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1/4 cup chopped red onion
1/4 cup chopped carrot
1/2 red bell pepper, chopped
1/2 cup frozen peas
1 cup chopped bok choy
2 tablespoons olive oil
salt to taste if desired
Cut cauliflower from its thick stem and cut into medium size pieces. Grate into rice in a food processor in two batches, using the metal blade, not a grater disc. Heat olive oil in a large frying pan and add grated cauliflower. Cook on medium heat, covered for 4 minutes, then stir and add 1/3 cup water. Cook covered for 4 more minutes. Add more water if necessary to prevent sticking. Stir in the remaining vegetables and salt. Cook covered until the vegetables begin to soften, about 4 more minutes.
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This was sent to me by Ross McKitrick, a man who knows how to ruin an Englishman's afternoon with a single e-mail.
The Canadian Government, fresh from doubling its estimate of how much the Kyoto Protocol will cost the Canucks, and without a clue as to what to do about
crashing the Canadian economy mitigating the effects of future climate change, has sent these materials out to the proud educators of those lucky young Canadians of school age, in order to frighten them with a ludicrous extrapolation from only a few years's data, all the way to the year 2100.
Apparently there's some nice big posters to go on the walls and everything. Just in case the kids get too rowdy, they are to be put in front of it and told "this is your future unless you behave!"
That'll teach 'em. It's the climate science version of "tough love"
Yup. It's yet another reproduction of the same graph. Nobody appears to be using Moberg (2005) (too young?) or Esper (2002) (too Dutch?) or even Crowley (2000) (too invisible?), despite pleadings from realclimate. I could be wrong, but perhaps the reason they are not used, is that they are simply not scary enough.
Scary, in the sense that the Canadian government would have us believe that the current warming is more than happened during the MWP, the Roman Warm period and even the Holocene maximum! The projection of dramatic warming from wild extrapolation of the weak warming since the 1960s is a nice touch. The two graphs above aren't even consistent with each other, the upper one shows a temperature anomaly for the present of more than 2oC and the lower one less than 1oC.
Has someone in the Canadian government not been reading Scientific American recently? Someone should tell them that the Mann Hockey Stick does not recontruct the Medieval Warm Period or the Little Ice Age, and that simply writing those two events across the top of the graph does not make it so.

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Welcome to another episode of Return to the '80s! This episode is the first in a series of television theme songs. Robert and Paul each pick 5 sitcom theme songs, and discuss them. A special thanks goes out to Return to the '80s team member Sandy from Jersey for putting together these show notes. As usual, if you have any questions or comments about this episode, or anything '80s, we would love to hear from you! Our next episode will be about Ghostbusters. Let us know if you've seen the new Ghostbusters movie. Also, Ghostbusters II gets trashed alot. Are there any fans if that sequel out there to defend this film? You can email us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
– Talks of Ghostbusters: new one being released on video
Stranger Things
– Stranger Things coming out and how it's a mix of 80s movies.
– Talk of inconsistency of one of the songs in Stranger Things. (Late 80s)
– Talk if how great the kids were in the show.
– Talk of Matthew Modine in Stranger Things.
Bon Jovi
– Bon Jovi coming back out. Spoke about that. Played clip of "This House Is Not For Sale". Has 1.7 mil hits on YouTube.
80s Reboot Overdrive
– Spoke of Robert being a guest on 80's Reboot Overdrive podcast. And Paul was talked about on the podcast as well.
Remember That Song
– Remember that Song – Tina Marie got the answer to the question, which was "The Way It Is", sung by Bruce Hornsby.
– Plays song.
– Robert talks of how he saw him and Huey Lewis and the News in the same month
– Tim Cook also got song right.
– Reads note that Tim wrote.
– Robert gives a new Remember That Song. Can you name the artist and song:
Working in a factory eight days a week
Try to make dollar, damn what a beat
Cartoon capers happen in reality
Rich man, poor man, living in fantasy
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"Who was the producers original choice to play Alex P. Keaton on Family Ties.?" Answer was Matthew Broderick which was answered by Tina Marie.
– Matthew had to decline role because his father became ill.
– New trivia- Which 2 songs in the U.S., that were sung in German, were #1 and #2 songs.
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Main Topic – Sitcom Theme Songs
– Paul talks of old intro styles to TV shows and how he misses them, and misses opening credits.
– Covering sitcoms on this podcast, and the other categories will be split up.
Theme songs covered:
– ALF (great theme song)
– Growing Pains (a personal fave of mine) spoke of the show and how Leo and Matthew Perry were on it and how it was one of Paul's favorite shows (mine too).
– Charles in Charge – Version 1 and Version 2
– Gimme a Break
– Head of the Class – Paul talks of when he was in the Navy and Khrystyne Haje and the Pointer Sisters came on his ship during the Gulf War.
– Cheers
– Fresh Prince of Bel Air
– My Two Dads (one of my favorites)
– Talks about Red Oaks – the show that is on Netflix [But Paul remembered after recording this, that it is actually on Amazon).
– Night Court (another great show)
– Diff'rent Strokes – talks about how a reunion can't be because a lot of the characters have passed away.
Wrapping Up
– Ending – talks of covering more show tunes and speaks of Blu Ray coming out Tuesday for Ghostbusters.
– And speaks of the soundtracks.
– And rewatching Ghostbusters 2
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How to make Marg's Hazelnut Roll
If you want to see exactly how to make Marg's Hazelnut Roll. ..Anneliese and Lovella will show you how. It really is simple and quick!
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- AnonymousNovember 28, 2011 at 9:38 PM
Did she(the host) just say "Rog Loll" at the end?ReplyDelete
Looks delicious!
Log Roll looks wonderful and you two gals were just Great!ReplyDelete
You gals did a beautiful job! I laughed when Lovella threw Marg under the bus..."she was afraid to come." And Anneliese tosses in that Marg is raking leaves. Too cute! Hahahahaha...ReplyDelete
Hope that you have many visitors as a result of the interview.
- AnonymousNovember 29, 2011 at 7:26 AM
Well done Lovella & Anneliese! The pair of you, adorable :) Yet again, another beautiful gluten-free recipe in time for the holidays (thank you, Marg...)!ReplyDelete
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Nicely done ladies!!!ReplyDelete
Wonderfully done! You represented Marg's delicious recipe so well..it is a wonderful dessert!ReplyDelete
Looked so delicious and festive and not too hard to make. VReplyDelete
You girls did a great job...I'll definitely give this a try!ReplyDelete
Oh, and was just given the heads up about the book signing in Winkler. I will have to pop in and buy another gift...we have a beautiful new store here :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 1, 2011 at 9:03 PM
You both did a terrific job. You both looked very confident, I must say.ReplyDelete
This is my favorite recipe from your book!!! I am from Brazil, and love all of your recipes!! People here love them too!!ReplyDelete
- RyleighKaylensGrammaDecember 23, 2012 at 4:56 AM
I must make this for dessert Boxing Day! Hurray! Merry Christmas!ReplyDelete


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Grant availability subject to federal funding
Overview | Eligibility | How to Apply | Notification | Preservation Checklist | Sample Applications
The National Film Preservation Foundation invites applications for the spring round of its Basic Preservation Grants. These grants are awarded to nonprofit and public institutions for laboratory work to preserve culturally and historically significant film materials. The cash award ranges from $1,000 to $20,000.
- Registration Deadline: March 24, 2023
- Application Deadline: April 28, 2023
- Grant Period: August 2023 to October 2024
Grants are available to public and 501(c)3 nonprofit institutions in the United States that provide public access to their collections, including those that are part of federal, state or local government. The grants target orphan films (1) made in the United States or by American citizens abroad and (2) not protected by commercial interests. Materials originally created for television or video are not eligible, including works produced with funds from broadcast or cable television entities.
The grant must be used to pay for new laboratory work involving the creation of:
- New film preservation elements (which may include sound tracks) and
- Two new public access copies, one of which must be a film print.
- Closed captioning for sound films destined for online or television exhibition.
The funds can be applied only to work commissioned after the grant start date. Funds must be used exclusively for preservation expenses and may not be applied to staffing, operational, or shipping costs (with the special exception of nitrate materials).
How to Apply
- Identify film or footage collection to be preserved
- Register with the NFPF
- Complete a proposal with laboratory cost estimate
- Research significance
- Uniqueness of your archive's film copy
- How did your organization acquire the material?
- Thoroughly document and discuss the organizations, databases, and other resources consulted to confirm that your archive's copy represents the best surviving material. Demonstrate that the proposed work does not duplicate efforts by others in the public/nonprofit sector.
- For silent films, check your title against the most recent version of the FIAF Treasures from the Film Archives Database and include the results of your search.
- For independent documentaries and avant-garde works, indicate if you have contacted the filmmaker, the production company, or the filmmaker's heirs.
- Are rental or video copies of this film available through commercial distribution or video channels?
- Please describe any other steps you have taken to assure that you are working from the best available source material.
- Physical film description
- What is the length, gauge, and condition of the proposed film or collection?
- From what type of source material will your archive be working?
- Description of preservation work and cost estimate
- What laboratory work is requested? For sound films, indicate how you propose to preserve the sound.
- Provide a written estimate for the preservation work. Estimates should be obtained from laboratories specializing in film and sound preservation and be included with your proposal.
- As applicable, outline the preservation work already completed on the film or that would still need to be done after work funded by the grant. Please be specific; include the date of the original preservation work and condition of the original. If you have already received a grant or support for some aspect of the proposed project, describe and explain why additional resources are needed.
- If you are collaborating with another institution, include a letter from that institution briefly outlining its involvement with the project.
- Shipping costs
- Storage
- Access plans
- In addition to providing a viewing copy of the film for on-site research, how does your institution plan to make the film available to the public?
- Does your institution have permission to show this material for Internet viewing, and/or on-site public screenings at which no admission is charged? Be sure to indicate if there are any other relevant donor restrictions regarding public access to the proposed material. (These are important considerations, given the public access mission of the NFPF.)
- Describe plans for sharing the completed access copies outside of your institution. Do you plan exhibition loans or dissemination on video, television, or the Internet?
- If closed captioning support is requested, describe the broadcast and Internet venues through which the film will be shown.
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Identify materials in your collection that meet the criteria listed above and decide what laboratory work needs to be done. For guidance on planning a preservation project, please consult The Film Preservation Guide: The Basics for Archives, Libraries, and Museums.
E-mail the NFPF at firstname.lastname@example.com regarding your archive's interest in applying. Provide your name, institution, address, phone number, fax number, e-mail address, and a brief description of your project. The NFPF will then contact you to discuss your project.
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Write a proposal in the form of a letter (4 to 6 pages), with one laboratory estimate (NFPF grants do not cover administrative costs). Click here to view two sample proposals from previous grant projects. Applicants are also encouraged to provide digital still images or a video copy of the proposed project. Your letter should cover the following points and may include illustrations or tables as appropriate:
Provide a title and describe the subject matter of the film material in your proposal. Why is the material important for cultural, artistic, or historical study? If your material pertains to a particular region, locale, or culture, please explain how it is an example of broader national trends or is a significant illustration of your organization's cultural mandate. Please check Films Preserved Through the NFPF for examples of regional films funded in past years.
For footage collections or groups of films, discuss why the materials are important to preserve as a group. Does your institution hold complementary documents (personal papers, still photographs, sound recordings, ledger books, artifacts, etc.) that enhance the research value of the multimedia collection as a whole? If you are proposing to preserve selected reels or titles from a collection, describe your rationale for making the selection.
For more information on handling film, please consult The Film Preservation Guide: The Basics for Archives, Libraries, and Museums. These PDF files also include a Print Condition Report worksheet.
Shipping of nitrate film will be covered by the grant. Please include an estimate for this service. Organizations submitting proposals to preserve acetate film are responsible for all shipping costs.
Describe your archival storage facilities and provide their temperature and humidity levels. Confirm that any new preservation masters created through the project will be stored under archivally acceptable conditions. If your organization does not have an archivally acceptable storage area for film, please include your plans for off-site storage. For more information on recommended storage practices, please see Chapter 6 of The Film Preservation Guide and the Image Permanence Institute's website FilmCare.org.
Briefly summarize your institution's mission, collections, and public programs; include your website address and any brochures.
Nonprofits, list your institution's tax identification number; government/public sector archives, provide some record or a letter demonstrating that your institution is part of state, regional, or local government.
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The proposals will be read by NFPF staff and outside reviewers. Awards will be made by a grant panel serving on behalf of the NFPF Board of Directors.
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Obamacare a success so far? It's hard to say
ST. PAUL, Minn.After more than a week in action, is a key feature of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul a success or a bust? Judging by the dearth of data, it's virtually impossible to say.
The federal government has released no comprehensive data on how many people have enrolled for health insurance using federally run exchanges, the online marketplaces being used in 36 states for residents to compare and buy insurance. In the 14 states running their own exchanges, the situation isn't much better.
Officials with California's exchange say it will be mid-November until they can say how many people signed up. In Oregon and Colorado, the official number of completed applications is zero. And in Minnesota, which billed itself as a leader in implementing the Affordable Care Act, officials won't release data until next week about the number of applications started and completed.
As a result, a nation obsessed with keeping score to determine winners and losers is finding it difficult to pass immediate judgment on a law that will in large part define the president's legacy.
"Obamacare has a lot of cynics in this country, and it needs to get off to a better start than what we see so far if it's going to be a success," said Bob Laszewski, a Washington, D.C.-based health care industry consultant.
Laszewski suspects the lack of data conceals an extremely slow start thanks to widely reported technical problems.
MNsure, Minnesota's online insurance marketplace, reported more than 10,000 accounts had been initiated as of Thursday, said April Todd-Malmlov, the exchange's director. But enrollment figures won't be available until Wednesday. She said some users inadvertently submitted multiple applications that need to be consolidated.
Similar problems abound. Many states running their own exchanges haven't released initial enrollment data, and only a handful are providing a detailed picture of applicants and the plans they are choosing.
Oregon, another state that embraced the law, hasn't even opened enrollment because its software can't determine eligibility for Medicaid or for tax credits that help pay for insurance. Vermont's system is so buggy that officials are issuing paper applications, even though the thinly populated state received $171 million — among the largest amounts in federal grants — to run its exchange and upgrade technology.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which is overseeing the federally run exchanges, doesn't expect to release enrollment data until mid-November. But scattered reports from those states aren't encouraging. For example, Delaware had yet to confirm a single enrollment by Thursday, and many Florida groups designated to help people sign up say they still can't complete the enrollment process online.
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But industry insiders say the enrollment system is starting to work more smoothly.
"Going into this, (insurers) were expecting to see some challenges," said Karen Ignagni, head of America's Health Insurance Plans, according to the insurance industry's primary lobbying group. "What people are pleased about is they are seeing progress. … They would be more worried right now if they were not seeing progress."


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A kind of grown-up boy's own adventure. A gritty, urban, modern James Bond, without the sexy women, the hot gadgets, or Fleming's style. In fact without the panache, without the fast cars, and the big bad villain. Without any of the accessories that make Bond such a great character. So what do we have?
Former SAS Captain Will Jackson is a drunk, having left the regiment two years ago after the brutal murder of his wife and child in a terrorist attack. But Jackson is called in by MI5 for one last mission, to seek out Faisal Ahmed, a former CIA operative who has gone rogue and intends to target London in a massive terror attack. Jackson must put together a crack team to follow the only lead they have, to Afghanistan to attempt to save Ahmed's sister from the Taliban in the hope that she will lead them to him.
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Statins Have No Primary CVD Prevention Benefit To Older Patients
Statins offer no benefit for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in adult patients aged ≥65 y.
Why this matters
"[S]tatins may be producing untoward effects in the function or health of older adults that could offset any possible cardiovascular benefit," say the study authors.
Study design
Researchers conducted post hoc secondary data analyses of patient data from a randomized, open-label clinical trial (N=2867; age, ≥65 y; 49.4% women; all without evidence of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease); patients were assigned to either a treatment group receiving pravastatin sodium 40 mg/d or a usual care (UC) group.
Funding: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; AstraZeneca; Bristol-Myers Squibb; Pfizer; National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences; The Stroke Foundation.
Key results
Hazard ratios for all-cause mortality in the treatment group vs the UC group were Read the rest of this entry »


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We live in a world pervaded by objects of all kinds, yet nowhere do we have a unified theory or ontology of objects. Whether we are speaking of technological objects, natural objects, commodities, events, groups, animals, institutions, gods, or semiotic objects our historical moment, far from reducing the number of existing objects as alleged by reductive materialisms, has actually experienced a promiscuous proliferation and multiplication of objects of all sorts. Moreover, this proliferation has caused massive upheaval and transformation all throughout planetary, human, and collective life. Yet outside of a few marginal, yet elite, disciplines such as science and technology studies, the investigation of writing technologies, environmental theory and philosophy, media studies, as well as certain variants of feminism and geographical studies, this explosion of objects barely provokes thought or questioning, much less any sort of genuine or informed engagement at the level of praxis.
In light of this situation one is reminded of the epigraph to Heidegger's Being and Time:
'For manifestly you have long been aware of what you mean when you use the expression "being". We, however, who used to think we understood it, have no become perplexed.'
This epigraph could just as easily be rephrased substituting the word "object" for "being". Where before we thought we understood what it means to be an object, now we are perplexed. It is this perplexity that drives the questioning of object-oriented ontology.
1781: The Failure of Philosophy
If 1781 is a fateful watershed year for Western philosophy, then this is because it marks the publication of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and the devastating Copernican Revolution. Object-oriented ontology is not interested in Kant's specific epistemology per se— one would be hard put to find many genuine Kantians today –but with the form of the Copernican Revolution as it has persisted and undergone variations since the 18th century. For, in effect, the Copernican Revolution will reduce philosophical investigation to the interrogation of a single relation: the human-world gap. And indeed, in the reduction of philosophy to the interrogation of this single relation or gap, not only will there be excessive focus on how humans relate to the world to the detriment of anything else, but this interrogation will be profoundly asymmetrical. For the world or the object related to through the agency of the human will become a mere prop or vehicle for human cognition, language, and intentions without contributing anything of its own. The Copernican spirit will thus consist in an anthropocentric unilateralization of the human-world relation to the detriment of the world. World, objects, will now become simple products of human cognition and philosophy will become a transcendental anthropology that seeks to investigate the manner in which this cognition forms or produces objects.
Kant sums up this inversion and its spirit early in the Critique of Pure Reason:
Up to now it has been assumed that all our cognition must conform to the objects; but all attempts to find something about them a priori through concepts that would extend our cognition have, on this presupposition, come to nothing. Hence let us once try whether we do not get farther with the problems of metaphysics by assuming that the objects must conform to our cognition, which would agree better with the requested possibility of an a priori cognition of them, which is to establish something about objects before they are given to us. This would be just like the first thoughts of Copernicus, who, when he did not make good progress in the explanation of the celestial motions if he assumed that the entire celestial host revolves around the observer, tried to see if he might not have greater success if he made the observer revolve and left the stars at rest. (B xvi)
In beginning with the hypothesis that objects conform to mind rather than mind to objects, Kant who genuinely sought a secure grounding for knowledge and freedom from the endless debates of metaphysics, paradoxically rids us of the need to consult the world or objects. For as Kant himself observes, this shift or inversion allows us discern how it is possible for something to be given in advance. Yet if the world is given in advance, then there is no longer any need to consult the world or objects. Rather, philosophy, at this point, becomes self-reflexive, interrogating not being or the world, but interrogating rather the mind that regards the world. While the Copernican turn will not deny that there is a world independent of mind, it will nonetheless argue that this world, as it is in-itself, is forever beyond human knowledge precisely because the world, for-us is everywhere and always structured by our cognition. As such, philosophy will become an investigation of the mechanisms by which cognition structures the world. However, what will be lost will be the ability for the world to surprise us. And if the world no longer has the capacity to surprise us, then this is because the world already conforms to the structuring agency of our cognition. The rabbit has already been put into the hat.
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Through the Copernican Revolution, philosophy is rescued of the obligation to investigate the world and now becomes a self-reflexive investigation of how the human structures the world and objects. It is in this respect that philosophy becomes a transcendental anthropology and any discussion of the objects of the world becomes, ultimately, an anthropological investigation. For the object and the world are no longer a place where humans happen to dwell, but are rather mirrors of human structuring activity. It is this that Hegel will ultimately attempt to show in The Phenomenology of Spirit with his famous "identity of identity and difference" or "identity of substance and subject". If Hegel is able to show that the object, which appears to be so transcendent to and alien to the subject, is ultimately the subject, then this is because the object is already a reflection of the sense-bestowing activity of the subject.
Avatars of Copernicanism
It is the form of Kant's thesis, not its content that is important. Here, following Pauline Biblical criticism, we can distinguish between the letter and the spirit of Kant's thought. At the level of the letter we will find very few thinkers that accept the Kantian epistemology as developed in his three critiques. Before the ink is barely dry, disputes and competing proposals begin to emerge. What goes almost completely uncontested is the general spirit of the Copernican Turn, wherein the world is to be thought as conforming to the human, rather than the human to the world. Thus, nearly all the major trends of contemporary philosophy are direct descendants of the Kantian turn in one way or another. Whether the philosophy proposes the structuration of the world by language, the symbolic, the signifier, or signs, or whether it is proposed that the world is structured by social forces or power, the unquestioned thesis is that the world conforms to humans rather than humans to the world. In short, what we get is a universalized transcendental anthropology. The dispute is over the mechanisms by which structuration takes place and whether these mechanisms are universal and pertain to a "deep structure" as in the case of Kant, or whether these mechanisms are culturally and individually variable. In all cases, however, philosophy remains self-reflexive and absolved of the need to consult the world because the structures by which the world is given are already given in advance. To consult the world is to fall prey to an illusion where it is believed that these structures are "out there", when, in fact, it is we who impose these structures on the world.
It is precisely here that philosophy and theory loses its relevance. In a recent indictment of the humanities, Ian Bogost writes:
The problem is not the humanities as a discipline (who can blame a discipline?), the problem is its members. We are insufferable. We do not want change. We do not want centrality. We do not want to speak to nor interact with the world. We mistake the tiny pastures of private ideals with the megalopolis of real lives. We spin from our mouths retrograde dreams of the second coming of the nineteenth century whilst simultaneously dismissing out of our sphincters the far more earnest ambitions of the public at large—religion, economy, family, craft, science.
While there are certainly psychological motives to this indifference about the world (the desire for a comfortable mastery granted by the armchair and the self-reflexive turn), this indifference to the world is already a structural effect of the core assumption that has guided philosophy, theory, and the humanities since 1781: The thesis that the world conforms to the human, rather than the human to the world. Insofar as the world conforms to the human there is no need to speak of the world because the world, as Kant suggested, is always-already given in advance.
The Copernican Turn has generated genuine advances in our understanding of social phenomena of all kinds. These insights and discoveries should be retained in some form. However, the anti-realist turn has foreclosed the possibility of asking all sorts of vital questions. Within the framework of the anti-realist turn it is impossible to ask vital questions about technology, the environment, social structure, political thought, etc., precisely because the world is treated as being given in advance and is resulting from the agency of human structuring activity. With its obsessive focus on the human-world relation or gap, it becomes impossible to investigate networks of objects because objects are reduced to that which is posited by human beings. As a consequence, philosophy, theory, and the humanities become entirely irrelevant. An alternative is required that both retains the insights and discoveries of the Copernican Turn, while escaping from this excessive focus on the human-world gap. This alternative first requires a fourth blow to human narcissism, where man is dethroned from his position of centrality in the order of being and situated in his proper place as one being among others, no more or less important than these others.


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New discovery is key to understanding neutrino transformations
A new discovery provides a crucial key to understanding how neutrinos – ghostly particles with multiple personalities – change identity and may help shed light on why matter exists in the universe.
In an announcement today (Thursday, March 8), members of the large international Daya Bay collaboration reported the last of three measurements that describe how the three types, or flavors, of neutrinos blend with one another, providing an explanation for their spooky morphing from one flavor to another, a phenomenon called neutrino oscillation.
The measurement makes possible new experiments that may help explain why the present universe is filled mostly with matter, and not equal parts of matter and antimatter that would have annihilated each other to leave behind nothing but energy. One theory is that a process shortly after the birth of the universe led to the asymmetry, but a necessary condition for this is the violation of charge-parity (or CP) symmetry. If neutrinos and their antimatter equivalent, antineutrinos, oscillate differently, this could provide the explanation.
"The result is very exciting, because it essentially allows us to compare neutrino and antineutrino oscillations in the future and see how different they are and hopefully have an answer to the question, Why do we exist?" said Kam-Biu Luk, a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). Luk is co-spokesperson of the experiment and heads the U.S. participation in this collaboration.
Researchers knew that if the observed third kind of oscillation were zero or near zero, it would make further study of matter-antimatter asymmetry difficult.
"This is a new type of neutrino oscillation, and it is surprisingly large," said Yifang Wang of China's Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), who is the co-spokesperson and Chinese project manager of the Daya Bay experiment. "Our precise measurement will complete the understanding of the neutrino oscillation and pave the way for the future understanding of matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe."
"Berkeley has played a key role since day one in the Daya Bay experiment, one of the biggest experimental particle physics collaborations ever between the U.S. and China," said Graham Fleming, UC Berkeley vice chancellor for research. "The large value of the mixing angle theta one-three from this experiment enables a very broad program of fundamental new physics including the proposed Long Baseline Neutrino experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota."
The researchers have submitted a paper describing their results to the journal Physical Review Letters.
Using antineutrinos from Chinese nuclear reactors
The results come from the Daya Bay Reactor Antineutrino Experiment in Guangdong Province, China, near Hong Kong, which is a joint collaboration between scientists in the United States, China, the Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Russia and Taiwan. The U.S. institutions include UC Berkeley and LBNL, as well as Brookhaven National Laboratory, the University of Wisconsin and Caltech.
Nuclear power reactors at Daya Bay emit one kind or flavor of antineutrino – electron antineutrinos – that are identified in the six underground detectors. These detectors contain a liquid scintillator loaded with the element gadolinium. When the electron antineutrinos interact in the liquid, a blue glow is emitted.
Because some of the antineutrinos emitted by the reactors change flavor as they travel, the flux of electron antineutrinos measured in the detectors 1.7 kilometers from the reactor is less than the flux coming directly from the reactor and measured in the nearby detectors that are about 500 meters away. The deficit allowed scientists to determine the value of the so-called mixing angle (theta one-three, or θ13), the last to be measured of three mixing angles needed to interpret neutrinos' flavor-changing behavior.
"Although we're still two detectors shy of the complete experimental design, we've had extraordinary success in detecting the number of electron antineutrinos that disappear as they travel from the reactors to the detectors nearly two kilometers away," Luk said.
Neutrinos interact so weakly with other types of matter that they can pass through Earth as if it were not there. Once thought to be fairly boring, with zero mass and always traveling at the speed of light, neutrinos have proved to be a major challenge to the Standard Model of particle physics. Experiments over the past two decades showed that neutrinos do have mass and change their identity as they oscillate between three flavors: electron, muon and tau.
Neutrinos' shifting personalities require them to have at least some mass – probably less than one-millionth that of an electron – because that is what causes their strange identity problem. Each flavor of neutrino is a mixture of three different masses that fluctuate with time. Just as a white light composed of red, green and blue shifts its tint as the proportions of each color change, so the type of a neutrino changes as the proportions of the masses oscillate.
"Once a neutrino starts to propagate in space, it's very hard to tell what its identity is until we remeasure it," as in the Baya Day experiment, Luk said.
Three numbers, called mixing angles, are part of the equations that describe these oscillations. The largest two were measured earlier in similar experiments – including the KamLand collaboration, in which UC Berkeley and LBNL were active participants – but with detectors set hundreds of kilometers from the neutrino source. The oscillation period associated with the third mixing angle was expected to be so small that a much shorter baseline experiment was needed, hence the Daya Bay collaboration. The six power reactors at Daya Bay and nearby Ling Ao yield millions of quadrillions of electron antineutrinos every second, of which the six detectors recorded tens of thousands between Dec. 24, 2011, and Feb. 17, 2012.
Daya Bay will complete the installation of the remaining two detectors this summer to obtain more data about neutrino oscillations. As a result, Daya Bay will continue to have an interaction rate higher than three competing experiments in France, South Korea and Japan , making it "the leading theta one-three experiment in the world," said William Edwards, a specialist in the physics department at UC Berkeley and LBNL and the U.S. project and operations manager for the Daya Bay experiment.


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I was designated dessert for our family Christmas Eve dinner. Sugar cookies weren't going to work, and my mom was "cheesecaked out," which vetoed my first idea.
After scouring one of my beloved Pinterest dessert boards, my husband and I came up with the idea for these Christmas Pizookies. (If you don't know what a pizookie is, here is my original pizookie post.) They are a chocolate cookie base with peppermint and white chocolate chips, topped with peppermint ice cream.
Pizookies – recipe adapted from foodnetwork.com
1 cup sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
2 sticks butter (1 cup)
2 eggs
2 tbsp vanilla
2 1/4 cup flour
1/2 cup cocoa
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 cup white chocolate chips
1 cup peppermint chips (like these)
1. Beat butter and sugars. Add eggs and vanilla.
2. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa, salt, and baking soda. Slowly add to wet mixture.
3. Stir in chips by hand.
4. Let dough chill for at least 2 hours.
5. Press dough into ramekins or shallow dishes.
6. Bake at 325* for 20-30 minutes, checking every couple minutes for doneness. You want them to be dry looking but not necessarily all the way baked through.
7. Top with a scoop of peppermint ice cream while still warm.
I ended up being crazy busy when it came time to put these together, so my husband got everything ready per me calling out directions and measurements. He did a great job!
Hope you love these as much as we did. 🙂


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37 Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, research centers etc.
- 37.2 International Science Programme (ISP)
- 37.3 Upptech
- 37.3 Tandem Laboratory
The above list features centers at the Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology with their own staff. At most centers, staff responsibility remains at the department. All research centers at the Faculty of Science and Technology are listed at www.teknat.uu.se/research-centers/


text: I attended a fairly interesting forensic science session at SimStat 2019 in Salzburg as it concentrated on evidence and measures of evidence rather than on strict applications of Bayesian methodology to forensic problems. Even though American administrations like the FBI or various police departments were involved. It was a highly coherent session and I had a pleasant discussion with some of the speakers after the session. For instance, my friend Alicia Carriquiry presented an approach to determined from images of bullets whether or not they have been fired from the same gun, leading to an interesting case for a point null hypothesis where the point null makes complete sense. The work has been published in Annals of Applied Statistics and is used in practice. The second talk by Danica Ommen on fiducial forensics on IED, asking whether or not copper wires used in the bombs are the same, which is another point null illustration. Which also set an interesting questioning on the dependence of the alternative prior on the distribution of material chosen as it is supposed to cover all possible origins for the disputed item. But more interestingly this talk launched into a discussion of making decision based on finite samplers and unknown parameters, not that specific to forensics, with a definitely surprising representation of the Bayes factor as an expected likelihood ratio which made me first reminiscent of Aitkin's (1991) infamous posterior likelihood (!) before it dawned on me this was a form of bridge sampling identity where the likelihood ratio only involved parameters common to both models, making it an expression well-defined under both models. This identity could be generalised to the general case by considering a ratio of integrated likelihoods, the extreme case being the ratio equal to the Bayes factor itself. The following two talks by Larry Tang and Christopher Saunders were also focused on the likelihood ratio and their statistical estimates, debating the coherence of using a score function and presenting a functional ABC algorithm where the prior is a Dirichlet (functional) prior. Thus a definitely relevant session from a Bayesian perspective!


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Haunted hotels set Halloween scene
Forget the haunted house. Those looking for a ghostly encounter this Halloween can get up close and personal with departed spirits from the luxury of a hotel room. These hotels across the country allegedly have observable poltergeist activity – so prepare for some chills and thrills on your next overnight stay.
The Biltmore Coral Gables, Miami
Originally opened as a playground for the rich in 1926, the Biltmore Coral Gables is not only luxurious and elegant, but is also believed to be quite haunted. The (unlucky) 13th floor served as a speakeasy during Prohibition, when the hotel saw its first premature death: Gangster Thomas "Fatty" Walsh was shot and killed at a crowded party. Years later, the U.S. government bought the hotel and converted it into a hospital for World War II soldiers, where it saw countless more untimely passings. After being abandoned for several decades, the Biltmore re-opened in the 1980s as a hotel, and ever since then guests have experienced unexplained noises and visions. The most chilling reports, however, come from those who get dropped off by the elevator on the 13th floor, even when that button is never pushed.
Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Los Angeles
Marilyn Monroe (one of many celebrities to stay at the Roosevelt) posed for her first ad on the hotel's diving board (long gone, though the pool remains). The ghost of Monroe is said to have appeared in a mirror that once hung in her poolside suite (the suite can be rented, but the mirror is no longer displayed). Montgomery Clift's ghost apparently haunts the hotel as well, pacing back and forth on the ninth floor.
Omni Parker House, Boston
You can't walk two feet without stumbling over some historical artifact or the site of a ghostly encounter at the Parker. With gentle prodding, guest services manager Seamus Murphy, who's worked for the hotel for over 30 years, will regale guests with tales of the 19th-century whiskey salesman's ghost who lives in the closet of room 303 and plants booze-soaked kisses on slumbering female guests.
Algonquin Hotel, New York City
A 181-room Midtown West landmark where The New Yorker magazine was founded, the Algonquin uses old-world style, tuxedo-clad waiters and an in-house cat to attract quiet couples, business travelers and the occasional Nobel laureate these days. But back in the day, it hosted members of the infamous Round Table, the 1920s literary group with members such as Dorothy Parker and Alexander Woollcott — and some would argue it still does. Numerous guests and staffers have reported seeing Round Table members roaming the dining room and lobby, and a psychic medium confirmed the presence of spirits in the hotel.
The Marshall House, Savannah, Ga.
Opened in 1851 — and standing as the oldest hotel in Savannah — the Marshall House has had its fair share of unexplained phenomena. Also used as a hospital in between stints as a hotel, the Marshall House witnessed thousands of deaths throughout the Civil War and two yellow fever epidemics. The property was renovated and re-opened as a hotel in 1999, but old haunts lingered: Many guests report strange noises and the feeling of cold hands around their wrists, as if nurses are taking their temperatures. The hotel embraces its mysterious energy and even urges guests to take haunted walking tours of the city, where the Marshall House is one of the most popular stops along the route.
Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C.
The Ghost Suite was originally occupied by the wealthy Henry Doherty -- a minority shareholder of the hotel -- and his wife after the hotel opened in 1930. The family's live-in housekeeper, and later the Doherty's adopted daughter, both died mysteriously in the suite, and allegedly haunt it to this day. Televisions and lights have apparently turned on suddenly in the middle of the night, housekeeping carts have been moved, and numerous complaints of noise from unoccupied rooms have been reported.
Jailhouse Inn, Rhode Island
Originally built in 1772, the Jailhouse Inn occupies what used to be the old Newport County Jail. In keeping with the jail theme, the inn features interesting little artifacts and details throughout, such as iron bars over the lobby front desk, framed articles about famous criminals, and signs directing guests to "solitary" and various "cell blocks." Stories abound of ghosts visiting the Jailhouse, so if you keep your eyes open perhaps you'll see one too — especially if you stay on the third floor. Guests have felt cool gusts of wind when it's hot outside and no windows are open, and others have heard whispering voices that can't be explained.
Bourbon Orleans Hotel, New Orleans
The Bourbon Orleans in the Big Easy has a colorful history. Originally built as a ballroom and theater, the Bourbon was converted into a convent in the late 1800s, with areas of the building serving as a girls' school, a medical ward and an orphanage. Many guests have noted the sounds of the children and adult females throughout the hallways, including a young girl who likes to roll a ball down the hall on the sixth floor. Guests have also reported seeing ghostly visions of nuns.
The Hay-Adams, Washington, D.C.
The Hay-Adams was built in 1927, for the not-too-modest sum of $900,000, over the former homes of best friends John Hay (Abraham Lincoln's private secretary and later a secretary of state) and Henry Adams (the author and descendant of John and John Quincy). Supposedly, the ghost of Adams' wife, who committed suicide on this site in 1885, still walks the halls, trailed by the scent of mimosa.
Oyster.com comprehensively visits, photographs, reviews and rates each hotel we feature.


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VIRGINIA WATER, England — Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia don't like each other, and they're making no effort to disguise their feelings.
The verbal feuding began May 11 during the third round of The Players Championship. It resumed this week on both sides of the Atlantic when Woods offered a one-word answer if he thought about contacting Garcia to put the matter to rest.
"No," he replied with a tight smile.
Garcia fired back at a sponsor function outside London.
"He called me a whiner. That's probably right," he told reporters. "It's also probably the first thing he's told you guys that's true in 15 years. I know what he is like. You guys are finding out."
Garcia tried to tone down the barbs Tuesday at the BMW Championship when asked about the spat.
"I can't like everybody and there's people that you connect with and there's people that you don't," Garcia said at Wentworth. "He doesn't need me in his life, I don't need him in mine and let's move on and keep doing what we're doing. There's never really been a true connection I would have with maybe Luke (Donald) or Adam Scott or some of the other guys that I get along with well.
"I think we should kind of move on and forget — well, it will be difficult to forget — but kind of move on about what happened."
Disputes among golfers are nothing new, though it's rare for two high-profile players to go at each other through the media.
The animosity between them goes as far back as 2000, when Garcia beat Woods in the Monday night exhibition "Battle at Bighorn" and celebrated as if he had won something much more important. Two years later in the U.S. Open at Bethpage Black, where Woods won wire-to-wire, Garcia complained that the second round should have been halted because of rain and that "if Tiger Woods would have been out there, it would have been called."
The latest chapter took place on the second fairway at the TPC Sawgrass in the third round, when Garcia had a one-shot lead. He was preparing to play his second shot on the par 5 from the fairway when he was disrupted by cheers from the gallery around Woods deep in the trees. Woods was about 50 yards away and couldn't see the Spaniard. The crowd burst into cheers when Woods took a 5-wood from his bag to play a risky shot through a gap in the trees.
During a storm delay, Garcia suggested in a TV interview that Woods could have kept the crowd from cheering if he had been paying closer attention. Later that evening, Woods said he understood from marshals that Garcia had already hit.
"Not real surprising that he's complaining about something," Woods added, which only fired up the Spaniard.
Garcia said the next day to Sky Sports, "He's not the nicest guy on tour."
Woods wound up winning The Players Championship, improving his record to 6-0 when he plays with Garcia in the final group on the weekend.
Woods was at media day Monday for the AT&T National, where he is the defending champion, when he received the final question about Garcia and gave the one-word answer. Garcia offered a more detailed response when asked in England if he would ever call Woods.
"First of all, I don't have his number," Garcia said. "And secondly, I did nothing wrong and don't have anything to say to him. And he wouldn't pick up the phone, anyway."
Garcia conceded their dislike for each other has been "going on for a long time."
"The problem is, I'm one of the guys that has to say something," Garcia said. "A lot of people think about it, but don't want to say anything. He can and will beat me a lot of times, but is not going to step on me. I'm not afraid of him."
Woods has competed against more than 50 players in match play since 1997, though he has never played Garcia. The Spaniard was asked he would like to face Woods in the Ryder Cup next year at Gleneagles.
"It's great, and it is what it is, and it doesn't mean I cannot play with him," Garcia replied. "It's just another player — obviously, a good player. It's just when I'm playing with someone I enjoy, there's a bit more talking going around, and you're playing with someone that you don't fancy as much, you're just a little bit quiet."
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She's a race fan for life, 92 and counting
Dot Romig was a teenager when she went to the fairgrounds in Pennsylvania on a school trip and first heard the roar of race cars practicing on a dirt track.
She was more interested in the cars than the animals and quilts at the fair. She couldn't help herself — she was hooked.
She returned often with a couple of girlfriends, but her friends were more interested in socializing.
"They would go get a soda or hot dog. I'd tell them 'Do what you want to do. I'm watching the races,' " the Port Orange retiree recalled. "I just liked the speed and watching them pass one another. It was a lot of dirt and noisy. The cars didn't have roofs and they were one-seater cars."
It's been a lifelong love affair. Romig, who turns 93 in July, knows everything there is to know about NASCAR, from what type of car someone drives to whether a driver is married, having a baby or was recently in a spat with another driver.
She watches a race on television every weekend, from Nationwide to the Truck Series, she isn't picky. Her family — including a daughter, three grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren — know not to call her during a race.
"She watches 'General Hospital' and the races. You don't make a phone call to her because she doesn't answer during those two times," said her daughter, Fay Zook, 71. "I'm a (NASCAR) fan, but not as big of a fan as she is."
Romig is something of a rarity. Women make up a little more than one-third of the sport's fan base, according to NASCAR, and only 16 percent of the sport's fans are older than 65. Romig has only grown more attached to the sport with age.
While she likes all the drivers, she has a soft spot for her favorite — Dale Earnhardt Jr. — after being a longtime fan of his father, whom she called "the greatest driver there ever was."
A shelf in her living room is lined with several Matchbox replicas of cars driven by Dale Sr. and Dale Jr. plus a bobblehead doll of Dale Jr., with a pencil sketching of him in another room.
"I think he's a very nice guy and he's a good driver," Romig said. "He tries so hard and then he seems to have motor problems or gets damages to his car. He just has bad luck."
Romig, who did payroll and quality control work, got more into racing when she and her friend, the late Earl Rishell, retired in 1990 to Port Orange. She prefers watching races on television because she can see more of what is happening than in the stands.
Watching the 2001 race on television, and learning of Dale Sr.'s death, was the hardest. A sticker in her kitchen displays the No. 3 sign with wings.
"It was a shock," Romig said. "When you follow a driver through all these years and you see him get hurt and taken to the hospital and then they announce he died — it affects you."
Romig has passed along her love of racing to her family. Her granddaughter Cheri Pfisterer, 50, of Charlotte, N.C., has come to Daytona Beach with her husband, Herman, to watch the races since the late 1990s. Romig often sends her newspaper clippings of stories about drivers.
"She lives for it," Pfisterer said. "She absolutely loves it. All day long, she'll watch anything with NASCAR."
Romig doesn't hold back when she talks about changes she's seen, like the tandem racing. She's glad the design of the new Generation 6 style of car will make it harder to race bumper to bumper.
"That I hated. It is not racing. It's just pushing," she said of tandem racing. "It didn't make sense. They didn't push their partner. It was just whoever was in front of them. I didn't care for that at all."
As far as seeing Danica Patrick become the first woman to win a Sprint Cup pole, Romig said, "She worked hard for it. She was very good in the Indy races." She'd like to see more women in racing: "They are just as well qualified as some of the men."
And just as qualified, Romig might add, to be diehard fans.


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Dan Aykroyd as Julia Child.
Not much different from Streep's vocal impersonation.
I don't know. I like all the actors and I found the DVD at Target for the price of a small coke at the theater, so I thought, 'Why not - TV sucks anyway.' It's a women's film, isn't it. Damn! Fooled again.
I was so bored I almost started to blog instead of watching it. Haha! The film is about a blogger hitting the big time. [She went to Patheos! Kidding.] Anyway, I have to say this is Meryl Streep's worst film ever, and based on her over the top vocal impersonation of Julia Child in the film, I am so not going to watch her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher.
Anyway. J & J is about a woman and her blog. The story did help me to understand why people add a Pay Pal app to their blogs, and confirmed for me that blogging is not only sort of a 'job' we invent for ourselves, it is indeed an exercise in narcissism as well... The fight between Julie and her more than understanding hubby proves my point. Of course, at one time or another in writing about ourselves and what we think - online - we all want to be famous and have a film done on our lives - lives which have become blogs. But like the film - they're pretty boring - our lives/blogs, I mean.


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"I also had the idea that some day the Institute might render useful service to this country by carrying out research in the history of Indian science." - Homi Bhabha, 1962.
At the Archives of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), every attempt is being made to pursue, in spirit, this particular aspect of the founder's vision.
The TIFR Archives is therefore, not only a repository of institutional records but also the storehouse of resources for reconstructing the historical setting within which one of India's premier science institutions was founded. The holdings of the TIFR Archives include manuscript collections, photographs, oral histories and print and audiovisual material, and a small collection of scientific instruments that were built at the Institute. Researchers will find here a wealth of resources for the history of science in India.
The TIFR Archives was set up with an initial corpus grant from the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust. Today the TIFR Archives is fully supported by The Tata Education Trust.
The TIFR Archives has preserved and documented the history of the institute. The Archives also serves an academic function and provides support to the emerging discipline of history of science. The Archives has been consulted by national and international scholars.
The idea of a separate Archives for TIFR was proposed in 1995-96 during the Institute's golden jubilee celebrations. The collection process began in 2002 which has grown over the years.


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Rural Development helps to invest more than $30 billion to strengthen rural America
WASHINGTON, January 9, 2013 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today issued a report highlighting USDA Rural Development's fiscal year (FY) 2012 investments in job creation, businesses, infrastructure and housing for Americans living in rural communities across the nation.
"President Obama's plan for rural America has brought about historic investment in rural communities that have made them stronger," Vilsack said. "Thanks to our loan, grant and technical assistance programs, USDA Rural Development is helping residents and rural enterprises thrive, and we are laying a strong foundation for rural America's future."
With an active portfolio of more than $176 billion in loans and loan guarantees, Rural Development has provided affordable housing, improved utility infrastructure, and helped businesses and cooperatives create jobs, build rural economies and increase the quality of life in rural areas. For a full copy of the 2012 Progress Report, go to ( http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/Reports/RDProgressReport2012Feb2013.pdf ).
For example, in 2012, nearly 64,000 rural residents received new or better access to broadband Internet service. Under the Rural Utilities Program, Rural Development provided approximately $4.7 billion in electric loans, $173 million in telecommunications loans and grants, and $1.4 billion in water and waste disposal loan and grants.
Through its Community Facilities loan and grant program, Rural Development provided more than $8.6 million to construct or improve 48 rural libraries, and provided more than $888 million in assistance for 243 projects to improve the delivery of health care for rural Americans. All told, Rural Development provided more than $1.5 billion in community facilities loans and grants to develop or improve essential facilities like these in rural areas.
In addition to the efforts to support education and health care, another key aspect of the Community Facilities program is the ability to support emergency responders. For example, Rural Development provided $387,000 to Madison, Fla., for an aerial ladder truck for fire protection. Over the years, prior to receiving assistance from USDA Rural Development, a number of Madison's local businesses and other buildings were destroyed by fires because the city lacked equipment that could fight fires in multi-story structures.
Rural Development is also the lead agency ensuring that rural families have access to safe, well-built, affordable homes. In 2012, Rural Development helped 7,940 families with low- incomes obtain safe, affordable homes, providing approximately $900.9 million in single-family direct subsidized loans. Under the single-family guaranteed loan program, Rural Development helped more than 145,100 moderate-income families purchase single-family homes. More than 7,000 rural individuals or families were able to repair their homes under the home repair loan and grant program.
In 2012, USDA Rural Development assisted more than 270,000 low- and very-low-income families, who were able to live in safe, multi-family housing thanks to $904.7 million in rental assistance to bring their rents to an affordable level.
Rural Development also helped approximately 1,700 families move into new apartment units through $122.6 million for low-income rental housing development, $104.3 million in guaranteed loans for moderate-income rental housing development, and $5.5 million for multi-family housing for farm workers and their families.
Through Rural Development's business and cooperative loan, grant and technical assistance programs, the agency helped about 9,700 rural small business owners or farmers improve their enterprises in 2012. Business and cooperative program funding created or saved more than 53,000 rural jobs in 2012. Rural Development provided slightly more than $1 billion in Business and Industry loan guarantees, $25.5 million in Rural Business Enterprise grants, $50.3 million in Rural Economic Development loans and grants, $17.5 million in Intermediary Relending Program loans, and $40.4 million in Value Added Producer Grants in 2012.
For example, Vermont's Brattleboro Food Co-op leveraged a $4.2 million Rural Development Business and Industry guaranteed loan to raise more than $1 million from co-op members to expand its retail store in Brattleboro, make it more energy-efficient and strengthen the co-op's long-term viability. The co-op started in 1975 as a small buying club that has since grown into a natural foods market serving 5,000 members.
The co-op's new, energy-efficient 33,840-square-foot building — almost twice the size of the original store — is an anchor business in downtown Brattleboro. The larger store will add market capacity for about 200 local farmers and food producers who supply the co-op with products. The cutting-edge, environmentally friendly building will even use recycled waste heat generated from the store's refrigeration equipment to heat water for the facility. The co-op expansion supports more than 100 high-quality local jobs.
For additional information on Rural Development projects, please visit Rural Development's new interactive web map featuring program funding and success stories for the past four fiscal years. The data can be found at: http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/RDSuccessStories.html.
President Obama's plan for rural America has brought about historic investment and resulted in stronger rural communities. Under the President's leadership, these investments in housing, community facilities, businesses and infrastructure have empowered rural America to continue leading the way – strengthening America's economy, small towns and rural communities. USDA's investments in rural communities support the rural way of life that stands as the backbone of our American values. President Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack are committed to a smarter use of Federal resources to foster sustainable economic prosperity and ensure the government is a strong partner for businesses, entrepreneurs and working families in rural communities.
USDA, through its Rural Development mission area, has an active portfolio of more than $176 billion in loans and loan guarantees. These programs are designed to improve the economic stability of rural communities, businesses, residents, farmers and ranchers and improve the quality of life in rural America.
USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. To file a complaint of discrimination, write: USDA, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, Office of Adjudication, 1400 Independence Ave., SW, Washington, DC 20250-9410 or call (866) 632-9992 (Toll-free Customer Service), (800) 877-8339 (Local or Federal relay), (866) 377-8642 (Relay voice users).


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WASHINGTON DC, USA – US President Donald Trump recognized the disputed city of Jerusalem as Israel's capital Wednesday, December 6, prompting an almost universal diplomatic backlash and fears of new bloodshed in the Middle East.
Trump's defiant move, making good on a core campaign pledge, ended 7 decades of US ambiguity on the status of the Holy City vociferously claimed by Israelis and Palestinians.
America's leader appeared further isolated, as allies and foes alike denounced his decision and Palestinians questioned whether their dream of statehood, as part of a peace deal brokered by Washington, was still possible.
But the US president claimed this marked the start of a "new approach" to solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"Israel is a sovereign nation with the right like every other sovereign nation to determine its own capital," Trump declared from the White House.
"It is time to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel," he said, urging calm and "the voices of tolerance to prevail over the purveyors of hate."
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said Trump's "deplorable and unacceptable" move signified America's withdrawal as a sponsor of the peace process.
Hamas – the Palestinian Islamist movement that runs the Gaza Strip – warned Trump had opened "the gates of hell on US interests in the region."
And although welcomed by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a "courageous and just decision," Trump's move left many angry US allies struggling to find a measured response – and hoping that the tinderbox region is not destined for yet another round of bloodletting.
Through gritted teeth, Britain described the move as "unhelpful" and France as "regrettable." Germany said plainly that it "does not support" Trump's decision.
Eight countries including Britain, France and Italy pressed for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council in response to the move, diplomats said.
The leaders of Muslim nations meanwhile deployed ever-harsher rhetoric to describe Trump's decision, dashing any hope of a muted response that would help avoid inflaming passions.
Turkey and Iran – both vying for regional influence – tried to give voice to the anger felt by many across the Muslim world.
Turkey called the decision "irresponsible" and illegal. Iran said it would "provoke Muslims and inflame a new intifada."
Diplomatic fallout
Making the announcement, Trump also kicked off the process of moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
In doing so he begins to make good on a campaign promise dear to evangelical Christian and right wing Jewish voters – as well as donors.
Trump's predecessors – from Bill Clinton to George Bush – had made the same promise, but quickly reneged upon taking office and assuming responsibility for war and peace.
The 45th US president was determined to show his arrival in Washington spells the end of business as usual, suggesting his predecessors failed to act though lack of "courage."
Moving the embassy will probably take years to implement, but the repercussions of Trump's decision preceded even his announcement.
Hundreds of Palestinians burned US and Israeli flags as well as pictures of Trump in the Gaza Strip, while relatively small clashes erupted near the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron.
The Palestine Liberation Organization announced a strike across the West Bank Thursday, while Hamas called for a "day of rage" on Friday.
US government officials and their families were ordered to avoid Jerusalem's Old City and the West Bank, though the situation remained largely calm up until Trump's address.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, on a visit to Germany, said the United States had "implemented robust security plans to protect the safety of Americans in affected regions."
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for a summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the main pan-Islamic body, in Istanbul next week to display joint action over Jerusalem.
Jordan and the Palestinians also requested an emergency meeting of the Arab League.
Peace still possible, US says
Most of the international community does not formally recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, insisting the issue can only be resolved in negotiations – a point reiterated by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in the wake of Trump's decision.
Guterres implicitly criticized Trump, stressing his opposition to "any unilateral measures that would jeopardize the prospect of peace."
Trump insisted the move did not prejudge final talks, saying it simply reflected the reality that west Jerusalem is and will continue to be part of Israel under any settlement.
"This is nothing more or less than a recognition of reality. It is also the right thing to do," Trump said.
"Peace is never beyond the grasp of those willing to reach it," said the US leader, who declared that "this decision is not intended in any way to reflect a departure from our strong commitment to facilitate a lasting peace."
"The United States would support a two-state solution if agreed to by both sides," Trump said, as he announced that Vice President Mike Pence would travel to the region in the coming days.
Trump further stated that the United States was not taking a position on any "final status issues, including the specific boundaries of the Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem, or the resolution of contested borders."
"Those questions are up to the parties involved."
Israel seized the largely Arab eastern sector of Jerusalem during the 1967 Six-Day War and later annexed it, claiming both sides of the city as its capital.
The Palestinians want the eastern sector as the capital of their future state.
Several peace plans have unravelled in the past decades over the issue of how to divide sovereignty or oversee holy sites in Jerusalem. – Rappler.com
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Our Virtual Global Village and Lifeline
It takes a virtual global village for words to become a worthy poem. Ours extended from Australia, Nova Scotia and Montreal, Canada, to Southern California and the San Francisco Bay Area — our mentors and Publisher — besides our scattered band of poets.
We must also mention the broader world's contribution: almost all of our poems started from on-line writing prompts — especially Poetic Asides PAD Challenges (Poem A Day) in April and November 2009, and the April Haiku Challenges at Forward Motion. How they ended up were very different, but that spark and the need to write daily (or as close as we could come to it), shoved our inner critics away and we wrote.
Each of us also worked with local critique groups, who helped hone our words, thoughts, and shared their reactions. Each poem is stronger for that lifeline. One of mine in particular, written when my brother was dying, led to an hour-long discussion with my local group, and several rewrites on my part. So, thank you "P-42" for being there for me, and Scott at Tsunami Bookstore, for hosting not only this poetry group, but all the other community events to support local artists, writers, and musicians. I did my first Open Mic at Tsunami, with an encouraging crowd.
We all applied these insights as we worked with each other. One of the best things a colleague said about one of my poems was that part of it didn't make sense. After I got over the initial shock, I realized I was too close to it to see what was wrong. That one is not only stronger for the criticism, but is much closer to what I intended to write.
Over the next few months, we will share what we've learned about critique groups (on-line and in-person), tips for setting schedules, levels of review, how to ask for what you want in a review, how to give and receive feedback, how we've provided each other with encouragement and strategic kicks when needed, and how to work towards goals.
We have many other topics planned, since we come from such diverse backgrounds and interests. We hope you enjoy meeting us, will join in the discussion as we all grow, and encourage you to find your voice and courage to try, just as we did, and are still doing.
We're very excited that our collaboration has led to this beautiful book, Lifelines, which is now available at Amazon.com (see sidebar). We're working on ideas to include our local bookstores, too.
If you read our book, we'd love to have you post a review on Amazon.com, and to send us a copy for our blog. Thank you!


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I have recently been messing around with Python, creating some little "security projects." In this video, I talk about the three reasons why you should learn python for cybersecurity, when you should learn, and which resources you should use to learn. Description of each reason below
Why should I learn Python?
Reason #1: It's relatively easy
Reason #2: Modules and Extensive Library Access
Reason #3: Automation & Versatility
When should I learn Python?
Whenever you have the time to learn. Set aside a few hours to learn the python basics and then move on to some "security-focused" projects after touching the basics. Make sure to complete any project before you learn python. Give the fundamentals your full attention.
Where should I learn Python?
For the python basics, I recommend looking up "free python 3 learning resources" and choosing one resource to learn from. Finish this resource until you are complete and then you can move into the cybersecurity projects. For security, I recommend two resources which are linked below.
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When installing Machine Learning Services in SQL Server by default few Python Packages are installed. In this article, we will have a look on how to get those installed python package information.
When we choose Python as Machine Learning Service during installation, the following packages are installed in SQL Server,
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This course will give you a full introduction into all of the core concepts in python. Follow along with the videos and you'll be a python programmer in no time!
⭐ Contents ⭐
⌨ (0:00) Introduction
⌨ (1:45) Installing Python & PyCharm
⌨ (6:40) Setup & Hello World
⌨ (10:23) Drawing a Shape
⌨ (15:06) Variables & Data Types
⌨ (27:03) Working With Strings
⌨ (38:18) Working With Numbers
⌨ (48:26) Getting Input From Users
⌨ (52:37) Building a Basic Calculator
⌨ (58:27) Mad Libs Game
⌨ (1:03:10) Lists
⌨ (1:10:44) List Functions
⌨ (1:18:57) Tuples
⌨ (1:24:15) Functions
⌨ (1:34:11) Return Statement
⌨ (1:40:06) If Statements
⌨ (1:54:07) If Statements & Comparisons
⌨ (2:00:37) Building a better Calculator
⌨ (2:07:17) Dictionaries
⌨ (2:14:13) While Loop
⌨ (2:20:21) Building a Guessing Game
⌨ (2:32:44) For Loops
⌨ (2:41:20) Exponent Function
⌨ (2:47:13) 2D Lists & Nested Loops
⌨ (2:52:41) Building a Translator
⌨ (3:00:18) Comments
⌨ (3:04:17) Try / Except
⌨ (3:12:41) Reading Files
⌨ (3:21:26) Writing to Files
⌨ (3:28:13) Modules & Pip
⌨ (3:43:56) Classes & Objects
⌨ (3:57:37) Building a Multiple Choice Quiz
⌨ (4:08:28) Object Functions
⌨ (4:12:37) Inheritance
⌨ (4:20:43) Python Interpreter
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No programming language is pretty much as diverse as Python. It enables building cutting edge applications effortlessly. Developers are as yet investigating the full capability of end-to-end Python development services in various areas.
By areas, we mean FinTech, HealthTech, InsureTech, Cybersecurity, and that's just the beginning. These are New Economy areas, and Python has the ability to serve every one of them. The vast majority of them require massive computational abilities. Python's code is dynamic and powerful - equipped for taking care of the heavy traffic and substantial algorithmic capacities.
Programming advancement is multidimensional today. Endeavor programming requires an intelligent application with AI and ML capacities. Shopper based applications require information examination to convey a superior client experience. Netflix, Trello, and Amazon are genuine instances of such applications. Python assists with building them effortlessly.
Python can do such numerous things that developers can't discover enough reasons to admire it. Python application development isn't restricted to web and enterprise applications. It is exceptionally adaptable and superb for a wide range of uses.
Robust frameworks
Python is known for its tools and frameworks. There's a structure for everything. Django is helpful for building web applications, venture applications, logical applications, and mathematical processing. Flask is another web improvement framework with no conditions.
Web2Py, CherryPy, and Falcon offer incredible capabilities to customize Python development services. A large portion of them are open-source frameworks that allow quick turn of events.
Simple to read and compose
Python has an improved sentence structure - one that is like the English language. New engineers for Python can undoubtedly understand where they stand in the development process. The simplicity of composing allows quick application building.
The motivation behind building Python, as said by its maker Guido Van Rossum, was to empower even beginner engineers to comprehend the programming language. The simple coding likewise permits developers to roll out speedy improvements without getting confused by pointless subtleties.
Utilized by the best
Alright - Python isn't simply one more programming language. It should have something, which is the reason the business giants use it. Furthermore, that too for different purposes. Developers at Google use Python to assemble framework organization systems, parallel information pusher, code audit, testing and QA, and substantially more. Netflix utilizes Python web development services for its recommendation algorithm and media player.
Massive community support
Python has a steadily developing community that offers enormous help. From amateurs to specialists, there's everybody. There are a lot of instructional exercises, documentation, and guides accessible for Python web development solutions.
Today, numerous universities start with Python, adding to the quantity of individuals in the community. Frequently, Python designers team up on various tasks and help each other with algorithmic, utilitarian, and application critical thinking.
Progressive applications
Python is the greatest supporter of data science, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence at any enterprise software development company. Its utilization cases in cutting edge applications are the most compelling motivation for its prosperity. Python is the second most well known tool after R for data analytics.
The simplicity of getting sorted out, overseeing, and visualizing information through unique libraries makes it ideal for data based applications. TensorFlow for neural networks and OpenCV for computer vision are two of Python's most well known use cases for Machine learning applications.
Thinking about the advances in programming and innovation, Python is a YES for an assorted scope of utilizations. Game development, web application development services, GUI advancement, ML and AI improvement, Enterprise and customer applications - every one of them uses Python to its full potential.
The disadvantages of Python web improvement arrangements are regularly disregarded by developers and organizations because of the advantages it gives. They focus on quality over speed and performance over blunders. That is the reason it's a good idea to utilize Python for building the applications of the future.
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Python is awesome, it's one of the easiest languages with simple and intuitive syntax but wait, have you ever thought that there might ways to write your python code simpler?
In this tutorial, you're going to learn a variety of Python tricks that you can use to write your Python code in a more readable and efficient way like a pro.
Swapping value in Python
Instead of creating a temporary variable to hold the value of the one while swapping, you can do this instead
>>> FirstName = "kalebu"
>>> LastName = "Jordan"
>>> FirstName, LastName = LastName, FirstName
>>> print(FirstName, LastName)
('Jordan', 'kalebu')
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Today you're going to learn how to use Python programming in a way that can ultimately save a lot of space on your drive by removing all the duplicates.
In many situations you may find yourself having duplicates files on your disk and but when it comes to tracking and checking them manually it can tedious.
Heres a solution
Instead of tracking throughout your disk to see if there is a duplicate, you can automate the process using coding, by writing a program to recursively track through the disk and remove all the found duplicates and that's what this article is about.
But How do we do it?
If we were to read the whole file and then compare it to the rest of the files recursively through the given directory it will take a very long time, then how do we do it?
The answer is hashing, with hashing can generate a given string of letters and numbers which act as the identity of a given file and if we find any other file with the same identity we gonna delete it.
There's a variety of hashing algorithms out there such as
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