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Every two years the same conventional wisdom gets its time in the sun: Older, white men vote. Young, urban, minorities don't—well, sometimes they do, but almost certainly not in midterm elections. And that's why the Democratic Party is screwed in off years.
But in our new cover story, we dug deeper. Who are the different types of voters, really? What do they believe?
Partnering with Clarity Campaign Labs, The New Republic surveyed over three thousand voters to record not just self-described ideology but deeper attitudes about Obamacare, income inequality, marriage equality, the prospect of seeing another Clinton (or Bush) in the White House, and a host of other issues. Poll participants were then matched back to detailed voter files maintained by Clarity's sister firm, TargetSmart Communications, which verified vote histories and provided detailed demographic data on each group.
The result was a portrait of the American electorate that doesn't just confirm that people who cast ballots every two years ("Reflex" voters, we've dubbed them) tend to be older, and more conservative, but by how much. (Answer: 15 years, 17 percentage points.) Most significantly, our survey also revealed specific challenges for Democrats in their efforts to turn out sympathetic irregular voters ("Unreliables") this November, a push focused on key Senate states.
Among Unreliables, President Barack Obama is underwater, with a 52 percent unfavorability rating; nearly 3 in 4 of those voters say the country is on the wrong track. And despite average partisanship scores that indicate they lean Democrat, more Unreliables actually said they'd vote for a Republican in 2014 (37 percent) than said they intended to vote for a Democrat (30 percent). That comes on top of the 52 percent of Reflex voters who said they plan to vote GOP. Across our sample, 81 percent of those favorable to the Tea Party are Reflex voters who vote every two years.
And even as top Democratic strategists focus on mobilization, a sizable bloc of Unreliables—32 percent—is undecided about which party it will back in the midterms.
On Obamacare, Unreliables are more likely than Reflex voters to be supportive, but only by a slight margin (39 percent versus 34 percent), while 51 percent of Reflex strongly oppose it. But 18 percent percent of Reflex voters, and 10 percent of regular midterm voters who lean Republican, reported that they (or a family member or a loved one) has received health-care coverage through Obamacare, suggesting modest potential for Democrats to pick up votes from the other side thanks to the legislation.
Obama has been urging his party's drop-off voters not to sit out these midterms, but our survey found evidence that some may already be looking ahead to 2016: Among all Unreliable voters, Hillary Clinton fares 10 points better than Obama, with a favorable rating of 53 percent. Clinton's score made her the most popular prospective 2016 candidate among the Unreliable voters we polled. Intriguingly, she also finished in a statistical dead heat with Jeb Bush among Reflex voters. Chris Christie scored the lowest among both groups.
Our poll of Reflex and Unreliable voters, conducted by Clarity Campaign Labs, is based on 3,879 interactive voice-response interviews with voters and live surveys of cell-phone respondents conducted April 8-10, 2014. Survey participants were matched to voting histories in public records; the final samples were then adjusted to match the broader population. The data on demographic characteristics and past political behavior comes from databases maintained by TargetSmart or consumer databases to which it has access. (When data is unavailable for an individual voter, it's generated through statistical modeling.) Additional analysis by Clarity's Tom Bonier and TargetSmart's Chris Brill.


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Man Who Accused Elmo Puppeteer Kevin Clash of Underage Sexual Relationship Recants
On Monday, news broke that an unnamed 24-year-old man had accused Kevin Clash, who is the creator and puppeteer of Elmo on 'Sesame Street,' of engaging in a sexual relationship with him when he was 16. Today, that man has recanted his allegations.
Clash had initially responded by taking a leave of absence from the show to handle the allegations. He admitted the relationship had occurred, but said it was consensual and that the man was not underage at the time. The accuser admitted as much today through a statement from his law firm: "He wants it to be known that his sexual relationship with Mr. Clash was an adult consensual relationship."
Clash said this today through a spokesperson: "I am relieved that this painful allegation has been put to rest. I will not discuss it further."

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Balancing creative design with functional UI is a challenge for developers looking to build memorable experiences for online stores. Many clients want a site that makes their products stand out, while at the same time performing how customers would expect.
Established page layouts that rely on grids are the norm for most websites, but some designers have been experimenting by 'breaking the grid', to introduce dynamic effects and grab customers' attention. Since traditional grid layouts are ubiquitous across the web, a site that attempts to present a unique experience can emphasize a brand's visibility and boost conversion.
With careful use of asymmetrical positioning of text, overlapping images, and irregular shapes, you can add originality into a client's site without sacrificing usability. In this article, I'll outline some of the ways to break the grid and explore some real-life examples to show how broken grid design has allowed brands to engage with customers.
What is a grid and why should we break it?
Before breaking the grid, we need to learn about the grid itself and explore its advantages and disadvantages. In simple terms, a grid is a structure for arranging text and images on a screen. The purpose of the grid is to establish a rhythm, or framework, for how elements should be organized.
Almost all of the websites we visit use grids to ensure that text, images, white-space, and navigation buttons are all arranged and sized relative to each other. Grids provide a guideline when designers are wireframing their pages, and define a visual language that enables visitors to understand content and navigate a website.
One of the most popular forms of grids found online is the 960 grid system, which according to 960.gs, is "an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels." This is a highly divisible number, so the layout opens a lot of possibilities when determining the dimensions of elements on a page.
When elements are arranged according to this defined grid, it gives the placement of buttons and images a sense of familiarity. Grid systems like 960, or Bootstraps responsive framework, have made the jobs of designers immeasurably easier, but they have also had a homogenizing effect on web design.
The potential disadvantage with a grid system like 960 is that it can remove some of the creativity of design. The layouts that we are accustomed to seeing online are consistent, but they can also feel predictable and restrictive.
Ways to break the grid
Developers who approach the grid as a guide, instead of an absolute rule, have the opportunity to do something different, and bring their client's personality into the design. Here are some techniques that you can consider when you are thinking about breaking the grid.
Unusual positioning
It might go without saying, but the easiest way to break the grid is to position elements in ways that are non-relative to each other and don't follow a linear layout. By playing with how images and text are arranged on a page, designers can build impressive pages that ignore tradition in favor of inventiveness.
New York designer Michael Nelson hosts a particularly good example of unusual layout with text, headers, images, and white space all existing in a seemingly random arrangement. The irregular shaped header, inconsistent alignment, and 'cut-out' imagery gives the site the feeling of a digital scrapbook, and invites a curious customer.
The layout of the store matches the bold design of Michael Nelson's bags, with bright shapes, asymmetrical elements, and striking lines. Just as his bags are unique objects, so too does his site deliver a unique experience.
Initially, the homepage seems totally chaotic, and it's surely a website customers will not forget in a hurry. Key components, like the shopping cart button and terms and conditions, do, however, appear in areas where a customer would expect them, proving that designers can get experimental without abandoning the basic UI principles of web design.
Using layers
Layering different elements on a page can give a pleasing collage effect, and breaks the grid without sacrificing unity. When elements are clustered or overlapped, they feel connected and we interpret them as one main object.
Cubii do a great job of layering background animation, product imagery, and text to create an experience that feels more like reading a magazine than scrolling down a regular webpage. The use of animation here adds another level of dynamism and emphasizes the importance that motion plays in their overall brand.
Another great example of how layers can play liberally with the grid is Stories & Objects designed by Mote, which mixes symmetrical and asymmetrical elements on their homepage. The customer can see that a grid does exist along the middle, but the individual products are offset against each other, creating an irregular spacing effect.
Impressively, Mote are aware that this effect may not translate well to the mobile experience, and so the layout is a traditional product list when viewed on smaller screens. The lesson here is that responsiveness shouldn't be forgotten when experimenting with different grid layouts.
You might also like: Build an Eye-Catching Non-Rectangular Header Design.
Subtle touches
Breaking the grid doesn't always need to be a dramatic statement—some designers use minor embellishments to add some originality to a page. These small details can make a page instantly more engaging, without risking conversions or sales.
Energy bars are a popular online product, but Exo's playful site design allows them to stand out from the pack. Commonplace product orientation is avoided, as the designers have literally drawn outside the lines to evoke a humorous, yet active, mood.
These lines and drawings show that Exo are thinking outside the box, and it also ties into the overall aesthetic of their brand imagery. Smaller touches like these illustrations add decoration to websites and give brands an opportunity to express their identity in a visually appealing way.
One area where some creative flair can break up the monotony of grids is on the collection page. It's hard to escape grid layouts on collection pages, but Phoebe James uses irregularly-shaped imagery to successfully introduce variety to their collection pages.
Designed by SMAKK Studios, the site defies customer expectation with eye-catching patterns and colors on a page that can be the most challenging to personalize. Products still appear in a grid, and the page remains functional, but the abstract shapes and cut-out effects add charm and allows the brand to tell its story in a creative way.
Breaking with care
As we've seen, stepping away from an overly-structured approach can produce unexpected results and generate opportunities for brands to showcase their personality. It's important, however, to be mindful of where breaking the grid will and won't work. Some industries welcome innovative design more than others, and a broken grid layout will simply not suit some clients.
Breaking the grid also doesn't mean abandoning typical UI conventions. It's crucial that online stores remain accessible and easy to navigate, even when trying out an experimental approach. It doesn't matter how inventive the page is—if a customer can't purchase a product, the design is not successful.
Finally, testing your design on various screen sizes is crucial for ensuring that none of the functionality is lost on smaller devices. With the right approach, breaking the grid can bring your clients closer to their customers and produce unique storytelling opportunities.


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I am attempting to control my NXT model via the Processing programming language rather than the provided language based on LabView. When I can establish a connection over Bluetooth, this works rather well, but establishing the connection itself is problematic. It appears to work only every dozen tries or so.
My question is, what are some good troubleshooting steps for this type of activity? I can see the NXT brick in my list of Bluetooth devices on my laptop (Win7 64-bit), and I can even see it in the list of devices when I run a test script in Processing. My laptop appears on the list of devices on my NXT brick, but the connection icon at the top of the NXT window only shows "<" rather than "<>".
I believe I am using the latest firmware version (1.31). The other settings listed are:
What else can I attempt to try? I am attempting to connect to other Bluetooth devices (iPhone, Wiimote) but have not found the necessary libraries to allow those connections yet.


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Date of last review
Tue December 25, 2007
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Feeding guideline:
A 50lb dog should be fed about 3 1/4 cups
Caloric Content
Metabolizable Energy (calculated) 3,539 kcal/kg
Metabolizable Energy (calculated) 349 kcal/cup
Lamb Meal, Brown Rice, Ground Rice, Chicken Fat (Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Rice Bran, Flax Seed, Sunflower Seed, Sunflower Oil, Natural Flavor, Yucca Schidigera, Dried Aspergillus Oryzae Fermentation Product, Dried Bacillus Subtilis Fermentation Product, Potassium Chloride, Dicalcium Phosphate, Calcium Carbonate, Choline Chloride, Zinc Oxide, Zinc Amino Acid Chelate, Iron Sulfate, Vitamin A Acetate, Vitamin D3, Manganous Oxide, Vitamin E Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Copper Sulfate, Manganese Amino Acid Chelate, Copper Amino Acid Chelate, Riboflavin, Niacin, Calcium Pantothenate, Folic Acid, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Thiamine Mononitrate, d-Biotin, Calcium Iodate, Sodium Selenite, Cobalt Carbonate.
Guaranteed Analysis
Crude Protein not less than 22.00%
Crude Fat not less than 15.00%
Crude Fiber not more than 3.50%
Moisture not more than 10.00%
Nutrient Analysis
Vitamin A 15,250 IU/KG
Vitamin D 1,575 IU/KG
Vitamin E 95.00 IU/KG
Thiamine (B1) 5.20 MG/KG
Roboflavin (B2)8.90 MG/KG
Pantothenic Acid 21.00 MG/KG
Niacin 43.00 MG/KG
Pyridoxine 5.10 MG/KG
Folic Acid 0.21 MG/KG
Biotin 0.13 MG/KG
Vitamin B12 0.07 MG/KG
Choline 1,365 MG/KG
Calcium scle 1.60 %
Phosphorus 1.10 %
Potassium olism 0.65 %
Sodium 0.29 %
Chloride 0.45 %
Magnesium 0.22 %
Iron 255.00 MG/KG
Copper 12.00 MG/KG
Manganese 42.00 MG/KG
Zinc 220.00 MG/KG
Iodine 3.70 MG/KG
Selenium 0.40 MG/KG
Amino Acid/Fatty Acids
Arginine 1.50 %
Lysine 1.50 %
Methionine & Cystine 0.57 %
Tryptophan 0.20 %
Histidine 0.45 %
Leucine 1.40 %
Isoleucine 0.84 %
Phenylalanine & Tyrosine 1.20 %
Threonine 0.74 %
Valine 1.10 %
Omega-6 3.58 %
Omega-3 1.91 %
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First ingredient is a named meat product, uses primarily good quality ingredients
Minimum acceptable meat content
The first ingredient in this food is a named meat product in meal form. This is the sole meat product in the food.
It is likely that the most significant ingredient is rice. Two forms of rice are the second and third ingredients in the food which, if not split (see explanation of splitting on the how we assess the foods page) then the combined rice products would most likely outweight the meat content as the true first ingredient in the food. Rice is a decent quality grain and good carbohydrate source, but rice bran is a grain fragment and primarily filler.
We note that chicken fat is the fourth ingredient. Research at Purdue University has identified fat in the top four ingredients of dry foods as a factor that increases the risk of bloat in large breed dogs. Smaller breeds are untested.
flaxseed and sunflower oil provide a good source of omega 3 & 6 OFAs. The food contains no fruits or vegetables, but has a good range of probiotics.
Overall, this product uses primarily good quality ingredients but suffers a little from limited meat content. The macronutrient breakdown is suggestive of a higher meat content than most foods with a single meat meal in the top ingredients, however, and the product just attains a 4* rating.
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Choosing the right wig for your retail mannequins
Window dressers often have to ask themselves how the best presentation of retail mannequins can be achieved. Often, wigs are part of the solution for this problem. Retail mannequins complemented with wigs are often more lifelike and realistic compared to mannequins without wigs attached to them. Unfortunately, wigs are seldom delivered together with mannequins by the store fitting retailers. One reason for this circumstance is the often changing trends of hairstyles, so wigs often get obsolete quite fast. This is why window dresser often choose the suitable wig according to what suits the planned store window composition best. This is especially true for the presentation of ladies fashion with female mannequins, where wigs are more or less essential. For this years spring collection, wig with short cut hair seem to be in vogue, while wigs with long hair seem to be the preferred choice for presenting the autumn and winter collections. Admittedly, the usage of wigs is not always advisable: for example, this is the case with modern stylized and single-colored mannequin and headless mannequins, which are better used without one or won't support one, for obvious reasons.


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Influencers with Authority: Beyond the Follow Count
by Jaime Schwartz Cohen| October 23, 2019
Earlier this year, PR Week asked marketing and communication professionals, "What is an influencer?" Notable, considering the rise of influencer marketing, there was no consensus among those polled, with the most common definitions referring to social media personalities with high followings. With all the talk about influencers, not only is it getting lost what they […]
Bolstering Cybersecurity Resiliency: Top 5 Trends for 2019
by Katherine Mackey| October 18, 2019
The world of cybersecurity is constantly evolving as hackers adapt their techniques, creating new tools and workarounds to exploit vulnerabilities that most businesses don't even know exist until it is too late. Companies and security teams are fighting to become more agile and keep up pace.
Coming Up Clutch: The Bridge Between Crisis Preparedness & Major League Baseball
by Blake Rhodes and Doug Petkus| October 15, 2019
For sports fans, October means playoff baseball. Only 10 of 30 teams earn a chance to compete for the 2019 World Series title, and none got there by accident. Major League Baseball teaches us that taking year-round steps to avoid calamity during the season is a blueprint for all organizations – regardless of industry. Injuries, […]
User-generated Content: 5 "Contexts" to Consider Before Launching Your Next Campaign
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The Internet is filled with examples of brands brilliantly engaging with consumers and fans to co-create waves of exciting content and conversations that drive trust and sales. The Internet is also filled with examples of brand campaign calamities completely derailed by user-generated content (UGC). As a communicator, are there steps you can take to protect […]
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When DJ Kool Herc and his sister Cindy threw a back to school jam on August 11, 1973 at a rec room in the South Bronx, it was the birth of a nation. As the Bronx was burning, hip-hop rose from the ashes – a culture born from the socioeconomic oppression and racist policies targeting Black, Latin, and Caribbean American […]