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Fact Check: Will Carbon Capture and Storage Help Solve the Climate Crisis?
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) has become the darling of the Biden Administration as well as the fossil fuel industry hoping to continue its toxic emissions, and technology and engineering companies hoping to benefit from billions of dollars in federal money to develop and build CCS technology. It is being hyped as the ideal solution for solving the climate crisis, while at the same time permitting us to continue spewing carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere, thereby avoiding drastic changes to our lifestyles. But the hype obscures a darker truth, one that local leaders need to be aware of before being persuaded to permit CCS projects to be built in their communities. This blog explains the drawbacks of CCS, and why communities need to push back against the development of such projects where they live, work and play.
What is Carbon Capture and Storage?
Carbon capture and storage involves trapping carbon dioxide at its emission source, transporting it to a storage location (usually deep underground) and isolating it. Here is a good introductory article from howstuffworks: How Carbon Capture Works | HowStuffWorks
The Biden Administration is Banking on CCS
The Biden Administration is relying on CCS as a necessary means to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) in order to help solve the climate crisis. Indeed, the conventional wisdom is that we cannot meet the goals of the Paris Climate Accord without CCS as a part of the solution to global warming. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill that passed in November 2021 and was signed by Biden into law relies on this assumption, allocating roughly $3 billion to develop CCS technology. Even the stalled Build Back Better bill contained CCS allocations.
What's Wrong With This Picture?
The Assumption that CCS is a Solution to the Climate Crisis is Wrong
The premise that CCUS is a necessary—or even appropriate—approach to addressing the climate crisis as well as the pollution burdens borne by frontline communities is deeply flawed, as documented by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and the federal government's own watchdog agency, the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
The CIEL Report: CCS/CCUS unnecessary and counterproductive
The CIEL Report, Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Free Fossil Fuels, Why Carbon Capture is Not a Climate Solution, proposes that CCS and CCUS technologies are not only unnecessary for the rapid transformation required to keep warming under 1.5°C (an international goal of the Paris Agreement) but they delay that transformation, providing the fossil fuel industry with a license to continue polluting. This report provides a detailed exploration of the topic:
CCS Isn't Carbon Negative, or Even Carbon Neutral
CCS does not remove carbon from the atmosphere; rather it prevents some emissions from reaching the atmosphere, provided that the captured gases are not later released.
CCS masks the harmful carbon emissions from the underlying source, enabling that source to continue operating rather than being replaced altogether, while creating additional risks, impacts, and costs.
The injection of captured carbon into oil wells to enhance oil recovery — the most pervasive use of CCS today — exacerbates global warming by boosting oil production and prolonging the fossil fuel era.
Large-Scale CCS is Neither Viable nor Necessary
The unproven scalability of CCS technologies and their prohibitive costs mean they cannot play any significant role in the rapid reduction of global emissions necessary to limit warming to 1.5°C.
Existing CCS facilities capture less than 1 percent of global carbon emissions.
CCS pilot projects have repeatedly overpromised and underdelivered.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says the best chance of keeping warming at or below 1.5°C makes limited to no use of engineered carbon capture technologies. Rather, this pathway involves a rapid phaseout of fossil fuels along with limited carbon removal by natural sources such as reforestation and enhanced soil carbon uptake.
By transitioning the transportation industry and building sectors to 100 percent clean, renewable energy along with the phase out of fossil fuels, and enhancing natural carbon sequestration, it is possible to keep warming at or below 1.5° C without CCS.
Clean energy is cheaper than CCS.
Even for the Hard-to-Decarbonize Industrial Sector, CCS is not the Answer
Applying CCS to high-emitting industrial activities, like petrochemical, steel, or cement manufacturing, is not economical.
Renewable sources for electricity and heat can dramatically reduce industrial emissions.
CCS obscures the role of reduction, reuse, and recycling in lowering industrial emissions.
Applying CCS to industrial sources requires massive infrastructure buildout.
Transporting carbon to storage sites and injecting it underground involves further risks and costs.
CCS Perpetuates Fossil Fuel Systems and Impacts
Even in its idealized form, CCS only prevents a fraction of emissions from the underlying source.
Using captured carbon to produce still more fossil fuels accelerates the climate crisis.
CCS subsidies end up in oil industry pockets.
The push for carbon capture and storage primarily benefits the fossil fuel industry.
CCS Poses a Growing and Poorly Understood Threat to Communities and the Environment
The transportation of compressed CO2 raises a host of health and safety concerns.
Accidents are inevitable as CO2 pipelines are increasingly built in populated areas.
These safety hazards and environmental risks fall disproportionately on marginalized communities.
The GAO Report: CCS/CCUS initial projects expensive failures
The GAO released a report in December 2021 that is also highly critical of CCUS as a viable solution for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The report highlights the following Fast Facts:
Since 2009, the Department of Energy (DOE) has invested $1.1 billion in 11 projects to show how carbon dioxide emissions from coal-power and industrial facilities could be captured and stored.
DOE initially committed to eight coal projects, mostly new power plants with carbon-capture equipment. But seven were not built, largely due to factors that made coal power less economically viable.
Also, senior management directed DOE to bypass some cost controls to help struggling coal projects.
As a result, DOE spent almost $300 million more than planned on four facilities that were never built. (emphasis added)
The GAO looks at issues from the standpoint of a business model and not from the standpoint of feasibility, but even within those limitations this report is very damning. Rather than operating on the assumption that CCS is a viable technology, the Biden Administration needs to follow the science and the facts. The federal government should not waste billions of dollars on a technology that is likely doomed to failure and will not mitigate the climate crisis. That money could be better used elsewhere. While it may be too late to prevent expenditure of the funds already allocated for CCS in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, it is imperative that climate activists prevent more money from being wasted until and unless future CCS projects are proven to work as intended and are not prohibitively expensive.
CCS Will Take Too Long to Develop in the Time We Have Left to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
CCS technologies require carbon dioxide (CO2) to be transported, usually by pipeline, for permanent and verifiable sequestration. The research, development, and buildout of these technologies will take years, if not decades, to implement. Meanwhile, the latest report from the IPCC, issued April 4, 2022, indicates that greenhouse gas emissions are continuing to rise, and without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors, limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees C is beyond reach. Though we have options, this requires "a substantial reduction in fossil fuel use, widespread electrification, improved energy efficiency, and use of alternative fuels (such as hydrogen)."
A previous IPCC report, issued Feb. 28, 2022, warned the United Nations that we are NOT on target to avert catastrophe, and that the climate crisis could soon overwhelm the ability of both nature and humanity to adapt. In view of this evidence, and the excessive timeline for developing CCS technologies, the federal government should be investing in more effective and efficient means to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Given the dire warnings in the IPCC reports, it is crucial the federal government invest in carbon sequestration methods that work and do not require decades to develop. We do not have decades left to address the climate crisis.
CCS is Environmentally Destructive and Will Harm Vulnerable Communities
The Biden Administration has frequently stated that one of its goals is to maximize the benefits of decarbonization and ensure that underserved communities benefit equitably from the transition to a clean energy system. See, for example, the Long Term Strategy of the United States, Pathways to Net-Zero Emissions by 2050, published in November 2021, pp. 17, 19, 50, 51, & 54
In addition, the White House Council on Environmental Quality, which is in the process of crafting regulations governing CCS, has said it recognizes the imperative for CCS actions to be considered in a timely manner and in the context of a strong regulatory regime that includes early consultation with Tribal Nations and meaningful engagement with communities, stakeholders, and other sovereigns.
However, CCS requires the development of massive pipelines across the country, which are environmentally destructive to Tribal Nations and communities through which they would need to be built. These pipelines would transport captured carbon hundreds of miles to underground storage sites. To do this, the government will have to take, by eminent domain, properties that are in Tribal lands or have been in families for generations, with no guarantee they will be safe in the event of a leak or pipeline rupture. This is unacceptable, and communities are fighting back. See this article, for example: Pipeline Fighters Hub
President Biden pledged to assist vulnerable communities that already suffer serious adverse health effects from industrial pollution. This pledge will be meaningless if CCS pipelines are built through the same communities where industrial facilities already exist, which historically have been low income communities of color.
CCS is Extremely Dangerous in the Event of a Pipeline Leak: C02 Leaks are Deadly
Carbon dioxide is extremely dangerous if there is a pipeline leak. Already, one such leak has occurred in the United States. A CO2 pipeline leaked in Satartia, MS, in February 2020, nearly suffocating residents. First responders had no emergency training to deal with such a leak, not knowing that compressed, leaked liquid CO2 creates a dense white cloud that stays close to the ground, displacing oxygen and potentially killing people through asphyxiation. For more, see this Huffington Post article: Gassing Satartia: Carbon Dioxide Pipeline Linked To Mass Poisoning
In 1986, CO2 escaped from a lake in Cameroon and killed roughly 1,700 people, plus every living creature in its wake, even insects. This incident was not caused by a pipeline leak, but does illustrate just how dangerous CO2 can be if massive amounts leak from any source. Read about it in this History.com article: Gas cloud kills Cameroon villagers
If CO2 were to escape from either a pipeline or underground sequestration storage site, it could kill every living being within its proximity. What guarantees do we have that CO2 will not escape from storage locations? None. Currently, there are no mechanisms in place to ensure a leak will not occur.
There also is a significant danger from pipelines carrying CO2 should water get into the pipes. According to a report prepared by Accufacts, Inc. for the Pipeline Safety Trust, free water forming in those pipelines could corrode and potentially rupture them, with disastrous consequences for people and the surrounding environment.
CCS Should Not Be Permitted To Perpetuate the Fossil Fuel Industry
CCS is currently not widely used in the United States, but where employed, it is designed to perpetuate the fossil fuel industry, such as in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) operations Given the warnings in the latest IPCC reports that the time is now for drastic reductions in fossil fuel infrastructure and a conversion to clean energy, CCS, if used at all, should not be a tool for the perpetuation of a toxic industry that has caused and continues to exacerbate the climate crisis. Oil companies should therefore be prohibited from using captured CO2 for all forms of EOR.
Let's face it. The fossil fuel industry has been lying to us about climate change for decades. Its promotion of CCS as a solution to the climate crisis is just one more chapter in its desperate campaign to keep its industry alive when it really needs to be dismantled in its entirety.
As an article in YaleEnvironment 360, published at the Yale School of the Environment in 2014, states, quoting Chris Jones, a chemical engineer who was working on CCS at the Georgia Institute of Technology: CCS "will perpetuate fossil fuel use and may prove a wash as far as keeping global warming pollution out of the atmosphere. Then there are the risks of human-caused earthquakes as a result of pumping high-pressure liquids underground or accidental releases as all that CO2 finds its way back to the atmosphere."
The article goes on to say that "the expansion of enhanced oil recovery remains the main front in an intensifying effort to more broadly adopt CCS technology and reduce its price, which is currently the major impediment to its deployment.
Overall, this article from Yale Environment 360 views CCS as a potential tool for pulling carbon out of the atmosphere. However, even its generally pro-CCS stace points to the drawbacks in using this type of technology, due to its limited efficacy and cost.
There are other, far better and more effective ways to pull carbon out of the atmosphere. See Section 7 below.
For more information, see the following articles on the fossil fuel industry's decades-long disinformation campaign:
The forgotten oil ads that told us climate change was nothing | Environment | The Guardian
'What we now know … they lied': how big oil companies betrayed us all | Documentary | The Guardian
Oil companies discourage climate action, study says – Harvard Gazette
Federal Funding for CCUS is Finite
The bipartisan infrastructure bill passed in November 2021 allocates some $3 billion for CCUS research and development. This is a finite source of funding. What will happen to these massive pipelines when federal funding ends? Who will maintain pipelines that are vulnerable to corrosion and rupture? Who will ensure that underground storage facilities are secure for decades to come so that a catastrophic leak will not occur ? What happens if a company that owns these pipelines goes bankrupt? These are questions that need to be addressed before any CCS infrastructure is built.
We already have a serious problem in this country with abandoned oil wells leaking methane, many formerly owned by now bankrupt oil companies, and there is no entity in charge of capping these leaks. We must not repeat the same mistakes with CCS.
Nature Offers Better Ways to Sequester Carbon
Nature-based solutions to sequester carbon exist and are proven, while costing far less than CCS. These include the restoration of forests, grasslands, wetlands, peatlands, and kelp forests.
See for example, "Using Nature to Reduce Carbon Pollution," a project by the Nature Conservancy, on natural carbon sequestration in Massachusetts, and look for a blog on nature based carbon sequestration solutions soon from 350 Bay Area.
1-Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage, or CCUS, is similar and sometimes used interchangeably with CCS, though CCUS usually refers to carbon capture as a means to facilitate Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR), an umbrella term for the use of pressurized CO2 injected into existing oil and gas reservoirs to squeeze out more oil.
2-For additional information critical of CCS as well as "blue hydrogen," see this video, presented by Better Path with speakers Mark Jacobson and Sandra Steingraber.


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The Belarusian KGB: recruiting from civil society
Alesia Rudnik Пераклад на ostro.by 17 May 2017
In late April, several Belarusian opposition activists publicly confessed their cooperation with the Belarusian secret services. On 27 April, a representative of the opposition organisation Youth Front, Siarhei Palcheuski, published a post on his Facebook page confessing to formal...
Detentions in Minsk near the KGB headquarters. Source: euroradio.fm
In late April, several Belarusian opposition activists publicly confessed their cooperation with the Belarusian secret services. On 27 April, a representative of the opposition organisation Youth Front, Siarhei Palcheuski, published a post on his Facebook page confessing to formal partnership with the KGB. His decision led several other civic activist to 'come out' as well.
The Belarusian KGB continues to function according to the model of the Soviet secret services. By employing oppressive methods, the state aims to control its citizens. The KGB is unlikely to change its methods of communication with society in the near future. Nevertheless, more people coming clean about forced cooperation with the KGB could decrease the level of oppression of the secret service structures.
KGB Coercion
Many people involved in civil society or activism eventually become familiar with the KGB one way or another. KGB agents often detain activists and forcibly demand they cooperate. This is especially likely to occur after protests, as was the case for youth activist Siarhei Palcheuski, who was forced to sign a cooperation agreement after multiple threats and blackmailing. Cooperation with the KGB has become tacitly routine for many Belarusians.
Palcheuski's confession has led other opposition activists to reveal their own KGB recruitment. One day later, oppositional activist Nasta Daškievič confessed that she had been forced sign a cooperation agreement in 2011 in exchange for the freedom of her husband Zmitser Daškievič, a former political prisoner. Later, Mikola Dziemidzenka also admitted his recruitment by the KGB in 2011.
The Recent slew of confessions are not the first public admissions of cooperation with the KGB. A former presidential candidate, Aliaksej Michalievič admitted in 2011 that he had signed a cooperation document with the KGB after being detained following the December 2010 protests. After his public confession, he fled the country and sought asylum in the Czech Republic, later returning to Belarus in 2015.
The same happened with Uladzimir Kobets, head of the presidential campaign of Uladzimir Niakliajeŭ in 2010; he was forced to leave the country after signing a document of cooperation with KGB.
In some instances, the KGB's attempts to recruit agents has had serious consequences. For example, in 2001 Andrei Zaicau, an activist from Homiel, committed suicide. He revealed in a suicide note that the KGB had subjected him to extensive pressure and blackmail.
Later, in 2007, Ulad Mickhailau, a Kalinouski scholar (a Polish programme for Belarusian students) confessed to cooperation with the KGB. Human rights defenders from the human rights centre Viasna report that he also committed suicide after posting a confession to his LiveJournal account.
To Sign or not to Sign?
The KGB has developed a system for recruiting new agents. Although by law citizens can refuse to cooperate, the KGB often uses pressure and blackmail as recruitment tools. By gathering personal information on their target and threatening him or her with imprisonment, secret service agents suggest working for the KGB to minimise possible 'troubles'. Nevertheless, according to the law, it is technically everyone's right to refuse to cooperate.
Whether or not to sign cooperation agreements under KGB pressure is a hotly contested topic. Some activists believe that signing a 'contract' with the KGB can only lead to trouble down the road. KGB agents have more power over recruited oppositional activists, which leads to further blackmail and pressure.
For instance, anarchists from a group called Pramien insist that the KGB are unlikely to see activists as useful agents. Instead, their primarily goal is to demonstrate their power over the individuals they target.
Human rights defenders and activists suggest either not signing a paper or publicly admitting cooperation. According to Ales Bialiatski, cooperation agreements should be an absolute last resort, best followed by a public confession. After the confession of Palcheuski, Aliaksej Michalievič pointed out to Radio Svaboda that such a confession is unlikely to lead to serious aftermath.
Nevertheless, for active or former KGB employees, breaches of cooperation remain more dangerous. Recently, Andrei Mouchan, a former KGB agent, ran away to Sweden and passed secret KGB documents to Swedish Radio (Sveriges Radio). According to him, after breaching his contract in 2012, the KGB hunted him down and even resorted to force. Currently, Swedish Radio is attempting to obtain more information on the documents, which revealed an illegal oil transportation scheme covered up by the KGB and the deputy Prime-Minister Uladzimir Siamaška.
The KGB's Communication Model
Recruitment by secret services is characteristic of not only Belarus, but many other authoritarian regimes. The KGB was a part of everyday life throughout the USSR and other former communist countries. In Poland, for instance, when new politicians were screened following the fall of the communist regime, many oppositional activists confessed their cooperation with secret services.
Until today, heated debates surround the case of Lech Wałęsa, a Polish anti-communist activist who allegedly cooperated with the secret services. It is quite possible that disclosures about Belarusian activists could emerge eventually as well.
Secret services aim to fully control activists in Belarus. Besides civic and oppositional leaders, the KGB tries to recruit young Belarusian students who study with the Kalinouski programme or at the independent Belarusian university in exile, the European Humanities University.
Members of the Belarusian opposition often accuse one another of cooperation with the KGB as a "last resort" argument. Usually such allegations come with no evidence.
For instance, Andrej Dzmitryjeŭ, leader of the Tell the Truth campaign (Havary Praŭdu) fell victim to such accusations by other oppositional figures. Recently, another conflict emerged between the Belarusian House in Warsaw and the independent news portal Charter97. On 2 May, the Belarusian House in Warsaw demanded that Charter97 vacate its premises provided by the Belarusian House. Soon after, Natallia Radzina, the editor in chief of Charter97, accused the Belarusian House in Warsaw of cooperation with the KGB.
The Belarusian KGB actively employs all possible resources to prevent undesirable activism. By detaining and recruiting oppositional leaders, the secret services ensure their control over civic activism in Belarus. Recently, the KGB has also been harassing top Belarusian businessmen who allegedly represent a major threat to the state. In obtaining such 'human resources', the KGB claims to decrease the levels of corruption and illegal trafficking, and possibly reveal the machinations of foreign intelligence services.
https://belarusdigest.com/story/the-belarusian-kgb-recruiting-from-civil-society/
Alesia Rudnik
Alesia Rudnik is an analyst at the Ostrogorski Centre and MA student at Stockholm University.
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Belarus in Focus winners, cycling festival, Europe Week in Minsk – Belarus civil society digest
BAJ professional contest awards. Photo: baj.by
Belarus in Focus 2016 journalistic contest awards winners. Viva Rovar! cycling carnival takes place in Minsk. BAJ announces Free Word winners on Press Freedom Day.
Europe Week is held in Minsk. First episode of the City urban activism reality show is released. School of Managers will train new managers for CSOs. People detained and convicted during the May Day protests across Belarus.
Integration Forum announced in Viciebsk under the 5thAccessibility Week. This and more in the new edition of Belarus civil society digest.
Awards ceremony of the winners of Belarus in Focus 2016 held on 12 May. This is an international competition for journalists writing about Belarus in international media. This year the contest took place for the sixth time and organised by the Belarus in Focus Information Office in partnership with Press Club Belarus and the International Visegrad Fund.
Free Word winners announced on Press Freedom Day. On 3 May, Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ) traditionally announced the winners of the BAJ professional contest for journalists Volnaje Slova (Free Word – in English). On the same day, the exhibition of the winners of the World Press Photo was launched at the gallery of CECH.
Belarus Internet Governance Forum will take place on 17 May in Minsk. It is a unique platform for multistakeholder dialogue aiming at finding the best ideas for the progression of Internet in Belarus. The forum attracts representatives from government, business, civil society, network service providers, etc. One of the forum's organisers is Human Constanta CSO.
Europe Week in Minsk. The Dzieja initiative, Students For Liberty Belarus and Belarusian Students Association organise a series of events to mark the anniversary of the proclamation of the Schuman Declaration (9 May 1950), which is considered the beginning of European integration. The organisers promise an intense program aimed at increasing the values of a united Europe in Belarus.
Regional and grassroot activism
The online platform Zvarot.by launches the 3rd Advocacy School. The School aims to train civic activists to independently plan and conduct advocacy campaigns at the local and national level using proper tools and methods. The organisers pay a particular attention to the practical focus on human rights activities. Deadline for applications is 17 May.
School of Managers. The Association for Life Long Education (ALLE) invites to the School of Managers educational course. The School aims to improve the competencies of 20 managers of regional CSOs in developing and promoting civil and non-formal education programmes, using modern communication and advocacy channels. Deadline for applications is 14 May.
The first episode of the City show released. The City is a project that teaches the activists to improve the cities and shoots all the process as popular series. During 8 episodes, 20 participants from 13 Belarusian cities fight for the prize fund and the Grand Prix of a study tour to Brazil. The participants meet various challenges and implement their urban projects. New episodes are scheduled every Thursday.
Pool of Youth Work educational programme. Organised by Fialta Youth Centre, the programme provides an opportunity for young activists to learn professionally conducting trainings, workshops, international exchanges and coaching youth initiatives. The programme is based on the best international practices of non-formal education. The course will be held from 6 May to 30 July in Minsk.
Rights of the people with special needs
Integration Forum in Viciebsk. On 17-18 May, Viciebsk will host the Republican Integration Forum Accessible Job and Employment for People with Disabilities. The forum is organised by CSOs, including the Office for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, under the Fifth Accessibility Week.
Belarusian Children's Hospice NGO calls for local initiatives projects. The call aims to support the rights and needs of children with serious illnesses and disabilities, as well as their families. Two initiatives will be selected with a maximum budget with EUR 5K per initiative. Deadline is 25 May.
Mass protests
People detained and convicted in May Day protests across Belarus. At least 15 people were detained by the police before and after May 1's protests held across Belarus, including journalists and opposition leaders Mikalaj Statkievič and Paviel Sieviaryniec. The demonstration in Minsk was banned by the city authorities but attended by several hundred people.
Analytical review of detentions in Minsk in March 2017 (infographics). In March-April, the Human Rights Centre Viasna processed 130 questionnaires from individuals whose rights were violated for exercising freedom of expression and peaceful assembly. In particular, 80 detainees claimed the use of physical force by police officers, 68 – special munitions without a cause on the part of a detainee.
47 contracts were signed with CSOs for the first three months of 2017 to provide services under the state social contracting. Over 1,000 people received the social services from CSOs supported from the state budget. State social contracting is an innovative form of interaction between local authorities and CSOs, developing in Belarus since 2014.
Imena opens a unique art exhibition about Belarusians. From May 11, the Minsk space Korpus hosts an exhibition that presents 10 installations made by Belarusian artists together with the characters of the online magazine Imena. It writes about Belarusians and social projects that need help. During the year, Imena launched 22 social projects and collected $150K to support them and its own activity.
Cycling carnival Viva Rovar! takes place in Minsk on 13 May: thousands of bicyclists will drive along the Pieramožcaŭ Avenue, and then enjoy a festival in Victory Park. On 1 2May, for the first time Minsk hosts an International conference on the development of cycling in cities. Coordinators of the event are the Cycling Club Minsk and the Minsk Cycling Society.
Belarus Digest prepared this overview on the basis of materials provided by Pact. This digest attempts to give a richer picture of the recent political and civil society events in Belarus. It often goes beyond the hot stories already available in English-language media.
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My three kids, from the 3 year old to the 8 year old can fight with each other all freaking day long. But they couldn't be closer as siblings, after all, they are together all day. But they still fight, just like sibling everywhere.
Homeschooling is making my kids closer siblings and I would not change a thing about it! I love how close they are, that they can play and create, and such together for hours at a time… sometimes without even fighting that much.
When you think about raising your kids, maybe you have them relatively close in age so that they can play together well, and be close. And then when the oldest turns five years old you send them to school. And when the next little one turns five years old, you send them to school as well. But they won't be in the same classroom, they most likely won't be playing together on the playground either.
As a homeschooling family, my kids are together all the time. They are close in age, about two years in between them. They are able to do most things together. My kids do have other friends, other than each other, but they are each other's best friend. They fight like cats and dogs, they will stick up for each other like no one else will (other than Momma and Dadda).
My kids are the best of friends which I hope will transfer into them being best friends when they are grown and no longer living at home.
They are sitting at the table learning together. They are challenging each other to be better, and challenging me as well. They are reading together, not just at the table, or on the sofa, but outside on the trampoline too.
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Feather Floating on the Water: Poems for Our Children, edited by Virginia Barrett
Feather Floating on the Water: Poems for Our Children was funded through an Indiegogo campaign that described the book as "a unique and culturally diverse anthology of poetry for elementary-age children by San Francisco's finest poets. The book offers children the opportunity to know the work of poets living among them — empowering young people to understand that poetry is a vibrant art form, and one vital to our humanity."
A labor of love, the poetry contributions, editing, design, and other aspects of the project were donated. The book features the work of over 50 poets, including the first San Francisco Poet Laureate Lawrence Ferlinghetti, current Poet Laureate Alejandro Murguia, and celebrated poet A.D. Winans, whose poem "Rain" appears in the collection. The 225-page Feather Floating on the Water: Poems for Our Chidren was donated to every elementary and middle school in San Francisco, as well as to all public library branches.
Culturally diverse and multilingual (the collection includes poems in Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Farsi — with English translations), the book is also illustrated throughout with black and white drawings by a range of fine artists. The universal appeal of this collection brings poetry into focus as humanity's most heartfelt, insightful, and impactful mode of expression and inspiration.
Find Feather Floating on the Water: Poems for Our Children at Amazon.com. The book received a 2014 Acker Award for excellence in children's literature.
ABOUT THE EDITOR: Virginia Barrett is an influential poet, editor, and arts organizer, a graduate of the University of Virginia, where she was a student of Pulitzer and Bollingen Prize-winning poet Charles Wright, a Masters graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, and a professional teaching-artist for over 25 years. She has written many books of poetry, including I Just Wear My Wings, served as coeditor of the acclaimed anthology Occupy SF, and is author of the travel memoir Mbira Maker Blues.
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New Release: Honey Bear, classic children's book by Dixie Willson
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Silver Birch Press, under the umbrella of its new children's book imprint Silver Starlight Books, is pleased to announce the May 2014 release of Honey Bear by Dixie Willson with full-color illustrations by Maginel Wright Barney, a reissue of the 1923 classic. This is the book that made Tom Wolfe decide to become a writer! This is the book that Joan Didion read to her daughter Quintana Roo Dunne.
"My mother used to read it to me at bedtime long before I knew one letter of the alphabet from another . . . Honey Bear's main attraction was Dixie Willson's rollicking, rolling rhythm . . . the Willson beat made me think writing must be not only magical but fun . . . I resolved then and there, lying illiterate on a little pillow in a tiny bed, to be a writer. In homage to Dixie Willson, I've slipped a phrase or two from Honey Bear into every book I've written." TOM WOLFE , author of The Right Stuff
Long out of print, used copies of the 1923 edition of the book are selling high prices on ebay and Amazon – some at over $100, even for a badly worn copy. For the first time in decades, Honey Bear by Dixie Willson is available at a reasonable price. If you want to help foster a love of language in the young children in your life, Honey Bear is the answer!
Dixie Willson (1890-1974) was a poet, screenwriter, and author children's books, novels, and short stories. She liked to gain first-hand experience when researching her stories, and performed as an elephant rider in the Ringling Bros. Circus and a chorus girl in the Ziegfeld Folliies, attended TWA Stewardess School, and worked as a taste tester at Betty Crocker. A prolific author, she wrote over 300 magazine stories, books, and screenplays, four of which were made into films.
Maginel Wright Barney (1881–1966) was a children's book illustrator and graphic artist, younger sister of Frank Lloyd Wright. She illustrated 63 children's books, sometimes working alone and sometimes with other artists. Her first job as book illustrator was on The Twinkle Tales, a set of six booklets for young children published by Reilly & Britton in 1906, and written by L. Frank Baum under the pseudonym Laura Bancroft. The books were successful, selling 40,000 copies the first year. Wright Barney also illustrated Baum's Policeman Bluejay (1907), Johanna Spyri's Heidi (1921), and Mary Mapes Dodge's Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates (1918).
Depending on where you like to shop, Honey Bear by Dixie Willson is available at Amazon.com or etsy.com.
Tags Authors, Children's books, Children's Literature, literacy, Reading, rhymes, rhyming books, Writers, Writing
Categories Children's books, Silver Starlight Books
The Duck and the Kangaroo, poem by Edward Lear
THE DUCK AND THE KANGAROO
Said the Duck to the Kangaroo,
'Good gracious! how you hop!
Over the fields and the water too,
As if you never would stop!
My life is a bore in this nasty pond,
And I long to go out in the world beyond!
I wish I could hop like you!'
Said the Duck to the Kangaroo.
'Please give me a ride on your back!'
'I would sit quite still, and say nothing but "Quack,"
The whole of the long day through!
And we'd go to the Dee, and the Jelly Bo Lee,
Over the land, and over the sea;—
Please take me a ride! O do!'
Said the Kangaroo to the Duck,
'This requires some little reflection;
Perhaps on the whole it might bring me luck,
And there seems but one objection,
Which is, if you'll let me speak so bold,
Your feet are unpleasantly wet and cold,
And would probably give me the roo-
Matiz!' said the Kangaroo.
Said the Duck, 'As I sate on the rocks,
I have thought over that completely,
And I bought four pairs of worsted socks
Which fit my web-feet neatly.
And to keep out the cold I've bought a cloak,
And every day a cigar I'll smoke,
All to follow my own dear true
Love of a Kangaroo!'
Said the Kangaroo, 'I'm ready!
All in the moonlight pale;
But to balance me well, dear Duck, sit steady!
And quite at the end of my tail!'
So away they went with a hop and a bound,
And they hopped the whole world three times round;
And who so happy,—O who,
As the Duck and the Kangaroo?
SOURCE: Lear's Nonsense Drolleries (1889), available free at gutenberg.org.
DRAWING: "Duck and Kangaroo" by William Foster from original text.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Edward Lear (1812–1888) was an English artist, illustrator, author and poet, and is known now mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularized. His principal areas of work as an artist were as a draughtsman employed to illustrate birds and animals, making colored drawings during his journeys, and as an illustrator of Alfred Tennyson's poems. As an author, he is known principally for his popular nonsense works, which use real and invented English words. His most famous poem is "The Owl and the Pussycat."
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April, poem and drawing by Maurice Sendak
I will go away
to far-off Spain
or old Bombay
and dream about
hot soup all day.
Oh my oh once
oh my oh twice
oh my oh
with rice.
SOURCE: "April" appears in Maurice Sendak's book Chicken Soup with Rice (HarperCollins, 1991), available at Amazon.com.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak (1928-2012) is the author of Where the Wild Things Are (1963), In the Night Kitchen (1970), and many other books for children. He received the 1964 Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are, the 1970 Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, the 1983 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, and a 1996 National Medal of Arts for his contribution to the arts in America. In 2003, he received the first Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, an international prize for children's literature established by the Swedish government.
Tags Authors, Books, Children's books, Children's Literature, Maurice Sendak, Poem, poetry, poets, Reading, Writers, Writing
Categories Children's books
March Madness and the March Hare from Alice in Wonderland
In the U.S., the month of March is filled with talk of madness – March Madness, the NCAA basketball tournaments. Background on how "March Madness" got its name is in an article at Slate.com. After reading this explanation, I must say, "Hmmm," and ask, "Did the journalist leave out something — or someone?" My theory is that the inspiration for "March Madness" came from the mad March Hare in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
According to Wikipedia, "Mad as a March hare" is a common British expression based on popular belief about the behavior of male hares during breeding season when they run around acting crazy – boxing with other hares, jumping straight up in the air, racing around in circles, and other wild, excitable behavior. (In Great Britain, breeding season for hares lasts from February to September).
In Carroll's book — originally published in 1865 — the March Hare behaves as though it's always teatime because his friend, the equally Mad Hatter, "murdered the time" while singing for the Queen of Hearts. (During the 1800s, "mad as a hatter" was a common British expression – referring to the disorientation hat makers experienced from the mercury used in their trade.)
Now, let's revel in a few passages from one of the greatest works in all of literature – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
"Have some wine," the March Hare said in an encouraging tone.
Alice looked all round the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. "I don't see any wine," she remarked.
"There isn't any," said the March Hare.
"The it wasn't very civil of you to offer it," said Alice angrily.
"It wasn't very civil of you to sit down without being invited," said the March Hare…
The Hatter opened his eyes very wide…"Why is a raven like a writing desk?"
"…I believe I can guess that," Alice added.
"Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?" said the March Hare.
"Exactly so," said Alice.
"Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on.
"I do," Alice hastily replied, "at least – at least I mean what I say – that's the same thing, you know."
"Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter.
"Why, you might just as well say that 'I see what I eat' is the same thing as 'I eat what I see'!"
"You might just as well say," added the March Hare, "that 'I like what I get' is the same thing as 'I get what I like'!"
ILLUSTRATIONS: John Tenniel (1820-1914)
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Wind on the Hill, poem by A.A. Milne
WIND ON THE HILL
by A.A. Milne
No one can tell me,
Where the wind comes from,
Where the wind goes.
It's flying from somewhere
As fast as it can,
I couldn't keep up with it,
Not if I ran.
But if I stopped holding
The string of my kite,
It would blow with the wind
For a day and a night.
And then when I found it,
Wherever it blew,
I should know that the wind
Had been going there too.
So then I could tell them
Where the wind goes…
But where the wind comes from
Nobody knows.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Alan Alexander Milne (1882–1956) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for his children's poems. (Read more at wikipedia.org.)
ILLUSTRATION: "Girl with Kite" by Nancy Crandall (mixed media: acrylic on 16×20 Canvas; kite created from paper cut into triangles, yarn as string and cut bows glued to string), ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Inspired by street artist Banksy and his artwork of a girl with a balloon.
Tags A.A. Milne, Art, Authors, Banksy, Children's Literature, children's poetry, famous authors, mixed media, Nancy Crandall, Poem, poetry, poets, Street Art, weather, wind, Writers, Writing
Categories Children's books, Poetry, Spring
The Waiting Place, poem by Dr. Seuss
THE WAITING PLACE
Waiting for a train to go or a bus to come,
or a plane to go or the mail to come,
or the rain to go or the phone to ring,
or the snow to snow or waiting around for a Yes or No
or waiting for their hair to grow.
Everyone is just waiting.
Waiting for the fish to bite
or waiting for wind to fly a kite
or waiting around for Friday night
or waiting, perhaps, for their Uncle Jake
or a pot to boil, or a Better Break
or a string of pearls, or a pair of pants
or a wig with curls, or Another Chance.
SOURCE: Oh, The Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss
Tags Authors, Books, Children's Literature, Dr. Seuss, Fiction, Humor, Poem, Poet, poetry, Reading, waiting, Writing
The Moon, poem by Robert Louis Stevenson
by Robert Louis Stevenson
The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;
She shines on thieves on the garden wall,
On streets and fields and harbour quays,
And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees.
The squalling cat and the squeaking mouse,
The howling dog by the door of the house,
The bat that lies in bed at noon,
All love to be out by the light of the moon.
But all of the things that belong to the day
Cuddle to sleep to be out of her way;
And flowers and children close their eyes
Till up in the morning the sun shall arise.
PHOTO: A "supermoon"– closer to the Earth than normal and appearing 14% larger — rises behind roadside plants growing in Prattville, Ala., Saturday, June 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
Tags astrology, astronomy, Authors, Children's books, Children's Literature, famous authors, June, moon, moon poem, moon poetry, night, Robert Louis Stevenson, Writers
Categories Poetry
Truth and Originality, quote by C.S. Lewis
January 3, 2014 //
"…in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original…" C.S. LEWIS
Narnia fans might enjoy spending 2014 with A Year with Aslan: Daily Reflections on the Chronicles of Narnia. The book offers 365 of the most thought-provoking passages from all seven Narnia books, paired with questions that promote reflection on particular topics.
The 480-page A Year with Aslan is available at Amazon.com.
Tags Authors, C.S. Lewis, Children's Literature, inspiration, Narnia, New Year, originality, writer's quotes, Writers, Writing
Categories Children's books, Writer's Quotes
Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas, poem by Major Henry Livingston, Jr.
Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas
by Major Henry Livingston, Jr.
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house,
While visions of sugar plums danc'd in their heads,
And Mama in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap —
Tore open the shutters, and threw up the sash.
The moon on the breast of the new fallen snow,
Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below;
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny rein-deer,
And he whistled, and shouted, and call'd them by name:
"Now! Dasher, now! Dancer, now! Prancer, and Vixen,
"On! Comet, on! Cupid, on! Dunder and Blixem;
As dry leaves before the wild hurricane fly,
With the sleigh full of Toys — and St. Nicholas too:
And then in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound:
He was dress'd all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnish'd with ashes and soot;
A bundle of toys was flung on his back,
And he look'd like a peddler just opening his pack:
His eyes — how they twinkled! his dimples how merry,
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry;
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow.
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.
He had a broad face, and a little round belly
That shook when he laugh'd, like a bowl full of jelly:
And I laugh'd when I saw him in spite of myself;
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.
And fill'd all the stockings; then turn'd with a jerk,
And laying his finger aside of his nose
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose.
He sprung to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew, like the down of a thistle:
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight —
Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Born in Poughkeepsie, New York, Major Henry Livingston, Jr., (1748-1828) was a member of a leading colonial family. Livingston worked as a farmer, surveyor, and justice of the peace. In 1775, he enlisted in the Revolutionary Army, just a week after the birth of his first daughter, Catherine — the subject of his first known poem. From 1787, Livingston published light verse in regional journals. His poems were often published anonymously or under the name R. Livingston. His poem "Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas" played a significant role in establishing a set of beliefs about Santa Claus, by providing a physical description, and by setting the number and names of the reindeer. Until recently, the poem was attributed to poet Clement Clark Moore (1779-1863), who included it in his collected poems in 1844. In Author Unknown: On the Trail of Anonymous (2000), scholar Don Foster gathered evidence to support Livingston as the author of the well-known poem. (Source: poetryfoundation.org.)
Tags Authors, Children's Literature, Christmas poems, holidays, Poem, poetry, poets, Santa Claus, Writers, Writing
Categories Holidays, Poetry


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White River - Additon of Luke Wells - Talk South Dakota Sports!
White River seems to be loaded! Adding All Tourney Class A Luke Wells. Had 28 and 11 vs Tea last year playing for Crow Creek. Add him into that junior class along with Jadice Morrison. They are my favorite in Class B Hoops!
They have a chance at back to back titles. Lots of juniors for the Tigers.
"Use all the legends and run them off the floor. That would have won us a title Captain!"
Eldon continues to be the best recruiter in the state! Rumor has it he has about 9 kids living in his house that are on the boys and girls basketball teams.
What a shocker. Maybe this topic should be moved to Recruiting.
It is getting a bit ridiculous at this point. For years everyone has known that WR has recruited students to their school for basketball. But the state just decides to turn the other cheek. When is something going to be done? Obviously they are a great team without their yearly recruiting class, but it has gone too far at this point and needs to be taken care of.
Honest question, where does White River all have kids playing from right now? White River and now Crow Creek, where else?
What do you mean "the state decides to turn the other cheek". Here is a rule from SDHSAA eligibility for open enrollment.
The privilege of transferring athletic eligibility as an SDHSAA athletic open enrollment student is granted only one time during a student's high school career. Any subsequent transfers without a corresponding move by the parents will render the student ineligible for one year.
Any school in South Dakota is allowed to do this. Sorry if this is still an issue for some people after all these years that this has been going on.
Your key words "rumor has it". Besides, you know anyone on a class B AD salary who has a house that large? I know there's isn't.
I'm not aware of the circumstances behind Luke Wells transferring, but i am educated and mature enough not to make assumptions. However, I do know that the other 4 starters for White River on Dec. 7th, who won 71 - 47, have been in the White River school district all of their lives, as well as the sixth man.
Doesn't matter if it's one or ten players, open enrollment will always be debated. This year it seems the talk is about Wells and last year the discussion was about Carlson leaving Parker during FB season to play BB at Canistota. The SDHSAA should change the rule to have participants sit one year before they are eligible for HS extra-curricular activities. That would change some things.
Sounds like the White River girls teams has more recruits than the boys team. Link below to an article from the Rapid City Journal a while back.
The West River Tigers girls basketball squad makes Eldon look like chopped liver when it comes to amassing talent.
You know how cheap a house is in WR, probably a "buyers" market. The superintendent had a bunch of kids and the school provided the house + a Suburban, who's to say Mr. One and Done isn't on the same program? I just find it pretty darn amazing that good basketball players open enroll EVERY year. Shoot a couple of the girls recruits would only come if they were given a specific number and position. With that said, it won't matter when they head east of the river to play anyway. This is the exact reason HS coaches shouldn't be involved with AAU programs, if I'm a coach in that area I keep my kids very far away from Mr. One and Done!


The British House of Commons on September 6th cast a key vote to hold a national referendum in May 2011 on adopting IRV. Editorials backing IRV ran in the Guardian and Financial Times newspapers.
Millions of votes are being cast in IRV elections for the British Labour Party's next leader.
The New York City Charter Revision Commission's final report (pp. 69-71) recommended IRV for future consideration, as called for by the city's former Public Advocate Mark Green.
NYU constitutional law professor Richard Pildes backed IRV in a Big Think video.
North Carolina's Wilmington Star News touted this November's first statewide general election with IRV as a potential model election and an important step toward switching all elections to IRV.
Oakland and nearby cities gear up for their first IRV elections for mayor with new county educational resources.
Australia formed a new Labor-Green government after its recent IRV elections.


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This $18 cheeseburger-stuffed sandwich is made with four different cheeses
Forking out the best part of $20 for a sandwich, no matter how cheesy and delicious, can be difficult to justify. For the price of five and a half big macs, you should probably be celebrating a significant anniversary or successful heart bypass. Thank heaven, then, for National Cheese Lover's Day.
Celebrated annually on the 20th of January, the pseudo-holiday is the ultimate excuse to indulge in something gloriously gooey and OTT. Previous years have seen all sorts of elaborate, dairy-heavy delights appear in American restaurants, and 2020 is thankfully no exception. In fact, it may take the title of offering the day's tastiest cheesy dish to date.
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A collaboration between famous cheesemonger Murray's Cheese and brewery and venue Clinton Hall, "The Resolution Breaker" is a sandwich that will put even the most ardent New Year's pledges to the test.
Two separate grilled cheese sandwiches, stuffed with a blend of Cheddar, Fontina and Gouda act as the buns, which are then stuffed with a six-ounce beef patty, fried cheese curds and tangy bread and butter pickles. It is, by any definition, a colossal combination.
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According to Forbes, the dish will be available at four of Clinton Hall's New York City locations from the 20th of January through to the 14th of February. This was confirmed by Clinton Hall itself, who shared a snap of the sandwich on Instagram, writing:
"We've teamed up with @murrayscheese to bring you THE RESOLUTION BREAKER! A beef patty topped with a layer of crispy fried cheese curds and bread & butter pickles sandwiched between two grilled cheeses made up of Murray's blend, fontinia and gouda! Available starting today at our 36th Street, 51st Street, FiDi and Williamsburg locations until Valentine's Day!"
Say what you will about the merits of a day celebrating anyone who enjoys eating cheese, but we're certainly thankful that we have the option of observing the occasion with a sandwich as awesome as this.


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Кановский сельсовет — упразднённое муниципальное образование в составе Курского района Ставропольского края России.

Административный центр — село Каново

География
Сельское поселение находится на западе Курского района. На юге граничит с землями Прохладненского района Кабардино-Балкарии.

История
С 16 марта 2020 года, в соответствии с Законом Ставропольского края от 31 января 2020 г. № 9-кз, все муниципальные образования Курского муниципального района были преобразованы путём их объединения в единое муниципальное образование Курский муниципальный округ.

Население

 Национальный состав
По итогам переписи населения 2010 года проживали следующие национальности (национальности менее 1 %, см. в сноске к строке "Другие"):

Населенные пункты
На территории сельского поселения находятся 2 населенных пункта:
 село Каново
 хутор Зайцев

Примечания

Упразднённые муниципальные образования Курского района Ставропольского края
Упразднённые сельские поселения Ставропольского края
Сельские поселения, упразднённые в 2020 году

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Q: Average momentum in quantum mechanics over some finite interval of space Why can't the expectation value of momentum be computed over some finite interval of space? Something like, $$ \int_a^b \psi^* \hat{p}\psi ~\mathrm{d}x.\tag{1}$$  I understand that usually we compute expectation value over all space, but does the above quantity mean anything? Also, I am not assuming that $[a,b]$ is the width of some box that the particle is confined to.

A: *

*Technically, OP's eq. (1) is the expectation value
$$ \langle \hat{A} \rangle ~:=~ \int_{\mathbb{R}} \!\mathrm{d}x~\psi^{\ast} \hat{A}\psi \tag{i}$$
of a non-Hermitian operator
$$ \hat{A}~:=~ 1_{[a,b]}(\hat{x})\hat{p}.\tag{ii}$$
Here $x\mapsto 1_{[a,b]}(x)$ denotes the characteristic/indicator function for the interval $[a,b]\subseteq \mathbb{R}$. We assume $a<b$.

*$\hat{A}$ is non-Hermitian, since $\hat{x}$ and $\hat{p}$ do not commute
$$ [\hat{x},\hat{p}]~=~i\hbar~{\bf 1}.\tag{iii} $$

*Formally, to get a Hermitian operator/observable, consider e.g. instead the symmetrized operator
$$ \hat{B}~:=~\frac{1}{2}\left\{1_{[a,b]}(\hat{x}),~\hat{p}\right\}_+
~:=~\frac{1}{2}\left(1_{[a,b]}(\hat{x}) \hat{p}+\hat{p}1_{[a,b]}(\hat{x})\right)
~=~\hat{A} +\frac{i\hbar}{2}\left(\delta(\hat{x}\!-\!b)-\delta(\hat{x}\!-\!a)\right).\tag{iv}
$$

*If there exist some boundary conditions such that
$$\psi(a)~=~0~=~\psi(b), \tag{v}$$
(e.g. because of an infinite potential at $x=a$ and $x=b$), then the operators $\hat{A}$ and $\hat{B}$ are effectively the same.
\psi

*Fun fact: If the wave function $\psi\in\mathbb{R}$ is differentiable, real, and vanishes $\psi(\pm\infty)=0$ at infinity, then the expectation value vanishes
$$ \langle \hat{B} \rangle~\stackrel{(\text{iv})}{=}~
\frac{1}{2}\int_a^b \!\mathrm{d}x\left(\psi^{\ast} (\hat{p}\psi) + (\hat{p}\psi)^{\ast}\psi\right)~\stackrel{(\text{vii})}{=}~\int_a^b \!\mathrm{d}x ~mj~=~0, \tag{vi}$$
where
$$j~:=~\frac{1}{2m}\left(\psi^{\ast} \hat{p}\psi-\psi \hat{p}\psi^{\ast}\right)~=~0\tag{vii}$$
is the probability current.

A: A wavefunction gives you the probability of a particle to be seen somewhere. If it's not confined to be in some region, like a potential well or something, then it has a probability to be seen anywhere in the space. That's why the integration runs from $-\infty$ to $+\infty$ (remember that you could never pinpoint a quantum mechanical particle in space). That can be converted to a finite volume of space if the confinement is strong. For example, in the case of a particle in an infinite potential well, the boundary condition is that the wavefunction should vanish at the potential well boundaries.
But, in reality, there are no such infinite potential traps where you can confine a particle to.  All potentials available are finite. So, the condition that the wavefunction should vanish at the boundary is no longer valid, which means that, the wavefunction could spread out of the boundary (called quantum tunneling). Such wavefunctions are called unnormalized. That's why you integrate over the entire space for getting the probability and hence the expectation value of the particle.

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