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Canyons District breaks ground for high school in Draper
2 bits Cottonwood Heights, UTApril 28, 2011 2:06 p.m.
OH NO!!! A High_School in DRAPER!!!! What will we do!
You people realize that there isn't a single public_High_School in Draper... right?
Draper has lots of kids... they NEED a High School.
Currently all they have is a PRIVATE Catholic High_School and a small alternative High School for students with special_needs. I think Draper is big enough to deserve a PUBLIC High School... don't you?
I suspect a LOT of the angst over Draper getting a High_School is fueled by the anger over the Canyons/Jordan school district split. Am I right?
But you realize this was part of what lead to the split... Communities like Draper who have never had a High School NEEDED a High School... and there were ZERO High Schools on the Jordan School District Master Plan for these communities.
Residents of these communities could see the writing on the wall. They were NEVER going to get a High_School if they stayed in Jordan District. That's part of what started the movement to get out.
Now that they are separate (they don't pay for your projects and you don't pay for theirs)... It's really none of your business.
Positive View South Jordan, UtahApril 28, 2011 10:19 a.m.
As I recall, Draper complained that they were the only city in CSD that did not have a high school. So Doty, et.al., puts the 9th graders in the high schools to justify enough population to build the new Draper school that is not needed. This will expose 14 and 15 year olds to the pressures of dating (the reason most Utah districts do not do this). To keep the middle school populations up they move the 6th grade into the middle schools. Now they will be underpopulated in their elementary schools. Does this mean they will be closing some elementary schools or just running them half full?
Lifelong Republican Orem, UTApril 28, 2011 9:13 a.m.
The gymnasium at this high school is going to hold more people than some of the college gymnasiums.
Alta already has a strong reputation.
Why mess with that?
trekker Salt Lake, UTApril 27, 2011 11:57 p.m.
so they want to build a huge high school to move 9th in to the high school and put 6th in the middle schools? Jordan tried this back in the 80's it didn't work well, how about they stick to a cheaper basic design, rather than a designer school. look at the design of Jordan it has very high ceilings that waste space. i remember when they built some of these fancy looking schools they didn't have enough money to put books in the libraries. ps canyons may want to rename Jordan High as Canyons High now that they are not the Jordan District, just a thought.
DN Subscriber Cottonwood Heights, UTApril 27, 2011 8:33 p.m.
$65 millions sure sounds like a gold plated edifice that may satisfy the egos of the school board members, who are proving themselves to be typical of the "academic elites" with entitlement mentalities. It surely does not reflect the needs of the taxpayers who must pay for this extravagance, nor the modest needs of high school students.
This is just one more example of how out of touch the Canyons School District is from the citizens they work for.
Time for some partisan elections to throw the incumbents out and replace them with business minded leaders, not coddled career school bureaucrats.
JSB Sugar City, IDApril 27, 2011 6:26 p.m.
Building this new expensive building is not necessary. School buildings can handle 33% more students if the school district adopts a year round school with three tracks: A) Students born in September, October, November and December would attend Fall and Winter. B) Students born in January, February, March and April woul attend Winter and Summer. C) Students born in May, June, July and August would attend summer and fall. This makes much better use of the physical facilities without overcrowding. It's a pity to spend $65 million dollars on a building that will be relatively empty for 1/3 of the year. BYU-Idaho and other universities are adopting a 3-track system and it is very successful. Perhaps it should be used in our public schools as well.


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Interesting thought for the day. Michael Phelps with his 8 gold medals would be tied for 5th (with Japan and Australia) for total gold medals behind China, USA, Great Britain, and Germany!
What an amazing accomplishment for Michael and the USA men's team. Especially the relay teams that brought it all together. They were great races, and I really enjoyed watching my daughter cheer loudly at the TV, as history was made
CONGRATULATIONS Michael!

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Butte County Historical Society Archives: 9 a.m.-noon, 2335 Baldwin Ave. $3 per person per day to research. 533-9418. Weekly. Also Friday.
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3 bedroom town house for saleLongdown Road, Fazakerley
Sold STC £115,000
Property Description
Key features
- 3 Bedroom End Townhouse
- EPC Rating D
- Contemporary Bathroom
- Lovely Rear Gardens
- Two Reception Rooms
- uPVC Double Glazing
- Off Road Parking
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**REDUCED** As agents we are pleased to offer for sale this attractive 3 bedroom end townhouse situated on a popular residential estate and convenient for local amenities. The well presented accommodation briefly comprises; entrance hall, lounge, dining room and fitted kitchen. To the first floor there are three bedrooms and a contemporary bathroom. Outside there is a delightful rear garden, which is not overlooked, and an open plan front garden with off road parking. The property also benefits from uPVC double glazing and gas central heating. An early viewing is recommended for this great property. Ideal for a first time buyer.
Entrance Hall
UPVC front door, radiator with ornate cover, laminate flooring, stairs to first floor
13'9'' x 11'10'' (4.19m x 3.61m)
UPVC double glazed window to front aspect, living flame gas fire in feature surround, radiator, open to dining room
Dining Room
9'1'' x 7'7'' (2.77m x 2.31m)
UPVC double glazed patio doors to rear garden, radiator, archway to kitchen
9'0'' x 7'7'' (2.74m x 2.31m)
Fitted kitchen featuring a range of wall and base cupboard with complimentary worktops, integrated oven and hob with extractor over, plumbing for washing machine, space for fridge freezer, tiled splashbacks, laminate flooring, uPVC double glazed window to rear aspect
First Floor
UPVC double glazed window to side aspect, access to loft space, built in cupboard
Bedroom 1
13'3'' x 8'0'' (4.04m x 2.44m)
UPVC double glazed window to front aspect, radiator
Bedroom 2
7'3'' x 6'10'' (2.21m x 2.08m)
UPVC double glazed window to rear aspect, radiator
Bedroom 3
9'10'' x 8'0'' (3.00m x 2.44m)
UPVC double glazed window to front aspect
Stylish Bathroom
Contemporary white suite comprising; low level w.c., wash hand basin with vanity unit, panelled bath with electric shower over and shower screen, tiled walls, tiled flooring, inset ceiling spotlights, heated towel rail, uPVC double glazed window to rear aspect
Rear Garden
Lovely, private rear garden. Two decking areas, patio, lawn, shrub and flower borders, automatic canopy over patio, outside lighting, gated access to front of house
Front Garden
Open plan, lawn, shrub and flower borders, driveway with off road parking, gated access to rear of house
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'Gossip Girl' Recap: Goodbye Columbia
S4:E5 Man, is Juliet a skinny bitch in the kitch! Last night on Gossip Girl, we saw some of her plans get painfully executed against some of the most relatively harmless characters on the show: Serena and Vanessa. We know Juliet's main target in all of this is Serena, but what would she possibly want from Vanessa – her African print harem pants?!
Things started with Serena being unable to get to class on time. She keeps having people steal her taxis and such, and the distance between Columbia's classrooms and Blair's luxurious Dorota-maintained apartment never seems to get any closer together. She keeps making appointments with her professors to try and apologize to them for being late, but she's late to the appointments, so the apologies never get said or received. So not only does she continue to miss the opportunities for her to grovel to her professor, she keeps being late for class, which is quite problematic for her because they're unfairly counted as "absences," the number of which she's committed so far have whittled her grade in the class down to (presumably) something like a C. This morning, she ran into Blair on the way towards another absence, who said that she was adding to her course load because the more time she spent on campus, the safer she'd be from Chuck because he was far too superior to believe his knowledge needs to be cultivated by someone else.
Juliet went to visit that guy in prison, who may or may not be her boyfriend or brother, and updated him on the plan, which he's clearly been planning on the walls of his cell instead of trying to dig himself out. Juliet said she remembered the goal was to get Serena expelled from Columbia, and the guy was irritated the plan was taking so long to execute. The guy pulled a picture of Juliet and Nate out from his secret man place that's only searched every other Tuesday and asked why she was getting so close to him, but Juliet said she was only dating him to stay in Serena's "orbit." He said he understood, but that she should be careful her "relationship" with Nate doesn't sideline the fact they want to leave Serena with nothing.
Blair went to go sign up for a class on the psychology of business, and to apply for the assistant to the professor position. She was terribly surprised when the professor informed her that not only had the position been filled, but that it was filled by Chuck, who had apparently been allowed to audit some classes after he funded a rotunda. Just as that happened, Kanye's "Power" began to play and Gossip Girl sent out a blast that suggested Serena had an STD. Which, quite frankly, there's no reason for why she's been spared from at least the clap.
So of course, Juliet knew Nate's past with Serena and said that before they replaced their Scrabble marathons with a different kind of marathon, he needed to walk himself down to student health and get tested. Additionally, Vanessa freaked out and asked Dan if he should get tested too, because she didn't believe he hadn't been with Serena since they've been together. But as Dan was escorting Nate to the clinic, Serena ran into them and was quite displeased that the two of them seemed to believe the rumor. And as Vanessa was bringing groceries in her netty bags over to Dan's, Juliet texted her with a picture of Dan signing in to the student health clinic…but he was signing Nate up for the cotton swab! Not himself! Too bad a phone that streams video clashes with Vanessa's organic and minimalist values.
Blair invited her new professor over to her apartment and tried to woo her for the assistant position that Chuck presently occupied. Blair said she heard about her divorce a few years ago, and was willing to set her up with one of her stepfather's handsome lawyer colleagues at the Faculty and Friends mixer that was to take place that night. The professor said she'd meet whoever Blair introduced to her, but only because she planned on being there anyway.
Juliet went to Hamilton House to talk to Nate, who was told the results from his STD test could take 3 to 4 days to get back to him, which meant their four letter word, triple letter score plans after the mixer would be postponed. Juliet was, of course, sorry to hear that (as evidenced from the finger she stuck in between two buttons of Nate's shirt to effortlessly caress his chest hair), and she said there might be another way to see if the rumor was true, and she hinted that she wanted him to steal Serena's phone to see if she told anyone about if she had contracted and STD or not. But she didn't say it flat out…she just planted the cocoa bean and told the Mexican he'd be allowed to pick it someday.
Vanessa ran into Juliet on her way to Hamilton House and was freaking out because of the picture text she got of Dan signing in to the clinic. Juliet realized Vanessa's desperation for truth made her a great accomplice in sewing some innocent baby booties out dishonesty, and she told her that they'd figure everything out that night at the mixer.
Once AT the mixer, Juliet had Vanessa stole Serena's purse from the coat check that contained her phone. Juliet told Vanessa to check Serena's email for anything suspicious relating to an STD…but instead, she found an email that Dan sent Serena saying he was completely devoted to making it work with Vanessa. Vanessa was happy and handed the phone to Juliet, who told Vanessa to go see if someone was coming while she did something TOTALLY CRAZY WHERE SHE HELD THE PHONE SO CLOSE TO HER FACE THAT THE LIGHT FROM THE SCREEN PROJECTED ONTO IT and she looked like the Cheshire cat.
Unfortunately for Blair, the date she set up for her professor was hijacked by Chuck, who sent a woman in his place, knowing the professor would be offended that it looked like Blair thought her professor was a power lesbian. Blair's assistant job was given right back to Chuck and Blair was told the class was full…forever.
Serena finally walked up to the dean and her professor to try and talk to them about her lateness problem, and she was informed that the email she sent out was totally unacceptable and might result in her complete expulsion. Serena told them she didn't know of any such email, and her professor showed her what appeared to be an email she sent that offered sexual favors in exchange for high grades.
As Vanessa was going to tell Serena she and Juliet had her phone but "neither one of them sent the email," Juliet slipped the phone into Vanessa's purse. When they both reached Serena, who was just about to offer up sexual favors to try and undo an expulsion sentence, Juliet offered up her phone to Serena and suggested she call it to see if the person who sent the email was still at the mixer. So Serena called, and of course, it rang from the depths of Vanessa's hand woven Ethiopian purse.
The dean told Serena she wasn't going to be expelled, but that the drama that followed her to the campus made a mockery of women like her, who had to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and sew themselves up after their caesarean sections. Blair then told her Gossip Girl sent out an apology for saying Serena had an STD, because she doesn't and she never did because she's immune to them and that's why she blond and talks like a small pebble has been sewn into her cheek.
In the end, Vanessa packed her things in her netty bags and told Dan she was going to stay with her family for a while. Dan said that was very fine. And standing outside his limo, Chuck continued to exact his revenge on Blair by getting Jenny Humphrey an interview at Parsons, for fashion design. Blair is wasting her time trying to form new relationships with professors — she should just concentrate on figuring out where she's going to put all that chicken curry she didn't order.


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RELIEF(A Randomized,Open labEled, muLticenter Trial for Safety and Efficacy of Intracoronary Adult Human Mesenchymal stEm Cells Acute Myocardial inFarction)
This study is currently recruiting participants.
Verified July 2016 by Pharmicell Co., Ltd.
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First received: July 25, 2012
Last updated: September 18, 2017
Last verified: July 2016
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Through the injection of Hearticellgram-AMI into acute myocardial infarction patients who are the primary targets of the drug, long term efficacy in the improvement of the left ventricle ejection fraction upon the first cell treatment is to be evaluated and compared with the current existing treatments (contemporary drug treatment).This study will also compare the efficacy and safety of single dose of hearticellgram-AMI to a two dose regimen of hearticellgram-AMI.
|Acute Myocardial Infarction
|Biological: Hearticellgram-AMI
|Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Multi-center, Open-label, Comparison and a Parallel Group Study (3 Groups) Phase 3 Clinical Trial for a Comparative Evaluation With the Existing Treatments, in Order to Verify the Long-term Efficacy and Safety of the First Cell Treatment Using Hearticellgram-AMI(Autologous Human Bone Marrow Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells) in AMI Patients, and to Observe the Efficacy of the Second Cell Treatment.
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MedlinePlus related topics: Heart AttackU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Pharmicell Co., Ltd.:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- LVEF by MRI [ Time Frame: 13 months after the cell treatment ]Left ventricle ejection fraction (LVEF) measured 13 months after the cell treatment (MRI measurement)
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Actual Study Start Date:
|September 1, 2013
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|December 31, 2020
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|December 31, 2020 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
No Intervention: Control
After implementing PCI, contemporary drug treatment is conducted.
*Contemporary drug treatment is a general drug treatment (Unfractionated heparin, Low Molecular Weight Heparin, Glycoprotein llb/llla inhibitor, Aspirin, clopidogrel or Ticlopidine, Nitrate, ACE inhibitor or ARB, β-blocker, CCB, Diuretics, Statin, etc.)
Experimental: Single dose of Hearticellgram-AMI
Within 30 days (+ / -7 days) after aspirating bone-marrow, approximately 1×10^6/kg (refer to usage/dosage according to mass) of autologous bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells are adminstered into the infarct coronary artery using balloon tipped catheter. Furthermore, contemporary drug treatment is conducted.
Biological: Hearticellgram-AMI
Other Name: (Autologous bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells)
Experimental: Two doses of Hearticellgram-AMI
Within 30 days (+ / -7 days) after aspirating bone-marrow, approximately 1×10^6/kg (refer to usage/dosage according to mass) of autologous bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells are adminstered into the infarct coronary artery using balloon tipped catheter. Furthermore, contemporary drug treatment is conducted. After 30 days (+ / -7 days) from the first injection, a two dose of hearticellgram-AMI is administered in the same way. Furthermore, temporary drug treatment is conducted.
Biological: Hearticellgram-AMI
Other Name: (Autologous bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells)
Detailed Description:
We are enrolling a patient who had successful conventional percutaneous coronary intervention after acute myocardial infarction. Patients are allocated to one of three groups (group1=comparator, group2= one dose of hearticellgram-AMI, group 3= two dose of hearticellgram-AMI). single dose of hearticellgram-AMI have been attained new drug approval from MFDS (related to NCT01392105).
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|20 Years to 70 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Between the ages of 20-70
- Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction (LVEF) under 45%
- Acute myocardial infarction patients fulfilling at least one of the given qualities, through the use of an electrocardiogram (12-lead ECG) A. ST-segment elevation 0.1 mV in two or more limb leads or B. 0.2 mV elevation in two or more contiguous precordial leads , indicative of AMI
- Anterior Wall MI
- Patients who fulfill the above criteria and also have experienced successful reperfusion
- Patients who can consent to participate in this clinical trial personally, as well as through a legal attorney
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients who have been diagnosed with malignant blood-related diseases (acute myelocyte leukemia, acute lymphatic leukemia, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, multiple myeloma), and have not improved
- Patients with severe aplastic anemia
- Patients with solid cancers in their previous medical history (within 5 years)
- Patients whose blood serum AST/ASL rates are more than three times the normal maximum rate, and whose creatinine rates are more than 1.5 times the normal maximum rate (but AST in myocardial infarction patients can temporarily rise, thus, as decided by the researchers, if there is no damage to the liver function, the rise will not be taken into consideration)
- Patients who have implemented Coronary Artery Bypass Graft(CABG)
- Patients with chronic heart failure (patients with medical history of heart failure medical history at least three months before the occurrence of acute myocardial infarction)
- Patients who cannot proceed with cardiac catheterization
- Patients who had been continuously taking large doses of steroids (1mg/kg/day) or antibiotics for severe infections from one month prior to registration
- Patients who had major surgical operations, organ biopsy, or significant external injury as determined by the researcher, within three months before registration
- Patients who have head injuries or other external injuries after the development of myocardial infarction
- patients with stroke or transient ischemic attack within six months before registration, patients with history of central nervous system disease (tumor, aneurysm, brain surgery etc.)
- Patients with low survival ability after cardiopulmonary resuscitation within last 2 weeks.
- Patients with positive for HIV, HBV, HCV, Syphilis
- pregnant women or likely to be pregnant or lactating women
- patients who cannot compliance with the protocol.
- patients with drug abuser within last 1 year.
- patients with participating other clinical trials with last 1 month.
- patients who are likely to have tumor in tumor marker test or patients who has diagnosed cancer in national cancer screening project.
- inappropriate patients to participate in the study by the investigator's opinion.
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text: Therefore, I have sent a letters to my org., committee of ways and means, saint hill, etc. I received a call from the org where I was involved as a child. She insisted I needed to do a routing form and I responded to her stating that I would not be doing any routing forms. I would sign a release form and claim verification board form as minimum( which i did not know is the routing form). She said she would send me copies of everything I would need to sign but I would have to come in for it. Which I do not believe is true from what I have read from others on this subject. So I received the package today and w/ it is a "religious services enrollment application and agreement and general release" form which I signed when I was 10 according to the date, she took the liberty of highlighting number 9 which goes into detail about repayments to sum it up, it says the church has no duty to return any portion of religious donations received from me. Refunds may be attained through my strict compliance with those published policies from the claims verification board. I further acknowledge and agree that refund procedures require my direct participation to the exclusion of any third party, including attorneys. Well I know this will not hold up in court because I was a minor when I signed and under duress from my mother and the church that required I sign it. Nevertheless, where do I go from here…? I do not know my next course of action please help! She wants me to meet w/ her on Nov 6th. I appreciate all replies. Thank you! she provided the routing/claims verification board form and release waiver from Scientology. Sorry for any confusion i'm the united states, ca specifically. I noticed that others had forwarded letters to saint hill etc so that's what i did in addition.


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Pickens Player Of The Week: Zack HermannFeatured Stories, Sports November 9, 2012
Congrats to Zack Hermann for being named Pickens Player Of The Week!Zack blocked two consecutive extra point attempts against River Ridge.
FYN sports has heard the roar of the people and answered. Due to popularity of lasts year's Player of the Week, fetchyournews.com in partnership with the numerous sponsors of the POTW program, has decided to accommodate the community's wishes and bring back Player of the Week! FYN sports would like to thank our spirited fans, the players that have won and represented their school and the sponsors.
Visit our LOCAL Pickens County Sponsors: North Georgia Sports Zone, ETC Communications, Larry's Bodyshop, Aaron's, PaPa John's Pizza, Town and Country Furniture, RadioShack-Ellijay and Subway – Singleton Food Services.


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Asset Managers in Bid to Delay Swaps Rules
The largest US buyside trade bodies have asked the U.S. derivatives regulator for a last-minute delay to key G20-led swaps reforms because of insufficient progress by banks and clearing houses on measures to protect client assets.
The letter, sent to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission by the Asset Management Group of the Securities Industry Financial Markets Association, the Investment Adviser Association and the Investment Company Institute, requests a delay to rules that require buyside firms to clear swaps. Most U.S. buyside firms are required to start clearing swaps on June 10, but the letter asks for a delay to September 9, when all firms covered by the rules will have to clear them.


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ALTHOUGH many Republicans are loath to admit it, there is an undeniable logic to Democratic proposals to raise the $4.25-an-hour minimum wage.
That logic goes like this: if a plant is thirsty, water it; if a tire is losing air, fill it; if the pay of low-wage workers keeps them mired in poverty, then simply raise it -- if necessary, by legislation.
For President Clinton and the many Democrats pushing for a higher minimum wage, such a step would be one way to narrow the growing income gap between Americans on the bottom rungs and those on the top. The Democratic plan to raise the wage to $5.15 over two years would also be a tidy way to stop the incomes of low-wage workers from falling further behind inflation.
In an election year, there's a lot of political logic at work, too. With three-fourths of Americans supporting an increase in the minimum wage, and with the wage gap growing as a public issue, the Democrats see a higher minimum wage as a political slam-dunk.
In large measure that explains why Democrats pushed the issue onto center stage in Congress last week and why Mr. Clinton made it the subject of his weekly radio address yesterday. Depicting their party as the friend of Joe and Jane Lunchpail, the Democrats said that raising the minimum to $5.15 would increase the wages of approximately 4 million workers now earning $4.25 an hour, and of another 8 million earning between $4.26 and $5.14 an hour.Continue reading the main story
As the Administration's chief cheerleader on the issue, Robert B. Reich, the Secretary of Labor, has repeatedly pointed out that the $8,500 that a full-time minimum-wage worker earns each year is so far below the poverty line that the worker would most likely need welfare and food stamps to support a family. With the poverty line set at $15,600 for a family of four, one full-time worker would need to make $7.80 an hour to climb above that line. Mr. Reich also notes that because of the corrosive effects of inflation, the minimum wage -- which was last increased five years ago tomorrow -- is 31 percent below where it was in 1979 and will soon be at its lowest point in 40 years.
Lifting All Boats
"Some people want us to believe that the typical minimum-wage worker is a teen-ager flipping hamburgers," Mr. Reich said. "That's simply not the case. Most minimum-wage workers are over 20 years old, and 40 percent of them are the sole breadwinners in their family."
Democrats look to a higher minimum wage as a way for a rising tide of economic growth to lift all boats, not just the yachts.
For many Republicans, the Democratic drive to lift the minimum wage is equal parts junk economics and cheap politics. Eager to show that they too are concerned about the poor, Republicans argue that lifting the minimum wage will result in layoffs for tens of thousands of low-wage workers because many of those jobs would be eliminated or shifted overseas.
In Senate debate last week, Senator Bob Dole, the all-but-annointed Republican candidate for President, said: "There are going to be a lot of young people who lose their jobs. Many are black teen-agers, and many are young people whose parents live below the poverty line."
Senator Don Nickles, Republican of Oklahoma, said a higher minimum wage would cause many employers to hire fewer unskilled workers once they became more expensive to employ. "Instead of helping people get on the economic ladder, the Democrats are pulling the economic ladder up and not enabling people to get on."
Senator Dole may have have won last week's legislative battle by maneuvering to prevent the Senate from voting on a higher minimum wage, but the Democrats say President Clinton is winning the public relations war by showing his concern for the beleaguered American worker.
Just Politics
Geoffrey Garin, a Democratic pollster, said, "People believe that somebody who works a 40-hour week ought to make a wage they can live on, and the fact that Republicans oppose that notion is incredibly damning of them to voters."
Supporters of a higher minimum received some unexpected new moral ammunition last week when a study found that chief executives' pay, with stock options included, soared 31 percent last year, the highest jump in a decade, putting their median pay at $5 million.
Republicans insist that Mr. Clinton's push for a higher minimum wage is not quite the high-minded enterprise the Democrats suggest. "They know it has no chance of passing," Senator Nickles said. "They're just trying to score political points."
Nonetheless, Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato of New York and a handful of other Republican Senators, perhaps sensing which way the political winds are blowing, last week announced their support for a higher minimum wage.
Some minimum-wage workers say it is patronizing for Republicans to assert that a higher minimum wage would wallop the poor. Lawrence Ware, a $4.25-an-hour temporary employee with the New York City Human Resources Administration, took issue with the Republicans, saying: "It makes me feel like they prefer the cliche, 'The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.' They don't really care much about poor people."
Like many low-wage workers, Mr. Ware said he doubted that a higher minimum would cost his job. The Clinton Administration and many Democrats point to several recent academic studies that buttress this view. The best-known study was conducted by two Princeton professors, David Card and Alan Krueger, who surveyed 331 fast-food restaurants in New Jersey when the state raised its minimum wage by 80 cents, to $5.05 an hour, in 1992. (Ten states have minimum wages that are above the Federal level). The professors found that even though the restaurants gave the 19 percent increase to their many minimum-wage workers, the higher minimum did not cause a drop in the restaurants' employment.
At the American Economics Association convention last January in San Francisco, Robert Solow, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, presided over a panel discussion in which conservatives and liberals crossed swords.
But, he said, a consensus emerged that "the employment effect of a moderate increase in the minimum wage would be very, very small."Continue reading the main story


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The Cleveland Public Hall just couldn't stand the heat of Beatlemania.
Above is a photo of Carl Bear (great name by the way) of the Cleveland police ordering the Beatles to leave the stage because the thousands of screaming fans were being unruly and needed time to calm down before they could resume wailing at the top of their lungs once the Fab Four returned.
Fans reportedly jumped over police barricades, stormed the stage, and generally acted unruly as they basically lost their minds during the show. It is a microcosm of just how deeply the Beatles affected young fans' minds when they invaded America that year.
According to the book The Beatles in Cleveland, the Beatles (and all rock shows, for that matter) were banned from any shows in Cleveland following the 1964 debacle, but it only took two years for John, Paul, George and Ringo to return in August 1966.


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Discussion in 'General' started by AsDsL, May 19, 2009.
ISPConfig FAQ:
Thanks Till
I actully came across the FAQForge article before ending up in this forum.
My question is whether it is possible to edit the welcome message file to send an HTML formatted email.
I have edited the custom welcome message and included HTML formatting. However, when a new email mailbox is created, the custom welcome message is sent, but all the HTML code is visible in the message and is not rendered as HTML.
The welcome messages are text only, html is not supported.
Am missing out something?, I couldnt find those variables in the en.lng when I tried editing it via the web, I also did export it but still I couldnt find the fields where I could change the subject, message and sender's name from ISPConfig ..Please advice if the location has changed ..
Thanks, Joseph
Edited: Seen it via the FAQs, thanks
In order to contribute, maybe seem an obvious question but in a multiserver scenario i must do these changes in the mail server to it takes the changes.
And about this, it seems to me, the "lang set" it's not sended to the mail server when a new mail account is created, so welcome_email_en.txt is always used, is it possible o am i wrong ?
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Campus Framework Strategies
• Provide a strong physical, functional and perceived connection between the western and central historic portions of campus.
• Bring order and a sense of organization to the total campus through the use of a new major pedestrian walkway, the Alumni Walk, and new campus gateway design features.
• Unify the central and western portion of campus through shifting the circulation focus between them from vehicular to pedestrian. Eliminate the barriers and congestion caused by the vehicular arterial of 20th Street at 10th Ave. and 11th and 22nd.


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A proposed Poway hotel ordinance to help law enforcement by keeping better records will go before the City Council Tuesday.
The ordinance, which would affect Poway's three hotels, was proposed by Poway Safety Services Director Mark Sanchez after law enforcement encountered difficulties obtaining information from hotel employees.
Sanchez said there were no specific problems leading up to the drafting of the ordinance, just a lack of comprehensive and uniform record-keeping at the hotels.
The ordinance was originally proposed at the City Council meeting May 1, but a decision was postponed so more hotel representatives could have a say.
Sanchez, City Attorney Morgan Foley and Poway sheriff's Capt. Mike Hernandez met May 23 with representatives from the three hotels and reached consensus on an ordinance.
It would require hotels to record the name, address and birth date of the person who registers. The guest would be asked for his car's make, model, license plate number and state of issuance. Originally, the information was to be submitted at check-in, but new wording allows it to be submitted at the guest's convenience before the end of the stay.
Hotel guests would also have to provide valid picture identification but would not need to identify the other adult guests, only give the number of other people staying in the room. Sanchez said that was the biggest change in the ordinance. Originally, the names of the other adults would have been provided.
Hotel management would have to keep the information electronically for three years and provide the records to law enforcement upon request. Additionally, the operator would keep a written or electronic register.
The council meeting will take place 7 p.m. Tuesday at the City Council Chambers, 13325 Civic Center Drive.


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Hair can become unwieldy without regular trimming, much like a lawn or a friend's self-indulgent one-person play about their friendship with a dog. Make the necessary cuts with this Groupon.
Choose from Four Options
- $26 for a haircut and style (a $55 value)
- $52 for a haircut, style, and partial color (a $135 value)
- $61 for a haircut, style, and full foil color (a $155 value)
- $87 for a Brazilian blowout (a $250 value)
Some hair-straightening products that claim to be formaldehyde-free include aldehyde compounds, which are similar to the carcinogen formaldehyde. Side effects may include nosebleeds, headaches, vomiting, and respiratory problems, among others. Learn more about the health risks here.
Inside her private suite at the Phenix Salon––which she's dubbed Shuggshack–– stylist Kimberly Miles constantly finds new ways to transform her clients' hair. A knowledge of modern trends helps her trim and blow-dry tresses into new shapes or style hair for special occasions. Additionally, Kimberly brushes in vibrant highlights, lowlights, and all-over virgin color, which can help clients stand out in a crowd or warn predators that they're poisonous.


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3. "Doritos Loaded," a snack food being tested in Washington, D.C. 7-Eleven stores, which "appears to be breaded Doritos chips stuffed with nacho cheese." (Thanks, Lily Engle.)
4. Being really, really, really ridiculously good looking, and whether it might "predict endurance performance."
5. Whole milk, and the counterintuitive idea that it might be associated with weight loss. Have a glass with your Doritos Loaded!
6. Our awesome "Ask Us Anything" with Kara and Adam Goucher. If you missed it, check it out here.
7. Those neon-yellow "Stop for Pedestrians" signs, which apparently are baffling drivers in Miami Beach.
8. This insane weather, which, honestly, can stop any day now. Speaking of which, here is your three-day forecast...
9. These three recent headlines, one of which is fake:
Galen Rupp Drops Out of Mile, Then Does Workout
Rupp's 5 x Mile After His 2-Mile American Record
Galen Rupp Interrupts Workout for Second, More Intense Workout
10. This photo, of RW's Bart Yasso wearing his "Daisy Dukes" at this week's Running USA conference, which is the best thing you will see this month, guaranteed. (Also pictured: Videographer Wendy Shulik.)
See you next week, everyone.
Have a tip? Suggestion? Photo of yourself in Daisy Dukes? Write me at [email protected].


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L'Oreal Dazzle Me Infallible Lipgloss
L'Oreal Dazzle Me Infallible Lipgloss
A Sparkling, Shimmery Pink of a Gloss
L'Oreal Dazzle Me Infallible Lipgloss ($9.99 MSRP for 0.21 fl. oz.) is a muted, medium-dark pink with fuchsia and silver shimmer and sparkle. Burberry Hibiscus is similar in color but has no shimmer at all. Bobbi Brown Electric Violet is lighter and has finer shimmer (and less of it). MAC Radiant Jewels is redder with less sparkle. MAC Electric Fuchsia is lighter.
The Infallible Lipgloss formula is supposed to offer eight-hour wear with sheer, luminous color. I wish they wouldn't make such an extravagant claim, because eight-hours of shiny, glossy wear? is not something you find often, if at all. This shade wears well for five hours, but the glossiness fades after three and a half hours, though the sparkle does not travel. After eight hours, there are still a few bits of shimmer but the color is gone. The texture is thin but incredibly sticky. Dazzle Me is semi-sheer in color with enough sparkle to give lips a good shimmer and shine.
I have such a love/hate relationship with this gloss formula, because the shimmer they use sparkles beautifully, but the thin consistency means you can feel the grit of the sparkle. I noticed the grit of the sparkle less so in this shade than I have in others, and the scent was sweet and fruity but not medicinal (some of them are that way). It comes with a tapered, angled doe-foot applicator (similar to Lancome's Color Fever Glosses).
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BRANDON — Simeon Nix, music and worship pastor at Bell Shoals Baptist Church, died Sunday of an apparent heart attack.
It was the second death of a church leader in three months.
The church's senior pastor, Forrest Pollock, and his 13-year-old son died in a plane crash in May.
"It's been emotionally devastating for everyone," senior associate pastor George Thomasson said Monday. "The congregation is resilient, I guess is the best word."
Nix, 47, suffered a heart attack Aug. 12. He underwent surgery at Brandon Regional Hospital and was released Friday, according to updates posted on the church's Web site.
He had some complications — an infection and diabetes — but was expected to recover.
Nix apparently suffered another heart attack at home at 11:45 p.m. Saturday and was taken back to Brandon Regional. He was pronounced dead there at 1:15 a.m. Sunday, the updates said.
He is survived by his wife and two children, adopted from Russia in 2001. Funeral services were scheduled for Wednesday at the church.
Nix was one of 17 full-time pastors at Bell Shoals. He presided over Pollock's May 17 funeral in the church's new 3,450-seat sanctuary. Nix's charismatic mix of prayer and music during the service — including a song he wrote for the grand opening of the sanctuary — brought shouts of praise from the congregation.
"He was a great big man with a big heart for people," Thomasson said.
On his personal Web site, simeonnix.com, Nix described himself as a "6 foot, 5 inch, 300-and-none-of-your-business-pound man." He also recounted his childhood growing up in a foster home and told of his journey with his wife, Beth, to adopt their children.
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I had a smashing time in Germany this weekend. There have been a few times in my life I got to hear music in a different way. You know when something clicks in your mind and you "get it". The moments when you hear music you've heard many times and thought, "ehhh not my thing" and then later you think, "wow this is great". It's vital as a musician to stay open minded and push yourself into experiencing real life to it's fullest. Remember that artists reflect the world around them.
""The border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus … By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be." – Jean-Jacques Nattiez (via Wikipedia)
The photo above by Leah Lockhart is titled, "You are what you hear.". If that's true then ask yourself what kind of music do you listen to. What does that make you?


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This is a profile Connector for Balcony Edging Profiles designed for use with 1.1875 inch high Schluter-BARA-RW balcony edging profiles with a light beige finish. It simplifies the alignment of two profiles that are to be connected to one another, removing the task of taking tedious measurements from the installation process.
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4 Cosmetic Surgery Alternatives for $50 or Less
WriterMama on 13 Aug 2012 at 10:00am
With procedures that range from simple to complex, and price tags from a few hundred to several thousand dollars, there are tons of cosmetic surgery options with different results — and growing. The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery reports that Americans spent nearly $10 billion last year on cosmetic procedures, just in the U.S.
But is there a cheaper, faster (and temporary) way to address the issue? Here, we'll take a look at some products that claim to tighten or enhance without detracting from your wallet.
Facelift in a jar
Packaged in a little jar, the Facelift Bungee is two small combs linked with a short bungee cord, but claims to mimic face lift results. To use it, you form a thin braid at each temple, hook a comb into one, and then wrap the cord around the back of your head and plug the other comb into the opposite braid. The whole thing can be hidden by the rest of your hair.
Basically, the Facelift Bungee is the same concept as pushing your face back with your hands (as we've all done in front of a mirror), and will hold to look.
The Facelift Bungee retails for $24.99 – and, if you don't like the results, there's a 30-day, money-back guarantee.
Panties that pop
Don't have the cash for a Brazilian butt lift? Try on a pair of Booty Pop panties to change your rear definition. This padded undergarment creates rounded backsides with a curvy lift in seconds, forgoing surgery and recovery time. Just slip them on like normal underwear, and baby's got back. However, the added derriere is limited by outfits and doesn't give any backside boost in a swimsuit.
Booty Pop panties retail between $28 and $40 a pair.
Men: Package pumper
Guys looking for a different kind of downstairs lift? As an alternative to penile enhancement surgery, you can give your package a stronger presentation (in appearance only) with enhancing underwear. Featuring names like Wonderjock and King Style Erector, you can find a range of these dramatic drawers from underwear experts like Skiviez, Calvin Klein, and aussieBum.
This non-surgical padding will set you back $17 to $40 and keep your socks on your feet - not in your shorts.
Boost your bust line
Considering a breast augmentation, but not ready for a permanent change? Instead of having a plastic surgeon implant silicone, there are options to wear them on the outside for less. Silicone bra inserts swear by a firm, natural look (even worn with a bathing suit) and can give you 1.5 to 2 cup sizes more.
You'll find several brands on the market promising extra perk, ranging from $15 to $50 for just the inserts, and $25 and up for bras with built-in silicone.
Would you ever use these inexpensive alternatives, either to save money or avoid permanent alterations to your body? Let us know in the comments!


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After a few legal grapples (such as trademarking the already-famous name "Spotted Pig") and breaking a few hearts along the way (he knows that the world wants nothing more than a Vegas sports bar owned by him and David Beckham), Gordon Ramsay has a location and an opening date for his newest restaurant, the Union Street Cafe.
Construction has just begun on the Mediterranean-inspired restaurant in Southwark, London, and will open in September of this year. "It's no secret that Borough Market is one of my favourite places in London," Ramsay told London SE1. "It's an area where people are really passionate about food and we've invested time in finding the right venue. It is an amazing space and we're really excited about opening."
Hooray, etc. But really, the world wants a sports bar where Ramsay and Becks teach English club football fight songs and pour pints of bitter and implore God to Save Their Gracious Queen. We can only dream, can't we?
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Take Note: Transfat
Take Note: Transfat
Look at the nutritional labels on some of your favorite foods and you're likely to see a new line item: trans fat. Trans fats are the hydrogenated oils contained in thousands of processed foods—and they may be worse for you than saturated fat. Robert Zelis, M.D., is a cardiologist and director of the Lipid Clinic at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
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On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 08:07:21PM -0700, ozymandias G desiderata wrote: > > It seems that whether I try to do an HD install or install from > floppy, I'm equally screwed. Let me outline my two scenarios of > screwage, after which I will throw myself upon the mercy of the forum: > > 1) Floppy install: > > Well, this one is pretty simple, really. The HFS boot floppy works > jim-dandy, but the ramdisk image on root.bin refuses to read and > causes an oops. That's because it's currently corrupted, right? I its trunicated yes, about 5k or so is missing from the end. gzip wont' like that. > admit I haven't tried the potato version of the floppy images, largely > because of Ethan's insistence that we'd all rather die lingering, > painful deaths than deal with the potato boot floppies at this late > date. they aren't quite that bad, but i have lost all patience for people who screw up and botch thier install by ignoring the fing manual. woody b-f make it significantly more difficult to screw up and then play dumb. > e) Enter mac-fdisk, and here's where the fun begins. If I do an 'i' > to reinitialize the partition table and then immediately do a 'w' > to write the new partition table, everything's cool. As soon as I > try to create any partitions, though, any attempts to write the > changed partition table thereafter cause an exception that reads > "Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer at virtual address". At this > point both woody and potato chunder. just reboot, the partititon table will be fine. bug benh to fix the partition table reread ioctl. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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Besides being your BFFs, bridesmaids are your sidekicks, support and saving grace on your wedding day. Forget the fake pearls and thank them with this extra-special bridesmaid gift–a painting from Twiggy Originals!
Being a bridesmaid is a big commitment. If you're searching for a really unique gift to thank your bridesmaids, Los Angeles-based artist Carla "Twiggy" Terwilleger will create one-of-a-kind paintings for your girls based on their likeness. Simply send her a photo and a few notes about your bridemaid's individual style. Is she classic? Eccentric? Does she love ice cream or martinis?
As if the photos don't say a thousand words, here's the experience of a real bride.
"I simply told Carla in one paragraph what each of my bridesmaids hobbies or occupations were and what their favorite beverage was, and she truly captured each of their personalities and created a lifelong painting they they will adore forever. My six bridesmaids were so honored to receive such a thoughtful and fun gift and it was a treat for me as a bride to see their gratefulness. I recommend any bride to use Carla's creative ability to provide unique gifts that the girls will cherish forever." – Jessie Broughton
And who wouldn't be this pleased to give or receive a gift this original? Twiggy's fun and fabulous style of "femme fatales" make them the perfect paintings for your girls. The artist actually became inspired to create these unique gifts from her own bridal party experiences.
"Having been a bridesmaid more times than I have fingers, I know how much goes into a wedding. And I also have a lot of pearl earrings and monogrammed picture frames to remember each one. How much better is it to give your girls a gift that no one else has, is unique and fun, and customized just for them? Every time they look on their wall, they will think of your friendship and how much fun they had on your special day. I love "love" and weddings are a testament to all those you love–your honey, your family and your friends. Twiggy Bridal paintings allow them to take a little piece of that special day with them–forever. Because, let's be honest, you know they're not really gonna wear that dress again." -Twiggy
(We think they might wear it again, especially if you choose sophisticated bridesmaid dresses.)
Twiggy's paintings aren't just for bridesmaids. Get a custom-made painting of you and your partner and show it off at the entrance to your reception, cake, gift or namecard table.
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Online Program
Do Minimum Quality Standards Improve Quality? a Case Study of the Nursing Home Industry
Keywords: Asymmetric information, quality of care, endogeneity, minimum quality standards regulation, nursing home
In recognition of the asymmetric information problem, government regulators, both at the federal and state level, have imposed minimum quality standards (MQS) on nursing homes in the U.S. The objective of this regulation is to reduce inefficiencies caused by informational asymmetries, and to increase quality of patient care. Whether or not this goal has been achieved, and to what degree, is an important research question given the aging population in the U.S. and the widespread concern about low quality of care in nursing home facilities. This paper is among the first to use a national panel to empirically examine the impact of minimum staffing requirements on nursing home behavior and performance. What we have found has important policy implications regarding the rising costs of long-term health care and ineffective regulations of the nursing home industry. Especially at a time where the efficacy and efficiency of a national health care system is a focal points of public policy debate, more studies of this kind -- studies that provide empirical evidence to maximize the effect of each health care dollar -- are needed. Any analysis of policy impacts raises the question of endogeneity. Taking advantage of our unique dataset (a unique national panel over the 1996 - 2005 period), this paper has employed various specifications to address the potential endogeneity problem caused by unobserved heterogeneity. It first adopts a model with fixed effects specification, which takes into account the permanent differences across states that are unobserved but are likely to be correlated with policy variables. Then the basic model is extended in two ways to take into account of individual heterogeneity in market trends and unobserved heterogeneity in time dependence. We also check the possibility of any reverse causality from the dependent variables to policy changes. Our estimation shows that minimum staffing requirements for licensed nurses improves quality. To be more specific, an half hour increase of minimum staffing requirements for licensed nurses increases quality by 15 percent if quality is measured by the count of citations, and by 20 percent if quality is measured by the value of citations which takes into account differential severity in violation. Minimum staffing requirements for direct care nurses are seen here to have no significant impact on quality. Detailed explanations for this lack of impact are also discussed.


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Minnesota-based supplier WinCraft, Inc. (asi/361600) is producing thousands of promotional products for this year's Super Bowl – a company tradition for more than three decades. "We're licensed and have been for 46 years with the NFL," WinCraft CEO Dick Pope told Counselor, in an interview this week. "We've been doing Super Bowls for the last 35 years."
WinCraft will be producing 40 lines in total, ranging from towels, flags and pennants to decals and clocks, all bearing the logos of the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos – the two teams that will meet in Super Bowl XLVIII on February 2 in New York. WinCraft presold the Super Bowl market, Pope said, and began shipping some products one day after the NFL conference championship games. The items are being manufactured at 10 facilities in Minnesota and Wisconsin. "The items are being sold all over the country, but Denver and Seattle are the two biggest markets," Pope said.
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Raleigh, N.C. – PPP's newest national poll finds that Republicans aren't getting much traction with their focus on Benghazi over the last week. Voters trust Hillary Clinton over Congressional Republicans on the issue of Benghazi by a 49/39 margin and Clinton's +8 net favorability rating at 52/44 is identical to what it was on our last national poll in late March. Meanwhile Congressional Republicans remain very unpopular with a 36/57 favorability rating.
Voters think Congress should be more focused on other major issues right now rather than Benghazi. By a 56/38 margin they say passing a comprehensive immigration reform bill is more important than continuing to focus on Benghazi, and by a 52/43 spread they think passing a bill requiring background checks for all gun sales should be a higher priority.
While voters overall may think Congress' focus should be elsewhere there's no doubt about how mad Republicans are about Benghazi. 41% say they consider this to be the biggest political scandal in American history to only 43% who disagree with that sentiment. Only 10% of Democrats and 20% of independents share that feeling. Republicans think by a 74/19 margin than Benghazi is a worse political scandal than Watergate, by a 74/12 margin that it's worse than Teapot Dome, and by a 70/20 margin that it's worse than Iran Contra.
One interesting thing about the voters who think Benghazi is the biggest political scandal in American history is that 39% of them don't actually know where it is. 10% think it's in Egypt, 9% in Iran, 6% in Cuba, 5% in Syria, 4% in Iraq, and 1% each in North Korea and Liberia with 4% not willing to venture a guess.
"What we're finding after last week's Benghazi hearings is that as angry as Republicans are, most voters think Congress should be focused more on other issues," said Dean Debnam, President of Public Policy Polling. "And Hillary Clinton's poll numbers weren't negatively impacted by the focus on her."
PPP surveyed 576 voters nationwide from May 10th to 12th. The margin of error is +/-4.1%. This poll was not paid for or authorized by any campaign or political organization. PPP surveys are conducted through automated telephone interviews.
Topline results are below. Full results, including crosstabs, can be found here.
Q1 Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion
of Hillary Clinton?
Favorable........................................................ 52%
Unfavorable .................................................... 44%
Not sure .......................................................... 5%
Q2 Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion
of Congressional Republicans?
Favorable........................................................ 36%
Unfavorable .................................................... 57%
Not sure .......................................................... 7%
Q3 Who do you trust more on the issue of
Benghazi: Hillary Clinton or Congressional
Hillary Clinton.................................................. 49%
Congressional Republicans ............................ 39%
Not sure .......................................................... 11%
Q4 Where do you think Benghazi is located: Egypt,
Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Libya, Syria, Iraq, or
Egypt .............................................................. 10%
Cuba ............................................................... 3%
Iran ................................................................. 4%
North Korea .................................................... 2%
Libya ............................................................... 58%
Syria ............................................................... 8%
Iraq ................................................................. 1%
Liberia............................................................. 2%
Somewhere else/Not sure............................... 13%
Q5 What do you think should be a higher priority
for Congress: investigating Benghazi or
passing a bill requiring background checks for
all gun sales?
Investigating Benghazi.................................... 43%
Passing a bill requiring background checks
for all gun sales ..............................................52%
Not sure .......................................................... 5%
Q6 What do you think should be a higher priority
for Congress: investigating Benghazi or
passing a comprehensive immigration reform
Investigating Benghazi.................................... 38%
Passing a comprehensive immigration reform
bill ...................................................................56%
Not sure .......................................................... 6%
Q7 Which political scandal do you think is worse:
Benghazi or Watergate?
Benghazi......................................................... 45%
Watergate ....................................................... 45%
Not sure .......................................................... 10%
Q8 Which political scandal do you think is worse:
Benghazi or the Teapot Dome scandal?
Benghazi......................................................... 45%
Teapot Dome .................................................. 30%
Not sure .......................................................... 25%
Q9 Which political scandal do you think is worse:
Benghazi or Iran Contra?
Benghazi......................................................... 44%
Iran Contra...................................................... 44%
Not sure .......................................................... 12%
Q10 Do you think Benghazi is the biggest political
scandal in American history, or not?
It is .................................................................. 23%
It is not ............................................................ 65%
Not sure .......................................................... 13%
Q11 In the last presidential election, did you vote for
Barack Obama or Mitt Romney?
Barack Obama................................................ 49%
Mitt Romney.................................................... 43%
Someone else/Don't remember ...................... 8%
Q12 Would you describe yourself as very liberal,
somewhat liberal, moderate, somewhat
conservative, or very conservative?
Very liberal ...................................................... 10%
Somewhat liberal ............................................ 16%
Moderate......................................................... 39%
Somewhat conservative.................................. 20%
Very conservative ........................................... 14%
Q13 If you are a woman, press 1. If a man, press 2.
Woman ........................................................... 52%
Man................................................................. 48%
press 2. If you are an independent or identify
with another party, press 3.
Democrat ........................................................ 39%
Republican...................................................... 31%
Independent/Other.......................................... 30%
Q15 If you are Hispanic, press 1. If white, press 2.
If African-American, press 3. If other, press 4.
Hispanic.......................................................... 8%
White .............................................................. 73%
African-American ............................................ 11%
Other............................................................... 8%
Q16 If you are 18 to 29 years old, press 1. If 30 to
45, press 2. If 46 to 65, press 3. If you are
older than 65, press 4.
18 to 29........................................................... 15%
30 to 45........................................................... 22%
46 to 65........................................................... 45%
Older than 65.................................................. 18%


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People actually give a shit what Greenpeace has to say?
That is the real story here I think... if true ; )
Apple, which likes to tout its eco-credentials, has dropped to sixth place in the annual Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics, after allegedly failing to organise a take-back programme in India or set targets to reduce emissions by 2020. Apple does top the charts, along with HP, when it comes to its minimal use of conflict …
That is the real story here I think... if true ; )
"Nokia, meanwhile, pledged to use nothing but renewable energy by 2020"
Pretty easy when you're going to be using nothing.
And yet still, they sell more phones than Apple. We've been hearing this about Nokia from Apple fanatics for years. It's the new "Apple are going bust".
With Samsung outselling Apple so vastly, it's looking like Apple will be joining Nokia by 2020 in using nothing.
They are as bad as el reg when it comes to putting "Apple" into the title to get attention and hits.
Silly question, just how many machines do Apple sell in India anyway? (Is it really worth having a take back programme), and how do its actual emissions compare NOW (not some nebulous plan for 2020)?
Apple still damn sight better than most at being green(-ish)
I think this story is more telling about who is *not* in the list.
Mind you, not like i care what Greenpeace say anyway.
Promises get you headlines? They're the new Gartner.
It's sad that Greenpeace has changed from campaigning on important issues to maximising attention and financial contributions from guilt ridden middle class gadget buyers. Instead, how about a Greenpeace exposee of the building industry's use of PVC for example, which must be thousands of times greater than that of the electronics industry?
Well what about Linux taking top spot then? It has been installed on a potato after all... (http://www.bbspot.com/news/2008/12/linux-on-a-potato.html)
Apple was rated at '0' in gthe category of advocacy for "environmental protection advocacy". In other words, for not donating to Greenpeace.
Sad when an organization becomes so messed up it's founder now speaks out against it!
How the hell did HP get so high up? Don't forget this is a company which prides itself for shipping a single piece of paper with the license on it inside of boxes inside of boxes, repeat, which are finally packed securely inside of one of those containers they use to transport radioactive waste.
Perhaps they are using recycled cardboard to make all those boxes...?


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But where are Dr. Cox, Turk and Carla and The Janitor? They will be the only "Scrubs" regulars missing on Tuesday's "Cougar Town," which features a reunion of "Scrubs" cast members.
"Scrubs" and "Cougar Town" creator Bill Lawrence's real-life wife (and "Scrubs" alum) Christa Miller already plays "Cougar Town" regular Ellie, while "Scrubs" alums Sarah Chalke and Ken Jenkins have appeared as Bobby's new love interest, Angie, and Jules' dad, Chick.
And on Tuesday's episode, "A One Story Town," "Scrubs" star Zach Braff and Robert "The Todd" Maschio pop in for mystery roles, while Sam Lloyd, who played hapless "Scrubs" attorney and a cappella group leader Ted, will play … hapless attorney and a cappella group leader Ted.
Also read: 'Community' Crossover: Abed Soils His Pants on 'Cougar Town' (Video)
In the episode, Ted and his fellow singers in The Peons (played by Lloyd's real-life singing group The Blanks) are on their way to Disney World to audition when they make a pit stop at the home of Jules (Courteney Cox, who was a "Scrubs" guest star).
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Disaster Blamed on O-Rings, Pressure to Launch
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
The Challenger accident was caused by the failure of a solid rocket booster joint that NASA and the booster manufacturer had failed to improve despite eight years of warnings that it was dangerous, the presidential commission investigating the disaster said in its final report yesterday.
A major reason for the space agency's failure to heed the warnings, the report says, was pressure to meet an "over-ambitious" schedule of 24 shuttle flights a year by 1990. The pressure caused such extensive disruption that the shuttle program probably would have soon broken down, even in the absence of an accident, it says.
The commission's study goes well beyond the problems with the joints. It found serious flaws in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's overall safety program, its system of checking flight hardware, its crew training, its testing of the orbiter engines, its paper work and its abrupt and disruptive changes in flight payloads to accommodate commercial customers.
In addition, it says spare parts were being cannibalized from one shuttle for another and that program technicians were overworked and fatigued. All these factors compromised flight safety, it says.
The strongly worded report calls for a sweeping overhaul of NASA's management practices. It also urges the creation of several safety review panels within the agency as well as an outside body to ensure that the booster joint is redesigned to meet stringent criteria set out in the report.
And it urges a return to use of the more traditional unmanned expendable rockets for launching payloads, concluding that "reliance on the shuttle" created "a relentless pressure on NASA."
The 256-page report, which includes photographs, charts and diagrams, lays out a highly detailed and richly documented case that the space agency's management practices have failed for years to resolve a variety of safety problems, including the joints.
"I think, in a sense, this is a kind of national tragedy that a lot of us are to blame for," commission Chairman William P. Rogers said at a White House ceremony yesterday when he formally presented the report to President Reagan. "I think, in a sense, the administration, Congress, the press -- all of us were too optimistic, too willing to accept the fact that this [shuttle] is operational. I don't think there's anything to gain by trying to assess blame."
Yet Lawrence B. Mulloy, head of the booster program at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and the Marshall Center itself figure prominently in the report as the most serious trouble spots. The report says the panel found evidence that some of Mulloy's commission testimony was false. The report says Marshall failed to communicate serious safety problems to NASA headquarters.
Mulloy earlier was transferred from his previous job, a move Rogers referred to yesterday as "constructive."
"NASA's attitude historically has reflected the position that 'we can do anything,' and while that may essentially be true, NASA's optimism must be tempered by the realization that it cannot do everything," the report says.
The destruction of Challenger and its seven-member crew Jan. 28 was an accident that did not have to happen, the report says, citing not only the unheeded warnings but a number of close calls in flight since the second shuttle launch in 1981.


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Like a desert mirage, a small box with a wire and some sodium atoms can make light curve. This new device, described in the current issue of Physical Review Letters, could someday lead to a new kind of switch for optical computer chips.
Researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand and the University of Zurich in Switzerland passed laser light through a special filter that polarizes it circularly, making its electric field spin like a propeller. Circularly polarized light carries angular momentum, as if the photons were spinning in space. When such a photon collides with a sodium atom, the sodium's own peculiar properties allow it to absorb the photon's angular momentum. But after soaking up the twisting of one photon, an atom can't absorb any more and becomes "bleached"--invisible to the laser light. "If the atom is not able to accept angular momentum from the photon, it doesn't interact," says Otago laser physicist Weston Sandle.
The group figured out how to exploit this bleaching phenomenon to bend light. In a cell filled with sodium vapor, they beamed a laser along a gold-plated tungsten wire carrying a current, which created a magnetic field. The magnetic field drew angular-momentum energy from nearby sodium atoms. As a result, atoms close to the wire were more likely to interact repeatedly with photons than were ones further away. These interactions alter the light's refractive index, essentially slowing it down; the light's wave front bends away from these "roadblocks." The team managed to bend a laser beam 30 micrometers out of true by having it travel along a 3.5-centimeter-long wire.
The ability to bend light on demand could lead to new kinds of switches and routers for optical chips. But such a device is a long way from the market. "It all comes down to cost and system integration," says Richart Slusher, a physicist at Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey. Sodium vapor is not the easiest medium to work with; a solid-state crystal with the same talent would be easier to integrate into a circuit. And the need to maintain a magnetic field could make the device too expensive to be practical, says Slusher. However, he adds, "Who can say down the line?"


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Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz responded to anonymous allegations published today in a local newspaper, which claim he is in cahoots with Oceana condominium developers to privatize a portion of Brighton Beach, by saying it "pisses me off" and is "totally inaccurate."
The response is to a Will Bredderman political column in Brooklyn Daily, which cites an anonymous source as saying the pol is "trying to broker a deal that would permit the swank, beachfront Oceana Condominiums to take over a section of the public shore."
"I think it just goes to show what Will Bredderman and [Brooklyn Daily's publisher] Courier-Life print. There are inaccuracies in every part of it, and anything I sent to him, he didn't write," Cymbrowitz told Sheepshead Bites.
In the column, Bredderman points to the pol's opposition to the elevated comfort stations in front of Oceana as evidence that the pol is attempting to clear the way for a privatized beach. They also note the 2013 bill introduced by Cymbrowitz, and first reported on by Sheepshead Bites, that would transfer jurisdiction of the beach from the more restrictive state Department of Environmental Conservation to the city's Parks Department. The paper called the bill, which was cosponsored by Assemblyman Alec Brook-Krasny, "a first step toward privatization."
"I think that's inaccurate. My response to him was simply that, by giving the jurisdiction to the Parks department, it would allow us to use the money that was received from [Brook-Krasny's predecessor] Adele Cohen years ago to build a bike path," said Cymbrowitz. "DEC wouldn't allow it. But if the Parks Department had jurisdiction, they would have done it. [Bredderman] didn't write any of that."
That bill was squashed following a Sheepshead Bites' report, although it briefly reemerged earlier this year before being pulled again. Last year, Cymbrowitz said he killed the bill because he was disappointed with Parks' handling of the comfort stations, although this outlet noted at the time that the bill was introduced after Cymbrowitz came out against the Oceana restrooms. Cymbrowitz said the bill's reappearance this year was because his staff automatically reintroduced it as a matter of routine, and that he killed it after it came to his attention.
Moreover, Cymbrowitz said he doesn't see how transferring jurisdiction from a state to a city agency helps privatize a beach, and unequivocally stated that he never had conversations with Oceana's developers, Muss Development, or any other party about privatizing the beach.
"Absolutely not. Never. And how could… I don't even think it's possible to privatize a public beach. So whoever Bredderman is getting his information from is totally inaccurate. And that's I think what pisses me off more than anything else, all the inaccuracies. Why doesn't he name who said it, or who the conversation was with if I had a conversation? That's not going to happen," he said.
Muss Development has for years boasted of a "private beach" as one of the amenities at Oceana on its website. On being contacted by Brooklyn Daily, the company called it a "typo" and said they had no discussions with the assemblyman regarding the privatization of a stretch of Brighton Beach for their benefit.
That, locals say, is bunk.
"If you're asking me what the facts are, the facts are that Oceana wanted a private beach from the beginning and marketed it that way," said local activist and longtime Brighton Beach resident Ida Sanoff. "It is common knowledge that they claimed to be building a private beach there when they first opened. They told a number of my neighbors who looked at apartments there about a private beach. And, early on, they had security guards [on the sand in front of the development] and whoever wandered by was told it was a private beach."
Sanoff, who is also the executive director of the Natural Resources Protective Association, and who was the first to sound the alarm about the 2013 legislation turning over jurisdiction, said she continues to have concerns about that bill.
"Of course I'm concerned," she said. "The Parks Department does have the ability to issue franchises," meaning allowing private concessions to operate on the beach. "So if someone, somewhere, decided this is what they wanted to do [on these beaches], once Parks has control of the beach it could be done routinely. And once it's done here, you've set the precedent to do it on any beach in New York City."
Sanoff, though, said she had no idea if that's what Cymbrowitz's intent is, and said she did not know of any meetings between the pol and Oceana's developers about privatizing the beach.
"Cymbrowitz, I haven't spoken to the man in years," she said. "I know as much about what's going on in his head as I do President Obama's."
Bredderman declined to comment on this article without approval from his editors. We will update this post if we receive a statement.