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Poll shows American youth more politically active, socially liberal

August 3, 2020 · Uncategorized · (No comments)

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Younger Americans may be more receptive to traditionally liberal social policy than their parents, according to a recent poll conducted by the New York Times, CBS News, and MTV. The survey found those ages 17 to 29 to be substantially more interested in Presidential politics, with nearly 60 percent expressing interest in the 2008 race, compared to 35 percent at approximately the same point in the 2004 campaign.

Government-sponsored health care received strong support among the younger voters polled, at 62 percent, compared with just 47 percent support across voters of all ages. Younger voters appear more supportive of same-sex marriage, legalization of marijuana, and liberalized immigration policy as well.

Optimism about the outcome of the war in Iraq was higher among the young, with 51 percent of those surveyed predicting a successful outcome, although 87 percent opposed the institution of a draft. Among all adults, 45 percent envision a successful outcome of the war.

In stark contrast, younger Americans expressed a generally pessimistic attitude about their future personally and the direction of the country in general. Nearly half predict that they will not enjoy the same success as their parents, and 70 percent felt that the country was on the wrong track.

Despite differences on social policy, some similarities emerged in the poll. Survey data indicated that just 28 percent of those polled approved of the Bush administration’s performance, which is fairly consistent with other polls of the President’s performance, hovering around 30 percent. Support for abortion was also similar between youth and voters in general.

A majority of younger voters indicated that they would vote for a Democrat for President in 2008, reflecting previous trends. Voter turnout among the young has historically lagged turnout rates for all adults, although 2004 saw sharp increases in young voter participation. That year, 47 percent of 18 to 24-year-olds voted, compared with 36 percent in the 2000 election. A majority of the young have cast votes for the Democratic nominee in every Presidential race since 1992.

The poll surveyed 659 participants via telephone in mid-June, and has a margin of error of four percent.

Investors Are Buying Ski Condos Because Resort Area Property Appreciates

August 3, 2020 · Camping · (No comments)

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By Adriana J. Noton

The words ski condos evokes a collection of positive memories for a lot of people who remember family outings, college parties, or even a honeymoon. Nothing brings people together like a snow vacation where kids and adults alike can frolic in a winter wonderland. A vacation in the snow is a perfect way to spend the thanksgiving or Christmas holiday.

A mountain resort community is a great place to own property because one can use the property year round or rent the property out and create a steady flow of positive cash flow. In the summer, when there is no snow on the ground to snowboard on, there is still a lot to do mountain resort communities. There is hiking, camping, fishing, and water skiing, to keep the most ardent outdoor enthusiast, occupied.

Mountain communities are protected by land use controls, environmental groups, and water shed rights, that help keep the resorts in pristine condition. Such land use controls protect the communities from over development and the pollution that over development brings. Resort towns keep their quaint village like appeal because of government regulation which helps preserve land value.

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Most resort towns are run by corporations and not by mom and pop businesses as in the past. This means that there is more quality control involved and everything from chair lifts to restaurants are more customer oriented than in the past. When the town is being run as a professional business, the surrounding land is going to appreciate in value.

Resort towns today attract a more affluent clientele because resort towns provide top notch service which means that the resort towns are not subject to down times throughout the year as they once were when mom and pop enterprises ran the towns. Since the resorts towns are not affected by recessions or economic down times, property values tend to appreciate. The most important aspect of any type of real estate investment is land value appreciation.

Mountain resorts are not just for those who go skiing but are for those who love to snow board. People who enjoy snow boarding are those who also enjoy ocean surfing because snow boarding is a lot like ocean surfing. Snow boarding, like ocean surfing looks easy, but takes practice before mastering. But, anyone with basic athletic ability can learn how to ride their snow board down the snow slopes. The most important element of good snow boarding is balance because one must maintain a balanced center of gravity in order to maintain control.

Good snow boarders have ample endurance because it takes endurance and leg strength to ride the snow board down the hill and climb up for another run down the hill. Snow boarding is certainly great exercise. Advanced snow boarders are able to launch themselves into the air and turn in the air and land flat on the snow slopes.

Mountain resorts offer visitors and land owners the chance to participate in many recreational activities. Ski condos are a great real estate investment because mountain resort property tends to appreciate in value. Mountain resorts, as a business, attract affluent clientele and are generally recession free.

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U.S. claims of Iraqi bioweapons labs contradicted in classified Pentagon report filed on 27 May 2003

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Saturday, April 15, 2006

In an article published on Wednesday by The Washington Post, reporter Joby Warrick alleged that the Bush administration and the CIA “possessed powerful evidence” that contradicted assertions made by President Bush one month after the Iraqi war began, where trailers found in Iraq were said to have been mobile biological weapons labs.

On May 27, 2003, President Bush made public statements on these trailers by asserting that “We have found the weapons of mass destruction,” which coincided with the CIA publishing a whitepaper that detailed how the trailers were allegedly used to produce biological weapons.

Warrick’s news report revealed that evidence exists to support that two days before the presidential statements were made and the CIA whitepaper was published, that a fact-finding group reached an opposite conclusion.

The group was comprised of U.S. and British civilian experts that investigated the labs and concluded unanimously that they had nothing to do with biological weapons production. They relayed their results back to Washington, where Warrick said in the front page Washington Post article that the newspaper interviewed six of the nine group members.

According to The Washington Post, this preliminary report was followed up with a detailed 122 page final report three weeks later, titled “Final Technical Engineering Exploitation Report on Iraqi Suspected Biological Weapons-Associated Trailers.” The report remains classified to this date.

Reuters reported that an unnamed U.S. official confirmed the existence of the field report filed on May 27, 2003, and said that the field report had not been evaluated at the time of Bush’s statement. “You don’t change a report that has been coordinated in the (intelligence) community based on a field report,” he reportedly said. The Bush administration continued to make claims about having found mobile biological weapons facilities throughout 2003.

On June 8, 2003, an unnamed senior CIA official stood by the interpretation that the trailers were mobile bioweapons labs saying “It is what we think it is, to the best of our knowledge”.

Then Secretary of State Colin Powell claimed in June 2003 that “confidence level is increasing” that the trailers were intended for biological weapons production.

White House speaker Scott McClellan said on July 16, 2003, that “We’ve seen some of the evidence of his weapons of mass destruction program through two mobile biological weapon labs that have been discovered.”

Vice President Dick Cheney claimed in September 2003 that the trailers were “mobile biological facilities”. Then CIA director George Tenet claimed in a speech on February 5, 2004, that the trailers “could be made to work” as biological weapons labs.

The alleged existence of mobile biological weapons laboratories was one of the cornerstones in Colin Powell’s presentation in front of the United Nations to make the case for war on February 5, 2003. Much of the information came from an Iraqi defector dubbed Curveball who was an asset of the German BND. The credibility of this source was disputed by the BND.

The Iraq Survey Group reported in September 2004 that the trailers were “impractical” for biological agent production and “almost certainly” designed and built for the generation of hydrogen. Asked about the prospects to turn the trailers into biological weapons labs, Rod Barton, a member of the Iraq Survey Group, said “It would be easier to start all over with just a bucket”.

The Washington Post cites unnamed sources among officials and members of the initial survey group as claiming that the original classified report from May 27, 2003 and the classified final report three weeks later came to the same conclusions as the unclassified findings of the Iraqi Survey Group.

Scott Ritter, a former United Nations weapons inspector, wrote September 8, 2003:”However, it now is clear that these so- called labs were nothing more than hydrogen generation units based upon British technology acquired by Iraq in the 1980s, used to fill weather balloons in support of conventional artillery operations, and have absolutely no application for the production of biological agents.”

In the April 12, 2006 press conference, Scott McClellan said “I will point out that the reporting I saw this morning was simply reckless and it was irresponsible. The lead in The Washington Post left the impression for the reader that the President was saying something he knew at the time not to be true. … The President’s statements were based on the joint assessment of the CIA and DIA that was publicly released the day before [the President made his statements].”

He did not answer repeated questions whether the President knew of the secret report at the time he was asserting that “we found biological laboratories” on May 29, 2005. When asked why the secret report was not made public earlier McClellan responded by saying that “it takes a substantial amount of time to coordinate and run through a declassification process”.

IRA disbands military structure

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Thursday, October 5, 2006

The Independent Monitoring Commission has reported that the Provisional Irish Republican Army has undergone major changes within their military structure and shows that the IRA Army Council wants to put its military campaign behind it. The Commission consists of John Alderdice, a former Alliance Party leader; Joe Brosnan, former Secretary General of the Department of Justice, Republic of Ireland; John Grieve, former Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and former head of the Metropolitan Police Anti-Terror Branch; and Dick Kerr, former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence Agency.

The report states the IRA no longer has the capacity to mount a military campaign anymore or return to one. The units that have been shut down were responsible for weapons-making, arms smuggling and training. The IRA decommissioned their arms last year.

The report also mentions that the IRA has also put its criminality beyond use and is “clamping down” on criminals within the organization, said Lord Alderdice, as he presented the report. He also added, “That doesn’t mean that criminal activity by all members has stopped but the leadership has made public statements and internal directions, investigated incidents of breach of the policy, even expelled some members and has emphasised the importance of ensuring that business affairs are conducted in a legitimate way.”

Finally, the report added that there is not enough evidence or intelligence to identify who killed Denis Donaldson, a British spy who infiltrated the IRA and Sinn Fein, before revealing his status as a spy.

However, the report added that splinter groups like the Real IRA (RIRA) and Continuity IRA (CIRA) are still threats and are still continuing their activity. The Real IRA was the group behind the deadly 1998 Omagh bombing. The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) “was not capable of undertaking a sustained campaign [against the British State], nor does it aspire to” according to the report.

It is also noted the creation of two new organizations, Oglaigh na hEireann (Irish Gaelic for “Volunteers of Ireland” and is used by the Irish Defence Forces and the various IRAs.) and the Republican Defence Army. However, the groups are small dissident factions according to the report.

The report also added that the two loyalist paramilitaries, the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) are also beginning to move from violence but at slower pace and not at a grassroots level like the IRA. Another loyalist paramilitary, the Loyalist Volunteer Force

The report was received warmly by Irish Toaiseach Bertie Ahern and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Ahern, said “These positive and clear-cut findings are of the utmost importance and significance. It is time to make decisions and for Northern Ireland to look to the future.”

“The IRA has done what we asked it to do, and while issues like policing remain to be solved, the door is now open to a final settlement, which is why the talks next week in Scotland are going to be so important.” said Tony Blair in a live statement.

In a surprising reaction, the notoriously hardline leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, Ian Paisley, also welcomed the report. He believes that his party’s pressure is working and if Sinn Fein signs up to policing there could be a deal. Paisley said, “If the police question is settled absolutely on a democratic basis and principle we would have come a long way along the road.”

Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams said “The DUP don’t have anything other than very limited options. They will or will not participate in power-sharing arrangements. If they don’t participate they are condemning people here, but particularly their own constituents, to second class public services, run by second class fly-in, fly-out British ministers. All the DUP can do is to delay, is to attempt to slow down, but they can’t stop the process of changing.”

2008 Canadian Championship: Toronto FC vs. Montreal Impact

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Thursday, May 29, 2008

May 27, 20087:30 PM (EDT)
	Toronto FC	1–0	Montreal Impact	Saputo Stadium, Montreal, Quebec Attendance: 12,083 Referee: Paul Ward
	Brennan 32’Wynne 37’Dichio 41’Smith 41’Valez 72′ (1)		24′ Di Lorenzo 24′ Ribeiro 37′ Pesoli 53′ Pesoli

Toronto FC opened up the Nutrilite Canadian Championship with a 1-0 win against Montreal Impact at Saputo Stadium on Tuesday night.

Reds defender Marco Velez scored the only goal of the game, 1^st in tournament history. Velez jumped to head home a cross from Laurent Robert. The goal came in the 72^nd minute.

Montreal played for much of the 2^nd half with 10 men after defender Stefano Pesoli was sent off for a second yellow card.

Toronto FC striker Danny Dichio has been struggling with a groin strain in recent weeks and was forced to leave the game before half time. He was replaced by Jarrod Smith.

Toronto FC now prepare to face Los Angeles Galaxy in Major League Soccer on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. at BMO Field. Toronto FC play their next Nutrilite Canadian Championship game on July 1^st against Vancouver Whitecaps at BMO Field. The Impact’s next game is on Friday against the Portland Timbers at Saputo Stadium.

Home Organization Equipment: How To Organize Your Home

August 2, 2020 · Cabinets · (No comments)

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By Christine George

Home organization takes some organizing as they say, and without knowing how to organize your home and having the correct equipment to help you it can become a nightmare. In order to get a fair idea of how to tackle to problem of organizing your home, you should take a tip from the modern office, and how the working spaces are separated and the files and other materials are stored.

Using that as a general guide, let’s have a closer look at how you can make home organization easier for you to manage. The first step in learning how to organize your home is to determine the type of storage you need: distinguish between items needed regularly and those can be stored permanently or semi-permanently in storage boxes. Then look at your living space and decide how it can be better organized.

Home Organization Equipment: Home Storage Boxes

The type of home storage boxes you use depends a great deal on what kind of house you live in. If it is large house, with a big attic and a cellar, and perhaps a spare room you can use for storage, then the look of your storage boxes might not matter. Some industrial cardboard flat-pack boxes would likely suffice.

However, if you want something a bit better looking then there are many alternative storage chests and cabinets that look good while offering good storage space. Among these are boxes looking like pirate chests, old-style steamer boxes, either rectangular or in the form of round hat boxes, and even an antique-looking luggage trunk set that offers good storage space while looking good.

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Most of these home storage boxes can be spread around your house as well as stored away in cupboards. They are a form of storage that is also decorative, and it is easy to keep a note of what is in each box.

Home Organization Equipment: Faux Book Box

A faux book box is a box that looks like a line or stack of books, and can be used in your library or any other room in the house for personal storage and storage of small items. They are literally book-size, around 8 – 15 inches high, and the cover opens to reveal the box interior. This is a way of storing smaller items without them looking messy or creating clutter.

Examples include office equipment such as staples, paper clips, envelopes and so on, and out of the office they can include letters, documents, tobacco, and all the other bric-a-brac and knickknacks that can clutter up a lounge or living room. One example of a faux book box is a set of three that have ‘Wuthering Heights’ and ‘Emily Bronte’ in gold on the front and spine. Inside, there is no book (but you could store one there) but an empty space for storage – the three sizes are 8, 10 an 12 inches tall with the width 5, 6 and 9 inches respectively.

Home Organization Equipment: Wine Racks

Wine racks may not seem to be important items of home organization, but they sure look good! Why hide your wine away in a cellar, particularly if it is red and to be drunk soon – meaning within the next month or so as opposed to laying down for years. Red wines should be served warm with white wines chilled, so lounge or kitchen storage is fine for reds. Store horizontally if corked, but if capped, then it doesn’t matter.

Home wine racks come in many shapes and sizes, including old globes that open to display the wine bottles, a 24-bottle cylindrical wine rack in metal mesh with marbles set into it so that it sparkles when lit and a variety of aluminum contemporary wine rack designs that would look the perfect home accent in a modern designed room.

Home Organization Equipment: Room Dividers

Room dividers are used to break up the expanse of large rooms. They can extend across the bulk of the width of a large room, or extend only a foot or two. Their purpose is to break the monotony and enable a different home dcor element or home accent to be used in each part.

An example of a room divider is a stunningly beautiful 6-panel Oriental screen, in a mahogany and teak finish that can be moved to separate a room rather than function as a fixed divider. This would look great in a room decorated in an Oriental home accent style. At 8 feet wide and 6 feet high, this is not just a functional room divider but a significant piece of art. The same is true of a golden screen, two feet less in width, but with hand drawn Chinese calligraphy covering the entire screen.

There are many more forms of room dividers available and home organization equipment in general, but these should be sufficient to give you an idea of what you can find online to help you organize your home, and keep it looking neater and tidier.

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Report urges Kenya to ban plastic bags

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They are cheap, useful, and very plentiful, and that is exactly the problem, according to researchers. A report issued on Feb. 23 by a cadre of environment and economics researchers suggested that Kenya should ban the common plastic bag that one gets at the checkout counter of grocery stores, and place a levy on other plastic bags, all to combat the country’s environmental problems stemming from the bags’ popularity.

Dove ad viewed more than 3 million times on YouTube

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Saturday, November 4, 2006

An advertisement for Dove beauty products has been viewed by well over three million people, without ever being on television. A copywriter from Ogilvy Toronto, the advertising agency that created a spot named “evolution”, uploaded the advertisement to video sharing website YouTube.

While the official upload of the ad itself has been viewed 1,119,262 times, there are dozens of copies of the ad on YouTube, adding to a minimum of 3,059,546 views. The official copy of the video is the website’s 12th most viewed this month, 53rd of all time.

Unofficial uploads have each received high levels of viewership, with 449595, 445322, 207906, 201670, 195265, 116501, and 102634 plays.

The agency did not originally intend to upload the video to YouTube, only display it on the company’s homepage. Staff member Tim Piper uploaded it to his account on October 6, about a week before it first got media coverage on Good Morning America.

The ad begins with a woman walking into a photo shoot. From there, she is primped and plucked by hair and makeup artists, then tweaked on a Photoshop-like program. The photo-manipulation is then posted on a billboard for the fictional “Easel Foundation Makeup” brand. Two young, teenage girls walk past, glancing at the board. “No wonder our perception of beauty is distorted” ends the ad in text, “Every girl deserves to feel beautiful just the way she is.”

The creative team for the ad included Tim Piper, Mike Kirkland, Janet Kestin, Nancy Vonk, directors T Piper (treatment and post production) and Yael Staav (live action) from Reginald Pike, Soho post production, Rogue editing, Vapor music, Gabor Jurina and Make-up: Diana Carreiro, and Reginald Pike.

The official French copy of the ad has only received 132 views, although it was only uploaded on November 2, 2006.

Save Money By Maintaining Your Energy Efficient Appliances Valparaiso In

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Thanks to the rising cost of energy production, people are truly becoming aware of the need for Energy Efficient Appliances Valparaiso IN. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to know what is hype and what makes an appliance truly efficient. Part of the problem is the differences between types of appliance. For example, a refrigerator consumes energy to keep the interior cold while an oven consumes its energy in the effort to heat its internal space. Both can be made more efficient with the application of insulation, but each appliance requires specific materials for that function. In this case a refrigerator may use polystyrene foam while the stove will use a fiberglass insulator.

For most people Energy Efficient Appliances Valparaiso IN are determined by the amount of energy they save. These numbers are usually displayed in a visible location in order to attract attention. However, they can be slightly misleading when compared to an existing appliance. Almost all the recent appliance designs from the last few decades incorporate some methods of energy efficiency. For the average consumer, the misunderstanding involves how much money they think they will save from using the new appliance. In most cases a new purchase isn’t much better than having an existing energy efficient appliance repaired.

Further improvements for supplying Energy Efficient Appliances Valparaiso IN would require technological changes in the way the appliance functions. For instance, a refrigerator or freezer operates by removing the heat from the enclosed space. They both use a technology that was developed in the early nineteen hundreds, the collection of heat via chemical absorption. As an appliance they represent the most efficient methods available for chilling storage areas. To improve this particular appliance would require a different method of heat removal or an improved method of condensing the current refrigerants.

There are things that can be done to ensure your energy efficient appliances remain that way. Appliance repair specialists like Anderson’s Appliance Repair Valparaiso IN recommend routine maintenance and regular cleaning to ensure your appliances operate the way they were designed to. Cleaning filters, coils or other sources of airflow can keep your appliances operating at low temperatures where required. This generally reduces the load on the appliance. Perhaps the best example of this is the dryer vent. When this outlet gets clogged, it forces the dryer to work harder to dry your clothes. The end result is more expense for the same work. Visit Repairsbyanderson.com for more information.

U.S. jury deliberates immigrant smuggler case

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Monday, March 21, 2005A Houston jury resumes deliberations today in a federal smuggling case where 19 illegal immigrants died from heat and lack of oxygen. The defendant, Tyrone Williams, 34, could face the death penalty for his alleged involvement in harboring and transporting illegal immigrants across the US-Mexican border.

He was reportedly paid $7,500 to bring the immigrants to Houston in a tractor trailer truck.

Williams, a Jamaican citizen, was a member of a smuggling ring. He alone faces capital punishment charges, while 14 other ring members were charged with less serious offenses for their involvement in the case. Williams allegedly made a four-hour trip across the border and then parked at a truck stop in Victoria, about 100 miles from Houston. He left the truck while 75 persons suffered in the cargo area of the trailer during sweltering heat.

The prosecution claims he abandoned the trailer while ignoring screams for help and banging on the walls from those inside the trailer.

His defense attorneys argue Williams was unable to hear anything from the trailer, and they further say greed by other ring members was the cause of the deaths since the trailer was so overcrowded. Williams should not be singled out, his attorneys maintained, just because he was the driver of the truck.

“He didn’t care,” said federal prosecutor Daniel Rodriguez during closing arguments. “To him, these weren’t people, they were merchandise.”

The jury asked U.S. District Judge Vanessa Gilmore three questions before the trial was adjourned for the weekend.

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