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Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- William Daniell 1769–1837
- Part of
- A Voyage Round Great Britain
- Medium
- Aquatint on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 162 × 241 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by Tate Gallery Publications 1979
- Reference
Catalogue entry
T02721-T03024 and T03239-T03240 [from] IMPRESSIONS FROM T02415-T02720 printed 1978–9 [T02415-T03024; T03239-T03240; complete]
With engraved titles and publication lines 306 aquatints, various sizes, images approximately 6 3/8 × 9 7/16 (16.3 × 24)
Presented by the Tate Gallery Publications Department 1979
Prov: published by the Tate Gallery Publications Department 1978–9.
Lit: as for T02415-T02720; see also Thomas Sutton, The Daniells, Artists and Travellers, 1954, pp.119–36, 165–72.
In the following list of the individual subjects, the acquisition number of the copper-plate precedes that of the print titles are as engraved on the plates.
T02415/2721 The Lands-end, Cornwall
T02416/2722 The long-ships light house, off the landsend, Cornwall
T02417/2723 The entrance to Portreath, Cornwall
T02418/2724 Boscastle Pier on the coast of Cornwall
T02419/2725 Hartland pier, North Devon
T02420/2726 Clovelly, on the Coast North Devon
T02421/2727 Ilfracomb, on the coast of North Devon
T02422/2728 View of Ilfracombe, form Hilsborough
T02423/2729 Near Combmartin, on the coast of North Devon
T02424/2730 Lynmouth, on the coast of North Devon
T02425/2731 ST0 Donats, Glamorganshire
T02426/2732 Britton Ferry, Glamorganshire
T02427/2733 The Mumbles light-house, in Swansea bay
T02428/2734 The Worms-head, in Tenby bay
T02429/2735 Tenby, Pembrokeshire
T02430/2736 The Eligug-stack, near ST0 Gowans-head, Pembrokeshire
T02431/2737 Solva, near ST0 Davids, Pembrokeshire
T02432/2738 View of the entrance to Fishguard, form Goodwych sands
T02433/2739 Goodwych Pier, near Fishguard, Pembrokeshire
T02434/2740 View near Aberystwith, Cardiganshire
T02435/2741 Barmouth, Merionethshire
T02436/2742 View of Caernarvon Castle, from Anglesea
T02437/2743 The Harbour light-house, Holyhead
T02438/2744 Light-house on the South Stack, Holyhead
T02439/2745 Part of the South Stack, Holyhead
T02440/2746 The Rope bridge, near the Light-house, Holyhead
T02441/2747 Black marble Quarry, near red wharf bay, Anglesea
T02442/2748 The entrance to Amlwch harbour, Anglesea
T02443/2749 Red Wharf Bay, Anglesea
T02444/2750 Beaumaris Castle, Anglesea
T02445/2751 View on Puffin Island, near Anglesea
T02446/2752 The Bath, built by Lord Penryn, near Bangor, N. Wales
T02447/2753 Penman-maur, taken from near Aber, N. Wales
T02448/2754 View of Conway Castle, Caernavonshire
T02449/2755 The light-house on Point of Air, Flintshire
T02450/2756 View near Hoyle-lake, Cheshire
T02451/2757 The Towns-end Mill, Liverpool
T02452/2758 Seacombe Ferry, Liverpool
T02453/2759 Liverpool, taken from the opposite side of the River
T02454/2760 Lancaster Castle
T02455/2761 View near Lower Heysham, Lancashire
T02456/2762 Distant View of Whitbarrow Scar, Westmoreland
T02457/2763 Castle-head, Westmoreland
T02458/2764 Peel Castle, Lancashire
T02459/2765 Whitehaven, Cumberland
T02460/2766 Harrington near Whitehaven Cumberland
T02461/2767 Mary Port, Cumberland
T02462/2768 Carlaverock Castle, Dumfrieshire
T02463/2769 Kirkudbright
T02464/2770 The Mull of Galloway, Wigtonshire
T02465/2771 Port Patrick, Wigtonshire
T02466/2772 Cardness Castle, near Gatehouse, Kirkcudbrightshire
T02467/2773 Near Carsleith, Galloway
T02468/2774 Wigton, Galloway
T02469/2775 Cree-town Kirkudbrightshire
T02470/2776 The Crag of Ailsa
T02471/2777 Culzean Castle, Ayrshire
T02472/2778 Distant View of Ayr
T02473/2779 Pier at Ardrossan, Ayrshire
T02474/2780 The Isle of Arran, taken near Ardrossan
T02475/2781 Ardgowan, Renfrewshire
T02476/2782 Greenock, on the Clyde
T02477/2783 Steam boat on the Clyde near Dumbarton
T02478/2784 Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute
T02479/2785 Loch Ranza - Isle of Arran
T02480/2786 Duntrune Castle, Loch Crenan, Argylshire
T02481/2787 Loch Swene, Argylshire
T02482/2788 Rassella near Kilmartin Loch Crenan, Argylshire
T02483/2789 On the Isle of Jura
T02484/2790 Inverary Castle, Argylshire
T02485/2791 Dunolly Castle, near Oban, Argylshire
T02486/2792 Dunstaffnage Castle, Argylshire
T02487/2793 Clam-shell Cave, Staffa, Iona in the distance
T02488/2794 Exterior of Fingal's Cave, Staffa
T02489/2795 Entrance to Fingal's Cave, Staffa
T02490/2796 In Fingals Cave, Staffa
T02491/2797 Staffa near Fingals Cave
T02492/2798 The Cormorants Cave, Staffa
T02493/2799 View from the Island of Staffa
T02494/2800 The Island of Staffa from the East
T02495/2801 The Island of Staffa, from the South West
T02496/2802 View of Iona, from the N. East
T02497/2803 The Cathedral at Iona
T02498/2804 View of Ben-more, from near Ulva house
T02499/2805 Remains of the Chapel &c. on Inch Kenneth
T02500/2806 Gribune-head in Mull
T02501/2807 Loch-na-gael, near Knock on Mull
T02502/2808 Distant view of Cruachan-ben, taken near Arros bridge, Isle of Mull
T02503/2809 Arros Castle, Isle of Mull
T02504/2810 Tobermory, on the Isle of Mull
T02505/2811 Mingarry Castle, Argylshire
T02506/2812 Ardnamurchan point, Argylshire
T02507/2813 Scoor Eig, on the Isle of Eig
T02508/2814 Part of the Isle of Rum
T02509/2815 Armidal, the Seat of Lord Macdonald, Isle of Skye
T02510/2816 Iloransay, Isle of Skye
T02511/2817 Balmacarro-house, Loch-alsh, Roshire
T02512/2818 Castle Ellen-Donan
T02513/2819 Loch-Duich, Ross-shire
T02514/2820 Ilan-dreoch-Glenbeg, Invernesshire
T02515/2821 The bay of Barrisdale, in Loch Hourne
T02516/2822 Loch Hourne head
T02517/2823 Glen-coe taken near Ballachulish
T02518/2824 Near Kylakin, Skye
T02519/2825 Liveras, near Broadford, Skye
T02520/2826 Portree on the Isle of Skye
T02521/2827 Glenvargle bridge, near Portree, Skye
T02522/2828 Duntulm, Isle of Skye
T02523/2829 Dunvegan Castle, Isle of Skye
T02524/2830 Dunvegan Castle
T02525/2831 Little Brieshmeal, near Talisker, Skye
T02526/2832 Loch Scavig, Skye
T02527/2833 Loch Coruisq near Loch Scavig
T02528/2834 The Coolin, taken from Loch Slapin
T02529/2835 From the Isle of Rasay, looking Westward
T02530/2836 Castle Broichin on the Isle of Raasay
T02531/2837 Rowadill in Harris
T02532/2838 Light House on the Isle of Scalpa, Harris
T02533/2839 Part of the Northern face of one of the Shiant Isles
T02534/2840 Near view of one of the Shiant Isles
T02535/2841 Stornaway, on the Isle of Lewis
T02536/2842 Remains of a Temple at Galston, Isle of Lewis
T02537/2843 Druidical stone at Strather, near Barvas, Isle of Lewis
T02538/2844 The Gair-loch, Ross-shire
T02539/2845 Gair-loch head, Ross-shire
T02540/2846 Creen-stone rock, Loch Broom
T02541/2847 Pier at Tanera, Loch Broom
T02542/2848 Ben Sulvhein, from Loch-Inver
T02543/2849 View of Cuniag, from Loch Inver
T02544/2850 Unapool in Kyles-cu Assynt
T02545/2851 Rispand, Durness
T02546/2852 Entrance to the Cave of Smowe
T02547/2853 Whiten-head, Loch Eribol
T02548/2854 Bay of Tongue
T02549/2855 Strath-naver, Sutherlandshire
T02550/2856 The Clett-rock, Holborn-head
T02551/2857 Thurso, from near Holborn head
T02552/2858 Castle Sinclair, Thurso
T02553/2859 Castle Hill near Thurso
T02554/2860 Mey Castle, Caithness
T02555/2861 The Ferry at Scarskerry, Caithness
T02556/2862 Near the Berry-head, Hoy, Orkney
T02557/2863 The Snook, Hoy, Orkney
T02558/2864 The Old Man of Hoy
T02559/2865 Stromness, Orkney
T02560/2866 Stones of Stennis, Orkney
T02561/2867 The Cathedral of ST0 Magnus, Kirkwall, Orkney
T02562/2868 S.E. view of the Cathedral & Palace, at Kirkwall, Orkney
T02563/2869 Kirkwall, Orkney, from the Bay
T02564/2870 N. West View of the Cathedral, Kirkwall
T02565/2871 Tower of the Bishops Palace, Kirkwall
T02566/2872 Remains of the Earls Palace, Kirkwall
T02567/2873 Light House on the Start, Isle of Sandy, Orkney
T02568/2874 John O'Groats, Caithness
T02569/2875 Duncansby stacks, Caithness
T02570/2876 Keiss Castle, Caithness
T02571/2877 Ackergill Tower, Caithnesshire
T02572/2878 Castles Sinclair & Girnigo, Caithness
T02573/2879 Wick, Caithness
T02574/2880 Old Wick Castle, Caithness
T02575/2881 The Stack of Hempriggs, Caithness
T02576/2882 Scene at Hempriggs, Caithness
T02577/2883 Forse Castle, Sutherland
T02578/2884 Dunbeath Castle, Caithness
T02579/2885 Berrydale, Caithness
T02580/2886 Castle of Berrydale
T02581/2887 Helmsdale, Sutherlandshire
T02582/2888 Dunrobin Castle, Sutherlandshire
T02583/2889 Dunrobin Castle, from the N.E. Sutherlandshire
T02584/2890 Dornoch, Sutherlandshire
T02585/2891 Bonar Bridge
T02586/2892 Cromarty
T02587/2893 Pier at Fortrose, Ross-shire
T02588/2894 Inverness
T02589/2895 Nairn
T02590/2896 Obelisk at Forres
T02591/2897 Nelson's Tower, Forres
T02592/2898 Brugh-head, Murrayshire
T02593/2899 Coxtown Tower, near Elgin
T02594/2900 Finlater Castle, Banffshire
T02595/2901 Boyne Castle, Banffshire
T02596/2902 Duff-house, Banff
T02597/2903 Banff
T02598/2904 Frazerburgh, Aberdeenshire
T02599/2905 Kinnaird Head, Aberdeenshire
T02600/2906 Peterhead, Aberdeenshire
T02601/2907 Slanes Castle, Aberdeenshire
T02602/2908 Bridge of Don, Old Aberdeen
T02603/2909 Aberdeen
T02604/2910 Dunotter Castle, Kincardineshire
T02605/2911 Montrose, Forfarshire
T02606/2912 Inverbernie Bridge
T02607/2913 Broughty Castle, Forfarshire
T02608/2914 Dundee, Forfarshire
T02609/2915 ST0 Andrews, Fifeshire
T02610/2916 Wemys Castle, Fifeshire
T02611/2917 Distant view of Edinburgh, with Wemys Castle
T02612/2918 Edinburgh, from the Castle
T02613/2919 Edinburgh, with part of the North Bridge & Castle
T02614/2920 Edinburgh, from the Calton hill
T02615/2921 Leith
T02616/2922 Tantallon Castle, Haddingtonshire
T02617/2923 The Bass Rock
T02618/2924 Dunbar, Haddingtonshire
T02619/2925 Berwick upon Tweed
T02620/2926 Castle on Holy Island, Northumberland
T02621/2927 Bamborough Castle, Northumberland
T02622/2928 North Shields, Northumberland
T02623/2929 Tynemouth, Northumberland
T02624/2930 Sunderland Pier, Durham
T02625/2931 Whitby, Yorkshire
T02626/2932 Whitby Abbey, Yorkshire
T02627/2933 Scarborough, Yorkshire
T02628/2934 Light-house on Flambro'-head, Yorkshire
T02629/2935 Boston, Lincolnshire
T02630/2936 Yarmouth from Gorlstone
T02631/2937 Lowestoff, Suffolk
T02632/2938 Southwold, Suffolk
T02633/2939 The Orford Ness Light houses, Suffolk
T02634/2940 Harwich, Essex
T02635/2941 Mistley near Harwich, Essex
T02636/2942 South End, Essex
T02637/2943 Sheerness
T02638/2944 The Reculvers
T02639/2945 Pier at Margate
T02640/2946 North Foreland Light House
T02641/2947 Broadstairs
T02642/2948 Ramsgate
T02643/2949 Deal Castle
T02644/2950 Walmer Castle
T02645/2951 Dover Castle
T02646/2952 Dover, from Shakespears Cliff
T02647/2953 Shakespears Cliff
T02648/2954 Folkestone, Kent
T02649/3239 Hythe
T02650/2955 Dungeness Light House
T02651/2956 Rye, Sussex
T02652/2957 Winchelsea
T02653/2958 Hastings, from near the White Rock
T02654/2959 Hastings, from the East Cliff
T02655/2960 Near Beachy-head
T02656/3240 Brighton
T02657/2961 Near Regents Square, Brighton
T02658/2962 Ovington near Brighton
T02659/2963 Shoreham
T02660/2964 Pier at Little Hampton
T02661/2965 View from the Park, Arundel
T02662/2966 Bognor
T02663/2967 View from Portsdown Hill
T02664/2968 West Cowes
T02665/2969 Lord Henry Seymours Castle
T02666/2970 Mr. Nash's Castle
T02667/2971 Ryde
T02668/2972 Brading Harbour
T02669/2973 Shanklin Chine
T02670/2974 Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight
T02671/2975 Needles Cliff, & Needles, Isle of Wight
T02672/2976 Distant view of the Needles & Hurst Castle
T02673/2977 Christchurch
T02674/2978 Poole, Dorsetshire
T02675/2979 Corfe Castle
T02676/2980 Swanage
T02677/2981 Lulworth Cove
T02678/2982 Weymouth
T02679/2983 Light-house, Isle of Portland
T02680/2984 ST0 Catherine's Chapel, Dorset
T02681/2985 Bridport Harbour, Dorset
T02682/2986 Lyme Regis, from Charmouth, Dorset
T02683/2987 Sidmouth, Devon
T02684/2988 Exmouth, Devon
T02685/2989 Teignmouth, Devon
T02686/2990 Babicombe, Devon
T02687/2991 Torbay, Devon
T02688/2992 Tor-abbey, Devon
T02689/2993 Tor-quay, Devon
T02690/2994 Brixham, Torbay, Devon
T02691/2995 Entrance to Dartmouth, Devon
T02692/2996 The Junction of the Dart with the Sea
T02693/2997 Near Kingswear, on the Dart, Devon
T02694/2998 Kingswear, Devon
T02695/2999 Salcombe, Devon
T02696/3000 Bovisand, near Plymouth
T02697/3001 Quay at Straddon point, near Plymouth
T02698/3002 The Citadel, Plymouth
T02699/3003 Catwater, Plymouth, from the Citadel
T02700/3004 Mount Edgecumbe, from the Citadel, Plymouth
T02701/3005 View from Mount Edgecumbe
T02702/3006 Hamoaze, from Mount Edgecumbe
T02703/3007 Port wrinkle, Cornwall
T02704/3008 East Looe, Cornwall
T02705/3009 Polperro, Cornwall
T02706/3010 Fowey, from Bodenick, Cornwall
T02707/3011 Fowey Castle, Cornwall
T02708/3012 Polkerris, Cornwall
T02709/3013 Mevagissy, Cornwall
T02710/3014 Mevagissy, Cornwall
T02711/3015 Gorran haven, Cornwall
T02712/3016 Port-looe, Cornwall
T02713/3017 Falmouth, Cornwall
T02714/3018 The Lizard Light-houses, Cornwall
T02715/3019 Mullyan Cove, Cornwall
T02716/3020 Near Mullyan Cove, Cornwall
T02717/3021 ST0 Michaels mount, Cornwall
T02718/3022 ST0 Michaels Mount, Cornwall
T02719/3023 Penzance, Cornwall
T02720/3024 The Land's end, Cornwall
William Daniell's A Voyage Round Great Britain was the most ambitious of the many topographical publications produced in England during the early nineteenth century and its plates are a highpoint in the history of aquatint engraving. The work comprised a lengthy descriptive text and 308 aquatints, engraved by Daniell himself and hand-coloured through the agency of William Timms. The first half of the whole work, i.e. volumes I–IV, was issued both in parts (two prints to a part) and in volumes between 1814 and 1820. Volumes V–VIII appeared in volume form only between 1821 and 1825. Daniell made the original pencil drawings on a series of tours between 1813 and 1823, the first two in company with Richard Ayton, who wrote the text for volumes I–II. The remaining six volumes have text by the artist himself. Daniell's route took him clockwise round the coast, commencing and finishing at Lands End. For the first four volumes the firm of Longman shared the risk of publication with him. The retail price of parts was originally 10s. 6d. and of volumes 7 guineas. The last four volumes were published by Daniell alone. Much information about the production and financing of the Voyage survives in the Longman account books (see Iain Bain's publications of 1966 and 1978 cited above).
Some of the plates were reissued after Daniell's death, for example by Bohn in the 1850s. In the present century, Thomas Ross & Son held a contract from Nattali & Maurice from 1948 onwards for printing and publishing the Voyage. At an unknown date two of the copper-plates ('Dunsky Castle' and 'Hull') were losT0 A final edition of the surviving 306 plates was published in 1978–9 by the Tate Gallery Publications Department in association with Editions Alecto. This edition, limited to 90 sets, was printed by Tisiphone Etching Ltd and the Islington Studios, under the supervision of Charles Newington and Frank Tinsley. The impressions were left uncoloured, thus displaying the delicate tones of Daniell's aquatinting. Ayton's and Daniell's 900 page text was also reprinted on this occasion and published in two volumes in 1978 by the Tate Gallery Publications Department and the Scolar Press. These volumes also include small monochrome reproductions of all the plates.
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BOSTON (AP) - A woman revealed her new face on Wednesday, six years after her ex-husband disfigured her by dousing her with industrial-strength lye, and said she went through "what some may call hell" but has found a way to be happy.
Carmen Blandin Tarleton had face transplant surgery at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital in February and spoke publicly for the first time at a news conference at the hospital Wednesday.
"I'm now in a better place, mentally and emotionally, than I ever could have imagined six years ago," said Tarleton, a former transplant nurse.
"I want to share my experience with others, so they may find that strength inside themselves to escape their own pain."
In 2007, the 44-year-old mother of two was attacked by her then-husband, Herbert Rodgers, who believed she was seeing another man.
Police say he went to the house looking for that man, then went into a fury directed toward Tarleton, striking her with a bat and pouring lye from a squeeze bottle onto her face.
When police arrived, Tarleton was trying to crawl to a shower to wash away the chemical. It already had distorted her face.
In 2009, Rodgers pleaded guilty to maiming Tarleton in exchange for a prison sentence of at least 30 years.
"I learned that ... forgiveness doesn't condone anything he did and it's not about him - it's about forgiving him, it's forgiving myself, it's allowing myself to move forward and not getting stuck in the tragedy of that night," said Tarleton, who has undergone 55 surgeries during the past five years.
During the face transplant surgery, more than 30 surgeons, anesthesiologists and nurses worked for more than 15 hours to replace her skin, muscles, tendons and nerves, the hospital said.
The face donor was a Williamstown, Massachusetts, woman named Cheryl Denelli Righter who died of a sudden stroke, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Righter's daughter, Marinda, told Tarleton on Wednesday that she looked beautiful, adding she was certain her mother had somehow picked Tarleton. "They are both mothers, they are both survivors, they are both beacons of light," she said.
Righter said that after meeting Tarleton for the first time Tuesday, she felt overjoyed for the first time in a long time.
"I get to feel my mother's skin again, I get to see my mother's freckles, and through you, I get to see my mother live on," she said before going to Tarleton to hug and kiss her again.
"This is truly a blessing."
Tarleton is legally blind and read her remarks from a tablet. She thanked Righter's family for what she called "a tremendous gift" that's greatly alleviated the physical pain she'd felt daily.
She referred to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing and said the city is "facing the challenges of pain and forgiveness." "There is a lot to learn and take from horrific events that happen," Tarleton said.
"I want others to know that they need not give up on feeling (like) themselves when tragedy strikes, but instead they can make a choice to find the good and allow that to help them heal." Tarleton described how it feels to touch and wash her face since her transplant.
She said she still doesn't have full sensation on her new face, but she is experiencing tingling in certain areas. As all that tissue starts to settle, she feels the sensation change almost every week, she said.
The tingling and other sensations are triggered by the regrowth of nerves that were connected during transplant surgery, said Dr. Bohdan Pomahac, the lead surgeon for the face transplant and the director of Plastic Surgery Transplantation at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
"Carmen will be able to feel her face, and gradually, close to what we feel (on) our faces," he said.
"I have been on this incredible journey for the last six years and receiving this wonderful gift ends this chapter of my life," Tarleton said. "What a great way to move forward with what life has for me now."


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Eric Stults (2-0, 3.52) vs. Tim Lincecum (1-1, 2.96).
COMMENTS: If the first two games of this series are any indication, then expect an asteroid or a jetliner to crash into AT&T Park tonight. After all, if the Dodgers and Giants haven't exactly been playing disastrous baseball, they've certainly been playing games filled misadventure and mayhem.
Such is life in the NL West, where expectations are low and no one seems to mind. (The Red Sox's win streak just ended! OMG!) Giants fans will treat tonight's rubber match like Game 7 of the World Series, to which we say: Bring it on.
Which they will happily do, since the Dodgers have never beaten Lincecum—who has recovered from a rough start to strike out 25 over his last two games. Hmmm, maybe I shouldn't have been so cocky in the previous paragraph.
Stults is in the unenviable position of facing the reigning Cy Young winner while following the act of his own team's ace. But the under-appreciated Stults knows unenviable; workmanlike performances are becoming his specialty. If he can once again keep the Dodgers in the game, he'll be under-appreciated just a little less.


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Most parents have comforted their child after the occasional nightmare. But if your child has ever experienced what's known as a night terror (or sleep terror), his or her fear was likely inconsolable, no matter what you tried.
A night terror is a sleep disruption that seems similar to a nightmare, but with a far more dramatic presentation. Though night terrors can be alarming for parents who witness them, they're not usually cause for concern or a sign of a deeper medical issue.
During a typical night, sleep occurs in several stages. Each is associated with particular brain activity, and it's during the rapid eye movement (REM) stage that most dreaming occurs.
Night terrors happen during deep non-REM sleep. Unlike nightmares (which occur during REM sleep), a night terror is not technically a dream, but more like a sudden reaction of fear that happens during the transition from one sleep phase to another.
Night terrors usually occur about 2 or 3 hours after a child falls asleep, when sleep transitions from the deepest stage of non-REM sleep to lighter REM sleep, a stage where dreams occur. Usually this transition is a smooth one. But rarely, a child becomes agitated and frightened — and that fear reaction is a night terror.
During a night terror, a child might suddenly sit upright in bed and shout out or scream in distress. The child's breathing and heartbeat might be faster, he or she might sweat, thrash around, and act upset and scared. After a few minutes, or sometimes longer, a child simply calms down and returns to sleep.
Unlike nightmares, which kids often remember, kids won't have any memory of a night terror the next day because they were in deep sleep when it happened — and there are no mental images to recall.
What Causes Night Terrors?
Night terrors are caused by over-arousal of the central nervous system (CNS) during sleep. This may happen because the CNS (which regulates sleep and waking brain activity) is still maturing. Some kids may inherit a tendency for this over-arousal — about 80% who have night terrors have a family member who also experienced them or sleepwalking (a similar type of sleep disturbance).
Night terrors have been noted in kids who are:
- overtired or ill, stressed, or fatigued
- taking a new medication
- sleeping in a new environment or away from home
Night terrors are relatively rare — they happen in only 3-6% of kids, while almost every child will have a nightmare occasionally. Night terrors usually occur between the ages of 4 and 12, but have been reported in kids as young as 18 months. They seem to be a little more common among boys.
A child might have a single night terror or several before they cease altogether. Most of the time, night terrors simply disappear on their own as the nervous system matures.
Coping With Night Terrors
Night terrors can be very upsetting for parents, who might feel helpless at not being able to comfort or soothe their child. The best way to handle a night terror is to wait it out patiently and make sure the child doesn't get hurt by thrashing around. Kids usually will settle down and return to sleep on their own in a few minutes.
It's best not to try to wake kids during a night terror. Attempts usually don't work, and kids who do wake are likely to be disoriented and confused, and may take longer to settle down and go back to sleep.
There's no treatment for night terrors, but you can help prevent them. Try to:
- reduce your child's stress
- establish and stick to a bedtime routine that's simple and relaxing
- make sure your child gets enough rest
- prevent your child from becoming overtired by staying up too late
Understanding night terrors can reduce your worry — and help you get a good night's sleep yourself. But if night terrors happen repeatedly, talk to your doctor about whether a referral to a sleep specialist is needed.


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Lo & Behold® Purple Haze Butterfly Bush
Buddleia 'Purple Haze'
Height: 3 feet
Spread: 4 feet
Hardiness Zone: 5
Other Names: Summer Lilac
Group/Class: Lo & Behold Series
Brand: Proven Winners
A valuable compact garden plant with showy purple spikes of flowers in late summer when little else blooms, and attracts butterflies; may treat as a perennial and cut it back to the ground each spring as it regrows vigorously and blooms on new wood
Ornamental Features
Lo & Behold® Purple Haze Butterfly Bush features showy panicles of fragrant purple flowers with orange eyes and a white ring at the ends of the branches from mid summer to mid fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has grayish green deciduous foliage. The fuzzy narrow leaves do not develop any appreciable fall color.
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Lo & Behold® Purple Haze Butterfly Bush is a multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with a mounded form. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.
This is a relatively low maintenance shrub, and is best pruned in late winter once the threat of extreme cold has passed. It is a good choice for attracting bees, butterflies and hummingbirds to your yard, but is not particularly attractive to deer who tend to leave it alone in favor of tastier treats. It has no significant negative characteristics.
Lo & Behold® Purple Haze Butterfly Bush is recommended for the following landscape applications;
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- Container Planting
Planting & Growing
Lo & Behold® Purple Haze Butterfly Bush will grow to be about 3 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 4 feet. It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn't necessarily require facer plants in front. It grows at a fast rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 20 years.
This shrub should only be grown in full sunlight. It is very adaptable to both dry and moist locations, and should do just fine under typical garden conditions. It is not particular as to soil type or pH, and is able to handle environmental salt. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.
Lo & Behold® Purple Haze Butterfly Bush makes a fine choice for the outdoor landscape, but it is also well-suited for use in outdoor pots and containers. Because of its height, it is often used as a 'thriller' in the 'spiller-thriller-filler' container combination; plant it near the center of the pot, surrounded by smaller plants and those that spill over the edges. It is even sizeable enough that it can be grown alone in a suitable container. Note that when grown in a container, it may not perform exactly as indicated on the tag - this is to be expected. Also note that when growing plants in outdoor containers and baskets, they may require more frequent waterings than they would in the yard or garden. Be aware that in our climate, most plants cannot be expected to survive the winter if left in containers outdoors, and this plant is no exception. Contact our experts for more information on how to protect it over the winter months.
In our experience, this plant is often able to survive in Zone 4 if given additional winter cover and specific cultural care. Please speak with Sargent's sales staff to learn how to care for this plant.
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We encourage you to visit the garden center to explore our full offerings and connect with our team of experts. Our team is on hand to help with any questions you have, and can help you with memorials, deliveries, special orders, and tree planting and more…


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Kerdalo Gardens in Brittany : Created by Peter Wolkonsky between 1965 and 1970. Kerdalo Garden forms part of a 16 ha valley opening up in front of the manor on a more structured garden with Mediterranean terraces in the background. It is a closed, secret world, natural ...
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Come see this brand new renovated 1st fl. apartment with all new appliances located in Clifton. Apartment has 3 bedrooms, living room dining room and 1 full bathroom. . Apartment also features central air, dishwasher in-unit laundry and parking for 1 car are included.
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It was two weeks before Election Day when Mitt Romney's political director signed a memo that all but ridiculed the notion that the Republican presidential nominee, with his "better ground game," could lose the key state of Ohio or the election. The race is "unmistakably moving in Mitt Romney's direction," the memo said.
But the claims proved wildly off the mark, a fact embarrassingly underscored when the high-tech voter turnout system that Romney himself called "state of the art" crashed at the worst moment, on Election Day.
To this day, Romney's aides wonder how it all went so wrong.
They console each other with claims that the election was much closer than realized, saying that Romney would be president if roughly 370,000 people in swing states had voted differently. Romney himself blamed demographic shifts and Obama's "gifts": federal largesse targeted to Democratic constituencies.
But a reconstruction by the Globe of how the campaign unfolded shows that Romney's problems went deeper than is widely understood. His campaign made a series of costly financial, strategic, and political mistakes that, in retrospect, all but assured the candidate's defeat, given the revolutionary turnout tactics and tactical smarts of President Obama's operation.
One of the gravest errors, many say, was the Romney team's failure, until too late in the campaign, to sell voters on the candidate's personal qualities and leadership gifts. The effect was to open the way for Obama to define Romney through an early blitz of negative advertising. Election Day polls showed that the vast majority of voters concluded that Romney did not really care about average people.
These failures are now the subject of scrutiny by national GOP officials who say they plan to "reverse engineer" the Romney effort to understand what went wrong. A number of Romney's top aides stressed in interviews that, while they remain proud of their work, they feel an obligation to acknowledge their numerous mistakes so lessons are learned.
Rich Beeson, the Romney political director who coauthored the now-discredited Ohio memo, said that only after the election did he realize what Obama was doing with so much manpower on the ground. Obama had more than 3,000 paid workers nationwide, compared with 500 for Romney, and hundreds of thousands of volunteers.
"Now I know what they were doing with all the staffs and offices," Beeson said. "They were literally creating a one-to-one contact with voters," something that Romney did not have the staff to match.
Republicans, as it happened, had lost track of their own winning formula.
Democrats said they followed the trail blazed in 2004 by the Bush campaign which used an array of databases to "microtarget" voters and a sophisticated field organization to turn them out. Obama won in part by updating the GOP's innovation.
But losing seemed a remote and unlikely prospect when Romney gathered advisers in Boston and planned the campaign they all believed would put him in the White House.
Private nature
Romney's inner circle of family and friends understood the candidate's weakness all too well: He was a deeply private person, with an aversion to revealing too much of himself to the public. They worried that unless the candidate opened up, he would too easily be reduced to caricature, as a calculating man of astounding wealth, a man unable to relate to average folks, a man whose Mormon faith put him outside the mainstream.
Romney's eldest son, Tagg, drew up a list of 12 people whose lives had been helped by his father in ways that were publicly unknown but had been deeply personal and significant, such as assisting a dying teenager in writing a will or quietly helping families in financial need. Such compelling vignettes would have been welcome material in almost any other campaign. But Romney's strategists worried that stressing his personal side would backfire, and a rift opened between some in Romney's circle and his strategists that lasted until the convention. More than being reticent, Romney was at first far from sold on a second presidential run. Haunted by his 2008 loss, he initially told his family he would not do it. While candidates often try to portray themselves as reluctant, Tagg insisted his father's stance was genuine.
"He wanted to be president less than anyone I've met in my life. He had no desire to . . . run," said Tagg, who worked with his mother, Ann, to persuade his father to seek the presidency. "If he could have found someone else to take his place . . . he would have been ecstatic to step aside. He is a very private person who loves his family deeply and wants to be with them, but he has deep faith in God and he loves his country, but he doesn't love the attention."
Adding to the discomfort was Romney's inability to persuade one of his most valued advisers to join the team. Mike Murphy, who had engineered Romney's successful race for governor of Massachusetts, understood Romney like few others. While Murphy said he was flattered by Romney's overture, he decided to remain in California, where he was working as a screenwriter and part-time political commentator. So Romney eventually picked as his strategist a man with whom Murphy had repeatedly clashed, Stuart Stevens.
Stevens had helped guide the presidential campaigns of George W. Bush, but he was equally well known as an author and screenwriter. He had scripted episodes of "Northern Exposure" and told remarkable stories about himself, such as when he wrote in Outside magazine about taking "some of the banned performance-enhancing drugs that are often abused in the endurance sports I participate in, like cycling and cross-country skiing." He seemed like an unusual match for the strait-laced Romney, but some felt that was precisely what the candidate needed.
Stevens had clashed over the years with other campaign consultants, and sniping about his work from the outside came quickly. He had worked on Romney's 2008 campaign, but had to share power with other advisers, an unworkable arrangement. This time, Romney promised Stevens and partner Russ Schriefer full control.
Stevens wanted to keep the focus on Obama's handling of the economy and what Romney would do to fix it. A candidate's biography was of lesser importance. "When you come into a job interview, you don't start showing family pictures," Stevens said in a postelection interview.
Family members kept pushing for a film or series of advertisements that would show how Romney had helped average people in personal ways, based on Tagg's list of 12 people, along with clips about how Romney raised his family. The film project was to be overseen by documentary filmmaker Greg Whiteley, a longtime family friend who had been allowed to film portions of Romney's 2008 campaign. But the plan was rejected, leading some in the family to blame Stevens.
Stevens said he did not kill the documentary. But he said he did have a strategic vision that went another way, one he grounded in four questions he put to voters in focus groups.
"There [were] different areas that you could go into," Stevens said. "Talk about Mitt's business record, Mitt's personal story, what Mitt would do as president . . . and why Barack Obama is bad. We tested all four equally. We were open to doing any combination, and the one that tested far and away the best, people wanted to know what Mitt Romney would do as president."
Romney made the final call: This was Stevens' campaign to win or lose. And the outlook seemed bright. The veteran GOP pollster Romney hired, Neil Newhouse, found that only 20 percent of those surveyed thought the country was on the right track.
It was, Newhouse said, "extraordinarily negative. We figured those numbers probably wouldn't hold, but if they were anything near that, we were probably in very good shape."
Organizing strategy
President Obama's strategy had very different roots.
His national field director, Jeremy Bird, drew his inspiration from the time around 2001 when he witnessed, as a young Harvard Divinity student, a group of African-American students in a Roxbury church, pressing their case for school funding with members of the Boston City Council.
It was a model, in miniature, of grass-roots engagement that would shape Bird's career in politics and attract him to Obama, who had himself been a community organizer.
Bird was confident that Obama would commit massive resources to building an organization that zeroed in on individual voters. It would be like that Roxbury church encounter, multiplied a thousand times.
"I had watched a group of young people come together; I watched them organize at the local level," Bird said.
And Bird had learned another lesson. He lived in Massachusetts when Romney was elected governor, had studied him and voted against him, and was determined to do everything possible to prevent him from becoming president.
So it was that Bird and his colleagues drew up plans to expand the electorate into one that could reelect Obama. In Ohio, for example, a "barber shop and beauty salon" strategy was designed to get likely Obama supporters, particularly African-Americans, to register to vote when they went for a haircut. "Faith captains" were assigned to churches to encourage parishioners to turn out for Obama. "Condo captains" were told to know every potential Obama voter in their building. The goal was like nothing seen in presidential politics: Each Obama worker would be responsible for about 50 voters in key precincts over the course of the campaign. By Election Day, that worker would know much about the lives of those 50 voters, including whether they had made it to the polls. Romney's team talked about a ratio of thousands of voters per worker. It would prove to be a crucial difference.
Technical edge
A first-class ground operation in 2012 required leading-edge technology, and here also an early gap opened between Obama and Romney.
The goal was to create the political equivalent of a Facebook or Twitter, a platform that would change the way presidential campaigns are run. And Obama's team found just the man for the job: a 34-year-old programming whiz named Harper Reed, who got his start as an 11-year-old pecking on an Apple II and had never held a top job in a political campaign. With his wildly flowing black hair, big earrings, and bigger glasses, he was not long on humility — his website proclaimed that "I am pretty awesome" — but his talents were real.
As Reed assembled his team, he insisted on being given leeway to hire some of the best techies in the country, from Facebook, Craigslist, Twitter. Moreover, he insisted the team be largely internal, rather than have the enterprise be divided up among outside consultants.
The group was haunted by the failure of a similar venture in Obama's 2008 campaign, when a get-out-the-vote computer program called Houdini crashed and could have cost the election if the race had been closer. This time, Reed and his team created a successor that they named Gordon, after the person who punched Houdini in the stomach shortly before the magician died.
Separately, the Obama team created a system called Narwahl, named after an Arctic whale, which linked disparate computer programs together. Narwahl and Gordon would be tested repeatedly in exercises that Obama's team called "game day." Every imaginable failure would be thrown at the systems — hacker attacks, database meltdowns, Internet failures — and the team would be challenged to write up a manual for how to deal with each disaster. It was, they said, more fun than the fantasy war game Dungeons & Dragons.
Election app
Zac Moffatt, Romney's digital director, did not have the luxury of Reed's time or resources. Moffatt came from the world of politics, had worked at the Republican National Committee and had long believed Romney would be the best GOP candidate for president.
Moffatt played catch-up from the start. He had 14 people working for him in the primaries and then, around May 1, he submitted a general election plan that required at least 110 people and would eventually have 160. Obama was far ahead. Moffatt recalled his assignment in daunting terms: "Can we do 80 percent of what the Obama campaign is doing, in 20 percent of the time, at 10 percent of the cost?"
Moffatt's team nonetheless managed to create big projects on short notice. For example, one of the highest priorities was a Facebook app that would enable the Romney campaign to locate voters who otherwise could not be found by telephone. By some estimates, half of younger voters do not have a landline or cannot be reached by cellphone. Three weeks before Election Day, the app was unveiled by the campaign and downloaded by 40,000 Romney supporters.
There was only one problem. Months earlier, Obama's campaign had developed a similar app, which had been downloaded by 1 million people.
Defining Romney
David Axelrod, Obama's senior strategist, felt he had been given a gift.
For months, he had worried that the Romney campaign would find a way to present its candidate in a compelling fashion. But as far as Axelrod could tell, the Romney campaign had no such strategy.
"I questioned why they didn't spend more time and energy early defining Romney in a fuller way so people could identify with him," Axelrod said in a postelection interview.
"One of my conclusions is so much of his life was kind of walled off from use. His faith is important to him, but they didn't want to talk about that. His business was important, but they didn't want to talk about that much. His governorship was important to him, but his signature achievement [health care] was unhelpful to them in the Republican primary. My feeling is you have to build a candidacy on the foundation of biography. That is what authenticates your message. I was always waiting for that happen."
Axelrod jumped at the opening. In a major gamble, the Obama campaign moved $65 million in advertising money that had been budgeted for September and October into June, enabling the president to unleash a series of attacks that would define Romney at a time when the Republican would have little money to respond.
From Axelrod's viewpoint, the timing was perfect. Romney had been weakened by assaults from fellow GOP candidates during the primaries. Romney alienated many Hispanics by suggesting that illegal immigrant families should "self-
deport," and he said he had been a "severely conservative" governor, hurting his strategy to move to the middle for the general election.
The candidate's life
Beth Myers, one of Romney's top advisers, had a nagging worry. Obama's campaign was running ads in markets such as suburban Virginia designed to appeal to women voters. Myers wondered if the Romney campaign should invest in a direct response.
"I wish I had expressed my deep concern more vociferously at that point; this was May, June, when they really went on the offense," Myers said. "I remember thinking, 'This bothers me.' ''
That worry was a window into greater concerns about how the Romney campaign was handling its advertising money.
In campaign postmortems, Republicans have been criticized for spending too much on advertising compared with Democrats, even as some reports said Obama was able to book television spots more cheaply, run more ads in key states, and reach key voters more effectively.
The Obama campaign used a program called "the optimizer" that linked data from its voter databases, focus groups, and television ratings to determine how to reach people who do not typically see campaign ads. As a result, Obama purchased ads on channels such as TV Land and Hallmark that were watched by voters who rarely saw news programs where ads often appear.
Stevens said the criticism of the Romney ad strategy is misguided. When advertising by the campaigns is compared, he said, Obama spent twice as much as Romney.
In any case, as Romney continued to run negative ads, the pressure mounted from Romney's family and friends to tell more about his life as the GOP convention approached.
Ann Romney, who had long pushed for more focus on her husband's personal story, made her point directly in a convention video: "If you really want to know how a person will operate, look at how they've lived their life." A Vermont couple appeared on the convention stage to tell the emotional story of how Romney, as a Mormon leader, helped their dying 14-year-old son, David Oparowski, write his will. "How many men do you know would take the time out of their busy lives to visit a terminally ill 14-year-old and help him settle his affairs?" Pat Oparowski, the boy's mother, said in her speech.
But Romney's campaign, still concerned about highlighting Mormonism and taking the focus away from the economy, arranged for the testimonial and an accompanying video to come before commercial television networks broadcast the proceedings. Instead, prime-time viewers saw Clint Eastwood pretending to talk to Obama in an empty chair.
47 percent
Shortly after Romney wrapped up the nomination, he stopped by for a conversation with Myers to discuss an idea that he believed would be the key to winning the presidency. He called it the Manhattan Project.
Named after the government program to build the atomic bomb, the Manhattan Project was designed to turn a perceived weakness — Romney's much-anticipated matchup with Obama in the fall debates — into the campaign's greatest strength.
So Romney proposed months of intense preparation, with 16 mock debates. (Obama did 11.) Then, just as Romney seemed ready, the campaign received news that a video had been leaked in which the candidate characterized 47 percent of Americans as "victims" who wanted government benefits and would never vote for him. That left the impression that Romney was referring not just to people on welfare but also to recipients of Social Security and veterans benefits. It seemed to confirm the worst view of Romney, that he didn't care about average people. His poll numbers plummeted.
If the Manhattan Project was ever needed, it was now.
Obama unprepared
Obama played right into the strategy. After some lethargic rehearsals, in which Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts played the Romney role, Obama never mentioned the 47 percent controversy during the first debate. The president skipped at least two practice sessions at which he was going to review material. Obama seemed as unready as Romney was ready. "This was an exposure of Mitt Romney that people hadn't seen before," said Newhouse. "He had been a caricature who'd outsourced jobs, offshored jobs. The Mitt Romney they saw in debates was articulate, thoughtful, and had a plan." Romney's rating went up by 9 points in some key states, although that subsided as Obama performed strongly in the subsequent two debates.
Romney's aides were gleeful. They had — fortuitously, it now seemed — made a strategic decision to spend heavily on October advertising, the opposite of the Obama campaign's approach.
This surprised Axelrod, who questioned what he called Romney's "backloaded" ad strategy, saying he could not think of a single effective ad in any presidential campaign that began airing after Labor Day.
Stevens, however, thought money for late advertising was important. "It was a hard decision," Stevens said at a post-election seminar at Harvard's Institute of Politics, "but we enjoyed spending that money in October."
Like the Alamo
Tagg Romney could not figure it out. Why had Obama spent so heavily during the primaries when he had no primary opponent? Only later did Tagg realize this was a key to Obama's victory.
"We were looking at all the money they were spending in the primary and we were thinking 'what are they spending all their money on? They're wasting a lot of money.' They weren't. They were paying staffers in Florida" and elsewhere.
If Romney's Manhattan Project had been debate preparation, then Obama's was the ground game.
Building on its 2008 field organization, Obama's campaign had far more people on the ground, for longer periods, and backed by better data. In Florida, for example, the Romney campaign said it had fewer than 200 staff members on the ground, a huge commitment of its total of 500 nationwide. But the Obama campaign had 770 staff in Florida out of 3,000 or so nationwide.
"They had more staff in Florida than we had in the country, and for longer," said Romney adviser Ron Kaufman.
Indeed, in swing state after swing state, the Obama field team was much bigger than the Romney troops. Obama had 123 offices in Ohio, compared with Romney's 40. Obama had 59 offices in Colorado, compared with Romney's 15, according to statistics compiled by the Obama campaign.
Stevens said he expressed alarm about the Democrat's early advantage in money and staff. He said Obama's decision to reject public financing for the fall campaign (a move Romney followed) worked to Obama's advantage because Obama used primary funds to prepare for the general election, and it meant there was no ceiling on how much could be spent.
"It is like sitting in the Alamo," Stevens said in the postelection interview, comparing the siege by Mexican troops in 1836 to competing against the superior forces of the Obama campaign. "Yes, it is alarming. There are a lot of Santa Anna's soldiers out there."
Ground game
Romney's confidence remained strong as Election Day approached. While public polls showed Obama in control, some of Romney's internal polls showed him winning.
But Obama's field organization was too strong. In Florida, 266,000 more Hispanics voted than four years earlier. "They altered the face of the election by driving up the Latino turnout," Romney political director Rich Beeson said. "They told us they would do it. I didn't think they would do it, and they did."
Ohio was the greatest surprise of all. Romney pollster Neil Newhouse calculated that 209,000 more African-Americans voted this year than in 2008 in Ohio, while 329,000 fewer whites had voted.
"I don't know how that's possible," Newhouse said. "If that is what the Obama campaign achieved, hats off to them.''
A key difference was the depth of voter contact. Romney took comfort in polls that showed voters had been contacted equally by both campaigns. But the polls were misleading, perhaps equating a recorded robocall on the phone with a house call by a worker.
"It wasn't well understood what they were doing," Newhouse said. "We asked the question in polls, 'Have you been contacted by campaigns?' Our overall contact was pretty similar. But their in-person contact was beating us by 3 to 2."
Kevin Madden, a longtime Romney confidant who served as a spokesman in the final months of the campaign, said that he regrets that the campaign did not adhere to what worked for Republicans in 2004, when George W. Bush won reelection with an innovative ground game.
"We were in a position of arguing against something that I had seen proven correct in 2004," Madden said. "We have to remember that the nature of campaigns has changed. We did it in right in 2004 and we have lost a step."
System failure
As dawn broke on Election Day, 800 Romney volunteers filled the floor of TD Garden in Boston. This was the centerpiece of the campaign's turnout operation, code named ORCA, that was supposed to swallow Obama's Narwhal program. But the Romney team was so determined to keep ORCA secret that it had never run a test at TD Garden; it had only gone through some lesser runs in a different building.
The ORCA workers were supposed to be in contact with more than 30,000 volunteers stationed at polling places across the country. Those volunteers were told to bring a smartphone and go to a secure Web page on which they could report the names of everyone who voted. In this way, the Romney campaign could determine if supporters had failed to show up and urge them to vote.
But as volunteers on Election Day began tapping in the names of voters, it became clear something was wrong.
The system was so overloaded with incoming data from volunteers that it exceeded capacity and crashed.
The Obama campaign, which had suffered a similar meltdown in 2008 and had been zealous about testing its systems this time around, had no glitches. Tens of thousands of Obama volunteers across the country sent real-time data from polling places, enabling workers at Chicago headquarters to ensure that expected vote totals were on track. More importantly, the field organization put in place by Jeremy Bird hit its goals, turning out the needed number of voters to reelect the president.
Call the president
As Romney's campaign plane landed at Logan International Airport at around 6 p.m. on Election Day, he turned on his iPad and opened the Drudge Report. "Uh oh," someone said upon seeing reports of early exit polls. But Romney still had hope.
Arriving at his suite in the Westin Boston Waterfront hotel, Romney received regular updates from his staff. He made small talk about the Patriots and the Celtics and played with his grandchildren. He was about to concede around 11:15 p.m when Republican strategist Karl Rove made his now-
infamous appearance on Fox News Channel, insisting that his own network was wrong in calling Ohio for the president.
The concession call was canceled, followed by an hour of uncertainty. Then, after Fox executives dismissed Rove's concerns and stood by the network's projection, Romney said: Call the president.
Lessons learned
Exit polls told a stunning story. The majority of voters preferred Romney's visions, values, and leadership. But he had clearly failed to address the problem that Romney's own family worried about from the start. Obama beat Romney by an astonishing 81 to 18 percent margin on the question of which candidate "cares about people like me."
That finding still frustrates those closest to Romney. His former lieutenant governor, Kerry Healey, who believed the campaign wasted an opportunity to highlight Romney's life at the convention, said, "even at the end of the campaign, I never felt that the American people understood Mitt Romney's genuine character and that is a terrible shame."
Romney, who did not respond to an interview request, was ultimately responsible for his campaign's failings. Republicans variously blamed factors such as a candidate who was too moderate or not moderate enough, a lower-than-expected turnout of white voters for Romney coupled with a heavy minority vote for Obama, and the president's leadership during the Sandy storm.
Inevitably, much of the blame has been directed at Stevens, and he hasn't ducked it. "If there's blame to be thrown, throw it my way," he said. But he said it should be noted that Obama had no primary opponents, giving him an enormous advantage.
In the coming months, Romney, ever the data-driven analyst, plans to contemplate how his political life came to an end, and what the party should do next, according to his son Tagg. The fight for the ideological soul of the party will play out for months. But recommendations are already pouring in for the party to create a ground-game infrastructure long before a nominee is selected, to catch up to the Democratic advantage in high-tech turnout operations, and to find ways to make the party more inclusive for minorities and women.
Romney himself will make the case to the party for many such changes, according to Tagg.
"Having been through it, you know so much more than when you haven't," Tagg said.
Michael Kranish can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @GlobeKranish. He is the coauthor, with the Globe's Scott Helman, of "The Real Romney."