All Girls Allowed who follows up with forced abortion and sterilization cases that take place in China.
According to the case worker, more than 10 officials entered Zhong's home early this year and dragged her to a sterilization office at around 5 a.m.
The Family Planning Committee tried to sterilize the 39-year-old mother, whose seventh child was born in 2007, but doctors reported that the procedure would be too risky for her.
"Yet under the threat from the leaders of the committee, the doctor had to give in and ended up cutting her major intestine," the case worker detailed.
Since then, she has been ill and her condition began to deteriorate in June.
China enforces a one-child policy for couples in urban areas. Couples living in rural areas are allowed two children if the first child is a girl.
Zhong and her family live in a rural area where many families want a lot of children. Unfortunately, sterilization is "very common" in that town, the case worker said.
Zhong had been threatened by Family Planning officials after her seventh child was born.
Still in the hospital, the mother is now able to walk "but only a few steps." She has also been medically diagnosed with depression and anxiety.
She and her husband have been asked to sign an agreement with the government to receive compensation. In some cases, according to the case worker, by signing and receiving payment, the couple is bound to stay silent about their case. Zhong and her husband have decided to wait on the compensation.
The couple is afraid that once they leave the hospital that Zhong's health would worsen and that she again would not be able to get immediate treatment until her life is in danger.
They also have been denied access to their medical records and are not able to file any suits without such documents.
All Girls Allowed says forced sterilization in China is very common. But there are no concrete numbers as both forced sterilizations and abortions often go unreported.


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The power factor is the phase angle between voltage and current (cosφ)
cos phi (φ) is used (among other purposes) to calculate the power consumption of a motor.Power consumption is indeed of high importance when it comes to pumps. For pumps with standard AC motors, the power input is found by measuring the input voltage and input current and by reading the value cosφ at full load on the motor name plate. Cosφ is the phase angle between voltage and current. Cosφ is also referred to as power factor (PF). The power consumption P1 can be calculated by the formulas shown below depending on whether the motor is a single-phase or a three-phase motor.
AC single-phase motor, e.g. 1 x 230 V
P1 = U × I × cosφ
AC three-phase motor, e.g. 3 x 400 V
P1 = × U × I ×cosφ


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July 24, 2014
Book Review - You're Mine Now by Hans Koppel
A middle aged woman has sex with a younger man she meets at a conference. Liking the excitement, she doesn't say no to further encounters but when she does finally say no, he won't let her go. It might have been a randomly idle fling for her, but she won't know until it is too late, why he chose her. Infiltrating her work, her family life and threatening her with scandal, Anna cannot make him go away. Then the pressure goes up when first her mother and then her daughter are taken. A very good argument for fidelity because crazy stalkers don't always seem that different to 'normal' people…. Until it's too late! Wendy
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The Wilson A2000 enters its 55th year of game changing performance. The A2000 is constructed from world-famous Pro Stock leather, which is the secret to its unmatched lifespan. Wilson's exclusive MLB Game Models have the same tweaks and refinements demanded by the player that developed the glove. The next time you see Evan Longoria, Dustin Pedroia, Brian Wilson, Cat Osterman or Josh Hamilton, be sure to thank them for making your glove as good as theirs. The differences these players have made on your glove isn't done justice by words. All you need to do is put it on—you'll understand at once.
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UCR ARTSblock | KCET
University of California, Riverside, has recently brought together its three premier art institutions to create a new cultural complex: UCR ARTSblock. ARTSblock is composed of the California Museum of Photography, the Sweeney Art Gallery, and the Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts. Located on a single block in adjacent historical buildings in downtown Riverside, easily accessible to the public as well as the campus, ARTSblock's mission is to provide a cultural presence, educational resource, community center and intellectual meeting ground for the university and the community.
ARTSblock's programs investigate the art of our time, media arts, and the history and practice of photography through exhibitions, performances, screenings, workshops, artist residencies, permanent collections, and creative laboratories. ARTSblock presents significant national and international art and photography, and showcases UCR student artwork and regional artists.
ARTSblock's activities embody University of California, Riverside's commitment to broadly-based public education and cutting-edge research. ARTSblock offers innovative programs that engage diverse audiences, nourish the imagination and challenge assumptions.


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Holidays are fun, but they can come with some heavy burdens as well. With Christmas, you've got to shop for the right gift for everybody on your list; for Easter you've got to find just the right springtime bonnet. That's one of the reasons we like Thanksgiving: the biggest pressure is finding enough room in your bulging belly to squeeze in just a little bit more pie. Sure, it's a tough job, but somebody's got to do it, right?
Thanksgiving Printables offers a feast of different downloadable Thanksgiving-themed items. Start with Thanksgiving greeting cards and invitations—after all, you've cooked that huge turkey, so you're going to need a bunch of people to help you finish it off. And after the big meal, if you can stay awake and are looking for something to do other than watch the big football game, you might try out a Thanksgiving coloring page or two, a Thanksgiving word search puzzle, or even solving a Thanksgiving maze.
Thanksgiving Printables are free to download. They're all available as PDF files, so you'll need a copy of Adobe Reader to print them. In addition, the Thanksgiving greeting cards and invitations can also be downloaded as Word DOC files, so you can customize them with your own tasty greetings.
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Gangplank Junior spent a morning with the fine men and women from the Chandler Fire Department. They went through the training facility and got a glimpse of what it takes to be a part of fire company.
The got to operate the equipment that paramedics use on the scene of an accident as first responders. They operated and toured both an Engine and a Ladder truck. It was impressive to see the rigorous training that the fire fighters go through on a regular basis.
We look forward to doing something similar with the Chandler Police Department in the near future.


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Lust Of Love - Black Wedges
- Premium vegan leather
- Tie up detail
- Lightly cushioned insole
- 4" heel height
- Fits most true to size
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- Not feeling it after all? No worries! You may return and/or exchange eligible items for a refund or gift card (less cost of shipping) within 14 days of receiving your items.
- Repack all items with original packaging and packing list.
- Ship it! You can use any carrier of your choice. Iconic Fashion does not cover return shipping cost.
- Refund will be issued for items purchased at regular price
- Store Credit will be issued to items purchased at regular price with use of any discount code, included but not limited to free shipping discount codes.
- Processing Time is 3-5 business days after return package has been received and fully inspected.
- Eligible items must meet the below criteria.
- Be returned in new/unworn condition with all of its original tags, shoe boxes, bags, accessories etc.
- Be a regular priced item with or without the use of discount code.
- Be shipped back within 14 days of receiving order.
- SALE ITEMS are not eligible for returns or exchanges. All SALE items are final sale with or without a discount code.
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- Eligible orders shipped between 15-30 days of receiving will automatically receive a 20% restocking fee. Anything after 30 days will be rejected and not credited.
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Iconic Fashion LA is not responsible for any lost or stolen packages.
We reserve the right to modify and/or change our Return Policy at any time, with or without notice.
All orders are processed and shipped within 1-3 business days. Processing time may vary due to merchandise availability and/or payment discrepancies. Shipments are based on business days. We do not process/ship orders during the weekends or holidays.
As soon as your order has been shipped, you will receive an email confirmation with your tracking information. If you don't receive an email, please contact our customer support team.
Shipments may be packed in personalized packaging. You may request shoe boxes in the notes section when placing your order.
Free shipping on all orders over $75. $7.95 for standard 4-8 day shipping, $11.95 expedited shipping 1-3 days within the contiguous United States. We also ship to Canada for $14.99. Delivery time will vary depending on location.
Return costs are not covered by Iconic Fashion LA. We are not responsible for lost or stolen packages.
**We reserve the right to change our shipping policy at any time**
What is your return and exchange policy?
Doesn't fit? No problem! Returns are accepted. Please review our Return Policy.
How much do shipping and returns cost?
Free shipping on all orders over $75. $7.95 for standard 4-8 day shipping, $11.95 expedited shipping 1-3 days within the contiguous United States. We also ship to Canada for $14.99. Delivery time will vary depending on location.
How long will it take to receive my order?
1-3 business days to leave our facility (excludes weekends and holidays) plus the transit time on the shipping service you choose.
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Check your inbox for a shipping confirmation email that has your tracking number on it. You can also sign in to your account. Once you have signed in, you will be able to view your order information, order status, and tracking information.
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We currently offer shipping to United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico.
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Will Iconic Fashion charge sales tax on my purchase?
Sales tax will only be charged to residents living in California, all other locations will be exempt from taxes.
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Florida State - 18MM Glass Dome Candy Snap Charm GD0411
$ 1.50
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We will notify you when this product becomes available.
This is an 18mm Glass dome snap that fits all 18mm snap bases.
We have tons of printed, ready to be made into snaps in our shop. Here is just one of many designs.
This snap is made to order and may take a day to ship due to the drying processes.
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text: Over the past year, CPA Canada has conducted a thorough review of its programs and services against a set of criteria that included value for members, alignment with CPA Canada priorities and whether programs were currently being offered by the CPA provincial and regional accounting bodies. To better serve members and stakeholders, CPA Canada has decided to transition some programs and services to the CPA provincial and regional accounting bodies. This transfer will result in more targeted opportunities for CPA members, students and employers. As a result of these changes, CPA Canada will no longer provide the following national products and services: CPA Source CareerVision enewsletter Directors Source Directors Source News CPA Firm Directory CPA Practice Link CPA members, students and employers should contact the CPA provincial or regional accounting body in their area for information about their services. Questions? Contact CPA Canada's Technical Support team at 1-800-268-3793 or 416-977-0748.


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June 28, 2012 - Lucca, Italy
Tagetik' s High-Touch Customer Approach Ranked Among the Best in User Survey Analysis by Leading Industry Analyst Firm
Independent, visionary vendor ranked in the top 5 in every category
Tagetik, a global provider of enterprise software solutions for Performance Management, Disclosure Management, Financial Governance and Business Intelligence, today announced its placement in the recently published Gartner, Inc. report 'User Survey Analysis: Customers Rate Their Corporate Performance Management Vendors'. Download complete report here
Tagetik is ranked in the top 3 in 75% of the rankings and scored #1 for the top 3 differentiating implementation rating which is a combination of satisfaction ratings on cost and ease of implementation, IT ranking of ease of maintenance and support of the technology, and overall customer satisfaction.
"We believe the survey results presented in this research reveal that Tagetik consistently attains outstanding customer satisfaction scores across multiple evaluation criteria. We take great pride in our high-touch customer approach, and the impact of this approach is apparent in the results of this survey," says Dave Kasabian, Corporate Vice President of Product Marketing at Tagetik.
"We consider the results of this survey and our placement in the visionary quadrant of the '2012 Magic Quadrant for Corporate Performance Management Suites' testament that Tagetik is an innovative and customer-centric alternative to the market leaders in CPM," adds Manuel Vellutini – Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer at Tagetik.
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We are officially less than a month before the start of the NFL season, so it's probably time to start previewing the monster. The key to the NFL's success — other than fantasy football and gambling, of course — is the rabid nature of its fans. That is to say: You don't see a lot of people painting their faces for their favorite golfer.
We asked a gaggle of writers, from the Web, from print, from books, even a TV guy or two, to tell us, in as many or as little words as they need, why My Team Is Better Than Your Team. This is not meant to be factual, or dispassionate, or even logical: We just asked them to riff on why they love their team so much, or what their team means to them, or whatever. We will be running two a day until the beginning of the NFL season.
Right now: the New England Patriots. Your author is Aaron Schatz.
Aaron Schatz is lead author of Pro Football Prospectus 2006 and editor-in-chief of FootballOutsiders.com. His words are after the jump.
I'm a New England Patriots fan, so it's not hard for me to tell you why my team is better than yours. No, what's tough is figuring out how to tell you why my team is better than yours without being an insufferable jerk, like so many other Patriots fans. So I am not going to tell you that any writer who suggests that the Patriots might actually lose a game this year is biased against the Pats. I am not going to spend five paragraphs on Tedy Bruschi's comeback. I am not going to tell you that Bill Belichick is infallible, or that Monty Beisel doesn't suck, or that Tom Brady is without question the best quarterback who ever played the game (and ultra-dreamy besides).
What I will tell you is that anybody who believes that the Patriots lost their "swagger" with last year's playoff loss to Denver is an idiot, unless he also believes that the Pittsburgh Steelers lost their "swagger" when Oakland beat them in the 1976 AFC Championship. The Patriots are not a fading dynasty of aging players whose best days are behind them. In fact, just the opposite — the core of this team is just entering its prime. The 2004 Patriots started eight players in Super Bowl XXXIX who were chosen in the previous three drafts, the highest total for any Super Bowl champion in the past decade. In second place are the 2003 Patriots, with six. No other champion since 1996 started more than four such players.
Tom Brady and Richard Seymour are two of the five best players in the league and right in their primes. To all those young players you can add Logan Mankins, who started all 16 games on the offensive line as a rookie, and Ellis Hobbs, who was one of the top corners in the league over the second half of the season. Laurence Maroney was the best running back in the draft not named Bush, and Chad Jackson was the best receiver in the draft not named on a police report. Yes, there's no linebacker depth, and we have no idea when Rodney Harrison will be healthy, and there's going to be a rookie kicker. The Patriots will still win 10-12 games and the division, and maybe slip into the top two playoff seeds while the AFC West and AFC North beat each other up.
Mark it down: the Pats will have a fourth title by the end of the decade. They may even have it by the end of this season.


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Stopping Heart Failure: A Two-Pronged Approach
Heart failure occurs when the heart cannot pump an adequate amount of blood to the different organs of the body. It is often accompanied by increased levels of stress hormones that are made and released from the adrenal gland and are part of the body's natural flight–or-fight response.
A recent study reported in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology demonstrates a novel approach to curb heart failure that targets both the heart and the adrenal gland. The authors found that a drug compound called gallein blocks a molecular pathway responsible for the development of the disease. The pathway is present in the heart and the adrenal gland and stifling its activity in both places led to a healthier heart in a mouse model of heart failure.
In the study gallein increased cardiac function and halted inflammation and structural damage to the heart. Using human adrenal gland tumors, the authors showed that gallein treatment also reduced the secretion of stress hormones into the blood, which is known to promote a healthy heart.
The study was a collaborative effort between Burns C. Blaxall, PhD., formerly an associate professor within the Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute and now the Director of Translational Science, Heart Institute at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Alan V. Smrcka, PhD., Louis C. Lasagna Professor of Experimental Therapeutics and Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.
Smrcka identified gallein in his previous research on molecules involved in hormone function. The clear advantage of using the compound is that it specifically targets the unwanted interactions that lead to heart failure, leaving the normal mechanisms that lead to a healthy heart intact. Plus, it can be injected or taken orally and is easily accessible to cells.
An additional exciting feature of the study is the possibility that gallein could be harnessed for treating adrenal gland tumors called pheochromocytomas, which secrete excess amounts of certain stress hormones. The current method of treatment is surgical removal of the tumors, but gallein may be able to damage or kill these tumors by suppressing their ability to release stress hormones.


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