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January 21, 2011, 05:42:54 PM
So, I might have a chance to play Doctor Chaos this weekend and if I don't then I'm thinking of putting it on the schedule at OrcCon in February. This thread:
I think cleared up some of the murkier points of play-test text. But there's a couple of points I want to visit in more detail.
Thing 1:
According to the thread above when we're down to the make or break Condition the hero's need only score a "Delay" for the whole plan to fail. They don't actually need a full Defeat. However the current playtest text uses the phrase, "and a delay doesn't change much." The text makes it sound like if you only Delay the final Condition then you go into a sort of Episode Overtime (i.e. keep playing new Episodes with that one Condition) until a decisive Defeat or Complete is earned.
This seems like an interesting point in the rules. On the one hand going into Episode Overtime could get tedious. On the other hand only requiring a Delay seems to undermine the idea that you need developed heroes if you want to defeat Dr. Chaos. Or is there something subtle going on narratively that I'm not getting from the text alone?
Thing 2:
I'm not sure to what extent heroes can "develop" mid-Episode and who can bring that content into play. I'll call this the Aunt May problem and use Spider-Man as an example. So when a player introduces a new hero he just gives the hero a name and basic look right? So the player says something like, "This is Spider-Man. He's got a webbed suit with a spider on his chest." And that's what we've got to work with. At what point does Aunt May enter the game? Can Dr. Chaos's player say, "My jack booted forces storm the local suburban neighborhood and drag a woman from a home. It's Spider-Man's Aunt!" Basically, Dr. Chaos's player invents a personal relationship as part of his attack. Can the Spider-Man player say, "Spider-Man looks up and see that among the war-prisoner's is his Aunt May!" In this case, some war-prisoner's must have been narrated into the fiction and Spider-Man's player is detailing one of them to be Aunt May. Remember, I'm saying this as an example where Spider-Man and Aunt May have simply not existed until this point.
I ask this because I'm not sure how these "soap opera" elements are intended to enter play if the players are restricted largely to in-the-moment, forward moving narration from (mostly) their current character's perspective. I can see that happening at the development stage for a hero but since development has to be linked to the nature of humiliating defeat I don't quite since how these kinds of elements come into play without being present in some form BEFORE the humiliating defeat that generates them.
It's also possible that I'm thinking about this too much from the perspective of Doctor Chaos causing problems for the Hero's lives when this game is meant to be the other way around.
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Re: Doctor Chaos Thoughts and Questions
January 21, 2011, 07:21:19 PM
Hi Jesse,
I figure it's best to go over the rules first and then see if anything's left to cover. I'll do the easy one first (thing 2).
Heroes do not develop mid-Episode. Nor does the Doctor Chaos player ("Game Master") have anything to do with it. A hero may return developed after being defeated by Doctor Chaos in a previous episode, and it's that simple. A hero is defeated in an episode. Some other player brings him or her back in a later episode, in developed form. The nature of the development is dramatized by that player. And that's all there is to it.
None of your examples is valid play. The hero in this case is undeveloped and no personal aspects are involved, period.
Here's something to make it easier to think about, which your final sentence is aiming at anyway. Say I bring in Spider-Man, just as you describe, so all there is is, "This is Spider-Man. He's got a webbed suit with a spider on his chest." Now, fictionally speaking, maybe this is Peter Parker and his Uncle Ben is dead and he lives with his Aunt May. But that would be Spider-Man's comic book. Fuck that noise. This is Doctor Chaos' game.* He doesn't know from Aunt May. He doesn't give a fuck. All he knows is that this Spider-Goob just popped out of apparently nowhere in an annoying fashion.
So look at it this way: development means that we went and looked in the hero's own comic book. Until then, we didn't.
Another way to look at it is that the Green Goblin is only, and ever, a lesser villain.
As for thing 1, well, it's a playtest issue. The current design does go into "Condition over and over overtime," and I'm not sure whether that's a good thing. Shifting to "Delay is enough," well, developed heroes sure would make it
anyway. It's not a subtle issue at all. I simply need to know how the options play. (And playtesters need to know that the design is still iffy at this point, and not to get all bent out of shape about it.)
Regarding your upcoming playtest, the single biggest mechanics issues concern the lesser villain. We should probably talk about that too.
Best, Ron
* Not "his comic book." That's too confusing for us. Never mind what comic this is in; it's Doctor Chaos'
and leave it at that.
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Re: Doctor Chaos Thoughts and Questions
January 21, 2011, 09:44:10 PM
Okay, let's talk about the lesser villain. So the current text says that at the top of the Episode the villain picks ONE these:
1) Oppose Dr. Chaos's current Condition
2) Pursue his own Condition
3) Help Dr. Chaos fullfill his current Condition.
The lesser villain is also in one of two states: Controlled or Not-Controlled by Dr. Chaos.
So let's go one at a time.
Oppose Dr. Chaos and Not Contolled
The interesting thing about this case is this question: Can a hero still choose to "oppose" the lesser villain? Simple answer: No. More complex answer: I think there is some interesting narrative opportunity here. He's trying to help and these heroes STILL get in his face about something. A misunderstanding? Ideological objection to his methods?
So what would it mean if the Lesser Villain beats Dr. Chaos but one or more heroes opposing the Lesser Villain beats him? His "victory" doesn't count? Something else?
There's this odd line in the text that reads, "(and remember their melds count with is anyway)". Does that include this case? If it does then how can the Lesser Villain ever beat Dr. Chaos since his cards will always be Lesser Villains + His Own?
Oppose Dr. Chaos and Controlled
Same issues as above. I'm also assuming that success on the part of the villain means he breaks control.
In this case does Doctor Chaos get the Lesser's Villains Deadwood for this Episode no matter whether the villain successfully breaks control or not?
Pursue his own Condition and Not-Controlled
Is Doctor Chaos always assumed to be opposing the Lesser Villains Condition? Is there no way for Doctor Chaos to *aid* the Lesser Villain? Or what if fictionally, Doctor Chaos never addressed the Lesser Villain's actions.
What if no-one opposes the Lesser Villain? This is a good case for assuming that Dr. Chaos is always by default both capable and willing to oppose the Lesser Villain. Otherwise the Lesser Villain can end up narrating a little caper on the side and his cards don't end up meaning anything.
It seems like it might still end up like that. How much action can Doctor Chaos narrate? At a table of five with three heroes and lesser villain that's a lot to address only once every five turns. Especially if all three heroes go for Doctor Chaos and ignore the villain.
A (minor) issue here is that I think your current playtest draft is out of sync between what the villain can do at the start of the Episode and the summary of the victory conditions. The three choices are currently listed as exclusive. The Lesser Villain can only do ONE. But the text for the lesser villain victory says, "strive toward his own Condition or oppose Doctor Chaos's current Condition or *both*" How can he do both if he has to pick or the other at the top of the Episode.
What happens if the Lesser Villain's Plan succeeds? Does he just continue choosing between the other two options or does something else happen? Since the Lesser Villain's Plan is described as being incompatible with Doctor Chaos's Plan I'm assuming that Doctor Chaos is simply great enough to work around this point much like having one of his own Conditions defeated.
Pursue his own Condition and Contolled
I'm assuming that Hero and Doctor Chaos victories are evaluated independently. Such that it's possible for the Lesser Villain to break control from Doctor Chaos but have his Condition thwarted by a Hero.
Join Doctor Chaos and Not Controlled
The text reads, "The lesser villain is released from Doctor Chaos' control if that was a stated goal earlier in the Episode; in this case, the lesser villain's cards do not support Doctor Chaos' cards." I'm assuming that second phrase applies whether or not The Lesser Villain is actually controled.
Join Doctor Chaos and Controlled
Again the text reads, "The lesser villain is released from Doctor Chaos' control if that was a stated goal earlier in the Episode..." So if a Hero isn't actively trying to break control then The Lesser Villain remains controlled even if a Hero beats him. Correct?
I think that covers everything.
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Re: Doctor Chaos Thoughts and Questions
January 22, 2011, 09:11:51 PM
Hi Jesse,
The trouble is that I cannot have this conversation while trying to keep a handle on what the current text says. This is a game in the deep throes of design-heavy playtesting. The text is, at this point, a distinct third place behind raw design and raw playtest. Whatever it says, I'm basically saying, ignore that and somehow try to curb your intense legalism-clarity-critical tendencies. It doesn't matter what it says - the text is flotsam and jetsam left behind from the storms of designs, and full of legacy from previous drafts that failed to get deleted or made consistent when I changed something else.
Here's what I can tell you about my current thoughts on the lesser villain, broken down just as you describe. Again, if you find the stray line or two in the text, or even a well-developed paragraph, which seems to contradict any of this, your job is to forget it. The text has zero authority in this discussion.
Oppose Doctor Chaos, not controlled
I now think the lesser villain be treated exactly as a hero in this case, including Doctor Chaos' cards counting against his. But he does not combine melds with any other character. If a hero opposes the villain in this case, then the hero's cards are not used against Doctor Chaos.
Oppose Doctor Chaos, controlled
If the villain succeeds, his cards do not get used in Doctor Chaos' favor and are in fact treated as if the villain were not controlled, up to and including fulfilling a Condition for the lesser villain if the narration makes sense in that direction. Also, his success over Doctor Chaos is treated exactly as if a hero had done it, as a blow against Doctor Chaos' current Condition. If he fails, his cards do count in Doctor Chaos' favor.
Pursue Condition, not controlled
This one all depends on whether a hero is opposing the villain. Doctor Chaos does not bother with such things. If no one opposes the villain, then his Condition is fulfilled. If someone does, then the ordinary rules apply. (Note that the cards don't mean anything in the episode, but they mean a lot in the bigger picture, via omission. A villain who does this a lot is risking gaining his or her own Plan, then watching it all get steamrolled later because he made it easier for Doctor Chaos to win. Suffice to say that the Green Goblin sn't going to like living under Doctor Doom's thumb, even if he did get to kill Peter Parker a couple of months earlier.)
Note: lesser villain actions which can be construed as both opposing Doctor Chaos
pursuing his own goals are legal and I think I accounted for all the possibilities.
Pursue his own Condition, controlled
As described above, this is synonymous with "Oppose Doctor Chaos, controlled"
I've decided to jettison all considerations of a hero trying to break a villain free from Doctor Chaos' control. This is the lesser villain player's game, when all is said and done.
Aid Doctor Chaos, not controlled
In this case, the lesser villain's cards are simply treated as oppositional to the heroes' cards and do not add in any way to Doctor Chaos' cards - except that beating a hero means negating that hero's victory over Doctor Chaos, if there was one.
Aid Doctor Chaos, controlled
Simplest of all. The lesser villain's cards aid Doctor Chaos' cards, end of story.
As you can see, all of the above make the lesser villain more of a power-player in the saga, as intended. Let me know if it seems to you that I left anything out.
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Re: Doctor Chaos Thoughts and Questions
January 24, 2011, 01:29:00 PM
Hey Ron,
I totally get that the playtest document is in flux. My questions were not a criticism of the obviously work-in-progress text but rather highlighting points where I think legacy versions were clashing
with new thinking and I was trying to figure out which stuff was old and what stuff was new so that when I play it I know which side to err on.
I think my biggest confusion about the lesser villain was that it seemed like he had to constantly choose between opposing Doctor Chaos's current Condition or pursue his own Condition. It was either/or and never both. But from what you've said here it seems like it's much more subject to fictional context. If in the pursuit of his own Condition he is also clearly opposing Doctor Chaos's Condition then that's legal too.
I think this ties in a lot without how the opening narration of an Episode work. Does the player announce which option he's choosing and then describe his character's action? Or are those options purposeful direction which are not necessarily ever "chosen" and announced. For the latter I'm thinking about how The Drifter's Escape instructs the The Devil player to try and make the drifter serve his interests and the The Man players to try and make the drifter more like him. But at no point are the players called on to announce or justify their contributions in those terms.
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Re: Doctor Chaos Thoughts and Questions
January 24, 2011, 02:01:12 PM
Hi Jesse,
Yes, the original notion was that the lesser villain was either focused on his plan or on Doctor Chaos' plan, for yes or no. Plus trying to break control was an isolated action. But playtesting has shown that all this really disempowers that character, so I've restored flexibility, which oddly simplifies the mechanics.
This game is the opposite from The Drifter's Escape, in terms of meaning and announcements. It's explicitly rules-up-front, so the lesser villain player starts with something like, "I'm seeking my Condition and opposing Doctor Chaos," and then says how. If we'd done that in my most recent playtest, then Doctor Chaos would not have succeeded in his first Episode.
Best, Ron
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Classification Assignment Process for Juveniles
Classification Assignment Process for Juveniles
New Jersey Register Publication Date: April 18, 2005
Proposed New Rules: N.J.A.C. 13:100
Authorized By: Executive Board of the Juvenile Justice Commission, by the Honorable Peter C. Harvey, Attorney General and Chair, Markus Green, Attorney General's Designee.
Authority: N.J.S.A. 52:17B-170e(5) to (9), (14), (18), (20) to (22); N.J.S.A. 52:17B-175(e); N.J.S.A. 52:17B-176; N.J.S.A. 52:17B-178; and N.J.S.A. 52:17B-186.
Calendar Reference: See Summary below for explanation of exception to calendar requirements.
Proposal Number: PRN 2005-135.
Submit written comments by June 17, 2005 to:
Valerie Egar
The agency proposal follows:
The Juvenile Justice Commission is proposing new rules at N.J.A.C. 13:100 pertaining to the classification and assignment of juveniles sentenced by the Family Court to a term of incarceration to be served under the supervision of the Commission.
In December 1995, Governor Whitman signed a series of bills reforming the juvenile justice system, P.L.1995, c. 280 through c. 284. The reform initiatives resulted from recommendations made in December 1994, by the Governor's Council on Juvenile Justice. In its recommendations, the Governor's Advisory Council recognized the need to consolidate all aspects of the juvenile justice system, various parts of which then existed under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections, the Department of Human Services, and the Department of Law and Public Safety, by centralizing authority over juveniles in the justice system in a new agency, the Juvenile Justice Commission (hereinafter referred to as the "Commission").
The Commission was created by N.J.S.A. 52:17B-169 et seq., in but not of the Department of Law and Public Safety, as the single agency of State government responsible for the planning, implementation and operation of a comprehensive program of sanctions and services for juveniles, to protect the public, ensure accountability and promote rehabilitation of juvenile offenders, with broadly defined powers to accomplish these goals.
The proposed new rules at N.J.A.C. 13:100 were originally adopted in 1987 and readopted in 1992 as Subchapters 9, 10 and 11 of N.J.A.C. 10A:9 when the Division of Juvenile Services was under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections. In 1997 when the Department of Corrections readopted Chapter 9, it repealed Subchapters 9,10, and 11 due to the creation of the Juvenile Justice Commission, since all of these subchapters dealt with juvenile offenders. The Commission is proposing new rules at N.J.A.C. 13:100, Classification Assignment Process for Juveniles, because it finds it appropriate and relevant to its responsibilities to protect the public, hold juveniles accountable for their behavior and provide these juvenile offenders with an effective rehabilitative experience while under the supervision of the Commission. The Classification Assignment Process provides for a structured, orderly procedure to receive juveniles into the Juvenile Justice Commission, assess their strengths, needs and risks and use that information to make informed decisions relevant to their placement and the nature of their rehabilitative programming within the Commission.
An explanation of the proposed new rules are as follows:
Subchapter 1, General Provisions, provides the purpose, scope and definitions used in the chapter.
Subchapter 2, Reception and Assignment Process, provides the criteria for assigning juvenile offenders received in the Commission's Reception and Assessment Facilities (RAF). N.J.A.C. 13:100-2.1 provides separate and distinct reception, assessment and assignment processes for male and female juveniles and requires that except for educational and recreational activities, the male and female facilities shall be sight and sound separated. The rule further provides time limits by which reception, and assessment activities shall be completed and outlines the activities which shall be completed during the reception, assessment and assignment process. The rule also provides that each juvenile shall be provided with an orientation to explain the juvenile's rights, privileges and responsibilities and the process that shall be followed to develop an admissions summary to determine the risk factors and rehabilitative needs of the juvenile. N.J.A.C. 13:100-2.2 establishes the composition of the Juvenile Classification Committee (JCC). N.J.A.C. 13:100-2.3 explains the responsibilities of the JCC related to the initial classification, assignment, transfer and reassignment of juvenile offenders within the Commission or to the Department of Corrections. The rule further provides the decision-making criteria to be used by the JCC for making initial assignments to the appropriate secure or non-secure Commission facility and provides a description of the eligibility requirements for assignment to the Commission's secure and non-secure facilities. N.J.A.C. 13:100-2.4 sets forth the criteria for juveniles ineligible for assignment to a non-secure facility. N.J.A.C. 13:100-2.5 and 2.6 delineate the process that shall be followed to facilitate both emergency and non-emergency transfers of a juvenile. N.J.A.C. 13:100-2.7 provides the procedure to be used if a juvenile requests a transfer to another Commission facility. N.J.A.C. 13:100-2.8 provides for the location where classification folders will be maintained for all juveniles assigned to a term of incarceration under the supervision of the Commission and also requires that an electronic back-up file shall be maintained at the Commission's Office of Classification.
The proposal is not subject to the calendar requirements of N.J.S.A. 52:14B-3(4) and N.J.A.C. 1:30-3.3(a)5 because the agency is providing a 60-day comment period.
Social Impact
The proposed new rules ensure that juveniles are provided classification services from admission to the Juvenile Justice Commission to discharge. The rules also assure that the Juvenile Justice Commission carefully reviews the case of each committed juvenile upon admission into the Commission's Reception and Assessment Facilities and on an on-going basis. The classification process provides a framework for making decisions related to the selection of the appropriate Juvenile Justice Commission facility, custody level, services, housing unit, job and program assignment for juveniles to best facilitate their rehabilitation and reintegration back into their communities. The use of these rules will assist staff and administrators in the management of juvenile populations so that security and the orderly operation of Juvenile Justice Commission facilities can be maintained.
Economic Impact
The proposed new rules will have no new or additional economic impact because the facilities under the jurisdiction of the Juvenile Justice Commission are already adhering to these standards.
The costs of meeting and maintaining the requirements established by the proposed new rules will be met by the Commission through the established budget process with funds allocated by the State.
Federal Standards Statement
A Federal standards analysis is not required because the proposed new rules are not being adopted under the authority of, or in order to implement, comply with, or participate in any program established under Federal law or under a State statute that incorporates or refers to Federal law, standards or requirements.
Jobs Impact
The proposed new rules will not result in an increase or decrease in the number of jobs in New Jersey.
Agriculture Industry Impact
The proposed new rules will have no impact on the agriculture industry in New Jersey.
Regulatory Flexibility Statement
The proposed new rules will impose no reporting, recordkeeping or other compliance requirements upon small businesses, as defined under the Regulatory Flexibility Act, N.J.S.A. 52:14B-16 et seq. The proposed new rules affect employees and juveniles under the supervision of the Juvenile Justice Commission and will have no effect on small businesses. Therefore, a regulatory flexibility analysis is not required.
Smart Growth Impact
The proposed new rules will have no impact on the achievement of smart growth and implementation of the State Development and Redevelopment Plan.
Full text of the proposed new rules follows: CHAPTER 13:100
13:100-1.1 Purpose
13:100-1.2 Scope
13:100-1.3 Definitions
13:100-2.1 Initial reception
13:100-2.2 Juvenile Classification Committees
13:100-2.3 Responsibilities of a Juvenile Classification Committee
13:100-2.4 Juveniles ineligible for assignment to non-secure facilities
13:100-2.5 Emergency transfer procedures
13:100-2.6 Non-emergency transfers
13:100-2.7 Juvenile requests for transfer
13:100-2.8 Juvenile classification files
Peter C. Harvey
By: Markus Green


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The Tri County Jr. Eagles #4467 of the Fraternal Order of Eagles of Sand Lake, Michigan are hosting a Mother's Day Tea and Silent Auction on Saturday May 10, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. at the Sand Lake VFW.
This is a fundraiser for the Make A Wish Foundation of Michigan.
At the current time there are approximately 15 children in our community and neighboring communities on their waiting list to grant these children, who have life threatening illnesses, wishes. The funds raised at this event will help assist in granting these children their wishes.
Our goal is to raise $2,000.00. At this time the Jr. Eagles have raised over $650 towards this goal.
The event will include a guest speaker from the Make A Wish organizaiton, lunch, door prizes, flowers for all the mothers who attend, entertainment, and the silent auction.
What better way to celebrate Mother's Day than by helping these chidren in making their wishes come true.
If you would like more information to help sponsor this event or to purchase tickets for this event (tickets are $5.00 each), contact Lynn Rapson at 616-240-3871.


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Harry Reid Insists ObamaCare Horror Stories Are 'Lies': Big Three Nets Ignore
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid insulted victims of ObamaCare on
Wednesday – and the three major networks didn't seem to care. [Video
below. MP3 audio here.]
Speaking on the Senate floor, the Nevada Democrat lashed out at those whose lives have been hurt by the law, saying:
There's plenty of horror stories being told. All of them are untrue. But in those tales turned out to be just that. Tales. Stories made up from whole cloth. Lies distorted by Republicans to grab headlines or make political advertisements.
A few hours later, Reid walked back his comments, sort of:
I can't say that every one of the Koch brothers' ads are a lie, but I'll say this. Mr. President, the vast, vast majority of them are. And it's time the American people spoke out against this terrible dishonesty of these two brothers who are about as un-American as anyone that I can imagine.
Those are some inflammatory remarks from Sen. Reid. Yet ABC, NBC, and
CBS yawned, failing to mention them on either their Wednesday evening
news broadcasts or their Thursday morning shows.
FNC's Fox and Friends covered the Reid controversy near the beginning of their Thursday morning show, and they played clips of some real people who have talked about their struggles with ObamaCare on the network.
Below is a transcript of the February 27 Fox and Friends segment:
ELISABETH HASSELBECK: Well, certainly yesterday an outrage sort of came
after, both on Twitter and on the Senate floor. Harry Reid under great
fire for his statements really against Obamacare victims. We've been
hearing from a lot of them here.
CLAYTON MORRIS: Yeah, this isn't the first time that Harry Reid has been sort of the good cop/bad cop playing bad cop for the Obama administration. He did it for Mitt Romney on the taxes thing. He would not let up on that. And it seems now answering the clarion call about all of these issues about these people who are popping up in these ObamaCare ads, these anti-ObamaCare ads. Are these real people out there? Are these real people with real problems? Well, Senator Harry Reid took to the floor yesterday and said these are all fake. Watch.
HARRY REID: There's plenty of horror stories being told. All of them are untrue. But in those tales turned out to be just that. Tales. Stories made up from whole cloth. Lies distorted by Republicans to grab headlines or make political advertisements.
BRIAN KILMEADE: So Clayton, what you just said, when he came up and brought that thing up about Mitt Romney – 'oh, by the way, everybody knows Mitt Romney doesn't pay taxes.' He doesn't even know Mitt Romney. How does – what does he even weigh in on elections for? Unsubstantiated claims. Again, unsubstantiated claims. All made up. Really? Listen.
SHANNON WENDT: When I called and found out ours was being canceled, from there trying to kind of work through that healthcare.gov and just running into glitch after glitch, a dozen different glitches just trying to fill out the application.
JOSIE GRACCHI: My doctors are no longer available in my network. This is delaying all of my treatment and surgery. Most people that get breast cancer don't wait this long to have a surgery.
LAUREN ROBINSON: The premiums went through the ceiling when the Affordable Care Act was instated January 1.
MATT ROBINSON: Coupled with not being able to afford it, they were not going to cover his physical therapy, which he needs.
KILMEADE: By the way, what about the 6.2 million people that lost their policies? Is that made up? Even the president walked back that.
HASSELBECK: And those brave Americans that are actually bringing their stories, and those are just a few that we've actually talked to here.
KILMEADE: They're not actors?
MORRIS: They're not actors, no.
HASSELBECK: These are real people that actually had the courage to stand up. That's not an easy thing to do. And Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell yesterday on The Kelly File, this is what he said.
SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL: These people all across America who are losing their policies, whose premiums are going up, whose copayments and deductibles are going up, whose jobs are being lost are not making this up. And no amount of, you know, Harry Reid calling everybody a liar changes the facts. Why in the world would people be calling us with these stories if they were not true?
MORRIS: Meanwhile, Harry Reid sort of walking it back suddenly. He must have – I don't know if he regretted what he was saying, but he suddenly started to walk it back then, some of these comments, and he started to put the blame on a lot of the money that's coming into these ads, the Koch brothers and others and blaming Republicans for that, calling them un-American. Take a listen.
REID: I can't say that every one of the Koch brothers ads are a lie, but I'll say this. Mr. President, the vast, vast majority of them are. And it's time the American people spoke out against this terrible dishonesty of these two brothers who are about as un-American as anyone that I can imagine.
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On February 5th 2015 the 100 most innovative tomato growers from all over the world will meet in Berlin (Germany) for the second edition of the Tomato Inspiration Event. A great event to inspire and establish connections with the absolute leaders in the tomato-growing sector.
The Tomato Inspiration Event is an annual initiative by HortiBiz and is supported by ten partners, including Philips. A hundred of the world's most innovative tomato growers have been invited to come to Berlin to meet and inspire one another so as to raise high-tech horticulture to a higher level.
Theme: Crop and process technology
The theme is "crop and process technology", a topic that is currently receiving more attention than ever. Technology can help to increase production and quality in a sustainable manner. Philips' involvement goes without saying, since a LED solution is one of the possible tools for sustainable cultivation. Philips' many years of experience in horticulture and the many cultivation studies in which it has been involved are further advantages.
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The finalists will give brief presentations and several courses. The grand finale of the Tomato Inspiration Event will be formed by the presentation of the Tomato Inspiration Award, which will be presented to the world's best tomato grower in the field of crop and process technology. There will also be plenty of opportunity to network and make contact with the innovative horticulturists.
Who has tried out and embraced new growth technologies that have resulted in a demonstrably improved end product? And which visionary is able to reduce negative production effects by making innovative technological changes in its business?
We'll find out on 5 February 2015.
If you are unable to attend the event, you can still be kept informed via the website and Twitter.
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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
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JARVIS, Joseph N et al. Symptomatic relapse of HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis in South Africa: the role of inadequate secondary prophylaxis. SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. [online]. 2010, vol.100, n.6, pp.378-382. ISSN 2078-5135.
OBJECTIVES: Cryptococcal meningitis is the most common cause of adult meningitis in southern Africa. Much of this disease burden is thought to be due to symptomatic relapse of previously treated infection. We studied the contribution of inadequate secondary fluconazole prophylaxis to symptomatic relapses of cryptococcal meningitis. DESIGN: A prospective observational study of patients presenting with laboratory-confirmed symptomatic relapse of HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis between January 2007 and December 2008 at GF Jooste Hospital, a public sector adult referral hospital in Cape Town. OUTCOME MEASURES: Relapse episodes were categorised into: (i) patients not taking fluconazole prophylaxis; (ii) immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS); and (iii) relapses occurring prior to ART in patients taking fluconazole. In-hospital mortality was recorded. RESULTS: There were 69 relapse episodes, accounting for 23% of all cases of cryptococcal meningitis; 43% (N=30) of relapse episodes were in patients not receiving fluconazole prophylaxis, 45% (N=31) were due to IRIS, and 12% (N=8) were in patients pre-ART taking fluconazole. Patients developing relapse due to inadequate secondary prophylaxis had severe disease and high in-hospital mortality (33%). Of the 30 patients not taking fluconazole, 47% (N=14) had not been prescribed secondary prophylaxis by their health care providers. We documented no relapses due to fluconazole resistance in these patients who received amphotericin B as initial therapy. CONCLUSIONS: A large number of relapses of cryptococcal meningitis are due to failed prescription, dispensing and referral for or adherence to secondary fluconazole prophylaxis. Interventions to improve the use of secondary fluconazole prophylaxis are essential.


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· The FBI really wants out of the Hoover Building [WaPo]
· Cemeteries east of the river have rich histories [GGW]
· A few row houses from 1935 near Union Station [GhostsOfDC]
· CB2 releases a wallet inspired by NYC panhandlers [CurbedNational]
· DC's first Passive House unveiled to public today [WJLA; CurbedInbox]
Solar Decathlon Team, Habitat for Humanity and D.C. Goverment Celebrate Completion of Innovative Model for Affordable, Green Housing
Team Led by The New School and Stevens Institute of Technology Took Competition Beyond the Mall to Create District's First Passive House
WASHINGTON, D.C., December 4, 2012—After several years of planning, design and construction, a team of students from The New School and Stevens Institute of Technology who participated in the 2011 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon celebrated the completion of Empowerhouse, an innovative model for affordable, energy efficient green housing located in the Deanwood neighborhood of Washington. Developed in partnership with Habitat for Humanity of Washington, D.C. (DC Habitat), and the D.C. Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD), the project marks the first time in the Solar Decathlon's history that a team partnered from the outset with civic and government agencies to create a house specifically for a local D.C. community. It is the first Passive House—the leading international energy standard—in the District of Columbia, and already a recipient of a Mayor's Sustainability Award.
"This project fulfills a longstanding vision of our team to create a house that would endure in a meaningful way after the Solar Decathlon was over," said Joel Towers, executive dean of Parsons The New School for Design. "Empowerhouse illustrates The New School's commitment to design-led civic engagement, and is a true model of affordable sustainable housing that has the potential for national as well as international replication. Due to the success of this project, Parsons is now in the planning stages of a second project to build a home with Habitat in Philadelphia."
The Solar Decathlon is a biannual, international competition that challenges collegiate teams from around the world to design, build, and operate solar-powered houses, which were exhibited on the National Mall in September and October 2011. The Empowerhouse team took the competition beyond the Mall by designing and constructing a house specifically for Habitat on a site in the Deanwood neighborhood east of the Anacostia River in Washington D.C. At the competition, it won the Decathlon's first Affordability contest, as well as several additional categories. At the conclusion, it was moved to Deanwood and expanded into a two-family home for local residents. DC Habitat selected the two families that will occupy the final house. Lakiya Culley, a Deanwood resident and single mother of three young children, who works as a secretary for the U.S. Department of State, will move into the house in January. A second family was just approved, and will be transitioning from public housing.
Beyond bringing together the non-profit, academic and government sectors, Empowerhouse also brought to the table the knowledge and support of the design and construction industries, as well as important local stakeholders. This includes such project sponsors as Binational Softwood Lumber Council, Jones Lang LaSalle, Metlife Foundation, Tess Dempsey Design, and Sheila Johnson and the Washington Mystics; as well as community organizations such as Groundwork Anacostia River DC, which provides environmental education and restoration projects to neighborhoods along the river.
"This project has given students an extraordinary opportunity to address first-hand one of the most pressing problems facing the world today – affordable, sustainable housing supported by alternative energy," said Dr. Michael Bruno, dean of the Charles V. Schaefer Jr., School of Engineering and Science at Stevens Institute of Technology. "The team has set itself apart by designing a house that is not only net energy neutral but also requires low energy consumption to operate – a welcomed feature for the Washington, D.C. family that will be living there."
Each unit of the two-family house is designed as a "site net-zero" system (producing all of its energy needs), but each achieves peak efficiency when joined. The house adheres to Passive House principles, which have only just begun to be recognized in the United States, and consumes up to 90 percent less energy for heating and cooling than a typical home. Through the use of these principles, the house had one of the smallest photovoltaic arrays of any in the competition, and its heating and cooling will require the same amount of power as it takes to operate a hair dryer.
Deanwood, a primarily working-class, African-American community, was selected as the site for the project due to its location in one of the greenest wards in Washington, D.C., and its history of community activism and self-sufficiency. Today, Deanwood and its surrounding neighborhoods are undergoing a powerful revitalization through economic development and environmental sustainability initiatives. Residents recently participated in the CarbonFree DC "Extreme Green Neighborhood Makeover," which retrofitted low and moderate-income homes.
Building on the theme of self-sufficiency, the house is designed not only to provide its own energy needs, but the team also is working with Deanwood's Lederer Community Youth Garden to provide plantings for a roof garden and vegetable window boxes, to provide families with the opportunity to grow their own food. The house has a comprehensive water strategy that includes a rainwater harvesting system that will capture and store rainwater not only from the site but surrounding homes for use in the garden, with the ultimate goal of minimizing the water that is drained into the public sewer system.
"The District of Columbia is on course to become the healthiest, greenest and most livable city in the country within 20 years," said Michael P. Kelly, director for the D.C. Department of Housing and Community Development. "Our primary mission at DHCD is to create more affordable and sustainable housing options for District residents. Empowerhouse does a tremendous job of creating housing that's affordable for a first-time homebuyer to purchase and for the owner to maintain reasonable housing costs through low energy consumption."
The community played a direct role in building the house, in keeping with the Habitat for Humanity mission, and the house features an innovative construction system that will made it easy for volunteer participation, as well as many off-the-shelf components that are available in home improvement stores. The construction process was so affordable that in June, DC Habitat announced it was breaking ground on six new energy-efficient town homes in the Ivy City community that use the Empowerhouse team's Passive House design standards.
"Because the passive house design can reduce a home's total energy consumption by 80-90 percent, the owners of the Empowerhouse units will enjoy substantially lower energy costs throughout the lifetime of their homes," said Susanne Slater, President and CEO of DC Habitat. "DC Habitat is thrilled to offer two hard-working families the added affordability of this model. For some families, a significant savings on energy can mean the ability to afford a summer vacation or help pay for college tuition."
The Empowerhouse project was community-driven. Throughout the course of its development, the team hosted design charrettes with community members, and conducted extensive research on the neighborhood, including its rich architectural history and sustainable practices and resources. In addition to creating new residences, the team extended the project by leading workshops to educate residents on how to make their homes more sustainable—from retrofitting solar panels to community gardening. The team is also creating a new learning garden in Deanwood, working with Groundwork Anacostia and local volunteers.
"The team has taken an integrative approach that reflects both the wide range of issues in the project and the students' wide array of expertise," said David Scobey, executive dean of The New School for Public Engagement. "Empowerhouse has brought together over 200 graduate and undergraduate students in ways that connect sustainability with management, urban policy, engineering, and many levels of design—from architecture to fashion, to product design, to communication design, to technology. The project engages sutainability in a fully interdisciplinary way."
For more information, visit http://www.empowerhouse-dc.org.
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Semiconductor company MediaTek and Gameloft have joined forces to develop games for phones based on MediaTek's chipsets, they announced on Friday.
That MediaTek wants more games isn't very surprising. The availability of games on phones has become hugely important, according to Paolo Pescatore, analyst at CCS Insight.
"It is by far the single biggest category of apps on most stores, and more than half of the revenue is generated by games," said Pescatore.
For example, MediaTek's latest chip, the MT6255, will come preloaded with racing game Asphalt 6: Adrenaline as well as trial versions of Block Breaker 3, Assassin's Creed Revelations and Brain Challenge 3: Think Again! at no extra cost to manufacturers that choose to develop "smart feature phones" based on it.
Beyond that the two companies aren't providing much detail on what the partnership will result in. But Gameloft has begun to set aside resources that include a dedicated R&D team. Development teams in France, Vietnam and China will all work on games that will run on MediaTek-based phones, according to a statement.
This isn't the first time MediaTek has partnered to make its chipsets more attractive to phone makers and in extension to consumers in countries such as China and India. The company has also signed deals with Facebook and browser developer Opera Software.
Just like phones manufacturers, the chipset companies have to differentiate themselves from the competition, according to Pescatore.
But there is also a reason why these companies want to work with MediaTek. For Gameloft, it is a foot in the door in parts of the world were its brand and titles are less well known, said Pescatore.


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Best jailbreak apps for iPad and iPad mini
If you've jailbroken your iPad or iPad mini, there's lots of apps and tweaks available that can not only make using your iPad much more enjoyable, but enhance core iOS features and make them a lot better. It's not uncommon for Apple to implement jailbreak ideas and concepts in future versions of iOS, but why wait when you can have them now?
There's lots of jailbreak tweaks and apps available in Cydia and weeding through them all can be a task. We've already told you our favorite jailbreak apps for iPhone and these are our favorites for the iPad and iPad mini.
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Tapping into Settings every time you want to enable or disable WiFi or change your iPad's brightness can get irritating. NCSettings adds quick toggles to Notification Center to quickly access settings such as brightness, WiFi, cellular data, and more. There are lots of add-ons to be had in Cydia as well.
If you've ever used SBSettings in the past, you'll be right at home with NCSettings. The only difference is that NCSettings just integrates with the already existing Notification Center interface which means less gestures to remember and more information and functionality all in one place.
- Free - Cydia Search Link
There are lots of apps out there that are for iPhone only. While Apple will allow you to download them on your iPad, they're tiny and when you expand them to 2x to fill the screen, they're grainy and look like crap. This is where RetinaPad comes in handy.
Once you've installed RetinaPad it'll automatically detect any traditional iPhone app that you open on your iPad and automatically upscale it to not look like crap. While it doesn't completely fill all of the screen like a native iPad app would, it makes it look a heck of a lot better and a lot more bearable. If you've got iPhone only apps that you really want to run on your iPad, RetinaPad is a must.
- $2.99 - Cydia Search Link
If you've got a Mac running OS X Mountain Lion, you're probably familiar with the way Notification Center works on it. While this method isn't really viable on a screen as tiny as the iPhone, it is on the iPad or iPad mini. I've never been a fan of how Notification Center pulls down on the iPad. It's almost as if they took the default iPhone Notification Center layout and stuck it on the iPad. It's not customized for the iPad and just feels like a cheap port.
MountainCenter gives you the same kind of experience on your iPad or iPad mini that you get on your Mac with Notification Center. Simply pop into Settings and set up a gesture to trigger MountainCenter and you're good to go. Slide to the right or left to reveal Notification Center on the side just like you can in Mountain Lion. It just feels better than the default implementation of Notification Center for the iPad. Not to mention you'll be able to see more data at a glance than the default provides.
- $2.99 - Cydia Search Link
Just like Notification Center feels half baked, so does the default way notification banners are shown on the iPad and iPad mini. While they span the entire length of the top of the screen for iPhone, they don't on the iPad and again, feels like a super cheap port. It works on the iPhone but doesn't fair so well on the iPad or iPad mini.
While you could always wait for Apple to make improvements to banner notifications on the iPad, you can also download Emblem which solves the problem right now. Instead of seeing the stock banners that don't look so great on the iPad to begin with, Emblem turns notification alerts on the iPad into OS X and growl like banners that will show on the upper right hand side of the screen. Tapping on one will launch the program the notification was received from. If you receive more than 3 notifications, Emblem will combine them into stacks that you can scroll through instead of taking up half the screen with banners. If you don't take any action on a banner, it will simply roll away just like stock notification banners would.
- $1.99 - Cydia Search Link
While the iPad can be a great business tool, the keyboard still needs some work. Typing on it, especially when you make errors, can be daunting and slow at times unless you're using a keyboard accessory. Even that can still be annoying when reaching for the screen to correct errors or add content.
SwipeSelection aims to solve these problems by adding some additional functionality to the virtual keyboard. For example, instead of using your finger to move cursor around with the magnifying glass, SwipeSelection simply lets you drag your finger back and forth or up and down on the actual keyboard to move the cursor position. It doesn't seem like a big deal but when correcting and editing text, it's loads faster than moving your finger all the way to the top of the screen again.
Another really nice action happens when you hold down shift and drag your finger. You'll notice that this highlights the selection of text that you are dragging over. It's much more natural than double tapping the screen or tapping and then dragging a cursor around. Your fingers are already on the keyboard, why not keep them there?
- Free - Cydia Search Link
Your picks?
While these are our very favorite apps that we think really will enhance your iPad experience, everyone uses their iPad for different reasons. We are sure all of you have come across some pretty awesome tweaks that rank in your top 5. Share them below in the comments!
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The 2012-13 Rozanne M. Brooks Lecture Series at SUNY Cortland will continue on Wednesday, Oct. 17, with a discussion of fungi by Timothy Baroni, a SUNY distinguished biology professor.
Baroni, a member of the Biological Sciences Department, will present "Biodiversity of Macrofungi in Endangered Tropical Ecosystems: What We Do and Don't Know" at 4:30 p.m. in Moffett Center, Room 2125. A reception starts at 4 p.m. at the Rozanne M. Brooks Museum in Moffett Center, Room 2126. The talk is free and open to the public.
This year's series takes on the theme of "Culture and Health." This is the second of five lectures planned for the 2012-13 academic year.
Baroni has more than two decades of field research. He will demonstrate the biodiversity of mushrooms and their relatives during this talk, which will look at many samples collected throughout North and South America. The importance of fungi in the ecosystem will be discussed as well as data that provides a deeper understanding of their short life spans and the difficulties encountered when trying to study them.
The 2012-13 Brooks Lecture Series is sponsored by a grant from Auxiliary Services Corporation (ASC) and the Cortland College Foundation. For more information, contact the lecture series organizer and Brooks Museum director, Sharon R. Steadman, at (607) 753-2308.


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Editor's Note: Alex Castellanos, a CNN contributor, is a Republican consultant and the co-founder of Purple Strategies. Follow him on Twitter: @alexcast
Story highlights
Alex Castellanos says it takes some guesswork to predict outcome of such a close election
He says several factors make Mitt Romney more likely to win
Romney has made progress in reducing gender gap and may have an edge with independents
Castellanos: Obama hasn't cracked 50% barrier, and his 2008 win looks unlikely to repeat
So it comes down to this: On Tuesday, the president who can't possibly win re-election confronts the challenger who can't possibly beat him.
Licensed, as I am, to pump gas and commit punditry in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, I am obligated to make a prediction.
Or, in other words: It's time to guess.
Three weeks ago, on NBC's "Meet the Press," I ventured that something happened at that Denver debate beyond President Barack Obama not showing up for work.
The president, I noted, had never run a campaign to get re-elected, just a campaign to stop the other guy, Mitt Romney, from getting elected. When the Romney who arrived to debate was not the sulfur-breathing demon the president had led us to expect, Obama was left with no campaign at all. "This is a man with two empty holsters," I noted. "His campaign could collapse."
I think it did.
Then an unexpected voter named Sandy resuscitated Obama's campaign.
What factors must we understand in these final hours to identify the winner of this election?
First, we'd have to understand who is going to win independents.
Four years ago, Obama won independents by 8 points over John McCain. After the Denver debate, that advantage reversed itself. In recent Washington Post/ABC News tracking polls, Obama has trailed Romney among independent voters by 16 to 20 percentage points. Recent CBS polls also reported that Romney has led Obama among independents by 5% in Ohio, 6% in Florida and a massive 21% in Virginia.
If this lead among independents held through Election Day, Romney would win these states. Post-Sandy survey data, however, indicates the storm may have blown away Romney's advantage with independents, at least temporarily.
The Politico/GW Battleground Poll has the president pulling within 1 point among independent voters, 43% to 44%. Our own PurplePoll of swing states has the president taking a one point lead among purple state independents, 45% to 44%. However, the final NBC/WSJ national poll reports that Romney is winning independents by 7 points. And the new CNN/ORC poll gives Romney a 22% lead with independents.
Who wins independents might depend upon whether Obama's "Sandy bounce" was a real change or a temporary bump in the president's fortunes. If voters believe the president's energetic response indicates he has learned a lesson and will be more responsive to them in a second term, this election could break Obama's way.
Second, to identify the winner, we'd have to see whether Romney has closed the gender gap.
The latest Associated Press poll has Romney erasing a 16-point gender gap in the past month. Pew Research tells us Romney's and Obama's favorability ratings among women voters are now nearly equal. Pew analyst Michael Dimock expects the gender gap "to look very similar to the last few election cycles, with women somewhere between 6 and 8 points to favor Obama, and fairly consistent with where we've been since 1980." Our own post-Sandy PurplePoll has Romney closing the gender gap to 7 points, enough for him to win.
Third, to call the election for Obama, I'd have to believe he doesn't hit his head on the ceiling every time he stands, but he does. The president's percentage number is stuck some 2% or 3% short of the 50% mark.
The Real Clear Politics national average has Obama stuck at 47.8% with Romney tight on his heels at 47.3%. Our last two PurplePolls of likely voters in swing states have Obama at 47% to 48%.
Surveys that show a higher percentage for the president, cracking the 50% line, such as the overcooked Marist poll in Ohio, are preposterously overweighted with Democrats.
Marist unexplainably paints Ohio 9% more Democrat than Republican, with the Republican share of the electorate lower today than in 2008, when Republicans were swallowing razor blades and Obama mania was cresting. Other surveys, which perhaps have spent less time in the crock pot, show a different Ohio: A CBS/NYT poll reports Republican enthusiasm outstripping Democrat enthusiasm in Ohio by 14 points.
My experience is that polarizing incumbents running against acceptable challengers can count on getting just about exactly what they are getting in the last poll, heading into the election – and no more. The electoral ceiling over Obama's head is hard. In my view, it is a couple of points too low for him to win re-election.
What else would we have to understand to identify the likely winner?
Fourth, we'd have to see who has captured the powerful remnants of the 2010 surge that renewed the "silent majority's" voice and secured GOP control of the House of Representatives.
Anecdotal evidence and survey data tell us that Romney has momentum with white, working-class men in swing states and nationally.
A new poll from the conservative American Future Fund has Romney within a point in blue-collar Minnesota. Obama's campaign is suddenly running ads in a working-class state such as Pennsylvania that he had previously put in his pocket. New data has Romney tied with Obama in Pennsylvania, 47% to 47%, within 2 points in Ohio, and tied with the president in New Hampshire.
Meanwhile, Romney is drawing the largest crowds of his campaign, packed with those Reagan-Democratic men, in, of all places, Ohio. Early on Election Night, if Romney starts winning blue-collar, working class counties in western Pennsylvania, he will win them everywhere, including Ohio, Iowa, New Hampshire and Minnesota. At this point, it is almost impossible for Romney to win the presidency small. He either loses or puts around 300 electoral votes in the bank.
Fifth, to identify our next president, we would have to understand who has the edge, compared with '08, in early and absentee voting.
GOP sources tell me that in Ohio, for example, Republicans have increased their early turnout by more than 100,000 from 2008 while Democrat turnout is down 150,000. That is a 250,000-vote swing in a state Obama only won by 260,000 votes at the apogee of his popularity. This pattern, I'm informed, holds in other swing states.
Sixth, we have to examine whether the Obama campaign can compensate for dimming passion among its supporters with a more energetic turn-out-the-vote machine on Election Day.
It's fair to admit that Team Obama has had a four-year head start, nearly endless resources and a brilliant team of social media wizards to build an unmatched get-out-the-vote operation. But Obama has disappointed even his own supporters. The thrill of his historic political accomplishment is gone. Without passion to fuel the machine, a turnout engine is just a collection of bolts.
My experience is that the Beatles were right: Money can't buy you love, or turnout.
Seventh, to identify our next president, we have to understand how publicly embarrassing it is to be a Republican these days.
Hollywood, the music industry, the news media, the fashion industry, the intellectual elite and the news media all fawn over Obama. To identify yourself as a Republican Romney voter, however, is to admit that you are culturally backward. In effect, survey questioners are asking Obama voters if they self-identify as cool. They are asking Romney voters if they would publicly admit to wearing socks with sandals.
Too often, Republicans dare not speak their name, because they know the cool kids won't invite them to play.
This phenomenon, the reticent Republican factor, like the shy Tory factor found in British polls in the '90s, could easily account for a 4% to 5% unexpected pro-Romney bump on Election Day.
Late polls in 1980 gave Ronald Reagan only a 2% to 3% lead over Jimmy Carter. Reagan ended up winning by nearly 10%. For the same reason, I would expect this campaign's final public opinion polls and exit polls this Tuesday to underreport the Republican vote by a handful of points.
Add it all up, and this is a close call. Perhaps it is best made both with my heart and my head.
Four years ago, Obama's campaign claimed a unique energy. Electing the first black president of the United States was a singular moment of national pride. Now the Obama campaign pretends the opposite: They tell us that history-making event was ordinary. Team Obama and many others model their turnout predictions and surveys upon 2008, overloading them with Democrats. They would have us think that the electoral cosmos has been realigned in a stable and permanent way.
In the end, I cannot embrace as common the rarest of political astronomies. I do not believe Obama's comet comes around every day.
That leaves Mitt Romney as the next president of the United States.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Alex Castellanos.


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Nikodemus I of Pec
Our father among the saints Nikodim (also Nikodemus or Nicodemus, Serbian Свети Никодим архиепископ српски) was archbishop of Peć from 1317 to 1326. This holy hierarch was a relative of the sainted King Stefan Uroš II Milutin Nemanjić. He was elected archbishop on Ascension, May 12, 1317. When Saint Danilo gave up his position as igumen of Hilandar Monastery, Nikodim, his disciple, succeeded him.
Once when he was an igumen, he attended a Divine Service in Constantinople where the Patriarchs of Antioch and Jerusalem served according to the Typikon of Saint Sabbas. He was impressed, and when he was elected archbishop he decided to translate this typikon into Serbian. This was the first complete typikon in the Serbian church. He was very dedicated to the cult of Saint Sava. Saint Nikodim was forced to with foreign heretics. As archbishop he coronated Saint Stefan Uroš III King of Serbia and the Coastlands on January 6, 1324. St. Nikodim explained in the prologue of his translation of Saint Sabbas' typikon that he wanted to continue work of St. Sava, who had introduced to the Serbian church the practice of the Church of Jerusalem. St Nikodim died on May 12, 1324.
He built the Church of Saint Demetrius in Pec Monastery. Nikodim was a good and capable hierarch. He was canonized in the last decade of the 14th century. Bishop Marko wrote a Service to Saint Nikodim honoring the saint.
Nikodemus I of Pec
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St. Sava III
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