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Olof Schybergson is passionate about elegant simplicity and its power to solve challenges, big or small. As CEO of Fjord, Design and Innovation from Accenture Interactive, Olof is responsible for driving Fjord's global design vision and direction. Olof has worked in digital design for over 20 years.
A pioneer and a visionary in creating breakthrough digital experiences, Olof continues to drive creativity and innovation at Fjord, always with an eye towards the future of the industry. @olof_s


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Not sure if this is worth a separate post, but sins I haven't wrote here for months and months… here it goes :)
So here at CG chanel.com I have read that the softimages development team, which worked on a product for more then 10 years was moved to work on maya related projects. A new team of developers was assigned for Softimage. "Softimage development will now be carried out by a six-person team in Singapore, headed up by Senior Software Development Manager Chun-Pong Yu." Strange thing is that I didn't found any news on this on area or at xsi base pages… Is it a rumor? Anyone?
Also read about death of Softimage nr 1.

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John F. Larson, Jr., FPSA, MPSA·
Closing Dates: The normal closing dates will be the end of February, May, August and November.
Dates may vary due to availability of judges. Please check the website https://psa-photo.org/pjd/pjq/index.htm for the most up to date information.
There are two groups, one for the less experienced (two stars or less) and the second group for the more experienced (more than two stars) group. Each group has an Open and a Themed category. That means each person will have the opportunity to enter up to eight new images: four in the Open and four in the Themed category for the quarter.
» Photojournalism Definition
Photojournalism entries should be images with informative content and emotional impact, reflecting the human presence in our world. The journalistic (story-telling) value of the image shall receive priority over pictorial quality. In the interest of credibility, images that misrepresent the truth, such as those from events or activities specifically arranged for photography or of subjects directed or hired for photography, are not eligible.
Techniques that add, relocate, replace or remove any element of the original image, except by cropping, are not permitted. The only allowable modifications are removal of dust, scratches or digital noise, restoration of the existing appearance of the original scene, sharpening that is not obvious, and conversion to greyscale monochrome. Derivations, including infrared, are not eligible. All images must look natural.
Human Interest Definition
Human Interest images depict a person or persons in an interactive, emotional, or unusual situation, excluding recreational or sports action.
Further guidance can be found on the Photojournalism Division pages.
In order to help promote new work, this activity is for images that have never been accepted into a PSA-recognized exhibition.
» PJD Quarterly Competition - Entry rules: document | Prepare and size electronic file images: document
This competition allows direct entry into the judging website.
If there is no Model Release available, the image may win but cannot be published. For those who do not have a Model Release, Sample Model Release Form - doc - interactive pdf - both of these forms can be filled out and saved on a mobile or desktop device.


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Scout activities and Home Solutions column
Cub Scouts enjoy weekend of activities
Cub Scout Pack 447, sponsored by Deep Run Free Will Baptist Church, recently enjoyed the Rain-gutter Regatta/Family Campout at Neuseway Park.
The event was hosted by the Boy Scouts of America East Carolina Council. A large group of scouts enjoyed camping and scout activities all weekend.
Home Solutions: Fall prevention in the home
Millions of people every year are injured from falls at home that could have been prevented. Nearly 6,000 are killed. That makes falls at home the leading cause of home injury and injury-related death in the U.S. That�s pretty scary. What�s even scarier is that only 25 percent of homeowners take any action at all to make their homes free of trip and fall hazards.
The most vulnerable family members are children younger than 5 and older adults. To help raise awareness of trip and fall hazards, the Home Safety Council is encouraging families to follow a few simple safety steps to protect against falls at home.
All stairs and steps should be protected with a secure banister or handrail on each side that extends the full length of the stairs.
Make sure all porches, hallways and stairwells are well lit with a bright light at the top and bottom of stairs. Use the maximum safe wattage in light fixtures.
Use nightlights to help light hallways, stairwells and bathrooms during night-time hours.
Keep stairs, steps landings and all floors clear. Reduce clutter and safely tuck away telephone and electrical cords out of walkways.
Use safety gates at the tops and bottoms of stairs to prevent falls. For the top of stairs, gates that screw to the wall are more secure than pressure gates.
In homes with children, make sure toys and games are not left on steps or landings.
Do not allow children to play on stairs, balconies or landings.
Use a non-slip mat or install adhesive safety strips or decals in bathtubs and showers to prevent falls. If you use a bath mat on the floor, choose one that has a non-skid bottom.
Install grab bars in bath and shower stalls. Do not use towel racks or wall-mounted soap dishes as grab bars; they can easily come loose, causing a fall.
Keep the floor clean and dry. Promptly clean up grease, water and other spills.
If you use throw rugs in the bathroom or anywhere in your home, place them over a rug-liner or choose rugs with non-skid backs to reduce your chance of slipping on this very common trip and fall hazard.
Source: mysafehome.org
Trudy W. Pickett is extension family and consumer agent at the Lenoir County Cooperative Extension Office, 1791 N.C. 11/55. Reach her at 252-527-2191 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Juliet is the founder and executive producer/host of Celeb Secrets and Celeb Secrets Country. When not reporting on the latest news in pop culture and country music, she enjoys traveling, spending time with friends and family, and exploring the latest fashion trends.
Juliet holds a B.S. in marketing from St. John's University.
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Junior Fitwise
£13.50 a month direct debit or £135.00 a year one off payment
Our monthly Fitwise junior direct debit membership is great value for 13 to 16 year olds (up until end of school year 11). Our Fitwise junior membership package includes:
- Supervised use of Fitness suite (includes term and holiday times listed below
- FREE Junior Exercise Classes
- FREE exercise classes labelled as 'suitable for junior members' on our class timetable when accompanied by a participating parent/care
Memberships must be set up using a parent or carer's bank details. Juniors can use the fitness suite during specific supervised sessions (listed below). Junior members may use the fitness suite at any time when accompanied by an adult with a full fitness membership. Each junior member will receive an induction which will show them how to use the equipment safely and correctly.
Supervised gym sessions:
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The junior membership has no contract or joining fee. We offer a complimentary induction and regular supervision to monitor and assist them in achieving their goals.
Juniors can make use of the Fitness Suite on a Pay As You Train basis for £3.75 per session, after completion of an induction for £8.50.
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Curly Sue
5.9 IMDb
1991 • Dramakomedie • 102 min
Bill (James Belushi) is a penniless drifter who scams strangers out of just enough money to feed himself and his partner in crime, an orphan girl known as Curly Sue (Alisan Porter). Bill and Curly Sue target Grey (Kelly Lynch), a yuppie lawyer, but their con takes an unexpected turn when the successful woman begins to like the ramshackle duo. She decides to take the girl in and falls in love with Bill, but there's one problem -- Grey's jealous, conniving boyfriend, Walker (John Getz).
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James Belushi
Bill Dancer
Kelly Lynch
Grey Ellison
Alisan Porter
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Most women can wait three to five years between Pap tests to screen for cervical cancer, according to guidelines released by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG).
The latest recommendation, which appeared in Obstetrics and Gynecology and is in line with earlier sets of recommendations, marks a further shift away from annual Pap testing, which was once the standard advice.
Now ACOG and the other groups say most women aged 21 to 29 should have a Pap test no more than every three years.
For women ages 30 to 65, the best option is to have a Pap test, along with a test for human papillomavirus (HPV), every five years. Otherwise, a Pap test alone every three years is "acceptable."
"Women can feel very comfortable with this," said David Chelmow, who heads obstetrics and gynecology at Virginia Commonwealth University and led the development of the ACOG guidelines. "The bottom line is, this is enough."
Cervical cancer is caused by long-term infection with certain types of HPV, a virus that causes warts, including genital warts. But there are over 100 strains of HPV, only some linked to cervical cancer.
The Pap test is done to look for abnormalities in cervical cells that may or may not become cancer. The HPV test helps refine things by showing whether a woman has a strain linked to cervical cancer.
But women younger than 30 should not have the HPV test, Cherlmow said. That's because women that age commonly carry the virus, but for a relatively short time before the immune system wipes it out. So testing young women would largely catch short-lived HPV infections that would not contribute to cancer later.
All the new guidelines, Chelmow noted, are aimed at giving women and doctors clearer direction on how often to do cervical cancer screening - and avoid over-testing.
There is now a vaccine against HPV, and women who have gotten it may wonder if they need cervical cancer screening.
The answer is yes, Chelmow said. "They should follow the same screening recommendations as everyone else."
The American Cancer Society estimates that about 12,200 U.S. women will be diagnosed with cervical cancer this year, and 4,200 will die from the disease.
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NEODyS provides information and services for all Near Earth Asteroids. Each NEA has its own dynamically generated home page providing information and services, and a search facility puts the information in easy reach.
Starting from 1 September 2011 NEODyS is sponsored by ESA, which pays a portion of the operating costs, both for the background orbit and risk computations and for the database and web interface; the rest of the cost is covered, as before, by the Department of Mathematics, University of Pisa, with the running research grants of the Celestial Mechanics Group, and by IASF-INAF (Rome), with a PRIN-INAF grant.
The ESA participation is through a contract with SpaceDyS srl, a company of Cascina (Pisa, Italy), which is a startup promoted by same research group which has built and operated NEODyS for the past 12 years.
This is the beginning of a transition phase, in which ESA should progressively assume larger responsibility for the operations of NEODyS, under the programmatic envelope of the Space Situational Awareness (SSA) initiative, NEO segment. The NEODyS service is expected to be federated, together with others including the Spaceguard Central Node and the EARN Asteroid Database, in a new comprehensive SSA-NEO information service.
The University and Research groups will in the near future continue to share the work and the responsibility, and are in any case committed to continue for a long period of time to contribute with research, innovation and certification functions.
This is the new version NEODyS-2, implementing the new error model based upon Chesley, Baer and Monet (Icarus 2010). The orbits have all been recomputed by using star catalog debiasing and an error model with assumed astrometric errors RMS deduced from the tests of the paper cited above. Risk files have bene recomputed for all PHAs, scanning for possible impacts up to the year 2090; as a result, many objects do not have anymore a risk file, because the orbit has improved. A few NEAs have a risk file in NEODYS-2, while they had none in the old version, but this is in most cases due to the increase of the final time of the scan from 2080 (which had been in use previoulsy) to 2090.
The software used for this version of NEODyS is OrbFit version 5.0; the free distribution can be obtained on request, but needs to be used by users which do understand the new error model. We have not yet implemented the correlation model for the astrometric errors, see Baer et al. (Icarus, in press 2011); a compensating increase of the RMS has been used as a safety margin. We plan to complete this additional step towards a fully consistent statistical error model soon (but no fixed date yet).
The NEODyS service is in some circumstances time critical (e.g., during special observation campaigns for asteroids at risk of being lost and/or with Virtual Impactors). At the moment we cannot provide a duplicate service to guarantee against network failures, but we are working to restore the hot redundancy.
We are doing an effort to provide NEODyS with online help and captions. However, it is obviously not possible to explain all the technicalities involved in such a complex information system. The Tumbling Stone site had been created precisely to provide more user friendly information, including an illustrated dictionary of technical terms, and comments on the most relevant events and discoveries about Near Earth Asteroids. Unfortunately this site is not currently maintained.
The same services for other asteroids, including all numbered and multiopposition orbit objects, can be accessed at AstDyS.
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Fla. jail explosion kills 2, injures 184
PENSACOLA, Fla. — State and federal officials are investigating the cause of an explosion that killed two inmates and injured 184 at a northwest Florida jail.
Three inmates missing in the chaos after the apparent gas explosion late Wednesday at the Escambia County Central Booking and Detention Center here are now accounted for, officials said Thursday.
Two inmates, whose names have not been released, died in the blast at about 11 p.m. CT Wednesday, county Sheriff David Morgan said. They were found in the same area of the jail surrounded with debris.
A total of 184 detainees and corrections officers were injured; two male inmates and a corrections officer remained hospitalized Thursday afternoon, county spokesman Bill Pearson said.
The explosion, which is believed to have originated in a rear laundry room on the first floor, severely damaged a portion of the jail, and the explosion rattled houses up to 3 miles away. County officials had to evacuate about 600 inmates to secure facilities and worked for much of the day with state and federal agencies to account for all who were in the jail at the time of the explosion.
"The explosion shook us so hard it was like we were in an earthquake," Monique Barnes, an inmate who said she was knocked off her fourth-floor bunk, told The Associated Press by phone after she was moved.
The first floor of the building is likely irreparably damaged, Morgan said. The jail's basement had flooded during Wednesday's rains, and a retention wall inside the jail compound had collapsed earlier in the day because of flood damage.
As much as 24 hours before the explosion, inmates and corrections officers told family members that they had smelled gas. One woman said a friend inside the facility told her the county was using temporary generators to cope with power outages from the recent storm; he suspected them as the source of the odors.
Morgan said those allegations will be investigated.
No complaints or service calls regarding a natural gas leak were documented in the day leading up to the blast, Pearson said.
Engineers gave the OK for emergency personnel to enter the building Thursday afternoon to recover one body. The second victim remains in the debris until officials can ensure that moving the body won't cause the building to collapse further.
About 200 female inmates were taken to the Santa Rosa County Jail in Milton, Fla. about 25 miles northwest of Pensacola, said Kathleen Dough-Castro, Escambia County's chief public information officer. The other 400 male inmates are scattered around detention facilities in Escambia County.
On Thursday morning, family members were frantic because they could not get information about their relatives.
"They haven't given us any information," said Sarah Sedes, who rushed to the jail with her aunt to see whether her cousin was among the wounded or dead. "No one will even tell us if he's alive."
Corrections officers have been arranging for each inmate to contact family members, Morgan said. And authorities have established a telephone line for people to call for information on a relative's location.
After the blast, droves of police officers and first responders roamed the area in the wee hours of Thursday morning, corralling inmates into school buses so they could be transported to other detention facilities. Emergency personnel from as far as Orange Beach, Ala., 30 miles west, responded to the scene.
Scores of people — both inmates and corrections officers — were taken out of the jail on stretchers and transported to area hospitals under police guard.
By an hour after the explosion, streets around the facility had been cordoned off.
Debra Griffin said then that she was frustrated from the lack of communication. Griffin's son, nephew and daughter-in-law were housed in the facility. She left her job at a nearby adult care center when she heard about the explosion in hopes of learning whether her loved ones were safe.
"All I wanted to do was see my little ones," she said. Instead, she saw people being carried away on stretchers.
Pensacola resident Mary Norris had two sons — one 28-year-old and one 29-year-old — in the jail at the time of the explosion.
"From the moment I heard about it, I left as quick as I could from my house and made it here, and I've been here ever since," she said early Thursday.
The jail has a troubled history. County officials are negotiating a settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice to resolve the findings of a scathing five-year federal investigation of the facility.
The investigation, which wrapped up in May 2013, determined that inadequate management had led to routine violations of inmates' constitutional rights.
Federal investigators cited problems including a low number of guards watching over many inmates, which contributed to what the report called "appalling" levels of violence, "clearly inadequate" mental health care and a recently discontinued practice of segregating inmates according to race.
Morgan, who was manager of the jail then, told investigators in April that he had put an end to that decades-long practice.
Escambia County officials agreed in June to take over the jail from Morgan and take responsibility for the federal government's findings after weeks of tense debate on how to address the report. The handoff took place seven months ago, on Oct. 1.


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Keeping the Anti-Swearing Campaign Alive
After Students Take the Pledge
Keeping the Dare Not To Swear campaign alive has meant carrying out pre-planned activities as well as developing new ones and letting the campaign lead us in new directions.
According to plan, we continue to send flyers to all teachers every two weeks to post in their classrooms. The first one featured short rhyming slogans - that my students wrote - encouraging students not to swear. We've held contests, some with prizes from local businesses, and we continue to spread the word to the community. Before the semester break, I was asked to speak to our local school board. They were so enthusiastic about the campaign that they were talking about calling Oprah!
We set up a daily TV bulletin "Dare Not To Swear!" advice segment. Each day a student announcer broadcasts the advice of the day—contributed by a parent, local businessperson, or local celebrity—to the entire high school and to approximately 12,000 households in the Bremerton Community.
One reaction to the campaign has surprised me—students wanting to tell you how they feel about the campaign.
My fashion students eagerly took on an assignment I gave them to write about places "where Knights (our mascot) should dare not to swear." They wrote about the cafeteria, hallway, classroom, sporting events, and so on—problem areas identified in the survey students took last year (about ways we could improve our school).
Here is some catchy phrasing from senior Andrew Ramirez:
Five minutes of passing in the hall can be tough
But make sure the language doesn't get rough.
During class time it's just not cool
It's rude, disruptive, and sometimes cruel
Remember Knight pride, this is our school!
Dare not to swear. Knights shall make it known
That BHS is a swear-free zone!
Using these and other student-written statements, we created and then distributed "Dare Not To Swear!" flyers.
At the end of the first semester of this campaign, I announced a poetry contest about swearing and the campaign, and the next day I had two thoughtful pieces on my desk.
Reactions from the Community
We've had positive feedback from adults in our school and beyond. The wristbands have become so popular that people outside the school district have asked to purchase them for their children, job sites, and youth organizations. So we've had to order more.
And numerous people have written about their reactions to the campaign as it has unfolded. Here are a few of their comments:
As an advisor for Family, Career and Community Leaders of America, I knew that the "Dare Not To Swear!" campaign would be an opportunity to support our number one goal: "To promote opportunities for personal development and preparation for adult life." I know how key it is for our youth to become active members of communities and be good citizens. Using appropriate language in all arenas of life helps to train students in positive ways for their future.
—Susan Abbe, student group advisor
I have heard conversations of students challenging each other to dare not to swear. I have also confronted students using bad language and said, "Dare not to swear," and that is all I have to say. I think it is in the back of their minds all the time now.
—Daniel McInnis, campus security
I'm observing (since the start of the program) more and more that both students and staff are talking about the program and reminding one another not to swear. I'm noticing a more positive approach where students remind students. This will go a long way in students' personal and professional development as they transition from high school to college or the job force.
—Ken Aries, assistant principal
This project continues to amaze me. I recently overheard a student swearing in the hallway outside my classroom, and as I walked toward the door, I saw three other students surround him, and say "Dare not to swear, Dare not to swear." The student stopped immediately and apologized. He hadn't even realized what he'd said.
Sound too good to be true? That's what I keep thinking, but our anti-swearing campaign—Dare Not To Swear—continues to build momentum.
About the Author
Madonna Hanna, a Milken National Educator, has been teaching fashion marketing at Bremerton High School in Bremerton, Washington, for the past ten years, and is currently serving on the district's Behavioral Committee. Prior to her career in education, Hanna worked in fashion merchandising. Hanna's marketing classes are among the career and technical classes that students may take as electives, in addition to their regular academic courses.


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There aren't many areas in the field of science which are as hotly debated as climate change. Everybody has an opinion about climate change and maybe rightly so. It is a serious business which is starting to affect all life on this planet. But for most people it also resonates with the feeling of being witness to an ongoing and prolonged tragedy on spaceship Earth.
A possible metaphor for the debate might thus be 'the five stages of grief' - also called the Kübler-Ross-model in psychology. The model states that people go through five emotional stages after losing something they have cherished. The five stages are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.
»If that is true,« says Noah Feinstein, »If it is true that we have been talking about climate change in terms of loss, and that people go through the five stages of grief, then the question is: can we learn to think about climate change in a different way?«
The American environmental movement has been criticized for being too focused on condemnation and crisis and doomsday rhetoric.This is a big challenge, says Noah Feinstein, but it might exactly be the right thing to do. Feinstein is a faculty member at the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and the Department of Agronomy at UW-Madison School of Education, and got the somewhat daunting task of summarizing the state of education for sustainable development in the United States for a report to be published by the International Alliance of Leading Education Institutions, IALEI, later this year.
»The American environmental movement has been criticized for being too focused on condemnation and crisis and doomsday rhetoric. And I think that what the Danish group wants to do is to think more in terms of empowerment and action competence. That is a very different way in thinking about things - not how we stop the world from becoming worse, but how to create the change we like.«
According to Feinstein, there has been relatively little implementation of such a positive education for sustainable development in the public schools in the US - at least not under that name. On the other hand, the US has been the cradle of the (closely related) environmental education movement, mostly through programs outside of schools. It is through the work of educators and activists that work outside of schools that environmental education has progressed - and it has slowly become more mainstream.
»For instance, let's look at a little thing like recycling, or the new abundance of fuel-efficient cars - although now this fashion is fuelled by the high price of gasoline, originally there were people who thought it was worthwhile to pay a little extra for them. And that is the result of dedicated educators and activists - mostly outside of the normal school settings. The next challenge is to figure out how to bring the goals and values and the problem solving strategies of sustainability into the school setting.«
Do you wish to achieve that through action research and learning by doing?
»I would say that if anything is emerging out of this international collaboration, it is the insight that it is not enough to teach people about climate change and to expect them to infer from that what they should do. If you wish to make change, you have to empower people, and the way you do that is by showing them they are capable of making a difference.«
Work place-based education
So, one has to try to embed science in practice. But for Feinstein it is not just a matter of science. Education for sustainability balances environmental concerns with economic development and social equity. »When we think about what we have to weave together in sustainability education, it certainly includes science, but also things like economics and social values,« says Feinstein.
»One of the examples I like to give is a program called BioSITE, which is run by a children's museum in the city of San Jose in California. They teach young children to use water monitoring equipment to measure and collect data, which is used by the local authorities. For me this is a lovely example of education for sustainable development, because it involves learning scientific inquiry skills and contributing to a socially valuable purpose. Students gain a deeper appreciation of their local environment and a sense of empowerment related to their capacity to foster positive environmental change. They make a real difference by collaborating with environmental scientists.«
It is not enough to teach people about climate change and to expect them to infer from that what they should do. If you wish to make change, you have to empower people, and the way you do that is by showing them they are capable of making a difference.Some people call this kind of work place-based education, says Feinstein, because it focuses on helping people understand their local environment - both the ecological and social context - and on working together with other people in their community.
»Another thing we have learned is that education for sustainable development is different for different people around the world. Sustainability is a value, and the way this value fits in will depend on social and cultural differences in different countries. In the US we have very strong traditions of local democracy, and I think this is our greatest resource for sustainable development: helping people engage in local decision making that enhances sustainable living in the long term.«
Theories without emotions
From a theoretical point of view, Noah Feinstein draws from both situated learning theory and some established cognitive frameworks, citing people like James Greeno, Lev Vygotsky and Jean Lave among others.
»The core value from the more recent research, though, is that people understand things in ways that are deeply social, and that sometimes the best way to understand who they are and what they know is to look at what they do and are capable of doing in a social context.«
Feinstein's sociological approach to his work has also brought him close to the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS), which focus on how social, political, and cultural values affect scientific research and technological innovation, and how these in turn affect society, politics, and culture.
One of the lessons of STS is that certain approaches to public engagement in science seem to do better than others. For instance, the deficit model - the idea that public understanding should always be measured against what scientists know - has been widely discredited. Also, public debates about cloning have shown many unexpected secondary effects from almost any choice of communication strategy. This certainly seems to be the case also for the climate change debate.
Sociologists like Ulrich Beck and Bruno Latour have for instance used climate change directly to discuss the interrelations between science and society, but Feinstein finds their work incomplete:
»Science and Technology Studies has responded to the entrenched idea that science is rational by arguing that science is social. But another possible alternative to rational is emotional. I think that we are less adept at seeing that than we are at seeing the social aspects of science and technology.«
For Feinstein, there is an inevitable but often hidden undercurrent of emotions in public engagement with science. We are willing to talk about misunderstanding and risk, but not about grief or anger. He argues that STS attaches insufficient importance to emotion.
»For instance: I think that Ulrich Beck's 'risk society' is a bit too rational. His work is still influenced by this odd notion from economics that ... people are somehow optimizing. Perhaps you can say that risk is a polite word for fear, or for anger.«
Feinstein believes that Peter Galison's idea of trading zones is a much more useful metaphor for the public engagement with science. »For instance, I have done some research about parents with autistic children. One thing that becomes quite obvious when you work with a group like that is that a word like 'autism' has a very particular meaning for them. It is a meaning which is intrinsically emotional and deeply connected to their experiences. The word has a very different meaning for autism researchers. And therefore, for parents to be interested in the science of autism, they have to negotiate the difference between their own understanding of the word and the researchers understanding. Autism in this sense becomes a metaphorical trading zone.«
Emotional metaphors
It might be more effective to teach about climate change if we understood the role of emotions in public engagement, or if we knew the critical 'trading zones' that enabled scientists and citizens to communicate about global climate. But there is not much theory to draw upon. Neither do we have much practical experience, except maybe indirectly through the heated ups and downs of teaching evolution in certain parts of the US.
Feinstein is uncertain about the analogy between evolution and climate change. »I don't know. I think that climate change teaching is quite different from teaching evolution here in the US, because at this point the evolution controversy has very little to do with science. On one side are people who promote teaching evolution in schools because they think that it is important to teach this aspect of science, and on the other are people who oppose it because they think evolutionary science is somehow damaging or corrosive to religious belief. Not many people actively engage with the science.«
It seems that there are many people who really oppose climate change as a matter of values and emotion, because it requires us to abandon of a lot of cherished privileges we humans have acquired through history. For instance: If we accept the science of climate change, we implicitly admit that unlimited growth is not going to work.
»The science does not say that unlimited growth doesn't work, because the idea of something 'working' for society is not really about science. Unlimited growth has certain consequences, but the idea that these consequences are bad, that's a matter of values. Whether something is good or bad, or whether we should or shouldn't do something, that's dealing with value. Climate science doesn't tell us what to do - it tells us what will happen.«
Is sustainability a value thing?
»Sure. Climate change scientists are experts on climate change, but they have relatively less authority about social values. They are certainly entitled to have a certain opinion. And there will continue to be a very lively debate about what to do about it.«
If we measure economic prosperity, should we only look at the gross domestic product or are we also interested in things like the level of poverty? The way we choose our road to sustainability involves questions of value.Aren't there many people who would say: 'No, sustainable living is not a value. It is a necessity in order to sustain human life on this planet'?
»Sure. But sustainability always involves value questions. When we talk about environmental sustainability, we have to choose between things like, say, the preservation of a landscape, and sustainable energy. Here in Wisconsin, for instance, we have debates about wind turbines. Wind turbines provide renewable energy, but they also kill birds, especially when they are positioned in a place where migratory birds fly. So the turbines provoke a question about values. Even for those of us who support environmental sustainability we still have questions of value - what environmental sustainability means. The same thing is true for economic sustainability, particularly for the balance between economic prosperity and social equity.«
»For instance: If we measure economic prosperity, should we only look at the gross domestic product or are we also interested in things like the level of poverty? The way we choose our road to sustainability involves questions of value. There is no sense of sustainability beyond those questions of value. What sustainability means will be determined by the decisions we make and what we value. If you were to ask a 100 people who work in sustainable development to envision what sustainable living looks like, you would get a 100 different answers.«
»I think that one of the great challenges in the public engagement of science is learning to understand the difference between the questions that science can answer, and the questions that science can't answer. Science is good at telling us the results of our actions, but we have to decide how good or bad that is and what we are willing to sacrifice for our future,« Feinstein says.
One thing which is particularly interesting about climate change is that science cannot really say anything 'for sure'. How can you convey the implications of a finding which is 95 % probable where you still have to point out that it might not happen anyway?
»My personal view on probability and statistical interpretations of the world is that they need to be taught very early. We avoid it because probability is complex. I wonder if there are ways to start thinking and talking about chance and odds in the elementary grades, because those concepts underlie so many political, social and scientific decisions. So much of what you read in newspapers, what you see in television and online, is swamped by statistics. It is a critical skill.«
It is definitely important to translate scientific concepts of risk and chance to psychological concepts which support empowerment and action competence. But are you sure that this 'positive translation' will have the necessary results?
»Any change in that we make in our society will have some advantages and some disadvantages. For instance, if we travel less - Americans move a lot - then this would also create advantages for us all. The word 'co-benefits' in the climate change discussion is sometimes used to describe such social changes in these positive terms.«
The proposal of self-empowerment and sustainable life still preserves the central idea of self-determination which nobody wants to give up. But maybe we will have to give it up. Maybe we won't be allowed to have more than 1.5 children?
»Of course there is a push-pull between the things we want to do and the things we have to do. But in any democratic society, the things we have to do will be determined by the people we choose. So if we think about any sorts of catastrophic legislation, they will depend on which government we have installed. So in terms of education it is a matter of tuning people to make the big decisions - or to choose people who will make those decisions.«


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I was listening to my 14 year old son discuss the relative merits of an iPad versus his iTouch with a buddy of his. Now my kid is Apple'd out – MAC, iPod, iTouch. No wonder he was intrigued by the iPad as all things Apple is inherently good in his world view.
"It makes no sense", I hear my son saying", "why would Apple want people to think of iPad as a computer – it would kill their other business". He then declared; "To me, this is a bigger and better iTouch that I would use at home."
His friend thought for a minute and replied simply; "Yeah, but Steve Jobs thinks this is the new way people will use computers. Maybe, Apple wants to be the Microsoft, Dell, AT&T and Google all wrapped up in one."
At first I was surprised at the thoughtful way these kids were getting right to the business heart of the matter. What is an iPad anyway? More interestingly though, as a marketer, I was eager to ponder what implications the iPad's "position" might have on its astonishing 1MM sell through.
Clearly, the physical sleekness of the device drove a big part of the sell through. Surprisingly though, the huge gap in how "Junior Consumer" was interpreting iPad's main function, a.k.a. hyper cool entertainment device versus Jobs' declaration that this is "the most important thing he has ever worked on" usually spells D-I-S-A-S-T-E-R, but that seemed not to matter in this case.
This disconnect is amplified when one realizes that the iPad may well be the computing version of a wolf in sheep's clothing because it becomes the gate/ portal and police of what services or apps or content comes out of that portal. I kinda hope my son's friend was wrong and Apple is not interested in displacing other devices and services providers from Judy Consumer's world. Uh – no – that's not likely. So it seems to me that the shiny iPad Apple carries a time delayed poison within that will, ultimately, bind Judy Consumer to the Apple franchise with little hope of escape.
OK – I admit – I am playing drama queen here. But it seems in maybe 5 years, our digital world will be defined by a few major players – maybe a handful – who will deliver all information, content, communications and commerce to us.
The "so what" of all this mega aggregation of services is that Judy Consumer will have fewer choices and higher prices. In the future world of information services wars, over time, Judy Consumer will lose out just like she ultimately did in the telecom wars of the past (I am battle hardened veteran of those wars). The final result being that, in fact, when choices go down, pricing goes up.
If iPad is meant to be the point of entry for a new way of computing that inextricably ties hardware to services – I worry (yes – I am a Jewish Mother and we worry.) I worry that it will be harder for competition to evolve and over time we know without competition, Judy Consumer pays more for less.
So I wonder – do you think the iPad is a merely step up from an iTouch as a hyper cool content consumption device or is the iPad Steve Jobs' attempt at creating a new computing paradigm (hence explaining his sentiment that this is the most important thing he has ever done)?
I fear my son's opinion on this matter is borne of youthful naïveté. I think I'll go read Snow White again … at least that has a happy ending.
Judy Shapiro
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Speedskating Cyclists Update
Clara Hughes has sent a quick note explaining the qualifying process for the Winter Olympics speedskating team.
The qualifying process is a complicated one, as the country spots have yet to be named by the international skating union. They are dependent on the World Cup results after the 4th World Cup in Heerenveen, Netherlands on the 11-13 January. As of right now we (Canada) have the maximum quota of 3 skaters as Cindy Klassen and I are both in the top 12 overall. Barring disaster, we should have 3 spots for Canada. As of right now I have one of those spots. I skate one more 3000m on the 28th of December, which is the last chance for anyone to overtake my time (which is currently 6 seconds faster than the next best), though I hope to go faster as well.
As for the 5000m . . . that is decided after the 3000m at The Olympics. The top 16 skaters go on to skate the 5000m. We (Canada) can earn a maximum of 3 spots. I get the second spot Canada earns as I was 2nd at trials in the 5000m. Confusing, eh? This is far more complicated than cycling-but at least it is based strictly on times. If I race what I want the 3000m is on the 10th Feb and the 5000m on the 23rd. I am really motivated for the longer race. So far I have the 2nd fastest time this year, the fourth best in history for the distance. It's hard to believe I have only been skating a total of 7 1/2 months!
As for cycling, I am focusing on the track next season, targeting the individual pursuit. I declined my spot on Saturn to do so and am looking forward to training and racing in Bromont at the new velodrome next summer!
We also have a note from Aaron Brown regarding Cindy Klassen (who won the 5000m at the Trials, with the third fastest time in history).
Thank you for your coverage on Clara Hughes finishing second at the Canadian Olympic Trials. It should be pointed out that Cindy Klassen is not only just a speedskater but also an accomplished cyclist who spent the past summer representing Manitoba at the Canada Summer Games in Cycling. (I believe she finished 5th in the road race). (Ed. Note: Aaron is correct about Ms Klassen's results at the Summer Games)
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18:52 03/09/2013 » Topic of the dayArmenia joining Customs Union
As we reported earlier, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, who is in Russia on working visit, met today in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Kremlin's official website reports that during the meeting, President Serzh Sargsyan announced that Armenia has made a decision to join the Customs Union, to take the necessary steps in that direction and to participate in the formation of the Eurasian Economic Union in the future.
Russian President Vladimir Putin supported Armenia's decision and expressed Russia's readiness to assist that process in every way possible.
According to the press service of the Armenian President, prior to the negotiations with his counterpart, President Serzh Sargsyan in his opening remarks expressed gratitude to Vladimir Putin for the invitation and noted that there are many issues to be discussed.
"Relations between Armenia and Russia are based on the centuries-long traditions of friendship and brotherhood of our two nations. I am confident that these relations will continue to develop in the spirit of mutual understanding, in line with the Agreement on Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance. I am certain that each generation of the Armenians and citizens of the Russian Federation should bring their contribution to the history of these relations. We cherish these relations and we will do our best to develop them. It is an absolute priority to us. Nevertheless, there are, of course, issues which should be solved in a manner which will elevate our relations to a new, higher level, and that's the purpose of my visit to Moscow," Serzh Sargsyan said.
In welcoming his counterpart in Moscow, Vladimir Putin thanked President Sargsyan for accepting the invitation and for the visit. "This is your second visit recently. I am very glad that our relations are developing dynamically in almost every direction. Our parliaments, governments and business structures also maintain frequent contacts. Honestly, in this regard too, I hope the results are positive. The turnover in our economy has reached 23 percent. Russia remains Armenia's number one trade partner, and that tendency continues," the Russian President said.
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MAOIs/Tyramine Containing Foods Interactions
This information is generalized and not intended as specific medical advice. Consult your healthcare professional before taking or discontinuing any drug, changing your diet or commencing any course of treatment.
Medical warning:
Most important. A change in your diet, medicine, or dosage is likely to be necessary. Promptly consult your doctor or pharmacist.
How the interaction occurs:
Tyramine is normally broken down in your body by an enzyme called MAO (monoamine oxidase). When MAO inhibitor (MAOI) medicines are taken, excessive amounts of tyramine enter the bloodstream, leading to the release of adrenaline-like substances (norepinephrine) in the body. Increased blood pressure then occurs.
What might happen:
Large increases in blood pressure may occur, which could lead to very serious problems such as strokes or chest pain/heart attacks.
What you should do about this interaction:
It is very important that you follow special dietary restrictions in order to limit the amount of tyramine in your diet while you are taking this medicine.Foods and beverages high in tyramine should be avoided (see list below). Excessive amounts of coffee, chocolate, sour cream, or avocados have also produced symptoms of high blood pressure in some cases. The following is a tyramine food list:High tyramine level foods include aged cheeses (cheddar, camembert, emmenthaler, brie, stilton blue, gruyere, gouda, brick, bleu, roquefort, boursault, parmesan, romano, provolone, liederdranz, colby, edam); aged, dried, fermented, salted, smoked, pickled and processed meats and fish (includes bacon, summer sausage, liverwurst, hot dogs, corned beef, pepperoni, salami, bologna, ham, mortadella, pickled or dried herring); banana peel; beef and chicken liver (stored, not fresh); bouillon cubes, commercial gravies; concentrated yeast extracts (marmite); fava beans, Italian green beans, broad beans, fermented bean curd, homemade yeast-leavened bread; kim chee (Korean fermented cabbage); miso, orange pulp; overripe or spoiled fruits; packaged soups, red wine, sauerkraut, sherry, snow pea pods, sourdough bread, soy sauce, soya bean, soya bean paste; tap beer and ale; vermouth.Moderate-to-low tyramine level foods include alcohol-free beer, avocados, bananas; bottled beer and ale; chocolate and products made with chocolate; coffee, cola; cultured dairy products (e.g. buttermilk, yogurt, sour cream); distilled spirits, eggplant, canned figs, fish roe (caviar), green bean pods, pate, peanuts, port wine, raisins, raspberries, red plums, spinach, tomatoes, white wine.Tell your doctor or pharmacist immediately if you notice symptoms of high blood pressure such as fast or slow heartbeat, vomiting, sweating or headache, chest pain, sudden vision changes, one-sided weakness or slurred speech.Contact your healthcare professional (e.g., doctor, pharmacist or dietician) for more information, including recommendations for your diet.Your healthcare professionals may be aware of this interaction and may be monitoring you for it. Do not start, stop, or change your medicine or diet before checking with them first.
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Bryan Voltaggio's recent announcement that he'd be opening a restaurant in Baltimore arrived like a complimentary dessert — something you appreciate all the more because it isn't expected.
"OHMAGAWD" and "yeeeeeesss!!!" were a few of the reactions on Twitter.
But the "Top Chef" alumnus said he had wanted to come to Baltimore for years. It was just a matter of finding the right place, said Voltaggio, who co-owns Volt, his flagship restaurant, and Family Meal in his hometown of Frederick, as well as the meat-centric Range in Washington's Chevy Chase.
"We're excited to be in Baltimore," Voltaggio said. "It's been a long time coming. We're excited to join the community."
Voltaggio will be bringing Baltimore an Italian fine-dining restaurant named Aggio. That's also the name of the brand-new concept that he unveiled recently in Washington, where it shares a kitchen with Range. Aggio has a separate dining area, wait staff and atmosphere, Voltaggio said.
"[Aggio] isn't just isn't a pop-up restaurant," he said. "I want to be Range to be Range. I want Aggio to be Aggio."
That Voltaggio chose Power Plant Live, a downtown entertainment district with a party-hearty reputation, came as a second surprise. "Terrible location," tweeted Tom Creegan, who owns Hamilton Tavern. "He may turn it around but would KILL it in a better locale." Aggio will open on Water Street in the space now occupied by Tatu Asian Grill, which Voltaggio pointed out is outside the district's central plaza. Diners won't have to walk through the plaza's security check to get into Aggio.
"A lot of things that make [this location] a plus," he said. "It's an area where people go to. And I like its proximity to a major thoroughfare."
As for Tatu, it will be relocated in a modified format elsewhere within the Power Plant complex, according a spokesman for the Cordish Cos., which operates the Power Plant.
Awards season The James Beard Foundation has announced the first round of candidates for its annual restaurant-industry awards. Cindy Wolf of Charleston and Spike Gjerde of Woodberry Kitchen are among the 20 semifinalists for Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic, one of 10 regional categories in the James Beard Foundation Award 2014.
An independent panel composed of regional critics, food and wine editors, and past award winners will now pare the list down to five finalists, which will be revealed March 18. The winners will be announced May 5.
Both chefs have been on the semifinalist list before, and each has made it to the finalist round, Wolf in 2006 and 2008, and Gjerde in 2013.
Marylanders have had rare success in the awards, which were established in 1990. The Monkton wine expert Robert Parker won for Outstanding Wine and Spirits Professional in 1999 and the bygone restaurant Maison Marconi received a James Beard Foundation "America's Classics award" in 2002 for locally owned restaurants open at least 10 years.
The new Trinacria Back in November, we told you that the owners of Trinacria, the 105-year old Italian grocery store and deli on Paca Street, were going to open an Italian cafe in Mount Vernon.
And so they have.
Trinacria Italian Cafe (111 W. Centre St., 443-759-4082, trinacriacafe.com) opened last month at in a ground-level retail space in Gallery Tower, an apartment building on the corner of Centre Street and Park Avenue.
The counter-service cafe is not a replica of the original, which is very much still in business. There are things like pasta sauces, cookies and other pastries for sale at the Mount Vernon facility, but it's a far more limited selection than what you'll find on Paca Street.
Owner Vince Fava, whose grandfather founded Trinacria as a macaroni works in 1908, said he's bringing up more merchandise every day and looking for room to display even more.
The new cafe is more like an extension of the Paca Street deli counter. There are hot and cold sandwiches and subs, like there are at the original, but the cafe has pastas and thin-crust pizzas, too.
And, unlike the Paca Street location, there is a place to sit down and eat.
The cafe is open daily from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., but those hours might change, Fava said, as he gets a better read on what the neighborhood wants.


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I love you, little guys....
I love you, little guys....
To any of you who have prayed for J. and her baby, Stellan....
God is working a miracle right before our eyes!! THANK YOU!!
Today Colin was standing at our sliding glass door. I could tell he was looking at something, and I thought that the 'something' was outside. After a moment, I learned differently. He says to me:
"Mom, there's a fly in here."
Oh, great. That's gross. I hate flies. "Okay, Colin. Thanks for letting me know." I'll get it later, I think to myself.
He was quiet for a moment and then said, "Can I get him?"
"What, honey?"
"Mom, can I get him?"
"Col, what do you mean? You mean, kill him?"
"How would you do that?" He has seen me use a fly-swatter, but I had never actually taught him how to use one. I assumed that he was going to ask me to teach him how to use it so that he could 'get' the fly. I was in the middle of baking, and didn't want to touch the icky fly-swatter, so I was preparing to tell him that 'I couldn't teach him how to use that at this moment, but maybe another time'. It didn't really matter that I was busy at that moment; turns out, I was wrong about the swatter anyway.
"Col? (still staring) How would you do that, honey?"
"With my hands."
"You want to try to kill the fly with your hands?"
"Colin--the one thing about flies is that they are very, very fast. As soon as you move toward them, they fly away. You'll never get him with your hands."
He was quiet again for a few moments, still studying the fly intently.
"Mom......can I try to get him?"
Exasperated, I gave in. What did I care if he 'tried to get him', anyway? He never would catch him.
"Sure, Colin. Go ahead and try."
Next thing I hear is SMACK! Colin's hand hitting the glass door. Okay, that's done and over with now. Maybe he'll give up the pursuit and go play.
"Mom, I got him."
"I got the fly."
"With your hands?! You got him?!"
He turns to me, and holds out his palm to show me. Attached to said palm were the remains of what apparently was a slower-than-usual fly. Yeah.....he had gotten him, alright.
We then had a discussion of the utter grossness of flies, and proceeded to wash his hands 2 (or maybe it was 10?) times.
I think I will go ahead and teach him how to use that fly-swatter.....
If you are the praying kind, I have a(nother) favor to ask.
My friend, J., and her sweet baby (23 weeks in utero) are having a really difficult time. She has had to be hospitalized because her baby's heart rate right now is at an astounding 300 beats per minute. The baby has a heart condition that is causing this, and if it doesn't get fixed quickly, it will not be good.
She's had a rough go of it already with meds (to clarify: she is taking IV meds for the baby--she is not sick) that, as of tonight, did not work and caused her to experience some pretty awful side effects. They are starting her on some new meds now, but her body has really taken a beating from before....and I know her spirit could use some uplifting right now. Her family is desperately seeking prayer.
You can find out more about her and her baby HERE, if you like, and please, if you visit, let her know that you are praying for her.
Thank you!
Apparently, I was a little confused on the whole 'dry socket' issue.
I thought, when I went in last Tuesday and the oral surgeon packed my teeth (or, I should say, lack of teeth) with gauze, that that was it--the dry socket was taken care of. Translation--that there would be no more pain to endure.
I was wrong.
The medicine in the gauze, it turns out, wears off after about 24 hours....so I had to go back Thursday AND Friday (and again tomorrow) to have it changed and re-packed. Basically, there is a numbing medicine on this gauze, which keeps me, for the most part, pain free. Then, it buys my gums time to grow new tissue and heal, so that I am not a total whacked-out-on-pain-and pain-meds-zombie. Until the tissue completely heals itself, though, there will still be pain.
I am hoping that tomorrow will be the last time I have to go in, but I am still (off-and-on) in a considerable amount of pain....so it may still take a few more days. I'm still on the ibuprofen, and occasionally the Vicodin when it gets really bad. It is lessening--much slower than I would like--but I am getting there.
I seriously think I would rather go through childbirth than the pain and after pain of having wisdom teeth pulled.
BLEH again.
"I don't know what this "pool" stuff is all about....I'm happy right here on my bike, thank you."
Daddy was the first to brave the water.....
....which apparently convinced Colin.....
...... and, in turn, Cameron......
.....and after hangin' out by the ladder for a little while (with the bike not too far from his grasp, of course)....
Col chomping his apple....not sure what he was saying, but it looks like I caught him mid-word
Ethan with his yummy baked Cheetos
(LOVE this picture--look at those eyes!)
Cam and his favorite, the "pee-buh-getty" (PB&J)--though you wouldn't know he was so happy with his lunch in this shot!
One, two, three, JUMP!
Cameron and his dinosaur
"I love this Daddy! Thanks for convincing me to come in after all!"
Daddy jumping over--yes, I said OVER--Col and Cam's heads!
"Wow, now that's pretty cool....."
And, as you can see, the pictures all came right back off the camera just like they were supposed to.


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Young skateboarder struck, killed in Edgewater
Crash remains under investigation
An Edgewater boy was killed Tuesday evening while skateboarding along North Ridgewood Avenue.
Police said the boy, 12-year-old Harry Greene, was in the 500 block when a truck traveling south bound on North Ridgewood Ave. struck him.
"He was an amazing little brother," said sister Caroline Greene. "He was only 12. It was two months after his birthday he died."
The driver of the truck was Dominic Cuchetti, 22, of Edgewater. Officials said Cuchetti knew Greene's family.
"This was one of the most tragic things I've ever seen," said Mike Culp. "It was hard to watch a little kid die like that, you know."
Police temporarily closed the southbound lanes and traffic was detoured to 10th Street in New Smyrna Beach.
Greene was a student at Edgewater Public Elementary School. His classmates visited the spot where Greene died.
"We just wanted to spend the day thinking of our friend Harry, and to give us our peace and thanks for being a good friend for us," said schoolmate Michael Tanguay.
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Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, February 15, 2013 – A quasicrystal is an exotic state of matter with symmetries once thought to be impossible for matter. The concept was first introduced and the first examples were synthesized in the laboratory thirty years ago, but could Nature have beaten us to the punch?
On Wednesday, March 6, as part of Perimeter Institute's Public Lecture Series presented by Sun Life Financial, physicist Dr. Paul Steinhardt will describe the search for the first natural quasicrystal, an adventure to the ends of the Earth and beyond and one of the wildest scientific stories you are ever likely to hear.
Paul J. Steinhardt is the Albert Einstein Professor in Science and Director of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science at Princeton University, as well as a faculty member of the Departments of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences. His research interests include cosmology, condensed matter physics, photonics and geophysics. He is one of the architects of the inflationary theory of the universe and, more recently, with Perimeter Institute Director Neil Turok, an alternative known as the cyclic universe. He is one of the co-inventors of a novel material for controlling the flow of light in photonic devices. In 1984, he and his student introduced the concept of quasicrystals and, beginning in 1998, launched a search for the first natural quasicrystal that culminated in his organizing a geological expedition to the Koryak Mountains in far eastern Russia.
Steinhardt's lecture, entitled "Once Upon a Time in Kamchatka: The Extraordinary Search for Natural Quasicrystals", will be held on Wednesday, March 6 at 7:00 PM ET in Waterloo, Ontario. Tickets will be available starting Tuesday February 19, 2013.
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Influential New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd slams the Catholic bishops in America today for going after nuns who speak out on social issues while continuing to play down the pedophile scandals.
She also criticizes them for banning Senator Edward Kennedy's wife Vicki from giving a commencement speech at a Catholic college.
Dowd writes that "Even as Republicans try to wrestle women into chastity belts, the Vatican is trying to muzzle American nuns. Who thinks it's cool to bully nuns? While continuing to heal and educate, the community of sisters is aging and dying out because few younger women are willing to make such sacrifices for a church determined to bring women to heel.
She quotes author Kenneth Briggs. "It's not terribly unlike the days of yore when they singled out people in the rough days of the Inquisition," said Briggs, the author of "Double Crossed."
Dowd particularly highlights the numerous ongoing pedophile investigations, which she says the church elders continue to try to downplay. She accuses the church of being obsessed with sex and ignoring the wider context of what is happening in the church.
"Church leaders behave like adolescent boys, blinded by sex. That's the problem with inquisitors and censors: They become fascinated by what they deplore," she writes.
Case in point, she says is the banning of Vicki Kennedy wife of the late Senator Edward Kennedy from a commencement speech at a small Catholic college in Massachusetts.
In that case Worcester Bishop Robert McManus demanded the school rescind the invite to Kennedy. His spokesman defended the move.
"Bishop McManus is acting, he feels, consistently with what all of the U.S. bishops asked colleges or higher institutions to do going back to 2004, that they not honor ... Catholics who take a public stance or position on issues contrary to things that the Church is trying to teach," said Raymond Delisle, a spokesman for the diocese.
Kennedy for her part stated that she was said she was "disheartened" by the statement.
"I am a lifelong Catholic and my faith is very important to me," she said in a statement. "I have not met Bishop McManus nor has he been willing to meet with me to discuss his objections."
She accused the bishop saying he "has made a judgment about my worthiness as a Catholic."
The school, Anna Maria College of Paxton, Massachusetts, later apologized to Kennedy.
"As a small, Catholic college that relies heavily on the good will of its relationship with the Bishop and the larger Catholic community, its options are limited," it said in a statement.
Dowd concludes her column by stating "The pope needs what the rest of us got from nuns: a good rap across the knuckles."


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Sir Alex Ferguson has hailed Manchester United's dominant 2-0 win at Schalke as one of the club's finest European performances under his lengthy stewardship.
A stunning display by Schalke goalkeeper Manuel Neuer kept the semi-final tie alive ahead of the return leg at Old Trafford but the German side will need to produce an incredible turnaround to take advantage of his heroics based on the flow of Tuesday night's clash.
United's ineffective finishing, which left them scoreless until Ryan Giggs and Wayne Rooney struck in quick succession midway through the second half, could be the only criticism of an impressive outing. United's defence largely restricted Schalke to hopeful long-range attempts as Ferguson's team became the first side to complete an entire set of Champions League away games without conceding a goal.
"The concentration issue is important away from home in Europe,'' Ferguson said. "It is a different tempo at times and requires really good concentration. Credit to the players. They have shown that throughout the campaign. But over the past two or three years we have got a way of playing in Europe away from home. It requires some experience of course. The most important thing is to have confidence in possession of the ball."
There has been much discussion about how the current United squad stacks up against some of Ferguson's other groups, with the success of the current crop widely put down more to their collective mentality and their manager's expert rotation than the showy superstars of previous eras.
That argument aside, Ferguson was convinced his current team produced a European performance to match any other in his time at Old Trafford.
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Schalke coach Ralf Rangnick could only reflect on a disastrous night for his team, with only Neuer emerging with any real credit, even in the coach's eyes.
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"But for the goals, we just stood around and watched. You can't do that. We are not going to capitulate though. Manchester United have a better chance to reach the final but strange things happen in football. However, we do need to improve.''


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A clean fuels effort among 11 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states is fading, as new pipelines for tar sands crude to the Atlantic get an industry push.
In New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie's administration pulled out of a proposed pact to cut global warming emissions in transportation fuels.
In New Hampshire, the House passed a bill to leave the same regional initiative. And in Maine, the government opted to continue to engage in the program, but not to apply the rules to its own transportation sector.
In those three states and others, leaders are reevaluating their role in the Clean Fuels Standard, a policy that limits consumption of high-carbon fuels like oil sands crude, as pressure from oil industry-backed groups mounts and support falls off. And it is happening just as the region's entire fuel picture may be about to change.
A Montreal pipeline firm plans to transport tar sands oil to the Atlantic Coast for the first time by reversing the flow of its Maine-to-Quebec oil pipeline. Enbridge, Canada's largest pipeline company, has its own plans to link to that Montreal line and carry Alberta crude east. And TransCanada Corp., the company behind the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, wants to pipe oil from tar sands mines to refineries in Ontario, Quebec and potentially to a New Brunswick facility that supplies fuel to the Northeast.
Since late 2009, 11 states in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region—New Hampshire, New Jersey, Maine, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont—have been developing the Clean Fuels Standard. The idea was to create a policy modeled on California's pioneering Low-Carbon Fuel Standard, which requires oil refiners and suppliers to reduce the carbon intensity of their fuel mix by 10 percent in 2020. The Northeast pact is expected to be completed next year.
But opponents have been ratcheting up efforts to keep a California-style standard from taking hold in the Northeast, and they're finding receptive audiences in some Republican-leaning states.
Now, all participants are considering alternatives, including making the program voluntary.
Leading the charge to block the rules are two organizations: Americans for Prosperity (AFP), a group founded and funded by oil industry interests—including the conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch—and the Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA), which represents oil and gas producers, business councils and energy trade associations. Both argue that fuel emissions requirements would raise gas prices and cost the region hundreds of billions of dollars.
AFP launched a campaign last year to convince states to exit the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), the nation's first cap-and-trade program for curbing greenhouse gases. Nine of the 11 states in the Clean Fuels Standard are part of RGGI; Pennsylvania never joined the cap-and-trade effort and Christie withdrew New Jersey late last year. Legislative attempts to force a withdrawal in New Hampshire, Delaware and Maine failed. A study found that every RGGI state has benefited economically from the pact.
AFP has been active in New Hampshire trying to repeal the Clean Fuels Standard, which it calls "liquid RGGI."
In recent years, CEA has focused on fighting California's low-carbon fuel standard. The group is embroiled in a two-year-old lawsuit to strike down that mandate. In 2010, it poured $1 million into television and radio ads to block an attempt by Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) to pass a national low-carbon fuel standard.
CEA told InsideClimate News it has met with legislators, governors and regulators in the Northeast to get them to reconsider.
CEA's president is David Holt, a managing partner at HBW Resources, a lobbying and public affairs firm whose clients include the American Petroleum Institute (API), the largest oil industry trade group, and the Center for North American Energy Security (formerly the Center for Unconventional Fuels), an industry a group created to promote oil sands development. CEA is run out of the Houston offices of HBW Resources.
Michael Whatley, CEA's executive vice president, said that "even though the oil and gas guys are members of our organization ... they don't drive the train, and they certainly don't drive the policy."
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Advocates of the Clean Fuels Standard say the policy is key to cutting climate-changing pollution and to spurring the market for clean cars.
But just as opponent campaigns have gotten more aggressive, supporters have slowed down their advocacy efforts, and the process has lost steam, several policy experts told InsideClimate News.
"There have been some challenges moving forward that have affected the momentum," said Christina Simeone, director of the Energy Center for Enterprise and Environment at PennFuture, an environmental group in Pennsylvania.
One obvious challenge is shifting politics, Simeone said. States like New Jersey and New Hampshire have made the program less of a priority ever since more conservative Republican governors and legislatures replaced those who agreed to the program. Last year, the Midwestern Governors Association, which was creating its own clean fuels pact, dropped the project after five of the 10 governors who signed on were replaced by Republicans.
Cash-strapped state governments are also finding it difficult to dedicate resources to developing the Clean Fuels Standard, said Justin Johnson, deputy commissioner of the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation. Vermont participates in the initiative through the Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM), the nonprofit group coordinating the program.
The politics of gas prices are further complicating efforts, experts said. States supporting the low-carbon fuel standard have become more hesitant to back a plan that could potentially drive up gas prices.
Luke Tonachel, a senior vehicles analyst for the National Resources Defense Council, along with others, noted that legal challenges to California's policy have had "a bit of a chilling effect" on the Northeast effort as well.
California's low-carbon fuel standard was supposed to take effect on Jan. 1, 2012. But on Dec. 29, a federal judge said the rule violates the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution by regulating economic activity outside California's borders. The ruling ensures that California's clean air agency can't enforce the measure until the lawsuit by CEA and others is resolved in 2013.
"States are watching the litigation in California carefully and thinking about the path forward in light of the current legal and political obstacles," said Vicki Arroyo, executive director of the nonprofit Georgetown Climate Center.
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The California fuel standard would require oil refiners, importers and distributors to cut the carbon footprint of their motor fuels, measured not just by emissions from tailpipes, but across the whole lifecycle, from extraction to combustion. It hinges on an analysis of each fuel's "well-to-wheel" emissions. Fuels that release more carbon dioxide in the extraction process like oil sands crude would be considered to have higher greenhouse gas intensity than regular oil.
Those who miss targets would have to pay a penalty, or pay into a state fund dedicated to increasing the number of electric cars and other clean vehicles on the roads.
Johnson, the deputy commissioner in Vermont, said the Northeast is now considering alternatives to the California model. "Right now, we're in the 'everything on the table' phase," he said. Alternatives could include a voluntary program that offers incentives to oil suppliers to clean up their fuel mix.
States are looking to move ahead "correctly, not quickly," Johnson said, adding that they are "at least a year away from anything significant."
Confirmation of Canadian oil sands entering the Northeast, however, could help speed up the process, said Toncahel of NRDC. "Bringing dirty Canadian tar sands into the region ... would bring more attention to the Clean Fuels Standard, and it would certainly raise the urgency of action in the region."
Canadian oil companies, based largely in Alberta, are increasingly looking to the eastern provinces as a way to get their oil sands crude to new markets.
TransCanada is proposing a $5.6 billion pipeline system that would move 625,000 barrels a day of crude to Ontario, Montreal and Quebec City, the Globe and Mail reported last week. It could also connect to the major Irving Oil refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick, which supplies a significant portion of the Northeast's transportation fuels.
InsideClimate News recently reported that Montreal Pipe Line Ltd.'s plan to reverse the flow of its South Portland, Maine-to-Montreal, Quebec oil pipeline suffered a setback when judges with the Court of Quebec rejected its request to construct a pumping station that could facilitate the reversal. Experts involved see it as a temporary obstacle.
Opponents Ramp Up Efforts
In the meantime, opponents of the Clean Fuels Standard are taking advantage of the slow pace of progress.
On Monday, CEA released a report that said adopting the California model would cost the Northeast nearly $130 billion in total economic activity and at least 147,000 jobs over a ten-year period. Gas prices, meanwhile, would double, according to group.
The findings contradict a NESCAUM study that found that a 10 percent reduction in the well-to-wheels emissions of fuels would create up to $41 billion in economic benefits over ten years. NESCAUM expected gasoline and diesel prices to grow from slightly over $3 per gallon of gasoline in 2013 to $3.59 in 2022.
Whatley, CEA's executive vice president, told reporters that NESCAUM's analysis was "not sufficiently thorough" and that it was based on "flawed" assumptions.
Proponents of the fuel standard decried CEA's analysis as biased.
"The report was put out by the CEA, and the CEA is the voice of the American Petroleum Institute," said Jennifer Rushlow, a staff attorney with the Conservation Law Foundation, in an interview. Her group is providing legal help to California's air agency in its fuel standard lawsuit against CEA and others.
Whatley denied that accusation. "API is one of the 190-plus affiliate members of CEA, which include truckers, manufacturers, airlines, convenience stores, truck stop operators, chemical producers, iron and steel producers, farmers and energy producers."
The CEA report comes weeks after New Hampshire's GOP-controlled House voted to prohibit the state from regulating the types of fuels used in cars, jets or ships, or in home heating. The law would bar the state from participating in a Clean Fuels Standard, but would allow state officials to participate in discussions.
Environmental groups in the state expect the Senate to pass the bill in a few weeks. Last summer, Gov. John Lynch struck down a measure to back out of RGGI. It is unclear if the governor will veto this latest bill.
Whatley said that he was "excited" about the New Hampshire legislation and said that he met with a large number of legislators to get it passed. "We feel good about the results of the conversations that we've had," across the region, he said.
In January, Christie's administration said it wouldn't adopt a low-carbon fuel standard, citing economic concerns. "We reached out to NESCAUM ... advising them that we were not going to be working toward the low-carbon fuel standard in New Jersey," Larry Hajna, a spokesperson for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, confirmed to InsideClimate News.
In a Dec. 28 letter to NESCAUM, Maine's Department of Environmental Protection said it would not be "developing a program for implementation in Maine," but would continue to participate in the initiative.
"We had concerns about whether our rural state would be able to appropriately support the infrastructure associated with low-carbon fuel" such as electric vehicle charging networks or natural gas filling stations, Samantha DePoy-Warren, a spokesperson for the department, told InsideClimate News. "But we never said we pulled back our support."
Johnson, the deputy commissioner from Vermont, said it was too soon to determine what kind of impact the absence of New Jersey or New Hampshire could have on the Clean Fuels Standard.
"At this point it's a little premature, in the sense that there isn't really a program to be had right now," he said.
InsideClimate News intern Zoe Schlanger contributed research to this report.


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