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THE ED SHOW with ED SCHULTZ
October 23, 2012
ED SCHULTZ, HOST: Good evening, Americans. And welcome to THE ED
SHOW from New York.
Fourteen days until the 2012 election.
The debates are over and Mitt Romney looked like anything but a
commander-in-chief last night. He came down with a real bad case of
Romnesia. Although he does a good job of following the leader, don`t you
This is THE ED SHOW -- let`s get to work.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: You mentioned the Navy,
for example, and we had fewer ships than in 1916. Well, Governor, we also
have fewer horses and bayonets.
SCHULTZ (voice-over): Total domination on the debate. A lesson on
Romnesia on the stump.
OBAMA: If you say that you love American cars during a debate, but
you wrote an article titled "Let Detroit go bankrupt", you might have
SCHULTZ: Tonight, Richard Wolffe with the truth about last night.
E.J. Dionne and Karen Finney on the president`s two-week plan. Ohio
Senator Sherrod Brown on Mitt Romney`s China disaster. Ohio State Senator
Nina Turner on the latest Republican effort to block the vote.
And the great actor Bradley Whitford is getting out the vote for the
president in Ohio and his native Wisconsin. Tonight, Bradley Whitford
joins me live on THE ED SHOW.
SCHULTZ: Good to have you with us, folks. Thanks for watching.
We have reached the end game of the presidential election. No more
conventions, no more debates, just two campaigns pounding the pavement
trying to win every last vote. There are only a few states left on the
playing field, Florida and Ohio are the big prizes. And the president
rallied in both states today.
This morning, President Obama got a high five and a big hug in Delray
Beach from -- Delray Beach, Florida, from Scott Van Duzer. He`s the
Republican pizza man who bear hugged the president last month.
President Obama was once again warning supporters about the dangerous
affliction known as Romnesia.
OBAMA: We had a severe outbreak last night. It was at least stage
three Romnesia. I just want to go over some of the symptoms, Delray,
because I want to make sure nobody in the surrounding area catches it.
If you say that you love American cars during a debate but you wrote
an article titled "Let Detroit go bankrupt", you might have Romnesia. If
you talk about how much you love teachers during a debate, but said just a
few weeks ago that we shouldn`t hire anymore because they won`t grow the
economy, what do you have?
AUDIENCE: Romnesia.
OBAMA: I bet you got some Romnesia.
SCHULTZ: The president is fired up, but it`s not all fin and games.
The president and vice president told a crowd in Dayton, Ohio, Mitt
Romney`s flip-flops are deadly serious.
OBAMA: We joke about Governor Romney being all over the map, but it
speaks to something important. It speaks of trust. There`s no more
serious issue in a presidential campaign than trust. Trust matters.
SCHULTZ: President Obama has been raising the trust question about
Mitt Romney in the past two debates. Romney and Paul Ryan hit the trail in
Nevada to deflect the president`s criticism.
MITT ROMNEY (R), PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: We have gone through four
debates with the vice presidential debate and my debates and we haven`t
heard an agenda for the president and that`s why his campaign is taking on
water and our campaign is full speed ahead.
SCHULTZ: Romney keeps saying the president has no agenda. He`s
willfully ignoring the president`s stump speech, the DNC convention
platform, and legislation President Obama tried to get through Congress.
Romney is also ignoring this new campaign ad from President Obama.
OBAMA: Here`s my plan for the next four years. Making education and
training a national priority, building on our manufacturing boom, boosting
American-made energy, reducing the deficits responsibly by cutting where we
can and asking the wealthy to pay a little more, and ending the war in
Afghanistan so we can do some nation-building here at home.
SCHULTZ: President Obama is trying to keep Romnesia from infecting
the American people so he`s showing his plan in writing.
OBAMA: Last night I laid out a plan for jobs and middle class
security. Unlike Mitt Romney, I`m proud to talk about what`s in my plan,
because first of all, the math actually adds up.
SCHULTZ: The Obama campaign is contributing more than 3 million
copies of the plan in swing states. It`s strange for Mitt Romney to
pretend that he doesn`t have a plan because last night during the foreign
policy debate, Mitt Romney seemed to agree with almost every plan the
president has.
SCHULTZ: I congratulate him on taking out Osama bin Laden and going
after the leadership in al Qaeda. We don`t want another Iraq. We don`t
want another Afghanistan. That`s not the right course for us.
Absolutely the right thing to do to have crippling sanctions. I`d
have put the sanctions in place earlier, but it`s good we have them.
It`s widely reported that drones are being used and drone strikes, and
I support that entirely.
We`re going to be finished by 2014 and when I`m president, weal make
sure we bring our troops out by the end of 2014.
SCHULTZ: Can we come to the conclusion that Mitt Romney was out of
his league in foreign policy in the debate last night? He was reduced to
generic talking points and bland platitudes like this claim about an
apology tour.
ROMNEY: Then the president began what I called an apology tour of
going to various nations in the Middle East and criticizing America. I
think they looked at that and saw weakness. Then where there was
dissidence in the streets of Tehran, the green revolution, holding signs
saying, is America with us, the president was silent.
OBAMA: Nothing Mitt Romney just said was true, starting with the
notion of me apologizing. This has been probably the biggest whopper
that`s been told during the course of this campaign. And every fact
checker and every reporter has looked at it. The governor has said this is
not true.
SCHULTZ: Romney backed off his tough talk on China. Suddenly he was
the biggest appeaser in the room.
ROMNEY: We can be a partner with China. We don`t have to be an
adversary, in any way, shape or form. We can work with them, we can
collaborate if they are willing to be responsible.
SCHULTZ: Romney offered no real answers about our presence in this
part of the world. I think Americans will find this troubling and I`ll
have more to say about this with Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio later in
this broadcast.
Romney`s worst moment of the night came when he tried to attack the
president over the military budget.
ROMNEY: We don`t know what the world is going to throw at us down the
road. We make decisions today in the military that will confront
challenges we can`t imagine. We have to make decisions based upon
uncertainty. And that means a strong military. I will not cut our
military budget.
SCHULTZ: And the president`s response exposed Mitt Romney as a lot of
hot air.
OBAMA: I think Governor Romney maybe hasn`t spent enough time looking
at how our military works. You mentioned the Navy, for example, and we
have fewer ships than in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses
and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed. We have these
things called aircraft carriers, where planes land on them. We have ships
that go underwater, nuclear submarines.
So, the question is not a game of battleship, where we`re counting
ships. It`s what are our capabilities.
SCHULTZ: What`s the bottom line? The president was telling the
country this guy doesn`t have a clue when it comes to national security and
foreign policy. Many people said Mitt Romney passed the commander-in-chief
after the first debate in Denver. Last night, he flunked the exam, the
final exam big time.
Get your cell phones out. We want to know what you think tonight.
Tonight`s question, is Mitt Romney up to the challenges of commander-
in-chief? Text A for yes, text B for no, to 622639. You can always go to
our blog at Ed.MSNBC.com. We`ve got the results coming up later on in this
Joining me tonight is Richard Wolffe, MSNBC political analyst, and
vice president and executive editor of MSNBC.com.
Richard, we`ve got a number of different things that all of a sudden
Mitt Romney agrees with President Obama on, but the one most glaring was
Afghanistan. Will this have an impact in the final two weeks?
RICHARD WOLFFE, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, let`s just remember
just how much of a back flip-flop he did last night. He`s a guy that said
no timeline, but he has a timeline without an end date. Suddenly, we have
an end date.
You know, normal candidates do not try and release new policies in
debates. We have seen it now in three debates that he`s tried to do this.
Yes, it`s great that the president throws it out there and tries to point
out these changes, last-minute reversals.
But more than that, what we saw last night was, you know, Bill Clinton
in 2004 said strong and wrong beats weak and right. Last night, we had
weak and wrong against strong and right. It was the projection of weakness
from Mitt Romney both on the substance and in the way he was changing his
policy that I think was the hardest piece of him.
So, never mind about policy. People don`t understand the policy on
foreign policy. They do understand character and I think that`s what we
saw last night.
SCHULTZ: What unfolded earlier in the debate was Benghazi. For the
last month and a half, we have heard the conservatives say that there`s a
conspiracy, that there was a cover-up, that the administration is not being
forthcoming with the American people. Romney had a shot, again. Why
didn`t he take it?
WOLFFE: Well, because he got crushed the week before. He could have
relitigated. Frankly, I expected him to relitigate it.
But actually his strategy, as far as anyone could tell, was to hug the
president, one big group session and say, you know, I like him only more
That`s the kind of position you have when you think you are winning
this race. You don`t want to mess up. It`s an incredible reversal because
really that`s where the president was in the first debate. We saw how
badly that turned out for him.
If you think you have a three-point lead and that`s going to carry you
through, you end up doing this kind of stupid tactic and that tactic looks
bad because there`s no difference between you.
SCHULTZ: And Romney`s camp was spinning last night as a victory for
him. What about that? I mean, do they really think the American people
are that stupid?
WOLFFE: No, they think the press is that stupid. And frankly when
the media stops having polls to report on, they end up reporting on body
language. This is the worst time for any reporter on the campaign trail.
There`s no events, there`s no more news and all you`ve got is this kind of
You know, when the campaign goes out and says we`re going to lose,
that`s news.
SCHULTZ: Right wing media is doing a spin job. Check out FOX News`s
assessment of Romney`s performance.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Was it decisive for you?
BILL O`REILLY, FOX NEWS: No. He didn`t win the debate.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So, President Obama won the debate?
O`REILLY: No. Nobody won.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was a draw.
O`REILLY: It was so boring. It was the most boring debate I have
ever seen.
SCHULTZ: What`s that tell you?
WOLFFE: Well, 59 million people watched it so maybe they thought
there was something interesting in there.
You know, there was a massive role reversal. For decades Republicans
have said we are strong on foreign policy and defense. You know where we
stand. You may not agree with us, but you know where we stand. That was
the whole Bush premise.
What we saw last night is we have no idea where Mitt Romney stands.
The president, you may disagree with his Afghan policy or any other piece
of it, but in terms of projecting strength, it was a role reversal for
Democrats in particular.
SCHULTZ: I thought he was going to revert back to some old Dick
Cheney highlight films and say that, you know, we`re not on a war footing.
That we`re not safe as we used to be.
I mean, he could have pulled out the old rhetoric and slipped it past
a lot of people. Why didn`t he take that direction?
WOLFFE: Well, you know, the president doesn`t like the whole e
politics of fear. I don`t know that Mitt Romney -- you know, when you saw
him come up with the details about Mali and the terrorist threat in Mali or
the state of the Navy in the First World War, this is a guy who has been
cramming on the briefing books and had no real plan.
SCHULTZ: Yes, Richard Wolffe, great to have you with us tonight,
thanks so much.
WOLFFE: Thank you.
SCHULTZ: Remember to answer tonight`s question there at the bottom of
the screen. Share your thoughts with us on Twitter @EdShow and, of course,
on Facebook. We always want to know what you think.
Coming up, with only two weeks remaining, what must they do to win?
What do they have to do to win? Karen Finney and E.J. Dionne with the
discussion coming up with a game plan.
Stay with us.
SCHULTZ: Coming up with two weeks until Election Day. The Obama camp
shows some confidence when it comes to polling in key swing states. Karen
Finney and E.J. Dionne, and we have an apology coming from the Romney camp
Then Mitt Romney tries to airbrush history while the president lays
out the facts on outsourcing and his policies on China. We`ll have the
And later former "West Wing" actor Bradley Whitford joins me to
discuss his support for President Obama and workers rights in California.
Share your thoughts on Facebook and Twitter using #EdShow.
We`re coming right back.
SCHULTZ: Welcome back to THE ED SHOW and thanks for watching tonight.
I find it interesting that just a couple weeks until the election,
it`s really amazing how Mitt Romney would go on the debate stage last night
and basically surrender on foreign policy. It`s an interesting tactic from
someone who wants to be the leader of the free world. National polls are
close, but the electoral map is actually not so close.
Here`s the latest NBC news battleground map. The blue states are
solid, likely, or lean Obama and the red states are solid, likely, or lean
Romney. That`s 243 electoral votes for President Obama, 206 electoral
votes for Mitt Romney.
Seven battleground states remain. Of the seven, top of states, if
President Obama wins Ohio and Wisconsin, he goes over the top winning
On a conference call today, Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said,
"We are tied or ahead in every battleground state and we`re not leaving any
state where we`re tied or ahead."
Senior strategist David Axelrod said, "We know what we know. They
know what we know. I`m confident we`re going to win this race. We`ll know
who is bluffing and who isn`t in two weeks." Bring it on.
One more thing is certain: President Obama is baring down in the final
OBAMA: In all seriousness, we`re accustomed to seeing politicians
change their positions from like four years ago. We`re not accustomed to
seeing them change from four days ago.
SCHULTZ: Let`s turn to Karen Finney, MSNBC political analyst and
former communications director for the DNC. E.J. Dionne with us tonight,
MSNBC contributor, columnist for "The Washington Post" and author of "Our
Divided Political Heart."
Karen, you first. What was Romney`s strategy last night and how
poorly was it executed? Because it looked to me like a total surrender.
It was like go out there, OK, don`t make a mistake and let`s turn to the
next two weeks. What about that?
KAREN FINNEY, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: You know, every single time
Schieffer said they were moving on the next subject, Romney looked so
relieved because he seemed like, he figured, oh, thank God, this thing is
almost over.
But, you know, I`ll tell you what I think their strategy was. It was
interesting listening to the spin. A lot of his folks were saying he
didn`t want to fight President Obama. He was going to talk about his
I think that they`ve got some numbers back from the second debate that
a lot of voters, particularly women voters, where he was trying to close
the gap, did not like how flat out rude he was to the president and some of
the behavioral things where he literally, physically seemed like he was
trying to bully President Obama.
And so, I think they had some numbers internally that said you better
tone it down for the last debate. So I think that`s what`s more likely
what was going on here.
SCHULTZ: Yes.
E.J., are you expecting the Romney camp to come out with new
commercials that Mitt Romney agrees with President Obama on a number of
foreign policy positions? I mean, certainly, there`s enough material there
for Mitt.
E.J. DIONNE, MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR: I think I`m just going to imitate
Romney tonight and say I agree with everything Karen just said.
I mean, no, I don`t think you`re going to do that, but I think it is a
real challenge to the Obama campaign. I have been watching campaigns for a
long time. I don`t think I`ve ever seen a candidate throw so many
positions overboard so quickly and also mislead about what his past
positions were as he did on the auto bailout.
And I think the Obama campaign has to stay on this because clearly
they got a last-minute remake going here and they`ve got prevent that
remake from taking hold. I think you saw it in the speech today and you`re
going to keep seeing it.
SCHULTZ: Well, the president, I think, we can come to the conclusion
that he really has won the last two debates. In fact, if you look at Mitt
Romney, his performance has declined over three debates. I mean, he
started high and took it south from there.
Does that kind of momentum or does that kind of performance affect the
campaign, Karen?
FINNEY: Well, look. I think initially they did a good job of taking
advantage of the momentum of the first debate. But I don`t think they`ll
have enough momentum, or in politics, we`d say enough road, there`s only
two weeks, to convince voters that he`s this newfangled person, because of
them are saying, wait a second, that`s not who we thought you were.
I was say on the call and I was actually on the call. And one of the
points these guys made that I thought was very important is we`re not
talking a lot about the increases in voter registration numbers.
Republicans are betting on lower turnout from African-American and Latino
And guess what? There are 8 million more registered Latino voters
this cycle than four years ago. So that`s a silly assumption for them to
be making. They are making the assumption -- they are making a lot of
false assumptions.
And if you look at where the president is ahead in early voting, he`s
actually beating his own record like in Ohio and some of the counties that
voted for him.
So in terms of momentum, I think the story is President Obama has real
momentum in this early vote period.
SCHULTZ: And, of course, on that conference call, Jim Messina said
every single day now is Election Day.
FINNEY: That`s right.
SCHULTZ: As you mentioned in that early voting in Ohio and Wisconsin
and Iowa is also very strong.
E.J., is that going to be enough? I mean, is this a sign of momentum
that`s going to carry through for President Obama? What do you think?
DIONNE: Well, first of all, I think there`s a big debate out there
who has the momentum. I think Romney had it after the first debate and
started losing it after the second.
But I think what Karen said is very important, that African-American
and Latino turnout is going to be a very big deal, which also means that
voter suppression efforts on Election Day are going to be a very big deal.
And I think looking ahead, if you are in the Obama campaign or for
that matter, if you are in a civil rights group, being ready for what could
be a very difficult Election Day is one of the things that should be right
at the top of their to do list.
SCHULTZ: This just into us. You may have seen this video of Romney
and President Obama talking on the stage after the debate last night. We
are told that Tagg apologized for saying that he wanted to take a swing at
the president during their second debate.
He had told a North Carolina right wing talk show host when he was
asked how he felt when the president was calling his dad a liar on stage.
He said, well, I`d like to go down there and take a swing at him. But, of
course, the Secret Service is there.
Well, the apology came last night. It looks to me like dad was
standing there and heard it.
Karen, what do you make of it? Was it overdue?
FINNEY: It was overdue, and my mother said to me when I was a
teenager, you don`t get points for doing what you`re supposed to do. So,
it`s great he apologized, but guess what? A, he shouldn`t have said it in
the first place and, B, of course, he should have apologized.
SCHULTZ: Was that dad talking right there, E.J.? I don`t know.
DIONNE: Good for him for apologizing, although you shouldn`t do stuff
you have to apologize for.
But he`s on message. It`s the kinder, gentler Mitt Romney. You saw
it in peacenik on stage and you saw it in the apology after. So, they do
have message discipline.
SCHULTZ: Well, I do believe in apologies. So, I would say that Tagg
Romney did the right thing last night.
Karen Finney and E.J. Dionne, great to have you with us tonight.
Thanks so much.
Coming up, the most intense issue of the debate. Romney goes on the
defensive. Find out what got both candidates just so revved up.
And it all comes down to the Buckeye State, Ohio. Who is going to win
this Buckeye State? Ohio State Senator Nina Turner will weigh in on a
number of different issues of the voting machines.
Stay with us. You`re watching THE ED SHOW on MSNBC.
OBAMA: Governor Romney, you keep on trying to airbrush history here.
SCHULTZ: Welcome back to THE ED SHOW.
One of the most contentious topics from last night`s debate strikes at
the heart of what this election is all about for American workers. The
candidates clashed over shipping jobs to China. Romney is good at that.
The moderator asked Romney if threatening China could ignite a trade war.
ROMNEY: Well, they sell us about this much stuff every year. And we
sell them about this much stuff every year. It`s pretty clear who doesn`t
want a trade war. There`s one going on right now, which we don`t know
about. It`s a silent one. And they are winning.
SCHULTZ: Romney likes to whine about China, but the president didn`t
let him get away with it.
OBAMA: Well, Governor Romney is right. You are familiar with jobs
being shipped overseas because you invested in companies shipping jobs
SCHULTZ: Compare the two candidates. Romney wants to label China a
currency manipulator. Otherwise, he`s not specific. But under President
Obama, exports have doubled. He created a trade enforcement task force to
prosecute China for cheating through the WTO.
He`s also building regional relationships to pressure China to play
And there`s one other trade policy the president reminded Romney about
last night.
OBAMA: If we had taken your advice about the auto industry, we would
be buying cars from China instead of selling cars to China.
SCHULTZ: Oh, yes. Remember, Romney wrote the op-ed advocating the
automobile industry should go bankrupt. He said we could, quote, "kiss the
automobile industry good-bye if it got government stimulus money and
government assistance."
Now the industry is thriving. So, Romney is denying his own words.
Romney claims he supported the auto rescue all along.
ROMNEY: I said they need these companies need to go through a managed
bankruptcy and in that process they can get government help and guarantees.
OBAMA: Governor Romney, that`s not what you said.
ROMNEY: Fortunately, the president -- you can take -- you can take a
look at the op-ed.
OBAMA: Governor Romney, you did not --
ROMNEY: You can take a look at the op-ed.
OBAMA: You did not say that you would provide, Governor, help.
ROMNEY: I said we would provide guarantees and that`s what was able
to allow the companies to go through bankruptcy and come out of bankruptcy
under no circumstances would I do anything other than to help this industry
get on its feet. The idea that has been suggested that I would liquidate
the industry, of course not. Of course not.
OBAMA: Let`s check the record.
ROMNEY: I want to keep the industry going and thriving.
OBAMA: The people of Detroit don`t forget.
SCHULTZ: There were no private equity markets available at the time.
The economy was that bad. There were no takers. There weren`t any Mitt
Romneys around willing to take 10 cents on a dollar. And what`s a
guarantee if there`s no cash? It takes money to buy whiskey, doesn`t it?
The president is right. People in Detroit don`t forget. Auto workers
accuse -- across the battleground state of Ohio, I don`t think they are
going to forget either.
Let`s turn to Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio. Senator, great to have
you with us tonight.
SEN. SHERROD BROWN (D), OHIO: Good to be back.
SCHULTZ: Look, this is again Mitt Romney trying to reinvent himself
on the automobile loan, which of course was risky business politically for
the president. Is Romney`s stance on this auto industry hurting him in
Ohio or helping him?
BROWN: It`s the reason -- it`s the primary reason that Romney just
can`t get traction in this state. I`m talking to you from Cleveland. It`s
northeast Ohio. But all of Ohio, we`re an auto state. We`re a lot of
things. We`re an aerospace state. We`re a food processing state. We`re a
medical device state.
But we know what this meant to Ohio. Look at it this way. Our
unemployment rate in Ohio, at the time the auto rescue really kind of took
hold, was over 10.5 percent. Today it`s down to seven percent. That`s not
good enough, but it`s auto rescue. It`s enforcement of trade rules.
We have a new steel mill in Youngstown. We have more aluminum made in
Sydney and Heath, Ohio. We have tires in Finley. The president mentioned
that last night. Our state is on the move in part because manufacturing is
coming back. That`s led -- always led by auto. When manufacturing grows,
and the economy takes off, it`s usually auto-led.
And that would not have happened if we hadn`t done the auto rescue. I
remember those days well in late 2008. Senator Voinovich, a Republican,
supported it in Ohio. Then in early 2009, it was an unpopular vote
initially, but we knew we had to do it. President Obama took a big
political risk. We all did. We knew we had to do it. The state is doing
a whole lot better as a result. There`s no question about that.
SCHULTZ: There were no Sheldon Adelsons around to write the check.
There were no private equity markets, correct?
BROWN: Yeah, that`s just what`s so bogus about this argument. My
opponent says the same thing. My opponent was against it. My opponent
actually called me un-American for voting it. Whatever his thinking is
there. But no, there was -- if we had not done the structured bankruptcy
and taxpayer investments in the auto industry, nobody else was stepping up.
It was too high risk. Nobody wanted -- no billionaires, no hedge fund
companies, no investors wanted to put big money in the auto industry
because it was billions of dollars and the risks were too high.
There were better way places to put your money, at that point people
thought, than in this industry. So it had to be done the way we did it.
You can argue around the edges, but this made a huge -- our state -- this
state right here would have been in a depression. Yet it`s now seen an
unemployment rate drop 3.5 percent. Not good enough, but going in the
right direction, as you know, Ed.
SCHULTZ: Why is Romney doing this? Is he doing it because he`s just
in trouble with, you know, white workers in Ohio and the lunch bucket
Democrats out there who are paying attention?
BROWN: I don`t know. I don`t know why he was against it. His dad
was a car guy. I don`t know what goes into Romney`s positions on anything,
as they kind of move back and forth. I just know that it took courage on
the president`s part. It took bipartisanship.
This was a great example of what you should do. It was bipartisan.
It was the public. It was the government working with the private sector.
And it was all about the middle class. We did all three of those things.
And that`s why we have seen -- for the first time in 10 years, we have seen
manufacturing job growth almost every month for the first -- for the last
two years, 500,000 new manufacturing jobs grown in this country.
SCHULTZ: Does the president win on China issues in Ohio?
BROWN: The president wins on China because he`s been the most
aggressive in enforcing trade rules. I want him to be more aggressive.
But he`s been more aggressive in enforcing trade rules than any president
since Reagan. New steel mill in Youngstown, steel jobs in Cleveland and
Lorraine. I could point all over the state, because we enforce trade
rules. We need to stop the tax breaks for outsourcing jobs to China and
Mexico and anywhere else.
We know what we have to do. We need Congress to do it and work with
the president and make it happen. But enforcing trade rules one at a time
actually does work. And you can specifically attribute job growth to it.
SCHULTZ: Well, we, of course, did this broadcast on Friday night from
Freeport, Illinois. There`s a plant -- there`s a plant that, of course, is
being shipped overseas, Sensata, which is connected to the automobile
industry. And then there`s a tire plant that has been saved in that
community because of President Obama`s stance being tough on China with the
I think that that story speaks volumes of what is happening across
America, just who is talking tough and acting tough. Senator, great to
have you with us.
BROWN: Thank you. I saw that show. It was a microcosm of exactly
what we`re talking about.
SCHULTZ: We got a lot of response on it. No doubt. Thank you,
senator. Appreciate your time. Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio. There`s
lots more coming up here in the next half hour of THE ED SHOW. Stay with
OBAMA: There`s no more serious issue in a presidential campaign than
trust. Trust matters.
SCHULTZ: The president and the vice president are heating up in Ohio.
Tonight, the latest on the Republican voter suppression with State Senator
Nina Turner.
In Wisconsin, Tommy Thompson airs one of the most disgraceful ads
you`ll ever see. We`ll bring you the latest attack on Tammy Baldwin.
And actor Bradley Whitford is hitting the stump for President Obama
and Sherrod Brown. Tonight, Bradley Whitford joins me live on THE ED SHOW.
OBAMA: Two weeks from today, Americans all across the country will
step into the voting booth. But here in Ohio, you can vote early.
OBAMA: Here in Ohio, you can vote right after this event.
SCHULTZ: And it does all boil down to Ohio. We are back. Both
candidates need the Buckeye State`s 18 electoral votes to win. And the
money just keeps on pouring in. Ohio has now surpassed Florida as the
state that has seen the most money spent on the presidential election; 177
million dollars has been funneled into the state for advertising.
The Obama campaign`s ground game is also out in full force, and
encouraging early voting is the key. In Ohio, about 20 percent of the vote
has already been cast. And the president is leading among early voters by
double digits. Polling from Quinnipiac shows 54 percent of Ohioans have
cast a vote for the president; 39 percent support Mitt Romney.
Yet right wingers are doing everything they can to intimidate voters.
Billboards from an anonymous group were put up in minority communities in
Ohio and Wisconsin, warning, quote, "voter fraud is a felony." Of course
voter fraud is virtually a nonexistent problem. And after the public
outcry, the billboards are now being taken down.
Clear Channel Outdoor Advertising rented the billboard space. The
company says it has decided to take down the billboards because they
violate company policy against anonymous political ads. Clear Channel says
that it will donate 10 billboards that offer a counter message clarifying
that voting is a right and not a crime.
Joining me now is Ohio State Senator Nina Turner. Nina, great to have
you with us tonight. Senator, you view this how? Is this a victory for
the people? Or could these counter-billboards have helped in any way?
NINA TURNER (D), OHIO STATE SENATOR: Certainly the damage has been
done. And Clear Channel should have never allowed the billboards to go up
in the first place. But the fact that we stood up and we fought here in
the city of Cleveland and also across the state of Ohio and also
counterparts in Milwaukee says a lot.
So the fact that all the billboards are coming down, about 150 of them
across the country, is a big deal. The folks who put up those billboards,
Ed, were cowards, absolute cowards to target minority communities and lower
income communities. But we`re not going to let that stop us from getting
out the vote.
SCHULTZ: What with you hearing? Were they having an effect? Was
there conversation and confusion about voter fraud?
TURNER: People were very, very concerned. As you can imagine, in
some of those communities, there are ex-offenders that live in those
communities. But in Ohio, if you are an ex-offender and you`re registered
to vote, you can vote. So the fact that they would put a message out like
that is deplorable. It makes no sense.
They are out to get folks that don`t exist. Voter fraud -- in person
voting fraud is nearly nonexistent and they know it. But they will do any
rotten, dirty thing to try to suppress the vote, and especially among those
who are most likely to vote for President Obama. It is deplorable, Ed.
And everyone in this country should be upset that anybody would do that and
then not to have the courage to put your name behind it. Shameful.
SCHULTZ: Senator, if the election were held today, would President
Obama win Ohio? Where`s the enthusiasm and what are you hearing?
TURNER: I believe that he would and he will. We delivered Ohio to
the president by 51 percent of the vote in 2008, and we will do it again.
You know, citizens of this state understand that the Governor Romney is a
shape shifter. You never know from day-to-day what he believes and what he
will say.
Shape shifting is good if you are Play Dough, but it`s not good if you
want to become the president of the United States. We have women in this
state -- the president is leading the women in this state 55 to 40 percent.
Women are going to be the firewall, Ed, in the state of Ohio. We are
forces of nature, and we understand that the president has our back. We
understand that the president believes that we need to make dollar for
dollar, that the children that we support want their mothers to make dollar
for dollar.
I`m going to tell you something. I don`t know any man who doesn`t
want his woman -- his wife to bring home that whole dollar. It helps the
entire family. And the president believes in that. The auto workers
understand who was out there trying to save those middle class paying jobs.
It was the president and Senator Sherrod Brown.
So we`re going to have the president`s back in Ohio. We are ready.
SCHULTZ: Senator, there`s a story that is circulating in the
progressive community that has a lot of people concerned. Reports that
Tagg Romney, son of the candidate, has a financial interest in the voting
machines, some of them that are in Ohio. And it`s been reported in -- he
has financial interest in the voting machines that are in Hamilton County.
What`s your response to this? And are you concerned about it?
TURNER: Ed, just slightly. I mean, there is an appearance here of
impropriety. But the tangled web is so tangled, it`s kind of hard to
explain. The fact that Tagg Romney`s company has a tangential connection,
business relationship with a company that has a partial ownership in a
company called Heart Inner Civics, and that the board members of this poll
machine company -- excuse me voting machine company, also made donations to
the Romney campaign.
So yes, folks should be a little concerned. It is -- it does appear
to be kind of shady. But the fact that there are professionals on the
ground -- all of the voting machines that are used in the state of Ohio are
approved by a body here that contains both Democrats and Republicans. So
we have to continue to fight the real voter suppression that`s going on in
the state.
SCHULTZ: All right, Ohio State Senator Nina Turner, always great to
have you on THE ED SHOW. Thanks so much.
Coming up, the Wisconsin Senate race -- folks, it gets ugly, with
former Republican Governor Tommy Thompson releasing an attack ad so
despicable you are not going to see it on our air. I`ll break down the
truth. Stay with us.
SCHULTZ: Just how desperate can candidates get, question mark? Well,
the Wisconsin Senate race took a turn for the ugly today with former
Governor Tommy Thompson releasing an attack ad so despicable we`re not
going to show it on this program. Thompson`s ad accuses Democratic
Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin, and candidate for the Senate, of voting
against honoring the victims of 9/11.
Military victims speak over images of waving flags and the ruins of
the World Trade Center. Then comes this headline from "The Capital Times":
"Baldwin Rejects 9/11 Tribute." As FactCheck.org points out, it fails to
include the sub header, which explains, "saying it insults victims,
families. She`s cast one of 22 no votes."
You see, in 2006, just before the election, Republicans crafted a
memorial resolution that also paid tribute to controversial Republican
legislation like the Patriot Act. So Democrats had a choice. Vote for a
resolution praising legislation they oppose or vote against it and be
painted as unpatriotic.
It was a trap set six years ago. Baldwin said at the time, and she
was very clear "on the fifth anniversary of the worst attack on American
soil, my Republican colleagues have disgracefully politicized what should
have been a solemn and sincere resolution. This bill was cynically
transformed from a memorial resolution to an endorsement of President
Bush`s failed policies. The Republicans showed disrespect to 9/11 victims
and families by playing election year politics with something as solemn as
the fifth anniversary of 9/11."
To the record, and to keep it straight, Tammy Baldwin has supported
nine resolutions honoring victims of 9/11. Tommy Thompson is just the
latest Republican playing politics with the tragedy of 9/11. But what do
you expect from a former Bush administration official? It`s dishonest,
disrespectful. And I hope the people of Wisconsin hold him accountable.
Tonight in our survey, I asked you is Mitt Romney up to the challenges
of commander-in-chief? Two percent of you said yes; 98 percent of you said
We`re only two weeks out from election day. And celebrities are
jumping in and -- to help reelect President Obama. Actor Brad Whitford has
been out stumping for the president. We`re talking to him next here on THE
ED SHOW. Stay with us.
OBAMA: You can choose to turn back the clock 50 years for women and
immigrants and gays, or you can say in this election, we believe that
everybody`s got a place in America. We want to make sure everybody`s got
opportunity, no matter who you are. I`m asking you to help me finish the
job. I believe in you. And I need you to keep believing in me.
SCHULTZ: And in the Big Finish tonight, a couple weeks out from
election day, stakes couldn`t be higher. It`s crunch time, and celebrities
are joining the fight to help reelect President Obama. Our next guest is
actor and Democratic activist Brad Whitford. He`s been traveling around
the country in recent weeks stumping for President Obama and Ohio Senator
Sherrod Brown.
Whitford`s also been vocal on two very important ballot issues in his
home state of California. The first measure is great for teachers and
students. Prop 30 would provide nine billion to fund public education in
the state of California. Meanwhile, the other measure is right out of
Scott Walker`s play book. It`s Prop 32. If that passes, it would stop
unions from donating for political campaigns.
Democrats are worried about voter turnout, because President Obama`s
commanding lead in California could be a problem for them. So Whitford
teamed up with the Courage Campaign to inform voters with this video.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This year, the GOP wants to pass one initiative,
Prop 32, would basically allow huge corporations and billionaires to
dominate state elections, while leaving middle class Californians in the
BRAD WHITFORD, ACTOR AND ACTIVIST: And the GOP wants to crush Prop
30, an initiative to save our public schools from six billion dollars in
budget cuts.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Unless you make it to the polls on November 6th
and vote no 32 and yes on 30, these guys are going to have their way with
WHITFORD: It sounds creepy.
SCHULTZ: For more on this, I`m joined by actor Brad Whitford tonight.
Brad, good to have you on THE ED SHOW. You bet. You`re on a mission.
Let`s talk about your support for President Obama and Sherrod Brown.
Is it connected to workers` rights?
WHITFORD: Yes, it is connected to workers` rights. It`s connected to
the extremist attack on -- on unions, on the middle class. I mean, I was
also in Wisconsin with my son campaigning for Tammy. I saw those
billboards. I saw -- I just saw the ad that Tommy put out. These are not
your parent`s Republicans. They make Nixon look like Abby Hoffman.
SCHULTZ: You had harsh words for Karl Rove out in Ohio. What do you
think of his ad barrage against Senator Brown?
WHITFORD: Look, I think Karl Rove is -- is a coward who enjoys
pouring money -- you know, I think he has targeted labor in -- in Ohio, in
Wisconsin, to some extent in Michigan, because it`s -- he wants to cut the
head off of labor. And they are not going to let him do it.
SCHULTZ: Of course, this is all in an effort to get rid of the last
bastion of Democrat support and foundation because of the social networking
and also the boots on the ground that labor unions have provided. What are
you hearing? What`s your sense in Ohio?
WHITFORD: My sense in Ohio -- I felt very confident that Sherrod is
in a very good position. I think the president is in a good position. I
think we can take nothing for granted, and have to run through that finish
line and get out the vote. People are voting early and the Democrats just
have to stay focused. And I think we`re going to have a good result.
SCHULTZ: The Republicans clearly have attacked public education.
We`ve seen radical governors go after budgets. What are the chances of
Prop 32 getting money into public education in California? Are you
confident it will pass?
WHITFORD: You mean Prop 30?
SCHULTZ: Yes.
WHITFORD: Yeah. I do believe -- Prop 30 has been endorsed by "the
L.A. Times." It is a perfectly reasonable investment that our least
vulnerable citizens need to do to invest in our most vulnerable citizens.
I`m confident it will pass. But again, we need turnout there.
We need turnout there. We need turnout in Michigan. I`m up here
campaigning for Bridgett Mary McCormick, who is running for State Supreme
Court. But we need turnout in California, and we need them to -- yes.
SCHULTZ: OK, Bradley Whitford, great to have you with us on THE ED
SHOW. Keep up the great work.
WHITFORD: Thank you very much, Ed.
SCHULTZ: You bet. You bet. Thank you. That`s THE ED SHOW. I`m Ed
Schultz. Now to the quarterback of last night`s coverage, as always,
Rachel Maddow. Her show is starting right now. Good evening, Rachel.
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Early College info available STONE RIDGE, N.Y. -- High school, home-schooled and other students looking to get an early start on their college education can learn about Ulster County Community College's Early College Program, Collegian courses and other opportunities to launch careers during information session from 6 to 8 p.m. March 13, in the Vanderlyn Hall lounge on UCCC's Stone Ridge campus. Space is limited. Reservations can be made ay (845) 687-5022 firstname.lastname@example.com
. Parent-teacher sessions changed NEW PALTZ, N.Y. -- New Paltz High School parent-teacher conferences originally scheduled for March 20 will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. March 19 instead, according to Principal Barbara Clinton. Those with questions should call Beverly Sickler, executive assistant to the superintendent, at (845) 256-4020. School changes to be discussed CAIRO, N.Y. -- A public information workshop will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Thrusday at Cairo-Durham Middle School/High School, 1301 Route 145, regarding grade level realignments for the 2013-14 school year. The workshop will be moderated by Bill Haltermann of Questar III BOCES and will consist of presentations, group discussions and a question-and-answer session. Planning board course offered MILLBROOK, N.Y. -- "Planning Board & Subdivision Overviews," a "Learn & Earn" course, will be offered by the Dutchess County Planning Federation from 4 to 8:30 p.m. March 26. The workshop, presented by staff of the state Department of State, will be at the Dutchess County Farm & Home Center, 2715 U.S. Route 44. The cost is $5 per person, which includes a snack and light supper. Participants can pay at the door with cash or check/voucher made payable to "DC Planning Federation." To register, go towww.eventbrite.com
and search for "Planning Board & Subdivision Overviews." Marbletown Dems to meet STONE RIDGE, N.Y. -- The Marbletown Democratic Committee will meet at 7:30 p.m. March 21 in the Marbletown Community Center, 3564 Main St. (U.S. Route 209). The meeting's focus will be this year's elections of town and county officials. For more information call, (845) 339-7858. Women Voters officer to speak RHINEBECK, N.Y. -- On March 23, at 10:30 a.m., Barbara Bartoletti, League of Women Voters of New York State legislative director will give a talk: "What's REALLY Going On in Albany? What's the League of Women Voters Doing About It?" at Rhinebeck Town Hall, 76 Market St. For details, call (845) 340-2003. Kindergarten screening slated HIGHLAND, N.Y. -- The Highland Central School District will hold its kindergarten screening on Wednesday, May 1. Children must be 5 years old by December 1, 2013, to be eligible for enrollment in kindergarten. Screenings are done by appointment. Incoming kindergartners must be registered with the district to receive an appointment. Please call the district registrar at (845) 691-1062 to make arrangements. Bed race sponsors, vendors sought SAUGERTIES, N.Y. -- The Saugerties Chamber of Commerce has announced that The Great Saugerties Bed Race & Old Timers Day will be held on Sunday, Aug. 4, on Main and Partition streets. Organizers are seeking sponsors and vendors for the event. The vendor fee is $25, and those interested can contact Marjorie firstname.lastname@example.com
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. Forms for vendors and for bed racers, and more information about the event will be available atvillage.saugerties.ny.us
, anddiscoversaugerties.com
by March 15. DCC offers info for high schoolers POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- Dutchess Community College will hold an information night on March 13 at 7 p.m. for high school students interested in attending classes on campus and earning college credit during their junior or senior year. The Early Admissions/Bridge Program allows students to attend DCC either full- or part-time at the Poughkeepsie or Wappingers Falls campus, and to participate in DCC's extra-curricular offerings including clubs, student government, and other activities. The information session will take place in the James and Betty Hall Theatre in Dutchess Hall on DCC's Poughkeepsie campus. Parents are encouraged to attend; registration is not required. An optional campus tour will begin at 6 p.m. For more information, call the DCC Admissions office at (845) 431-8010 or visitwww.sunydutchess.edu/admissions
. Ulster Travel Guide wins award KINGSTON, N.Y. -- The 2012 Ulster County Travel Guide has been given a Silver Award in the 10th Annual Service Industry Advertising Awards. Out of nearly 2,000 entries, the SIAA's panel of judges gave out 140 Gold, 109 Silver and 82 Bronze awards. The guide is available at locations in Ulster County, including the Ulster County Office Building in Kingston, rest areas on the Thruway, and at over 500 locations in 10 counties outside Ulster County. It was also distributed to 49 states via direct mail. BOCES offers culinary arts class PORT EWEN, N.Y. -- On Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Ulster BOCES is offering a one-day class called The Culinary Arts, which will explore the hands-on, kitchen-side of running a home-based food business. The course fee is $99, with an additional $30 materials fee to cover test and supplies payable to the instructor upon arrival to the class. For more information, and to register, call (845) 331-5050 or visitwww.ulsterboces.org/adult
. Register for pre-K, kindergarten HUNTER, N.Y. -- Hunter Elementary School has scheduled its pre-kindergarten and new kindergarten registration for the incoming September 2013 classes on Tuesday, April 9, and Wednesday, April 10. Registration appointments will be available in both the morning and afternoon, usually take about 30 minutes, and include paperwork and meeting with the school nurse. Children do not need to be present. Pre-K students must be 4 years old, and kindergarten students must by 5 years old on or before Dec. 1, 2013 to be registered. Parents of eligible children should call the Hunter Elementary School Office at (518) 263-4256, ext. 2000 to set up registration appointments. Parents must bring: o An original birth certificate, passport, or adoption paperwork as proof of the child's date of birth. o Medical information that includes proof of a physical exam dated on or after September 2012, and proof of any immunizations the child has received. o Proof of residency in the Hunter-Tannersville School District. o Court papers pertaining to custody, protection, visitation and contact. Consumers can get assistance KINGSTON, N.Y. -- The Division of Consumer Affairs of the Ulster County District Attorney's Office assists consumers with complaints against utilities and any other kind of business, even if the business is located in another state. Consumers seeking assistance must file a complaint and provide documentation to trigger a mediation effort by the Division of Consumer Affairs. For more information, call (845) 340-3260. Ward 6 meeting set for Saturday KINGSTON, N.Y. -- A Ward 6 community meeting will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Colonial Gardens Community room at Penn Court. The meeting is being hosted by Alderwoman Elisa Ball, D-Ward 6. For more information, contact Ball at (845) 339-6747 firstname.lastname@example.com
. School calendar change announced NEW PALTZ, N.Y. -- New Paltz Central School District Superintendent Maria Rice has announced that the Superintendent's Conference Day that was originally scheduled for April 26 has been changed to May 1. Students will not be required to report to school on that day. For any questions about this, contact the superintendent's office at (845) 256-4020.

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The high-priest of Zoroastrianism, Kartir Hangirpe, believed that he represented the one true religion. He was an absolutist,
believing that there was good and evil, with nothing in between. Into the later half of the 200s CE, he continued with his persecution of competing religions: the Manichaeans, Christians, Jews and Buddhists. Then, sometime during the reign of Bahram II (276-293), Kartir died, and religious tolerance began to reassert itself. Continue reading Persecutions during Sassanid Rule


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I must admit that when I heard about new iPod games available in the iTunes Store I was a bit disappointed that they were only available for what some call "video" iPods (aka 5G/5.5G/6G iPods). What I had envisioned—more of the same iPod games; Breakout, Solitaire, and Missile Attack—was not quite what we got. New games that actually looked decent is what we received. My poor nano has been left out of this next-generation gaming technology that is the the video-capable iPod. I had an Atari 2600 when what I really needed was a Turbo Graphic 16.
Despite my zealous desire to try the new games, not everyone shares my enthusiasm. Some people think five bucks is too much for a game you play with a scroll wheel and that people like me are suckers. Enter the folks that run iPod Linux. The folks who ordinarily spend their time getting their Linux kernel to run on the latest and greatest generations of iPods have taken to a new project: reverse-engineering the new iPod game packages.
The ultimate goal here is to enable people to write their own games for the iPod, for AppleOS. I believe there is a huge homebrew community on our toes to do this.
We are NOT to try to crack the DRM on existing games. We are NOT trying to illegally spread purchased/protected games. Please do not ask to trade games with people. If you need some source material to work with, head to the iTunes Store, and buy a game or two.
An excellent idea if ever there was one. It would be über cool to be able to download homebrew games to one's iPod that don't require Linux running on your music player. There isn't much there yet, but these folks are crafty (ike beavers) and I am sure before long they will be pumping out enough homebrew games to make Apple legal start pumping out cease and desist orders.


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From Peter King via JSOnline blog:
Favre and his agent, Bus Cook, have a suppose-this-ever-happened kind of relationship, so it wouldn't shock me if Favre, in some conversation with him, said there was some very slight chance he might want to play again. I don't know that; I'm just saying it's possible. And as Favre said when he retired, "Bus is a lot like my dad. Sometimes he says things he probably shouldn't have."
…I talked to Favre for 20 minutes Friday, and he's content, as his wife, Deanna, says, to be married to his 465-acre spread in Hattiesburg and work the land. He doesn't want to work out, he doesn't want to think about the mental energy it would take to play again. Will he change his mind? I doubt it. When Favre retired, I would have said I'm 98-percent sure he'll never play again. Now I'd put the percentage at 93. I still can't see him doing it, but I suppose I have my eyes open


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Monarchs Place Third at Cavalier Invitational
By ODU Athletics
Feb. 16, 2013
Cavalier Invite: Final Results
NORFOLK, Va. - The Old Dominion University men's swimming team sent eight swimmers to compete in the Cavalier Invitational in Charlottesville, Va. Over the past two days, Brian Burns, Logan Teal, Ty Collins, Adam Scimeca, Brian Fischetti, Preston Dunham, TJ Ewer and Chris Prewitt were responsible for Old Dominion's resilient third place finish at the tournament hosted by the University of Virginia.
The Monarchs' eight swimmers finished ahead of host-UVA, as well as the ACC's-Duke and CAA foe-Drexel.
Brian Burns finished the 100 fly in second place with a time of 50.92, which was fingertip behind Jacob Bieze's (Duke) winning time of 50.20. Burns also placed sixth in the 1000 free (46.62) and seventh in the 50 free (21.64).
Preston Dunham placed third in a pair of races for the Monarchs: the 100 fly (51.16) and the 200 fly (1:52.10).
Chris Prewitt had a couple of fourth place finishes in the 200 fly (1:52.88) and the 400 IM (4:05.26). Prewitt also completed the 200 IM in the fifth fastest time (1:55.61). Ty Collins finished just behind Prewitt in the 200 IM with a time of 1:59.34, which was good enough for a sixth place finish.
Logan Teal placed fifth in the 500 free (4:43.07) and the 1650 free (16:44.45). Teal also placed eighth in the 200 free with a time of 1:47.40.
TJ Ewer finished in seventh in the 200 breast with a time of 2:21.33. Ewer also placed third in the consolation race of the 200 IM and the 100 breast.
Brian Fischetti won the 200 IM and the 100 breast consolation races. Fischetti also placed third in the consolation of the 100 back.
Adam Scimeca won the 1000 free consolation race, as well as finished second in the consolation races for the 50 free and the 100 fly.
Brian Fischetti, TJ Ewer, Preston Dunham and Logan Teal teamed-up to take the bronze medal in the 400 medley relay (3:37.36).
Ewer and Teal, along with Brian Burns and Chris Prewitt finished with the fifth quickest time in the 400 free relay (3:13.27).
2013 Cavalier Invitational: Men's Final Scores:
1. University of Pennsylvania: 469.5
2. William & Mary: 337
3. Old Dominion: 284
4. University of Virginia: 214
5. Duke: 188
6. Drexel: 58.5
Old Dominion will be back in action on Feb. 27 in Fairfax, Va. for the CAA Championships.
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It is standard material in a Linear Algebra course that the group SLm(C) is generated by elementary matrices E + α eij i ≠ j, i.e., matrices with 1's on the diagonal and all entries outside the diagonal are zero, except one entry. The same question for matrices in SLm(R) where R is a commutative ring instead of the field C is much more delicate, interesting is the case that R is the ring of complex valued functions (continuous, smooth, algebraic or holomorphic) from a space X.
For m≥ 3 (and any n) it is a deep result of Suslin that any matrix in SLm(C[Cn]) decomposes as a finite product of unipotent (and equivalently elementary) matrices. In the case of continuous complex valued functions on a topological space X the problem was studied and solved by Thurston and Vaserstein. For rings of holomorphic functions on Stein spaces, in particular on Cn, this problem was explicitly posed as the Vaserstein problem by Gromov in the 1980's. In this talk we explain a complete solution to Gromov's Vaserstein Problem; from a joint work with B. Ivarsson. The proof uses a very advanced version of the Oka-principle proposed by Gromov and proved in recent years by Forstnerič: An elliptic stratified submersion over a Stein space admits a holomorphic section iff it admits a continuous section.


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9AM - Volunteers needed for iDig2Learn hosted Earth day event tomorrow on the Tram lawn. Please show up at 9 AM to help with set up and sign in so the children and their families can enjoy all the activities from 10 AM to 1 PM on the Tram lawn.Ms. Delfico spoke to the April 1 Roosevelt Island Residents Association (RIRA) Common Council about the Earth Day Celebration.
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iDig2Learn is hosting an Earth Day event Saturday (April 18), 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on the Tram lawn next to the Visitor Kiosk (rain or shine). Children and adults plant flowers and join in activities such as an archaeological dig box to hunt for shark's teeth, a creative art activity for children with RIVAA gallery artist Connie Tanner, a "Jump-in!" exercise with Island mom Paulina Mansz, healthy food tastings courtesy of Laila Amatullah from the Roosevelt Island Women's Health Organization, Book reading with Eva Bosbach, Earth-inspired art with Bonnie Goodman, a tree of life activity, and more. Special guests from NYC Parks, TreesCount! 2015, and you can learn more about joining a citywide initiative and tree stewardship.
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By Daisy Carrington, for CNN • Updated 7th March 2013
Hotels are working overtime to accommodate the needs of one of the fastest growing demographics in the travel industry: businesswomen.
"Women are nearing half of all business travelers, and they make up 85% of purchase choices in the household," says Carolyn Pearson, the founder of
, a website that connects female business travelers across the globe and rates femme-friendly hotel brands.
"A woman might choose a hotel for business travel and then, if she likes it, go back for a weekend stay, or book the room again with the family. Hotels are starting to realize that when it comes to travel decisions, women are really influential."
Pearson also trains hotels to look at their service from a female perspective, enabling them to tweak what they offer to appeal more to women.
"We take the entire hotel staff -- from concierge to food and beverage -- and really get them to see their hotel through a woman's eyes. We identify two things: how can they improve her experience, and how can they create more loyalty and value so that she's more likely to return," she explains.
Maiden Voyage's rankings are based not simply on amenities but also on a hotel's discretion and safety.
"Does the receptionist announce the room numbers out loud?" says Pearson. "Are the rooms located next to the lifts?"
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"There are differences between what men and women need," says Judi Brownell, professor and dean of students at the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University.
"Most women are more particular than their male counterparts. Both are concerned with safety and comfort but these things make more of a difference to women travelers. They want to feel that hotels have taken into consideration their needs as women, and so appreciate the small things that are done to make then feel recognized."
They Hyatt hotel group has spent the last 18 months surveying guests in 40 facilitated group discussions around the world on how they can improve their services. It was the largest guest listening exercise ever conducted by the brand, and it was made up completely of women.
"We've found that approximately 80% of all business travel decisions are made by females," notes Kristine Rose, Hyatt's vice president of brands.
"Whether it's a family trip, and mom is deciding what hotel to stay in, or it's a travel agent -- most of whom happen to be female. There's a rise of female travel globally, especially in China, where more and more women are traveling every day."
Based on the feedback, Hyatt rolled out a number of innovative amenities across all its brands (over 500 locations worldwide), including adding the dermatologist-approved KenetMD Skin Care line to their list of bath amenities.
It also introduced the "Hyatt Has It" program whereby Hyatt hotels stock everything and anything a traveler might have forgotten to pack, from deodorant to humidifiers (and every color of nail polish under the sun).
Guests can borrow these items free of charge, or purchase them at retail value. Though the initiative benefits all guests, regardless of gender, Rose says the program was inspired by the survey responses of their women travelers.
"When we talked to some women, they were very vocal about not being perfect all the time. They said, 'I forget things, I don't always want to worry about whether I packed shampoo or conditioner.'"
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This sort of catered service seems to have replaced the trend of "female-only" floors that surfaced in the hospitality industry last year. Some hotels maintain a single-sex block of rooms. The Georgian Court Hotel in Vancouver, for instance, has the Orchid Floor, a group of 18 rooms stocked with Aveda products, complimentary fashion magazines and the type of gadgets that supposedly speak to a woman's heart, such as curling irons and hair straighteners.
Some hotels that originally instated single-sex units have since done away with them. Don Shula Hotel in Florida was one of the first hotels to introduce the concept back in 2006. Their Patrician Rooms had enlarged makeup mirrors, women's magazines and breast exam cards in the showers. During renovations last year, the hotel decided their occupancy was too low to justify their continuance.
"They served their purpose a few years back but simply lost their luster over time," admits Lisa Gory, the hotel's director of sales and marketing.
Hyatt has also eschewed installing all-female floors.
"There's a difference between creating a tailored experience that meets their needs, and calling them out as a group of people who need special treatment. They actually consider that kind of offensive," says Rose.
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Blanton has no answers against KC offense
Right-hander allows seven runs on 12 hits over just 4 2/3 frames
ANAHEIM -- Joe Blanton entered Monday's start hoping to end one streak and continue another. As the Angels fell 11-4 to the Royals on Monday night at Angel Stadium, Blanton did end one streak and continue another, but not in the way he hoped.
The right-hander's stretch of seven straight starts without a win continued, while his run of three straight quality starts was brought to an immediate halt.
"Joe looks like he is making better starts," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "Obviously, tonight wasn't according to the game plan, but we will turn the page on it for Joe and hopefully he gets where he needs to be for his next start."
Blanton entered Monday allowing just eight runs in his previous 20 2/3 innings of work and a 1.76 career ERA against the Royals, but none of that mattered as he allowed seven runs on 12 hits in just 4 2/3 innings, dropping his record to 0-7 with a 6.46 ERA since joining the Angels.
Despite the numbers, Blanton felt he threw the ball well and simply said baseball "is a messed up game," where fluky things happen.
"I felt like I threw the ball good tonight," Blanton said. "When they made contact, it found holes -- broken bats fell in, infield singles, bunts found their way down the line. It was one of those weird games. I felt I had good stuff, but when they made contact, it found holes. Not a lot you can do about that."
The loss -- the Angels' second in a row -- was certainly not how the team envisioned beginning a nine-game homestand. The Angels were coming off a series win in Chicago and hoping to build momentum, but instead fell to 14-24, remain 10 games back of the Texas Rangers and need to finish 76-48 to win 90 games.
"The key is to put this game behind us," Blanton said. "Don't let the highs get too high because we won three games in a row and because we lost bad tonight, don't let that feel too bad. Come take two out of three, and it's a good series."
Despite allowing a run in the first inning, Blanton struck out five of the first eight batters he faced and appeared to be on pace for his fourth straight quality start.
Then, in the top of the third, it all fell apart.
The Royals scored two in the third, one in the fourth and three in the fifth as 10 of the final 18 batters Blanton faced recorded hits.
"I think when these guys got to the second time around they had a better idea and that's when he maybe started to miss with some of his pitches and they hit the ball hard," Scioscia said.
Blanton recorded the first out of the third inning, but a pair of infield singles and stolen bases by Jarrod Dyson and Alcides Escobar put two runners in scoring position for Billy Butler, who hit a two-run single and finished the night with five RBIs and also tied a career high with five hits.
"I knew I'd been getting closer, I'd been doing a lot of early work on the field," said Butler, who was in a 4-for-35 slump over the past nine games. "I'm still doing early work tomorrow on the field because it's just one game and I feel like I'm getting better. Right now, the more swings I take before the game, the better I feel in the game. I need to get my rhythm and my tempo down. It worked today so I'm going to do it again."
More problems came in the fifth as Blanton surrendered four hits over five batters, allowing the Royals to blow the game open and extend their lead to 7-1.
Just as he did in the third, Blanton retired the first batter of the fifth, but Butler, Eric Hosmer and Lorenzo Cain hit consecutive singles that paved the way for Salvador Perez's two-out, two-run double.
Kansas City scored eight of its 11 runs with two outs -- a situation that has troubled Angels' pitchers all season as 48 percent of the runs the Angels have surrendered have come with two outs.
After Blanton was pulled in the fifth, the Royals' offense kept coming as it scored three more in the sixth -- snapping a 17 2/3 inning scoreless streak by the Angels' bullpen -- and once in the seventh.
The Angels first run came in the third inning when Alberto Callaspo led off with a double and scored on an RBI single, courtesy of Chris Iannetta. The single and the run may have been irrelevant in the game, but it was Iannetta's second hit over the past three games after he snapped an 0-for-23 slump on Saturday.


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Equity futures are higher this morning, here's the overnight action in the /YM and /ES:
The dollar is down slightly, bonds are down slightly, gold is up a little, and oil was higher but is now about flat.
Of course the Shanghai market rose 4.8% overnight on fundamentals, right? Not!
Sept. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Stocks in China rose the most in six months, driving the yen and Treasuries lower, on speculation the government will adopt measures to boost equities after the Shanghai Composite Index fell into a bear market.
The Shanghai gauge gained for a third straight day, closing 4.8 percent higher, while the MSCI World Index of 23 developed countries advanced 0.4 percent at 12:50 p.m. in London.
Ha, ha, love that. They grow a bubble, pop a bubble, grow another bubble, pop the bubble, now they want to grow it again. Pilot induced oscillation at its finest. The hand is not so invisible anymore is it? Neither here nor there.
Jobless claims came in at 570,000 for the past week, the same as the week prior:
There has been very little change in initial jobless claims over the past seven weeks, pointing to little change in payroll losses for tomorrow's monthly employment report. Initial claims fell 4,000 to 570,000 in the Aug. 29 week (prior week revised 4,000 higher to 574,000). The four-week average is right at the current week, at 571,250. Continuing claims have been generally moving lower since early July, unfortunately reflecting the expiration of benefits and not necessarily new hiring. But in a bad sign, continuing claims rose in data for the Aug. 22 week, up 92,000 to 6.234 million. The unemployment rate for insured workers rose 1 tenth to 4.7 percent. There was no significant reaction to the report.
Hate to tell 'em this, but that's a horrid, horrid number, and this tregedy has been going on for quite some time with no REAL or meaningful help. Millions of unemployed are dropping off the unemployment roles soon.
The non-manufacturing ISM (service) comes out at 10 Eastern.
Below is a close in daily shot of GLD. Yesterday's breakout was HUGE, and it was on huge volume. Note how it closed far above the upper Bollinger. That's a condition that will usually correct at sometime to let the Bollinger catch up:
The strange part about what's happening is at the same time that gold is going up, the TNX (10 year bond fund) is breaking down:
These two charts conflict one another as you would normally expect gold to rise as interest rates rise, not as they fall. The TNX is saying "deflation" and gold is saying something else. So, two choices present us for what's happening. One is that one of these triangle breakouts is wrong. The other is a loss of confidence. If it's a loss of confidence, then I would expect that eventually the TNX will reverse and gold will continue higher. Interesting times, that's for sure.
The markets are oversold in the short term, but there's room still on the downside with the daily charts. The /ES just snuck back under 1,000, so that area is still resistance and 990 is the support pivot, then there's support all the way through about 975 or so with 961 being the next lower pivot.
Yesterday's breakout on gold was very strong. Normally I would expect to see a retest, but with that strength I wouldn't count on it. The miners also took off. I was looking at some historic silver and gold charts again yesterday and note that the miners tend to do VERY, VERY well following times of credit collapse. They did tremendously well in the mid 1930's.
Gold and bonds, that's some kind of strange magic…
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No Frills Long - Full length Western Red Cedar Strips, Epoxy, Fiberglass, Gunwales
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Last updated - January 2018
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I wrote this a few days ago instead of a Brewers series preview but didn't have as much to say as I thought (laughing). Congrats to Rodrigo for having a great season.
I had a hard enough time finding enough to write about in the last Brewers-Cubs series preview last week, so I figure the most interesting thing to look at would be Ramirez's first season with the Brewers. As has been pointed out many times, the Cubs have had a bit of a hard time replacing his production at 3b this year. With their powers combined, the mighty team of Ian Stewart, Joe Mather, Luis Valbuena, Jeff Baker, and Josh Vitters have posted a .204/.282/.339 line on the year, "good" for a 66 OPS+. They have hit eleven HRs to noted power hitter Darwin Barney's six. Rodrigo, meanwhile, has posted a .292/.355/.527 line on the year, not so far from the .306/.361/.510 that he posted in 2011. He's also leading the NL in doubles.
(aside: can you believe that Ramirez only made two all-star teams during his years with the Cubs? FFS, All-Star voters).
It's especially surprising to see Ramirez's season line when you look at his production through the first month of the year. On May 1 he had a .205/.253/.364 line Since then Ramirez hit .310/.375/.561, with 18 homers and 37 doubles in 96 games.
Ramirez is signed for two more years, and the Brewers are on the hook for another $26m plus a meaningless $14m mutual option or $4m buyout for an extra year. It's always nice to see former players that you like doing well, even if they're wearing different laundry.