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A Year After BP's Oil Spill, Congress Sits Idly By
By KATIE HOWELL of Greenwire
Published: April 15, 2011
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A year has passed since BP PLC's Macondo well exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 rig workers and launching the nation's worst oil spill -- and an all-encompassing environmental drama that played out for months as the oil industry and federal government struggled to contain the gusher.
But the heart-wrenching images of oil-slicked pelicans and the otherworldly videos of oil spewing from the seafloor largely seem to have faded from the minds of lawmakers on Capitol Hill. A year after the blowout, members of Congress have made little progress toward addressing the issues raised by the disaster.
The reasons for their lassitude are numerous.
Chief among them is the highly partisan environment on Capitol Hill, where a narrow Democratic majority in the Senate struggles to find common ground with the overwhelmingly Republican House.
"We haven't responded because of the general polarization that has affected us in the last few months," said Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairman Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.).
Also key is a shift in concern over offshore drilling safety, regulatory reform and coastal restoration to a closer-to-the-belt fear about the economic ramifications of escalating gasoline prices.
"It's not in the headlines anymore," said Rep. Joe Barton(R-Texas), the former ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee who infamously apologized to BP's then-CEO Tony Hayward last summer for having to endure what Barton characterized as a White House "shakedown."
Indeed, in the months since BP contained the gusher, a nuclear crisis in Japan and political unrest in the Middle East have sparked a rapid rise in crude oil prices, shifting the energy conversation from one disaster to another. And a resumption of deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico -- albeit slowly -- has dampened the urgency to pass a spill-response bill that would end the Obama administration's ban on offshore exploration, a GOP priority.
Still, the lack of progress on a congressional spill response is not sitting well with many in the environmental community.
"I don't think anybody in Congress has a legitimate excuse for the fact that they've done nothing to respond to the worst environmental disaster this nation has ever seen," said Regan Nelson, senior oceans advocate for the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Nor has it quelled the concerns of some of the staunchest environmental Democrats on Capitol Hill.
"We should have moved last year. We need a response," said Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), ranking member on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
History repeating itself?
But there is historical context for the delay. Congress waited a year and a half after the Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound in March 1989 before taking legislative action.
That spill happened at the beginning of the 101st Congress, when Democrats held the majority in both chambers.
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is different. The disaster occurred in an election year, and although the House was able to pass a Democrat-authored spill-response measure last summer, the Senate ran out of political steam to push a bill through in the weeks before the election or in the "lame duck" session last fall.
The House-passed measure (H.R. 3534 (pdf)), which incorporated Democratic language from three House committees, would have beefed up offshore worker and environmental safety standards, imposed new ethics standards on federal drilling regulators, created a restoration program to coordinate efforts to rehabilitate the Gulf of Mexico and created a new industry-funded endowment to protect oceans, among other provisions.
It also would have eliminated liability limits on companies drilling offshore, something most Republicans and oil-state Democrats are staunchly against because of the impact it could have on smaller and independent drillers. Despite GOP resistance to the liability language and other provisions -- 193 Republicans and oil-state Democrats voted against the measure -- the legislation was ultimately reported favorably. But talks quickly stalled in the Senate, where Democratic margins were smaller and resistance to the liability language from two moderate oil-state Democrats was too great to allow time for passage in the waning months of 2010.
The liability issue is complex and hearkens back to the legislation passed in response to the Exxon Valdez spill. Under that law, Congress capped oil companies' liability for economic damages related to a spill at $75 million. Oil companies are still responsible for paying the full cost of containing and cleaning up a spill.
At the Obama administration's prodding last summer -- the "shakedown" Barton referred to -- BP set up an independent $20 billion claims fund to pay for spill-related damages.
And even though BP agreed to pay for all the financial costs related to its spill -- such as fishermen put out of work or empty hotels at the beach at high season -- many Democrats in Congress watched in horror as the price tag of those damages escalated and called for a significant hike or complete elimination of the $75 million liability limit to protect coastal residents from a future spill where the companies involved might not have such deep coffers.
Republicans and the oil-state Democrats are not necessarily opposed to raising the cap. They just do not want to eliminate it outright. Doing so would shut out smaller producers and devastate an already battered coastal economy, they say.
"I think there's widespread consensus among Democrats and Republicans that the liability limit is too low, that it needs to be raised," said Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), one of the chief opponents of the unlimited liability language. "We want to do that in a way ... that keeps the industry as robust as possible between the large multinational companies and the smaller independent companies" (E&E Daily, Feb. 2).
Landrieu is working with Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) on liability compromise language that would raise the initial cap to $250 million after which an industry-funded insurance pool would kick in. But the lawmakers have been negotiating on language since last September, with new promises each week that a bill is forthcoming. They have not introduced a compromise measure yet.
Other Democrats -- and a lone Republican -- have introduced new measures in both the House and Senate that would eliminate the liability cap entirely.
House focus on drilling
But none shows promise of moving any time soon. Republicans in the House appear poised to take up measures that would instead accelerate domestic oil and gas production, and Senate Democratic leaders have struggled to pass even slightly controversial bills.
Indeed, the House Natural Resources Committee this week marked up three measures from Chairman Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) that would force lease sales in new areas and compel the Interior Department to speed up drilling permit processing, among other provisions.
Such a stance is garnering criticism from Democrats on and off the Hill, like Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, whose agency is responsible for overseeing offshore drilling.
"Much of the legislation I've seen bandied around, especially with the House Republicans, it's almost as if the Deepwater Horizon Macondo well incident never happened," Salazar told reporters earlier this week. "Some people seem to have gotten amnesia of Deepwater Horizon and the horrific BP spill. I don't have amnesia" (E&ENews PM, April 12).
Interior has taken great strides to boost its regulatory structure and offshore drilling safety in the months since the spill. The agency has imposed new, stricter permitting safety standards. And it has completely reorganized the beleaguered office that oversees offshore development.
But Hastings bristled at Salazar's remarks, saying one of his measures would strengthen drilling safety.
"The Gulf bill does two things that's not current in law: It puts in law the permitting process and it requires the secretary to do a safety review, cleanup review," Hastings told reporters in the Capitol this week. "Now those two are significant reforms in my vision."
Democrats have other reforms in mind.
"Here we are, one week removed from the first anniversary of the BP spill, and the Republican majority is marking up a trio of bills that will take us back to the days of rubber stamps and systemic failures," said Rep. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, the leading Democrat on the resources panel, in a statement earlier this week. "This legislative package reflects a pre-spill mentality of speed over safety."
Markey earlier this year introduced a new spill-response bill (H.R. 501 (pdf)) that largely mirrors the House-passed bill from last summer while incorporating some of the recommendations from the presidential commission tasked with investigating the causes of the disaster.
The seven-member commission issued its final report to the president in January, making a number of recommendations about how to improve offshore drilling safety and citing the BP incident as evidence of "systemic" problems within the industry.
But Republicans have bristled at that language and will likely ignore the commission's findings -- and Markey's prodding.
Specifically, Markey's bill includes the unlimited liability language and calls for a dedicated funding stream for the federal agencies overseeing the offshore drilling industry from user fees on the oil and gas industry.
Republicans and the oil industry have raised concerns about language in the bill that would impose new fees on the oil industry.
Legislation that imposes new fees "would not achieve the results that some of these members are trying to achieve. It would actually reduce investment, reduce revenues, harm jobs," said Eric Wohlschlegel, a spokesman for the American Petroleum Institute, the industry's main trade group.
Instead, he said the industry tends to sway toward Hastings' approach. "Policies that allow for more access will actually accomplish a lot of goals currently on Capitol Hill, which is create jobs, increase revenues and increase energy security."
Senate movement
On the Senate side, the Energy and Natural Resources Committee is prepping spill-response legislation that will likely look similar to the measure reported out of that committee last summer, with some inclusion of the presidential commission's recommendations. But the measure won't likely be as severe as Markey's measure. For one, the energy panel does not have jurisdiction over liability; the Environment and Public Works Committee does. And Bingaman is known for crafting legislation that can get bipartisan support from many of his panel's members, including Landrieu and Alaska Republican and oil-industry advocate Lisa Murkowski.
"One of the early bills will be a bill to ensure the Interior Department has the authority and resources they need to maintain proper regulation of oil and gas drilling on the outer continental shelf," Bingaman said. "I think the American people support that, and I think we'll have strong support again this year."
Bingaman said he generally supports moving production and safety legislation separately.
"I don't know why anyone in the Congress would not want to see us improve safety of drilling in the outer continental shelf," he said. "I think that there ought to be bipartisan agreement to do whatever legislation needs to be done to improve safety and offshore drilling, and separate from that, we should have a full debate about the extent of increased production we want, things we want to do to encourage more production."
Bingaman's approach could gain modest support from environmentalists, who would likely still want to see further action on drilling reform.
NRDC's Nelson called it "a great first step" and said she was looking forward to seeing the legislation.
Other measures she would like to see taken up include beefing up funding for the Interior agency that oversees offshore drilling, significantly raising the liability cap and sending a portion of the penalty money collected from BP for the spill to the Gulf region for coastal restoration work.
A rare area of consensus
The idea to use BP fines to pay for restoration of the coast has broad support among Republicans and Democrats both on and off Capitol Hill. The presidential panel called on the federal government to use 80 percent of the fines collected from BP for Clean Water Act violations to pay for coastal restoration in the Gulf. And Gulf Coast lawmakers are essentially unanimous in their support of such an idea.
Landrieu and Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) yesterday introduced legislation that would dedicate 80 percent of BP's penalty fees to coastal restoration in the states affected by the disaster.
Specifically, the measure would send 35 percent of the penalty money to the five Gulf Coast states -- Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and Texas -- affected by the spill to be used specifically for ecosystem restoration and to support the travel, tourism and seafood industries. The measure would use 60 percent of the penalty money to establish a federal-state council to direct coastal restoration. And 5 percent of the funds would be used to create a science and technology program focused on coastal restoration, protection and research to improve offshore energy development safety.
The Clean Water Act allows U.S. EPA to collect $1,100 to $4,300 per barrel of oil spilled. Based on current federal estimates of 4.9 million barrels spilled, BP could face fines of $5.4 billion to $21.1 billion. Under current law, that money would be paid to the federal government.
"This is a great opportunity for the nation to do right by the Gulf Coast," Landrieu said in a statement. "It's a great opportunity for the polluters to step up and do the right thing."
Rep. Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican, has also authored a measure in the House that would direct some of the funds to Gulf states. And according to Rep. Cedric Richmond, a Democrat from Louisiana, "everybody on the delegation is on board with the 80 percent."
"It's important to get it through now while you're talking about deficit and the debt. You don't want people to say 'Oh, here's this new pool of money, we should pay down the debt,'" Richmond said. "No, we should fix what was broken."
But despite strong support for such a measure from Gulf state lawmakers, House leaders with jurisdiction do not appear anxious to move such legislation.
"I don't want to act until all the information is in, and not all the information is in," Hastings told reporters earlier this week. He wants to wait until all the investigations of the disaster -- like the presidential commission's study -- are complete before moving any spill-response measures.
The joint Coast Guard and Interior Department board investigating the disaster recently pushed back the deadline for completing its inquiry until July.
But Hastings did not rule out all chances of movement on oil spill-response legislation this Congress.
"I want to get all the information," he said, "and we'll respond accordingly."
Reporter John McArdle contributed.
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Promoting Innovative Programs and Informed Parental Choice
Transition from High School to College
OCR continued its nationwide technical assistance initiative to help students with disabilities make the transition from high school to college, making presentations at a number of conferences around the country and hosting interactive group discussions for colleges, parents, students and high school guidance counselors. OCR conducted several "There Are No IEPs in College" workshops throughout the year and co-sponsored an international conference on transition.
Single-Sex Education
OCR published a "Notice of Proposed Rulemaking" in the Federal Register on March 9, 2004, that would amend the Title IX regulations to provide additional flexibility for school districts interested in providing single-sex classes and schools consistent with Title IX. The proposed amendments would establish new exceptions, for nonvocational schools at the elementary and secondary education level, to the general prohibition against single-sex classes and would establish new substantive and procedural requirements to ensure nondiscrimination in the operation of single-sex classes under these new exceptions. Also, under the proposed amendments, the requirements applicable to local education agencies that operate a single-sex nonvocational school would change in that they would be permitted to provide either a substantially equal single-sex or coeducational school, rather than be required to offer a single-sex school to students of the excluded sex.
Information for Parents and Recipients
OCR uses technology to deliver timely, accessible information to parents, students, teachers, and education decision makers and to improve access to OCR information appropriate to customer needs through its interactive, Web-based, contact information system (http://www.ed.gov/ocr). Approximately half of OCR's complaints are filed using the agency's online complaint form. The Department has made certain types of records, created on or after Nov. 1, 1996, available electronically on the Internet.
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2004 civil rights data is being collected through the Supplemental Survey Tool
Civil Rights Data Collection. The Supplemental Survey is primarily a Web-based
collection, and a large majority of school districts are now providing civil
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So what better to do on a boring bye week than share this video, of a Philadelphia Eagles fan who might just hate the Pittsburgh Steelers as much as any Ravens fan.
So, so much gold here.
Some highlights:
0:41: "I go on Google today, type in controversial calls and Pittsburgh Steelers, and 344,000 instances come up. This means there are 344,000 questionable calls with the Steelers."
1:10: "Just like always…all the refs are related to Rooney, they're gonna throw the game, they're gonna give it to the Steelers, and it's gonna be another phony win."
1:20: "[People from Pittsburgh] are up there swimming in that Monongahela River, taking showers in it, whatever the hell they're doing…the Philadelphia Eagles have classy fans, not like those low lifes that go to those Steelers games."
1:50: "This here is a picture of my ass. I don't want to show a live picture of my ass, because all the women will be stampeding here wanting to be with me."
2:35: "That city sucks. The Pirates suck, the Penguins suck."
3:00: "You get the sandwich, you put the french fries on the side. Only people that like fixed football games put french fries on sandwiches!"
That's some quality hate right there. You'd better step up your game, Goob Theoharris.


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CHICAGO, August 7, 2008--The American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) today announced results from a survey conducted by Harris Interactive highlighting communication between people with diabetes that require insulin injections and their healthcare providers. According to the survey results, 33 percent of respondents have experienced some level of dread relating to insulin injections (eight percent strongly agreed/25 percent somewhat agreed), 14 percent of individuals surveyed felt that the insulin injections had a negative impact on their life (three percent experience a major negative impact/11 percent experience a moderate negative impact) and more than 29 percent of individuals surveyed felt that injecting insulin was the hardest aspect of their diabetes care (eight percent strongly agree/21 percent somewhat agree). However, even though insulin injections had such an impact on these individuals, 52 percent do not proactively discuss their concerns regarding the physical and emotional aspects of injecting with their healthcare provider.
For a proportion of the individuals surveyed, 37 percent, this was due in part to a misconception that discussing these issues would be a bother to their healthcare provider. Yet, a corresponding survey of healthcare professionals (PCPs, endocrinologists and diabetes educators) paints a different story. Seventy-one percent of healthcare professionals are aware of the impact that insulin injections have on their patients' quality of life and 40 percent have initiated a dialogue in the past with their patients about these issues. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are 24 million people in the U.S. with diabetes, and more than six million of them take injections of some kind as part or all of their treatment. (1)
"There are millions of individuals living in the U.S. with diabetes that take injections." said Amparo Gonzalez, RN, BSN, CDE, president of the AADE. "When developing the survey we had two goals in mind, the first was to encourage patients to take a more proactive role in communicating with their healthcare team about their concerns regarding insulin injections. The second was to dispel the myth that healthcare providers were unaware of or were unwilling to address the quality of life issues surrounding insulin injections. It is our hope that the results from this survey accomplish both these goals and that patients and providers will begin talking regularly about these important issues. If we can improve the quality of life for 33 percent of people with diabetes who are insulin dependent, then we can be one step closer to lessening the impact of the disease on our patients' lives."
To reinforce the goals of the Injection Impact Report, and to continue to address the issues surrounding communication and barriers to patient adherence, the AADE created the Injection Impact Report Discussion Group comprised of a team of physicians, diabetes educators, patients and other healthcare providers whose mission is to heighten awareness of injection issues. In response to the results from the Injection Impact Report, the Discussion Group is developing tools for patients and healthcare providers to help foster increased communication around these issues.
"Diabetes is unique in that it requires significant commitment and adherence by the patient to keep it in control. If patients are not comfortable communicating issues related to their quality of life, over time they may adhere less and less to their regimen, putting them increasingly at risk for complications," said Davida Kruger, MSN, APN-BC,BC-ADM, diabetes nurse practitioner and member of the Injection Impact Report Discussion Group. "As this survey shows, a percentage of individuals living with diabetes and taking insulin are altering what they eat during the day to avoid injections or even skipping the injection entirely. Even if that only happens rarely, omission of insulin depending on the circumstance may have an impact on a patient's overall health and potentially leave them at risk for serious diabetes-related complications."
Diabetes educators are an excellent resource for answers concerning quality of life and day-to-day concerns with diabetes management. The Injection Impact Report Discussion Group wants patients to utilize their diabetes educator in dealing with any issues around injections, and also encourages physicians to work with diabetes educators in their practices to develop programs to aid patients in their diabetes management. By working together, patients, diabetes educators and physicians can improve these statistics and improve diabetes management and lives of people with diabetes.
"I am not surprised that many people with diabetes are not talking with the doctors or diabetes educators about their injections," said Debra Lofton, a member of the Injection Impact Report Discussion Group who takes insulin injections for her diabetes. "For years I skipped meals or injections to avoid the hassle and discomfort of taking them, but when it came to talking with my doctor about it, I did not speak up as much as I could have. When I did finally talk to my diabetes educator about my injections I learned there were other, less painful ways to manage my diabetes effectively. I am so happy I finally said something."
About the Injection Impact Report
The surveys were conducted online within the United States by Harris Interactive on behalf of the American Association of Diabetes Educators and Patton Medical Devices between June 12th and July 7th, 2008. The survey of people with diabetes included 502 people who inject insulin using a syringe or insulin pen to manage their diabetes. The survey of healthcare professionals included 301 healthcare professionals that treat people with diabetes that inject insulin, including 101 primary care physicians, 100 endocrinologists, and 100 diabetes educators. Physicians were recruited from the American Medical Association (AMA) physician list. Data from the patient and physician surveys were weighted as necessary to be representative of the respective populations. No estimates of theoretical sampling error can be calculated; a full methodology is available.
Questions were developed by an Injection Impact Report Discussion Group, consisting of diabetes educators, endocrinologists, primary care physicians and patients. For more information on the Injection Impact Report, visit www.injectionimpact.com.
About the American Association of Diabetes Educators
The American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) is a multi-disciplinary group of more than 12,000 members dedicated to advancing the practice of diabetes self-management training as an integral component of health care for persons with diabetes, and lifestyle management for the prevention of diabetes. For more information, visit www.diabeteseducator.org.
The Injection Impact Report was made possible by an educational grant from Patton Medical Devices. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Patton Medical Devices is committed to being the number one provider of medical devices and supplies for individuals living with diabetes by offering high quality patient-focused solutions and legendary customer service. For more information, visit www.pattonmd.com.
(1) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The National Diabetes Fact Sheet: United States, 2007. Available at: http://www.


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REAL ESTATE- ON THE BLOCK- Why so big? Green is as green does
ADDRESS: 606 Monticello Avenue
NEIGHBORHOOD: Belmont
ASSESSMENT: n/a new construction
SIZE: 2,648 fin. sq. ft./922 unfin.
LAND: 0.14 acres
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Since it's Earth Week and we have to stay on the eco train a little while longer, we trundled across town to take in a new "green"– literally and figuratively– house in Belmont for this week's column.
Of course it meets all the requirements for inclusion among the ranks of the anointed: here's a list of its environment-friendly attributes in no particular order: Hardiplank siding (no paint or maintenance needed for years); Superior Wall pre-cast panels (sorta like the ThermaSteel for foundations) with R-12 insulating properties; engineered lumber (pressed from strands and chips); pressure treatment of deck wood with borate instead of arsenic; soy-based spray foam insulation; sustainably produced red-oak hardwood floors; low-volatile organic compounds in paint and floor finishes; Marmoleum (a sort of non-allergenic linoleum) in bathroom and laundry room; and finally, high-efficiency heat pumps and EnergyStar-certified appliances.
Other genuflections before the throne of sustainability are evident in the choice of builder and in management of the site: Lithic Construction is a local company with impeccable credentials thanks to their help redoing (instead of demolishing) the Nimmo house on Hartman's Mill Road ["Demo dilemma: When is an old house worth saving?" OnArchitecture, December 6, 2007], and Louisa Bradford, the architect and owner, claims the location of the houses on the lot (there are two exactly alike) was determined by the desire to save three old trees.
Other elements touted among the house's green creds are rain barrels at the bottom of downspouts, mulch made from left-over construction debris, and ceiling fans to lessen reliance on AC.
And since it seems today's buyers are motivated by save-the-earth impulses more than ever before, these elements will no doubt appeal to a certain segment of the market. But there has to be more to buying a house than high-minded, earth-saving inclinations. Let's face it– a tent in the woods is about as energy-efficient and earth-friendly as it gets, but not many people are going that route. Lots of people want a spicy dressing on their greens.
Here, what passes for spicy dressing might be the 9' ceilings in a large basement that's been pre-approved for an "accessory apartment," which means it can be rented out as a separate unit (with the addition of kitchen, etc.) if the owner lives upstairs. Other flavorful tidbits might be the granite counters in the kitchen– long runs of them, around the sink and over a long divider between kitchen and breakfast area– or the cherry cabinets and shelves beneath them in the divider, a really nice touch and smart use of space.
But other things about the house give us pause. The owner says the decision to use frosted glass in windows in stairwells was for privacy, but it seems a shame to eliminate the chance to look outside. Likewise, roof design dictated that windows in the very generous, cathedral-ceiling attic (we don't see one of those everyday!) are far above eye level. That means that if this level is ever finished off for living, the pretty views of greenery in all directions will be wasted, as anyone sitting at a desk or lounging on a couch up there would be looking only at walls. The same is true in several of the rooms– the dining room/den off the kitchen, for instance, and in the bathrooms.
But the oddly placed windows and the always-grim plastic showers (in a $600,000+ house, unforgivable, in our opinion), pale in comparison to the placement of the laundry room right inside the front door. While pocket doors separate that room and a half bath beside it from the entryway, on the day we visited it was open, and the huge front-loading appliances were the first thing our eyes fell upon. Since this room shares a kitchen wall, it seems that it would have been a no-brainer to close the room off to the entry hall and open the doorway to the kitchen. That way, weary hosts could toss after-party tablecloths and napkins right into the washer while loading the energy-efficient dishwasher and lobbing empty bottles into the recycling bin.
Another problem is the size of the house. Does a "green" house have to be nearly 3,000 square feet? We saw some energy efficient places up on Carter's View off Ridge Street that made a little less to-do about their "greenness" but exemplified smart use of space with small rooms and appealing design (including tile showers).
An old cliché can be modified to apply here: green is as green does. It's nice to be Hardiplanked and mulched and rain-barreled to within an inch of your life, but some people would also like to be able to look out the windows and have to heat about 1/3 less space.
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Popular science journalist and author Jennifer Ouellette recently sat down with Princeton University Press author and theoretical astrophysicist Katherine Freese to discuss Freese's new book, The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter. The full hour-long interview is available for listening on Blog Talk Radio.
Katherine Freese is the George E. Uhlenbeck Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan and Director of Nordita, the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, in Stockholm. Her book traces the search for dark matter, from the discoveries of pioneers like Fritz Zwicky, who named dark matter in 1933, to today's astounding insights into the very composition of the universe. Jennifer Ouellette's books include Black Bodies and Quantum Cats: Tales from the Annals of Physics and Me, Myself, and Why: Searching for the Science of Self. She also writes the Cocktail Party Physics blog for Scientific American.
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I noticed when updating our Special Events Calendar that there's so much great stuff going on during the next two weeks, an upcoming events roundup was due.
Check out events calendar, let me know if there's anything else that you think should be listed there. (I'm not just saying this because I update it) It's a great place to find out about cooking classes, home tours, expos, seminars and design events, etc.
Metro Magazine Green Home Happy Hours
Hosted by Metro Magazine Wednesdays in May from 5:30-8, the Green Home Happy Hours give you a chance to eat and drink delicious (and free) refreshments while snooping around the gorgeous sustainable home in which its hosted that week.
I went last week and not only had a blast, but I learned a few green tips I can incorporate into my own home.
This year, for the price of one ticket, you have the unique opportunity to see two homes located just minutes from each other. Though the homes share the same essential locale and each has lake views that inspired 26 ASID designers, the two are distinct in many ways.
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I don't know if you've noticed, but Sherlock Holmes is all the rage these days. There's the amazing BBC series, the surprisingly not terrible American series, the movies starring Tony Stark, etc. It stands to reason, then, that the Holmes video game line would make a triumphant comeback, which is exactly what Frogwares has been making a reality these past couple of years. The latest iteration in the series is called Crimes & Punishments, according to a post from Frogwares' Olga Ryzhko, and it will allow players to solve six brand new mysteries by investigating crime scenes, questioning witnesses, piecing together clues and occasionally resorting to fisticuffs with the more unsavory suspects.
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Koers (Online) vol.74 n.3 Pretoria 2009
Die gebruik van refleksiewe fotografie om 'n skoolhoof se ervarings van die impak van professionele ontwikkeling te bestudeer: 'n Gevallestudie
G.M. Steyn
Department of Further Teacher Education, University of South Africa, Pretoria. E-mail: email@example.com
The changing social and economic environment has a direct impact on schools and theireffective management. School principals have to deal with issues hitherto unknown to them in historical school cultures. This article attempts to describe a South African principal's experience of the way in which professional development (PD) impacted on the development of the school and the way in which his PD - and that of his staff -manifests itself in the functioning of the school. An exploratory qualitative study employing visual ethnography was deemed appropriate for the study. Convenient and selective sampling was used in the study, identifying a school principal who proved to be an exemplar of a principal placing a high premium on his own continuing professional development and that of others. Data were collected by means of reflexive photography, the principal's writings and a photo-elicitation interview. The following categories emerged from the data: the commitment and attitude of the principal to professional development; the head start: receiving the inviting school award; be positive (B+); a focus on client service (doing more than is expected; the blue and orange card system for learners; and inculcating a value system); and what do we do differently?
Keywords: invitational education; professional development; reflexive photography; visual ethnography
Die veranderde sosiale en ekonomiese omgewing het 'n direkte impak op skole en die effektiewe bestuur daarvan. Vir skoolhoofde is dit nodig om onbekende kwessies te hanteer. Hierdie artikel poog om 'n Suid-Afrikaanse skoolhoof se ervarings van die wyse waarop professionele ontwikkeling die ontwikkeling van die skool en dié van personeel in die funksionering van die skool beïnvloed het, te bestudeer. 'n Verkennende, kwalitatiewe studie deur middel van visuele etnografie is vir die studie geskik gevind. Gerieflike en selektiewe steekproefneming is gedoen om 'n skoolhoof te identifiseer wat as voorbeeld kon dien van 'n skoolhoof wat 'n hoë premie plaas op sy/haar eie en ander se voortgesette professionele ontwikkeling. Data is deur middel van refleksiewe fotografie, die skoolhoof se skrywes, sowel as 'n foto-verduidelikende onderhoud ingesamel. Die volgende kategorieë het uit die data na vore gekom: 'n toegewyde en positiewe gesindheid van die skoolhoof teenoor professionele ontwikkeling; die voorsprong: ontvangs van die uitnodigende skooltoekenning; wees positief (B+); 'n fokus op kliëntediens (doen meer as wat verlang word; die blou-en-oranjekaartstelsel vir leerders; die vaslegging van waardes); en wat doen ons anders?
Kernbegrippe: professionele ontwikkeling; refleksiewe fotografie; uitnodigende onderwys; visuele etnografie
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