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Nov. 6, 2012 2:23 PM
On Bill Moyer's PBS show, Tom Engelhardt discusses our "supersized" American election: longer, more expensive, and full of more hot air. Even as every second our candidates' actions are scrutinized on TV, Twitter, and beyond, the election has been stunningly devoid of substance.
Tom Engelhardt is the founder of TomDispatch.com and author of The End of Victory Culture and co-author, with Nick Turse, of Terminator Planet: The First History of Drone Warfare.
Tim MurphyNov. 6, 2012 2:02 PM
President Barack Obama (D) laughs after reading the latest insane conspiracy email about him.
Wondering how the far-right might handle an Obama victory on election night? Here's a clue, in the form of a fundraising pitch from something called the American Conservative PAC. It features "busloads" of Somalis and Facebook postings from North Carolinians, so you know it's legit:
From Ohio to Nevada (and who knows where else), voting machines are selecting "Obama" when early voters cast their vote for Romney -- and it happens repeatedly when voters catch the error before submitting their ballot and try again only to wind up with Obama, again.
A North Carolina Democrat bragged on Facebook about voting four times already and planning to vote a fifth time tomorrow.
Early voting Somalis -- with their TRANSLATORS -- are arriving at polling stations by the busloads courtesy of Obama supporters. (Now, we don't know about you, but we don't know any U.S. CITIZENS that do not either speak or read English well-enough to vote...)
In Florida, conservative voters are receiving bogus letters falsely informing them that he or she will be unable to vote in this election due to miscellaneous (and non-existent) voter registration issues.
And if all that wasn't bad enough, the Obama-bots even have the help of an international body condemning our states trying to stand up to the infiltration of our polling booths!
From Ohio to Nevada (and who knows where else), voting machines are selecting "Obama" when early voters cast their vote for Romney -- and it happens repeatedly when voters catch the error before submitting their ballot and try again only to wind up with Obama, again.
A North Carolina Democrat bragged on Facebook about voting four times already and planning to vote a fifth time tomorrow.
Early voting Somalis -- with their TRANSLATORS -- are arriving at polling stations by the busloads courtesy of Obama supporters. (Now, we don't know about you, but we don't know any U.S. CITIZENS that do not either speak or read English well-enough to vote...)
In Florida, conservative voters are receiving bogus letters falsely informing them that he or she will be unable to vote in this election due to miscellaneous (and non-existent) voter registration issues.
And if all that wasn't bad enough, the Obama-bots even have the help of an international body condemning our states trying to stand up to the infiltration of our polling booths!
Of course, giving a PAC money on election day wouldn't really accomplish very much. And American Conservative PAC hasn't really raised very much money—according to FEC filings, it has raised just $8,100 this cycle. But these conspiracies have gained traction on the far right. The Somali voter concern—notwithstanding that Somali-Americans are obviously allowed to vote—was parroted most notably by prominent anti-Muslim blogger Pamela Geller, who notably helped jumpstart the career of Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.). The Facebook post in question was a joke, but that hasn't prevented the man who posted it from receiving death threats. People are terrible.
Adam SerwerNov. 6, 2012 1:16 PM
Volunteers man a voter-protection hotline.
People all over the country are having trouble exercising their right to vote, the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights said Tuesday morning.
"We are seeing a manifestation of a new Jim Crow in America...I don't think that's an overstatement," said Wade Henderson, who runs the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (a different group from the Lawyer's Committee). "You are seeing lines longer than those in Baghdad or Kabul."
To combat poll problems, the Lawyer's Committee has teamed with half a dozen other civil rights and voting rights groups to operate an election protection hotline, 1-866-OUR-VOTE. Dozens of volunteers with legal backgrounds are taking calls from voters encountering obstacles to casting a ballot. The Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights says it fielded thousands of calls Tuesday morning from voters who were turned away from the polls because they lacked photo ID, voters facing polling places with inadequate staff and equipment, and voters whose polling stations opening late.
Despite these ominous reports, Nicole Austin-Hillery of the Brennan Center for Justice struck an optimistic note. "The system is working for the vast majority of Americans," she said.
Voting problems are particularly acute in some key states, according to the Lawyer's Committee's Barbara Arnwine. In Pennsylvania, she said, voters are showing up to polling stations and seeing signs that say photo ID is required to vote, when state law says it's only necessary for first-time voters. Some voters, Arnwine said, are being turned away by poll workers who mistakenly believe that all voters need government-issued photo ID to cast a ballot.
"This is the fault of the Pennsylvania state government, we lay it at their foot that voters are having problems in that state," Arnwine said at a press conference held Tuesday morning. "The state of Pennsylvania ought to be ashamed." Pennsylvania passed a voter ID law, but the court blocked it from being enforced for this election. The judge ruled that poll workers could ask for ID, but voters will still be allowed to cast regular—rather than provisional—ballots even if they can't provide one. A judge in Pennsylvania ordered Republicans outside a polling place in Allegheny to stop demanding ID from voters outside the polls.
Pennsylvania isn't the only state facing problems. The Lawyer's Committee has received calls from Ohio saying that voting machines in Dayton, Toledo, and Cleveland are non-functional. Some voters in Ohio complained of regular ballots being placed in provisional ballot boxes—provisional ballots are less likely to be counted. At one polling station in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Arnwine said, 300 voters were standing in line to vote because only one voting machine was working, while other polling stations were critically understaffed. The voting situation in New Jersey, which is still reeling from Hurricane Sandy, Arnwine said, was a "catastrophe."
Tim MurphyNov. 6, 2012 1:14 PM
Trailing in the polls going into election day, Connecticut GOP Senate candidate Linda McMahon is trying something new: Pretending she's a Democrat. The Connecticut Mirror reports that McMahon, the former World Wrestling Federation executive, has dressed supporters hanging out at the polls today in "I Support Obama and McMahon" t-shirts designed to resemble those worn by Democrat-backing Services Employees International Union organizers:
"It clearly is a rip off of our shirts," said Paul Filson, the political director of SEIU, which represents many minority health care workers. "It definitely is confusing."
The shirts are part of an effort by McMahon to blunt the urban vote Murphy needs in Hartford, Bridgeport and New Haven, where her workers also have left literature urging a vote for Obama and McMahon.
"It clearly is a rip off of our shirts," said Paul Filson, the political director of SEIU, which represents many minority health care workers. "It definitely is confusing."
The shirts are part of an effort by McMahon to blunt the urban vote Murphy needs in Hartford, Bridgeport and New Haven, where her workers also have left literature urging a vote for Obama and McMahon.
Here's a photo of said literature, which identifies McMahon not as a Republican, but as the nominee of the Independent party. It may be too late to make a difference. The New York Times' Nate Silver gives Democratic Rep. Chris Murphy a 95.5 percent chance of winning the seat being vacated by retiring Independent Joe Lieberman.
This wouldn't be the first time a blue-state Republican has mimicked a Democrat. In 2006, then-Maryland Senate candidate Michael Steele depicted himself as a Democrat at campaign events and in sample ballots handed out in Prince George's county.
If McMahon really does support Obama, she should call her bank. According to FEC filings, she and her husband have given $150,000 to Restore Our Future, the pro-Romney super-PAC.
Update: Here's the a McMahon "sample ballot," via Murphy communications director Ben Marter:
Andy KrollNov. 6, 2012 12:21 PM
Josh Mandel.
Is Republican Senate candidate Josh Mandel of Ohio a bailout truther?
Mandel went on a Cleveland radio station Tuesday morning and suggested that the financial meltdown of 2008 was created by Washington politicians—not predatory mortgage lenders, lax regulators, incompetent ratings agencies, too-clever-by-half bankers, or delusional homeowners—seemingly as a way to pass the bank bailout.
Mandel's interviewer with station WMMS remarks that the US "would be in real financial ruin if some of those banks were allowed to collapse." But Mandel doesn't buy it. He fires back: "This is what happens in Washington: These politicians, they create a crisis and then they come in and try to take credit for solving the crisis. And it's exactly what's wrong with Washington."
Here's the clip of Mandel's remarks, provided by Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown's campaign, with a transcript to follow:
Host: Those banks, I mean, we would be in real financial ruin if some of those banks were allowed to collapse. You know, the credit markets were frozen. We were in a huge disaster. Now, I don't like it. I don't think anyone likes it. But to say that it was—look, we're still here. We still have money in the bank. People can go in and get their checkings [sic] and get a check and use their debit card and that kinda stuff. That was a real possibility—that that may not happen if we didn't do some of those things.
Mandel: You know, I think there were a lot of scare tactics used to pressure congressmen and senators to support [the financial bailout]. And this is what happens in Washington: These politicians, they create a crisis and then they come in and try to take credit for solving the crisis. And it's exactly what's wrong with Washington.
Host: Those banks, I mean, we would be in real financial ruin if some of those banks were allowed to collapse. You know, the credit markets were frozen. We were in a huge disaster. Now, I don't like it. I don't think anyone likes it. But to say that it was—look, we're still here. We still have money in the bank. People can go in and get their checkings [sic] and get a check and use their debit card and that kinda stuff. That was a real possibility—that that may not happen if we didn't do some of those things.
Mandel: You know, I think there were a lot of scare tactics used to pressure congressmen and senators to support [the financial bailout]. And this is what happens in Washington: These politicians, they create a crisis and then they come in and try to take credit for solving the crisis. And it's exactly what's wrong with Washington.
Andy KrollNov. 6, 2012 11:37 AM
Sheldon Adelson.
It's the least Mitt Romney could do for his biggest backer.
Casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, will attend Romney's election night party in Boston Tuesday evening, CNN reports. The Adelsons are the largest donors of the 2012 election cycle, giving more than $53 million in disclosed donations to candidates and super-PACs. That includes a staggering $20 million (that we know of) to Restore Our Future, the record-setting super-PAC devoted solely to electing Romney president.
The Adelsons' entire record of giving in this election cycle is likely far greater. In April, Sheldon Adelson said that he planned to give millions more to dark-money nonprofit groups that don't disclose their donors. Adelson later said in June he could give as much as $100 million to defeat Obama, and insiders familiar with Adelson's giving told CNN that the Adelsons will come "very close" to meeting that goal.
Forbes puts Adelson's net worth at $20.5 billion, making him the 14th-richest American. Ironically, no other American has gotten richer during Obama's first term in office than Sheldon Adelson.
To better understand Adelson's influence on the 2012 elections, check out these nifty charts.
Andy KrollNov. 6, 2012 7:08 AM
We're about to wrap up the most expensive election in US history—and also the first presidential election awash in unrestricted super-PAC cash and dark-money. Some stats (read on, Bieber fans):
1. Estimated amount of disclosed spending in the 2012 election: $6 billion
2. Amount of dark money (money with no donor disclosure) spent in the 2008 election: $70 million
Minimum amount of dark money known to have been spent on the 2012 election: $213 million
3. Amount super-PACs, dark money groups, and other outside groups spent in October: $526 million
4. Percentage of all super-PAC money from just 163 people who gave $500,000 or more: 70 percent
5. Percentage of outside spending coming from disclosed donors in 2004: 96.5 percent
Percentage in 2012: 40.5 percent
6. Amount the Koch brothers are known to have donated to candidates and parties in 2012: $411,000
Amount of dark money they have pledged to spent to defeat Barack Obama: $60 milion
7. Percentage of dark money spent on federal elections that went to electing Republicans and defeating Democrats: 80 percent
8. Percentage of the 1 million-plus ads run by the Obama and Romney campaigns and their allies between April and October that were negative: 87 percent
9. Number of news segments about outside spending groups on Milwaukee stations in the two weeks before Wisconsin's June recall election: 0
Number of news segments about Justin Bieber during that time: 53
Adam SerwerNov. 6, 2012 4:52 AM
Mitt Romney had a choice this election: He could surf the bubbling froth of right-wing rage against the president all the way to the White House, or he could discard the racialized narrative of the Obama presidency put forth by the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich.
Throughout the campaign, much of his party was pushing him in one direction: Some Republicans still believed the president was not born in the United States; conservative media figures presented everything from Obama's economic policy to the Affordable Care Act as seeking racial vengeance, accused him of lying about his religion, and argued that he secretly sympathizes with America's enemies. As National Journal's Ron Brownstein dubbed it, the 2012 election is a battle between the gray and the brown, the GOP's aging white base versus the Democrats' increasingly diverse coalition. Relying almost exclusively on the white vote, however, is a strategy with an expiration date. It's a move that cuts against the demographic tide. As one Republican adviser put it to Brownstein, "This is the last time anyone will try to do this."
In a weak but growing economy, mobilizing the base would not be sufficient for Romney to eke out a win; he couldn't alienate voters with fond feelings towards the president who nonetheless might be open to voting Republican this year. And this is not 1970s, when Ronald Reagan could get away with invoking "strapping young bucks" buying "T-bone steaks" with food stamps. If Romney wanted to harness that rage at all, he had to take a more subtle approach for most of the campaign, never fully embracing the racialized narrative pushed by Limbaugh, Beck, and others.
Unlike Gingrich, Romney never called Obama the "food stamp president" or insisted that Obama could only be understood as an adherent to "Kenyan anti-colonialism," which is just a fancy way of calling the president a scary black foreigner. But Romney did embrace reality TV star Donald Trump, who fixated on conspiracy theories about Obama's birth certificate and promoted the notion that the president, who graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law, is a simpleton who coasted through the Ivy League thanks to affirmative action. Instead of the "Kenyan anti-colonialism" shtick, Romney asserted that America was somehow beyond Obama's understanding. He falsely charged that the president was "gutting" Bill Clinton's welfare reforms, updating Reagan's old racial code. One of his chief surrogates, former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu, alternately called the president "lazy," "not that bright," and asserted that Obama needed to "learn how to be an American." Sununu then accused former Republican Secretary of State Colin Powell of endorsing Obama just because they're both black. When four Americans were killed in an attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, Romney accused Obama of sympathizing with their killers, a rationale that could have come straight from conservative writer Dinesh D'Souza, who argues the president sees "Muslim jihadists" as "freedom fighters."
It's true that Romney eschewed the more explicit racialized attacks offered by some of his allies. His campaign sprinted away from a third-party group's attempt to revive the Jeremiah Wright controversy, and it elected not to amplify a similar attempt by Tucker Carlson and Matt Drudge to mischaracterize (for the second time) a widely reported Obama speech from 2007 as an endorsement of racial violence. He never said the word "Obamaphone."
A different Republican candidate might have tried to persuade the relevant sections of the right to shake off its vision of the Obama presidency as a bleak racial dystopia—in Limbaugh's words, a place where "the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering." Sen. John McCain made an attempt to do so four years ago. In 2008, the temperature at some McCain-Palin rallies reached a boiling point, alarming veterans of the civil rights movement like Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga). McCain memorably corrected a supporter who called Obama an "Arab," with the shamefully attendant insinuations. There have been no such scenes from Romney's 2012 campaign. When a questioner at a rally accused Obama of treason, Romney simply answered the question.
In the waning days of the campaign, Romney chose to come closer to owning fully the far right's race-influenced effort to deligitimize Obama as not a true American or legitimate leader, deliberately exploiting Republican obsessions with the president's background. Romney revived his bogus charge of Obama gutting welfare work requirements in ads airing in Ohio. The ad also paraphrased Gingrich's attack on Obama as the "food stamp" president. His campaign made robocalls starring Trump. Romney's vice presidential candidate, Paul Ryan, told evangelical supporers the president was a threat to "Judeo-Christian" and "Western" values. After Obama tried to silence a group of booing college students by telling them "voting is the best revenge," Romney began telling his supporters that Obama was advocating "revenge"—a line many conservatives understand as having the Limbaughian racial subtext—and that they should vote for "love of country." Limbaugh certainly picked up on it. "One month into his presidency," Limbaugh said Monday, "I told you it was about revenge."
Obama can dish it out too of course. But the forces Romney has at times invoked shape not only perceptions of the man he is seeking to defeat Tuesday, but those who share his background. Conversely, while some on the left have shamefully tried to raise Romney's Mormonism as an issue, the Obama campaign has never, even subtly, attempted to do so.
If Romney wins the presidency, he will have done so embracing watered-down manifestations of an explicitly racial anti-Obama narrative popular in corners of the right: that the president is not merely wrong but practically foreign, a traitorous neophyte whose rise to the highest office in the land will be soon rectified. If Obama loses, the narrative of Obama as the affirmative-action president will prevail widely among Republicans, even as they use his first term as proof that America has transcended its ugly racial past. It's not a narrative Romney wrote himself, but it's one he refused to reject.
Given the privileged perspective history assigns to victors, how Romney wins matters. If he loses, well, let's hope that Republican consultant was right that this is the last time anyone tries to win an election this way.
Tim MurphyNov. 6, 2012 4:35 AM
Certain things are generally to be considered to be deal-breakers in electoral politics—reading a letter in defense of a radical who murdered two FBI agents, for instance, or sleeping with your patients and then asking them to get an abortion. Or going AWOL for almost one-third of an entire congressional term. Except for these guys:
Rep. Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.)
Michael Grimm/FlickrStaten Island could really use an effective congressman right now. Instead, New York's 13th congressional district is poised to reelect Grimm, an embattled freshman whose 2010 campaign is now the subject of an FBI investigation into whether Grimm knowingly allowed a fundraiser and an Israeli rabbi to solicit illegal cash donations from foreign nationals. That's not the only stain on his short record: In 2011, Grimm went on a privately funded trip to Cyprus, which he neglected to report in his congressional disclosures until 2012, when his host was arrested on corruption charges. And per the New York Times, Grimm's business partner, Bennett Orfaly, with whom he started a restaurant, allegedly "has ties to a member of the Gambino organized crime family, Anthony (Fat Tony) Morelli, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for racketeering and extortion in an elaborate tax fraud."
As you'd expect from a congressman who is just two degrees of separation from someone named "Fat Tony," Grimm's campaign has, at times, been somewhat nasty. Grimm attacked his opponent, Democrat Mark Murphy, for "liv[ing] in his father's basement" (true), and for being a failed actor. See below:
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Grimm's ethics woes were enough to get him booted from his role as a Romney surrogate, but he's held steady in the polls in New York City's most conservative district.
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.)
Jason Moore/ZumaPress.com That a well-connected Democrat in a safe-blue South Side district would cruise to reelection virtually unopposed isn't especially surprising. But Jackson has been AWOL from Congress for much of the last year. He went missing for a month last summer and hasn't held a constituent event or a campaign rally since winning the Democratic primary in March—an absence friends and advisers attribute to a severe case of depression. (In October, he announced he was returning to the Mayo Clinic for a second bout of rehab.) He's under FBI investigation for possibly using campaign funds to renovate his Chicago home, and by the House Ethics Committee for possibly attempting to purchase Barack Obama's vacated Senate seat in 2008. He voted by absentee ballot and isn't holding a rally on election night. But after beating back a Campaign for Primary Accountability-backed challenge in the primary, Jackson doesn't have much incentive to show up: He's all but clinched a victory.
Rep. John Barrow (D-Ga.)
John Barrow/FlickrThis was supposed to be the year white Democrats from the Deep South officially went extinct. After redistricting, Barrow, a 57-year-old Georgia Blue Dog, found himself in a district that gave 56 percent of the vote to John McCain in 2008—despite record African American turnout that year. But Barrow outspent his Republican challenger, state Rep. Lee Anderson, by a more than 2-1 margin, and managed to put together a patchwork coalition of black voters and white gun-owners (he's a rare Democrat with NRA backing). Ads like this one probably didn't hurt:
Kerry Bentivolio (R-Mich.)
Kerry Bentivolio/FacebookWhen Rep. Thaddeus McCotter resigned abruptly last summer after he failed to make it on the ballot (because his campaign apparently forged most of the signatures), it created an opening. Unfortunately for Michigan Republicans, the only GOPer who appeared on to the primary ballot was Bentivolio, a former high school teacher (more on that in a second), reindeer farmer, Santa impersonator, and co-star of a low-budget 9/11 truther film. He raised virtually no money, but got a boost from $500,000 in spending from a Texas-based super-PAC, and easily beat the establishment-backed write-in candidate. In August, the Detroit Free-Press reported that Bentivolio had been reprimanded at his Michigan high school for, among other things, telling students that they were "just a paycheck to me" and pledging to make them cry. In October, Bentivolio's brother told the Michigan Information and Research Service, "I believe that if he gets elected, he'll eventually serve time in prison." With national Democrats making little effort to back Bentivolio's challenger, Syed Taj, Bentivolio will likely get the chance.
Raul Ruiz (D-Calif.)
Raul Ruiz/FacebookGOP Rep. Mary Bono Mack is the incumbent. Her southeastern California district has an R+3 partisan voting index. And Ruiz, her Democratic opponent, is basically the Matt Drudge version of Barack Obama. Per the Palm Desert Desert Sun: "Officials with Rep. Mary Bono Mack's campaign, at a press conference Thursday, released an audiotape in which her Democratic opponent, Raul Ruiz, can be heard reading a letter of support for Leonard Peltier, a Native American convicted in 1977 of murdering two FBI agents on an Indian reservation in South Dakota…Ruiz can be heard reading a letter to Peltier written by 'Subcomandante Marcos,' a Marxist leader of the Zapatista liberation movement for indigenous people centered in the rural Mexican state of Chiapas." But through it all, polls show Ruiz to be a slim favorite to pull off the victory on election day.
Rep. Scott Desjarlais (R-Tenn.)
Scott Desjarlais/FlickrWho among us hasn't had extramarital affairs with multiple female patients at our medical practice and then pushed one of them to get an abortion before later advancing policies that would curtail women's reproductive rights? Oh, hmm, seeing a lot of hands raised. This is awkward. Despite being guilty of that exact scenario, Desjarlais is still the favorite to hold onto his Middle Tennessee seat. A poll commissioned after the ethical lapses/insane hypocrisy was exposed put the freshman up by 4 points.
Paul Broun (R-Ga.)
Jackie Ricciardi/Augusta Chronicle/ZumaPress.comThis man is running unopposed:
Roy Moore (R-Ala.)
Roy Moore/FacebookYou may know Moore as the man who, after being removed from his post as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court for refusing to take down a granite monument of the Ten Commandments, proceeded to travel around the country in a flat-bed pickup truck with the slab in the back. Now, after two failed runs for governor—and a very brief flirtation with running for president—he wants his job back. Moore hasn't mellowed much with age—he said as recently as October that same-sex marriage could bring about the end of the United States—but has benefited from the near-total collapse of the Alabama Democratic party. His original general election opponent, Harry Lyon, had called for illegal immigrants to be hanged and, per ThinkProgress, was "once shot in the neck after a neighbor caught him pouring Hershey's Chocolate Syrup on the neighbor's car." (He was replaced by the party in August.) Per the Montgomery Advertiser, Moore leads in the polls going into Election Day. Also: Chuck Norris endorsed him.
Andy KrollNov. 6, 2012 12:50 AM
Even Karl Rove, the political genius of the Republican Party, admits it: For Mitt Romney to win the presidential election on Tuesday, "some polls" have to be wrong. That's because those polls, especially in key swing states, show President Obama headed for victory, albeit a very narrow one.
Rove went on Fox News Monday night to give his final assessment of the Obama-Romney showdown. His prediction was that Romney would scrape together a win with 285 electoral votes, all but sweeping the president in the key swing states of Colorado, Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, Virginia, New Hampshire, and Iowa. And while Rove's own analysis of recent presidential polls put the presidential race at a dead heat, he conceded to Fox's Bret Baier that "some polls have to be wrong a little" for Romney to win.
FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver is far less charitable toward Romney: He predicts Romney will claim a miserly 224 electoral voters, and stands only an 8.6 percent chance of winning the election. The right-leaning RealClearPolitics says the race is a statistical tie at 48 percent for both candidates.
Here's the video of Rove (the segment starts at the 3:30 mark) followed by a transcript of the moment in question:
Baier: Bottom line: For Romney to win Tuesday, these polls have to be wrong.
Rove: Some polls have to be wrong a little, because the race is that close. Remember, take a look at the national polls. Just simply in the last week, 23 polls, you average them all together, 48.3 [percent] for Romney, 48.1 for Obama. That's as of 10 o'clock this morning. So it is dead even, knife's edge, long night, exciting outcome.
Baier: Bottom line: For Romney to win Tuesday, these polls have to be wrong.
Rove: Some polls have to be wrong a little, because the race is that close. Remember, take a look at the national polls. Just simply in the last week, 23 polls, you average them all together, 48.3 [percent] for Romney, 48.1 for Obama. That's as of 10 o'clock this morning. So it is dead even, knife's edge, long night, exciting outcome.
The way all the polls look, Rove's likely to be right about one thing: It's going to be a long night on Tuesday.
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(March 23, 2007)--The UTSA Center for Policy Studies will present the first Great Cities Dialogue featuring John I. Gilderbloom, director of the Center for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods at the University of Louisville. Gilderbloom and a panel of local experts will discuss how major cities are positioning themselves as vibrant centers of commerce and community in the 21st century.
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Girl A-"OH MY GOD! look at that man, oooh, he...he...he's...so fine..he...he's. Oh I am speechless."
Girl B-"OOOH, GIRL! Thats a tyson bexferrd."
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A collection of nine atmospheric science and geography activities that guide students in developing the skills used to analyze GLOBE environmental data. GLOBE (Global Learning and Observation to Benefit the Environment) is a worldwide, hands-on,... (View More) K-12 school-based science education program. (View Less)
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This online Flash interactive simulates the process of discovering new exoplanets using the transit method. Learners explore a simulated star field, record data, make measurements and do calculations to discover new planets. Instructional videos and... (View More) guides are included. (View Less)
This unit consists of five activities, all of which focus on the response of plant life-cycle events to climate change. Students participate in discussions, field observations, data collection and analyses, plant identification, seed dispersal... (View More) comparisons, and graphing and analyses of plant phenology (timing of life-cycle events). Project BudBurst, a citizen science project which studies the impact of climate change on phenology, is integrated into this unit. The unit is one of four under the Chicago Botanic Garden curriculum entitled, "Climate Change in My Backyard." (View Less)
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This unit consists of four activities. Students begin by examining temperature cycles (current, recent and historical) then add in factors such as carbon dioxide, precipitation and cloud cover to discover regional and global differences in the... (View More) effects of climate change. The unit is one of four under the Chicago Botanic Garden curriculum entitled, "Climate Change in My Backyard." (View Less)
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This curriculum uses an inquiry-based Earth system science approach, and leverages Project BudBurst, a citizen science phenology project, to engage students in authentic research on plant and ecosystem responses to climate change. Students collect... (View More) local data then analyze that data in the context of NASA regional and global data sets and satellite imagery to understand their data in personal, regional, and global contexts. The curriculum is divided into four units: The Earth as a System; Identifying the key changing conditions of the Earth system; Earth system responses to natural and human induced changes; and Predicting the consequences of changes for human civilization. Each unit consists of several activities with accompanying teacher answer sheets. (View Less)
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This unit consists of two parts, each with several activities which require students to participate in investigations, discussions, computer data analysis, role-playing, and research. In Part 1, students examine the roles of Earth's energy balance... (View More) and the greenhouse effect in creating and affecting climate. Part 2 focuses on the biosphere as a system. Students examine the interactions of organisms, the effects of climate change on food webs, and the importance to humans of a healthy, intact ecosystem. The unit is one of four under the Chicago Botanic Garden curriculum entitled, "Climate Change in My Backyard." (View Less)
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Building Intuition for In-water Optics and Ocean Color Remote Sensing: Spectrophotometer Activity with littleBits™
This activity demonstrates optical properties of water: that different constituents in water affect the transmission, absorption, and scattering of different colors in the visible light spectrum. Inexpensive, off-the-shelf components are used to... (View More) build a light sensor and source, creating a simple spectrophotometer that can measure light absorption. In the second part of this activity, principles of ocean color remote sensing are applied to measure reflectance. Using components that are clearly visible allows students to configure them in different ways. Playing with the instrument design gives students a practical understanding of spectrophotometers, in-water optics, and remote sensing. As an extension of this concept, students are encouraged to think about how ocean color is used to estimate the concentration of chlorophyll to infer phytoplankton abundance, colored dissolved organic matter, and suspended sediments. (View Less)
This short (11:29 minutes) video features NASA scientists answering a set of student-designed questions related to NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement satellite mission. The set of twelve questions were generated after students viewed... (View More) animations of GPM data; the questions centered on satellite operations, satellite data, and precipitation patterns and impacts. (View Less)
This is the first module in the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) Project Suite curriculum. Activities are self-directed by students or student teams using online videos and data from the SDO satellite to explore, research and build knowledge about... (View More) features of the Sun. Students build vocabulary, apply or demonstrate learning through real world connections, and creating resources to use in their investigations. Each activity comes with both a teacher and student guide with sequential instructions and embedded links to the needed videos and internet resources. Activity 1A: Structure of the Earth's Star takes students through the features and function of the Sun's structures using online videos, completing a "Sun Primer" data sheet using information from the videos, and creating a 3D origami model of the Sun. Students use a KWL chart to track what they have learned. Activity 1B: Observing the Sun has students capture real solar images from SDO data to find and record sunspots and track their movement across the surface of the Sun. Activity 1C has students create a pin-hole camera to use in calculating the actual diameter of the Sun, and then calculate scales to create a Earth-Sun scale model. Students reflect on their learning and results at the end of the module. An internet connection and access to computers are needed to complete this module. See related and supplementary resources for link to full curriculum. The appendix includes an alignment to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). (View Less)
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This is the second module in the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) Project Suite curriculum. Each activity is self-directed by students or student teams and uses online videos, data from the SDO satellite and hands-on activities to explore, research... (View More) and build knowledge about how and why studying the Sun's electromagnetic energy and magnetic fields help scientists better understand the Sun's activity and space weather. Students build knowledge and vocabulary, apply or demonstrate learning through real world connections and create resources to use in investigations. Both a teacher and student guide is included with sequential instructions and embedded links to the needed videos, tutorials and internet resources. In Activity 2A: The Sun and the EM Spectrum students learn how SDO uses key parts of the Sun's electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) to research regions of the Sun, create an interactive foldable to describe the different wavebands of the EMS, then use real-time SDO image data and the Helioviewer online tool to explore the Sun's regional activity. Tutorials for using Helioviewer and making the EMS foldable are included. Activity 2B: Solar activity and Magnetism has students use information in online videos and slide presentations to demonstrate concepts of magnetism and the relationship between the Sun's variable magnetic fields and sunspots. Activity 3B: Solar Research in Action! Build a Spectroscope has students create a spectroscope to observe the different wavebands of visible light, demonstrate how the Sun emits varying EMS energies, and explain how this information helps scientists understand the composition and activity of both our nearest star, and other stars in the universe. A computer for student-teams and a connection to the Internet are needed to complete this module. See related and supplementary resources for link to full curriculum. The appendix includes an alignment to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). (View Less)
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Very unique & colorful !!
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
interesting design. i like it
I think your quilt is amazing. It's very modern and unique.
enjoy your life...it's the only one you have!!!
It is beautiful. I love the colors.
Nice job, great mind to do all that. I like it.
Terrific design, the colours/fabrics work beautifully together. The name you have chosen is perfect. What more can I say? "Experiment" just doesn't do this justice. Love it, and thanks so much for sharing with us.
I love the modern look. It is funky.
Remember, people will see your quilts long after you are gone....NOT your housework!
its beautiful! i think it came out just fantastic! what do you think of that bamboo batting? ive heard about it, but thats all so far, haven't tried it yet!
A rolling stone gathers no moss
Beautiful. Thanks for showing.
Neat quilt! Great colors and design!
Be a blessing to others, as you may entertain angels unaware!


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Discussion in 'The Coffee Shop ~ Chit Chat' started by Scooter, Jun 12, 2012.
ANyone around here from San diego area?
Not I. I am up the Interstate some hundreds of miles.
There is plenty of members in SoCal , I lived in Ridgecrest for six months what to go back with a camper and ATV lots of wide open country to explore
Go west young man Go West
Lived in North SD County for about 12 years (mostly Encinitas, La Costa, and Vista). Now I live in the Denver area, which is where I grew up.
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Police: Foreign exchange student drowns at Emerald Isle
EMERALD ISLE, CARTERET COUNTY - Police said an exchange student downed in Emerald Isle Thursday, making it the second drowning in Carteret County in less than a month.
According to investigators, 18-year-old Marcel Albu was pulled from the water near the 8600 block of Ocean View Drive at about 11:21 a.m. Thursday. The victim was a Moldovian student who took classes in the United States as part of a student exchange program.
Witnesses told police they saw Albu floating in the water, as if he was snorkeling. But after seeing the victim being rolled in the surf and not responding, the witnesses pulled him out of the water.
"We saw my nephew and another guy that we didn't recognize, and they were running up the beach and they kept pointing out," said Phil Burkhouse, who is vacationing at the beach. "When they hooked him under the arms, then I could see it was a body."
The Albu was taken to Carteret General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to police. Officers worked with the U.S. State Department and the Moldova Embassy in Washington, D.C. to notify the family.
Thursday's incident is the second drowning in Carteret County in less than a month. According to investigators, a rip current pulled 19-year-old ECU student Braxton Horton underwater on June 1. His body was recovered near the Trinity Center in Pine Knoll Shores about 24 hours later.


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|Ed Connolly, Senior VP of Heavy Oil explains the carbon capture process.
|Left to right: Cut Knife-Turtleford MLA Larry Doke, Husky Energy CEO Asim Ghosh, Lloydminster Mayor Jeff Mulligan and Vermilion-Lloydminster MLA Richard Starke attended the ribbon cutting for the CO2 facility opening.
Lloydminster, Saskatchewan - Husky Energy unveiled its carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and liquefaction project in Lloydminster, a facility that allows the Company to recover more oil from existing fields while reducing emissions at its ethanol plant.
"This remarkable project gives us two bangs for the same buck," CEO Asim Ghosh said of the technology. In addition to enhanced oil recovery and reduced emissions, the project demonstrates Husky's commitment to its business foundations. "The CO2 Capture and Liquefaction project represents how we are capturing full value from our facilities, and how we're using technology to improve our performance," Ghosh said.
The facility, which began operating in mid-March, converts approximately 250 tonnes of CO2 produced by the ethanol plant each day into a high-pressure liquid. CO2 is a byproduct of the plant's fermentation process, where more than 350,000 tonnes of non-food quality grain and corn is used to produce approximately 130 million litres of ethanol per year.
The liquid CO2 is then stored on site in three 900,000-gallon bullets - each holding one day's worth of production - until it is transferred to the heavy oil fields by tanker trucks. Once there, the CO2 is vaporized and injected into reservoirs to make the oil easier to extract. The application offers the potential to sustain Husky's heavy oil production in the area for many years.
Husky received $14.5 million from the federal government's ecoENERGY Technology Initiative to develop and demonstrate carbon capture and storage technologies, one of eight companies in Western Canada to obtain funding. As well, the Saskatchewan government has provided funding for the field piloting program through its Petroleum Research Incentive Program.
Husky is Western Canada's largest producer of ethanol and a pioneer in marketing ethanol-blended fuels. The Company is transforming its heavy oil foundation business toward more long-life thermal projects and horizontal drilling, reinforcing its position as a leading Canadian heavy oil producer.


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Lutheran Church of the Cross in Nisswa to host Fall Harvest Potluck on Sept. 17
The Creation Care Team at Lutheran Church of the Cross (LCC), Nisswa, invites everyone to attend the Fall Harvest Potluck at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 17, in the church Celebration Center.
Following the potluck there will be a special presentation by Bishop Tom Aitkin, bishop of the Northeastern Minnesota Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. His presentation will emphasize the importance of taking care of God's creation. More than a dozen door prizes will be offered throughout the evening, including one year free garden plot ($20 value), various Jerry Raedeke works of art and glassware, LCC stainless steel water bottles and hand-crafted articles by local artists.
This will be the first opportunity to sign up for a 2014 plot in the LCC Community Garden. Plots are available to all members of the community.
Bring a dish to share using locally grown fruits and vegetables. A freewill offering will be taken to offset the cost of the programming.


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Kyana is a name for a beautiful girl. She can be extremely nice and fun to be around but is extremely confusing. Guys would love a chance with her but she often doesn't give them and leaves them in a sad place called the Friendzone. She isn't good with relationships when she actually is one. She if a very outgoing person, loves to eat, confusing, outdoorsy, and different. Loves to meet new people but leaves old friends behind when she does. Is extremely smart but constantly confused with feelings. She has style and looks to make other girls jealous but doesn't think she is all that. She is very caring and means no harm when she causes some. She has beautiful hair and eyes.
Joe: Damn look at that amazing girl, I want to meet her.
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Bob: Ya her name is Kyana, amazing girl, but she will leave you in the Friendzone.
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a beautiful girl ; she is loved ; she has a hard time trusting people ; she has style ; she's different ; she's not good at relationships ; not very flirtatious ; smart ; well-rounded ; has a lot of friends ; loves food ; messy ; not very organized ; she's very obsessive compulsive about the things she touches ; has a unpredictable attitude ; respectful ; she can be nice ; she's very giving .
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text: I have had this happen several times. Just a over a bit would usally fix mine. I didn't pay enough attention when I was putting it together. Always a pain to add more to the end or side but, I did it. I never mind piecing the batting or batting. As long as the top is nice and even, it will be okay.


text: Please don't ban me for asking maybe the dumbest question in years on this forum. But with so much talk of QB play lately the topic of Dan Marino came up. A person claims Marino would be terrible in today's NFL due to his lack of mobility and (at least according this poster) a lack of accuracy. I say that he would be amazing now because: 1) Well, he is Dan Marino and one of the best pure passers of all time 2) The NFL has never protected QBs more than they do now 3) The offenses slant way toward throwing thew ball and the depth of good WRs is scary. This is Marino heaven right now. 4) and much more. I could go on and on.... What do you all say? Would Marion get killed and stink or would Marino succeed in today's NFL? BTW, I wanted to make a poll but something has changed in setting it up.


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The drinking equivalent of an Iron Man competition. Those who undertake the Wade Boggs Challenge attempt to drink 2 cases of beer (30 packs or you fuck off) and eat a bucket of fried chicken in a 24 hour period.
Tyler and Adam attempted the Wade Boggs Challenge at the lake. After the ensuing boating accident, their bodies were burned as part of their Viking funeral.
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re: st: AW: varlist not allowed in xi3
Dan Waldo <email@example.com>
re: st: AW: varlist not allowed in xi3
Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:21:14 -0700 (PDT)
Thanks to Martin Weiss and Nick Cox for suggesting ways to diagnose the problem I posted back on April 24. And special thanks to Phil Ender at UCLA, one of the authors of xi3, who spent considerable time with me offline to figure out what was happening.
To close this thread, Phil and I agreed on this message:
"The -xi3- program is rather old with versions going back to 2001. It doesn't work with some of the newer Stata commands, and we have pretty much stopped supporting it. If you type the command "which xi3" you'll see a note that says "freaks out if length of terms exceeds 32." I think that you have run into this limit.
"I suggest that you look into the -desmat- program written by John Hendrickx. Version 3.2 (on SSC) was updated in 2004. With my simple tests, it was able to create four-way interactions directly. I hope that -desmat- will meet your needs. Best of luck."
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:19:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan Waldo <email@example.com>
Subject: st: varlist not allowed in xi3
Dear list members,
I am trying to test the nested interactions of 4 variables (n, a, g, and s) on the depvar drg_wgt using xi3 and glm.
Stata tells me the following:
. xi3: glm drg_wgt i.n*i.a*i.g i.a*i.g*i.s [pweight=weight] , f(gamma)
i.n _In_0-2 (naturally coded; _In_0 omitted)
i.a _Ia_0-65 (naturally coded; _Ia_45 omitted)
i.g _Ig_1-2 (naturally coded; _Ig_1 omitted)
i.s _Is_1-7 (naturally coded; _Is_4 omitted)
varlist not allowed
The code works with a 3-way term and a 2-way term, but not with 2 3-way terms. Stata should be disregarding the duplicate 2-way interactions; all 4 explanatory variables are numeric (byte); and the drg_wgt is a floating-point number. What am I missing? (What worries me is that I thought this same code had run back in January, and this now casts doubt on my memory of other events in that month.)
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Hey guys (and gals I guess :P )
I'm starting this Bo Katan (KW Armour) build thread on behalf of my wife Kitteh (DZ 14712) and I've got a couple of questions to ask..
1) What is the best way to finish the end join on the gauntlet? Obviously it's still only rough trimmed but do I just bog over it and try to make it look as best as I can?
2) Does the 'join' in the inner forearm have to be cut? I've got it roughly taped and my wife can fit her arm into it without having to open it..
3) Am I better off shimming and butt joining the knees and then bogging over the seam? They're a tad small for my wifes knees so I'm going to have to do shim it or something like that I guess but I'm just wondering what anyone else has done so far..


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Egypt's police regain Mubarak-era notoriety
CAIRO — With near impunity and the backing of the Islamist president, Egyptian police have been accused of firing wildly at protesters, beating them and lashing out with deadly force in clashes across much of the country the past week, regaining their Hosni Mubarak-era notoriety as a tool of repression.
In the process, nearly 60 people have been killed and hundreds injured, and the security forces have re-emerged as a significant political player after spending the two years since Mubarak's ouster on the sidelines, sulking or unwilling to fully take back the streets.
Moreover, President Mohammed Morsi, whose Muslim Brotherhood was long oppressed by the security forces, has made it clear that he needs the police on his side to protect his still shaky grip on power. On state TV Sunday, he thanked the police for their response to the protests, a day after dozens had been killed in the Mediterranean city of Port Said.
Riot police continued on Thursday to battle rock-throwing protesters in an area near Tahrir Square in central Cairo, the seventh day of clashes in the wave of political violence that has engulfed Egypt — though battles elsewhere have eased somewhat.
The police's furious response to the protests and riots — some of which targeted their stations and left two police officers dead — uncovered the depth of discontent in the once all-powerful security forces. Since Mubarak's fall, they have been demoralized and in disarray. But now they are signaling that they want back the status they held under his rule, when no one questioned their use of force and they had unlimited powers of arrest.
"The police saw the protests as an opportunity to show they are strong, capable and ready to crush them," said rights lawyer Negad Borai. "They knew they had political cover, to which they responded by using a disproportionate amount of force."
The Interior Ministry, in charge of police, says its forces showed restraint and pointed out that dozens of police were injured in the clashes, along with the two dead. It has also staunchly denied that police fired birdshot at protesters in the street fighting. At least three protesters are known to have been killed by birdshot, and many others have shown wounds from the metal pellets riddling their torsos and heads.
Five different interior ministers have headed the forces in the past two years, and none has been able to exercise full control over the unsettled ranks.
Distraught police officers heckled the latest interior minister, Mohammed Ibrahim, when he showed up for the funeral of the two officers killed last weekend. They accused him of being there only for the news cameras, and raised such a storm that the minister, surrounded by his bodyguards, left the mosque and the funeral went ahead without him. Later, Ibrahim said in a statement that he understood the officers were under stress.
Some in the force are seething over what they see as the inadequate firepower given to the police in the face of attackers who have frequently targeted police stations and prisons over the past two years.
Egyptian media reported that riot police conscripts mutinied at a large Cairo base to protest what they see as crippling constraints on their use of firearms against protesters. The Interior Ministry denied the reports, but Prime Minister Hesham Kandil visited the base on Wednesday, a highly unusual move that suggested there had been troubles.
There is also resistance to serving under a president who hails from the Muslim Brotherhood, a group whose members police targeted for years under Mubarak.
Many in the police, for example, are convinced that Morsi and his Brotherhood are unfit to rule and not worth working for, according to security officials familiar with the mood on the force, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the issue.
The sacking last month of Ibrahim's predecessor, Ahmed Gamal-Eddin, did not go down well in the force.
Gamal-Eddin, who was popular among officers, is thought to have lost his job over his refusal to use force against opposition supporters who made their way to the outer walls of the presidential palace last month and for failing to prevent attacks on offices of the Brotherhood and its political party around the country.
Morsi, who came to office seven months ago as Egypt's first freely elected president, has been trying to woo the police, praising them for the few steps that have been taken to restore law and order.
Last week, the black-clad riot police appeared for the first time in new, protective gear that reduces their vulnerability to rocks and firebombs and conceal much of their faces. In a first, the police also received three patrol helicopters.
Morsi's television address on Sunday also gave the police key political cover. He thanked the security forces for their handling of the protests and described the protesters as thugs or die-hard Mubarak loyalists trying to bring down the state, effectively justifying any police action.
Furthermore, he declared a 30-day state of emergency in Port Said and two other Suez Canal cities, giving police there far reaching powers to arrest and detain suspects, a move that harked back to Mubarak's rule, when Egypt was under emergency laws for most of his 29 years in power.
The speech came a day after nearly 40 people were killed in Port Said, where protesters and witnesses spoke of random shootings by police marksmen stationed on rooftops or from moving armored cars, lashing out after the two policemen were killed by armed men trying to storm a prison.
In Cairo, footage aired on Egyptian TV stations showed protesters, some as young as 15, lying on the ground while getting beaten up by bands of policemen.
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Located in Foggy Bottom within a short walk of George Washington University, The River Inn is within a mile (2 km) of other popular sights such as White House. This 125-room, 3.5-star hotel has a restaurant along with conveniences like free in-room WiFi and a fitness center. Located in central Washington, the hotel is also near Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument.
Enjoy a leisurely bite to eat at the onsite restaurant, or have a drink at the bar/lounge. Start your day off with cooked-to-order breakfast, available for a fee.
The 125 air-conditioned rooms feature kitchens with refrigerators, microwaves, and stovetops. Guests can expect free WiFi and TVs with cable channels and pay movies. Bathrooms have hair dryers and designer toiletries. IPod docks, sofa beds, and coffee makers are also standard.
Guests of The River Inn enjoy a fitness center, free WiFi in public areas, and conference space. Valet parking is available for USD 40.00 per night. Multilingual staff at the front desk are standing by 24/7 to help with dry cleaning/laundry, concierge services, and luggage storage. Additional amenities include free newspapers, a terrace, and laundry facilities.
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- Walking distance to George Washington University
- Free WiFi in rooms and public areas
- Onsite dining
- Fitness center
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On a brick-paved, tree-lined street in Washington's historic Foggy Bottom neighborhood, the River Inn is four blocks from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The hotel is between Georgetown and Dupont Circle, both known for their shops and restaurants. Foggy Bottom Metro station is just two blocks away.
Locally popular Dish restaurant specializes in updated comfort food that includes beef, seafood, chicken, and pastas. The wine selection includes Virginia labels, a bar menu is offered, and room service is available.
Business facilities include complimentary wireless Internet access throughout the hotel and 1 meeting room with a total of 1550 square feet (144 square meters).
- 24-hour front desk
- Total number of rooms - 125
- Number of floors - 8
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Bar/lounge
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- Conference space
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- Fireplace in lobby
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- One meeting room
- Multilingual staff
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- Restaurant
- Conference space size (feet) - 1550
- Conference space size (meters) - 144
- Number of meeting rooms - 3
- Smoke-free property
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- Kitchen
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- Refrigerator
- Microwave
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Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Valet parking (surcharge)
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The River Inn offers 125 air-conditioned accommodations with iPod docking stations and video-game consoles. Televisions come with premium cable channels and pay movies. Accommodations at this 3.5-star hotel have kitchens with refrigerators, stovetops, microwaves, and coffee/tea makers. Rooms have partially open bathrooms. Bathrooms include shower/tub combinations, designer toiletries, complimentary toiletries, and hair dryers.
Guests can surf the web using the complimentary wireless Internet access. Business-friendly amenities include desks, complimentary newspapers, and phones. Additionally, rooms include safes and irons/ironing boards. A nightly turndown service is provided and housekeeping is offered daily.
- Premium TV channels
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- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free newspaper
- Designer toiletries
- Desk
- Hair dryer
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- In-room safe
- Iron/ironing board
- Kitchen
- Stovetop
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- iPod docking station
- Microwave
- Partially open bathroom
- Pay movies
- Refrigerator
- Shower/tub combination
- Sofa bed
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- Free cribs/infant beds
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Dish - Updated American comfort food. Menu items may include New York striploin with creamed spinach and crispy sweet onion, one-half chicken with mashed potatoes and pan jus, and egg fettuccini with forest mushrooms and mascarpone cream. Bar menu. Wine list including Virginia labels. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Room service - Available from early morning to late evening.
Nearby Things to Do
The River Inn has a fitness center with cardio equipment.
Three miles away is the 18-hole East Potomac Park Golf Course at Hains Point, perched on the banks of the Potomac River. It has a two-tier driving range, as well as a miniature golf course that's on the National Register of Historic Places.
Rock Creek Park, also three miles from the hotel, is a 1,800-acre oasis with hiking and biking trails, a nature center/planetarium, and remnants of Civil War forts. Trail rides are available through the Rock Creek Park Horse Center. The park has 15 soft-surface and 10 hard-surface tennis courts; reservations are generally required.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Minimum check-in age is 21
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Free rollaway/extra beds!
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of USD 25.00 per pet, per night
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: between USD 8 and USD 12 per person (approximately)
- Valet parking fee: USD 40.00 per night (in/out privileges)
- Pet fee: USD 25.00 per pet, per night
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ACL Injuries in Young Athletes
I have many young patients that are regular soccer players and many of them are adolescent girls. A recent article in the British Medical Journal caught my eye. The title Simple Warm-Up Program Prevents Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries.
In my early days of training, I was taught that children rarely had ligamentous injuries especially involving their knees. Boy has that information changed over the years! I cant even count the number of teenage patients of mine who have had serious knee injuries, many requiring surgeries and some injuries ending their athletic careers.
We now know that adolescent female soccer players experience anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) knee injuries at a rate that is twice that of their male counterparts. This study looked at whether these serious injuries can be prevented.
4,600 females between the ages of 12 - 17 years participated in the study. Two-thirds were instructed in how to perform a 15 minute warm up program focusing on new control and core stability. This consisted of 5 minutes of jogging followed by six exercises (one-legged knee squat, two-legged knee squat, lunge, bench press, jump/landing technique, and pelvic lift). The program was completed twice weekly during soccer season and progressed through 4 levels of difficulty.
The outcome? Seven players in the intervention group, and 14 in the control group experienced ACL injuries. The rate of ACL injury was 64% lower in the intervention group. Pretty impressive!
So, a simple warm up program which is easy to institute can prevent ACL injuries in young female soccer players. It would be interesting to see another study looking at whether these same warm up programs can be applied to male soccer players as well as to athletes in other sports (basketball and softball) where knee injuries are common.
These exercises seem to help minimize lateral trunk movement and knee valgus (knock knees) which are risk factors for ACL injuries. Might be worth starting this program in your young athlete!
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Friday, January 09, 2009
Types of Meaning
Why is this important? When we talk about teaching and learning, we are often talking about meaning. Consider the classic constructivist activity of 'making meaning', for example. Or event he concept of 'content', which is (ostensibly) the 'meaning' of whatever it is that a student is being taught.
What are we to make of such theorizing in the light of the numerous ways that words, sentences, ideas and constructs can have meaning? What does 'making meaning' mean we we consider the range between logical, semantical, and functional meaning?
The idea - often so central to transmission and transactional theorists of learning, that a word or sentence can have a single meaning, or a 'shared meaning', is tested to the extreme by an examination of the nature and constitution of that putative meaning.
In any case, it is always better to show than to argue. Herewith, a bit of an account of some of the many different types of meaning:
Literal meaning - the sentence means what it says. Also known as 'utterance' meaning (Griffiths).
Logical meaning - the meaning of the sentence is determined by (is a part of) a set of logical inferences, such as composition, subordination, etc. Also called 'taxis'. (Kies)
Denotative meaning - the sentence means what it is about. The 'reference' of a sentence, as opposed to its 'sense'. (Frege)
Sematical meaning - meaning is truth (Tarski - 'snow is white' is true iff snow is white)
Positivist meaning - the sentence means what it says that can be empirically confirmed or falsified (Ayer, Carnap, Schlick)
Pragmatic meaning - the relationship between signs and their users. (Morris) Includes "identificational meaning, expressive meaning, associative meaning, social meaning, and imperative meaning." (Lunwen)
Intentional meaning - the sentence means what the author intended it to say. Also known as "sender's meaning" (Griffiths). - John Searle, often includes conversational implicatures
Connotative meaning - the sentence means what readers think about when they read it. Sometimes known as 'sense' (Frege). Also sometimes thought of as 'associative' meaning. (Morris) Includes 'reflected' meaning (what is communicated through association with another sense of the same expression, Leech) and collocative meaning (Leech)
Social meaning - "what is communicated of the social circumstances of language use" (from Leech; Lunwen)
Metaphorical meaning - the meaning is determined by metaphor, and not actual reference
Emotive meaning - related to connotative - the type of emotion the sentence invokes
Functional meaning - the sentence means what it is used for, what it does (Wittgenstein, meaning is use; Austin, speech acts). The 'mode' of a sentence is the function it plays in channeling communication - what degree of feedback it elicits, for example, of what degree of abstraction it considers. (Cope and Kalantzis)
Type meaning - the sentence's meaning is related to what it doesn't say, to the range of possible words or sentences that could be said instead (Derrida). Gillett writes, "Part of the meaning of a word is its 'register'. Which types of language is the word used in: letters or reports, spoken or written, biology or business etc?"
Deictic meaning - meaning is determined with reference to the situation or context in which the word is used. Griffiths writes, "Deixis is pervasive in languages." Common deixic frames include common understandings related to people )'the boss'), time ('tomorrow'), place ('nearby'), participants ('his'), even discourse itself ('this' article).
Relevance, significance or value - "what is the meaning of life?"
Accent - the manner in which the word is pronounced or emphasized can cnage its meaning.
Intralingual meaning - (Morris) intralingual meaning (the relationship between different signs; it includes phonological meaning, graphemic meaning, morphological or lexemic meaning, syntactic meaning, and discoursal or textual meaning).
Thematic meaning - "what is communicated by the way in which the message is organized in terms of order and emphasis" (Leech; Lunwen)
Some links:
Learning Vocabulary: Dealing With Meaning, from Using English for Academic Purposes, Andy Gillett, School of Combined Studies, University of Hertfordshire
Hatfield, UK.
An Introduction to English Semantics and Pragmatics, Patrick Griffiths.
Powers of Literacy, Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis
Strange Attractors of Meaning, Vladimir Dimitriv
The Grammatical Foundations of Style, Daniel Kies, Department of English, College of DuPage
Foundations of the Theory of Signs, Charles W. Morris
Seven Types of Meaning, Geoffrey Leech, in Semantics, pp. 10-27.
A Semantic Analysis of the Different Types of Meanings in Translation, Lunwen
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I thought we might see a post on this subject! Very interesting, and I'm sure there are other subtly nuanced types of meaning, too.ReplyDelete
With regard to 'intralingual meaning', do you suppose that includes a meaning which is inherent in the language in which the information is communicated? As a polyglot, I am often frustrated by the fact that the sense I want to convey can be perfectly captured in a certain language, but has no suitable equivalent in the language I am speaking at the time. People sometimes assume that English isn't my first language (it is) because I will turn to my husband and say "How can I say XYZ in English?" This is particularly true of Afrikaans expressions, since I speak that language almost as fluently as I do English, and it is completely integral to my culture.
The sense of what I want to say is so perfectly captured by phrase XYZ in language A, that it is the first expression that occurs to me, to the extent that I am stumped as to how to convey the message in a different tongue.
Thanks, Stephen. This is very useful to me and my current research considerations.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFriday, November 06, 2009
I am looking to do a paprer on the seven types of meaning by Leech but need a topic within that, any suggestions?ReplyDelete
- Desi HerayanaMonday, May 17, 2010
I'm searching the five types of meaning, speakers' meaning, symbolic meaning, discourse meaning, linguistic meaning, and natural meaning. all for my semantics task. Any suggestion?ReplyDelete
This article has helped me in my semantics course,Thanks.ReplyDelete
I hope the article would help my research students.ReplyDelete
Dr Umesh Jagadale
Maharashtra, India
- AnonymousMonday, January 09, 2012
This article has been of tremendous help to me and I hope it helps my Semantics and pragmatics students in my home university too.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousThursday, November 08, 2012
Thank you very much for your effort and all your explanationsReplyDelete
This thing would be much better with an actual example of each "sentence type".ReplyDelete
as in "Bob is in the tree." or "Duct tape is like the Force...." etc.
But then too, there is another issue, some of this ummm...."theory" applies to more than just words, sentences, or even paragraphs or entire essays/papers/books...
Some of this stuff could be applied to:
1. Pictures, slide shows, {presentations?} etc.
2. Movies, videos, etc. B/W or color, sound or no sound. Captioned or not...
3. Sounds. Voice, music (with or without vocals)...
4. Artifacts. Paintings, statues, machines, buildings, and so on.
No, not all items in your list will fit. I know that. But some might. And in some cases, some new categories may have to be invented. And you may want to address that... in the future. Of course, concrete examples will be harder to find and post.
Still, worth considering...
And while blogs are typically the work of one individual blogs combining contributions of several people group blogs over here are also popular.ReplyDelete
I've just come across this post and will find it useful in explaining how the same words can mean different things to different individuals and how this is not a BAD thing. An adult friend seems to suffer from undiagnosed Asperger's syndrome and he has been very distressed when my meanings are not exactly the same as his when discussing realms such as 'privacy' and 'medical'. He is highly intelligent and may respond well to reading this blog entry of yours. I hope so!ReplyDelete


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Avatar Hotel, a Joie de Vivre Hotel places you within a mile (2 km) of popular attractions like Santa Clara Convention Center and Intel Museum. This 3-star hotel welcomes guests with 168 rooms and conveniences like an outdoor pool, free in-room WiFi, and free self parking. California's Great America and Levi's Stadium are also nearby.
Sit down for a leisurely bite to eat at the onsite family restaurant, or enjoy a drink at the bar/lounge. For a nice break, mingle with other guests at the free manager's reception.
Avatar Hotel, a Joie de Vivre Hotel's 168 rooms are air-conditioned and provide refrigerators, coffee makers, and free newspapers. Guests can expect free WiFi and 32-inch flat-screen TVs with cable channels. Bathrooms have hair dryers and designer toiletries. Safes, phones, and ironing boards are also standard.
At Avatar Hotel, a Joie de Vivre Hotel, guests enjoy features like an outdoor pool, a fitness center, and a spa tub. A stay here includes free parking. Multilingual staff at the 24-hour front desk can assist with dry cleaning/laundry, luggage storage, and securing valuables. Other amenities at this boutique hotel include free WiFi in public areas, conference space, and a business center.
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In addition to an outdoor pool, Avatar Hotel, a Joie de Vivre Hotel provides a spa tub and a fitness center. The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Guests can enjoy a complimentary manager's reception on select days. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wired and wireless Internet access.
A business center is on site at this 3-star property. This business-friendly hotel also offers multilingual staff, coffee/tea in a common area, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
Avatar Hotel, a Joie de Vivre Hotel is a smoke-free property.
- 24-hour front desk
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- Number of floors - 4
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Avatar Hotel, a Joie de Vivre Hotel offers 168 air-conditioned accommodations, which are accessible via exterior corridors and feature safes and complimentary newspapers. 32-inch flat-screen televisions come with premium cable channels. Refrigerators and coffee/tea makers are provided. Bathrooms include shower/tub combinations, designer toiletries, complimentary toiletries, and hair dryers.
Guests can surf the web using the complimentary wireless Internet access. Business-friendly amenities include desks and phones. Housekeeping is offered daily and hypo-allergenic bedding can be requested.
- Premium TV channels
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- Free cribs/infant beds
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Where to Eat
IHOP - This family restaurant specializes in American cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Open 24 hours.
A complimentary manager's reception is offered on select days.
Nearby Things to Do
An outdoor pool and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a fitness center.
- Golfing nearby
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
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Hotel Policies
Check-in time ends at midnight
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Up to 2 children 17 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for USD 25 per night.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets stay free
- Dogs only
- Restrictions apply
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Pets allowed (no fees)
Optional extras
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 25 per night
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New Year's Eve revelers who don't want to drive to San Francisco events tonight can travel back to Pleasanton and nearby communities on BART until 3 a.m. New Year's Day.
Read the full story here Web Link posted Monday, December 31, 2012, 7:06 AM
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BART will run until 3 a.m.tomorrow morning
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Like this commentPosted by William Tell
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on Dec 31, 2012 at 7:08 pm
Best not to venture into the city if you have to be on BART. Remember, the Oscar Grant crew that caused all sorts of problems on BART a few years back.


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People who loiter in offices, cubicles, and public places and make knowing, often deprecating comments about their employers, co-workers, public figures, and other topics of general interest. Very often their opinions sound informed, but are not.
As I passed the break room, I overheard the loiterati discussing the company's new strategic plan, predicting failure and pink slips.
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Some of our nation's most important events have happened on the National Mall. Having the 11th annual National Book Festival in the shadow of Abraham Lincoln's memorial demonstrates the importance of books and reading in our lives. The free festival is organized and sponsored by The Library of Congress. More than 100 authors, illustrators and poets shared their work with an estimated 200,000 visitors on September 24 and 25. There was something for everyone: graphic novels; history and biographies; fiction and mysteries; and of course, a children's section.
"It's really thrilling to be at the National Book Festival where reading and literacy and good books are the focus for the entire country," said author and illustrator Brian Selznick. He won the Caldecott award for his illustrated mystery, The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
Let's Read, America!
In the Let's Read America pavilion, children made bookmarks, created their own books, listened to stories and participated in other reading-related activities. The theme of this year's festival was "Celebrate the Joys of Reading Aloud." Authors read their books while the illustrations were displayed on large-screen televisions so that everyone could see. Several characters were also on hand to celebrate the day, including The Cat in the Hat, Curious George and Arthur.
Authors, Illustrators and Poets...Oh My!
Authors at the festival stressed the importance of books in children's lives. They recalled books that they read as children and shared their recommendations for books they thought all children should be familiar with. The list included classics such as Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain; Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls; and Charlotte's Web, by E.B. White.
Of course, there are new books that you can dig into as well. Author and actress Julianne Moore was at the festival to share her latest book, Freckleface Strawberry: Best Friends Forever. This is the third book about Freckleface Strawberry, a character based on Moore as a child. She talked to TFK about what it meant to have her work celebrated at the National Book Festival. "It's so fun," she said. "It's a nice way to be part of a book-reading community."
Do you have dreams of becoming an author? Author and illustrator Tomie dePaola has this advice: "Read, read, read then read some more!"
To learn more about the festival, go to loc.gov/festival.