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Petro-Canada Coaching Excellence Awards
These prestigious awards recognize coaches whose athletes excelled at world championships, Olympic and Paralympic Games, and at the Special Olympics World Games. The Coaching Association of Canada Petro-Canada will honour these recipients before their peers at the Sport Leadership Awards Ceremony, during the Petro-Canada Sport Leadership sportif conference, November 8-10 in Ottawa, ON.
Qualifying period: September 1, 2017 to August 31, 2018*
*Exceptions to this timeline will be made for major Games ending in September.
Eligible Coaches: Coaches of Canadian athlete(s) or team(s) in a recognized National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP) sport who win gold, silver, or bronze medals in an eligible competition.
To be considered eligible, a coach should:
· be NCCP Competition – Development certified (NCCP Competition – Introduction certified for Special Olympics);
· be a Canadian citizen, a Canadian resident, or a landed immigrant in possession of a Canadian work permit who contributes to the Canadian sport system;
· have worked on a regular basis with the medal-winning athlete or team as either head, assistant, or personal coach;
N.B. 1: The award nomination MUST be supported by the athlete or team. In some circumstances the CAC may request to contact athletes directly to clarify the role and contribution of personal and team coaches.
N.B. 2: Normally ONE coach is recognized for each medal-winning performance. If an athlete is coached equally by two coaches, the CAC Awards Committee will consider the circumstances to determine if an award should rightly be given to two coaches. In team sports, one head coach and up to two assistant coaches may equally share the award.
N.B. 3: In the event that a coach does not meet the minimum NCCP training criteria as listed above, the NSO may request that the CAC Awards Committee review and consider other coach education equivalencies. Supporting documentation for equivalencies should be submitted at the time of nomination.
Eligible Competitions: Open World Championships, the Olympic Games, the Special Olympics World Games, or the Paralympic Games.
A minimum of 8 countries must have competed in the preliminary round of competition at Open World Championships, at Olympic Games, or at Paralympic Games;
A minimum of 6 countries must have competed in the preliminary round of competition at Special Olympics World Games.
Age group World Championships, (e.g. Junior World Championships or Under 23), as well as World Cups ARE NOT qualifying competitions.
Documented evidence verifying the medal-winning performance (official results of the championship) and the number of entries must accompany the nomination.
The nomination process:
The CAC will track and record all eligible championships during the qualification period and on a regular basis notify the appropriate NSO of any eligible performances. After receiving the completed nomination package, all nominations will be reviewed by the CAC awards committee.
The nomination MUST be supported by the athlete or team. In some circumstances the CAC may request to contact athletes directly to clarify the role and contributions of personal and team coaches.
National Sport Organizations (NSOs) are responsible for nominating eligible coaches and for ensuring the nomination is supported by the athlete or team. NSOs are requested to submit applications for their coaches within 30 days of receiving eligibility notification.
Documented evidence verifying the medal-winning performance (a copy of the event start list, preliminary round) and the number of entries must accompany the nomination.
In addition to these documents, nominators must submit a complete coach biography in Word format, a high resolution head shot, and a minimum of one action shot.
Click here to nominate online
Click here to download the nomination form.
Nominations should be submitted to:
Brad Welock
Coordinator, Marketing


I have done a number of newborn portrait sessions in the past few months, and I can't wait to share them here over the next few weeks.
I joined this family in their hospital room about 12 hours after their son was born, witnessing and documenting a few of the quiet first moments while they got to know their new baby.
The fall portrait season is in full swing, and this family has me come every year to do their portraits. This year we hung out on their Brooklyn stoop, playing with different configurations, generally having a good time.


The music of the late John Denver is like an old friend, outlasting trends and standing the test of time. Join acclaimed performer Jim Curry for this tribute to the music of one of the most beloved singer-songwriters ever to grace the stage.
Tribute artist Jim Curry, whose voice was heard in the CBS-TV movie Take Me Home: The John Denver Story, has performed Denver's music in sold out shows throughout the country and has emerged as today's top performer of Denver's vast legacy of multi-platinum hits.
Jim's uncanny ability to mirror John's voice and clean-cut look takes you back to the time when "Rocky Mountain High" "Sunshine" "Calypso" and "Annie's Song" topped the charts, and his popular music had the heartfelt message of caring for the earth and caring for each other.


EAR CANDY wants you to have a great time while supporting a great cause! Whether we are participating in large festivals like The Tempe Music Fest or McDowell Mountain Music Fest or creating an Emerging Artist Concert Series to showcase the talents of the Valley, we are using music as a vehicle to give music.
Each event increases the awareness of the need for music education while raising funds to support the mission of EAR CANDY.


This entry was posted in American mythology, Fantasy, Fiction, Personal Stuff, Uncategorized, Writing and tagged author, black sand beach, F&SF, fantasy, Fiction, folk tale, folklore, Hawaii, journaling, K.D. Keenan, Kama-pu'a'a, Obsidian Mirror, Pele, SciFi, sea turtle, The Obsidian Mirror, volcanoe, writer, writing by K.D. Keenan. Bookmark the permalink.
I found your blog while falling through an internet black hole about Obsidian. Thank you so much for the story. I lived on the Big Island for a few years 3,000 ft up in the town of Waimea (called Kamuela because there is also a Waimea on Kauai.) I know exactly how you felt on that helicopter in the canyon on Kauai; I think the pilots love to impress the haolies with their flying abilities.
If you return to the big island, I would suggest staying at the Manago Hotel in Captain Cook, near Kealakekua – mostly locals, very reasonably priced, local type meals, close to mac nut plantation, and also maybe time it with the Rodeo at Parker Ranch in Waimea. Also check out Volcano House Cabins & Campsites, Located at Namakanipaio Campground. You pick up your bedding at the Volcano House, then stay in a 4 bed cabin, cook out on the grill. Very cool – no poisonous critters on Hawai;i.
Also, there is an amazing artist in Kailua-Kona, MaryAnn Hylton, http://pelehawaii.com/, that creates an amazing physical representation of Pele as originally drawn by Herb Kane'.
Thank you for making me home sick.
Lynn, thanks for your comments! We ate at the Manago Hotel while we were in Captain Cook, but stayed at a B&B, and absolutely loved it. The Big Island is a favorite of ours, so I'll probably be back yet again. If you read further in the blog, I talk about Molokai, which was an amazing experience in itself, and totally different from the Big Island. Are there really no poisonous critters on Hawaii? What about centipedes–we ran into two of those in our condo on Molokai.
What you didn't do was the helicopter ride to visit the active volcano. This is one of the most awe inspiring things I have ever done, and I'm not big on awe.
David, I don't do helicopters, that's why. My first and only helicopter ride was up Waimea Canyon on Kauai, and into the caldera of the island's extinct volcano. I am still surprised I didn't have to change my pants when we–finally! Finally!–got back.
Thanks for the helpful travel tip, David! No way.
Since no immediately obvious alternative lent itself to the moment I also vote for Pele having accepted your offering thereby laying her blessing on your future work. If you get anywhere near that same spot again, I'd appreciate you throwing her a flower on my behalf.
No mention today of gleaning any new information to use in the book unless the stories of Pele count.It's amazing she became so revered when she started off by doing her sister wrong.
I hope you continue to have a brilliant time while having much success with your legend hunting.


Here is America in the days when railroads were still a fearsome adventure and steamboats were racing each other to make new records, as seen by sixteen-year-old Jonathan. To join his father, he traveled from Maine to Illinois by schooner, rail, steamboat, on foot, and in a bookseller's caravan. As he went further west, Jonathan found the countryside troubled by a daring highwayman. The more he heard about him, the more Jonathan was convinced it was the same man who had robbed him in New York. Courage and quick wits carried Jonathan through many a dangerous moment.
Stephen Meader has written another outstanding story, with a vivid sense of the historic, which boys will read with enthusiasm and recommend to their friends.


Jaegwon Kim's Exclusion Problem holds that the nonreductive physicalist position is untenable. If the mental and the physical are distinct and both cause their effects, then it seems that their effects were caused twice over. I argue that the nonreductive physicalist should reject the Exclusion principle—a position called Causal Compatibilism. I appeal to our concepts of causal sufficiency and difference making in order to distinguish cases of mental causation, epiphenomenalism, and overdetermination. I appeal to James Woodward's Interventionist framework to individuate causal difference-makers. Mental causation involves two sufficient causes but only one difference-maker. Given that overdetermination involves two sufficient causes and two difference-makers, the Exclusion principle fails to distinguish between overdetermination and mental causation and so, it is false. I conclude that by rejecting the Exclusion principle, the nonreductive physicalist can get out of the Exclusion Problem.
Thompson, Morgan, "Causal Compatibilism: A Nonreductive Physicalist Solution to the Exclusion Problem." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2013.


So you still think you're funny?
Not so New Comedian of the Year (Formerly Old Comedian of the Year) is a competition based at The Museum of Comedy in Bloomsbury. The final will be held at Leicester Square Theatre, in the heart of London's West End.
Forget cheery optimism & skinny jeans. At last, a competition for comics who've been around long enough to know better. Expect a high standard and a hint of world weary cynicism as 100 not so new acts compete for the title of Not so New Comedian of the Year.
The competition is open to anyone over 35 who has been performing for 5 years or more, and not making a living from comedy. Entries from character acts, musical acts and sketch groups are welcome. The only restriction is that all contestants must stick to 5 minutes of original material or risk disqualification.
Please include all dates you NOT available for all rounds of the competition: you cannot swap places once assigned.
Donations gratefully considered if you have an object of historical interest, which relates to the history of comedy or to collections already held at the Museum.
"If you have the slightest interest in comedy I urge you to get down there" - Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke.


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Top 10 famous scientists with dyslexia
July 6, 2020 March 28, 2019 by Manpreet Singh
Last Updated on July 6, 2020 by Editorial Team
Pretty unfortunate that still many people equate dyslexia with lower IQ. Considering the number of famous inventors, scientists, actors, presidents born with dyslexia, it is evident that dyslexia has nothing to do with low IQ.
Who could've thought the most brilliant mind ever born in the history of humankind, Albert Einstein, had difficulty with reading aloud and word retrieval?
The point here is that dyslexia is just not the end of the academic road. Every dyslexic individual sees and learns about the world from a different perspective, as in the case of Albert Einstein. He was an outside-the-box thinker. So can be you, your kid, or anyone with dyslexia. Just because you have dyslexia doesn't mean you're inferior.
To further boost the morale of our dear readers, we gathered a list of 10 most famous scientists with dyslexia. Scientists mentioned below were able to achieve the greatest heights even in the times when there was hardly any assistance for dyslexia.
10. Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell (3 March 1847 – 2 August 1922) was a renowned inventor and scientist famous for his invention of the practical telephone. The telephone was the outcome of his effort to create a device for helping deaf people.
His school years were really not that great. He struggled through school due to his dyslexia. Other than his subjects of interest, his school records were majorly filled with absenteeism and poor grades. But, that didn't stop him for developing the greatest inventions of all time.
He is also well known today as one of the founders of the National Geographic society
We so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor of Telephone
9. Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie (15 May 1858 – 19 April 1906) was a French Physicist. He was a pioneer of nuclear physics and radioactivity. His research in the field (with his brother, Jacques Curie)led to the discovery of the piezoelectric effect. Pierre received schooling entirely at home by his mother and father.
He showed a strong interest in mathematics and geometry. At the age of just 14, he began studying with a mathematics professor who helped him shape his future prospects. Pierre's knowledge of physics and mathematics earned him his bachelor of science degree in 1875 at the age of sixteen.
He and his wife, Marie Curie, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 for their contribution to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium.
It is important to make a dream of life and a dream reality.
Pierre Curie, French Physicist
8. Jacques Dubochet
Jacques Dubochet (born 8 June 1942) is a retired Swiss biophysicist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2017 along with Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for their contribution in developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution.
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The Swiss Nobel laureate struggled through his school years as he was dyslexic. He was diagnosed while at the age of 14 when he was about to fail in high school.
Initially, he desired to become a writer but had to give up as he found writing too hard. As a result, he decided to pursue a career in science, his second choice.
We three have never been very good chemists but we are gratified with a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The Peter Principle says that everyone is promoted until they reach their level of incompetence. We are worried that we may have reached this remarkable point.
Jacques Dubochet, Swiss Nobel Laureate Biophysicist
7. Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday (22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867 ) was an English scientist famous for his contributions to the field of physics and chemistry. Belonging to a very poor family, he received only a basic education in a church Sunday school.
He was dyslexic. On one hand, he spoke and wrote with great difficulty. Memorizing stuff was a nightmare. He did poorly with the symbolic language of mathematics. But, on the other hand, he was gifted with an expanded ability to visualize — to see things whole.
He went on to become the first person to invent electric motor and dynamo. He also discovered a number of new organic compounds, including benzene, and was the first to liquefy a permanent gas.
A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
Michael Faraday, English Scientist
6. Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642 ) was an Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and strength of materials and to the development of the scientific method.
His father was Vinzenzo Galilei, a musician and his mother were Guilia Ammannati. Initially, Galileo was enrolled at the University of Pisa to become a physician. However, he was not able to finish his medical degree. Instead, he opted for mathematics and fine arts.
Two major incidents responsible for this decision – One was his first observation that a chandelier despite swinging in large and small arcs took almost the same time to return to the first position. Another one was a lecture of geometry which he accidentally attended clarifying the mind of his future prospects. He is known as the Father of Modern Science.
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
Galileo Galilei, Italian Mathematician & Inventor
5. James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish scientist in the field of mathematical physics. His research in kinetics and electricity contributed to structuring modern Quantum mechanics and special relativity.
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Maxwell was a quiet child. At school, he was at first regarded as shy and rather dull. He made no friendships and spent his occasional holidays in reading old ballads, drawing curious diagrams, and making rude mechanical models. His inconveniences followed him even to Edinburgh University where he additionally attempted to fit in and it wasn't until he touched base in Cambridge that he blossomed.
The student who uses home made apparatus, which is always going wrong, often learns more than one who has the use of carefully adjusted instruments, to which he is apt to trust and which he dares not take to pieces.
James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish Physicist
4. John Robert Horner
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John Robert Horner (15 June 1946) is an American Paleontologist. His major work revolved around researching dinosaur's behavior and growth. His work contributed to the evidence that dinosaurs cared for their young.
He discovered his dyslexia while working at Princeton ( 1975-1982 from the ages of 29 to 36). In an interview, he admitted that he was introvert and shy to speak in front of an audience of any size. He struggled through school being considered lazy, dumb, and perhaps even retarded. He discovered his passion for fossil hunting when he found his first dinosaur bone at the age of 8.
Despite his difficulties with reading and writing, Jack won high school science fair prizes because he had enormous enthusiasm for practical science.
A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
John Robert Horner, American Paleontologist
3. Carolyn Widney "Carol" Greider
Carol W. Greider (born 15 April 1961 ) is an American molecular biologist. She received Noble Prize in 2009, along with Blackburn and Jack W. Szostak for discovering how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.
Carol was born in a family of scientists ( her dad was a physics professor and her mom was a Ph.D. botanist). During school years, she used to consider herself 'stupid'. In an interview, Greider said that her early school days were really difficult. She performed poorly in standardized tests. She was put in remedial spelling classes but that didn't help her grades either.
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It wasn't until later that she figured out that she was dyslexic and that her trouble with spelling and sounding out words did not mean she was stupid.
Learning compensatory skills also played a role in my success as a scientist because one has to intuit many different things that are going on at the same time and apply those to a particular problem. Perhaps my ability to pull more information out of context and put together difficult ideas may have been affected by what I learned to do from dyslexia.
Carol W. Greider, American Nobel Laureate Biologist
2. Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Edison (11 February 1847 – 18 October 1931) was a famous American Scientist and Businessman and scientist. Edison with 1093 U.S patents to his name, was considered to be one of the most prolific inventors of his time. He invented the phonograph and the long-lasting light bulb. He also created the world's first industrial research laboratory.
Thomas wasn't really that bright in school. He was labeled dumb, lazy, and inattentive by his teachers. Eventually, his mother withdrew Tom from school and began to home-teach him. He was a slow learner, terrible at arithmetic, and had difficulty with speech. Thomas Edison was dyslexic and a troublemaker. This resulted in a lot of behavioral issues. Overcoming his dyslexia, Edison put a concentrated effort towards his interest. He believed in hard work and rooted for it. His determination led him to invent numerous influential gadgets that are still widely used.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas Alva Edison, American Inventor
1. Archer John Porter Martin
Archer John Porter Martin (1 March 1910 – 28 July 2002) was a British chemist. He received Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1952 for the development of modern chromatography techniques which helps to separate different compounds in a mixture. Martin is considered to be dyslexic, as he was barely able to read until he was nine.
He went to Bedford School, a middle-of-the-road private school when he was eleven. This is where his interest in making things and in methods of separation by studying fractional distillation originates. As a result, he was able to bag a scholarship for Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1929.
Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.
Archer John Porter Martin, British Nobel Laureate Chemist
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stated on March 11, 2019 in a Facebook post:
"The day Al Gore was born, there were 130,000 glaciers on earth. Today, only 130,000 remain."
Facebook Fact-checks
The numbers are wrong, but that's not all.
By Ciara O'Rourke April 2, 2019
Viral meme about Al Gore and glaciers is wrong
Former vice president Al Gore has used his celebrity to try to curb the worst consequences of climate change. The 2006 movie "An Inconvenient Truth," for example, follows Gore as he discusses the dangers of global warming. A recent Facebook post seems to play on that film title with a claim about glaciers.
"The day Al Gore was born, there were 130,000 glaciers on earth," reads the text of a Facebook post featuring pictures of the veep. "Today, only 130,000 remain."
"Awkward," wrote the Facebook account that published the post on March 11. It was flagged as part of Facebook's efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) We turned to research and climate scientists to help us figure out if it's accurate.
What's a glacier?
A glacier is a body of snow and ice that's big enough in size and mass to move under its own weight, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. But what qualifies as a glacier depends on who you ask. The USGS defines them "according to the commonly accepted guidelines in which a body of ice has an area of at least 0.1 kilometers squared, or about 25 acres."
But that's not universal.
Over in Argentina, for example, a grassroots group challenged the size cutoff for a glacier to be included in the country's national inventory, arguing it has imperiled important water sources. And a recent study in the journal Nature discusses sea level rise from uncharted glaciers, ones that disappeared before they were documented or are "missing," meaning they're too small to be included in inventories.
William Colgan, a senior researcher with the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, told PolitiFact that the emerging global standard for defining a glacier is a minimum of 1 hectare, or 100 meters by 100 meters.
How many glaciers were there in 1948?
According to Colgan, we don't know what the global number of glaciers was in 1948, the year Al Gore was born. Scientists use satellites to map glaciers and reliable satellite monitoring didn't start until the mid 1980s. "We just don't have the snapshots from space in 1948," Colgan said.
How many glaciers are there today?
We do have estimates of the total number of glaciers today. According to the Randolph Glacier Inventory, Colgan said, there are 197,654 glaciers that are at least 1 hectare, or 0.01 square kilometers. That's 67,654 more than the Facebook post says, not counting the thousands of "missing" glaciers, Colgan said.
Walt Meier, a research scientist with the National Snow and Ice Data Center, told PolitiFact that inventories are always changing. The numbers could increase because more glaciers are getting mapped, he said. One database on the center's website lists 306,865 glaciers, for example.
Michael Kemp, director of the World Glacier Monitoring Service, cited 215,000 glaciers today. He said in an email that the number 130,000 probably comes from the World Glacier Inventory, which is a snapshot of the glacier distribution in the second half of the 20th century. But, Kemp said, it's not globally complete.
How have glaciers changed over the decades?
Kemp said that though it's clear glaciers have been shrinking worldwide since the mid 19th century, the number of glaciers may not have changed much. That's because while some glaciers have vanished altogether, others have "disintegrated from one large glacier complex into smaller tributary glaciers."
Jim White, a climate scientist and interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, said a better measure of glacier change is ice volume, because that translates to potential sea level rise if that ice melts.
"Satellites give us area, not volume, so numbers of glaciers is interesting but volume change is more important for Miami," he said. (The coastal city is vulnerable to sea level rise.)
How much ice have we lost since Al Gore was born?
Citing a 2017 Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme study Colgan worked on, he said the world has lost about 33,000 gigatons of ice since 1948. To put a gigaton in perspective, scientists estimate we're losing 159 gigatons of ice from Antarctica each year, according to the Washington Post. That's about a third of all the water in Lake Erie.
"The changes are so great with land ice, it's like the poster child of climate change," Colgan said. "Everywhere you look, you see massive change."
Consider Glacier National Park, in Montana. In an undated post about the park, the U.S. Geological Survey says there were an estimated approximate 150 glaciers in 1850. Most of those glaciers were still there when the park was established in 1910. But by 2015, there were 26 remaining glaciers larger than 25 acres.
Glaciers are dynamic. They respond to temperature and precipitation. But they retreat when melting outpaces the accumulation of new snow. And, USGS notes, "worldwide glacial glacier recession is well documented."
"Early park visitors and scientists noted that glaciers were retreating as early as 1914," according to the post. "The climate was already warming and glaciers were responding, but the industrial revolution added more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, furthering glacier retreat."
All glaciers have reduced in size in the park since 1966, according to USGS, and some had retreated as much 85 percent by 2015. (You can see photos showing how the Shepard Glacier in the park has changed from 1913 to 2005.)
The Facebook post claims that there were 130,000 glaciers in 1948 and there are 130,000 glaciers today. We don't know how many glaciers there were in 1948, and there are actually tens of thousands more glaciers worldwide today than the post says.
But context matters here, and the post suggests that glaciers haven't changed in the 70 years since Al Gore was born. That's also incorrect. As Walt Meier, the research scientist with the National Snow and Ice Data Center, told us, "the number of glaciers isn't really relevant in terms of assessing climate change."
What matters, he said, is the change in mass.
"Are glaciers as a whole gaining or losing ice?" he asked. "On that question, the answer is very clear — glaciers are losing mass."
We rate this post as False.
Facebook post, March 11, 2019
National Snow and Ice Data Center, Glaciers and climate change, visited March 29, 2019
Email interview with Jim White, interim dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, March 28, 2019
Email interview with Walt Meier, research scientist, National Snow and Ice Data Center, March 28, 2019
Interview with William Colgan, senior researcher, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, March 29, 2019
Durham University, "The Randolph Inventory: a globally complete inventory of glaciers," 2014
Nature, "Twentieth-century contribution to sea-level rise from uncharted glaciers," Nov. 21, 2018
U.S. Geological Survey, "Retreat of glaciers in Glacier National Park," visited March 29, 2019
Science, "Argentine scientist indicted over design of glacier inventory," Dec. 5, 2017
The Nobel Prize, Al Gore Facts, visited March 29, 2019
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, "Adapting to sea level rise in Miami-Dade County, Florida," visited March 29, 2019
The Washington Post, "Obama just explained what a 'gigaton' is. Here's why that's a big deal," Sept. 1, 2015
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While most Lexingtonians are trying to make ends meet, our government has been sorting out a lawsuit filed against us by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Lexington is being sued because many of the creeks in Fayette County are regularly overloaded by pollution in violation of the Clean Water Act.
This comes from underdeveloped or ill-maintained sewer and storm water infrastructure. Urban flash-flooding caused by too much paving and too little water retention has made a bad situation far worse.
Lest some scoff that this is just government meddling, you might want to talk to the families with sewage rising in their basements, the horse farmer who spent $40,000 in one year hauling off garbage, or family and friends of the grown women who drowned in a culvert while trying to cross a city street.
We have neglected a vital, but little seen, public investment for a very long time. The fees and the work to be done are not a punishment; they are about deferred investment. If we do this right, we will have cleaner water flowing into the Kentucky River upstream from where we will soon draw our tap water.
Our dilemma is that since we are in a financial crisis, we are proposing a storm-water fee as frugally and expediently as possible, before all the facts are gathered and without adequate public input. By shooting for minimum cost at the front end we may blow a big opportunity that won't resurface for decades.
The proposed storm-water ordinance addresses the management of rainwater. It directly impacts our urban waterways (the point of the lawsuit). Water quality has everything to do with how we use our urban environment. It is a complex issue that requires substantial citizen input.
The Storm Water Task Force was open to the public, but its proceedings were a closed loop of prearranged conditions. For example, the proposed ordinance set the fee at an arbitrary monthly rate of $4.16 and then made the staff and task force members back into what could be accomplished with this fixed funding (with considerable friction it has just jumped to $4.32 monthly or $51.84 annually).
Despite the last-minute rate adjustment, basic issues that affect water quality are only marginally included and, given the funding, may not be affordable.
For example, even though the EPA sued Lexington over water quality in our creeks, there will be little or no money available for stream restoration or landscape buffering along our floodplains.
Here's where we are missing a big opportunity.
Lexington is one of few cities nationally where the rural landscape is our urban identity. A strong relationship with the environment is not just a nice thing to have, it is a necessity if you want people to believe you are who you say you are. And it is critical if we want to compete with Austin, Boulder, Madison, Portland or the like in attracting a talented work force.
Lexington is also one of very few cities of any size that does not sit on or near a big body of water. Since our creeks are the epicenter of the lawsuit, it seems pretty well justified to invest in our waterways directly, making them safe, clean and publicly accessible.
Landscape buffers along creeks are critical to improving water quality by slowing runoff and filtering out pollution.
Modern storm water standards call for a 30 foot vegetative buffer on each side of a creek. If we refocus our priorities so that 25 percent of the storm water funds are used to restore our creek corridors, we could directly address the water quality problem and give Lexington the scenic waterways it lacks and the recreational trails that are consistently identified as a top priority.
"One quarter for creeks" is a slogan meant to refocus Lexington on the crux of the lawsuit. This mayor and council have been exemplary supporters of trails. If we can connect the dots and restore our creeks with 25 cents on the dollar of storm-water funding, we can reclaim our urban creek corridors.
If we will see this lawsuit as an opportunity and not just a crisis, we can create a positive lasting legacy that all Lexingtonians can enjoy.
Van Meter Pettit is a licensed architect and president of Town Branch Trail, Inc.
This entry was posted in News on April 14, 2009 by Van Meter Pettit.


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Q: Probability Generating Function of $X^2$ in terms of $G_X(z)$. I am struggling with an infinite sum in the computation of the PGF of $X^2$ in terms of that of $X$. Suppose you define the random variable $Z=X^2$, where $X\in\mathbb{N}$. We know that $G_X(z)=\sum_{k\geq 0}z^kPr(X=k)$. Then, when I try to express $G_Z(z)$ in terms of $G_X(z)$, I use the fact that $X$ is always non-negative and takes values in $\mathbb{N}$. Namely
$$\begin{align}
G_Z(z)=\sum_{k\geq 0}z^kPr(Z=k)&=\sum_{k\geq 0}z^kPr(X=\pm\sqrt{k})\\
&=\sum_{k\geq 0}z^kPr(X=\sqrt{k})\\
&=\sum_{k\geq 0}z^{k^2}Pr(X=k),
\end{align}$$ but I am stuck in this last step and don't know how to get rid of the $z^{1/k}$ factor to obtain $G_X(z)$ again. Any help or advice is more than welcome.

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Simply put, we want every single employee in our company to know absolutely everything. We'll probably never achieve that, but by trying, we'll come closer than we would have otherwise. Our CEO, Melissa Reiff, is particularly passionate about this principle and created our definition of it: daily execution of practicing consistent, reliable, predictable, effective, thoughtful, compassionate, and yes, even courteous communication.
Communicating this way takes more time, but it has been critical to our "whole-brained" approach: Every employee is part of the company's cognitive process, and thinking together makes us far more powerful than the sum of our parts. And nothing makes someone feel more a part of a team than knowing everything has been communicated to them. We know that some information we share could fall into competitors' hands – but the advantages far outweigh the risks.


Amazing Facts About Vitamin B12 graphic © herbs-info.com/naturalhealthzone.org.
As one of the vitamins in the B complex family, Vitamin B12 plays a functional role in the conversion of the food we eat into energy. As with most of the other B vitamins, it's essential for healthy looking hair, liver maintenance, healthy skin, and healthy eyes. However, Vitamin B12 is set apart in its importance in neurological and hematological functions.
Vitamin B12 is used in the treatment of pernicious anemia. This type of anemia is an autoimmune disease that renders the body unable to absorb Vitamin B12 from the gastrointestinal tract. The complications that this disease causes shows just how much we really need this vitamin in our system. People who suffered from pernicious anemia suffered severe pain, locomotor difficulties, tachycardia, mouth sores, nausea, heartburn, just to name a few symptoms. In severe cases, sufferers of this type of anemia had spinal cord degeneration.
Deficiency in Vitamin B12 also showed drastic developmental delays in infants less than 6 months. Injuries to the central nervous system was noted, as well as manifestations of microcephaly, seizures, lethargy, and abnormal muscle development.  This discovery prompted doctors to supplement pregnant women with Vitamin B12 during prenatal stages to avoid pre and post-natal difficulties, a practice still implemented to this day in clinical settings.
As with all the B vitamins, Vitamin B12 is water soluble. This means that it would be hard for us to reach the point of toxicity, since our body disposes of the excess everyday through our urine. Deficiency is also only manifested years after, as our body can produce Vitamin B12 from our bacterial gut. Deficiency of this vitamin is even less of a concern for people who allow quick broiled beef, lamb, and steamed fish in their diets.


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Q: Deploying React/Redux App on Heroku I want to deploy a react app on Heroku.
I run npm run build which creates a productionized version into the build_webpack folder. I do a git add . on this folder and try to submit but Heroku doesn't recognize the buildpack.

remote: Building source: remote: remote: -----> App not compatible
  with buildpack: https://github.com/ddollar/heroku-buildpack-multi
  remote:        More info:
  https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/buildpacks#detection-failure
  remote: remote:  !     Push failed remote: Verifying deploy...

A: if you want to deploy your code to heroku , you should use this command
first you need a free heroku account
next you should install heroku on your machine
and after that login using this command
heroku login
after you loged in , cd to your project dir and enter this command
heroku create $APP_NAME $BRANCH:MASTER --buildpack mars/create-react-app
if you are on branch master you don't have to enter $BRANCH:


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Alturi » News Items » North America » United States » Democratic presidential candidates decline to speak at anti-LGBT group's summit
Democratic presidential candidates decline to speak at anti-LGBT group's summit
04/29/2019 | Washington Blade
Six Democratic presidential candidates have declined an invitation to speak at an anti-LGBT group's summit in Iowa. NBC News on Monday reported U.S. Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), former Texas Congressman Beto O'Rourke and South Bend (Ind.) Mayor Pete Buttigieg have all declined invitations to speak at the Family Leader's summit that is scheduled to take place on July 12. "I welcome any opportunity to talk about how faith guides me, but I cannot — in good conscience — attend an event put on by an organization that preaches bigotry and sows hate against the LGBTQ community," wrote Booker on his Twitter page. "That's why I am declining an invitation to the Family Leader's July 12 summit."
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Healing jewellery designed in Norway!
I have always been making all kinds of different stuff. When I was a kid, I did not go to kindergarten because I was busy drawing. I did not understand why the other kids where interrupting me. When I got older I took an education for sowing and 1 year at a private school to learn fashion. When I finished that I started my own business, but got cut up with some spiritual people and lived with them in Chile sewing there clothes for about 3 years. When I came home to Sweden (I am Swedish, but live know I'm Norway) I started working as a cleaner in schools and kindergartens. I had enough and took the train to Oslo, Norway, and started cleaning gyms. But after 10 years of cleaning my body shut down. Then I met the father of my oldest son and and we lived in Spain for a few years. When our son was 1 year old we came to back Norway. Then I went to learn photography in a private school.
I have tried many different jobs over the years such as training instructor, diving instructor, receptionist at hotels and gyms, and photography, but I never really fit in. After going thru "an awakening process", I found Reiki healing (always knew I had this in me) and went to learn how to heal myself and my family and friends.
So now after 45 years on this planet, I will spend my time doing what I love, designing new things such as jewellery that I always come back to making. So thank you for reading this and hopefully supporting me on this exiting journey!!!


Raw cuffs lend a hand-cropped look to these flared PAIGE jeans. 5-pocket styling. Button closure and zip fly.
Been loving Paige jeans due to the breath-ability of the fabric and ordered these as I always need a white pair for the summer. The fabric of these jeans are stiffer than my others and though the fit was good, I returned to search for a different pair.


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Home Teams Bayern Munich Liverpool open talks with Bayern to sign €20m class winger
Liverpool open talks with Bayern to sign €20m class winger
Good news for the Liverpool fans. The Reds have stepped up the gas to sign the highly rated Bayern Munich winger Xherdan Shaqiri in the summer.
According to reliable Sky Italia journalist, Fabrizio Romano, Liverpool have opened talks with Bayern over the possibility of signing the €20m winger.
Last month, The Guardian published a story, where they claimed Liverpool are plotting an audacious move for Shaqiri. The 22-year-old is a regular for his Swiss national team but has failed to secure regular starting place in the star-studded Bayern team.
However, early this month, Swiss newspaper Blick claimed that Shaqiri might opt to stay at Bayern, beyond the summer.
The Swiss international is valued around €20m and I personally don't think it will be difficult for Liverpool to lure him. First of all, money isn't a problem for the Reds this season, with the club officials having promised to back manager Brendan Rodgers with enough funds (Champions League revenue plus TV money).
Secondly and most importantly, Liverpool can not only offer him regular games at Anfield but can lure him with the platform of Champions League football as well.
Liverpool already have signed Rickie Lambert from Southampton and has agreed a deal in principle for Emre Can as well. It will be a cracker of a signing, should Liverpool succeed in pulling off the deal for Shaqiri.
Share your reaction, Liverpool fans!


Algeria has suffered incredible trade deficit losses in the first half of 2017.
Whereas in 2016 the deficit was recorded at $12.33 billion, the same time of year in 2017 has yielded a trade deficit of $7.32 billion, according to the National Center for Information and Statistics.
Exports, however, have increased from $19.41 billion in 2016 to $23.51 billion at the same time in 2017. Imports have declined from $35.6 billion to $30.8 billion.
Fuel sales abroad have been 94.7 percent of the total volume of exports, allowing this year's numbers to rise to $22.27 billion compared to last year's $18.4 billion.
Additionally, import financing was provided for the $30.8 billion of imported materials during the first two-thirds of 2017, with the other $18.7 billion being paid in cash.


What liberty interest, if any, do non-custodial parents have in the care, upbringing, and education of their children? Today a 2-1 panel handed down an interesting decision interpreting - and perhaps narrowing - the due process rights of non-custodial parents. Crowley v. McKinney, No. 02-3741 (7th Cir. Mar. 11, 2005).
[T]hose cases are remote from the present case in two pertinent respects. They are about a state's right to deny, in effect, the option of private education, a denial that is a greater intrusion on parental control of their children than limiting parents' involvement in the activities of the public school that their children attend. And they concern the rights of parents acting together rather than about the rights retained by a divorced parent whose ex-spouse has sole custody of the children and has not joined in the noncustodial parent's claim. In both respects the parental claim in this case is weaker. It is weaker because the challenge is to only one parent's control, the other's remaining unimpaired. It is also weaker because the state interest is stronger. Nebraska's interest in forbidding private schools to teach foreign languages was tenuous to the point of weirdness, while Oregon's project of forcing all children to attend public schools implied a hostility to private education that had no footing in American traditions or educational policy. Quite apart from parental interests, the statist character and conformist consequences of giving the state a monopoly of education sapped Oregon's policy of constitutional weight.
The distinction is illuminated by cases that discuss other aspects of parents' constitutional rights. Troxel v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57, 65-73 (2000), invalidated a state law that conferred broad discretion on the state's courts to override a custodial parent's wish to limit (not eliminate) visits by her children's grandparents. The case has a dual significance for the present case. First, it recognizes that one aspect of the parental right is a right against other relatives—a right to prevent a tug of war over the children—in this case Mrs. Crowley's right to decide what school the children shall attend. Second, it suggests the strength that the parental interest must attain to achieve constitutional status. At stake in Troxel was Mrs. Granville's control of her children, contested by the grandparents and the court that sided with them. At stake in Santosky v. Kramer, 455 U.S. 745 (1982), another case in which a state law was invalidated as an infringement of parental liberty, was the parental right itself. See also Stanley v. Illinois, 405 U.S. 645, 646-52 (1972). At stake in the present case is the slighter interest of Mr. Crowley in micromanaging his children's education at the school properly chosen for them.
Id. at *10. Thus, the panel held that: [W]e greatly doubt that a noncustodial divorced parent has a federal constitutional right to participate in his children's education at the level of detail claimed by the plaintiff." Id.
This case is about a father's constitutional right to participate meaningfully in the upbringing of his children. The question, as I see it, is whether the state (in this case through the agency of a local school district and its principal) may effectively terminate a noncustodial father's parental rights, through measures that deprive him altogether from the most important activity in which children under the age of eighteen engage: their education. The majority sees no federal constitutional dimension in the deprivations that the school district has imposed upon Daniel Crowley, notwithstanding the existence of Supreme Court cases directly recognizing these kinds of parental rights and notwithstanding the fact that its assumptions about the degree to which his parental rights have been circumscribed by virtue of his divorce decree are exaggerated at best, mistaken at worst. Unless we are to create a new exception to cases brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for actions like this that conceivably could be addressed by state family law courts— an action that I believe to be beyond this court's authority, even if the Supreme Court might choose to take this step some day—Crowley is entitled to proceed on his liberty claims. To the extent that the majority opinion holds otherwise, I dissent. I concur in the majority's conclusion that Crowley has stated an equal protection claim and a First Amendment claim that must be reinstated, along with his supplemental state claims.
Crowley raises several fascinating issues, including standing after Newdow. If a custodial parent demands that a non-custodial parent stay out of his child's life, what effect, if any, would that have on dad's ability to sue for violations of hisliberty interest in raising his children? Remember, here, Mr. Crowley was not suing because he disagreed with the school's curriculum. Rather, he sued because the school was not providing him information he needed to care for and raise his child. Also, do the parental rights trio (Meyer, Pierce, Yoder) protect a non-custodial parent's liberty interest? Is a non-custodial parent similar to a grandparent, and thus, under Troxel, can be told - absent a divorce agreement to the contrary - to leave the children's upbringing to the custodial parent?


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theory of interdisciplinarity
accountability project
oxford handbook of interdisciplinarity
NSF's broader impacts
philosophy of peer review
philosophical dimensions of climate change
csid speaker series
ID@UNT Workshop
interdisciplinary initiatives fund
roving professors
for scientists and engineers
This is CSID's attempt to capture our own broader impacts, where we interact with policy makers and the world at large. In other words, here is our own accountability project.
Director Robert Frodeman invited to be keynote speaker at the International Seminar on Interdisciplinarity in Education, Research and Extension at Universities in Florianopolis, Brazil. This meeting was organized by CAPES - the Brazilian federal agency for graduate education support and evaluation.
Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook invited to be participant at the National Research Council's Workshop on the Science of Team Science.
Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook invited by the University of Oregon's office for Research, Innovation and Graduate Education (RIGE) to give a lecutre and a workshop on Broader Impacts to administrators, faculty, and students. Read about the workshop...
Director Robert Frodeman invited to give a plenary talk on "The End of Disciplinarity" at Binghamton University's conference, Making Possible Futures in Research: Working Across the Disciplines. See the poster...
Director Robert Frodeman and Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook attend the annual meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S).
Frodeman delivered "Peer Review and the Governance of the Academy."
Holbrook presented a piece on CSID Senior Fellow Steve Fuller: "Fuller's Categorical Imperative: The Will to Proaction."
Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle and colleagues at HARC (Houston Advanced Research Center) and UNT Health Science Center submitted a $2.5 million NIH grant. They propose to study and mitigate the health impacts from oil and gas sites in Denton. This grant proposal is an extension of Briggle's work in CSID's Future of Energy project.
CSID is in the news at UNT for the new grant received to devise games that will help graduate students learn the ethics of research. Read the write up...
Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook and Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle participate as Co-PIs on ESSE awarded by the National Science Foundation. The $300,000, three-year grant will develop three interactive games focusing on research ethics. The CSID team will be providing the concepts for ethics training that will be included in the games.
Director Robert Frodeman gave a luncheon talk on "Politics & Technology" to faculty and administrators from Northern Arizona University.
Director Robert Frodeman presented "An Introduction to Field Philosophy" at the invitation of students, faculty, and administrators at Northern Arizona University.
Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle worked with community organizers to distribute informational flyers to citizens in a Denton neighborhood who were being adversely affected by nearby gas drilling.
Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook joined colleagues on a panel at the Conference on Science and Innovation Policy in Atlanta.
Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook publishes new article in RIV Rassegna Italiana di Valutazione: "Designing Research Evaluation: a View from the Perspective of a Large, Multidisciplinary University in the United States of America."
Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook presented "Open Access and Its Enemies" to students, faculty, and administrators at the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy.
Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook joined Georgia Tech's School of Public Policy as Visiting Assistant Professor,
Director Robert Frodeman joined colleauges at the Society for Philosophy and Technology biennial meeting in Lisbon, Portugal, where he delivered "The University, Peer Review, and the Rise of Metrics." Look through the program by clicking here...
Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook attended the annual meeting of the Science of Team Science group in Chicago where he co-presented on "The Philosophy of the Science of Team Science." Read the abstract...
Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook co-authored a new altmetric piece: ""Evaluating Research beyond Scientific Impact: How to Include Criteria for Productive Interactions and Impact on Practice and Society."
Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook addresses policy makers, administrators, and fellow researchers in Tempe, AZ, for the Communities of Intergration Workshop hosted by Arizona State University.
Writing on his Blog the Dish, Andrew Sullivan quoted CSID Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle's recent fracking piece from Australian research news source The Conversation. Read the entry...
CSID was contacted to contribute a page on Field Philosophy to the website for Arizona State University's Communities of Intergration Workshop upcoming in late May. Read the contribution...
Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle, as part his work on the Future of Energy research project, contributed a reaction at Slate to the recent Norse Energy Corp. v. Town of Dryden ruling in New York State. Read the article...
Director Robert Frodeman and Chris Buczinsky publish new viewpoint piece at Inside Higher Education, "Humanities not Harvard," suggesting that the way to keep humanities vibrant is to reject the over-disciplinized model of elite universities. Read the article...
Director Robert Frodeman publishes another Science in Society piece at Science Progress, "The 'Broader Impacts' of Sequestration on Science," to addresses research policy issues arising from the 2013 federal budget crisis . Read the article....
Director Robert Frodeman and Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook keynoted at the University of Missouri's upcoming Broader Impacts Summit to discuss the infrastructure needed to coordinate, document, and evaluate broader impacts across multiple projects. Look at the Summit schedule...
Work on CSID's Future of Energy research project continues as Fellow Adam Briggle examines the global/local identity of natural gas exploration in "Fracking? Not in my Backyard (or Yours)" for the Australian on-line research news source The Conversation. Read the article...
Director Robert Frodeman visited Georgia Tech University to act as an external evaluator of their Public Policy Institute.
Programs Manager Keith Wayne Brown honored by the University of North Texas for significant contributions he has made to helping the UNT community meet its goals and service to students. Mr. Brown was selected as one of twelve staff members out of 2,700 whose commitment to excellence marks a standard for UNT's campus. Read the article...
Programs Manager Keith Wayne Brown organized the 2nd UNT Comic Studies Conference. This meeting explored graphic novels & other forms of sequential art as they are used in and out of the classroom and across cultures. High school students, elementary school educators, and librarrians from the North Texas region were in attendance to interact with UNT instructors and invited experts from around the nation.
Director Robert Frodeman, Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook, Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle , and Gradate Researcher Kelli Barr, organized two workshops at the Public Philosophy Network's annual meeting in Atlanta, GA: Advancing Publicly Philosophy.
Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook, Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle , Gradate Researcher Kelli Barr and Visiting Fellow Wenlong Lu presented papers at the 2013 annual meeting of the Association for Professional & Applied Ethics.
CSID Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook attended his second meeting of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science's Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility in Boston, MA.
Director Robert Frodeman and Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook both address the Global Research Funding Forum (GRFF): Maximizing Opportunities to Build a Global Research Portfolio hosted by the University of North Texas. This invitation-only venue brings together university leadership, senior research & international officers, and faculty.
Graduate Research Fellow Kelli Barr joined a distinguished webinar panel of senior research faculty & professionals to discuss current issues in peer review and academic networking. "The Individual and Scholarly Networks." Organized byResearch Trends and the Elsevier Labs, the webinar was simulcast live from New York, Amsterdam and Oxford.
Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook presents at the University of Northern Illinois PI Academy: "Taking a Proactionary Approach to Grant-Writing, Peer Review and Broader Impacts." More info here.
Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle was quoted in a recent Bloomberg News piece: "Fracking Secrets by Thousands Keeps US Clueless on Wells." Briggle is spearheading CSID's Future of Energy project and is active in the City of Denton's process to rewrite local fracking ordinances.
Director Robert Frodeman addressed student, faculty & policy makers at the University of Helsinki on "The End of Disciplinarity'. Prof. Frodeman also served as the Opponent in a public dissertation examination on interdisciplinary accountability.
Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook was invited to address colleagues & policy makers on "Designing Evaluation" at the University of Milan's Winter conference, Research evaluation: the perspective of a large comprehensive university. This meeting was organized by Massimo Florio.
Director Robert Frodeman and Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrookpublished new articles with Synthese. Frodeman's "Philosophy Dedisciplined" offers a critique of disciplinary philosophy while Hoblrook's "What is interdisciplinary communication? Reflections on the very idea of disciplinary integration" attempts to answer what philosophers bring toa discussion of interdisciplinarity.
Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook invited to address annual Open Access Workshop hosted by UNT's Libraries and College of Information. He will be joining colleagues in addressing what open access means for faculty research. See the poster...
Programs Manager Keith Wayne Brown was invited to address students & faculty of the English, Speech, & Foreign Language Department at Texas Womens University. Mr. Brown spoke on "Dedisciplinizing the University & Hacking a Real Education for the 21st Century."
Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle was in the news for his work on the local politics of fracking. Besides being quoted in the Denton Record Chronicle's front page story, Prof. Briggle also provided a guest column on the issue.
Director Robert Frodeman addressed academics, policy makers, and petroleum industry professionals at a symposium on "The Significance of Geological Time" at 46th Brazilian Geological Conference in Sao Paolo. Prof. Frodeman also gave a day long seminar on interdisciplinarity to students & policy makers at the State University of Campinas.
Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook attends his first meeting of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science's Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility.
Director Robert Frodeman and Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook co-organized the Philosophy of/as Interdisciplinarity Network's annual meeting. Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle & Senior Fellow Steve Fuller also participated. This is the third international gathering of PIN since its founding in 2010. Look over the program here.
Programs Manager Keith Wayne Brown opened the UNT 7 Circles Speaker Series: "Disrupting your Course, Hacking your Education." The 7 Circles is a student organization dedicated to exploring interdisciplinary & transdisciplinary ideas as way of integrating mindful practices as a way of life. Mr. Brown is the staff sponsor for this group.
Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook invited to join the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Committee on Scientific Freedom & Responsibility. This committee is charged with formulating & recommending principles and procedures to guide the Association in a continuing review of issues that affect scientific freedom and scientific responsibility. Click here to see a broader outline of the Committee's mandate.
Director Robert Frodeman addresses policy makers, researchers, and members of the public at "Water: Unite & Divide: Interdisciplinary approaches for a sustainable future." Invited to give the opening lecture, "The End of Disciplinarity," Prof. Frodeman will explore how disciplinarity will no longer function as the end or goal of academic research while offering suggestions on how early career researchers can best position themselves for the postdisciplinary age.
Director Robert Frodeman was interviewed for and quoted at length in "Gambling on Transformative Research," a feature article in the Science Careers supplement of Science. The piece looks at growing "trends toward transformative research... fueled by nations' efforts to use science and technology to leapfrog competition in terms of innovation and economic development in a globalized environment."
Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook was quoted at Nature in "Science Funding: Duel to Death." The feature article examines concerns among British researchers about the broader impacts criterion put in place by the UK's Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
Visiting Fellow Jordan M. Kincaid & Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle published an article on hydrofracking at the online journal Science Progress. "Fracked Ideologies: What the Debate Over Shale Gas Might Tell Us About the Future of Politics" discusses the fiery political debate that has been igniting around the use of high-volume hydraulic fracturing for natural gas drilling.
Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle published a new piece, "Let a Thousand Gas Wells Bloom," for the Future Tense section of webzine Slate. The article explores innovation through the difference between the precautionary and proactionary princples while asking how policy makers, engineers, industry representatives and public stakeholders can be completely objective about hydrofracking when there are billions of dollars at stake.
Programs Manager Keith Wayne Brown served as philosopher in residence for the Mean Green High School Debate Camp. Mr. Brown mentored students from across the United States in philosophy of/as interdisciplinarity.
Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook & Grad RA Kelli Barr were invited to attend the second annual conference on Altmetrics. Holbrook presented Peer review, altmetrics, and ex ante broader impacts assessment – a proposal. Barr offered thoughts on The Role of altmetrics and Peer Review in the Democratization of Knowledge.
Director Robert Frodeman, Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook, Senior Fellow Carl Mitcham & Grad RA Kelli Barr organize internatnional workshop for NSF-China at Dalian University: "Peer Review, Research Integrity, & the Governance of Science." This workshop brings together leading researchers and science agency officials from three cultures – the United States, Europe, and China – to discuss how peer review functions within Western society today, and how Chinese institutions are developing their own models of peer review. Visit the website...
Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook's response to CSID Fellow Steve Fuller's recent post at the Sociological Imagination blog was picked up and reposted at the SPARC in Europe Daily.
Director Robert Frodeman addressed researchers and policy makers at the University of Bielefeld ID/TD conference, "Giving Meaning to Interdisciplinarity in the Organization of Universities A Symposium on the Occasion of Helmut Schelsky's 100th Birthday."
Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle contributes new piece on Gas Shale Fracturing to Slate.com: "It's Time to Frack the Innovation System" examines what the history of fracking can tell us about America's short sighted research & development system.
Director Robert Frodeman & Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook publish The Meaning of Transformative Research at AAAS Capitol Connection.
CSID Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook, Director Robert Frodeman & Grad RA Kelli Barr publish "Good Transfromations" at Science Progress.
Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook & Director Robert Frodeman publish article at London School of Economics Impact of Social Sciences Project blog: Resistance to impact criteria can lead to a tightening of the accountability noose
Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook & Director Robert Frodeman's article in Research Evaluation is fifth most read in recent report from Oxford Journals.
Director Robert Frodeman & Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook were awarded a grant to organize & lead a Workshop on Transformative Research at NSF Headquarters on March 08 & 09. The workshop brought together experts and policy makers to explore the history and alternative conceptions of a term – "potentially transformative research" (PTR) – that has come to play an increasingly important role in policy debates at NSF, at other federal agencies, and in public discourse about the future of science in society.
Programs Manager Keith Brown invited by UNT English Department to address their Graduate Students Conference on preparing for an interdisciplinary & transdisciplinary future in academia.
Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook & Director Robert Frodeman' co-author new piece at Science Progress: Science: For Science's or Society's Sake? Owning the National Science Foundation's Broader Impacts Criterion
CSID Director Robert Frodeman & Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook invited to attend & advise at a COSEE-Florida Broader Impacts Summit in Duck, NC.
Denton Record Chronicle features Fellow Adam Briggle's op/ed on on technocracy and the gas drilling task forc appointed by the Denton City Council. Read the op/ed "An Uneasy Alliance Forms".
Assistant Diretor J. Britt Holbrook's discussion of the Research Works Act (H.R. 3699) is listed on scienceblogs.com as one of the better blogs discussing the RWA, Around the Web: Some posts on The Research Works Act : Confessions of a Science Librarian.
The Denton Record Chronicle featured the findings of the Denton Stakeholder Drilling Advisory Group, or DAG, lead by Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle which announced its findings this month in a report timed to influence the work of the city's official drilling task force, which started deliberations Tuesday. Read the article here.
CAPR research impacts National Science Board Task Force on Merit Review.
Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle & Director Robert Frodeman publish article in the Chronicle of Higher Education that provokes debate about the future of philosophy.
Director Robert Frodeman & Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook met with policy makers & research agency representatives at the UK Research Council & the European Science Foundation. Frodeman was invited to address a special ESF international workshop on broader impacts & metrics on December 06.
Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle work with the Denton Stakeholder Drilling Advisory Group was recently highlighted by the Denton Record Chronicle. The group is pushing for quick action to correct city ordinances that fall short of protecting the public against any adverse effects of hydrofracturing. Recommendations were developed through public panel discussions featuring policy makers & experts on city/state regulations, environmental research and industry practices. Read the full article...
CSID was proud to co-sponsor UNT's First South Asia Peace Conference on Saturday, November 5 & Sunday, November 6. The current ambassadors of Afghanistan and Pakistan were our honored guests, in addition to other presenters and a superb presentation of music and dance. Thirty-nine panelists, presenters, and discussants--academics as well as policy makers & diplomats--covered varied aspects of peace in this critical world region. .
Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle's CSID-sponsored series of panel discussions, "Urban Gas Drilling in Denton," continued with two events in October.
The first, on October 20th, brought in a manager from Devon Energy Corporation, a Regional Director from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, and the Executive Director of the Texas Railroad Commission. They discussed the regulatory and business aspects of shale gas production and fielded questions from the audience.
The second, on October 27, brought in two scientists to discuss environmental and public health aspects of the issue. Both events were videotaped and those tapes along with the presenters' power point slides will be made available at the advisory group's blog.
Director Robert Frodeman & Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook travelled to China along with Senior Fellow Carl Mitcham to meet with representatives of the China Association of Science and Technology (CAST), the Chinese National Science Foundation (NSFC), the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and the Chinese Society for Studies in the Dialectics of Nature, as well as with various scholars in interdisciplinarity and science policy around China.
CSID is a main sponsor of the inaugural Public Philosophy Network meeting in Washington, DC, Oct 06 - 09, 2011: Advancing Publicly Engaged Philosophy. Director Robert Frodeman, Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook, & Fellow Adam Briggle addressed colleagues and policy makers. This meeting included a mix of formal and informal sessions on various issues in practical & field philosophy, including concrete projects and political problems as well as discussions of larger philosophical questions about how to engage in philosophical activity outside the academy.
Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook invited as advisor/participant for NSF-COSEE Evaluators Planning Meeting in Berkeley, California, September 27-8.
Almost 140 UNT students, staff, & faculty as well as local Denton citizens came to hear CSID's "Future of Humanity" panel discussion with Brad Allenby, Steve Fuller, and Dan Sarewitz on September 07 in Wooten Hall 222. The event was followed on Twitter (#unthumans) by hundreds of people throughout the Americas & Europe.
Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle's work on local gas drilling issues featured in UNT Daily.
Wired magazine announces upcoming CSID panel on Transhumanism in "Beyond the Beyond" blog.
Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle hosts an open public panel to discuss gas drilling issues affecting Denton citizens. Over 100 citizens, including elected public officials, came to the discussion, Urban Gas Drilling in Denton, which was the first meeting of the Denton Stakeholder Drilling Advisory Group (DAG).
The American Physical Society cites the recent contributions of Director Robert Frodeman, Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook, and Senior Fellow Dan Sarewitz to the public debate concerning a recently announced review of the National Science Foundation's grant process.
Grad RA Kelli Barr's CSID blog post Open Access & Epistemology was posted at ScoopIt by an outside reader.
Director Robert Frodeman attended the first executive committee meeting of the Consortium for Emerging Technologies, Military Operations, & National Security. The meeting was an opprortunity for ethicists to meet, confer, and dialog with military representatives & policy makers on the intersection of national/public security with constantly evolving technologies.
Physics Today contributor Steve Corneliussen surveys recent Science & Nature op/eds and articles to gain perspective on the evolution of NSF's broader impacts criterion. Corneliussen quotes Director Robert Frodeman, Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook, and Senior Fellow Daniel Sarewitz.
Director Robert Frodeman is a distinguised invited guest at the 14th Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science in Nancy, France. Policy makers, academics, and the public will use the opportunity of the meeting to discuss the integration of contemporary technologies in sciences and in society.
Director Robert Frodeman speaks with policy makers and the public as Keynote speaker at the 6th International Conference on Environmental Futures in Newcastle, UK.
Director Robert Frodeman and Assistant. Director J. Britt Holbrook, expressing their concerns on how NSF achieves public relevance, have a letter to the editor published in the prestigious journal Science.
Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook & Research Fellow Adam Briggle addressed tomorrow's researchers today by discussing research ethics with undergraduates in UNT's McNair Scholars Program.
Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook, speaking on ethical and responsible conduct of research, worked with junior college chemistry students attending a summer Research Experience for Undergraduates at Texas A&M-Commerce.
Research Fellow Adam Briggle quoted in Denton Record Chronicle about work he and others associated with CSID are doing to promote citizen involvement in new City of Denton ordinances concerning Shale Gas Fracking.
Co-founded International Network for Interdisciplinarity & Transdisciplinarity.
Program Manager Keith Brown works with junior high & high school debate students from across the USA at Mean Green Debate Workshops.
Research Fellow Adam Briggle works with high school advanced science & math students at the Texas Governor's School.
Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook comments on the pascophronesis blog entry, "If he was serious, Sen. Coburn blew an opportunity."
Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook was invited by UNT's McNair Scholarship Program to engage with undergraduates from across Texas and surrounding states as part of an inaugural summer workshop for McNair Scholars. Download the brochure...
Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook participated in a second workshop to help UNT graduate students and junior faculty get their bearings on planning, managing, and funding research.
Presentaiton by Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook at American Philosophical Association Pacific Division meeting is tweeted about by fellow attendee.
Graduate Fellow Ivana Corsale screens her CSID supported documentary Campania In Felix at the Italian Club of Dallas, the Barry Whistler Art gallery in Dallas, the Global Film Festival at the College of William & Mary, and schedules other film festivals upcoming.
Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook participated in a workshop to help UNT graduate students and junior faculty get their bearings on planning, managing, and funding research. Watch the video...
Director Robert Frodeman attended a meeting of researchers and policy makers at NSF headquarters in Washington, DC, to discuss how to identify analytical data needs & opportunities in assessing the success of federal research funding.
Research Fellow Andrew Torget orgnaized a non-traditional meeting of academic researchers and members of the public in Houston, TX. Attendees at the "unconference" investigated how traditional humanities are impacted and aided by new developing technologies.
Director Robert Frodeman keynoted at University of Helsinki's International Science Day Conference for Interdisciplinary Environmental Research. Finnish policy makers, including the President of Finland, were in attendance.
CSID proudly co-sponsored the inaugural UNT Peace Symposium in the Union Lyceum. Besides presentations by scholars, the event also featured a Sufi music performance and talks by non-academic activists.
Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook invited to NSF in Washington, DC, as panelist presenting ideas to researchers & policy makers on how to get the most out of the Broader Impacts Criterion.
CSID workshop with policy makers at European research agencies at EU Science Commission in Brussels.
Director Robert Frodeman publishes "Experiments in Field Philosophy" at NYTimes.com blog the Stone.
Director Robert Frodeman invited to Vancouver to act as one of four external reveiwers for the University of British Columbia's College for Interdisciplinary Studies.
Director Robert Frodeman talked at the University of Richmond's Crimmel Colloquy on 'The End of Disciplinarity'.
Director Robert Frodeman gave the keynote address on the 'End of Disciplinarity' at Ithaca College's Convocation to start the school year.
DotEarth@NYTimes.com quotes CSID Director Robert Frodeman in surveying how researchers & policy specialists think more could be done to lessen the dangers associated with managing Big Risks, like the current deep sea drilling disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Click here to read the blog.
In New York City, CSID Director Robert Frodeman & Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook bring together a meeting of North American, European, & Australian thinkers doing interdisciplinary work to discuss founding an international network for Interdiscipinarity & Transdicsiplinarity.
CAPR team members, Warren Burggren and J. Britt Holbrook, quoted in the science journal Nature, "Science Funding: Science for the Masses."
Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook presented on the current issues of peer review to fellow researchers and policy makers as part of a Broader Impacts Criterion webinar series.
Co-founded Public Philosophy Network
CSID workshop with policy makers at US research agencies in Washington, DC, at the National Science Foundation.
Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook featured in UNT student newspaper the North Texas Daily in overview article about CSID.