I woke up this morning to an interesting exercise performed by longtime Courier-Journal columnist Rick Bozich. The question posed to 30 knowledgeable college basketball minds was as follows: “If you were buying stock in 10 college basketball programs, which 10 would you buy and in what order?”
Some of the names of those who participated (and [...]
Which Portland neighborhood has the cleanest streets? Forest Park, Alameda, and Bridlemile.Which neighborhoods have are the safest for pedestrians? Alameda, Irvington, and Eastmoreland.Which Portland neighborhoods have the best overall livability? Eastmoreland, Alameda, and Grant Park.Subjective answers, you might say. But these were the results produced by Portland’s 2007 Neighborhood Survey.Each year the city conducts the survey asking Portland’s neighborhoods questions about safety, streets, parks, and city life. To see the complete results, 59 questions total, click on this City of Portland survey results link.
People in Portland love their city and their neighborhood, but an increasing number of homeowners are spending at least half of their income on housing.That led to a low percentage - 40% - of city residents who gave their neighborhood a positive rating for affordability in the city's annual survey of residents and audit of city services.Right now, there are roughly 18,464 households in Portland spending at least half of their income on housing. This is almost double the amount from ten years earlier.Other tidbits from the annual survey:* 79 percent of Portlanders say the city has good or very good livability* The city spends $1,513 per resident on services, up 13 percent in five years* Crime rates are near all-time lows, with 57.6 crimes against property per 1,000 residents and 6.9 crimes against people per 1,000 residents.For the full report, click here.
Winners v. Losers
Winners-Huckabee was en fuego. McCain performed almost as well. Universally 99.9% of the commentary supported Huckabee as the leader.
The Murky and Muddy Middle-Thompson’s last ditch effort was lack luster and according to a CNN commentator “lost without his cue cards.” His commercial didn’t stand on his principles and policy choices, and instead looked like a rabid attack dog (playing bad soundbite games) next to more presidential candidates.
Losers-Rudy v. Romney seemed a bit like a cat fight as the shots were fired back and fourth. Ron Paul was lackluster and didn’t get enough coverage. Tancredo wasn’t exactly spectacular either.
Key National Issues Left Off the Debate Agenda:
From The Tech President chat:
Micah also sez: and i’m surprised that CNN didn’t include any questions on health care, jobs, the environment, the falling dollar, outsourcing, trade, or anywhere but Iraq.
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And people think that the rest of the world is crazy, hmmph!A new poll of 57,000 people from 52 countries by Gallup International finds that, contrary to what might have been the case before the Iraq war; the U.S. is not the most loved and respected nation on the planet. The links below point to the story covering the poll, and the website of its sponsors. You have to know that the Bushies hate to be compared to Iran in any way, this alone makes me smile. Reuters European Council on Foreign Relations
According to a survey released by the California Reinvestment Coalition on Wednesday, very few lenders are willing to execute loan modifications for borrowers at risk of foreclosure.
The San Francisco based coalition surveyed 33 of California’s 80 mortgage counseling agencies who collectively had worked with about 9,800 consumers in August.
They found that the most common [...]
If you're married........ here's a survey you won't forget!Would you believe that people who live with each other for 25 years actually develop similar facial features? I don't just mean that people tend to choose partners who resemble them, rather that over time together couple's features actually converge. It's weird, but there's evidence for it from a singular study carried out by a noted psychologist Robert Zajonc and colleagues. 110 participants were shown photographs of men and women in their first year of marriage and of the same couples after 25 years of marriage. Then they were asked to judge their resemblance along with the chance that any man and woman were married to each other. The researchers went to a lot of effort to remove extraneous info and crop photos so that only faces could be seen. The types of choices the participants made indicated the perception was that couples became more facially similar after 25 years together. The results could not be explained by
Although we've only been providing our services for about six months, Qualified Address has grown a pretty good customer base during this short time. Last week we sent out a survey to find out what our customers thought of our services.The result? They love it!Over 10% of our customers responded, which is a pretty good response rate as far as online surveys go, and most of them had lots of praise for Qualified Address and its services. Here is what some customers said about what they liked most about our services:- Quick service- Easy to use. Quick.- I made a mistake and my sales rep helping me in a very nice and fast way.- Easy to fill out forms and directions to send the list do you- Good customer service and prompt response- Super quick, accurate, and affordableWhat got me really excite
Although we've only been providing our services for about six months, Qualified Address has grown a pretty good customer base during this short time. Last week we sent out a survey to find out what our customers thought of our services.
The result? They love it!
Over 10% of our customers responded, which is a pretty good response rate as far as online surveys go, and most of them had lots of praise for Qualified Address and its services. Here is what some customers said about what they liked most about our services:
- Quick service
- Easy to use. Quick.
- I made a mistake and my sales rep helping me in a very nice and fast way.
- Easy to fill out forms and directions to send the list do you
- Good customer service and prompt response
- Super quick, accurate, and affordable
What got me really excited about these results were that the things that customers liked most - speed, ease of use, and accuracy - were our goals in developing this software. It looks like we were successful!
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One in 10 Internet users fell victim to online fraud last year, losing an average of 875 pounds each, according to a survey on Monday. Many failed to take basic steps to protect themselves online and fewer than half felt they were wholly responsible for their safety while using the Internet. Six percent [...]
A majority of desktops in enterprise companies today won’t be ready for a Vista upgrade, at least not without quite a bit of work. So say the results of a recent survey conducted by software-as-a-service desktop management vendor Everdream. The company expects to release the results next week.
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Online cellphone LetsTalk has conducted a survey of current cellphone users about how interested they are on the iPhone. The results? Things don’t look so hot for the iPhone. Read on…
Via: Gizmodo.com
A majority of the compliance-related spending is on policy and process changes, followed by software purchases and encryption technologies, according to a survey of 147 IT managers at Fortune 1,000 companies by TheInfoPro Inc. (TIP), a New York-based consultancy. The results indicate that compliance has become one of the biggest drivers of security [...]
I get target fixated. If I need to find the answer to a question, I hunt it down ruthlessly. I simply don't stop till I know what the whole answer is. I think this is what started my book collection. I enjoy co-op radio (www.coopradio.org), but I must confess that it isn't the radio station I listen to via my alarm clock. I have a crappy radio alarm, and haven't found one at the thrift store yet that can get co-op like my stereo in the living room, (or via the Internet). So when I set up the alarm clock I choose the channel closest to co-op I could get, hoping to fine tune it later. Well, it turns out this channel (which I won't name, partly due to not wanting to advertise them) has an “Impossible Question” every morning. The object is, they ask a question, and callers try to phone in the correct answer to get a prize.
The result for me is that I can not fall back to sleep because I need to know the answer. But awhile ago I noticed the question being asked were useles
The seventh annual nationwide survey from Nursing2006 shows that nurses who have attained higher education and specialty certifications are making more money. Over 1,100 nurses responded to the salary survey that was initially published in January 2006. Among all nurses, those who reported being certified in a specialty made $9,200 more annually than nurses who weren't certified. Compensation also increased with advances in education, as indicated by these annual average salaries:
A new survey has been conducted by the famous scientific journal “Nature” and one of the five participants of this survey has said that they have used brain boosting drugs to increase their intelligence levels. “We were putting our finger in the air to see what our reader response would ...
