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UMTerp01's JournalEven Chris Matthews said Hillary won by knockout!!!!
He made no bones about it. Wasn't even close!!!! GO HILLARY!!!!
I knew Hillary would kick ass but she was absolutely FABULOUS tonight!! I love that woman!!
#ImWithHer
Looked amazing in red. Her focus, her facts, her policy proposals, her specifics. Donald didn't answer the questions, was all over the place on topics, and seemed too aggressive.
I'm so god damn sick of Andrea Mitchell normalizing Donald Trump's terrible, horrible campaign
I'm glad to see some people starting to take the media to task but I hope they are fucking excoriated when this election is over. She is always there to try and normalize his racism, his ignorance.
Clinton and Trump tied in new battleground polling
The race across the combined battlegrounds is as tight as can be, tied 42 percent to 42 percent.
Clinton was up one point last week, and was up two points back on Labor Day weekend. Voters in these states are still looking for change, while the partisan divide remains particularly deep.
Fifty-five percent of battleground voters want to see “big changes” in the nation’s politics and economy in the next few years. Forty-three percent want “some changes” and only 2 percent think things are fine and not in need of much change. Trump leads by a wide margin on being trusted to change Washington: Forty-seven percent trust Trump to do it, 20 percent trust that Clinton can do it. Nine percent of independents trust Clinton can change Washington. Only 47 percent of Democrats trust Clinton to change Washington. A similar 41 percent of Democrats trust neither candidate to do it.
And to Donald Trump’s voters, Trump represents that larger chance for change. By a roughly five to one margin, Trump’s voters say their support is more about “a chance to change politics as usual” (49 percent) than it is just about Trump himself, as a person, just 9 percent. And 42 percent say it is both, so the “change” component is present for almost all of Trump’s voters, in some part.
Clinton does lead 47 percent to 39 percent on being trusted to handle the job well day-to-day, and by 43 percent to 34 percent on being trusted to act in a way that America can be proud of. Twenty-three percent think neither would.
One reason this race remains tight and most have made up their minds: partisans have very negative outlooks on what might happen if the other side wins. Eighty-six percent of Democrats say the country might be “damaged beyond repair” if Trump wins, and 83 percent of Republicans think the country might be “damaged beyond repair” if Clinton wins.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-tied-across-battleground-states/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=28917292
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I can't!!! It looks like they need to put resources back into Colorado and Virginia. I don't know if there will be another shift after the birther stuff this weekend but this race is way closer than it should be. I know this doesn't account for the individual state polling in which Clinton still has decent leads in a few but there isn't much room left for undecideds. Its going to be a ground operation win at this point. Which side gets their voters out. Hillary has been doing this for months. I've continually heard that Trump's ground game is weak so that is where I am putting my faith.
I am furious at NC GOP cutting early voting
These son of a bitches are so blatant about this its ridiculous. MSNBC just had a GOP person on that said its all political to affect Democrats, particularly African Americans. Yeah we already knew this but one of their own admitting it just really burned me. 70% of African Americans vote early in NC. The Souls to the Polls will be harmed drastically by this. I suggest then that these churches get together and organize another day if this early voting cut stands. I understand they are going to go back to court for this. This is what pisses me off when people don't recognize institutional racism. So disgusted!!!
HILLARY WILL WIN!!!!
There's been a lot of hand wringing the past few days, myself included. Think its time for a hoo rah thread with a reminder that HILLARY WILL WIN!!! She is the most qualified candidate with the judgment and temperament to be Commander in Chief and President of the United States. She has been marching on with the strength of two people for decades and her life of public service will be rewarded when voters elect her as the next President of the United States in less than two months. Hate and bigotry will not prevail. This will not be America's "Brexit"!!!! Post your cheer messages and pictures and gifs!!!!
Snow is the primary drinking water supply for more than 1 billion people and its disappearing
From my alma mater University of Maryland:
Researcher Measuring Global Snow as Warming Takes Toll
BY CHRIS CARROLL
For most of us, snow is simple stuff, and guessing about school cancellations or how long it’ll take to shovel the driveway is about as complicated as it gets. But for Barton Forman (right), snow measurements open the door on a world of complexity where even the special shapes of individual snowflakes—multiplied trillions of times—can factor unpredictably into the crucial question he’s trying to answer. With the help of NASA satellites and UMD supercomputers, the assistant civil and environmental engineering professor is developing methods to quantify the earth’s total supply of snow—a giant frozen reservoir that provides freshwater to about one-seventh of the human race.
Like many aspects of the natural world these days, snow is threatened. “It’s the primary drinking water supply for more than a billion people—mostly in the northern hemisphere, including the U.S.,” Forman says. “But as the world is getting warmer, snow is disappearing. It’s shifting poleward, and it’s also moving up the mountain, effectively looking for colder ground.” He says that while El Nino-driven floods and mudslides have hit parts of California this winter, the state has been parched for the past several years because of the lack of snow. Winter after winter of subpar mountain snowpack led to devastating drought in heavily populated but dry areas, and forced farmers in the world’s most productive agricultural region to deplete groundwater.
Snow is just as crucial in parts of the world where—unlike in California’s Sierra Nevada range—there’s no reliable on-the-ground method to measure how much frozen water is stored at high altitudes. Simply looking at snow coverage from orbit can’t take thickness or density into account—variables affected by factors ranging from snowflake shape to how much melting and refreezing has occurred. “We simply don’t know how much snow is out there,” he says. “It’s really dynamic. It changes in space and time.”
Supported by a NASA New Investigator Award, Forman’s snow study uses two complimentary satellite-based techniques. The first relies on measurements of microwave radiation emitted by the earth. Snow scatters the radiation, allowing investigators to infer how much water it contains. Others substances complicate matters. “The satellite measures all emitted microwaves, and they can originate from the ocean, from sea ice, vegetation, soil moisture,” he says. “Figuring out what part of that signal is truly related to snow is a complex process.”
Forman also uses gravity anomalies to gauge snow cover. NASA’s GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) orbiters sense minute variations in the earth’s gravitational field over wide areas, allowing researchers to effectively observe snow building up and melting. “That mass is moving,” he says. “Imagine you have a mountain, and then it gets covered in snow, which is a lot of mass. The gravitational field will change.” There’s more to it than just taking measurements. Forman is using UMD’s Deepthought2 high performance computing cluster to crunch massive amounts of data as he works toward an overarching computer model of global snow.
His method involves machine learning, a field in which computers are programmed to learn and make predictions, and neural networks, where groups of computer models inspired by brain functions work together, says a NASA collaborator. “Basically, you teach the computer to infer non-linear relationships given training data” from satellite snow observations, says Rolf Reichl, a research physical scientist in global modeling and assimilation at the NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center. “Once you’ve trained the machine, you give it new data it hasn’t seen before and it will estimate the snowpack.”
When Forman has reached his goal and can tell you how much snow is in the world by typing in a command or two, he won’t have stopped global warming or saved the depleting snow. But accurate forecasts will be a major advance as climate scientists and water resource planners try to ensure the tap doesn’t run dry for a large portion of humanity. “We want to understand and preserve this important resource,” he says. “A fundamental question we need to answer is, exactly how much of it is there?”
http://terp.umd.edu/snow-retreat#.V9gmgU0rLZ5
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I just don't understand folks who don't believe in global warming and use the excuse that "its cyclical" and will rebound. No. I'm a skier and I've been skiing since I was about 6 years old. I've gone skiing in every part of the country and now at 38 years old the shift in the increased need to create man made snow at many of the ski resorts is dramatic. In the past 10 years I've had to cancel quite a few ski trips because there was no snow, or I've gone on trips but it was too warm and the snow was horrible. This is important research to ensure that we are preserving this resource for a great many number of people who literally will need it to survive.
Is it about pneumonia or is it about optics?
I was talking to my mother earlier and she basically agrees with David Axelrod. Its not the pneumonia but the optics. Instead of just saying what it was on Friday about the pneumonia, the campaign said it was being overheated and then the pneumonia story comes out. Even for me....I don't give a crap about her having pneumonia. The woman is entitled to get sick. Its the optics. They took a risk and it backfired. If the incident hadn't happened with video showing her stumbling badly near her van or having to leave at all then none of us would be the wiser. I think they didn't want to feed into the BS that has been being pushed from these non doctors diagnosing her over the TV, but it backfired and its now an issue whether we like it or not. Ultimately, I don't think it changes things much and once the debates come this will pretty much be over with (you know how ADD we are and Trump will no doubt fuck up again soon) but it does make it an issue that otherwise was pretty much seen as the Trump campaign playing up conspiracy theories before. And the less intelligent folk (and there are plenty) will take what was already being put in the back of people's mind about Hillary's health and run with it.
The media is doing its part by blowing this out of proportion. To me its about optics. I'm looking at this like I was a brand consultant for a company. Your reputation (regardless of if its deserved) is what it is. Polls aren't lying about people not associating her with being honest and trustworthy. They have been pretty consistent. So if I'm a brand consultant I'm chewing some people out today. You're feeding the trolls with miscalculations like this. This was a non story that was made a story by the campaign just not coming right out and saying what it was. Again, not a big deal for me. Its an optics point of view. I don't care if she was in bed for the next week. Big F'n deal. People get sick. It actually shows strength as far as I'm concerned that she was doing so much with walking pneumonia; more than I would've been able to do. I know this has been overblown and this is my last OP on the topic. It is what it is and it will pass. If anything, most of the women in my office today were particularly pissed that it had been overblown and talked about women pushing through while being sick is as old as time. So I also say that if its overplayed too much it could backfire but in Hillary's favor.
The Salary Needed To Afford Rent in 10 of the Largest US Cities ---Good grief!!!!!!
Dallas, Texas
Income needed to pay rent: $62,700
Average cost of renting a two-bedroom in 2016: $1,463
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Income needed to pay rent: $65,100
Average cost of renting a two-bedroom in 2016: $1,519
Chicago, Illinois
Income needed to pay rent: $76,071
Average cost of renting a two-bedroom in 2016: $1,775
Miami, Florida
Income needed to pay rent: $90,300
Average cost of renting a two-bedroom in 2016: $2,107
Seattle, Washington
Income needed to pay rent: $98,271
Average cost of renting a two-bedroom in 2016: $2,293
Washington, D.C.
Income needed to pay rent: $119,271
Average cost of renting a two-bedroom in 2016: $2,783
Boston, Massachusetts
Income needed to pay rent: $120,900
Average cost of renting a two-bedroom in 2016: $2,821
Los Angeles, California
Income needed to pay rent: $145,629
Average cost of renting a two-bedroom in 2016: $3,398
New York, New York
Income needed to pay rent: $158,229
Average cost of renting a two-bedroom in 2016: $3,692
San Francisco, California
Income needed to pay rent: $216,129
Average cost of renting a two-bedroom in 2016: $5,043
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/15/the-salary-you-need-to-afford-rent-in-10-of-the-largest-us-cities.html?_source=twitter
This is just ridiculous!!!! This is also why I'm moving. I just refuse to pay as much as I'm paying for a mortgage any longer. I don't even live in Washington DC but in the surrounding area and housing prices are just ridiculous. So my fiance and I just sold our home to move further up north in Maryland. We are getting more than twice the square footage of our recently sold house and we paid half as much for it. I will deal with a longer commute and taking the train into work. My fiance can work remotely most of the time (lucky). Granted these article figures are for 2 bedroom rentals, but if you are a single person you still need to make a somewhat decent income to afford rent in a decent area in those cities, and my fiance and I both make 6 figure incomes. But we want more disposable income and additional money to save and invest.
The disparity and inequality in housing costs is just ridiculous and is the reason fueling the great migration south to areas that have much lower housing costs and the overall cost of living is much cheaper. You are basically driving out anyone who isn't of a certain status and who can't take advantage of all that these cities have to offer socially and culturally. The gentrification of these areas means that they have lost so much of their diversity and its a real shame.
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