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The Supreme Court Could Block Climate Change Protections
February 28, 2022 | 9:52 am
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This post originally appeared in Scientific American.
The US Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a case on February 28 that could limit the power of the Environmental Protection Agency to curtail heat-trapping emissions at a time when the clock is ticking on our ability to limit catastrophic climate change.
West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency is a challenge being mounted by several states and coal industry interests on how the agency regulates carbon emissions from power plants under the Clean Air Act. Should SCOTUS find in favor of West Virginia, the ruling could severely impede the EPA's ability to regulate heat-trapping emissions and other forms of toxic pollution. It could also set a precedent in which federal agencies beyond the EPA could be forced to interpret and implement existing laws very narrowly, which would be greatly detrimental to the public interest.
It's surprising that SCOTUS chose to hear the case, because currently the EPA has no regulation to enforce when it comes to curbing emissions from existing power plants. The 2015 Obama administration Clean Power Plan was repealed by the Trump administration and replaced with a weaker rule that many states successfully challenged and got vacated. The Biden administration EPA has not replaced the rule yet, so the legal basis to challenge a nonexistent regulation is highly questionable and the case should be dismissed.
The EPA's authority and responsibility to regulate heat-trapping emissions under the Clean Air Act are clearly established in science and law. This is not what the petitioners are directly challenging. The 2007 Supreme Court ruling Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency established that heat-trapping emissions are covered by the Clean Air Act, and the 2009 EPA Endangerment Finding confirmed that these emissions are a threat to public health and the environment. Subsequent court rulings have affirmed EPA's role repeatedly.
The current case was brought because opponents of climate action are trying to limit the scope of how EPA regulates polluters going forward. A finding in favor of the petitioners could have implications well beyond the power sector, undermining the EPA's authority on climate change mitigation and public health protections broadly. In this particular case, the petitioners want to limit the EPA's authority to just narrow changes at a power plant and exclude options for power system–wide changes that would help make deeper, cost-effective reductions in carbon dioxide emissions. Limiting the scope of options also means that states would have less flexibility to meet pollution standards; for example, they might not be able to allow power producers to shift from fossil fuels to renewable electricity sources as one way to meet a power sector carbon standard.
As its contribution to global climate action, the United States has set a goal of cutting its emissions 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. To help meet that goal, the EPA must be able to robustly implement the Clean Air Act, an existing law with bipartisan support that has successfully reduced the environmental and health effects of air pollution. Alongside much-needed new climate policies that Congress should enact, EPA regulations are needed to cut carbon dioxide emissions from the power, transportation and other industrial sectors, as well as methane emissions, which in large part come from the oil and gas sector.
A ruling against the EPA could also limit its ability to factor in the latest climate science as it makes decisions about strengthening future standards. The latest data describing climate change have only become clearer, their scientific interpretation more dire, as underscored in an amicus brief filed by a number of eminent climate scientists. Numerous scientific studies and assessments and observable evidence affirm that climate impacts are already unfolding in deadly and costly ways and that heat waves, wildfires, flooding, extreme rainfall, drought, ocean acidification, sea level rise and much more will worsen considerably if we fail to take action. The science is clear that global heat-trapping emissions must be sharply curtailed within this decade to prevent significantly more catastrophic consequences, including irreversible tipping points such as massive ice sheet loss triggering multicentury sea level rise.
"Attribution science," which connects climate change to extreme weather events, has also grown much stronger. Recent research shows, for example, that the deadly heat wave in the Pacific Northwest last summer would have been virtually impossible without climate change. And compound climate impacts can trigger grave human consequences such as water shortages, food insecurity and the displacement of large populations. Data also show that low-income communities and communities of color bear a disproportionate and unjust burden from pollution, and also from the impacts of the climate crisis. Rather than hamstringing the EPA, we actually need it to go much further faster.
Beyond climate change, a ruling against the EPA would make the agency less flexible and effective in responding to new pollutants or toxic chemicals. In general, the Supreme Court has usually given deference to federal agencies in how they interpret protective laws such as the Clean Air Act and the Toxic Substances Control Act. This is because Congress wrote these laws broadly to give agencies forward-looking authority. Congress recognized that it could never fully anticipate new forms of harmful pollution or toxics that might emerge in the future, or new public health dangers, or innovative pollution control technologies that might emerge. If the EPA had to go back and wait for Congress to act each time a new air or water pollutant was created by industry, or new scientific evidence of harms from existing pollutants emerged, the process of updating health-based standards would be untenably cumbersome and slow. By seeking to limit the authority Congress appropriately gave agencies, the petitioners in this case have one overriding purpose: tipping the scales in favor of polluters.
Unfortunately, given the Supreme Court's current makeup, it is unclear whether it will uphold the EPA's existing authority as envisioned by Congress. Its recent ruling overturning a federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate for large companies revealed a court unwilling to uphold the authority of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to issue science-based guidance, despite clear evidence of its lifesaving value in the midst of a global pandemic.
That reality makes the dysfunctional partisan politics that pervade Congress today all the more troubling and infuriating. With the Build Back Better Act stalled in Congress, and this latest worrisome development on the legal front, anyone who feels the urgency of this consequential decade for climate action must be deeply concerned. The solutions are well within reach—and yet they have repeatedly slipped from our grasp because of the outsized power of the fossil fuel industry and its allies, and their well-funded assaults on policy progress.
So much is at stake, including the future we leave to our children and grandchildren; let's hope the Supreme Court finds its way to being on the right side of history in deciding this consequential case.
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Leonid Kolibaba. Sculpture and Drawings
16 september 2022—23 january 2023
This exhibition will acquaint visitors with the work of Leonid Kolibaba, a renowned St. Petersburg-based sculptor, graphic artist and educator, and member of...
Mikhail Makhayev's St Petersburg
14 october 2022—20 february 2023
The sketches and drawings of Mikhail Makhayev (1717–1770), the great Russian 18th-century veduta master, are the only way we have of appreciating St Petersb...
Images of Military Life in Russian Art from the 16th to the 20th Centuries
20 october 2022—9 may 2023
Images of Military Life is an extensive exhibition featuring icons, paintings, sculptures, and applied and decorative artwor...
Evgeny Romashko
25 november 2022—30 january 2023
This exhibition of works by People's Artist of the Russian Federation and Head of the Academic Painting Faculty of the Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Art and Industry Evgeny Roma...
Home and Family. Images of Peaceful Life
16 december 2022—12 june 2023
The Russian Museum exhibition project Artists on War and Peace can be seen as a diptych comprised of two exhibitions: Images of Military Life in Russian Art...
Images of St George the Victorious in Old Rus. In Memory of Tatyana Vilinbakhova
22 december 2022—20 february 2023
The exhibition spotlights old Russian icons, wooden sculptures, personal sacred objects and jewellery created in vario...
22 december 2022 > Marble Palace Concert "Orchestra without a conductor".
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The Language of Animation in Contemporary Russian Art
1 july 2022—29 august 2022
The language of animation ever more often is replacing the language of traditional figurative art. The exhibition showcases works by Russian artists from the end of the 20th century to the present day in three independent projects: Mechanicus, Animators, and Man the Circuit.
Boris Kustodiev and Mstislav Dobuzhinsky's Paintings About Peter the Great for the Great City College House (1910–1911)
24 june 2022—22 august 2022
The exhibition dedicated to the 350th anniversary of the birth of the first Russian Emperor Peter the Great will feature works by B.M. Kustodiev and M.V. Dobuzhinsky, connected with the decoration of the Great City College House named after Peter the Great in St. Petersburg (1910-1911).
Russian Patchwork
The main goal of the exhibition is to present the local features of patchwork in numerous centers of folk art in Russia and to show the original creative style of individual masters of the 20th century. The exhibition introduces the viewer to the truly folk patchwork, which was developed not in creative units and clubs, but in the villages and small towns of Russia.
This exhibition will acquaint visitors with the work of Leonid Kolibaba, a renowned St. Petersburg-based sculptor, graphic artist and educator, and member of the Ozerki Artists' Village informal art group.
Armchairs, chairs and stools in Russian art of the 18th-20th centuries
18 august 2022—9 january 2023
This exhibition will introduce viewers to the furniture preserved in the Russian Museum, a collection the public is not very familiar with. It will also open up a new perspective on well-known Russian works of art. What kinds of chairs exist? What are they made of? What do people do while seated? What poses do they adopt? What does an empty chair mean? A synthesis of painting, graphic art, sculpture, applied art, and design, the Russian Museum's exhibition stimulates ideas on these questions and more.
Fyodor Dostoevsky in the Fine Arts from the State Russian Museum Collection. On the 200th Anniversary of the Writer's Birth
14 october 2021—22 november 2021
The exhibition was prepared for the 200th anniversary of one of the most famous and frequently cited Russian writers - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881).
His training at the Engineering School (in the 1840s), located in the Mikhailovsky (Engineering) Castle (now a branch of the Russian Museum), is an excellent occasion for the Russian Museum to pay tribute to the memory of one of the authors of the Petersburg myth by presenting an exposition of works from the museum collection in honor of this anniversary.
Pavel Stroganov: Italian Journey
9 september 2021—6 december 2021
Count Pavel Sergeevich Stroganov (1823-1911), traveling with his family in Italy in 1839-1841, captured the image of this country in numerous drawings, which were considered the works of an unknown master until recently. At the exhibition in the halls of the palace that belonged to the Stroganovs, the Russian Museum will show 60 wonderful drawings from its collection for the first time and comment in a multimedia show how their research was carried out, which made it possible to prove the authorship of Count Pavel Stroganov.
Portraits of Count Nikolai Sheremetev: New Revelations
22 july 2021—20 september 2021
Amerling was one of the best masters of children's portrait of his time. The portrait of the little Count Sheremetev discovered in the State Russian Museum is the only work of the master in Russia so far. The exhibition will feature portraits of Nikolai Sheremetev made by various artists in various techniques - painting, miniature, sculpture, original and printed graphics from the collection of the State Russian Museum, the Ostankino Estate Museum (Moscow), the State Historical Museum, and the collection of T. A. Udras (Moscow).
A Photographic Perspective on St. Petersburg
2 november 2020—14 december 2020
The exhibition completes the contest organized in cooperation with the Professional Photocenter Foto-One. Photographers were offered to show their view on St. Petersburg without any limitations in technique, genre, or style. The professional jury chose 97 works inspired by this unique city. Each and every photographer participating in the exhibition has his own, real and magical image of St. Petersburg.
Gifts to the Russian Museum from Artists and Collectors. Selected Works. 1898–2019
29 july 2020—7 december 2020
To mark the 125th anniversary of the Russian Museum, such an exhibition will be shown in all of its palaces, bringing together items of different epochs and donors, including the imperial family (Alexander III, Nicholas II, Grand Dukes), famous patrons of the arts and many others. General sponsor of the exhibition - VTB Bank.
29 july 2020—30 november 2020
The Autumn of Russia's Middle Ages
21 february 2019—13 may 2019
The exhibition dedicated to the sacred art of the 17th century presents books, objects of jewelry, embroidery, icon painting, monumental painting from the collection of the Russian Museum, giving a comprehensive account of the ways and features of the development of art of this time.
Mechanical Ballet. Video Art at the Ludwig Museum at the Russian Museum
18 november 2019—24 november 2019
Bulat Galeyev. Space Sonata (Video version with a living actor), 1986
Mikhail Nesterov. Holy Russia. Restoration
The exhibition will present a painting by Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov (1862–1942) "Holy Russia", the complex restoration of which was completed in the Russian Museum, as well as photo and video documentation of the restoration works.
Dreams, Hope and Love in Russian Painting of the 19th – Early 20th Centuries: Works from the State Russian Museum Collection
7 october 2018—24 december 2018
An exhibition at Tokyo Fuji Art Museum presents 40 masterworks on hope, love, and dreams harbored by the finest Russian artists of the 19th and early 20th century, drawn from the collection of the State Russian Museum.
St. Petersburg from the 1850s to the 1910s in Photorgraphs
27 september 2018—12 november 2018
Historic events, everyday life of the city, and St. Petersburg places of interest depicted in photographs and postcards of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Boris Kustodiev. Portrait of Fyodor Shalyapin
26 september 2018—21 october 2018
The one-painting exhibition at the Chelyabinsk State Art Museum presents a masterpiece by Boris Kustodiev — Portrait of Fyodor Shalyapin (1922).
Inside the Marble Palace (Sound, Dance, Performance)
15 november 2017—11 december 2017
Ange Leccia and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Guitar Drag
Andrei Tarkovsky. Artist of Space
The exhibition is dedicated to the 85th anniversary of Andrei Tarkovsky (1932–1986), famous Russian filmmaker and film director. A renowned master of cinema, Tarkovsky gained international recognition during his lifetime. He is considered the creator of a new language in cinematic art, having introduced new aesthetics and philosophy to it and influenced its further development.
German video art in the Russian Museum
30 june 2016—1 august 2016
"Revolutionary videograms (Videogramme einer Revolution)"
Harun Farocki, Andrei Ujica, 1992
My Own Self. Self-Portrait in the Russian Museum
The largest exhibition so far dedicated to the genre of self-portrait opened in the Russian museum on 29 June.
Self-portrait stands out like a mirror which reflects not only the personality of the author, but his perception of the artist's role, the significance of art and its place in the life of contemporaries.
Mordovian republican Fine Arts Museum in Saransk presents the exhibition dedicated to the world-famous carnival in Venice. The bright and mystical feast, attracting the public every February is one of the most loved and thrilling subjects for the photographers.
Dronov and Korneev
The exhibition in the Russian Museum is not the first joint project of Mikhail Dronov and Victor Korneev - well-known contemporary sculptors from Moscow.
Dmitry Alexandrovich Prigov. In dialogue with Avant-garde. On the 75th Anniversary of the Artist
The exhibition presents the oeuvre of the prominent Russian artist, one of the founders of the Moscow conceptualism, in aspect of the dialogue of this master with the Russian avant-garde.
Nikolai Romadin
The retrospective exhibition of one of the most prominent artists of the Soviet realistic landscape presents to the public around 70 works from the collection of the Russian Museum, the artist's family and private collections.
RASIM BABAEV
The exhibition presents the works by Rasim Babayev - the artist who belongs to the group of outstanding Azerbaijanian artists.
"Byzantine Routes" Photo Exhibition
3 october 2014—2 november 2014
On the 4th of October 2014 "Byzantine routes" photo exhibition was opened in Coffee House by the АСЕВ Association and the "Metropoli" Cultural Foundation with the support of the State Russian Museum.
BEYOND FIGURATIVISM IN THE RUSSIAN ART OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE 20th CENTURY
The 1960s and 1970s were a period in Russian art when those who could not accept the system of the Academy of Arts sought their own paths of progression and figures of authority.
SUSTAINING AND CREATING
SUSTAINING AND CREATING exhibition is the result of successful realization of the program of support for the young artists Unusual Art that gives an incredible chances for the development of artist with limited physical opportunities in the age from 16 to 25 and allows them to receive the national recognition in the very beginning of their career.
JOHANNES SWEINSSON KJARVAL1885-1972
26 september 2013—4 november 2013
This retrospective exhibition presents key-works from the creative oeuvre of Kjarval (his full name was Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval), who was one of the pioneers of Icelandic visual art.
FILIPP MALYAVIN. 1869-1940
It is the first so large scale solo exhibition of one of the most significant Russian artists of the beginning of the 20th century.
RELIGIOUS LUBOK
23 august 2012—15 october 2012
The exhibition will bring together the unique examples of the religious folk engraving of the second half of the 18th – beginning of the 20th century from the collection of the Russian Museum that are so-called popular prints presenting the events of the Old and New Testament History, the Lives of the saint hermits and the mostly feared Orthodox sacred things.
VLADIMIR KORBAKOV
23 august 2012—24 september 2012
The exhibition acquaints with the paintings by the oldest artist from the town of Vologda who this year celebrates his 90th birth anniversary.
UNKNOWN ARTIST. PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURES OF THE 17th - 19th CENTURIES FROM THE RUSSIAN MUSEUM COLLECTION
22 august 2012—12 november 2012
In the collection of painting of the Russian Museum that includes no less than 15 000 works, the part of canvases, that had lost the name of their authors as a result of clashes of their historical existing, is very significant – more than 800 ones.
GENIA CHEF. GLORY OF A NEW CENTURY
The solo exhibition of Genia Chef presents the creative oeuvre of the well-known master of contemporary art who was born in the Soviet Union and from 1985 works in foreign countries (Germany, Austria, the United States of America, Spain).
HELLO - THIS IS US!
The international exhibition of the children's photograph is the artistic and educational Photo-project that united the young masters of photograph from Cologne, Turku and St. Petersburg. The exhibition shows what the young Finns, Germans and Russians are interested in.
RUSSIA FOR ALL. Exhibition project by Victor Bondarenko and Dmitry Gutov
The Russia for All exhibition project by the inhabitants of Moscow Victor Bondarenko (the author of idea of the exhibition) and the artist Dmitry Gutov is connected with the practice of contemporary art and realized in the form of the trip across Russia with stops in different cities.
THE FIRST АUCTION EXHIBITION OF THE ANTIQUES AND WORKS OF ART. SELECTED LOTS
"EXPEDITION" EXHIBITION-INSTALLATION
"Expedition" exhibition-installation created by the modern artists Mikhail Pavlukovich and Olga Subbotina in 2010 especially for the Festival of modern art "Living Perm" is holding within the framework of the Days of Perm Culture in St. Petersburg "Cultural Alliance".
THE VICTORY. INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF THE CHILD ART.
3 november 2010—3 november 2010
The participants of the exhibition are the children from 5 to 17 years old, studying in the kindergartens, lyceums, general education and art schools, palaces, houses and centres of art of St. Petersburg, the Leningrad Region, Vologda Region and Murmansk Region, Magnitogorsk, Tver, North Osetya-Alanya Republic.
VLADIMIR TITOV
28 october 2009—1 december 2009
For the first time the paintings by the well-known painter-emigrant Vladimir Titov, who lives now in France are presented at his personal exhibition in Saint-Petersburg. The exposition includes 45 works from the author's collection.
EUGENE ABEZGAUZ
The exhibition activity of Abezgauz envelop hundreds of expositions: from the small apartment-exhibitions of the Leningrad underground to such final historic expositions as "From Gulag to Glasnost.
ROBERT BATEMAN. Canada
8 october 2009—30 november 2009
At the exhibition there are presented for the first time in Russia the works by the well-known Canadian animal painter, naturalist and active greener Robert Bateman.
GOING BRONZE. PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Exposition opens the series of exhibitions in the project dedicated to Russian private collections.
Mikhail Shvartsman Graphic art
For the first time the exhibition of artworks by Mikhail Shvartsman from the collection of the artist's family presents his graphic heritage as an organic, unique, marked by special virtuosic "making" branch of his creative oeuvre.
Manfred Hebenstreit
The artworks by the well-known Austrian artist Manfred Hebenstreit will be presented in the Russian Museum for the first time.
ZINAIDA SEREBRYAKOVA. NUDES
Till recently the viewers knew Zinaida Serebryakova as a master of portrait, genre scenes from the life of peasantry.
YURY GRETSKY. IRINA GRETSKAYA. Painting. Graphic Art. Object
The unfathomable creative harmony makes the duet of Irina and Yury Gretsky highly attractive.
MIKHAIL KOZLOVSKY
The Mikhail Kozlovsky (1753 — 1802) exhibition is dedicated to the 250th birthday anniversary of one of the leading artists of the eighteenth century.
German Egoshin. Painting from the Collection of the Russian Museum and the Artist´s Studio
2 november 2006—20 november 2006
The second exhibition of paintings by famous St Petersburg artist German Egoshin in the Russian Museum is dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the master´s birth.
Ladislas Kijno
The Russian Museum presents the one-man show of Ladislas Kijno, one of the most unusual and resourceful representatives of the generation of artists, whom traditionally call 'the artists of the fifties'.
Andrei Lanskoy
The Russian Museum presents the one-man show of the artist Andrei Lanskoy.
"THE MIRACLE MAN WAS OF LARGE STATURE". Dedicated to the 100-th anniversary of Daniel Harms
22 december 2005—30 january 2005
The project is dedicated to the centenary of Daniil Kharms' birth. He was one of the most renowned writers of the 20th century.
Family Relics and Contributions of the Stroganovs to Russian Churches. Opening of the permanent exposition
16 december 2005—31 december 2005
The unique works of applied art, icon painting and embroideries from the funds of the Russian Museum are shown in the rooms of the first floor, facing the Nevsky prospect.
ANDY WARHOL. ARTIST OF MODERN LIFE
9 december 2005—28 february 2005
The State Russian Museum introduces the oeuvre of Andy Warhol. This is one of the biggest and most significant projects ever realised in Russia.
Alya Yesipovich. No Comment
The exhibition introduces the No Comment project by Petersburg photographer Alla Esipovich, known by her work in SPb Sobaka.ru magazine (Portraits rubric), as well as by her publications in ELLE and Petersburg in Nevsky magazines.
Waldemars Matvejs (Vladimir Markov) in Petersburg. Painting, Photography, Archive Materials, Sculpture from the Easter Island and Northern Asia
The exhibition presents Waldemars Matvejs' paintings from the collection of the Latvian State Art Museum, modern prints made from the artist's negatives, works by his professors from the Petersburg Academy of Arts, members of the Union of Youth association, and documents from the manuscript department of the State Russian Museum, covering the master's life and work.
Sheila Isham
Sheila Isham: 50 Years of Creating On October 13, the Russian Museum opens a retrospective on the life and work of acclaimed American artist, Sheila Isham, in the Engineering Castle.
Natalya Savinova. Ceramics (From 'Petersburg Ceramists' series)
The personal exhibition of Natalya Savinova showcases works, which has already became classic, from the State Russian Museum collection, as well as those created recently, which belong to the author and have never been shown to public.
Demian Herst. From the Cradle to the Grave
The first in Russia exhibition of works of the famous British artist, a mega-star of international art stage, Damien Herst, will showcase 100 graphic pictures and one large-scale sculpture.
Victor Ruzo. Life and Work (Ludwig Museum in the Russian Museum)
The exhibition dated to the ninetieth birthday of the Swiss artist and philosopher Victor Ruzo introduces his works of different oeuvre periods, which depict his unique life story, a story of a peculiar oeuvre phenomenon.
Hermann Pedit
31 october 2002—19 december 2002
An Austrian artist, Hermann Pedit (born in 1933) with an unusual creative development. He started painting under the direction of A.Kirchmeier, and after finishing Viennese Academy of Fine Art H.Pedit specialized as a sculptor by a most known Austrian master V.Wotruba; later he was given a purse of Wotruba.
Exhibition of digital technologies
Samsung Electronics is the world leader in manufacturing semi-conductors, household and digital appliances. It was among the companies that were the first to make a reality of a new life style.
The Garden of Boguslav Horak
17 october 2002—18 october 2002
A Czech designer Boguslav Horak is one of the prominent representatives of new European design.
Mikhail Schwartzmann. Retrospective.
Mikhail Schwartzmann (1926-97) was born in Moscow but after his father-s imprisonment the family frequently moved from place to place.
Anna Staritskaya
4 october 2001—18 october 2001
Anna Staritskaya was born in Ukraine in 1908. At the age of 13 she started studying drawing at the Countess Sukhanova-Tolstaya Art School in Moscow.
The exhibition comprises about three hundred canvases by the renowned master of the Russian avant-garde. Pavel Filonov (1882-1941) v painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer. Contributed to exhibitions from the 1990s.
Marat Gelman gallery
The Marat Gelman Gallery shows the South Russian Wave, Poor Art and Nostalgia exhibitions within the framework of the Art Against Geography project.
Marguerite Anielle-Palen: myth, legend, fairytale
Marguerite Anielle-Palen was born into an Italian family in Switzerland. Most of her time she lives in Switzerland, sometimes staying in Paris and Italy.
Antonio Menegetty Ontoarte: for the rebirth in art
'Coma'. Installation by V.Kustov
The exhibition was organized with the Ludwig Museum cooperation.
Exhibition of Li San Wong works
Li San Wong is the outstanding contemporary artist from Northern Korea who combines devices of the Far East traditional painting and Western art experience, in particular pop-art.
Franz Lefort - associate of Peter I
The exhibition was prepared in cooperation with Swiss Cultural Center. Its main exhibits were historical documents and engravings from the Navy Archive, Russian National Library and the State Russian Museum.
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Theo helps Many Hands Campaign get off to a flying start
Royal Manchester Children's Hospital Charity (RMCH Charity) got this year's Many Hands Campaign off to a flying start with over 40 companies attending the launch event on Tuesday the 22nd March at Manchester's King Street Townhouse, hosted by BBC presenter, Hugh Ferris. The campaign, which first launched in 2008, encourages North West businesses to support the charity by signing up to a fundraising target of £1,000 each over the next three months. The Charity has this year set a fundraising target of £50,000 from the campaign which will raise funds towards the charity's Helipad Appeal.
Theo, a long-term supporter of RMCH Charity, spearheaded the fundraising campaign for the fourth time. The retail magnate and entrepreneur made a guest appearance at the launch event, taking part in a Q&A session.
In the event finale, Theo will again be in attendance to form part of a four-man judging panel to assess all entries, awarding the business which presents the most innovative fundraising idea. This year, Theo will be joined by judges Maurice Watkins CBE, Charity Chairman, Managing Director of Wolfe, Laura Wolfe and Chief Executive of Downtown in Business, Frank McKenna.
Commenting on the launch, Theo said: "Many Hands is an excellent initiative which affords small and medium-sized businesses the opportunity to make a tangible contribution to their local hospital charity. A small business can easily deem its fundraising potential as too slight to be worthwhile but this campaign highlights the reality that by joining together we can make a big difference to a most worthwhile cause. I had a great time at the launch and look forward to seeing each business's innovative fundraising ideas."
Businesses at the launch event heard from Dr Peter-Marc Fortune, Consultant Paediatric Intensivist at Royal Manchester Children's Hospital who spoke about just how vital the charity's Helipad Appeal is. Peter-Marc stressed the importance of saving time when dealing with critically ill patients. Comparing the Helipad to a Time-Machine Peter-Marc said that quite simply, by saving time transferring a patient the more chance there is of their survival.
Maurice Watkins CBE, Chairman of CMFT's Charitable Fundraising Board, says: "We are very grateful to Theo for his continuing involvement in this fundraising campaign and for helping to kick-start our campaign at the launch. His profile and very many accomplishments in the business world make him ideally placed to inspire other business owners to engage actively with their local community and we are very confident that his support will help us to achieve this year's £50,000 fundraising target."
Monies raised by this year's campaign will go towards the charity Helipad Appeal at Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CMFT). The Helipad Appeal will enable the creation of a brand-new 24-hour access primary helicopter landing site, the first of its kind in central Manchester. Currently, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, along with the Trust's other hospitals, relies upon a secondary landing site in a nearby park, an arrangement which means that patients initially transported by air ambulance must then be transferred the final mile of their journey by land ambulance. The onsite helipad will allow the Trust to save many more lives and will increase the chances of a full or improved level of recovery in a great many seriously ill or injured patients.
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With Pruitt's Departure, More Than A Quarter Of Trump's Cabinet Has Changed
Jul. 5, 2018 , at 5:50 PM
That's a lot.
By Anna Maria Barry-Jester
Filed under The Trump Administration
Scott Pruitt is the seventh Trump Cabinet official to leave his post.
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President Trump has lost another Cabinet member.
After less than 18 scandal-filled months in office, Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, resigned Thursday. Pruitt is the seventh person to leave a Cabinet-level post in the Trump administration.1 Trump designated 24 Cabinet-level offices, and no president in the last 40 years has had as much turnover in those positions as quickly as Trump has.2
Pruitt's tenure at the EPA was rocky from the start. He came under fire for using a military plane and private jets instead of commercial airlines in several instances. He's been investigated for undertaking expensive, first-class international travel with a large detail, and for spending $43,000 to build a soundproof phone booth in his office. Many questioned the ethics of him renting an apartment in Washington, D.C., from the wife of an energy lobbyist and traveling frequently to his home state of Oklahoma on the taxpayers' dime.
He also oversaw large raises to favorite aides, reportedly against the express wishes of the White House. A senior scheduler was reportedly fired for questioning the practice of deleting controversial meetings from Pruitt's calendar. And he asked aides to help his wife get a job, including seeking a meeting with an executive at Chick-fil-A, and to run personal errands for him, like tracking down a favorite lotion and trying to buy a used mattress from the Trump International Hotel in Washington.
Many of those scandals led to investigations. Pruitt and his activities have been the subject of numerous investigations by the EPA's inspector general, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the Government Accountability Office, the White House Office of Management and Budget, and the U.S. Office of Special Counsel. Bloomberg has a full rundown of the public inquiries, at least a dozen of which were still pending when Pruitt resigned.
So, if he could survive all that for this long, why quit now? It's still unclear. What we do know: His replacement, Andrew Wheeler, holds views similar to Pruitt's. Which means in the short term, the departure isn't likely to change the trajectory of the EPA. But it has changed Trump's Cabinet. Again.
Andrea Jones-Rooy contributed research for this article.
This counts John Kelly and Mike Pompeo, both of whom left Cabinet-level jobs for other positions in the Cabinet.
Each president gets to designate which officials belong in his Cabinet. This analysis compares changes in Trump's Cabinet-level offices to changes in the same positions for presidents going back to Jimmy Carter.
Anna Maria Barry-Jester reports on public health, food and culture for FiveThirtyEight. @annabarryjester
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WASHINGTON – Two Jewish congressional Democrats have asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to denounce Rep. Ilhan Omar after the Muslim congresswoman claimed Israel is so influential in Washington because "it's all about the Benjamins" — meaning Jewish money.
"We urge you to join us in calling on each member of our Caucus to unite against anti-Semitism and hateful tropes and stereotypes," Gottheimer and Luria told Pelosi.
On Sunday night Omar suggested in a tweet that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) only supported Israel for campaign donations.
"It's all about the Benjamins baby," she wrote, a reference to a 1997 rap song.
McCarthy had said that statements by Omar and Tlaib – which many believe have crossed the line into anti-Semitism – were on par and "more so" with the racist rhetoric coming from Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), who's been stripped of his committee assignments.
"AIPAC!" Omar replied, name-dropping the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee.
"It is deeply disappointing and disturbing to hear Representative Ilhan Omar's (MN) choice of words in her exchange with a journalist yesterday, wherein she appears to traffic in old anti-Semitic tropes about Jews and money," said Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) in a statement Monday.
"We ought to be careful not to construe in that anything other than a concern about the fact that money has undue influence on political decision making," Kildee said.
And while former first daughter Chelsea Clinton, who married a Jewish man, first said that "we should expect all elected officials, regardless of party, and all public figures to not traffic in anti-Semitism," she said that she would call Omar's office to set up a dialogue between the two.


Content/Langauge Goal: I will be able to interpret maps to find patterns.
Learning Target: SS.07.721.01- Interpret maps and other geographic tools to find patterns in human and physical systems.
1. Identify the following terms and label them using your map.
2. Make sure your map has a title, key and compass.
3. Answer the comprehension questions using your map.


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History of the family von Pidoll
The catholic family "von Pidoll" is an artistically talented "ancient lorain gender". A Y-DNA test with 67 markers, performed by the company iGENEA, Zurich, yielded in the result that the family members belong to the haplo group E1b1b1 and have the following migration history: Central Africa - Egypt - Canaan - Phoenicia - Carthage - Southern Italy - Middle England - Lorraine.
According to family sage an English soldier (in old french language: bidault) was released close to the lorain town of Mirecourt after the ceasefire in the Hundred Years War in 1445. At that period of time Mirecourt was an international trading centre for wood products, especially wood carvings. The soldier settled there as a wood turner and invented a throw-top called "pidolot", obviously a slang form of "bidault", which soon spread over the whole Lorraine as a popular toy for children and adults.
According to mid-ages tradition the older sons took over the profession of their fathers. Since 1445 there were good living conditions in Lorraine. For this reason the family increases, and some younger sons were forced to settle down more to the north close to the town of Nancy. In this region the name of the top became changed to "Pidolle".
Later, a single wood turner settled down even more north in Pange, a town at the roman road from Metz to Mainz close to Metz, which was founded for a second time with new settlers in 1464. In the french tax files were recorded "Mansu le tourillon" (1579) and "Françoia le tourillon" (1579, 1583) as wood turners. In Chanville, a town close to Pange, was born 1610 "Mangeon Pidoll" and 1615 Marshal "Toussainct Pidoll".
As a consequence of the occupation of Metz by the King of France in 1552, bad living conditions came up for the citizens due to very high taxes, and many of them lost their whole properties and became poor vagabonds on the streets.
One of these poor vagabonds was the first documented member of the family von Pidoll, the wood turner "Claude le tourillon". In 1570 he inscribed as one of the first settlers of a new town specially founded for the poor called "Nouvelle Chémery" (today Chémery-les-deux, a town close to Bouzonville and 25 km north of Pange).
In 1588, his son Nicolas, born around 1557, owned a small farm in "Nouvelle Chémery" and earned additional money with the same profession as his father. Two farms away from him lived Claude Sellier, the richest inhabitant of the village, who often gived his neighbours high credits.
The social ascent of the family began with the marriage of Symon Pidoll (*around 1582, +around 1640) with his wealthy neighbours daugther Barbara Sellier (*around 1582, +3.1.1675). On 6.6.1620 Symon and Barbara leased a great farm called Frönholz in the vicinity of Richemont north of Metz. In additional documents Symon is qualified as "virtuous and honest Sieur Symon Pidoll mayor and chief judge of the supreme court of Richemont". He owned this function at least until end of 1627. Further documents state that Symon possessed farms in Saint-François, Beckerholtz, Holling and Hobling, villages situated close to Chémery-les-deux.
In 1632 the war of thirty years started in Lorraine with the occupation by the French army. A last source qualified Symon as "lieutenant-colonel in Royal French services". In 1636 Richemont was burned off by the Croatian army. Half of the inhabitants of Richemont died during the attacks in the war.
Symons son Sir Dominique Pidolle (*1626, +28.2.1689) survived the destruction of Richemont and the move of the local supreme court to Hayange. In that village he got to know Lady Anna Katharina Schaus (+1670), daughter of Samson Schaus, mayor and chief judge of the supreme court of Hayange. Both married in 1651. From 1657 to 1679, Dominique himself became mayor and chief judge of the supreme court of Hayange. He especially cared about the reconstruction of the destroyed ironworks. After the decease of his wife he married for a second time: Maria Barbara Girard, daughter of the mayor of Richemont. From his money earned he founded in 1670 a brewery in Hayange. A painting qualified him as a captain of the Duke Charles IV of Lorraine. He was faithful to the Duke even during the Dukes exile in Trier (1669-1675).
Dominique Pidolle had 16 children. A son of him and Anna Katharina named François (*4.1.1665, +11.11.1745), from 1714 Sir Franz Knight (von) Pidoll, nobleman from Quintenbach, became officer in French military services. Due to the contacts of his father to Trier he got to know Johanna Helena de Thier von Offenberg (*1665, *11.2.1738), daughter of the chancellor of the Prince of Nassau, Geheimrat Jean Pierre de Thier von Offenberg and Barbara Lauer. Both maried in 1687. François homeland was a wealthy centre of the iron industry. For that reason François had the idea, to rebuilt the mill of Jean Pierre, which he leased in 1683, to an ironwork, the so-called "Quint" (10 km east of Trier). This happened and François became manager of the Quint. After the death of his father-in-law Jean Pierre, François became owner of the works. The sells were good and other ironworks were founded nearby: Zemmer Mühle, Eichelhütte, Bleischmelze, Mülchen and Oberhammer. The family Pidoll became very rich.
At 18.5.1714 the Roman Emperor Charles VI struck François to a knight with the inheritable title "Knight (von) Pidoll, nobleman from Quintenbach" and awards him arms and inheritable nobility. In 1735 the castle of the Pidoll's was built in Quint.
The arms of the family Pidoll are red with a slanting golden beam charged with tree roses having five leafs (similar to the arms of Lorraine). Additionally in the upper left side is a crescent silvery moon (the heraldic symbol for catholic piety), and in the lower right section is a lorrain pegtop called pidole (the symbol of the family name) with a winded blue cord.
The oldest son of Franz named Karl Kaspar became a respected clergyman. His third oldest son Hubert (*20.12.1691, +1.1.1757), which was master of the Thurn and Taxis post office, married in 1720 into one of the most respected noble families of Trier: Josepha Margaretha von Geisen (+3.10.1759), daughter of the director at court Friedrich Franz von Geisen and Maria Magdalena Buchholz. The second oldest son Franz Gottfried von Pidoll (*15.5.1689, +Mai 1762) studied at the university of Trier till his degree in 1708, but married in 1725 the middle-class woman Anne Luise Guichard (*15.12.1701), daughter of the notary Louis Bertrand Guichard and Charlotte Clement. For this reason father Franz subscribed him at this date the ironwork of Eichelhütte near Himmerod, acquired in 1704, and a great farm called Heeg as premature inheritance and gave Quint castle and the Quint ironworks to his son Hubert.
Huberts son Johann Franz (*30.1.1738, +25.7.1781) also married in 1769 according to his social position: Baronesse Luise von Forster (*23.7.1750, +31.10.1809), daughter of the advisor at court Baron Karl Anton von Forster and Maria Antonetta Josepha von Rosneck. Johann Franz lived at Quint castle and further managed the business of the Quint ironworks. In 1794, French revolution forces appeared at Quint and the family fled to Austria. At the court of Austria all three branches of the family married according to their social position, got very recognised and were struck to the grade of a baron (Karl Anton Michael at 14.5.1841 by Ferdinand I, Johann Michael Joseph at 16.7.1851 by Franz Josef I and Franz Friedrich Angelo Theodor at 1.9.1865 by Franz Josef I). Today, however, no Baron von Pidoll of this branch of the family lives any more. Some years earlier, at 14.9.1814, Johann Michael Joseph bishop of Le Mans was struck by Napoleon Bonaparte to the grade of a Baron of the french empire.
Gottfrieds son Ludwig von Pidoll (9.1.1740, +5.10.1812), which called himself Ludovicus, was married at 11.2.1771 to Maria Franziska Jacobi (*12.8.1754, +8.5.1805), daughter of Konrad Jakobi, master of the cellar of the castle of Ulmen, and Maria Anna Fier. In 1762 he inherited the Eichelhütte and the farm Heeg and took a high credit to pay his five brothers and sisters. In spite of lack of money Ludwig was able to enlarge the Eichelhütte and to buy in addition other ironworks (1766 Hütte Wenzelhausen and Merkeshausen, 1777 Hütte Malberg). The climax of the development was reached!
In 1794 French revolution forces appeared at Eichelhütte. Ludwig fled to Heeg, but was also expelled from there. His farm was confiscated and sold by the French. Becoming poor due to this procedure, Ludwig sold his destroyed ironwork of Eichelhütte in 1807 and bought a farm called Neuhof near Himmerod, where he died in 1812.
Ludwigs sons 1) Karl Kaspar (*18.2.1777, +3.1.1857), married since 26.2.1810 to Maria Margaretha Fischer (*1783, +34.1862), daughter of the forester Peter Fischer, and 2) Gottfried (*9.4.1784, +13.5.1846), married since 19.8.1815 to Eva Kleudgen (*1796, +1.6.1873), daughter of the chief forester Theodor Kleudgen and Anna Katharina Weber, became both foresters and had many descendants, which mostly lived in Eifel or Saarland.


For the SURE HOUSE, Sustainability means consuming significantly less energy than a typical home. How is this achieved? First, the building envelope is designed to reduce what is known as energy demand, the amount of energy required to run the house regardless of the efficiency of the appliances and mechanical systems. Second, the equipment used to run the house must be sized to match this demand while using the least amount of energy possible.
A wide range of new technologies exist on the market today that can significantly reduce energy use, but for many of them the upfront cost has hindered widespread popularity even though the return on investment is often quite low. What is especially difficult is the commitment to installing house-wide energy efficiency scheme where every energy sink is carefully chosen to maximize whole house efficiency. It is easy to install efficient light bulbs or maybe spend a little extra on a fancy refrigerator, but the typical home builder does not have the patience to research the best technologies and assess the benefit from a higher investment even though it may be advantageous to them financially. The problem in this situation involves education of the public and one of the goals of the SURE HOUSE is to provide an example of a simple yet comfortable home that introduces some technologies that are readily available to the public as well as an innovative and resilient PV hot water system with potential for integration into the coastal housing market.
What are some of the appliances you will see in the SURE HOUSE? Here's a quick overview of some of the things you'll find in the SURE HOUSE that contribute dramatically to a low energy budget.
In addition to requiring a low amount of energy to heat and cool the home, the SURE HOUSE will be using a highly efficient heat pump to heat, cool, and dehumidify the space. This heat pump will utilize a zoning kit that will give it the ability to control the temperature in each room. By controlling only the specific areas needed energy demand and costs will decrease dramatically.
While a traditional home wastes its exhaust air, the energy recovery ventilation system utilizes its energy to precondition incoming air. The ventilation unit uses very low power and is highly efficient in recovering heat that would otherwise be wasted, saving both energy and money. This system raises the level of indoor air quality and reduces the amount of HVAC equipment.
An important detail to consider when creating an energy efficient house is how to create hot water. The SURE HOUSE uses a solar electric (PV) system to heat the water first without having to waste money or electricity. The PV hot water system takes up very little space, requires very little maintenance, and is completely environmentally friendly. Paired with the AirTap Hybrid water heater, the hot water system is highly efficient and will provide the owners with hot water without draining their wallet.
The SURE HOUSE is utilizing a large capacity Turbowash washing machine and a hybrid dryer. The Turbowash is extremely quick, saving time and energy with every load of laundry, while still offering innovative features such as steam cleaning and an anti-vibration system. The hybrid dryer combines conventional heating with a heat pump to recover lost heat and reduce energy demand. By using a heat pump to preheat the incoming air the dryer doesn't need to waste as much energy, which creates a more efficient system.
So there you have it – a sneak peek into how the SURE HOUSE achieves sustainability through low energy usage. Not everything about building an energy efficient house has to be difficult like constructing an intelligently detailed Passive House building envelope. A little extra research and upfront cost can go a long way to lower your energy bill given the technology on the market today.


The new SoundField UPM-1 is now shipping. See below to view larger version of this photo.
Such 'legacy' programming is a problem for companies broadcasting in high-definition with 5.1 surround audio, because listeners find it distracting when modern HD shows are broadcast in 5.1 surround and then the audio narrows to a very 'flat-sounding' two channels for older material.
This kind of distracting switch can occur even within one show. All the modern content in an HD sports show will be in 5.1, but older clips of past sporting events usually have only a stereo soundtrack.
To modern HD broadcasters, this kind of repeated expansion and contraction of the audio soundscape is unacceptable. The UPM-1 provides a fast, easy-to-use solution.
The UPM-1 distinguishes itself from other available stereo-to-surround processes in several ways. It works not by adding reverb or using phase shifts to generate new material for the rear channels in a 5.1 soundscape.
In fact, the UPM-1 adds nothing 'new' to the audio at all. All of the material in the 5.1 mix that appears at the processor's outputs is derived from spatial information present in the original stereo signal. What's more, the UPM-1's processing is adaptive, changing with the input signal, rather than remaining constant irrespective of input.
The UPM-1 generates 5.1 from two channels by analyzing the original stereo audio using a patented algorithm that separates the audio into its so-called Direct and Ambient components. The former encompasses the 'dryer,' less reverberant components in the original sound (for example those elements that would have been close to the microphone when the audio was recorded), while the latter refers to the more reverberant components (like those sound sources that would have been further away at the time of recording).
These elements can then be processed separately and routed in different proportions to the 5.1 mix if required, using the UPM-1's simple front-panel rotary controls. In addition to discrete controls for the input level and individual 5.1 output channels, the level of the direct sound component in the original signal may be adjusted independently from that of the ambient sound in the rear channels, and the ambient component in the front three channels.
The UPM-1 also offers control over the perceived width of the front three channels, and over whether the material appearing at the front center of the 5.1 soundscape will be routed only to the center channel or equally to the left and right channels ('phantom center').
To take a practical example, if an archive clip of a sports broadcast in stereo is put through the UPM-1, it will be possible to alter the level of the acoustically dry commentary found in the phantom center of the stereo mix without affecting the reverberant crowd ambience.
Similarly, sending some of the reverberant crowd noise to the rear channels of the 5.1 mix is possible without also routing the sound of the ball being kicked on the pitch or the voice of the commentator to the surround speakers.
"There have been solutions for broadcasters who want to use archive stereo material on 5.1 HD transmissions before," comments Ken Giles, managing director of SoundField, "but the UPM-1 really has something to offer broadcasters in terms of its unique approach, operational speed and simplicity.
SoundField is distributed in the U.S. by TransAudio Group, founded by industry veteran Brad Lunde.


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Michael J. Tyler  (27 March 1937 – 26 March 2020) dubbed "The Frog Man", was an Australian herpetologist and academic, noted for his research on frogs and toads, chiefly with the University of Adelaide.

History
Tyler was born in Britain, and early developed an interest in herpetology. While working as a volunteer at the British Museum, he was advised to go to Australia and Papua New Guinea if he wanted to do any ground-breaking research on amphibians. Around 1958–1959 he hitch-hiked to Australia.

He joined the University of Adelaide staff as a laboratory technician in 1961, studying and researching part-time, and by 1971 had been promoted to Laboratory Manager, Department of Human Physiology and Pharmacology. In 1974 he qualified MSc, and in 1975 won a position as Lecturer, Department of Zoology. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1979 and was appointed Associate Professor of Zoology in 1984. In 2002 he was awarded D.Sc. and appointed Visiting Research Fellow.

His research into amphibians both in Australia and overseas was continuous and extensive, with support from organisations as diverse as the South Australian Museum (in 1965, his first overseas travel grant), the Mark Mitchell Foundation, Rotary International, Australian Geographic magazine, Hamilton Laboratories, Australian National University, Mount Isa Mines and the World Wildlife Fund. Apart from descriptive, habitat, behaviour, identification and taxonomic work, which includes identification of new species, his research investigated novel chemicals which have found or may find, pharmaceutical and industrial uses such as fluid balance medications, sunscreens and adhesives. He investigated frog populations as an indicator of the environmental health of aquatic systems and frog mutations as an indicator of pollution. He is one of many who have worked on Australia's Cane toad (previously Bufo marinus, now Rhinella marina) pest problem.

He was prominent in research into the world-wide phenomenon of the disappearance of frogs, even entire species, notably in Australia the two species of gastric-brooding frog (Rheobatrachus vitellinus and Rheobatrachus silus), which were declared extinct shortly after their discovery). He was in the forefront of research into Australia's fossil frog record.

He was very public in the promotion of frogs as pets, as sources of potentially useful substances, and as an indicator of environmental quality, arguing that a species useful to humans will necessarily be protected. He was involved in a variety of nature documentaries, notably Nature of Australia (1988), ABC Natural History Unit in association with the BBC and WNET, broadcast within their Nature series, and David Attenborough's Life on Earth series (1979).

He was a longtime member of the board of the South Australian Museum and its chairman 1982–1992. He was president of the Royal Zoological Society of South Australia and was President of the Royal Society of South Australia 1985–1986.

Recognition
Royal Society of South Australia – Verco Medal 1980
Field Naturalists Club of Victoria – Australian Natural History Medallion 1980
Elected Fellow, Australian Institute of Biology 1988
City of Adelaide Citizen of the Year, Australia Day 1993
Order of Australia 1995 "for service to zoology, particularly through the research and conservation of Australian amphibians"
Michael Daley Eureka Prize for Science Communication 1997
Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science 1998
Riversleigh Society – Riversleigh Medal 1998 "for contributions to Australian Palaeontology"
Ig Nobel Prize 2005 for research into frog odours

Bibliography
Mike Tyler was the author or co-author of a large number of books and over 300 scientific papers, mostly on amphibians:
Michael J. Tyler An account of collections of frogs from Central New Guinea Australian Museum, Sydney (1963)
Michael J. Tyler The frogs of South Australia South Australian Museum, Adelaide (1966)
Michael J. Tyler Papuan hylid frogs of the genus Hyla E.J. Brill, Leiden (1968)
Michael J. Tyler The cane toad Bufo marinus : an historical account and modern assessment Vermin and Noxious Weeds Destruction Board, Victoria and Agriculture Protection Board, Western Australia (1975).
Michael J. Tyler Frogs Collins' Australian naturalist library (1976)
Michael J. Tyler Amphibians of South Australia (section, Handbook of the flora and fauna of South Australia) Government Printers, Adelaide (1978)
Michael J. Tyler There's a frog in my throat/stomach Collins, Sydney (1984)
Michael Tyler A natural history museum : behind the scenes Bookshelf, Gosford, N.S.W. (1992)
Michael J. Tyler Australian frogs : a natural history Reed, Chatswood, NSW (1994)
Michael J. Tyler The action plan for Australian frogs Australian Nature Conservation Agency,  Canberra (1995)
Michael J. Tyler Frogs as pets : a guide to keeping the Australian Green Tree Frog (Litoria caerulea) Graphic Print Group, Richmond, S.Aust (1996)
Michael J. Tyler It's true : frogs are cannibals Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, N.S.W. (2004)
Joint authorship etc.
Michael J. Tyler (compiler) An annotated bibliography of the frogs of Papua New Guinea : (up to and including 1971) South Australian Museum, Adelaide (1973)
Linda Trueb and Michael J. Tyler Systematics and evolution of the Greater Antillean hylid frogs Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, Lawrence (1974)
Michael J. Tyler and Marion Anstis Taxonomy and biology of frogs of the Litoria citropa complex (Anura: Hylidae) Govt. Printer, Adelaide (1975)
C.R. Twidale, M.J. Tyler and B.P. Webb (eds.) Natural history of the Adelaide region Royal Society of South Australia,  Northfield, S. Aust. (1976)
Michael J. Tyler and Angus A. Martin Taxonomic studies of some Australian leptodactylid frogs of the genus Cyclorana Steindachner South Australian Museum, Adelaide (1977)
M.J. Tyler, C.R. Twidale and J.K. Ling (eds.) Natural history of Kangaroo Island Royal Society of South Australia, Adelaide (1979)
Michael J. Tyler (ed.) The status of endangered Australasian wildlife Royal Zoological Society of South Australia, Adelaide (1979)
Michael J. Tyler, Margaret Davies and Angus A. Martin Australian frogs of the Leptodactylid genus Uperoleia Gray CSIRO, Melbourne (1981)
Michael J. Tyler, Margaret Davies and A.A. Martin Frog fauna of the Northern Territory : new distributional records and the description of a new species Royal Society of South Australia, Adelaide (1981)
M.J. Tyler, C.R. Twidale, J.K. Ling and J.W. Holmes Natural history of the South East Royal Society of South Australia, Adelaide (1983)
Michael J. Tyler (ed.) The gastric brooding frog Croom Helm, London & Canberra (1983).
C.R. Twidale, M.J. Tyler and M. Davies (eds.) Natural history of Eyre Peninsula Royal Society of South Australia, Adelaide (1985)
Michael J. Tyler and Margaret Davies Frogs of the Northern Territory Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory, Darwin (1986).
C.R. Twidale, M.J. Tyler, and M. Davies (eds.) Ideas and endeavours : the natural sciences in South Australia Royal Society of South Australia, Adelaide (1986)
Michael J. Tyler ; designed by Lynn Twelftree An introduction to frogs Bookshelf Publishing Australia, Gosford, N.S.W. (1987)
M.J. Tyler & G.A. Crook Frogs of the Magela Creek system Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra (1987)
Michael J. Tyler The biology and systematics of frogs : contributions submitted to The University of Adelaide 1958–2002 (Thesis 2002)
M.J. Tyler (ed.) et al, Natural history of the north east deserts Royal Society of South Australia, Adelaide, S. Aust. (1990)
Ronald Strahan, series editor Encyclopedia of Australian animals : the National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife / Michael J. Tyler Frogs  The Australian Museum (1992)
Michael J. Tyler; photographs by Kathie Atkinson Earthworms Bookshelf Publishing Australia, Gosford, N.S.W., (1992)
M.J. Tyler, L.A. Smith, R.E. Johnstone Frogs of Western Australia Western Australian Museum, Perth, W.A. (1994)
M. Davies, C.R. Twidale and M.J. Tyler (eds.) Natural history of the Flinders Ranges Royal Society of South Australia, Adelaide, S. Aust. (1996)
M.J. Tyler, R. Short Identification of diseases contributing to the decline of frog populations in South Australia : final report to the Wildlife Conservation Fund pub. by the authors, Adelaide (1996)
Michael J. Tyler and Frank Knight Field guide to the frogs of Australia CSIRO Publishing, Colllingwood, Vic (2009)
Michael J. Tyler & Paul Doughty Field guide to frogs of Western Australia (2009)
Michael J. Tyler, Steve G. Wilson and Angus Emmott Frogs of the Lake Eyre Basin : a field guide Desert Channels Queensland, Longreach, Qld. (2011)

References

External links
Interview with Roger Carthew
Michael J. Tyler: List of all publications 1958–2006
Michael J. Tyler: Curriculum Vitae

1937 births
2020 deaths
Australian ecologists
Australian herpetologists
Australian zoologists
Australian people of English descent
Officers of the Order of Australia
Academic staff of the University of Adelaide

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Rio Rico High School » News » "Look out for the Dirty Birds"
Look out for the dirty birds
"Look out for the Dirty Birds!"
It is a beautiful spring afternoon on the Rio Rico High School athletic field. A baseball player steps up to bat and "El Toro Mambo" by Banda La Jaripera blasts over the speaker. The crowd goes wild.
The one playing the music is Jesus "Jesse" Lopez, a RRHS senior and member of the Dirty Birds, a student organization that encourages Hawk Pride on the RRHS campus.
Lopez explains the scene: the player is Isaac "the Bull" Sanchez-the song is his walk up song.
When Sanchez comes up to bat, Lopez said "in the dugout-if they're sitting down, they're standing up-parents all cheer, and when the music comes on, it's so cool."
The Dirty Birds not only play music to celebrate athletes but build spirit and enthusiasm at events with live stream broadcasts similar to SportsCenter or ESPN.
Dirty Birds also show up to the games to cheer on the teams.
In the fall, Lopez was "honored" when Assistant Principal Billy Hix initially approached him and asked if he wanted to be part of a student organization that encourages Hawk Pride.
He eagerly accepted.
Lopez and two of his fellow Dirty Birds, seniors Carlos De La Cruz and Dagoberto Rodriguez, not only build enthusiasm on the athletic fields but on the RRHS campus with the school announcements.
De La Cruz said he really "enjoys building Hawk Pride."
He particularly likes getting to know the administration staff better: Principal Hector Estrada, Mr. Hix and the other Assistant Principals Dagoberto Lopez and Jorge Moreno.
Rodriguez said, "I love constantly being at the school."
As a result of being at the games, he said that he has learned a lot more about sports.
He said, "I went to my first wrestling match and learned so much. I have always loved sports, but the fact that I was there helping and making it all possible made it so much better."
Several sophomore Dirty Birds explained their roles in the organization and expressed their enthusiasm.
Sophia Teso particularly "loves being involved and showing school spirit."
She really likes interviewing people, such as retired teacher Morgan Falkner who she "loved getting to know better."
Sophia Renteria loves to show up to cheer on the teams and really likes that it is "athletes supporting athletes."
Andrea Verdugo "thought broadcasting was pretty cool and wanted to give it a try." It has given her confidence and developed her speaking skills.
Lopez said they call themselves Dirty Birds because they are doing the "dirty work" like mopping the court in between games, sanitizing the balls and benches.
He said, "We do the dirty work but take pride in it."
De La Cruz said it is because they get "down and dirty" screaming and cheering for the teams.
They have very ambitious goals for the future.
They want to have student sections for every sport with students there cheering them on.
Lopez wants it to seem that "when teams play against Rio Rico, they are playing against the whole community."
They also want to have sections for other events such as theater performances.
Eventually they would like to see all students participating as Dirty Birds.
Lopez said, "Look out for the Dirty Birds!" He can't wait to see what they will accomplish in the future.


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Dr Stefano De Paoli
School School of Social and Health Sciences
Department Division of Sociology
s.depaoli@abertay.ac.uk
I joined Abertay in 2013 as Lecturer in Sociology, becoming a Senior Lecturer in August 2016. I'm also the Abertay University Security Research Theme Leader.
Previously, I worked at Fondazione Ahref, Italy as a Research Fellow and Team Leader and at Maynooth University in Ireland, as a Post-Doctoral researcher. I hold a PhD in Sociology and Social Research from the University of Trento in Italy.
My research interests include digital sociology – for example, reputation and the internet – , Science and Technology Studies and User Research. I'm currently carrying out social research on Social Innovation, Cybersecurity and e-Participation. I am involved in research projects funded by the H2020 research programme.
My work on reputation and the internet has attracted media attention both in Italy and in the UK and I've been interviewed about this on Italian National Radio.
I presently teach on the subjects of Digital Sociology, Cybercrime and Surveillance
RESEARCH SUPERVISION:
I am interested in surpevising dissertations in the following areas:
surveillance society
sociology of technology
sociology and design
My current research interests (broadly defined) are:
Digital Sociology
Internet studies
Specifically I am currently working on research projects on Social Innovation and User Research in the field of e-Participation. This research is funded by the H2020 research programme. I also am working on social research on Cybersecurity, with funding coming from Abertay University (R-Lincs) and the Scottish Institute for Police Research.
Articles in Referred Journals
Bassetti C., Sciannamblo M., Lyle P., Teli M., De Paoli S., and De Angeli A. (2019). Co-designing for common values: creating hybrid spaces to nurture autonomous cooperation. Accepted for publication in Co-Design Journal, Special Issue Repositioning CoDesign in the age of platform capitalism (expected Sept. 2019)
Wilson, A., and De Paoli, S. (2019). On the ethical and political agency of online reputation systems. First Monday, 24(2). https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/9393
Willson A., De Paoli S., Forbes P. and Sachy M. (2018). Creating personas for political and social consciousness in HCI design. Personas Studies Journal, 4(2), 25-46.
Mills, R. and De Paoli, S. (2018). When situativity meets objectivity in peer-production of knowledge: the case of the WikiRate platform. Data Technologies and Applications. 52(1), 16-33, DOI 10.1108/DTA-02-2017-0006
De Paoli, S. (2018). The engineer–criminologist and "the novelty of cybercrime": a situated genealogical study of timesharing systems. Internet Histories, 2(1-2) https://doi.org/10.1080/24701475.2018.1448498
Minniti, S., & De Paoli, S. (2018). Learning by Gaming: ANT and Critical Making. TECNOSCIENZA: Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, 9(1), 105-122.
De Paoli, S. (2017). Not All the Bots Are Created Equal: The Ordering Turing Test for the Labeling of Bots in MMORPGs. Social Media+ Society, 3(4), 2056305117741851. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2056305117741851
Mills, R. and De Paoli, S. (2017), When situativity meets objectivity in peer-production of knowledge: the case of the WikiRate platform. Accepted for publication in Program (Special Issue on Knowledge Artifacts) DOI (10.1108/PROG-02-2017-0006)
De Paoli S. (2015). Is a Technological Singularity Near Also for Bots in MMOGs?. Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, 8(2). URL: Is a https://journals.tdl.org/jvwr/index.php/jvwr/article/view/7146/6373 (10 pages).
Kerr, A., De Paoli S., and Keatinge, M. (2014). Surveillant Assemblages of Governance in Massively Multiplayer Online Games: A Comparative Analysis. Surveillance & Society 12.3 (2014): 320-336. URL: http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/massive
De Paoli S. (2013). Automatic-Play and Player Deskilling in MMORPGs. Game Studies, 13(1). URL: http://gamestudies.org/1301/articles/depaoli_automatic_play
De Paoli S. (2013). The Automated Production of Reputation: Musing on bots and the Future of Reputation in the Cyberworld. International Review of Information Ethics (IRIE). Vol. 19 (07/2013). URL: http://www.i-r-i-e.net/inhalt/019/IRIE-Paoli.pdf
De Paoli S., D'Andrea V. and Teli M. (2012). Why Free Software is not the Antonym of Commercial Software: two case studies from corporate to volunteer based projects. Journal of Peer Production. Issue #1. URL: http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-1/peer-reviewed-papers/why-free-software-is-not-the-antonym-of-commercial-software/
De Paoli S. and. Kerr A. (2012) On Crimes and Punishments in Virtual Worlds: bots, the failure of punishment and players as moral entrepreneurs. Ethics & Information Technology, 14(2) DOI: 10.1007/s10676-011-9281-7. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10676-011-9281-7#page-1
Maiolini C., De Paoli S. and Teli M. (2012). Digital Games and Communication of Health Problems. In G|A|M|E, the Italian Journal of Game Studies, 1/2012, http://www.gamejournal.it/digital-games-and-the-communication-of-health-problems-a-review-of-games-against-the-concept-of-procedural-rhetoric/
De Paoli S. and Storni C. (2011). Produsage in hybrid networks: sociotechnical skills in the case of Arduino. New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 17(1), 31-52. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13614568.2011.552641#.Uxhfdj9_uSo
De Paoli S., Gangadharan GR, Kerr A. and D'Andrea V. (2011). Toward Trust as Result. A Transdisciplinary Research Agenda for the 'Future of the Internet. Triple C Journal, 9(2), 702-714. http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/download/194/258
De Paoli S. and Teli M. (2011). Introduction to "New groups and new methods? The ethnography and qualitative research of online groups". Special Section of the Journal "Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa" (Ethnography and Qualitative Research), Issue 2, April-August 2011, 183-188.
De Paoli S. and Miscione G. (2010). Relationality in geoIT Software Development: or How Data Structures and Organization Perform Together. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. 35(2), 173-182. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0198971510000852
De Paoli S. and Kerr A. (2010). The Assemblage of Cheating: How to Study Cheating as Imbroglio in MMORPGs. FibreCulture Journal, Issue 16. URL: http://sixteen.fibreculturejournal.org/the-assemblage-of-cheating-how-to-study-cheating-as-imbroglio-in-mmorpgs/
De Paoli S. and Kerr. A. (2009). "We Will Always Be One Step Ahead of Them": A Case Study on the Economy of Cheating in MMORPGs . Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, 2(4). URL: https://journals.tdl.org/jvwr/article/download/865/630
Gangadharan G. R., D'Andrea V., De Paoli S. and Weiss M. (2009). Managing license compliance in free and open source software development. Information Systems Frontiers, Published Online: 21 May 2009. (8000 Words, 12 pages). URL: http://www.springerlink.com/content/j3105m3711h66681/
De Paoli S., Teli M. and D'Andrea V. (2008). Free and open source licenses in community life: Two Empirical Cases. FirstMonday, 13(10), (9500 Words, 32 pages). URL: http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2064/2030
De Paoli S. and D'Andrea V. (2008). How Artefacts Rule Web Based Communities: Practices of Free Software Development. Int. J. Web Based Communities, 4(2), pp.199–219. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1359042
Book chapters and Peer-Reviewed Proceeding Papers
Rough D., De Paoli S., and Botto F. (2019). Supporting Social Innovation through Visualisations of Community Interactions. In Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Communities & Technologies (C&T 2019). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 11 pages.
Wilson A. and De Paoli S. (2018). Reconsidering online reputation systems. Exploratory paper for ECSCW 2018 Conference. https://dl.eusset.eu/handle/20.500.12015/3123 (Proceedings)
Forbes P., De Paoli S., Scott-Brown K. (2017). The ABCD of Usability Testing. Work-in-progress paper (5 pages) in Proceedings of British HCI 2017 – Digital Make-Believe. Sunderland, UK. (Proceedings)
Avram G., Choi J., De Paoli S., Light A., Lyle p., and Teli M. (2017). Collaborative Economies: From Sharing to Caring. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies (C&T '17). ACM, New York, 305-307. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3083671.3083712
Teli M., Antoniadis P., Bassetti C., De Paoli S., Apostol I., Allegretti G., and Secchi, M.. (2017). Participatory Design, beyond the local. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies (C&T '17). ACM, New York, 325-328. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3083671.3083715
De Paoli S. and Forbes P. (2016). Probing with the Prototype': Using a prototype e-Participation platform as a Digital Cultural Probe to Investigate Youth Engagement with the Environment. Joint Proceedings of Ongoing Research, PhD Papers, Posters and Workshops of 8th IFIP EGOV and ePart 2016.
Mills R., De Paoli S., Diplaris S., Gatziaki V., Papadopoulos S., Prasad. V. McCutchen E., Hirche P. (2016). WikiRate.org -- Leveraging Collective Awareness to understand companies' Environmental, Social and Governance performance. Internet Science Conference (INSCI 2016) – Florence 12-14 Sept. 2016. Springer Online Proceedings.
De Paoli S. (2016). The Rise of the Robots in Virtual Worlds. Handbook on 3D3C Platforms. Y. Shivan (Ed.) (published by Springer). (Book Chapter).
Bani M. and De Paoli S. (2013) How to Build, Measure and use Social Reputation in e-Democracy Processes. European Conference on E-Government 13 (ECEG13) (Proceedings).
De Paoli S., De Uffici N., and D'Andrea V. (2012). Designing badges for a civic media platform: reputation and named levels. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, Interaction Specialist Group Conference on People and Computers (BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT,-HCI '12). British Computer Society, Swinton, UK, UK, 59-68. (Proceedings)
Kerr A., De Paoli S. and Storni C. (2011). Rethinking the Role of Users in ICT Design. In Pierson J. et al (Eds.) New Media Technologies and User Empowerment, Peter Lang Publishers. (Book Chapter)
Botvich D , McGibney J., Ostapenko G., De Paoli S., Kerr A. and Keatinge M. (2010). Integrating Players, Reputation and Ranking to Manage Cheating in MMOGs. In ACM Conference Foundation of Digital Games Conference 2010. (Proceedings)
D'Andrea V., De Paoli S. and Teli M. (2009). The construction of peers and artifacts: the organizing role of Programming Guidelines. In System Sciences, 2009. HICSS '09. 42nd Hawaii International Conference on, pp. 1-9. (Proceedings)
Serrano M, van deer Meer S., Strassner J., De Paoli S., Kerr A. and Storni C. (2009). Trust and Reputation Policy-Based Mechanisms for Self-Protection in Autonomic Communications. In González Nieto J. et al. (Eds.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5586. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, p. 249-267. (Proceedings)
D'Andrea V., De Paoli S. and Teli M. (2008). Open to Grok. How do Hackers' Practices Produce Hackers?. In Russo et al. (Eds.), Open Source Development, Communities and Quality, Springer IFIP, pp. 121-129. (Book Chapter)
Erbizzoni, E., Teli M., Campagnolo G., De Paoli S. and D'Andrea V. (2006). Free/Open Source ERP and translations processes: four empirical cases. In Min Tjoa A. et al. (Eds.) Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems, Springer IFIP, pp. 695 – 704. (Book Chapter)
De Paoli S. and Jacucci G. (2006). Actability requirements specification using the concept of Verstehen. In Proceedings of the Action Language Organization & Information Systems Conference, Boras, Sweden, 1-2 December 2006. (My Contribution: main Author) (Proceedings)
IN ITALIAN: D'Andrea V. and De Paoli S. (2008). Geografia del potere e licenze software: le licenze e la stabilizzazione della conoscenza. In Gherardi S. (Ed.), Le tecnologie tra lavoro e apprendimento, Il Mulino, Bologna. (Book Chapter)
Special Issues of Journals
(as Co-Editor, with M. Teli) a 2011 Special Section of the Journal "Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa" (Ethnography and Qualitative Research) Entitled: "New groups and new methods? The ethnography and qualitative research of online groups" URL: http://www.rivisteweb.it/issn/1973-3194/issue/3404
(as Co-Editor, with M. Ferron and P. Massa) Special Issue of EAI Endorsed Transactions on Ambient Systems Entitled "Ubiquitous games and gamification for well-being" 4th March 2014. http://eudl.eu/issue/amsys/3
Reports (Contribution)
Anderson, P., De Paoli, S. and C¿t¿lui, D. (2015). Status of privacy and NIS course curricula in EU Member States. ENISA Report https://www.enisa.europa.eu/activities/stakeholder-relations/nis-brokerage-1/status-of-privacy-and-nis-course-curricula-in-eu-member-states
(2014) Roadmap for NIS education programmes in Europe - ENISA Report - http://www.enisa.europa.eu/activities/stakeholder-relations/nis-brokerage-1/roadmap-for-nis-education-programmes-in-europe
(2013) in Italian: I media civici in ambito parlamentare (Civic Media & Parliaments) - Prepared for the Senate of Italian Republic - link
Review of "The Offensive Internet: Speech, Privacy, and Reputation" by Saul Levmore and Martha C. Nussbaum (eds.). In Teachers College Record, April 2011
Review of Bonnie Nardi. "My Life as a Night Elf Priest. An Antropological Account of World of Warcraft. In Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (JCSCW), Volume 19, Issue 5 (2010), Page 515. DOI:10.1007/s10606-010-9121-z
Review of David Myers. "Play Redux: The Form of Computer Games". In Teachers College Record, December 2010.
Recent Funding:
Project PIE News (Collective Awareness in Commonfare) Project Nr. 687922
European Commission (Horizon2020). Funding: 190200 Euros
Project STEP (Societal engagement of young Europeans in environmental issues / e-participation) Project Nr. 649493
"Come Costruirsi una Reputazione Online. E quali sono le conseguenze per la governante di internet" (How to Build an Online Reputation). Communication at the Internet Governance Forum Italia, 2011. Trento (Italy), 11 November 2011. (Talk on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY0sviMg95Y - in Italian)
"Social Network e Relazioni Sociali" (Social Network and Social Relations). Communication at the Azienda Sanitaria Emilia Romagna, 01 March, 2012.
Social networks and digital media: enhancing local participation. Presentation at OECD Trento as part of the Capacity Building Seminar DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING E-GOVERNMENT POLICIES: THE CASE OF THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY
De Paoli S. "Reputazione e Manipolazione" (Reputation and its manipulation). Communication at Internet Festival Pisa, 6 Ottobre 2012.
Invited papers and international translations
Kerr, A. , De Paoli S. & Keatinge M. (2011) Governance and Participation in Massively Multiplayer Online Games'. Invited paper at the 'Social Participation and Digital Communities' track at the Intel European Research and Innovation Conference, Leixlip, Ireland, 12th Oct., 2011.
My paper (with A. Kerr) The Assemblage of Cheating: How to Study Cheating as Imbroglio in MMORPGs. Has been translated in French as L'agencement de la triche. Aborder la triche dans les MMORPG comme un imbroglio. Réseaux 2012/3 n° 173-174 http://www.cairn.info/resume.php?ID_ARTICLE=RES_173_0235
Scientific Coordination
Scientific Coordination of the 1st and 2nd Summer School in "Digital Journalism"- August – September 2011 & 2012: http://www.ahref.eu/it/media/comunicati-stampa/ahref-summer-school?set_language=it
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Digital Ethnography Week 2012 http://www.ahref.eu/en/ricerca/education/second-digital-ethnography-week-1?set_language=en
GR RAI (National Italian Radio News) has interviewed me about reputation and the Internet, during the Pisa Internet Festival 2012.
Ilfattoquotidiano (one of the main Italian Newspaper) has mentioned my work (with Dr. Chiara Broccatelli) on online psychotherapy (2012).
Extended interview on my research for "Digital Ethnography Week" on Vimeo - http://vimeo.com/51906157 (in Italian)
Contribution to the design of the wikirate platform: http://wikirate.org
Lead Development of Questions for the ENISA "NIS quiz" - October 2014 Cybersecurity Month: http://cybersecuritymonth.eu/references/quiz-demonstration
Meet the rest of the team
Dr Jason Annetts
Division of Sociology | Head of Division
j.annetts@abertay.ac.uk
Ms Hazel Work
Division of Sociology | Lecturer
h.work@abertay.ac.uk