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1940 11th Street NW
Washington, DC 20001
U Street Corridor
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Contemporary American
$31 to $50
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Vinoteca Details
Dining Style:
Casual Elegant
(202) 332-9463
Hours of Operation:
Brunch: Sat-Sun 11AM-3PM
Dinner: Sun-Thu 5PM-10PM, Fri-Sat 5PM-11PM
Bar: Mon-Fri 5PM-Close, Sat-Sun 11AM-Close
Payment Options:
AMEX, Discover, MasterCard, Visa
Contemporary American, Organic
Executive Chef:
Lonnie Zoeller
Dress Code:
Smart Casual
Accepts Walk-Ins:
Additional Details:
Banquet/Private Rooms, Bar Dining, Bar/Lounge, Beer, Counter Seating, Entertainment, Farm to Table, Full Bar, Happy Hour, Late Night, Non-Smoking Restaurant, Patio/Outdoor Dining, Personal wines welcome, Personal wines welcome (corkage fee applies), Private Room, Smoking Area, Smoking Area (bar only), Smoking Area (patio only), Weekend Brunch, Wheelchair Access, Wine
Private Party Facilities:
The upstairs lounge at Vinoteca is a versatile and cozy space, equipped to handle a wide range of private events. With its Old World décor, soft candlelight, enchanting chandeliers, and mellow wine cellar feel, the lounge provides guests with a captivating and unique venue in which to create a memorable event. It is furnished with vintage couches, chairs, and tables. Depending on the type of event, the lounge can be rearranged to allow for the best experience possible. The space accommodates twenty-five guests for a seated service and thirty guests for an instructional wine class. For standing receptions, the lounge holds seventy-five guests.
In addition to the lounge, there is the Plaza, which is a beautiful outdoor bar and bocce court. While it is not typically available for rental, the two corner communal tables may be reserved. Each table has an approximate capacity of twelve guests.
Private Party Contact:
Amy Luu (202) 332-9463
Flamenco Sundays: 8PM-11PM - Lead by Gerard Poole (guitar & vocals), Richard Marlow (Flamenco guitar), and Sara Jerez-Marlow (dance). Amazing!
Special Events & Promotions:
On select Tuesdays from 7:PM to 8:30PM, Vinoteca holds wine classes in our private dining room. $40 per person inclusive of wine, food pairing, instructor, and $5 Vinoteca gift card.
Join Vinoteca & DC Bocce League on Mondays & Tuesdays in the PLAZA!
Getting there
Cross Street:
11th and U
Public Transit:
Green/Yellow line to U Street/African-American War Memorial/Cardozo Metro station. Take 10th Street exit. Walk one block west.
Street Parking
Parking Details:
Recommended street parking on 11th Street (between T & U Streets). Also, $10 parking lot across the street (right next to Lee's Flower Shop).
A word from Vinoteca
Devoted to locally-sourced produce and artisanal wines and spirits, this contemporary American wine-centric restaurant offers up toothsome fare for every palate, budget, and occasion.
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Diner Reviews
Had a great time time! Great
location and food was awesome- different! Loved the cauliflower :) server was tolerant of our large group."
Dined on 7/20/2014
I would be giving Vinoteca 4
stars, but it is just frustrating to make a reservation in advance, put in the notes that you prefer outdoor only to be told we can't accommodate that request. I knew that ahead of time, that they can't reserve outside due to the difficulty of managing outdoor reservations...I'm sorry, but isn't this what you do? I even tried to call ahead to see if there were any tables available outside so they could hold, but again I get the same response. I love the courtyard for pre-dining and the front for dining. If I the night is beautiful, I would contact the 6 person party with a reservation at 8:00 if they wanted to sit outside, and make it happen. I will definitely go back, but it probably won't be as frequently."
Dined on 7/18/2014
Vinoteca brunch is absolutely
delicious and well priced in a city of stupidly over priced brunches. Good drinks too. Just really loud, even with just a few tables around you....It's so open and hollow inside that noise bounces off everything. Found myself yelling across the table and for my friends to still have trouble hearing me. I'd sit outside if the weather isn't too hot."
Dined on 6/29/2014
I had been to Vinoteca once before
for brunch when it first opened and remembered it was a pretty cute place. This time I went for my bday dinner with a group of 7 and it was great. The hostesses were great when I called 3 times to add people to the reservation and even called the day off to confirm I didn't have any more changes :) we ended up ordering pretty much every app- several of each, and it was perfect. They also have a great selection of wine and our waitress was very attentive. Definitely want to go again and try their main entrees! All of my friends plan on coming back as well."
Dined on 6/28/2014
A great place for small plates
(hordevers) and great atmosphere in the heart of U Street near Bohemian Jazz Club. The pasta was fresh and exploded with taste. The chicken was a little dry but the asparagus, house salad with buttermilk dressing and potatoes made up for it. The service was excellent."
Dined on 6/28/2014
Loved sitting outside. The food
was great (a tad expensive) and the wine list was similarly very well presented; however, when sitting outside be sure to ask for a seat closer to the entrance of the patio. Do not sit near the bushes/trees at the left end (facing the building) if you can help it! There is a liquor store there and it is very hard to enjoy a good conversation or meal with people hawking up spit, smoking, and loudly cursing right next to you. I am all for a city outside dining experience - but good lord.."
Dined on 6/27/2014
The service inside was absolutely
horrible but the food was very good and so were the mimosas. They have bottomless mimosas which is awesome, and they have outside seating in the front and the back of the restaurant so it has a really great atmosphere. It took us forever to get our drinks once we sat down at our table, but luckily the bus boy made up for that (he was great!). I would recommend this place despite the bad service we received. Perhaps our server was having a bad day."
Dined on 6/14/2014
They had a lot of neat sounding
snacks that I had high hopes for but almost all of them fell short in some way. Maybe the B team was working in the kitchen that night. The sangria tasted cheap and too sweet with fruit clearly added right before serving rather than soaked in the alcohol. Thats the kind of thing I'm referring to with each item ordered falling somewhat short. For the cost and the fact that I was underwhelmed I will not be returning."
Dined on 6/5/2014
This was our first time at
Vinoteca for a late Friday dinner. The tapas were delicious and well presented. The wines were also excellent and paired well with the food. Standouts were the Ahi tartare and the different types of bruschetta. Our server, Zach, was very outgoing and well versed in the food and wine options. I'd recommend Vinoteca and plan to return again soon. "
Dined on 5/30/2014
You'd think the server would know
to pour my red wine in the red wine glass and his white in the white wine glass... Food was good, wine selection ok, VERY LOUD! "
Dined on 5/21/2014
The small plates and wine are
always fantastic here. "
Dined on 5/9/2014
We wanted to try a new place for
our anniversary dinner and Vinoteca was the perfect location. We sat outside on the front patio and with the bistro tables and overhead strung lights it was very cozy. The wine list was huge and so our waiter helped guide us through it based on what we liked. We had some cheese and prosciutto to start and I could have just ate cheese all night! But we did order entrees where were great! It was a little noisy with fire trucks from U street, but that is unavoidable. "
Dined on 5/6/2014
I went to Vinoteca for Sunday
brunch. With all the new places in the U Streeet area I thought that it would be a good out of the way spot. I couldn't have been more wrong. The main dining room was packed, as was the front & back patio. The food was good, but they didn't have the staff to cover the volume. We were seated at our reservation time, but no waiter came over for a good 15 min. When he finally did we ordered, and never saw our waiter again. Runners brought the drinks & food, and finally the check. It was so bad it was comical. There are too many good places for brunch in DC to spend $ on being ignored. I will not be going back. "
Dined on 5/4/2014
We reserved a table a week in
advance and were looking forward to the wine bar experience for a mothers and daughters "date". We were sat immediately, however a server didn't even get to us until 20 minutes later. It seemed like they only had 1 server for the entire busy restaurant which is unacceptable. It was incredibly loud and you had to practically scream to talk to others at your table. If they just closed in the wall separating the bar and seating area I think it would be a bit more relaxing. Overall though, the wine and food were delicious. They have some unique wine flights which are fun, too. Just don't go expecting a romantic atmosphere because it is better for groups (which we were at least)."
Dined on 5/3/2014
My friends and I have brunched
here more times than I can count. Always delicious food, always great service. Highly recommend! "
Dined on 4/26/2014
Good food, great location and
decent drink prices - $3 mimosas etc :)"
Dined on 4/19/2014
I had never been here before, but
had heard good reviews from friends. Two close friends were visiting and I made reservations for dinner. The hostess was very friendly and took me to our table -- I came straight from the office and arrived 30 minutes before our reservation time. The server was just as friendly and accommodating. She recommended a delicious glass of wine, and once my friends arrived, we ordered the cheese and charcuterie tasting plates. Both were a very nice selection, but the cheese servings were tiny for 3 people to share. For dinner, I ordered the pasta with a pureed cauliflower sauce and it was incredible. My friends ordered the bison and tuna, both were equally tasty. I look forward to the next time."
Dined on 4/17/2014
Vinoteca is a happening place with
earnest servers and well prepared interesting food. The high noise level unfortunately detracted from the enjoyment of the experience when I was there. By the end of the evening everyone in the dining room was shouting to be heard by their tablemates. If the dining area could be protected from the bar this problem would be lessened and the food and wine could be properly appreciated."
Dined on 4/15/2014
We've dined at Vinoteca before and
have enjoyed it enough to want to return. Not so this time. The service was terrible - incredibly slow, and we asked for everything to be brought out at the same time since some of us ordered main courses and others ordered small plates. The small plates came out one by one, then the main course (ordered by someone who didn't order a small plate) well over an hour later. The wait might have been worth it if the food had been stellar, but it wasn't. Some of the dishes were passable, and the bison was reportedly very good, but others not. Overall, a very disappointing experience."
Dined on 4/13/2014
We enjoyed a family brunch ..
complete with baby ... Everyone had something delicious and different - we appreciated the choices."
Dined on 4/6/2014
Wine selection is very good with
interesting flights. The eclectic food is spot on and the desserts are interesting and delicious."
Dined on 3/30/2014
Came here with my friend for
brunch and even though the view isn't great we loved sitting outside on their front patio (I highly suggest asking for a seat at their back patio instead). Service was great and the food met expectations. I would go back again."
Dined on 3/22/2014
This was my second time at
vinoteca. Their menu is great and it is very difficult to make a choice at brunch. The restaurant itself is small and not very suitable for large groups bc it can get very loud"
Dined on 3/22/2014
We went on a Friday night and the
inside was packed! So noisy and loud and energetic and then we are outside and it was nice and quiet and peaceful. We loved the food, lots of small plates. We got two different wine flights and had a really great, low maintenance meal. I've been twice and I'll keep going"
Dined on 3/21/2014
I have eaten at Vinoteca several
times, and this was the first time the service was really lax. I could have forgiven it if the place had been packed, but it wasn't even half full when we arrived. The food was very good but I hope they address the slowness in the service. Waiting 15 minutes for a glass of wine is unforgivable at a wine bar."
Dined on 3/20/2014
We had a fabulous brunch - food
was fresh, inventive, and oh so flavorful (wild mushroom omelet, home fries, pork sausage, french toast with lavender honey). You can't beat the $3 bellinis either. Decor and atmosphere are perfect but service was a little shotty. I'm looking forward to my next visit."
Dined on 3/16/2014
Went here for a late brunch with
two friends. Drinks and food were delicious, but service was spotty. The bussers were efficient but our waiter forgot to enter one of the orders and we ended up almost finishing our food before the last order came. The manager came over and apologized (though oddly the server didn't). Perhaps he was new to the job. In any case the atmosphere was nice, food was very tasty, and drinks were good too. Would likely come back here and give the service a second try."
Dined on 3/16/2014
We went to Vinoteca for brunch and
got the bottomless mimosas for $15. That turned out to be an excellent decision, as the staff were constantly coming by to refill our mimosas the entire time we were at our table, even after we paid our bill! (The food was delicious too!) Highly recommended. Great service."
Dined on 3/9/2014
Sitting at a four top (not in the
bar), the dining room was so loud that we couldn't talk across the table. I thought maybe once the happy hour crowd subsided, it would be better but it never changed. The menu is really interesting and inventive, the food was good, the server was ok; this would be a great place to dine alone or with someone you don't want to have long conversations with during dinner."
Dined on 3/7/2014
A group of us went for brunch on a
Saturday. The food was fantastic! They were very amenable to seating additional people in our party. The service was good considering how busy it was and the setting was very neighborhood cute."
Dined on 3/1/2014
Hello, I went with a group of
friends and we had a fantastic experience. The hostess was great very accommodating for a large group of 8. The server was very nice. The food was delicious. The flamenco singers and dancer were amazing!! Keep it up!!"
Dined on 2/16/2014
We took my son and his girlfriend
here over the weekend and had very poor service and food was mediocre at best. We did really like the ambiance as it's very nice but then got really loud with a band right by our table."
Dined on 2/16/2014
They ran out of many items on the
Valentine's day menu which was particularly upsetting for a $95 pp price tag. I think to remedy this, they should have adjusted the price of the menu. On a positive note, they had a great wine selection."
Dined on 2/14/2014
I've been to Vinoteca multiple
times before and enjoyed the food and wine. This time they had a special 5 course tasting menu. I'm not sure if it was just too ambitious of a menu or what but the food was not good (except for the bison and the duck confit parsnip soup - which were delicious). The seafood didn't taste fresh and the pasta was heavy and chewy. The deserts were completely uninspiring. For a $60 tasting menu at a neighborhood place I was wildly disappointed. Not sure I'd go back unless it's for boce in the summer."
Dined on 2/14/2014
I wasn't only impressed with the
food but also the drinks. I don't often request mixed drinks, but the bitters that Vinoteca had were just amazing. The atmosphere was great, too, and the staff were friendly. Vinoteca was just a great place to be. I also like that it's next door to Solly's Tavern, so you can stop by Solly's before or after for some music upstairs."
Dined on 2/11/2014
we had the mushroom crostini,
arugula w winter squash, and grilled squid small plates. one of us had the burger full-size entree. all delicious."
Dined on 2/11/2014
I hadn't been to Vinoteca for a
while, but recently had dinner there before going to the Lincoln Theatre for a show. Great service, excellent food, fantastic wine list. Will definitely be coming back."
Dined on 2/10/2014
Vino teach is the perfect spot
before a show at Lincoln theatre. Free convenient on street parking, friendly hostess and bartender, and even a great spot to get a night cap after the show! Hubby had a grilled cheese appetizer and I had a most delicious hake with fingerlings and a simple beurre blanc sauce - filling but healthy! Bartender had fun with wine recommendations, and we enjoyed happy hour prices. We'll be back!!!"
Dined on 2/10/2014
We went there for the Super Bowl
as we heard they were going a wine and food happy hour all night during the game. This was also our first time to Vinoteca. The food and wine prices were great, and the burger was absolutely phenomenal. Strongly recommend this for a relaxing and casual small plates restaurant!"
Dined on 2/2/2014
Wonderful food - from fish to
bison to duck. Salads were fresh and tasty. Portions were as described and priced appropriately. Wine list is not the usual American vineyards. Would like to explore it more. Service was great and attentive. Lighting was a little dim and noise level was too much (but made by people enjoying good food, wine and friends.) Give it a try!"
Dined on 1/21/2014
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Peabody — Beverley D. (Jacobs) Clark, 86, of Peabody and formerly of Malden, died peacefully Tuesday morning at her home surrounded by her loving family and friends. She was the wife of the late Leslie Ducker, Robert G. Clark and the longtime companion of the late John J. Flanagan.
Born in Malden, she was the daughter of the late John and Emma (Kelly) Jacobs. She was raised and educated in Malden, later lived in New Mexico and has spent the last 20 years living in Peabody.
Beverley was employed as a dental assistant at various dentists around the Malden area for over 20 years before she retired.
She enjoyed playing golf and reading Agatha Christie novels and was a member of the Danvers Senior golf league. Also, while living in New Mexico, she served as president of Junior Women's Club.
Beverley is survived by her son, Brian L. Ducker of Orange, Calif., and her daughter, Jane D. Colagiovanni of Peabody. She is also survived by two grandchildren and two great grandchildren and was predeceased by her grandson, Christopher James Colagiovanni and her sister Evelyn Jacobs Turner.
ARRANGEMENTS: A private funeral will be held on Monday at the family lot at Puritan Lawn Memorial Park, 181 Lake St., Peabody. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in her name to Joslin Diabetes Center, One Joslin Place, Boston, MA 02215. To view on-line obituary, visit www.ccbfuneral.com.


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Eugene Eric Kim All about me. 2014-07-11T18:54:00Z http://eekim.com/feed/atom/ WordPress 37.781202-122.492261eekimhttp://feedburner.google.com Eugene Eric Kim http://eekim.com/ http://eekim.com/?p=3581 2014-07-11T18:54:00Z 2014-07-11T18:54:00Z

From The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (Jean Paul Richter, 1888), XIV Anatomy, Zoology and Physiology:

Though human ingenuity may make various inventions… it will never devise any inventions more beautiful, nor more simple, nor more to the purpose than Nature does; because in her inventions nothing is wanting, and nothing is superfluous, and she needs no counterpoise when she makes limbs proper for motion in the bodies of animals.

Thanks to Andrew James Campbell for sharing.

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A William Stafford poem, shared by Curtis Ogden:

If you don't know the kind of person I am
 and I don't know the kind of person you are
 a pattern that others made may prevail in the world
 and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.

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Next Wednesday, April 2, 2014 at 12:30pm PDT, I'll be participating in a public Google Hangout with my friend, Dave Gray. The conversation will be about learning via artifacts. All are welcome to watch. We'll also be using a public Boardthing to take notes during the conversation, and we encourage everyone to join in that as well.

Why are we doing this, and what exactly is "learning via artifacts" all about?

The short answer is that this is a response to my recent blog post over on Faster Than 20, "Documenting Is Not Learning." That post was a mini-rant on how many people seem to equate "learning systems" with trying to get people to write down and file everything that's in their heads so that others can read and access them. It's an incredibly naive approach, but people often pour thousands of dollars (and sometimes orders of magnitude more) into trying to build these kinds of systems, most of which inevitably fail.

My overwhelming desire to make this point caused me to wave my hands past a subtle, but equally important point, one that is foundational to all the work that I do: The process of documenting is one of the most powerful ways of catalyzing learning.

Dave (and a few others, actually) called me out on this point on Facebook. I agreed, and I said I needed to write a followup. But since I was already talking with him about this, and since he happens to be one of the foremost practitioners in this space, I figured it would be much more interesting to highlight his voice. Thus, next Wednesday's Google Hangout was born.

The Boardthing is a huge bonus. Dave and his team recently created a wonderful collaborative tool that is the online equivalent of putting stickies on walls. If that sounds simple, it is, but when done right, it's also incredibly powerful. Up until now, no one has done it right. We'll use Boardthing to model what we'll be talking about, and we hope that many of you will jump in as well.

The long story starts with this gift from Dave on October 18, 2006:

Dave was participating in a collaboration workshop I was facilitating in St. Louis. To him, this isn't anything special. This is simply the way he takes notes.

To me, this was a gift on many levels. Whenever I think about that workshop, I think of this image first. I actually took copious notes from that workshop, some of which I even blogged. I wrote a piece about the things I said that led to Dave drawing this. I also posted pictures from that workshop, including shots of the flipcharts from the day.

There are lots of great knowledge nuggets, most of which have been sitting around, collecting virtual dust for years. Until I think about this picture, that is. This image, for me, is the start of a trail, and whenever I start poking around it again, I remember old insights, and I look at them in new ways. I'm willing to bet that this holds true for whomever reads this, that you are far more likely to start poking around than you would have had you not seen the picture. There is something about the visual that draws us in, that stirs our emotions, that makes us want to know more.

This is all after-the-fact learning. But what about in-the-moment learning? What was happening in Dave's head as he drew that picture? How did the act of drawing help him learn? What would happen if you made that synthesis process collaborative? How would that impact learning?

I'll leave you all with these questions for now. This is the stuff that we'll be talking about this coming Wednesday. But I do want to say a few more things about Dave.

Dave is and has been my hero in so many ways. I've known many brilliant visual thinkers and learners for many years, but there has always been something about Dave's style and presence that has encouraged me to practice these skills myself more actively in a way that others haven't.

The first time we met, he explained to me how he draws stick figures. His trick? Draw the body first. Why? Because body language says so much! That's really the essence of what you're trying to communicate. How freakin' simple and brilliant is that?!

My partnership with Amy Wu over the years has been strongly influenced and inspired by Dave and his work, and you can see that in the evolution of my slides over the years and even in the Faster Than 20 website. What you don't see in those final products are all of the sketches that both Amy and I drew to help us think through these ideas. Dave is one of the people who strongly inspired me to work this way.

To me, Dave personifies the learning mindset. At XPLANE, the wonderful design consultancy he founded years ago, he started something called Visual Thinking School, one of the ideas that inspired me to start Changemaker Bootcamp last year. He is a great speaker and writer, but he is also constantly making things — tools like Boardthing, companies like XPLANE, brilliant books like The Connected Company, beautiful paintings.

When he learns, he learns out loud, so that others can participate in and benefit from all aspects of his process, not just the beautiful, final artifacts. He wanted to learn more about Agile processes, so he decided to write a book about it. He's interviewing great practitioners in order to learn, and he's doing them live on Google Hangout, so others can learn with him.

I love every opportunity I have to chat with and learn from him, and I hope many of you will join us this Wednesday!

I'll write a followup blog post on Faster Than 20 after our conversation about learning via artifacts, but in the meantime, you can read and watch some of the things I've said on this topic in the past:

Collaborating via Artifacts

Community Engagement and Dynamic Knowledge Repositories

Tic-Tac-Toe and the Squirm Test: Building Trust and Shared Understanding

Navigating Complexity Through Collective Sensemaking

Folded Corners

Wild Animals and a Memento Moment

Finally, here's video from a brown bag I led in 2011 entitled, "Saving the World Through Better Note-Taking."

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Ten months ago, as I was in the midst of figuring out my next chapter, I wrote a blog post about legendary basketball coach, Phil Jackson. I expressed chagrin at how a man like Phil Jackson was essentially being put out to pasture. He was getting coaching offers, but he had made it clear that he didn't want to coach, and it seemed like teams were missing out on the opportunity to benefit from his wisdom due to their lack of imagination.

Last week, Jackson was named president of the New York Knicks. If you know basketball, you know that this was an eyebrow-raising development for two reasons. First, James Dolan — the owner of the Knicks — is widely acknowledged as one of the worst owners in the NBA, largely due to his meddling ways. It's hard to imagine that match working, although Dolan has repeatedly been on record since last week that Jackson will have full control over basketball-related decisions.

Second, it was somewhat surprising that the Los Angeles Lakers never found a way to make it work with Jackson, given that he led them to five championships and is engaged to one of the owners of the team. It's complicated. The Lakers are a family-owned team whose beloved, larger-than-life patriarch — widely considered the best-ever owner in the history of the NBA — recently passed away. His children — including Jackson's fiancee — have been groomed to take over for years, and Jackson has always had a complicated relationship with his soon-to-be brother-in-law, who is now in charge of basketball decisions.

Still, why weren't other teams jumping to employ Jackson? Ramona Shelburne wrote a great column for ESPN.com on this very topic:

For all the self-reflection Jackson has done in his 68 years, there was one image he was never going to be able to see clearly. His own. The way he's seen by others, that is. Not what stares back at him in the mirror, or what's inside his heart and head. On some level, Jackson understands that he is an intimidating man. His 6-foot-8 frame casts a towering shadow. His 11 NBA titles, Hall of Fame résumé and status as the coach who got the best out of Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant walk into any room five minutes before he does.

It's more than that, though.

The job he wanted for himself, the role he envisioned for the autumn of his basketball life — as a team president with final say over basketball decisions and the authority to create and shape the culture of a franchise — is a large one.

Pat Riley holds a role like that in Miami. So does Larry Bird in Indiana. Jackson certainly has the credentials for a role like that, too. But it's a big ask of any owner. That kind of power is why an owner spends hundreds of millions of dollars to buy a professional sports franchise. So he can have the power. It is inherently threatening when an employee has even a little bit of it. It is kind of terrifying when that employee is a legend like Phil Jackson.

If you are in a Phil Jackson-like position, and if you're wanting a certain role, you have to make it safe for others to embrace you. It's not enough to sit back and wonder. You have to understand how you're perceived, even if it's the furthest thing from your own perception of yourself.

As I wrote last May, I see myself in Jackson's situation (not that I'm even in the same ballpark of his accomplishments). I sometimes find myself wondering why people in certain situations don't reach out to me more. I've made it abundantly clear that I'm wanting to share everything I've learned over the years and that I have much, much more to learn. Folks who know me know that I'm all about learning and doing great work, that I'm secure about my reputation, that I give credit more than I take it, and that I have no need to be the boss if I'm surrounded by great people and a healthy culture. If you care about similar things, why wouldn't you try to take advantage of that?

At the same time, I understand both the perception and the reality of my situation. Organizational development professionals in particular tend to come from academia and management consulting, fields that are rife with scarcity mindset and do not believe in or understand the benefits of openness. It's hard for folks in these fields to understand where I'm coming from and to not perceive me as a threat. I have little patience for people who are more concerned with protecting their reputation than they are about learning, and I'm not shy about expressing my feelings. If it were truly important for me to find ways to work with and mentor others who feel this way, it's my prerogative to make these folks feel safe. Frankly, I'm mixed about this.

There's also a flip side. What am I doing to reach out to and learn from others? Could I be doing more?

In 2011, Joe Lacob, who had recently purchased the Golden State Warriors, hired Jerry West as an advisor. On the one hand, this was a Phil Jackson-like no-brainer, maybe times ten. Jerry West is probably the greatest general manager ever. He won six rings as an executive for the Lakers, left in a bit of a power play (involving Phil Jackson), and turned around the Memphis Grizzlies, a historically moribund franchise. That's not even accounting for his career as a player. West's impact on the NBA is so great, they literally made him its logo.

Unlike Jackson, West was on record as saying that he didn't want to become a decision-making part of any organization. On the one hand, if you were trying to turn a franchise around, why wouldn't you want someone like West? On the other hand, even if West was being authentic about his desired role, you would need people who were tremendously secure to be able to work with him as an advisor.

Here's what Lacob had to say in 2011 about the concern that there were "too many chefs in the kitchen":

Everyone who says that is completely clueless. It's a stupid thing to bring up. This is a 100-plus-million-dollar business. You have to have management. Most NBA teams are incredibly poorly architected on the basketball side. They have people who are ex-players, and Jerry West is an exception to this — but most of them are ex-players or scouts or whatever. They don't know how to negotiate against incredibly trained killers like Arn Tellem or other agents. That's what they do for a living. I'm not a genius. There's a different way to do things and be successful, clearly. But it's a very successful, thought-out map.

He certainly will feel the itch [to get more involved]. I'm sure he would love to be running something again and pulling the trigger again. That's the excitement of it, right? But he also knows, and we've had these discussions at great lengths, he's 73 and he's in L.A. He can't do it that way. It's a young man's game. There's a lot of day-to-day scouting, a lot of day-to-day video analysis. He's not prepared to do that right now and doesn't want to. He has other interests right now.

Three years later, the relationship seems to have paid off. The Warriors are one of the best teams in the NBA, and Lacob credits West for coming in and changing the mentality of the organization.

I think that Joe Lacob is a wonderful model, and it's got me thinking: Who are the Jerry West's in my field whom I could be reaching out to and learning from?

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Posted on February 11, 2008 at 12:12pm:

Pondering lunch.

— Eugene Eric Kim (@eekim) February 11, 2008

Story of my life. Who says I'm not profound?

Find yours.

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A random interaction with an old friend earlier today caused me to search for something I wrote on the Groupaya blog a few years ago. That got me nostalgic, and I ended up reading every post on the blog.

It was great to revisit these, and it stirred up some useful, sometimes nostalgic memories. I'm proud of what I wrote in my time there (2011-2012), but I'm even prouder of what Kristin Cobble and Rebecca Petzel wrote. They shared some wonderful gems.

It's unfortunate that the company no longer prioritizes real-time knowledge sharing, since there's a lot of wisdom in that group from which the world could benefit. It's understandable, though. Sharing what you learn openly and in real-time is challenging, even scary, and it's not for everyone. You have to really value it to do it.

If you do, however, you'll find that it's not that hard to make it a habit. It's also tremendously rewarding, as I've been rediscovering through my Faster Than 20 blog. The act of writing and sharing is valuable in and of itself. It helps you think, and it helps you find your people. I am constantly humbled by the people I meet and touch through my writing.

But the most valuable benefit of blogging this way is that your ideas become persistent. (This is also what scares a lot of people.) Others can discover what you write long after you've written it. That can lead to new connections and possibilities. "Others" sometimes even includes yourself! I find revisiting old thinking to be a hugely valuable learning process, if only to remind me of thoughts I once thought and have since forgotten.

Here, in no particular order, are my six favorite essays from the Groupaya blog that I wrote:

What Does the Collaboration Field Look Like?

Measuring Impact: How You Feel Also Matters

The Illusion of Control

Practicing for the Emergent

The Skillful, Intentional Practitioner.

The Secret to High-Performance: Constant Striving

Enjoy!

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I just read Anil Dash's excellent, thought-provoking piece, "The Year I Didn't Retweet Men," and it made me curious about my own Twitter behavior.

I used the tool that Anil mentioned, Twee-Q, and it reported that 83% of my retweets are of men. I was stunned to see that number, so I decided to investigate further.

First, I checked the gender breakdowns of whom I follow. Followerwonk reported 22% female, but also 33% undetermined. I only follow 191 people on Twitter, so I decided to do my own count. I first eliminated group accounts and bots, unless I knew there was a single person behind the group account, as with @WiserEarth (female) or @wikistrategies (male). That brought my following number down to 172.

Of the individual accounts I follow, 62% are male, 38% are female. This is better than what Followerwonk reported, but still not 50-50.

Also, based on this breakdown, I was still disproportionately amplifying the voices of men. However, I didn't trust the 83% number. First, I didn't trust that Twee-Q was accurately determining which voices were of which gender, especially given the discrepancy I saw with my Followerwonk numbers. Second, I didn't think retweets alone were an accurate representation. I sometimes added my own commentary and used a citation rather than a retweet.

I decided to manually count all of my retweets and citations (not counting conversation, only amplification) in 2014. I'm not a prolific tweeter, so this was easily doable.

In 2014 so far, 74% of my retweets and 60% of my citations have been of men. In other words, 66% (two-thirds) of my retweets and citations are of men. The gender breakdown of whom I cite roughly maps to the breakdown of whom I follow, but I definitely retweet more men.

My initial reaction to these numbers was surprise, then rationalization. I won't bother going into either — I don't think they're particularly important. The reality is that there are some well-documented implicit biases in society, and I'm statistically likely to suffer from all of them, no matter how enlightened I think I am.

The true measure of enlightenment is what you do with that self-awareness. I thought Anil's metrics were interesting, but his followup experiment was inspiring. I'd like to try a similar experiment as a followup; I'm just not sure what that experiment should be. Any ideas?

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I've been using a virtual assistant service called Fancy Hands for eight months now, and it's been a tremendous productivity tool.

I had been following the tool for many months before I finally pulled the trigger. I really missed having an assistant when I left Groupaya. We had considered trying a virtual assistant, but our ops director convinced us that it wasn't cost efficient. She was right. We needed a lot of hours and a lot of in-person support because of the nature of our work, so we were better off finding someone local and developing a strong relationship with that person. We did, and it worked out beautifully.

Because my experience with a local assistant had been so positive, I was loathe to go the virtual route. Still, I wanted to cover my bases, so I examined my options. Fancy Hands had not been around when we were looking for a Groupaya assistant, and it seemed almost too good to be true. Most of what I needed was scheduling, and its cheapest plan was $25/month and included unlimited scheduling. At that price, it made sense just to try it.

My concerns were:

Scheduling is a big part of my administrative work, and I have strong preferences around scheduling. Furthermore, because my work is so relational, it's critical that whoever is representing me acts with a certain level of decorum. Would a virtual service where I wasn't guaranteed a single person address these concerns?

What would I use my five virtual tasks a month for? This wasn't a huge concern, because if the scheduling worked out, that alone would have been worth more than $25/month. Still, I didn't want those requests to go to waste either

My experience with scheduling is that it isn't as good as having a real assistant, but it's well worth the price. Fancy Hands lets you note some guidelines for scheduling, but my notes are extensive, and the virtual assistants don't seem to refer to them. I also have to be more specific in my requests than I did with my Groupaya assistant, who understood my various quirks and preferences, and who also could interpret my calendar more accurately. They have to follow up with me for clarification or confirmation far more than my real assistant did, and I occasionally have to have them reschedule.

That said, they are prompt, reliable, and professional, and they save me a ton of time with scheduling alone. They apparently can do group scheduling as well, but I haven't tried that yet.

As I said before, the scheduling alone makes it worth it for me, but I've found the additional tasks extremely valuable. It takes a while to get into the mindset of coming up with tasks for them, but once you get started, it becomes a natural.

My biggest use case beyond scheduling has been for research. I've had them research restaurants, hiking spots, dry cleaning, etc. Because I'm anal, I often have fairly intricate requests and constraints, but they do them without complaint, and they save me a ton of time that way.

For example, I recently decided to upgrade my MacBook Pro's hard disk and RAM. I didn't want to pay the enormous Apple Store premium, so I asked Fancy Hands to find me the highest rated Apple service centers in San Francisco, then to call the top five and get price quotes for some very specific requests. They pulled together the research, along with links to the reviews so I could audit their work.

They're particularly useful in a crunch. A few months ago, I was in Seattle for a meeting, and I realized I had forgotten my laptop's power cord. Again, one of the annoying thing about Apple products is that not everyone carries them, and so finding a replacement power cord was going to be a challenge. I had Fancy Hands call my hotel to see if they had a spare cord (they didn't), then locate the closest Apple stores to my hotel, call them to see if they had the cord in stock and to get price quotes and hours, put a cord in stock, and email me the address and directions. I made my request, ran to a meeting, and by the time I was back, all the information was waiting for me, ready for me to take action.

You can make requests via email, phone, or their mobile apps, and I've found all of these venues useful. I've also found their slew of assistants consistently reliable, friendly, and professional. Their dashboard also has a cool feature where they show you how much time they've saved you.

They recently added a few new features that have made me an even bigger fan. First, your unused tasks now roll over month-to-month. Second, you can gift your requests to friends.

At some point in the future, if things get busy enough, I may once again want to go the real assistant route, but for the foreseeable future, I can't imagine life without Fancy Hands. I am loathe to admit it in public, but I would easily pay double for the service and it would still be well worth it.

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My friend, Kate Wing, sent me this glorious oral history of the movie, Ghostbusters. My favorite line was from Harold Ramis, who said:

Aykroyd used to look at me, Rick, and Bill, and say, "Three directors, four writers, no waiting." If you didn't have a good idea, someone else would.

This was Kate's reaction to the line:

Exactly — isn't that the kind of team you want to be on? Not worried about looking the best or competing, just being part of a continuous fountain of good ideas.

Yes. This is exactly the kind of team I want to be on, and it's the kind of team I've been fortunate to have been on several times.

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Earlier this week, a familiar foe reared its ugly head: irritability. Every little thing was annoying me, and I found myself wanting to snap at people.

It's something I used to feel constantly at my previous job, but that I haven't felt in quite some time. Back then, I wasn't taking care of myself, and I wasn't in an environment that encouraged me to take care of myself. Last year was a giant reset button. I rested, recovered, and reflected. I got clear about what I wanted to do next, and how I wanted to do it. I started carefully putting into place the structures that I thought I needed to support me in being successful and in maintaining balance. On January 6, 2014, I pressed "Go."

Six weeks into the year, I'm doing okay, but I've been slipping. Old patterns are starting to reappear. They're patterns that come from a good place. I'm loving my work, and good things are starting to happen as a result of the seeds I've been cultivating. The problem is that, when I start seeing little seedlings sprout, I get excited and motivated, and I want to go faster rather than maintain my pace. This is how I overwhelm myself. This is how my performance starts slipping. Worse, the thing that suffers most is my health and my personal life.

What's been different is that I'm far more self-aware this time around, and my structures have really been helping me.

I've been monitoring my self-care dashboard religiously, and I have obsessively made sure I've been maintaining these practices.

I've been good about playing basketball regularly, decent at seeing friends.

I keep a timesheet, so I know exactly how much time I spend working, where, and on what days.

I've been using SCRUM principles for realistic planning and a Kanban Board to track and prioritize my tasks.

I formed a "colearning" group with which I've been doing regular checkins, which increases my accountability.

All of these things have been working, and yet I'm feeling like I'm about to slip into the abyss again. The reasons are simple: I'm working too much, but I don't want to slow down.

Earlier this week, I was in a meeting with Rebecca Petzel, where she said, "I'm better at setting boundaries than Eugene is, but I use his tools to help me do that." She was paying me a compliment, but she was also being real, and she was right. All the tools in the world won't help you unless you are committed to your goals.

So now I'm in an interesting place. I'm doing too much, and the pace is starting to get unsustainable, but I'm feeling the temptation to do even more. The solution is simple: Do less. Cut something out.

My brain and my gut knows all this to be true, and I know my body will eventually enforce it, but only after I put it through its paces. My heart hates this, and my habits are all oriented against doing it. I want to live a healthy, balanced life, but I also don't want to stop doing anything that I'm currently doing.

So what will I choose? Because at the end of the day, you can put all of the structures in place that you want, but it still boils down to choice. Will this time be different?

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Springfield, Mass. - December 7, 2012 - The Springfield College women's basketball team battled back from a 16-point first-half deficit, but couldn't hold on as visiting WPI bested the Pride, 62-52, in New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) action Friday night in Blake Arena.
WPI ups its record to 4-3, 2-2 in league play, while Springfield drops to 1-6, 0-4.
The Engineers were led by Dani Davis, who netted a career-best 19 points to go along with a team-best seven rebounds. Theresa Logan notched 10 points and five boards, while Kelly Morgan contributed nine points. Rachel Pineda ended the evening with a team-best five helpers. While shooting just 18-for-52 (34.6%) for the game, WPI made their free throws count, knocking down 21 of 22 attempts.
For Springfield, Heather Lewis continued to be especially effective on the offensive side of the ball, pouring in 17 points on 7 of 13 shooting. Jaimie Bickelhaupt had her best game of the season thus far, posting 15 rebounds and 14 points. Springfield was once again sloppy with the ball, committing 25 turnovers that translated into 21 WPI points.
After Haili Welton drilled a step-back three pointer at the 12:25 mark, WPI found themselves with a comfortable 20-4 lead. Following a timeout, the Pride clamped down on defense and rattled off a 10-0 run, capped off by a three-point play by Lewis, to make it a 20-14 game at the 5:02 mark.
The Engineers would then answer back with a inside bucket from Davis and a deep three from Morgan to regain an 11-point cushion. Springfield would not go away as it turned to Bickelhaupt and Lewis down the stretc. The duo led the hosts to an 11-2 run, cutting WPI's lead to 27-25 heading into intermission. Bickelhaupt netted six in the spurt while Lewis added five of her own.
Springfield took its first lead of the game following a three-point play by Tamara Tribble 1:21 into the second half after a great inside look by Andrea Moschetta. The Pride would eventually take a four-point lead on a Bickelhaupt jumper in the paint with 16:04 on the clock.
WPI buckled down on defense to claw back into the contest. Using its full-court press, the Engineers grinded out a 16-2 spurt, with Logan's layup at 7:53 giving the visitors a 45-35 lead.
With 2:08 on the clock, Lewis scored in transition after Springfield's defense forced a turnover, cutting WPI's lead to 54-49 with just 2:08 left in regulation. However, the Engineers were clutch from the line, hitting all eight of their foul shots to clinch the 10-point victory.
Springfield will play its final game of the semester on Tuesday evening when it travels south to take on Albertus Magnus at 7:00 pm.


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Eating fiber-containing foods—especially nuts—during adolescence may significantly lower the risk of developing potentially precancerous fibrocystic breast disease (fibroadenomas).
That Black Women's Health Study, which highlighted collards and carrots, was out of Boston University. Across the Charles River, the Harvard Nurse's Health Study also tried to determine which plants were particularly protective in reducing breast cancer risk, and they identified nuts. The intake of fiber and nuts during adolescence and incidence of proliferative benign breast disease, such as fibrocystic breast disease, fibroadenomas—noncancerous breast lumps—but is considered a marker for increased breast cancer risk. Depending on what biopsies show it could indicate anywhere from 30% to 1300% greater risk of going on to develop cancer. Breast cancer can take decades to develop, so they wanted to start early, asking women what their diets were like in high school. Now in adults it's clear, as you can see in this 2012 review, the more fiber you get in your diet the lower your risk of breast cancer… And same thing, apparently, when you're younger. Women who had the most fiber intake during adolescence have a 25% lower risk of this potentially precancerous breast disease. But there's fiber in fruits, vegetables, beans, whole grains, nuts, seeds—all whole plant foods. Did any class of plant foods stick out? Nuts was found to be particularly protective. Two servings a week was associated with a 36% lower risk, but that raises the question, which type of nuts? Like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches or do you have to eat true nuts, like almonds, pecans, walnuts, that sort of thing. Just tree nuts, or peanuts as well? And the answer is both. Compared to those who rarely ate nuts, those eating just one or two handfuls a week during high school appeared to drop risk around 30%, "In summary, their study observed significant inverse associations between adolescent dietary intake of fiber and nuts and risk of proliferative benign breast disease. Our results provide supportive evidence of the important role of dietary exposures during a unique period in a woman's life in the earlier stage of breast carcinogenesis, the early stage of breast cancer development. These findings, if corroborated, may suggest a viable means for breast cancer prevention."
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Harvard also found that fiber and nut consumption was associated with a significantly longer lifespan in women. See What Women Should Eat to Live Longer. Soy consumption during adolescence also seems particularly protective. See Thursday's video Why Do Asian Women Have Less Breast Cancer?. The reference to the Black Women's Health Study was referring to Friday's video-of-the-day Preventing Breast Cancer By Any Greens Necessary. What effect might even just a few weeks on a diet full of plants have on breast cancer cell growth? See Answer to the Pritikin Puzzle. Don't nuts make you fat, though? You'd be surprised—see Nuts and Obesity: The Weight of Evidence.
Please also check out my associated blog posts for more context: Go Nuts for Breast Cancer Prevention and Breast Cancer & Alcohol: How Much Is Safe?
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Mastering UNIX Shell Scripting by Randy Michael
This Wiley Publishing tome is big (more than 650 pages), useful and very complete. Be warned, however, that its scope is limited to system administration. The purpose of the book is to solve "real world...problems for those who have to automate these often complex and repetitive tasks". Little information is directly employable for end-user tasks, such as printing booklets, mirroring Web sites or searching through e-mail.
The author has a lot of experience with shell scripting, and it shows. The scripts to solve each problem are well written and discussed line by line. For each, a preamble gives the big picture or introduces some command that is used in the rest of the chapter.
Anyone interested in scripting for maximum portability or ease of maintenance can learn a lot from this book. Everything needed to use the same script with Linux and all varieties of UNIX is present: Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX have one subsection each.
The first chapter is a quick tutorial of shell scripting and a summary of all the techniques discussed later. The second one goes head first into deep scripting mode, setting the pace for the whole book. It offers 12 different ways to read a file line by line, including benchmarks to find the fastest one.
The most arcane shell commands and options are explained with plenty of examples. "Here" documents, a way to feed input to a script or command within the script itself, are explained thoroughly. Readers learn more than they could imagine about traps, typeset, getopts and other techniques for managing command-line arguments.
System monitoring receives the most coverage: several chapters explain how to detect and report problems in processes, disk space, memory and CPU usage.
Other important administration activities have their own sections. The author moves with ease from system snapshots to print queues, automated FTP and building sudo from source. Several methods to add menus and progress bars to shell scripts are explained. Floating-point math, number conversion and generation of random passwords and numbers also are covered. The volume ends with 45 pages devoted to sending pop-up messages from UNIX to Microsoft OSes. All scripts are available for download at the Wiley Web site area devoted to the book.
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Valparaiso captured the first set Saturday afternoon from Cleveland State in Cleveland, Ohio, but the Vikings took the next three sets to deal the Crusaders a 3-1 (22-25, 25-20, 25-18, 25-15) defeat.
The Crusaders needed a big rally late to take the opening set, as Cleveland State took control around the mid-way point and pushed out to a 21-17 advantage. But a combination of Viking attack errors and a trio of kills by junior Mary Dent (Chicago, Ill./Von Steuben) combined for the next six points as the Crusaders took a 23-21 lead. A setter dump by CSU's Jordan Goad briefly stopped the Valpo run, but a kill from freshman Morgan Beil (St. Louis, Mo./Marquette) gave the Crusaders set point and Beil then teamed up with senior Jenny Pokorny (Geneva, Ill./Geneva) on the set-winning block.
The two squads traded massive runs in the second set. With the score tied at 8-all, Cleveland State scored nine of the next 10 points to claim a 17-9 lead. But the Crusaders responded immediately, going on a 10-3 run of their own, featuring two kills and a block by redshirt freshman Lindsey Hauch (Coloma, Mich./Coloma) and a solo block and a service ace from Pokorny, to close within 20-19. That was as close as Valpo got, however, as CSU closed the set on a 5-1 spurt to send the match into the in-game break tied at one set apiece.
A strong offensive attack from Cleveland State in the final two sets would be the Crusaders' undoing, as the Vikings combined to hit .368 with 32 kills over the last two sets compared to .101 hitting and 20 kills by Valpo. Three straight points with the third set tied at five-all gave Cleveland State the lead for good in the third, while the Crusaders were able to tie the score only once early in the fourth and final set.
"For the first time all year, our serve receive was not good, and we were not able to get into a rhythm offensively," said Crusader head coach Carin Avery. "We again made too many errors as well. We did do some good things defensively, but we couldn't execute from our good defensive plays."
Dent and senior Katie Britton (Mishawaka, Ind./Marian) led the Crusaders Saturday afternoon with 10 kills apiece. Pokorny handed out 38 assists and also chipped in four blocks, while sophomore Ellen Vanden Berg (Little Chute, Wis./Little Chute) was in on seven rejections and Hauch was part of six of Valpo's 13 total team blocks. Junior Taylor Root (Jenison, Mich./Jenison) easily led all players with 28 digs, in the process moving past Sara Silcox for the second spot on Valpo's all-time digs chart.
Kara Koch paced Cleveland State (18-7, 11-3 Horizon) with 22 kills on .308 hitting and also added 14 digs Saturday. Goad also picked up a double-double with 41 assists and 10 digs, while Amy Grabiec led the Vikings with 15 digs.
Valparaiso (18-12, 9-6 Horizon) briefly steps out of league play next Tuesday as the Crusaders travel to Chicago State for a 7 p.m. match.


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— The Gadsden Times on voting lines:
Nearly 120 million people in the U.S. voted recently, and the endurance course many of them had to negotiate in doing so would test the hardiest and toughest Marine.
Voters across the country stood in line for hours, in heat and cold, some of them literally passing out, just to cast their ballots.
It happened in red states and blue states; large states and small states; swing states and those where the outcome never was in doubt; states where there was an explanation (Hurricane Sandy-ravaged New Jersey and New York) and others where there was no apparent reason other than a lot of people were motivated to vote.
The biggest mess was in Florida, which had a huge turnout of voters and a bloated, 12-page ballot for them to consider. The final votes didn't get cast until 1 a.m. local time, six hours after the polls were supposed to close. There were reports of seven-hour waits to vote — and of people giving up and going home.
Four-hour waits were reported in Colorado, Michigan, South Carolina and Virginia. There were three-hour waits in Indiana, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Rhode Island and Texas.
Closer to home, people waited more than two hours, in a line that snaked for a block, to vote at a precinct in Irondale, and for a similar time at a site in Madison County.
Some of the delays were caused by equipment malfunctions, which are going to happen. A lack of poll workers because of state budget cuts also was blamed. We accept those economic realities, but the operation of elections still should carry a high priority even in the tightest budgets.
The biggest issue may be the sheer scope of trying to get 120 million voters in 50 states and the District of Columbia to the polls for an election. It cannot be done within a 12-hour window on a single day anymore.
Some states have tried to ease the pressure with early voting, an idea we've said is worth considering, along with moving Election Day to a weekend or making it a national holiday to give people more flexibility in getting to the polls.
There are folks who think this isn't a major problem, who describe those who complain as whiners unwilling to expend any effort to vote.
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