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Computers and Productivity: Are Aggregation Effects Important?
This paper examines the empirical implications of aggregation bias when measuring the productive impact of computers. To isolate two specific aggregation problems relating to "aggregation in variables" and "aggregation in relations," we compare various production function estimates across a range of specifications, econometric estimators, and data levels. The results show that both sources of bias are important, especially as one moves from the sector to the economy level, and when the elasticity of all types of non-computer capital are incorrectly restricted to be equal. In terms of computers, however, the estimated elasticity is surprisingly stable between industry and sector regressions and does not appear to be biased by the incorporation of a restrictive measure of non-computer capital. The data consistently show that computers have a large impact on output.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post2880850998024473553..comments2017-11-21T08:58:20.557-05:00Comments on Buckeye Surgeon: The Smart DoctorsJeffrey Parks MD FACShttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-2107918693753699502008-05-25T22:56:00.000-04:002008-05-25T22:56:00.000-04:00We all knew better, but the family was entirely un...We all knew better, but the family was entirely unreasonable. --Buckeye Surgeon

I am SO glad I am not related to this family. I would hate for them to be in charge of my medical care decisions at EOL.Teresahttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-87088562156815208882008-04-01T05:16:00.000-04:002008-04-01T05:16:00.000-04:00"Just outrageous pompousness" That hospital downto..."Just outrageous pompousness" That hospital downtown is known for outrageous pompousness.

The most arrogant doctors I have ever encountered was at that firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-47884510138844379382008-03-31T09:28:00.000-04:002008-03-31T09:28:00.000-04:00Thanks for the kind thoughts anon. Keeps me balan...Thanks for the kind thoughts anon. Keeps me balanced.Buckeye Surgeonhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-22380017539435442782008-03-27T20:18:00.000-04:002008-03-27T20:18:00.000-04:00"we know how to do diverting colostomies at this i..."we know how to do diverting colostomies at this institution." Just outrageous pompousness"

About as "pompous" as you are relating to other subspecialties (see your next post)

PS: Thank God you don't work at my email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-1003464087071412282008-03-23T23:23:00.000-04:002008-03-23T23:23:00.000-04:00Yeah. It's a good example of what I said recently ...Yeah. It's a good example of what I said recently about palliative surgery. And that what happens depends on the doctors as well as the patients/families. You were right. The "smart" doc wasn't.Sid Schwabhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-34397173819203499272008-03-21T22:15:00.000-04:002008-03-21T22:15:00.000-04:00Sad Buckeye. One of the scrub nurses I work with ...Sad Buckeye. One of the scrub nurses I work with lost her dad this week. They worked with hospice to make his last days as comfortable as possible. She refused to let her family members "do everything possible" to prolong his existence. She feels like he had a "good death" and that she was lucky enough to be holding his hand when he passed.rlbateshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-90257390298750099652008-03-21T17:10:00.000-04:002008-03-21T17:10:00.000-04:00I had a similar patient in the distant past. A pa...I had a similar patient in the distant past. A patient in their 90's who got pegged, trached and shipped.

Only problem was, family was so far out there in terms of rational expectations, that mamma had to ship many miles away to the nearest facility that would take her.

She ended up back in a hospital in their town. And their hospital docs wanted to ship mamma back to us. We said no.

Basically ping pong for the dead.

It's all quite sad.

Nobody wants to be the one that says no.

And get dragged through a lawsuit.The Happy Hospitalisthttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-82906355432541876522008-03-21T16:50:00.000-04:002008-03-21T16:50:00.000-04:00The other side of the 'outside hospital' jokes on ...The other side of the 'outside hospital' jokes on YouTube is the 'ivory tower' and all the baggage that goes with it.

Good post, although I think it's hard for families to make decisions sometimes when they haven't seen the endpoint of endless meddling as often as we have.A, a fourth-year medical studenthttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-77946228942904199272008-03-20T23:34:00.000-04:002008-03-20T23:34:00.000-04:00ooh, ooh, surgical pomposity, fun. idly, one wonde...ooh, ooh, surgical pomposity, fun. idly, one wonders if the "mecca" he ended up at is the one with the red shield-type logo or the cooler, more blue-green logo...

As a med student, I've only been at the county hospital. Gonna be interesting to finally go over to the East side of Cleveland for my surgical AI in July, see what all the fuss is about...firstname.lastname@example.com


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We ordered the Navada dining set from Homebase on the 11th February and we still haven't received it. We've had 3 phone calls so far, changing the delivery date, our recent one from the 28th of this month (April) to the 11th of May (no doubt we'll be receiving another phone call in a few days to change this date too)... I haven't attempted to call Homebase myself, but after reading the rest of the reveiws i don't think i'll bother spending my time or energy on doing so. I've written them a very stinky email, but am not holding my breath on getting a reply, or a dining set!! What has happened to Homebase over the last year? It's never been this bad!! I will definately be staying well clear in future, and will not be recommending Homebase to ANYONE!!
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Giannattasio, Simmonds; Bros, Tézier, Sherratt; Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, London Philharmonic, Parry. Text and translation. Opera Rara ORC45 (3)
Certain elements of this Opera Rara release — what might be called the "opera house" part of the performance — are on a very high level. The London Philharmonic, though not a period-instrument group, plays with appealing ease and vitality. The members of the Geoffrey Mitchell Choir really portray their various roles, as well as singing the notes. Conductor David Parry unfailingly sets up the expression of the vocal lines and the mood of each scene. Parry finds the right swagger for the entrance of the blustery baritone, tremendous grace for the prima donna's ladies-in-waiting, even special verve for something as generic as a drinking chorus. The finale of Act I is Bellini at his most Rossinian (Il Pirata is an early work, from 1827, when Bellini was still sorting out his own style), and Parry controls the snowballing phrases to great effect. All of the basic elements, then, are in place for the principal singers to carry us away.
If that doesn't quite happen, the performances are still honorable. José Bros takes the title role. His tenor is most attractive in the middle range, making the "Pietosa al padre" section of his first duet with Imogene a highlight. It was unwise of Bros to add some unwritten high Cs and Ds to his part (while skirting one high D that Bellini actually did write), but to his credit he doesn't simplify any of the very difficult writing in the role. As Imogene, Carmen Giannattasio does many fine things. Sometimes we are left wishing that she would break free into more specific, more personal singing, and that she would carry through the last bit of the ideas that she does have. Some of the singing is effortful, even when Imogene is rising from a faint, and the duet with Ernesto gives the impression that she is at the limits of what she can do. As Ernesto, baritone Ludovic Tézier doesn't have an easy time here either. If he gives an everyday sort of performance elsewhere, it must be noted that the character is not written as deeply as the other two roles.
The exemplary booklet essay by Benjamin Walton does a fine job of making an engaging story of the poorly documented genesis of the piece. The performance concludes with a rare outing of the original ending Bellini conceived with librettist Felice Romani in the first fruit of what was to be an important collaboration. Il Pirata was meant to end with the suicide of Gualtiero, who is supposed to stab himself on a bridge and plunge into an onstage waterfall. Prima donnas have had their own way from an early stage in performance history, and the opera has usually concluded with Imogene's mad scene. The real ending never made it into most published scores, and it is good to have it here. Many other standard cuts are opened; there is about fifty minutes' more music here than in the famous version Nicola Rescigno conducted for Maria Callas at Carnegie Hall in 1959. This new version would make an uncontested primary reference recording if not for the cuts and simplification allowed in the Ernesto–Imogene duet. But otherwise Bellini's musical designs are allowed to make their intended effects, and the opera itself makes a much finer impression than it did in Rescigno's performance or in the somewhat-less-cut production that marked the opera's Met premiere, in 2002.
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Re: Deanda-Hinojosa in Corpus area
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Dear Matt,
I am glad to see that you are doing some detailed research! I do have the information about Antonia and Tiburcio marrying into the Hinojosa family. However, if memory serves me correctly (I don't have the records at hand right now), Tiburcio married Angelita on February 15, 1896 at the Corpus Christi (St. Patrick's) Cathedral (I'll double check). The reason I know their (Antonia's and Tiburcio's) birthdates is because I found the transcriptions of their baptismal records in a microfilm of the church records from Our Lady of Refuge Catholic Church in Refugio, Texas. This microfilm can be located and ordered at any family history library that is operated by LDS (Mormons or Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints). Also, the Corpus Christi Public Library geneology section has a copy of this microfilm.
Here's the information that I have readily available from my database (I haven't input the marriage dates yet)...
(Jose) Tiburcio Deanda:
BIRTH: 11 Nov 1876, Puentes Ranch,San Patrcio County,Texas
BAPTISM: 5 Sep 1877, Our Lady of Refuge,Refugio,Refugio Co,TX [Padrinos: Jose Rodriguez and Gabriela Chavez]
CONFIRMATION: 13 Nov 1877, Puentes Ranch,San Patrcio County,Texas [Padrino: Guadalupe Hernandez]
Antonia Deanda:
BIRTH: 8 Sep 1872, Refugio County,TX
BAPTISM: 19 Feb 1875, Our Lady of Refuge,Refugio,Refugio County,TX
Padrinos: Jose Rodriguez and Gabriela Chavez
There is a side comment written by the priest that says "on the Aransas" Possibly this priest was travelling out to the Ranchos and baptized the children on the ranch. Later the baptisms were recorded at the main church in the area.
There are records at the Center for American History at UT Austin in the Barker Texas History Collection that may be useful to you. This is where I found records indicating my great great grandfather Gabriel Deanda's salary ($50 a month) as a foreman for them in the 1880s. Tiburcio (Gabriel's father and my great great great grandfather) was a fence rider and earned $13 a month. If your ancestor Jorge/George Hinojosa was much older than his sister Angelita, he may appear in these records also.
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Wednesday, June 09, 2010
New Music: John Robinson & Lewis Parker - International Summers
Been super-busy recently and its not likely to change any time soon so I probably won't be posting quite as much stuff as I have over the past year but gonna try and post stuff like this still 'cos the homie, Adonis said cats appreciate the more obscure names they see on The Kitchen and can get the Drake, Wayne, Jay-Z, T.I. big-name stuff anywhere. Anyway, with trips to NYC looking to become more of a regular occurrence over the next few months, "International Summers" seems like a perfect track to kick off some posts with....
The First Single and title track from the new album dropping July 2nd on 2LP/CD/DIGITAL + Limited Edition Cassette (yeah!) on PROJECT MOON:CIRCLE records.
Download it via the bandcamp player above or click HERE.
Sidebar, wasn't Lewis Parker the rapper down with Massive Attack back in the day?
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A grade student was asked to write a short report on Socrates:
"Socrates was a philosopher. He went around telling everyone what they did wrong. They fed him hemlock."
Vincent Maraia, from The Build Master, ISBN 0-321-33205-9
"If you want to know when your product is going to ship, just ask your Central Build Team or someone close to the daily build… We didn't use the crazy estimates we got from product or program managers who used a Gantt chart loaded with guesses…"
Ha-yuck, ha-yuck. I always wanted to use the Socrates quote in the context of an otherwise serious piece of work, so I will now set about to connecting the dots between it and the other very funny quote, or VFQs, as they're known to insiders here at the bureau of Very Funny Quotes.
I have been consuming The Build Masters by Vincent Maraia at an alarming rate, and it's not hard to figure out why. This is a great read on the internal build process at Microsoft, and the tool support required to make it all happen smoothly. It just so happens that I own the Developer Technology Specialist role in Microsoft Federal, so the content is all the more relevant to me and my customers. And I'm really humble - I mean, I'm truly great at humility.
Years ago, I was on a project, and it was yet another death march. The project was slated for delivery in about 12 months, and 2 months into the debacle everyone on the dev team knew it was a loser. My friend John and I would leave work, and sit on a park bench adjacent the job site, and drown our sorrows by dissecting the ribaldry of the day at work. We decided that if you really want to know software project status, the last place to look was project management. So when I read Vincent's VFQ, it really struck a chord.
So you say, "Rick – why must this be so! Why can't we have a better way of knowing the truth about project status?" To which I always respond, "My name's NOT Rick – it's Ken."
Well, I claim that there is a better way, and it includes both human and software tool assets.
Although some folks are dismissive of softer assertions in the Agile Manifesto, like the plank endorsing courage as a key factor for project success, I say that courage, albeit intangible, is a cornerstone of success on software projects. Steve McConnell advocated, a least a mules's age ago, having an anonymous channel for submitting "concerns" to management regarding project status. Obviously, this is tacit acknowledgement of the problems brought on by a fit of courage.
When Vincent makes his claim regarding truth in project management, I believe that he is implicitly referring to several factors. One is the courage requirement, another is the source of deterministic data points that actually provide real insight into project health. And that source is of course, the build process and metrics gathered during its execution. I advise not taking too narrow a view of the scope of the build process, and I would expand it to include tasks like source code check-in, work item tracking, and unit tests.
The success of a software development organization at repeating past success is a function of the weight that the organization gives to the importance of the build process. Properly resourced, and with good automated tool support throughout, metrics can be captured with relatively little friction. It is these metrics that give the outside world a clear sense of the project status. As an aside, allow me to make a shameless plug for Visual Studio Team Foundation here, as this is one of the unique values that this tool provides.
Finally, where does that leave us? Well, I say hire enlightened and courageous practitioners and wise management, and give them proper license to implement a robust build process. Provide resources and great software tools to the build teams, and watch repeatable successes happen. And if you fall short on that enlightenment and courage thing …
"Tell the truth, and then run like hell!"
Anonymous philosopher and track star
Rick... I mean Ken Garove


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I've learned quite a bit from following and interacting with other filmmakers and techies on Twitter. I've sculpted a list of users on Twitter that I am grateful to since they have taught me so much about shooting, editing, DSLRs, etc. Anyway, I like to keep up to date with these people's activity and usually can only do so by constantly checking this Twitter list on my laptop. Otherwise, I'll go days or weeks without knowing what is trending and losing out on great information.
What I learned today was how to create an RSS feed of this Twitter list which I can access very easily on my iPhone's locked screen whenever I have a few free moments.
1. Go here.
2. Fill in the Twitter username and the list you want to create into a feed.
3. Copy this URL into Google Reader or any RSS syndicator and you're g2g (good to go).
BTW, the Twitter list I created and use on my iPhone is this.


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Midas and I were set up by a glamorous English professor, and we met each other's basic criteria: cute enough, smart enough, tall enough, and Jew-ish. Heck, with so much in common we were probably related.
We went to the same college at different times. Midas had dated my ex-boyfriend's ex-girlfriend, so we shared a disease vector. We occupied the same shtetl and it was destiny, bashert.
Our blind date was scheduled for a wine tasting at the Palace Hotel. Or so I thought. It was actually a swanky time-share presentation, for those who would rather buy a slice of a hotel suite for $2 million instead of an apartment for $2 million. Chef Mario Batali supplied the booze. Midas knew the saleswoman from the Harvard Club, where he hosts meetings for his consulting business and where he is so much better than you are.
Together we chatted, drank, and schmoozed with the real customers just like a real couple. We were the Ivy window dressing, though the curtains cost more than I earn in a year. And we hadn't really yet met or spent any time alone ever. It was peculiar, but first dates are.
A lush and velvety Montepulciano later, the sales staff took us on a tour of the suites, and Midas suggested we lag behind while the group explored the Italianate marble bathrooms. They moved on toward the penthouse and we were left alone in a private suite at the Palace, slightly drunk; Eloise on a blind date.
The room was generously appointed with chintz sofas and high thread-count sheets. We lay on the bed and admired Baccarat chandeliers. Midas told me about his hopes, his dreams, his $60,000-a-year psychoanalysis bill. He was audited by the IRS after claiming therapy as a business expense and emerged victorious. He was beaten to a pulp by a famous boy band once, long ago, and with the settlement money he bought an apartment facing Central Park. The boy band disbanded. He did nothing but win, win, win — and said so.
He was anxious about the market and so took a substantial position in gold.
Me: You and everyone else in New York.
Midas: No, I took a position in physical gold.
Me: Like, coins? Krugerrands?
Midas: About $100,000.
Me: You've got $100,000 in change sitting around your house?
Midas: I might need the money to leave the country when the banks fail.
Me: You're going to pay for passage to the next host country with gold coins. How are you going to buy bananas when you get there?
Midas: It's not a perfect strategy.
Me: You can't make change for a Krugerrand, you know that, right?
Why didn't I leave right then? Because I was worried about his feelings? Because it might have been rude? Because of the English professor's recommendation? Or because I was horizontal? Any of those might have been good enough reasons to stay. But that's not what happened. At the very moment it occurred to me he was a lunatic and I should probably go, it dawned on him that I thought he was crazy.
He dumped me.
Midas: Look, we could date for six months and then I'd figure out all the ways you drive me nuts, and you could figure out all the ways I drive you nuts. Or we could just end this now.
Me: Wait. What?
Midas: I don't think we should keep seeing each other.
Me: Am I on Dating Candid Camera?
I hopped off the bed and grabbed my coat and purse.
Midas: You're going? Now? But I got us a suite at the Palace.
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DES MOINES– If there was an underlying theme to the Iowa City West High boys' 2016 Class 4A State Basketball Tournament experience, it had to be, "We needed to play better."
The West High Trojans, in their sixth-consecutive state tournament appearance, knocked off Des Moines Hoover in the first round and Cedar Falls in the semifinals before falling 46-39 to West Des Moines Valley in the championship.
TIFFIN– After 10 years leading the Clear Creek Amana (CCA) varsity boys track and field program, coach Tony Brack resigned last year, and his three-year assistant, Ben Robison, took the helm of both the boys cross country and track programs.
Robison is assisted by Karl Vogel, Jackson Litterer, Ronnie Hughes and Matt Hoch and inherits a squad with two returning state qualifiers in the form of Eric Douglass (1,600 and 3,200-meter runs) and Derek Toy (400-meter hurdles). Douglass is a senior while Toy is a junior.
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IOWA CITY– The Mississippi Valley Athletic Conference (MVC) released its 2015-2016 Boys and Girls All-Division selections for bowling on Thursday, Feb. 25. Six Women of Troy and five Trojans made the cut for this season.
Patrick Wood, recently crowned as the boys' Class 3A State Champion, was a West Division First Team pick with Jacob Fisher and Jordan Tiegs earning Honorable Mention. Matthew Bertell and Nicholas Rohm were named to the division All-Academic squad.
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WAVERLY– The Clear Creek Amana (CCA) track and field varsity boys were in action Tuesday, March 8, at the Wartburg College Indoor Meet in Waverly.
Jack Wingert posted the Clippers' best individual finish in a running event with a ninth-place showing in the 800-meter run in 2:18.16, while the 4x800-meter relay team posted a seventh-place showing in 9:13.98. Carter Hertel tied for sixth place in the shot put with a 43'-11" effort to lead the Clipper throwers.
IOWA CITY— It's the same old jail, but with a high-tech difference after a major technological upgrade.
After voters in Johnson County repeatedly defeated bond referendums that would have replaced the County Jail, the County Board of Supervisors took action in October 2014 to extend the life of the existing facility.
NORTH LIBERTY – RaQuishia Harrington has only one voice.
But she uses it to speak for thousands.
Harrington, who lives in North Liberty, is the site director for the Broadway Neighborhood Center in Iowa City, part of the Neighborhood Centers of Johnson County.
As a social worker, the concept of human rights is immensely important to Harrington's day-to-day responsibilities. To her, human rights means everyone should be guaranteed the opportunity to do, to be, to exist– equally.
By Lori Lindner
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SWISHER– What started as a hobby for Swisher resident Tracy Griffin has turned into not just a career, but a reflection of her passion and personality.
Griffin is the owner and chief photographer of T Marie Portraits and Photo Booth.
About eight years ago, Griffin and her family were hiking through Palisades Park on a nice fall afternoon, and she happened to have a camera with her. She took photos of her children to commemorate the day.
WASHINGTON, D.C.– The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) issued a public health alert to notify the public of a recall conducted by Maxi Canada, Inc., a Québec, Canada, establishment, involving approximately 103,752 pounds of chicken product that may be contaminated with metal pieces. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) notified FSIS of the recall, which affected products exported to the United States.
NORTH LIBERTY– The Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) will hold a public information meeting Wednesday, March 30, from 5-6:30 p.m. at the North Liberty Recreation Center, to discuss the proposed improvements to West Forevergreen Road from east of Kansas Avenue to Highway 965 in North Liberty.
The meeting will be conducted utilizing an open forum format. Iowa DOT staff will be present to informally discuss the proposed improvement. No formal presentation will be made.
SHUEYVILLE– Shueyville United Methodist Men's Pancake Supper will be held Friday, April 1, from 5-7 p.m. at the church.
The pubic is invited to attend and enjoy good food and fellowship with friends.
The all-you-can eat supper includes pancakes, eggs, ham, sausage, hash browns and beverage. This supper is used to support mission activities both at home and around the world.
The church is located at 1195 Steeple Ln. NE in Shueyville.
The cost for the supper is adults $6, ages 3-12 $3, and those under 3 are free.
TIFFIN– A district-wide Color Fun Run benefitting the Parent Teacher Groups at all four elementary schools in the Clear Creek Amana School District will be Saturday, April 9, with a 5K race beginning at 9 a.m. and the 1 mile commencing at 10 a.m. This will be a fun, family-friendly event complete with color stations.
Both routes begin at Clear Creek Amana High School located in Tiffin and will pass by multiple color stations. Runners should be prepared for some colorful fun.
IOWA CITY– In the last few weeks the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) was found in Iowa City. This pest is a destructive pest of ash and it has been present in the State of Iowa since 2010. Specialists from ISU Extension and Outreach Entomology, Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, the City of Iowa City, and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources/Forestry Bureau will present information on this pest on March 31 at the Johnson County ISU Extension and Outreach Office, located at 3109 Old Highway 218 S.


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'Life After Beth' Trailer and Posters: Aubrey Plaza Eats Guys
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It seems like we've reached peak zombie saturation in media, but the new indie comedy 'Life After Beth' is ready to revive (ahem) the genre with a new take on the subject matter. Judging by the first trailer, the new film, starring Aubrey Plaza, Dane DeHaan, and a whole cast of wonderful funny people, is going to be something special.
MTV has the first trailer for 'Life After Beth,' which follows Zach Orfman (DeHaan), a guy whose girlfriend Beth (Plaza) comes back from the dead. And while it seems like a delightful miracle at first, Beth starts spiraling out of control as her natural zombie inclinations take over — namely, that she needs to eat people.
Bolstered by a cast that includes John C. Reilly, Molly Shannon, Anna Kendrick, Alia Shawkat, Paul Reiser, and Cheryl Hines, 'Life After Beth' is sure to be a hilarious entry in the zom-rom-com genre. It's also great to see DeHaan play a character who isn't just sort of brooding and antisocial, so we're looking forward to that.
Check out the charming posters for 'Life After Beth' below, and see the film when it hits theaters on August 15.


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The Department of Planning and Development is responsible for guiding the City's land use development process and main street activities. Planning and Development staff are responsible for implementing the City's Comprehensive Plan to ensure that development projects conform to the municipal code. Please use the quick links at right to find helpful planning and development related information.
The Planning and Development Department is located at City Hall, 39250 Pioneer Blvd. and is open from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Monday - Friday. The Department is staffed by the Director, Senior Planner, Building Official, Permit Technician, and Planning Assistant. For direct phone numbers and e-mail addresses, click the directory link.
General Planning Line: (503) 489-2160
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The Planning and Development Department has four components: Development Review, Long Range Planning, Main Street, and Building. For information on each of these components please see the following web pages:
Sandy's existing urban growth boundary (UGB) has accommodated our housing, employment, park and school needs for nearly 20 years. Adopted in 2015, the conclusion of an urbanization study indicated that in the 20 year planning period (2014-2034) there is expected to be a deficit in the existing UGB of properties zoned for low and medium density residential development and commercial properties. Following adoption of the Urbanization Study the next step is to evaluate which properties to include in a UGB expansion . Beginning in the summer of 2015 City staff started compiling information to evaluate each property within the existing urban reserve boundary for potential inclusion in an expansion.
We held public workshops on March 2nd and 8th that were well attended by an engaged audience who asked many great questions. About thirty people attended each workshop. These workshops presented background information about the study and the methodolody we will use to assess whicvh properties to include in a UGB expansion. For the benefit of those that could not attend the meeting, we have included the public workshop presentation on the UGB expansion Project webpage.
For Planning information outside the city limits see the Clackamas County website. If you are looking for information regarding on-line maps click on C Maps , but if you are looking for scanned tax maps click on the County Tax Map page.
The Planning and Development web pages also have a wealth of information regarding the City Facade Improvement Grant Program, Sustainable Practices, and the Urbanization Report. You may also find out about the Sandy Market Analysis by clicking here.


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Pistorius's defence pokes holes in 'poor quality' of Botha's testimony
Oscar Pistorius's lawyer advocate Barry Roux spoke of the "poor quality" of the investigating officer, Botha, and said on Thursday there were shortcomings in the state's case.
Roux pointed out that if Pistorius wanted to kill Reeva Steenkamp he would not need a locked toilet.
"He could do it anywhere," he said, rejecting not only the murder charge sought against him but also that it was premeditated as the state has alleged.
Pistorius is charged with murdering Steenkamp on Valentine's Day. He denied this in an affidavit, saying he thought there was an intruder in the house when he shot into the toilet she was in. Here is a recap of what we know so far.
- A post mortem showed Steenkamp's bladder was empty, consistent with a person getting up early in the morning to go to the toilet. "There is no evidence that the applicant knew it was Reeva in the toilet," said Pistorius's counsel advocate Barry Roux.
- It stated that Steenkamp spent the night at Pistorius's, indicating a "loving relationship". Every preamble in the charge sheet did not support premeditated murder either, he said. Roux added the onus was on the state to prove murder and intent to murder, and it had fallen "far short" of doing this. Pistorius also gave the same version of events to his sister, Aimee. The charge sheet itself does not mention premeditated murder, just murder, continued Roux.
- Pistorius told Sarie he owned a house in Italy, contrary to his lawyer's denial, state prosecutor Gerrie Nel told the court. Nel said Botha called him and asked him if he read the magazine. "What do we do about that, Mr Roux?" Nel asked Roux. Roux insisted Pistorius did not own a house, and said: "He knows about perjury." Nel pressed on, reading from the glossy women's Afrikaans magazine in support of the state's opposition to bail on the grounds he was a flight risk. He said a mayor had given the house to Pistorius, who practised in Italy for four months a year. The mayor offered to build him a place after he made a speech there in 2010.
- The court heard that four cellphones, which had not been used for a long time, were found at the scene. The police had later found out about a fifth cellphone. The police have not yet obtained the cellphone records and itemised billing of Pistorius and Steenkamp. "I thought it would be handed to me, but it [wasn't]," Botha told Magistrate Desmond Nair, in the Pretoria Magistrate's Court. Nair kept asking why it had not yet been done. Botha said the people he gave the cellphones to would have notified him if there was anything very important on them but they had not. The magistrate complained there seemed to be a lack of urgency in getting the records.
- Botha himself has weathered a morning of controversy, after it emerged that he faces attempted murder charges for allegedly shooting at a taxi during a police chase. Nair, who had to have Botha called to appear, took him through a summary of the initial evidence collected after Steenkamp was shot last Thursday.
- Botha has said he intended presenting statements that there had been fighting at the house.


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VERNON — Rockville Superior Court Judge Thomas Bishop has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday where lawyers representing Michael Skakel and state prosecutors will argue whether Skakel should be released from prison as he awaits a new trial.
The hearing, scheduled for 10 a.m. in Superior Court in Rockville, follows Bishop's decision last week that set aside Skakel's conviction in the 1975 killing of Greenwich teen Martha Moxley. Skakel was convicted of the crime at a 2002 trial, but Bishop ruled that Skakel's trial lawyer, Michael "Mickey" Sherman, "was in a myriad of ways ineffective" and ordered a new trial.


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Filmmaker Sanjay Gupta turns author
Confirms that he is in talks with a publishing house to write a book comprising 11 short storiesbollywood Updated: Nov 18, 2013 11:46 IST
Film-maker Sanjay Gupta made his love for short stories clear when he decided to produce the anthology movie, Dus Kahaniyaan, in 2008. Comprising 10 short films, of which he directed five, the movie was touted to be the first of its kind back then. And now, his adoration of the format has led him to explore the world of literature.
If everything goes as per plan, Gupta will have successfully published a book — a compilation of 11 short stories — by next year. "I've finished writing the first three (stories) and, to be honest, I am enjoying the process," says the director.
He adds, "My cinema is essentially dark, but I am moving away from that space now. I am making my films brighter. So this (the book) is the obvious platform for me to get all those dark stories out of my system. I still want to tell those stories and I want to do it fearlessly. And that's a luxury you do not have when you're writing for the screen."
Gupta also confirms that he is in talks with "a major publishing house" that he has worked with in the past to launch this currently-untitled book.
Ask him if he is planning to bring these stories alive on the big screen with a movie in the future, and he laughs, saying, "Certainly not… these stories are extremely dark and graphic, and would find it impossible to make it through our censors."


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Don't Loaf Around This Weekend…Make Your Own Bread!
When I was a kid, they called me Yeasty Baby, because I loved bread. Now they call me Masonry Momma, because I learned how to make it myself, in one weekend flat.
There are still millions of people in the world who haven't gone gluten-free. Bread, besides being the body of Christ and whatnot, is still the staple food in the average diet, and probably always will be. But it's expensive to buy the good loaves, and most affordable store-bought varieties are high in processed sugar and bleach. So it's worth it—both economically and yummily—to learn how to make your own, and it's not hard.
Dan Wing and Alan Scott are experts in baking bread and building masonry ovens. Wing, for example, travels around in a gypsy bread wagon of his own construction, baking bread at parties. They're brilliant, and their advice will give you the skills to bake the perfect loaf of bread—down to a science. If you already know how to make bread, perhaps you need a new oven? They'll show you how to do that, too.
Below is an excerpt from The Bread Builders: Hearth Loaves and Masonry Ovens by Daniel Wing and Alan Scott.
I have baked bread for thirty years. Not professionally, but regularly: I made a lot of bread in all those years. Most of the bread I baked was not as good as the best bread I have ever eaten, though. It was better than any bread I could buy, but only because few bakeries in this country were making bread that was better, none of them were nearby, and bread is perishable.
Don't get me wrong: I had fun baking, and everyone liked my bread. But when my bread was only okay I could still see and taste in my mind the bread I wanted to bake—a hearth loaf with an open crumb and a resilient crust, full of flavor. Bread that would stay fresh for days without added sugar, milk, or fat. For years I just couldn't seem to make bread like that. Now I do, almost every time I bake. My success surprises me a little, even though I know it is my own bread coming out of my own oven, and of course I know exactly what I did to make it. Each time I open the oven door and I see and smell the loaves, my heart jumps and swells a little.
Learning to bake that way didn't come without a lot of flailing around, because I was walking in the dark at first. The steps I eventually took to learn to make the kind of bread I like are ones that you can take more easily with the help of this book. Although a first-time baker will get plenty from this book, he or she may not realize the value of the information I have collected. People who have baked before—but never really understood what they were doing—are going to get the most out of it. That is especially true for people who want to make wonderful rustic loaves, and haven't been able to.
To do that, you must first learn to ferment your dough naturally (using what most Americans call a sourdough starter) and you have to understand fermentation well enough so you control it, not the other way around. That is how you make a full-flavored loaf that honors the remarkable grain it's made from, that delights the eye, and holds whatever degree of sourness you seek—a little or a lot. In this book you will learn how and why rye flour, or whole wheat flour, or machine kneading, or a hot day, or many other factors will change the dough you make and the bread you bake. Controlling natural fermentation is the first big step on the path to creating great bread.
The second big step is to bake your bread in hot masonry. The reasons for this will become clear as you read the book, but take it as a given for now. "Hot masonry" means you can bake many loaves at a time in a masonry oven or you can bake one loaf at a time in a ceramic cloche in a conventional oven. (Bread from a cloche is not actually the same as bread from a masonry oven, but is so close that you almost need the two loaves in front of you to tell the difference.) Only by baking in masonry can the home or small commercial baker get a loaf that looks, chews, and tastes right. That is true even if the dough is perfectly made before it is baked.
If the secrets of good bread baking are so simple (fermentation, hearth baking), why do so many people have trouble making good bread? There are four reasons for our failures: The first is that most of us have tried to learn the process from books, and there haven't been books in English that adequately explained fermentation or discussed masonry ovens. The second reason is simple confusion— the best described sourdough baking technique in this country (using a sour starter to react with baking soda to raise flapjacks and quick breads) is not similar to the process for making good "European" naturally leavened bread. Americans tend to maintain sourdough starters in a way that does not produce consistent results when baking bread, but would be fine for pancakes. The third reason is that for more than seventy-five years bakers have been taught to equate successful baking with fast baking—witness the profusion of instant yeast brands—while the opposite is true. The impetus for speeding up the process of making bread was first reflected in advertising that yeast companies directed to commercial bakeries (the familiar "time equals money" equation). Faster baking was then presented as a lifestyle improvement to home bakers who did not realize what speeding up baking would do to their bread. Although the amount of time spent mixing, kneading, slashing, and baking is only marginally longer for good bread than poor bread, the number of hours over which the steps occur is much longer for good bread, regardless of whether the dough is raised with small doses of commercial yeast or from a natural leaven. The fourth reason? The ovens—most people are trying to bake hearth breads in kitchen ovens.
You can gauge the extent of the confusion about natural fermentation by reading the questions posted to Internet Usenet newsgroups such as rec.food.sourdough and rec.food.baking. Many of the people who post questions to these groups are experienced (often professional) bakers who encounter difficulty changing from speed-baking with store-bought yeast to baking with a natural leaven. These otherwise able people don't understand the principles of natural fermentation because those principles have not been laid out—the lessons of research in cereal chemistry, dough microbiology, and so forth have not been explored to any extent in popular books on baking, while specialized seminars and videos about sourdough are expensive, costing hundreds of dollars. Baking books give elaborate and intimidating descriptions of how to start and maintain a leaven when it would be more enlightening to describe in detail what is happening in the sourdough process and to consider the properties of sourdough ingredients—water, flour, salt, wild yeast, and bacteria. Methods and rules are not as useful as understanding. A baker who understands the process is liberated— free to create new recipes and to manipulate the determinants of bread quality in pursuit of his or her perfect loaf. This book is short on recipes (on purpose, as there are many excellent sources of recipes) but long on the background information you need to make the kind of bread you want, either by adapting an existing recipe you like, or making up a new one.
"Fermentation." "Cereal chemistry." "Nutrition." All of this sounds intimidating to the non-scientist. To be truthful, it is even intimidating to a scientist—but you don't need to be a scientist to understand it. You just have to want to learn. Since I knew little of the "science" of fermentation or cereal grains when I set out, the information I found was new to me, and I hope that it seems fresh as I relay it to you. Although most of it has been published somewhere, no source I could find includes it all, or digests it for consumption by the committed layperson. I hope that the "bread" half of this book will teach you the characteristics of sourdough hearth bread and the factors (that you can control) that determine those characteristics.
The other half of this book is about building and using masonry ovens. Simple retained-heat ovens (in which a fire is built in the same chamber where the bread will be baked after the fire is removed) are what I actually started out to write about. Masonry ovens have great historical appeal because they are the way bread was baked for millennia, but they are being built now out of more than a purely historical interest. They are built for the unique way they bake: masonry ovens "shock" dough with a massive transfer of heat when the bread is first put in, and they preserve the dough's moisture when the crust is first forming and the loaf is expanding.


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August 20, 2013
More than 100 women in the southern Mexican town of Xaltianguis have taken up arms to protect their community from organized crime groups, a local selfdefense force official said Monday.
The women signed up over the past four days with the Union of Peoples and Organizations of Guerrero State, or UPOEG, Xaltianguis community selfdefense force commander Miguel Angel Jimenez told reporters.
"We have an average of nine groups" of community police, with each one made up of 12 women who will work in the daytime in the neighborhoods of Xaltianguis, located about 50 kilometers (31 miles) from the resort city of Acapulco, Jimenez said.


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By the time Jeff Gove got to Phoenix, we were rising.
The Farmers Insurance Open was wrapping a bow around its weather-challenged event Monday morning, and that's where San Diego's golf community was hanging.
But like Saturday's fog, Gove had vanished.
He's chasing an entry into the Waste Management Phoenix Open, trying to qualify for a tournament and a sliver of sunshine in a gray season.
Gove, of Carlsbad, has played in three tournaments and has three cuts to show for it, which includes the FIO at Torrey Pines. But anyway you slice it, Gove is happy to return to the PGA Tour.
"I'm excited and I wanted to get off to a good start,'' Gove said. "But that hasn't happened yet.''
That Gove has his PGA card is a story, a lesson in perseverance, persistence and a nod to his plucky attitude. Welcome to Gove's world, where he has ricocheted between the majors (PGA) and minors (Web.com) so often one wonders if his string will snap.
"I've been up-and-back like yo-yo,'' he said.
For every dominating Tiger Woods, there are hundreds of scrappers like Gove. For every Phil Mickelson scratching his head over his April 15 tab, hundreds are aching to catapult into another tax bracket.
This game makes stars of some; the majority never reach that galaxy. This game makes men with clubs rich; it makes others face forks in the road, deciding rather to play on or let a dream die.
Gove was a pro for five years before making the PGA Tour in 2000. But his career was just starting its boomerang routine: on the Tour in 2000, '02, '06-'08 and '10.
The other years he chased the ball, and his aspirations, at the game's lower levels. Where there are few courtesy cars, no day-car centers and sparse crowds to cheer your successes or soften the defeats.
"You just have to believe in yourself and keep your focus,'' Gove said.
Gove was No. 65 on Web.com money list last year, saving his greatest run for the PGA's last 'Q' school. He finished in the top 10 to get his card, but his game has brought little joy since.
Gove, 41, remains upbeat, and that's not surprising considering his PGA trek has hardly been cart-path smooth.
"You don't get enough highs in this game and I had one in 'Q' school,'' said Gove, who plays out of La Costa Resort and Spa. "I enjoyed it for about three weeks and then I had to get ready for the season.''
He trudges on in anonymity, doing so by leaning on family. How else does one survive after finding more difficult lies than dandy results?
"It's tough,'' said Gove, whose best PGA showing is twice tying for sixth. "It's not a normal life and there are a lot of great golfers that have not done it because of that reason.
"But I have a really supportive wife behind me, 100 percent. She runs the house and lets me go play golf and I'm thankful every day I have her.''
With his spouse displaying that kind of outlook, I'll ask the question before getting the e-mails: Does she have any sisters?
"They are all married off,'' Gove said, with a laugh.
Gove can't divorce himself from golf, despite the uneven results.
"It's just the challenge of it,'' he said. "I love competing, sitting on the No. 18 green and trying to make a birdie. I absolutely love the competition.''
Even if this maddening game seldom returns the affection.
"I've never lost confidence in myself that I can do it,'' he said.
Maybe in the Valley of the Sun, a positive ray finds Gove.


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Suicide Girls.com is arguably the greatest, hottest alternative lifestyle site on the internet featuring thousands of pictures of unique beautiful women. Those hot, smart and awesome tattoo'd girls have gotten together and ranked their ten favorite films of the last ten years. Everybody listen.
Before Sunset is a blur of constant motion, with its central, early-thirties couple frequently walking towards and away from the camera at a brisk pace, catching rides in fast-moving cars and boats, and finally trudging up the stairs to a top-floor apartment. The point, unsubtle but valid, is that life's forward momentum is as unstoppable as an ocean wave, and only the fools among us would let a chance for real happiness pass us by as we're pushed inexorably along. This immeasurably superior sequel to Richard Linklater's 1995 one-night-in-Paris romance, Before Sunrise, which clocks in at barely 80 minutes long, is so unusually knowing about the staying power of true love, the way dreams can affect our lives, and the reality of time never being on our side, that if you see it once, it may haunt you forever. see more on Before Sunset
The badge around her neck reads: "I suffer from epilepsy. Please do not call an ambulance. Just move me to a warm, safe place." She strums guitar on stage at night and engages in pointless love affairs during the day. Maybe she was happier a hundred years ago. Three Times, from Taiwanese master Hsiao-hsien Hou, shows us a love affair played out in three time periods, always with the same actors. In 1911, the young couple is confident and self-aware, but restrained by social mores. In 1966, an ancient order is crumbling and excitement abounds. An open doorway in a pool hall points to an unknown f*ture. In 2005, freedom has dissipated again, into a morass of text messages and social confusion, while an ascendant, modern world is glimpsed as their motorcycle flies across elevated freeways. Who's to say one era is more or less free than another? see more on Three Times
It's been remarked that the Dardenne brothers' masterpiece L'Enfant is told from a God's eye perspective. If so, that's a terrifying thought. A dying steel town in the heart of Belgium is the setting for this unusually absorbing crime drama, which follows, in a noticeably detached and nonjudgmental fashion, petty con man Bruno and his girlfriend Sonia as they deal with a new, valuable item that has fallen into their laps: their baby. Bruno's decision to sell his newborn child to a black market adoption ring is only one several surprising decisions he makes throughout the film; we're consistently taken aback by his actions because his moral center is a black hole, perhaps as random as the universe itself. L'Enfant gazes deeply into our modern, money-mad world and asks, without a hint of glibness, whether traditional morality has any place in it at all. see more on The Child
Philosophy of Time Travel is the name of the secret textbook at the center of Donnie Darko, and that book title encapsulates the main character's naïve, but endearing belief: that it's somehow possible to discover a theorem or formula for skipping directly over the pain of one's high-school years. This amazingly complex science-fiction film, a rollercoaster of invention from first-time director Richard Kelly, follows the travails of angsty teen Donnie Darko, a reluctant prophet who beliefs himself privy to knowledge of the f*ture – specifically an impending doomsday – and thus feels entitled to spend his remaining days fixing the world for the better. Donnie Darko has more to say about the horror film-scariness of being on the cusp of adulthood, and about the power of youth to shatter forever the outdated notions of their parents, than all of those 80s teen movies put together. see more on Donnie Darko


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I have a PAL console with D2CKey installed from 2 years ago. As far as I can google, there have not been any software updates released for the D2CKey so far.
I do not have HBC or any of the softmods installed.
I have unfortunately updated to Firmware 4.2 and have found that I can no longer play backups of my Metroid Prime Trilogy (PAL), Okami (PAL) and Muramasa (NTSC).
Is there any workaround for the situation or should I just sit tight and wait for a safe downgrader to be released for 4.2?
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Very interesting visit to Chateau de Cazeneuve, one of the top estateds in Pic St. Loup characterized by chalky limestone soils, lots of rain, and a high elevation which allows for good ripening yet high acidity. André Leenhardt, deeply restructures the estate vineyard and farm buildings in the 1990s.
Andre is a very generous man and spent a lot of time explaining the terroir and the vines. The tasting that followed reflected his disciplined approach to his wines — 80% red and 20% white.
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Ten to twenty percent of liver, by weight, usually is added to other cooked products to make liver sausage. Cook heads, tongues, skins, hearts, and other pieces. Remove from heat when the cuts can be boned. Then scald the livers. If you cut them deeply with a knife they will be sufficiently seared in about 10 minutes.
Grind all the cooked materials moderately fine and add about one- fifth soup by weight, using enough to make the soup mixture soft but not sloppy. Season to taste and mix thoroughly. The following are the standard quantities of seasons for 100 lbs. of mixture.
Liver Sausage
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- 2 to 4 ounces black pepper
- 1 to 3 ounces sage
- 1/4 to 1 ounce red pepper (if desired)
- 1 to 2 ounces allspice (if desired)
Stuff seasoned, well-mixed sausage in beef casing and simmer in water until it floats, and this generally takes about 10 to 30 minutes. After cooking, plunge the sausage into cold water, chill for at least 30 minutes, and hang up to drain. If the meat has cooked too much it will destroy the "live" texture of the finished sausage.Print Recipe
Help, I am not following this.
What type meats?
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How much of what liquid?
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Yeah, no clue as to what type of liver…chicken, beef, calves, goose, etc. Soup? Sounds like a good recipe-next time I plan on making 100# of Liver Sausage.


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A Palestinian was shot dead, and twenty five people were injured in clashes with Israeli troops in the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday evening, reported Al-Jazira TV Channel.
Mansur Sayed Ahmad, 22, was shot in the stomach with a live bullet after Palestinians tried to march on the Israeli-controlled Jewish enclave of the city, said AFP.
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Researchers at the North American Bear Center in Ely said Wednesday that they have found the cub that had been separated from her mother for a second time.
Researchers said in a Facebook update that Hope had been spotted but not yet captured. The update said the researchers were on their way to give Hope food and put her in a cage.
It's expected that they will then try to reunite Hope with her mother Lily for a second time.
Earlier Wednesday, researcher Lynn Rogers defended his decision to reunite Hope and Lily last week, five days after Lily had left Hope in a tree.
He said if researchers at the North American Bear Center in Ely had just let nature run its course they wouldn't have learned anything.
"We would have no idea why it died," Rogers said.
He said some have suggested mother bears abandon single cubs so they can go mate and try to have three cubs the next year. But Rogers said he doesn't believe Lily intentionally left her cub given the emotion she displayed when the two were reunited.
"It was such an outpouring of emotion for both mother and cub," he said.
The whole experience, starting with a live video stream of Hope's birth in the den, has had an impact on Rogers.
"It's such an emotional rollercoaster," he said. "You can't help but have feelings for these animals."
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First of all, I was surprised to see that the tin calls for one tablespoon of tea per 8 oz. water. When you are making a full pot of tea, that comes out to appreciably more leaf used than the standard one teaspoon per 5-6 oz. water. Since it was my first time trying this I decided to use their parameters.
The tea base has a little more bite than the Harney Vanilla Black base. I believe I taste some Assam in the base, as it is reminding of some of the tea bases I have had in flavored French teas. The vanilla smelled great when I opened the tin, but the taste is very subtle in the steeped tea. I need to experiment a bit, but right now Harney and Sons is superior to me. There is a lot more vanilla flavor if that is what you are after. If you want a subtle vanilla and more tea, this is a good bet.
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August 9, 2013
But he didn't throw the contract away or shred it. Instead, the 42-year-old from Voronezh, Russia, scanned it into his computer, altered the terms and sent it back to Tinkoff Credit Systems.
Mr Argarkov's version of the contract contained a 0pc interest rate, no fees and no credit limit. Every time the bank failed to comply with the rules, he would fine them 3m rubles (£58,716). If Tinkoff tried to cancel the contract, it would have to pay him 6m rubles.
Tinkoff apparently failed to read the amendments, signed the contract and sent Mr Argakov a credit card.


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Obama Got 'Black' at Morehouse But Didn't Speak the Truth
Wow, after five years of his loyal constituents supporting him and receiving nothing in return, it was nice to see President Obama address this year's all black male Morehouse College graduates. Obama even found his black vernacular as he always does before a black crowd, saying, "I know some of you are just graduating, thank you Lordy." As if all black people walk, talk, and think alike. Sickening and offensive.
Nevertheless, the last time Obama spoke to a historically black college or university was in 2007 at Howard University when he was trailing Hillary Clinton in the black vote for the Democrat presidential nomination. Can we say pandering?
Equally surprising during his Morehouse commencement address, Obama referred to himself "as a black man like you" something he rarely, if ever has done. Obama didn't refer to himself as a black man during his re-election campaign either. In fact, quite the opposite, as America's first black president he's largely made it a point of distancing himself from black America but ironically need black Americans vote each time to win.
In his first term Obama had no appetite for the problems facing black Americans even though over 95 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008 and 93 percent in 2012. The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), Obama's black voter water carriers, barely got one meeting with the president during his first term. According to the editor of the blog Crew of 42 and managing editor of Politic365, Obama has met with the CBC only three times since 2009.
In 2012, CBC Chairman Emmanuel Cleaver told the media that if Hillary had been president or any white person with the black jobless rate at 14 percent, "we'd be marching around the White House." Instead, the CBC gave Obama a break because he's black. And with this lousy record, Cleaver and CBC members told blacks to vote for Obama a second time and they did.
Obama is "black" when convenient. The president throws blacks a few bones during elections to keep them in his pocket, ignoring them the rest of the time and delivering them nothing for their loyalty. His Morehouse speech was a nice diversion for the mainstream media from the growing scandals (IRS, AP and Benghazi) in his administration.
But the speech amounted to dishonest, propagandistic rhetoric that glossed over the problems plaguing the black race, which have been hurt by liberal policies for the past 40 years. The historically black college located in Atlanta has a proud legacy of educating young black men like Martin Luther King Jr., many of whom went on to become leaders and successful men in life.
Obama told the young men they were "graduating into a job market that's improving." That's hardly true, of course, because the black jobless rate has remained twice as high as the national average since Obama took office. "If you think you can get over in this economy, just because you have a Morehouse degree, you are in for a rude awakening," continued Obama. This was closer to the truth.
As he has done on many other occasions, Obama vilified success. Even though he is a very rich man who sends his kids to private school, Obama told the Morehouse men don't aspire and worry about "making money" or paying off your student loans, "ask yourself if the only option is to defend the rich and powerful."
Obama mentioned many blacks live in "troubled neighborhoods across the country-many of them heavily African-American" with bad schools "where violence is pervasive." Rather than asking the Morehouse graduates to "set an example," numerous times throughout his speech Obama should have set an example himself and talked about how Black America is failing itself. He should have pointed out to these young men that the catastrophic problem facing blacks is our rejection of marriage.
Obama should have warned graduates 73 percent of black babies are born out of wedlock compared to 40 percent of whites and this is the direct cause of higher incarceration rates, lower high school graduation rates and the economic decline of blacks. He also should have mentioned the staggering statistic that 44,038 black children have been killed by guns since 1979, which is about 13 times more than blacks lynched over 86 years from 1882 to 1968, according to a Children's Defense Fund report.
Moreover, Obama also should have told the young black men, looking up to him as an example of success, that the only way blacks can truly help each other is by helping themselves first. Instead we heard Obama invoke the same, old broken record blacks must be the caretakers of other blacks. "If you know someone who isn't on point, go back and bring that brother along."
Why are blacks the only race constantly telling blacks they have an obligation to help each other along? No, blacks have an obligation to first help themselves along like any other race. Giving back should be something we all do but the Democrats' message to black America always seems to be someone will be there to help you along, peers or the government.
I'm glad Obama connected with his blackness at Morehouse but he wasn't honest in his speech. If Obama had been, it would have been an admission to the young black males at Morehouse that liberal policies have and are utterly failing black America.


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Acquiring Knowledge Within and Across Firm Boundaries: Evidence from Clinical Development
Considerable evidence suggests that information is acquired more easily within than across firm boundaries. I explore why this is observed in the setting of clinical development. Since the mid-1980s, pharmaceutical firms have partly contracted out the operational aspects of clinical trials to Contract Research Organizations (CROs). Using detailed project-level data for 53 firms, I document that even after controlling for a number of alternative explanations, knowledge-intensive projects are more likely to be assigned to internal teams, while data-intensive projects are more likely to be outsourced. The statistical exercise is complemented by in-depth interviews with six pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms. The qualitative evidence confirms that incentives for knowledge and data production are more easily kept in balance in the firm's own internal labor market than in that of its suppliers. Moreover, firms use relational contracts to ensure that their employees' incentives are both balanced and relatively high-powered.
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Hello world,
Is there any way to draw simple shapes like circle, ellipse, square, rectangle, etc. on Oxyplot,
without calculating data points for series.
Like in C# there are few direct methods to draw these shapes, is it possible in Oxyplot by directly giving appropriate parameters like radius, center of circle, etc.
Thanks in advance.
Use 'annotations' to draw content that should not be listed in the 'legend box'. There are implementations for rectangles and lines, but not ellipses. You could derive an "EllipsisAnnotation" in the same way as LineAnnotation - calculate the points and call
DrawClippedLine. IRenderContext does not support clipping of ellipses. I did not include clipping in IRenderContext to make it easier to port to different platforms...
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